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Monday, August 5, 2013
Bottom line: Apple vs. Samsung
Source: Asymco.com
FORTUNE -- If anyone can draw a picture that puts to lie Strategy Analytic's claim -- widely reported in the tech press?-- that Samsung has become the world's most profitable smartphone vendor, Horace Dediu can.
The chart above was adapted from That Competition Thing, a post on his Asymco.com blog that compared the top and bottom lines of Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT) and Samsung.
Dediu's bottom line on Apple v. Samsung: "Apple remains most profitable phone maker by a wide margin."
Below: Dediu's revenue charts for the two companies by segment and product line.
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Possible Tornado Causes Damage in Montana
Strong thunderstorms that moved across Montana left a trail of damage to crops and buildings along with downed trees and power outages.
The worst damage from Thursday's storm may have occurred in Gallatin County, where winds gusting up to 89 mph devastated wheat and barley crops that likely would have been harvested next week, Montana Grain Growers Vice President Matt Flikkema said.
"I've never seen crop damage to the extent we have here in the valley," Flikkema said Friday. "There are very little crops that will be harvested out of the area."
Flikkema said the damage could approach $50 million, even without taking into consideration what happened to 5,000 acres of potatoes.
Most of the grain crops are used for seed, meaning there could be a shortage of seed to plant next year, he said.
The storm started in southwestern Montana, where wind gusts up to 104 mph were recorded in Polaris, northwest of Dillon, causing major damage to homes and some trees, the National Weather Service reported.
Betty Barnes of Polaris said she lost several trees, including a big one that fell near her driveway.
"I said to myself, 'Well, thanks, God, for the firewood and for protecting my house,'" Barnes told The Montana Standard.
Strong winds and possibly a tornado caused severe damage in Twin Bridges, uprooting trees and blowing the roof off at least one building.
A weather service representative was expected to visit Twin Bridges on Friday to determine if a tornado had touched down, said Steve DiGiovanna of Madison County Disaster and Emergency Services.
Some falling trees damaged historic buildings, including the museum, and the roof was ripped off a veterinary clinic outside of Twin Bridges. An airport hangar was destroyed, a travel trailer was crushed by falling trees, and a grandstand at the Madison County Fairgrounds was flipped over and destroyed, he said.
Twin Bridges Mayor Tom Hyndman said the wind also uprooted a large spruce tree that is decorated every year for the town's Christmas Stroll.
Golf-ball sized hail fell across much of Belgrade and the northern part of Bozeman, the weather service reported.
NWS meteorologist Todd Chambers of Billings said the storm began in the southwestern part of the state Thursday afternoon and moved east, causing damage as far away as Billings.
The "long-lived, long-path" storm was unusual for this time of year, he said.
In eastern Montana, a funnel cloud was reported near Acton, northwest of Billings, where at least four mobile homes were destroyed and at least three more were damaged by apparent straight-line winds gusting up to 90 mph.
The Billings Gazette reports the wind picked up two of the trailers in a trailer park, with one of them being tossed into a neighboring trailer.
Duane Cowdin lost his garage to the storm, which he said scattered debris "from hell to breakfast."
Cowdin said a neighbor's horse was spooked by the storm, got tangled in barbed wire and had to be put down because its leg was so badly damaged.
There was another unconfirmed report of a tornado in Broadview, Chambers said.
Golf-ball-sized hail was reported in parts of Billings, as well. A tree on the West End caught fire after being struck by lightning.
The storm knocked out power along its path and crews were still working Friday morning to restore service.
A second set of storms moved through the Helena. Over an inch of rain fell in a swath, moving northeast from an area near the city through eastern Chouteau County, the weather service said.
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'Jeopardy!' kid's loss sealed by spelling error
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Spelling counts, kids. Especially on "Jeopardy!" it seems. And that's the hard lesson one young player learned this week on the "Kids Week" version of the long-running game show.
Newtown, Conn.'s Thomas Hurley had to know his chances of taking home first place were slim: He went into Final Jeopardy with just $9,600 ? a nice second place, but compared to the first-place leader Skyler Hornback, of Sonora, Ky., who had $36,600, it was a pittance. It was going to take a big bet on Hurley's part and/or a big loss on Skyler's part to pull this one off.
Then host Alex Trebek read the question: "Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, 'a fit and necessary war measure.'"?
The good news: Hurley had the right answer. Well, mostly. When the answers were revealed (third placer Shuli Jones of Toronto, Ont. wrote "the second amendment," which was wrong), Hurley's answer came up: "What is the Emanciptation Proclamation." Right answer, wrong spelling of "Emancipation."
And while the "Jeopardy!" judges have been known to let small spelling errors go, that was not the case in this instance. Hurley lost, and can clearly be seen mouthing the word "What?!" before hanging his head in disappointment.
Even worse, he then had to watch as Hornback ? who had already been mentioned as a big Civil War buff ? not only got the answer right, he spelled it right and bet big: $30,000. He ended up with $66,600 ("almost a one-day record for 'Jeopardy!'" gushed Trebek).
For anyone who's ever tried, becoming a contestant on "Jeopardy!" is no cakewalk. To make it onto "Jeopardy!" and get to second place in the final round and lose ? even in part ? based on a single letter, well, that's heartbreaking.?
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
Debunking 10 Myths in the NBA Today
Chris Bosh might be a little bit overrated.
To suggest that he wouldn't be able to average somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 points and 10 rebounds while being more of a focal point on a team not named the Miami Heat, however, is completely unfair.?
