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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Male guppies ensure successful mating with genital claws
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Some males will go to great lengths to pursue a female and take extreme measures to hold on once they find one that interests them, even if that affection is unrequited. New research from evolutionary biologists shows that the male guppy grows claws on its genitals to make it more difficult for unreceptive females to get away during mating.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Texas Comptroller: $1 Billion dollars in unclaimed property returned
AUSTIN, TX -- Texas Comptroller Susan Combs announced Wednesday that $1 billion in unclaimed property have been returned to Texans since she took office in 2007.
?When I took office in January 2007 I was committed to return as much unclaimed money as possible to owners who may have forgotten about it,? Combs said. ?We launched extensive outreach efforts and streamlined processes to help reunite more owners with their money.?
According to the press release, approximately 1.1 million claims have been approved since 2007.
Unclaimed property could be anything from a forgotten utility deposits or other refunds, insurance proceeds, payroll checks, cashier?s checks, dividends, mineral royalties, dormant bank accounts and abandoned safe deposit box contents.
The press release also states that there is no time limit for to claim the unclaimed property.
To find out if you have unclaimed property in Texas visit www.ClaimItTexas.org.
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NBA free agency rumors 2013: Golden State Warriors to sign Marreese Speights
Multiple outlets are reporting that the Warriors have agreed to terms with 6-foot-10 power forward Marreese Speights.
Many of us have believed that adding depth to the frontcourt was more important to the Golden State Warriors than adding another guard after both Jarrett Jack and Carl Landry left the team as free agents this past weekend.
The Warriors apparently agreed as they have agreed to a three year deal with forward Marreese Speights, as first reported by ESPN. A trio of tweets thus far fill in the details as they've trickled out.
Marcus Thompson has added a bit more about how the Warriors might fit him into their financial picture.
How the Warriors get him is still unclear. He could be signed outright as part of the mid-level exception. He could be signed-and-traded for guard Jarrett Jack (who agreed to a four-year, $25 million deal with Cleveland). The Cavaliers could also sign Speights and trade him to Golden State for part of the Warriors' trade exception.
What Speights might bring to the Warriors
One thing that immediately stands out about Speights is his shooting efficiency: a career true shooting percentage of just 51.5% is not exactly what you'd want to see from a power forward. However, it's not necessarily because he drifts away from the basket that he's an efficient scorer overall - to the contrary, he's quite good from the 16-foot to 3-point line range (48.4%) according to Basketball-Reference. Where he really struggles is from 3-16 foot range where he shot just 32.51% last season.
And comparing his shooting tendencies in Cleveland (where he was a more efficient scorer than either of his two years in Memphis) to what a player like Carl Landry did last season is interesting:
Landry was clearly much better around the basket, which you could argue is something the Warriors needed - the majority of his shots (59.5%) came from that range. Speights, on the other hand, shot more shots in that long two pointer range in 32 games with Cleveland than Landry did in 81 with the Warriors but he was knocking them down from the top of the key and the right wing at a very high rate. So it will be interesting to see how the Warriors make the most of his strengths, but given that he simply does not finish well it might be advantageous to set him up on the perimeter.
But something he has consistently brought during his career is a solid offensive rebounding presence, albeit in limited minutes. He was off to a career-high in offensive rebounding last season with Memphis (15.2% offensive rebounding rate) before grabbing closer to his career average (11.2% career offensive rebound rate) in Cleveland, according to Basketball-Reference. If he could get something closer to what he was doing in Memphis but also manage to keep his scoring efficiency up he could both add some size and be a productive player in the Warriors' frontcourt rotation.
We'll have more on the signing tomorrow morning. But for now, how do you grade this signing?
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Japan?s SoftBank says expects to complete Sprint deal on July 10
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Corp said on Monday that it expects to complete its $21.6 billion acquisition of U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp on Wednesday, July 10.
SoftBank and Sprint received final regulatory approval for their deal from the Federal Communications Commission last week.
The Japanese company said it expects the deal to close on Wednesday, U.S. Eastern Standard Time.
