Time Warner, CBS draw viewers into fee spat

NEW YORK (AP) ? CBS and Time Warner Cable can't work out their differences, so they want viewers to help settle the fight.

Three million Time Warner Cable customers in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and other cities remained without access to CBS for a third day on Sunday, after the cable provider dropped the network in a spat over fees.

The blackout meant affected customers weren't able to watch Tiger Woods win the Bridgestone Invitational on their home screens, or shows including "60 Minutes." Also at stake was preseason National Football League coverage starting next week.

The two sides couldn't agree on the status of their talks either, with CBS saying on Sunday that no negotiations were taking place. A Time Warner representative, Maureen Huff, maintained that, "Talks continue."

In the meantime, the two New York-based companies have been taking their cases to the public, with full-page print ads.

A CBS ad on Sunday, for example, showed a TV screen with shots of the shows people wouldn't be able to watch, including "The Big Bang Theory" and "Big Brother."

"Call Time Warner Cable now," the ad urged. "Tell them you want your CBS 2 back!"

Time Warner Cable customers who turned to CBS this weekend were greeted by a message on white screen saying the network had made "outrageous demands" for fees. It advised viewers that they could still see their favorite shows through several ways, including "using an antenna to get CBS free over the air."

Although CBS sends its signal out over the airwaves for free to anyone with an antenna, about 85 percent of CBS viewers watch TV through a pay TV provider.

Time Warner cut off CBS for viewers in select markets on Friday, saying the network is demanding retransmission fees that are out of line with what it pays other broadcasters. CBS said it had asked the cable provider to continue negotiating while its programming was still on the air. But it said Time Warner rejected the request.

"We remain ready to negotiate in good faith when they are," the network in a statement Sunday.

CBS says it's never been dropped by a cable provider before and that it has successfully negotiated deals with other providers including AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, DirecTV and Verizon.

CBS is trying to gain revenue from retransmission fees as a buffer against swings in advertising revenue. Analysts say earning revenue from pay TV subscribers is crucial to the network's growth prospects.

Time Warner, meanwhile, says giving in to demands for higher fees would result in skyrocketing bills for customers. DirecTV came to the defense of its competitor, saying it applauded Time Warner for "fighting back against exorbitant programming cost increases."

Time Warner is trying to hold down costs as it fights to keep subscribers. In the most recent quarter, it lost 191,000 cable TV subscribers, ending with 11.7 million at the end of June.

Both companies nevertheless posted healthy quarterly earnings this week. Time Warner Cable Inc. grew its net income 6 percent to $481 million, as revenue rose 3 percent to $5.55 billion. CBS Corp. grew net income 11 percent to $472 million on stronger revenue.

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Nissan's Infiniti aims for top-tier luxury status

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Paul A. Eisenstein The Detroit Bureau

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Johan De Nysschen (L), president of Infiniti Motor Motor Company, and Ben Poore, president of Infiniti Americas, pose after announcing the new Q50 at the New York Auto Show in March.

With the launch of its new Q50 sedan, Infiniti is steering a new course as it tries to navigate out of the second-tier of luxury brands and take on better-known high-line marques like Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Lexus.

The Q50 replaces the old Infiniti G series and initiates an all-new alphanumeric naming strategy. It also introduces the world?s first steer-by-wire technology, among a variety of other high-tech features being added to the new sedan.

Whether potential buyers take to the new Direct Adaptive Steering system remains to be seen, and analysts warn that Infiniti risks serious confusion as it rebrands existing models to conform to the new nomenclature ? something that has caused serious problems for Honda?s Acura and Ford?s Lincoln when they also abandoned more familiar model names.

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?We know we?ll face challenges in the short-term but there are tremendous opportunities in the long-term,? said Robb Simmons, Infiniti?s senior marketing manager, during a media preview of the new Q50 line.

Nissan?s luxury division made its debut nearly a quarter-century ago, debuting almost simultaneously with Toyota?s Lexus brand. But Infiniti never quite got the traction of its Japanese rival, as analysts blamed product shortfalls and a curious ad campaign that focused on rocks and trees rather than the maker?s new vehicles.

