Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Olivia Palermo at Rochas Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 2012 Show During PFW







Olivia Palermo was spotted at the Ready to Wear Fall/Winter Rochas fashion show during Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday (February 29).
The former “City” chick looked darling in an all-black ensemble as she made her way to her front row spot to ensure an up close look at next season’s trends.
At the beginning of the month, Olivia announced that she is the face of Rochas upcoming fragrance line.
"I am so excited to be working with Rochas," she told WWD February 13.
"While Rochas has ingrained French roots, I think every woman can get the sense of joie de vivre and confidence in their style that the Parisians emanate. I always like to be a bit more fashion-forward and playful in my style choices when I visit Paris."
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~Kelli at Hills Freak

LC Lauren Conrad for Kohl's Spring 2012 Lookbook











From The Budget Babe
The LC Lauren Conrad for Kohl's lookbook just came out, and if this doesn't put you in a good mood, I don't know what will! This girl's on roll, with her growing lifestyle site, beauty blog and People StyleWatch gig. Her spring collection is feminine, colorful and California-cool, which is exactly what we've come to expect. There are spring dresses, skinny jeans, and breezy blouses in a mix of floral prints and light brights like coral, dusty rose and sky blue. A perfect little black dress, faux-leather jacket and tailored blazer and great wardrobe staples while a yellow and white colorblock top, peplum vest and high-low skirt will let you check off all the latest trends without spending too much. Some of the set styling is undeniably saccharine (crochet in an English garden; misting orchids in the greenhouse; serving pink lemonade on the veranda) but you know you're going to Pin-it anyways! I'm taking some beauty notes, too, that fishtail braid and those bright red nails are calling my name.
This is my favourite lookbook so far - love!
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credit - The Budget Babe
~Kelli at Hills Freak

Steven Tyler Teases Jennifer Lopez Over Oscars "Wardrobe Malfunction" VIDEO

Jennifer Lopez had no idea that her fellow "American Idol" judges would joke over her supposedly "wardrobe malfunction".



Jennifer had an awkward moment after Steven Tyler's reaction...She even asked for Ryan Seacrest's intervention! For more details about the incident, feel free to watch the new video I made! Hope you like!



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Huffington Post article by Larry Doyle ridicules Santorum and Catholics

Larry Doyle, the enlightened tolerant liberal, wrote a (supposed to be) satire on Rick Santorum and the Catholic church called...

The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum

You can read the repulsive sexually explicit rant against Catholics for yourself. I won't post it here.
This passes for journalism? The Huff Huff Huffington Post is a laughable excuse for a news outlet. Even the liberals over there are outraged by this article. From what I have read, many fervent readers of the Huffington Post, and likely Catholic Democrats, are vowing to never read the "news" the site has to offer again. Good. Maybe these liberals have a chance. They can obviously see how their side conducts themselves now.

Thank you Larry Doyle for proving to the rest of the country just what kind of values the left projects! What is truly hilarious about Doyle's criticism of Santorum and the Catholic church? He tries to connect Catholics to NAMBLA, an organization HIS side of politics fights for! He then compares Rick Santorum to a Muslim, another group his side continually strives to fight for.

Laughable.





Harga Apple iPhone 3G Spesification detail




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Harga Apple iPhone 3G Spesification detail

Informasi Harga Baru Bekas Second
Kisaran Harga BaruRp. 7,100,000
Kisaran Harga SecondRp. 6,000,000
Harga adalah harga rata-rata dari Jakarta Bandung Medan Surabaya Semarang Makasar Denpasar dari berbagai toko dan tabloid ponsel

