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It's a good day for those of you who have waited on a widget for the excellent Agenda Calendar. (Be sure to check out our full look at Agenda Calendar.) We now, in fact, have a widget. Actually, it's a resizable widget, which any self-respecting widget connoisseur knows is the best kind of widget to have.
And this is what it looks like. Not a whole lot more to say about it -- it's a big black-and-white widget with some colors thrown in depending on the calendar sync. Tap a listing to see it in Agenda, and hit the big + button in the top right to add a new event. Tapping a day (or date) opens that day in the Agenda app.
You could argue that there's a little wasted space here. But, truth be told, the Agenda widget looks a little different on different launchers. In the example above, we've got it set as a 4-by-3 widget on top of Action Launcher. By default, you get a 2-by-3 widget. And the spacing is different on, say, the Nexus 4. So you might have to futz with it a little.
We've been using the Agenda Calendar widget for a couple days now in place of our old standby, Pure Calendar (Agenda). This one's much simpler to set up, but that also means it's not quite as full-featured. That's not really a strike against it, though. There's much to be said about that simplicity, and the overall design is more sophisticated.
All in all, this is a $1.99 that's definitely worth trying out now.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) ? Hamas says it has elected Gaza's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, as the deputy leader of the Islamic militant group.
Senior Hamas figures this week re-elected longtime leader Khaled Mashaal to another four-year term. On Wednesday, the group announced it had elected Haniyeh, 50, as Mashaal's deputy.
Hamas, founded in Gaza in 1987, also has branches in the West Bank and outside the Palestinian territories.
Haniyeh's election signals a shift in the group's center of gravity toward Gaza, the territory the group has ruled since a violent takeover in 2007. Traditionally, top Hamas leaders have been exiles. Haniyeh is the first Gazan to rise to the No. 2 spot.
Last year, Hamas hard-liners in Gaza balked at Mashaal's attempt to reconcile with his political rival, West Bank-based Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gaza-premier-elected-no-2-hamas-leadership-204502205.html
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By David Alexander and Phil Stewart
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned the military to brace for more belt-tightening on Wednesday as he conducts a review that could cut the number of generals, pare back the civilian workforce and stem the spiraling cost of new weapons.
Hagel, in his first major policy speech as Pentagon chief, told students at the National Defense University that the United States could not allow its current budget crisis to force it to retreat from the world. But he underscored the limits of U.S. military power.
"We need to challenge all past assumptions, and we need to put everything on the table," Hagel said. "Any serious effort to reform and reshape our defense enterprise must confront the principal drivers of growth in the department's base budget - namely acquisitions, personnel costs and overhead."
Hagel's remarks come as the Pentagon is struggling to deal with a $41 billion budget cut that went into effect on March 1, part of a $500 billion reduction that could slice defense spending by $50 billion a year for the next decade.
His comments marked a shift in tone at the Pentagon, which for months harbored hope that Congress and the White House would rescue it from spending reductions beyond a $487 billion cut approved in 2011.
"The speech ... represented a bit of a turning point for the Pentagon because he acknowledged that further cuts in defense spending are likely, if not inevitable, and that DoD should begin preparing for them," said Todd Harrison, a defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments think tank.
Hagel, a Vietnam veteran who took office in late February, faced pointed questions from his audience.
One woman asked why the department was moving ahead with a decision to put civilian employees on unpaid leave later this year, essentially slashing their pay by 20 percent for 14 weeks as part of its effort to cut spending.
"In case your advisers haven't told you, it is affecting morale," she said.
Questioned about how soon defense personnel might face reductions in benefits, Hagel said the military would fulfill commitments it had made so far. But he also said the Pentagon would ask for higher fees on some benefits like healthcare, a move Congress has rejected in the past.
He emphasized that the system ultimately would have to change.
'I WISH IT WAS OTHERWISE'
"If you play this out over a 10-, 20-year period, we're not going to be able to sustain the current personnel costs and retirement benefits. There will be no money in the budget for anything else," he said.
"I'm sorry. I wish it was otherwise," Hagel said. "But that's a fact of life and the longer we defer these things, the worse it's going to be for all of us."
He said the department had to come to grips with factors that are driving up long-term costs, like a big bureaucracy, high personnel costs and unwieldy weapons-development programs.
