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Jessica Alba took to her MySpace blog today to defend telling a TMZ reporter to "Be Sweden … Be neutral" about her feud with Bill O'Reilly. (She called him an "asshole.") TMZ and Big Bill decided to rip on Jessica for not saying Switzerland until she pulled a little Wikipedia action on their asses:
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Jay_eh here. I wanted to share with everyone in the ibeatyou and MySpace communities my experiences at the inauguration last week, so I put together a little video.
Before I get to the video, I want to clear some things up that have been bothering me lately. I find it depressing that in the midst of perhaps the most salient time in our country's history, individuals are taking it upon themselves to encourage negativity and stupidity. Last week, Mr. Bill O'Reilly and some really classy sites (i.e.TMZ) insinuated I was dumb by claiming Sweden was a neutral country. I appreciate the fact that he is a news anchor and that gossip sites are inundated with intelligent reporting, but seriously people…it's so sad to me that you think the only neutral country during WWII was Switzerland. Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_during_World_War_II if you want to see what I was referring to. I appreciate the name calling and the accurate reporting. Keep it up!!
Now on to more important things…like our new President.
TMZ has since apologized, and for the record, I'd like to point I never called Jessica Alba dumb. Everyone here knows I'm a bastion of journalistic research when I'm not making shit up. However, I will call Jessica Alba dumb now for referring to herself as "Jay_eh." 4 Realz? That's hella lame. Hella lame.


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I see this problem pretty frequent while google. Rendering my xps15z pretty useless as a long to be in linux.
Boot from 8GB PNY usb thumb drive. use unetbootin. Have tried persistent and non persistent. have changed syslinux to point at casper, and found solution suggestions telling to extract casper from iso. did but then realized casper is already on usb. have also tried with and without "live-media-path"
below is the way im currently configured.
Please help!!label unetbootindefault
menu label Default
kernel /casper/vmlinuz
append initrd=casper/initrd.gz file=/cdrom/preseed/custom.seed boot=casper live-media-path=casper text splash vga=791--
EDIT:: I was able to get BT5 R1 to boot on the 15z by connecting the boot USB via the USB/eSATA Port and NOT one of the two usb3.0 ports..
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CLEARWATER, Fla. – Saint Leo men's swimming senior Tim Olson closed out his Sunshine State Conference career on a high note, claiming a new conference record in the 100-Yard Freestyle event on Saturday afternoon at the Long Center in Clearwater, Fla.
The Lions finished the SSC Championships in fourth place with a total of 445 points. Nova Southeastern claimed the top spot with 908 points, followed by Florida Southern in second with 827. Tampa took third, pulling in 758 points over the course of the four day event. Saint Leo bested Rollins, who finished fifth, by 162 points, with Florida Tech claiming the final spot 80 points behind the Tars with 203.
Olson earned notable finishes throughout the four day event, but none as memorable as his record-setting swim in the 100-Free on the final day of competition. The Land O'Lakes, Fla. native touched with a time of 44.92, good for an NCAA "B" standard. The win was the second of the week for Olson, as he also took home a top finish on day two, touching with a "B" cut time of 20.65 in the 50-Yard Freestyle.
The final day of competition was a busy one for the Lions. Michael Cozzi secured a NCAA "B" time of 16:00.43 in the 1650-Yard Freestyle, good for sixth on the day. Kieran Advena (18"05.82), Sean Morris (18:28.55), and Charles Arliss (1950.98), took 12th, 13th, and 14th, respecvtively.
In the 200-Breaststroke, Rhet Rheinlander pulled in a time of 1:54.60, good for ninth. Teammates Troy Beck (1:59.52), Advena (2:13.48), Morris (2:17.57), Arliss (2:18.50), and Luigi Zenere (2:20.99) took 12th through 16th, respectively in the finals.
Behind Olson in the 100-Free, Gabe Keown secured a sixth-place finish with a NCAA "B" time of 45.77. A total of six swimmers, including Keown, completed the 100-Free with times faster than the old conference record of 45.90, with Olson blowing the previous mark out of the water with his big finish.
In the 200-Yard Backstroke, Derek Maddigan and Carl Roycroft finished back-to-back. Maddigan's seventh-place time of 2:07.90 was good for "B" standards, with Roycroft touching with a time of 2:08.87 in eighth. Michael Marino rounded out the Lions participation in the 200-Breaststroke with a 14th place finish, touching the wall at 2:14.53.
Joe Simpson earned an 11th place touch in the 200-Yard Butterfly, finishing the event in 1:59.24, concluding the Lions' individual swims for the afternoon.
The Championships concluded with the 400-Yard Freestyle Relay, which saw two Lions' squads partake. In the A Final, the Lions' foursome of Michael Cozzi, Roycroft, Beck, and Marino earned a fifth-place finish with a time of 3:13.41. Advena, Arliss, Morris, and Zenere brought in a 13th place time of 3:36.92 to close out the evening.
