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Monday, October 31, 2011
HTC releases Q3 earnings report: profit up 68 percent, shipments soar 93 percent
It's been another stellar quarter for the folks over at HTC. According to the company's Q3 earnings report, released today, net income rose to NT$18.68 billion (about $624.6 million) this quarter -- a 68 percent increase over Q3 2010 and a seven percent bump over last quarter, when HTC reported record profits. Revenue, meanwhile, rose by 79 percent on the year to NT$135.8 billion (around $4.54 billion), which the manufacturer attributed to "strong brand recognition, leading product portfolio and expanded distribution channels." On a regional level, HTC saw the strongest growth in China, where sales increased by a factor of nine over the past year. This undoubtedly helped the company boost handset shipments, which increased by a whopping 93 percent over the year, to 13.2 million units. For more details and crunchy numbers, hit up the source links, below.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
"Blind" by; Gary L. S. West
Blind
By;
Gary L. S. West
By;
Gary L. S. West
Love is fragile, love is blind
Love gets lost in the dust behind
Love's a victim of calloused ways
And buried in the gritty haze
A bolt of silk in grimy hands
A riddle no one understands
Torn and trampled, left in the dirt
And not a care for who gets hurt
A marriage torn apart and split
The poor small child that daddy hit
A child who grew and did the same
And we all point, accuse and blame
Where is God? And where is love?
A brutal game of push and shove
It's not God's guilt for what we've done
We crucified His only son
Through tragic cost He tried to bless
To bring some order to our mess
In anguish, watched His own son die
And still we cheat and steal and lie
Our clock is ticking, running out
Time to learn what love's about
If God is love, then love is good
And displayed on a cross of wood
Love is patient, love is kind
And thank you, God, whose love is blind
Xal Yah alu xuil dos.
(May God go with you)
Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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Altria 3Q net income rises nearly 4 pct (AP)
RICHMOND, Va. ? Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc. said Thursday its third-quarter profit rose nearly 4 percent as higher prices and gains from its smokeless tobacco and cigar brands helped to offset declining cigarette sales.
The owner of the nation's biggest cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, also reaffirmed its full-year forecast for adjusted earnings while announcing a new $1 billion share buyback and another $400 million in cost reductions.
Altria, based in Richmond, Va., reported net income of $1.17 billion, or 57 cents per share, for the period ended Sept. 30, up from $1.13 billion, or 54 cents a share, last year. Adjusted earnings were 56 cents per share, matching analyst estimates.
Revenue, excluding excise taxes, fell 3 percent to $4.33 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet were expecting $4.44 billion.
Its shares fell 21 cents to $27.06 in morning trading Thursday.
Altria said its top-selling Marlboro brand lost 0.9 points of market share to end up with 41.7 percent of the U.S. market. Marlboro volumes declined 10 percent. Its other brands, including Virginia Slims, Parliament and Basic, also lost market share.
The company has introduced several new products with the Marlboro brand, often with lower promotional pricing. They include special blends of both menthol and non-menthol cigarettes to try to keep the brand growing and steal smokers from its competitors.
"We remain confident in Marlboro's brand strength as its equity, loyalty rates and adult demographics remain strong," CEO Michael E. Szymanczyk said in a conference call.
But Altria still faces pressure in the current economy from less-expensive brands such as like Pall Mall from Reynolds American Inc. and Maverick from Lorillard Inc. Marlboro sold for an average of $5.74 per pack during the third quarter, compared with an average of $4.22 per pack for the cheapest brand, Altria said.
Altria said cigarettes sales fell 9 percent to 33.3 billion compared with a year ago, while volume for its discount cigarette brands increased 9.5 percent.
The company had cautioned last quarter that third-quarter cigarette volume and profitability would be hurt because wholesalers stocked up more than usual in the first half of the year. Adjusted for seasonal variations, the company said volumes declined 5 percent, worse than Altria's industry estimate of a 3.5 percent decline.
Cigarette revenue excluding excise taxes fell 6 percent to $3.64 billion during the quarter despite higher prices.
Like other tobacco companies, Altria is focusing on cigarette alternatives ? such as cigars, snuff and chewing tobacco ? for future sales growth because the decline in cigarette smoking is expected to continue.
Excluding excise taxes, revenue from its smokeless tobacco business grew more than 9 percent to $398 million on higher prices. Volumes of its smokeless tobacco brands such as Copenhagen and Skoal were essentially flat.
For the quarter, the company's smokeless tobacco brands had 55.2 percent of the market, which is tiny compared with cigarettes.
Volume for its Black & Mild cigars grew about 4 percent during the period. Revenue excluding excise taxes rose 21 percent to $109 million as it sold more while spending less money promoting the brand. Altria said it plans to introduce new Black & Mild varieties to build on its 29.5 percent share of the U.S. retail market for large, machine-made cigars.