"In many respects, the biggest long-term fiscal challenge facing the department is not the flat or declining top-line budget, it is the growing imbalance in where the money is being spent internally," Hagel said.
He expressed concern that the military was looking at "systems that are vastly more expensive and technologically risky than what was promised or budgeted for" as it attempts to modernize weapons.
While recognizing the sacrifices of troops and their families over nearly a dozen years of war, Hagel said "fiscal realities demand" the Pentagon take another look at the number and mix of military and civilian personnel it employs.
"Despite good efforts and intentions, it is still not clear that every option has been exercised or considered to pare back the world's largest back-office," Hagel said, referring to the Pentagon's bureaucracy.
He said the military's hierarchies needed re-examination as well.
"Today the operational forces of the military - measured in battalions, ships and aircraft wings - have shrunk dramatically since the Cold War era," he said. "Yet the three- and four-star command and support structures sitting atop these smaller fighting forces have stayed intact, with minor exceptions, and in some cases they are actually increasing in size and rank."
(Editing by Philip Barbara and Xavier Briand)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hagel-tells-u-military-brace-further-belt-tightening-230258216--business.html
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'If I didn't tell him 'Yes you can do this' or 'touch this,' he refused to do it, like he's a southern gentlemen,' Minaj tells MTV News.
By Christina Garibaldi
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Photo: Young Money
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1704811/nicki-minaj-lil-wayne-high-school-kiss.jhtml
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Getty ImagesFormer Dolphins quarterback Pat White wisely dismissed his concussion lawsuit (actually, he filed two of them) before returning to the NFL, signing with the Redskins.? But maybe he didn?t need to do that.? After all, two other players made comebacks without scrapping their own lawsuits against the league.
A league source advises that former Jaguars, Rams, and Falcons center Brett Romberg, a plaintiff in one of the original concussion lawsuits filed in July 2011, re-signed with the Falcons the following month, after a year out of football.
Cut in early September 2011, Romberg again re-signed with the Falcons later that month, remaining with the team for the balance of the year and appearing in two games.
We?ve also confirmed, as first reported by Nathan Fenno of the Washington Times, that defensive end Patrick Chukwurah signed with the Seahawks last season after filing suit for concussions suffered earlier in his career.
While not binding on the many other former players who have sued, this dynamic supports the notion that plenty of the concussion plaintiffs view the litigation as a lawyer-driven strategy for finagling a little extra money from a former employer, and that many of the players would welcome the chance to make more money playing football despite the brain damage they?ve supposedly sustained.
As Ross Tucker aptly put it earlier today on Twitter, ?Pat White situation makes me wonder how many guys on concussion lawsuit would bail if a team offered them contract??? We know Pat White would, because Pat White did.? Despite allegedly permanent injuries, White was perfectly fine when he had to be.
Even though that?s only one out of 4,000 plaintiffs, it does far more damage to the concussion lawsuits than any permanent harm White ever suffered in the NFL.
Especially since we now know that he actually suffered none.
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/02/jay-zs-new-agency-connected-cruz-with-caa/related/
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Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford thanks his fiance Maria Belen Chapur as he addresses supporters in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, after winning the GOP nomination for the U.S. House seat he once held. Sanford is trying to make a comeback after his political career was derailed four years ago when he disappeared from the state only to return to admit the couple was having an affair. Sanford's wife, Jenny, later divorced him. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford thanks his fiance Maria Belen Chapur as he addresses supporters in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, after winning the GOP nomination for the U.S. House seat he once held. Sanford is trying to make a comeback after his political career was derailed four years ago when he disappeared from the state only to return to admit the couple was having an affair. Sanford's wife, Jenny, later divorced him. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) ? The race for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat has turned into the big-name contest political junkies had hoped for.
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, a Republican trying to make a comeback after his political career was derailed by his admission of an extramarital affair four years ago, faces Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch (KOHL'-buhrt), the sister of political satirist Stephen Colbert (kohl-BEHR'). The special election is May 7.
Sanford defeated former Charleston County Councilman Curtis Bostic in the GOP primary runoff Tuesday, clearing another hurdle in his quest for political redemption.
Colbert Busch, a businesswoman, has long aspired to political office. She says jobs is her top priority.
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