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I would like to offer my 2cents as someone, who for the past 8 years has "dirtbagged" all over the east coast, and who is now in utah, getting **** together to move to the pacific northwest. I voluntarily took a major paycut in Rhode Island to follow a dream of working in the wilderness, having a ton of free time to search for waves and mountains. That dream came true last February when I started a job as a Wilderness Field Instructor, working Bi Weekly, raking in just enough cash to get a full tank of gas and travel to southern california, canyonlands, and northern utah chasing snowstorms, flash floods, and sometimes even waves.
Dreams never end. Yesterday I voluntarily took a layoff at my dream job. Why? because I want to see more. I want to make it possible for others to have a chance at the lifestyle I have been living for the past year, here in the high desert. I gave up my spot at a thriving company so they could offer a chance to someone else. I am ready to follow my next dream of exploring remote coastlines in the northwest of our country, and hopefully further north.
PJB don't sell yourself short if its taking away from dreams. Money and the Normal life will always be an issue. I have had major breakdowns thinking I'm going backwards in life, making less money with every job I take, building a resume that looks like an uneducated dirtbag took a dump in his van and put it on paper. And in the end, I think, well I have way more stories and have seen way more then a lot of my old friends with their 9-5 jobs and hefty mortgages.
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I found an old photo of what was called a "martial arts facility" in Balochistan that had a pair of clubs shaped like this. They claimed to teach pehlwani wrestling and "Chinese Boxing". I wish I could find that photo today, but I know it was from Balochistan, because I had an art history professor from that area of what is now Pakistan. The unsual shap makes for some awesome grip work when doing fancy club swinging while holding only the knob. Additionally, cherry is much less dense than some other hardwoods, so it has a large mass, relative to the actual weight, altering the rate of your swing period.
Cherry also darkens with age, becuase it is color sensitive to UV rays. Paul Wolkowinski uses my clubs in the Product Video, which are about 4 years old. They have definitely achieved a much darker red and obvious grain with age.
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After stints in minor-league wrestling promotions, Moody joined the WWE in 1990 and quickly became associated with The Undertaker, a character who claimed he was undead and impervious to pain.
In the WWE plotline, Paul Bearer later managed Undertaker's on-screen half brother Kane.
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Last year's winners included Accessible Arts and Media, an arts charity based in York, which works with disabled adults and young people.
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ruzveh - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkWhats Super Clear LCD? Why not AMOLED :D Reply
teiglin - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - linkBiggest non-TV OLED display I've seen is the GTab 7.7/Excite 7.7 (at a shocking 7.7"), although I admit to some curiosity as to why nobody is making tablet- or laptop-sized OLED displays. I guess the answer is cost? Those 7.7" AMOLED tablets were on the crazy expensive side when they were introduced. Reply
Mumrik - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkI don't get why we aren't seeing some high end priced OLED monitors yet. They're rolling out the 50-55" OLED TVs as flagship products, so surely they could do the same in the PC space with 27-30" products at high prices?
As for the tablet space, I suppose it might be a price issue. Reply
Dentons - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - link"Premium feel of metal"??? Really Anand, enough of this "if it's not metal, it's crap" stuff.
They're mobile devices that include radios. Plastic is often a better material. It's generally lighter and unarguably better at allowing the propagation of radio frequencies. Reply
nerd1 - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkToo much apple kool-aid... Reply
ben.avellone - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkBah, I'd much rather have a metal device vs plastic. I agree with Anand on that one ;) Reply
Impulses - Friday, September 06, 2013 - linkMetal on a 10" tablet just seems like a lot of unnecessary weight... There's plastic and then there's plastic tho. Samsung's typical glossy plastic just feels cheap and even looks cheap (more scratch/smudge prone etc).
There's tons of ways to make some sorta plastic material feel and look far better than Samsung's devices typically do... Look at the One X or any of Nokia's recent phones. Hell, I'd even take something like the original Transformer's textured plastic back over most of Samsung's backs (tho they've done something similar at times, Galaxy Nexus and some carrier specific SGS2 had similar backs IIRC).
Even if you're using glossy plastic for whatever reason, there's always room for improvement... The bonded glossy plastic edge of the Moto X comes to mind, the transition from display to edge feels FAR smoother than on any other phone (and the kevlar or whatever back feels sturdy even if it's not any tougher in the end). Reply
NSAfreezone - Sunday, September 08, 2013 - linkHo yeah like apple versus Finland re water damage from condensation from ali casing result not fit for purpose. Plastic absorbs/deforms/deflects impacts where as metal don't which then transmits impact to internals or screens.
Test one. drop say a SG3 on the floor backs comes off battery drops out few marks on case.
Test two try same thing with a sour apple phone(if you have the balls?) result marks and dents all over and crying like a baby that can't find it's dummy when they say it's x amount for screen but you have Y model so Z amount so i'd rather have a plastic case than a £300 odd repair bill for screen etc. So look and learn and most people will have them in a case/cover anyway so never see the main casing like i had to have a white Note 2 as grey out and couldn't get deal in store i got but with black leather flip cover looks good. so be your self and not a sheep following the flock Baaaaaa.
Kevlar is stronger if real kevlar lighter than glassfibre but it's in the lay up/make up of how it's done is what makes it work.
