Sunday, June 30, 2013

In South Africa, Obama continues his focus on youth

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa ? President Obama's first audience of South Africans assembled Saturday in Soweto, and he recalled the protests that tore through the neighborhoods here in 1976, galvanizing the anti-apartheid movement.

The 51-year-old president was among the few in the room old enough to remember.

The town hall, packed with young people at the University of Johannesburg, was the latest in a series of international youth outreach efforts staged by the president. Obama's foreign travel schedule these days can sometimes look like a globe-trotting college tour.

Nearly every presidential stopover includes a speech at a university auditorium, or if logistics demand, an off-campus venue filled with young faces. His weeklong tour through sub-Saharan Africa includes two events at South African universities; Obama will deliver another speech Sunday, at the University of Cape Town, where in the 1960s U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dramatically declared that world challenges require the "qualities of youth."

"Don't lose those qualities of youth," Obama told the group of 650 young people at the Soweto forum. "Your imagination, your optimism, your idealism. The future of this continent is in your hands."

For all the looking forward, Obama also spent a considerable amount of time looking back, as the nation's iconic elder statesman Nelson Mandela lay critically ill in a Pretoria hospital.

Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are not scheduled to visit the man who served as South Africa's first black president, the White House said, but the Obamas spoke Saturday by phone to his wife, Graca Machel, who has maintained a vigil at his bedside. Obama later met with other family members at the Nelson Mandela Foundation headquarters.

"I expressed my hope that Madiba draws peace and comfort from the time that he is spending with loved ones, and also expressed my heartfelt support for the entire family as they work through this difficult time," Obama said later, using Mandela's clan name, as South Africans often do with affection. "I also reaffirmed the profound impact that his legacy has had in building a free South Africa, and in inspiring people around the world, including me."

Obama's outreach to the under-35 set serves a distinct purpose for a president trying to maintain his youthful image abroad and working to define his foreign policy legacy. The speeches often allow Obama to keep some distance from conflicts or sticky relationships with problematic national leaders. Instead, he offers brighter, but vaguer, notions of hope, calls for political engagement and investment in the future.

Obama also uses such events to send indirect messages to the leaders in question. Obama met Saturday morning with South African President Jacob Zuma, whose African National Congress ? the party of Mandela ? many observers say has lost its way. Zuma's government is widely viewed as riddled with corruption and is under pressure to engage or lose the support of the next generation of South Africans.

Obama made no references to such issues at a news conference after their meeting. But a couple of hours later, he pointedly urged young people to "hold leaders accountable."

Obama's focus on the future is crucial to his strategy in Africa, where 1 in 3 people are between the ages of 10 and 24, and an estimated 60% of the continent's population is younger than 35. Many live in dire poverty with poor nutrition, housing and schooling, conditions ripe for the political instability that has beset the continent.

The White House said Obama was working to nurture the next generation of African political leaders. It announced on Saturday a new fellowship program that it said would bring 500 young Africans to the United States each year for leadership training and mentoring. The effort is an extension of the Young African Leaders Initiative that Obama launched shortly after taking office.

It is far from clear whether such efforts, or eloquent speeches, will cement the president's legacy with the next generation here.

Other foreign powers, including China, are pouring private investment into Africa, and U.S. influence has been waning. The young people in Soweto on Saturday appeared enamored of Obama's image, although not his policies.

While the young people waiting for Obama at the town hall clapped and sang apartheid-era songs ? changing the lyrics of one traditional Zulu song to "Obama is coming!" ? the president also was asked detailed questions about his trade, foreign aid and counter-terrorism policies.

A group of young people who participated by videoconference from Nairobi, Kenya, questioned the president's decision to skip their country ? a longtime U.S. ally and homeland of Obama's father ? on his Africa tour in part because its democratically elected leaders are facing charges before the International Criminal Court. Obama, they said, appeared to be breaking a promise to visit Kenya during his presidency.

At one point in the proceedings, Obama appeared to acknowledge that the fruits of his public relations push would take years to appear.

"You guys are all going to do great things," Obama said. "I'll be retired by the time you do them."

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Friday, June 28, 2013

Toshiba will launch 84-, 65- and 58-inch 4K TVs in August, prices start at $4,999

Toshiba will launch 84, 65 and 58inch 4K TVs in August, prices start at $4,999

We caught a glimpse of Toshiba's second generation 4K TVs at CES in January and at a European event in March, and now the company has announced it's delivering three versions of the L9300U series this fall. All feature its CEVO 4K Quad+Dual Core processor built-in to handle image processing and its suite of Cloud TV apps, plus built-in WiFi, Miracast and WiDi. It also announced Technicolor has certified its Blu-ray player and streaming media box for delivering HD content to its 4K TVs. The 58-, 65- and 84-inch models will all ship in August for $4,999, $6,999 and $16,999 respectively -- we'll see how they compete with similar Ultra HDTV options arriving from the likes of Sony, Sharp and Samsung.

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Global shares, bonds rise as Fed fears ease; gold sinks

By Richard Hubbard

LONDON (Reuters) - World shares hit their highest level in a week on Friday and bonds and oil rose after two U.S. central bankers moved to calm fears of an early withdrawal of monetary stimulus.

Their efforts, combined with better economic data from Japan and an easing of credit concerns in China, lifted MSCI's world equity index <.miwd00000pus> 0.5 percent on Friday, putting it on course to reverse five weeks of losses.

But the gains were seen as limited with investors avoiding large bets on the final trading day of an unsettled quarter while pondering the impact of a broader shift in Fed policy.

"It's been a tough quarter, the easy game is up and markets have to revaluate where they stand," Wouter Sturkenboom, Investment Strategist at Russell Investments, said.

Global stock, bond and commodity markets have been notably volatile since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled last week the bank would soon cut the pace of its bond buying unless the economic recovery slowed.

Two Fed policymakers came out on Thursday to reassure investors that any winding down of stimulus was still some way off, though its ultimate course was set.

