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Saturday, December 31, 2011
The art of molecular carpet-weaving
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Even the costliest oriental carpets have small mistakes. It is said that pious carpet-weavers deliberately include tiny mistakes in their fine carpets, because only God has the right to be immaculate. Molecular carpets, as the nanotechnology industry would like to have them are as yet in no danger of offending the gods. A team of physicists headed by Dr. Markus Lackinger from the Technische Universit?t M?nchen (TUM) und Professor Thomas Bein from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen (LMU) has now developed a process by which they can build up high-quality polymer networks using boron acid components.
The "carpets" that the physicists are working on in their laboratory in the Deutsches Museum M?nchen consist of ordered two-dimensional structures created by self-organized boron acid molecules on a graphite surface. By eliminating water, the molecules bond together in a one-atom thick network held together solely by chemical bonds ? a fact that makes this network very stable. The regular honey-comb-like arrangement of the molecules results in a nano-structured surface whose pores can be used, for instance, as stable forms for the production of metal nano-particles.
The molecular carpets also come in nearly perfect models; however, these are not very stable, unfortunately. In these models the bonds between the molecules are very weak ? for instance hydrogen bridge bonds or van der Waals forces. The advantage of this variant is that faults in the regular structure are repaired during the self-organization process ? bad bonds are dissolved so that proper bonds can form.
However, many applications call for molecular networks that are mechanically, thermally and/or chemically stable. Linking the molecules by means of strong chemical bonds can create such durable molecule carpets. The down side is that the unavoidable weaving mistakes can no longer be corrected due to the great bonding strength.
Markus Lackinger and his colleagues have now found a way to create a molecular carpet with stable covalent bonds without significant weaving mistakes. The method is based on a bonding reaction that creates a molecular carpet out of individual boron acid molecules. It is a condensation reaction in which water molecules are released. If bonding takes place at temperatures of a little over 100?C with only a small amount of water present, mistakes can be corrected during weaving. The result is the sought after magic carpet: molecules in a stable and well-ordered one-layer structure.
Markus Lackinger's laboratory is located in the Deutsches Museum M?nchen. There he is doing research at the Chair of Prof. Wolfgang Heckl (TUM School of Education, TU M?nchen). Prof. Bein holds a Chair at the Department of Chemistry at the LMU. The research was conducted in collaboration with Prof. Paul Knochel's work group (LMU) and Physical Electronics GmbH, with funding by the Excellence Cluster Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) and the Bavarian Research Foundation (BFS).
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Keen On? Marian Salzman: What Were The Top Trends in 2011?
It's the last Friday in 2011 and the new year is imminent. So what were the top technological, cultural and economic trends in 2011? What shaped a year that some are saying is one of the most significant in the last couple of centuries?Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/NDKju82X4eE/
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Friday, December 30, 2011
NKoreans line streets for Kim Jong Il's funeral (AP)
PYONGYANG, North Korea ? Tens of thousands of North Koreans lined snow-covered streets on Wednesday, wailing and clutching their chests as a black hearse carried late leader Kim Jong Il's body through the capital for a final farewell that ended with a 21-gun salute.
The funeral procession on a gray, freezing day was accompanied by top military and party officials, but there was little doubt who the leader was. Son and successor Kim Jong Un served as head mourner, walking with one hand on the hearse, the other raised in salute, his head bowed against the wind.
State media ? which over the past week have called Kim Jong Un "great successor," "supreme leader" and "sagacious leader" ? made it clear that the family's hold on power would extend to a third generation, declaring the country in the younger Kim's "warm care."
At the end of the procession, Kim Jong Un again walked along with the limousine with his hand cocked in a salute. He stood head-bowed with top officials as rifles fired 21 times, then saluted again as goose-stepping soldiers carrying flags and rifles marched by.
The funeral procession, which began and ended at Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where Kim's body had lain in state and where his father, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, is preserved, passed by huge crowds of mourners, most of them standing in the snow with their heads bare, many screaming and flailing their arms as soldiers struggled to keep them from spilling onto the road.
"How can the sky not cry?" a weeping soldier standing in the snow said to state TV. "The people ... are all crying tears of blood."
The scenes of grief provide a clue at how effective North Korea has been in building a personality cult around Kim Jong Il even though people have suffered greatly from food shortages and the United Nations and others cite a lack of human rights. The North's neighbors and the United States are also pressing Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
Kim, who led the nation with an iron fist following his father Kim Il Sung's death in 1994, died of a heart attack Dec. 17 at age 69, according to state media.
Even as North Koreans mourned the loss of the second leader the nation has known, the transition of power to Kim Jong Un was under way. The young man, who is in late 20s, is already being hailed by state media as the "supreme leader" of the party, state and army.
Like his father's in 1994, Kim Jong Il's coffin was wrapped in a red flag. A limousine carrying a huge portrait of a smiling Kim led the procession, and soldiers followed the hearse and lined the streets. A national memorial service will take place at noon Thursday, state media said. Foreign diplomats in Pyongyang were told to prepare to attend the service.
