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Monday, April 29, 2013
Explosion shakes central Prague, as many as 40 injured
PRAGUE (Reuters) - An explosion in central Prague on Monday, probably caused by gas, injured as many as 40 people, officials said, and neighboring buildings - including the National Theatre - had to be evacuated.
The explosion, in a building facing the Vltava river just a few dozen meters (yards) from the 19th-century theatre, was heard as far away as Prague Castle about a mile away.
A police spokesman said the blast was probably caused by gas and that there had been about 15 people in the building, which included an office of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and an art gallery.
"We estimate up to 40 people were injured," Zdenek Schwarz, the chief of Prague paramedics, said on Czech Television.
"These are mostly light injuries, cuts, bruises, injuries from glass. We estimate no more than four seriously injured, but this is preliminary information," he said.
An emergency services spokeswoman said some people may have been trapped in the building, which belongs to the Czech Air Navigation Services company.
A Reuters witness at the site saw about a dozen people being treated by emergency services.
"I was sitting quietly in my flat, making coffee. Then there was an incredible explosion. I thought the building would collapse. I looked out the window, and there was only dust everywhere," Venceslava Sehnotkova, a pensioner living in a nearby house, told Reuters television.
The blast blew out some of the windows in neighboring buildings, including Prague's landmark Cafe Slavia. The building where blast occurred also includes the Prague FAMU film school and the social sciences faculty of the Charles University.
A fire department spokeswoman said there were no reports of fatalities.
Several streets around the site were cordoned off by police.
On Sunday, part of a five-storey residential building collapsed - possibly because of a gas explosion - in the northeastern French city of Reims, killing three people and injuring 14, officials said.
(Reporting by Michael Winfrey, David Cerny, Jiri Skacel and Robert Mueller; Editing by Louise Ireland)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/explosion-shakes-central-prague-injured-trapped-091125948.html
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Living with Glass, Day Four: Canyon Carving
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Finally, the flash of newness is wearing off. It's taken a few days, but the initial novelty of Glass, enjoying wearing it simply because I could wear it, is running thin. The haze of new gadget excitement is clearing and we can truly get down to brass tacks -- but that doesn't mean I'm not having fun. In fact I've had the opportunity to take Glass with me to do something very fun indeed: ride a Ducati 848 Streetfighter on some of the most amazing roads in the world.
Even as I did this, a jaunt more focused on gathering some exciting footage than truly evaluating the device, I learned some things -- including the fact that a Google Glass headset doesn't really fit underneath a full-face helmet. Not comfortably, anyway.
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Google Glass Easter Egg Introduces You To The Entire Team In A Panoramic Image Controlled By Your Head's Movement
As more developers are receiving their pair of Google Glass, the tinkering with the device is heating up. One developer found a very interesting easter egg within Glass itself, which introduces you to the entire Glass team. The steps to reproduce it are fairly simple: Settings -> Device info -> View licenses -> Tap the touchpad 9 times -> Tap Meet Team Here’s a video demo, including the neat sounds that happen as you keep tapping: The neat part about the photo is that you can see the entire 360-degree panoramic image by moving your head around. This was hard to show in the MyGlass screencast, since it lags a little bit. We’ve learned that Mike LeBeau, Senior Software Engineer for Google X, is the one who dropped the hidden gem into Glass’ software. He’s appeared on TechCrunch before in a <a target="_blank" href="“>hilarious Google blooper reel. The team photo has Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, front and center. I’m sure that more of these easter eggs will pop up over time, but this one is particularly cool since it’s the first time that I’ve seen a panoramic image on the device since I started using it. This functionality could be something that isn’t exposed in the Mirror API as of yet, but once it is, it’ll be a fun one.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1o4bEsC-3jQ/
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Schwab website recovers after second day of cyber attacks
Schwab customers were unable to trade online for two hours Tuesday and again intermittently on Wednesday because of cyber attacks. But Schwab says the problem has been resolved.
A man walks past a Charles Schwab Investment branch in Washington in January. After two days of cyber attacks that interrupted its customers' online trading, Schwab says the problem has been resolved.
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Schwab, one of the largest U.S. brokerages, said on Tuesday afternoon it was that target of a distributed denial of service attack - an attack that floods websites with traffic in order to block access - that left clients unable to trade through the site for two hours.
Phone service was available during both attacks, although responses were slower than usual due to the large number of people calling in, said Schwab spokesman Greg Gable.
He said clients who believe they were affected by the outage can call 1-800-435-4000 to talk with a Schwab representative.
