Kyck, Social Media for Soccer Lovers

Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine has created soccer fever all over world. It was also felt in social media like Twitter and Facebook. But there is  a really good news for soccer lovers: now you have special platform of social media named Kyck. This is a social network that was created for those who understand the beauty of this game.

Kyck is a social media site launched last summer. To enter, you can sign in via Facebook or Twitter. After that, just like Twitter, you can follow or follow other accounts. After that, you can see the post,  photographs, comments on the game directly, or observe your favorite team's progress.

You can also tag the things you post the name of the player or favorite team. Thus it would appear the conversation related to specific players or teams.

Kyck is based in Charlotte, United States of America was founded by Mac Lackey, with 14 employees, including three interns. Mac Lackey has also established InternetSoceer.com site, so Mac Lackey not new in this field.

Currently, Kyck is only available in beta version. But by downloading an application in AppStore Kyck, it can be enjoyed at all times.

Applications for Android will be available in the near future. According to Marketing Director Jason Yarborough, Kyck will focus on developing a platform on mobile devices.

Portugal Counts On Ronaldo

Chelsea and Portugal midfielder Raul Meireles insists that Paulo Bento`s team can go all the way at Euro 2012, as long as Cristiano Ronaldo can replicate the blistering form that he showed against Netherlands.

Ronaldo, who missed a glut of chances in the Seleccao`s 3-2 win against Denmark, found his shooting boots against Oranje to set up a quarter-final clash with Czech Republic on Thursday.

"We`re all aware of the great player we have in our national team, in my opinion no less than the best player in the world," Meireles told reporters.

"Everybody wants him to help, that was just what happened against Netherlands and fortunately he scored."

Meireles was an integral part of Roberto Di Matteo`s Chelsea team that stunned Europe to clinch the Champions League against Bayern Munich, and although he may be an unsung hero of the national team, the 29-year-old is hoping he can transfer his club success to the international stage.

"Nobody regarded us as favourites before the tournament," he added.

"Just as nobody regarded Chelsea as favourites in the Champions League. It will be very difficult, but it`s our dream, just as it`s the dream of all Portuguese people."

Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech was one of the heroes at the Allianz Arena, and his Stamford Bridge team-mate is wary of the presence that he brings to Michal Bilek`s side.

"I know Petr [Cech] very well," Meireles added.

"But I`ve not spoken to him. He`s very strong mentally, he`s one of the best goalkeepers in the world, and he has proved that."
"The feeling I have is that they`ll come with the desire to win.

"After losing the first game heavily, they responded very well to finish top of their group."

The game in Warsaw kicks off at 20:45CET.
(taken from Goal.com)

Apple Promises an Update Next Year

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook emailed one of his customers on Monday and promised that the tech giant has big plans for its Mac Pro line of computers in 2013.
The email from Cook followed the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote in which Apple neglected to mention the Mac Pro line despite labeling it with a "NEW" tag on its website and giving it a minor update that included improved processors.
To appease concerned Mac Pro loyalists who yearn to see their computer given a significant update after waiting since 2010, Cook said in the email that Apple's Mac Pro customers are very important to the company and will be taken care of next year.
"Although we didn't have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today's event, don't worry as we're working on something really great for later next year," the Apple CEO said in an email that was confirmed authentic by Apple's public relations team to Macworld.
Afterward, the email was reposted in a Facebook group called "We Want a New Mac Pro" that launched last month and has more than 18,000 "likes." Although all of the new MacBooks announced yesterday were given new USB 3.0 ports and Thunderbolt ports, users of the Mac Pro line were left disappointed. That led many of the users in the Facebook group to post comments expressing their dissatisfaction with Monday's minor update to the Mac Pro line.