Outside observers will be watching Wednesday's footage closely for clues on the makeup of Kim Jong Un's inner circle.
Walking behind him was Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law and a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission who is expected to play a crucial role in helping Kim Jong Un take power.
Also escorting the limousine were military chief Ri Yong Ho and People's Armed Forces Minster Kim Yong Chun. Their presence indicates they will be important players as the younger Kim consolidates his leadership. Top Workers' Party officials Choe Thae Bok and Kim Ki Nam and senior military officer Kim Jong Gak also were prominent positions, according to Seoul's Unification Ministry.
"It shows they will be core powers in North Korea," said Yoo Ho-yeol, a professor at Korea University in South Korea. "Particularly, Jang Song Thaek and Ri Yong Ho will be key to Kim Jong Un's leadership."
The military presence at the funeral Wednesday also suggests Kim will uphold his father's trademark military-first policy, Yoo said.
After the funeral, the young Kim is expected to cement his power by formally assuming command of the 1.2 million-strong military, and becoming general secretary of the Workers' Party and chairman of the party's Central Military Commission, Yoo said.
Kim Jong Il's two other sons, Kim Jong Nam and Kim Jong Chol, have not been spotted.
Kim Jong Un made his public debut just last year with a promotion to four-star general and an appointment as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party.
Earlier, state television also replayed images of missiles being fired and the April 2009 long-range rocket launch that earned North Korea strengthened U.N. sanctions. The U.S., South Korea and other nations called it a test for a missile designed to strike the United States; North Korea said the rocket sent a communications satellite into space.
North Korea's officials have pledged their loyalty to Kim Jong Il's son.
In an essay paying homage to Kim Jong Il on Wednesday, Workers' Party mouthpiece Rodong Sinmun said North Korea under his leadership had been "dignified as a country that manufactured and launched artificial satellites and accessed nukes," referring to the country's nuclear program.
"Thanks to these legacies, we do not worry about the destiny of ourselves and posterity at this time of national mourning," the essay said, carried in English by the Korean Central News Agency.
"Supreme leader of our party and people Kim Jong Un takes warm care of the people left by Kim Jong Il. Every moment of Kim Jong Un's life is replete with loving care and solicitude for the people," the essay said.
Wednesday's procession had a stronger military presence than in 1994.
Kim Jong Il, who ushered in a "military first" era when he took power, celebrated major occasions with lavish, meticulously choreographed parades designed to show off the nation's military might, such as the October 2010 display when he introduced his son to the world.
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Associated Press Korea bureau chief Jean H. Lee and writers Hyung-jin Kim, Foster Klug, Scott McDonald and Sam Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report. Follow AP's North Korea coverage at twitter.com/newsjean, twitter.com/APKlug and twitter.com/samkim_ap.
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As North Korea mourns, its neighbor shrugs
As one journalist put it, it said how much we all knew about North Korea that for the better part of Wednesday morning, most of the world remained in the dark about just when ? if at all? ? the state funeral for Kim Jong Il had begun.
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Know the Signs of Alzheimer's (HealthDay)
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Knowing the warning signs of Alzheimer's disease is important because it may lead to an early diagnosis, experts say.
According to the Alzheimer's Association, early diagnosis enables patients to:
- Plan ahead for the future.
- Potentially take part in a clinical drug trial.
- Start treatments that may help maintain independence for a longer time and possibly improve symptoms.
- Be involved in decisions about their care, living options, financial and legal matters.
- Cultivate relationships with doctors and care partners.
- Take advantage of care and support services that make it easier for patients and families to manage the disease.
Alzheimer's disease, a progressive brain disorder, is the most common type of dementia seen in the elderly. In a recent news release, the association listed the 10 warnings signs of Alzheimer's:
- Memory loss that disrupts daily life. This includes forgetting recently learned information, forgetting important dates or events, repeatedly asking for the same information, and relying on memory aides or family members for things that used to be handled on one's own.
- Challenges in planning or solving problems. For example, becoming unable to develop or follow a plan or work with numbers, having difficulty keeping track of monthly bills or following a recipe, difficulty concentrating, and taking much longer than normal to do things one has done before.
- Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, work or at leisure. This may include getting lost while driving in a familiar area or needing help using the microwave.
- Confusion with time or place. People may forget where they are or how they got there.
- Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relationships, such as judging distance.
- New problems with spoken or written words. A typical example is calling things by the wrong name.
- Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps in order to find lost objects.
- Declines in judgment or decision-making. For example, giving large amounts of money to telemarketers or paying less attention to grooming and keeping clean.
- Withdrawal from work or social activities.
- Changes in mood and personality. For example, becoming easily upset as well as confused, depressed, fearful, anxious or suspicious.
More information
The U.S. National Institute on Aging has more about the stages and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Multiple alarm clocks, Talking Galaxy Nexus [From the Forums]
With Christmas all over and done with now, it's time to look onward to the new year. We have plenty of stuff lined up for the next little while to celebrate 2011 as we saw it but in the meantime -- join us in the Android Central forums. You'll find plenty of Android help and discussion to fill in the time while we wait to kick off 2012 with an Android bang.
