Connect all servers through eXPlayer HD video player app | Gadget ...

EX Player HD is a pretty great iPad app by Zhigang Chen, which is easy to navigate streams, well supported most audio/video formats from your NAS server/Windows sharing file server/FTP server/UPnP(DLNA)Media server/WebDAV server/CloudMe.

How It Works:

Comparing to other video players this app has advanced technology of sharing or transferring the files from any kind of servers. And also it can transfer files via USB cable by iTunes, has the special WiFi drive and an online stream option. Look at this below pic for home page

How to use the app:

Once the app gets downloaded, you might have some confusion for the navigation process. To make it easier check out the tutorial video and a document which is given by the developer in the local files, then the usage and the navigation process would be fine. After that click on the server list and add the needed server then try to fill out the account credentials for the particular server, it automatically gets connected to the player. There is a download option, which allows you to transfer/share/play the server files to your local file.

Special features:

*Mount as a network drive in Windows/Mac OS X
*Has the pass-code lock for the server file privacy
*play most audio/video formats
*Guest login for SMB/CIFS connection
*Can access mac files iexplorer tool
*Has the code rights from ffmpeg
*Search files on NAS/FTP/Web DAV server
*Pretty easy to navigate

It supports the Dolby HD/DTS audio formats with the HDMI,TV out put and streams Http files.

Supports srt/ssa/ass subtitle files and 720pixel

Disadvantages:

When updating the version, the app not able to connect some of the servers in the list.

Things to improve:

Need some improvements on tutorial design and online video stream as it restrict in some part of the app.

Price and other details:

App Price $4.99

App Updated version: 3.1

App size: 15.2 MB

App Store link >>

There is also an iPhone version for this app cost $2.99, you would find less amount but doesn?t have the advanced features like iPad version.

Source: http://www.gadgetmech.com/apps/connect-all-servers-through-explayer-hd-video-player-app/

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Black Keys, Neil Young, others to perform in NYC

NEW YORK (AP) ? More than 60,000 people are expected to descend upon Central Park on Saturday evening for a free concert featuring the Black Keys and Neil Young aimed at calling attention to poverty worldwide.

Dubbed the Global Citizen Festival, it also is slated to feature K'naan, Band of Horses and Foo Fighters. Video of the event is to be streamed worldwide.

The concert was scheduled around the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week and organizers used an innovative approach to ticket distribution so that many concert-goers had no choice but to learn about an array of global problems such as polio, malaria, child mortality and clean drinking water.

Anyone wanting free tickets had to register at globalcitizen.org, which then required users to watch videos or read information about poverty-related issues. Each time material was consumed, users could earn points toward a drawing for tickets. Points were also accumulated by sharing information via Twitter or Facebook.

"Our social media campaign has been off the charts," said Hugh Evans, CEO and co-founder of the Global Poverty Project. The approach demonstrates a new model harnessing digital tools that may be repeated for other big events with political or social messages.

Organizers said more than 71,000 people had signed up online, resulting in more than 3.5 million page views. On average, they spent just over six minutes consuming content or sharing information. Nearly 200,000 pieces of information were shared on Facebook, and just a bit more than that on Twitter. About 170,000 people signed petitions via the site, and there were 98,000 videos viewed to completion.

Evans said the project achieved its goals, set out last year, of getting more than 100,000 people to take action related to extreme poverty while telling a new story about the challenges. To that end, the site conveys information in detailed, documentary-like accounts and uses an array of video, graphics and stories that are friendly for mobile and digital consumption.

Financially, he said, the project also achieved its yearlong goal ? working with an array of organizations like the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, the Earth Institute and Rotary International ? of garnering $500 million in commitments to help fight poverty.

So now what?

Evans said that he's hoping the audience, built online and at the concert, will continue efforts by tweeting President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney to halve extreme poverty by 2015. And Evans is working on an announcement in October or November about "a major rock band" getting involved with the anti-poverty efforts.

Associated Press

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Website for Sale on Flippa: Established Online Marketing Business ...

Hi there, Gian here!
And with another great listing! As you may have seen in my sale history, I have accumulated a 6-figures worth of sales in the past while maintaining 100% positive feedback. Rest assured that you can bid with confidence.

This listing is for a business-to-business solution, a complete online advertising program and a large social media marketing network which allows business owners to increase targeted prospects to their website based on specific niches or locations. Services include: website traffic, Twitter followers, Facebook fans, YouTube views and directory submissions.

The business is 100% outsourced through numerous advertising networks and wholesale providers that we are connected to; order processes are fully automated all the way from order entry to order completion. This doesn?t require any manual work on admin side aside from answering a few support emails and approving new orders on a daily basis.

The ordering process is very convenient and fast for customers; once the customer chooses the advertisement package and proceeds to registration page, the customer is presented with a short registration form, or 3 quick login APIs through Yahoo, Google or Facebook which allows skipping registration and proceeding directly to the order page. Finally user is taken to the page where he/she can fill in website url and complete the order.

After the customer places an order for any package the campaign goes into ?Approval? mode until an admin chooses to activate the campaign from the administration panel. All actions made in the admin area for campaign status changes results in a notification to customers by email (i.e. campaign creation, activation, or completion). Also, all outgoing email contents can be customized from the admin area.

There has been over $30,000 invested for the custom script, unique design and content, videos, marketing, SEO etc. And countless hours of work done by myself, hired programmers, designers, marketers, copywriters, beta-testers.

