AllThingsD connected the dots about a Twitter app for Google Glass in the works. Tweet with your eyeballs (and voice)!
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Flipboard CEO Mike McCue took the stage at Disrupt NY 2013 today to talk about his company and the changing nature of media and publishing, and he revealed updated stats about user adoption of his company's platform. Since the version 2.0 launch in March, it has added 6 million new users, which is up 3 million from just over two weeks ago. That rate of growth means Flipboard is growing much faster than ever before, which indicates that the personalized magazine creation tool is really catching on.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/tM1a7WPfb5A/
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx as his new transportation secretary, a White House official said Sunday.
If confirmed by the Senate, Foxx would replace outgoing Secretary Ray LaHood.
Foxx is Obama's first black nominee among the new Cabinet members appointed for the second term. The president faced criticism early in his second term for a lack of diversity among his nominees.
The official insisted on anonymity to avoid public discussion of the pick before the official announcement.
The official noted that Foxx has led efforts to improve his city's transit infrastructure to expand economic opportunity for businesses and workers. During Foxx's term as mayor, Charlotte has broken ground on several important transportation projects, including the Charlotte Streetcar Project to bring modern electric tram service to the city as well as a third parallel runway at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. The city has also moved to extend the LYNX light rail system to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the official said.
If confirmed by the Senate, Foxx would take over a department that has been at the center of Washington's debate over the impact of the so-called sequester cuts. The automatic cuts resulted in furloughs for air traffic controllers that helped cause delays at many airports.
Congress reached a deal last week to provide the Transportation Department flexibility that allowed it to end the air traffic controller furloughs.
Foxx, an attorney who has worked in several positions with the federal government, was first elected mayor in 2009. He raised his national profile last year when Charlotte played host to the Democratic Party's convention.
He also served as a member of the Charlotte City Council.
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An American woman living in Britain forced her 14-year-old daughter to get pregnant with donor sperm. She forced the girl to get pregnant 7 times; most led to miscarriages, but a baby was born when the girl was 17.
A woman desperate for another child forced her 14-year-old daughter to get pregnant using syringes of?donor?sperm, a British judge said.
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In a ruling reported for the first time Monday, High Court judge Peter Jackson said the mother had behaved in "a wicked and selfish way" that almost defied belief.
The judge said the woman, an American divorcee living in Britain with three adopted children, hatched the plan after she was prevented from adopting a fourth.
The scheme involved getting her oldest daughter to inseminate herself with syringes of?sperm?purchased over the Internet from a Denmark-based company, Cryos International.
Jackson said the daughter, identified only as A, "became pregnant at the mother's request, using?donor?sperm bought by the mother, with the purpose of providing a fourth child for the mother to bring up as her own."
In his ruling, the judge quoted the teenager as saying said she was shocked by the suggestion, but thought, "If I do this ... maybe she will love me more."
"My mum is a very determined person and she does her best not to let anything get in her way if she wants it," the teenager added.
The judge said the mother also made the teenager take extreme measures to increase her chances of having a girl.
The judge said it was likely but not certain that the daughter soon became pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. After six more attempts with the?donor?sperm, she gave birth to a baby boy in July 2011, when she was 17.
But midwives at the hospital became alarmed by the odd behavior of A's mother. Her daughter wanted to breastfeed the baby, but her mother said: "We don't want any of that attachment thing."
The hospital alerted the authorities, and the children were taken into foster care. The mother is now serving a five-year jail term for child cruelty.
Details of the case were heard during proceedings at the family division of the High Court over the children's future last year. They were reported for the first time Monday after several British media organizations, including the publisher of The Guardian newspaper, challenged reporting restrictions.
A court order bars identifying the family members in order to protect the children
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BAGHDAD (AP) ? Five car bombs exploded Monday in predominantly Shiite cities and districts in central and southern Iraq, killing 26 civilians and wounding dozens, officials said.
The blasts come amid a week-long spike in sectarian violence following clashes at a Sunni protest camp in the north of the country. No one has claimed responsibility, but coordinated bombings in civilian areas are a favorite strategy used by al-Qaida in Iraq.
Two parked car bombs went off simultaneously Monday morning in the city of Amarah near a gathering of construction workers and a market, killing 13 civilians and wounding 42, according to police.
Another police officer said a parked car bomb exploded near a restaurant in the city of Diwaniyah, killing eight civilians and wounding 25 others. At least three cars were seen charred and twisted outside a two-story building with a blast-damaged facade. Shop owners and cleaners were brushing debris off the bloodstained pavement.
Amarah, some 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Baghdad and Diwaniyah, 30 kilometers (80 miles) south of the capital, are heavily Shiite and normally comparatively peaceful.
Hours later, another parked car bomb went off in the Shiite city of Karbala, killing two civilians and wounding 12 others, police said. Two early Islamic figures revered by Shiites are buried in the city, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of Baghdad.
A parked car bomb ripped through a Shiite neighborhood in the otherwise predominantly Sunni town of Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Baghdad, killing three and wounding 16, another police said.