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What's the Most Surprising New Addition to the National Film Registry?
The Library of Congress today announced an eclectic batch of new inductees into the National Film Registry for 2011, ranging from no-brainers (Charlie Chaplin's The Kid) to fantastic finds (the 1930s-era Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies). And also: Silence of the Lambs! Forrest Gump! ... El Mariachi? Which of these 25 newly anointed selections, to be preserved on account of their cultural, historical or aesthetic significance, is the most surprising addition?
The 2011 National Film Registry Additions:
Allures (1961)
Bambi (1942)
The Big Heat (1953)
A Computer Animated Hand (1972)
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
The Cry of the Children (1912)
A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
El Mariachi (1992)
Faces (1968)
Fake Fruit Factory (1986)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Growing Up Female (1971)
Hester Street (1975)
I, an Actress (1977)
The Iron Horse (1924)
The Kid (1921)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Negro Soldier (1944)
Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-1940s)
Norma Rae (1979)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Twentieth Century (1934)
War of the Worlds (1953)
I could be convinced of El Mariachi's worthiness given Robert Rodriguez's famed hardscrabble production legend and the fact that he's created a manageable cottage industry for himself working on the periphery of Hollywood. And yeah, El Mariachi's pretty good, but for my money it's the weakest new addition of the bunch.
Which is not to say it's the most surprising; Forrest Gump was well-loved and somewhat groundbreaking in its time even if it feels cringe-inducingly dated now, but many of these selections are of a distinct era or creatively, socially, or technically significant. (Ed Catmull's 3-D grad project A Computer Animated Hand is another inspired choice.) Besides, Groundhog Day made the list back in 2006. Groundhog Day. So here's what I want to know: How the heck has it taken this long for Bambi to make the list?
Read more on each selection from the Library of Congress's press release over at the Library of Congress website.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Recruitment of Finance Officer,Controller of Examinations,Dy ...
Finance Officer,Controller of Examinations,Dy. Finance Officer,Assistant Registrar ,Estate Officer,? Jobs & Vacancy in Officer at? Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala? Sep 2011
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Punjab Technical University is looking for individuals with consistent good past record to fill the following posts
1. Finance Officer : 01 Post
2. Controller of Examinations (R) : 01 Post
3. Dy. Finance Officer : 01 Post
4. Asstt. Prof. (Civil Engg., Fashion Technology, Hotel Mgmt. & Catering Technology) : 03 Posts (01 Each)
5. Legal Officer : 01 Post
6. Assistant Registrar (Reserved for Physically Handicapped ) : 01 Post
7. Estate Officer : 01 Post
Application Fee : Rs 500/- (Rs. 250/- for SC/ST) is to be deposited in the designated banks (HDFC, SBOP
How to apply : Filled and signed Application Forms in the prescribed format with supporting documents and recent photograph must reach the Registrar, PTU, Jalandhar? Kapurthala Highway, Kapurthala- 144601
General Instructions:
1. The number of posts may be increased/ decreased.
2. Already employed persons should send their applications through proper channel. However, advance copy for the application should be submitted within time. Incomplete? applications would not be considered. At the time of interview, it shall be necessary to furnish no objection certificate from the employer.
3. Proficiency in computer usage is required at all levels.
4. Original documents will have to be shown at the time of interview.
5. Persons called for interview shall not be entitled for TA/DA.
6. The decision of PTU in the matters of selection and appointment shall be final.
7. Mere satisfying the Essential / Minimum qualification required does not entitle a candidate to be called for Interview.
8. The applications of the ineligible candidates are liable to be rejected with out any intimation to the candidates concerned.
9. Fee of Rs 500/- (Rs. 250/- for SC/ST) is to be deposited in the designated banks (HDFC, SBOP) by taking a printout of online E-Deposit Slip.
10. Application Form can be downloaded from PTU Website www.ptu.ac.in .
11. Two copies of the filled and signed Application Forms in the prescribed format with one set of supporting documents and recent photograph must reach the Registrar,? PTU, Jalandhar Kapurthala Highway, Kapurthala- 144601 on or before 10th Oct, 2011.
12. The envelope containing the application form must indicate in writingmentioning the name of the post on the top of the envelope.
