Sudeikis calls the sexy scene a 'clear manifestation of our trust.'
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
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WASHINGTON: India and Pakistan fear that any instability in the war-torn Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US troops could result in "surplus terrorism" in both the countries, a top US official has said. At the same time he said that the US believes both India and Pakistan will play significant roles in Afghanistan in the coming years. "I think both Pakistan and India will play and ought to play very important, significant roles going forward in Afghanistan" said Peter Lavoy, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defence for Asia Pacific Security Affairs. "There's a fear in India that there will...
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A new game for Google Glass claiming to be "the first Google Glass game" (it's not, Battleship clone got demoed earlier this month) offers a look at what kind of things might be possible for developers building these kinds of experiences on Google's unique wearable platform. In a word, it looks simple, and is reminiscent of the old, very basic games that would come pre-installed on your black and white Nokia feature phone like Snake.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/WLY3yxMNWso/
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The young girl in T-shirt and shorts paces up and down her dorm room, occasionally stopping to vault herself on top of the bunk bed and then back down again.
"Who finished the pizza?" she seems to ask no one in particular. "I did."
This millennial's musings would seem typical of any bored college student, if it weren't for the thousand or so people watching her online.
For four days last week, Target live-streamed five YouTube personalities as they mused, joked, ate, slept and generally passed the time in makeshift dorm rooms outfitted with products sold by the Minneapolis-based retailer.
Not quite commercial, not quite reality, Target's digital experiment, dubbed Bullseye University, represents its most ambitious attempt to penetrate the digital universe of college students. By scrolling over each room on BullseyeUniversity.com, viewers could also activate pop-up boxes that give information about the merchandise and links to purchasing them on Target.com.
Brian Kelly, a retail consultant and former top marketing executive at Sears, says live-streaming millennials interacting with Target products gives Bullseye University an air of relevance "that's not as creepy" as other voyeuristic projects.
"Part of the message is the medium," Kelly said. "And if you can find a way to drive commerce, then why not?"
If Bullseye University seems a bit like "Real World," MTV's long-running reality show, well, that's the point. (MTV actually sponsored a concert on the site.) To connect with digital-savvy college students, Target officials say they needed to move beyond commercials and circulars and focus on what resonates with the younger set.
"The millennial guest is different from other generations, especially their media consumption," Senior Vice President of Marketing Rick Gomez said in an interview. "They are all over digital, mobile, social. . So we have invested a significant part of the back-to-college campaign to the digital space."
For retailers, the back-to-school shopping season is the second-most-important period in the year behind Christmas, and college students drive most of the spending. The National Retail Federation last week estimated that back-to-college spending will hit $45.8 billion, nearly two-thirds of the entire season. Though the Retail Federation says fewer students will live in dorms this upcoming school year, about 42 percent of families will spend an average of $104.76 on new bedding, small refrigerators and microwaves, up from $100.27 last year.
Target, of course, wants to increase its share of this market. The retailer has added
College-oriented merchandise line the aisles at the Target store on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Glen Stubbe/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT) ( Glen Stubbe )
200 products to the seasonal back-to-school sections in more than half of its U.S. stores, including items designed to appeal to college students on both an aesthetic and functional level: neon-colored bedding and microwavable bowls that prevent accidental spillage of those life-sustaining ramen noodles.But Target is also after something much more elusive: lifetime loyalty.
"It's really important for us to build that relationship with these future guests early on," said Gomez, a former top marketing executive with MillerCoors. "If you get them into Target and understand the brand and what we have to offer, we can create guests for life.
"When you are going off to college, it's sort of a new life stage," he said. "It's the first time you are moving out, you're on your own, and moving into a dorm or first apartment. As a brand, it's important to be there for the guest as they are shifting to a new life stage."
But converting millennials into long-term Target shoppers requires more than just a quirky slogan or a free product. Research shows that millennials are more immune to traditional marketing tactics. They watch far less television than other generations, instead relying on peer recommendations and social-media content to purchase something on their smartphones and tablets.
Carol Spieckerman, president of the Newmarketbuilders consulting firm, said Bullseye University feels more like a digital experiment than a coherent marketing campaign aimed at college students. "It feels a little disjointed," she said. "Retailers are running lots and lots of experiments at the same time in their stores. What Target has done is to take this multi-testing approach and apply it to digital, which gives Target much more flexibility but also makes it much more risky."
According to a report by Barkley, a marketing agency, and Boston Consulting Group, about 70 percent of millennials say they feel more excited about doing something if "my friends agree with what I want to do."
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Many of us have ditched out CD-ROMs and DVD players in favour of the cloud, or at least memory sticks and cards, but Sony and Panasonic want to change that.
The two companies announced earlier today that they?re partnering up to create the next generation of optical disks. And these won?t be your granddad?s CDs either. The two companies are looking at creating high capacity disks with minimum 300GB of storage.
The optical disk has some very nice advantages when it comes to long term memory storage, being resistant to both water and dust, and highly resilient if kept in a proper case. These attributes make a high-density optical disk a very good choice when it comes to backing up large amounts of data.
While these disks are designed for professional products and companies, we may eventually see them trickle down to regular consumers. Sony and Panasonic said they?re aiming for a 2015 launch for the new optical disk format.
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Marvel Studios and Walt Disney have released the official word that Guardians of the Galaxy?that principle photography has begun! Here is the official press release from Disney.