"The market is going to have to base its views about equities and currencies on actual economic growth rather than simply the fact that there's cheap money there," said Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at Bank of New York Mellon.

"I think that's a fundamental shift."

The Fed's signal that the era of cheap money is drawing to a close has already hit gold as its value as a hedge against inflation evaporates. The metal dropped to a three-year low near $1,200 an ounce on Friday, putting it on course for its worst quarterly performance in over half a century.

QUARTERLY CLOSE

The end-of-quarter manoeuvring was cited behind a rise in the euro off a four-week low against the dollar to $1.3045, and helped the dollar rise against the yen by 0.5 percent at 98.92 yen.

The broad FTSE Eurofirst 300 index <.fteu3>, which had opened higher in line with other world markets, pared the gains as end of quarter positioning took hold, leaving it on course to end June lower after a record 12 monthly rises.

Earlier, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.miapj0000pus> climbed 1.4 percent, pulling further away from an 11-month low and wiping out this week's losses. It was still down around 7 percent for the year.

Asia's rise followed Wall Street's rally on the Fed comments and Japanese data showing consumer prices stopped falling in May and labor demand reached a five-year high.

China's stock markets had also seen their biggest gains in two months after its central bank, which had let short-term borrowing costs spike to record highs, said it would ensure its policy supported a slowing economy.

RISK OUTLOOK CHANGES

In the fixed income markets, European bonds shared in the more positive tone, with yields falling on core German debt and riskier Spanish and Italian paper.

But Patrick Jacq, European rate strategist at BNP Paribas, said investors would require higher yields in future in light of the Fed's policy shift. "Liquidity and credit risk assessment has changed since the Fed spoke about tapering off," he said.

In commodities, Brent crude oil futures climbed 29 cents to $103.11 on course for the first monthly rise in five months. Copper was flat but facing its biggest quarterly loss in almost two years, reflecting global growth concerns.

(Additional reporting by Ana Nicolaci da Costa; Editing by John Stonestreet)

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We Run From the Future: 3 Crazy-Advanced Running Shoes

Innovative design and high-tech materials have put a new spring in the step of the oldest form of exercise. Soles with polymer blades bounce back. Elastic bands make you feel like you're running barefoot. An entire upper is woven from a single strand of microengineered yarn. The results of years of research, these and other advances have put an edgy breed of shoe in the running.

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Police: Driver error caused Md. train derailment

TOWSON, Md. (AP) ? Police say driver error caused an explosive derailment of a CSX freight train near Baltimore last month.

Baltimore County police say the train hit a garbage truck at a crossing.

They issued seven traffic citations to 50-year-old John J. Alban Jr. He was driving the truck in the May 28 crash in Rosedale.

All the charges are misdemeanors. They carry fines that can be paid, or Alban can contest the citations in court.

Officers released the report on Thursday. It said neither drugs nor alcohol was a factor.

Alban was hospitalized for days after the crash. A woman who answered the phone at his home Thursday said "goodbye" and hung up.

The derailment led to an explosion and fire that investigators say damaged buildings as far as a mile away.

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

States promise quick action after court ruling

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, a voter holds their voting permit and ID card at the Washington Mill Elementary School near Mount Vernon, Va. Across the South, Republicans are working to take advantage of a new political landscape after a divided U.S. Supreme Court freed all or part of 15 states, many of them in the old Confederacy, from having to ask Washington's permission before changing election procedures in jurisdictions with histories of discrimination. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, a voter holds their voting permit and ID card at the Washington Mill Elementary School near Mount Vernon, Va. Across the South, Republicans are working to take advantage of a new political landscape after a divided U.S. Supreme Court freed all or part of 15 states, many of them in the old Confederacy, from having to ask Washington's permission before changing election procedures in jurisdictions with histories of discrimination. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, a Madison, Miss., poll worker, right, returns to a voter her driver's license at a precinct in Madison. Across the South, Republicans are working to take advantage of a new political landscape after a divided U.S. Supreme Court freed all or part of 15 states, many of them in the old Confederacy, from having to ask Washington's permission before changing election procedures in jurisdictions with histories of discrimination. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

(AP) ? Across the South, Republicans are working to take advantage of a new political landscape after a divided U.S. Supreme Court freed all or part of 15 states, many of them in the old Confederacy, from having to ask Washington's permission before changing election procedures in jurisdictions with histories of discrimination.

After the high court announced its momentous ruling Tuesday, officials in Texas and Mississippi pledged to immediately implement laws requiring voters to show photo identification before getting a ballot. North Carolina Republicans promised they would quickly try to adopt a similar law. Florida now appears free to set its early voting hours however Gov. Rick Scott and the GOP Legislature please. And Georgia's most populous county likely will use county commission districts that Republican state legislators drew over the objections of local Democrats.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 5-4 opinion that struck down as outdated a key provision of the landmark 1965 law credited with ensuring ballot access to millions of black Americans, American Indians and other minorities. Roberts' opinion gives Congress an opportunity to retool the law's so-called preclearance sections that give the U.S. Justice Department veto power over local elections. But the prospects of a quick fix seem uncertain, at best, given stark ideological divides on Capitol Hill on a host of matters.

Southern Republicans largely hailed Roberts' opinion as recognition of racial progress since President Lyndon Johnson signed the law at the apex of the civil rights movement.

"Over the last half-century, Georgia has reformed, and our state is a proud symbol of progress," Gov. Nathan Deal said. "Today's decision guarantees that Georgia will be treated like every other state ? a right we have earned." In neighboring Alabama, where the case originated, Gov. Robert Bentley said, "We have long lived up to what happened" in the Jim Crow era, "and we have made sure it's not going to happen again."

Democrats and civil rights attorneys lambasted the ruling as a setback for the very advancement Republicans highlighted, and the dissenters predicted a proliferation of laws designed to curtail minority participation in elections.