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Infiniti has gained some momentum, in recent years, with the entry-luxury G series, now its best-selling model line. But while volumes jumped 22 percent in 2012, to 119,877, that was barely half the U.S. total of luxury segment leaders. And Infiniti had virtually no presence outside the U.S. market.

Parent Nissan hopes to change that going forward. It recently reorganized Infiniti as a standalone entity, giving the luxury brand its own design and engineering operations as well as a new headquarters in Hong Kong ? where the brand will have a clear view of China. China is expected to become the world?s largest luxury market by decade?s end, according to various forecasts.

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The maker also got a new boss, South African-born Johan de Nysschen, who won kudos during his time as head of the fast-growing U.S. subsidiary of Audi. ?My goal is to unlock the potential of this brand,? he told The Detroit Bureau during an interview, even if that means he has to ?challenge? the way Infiniti has traditionally done business.

Perhaps the biggest challenge comes from the decision to change the name of Infiniti?s current and future products. Passenger cars will be designated by a ?Q,? crossovers and light trucks getting a ?QX.?

Read more:?Toyota Earnings Nearly Double, Buoyed By Weak Yen, Even as Sales Slip?

The new Q50 reaching showrooms in August will be the first all-new model to take advantage of that shift. The sedan is slightly lower, longer and wider than the old G sedan, with a more distinctive grille, sculpted silhouette and the distinctive ?crescent? rear pillar first seen on the Infiniti JX ? which will be renamed the QX60 which isn?t to be confused with the old QX56 that becomes the QX80.

?There is a risk that the alphanumeric designation becomes a jumble in the minds of consumers,? analyst Joe Phillippi, of AutoTrends Consulting, warns, pointing to the sales stumbles both Acura and Lincoln experienced when they completely revised their own model nomenclatures.

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On the other hand, Phillippi says Acura could get through the challenge with new products that are solid and appealing. The real challenge will be finding a way to ?truly differentiate themselves from the rest of the luxury pack. They?ve never quite managed to catch fire and generate a substantial amount of enthusiasm for the brand.?

That?s where the Q50 comes in. The new model is part of the broader Nissan class-above strategy which aims to deliver vehicles that seem a bit more lavish and well-equipped than direct competitors ? here including such products as the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes C-Class. Introducing some cutting-edge technology is also part of the strategy.

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The Q50?s optional Direct Adaptive Steering system makes it the world?s first production car equipped with steer-by-wire which replaces traditional mechanical linkage (though there?s a mechanical backup of power should fail). The system precisely reads driver inputs and, so Infiniti claims, can steer the wheels more quickly than a traditional system. In turn, electronic sensors pass road feel back to the driver ? though the three controllers have been designed to tune out unwanted harsh road inputs.

The steer-by-wire system has a lot of potential advantages and also permits the new Q50 to offer an optional lane-holding system that comes a step short of hands-free driving, a camera mounted at the top of the windshield looking for lane markers much like human eyes.

Infiniti officials promise the Q50 will be just one in a rapidly expanding line-up of products to debut over the next few years including one or more so-called ?halo? models designed to focus attention on the brand. The Nissan subsidiary also will add a range of new powertrains, such as the hybrid system in the Q50 that is meant to balance performance and fuel economy.

It?s an ambitious goal with potential pitfalls. Indeed, Infiniti officials confirmed last month they will indefinitely delay a luxury battery-electric vehicle based on the mainstream Nissan Leaf?s technology.

For his part, marketing chief Simmons says he?s confident Infiniti can roll out the product. The challenge will be ?to make consumers aware of us.? Compounding that challenge is Infiniti?s plan to become a truly global player.

Infiniti has spent more than two decades climbing into the middle of the pack. Challenging the established luxury leaders won?t come quick, both Simmons and de Nysschen agreeing they will need to push hard but maintain their patience. ?

