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A Real-Life Iron Man Suit That Could Be as Comfortable as Pajamas
Tony Stark used exotic composites, metal alloys, and other Hollywood-only make-believe materials to build his armor-plated Iron Man suit. But researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute, constrained by the limitations of reality, took a different approach with a muscle-enhancing exoskeleton that could one day be as comfy to wear as your favorite pair of jeans.
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Russia defiant as U.S. raises pressure over Snowden
By Lidia Kelly and James Pomfret
MOSCOW/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Russia defied White House pressure on Monday to expel former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden to the United States before he flees Moscow on the next stop of his globe-crossing escape from U.S. prosecution.
Snowden, whose exposure of secret U.S. government surveillance raised questions about intrusion into private lives, was allowed to leave Hong Kong on Sunday after Washington asked the Chinese territory to arrest him on espionage charges.
Snowden, 29, has kept out of sight in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport as Ecuador says it considers his request for asylum.
His decision to fly to Russia, which like China challenges U.S. dominance of global diplomacy, is another embarrassment to President Barack Obama who has tried to "reset" ties with Moscow and build a partnership with Beijing.
The White House said it expected the Russian government to send Snowden back to the United States and lodged "strong objections" to Hong Kong and China for letting him go.
"We expect the Russian government to look at all options available to expel Mr Snowden back to the U.S. to face justice for the crimes with which he is charged," said Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the National Security Council.
The Russian government ignored the appeal and President Vladimir Putin's press secretary denied any knowledge of Snowden's movements.
Asked if Snowden had spoken to the Russian authorities, Peskov said: "Overall, we have no information about him."
He declined comment on the expulsion request but other Russian officials said Moscow had no obligation to cooperate with Washington after it passed legislation to impose visa bans and asset freezes on Russians accused of violating human rights.
"Why should the United States expect restraint and understanding from Russia?" said Alexei Pushkov, the head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of parliament.
Putin has missed few chances to champion public figures who challenge Western governments and to portray Washington as an overzealous global policeman. But Russian leaders have not paraded Snowden before the cameras or trumpeted his arrival.
ECUADOR'S ROLE
Since leaving Hong Kong, where he feared arrest and extradition, Snowden has been searching for a country which can guarantee his security.
Ecuador said it had received an asylum request and Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, on a trip to Vietnam, said it would be analyzed with a "lot of responsibility". He was expected to hold a news conference around 7.00 p.m. (8 a.m. EDT) in Hanoi.
A source at Russian airline Aeroflot said Snowden was booked on a flight due to depart for Havana on Monday at 2:05 p.m. (6.05 a.m. EDT). The gate for the Cuba flight was blocked and security was tightened.
A State Department official said Washington had told countries in the Western Hemisphere that Snowden "should not be allowed to proceed in any further international travel, other than is necessary to return him to the United States".
Despite the Kremlin denials, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer said Putin had probably known about and approved Snowden's flight to Russia.
"Putin always seems almost eager to stick a finger in the eye of the United States," Schumer, a senior Senate Democrat, told CNN's "State of the Union". He also saw "the hand of Beijing" in Hong Kong's decision to let Snowden leave.
But taking the higher ground after being accused of hacking computers abroad, the Chinese Foreign Ministry expressed "grave concern" over Snowden's allegations that the United States had hacked computers in China.
It said it had taken up the issue with Washington.
CHILL
Some Russians have praised Snowden's revelations. Others fear a new chill in relations with the United States.
"We are a pretty stubborn country and so is the United States. Both are mighty countries, so I would say this has a good potential to turn into a big fuss in bilateral relations," said Ina Sosna, manager of a Moscow cleaning company.
"I guess it would be best if they just let him move on from Russia to avoid any more controversy over him being here."
Snowden was aided in his escape by WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organization whose founder Julian Assange said he had helped to arrange documents from Ecuador.
Ecuador, like Cuba and Venezuela, is a member of the ALBA bloc, an alliance of leftist governments in Latin America that pride themselves on their "anti-imperialist" credentials. The Quito government has been sheltering Assange at its London embassy for the past year.
The New York Times quoted Assange as saying in an interview that his group had arranged for Snowden to travel on a "special refugee document" issued by Ecuador last Monday.
U.S. sources said Washington had revoked Snowden's passport. WikiLeaks said diplomats and Sarah Harrison, a British legal researcher working for the anti-secrecy group, accompanied him.