Rep. John Lewis, an Atlanta Democrat and civil rights activist who was beaten as he advocated for voting rights in the 1960s, called the ruling a "dagger."

President Barack Obama said he was "deeply disappointed" in the court overturning "well-established practices that help make sure voting is fair."

At Obama's Justice Department, officials opted for caution. They said the agency, which enforces federal voting laws, has in hand 276 submissions from state and local governments seeking preclearance. The department will issue guidance on those pending laws and procedures in the next few days, they said.

For five decades, the law required that certain states and localities with a history of discrimination submit all of their election laws ? from new congressional district maps to the precinct locations and voting hours ? to Justice Department lawyers for approval. Congress reauthorized the law multiple times, the latest in 2006 with overwhelming bipartisanship capped by a 98-0 Senate vote.

Election officials in Alabama's Shelby County, a suburban enclave nestled between civil rights hot spots Birmingham and Selma, brought suit asking the courts to invalidate Sections 4 and 5, which set preclearance parameters.

The Roberts majority, which included conservatives Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, sidestepped whether the advance approval requirement is constitutional, ostensibly leaving Section 5 on the books. But the justices, all appointed by Republican presidents, threw out the Section 4 formula that determined what jurisdictions must have the advance federal oversight. Roberts reasoned that the original formula ? extended through reauthorizations ? is obsolete because Congress based it on 1960s voter registration and turnout data. The chief justice emphasized, however, that Congress can rewrite the formula to reflect "current conditions," though he didn't offer recommendations or acknowledge the inherent political challenges involved.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented on behalf of the court's liberal bloc, all of them Democratic appointees. Ginsburg argued that continued discrimination, which Roberts himself noted in the majority opinion, demands continued federal oversight.

Critics of the majority also chided court conservatives for striking down congressional action, given that the 14th and 15th amendments authorize Congress to enact laws enforcing the amendments' protections against discrimination.

Before the ruling, the formula required reviews for all of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia; and parts of California, Florida, Michigan, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota.

Justice Department attorneys have used Section 5 in multiple cases to block voter identification laws, saying they discriminate against minority and poor voters who are less likely to have the required government-issued documents. Over the law's existence, many Southern states have ended up watching courts drawing legislative and congressional district lines after federal authorities used Section 5 to invalidate what state lawmakers did.

South Carolina has successfully implemented a voter identification law, but only after revising its preferred policy after Gov. Nikki Haley and other Republicans negotiated with the Obama administration. Under the court's ruling, no negotiations would've been necessary.

Within hours of Tuesday's decision, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott declared on Twitter, "(U.S. Attorney General) Eric Holder can no longer deny VoterID in Texas." The Texas Department of Public Safety announced later in the day that on Thursday it would begin distributing photo IDs under a 2011 law that Holder's lawyers had blocked under Section 5.

In Mississippi, the secretary of state said her office would begin enforcing a pending voter ID law for primaries in June 2014. North Carolina Republicans said they plan swift action on a pending voter ID bill.

Laughlin McDonald, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union's voting rights office, said he agrees that pending submissions to the Justice Department are now moot. It's less clear what happens to scores of laws that the feds have already denied since the 2006 reauthorization. McDonald said he believes a state or other covered jurisdiction would have a strong case to argue that it could implement any affected law it has passed since the reauthorization.

That could be an issue in some disputes over at-large voting districts. The Justice Department denied some proposals where the population of an entire county or city would elect all representatives of a governing body, potentially diluting the influence of a minority that would otherwise be able to influence outcomes within single districts.

The case does not affect the act's Section 2 prohibition against voter discrimination based on race, color or other minority status. Still, the burden shifts to a citizen who must prove discrimination, whereas the preclearance process required state and local governments to prove in advance that a policy wouldn't harm minority voters. Also untouched is Section 3, which allows the government to require preclearance based on more recent discrimination. The Justice Department has used that provision to extend oversight in Arkansas and New Mexico.

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican who supports the court's finding, said Section 2 gives citizens a legal recourse, while Section 3 gives the government a tool to police wayward local officials. He noted that Holder used Section 2 to go after Pennsylvania's voter ID law in a state not covered by preclearance.

"Look," he said, "this is already happening in other states and nobody is screaming and hollering about it."

Associated Press

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Enjoy These Rare Video Art Masterpieces Thanks to YouTube

The rarefied history of video art is foreign to all but a niche group of academics and art-world types. When artists first got their hands on portable video equipment in the late 60's, they made incredibly odd things. Most of those things remained in academic obscurity?until, of course, internet video hosting exploded. Now, the strange history of video art is at your fingertips.

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Miley Cyrus Is A 'Skilled Twerker,' Ying Yang Twins Proclaim

D-Roc and Kaine explain why they consider the 'We Can't Stop' singer 'the twerking mascot.'
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Report: Twitter Is Adding In-Stream Photo Previews

Report: Twitter Is Adding In-Stream Photo Previews

If someone tweets an image, you have to click on the tweet to see it. But now Twitter is reportedly adding a small preview right in your stream.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Investigators Trying to Find Motive in Party Shooting | KTXL FOX40

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Homicide detectives are still trying to figure out how the bloody shootout began.

?He was just always trying to make someone laugh.?

That?s how friends describe the 19-year-old Alvin Valentine, who was killed at a house party early Sunday morning.

Family says he was on his way to the party when another group of people showed up and began spraying bullets

Valentine was one of four teens to get hit.

?I think that?s why everyone was so shocked, it was unexpected. Wrong place wrong time,? said another friend.

Valentine?s family would not talk on camera, but say he wasn?t involved in any gangs and was a straight ?A? student.

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Trayvon Martin murder case: Opening clash on shooter's motive

(Editor's note: This story contains language in the 4th paragraph that some readers may find offensive)

By Tom Brown and Barbara Liston

SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - Neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin simply because "he wanted to," because he was an armed vigilante, and because he viewed the 17-year-old whom he'd never met as just another "punk," a prosecutor said in opening statements to the jury in a trial that promises to raise thorny issues of race and gun rights.