Also the specs of the plastic varies as sumsung might be shiney but it cleans well and don't scratch alot and Aluminium scratches badly as it's anodised so once you have had a kinky moment from being over come by your "apple" brainwash and worn through it you are down to bare ali and does corrode your sweaty hands contain acids in your sweat which pits aluminium but not plastic(plastic +3 so far or more!)
Take a look at a 6 month old iphone then a year old G3 my friends got a G3 over year old now and that gets hammered all day in his shop calls/watching movies etc and his kid plays onit and still looks good his wifes a Sheep (i need an ipad)baaa and follows the flock i mean apple and hers looks like it lost a fight with an earth mover and thats 7 months old. Reply
CZroe - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkYou are delusional. As an Android fan who plans to get a Galaxy Note 3 next, even I know that a Galaxy S 3 fares far worse in drop tests than an iPhone 5. It's been demonstrated quite dramatically.
What manufacturers need to do is STOP making the entire front out of glass and only make the digitizer area glass. The bezel should be plastic/rubber that isolated the digitizer glass. Reply
SunLord - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkDoesn't Apple have a patent on metal chassis and plastic cutouts for antennas? Reply
CZroe - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkThey have patents on radio-neutral ceramic or something but I would think that an RF window would be too obvious to patent. Reply
hikka - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkwhat? do you mean you don't enjoy premium feeling aluminium cans when every time when you drink cola Reply
TheDistantSea - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkPlease read your comment again and try to find anything in it that has to do with the FEEL of the material. Reply
ESC2000 - Friday, September 06, 2013 - linkI have to agree. I'm tired of the little pissy jabs at any company that is not Apple on this site as well as others. I was really excited to go online and read about Samsung's new products, but the Engadget reporting was filled with pissy comments about plastic v metal, how every touchwiz feature is a gimmick, how Samsung is plagued with "build quality problems" (by that they don't mean the products are more likely to break or deteriorate - instead they mean it is not made out of metal), etc. Don't get me wrong: I agree to some extent with the criticisms. I don't like the type of plastic Samsung uses, and I definitely don't like faux leather and stitching. Some of the new software features are gimmicky.
But the articles don't make these points in a reasonable way that recognizes that things aren't black and white. They make then in a pissy way and they perseverate on them as if we've never heard the criticism that Samsung should use metal instead of plastic.
I know I'm being rant-y. I swear I'm not an anti apple fanatic. I can recognize its pros. I just get tired of reading articles that focus on non-apple products' cons but rarely do the same for apple products. Observing this turns me into a fanboy for all noon apple companies and OSes. Reply
Krysto - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkBecause if you use it for drawing, AMOLED is probably going to suck for your colors. Also, AMOLED is more expensive, and they're already adding to the price by including the S-pen and the digitizer. Reply
JlHADJOE - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkPretty sure AMOLED can be calibrated just like any other display tech. More often than not, it's the lack of calibration that causes bad colors, not the type of the display. Reply
nerd1 - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkA bunch of professional displays are now made in OLED. Reply
plewis00 - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkAMOLED colours shift over time which is why older AMOLED displays have more of a blue tinge (usually) - it's due to the way the coloured subpixels age. Then you have sunlight legibility and burn-in issues. For a panel of this size you're better off with a good LCD like here, I'm sure if it were viable Samsung would have considered or been using it for this product.
Anyway, it's not like a good LCD is hard to come by, look at HTC's and Apple's products. Reply
Solandri - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkYeah, AMOLED is actually better for color work because it has a wider gamut than anything by 3-LED (RGB) LCDs. Its problem on phones and tablets is calibration - Google won't add color calibration to Android even though the graphics hardware supports LUTs.
The other color problem with AMOLED is that the screen's color shifts more over time than LCD, and they (can) degrade unevenly. The different color OLED subpixels degrade faster than LED backlights, and they degrade at different rates depending on use. Reply
Krysto - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkAMOLED is more expensive at the same resolution.
I'm more upset they haven't announced the 12.2" version. Also, if Note 3 has 32GB as the minimum storage, why not the Note 10.1, too? Come on, Samsung! That's not cool at all. Reply
Roland00Address - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkAny word on pricing?
On your pipeline homepage it states this article is a featured review in the upper corner of the image. I am assuming this is a mistake? Reply
Krysto - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkI want the rumored 12.2" version (hopefully with Samsung's own ARMv8 chip). Reply
Disorganise - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - link"The 2014 Galaxy Note 10.1 will ship in Q3 with Android 4.3" - I assume you mean Q3 this year given it's Android 4.3? So that means now, or at least within 3 weeks? Reply
mmarafie - Friday, September 06, 2013 - linkWas Anand sleeping when he wrote this? No excitement at all about one of the best if not the best tablet that will be released this year!
Oh wait sorry, it's not an Apple product. Anand must be saving all his energy and glowing talk for the iPad 5 next month... Reply
nicsta - Saturday, September 07, 2013 - linkDon't blame Anand, it is a boring product from a boring company. Reply
IUU - Sunday, September 08, 2013 - linklol!
It is not a dangerous company though!
Other companies may dress their products in gold; they may also sell themselves as exciting. But they will like to experiment on you like a new guinea pig and the only time they won't offer you subpar equipment, is when they have hidden sinister plans to promote.