My idea was actually to also sell the copies of script to other companies for more profit, however because of area of the interest has changed to different projects, I did not go further than building the script and using it on my own site. As the new owner will own exclusive rights to the script, it can be sold for ?$500 per copy ?easily. I have not sold any copies however, I got many inquiries.

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If you buy this business, it will refinance itself during 6-9 months, depending on your marketing know-how and efforts! It's a big opportunity, don't miss it.

What is included in the sale:

The sale includes: everything you see on our website, 3 domain names, custom design, custom script, databases, plus all accounts and agreements we have with advertising networks and wholesale providers that we outsource the work from and including:

• ?1 .com main domain, content, design, databases, ?VPS and DNS hosting accounts.
• 1 inactive .co TLD domain with same name registered to protect the brand name.
• 1 additional .com domain and content used for marketing purposes with the network.?
• 1 website introduction video for visitors (over 1 minute)
• 11 testimonial videos (30 seconds to 1 minute)
• 1 Trustwave.com Trust Seal?
• 1 Godaddy.com SSL certificate valid for 3 years
• 3 Trust-guard.com Business, Privacy, Security Verified Seals
• FAQ script which you can add new questions and answers.
• 32 SEO tools for webmasters that are offered as free tools within the website.
• iDev Affiliate script for having own affiliate network (88+ current active affiliate accounts).
• 15 custom-made animated banners of all standard sizes for affiliates.
• Weblog script which you can post new and unique articles about specific topics.
• 1 Twitter page with 980 followers
• 1 Facebook fan page with 950 fans
• 1 US/Canada toll-free number that has both phone and fax capability.
• 1 mailbox with Las Vegas, Nevada address (Address doesn?t have P.O Box initials).
• 1 local phone number with Las Vegas area code.
• 1 local fax number with Las Vegas area code.
• Google, Yahoo, Facebook login APIs
• Transfer of all network accounts, contacts, names, passwords etc. that we are connected to through outsourcing services.
• Transfer of Pingdom.com site monitoring service account.
• You will own exclusive rights to the custom script which you can hire programmers and continue building the script further to sell it to other companies. There is an opt-in email list who are interested in purchasing the script which I?ll pass it to new owner.?

Special Features:

• Permanently listed on big directories such as Yahoo Directory, Botw.org, HotvsNot.com. ($750 value).
• Permanently listed on many small paid directories. ($1200 value)
• Featured twice on Yahoo News with link back to our site.
• Due to the nature of domain being related to this business 100%, and having the main keywords inside the URL, the domain name itself is valued over $20,000 (domain name value estimation is based on 2 similar competitor domain names? asking prices).

Technical Features:

• Custom-built from scratch; unique in design and content.
• Built with CodeIgniter PHP Framework (codeigniter.com) and uses MySQL for database.?
• Easily customizable script by hiring a programmer who is familiar with CodeIgniter Framework.?
• Primary and secondary DNS are hosted on different servers which guarantees site up-time 100% (monitored 24/7 on pingdom.com for every 5 minutes).
• Optimized for speed; PageSpeed Score of 93 (out of 100) from Google PageSpeed Insights.
• All customer notification emails, accepted payment methods, accepted currencies, campaign types, packages, prices can be added/edited/deleted through administration area.
• 1 Branded introduction video over 1 minute.
• 11 Testimonial videos between 30 seconds to 1 minute.
• Crisp written sales letters for all offered services.
• Well-documented terms of service & privacy policy.
• Explanatory FAQ page that holds most frequently asked questions and can be updated with new questions and answers.
• Over 32 free webmaster SEO tools offered to get natural backlinks.
• Affiliate network script that has 88+ activate affiliate accounts.
• 15 custom animated gif banners of all standard sizes for affiliates to promote our services.
• Language of the website can be customized or changed to another language by simply editing a file.
• Directly integrated with widely used payment methods such as Paypal, 2Checkout, Plimus, Skrill, Alertpay, Liberty Reserve, Perfect Money, etc.?
• All these payment methods can be activated or deactivated from administration panel.?

Operating Expenses;:

• VPS Hosting - $599/year DNSMadeEasy.com?
• DNS Hosting - $29.95/year
• Godaddy.com SSL - $70/year
• Trustwave.com Trust Seal - $229/year
• Trust-Guard.com Business, Privacy, Security Verified Seals - $397/year
• 1-888 Toll-Free Number & Fax - $84/year
• Local area code fax number (Las Vegas, Nevada) ?- $48 / Year
• Local area code phone number (Las Vegas, Nevada) - $60/year
• Mailbox with Las Vegas, Nevada address - $100/year
• 3 domain names - $30/year

Traffic Details:

All the traffic the website gets is organic; most traffic comes directly from search engines and referrals such as affiliates, directories, social network sites etc. This website is not affected from any panda or penguin updates so far.

Keeping the site focused on long-tail keywords and fully utilizing white-hat SEO techniques that comply with all search engine guides while maintaining unique & professionally written content got this website pretty well ranked among all search engines.

Administration Panel Features:

As the admin area has too many features and functions to explain here, I will upload screen shots of administration pages which you can download on the right side of this listing under attachments. You will need to sign & fax us confidentiality agreement (NDA) first to see the attachments.

How much time does it take to operate this website?

This is one of the easiest e-commerce websites you can operate as far as managing the site; it is all virtual and the automated script does all the work for you! It has well-documented frequently asked questions which is very explanatory and that?s why we don?t get much pre-sales emails except for getting requests from some customers for custom orders.

