GOP candidate in Phoenix House race calls story on racy texts 'tabloid trash'

PHOENIX — A Christian minister seeking the congressional seat of a disgraced Arizona congressman is labeling reports that he traded suggestive texts with a female staffer, who included a topless photo of herself in one of the exchanges, as “tabloid trash.”

But former state Sen. Steve Montenegro didn’t deny that he received the messages.

Meanwhile, one of the other Republican front-runners in the race to replace former Rep. Trent Franks, former state Sen. Debbie Lesko, is under fire for transferring $50,000 from her old state campaign fund to an independent group backing her congressional election bid.

The revelations are likely to roil the 12-way GOP race in the days leading up to Tuesday’s special primary election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat in the state’s 8th Congressional District, a Republican stronghold in Phoenix’s western suburbs.

Montenegro called the Arizona Republic and KPNX-TV 12 reports “tabloid trash that conservatives around this country have to deal with on a regular basis.”

“I am blessed with an amazing wife and marriage,” he said in a statement. “The media wants to drag us down with just a week to go, but we are not going to dignify this false tabloid trash with any further response.”

Montenegro was Franks’ district director and touts himself as a Christian minister and family man .

The junior-level staffer who sent the messages repeatedly declined to speak with the newspaper.


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L.A. County sheriff’s deputy charged with sexually assaulting 6 female inmates

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting six female inmates in a Lynwood jail facility.

Giancarlo Scotti, 31, faces six felony counts and two misdemeanor counts of sexual activity with a detainee in a detention facility, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

When reached by phone Wednesday, Scotti's defense attorney, Anthony Falangetti, said his client plans to plead not guilty.

"Sheriff's Deputy Giancarlo Scotti never sexually assaulted anybody," Falangetti said.

The alleged assaults reportedly occurred at the Century Regional Detention Facility between March and September last year. Scotti, a 10-year veteran of the department, was arrested in September, hours after two women came forward to a teaching instructor with allegations about an attack. He was released from custody on bail.

At the time, Sheriff Jim McDonnell said the women shared a cell and Scotti was able "to put himself in a place where he was alone" with them. The attacks took place over the course of an hour, he said.

Prosecutors said Wednesday that Scotti ordered the two inmates to perform oral sex on him and that he later took the women to a shower area and had "unlawful" sex with both of them.

Inmates cannot legally consent to sexual intercourse with deputies under state and federal law.

In November, the Sheriff's Department said investigators had interviewed 150 witnesses and presented a case to prosecutors a month earlier that involved three victims. Since then, investigators have identified three additional victims, said Nicole Nishida, a spokeswoman for the agency.

Last year, two women filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Sheriff's Department accusing Scotti of assaulting them. According to the complaint, Scotti was known as a "cool" guard who flirted with inmates.

In August, the lawsuit alleged, a pregnant inmate was changing inside her cell when he approached and ordered her to expose her genitals to him.

Scotti then opened his pants and ordered her to get on her knees, according to the lawsuit. The woman took Scotti's words as an order to perform oral sex and "felt like she had no other choice but to comply with Deputy Scotti's forcible commands," according to the lawsuit.

The second plaintiff in the lawsuit accused Scotti of sexually assaulting her in a shower at the jail the day before his arrest. She saved some of Scotti's semen on a piece of tissue paper, which she provided to investigators, according to the suit.

Both women, who are no longer in custody, also alleged they were mistreated by jail staff after agreeing to speak with investigators about Scotti.


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Congresswoman claims most mass shooters are Democrats

Rep. Claudia Tenney, an upstate New York Republican who is up for re-election in one of the most competitive congressional districts in America, told a radio host in Albany that Democrats are more prone to be mass shooters.
Speaking to host Fred Dicker on WGDJ radio, Tenney was discussing the shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead when she made the remark.
"It's interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats," Tenney said. "But the media doesn't talk about that."