You may dress a slave like a king, but he will never become a ruler.Digital technology is rapidly becoming more important to our lives than its most fanatic users would like to admit. Using it in obscene ways to cancel long standing human rights and civil liberties is sth to condemn, not to applaude as if being drunk. Reply
JDG1980 - Friday, September 06, 2013 - linkThis would be perfect for graphic artists, if only the software was available. Seems like it's about time for Adobe to start work on a full-featured version of Photoshop for Android. Reply
NSAfreezone - Sunday, September 08, 2013 - linkRoot it and you can please your self as seen a note 2 rooted and wow fast and nice screen takes all ss bloatware out Reply
Krysto - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkI wonder if Adobe is not already planning their own such tablet, in an effort to become a "hardware company", too. We live in a crazy world, so it could happen. Reply
Baubo - Monday, September 09, 2013 - linkWhy isn't the snapdragon 800 in all 3 models?! Reply


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More than 150 Southwestern students spent April 6 volunteering in the community as part of The Big Event, an annual event designed to help connect students and the community. Volunteer locations included Forbes Middle School, Getsemani Community Center, the Palace Theater and the Wesleyan senior citizen community. (Photos by Erica Grant and Ellen Davis)


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MOTORISTS are being warned not to leave valuables in unattended cars after figures showing 60 thefts from vehicles in Taunton since the start of the year.
Items such as laptops, wallets and mobile phones have been taken in attacks around the town, with Priorswood, the Bindon Road area and Firepool all being hit.
Insp Bob Muckett said: "It's very sporadic and we're doing all we can to identify the culprits with forensic recovery, proactive patrols and capture cars.
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NVIDIA FY 2015 Q2 Financial Resultsby Brett Howse on 8/10/2014 11:10 PM EST
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Stephen Barrett - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linkI wonder why tegea is so popular with automotive Reply
A5 - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linkI think the Tegra chips are cheaper than similarly-powered competition, and power consumption isn't really a concern when you're connected to a giant alternator.
They also got a pretty early design win with Audi, which may make it easier to get in with other companies. If nothing else, getting in the other VW brands would be a big slice of the market for those systems. Reply
jjj - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkThey have the Golf and the soon to be released Passat.
As for why they got the wins ,they got into it early and JHH likes cars. Plus they got a big interest in using GPUs into robots,including self-driving cars, could become a huge segment for them. Others failed to notice the segment soon enough or have good enough products so they seem to have a bit of a head-start. Reply
Dribble - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkI guess software- an arm soc is required but getting it plugged into all the cars systems, and running all the correct software is probably the hardest part. Nvidia are strong when it comes to writing drivers and providing support. Reply
Hrel - Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - linkEverything A5 said is right, but to add to it. Tegra is a lot better at rendering graphics quickly than comparable solutions, and pretty much everything in a car's console is graphics based, not text based, because it needs to be easy to read and touch. So Nvidia has found a really strong niche application for their hardware. Hell, Tesla is using it too! Reply
twotwotwo - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - linkYou know, last round almost no one but Qualcomm (and, of course, Apple) got into highish-end phones in the US, because no one else had great LTE basebands and maybe because Krait/Adreno were pretty good and pretty power-efficient. (And even Apple's using a Qualcomm baseband.)
And US phone wins may have had a halo effect; if you've done one Snapdragon integration and made one big contract with Qualcomm, the existing integration and relationship might make it easier to go with them for something else.
Krait's probably no longer a factor because it sounds like the first 64-bit non-Apple ARMs will all be Cortex-A5x implementations. I wonder if basebands will quit working against everyone but Qualcomm, either because the Icera stuff works out for NVidia or because of acceptable licensed basebands or whatever. And, if US phones don't get more diverse, I wonder if NVidia or Samsung's chip division or Intel manage to get profitable-enough wins in tablets, non-US phones, mobile gaming, whatever to keep everyone investing. Reply
jjj - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkWhen talking Tegra you got to remember that last year was very poor and they just launched the Shield Tab. Not sure if they accounted for any Shield Tab revenue in Q2 but the thing has high ASP. You got the device at 300$ and costly accessories so ASP will be some 330-350$. If they ship 200k tabs ,that's up to 70 extra millions At the same time a TK1 got to be some 25-30$ so the tab compensates for quite a bit of chip volume. Ofc hard to say how many tabs they will manage to sell,they do seem to be expanding to other markets fast (shipping in a few days in the UK) so 200k units in a quarter seems doable if they expand to enough markets.Could be even higher volume and then coupled with a few more wins and new GPUs, Q3 could end up quite a bit better than 1.2B. Reply
MartinT - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkFascinating to see that more than half of their profits are the result of the Intel licencing agreement, while all their 'real' products merely eek out another 6x million on revenues of 1+ billion. Reply
jjj - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkThat's not accurate.
Operating income before interest and other was 163 million and income before tax was 154.6.
Then again ,at least they make money unlike AMD that usually just breaks even on an operating level on GPUs.
They also invest plenty in R&D , 337 millions in Q2, over 25% of revenue in R&D is quite a lot
And Tegra is likely to be losing plenty of money for now on low volume and lower margins.