Though Bosh's scoring numbers have dipped on an annual basis since averaging 24 points during his final season with the Toronto Raptors in 2009-10, he has become a more efficient scorer with the Heat.
As the third option for Miami, Bosh improved to a career-high field-goal percentage of 53.5 percent during the 2012-13 campaign.
It stands to reason, according to the laws of simple math, that Bosh's scoring average would improve he attempted more shots at that efficiency number.
Bosh's rebounding production, however, is admittedly more difficult to defend. While playing the center position for Miami last year he averaged 6.8 rebounds per night.
Though a player of his skill and athleticism shouldn't be quite that low, matching up against opposing centers has contributed to his inability to get on the glass as much as he's used to while matched up at his more natural position of power forward.
Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1723291-debunking-10-myths-in-the-nba-today
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Friday, August 2, 2013
German publishers opt to remain in Google News, still expect to get paid
Google said last month it would require German publishers to opt-in if they wanted to continue to be featured on Google News. The AP is now reporting that several have decided to remain on the service, including Spiegel Online, Zeit Online and Springer AG. Publishers have long been pushing for the government to change the law so news aggregators would have to pay for the content they scrape. A new copyright law does come into effect today limiting how much info aggregators are allowed to borrow for their feeds, and to avoid any legal scuffles, Google decided an opt-in policy was safest. This may not be the end of the company's troubles with publishers in the country, however, as Springer AG has said "it still expects to receive money from Google eventually."
Source: AP
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Citigroup to pay $10.75 million in arbitration
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc
FINRA, Wall Street's industry-funded watchdog, also ordered Edward Mulcahy, a former Citigroup broker, to pay $250,000 to the investor, John Leopoldo Fiorilla, according to a July 30 ruling.
Mulcahy left the New York based lender in 2009 and is currently employed with Morgan Stanley.
FINRA did not release details of how it came to its ruling, as is typical of securities arbitration decisions.
(Reporting By Neha Dimri in Bangalore)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/citigroup-pay-10-75-million-arbitration-204301071.html
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Watch: Tornado trashes streets in Italy as cameras roll
Two photographers in Milan, Italy somehow managed to escape serious injury when a tornado roared literally right next to them as they had their cameras rolling.
Reports are that 12 people were hurt but thankfully no one was killed when the tornado touched down on Monday.
The videos show the incredible debris that this tornado was carrying along for the ride.
The first one was taken by someone who had the tornado come down his street -- you can actually see a bit of the tornado about 1:30 in:
This next one appears to be shot from an office and shows the grave danger tornadoes pose from flying debris. It gets really intense in the moments before the video ends and I?can't believe how those windows survived -- at least up through when the video stops... we don't have the epilogue:
Here is another that shows the danger from flying debris:
This last one shows the funnel and the destruction in the aftermath:
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Monday, July 29, 2013
'Under the Dome' renewed for a second season
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"Under the Dome," CBS' massive sci-fi summer hit, was renewed for a second season, the network announced Monday.
Stephen King, who wrote the novel upon which the serialized drama was based, will pen the first of 13 new episodes, premiering in summer 2014.
Starring Mike Vogel and Rachelle Lefevre and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the series centers around a small town suddenly trapped beneath a mysterious transparent dome. And within the supernatural bubble, the residents of Chester's Mill, Maine, are also hiding dark secrets of their own.
?We?re excited to tell more stories about the mystery of the dome and the secrets in Chester's Mill, and are thrilled to have the master storyteller himself, Stephen King, tell the first one of next season,? said CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler in a statement.
When asked about sustaining the mystery without frustrating viewers, CBS boss Les Moonves compared "Dome" to the network's other event series, "Hostages."
"We didn't put it on to just have 15 episodes ? we put it on to have multiple seasons of it. Why can't they be under the dome a long period of time? This is television," he joked with reporters at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour Monday. "This is science fiction.
" 'Under the Dome' in a lot of ways is a soap opera: It's 'Dallas' in the future," added Moonves, referring not to remake, but the original "Who shot J.R.?" 1980s phenomenon.
"Dome's" renewal is one of the least surprising network pickups of the year, considering its astronomical ratings. Its Monday night broadcast has averaged more than 13 million viewers and given the network its first win in the 18-49 demo in 20 years. It also has attracted an impressive online audience and is Amazon's No. 1 streaming series.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/under-dome-renewed-second-season-6C10784613
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Oil Spill In Thailand - Business Insider
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BANGKOK (AP) ? Black waves of crude oil washed up on a beach at a popular tourist island in Thailand's eastern sea despite attempts to clean up the oil up over the weekend after it leaked from a pipeline, officials said Monday.Tourists on Samet island were warned to stay away from the once-serene beach, marred by inky globs as hundreds of workers in white jumpsuits labored to scrape the sand clean and remove oil from the water.
About 50 tons of oil spilled into the sea off Rayong province on Saturday morning from a leak in the pipeline operated by PTT Global Chemical Plc, a subsidiary of state-owned oil and gas company PTT Plc.
The leak was the fourth major oil spill in the country's history, Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisal said.
Streaks of crude oil about 300 meters (1,000 feet) wide marred the shore of Prao Bay on Samet Island, one of the most popular beach destinations for Thai and foreign tourists in the Gulf of Thailand, Rayong Deputy Gov. Supeepat Chongpanish said Monday.
He said authorities closed the bay as 300 workers attempted to remove the oil from the white beach and the water.