It takes 30 minutes or less to take care of the daily tasks of approving orders from the administration panel. All it consists of is answering some questions through emails and getting a few inquiry phone calls from potential customers.

However, as the new owner you should keep writing unique articles, posting new tweets, releasing press releases etc. as part of keeping the website in good shape. By doing so, the rankings will hold and so will your income. I will walk you through step-by-step if you don?t know how to do all these tasks.

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Why are we selling?

This business has been very profitable. Due to having interest in new and much bigger ventures, I have decided to put this website for sale and invest the funds received from this sale in my new projects.

Do I need programming or marketing experience to operate this website?

Operating this website requires no programming or marketing knowledge at all. The service is fully outsourced and the website itself can be managed from the graphical administration panel. Anybody with an internet connection and a PC can operate it easily.

Does the website require any technical maintenance?

The script requires no technical maintenance at all. It is set to run on auto-pilot, therefore it only requires an admin to approve or reject orders daily from the administration panel.

How reliable is the outsourcer network? Would it just run out of business some day?

It is a very unlikely case where you would see a money generating network ever go down with thousands of clients to serve. However, if that ever happens, there are other countless competitor outsourcer networks still available which some of we have worked in the past with.

How much do you pay for the outsourcer network?

We pay to the outsourcer network on a per-order basis.

Website Traffic Service - 10% to 22% of order amount Social Media Marketing Service - 15% to 30% of order amount Directory Submissions Service - 10% to 20% of order amount
i.e. if the order is $100, paying 10% to the network for outsourcing the service, that would be $10 to the service provider and you would receive $90.

Notes:
Order amount above is referred to the prices on our order page which are determined by us. New owner can either increase or decrease these prices from the administration panel. All prices are one-time per package basis.

The percentage change is dependent on the service type and target such as: bulk Twitter followers, country targeted Twitter followers or niche targeted Twitter followers.

What is your reserve price?

Revealing the reserve price is not within Flippa policies. Also, the reserve price is not that important as we may still sell the website to the highest bidder even if the reserve price is not met, as long as the bid is an acceptable offer.

Are you going to give post-sale support to the new owner?

Even though learning to operate this business takes just a few days, the new owner will receive 45 days of full support by email or phone whenever necessary.

What payment methods is this website set to accept?

The website can accept 2Checkout, Plimus, Paypal, Skrill (Moneybookers), Payza (Alertpay), Liberty Reserve, and Perfect Money. These accepted methods can be enabled or disabled from admin.

New payment gateways can be added easily by hiring a programmer who is familiar with PHP Codeigniter framework (I can introduce the new owner to known programmers I have worked in the past).
If you decide to use your own gateway, I will personally integrate one of the gateway for you.

How is the sale going to take place?

We accept escrow.com which is secure and is also recommended by Flippa. I will cover all escrow and Flippa fees. Buyer will not pay any fees.

How is the transfer going to be settled?

As I will be initiating escrow within 24 hours of closing of sale, I expect the buyer to accept the escrow and transfer the funds into escrow account within 48 hours of escrow initiation, therefore, it is essential for buyer to have the funds available before for transfer. If you don?t have the funds available yet, please let me know before you bid on the auction.

Seller initiates the escrow process within 24 hours of closing of sale. Buyer accepts the escrow initiation and transfers the funds into escrow within 48 hours of accepting the escrow. Seller transfers (pushes) all 3 domain names to buyer (domain names are registered through Godaddy.com so you will need to have Godaddy.com account or you can create a free account with them if you don?t have one). Buyer confirms the receipt of 3 domains and releases the escrow in full. Once seller confirms that the funds are released in full then seller sends all information about website and buyer gets access to all files, hosting account, all content, usernames and passwords. Transaction is complete. Full support is given for 45 days after the sale.
I will personally handle all transfer procedures for getting the new server, transferring files to new server, and preparing the site for its new owner. I will also write very-well documented guide about operation of the site, the administration panel, files, folders, etc.

You will receive all needed information about every aspect of the site, from the technology used to implement the site to the techniques used to drive traffic and sales. If you have never run a website business before and are in need of a good business to start, this website will provide you with everything you need to succeed.

Are you willing to sign a non-compete agreement?

Yes, I will sign a non-compete agreement with the new owner upon request.

Do you guarantee a continuous traffic or revenue?

I make no guarantees or assurances that the website will continue performing with the current levels. The website is being sold as is. There are always ups and downs for any businesses. It is all up to the new owner to maintain the site?s traffic and revenue by doing some on-site and off-site SEO work regularly. I?d like to see you succeed and that?s why I?m offering 45-day support. If you somehow feel uncertain, please do not bid. It?s that simple.

Revenue Details;

September?Gross: $33,385?Profit: $29,500
August Gross: $18,700 Profit: $16,900
July Gross: $21,156 Profit: $19.040
June Gross: $17,092 Profit: $15,275
May Gross: $17,482 Profit: 15,480
April Gross: $16,345 Profit: 15,045

Listing details are copyright of the seller. The seller grants a permanent, irrevocable and unrestricted licence over the listing details to Flippa.

To express your interest to the seller, or post a public comment, you need to log in or sign up.