Four medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.
Sectarian violence has spiked since Tuesday, when security forces tried to make arrests at a Sunni Muslim protest camp in the northern city of Hawija. The move set off a clash that killed 23 people, including three soldiers.
The Hawija incident and a spate of follow-up battles between gunmen and security forces as well as other attacks, including Monday's, have left around 200 dead in the last week.
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The LG Optimus F5, which is the first of the new F Series devices to be unveiled, is ready for a global debut following its unveiling at MWC in Barcelona. The device, which is targeted at a mid-range price point but still packing some high-end design and LTE, is set to be available in France starting April 29th with a whole host of countries in Central and South America as well as Asia to follow. The F5 runs a Qualcomm 1.2GHz dual-core processor, has 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, a 540x960 (qHD) 4.3-inch display, 5MP/1.3MP cameras and runs Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. LG is also working hard to bring some of the interesting elements of the Optimus G down to these lower devices, with similar hardware design languages and UX improvements like QSlide and QTranslator.
Pricing and availability will of course vary depending on the market, but LG has high hopes for its new device lineups which cover several different price points and feature offerings. Between the G Series, LII Series and F Series, LG is hoping to cover more ground in every different kind of market. That being said, we still wouldn't expect these to hit the U.S. in their current form.
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Earthquakes can permanently crack the Earth, an investigation of quakes that have rocked Chile over the past million years suggests.
Although earthquakes can wreak havoc on the planet's surface, more than a century of research has suggested the Earth actually mostly rebounds after quakes, with blocks of the world's crust elastically springing back, over the course of months to decades, to the way they initially were. Such rebounding was first seen after investigations of the devastating 1906 San Francisco temblor thathelped lead to the destruction of more than 80 percent of the city. The rebound is well-documented nowadays by satellite-based GPS systems that monitor Earth's movements.
However, structural geologist Richard Allmendinger of Cornell University and his colleagues now find major earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater apparently caused the crust in northern Chile to crack permanently. [The 10 Biggest Earthquakes in History]
"My graduate students and I originally went to northern Chile to study other features," Allmendinger said. "While we were there, our Chilean colleague, Professor Gabriel Gonz?lez of the Universidad Cat?lica del Norte, took us to a region where these cracks were particularly well-exposed."
"I still remember feeling blown away ? never seen anything like them in my 40 years as a geologist ? and also perplexed," Allmendinger told OurAmazingPlanet. "What were these features and how did they form? Scientists hate leaving things like this unexplained, so it kept bouncing around in my mind."
Atacama exposed
In northern Chile, "the driest place on Earth, we have a virtually unique record of great earthquakes going back a million years," Allmendinger said. Whereas most analyses of ancient earthquakes only probe cycles of two to four quakes, "our record of upper plate cracking spans thousands of earthquake cycles," he noted.
The record of the vast number of earthquakes captured in northern Chilean rocks allowed the researchers to examine their average behavior over a much longer period of time, which makes it easier to pick out any patterns. They discovered that a small but significant 1 to 10 percent of the deformation of the Earth caused by 2,000 to 9,000 major quakes over the past 800,000 to 1 million years was permanent, involving cracks millimeters to meters large in the crust of the Atacama Desert. The crust may behave less elastically than previously thought.
"It is only in a place like the Atacama Desert that these cracks can be observed ? in all other places, surface processes erase them within days or weeks of their formation, but in the Atacama, they are preserved for millions of years," Allmendinger said. "We have every reason to believe that our results would be applicable to other areas, but is simply not preserved for study the way that it is in the Atacama Desert," he added.
Model rethink
This work "calls into question the details of models that geophysicists who study the earthquake cycle use," Allmendinger said. "Their models generally assume that all of the upper-plate deformation related to the earthquake cycle is elastic ? recoverable, like an elastic band ? and not permanent. If some of the deformation is permanent, then the models will have to be rethought and more complicated material behaviors used.
The area the researchers studied, the Iquique Gap, "is one of the few places along western South America that has not had a great earthquake in the last 100 years and thus has a high probability of a major earthquake in the next couple of decades," Allmendinger added. "We may get to test out predictions about earthquakes if the next great earthquake there happens in the next couple of decades."
The scientists detailed their findings online April 28 in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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Memphis Grizzlies' Marc Gasol, of Spain, right, defends against Los Angeles Clippers' Jamal Crawford (11) during the first half of Game 4 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Memphis Grizzlies' Marc Gasol, of Spain, right, defends against Los Angeles Clippers' Jamal Crawford (11) during the first half of Game 4 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin, right, defends against Memphis Grizzlies' Zach Randolph, left, during the first half of Game 4 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Los Angeles Clippers' Ronny Turiaf (21), of France, tries to go to the basket as Memphis Grizzlies' Ed Davis (32) and Darrell Arthur defend during the first half of Game 4 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Memphis Grizzlies' Zach Randolph, left, defends against Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin (32) during the first half of Game 4 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
Los Angeles Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro claps during the first half of Game 4 in a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ? Marc Gasol had 24 points and 13 rebounds, and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Los Angeles Clippers 104-83 Saturday to even their first-round playoff series at 2-all.