"The top priorities right now are to get rid of the oil on the sand and the seawater, and to make sure the spill doesn't spread to other shores," Supeepat said. "This is a very beautiful, white, sandy beach, so we want to make the spill go away as soon as possible."
"The black waves started rolling in since last night and by the morning the beach was all tainted with oil," said Kevin Wikul, the assistant front desk officer at a resort in Prao Bay. "We have advised our guests against going near the beach and some of them have asked for early check-outs."
The nearby area has been declared a disaster zone by provincial authorities, and those affected by the spill will receive immediate assistance.
The company said it detected a leak when crude oil from a tanker moored offshore was being transferred to the pipeline, 20 kilometers (11 miles) from a refinery in Map Ta Phut, one of the largest industrial estates in Southeast Asia.
The company said in a statement Sunday that it has flown in oil spill management experts and a plane from Singapore to remove the crude oil. Thai navy vessels also joined the cleanup efforts.
Authorities said it would take some time to assess the environmental damage.
"The spill is definitely having an impact on the environment, but we have not detected any deaths of marine animals yet at this point," provincial Gov. Wichit Chatphaisit said. "PTT will have to take responsibility for the damage this has caused."
He said pollution control department officials had expressed concern about the effects of the chemical used to clean up the spill.
PTTGC apologized for the incident and said the cleanup will likely be completed within three days.
"We acknowledge this incident has damaged our reputation and we will not let it happen again," CEO Anon Sirisaengtaksin told a news conference.
In 2009, another PTT subsidiary was involved in the Montara oil spill, one of Australia's worst oil disasters, in the Timor Sea off western Australia.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/oil-spill-in-thailand-2013-7
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Church of England indirectly invested into Wonga
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The Church of England has faced an embarrassing blow after it emerged that it may have indirectly invested in online lender Wonga. ...
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Squirrel Infected With Plague Closes California Campgrounds
A squirrel infected with the plague forced the closure of campgrounds near Los Angeles, California. Officials announced that the evacuation and closure was a precaution after the rodent was trapped during a routine check.
No one in the area is believed to have been infected with the plague, also known as the Black Death. The disease is a bacterial infection and was responsible for killing up to 25 million Europeans in the Middle Ages.
Despite its ancient roots, the disease is still present in today?s society. However, it poses a smaller threat due to better hygiene and antibiotics. The BBC reports that the disease can be transferred from animals to humans through the bites of infected fleas.
Officials will test more squirrels in the area before it is re-opened to the public to make sure the infection hasn?t spread. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health added that agriculture workers will also dust squirrel burrows to reduce the flea population.
Reuters notes that Fielding added, ?It is important for the public to know that there have only been four cases of human plague in Los Angeles County residents since 1984, none of which were fatal.?
And if Fielding?s assurances aren?t enough, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that about seven cases of the plague are reported each year in the United States. Much less than 24 million. The disease is fatal if not treated with antibiotics.
The health department added that the plague has been known to infect animals in the San Gabriel Mountains, particularly the squirrel population. Previous checks have identified five squirrels carrying the Black Death since 1996.
The most recent plague-ridden squirrel was trapped on July 16. The routine test showed on July 23rd that the squirrel was infected. There is no word on what happened to the furry creature.
Are you surprised to hear the plague still exists today?
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Google Wallet For Gmail Invites Start Rolling Out To More Users
In May, Google announced that its online and mobile payments solution Google Wallet would be integrated within Gmail in the coming months, but no exact time frame for the rollout was given. Now, it appears as if more users are gaining access to the Google Wallet in Gmail feature, as invitations are hitting Gmail inboxes.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/d43LvzbfP4o/
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Video: Bernstein: Economy still getting better
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Google reportedly testing Helpouts: professional services through Hangouts
There's no question that Google Hangouts can be helpful; wouldn't it be nice to get cash for hosting them? Google may be sympathetic to that idea. TechCrunch claims that the search firm is testing Helpouts, a service that would let most anyone book Hangouts that optionally require fees. The appointment system would lean on Google Wallet for transactions, and it would divide chats into categories such as repair (think tech support) or education. Don't assume that you'll be starting a side business just yet, though. Helpouts reportedly entered internal testing in late June, and any public launch would be "at least a month away" -- if it happens at all, that is. We've reached out to Google for answers, so we'll let you know if and when it's time to start charging for online conversations.
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Richard Kirsch: Where's the Beef?: The First Thing Obama Can Do By Himself to Create Good Jobs
I am of course glad to see President Obama focus the country on what he correctly identifies as the most pressing national problem, the crushing of the middle class. The solution he laid out in his address at Knox College, a middle-out economics which sees the middle class as the engine of the economy, is both good economics and a powerful political message. It is what progressives and Democrats need to keep emphasizing over and over again, both rhetorically and in their legislative agendas.
When it came to the broad foundations of policy, the president's outline of the pillars of a strong middle class was on point: good jobs, quality education and job training, affordable health care, good housing, retirement security, and strong neighborhoods.
Still, I found the speech disappointing. The president only nibbled at the biggest change in our economy, the relentless decline in good jobs.?
Not that the president didn't correctly identify the issue. Early in his address he explained, "The link between higher productivity and people's wages and salaries was severed - the income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, while the typical family's barely budged." He went on to acknowledge that even as the economy recovers, the earnings of the average worker are down.