(Reporting by Mari Saito; Editing by Edmund Klamann)
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Video: Tragedy on the Runway
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Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 tablets now available, Play Store, Hulu, Boingo credit included
Liliputing writes, All three sizes of Samsung?s Galaxy Tab 3?tablets are now available for purchase in the US, with prices starting at $199 for a 7 inch model, $299 for the 8.9 inch version, and $399 for the Galaxy Tab 3 (10.1). While those prices are decent, they?re nothing particularly spectacular. But there are a few perks to buying a Samsung tablet ? when you buy a Galaxy Tab 3 in the US you get credit to spend in the Google Play Store, and access to two pretty handy subscriptions. Galaxy Tab 3 customers get $10 to spend on apps, music, movies, or other content from the Google Play Store. It?s not?
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Inhibiting macrophage MerTK signaling creates an innate immune response against cancer
[unable to retrieve full-text content]New evidence shows that MerTK macrophage action in the microenvironment that surrounds cancer cells blunts the immune response, allowing the tumor cell to grow and metastasize.
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Monday, July 8, 2013
NBA free agency: Cavaliers reportedly have interest in Andrew Bynum
The Cavs have interest in oft-injured center, and they would reportedly be willing to offer a lucrative one-year deal.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have interest in free-agent center Andrew Bynum, and they could potentially offer a lucrative one-year deal, according to ESPN's Marc Stein.
Bynum didn't play a single game for the Philadelphia 76ers last season due to recurring knee problems. Bynum doesn't plan on working out for any prospective free-agent suitors, and teams are proceeding with caution with the big man due to the health issues.
More: Cavs blog Fear The Sword on Bynum reportThe Cavs currently have Anderson Varejao and Tyler Zeller in place at center, but Varejao is on the last year of his deal and coming off a health scare while Zeller is still developing. Cleveland has a lot of cap space to offer Bynum a rather hefty contract, although it would preferably be a one-year deal to help protect cap space for the summer of 2014.
The Dallas Mavericks have also shown interest in Bynum, and Stein reports that if the Mavs or any other team offers the center a multi-year deal, the Cavs would likely be out of the running. The Atlanta Hawks have also expressed interest in Bynum.
There's certainly the potential for high reward by taking a chance on Bynum, as when healthy, he's one of the best big men in the NBA. The 25-year-old averaged 18.7 points and 11.8 rebounds for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2011-12. There could also be language in a new contract that minimizes risk if Bynum's knees fail him again.
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Egypt's emerging leaders after Morsi's overthrow
CAIRO (AP) ? A look at some of the top figures emerging in Egypt after the military removed President Mohammed Morsi:
?Interim President Adly Mansour, 67, a judge:
Mansour emerged from near-obscurity when he became head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, two days before Egypt's military chief announced that Morsi had been deposed and was to be replaced by the chief justice.
Mansour's career in the judiciary took a prominent turn in 1984, when he became a judge on the state council and then its vice president. In 1992, he was appointed vice president to the Supreme Constitutional Court. He became chief justice following his predecessor's retirement on June 30.
He was sworn in as Egypt's president on Thursday.
?Army chief and Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, 58, also the defense minister:
El-Sissi stepped onto the center stage of Egyptian politics when the military on Monday gave Morsi a 48-hour ultimatum to resolve his differences with the opposition after millions took to the streets on June 30 to demand the Islamist leader leave power. On Wednesday, el-Sissi announced Morsi's removal.
A graduate of the Egyptian military academy and the U.S. Army War College, el-Sissi was appointed commander in chief of the Egyptian armed forces in August 2012, replacing Field Marshall Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, who was ordered into retirement by Morsi.
?Ziad Bahaa-Eldin of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party:
Bahaa-Eldin has been widely tipped as the consensus candidate to become prime minister for the transitional government. Comparatively young for an Egyptian politician at 48, he is a widely respected Western-educated lawyer with a degree from the London School of Economics who set up the government's financial regulatory body overseeing capital markets after heading the business-friendly investment agency.
While he did work in the government of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, he was never seen as a real member of the regime. He quickly sided with the 2011 uprising and joined one of the new political parties formed after Mubarak's ouster, a left-of-center party that believes in a market economy that takes into account the needs of the workers. He won a seat in the first parliament after Mubarak's fall, representing the southern governorate of Assuit.
On Thursday he called for building a new system based on inclusiveness and respect for law and "does not use the weapons of our rivals in treating them."