Zach Randolph finished with 24 points and nine rebounds as the Grizzlies won their second straight to ensure another stop in Memphis for Game 6. Mike Conley had 15 points and 13 assists, and Tayshaun Prince scored 15 in his best game of the series.
Chris Paul and Blake Griffin had 19 points apiece for the Clippers, and Griffin also grabbed 10 rebounds. Los Angeles' reserves outscored its counterparts again, 43-16. But DeAndre Jordan was the only other starter to score for Los Angeles, and he had two points. Chauncey Billups and Caron Butler went a combined 0 for 10 from the floor in being shut out.
Game 5 is Tuesday night in Los Angeles.
The team that controls the boards has won each game of the series so far, with Memphis owning a 45-28 advantage in Game 4. That led to a 22-2 scoring difference in second-chance points, boosted by a 13-5 edge on offensive boards.
The Grizzlies used their prowess on the glass to beat the speedy Clippers when it came to fast-break points, 18-6.
Memphis' biggest advantage is its big men, and Randolph and Gasol each took turns helping the Grizzlies turn this into a best-of-three series.
Randolph had 16 points and seven rebounds in the first half as Memphis got off to a quick start, leading 33-25 after the first quarter. Gasol scored 18 in the second half, using an effective jumper to avoid the paint after picking up his third foul with 7:54 left in the third. Randolph got his third 7 seconds later.
It didn't matter.
The Clippers never lead by more than two, the last at 60-58 on a pair of free throws by Paul with 5:58 left in the third. Gasol then hit a 23-footer that beat the shot clock and made a pair of free throws to put Memphis ahead.
Ronny Turiaf's layup tied it for the sixth and final time. Gasol found Randolph for a layup that put Memphis ahead to stay at 64-62 on the 10th and final lead change with 3:21 left in the third.
Memphis blew it open with a 19-5 surge at the beginning of the fourth and went up as much as 20, the first on a drive by Quincy Pondexter with 3:45 left at 96-76. The Grizzlies outscored the Clippers 33-16 in the quarter and 55-36 for the half.
Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro then subbed in from his bench with 3:02 remaining and had all his starters on the sideline for the final 2 minutes.
The Grizzlies set the tone from the start and led by as much as 12 in the first quarter. They went cold in the second when Paul scored nine of his 14 first-half points to help the Clippers to a 47-46 lead at halftime.
The Clippers wanted to be aggressive in what's been a physical series with lots of wrestling, especially between Randolph and Griffin. All the pounding appeared to take a toll in the second quarter as the Clippers had a chance to take their first lead only to have Griffin travel on back-to-back possessions. They couldn't even connect on a dunk as Prince tipped away a lob to Griffin.
Gasol was the key in the third. He even connected on a 23-foot jumper off an inbounds pass from Prince late in the shot clock. That tied it at 60 with 4:35 left and cranked new energy into the arena.
NOTES: Memphis improved to 17-1 when shooting at least 50 percent. ... The Grizzlies sold out their 12th straight postseason game. ... The Grizzlies played without veteran guard Keyon Dooling, who sat out with a strained muscle. ... Prince had only 10 points in the first three games combined. ... The Clippers shot 13 of 39 in the second half, compared to 20 for 35 for Memphis.
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Do any of you use Amazon Local?to find fitness, food and beauty deals? Since moving to New York City in November, it?s replaced LivingSocial as my subscribed-to daily deal site.
It works in the same way: Each day, the site offers new deals on local food, fitness, entertainment and services (dentist appointments; Botox; colonics; dry cleaning). Some are only offered for one day, but most of the deals run a few days to a week. And there?s some serious savings to be had if you?re in the market for these things anyway (alas, it can have the unintended effect of introducing all sorts of possible purchases in your mind that you?d otherwise not think of?but those eyelash extensions are only $35!, etc.).
This morning I came across a pretty amazing deal on yoga, kickboxing and other fitness classes at NYC?s ?Just Keep Moving Fitness??20 classes for $20! If you?re interested, you can purchase the Amazon Local voucher here (and I promise it?s just a regular link; I?m not trolling for referral credit).
I did a little perusing of other local deal sites just now, and here are 10 other outstanding deals on exercise classes and packages in New York City. If you live elsewhere, check out the Amazon Local homepage for fitness deals in your city and state.
1. Krav Manga Classes: Learn the fighting style used by the Israeli Defense Forces (and get in kickass shape) with Krav Maga Classes. The Krav Maga Academy in Chelsea is offering three for $35 and six for $65 class packages, as well as one month of unlimited classes for $99.
2. Unlimited Yoga and Pilates Classes: Get one month of unlimited yoga and pilates classes at Harlem Yoga Studio for just $39. You can also purchase three months unlimited for $99 or one year of unlimited classes for $349.