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Official Press Release: ?Guardians of the Galaxy,? the next epic adventure from Marvel Studios has started shooting at the UK?s Shepperton Studios.? Directed by James Gunn (?Slither,??Super?) from his screenplay, with a story by Nicole Perlman and Gunn, the film will introduce audiences to a whole new side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.? The all-star cast includes Chris Pratt (?Zero Dark Thirty?, ?Moneyball?) as Peter Quill aka Star-Lord, Zoe Saldana (?Star Trek Into Darkness?, ?Avatar?) as Gamora, Dave Bautista (?Riddick?) as Drax the Destroyer, Lee Pace (?The Hobbit,? ?Lincoln?) as Ronan the Accuser, Michael Rooker (AMC?s ?The Walking Dead?) as Yondu, Karen Gillan (BBC TV?s ?Doctor Who?) as Nebula, two-time Academy Award? nominee Djimon Hounsou (?Amistad?, ?Gladiator?) as Korath, with Academy Award? winner Benicio del Toro (?Traffic?) as The Collector,? Academy Award? nominee John C. Reilly (?Chicago?) as Rhomann Dey, and six-time Academy Award? nominee Glenn Close (?Albert Nobbs,? ?Fatal Attraction?) as Nova Prime. Marvel?s ?Guardians of the Galaxy? is slated for an August 1, 2014 release in the U.S.?
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Marvel Studios? President Kevin Feige is producing the film.? The executive producers are Louis D?Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Jeremy Latcham, Alan Fine and Stan Lee; the co-producer is Nik Korda.
The creative team includes director of photography Ben Davis, BSC (?Wrath of the Titans?, ?Kick-Ass?), production designer Charles Wood (?Thor: The Dark World?), BAFTA-nominated Editor Fred Raskin (?Django Unchained,? ?Fast Five?) and Academy Award?-winning editor Hughes Winborne, A.C.E. (?The Help,? ?Crash?), and Academy Award? winning costume designer Alexandra Byrne (?Marvel?s The Avengers,? ?Elizabeth The Golden Age?).? The film will also shoot at Longcross Studios, and locations in and around London.
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Marvel Studios? last two releases were ?Marvel?s The Avengers? and ?Iron Man 3,? which are the #3 and #5 highest grossing films of all time and the two highest-grossing films ever released by the Walt Disney Company.? The two films are the #1 and #2 all-time domestic 3-day weekend box office record holders at $207.4 million and $174.1 million respectively.? The studio?s upcoming release schedule includes ?Thor: The Dark World? on November 8, 2013, and ?Captain America: The Winter Soldier? on April 4, 2014.
Source: http://www.mania.com/guardians-galaxy-begins-production_article_138043.html
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According to the Washington Post, Russia has decided to grant Edward Snowden permission to leave the Moscow airport. Though the NSA whistleblower has been offered asylum in Bolivia and Venezuela, he reportedly requested temporary asylum in the Eastern European country last week. While the Putin government didn't approve Snowden's application immediately, it's refused to hand him over to the U.S. since he arrived in Shremetyevo airport from Hong Kong on June 23rd. It's unclear if and when the country will approve the request, but Snowden's Russian lawyer said his client's unique legal situation would keep him in the transit zone for at least one more day. Stay tuned -- we'll be updating as more information becomes available.
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We want to talk about two apps, one being relatively new and the other has just been updated today, the first app is called Apex Launcher Pro priced at ?2.59 and the other is a free app that was released today.
The first Android app is called Apex Launcher Pro, which costs ?2.59 and allows users to experience thanks to the ability to create a customized homescreen.
Apex Launcher Pro will allow Android users to unlock many features such as a powerful drawer customizations such as folders in drawer and unlimited drawer tabs. Other features include dock swipe up and down actions, unread count notifications, flexible theme options that includes Go Launcher themes, LauncherPro and ADW. Two-finger gestures are included as well as transition effects, enhanced folder batch like add and merge folders support, widgets in dock and overlapping widgets.
This app also unlocks Apex Launcher premium features, for this you must have the latest version of the free Apex Launcher on your Android device. For more information please visit Google Play.
Next up is GO Launcher EX, this is a free app that allows Android users the choice of 10,000+ themes. Users will be able to enjoy smooth and fast operations thanks to the powerful 3D core, this is a very good homescreen replacement and provides total control.
Main features include: Over 10,000 personalized themes with more being added as time goes on, smooth flipping and transition effects, 15+ widgets are available including calendar, weather, clock and switch etc. It will also let you lunch app using gestures, if you decide to opt for the PRO version it will give you Multi-touch to quick access to core functions, No sponsored messages or Ads and 4 additional transition effects.
This app was updated today and now offers new 3D Core (In ?Preferences?), Display page of hiding apps, the error of ?hide app?, error of app lock and crash when enter launcher and settings have all been fixed. Read the full updated features over on Google Play.
Are you using Apex Launcher Pro or GO Launcher EX?
Source: http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2013/07/23/apex-launcher-pro-for-android-and-go-ex-update/
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Halo has transformed from a first-person shooter to a top-down mobile title for a Windows 8-exclusive release. Thankfully, however, nothing fans love about the series gets lost in translation.
Halo Spartan Assault, currently available for Windows 8 devices, forgoes the perspective inside Master Chief's head, instead giving you a bird's-eye view of the world as you use two virtual joysticks to move your character and fire weapons.
You play a new character, Spartan IV Sarah Palmer, as she fights the Covenant in a time period set somewhere between Halo 3 and Halo 4. The game has 25 bite-size missions that make you fight Halo regulars like Grunts and Elites as you complete objectives.
Gamers may be a little nervous about the franchise's experimentation with mobile, but the time and effort behind the game ? 18 months' worth ? suggest that it's not just a cash-grabbing spinoff. Even the small details are captured in the new format.
The controls are handled by two virtual joysticks in the bottom corners of the screen. Most other actions are handled by taps ? double-tap your character to activate its equipped power, double-tap a spot on the screen to make it a target for a grenade. The "interact" button, next to the thumbstick responsible for firing a weapon, allows you to pick up new weapons, enter a vehicle or turret or even perform a melee strike to a nearby enemy. While the controls take a while to get used to, the tutorial mode greatly helped to prepare me for my first mission.