General Information
Anncounced2008, 2Q, [06] June
Released2008, 3Q, [07] July
Dimensi115.5x62.1x12.3 mm
Berat / Volume133 gram / 88 cc
WarnaBlack(8/16 GB), White (16 GB)
System
2 G NetworkGSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3 G NetworkHSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
CPU Type
CPU Speed
Sistem Operasi TypeMac OS X v10.4.10
GUI Version
Memory
Memory8 GB/ 16 GB
Eksternal MemoryNo
Memory Included
Phone BookPractically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call Records100 dialed, 100 received, 100 missed calls
Memory Option
Display
Jenis Layar / WarnaCapacitive Touchscreen, 16 juta warna
Resolusi Layar320 x 480 pixels
Ukuran layar3.50 inch
Layar Tambahan
Qwerty KeyboardNo
Touch ScreenYes
Opsi Layar & Input method- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Scratch-resistant surface
- Ambient light sensor
Camera
Main Camera resolution2 MP [ 1600 x 1200 pixels ]
Secondary CameraNo
Video RecordingNo
Camera Feature
Audio and Multimedia
RingtonesVibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Speaker phone
Radio SupportNo
Audio & Multimedia Option- 3.5 mm stereo output jack
Netword Data and Conectivity
HSCSD
GPRSYes
EDGEYes
UMTS / HSDPA /HSUPAHSDPA
WLAN - Wi-Fi802.11b/g
BluetoothYes, v2.0, headset support only
InfraredNo
USB2.0
Data Cable Included
Messaging and Office Productivity
MessagingSMS (threaded view), Email
WAPNo
BrowserSafari
Java
Email ClientYes
Feature- Google Maps
- Audio/video player
- TV-out
- Photo browser
- Voice memo
GamesDownloadable
GPS SupportYes, with A-GPS support
Battery and Power management
Battery TipeLithium ion, Standar Battery [ ]
Battery Amperage0 mAh
Batery OptionStandard battery, Li-Ion
Standby Time 2G / 3G12 days 12 hours | 0 days 0 hours
Talk TIme 2G / 3G0 hours 0 minutes | 0 hours 0 minutes
Music Play time

Harga BlackBerry Gemini 8520 Spesification detail





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Informasi Harga Baru Bekas Second
Kisaran Harga BaruRp. 2,500,000
Kisaran Harga SecondRp. 2,000,000
Harga adalah harga rata-rata dari Jakarta Bandung Medan Surabaya Semarang Makasar Denpasar dari berbagai toko dan tabloid ponsel



General Information 
 Anncounced             2009, 3Q, [07] July 
 Released                  2009, August
 Dimensi                    109x60x13.9 mm 
 Berat / Volume         106 gram / cc 
 Warna                      Black 

  System 
2 G NetworkGSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 
3 G Network  
CPU Type 512MHz 
processor CPU Speed 512 
Sistem Operasi Type BlackBerry OS 
GUI Version 

  Memory 
Memory 256 MB 
 Eksternal Memory microSD Maximum Capacity : 32000 
 Memory Included 0 
 Phone Book Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall 
 Call Records Yes 
 Memory Option 

  Display 
 Jenis Layar / Warna TFT, 65 ribu warna 
 Resolusi Layar 320 X 240 Pixels 
 Ukuran layar 2.46 inch 
 Layar Tambahan Qwerty Keyboard Yes 
 Touch Screen No 
 Opsi Layar & Input method - Full QWERTY keyboard
- Touch-sensitive optical trackpad 

  Camera 
 Main Camera resolution 2 MP [ 1600 x 1200 pixels ] 
 Secondary Camera No 
 Video Recording 
 QVGA Camera Feature Video Records QVGA

  Audio and Multimedia 
 Ringtones Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
 Speaker phone Yes 
 Radio Support No 
 Audio & Multimedia Option - Dedicated music keys - 3.5 mm audio jack 

  Netword Data and Conectivity 
 HSCSD GPRS Yes EDGE Class 10, 236.8 Kbps UMTS / HSDPA /HSUPA No WLAN - Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 802.11b/g 
 Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP 
 Infrared No 
 USB microUSB Data Cable Included

  Messaging and Office Productivity 
 Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, IM 
 WAP Yes 
 Browser Java Yes
 Email Client Yes

 Feature - MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
- Organizer
- Voice memo/dial Games Yes + downloadable 

 GPS Support No 

  Battery and Power management 
 Battery Tipe Li-Ion, [ ] Battery Amperage 1150 mAh Batery Option Standard battery, Li-Ion 1150 mAh Standby Time 2G / 3G 17 days 0 hours | 0 days 0 hours Talk TIme 2G / 3G 0 hours 30 minutes | 0 hours 0 minutes Music Play time 

Alfredo Despaigne's Home Run #27 in Cuba's 51 National Series



He has 27 home runs in 59 games. It is very likely that he will become the new Cuban Home Run Champion. GO ALFREDO!

Rene González Asks Permission to Temporarily Visit Cuba


By: Redaction, AHORA

Tuesday, 28 February 2012 12:22

René González, one of the five Cubans imprisoned in the U.S. and now serving probation in that country, asked a US Court permission to temporarily travel to Cuba to visit his seriously ill brother, AP reported on Tuesday.

Gonzalez's attorney requested a Miami federal court to allow Rene to visit Cuba for two weeks, so he can see his 53-year-old brother, who is in serious condition after battling with lung cancer.