3. Pilates Passbook: Get over 100 passes to NYC Pilates classes for just $45 when you buy an American Health and Fitness Alliance Pilates studios passbook. The book contains more than 100 passes for free Pilates mat classes, reformer sessions and personal training at studios such as Evolution Pilates, Loom Yoga Center, Brooklyn Body, Queens Gyrotonic, NYC Fitness and Pilates for Every Body.
4. One or Three Months of Unlimited Bikram Yoga: Do your own 30-day Bikram yoga challenge with an unlimited class pass for $49, at Bikram Yoga Lower East Side with instructor Tricia Donegan. You can also get three months unlimited yoga classes for $139.
5. Central Park Boot Camp for Beginners: EFT Personal Training is offering one month of unlimited boot camp classes?in Central Park!?for $39 or five classes for $20.
6. Unlimited Vinyasa or Pilates Classes: Get one month of unlimited Vinyasa yoga and Pilates classes for just $49 at eco-friendly ?Do Yoga Do Pilates? studio in Tribeca.
7. Six Personal Training Sessions: This is an incredible deal on personal training?six 45-minute sessions for $69! The deal comes from Elite Bodies by J. Ellis Jones, located near the Carroll Gardens area of Brooklyn.
8. Five Pilates Reformer or BK Barre Classes: Get a package of five barre classes for $35 or five small-group Pilates reformer classes for $39 at South Brooklyn?s BK Pilates.
9.?Intro to Overnight Backpacking: Go on an overnight backpacking trip in the Delaware Water Gap, guided by the folks at Northeast Mountain Guiding. The package?which includes the hike, dinner and breakfast and camping supplies?is $75 for one person or $135 for two.
Cardio Kickboxing Classes: Take cardio kickboxing for less than $2 per class! Go For It Kickboxing in Queens is offering 10 classes for $19 or 20 classes for $35; the offer is good for its Deer Park, Jackson Heights, Jeff Station and Ozone Park locations.
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Companionships were in fact arranged couplings between two entirely different people until the time when an offspring was created and ready to strike up a Companionship of their own, the process keeping things like jealousy and attachment to a minimal as the Companions were forced to fidelity and then utter estrangement after the Companionship was through.
Offspring were brought up in the Amphitheater, a scholastic and social center for youth that taught them the new indoctrination of the world and kept track of their pedigree, progresses and made sure they formed 'healthy' bonds with others, that is no more and no less than associates or distant friends.
Various balls and events were organized as social and political hostilities were the only means besides sports to let off some steam and each citizen was more and more politically aware as generations did go on. Such atmosphere regarding political agendas was ripe for propaganda and thus the war posters became urging for this or that bill for the government, further swaying the populace into a political mindset.
Business was booming and contracts were common usage in this day and age, forcing the participants to uphold their end of the bargain and providing shrewd customers with added protection. Patriotism was as well in a all time high as the lack of competitors somehow blinded the citizen of the new world into failing to see the world's flaw. It was a heaven for all!
That is until it was put into practice and the first Elections of the New World slowly brought the world to both Greatness and Corruption. How long can Heaven lasts until it becomes Hell?
Alright, so this is a generational rp where you will start as a survivor of the war and will go on from yourself to your firstborn's twentieth birthday and so on until yourself or the world is wiped out, or again until you get bored and leave, which will forfeit your line. Your goal is to be as happy as possible for the longest period of time, taking into account that some sacrifices must be made for the Greater Good, so to speak.
The world will start pretty grim but full of hope and gain in glamour, at the cost of purity of ideal and of heart. Each round will be separated in years and the average lifespan will be 85, so make an offspring before then! Second of all will be a set of hidden stats you will have to watch out for; Corruption, Happiness, Charisma, Credibility and Pedigree. All will have an impact but you will only be able to guess at their values.
You will start with a standard home on the outskirt of the Capital and will have to make your way up (or down if you're either unwise or unlucky) from there. A shiny new world awaits you, will you be able to seize it?
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Swifto, a startup that wants to be the Uber for dog walking, has raised $2.5 million from Benchmark Capital. We're told that the funding round previously closed but the startup didn't want to announce to the public for fear of attracting customers.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/RMGl-a0gCdw/
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A Bangladeshi rescuer works to break through metal and concrete with a drill at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. More than two days after their factory collapsed on them, at least some garment workers were still alive in the corpse-littered debris Friday, pinned beneath tons of mangled metal and concrete. The death toll topped 300 on Friday and it remained unclear what the final grim number would be, as some victims are being pulled from the rubble alive. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
A Bangladeshi rescuer works to break through metal and concrete with a drill at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. More than two days after their factory collapsed on them, at least some garment workers were still alive in the corpse-littered debris Friday, pinned beneath tons of mangled metal and concrete. The death toll topped 300 on Friday and it remained unclear what the final grim number would be, as some victims are being pulled from the rubble alive. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
Bangladeshi rescue workers search the rubble at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. The death toll reached hundreds of people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
A Bangladeshi soldier gestures as a rescue worker uses a flashlight to walk across the rubble at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. By Friday, the death toll reached at least 270 people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
A Bangladeshi rescue worker, who was injured during a stampede caused by crowd panic over the rumor a section of the building might collapse, is carried at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. The death toll reached hundreds of people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
Bangladeshi relatives of missing workers react as they wait at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 26, 2013. By Friday, the death toll reached at least 270 people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) ? Two owners of garment factories in a Bangladesh building that collapsed into a pile of mangled metal and concrete have been arrested as public fury mounts over the accident that left at least 324 dead.