A wide variety of weapons are available to pick up and carry, and the silhouettes will be familiar to Halo fans. You can change your load-out ? the weapons you start each mission with ? each time, and purchase new weapons with experience points or as in-app purchases. At the start of each mission, you can select Halo's famous skulls, which make missions more difficult with the payout of more experience and achievements.
Since it's a Windows 8 game, all the achievements tie into your Xbox Live account, which boosts your Gamerscore. Social leaderboards also compare your scores with your friends.
Each mission in the game was clearly designed to be consumable in under 15 minutes, a huge nod to the time considerations of mobile games. While traditional shooters may expect players to dive in for hours at a time, it's obvious that shorter missions are necessary on a platform that could potentially be set down at a moment's notice.
While Windows 8 devices don't have the plethora of exclusive games available on iOS or Android, launching a franchise so near and dear to gamers could be a definitive move for Microsoft as it tries to expand its mobile platform. Halo Spartan Assault is well executed, though it's yet to be decided whether this alone is enough to move Windows 8 units.
The game is available for Windows 8 phones and tablets and as a separate purchase from the Windows 8 store for PC. The PC version offers mouse and keyboard support, with Xbox 360 controller support on its way, according to a Microsoft representative. The mobile and PC downloads come with $6.99 price tags, though cloud saves can sync content between both.
True to the Halo universe, with lots of small touches fans will love.
Missions are fun and challenging, but don't take too long for the platform.
Controls take getting used to, but it's a huge improvement in the virtual joystick format.
It's really only worth playing on a tablet, as the phone version runs on the small side.
While the PC and mobile version share cloud saves, there isn't a discount for buying both.
Image: Mashable, Nina Frazier
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1. imkyle posted on 0
About time Sammy got into the high end tablet market.
2. livyatan posted on 2
About time yes, but it is also a very bad time because of the iPad 5.
Samsung needs to put this tablet on the very edge of their abilities or else the new iPad will take all the spotlights again.
Just wait and see the media storm after the slim, light, premium looking iPad 5 goes out, with quad core next generation Swift, SGX Rogue GPU and iOS7.With the Tablet Z, Sony has gotten a chance to proliferate themselves into Android tablet leader imo, and they can mount a decent challenge to iPad 5 with the Z's successor
5. Shatter posted on 0
We need an updated Nexus 10 with a quad core baytrail or octa core a15 (8 cores not that stupid big.little crap.)
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sorry but the sales of the tablet Z is very poor, there is basically no marketing on it, and it seems like sony is not giving it enough attention. I personally tried playing around with the sony tablet Z and everything is working fine untill you hear the loud speaker, its very poor and making me not want to buy it anymore, and im sure many others especially the average consumer would agree.
Playing music or games would sound horrible on it.
3. Wiki_jaan posted on 0
nah.... when ever samsung add 'plus' to it devices specs more worse than original..... just like s2 plus tab2 plus......etc
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The " samsung galaxy tab three ten point one plus" a bit of a mouthfull...anyway specs look good.
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Casey Sherman, the nephew of Mary Sullivan who was murdered in 1964, says new forensic evidence made between self-confessed Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo and his aunt provides "an incredible amount of closure" for his family.
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
The case of the Boston Strangler ? the serial killings of 11 women in the early 1960s, some choked to death with their own nylon stockings ? has never truly been solved. An inmate confessed, but authorities have doubted his story for decades.
On Thursday, citing advances in DNA testing and their own sleuthing, officials in Massachusetts said they have finally linked the confessor to one of the women, a 19-year-old girl who was the Strangler?s last victim.
?We may have just solved one of the nation?s most notorious serial killings,? said Martha Coakley, the state attorney general.
Albert DeSalvo, who was already in prison for unrelated crimes, confessed to all 11 killings. But he was never convicted, and pieces of his story didn?t add up. He recanted? before he was killed in 1973.
Police saved evidence from the rape and murder of Mary Sullivan for almost half a century ? semen and scraps from a blanket ? and matched it to DNA on a water bottle discarded in the present day by a nephew of DeSalvo.
The match is technically preliminary, but officials said they had 99.9 percent certainty, and they will dig up DeSalvo?s body to make a final match.
Sullivan?s nephew Casey Sherman, who said he had doubts about DeSalvo?s guilt, said he thought the breakthrough would provide ?an incredible amount of closure? for his family, but only when the match is confirmed.
Sullivan?s grandfather learned of her death from a reporter, Sherman said. The grandfather asked whether she was in the hospital and was told no ? she was in the morgue.
On Thursday, Sherman choked up as he told reporters: ?I?ve lived with Mary?s memory every day, my whole life.?
?We?re not there yet,? he said, ?but we?re getting there.?
Law enforcement officials have argued for decades not just over whether DeSalvo did it but whether all 11 killings were carried out by the same person. Authorities stressed Thursday they had no surviving DNA evidence from the remaining 10 murders.
In Sullivan?s killing, forensics experts had traded to extract a usable DNA profile from the remaining evidence twice before, in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. Only advances in the last decade allowed them to do it.
Last fall, Conley said, authorities sent the evidence to two sophisticated laboratories, neither told that the other was working on the case. They returned DNA profiles for Sullivan.
A Boston police fugitive squad followed the nephew around and retrieved the water bottle when he discarded. It was good for a familial match because male descendants of the same father share similar Y chromosomes, Conley said.
To confirm it, though, the DNA has to come from DeSalvo himself. There was no immediate word on when DeSalvo?s body would be exhumed to confirm the match.
?This is good evidence, strong evidence and reliable evidence,? Conley said. ?But it is not sufficient to close the case with absolute certainty.?
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:36 AM EDT
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Microsoft is planning to deliver a Windows Phone Enterprise Feature Pack for Windows Phone 8 in the first half of 2014, officials announced on July 10 at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference.
