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Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Monday, 29 April 2013
Insight Ventures raises $1.49 billion
By Connie Loizos
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two years after closing on roughly $2 billion in new commitments, the venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners is raising more money.
The firm ? which counts microblog Twitter, newsreader Flipboard, blog site Tumblr, and daily-deals site Living Social among its investments - has raised $1.49 billion and has plans to raise roughly $900 million more, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings made on Friday.
The firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Insight filed documents for two other funds, but the capital for those funds is part of the $1.49 billion it has raised to date. One filing shows the firm has raised $354 million; another shows another a pool of $417.5 million that has already been sold.
In 2011, Insight raised a $1.5 billion fund, as well as a co-investment fund that held $450 million in commitments; the smaller fund was intended to allow Insight to invest in larger deals, according to PEHub, a unit of Thomson Reuters.
The firm also said in 2011 that it would make investments up to $150 million. But in at least one case, it exceeded that range. In February, Insight invested $200 million in 9-year-old, Atlanta-based AirWatch, which specializes in helping large companies manage and secure the mobile devices of their employees, according to a press release.
Other recent investments include: a $25 million minority equity investment in Cherwell Software, a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based company that sells IT service management software; a $53 million investment in SR Labs, a New Delhi-based maker of high-performance electronic-trading software; and Pluralsight, a Salt Lake City-based online education company for software developers, which raised $27.5 million from Insight.
Among Insight's most recent exits is email marketer ExactTarget
The SEC filings list the New York-based investment bank Sparring Partners Capital as placement agent.
(Reporting By Connie Loizos of PEHub, a Thomson Reuters publication; Editing by Sarah McBride and Leslie Gevirtz)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insight-ventures-raises-1-49-billion-200056329.html
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Zach Braff raises $2M on Kickstarter in 3 days
This April 22, 2013 file photo provided by Millennium shows actor Zach Braff at the DeLeon Tequila special screening of "The Iceman" at the Arclight in Los Angeles. In the wake of the enormously successful ?Veronica Mars? Kickstarter campaign, Zach Braff is turning to crowd-funding to help realize a goal he?s had since his 2004 film ?Garden State?: make another movie. The ?Scrubs? star on Wednesday, April 22, 2013 launched a campaign to raise $2 million from fans on Kickstarter. (AP Photo/ Millennium, Todd Williamson)
This April 22, 2013 file photo provided by Millennium shows actor Zach Braff at the DeLeon Tequila special screening of "The Iceman" at the Arclight in Los Angeles. In the wake of the enormously successful ?Veronica Mars? Kickstarter campaign, Zach Braff is turning to crowd-funding to help realize a goal he?s had since his 2004 film ?Garden State?: make another movie. The ?Scrubs? star on Wednesday, April 22, 2013 launched a campaign to raise $2 million from fans on Kickstarter. (AP Photo/ Millennium, Todd Williamson)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Zach Braff has met his goal on Kickstarter, raising $2 million in three days to fund his follow-up to "Garden State."
The actor-director's crowd-funding campaign follows Rob Thomas' wildly successful use of Kickstarter to finance a movie of the defunct TV series "Veronica Mars." Thomas pulled in $2 million in less than a day, eventually gathering more than $5.7 million in 30 days.
But some observers have criticized Hollywood stars for using the Kickstarter website to dip into the pockets of their loyal fans. Braff has said this is the only way for him to direct his first film since "Garden State" with final cut and his desired casting.
After passing his goal Saturday, the "Scrubs" star said on Twitter: "I will not let you down. Let's go make a killer movie."
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Sunday, 28 April 2013
When Religion is Deadly - Randy Gage
Sorry to have been absent for a few days, but I?ve been reflecting on this post, and wanted to make sure I could write it without emotional distractions, and bring up some of the serious issues we face.? The events of the recent Boston Marathon bombings drive home yet again how harmful and dangerous religious beliefs can be.? This applies both to those that hold them, and unfortunately ? also and especially to those who don?t.
And because those beliefs are created by mind viruses ? highly charged with emotion and often indoctrinated at a young age ? most of the people with these dangerous beliefs have no clue of the danger they pose to themselves and others.? And have no idea that they are not acting rationally.
Some commenters on the earlier posts on this subject have chastised me for being judgmental or as dogmatic as the brainwashed religious cult members I am warning against.? But this criticism does not stand the test of reason.
The goal of those posts was not to attack or ridicule people?s beliefs or their right to hold them, but to point out the lack of rational thought it takes to believe such things.? They also serve to illuminate the subliminal programming which many of them have that leads to low self-esteem, worthiness issues and self-sabotage ? and in extreme cases physical attacks or murder of others? (as the Boston events just demonstrated).?? These beliefs are anti-humanity and thus, anti-prosperity.