But when it came to further analysis or solutions, the speech was thin. He did repeat his call for an increase in the minimum wage and remind the public that the Affordable Care Act will provide coverage for people who don't get health insurance at work. However, his solutions made assumptions that ignore the profound changes in the economy that have undermined job quality.
A good lens for this is his discussion - really lack of discussion - about the role of unions, which he only mentioned by commenting, "It became harder for unions to fight for the middle class." A great example of using the passive voice to avoid explaining that unions were not decimated by an act of nature, but by a concerted attack by corporations and the right, backed by government policy.
The president pointed out that "The days when the wages for a worker with a high school degree could keep pace with the earnings of someone who got some higher education are over." But why did workers with just high school educations used to get paid well? Because they organized unions through which they fought together for better wages.?
Today, most of the new jobs being created are low-wage jobs with no benefits, which also don't require more than a high school education. If these workers were enabled - with the help of modernized labor laws and aggressive enforcement of the labor laws now on the books - to organize, they too could win decent wages and benefits. The president talked about global competition as an explanation for job loss, but that's not an issue for the service industries that employ most low-wage workers.
It is also no longer true that another of the president's pillars, education, will mean more good jobs. The fact that a higher proportion of Americans have a college education than ever before has not stopped the deterioration of job quality. In the new economy, college grads have maintained low unemployment by taking jobs that they are overqualified for, upping joblessness among Americans who aren't college grads.
Even the president's assumption that creating more manufacturing and infrastructure jobs will mean more good jobs is not as solid as it has been in the past. While most of these jobs are decent, they pay less than before. For example, newly hired auto workers make a fraction of what the industry historically paid; it would take two new auto worker jobs to support a family at the same middle-class level as the workers paid at traditional rates. More broadly, the drop in unionization in manufacturing and construction, one cause among many of the overall downward pressure on wages, means job quality in traditional good job sectors is declining.
A middle-out economy must be anchored by good jobs.? There are clearly huge legislative challenges to winning a good jobs agenda, which would include robust labor law strengthening, updated labor standards that guarantee paid sick leave and family leave, and enforcement of the labor laws already on the books. But the president doesn't have to wait for Congress to provide better jobs for millions of workers and set a new example for the country.
In his speech, Obama promised, "Whatever executive authority I have to help the middle class, I'll use it." That's great. He can start with an executive order to boost job quality for at least two million workers whose pay is financed by the federal government.?
The federal government has a history, by legislation and executive order, of protecting wages for workers paid for with federal funds. However, the prevailing wage protections put in place over the three decades from the 1930s to the 1960s now cover only 20 percent of federally funded private-sector work. Even for those workers still covered, wage rates can be little higher than the federal minimum. According to a recent study by Demos, the federal government now funds over two million jobs paying under $12 per hour -- more than Wal-Mart and McDonald's combined -- in such industries as food, apparel, trucking, and auxiliary health care.
In another report on the federal contract workforce, the National Employment Law Project (NELP) interviewed over 500 contract workers and found that 74 percent are paid less than $10 per hour and 58 percent receive no benefits from their employer. The NELP report includes one gripping story after another of workers like Lucila Ramirez, who, after 21 years as a janitor at the federally owned Union Station, earns $8.75 an hour.
A presidential executive order could directly help Lucila and the millions like her who manufacture uniforms for our military, care for our elders under Medicare, work as security guards at federally leased buildings, or are laborers on federally funded construction projects. The order would require that jobs financed by federal funds require living wages (not just minimum wage or prevailing wage in a low-wage sector), paid sick days, and prohibitions against employers fighting unionization.
I am looking forward to the president spending "every minute of the 1,276 days remaining in [his] term to make this country work for working Americans again." He can start by backing up great lines like that with an executive order for the millions of hardworking Americans whose pay comes from the government he leads.?
Cross-posted from Next New Deal
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Huge Dinosaur Tail Discovered in Mexico
A giant dinosaur tail has been uncovered in northern Mexico, paleontologists announced this week.
The well-preserved tail measures about 16 feet (5 meters) long, contains 50 vertebrate, and seems to have belonged to a hadrosaur ? a duck-billed dino that lived about 72 million years ago. Hadrosaurs grew to be about 40 feet (12 m) long, so the tail would have taken up just under half the length of its body.
Buried within sedimentary rock in the desert region of Coahulia, this is the first intact dinosaur tail of this size to be discovered in Mexico, and only one of a handful that has been discovered around the world, according to a statement from the Mexican National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH). Back in 2008, archaeologists reported the discovery of another hadrosaur, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis, found in Coahulia. That specimen likely belonged to a juvenile dinosaur; even so it the youngster would have been 25 feet (7.5 m) in length, suggesting V. coahuilensis adults grew to a whopping 30 to 35 feet (9 to 10.5 m) long. [Gallery: Gorgeous Dinosaur Fossils]
A group of locals discovered the fossil in June 2012. Paleontologists with INAH and the National Autonomous University of Mexico spent about a year surveying the area, and began their excavation on July 2.
The team has uncovered other bones from this dinosaur aside from tail vertebrae along the way, ?including its hip bone, and believes that more of the animal could be buried deeper within the rock. They originally planned to dig a plot 10 feet by 20 feet wide (3 by 6 meters), but have since decided to expand to 13 feet by 26 feet (4 by 8 meters) to follow the sprawling orientation of the bones, said excavation-leader Felisa Aguilar in a statement.
Aside from providing a valuable addition to the world's limited collection of intact dinosaur fossils, the team hopes their findings will help explain the mechanics of how hadrosaur tails moved, said team member Angel Ramirez Velasco from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in a statement.