The company also owns a wine business and holds a voting stake in brewer SABMiller.
Altria has been forced to cut costs as tax hikes, smoking bans, health concerns and social stigma make the cigarette business tougher. During the third quarter, the company said it completed a multi-year cost savings program, exceeding its goal of reducing costs by $1.5 billion between 2007 and 2011 compared with 2006.
On Thursday, Altria rolled out a plan to cut $400 million in "cigarette-related infrastructure costs" by the end of 2013 in advance of anticipated cigarette volume declines. Szymanczyk said cigarette volumes have declined significantly since a 62-cents-a-pack federal tax increase in 2009, resulting in a need to reduce costs.
Altria said restructuring charges will total 11 cents per share in the fourth quarter in connection with the program. The plan includes employee separation costs, but the company would not provide any specifics.
During the quarter, the company also completed a $1 billion share buyback program in which it repurchased 37.6 million shares. It intends to buy back another $1 billion worth of shares by the end of 2012.
Altria reaffirmed its full-year forecast for adjusted earnings between $2.01 and $2.07 per share.
It is the last of the largest U.S. tobacco companies to report its third-quarter results.
Rival Reynolds American, the nation's No. 2 tobacco company, said Tuesday its third-quarter profit excluding charges related to legal cases and other costs rose nearly 4 percent. The maker of Camel, Pall Mall and Natural American Spirit brand cigarettes said higher prices, productivity gains and selling more of its smokeless tobacco brands that include Grizzly and Kodiak offset cigarette volume declines of 6.8 percent.
Lorillard, the nation's No. 3 cigarette maker, said Monday its net income fell nearly 3 percent in the third quarter as higher costs offset selling more cigarettes at higher prices. It sold about 3 percent more cigarettes on gains on its Newport and its low-priced Maverick brand.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Insurgents attack US-run base in Afghanistan (AP)
KABUL, Afghanistan ? An Afghan official says insurgents have launched an attack on a U.S.-run civilian and military base in the southern city of Kandahar.
Kandahar provincial police chief, Gen. Abdul Razzaq says at least three insurgents had taken over an office in front of the base on Thursday afternoon and started shooting. The base is home to NATO troops, including Americans, and a provincial reconstruction team.
Razzaq says he was at the base for a meeting when the attack started.
Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi says two of the attackers have been killed, but he had no other details.
A hospital in Kandahar said at least one civilian was killed and at least two others and a member of the Afghan security forces have been wounded.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Canon introduces a 12-ink PIXMA printer (Digital Trends)
Earlier today, Canon officially announced the?PIXMA PRO-1 professional inkjet printer. The?PIXMA PRO-1 uses a new?12-ink system as well as a new?FINE print head system for greater color accuracy when printing photographs. While five of the inks are monochrome, the entire color spectrum includes cyan, magenta, yellow, red, photo cyan, photo magenta, photo black, matte black, gray, dark gray, light gray and chroma optimizer. The magenta cast that?s typically found when printing portraits has been eliminated with the 12-ink system and skin-tone reproduction has been significantly improved with a more lifelike, natural look.
The PIXMA PRO-1 can also be networked via an Ethernet connection giving multiple users on a home network access to professional prints. This feature is ideal for schools with photography programs that are looking to network a computer lab with access to a high quality photo printer.?The Canon PIXMA PRO-1 professional inkjet printer will have an approximate retail price of $999.99, but no release date has been announced for the launch of the new printer.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Obama offers mortgage relief on western trip (AP)
LAS VEGAS ? The Obama administration offered mortgage relief on Monday to hundreds of thousands of Americans in the latest attempt to ease the economic and political fallout of a housing crisis that has bedeviled President Barack Obama as he seeks a second term.
Obama was pitching new rules for federally guaranteed loans in Las Vegas, the epicenter of foreclosures and joblessness, in recognition that measures the administration has taken so far have not worked as well as officials had expected. The housing effort represents a new emphasis on executive steps he can take to address economic ills and other domestic challenges while circumventing Republican lawmakers, who have been blocking most of his proposals.
His jobs bill struggling in Congress, Obama tried a new catchphrase ? "We can't wait" ? to highlight his administrative initiatives and to shift blame to congressional Republicans for lack of action to boost employment and stimulate an economic recovery. Later in the week, Obama plans to announce measures to make it easier for college graduates to pay back federal loans.
While Obama has proposed prodding the economy with payroll tax cuts and increased spending on public works and aid to states, he has yet to offer a wholesale overhaul of the nation's housing programs. Economists point to the burst housing bubble as the main culprit behind the 2008 financial crisis. Meanwhile, the combination of unemployment, depressed wages and mortgages that exceed house values has continued to put a strain on the economy.
"There is no silver bullet," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One, and he acknowledged that the president's unilateral measures have their limits. "They are not a substitute to congressional action."
