Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Killzone: Shadow Fall Preorders Outpacing Ryse ... - Games Thirst

Sony?s PS4 exclusive shooter Killzone: Shadow Fall is performing much better than Xbox One?s Ryse, Forza 5 and Dead Rising 3,?a report from analyst Cowen & Co. has revealed.

The 2013 Cowen Video Game Odometer is based on an analysis of NPD sales data and Amazon.com best-seller data from past years, which the firm claims to give it 96 to 97 percent accuracy. Data has been monitored since E3 in June and is updated every few weeks.

Out of the top score of 100, Killzone: Shadow Fall is currently 30.3, which is pretty outstanding in terms of next-gen competition, however the same can?t be said for other PS4 exclusives like Knack and DriveClub, lagging behind with 7.7 and 3,0 respectively. To be fair, Sony is offering DriveClub free with a PS Plus purchase, so gamers won?t see the need to buy said title even if the PS Plus offering isn?t a complete version, and that must have played a role in its low preorder numbers.

According to the analyst firm, they are??very early in the pre-order cycle for most of the games we are tracking?.

Xbox One?s results were split, however none came remotely close to Killzone: Shadow Fall?s numbers. The highest is Forza 5 with a rank of 18.8, followed by Dead Rising 3 with 15 and Ryse 13.2.

But as expected, multiplatform titles are not only leading, but dominating the pack, with the usual suspects claiming top spots, and one big surprise: Ubisoft?s Watch Dogs.

Here?s the breakdown of the top three multiplatform titles:

Call of Duty: Ghosts: 73 ? (last year Black Ops 2 stood at 100).

Watch Dogs: 69.6

Battlefield 4: 54.7

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CWRU grants Disease Diagnostic Group option on malaria diagnostic device

CWRU grants Disease Diagnostic Group option on malaria diagnostic device [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 30-Jul-2013
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Case Western Reserve University

University research spinoff also secures $250,000 for field-testing

CLEVELANDCase Western Reserve University has granted a two-year technology transfer option to a research spinoff company developing a hand-held device that diagnoses malaria more quickly, simply and affordably than existing methods.

Disease Diagnostic Group LLC, the startup formed last summer from biomedical engineering research at the university's School of Engineering, also raised $250,000 to "field-test" the device this fall in Peru. These research dollars have come from various sources, including the Coulter Foundation. The Case Coulter Translation Research Partnership provides research dollars primary focused on clinical translation for medical devices.

The option from the university's Technology Transfer Office allows the company time to evaluate its Rapid Assessment of Malaria (RAM) device as an important pre-licensing step toward commercialization.

"They will be employing a working prototype to conduct field studies this fall to validate their design and ease of operation," said Wayne Hawthorne, the university's senior licensing manager. "There is a big push worldwide to eradicate infectious diseases, such as malaria."

DDG's product detects a magnetic substance that malaria parasites release when digesting red blood cells. RAM's creators can provide a faster and more accurate diagnostic test than methods now commonly used. The device is designed to detect the disease in less than a minute using a drop of blood from a patient's fingertip.

Brian Grimberg, assistant professor of international health and DDG's co-founder, president and chief medical officer, said early diagnosis is vital in reducing malaria deaths because early treatment is nearly 100 percent effective. However, half of the estimated 500 million annual infections worldwide go undiagnosed, according to the World Health Organization.

Potential RAM customers, including the U.S. military, could use the device in areas with limited medical access, often in remote, disease-prone areas, Grimberg said.

"We think we have an opportunity to make a difference in millions of lives," said Grimberg, part of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine's Center for Global Health and Diseases. "We may be able to license the technology in about a year. What we have to do is take this device into the field for point-of-care diagnosis. We have to show that it works, so that we can seek World Health Organization approval."

"This project is an excellent example of the way in which translational research at CWRU can make a difference in patient care," said Colin Drummond, director of the Coulter-Case Translational Research partnership within the Department of Biomedical Engineering. "It has taken years of hard work by Dr. Grimberg for this technology to reach the point where it was positioned to be translated into the market. It has been rewarding for the Coulter program to play a part in the translational phase of the project."

John R. Lewandowski, a recent Case Western Reserve engineering and management graduate, is DDG's co-founder and chief executive officer. His brother, Mark Lewandowski, a sophomore computer science and accounting student at the university, is DDG's chief financial officer.

The university's Technology Transfer Office, which supports faculty and student intellectual property and commercialization, has guided DDG to an innovation network, including such organizations as BioEnterprise and JumpStart.

Working with the Center for Global Health and Diseases and the Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Case Western Reserve is committed to licensing its medical discoveries, such as the RAM device, in ways that promote access and affordability in developing countries. As a result, the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines recently ranked Case Western Reserve the No. 1 Global Health research university in the United States.

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CWRU grants Disease Diagnostic Group option on malaria diagnostic device [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 30-Jul-2013
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Case Western Reserve University

University research spinoff also secures $250,000 for field-testing

CLEVELANDCase Western Reserve University has granted a two-year technology transfer option to a research spinoff company developing a hand-held device that diagnoses malaria more quickly, simply and affordably than existing methods.

Disease Diagnostic Group LLC, the startup formed last summer from biomedical engineering research at the university's School of Engineering, also raised $250,000 to "field-test" the device this fall in Peru. These research dollars have come from various sources, including the Coulter Foundation. The Case Coulter Translation Research Partnership provides research dollars primary focused on clinical translation for medical devices.

The option from the university's Technology Transfer Office allows the company time to evaluate its Rapid Assessment of Malaria (RAM) device as an important pre-licensing step toward commercialization.

"They will be employing a working prototype to conduct field studies this fall to validate their design and ease of operation," said Wayne Hawthorne, the university's senior licensing manager. "There is a big push worldwide to eradicate infectious diseases, such as malaria."

DDG's product detects a magnetic substance that malaria parasites release when digesting red blood cells. RAM's creators can provide a faster and more accurate diagnostic test than methods now commonly used. The device is designed to detect the disease in less than a minute using a drop of blood from a patient's fingertip.

