Emerging Senate proposal focus in budget battle

WASHINGTON (AP) — The focus of efforts to end the government shutdown and prevent a U.S. default shifted to the Senate on Saturday, where leaders were in talks aimed at resolving the twin stalemates.

Word of the negotiations between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and the top Republican, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, emerged as the Senate, as expected, rejected a Democratic effort to raise the government's borrowing limit through next year.

"This bill would have taken the threat of default off the table and given our nation's businesses and the economy the certainty we need," the White House said in a statement.

Republicans objected because they want the extension to be accompanied by spending cuts.

The spotlight turned to the Senate as the partial shutdown reached its 12th day. It also came with the calendar edging closer to Oct. 17, when administration officials have said the government will deplete its ability to borrow money, risking a first-time federal default that could jolt the world economy.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told fellow Republicans earlier Saturday that his talks with President Barack Obama had stalled.

"The Senate needs to hold tough," Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said Boehner told House GOP lawmakers. "The president now isn't negotiating with us."

GOP senators said the talks between Reid and McConnell had started Friday. That was confirmed by Senate Democratic aides.

"The only thing that's happening right now is Sen. Reid and Sen. McConnell are talking. And I view that as progress," said the second-ranking Republican senator, John Cornyn of Texas.

Saturday's Senate vote derailing the Democrats' debt-limit measure was a near party-line 53-45 in favor of the bill. That fell seven short of the 60 required to overcome Republican objections to considering the measure.

The White House said it was "unfortunate that the common-sense, clean debt limit increase proposed by Senate Democrats was refused a yes or no vote."

House conservatives said Obama was to blame for the talks with their chamber running aground.

"Perhaps he sees this as the best opportunity for him to win the House in 2014," said Rep. John Fleming, R-La. "It's very clear to us he does not now, and never had, any intentions of negotiating."

"It doesn't have to be this way. It's not supposed to be this way," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday. "Manufacturing crises to extract massive concessions isn't how our democracy works, and we have to stop it. Politics is a battle of ideas, but you advance those ideas through elections and legislation — not extortion."

A bipartisan group of senators, closely watched by Senate leaders, is polishing a plan aimed at reaching compromise with Obama.

An emerging proposal by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and others would pair a six-month plan to keep the government open with an increase in the government's borrowing limit through January.

Obama has turned away a House plan to link the reopening of the government — and a companion measure to temporarily increase the government's borrowing cap — to concessions on the budget.

In the face of disastrous opinion polls, GOP leaders have signaled they will make sure the debt limit is increased with minimal damage to the financial markets. But they're still seeking concessions as a condition for reopening the government.

Obama met Senate Republicans on Friday and heard a pitch from Collins on raising the debt limit until the end of January, reopening the government and cutting the health care law at its periphery.

The plan also would strengthen income verification for people receiving subsidies through the health care law and set up a broader set of budget talks.

The Collins proposal would delay for two years a medical-device tax that helps finance the health care law, and it would subject millions of individuals eligible for subsidies to purchase health insurance under the program to stronger income verification.

Collins said Obama said the proposal "was constructive, but I don't want to give the impression that he endorsed it."

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Associated Press writers Alan Fram and David Espo contributed to this report

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TV-over-Internet service Aereo to come to Android

NEW YORK (AP) — Aereo, a service that delivers broadcast television stations over the Internet, will come to Android devices on Oct. 22.

The service started on iPhones and other Apple devices along with the Roku streaming box before expanding to personal computers. The company says that the Android offering took longer because of the many versions of Android available. Device makers are able to customize the version made by Google. Aereo says its Android app will run on phones and tablets with Android 4.2 or higher. It will be in a beta test mode at first.

Aereo is currently available in New York, Boston, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Miami, Houston and Dallas. Service starts at $8 a month.

Aereo has won key court rulings against broadcasters who claim its service infringes copyrights.

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Portion-Size Label Influences Ingestion Intake

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The mayor of New York famously tried to ban super-sized sodas. But instead of legislating a drink?s volume, maybe we should change its name. Because a new study shows that the words we use to describe portion size affect how much we actually consume. The findings are in the journal Health Economics. [David R. Just And Brian Wansink, One Man's Tall Is Another Man's Small: How The Framing Of Portion Size Influences Food Choice] As portion sizes at many restaurants grow larger, so do our waistlines. Of course, no one says we have to finish that three-quarter pound burger or chug an entire Big Gulp. But what determines when we lay down the fork and push away from the table? To find out, researchers led by Brian Wansink of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab served up some spaghetti. Some volunteers received a portion labeled ?regular,? others got a dish described as ?double size.? Although both plates contained the same amount of pasta, people ate more when they thought their serving size was normal. Participants who thought they?d gotten the piggy-sized portion left 10 times more food on their plates. So if a big beverage were called, say, Double the Size of your Stomach, maybe we?d think twice about draining every last drop. ?Karen Hopkin [The above text is a transcript of this podcast]
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India eases investment rules to attract global retailing giants

New Delhi: India eased requirements for foreign retailers to invest in local supermarkets to lure global chains such as Wal-Mart Stores and Tesco to open stores in Asia's third-biggest economy.