Snowden, who had worked at a U.S. National Security Agency facility in Hawaii, had been hiding in Hong Kong, a former British colony that returned to China in 1997, since leaking details about secret U.S. surveillance programs to news media.
Snowden has been charged with theft of federal government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence to an unauthorized person, with the latter two charges falling under the U.S. Espionage Act.
(Additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska and Alexei Anishchuk in Moscow, Martin Petty in Hanoi, Sui-Lee Weein in Beijing,; Andrew Cawthorne, Mario Naranjo and Daniel Wallis in Caracas, Alexandra Valencia in Quito and Mark Felsenthal, Paul Eckert and Mark Hosenball in Washington; Writing by Dean Yates and Timothy Heritage, Editing by Elizabeth Piper)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-warns-countries-against-snowden-travel-014740817.html
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A Wedding Dress Made Entirely Out of Lego
Japanese artist Rie Hosokai, of Daisy Balloon, created this amazing piece of high Lego fashion for Tokyo's "Piece of Peace" charity exhibit at the Parco Museum. Structurally it's simply stunning (albeit a bit Disney Princessy). The construction, contour and shape are based on Hosokai's balloon dress. As an item of haute couture, it's not so utilitarian. But as an avant-garde work-of-Lego-art it's simply stunning.
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Zhejiang Medicine To Develop Ambrx Breast Cancer Drug
Deals and Financings
Zhejiang Medicine Co. (SHA: 600216, ZHEXY.PK) formed a collaboration with Ambrx of San Diego to develop an Ambrx molecule that targets Her2-positive breast cancer (see story). Ambrx genetically engineers proteins that contain new amino acids with different properties than those of the 20 natural-occurring amino acids. In return for China rights, Zhejiang will underwrite the costs of development, which will be carried out by WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX).
Suzhou Ribo Life Sciences and Life Technologies (LIFE) of California have stuck a deal giving Ribo exclusive China rights to develop and manufacture siRNA therapeutics using Life's Invivofectamine? Rx delivery technology (see story). Life Technologies will receive milestones and royalties for each drug that Ribo develops. Ribo's first product will be a treatment for hepatitis B.
Shanxi CY Pharmaceutical (SHE: 300254) will purchase a stake of at least 80% in Hangzhou Baoling Group Co., Ltd. (see story). Baoling Group's main asset is a 75% ownership of Zhejiang Baoling Pharmaceutical Co., which produces healthcare and drug products for pregnant women. The purchase price was not disclosed.
BioClinica?, a clinical trial services company headquartered in the US, has formed a strategic partnership with TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital (TICH) in Tianjin, China. The partnership will offer the company's cardiac safety monitoring services in Asia. BioClinica recently completed the first CFDA-requested Thorough QT (TQT) cardiac safety study in China for a domestic China company at the hospital.
Sichuan BoXin LaiTe Biotechnology and its major shareholder, Heracles International Investment Inc., have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a partnership with the Center for Blood Research (CBR) at the University of British Columbia. BoXin LaiTe and Heracles use their ability to validate the commercial and clinical of novel discoveries made at the CBR and accelerate their development for the China market.
Government and Regulatory
China's chief drug safety regulator, the CFDA, recently felt compelled to have a meeting with Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) about product recalls. The problem was an article in a China newsletter alleging that J&J has recalled 51 products globally since 2005. But 48 of those products were not recalled in China, according to the publication. The apparent double standard required an explanation.
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Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine: Stanford's Research Provides Hope for Patients With Narcolepsy
Julie Flygare and Dr. Emmanuel Mignot at the SLEEP 2013 meeting in Baltimore.
On a recent trip to San Francisco, I boarded a train headed south to Palo Alto to visit the Stanford Center for Narcolepsy. As the train whizzed through the Bay Area, I reflected on my long and unexpected journey to arrive at this point.
In 2005, I awoke one night to a burglar breaking into my apartment. I'd recently graduated from Brown University and moved into my first "grown up" apartment with a friend in Boston. On this evening, a man in a dark brown hoodie approached me with his arms stretched out toward my neck. I squirmed to get away, but couldn't move. My body was unresponsive, as if wearing a straitjacket.
A few minutes later, I could move again and sat up abruptly, my heart racing with adrenaline pumping. Where was the intruder now? The apartment was silent and all the windows and doors were securely locked. I went back to sleep, confused.
Later that year, I was laughing with a friend about a joke when my knees buckled slightly, as if someone had poked behind my knees. The weakness felt dramatic inside but passed quickly before I was sure what had happened.