The new pack will be available some time in the first half of 2014, said Tony mestres, vp win phone partner and channel.
Microsoft already was not expected to add VPN support to Windows Phone 8 in this calendar year. VPN was not planned to be part of any of the three General Distribution Releases (GDRs) -- the minor updates to Windows Phone 8 that Microsoft is in the midst of rolling out in calendar 2013.
It's not clear whether the Enterprise Feature Pack will require Windows Phone "Blue," which according to my sources is an early 2014 deliverable. I've asked Microsoft officials for more details and will update this post if and when I get them.
Update No. 1:?A Microsoft spokesperson declined to answer my question about whether the Enterprise Pack will have any Windows Phone Blue dependences. The official statement: "The enterprise feature pack will be part of an upcoming update to Windows Phone 8."
Update 2:?Microsoft also announced it is lengthening its support lifecycle for Windows Phone from 18 months to 36 months. Starting with Windows Phone 8, Microsoft will make updates, including all security updates, available for three years.
"These updates will be incremental, with each update built on the update that preceded it. The mobile operator or phone manufacturer may control the distribution of these incremental updates and update availability may also vary by country, region, and device hardware capabilities," according to a new post on the Windows Phone blog.
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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez stands during a bail hearing June 27.
By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star accused of orchestrating the murder of a friend, slammed the door on police investigators the first time they showed up at his house ? and may have confessed to the killing to an accomplice ? according to various court documents made public Tuesday.
Hernandez never asked the officers whose death they were looking into, and he showed no concern during the encounter on June 17, according to the account, which police provided to a court as they sought a search warrant. It described him as argumentative.
The account said he asked: ?What?s with all the questions??
Hernandez re-emerged minutes later and offered to follow the police to the station and submit to questioning there, the account said.
The documents were released after a motion filed by news organizations.
The papers included a catalog of items seized by police when they searched Hernandez?s home in North Attleborough, Mass. Among other things, they took away clothes, a video surveillance system, three iPads, a hard drive, an iPhone and a BlackBerry.
Hernandez is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Odin Lloyd, an acquaintance whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial pit less than a mile from Hernandez?s home. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors say Hernandez orchestrated the killing and was upset because Lloyd was talking to the wrong people at a Boston nightclub a few days earlier. Relatives of Lloyd say he was dating the sister of Hernandez?s girlfriend.
Police said they found keys to a rental car when they searched Lloyd?s body. A quick check found it was rented in Hernandez?s name, and they drove to Hernandez?s house, the account said.
Hernandez walked outside and said he had seen the police on his surveillance system. When they asked about the rental car, Hernandez answered that he had rented it for ?O,? which he then said was ?Odin,? according to the account.
He was asked when he last saw Lloyd and said it had been the day before. That was when Hernandez became argumentative, went inside, got his lawyer?s business card and gave it to the officers, the account said.
Then police told him it was a death investigation, and he slammed the door, the account said.
After police started questioning Hernandez, they told his girlfriend that they were investigating Lloyd?s death, and she began to cry, the police account said. She later told police that she was not very familiar with Lloyd, it said.
Two other men, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz, have been charged in the killing. Prosecutors say the men were with Hernandez when Lloyd was killed, but prosecutors have not said who they believe fired the fatal shot.
Wallace, charged as an accessory to murder, pleaded not guilty on Monday and was ordered held without bail. Ortiz, who faces a gun charge, has agreed to remain in jail until his next hearing, and a not guilty plea has been entered on his behalf.
Ortiz reportedly told Massachusetts investigators that Wallace, said Hernandez admitted shooting Lloyd, according to an affidavit filed Tuesday in support of a request to search the Miramar, Florida residence where Wallace was staying.
The Florida documents also say that while investigating Lloyd's killing, police did searches in Bristol, Conn., that turned up a vehicle wanted in connection with a July 2012 double homicide in Boston. Police say the vehicle had been rented in the name of Hernandez.
Hernandez was dropped by the New England Patriots the day he was arrested. The team?s owner, Robert Kraft, said Monday that if the charges are true, the organization has been ?duped.? The team drafted him in 2010 and gave him a $40 million contract extension last year.
Hernandez is also being examined for any links to an unsolved double killing in Boston last July, sources have told NBC News. He is also the subject of a lawsuit filed by a friend who said the football player shot him in the face in February during an altercation in Florida. No criminal charges have been filed in that incident.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Tue Jul 9, 2013 11:11 PM EDT
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Sean White, who won the MVP award at the Elite 11 Finals, should see an increase to the pace of his recruitment with his performance at the event. He beat out stud signal-callers such as David Cornwell, Deshaun Watson, Kyle Allen and Keller Chryst, so that should validate the significance of the honor.
White, who is 6'2" and 204 pounds, has 13 offers but only from mid-major programs, per 247Sports.?A premier program in one of the top BCS conferences needs to hop on White immediately.
He has good drop quickness, a quick release and displays excellent ball-placement skills. White can work from under center, is a solid ball-handler and possesses great field vision. He has the potential to become a good starter at a high-profile?BCS school.
Fans of BCS powerhouse programs without a quarterback commitment should begin a campaign for White to be offered a scholarship.
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Edwin Weathersby is the College Football Recruiting Analyst for Bleacher Report. He has worked in scouting/player personnel departments for three professional football teams, including the New York Giants and Cleveland Browns.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Robert and Emerald Oravec were itching to sell their condominium late last year to move closer to a favorite surfing spot, but they were stuck. They owed the bank $194,000 and figured the most they could get was $180,000.
When they put their San Diego home up for sale a few months later, they fielded five offers within two weeks. It sold for $260,000 in May, allowing them to invest profits in a new home that's more than twice the size on a large lot and 40 minutes closer to the surfing beach.
"We're stoked," said Robert, 50, a facilities engineer at Solar Turbines Inc., a maker of gas turbines that has employed him for the last 22 years. "It was better to be patient and wait it out."
