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July 13, 2009

IPhone Closer to China Launch With Network Tests

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Apple has applied for a Chinese network access license for the iPhone, an important step that could lead the phone to a China launch by early next year, analysts said Monday.

Apple has held months of talks with China Unicom, the country’s favored carrier for an iPhone deal, in search of an inroad to China’s huge market. But those talks have been hindered by disputes such as what proprietary software to pre-load on the handset and whether the phone would include Wi-Fi.

Apple appears to have conceded its demand for Wi-Fi capability. The sample iPhone Apple submitted for testing to China’s regulatory authorities last week has Wi-Fi disabled, said Zhang Jun, an analyst at research house Wedge MKI.

China is allowing Wi-Fi on handsets only if they support a domestically developed security protocol. Authorities have approved the first such Wi-Fi handsets in recent weeks.

Still, the handset could finish the tests and receive its network access license within three months, possibly helping speed talks with China Unicom, Zhang said. Sales could then start by Apple’s target period early next year, he said.

Though its sale is currently illegal, the iPhone is already popular among fashion-conscious Chinese urbanites. Unlocked iPhones smuggled from abroad are openly sold beside look-alike clones at Chinese electronics markets. There are already 1 million iPhones in China, consultancy Ovum estimates.

China Unicom could launch the iPhone late this year, though no recent signs of progress have come from its talks with Apple, said Liu Ning, an analyst at BDA, a telecoms research company.

Liu also said Apple had submitted the iPhone to the government’s China Telecommunication Technology Labs, which grants network access licenses.

The iPhone for China may support 3G. An unnamed Apple handset that China recently licensed to use a specified frequency range supports WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), the 3G standard being promoted by China Unicom. The handset, which was listed as approved on a government Web site, appears to be an iPhone.

Apple said in April that it hoped to start iPhone sales in China within the next year.

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June 3, 2009

Barack Obama launches key Mid-East mission

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US President Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia at the start of a Middle East tour aimed at increasing US engagement with the Islamic world.

Mr Obama will spend a few hours in Riyadh before heading for Cairo, where he will make a keynote speech.

He says he wants to open dialogue with Muslims, overcome misapprehensions, and revive Middle East peace negotiations.

Apart from a stop-over in Iraq in April, it is Mr Obama’s first time in the region since becoming president.

Barack Obama’s goal is to improve perceptions of the US and to push for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, says BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Jonathan Marcus.

In the process he wants to make other US strategic goals in the region - like stability in Iraq and the containment of Iran - easier to achieve.

To do this he needs Arab partners and this trip takes in two key nations - Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

The Saudis are sponsors of the only comprehensive peace plan for relations between the Arab world and Israel.

Egypt is intimately involved with the Palestinian problem, acting as an intermediary between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Mr Obama needs both countries on board if he is to breathe life into the largely moribund peace negotiations, our correspondent says.

‘Action not words’

In Saudi Arabia, Mr Obama will hold talks with King Abdullah in Riyadh. As well as regional issues, Mr Obama said he would raise the issue of oil prices with the Saudi ruler.

Ahead of the visit, al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia issued an internet statement vowing to target President Obama’s convoy in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner reports.

On Thursday, Mr Obama is to deliver a speech at Cairo University which he hopes will set a new tone in US-Arab relations.

After Cairo, Mr Obama will travel on to Europe for D-Day commemorations.

The tour itinerary does not include Israel but shortly before departing for Saudi Arabia, Mr Obama had a meeting with Israel’s defence minister, Ehud Barak, in Washington.

The president is reported to have used the meeting to reiterate that the US intends to be tough with Israel on the question of settlement building in the West Bank.

Israel is resisting calls to freeze building activity in all settlements, but Palestinian leaders have said there can be no progress towards peace without a halt to such construction.

Speaking to the BBC ahead of his visit, Mr Obama said he believed the US was “going to be able to get serious negotiations back on track” between Israel and the Palestinians.

He said his visit offered the US and the Islamic world the chance “to listen to each other a little bit more”.
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April 20, 2009

Not Quite an American Sweep at the Rolex FEI World Cup Finals

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by Nancy Jaffer/For The Star-Ledger
Monday April 20, 2009, 12:39 AM

Rolex FEI World Cup Finals

Rolex FEI World Cup Finals

LAS VEGAS — The dream of an American sweep at the last Rolex FEI World Cup Finals to be held in the U.S. for years fell short of reality Sunday, as even two perfect rounds over the fences couldn’t enable McLain Ward to take the international indoor show jumping title.

Ward, the Olympic double gold medalist from New York, was not quite as fast as Germany’s Meredith Michaels Beerbaum in the first leg of the competition at the Thomas & Mack Center on Thursday night, and that proved to be the difference that gave her a third World Cup title.

Like Ward, who rode Sapphire, Beerbaum and her 16-year-old equine partner, Shutterfly, were penalty-free in the two-round power jumping finale before a vocal crowd of 7,497. Beerbaum retained the two-penalty lead over Ward that she carried into the class, but the world’s number-one ranked rider called her triumph “the hardest win I’ve ever had.”

Ward had worked on a plan since last year to be the first American show jumper since 1987 to earn the title. It could have been quite a coup if he emulated the achievement of his countryman, Steffen Peters, who took the Dressage World Cup honors Saturday night.

“I certainly would have liked to have won, but I’m proud of what my team, my horse and myself did,” said Ward. “We did the best we could, and 99 percent of the time, we would have won.”

The only other American to finish in the ribbons was Ward’s 2004 and 2008 Olympic teammate, Beezie Madden, 12th on an up-and-coming mount, Danny Boy. Third place went to the Netherlands’ Albert Zoer on Oki Doki, who stalked the leaders throughout the competition.