Junior Home Minister Shamsul Haque Tuku said Saturday that police had arrested Bazlus Samad, managing director of New Wave Apparels Ltd., and Mahmudur Rahman Tapash, the company chairman.
He told reporters that police had also detained the wife of Mohammed Sohel Rana, the owner of the collapsed building, for questioning. Authorities are still searching for Rana, who hasn't been seen publicly since the building collapsed. Police in Bangladesh often detain relatives of missing suspects as a way to pressure them to surrender.
Authorities said the death toll had climbed to 324, but that rescuers had pulled seven more survivors from the rubble early Saturday after they found more than 40 survivors inside the collapsed building late Friday.
The arrests came hours after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ordered police to arrest Sohel Rana and the owners of the garment factories based operating in the building.
Hasina made the order as protests spread over the latest accident to hit Bangladesh's massive, but poorly regulated, garment industry.
Wailing, angry relatives fought with police who held them back from the wrecked, eight-story Rana Plaza building, as search-and-rescue operations went on. Three of the floors had been illegally added.
Fire service inspector Shafiqul Islam, who searched the building, said more than 40 survivors were found late Friday. Through holes in the structure, he gave them water and juice packs to combat dehydration in the stifling heat and humidity.
"They are alive, they are trapped, but most of them are safe. We need to cut through debris and walls to bring them out," Islam said.
More dead were also discovered. Shamim Islam, a volunteer who entered the collapsed building along with rescue workers, said he saw "many bodies inside."
Search crews were cautiously using hammers, shovels and their bare hands. Many of the trapped workers were so badly hurt and weakened that they needed to be removed within a few hours, rescuers said.
There were fears that even if unhurt, the survivors could be badly dehydrated, with daytime temperatures soaring to 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) and about 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight.
Nearly 90 people have been rescued in the last day, as hundreds of rescuer workers crawl through the rubble amid the cries of the trapped and the wails of workers' relatives gathered outside the building.
A garment manufacturers' group said the factories in the building employed 3,122 workers, but it was not clear how many were inside it when it collapsed Wednesday in Savar, a suburb of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. Rescue officials say more than 2,400 have been rescued or escaped.
Police cordoned off the site, pushing back thousands of bystanders and relatives after rescue workers complained the crowds were hampering their work.
Clashes broke out between the relatives and police, who used batons to disperse them. Police said 50 people were injured in the skirmishes.
"We want to go inside the building and find our people now. They will die if we don't find them soon," said Shahinur Rahman, whose mother was missing.
Thousands of workers from the hundreds of garment factories across the Savar industrial zone and other nearby areas marched to protest the poor safety standards in Bangladesh. Local news reports said demonstrators smashed dozens of cars Friday, although most of the protests were largely peaceful.
Police say they ordered an evacuation of the building on Tuesday after cracks in Rana Plaza were found, but the factories ignored the order and were operating when it collapsed the next day. Video before the collapse shows cracks in walls, with apparent attempts at repair. It also shows columns missing chunks of concrete and police talking to building operators.
Officials said soon after the collapse that numerous construction regulations had been violated.
Rana, the building's owner, had been given a permit to erect a five-story building but had added another three stories illegally, said Abdul Halim, an official with Savar's engineering department. Police chief Mohammed Asaduzzaman said police and the government's Capital Development Authority have filed negligence cases against Rana.
Habibur Rahman, police superintendent of Dhaka district, said Rana was a local leader of ruling Awami League's youth front.
Atiqul Islam, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, called on Rana and the factory owners to surrender during a meeting with the prime minister late Friday.
The disaster is the worst ever for the country's booming and powerful garment industry, surpassing a fire five months ago that killed 112 people and brought widespread pledges to improve worker-safety standards. Since then, very little has changed in Bangladesh, where low wages have made it a magnet for numerous global brands.
Bangladesh's garment industry was the third-largest in the world in 2011, after China and Italy, having grown rapidly in the past decade. The country's minimum wage is now the equivalent of about $38 a month.
Among the garment makers in the building were Phantom Apparels, Phantom Tac, Ether Tex, New Wave Style and New Wave Bottoms. Altogether, they produced several million shirts, pants and other garments a year.
The New Wave companies, according to their website, make clothing for several major North American and European retailers.
Britain's Primark acknowledged it was using a factory in Rana Plaza, but many other retailers distanced themselves from the disaster, saying they were not involved with the factories at the time of the collapse or had not recently ordered garments from them.
Wal-Mart said none of its clothing had been authorized to be made in the facility, but it is investigating whether there was any unauthorized production.
