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Microsoft isn?t including a headset with Xbox One units, though this is something that consumers would be very much interested in seeing.
There is one encouraging piece of news. Microsoft does seem to be aware of the feedback, as product planning manager Albert Penello confirmed on Twitter that the company is ?looking into? the possibility of bundling Xbox One with a headset.
Penello wrote on Twitter:
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Can India win again in 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup!
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 was officially announced mid day today. Cricket lovers from Indian sub-continent have been keenly waiting for the news as World Cup winner Indian team will compete in the matches held in Australia and New Zealand.
Minister for Sport and Recreation, Graham Annesley, today announced the NSW Government had successfully reached an agreement with the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Local Organising Committee which will provide NSW fans with many opportunities to see the world?s best cricketers in action.
?Sydney has earned a global reputation as a destination for major international sporting events which add significant value to the NSW economy,? Mr Annesley said.
?The ICC Cricket World Cup will be the biggest sporting event in the world in 2015 and will provide another bonanza for sports fans and businesses in NSW.
?Over one billion people are expected to watch the series on television, and the NSW Government has secured not only a number of major pool games, but also a quarter-final, and a semi-final.? In the lead-up to the tournament proper, NSW will also host a series of warm up matches at other venues including in Western Sydney.
?The Sydney Cricket Ground is without question one of the world?s most iconic sporting arenas and will be at its pristine best following the $186 million redevelopment which is due for completion in time for the 2014 Ashes Series.
?With the additional seating available the record for a one-day crowd may well be exceeded.
?NSW will host more games than any other State, featuring major Cricketing nations including South Africa, England, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, West Indies and Australia.
?The major semi-final will be played at the SCG on Thursday 26 March to determine one of the two finalists,? Mr Annesley added.
All games staged in NSW will be day/night fixtures and include the following -
??????????South Africa v West Indies ? Friday 27 Feb 2015
??????????Australia v Sri Lanka ? Sunday 8 March
??????????England v Qualifier 2 ? Fri 13 March
??????????Quarter Final 1 ? Wednesday 18 March
??????????Semi Final ? Thursday 26 March
Full details of on the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 and tournament qualifying are available at?www.cricketworldcup.com, where fans can also register for ticketing news and other tournament updates.? Ticketing information including tiers and packages will be released later this year.
The?ICC Cricket World Cup?2015 will feature 42 pool matches, 21 in Australia, 21 in New Zealand. Played in 14 host cities, 7 in each country.
See the link to information on matches for venues, fixtures and ticket bookings: ?http://www.icc-cricket.com/cricket-world-cup/fixtures
Pool A is England, Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Qualifier 2, and Qualifier 3.
Pool B will consist of South Africa, India, the West Indies, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Qualifier 1 (Ireland) and Qualifier 4.
The?ICC Cricket World Cup?2015 quarter finals will be played in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Wellington. Semi finals in Auckland and Sydney and the historic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) will host the final.
India will complete its group fixtures against Zimbabwe at Eden Park, Auckland, on 14 March. In the group, India will also play South Africa (in Melbourne on 22 February), Qualifier 4 (in Perth on 28 February), West Indies (in Perth on 6 March) and Ireland* (in Hamilton on 10 March).
Looking ahead to the tournament, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said: ?It only seems like yesterday that we won the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in front of a passionate and supportive home crowd.
?World Cup is a very special event for every cricketer because it only takes place every four years. Having tasted success in Mumbai in 2011, we?ll be working very hard to retain it.
?I?m keenly looking forward to the tournament and confident that we?ll do well. Our recent victory in the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 has provided the team with a lot of confidence, and I am sure this experience will help us in our preparations for the World Cup in 2015.?
The tournament opens on 14 February with co-hosts Australia and New Zealand playing their first matches on the opening day of the tournament in front of their home crowds, while the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) will host the final on 29 March.
India are ranked number one in the world in the latest Reliance ICC ODI Rankings. Up until now ICC Cricket World Cup?s ?all-time leading run scorer (2278 runs in 45 matches) is Sachin Tendulkar.
India has been the ICC Cricket World Cup winner in 1983 and then in 2011 by defeating Sri Lanka by six wickets in the final in Mumbai. Let us see if India can do it again in 2015!
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Perhaps taking a page from Apple's playbook, Google has incorporated the ideas pioneered first by Swype and then SwiftKey and rolled outtheir own keyboard app. The app includes Swype-sorry, "gesture typing," predictive text, multiple language and keyboard support, and a unique feature: Floating Preview. While Google's low-cost (free) alternative keyboard is perfectly serviceable, it left me wanting more.
Starting Up
Unless it was shipped standard on your Android device (as is the case for several Samsung phones), you'll have to configure any keyboard app once you download it from Google Play. Google Keyboard walks you through the process, and the typically clean Google-esque screens make short work of it.
Google deserve some credit for making a single app that works on both tablets and phones?SwiftKey has separate apps for phones and tablets.
During set up, activating multiple languages in Google Keyboard confused me. First, I had to uncheck "use device language," and then select others from a list of 56 languages which was otherwise greyed out. These appear to be non-Latin text keyboards, though it was unclear to me.
Further customization is found in the Settings, which you access by tapping the app's desktop shortcut. Settings covers the normal gamut of options, though was notably missing multiple keyboard skins and had no alternative keyboard layouts like SwiftKey's split keyboard.