The Greeks thought Artemis was the virgin goddess of the hunt, although she later was promoted to the moon goddess.? The Romans had a counterpart in Diana.? Likewise the Greeks had Poseidon as the god of the seas, and the Romans worshiped Neptune for all things maritime.? ?When it comes to the supreme, supreme deities, the Greeks went with Zeus, while the Romans genuflected to his counterpart Jupiter.
As people became wiser and science helped unfold some of the mysteries of the universe, these beliefs faded away, becoming the grist of folklore, superstition and metaphors for superhero movie plots.?? (Although don?t think for a minute that there are still not people who believe in them.? There are.)
For most people today, however, we look back on these myths, thinking they are quaint, and wondering how people could hold such illogical, irrational and outlandish beliefs.? ?Yet if we look at the beliefs held by at least four or five billion of the world?s population today, they are just as bizarre and no less implausible.
You may think that these are just harmless personal beliefs, and if they console people and help them process traumatic events like the death of a loved one, or a bad medical diagnosis, they serve a beneficial purpose to society.? But now we have to seriously question that assumption.
Because religion is killing people.? Again.
Unreason, which is a polite way to say craziness, is running rampant in the world today.? The fact that such a large percentage of the world?s population still believe in Sky-God superstitions ? and these people are air traffic controllers, engineers, and even presidents and Prime Ministers ? is certainly cause for trepidation.? ?Even worse, none of them think there is anything irrational and absurd about the certainty they have in their superstitions.
Shit and Stuff?
The really ironic dynamic in all this is that everyone thinks their own beliefs are historical facts, and everyone else?s beliefs are crazy delusions.? It reminds me of George Carlin?s brilliant bit on stuff and shit.? If it?s yours, it?s stuff.? If it belongs to someone else, then it?s shit.? As in, ?Who left this shit here?? This is where I keep my stuff.?
So we have Mormons who think their magic underwear protects them from evil, Christians who trust Noah brought dinosaurs on the ark, Hindus who believe Indra was born fully grown from his mother?s side, Scientologists who imagine they are extraterrestrials from a previous lifetime and Jewish Rabbis who fly on airplanes sealed in a hefty bag because they?re flying over a cemetery.? Certainly no rational person not indoctrinated at birth or infected with mind viruses would exhibit any of these thought processes.
Probably you defend the rights of people to practice their faith and believe any of these things, as I do.? ?Just as these people have no real proof their deities actually exist, I have no proof that they don?t.?? Most of these beliefs are quaint superstitions like Zeus, Poseidon and Neptune, and if they make people feel better, good for them.
The issue arises when the beliefs that these people are brainwashed with cause misery and suffering for them, and prevent them from reaching the prosperity and happiness that is their birthright. ?Or worse yet, cause them to attack and kill others.
Most of your core foundational beliefs about all the important things:? relationships, health, happiness, prosperity, religion, sex, etc. ? are set before you are ten years old.? ?Sadly, only one person in 20 or 30 million actually does any critical thinking on this when they grow up.?? To live an enlightened life, you must be willing to analyze the beliefs you live by.
You have to ask:
- What are my core beliefs on these subjects?
- How did I come to get them?
- Are they actually true?
These are questions most people simply don?t ask.? They operate their whole lives on the programming they received with they were six, seven or eight years old.? And if that programming teaches you that you are a sorry sinner, are not worthy, are meant to suffer in this lifetime, won?t reach enlightenment until another 44 lifetimes, or you?re reincarnated this lifetime to pay penance for a past lifetime ? you?re pretty much screwed.
Unless you question your beliefs with a rational mind, and eviscerate the ones that are not serving you.?
Otherwise, you will grow into adulthood with low self-esteem and worthiness issues, which prevents you from being happy and leads to a lifetime of fear.? ?This can lead to self-sabotage behavior in your health, relationships and career.? In extreme cases it can lead to suicide, as when young gay teens take their life because they?ve been programmed to think there is something wrong with them.
For the most part, the beliefs of these individual sects and cults only impact the cult members themselves.? But there is an even greater danger today, and that is when religious zealots attack and kill people outside of their faith.
And that is where Islam comes into the picture.?
The Qur?an is very specific in its instruction for believers regarding non-believers:? Non-believers are infidels who must be converted or killed.? And Muslims who read and believe the Qur?an is the verbatim word of Allah are not only dangerous to themselves, but society as a whole.
It apparently was those beliefs that led Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to detonate the explosives that would kill and maim dozens of innocent spectators at a sporting event.? ?Like the 9/11 attacks, the victims were of many faiths, even Muslim.? How can you quantify the mind viruses that cause people to blow up an 8-year-old boy, cause his 7-year old sister to lose her leg, and even injure believers of your own faith, and believe you are conducting a holy war?
Muslims who take the Qur?an literally believe that by committing such cowardly and heinous acts, they will receive 72 virgin maidens in paradise as a reward.? ?And this is where Islam jumps the shark?
Some dismissed my earlier posts as ?Islamophobia,? (a charge I see being leveled against Sam Harris recently as well).? That accusation does not pass the logic test.? Islamophobia would suggest an irrational fear of Islam.