Rules covering sourcing, infrastructure investment and store location have been amended, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma told reporters in New Delhi on Thursday night. The cabinet also approved proposals to amend foreign direct investment rules for a range of businesses including commodity exchanges, he said.

The government is loosening rules to attract overseas investors to stem a ballooning current-account deficit and a weakening rupee. While the nation changed laws in September to allow foreign retailers to own majority stakes in stores selling multiple brands, no companies have sought such licenses yet.

"The government is showing really positive intentions," Kumar Rajagopalan, chief executive officer of lobby group Retailers Association of India, said in an interview on Bloomberg TV India. "The state governments now have to go forward and invite the companies to come and invest."

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, and other foreign chains already have some wholesale operations in the country. Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart is studying India's revisions and remains "optimistic" about the opportunity, Arti Singh, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart's Indian unit, said in an e- mailed statement. A Tesco spokesman said the company welcomed the proposed changes in the policy and is in the process of reviewing the conditions.

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Debt-heavy domestic retailers like Future Retail could be one of the "key beneficiaries" of these policies, as it would make it easier for them to seek overseas partners to trim their borrowings, said Dhvani Modi, an analyst at brokerage ICICI Direct. Future, which runs the Big Bazaar grocery chain, climbed as much as 14.7 per cent to Rs84.5, headed for the biggest gain since April 17. Apparel retailer Shoppers Stop advanced as much as four per cent before dropping 1.35 per cent to Rs355.15 as of 3.08pm.

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Minister Sharma said foreign investment up to 49 per cent will be now allowed under the automatic route in sectors including petroleum and natural gas, commodity and power exchanges as well as in stock exchanges. In defense, the government will consider proposals of more than 26 per cent FDI on a "case to case" basis.

The government also amended a rule intended to help small industries supply to the big chains. Retailers were earlier required to source 30 per cent of their manufactured products from small- and mid-sized local firms, which were defined as companies with less than $1 million invested in factories and machinery.

The new rules allow sourcing from companies with investments of up to $2 million, broadening the supply base for retailers. Products from agricultural cooperatives and farmers groups would also be considered under this requirement, according to an e-mailed statement from the government. Allowing farmers groups in this category "is a huge deal as it includes all dairy products and fresh produce," Modi said. "This will make it very easy for retailers to meet the requirement."

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London: Twitter apologises but campaigner says wants more action

The British arm of Twitter apologised on Saturday to a group of high-profile women who have been threatened with death and rape on the micro-blogging site, and announced measures to make it easier for users to report abusive tweets.

Twitter had come under increasing pressure to react after a feminist campaigner, several women members of parliament and female journalists were targeted by users who hurled misogynistic abuse at them and in some cases made violent threats.

"I personally apologise to the women who have experienced abuse on Twitter and for what they have gone through," Tony Wang, general manager of Twitter UK, said on his own Twitter feed.

"The abuse they've received is simply not acceptable. It's not acceptable in the real world, and it's not acceptable on Twitter," he said.

Twitter UK said it was adding staff to help handle abuse reports. It also said an in-tweet "report abuse" button currently available on the Twitter app for iPhones would be added to the Twitter website and to platforms used on other mobile devices.

The problem of abuse by so-called internet "trolls" has been front-page news in Britain since activist Caroline Criado-Perez was hit by a barrage of vitriolic tweets after successfully campaigning for a woman's face to appear on bank notes.

In recognition of her role, Criado-Perez appeared alongside Bank of England Governor Mark Carney on July 24, when he announced 19th century novelist Jane Austen would become the face of the new 10-pound note.

Police arrested two men over rape threats against Criado-Perez. One of them was also suspected of making rape threats against opposition Labour legislator Stella Creasy, who backed the bank note campaign and also appeared with Carney on July 24.

In separate incidents days later, several high-profile female journalists received tweets from someone threatening to bomb their homes and "destroy everything" there.

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Rio organizers may need $700 million in govt money

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? Olympic organizers say they may have to use $700 million in government money to meet the operating budget for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

Leo Gryner, chief operating officer of the organizing committee, said Friday that as conditions now stand "we need this $700 million."

Gryner told The Associated Press earlier this week the operating budget could be as much as $4 billion. The original budget estimate of $2.8 billion was submitted before Rio won the games in 2009.

The operating budget is used to run the games and is separate from the capital budget, a mix of private and public money used to build needed infrastructure.

Gryner says any shortfall was caused by inflation and Brazil's slowing economy.

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Facebook Finally Closes Above IPO Price

If you bought Facebook stock during the company's IPO (and held on to it), you just finally broke even.

It took more than 14 months, but Facebook has finally bounced back from a disastrous public offering. Friday, the social network's shares closed above its offering price of $38 for only the second time in history. Facebook finished an especially fortuitous week of trading at $38.05. The last time the company's shares closed higher than $38 was on May 18, its very first day of trading.

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We want your UFC 163 picks

Lost in the hubbub of a stacked Bellator card, Ronda Rousey telling off a fan, and a clash of two former UFC champions in Bellator is UFC 163, headed by UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo's bout with Chan Sung Jung. But it's not too late to check out the main card and make your picks for the fights.