?Mohammed ElBaradei, former director of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency:
Originally pegged to be prime minister, the 71-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate was opposed by conservatives and may now become vice president in the interim government.
With a long career on the international scene, ElBaradei served as an Egyptian diplomat to the United Nations and later as an aide to Egypt's foreign minister. He was the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency for nearly 12 years. He and the IAEA shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
After popular protests toppled Mubarak in February 2011, ElBaradei emerged as a democracy advocate and later as an opposition leader in the National Salvation Front. After a series of widely criticized moves by Morsi, ElBaradei said members of the dominant Muslim Brotherhood lived "in a delusion" for thinking they could manage the country on their own.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-emerging-leaders-morsis-overthrow-204652802.html
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Solar plane heads for New York in final leg of U.S. journey
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - An airplane entirely powered by the sun embarked on the final leg of a journey across the United States on Saturday, taking off from Washington, D.C., for a roughly 21-hour flight to New York City.
The Solar Impulse, its four propellers driven by energy collected from 12,000 solar cells in its wings that simultaneously recharge batteries for night use, departed Dulles International Airport outside Washington at 4:46 a.m. EDT, organizers said.
Flight plans call for it to head north over Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, pass over the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor and land at John F. Kennedy Airport around 2 a.m. EDT on Sunday.
If the spindly experimental aircraft completes the journey as planned, it will be the first solar-powered plane capable of operating day and night to fly across the United States.
The Solar Impulse, with the wingspan of a jumbo jet and the weight of a small car, completed the first leg of the journey from San Francisco to Phoenix in early May and flew later that month from Phoenix to Dallas. From there it flew to St. Louis, stopped briefly in Cincinnati, then flew on to Washington, where is has remained since June 16.
Intended to boost support for clean energy technologies, the project began in 2003 with a 10-year budget of $112 million (90 million euros). It has involved engineers from Swiss escalator maker Schindler and research aid from Belgian chemicals group Solvay.
(Reporting by Paul Thomasch; Editing by Eric Beech)
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30 killed in school attack in northeast Nigeria
POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) ? Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Saturday, killing 29 students and one teacher. Some of the pupils were burned alive in the latest school attack blamed on a radical terror group, survivors said.
Parents screamed in anguish as they tried to identify the charred and gunshot victims.
Farmer Malam Abdullahi found the bodies of two of his sons, a 10-year-old shot in the back as he apparently tried to run away, and a 12-year-old shot in the chest.
"That's it, I'm taking my other boys out of school," he told The Associated Press as he wept over the two corpses. He said he had three younger children in a nearby school.
"It's not safe," he said. "The gunmen are attacking schools and there is no protection for students despite all the soldiers."
Survivors at the Potiskum General Hospital and its mortuary said gunmen attacked Government Secondary School in Mamudo village, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Potiskum town at about 3 a.m. Saturday. The gunmen are believed to be from the Boko Haram sect whose name means "Western education is sacrilege."
They killed 29 students and an English teacher Mohammed Musa, who was shot in the chest according to another teacher, Ibrahim Abdu.
"We were sleeping when we heard gunshots. When I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me," said 15-year-old Musa Hassan.
He put his arm up in defense, and suffered a gunshot that blew off all four fingers on his right hand, the one he uses to write with.
He said the gunmen came armed with jerry cans of fuel that they used to torch the school's administrative block and one of the hostels.
"They burned the children alive," he said, the horror showing in his wide eyes.
He and teachers at the morgue said dozens of children from the 1,200-student school escaped into the bush but have not been seen since.
Some bodies are so charred they could not be identified, so many parents do not know if their children survived or died.
Islamic militants from Boko Haram and breakaway groups have killed more than 1,600 civilians in suicide bombings and other attacks since 2010, according to an Associated Press count.
Scores of schools have been burned down in the past year in northeast Nigeria.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency May 14, and deployed thousands of troops to halt the insurgency, acknowledging that militants had taken control of some towns and villages.
The military has claimed success in regaining control of the area ? the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe . However, the area covers some 155,000 square kilometers (60,000 square miles) or one-sixth of the sprawling country.
Soldiers say they have killed and arrested hundreds of fighters.