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AP writers Muneeza Naqvi and Tim Sullivan in New Delhi, Stephen Wright in Bangkok, Kay Johnson in Mumbai, Matthew Pennington in Washington and AP Retail Writer Anne D'Innocenzio in New York contributed to this report.
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Provo, Utah's plan to sell its cost-plagued fiber network to Google has been approved by the municipal council, meaning it'll soon become the third Google Fiber city. However, while still not receiving any money upfront as earlier reported, it'll now have to advance $1.7 million in equipment and engineering costs not part of the deal before, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. In exchange, each Provo resident will get a free 5-megabit internet connection for seven years and Google will have to upgrade the network to connect all the city's homes. It's not quite free, however, as the city's 120,000 residents must still pay a $39 million bond for building the network -- meaning they'll shell out $3.3 million for each of the next 12 years.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
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As a consumer, you?re used to being the one with the power to judge the products and services you purchase and the companies that offer them.
But when it comes to financing your new home or?refinancing?the one you already own, you hand that power over to the?mortgage lenders?and, more specifically,?the underwriting department.
A mortgage loan underwriter is tasked with carefully analyzing every bit of information the loan officer asks you to provide as part of the loan application process as well as the collection of ?trailing documents? that you send in later to substantiate the information you?ve already provided.
In general, the underwriter will attempt to verify two primary things in order to meet the bank?s criteria for offering you a loan: general creditworthiness and debt-to-income ratio.
The first thing the underwriter is concerned with is your general creditworthiness. This will give the lender an idea of your general willingness to repay your debts.
There are many ways to determine this, but the most common way is to use a mortgage credit score. This score is based on an analysis of your various credit files. The most popular score is the FICO score offered by Fair Isaac Corporation, but there are others in use as well.
The mortgage credit score uses consumer data stored by the three major credit repositories, Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. Income is generally not part of this calculation, but it is important, as we shall discuss shortly.
Early in the loan origination process, the lender will request your permission to pull your credit scores and then purchase a credit score as part of the underwriting process.
This number is used to determine how much risk you pose and, in some cases, to match you with the right?mortgage loan product. The cost of these reports is generally passed back to you at closing.
The second thing the underwriter will want to know is how the new mortgage payment will impact your ability to repay. The traditional calculation for this is the debt-to-income ratio, or DTI.
The DTI is a comparison of your monthly gross income (before taxes) and your monthly debts.
The debts in question include any consumer debt that would appear on your credit report, such as car loans, credit card debt and installment loans, as well as additional debt such as alimony or child support payments.
DTI requirements vary by loan program, but typically underwriters are looking to see if the ratio of debt to income ??after the cost of your mortgage principal, interest, real estate taxes, insurance and?private mortgage insurance?(if required) are all added in ??is lower than about 40 percent.
Some lenders require it to be even lower.
Many other considerations go into the underwriting of a new mortgage loan, but these areas are generally where underwriters focus.
?Getting Approved: How Lenders Judge You? was provided by Zillow.com.
Source: http://www.mint.com/blog/housing/getting-approved-how-lenders-judge-you-0413/
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Apr. 24, 2013 ? The LHCb collaboration at CERN today submitted a paper to Physical Review Letters on the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle known as the B0s. It is only the fourth subatomic particle known to exhibit such behaviour.
Matter and antimatter are thought to have existed in equal amounts at the beginning of the universe, but today the universe appears to be composed essentially of matter. By studying subtle differences in the behaviour of particle and antiparticles, experiments at the LHC are seeking to cast light on this dominance of matter over antimatter.
Now the LHCb experiment has observed a preference for matter over antimatter known as CP-violation in the decay of neutral B0s particles. The results are based on the analysis of data collected by the experiment in 2011. "The discovery of the asymmetric behaviour in the B0S particle comes with a significance of more than 5 sigma -- a result that was only possible thanks to the large amount of data provided by the LHC and to the LHCb detector's particle identification capabilities," says Pierluigi Campana, spokesperson of the LHCb collaboration. "Experiments elsewhere have not been in a position to accumulate a large enough number of B0s decays."
Violation of the CP symmetry was first observed at Brookhaven Laboratory in the US in the 1960s in neutral particles called kaons. About 40 years later, experiments in Japan and the US found similar behaviour in another particle, the B0 meson. More recently, experiments at the so-called B factories and the LHCb experiment at CERN have found that the B+ meson also demonstrates CP violation.
All of these CP violation phenomena can be accounted for in the Standard Model, although some interesting discrepancies demand more detailed studies. "We also know that the total effects induced by Standard Model CP violation are too small to account for the matter-dominated Universe," says Campana. "However, by studying these CP violation effects we are looking for the missing pieces of the puzzle, which provide stringent tests of the theory and are a sensitive probe for revealing the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model."
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Virtual staging is usually a bad sign.
Libet Johnson, heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, appears to be in the mood for tying up loose ends. Two months ago she reconciled with her ex-boyfriend, celebrity weight loss-through-pregnancy-hormones guru Lionel Bissoon, reaching a joint custody agreement over a 9-year-old child that they ?found? in Cambodia and brought back to the U.S. on a humanitarian visa.