The attacks did not impact client data or accounts, Gable added.
Schwab said it is actively investigating the attacks but could not provide further information.
The San Francisco-based company had 8.9 million active brokerage accounts and $2.1 trillion in total client assets at the end of the last quarter.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
'Red line': Chemical weapons in Syria
By Maayan Lubell
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons - probably nerve gas - in their fight against rebels trying to force out President Bashar al-Assad, the Israeli military's top intelligence analyst said on Tuesday.
Brigadier-General Itai Brun made the comments at a Tel Aviv security conference a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on a visit to Israel that U.S. intelligence agencies were still assessing whether such weapons had been employed.
"To the best of our understanding, there was use of lethal chemical weapons. Which chemical weapons? Probably sarin," Brun said in the most definitive Israeli statement on the issue to date.
Brun's comments seemed likely to deepen international concern over events in Syria. U.S. President Barack Obama has called the use of chemical weapons there a "red line" for the United States that would trigger unspecified U.S. action.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that NATO needed to consider how practically prepared it was to "respond to protect its members from a Syrian threat, including any potential chemical weapons threat".
Brun told the annual conference of The Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University that forces loyal to Assad were behind the attacks on "armed (rebels) on a number of occasions in the past few months, including the most reported incident on March 19."
The Syrian government and rebels last month accused each other of launching a chemical attack near the northern city of Aleppo.
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Speaking with a Powerpoint presentation showing what appeared to be a wounded or dead child, Brun said that foam coming out of victims' mouths and contracted pupils and "other signs" indicated deadly gas had been used.
He gave no other details about how Israel, which has been closely monitoring events in Syria, a northern neighbor, formed its assessment.
Ralf Trapp, an independent consultant on chemical and biological weapons arms control based in Geneva, said the symptoms described by Israeli intelligence were "consistent with sarin gas," but photographic evidence alone was not conclusive.
"There is a limit to what you can extract from photograph evidence alone," he said.
"What you really need is to get information from on the ground, to gather physical evidence and to talk to witnesses as well as medical staff who treated victims."
Asked about Brun's remarks, Pentagon spokesman George Little signaled no change in the official U.S. line: "The United States continues to assess reports of chemical weapons use in Syria. The use of such weapons would be entirely unacceptable."
On Monday, Hagel said the use of chemical weapons by Assad's forces would be a "game changer" and the United States and Israel "have options for all contingencies".
Hagel met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday, a day after flying in an Israeli military helicopter over the occupied Golan Heights on the edge of the fighting in Syria that has entered its third year.
"This is a difficult and dangerous time, this is a time when friends and allies must remain close, closer than ever," Hagel, in remarks to reporters before his talks with Netanyahu, said of the United States and Israel.
Discussions between Syria and the United Nations on a U.N. investigation of possible use of chemical weapons have been at an impasse due to the Syrian government's refusal to let the inspectors visit anywhere but Aleppo, diplomats and U.N. officials said last week.
U.N. diplomats said Britain and France had provided U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's office with what they believed to be strong evidence that chemical weapons also had been used in the city of Homs.
Israel, which has advanced intelligence capabilities that it shares with its Western allies, has voiced concerned that parts of Syria's chemical arsenal would end up in the hands of jihadi fighters or the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, with which it waged a 2006 war.
Israeli leaders have cautioned they will not allow that to happen. In an attack it has not formally confirmed, Israeli planes bombed an arms convoy in Syria in February, destroying anti-aircraft weapons destined for Hezbollah.
(Additional reporting by Jeffrey Heller and David Alexander in Jerusalem, David Brunnstrom in Brussels and Anthony Deutsch in Amsterdam; Editing by Jeffrey Heller, Alison Williams and Mike Collett-White)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-general-says-syria-government-forces-used-chemical-074330220.html
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Sichuan quake highlights threat to China's dams
The magnitude 6.6 earthquake that shook China's Sichuan province on 20 April, killing over 180 people, was small compared to the magnitude 7.9 quake that struck the region in May 2008, claiming some 69,000 lives. But it provided a sobering reminder that many of China's engineering projects are vulnerable because they sit along fault lines ? and raises questions about whether they could, in part, be to blame.
In unstable regions like Sichuan, it is critical to look at how building reservoirs, for example, might affect the local seismology, says Shemin Ge of the University of Colorado in Boulder. Ge and her colleagues have suggested that the 2008 quake may have been partially triggered by the creation a few years earlier of the giant Zipingpu Reservoir 20 kilometres from what would be the epicentre. The reservoir would have ratcheted up the pressure on the rocks beneath.