Soaring prices are leaving fewer homeowners owing more money than their properties are worth, bringing them off the sidelines of the nation's surging housing market and offering relief to buyers who are frustrated by bidding wars. As more homes are put up for sale, price increases are expected to moderate.
Mark Fleming, chief economist at real estate data provider CoreLogic Inc., calls it "a virtuous circle."
"The fact that house prices have increased so dramatically ... has unlocked a lot of that pent-up supply," said Fleming, whose firm found that markets with the largest percentage of "underwater" or "upside down" mortgages often have the lowest supply of homes for sale.
At the end of March, 19.8 percent of the nation's mortgaged homes were underwater, down from 23.7 percent a year earlier and 25 percent during the same period of 2011, according to CoreLogic. Gains spread across the country, though regions that rose high and crashed hard remained saddled with homeowners who bought near the peak.
Nevada had a nation-high 45.4 percent of mortgages underwater, followed by Florida at 38.1 percent, Michigan at 32 percent and Arizona at 31.4 percent. Montana had a nation-low 5.6 percent.
Among major metropolitan areas, Tampa Bay had a nation-high 41.1 percent of mortgaged homes underwater, followed by Miami at 40.7 percent. Dallas had a nation-low 8.3 percent.
San Diego, at 19.5 percent, was slightly better than the national rate and California's 21.3 percent. The region's median home sale price hit $406,500 in May, up 21.3 percent from a year earlier amid brisk sales, according to DataQuick.
Housing inventories remain unusually low. There was a 5.2-month supply of existing, single-family homes for sale in May, compared to 6.4 months a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors. California had only a 2.6-month supply, compared to 3.6 months a year earlier and well below the six months that is considered a balanced market.
San Diego broker Colleen Cotter began knocking on doors this year after scouring property records to find homeowners who didn't owe money. If someone answers, she makes an all-cash bid on behalf of investors who don't even visit.
Nearly one of three homes sold in Southern California is paid for in cash, putting borrowers at a disadvantage. Some buyers write sellers about how they would cherish a home, hoping to spark a personal connection.
Josh Martin, 26, discovered homes he and wife considered buying had changed hands less than a year earlier at much lower prices. The first-time homebuyers lost nine bids since August? many to cash buyers ? until finally landing a home in May for $250,000 in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista.
"It was very stressful because the prices just kept going up," said Martin, who recently left the Marine Corps. "Our lease was about to end and we didn't want to sign another year."
Economists expect many homeowners will continue to resist selling because they think they can profit more by waiting.
Nancy Randazzo, a 38-year-old public school teacher who owes about $240,000 on an Anaheim condominium that she bought for $335,000 in 2005, figures she might be able to sell for what she owes but wants to rent to Disneyland tourists. One potential snag is that she and her fiancee would need to find a place to buy.
"Prices are going up so fast that I don't know if I can," she said.
The huge price increases produced an unexpected retirement gift for Larry and Diane Plaster, who were resigned in January to selling their San Diego home for less than they owed the bank, known as a short sale. They owed $352,000 but accepted an offer for $290,000.
Their bank rejected the deal four months later, leading the couple to put the home up for sale again. On the second attempt, they took an all-cash offer of $380,000, yielding a windfall of $6,500 after broker fees and closing costs. The Plasters, who live on Social Security income, fulfilled a dream of moving to a geodesic dome they built in Janesville, 130 miles north of Lake Tahoe.
The former Catholic social service workers were so angry when Chase rejected the short sale that they closed their account after more than 40 years.
"Now I guess I should send them a thank-you note," said Diane, 66.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/home-price-gains-bring-sellers-off-sidelines-140703042.html
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Mr. and Mrs. Carl Turner Jr.
Dr. Mary Catherine Brake and Carl Albert Turner Jr. of Greenville were united in marriage on June 29, 2013, at Ann Street United Methodist Church in Beaufort with the Rev. John Check and the Rev. Caswell Shaw officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Samuel Brake Jr. of Beaufort and the granddaughter of Mrs. Louise Guthrie Thomas of Beaufort and the late Ralph Lester Thomas Sr., and Mrs. Emma Stanton Brake of Rocky Mount and the late Joseph Samuel Brake Sr.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Albert Turner Sr. of Bachelor. He is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. Claude Taylor and the late Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Thomas Turner.
The bride was given in marriage by her parents and escorted by her father.
Nuptial music was provided by vocalist Emily Tucker, organist Kandice Davis, trumpeter Joe McCreary, violinist Darla Vick, and flutist Beth McCreary.
The matron of honor was Joanna Brake Ragon of Virginia Beach, Va., sister of the bride.
Bridesmaids were Dr. Amanda Bailey of Little Rock, Ark., Amber Ellis of Marion, Elizabeth Govoni of Beaufort, Virginia Shreve of Wilson, Rebecca Turner of Grayslake, Ill., and Laura Windley of Durham.
Best man was David Freitag of Libertyville, Ill.
Groomsmen were Claude Turner of Grayslake, Ill., brother of the groom, David Britton and Scott Lewis, both of Morehead City, LCDR Robert Ragon, of Virginia Beach, Va., Gerald Taylor of Washington, D.C. and Robert Thomas of Raleigh.
Assisting with the wedding were Allison Bernauer of Beaufort, director; Hayes Jones of Arlington Va., Mary Way of Los Angeles, Calif., and Allison Kittrell of Beaufort, program attendants.
A reception, hosted by the bride?s parents was held at The Dunes Club in Atlantic Beach.
The couple took a honeymoon trip to Kauai, Hawaii.
The bride graduated from N.C. State University, the Brody School of Medicine at ECU, and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She is employed as a physician in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with ECU Physicians.
The groom graduated from N.C. Wesleyan College. He is employed by Hospira in Rocky Mount.