The attorney also says Gonzalez has fully complied with his probation since his release from U.S. prison five months ago. / RHC

The Frozen U.S.-Cuba Relationship

Council on Foreign Relations

Interviewee: Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Interviewer: Brianna Lee, Production Editor, CFR.org

February 28, 2012


Fifty years after the United States enacted an embargo on all trade and commercial transactions with Cuba, relations between the two countries remain at a standstill. Julia E. Sweig, CFR's director of Latin American studies, says the Obama administration has prioritized domestic politics over foreign policy in its relationship with Cuba, even as Cuban President Raul Castro has been "moving in the direction of the kind of reforms that every administration over the last fifty years has called upon Cuba to make." The case of American USAID contractor Alan Gross, currently serving a fifteen-year prison sentence in Cuba on charges of attempting to upend the regime through a U.S.-authorized democracy promotion program, has also heightened tensions, she says. Meanwhile, Sweig adds, Cuba is strengthening ties with global powers like Brazil, as well as the Catholic Church, as the Castro administration seeks to open up new economic and social spaces for its citizens.

We've passed the fifty-year mark of the breakdown of diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States. Where do we stand now? Is normalizing relations even remotely on the table on either side?

Let me start by talking about three geographical points on the map that are relevant to the answer. In Washington, the Obama administration, consistent with the approach of the Bush administration, has made a political decision to subordinate foreign policy and national interest-based decisions to domestic politics with respect to its Cuba policy. There is a bipartisan group of members of Congress--Democrats and Republicans, House and Senate--who represent Florida, a state where there are many swing votes that deliver the electoral votes for any president. Those individuals not only deliver votes, but they deliver campaign finance, and generally make a lot of noise, and that combination has persuaded the White House that reelection is more of a priority than taking on the heavy lifting to set the United States on the path of normalization with Cuba for now.

The second point is what's happening in Cuba. It's not realistic to expect the United States to undertake a series of unilateral moves toward normalization; it needs a willing partner. I believe we have one in Havana but have failed to read the signals. Raul Castro has now been in office since the beginning of 2008. Raul holds the reins on both foreign policy and domestic policy, and, domestically, the politics of implementing a fairly wide range of economic and political and social reforms are his priority. In a deal that was coordinated with the help of the Cuban Catholic Church and Spain, he released all of the political prisoners in Cuba. He also is taking a number of steps that imply a major rewriting of the social contract in Cuba to shrink the size of the state and give Cuban individuals more freedom--economically, especially, but also in terms of speech--than we've seen in the last fifty years. He has privatized the residential real estate and car market[s], expanded much-needed agrarian reform, lifted caps on salaries, and greatly expanded space for small businesses. He also is moving to deal with corruption and to prepare the groundwork for a great deal more foreign investment. He's moving in the direction of the kind of reforms that every administration over the last fifty years has called upon Cuba to make, albeit under the rubric of a one-party system. There's a broad range of cooperation--neighborhood security in the Gulf of Mexico, as Cuba has just started drilling for oil, counternarcotics, and natural disasters--between the two countries that is still not happening, and that gives me the impression that the United States has been unwilling to take "yes" for an answer and respond positively to steps taken by Cuba.

The third geographic part of the story is south Florida. When they're polled, the majority of Cuban-Americans say that the embargo has failed, and support lifting the travel ban or loosening the embargo or some steps along that continuum of liberalization and normalization. The one most significant step that Obama did take when he took office was to eliminate the restriction on Cuban-American travel and remittances to Cuba. Cuban-Americans are now voting with their feet. If you go to the Miami airport, you will see thirty, forty flights to Cuba a week just out of Miami. Cuban-Americans are now investing in their families' small businesses on the island. The politics of this are strange because we are told by the Obama administration that we can't rock the boat of the Cuban-American vote, but those very voters are in fact demonstrating that they support a radically different set of policies than, in fact, the Obama administration has supported.

The ongoing case of USAID contractor Alan Gross has stoked tensions between the United States and Cuba. At the heart of the matter is the U.S. democracy promotion program that authorized Gross' travel to Cuba. What impact does this case have on U.S.-Cuba relations?

Precisely because we have no overarching framework for diplomacy in place and no political will to establish it for now, the Alan Gross case casts a huge shadow over U.S.-Cuban relations. The heart of the issue is the context in which those [pro-democracy] programs were being implemented. We have a full-blown economic embargo with extra-territorial dimensions that are felt in the banking and finance world--a very comprehensive and well-enforced sanctions program. The democracy programs sound very mom and apple pie--USAID has them around the world, its officials will tell you. But having them in Cuba is an extraordinary provocation. They were inherited from the previous administration's concept of regime change, and under Obama, they remain largely intact. The programs are purposely kept secret from the American public. There is no public information about the private and not-for-profit subcontractors in the United States and around the world, and Cuban institutions and individuals who may be targets of the programs are likewise not told they are part of such U.S. government programs. The democracy promotion programs have been deliberately politicized in order to provoke, and they have succeeded in provoking.

