Monday, July 22, 2013

ATD on the TV: Toasty Twitter, Amber Alerts, Dell and the NFL

This week members of the AllThingsD staff showed up live and in person on all sorts of channels. Should you want to see some of the week?s tech news highlights, rather than just read about them, watch these quick videos.

Mike Isaac turned up on CNBC with some smart answers to a somewhat silly question: ?Is Twitter toast??

Arik Hesseldahl joined WCBS to give some background on emergency cell phone alerts, after one woke up many New Yorkers in the middle of the night.

He was also on the BBC for a hit on the ongoing Dell saga, which he?s been covering on a more-than-daily basis.

And then our media guy Peter Kafka showed up a couple places to talk about a theory that Google or Apple might gain a foothold in TV by buying online broadcast rights for football. Here?s Peter on the Wall Street Journal?s Digits show, and Bloomberg?s audio podcast ?The Inside Scoop.?

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Kevin Bacon: 'I pay wedding DJs not to play Footloose theme'

Kevin Bacon has revealed that he bribes wedding DJs not to play 'Footloose'.

The actor - who played the lead in the 1984 film - joked that he has found it hard to escape the role that shot him to fame.

Bacon told chat show host Conan O'Brien: "I go to the disc jockey and hand him $20 and say, 'Please don't play that song'.

"A wedding is really not about me, it's about the bride and groom and it's embarrassing."

The 55-year-old also admitted that wedding guests have in the past expected an impromptu performance when the song is played.

"It's awful. Just awful," he said. "I try to avoid that if possible."

Kevin Bacon and Lori Singer in 'Footloose'

Bacon is currently starring as FBI veteran Ryan Hardy in horror drama The Following.

The second season of the Fox show, which airs on Sky Atlantic in the UK, has been described as "very different" by exec Marcos Siega.

Bacon himself has hinted that the forthcoming run - expected to begin in early 2014 - sees his character in a "different place in his life" and may jump ahead in time.

Watch the original trailer for Footloose below:

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Helmuth?s Mid-Season Fantasy Baseball Awards

When looking straight at stats that effect fantasy, who should take home the hardware for the fantasy mid-season awards? I decided to take a look?

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Rick Perry Will Travel To Israel This Fall

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), who announced this week that he will not be running for reelection, told the Washington Times Thursday that he'll be making a trip to Israel in October.

"We will be going to Israel to bring together Arabs, Christian and Jews in an educational forum,? Perry said in an interview with The Times.

The publication pointed out that the trip foreshadows a potential 2016 presidential run, although Perry told The Times that he has "plenty of time to make that decision."

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Gift vouchers for a ?One Night Spa Break for Two? in Greenwoods Hotel & Spa have been released on Digital Sports Groups? new website, SpaDays.com

(PRWEB UK) 12 July 2013

Gift vouchers for a ?One Night Spa Break for Two? in Greenwoods Hotel & Spa have been released on Digital Sports Groups? new website, SpaDays.com. The Greenwoods Hotel and Spa is located in the lovely countryside of Stock, Essex.

The magnificent Greenwoods Hotel and Spa is surrounded by sweeping gardens and beautiful countryside. Throughout your stay you may both take advantage of the extensive spa facilities including indoor pool, saunas, steam rooms, Jacuzzi and invigorating monsoon shower. After a day of pampering guests may head to their luxuriously furnished designer bedroom complete with marble en-suite bathroom where their relaxation will continue! In the morning you may enjoy breakfast at the hotel prior to departure.

?One Night Spa Break for Two? agenda:
Upon arrival at the hotel and spa, guests will be shown to their room and will then be given a tour of the spa facilities. This includes and indoor pool, saunas, steam rooms, Jacuzzi and invigorating monsoon shower. Guests can then make full use of these facilities throughout their stay. The spa offers a range of treatments which may be purchased for an additional fee. In the morning guests can then enjoy breakfast included that is included.

SpaDays.com is a website that brokers ?Spa Break? gift vouchers at various Spa Break Hotels throughout the UK. The site is owned and run by Digital Sports Group whose SpaDays.com website sells many different spa days and spa break gift vouchers for spas and hotels throughout the UK.

Dan Jones, Operations Manager for Spadays.co.uk said, ?With its lovely surroundings and tranquil spa, the Greenwoods Hotel & spa is the perfect stop for a spa break.?