It's too early to know whether reservoir-building contributed to last week's quake. Of more immediate concern is the damage to dams and reservoirs, says Mian Liu of the University of Missouri in Columbia. According to the Ministry of Water Resources, two medium-sized and 52 small dams were damaged, with residents evacuated downstream of five of them.
Determining the factors behind the recent quake could help inform where future projects are sited, says Ge. China has already planned to build 60 hydropower dams between 2011 and 2015, many of which will lie along fault lines as these form natural sites for river courses. In theory, dams can be designed to withstand any amount of shaking.
The 2008 quake, whose epicentre was 85 kilometres away, may also have contributed to the latest event, by redistributing pressure along the Longmen Shan fault line, says Liu. In the aftermath, he calculated that it had increased the risk of another magnitude-7 quake within the next 50 years by a few per cent. "Seems nature was in a hurry," he says of last week's quake.
Although it's impossible to predict any quake with certainty, the area now most at risk, Liu says, is the Aninghe fault line further south ? the two recent quakes may have slightly increased the stresses there.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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UK lawmakers want review into RBS-Lloyds "bad bank"
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's finance ministry should examine the advantages and disadvantages of breaking up state-backed lenders RBS
The cross-party Treasury Select Committee, responsible for examining the finance ministry's policies, recommended it deliver a cost-benefit analysis in time for the government's spending review in June.
The report should also look at the impact on competition, it said.
Britain pumped 66 billion pounds ($101 billion) into the banks to keep them afloat during the 2008 financial crisis, taking an 81 percent stake in RBS and a 39 percent shareholding in Lloyds.
The government does not have to adopt recommendations made by the committee but it would be considered unusual for it not to do so.
Officials at Britain's finance ministry could not be reached for comment. RBS and Lloyds declined to comment.
The committee has considered evidence from the outgoing head of Britain's central bank, Mervyn King, who called on the government to break up RBS so the state-backed lender could return to health and be sold to the private sector.
King said RBS needed to split off the bad assets on its books and build up capital at the remaining "good bank" so it can lend more.
However, Finance Minister George Osborne appeared skeptical about the move, expressing concerns over the time it would take and the disruption it would cause when appearing before the committee.
RBS and Lloyds have already undertaken restructuring programs shedding hundreds of billions of pounds worth of assets including the majority of their toxic assets.
RBS has said it hopes to be in a position to allow the government to start selling its shares before the next general election in 2015.
Industry and political sources have said a sale of the government's shares in Lloyds is possible before the election if they hit the 61 pence level which the government regards as its break-even price. They closed at 47.5 pence on Friday. ($1 = 0.6554 British pounds)
(Reporting by Matt Scuffham; editing by Jason Neely)
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WeChat Eyes Singapore Audience, Launches TV Commercial
Tencent’s WeChat?messenger has made a larger play for the Singapore market, with the release of a TV commercial in the country. The Chinese commercial features two popular Taiwanese stars, and will air on the free-to-air Chinese channels in the country. Louis Song, country manager of Tencent?s international business group for Malaysia and Singapore, said the company hopes to gather more mindshare in the country. “Singapore is a very strong market like Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand. We are witnessing a sturdy growth in mobile application platforms,” he said. Singapore has almost 8 million mobile subscriptions, at a penetration rate of 150 percent of the population, meaning every other person holds more than one phone. Anecdotally however, Whatsapp appears to be more popular in Singapore than WeChat for the moment. And the 8 million is just a drop in the bucket for WeChat’s current base of 300 million or so subscribers. The TV ad strategy appears to be one that both WeChat and Japanese competitor, Line, are relying on. Both messaging players recently released TV ads in Indonesia, revealing that the strategy seemed to work well for them in increasing user adoption there.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Iv0eNApB7Mc/
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Monday, April 22, 2013
For bombing suspects, question may be who led whom
BOSTON (AP) ? Tamerlan Tsarnaev ranted at a neighbor about Islam and the United States. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, relished debating people on religion, "then crushing their beliefs with facts."
The older brother sought individual glory in the boxing ring, while the younger excelled as part of a team. Tamerlan "swaggered" through the family home like a "man-of-the-house type," one visitor recalls, while Dzhokhar seemed "very respectful and very obedient" to his mother.
The brothers, now forever linked in the Boston Marathon bombing tragedy, in some ways seemed as different as siblings could be. But whatever drove them to allegedly set off two pressure-cooker bombs, their uncle is certain Dzhokhar was not the one pulling the strings.