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Zimbabwe votes in third Mugabe-Tsvangirai showdown

By Cris Chinaka

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabweans voted in large numbers on Wednesday in a fiercely contested election pitting veteran President Robert Mugabe against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who has vowed to push Africa's oldest leader into retirement after 33 years in power.

With no reliable opinion polls and amid allegations of vote-rigging, it is hard to say whether Tsvangirai will succeed in his third attempt to oust 89-year-old Mugabe, who has run the southern African nation since independence from Britain in 1980.

Both sides are forecasting landslide wins. In a country with a history of election violence the big question is whether the loser will accept the result of a poll dogged by logistical problems and reports of intimidation and irregularities.

Mugabe, who rejects past and present charges from critics of vote-fixing and intimidation by his ZANU-PF party supporters, has said he will concede if defeated.

"I'm sure people will vote freely and fairly," he told reporters after casting his ballot in a school in Harare's Highfields township.

"There's no pressure being exerted on anyone."

Polls opened on time at 0500 GMT (1:00 a.m. EDT), with long queues of people braving unseasonably cold weather to stand in line from well before dawn.

At one polling station in the eastern province of Manicaland, a key swing region, the queue of voters, many wrapped up in blankets, stretched for a kilometer (half a mile).

"I got up at 4:00 but still couldn't get the first position in the line," said sawmill worker Clifford Chasakara. "My fingers are numb but I'm sure I can mark the ballot all the same. I'm determined to vote and have my vote counted."

"WAY TO CHANGE"

The Election Commission said nationwide turnout was high, but with no breakdown between urban and rural areas it is impossible to say whether this will benefit Mugabe or his 61-year-old challenger.

In Harare, the epicenter of support for Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, the mood was upbeat.

"We are here to vote and I'm convinced Harare will lead the way to change," John Phiri, a house cleaner in his 30s, said in a polling station in the upmarket Mount Pleasant suburb.

Casting his vote at a Harare high school, Tsvangirai said he expected to win "quite resoundingly".

Around 6.4 million people, or half the population, are registered to vote. Results are expected well within a five-day deadline intended to prevent a repeat of problems seen in the last election in 2008, when big delays led to serious violence.

The threat of unrest remains at the back of people's minds but the atmosphere has been markedly lighter than five years ago, with both party leaders preaching peace and tolerance.

The pair met at State House late on Tuesday in the presence of African Union (AU) monitoring chief Olusegun Obasanjo, an AU official said. Details of the meeting - an unusual encounter on the eve of an election - were not immediately not known.

Asked at a news conference on Tuesday whether he and ZANU-PF would accept defeat, Mugabe was unequivocal: "You either win or lose. If you lose, you must surrender."

"SO FAR SO GOOD"

His comments were in marked contrast to the acrimony of what he described as an "energy-sapping" campaign, and may help to ease fears about a repeat of the turmoil that broke out in 2008 after he lost the first round of voting.

Around 200 Tsvangirai supporters were killed then before South Africa brokered a power-sharing deal that stopped the bloodshed and stabilized the economy, establishing a unity government criticized as fractious and dysfunctional.

Western observers have been barred from the elections, leaving the task of independent oversight to 500 regional and 7,000 domestic monitors.

Obasanjo, a former Nigerian president, said there were no grounds at the moment to suggest the elections could not be declared credible.

"So far so good," he told reporters after visiting a polling station in Harare.

The monitors' verdict is crucial to the future of Zimbabwe's economy, which is still struggling with the aftermath of a decade-long slump and hyperinflation that ended in 2009 when the worthless Zimbabwe dollar was scrapped.

The United States, which has sanctions in place against Mugabe, has questioned the credibility of the poll, pointing to a lack of transparency in its organization and pro-Mugabe bias in the state media and partisan security forces.

However, if the vote receives broad approval, there is a chance Western sanctions may be eased, allowing Harare to normalize relations with the IMF and World Bank and access the huge investment needed to rebuild its dilapidated economy.

It would also spark a rush to exploit Zimbabwe's rich reserves of minerals such as chrome, coal, platinum and gold.

Tsvangirai urged African monitors not to give the vote the thumbs-up simply because they do not witness bloodshed.

"Mugabe is the world's oldest leader and one of its longest-ruling dictators. He is fixing this election in a more sophisticated fashion than previous ZANU-PF campaigns of beatings, killings and intimidation," he wrote in an editorial in the Washington Post.

(Additional reporting by Nelson Banya in Mutare, MacDonald Dzirutwe and Stella Mapenzauswa in Harare; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Pascal Fletcher, Paul Taylor and Peter Graff)

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Detroit slashes pay for some police, firefighter unions

By Joseph Lichterman

DETROIT (Reuters) - About 1,200 Detroit police lieutenants and sergeants and about 400 Detroit firefighters will see a 10 percent pay cut in their paychecks on September 16, a spokesman for Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr said on Thursday.

The city informed the Detroit Police Lieutenants and Sergeants Association (LSA) and the Detroit Firefighters Association of the pay cut along with a reduction in benefits on Wednesday.

