Poutsch for iPhone and iPad review: Ask questions, get answers from friends or from around the world!

Poutsch for iPhone and iPad is a new social service that allows you to ask any question you'd like to either your friends or the entire Poutsch community. You can embed videos and photos as well as links to sources to get an opinion on them. From there the community can answer your polls and debate the topic in one easy to access place. In some ways, Poutsch can function as an online democracy of sorts and double up as a pretty valuable tool for data seekers at the same time.

Upon launching Poutsch you can choose to either register or sign in with Facebook or Twitter. You can then search for friends that already have Poutsch or you can add people already in the community based on who's active. From here you can simply get to asking questions or answering other questions.

Your main feed in Poutsch will show you what questions are being asked. Just tap into one in order to view the question, the options, and to answer it. You can also tag questions accordingly with hashtags in order for users to easier find questions and discussions they're interested in being a part of. If you answer a question on Poutsch you can then join in on debates about that topic and add some personal input.

As far as notifications go, you can be notified on Poutsch when people answer your questions, when they respond to something you're debating, and more.

The good

• Great design that's easy to navigate
• Ability to upload an image or other type of media along with your question which makes for content with more value
• Great resource for those that don't want to pay for data

The bad

• No complains

The bottom line

Poutsch is a great way to find answers to questions whether you just want an opinion or you're a student doing research on a specific topic. Data aggregation is getting easier and easier and Poutsch is a great example of how accessing different types of data is becoming more available to the masses every day.

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Nobody saw this coming

It?s July 1. ?A slow point on the NFL calendar, but a momentous day in these parts.

Four years ago today, we hitched the PFT wagon to NBC.

I didn?t want to do it. ?Rick Cordella, now the NBC Sports Group?Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital, can attest to that. ?I tried to scare him away, making Costanza-style demands and protestations about journalistic integrity despite, as Jerry (sort of) told George, I?m not a journalist, and I have no integrity.

But it eventually happened (the whole story is too long to tell here, also likely too boring). ?And it has been the best move we ever made.

Sure, we get accused from time to time of being kindler and gentler than we used to be. ?And then, when we try to show that we have the same edge we displayed pre-NBC, we get accused of being jerks, or worse.

It?s a balance we?ll continue to try to strike, one day at a time, dozens of posts and tweets per day. ?Will we periodically, through all the content and stories and reports and takes, give a blogger or tweeter or whatever something to point to and say, ?See, these guys are sellouts? or ?See, these guys are jerks, or worse?? ?Sure.

But the greater goal is to enhance the diversion that comes from following the NFL, with information and analysis and mildly-amusing-at-times turns of phrase or YouTube clips or whatever else will make this something other than the unflavored gelatin recitation of the facts you can find in plenty of other places.

Thanks to everyone at NBC who helps up do what we do, including (and I?m guaranteed to piss someone off by omitting them but what the hell I?ll give it a try anyway) Mark Lazarus, Sam Flood, Fred Gaudelli, Rick Cordella, Kevin Monaghan, Matt Casey,?Brett Goodman, Dan Steir, Bruce Cornblatt, Joe Gesue, Ron Vaccaro, Ron Wechsler, Michael Kane, Eric Black, Kristen Coleman, the entire crew that puts together PFT Live, the entire crew that puts together Pro Football Talk on NBCSN, the folks who have the thankless job of clearing the thousands of comments our posts generate, all the great on-air talent who has treated us like family from day one, including Dan Patrick, Al Michaels, Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, Hines Ward, Peter King, Doug Flutie, and Michele Tafoya, Pro Football Talk on NBCSN co-host Erik Kuselias, analysts Ross Tucker, Shaun King, Pete Najarian, and Anthony Becht, fill-in hosts Carolyn Manno and Russ Thaler, and the ever-growing crew of folks who crank out the content here every day of the year, with no days off: ?Michael David Smith, Darin Gantt, Josh Alper, Curtis Crabtree, and Mike Wilkening.

And special thanks to Dick Ebersol, who believed in what we do and constantly went out of his way to help promote it.

That?s a lot of names. ?Proving that, indeed,?we?ve come a long way from a solitary man in a messy apartment that may or may not contain a chicken.

Thanks for joining us on the ride, and please stick around. ?We?re constantly trying to make it better, and we hope that we?ll find ways to do it in the coming years.

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Syrian rebels threaten to target Shi'ite villages in Aleppo

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels in the northern province of Aleppo on Monday threatened to seize two Shi'ite Muslim villages that back President Bashar al-Assad unless they surrendered to the opposition.

Activists say both Nubl and Zahra villages had been reinforced by Assad's allies in the increasingly sectarian war, among them fighters from Iran and Lebanon's powerful Shi'ite guerrilla group, Hezbollah.

"We announce our intention to liberate Nubl and Zahra from the regime and its shabbiha (pro-Assad militia), and from the Hezbollah and Iranian elements," the rebels said in an Internet video.

The 27-month-old conflict, which pits mostly Sunni insurgents against Assad, from an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, has already killed more than 100,000 people and driven 1.7 million Syrians to seek refuge in neighboring countries.

Assad's forces, spearheaded by Hezbollah, have made a number of gains since they seized the border town of Qusair last month. There have also been heavy clashes in Aleppo and surrounding districts, fuelling expectations that Assad aims to re-establish control of Syria's largest city.

On Sunday rebels shot down a helicopter close to Nubl, which activists said had been carrying supplies to the villages. Authorities in Damascus said they were taking Education Ministry employees to supervise school exams. Seven employees and the helicopter crew were killed, they said.