"He's not been understanding anything. He's a 19-year-old boy," Ruslan Tsarni said of his brother's youngest child, who is clinging to life in a Boston hospital after a gunbattle with police. "He's been absolutely wasted by his older brother. I mean, he used him. He used him for whatever he's done. For what we see they've done. OK?"
Criminologist James Alan Fox says the uncle's intuition is justified. In cases like this, he says, it is highly unusual for the younger participant ? in this case, a sibling ? to be the leader.
"I would be surprised," says Fox, a professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Boston's Northeastern University. "Very surprised."
Whatever their fraternal pecking order, when the bullets began flying in Watertown on Thursday night and 26-year-old Tamerlan went down, his younger brother ran him over ? dragging him for about 30 feet ? before ditching the car and fleeing on foot. After a 24-hour manhunt that shut down most of the Boston metropolitan area, police cornered the gravely wounded Dzhokhar hiding in a boat in a backyard, only blocks from where his brother bled out.
Officials said Dzhokhar was in serious condition Saturday, unable to communicate. So, at least for now, investigators and the public are left with only enigma.
The ethnic Chechen family came to this country in 2002, after fleeing troubles in Kyrgyzstan and then Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's North Caucasus. They settled in a working-class part of Cambridge, where the father, Anzor Tsarnaev, opened an auto shop.
He returned to Dagestan about a year ago.
Luis Vasquez went to high school with Tamerlan and later helped coach Dzhokhar's soccer team at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. With the father gone, Vasquez said, the older brother assumed a kind of paternal role, at least where the girls in the family were concerned.
"He was very protective of his (younger) sister, Bella," Vasquez said. "He would keep an eye out, making sure she's good, making sure she's not having a hard time."
Vasquez chalked it up to "his culture" and "what his family expected out of him."
David Mijares, who trained in boxing with Tamerlan in high school and later coached the younger brother in soccer, agreed that his friend felt pressure to take his father's place.
"He had to be a man at a very early age," says Mijares. "That would be, in my opinion, a huge reason for who he was, all serious and no nonsense."
John Pinto said the pair were frequent patrons at his Midwest Grill, just a couple of blocks from their house. When they walked in, he said, Tamerlan was always in the lead.
"I think the big brother is more the command guy, boss," Pinto said, puffing out his chest for emphasis.
That said, Dzhokhar was very much his own man. While he would tag along to Tamerlan's boxing practices, the younger brother was into wrestling.
In one of his tweets, he complained that his mother was trying to arrange a marriage for him, as she'd done for his sisters.
"she needs to (hash)chillout," he tweeted on July 12. "i'll find my own honey."
Tamerlan preceded his brother at the prestigious Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, which counts celebrities Matt Damon and Ben Affleck among its alumni. But he does not appear to have been a standout student and athlete whose reputation Dzhokhar would have felt pressure to live up to.
"To be perfectly honest, I did not know he HAD an older brother from the start," said classmate Alexandros Stefanakis, who played pickup basketball games and hung out with Dzhokhar outside school.
Anne Kilzer of Belmont would go to the Tsarnaev home for regular facials from the boys' mother, Zubeidat. She said the older brother was a "macho guy," whereas Dzhokhar seemed more cerebral.
The few times that Tamerlan was there, he would wave his mother off when she tried to introduce him. "He sort of swaggered through," she said. "Sort of a man-of-the-house type."
In a blog entry, Kilzer's daughter, Alyssa, suggested that the mother became increasingly religious as their acquaintance progressed. For instance, she began wearing a hijab, the traditional Muslim headscarf.
"She started to refuse to see boys that had gone through puberty, as she had consulted a religious figure and he had told her it was sacrilegious," Alyssa Kilzer wrote. "She was often fasting. She told me that she had cried for days when her oldest son, Tamerlan, told her that he wanted to move out, going against her culture's tradition of the son staying in the house with the mother until marriage."
She said the mother also expressed some rather strident views about the U.S. government. But it was difficult to know who was influencing whom in the household.
"During this facial session she started quoting a conspiracy theory, telling me that she thought 9-11 was purposefully created by the American government to make America hate Muslims," Alyssa Kilzer wrote. "'It's real,' she said. 'My son knows all about it. You can read on the internet.'"
Kilzer didn't say to which son the mother was referring. Kilzer, who is studying in Scotland, could not immediately be reached.
Tsarni told The Associated Press from his home in Maryland that a deep rift opened between him and his sister-in-law, but that he tried to maintain a relationship with the boys. However, that effort began to fall apart several years ago, he said, when Tamerlan "started carrying all this nonsense associated with religion, with Islamic religion."
