Facebook status updates now have feelings and activities

There's so much extra room on Facebook for activities! That's because the social network has been updated to allow users to share their feelings or what activities they're participating in through a new tagging system.

The feature expands on tagging systems that already existed for mentioning other users or locations, now allowing Facebook members to tag things such as movies or television shows. Users can tag what they're watching, reading, listening to, drinking or eating, or they can add their mood to status updates.

To use the feature, users simply click a new smiley face icon located next to the photo upload button under a status update, and the following menu will then open.

Users can either select Facebook pages to tag for the activity or they can type in their own, as seen below. Currently, only seven moods???happy, sad, tired, great, wonderful, excited and sorry???are available for selection.

The Huntington Post reported receiving the feature Feb. 4, but now it appears to have rolled out for many more users. The feature is not yet available on any of Facebook's mobile apps.

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I’ve seen several reports recently saying that Apple leads the PC market if you count iPads as a PC. ?Most people won’t count them as PCs; I certainly don’t, but there is a market for which the iPad represents all the “PC” they need. ?So, if your iPad is the only PC you need, you [...]

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Mediaite | Scarborough: The GOP needs more Colin Powells

Posted on February 10 2013 - 10:00 PM - Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter!

Gen. Colin Powell has frustrated Republicans in recent years. He endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, and recently took to the set of Meet the Press where he accused the GOP broadly of looking ?down on minorities. He added, a ?dark vein of intolerance? runs through the Republican Party ? a political affiliation Powell still maintains. But if many Republicans are frustrated by Powell?s remarks, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is not among them. He appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews on Wednesday where he said that the GOP needs Powell and what he represents far more than it needs people like Republican candidates who lost statewide races in 2012 like Todd Akin or Richard Mourdock.

Matthews outlined the problem conservatives face by listing a number of groups and demographic segments of society that he claimed had once been attracted to the Republican Party but have since abandoned the GOP. ?How do you abandon those people and still keep a part?? Matthews asked.

Matthews introduced Scarborough who he described as a ?passionate believer that political can get better.?

?How do you keep this huge tent the Republican party has built?? Matthews asked, noting that the ?people on the fringe? who have now taken over the party are costing the GOP its image.

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Source: http://conservatives4palin.com/2013/02/mediaite-scarborough-the-gop-needs-more-colin-powells.html

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Sandy survivors: Storm like a repeat 'nightmare'

By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News

NEW YORK ? As millions of Americans braced for a winter storm bearing down on the Northeast on Friday, people still recovering from Hurricane Sandy stood in line at gas stations to buy fuel and stocked up on wood for the fireplace. It was, one man lamented, "like a nightmare of Sandy all over."

Sandy left about 20,000 residential buildings in the city with some damage or disruption to their utilities. Thousands are struggling to rebuild, with many sheltering in their battered homes.

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The incoming storm is just the latest round in an unforgiving winter. A snowstorm hit New York City one week after Sandy struck and in late January, temperatures plummeted below zero. This time, forecasters are predicting up to 15 inches of snow, as well as high tides and winds.

Scott McGrath said people were in a "panic mode" in his Staten Island neighborhood, which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy. He stood in line at a gas station Thursday night, hoping to get fuel for his generator to power his home in the case of an outage, but he walked away empty-handed. On Friday, people lined up again.

"It's like a nightmare of Sandy all over," he said, noting the constant weather alerts warning of snow and high tides. "This time our house is not ... in full shape, you know, who knows if (it) would withstand it."

For those sheltering in place like McGrath, 45, and his wife, Dee, the ever-changing weather makes recovery from Sandy a stop-start process. They have scuttled plans to put up sheet rock this weekend in their gutted two-story home ? where they still have holes in the walls on the first floor. They?re also fearful that the few remaining personal items they have, which they had put in the basement, could be in danger due to the threat of high tides.

"We're ... sitting on the edge and just praying for the best," he said. "If this storm hits, we're screwed. That's the bottom line. If it really does hit us like they're saying, and that high tide comes in, only God knows what's going to happen to us."

A mix of snow and rain was falling in the city by 7 a.m.

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Tom Dillon makes coffee in his flood-damaged home in Breezy Point, N.Y., on Nov. 18, 2012.

NBCNewYork.com?reported lines of up to 40 cars at some gas stations. The city had 250,000 tons of salt at the ready for the roads.

"This is a very serious storm, and we should treat it that way," said Tom Prendergast, president of the agency that runs New York subways and buses.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned people to stay in and to use public transportation if they had to go out, although even that carried the possibility of disruptions.

That was the plan for Tom Dillon, 46, who has almost completed repairing the flood damage on his two-story home in Breezy Point, a coastal enclave in the city that was hard hit by Sandy.

Dillon got his son out of school and stocked up on wood, kindling and blankets, plus bought five gallons of gas for his generator. He has also pulled out the snow shovels and has a kerosene heater at the ready.

"We ain?t taking no chances this time. ? I got everything ready," he chuckled. "I want to get the generator on and I want to make sure everything's rocking and rolling. That's what I?m doing today, making sure everything's ready for this storm."

He is concerned about coastal flooding posing one more worry for the community, where extreme high tides were typical in Nor'easters, he said. In the first weeks after Sandy, residents in the low-lying area were constantly pumping out their basements.

