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Published in News on January 4, 2012 1:46 PM
MOUNT OLIVE -- Mount Olive and surrounding residents will once again end their month-long celebration of Black History Month this year with their third annual Black History Parade. Planning for the event, which will be held on Feb. 25,...
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Published: 03:20 AM EST (12:20 AM PST) A wireless industry study has found that iPhone 4S owners on average use roughly twice as much data as iPhone 4 owners and three times as much as iPhone 3G users.Telecom network technology firm Arieso cited the Siri virtual assistant feature as contributing to the increase, according to Reuters. The study used Apple's three-year-old iPhone 3G model as a benchmark.
The firm discovered that data usage of the iPhone 4 was 1.6 times higher than the iPhone 3G, while iPad 2 tablets consumed 2.5 times more data. The iPhone 4S was the heaviest on usage with three times the amount used by the iPhone 3G.
"I use the iPhone 4 myself and when I first heard of the iPhone 4S features I was not compelled to rush out and get one. However, the data usage numbers I am seeing make me wonder what I am missing," Arieso's chief technology officer, Michael Flanagan, said of the study.
Flanagan also noted that tablet usage closely resembled that of high-end smartphones. "A tablet still looks like a big smartphone," he said.
According to Bloomberg, Arieso's research found that one percent of the high-use subscribers consumed half of the data volumes. ?The hungry are getting hungrier,? Flanagan said.
An earlier inquiry into Siri's data usage discovered that the service consumes about 63KB per query. As such, using the feature 10 to 15 times a day would take up 18.5 to 27.7MB per month.
Siri is still in beta mode, with limited functionality outside of the U.S. Apple is, however planning a rapid international expansion for Siri this year. The company is actively hiring iOS software engineers to help develop the Application Programming Interface for Siri and port the feature to other languages.
AppleInsider tested the iPhone 4S on the AT&T, Sprint and Verizon networks shortly after its release. Extended tests showed that AT&T was generally faster than its rivals, while Verizon had broader coverage. Meanwhile, Sprint struggled with often unusable data service.
The rise in iPhone data consumption comes as Sprint is the only U.S. network to offer an unlimited data plan. CEO Dan Hesse was thought to have made comments this week undermining the carrier's unlimited offer, but it later turned out that he was referring to abusive data practices when roaming.
The iPhone has actually brought about broad changes in the wireless industry. AT&T, Apple's original carrier partner in the U.S., was initially surprised by the amount of data users consumed. The carrier was left scrambling to keep up with demand from Apple's customers, with one report from 2009 comparing the iPhone to a Hummer.
Apple waited until the second-generation iPhone to add 3G data services, allowing AT&T time to steadily improve its 3G network. The iPhone maker has also opted to wait for 4G LTE to become more mature. CEO Tim Cook said the first generation of LTE chipsets required "design compromises" that Apple was unwilling to make. Reports have suggested that Apple may release LTE iPad and iPhone models starting this year.
Verizon got a head start on AT&T when it rolled out its LTE network in December 2010. But, AT&T has been steadily making progress, announcing on Thursday that it had expanded its LTE network to 11 new cities for a total of 26 markets.
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Obama?s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director is supposed to be confirmed by the Senate?not installed via recess appointment?
Yet here?s Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air sticking up for Obama:
National Journal reportsthat Obama will announce a recess appointment for Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ? and escalate the division between the Senate and the White House, and Democrats and Republicans:
President Obama will announce today that he will appoint Richard Cordray as head of the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during the Senate?s recess, the White House said.
The appointment comes to the dismay of Senate Republicans, who blocked Cordray?s nomination in order to weaken the bureau. ?
Obama is scheduled to make his first public appearance of 2012 on Wednesday at 1:15 p.m.?in the suburbs of Cleveland ? Cordray?s home state.
Of all the controversial appointments that the Senate GOP has managed to bottle up, this one had the weakest argument.? The objections of Republicans to Cordray rested mainly on the CFPB itself, not Cordray.? They had already forced Obama to withdraw his first nominee, Elizabeth Warren, who proved inartful at Congressional relations anyway.? The CFPB itself was a battle Republicans lost over a year ago.? Congress passed it into law, and Obama should be able to get a nominee to run it confirmed.? Republicans can win the next election and make the changes they wish in the next session, but it?s unreasonable to simply block the agency from operating with its chosen leadership.
They?ve been holding up the appointment until changes to the agency?s structure are made to provide oversight and accountability. I don?t think it?s unreasonable to insist on accountability.
Captitol Confidential at Big Government calls this an unconstitutional power grab:
Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution provides the president with the power to ?fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate.? The problem for the president and his liberal allies is that the Senate has not recessed and technically remains in session. However, liberal groups are pressing the White House to invoke the ?Roosevelt Option? to stack key government positions with radicals ready to carry out an anti-business, pro-big labor regulatory agenda. The Roosevelt Option is coined from the actions of Teddy Roosevelt who in 1903, in a split-second between two congressional sessions of Congress, made more than 100 recess appointments. In 2012, Congress will need to move from the First Session of this current Congress to the Second Session. Liberals claim the fraction of a second between the sessions is enough to trigger presidential power.
Others are more brazenly calling for the president to invoke presidential powers never before contemplated. Some have even suggested the president declare the Congress in recess, like a tinhorn dictator from a Third World country.
But even invoking the so-called ?Roosevelt Option? may not solve the liberals? conundrum. Sources tell Capitol Confidential that the statute creating the CFPB demands that the director be confirmed by the Senate?not installed via recess appointment?to trigger the agency?s shift from Treasury to the Fed and empower the Director.