Tenney, who is an ardent supporter of the Second Amendment, was responding to a point made by Dicker that the majority of gun victims come from the inner cities, not in mass shootings.

enney said she supports taking a look at the federal background check system and argued that the shooting should not change the dynamics of the debate over gun control in her district which encompasses cities like Utica, Rome and Binghamton.
CNN followed up for clarification from her office and asked specifically what statistics she was referring to, and her campaign later issued a statement.
"I am fed up with the media and liberals attempting to politicize tragedies and demonize law-abiding gun owners and conservative Americans every time there is a horrible tragedy," Tenney said in the statement. "While we know the perpetrators of these atrocities have a wide variety of political views, my comments are in response to a question about the failure to prosecute illegal gun crime. I will continue to stand up for law-abiding citizens who are smeared by anti-gun liberal elitists."
Democrats, who have the Tenney seat high on their list of potential flips, were quick to pounce on her remarks.
"Once again Congresswoman Tenney has demonstrated how completely unfit she is to serve in Congress," Even Lukaske, a spokesperson from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said in a statement. "Tenney's comments are unhinged, shameful and disgusting, and show why voters will replace her next November."


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Bernie Sanders says his 2016 team saw effects of Russian anti-Clinton campaign

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment detailing the Russian social media campaign to aid Donald Trump, undermine Hillary Clinton and sow distrust in American politics describes behavior that aides to Bernie Sanders witnessed firsthand in the waning weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, the senator said Tuesday.

In an interview with the Des Moines Register, Sanders described how an aide handling his social media accounts noticed an uptick in “horrific and ugly things” directed at Clinton beginning around September 2016 — long after the Democratic nomination had been decided, and while Sanders himself was traveling the country campaigning on her behalf.

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“In many respects, what Mueller’s report tells us is not new to us,” Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, said. “We knew that they were trying to sow division within the American people. In my case, it was to tell Bernie supporters that Hillary Clinton is a criminal, that Hillary Clinton is crazy, that Hillary Clinton is sick — terrible, terrible ugly stuff — and to have Bernie Sanders supporters either vote for Trump or Jill Stein or not vote at all.”

Sanders, who ran for president as a Democrat in 2016, described the situation in response to a question about his impression of the indictment released Friday by Mueller, the special counsel investing Russian election meddling and possible collusion with aides to President Donald Trump.

The indictment details a raft of activities by a Russian organization known as the Internet Research Agency to inflame political divisions, spread lies about the presidential race and encourage confrontations among Americans, largely on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

On Tuesday, Sanders described one spike in anti-Clinton sentiment that he attributed to the Russian campaign. In September 2016, an aide noticed hundreds of “new names” appearing on pro-Sanders Facebook pages to denigrate Clinton and her candidacy — despite the fact Sanders himself was campaigning on her behalf during that same period.


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Venezuelan pastor fills presidential void left by opposition

CARACAS, Venezuela — With two months to go before Venezuela’s presidential election, the only challenger to jump in the ring against President Nicolas Maduro is a little-known television evangelist who was once arrested for fuel smuggling and has a range of business ventures.

Despite his questioned past and the steep odds against him, the Rev. Javier Bertucci claims that he uniquely speaks to the vast majority of struggling Venezuelans disillusioned with both the opposition and Maduro’s unpopular government.

“I’m the only one who can guarantee the governability of the country,” Bertucci said in an interview. “I’ve traveled the country for eight years, seen the tears of mothers. ... No other leader can awaken the aching hearts of the Venezuelans.”

But some anti-government activists see his longshot candidacy, which so far doesn’t have the backing of any party, as dividing the opposition and lending undeserved legitimacy to Maduro’s re-election attempt. It also underscores the rising political influence of fast-growing protestant churches in Latin America, where a born-again singer is the front-runner to be Costa Rica’s next president and an evangelical bishop is now mayor of Rio de Janeiro.

On Wednesday, Venezuela’s opposition emerged from days of closed-door meetings to announce it would boycott the snap April 22 election unless the government met its demands for international observers and took other steps to ease fears the vote will be rigged.

While at least one prominent politician is weighing breaking ranks with the opposition, the deadline to register candidates is fast approaching and Maduro’s call Wednesday for early congressional elections to coincide with the presidential vote is likely to further entrench hardliners who say Venezuela has descended into dictatorship.


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The yearly Corruption Perceptions Index just came out. Who got the gold medal?

Curious about the world’s most — and least — corrupt countries? On Wednesday Transparency International (TI), a well-known NGO devoted to global anti-corruption, released its annual scorecard.

TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) shows the United States now sits in 16th place (of 180 territories), with a score of 75 out of 100. That’s a small improvement on the 2016 index in which the United States was 18th with a score of 74.

Yet barely a day seems to go by without new corruption allegations involving the Trump administration — including conflicts of interest among top officials and obstruction of justice claims against the president himself. How does that square with this latest CPI report?

How the CPI measures corruption

The CPI is probably the best-known measure of global corruption. The 2017 CPI takes into account 10 surveys and assessments from a range of institutions. The data come predominantly from surveys of business people around the globe.

TI amalgamates that data with assessments by a range of independent analysts to generate each country’s score. A score closer to 100 indicates the country is doing a decent job at preventing public sector corruption. A score below 50 suggests the country has a serious problem, while a score that falls below 30 is an indication that corruption is systematic and systemic within that country. Little more than 30 percent of countries score above 50, while around 3 in 10 score below 30. A worrying picture.


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Turkey Mulls Talks to Avoid War As Russia and U.S. Allies Chant 'One Syria'

Turkey has raised the possibility of opening a new dialogue with Syria, as its supporters threatened to join Kurds in resisting a Turkish invasion in the northwestern district of Afrin.

Ankara initially denied Tuesday that a massive convoy of fighters supportive of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad— an ally of both Russia and Iran—entered the Kurd-held enclave and later claimed that Turkish airstrikes turned the incoming forces back. Videos surfaced of pro-Syrian government and Kurdish fighters chanting "one Syria," in celebration of an alliance that Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said Wednesday would have "serious consequences" for Assad partisans.

Related: U.S. and Russia Allies Join Forces in Syria, But This Causes New Problems for Leading World Powers

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Kalin also said in a televised address, however, that Turkish intelligence officials "may establish direct or indirect contact when it is required to solve certain problems under extraordinary conditions," Bloomberg News reported. His remarks hinted at the potential for renewed contact between the neighbors, who have been on poor terms since Turkey helped sponsor a 2011 uprising against Assad.

Assad has called Turkey and the U.S. "invaders" because their military presence backed non-state actors in Syria. Turkey, the U.S. and Gulf Arab states backed various insurgent groups opposed to Assad's rule, but this opposition has become severely splintered by ideological infighting and competition with jihadi groups such as the Islamic State militant group and others affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

Turkey remained a supporter of the rebel Free Syrian Army, but the U.S. switched its focus to Kurdish militias that later formed most of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Turkey has criticized the U.S. over its backing of Kurdish groups such as the People's Protection Units (YPG) because Ankara alleged they were linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, a militant group responsible for decades of violence across Turkey.

While the U.S. remained a staunch opponent of Assad's leadership in Syria, Pentagon-backed Kurds have been more concerned with greater autonomy in northern Syria than total regime change. Syrian Kurds have long protested Assad's policies seen as suppressing their cultural identity, but Turkish backing for the Syrian opposition has more seriously alienated them, resulting in frequent clashes between formerly CIA-backed Syrian rebel groups and the Pentagon-backed Kurdish force.


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U.N. pleads for truce to avert 'massacre' as strikes hit Syria's Ghouta for fifth day

 AMMAN (Reuters) - Warplanes pounded the last rebel enclave near the Syrian capital for a fifth straight day on Thursday, as the United Nations pleaded for a truce to halt one of the fiercest air assaults of the seven-year civil and prevent a “massacre”.

More than 300 people have been killed in the rural eastern Ghouta district on the outskirts of Damascus since Sunday night, and many hundreds have been wounded, according to human rights monitors and aid agencies who say Russian and Syrian planes have struck hospitals and other civilian targets.

In the north, where Turkey launched an offensive in the past month against a Kurdish militia, the Kurds said pro-government fighters were now deploying to the front lines to help repel the Turkish advance. Government forces also entered a part of Aleppo controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, a witness and a monitor group said, although the YPG denied this.

The Kurdish YPG -- allies with the United States in other parts of Syria -- have sought assistance in recent days from the Russian-backed government to resist the Turkish offensive, an example of the unexpected alliances wrought during a multi-sided conflict that has drawn in neighbors and world powers.

International attention is now focused on the humanitarian plight in the eastern Ghouta, where 400,000 people have been under siege for years and where government bombardment escalated sharply on Sunday, causing mass civilian casualties.