Brian Grimberg, assistant professor of international health and DDG's co-founder, president and chief medical officer, said early diagnosis is vital in reducing malaria deaths because early treatment is nearly 100 percent effective. However, half of the estimated 500 million annual infections worldwide go undiagnosed, according to the World Health Organization.

Potential RAM customers, including the U.S. military, could use the device in areas with limited medical access, often in remote, disease-prone areas, Grimberg said.

"We think we have an opportunity to make a difference in millions of lives," said Grimberg, part of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine's Center for Global Health and Diseases. "We may be able to license the technology in about a year. What we have to do is take this device into the field for point-of-care diagnosis. We have to show that it works, so that we can seek World Health Organization approval."

"This project is an excellent example of the way in which translational research at CWRU can make a difference in patient care," said Colin Drummond, director of the Coulter-Case Translational Research partnership within the Department of Biomedical Engineering. "It has taken years of hard work by Dr. Grimberg for this technology to reach the point where it was positioned to be translated into the market. It has been rewarding for the Coulter program to play a part in the translational phase of the project."

John R. Lewandowski, a recent Case Western Reserve engineering and management graduate, is DDG's co-founder and chief executive officer. His brother, Mark Lewandowski, a sophomore computer science and accounting student at the university, is DDG's chief financial officer.

The university's Technology Transfer Office, which supports faculty and student intellectual property and commercialization, has guided DDG to an innovation network, including such organizations as BioEnterprise and JumpStart.

Working with the Center for Global Health and Diseases and the Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Case Western Reserve is committed to licensing its medical discoveries, such as the RAM device, in ways that promote access and affordability in developing countries. As a result, the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines recently ranked Case Western Reserve the No. 1 Global Health research university in the United States.

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker not visiting Iowa

DES MOINES, IOWA ? Newark Mayor Cory Booker will not be making an appearance in Iowa next month.

The University of Iowa?s website says that the Democratic candidate for Senate from New Jersey will be giving a lecture on the Iowa City campus on Aug. 29. But Booker campaign spokesman Kevin Griffis says Monday that Booker will not give the speech.

Griffis says the speech was scheduled before the special Senate election was called in New Jersey. He says they had since cancelled the event, but there had been some kind of miscommunication.

The potential of a Booker visit to Iowa drew attention because of the state?s presidential caucuses, which prompt speculation about politicians who schedule events in Iowa.

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

JPMorgan settles with energy markets regulator

Bloomberg

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is paying $410 million in civil penalties and disgorged profits to settle federal allegations of manipulation in electricity markets, regulators said Tuesday.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) will pay $410 million in civil penalties and disgorged profits to settle federal allegations of manipulation in electricity markets, regulators said Tuesday.

About 70 percent of the settlement is headed for federal coffers, and the rest to ratepayers in California and the Midwest, where regulators said the New York financial giant?s commodities trading arm allegedly misrepresented prices of electricity contracts.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission?s allegations originally came to light in May when the New York Times reported on a leaked government document, which detailed allegations of manipulation in bidding and offering activities between September 2010 and November 2012.

In a consent agreement with Houston-based JP Morgan Ventures Energy Corp., FERC said it had investigated bids developed by bank employee Francis Dunleavy, who supervised two others, Andrew Kittell and John Bartholomew, in Houston.

FERC didn?t charge the three Houston-based employees, who were confident ?that if the commission were to make any finding that they had engaged in any misconduct, they were fully prepared to defend and prove the legality of their conduct in court,? said William Scherman, an attorney at New York-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, in a statement.

?We are pleased to put the matter behind us, and due to reserves previously set aside, the settlement will not have a material impact on earnings,? said Greg Hassell, a Houston-based spokesman for the bank.

Indeed, analysts had previously said if the bank was hit with even a large fine, it would be pocket change for the $2.4 trillion financial services player.

Collin Eaton covers banking, finance and securities for the Houston Business Journal. For his breaking stories and industry insights, follow him on Twitter.

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Washington and big box retailers in high stakes showdown

Retail

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Mayor Vincent Gray of Washington, D.C.

J. Scott Applewhite / AP file

Mayor Vincent Gray of Washington, D.C.

Wal-Mart has a reputation to protect: Its legendary, bare-knuckled labor tactics.

That's why the world?s largest retailer has threatened to scrap at least three of six stores planned for the nation?s capital if the city signs into law a bill requiring big-box stores to pay workers at least $12.50 an hour. Six other retailers have jumped on board, sending a letter to D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray that warned, ?Any future plans for retail expansion in the city must be revisited.?

It?s a showdown labor experts predict will be repeated in other cities, as cash-strapped municipalities try to pare back public assistance for the working poor and large retailers look to America?s cities for future growth.

Proponents of the wage bill, formally called the Large Retailer Accountability Act, call Wal-Mart a bully.

?They are known to be quite resolute, willing to take local losses in order to maintain a reputation,? said Gary Burtless, labor economist at the Brookings Institution. ?It would be a huge blow to that negotiating stance if they ceded to demands from the District of Columbia.?

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research agreed: ?If they?re seen to just be making idle threats after they?ve built up such a reputation, that would be a huge cost to them.?

Robin Sherk, Kantar Retail?s director of Retail Insights, offered an alternative for Wal-Mart -- that it offer grocery delivery service operating out of a suburban base, or downsize its planned Supercenters so its store footprints fall below the 75,000-square-foot threshold stipulated by the bill. Walmart Neighborhood Markets average about 38,000 square feet.

?Wal-Mart definitely views the urban environment as a growth area,? Sherk said. ?I don?t think they?ll give up on D.C. ... They?ll evaluate other options.?

Retail and labor experts agree that the chain will walk away, taking a loss if necessary, on some or all of its planned stores if the wage bill prevails.

This prospect strikes fear in the heart of local developers, who were counting on Wal-Mart?s draw as an anchor tenant to attract other stores and financing.

Developer Gary Rappaport told the Washington Post, ?If there?s not a Wal-Mart at Skyland (Town Center), then Skyland is not able to go forward at this time.?

Wal-Mart said that in addition to abandoning the three projects still in the planning stage, it ?will start to review the financial and legal implications on the three stores already under construction.?