The Detroit Police Lieutenants and Sergeants Association's contract was slated to be terminated on July 6, but the city extended the contract for 30 days.

Orr's spokesman, Bill Nowling, said the contract was extended to give new Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who started July 1, "an opportunity to get his feet on the ground."

The firefighter union's contract expired June 30, but the 400 affected firefighters - lieutenants, sergeants and captains - have parity with the Lieutenants and Sergeants Association, so their contract was also subject to the delay.

Nowling said the city notified the unions in June that the cuts would occur once the contracts expired. He said the city will take 30 days to process the changes into its payroll system.

The pay cuts will mean police lieutenants will be paid about $7,000 less and sergeants will earn about $6,000 less, said Mark Young, president of the LSA.

"We understand that the city is in financial distress," Young said. "The past leadership of the city government drove us here, but we were hoping that the hardship wouldn't be so great on the men and women that I represent that haven't had a raise in four and a half years."

Aside from the pay cut, the new contract also makes changes to sick leave accrual, overtime payments and paid time off.

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing implemented the same cuts last August for patrol officers and most firefighters. Non-uniformed city employees also took a 10 percent pay cut at that time.

The cuts will save the city $4.5 million annually, Nowling said. The unions hope to meet with the city to discuss the changes, Young said, but Nowling noted the changes are already adopted in the city's fiscal year 2014 budget.

(Reporting by Joseph Lichterman; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)

(This story was refiled to correct pay amount in the seventh paragraph to $6,000 instead of %6,000)

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Glaxo case shines light on China's medical bribery

BEIJING (AP) ? Huang Dongliang says his uncle was being ignored by his low-paid cancer specialist at a Chinese government hospital. So the family gave the doctor a "hongbao," the traditional red envelope used for gifts, with 3,000 yuan ($480).

"We could feel an obvious difference" after that, said Huang, who lives in the southeastern city of Quanzhou. "The doctor started to do more checkups, to give suggestions and advice and offered a detailed chemotherapy plan."

Such informal payments pervade China's dysfunctional health system. Low salaries and skimpy budgets drive doctors, nurses and administrators to make ends meet by accepting money from patients, drug suppliers and others. Accusations last month that GlaxoSmithKline employees bribed Chinese doctors to prescribe its drugs brought international attention to the flow of illicit money. But to China's public, the practice has long been common knowledge.

Many blame a system in which the country's hospitals nearly all are state-run but get too little money from Beijing. Most of China's 2.3 million doctors are hospital employees and are barred from adding to their income by taking on second jobs.

"Physicians are way underpaid and they need to find a way to survive," said Gordon Liu, a health care economist at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management.

The ruling Communist Party has promised higher health spending as part of efforts to spread more of China's prosperity to its poor majority. But with a population of 1.3 billion, the cost of a full-scale overhaul will be daunting for Beijing. The government faces other financial demands while economic growth is slowing.

Under the current system, the state-set price to see an oncologist or other specialist is as little as 8 yuan ($1.25) ? less than the cost of a hamburger and too little to cover a hospital's expenses.

An experienced physician might earn 6,000 yuan ($980) a month. That top level is about average for an urban Chinese worker at a time when a 100-square-meter (1,000-square-foot) apartment in Beijing can cost more than 6 million yuan ($1 million).

To fill the gap, hospitals add surcharges to drug prices and assign employees sales quotas. Doctors and other employees accept money to move patients up waiting lists for surgery or to let them see the physician they prefer. Doctors, administrators and others take kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies to use more expensive drugs or use them more often. Bribes can also distort treatment by encouraging overuse of expensive drugs or procedures.

"There are many farmers and people without medical insurance, and it's they who suffer greatly," said Liu Junhai, head of the Commercial Law Research Institute of the ruling party's Renmin University.

Huang said that after his uncle was diagnosed with lung cancer last October, he went to the bigger nearby city of Xiamen, which had a reputation for "better medical ability and attitude."

"The doctor barely said anything useful after 12 or 13 days in the hospital," he said. "Then my cousin sent 3,000 yuan to get the doctor to pay more attention to my uncle."

Complaints about medical corruption have fueled public frustration at doctors, nurses and hospitals. Distraught families that pay extra are dismayed if a patient sickens or dies. That has erupted in a spate of stabbings and other violence against hospital employees.

Last year, 39 staff members of a hospital in the southern city of Gaozhou and five salespeople for drug companies were implicated in a kickback scheme that inflated medicine costs for patients, according to the newspaper Shanghai Evening Post.

The hospital director was fired and 382 employees returned 5.8 million yuan ($950,000) in improper payments, the report said.

"For the hospital's 35 drug suppliers, no matter which is selected, in order to give the hospital an incentive to sell more drugs, they will all find ways to make contact with doctors," the hospital director, Ye Guanrui, was quoted as saying. "In a hospital with 1,000 staff members, one-third will take kickbacks."

A half-dozen physicians and hospital employees approached by The Associated Press declined to talk about medical bribery, even on condition of anonymity, due to its sensitivity.

In the GlaxoSmithKline PLC case, police say employees of the British company paid doctors, hospital administrators and officials of the government and medical groups to encourage use of its medications.