Copyright ? 2009-2013, The Detroit Bureau

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Newsweek sold to IBT Media

By Gil Aegerter, Staff Writer, NBC News

Newsweek is being sold to an online news company, less than a year after it ended publication of its weekly print magazine and went all digital.

IBT Media, which publishes the International Business Times, said it was acquiring Newsweek from IAC, run by Barry Diller. Terms weren?t disclosed.

?"We believe IBT will serve as an excellent new home in which?Newsweek?has the opportunity to thrive," read a memo to employees from Rhonda Murphy, interim CEO of the Newsweek Daily Beast Company.?

Newsweek once had a circulation of 3 million but was in decline when it merged with The Daily Beast in 2010. It ceased print publication on Dec. 31. The deal with IAC is for the Newsweek brand and its online publication, IBT Media said in a statement.

?We respect the brand's long history of delivering high-quality, impactful journalism and believe this aligns well with IBT Media's culture and mission,? Etienne Uzac, co-founder and chief executive officer of IBT Media said in the statement.

IBT Media, which was founded in 2006, said it planned to continue the online publication as a wholly owned subsidiary of IBT Media.

IAC would continue to operate Newsweek for up to 60 days after the deal closes, IBT said. It said Newsweek would return to the URL http://www.newsweek.com.

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The battle for wild card berths in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup is heating up among Jeff Gordon, Brad Keselowski, Kurt Busch - NASCAR News | FOX Sports on MSN

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This weekend at Pocono will be the six-week mark until the 2013 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup field is set. In just six short weeks I believe we are going to see some big names make it into the Chase field, but to me the bigger story will be the names that don?t make it.

I think you would be foolish to discount the possibility of Jeff Gordon making the Chase. He?s obviously got Hendrick power plants and he runs well at Pocono. Plus, it seems like the No. 24 bunch as a whole is getting more and more consistent. He could be one of the oddities as this Chase wild card situation is evolving. I actually can see a scenario where he can be consistent enough to actually hop over some guys and make the Chase field without a win during the regular season.

He is the only guy right now that I believe can do that right at the moment. I know at one time Kurt Busch had all the consistency in the world going his way and looked poised to make the Chase via being in the top 10 in points. Unfortunately, I think they?ve reached their high-water mark on that front, and if he wants to be in the Chase, he?s going to have to win a race plus put good numbers up on the board to make it happen for the No. 78 car.

You can say the same thing about people like Joey Logano. It?s going to take a win or multiple wins very, very quickly for them to make this 2013 Chase. I simply don?t see anyone else out there other than Gordon that has the consistency to affect the wild card picture by pushing a Kasey Kahne or even a Greg Biffle out with the one win.

This weekend is one more piece of that puzzle as the Chase field picture becomes clearer, and it definitely is an exciting scenario. It?s hard to believe I keep having to say this, but our defending series champion, Brad Keselowski, is in that same group. He?s going to have to win for a chance to be in. It?s just that simple and almost a given at this point for the No. 2 car.

There are just too many guys with the one win that will wind up outside the top 10. It really is going to come down to the wire between two or three teams about how this is all going to play out. Depending on how they are running, I can see where it can affect strategy in a couple different ways.

With the one win in your pocket, do you go for broke on, say, a fuel call deep into the race and try to secure that elusive second win? Or do you simply play it safe, go for the good points day and hope that one win still will be enough to get you into the Chase?

Richmond is coming at us fast. It?s the last race of the regular season, and after that checkered flag, the 2013 Chase field will be set. So it?s going to be really, really interesting to see who puts it all out there versus who plays it safe just to get the points. Risk versus reward is what you are going to be hearing about. You actually might see some players forced to change their strategy as the clock ticks toward Richmond.

We know the good teams will still run well. The real unknown is who is going to step up and surprise us within the next six weeks. I am waiting to see who comes out of the woodwork and mounts a last-minute charge. Whoever that is could upset a lot of 2013 Chase apple carts in the process. It sure is going to be exciting to watch!