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Montenegro police working to identify attacker on US embassy

Police in Montenegro said Thursday they are "working intensely" to identify an assailant who threw an explosive device into the U.S. embassy compound in the capital, Podgorica, before killing himself.

Police said in a statement that the man threw a bomb into the embassy yard and then committed suicide by activating another one around midnight Wednesday.

The blast created a crater but caused no other material damage to the embassy property, the statement said.

Police sealed off the area around the embassy after the explosion.

Officers came to the scene after receiving reports about an explosion and found a lifeless male body in the area of the Moraca river that runs through Podgorica, the statement said.

The U.S. State Department has said embassy officials are working with police to identify the assailant. The embassy in Podgorica said Thursday all staff are safe and accounted for after the incident.

Montenegro borders the Adriatic Sea in southeastern Europe. It joined NATO last year despite strong opposition from its traditional Slavic ally Russia.

Several people, including two Russian secret service operatives, are on trial in Podgorica on charges that they wanted to overthrow Montenegro's government in 2016 because of its pro-Western policies.

The U.S. established diplomatic ties with the tiny Balkan state in 2006 after it split from much larger Serbia.

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Associated Press writers Dusan Stojanovic and Jovana Gec in Belgrade, Serbia, and Josh Lederman in Washington contributed to this report.

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Billy Graham's nephew isn't mourning his passin

ANDERSON, S.C. — In the Rev. Billy Graham's family, there is a legend that has been passed down for generations.

It goes like this: Years ago, when he and his younger brother Melvin were standing on the family's dairy farm in Charlotte, they saw a plane meant for advertising. In the sky, the plane drew out the letters "G.P."

Billy Graham looked at it and said, "I think that means 'go preach.'"

His brother looked at it and said, "I think it means 'go plow.'"

So Melvin Graham ran the dairy farm.

And Billy Graham spent decades advancing the Gospel of Christ.

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When the Rev. Graham, 99, died Wednesday, his nephew Deryl Graham relayed that family story to the Independent Mail. And he vowed that, as far as he knows, every word of it is true.

Deryl Graham, who lives in Anderson, said the man he calls "Uncle Billy" was the same person in private as he was in the public eye.

"People who saw him on TV or during one of his crusades might think there's no way he could be that good and straightforward in real life," Graham said. "But he was. He was meek, and he was honest, and he was pure. He wouldn't even get into an elevator with a woman alone, because he didn't want to be accused of anything scandalous. He believed he was supposed to do the Lord's work. And he never altered the course."

Deryl Graham's childhood memories are sprinkled with recollections of summers spent with his Uncle Billy and the reverend's son, his cousin the Rev. Franklin Graham.

Billy Graham long had a home in the North Carolina mountains near Montreat, which his nephew described as "so far away from town paths that you have to know where the turns are to get to it."

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U.S. Women's Hockey Team Wins Gold, Beating Canada In Penalty-Shot Thriller

The U.S. women's hockey team owns Olympic gold for the first time in 20 years, after breaking Canada's remarkable streak of success in a gripping final at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The only previous U.S. win had come in the tournament's first year, in 1998.

When the American women finally received their gold medals, they were placed on their necks by former player Angela Ruggiero — who was on the last U.S. Olympic team to win it all.

This game was far from easy — for the players on either side, and for their fans. Regulation time had ended with a 2-2 tie — and when a 20-minute overtime didn't produce a sudden-death goal, a penalty shootout also ended in a 2-2 tie. That sent it to a sudden-death shootout to decide who would wear gold.

Canada had taken the first shot in the first round of the shootout — and to lead off the second, the U.S. sent Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson skating out.

"The last shootout against Canada, I looked like an idiot," Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson said after the game.

But since that past failure, the American said, she's been working on her penalty shots — and it showed on Thursday.

Starting from center ice, Lamoureux-Davidson used some artful stick handling to get the puck around and past Canada's goalie, changing directions several times. It confounded Canada's goalie Shannon Szabados, who had shone in this game.

That left it to U.S. goalkeeper Maddie Rooney, 20, to withstand the pressure and make one last save — against one of the most adept scorers in the game, in Canada's Meghan Agosta, a veteran who began her Olympics career in 2006. When Rooney foiled Agosta's shot, both the game and the U.S. gold drought were over, after three hours of intense and physical play and tension at the Gangneung Hockey Center.