Four employees have been detained. Police say they are suspected of laundering money through travel agencies to conceal the payments and evade Glaxo's internal anti-bribery controls.

Glaxo has tried to distance itself from the scandal, saying the employees acted without its knowledge and violated its policy.

Also last month, a rival drug manufacturer, AstraZeneca PLC, said police visited its office in what the company believed was an investigation of one of its sales representatives.

Last year, New York City-based Pfizer Inc. agreed to pay the U.S. government $60 million to settle charges its salespeople made improper payments to health care workers in China and other countries.

Estimates of how much outside money doctors and others receive range from 30 percent to up to 10 times their salaries, according to Peking University's Liu. He said he and colleagues have tried to gather data but hospital employees refuse to cooperate.

Despite the scrutiny directed at foreign drug suppliers, their Chinese rivals probably are more active at spreading around such payments, said Liu.

"In general, people would say domestic companies actually practice this informal payment approach almost as a common marketing strategy," he said. "For multinationals, this is not a common marketing tool."

The financial strain of health care on families is so great that it is distorting China's economy.

Until recently, few had health insurance and families saved a big share of their income to pay for medical emergencies. That left less for consumer spending, hampering the Communist Party's efforts to nurture self-sustaining economic growth based on domestic consumption instead of exports and investment.

The latest scandal could increase pressure on Chinese leaders to speed up promised health reforms.

The ruling party is promising more health care spending as part of an expansion of social welfare aimed at spreading China's new prosperity to its poor majority. The government says state-provided health insurance has been expanded to cover 95 percent of people in China, up from less than 50 percent in 2006.

Following the accusations against GlaxoSmithKline employees, the chairman of a government health panel acknowledged the link between low spending and graft.

Beijing has imposed price caps on several hundred drugs deemed essential. But that gave hospitals that add a surcharge to medicine prices an incentive to use more of them. The Cabinet's planning agency launched an investigation in July of production costs at 60 Chinese and foreign suppliers in a possible prelude to issuing new price standards.

The government has promised to ban surcharges by hospitals to reduce incentives to overuse drugs.

Beijing also has promised to pay doctors more, but Peking University's Liu said bringing them into line with comparable professions could require doubling or tripling salaries.

Instead, some reformers are urging Beijing to adopt a U.S.- or European-style system in which doctors can work second jobs and open private clinics.

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AP researchers Fu Ting in Shanghai and Zhao Liang contributed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/glaxo-case-shines-light-chinas-medical-bribery-094818478.html

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Hey, Microsoft Office is out for Android now, too. Now you can work even more. It's not optimized for tablets, though, so stick to the Office web apps if some deranged kidnapper is forcing you to work on a tablet. [Google Play]

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Murphy's law at work in India

With the Reserve Bank of India easing monetary policy, it was expected gross domestic product growth would revive, although slowly, from the five per cent levels of last year, notes Varun Goel

Murphy?s law states: ?Anything that can go wrong will go wrong?.

This seems especially true in the context of Indian economy and Indian equity markets in the past year.

Last year this time, India was grappling with an imminent sovereign downgrade, with an uncontrolled fiscal deficit, policy paralysis of the highest order with no economic reforms for eight long years and a weakening rupee.

With Chidambaram coming back to the finance ministry, measures were announced to tackle the fiscal situation.

We saw government spending being curtailed, foreign direct investment allowed in several sectors like retail and aviation, and a more benign monetary policy.

Several policy measures were undertaken to cap fiscal deficit.

The fuel price deregulation announced in January is probably the most significant reform measure in the last five years and will have significant positive long-term impact on the economy.

This combined with severe expenditure curtailment, led to a better than expected fiscal deficit number for FY13.

With the Reserve Bank of India easing monetary policy, it was expected gross domestic product growth would revive, although slowly, from the five per cent levels of last year.

And just when things seemed to be looking up, we had an eight per cent fall in rupee value through the month of May and June which changed the overall macro picture.

India is not alone in the currency carnage which was triggered, partly by the US Federal Reserve?s comments on tapering on Quantitative Easing.

However, India is most vulnerable due to the high deficit levels on both fiscal and current account.

RBI has been forced to intervene and carry out monetary tightening to defend the rupee.

These monetary policy measures are going to slow down economic activity further and a recovery is now pushed back into 2014.

We are now expecting gross domestic product growth of around five per cent for the financial year.

Equity markets have reacted with banking and automobile stocks taking a big hit.

However, the broader market has been resilient, with the Sensex within five per cent of its all-time high.

We believe all possible negatives which could happen have played out.

One can add a fractured electoral outcome as another potential negative.

However, no one is expecting a very decisive mandate from elections next year, so expectations are already low.

There is not much that can go wrong from here. We have GDP growth, currency, current account deficit all at a decadal low.

Things can only look up.

Growth should get a boost once these temporary measures by RBI are withdrawn.

We see more actions on the import side, which will also help stabilise the rupee.

It?s difficult to see the sunshine when dark clouds gather.

A good monsoon, commodity price correction, a strong macroeconomic recovery in the US and a stable euro area are significant positives for equity markets this year.