But the events of the last 15 years have demonstrated that non-believers have many very rational reasons to fear Islam??
Islam certainly isn?t the only religious cult to operate on folklore, myths and superstitions. I think most if not all do.? And Islam is not alone being based upon premises no rational person could believe if they were not infected with memes.?? What makes Islam the most dangerous religion in the world today is its teachings on martyrdom, jihad, and killing non-believers.
To be fair, the way Islam discriminates and ostracizes women, non-heterosexuals and non-believers is not unique.? Mormons banish non-heterosexuals, the Bible says they should be stoned, and the Torah prescribes the death penalty for homosexuality. ?But truth is, you won?t find a lot of Mormon deacons, Jewish rabbis, or Catholic ministers actually preaching to kill homosexuals today.?? But in the Islamic world, homosexuality equals a death sentence, and there are many Imams preaching this.
The way the Muslim world treats women is simply unconscionable and barbaric.?? Even ?Game of Thrones? wouldn?t fantasize something as preposterous as killing girls simply because they wanted to get an education.?? It wouldn?t pass for a credible plot in an epic fantasy like ?Thrones?, but this is the actual reality in many Muslim countries today.
And it doesn?t stop with the non-heterosexuals and women?
Many Muslim clerics advocate attacking or even killing anyone who ridicules their religion.? These ?spiritual leaders? issue death fatwas on authors and incite riots in response to comics.? And there is a strong and growing faction in the Islamic world committed to a jihad to convert or kill all ?infidels.?? The Boston bombings and the plot to derail a Canadian passenger train are just the most recent examples of attempted mass murder done in the name of Islam.
Islam is certainly not the only religion to kill people in the name of God.? There are many examples throughout history, notably the Catholic church during the Inquisition.? And while this was as vengeful and barbaric as the fundamentalist Muslims are today, there?s a very big difference in the potential impact:? While the Inquisition was at its peak of violent extremism, there were no tools of worldwide manipulation like the Internet and satellite TV.? Nor did weapons of mass destruction exist.
This all leads us to three very important issues, in terms of prosperity:
First, be mindful of what beliefs you?ve been indoctrinated with, and then being able to rationally analyze them.?? Do they pass the rationality test of someone who isn?t infected with memes?? Do those beliefs serve you or enslave you?
Second, recognize that ?religious tolerance? and respecting the beliefs of people who want to kill you doesn?t end well.? A central tenet of prosperity is knowing your own value, setting boundaries, and protecting your interests.
Finally, we need to really think about the role organized religion plays in the world today.? Instead of leading to self-awakening and enlightenment, it seems to be leading people to be satisfied with not knowing answers, instead of searching for them.
Fundamentalism now often serves as a code word for hate and intolerance.? When religions become catalysts for killing, it?s time for some serious re-evaluation.
-RG
P.S.? Based on some of the questions and comments below, let me add some additional thoughts.? I have read the Qur?an.? I have spent time in Dubai, Malaysia, and Indonesia numerous times and found the people there to be delightful.? I was always treated gracious and welcoming, and am happy to have many Muslim friends from those countries, Egypt, and here in the U.S.
I think some of the Muslim beliefs are preposterous, but no more so than many of the beliefs held by devout Jews, Christians, Hindus and many other religions.? Personally I find the Qur?an to be filled with savagery and barbarism, but we can certainly say that about other sacred texts, including the Bible.
The difference is you don?t see religious leaders in those other faiths directing their followers to continue the iron and stone age savagery, but many Muslim clerics and heads of state still do.? ?The other issue is when Muslims practice such behaviors, people suggest that they are extremists who don?t follow the Qur?an, when in actually, they are devout Muslims who are following the Qur?an quite literally.? Lets at least be honest and acknowledge the real nature of this sacred text.
I?m not on a crusade to rid the world of Islam, or any other religion.? (Although the question of whether the world would be better off without them is a fair one at this point in time.)? The purpose of this post is to point out the danger that arises when people blindly follow dogma and doctrines without practicing critical thinking.?? Everything goes back to the three questions I pose above, and whether you have the courage and rationality to ask and answer them.
Source: http://www.randygage.com/blog/when-religion-is-deadly/
Why you need a digital executor
Digital assets are increasingly valuable property, but only a small percentage of Americans are aware that they need to make provisions for how their heirs handle those assets. ?
This printout of the Facebook page for Loren Williams, now deceased, is owned by his mother, Karen Williams, who has battled Facebook over the right to view Loren?s Facebook page. This year the Oregon Legislature took up the cause, only to be turned back by pressure from the tech industry, which says they must abide by a 1986 federal law that prevents them from sharing such information.
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EnlargeHow much do you value your digital assets ? all your e-mails, digital photos, digital music, social media accounts, and so on? Are they worth $100? $1,000? Would it surprise you that a recent McAfee survey found that Americans, on average, value their digital assets at nearly $55,000?