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Microsoft launches beta for community driven Xbox Enforcement United program
by John Callaham

Microsoft clearly wants to give its many Xbox Live members more of a say in how the online service is managed and policed, especially in terms of player conduct. Today, the company announced it has launched a beta for its newly revealed, and community driven, Xbox Enforcement United program.

In a post on the Xbox Wire website,? Glenn Kaleta, the director of Microsoft's Xbox Live Policy and Enforcement, offered up a summary of what the community members who are chosen for the Xbox Enforcement United program will do in cooperation with Microsoft's own Xbox Live enforcement team:?

Members who join the Enforcement United beta will participate by providing their opinions on whether particular content, initially Gamertags, violate the Xbox Live Code of Conduct. These decisions from participants feed into an algorithm our team developed. That algorithm takes several factors into account like how many participants believe there had been a violation and how reliably those individual members? historical decisions aligned with the general consensus. The system can then determine whether or not to apply an enforcement action like requiring a Gamertag change, or if the complaint should be escalated for one of our enforcers to review more closely.

While the program will center just on GamerTag enforcement, Kaleta seems to hint that it could expand to other areas of Xbox Live later. The beta program is currently available for qualified Xbox Live Ambassadors to sign up for, and it will be expanded to more Xbox Live members in the coming months.

Microsoft has already announced that the upcoming Xbox One console will include a Player Reputation score for Xbox Live members that will be based on player input, with the idea to label gamers who display poor sportsmanship while online with a red "Avoid Me" score.

In related news, Microsoft also announced the beta for another new program,?Xbox Community Level?that's designed to offer rewards to particularly helpful?Xbox Live Ambassadors and?Xbox Enforcement United members. Users will gain XP through their actions and "level up" so they can receive "loot" like Xbox Live Arcade games, avatar items and more.

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Out-of-control oil leaks at Canadian tar sands site

Ah, the beautiful wilds of western Canada. Rivers, mountains, forests? and out-of-control oil leaks that have already spurted thousands of barrels of toxic bitumen into the environment.

The leaks were caused by an underground blowout at a tar sand project in north-east Alberta run by Canadian Natural Resources that had been certified safe by government regulators. One of the firm's scientists has been reported saying that they are mystified as to what went wrong or how to stop the leak. The company hasn't disclosed how fast the leaks are progressing.

Since May, there have been leaks through surface fissures at four of the firm's sites in the area, killing wildlife and raising questions about how well the safety of tar sands operations can be assessed. The company extracts bitumen by injecting steam into the tar sands at high pressure to melt the bitumen and push it to the surface.

Chris Severson-Baker of the Pembina Institute in Edmonton, Alberta, estimates that the method, known as cyclic steam stimulation, accounts for about 30 per cent of tar sands extraction. There's nothing inherently risky about cyclic steam stimulation, he says, making these leaks all the more worrisome. "If there are cases like this, it shows things are not as predictable as we might like," says Severson-Baker.

In January, Canada's Energy Resources Conservation Board revealed that some 5700 barrels of bitumen had leaked from well sites run by Canadian Natural Resources four years ago. But investigations by the company and regulator couldn't determine what had gone wrong. They suggested that the geology of the area was weaker than they had thought and couldn't contain the pressure from the steam.

The spill could fuel opposition to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from this and similar sites. Opponents worry that the pipeline itself has a high risk of leaking, and that increased extraction will exacerbate carbon emissions. US president Barack Obama has said that he will only give the project the green light if it doesn't add to carbon emissions, and on Saturday he questioned the economic benefits of the pipeline.

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ADP: Economy created 200,000 private-sector jobs in July

ADP's count of new private-sector jobs

It's that time of the month again. Come Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will announce its seasonally adjusted count of jobs added to the U.S. economy in July. Or, actually, how many were added between about June 13 and July 12 since the bureau closes its data collection at mid-month for its report.