For more information on ?One Night Spa Break for Two? in Greenwoods Hotel & Spa, you can search for ?Spa Breaks for Two? at SpaDays.com website.


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Friday, July 12, 2013

Israel to Retool Military for Shifting Threats

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Cold, wet weather hurts Sonic 3Q

Drive-in fast-food chain Sonic Corp. said Monday that its net income in its fiscal third quarter rose 3 percent, even as sales dropped, as it trimmed costs and set aside less money for income taxes.

Cold, wet weather in March and April put a damper on sales, the company said. But revenue trends improved during the quarter. A shift to more national advertising also helped sales, CEO Clifford Hudson said in a statement.

Profit came to $14.8 million, or 26 cents per share, in the March-May quarter. That matched Wall Street predictions and was up from $14.4 million, or 24 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Revenue fell 2 percent, to $146.6 million. Analysts polled by FactSet expected $147.8 million. Revenue in locations open at least a year, a key retail metric that indicates core operating trends, rose 0.1 percent during the quarter.

Costs also dipped 2 percent, to $116.6 million. The company also spent less on interest on its debt, while its reserve for income taxes fell nearly 6 percent.

Sonic still expects revenue in locations open at least a year to rise by a low-single-digit percentage for the whole of its fiscal year. However, it said that the weak economic recovery may cause "sales volatility."

The company's shares were unchanged in aftermarket trading following the release of the earnings report. The stock closed Monday at $14.19, up 36 percent for 2013.

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Vegetation on Earth: Stunning satellite imagery depicting vegetation around the world

June 24, 2013 ? Although 75 percent of the planet is an ocean of blue, the remaining 25 percent of Earth's surface is a dynamic green.

Data from the Visible-Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on board the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite is able to detect these subtle differences in greenness, and is sending extraordinary images back to Earth giving us a clearer picture of vegetation around the world.

NOAA, in cooperation with NASA, used satellite data from April 2012 to April 2013 to generate a stunning series of animations and images depicting the annual cycle of green vegetation on Earth. These images allow scientists to measure changes in vegetation over time.

Vegetation data has many applications, from weather and ecological forecasting, to understanding best practices for land use. Pixel by pixel analysis of vegetation changes from week to week to give an early warning for the outbreaks of drought, hazardous fire conditions, or even when malaria may break out in Sub-Saharan Africa. Because vegetation greatly affects runoff, surface temperature, and relative humidity of an area, more complex weather forecasts are beginning to integrate vegetation dynamics into numerical models and drought outlooks.

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Must See HDTV (June 24th - 30th)

Must See HDTV June 24th  30th

The NHL and NBA playoffs have wrapped for the year, so we're officially into summer vacation programming. Look below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.

Dexter
Everyone's favorite serial killer is back for an eighth and final season on Showtime this weekend. Even if you think the show itself should've been dismembered and dumped in the harbor a couple of seasons ago, it will be interesting to see if a department full of cops can finally figure out there is a killer right underneath their noses. Check after the break for a couple of trailers for the new season.
(June 30th, Showtime, 9PM)

Catfish
After a successful first season and Heisman runner-up Manti Te'o's embarassing revelation, it seems no one had a better 2012 than the makers of Catfish. Nev and crew will be pursuing an entire new slate of internet hoaxsters this season, and we doubt they'll run out anytime soon.
(June 25th, MTV, 10PM)

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Sunday, June 23, 2013

US Tells Hong Kong to Turn Over Snowden (ABC News)

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Friend: James Gandolfini died of heart attack

ROME (AP) ? An autopsy on James Gandolfini confirmed the "Sopranos" star died of a heart attack, with no evidence of substance abuse or foul play, a family friend said Friday.

Michael Kobold told reporters that Gandolfini's body has been released to a funeral director and that the family was working with the Italian government to speed up the bureaucratic red tape to get the body back to the United States soon. While the process can take up to 10 days, Kobold said the family was hoping to have the body repatriated by mid-week with a funeral planned in New York by Saturday at the latest.

Gandolfini, 51, died Wednesday night after being discovered in a Rome hotel room by a family member.

He had arrived in Rome on Tuesday and spent his first full day in the Eternal City with his son visiting the Vatican and dining in the hotel, the luxury Boscolo Exedra.

"He had a wonderful day," Kobold said of the father-son vacation.

