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Is the HTC One a threat to Samsung?
HTC's beautiful new One phone is better built than the Samsung Galaxy S3. Cast from a single piece of aluminium, with a super-sharp screen and incredible low-light camera performance, it just sings quality. This could be HTC's best chance to grab some profit share back from the dominant leader – and if HTC can't do it ...
Samsung and Apple dominate the smartphone market right now. According to IDC numbers, Samsung has 29 per cent of the smartphone market and Apple has 21.8 per cent. Nobody else has more than 5 per cent. Those two companies dominate profits, too, making almost all of the profits in the smartphone world.
HTC has spent way too much time being "quietly brilliant," with an accent on "quietly." Trained for years to take a back seat to carriers as a white label device maker, HTC was caught flat-footed by the move to manufacturer-run marketing. On one level, this is inexcusable, because Apple started that shift in 2007. But ...
While networks offer some support, sure enough, what separates the leaders from the followers in the smartphone market is manufacturer-driven branding. It's clear enough what ingredients are needed (beyond a great phone) to guarantee sales – but the secret to those juicy profits lies in something Samsung and Apple have...
Apple's dominance over its suppliers is legendary. Tim Cook rose to CEO by mastering the supply chain, and Apple keeps a huge bucket of cash at hand partly to ensure it can do things like buy up massive amounts of flash memory at ultra-low prices.
Samsung, on the other hand, makes almost everything itself, and can be its own best customer. Screens, processors, flash memory; Samsung's incredibly broad product line means that it can be first in line for the best parts at the lowest prices. The company's huge scale means that when it needs to order from third parti...
Other companies have part of the equation, or they're building it. Watch Huawei make processors. LG has a great displays division. HTC is great at finding and nurturing new technologies, like it's done with 1080p screens in handheld smartphones. But nobody else owns the complete package like Samsung does, or has the ab...
Could this be the One?
So HTC has major structural obstacles to get over if it wants to rise up into the top echelon of smartphone makers once more. However, I think the One could be the product to do this.
The Galaxy S3 is an excellent phone, but it has weaknesses, and I suspect those will continue with the Galaxy S4. Most notably, it doesn't feel premium. Samsung has a penchant for using flimsy plastics in its body design; once you've held an HTC, Nokia, or Apple phone made of glass, metal or high quality polycarbonate,...
Samsung's TouchWiz Android overlay also has less visual elegance than HTC's Sense. Samsung's mobile division is focused on functionality, and TouchWiz piles a lot of features in there (see 10 tips for the Samsung Galaxy S3 for some examples). But HTC's Sense, topped by its signature clock widget, has always had more pa...
The HTC One could become a prestigious, premium leader in the global Android line-up. HTC will never match Samsung's volume, but it could carve out a niche on quality for discerning buyers. To get there, though, HTC is going to have to sell the heck out of this phone. Our TVs and bus stops will tell the tale.
For more on this freshly unveiled handset, check out our hands on preview with the HTC One here.
Lucas Hedges will portray the young-adult version of LaBeouf, while LaBeouf will play his own father. The movie is about a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade. The project is loosely based on LaBeouf’s life. “Honey Boy” was LaBeouf’s c...
Alma Har’el is directing from LaBeouf’s script. The producers are Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Daniela Taplin Lundberg of Stay Gold Features, and Christopher Leggett of Delirio Films. Automatik’s Fred Berger is executive producing. Stay Gold Features will finance the film.
Endeavor Content put together the financing and will co-represent worldwide rights with CAA.
Jupe is repped by CAA, Grandview, and Hansen Jacobson.
Tiny bacteria devouring viruses could hold the key to saving the U.S. honeybee population from a devastating disease that is destroying hives, according to research from a college freshman that is already yielding results.
American foulbrood, a bacterial infection that attacks bee larvae, has wiped out entire colonies and contributed significantly to worldwide agricultural losses. In order to prevent a larger infestation, affected hives are often burned to the ground to prevent further spread.