But the crackdown, including attacks with fighter jets and helicopter gunships on militant camps, appears to have driven the extremists into rocky mountains with caves, from which they emerge to attack schools and markets.
The militants have increasingly targeted civilians, including health workers on vaccination campaigns, teachers and government workers.
Farmers have been driven from their land by the extremists and by military roadblocks, raising the specter of a food shortage to add to the woes of a people already hampered by the military's shutdown of cell phone service and ban on using satellite telephones.
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Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria.
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Weekend Roundup: Galaxy S4 sells 20 millions, Apple get sued over iDevices & Yahoo buys Qwiki
Yahoo acquires Qwiki
I?ve been following Qwiki for a while, ever since it won TechCrunch?s prestigious Disrupt award in 2010. The following year, it got a big funding pot from none other than the co-founders of Facebook and Youtube. I remember fondly playing with it while it was still available as a web-based service. The startup pivoted earlier this year becoming a mobile-only video app. Its core feature is converting pictures into video automatically complete with transitions and background music, similar to Animoto. In a nutshell, dare we say, it is a glorified version of the animated GIF, although its founder and CEO wants it to be a (visual) storytelling app. Too bad, it now has Vine (from Twitter) and Instagram?s latest video service, to compete with. Qwiki?s acquisition comes after Yahoo?s purchase of Tumblr in May but I fail to see how Marissa Mayer?s team will manage to integrate it into a coherent business plan. Unless, Yahoo is acting as a proxy for Microsoft and Qwiki will ultimately become a rival to the omnipotent Youtube.
Boston University looking for funding
Taking on some of the biggest companies in the world is no small feat and yet this is what the Boston University wants to do. This private research university has more than 4,000 faculty members, nearly 30,000 students and research expenditures reaching up to $553 million. After Amazon, Samsung and Google, Apple and its popular iDevices have been in the limelight after the university claimed Apple infringed on a patent filed by one of its professor 26 years ago. It wants sales of the iPhone, the iPad and the MacBook Air to stop until a licensing scheme is set up with the university taking a cut of each past sale. This is a classic case of patent-trolling, when an entity decides to pounce on a company to siphon using one or more patents, via a legal route.
EE and Mastercard will launch mobile wallet
That?s probably the best option given that you won?t need a PIN to pay for that Greggs? croissant or your daily cappuccino fix. It will be interesting to see how the service behaves in real life especially as people now tend to carry more than one NFC-enabled products (e.g. oyster, bank card) and more phones integrated wireless charging.
Samsung sells 20 million Galaxy S4 smartphones
My back-of-an-handkerchief calculation shows that over the last 30 days, Samsung sold more than 330,000 units of its latest flagship, the Galaxy S4, with the Korean manufacturer claiming that it has flogged more than 20 million of them since it launched back in March. That has been helped partly by the fact that the average price of the S4 in the UK at least has been steadily falling. You can get the handset on a two-year contract for as little as ?29 per month with unlimited data while the phone itself costs as little as ?445, a far cry from the jaw-dropping ?600 it commanded when it went on sale.
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Go camping in an inflatable geodesic dome
Geodesic domes have been used for everything from playground climbing equipment to homes, and now you can camp in one. ?The Cave from Heimplanet doesn’t use poles, but instead uses inflatable tubes from which you suspend the tent. ?It’s big enough to sleep 2-3 people, and it has storage pockets built in to help hold [...]
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Hoarded Calif. dogs await rescue groups
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? More than 130 dogs saved from a hoarder in California two weeks ago need to be saved again ? but only rescue groups can save them now.
The dogs were seized from Rainbow's End Animal Sanctuary in Apple Valley on June 18, where they had been living in one large pack for years without proper food, medical care or human interaction, San Bernardino County Animal Care and Control officials said.
Some dogs had to be euthanized for health reasons. The rest can only be released to rescue groups because of the costly and extensive medical care and behavior work they need. For the same reason, most rescue groups may only be able to take one or two dogs, said Doug Smith, the supervising animal control officer at the Devore Animal Shelter, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
Any nonprofit rescue group in the country with the proper credentials can save a dog, Smith said. The rescue groups will have to provide transportation for the dogs too.