Typically, a store would be locked into a lease agreement once lenders come on board and construction begins. Getting out of that could be expensive for Wal-Mart at this stage ? two of the stores were scheduled to open this fall ? but developers could be left holding the bag if they were so eager to get Wal-Mart on board that they wrote an option to terminate into their contracts.

?When you?re trying to attract a retailer like Wal-Mart, you do a lot of unconventional things,? Maloney said. ?You will need to stretch a bit.?

City administrators have been trying to get Skyland off the ground for more than two decades now, and the prospect of another setback frustrates Victor Hoskins, deputy mayor for planning and economic development. Washington, D.C. has invested between $25 million and $30 million in the project.

Hoskins said other big-box chains were considering abandoning D.C. for the suburbs if the mayor signs the bill. ?We?ve heard from a couple of large format retailers," he said. "They?re concerned.?

Hoskins argued that the jobs and sales tax revenue big-box retailers would bring are something the city can?t afford to lose, but supporters of the wage bill charge that big-box stores like Wal-Mart inflict hidden costs on taxpayers and municipalities.

?We want to make sure we don?t allow large retailers to come in and pay poverty wages ? which basically is going to compel this government to pick up all the social costs,? said Vincent Orange, Washington, D.C. council member at large. ?I know that the wage Wal-Mart wants to pay will continue to have D.C. residents seeking public assistance in a number of ways.?

Wal-Mart says its average non-supervisory worker pay is nearly $12 an hour, but since that doesn?t include part-time or temp workers, critics call the number inflated. In 2011, research company IBISWorld estimated that Walmart sales associates earned an average of $8.81 an hour, and department managers earned an average of $11.22 an hour.

Orange pointed to a report issued in May by the Democratic staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, which said every Wal-Mart Supercenter ?may cost taxpayers about one million dollars in higher usage of public-assistance programs? by workers and their families.

Burtless, the Brookings labor economist, concurred: ?As a nation, we?ve expanded programs that provide income supplements to low-wage workers ... It does work to the benefit of Wal-Mart as well as other low-wage companies in the U.S.?

Despite retailers? protestations, experts predict that the pull of the market will eventually be too much to resist.

?For [Wal-Mart] to continue to grow in America, it needs to grow in urban areas,? including Northeastern and Midwestern cities with strong pro-union roots, said Paul Osterman, professor of human resources and management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ?That?s why these fights are so bitter.?

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Nexus 7 2013 Review: The Best Small Tablet, Even Better

Nexus 7 2013 Review: The Best Small Tablet, Even Better


Google's Nexus 7 was the best small tablet of 2012. Rather than mess with success, Google did something uncharacteristically conservative: It made little improvements here and there and left the rest mostly as is. The result? This year's Nexus 7 is more low rumble than tectonic shift, but it's still our new favorite tablet. For now, at least.

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Cambodia government rejects opposition call for poll inquiry

By Prak Chan Thul

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's government rejected on Tuesday calls by the opposition for an international inquiry into allegations it used massive fraud to win re-election, and said it wanted parliament to approve a new cabinet quickly.

The United States and European Union expressed concern about irregularities in Sunday's election but both said an investigation should be conducted by Cambodian electoral authorities, failing to endorse the opposition's call for an inquiry involving the United Nations.

The government announced on Sunday that the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen had won 68 seats in the 123-seat parliament, a sharp fall from its previous tally of 90. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) nearly doubled its seat total to 55, in a major surprise and a setback for Hun Sen.

CNRP leader Sam Rainsy said up to 1.3 million names had been missing from the electoral rolls and complained about lack of access to the media as well as intimidation on the campaign trail.

Ouch Borith, secretary of state at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, rejected such allegations at a news conference.

"We have over 10,000 national observers and over 100 international observers who reckoned our election was held in a peaceful manner without any violence, free and fair," he said.

There was no proof of any missing names, he added. "The opposition party should be asked to show clearly what evidence it has about the irregularities it alleges. The National Election Committee has already said 'please bring up evidence, don't just say it, so we can work together to solve things'."

Sean McIntosh, spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh, told Reuters in an email: "We're calling on the National Election Committee (NEC) to conduct a full and transparent investigation into all credible reports of irregularities."

The European Union also expressed concern about "shortcomings".

"The EU hopes that any dispute addressed to the National Election Committee and the established judicial mechanisms will be dealt with fairly and swiftly," it said in a statement.

The NEC has not yet given the number of seats won by each party.

CONCERN OVER INEQUALITY, CORRUPTION

Hun Sen, 60 and prime minister for 28 years, has made no comment on the results and has not appeared in public since Sunday. His party issued a statement on Tuesday denying rumors he had resigned and left the country.

Even by the government's own figures, Sunday saw his worst election result since the country returned to full democracy in 1998, after decades of war and turmoil including the 1975-79 "Killing Fields" rule of the Khmer Rouge.

Prolonged wrangling over the result and a weakened Hun Sen could raise uncertainty over policy in the small but fast-growing Southeast Asian country that has built up a thriving garment sector and forged economic ties with China and Vietnam.

A quorum of 120 out of 123 lawmakers is needed in parliament to approve a new cabinet, so the CNRP could delay this.

But its chances of overturning the election results seem slim given the ruling party's grip on the courts and with major foreign donors like the United States unlikely to reject the outcome without evidence of massive fraud.

The opposition tapped into growing concern among Cambodians over inequality and corruption.

Rising garment exports plus heavy flows of aid and investment from China have fuelled economic growth, but that has been accompanied by a rise in social tension.

There are regular, often violent, protests over pay and conditions by garment workers and over land rights in a country of 14 million, where a third of the people live on less than 65 U.S. cents per day.

Rights groups say the electoral system is heavily biased in favor of the ruling party and Transparency International Cambodia, which monitored the election, said it was "very concerned about the disenfranchisement of citizens and suspect voters".

Voting on Sunday, like the campaign itself, was for the most part peaceful.

(Writing by Alan Raybould; Editing by Stuart Grudgings and Robert Birsel)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cambodia-government-rejects-opposition-call-poll-inquiry-071528397.html

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Monday, July 29, 2013

94% The Hunt

All Critics (86) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (81) | Rotten (5)

The Hunt offers a powerful, provocative study of mob mentality and the fabric of trust.

Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen delivers an astonishingly restrained and expressive central performance in The Hunt, an engrossing psycho-social drama by Thomas Vinterberg.

An intense, hard to watch drama, of a man's life torn apart by his fellow citizens. The performance is skilled enough that it won the top acting award at last year's Cannesfestival.

Mikkelsen's performance is what makes a good movie even better.

[A] harrowing but flawed study of an innocent man accused of pedophilia.

It leaves us not only with an unforgettable final image, but also the troubling thought that witch hunts, like war, will always be with us - all the more so in the modern era of instant communication.

Mikkelsen makes you empathize with Lucas every step of the way and helps make The Hunt a real moral nail-biter.

It's a powerful and thought-provoking movie.

Mikkelsen is one of Europe's most respected actors, yet he's best known in the United States for playing evil characters... So it's interesting -- and rewarding -- to see what Mikkelsen can do as an innocent, well-meaning leading man.

"The Hunt" is a fantastic showcase for Mikkelsen, who shows he can play a cannibalistic serial killer on TV and a persecuted kindergarten teacher in the movies, and be just as believable as both.

The Hunt will have you balling up a fist and shedding a few tears as the tale unfolds, providing an exquisitely unpleasant conflict that's simply riveting to study.

Fittingly for a film that deals with actions that can't be undone, The Hunt leaves you with a sickening feeling that's almost impossible to shake.

Although the scenario is exaggerated for dramatic effect and it stumbles somewhat in the final act, the unsettling film is a provocative and timely examination of persecution and the perils of public perception.

An uncommonly thoughtful, and thought-provoking, entry in the social-issue drama subgenre, anchored by Mikkelsen's gripping performance.

A subtle piece of moral drama crowned by a truly beautiful performance from Mikkelsen, The Hunt puts every one of us in the crosshairs.

Child molestation is indeed horrific. Sometimes, the response to same can be equally disconcerting. The Hunt argues that all too well.

Mads Mikkelsen displays remarkable range as a subdued kindergarten teacher confronting sex-abuse charges in a small Danish town.

Mikkelsen and a terrific ensemble navigate complex emotions and moral quandaries in a terrain where a satisfying resolution is as hard to come by as a child who never tells a lie.

...incredible acting by Mikkelsson, (but) what is unforgettable is the acting of the young girl who makes the allegation, Annika Wedderkopp. It's remarkable that someone so young could give such a performance.

The characters... are not symbolic. They're real people, leading imperfect lives... but we can relate to their feelings, and their actions at every turn of this searing drama.

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Mophie Juice Pack Reserve for iPhone 4/4S review

While many tech buffs will spend more time researching a future purchase than they do using the gadget they eventually buy, sometimes the best pick-ups are the last minute ones.

These last minute grabs are often made to solve an immediate problem, and a common problem for smartphone users is running out of juice in the middle of the day.

If you're an iPhone deployer who leans towards bouts of heavy usage, you may well be familiar with the depleting battery scenario. Thankfully, Mophie's extensive line of on-the-go charging solutions includes cases with integrated backup batteries - Juice Packs, in the manufacturer's parlance. The Juice Pack Plus is well regarded in iPhone circles, despite adding considerable bulk and pushing the weight of an iPhone 4S close to 200g.

The pocket-sized Mophie Juice Pack Reserve is another, more compact option to ensure you don't run out of power at the wrong time. It offers a modest 700mAh battery, far smaller than its stablemate, the Juice Pack Plus, which features a 2,000mAh battery.

However, the Juice Pack Reserve's real strength is its portability - it measures just 80.2 x 40.8 x 16.2mm and weighs only 40g. Those of us who misspent our youth fag in hand will immediately spot how the Reserve resembles a Zippo lighter, complete with flip-off top that reveals a 30-pin connector. In addition to being eminently pocketable, it's also a stylish toy ? the rubberised grip feels great in the hand, and the do-gooding RED model looks especially slick.

So where you wouldn't necessarily sport the bulky Juice Pack Plus on a night out, the Reserve effortlessly slides into your pocket - a quick-fix charging solution that will replenish roughly half your battery life, based on our testing. You'll be able to phone in that crucial goodnight call, text the mates you lost earlier on, and then Hailo a cab home - all of which are just as important as picking up emails from your boss.

That said, the Mophie Juice Pack Reserve is not without its downsides. While the USB connector tucks away cleverly into the main frame of the device ? la Swiss Army knife, this design can prove fiddly when it comes to charging and lacks the versatility of an extension cord.

Elsewhere, the battery status indicator ? activated via a button on the bottom left of the Reserve's body - isn't hugely informative. Where the Mophie Juice Pack Plus features multiple LED lights to indicate various levels of charge, the Reserve offers a single LED that's either green (full), red (less than full), or blank (empty).

We also found the 30-pin iPhone connector to be a bit wiggly when actually plugged into an iPhone. The key ring attachment, which makes the Reserve more convenient for some, snapped off in a worryingly short time. Finally, unlike similar pocket-sized mobile charging solutions, the Reserve can't sync your iDevice while it charges, nor can you flirt with pass-through charging.

All of which makes it amazing that we've fallen in love with the Juice Pack Reserve. Despite an acute recognition of its faults, we found it a genuinely useful iPhone companion for daily use.

The best bit is that, compared to other Mophie gadgets, it's eminently affordable - a mere ?30 compared to the ?80+ you'd be looking at for a Juice Pack Plus. For professional situations, the Juice Pack Plus is still the only way to go, but the Reserve is a better-than-average sidekick, especially outside of the office. In fact, some pros may even find it a more attractive all round option that its big brother.

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Chromecast First Look; LG G2 Expected in Sept.; Epic Apple Store Tantrum

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Topping tech headlines on Thursday was Google's new $35 Chromecast dongle. In PCMag's first look, we found that if you've got an HDTV, a Wi-Fi connection, and a smartphone or laptop, there's simply not a whole lot of reasons for not buying the device.

Consumers seem to be heeding that advice. The dongle is reportedly so popular that Google is no longer offering a promotion that provided three months of free Netflix to Chromecast buyers.