The bones will be transported in separate parts to the city of General Cepeda, where they will be cleaned and analyzed in further detail.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Apple's 3Q earnings sag, but top Street estimates
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Apple's latest quarterly report confirms the iPhone maker's growth has stalled along with its pace of innovation.
The results announced Tuesday mark the second straight quarter that Apple Inc.'s earnings have fallen from the previous year after a decade of steadily rising profits. The company earned $6.9 billion, or $7.47 per share, in its fiscal third quarter, a 22 percent drop from $8.8 billion, or $9.32 per share.
Despite the erosion, Apple fared slightly better than analysts had anticipated. That helped lift Apple's stock by $22.01, or more than 5 percent, to $441 in extended trading after the financial results came out. The shares remain down by more than 35 percent since the latest model of the iPhone came out 10 months ago.
Apple's revenue for the three months ending June 29 barely budged from last year. That's the smallest revenue increase since the Cupertino, Calif. company unleashed a mobile computing revolution with the iPhone's debut six years ago.
Apple hasn't released another breakthrough product since the iPad came out three years ago, raising concerns the company has lost its touch since the October 2011 death of founder Steve Jobs.
The earnings topped the average estimate of $7.31 per share among analysts surveyed by FactSet.
Revenue totaled $35.3 billion versus $35 billion a year ago. Analysts had projected that revenue would be unchanged from a year ago.
As usual, Apple was propelled by its iPhone sales. The company sold 31.2 million units in the quarter, a 20 percent increase from the same time year ago.
But many people were evidently buying the earlier generations of the smartphone, which cost less than the latest model and generate smaller profit margins for the company. IPhones sold for an average of $581 in the past quarter, down from an average of $608 a year ago.
The same phenomenon squeezed Apple's profits with the iPad. To make matters worse, the company sold 14 percent fewer tablets ? 14.6 million in the past quarter compared with 17 million a year ago.
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GlaxoSmithKline admits China executives bribed doctors for boosting sales
China National News (ANI) Tuesday 23rd July, 2013
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK ) has acknowledged that some senior employees in the firm were allegedly involved in a bribing scandal of doctors prescribing the firm's drugs in China.
According to the BBC, senior executives in GSK's China office appeared to have been using travel agencies to bribe government officials, doctors and hospitals in order to boost sales and prices of their drugs.
GSK is now co-operating with a Chinese investigation into the probe and several GSK employees have been detained by the Chinese police, the report added.
GSK's British head of finance in China, Steve Nechelput, has been subjected to a travel ban since the end of June. (ANI)
Source: http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/sid/216002587/scat/9366300fc9319e9b
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Link: coaching staff expansion story in Sports Illustrated
Alabama and Saban prominently mentioned in story about larger support staffs
I enjoyed it. Hope you do, too!
"According to the Tuscaloosa News, last year Alabama employed 24 noncoaching individuals devoted solely to football (not including graduate assistants) and pays them a combined $1.6 million. Some handle off-field issues such as discipline, while others deal with the minutiae of down-and-distance. As recently as 2009 there was no one on Saban's staff with the title of analyst; last year there were nine."
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LiveLeak app releases for Android
While Liveleak might be one of the more well-known video sites outside of YouTube, and the primary platform for sharing Russian dashcam videos, it has long lacked an Android app, and an iOS app, come to think of it. That's all set to change, with the Android app having been announced only hours ago.
The blog post claims an app for Apple devices is in the works, but that it might take longer. No particular time-frame is provided, and the blog posting is quite brief, with only one screenshot. As readers will notice, the official design is very much stuck in the Android 2.2/3 era.
So, we downloaded it to see just what's going on. The app feels more like a wrapper for LiveLeak's website than it does as a standalone, with video playback limited to any players installed on an Android device.
Running on Android 4.0, the app feels slightly fresher due to the font change, but the Internet's premier destination for Russian dashcam videos has a long way to go to have an app like the one YouTube has. The settings option in the lower right of our screenshots also did nothing at all, hence why this is a version 1.0 offering.
Source: LiveLeak
Gallery: LiveLeak Android app
Source: http://feeds.neowin.net/~r/neowin-all/~3/TSA6SZtguXU/liveleak-app-releases-for-android
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From the Editor's Desk: Perhaps the hyphen is the source of evil?
So much for a slow summer, eh? We've got two events on the books next week, the Moto X dropping the week after, and we're starting to plan for IFA in Berlin the first week of September. So let's keep things short this week, shall we?
- So Jay-Z is now Jay-Z. Will losing the hyphen sap his power?
- I was sad to see Rolling Stone hop on the 'ZOMG THE JAY Z APP IS EVIL" bandwagon. "IT NEEDS FULL NETWORK ACCESS." Yes, Rolling Stone. It needs full network access. Because it connects to the Internet. Just like your app. Rolling Stone was hardly the only offender here, though.
- More interesting is that the "Magna Carta Holy Grail" app has since been quietly pulled from Google Play. It's possible that was in the works from the start, but I doubt it.
- What's the consensus on the album? I'm not enough of a hip-hop fan to intelligently weigh in, though I have listened to the record a couple times.
- The more I think about it, the more any sort of Nexus Q successor or whatever Google's living-room play is must include Amazon Video on Demand. Otherwise I'll be sending my screaming toddler to Mountain View to rain fire and brimstone and more whining and crying than one father can stand. Girl's gotta have her Dora.