A video released by activists a few weeks earlier showed an army officer apparently recruiting Shi'ite villagers in Zahra and Nubl to form fighting units to support the army against the rebels.

"PREVENT A SINGLE DROP OF BLOOD"

"In order to prevent a single drop of blood from being spilled and to find a peaceful solution, we have set the following conditions," the video statement by the rebels said.

Among the demands were the surrender of Assad's forces and their weapons, followed by a power sharing deal between the locals and the rebels.

"If there is no response (to rebel demands for surrender) there will be a major military operation on those two villages," the statement said.

The sectarian nature of the conflict has set regional Sunni Muslim powers - notably Gulf Arab states and Turkey - against Assad's Shi'ite Iranian and Hezbollah allies in a deepening proxy war on Syrian soil.

Deputy U.S. Secretary of State William Burns, speaking at the end of a visit to neighboring Lebanon, condemned Hezbollah's military intervention in Syria.

"Despite its membership in the Lebanese government, Hezbollah has decided to put its own interests and those of its foreign backers above those of the Lebanese people," Burns said.

"We condemn in the strongest terms Hezbollah's actions in Syria. They ... stand in direct violation of Lebanon's disassociation policy (from Syria) and place the future of Lebanon at risk."

Hezbollah's role in Syria, along with Sunni Islamist fighters smuggled over the border to fight for the Syrian rebels, has exacerbated sectarian tensions in Lebanon which is still scarred by its own 1975-1990 civil war.

Fighting has broken out in the Mediterranean cities of Tripoli and Sidon, while rockets have been fired at a Hezbollah district of southern Beirut and in the Bekaa Valley.

Saudi Arabia, which has accelerated armed support for the rebels according to Gulf sources, urged the European Union on Monday to arm Syrian rebels without delay.

Riyadh and its partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council also called on the United Nations Security Council to meet to prevent a massacre in the central city of Homs, where Assad's forces have been waging an assault on rebel-held districts.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy army bombardment and clashes with rebel fighters for a third day in the contested city, which sits on an axis connecting Damascus to the heartland of Assad's minority Alawite sect in the hills overlooking the Mediterranean.

It said neither side appeared to be gaining any ground.

(Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/assads-forces-battle-tighten-control-central-syria-090118241.html

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Supreme Court petitioned to reimpose California gay marriage ban

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Opponents of gay marriage petitioned the Supreme Court on Saturday to immediately reinstate a 5-year-old ban on same-sex matrimony in California, saying a federal appeals court had acted prematurely in removing the prohibition on gay nuptials.

Supporters of the gay marriage ban, known as Proposition 8, which California voters approved in 2008, asked the high court to overrule a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals order on Friday lifting a stay that had kept same-sex unions outlawed.

Friday's surprise removal of the stay launched a flurry of swiftly arranged weddings by gay and lesbian couples up and down the state following a Supreme Court decision on Wednesday to let stand a 2010 lower-court opinion striking down Prop 8 as unconstitutional.

But opponents said the three-judge panel of the appeals court had jumped the gun in lifting its injunction before a 25-day "reconsideration" period at the Supreme Court had elapsed.

The Arizona-based group Alliance Defending Freedom argued that the 9th Circuit lacked authority to act when it did, and that it violated the terms of its own stay requiring that it remain in place "until final disposition by the Supreme Court."

The alliance asserted that final disposition could not occur before passage of the 25 days the Supreme Court normally gives petitioners to seek a re-hearing, in this case Prop 8 backers who were denied legal standing to appeal the 2010 decision.

But the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which sponsored the federal court challenge to Prop 8, issued a statement insisting that the 9th Circuit acted under its own "broad discretion" to issue its stay in the first place.

"Now that the Supreme Court has decided that the injunction against Proposition 8 must stand, it was entirely appropriate for the 9th circuit to dissolve its stay of that injunction," the alliance said in a statement.

Foundation attorney Ted Boutrous told reporters on a conference call on Friday that the 9th Circuit's move was hardly unprecedented and that appeals courts have taken similar actions in "much more boring cases than this" without drawing much notice.

Prop 8 supporters, he said, "should hang it up and quit trying to stop people from getting married."

The emergency petition seeking to bring gay marriages to a halt came as dozens of same-sex couples lined up at San Francisco City Hall for a second straight day since the appeals court lifted its stay against the 2010 decision by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker barring further enforcement of Prop 8.

(Writing by Steve Gorman; Additional reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles, Patrick Creaven in San Francisco and Lawrence Hurley in Washington; Editing by Eric Walsh and Eric Beech)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-petitioned-impose-california-gay-marriage-ban-225423254.html

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Texas abortion bill falls after challenge

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? Texas' lieutenant governor has acknowledged that Republicans missed their deadline to pass new abortion restrictions after protesters screamed down lawmakers as the final 15 minutes passed before the special legislative session's deadline.

Senators from both parties emerged from a private meeting with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and said they were about to officially acknowledge that fact.

Immediately following the vote, Republicans insisted they had started voting before the midnight deadline and passed the bill that Democrats spent much of Tuesday filibustering. But after official computer records and printouts of the voting record showed the vote took place Wednesday, and then were changed to read Tuesday, the senators convened for a private meeting.

More than 400 protesters erupted at 11:45 p.m. when Republicans suspended an 11-hour filibuster staged by Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth.

Source: http://www.wccbcharlotte.com/news/politics/213110611.html

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