This strange momentary weakness began happening every few weeks and started affecting my arms and neck as well. More emotions brought it on -- like annoyance, sexual pleasure, and surprise.
In the fall of 2006, I entered law school, excited for the academic challenges ahead. Before long, I was struggling more than I'd imagined, unable to stay awake in class and while studying at night. Where was my strong willpower?
One morning toward the end of my first year of law school, I awoke in my school's parking lot, unable to recall arriving there. I'd driven just 15 minutes in the morning after getting nine hours to sleep.
"Maybe I have a sleep problem," I said to myself for the first time.
By this time, burglars and other realistic night visitors invaded my sleep regularly. My body continued collapsing with emotions and had gotten worse. Now, I was falling to the ground for a minute or two, paralyzed and unable to speak or move, but remaining conscious and aware of my surroundings.
After multiple primary care doctors missed my diagnosis, I randomly mentioned my knee-buckling laughter to a sports medicine therapist who thought she'd heard of something like that called "cataplexy." At home, I Googled "cataplexy" and discovered it was defined as sudden muscle weakness often triggered by emotion. This described my knee-buckling laughter precisely.
I learned that cataplexy was a symptom of narcolepsy. Other symptoms included excessive daytime sleepiness, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. Excessive daytime sleepiness offered a possible explanation for my difficulties staying awake. My realistic nighttime burglar experiences sounded a lot like hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis.
Soon thereafter, I visited a narcolepsy specialist and in September of 2007, at the age of 24, I was officially diagnosed with "narcolepsy with cataplexy," a neurological sleep disorder affecting one in 2,000 Americans and 3 million people worldwide, according to the Narcolepsy Network.
Adjusting to narcolepsy in law school wasn't easy. The treatments improved my symptoms but did not erase them. The medications' side effects left me nauseated and sick in other ways. A few months after the diagnosis, I reached an all-time low, realizing narcolepsy was a serious illness I would face every day of my life. There was no cure.
A half year later, I sat in the silent law school library reading a New York Times article about a researcher named Dr. Emmanuel Mignot, Director of Stanford University's Center for Narcolepsy. Dr. Mignot was unraveling the mysteries of narcolepsy and the possible autoimmune pathology.
The article described: "Dr. Mignot is optimistic about cracking the immune-system connection in narcolepsy soon. 'I don't care actually even if it's going to take a long time,' he said. 'I'm ready to cross deserts.'"
In the article, another doctor states that Dr. Mignot was ideally suited for this work, describing, "This is what is good about Mignot. He is relentless."
Goosebumps raised on my arms as I read this description of Dr. Mignot, a relentless researcher crossing deserts for narcolepsy. That day in the library, I vowed to do my part to help Dr. Mignot build a brighter future for narcolepsy. Although not a scientist, I was determined to make a contribution.
After graduating from law school, I moved to Washington, D.C. to write a memoir and advocate for narcolepsy research on Capitol Hill. I also ran the Boston Marathon in 2010 to raise funds for Dr. Mignot's research.
A few years later, while visiting San Francisco, I made the journey to Palo Alto to finally meet the man behind the magic, the Wizard of Narcolepsy.
Arriving at the Center for Narcolepsy's lab, I gave blood for research purposes and met various researchers exploring the mysteries of sleep and narcolepsy. The scientists patiently translated their work to me. Although some terms went over my head, coming together was joyful, a celebration of our mutual passion for the future of sleep and narcolepsy research.
Last but not least, I had the honor of meeting Dr. Mignot in person. He enthusiastically described his research priorities for the coming years.
"I have some crazy ideas too," he said with a smile and sparkle in his eye.
I couldn't help but chuckle. Dr. Mignot having "some crazy ideas" was great news.
As a person with narcolepsy, I face adversity daily. On hard days, I take solace in knowing that the Wizard of Narcolepsy and his fellow researchers at Stanford are working tirelessly and making progress. Their science is our hope.
Julie Flygare, JD is a leading narcolepsy spokesperson and author of Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir of Narcolepsy. She writes the popular REM Runner blog, organizes the National Sleep Walk, and serves on NIH's Sleep Disorder Research Advisory Board. She is also a patient of the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine. This Center is the birthplace of sleep medicine and includes research, clinical, and educational programs that have advanced the field and improved patient care for decades. To learn more, visit us at: http://sleep.stanford.edu/.
Sources:
Narcolepsy Network. Accessed: June 17, 2013.
Narcolepsy Fact Sheet. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Accessed: June 17, 2013.