While the White House tried to avoid predicting how many homeowners would benefit from the revamped refinancing program, the Federal Housing Finance Administration estimated an additional 1 million people would qualify. Moody's Analytics say the figure could be as high as 1.6 million.
Under Obama's proposal, homeowners who are still current on their mortgages would be able to refinance no matter how much their home value has dropped below what they still owe.
In spelling out the plan to homeowners in in a Las Vegas neighborhood, Obama has chosen a state that provides the starkest example of the toll the housing crisis has exacted from Americans. One in every 118 homes in the state of Nevada received a foreclosure notice in September, the highest ratio in the country, according to the foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac.
Carney criticized Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for proposing last week while in Las Vegas that the government not interfere with foreclosures. "Don't try to stop the foreclosure process," Romney told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "Let it run its course and hit the bottom."
"That is not a solution," Carney said. "That is a solution that basically says to middle-class Americans who have been responsibly paying their mortgages, who, through no fault of their own, have seen their economic situation get quite desperate because of the crisis in the housing market, that `you're on your own, tough luck, I'm not going to help you.'"
The president also was using his visit to Las Vegas to promote a $15 billion neighborhood revitalization plan contained in his current jobs proposal that would help redevelop abandoned and foreclosed properties and stabilize affected neighborhoods.
The Nevada stop is the first leg of a three-day tour of western states, blending his pitch for boosting the economy with an aggressive hunt for campaign cash.
From Nevada, Obama will head for the glamor of Hollywood and the homes of movie stars Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas and producer James Lassiter for some high-dollar fundraising. On Tuesday, he will tape an appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, his second time on the show as president and fourth time overall. He will also raise money in San Francisco and in Denver.
Before the president addressed his mortgage refinancing plan, he attended a fundraiser at the luxurious Bellagio hotel, offering a sharp contrast between well-to-do who are fueling his campaign and the struggling homeowners hoping to benefit from his policies.
The mortgage assistance plan by the Federal Housing Finance Administration will help borrowers with little or no equity in their homes, many of whom are stuck with 6 or 7 percent mortgage rates, to seek refinancing and take advantage of lower rates. The FHFA plans to remove caps that had allowed homeowners to refinance only if they owed up to 25 percent more than their homes are worth.
The refinancing program is being extended until the end of 2013. It was originally scheduled to end in June 2012.
The administration's incremental steps to help homeowners have prompted even the president's allies to demand more aggressive action.
Rep. Dennis Cardoza, a moderate Democrat from California, gave voice to Democratic frustration on the housing front last week when he announced his decision not to seek re-election, blaming the Obama administration directly for not addressing the crisis.
"I am dismayed by the administration's failure to understand and effectively address the current housing foreclosure crisis," Cardoza said in a statement that drew widespread attention. "Home foreclosures are destroying communities and crushing our economy, and the administration's inaction is infuriating."
Obama's new "We can't wait" slogan is his latest in a string of stump-speech refrains he hopes will pressure Republicans who oppose his $447 billion jobs package. He initially exhorted Congress to "Pass this bill!" then demanded "I want it back," all in the face of unanimous Republican opposition in the Senate, though even some Democrats were unhappy with the plan.
Obama has now agreed to break the proposal into its component parts and seek congressional approval one measure at a time. The overall proposal would increase taxes on millionaires, lower payroll taxes on workers and businesses for a year, pay for bridge, road and school construction projects, and help states and local governments retain teachers and emergency workers on the job.
Divvied up, the proposals with the best chance of passage are the payroll tax cuts and extensions in jobless insurance to the long-term unemployed.
Countering Obama's criticism, GOP leaders say the sluggish economy and stubbornly high unemployment rate are the result of failed Obama administration policies, including the 2009 stimulus package and financial regulation bill.
"They got everything they wanted from Congress the first two years," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Sunday. "Their policies are in place. And they are demonstrably not working."
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2-week-old girl, mom rescued from Turkey rubble
ERCIS, Turkey?? Rescuers pulled a two-week-old baby girl alive from a collapsed apartment block on Tuesday as they battled to find survivors of an earthquake in eastern Turkey that killed more than 400 people and made tens of thousands homeless.
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The baby's mother and a grandmother were also brought out alive on stretchers to jubilant cries from onlookers who followed the dramatic rescue under cold, pouring rain.
"It's a miracle!" said Senol Yigit, the uncle of the baby, Azra, whose name means "purity" or "untouched" in Arabic. "I'm so happy. What can I say? We have been waiting for two days. We had lost hope when we first saw the building," he said sobbing.
However, hope of finding more people alive under the rubble faded with every passing hour as more bodies were found.
Slideshow: Powerful earthquake strikes Turkey (on this page)The death toll from Sunday's 7.2-magnitude quake rose to 459, with 1,352 injured, the Disaster and Emergency Administration said. The final count was likely to rise further as many people were still missing and 2,262 buildings had collapsed.