13. Separate application form along with required fee should be sent for each post.
14. The maximum and minimum age for the concerned post shall be treated as per UGC/ Punjab Govt. norms.
Tentative Last Date:8-10-2011
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Punjab Technical University (PTU) was established by an act of State Legislature on 16 th Jan-1997, to promote Technical, Management? Pharmaceutical education in the? state at the Degree level and above. The University has the mandate to set up centres of Excellence in Emerging Technologies and for promoting Training, Research?? Development in these areas. One of the main focus of the University at this time is in the area of professional? skill oriented technologies to the masses. The University has undertaken the task of training students to help in the development of skilled manpower in this sector in the country in general and in the state particular. With this goal in? mind, the University is promoting a number of courses in different streams in regular as well as distance education programmes. Now the university, under its administration,? has more than 300 Colleges offering Courses in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, B.Sc MLT, Hotel Management? Catering Technology and IT Disciplines and around? 1500 Learning centers across india under distance education programme. It has taken new initiatives in technical education to provide latest trends in technology and give? opportunity to student and faculty to interact with the technology leaders in the country including e-Governance to PTU. It is well known that quality of education is? dependent on the quality of teachers and research inputs. In order to provide opportunity to the faculty to improve their qualification and to introduce research activities, the? University has established nine regional centers at various locations in Punjab and have started M.Tech courses and also agreed to provide academic research input to? these centers. University also forms the bridge between the students and the industry and helping the students in job placements. Also University helps the industry in RD? through its various programmes under Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Distance Education Program In a country like India, Distance education is an effective way of? spreading the education? technology to the people.
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Ron Paul hates Israel
'Ron Paul wishes Israel didn't exist'
Former senior aide to Republican presidential hopeful says that while Paul is not an anti-Semite, he believes Israel is 'more trouble than it's worth'
WASHINGTON ? Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul negates Israel's right to exist, Eric Dondero, who served as a senior aide to the 76-year-old Texas congressman for over 12 years, said on Monday.
In a blog posted in Rightwing News, Dondero said that while Paul was, in his opinion, neither a racist nor an anti-Semite, he is very much anti-Israel.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays From Everyone At Oil On Whyte!
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Ah, Christmas. A time for reflection, family, too many confections, and at least one member of the family making everyone uncomfortable by hitting the egg nog table by 11 AM.
At least, that?s how it was in my house growing up.
Here?s hoping you got everything you wished for this holiday season, and if you?re lucky, a little bit more later on.
Have fun, be safe, and remember to get your rest later on tonight. There?s a Boxing Day matchup against the Canucks tomorrow night, and you?re going to need your beer drinking skills to be at their peak.
From all of us to all of you, even to Canuck fans just this once.? Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all that. Spend time with your folks if at all possible. As Lowetide once said, they?re gone forever when they go.
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Analysis: Caution mutes US response to NKorea (AP)
WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration's cautious response to the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il reflects unease and uncertainty about the leadership transition in the reclusive country that has confounded U.S. presidents since Harry S. Truman.
For the past 60 years, the "hermit kingdom" has vexed the United States and its allies with war, nuclear tests, missile launches, belligerence and bellicose bombast. But since he took office, President Barack Obama has had to deal with the country at perhaps its most secretive point: an unclear succession at the very top at a time of deep concern about the stability of the regime.
Thus, the administration's carefully worded public messages have underscored the administration's desire for better relations with the autocratic nation and its concern about the welfare of the North Korean people. They are also gentle reminders that Washington expects Pyongyang to follow through on denuclearization pledges and improve ties with its neighbors, particularly South Korea.
The kid gloves treatment accorded to the North's youthful new leader, Kim's twenty-something son Kim Jong Un, has attracted criticism from some who see this is a moment to make a forceful case for dramatic reform and regime change.
But without solid intelligence of the opaque transition process and fearful of misunderstandings that could lead to provocations with the notoriously erratic North, U.S. officials concluded that the best course is to say little, wait and watch.
Indeed, the administration's initial reactions to Kim's death have contained little substance at all and were couched in niceties.
"All I can say is that we're monitoring the situation closely," White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Wednesday as North Korean state media broadcast pictures of wailing mourners, apparently overcome with grief. "Kim Jong Il had designated Kim Jong Un as his official successor, and at this time we have no indication that that has changed."
Carney added: "We hope that the new North Korean leadership will take the steps necessary to support peace, prosperity and a better future for the North Korean people, including through acting on its commitments to denuclearization."
Those comments echoed words from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. On Monday, more than 16 hours after Kim's death was announced, she was the first senior U.S. official to comment publicly on the developments. In intentionally vague comments, she called for "a peaceful and stable transition in North Korea" and expressed hope that it would not affect "regional peace and stability."
Ironically, it was Clinton who first stirred the pot about a possible succession crisis in North Korea.
Nearly three years ago, on her first trip to Asia as secretary of state, she stunned diplomatic circles with a frank appraisal of U.S. concerns amid rampant speculation about the health of Kim Jong Il, who had suffered a stroke in 2008, and his choice of a successor.
"If there is a succession, even if it's a peaceful succession, that creates more uncertainty and it also may encourage behaviors that are even more provocative as a way to consolidate power within the society," Clinton told reporters on her way to South Korea on Feb. 20, 2009.
Her remarks on a previously taboo subject sparked great debate. In Seoul the next day, she expressed surprise at the uproar, noting that reports of Kim choosing his youngest son Kim Jung Un to succeed him had "been in the news for months."
"I don't think that it's a forbidden subject to talk about succession in the hermit kingdom," Clinton said. "In fact, it seems to me it's got to be factored into any policy review that one is undertaking. ... I think it would be irresponsible for it not to be factored into what you were thinking about."