Two days before that report appears, however, in conjunction with Moody's Analytics, Automated Data Processing, a "human capital management" company, releases its own seasonally adjusted survey of jobs added or shed in the private sector. And even though it fails time and again to come up with a count that meshes closely with those of the BLS, economists and other analysts eagerly await the results each month. Today's ADP seasonally adjusted count for July? 200,000 new private jobs. That compares with the revised count of 198,000 private jobs added in June, originally reported as 188,000.

One valuable element of the ADP report is that it breaks down jobs gains or losses by the size of the company.

? Small businesses
? ?? 1-19 employees: 51,000
? ?? 20-49 employees: 31,000

? Medium businesses
? ?? 50-499 employees: 60,000

? Large businesses
? ? 500-999 employees: 7,000
? ? 1,000+ employees: 50,000

By sector:

? Construction: 22,000
? Manufacturing: -5,000
? Trade/transportation/utilities: 45,000
? Financial activities: 4,000
? Professional/business services: 49,000

Unlike the ADP report, the BLS survey covers both private- and public-sector jobs. The consensus of a small group of experts surveyed by Bloomberg is that the BLS will report Friday that, seasonally adjusted, 175,000 new jobs were added July. But for the past four-plus years, the consensus has been wrong about as often as the ADP report has.

For some time now, the BLS report itself has come under considerable criticism, including from the former chief of the bureau from 2008-2012, Keith Hall. He first made his criticisms publicly known last October.

More analysis of the job report can be read below the fold.

It's not a conspiracy, as former GM CEO Jack Welch would have it, nor BLS statisticians distorting the numbers themselves. Rather it is, as I?and other critics with far better credentials?have said for several years, a question of emphasis, of formula and of the bureau's presentation. All that encourages media outlets to focus on two numbers, the headline numbers, pretty much to the exclusion of the wealth of other data included in the BLS report. Those two are the number of payroll jobs businesses report they have created (again, seasonally adjusted by formula) and the unemployment rate.

But as we critics have repeatedly noted, and Keith Hall now concedes, the numbers are tallied in such a way that it's too easy for one to be considered employed and too hard to be considered unemployed. For instance, if you report to the BLS surveyors that you worked one hour a week, you are counted as employed. If you still want a job but you've been turned down so many times you've given up looking for more than a year, you aren't counted at all. You're considered out of the labor force altogether. And that skews the headline numbers.

Simply stated, if there are 1,000 people in the labor force and 100 of them aren't working, the unemployment rate is 10 percent (100 ? 1,000 = 0.10). But if 50 of those 1,000 job seekers stop looking for work out of frustration, they are considered no longer in the labor force, which now clocks in at 950. The unemployment rate thus falls to 5.3 percent (50 ? 950 = 0.53).

A rate that falls from 10 percent to 5.3 percent makes for a good headline. But it doesn't make for a good economy if those 50 drop-outs still want a job but are too discouraged by rejections to keep looking for one.

And that, as Keith Hall said in an interview with the New York Post earlier this month, is what's been happening over the past several years. Just as many critics have been saying for years. We've seen a steep drop since the Great Recession begain in the "labor-force participation rate," which is the proportion of the population that is in the labor force, and the "employment-population ratio," which is the proportion of the population that is employed.

Result: The count of the jobless is "artificially low," perhaps 3 percentage points too low, according to Hall. Since the official unemployment rate is currently 7.6 percent, Hall puts the "real" rate at 10.6 percent. Stated another way, instead of 11.8 million being unemployed, 16.5 million are.

Add in those who work part-time jobs even though they want full-time jobs, and underemployment plus unemployment ratchets up the numbers to at least 23 million and probably closer to 25 million.

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How Nature Is Inspiring a New Breed of Robotic Design

Some of our greatest inventors have looked to nature for inspiration. So it's no coincidence that the earliest known designs for what would eventually become the modern airplane were all based on birds. Or why we may one day have nearly indestructible armor inspired by seahorses. This type of design, called biomimicry, is what's driving such rapid advancements in the field of robotics, among many other disciplines. Here's the best animal aping science has come up with yet.