But a study into the use of bacteriophages — tiny viruses that infect and consume bacteria known as phages — to fight the bee disease by Bryan Merrill, a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), has raised hopes of a natural remedy to the bee blight. Merrill recently published his findings in the peer-reviewed journa...
A beekeeper, Merrill is now working to identify the perfect phage for the job. So far, he has identified five phage candidates for honeybee treatment, a release from BYU said.
Losses to the bee industry can be costly.
American foulbrood has been difficult to treat because it can evolve to resist antibiotics and other chemical treatments. But Merrill hopes that his research could lead to a breakthrough in finding a natural way to treat the disease.
The phage works by hunting down specific bacteria and self-replicating until that bacteria is eliminated.
Burnett, who supervised Merrill’s research, said that phage replicates itself so there are more of them to hunt down the bacteria. "Then as soon as the host is gone, the phage just disappears," she said in the release.
Belgium legalized lethal-jab euthanasia in 2002. Since that time, medicalized homicide has grown increasingly radical.
Now, MercatorNet has published a story based on a translation of the “Belgium Federal Commission on the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia” — the nation’s official report on patient-killing by doctors. It makes for very chilling reading.
Deaths by legal euthanasia have increased nearly tenfold (982%) from 235 in 2003 — the first full year of legalisation — to 2,309 in 2017 (my emphasis).
Organ donation [conjoined with euthanasia] has been reported in 8 patients for the years 2016 – 2017. Patients had either a nervous system disorder or a mental and behavioral disorder.
In 2017 there were 375 cases of reported euthanasia of people whose deaths were not expected in the near future.
In 2017 some 87 (3.76%) cases involved no physical suffering at all. [!!!] This included 14 cancer cases and 15 other cases of physical illness. There were also 18 cases of “polypathology” as well as 40 cases of mental ill health. The psychic suffering, apart from psychiatric conditions, included “addiction, loss of au...
Three children have so far been killed under the Belgian law in 2016 and 2017. These were a 17-year-old child who was suffering from muscular dystrophy; a nine-year-old child, who had a brain tumour, and an 11 year old child, who was suffering from cystic fibrosis.
Between 2014 and 2017 two patients who were in an irreversible coma after a suicide attempt were euthanized based on an advance directive 5 months and 35 months respectively before the suicide attempt.
A total of 201 people with psychiatric disorders were killed by euthanasia in Belgium between 2014 and 2017 including for mood disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder (73 cases); organic mental disorders, including dementia and Alzheimer’s (60 cases); personality and behavioural disorders (23 cases); neurotic di...
I note that there is no mention of joint-geriatric-euthanasia cases — elderly couples killed together for fear of future grief or not wanting to be widowed, etc. — of which I know of at least three cases.
The carnage so bloodlessly described in the Belgian report demonstrates vividly the consequences to a society when it generally accepts killing as a proper answer to human suffering — or even, it now seems, the fear of future suffering.
The Long Island teen who tossed a 20-pound turkey through the windshield of a car – shattering every bone in the driver’s face – was sentenced yesterday to just six months behind bars, with the blessing of his victim.
The light sentence came in a Riverhead courtroom at the urging of Victoria Ruvolo, 45, who pushed prosecutors to be merciful in judging Ryan Cushing’s reckless act.
Cushing, who had faced 25 years on the original assault charge, announced his intention yesterday to go down a decent path. He told reporters and court observers, including Ruvolo, that the victim’s leniency had inspired him.
In court later, standing before the judge, he turned to face Ruvolo, who was sitting in the audience.
Cushing’s six-month prison sen tence came after months of be hind-the-scenes wrangling, during which Ruvolo’s was the loudest voice for mercy, sources said.
On Nov. 13, Cushing and a posse of pals broke into a parked car to steal a credit card. They used the plastic to purchase DVDs, video games and groceries – including the fresh gobbler – at a Ronkonkoma Waldbaum’s.