We expect Indian companies to deliver a 10 per cent earnings growth this financial year and remain positive on equity markets, with a potential 15 per cent upside from these levels by the end of the year.

We expect a few industries to outperform dusting these times of the dark clouds.

We expect the pharma, information technology, automotive and private sector banks space to outperform the market in the next two quarters.

Varun Goel is head, PMS, Karvy Private Wealth

Source: http://www.rediff.com/business/column/column-murphys-law-at-work-in-india/20130729.htm

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C-sections take longer for obese women

By Kathryn Doyle

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cesarean sections take longer, on average, when new mothers are obese, according to a recent study.

More time isn't necessarily a bad thing and may indicate that the doctor was taking extra care not to damage the woman's tissues, said lead author Dr. Shayna Conner.

"But, if a baby is in trouble and needs to be delivered quickly, a slower cesarean can potentially lead to complications," Conner, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, told Reuters Health.

The anesthesia used during the procedure can affect blood pressure, researchers said, and blood pressure drops during delivery can slow the baby's heartbeat to a dangerous point.

Conner and her coauthors looked back at the records of every C-section performed at one hospital between 2004 and 2008 and divided the more than 2,000 mothers into four groups based on their body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight in relation to height, when the baby was born.

For men and women who aren't pregnant, a BMI of 30 and above is considered obese by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A five-foot, five-inch woman would have a BMI of 30 at 180 pounds, a BMI of 40 above 240 pounds and a BMI of 50 above 300 pounds.

Women in the study with a BMI under 30 had an average time from surgical incision to delivery of 9.4 minutes.

That compared to 11 minutes for women with a BMI between 30 and 40, 13 minutes for women with a BMI between 40 and 50 and 16 minutes for women with a BMI of 50 and above, according to results published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

"An additional seven minutes from incision to delivery can potentially lead to complications with the baby in emergency situations," Conner said.

As women's BMI increased above 40, babies tended to have more problems at birth, such as more acidic blood in the umbilical cord, than babies of non-obese mothers. More acidic cord blood indicates that the baby is distressed, Conner said.

Two smaller previous studies did not find a link between longer delivery times and problems with the baby, she noted.

"Having observed many C-sections as a neonatologist, I've seen that patient obesity makes surgeons' work more complicated like many other medical maneuvers from IV insertion to surgery," said Dr. Ayala Maayan-Metzger of Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Israel, who was not involved in the study.

Although it makes sense that longer delivery times mean a greater risk of problems with fetal blood flow, her own study on incision-to-delivery times in elective C-sections did not find a link to infants' health, Maayan-Metzger told Reuters Health by email.

The current study included emergency C-sections, where time may be more important, she said.

Women should be encouraged to attain a healthy weight prior to pregnancy and to gain the recommended amount of weight while pregnant, Conner said. According to the Institute of Medicine, that is 25 to 35 pounds for normal weight women and 11 to 20 pounds for obese women.

Conner said doctors should also try to optimize care for heavier women, such as by exploring different surgical techniques tailored to their needs.

"Cesarean deliveries are performed every day across the nation, and can be life-saving, but they are major surgery and do pose an increased risk to obese women," she said.

"Obese women can do their part by working to achieve a healthy weight prior to pregnancy, and physicians can work to find techniques and interventions to help decrease these risks."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/133XuXq American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, online July 15, 2013.

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Speed enforced by (armed) drones? Nope ? artist installs fake traffic signs

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California artist Stephen Whisler installed five fake traffic signs along the state highways.

California commuters may have been alarmed last week by highway signs that warned them that they were being watched by missile-equipped drones. But the signs were fake, installed by an artist from Napa, and have quickly been taken down by the California Highway Patrol.

The art project was inspired by real road signs. "I thought to myself, speed [monitored] by aircraft is kind of ridiculous, how are you going to enforce it?" the artist Stephen Whisler, who is 59 and lives in Napa, Calif., told NBC news, explaining why the "Speed enforced by drones" signs he put up last Monday show a Predator firing a missile.

"The motivation is partially political and partially a prank," Whisler told NBC News. He isn't part of any activist organization, but his message is: "Watch out, this is coming."

Activists inside and outside the U.S. have been protesting the use of U.S. military Predators in air strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Separately, U.S. privacy activists have raised concerns about allowing cops and the federal government to use smaller machines for police runs or in search and rescue. Whisler claims his signs "sort of of tie together" both those threads.

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About a year and a half ago, Whisler began creating large pastel paintings that depict big drones like the Predator and Reaper. Those are likely what he'll make more of; the traffic signs are a "one off" project, he said.

In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Authority prohibits the use of the small drones for commercial activities, and has regulations against the use of weaponized systems. FAA-approved cop squads who use drones, like the Mesa County sheriff's office in Colorado, have permits for crafts that are more suited for an hour-long aerial survey of a restricted area, and can't yet stay airborne for the long hours it would take to monitor traffic.

"It's definitely humorous but it's still illegal and our job is to enforce the laws," Officer Patrick Roth, of the Public Information Office at the California Highway Patrol, told NBC News. The signs are a violation of a California vehicle code that makes it illegal for someone to post a sign that resembles an official sign.