New Mac Book Pro Retina

"This is actually worse than nothing to me," one user said in the group. "It's like a smack in the face." And perhaps as a response to the traction the group is gaining, Apple has removed the "NEW" label that previously hovered above the Mac Pro on its website following the 2012 WWDC keynote. That change happened today despite Cook mentioning Monday's minor update to the Mac Pro line in his email.
So although Cook has gone out of his way to personally comfort Mac Pro customers that their time will come, the next Mac Pro update is a ways away. So far away that Cook practically advised the Apple customer to go ahead and get the new MacBook Pro with a Retina display in the meantime.
"We also announced a MacBook Pro with a Retina Display that is a great solution for many pros," he says in the email.

2000 Syrian Citizens Flee to Turkey

The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has increased significantly in the last two days. As reported by Reuters, Wednesday, June 13, 2012, approximately 2,000 people across Syria to Turkey within the last 48 hours, following the conflict in the country's capital Damascus.

According to the Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Selcuk Unal, that number had increased the number of refugees in Turkey, with a total of about 29 500 people. To note, these figures are the highest number of refugees in Turkey since the conflict broke out in Syria, 15 months ago.

Than 2,000 refugees, as many as 43 Syrians have to be hospitalized due to injury. Meanwhile, Turkey has provided protection for over 50,000 citizens of Syria since March 2011. However, thousands of whom have returned to their homes in Syria.

Syria Denies Civil War
Meanwhile, Syrian Foreign Ministry denied the claims of the Head of UN Peacekeeping Team Herve Ladsous that there has been civil war in Syria.

"Talk of civil war in Syria is not consistent with reality. What happened in Syria was a war against armed groups chooses terrorism," said Syrian Foreign Ministry as reported by the Syrian news agency SANA.

Previously Ladsou say, the conflict that began with peaceful protest action against the power of President Bashar al-Assad has developed into a civil war in which Damascus seeks to retake most of the urban areas of armed opposition.

"Obviously what happened is the Syrian government lost several large areas in many cities of the opposition and wanted to reclaim the territory," he said.

As we all know it was the first senior UN official said that Syria's conflict as a civil war. Earlier the UN also said Assad forces have killed more than 10,000 people since the beginning of the rebellion. Syria claim that Islamic Shiite militants have killed 2,600 troops and police.

Photo from Yahoo News

Celeb Hoax News: Tina Turner

Tina Turner is the subject of death rumors making the rounds on Facebook and Twitter.The legendary performer appears to be the victim of a hoax that started with a so-called “anticipated obituary” on a site called Necropedia, which claims Turner “died” on June 9, 2012.There was also, supposedly, a mysterious “radio report” about Turner’s alleged death. However Jordie Jill from examiner.com confirms that Tina Turner isn’t dead, but for a minute people using Twitter on Saturday thought the worst as the latest Twitter hoax was cruel. The online social site was report Tina Turner was dead. As the world has seen over the past six months, there have been several divas who have died and it was first reported by Twitter. Donna Summer and Whitney Houston’s death were both reported first on the social media platform, so it seems possible that it could have been accurate.

It appears that Tina Turner’s death was greatly exaggerated and like the celebrities who have had death hoaxes in the past, it is a cruel joke. Bill Cosby, Justin Bieber and even Jon Bon Jovi have all been declared dead on Twitter until the star shows up online and confirms they haven’t met the Maker quite yet. While Tine Turner’s representatives have confirmed on Saturday that the singer is alive, well and kicking, the fans are still searching for information as the hoax is still spreading.

(Extracted from many sources)

Pacquaio vs Bradley

Manny Pacquiao and. Timothy Bradley Jr. will meet in the struggle for his welterweight belt today on June 9, 2012, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

 

Pacquiao is a champion for the WBO welterweight, while his opponent Bradley is a light-welterweight champion unbeatable. Boxing career up to the welterweight Bradley is after spending most of his career in the lightweight class.

Pacquiao wins over the boxer Juan Manuel Marquez, and won 15 matches. Bradley himself never lost a professional fight 29 times, and one of which he won a TKO over Joel Casamayor.