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That's valuable property ? on par with assets like bank accounts, stock portfolios, and irreplaceable heirlooms that people routinely plan to pass on to their heirs. Yet, only a small percentage of Americans are aware of the need to make similar provisions for their digital assets. A recent Harris survey of 2,076 adults, commissioned by my company, Rocket Lawyer, found that 93 percent of Americans with digital assets didn?t know or were misinformed about what happens to these digital assets after they die.
Without directions provided in your estate plan, your heirs could face a number of challenging questions, like:
- What should be done with the deceased?s Facebook page and other social media accounts?
- What should be done with personal e-mails, digital photos, and videos?
- How can these assets be located and accessed if they?re online?
Unless there are directions left in the deceased?s estate plan, default laws will apply in the same way as with other assets. For example, everything might go to a spouse or other next-of-kin, and the people left behind will have to coordinate with third parties to retrieve any digital assets ? if they can figure out where the deceased person had these accounts.
That?s why it?s essential that your will appoint a digital executor. It could be the same person as your regular executor or someone else if, for example, your primary executor isn?t especially tech-savvy. This person makes sure your wishes are followed for these nontangible assets.
You?ll also need to make a list of your digital assets, the information you use to log in to these sites, and how you want each one managed after your death. For example, there might be personal photos you?d like to keep private. Maybe you?d like your Facebook page to be turned off because it seems morbid to leave it up once you?re gone ? or alternatively, you?d like it to stay up as a memorial to you. With clear directions and a digital executor to make sure your requests are carried out, your family is left with a plan.
Digital estate planning is a relatively new area of law, and an estate planning attorney is the best resource for making sure you get it done right. For example, it?s helpful to know whether websites allow account access to designated executors, what authorization is needed, if they can have legal permission to access online financial accounts, and whether state law requires your digital executor to reside in the same state as you.
Whatever you do, plan ahead. And create that will as soon as possible, so that things are a little easier for the people you leave behind.
? Charley Moore is the founder of Rocket Lawyer, an online legal service based in San Francisco.
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Saturday, 27 April 2013
Feature phones more popular than tablets for browsing
A recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at web site viewing, the seventh time this regular survey has been performed, and found that tablets were surprisingly (to me at least) less popular than feature phones when it came to selecting a main surfing device.
Demographics
Between the 9th and 11th of April 2013 1,090 mobile phone- (including smartphone-) using members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.6% of the sample were female, 3.1% in their teens, 23.1% in their twenties, 37.1% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, and 11.2% aged fifty or older.
I?m beginning to seriously consider using a tablet as my main tool for home, replacing my netbook, although I do need to find a decent text editor with macros in order to produce all the tables I use. If anyone has any good recommendations, I?m all ears. And no, Emacs for Android is most certainly not a good recommendation!
In Q1SQ1, I?d like to know more about why about half the smartphone users choose it as their primary surfing device, but only one in five tablet users do so. I suspect it is something to do with the smartphone being more portable thus usable on the train when commuting, and perhaps a lot of tablets are wifi only, so have less connectivity.
Research results
Read more on: goo researchQ1: Do you also have a computer (PC, Mac, etc)? (Sample size=1,090)
Q1SQ1: Which device do you mainly browse the web from? (Sample size=1,032)
Computer 71.5% Smartphone 20.8% Legacy feature phone 4.7% Tablet 2.8% Note that in a separate survey conducted at the start of March 2013, smartphone ownership was at 42.8% and tablets at 14.6%.
Q1SQ2: Do you plan to buy a computer in the future? (Sample size=58)
Plan to buy 20.7% Want one, but no plan to buy yet 65.5% Don?t want one 13.8%
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Transit bus, train crash in Pa.; at least 10 hurt
EVANS CITY, Pa. (AP) ? A rural transit bus carrying passengers to a program that offers services for people with developmental disabilities and a freight train crashed at an unmarked railroad crossing Friday morning, injuring at least 10 people.
Video from local TV helicopters suggested that the small bus may have hit the train and then come to rest about 20 feet away. The bus was upright on an embankment and had front-end damage. Police were investigating whether dense morning fog contributed to the crash.
The crash occurred in Evans City, about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, at about 8:10 a.m. Friday. Eleven people, including the driver, were on the bus, and at least 10 were being taken to hospitals, officials said.
Three men and a woman were being treated in the Allegheny General Hospital emergency room in Pittsburgh, said hospital spokesman Dan Laurent. The men were 35, 38 and 75 years old, and the woman's age was not immediately available.
Police said the Butler Area Rural Transit bus was on its way to a program known as Lifesteps.
A woman who identified herself as the granddaughter of a 90-year-old woman on the bus told WPXI-TV that her grandmother was headed to geriatric care program at Lifesteps. The woman said the bus takes adult patients of all ages to the facility for a variety of programs.