Also missing was a social integration component. With SwiftKey or Swype, you can let the app scan your Twitter, email, or Facebook to pick out words and patterns of speech unique to you.
I did like that Google Keyboard not only builds a custom dictionary of words, but allows you to add words from within the app. Other keyboard apps don't allow you to directly interact with your dictionary, except through the keyboard itself. Google makes this process much easier.
Perhaps in a swipe (pun?) at Apple, Google Keyboard does the double-space-bar-as-a-period trick.
You can also add alternate dictionaries from a list of 25 languages and formats. Again, I was confused about the dictionary/non-Latin keyboard dichotomy, which the other keyboard apps handle better. Also, both Swype and SwiftKey support over 60 languages, and SwiftKey was particularly well set up for switching seamlessly between languages.
Writing With Google Keyboard
There's little aesthetically different between Google's keyboard and the stock Android keyboard you see on most phones, with thick white letters on generously spaced chiclet keys. SwiftKey's default keyboard uses longer, distinctively shaped keys that stand out among other drab keyboards.
Taking a page from SwiftKey, Google Keyboard shows three suggested words above the keyboard as you type. Also like SwiftKey, Google Keyboard shows three next word suggestions, intended to save you the trouble of typing. This can speed up your typing quite a bit, but it didn't feel as smart as SwiftKey. Google Keyboard didn't appear to adapt to my writing, and the company does not list it as a feature of the app. That's disappointing, since I was really impressed with SwiftKey's adaptive language learning.
Google Keyboard cleverly includes a much larger list of possible words, which you access by tapping and holding an ellipses symbol below the center word suggestion. I liked this much better than Swype's ribbon of possible words.
Google Keyboard also supports "gesture typing," more commonly known as Swyping, where you drag your finger between letters to spell out words. SwiftKey called this feature Flow, and included it in their last major update. I actually thought Google's gestures felt tighter, and more responsive than other keyboard apps.?
As you move your thumb between letters, a thick Google-blue trail follows in your digit's wake. Once you release your thumb, the center word is placed in the text. To start over without adding text, simply drag your thumb off the keyboard. While Swyping, Google Keyboard displays its top three suggestions, though you can only select them as corrections after the fact.
Floating Preview is Google's main innovation with Swype-style input. While moving across the keyboard, a grey window hovers near your thumb showing the word Google thinks you want. Since my eye generally follows my thumb, I always knew what to expect and this was a big improvement over Swype and SwiftKey which often felt like blind luck typing.
Swype came pre-bundled with their Dragon dictation software as well as a handwriting recognition option. Google ignores handwriting, and its presence is not missed, though it does include a button to activate its built-in dictation software.
Google Does Good, Not Great
I think that Google sees Swype-style input as a major differentiator between Android and a radically changing iOS. If this is a flag-ship feature, Google probably wants to make sure every single Android user can get a hold of it. That's why they've brought this free, good-not-great app to market in the first place. Expect it to be standard in future versions of the OS.
And frankly, that's a good thing. Though it seems strange at first, Swyping (or whatever you want to call it) is a great way to interact with your phone and feels like the first major innovation in smartphone user design since pinch and zoom.
Android users should absolutely down some kind of keyboard app. Google's free offering is perfectly fine if you don't need extra features. Swype is feature laden, and even includes a mobile version of Dragon Dictate and cloud syncing for your dictionaries. SwiftKey puts big emphasis on adaptive learning, and felt better suited for users who frequently use multiple languages. Choose your weapon.
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People rescue garment workers trapped under rubble at the Rana Plaza building after it collapsed, in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka in this April 24, 2013 file photo. Sources says President Obama will suspend U.S. trade benefits to Bangladesh.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce on Thursday that the United States is suspending trade benefits for Bangladesh after two tragedies in a year in the country's garment sector that killed more than 1,200 workers, a congressional source said.
U.S. trade officials have said they expected Obama to announce a decision on the matter by the end of June. The U.S. Trade Representative's office did not have an immediate comment on whether an announcement would come Thursday.
Suspending Bangladesh from the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences program would increase U.S. duties on an array of products the Asian country exports to the United States, such as tobacco, sporting equipment, porcelain china, plastic products and a small amount of textile products.
But it would not directly affect Bangladesh's main export, clothing, since garments are not eligible for duty cuts under the GSP program, which was created in 1976 to help economic development in the world's poorest countries and to reduce import costs for U.S. companies.
In 2012, Bangladesh was spared about $2 million in U.S. duties on about $35 million worth of goods under GSP, but it paid about $732 million in U.S. duties on $4.9 billion of clothing exports not covered by the program, according to Ed Gresser, a trade analyst with the GlobalWorks Foundation.
Still, Obama's decision would be a repudiation of working conditions in Bangladesh following the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in April that killed 1,129 people and the Tazreen factory fire in November that killed 112. Clothing for several American and European retailers is made in Bangladesh.
It also could influence the European Union's decision whether to suspend trade benefits for Bangladesh, which would have far more impact since Bangladesh's clothing and textiles exports receive duty-free treatment there.
The EU imported roughly 9.2 billion euros ($12.13 billion) of goods from Bangladesh last year, according to data from the EU's executive, the European Commission.
Clothing and textile products ranging from towels and bedding accounted for almost 93 percent of those goods.
EU officials have threatened to kick Bangladesh out of the program - a process that could take more than a year - unless it improves worker safety conditions.