Thousands prepared to spend a third night in freezing temperatures in crowded tents or huddled around fires across a quake-prone region in Van province, near the Iranian border.
With the government facing criticism over shortages of tents and other relief items, Turkey requested prefabricated housing and tents from more than 30 countries, including Israel, a Foreign Ministry official told Reuters.
Ties between the two former strategic allies have been frayed since Israeli commandos killed nine Turks on board a Gaza-bound flotilla last year.
Many victims accused the central government of poor organization and of being slow in delivering aid to a region inhabited mostly by minority Kurds and home to a separatist insurgency against the Turkish state. Fighting broke out among desperate victims to grab tents from overwhelmed aid workers.
Spelling more trouble for authorities, gunshots were heard as prisoners set fire to a jail and fought with guards in Van, two days after a jailbreak in which 200 were reported to have escaped in the chaos after the quake.
The ruling AK Party has apologized for distribution problems. Urgency to offer shelters was heightened by worsening weather, with the first winter snow less than a month away.
'Pushed back 100 years'
"We have no tents, everybody is living outdoors. Van has collapsed psychologically, life has stopped. Tens of thousands are on the streets. Everybody is in panic," Kemal Balci, a construction worker, said as he awaited news of friends injured in the quake at a hospital in Van.
"Aid has been arriving late. Van has been reduced to zero. We have no jobs, no bread, no water and there are nine members in my family. If the government doesn't give a hand to Van it will be like Afghanistan. Van has been pushed back 100 years."
The quake, Turkey's most powerful in a decade, is one more affliction for Kurds, the dominant ethnic group in impoverished southeast Turkey, where more than 40,000 people have been killed in a three-decade-long separatist insurgency.
In an escalation of hostilities, Turkish warplanes struck targets overnight in northern Iraq, where the separatist militants have bases.
About 500 soldiers have crossed the border with armored vehicles following an attack last week by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters that killed 24 Turkish troops, security sources said.
Quake rescue efforts focused on Ercis, a town of 100,000 that was worst hit, and Van, the provincial capital, have been hampered by power cuts and by more than 500 aftershocks, including one with a magnitude of 5.4 on Tuesday.
'Miracle' baby
Emergency workers extracted the infant girl from the wreckage two days after she was buried with her mother under an apartment block.
The mother was clutching the child to her chest when they were reached by rescuers, who then set about rescuing the mother and a grandmother who were also still alive.
"We're going to get them out soon," a rescuer assured the other grandmother, whose eyes brimmed with tears of joy at the survival of her grandchild, who was born prematurely.
PhotoBlog: Rescue workers find survivors in collapsed buildingsElsewhere, exhausted workers used machinery, jackhammers, shovels, pick axes and bare hands to comb through rubble. Every so often, they would shout for silence and generators and diggers would stop, straining to hear voices under rubble. Seconds later the drone of the machinery would start again.
The Turkish Red Crescent said it is preparing temporary shelter for about 40,000 people, although there are no reliable figures for the homeless.
Slow response
Officials said 12,000 more tents would reach Van on Tuesday for the neediest, particularly in villages.
"Life has become hell. We are outside, the weather is cold. There are no tents," said Emin Kayram, 53, sitting by a campfire in Ercis after spending the night with his family of eight in a van parked nearby. His nephew was trapped in the debris of a building behind him, where rescue workers dug through the night.
"He is 18, a student. He is still stuck in there. This is the third day but you can't lose hope. We have to wait here."
How fast Ankara manages to deliver aid and long-term relief to the survivors might have political consequences in a region plagued by poverty and the Kurdish insurgency, analysts said.
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Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who won a third consecutive term with a strong majority in a June election, has promised to push reforms in parliament and rewrite the constitution to address long-time Kurdish grievances in an effort to end violence. Erdogan traveled to the region on Sunday, and President Abdullah Gul has also announced plans to visit.
"If we want to win the hearts of our brothers of Kurdish origin, we should act now. We should beat the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) with this approach, which is more effective than arms," leading analyst Mehmet Ali Birand wrote.
Fighting broke out among a crowd of around 200-300 people after a truck arrived in Van city and started handing out tents next to a cemetery. Women were hit and kicked as people tried to force their way through to get access to the tents, while police tried in vain to establish order.
Story: Seismic web gave rise to Turkey's killer quake"There is absolutely no coordination, you have to step on people to get a tent," said jobless Suleyman Akbulut, 18.
"The prime minister runs for help when it's Palestine or Somalia, sends ships to Palestine, almost goes to war with Israel for the sake of Palestinians, but he doesn't move a muscle when it comes to his own people," said Emrullah, a young man of about 18.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Apple television, the next great unicorn chase
Now that we have the iPhone and iPad, the next great unicorn to chase seems to be an Apple television — not the Apple TV set top box, but a full on elegant glass and aluminium object de panel art from Jony Ive and co. to hang on our...