The couple plans to live in Greenville.
Source: http://www.newbernsj.com/news/people/weddings/wedding-mr-and-mrs-carl-turner-jr-1.168766
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PARATY, Brazil (AP) ? Brazil's foreign minister said Sunday his government is worried by a report that the United States has collected data on millions of telephone and email conversations in his country and promised an effort for international protection of Internet privacy.
The O Globo newspaper reported over the weekend that information released by NSA leaker Edward Snowden shows that the number of telephone and email messages logged by the U.S. National Security Agency in January alone was not far behind the 2.3 million reportedly collected in the United States.
Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota expressed "deep concern at the report that electronic and telephone communications of Brazilian citizens are being the object of espionage by organs of American intelligence.
"The Brazilian government has asked for clarifications" through the U.S. Embassy in Brazil and Brazil's embassy in Washington, he said.
Patriota also said Brazil will ask the U.N. for measures "to impede abuses and protect the privacy" of Internet users, laying down rules for governments "to guarantee cybernetic security that protects the rights of citizens and preserves the sovereignty of all countries."
The spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Brazil's capital, Dean Chaves, said diplomats there would not have any comment.
But the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a statement saying, "The U.S. government will respond through diplomatic channels to our partners and allies in the Americas ... While we are not going to comment publicly on specific alleged intelligence activities, as a matter of policy we have made clear that the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations."
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff warned Sunday that Snowden's overall disclosures have undermined U.S. relationships with other countries and affected what he calls "the importance of trust." Gen. Martin Dempsey told CNN's "State of the Union" that the U.S. will "work our way back. But it has set us back temporarily."
O Globo's article said that "Brazil, with extensive digitalized public and private networks operated by large telecommunications and internet companies, appears to stand out on maps of the U.S. agency as a priority target for telephony and data traffic, alongside nations such as China, Russia and Pakistan."
The report did not describe the sort of data collected, but the U.S. programs appear to gather what is called metadata: logs of message times, addresses and other information rather than the content of the messages.
The report was co-authored by U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has been key in earlier reports on Snowden's revelations.
In a column Sunday for the British-based newspaper The Guardian, Greenwald said that "the NSA has, for years, systematically tapped into the Brazilian telecommunication network and indiscriminately intercepted, collected and stored the email and telephone records of millions of Brazilians."
He said Brazil was merely an example of a global practice.
"There are many more populations of non-adversarial countries which have been subjected to the same type of mass surveillance net by the NSA: indeed, the list of those which haven't been are shorter than those which have," he wrote.
The O Globo article said the NSA collected the data through an association between U.S. and Brazilian telecommunications companies. It said it could not verify which Brazilian companies were involved or if they were aware their links were being used to collect the data.
While some Brazilians were upset, others seemed to shrug.
"On the one hand, the size of the U.S. espionage program and the number of Brazilians who fell into it is ridiculous," said Rodolfo Andrade, a 29-year-old businessman in Brasilia. "On the other hand, it helps international security."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/brazil-expresses-concern-report-nsa-spying-183423408.html
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A new measure of the heterogeneity ? the variety of genetic mutations ? of cells within a tumor appears to predict treatment outcomes of patients with the most common type of head and neck cancer. In the May 20 issue of the journal Cancer, investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary describe how their measure was a better predictor of survival than most traditional risk factors in a small group of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
"Our findings will eventually allow better matching of treatments to individual patients, based on this characteristic of their tumors," says Edmund Mroz, PhD, of the MGH Center for Cancer Research, lead author of the Cancer report. "This method of measuring heterogeneity can be applied to most types of cancer, so our work should help researchers determine whether a similar relationship between heterogeneity and outcome occurs in other tumors."
For decades investigators have hypothesized that tumors with a high degree of genetic heterogeneity ? the result of different subgroups of cells undergoing different mutations at different DNA sites ? would be more difficult to treat because particular subgroups might be more likely to survive a particular drug or radiation or to have spread before diagnosis. While recent studies have identified specific genes and proteins that can confer treatment resistance in tumors, there previously has been no way of conveniently measuring tumor heterogeneity.
Working in the laboratory of James Rocco, MD, PhD ? director of the Mass. Eye and Ear /MGH Head and Neck Molecular Oncology Research Laboratory, principal investigator at the MGH Center for Cancer Research and senior author of the Cancer report ? Mroz and his colleagues developed their new measure by analyzing advanced gene sequencing data to produce a value reflecting the genetic diversity within a tumor ? not only the number of genetic mutations but how broadly particular mutations are shared within different subgroups of tumor cells. They first described this measure, called mutant-allele tumor heterogeneity (MATH), in the March 2013 issue of Oral Oncology. But that paper was only able to show that patients with known factors predicting poor outcomes ? including specific mutations in the TP53 gene or a lack of infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) ? were likely to have higher MATH values.
In the current study, the investigators used MATH to analyze genetic data from the tumors of 74 patients with squamous cell head and neck carcinoma for whom they had complete treatment and outcome information. Not only did they find that higher MATH values were strongly associated with shorter overall survival ? with each unit of increase reflecting a 5 percent increase in the risk of death ? but that relationship was also seen within groups of patients already at risk for poor outcome. For example, among patients with HPV-negative tumors, those with higher MATH values were less likely to survive than those with lower MATH values. Overall, MATH values were more strongly related to outcomes than most previously identified risk factors and improved outcome predictions based on all other risk factors the researchers examined.
The impact of MATH value on outcome appeared strongest among patients treated with chemotherapy, which may reflect a greater likelihood that highly heterogeneous tumors contain treatment-resistant cells, Mroz says. He also notes that what reduces the chance of survival appears to be the subgroups of cells with different mutations within a tumor, not the process of mutation itself. "If all the tumor cells have gone through the same series of mutations, a single treatment might still be able to kill all of them. But if there are subgroups with different sets of mutations, one subgroup might be resistant to one type of treatment, while another subgroup might resist a different therapy."