When he asked his older nephew why he wasn't in school, he said Tamerlan gave an enigmatic answer. "Oh, I'm in God's business," the young man replied.
Tamerlan would throw out foreign words like "jihad" and "Inshallah" ? Arabic for "God willing" ? without really understanding their meaning, he said. Though Tsarni is himself Muslim, he said he does not worship at a mosque.
The uncle was surprised when he learned that Tamerlan had gotten married to an American woman ? a "good Christian family girl," who his nephew said was about to convert to Islam.
In February, Alexander Podobryaev, who lives a couple of houses from the Tsarnaevs, exchanged pleasantries with Tamerlan as they shoveled snow. He says the man pointed to a woman in a black Muslim headscarf and identified her as his wife.
Others began noticing signs of Tamerlan's increasing agitation.
One of the brothers' neighbors, Albrecht Ammon, said he had a bizarre encounter with Tamerlan in a pizza shop about three months ago. The older brother argued with him about U.S. foreign policy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and religion.
He said Tamerlan referred to the Bible as a "cheap copy" of the Quran, and that many of this country's wars "are based upon the Bible ? how it's an excuse to invade other countries."
"He had nothing against the American people," Ammon said. "He had something against the American government."
Dzhokhar, on the other hand, was "real cool," Ammon said. "A chill guy."
An elder at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the largest mosque in New England, said Tamerlan occasionally attended Friday prayer services at the mosque in the past year and a half.
About three months ago, around Martin Luther King Day, Tamerlan stood up and interrupted the imam during the sermon, said Anwar Kazmi, a board member of the Islamic Society. The imam compared the slain civil rights leads to the Prophet Muhammed, drawing objections from Tamerlan, Kazmi said.
Mosque leaders later sat down with Tamerlan and discussed his rant, said Kazmi, who said Tamerlan returned to future services and had no further outbursts.
While his older brother was railing about religion and world politics, Dzhokhar seemed more interested in the HBO series "Game of Thrones" and other television shows.
"Breaking Bad taught me how to dispose of a corpse," he tweeted on Jan. 16, referring to the popular AMC series about a dying chemistry teacher who turns to cooking methamphetamine to leave a nest egg for his family.
He did tweet about religion, but they were hardly the words of a hard-core zealot.
"This night deserves Hennessy a bad b---- and an o of weed," he wrote on Nov. 17. "the holy trinity"
On Nov. 29, he wrote: "I kind of like religious debates, just hearing what other people believe is interesting and then crushing their beliefs with facts is fun." And on Jan. 15: "I don't argue with fools who say Islam is terrorism it's not worth a thing, let an idiot remain an idiot."
However, he acknowledged in another message around Christmas that the "Brothers at the mosque either think I'm a convert or that I'm from Algeria or Syria."
Fox said it's not unheard of for the younger person in a crime team to be the dominant personality. But he said it's rare.
"In this case, the older brother is the one that seems to have become religious and drawn to Islam," Fox said. "The older brother dropped out of school ... whereas the younger brother, it was all positives."
But, he said, "the age factor is critical here."
Tamerlan was a fairly gifted boxer, but he preened about fighting prowess that often fell far short. His younger brother seemed content to be part of a team.
Marvin Salazar was two years older than Dzhokhar when they attended Community Charter Schools of Cambridge, where they played intramural soccer together. He was impressed by the younger boy's smarts and drive, but noted that while Dzhokhar was very fast, he wasn't the kind of kid who needed to showboat and score goals.
"I remember he told me he liked to play midfield," the 21-year-old said. "He's the guy who sets everybody up for the plays. He's one of the most important people."
He was also on his high school wrestling team.
Tamerlan once said he had no American friends. His brother had lots of them, but fellow students at UMass-Dartmouth say he also hung out with some Russian speakers.
On March 14, 2012, Dzhokhar tweeted: "a decade in america already, i want out" That same day, he added, "im trying to grow a beard"
Dzhokhar became naturalized last September, federal officials told the AP. His older brother had a green card but may have been thwarted in his quest for U.S. citizenship by an assault charge, his father told The New York Times.
If Tamerlan recorded his thoughts, they have not yet surfaced ? at least publicly. His brother left a trail on the Internet, although in an Aug. 7, 2012 tweet, he called himself a "heavy sleeper and a great liar"
In March, Dzhokhar tweeted: "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing." A week and a half earlier, he reminded his followers, "Never underestimate the rebel with a cause."