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Progress in US-NKorea talks but no deal
U.S. top envoy on Pyongyang, Stephen Bosworth appears for a short statement outside the U.S. mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011.Talks between the United States and North Korea regarding Pyongyang's nuclear program ended Tuesday with what the top U.S. envoy called a narrowing of differences, but fell short of reaching a deal to resume formal negotiations. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
U.S. top envoy on Pyongyang, Stephen Bosworth appears for a short statement outside the U.S. mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011.Talks between the United States and North Korea regarding Pyongyang's nuclear program ended Tuesday with what the top U.S. envoy called a narrowing of differences, but fell short of reaching a deal to resume formal negotiations. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Glyn Davies, left, U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and U.S. top envoy on Pyongyang, Stephen Bosworth appear for a short statement outside the U.S. mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011.Talks between the United States and North Korea regarding Pyongyang's nuclear program ended Tuesday with what the top U.S. envoy called a narrowing of differences, but fell short of reaching a deal to resume formal negotiations. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Glyn Davies, left, U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and U.S. top envoy on Pyongyang, Stephen Bosworth leave after a short statement outside the U.S. mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011.Talks between the United States and North Korea regarding Pyongyang's nuclear program ended Tuesday with what the top U.S. envoy called a narrowing of differences, but fell short of reaching a deal to resume formal negotiations. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Glyn Davies, left, U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and U.S. top envoy on Pyongyang, Stephen Bosworth appear for a short statement outside the U.S. mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Oct 25, 2011.Talks between the United States and North Korea regarding Pyongyang's nuclear program ended Tuesday with what the top U.S. envoy called a narrowing of differences, but fell short of reaching a deal to resume formal negotiations. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
GENEVA (AP) ? An intensive round of talks between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear program ended Tuesday without a deal to resume formal negotiations, but top diplomats from both sides reported progress on the steps that will be needed to finally get there.
The U.S. special envoy to North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, told reporters just after the two-day talks wrapped up that there had been progress without agreeing to a formal resumption of negotiations, either bilaterally on in the so-called six-party format that also includes China, Japan, Russia and South Korea.
Nevertheless, he called it a useful meeting whose tone was "positive and generally constructive."
"There's a long history to this relationship and we have many differences, not all of which can be overcome quickly. I am confident that with continued effort on both sides, we can reach a reasonable basis of departure for formal negotiations for a return to the six-party process," Bosworth said outside the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
"We narrowed differences in terms of what has to be done before we can both agree to a resumption of the formal negotiations," he said.
In Washington, State Department officials said it could be weeks or months before North Korea responds to issues the U.S. raised during the Geneva talks.
U.S. diplomats want North Korea to adhere to a 2005 agreement it reneged on requiring verifiable denuclearization in exchange for better relations with its Asian neighbors. China, North Korea's closest ally, has urged Pyongyang to improve its strained ties with the United States and South Korea.
The North Korean delegation was headed by First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, who told reporters outside his country's U.N. mission that the two parties hope to meet again before the end of this year.
"Basically, according to our agreement from the first round of the high-level talks, we have focused our discussion on the confidence building measures to improve the North and the U.S. relationship," Kim said.
"During the process, there were series of big improvements, and there were also some parts we had differences in opinion," he said. "We decided to review those and solve them when we meet again."
Bosworth said the two sides would remain in touch through the "New York channel" ? North Korea's mission to the United Nations in New York ? since the two nations have no formal relations.
"We came to the conclusion that we will need more time and more discussion to reach agreement," said Bosworth, accompanied by Glyn Davies, the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, who is taking over the negotiating in future talks. "So we will go back to capitals and consult further."
Beijing, too, wants to revive the stalled six-nation disarmament negotiations. North Korea walked out on the talks in 2009 ? and exploded a second nuclear-test device ? but now wants to re-engage. Last year, Pyongyang also was blamed for two military attacks on South Korea that heightened tensions on the peninsula.
Bosworth talked about a narrowing of differences during the two-day meeting, but provided no specifics.
The first day was held at the U.S. mission to the U.N.'s European headquarters in Geneva. On the second day Tuesday, the two sides met for a "working lunch" of a little more than an hour at the North Korean mission, on the opposite side of Lake Geneva, then talked for one hour more before breaking up.
After the first day of talks Monday, Bosworth also said the two sides were narrowing their differences. The start of Tuesday's closely watched talks was delayed without explanation.
Bosworth said the discussions also "touched on all issues" ? such as urgently needed food aid for the North, families long separated on the Korean peninsula and the remains of troops missing in action.
The U.N.'s top relief official, Valerie Amos, said Monday after visiting North Korea that it was "not appropriate" for the nuclear talks in Switzerland to extend to humanitarian assistance to the chronically hungry Asian country because that aid "must be kept separate from a political agenda."
The U.N. is urging countries to provide $218 million in emergency aid to North Korea.