A Lifesteps official did not immediately return a call for comment, but the facility's website said it is a nonprofit that has operated since 1923. Lifesteps "services for children, families, adults with special needs and seniors are designed to encourage growth, independence, confidence and dignity," the website said.
The transit agency's website indicates it partners with the Alliance For Nonprofit Resources, a social service agency based in the county seat of Butler, to provide reduced-fee transportation for people with disabilities. Neither agency immediately returned calls Friday.
The transit agency's website said it operates 17 wheelchair-accessible buses that make about 300 trips a day, six days a week.
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Ideas For Doing Scrapbooking | Home and Family - Rwop ...
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Heritage recipe albums are a priceless treasure. Food often has strong ties to our emotions and memories. Certain foods may remind us of Thanksgiving at Grandma's, or goody baskets received at Christmas time. Most of us associate certain foods with particular events, people or traditions. Foods that remind us of home or family are often a comfort.
Heritage recipe albums are a priceless treasure. Food often has strong ties to our emotions and memories. Certain foods may remind us of Thanksgiving at Grandma's, or goody baskets received at Christmas time. Most of us associate certain foods with particular events, people or traditions. Foods that remind us of home or family are often a comfort.
Many of us have family recipes that have been passed down for generations. Memories and stories are often lost from one generation to the next. Recipe scrapbooks not only preserve the recipe itself, but also the tips and heart-felt stories that accompany them.
Gathering Recipes
Gathering the recipes and memories from family members is the biggest task in creating a heritage recipe album. Send out a letter or email asking them for several of their favorite family recipes. Have them include thoughts and memories about each recipe.
Include a list of questions to get the information you would like for each recipe. You may want to note that the person shouldn't feel obligated to answer every question for each recipe. Hopefully some will spark some great memories. Ask them to include a photo of an occasion where that recipe was served. Here are some possible questions:
Whose recipe is this?
Who in your family makes this most often, or is most strongly associated with this recipe?
Where did the recipe come from?
Whose favorite recipe is this and why?
Are there any memorable stories associated with this recipe?
Are there any special tips or suggestions in preparing this recipe?
Is there a special secret ingredient for this recipe?
Is there a certain time of year your family enjoys this recipe?
Was this recipe served at a memorable occasion or event?
Scrapbook Layout Suggestions
Now that you have gathered all your recipes and information, it's time to start the album. Here are a few things to consider before you start laying out pages.
Choose your album size and type
Make a list of recipe categories you want to include
Divide the recipes into the proper categories
Choose a color, pattern or some way to distinguish each category
You are ready to begin your recipe album. Some suggested pages may include:
Title page - This may include the name of the family the recipes are from.
Dedication page - This is a great place to describe the person or family and why the album was created.
Table of contents - List each category of food included in the book, ei:Entrees, side dishes, salads and desserts.
Subtitle page - List each recipe included in that category.
Recipe page - For larger albums (12 X 12) a single page per recipe may work. For smaller albums (8 X 8) a two page spread may work better.
Use photo corners to attach recipe card
Include a photo of people or event where recipe was served
Include information from questions sent out
Scrapbooking recipes is a fun creative way to preserve many treasured family traditions. A digital album is a great option that would allow those traditions to be shared with everyone in the family.
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Friday, 26 April 2013
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Swinton honors Ebert with mass dance-along
By John Boone , E! Online
As they say, the show must go on. And what better way to honor the late Roger Ebert than with a theater packed full with movie lovers?
Which is exactly what happened at this year's Ebertfest in Champaign, Ill., where Ebert's wife, Chaz, and over 1,500 attendees gather in the Virginia Theater. And also where Tilda Swinton led a "spiritual service" of sorts, a dance-along to Barry White's "You're the First, the Last, My Everything."
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"If we dance up here, you're going to sit and watch us and laugh," Tilda explained about the tradition that sprung from festivals in her native Scotland. "So, no observers allowed. Participants only."
With that, she dances through the aisles of the theater like Ellen DeGeneres, if Ellen DeGeneres were sent here from another planet and had had plenty of time to rest up in a glass box.
It's truly a sight to see and would surely make Ebert proud, as Chaz explains, "That's why (Tilda is) one of our favorite festival guests!"?
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Bangladesh factory building collapse kills nearly 100
By Serajul Quadir and Ruma Paul
DHAKA (Reuters) - A block housing garment factories and shops collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring more than a thousand, officials said.
Firefighters and troops dug frantically through the rubble at the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30 km (20 miles) outside Dhaka. Television showed young women workers, some apparently semi-conscious, being pulled out.
One fireman told Reuters about 2,000 people were in the building when the upper floors slammed down onto those below.
Bangladesh's booming garments industry has been plagued by fires and other accidents for years, despite a drive to improve safety standards. In November 112 workers died in a blaze at the Tazreen factory in a nearby suburb, putting a spotlight on global retailers which source clothes from Bangladesh.
"It looks like an earthquake has struck here," said one resident as he looked on at the chaotic scene of smashed concrete and ambulances making their way through the crowds of workers and wailing relatives.