Source: https://flippa.com/2822586-established-online-marketing-business-autopilot-29-500-month

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Exclusive: North Korean leader seeks trip to China for economic help

(This story from August 24, 2012, corrects the description of the source who appears in the first paragraph. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the source previously predicted North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006. The corrected version of the description of the source appears in the 25th paragraph)

BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea's young leader wants a state visit to China in the latest move in his push to lift the isolated state out of decades of poverty, but risks further fraying ties with his only powerful ally by sticking to the threat of a new nuclear test.

It is not clear whether China will be prepared to host him, as requested, in September when Beijing will be preoccupied with its own leadership change. The leadership may also have its doubts about the unproven Kim Jong-un, who after only four months in office, defied his giant neighbor by conducting a long-range rocket test.

A source with ties to both Pyongyang and Beijing told Reuters on Friday that Kim's uncle, Jang Song-thaek, effectively the second most powerful figure in Pyongyang, had asked for the visit when he met Chinese leaders on a visit to Beijing last week.

"It will be a state visit. This was one of the most important missions of Jang Song-thaek's visit," the source told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

China's foreign ministry declined to comment on the proposed visit, which would be Kim's first trip abroad since he took office and became the third of his line to rule North Korea.

Kim, in his late 20s, appears to be trying hard to soften the dour image of his dictator father whom he succeeded in December.

He has appeared waving and smiling at public events, even attending a pop concert that included Disney characters, and at times - just as unusually for a North Korean leader - accompanied by his wife.

But for most of North Korea's 22 million people, who are among the Asia's poorest, little has changed.

Some analysts see Jang as the driving force behind the North's promise of economic reform. Kim's uncle made his trip to China to press its leaders to provide greater backing for an economy brought to its knees by decades of mismanagement and international sanctions over missile and nuclear tests.

MAY BE LOATH TO HOST KIM

Beijing may be loath to host Kim in September at a time when China is preparing its own leadership change and because of the April rocket test, analysts said.

"North Korea has been nice to China only in the past one and half months," said Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing.

"Heaven knows whether North Korea will change again in a few months."

The proposed visit also comes when there are doubts over how willing Chinese companies are to put money in their neighbor, with its complex and contradictory investment laws.

One Chinese mining company this month took the rare step of turning to the Internet to air grievances over what it saw as the North's unfair business practices.

Observers said new special enterprise zones in North Korea, aimed at building up business with China, have met with little or limited success.

United Nations estimates show that a third of North Korea's population is malnourished and it says the economy still has to regain output levels seen in the 1990s, when a devastating famine and the withdrawal of Soviet aid hit the country hard.

Chinese investment is the only viable large-scale option for the North.

"Jang Song-thaek went to China and discussed economic issues but the visit did not turn out to have the major impact that was expected. So Kim Jong-un will go to ask for the economic aid and long-term cooperation that they need," said Yoo Ho-yeol, professor of North Korean studies at Korea University in Seoul.

NUCLEAR THREAT

China will expect to extract a price from Kim and will want the North to commit to return to talks with regional powers, so-called Six Party talks, aimed at defusing the nuclear threat on the Korean peninsula, Yoo said.

For the reclusive North, that nuclear threat has long been its only real diplomatic leverage with the outside world, especially the United States.

Kim's father oversaw two nuclear tests and his long range missile tests were seen by the United States as attempts to develop a ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.

While the most recent missile test in April went spectacularly wrong, and saw sanctions even further tightened, the North is believed to be pushing ahead with plans to conduct a third nuclear test.

The source who disclosed Kim's request for a visit said that the North retained the capacity to carry out another test.

"There is no doubt North Korea has the capability, but China is strongly opposed to it," the source said.

It was impossible to verify the plan independently in North Korea, one of the world's most closed states, although the source has proved reliable in the past, predicting the ascent of Kim's uncle, Jang Song-thaek. Also, after North Korea announced its first nuclear test in 2006, the source gave Reuters exclusive details of the preparations for that test before it was conducted.

"North Korea wants a permanent peace treaty to replace the armistice in exchange for dropping plans for a third nuclear test. It's been 60 years and time to (formally) end the war with a peace treaty," the source added.

A formal peace treaty to end the 1950-53 Korean War, rather than the armistice in place, has been a longstanding demand from Pyongyang, which wants diplomatic recognition from the United States.

Washington and its ally South Korea, which is host to some 28,000 troops, insist the North give up its nuclear ambitions before any peace treaty and large scale economic aid.

With the U.S. presidential election and Chinese leadership change this year, Pyongyang has little leverage beyond its nuclear threat, analysts say.

But they add that Beijing cannot give up on Pyongang, which acts as a buffer to U.S. ally South Korea, and knowing that the North's collapse could send columns of refugees fleeing across its border.

Recent satellite images have shown North Korea making progress in tunneling associated with a nuclear test, although it has been impossible to independently verify the images.

Siegfried Hecker, a U.S. nuclear expert who has visited the North's main Yongbyon nuclear facility four times since 2004 and was the last foreign expert to visit the site in late 2010, wrote in a report published on August 6 that the North could be technically ready for a test within two weeks.

Hecker and co-author Frank Pabian wrote that North Korea might conduct a simultaneous test using plutonium and highly enriched uranium.

The North's previous tests have used plutonium and the use of highly enriched uranium would give Pyongyang a second route to a nuclear weapon.

"Whether and when North Korea conducts another nuclear test will depend on how high a political cost Pyongyang is willing to bear," Hecker and Pabian wrote.