In a case that centers on a shooting that occurred without a clear eyewitness on a rainy, dark night more than a year ago, prosecutor John Guy sought to cut through doubts surrounding the incident in a fiery 30-minute opening statement that branded Zimmerman as the aggressor for the six jurors who will decide the case.

As the second-degree murder trial opened in earnest after two weeks of jury selection and evidentiary rulings, the prosecutor began by bluntly quoting from Zimmerman's call to a police dispatcher after first spotting the unarmed, black teen.

"'Fucking punks. These assholes, they always get away'," Guy repeated, going on to say those were the "hate-filled words he used to describe a total stranger."

Zimmerman's defense attorney Don West opened with his own unusual gambit, opting to tell a "knock-knock" joke, which fell flat in the courtroom. "Knock knock. Who's there? George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman who? Good, you're on the jury," he said.

West went on to offer a wholly different view of his client - who is out on bail and appeared in court wearing a charcoal gray suit - and the events of February 26, 2012 in a gated community in Sanford, Florida.

Zimmerman was "viciously attacked" by Martin and acted in self-defense, attorney Don West said.

In his 2-1/2 hour statement to the jury, the defense attorney said a witness, who he identified as a homeowner near the site of the altercation, would testify about a man clad in the color of the clothing Martin was wearing "mounting" a man on the ground in mixed martial arts fashion and "basically beating him senseless."

West said contrary to what has often been said about the case, Martin was not unarmed. "Trayvon Martin armed himself with the concrete sidewalk and used it to smash George Zimmerman's head ... That is a deadly weapon," he said.

Zimmerman showed no emotion as he stared straight ahead and away from the prosecutor.

The parents of both Zimmerman and Martin were seated on different sides of the courtroom at the start of the day, but Zimmerman's parents were quickly instructed to leave after the prosecution said they might be called as witnesses.

Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, later left the courtroom when West played the jury a tape of a 911 call in which screams can be heard before the fatal shot. "To sit there and hear her child's final moments was very tough," said Daryl Parks, a lawyer for the Martin family.

Both families say the screams on the tape came from their son, but the FBI has been unable to say conclusively whose voice it is.

Zimmerman, 29 and part Hispanic, was the neighborhood watch captain in the Retreat at Twin Lakes community in Sanford at the time of the killing. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge of second-degree murder and could face life imprisonment if convicted.

Martin was a student at a Miami-area high school and a guest of one of the homeowners. He was walking back to the residence after buying snacks at a nearby convenience store when he was shot in the chest during a confrontation with Zimmerman.

Much of what happened during the fatal encounter is still a mystery. Neighbors who provided differing versions of what they glimpsed of the altercation are expected to testify during the trial. Also to testify is a girl who was on the phone with Martin moments before his death and says she heard the events unfold until the line went dead.

HIGH BAR FOR THE PROSECUTION

Guy portrayed Zimmerman as a man with a concealed weapon who committed a vigilante-style killing, not a dutiful watch guard on alert for signs of suspicious activity after a string of robberies in his neighborhood.

"George Zimmerman did not shoot Trayvon Martin because he had too. He shot him for the worst of all reasons, because he wanted to," said Guy, the prosecutor.

Guy also told the jury there was "irrefutable physical evidence" that showed Zimmerman was lying when he told police that Martin attacked him. No blood or DNA from Zimmerman was found on Martin's hands or elsewhere on his body or clothing, he said. That is despite Zimmerman's claims that Martin punched him to the ground and covered his bleeding, broken nose with his bare hands as he pounded his head into the ground.

Six jurors, all women, were selected last week to hear the racially charged murder case against Zimmerman. They will be sequestered for the duration of the trial, which is expected to last two to four weeks.

The case triggered civil rights protests and debates about alleged treatment of blacks as second-class citizens under the U.S. justice system, since police did not arrest Zimmerman for 44 days.

However, there is a high bar for the prosecution to prove second degree murder which requires them to show that Zimmerman acted with "ill will, hatred, spite or an evil intent," and showed "an indifference to human life," according to Florida jury instructions.

Under Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which was approved in 2005 and has since been copied by about 30 other states, people fearing for their lives can use deadly force without having to retreat from a confrontation, even when it is possible.

(Additional reporting and writing by David Adams and Paul Thomasch. Editing by Peter Henderson and Grant McCool)

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What&#39;s Next For Gold ? Bear Or Bull Market? Infographic | Gold ...

This infographic shows important gold price drivers from their bullish and bearish perspective. Interestingly, there are credible bullish and bearish arguments for the gold price in the short and mid term. Readers should remember that we mention the ?gold price?, although the infographic talks about ?gold?. Our view on ?gold? remains bullish, both short and long term, because physical (!) gold is the ultimate protection against monetary policies and chaos. Nevertheless, the gold price is subject to economic and financial parameters.

The infographic presents the bullish and bearish case for the following subjects. Courtesy:?Visual Capitalist.

1) In which way can interest rates impact the gold price?

  • Bearish: Economic improvements and low inflation will lead to long-term increases in interest rates.
  • Bullish: Negative real rates have been negative lately.

2) In which way will inflation impact the gold price?

  • Bearish: Even with QE, bank lending has not increased proportionally to the money supply.
  • Bullish: Drastic increase in the money supply is a potential catalyst for serious inflation (in the future).

3) What is the international impact the gold price?

  • Bearish: BRIC economies want a weaker currency than the US dollar.
  • Bullish: Physical buying is hitting record high levels in China and India, the two biggest gold consumers.

4) What is the short-term gold price outlook?

  • Bearish: The current trend is down.
  • Bullish: Gold could be bottoming because of seasonality.

5) What is the long-term gold price outlook?

  • Bearish: The ?Gold is a commodity and not a currency? view.
  • Bullish: If real rates are below 2% people and investors will hold gold instead of cash.