- I'm curious to see how much not having optical image stabilization will affect how much I like/use the HTC One Mini. NFC, Snapdragon 400 and a 720p display I'll probably be OK with.
- Work continues on the official Android Central App. I think for the next release we'll play with Google's staged rollouts, just to see what it's like on the back end.
- Interesting note: A little less than a week after we pushed out v1.3 (to the beta group first, and to everyone a couple days later), nearly 80 percent have updated. To the 689 people who are still on the very first version we published, we considerately ask, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?"
- Holy crap.
- Only one mistaken Tweet on Sunday after Phil Mickelson won the British Open. Hell of a round from Lefty. (Yes, I'm in his camp.) I didn't get to watch it live, though, as I took advantage of the one hour it didn't rain this weekend to mow the lawn. Listened to it on the Sirius XM app, though, and I daresay the commentators there made it pretty damn fun.
- I'm at home this week with family obligations (wish @snickinson a speedy continued recovery from a kitchen mishap, if you'd like), but we'll still be in full effect at Tuesday's Verizon event in New York City, and Wednesday's "Breakfast with Sundar" in San Francisco, where we should get a look at the new Nexus 7 and Android 4.3.
And with that, let's get to work.
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King David's palace? New archaeological evidence uncovered in Judean Shephelah
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe may be King David's Palace in the Judean Shephelah. Royal storerooms were also revealed in the joint archaeological excavation of the Hebrew University and the Israel Antiquities Authority at Khirbet Qeiyafa. These are the two largest buildings known to have existed in the tenth century BCE in the Kingdom of Judah.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/B08eqaksdVE/130721215001.htm
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Detroit Mayor: 'We Will Come Back' From Bankruptcy
Jul 21, 2013 11:17am
In an exclusive interview on ABC?s ?This Week,? Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said he hopes the city?s decision to file for bankruptcy?will provide a new beginning for the Motor City.
?I?m surely hoping that this will be a new start. ?Detroiters are a very, very resilient people,? Bing said on ?This Week.? ?Detroit is a very iconic city, worldwide, and our people will fight through this. And we will come back.?
The city of Detroit made history on Thursday when it became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy. Detroit?s emergency financial manager Kevyn Orr filed for Chapter 9 protection, citing the city?s $18 billion in debts to over 100,000 creditors.
Bing, a Hall of Fame former NBA basketball player who has been mayor since 2009, told ABC News? George Stephanopoulos he is unsure what role the federal government will play in Detroit?s comeback, saying ?not yet? when asked if there would be a federal bailout.
?I think it?s very difficult right now to ask directly for support,? Bing said. ?I have gotten great support from this administration. ?I?ve got great support from a lot of the different departments within the administration. They have been helpful, but now that we?ve done our bankruptcy filing, I think we?ve got to take a step back and see what?s next.?
?There?s a lot of conversation, a lot of planning, a lot of negotiations that will go into fixing our city,? he added.? ?We have to have an organized plan so we know that whatever we get is going to be invested where we can maximize the return on the investment and give the people the kind of services that they need, give them the idea that they can live in this city and be safe.?
On Friday, a judge ruled the bankruptcy filing unconstitutional, saying it threatens the pension benefits of retirees. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette plans to appeal that ruling on behalf of the Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder?s office.
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This morning, Bing told Stephanopoulos that lawyers shouldn?t ?dictate what?s going to happen? next in Detroit.
?Well, I?m not a lawyer. And I?m glad I?m not at this point in time. But I?m hearing ? I am hearing that, you know, that the federal constitution will trump the state constitution,? Bing said. ?But whatever happens, we can?t allow lawyers to dictate what?s going to happen in our city and its comeback. ?We?ve got to throw away a lot of the bickering and fighting amongst us and do what?s best to bring cities like Detroit back.?
The mayor told Stephanopoulos that Detroit?s problems set a precedent for other cities across America.
?There are over 100 major urban cities that are having the same problems that we?re having,? Bing said. ?We may be one of the first, we are the largest, but we absolutely will not be the last. And so we?ve got to set a benchmark in terms how to fix our cities and come back from this tragedy.?
10 Biggest Dilemmas Detroit Has to Face
Bing also discussed what the city?s money woes mean for the Motor City?s future and sent a message to Detroiters that ?the cavalry is coming.?
?We?ve got to make sure that those people understand that we care about them. That we?re going to reinvest in our neighborhoods and give them the things that they need,? Bing said.
?I think our city is going to come back.? It?s not going to happen overnight.? And we?ve got to be very strategic in whatever we do that we can?t fix it all overnight.? People need to understand that,? Bing cautioned. ?We?ve got to better communicate that to people and let them know that the cavalry?is coming.?
In the past 50 years, Detroit?s racial landscape has gone from approximately 80% white residents to 80% African-American. When asked to respond to what Washington Post reporter Keith Richburg wrote??- which read in part ?Older Detroiters are correct that the city was surrounded by a ring of often-hostile white suburbs, in a largely conservative state that had little time for a poor, destitute, Democratic and black city? The governor?s appointment of an emergency financial manager? is again seen as a hostile, racist takeover by the state over the city?s elected black leadership??- the mayor said he did not want to make this a ?black and white issue?
?It?s a financial issue, and it?s green. We?ve got to get some funding that?s necessary to help us fix our problem right now,? Bing said. ?The polarization between our city and our suburbs is something that?s been going on for the last 60 years. We?ve got to change it.?