The day of the bombing, he wrote: "There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don't hear them cuz they're the minority"
Tsarni is confident authorities will find that Tamerlan was his younger brother's "mentor."
"Dzhokhar, of course, was looking up at him," he said.
But their body language the day of the bombings seems to suggest at least a partnership of equals.
In one of the now infamous photos the FBI released to the public in hopes of tips, the older brother has his head down, the visor pulled low over his face as if he's trying to hide. Dzhokhar, by contrast, has his white baseball cap turned backward, revealing his entire face, his chin is thrust confidently into the air.
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Associated Press videojournalist Joseph Frederick contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bombing-suspects-may-led-whom-001538013--spt.html
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Yahoo axing seven more apps and services as part of streamlining effort
Get ready to say goodbye to another another batch of Yahoo products at the end of this month. As the company continues to streamline and focus its services, March 31st will be the last day of stand-alone existence for Upcoming, Yahoo Deals, Yahoo Kids, Yahoo SMS Alerts, Yahoo Mail and Messages for feature phones. Noting an aim to slim down to roughly 15 offerings from 75, as The Register points out, this follows a few weeks after the company nixed other services like its BlackBerry app. Additionally, if you've been hanging onto the old version of Yahoo! mail, you'll have no choice but to switch to the new version by June 3rd. Yahoo! There's not word on what we can expect next, although EVP of Platforms Jay Rossiter notes that cuts like these are needed so it can focus on the likes of its new Mail and Weather apps. You'll find the details for each cut at the source link.
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Chris Brown, Katy Perry, Miranda Lambert Send Prayers To Victims Of Texas Explosion
Willie Nelson tells CMT his 80th birthday party on April 28 will benefit West, Texas, victims.
By Gil Kaufman
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Tukute Presents Jokes & Jazz ? Tukute's Birthday Bash ? In Concert ...
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April is my Birthday month and what better way to celebrate than with Jokes & Jazz. Each month I am amazed at the wonderful artists that grace our stage and this will be no different.
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See Rita Graham from her movie project where she plays the wife of the legendary Blues performer B.B. King. Welcome Back Rita! Emile Worthy will also sooth our passions with his extraordinary vocals.
For your laughing pleasure is the return of Mz. Wallstreet. Always providing us with much laughter. A true professional.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
American Air says systems restored, expects more cancellations
(Reuters) - American Airlines said its computer systems were restored and flights had resumed after intermittent outages on Tuesday forced it to ground hundreds of U.S. flights, but warned travelers to expect some cancellations to continue for a second day.
American, which operates more than 3,500 daily flights worldwide, said it saw no evidence that its technical problems were related to recent events in Boston, where bombings at the finish line of the city's marathon on Monday killed three and injured many others .
The problem with the computer systems began in mid-morning and prompted American to ask the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to ground its flights until 4 p.m. CDT (5 p.m.EDT).
American, a unit of AMR Corp, said its systems were restored as of 3:30 pm CDT (2030 GMT).
"Flights have resumed, but we expect cancellations and delays throughout the remainder of the day," the carrier said in a statement.
In an updated statement the carrier said some cancellations were likely on Wednesday as well, although they would be few in number.
"Flights from our hubs and international flights having been re-started and we will reposition aircraft and crew throughout the evening," it said.
Asked if there was a safety issue involved, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said American requested the flight halt based on its operational needs. Huerta added he was not aware of any suggestion that American's computer systems had been hacked.
"Not that I'm aware of," Huerta said when asked if American's computer systems had been disabled by a cyber-attack.
Flight tracking service FlightAware said American had canceled 720 flights, including 400 at Dallas/Fort Worth and 200 at Chicago, two of its major hub cities.
At Los Angeles International Airport, another key hub, airline staff began rebooking passengers by early afternoon, airport spokeswoman Nancy S. Castles said.
Mark Duell, vice president of operations at FlightAware, said American hubs at New York's John F. Kennedy and Miami airports would also experience significant delays.
American, based in Fort Worth, Texas, said that it would provide full refunds to travelers whose plans were not flexible and added there would be no charge for changing reservations. The carrier said customers who needed to travel on Tuesday could rebook with American or another airline and it would honor any fare difference.
Other carriers have also had problems with computer reservation systems. Last year, computer outages at United Continental Holdings stranded passengers at airports around the country.
American plans to merge with rival US Airways Group later this year to form the world's biggest air carrier.