"Beijing has continued to expand aid and trade with North Korea, but has also applied significant diplomatic pressure on Pyongyang not to test."

(Additional reporting by Jack Kim and Ju-min Park in Seoul and Chris Buckley in Beijing, Editing by David Chance and Jonathan Thatcher)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-north-korean-leader-seeks-trip-china-economic-220121522.html

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Wolf pack killing criticized by key Wash. state lawmaker

Washington State completes a sharpshooter cull of a wolf pack that had been feeding on livestock. KING 5's Gary Chittim reports.

By Miguel Llanos, NBC News

The chairman of the state Senate committee that oversees?Washington's Department of Fish & Wildlife tells NBC News that the killing of a gray wolf pack in recent days was?"inexcusable" and that he is demanding?answers about why the agency thought it was necessary.??

"I find it inexcusable that we allowed ourselves to get to a place where killing the entire pack was the necessary decision when other non-lethal options ? within the department and with ranchers ? were not totally exhausted first," said Sen. Kevin Ranker, chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Marine Waters Committee.?

"I find it ironic that the attacks on livestock that caused this situation ... took place on a ranch that has been outspoken about the removal of the pack and has refused to work with the department to implement prevention measures successfully adopted by other ranchers," he added.

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The department gave the order to kill the entire pack, estimated to be eight wolves, after?the pack?became accustomed to attacking cattle instead of relying on wild prey.

"To say I am disappointed in the department's actions would be a gross understatement," Ranker said. "I can tell you, however, as the chair of the committee with oversight over the Department of Fish & Wildlife, this story is far from over."

In a letter Friday to the department, Ranker demanded to know:

• What specific actions the department?took before authorizing the kill;
• Exact costs associated with killing the pack;
• What actions the department will take to avoid a repeat.

The department "has provided very general descriptions of a few non-lethal measures taken" under the state?plan for managing gray wolves,?he said in the letter. "The wolf plan however includes an extensive list of husbandry techniques, non-lethal deterrents, and relocation options that were not utilized in the case of the Wedge pack. The fact that the Department pursued removal of not just individual animals, but the entire pack, clearly evidences the agency's failure to effectively use these non-lethal tools to deter wolf-livestock depredation."

Ranker also said the department's strategy for managing gray wolves?could backfire. "I fear that the Department?s actions?... will be viewed by some who do not support wolf recovery as setting a precedent that localized public pressure can dictate wolf plan implementation, including lethal removal decisions," he stated.

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Martin Freeman Joins Edgar Wright's 'The World's End'

Edgar Wright is bringing the whole gang back together in his final "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy" film, "The World's End." An official press release has gone out announcing that production has started on the movie and offering up the full cast for the flick. In addition to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, we've learned [...]

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Tourists headed for Everest region among 19 killed in fiery Nepal ...

A plane carrying 19 people crashed shortly after taking off in Katmandu, Nepal, catching fire and killing all on board. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

By NBC News wire services

KATMANDU, Nepal -- A plane carrying trekkers to the Everest region crashed and caught fire just after takeoff Friday in Nepal's capital, killing 19 people.

The victims included British, Chinese and Nepali passengers, authorities said.

The pilot of the domestic Sita Air flight reported trouble two minutes after takeoff, and Katmandu airport official Ratish Chandra Suman said the pilot appeared to have been trying to turn back.?

The crash site is only 547 yards from the airport, and the wrecked plane was pointing toward the airport area.

Reuters said it was a twin-engine, propeller-driven Dornier aircraft.

Investigators were trying to determine the cause of the crash and identify the bodies. Suman said he could not confirm if the plane was already on fire before it crashed.

Villagers forced back by flames
Cellphone video shot by locals showed the front section of the plane was on fire when it first hit the ground and it appeared the pilot had attempted to land the plane on open ground beside a river.

The fire quickly spread to the rear, but the tail was still in one piece at the scene near the Manohara River on the southwest edge of Katmandu.

PhotoBlog: More images from the crash site?

Villagers were unable to approach the plane because of the fire and it took some time for firefighters to reach the area and bring the fire under control.

Nepal officials: 6 survive, 15 killed as plane hits mountain in Himalayas

Soldiers and police shifted through the crash wreckage looking for bodies and documents to help identify the victims.

Seven passengers were British and five were Chinese; the other four passengers and the three crew members were from Nepal, authorities said.

Large numbers of local people and security forces gathered at the crash site. The charred bodies were taken by vans to the hospital morgue.

Gateway to Everest
The weather in Katmandu and surrounding areas was clear on Friday morning, and it was one of the first flights to take off from Katmandu's Tribhuwan International Airport. Other flights reported no problems, and the airport operated normally.

The plane was heading for Lukla, the gateway to Mount Everest. Thousands of Westerners make treks in the region around the world's highest peak each year. Autumn is considered the best time to trek the foothills of the Himalayan peaks.

More international coverage from NBC News?

In May, 15 people were killed when their plane crashed into a hill in northwest Nepal.

Autumn is the peak tourism season in Nepal, which has eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, including Mount Everest. At least 11 people were killed in an avalanche in northwest Nepal on Sunday.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Dec. 4: Nepal's top politicians hold their Cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the danger global warming poses on glaciers ahead of next week's climate change talks in Copenhagen. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.

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Benjamin Graham: What This Womanizer Can Teach ... - Investment U

by Alexander Green, Investment U Chief Investment Strategist
Friday, September 28, 2012: Issue #1871

The ?Father of Security Analysis? wasn?t much of a husband or father. He divorced his first wife in 1937, when divorce was still socially unacceptable, leaving his four children stigmatized.