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Judy Reyes: My Daughter Will ?Probably Be a Director?
"She does the lines and then we switch roles and she goes, 'No! Don't say it like that. This is impossible!' She'll probably be a director," she adds.
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Inside the Guggenheim Museum's Glowing, Ambient James Turrell Skylight
The atrium of New York's Guggenheim Museum is usually a bustling space, filled with crisp light and crowds of visitors. You wouldn?t have known it from the scene yesterday, as the museum opened its long-awaited James Turrell show: saturated in shimmering cobalt light, visitors quietly sprawled around the space, gazing up at Turrell?s ?skylight.?
The piece is called Aten Reign, and it?s been nearly a decade in the making. 70-year-old Turrell?whom we discussed earlier this week at length?has spent years working with fabricators and curators on the piece, which stretches down from the circular skylight at the top of Wright?s spiral dome. The tube is made primarily out of fabric stretched tightly across a series of steel rings. Meanwhile, the museum's curving balconies have been covered in a more opaque textile and ringed with shimmering, multi-colored lights. Every sixty seconds or so, the lights shift from one shade to another. The change is almost imperceptible, until you?re suddenly immersed light the color of coral, rather than the deep Yves Klein Blue it was a second ago.
The name of the piece refers to Aten, the ancient Egyptian deity represented by the sun disk, worshipped during the reign of Akhenaten in the fourteenth century BC. The reference makes sense in a literal way, since Turrell has transformed the atrium in a layer cake of glowing disks, but also in a figural one: The piece was hugely expensive to install?it necessitated closing the museum for a time?and it's hard to imagine another artist who could command that kind of power in the art world.
Speaking to a captivated audience, Turrell was fascinatingly unpretentious about his work?which, admittedly, can be tough to quantify with words. ?Someone once asked me what my favorite color is,? he said. ?That?s kind of like asking what your favorite note is. You need them all.? Music is an apt metaphor, and Turrell picked up on it, going on to compare his art to an instrument: what a guitar is to music, a skyspace is to light. ?It?s simple, really,? he added.
See Aten Reign?along with four fascinating early works, in the Guggenheim?s side galleries?until September 25. And if you're not in New York, check out the Guggenheim's newly-launched app, which includes a handful of nice interviews and videos about the piece.
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Paula Deen's not alone: 8 celeb apologies
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Paula Deen made three apology videos after admitting to using using racial slurs (and not showing up for a TODAY appearance to discuss it) but her many mea culpas weren't enough to save her job -- Food Network announced Friday her contract won't be renewed.
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Charlie Sheen, Kristen Stewart and Kanye West all were sorry for something.
Deen's not the only celebrity who's had to publicly admit an error after a less-than-stellar act. Here are eight eating-crow moments.
Kristen Stewart: Sorry for cheating
In 2012, Kristen Stewart had a fling with Rupert Sanders, the married director of her film, "Snow White and the Huntsman." The "Twilight" star apologized not only to her boyfriend Robert Pattinson, but to her fans, saying "I apologize to everyone for making them so angry. It was not my intention." That didn't stop the terribly tacky T-shirts braying, "Kristen Stewart is a Trampire."
Lance Armstrong: I'm sorry, but everybody did it
Cyclist Lance Armstrong had the right venue for a public celebrity apology for his doping -- he went on TV with Oprah Winfrey, the queen of the celebrity confessional. But he wanted to apologize about as much as he wanted someone to pass him in his numerous Tour de France races. "I made my decisions, they are my mistakes, and I am sitting here today to acknowledge that and to say I?m sorry for that," he said. But he also went on to say using banned substances for a cyclist was like having "air in our tires." Cycling fans viewed the whole apology as a lot of hot air.
Tiger Woods: 'I had affairs'
Thanksgiving 2009 wasn't a nice family occasion for golfer Tiger Woods. His well-publicized one-car crash revealed that he was cheating on his wife, the mother of his two young children. "For all that I have done, I am so sorry," Woods would say in his apology months later. "I had affairs, I cheated. What I did was not acceptable, and I am the only person to blame." He piled praise on wife Elin, but there wasn't enough praise in the world for what she'd found out. They divorced that August.
Mel Gibson: Where did those slurs come from?