For more from Google, check out our rundown of what's new in Android 4.3.

Meanwhile, a Korean newspaper reported that LG's new G2 smartphone will get a September launch in the U.S., with Verizon among its carrier partners. The paper quoted LG Electronics CFO, David Jung, saying that the as-yet-unveiled device will go on sale in South Korea in early August, followed by North America and Europe in September, before a global rollout by October. LG is expected to reveal its G2 handset during an Aug. 7 event in New York City.

In other news, the latest viral Internet sensation is a Vine clip of a temper tantrum that a woman threw in an Apple Store. Caught on six-second looping video by actress Porscha Coleman, the unidentified woman screams in a high-pitched voice, while banging a stroller with her hand: "I was told by Apple Care that I could walk in the store and get the part!"

Also making headlines Thursday:

  • TCL Announces 50-Inch 4K HDTV for $999: TCL has revealed a 4K HDTV available for under $1,000, making it the cheapest 4K screen yet.
  • Apple Warns Users in China to Only Use Official Chargers: Apple has posted a guide on the Chinese version of its website, urging users to use only official chargers to juice up their iOS gadgets.
  • Buy Drinks With Your Phone Via NFL Player's BarEye App: Your local watering hole might soon get a little more high tech.
  • EU, Penguin Reach Deal on E-Book Price Fixing: The European Commission announced a deal with publisher Penguin over e-book price-fixing accusations.
  • Cablevision Boosts DVR Cloud Service, Android Support: Cablevision's cloud-based DVR service got a boost this week, with three times more storage than previously offered by the cable provider.
  • Lomography Strikes Kickstarter Gold Again with Petzval Lens: Forget Instagram ? Photographers can bling out their SLR camera and take effects-heavy pictures with the reinvented Petzval Lens from Lomography.
  • T-Mobile Brings MetroPCS to 15 New Markets: T-Mobile is making good on a promise to expand the number of cities with access to MetroPCS, bringing its prepaid wireless service to 15 new markets.
  • GeeksPhone Taking Pre-Orders for Firefox OS Peak+ Smartphone: Spanish smartphone startup GeeksPhone is prepping its third Firefox-based device ? the Peak+, now available for pre-order.
  • 5 Hackers Charged in 'Largest Known' U.S. Data Breach Scheme: Five Russian men were indicted in New Jersey for their involvement in what prosecutors are calling the largest-known data breach scheme in U.S. history.

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California prepares for future of driverless cars

(Capital Public Radio) A self-parking car is a big step towards a future of self-driving cars. As you watch from the passenger seat there?s some anxiety and some amazement. There?s an urge to grab the spinning steering wheel and brace for impact with the surrounding cars. But again and again the car quickly and smoothly parks itself.

Davila says self-driving cars could catch on, once drivers are comfortable with giving up control.

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Friday, July 26, 2013

Univision says 'Piolin' agreed to leave radio show

(AP) ? Univision Radio said on Thursday that Spanish-language talk show host Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo had agreed to leave the network after a decade-long run that won him national fame.

The statement came after Sotelo's show was abruptly removed from the air, shocking loyal listeners of the Mexican-born disc jockey known for helping propel immigrant supporters into the streets in 2006 to protest an anti-illegal immigration bill.

No reason was given for the decision to yank Sotelo's program, which was lagging in ratings behind another Mexican regional morning drive-time program and ranked sixth in the Los Angeles-Orange County market in June, according to Arbitron.

Univision said in the statement that Sotelo had broadcast his final show on Monday. The program was syndicated nationally to more than 50 stations.

Univision declined to immediately provide ratings for Sotelo's show in other markets.

Sotelo, who was recently elected to the National Radio Hall of Fame, said in the Univision statement that he had a great run on Univision. A message left for his manager Rudy Franco was not immediately returned.

Sotelo spoke often of his own immigrant experience ? a message that resonated with listeners. He crossed the border illegally as a teenager, grew up in Santa Ana and became an American citizen in a widely publicized ceremony in 2008.

The radio personality whose nickname means "Tweety Bird" played corny jokes and pranks on the air but also hosted politicians including President Obama to discuss issues such as immigration reform.

Sotelo has also voiced roles in "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" and other movies.

Associated Press

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

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Humongous viruses could be new form of life, say scientists

The discovery of a pair of huge viruses with large genomes suggests the existence of another domain of life, which, if it exists, would raise the number of biology's most basic categories from three to four. ?

By Ker Than,?Inside Science News Service / July 19, 2013

Electron microscopy image of a Pandoravirus particle (edited using Adobe Photoshop artistic filters).

mage courtesy of Chantal Abergel / Jean-Michel Claverie

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The discovery of?two new jumbo-sized?viruses is blurring the lines between viral and cellular life and could point to the existence of a new type of life, scientists suggest.?

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The?two large viruses, detailed in this week's issue of the journal?Science, have been dubbed "Pandoraviruses" because of the surprises they may hold for biologists, in reference to the mythical Greek figure who opened a box and released evil into the world.??The discovery of Pandoraviruses is an indication that our knowledge of Earth's microbial biodiversity is still incomplete, explained study coauthor?Jean-Michel Claverie, a virologist at the French National Research Agency at Aix-Marseille University.

"Huge discoveries remain to be made at the most fundamental level that may change our present conception about the origin of life and its evolution," Claverie said.?Eugene Koonin, a computational evolutionary biologist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Md., who was not involved in the study, called the Pandoraviruses a "wonderful discovery," but not a complete surprise.?"In a certain sense, it's something that we saw coming, and it's wonderful that it has come," Koonin said.?