How about Intel's mobile division 1.2B loss on 51 million of revenue in Q2. Reply
MartinT - Monday, August 11, 2014 - link"That's not accurate. [...] income before tax was 154.6."
That's true, thanks for the correction! Reply
TheJian - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkDon't forget tegra has been losing money since inception. T1-4 were just test runs and delay tactics until K1. All they get from the first 4 is experience and name recognition (which is good, pretty much had to be done) and a gaming platform for android. From K1 on though, desktop gpus change the game and in house cpu for xmas devices puts them on a level field with Qcom from here on out. Everything that goes with desktop gpus comes to mobile (drivers, game devs already using it in the same year, feature support same as desktops, cuda, physx, full OpenGL 4.4 etc etc) and the rest will have trouble matching all of this. Qcom has zero experience in gaming and drivers, and devs have pretty much zero experience with their gpus. NV/AMD have 20yrs of that stuff (which is why I hope AMD gets in this arm stuff soon! I'm not talking servers, they should have went mobile first), so both have a gpu advantage for quite some time. Now that K1 will be in nexus 9 and likely other gaming oriented devices, I think they'll quit losing money and start finally adding to the bottom line with tegra over the next few quarters after it ramps.
So their gpus are making more than you think, it's just that tegra is stealing income. It's worth it though, because now GPU is taking over the modem as gaming becomes something we all want to do on mobile (90% of revenue on googleplay is games, apple's in the 80's, amazon mid 60's etc). With google now pushing games with AndroidL+AEP and trying to close the gap between desktop and mobile, we'll start to see the NV/Google partnership bloom. We saw the start of this at Google's IO event, as everything there was on K1. Others will have to adopt K1's gpu IP or lag as S805 shows already. S810 is off the shelf so that won't help either (that will hurt batter/cpu and their gpu won't catch NV either). NV will rule the tablets for gaming for at least a year or more now until we see Qcom's answer after S810 (likely well over a year away and will miss the next Nov nexus also IMHO).
Denver will be in HTC Nexus9 and qcom has no Nov answer. Next year you'll have a 20nm maxwell (for Nov nexus I mean) to contend with and as I said whatever is after S810 will be too late to make it into a Nov launch. The IN HOUSE 64bit from Qcom will probably start to ship about a year from now or a tad later, making it a few months shy of 4.5-5mo for putting it into a product, that would end up a late Dec/Jan product in retail and google won't accept that :) They want xmas sales, wisely IMHO, so launch in Nov. I'd expect a shield rev2 handheld soon or for xmas (denver if they wait to rev2 for then) as it's a no brainer and should basically just drop in to the T4 shield housing with little change. Also matches the 1440x810+4GB specs we've heard, which clearly are not the shield tablet's specs. This would be a slight bump from the old shield and massive gpu upgrade of course. Qcom said S810 is 6 months after S805, and in house 64bit 6 months or more after S810. Anandtech thinks 2nd half 2015 for devices with Qcom in house cpu, but I'll believe that when I see it. Even the change in their roadmap landed them around least 6-8 months behind NV's 64bit denver arriving in nexus in Nov. Considering it really does look like they got caught with their pants down on 64bit, I'd be pretty surprised if they can get into a Nov Nexus next year with the IN HOUSE chip. Reply
Sushisamurai - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkIs it me, or did I just lose a year by reading this article?
If we're talking about 2015, it should be forward guidance, fiscal results should be 2014 Reply
Sushisamurai - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkBut seriously, please fix your dates in this article, as you reference YoY gains from 2015 and 2014, pitting "this fiscal quarter" from 2016 and 2015...
Time for an editor anand... Reply
Black Obsidian - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkI'm not sure what your complaint is, but it sounds like you're unaware that many companies operate in a fiscal year that's ahead (sometimes by as much as a full year) of the calendar year. These results being for nVidia's Q2 2015 fiscal year is not a typo. Reply
Sushisamurai - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkOopsies. That was my honest mistake there. My bad and no offence there. I'm actually invested in Nvidia, but the news/websites I read in terms of financials and reporting "simplify" the dating terminology, so they reference the current fiscal year (Q2 2014) vs last year (Q2 2013). I had to actually look up Nvidia's investor's site to see that they report it as Q2 2015. Wtf... Reply
Brett Howse - Monday, August 11, 2014 - linkNVIDIA's fiscal year seems to always cause this kind of confusion, but the dates are correct. FY 2015 for NVIDIA began on January 27th 2014. That's why I specifically said it was for fiscal year 2015, but even so, it's easy to think it's a mistake. Reply


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Marian Gaborik:
"We have to stick together and focus on this one last game. Whatever happened last game, it happened. We don't want to look back to it. We really just want to focus on this last game. It's do-or-die, so we're going to approach it that way and everybody's going to be ready."
On the fact that it's the Devils:
"Yeah, whoever it is. Obviously everybody wants to play good against us and knock us out of the playoff picture. That's understandable. But we have to focus on ourselves, focus on our game, and make sure we play like we've played most of this season — with a lot of energy, a lot of grind, and that's how we're going to do it tomorrow."
He did not want to talk about being benched after his horrific defensive play (or lack thereof) against Atlanta.