Actor Mel Gibson bragged that he "owned Malibu" when he was arrested there for DUI in 2006, but he only got worse when he started bellowing anti-Semitic remarks to the Jewish police officer arresting him. "I said horrible things to him," Gibson later admitted. Later at the station, he called a female officer "sugar (expletive)." In his televised apology, Gibson laughed uncomfortably and claimed he didn't know where the slurs came from. The apology didn't convince everyone, but in 2011, Robert Downey Jr. begged his fellow actors to forgive Gibson, saying he'd helped him through his own struggles and deserved compassion.
David Letterman: Funny man gets serious
Talk-show host David Letterman couldn't apologize without a little humor. When a 2009 extortion plot revealed that Letterman had a relationship with his former show assistant, the comic joked that even "the navigation lady (in my car) wasn't speaking to me." Then he got serious, apologizing to his wife and his staff. But the jokes were everpresent. He also said, "This is only phase one of the scandal. Phase two, next week I go on 'Oprah' and sob."
Hugh Grant: What the hell WAS he thinking?
Jay Leno got right to the point when actor Hugh Grant went on "The Tonight Show" after being caught with a prostitute in 1995. "What the hell were you thinking?" Leno asked. Grant ran down the excuses he could have used and then discarded them all, admitting, "I did a bad thing and there you have it." His willingness to face up to his "bad thing" makes his apology one of the best-received in a crowded field of star "I'm sorrys."
Charlie Sheen: I'm sorry, kind of, but not really
Google "Charlie Sheen apology" and you fall down a rabbit hole of options. "Sheen apologizes for party comments," "Sheen apologies for gay slur," "Sheen apologizes to Ashton Kutcher." But one of our favorites was when Sheen apologized to "Two and a Half Men" co-star Jon Cryer, whom he'd called a "turncoat, a traitor and a troll," apparently for not going to bat for Sheen when he was fired from their hit sitcom. Sheen apologized, then took half of it back because he was apparently still mad. "It's a little bit a half apology," he said. "An apol."
Kanye West: Mom wouldn't be happy
Like Hugh Grant, rapper Kanye West took to "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" to apologize for his infamous 2009 interruption of Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards. "It was rude, period," he said of his behavior. Then Leno asked him what his late mother Donda would've thought of the incident. West, who was very close to his mom, paused for a long break before admitting she wouldn't have been happy. Mother knows best.
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Police disperse protesters in Istanbul square
ISTANBUL (AP) ? Turkish police used water cannon to disperse thousands gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square on Saturday to observe a memorial for four people killed during recent anti-government protests. The officers later fired tear gas and rubber bullets to scatter demonstrators who regrouped in side streets.
The police move came as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that foreign-led conspirators he alleges are behind the anti-government movement in his country also are fomenting the recent unrest in Brazil.
The protests in Turkey erupted three weeks ago after riot police brutally cracked down on peaceful environmental activists who opposed plans to develop Gezi Park, which lies next to Taksim. The demonstrations soon turned into expressions of discontent with what critics say is Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian and meddlesome ways.
Erdogan, who took power a decade ago, denies he is authoritarian and, as evidence of his popularity, points to elections in 2011 that returned his party to power with 50 percent of the vote and gave him a third term in office.
On Saturday, demonstrators converged in Taksim, where they laid down carnations in remembrance of at least three protesters and a police officer killed in the rallies. For about two hours, protesters shouted anti-government slogans and demanded that Erdogan resign before police warned them to leave the square.
Some demonstrators tried to give carnations to the security forces watching over the square, shouting: "Police, don't betray your people." But after their warnings to disperse were ignored, police pushed back protesters with water cannon, even chasing stragglers down side streets and apparently blocking entrances to the square.
An Associated Press journalist said police drove back protesters into side streets off Taksim ? including the main pedestrian shopping street Istiklal ? and later fired several rounds of tear gas and rubber bullets to scatter the crowds who refused to disperse. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
Police in the capital, Ankara, also sprayed tear gas and pressurized water to break up hundreds of protesters who gathered in two neighborhoods, wanting to march to the city's main square, the Dogan news agency reported.
Last week, police had used water cannon as well as tear gas and rubber bullets to clear Taksim and end an occupation of Gezi Park by activists. But the demonstrations had largely subsided in Istanbul in recent days, with many protesters using a new, more passive approach of airing their grievances: standing motionless.
Erdogan has faced fierce international criticism for his government's crackdown on the protests, but he has defended his administration's actions as well as the tough police tactics. He also has blamed the protests on unspecified foreign forces, bankers and foreign and Turkish media outlets he says want to harm Turkish interests.
Brazil, meanwhile, has been hit by mass rallies set off this month by a 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere. The protests soon moved beyond that issue to tap into widespread frustration in the South American nation over a range of issues, including high taxes and woeful public services.