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Trump’s claim that he’s been ‘much tougher on Russia than Obama’

 

As evidence has mounted that Russia intervened in the U.S. election to support the Trump campaign, President Trump has been arguing that he has been tougher on Russia than President Barack Obama was. He even suggested that Attorney General Jeff Sessions investigate Obama for an alleged failure to take action.

Never mind that during the campaign — or for months afterward — Trump repeatedly dismissed or belittled reports of Russian interference. In his tweet, Trump demanded a “look at the facts,” so let’s see whether he has a case for toughness. The answer is not necessarily clear. It depends on whether one looks at presidential tone or the administration’s actions.
The Facts

Obama, much like Trump, entered office seeking to improve relations with Russia, even to the point that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented the Russian foreign minister with a button marked with what was meant to be the word “reset” (with the word misspelled in Russian). Vladimir Putin, because of term limits, was forced to step down as president, and Obama thought he had forged a connection with Dmitry Medvedev, who filled the one-term gap before Putin returned to the presidency. The United States and Russia completed a nuclear-weapons agreement, and Obama paved the way for Russia to join the World Trade Organization.

During the 2012 campaign, Obama famously knocked GOP nominee Mitt Romney for calling Russia the “No. 1 geopolitical foe” of the United States. In a zinger that now looks foolish in retrospect, Obama chided Romney during the third presidential debate: “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”

The Obama administration also initially pushed back against congressional efforts to pass the Magnitsky Act, intended to punish Russia for the death of tax accountant Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009, out of fear that it would derail the reset effort.


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Rubio takes a risk in emotional gun debate, facing critics and warming to new firearm restrictions

 

Fred Guttenberg stood under a spotlight gripping a microphone with both hands and delivered a blunt message to Sen. Marco Rubio.

“I want to like you,” said Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter was killed in a mass shooting at her high school last week. But he couldn’t. Not yet. Not after what he had heard.

“Your comments this week and those of our president have been pathetically weak,” Guttenberg continued, staring Rubio down as the crowd around him rose to applaud.

The Republican senator from Florida stood silent and expressionless as the weight of the moment washed over them both. For an instant, raw emotion was on display live on national television even as no words were spoken. An agonizing week crystallized in 20 long seconds.

“Look at me and tell me guns were the factor in the hunting of our kids in this school this week,” Guttenberg told him forcefully, gesturing with his left hand for emphasis. “And, look at me and tell me you accept it, and you will work with us to do something about guns.”

Rubio, who throughout his career has been a scripted and risk-averse politician, had thrust himself into a volatile and deeply personal discussion. Then, he took another unexpected step. He endorsed raising the age requirement for buying a rifle. Later, he said he was “reconsidering” his opposition to placing new limits on high-capacity magazines.


source: washingtonpost

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IPhone 5 Bottle Opener Case

The Opener for iPhone 5 is lighter and thinner than the original Opener but still just as awesome. The improved POSI-LOCK sliding mechanism ensures effortless operation of the slide out bottler opener for the life of your Opener!

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Sony Xperia ZR Dust and Waterproof Smartphone By Sony

Sony announced the the scaled down version (in terms of size) of its Xperia Z smartphone, the Xperia ZR.
Sony Xperia ZR sports a quad-core 1.5 GHz processor to seamlessly support all your mobile computing needs. The main highlight is its water resistant capability – inherited from Xperia Z.
Here are other specs for Sony Xperia ZR
CPU: Quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait
Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8064
OS: Android OS, v4.1
Design:
Dimensions: 5.16 x 2.65 x 0.41 in
Weight: 140 g
IP58 certified – dust and water proof
  Display:
TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
720 x 1280 pixels, 4.55 inches (~323 ppi pixel density)
Shatter proof and scratch-resistant glass
Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2
  Memory:
microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal: 8 GB, 2 GB RAM
Camera:
13.1 MP, 4128×3096 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features: Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, image stabilization, HDR, sweep panorama
Front Facing usual camera
    Connectivity:
GPRS: Up to 107 kbps
EDGE: Up to 296 kbps
HSDPA, HSUPA
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP
NFC
USB: microUSB v2.0 (MHL)
Availability and Pricing:
Sony said that Xperia ZR will start shipping – around the world – in Q2 2013. It didn’t say any word on pricing but we anticipate it to be priced around 70,000 at the launch.