Roth said the CHP was still investigating the issue, and has yet to decide if they're filing charges. Meanwhile, Whisler has been waiting. "I'm sort of surprised, I'm expecting them to show up any moment," he said.

Whisler is hardly the first artist or activist to use art to make a point about the use of drones by the U.S. government. New York artist Essam Attia was arrested in November 2012 after he posted ads around the city addressing the drone debate more directly than Whisler does.

One of Attia's posters had an image of a drone sending a missile towards a family alongside a message that said: "Drones: Protection when you least expect it." The posters carried the NYPD's logo. It was about "creating a conversation," Attia said in an interview with Animal New York.

In 2011, video artist Omar Fast made a moving film about a family that tried to flee their home, called "5000 Feet is the Best."

Meanwhile, artist Mahwish Chishty created prints of drones painted with traditional motifs, the kind that truckers in her native Pakistan decorate the vehicles they drive and live in. "I just want people to talk about it," she told Mother Jones. "I am also looking at them as objects, and not as much as war machines," she said of the drones.

Drones have also become artists' tools. Small drones like quadracopters have been put to work by photographers to help shoot proposals and weddings, help record car drive sequences for ads, even take you on a virtual joyride above the Niagara Falls.

Nidhi Subbaraman writes about technology and science and drones, drones, drones. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

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Backcountry Access Assessor app provides avalanche safety tools iphone

An avalanche in Sheep Creek Bowl below Loveland Pass in April 2013. (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post)

Backcountry Access' new Assessor app calculates slope aspect, angle and elevation and overlaps the data with regional avalanche forecasts, enabling users to gauge potential avalanche dangers.

Boulder's Backcountry Access has developed a free app that corrals a variety of avalanche-safety tools onto an iPhone.

BCA's Assessor app includes a tour planner that plots snowy mountain treks on a map and estimates mileage and vertical feet in a format that can be saved for later reference. The app's super-handy "3-in-1 Measuring Tool" allows users to measure slope aspect, angle and elevation and compare that data to avalanche forecasts for the area. Updated avalanche forecasts are uploaded as soon as the app is turned on and can be viewed even when there is no cell reception. Rescue guides not only offer tips on beacon searching and shoveling but also allow the user to easily convey GPS coordinates and other essential information to rescuers in an emergency.

Released for demo use on iPhones in the spring ? and potentially on Android devices next year if demand warrants ? the Assessor app facilitates better planning and communication among touring partners and hopefully gets backcountry travelers focused on route selection and potential dangers, said BCA co-founder Bruce Edgerly.

"A lot of experienced people are getting into avalanche incidents lately, and a lot of time it just has to do with planning and communication issues where people are not talking to each other about the plan and they are not on the same page," said Edgerly, who regularly interviews avalanche survivors to help direct his company's development of more efficient safety tools. "This is a central tool that you can use as a basis for discussion. It can help people check in with each other and operate from the same sheet music, so to speak."

Eighteen-year-old Backcountry Access is a pioneer in avalanche safety, with its digital Tracker avalanche beacon dominating the transceiver industry for the past decade. The company's Float backpacks have saved lives with air bags that inflate and buoy skiers trapped in a mountainside of moving snow. This winter, the company will release high-powered two-way radios to facilitate communication in the backcountry after seeing increasing avalanche incidents involving breakdowns in communication.

The new Assessor app is another

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step in BCA's push to help backcountry travelers not just react to avalanches but avoid them altogether.

The app helps distill avalanche education standards into easily accessible tools for recreational backcountry travelers, said Ethan Greene, director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.

"Apps make it easy to access public-safety information in the field," Greene said, referring to such information as advisories and forecasts from the CAIC.

The Assessor app includes tools created by the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education ? or AIARE, which outlines professional instruction for avalanche safety. The AIARE communication checklist, decision-making framework and observation reference help users follow established protocols for avalanche safety, Greene said.

These are all helpful tools, Greene said, but "you also need basic knowledge about avalanches, route finding, backcountry winter safety ... to know how and when to use them."

"It is important to look around at the snow, weather and terrain in addition to looking at your phone," Greene said.

Jason Blevins: 303-954-1374, jblevins@ denverpost.com or twitter.com/jasontblevins

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'The Conjuring' scares up $41.5M to top box office

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Moviegoers were ready for a fright this weekend, sending "The Conjuring" into first place at the box office, while "R.I.P.D." became the summer's latest big-budget action film to bite the dust.

"The Conjuring," a haunted-house thriller from Warner Bros., debuted with $41.5 million in North American ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Starring Vera Farmiga, Lili Taylor, Patrick Wilson and Ron Livingston, "The Conjuring" unseated two-week box-office champ "Despicable Me 2," which dropped to second place with $25 million.

"The Conjuring" was among four new releases tempting moviegoers this weekend. The newest animated offering, Fox's "Turbo," opened with $21.5 million, good for third place. Fox's head of domestic distribution, Chris Aronson, characterized the opening as "a very promising start," noting that the film won't open in Europe until the fall.

But Universal's big-budget crime caper "R.I.P.D." opened with a disappointing $12.76 million. The film reportedly cost more than $130 million to make, compared to only about $19.5 million for "The Conjuring."

Starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, "R.I.P.D" joins the year's other mega-budget summer flops, including "Pacific Rim," ''White House Down," ''After Earth" and "The Lone Ranger."

Overall box office totals are up, though, said Paul Dergarabedian of box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

"Despite the fact there have been some high-profile, high-budget flops, the summer to date is up 12 percent from last year," he said. "For mid-July, to have a modestly budgeted horror film top the weekend tells you how important it is for audiences to have options."

The Adam Sandler-produced Sony comedy "Grown Ups 2," starring Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Salma Hayek, held onto fourth place in its second week of release, earning $20 million.

Summit Entertainment's "Red 2," which stars Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren as retired CIA operatives, debuted in fifth with $18.5 million.

"The Conjuring" was originally set for release in the winter, but audience tests proved so positive that the studio moved the film to the heat of summer movie season.

"It was really a bold choice, no question about it," said Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros. executive vice president of theatrical distribution. "With three other movies against us this week with high price tags and high expectations associated with them, this result is even more impressive."

Still, there was no chance for this weekend's movies to match box-office totals for the same weekend last summer, when "The Dark Knight Rises" opened with $161 million domestically.

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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.

1. "The Conjuring," $41.5 million.

2. "Despicable Me 2," $25 million ($35.4 million international).

3. "Turbo," $21.5 million ($22.6 million international).

4. "Grown Ups 2," $20 million.

5. "Red 2," $18.5 million ($7.6 million international).

6. "Pacific Rim," $15.95 million ($34.8 million international).

7. "R.I.P.D.," $12.76 million ($6.8 million).

8. "The Heat," $9.3 million.

9. "World War Z," $5.2 million ($12 million international).

10. "Monsters University," $5 million ($20.7 million international).

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Estimated weekend ticket sales at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for films distributed overseas by Hollywood studios, according to Rentrak:

1. "Despicable Me 2," $35.4 million.

2. "Pacific Rim," $34.8 million.

3. "Turbo," $22.6 million.

4. "Monsters University," $20.7 million.

5. "The Lone Ranger," $12.3 million.

6. "World War Z," $12 million.

7. "After Earth," $8.3 million.

8. "Now You See Me," $7.9 million.

9. "Red 2," $7.6 million.

10. "R.I.P.D.," $6.8 million.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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Mexico Vs. Trinidad And Tobago: Where To Watch Live Stream Online, Kickoff Time, TV Channel, Preview, Prediction And Probable Lineups For Gold Cup Quarterfinal

In the end Mexico reached the Gold Cup quarterfinals with something to spare, but finishing second in their group in a competition in which they are the two-time defending champions doesn?t exactly yet warrant any mass celebrations. Few expect El Tri to be unduly troubled in the last eight against Trinidad and Tobago, but coach Jose Manuel de la Torre knows that every result and every performance could now have a significant bearing on how long he remains in charge.

De la Torre?s job was in real jeopardy after a shock 2-1 loss to Panama in his side?s opening match of the Concacaf championship, but he has so far survived courtesy of a 2-0 win over Canada followed-up by a 3-1 victory over Martinique that secured a quarterfinal berth. And the under fire coach claims that he is relishing the pressure on himself and the team.

?We have to keep working to find the answer to win the Gold Cup,? he said, according to MLSSoccer.com. ?So, pressure or no pressure, that?s the way it is. That?s the way it is with the Mexican national team. You have to understand that and know that.?

?Of course winning is always good. After we win, we always analyze ourselves,? de la Torre said. ?We look at the things we need to fix in our analysis, our errors, pick out the good. The pressure helps us get the result.?

Trinidad and Tobago, though, will hope to take advantage of any vulnerability in Atlanta on Saturday. The Caribbean nation finished second behind Honduras in Group C, but a 2-0 loss to Haiti showed their limitations. Stephen Hart?s side do have real pedigree up front, however, in Kenwyne Jones from English Premier League side Stoke City. Captain Densill Theobald explained that his side was relishing being in the latter stages of the competition.

?This whole experience is massive for us,? he said, according to the Trinidad Express. ?We feel privileged to have reached the quarterfinals of the Gold Cup and I think the boys are really up for it right now. Mexico will be tough to overcome but we intend to be tough opponents as well.?

Mexico (probable)

G: Orozco

D: Layun, Huiqui, Valenzuela, Aldrete

M: Fabian, Pena, Castro, Montes

F: Jiminez, Marquez Lugo

Trinidad and Tobago (probable)

G: Williams

D: Mitchell, Cyrus, Abu, J. Jones

M:Boucard, Circhall, Molino

F: Glen, K. Jones, Roberts

Prediction: Mexico continue to fail to inspire but they should still progress with a degree of comfort to the last four. Although Kenwyne Jones could cause a somewhat suspect Mexican defense problems, El Tri should have too much quality.

Mexico 3-1 Trinidad and Tobago

Where to watch: The Gold Cup quarterfinal will kick-off from the Georgia Dome at 6.30 p.m. ET. Coverage will be provided by the Fox Soccer Channel, with a live stream available on Fox Soccer 2Go.?

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