Asked if Gandolfini had a history of heart problems, Kobold said he was healthy.

"There's nothing out of the ordinary. It was a heart attack. It was a natural cause," he said. "There was no foul play, no substance abuse. None of that."

Morgue officials at Rome's Policlinico Umberto I hospital said the U.S. Embassy had told them not to speak to the media, and that a family representative would provide the results of the autopsy. Gandolfini's sister, Leta, went to the morgue on Friday to formally identify the body.

Gandolfini was to have helped preside over the closing ceremony on Saturday of the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily. The festival instead is organizing a tribute to him.

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ROME -- A family friend of actor James Gandolfini announced at a news conference Friday that an autopsy showed "The Sopranos" star died of a "heart attack of natural causes" and "nothing else was found in his system."

The 51-year-old Emmy-winning actor suffered the heart attack in the bathroom of his room at the Hotel Boscolo in Rome while on vacation with his teenage son, Michael, and sister, Michael Kobold told reporters.

"James came here on vacation with family," Kobold said. "On Wednesday he went to visit the Vatican, and had dinner at the hotel with his son while waiting for his sister ... All are devastated for his loss. He was a loving father."

Kobold said that it could take up to 10 days of red tape to repatriate Gandolfini's body, but the family is hoping that, with the help of Italian authorities, it will happen in the middle of next week so that a funeral could be held in New York next Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

"He was happy, healthy, on vacation with his son," Kobold said. "He was fine."

Medical staff attempted to resuscitate Gandofini after his son found him in the bathroom, but he was pronounced dead at about 11 p.m. local time (5 p.m. ET) Wednesday at Policlinico Umberto I hospital, which is a three-minute drive from the hotel.

Famous for his role as mob boss Tony Soprano in hit HBO show "The Sopranos," Gandolfini was on a celebratory trip to Italy with his 13-year-old son, who had just graduated from junior high school and won a soccer championship.

Experts said a heart attack was a common cause of death for a man in his 50s.

Dr. John Harold, president of the American College of Cardiology and a heart specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said that ?in many patients who have a heart attack, the first symptom is sudden death and they don?t even make it to a hospital.?

Tributes have flooded in for the actor, who won three Emmy Awards and three Screen Actors Guild awards for playing Soprano from 1999-2007.

He also appeared in a number of big-screen roles, including the crime drama "Killing Them Softly" and "Zero Dark Thirty," a film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow, who directed Gandolfini in ?Zero Dark Thirty,? said she was devastated by the news of his death.

"James was such an enormous talent, and an even greater spirit. I will be forever grateful for the privilege of working with him, and shall cherish his memories always," she said in a statement.

Nicole Kidman said Gandolfini was ?such a great actor,? describing his death as ?a big loss.?

?Sending love and prayers to James? family. He will be greatly missed,? she said in a statement to eonline.com.

Brad Pitt described Gandolfini as ?a ferocious actor, a gentle soul and a genuinely funny man." ?I am fortunate to have sat across the table from him and am gutted by this loss.?

Gandolfini also made a good impression on the ordinary people he met.

An employee at the Hotel Boscolo told Italy's la Repubblica newspaper that during his stay the actor had signed autographs and was ?very friendly with us from hotel's staff and with other guests in the restaurant. A nice person.?

NBC News' Ian Johnston, Reuters and Mads Frese contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/james-gandolfini-autopsy-reveals-actor-died-heart-attack-6C10407874

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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Tokyo court rules in Apple's favor in patent battle, Samsung has deja vu

In case you forgot, Samsung and Apple's legal squabbles didn't end in US federal court last year: the litigation rages on in international courts. Stop us if you've heard this one -- Samsung and Apple are caught up in a lawsuit focusing in part on Cupertino's bounce back patent, and things aren't looking great for Sammy's lawyers. It's a familiar story, but this time it's playing out in a Japanese courtroom, with a Tokyo judge deciding that a number of Samsung devices are in violation of Apple's scrolling technology. What's this mean to the consumer? Nothing yet -- the court still hasn't calculated damages or approved an injunction, and this isn't the only legal battle the firms are waging in the country's court system. Feel free to brush up on your kanji and check out the source link below for more details, or skip on over to Bloomberg for a more digestible account.

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Putin launches investment drive, hails energy deals

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin announced a major infrastructure investment drive on Friday to revive the Russian economy, which has slowed since his return to the Kremlin last year.