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Swiss train crash injures about 40

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Rescue workers inspects the scene of a train collision in Granges-pres-Marnand in western Switzerland on July 29.

By Denis Balibouse and Tom Miles, Reuters

GRANGES-PRES-MARNAND, Switzerland ? Two trains collided at Granges-pr?s-Marnand in the Swiss canton of Vaud on Monday evening, injuring about 40 people, four seriously, Swiss news agency ATS reported.

A Reuters photographer at the scene said the trains had collided head on. There was no immediate report of any deaths in the crash.

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Victory Infratech is widely known for quality construction and innovative approach towards development process, thus making it clear that the construction will be done under the table guidance of real estate experts. Victory Ace provides easy accessibility to all prominent places of India?s national capital Delhi or other cities of NCR, such as Gurgaon, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, and Faridabad etc. Moreover, Yamuna Expressway, the current hot destination of NCR region is located in the close proximity of this project which makes it the best option for real estate investment. Besides its great connectivity and close to access location, this project comprises of several unmatched features. Entire compound of Victory Ace is surrounded by natural elegance, ideal for salubrious living. A team of well experienced real estate experts and architects have worked together for making this residential society different from other contemporary projects of Delhi-NCR region.

Aesthetically designed buildings will be developed here as per the concept of modern architectural style and eco-friendly structures which ensures the safety of residents from any natural calamity. Victory Ace Noida Sector 143 will offer 3 and 4 bedroom apartments in five different forms, namely, Spades ? A, Spades ? B, Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds. The developers have segregated these forms to the following residential offerings: 3 BR + 2 T (built up area 1,475 sq ft), 3 BR + 2 T (built up area 1,495 sq ft), 3BR + 3 T (built up area 1,695 sq ft), 3 BR + 3 T + Servant Room with Toilet + Dressing Room (built up area 1,895 sq ft) and 4 BR + 4 T + Servant Room with Toilet + Dressing Room (built up area 2,295 sq ft). Furthermore, the society of Victory Ace is equipped with unmatched facilities, such as 24X7 power backup & water supply, continuous lift service, multi level security, play area for children, utility store etc.

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The Staycation in Park Royal Penang

When you mentioned Park Royal Penang in Batu Ferringhi, many will tell you stories on the history of the hotel. While many locals still live in the past, the hotel has move on. In fact, the hotel has gone through a revamp with a huge renovation on their hotel rooms. The legacy remains with new directions.

Penang has changed for good in the past few years. More places for good food and more hotels are opening on the island. To drive from Kuala Lumpur to Penang, it should take less than five hours drive (without speeding) with leisure speed and it will take an hour for a plane ride. We chose to drive because we wanted to travel freely on the island.

It didn?t take us long to reach Park Royal Hotel. Even though the exterior looks the same but the interior is a world of its own. I always feel that hotel services in Malaysia fares poorer compare to our neighbours but in Park Royal Penang they proved me wrong. Doormen and front desk staffs were helpful and friendly.

We got ourselves a beautiful seaview room. I love how the newly renovated hotel rooms. It looks like new!

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The swimming pools in Park Royal Penang must be mentioned. They have two swimming pools, one for the adults and one for the children.

If you are bringing your kids for a staycation in Park Royal, they will love the children?s pool. It is like mini water theme park but it is always advisable parents or guardians should be around when the kids are playing in the pool

If you are a beach person, just walk a few steps and you will be greeted by the beautiful Batu Ferrighi white sandy beach. Facing the Strait of Malacca, there are varieties of sports activities available.

Having a brisk walk or even a jog at this beautiful beach during morning or evening is relaxing. Usually the sea water here is not that rough so swimming in the sea is consider safe. Jelly fish attacks are rare in Penang.

If you don?t want to soak into the sea water, you can always sun bathing at the benches available exclusive for hotel guests.