Now comes the shedding of the real estate: Ms. Johnson has just listed her 30th-floor condo at the?Trump International Hotel and Tower. She?s asking $4 million for the two-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom spread, or exactly double what she paid for it back in 2004.
We assume it was used as either a staff apartment or one for distant visiting relations, given that it lacks park views and sits more than 20 floors below her old penthouse at?1 Central Park West, supposedly the largest in the building, which she sold back in 2007 for $18.5 million. In any case, the apartment clearly hasn?t been lived in recently: it?s almost totally devoid of furniture or personal touches?the first listing photo is digitally staged?and what is in the apartment looks like castaways for the help.
It also looks like Ms. Johnson has had some difficulty selling the unit. It was previously listed with Brown Harris Stevens for nearly $3.9 million, but after being taken off the market for two years, it?s now listed with Stribling?s?Pamela D?Arc.
And it?s not the only home that Ms. Johnson has had a hard time selling. She picked up?the old Vanderbilt Mansion at 16 East 69th Street from fellow heiress Sloan Lindemann Barnett and her husband for?$48 million?Ms. Johnson got ?screwed? in the deal, said one broker?and it?s been sitting empty for want of a mid-$5o million buyer.
And then there was?85 Perry Street, her 200-year-old West Village townhouse that lost over $3.4 million in value between her 2008 purchase and her sale last year.
?She hasn?t been very lucky in her real estate?endeavors,? said one broker. Though given her trust fund, she probably hasn?t lost any sleep over it.
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Source: http://observer.com/2013/04/real-estate-dilettante-libet-johnson-lists-trump-international-condo/
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Henan Hongxing?s Jaw Crusher , cone crusher and other crushing equipment has given a hand to environmantal protection.Throughout the economic situation at home and abroad, as low carbon, energy saving, environmental protection of China?s stone has broad prospects, but also more difficult task. Ore is one of precious non-renewable resources given by nature. After artificial processing, ore add brick to people?s homes. With the development of infrastructure, ore is used more and more widely. Therefore, we must implement the scientific concept of development put forward by the central authorities into stone processing industry, improve industry production and management of the scientific and technological level as soon as possible, to promote the harmonious development of the industry, utmost appreciation for mineral products, make the full use of the stone resources in ore processing process, energy-saving environmental protection.
It mainly displays in: (1) under the influence of the international financial crisis, the international economy is in a slow recovery and growth. As the world?s largest iron ore exporter, the development of mineral industry faces a bigger challenge. The mineral enterprises should recognize the situation, ?face danger fearlessly?, and turn the crisis into an opportunity to realize the healthy development of industries and enterprises. (2) Due to disorderly competition in domestic ore machinery industry, domestic stone machinery manufacturing enterprises are also facing a huge impact and pressure in the market, price, talent, quality and delivery time, and less able to compete with imported stone machine.(3) there is a big gap compared with foreign iron ore industry of developed countries.
Stone material industry in China still exists generally low product class, low production efficiency and process management, and site management can?t keep up with common problems. Compared with advanced countries, the gap is still large. Under the leadership of mining machinery industry association, we keep positive coordination of relevant industries encourage policy issued by NDRC, and give preferential tax policies in terms of equipment and technological transformation to encourage enterprises to be active in equipment technical reform, improve the skill level of the ore crushing process.
As the pacesetter of mining crushing machinery industry, Henan Hongxing heavy industry, mine equipment leader, will continue to enterprise, innovate, and realize the industry overall level of improvement and the modernization of the ore crushing machinery industry in China. Our production, jaw crusher, cone crusher, Raymond Mill and so on all marketing at home and abroad, has obtained the customer consistent high praise.
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MIAMI (AP) ? All the Miami Heat really needed was two brilliant minutes to take a two-game lead over the Milwaukee Bucks.
Dwyane Wade scored 21 points, LeBron James finished with 19 and the Miami Heat took off in the fourth quarter to pull away and beat the Milwaukee Bucks 98-86 in Game 2 of the teams' Eastern Conference first-round series on Tuesday night.
Chris Bosh, Shane Battier and Chris Andersen all scored 10 points for the Heat, who now lead the best-of-seven 2-0. Game 3 is Thursday in Milwaukee.
The Heat scored the first 12 points of the fourth quarter, needing just over 2 minutes to blow open what had been a three-point game.
Ersan Ilyasova scored 21 points for Milwaukee, which got 16 from Mike Dunleavy and 14 from Larry Sanders. The Bucks' starting guards, Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis, combined for only 15 points.
And an already-daunting task for Milwaukee ? beating the reigning NBA champions ? just got tougher. James is 10-0 when his teams have a 2-0 series lead, and Wade is 8-0 in that situation.