(Reporting by Karen Jacobs; additional reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa in Washington, Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles, Nivedita Bhattacharjee in Chicago and Thyagaraju Adinarayan in Bangalore; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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Mattel 1Q profit rises, Monster High sales climb
FILE -In this Monday, July 16, 2012, file photo, Barbie products are displayed at a local toy store in Hialeah, Fla. Mattel Inc. reports quarterly financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
FILE -In this Monday, July 16, 2012, file photo, Barbie products are displayed at a local toy store in Hialeah, Fla. Mattel Inc. reports quarterly financial results before the market opens on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) ? Mattel's first-quarter net income more than quadrupled, as sales of Monster High and American Girl products rose.
The first-quarter is the seasonally smallest for toy makers, coming after the busy holiday quarter. The latest earnings increase was helped by comparison with a period that included a big charge a year ago.
"We continue to see the first quarter as our pre-season and we remain focused on a strong 2013 and delivering in the all-important holiday season," Chairman and CEO Bryan Stockton said in a statement.
The world's largest toy maker's net income for the January-to-March quarter totaled $38.5 million, or 11 cents per share. That's up from $7.8 million, or 2 cents per share, a year ago.
Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of 8 cents per share.
The prior-year period's results were weighed down by costs tied to its $680 million acquisition of HIT Entertainment, the company behind Thomas the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder.
Revenue climbed 7 percent to $995.6 million from $928.4 million. Wall Street expected $984.2 million.
Mattel Inc. saw solid sales across North America and overseas. American Girl gross sales increased 32 percent, while worldwide gross sales of other girls' brands ? which includes Monster High ? surged 56 percent.
Barbie's worldwide gross sales dipped 2 percent, marking the fourth time sales have fallen in the past five quarters. Sales for the Wheels category, which includes the Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Tyco R/C brands, also fell 2 percent. For the Fisher Price brands, sales declined 7 percent.
Mattel also said Wednesday that it declared a second-quarter dividend of 36 cents per share. The dividend will be paid on June 14 to shareholders of record on May 23. The El Segundo, Calif. company anticipates an annualized dividend of $1.44 per share, which would be a 16 percent increase over last year's annualized dividend.
Mattel's smaller rival Hasbro Inc. reports its financial results on Monday.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Boston blasts likely to weigh on stock market
Tuesday's markets will be focused on any new information that could illuminate who was behind the attacks at the Boston Marathon.
Two explosions near the finish line killed two and injured dozens, just before the final hour of trading Monday. That drove an already weak stock market to its lows of the day and prompted a flight to safety into Treasurys, sending the 10-year yield to 1.68 percent, its lowest close of the year.
"I think that first of all, from a humanity standpoint, people are going to want to know how many people got hurt and how badly," said Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies. "From a big picture standpoint, people are going to want to know who did this. That is going to help answer the question of whether something like this could happen again. The question is, is this an isolated incident or the first in a campaign? You hope the situation is isolated."
Stocks were sharply lower Monday, on selling that began before the open, as gold and other commodities spiraled lower. Margin calls added to the selling pressure, as investors moved out of risk assets and into cash. The Dow ended down 1.8 percent, or 265 points to 14,559, and the S&P 500 was down 2.3 percent to 1552. Gold plunged 9.3 percent to $1361.10, its biggest one day drop since 1980. Silver lost 13 percent, and WTI crude fell 4.4 percent.
Read More: Gold Hit by Panic Selling, Dragging Other Metals
In the final hour, investors rushed the S&P 500 options pit. The VIX spiked, ending the day 43 percent higher at 17.27.
"Guys came in and started buying May and April out-of-the-money puts. We saw a lot of customers right when the initial news was coming out. People were coming in and buying puts purely for a directional trade," said Patrick Kernan of Cardinal Capital. "It wasn't just like one customer was doing it. It was across the board. We think it was a knee-jerk reaction to the bombings."
"The volatility was going up in gaps, which equates to a lot of uncertainty," he said. Kernan said if there are no other events, the market could calm down Tuesday. S&P 500 futures were slightly higher in the electronic evening session.
Monday's selloff, even before the late day downdraft, had traders already questioning whether the long-awaited stock market pullback had begun.
"It certainly has the elements of the correction we've been waiting for. Single catalysts haven't been enough to slow this market down?Now you sort of string things together, with the China demand story, earnings season and two weeks of somewhat weaker economic data. That does set the table for it," said Art Hogan of Lazard Capital Markets. Commodities, already moving lower last week, were hit hard by China's report early Monday that first quarter GDP growth was 7.7 percent, less than the 8 percent expected.