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
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Jelly Bean users running Android 4.1 or later can now snag a few more features with Google's Search app. The update (version number varies depending on your device) delivers three notable additions. The first tool pushes saved offers as you approach a redemption location, reminding you of forgotten deals when they're most relevant. Next up is a new voice action, which lets you control music playback -- both on your device and in the Play Store -- by speaking to your handset. (Voice action tips also make a debut with this refresh.) A third addition enables instant access to information about television programming you're currently consuming, assuming your HDTV is connected to the web and on the same WiFi network as your device. Get your download on at the source link below.
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Dolphin has done a pretty fine job when it comes to keeping its browser loaded with plenty of handy features, both on Android and iOS. Now, the Dolphin's hit version 10 for Android, bringing along an array of things including a revamped user interface, drag-and-drop support for speed dials on the home screen, additional swipe-based gestures and a new store for web-based applications. In addition to all that, Dolphin brought back support for Adobe Flash, while also taking to this release to improve the built-in search options and allow users to dig through sites like Amazon, Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube right from within the app. The overhauled Dolphin browser is now available on Google Play, so give the source below a quick click if you're eager to check out these changes.
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updated 1:27 a.m. ET June 19, 2013
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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Workday has cornered the HR market, cofounder and co-CEO Anheel Bhusri said at the GigaOM Structure conference Wednesday. Now it?s turning to other industries.
?If HR is a $10 billion market, financials is ten times that size,? Bhusri told GigaOM?s Om Malik, adding, ?financial data is really the key record data for whatever business you?re in ? if you win HR and finance together, you?ve effectively won the ERP department.? So Workday?s next steps are focusing on the HR and finance markets together, including ?built-in analytics and a better consumer internet experience, building it with mobile and then taking it global.?
Bhusri also said that as enterprise-based cloud companies expand, they can learn a lot from consumer cloud companies: ?Most any problem that you are going to face ? someone in the consumer cloud has already faced it,? whether it?s scaling out or expanding on mobile. Meanwhile, consumer cloud companies could take a note on privacy and security challenges from enterprise companies.
Workday?s customers are increasingly accessing the platform through mobile, Bhusri noted. While he didn?t have an exact figure on hand, he estimated that the figure is now around 25 percent.
?It?s?been slower uptake, more because customers have been careful about rolling out these capabilities,? Bhusri said. ?Many large customers are still BlackBerry shops. We haven?t really put a lot of effort into building for the BlackBerry platform. But as they shift to Android and iPhone, the attach rates are going up pretty dramatically.?
Check out the rest of our Structure 2013 live coverage here, and a video embed of the session follows below:
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Andy Dick has turned detractors into fans on "Dancing With the Stars."
By Drusilla Moorhouse, TODAY contributor
America loves a comeback, but many fans of "Dancing With the Stars" bristled when ABC announced that troubled comedian Andy Dick was joining the cast for season 16.
Is he really a "star"? After all, instead of his career in Hollywood, the 47-year-old performer is most famous for his past struggles with alcohol and drugs, a disturbing rap sheet and making anti-Semitic remarks.
Would anyone vote for him?
The surprising answer is yes. America really does love a comeback.
In fact, despite his low scores, Dick has garnered enough votes to make it to week five in the competition. ?
He's even won over the judges. Carrie Ann Inaba was moved to tears by his poignant performance on "Best Year of My Life" night -- a Viennese waltz set to Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," which he dedicated to his daughter.
"Your movement vocabulary is small, but what you said with those few words is so beautiful," Inaba said.
What Dick lacks in his dancing skill -- no one believes he's a serious contender for this season's mirror-ball trophy -- he more than compensates for with his enthusiastic effort and his attempt to better himself.
"You're not a great dancer, and you know that," said judge Len Goodman after Dick's comical "Prom Week" cha-cha with pro Sharna Burgess, ?"but what you do is you make me feel good. I feel better after watching you than I did before you danced."?
Obviously, the fans feel the same way, and not just about Dick's dancing. Both on and off the ballroom floor, the audience has grown to appreciate his vulnerability, honesty and genuine emotion. Take, for example, their comments on our Facebook page about his cha-cha:
"Andy Dick impressed me the most. He clearly working hard and trying to improve himself," wrote Pamela Kay. "So glad that I had the opportunity to be in the audience last Monday and to talk with him personally at a nearby restaurant afterwards. He is taking this gig very seriously and it shows!"
"How sweet after all the upheaval in his life his daughter seems to adore him and he her," wrote Christine Alexander Moore.
"Dancing With the Stars" has become a celebration of Dick's sobriety -- for both himself and the viewers who find inspiration in his story.
Do you believe Andy Dick has found redemption on "Dancing"? Tell us on our Facebook page!
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Apr 15 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $4,139,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $3,137,920 3. Matt Kuchar $2,442,389 4. Adam Scott (Australia) $2,100,469 5. Steve Stricker $1,935,340 6. Phil Mickelson $1,764,680 7. Dustin Johnson $1,748,907 8. Jason Day $1,659,565 9. Hunter Mahan $1,553,965 10. Keegan Bradley $1,430,347 11. Charles Howell III $1,393,806 12. John Merrick $1,375,757 13. Russell Henley $1,331,434 14. Michael Thompson $1,310,709 15. Kevin Streelman $1,310,343 16. Bill Haas $1,271,553 17. Billy Horschel $1,254,224 18. ...