On the way back from the shopping spree, however, Cushing decided he no longer wanted to cook the turkey at his college dorm.
Holding the bird in his hands, he leaned out the rear driver’s side window of his pal’s car and flung the turkey into oncoming headlights. The turkey bounced once on the pavement, then hurdled through the windshield of Ruvolo’s Hyundai.
The impact crushed every bone in her face so that she was nearly unrecognizable.
Her passenger, Louis Erali, grabbed the wheel and pulled the car to a stop.
When she awoke from her medically induced coma, more than two weeks after the incident, Ruvolo knew she was in a hospital but couldn’t remember how she’d gotten there.
She went to the bathroom and saw her shattered face – then immediately thanked God she was alive.
President Donald Trump praises the results of the U.S. midterm election, an Afghan pilot who wrote a tribute to a fallen American soldier shares his memories with VOA and singer Camila Cabello releases a new single and gets an award.
U.S. President Donald Trump is boasting of "a Very Big Win" in Tuesday's national congressional elections, after Republicans strengthened their hold on the Senate, even as Democrats took control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years.
In what could have major implications for the Russia investigation...the president forces his attorney general to retire. The President hailing republican Senate victories...while seeming to ignore that they lost control of the house. A meeting between U.S. and North Korean officials has been suddenly canceled. A singe...
Swedish conductor Ragnar Bohlin, Grammy Award-winning music director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, founded professional chamber choir Cappella SF in 2014. Concerts in Berkeley and, most recently, at Mission Dolores Basilica celebrated the adventurous group's five-year anniversary. "Unveiling: New Music from Swe...
Composer-in-residence with Cappella SF from the beginning, David Conte was one of the last students of Nadia Boulanger, studying with her from 1975-78 on a Fulbright Scholarship. In the summer of 1982, he lived and worked in Aaron Copland's house, preparing a study of his manuscript sketches. His subsequent career has ...
Conte is an out gay man, with a partner of 14 years. He has contributed extraordinary gay-themed scores to the repertoire, including an impressive list of commissions for GALA Chorus, and he has published over 150 compositions with prominent music company E.C. Schirmer.
His breakout score "Invocation and Dance" was commissioned by the SF Gay Men's Chorus in 1986, and "Elegy for Matthew (In Memory of Matthew Shepard)," commissioned by the NYC Gay Men's Chorus, premiered in Carnegie Hall in 1999.
For the most recent "Unveiling," Cappella SF presented his musical cycle "Madrigals for the Seasons," with two newly completed movements added to the original pair, which premiered in 2015. Each section shows the composer's discerning taste in poetry and his ease with both operatic and choral writing. His sympathy for ...
A "longtime happy resident of California," Conte recalls the seasonal changes of his Midwestern past in an appealing musical calendar. "A Summer's Day" (words by Emily Dickinson) deepens into "Autumn" (John Clare) and the emotional heart of the piece, "Snow-flakes" (words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), which takes lis...
Ragnar Bohlin's association with Conte dates back to when he took over as conductor of the San Francisco Conservatory Chorus, which Conte conducted from 2000-14. Their alliance has continued with well-received performances of the composer's music with the SFS Chorus and choruses throughout Europe and Asia. "Invocation ...
Bohlin has earned special praise for his expert guidance of Cappella SF. The group sounds almost impossibly well-blended, but somehow maintains its unique personality. They make it all look so simple. Flawless unison pitch was apparent throughout the concert, pleasingly enhanced by the Basilica's acoustic. The opening ...
Deep reserves of power illuminated Swedish composers Carl Unander-Scharin's "Djupt under dagens yta" ("Deep below the surface of the day"), Motet No. 5, and the world premiere of Fredrik Sixten's impressive "Seek Him!"