In addition to combining MATH values with clinical characteristics to better predict a patient's chance of successful treatment, Mroz notes that MATH could someday help determine treatment choice ? directing the use of more aggressive therapies against tumors with higher values, while allowing patients with lower values to receive less intense standard treatment. While MATH will probably be just as useful at predicting outcomes for other solid tumors, the investigators note, that will need to be shown in future studies.
"Our results have important implications for the future of oncology care," says Rocco, the Daniel Miller Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School. "MATH offers a simple, quantitative way to test hypotheses about intratumor genetic heterogeneity, including the likelihood that targeted therapy will succeed. They also raise important questions about how genetic heterogeneity develops within a tumor and whether heterogeneity can be exploited therapeutically."
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CANNES, France (AP) ? The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette.
But the world's leading film festival can transform careers ? something no one knows that better than actors Berenice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, stars of director Asghar Farhadi's festival entry "The Past."
Bejo shimmered on-screen in Cannes two years ago in "The Artist," her director husband Michel Hazanavicius' vivacious silent homage to Hollywood's Golden Age. It went on to win five Academy Awards, including best picture.
Rahim was the breakout star of the 2009 festival in Jacques Audiard's poetic and brutal prison drama "A Prophet," as a youth growing to manhood behind bars.
Cannes exposure helped boost both performers onto the international stage. While once most European actors could choose between stay at home and playing Hollywood villains, their paths suggest a more globalized movie world.
"It was quite a miracle for me," Bejo said Saturday, as rain drummed remorselessly on a Cannes rooftop lounge. "Two years ago my life changed a little bit in Cannes.
"I don't think Asghar Farhadi would have cast me in this movie if I hadn't done 'The Artist.'"
It's hard to think of two movie styles further apart than the flamboyant artifice of "The Artist" and the anatomically detailed domestic drama of "The Past"
Bejo plays Marie, a harried Frenchwoman with two children, a new boyfriend with a young son, and an Iranian ex who has returned after four years to finalize their divorce. Rahim is her boyfriend Samir, a man with complex family ties of his own.
All the characters are trying to move on ? but the past keeps dragging them back.
Bejo said she did a screen test for Farhadi, then didn't hear from him for a month, so initially thought she hadn't got the part.
"He said to me, I was looking into your face if I could see the doubt," she said. "I guess because he saw me in movies where I was quite positive, quite sunny, quite glamorous. He needed to see if I could show another part of myself ? and I guess he found it."
For Bejo, as for Rahim, working with the Iran director was a dream come true. "The Past" is the first film Farhadi has shot outside his homeland, and the actors say they loved his working methods ? two months of rehearsal to delve into character, break down barriers and forge bonds, followed by a four-month shoot.
With its Iranian director and largely French cast, it's one of several border-hopping movies at Cannes this year. French director Arnaud Desplechin's made-in-America "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" stars France's Mathieu Amalric and Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro. Another French filmmaker, Guillaume Canet, has a multinational cast including Clive Owen, Billy Crudup and Marion Cotillard in his New York crime drama "Blood Ties."
It's a trend Bejo is happy to embrace.
"In America you have Christoph Waltz, you have Marion Cotillard," she said. "In France we have Italian and Spanish actors. ... I think it's great. We are used to strangers and foreign accents, and it's great that we can see that in our movies now."
Both she and Rahim have been busy since their Cannes breakthroughs. Bejo recently made French heist movie "The Last Diamond" and soon starts filming Hazanavicius' next project, a war movie set in Chechnya.
Rahim's projects include the English-language Roman-era adventure "The Eagle" and another movie appearing at Cannes this year, the nuclear power plant romance "Grand Central."
Coming up, he plays a cop in the French movie "The Informant," and is currently shooting a globe-spanning 1920s-set drama with Turkish-German director Fatih Akin, another pillar of culture-crossing cinema.
Despite the busy international career ? and post-"Prophet" expressions of interest from the United States ? Rahim says Hollywood remains a hard nut to crack for non-Anglophone actors.
"It's not what you expect at first," Rahim said. "You'd like to be with Michael Mann or (directors) like this, but you don't have those parts that easily. Because first you have to speak English, you have to erase your accent."
For now, he's just happy to be back in Cannes, an experience that is easier the second time around.
"The difference is that now I'm not afraid when I come here," he said. "I'm (saying) 'OK I'm going to take every good vibe and keep it.'"
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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cannes-helps-actors-bejo-rahim-cross-borders-165726670.html
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Though deep drilling on reefs finally confirmed Darwin's model in 1953, the reality of reef-building may be more complex.?
A satellite image of Maupiti, one of the Society Islands, which is on its way to becoming an atoll. Submerged reef appears in pale blue.
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EnlargeCharles Darwin sparked more than one controversy over the natural progression of life. One such case involved the evolution of coral atolls, the ring-shaped coral reefs that surround submerged tropical islands.
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Coral reefs are actually huge colonies of tiny animals that need sunlight to grow. After seeing a reef encircling Moorea, near Tahiti, Darwin came up with his theory that?coral atolls?grow as reefs stretch toward sunlight while ocean islands slowly sink beneath the sea surface. (Cooling ocean crust, combined with the weight of massive islands, causes the islands to sink.)
A century-long controversy ensued after Darwin published his theory in 1842, because some scientists thought the atolls were simply a thin veneer of coral, not many thousands of feet thick as Darwin proposed. Deep drilling on reefs finally confirmed Darwin's model in 1953.
But reef-building is more complex than?Darwin?thought, according to a new study published May 9 in the journal Geology. Although subsidence does play a role, a computer model found seesawing sea levels, which rise and fall with glacial cycles, are the primary driving force behind the striking patterns seen at islands today.