Brandon Prust:
"We've got to worry about ourselves now and just worry about our game and make sure we get two points. That's all we can do now."
"We're putting (Thursday) behind us. All we're thinking about is tomorrow's game, about 24 hours from now. Everything's in the past. We've got one game and we've got to do our thing."
On the Devils:
"I don't think we care who it is tomorrow, but being the Devils, there's that rivalry. I don't think it matters. Our blood should be pumping."
I asked him, and just about everybody, if he will watch the games tonight:
"Yeah, I'll probably check it out … I'll be cheering for Atlanta, that's for sure. I'm sure everybody's going to be either ticker-watching or watching the game. It's out of our control. We've got to basically worry about our two points tomorrow."
"We've got to be loose tomorrow. You know, this is it. We can't lose. So we've got to throw everything at them. We've got to stay patient at the same time. We've got to play our game, play the way that's made us successful and we'll be alright."
"(Patience against the Devils) is something we've always talked about. You can't get frustrated even if you go down. Sometimes it seems we get frustrated and impatient and try to do too much. We've got to … we might win that game 1-0; it might be in the last seconds that we score. We've got to stay with it."
Chris Drury:
"Going back to what I said a week ago. No predictions still. Keep getting stronger every day and hope to help if they need me."
On tomorrow:
"I don't think that's really even in the equation. I skated hard today and the whole goal of skating is to have a good 12-24 hours after. We've had that. So, I just want a good rest of the day and see how it feels tomorrow."
Is it beyond the realm of possibility that he plays tomorrow?
"Again, it's day to day. I don't know a better way to say it."
Brandon Dubinsky:
On having short memories, and if that can really be done:
"Absolutely. I wouldn't be as confident and upbeat as I am today if I was still thinking about last night's game, because last night I was pretty pissed off. So, yeah, last night's gone. We're ready to go tomorrow, so it's exciting."
"I will not watch the game. Obviously, I will check the scores to see what happens, but it won't be on my television."
"We've played really well in games after we haven't played our best and I expect nothing less tomorrow. We had a great day today. We had a great practice and I think the guys are together and the guys are confident and we'll be ready."
On the Devils:
"No. Obviously, games against them are always tough. But we have to approach it like Game 7. That's what it is for us. We have to win the game to get into the playoffs, so I don't care if it's them or the Vancouver Canucks or New York Islanders. We've just got to be ready to go right from the get-go and play our game for 60 minutes."
On Game 82 being a motivator:
"Yeah, I mean, obviously we've got to have that fire. We've got to come in with that urgency and that fire. The feeling after that game, I can still feel it. Obviously it was a year ago, but you don't forget the way that feels. So we've got to make sure we take care of ourselves. And we're pretty confident we're going to get help from some other teams."
On how long that feeling lingered:
"I don't know if you can get over it. Every time you miss the playoffs you miss an opportunity to play for the Stanley Cup. You look at the team we lost against (Philly) and where they ended up (Stanley Cup final). I think that our guys in here should be thinking about them as us. You know, here's an opportunity to get in tomorrow, the last game of the season. And we're pretty confident in the group of guys we have in here. By the time we win tomorrow we'll have won 44 games and beaten some of the best teams in the league pretty consistently, so hopefully we've just got to get the job done tomorrow and we can carry some of that confidence into the playoffs."
Henrik Lundqvist:
I asked how they can deal with the anxiety of the games tonight being out of their hands:
"It's going to be hard to ignore it. But I think the best way is to — actually I can only speak for myself; I think everybody's is different and some guys might watch the games, some guys might do something completely different just to save energy and think about tomorrow. Me personally, I will definitely think about the game tomorrow already tonight. It's an early game."
"I don't think I'm going to watch Carolina. I'll probably check the result, but … I'll probably stay away from hockey tonight just to re-energize and before I go to bed I'll probably think about tomorrow and what I need to do.
"I will probably check the score before I go to bed."
Can they use Game 82 from last year tomorrow?
"I don't know. I 'm going to go into the game tomorrow … I talked about it in Philly (Sunday) — just be in the moment and focus on the game and what I have to do, and not so much about consequences and other teams or what happens if we win or lose. You just have to focus on your job and to be able to do that you have to really be in the moment and break it down to, for a player, just the next shift, and for me, stop the next shot. That's it."
"Being there, you know what you can improve. You know what was good and how you approach the game. But, like I said, it comes down to how you block everything out. To be able to play your best you really need to be focused on your job and nothing else. Not what's going on around you or the consequences. So, blocking everything out, that's what I'm going to try to do.
"But going down the stretch, I think that the mind is the biggest part, how you approach games, how you think, how you make decisions. Physically everybody's good. It's just your head, your thoughts. That's what you need to be able to control."
On expecting the Devils' best:
"Yeah. Well, it's two games left for them, and every team you play now, they're going to play as hard as they can. If you're in, you obviously want to make the playoffs. If you're not you want to end the season in a good way. And for them, playing us here when we have a lot to play for, it's going to add excitement for them as well. We have to be ready. There's nothing to save for."
"We have to see this as a Game 7, playoffs. If we don't get it done tomorrow it probably will be over, so we don't room for any bad games now. We just have to go out there and do our best. We can't put too much pressure on ourselves. We just have to go out and enjoy it and see it as an exciting game and a great challenge. That's usually when you play your best."