The next year, he married a young actress. But his interest soon waned and he soon dumped her to marry his secretary. In between, he had so many lovers and affairs that in a new biography The Einstein of Money, the author calls him a ?swinger.? When he died in Provence at 87, it was in the arms of his long-time French mistress, whom he?d courted away from his son!

Needless to say, Benjamin Graham was not a family values guy. But he understood a lot about stock values. In fact, he pioneered the field of security analysis and made a fortune for himself in the stock market. Understanding even a little bit about his methods can make you a much better investor.

Graham arrived on Wall Street in 1914, a 20-year-old classicist fresh out of Columbia University. He began to make a name for himself by finding bargain stocks selling for far less than their intrinsic value. He soon put his money to work buying cheap stocks with a high margin of safety. In 1948, for instance, Graham invested a quarter of his firm?s capital in GEICO. It climbed 1,635% over the next eight years.

In 100 Minds That Made the Market, Ken Fisher writes that Graham ?hated technical tools like charts and graphs and equally distrusted growth investors? blind faith in a company?s management, upcoming products and present reputation ? those just couldn?t be measured in cold, hard numbers. Instead, Graham relied on earnings and dividends and felt book value ? the physical assets of a company ? was the basis for making sound investment decisions.?

Graham insisted you should buy a single share of a stock the same way you would buy an entire company. Understand the business. Analyze the balance sheet. Do the math. Forget about the state of the economy or the hot trend of the moment. The only thing that really matters is the health and assets of the business you?re buying, not who?s in the White House or what?s happening at the Fed.

Graham laid out his core principles in Security Analysis, now widely recognized as the bible of value investing and a textbook still used in many college investment courses more than 70 years after it was published. He later distilled this work into The Intelligent Investor, a book for the lay investor that still ranks in Amazon?s top 300 ? 62 years after it was first published. In fact, both books sell more copies each year now than when they were originally published, the true sign of an investment classic and a claim few books can make in any genre.

Today Graham is perhaps best known for his famous prot?g?, Warren Buffett. Buffett took Graham?s principles and used them to become the twentieth century?s best-known investor and one of the world?s wealthiest men.

Buffett still credits Graham for much of his success. ?No one ever became poor by reading Graham,? says Buffett.

I can?t imagine a serious stock market investor who wouldn?t profit from studying Graham?s disciplined, common-sense approach. He is rightly viewed as the father of fundamental security analysis. And ? given his social life ? perhaps the father of much else, as well.

Good Investing,

Alex

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Long toxic, mortgages now seen boosting U.S. bank results

(Reuters) - One of the few businesses working well for the biggest banks these days is the same one that got them in trouble just five years ago: mortgages.

Wells Fargo & Co and JPMorgan Chase & Co are both expected to post more than $4.5 billion in profits for the third quarter, an increase of more than 15 percent from last year, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Other businesses at big banks will likely benefit from the mini-mortgage boom. Fixed-income trading revenue will likely rise at Goldman Sachs Group Inc and other investment banks, thanks in part to more trading in mortgage-backed securities.

A booming mortgage business will help make up for a challenging environment that includes low interest rates squeezing lending profits and slow merger activity pressing earnings from investment banking. Analysts said banks may announce new rounds of cost cutting.

While banks are making new mortgages, the home loan business is still tough. Lenders have millions of foreclosures to process, and all the current refinancing will translate into lower income from mortgage securities they choose to hold.

Legal settlements stemming from the housing bubble and financial crisis are still weighing on results. Bank of America Corp said on Friday it will pay $2.43 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by investors who claimed the bank lied to them when it was acquiring Merrill Lynch. With the settlement, the bank will likely post a quarterly loss.

Many lenders scaled back mortgage operations after the housing crash, which turned into a financial crisis that cost banks trillions of dollars globally.

But for banks that stuck with the home lending business, such as Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, and U.S. Bancorp, the fees generated from making mortgages will be a big boon in the near term, analysts said.

"They're the ones that are going to be the winners," said Paul Miller, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets. "We think the refi boom lasts four to five more quarters."

Wells Fargo, the No. 4 U.S. bank by assets, and JPMorgan, the biggest, are scheduled to release third-quarter results on October 12 - the first major financial institutions to do so.

The remaining four of the six biggest banks - Bank of America, Citigroup Inc , Goldman, and Morgan Stanley are due to report the following week.

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The U.S. Federal Reserve plans to buy up to $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month for as long as it takes for unemployment to fall. That demand for mortgage bonds is lowering lending rates. On Thursday, Freddie Mac said the average rate for a 30-year home loan fell to a record low of 3.4 percent.

The Fed's latest effort is intended to reverse the severe damage done by reckless investors, lenders and borrowers who leveraged up homes in the mid-2000s.

Banks benefit from the fees they get from closing loans, but also from the fact that investors want more mortgages than lenders can easily make.

When a bank makes a new loan, it can quickly sell it off to investors at a relatively high price, analyst Dick Bove of Rochdale Securities said in a research note this week.

Wells Fargo has already told investors to expect a significant decline this quarter in its net interest margin, a measure of how much profit a bank makes from interest on its loans.

Banks are trying to make up for the reduced margins by making more loans. Loans on balance sheets of commercial banks grew 5 percent over the 12 months through August, according to Fed data.