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's spokesman on Sunday called a U.S. law barring Russians from the country over alleged rights abuses unacceptable interference in Russia's affairs, setting a tough tone before a visit by a senior White House adviser.
Dmitry Peskov's remarks were the first comment from Putin's office after the U.S. administration named 18 Russians subject to visa bans and asset freezes over the Magnitsky Act legislation passed by Congress late last year.
Most of the 18 were blacklisted for alleged links to the prosecution of whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, whose death in a Moscow jail in 2009 has set off a chain of events that has damaged Russian-U.S. ties.
"This is direct interference in Russian affairs. The so-called 'Magnitsky case' should not be discussed outside Russia at all," state news agency Itar-Tass quoted Peskov as saying. "This is unacceptable to us, and we will never agree with it."
President Barack Obama had been obliged to release the U.S. list by Saturday under the Magnitsky Act, which drew attention to concerns about rights and the rule of law in Russia, which Putin has led since 2000 as president or prime minister.
Moscow responded on Saturday by naming 18 Americans barred from Russia under retaliatory legislation Putin signed in December, most of them accused of violating the rights of Russians prosecuted in the United States.
Peskov blamed the United States for the exchange and said it could draw the attention of the two nuclear-armed countries away from issues of global security that are more important.
"At a time when international and regional conflicts dictate rapprochement between Russia and the United States, because the two countries are in many ways responsible for the situation in the world, actions are being taken that not only cast a shadow but inflict harm on relations between these countries," he said.
The blacklists added to tension before a visit by Obama's national security adviser Tom Donilon, whose talks with senior Russian officials on Monday will be the highest-level face-to-face contacts between the Kremlin and the White House since Obama started his second term in January.
But despite the rhetoric, both governments kept high-level current officials off their lists in an apparent effort to contain the political damage.
Peskov made clear on Friday that the relationship would not be ruined, saying ties were multifaceted and there remained "many prospects for development and growth".
Donilon's talks are expected to include discussion of U.S. plans for a European anti-missile shield, which have strained relations because Russia says the system could eventually shoot down its nuclear missiles and threaten its security.
A U.S. decision to scale down its plans could ease those concerns, but Moscow's response so far has been cautious.
(Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
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PARIS (Reuters) - The pilot whose Indonesian jet slumped into the sea while trying to land in Bali has described how he felt it "dragged" down by wind while he struggled to regain control, a person familiar with the matter said.
All 108 passengers and crew miraculously survived when the Boeing 737 passenger jet, operated by Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air, undershot the tourist island's main airport runway and belly-flopped in water on Saturday.
Officials stress it is too early to say what caused the incident, which is being investigated by Indonesian authorities with the assistance of U.S. crash investigators and Boeing.
But initial debriefings, witness comments and weather reports have focused attention on the possibility of "wind shear" or a downdraft from storm clouds known as a "microburst".
Although rare, experts say such violent and unpredictable gusts can leave even the most modern jet helpless if they are stronger than the plane's ability to fly out of trouble - with the critical moments before landing among the most vulnerable.
"If you have a downdraft which exceeds the performance of the plane, then even if you put on full thrust you will go downhill and you can't climb out," said Hugh Dibley, a former British Airways captain and expert on loss-of-control events.
The cause of the crash has potential implications for the reputation of one of the world's fastest-growing airlines, which is fighting to be removed from a European Union safety black list even as it buys record volumes of Airbus and Boeing jets.
According to initial pilot debriefings, details of which have been described to Reuters, flight JT-904 was on an eastwards approach to Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport at mid-afternoon on Saturday following a normal flight from Bandung, West Java.
The co-pilot, an Indian national with 2,000 hours of relevant flying experience, was in charge for the domestic trip, which was scheduled to last one hour and 40 minutes.
HEAVY RAIN
As the Lion Air plane was coming in to land, with an aircraft of national carrier Garuda following behind and another about to take off on the runway just ahead, the co-pilot lost sight of the runway as heavy rain drove across the windshield.
The captain, an Indonesian citizen with about 15,000 hours experience and an instructor's license, took the controls.
Between 400 and 200 feet, pilots described flying through a wall of water, according to the source. Bursts of heavy rainfall and lost visibility are not uncommon in the tropics but the aircraft's low height meant the crew had little time to react.
With no sight of the runway lights or markings, the captain decided to abort the landing and perform a "go around", a routine maneuver for which all pilots are well trained.
But the captain told officials afterwards that instead of climbing, the brand-new 737 started to sink uncontrollably.
From 200 feet, well-practiced routines unraveled quickly.
"The captain says he intended to go around but that he felt the aircraft dragged down by the wind; that is why he hit the sea," said the source, who was briefed on the crew's testimony.
"There was rain coming east to west; very heavy," the source said, asking not to be named because no one is authorized to speak publicly about the investigation while it is under way.
A passenger on board the jet painted a similar picture of an aircraft getting into difficulty only at the last minute.
"There was no sign at all it would fall but then suddenly it dropped into the water," Tantri Widiastuti, 60, told Metro TV.
Lion Air declined to comment on the cause of the crash.
WRITE-OFF
According to the Flight Safety Foundation, bulletins for pilots at around that time indicated a few storm clouds at 1,700 feet. A moderate wind blew from the south-southeast but flicked in a wide arc from east-southeast all the way to the west.