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Associated PressIPhone 4S first phone for low-power Bluetooth (AP)
NEW YORK ? The iPhone 4S has a little-heralded feature that makes it unique among phones, at least for a while: It can talk to a new class of wireless devices, such as watches and glucose and heart-rate monitors.
The phone, which went on sale Oct. 14, is the first one to have a new type of Bluetooth chip that can connect using very little power. The chip uses so little power that it can go into devices that are powered only by a standard "button cell" or watch battery.
The industry group behind Bluetooth on Monday said these small devices will be labeled "Bluetooth Smart." More fully-featured devices like the iPhone that can communicate with them and with other, standard Bluetooth devices will be labeled "Bluetooth Smart Ready."
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BPA in pregnant women might affect kids' behavior
CHICAGO (AP) ? Exposure to BPA before birth could affect girls' behavior at age 3, according to the latest study on potential health effects of the widespread chemical.
Preschool-aged girls whose mothers had relatively high urine levels of bisphenol-A during pregnancy scored worse but still within a normal range on behavior measures including anxiety and hyperactivity than other young girls.
The results are not conclusive and experts not involved in the study said factors other than BPA might explain the results. The researchers acknowledge that "considerable debate" remains about whether BPA is harmful, but say their findings should prompt additional research.
The researchers measured BPA in 244 Cincinnati-area mothers' urine twice during pregnancy and at childbirth. The women evaluated their children at age 3 using standard behavior questionnaires.
Nearly all women had measurable BPA levels, like most Americans. But increasingly high urine levels during pregnancy were linked with increasingly worse behavior in their daughters. Boys' behavior did not seem to be affected.
The researchers said if BPA can cause behavior changes that could pose academic and social problems for girls already at risk for those difficulties.
"These subtle shifts can actually have very dramatic implications at the population level," said Joe Braun, the lead author and a research fellow at Harvard's School of Public Health.
For every 10-fold increase in mothers' BPA levels, girls scored at least six points worse on the questionnaires.
The study was released online Monday in Pediatrics.
Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, said the study contributes important new evidence to "a growing database which suggests that BPA exposure can be associated with effects on human health."
Grants from that federal agency helped pay for the study.
The Food and Drug Administration has said that low-level BPA exposure appears to be safe. But the agency also says that because of recent scientific evidence, it has some concern about potential effects of BPA on the brain and behavior in fetuses, infants and small children. The FDA is continuing to study BPA exposure and supports efforts to minimize use in food containers.
BPA has many uses, and is found in some plastic bottles and coatings in metal food cans. It was widely used in plastic baby bottles and sippy cups but industry phased out that use.
Braun said it's possible that exposure to BPA during pregnancy interferes with fetal brain development, a theory suggested in other studies, and that could explain the behavior differences in his study. Why boys' behavior wasn't affected isn't clear. But BPA is thought to mimic the effects of estrogen, a female hormone.
The researchers evaluated other possible influences on children's behavior, including family income, education level and whether mothers were married, and still found an apparent link to BPA.
But Dr. Charles McKay, a BPA researcher and toxicologist with the Connecticut Poison Control Center, said the researchers failed to adequately measure factors other than BPA that could explain the results.
For example, there's no information on mothers' eating habits. That matters because mothers' higher BPA levels could have come from eating lots of canned foods instead of healthier less processed foods, which might have affected fetal brain development.
The American Chemistry Council, a trade group whose members include companies that use BPA, said the research "has significant shortcomings ... and the conclusions are of unknown relevance to public health."
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Online:
FDA: http://tinyurl.com/ya4d4ku
Info for parents: http://www.hhs.gov/safety/bpa/
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AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/LindseyTanner
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Review: Kelly Clarkson beguiles with 5th album (AP)
Kelly Clarkson, "Stronger" (RCA Records)
Kelly Clarkson has been wowing audiences with her powerful voice since she burst onto the scene as the first "American Idol" winner a decade ago. Since then, the dynamic singer has sold millions by making female empowerment anthems her mantra, from booming pop-rock songs that call for women to stand up for themselves to finger-wagging tunes that tell not-good-enough men that they're not good enough.
Clarkson's fifth studio album, "Stronger," addresses the same issues with a "richer and fuller" sound than usual: Clarkson said she wanted to sound like she does when performing live, without employing any of the modern day tuning aides. The result is a more natural sound that allows her already explosive voice to bloom even more.
The record is full of danceable tracks that just won't budge from your humming repertoire. Whether it's pop, rock, 1980s riffs or electro streaks, "Stronger" has all the ingredients for a well-balanced offering. Clarkson worked on the eclectic record with a variety of A-list producers such as Rodney Jerkins, Greg Kurstin, Josh Abraham, and Toby Gad. She also co-wrote five of the album's tracks.?