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Monday, June 24, 2013

Latest bird flu strain 'kills more than a third'

(AP) ? More than a third of patients infected with a new strain of bird flu died after being admitted to the hospital earlier this year, Chinese researchers report in a new study.

Since the new H7N9 bird flu first broke out in China in late March, the strain has sickened more than 130 people and killed 37. The World Health Organization has previously described H7N9 as "one of the most lethal influenza viruses" it has ever seen and said it appeared to spread faster than the last bird flu strain, H5N1, that threatened to unleash a pandemic.

After making some adjustments for missing data, the Chinese scientists estimated the overall death rate to be 36 percent. The outbreak was stopped after China closed many of its live animal markets ? scientists had assumed the virus was infecting people through exposure to live birds.

That makes the new strain less deadly than H5N1, which kills about 70 percent of the people it infects. Still, H7N9 is more lethal than the swine flu that caused a 2009 global epidemic. That had a death rate of less than one percent.

The results were released in two papers on the H7N9 strain, published online Monday in the journal Lancet.

"The good news is that numbers of (H7N9) cases have stalled," Cecile Viboud and Lone Simonsen of the U.S. National Institutes of Health wrote in a commentary accompanying the article.

However, they warned that the threat of the virus still "persists" and predicted that the strain might return in the winter, when flu viruses are typically most active.

That assessment echoes the WHO, which earlier this month also warned of the virus adapting.

Associated Press

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Bulger asks for gag order to be lifted amid trial

(AP) ? Whitey Bulger wants to tell his side of the story ? outside the courtroom.

Defense attorneys in Bulger's racketeering trial say in a motion filed Saturday that a gag order is infringing on their client's First Amendment rights.

The motion complains that the tenor of media coverage in the case has been largely adverse to Bulger.

The 83-year-old defendant is accused of playing a role in 19 murders during the 1970s and '80s while allegedly running the Winter Hill Gang. He has pleaded not guilty.

The motion says newspapers have launched "personal attacks" against Bulger while prosecution witnesses have given interviews outside the courthouse.

In a response Sunday, prosecutors call Bulger's request strange and note he is free to take the stand and tell his story if he so chooses.

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New player is critical to unleashing T cells against disease

June 23, 2013 ? A major study from researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology provides new revelations about the intricate pathways involved in turning on T cells, the body's most important disease-fighting cells, and was published today in the scientific journal Nature.

The La Jolla Institute team is the first to prove that a certain type of protein, called septins, play a critical role in activating a calcium channel on the surface of the T cell. The channel is the portal through which calcium enters T cells from the blood stream, an action essential for the T cell's survival, activation, and ability to fight disease.

Patrick Hogan and Anjana Rao, Ph.D.s, are senior authors on the paper and Sonia Sharma and Ariel Quintana, Ph.D.s, are co-first authors. Drs. Sharma, Rao and Hogan are former researchers at Harvard Medical School with high-level genetics expertise who joined the La Jolla Institute in 2010. Dr. Quintana conducted advanced microscopy that was a major aspect of the study.

Dr. Hogan describes the discovery as another important step in understanding the overall functioning of T cells -- knowledge from which new, more precisely targeted drugs to treat diseases ranging from cancer to viral infections can emerge. "It's like working on an engine, you have to know what all the parts are doing to repair it," he says. "We want to understand the basic machinery inside a T cell. This will enable us to target the specific pressure points to turn up a T cell response against a tumor or virus or to turn it down in the case of autoimmune diseases."

The findings were published in a Nature paper entitled "An siRNA screen for NFAT activation identifies septins as coordinators of store-operated Ca2+ entry."

"We have found that the septin protein is a very strong regulator of the calcium response, which is essential for activating immune cells," says Dr. Sharma, who was recently appointed to a faculty position, and now leads her own independent laboratory at the La Jolla Institute, in addition to serving as scientific director of the newly established RNAi screening center.

Dr. Hogan says the discovery took the research team by surprise. "We knew septins existed in the cellular plasma (surface) membrane, but we didn't know they had anything to do with calcium signaling," he says. Septins are known to build scaffolding to provide structural support during cell division.

This finding builds on Dr. Rao and Dr. Hogan's groundbreaking discovery in 2006 showing that the protein ORAI1 forms the pore of the calcium channel. The channel's entryway had been one of the most sought after mysteries in biomedical science because it is the gateway to T cell functioning and, consequently, to better understanding how the body uses these cells to fight disease.

To the research team's surprise, the septins were forming a ring around the calcium channel. "We aren't sure why, but we theorize that the septins are rearranging the cellular membrane's structure to "corral" the key proteins STIM and ORAI1, and maybe other factors needed for the calcium channel to operate," says Dr. Hogan.

Dr. Sharma adds that, "essentially we believe the septins are choreographing the interaction of these two proteins that are important in instigating the immune response." Without the septins' involvement, T cell activation does not occur.

In the study, the researchers devised a simple visual readout of activity in a main pathway responsible for activation of T cells -- the same pathway that is targeted by the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporin A that is used clinically -- and looked for impairment of the activity when individual genes were, in effect, deleted. After sorting through the roughly 20,000 human genes, they turned up 887 gene "hits," says Dr. Hogan.

With further experiments, they should be able to classify those hits into genes that affect the calcium channel itself and genes that act later in the pathway. "We are hopeful that one or more of these genes can be used as a clinical target for new drugs to treat transplant rejection and immune diseases, some of the same indications now treated with cyclosporine A," adds Dr. Hogan. He believes that a medication aimed at an early step of calcium entry through the ORAI channel could be more effective and have fewer side effects than cyclosporin A, which targets a later step in the pathway and can cause complications such as kidney disease.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/genes/~3/uf267gV8CMA/130623144925.htm

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TIP! If you plan on having a flashy website then you need to make sure that it is easy to navigate as well. Remember, you have just a few seconds to grab a visitor?s interest when they arrive at your site, so making a good first impression is key.