But none of the legal or constitutional arguments may matter much. Liberals and the Obama administration appear poised to forge ahead with an outrageous and unconstitutional power grab. And by the time the courts work it out, so much damage will already be done.
Even RINO, Orrin Hatch is outraged:
?This is a very grave decision by this heavy-handed, autocratic White House. Circumventing the Senate and tossing out decades of precedent to appoint an unaccountable czar to appease its liberal base is beneath the office of the president,? Hatch said in a statement. ?The legislative branch exists as a check and a balance on the executive. By opening this door, the White House is saying it can appoint any person at any time to any position it chooses without the advice and consent of the Senate. This is not how our republic was designed to function.?
Michelle Malkin links to Cordray?s new, unregulated, regulatory powers:
Refresh your memories on Cordray and the expansive new regulatory powers he will now wield here.
Flashback ? Obama 2005: Recess appointees are ?damaged goods;? Obama 2010: Recess appointments are ?critical? need
As The AP reported on New Years Eve: In 2012, Obama to press ahead without Congress:
The White House believes GOP lawmakers boxed themselves in during the pre-Christmas debate on the tax break and will be hard-pressed to back off their own assertions that it should continue through the end of 2012.
Once that debate is over, the White House says, Obama?s political fate will no longer be tied to Washington.
?Now that he?s sort of free from having to put out these fires, the president will have a larger playing field. If that includes Congress, all the better,? said Josh Earnest,White House deputy press secretary. But, he added, ?that?s no longer a requirement.?
Aides say the president will not turn his back on Congress completely in the new year. He is expected to once again push lawmakers to pass elements of his jobs bill that were blocked by Republicans last fall.
If those efforts fail, the White House says, Obama?s re-election year will focus almost exclusively on executive action.
Earnest said Obama will come out with at least two or three directives per week, continuing the ?We Can?t Wait? campaign the administration began this fall, and try to define Republicans in Congress as gridlocked and dysfunctional.
And Keith Koffler noted just the other day: Obama has officially abandoned governing:
In a startling interview with the New York Times, White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest all but acknowledged that Obama was finished with the presidency until he wins it again.
?In terms of the president?s relationship with Congress in 2012,? Mr. Earnest said at a briefing, ?the president is no longer tied to Washington, DC?
The president is no longer tied to Washington DC? Are Congress and Obama going to take their act on the road and make laws in Cincinnati? We?re finished legislating for the year?
?There are certainly other things the president would like to do,? Mr. Earnest said, citing other provisions of the?jobs bill. ?But in terms of essential, must-do items, the payroll tax cut extension is the last one.?
So, the economy is stalled, millions are out of work, and there are no more ?must do? items, other than the president?s reelection?
I have to give the White House credit for putting its card on the table. This is certainly a record-setting level of Chutzpah they are displaying. I called the Guinness Book of World Record, in fact, and they agreed to publish it immediately.
I don?t think now is a good time for Republicans to play dead. I want to see them fighting back.
UPDATE:
Speaker Boehner weighs in on the appointment at his website:
It turns out that the action not only contradicts long-standing practice, but also the view of the administration itself. In 2010, Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained to the Supreme Courtthe Obama administration?s view that recess appointments are only permissible when Congress is in recess for more than three days. Here?s the exchange with Chief Justice John Roberts:
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: And the recess appointment power doesn?t work why?
MR. KATYAL: The ? the recess appointment power can work in ? in a recess. I think our office has opined the recess has to be longer than 3 days. And ? and so, it is potentially available to avert the future crisis that ? that could ? that could take place with respect to the board. If there are no other questions ?
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Thank you, counsel.
Speaker Boehner called the appointment an ?extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab,? and noted that the position ?had not been filled for one reason: the agency it heads is bad for jobs and bad for the economy.? Read his full statement here, and read the statement from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) here.
You might want to read the comments at Boehner?s site. People are begging Boehner to ?do something? about it ? several? suggest he should begin impeachment proceedings.
See also:
Weasel Zippers: Obama Defends Cordray Appointment: I Have An ?Obligation? To Act Like A Dictator?
Linked by Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy, thanks.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life," which has already been named the year's best film in a number of critics' polls, picked up another victory on Monday when it was named number one by the Online Film Critics Society.
The OFCA, which consists of about 200 critics whose work appears primarily on the Internet, honored the Malick film in five categories, adding Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Chastain), Best Editing and Best Cinematography to its Best Picture award.
In the lead acting categories, awards went to Michael Fassbender for "Shame" and Tilda Swinton for "We Need to Talk About Kevin." Christopher Plummer won the Supporting Actor Award for "Beginners," a rare critics-award loss for Albert Brooks ("Drive") in the category.
The awards are as follows: Best Picture: "The Tree of Life" Best Director: Terrence Malick, "The Tree of Life" Best Lead Actor: Michael Fassbender, "Shame" Best Lead Actress: Tilda Swinton, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, "Beginners" Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain, "The Tree of Life" Best Original Screenplay: "Midnight in Paris" Best Adapted Screenplay: "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" Best Editing: "The Tree of Life" Best Cinematography: "The Tree of Life" Best Animated Feature: "Rango" Best Film Not in the English Language: "A Separation" Best Documentary: "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"
Special Awards: To Jessica Chastain, the breakout performer of the year? To Martin Scorsese in honor of his work and dedication to the pursuit of film preservation.
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What do you get for a guy who has everything? Well, Angelina Jolie hasn't quite lassoed the moon, but she did buy a waterfall for the love of her life, Brad Pitt!
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