First single "Mr. Know It All" hits all the right notes by going for the jugular, with lyrics like "You ain't got the right to tell me/ When and where to go," and "Mr. Bring me down/ Well ya like to bring me down don't ya/ But I ain't laying down." Along the way, her unstoppable voice channels Bonnie Tyler and Tori Amos in "Honestly," which urges for complete disclosure (even if the truth hurts); "I Forgive You" and "You Can't Win" sound like they were made for the soundtrack of an adorable rom-com.
Only Clarkson can beguile with a ballad like "Dark Side," half music box chimes, half pop anthem. "Everybody has a dark side/Do you love me?/Can you love mine?" After a listen to "Stronger," the answer is a definitive "yes."
CHECK OUT THIS TRACK Give "Einstein" a listen and discover everyone's new favorite and easy to remember equation: "Dumb plus dumb equals you." How's that for math?
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Officials: Soldier kills deputy, then self in Ga.
AUGUSTA, Ga.?? A National Guardsman who appeared to be drunk and had been firing at passing cars shot and killed a sheriff's deputy, then committed suicide alongside a Georgia road, authorities said Sunday.
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Evidence shows Christopher Michael Hodges, 26, fired 35 rounds from his M4 semiautomatic rifle, said Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength. The Augusta Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/pxah3v) that Hodges and 47-year-old Deputy James D. Paugh were found dead on the side of Bobby Jones Expressway after 1 a.m. Sunday.
Hodges was based with the Tennessee National Guard but was on temporary duty at Fort Gordon in eastern Georgia for training, said Buz Yarnell, a spokesman for the military post. Yarnell said he was not aware of any problems with Hodges before the shooting, and he would not say if Hodges had previously been deployed overseas.
Strength said Paugh was off duty and on his way home when he saw a suspicious car on the side of the road. He was shot several times when he stopped to check on the car and apparently fired two shots from his service weapon before he was killed.
"He was just checking that car. He pulled over his motorcycle and didn't even get to put the kickstand down before the suspect began firing on him," the sheriff said.
Authorities said Hodges had been having some sort of dispute with his girlfriend, though it does not appear Paugh knew about that.
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Information from: The Augusta Chronicle , http://www.augustachronicle.com
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45006146/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
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Music Video Shot Entirely Using iPhone 4S
Posted by iPhoneHacks on Oct 22, 2011 | Comments (2)
iPhone 4S comes a vastly improved 8-megapixel camera, which allows you to shoot videos in 1080 HD with video stabalization technology.
It seems to have convinced a band called Turnback to shoot their new single, "Cellophane Sky" from album "Drawn In Chalk"?entirely using two iPhone 4S's.
Turnback rep:
On October 14th, 2011 we received 2 brand new iPhone 4S smart phones. On Sunday October 16th we shot the video at the famous NYC nightclub Webster Hall. Over the next several days, with little sleep and lots of coffee, the final video was finished.
You can checkout the video of the song below:
iPhone seems to be a great medium to get some free publicity. Last year, a?New York City rock band ?Atomic Tom? was in the news for turning to their iPhones for help after their instruments were allegedly stolen.
The members of the band hooked their iPhones to a portable speaker system and?used various musical iPhone apps to play??Take Me Out? from their latest album on a New York City subway train.
If the video was taken completely using two iPhone 4S's then it is quite impressive. What do you think?
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Filipino community celebrates first native martyr
Filipino community celebrates first native martyr
By Shirley Henderson
.- At the special liturgy celebrating the feast day of St. Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino martyr, on Sept. 28, Bishop Roger Morin of Biloxi, Miss. told the congregation, ?There is a road to heroic virtue ... by each one of the individual acts of charity that we do. And each day we have an opportunity to do those Corporal Acts of Mercy.?
The bishop reminded the faithful, ?there is also a possible opportunity for punishment by ignoring, neglecting, or omitting to help someone in need.?
He said the faithful can achieve their reward ?By joyously serving the Lord and witnessing to our faith ... the path to the crown of glory can begin with just a cup of water, a piece of bread,? he said.
Hundreds of Filipinos and others gathered at Our Lady of Fatima Church for the celebration of the feast of St. Lorenzo Ruiz, who was born in Binondo, Manila between 1600 and 1610, to a Chinese father and a Filipino mother. After traveling to Nagasaki in 1636 and subjected to torture by his Japanese captors for more than a year, he died a horrible death.
He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Manila on Feb. 18, 1981. He was canonized on Oct. 18, 1987 in Rome.
A celebration of the Filipino culture followed the liturgy in the parish hall.
Printed with permission from the Gulf Pine Catholic, newspaper for the Diocese of Biloxi, Miss.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Police: Cadaver dog 'hit' at missing baby's home
An investigator walks past a memorial at missing baby Lisa Irwin's home in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
An investigator walks past a memorial at missing baby Lisa Irwin's home in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Members of the FBI evidence recovery team search the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Investigators carry items into the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
A Kansas City Police crime scene investigator carries items from the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Investigators search the memorial outside the home of missing baby Lisa Irwin in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Police say an FBI cadaver dog reacted to the scent of a dead person inside the Kansas City home where a baby girl disappeared nearly three weeks ago, and investigators discovered soil in the backyard that had been "recently disturbed or overturned," according to a released court document.
