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Sunday, April 28, 2013
First Clip From 'The World's End' Is A Quick One
The first footage from Edgar Wright's "The World's End" debuted as part of a run-down of summer movies. It only lasts about 1.5 seconds, but it's great. Also, learn the difference between Marky Mark and the Rock in today's Dailies! » Let's play "Marky Mark lyric or The Rock smacktalk"! [Vulture] » Sam Mendes said [...]
Saturday, April 27, 2013
How to share a podcast with the Podcasts app for iPhone and iPad
If you regularly use the Podcasts app for iPhone or iPad to keep up with your favorite episodes and playlists, you may occasionally come across a podcast series that you think someone you know may be interested in. Instead of sending them a link to iTunes or just giving them a title to look up, the Podcasts app actually gives you the option to share them directly without ever leaving the app.
Here's how:
- Launch the Podcasts app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Find the podcasts title you'd like to share under the My Podcasts section and tap on its name.
- Tap on the Share button in the upper right hand corner.
- Now choose an option to share. Your options will be email, message, Twitter, or Facebook. Tap on the one you'd like and you'll automatically be taken to a message or post auto-filled for you.
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PFT: Joeckel angry Chiefs passed on him in draft
ReutersFor months, it was assumed the Chiefs would take tackle Luke Joeckel with the first pick in the draft.? Last night, the reality become otherwise.
The Chiefs bypassed Joeckel for Eric Fisher, and Joeckel won?t forget it.
?I wanted that first pick but, you know, it didn?t happen. And that definitely puts a chip on my shoulder,? Joeckel told PFT on Thursday night, after he was picked.? ?I?m ready to go work, I?m ready to go prove myself.? It kind of hurts even more that another offensive tackle was taken before me, so I?m ready to go. . . .
?I?ll probably wake up every single day thinking that and when I?m in the weight room . . . when I?m lifting, when I?m out in the field working, you know, that?s my entire goal.? I grew up in a very competitive family, always wanted to be the best.? And you know, going behind another guy in my same position is definitely going to push me.?
It also puts pressure on Fisher.
?Obviously the first pick gets a lot of expectations, a lot of pressure, but I think I perform very well under pressure,? Fisher told PFT on Thursday night.? ?I am somebody to take advantage of pressure situations and make the most of them.? A lot of people will break under their pressure, I?m not that kind of person.? I think any time in my life I?ve had that kind of expectation that I needed to meet, I think I?ve performed very well.?
There?s a chance both will perform well.? There?s also a chance, in theory, of a Peyton Manning/Ryan Leaf dichotomy.
After spending time last night with each guy, our money?s on the former.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
New IPOs Hitting the Tech Sector; Microsoft and Intel Struggling
Monday, April 15th, 2013
By Mitchell Clark, B.Comm. for Profit Confidential
Both Intel and Microsoft are not expensively priced on the stock market at all. Intel, in particular, has a very fair valuation, and its dividend yield is well over four percent.
Of course, the key issue for both of these companies is growth. With the prevalence of tablets and all kinds of PC-derivative products, it is tough to imagine both these companies reporting strong growth in earnings.
Consensus earnings estimates for Microsoft are quite a bit stronger than they are for Intel.
With the stock market at its highs, all kinds of new initial public offerings (IPOs) have hit the market, and some are very interesting companies.
One small, but growing technology company out of Irwin, PA is The ExOne Company (NASDAQ/XONE), which is in the business of manufacturing three-dimensional (3D) printing machines. These machines help designers and engineers to produce industrial prototypes and production parts. The company sells to the aerospace, automotive, and heavy equipment markets.
ExOne is a company that?s still in its early stages. In its latest earnings report, 2012 fourth-quarter revenues grew to $12.7 million, up a substantial $10.0 million over the fourth quarter of 2011.
The company turned profitable in the latest quarter, with earnings of $0.9 million, up from a net loss of $2.8 million in the comparable quarter.
For 2012, total revenues were $28.7 million, representing growth of 88% over 2011. The company incurred a net loss of $10.2 million in 2012, compared to a net loss of $8.0 million in 2011.
The timing on the stock market could not have been more perfect for all the new IPOs. There have been several new listings by small technology companies, and some new restaurant chains are really doing well. (See ?The Stocks Making a Comeback in the Last Two Earnings Seasons.?)
Stock market strength is likely to be very kind to Wall Street in the first quarter. There is a slew of earnings reports from Wall Street this week.