That same month, U.S. diplomats were scrambling to collect any information they could about Kim Jong Un from South Korean, Chinese and Japanese officials and experts, according to leaked State Department cables published by WikiLeaks.
Unfortunately for the Americans, their interlocutors had sharply divided opinions, according to the cables. Some predicted the North Korean regime would collapse politically within two to three years of Kim Jong Il's death. Others foresaw a power struggle between the young and untested Kim Jong Un and rivals in the elite but differed over who would prevail. Others believed there would be little change.
One apparent area of convergence, however, was that most South Korean experts believed the challenge for the younger Kim would come after his father's death.
Thus, as North Korea's transition is under way, the lack of clarity has put U.S. policy on hold.
Before Kim's passing, the administration had been expected this week to announce the resumption in food aid to North Korea and a potential bilateral meeting on nuclear disarmament. Although the State Department said there had been brief exchange with North Korean officials in New York on Monday, both initiatives are now in flux pending the end of the North's mourning period.
The administration says it is respecting that mourning period by understanding that North Korean officials will not be available for discussions. Yet it has steadfastly refused to express any sympathy for the death of Kim, whose Stalinist regime is accused of having one of the worst, if not the worst, human rights records in the world.
While showering the late Czech democracy leader Vaclev Havel with effusive eulogies, American officials have refused to even utter the word "condolence" in relation to Kim.
"With regard to the C-word," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Tuesday, "I think we didn't consider it appropriate in this case."
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Matthew Lee covers international affairs and U.S. foreign policy for The Associated Press.
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Device warns of catastrophic failure in lithium-ion batteries, robots celebrate
"Catastrophic lithium-ion battery failure" are five words Malfunctioning Eddie never wants to hear, and may not have to, thanks to a new sensor developed by the folks at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Despite the popularity of lithium-ion batteries in everything from consumer electronics to hybrid and electric vehicles, they have been associated with a phenomenon called "thermal runaway" -- known to cause overheating and potentially, fire. The newly developed device measures the electrical parameter of the cell, which is an indicator of whether the internal layer temperatures are getting too toasty. The best part? The warning comes before the heat can reach the surface and cause catastrophic failure, perhaps saving our electronics from a fate like the one in the video after the break.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Video: Kraft Split a 'Value-Enhancing' Endeavor
Kraft is trading near a 52-week high and has outperformed the broader markets. Erin Lash, Morningstar sr. stock analyst, says that when the company announced it was going to split the snack and grocery businesses, that was a value-enhancing endeavor.
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Miley Cyrus curses at 'fan,' explains her actions via Twitter
Miley Cyrus is trying to enjoy her vacation -- and seeing as she's hanging out with her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth and his hunky bro Chris, that shouldn't be too hard. But an uncomfortable incident with a fan took a bad turn when the fan got aggressive.Miley took a few pictures with fans when her helicopter landed in Costa Rica, but when she explained that she had to leave the area, the fan called her an "a**hole"! Not cool. Miley turned around, clearly perturbed, and said, "What the f***? Are you for real? We're on vacation!"
Miley wanted to clarify the incident, because video hit the web. "Been trying not to tweet & just enjoy the holidays but just to clear something up I would NEVER swear to a fan. When someone yells something SO rude making ME look like an 'a**hole' in front of fans who I am more than happy 2 take a picture w/ i cant tolerate that kind of rudeness," she wrote. "Every1 who was there apologized 4 the womans brusque behavior. She obviously wasnt a fan. Hope every1 has a Merry Christmas! LOVE 2 ALL!"
We gotta say, after watching the video -- we're Team Miley on this one! (Muffled harsh language on this one.)
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
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Heat owner Arison cast 'protest vote' against CBA (AP)
MIAMI ? Miami Heat owner Micky Arison revealed Thursday that he voted against ratifying the NBA's new collective bargaining agreement, saying that ballot was cast as a protest of how revenue sharing is expected to work in the deal.
Arison is the second owner to publicly disclose that he voted against the CBA, joining Dallas' Mark Cuban.
The NBA's Board of Governors approved passage 25-5, and Arison's "no" vote came after it was already assured that the deal would go through and the league would be back in business. In an interview with six Heat beat writers, Arison would say that he would vote the same way if the outcome was hanging in the balance.
"While I did everything I could behind the scenes, and some not so behind the scenes, to get playing by Christmas, when you come down to it, financially ... it's a tough financial deal for us," Arison said. "Particularly the revenue-sharing piece of it, the way it's structured. For us to have to pay revenue sharing to larger-market teams was disturbing. And we will. So that was a kind of protest vote."
Arison's announcement came tinged with one major caveat: He wanted a deal, and fought for a long time to get one. Miami, which lost last season's NBA finals to Dallas, enters this season as the prohibitive favorite to win the 2012 championship. NBA rules prohibited Arison from having virtually any contact with players during the lockout, but he said he felt they understood he wanted a deal.
Turns out, just not this particular deal. Or, more specifically, not the revenue-sharing aspect of this particular deal, even while acknowledging that it was help level the playing field in the NBA.