Some business ventures go on to develop into huge corporations, while others remain on a smaller scale. Unfortunately, most businesses will fail. Online businesses often fold after just a small amount of time. Read on to discover how to avoid a failing business, and implement some Website marketing tips.

TIP! Long before site ranking becomes a concern for you, you need to build yourself an outstanding website. This is the first thing a online business owner should know.

Deals and sales can help boost the ranking of your site. PageRank can be bought if it?s a good deal because consumer news sites will want to link to you. This is just like stores marking down items that do not sell well at full price.

TIP! An image linking directly to your product page is a discreet type of ad that people may be more likely to click. The text should coordinate with the main font used in your article and should be positioned near the end of the article.

Put a link to your website in every signature area you can. If you post to a forum, add your link to your signature so that it will be seen every time one of your posts is read. Make sure you link your website to your email. Signatures are a great way to spread the word about your site as well as increasing its page rank in search engines. Don?t just include a link, instead start with a sentence which is enticing enough that the reader will want to click through to your website.

TIP! If you have images on your website, be sure to include captions. Like the text in the main body of a web page, image captions are also scanned for keywords by the search engines when they determine relevance and rank pages.

Ultimately, website marketing is about recognizing a problem and fixing it. Try to anticipate what questions you can provide answers to or problems you can solve. If you are helping someone out with their issues they will buy a product and tell people about your business.

TIP! Never resort to spamming your prospective and existing customers in the hopes of making a sale. Posting hundreds of links on random sites and blogs will not draw any traffic.

A website?s tag is one of its most important features. It tells the world who you are. Located in the browser window, this tag is crucial to how people identify what your site is about. There stands a chance of losing potential consumers when they become too confused or unsettled by the things you?ve written.

TIP! Have some specific goals in mind with your marketing and keep to it. Take the time to learn what sort of articles will be most effective and which are the best directories to submit them to.

Learning about basic elements of good web page design will be time well spent. There are plenty of guides online that will teach you almost everything you need to know about HTML and CSS to get your web design training off on the right foot. It is good to use thirty minutes a day to improve your webpage.

TIP! Make use of emphasis coding on your website. Augment the power of a term or phrase by changing it to italics, underlined, or bold text.

Many businesses have a place on their website called a ?squeeze page.? Its purpose is to solicit email addresses from potential customers. You should offer them a promo item as an exchange for the email address. This way, they get a nice gift and you, in return, get to put them on your contact list.

TIP! Being listed with Google is vital to achieve successful internet marketing. You can take the time to register your website yourself, or you can pay for someone else to do it for you.

Make effective use of email in your business. You should design your newsletters to draw in and excite your customers. You want the customer to feel like the email is fun to read, and not spam. These emails will let your customers know that you appreciate their business.

TIP! Don?t spend too much for advertising. If it will not work for you, do not spend money on it.

When making your website, try to make it visibly appealing with as much interesting content as possible. You want to focus on giving new information to your customers in a short time period to ensure that they are fully aware about what have purchased. Avoid redundancy and meaningless data which will not help with your customer?s decision.

TIP! The look and feel of your site, as well as the ease of use, are important factors in making your customers feel like they are shopping in a store. Always keep testing graphics, ads, links and your checkout system for things that may create problems for your customers.

Make your site smaller to start out with and grow it from there. This way you can focus on making it of really high-quality. Search engines with less indexed pages will be more apt to list your site, rather than the SEO?s that have a million or so indexed pages.

TIP! Copying others will get you nowhere in marketing. Search engines are very good at identifying duplicate content, so copying will just hurt you in the long run.

The first strategy worth looking into when it comes to internet promotion is to scrutinize your competition. Peruse your competitors? websites, noting what they could be doing better. Differentiate your website by highlighting products or services that are not available on others.

TIP! An important tip regarding Internet marketing is to give rewards to those that either frequent your site often or purchase from you often. The goal is to keep the customers you have while gaining new ones.

Always focus on a goal when you are creating a website. Know what you intend to write and where it will be posted. Make sure this content is adapted to your audience, and encourage people to share these articles with their friends. Focus on these requirements as you write, and your submissions will be on target.

TIP! Take a hard look at how attractive your service or product actually is to people. If your product is sub-par, no amount of Internet marketing will change that.

The one and only advantage to the failure of many online businesses is that it gives your business a chance to succeed. Utilize the tactics outlined above and you may just find yourself becoming an upcoming Internet success story.

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Gunmen kill 9 foreign tourists, 1 Pakistani

ISLAMABAD (AP) ? Gunmen wearing police uniforms killed nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani before dawn Sunday as they were visiting one of the world's highest mountains in a remote area of northern Pakistan, officials said.

The foreigners who were killed included five Ukrainians, three Chinese and one Russian, said Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. One Chinese tourist was rescued, he said.

The attack took place at the base camp of Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world. It's unclear if they were planning to climb the mountain or were just visiting the base camp, which is located in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan.

The shooting is likely to damage the country's struggling tourism industry. Pakistan's mountainous north ? considered until now relatively safe ? is one of the main attractions in a country beset with insurgency and other political instability.

The gunmen were wearing uniforms used by the Frontier Constabulary, a paramilitary police force that patrols the area, said a senior local government official. The attackers beat up the Pakistanis who were accompanying the tourists, took their money and tied them up, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

They checked the identities of the Pakistanis and shot to death one of them, possibly because he was a minority Shiite Muslim, said the official. Although Gilgit-Baltistan is a relatively peaceful area, it has experienced attacks by radical Sunni Muslims on Shiites in recent years.

The attackers took the money and passports from the foreigners and then gunned them down, said the official. It's unclear how the Chinese tourist who was rescued managed to avoid being killed.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Pakistani government condemned the shooting in a statement sent to reporters.

"The government of Pakistan expresses its deep sense of shock and grief on this brutal act of terrorism, and extends its sympathy to the families of the victims," said a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry. "Those who have committed this heinous crime seem to be attempting to disrupt the growing relations of Pakistan with China and other friendly countries."