"Every time we have coastal flooding, it's just a nightmare in this area because we're so low that ? your basements get flooded again,? he said. "Anybody who has a basement?s going to get flooded, and you know, they?ll be pumping out again."

Despite all of his preparations and laughing about the incoming storm, Dillon sounded an exasperated note.

"I am wondering if Mother Nature is just mad at us or something," he said, before going to help a neighbor insulate his pipes to help protect against freezing. "Twelve to 18 inches of snow, oh, I don't know if I'm ready for this, really I'm not."

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Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/08/16900803-weary-sandy-survivors-hunker-down-for-storm-like-a-repeat-nightmare?lite

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Earn Money Online ? Internet Promotion Tips - Empower Network

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Polish transsexual lawmaker loses shot at top post

WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? The before and after photos of Anna Grodzka show how much she ? and her country ? have transformed.

As a man, she once wore a thick beard. Now, Poland's first transsexual lawmaker favors big dangly earrings, her hair in a bob.

Grodzka attracted huge attention when she was elected in 2011, and earned even more recently when she became a candidate to be a deputy speaker for her leftwing party.

She lost that chance on Friday when lawmakers voted overwhelming to keep the incumbent in the job. Even so, the 58-year-old has already had a huge impact on the political scene, becoming perhaps the most prominent symbol of liberal change in a country that has traditionally been deeply conservative and overwhelmingly Roman Catholic.

"Certain taboos are being dismantled," said Jacek Kucharczyk, a political analyst and the president of the Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw.

Serious news magazines have featured Grodzka on their front covers, with analytical pieces examining the role of gays and other sexual minorities in society. The tabloids zero in on more frivolous things, like the difficulty the nearly 6-foot-2 (nearly 1.9-meter) Grodzka faces finding pretty clothes. Or how she freezes in panty hose in the frigid Polish winters, but still refuses to wear pants.

Grodzka said she herself is still sometimes surprised that she garnered 20,000 votes in her conservative home city, Krakow, to win a seat in Parliament. People have attacked her office, throwing things at the windows or ripping her rainbow flags. But all in all, she feels a growing acceptance from society, she told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday.

She is aware she is a symbol of historic change in Poland, she said, and is trying to meet that challenge by doing the best work possible as a lawmaker.

"I am above all trying to be a normal politician, like any other person, but maybe even better. I am really trying so that people who observe me will know that transgender people are no worse in any way than any others," Grodzka said.

The social transformation has been visible in other areas too, including growing support for the state to fund in vitro fertilization, despite conservative Catholic opposition. But it is particularly notable for the new attention given to the rights of sexual minorities, an issue suppressed in communist times and after the fall of communism in 1989, as many Poles looked to the powerful Catholic church for guidance through the economic and social turmoil.

The church's role was long bolstered by its reputation for standing up to the communists and because of the authority of the late Polish Pope John Paul II. But its influence has waned since John Paul's death in 2005 and as Poland joined the EU in 2004 and became more closely integrated with the West.

A key turning point came when a new progressive party ? Palikot's Movement ? swept into power in 2011 as Parliament's third-largest force, one fighting for gay rights and against the church's traditional influence over public life. Its representatives include Grodzka and Poland's first openly gay lawmaker, Robert Biedron.

It can be an uphill battle. Last month lawmakers tackled the issue of civil partnerships, but rejected legislation that would have given unmarried couples ? gay or straight ? any legal rights.

The rise of the liberals "doesn't mean that we have suddenly become a very progressive country or that we are already on the level of West European countries in recognizing the rights of sexual minorities," Kucharczyk said. "There is still a long, long way to go and we see ... a backlash against Grodzka" getting a leadership role in Parliament, he said. "But what has changed is that we are discussing this openly and people have become visible."

Grodzka had sex change surgery in 2010 in Thailand after a lifetime of feeling she was born the wrong sex. Before the change her name was Krzysztof Begowski, and she had a wife and a son. Grodzka's son has been supportive of her through her change but the wife could not accept it and the two are now estranged.

The ruling party automatically gets the position of deputy speaker, with other major parties each allotted one deputy speaker post each. Grodzka appeared to have a shot at it after the lawmaker currently holding the post for her party, Wanda Nowicka, drew the ire of its founder and leader, Janusz Palikot, for accepting a bonus of 40,000 zlotys ($13,000), along with the other deputy speakers. The bonuses have been controversial because they come as Poland's economy faces a slowdown and the government is raising taxes and forcing other austerity measures on the public.

Lawmakers, however, voted overwhelmingly Friday against a proposition put forward by Palikot to dismiss Nowicka, a prominent activist who has worked for women's causes for many years.

Nowicka then addressed the assembly, saying she was encouraged by their support and that she would not resign, Nowicka said there was no merit to the case against her and that she still had work to do for women and her constituents.

Grodzka, who has expressed admiration for Nowicka's work, was among those who voted to keep Nowicka in place.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/polish-transsexual-lawmaker-loses-shot-top-post-093120122.html

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Search, Discovery, and Pretty Much Everything Is Better in Twitter's Update

Twitter has made some adjustments to its Android and iOS apps, and its mobile site that make things a little easier to follow. The keyword is synergy. More »

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