What's key is the context. There's been no real diplomacy; there's no negotiating framework that I've seen for a very long period of time, and again, that has to do with domestic politics. It's very hard to understand otherwise why this guy's still in jail. The United States has repeatedly asked the Cuban government to release Gross unilaterally, with no commitments on our end. Asking for unilateral gestures, having rebuffed or ignored or failed to read the signals from Cuba, has created this impasse. Having said that, there can be a diplomatic, humanitarian solution, and I see no value to keeping Gross in jail and hope he will be released as soon as possible. But we will need real diplomacy and a framework for negotiating a range of issues both countries care about.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff paid a visit to Cuba recently, and it looks like Cuba's trying to formulate ties with an influential, rising Latin American power. How does this burgeoning relationship between Cuba and Brazil affect Cuba's relationship with the United States.?

Brazil is a regional power and a global power; it plays in a number of spaces well beyond Latin America. In the last couple of years it undertook some major investments, and those investments will grow in Cuba--in infrastructure, in agriculture, in perhaps energy as well, and others. Brazil is clearly stepping into a space where the United States should be, and the United States has made a decision to watch as that happens.

How does Cuba's human rights situation complicate the relationship between those two countries?

It doesn't seem to be complicating it at all. Rousseff--given her own history of having spent three years in jail and being tortured in the 1970s and having worked to make human rights more of a domestic and foreign policy--her presidency has quite a bit of standing with respect to talking to any government, including the Cuban government, about human rights. She was criticized by her own public, especially in the media, a great deal for choosing to have those discussions with Cuba privately. But I would suggest that having a public, browbeating, rhetorical approach has almost always backfired for major heads of state when dealing with Cuba, and if you look at the success that the Catholic Church and the Spanish government had around the political prisoner release, that success derived from a basic fundamental degree of respect, cooperation, and engagement as the framework for the relationship.

The Pope is set to make a highly anticipated visit to Cuba in March. What's the significance of this visit?

Pope John Paul II went to Cuba in 1998, and that was very significant because that was just a few years after a new constitution in Cuba had affirmed the right of religious believers to hold senior positions in government. In the decade-plus that's transpired since, the Catholic Church under Archbishop Jaime Ortega has become the most important provider of social services outside of the state. It has started its own business school; it has opened space for itself and for others for publications, opinion, and debate; it has worked in concert with the Cuban government, especially with Raul Castro, on a very nationalist project of building a more open society in Cuba. This Pope is a different person than Pope John Paul, and it's highly anticipated, but he's coming at a time when already there is substantial change under way in that country. The visit will help the Cuban Catholic Church create space for itself and continue to create space for itself, and signal to the Cuban government that it's an institution that can be relied upon to support the kinds of reforms that the government itself wants to make happen.

It's important to note that the Pope's going to Mexico on this trip, and Mexico's population of practicing Catholics is proportionally much bigger than Cuba's. In Cuba, the syncretic religions are widely practiced. The Catholic Church is an incredibly important institution, but it would be a mistake to think of Cuba the way we do Mexico, as a predominantly Catholic society.

Raul Castro held the First National Conference of the Cuban Communist Party last month. What was he hoping to accomplish?

This conference was preceded by a Party congress in April 2011, and you have to think about both in tandem. The biggest take-away from the Party conference was the formalization of term limits for senior officials in the Cuban government, both elected and appointed. That's a very significant step forward in terms of political reform, given that many of the top leaders in the politburo are over sixty-five and have been working in those positions or other senior positions for their entire careers. It's also an important sign to the junior people who are building their political careers that they're not going to be permanent.

The broader consequences of the congress and the conference were for Raul to continue a process that has been pretty slow and difficult of building a consensus among the longtime beneficiaries of the status quo that the status quo needs to change. One key thing for the Communist Party is to get the Communist Party out of day-to-day government. The party is supposed to be a political party, sort of ideological ballast, but it isn't supposed to be running ministries or having the kind of major role bureaucratically and politically that it's had over the last fifty years.

The other piece is to institute accountability and transparency within the institutions of governance themselves. That process means a radical overhaul of the way things have happened for the last fifty years.

How strong is the Cuban society's desire to move beyond the one-party system?

It's very strong. Public opinion is complicated because on the one hand, Cubans want change and they want much more space--economic space, speech space. I would say political party space, like having a multi-party system, that's not the top priority for Cubans. But what is a top priority is having the opportunity to make good for themselves with the wonderful education they have and to run businesses and to have the state get out of the way, while continuing to provide the basic social services that the entire population has benefited from and gotten so accustomed to.

