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Friday, May 3, 2013
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Demographics
Between the 5th and 10th of April 2013 1,076 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionniare. 53.2% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.7% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 11.8% aged sixty or older.
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Research results
Read more on: ebook,goo researchQ1: Have you ever purchased an electronic book? (Sample size=1,076)
Yes (to SQ) 16.1% No 83.9% When asked for what purposes they had bought the books, 88.4% said for pleasure (hobby-related or just for the pleasure of reading), 22.5% said for study purposed, and 13.9% for work.
When asked on what devices they had purchased, 44.5% has used a PC-type computer, 27.2% an Android smartphone, 23.7% an iPhone, 17.5% an iPad, 10.4% a dedicated electronic book reader, and 9.2% an Android tablet.
When asked where they had purchased from, 32.9% said the Amazon Kindle Store, 23.7% iBook Store, 13.9% Rakuten Kobo, Electronic Book Store Papyless 13.3%, and so on.
Q1SQ: Which sites are easy to use? (Sample size=173, multiple answer)
Amazon Kindle Store 28.9% iBook Store 20.8% Electronic Book Store Papyless 11.0% Rakuten Kobo 9.2% honto Electronic Book Store 6.9% Yahoo! Book Store 5.2% Book Live 4.6% Book Web 2.9% Fujisan 1.2% OCNeBooks 0.6% Other 19.7% Q2: Do you know there are sites where you can download copyright-free electronic books for free? (Sample size=1,076)
Yes, and have used them (to SQ) 10.0% Yes, but haven?t used them 16.4% No 73.5% Q2SQ: Which of the following free book sites have you used? (Sample size=108, multiple answer)
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Jurors hear voicemail saying Jackson was sick
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Five days before Michael Jackson died, his manager called the singer's doctor, told him Jackson was sick, and implored him to have blood tests done, according to a voicemail played Thursday in court.
The message left by Frank DeLeo was retrieved by police from the cellphone of Dr. Conrad Murray and played during the trial of a negligence lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother against concert promoter AEG Live.
"I'm sure you're aware he had an episode last night," the message said. "He's sick ... We gotta see what he's doing."
Plaintiff's lawyer Brian Panish acknowledged outside court that the episode occurred on the day Jackson was told by Kenny Ortega, the director of his "This is It" concert, to go home from a rehearsal because he was pale and shivering.
Panish suggested that if DeLeo was aware of the incident, so were AEG executives.
The lawsuit claims AEG didn't properly investigate Murray, who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter after prosecutors said he gave Jackson a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol.
Jurors were not given any further details on the episode.
Katherine Jackson and her daughter Rebbie sat in a front row of the courtroom during testimony.
AEG denies it hired Murray, and it is likely to blame Jackson for insisting on having Murray as his doctor because of his dependence on propofol, which Jackson used to sleep.
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Paula Broadwell looks to faith to rebuild after Petraeus affair
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Paula Broadwell said she is focusing on her faith and family as she rebuilds her life after revelations of her extramarital affair with former CIA Director David Petraeus forced his resignation and thrust her into the center of a media firestorm.
"I grew up in a strong faith-based family," she told News 14 Carolina after attending a YMCA prayer breakfast in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she lives.
"I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward," she said.
Broadwell's relationship with the retired U.S. Army general, who was once considered to be a potential contender for the White House, came to light last year after anonymous emails she sent to a Tampa socialite who knew Petraeus prompted an FBI investigation.
The sex scandal involving the married four-star general and his biographer, an U.S. Army Reserve intelligence officer who was also married, was a shocking downfall for a lauded military man credited with helping to pull Iraq from the brink of all-out civil war while commander there.
Broadwell said she was seeking meaningful work, not publicity, in the aftermath of the scandal, which she did not discuss in the television interview.
"I've been involved in a number of wounded warrior organizations and veteran support initiatives in our community," she said.
"The mission today ... was to speak about redemption and slowing down in life and finding purpose," she said. "It really touched my heart, I've made some mistakes in the past, but I'm trying to look forward with my family."
The City University of New York announced last month that Petraeus will join the school as a visiting professor starting in August.
(Reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Scott Malone and Maureen Bavdek)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/paula-broadwell-looks-faith-rebuild-petraeus-affair-134925168.html
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Ireland publishes bill on life-saving abortions
DUBLIN (AP) ? Ireland's government has published a long-awaited bill explaining the law on when life-saving abortions can be performed in a country that officially bans the practice.