The first 2:23 of the fourth quarter decided everything. Andersen started it with a three-point play, James had a layup not long afterward and the Heat were starting to roll. Another basket by Andersen off a pass from Ray Allen made it 77-65, and James found Norris Cole for a 3-pointer that capped the flurry and made it 80-65.
Just like that, it was over.
Jennings and Ellis combined for 48 points in Game 1, and the Bucks got blown out. So in the first half of Game 2, they combined for one point, were held to five shots that all missed ... and the Bucks were within 47-43 at halftime.
Chances are, very few would have seen that coming.
But play was sloppy from the outset, with the teams combining for eight turnovers in the first 6 minutes to set the tone for a clumsy first half. Wade, James and Chalmers shot 15 for 19 combined in the first half for Miami ? and the rest of the Heat were 3 for 17. For Milwaukee, Ilyasova had 12 points in the first 10 minutes, then two points the rest of the half.
So much like in Game 1, Milwaukee came out for the second half with a chance of stealing home-court advantage.
And for the entirety of the third quarter, the Bucks hung around, though the Heat showed some signs of getting things going. Bosh had a dunk for a six-point lead, then made a jumper ? on a play that James started by running down a loose ball and flicking it between his legs for a save along the sideline ? for a 68-60 lead, what was then the biggest Heat margin of the night.
The Bucks got within 68-65 to end the third, but then came the run that Miami had been waiting for all evening.
Both teams got a big scare with 6:59 left. Battier drove for a layup from the right wing, and Sanders rushed down the middle of the lane to attempt a block. A collision ensued and both players hit the court awkwardly, Battier hitting his head on the hardwood and Sanders ? who fell over Battier ? grabbing at his right knee after the play.
Battier made the two free throws he was awarded, then was subbed out of the game and departed for the Heat locker room to get stitches on his chin. Sanders was taken out of the game about a minute later, though remained on the Bucks' bench.
NOTES: It's the 11th time the Heat have gone up 2-0 in a playoff series. They're 10-0 in the previous instances. ... Milwaukee has lost 21 of its last 29 playoff games. ... Sanders was third in the NBA's Most Improved Player voting, behind Indiana's Paul George and New Orleans' Greivis Vasquez. "Look where he was last year and where he is today. The improvement is very obvious," said Bucks coach Jim Boylan, who thought Sanders should have won. ... Jennings was held without a first-half basket for only the fifth time all season.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/heat-off-top-bucks-98-86-2-0-020213776--spt.html
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Apr. 21, 2013 ? Depression is the leading cause of disability with more than 350 million people globally affected by this disease. In addition to debilitating consequences on mental health, depression predisposes an individual to physiological disease such as heart disease, and conversely heart disease increases the risk of depression. According to the World Health Organization by the year 2020 heart disease and depression will be the number one and number two leading causes of disability in developed countries. While the co-occurrence of these disorders is well recognized, an understanding of the underlying mechanisms that lead to this relationship are lacking.
Dr. Susan K. Wood, a Research Associate at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, investigates brain-related biomarkers for depression-heart disease comorbidity. She uses a rodent model of social stress likened to bullying in people that she has found to produce depressive-like behaviors and dysfunctional cardiovascular changes in a susceptible subset of rodents. Her previous work highlighted a role for the stress-related neurohormone corticotropin-releasing factor in rendering an individual vulnerable to stress-induced depression and heart disease. Intrigued by what other biomarkers may be distinct her latest study is the first to identify gene and protein expression differences in the brains of rodents that are either vulnerable or resilient to developing stress-induced depressive-like behaviors and cardiovascular dysfunction.
The study, conducted in male rats, compared expression of 88 genes involved in signaling within the brain between socially stressed and non-stressed rats. It revealed more than 35 genes in stressed rats that had altered expression compared with non-stressed controls. Many of the genes that were differentially expressed were related to inflammation. Follow-up studies measuring protein levels revealed that Interleukin-1? and Monocyte chemotactic protein-1, inflammatory markers known to play a role in depression and heart disease, were suppressed in the brains of the resilient subset of rats and Interleukin-1? was increased in the vulnerable group. Dr. Wood measured the gene and protein levels under resting conditions 24 hours after just 5 daily 30-minute exposures to social stress.
The identification of factors in the brain that distinguish susceptibility and resiliency to depression and heart disease comorbidity would be a major advance in predicting, preventing and treating these disorders. Dr. Wood is continuing these studies as an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine with the hope that these findings will uncover new targets to treat the mind and body.
Her findings will be presented April 21st, 2013 during Experimental Biology 2013 in Boston, MA.
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CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) -- The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has dropped 11 cents over the past two weeks.
The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday says the price of a gallon of regular is $3.54. Midgrade costs an average of $3.72 a gallon, and premium is $3.86.
Diesel was down seven cents to $3.98 gallon.
Of the cities surveyed in the lower 48 states, Tulsa, Okla. has the nation's lowest average price for gas at $3.21. Chicago has the highest at $3.97.
In California, the lowest average price was $3.77 in Stockton. The highest was in San Francisco at $3.96. The average statewide for a gallon of regular was $3.90, down nine cents.
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