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JG: On the last question, Julia Sweig is wrong. Cuban society supports both its government and the Partido Comunista de Cuba.

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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders: Wall Street greed fueling high gas prices

Wall Street speculation drives up the cost of oil and gas;
Goldman Sachs experts say it pushes prices up by 40%.

By Bernie Sanders, Special to CNN

February 28, 2012 -- Updated 1805 GMT (0205 HKT)>


Editor's note: Bernie Sanders is an independent senator from Vermont. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives and is the longest-serving independent member of Congress in American history.

(CNN) -- Gas prices approaching $4 a gallon on average are causing severe economic pain for millions of Americans. Pump prices spiked 5% in the past month alone. Crude oil prices stood at $108 on Friday, up from only double digits at the beginning of the month.

What's the cause? Forget what you may have read about the laws of supply and demand. Oil and gas prices have almost nothing to do with economic fundamentals. According to the Energy Information Administration, the supply of oil and gasoline is higher today than it was three years ago, when the national average for a gallon of gasoline was just $1.90. Meanwhile, the demand for oil in the U.S. is at its lowest level since April of 1997.

Is Big Oil to blame? Sure. Partly. Big oil companies have been gouging consumers for years. They have made almost $1 trillion in profits over the past decade, in part thanks to ridiculous federal subsidies and tax loopholes. I have proposed legislation to end those pointless giveaways to some of the biggest and most profitable corporations in the history of the world.

But there's another reason for the wild rise in gas prices. The culprit is Wall Street. Speculators are raking in profits by gambling in the loosely regulated commodity markets for gas and oil.

A decade ago, speculators controlled only about 30% of the oil futures market. Today, Wall Street speculators control nearly 80% of this market. Many of those people buying and selling oil in the commodity markets will never use a drop of this oil. They are not airlines or trucking companies who will use the fuel in the future. The only function of the speculators in this process is to make as much money as they can, as quickly as they can.

I've seen the raw documents that prove the role of speculators. Commodity Futures Trading Commission records showed that in the summer of 2008, when gas prices spiked to more than $4 a gallon, speculators overwhelmingly controlled the crude oil futures market. The commission, which supposedly represents the interests of the American people, had kept the information hidden from the public for nearly three years. That alone is an outrage. The American people had a right to know exactly who caused gas prices to skyrocket in 2008 and who is causing them to spike today.

Even those inside the oil industry have admitted that speculation is driving up the price of gasoline. The CEO of Exxon-Mobil, Rex Tillerson, told a Senate hearing last year that speculation was driving up the price of a barrel of oil by as much as 40%. The general counsel of Delta Airlines, Ben Hirst, and the experts at Goldman Sachs also said excessive speculation is causing oil prices to spike by up to 40%. Even Saudi Arabia, the largest exporter of oil in the world, told the Bush administration back in 2008, during the last major spike in oil prices, that speculation was responsible for about $40 of a barrel of oil.

Just last week, Commissioner Bart Chilton, one of the only Commodity Futures Trading Commission members looking out for consumers, calculated how much extra drivers are being charged as a result of Wall Street speculation. If you drive a relatively fuel-efficient vehicle such as a Honda Civic, you pay an extra $7.30 every time you fill your tank. For larger vehicles, such as a Ford F150, drivers pay an extra $14.56 for each fill-up. That works out to more than $750 a year going directly from your wallet or pocketbook to the Wall Street speculators.

So as speculators gamble, millions of Americans are paying what amounts to a "speculators tax" to feed Wall Street's greed. People who live in rural areas like my home state of Vermont are hit harder than most because they buy gas to drive long distances to their jobs.

It doesn't have to work this way. The current spike in oil and gasoline prices was avoidable. Under the Wall Street reform act that Congress passed in 2010, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission was ordered to impose strict limits on the amount of oil that Wall Street speculators could trade in the energy futures market. The regulators dragged their feet.

Finally, after months and months of law-breaking delays, the commission in October adopted a rule. It was a weak version of a proposal that might have put meaningful limits on the number of futures and swaps contracts a single trader could hold. Even the watered-down regulation adopted by the industry-friendly commission was challenged in court. The Financial Markets Association and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association wanted free rein to continue unregulated gambling in the oil markets.

So today, Wall Street once again is laughing all the way to the bank. Once again, federal regulators should move aggressively to end excessive oil speculation. We must do everything we can to lower gas prices so that they reflect the fundamentals of supply and demand and bring needed relief to the American people.

The time for real action is now.