Jacob Muhlrad, the youngest Swede on the program (b.1991), attended the concert for the US premiere of his composition "Time." He says it "is not about anything," but with or without a plot, there is a lot going on. The program notes remark on his "astonishing" rise in Scandinavia despite "suffering from severe dyslexi...
Soprano soloists Kelly Ballou and Cara Gabrielson, tenors Michael Jankosky and Kevin Gibbs, and baritone Nick Volkert warmed the otherworldly atmosphere with cantorial expressiveness. Conductor Bohlin merged his expertise with innovative choral music (think Gyorgy Ligeti) to shed more light on the mysterious soundscape...
Cappella SF's "Unveiling" of new works from Sweden and America was a truly memorable anniversary party.
A good-looking governor seeks to make Mexican voters forget the corrupt past of their old ruling party.
That must be why el góber (“the guv”), as Peña Nieto is known, has spent the past year inaugurating multiple public works each week. Members of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, which ruled Mexico for more than 70 years until 2000, are gathering this fall to decide rules for nominating the party’s presidential ...
Peña Nieto’s presidential appeal has partly to do with voters’ anger at the failure of President Felipe Calderón’s administration to curb the savagery of the drug wars, and their feeling that they would be safer under the PRI, which has been widely thought to have cut deals with traffickers rather than fight them. But ...
In January 2007, in a twist that could have sprung from one of Televisa’s shows, the new governor returned home one evening to find his first lady in bed, unwell. Hours later, she lay dead in the hospital, killed by a seizure-induced arrhythmia. The golden governor became the golden widower, Mexico’s most eligible bach...
Peña Nieto’s magnetism is on full display at the opening of a highway overpass outside Mexico City two days later. Over a screechy sound system, Maribel Guardia, a popular television star, belts out electro-ranchera songs onstage, gyrating in a skimpy, PRI-colored outfit as people move to their seats. When el góber’s i...
As Peña Nieto gets closer, the women from Tlalnepantla huddle in front of the rope, arms on each other’s shoulders and cameras and cell phones ready. He moves slowly, one group at a time—an abrazo to all the males and cheek-to-cheek poses with anyone female.
Suddenly, as the governor passes in front of Juárez and turns to the other side of the path, her face goes from euphoric to ashen. Elgóber is giving her hug to someone right across from her. She throws her upper body across the rope, first her hand fluttering and then her entire arm, as if she wants to fly across, and ...
“Before,” Peña Nieto tells the adoring crowd, “you were stuck in traffic for two and a half hours. After today, it will take you 15 minutes to join your families after work.” The “biggest parking lot in the world,” he says, has become 22 kilometers of a moving thoroughfare, at the cost of 6.5 billion pesos, or about $5...
Telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks announced the departure of its chief financial officer Marco Schroeter, a close confidant of a Siemens executive who criticized the joint venture's massive job cuts in Germany.
Schroeter was known to be close to Siemens CFO Joe Kaeser, who was quoted in a German paper last year as saying that NSN should have talked to German labor leaders before cutting jobs there.
NSN gave no reason for the departure, effective immediately, except to say it was part of a company transformation. It appointed chief operating officer Samih Elhage as successor.
Officials at the joint venture owners, Siemens and Finland's Nokia , were not immediately available for comment. NSN is led by Rajeev Suri in Finland.
The equipment maker has shown signs of a turnaround in recent quarters, helped by a massive restructuring drive last year that cut around 20,500 out of 74,000 jobs.
Nokia and Siemens have been looking to exit the joint venture through a buyout or public offering. Analysts expect a decision in the next few months.
Elhage joined NSN in March 2012, and has experience in private equity and management consulting, NSN said.
Nearly ten years ago, Union County workers and volunteers began planting native wildflowers around the lake at Warinanco Park in Roselle. It has become a wildflower meadow and a nature habitat.