"I did everything I could, from both the owners' side and the players' side to get a deal done as quick as possible and to miss as few games as possible," Arison said. "So you've got to connect that with the `no' vote."
The Heat made money last season for the first time in at least a decade, riding the boost that came from the first year of having LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the same team. But the new deal will eventually have a punitive salary cap and revenue sharing designed to help the so-called "small market" teams.
In short, revenue sharing figures to hit Miami hard, even though Arison said he believes his "big market" club actually has a smaller market than Minnesota.
"While the original intent of the owners was to have a hard cap, which would have basically leveled the playing field, instead because of players' refusal to accept that they just made it extremely expensive," Arison said. "So now you have to financially deal with how expensive that is."
For nearly two years of negotiating, owners wanted things like a hard salary cap, the elimination of guaranteed contracts, rollbacks of current salaries and a massive reduction in the players' share of basketball-related income. After locking out players on July 1, it took nearly five more months to reach an agreement.
And there was a sense that some clubs wanted a deal that would essentially break up the Heat, or at least the pairing of James, Wade and Bosh. Arison said the Heat never thought that would be necessary.
"Obviously, I wanted to see a negotiation that led to something that we could have kept the team together," Arison said. "And it did. The fact is they made it expensive, but we can keep them together.
In a revealing 33-minute session with reporters, Arison said his relationship with owners around the league has included "some resentment" since Bosh and James decided in July 2010 to play with Miami. His cell phone rang once during the interview ? "That was LeBron," Arison said, laughing, after ending the call ? and he also insisted that voting against the deal will not inhibit Miami's ability to do business around the league.
He also said that it was easier for him to get over the Heat losing the finals than it was to deal with losing a series of playoff heartbreakers to the New York Knicks.
However, what's most important to him when it comes to the NBA right now, he said, is that the league is playing again. Miami opens in Dallas on Sunday, plays its home opener against Boston on Tuesday, and then Arison, who also is the chairman and CEO of Carnival Corp. will leave for ? what else? ? a cruise vacation.
"As a league, financially we're better off," Arison added. "Not as a team, but as a league. And players, financially, will be well off as well and will be the highest-paid athletes going forward like they have been in the recent past. So I think while it was a loss-loss for everybody to lose the beginning of the season and have the problems we had, it was a win-win to get going by Christmas Day."
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Storm, floods in south Philippines kill over 200 (AP)
MANILA, Philippines ? Pounding rain from a tropical storm swelled rivers and sent walls of water rushing through the southern Philippines while people were asleep, killing more than 200 with scores missing, officials said Saturday.
Some of the dead were swept out to sea from the worst-hit coastal cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in the Mindanao region, which is unaccustomed to the typhoons that are common elsewhere in the archipelago nation.
Cagayan de Oro city councilor Alvin Bacal said 107 people had died in the flooding in his city alone, citing military figures.
In Iligan, 79 bodies were recovered in the city after more than 12 hours of continuous rain from Tropical Storm Washi overflowed a river and sent muddy floodwaters cascading from nearby mountains, Mayor Lawrence Cruz said. About 250 people are unaccounted for in Iligan, said military spokesman Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang.
A man in Cagayan de Oro said he heard a cry for help around 10 p.m. while the floodwaters were still low.
"Suddenly, there was a very strong rush of water," the man, who was not identified, told a local TV station.
Ayi Hernandez, a former congressman, said he and his family were resting in their home late Friday when they heard a loud "swooshing sound" and water quickly rose ankle deep inside his home. He decided to evacuate to a neighbor's two-story house.
"It was a good thing because in less than an hour the water rose to about 11 feet (3.3 meters)," the height of the ceiling of his house, he said.
Civil defense administrator Benito Ramos said 18 drowned in floodwaters in central Negros Oriental province, whose southern tip was nipped by the eye of the storm later Saturday.
The floodwaters were waist-high in some neighborhoods that do not usually experience flooding. Scores of residents escaped the floods by climbing onto the roofs of their homes, Cruz said.
Those missing included prominent radio broadcaster Enie Alsonado, who was swept away while trying to save his neighbors, Cruz said.
Rep. Rufus Rodriguez of Cagayan de Oro said that about 20,000 residents of the city had been affected and that evacuees were packed in temporary shelters.
Television footage showed muddy water rushing in the streets, sweeping away all sorts of debris. Thick layers of mud coated streets where the waters had subsided. One car was shown to have been carried over a concrete fence.
Authorities recovered bodies from the mud after the water subsided. Parts of concrete walls and roofs, toppled vehicles and other debris littered the muddy streets.
Rescuers in boats rushed offshore to save people swept out to sea by the raging floodwaters. In Misamis Oriental province, 60 people were plucked from the ocean off El Salvador city, about 6 miles (10 kilometers) northwest of Cagayan de Oro, said disaster official Teddy Sabuga-a.
About 120 more were rescued off Opol township, closer to the city, he added.
He said an island in the middle of the Cagayan de Oro river was inundated, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or people missing.