The source said there was no immediately obvious evidence of pilot or technical error but investigators will pore over the speed and other settings, as well as interactions between the pilots, to establish whether the crash could have been avoided.
Both pilots were given urine tests by the Indonesian police and were cleared for drugs and alcohol, the source said.
Neither pilot has been named.
According to Indonesian media reports, five Lion Air pilots have been arrested for drugs in the past two years, raising questions over whether drug abuse or overwork are widespread.
The airline's co-founder has denied this and told Reuters last year he was working closely with authorities to ensure Indonesia's tough drugs laws are obeyed.
Delivered in February, the aircraft itself had only had one technical problem: a landing light that had to be replaced.
Now lying broken-backed beneath a 15-foot (4.6-meter) sea-wall yards (meters) short of its destination, the $89-million Boeing has been written off. It was on lease from Dublin-based firm Avolon.
Pictures of the stricken jet lying in water and the fact that all on board survived brought back images of the "Miracle on the Hudson," in which an Airbus A320 ditched safely in New York after dramatically losing power due to a bird strike.
But industry experts say the suspected involvement of wind shear draws far more chilling parallels with the crash of a Delta Air Lines Lockheed Tristar while on approach to Dallas airport in 1985 that killed 134 passengers and crew.
Delta Flight 191 led to the creation of new warning systems and better procedures for dealing with low-level wind shear, or sudden changes of wind direction or speed.
According to Boeing, the 737-800, its most popular current model, is equipped with a "Predictive Windshear System". On approach, an aural warning says, "Go around, windshear ahead".
Nowadays, pilots agree the best strategy for dealing with possible wind shear is to avoid it entirely, said Dibley, who is a senior official at the UK's Royal Aeronautical Society.
But if the "wind shear" warning blares out, the automatic response is to cancel the landing and go around again, he said.
DELICATE BALANCE
Pilots can sometimes prepare for risks, such as a possible loss of the right sort of wind on landing, by keeping a buffer of extra speed to help them get out of trouble, he said. It is a delicate balance as too much speed could make the jet overrun, which in the case of Bali means hitting a road or yet more sea.
"If your speed is too slow and you hit a downdraft you will just sink. So one question is how much extra air speed the aircraft was carrying," Dibley said.
There was no immediate information on what cockpit signals were available to the crew, how fast the Lion Air jet was flying or what sort of scheduling roster the crew had been flying.
Founded by two brothers and travel entrepreneurs, Lion Air has been growing at a record pace to keep up with one of the region's star economies. Last month, it signed a deal with Europe's Airbus for 234 passenger jets worth $24 billion. Two years ago, it signed a deal with Boeing for 230 planes.
At the same time, however, Indonesia has been struggling to improve its civil air safety after a string of deadly accidents.
In 2007, Lion Air was among a number of Indonesian airlines banned by the EU for lax safety standards.
The ban was progressively lifted, starting in 2009, but although it has had one fatal accident, Lion Air remains on the EU's banned list - a predicament it has dismissed as unfair.
(Additional reporting by Neil Chatterjee, Andjarsari Paramaditha and Chris Nusatya; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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Coping with the requirements of the Health and Safety Executive, whilst also running a successful enterprise, can be stressful. As such, it may pay to utilise a Health and Safety Services provider to take care of health and safety matters for you.
Firstly, let us consider the statistics, published on the Health and Safety Executive website, which show that in the years of 2011/2012, around 591,000 workers had an accident at work. In terms of working days lost, a staggering 156,000 of these injuries led to over 7 days off work, with a pretty big figure of 212,000 leading to more than 3 days off. 173 people suffered from fatal accidents at work during the same period of time. Despite the focus on making the workplace safe, there are always going to be accidents.
The cost of safety failure may be crippling for your business. Then there is damage to your reputation or to your equipment to consider. An employee who hurts themselves through negligence is well within their rights to claim for compensation. Putting the correct measures in place at work ensures that this does not happen.
The underlying principles of health and safety guidelines are to be considered carefully. Employers must look after their employees? moral and physical welfare ? this is called having a ?Duty of Care?. Just as a parent ensures their children are free from danger, so should an employer watch out for his staff.
Whilst running a successful business, there are many other factors to consider asides from health and safety. This is why is makes financial sense to employ the use of a Health and Safety Service. HSS will ensure that all your practices are up to date and comply with current Health and Safety legislation.
A Health and Safety Services provider will act in line with directives from the Health and Safety Executive. They will carry out an inspection both of your premises and of your current health and safety paperwork. After doing so, they will be able to make recommendations to you on how to improve your practices. Should you have received any complaints regarding your health and safety standards, your Health and Safety Services provider will be able to investigate these issues and hopefully provide a satisfactory solution to the problem.
Health and Safety Services take away the worry of ensuring your health and safety standards are up to scratch, leaving you to concentrate on your business? productivity. You are free to do what you do best, happy in the knowledge that your employees are safeguarded from harm.
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In 2012, four countries that had not used the death penalty in several years were on Amnesty International's list. Missing was China, which keeps its figures secret but is estimated to far outpace others in executions.
The number of executions carried out globally has dropped steadily over the past decade, but that downward momentum stalled in 2012, according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International.
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The organization recorded 682 executions around the world last year, up two from 2011. That tally included executions in four countries that had not used the death penalty in several years ? India, Japan, Pakistan, and Gambia ? and a doubling of the number of executions in Iraq, from 68 in 2011 to 129 in 2012.