?Once again, if Detroit fails, doesn?t make it, then all these surrounding suburbs are going to feel the brunt of it also,? he added.
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Grey Korhonen contributed to this report.
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Monday, July 22, 2013
How to calculate total force of a golf ball?
Please help me understand this problem...
You hit a 0.2 kg golf ball up at 40 degrees from the horizontal. It travels for 4.86 s and stops on an elevated green 10 m above its initial height traveling down at an angle of 35.4 degrees below the horizontal. What is the total impulse on the golf ball when it hits the ground and stops? (Follow up questions: What is the impulse on the ground? What information do you need to compute the total force on the golf ball?)
I appreciate any help that anyone can provide.
Source: http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=702296&goto=newpost
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Sunday, July 21, 2013
Unexpected Uses For Leftover Wallpaper
Real Simple:
Quickly and easily dress up your home?brush and paste not required.
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Syrian opposition forces fighting each other
As civil war rages on in Syria, humanitarian suffering is reaching new catastrophic levels. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
By Erika Solomon, Reuters
BEIRUT - The local commander of a Syrian rebel group affiliated to al Qaeda was freed on Sunday after being held by Kurdish forces in a power struggle between rival organizations fighting President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.However, the pro-opposition activists gave conflicting reports of how the Islamist brigade commander in the Syrian town of Tel Abyad near the Turkish border had come to be free.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Islamist rebels had exchanged 300 Kurdish residents they had kidnapped for the local head of their group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS). Other activist groups challenged this account, saying Islamist fighters had freed Abu Musaab by force, with no Kurdish hostages released.
Sporadic fighting over the past five days in towns near the frontier with Turkey has pitted Islamists trying to cement their control of rebel zones against Kurds trying to assert their autonomy in mostly Kurdish areas.
The trouble highlights how the two-year insurgency against 43 years of Assad family rule is spinning off into strife within his opponents' ranks, running the risk of creating regionalized conflicts that could also destabilize neighboring countries.
The factional fighting could also help Assad's forces, who have launched an offensive to retake territory.
Belt around Damascus
Assad has been trying to secure a belt of territory from Damascus through Homs and up to his heartland on the Mediterranean coast and, with the help of the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, has won a string of victories in Homs province and near the capital.?On Sunday his forces ambushed and killed 49 rebels in the Damascus suburb of Adra, the Observatory said.
The town was once a critical point along the route used by rebels to bring weapons to the capital, but Assad's forces recaptured it a few months ago and have been working to cut off rebel territories in the area.
To the north, activists reported Turkish troops reinforcing their side of the frontier near Tel Abyad, but the army could not be reached for comment. Turkish forces exchanged fire with Syrian Kurdish fighters in another border region earlier in the week.
The Observatory said the alleged prisoner exchange was part of a ceasefire agreed after a day of fierce clashes in Tel Abyad, but other activists said there was no deal and reported that many Kurdish residents were being held by ISIS fighters.
The Observatory said the fighting in Tel Abyad started when the local ISIS brigade asked Kurdish Front forces, which have fought with the rebels against Assad, to pledge allegiance to Abu Musaab, which they refused to do.
Other activists said the clashes were an extension of fighting that broke out last week in other parts of the northern border zone.
Activists: Family of 13 massacred
Opposition activists also reported the killing of at least 13 members of a family in the Sunni Muslim village of Baida on Sunday, in what they described as a second sectarian massacre there.The killings followed a rare eruption of fighting between Assad's forces and rebels in the coastal province of Tartous, an enclave of Assad's Alawite minority sect that has remained largely unscathed by the civil war.?
Syria's marginalized Sunni majority has largely backed the insurrection while minorities such as the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, have largely supported Assad, himself an Alawite.
The Observatory said four women and six children were among those killed in Baida.
"A relative came to look for them today and found the men shot outside. The women's and children's bodies were inside a room of the house and residents in the area said some of the bodies were burned," said Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Observatory.
In May, pro-Assad militias killed more than 50 residents of Baida and over 60 in the nearby town of Banias. In those killings, some bodies, many of them children, were found burned and mutilated.
The anti-Assad revolt has evolved from its origins as a peaceful protest movement in March 2011 into a civil war that has killed over 100,000 people and turned markedly sectarian.
The ethnic Kurdish minority has been alternately battling both Assad's forces and the Islamist-dominated rebels. Kurds argue they support the revolt but rebels accuse them of making deals with the government in order to ensure their security and autonomy during the conflict.
The Kurdish people, scattered over the territories of Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria, are often described as the world's largest ethnic community without a state of their own.
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Alabama Football: Position-by-Position Fall Practice Preview
Projected Starters:
(SAM OLB) Adrian Hubbard, Junior
(MIKE ILB) Trey DePriest, Junior
(WILL ILB) C.J. Mosley, Senior
(JACK OLB) Xzavier Dickson, Junior
Impact Newcomer: Jonathan Allen, Freshman
Biggest Camp Storyline: Can Jonathan Allen and/or Reuben Foster work through a crowded depth chart to earn a spot in the rotation?
The Tide return starters at all four linebacker positions, but there?s a solid group of second-year players and impact freshmen that will try to flash enough in camp to earn a spot in the rotation.
The leader of the unit is Mosley, who is one of the best linebackers in the country. Hubbard, Dickson and DePriest all were solid in their first year as starters in 2012, but each is looking to become more consistently dominant after showing flashes a year ago.