During an address to tens of thousands of his backers in the Black Sea coastal city of Samsun, the latest stop in a series of rallies he has called to shore up his political support, Erdogan declared that Brazil was the target of the same conspirators he claims are trying to destabilize Turkey.
"The same game is now being played over Brazil," Erdogan said. "The symbols are the same, the posters are the same, Twitter, Facebook are the same, the international media is the same. They (the protests) are being led from the same center.
"They are doing their best to achieve in Brazil what they could not achieve in Turkey. It's the same game, the same trap, the same aim."
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Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-disperse-protesters-istanbul-square-175034762.html
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Wall St. Week Ahead: Stocks face more hurdles after Fed turbulence
By Angela Moon and Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bargain-hunters beware! Wall Street's 2 percent weekly fall may not be the buying opportunity for stocks that it might seem.
The stock market begins the last week of June still rattled by the U.S. Federal Reserve's plans for reducing its stimulus efforts, called quantitative easing, or QE.
Next week could bring more big intraday swings and volatility as asset managers reevaluate their portfolios to adjust to the new regime of diminishing support from the Fed.
The CBOE Volatility Index <.vix>, Wall Street's "fear gauge," rose 10.2 percent this week, ending Friday at 19. The index has risen in four of the past five weeks since Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke first broached the phasing out of stimulus.
"The angst over the Fed is going to cause people to reprice. Hedge funds are part that group. But I don't believe they are the only ones selling," said Ken Polcari, director of the NYSE floor division at O'Neil Securities in New York.
"Hedge funds are nimble, so they are the ones that can move the money around. With the VIX at 20, people get fearful, they want their cash."
Polcari said large asset managers also were likely to be moving around money.
WARNING SIGNS
With the Fed putting the market on notice that it will be weaned from easy money, possibly beginning before long, investors are going to look at the broad picture, which has plenty of warning signs. Economic growth remains spotty, Chinese credit markets are showing stress and interest rates are on the rise.
One reason for equity investors to worry is the second-quarter earnings outlook. Earnings warnings from companies for the second quarter outnumber positive outlooks by 6.5 to 1, the most negative ratio since the first quarter of 2001, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Investors say the impact of Washington's automatic federal spending cuts, known as sequester, is part of the cause.
The sequester has already had an impact on technology companies, and higher tax rates that took effect earlier this year, have hurt consumer businesses.
Among the sectors with the worst outlooks for the second quarter, consumer discretionaries top the list, with 21 warnings and just two positive outlooks. Technology was another, with 27 warnings and 6 positive outlooks, Thomson Reuters data showed.
"This quarter will have the most negative impact from the sequester," said Natalie Trunow, chief investment officer of equities at Calvert Investment Management, which has about $13 billion in assets.
"Combined with the tapering of QE, it could further dampen market sentiment, so we could be in for a little further softness in the equity market for a couple of months."
Among the 10 companies that have already reported for the quarter, a few have been cause for concern. Oracle
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FALLING EARNINGS SEEN
Forecasts for S&P 500 earnings in the second quarter have declined sharply, from an April 1 forecast of 6.1 percent growth to this week's forecast of 3.2 percent growth.
If second-quarter earnings come in as forecast, they would mark a drop from the first quarter's 5.4 percent increase in earnings. However, estimates tend to start out high, then get cut as the earnings period nears. Then, typically, companies surpass the lowered forecasts.
"We've had that for several quarters and we could be looking at some of that again," Trunow said.
Banks, which are sensitive to interest rate changes, will be among the earliest companies to report. U.S. Treasuries yields rose to the highest in 22 months as a result of worries about the Fed's cutting back its monthly purchases of bonds. While the reduced stimulus could help if it boosts net interest margins, there are concerns that trading losses could hit some of the biggest banks.
Earnings projections for the rest of the year are better, with third-quarter growth forecast to rise 8.7 percent and fourth-quarter 13.1 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data.
If the Fed's expectations are correct and the economic data show strength, they will serve as a tailwind for stocks.
"Remember that (Fed) tapering would be a vote of confidence in the market, which would be good news," said David Joy, who helps oversee $708 billion in assets as chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial in Boston.
Despite the week's 2.1 percent loss, the S&P 500 has risen 11.7 percent for the year without a major correction.