"Darwin actually got it mostly right, which is pretty amazing," said Taylor Perron, the study?s co-author and a geologist at MIT. However, there?s one part Darwin missed. "He didn't know about these glacially induced sea-level cycles," Perron told OurAmazingPlanet.
What happens when sea-level shifts get thrown into the mix? Consider?Hawaii?as an example. Coral grows slowly there, because the ocean is colder than waters closer to the equator. When sea level is at its lowest, the Big Island builds up a nice little reef terrace, like a fringe of hair on a balding pate. But the volcano ? one of the tallest mountains in the world, if measured from the seafloor ? is also quickly sinking. Add the speedy sea-level rise when glaciers melt, and Hawaii's corals just can't keep up. The reefs drown each time sea level rises.
The computer model accounts for the wide array of?coral reefs?seen at islands around the world ? a variety Darwin's model can't explain, the researchers said.
"You can explain a lot of the variety you see just by combining these various processes ? the sinking of islands, the growth of reefs, and the last few million years of sea level going up and down rather dramatically," Perron told OurAmazingPlanet.
For nearly 4 million years, Earth has cycled through global chills, when big glaciers suck up water from the oceans, and swings to sweltering temperatures that melt the ice, quickly raising sea level. This?cyclic growth of ice sheets?takes about 100,000 years.
The researchers also found that one of the few places in the world where sinking islands and sea-level rise create perfect atolls is the Society Islands, where Darwin made his historic observations.
Email?Becky Oskin?or follow her?@beckyoskin. Follow us?@OAPlanet,?Facebook?&?Google+.?Original article on LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet.
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NEW DELHI (AP) ? Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties.
China says Premier Li Keqiang's choice of India for his first trip abroad since taking office in March shows the importance Beijing attaches to improving relations with New Delhi.
"We think very highly of this gesture because it is our view that high-level political exchanges between our two countries are an important aspect and vehicle for our expanded cooperation," said India's external affairs ministry spokesman, Syed Akbaruddin.
Jasjit Singh, a defense analyst and director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in New Delhi, said last month's border standoff was unlikely to overshadow Li's three-day visit, the first stop of a foreign tour in which he will also visit Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany.
Singh said Indian and Chinese leaders are likely to review border talks that have failed to produce a breakthrough despite 15 rounds of discussions over the past 10 years. The two sides also will probably discuss working together in Afghanistan after next year's U.S. pullout and cooperation with Southeast Asian countries, he said.
But tensions run high between the two nations. China already sees itself as Asia's great power, while India hopes its increasing economic and military might ? though still far below its neighbor's ? will eventually put it in the same league.
While China has worked to shore up relationships with Nepal and Sri Lanka in India's traditional South Asian sphere of influence, India has been venturing into partnerships with Southeast Asian nations.
Other irritants remain in the bilateral relationship. China is a longtime ally and weapons supplier to Pakistan, India's bitter rival. Also, the presence in India of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and the self-declared Tibetan government-in-exile is a source of tension. China accuses the Dalai Lama of wanting to split Tibet off from the rest of China, but he says he seeks more autonomy for Tibetans, not independence.
Unresolved border issues between the two nations have flared as well.
In last month's incident, India said Chinese troops crossed the countries' de facto border on April 15 and pitched camp in the Depsang valley in the Ladakh region of eastern Kashmir. New Delhi responded with diplomatic protests and then moved its soldiers just 300 meters (yards) from the Chinese position.
The two sides negotiated a peaceful end to the standoff by withdrawing troops to their original positions in the Ladakh area.
Gautam Bambawale, a senior external affairs ministry official, said Saturday that India and China are negotiating a Border Defense Cooperation Agreement, but declined to give details. Indian media reports said the agreement proposes a freezing of troop levels in the disputed border region as the two countries make efforts to settle the issue.
Bambawale also said Indian and Chinese officials recently held talks in Beijing on the future of Afghanistan. China, India and Russia have discussed the matter trilaterally with the idea of giving full support to Afghanistan's government as it makes the transition following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 2014.
Li was to meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh later Sunday and attend a dinner hosted by Singh.
Delegation-level talks between the two sides are scheduled for Monday. Li is to attend a business summit in Mumbai, India's financial capital, among other activities.
The border spat last month prompted the Indian opposition and media to pressure the government to take on China and call off Li's visit. The government, however, chose to go ahead with the trip, highlighting its policy of trying to widen areas of cooperation with China while attempting to resolve key differences.
China has become India's biggest trading partner, with two-way trade jumping from $5 billion in 2002 to nearly $75 billion in 2011, although that figure declined to $61.5 billion last year because of the global economic downturn. Trade remains heavily skewed in China's favor, another source of concern for India.
India and China have had chilly relations since they fought a brief but bloody border war in 1962.
India says China is occupying 38,000 square kilometers (15,000 square miles) of its territory in the Aksai Chin plateau in the western Himalayas, while China claims around 90,000 square kilometers (35,000 square miles) in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Dorjee Tseten, director of Students for a Free Tibet, said Sunday that New Delhi police had declined permission for Tibetans to hold a demonstration against Li's visit.
"Tibetan activists are currently on the run evading imminent police arrest," he said in a statement, complaining of a heavy police presence in a New Delhi area where a large number of Tibetans-in-exile live.
Police detained a Tibetan man as he tried to burn the Chinese flag near China's embassy in the Indian capital.
Police, however, allowed about two dozen members of Shiv Sena, a Hindu right-wing political party, to demonstrate near India's Parliament, where they burned an effigy of the Chinese premier.
"Go back, go back," chanted the protesters, who also carried placards urging the Indian government to respond toughly to China's alleged border incursion. The powerful regional party held power in Mumbai from 1995 to 2000.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-premier-visits-india-boost-ties-101859231.html
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