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I'm predicting that Camtasia Relay Server is going to be a paradigm shift because it's dead easy to use, works equally well on PC's or Mac's and shifts the cost from the client to the server. Licensing is being done by how many simultaneous video render jobs it will handle at a time with the single job version starting at $7,995.00 ($4,995 for education). What really makes this scalable is that you can setup a cluster of Relay servers that will load share the rendering function. So for instance, if my IT group decides to adopt this tech (I'm crossing my fingers), they could setup perhaps 3 physical servers, each with a 3 render job at a time license, and be able to handle 9 jobs at a time. Inexpensive enough that clients could be made for faculty, staff and students!
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The Camtasia Relay presenter recorders runs on Windows XP and Vista, and Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. Camtasia Relay server runs on Windows Server 2003. The suggested retail price of Camtasia Relay starts at $7,995.00; the suggested academic price is $4,995.00 for a single server license. The presenter recorders can be installed free of charge. A 30-day trial of Camtasia Relay is available. For additional information visit: www.techsmith.com/camtasiarelay.asp
The key features are:
- Recording profiles that allow you to render your screencast to one or more video formats (camrec, flash, windows media, screencast.com, YouTube, iTunesU)
- LDAP authentication or local user list
- iTunesU does have a small limitation in that you MUST have access to the shared secret...which typically is only one per organization. SO I can't play since my IT group obviously wouldn't give it to me. However, if they decide to adopt this technology, I'm sure hoping they set it up for auto upload.
- LDAP authentication
- FTP/sFTP upload with the ability to have multiple upload locations pre-defined. I've got some of my users uploading to their public_html directory on the campus servers.
- The client is built on the fly during the server configuration, removing a huge number of configuration items and automatically loading the SSL certificate.
- Clients are FREE! The licensing is ALL at the server
- Guest recordings can be used that will send an email notification to a "valid host" user. They then decide which profile to use for that guest video.
- You can also use "Upload and Decide" later if you need to do the recording but perhaps don't have the website quite ready yet.
- Licenses can be added at any time and can be added in increments
The Client icon looks like a green podium and is dead simple to use. After choosing where the audio will come from, you literally just click "record" and click "stop" when you're done. The only gotcha I've found is that the message after you "submit" your video (the choice you get after you click "stop") leads you to believe that the video has already been uploaded to the server. NOT TRUE! I would strongly suggest logging into the web interface to confirm the upload progress. You can disconnect from your network connection and the upload will continue when you next connect. Once fully uploaded the "profile" will control what video formats the server will render your video in (multiple types per job is easy) and where to upload each piece of video.
Here I've shown how to handle the tilde "~" indicator for my public_html folder common on a lot of Linux+Apache systems.
When the render job is done and the video uploaded someplace, it will email you the link to the video. Here's where I got snagged the first time I did a setup. Wherever you upload the video to MUST be able to be gotten to from the web. Once everything is working you could lose or delete the email, you can always login via a web browser to your account and get a list of all your previous jobs and the locations where they've been uploaded. Notice that when you login you always have client download links...so install like crazy since the license isn't in the client, it's at the server! I should also point out that those "Frequently Asked Questions" quite often have links to videos. In fact I've been able to do a fast 15 minute orientation for my users and point them at the FAQs to complete their training. So far I've not been burned and my users are all reporting great successes.
My only hesitation has been the generally poor quality of the microphones commonly found for computers. I'm using a Sennheiser wireless mike rig so that my lecturers can wander around, but the problem has been in getting audience questions. I recently found an amazing mike at the VoiceCon show in San Francisco from Marshall Electronics (MXL) that even in a noisy exhibit hall, was able to do a skype test call of both me and the Mike from Marshall that was as clear as if I were using a headset. That mike isn't quite available to order yet, but it's going to look just like the MX-FR401 but instead of requiring phantom power on an XLR connector, it has a USB interface. I'm expecting a review unit any day now, so stay tuned for that review.


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CONSUMERS engaged in ''couch commerce'', shopping late at night with mobile phones and tablets, when the kids are asleep, increasingly drove sales last Christmas, a survey shows.
This meant shoppers were ''always on'', and only a finger stroke away from computers at work, iPhones on the train and tablets on the couch to access retail websites, search for the best offers, check prices and opening hours for stores.
Data collected by Google looking at online trends and behaviour over November, the peak time for online Christmas spending so as to ensure presents arrive under the tree in time, showed for the first time the majority of shopping-related online searches were conducted away from a traditional desktop computer.
''It all boils down to the uptake in mobile and the centrality of mobile phones to people's shopping decisions,'' said Google head of retail, Ross McDonald.
He said Google figures revealed 53 per cent of online shopping searches came from these handheld devices, such as iPhones, iPads and tablets, the first pre-Christmas period in Australia a majority of this online activity was done away from computers and laptops. ''People are moving across the day from a laptop or desktop at work to a mobile when they are on the go or a tablet in the evening,'' Mr McDonald said.


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Australian shares have closed slightly higher, as falls in some mining shares cancelled out gains made in the financial sector.