Breakfast in Parkroyal Penang was not disappointing as well. I thought it will be the same old typical ?Malaysia hotel breakfast? and I was wrong. They have local Penang food like char kuey teow and nasi lemak for breakfast.

I stayed two nights in Parkroyal Penang and it was blissful. Due to Rachel?s pregnancy, we stayed in the hotel most of the time and we didn?t even make time for the Batu Ferringhi night market. Please don?t be fooled by the exterior and the history of the hotel as the rooms were renovated and rejuvenated. If you are planning to visit Penang for a staycation, ParkRoyal Penang Batu Ferringhi is an option for you.

Park Royal Penang ?Address:

Batu Ferringhi Beach, 11100 Batu Ferringhi, Penang, Malaysia

Phone: +60 4-881 1133

Website: http://www.parkroyalhotels.com/en/hotels/malaysia/penang/parkroyal/location/index.html

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Antoine Hoppenot?s goal enough for Union to tame Whitecaps

By The Associated Press

Vancouver Whitecaps goalkeeper Brad Knighton allows the only goal of the match to the Union?s Antoine Hoppenot during the second half of their match Saturday. (Associated Press)

VANCOUVER, British Columbia ? Second-half substitute Antoine Hoppenot scored in the 85th minute to give the Philadelphia Union a 1-0 victory over a Vancouver Whitecaps side that played with 10 men most of Saturday night.

The Union (9-6-7) remained unbeaten in three games, while the Whitecaps (9-7-5) lost their second straight game.

Hoppenot scored off a Union counterattack moments after goalkeeper Zac MacMath had robbed Whitecaps striker Camilo at the other end.

The Whitecaps were a man down from the 8th minute, when midfielder Jun Marques Davidson received a red card for head-butting Keon Daniel in the back. The incident resulted after Keon kicked the ball while Davidson was on top of it after a whistle.

Daniel received a yellow card for the infraction and had turned to walk away following a confrontation with Davidson when the Whitecaps player struck him.

Davidson, Whitecaps players and coach Martin Rennie protested the ejection to no avail. Following the incident, Daniel was booed every time he touched the ball before subbing out in the second half.

Despite being short-handed, the Whitecaps had several scoring chances. In the 15th minute, midfielder Russell Teibert lobbed Kenny Miller?s pass over MacMath ? and the net.

In the 27th minute, Vancouver?s Young-Pyo Lee shot over the net after taking a pass from Russell Teibert. Seven minutes later, Whitecaps striker Kenny Miller sent a header wide of the net.

Vancouver also had scoring chances in the second half, but MacMath turned them away.

The Whitecaps were fortunate not to lose goalie Brad Knighton after he and Union captain Jack McInerney knocked heads in the 24th minute. Knighton lay face-down on the ground for a few moments, kicking the grass in pain and was tended by trainers, but stayed in the game. Continued...

McInerney received a yellow card for his involvement.

Source: http://delcotimes.com/articles/2013/07/27/sports/doc51f48a9ee527d651834093.txt

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Pope speaks out on Amazon during Brazil trip

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? Pope Francis took on the defense of the Amazon and the environment near the end of his weeklong trip to Brazil, as he donned a colorful Indian headdress Saturday and urged that the rainforest be treated as a garden.

The pontiff met with a few thousand of Brazil's political, business and cultural elite in Rio de Janeiro's Municipal Theater, where he also shook hands with Indians who said they were from a tribe that has been battling ranchers and farmers trying to invade their land in northeastern Bahia state.

In a separate speech to bishops, the pope called for "respect and protection of the entire creation which God has entrusted to man, not so that it be indiscriminately exploited but rather made into a garden."

He also urged attention to a 2007 document by Latin American and Caribbean bishops that he was in charge of drafting, which underscored dangers facing the Amazon environment and the native people living there. The document also called for new evangelization efforts to halt a steep decline in Catholics leaving for other faiths or secularism.

"The traditional communities have been practically excluded from decisions on the wealth of biodiversity and nature. Nature has been, and continues to be, assaulted," the document reads.