The affidavit, released Friday after being filed earlier this week in support of a search warrant targeting the family's home, also stated that the girl's mother, Deborah Bradley, "made the statement she did not initially look for her baby behind the house because she 'was afraid of what she might find.'"
Those details and others in the affidavit, publicly released for the first time Friday, led to a daylong search Wednesday of the family's home, where the parents say then-10-month-old Lisa Irwin must have been snatched in the middle of the night as the mother and two other boys slept. Bradley and the baby's father, Jeremy Irwin, reported the girl missing on Oct. 4 and have denied any role in the disappearance while insisting police have pointed the finger at them.
The affidavit stated that an FBI cadaver dog taken into the house Monday indicated a "positive 'hit' for the scent of a deceased human in an area of the floor of Bradley's bedroom near the bed."
The FBI dogs, which often are used at both disaster and crime scenes, are trained "specially to recognize the scent of decaying, decomposing human flesh," retired FBI special agent Jeff Lanza said Friday.
"That can be the scent of an actual body decomposing, or residual scents after the body is no longer there," Lanza said.
Dr. Edward David, a deputy chief medical examiner for the state of Maine and co-author of the "Cadaver Dog Handbook," said that when a body is left in one spot for several hours, cells are left behind. They continue to decompose and create an odor, giving the dog scents to detect.
He said that while trained dogs may fail to detect the smell of human decomposition about 30 percent of the time, they generally don't alert when nothing is there. One exception is when human waste is present.
Joe Tacopina, a New York lawyer hired by a benefactor he has not identified to represent Bradley and Irwin, said the dog could have detected "a dirty diaper or 10 other non-human-remains items."
But granting that cadaver dogs are trained chiefly to detect decomposing flesh, "There's really no scenario where this baby, God forbid she was dead, would have decomposed in that short a period of time," Tacopina told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Friday night.
The court document also indicated police felt they needed handheld digging tools after an investigator noticed dirt in a garden area behind the home appeared to have been "recently disturbed or overturned." During Wednesday's search, investigators could be seen digging behind a shed in the backyard. Among other revelations in the affidavit:
?Officers searched all rooms in the house and the basement after being called to the home Oct. 4. Officers sought evidence but because the parents said the baby had been abducted, the only areas extensively processed for DNA and fingerprints were the baby's bedroom and possible entry points.
?The parents had told police that three cell phones were missing. The affidavit said a phone had since been found in a desk drawer, but that phone wasn't one of those reported missing. The missing phones haven't been found.
?Interviews with people involved in the case revealed "conflicting information for clear direction in the investigation."
Another document released Friday revealed some of what police recovered from the home during Wednesday's search: a comforter and blanket, some clothes, rolls of tape and a tape dispenser. The family's local lawyer, Cynthia Short, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment on the documents, and police declined to discuss what they found.
But before the affidavit was released, a statement issued by Short's office insisted the parents had no role in the disappearance and disputed claims that the parents aren't cooperating with police. The statement said the parents have consented to "unfettered access" to their property and allowed police to take hair and other samples.
"They have taken all calls from detectives, and answered questions posed again and again," the statement read. "In the initial hours of the investigation, they tolerated accusations, volunteered to take polygraph examinations; continued to work with detectives even after the interviews turned into pointed accusations."
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Associated Press writer Dana Fields contributed to this report.
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Microsoft Inks Tenth Android Patent Deal, Signs Agreement With Compal Electronics
Microsoft has signed yet another Android patent deal, this time with China's Compal Electronics. The current list of Microsoft's patent agreements include Samsung, HTC, Wistron, Quanta, Acer and General Dynamics Itronix. This is the tenth agreement relating to Microsoft's Android patents, and the ninth agreement in the last four months. According to the release, the patent agreements covers any tablets, mobile phones, e-readers and other consumer-focused devices running the Android or Chrome OS Platform. Similar to the Quanta deal, Compal Electronics will pay out royalties pay out royalties on phones, tablets or e-readers that run on Android or Chrome OS. As with many of these deals, the exact structure of the royalty fees is unknown.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/kk1ycCDCoFo/
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Pillow Pets as low as $13.20 | Common Sense With Money
Right now on Amazon you can get this Unicorn Pillow Pet for $13.20.? Since they have come out with new designs for these Pillow Pets, you can get some of the riginal designs for less right now.? For example, the monkey and hippo large pillows as just $16.? These ship free with Amazon Prime or with a $25 purchase using Super Saver Shipping.? Make sure you are looking at the size you want to get because these come in different sizes.
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