"We think there will be a reasonable amount of loan growth, especially on the commercial side," Guggenheim Partners analyst Marty Mosby said. "That's the way the banks have been able to hold their own."

But with investors looking for more improvement, banks are under pressure to cut costs to boost profits. Analysts want details on expenses from Bank of America, which is reportedly accelerating plans to lay off 30,000 workers.

JPMorgan's results are expected to improve from the second quarter, when it booked what appears to be the vast majority of losses from its London Whale trading scandal.

Through the first six months of the year, San Francisco-based Wells Fargo earned more than JPMorgan and could challenge the New York bank for the title of most profitable in a calendar year.

Alongside the basic business of taking deposits and making loans, five of the biggest six banks have substantial operations in securities trading and investment banking - which have had mixed success.

Revenues from fixed income trading are expected to be up, but equity trading will be down, according to estimates by analyst David Trone of JMP Securities. Debt and stock underwriting are up sharply from a year ago, when turmoil in European markets discouraged financing.

But completed takeovers that deliver payoffs for advisory work are lagging. All told, revenue from trading and investment banking will be up about 6 percent, according to Trone's estimates.

Citigroup is seen by some analysts as barely breaking even because it is taking a one-time charge - which it has estimated at $2.9 billion - on the value of its stake in a brokerage joint venture with Morgan Stanley.

Analysts see Morgan Stanley's profit sliding by 75 percent, largely because of accounting adjustments that, ironically, will reflect an increase in the market value of its debt stemming from improvements in its creditworthiness.

(Reporting by David Henry in New York and Rick Rothacker in Charlotte, North Carolina; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

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"Hitchcock" World Premiere to Open AFI Fest

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Hitchcock," the Sacha Gervasi film starring Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitcock and Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma Reville, will have its world premiere on the opening night of the 2012 AFI Fest, the American Film Institute announced on Thursday.

The film, which was recently scheduled for a November release by Fox Searchlight, will premiere at AFI Fest on Thursday, November 1.

"Hitchcock" focuses on the making of the 1960 film "Psycho," and also features Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel as Vera Miles and James D'Arcy as Anthony Perkins.

"This film pulls back the curtain and takes us behind-the-scenes of his lifelong collaboration with his wife Alma during the making of his 1960 masterpiece 'Psycho,'" said AFI Fest director Jacqueline Lyanga in a release announcing the selection. "It's the perfect film to welcome our audience of movie-lovers with on opening night."

AFI president and CEO Bob Gazzale called the film "a bloody valentine to creative genius and the inspired woman at his side."

Hitchcock conducted a master seminar at the AFI in 1970, and received the organization's Life Achievement Award in 1979. Four of his films, including "Psycho," appear on the AFI's list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. ("Vertigo," "Rear Window" and "North by Northwest" are the others.)

The film marks a change of pace for co-writer and director Gervasi, whose last film was the music documentary "Anvil! The Story of Anvil." Although he wrote the films "The Big Tease" and "The Terminal," "Hitchcock" marks his narrative directorial debut.

The recent decision by Fox Searchlight to give it a November release in the heart of awards season was seen as a sign that the studio expects "Hitchcock" to be a factor in this year's Oscar race.

The AFI Fest 2012, which is sponsored by Audi, will kick off on November 1 with the "Hitchcock" gala and will run through November 8, when it will close with the premiere of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln."

Tickets are free to the public, though only paid patron passholders will receive reserved tickets to high-profile events like the "Hitchcock" premiere. Tickets will be made available to AFI members on October 24, and to the general public on October 25.

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HBT: Hernandez shaved his mustache for charity

As promised, Keith Hernandez shaved off his mustache for charity today. Or more accurately, had his mustache shaved off in a big ceremony outside Citi Field in front of fans and media members.

Our buddy Ted Berg of SNY.tv snapped that photo of the shave in the progress and then Matthew Cerrone of MetsBlog.com has a picture of Berg (with mustache) interviewing Hernandez (sans mustache).

Apparently the whole thing raised $10,000 for the Adult Day Health Center in Brooklyn, so good on Hernandez and the Mets for putting it together.

Most importantly: Now that?s he shaved Hernandez should take another run at Elaine Benes.

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Nickelblock: An element's love-hate relationship with battery electrodes

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) ? Anyone who owns an electronic device knows that lithium ion batteries could work better and last longer. Now, scientists examining battery materials on the nano-scale reveal how nickel forms a physical barrier that impedes the shuttling of lithium ions in the electrode, reducing how fast the materials charge and discharge. Published last week in Nano Letters, the research also suggests a way to improve the materials.

The researchers, led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Chongmin Wang, created high-resolution 3D images of electrode materials made from lithium-nickel-manganese oxide layered nanoparticles, mapping the individual elements. These maps showed that nickel formed clumps at certain spots in the nanoparticles. A higher magnification view showed the nickel blocking the channels through which lithium ions normally travel when batteries are charged and discharged.

"We were surprised to see the nickel selectively segregate like it did. When the moving lithium ions hit the segregated nickel rich layer, they essentially encounter a barrier that appears to slow them down," said Wang, a materials scientist based at EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE user facility on PNNL's campus. "The block forms in the manufacturing process, and we'd like to find a way to prevent it."

Lithium ions are positively charged atoms that move between negative and positive electrodes when a battery is being charged or is in use. They essentially catch or release the negatively charged electrons, whose movement through a device such as a laptop forms the electric current.