In a keynote speech to investors at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin said the government would plough 450 billion roubles ($13.6 billion) into major infrastructure projects - including rail and road links spanning the world's largest country.

Putin also said Russia would contain inflation by curbing prices charged by state monopolies in line with retail price growth, while signaling continuity in monetary policy when a top aide takes the helm at the central bank.

The era of high revenues from energy exports is over and Russia has no "magic wand" to replace them, he said.

"Our most important task is to create the conditions for stable economic growth," Putin, 60, told an audience of investors and officials.

A year ago, in his first address to the forum since winning a third presidential election, Putin said state capitalism was not his goal.

On Friday, he warned managers of state companies that they would be punished for poor performance.

Putin also said he would open up Gazprom's monopoly on gas exports to allow competitors to sell liquefied natural gas abroad, while praising a major oil export deal signed by state-owned Rosneft with China.

He said privatization would be conducted gradually, with deals being done on the Moscow stock exchange to try to deepen Russia's capital markets.

"Our key priority is to improve our business climate," Putin said. "Everyone should work on this priority - from a mayor to a federal minister, from an ordinary policeman to the head of the security forces."

(Writing by Douglas Busvine; editing by Elizabeth Piper)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/putin-launches-investment-drive-hails-energy-deals-120421947.html

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Men who can't produce sperm face increased cancer risk

June 20, 2013 ? Men who are diagnosed as azoospermic -- infertile because of an absence of sperm in their ejaculate -- are more prone to developing cancer than the general population, a study led by a Stanford University School of Medicine urologist has found. And a diagnosis of azoospermia before age 30 carries an eight-fold cancer risk, the study says.

"An azoospermic man's risk for developing cancer is similar to that for a typical man 10 years older," said Michael Eisenberg, MD, PhD, assistant professor of urology at the medical school and director of male reproductive medicine and surgery at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. Eisenberg is lead author of the study, published online June 20 in Fertility and Sterility.

Diagnoses of male infertility and azoospermia are surprisingly common in the United States. About 4 million American men -- 15 percent of those ages 15-45 -- are infertile. Of these, some 600,000 -- about 1 percent of those of reproductive age -- are azoospermic. "There is evidence that infertility may be a barometer for men's overall health," Eisenberg said, "and a few studies have found an association of male infertility with testicular cancer." The new study, he said, not only assigns the bulk of infertile men's increased cancer risk to those with azoospermia, but also suggests that this risk extends beyond testicular cancer.

Eisenberg conducted most of the analysis for the study at Stanford, using data gathered from the Texas Cancer Registry and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he completed his medical training. The study's senior authors are Larry Lipshultz, MD, and Dolores Lamb, PhD, professors of urology at Baylor.

The study population consisted of 2,238 infertile men who were seen at a Baylor andrology clinic from 1989 to 2009. Their median age was 35.7 when they were first evaluated for the cause of their infertility. Of those men, 451 had azoospermia, and 1,787 did not. There were otherwise no apparent initial differences between the two groups.

Azoospermia can arise for two reasons. Obstructive azoospermia is caused by a blockage that prevents otherwise plentiful, fit sperm produced in the testes from reaching the ejaculate. But a screen of about one-fourth of the azoospermic men in the study population indicated that the vast majority suffered from the non-obstructive variety: Their testes didn't produce enough sperm for any to reach their ejaculate, most likely because of genetic deficiencies of one sort or another. Fully one-fourth of all the genes in the human genome play some role in reproduction, Eisenberg noted, so there are a lot of ways for the capacity to sire offspring to go astray.

After undergoing a semen analysis, the men were followed for an average of 6.7 years to see which of them turned up in the Texas Cancer Registry. (Fortunately for the analysis, most people tend to stay in the state where they've grown up, said Eisenberg.) Their rates of diagnosed cancer incidence were then compared with age-adjusted cancer-diagnosis statistics of Texas men in general.

In all, a total of 29 of the 2,238 infertile men developed cancer over a 5.8-year average period from their semen analysis to their cancer diagnosis. This contrasted with an expected 16.7 cases, on an age-adjusted basis, for the male Texas population in general (which, Eisenberg said, closely reflects cancer incidence rates for the entire U.S. population). This meant that infertile men were 1.7 times as likely to develop cancer as men in the general population. This is considered a moderately increased risk.