UNION COUNTY – Nearly 10 years ago, Union County workers and volunteers began planting native wildflowers around the lake at Warinanco Park in Roselle. Today, what was once a tattered, goose-infested lawn has become a colorful wildflower meadow and a thriving nature habitat.
“Warinanco Park has always been a popular spot, now more so than ever — with wildlife as well as people,” said Freeholder Chairman Mohamed S. Jalloh.
The wildflower meadow provides nectar, seeds and fruits that nourish birds, butterflies, moths, bees and other valuable pollinators. The meadow and nearby trees also provide nesting habitat and shelter for birds, along with cooling shade that helps to keep the lake healthy for fish.
The plantings are designed to transition through the growing season by color, from white daisies and golden yellow “sneezeweed” in the spring to orange butterfly weed, blue vervain, pink Joe-pye weed, purple New York ironweed, and pink and white rose mallow throughout the summer. The parade of colors continues in the f...
On recent visits, butterflies spotted in the wildflower meadow included the Tiger Swallowtail, Black Swallowtail, Least Skipper, Pearl Crescent, Silver Spotted Skipper and Buckeye. Possible sightings of Comma and Skipper butterflies were also noted.
The wildflower meadow is part of a broader shoreline restoration project completed in 2006. The project, partly funded by a grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, was designed to prevent algae blooms and improve water quality in the lake.
“Though one might think a wildflower meadow is self-sustaining, it does require a degree of tending. Our Adopt-a-Park volunteers deserve the credit for nurturing the meadow through the years, and making sure that the native wildflowers have room to grow,” said Jalloh.
Volunteer groups work regularly in the meadow to remove invasive plants such as mugwort, spotted knapweed and bindweed. Volunteers also repair and replace fencing, and remove litter and debris. They have also planted thousands of trees, shrubs, and aquatic plants along the shoreline to control erosion and to help filte...
“Each year, a score of different organizations and hundreds of volunteers help to conserve valuable habitat and make sure that our parks are beautiful and welcoming to all,” said Freeholder Sergio Granados, who is the board’s liaison to the Parks and Recreation Department.
Among the many Adopt-a-Park groups working at Warinanco Park are the Green Team from Groundwork Elizabeth, the Haitian Flag Day Committee, Jersey Cares and CIT. Morgan Stanley and Phillips 66 also provided funding for wildflower seeds and new fencing, in addition to organizing employee volunteers.
County work crews also mow the Warinanco wildflower meadow one to two times yearly. The carefully timed mowings are designed to reduce woody vegetation and discourage the spread of invasive species.
“As one of the original county parks designed by the Olmsted Brothers firm, Warinanco continues to fulfill its promise of open space preservation and nature conservation, with abundant opportunities for organized sports and passive recreation,” said Granados.
County residents and businesses are encouraged to introduce native species on their property, to help promote habitats for valuable pollinators while reducing or eliminating the cost of fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. Because native species are drought hardy, they also save money on water bills and lawn care.
In addition to supporting the improved habitat in Warinanco, the freeholders have also worked to upgrade the park’s popular recreation facilities.
Plans are also under way for an expanded new Warinanco Ice Skating Center in the park, making it available for different activities throughout the year.
For more information on planting native species, download the free Union County “Plant This, Not That!” guide from the Union County Department of Parks and Recreation, a Girl Scout Gold Award project of Union County resident Natalie Salinardo.
Union County residents can join Adopt-a-Park on an individual basis, or as part of a business, school or community group. For more information, visit Adopt-a-Park online at ucnj.org or call the Union County Department of Parks and Recreation at 908-789-3683.
SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Stephen Gogolev might be two years too young to compete internationally as a senior skater. But he’s poised to become the youngest skater ever to capture a Canadian senior title, a record set 65 years ago.
The 14-year-old from Toronto won the short program at the Canadian championships on Friday night, bringing the Harbour Station crowd to its feet with a performance that opened with a quadruple Salchow-triple toe loop combination. He earned 88.77 points.

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