(Reporting by Angela Moon and Caroline Valetkevitch; additional reporting by Steve Johnson and Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Kenneth Barry)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wall-st-week-ahead-stocks-face-more-hurdles-000902671.html
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Supermoon To Dominate Weekend Sky
A "supermoon" rises in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2011.
Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty ImagesA "supermoon" rises in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2011.
Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty ImagesThe largest full moon of the year will grace the night sky Sunday as our nearest neighbor in space makes its closest approach.
The moon will reach its closest perigee of 2013, dominating the sky. For about a half-hour of the event, the moon will also turn full ? a confluence of events that produces a so-called supermoon. The full moon on Sunday will appear to be 14 percent to 30 percent brighter than it does when it's at the other end of its orbit, known as apogee. Here's an explainer from Space.com.
At closest approach, the moon will be 221,300 miles from Earth. A few days later, on July 6, it will be at its most distant apogee of the year at 252,583 miles.
Moonrise occurs at about 8:50 p.m. EDT and at about 8:29 p.m. PDT on the West Coast. You can check your own location here.
As Hoax Slayer, a Snopes-like website dedicated to "debunking email hoaxes and exposing Internet scams," notes:
"Some of the circulating messages tend to exaggerate how big the moon will actually appear. And, of course, it will not appear bright purple or blue as suggested by some circulating graphics. Nevertheless, June 23 should present a great opportunity to view and photograph the moon in all its splendor."
LiveScience also writes about the myth of the supermoon, which it says has been blamed for everything "from the sinking of the Titanic to Japan's earthquake and tsunami of 2011."
"But Earth science experts say linking geological events to the full moon is foolish. The gravitational changes created by a few tens of thousands of miles of difference in distance between the moon and Earth aren't enough to alter tectonic forces in any meaningful way. ...
"Nor have studies turned up evidence that the moon affects human health and behavior. A 1985 review of research published in the journal Psychological Bulletin found no convincing evidence that full moons spur mental hospital admission uptakes, psychiatric disturbances, homicides or other crimes. A 2010 study similarly found a lack of excess criminal lunacy on full-moon days."
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Lil Snupe Shooting: Suspect Identified In Rapper's Death
Louisiana police have identified Tony Holden as a suspect in the death of the 18-year-old Meek Mill prot?g?.
By Maurice Bobb
Tony Holden and Lil Snupe
Photo: Winnfield Police Dept./ Getty Images
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1709448/lil-snupe-shooting-death-suspect.jhtml
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Sunday, June 2, 2013
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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Mystery LG handset leaks out with no physical buttons
Evleaks offers first glimpse of buttonless LG phone with unique earpiece
Prolific leaker Evleaks has posted images of what could be a future LG handset. The device, pictured on Facebook, shows a spartan front face with only an LG logo down below. There's also a curved glass front and an unusual looking reflective earpiece. In today's post, the leaker offers a guess that this might be the rumored Optimus G2.
The mystery phone seems to share some design cues with the Nexus 4, but there's no suggestion at all that this is a Nexus device -- for one, LG's branding is very much front and center. But it could indicate a change of tack for LG, if it's to join the likes of Motorola and Sony with a push towards on-screen buttons. (It's a move that would undoubtedly please Android purists.)
For the moment that's about all we can surmise from an image showing a featureless phone with a blank screen. If you've got any theories of your own, be sure to shout out in the comments. The original image is linked below, as is a close-up of the bezel.
Phil weighing in here: The Optimus G Pro has nicely hidden buttons as well. I'm willing to bet there are a couple on either side of that LG Logo.
Source: Evleaks (Original, bezel close-up)
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Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/R6zdxNOVh80/story01.htm
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
E-learning becomes a potent force in business training ... - Illumine Ltd
The world of education and training can sometimes fall victim to fads, with new approaches to learning often turning out to be little more than a flash in the pan.? According to e-learning market research, however, this is not the case with one of the biggest changes ever to sweep across both teaching and learning.? ?The market for online courses and other e-learning technologies has grown at a phenomenal rate since its inception, and this growth is projected to continue surging upwards at a steady clip.
Ambient Insight Research has determined that the e-learning market in 2010 experienced sales of slightly more than ?20 billion.? Just five years later, in 2015, that figure is expected to surge by almost ?5 billion; an increase of nearly 25%.
Reasons for the growth of e-learning
The growing popularity in e-learning is due in part to the proliferation of truly mobile internet-connected devices.? While a laptop computer is technically mobile, it can be more difficult to use whilst on the road.? Certainly, few people standing in a queue will begin checking email on their laptop ? but this is a commonplace sight among those who connect to the internet using a tablet computer or mobile phone.? This greatly enhanced access to the internet has meant that e-learning can take place anywhere, at any time.