Carter Worth, chief technician at Oppenheimer Asset Management, says the stock-market selloff is overdue, but it was unclear if this is the beginning of a bigger selloff. The S&P is up 8.9 percent year-to-date.
"The worst part is people are really invested now. The retail investor has been pouring in money in since January," said Worth. He said there's a warning in how the markets have been trading, prior to Monday's decline. "It's copper. It's oil. It's gold. It's the Bovespa. The Kospi in Korea. Everything is getting pounded, and the S&P goes higher every day. It's absurd and everyone knows it. It's like a game of chicken. The fear of missing out is a powerful thing."
Read More: Wall Street Soars as Rest of Economy Limps Along
Worth said the market has become bifurcated, and unlike the past three years where there were spring swoons, the safety stocks are now expensive. Home builders, which helped lead the market higher, were down sharply Monday, with the SPDR S&P Home Builders ETF XHB down five percent.
"The classic place to rotate is into staples or health care. When you do get nervous about asset-class equities, you rotate into safety," he said. "For the first time in three years, the safety names are already full.This time it ended with nowhere to move."
What to watch
Tuesday has plenty of earnings news for investors to consider. Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Coca-Cola, Johnson and Johnson, Northern Trust, US Bancorp and TD Ameritrade report before the opening bell. Intel,Yahoo and CSX report after the close Tuesday.
There is also CPI and housing starts, both at 8:30 a.m. and industrial production at 9:15 a.m.
"One of the mainstays of this economy has been the housing market," said McCarthy. "If we were to get a big disappointment in housing starts that would continue to keep this (Treasury) market going. Some of the numbers we've seen over the last few days probably are reducing the market anxiety about the Fed tapering."
Read More: Fight or Flight: Get Ready for the Earnings Crush
Several Fed speakers are out on Tuesday and their remarks will be watched closely for any comments on when the Fed could "taper" its $85 billion monthly asset purchases. New York Fed President William Dudley speaks at 8 a.m. ET on the economy, and Chicago Fed President Charles Evan speaks at 9 a.m. on what lies ahead.
Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota speaks at 4 p.m. on improving the outlook, and Fed Gov. Elizabeth Duke speaks to an American Bankers Association conference at 12 p.m.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
England's smoking ban linked to annual 5 percent drop in emergency admissions for asthma
Apr. 15, 2013 ? his adds up to around 1900 fewer such admissions every year, the authors calculate, and confirms the value of public health interventions, such as smoking bans, they say.
They base their findings on the number of emergency admissions for asthma among adults aged 16 and over in England between April 1997 and December 2010.
Smoking in all public places was banned in July 2007 in England, where the prevalence of asthma is one of the highest in the world, affecting almost 6% of the population.
During the study period, 502,000 adults with asthma were admitted as emergencies. As expected, admissions were higher during the winter months than during the summer, although the numbers of admissions varied widely from region to region.
After taking account of seasonal temperatures, variations in population size, and long term trends in the prevalence of asthma, the figures showed that emergency admissions for the condition fell by 4.9% among adults for each of the first three years following the introduction of the smoking ban.
The percentage drop was similar across all geographical regions of the country.
Across England as a whole, the authors calculate that this adds up to around 1900 fewer such admissions in the year immediately following the ban, with a similar number in each of the two subsequent years.
The authors point out that although these figures are lower than those in other countries where smoking bans have been introduced, this might be because many workplaces in England had already adopted smoke free policies before the nationwide ban took effect.
The authors emphasize that although the association they found was significant, it does not prove that the legislation was responsible for the fall in emergency admissions for asthma. Nevertheless, they point out that their data are consistent with other research linking the smoking ban to measures of improved health, and attribute the association to a reduction in second hand exposure to tobacco smoke.
Furthermore, the size of the study population, plus the efforts to account for other underlying factors, add weight to the findings, they suggest.
"[The study] provides further support to a growing body of national and international evidence of the positive effects that introducing smoke free polices has on public health," they conclude.
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- M. Sims, R. Maxwell, A. Gilmore. Short-term impact of the smokefree legislation in England on emergency hospital admissions for asthma among adults: a population-based study. Thorax, 2013; DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202841
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Officials: Suspected US drone kills 4 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ? Two Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed four people in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.
The officials say the drone fired three missiles into a house on Sunday in Datta Khel town of North Waziristan.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The officials say the people who were in the house have not yet been identified.
The area is home to various local and foreign al-Qaida allied militant groups.
The Pakistani military has not launched any major offensive in the region and Washington relies mostly on drone strikes to battle militants.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/officials-suspected-us-drone-kills-4-pakistan-155300526.html
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