Rescue workers try to rescue trapped garment workers in the Rana Plaza building which collapsed, in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka April 24, 2013. A block housing garment factories and shops ... more? Rescue workers try to rescue trapped garment workers in the Rana Plaza building which collapsed, in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka April 24, 2013. A block housing garment factories and shops collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring more than a thousand, officials said.REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (BANGLADESH - Tags: DISASTER BUSINESS) less? "I was at work on the third floor, and then suddenly I heard a deafening sound, but couldn't understand what was happening. I ran and was hit by something on my head," said factory worker Zohra Begum.An official at a control room set up to provide information said 96 people were confirmed dead and more than 1,000 injured. Doctors at local hospitals said they were unable to cope with the number of victims brought in.
CRACKS IN BUILDING
Mohammad Asaduzzaman, in charge of the area's police station, said factory owners appeared to have ignored a warning not to allow their workers into the building after a crack was detected in the block on Tuesday.
Five garment factories - employing mostly women - were housed in the building, including Ether Tex Ltd., whose chairman said he was unaware of any warnings not to open the workshops.
"There was some crack at the second floor, but my factory was on the fifth floor," Muhammad Anisur Rahman told Reuters. "The owner of the building told our floor manager that it is not a problem and so you can open the factory."
He initially said that his firm had been sub-contracted to supply Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, and Europe's C&A. In a subsequent interview he said he had been referring to an order in the past, not current work.
Wal-Mart did not immediately respond to requests for comment. C&A said that, based on its best information, it had no contractual relationship with any of the production units in the building that collapsed.
The website of a company called New Wave, which had two factories in the building, listed 27 main buyers, including firms from Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Canada and the United States.
"It is dreadful that leading brands and governments continue to allow garment workers to die or suffer terrible disabling injuries in unsafe factories making clothes for Western nations' shoppers," Laia Blanch of the U.K. anti-poverty charity War on Want said in a statement.
November's factory fire raised questions about how much control Western brands have over their supply chains for clothes sourced from Bangladesh. Wages as low as $38.50 a month have helped propel the country to no. 2 in the ranks of apparel exporters.
It emerged later that a Wal-Mart supplier had subcontracted work to the Tazreen factory without authorization.
Buildings in the crowded city of Dhaka are sometimes erected without permission and many do not comply with construction regulations.
(Additional reporting by Andrew Biraj; Writing by John Chalmers; Editing by Andrew Roche)
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Nintendo has another tough year, sells just 390,000 Wii Us in the last quarter
While there's no shortage of 3DS iterations headed to the market, Nintendo is having a harder time selling its new Wii U. Profits for the year are also half of its own predictions, despite the fact that Nintendo reduced its rosy estimates in the interim. Net sales are down 1.9 percent over the last year, down to 635 billion yen, but most importantly the company has managed to turn its net income into positive figures, netting 7 billion yen over the last year, compared to a 40 billion yen loss the year before. Following its launch, Wii U sales have slowed substantially, with only 390,000 units sold since December (now totaling 3.45 million), while the 3DS continues to sell in healthier numbers, with Nintendo shifting 1.25 million handhelds in the same period.
Focusing on the next year, the company maintains that it'll increase net income to 10 billion yen in the next twelve months, with a focus on selling "the compelling nature" of its gaming hardware, as well as pushing its 3DS more in foreign markets. The financial statement adds that the games maker plans to concentrate on "proactively releasing key Nintendo titles" starting the second half of this year "in order to regain momentum." Those key titles will have to hit hard, as certain competitors' new consoles are creeping closer.
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Spotify's Top 10 most streamed tracks
The following list represents the top streamed tracks on Spotify from Monday, April 15, to Sunday, April 21:
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1. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton, "Can't Hold Us" (Macklemore)
2. Imagine Dragons, "Radioactive" (Interscope Records)
3. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz, "Thrift Shop" (Macklemore)
4. Justin Timberlake, "Mirrors" (RCA Records)
5. P!nk, "Just Give Me a Reason" (RCA Records)
6. Bruno Mars, "When I Was Your Man" (Atlantic Records)
7. Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z, "Suit & Tie" (RCA Records)
8. Daft Punk, "Get Lucky ? Radio Edit" (Columbia Records)
9. Lil Wayne, "Love Me" (Cash Money Records)
10. The Lumineers, "Ho Hey" (Dualtone Music Group Inc.)
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3. Justin Timberlake, "Mirrors" (RCA Records)
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8. Calvin Harris, "I Need Your Love" (Columbia Records)
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Broadcom eyes more smartphone chip sales
By Noel Randewich
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Broadcom's quarterly earnings report pushed the chipmaker's shares up after hours as company executives said they expect their baseband chips to appear in upcoming handsets.
Broadcom, which sells wireless chips used in Apple's iPhone as well lower-end devices popular in Asia, posted first-quarter revenue of $2.01 billion, up 9.7 percent from the year-earlier period.