The dogs are all at Devore now, but only because other shelters and pet lovers pitched in two weeks ago and adopted every available dog at the shelter to make room.
Devore had to hold the hoarded dogs as evidence until Friday.
All of the hoarded dogs are mixed breed, with a lot of shepherd and collie in them, Smith said.
Smith says the dogs range in age from newborn (born Wednesday) to 11 years old. There are males and females.
Soon they will have to free up kennel space for new dogs and if they don't find sponsors for the 130 dogs, they will have to be euthanized, Smith said.
A criminal complaint has been submitted to the district attorney for review, said Brian Cronin, chief of animal care and control. Because it is an open animal cruelty case, some details about the dogs and their living conditions are not available.
"It is extremely concerning when a self-proclaimed animal sanctuary fails to fulfill its commitment to the homeless animals it has accepted," Cronin said in a statement.
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Prince Harry?s Shirtless Bod Used To Advertise A Gay Club In London
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on July 6, 2013The gays in London really know how to celebrate Pride this year and they have THE BEST taste when it comes to posterboys for the happy celebration. Prince Harry has been chosen by a gay club called Manbar to be their unofficial mascot for Pride this year as his shirtless bod has been used to promote their establishment. Inspired by the shirtless photos of Harry that came out when he was serving the British military in Afghanistan a few years ago, artist Mike Bliss worked up the fun graphic that went on display this week. Click below to see the poster artwork of Harry and TELL ME that it wouldn?t inspired you to check out the drink specials inside.
The Queen should shield her eyes! Posters featuring a shirtless (and buff) Prince Harry have been proudly on display at a London gay bar dubbed Manbar. The controversial (and clearly Photoshopped) posters have the young royal promoting drink specials and even pride weekend activities. Manbar has boasted that they were voted the ?best new venue in London,? and apparently Prince Harry is the poster boy for the happening hot spot. The poster mockups were created by an artist named Mike Bliss, and were inspired by Harry?s shirtless rugby game in Afghanistan back in 2008. No word yet on whether Prince William?s brother has seen the ads.
As a public figure, I?m sure Harry and the rest of the royal family are well-used to having their likeness used in various creative ways ? this just happens to be the latest creative way that Harry and his royal hotness have been used. I would hope that Harry wouldn?t object to having his shirtlessness used to celebrate gay pride cuz I don?t think many other people would object either :D
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A Minute With: Vikramaditya Motwane on O. Henry in Bollywood
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Vikramaditya Motwane first caught the attention of Bollywood in 2010 when his debut film - a small-budget tale of teenage angst - made it to competition at the Cannes Film Festival in the category for emerging directors.
Three years after the success of that movie, "Udaan", or "Flight", Motwane is back with a big-ticket period romance inspired by "The Last Leaf", a short story by U.S. writer O. Henry in which a leaf painted on a wall saves the life of an ill young woman.
"Lootera", or "Thief", opened in Indian cinemas on Friday, going head-to-head with "Policegiri", the last completed film by jailed Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.
Motwane spoke to Reuters about "Lootera" and the difficulties of adapting a four-page short story first published in 1907 into a full-fledged Bollywood movie.
Q: What is "Lootera" about?
A: It is a love story, it's part thriller, mystery. At its core, it is a love story - it is about falling in love, about betrayal, redemption and a lot of things. It is also about friendship and life, and just a little bit more.
Q: Did you set out to make a love story?
A: Kind of. It is inspired from "The Last Leaf" which is a very strange love story, if it is a love story at all ... So me and Bhavani (Iyer), who is my co-writer, took it up as a challenge and said let us see what we can do with this adaptation. Also, we were struggling writers with nothing to do, so we said let's just do this. We bounced ideas off each other and built it up and then realized that this was serious. We could actually make a film out of this.
Q: What about "The Last Leaf" made you want to adapt it?
A: Many things. The fact that it is tragic but leaves you with a smile on your face. The sense of doing something selfless for somebody who doesn't even know about it - that was really interesting. It was the human element that was magic.
Q: How do you adapt a short story to an Indian setting?
A: The easy thing is that it is a four-page short story so you are not encumbered with details. Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove. Here, we had to add to it and work on a complete backstory. I tried to do a modern-day adaptation but it didn't work. You are talking of two people who come together and are then forced apart and in today's day and age with cellphones and Facebook, how far apart can you actually be?