Another reason for the spread of e-learning in both the academic and business worlds has been the changing nature of the internet.? The online environment was once a bastion of flat text pages with few interactive features other than hyperlinks; today?s web is a media-rich environment complete with interactive simulations, streaming video and audio, and widgets that allow for personal annotation of course material.? Many e-learning training modules now make heavy use of these interactive features, creating a highly innovative course environment that can be individualised to suit the needs of the learner ? or of the company arranging the training.
The spread of broadband internet has also been a factor in the growth of e-learning?s popularity.? Until companies had access to unlimited bandwidth at reasonable rates, it was not practical to enrol workers on courses making heavy use of resource-intensive technologies.
Not just for academia
The public perception of online learning focuses quite heavily on secondary and university instruction, but in practice e-learning is just as useful for on-the-job training.? As e-learning authority, Andre Joubert writing for Gadget explains: ?E-learning has long been recognised as offering considerable advantages over conventional classroom-based training when it comes to training employees and management quickly, efficiently and conveniently.? There are online courses that offer recognised and accredited qualifications in everything from human resource management and marketing to project management and software applications development.?
E-learning becomes a potent force in business training
The world of education and training can sometimes fall victim to fads, with new approaches to learning often turning out to be little more than a flash in the pan.? According to e-learning market research, however, this is not the case with one of the biggest changes ever to sweep across both teaching and learning.? ?The market for online courses and other e-learning technologies has grown at a phenomenal rate since its inception, and this growth is projected to continue surging upwards at a steady clip.
Ambient Insight Research has determined that the e-learning market in 2010 experienced sales of slightly more than ?20 billion.? Just five years later, in 2015, that figure is expected to surge by almost ?5 billion: an increase of nearly 25%.
Reasons for the growth of e-learning
The growing popularity in e-learning is due in part to the proliferation of truly mobile internet-connected devices.? While a laptop computer is technically mobile, it can be more difficult to use whilst on the road.? Certainly, few people standing in a queue will begin checking email on their laptop ? but this is a commonplace sight among those who connect to the internet using a tablet computer or mobile phone.? This greatly enhanced access to the internet has meant that e-learning can take place anywhere, at any time.
Another reason for the spread of e-learning in both the academic and business worlds has been the changing nature of the internet.? The online environment was once a bastion of flat text pages with few interactive features other than hyperlinks; today?s web is a media-rich environment complete with interactive simulations, streaming video and audio, and widgets that allow for personal annotation of course material.? Many e-learning training modules now make heavy use of these interactive features, creating a highly innovative course environment that can be individualised to suit the needs of the learner ? or of the company arranging the training.
The spread of broadband internet has also been a factor in the growth of e-learning?s popularity.? Until companies had access to unlimited bandwidth at reasonable rates, it was not practical to enrol workers on courses making heavy use of resource-intensive technologies.
Not just for academia
The public perception of online learning focuses quite heavily on secondary and university instruction, but in practice e-learning is just as useful for on-the-job training.? As e-learning authority, Andre Joubert writing for Gadget explains: ?E-learning has long been recognised as offering considerable advantages over conventional classroom-based training when it comes to training employees and management quickly, efficiently and conveniently.? There are online courses that offer recognised and accredited qualifications in everything from human resource management and marketing to project management and software applications development.?
Tags: accelerated learning, Business Mapping (Training), information overload, information overwhelm, learning and studying, speed reading
Source: http://www.illumine.co.uk/blog/2013/05/e-learning-becomes-a-potent-force-in-business-training/
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Sorcery! on iOS reincarnates Fighting Fantasy books for tablets (video)
If you're going to bring the well-loved, 30-year-old Fighting Fantasy book series to digital screens, you'd better do it right. Fortunately, Sorcery! does. The game is based on the original choose-your-own-adventure series written by Lionhead Studios co-founder Steve Jackson, with a few modern adjustments. The iOS game sidesteps the need for organic books and (unfortunately) our tried-and-tested multi-fingered bookmarking system, digitally keeping note of all your decisions along the way -- in short, no cheating. Making use of the new medium, there are now touch-based sword fights to help break up the wordy play-by-play descriptions of what you're doing. The initial installment is available now for $5 at the App Store, with the remaining three parts expected to follow later this year.
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Mobile
Source: Sorcery (App Store)
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/GYsqGidcDdM/
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