"Over the course of the year, we should see additional customers in our baseband business," Chief Executive Scott McGregor told analysts on a conference call, of the chips that let cellphones communicate across networks.
Apple on Tuesday reported fiscal second-quarter revenue above expectations, but profit declined for the first time in a decade and CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that Apple's growth rate had slowed.
With investors concerned Apple's expansion may be losing steam, shares of Broadcom had fallen about 1 percent so far in 2013, compared to a 12 percent increase in the Philadelphia Semiconductor index.
Like its competitors, Broadcom is trying to diversify its customer base with more sales to manufacturers including Samsung Electronics , Apple's main rival in smartphones and tablets.
Broadcom's chips integrating wifi and Bluetooth technology are used in Apple's iPhone and other top-tier smartphones and tablets.
The company makes 3G baseband chips used in less expensive smartphones sold in Asia and other emerging markets, and it plans to launch high-speed 4G baseband chips compatible with more advanced networks.
"Their strategy has been to get a foothold at a major supplier and work their way up," said Kevin Cassidy, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus. "Now they're expanding their footprint."
Broadcom said revenue in the second quarter would be $2.10 billion, plus or minus 4 percent.
Analysts, on average, had expected first-quarter revenue of $1.913 billion and second-quarter revenue of $2.050 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Broadcom reported a net profit of $191 million, or 33 cents per share, compared with a net profit of $88 million, or 15 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. Adjusted earnings per share were 65 cents, beating the 56 cents expected by analysts.
Shares of Broadcom rose 4.76 percent in extended trade after closing up 1.17 percent at $32.98.
(Reporting by Noel Randewich; Editing by Dale Hudson and Andrew Hay)
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Khloe Kardashian Odom cut from 'X Factor'
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By Tierney Bricker, E! Online
Mario Lopez is set to return as the host of Fox's reality singing competition, the network announced on Monday. Fox also confirmed reports that Khlo? Kardashian Odom will not be returning for the third season. "Khlo? Kardashian will not be returning to co-host 'The X Factor.' We really enjoyed working with her and wish her all the best in her future endeavors," a spokesperson for the show tells E! News.
A source close to "The X Factor" assures us there is no drama behind the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star's exit, saying, "Everyone on the show had a great relationship with her and thought she was fun to work with."
NEWS: Demi Lovato is returning to the judges' table in season three
"I'm looking forward to returning to 'The X Factor' team," Lopez said in a statement. "We're coming back stronger and better than ever and I'm excited to check out all the new talent."
Of Lopez's return, Simon Cowell said, "I'm thrilled Mario is back for season three of 'The X Factor.' Hosting a live show and keeping the judges ? especially Demi ? in line, is not an easy job, but Mario is a pro and we are glad?he's coming back."?
Our source tells us, "No decisions have been made about replacements yet."
NEWS: Check out the new series coming to E! from Ashley Tisdale, Nick Cannon and more!
While Demi Lovato is set to return to the judges' table, the singing competition series still needs to replace Britney Spears and L.A. Reid, who both exited the show last season.
"The X Factor" returns for its third season this fall on Fox.
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Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Google Launches Google Earth Pro 7.1 With New Viewshed Visualization Tool And Improved Printing Options
Just in time for Earth Day, Google just launched version 7.1 of Google Earth Pro, the professional version of Google’s desktop-based mapping tool. The new version adds a number of map-making and advanced printing tools that will make it easier for businesses to create legends and scales for their maps and to add titles to them. The new Viewshed tool now also allows users to identify and calculate viewpoints and sightlines from any placemark you set in Google Earth. As Google notes, the Viewshed tool allows users to, for example, see the visual impact of a building project on surrounding properties or to evaluate the coverage area of a cell phone tower. The tool simply covers areas that can be seen from this spot in green and marks everything that’s not visible from there in gray. The new advanced printing option, Google says, gives users more control over the layout and style of the maps they create. Users can now, for example, add title and description boxes to their maps, as well as a north arrow, legend and a legend. Users can now also add an HTML area to their maps, which allows them to add images, text and other additional information to their maps. All of this, of course, can also be exported into a PDF file. Also new in this version is the ability to desaturate the base imagery or make it black and white to draw more attention to your own icons and paths. To celebrate Earth Day, Google is making this new version available for $199 instead of $399 for the next 24 hours (promo code: EARTHDAY199).Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/M2UtU1A_FL0/
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Join the Engadget HD Podcast live on Ustream at 8:30PM ET
It's Monday, and you know what that means; another Engadget HD Podcast. We hope you will join us live when the Engadget HD podcast starts recording at 8:30PM. If you'll be joining us, be sure to go ahead and get ready by reviewing the list of topics after the break, then you'll be ready to participate in the live chat.
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Blue Metropolis: They'll sleep later - Montreal Gazette
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Blue Metropolis programming director Gregory McCormick, right, with festival president William St-Hilaire.