Since 2003, the Cup finals had been held every other year in Las Vegas, but because of the economy, the organizer withdrew bids for 2011 and 2013. It was announced after the show, however, that a bid will be put in for 2014.
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April 16, 2009

Idea of quick GM bankruptcy filing meets with skepticism

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By Sharon Silke Carty, USA TODAY

DETROIT — General Motors (GM) may be inching toward bankruptcy court, but the theory that GM could get through the process quickly faces increasing skepticism.

On Friday, Fritz Henderson said he came into his new position as GM’s CEO three weeks ago believing a bankruptcy filing was more probable than not.

“I feel the same way today,” he says. Henderson said GM is working on two scenarios: one that involves bankruptcy and one that doesn’t. The plan that does not includes looking at each GM brand to see if it’s needed. USA TODAY reported Thursday that dropping Pontiac and GMC was being looked at, along with Hummer, Saab and Saturn, which are already on the block.

GM has resisted filing for bankruptcy court protection, saying the process would be messy and long and would scare away customers. But some in the government have argued that GM could enter a “prepackaged” bankruptcy that could take a few weeks and result in a healthier company.

Not so, says Doug Bernstein, an attorney who heads Plunkett Cooney’s banking, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice. He looked at recent prepackaged bankruptcies and saw that none took less than six months.

That’s because bankruptcy law allows every interested party to be heard by a judge, which can take weeks, months or years. Auto supplier Delphi filed in October 2005. It is still in bankruptcy court, and more than 16,000 documents have been filed.

“The process of bankruptcy cannot be rushed,” Bernstein said.

GM has received $13.4 billion in federal loans, and President Obama said it must offer a more aggressive restructuring plan by June 1 to get more aid. Henderson says GM will be prepared to file for bankruptcy if it can’t reach its goals in other ways.

Talks with bondholders are going slowly. Henderson said the company is having talks but nothing he would classify as “intense negotiations.” GM is looking to cut two-thirds of its debt by swapping bonds for GM shares. Bondholders have resisted, saying GM’s plans won’t make it profitable any time soon.

Talks with the United Auto Workers are also going more slowly than expected because the UAW also is negotiating with Chrysler. The unions and bondholders are watching to see what the other will give up and to get a better idea of what the revamped GM would look like.
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April 14, 2009

The Concept of Fertility Treatment

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The Concept of Fertility Treatment

The term fertility treatment suggests a treatment to improve the fertility or egg production in women who would like to bring a new child into the world. This term originated from a condition known as infertility, where, a man and woman who are in a loving relationship are unable to reproduce naturally. However, this is the scientific aspect; the social implications of infertility are very drastic and tend to cause major problems within a relationship. Infertility often creates high levels of stress within relationships. The inability of the female in the relationship to conceive or give birth to a healthy child, more often than not creates very stressful conditions for both partners. This results in an adverse change in behaviour in both partners and also creates great upheaval in both personal and working life of both parties.

The Situation at Present

Infertility is no longer a new issue for couples who are planning to start a family; however the progress in the field of fertility treatment has been rather sporadic and slow even by the modern standards of advanced health
treatments. The advances or lack of, are not unrelated to the ever increasing cases of infertility among people today. We are just unable to gather enough information to help us calculate the precise situation; this is because of the huge amount of cases of infertility which are never reported. However, the amount of cases of infertility in people today appears to be on the increase. Major lifestyle changes make people more susceptible to being plagued by infertility: quite often this illness, and it is an illness, is self-inflicted. The foods which many couples eat are just one problem; they do not eat enough nutritional content which is required for healthy living. Our bodies are under enormous threat from a great deal of outside influences, pollution throughout the world is on the increase, habit forming problems such as alcohol consumption and drugs, also work related stress, all of which contribute to the causes of infertility and other life changing illness.

Infertility from a Medical Point of View.

Infertility can affect either or both parties in any relationship. The treatments required for infertility, are gender specific and will vary with each patient’s case history. There are a number of tests which can be carried out, such as hysterosalpingogram or (HSG) which is an important basic test for infertility, or postcoital test (PC test) which is also known as (sims) and must be carried out within one to two days of ovulation, each of which will help to give clear analysis of the patients illness.

After the tests have been completed, the treatment for infertility will consider any and all cures, any of these can entail a number of different procedures which will depend on the requirements of the patient and the analysis gained from the tests. Drugs such as Clomid which is used to induce ovulation and is usually the first choice of any doctor in the treatment of infertility, it will also usually be suggested to the male partner to use cold packs to help cool the testicles. These are just a few basic examples, however, only a professional infertility expert can suggest exact fertility cures.

Exercise and other complimentary treatments

Apart from the use of medical fertility treatments there are also other things which will be suggested to compliment the ongoing treatment. These complimentary suggestions will be things such as, daily nutrition intake, maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Stress is a major contributing factor to a lot of illness not least infertility, therefore stress must be dealt with immediately.

The Broader Outlook

Infertility is quite an emotional experience for all concerned and deserves to be closely scrutinised by everyone concerned with the subject. Many people are afraid to admit to be suffering from infertility, which is a real shame as there is treatment and support available from many outlets. Having to experience infertility treatment is quite a difficult exercise and entails quite a stressful and emotional time for both partners; the process can be made more difficult by people’s ignorance of the facts, and the lack of medical research.
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James McLean Bowie is an author and book dealer who resides in East yorkshire England. He owns a number of web sites which offer articles and resources to writers, collectors and the hobbyist. Two of these sitres are http://jamesbowiebooks.com and http://bowiebooks.com .

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