Pakistan has very close ties with neighboring China and is very sensitive to an issue that could harm the relationship. Pakistani officials have reached out to representatives from China and Ukraine to convey their sympathies, the Foreign Ministry said.

Many foreign tourists stay away from Pakistan because of the perceived danger of visiting a country that is home to a large number of Islamic militant groups, such as the Taliban and al-Qaida, which mostly reside in the northwest near the Afghan border. But a relatively small number of intrepid foreigners visit Gilgit-Baltistan during the summer to marvel at the peaks of the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges, including K2, the second highest mountain in the world.

Syed Mehdi Shah, the chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan, condemned the attack and expressed fear that it would seriously damage the region's tourism industry.

"A lot of tourists come to this area in the summer, and our local people work to earn money from these people," said Shah. "This will not only affect our area, but will adversely affect all of Pakistan."

Shah said authorities are still trying to get more information about exactly what happened to the tourists. The area where the attack occurred, Bunar Nala, is only accessible by foot or on horseback, and communications can be difficult, said Shah. Bunar Nala is on one of three routes to reach Nanga Parbat, he said.

The area has been cordoned off by police and paramilitary soldiers, and a military helicopter is searching the area, said Shah. The military plans to airlift the bodies of the foreign tourists to Islamabad, he said.

"God willing we will find the perpetrators of this tragic incident," said Shah.

The government suspended the top police chief in Gilgit-Baltistan following the attack and has ordered an inquiry into the incident, said Khan, the interior minister.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gunmen-kill-9-foreign-tourists-1-pakistani-065625971.html

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Wozniak on Jobs' Biopic: 'Young Steve Wasn't a Saint'

The first trailer of the upcoming Steve Jobs' biopic starring Ashton Kutcher is here. I asked Steve Wozniak, close friend of Steve Jobs and Apple co-founder about it. Here's what he said:

About Jobs' portrayal

I have a little bug in me that says that this movie will portray Steve as a saint who was ignored, rather than one of the key people who led Apple through failure after failure (Apple ///, LISA, Macintosh) while the revenues poured in from the Apple ][ that Jobs was trying to kill. It's nice to have the luxury to fail. The Macintosh market was created in the 3 years after Jobs left, with a lot of effort, by some who Jobs disdains.

Jobs came back as the saint and god we now recognize and did then head the creation of other products as great as the Apple ][, like the iTunes store, the iPod, the retail stores, the iPhone and the iPad. But he was a different person, more experienced and more thoughtful and more capable of running Apple in those later years.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.

About him and the supporting characters

I was ok with how it showed me, unlike the first preview.

Other characters like Sculley and Markkula are wildly exaggerated in ways that tend to portray them as sleazy or something. In fact, they both had the same high ideals of where computers could lead us as Steve did.

As for the film itself, Woz is open about it: "I allow a lot of artistic interpretation for the sake of entertainment and inspiration, as long as the implied meanings of the scenes are accurate. I can't judge that until I see the film."

His reaction to the first clip and the script were not a good sign, however. He believed the interaction between him and his friend wasn't even close to reality:

Not close...we never had such interaction and roles...I'm not even sure what it's getting at...personalities are very wrong although mine is closer... it's totally wrong. Personalities and where the ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club. Steve came back from Oregon and came to a club meeting and didn't start talking about this great social impact. His idea was to make a $20 PC board and sell it for $40 to help people at the club build the computer I'd given away. Steve came from selling surplus parts at HalTed he always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs (this was the 5th time).

The lofty talk came much further down the line.

I never looked like a professional. We were both kids. Our relationship was so different than what was portrayed. I'm embarrassed but if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better. Anyone who reads my book iWoz can get a clearer picture.

The trailer seems to hit all the key events in Jobs' authorized and unauthorized biographies?like Walter Isaacson's appalling Steve Jobs or Michael Moritz's excellent Return to the Little Kingdom. There is plenty of the legendary personal stuff?his year at Reed College, India, his first serious love affair, his first and ignored daughter, and his LSD experiences?and all of the business drama?the rise of Apple, John Sculley's treason, Jobs' exile to NeXT and Pixar, and his triumphant return to Cupertino more than a decade later.

Of course, any trailer can make any movie look great, but at least we now know that his one has some nice-ish moments. The Apple fan legion will probably be happy as they wait for the allegedly better Jobs' biopic, written by Aaron Sorkin, author of The Social Network and The West Wing's creator.

Oh, and one more thing: they changed that stupid jOBS title to just Jobs.

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Woz will be in the comments later tonight if his busy schedule allows him.

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Players, coaches react to protests in Brazil

El t?cnico de la selecci?n de Brasil, Luiz Felipe Scolari, habla en conferencia de prensa el viernes, 21 de junio de 2013, en Salvador, Brasil. "Todos queremos justicia en nuestro pa?s. Los que est?n en el gobierno tambi?n lo quieren. No podemos s?lo crucificarlos, todos lo queremos y trabajaremos juntos para conseguirlo. Pero no sucede en un d?a, tenemos que trabajar juntos para atender ciertos asuntos y ojal? las cosas cambien en uno, dos, cinco o 10 a?os", expres? Scolari sobre las manifestaciones en Brasil durante la Copa Confederaciones. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

El t?cnico de la selecci?n de Brasil, Luiz Felipe Scolari, habla en conferencia de prensa el viernes, 21 de junio de 2013, en Salvador, Brasil. "Todos queremos justicia en nuestro pa?s. Los que est?n en el gobierno tambi?n lo quieren. No podemos s?lo crucificarlos, todos lo queremos y trabajaremos juntos para conseguirlo. Pero no sucede en un d?a, tenemos que trabajar juntos para atender ciertos asuntos y ojal? las cosas cambien en uno, dos, cinco o 10 a?os", expres? Scolari sobre las manifestaciones en Brasil durante la Copa Confederaciones. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