Photograph by: Allen McInnis , The Gazette
MONTREAL - William St-Hilaire and Gregory McCormick are holding up just fine, considering. Chatting in the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival?s office in St-Henri, president/general manager/artistic director St-Hilaire and programming director McCormick are in the final pre-event home stretch, a stage where rest has become a distant memory.
They?ve got good cause to feel wide awake. Blue Metropolis, in a time of tightened belts for everyone in the arts, is doing well. This year?s edition, the 15th, features 200 writers (up from 150 last year) at 184 events (124 in the adult festival, 60 in the children?s), many already sold out or close to it; last year?s attendee head count of 22,000 is expected to be surpassed. One key ingredient in this success has been a rethinking in venue philosophy: after hosting at a series of big chain hotels, a move was made to the boutique Hotel 10 at Sherbrooke St. and St. Laurent Blvd. last year. It has been a case of a user-friendly downsizing coming up trumps.
?Feedback has been very good,? McCormick says of the new site. ?It?s often said that in a smaller venue, people cross paths more, you run into people you know ? friends, people you haven?t seen in a long time, famous writers. Previous hotels had sometimes felt conference-y. You tended to get lost a bit, the rooms were very big. Personally, I would rather have 100 people in a room and have that room feel packed than have the same number of people or more in a room that feels half empty.?
?The location was an issue, too,? says St-Hilaire. ?We looked at a lot of hotels to find a perfect spot between the francophone and anglophone communities, something that was more central and hip.?
The festival also makes use of neighbouring spaces to accommodate overflow, including, for the first time last year, the Grande Biblioth?que for the onstage interview with the International Literary Grand Prix recipient. ?There was a lot of skepticism about that last year, from several different camps,? says McCormick. ?It was an anglo writer (Joyce Carol Oates) and there was a lot of talk that the anglo audience wouldn?t go there, because it was thought to be a space that the anglophone community doesn?t frequent. But it sold out, so there you go.?
When the lineup and themes are being drawn up, ?nothing is spontaneous,? says St-Hilaire. ?We need to consider a lot of parameters. We have 75 per cent Canadian content because of grant stipulations, a certain proportion of anglophones to francophones to other languages. We start with ideas: we brainstorm, think of l?air du temps, consider personal passions like sustainability. Mental health (a theme this year) was something important to me because of my personal family background.?
When it comes time to actually book the writers, a process ideally finished by the previous Christmas, a lot of variables come into play: who?s available, who?s got a new book out, who?s on a tour that might line up with other stops on the circuit, like the Ottawa International Writers Festival and the Frye Festival in Moncton.
?Another nice thing,? says McCormick, ?is that we can definitely use Montreal as part of our pitch. Writers like to come here.?
Book people being no different from anyone else in their attraction to star power, name recognition plays an undeniable role, says McCormick. ?There?s always a certain tension between introducing audiences to writers they don?t know and bringing in big names. It?s a matter of balancing those two sides of the program. I think our Grand Prix winners, historically, have satisfied that big-name angle.?
The Grand Prix pick ? this year it?s Irish novelist and playwright Colm Toibin ? is crucial, providing a common talking point for festivalgoers and, in a sense, setting the tone for the whole event. The list of past winners shows a nice series of balances: Canadian and international, anglophone and francophone, male and female. That?s an especially happy result given that the selection jury (headed this year by T.F. Rigelhof) is independent. ?We have to completely respect that distance,? says St-Hilaire. ?You can?t be independent only when it?s convenient.?
When St-Hilaire took over in 2010 from outgoing festival founder Linda Leith, she found that her history in the arts didn?t preclude a vertiginous learning curve. ?I started my career as an (arts) organizer, and I?m a former musician, so I was aware how it was in the cultural business, how tough it is to get the money,? she says. ?I did that for a very long time, at places like Usine C. Then I went to CBC, where for 10 years I spent other people?s money. So when I got back into the arts (with Blue Metropolis), I remembered, ?Oh, right, this is why I quit the first time.? ?
Once she got over the shock of an accumulated festival deficit, St-Hilaire set to work: full-time staff was halved from 10 to five, new funding activities were started and new granting bodies tapped (the overall million-dollar operating budget is divided roughly down the middle between grants and private funding/box office revenue), and within a year, the festival?s books went from the red to the black. ?We?re doing more with less, no question,? says St-Hilaire. ?But that?s the times. We?re no different in that sense than the hospitals and the fonction publique.?
More with less, for Blue Met?s organizers and volunteers, is a mantra that will fit the next seven days all too well when it comes to sleep and the lack of it, too. ?It?s like preparing for a marathon,? says St-Hilaire. ?At this point, it?s 20 hours a day.?
McCormick, for his part, says: ?I?ll crash for three days when it?s all over.?
The Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival runs Monday through Sunday. For information on events and tickets, visit www.bluemetropolis.org or call 514-937-2538.
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