Archive - Dec 20, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Raising the stakes for a gridlocked Congress, Medicare officials said Tuesday hundreds of thousands of doctors will get a steep cut in payments on Jan. 18 unless lawmakers issue a reprieve.

A provision waiving a scheduled 27.4 percent cut in physician reimbursement was included in the payroll tax legislation now ensnared in partisan political wrangling between the House and Senate.

CAIRO (AP) -- Thousands of Egyptian women marched in the streets of Cairo on Tuesday, protesting abuse by soldiers who dragged women by the hair, stomped on them and stripped one half naked on the street while cracking down on anti-military protesters in scenes that shocked many in the conservative society.

The march was a rare protest by women and its numbers - about 10,000 by some estimates - underlined the depth of anger over the images from the fierce crackdown over the past five days on protesters demanding the ruling military step down immediately.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists have found two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star outside the solar system, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere.

The discovery shows that such planets exist and that they can be detected by the Kepler spacecraft, said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. They're the smallest planets found so far that orbit a star resembling our sun.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Even if you love the iPad, you're probably not keen to write your next novel using its on-screen virtual keyboard. You may not be thrilled to type up a lengthy email with it, either.

Steve Isaac felt the same way. So the Seattle-based software designer got to work on a way to make the iPad easier to type on. Using a stretchy silicone, he invented a keyboard that sits atop the tablet's on-screen keyboard when the device is turned on its side. He called it, TouchFire.

O le afiafi o le Aso Lulu o le vaiaso nei ua faatulaga e le Matagaluega o le Puipuiga o le Saogalemu Lautele, o le a amataina ai la latou poloka masani i vaega eseese o le atunu’u,  se’ia uma le faamanatuga o le tausaga fou ia Ianuari 2, 2012.

I se feiloaiga a le Samoa News ma le Sui Komesina o Leoleo, le tofa Leseiau Laumoli i le aso ananafi, na fa’ailoa mai ai e Leseiau e fa’apea, e amata atu lava i le 6:00 i le afiafi lea tautua masani a le Ofisa o Leoleo, se’ia mae’a le faamanatuga o le tausaga fou.

LAGA TUI

O le alii talavou mai Pavaiai lea o lo o tu’uaia e le malo i lona fa’aaoga o se aga’ese e fa’ao’o ai manu’a i se isi alii, ua fa’atulaga e le Fa’amasinoga Maualuga le aso 13 Ianuari 2012 e vala’au ai lana ulua’i iloiloga, ina ua ia te’ena moliaga fa’asaga ia te ia.

Na fa’afetaia e le afioga i le kovana sili, le sao a fanau aoga, autalavou, aufaipese ma fa’alapotopotoga eseese i le atunu’u, i lo latou sao mo le faamatagofie lea o pesepesega o le kerisimasi, tauala mai i le polokalama a le Arts Council lea na tatalaina i le po o le aso Sa na tea nei, ma le faamoemoe e tapunia i le po nanei.

Ua i ai le faamoemoe o le Matagaluega o Fefaatauaiga ma Alamanuia a le malo, o le a latou tuuina atu i le Fono Faitulafono la latou ata faataoto i le toe iloiloina lea o le tulafono e uiga i laisene pisinisi ma totogi o laisene pisinisi, i le maea ai lea ona tuuina atu o ni fautuaga mai le Sui o le Aufai Pisinisi i le atunuu.

Na taua e le Matagaluega i se latou ripoti faataitai na tuuina mai, o loo manino le tatau lea ona faia o ni suiga i le tulafono o loo i ai nei, aemaise lava le tulaga pagatia o loo i ai le tamaoaiga o le atunuu i le taimi nei.

O nisi o tu’ufesili o latou mafaufau, e le taitai lava ona ila Amerika le nu’u tele ma le malosi i le la tama’i Iran latou, ae fefe fua le CIA ina ua maua e Iran le va’alele fa’atonutonu po’o le va’alele fo’i e fe’avea’i e le rimote.

Ua foliga mai o le latalata atu lava i le Kerisimasi, ua fa’apea fo’i ona valea ma ulu o le au fai’oloa o le atunu’u! Lele ua oso mai i luga o le fua le ali’i mai Korea i Saute - Mr Lee ma lona fale’oloa o le Peradise Inc. i Nu’uuli.