?The regression we saw in some countries this year was disappointing, but it does not reverse the worldwide trend against using the death penalty,? said Salil Shetty, Amnesty?s secretary general, in a statement.
Since 2003, Amnesty reports, the number of countries using the death penalty has dropped from 28 to 21, and the number of countries that have completely abolished the penalty has risen from 80 to 97.
The organization?s data, however, exhibit one glaring omission: They do not include figures for China, widely believed to execute more people than all other countries in the world combined. The Chinese government considers execution figures a state secret, but Chinese human rights watchdog Dui Hua estimates that the country kills up to 5,000 people each year for a wide spectrum of offenses, including drug trafficking and financial crimes. (To learn more about controversy surrounding the death penalty in China, read about the wealthy businesswoman originally sentenced to death for failing to repay investor loans last year.)
Trailing China in Amnesty?s top five ?executing countries? in 2012 were Iran (314), Iraq (129), Saudi Arabia (79), and the United States (43). Together those five countries accounted for four of every five executions recorded globally last year.?
Indeed, only 10 percent of the world?s countries use the death penalty in a given year, the Amnesty report notes, the vast majority clustered in the Middle East and East Asia. A few of those countries, notably North Korea, are widely believed to execute far more than the number they publicly record (North Korea reported 6 executions in 2012).?
While the report noted that the number of US states conducting executions fell from 13 in 2011 to nine in 2012, the total number of uses of the death penalty in the country remained constant. One-third of executions in the US (15) occurred in Texas.
Several high-profile executions and death penalty sentences have already become global flashpoints in 2013. In January, for instance, Saudi Arabia sparked international outrage for beheading a Sri Lankan woman charged at age 17 with killing a child left in her care.
The same month, an Indonesian court sentenced a British woman to death for drug trafficking (she claims to have been intimidated into the crime by a gang).?
And in March, prosecutors in the US state of Colorado announced they would seek the death penalty for James Holmes, the man accused of killing 12 people at a movie theater in a Denver suburb last summer.
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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011 file photo, Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian officials say Fayyad has officially submitted his resignation, and is waiting for a reply from President Mahmoud Abbas.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011 file photo, Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian officials say Fayyad has officially submitted his resignation, and is waiting for a reply from President Mahmoud Abbas.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)
U.S. Secretary of Sate John Kerry waves to the media upon arriving at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Sunday, April 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
TOKYO (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday he hoped the Palestinians pick a new prime minister who can work with the United States and "establish confidence" so that Mideast peace can advance.
Speaking to journalists in Tokyo, Kerry praised Salaam Fayyad, who until resigning Saturday as prime minister was seen as one of the Palestinians' most moderate and respected figures. Kerry called Fayyad a "good friend" who made a big difference for Palestinians.
Fayyad's resignation comes as Kerry is working to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. An important part of his strategy is developing the Palestinian economy and state institutions so the Palestinians can be a viable partner in any peace deal with Israel.
The United States had expected Fayyad to play a significant role in that effort.
But the 61-year-old political independent and Western-trained economist had clashed with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over the extent of the prime minister's power.
"We're totally committed to moving forward with the economic thing no matter what," Kerry said, citing U.S. business partners including Coca-Cola. "The West Bank is there, Palestinian aspirations are there, the government is there. And in order to be a viable government, there's got to be more than one person that you can do business with."
"So we will continue to work at this and hope that President Abbas finds the right person to work with him in a transition, and work with us, to establish confidence," he added. "Everybody is going to want somebody who provides confidence."
Kerry said he preferred that Fayyad stay on the job, but that he understood Fayyad's decision.
"He's been sick, he's tired, he's been at this seven years. He has kids in school. He's anxious to carve his own path here and I respect that," Kerry said.
"But he's going to be there for a while. I had a long conversation with him. He's resigned and he accepted his resignation. But there's going to be a caretaker process for some period of time and he's not going to go away from Palestinian politics completely ? if at all."
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Layoffs are hitting developers large and small alike this week. Following on yesterday's news of?layoffs at Vancouver-based Slant Six, a new round of cuts has been confirmed at Electronic Arts....read more here
Layoffs underway at Disney
Disney has begun laying off around 150 staffers at Walt Disney Studios. Employees began receiving pinkslips Wednesday morning.
Individuals working in home entertainment, production, distribution and marketing, as well as the company?s music and theater business in New York City are feeling the brunt of the impact, with only a?small number of employees leaving the animation division.
Today?s announcement of the shuttering of LucasArts Games and the layoffs that followed has had a ripple effect within Lucasfilm: Layoffs at Industrial Light & Magic.
Lucasfilm has long had a strategy of sharing technical resources and staff among visual effects, animation and games. But with production finished on the ?Clone Wars? animated series and the next Star Wars animated series not yet in production, and the closing of LucasArts, a portion of its staff was left working only for ILM?s vfx business.
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Visual-effects company Pixomondo will move away from the film business after shutting its Shanghai office in the wake of closures in London and Detroit, the company told TheWrap.
CEO and founder Thilo Kuther (pictured below) said Pixomondo, which recently completed work on the Tom Cruise action film ?Oblivion,? has just laid off roughly 20 animators and artists in the Shanghai office. About a half-dozen employees were moved to its Beijing office, he said.
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Chinese Partners Play With Fourth ?Transformers?
The ?Transformers? film franchise has found a few friends in China to get the fourth installment made.