A systematic search

Claverie's lab found?one of the viruses,?Pandoravirus salinus, in sediments collected off the coast of Chile. ?The other,Pandoravirus dulcis, was lurking in mud in a freshwater pond near Melbourne, Australia.?Both of the new viruses are so massive that they can be seen using a traditional light microscope. Their genomes are also super-sized: the genome of?P. salinus?is?1.91 million DNA bases?long, while that of?P. dulcis?is?2.47 million DNA bases. For comparison, the size of the previous viral genome record holder,?Megavirus chilensis, is?1.18 million bases.?M. chilensis?is a marine relative of Mimiviruses, a class of large viruses that was first discovered more than a decade ago and forever changed scientists' conceptions of how large viruses could be.?After sequencing the first Mimivirus genome in 2010, Claverie and his team began a systematic search for even larger viruses. They found?P. salinus?in the same environment in Chile where?M. chilensis?was found.?The discovery of?P. dulcis?was more serendipitous, being the result of water sample Claverie took during a trip to Melbourne.?At first, the French scientists thought both viruses were the same. But after comparing the?two genome sequences and?their encoded proteins, they realized that the pair represented a new virus family, said Claverie.?

What are they?

The team also conducted several experiments to confirm that Pandoraviruses were indeed viruses. Using light and electron microscopes, the scientists followed their newfound entities through a complete replication cycle. The gigantic entities met allthree key criteria to?be labeled viruses.?First, instead of splitting in?two like typical bacterium?or cells, the Pandoraviruses spawned hundreds of new copies in?one cycle. Secondly, they both lacked the genes needed for energy production. Finally, they could not produce proteins without infecting single-celled organisms known as amoebas, which seem to be the Pandoraviruses' preferred hosts.?Further surprises awaited the team when they analyzed the Pandoraviruses' genomes. That of?P. dulcis?contained about?1,500 genes, while that of?P. salinus?contained more than?2,500 genes. A typical flu virus can have as few as?10 genes, and?M. chilensis?has only about?1,000 genes.?What's more, scientists don't know what most of the Pandoravirus genes do. There are "a few recognizable genes involved in DNA replication, and a few transcription-related genes. Not much else is recognizable," explained study co-first author?Matthieu Legendre, who is also at CNRS.?The Pandoraviruses are also unlike other viruses in that they lack the gene for the capsid protein that typically forms the housing, or "capsid," of giant viruses.?

The fourth domain

These irregularities raise interesting questions about the origins of Pandoraviruses, scientists say.?According to a theory preferred by Claverie and his team, the ancient ancestors of Pandoraviruses were once free-living cells that gradually lost most of their genes as they became parasites.?Some scientists think this hypothetical ancestral cell could have constituted a so-called "fourth domain" of life ? that is, a previously unknown branch of life that is distinct from the accepted?three domains: Bacteria; Archaea, another type of single-celled organism; and Eukaryotes, the domain that animals and plants belong to.?

Practical applications

Claverie and his team are now on the hunt for other Pandoraviruses to unravel their evolutionary origins and better study their genes.?"These viruses have more than?2,000 new genes coding?for proteins and enzymes that do unknown things, and participate in unknown metabolic pathways," explained virologist and study coauthor Chantel Abergel, who is also at CNRS.?"Elucidating their biochemical and regulatory functions might be of a tremendous interest for biotech and biomedical applications," she added.?The scientists have reason to believe that many more Pandoraviruses await discovery.?"The fact that?two of them were?found almost simultaneously from very distant locations either indicate that we were incredibly lucky," Claverie said, "or that they are not rare."

Originally posted on?Inside Science.

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AT&T revenue up, profit down as costs rise in 2Q

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 20, 2011, file photo, a customer enters an AT&T store in Santa Monica, Calif. AT&T reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 20, 2011, file photo, a customer enters an AT&T store in Santa Monica, Calif. AT&T reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

The surge in tablet usage helped boost AT&T's wireless revenue for the latest quarter, but profits declined as costs surged, the company said Tuesday.

AT&T's coffers were drained by smartphone sales, which it subsidizes in the hope of making money back over the life of two-year contracts. AT&T also made investments to increase its home broadband speeds.

AT&T Inc., the country's largest telecommunications company, said it earned $3.8 billion, or 71 cents per share, in the April-to-June period, compared with $3.9 billion, or 66 cents share, a year ago.

Adjusted for a one-time gain of 4 cents for the sale of shares in Mexico's America Movil, the latest earnings were 67 cents per share, 1 cent below the average analyst forecast as polled by FactSet.

AT&T's revenue was $32.1 billion, up 1.6 percent from a year ago and well above the average analyst estimate at $31.8 billion.

The Dallas-based company added 550,000 wireless devices to its contract-based plans, which are the most lucrative. That was the highest second-quarter figure in two years. However, all but 153,000 of the new devices were tablets, which carry lower monthly fees than phones.

AT&T shares fell 31 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $35.50 in extended trading, after the release of the report.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Brazil buzzing with anticipation for Pope Francis

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? As he flew to Brazil on his first international trip as pontiff, Pope Francis voiced concern on Monday about an entire generation of youths growing up jobless and isolated.

Mammoth crowds are expected to attend a Mass he will celebrate on Rio's Copacabana beach during his trip to his home continent.

Francis also will meet with legions of young Roman Catholics converging on Rio for the church's World Youth Day festival, believers whose behavior so far hasn't been typical of the normal tourists in this seaside Sin City known for hedonistic excess.

During his flight from Rome, Francis expressed concern about youth unemployment.

He told some 70 journalists aboard his papal plane that there is a "risk of having a generation that hasn't worked." He said, "People get their dignity from work. They earn their bread. Young people this moment are in crisis."

"We have the risk of having a generation that hasn't worked," he said.

Although his pilgrimage features a jamboree designed for the young, Francis also expressed concern about the elderly's plight in society.

He decried isolating the elderly, saying they shouldn't be "thrown away" by consumer cultures that demand everything new or useful. The elderly "have the "wisdom of life, the wisdom of history, the wisdom of a nation, the wisdom of a family, and we need this."

One journalist joked that Francis was stepping into a "lion's den" of media in the back of the plane, but afterward the pope, who had told the reporters that he found interviews tiresome, quipped: "The lions weren't so fierce."

More than 1 million people are expected to pack the white sands of Copacabana to celebrate Mass with the 76-year-old Francis. He also will visit a tiny chapel in a trash-strewn slum, and grassroots Catholics love that he plans a side trip to venerate Brazil's patron saint.