But comparing the cancer risk of azoospermic and nonazoospermic infertile men revealed a major disparity: The azoospermic men were at a substantially elevated risk -- nearly three times as likely to receive a diagnosis of cancer as men in the overall population. Infertile men who weren't azoospermic, in contrast, exhibited a statistically insignificant increased cancer risk of only 1.4 times that of men in the overall population.

By excluding men whose cancer diagnosis came within two or three years of their infertility evaluation, the researchers were able to rule out the possibility that azoospermia caused by an undiagnosed cancer had affected the statistics.

While the study wasn't large enough to delineate which specific types of cancer pushed azoospermic men's incidence rates up, the diagnoses they received covered a wide range of cancers: brain, prostate and stomach tumors, as well as melanoma, lymphoma, testicular cancer and cancer of the small intestine. The findings suggest that genetic defects that result in azoospermia may also broadly increase a man's vulnerability to cancer, Eisenberg said, supporting the notion that azoospermia and cancer vulnerability may share common genetic causes.

The study, which was funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, is the first to examine the cancer risk of azoospermia in particular, or to link it to non-germ-cell cancers. Previous studies have failed to consistently identify any increased risk for nontesticular cancers in infertile men, whether azoospermic or otherwise. In those previous studies, however, azoospermic men couldn't be separately examined because sperm analyses weren't available.

Most striking of all, said Eisenberg, was the cancer risk among azoospermic men who first had their semen analyzed before age 30. They were more than eight times as likely to subsequently develop cancer than Texas males in the general population of the same age. In contrast, there was no relationship between age of semen analysis and risk of cancer for nonazoospermic men.

The good news, Eisenberg said, is that while the cancer risk among young azoospermic men was quite large compared to their same-age peers, their relative youth means that their absolute risk of contracting cancer during the follow-up period remained small. The bad news, he said, is that men in their 30s often don't have a primary health-care provider. He advised that young men who are diagnosed as azoospermic should be aware of their heightened risk and make sure to get periodic checkups with that in mind.

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Would Abolishing Fannie and Freddie Stall the Real Estate Recovery?

mortgage_papers_calculatorEarlier this month, a bipartisan bill was put forth that would liquidate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and replace them with a government reinsurer of mortgage securities behind private capital. While the legislation is in the very early stages, there is mounting concern over how it might impact the real estate and mortgage industries.

According to the draft of the bill, Washington-based Fannie Mae and McLean, Va.-based Freddie Mac would be liquidated within five years and the U.S. Treasury would assume responsibility for their existing mortgage guarantees.

The bill is a reflection of a growing consensus in Washington that the U.S role in mortgage finance should be limited to assuming risk only in catastrophic circumstances, explains a June 4 report from Bloomberg News. It also reflects the prevailing view among lawmakers that the two government sponsored enterprises should cease to exist.

Exactly what kind of impact the dissolution of Fannie and Freddie would have on the real estate business remains to be seen, says Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices President Stephen Phillips.

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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Samsung reportedly shipping 55-inch OLED TV to South Korea next week

Samsung reportedly shipping 55inch OLED to South Korea next week

Samsung told us to expect its 55-inch OLED TV sometime in July, but there's now a chance that South Koreans will get an early look. Yonhap News Agency hears through tipsters that the premium set could ship to Samsung's homeland next week, with a price somewhere north of 10 million won ($8,840). It might not be alone, either -- those same sources also claim that the company's curved OLED TV may arrive at the same time. Samsung hasn't confirmed anything, but such moves would line up with the firm's tendency to debut products in its home country. Besides, Samsung rarely lets any of LG's salvos go unanswered.

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Costa Rica blanks Panama 2-0 in qualifier

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -Goals by Bryan Ruiz and Celso Borges put Costa Rica in a stronger position to qualify for next year's World Cup with a 2-0 victory over Panama on Tuesday night.

The Costa Ricans have 11 points from six matches with a 3-1-2 record. That trails only the United States (4-1-1), which beat Honduras earlier in the night.

Ruiz opened the scoring on a free kick in the 49th minute, and Borges clinched it just about two minutes later from long distance in a steady rain at National Stadium.

Panama has six points on a 1-2-3 record and is fifth of the six teams.

The top three finishers from the CONCACAF finals will qualify for Brazil 2014, with the fourth-place team entering a playoff against New Zealand.

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