Second-year talents such as Denzel Devall, Dillon Lee, Reggie Ragland and Ryan Anderson are all former monster recruits that Saban and his staff are anxious to see when the pads come on.
In particular, Devall could become a fixture at Dickson?s JACK spot if the latter?s experiment at defensive end continues.
Add incoming 5-star recruits Jonathan Allen and Reuben Foster to the mix, and the linebacker segment should feature some of the most intense battles for playing time.
From top to bottom, Alabama has the deepest and most talented collection of linebackers in the nation.
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Six Current College Players Join Lawsuit Against NCAA and EA
Six current college football players have been added as plaintiffs to the anti-trust lawsuit that claims the NCAA owes billions of dollars to former players for allowing their likenesses to be used without compensation in games made by Electronic Arts. Former UCLA basketball star Ed O?Bannon is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, which has been joined by 16 former college athletes. Basketball Hall of Famers Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson previously joined the lawsuit.
Vanderbilt linebacker Chase Garnham; Clemson cornerback Darius Robinson; Arizona linebacker Jake Fischer and kicker Jake Smith; and Minnesota tight end Moses Alipate and wide receiver Victor Keise have signed onto the lawsuit.
Currently a judge is considering turning this lawsuit into a full-fledged class action lawsuit.
The NCAA announced this week that it would no longer allow EA to use its name and logo in video games - after its current licensing agreement expires in June of 2014.
Source: CBS DC
Source: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2013/07/19/six-current-college-players-join-lawsuit-against-ncaa-and-ea
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Compromise would restore lower college loan rates
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
Associated Press
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - A compromise deal on student loans that could hold down loan rates in the short term was expected to come to a vote next week, well before students returning to campus this fall have to sign their loan agreements.
While the deal could lower rates for students and parents over the next few years, it could spell higher rates as the economy improves.
The Senate deal pegs the interest rates on new loans to the financial markets. Under the deal, undergraduates this fall could borrow at a 3.9 percent interest rate. Graduate students would have access to loans at 5.4 percent, and parents would be able to borrow at 6.4 percent. Those rates would climb as the economy improves and it becomes more expensive for the government to borrow money.
The compromise undoes the doubling of rates on some student loans that took hold on July 1, and one analysis of the Senate deal suggests incoming freshmen would save more than $3,300 in interest.
"We have gone through weeks of negotiations and we have an agreement," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama was "glad to see that a compromise seems to be coming together."
And Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said students benefited: "For every one of them, the interest rates on their loans will be lower."
At least for now. The compromise could be a good deal for students through the 2015 academic year, but then interest rates are expected to climb above where they were when students left campus in the spring.
Even in announcing the compromise, it was clear the negotiations were dicey.
"While this is not the agreement any of us would have written, and many of us would like to have seen something quite different, I believe that we have come a very long way on reaching common ground," Durbin told reporters.
Moments later, Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said he would revisit the whole agreement this fall, when his panel takes up a rewrite of the Higher Education Act. Harkin did little to hide his unhappiness with the compromise, but said there were few options to avoid a costly hike on students returning to campus this fall.
As part of the compromise, Democrats won a protection for students that capped rates at a maximum 8.25 percent for undergraduates. Graduate students would not pay rates higher than 9.5 percent, and parents' rates would top out at 10.5 percent.
Using Congressional Budget Office estimates, rates would not reach those limits in the next 10 years.
Lawmakers engaged in near-constant work to undo a rate hike that took hold for subsidized Stafford loans on July 1. Rates for new subsidized Stafford loans doubled from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent.
On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimated outstanding student debt at $1.2 trillion - up 20 percent in just two years. Student loans are now the largest form of consumer debt behind mortgages.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates 21 million loans would be issued in 2013. Students often take a combination of subsidized and unsubsidized loans to pay for their education.
The rapid growth in debt is raising alarm among experts, and there is growing evidence student debt is weighing down the economy - for instance, by delaying the ability of young graduates to buy homes.
The increase follows the jump in the cost of higher education.
The tuition sticker price at public four-year colleges is up 27 percent beyond overall inflation over the last five years, according to the latest figures from the College Board. This past year it rose nearly 5 percent to an annual average of $8,655 nationwide.
Only about one-third of full-time students pay that published price, and the average net price - what the average student does pay after grants, scholarships, loans and federal tax credits and deductions - is just $2,910 for a year of studies. But net prices have been rising, too, and tuition is just part of the cost of college. Including room and board, the average annual sticker price at public colleges is now $17,860, and students pay on average $12,110.
At private four-year colleges, the annual average full tuition price is now just under $40,000, with the average student paying $23,840.
The bipartisan student loan compromise closely hews to what House Republicans passed earlier this year. Both Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican House Speaker John Boehner suggested the outlines of the proposal were acceptable to the GOP rank-and-file members who have pushed for a link between interest rates and the financial markets.
Even House Democrats who opposed the GOP-led deal there appeared ready to go along.
"I'm encouraged that bipartisan efforts continue in the Senate to reverse the student loan interest rate hike," said Rep. George Miller, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Few students had borrowed for fall classes. Students typically do not sign loans until just before they return to campus, and lawmakers have until the August recess to restore the lower rates. The students who had borrowed for summer programs since July 1 would have their rates retroactively reduced.
The deal was estimated to reduce the deficit by $715 million over the next decade.
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Associated Press Higher Education Writer Justin Pope in Ann Arbor, Mich., contributed to this report.
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