El jugador de Brasil, Neymar, saluda a fan?ticos al salir de un partido contra M?xico en la Copa Confederaciones el mi?rcoles, 19 de junio de 2013, en Fortaleza. Brasil. ?Es triste tener que llegar al punto de salir a las calles para exigir mejores condiciones (de vida). La ?nica manera que puedo representar y defender al pa?s es jugando al f?tbol, y de ahora en adelante entrar? a la cancha inspirado por este movimiento?, dijo Neymar sobre las manifestaciones que hay en Brasil durante la Copa Confederaciones. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

El t?cnico de Jap?n, Alberto Zaccheroni, contesta preguntas de periodistas en una conferencia de prensa el viernes, 21 de junio de 2013, en Belo Horizonte. ?Lamento mucho y todo mi equipo lamenta mucho que haya tanta tensi?n en este momento, porque eso significa que hay mucho descontento en el pueblo, y eso no es bueno para la sociedad, para la vida social, para el deporte, o en realidad para nada. As? que espero que los que est?n en el poder puedan intervenir de inmediato para conseguir que haya colaboraci?n y recuperar el balance, para asegurarse que la situaci?n en Brasil mejore?, dijo Zaccheroni sobre las manifestaciones que hay en Brasil durante la Copa Confederaciones. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

El t?cnico de la selecci?n de Italia, Cesare Prandelli, gesticula en un partido contra Jap?n en la Copa Confederaciones el mi?rcoles, 19 de junio de 2013, en Recife, Brasil. ?Las manifestaciones civiles pueden estimular el crecimiento de un pa?s, pero es preocupante cuando se tornan violentas. Es dif?cil controlar a los que se tornan violentos cuando hay mucha gente?, dijo Prandelli sobre las manifestaciones que hay en Brasil durante la Copa Confederaciones. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

El jugador de Brasil, David Luiz, aplaude tras un partido contra M?xico en la Copa Confederaciones el mi?rcoles, 19 de junio de 2013, en Fortaleza, Brasil. ?La gente tiene el derecho de expresar su opini?n y de protestar cuando no est? contenta con lo que pasa en el pa?s. Esa es la ?nica forma de llamar la atenci?n a lo que est? mal. No vivo en Brasil, pero amo a mi pa?s. Los brasile?os aman a su pa?s, y por eso suceden estas protestas. Lo ?nico que no apoyamos es la violencia. Favorezco el derecho a expresi?n, pero s?lo si se hace pac?ficamente?, dijo David Luiz sobre las manifestaciones que hay en Brasil durante la Copa Confederaciones. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

(AP) ? Soccer's Confederations Cup, which ends on June 30, and next year's World Cup have been among many targets of the massive demonstrations sweeping Brazil. Some protesters angry at corruption and poor public services are also complaining that about the millions of dollars spent on huge stadiums in cities with dire poverty and lack of public services.

Here are some voices from the men on the fields of play:

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Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazil national team coach: "We all want justice in our country. Those in the government also want this. We can't only crucify them. We all want it and we will work together for that. But it doesn't happen in a day. We have to work together to tackle some issues so that hopefully in one, two, five or 10 years from now things can change."

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Pele, Brazil's most famous former player: "There are a lot of bad characters taking advantage of this opportunity and they are hurting these peaceful protests that have been calling for what is best for the Brazilian people. I think we can't allow these bandits and bad characters to get in the way of this opportunity to make demands for our country."

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Neymar, current Brazilian team star: "It's sad that it got to a point where we need to go to the streets to demand better conditions. The only way I can represent and defend the country is by playing football, and from now on I'll walk on the field inspired by this movement."

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Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni: "I am very sorry and my whole team is very sorry to see that there is a lot of tension at the moment because this means there is dissatisfaction on behalf of the people, and this is not good for society, for social life, for sport, or for anything really."

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Italy coach Cesare Prandelli: "As sportsmen we're hoping that tomorrow there is a great football match at the stadium and that nothing happens outside the stadium. It would be a paradox if inside the stadium we're trying to put on a show for the fans and 150 meters outside the stadium there is violence."

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Italy defender Riccardo Montolivo: "If someone protests and expresses their unhappiness they should be respected, as long as the protest is done in a non-violent manner."

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Congressman and former Brazil striker Romario, in a video message: "Keep protesting, keep going to the streets, always peacefully. It's the only way congressmen will understand that things need to change. Congratulations. More than ever I'm proud to be Brazilian."

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Brazil defender David Luiz: "Brazilians love their country and that's why these protests are happening."

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Brazil striker Fred: "I'm in favor of the protests as long as they are peaceful. I'm very proud to see the people fighting to improve public transportation, health services and so many other things."

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Brazil striker Hulk: "After seeing the people on the streets demanding improvements, it makes me feel like joining them. They are doing the right thing, what they are saying makes sense and we have to hear them. Brazil needs to improve, we all know that."

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Ricardo Zuniga, Tales Azzoni and Andrew Dampf contributed to this report from Brazil.

Associated Press

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Saturday, June 22, 2013

'Arrested Development' releases Faceblock App, courtesy of George Michael Bluth

By Tony Maglio

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Arrested Development" fans got a nice treat this year in the form of the fourth season of the Emmy-winning comedy on Netflix.

Now, fans of both the show and wood grain get another one, courtesy of the ingenuity of George Michael Bluth (Michael Cera).

The official Faceblock App - as discussed by Cera's character this season - is now live, complete with (some) real functionality!

According to Netflix, the app "has taken wood percussion by storm" with the new digital wood instrument. Fans can download the official mobile app for life-like stereo wood sounds, the finest wood grain themes and new content from "Arrested Development." As users tap the app, they unlock content related to the show.

"It's not juts a woodblock, it's a lifestyle," boasts Netflix. The app is available on Apple and Android devices.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/arrested-development-releases-faceblock-app-courtesy-george-michael-002455644.html

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