The stock market has so much potential this year. Even if earnings results in the first quarter are only mediocre, any further economic recovery will immediately translate right to the bottom line.
Still, it?s tough to be a buyer in a stock market at its all-time record high. I continue to favor blue chips, but last week?s trading action saw a real resurgence in the NASDAQ Composite index. This was a very positive development and a necessary one if the stock market is going to continue its rally.
There is pent-up demand in a number of industries. And there is more pent-up demand from institutional investors to be buyers in the stock market. This market can still tick higher, even if it?s through disappointing earnings results.
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It started with a cough: Deadly China bird flu outbreak raises fears of pandemic
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Chinese authorities have closed some live bird markets in an attempt to stop the spread of a deadly strain of bird flu. A vendor, above, washed a chicken stall in a poultry market in Hefei, China, shortly before it was due to be closed Thursday.
By Li Le and Ian Johnston, NBC News
BEIJING -- It began in late February when an 87-year-old man started coughing up phlegm. A high fever followed, he struggled to breathe and was dead just 13 days later.
His death in Shanghai, China, was one of 13 fatalities out of 41 known cases to date of a new form of bird flu that experts warn may pose a "serious human health risk."
On Saturday, China's center for disease control announced the first case in Beijing, and outside of eastern China. The seven-year-old girl, whose parents work in the live poultry trade, was stable in a hospital in the capital, media reports said.
Around the world, scientists are now beginning to examine samples of the virus with a significant question in mind: Could this strain of the disease cause a global pandemic?
This international network of scientists keeps constant watch for good reason.
In 1918 and 1919, a flu pandemic killed between 20 million and 40 million people, more than the total death toll of World War I, more in a year than the Black Death of 1347 to 1351. More recently, an H1N1 swine flu pandemic?was blamed for more than 284,500 human deaths worldwide between April 2009 and August 2010.
So far, the signs are that this is a localized outbreak. The number of cases is low and the virus -- an H7N9 strain -- does not appear to be capable of jumping from one person to another.
But each case represents a chance for the virus to mutate into one that is highly infectious in humans. And it is an unusual strain -- normally avian diseases make birds sick first, giving an early warning sign, but this one does not.
More than 1,000 dead ducks have been fished out of a river Sichuan, China. The discovery comes as the country deals with anger over the dumping of over 16,000 pigs elsewhere in China. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Scientists have established it is from an "avian reservoir" but still don't know the precise source. Chinese officials have dismissed suggestions of a connection with the large number of dead pigs and other animals found recently in rivers.
Many in China are understandably worried, with some deciding to avoid eating chicken, even though it poses no threat if properly cooked.
KFC?s parent company Yum reported on Wednesday that sales in its Chinese restaurants had dropped by 13 percent in March, saying ?publicity associated with avian flu in China has had a significant, negative impact.?
Even Jiangsu Zoo, just north of Shanghai, reportedly stopped feeding chicken to animals such as lions and tigers and started giving them a traditional medicinal herb called ban lan gen.
Xie Li, an accountant in Shanghai, admitted she was ?kind of nervous.?
?Now, we only eat vegetables," she said. "My daughter's school is measuring students' temperatures. We were told that we should eat less eggs or not touch eggs because they might have some excrement from chickens."
But others in the city of 23 million people were more sanguine.
A farm in China has admitted to dumping more than 6,000 pigs corpses into Shanghai's Huangpu River, according to China's official Xinhua news agency. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.
Yan Zhanlin, a 40-year-old businessman, said he was ?not scared, because there are not many cases, and the number of deaths is not high? and the virus had not yet spread between people.
?Today, I went to a train station, and I only saw few people wearing masks,? he said.
But even he said he had stopped eating ?poultry, pork and other meat.?
Tang, a company manager in his late 20s, who declined to give his full name, was also relatively unconcerned.
?I do not fear [the virus] at all. It is just a kind of flu, and will pass quickly,? he said. Avoiding poultry was ?not too bad, because it forces us to eat vegetables and fish, which are nutritious,? he added.
'Watching very carefully'
Perhaps in a sign of the country's nervousness, People's Liberation Army Colonel Dai Xu claimed the U.S. was behind the outbreak, saying the U.S. had used "bio-psychological weapons" to cause the deadly 2003 Sars outbreak and the current flu one, The South China Morning Post reported.
Such allegations aside, this apparently local problem is being treated seriously on a global scale.