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A Fun and Cheap Windows Phone 8 Smartphone – Nokia Lumia 520

Nokia Lumia 520 can surely become one of the top Windows 8 based models in coming times because it is offering many beneficial features with economical price tag. One of the main things about Nokia which we have observed during the recent times is that they are keeping the price factor on their mind before releasing any model. They are trying hard to bring good models under an affordable price tag which is actually good for the consumers. Here we are discussing a few useful details of Nokia Lumia 520 which you can check if you are planning to purchase a Windows based smartphone.

Ergonomics: – Nokia Lumia 520 has the dimensions of 4.72*2.52*0.39 inches and the total weight of this smartphone is 124 grams. It is capable to display 16M colors through an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen whereas the pixel density is 233 ppi here. Size of the screen is 4 inches whereas the resolutions are 480*800 pixels. One of the best things about Nokia is that they understand people do not like if the screen of their smartphone faces any kind of issue. Therefore they have added a scratch-resistant glass here which is highly supportive for most of the users.

Characteristics: – This smartphone has Microsoft Windows 8 operating system which is the latest by the company. You can utilize Adreno 305 GPU and it has a Qualcomm MSM8227 chipset. Various buttons of this gadget are somewhat wider than other Lumia models which are surprisingly likable. It has a dual-core 1 GHz processor plus you can use proximity and accelerometer sensors here. HTML5 browser is present to access internet however it does not have radio facility. The gadget will be available in Cyan, White, red, yellow & Black colors. Functions of this model are highly user-friendly.

Connectivity: – You can use Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n here and it has HSDPA 21.1Mbps and HSUPA 5.76Mbps speed. It has microUSB version2.0, Class B GPRS and Bluetooth version3.0 with A2DP which can show you an excellent performance. You can also utilize EDGE facility up to 236.8 kbps here.

Camera: – Nokia Lumia 520 has 5MP of primary camera whereas the available resolutions are 2592*1936 pixels. It has geo-tagging and auto-focus facility. Video power is 720p@30fps and it does not have secondary camera.

Memory: – The gadget has 8GB of internal memory while RAM is 512MB. It has the microSD card slot of 64GB.

Battery: – This Nokia model has 1430 mAh Li-Ion battery. Standby time of this model is up to 360 hours. You can get the talk-time of 9.40 hours in 3G and up to 14.40 hours in 2G. Moreover music can play up to 61 hours here.

Price: – Currently there is no official information. However it is believed that price of Nokia Lumia 520 will be around $200 only. Now we cannot term it as an expensive model because we may not find any other smartphone that comes under similar price range with better features.

Therefore if we you have some plans to use a different model then Nokia Lumia 520 can be a good choice. Check it thoroughly before purchasing any other gadget.

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Samsung Galaxy s4 Review and Specifications

Users looking for a Samsung Galaxy S4 case with a shiny look and two layers of protection should look at the Incipio DualPro Shine.

While this Galaxy S4 case doesn’t feature a real metal back, the design may be attractive to users who want something different from the white or black plastic of the Galaxy S4.

We’re already seeing a variety of Galaxy S4 cases on the market, and the DualPro Shine is a good option for users who don’t want to add much bulk, but want multiple layers of protection.

Specs
Modes	LTE 700 / 850 / 1700 / 1900 WCDMA 850 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 only T-Mobile version has WCDMA 1700 (band IV)
Weight	4.59 oz   (130 g)
Dimensions	5.38″ x 2.75″ x 0.31″   (137 x 70 x 7.9 mm)
Battery	Talk: 17 hours max.   (1020 minutes) Standby: 300 hours max.   (12.5 days) 2600 mAh LiIon, Removable
Display	Type: OLED (Full-Color) Resolution: 1080 x 1920 pixels 5″   diagonal Colors: 16.7 million (24-bit) Samsung Super AMOLED, with Gorilla Glass 3
OS / Platform	Android version 4.2.2
Processor	1.9 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 8064T quad-core (or Samsung Exynos 5 1.6 GHz octa-core in some overseas markets)
Memory	16 GB internal storage, raw hardware 9.6 GB internal storage, available to user 2 GB RAM also available in 32 or 64 GB versions

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Apple IPhone VS Google Nexus One

Is the Google Nexus One for You?