Just don?t call it a co-production.
Paramount Pictures has brokered what it calls a ?co-operation agreement? with state-backed broadcaster CCTV?s China Movie Channel and Jiaflix Enterprises to produce ?Transformers 4,? which Michael Bay is returning to helm.
CCTV comes under the umbrella of the powerful State Administration of Radio Film and Television.
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As the VFX industry awaits the results of Rhythm & Hues? bankruptcy auction -- where parties met until 2 a.m. PDT and a decision was expected this morning -- London-headquartered The Mill revealed that it plans to close its ?TV visual effects unit, with a possible loss of 25 jobs.
The Mill CEO Robin Shenfield said in a statement that Mill TV -- whose credits include Doctor Who, Merlin and Sherlock for the BBC -- has weathered losses in 2012 and that red ink has accelerated in the first quarter of 2013. The facility will continue to focus on its commercial business in the U.S. and U.K.
According to the statement, "Mill TV has suffered a number of setbacks such as failing to join the roster on Starz/BBC production of DaVinci?s Demons and the cancellation of Sky?s Sinbad sequel. Going forward, broadcasters are commissioning less high-end VFX driven drama series this year, with Merlin discontinued and the BBC not commissioning a Doctor Who series this year."
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Berkeley, Calif.-based VFX company Tippett Studios laid off 40 percent of its workforce Friday, the company's CEO and president Jules Roman confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter, with the possibility of more pink slips coming.
More than 50 visual effects designers were let go, leaving a staff of 100 full-timers still working at the studio, whose recent work is on display in such blockbuster films as Ted and Twilight: Breaking Dawn.
"We're hibernating, figuring out a way to reinvent and scale down because there's a lag in work obviously and there's such upheaval in the visual effects industry, period," Roman said.
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Source: http://thinkinganimationbook.blogspot.com/2013/04/layoffs-and-closings-in-marchapril-and.html
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US Secretary of State John Kerry conducts a press conference answering questions from US and Chinese media, Saturday April 13, 2013, in Beijing, China. Kerry arrived in Beijing Saturday to seek Chinese help in persuading North Korea to halt its nuclear and missile testing program. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards)
US Secretary of State John Kerry conducts a press conference answering questions from US and Chinese media, Saturday April 13, 2013, in Beijing, China. Kerry arrived in Beijing Saturday to seek Chinese help in persuading North Korea to halt its nuclear and missile testing program. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards)
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, poses with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Saturday, April 13, 2013. The question of how Washington can persuade Beijing to exert real pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's unpredictable regime is front and center as Kerry meets Saturday with Chinese leaders in Beijing. (AP Photo/Yohsuke Mizuno, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Saturday, April 13, 2013 in Beijing. The question of how Washington can persuade Beijing to exert real pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's unpredictable regime is front and center as Kerry meets Saturday with Chinese leaders in Beijing. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)
BEIJING (AP) ? Bound by threats from North Korea, the U.S. and China agreed Saturday to rid the bellicose nation of nuclear weapons in a test of whether the world powers can shelve years of rivalry and discord, and unite in fostering global stability.
Beyond this latest attempt to restrain North Korea, the burgeoning nuclear crisis has so frustrated the U.S. and China that they are forming a new and tentative bond with the potential to carry over into areas that have vexed them for decades.
But they will need to overcome the longstanding prickly relations between Beijing's communist government and Washington's free-market democracy. The two are economic competitors, and China is far more reluctant than the U.S. to intervene in international military conflicts.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday described a "synergy" between the two countries to achieve worldwide security and economic stability.
"We have a stake in China's success. And frankly, China has a stake in the success of the United States," Kerry told reporters in the Chinese capital. "And that became clear in all of our conversations here today. A constructive partnership that is based on mutual interest benefits everybody in the world."
Kerry met with the new Chinese leaders to discuss a range of issues, most notably the persistent and increasingly pitched threats that North Korea has issued against the U.S., South Korea and Japan the over the past several months.
North Korea appears to be readying a missile test, in what the U.S. says would be its third since December, and there are varying opinions in Washington as to whether the North is able to develop and launch nuclear-tipped missiles.
One U.S. intelligence assessment suggested North Korea had the capacity to put a nuclear warhead on a missile, even if any such weapon would have low reliability.
Kerry and the Chinese foreign policy chief, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, said the two nations would work together to create a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, effectively forcing North Korea to give up its arsenal.
The reclusive North Korean government and its young leader, Kim Jong Un, are more likely to listen to China, its main economic and diplomatic partner and lifeline to the outside world, than anyone else.
Yang, through an interpreter, described China's stance on North Korea as "clear cut" and called for resuming the six-nation talks that fell apart four years ago and are aimed at ending the nuclear threat.
"China is firmly committed to upholding peace and stability and advancing the denuclearization process on the Korean peninsula," Yang told reporters. "We maintain that the issue should be handled and resolved peacefully through dialogue. ... To properly address the Korean nuclear issue serves the interests of all parties."
But Kerry made clear that the U.S. would keep close watch on how China continues to deal with North Korea "to make sure that this is not rhetoric, but that it is real policy that is being implemented."
North Korea was but one issue that was high on the priority list of discussions, Kerry said.
China and the U.S. have the two most powerful economies and are two of the largest energy users. They agreed to hold high-level talks on climate change and to ease business investment cooperation.