Samples of the virus ? or non-infectious nucleic acid from it ? are being sent to scientists in up to 140 national influenza centers recognized by the World Health Organization, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Work has already started in the U.S. to make a vaccine against the new strain -- just in case.
Scientist John McCauley, of the U.K.?s National Institute for Medical Research, received his consignment on Thursday.
?We?re watching very carefully the events there [in China] because we are aware although there?s no human-to-human transmission, these are unusual infections people have been getting from an avian reservoir,? he said.
?China will need to identify the source and hopefully be able to control the cross-species transmission,? he said. ?We?re watching very carefully to see how it does.?
The outbreak of a new strain of bird flu has now infected at least 18 people, and killed six in China. NBC's Robert Bazell reports.
?In the meantime, the national influenza centers around the world are developing their ability to detect this newly emerging virus? and also working on vaccines, McCauley said.
Experts needed to find out how vaccines would perform ?in case this virus becomes pandemic,? he said.
Coincidentally, John Oxford, a professor of virology and an expert on the 1918 flu pandemic, was in Shanghai about eight weeks ago -- roughly the same time that the elderly man first fell ill ? for a meeting about hygiene, important in the fight against viruses such as flu.
He said the situation in China was ?getting a little more worrying.?
?I don?t like the sound of it. Every day I open up the reports and find out someone else has died,? he said. ?I just don?t like to see the figures going up day after day.?
?So far there?s no human-to-human transmission. What?s tomorrow going to bring, what?s the next day going to bring? You don?t know and I don?t know,? he added.
But Oxford, of the U.K's Queen Mary, University of London, stressed there was ?no need for anyone to start flapping at the moment.?
?I don?t think we should start thinking of 1918 scenarios, definitely not,? he said.
Bobby Yip/Reuters
Officials from the Center for Food Safety get a blood sample from a chicken imported from mainland China at a border checkpoint in Hong Kong on Thursday.
A group of Chinese scientists, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, also warned that the ?pandemic potential of these novel avian-origin viruses should not be underestimated.?
?Severe avian influenza A (H7N9) infections, characterized by high fever and severe respiratory symptoms, may pose a serious human health risk,? it added. ?We are concerned by the sudden emergence of these infections and the potential threat to the human population.?
However ? mirroring the split on the streets of Shanghai ? other experts were less worried.
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, a microbiology professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and principal investigator for the Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis, said while it was ?too early to be able to conclude anything ?? the probabilities are very low? that a global pandemic is looming.
He was comforted by the lack of a surge in the numbers of people with the disease.
?It?s not that it?s increasing by ten times per week, I think right now the number of cases is what you would have expected from the original numbers,? he said.
?Right now there are no major indications to become highly alarmed.?
Ian Johnston reported from London.
Related:
Deaths from new bird flu underscore grim fears, reports show
US rushes to make vaccine against new bird flu -- just in case
New H7N9 bird flu has officials worried about skimpy resources
This story was originally published on Sun Apr 14, 2013 12:47 PM EDT
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Monday, April 15, 2013
EA shuttering SimCity Social, The Sims Social and Pet Society on June 14th
For a while, it looked like EA was ready to stake a large part of its gaming future on social networking, introducing Facebook-oriented ports like SimCity Social and The Sims Social as well as more original titles. As it turns out, the game publisher isn't quite ready to be a social butterfly: following an earlier cull that focused heavily on sports-themed web games, EA is axing SimCity Social, The Sims Social and Pet Society on June 14th. There's no mystery to the shutdown, as EA explains that strong initial demand rapidly tapered off -- name recognition got the company's foot in the door, but didn't keep it there. Fortunately, gamers who feel jilted will at least get an incentive to switch to more popular games from EA's PopCap studio, though the company hasn't provided any additional details there except to say an offer is coming soon. We're all in favor of shifting resources to where they'll be truly appreciated, although we can't help but feel sorry for SimCity fans that have just been burned twice in a row.
Filed under: Gaming, Internet, Facebook
Via: The Next Web
Source: The Beat (EA)
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/15/ea-shutters-pet-society-simcity-social-and-the-sims-social/
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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Promise To Keep Their Pants On During Movie Awards Performance
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will perform at the MTV Movie Awards, and they're keeping their pants on.
By James Montgomery
Macklemore rehearses for 2013 MTV Movie Awards
Photo: MTV
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1705612/macklemore-ryan-lewis-movie-awards.jhtml
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