In lithium-manganese oxide electrodes, the manganese and oxygen atoms form rows like a field of cornstalks. In the channels between the stalks, lithium ions zip towards the electrodes on either end, the direction depending on whether the battery is being used or being charged.

Researchers have known for a long time that adding nickel improves how much energy the electrode can hold, battery qualities known as capacity and voltage. But scientists haven't understood why the capacity falls after repeated usage -- a situation consumers experience when a dying battery holds its charge for less and less time.

To find out, Wang, materials scientist Meng Gu and their collaborators used electron microscopy at EMSL and the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to view how the different atoms are arranged in the electrode materials produced by Argonne National Laboratory researchers. The electrodes were based on nanoparticles made with lithium, nickel, and manganese oxides.

First, the team took high-resolution images that clearly showed rows of atoms separated by channels filled with lithium ions. On the surface, they saw the accumulation of nickel at the ends of the rows, essentially blocking lithium from moving in and out.

To find out how the surface layer is distributed on and within the whole nanoparticle, the team used a technique called three-dimensional composition mapping. Using a nanoparticle about 200 nanometers in size, they took 50 images of the individual elements as they tilted the nanoparticle at various angles. The team reconstructed a three-dimensional map from the individual elemental maps, revealing spots of nickel on a background of lithium-manganese oxide.

The three-dimensional distribution of manganese, oxygen and lithium atoms along the surface and within the particle was relatively even. The nickel, however, parked itself in small areas on the surface. Internally, the nickel clumped on the edges of smaller regions called grains.

To explore why nickel aggregates on certain surfaces, the team calculated how easily nickel and lithium traveled through the channels. Nickel moved more easily up and down the channels than lithium. While nickel normally resides within the manganese oxide cornrows, sometimes it slips out into the channels. And when it does, this analysis showed that it flows much easier through the channels to the end of the field, where it accumulates and forms a block.

The researchers used a variety of methods to make the nanoparticles. Wang said that the longer the nanoparticles stayed at high temperature during fabrication, the more nickel segregated and the poorer the particles performed in charging and discharging tests. They plan on doing more closely controlled experiments to determine if a particular manufacturing method produces a better electrode.

This work was supported by PNNL's Chemical Imaging Initiative.

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News Summary: US economy grew 1.3 pct. in Q2.

GROWTH SLOWER: The U.S. economy grew at a sluggish 1.3 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That's down from the government's previous estimate of 1.7 percent growth and slower than the 2 percent rate In the January-March quarter.

DROUGHT IMPACT: The severe drought cut farm production in the Midwest, accounting for roughly half the downward revision. The government also said consumer spending and exports also grew more slowly.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: Economists forecast growth at a rate of 1.5 percent to 2 percent in the January-March quarter. That's too slow to lower the unemployment rate.

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Inside the mind of a new professor | The Quinnipiac Chronicle

Posted on Sep 26, 2012 by Caroline Tufts

Jason Koo is an assistant professor of English, who was hired this semester. He teaches creative writing, and has written two poetry books, ?Man on Extremely Small Island? and ?America?s Favorite Poem.? Here are some snippets of our conversation.

Let?s start with a brief introduction of yourself.

I was hired as an assistant professor of English specifically to teach creative writing. My particular specialty in creative writing is poetry. They are starting a new creative writing concentration here, [and] they have a fiction professor already, so they hired me to kind of fill out the concentration and develop it over the next few years, which I am excited about.

How does being a professor affect your poetry, and does this job make it harder?

Well, I would say yes and no. I would say teaching in college, being a full-time professor, is really good for a poet, any creative writer really, but especially a poet, because you have a lot of time to yourself that you wouldn?t otherwise have if you had to work an everyday job all year round. The summer especially is a good time for me to write.

So it?s easy to assume your writing was driven by a passion for literature and poetry. What inspired you to become a professor?

I went to my Master in Fine Arts program, the first step to becoming a poet, which is a really weird thing when you?re that young, because all you really have is the passion as you mentioned, and you feel like you want to do this thing, but you really have no practical idea of how you?re going to make it possible. So, you end up going to graduate school because you know it makes the most sense.

I think I matured and I started to realize that, you know, teaching is a great job to have, because you get paid to talk about what you?re passionate about. And I still think that my identity as a poet, or even my style as a poet, is sort of similar to my teaching persona. My poetry is very conversational; it?s very voiced. It uses a lot of humor, but is also serious, and I think I take the same kind of stylistic approach in my teaching.

What were you doing before you came here?

I was teaching at the Lehman College in the city at the University of New York. It?s in the Bronx. I was doing that for three years, and I was also directing the graduate program. I was actually getting a lot of curricular building experience and administrative experience which I think helped me get this job because that?s another thing that I?m doing here.

How are you feeling about your classes so far and the students here?

I?m feeling really good. What I really appreciate about Quinnipiac is that the students are always more prepared. [Here] the students have been very bright. I?ve been impressed with their writing and the quality of their discussions. It?s been low-stress in that way.

Anything you want to say to the Quinnipiac community?

I?ll just reiterate how grateful I am that I?m here, that I was offered this job. I feel like the students are really bright, and it?s a great time to be here. The whole school I think is gaining an identity, and it?s kind of discovering what it is and what it?s going to be. Especially for my specific field it?s exciting because creative writing is growing and I just feel like in five years this place in some ways is going to look totally different.

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