The secret of Twitter's New Logo

Wednesday, and for the third time, twitter change their logo. With a simple razor blade, crest Larry shaved by Doug Bowman, and his wings cut out one piece, tail also clipped the owner, perhaps not so easily escape. Larry now looks more "arrogant", puffing out his chest. But Bowman said, a little puffed up and mean Larry is now widely argued, also in groups with other birds to reach their goals. Bowman also said, "This design consists of a simple geometry, only made ​​of three sets of overlapping circles."


Uh?  "simple" isn't it? Only three circles? Where the circle?

But it is true. Larry's new style is really simple. But that seems not only the three circles. Because the new logo is a blend of dozens of circles. This is a development of engineering drawing techniques tangency. If tangency might just make a line of two or more circles that touch one point of each circle, Larry's hit circle with another circle, continue to remove some of the circle.

Wrote a simple look right? But the twitter logo is "not serious" like it was worth between 72 million until 180 million dollars!

Jagielka Almost Joined Poland Team

England national team defender, Phil Jagielka admitted that he nearly strengthened Polish national team. That if he was not called for England in a friendly match contra the United States in 2008 by manager Fabio Capello.

Yes, Jagielka has Polish blood. His grandparents was a native of Poland who moved to England in 1948. Poland and Ukraine to host Euro 2012 which begins on June 8 until July 1.

"My grandfather died before I was born. While my grandmother would be happy if I go back to Poland, "said Jagielka as reported by The Sun.

Jagielka will return to their ancestral lands. But, he left Poland for England. This year 29 players summoned by manager Roy Hogdson replace the injured Gareth Barry.

Jagielka in Everton's brilliant appearance makes the former Sheffield United player is constantly monitored by Capello and Hodgson. He also praised by the observers of football when England beat Spain 1-0 in a friendly match that took place at Wembley, November 2011.

"I am grateful to be playing with England. Maybe if I do not play in the Premier League team, I have become citizens of Poland. But, maybe I'll feel lonely because they do not understand the language and culture of Poland. "

Jagielka has recorded 11 appearances for the Three Lions. And the Euro 2012 event will be the first international tournament after failing in the squad at the 2010 World Cup because of injury.

We Lead to Our Own Destruction

Denuded forests, toxic stocked at sea and rivers, polluting the air compressed by the atrocities - human beings are made ​​in "his" own.

We too often forget, there are other creatures that have the same right to live on earth. Mistreatment of animals, one of them. Elephants and rhinos were slaughtered for the ivory and horn, orangutans and tigers were expelled from their habitat. Only a matter of time until they became extinct.

A group of scientists warned that the Earth is leading to disaster, if humans do not act to save her. In the journal Nature, experts revealed, the world is moving toward the critical point is characterized by extinction and unexpected changes in a very large scale, not seen since the glaciers melted 12,000 years ago.

"There are great opportunities, at the end of this century, the Earth became a place that is completely different," said researcher Anthony Barnosky to the science website, LiveScience. Professor of Integrative Biology from the University of California,

Berkeley, joined by 17 other scientists to warn Earth that will come may no longer enjoyable to live. "Imagine the change as fast as an adjustment period, as we pushed through the hole jsrum," he said, making an analogy. "When entering into a pinhole that is, when we look at political disputes, economic disputes, war, and famine."

RIP Ray Bradbury: From Fiction to Reality

As many news agents broadcasted, one of the greatest science fiction author, Ray Bradbury, died last night at age 91.  Bradbury anticipated iPods, interactive television, electronic surveillance and live, sensational media events, including televised police pursuits - and not necessarily as good things. The science fiction-fantasy master spent his life conjuring such visions from his childhood dreams and Cold War fears, spinning tales of telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters and, in uncanny detail, the high-tech, book-burning future of "Fahrenheit 451."  His prolific nature was slowed in recent years by a stroke that meant he had to use a wheelchair. But he remained active over the years, turning out new novels, plays, screenplays and a volume of poetry. Just this week he wrote in The New Yorker about discovering science fiction when he was 7 or 8 years old. - The Associated Press. Read his Variety obit too.