The hype about the Google Nexus One phone was enough that practically every tech-savvy phone owner was drooling over the possibility of getting one. As always in these circumstances, the rumours proved to be a little more tempting than the reality, with talk of $200 unlocked phones soon being shot down. It could be tempting, in the circumstances, to go to the opposite extreme and suggest that no one needs this phone while Apple’s iPhone is out there. Instead, let’s take a careful look at both, and try to find areas where each wins out.

Applications

The Google Nexus One is up against stiff competition here. The Apple iPhone is rightly famous for its array of apps, and programmers have had since 2007 to come up with effective ones. In its corner, the Nexus has the fact that it is using an existing open source operating system in the form of Android, and that Google seems to have made sure that there will be a fairly good initial menu of applications to choose from. Combined with the speed at which new apps for both formats will probably be produced, there seems to be little to choose between them here.

Specifications

It can be easy to get too hung up on the specifications of new gadgets, but most of the time the differences don’t make that big an impact on your experience using them. Who will really notice, for example, that the Google Nexus One’s screen is 0.2” bigger than the iPhone 3G’s? There are two differences that you might notice though. Google’s smart phone offers 4GB of SD memory to either 16 or 32GB of flash memory on the iPhone, giving Apple’s option a significant advantage when it comes to storage. It loses out though in the battery stakes, offering similar life to the Nexus in most areas, but only five hours of talk time to the other handset’s ten.

Camera Options

One other area in which there seems to be a clear difference is in the two phones’ camera modes, where Google’s offering gives you 5-megapixel and Apple iPhone only gives you 3-megapixel, along with a digital zoom function. It means that the Nexus One can function on a level comparable with most decent compact digital cameras, along with the more basic SLRs. Whether that would be one of your primary considerations in buying a phone is perhaps debatable, but if you’re the sort of person who likes to snap away on a mobile, it might make the difference.

Should You Switch?

Even in terms of price, there isn’t that much to choose between the two smart phones, with the 16GB iPhone being only $20 more expensive than the contract version of the Nexus One, which is the one most people will probably want, given the expense of the $529 unlocked version.

So, you probably won’t buy Google’s Nexus One if you already own an iPhone. On the other hand, there’s no reason why, if you find yourself looking for your first smart phone, you shouldn’t give it some serious consideration.

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FreeDownload Voice Changer App for Android & iPhone

We all like to play pranks with friends as well as enemies, what if you want to amaze people around by changing their or your owns voice, well that’s now possible with the peak technology applications for your Smart Phones which works on Android as well as iPhone (iOS) operating system. These are simply called Voice Changer Applications for your Android Mobile that can work wonders for you guys. The process is much simple and easy to follow, its just record, change and make fun! Isn’t that sounding cool to you, then check out below mentioned short description and apps to download free.

Well! there are many applications available for your Android as well as iPhone which can easily change your or others voice in very funny manner, some of them I have listed below listing out their peak features and how they work and all kinda information which you will require.

Common Features : There are some common functions of these software which I would like to detail here, as all these app works on same technology they also comes with same kinda features like :

• Easily change the voice ton and speed
• Available models : Robots, Child, Women, etc
• Very easy and handy to install into your mobile
• Loaded with fine technology

1. Best Voice Changer [APK]

As the name only indicates this application which has the capability to change the voice is rated as world’s no. 1 and has been downloaded by millions of people all over the world so you can wisely guess what type of usability it would be providing to users.

Download Link   Best Voice Changer

2. DroidVox 

This particular application has the perfect capability to change the sound into funny, musical, scary as well as robotic, etc. In short it works on some of the finest technology namely vocoder which works very deeply with your voice data and converts it into some other’s so that it will not be predicted as if its fake or altered

Download Link   DroidVox App

3. Voice Changer Plus for iPhone

This one is for iPhone and other iOS systems, this app has same features and functions which I had discussed for the above ones, but the same is available for iOS now, so carry on with downloading from the official website namely iTunes. 

Download Link  Voice Changer Plus for iPhone

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