Cruz said the coast guard and other rescuers were scouring the waters off his coastal city for survivors or bodies that may have been swept to the sea.
An 80-year-old woman drowned after being trapped in the first floor of her flooded home in Zamboanga del Norte province. A 30-year-old man and a 10-year-old boy also drowned, said provincial disaster officer Dennis Tenorio.
Washi, the 19th storm to hit the Philippines this year, came ashore in eastern Mindanao and blanketed the region with thick rain clouds 250 miles (400 kilometers) in diameter.
It quickly cut across the region overnight and was over the Sulu Sea by midmorning Saturday. It was then headed for Palawan province southwest of Manila and was expected to cross the narrow province before dawn Sunday, said forecaster Leny Ruiz.
Ruiz said the weather bureau's records show that storms that follow Washi's track come only once in about 12 years.
Lucilo Bayron, vice mayor of Puerto Princesa in Palawan, told ABS-CBN television he has already mobilized emergency crews but local officials have not ordered an evacuation "because it's not raining and the weather is still fine here."
Ramos, a former army general, said by law two army divisions ? about 20,000 men ? in Mindanao and part of the central Philippines are supposed to help with rescue and relief work, backed up by hundreds of local police, reservists, coast guard officers and civilian volunteers. However, he could not give an estimate of how many are actually involved.
Col. Leopoldo Galon, military spokesman for the eastern section of Mindanao, said 420 soldiers have been assigned for disaster duties. There was no immediate comment from the western Mindanao military spokesman.
Ramos said the high casualties in Mindanao could be attributed "partly to the complacency of people because they are not in the usual path of storms" despite four days of warnings by officials of an approaching storm.
He also said heavy rains fell on nearby Bukidnon province's vast pineapple plantations, which sit on a plateau that drains rainfall through a river system that runs through Cagayan de Oro. Mountains near Iligan were denuded, also causing the flash floods and mud flows that swamped the city, he said.
Storms and typhoons that normally pass through the northern and central Philippines are pushed farther south of the country by cold winds during the northern hemisphere's winter season late in the year.
Back-to-back typhoons in September left more than 100 people dead in the northern Philippines.
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Associated Press writer Hrvoje Hranjski contributed to this report.
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"Batman" star roughed up in bid to visit Chinese blind (Reuters)
BEIJING (Reuters) ? Hollywood actor Christian Bale was roughed up by Chinese security guards as he attempted to visit a blind legal activist whose detention has sparked a domestic and international outcry, CNN reported on Friday.
Bale, who plays crime-fighting superhero Batman, and the camera crew from CNN were jostled by men in plainclothes from Dongshigu village in eastern Shandong province, where activist Chen Guangcheng has been under house arrest for 15 months, according to a video released by CNN on its website.
"Why can I not visit this man?" Bale asked several security officers, while they were pushing him.
"You know, I'm not being brave doing this," Bale told CNN. "The local people who are standing up to the authorities and insisting on going to visit Chen and his family and getting beaten up for it, and my understanding, getting detained for it and everything. I want to support what they are doing."
CNN said the guards shadowed its van for more than half an hour.
The fate of Chen, a self-schooled advocate who has campaigned against forced abortions, has become a test of wills, pitting the Communist Party's crackdown on dissent against activists championing his cause and that of artist Ai Weiwei.
In recent months, dozens of supporters have been blocked from visiting Chen. Many were beaten by men in plain clothes.
CNN said that Bale, who is in China for the premiere of his latest film "The Flowers of War," approached the news network to try to meet Chen. They took an eight-hour car journey to Chen's village from Beijing.
"This doesn't come naturally to me," Bale said to CNN. "But this was just a situation, I said, I can't look the other way."
Internet users took to the Twitter-like microblogging service, Weibo, to applaud Bale's visit to see the "blind man." Aauthorities have blocked searches for "Chen Guangcheng."
"Mr. Bale, I admire your courage and heart," said a microblogger called "Chen Xiaoying wants to support."
"But next time if you want to save a person, remember to wear your Batman suit.The Chinese official media will not report this, it's up to CNN to broadcast it."
Chen angered Shandong officials in 2005 by exposing a program of forced abortions as part of China's one-child policy. He was formally released in September 2010 after four years in jail on a charge of "blocking traffic."
"What I really wanted to do is to shake the man's hand and say: 'Thank you,' and tell him what an inspiration he is," Bale told CNN.
(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee, Additional reporting by Beijing Newsroom,; Editing by Ken Wills and Ron Popeski)
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Grammy-winning singer Cesaria Evora dies at age 70 (AP)
LISBON, Portugal ? Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the world, died Saturday. She was 70.
Evora, known as the "Barefoot Diva" because she always performed without shoes, died in the Baptista de Sousa Hospital in Mindelo, on her native island of Sao Vicente in Cape Verde, her label Lusafrica said in a statement on its website. It gave no further details.
Evora retired in September because of health problems. In recent years she had had several operations, including open-heart surgery last year.