Wise, wicked and wonderful — that's how author Ray Bradbury began an early chapter of The Martian Chronicles, his work of space-age paranoia and lyrical wonder that made science fiction respectable in the 1950s.

Bradbury, whose death at 91 was disclosed by his daughter in Los Angeles, was an American original in the storytelling tradition of Hawthorne, Hemingway and Edgar Allan Poe.

Both quiet poet and reluctant prophet, Bradbury had a writing style that was a cascade of imagery and simple truths: Government was the enemy of creativity (Fahrenheit 451), the dark was always to be feared (The October Country), robots were not our friends (I Sing the Body Electric!), and clowns, carnivals and sideshows were the scariest things of all (Something Wicked This Way Comes).

In 1956, famed director John Huston asked Bradbury to adapt Moby-Dick for film. When the young and untested Bradbury asked, "Why me? After all, I mainly write for pulp magazines," Huston replied, "It was that story of yours about the dinosaur and the lighthouse. I thought I smelled the ghost of Melville."

Wary of technology — he famously refused to drive a car or fly — Bradbury nonetheless had a "cockeyed optimism" about the future, even if Martians were secretly trying to subvert landings there, or his fascist firemen in Fahrenheit 451 were nervously burning all books and the fanciful characters within.

"I didn't write Fahrenheit 451 to predict the future," Bradbury once said. "I wrote it to prevent the future."

(extracted from hamptonroad.com, telegraph.co.uk and USA Today)

Stewart Critizes Scott Walker

Meanwhile on Daily Show as reported by Huffington Post, Stewart Critizes Scott Walker

Back in March, first-term Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was ordered a recall election by the Government Accountability Board, and came out victorious in Tuesday's vote.

But the tense political climate made for some creative punditry on the part of the news organizations covering the re-vote.

So on Tuesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart took a minute to point out how bizarre everyone's coverage was.

First, there was the Gretchen Carlson "Fox and Friends" interview with a teacher who had recently visited China. In it, both women not-so-subtly danced around the idea that a Democratic win in the election would turn Wisconsin into a borderline Communist state.

"It'll be like Communist China if Walker loses," Stewart joked. "I mean, we'll all be forced to join unions, like in China."

Beyond that, there was some subliminal visual messaging that Stewart and his writers picked up on in the footage from a focus group interview.

We won't spoil anything for you, but let's just say that the suburban mom haircut is a versatile political weapon.

Scott Walker Wins

As reported by Washington Post Wednesday, June 6, 10:46 PM 

Republican Scott Walker defeated Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to retain the governorship in a recall election in Wisconsin.  David A. Farenthold and Rachel Weiner reported that Exit polls showed that Democrats had captured nearly 69 percent of the voters who made up their minds in the past few days. But it wasn’t enough.

Gov. Scott Walker survives Wisconsin recall after more than a year of political turmoil: After a brief but bruising campaign that followed a fight over union rights and Wisconsin’s cash-strapped budget, voters in the narrowly divided state cast their ballots Tuesday to retain Gov. Scott Walker.

Instead, the night provided a huge boost for Walker — as well as Republicans in Washington and state capitals who have embraced the same energetic, austere brand of fiscal conservatism as a solution for recession and debt. In a state known for a strong progressive tradition, Walker defended his policies against the full force of the labor movement and the modern left. He won again.

Walker clearly relished his victory, saying, “Tonight we tell Wisconsin, we tell our country and we tell people all across the globe that voters really do want leaders who stand up and make the tough decisions.”

Even with the race ended, the divisions in the state remain. As The Fix reported:

One Barrett supporter slapped the mayor when he conceded, saying he should have waited until all the votes were in. When Barrett said both sides would have to “work together,” he was booed by both his crowd in Milwaukee and the Walker supporters in Waukesha.

“I think Scott is more of a grown-up than I would be if the situation were reversed,” said Lisa Kurth of Waukesha after the speech.

Many Walker supporters were enthusiastic about taking on President Obama next. When Obama was mentioned on the news, the crowd booed loudly.