"I'm here for faith! I'm here for joy! And I'm here for the first Latino pope!" Ismael Diaz, a 27-year-old pilgrim wrapped in the flag of his native Paraguay, said as he bounded down the stone sidewalks of Copacabana hours ahead of Francis' arrival.

Diaz gave high fives to four fellow pilgrims, then turned toward local beachgoers who looked on while calmly sipping green coconut water and staring from behind dark sunglasses.

"I'm here because I have the force of God in me and want to make disciples of all. Arghhhhhhhhhh!" he yelled, lifting his head and howling into Rio's hot, humid air before flexing his arms and going into a bodybuilder's pose.

Francis would have an easy time of it if all Catholics shared Diaz's fervor. But Diaz and his fellow pilgrims are the exception to the rule in Brazil and much of Latin America, a region with more faithful than any other in the world but where millions have left the church for rival Pentecostal evangelical churches or secularism.

A poll from the respected Datafolha group published Sunday in the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo said 57 percent of Brazilians age 16 and older call themselves Catholic, the lowest ever recorded. Just six years ago, when Pope Benedict XVI visited, a poll by the same firm found 64 percent considered themselves among the faithful. In 1980, when Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit Brazil, 89 percent listed themselves as Catholics, according to that year's census.

Pentecostal evangelicals stood at 19 percent of the population in the latest poll, rising from virtually nothing three decades ago by aggressively proselytizing in Brazil's impoverished slums.

Beyond the numbers who claim one faith or another is the huge gap in the level of participation in the different churches, a fervor factor that deeply troubles the Catholic Church. The Datafolha poll said 63 percent of Pentecostal evangelicals report going to church at least once a week, while only 28 percent of Catholics say they go to Mass weekly.

Datafolha interviewed 3,758 people across Brazil on June 6-7 and said the poll had a margin error of two percentage points.

In his few months as pontiff, Francis has demonstrated an easy ability to connect with people, in particular with young Catholics, demonstrating humility and a warmth the faithful feel is genuine. Church leaders hope his Brazil trip will deepen that appeal.

Keeping to his example that the Catholic church must be humble, Francis carried his own black hand luggage as he boarded a special Alitalia flight from Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport on Monday.

"Every pope is different, and Pope Francis is showing himself to be extremely charismatic, with a language that is simple and direct," Sao Paulo Cardinal Odilo Scherer said. "I absolutely think there is renewed happiness within the church that began with the election of Pope Francis."

Fernando Altemeyer, a theologian at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo, said that warmth and understanding is entirely related to Francis being the first pope from Latin America, where he's had more exposure to the harsh realities of life on the continent than European popes of the past.

"It allows him to understand and promote a Catholicism that's felt in the body, that's visceral," Altemeyer said. "That changes a Catholicism that for hundreds of years has been felt more in the mind, that's been a very European Christianity."

All of which gives even more force to a New Evangelization effort that was pushed by John Paul II and picked up steam under Benedict, with the World Youth Day and it's theme of "Go and make disciples of all nations" expressing the desire to more ardently spread the Gospel.

Playing out in parallel to the papal visit is political unrest in Brazil, where widespread anti-government protests that began last month have continued and are expected to take place right outside Rio's Guanabara Palace, the seat of state power where Francis is to meet with President Dilma Rousseff on Monday evening shortly after his arrival.

With the exception of gay rights groups and others angered by the church's doctrine against abortion and same-sex marriages, the target of most protesters won't be Francis but the government and political corruption. The pontiff is said to support Brazilians peacefully taking to the streets, and when he served as a cardinal in Buenos Aires he didn't shy from conflict with Argentina's leaders as he railed against corruption.

The pope will likely avoid hot-button issues like abortion and same-sex marriages while in Brazil, and focus on his message that the church should put its attention on the poor and that clergy must lead a humble life.

Brazil allows abortions only in cases of rape or risk to a mother's life or if a fetus is brainless, and the nation's supreme court in 2011 approved civil unions for same-sex couples. State courts have since allowed those unions to become full-fledged marriages.

The Catholic Church is not as active in politics in Brazil as it is in other Latin American nations, though it strongly opposes any efforts to loosen abortion laws and took part in the legal argument against civil unions when the matter was before the top court.

When Francis talks with Rousseff, they are likely to focus on the poor. Upon taking office, the Brazilian leader declared that eradicating extreme poverty was her top goal as president, and she has expanded a network of social welfare programs that have helped lift almost 30 million Brazilians out of poverty in the last decade.

"The good thing from a social perspective is that he understands the increasing stratification of wealth in Latin America," said Joseph Palacios, a sociologist at Georgetown University and former Catholic priest who has studied the church.

"Unlike his predecessors, who had a theoretical understanding, Francis has a pastoral understanding honed by living and working in working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. All of his understanding of poverty and other social issues appear to be based on his experiences, not theory or doctrine."

That's evident to Maria Nascimento, a 60-year-old Catholic living in the Varginha slum where Francis will pay a visit this week.

"God chose wisely when he decided to send this humble man to lead the church. He's loved in this community because he's talking about poor people," she said, standing in her kitchen where photos of grandchildren's baptisms were stuck to her refrigerator with magnets.

"There's going to be a huge impact on Brazil after he has come and left, after his feet have walked these streets in our slum. He's going to help the church in Brazil, the love here for him is growing so fast."

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Associated Press reporter Nicole Winfield reported from aboard the papal plane. Jenny Barchfield contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/brazil-buzzing-anticipation-pope-francis-071223012.html

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My Hometown: What Detroit's Demise Says About America

My ancestors helped build Detroit. The Fourniers were fur-trappers and farmers living hard by the Detroit River until the fledgling auto industry beckoned in the early 1900s with a better deal: $5 a day and a pension.

In the 1960s, my father opted out of the family business to be a police officer. He served Detroit for 25 years as part of the elite motorcycle unit that doubled as the riot squad. One of my earlier memories is of my parents, dressed in church clothes, leaving our house to attend the 1967 funeral of a riot cop.

Mom and dad raised four children at 15285 Coram in the city's northeast corner, the same block upon which they were raised. All this to say: I love my hometown. And I hate what Detroit's demise might bode for our country.