Kerry also raised the possibility of scaling back America's military presence in the Asia-Pacific region once the Korean nuclear crisis is resolved. Beijing has been disgruntled about U.S. missile defense systems in China's backyard.
"Obviously, if the threat disappears," meaning a nuclear-free North Korea, "the same imperative does not exist at that point in time for us to have that kind of robust, forward-leaning posture of defense," Kerry said. "And it is our hope in the short run that we can address that."
Western experts predict that China will move slowly and cautiously, if at all, toward becoming a more reliable U.S. ally. China remains deeply skeptical of President Barack Obama's policy shift to Asia, which Beijing views as U.S. attempts to contain its economic might.
It's also unlikely that China will sever its long ties with North Korea. The Chinese dramatically have boosted trade with their neighbors and maintain close military relations some six decades after they fought side by side in the Korean War. They provide North Korea with most of its fuel and much of its food aid.
China has a history of quickly reversing course after talking tougher with North Korea. In late 2010, as American officials were praising Beijing for constructive efforts after the North shelled a South Korean island, a Chinese company agreed to invest $2 billion in a North Korean industrial zone.
"The U.S. has to be cautious in expecting a major breakthrough on North Korea out of the new Chinese leadership," said Christopher Johnson, a former CIA analyst who is now a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "There's a risk of too much exuberance on the U.S. side. ... The Chinese just can't turn the battleship as quickly as we might like."
But Johnson said even minor progress on North Korea could translate into a warming between Washington and Beijing, which appears now to be "at least willing to talk."
"If we can talk on an issue that is as sensitive as North Korea, we can talk about other issues," Johnson said. "It speaks very well for other touchy issues in the relationship at the moment."
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Jakes reported from Washington.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Peter Workman, the founder of a publishing company known for such best-sellers as "What to Expect When You're Expecting," died Sunday. He was 74.
He died of cancer at his New York City home, said Selina Meere, spokeswoman for Workman Publishing Co.
Workman was founder, president and CEO of one of the largest independent publishers of nonfiction trade books and calendars.
Titles also include such favorites as the boxed Page-A-Day Calendar, "The Official Preppy Handbook" and "The Silver Palate Cookbook."
In addition to the Workman imprint, the company consists of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Artisan, Storey Books, Timber Press, and HighBridge Audio.
A Long Island native, Workman was a Yale University graduate.
After a job in the sales department of Dell Publishing, he founded Workman in 1967 as a book packager. Within two years, its inaugural list led with Richard Hittleman's "Yoga 28-Day Exercise Plan," which is still in print.
Workman bestsellers also include are B. Kliban's "Cat," Sandra Boynton's children's books, and "1,000 Places To See Before You Die." Artisan published chef Thomas Keller's "The French Laundry Cookbook."
He is survived by his widow, Carolan Raskin Workman, their two daughters and four grandchildren.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/publishing-company-founder-workman-dies-135325733.html
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One of the most widely used medications to treat arrhythmias may increase the risk of developing cancer, especially in men and people exposed to high amounts of the drug. That is the conclusion of a new retrospective study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results indicate that a potential link between amiodarone and cancer warrants further investigation.
Amiodarone was approved in 1985 for the treatment of arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats. Because the drug is fat-soluble and degrades very slowly, large amounts can accumulate in soft tissues after a long-term prescription. Previous studies have shown that amiodarone might increase the risk of certain cancers, but no large-scale study has looked at the issue.
To investigate, Vincent Yi-Fong Su, MD, of the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan, and his colleagues studied 6,418 individuals taking the drug, following them for an average of 2.57 years. A total of 280 participants developed cancer.
Patients who were male or who received high cumulative daily doses of amiodarone within the first year had an increased risk of developing cancer. Those with both factors were 46 percent more likely to develop cancer than those with neither factor. After taking age, sex, and illnesses into account, individuals taking a high amount of amiodarone had nearly twice the risk of developing cancer as those taking a low amount of the drug.
"We suggest that cancer events should be routinely reported in future amiodarone trials, and further observational research is necessary," said Dr. Su. "Also, when prescribing amiodarone, doctors need to keep in mind that this medication may increase cancer risk."
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One of the most widely used medications to treat arrhythmias may increase the risk of developing cancer, especially in men and people exposed to high amounts of the drug. That is the conclusion of a new retrospective study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results indicate that a potential link between amiodarone and cancer warrants further investigation.
Amiodarone was approved in 1985 for the treatment of arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats. Because the drug is fat-soluble and degrades very slowly, large amounts can accumulate in soft tissues after a long-term prescription. Previous studies have shown that amiodarone might increase the risk of certain cancers, but no large-scale study has looked at the issue.
To investigate, Vincent Yi-Fong Su, MD, of the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan, and his colleagues studied 6,418 individuals taking the drug, following them for an average of 2.57 years. A total of 280 participants developed cancer.
Patients who were male or who received high cumulative daily doses of amiodarone within the first year had an increased risk of developing cancer. Those with both factors were 46 percent more likely to develop cancer than those with neither factor. After taking age, sex, and illnesses into account, individuals taking a high amount of amiodarone had nearly twice the risk of developing cancer as those taking a low amount of the drug.
"We suggest that cancer events should be routinely reported in future amiodarone trials, and further observational research is necessary," said Dr. Su. "Also, when prescribing amiodarone, doctors need to keep in mind that this medication may increase cancer risk."
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