Q: Was it easier to make your second film after the success of "Udaan"?
A: I had written this script before "Udaan" was made and part of the angst of getting that first film made and finding that it wasn't getting done, worked itself into this. This was a big-budget film, which is difficult to make as a first film. And that wasn't a good time; it is much easier today. It was a question of throwing both balls in the air and seeing which one would be caught - either "Udaan" or "Lootera".
It has become easier in the sense that doors opened quicker - getting access to the stars and the money has been easier. But it hasn't been an easy film to make. It is much bigger in terms of scale and production. But that was the intention. We set out to make a big film because I don't want to be stuck with being slotted as making films that are small. Because I have ideas that I know are going to take a lot of money to make. Not a lot of money, but some money. You have to give the industry confidence that you can handle that kind of money and budget.
Q: Do you think of your audience while making a film?
A: Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience. You have to be honest about what kind of films you want to make. If it is in your blood to make those kind of films, go ahead and make them. If it is not ? and I have seen a lot of filmmakers do that, they make films that they don't believe in, and it doesn't work.
(Editing by Tony Tharakan and Elaine Lies)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/minute-vikramaditya-motwane-o-henry-bollywood-051315830.html
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Friday, July 5, 2013
China-Pakistan friendship 'sweeter than honey', says Nawaz Sharif
Earlier this year China took control of Pakistan's Gwadar port, giving it access to the Arabian Sea and Strait of Hormuz, a gateway for a third of the world's traded oil.
A series of agreements were signed by ministers of the two countries as Li and Sharif held talks.
Among these was a "long term plan" over the economic corridor, and agreements on technology, polio prevention and solar housing.
An agreement was also signed for cooperation between Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and the Communist Party of China (CPC).
The two countries also agreed a $44 million project to erect a fibre optic cable from the China-Pakistan border to Rawalpindi, which aims to give Pakistan more connectivity to international networks.
China-Pakistan trade last year reached $12 billion and is targeted to rise to $15 billion in the next two to three years.
On Thursday Sharif held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, amid concerns in his country over weak growth, inflation and power cuts of up to 20 hours a day.
Xi, who referred to Sharif as an old friend and a good brother, said strengthening strategic cooperation with Islamabad was a priority for China's diplomacy, the state-run broadcaster China Central Television reported.
Sharif said his country welcomed Chinese investment and would work to create a friendly environment for it.
The threat of terrorism is also expected to figure during Sharif's discussions.
Edited for Telegraph.co.uk by Barney Henderson
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Cambridge Audio's Minx Go Couples Crazy Battery Life With Great, Portable Sound
A little while ago, I reviewed the Cambridge Minx Air 200 and found it a solid new performer in the UK-based company's new lineup of wireless speakers. Today, I'm looking at the Cambridge Audio Minx Go, a portable Bluetooth speaker with 18 hours of advertised battery life and a $149 price tag. It's bigger than cheaper competitors like the Jawbone Jambox, but it's got plenty more juice, too, and Cambridge's high-quality pedigree.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/zQIlhqw0ajI/
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What do you think of the iOS 7 Photo filters? [Poll]
So, iOS 7 has filters in its Camera app, but what do you think of them? Filters are quite literally everywhere today, with what started at Instagram now spreading far and wide across our favorite mobile apps and services. Twitter has them, so does Google+, not to mention the countless different iOS camera apps that implement filters in some way, shape or form. Maybe someone should sell glasses with interchangeable filter lenses, so we really do see everything through a filter? With such coverage, it was perhaps inevitable that Apple would eventually add their own take on it to their iOS camera app, but do they look any good?
Rene has already previewed the iOS 7 camera, as well as pitting the on-board filters against some of those from popular competing products. If you haven't given those posts a read yet, definitely do so while you're making up your mind. It's important to remember too, that since iOS 7 is still in beta, anything could theoretically happen between now and final launch. But, they're here, and for the most part we can get a feel for how they're looking. So, what do you think? A good job, absolutely awful, or somewhere in-between? Drop a vote in the poll up top, and head down into the comments and let us know your thoughts!
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