She sang the traditional music of the Cape Verde Islands off West Africa, a former Portuguese colony. She mostly sang in the version of creole spoken there, but even audiences who couldn't understand the lyrics were moved by her stirring renditions, her unpretentious manner and the music's infectious beat.
Her singing style brought comparisons to American jazz singer Billie Holiday. "She belongs to the aristocracy of bar singers," French newspaper Le Monde said in 1991, adding that Evora had "a voice to melt the soul."
Evora's international fame came late in life. Her 1988 album "La Diva Aux Pieds Nus" ("Barefoot Diva"), recorded in France where she first found popularity, launched her international career.
Her 1995 album "Cesaria" was released in more than a dozen countries and brought her first Grammy nomination, leading to a tour of major concert halls around the world and album sales in the millions.
She won a Grammy in the World Music category of the 2003 awards for her album "Voz D'Amor".
Evora, known to her close friends as Cize (pronounced see-ZEH), was the best-known performer of "morna," Cape Verde's national music. It is a complex, soulful sound, mixing an array of influences arising from the African and seafaring traditions of the 10 volcanic islands.
Evora was born Aug. 27, 1941, and grew up in Mindelo, a port city of 47,000 people on the island of Sao Vicente, where sailors from Europe, America, Africa and Asia mingled in what was a lively cosmopolitan town with a fabled nightlife.
The local musical style borrowed from those cultures, defying attempts to classify it.
"Our music is a lot of things," Evora told The Associated Press in a 2000 interview at her home. "Some say it's like the blues, or jazz. Others says it's like Brazilian or African music, but no one really knows. Not even the old ones."
Evora was 7 years old when her father died, leaving a widow and seven children. At 10, with her mother unable to make ends meet, she was placed in an orphanage.
"I didn't like it. I value my freedom," she told the AP.
At 16, when Evora was doing piecework as a seamstress, a friend persuaded her to sing in one of the many sailors' taverns in her town. As her popularity grew, she was also rowed out into the bay to sing on anchored ships.
She received no pay ? just free drinks. She used to smile when she recalled her fame as a heavy cognac drinker. And she sadly recalled the exact day ? Dec. 15, 1994 ? she had to give up drinking for her health's sake.
Evora didn't think much of her international stardom and she went back to Mindelo whenever she could. She rebuilt her childhood home, turning it into a 10-bedroom house where friends and family often stayed over, and she always made sure she was home for Christmas.
A heavy smoker for decades, Evora was diagnosed with heart problems in 2005. She suffered strokes in 2008 and in September 2011, when she announced she was retiring.
She had a son and a daughter by different men but never married. Family details were not immediately available.
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Top lawmakers seek to avert government shutdown (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Top Republican and Democratic lawmakers were renegotiating a $915 billion spending bill to keep the government operating beyond the weekend, a congressional aide said on Thursday.
The lawmakers in charge of government spending and the White House were trying to hash out controversial policy measures that the Obama administration and Senate Democrats opposed, the Democratic aide said. Those measures include restricted travel to Cuba.
(Reporting By Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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Friday, December 16, 2011
America's 'bleak' child homelessness problem (The Week)
New York ? A new report finds that a stunning 1 in 45 kids doesn't have a permanent roof over his head
More American children than ever before are now homeless, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Center on Family Homelessness. One out of every 45 kids in the U.S. is sleeping on the streets, or lives in a shelter, motel, or home where struggling families are doubled up. That's 1.6 million kids in all. What does this say about the effects of the Great Recession? Here, four key takeaways from this "bleak" report:
1. The recession has hit harder than Hurricane Katrina
This crisis is worse than the "historic spike in homelessness" the nation experienced after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2006, says Andrew Mach in The Christian Science Monitor. In 2010, 60,000 more kids were on the streets than in the aftermath of those devastating storms. "These homeless children have gradually become a prominent part of a third world that is emerging in our own backyards," says Ellen Bassuk, president of the National Center on Family Homelessness.
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2. And this time, the crisis is "man-made"
The number of children with no permanent roof over their heads has jumped by 33 percent since 2007, when 1.2 million Americans under age 18 were homeless. "This is an absurdly high number," Bassuk tells Daily Markets. And these are the effects of "a man-made disaster caused by the economic recession.... We are seeing extreme budget cuts, foreclosures, and a lack of affordable housing."
3. Some regions have it worse than others
The problem is most pressing in Southern states such as Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas where poverty rates are unusually high. "People had savings or unemployment and that's run out," Shelly Jordan, a case manager for the homeless in Hattiesburg, Miss., tells USA Today. The number of homeless families is also up in states that have been hammered with foreclosures, including Arizona, California, and Nevada. Kids fared best in Vermont, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Maine.
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4. The youngest children suffer the most
Homeless kids are often "very traumatized," facing hunger, poor health, and lower educational achievement. Roughly a quarter of these kids bounce through three or more schools in a year. And it's often the youngest who suffer the most. The majority of the nation's homeless children are under age 7.
Sources: Christian Science Monitor, Daily Markets, NPR, USA Today
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