The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill is dividing the government of Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Some Catholic conservatives within Kenny's party have vowed to reject the bill because it authorizes hospitals to perform abortions on suicidal women, so long as three doctors certify the suicide threat as credible.
Ireland's constitution bans abortion. But the Supreme Court in 1992 ruled that terminations must be legal in cases required to save the life of the woman. The court specified credible suicide threats as one condition.
Wednesday's bill would back that court judgment. It faces weeks of debate and likely amendment. Kenny wants it passed by July.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ireland-publishes-bill-life-saving-abortions-064112720.html
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Fed likely to stick with low-rate stance this week
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A combination of scant inflation and still-modest U.S. economic growth will likely lead the Federal Reserve this week to maintain its drive to keep borrowing costs at record lows indefinitely.
The Fed has said it plans to keep its key short-term interest rate near zero at least until the unemployment rate dips below 6.5 percent from its current 7.6 percent.
It's also been buying $85 billion a month in Treasurys and mortgage bonds to try to keep long-term borrowing rates down. The goal has been to energize the economy through more consumer and corporate borrowing.
In recent months, many economists had suggested that the Fed might scale back its bond purchases in the second half of 2013 if job growth accelerated.
But the jobs report for March was surprisingly weak. And inflation has been running below the Fed's target rate, allowing it to keep stimulating the economy without igniting price increases.
"I am not looking for any major action from this meeting," says David Jones, an economist at DMJ Advisors.
The Fed's interest rate-setting committee will begin a two-day meeting Tuesday and will issue a policy statement once its meeting ends Wednesday afternoon.
The minutes of the Fed's last meeting in March suggested that some policymakers favored slowing and eventually ending its bond buying ? as long as the economy and the job market kept improving. Some feared that keeping rates too low for too long could escalate inflation, fuel speculative asset bubbles or unsettle markets once the Fed has to start raising rates or unloading its record $3 trillion investment portfolio.
Early this month, though, the government said U.S. employers added only 88,000 jobs in March, far below the 220,000 average in the previous four months. Last week, it said the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the January-March quarter ? a decent growth rate but one that's expected to weaken in coming months because of federal spending cuts and higher Social Security taxes.
At the same time, consumer inflation as measured by the gauge the Fed most closely monitors remains well below its 2 percent target. That gauge rose just 1 percent in the 12 months that ended in March.
Analysts now think the Fed will keep the Fed's easy-credit policies unchanged, possibly for the rest of the year.
"The government's fiscal austerity is kicking in and hitting the economy hard," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "I am not looking for any change in Fed policy at this meeting, not with this weak growth and low inflation."
After years of debate, the Fed in January 2012 followed the lead of many other central banks around the world in establishing an inflation target of 2 percent. The Fed's goal is to keep price changes from hurting the economy.
This could occur if inflation raged out of control or if the opposite problem ? deflation ? emerged. Deflation is a prolonged drop in wages, prices and the value of assets like stocks and houses.
The United States last suffered serious deflation during the Great Depression of the 1930s. But Fed policymakers think the risks of deflation can rise as inflation dips below 2 percent. They want to avoid following the path of Japan, which has struggled with weak growth and deflation for more than two decades.
Economists don't think the latest economic data will lead the Fed to step up the size of its bond purchases. But they say the figures should embolden the majority of officials who back Chairman Ben Bernanke's commitment to keep borrowing rates down until the economy shows sustained improvement ? as long as inflation stays low.
"The Fed can't wink, scratch its nose, wiggle its ears or do anything that would signal they are about to change policy from what they are doing now," says Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass. "That would be totally premature."
Bethune says the Fed needs to be especially cautious in signaling any policy shift because the U.S. economy has been serving as a global engine of growth. Many European countries are still struggling to escape a recession that followed the region's debt crisis.
"Anything the Fed did that could disrupt things or create uncertainty could tip the whole global economy back into recession," Bethune says.
Few expect the central bank to start raising short-term rates before late 2015 or early 2016. And many economists think the Fed will keep buying $85 billion in bonds each month for the rest of this year, before starting to curtail its purchases in early 2014.
Still, some analysts say that if the economy emerges from a slowdown caused in part by the government cuts and starts accelerating, the Fed might taper its bond purchases by fall.
Whenever the Fed does decide to signal a potential pullback of its aggressive credit easing, after a long period of record-low rates, analysts say the shift could jolt investors.
"No one can predict how much financial market instability we are likely to get when the Fed finally begins pulling back," Jones says.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fed-likely-stick-low-rate-stance-week-120053090.html
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Sen. Kelly Ayotte becomes focus of gun-control groups after voting against background checks (Washington Post)
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