Several of the indigenous people in the audience hailed from the Amazon and said they hoped the pope would help them protect land designated by the government as indigenous reserves but that farmers and ranchers illegally invade for timber and to graze cattle. In fact, grazing has been the top recent cause of deforestation in Brazil.

"We got credentials for his speech and attended so we could tell the pope what's happening to our people," said Levi Xerente, a 22-year-old member of the Xerente tribe in Tocantins state in the Amazon, after he attended the pope's speech. "We hope that he will help intervene with the government and stop all the big public works projects that are happening in the region."

Xerente, speaking in broken Portuguese, said the biggest threats to Indians in the region were big agribusiness invading land and the government's own massive infrastructure projects, including the damming of rivers for hydroelectric power generation and roads being carved out of the forest, often to reach giant mines.

Francis thanked Brazilian bishops for maintaining a church presence in the rugged and vast Amazon, which is about the size of the United States west of the Mississippi River. But he pushed church leaders to refocus energies on the region.

"The church's work needs to be further encouraged and launched afresh" in the Amazon, the pope said in prepared remarks, urging an "Amazonian face" for the church.

He cited the church's long history of working in the region.

"The church's presence in the Amazon basin is not that of someone with bags packed and ready to leave after having exploited everything possible," he said. "The church has been present in the Amazon basin from the beginning ... and is still present and critical to the area's future."

Catholic priests and nuns have taken up the causes of Indians and of poor subsistence farmers in the Amazon, often putting themselves in danger. Violent conflicts over land rights are common in the region, where wealthy farmers and ranchers are known to hire gunmen to intimidate people into leaving land the government has often set aside as reserves for their use.

In 2005, U.S. nun and Amazon land-rights defender Dorothy Stang was murdered by one such gunman in the state of Para. Two ranchers were later convicted of ordering her murder so they could control a parcel of land the government had ceded to a subsistence farming group Stang worked with.

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Associated Press writer Jenny Barchfield contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pope-speaks-amazon-during-brazil-trip-201906383.html

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Apple to investigate death of woman who answered iPhone while it charged

Apple to investigate death of woman who answered iPhone while it charged

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

By Lee Chyen

Apple is investigating an accident in which a Chinese woman was killed by an electric shock when answering a call on her iPhone 5 while it was charging, the US technology company said.

Last Thursday, Ma Ailun, a 23-year-old woman from China?s western Xinjiang region and a flight attendant with China Southern Airlines, was electrocuted when she took a call on the charging mobile telephone, the official Xinhua news agency quoted police as saying.

?We are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the Ma family. We will fully investigate and co-operate with authorities in this matter,? Apple said.

Apple declined to comment on details, such as whether this was an isolated case.

Ma?s sister tweeted on Sina?s microblog saying that Ma collapsed and died after using her charging iPhone 5 and urged users to be careful, a message that went viral on the site.

She said: ?Hope Apple can give an explanation!

?What a shame, to pass away like this.?

Xinhua said local police had confirmed Ma died of electrocution but ?have yet to verify if her phone was involved?.

In April, Apple apologised to Chinese consumers and altered iPhone warranty policies in its second-biggest market when its after-sales service suffered more than two weeks of condemnation by the state-run media. Chinese consumers had to pay about $80 for new back covers for their devices, even though they were free in other markets, local media reported.

In a letter in Chinese at the time, chief executive Tim Cook said: ?We sincerely apologise for any concerns or misunderstanding,? adding Apple has ?many things we have to learn? about operating in the country.

Last week a Swiss woman has claimed that her Samsung Galaxy S3 exploded, causing severe burns on her leg.

Fanny Schlatter, 18, told the Swiss daily Le Matin that she was carrying her phone in her pocket when it combusted.

She said it ripped off her trouser leg and gave her ?severe? burns.

Ms Schlatter is planning to make a legal complaint against Samsung.

A company spokesperson said: ?Once we have gotten hold of the product in question, we will conduct a thorough examination to determine the exact cause of this incident.?

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