Wrenching economic change ? income inequality ... political corruption ? ineffective government ? rigid institutions ? chronic debt and racism -- these are the things that bankrupted Detroit, morally and fiscally, and they're an exaggerated reflection of the nation's challenges.

Economy: Detroit failed to adapt to the global economy and to diversify for the postindustrial era. "Sometimes the losers from economic change are individuals whose skills have become redundant; sometimes they're companies, serving a market niche that no longer exists; and sometimes they're whole cities that lose their place in the economic ecosystem," wrote economic columnist Paul Krugman in today's New York Times. Sometimes, the victims are whole countries, a fact that seems lost on Washington, where the leadership is polarized and smart ideas go to die.

Income inequality: The unemployment rate in Detroit is more than 18 percent. Per capita income is pathetically low, near $15,000. Life is much better for suburban residents. In Grosse Pointe, Mich., separated from Detroit by the aptly named Alter Road, the median family income is more than $100,000, and unemployment is not a problem.

Bad government: ?"The city's operations have become dysfunctional and wasteful after years of budgetary restrictions, mismanagement, crippling operational practices and, in some cases, indifferences or corruption," Detroit's emergency manager Kevyn Orr wrote in May. "Outdated policies, work practices, procedures, and systems must be improved consistent with best practices of 21st-century government." It would not be a stretch to apply Orr's words to the federal government.

Broken promises: The group most at risk in Detroit's bankruptcy may be the city's 20,000 retirees (including my father and many friends and family members). Of Detroit's overall debt, about half represents pension and health benefits promised to retirees, according to The Washington Post. This is because city leaders borrowed against pension funds and mortgaged the future?not unlike what Washington's leadership is doing to Social Security and Medicare.

Rigid institutions: Government agencies, businesses, schools, churches, the media, and virtually every other city institution failed to help residents weather the tumult of the last four decades of the 20th?century. In particular, big labor never managed a second act after anchoring the rise of the American middle class in Detroit. Union membership and influence has declined in Detroit and elsewhere, considered by many to be more of an obstacle than a solution.

Racial tensions: Racism and racial polarization have a long and an ugly history in Detroit. The 1967 riots caused many whites to leave the city. White flight increased in the 1970s, when school busing and a ban on real-estate "red lining" threatened the nasty traditions of segregation. Craven real estate agents hired black women to push baby strollers through white neighborhoods, then knocked on doors urging residents to sell "before it's too late." ?

The fallout from George Zimmerman's trial struck a chord with this Detroit native, particularly President Obama's eloquent remarks about Trayvon Martin and black Americans. As a kid, I was told to lock my car doors in "black neighborhoods." The owner of Detroit store where I worked ordered me to follow young black men into the aisles "to keep an eye on them."

On race and other issues, Detroit should be a warning to the country. It was?and in many ways, still is?a great city, but poor leadership and an ambivalent citizenry allowed Detroit's problems to fester, grow, and eventually overwhelm it. A nation can make the same mistake.

Coincidentally, when Detroit declared bankruptcy, I was wrapping up a Michigan vacation. The highlight was my daughter's wedding. She lives and works in the city, and got married in a church not far from where the Fourniers once trapped beavers and farmed. Her family drove in from the suburbs to a city they had abandoned (and that had abandoned them). The wedding reception was at the Detroit Historical Museum, where the Fourniers danced to Motown music in the brick-and-cobblestone streets of "Old Detroit." We toasted the future.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hometown-detroits-demise-says-america-082608335.html

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Animal deaths at Frontier Days draw ire

CHEYENNE, Wyoming ? Cheyenne Frontier Days has drawn the ire of an animal rights group after a steer died and a calf sustained a back injury during roping contests last week. Another steer suffered a broken leg and was euthanized.

The Casper Star-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/12Z4o0k ) an investigator with Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, or SHARK, posted video of two of the incidents online. One shows a male contestant lassoing the calf and trying to tie it Thursday, then giving up after realizing the animal was rigid and immobile. The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association plans to fine the contestant for the banned takedown.

The other video shows a contestant's rope jerking a running steer onto its head, snapping its neck Friday.

Frontier Days organizers say another steer broke a tibia Friday and was euthanized.


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Man accused of threatening anchors over coverage

PHOENIX (AP) ? A New York man has been arrested on allegations that he made threats on Twitter against two national newscasters who angered him with their coverage of the Jodi Arias trial, Arizona authorities said Monday.

David Lee Simpson of Bath, N.Y., was infatuated with Arias and became upset by comments from the two female anchors, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.

Investigators found guns, handcuffs and other items in Simpson's car after taking him into custody in Bath, Arpaio said.

The sheriff declined to name the two anchors because he says Turner Broadcasting, which owns CNN and HLN, had asked his agency not to publicly identify them. But he did say one works out of Atlanta and the other out of New York.

An indictment that charges Simpson, 48, with three counts of computer tampering and two counts of stalking had not yet been made publicly available late Monday afternoon.

Simpson also is accused of threatening a Phoenix woman who defended the anchors online.

Arpaio says Simpson quit his job last week at a Bath auto repair shop and was later pulled over by police as he was leaving town.

The sheriff said investigators don't know whether Simpson was intending to carry out his threats, but he said items found in Simpson's vehicle were disturbing. Authorities found several weapons, zip ties and a news clipping about last December's mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.

It wasn't immediately clear why Arpaio's office had jurisdiction to arrest Simpson in New York.

Simpson is expected to be brought to Arizona on Wednesday, Arpaio said. Court records show he does not yet have a lawyer.

Earlier this year, a Maricopa County jury convicted Arias of murder in the death of her boyfriend Travis Alexander, but the jury later deadlocked at the sentencing phase of her trial.

A new jury could be impaneled to decide sometime in late September whether Arias should be sentenced to death or life in prison.

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[All iPads] Streaming Football (sports) on the iPad?





Streaming Football (sports) on the iPad?


Hey guys,

I saw the picture below on a facebook page earlier and was wondering how it was possible to view such streams. My immediate thought was it would only be achievable through a jailbreak, but in any case if anyone knows please let me know!

Cheers!

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Should also say that it looks to be a iPhone app just scaled for the iPad.

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