- Sluggish retail sales add to case for rate cut
- Building approvals up 6.4% in August
- Transurban talks tolls a day after chaos
- Billabong plunges on TPG withdrawal report
4.45pm: That's all from us here at Markets Live, we've enjoyed your company, we'll be back tomorrow from 9.30am.
Stay tuned for a full wrap of today's session.
4.43pm: Here's a look at the best and worst performers on the ASX200 today:
4.40pm: Arrium Limited has raised its iron ore export forecasts for the coming year, as it continues its campaign to fend off a takeover bid from a foreign consortium.
The steel and iron ore producer hosted investors on a site tour today, and took the opportunity to update guidance for its iron ore exports.
Arrium had previously forecast iron ore exports of about 8 million tonnes for the year to June 30, 2013, but today said that could be as high as 9 million tonnes per annum.
4.28pm: Blue chip shares were mixed today, but all the big banks finished higher:
- Rio: +0.4%
- Westpac: +1.6%
- Fortescue: -2.3%
- Woolworths: +1.2%
- Wesfarmers: flat
- Telstra: -0.3%
4.20pm: European stock index futures pointed to a higher open on expectations that US economic numbers might surprise on the upside and the European Central Bank could provide some hints about Spain's likely bailout request.
Futures for Euro STOXX 50, London's FTSE, Germany's DAX and France's CAC were 0.2 to 0.4 per cent higher.
In the US, futures for the Dow Jones and S&P500 indexes were both up 0.3 per cent.
4.16pm: Financial stocks led the way, adding 1 per cent, property trusts rose 0.7 per cent and consumer staples was up 0.5 per cent. Gold miners were down 1.2 per cent and materials shares also fell 0.8 per cent.
4.12pm: The market has closed higher, continuing its push near 14-month highs. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 added 13.8 points, or 0.3 per cent, to finish at 4452.4, while the broader All Ords rose 13.9 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 4472.7
3.55pm: The tax office says it will improve its auditing process so that businesses doing the right thing are not targeted.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) was responding to a review by the inspector-general of taxation Ali Noroozi, who looked at the way the ATO investigates businesses that don't report their taxable income.
The ATO today agreed with recommendations that it promote better record keeping and accurate reporting of income.
It also agreed to improve its risk identification processes so that compliant businesses are excluded from audits.
The ATO considers the cash economy as a major tax integrity threat, involving an estimated 1.4 million businesses.
3.42pm: Morgan Stanley reiterated its call for gold, silver and copper to outperform other metals as investor demand and central-bank buying bolsters bullion and supply constraints benefit the raw material used in wires.
"Central bank policies ensure conditions remain favourable for continued price appreciation for both gold and its cheaper proxy, silver," analysts Peter Richardson and Joel Crane wrote in a report today. The bank expects gold to average $1,683 an ounce this year, rising to $1,853 in 2013.
3.35pm: As we enter the last half hour of trade, here's what CMC Markets sales trader Ben Taylor said about the day's movements.
- The Australian market has had a run higher today after the retail spending figure came in worse than expected increasing the expectations of a Melbourne cup day interest rate cut.
- The poor Australian retail sales figure comes on the back of terrible manufacturing and service sector PMI results, weak trade data and falling expectations for inflation. Current interest rate futures are predicting a rate cut in November and I tend to agree with them believing there is a high likelihood that the RBA would err on the side of caution and cut rates in November to ensure domestic growth is supported.
- The effect of the worse than expected retail sales figure saw the Aussie dollar take a sudden dive before recovering all of its move lower. Despite today's Aussie dollar rebound I believe risk still remains to the downsize as the RBA shows an easing bias.
- Banking stocks have done the majority of the heavy lifting today as they attempt to explain to the public the disconnect between their cost of funds and the Reserve Bank's cash rate movements. Higher domestic deposits offset the risk of offshore funding and therefore the banks may not feel comfortable dropping rates by the full 25bp when international disturbances have the ability to spike their borrowing costs. Talk of upgrades to some branches and plans to develop new banking applications has excited the sector.
3.18pm: Something lighter from the small business desk:
How does a company build its brand into a household name? Three well-known companies reveal their secrets.
3.07pm: Gold is not an asset you can assess in terms of yield. Its ''dividend'' derives from something else entirely. It is a pure currency hedge. And not against just any old peso, rial or dong. Gold is the undollar, the US dollar's shadow, and on that basis it is not in a bubble at all.
The current gold bull market did not begin with the global financial crisis; it began in 2001 after the Nasdaq tech crash. Why then? Because that was the moment the US dollar became unstable enough for all and sundry to see it.
Click here for the full story.
3.00pm: The Queensland government says the Great Barrier Reef would be protected from the environmental consequences of a planned bauxite mine.
Resources firm Cape Alumina Limited has resumed planning for a bauxite mine on a wildlife preserve at Cape York.
The revival of the plans comes only a day after a study by the Australian Institute for Marine Science found that coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef had halved since the mid-1980s.
Cape Alumina's plans to build a bauxite mine at Pisolite Hills, in an area named after environmental campaigner Steve Irwin, were shelved by the previous Labor government in 2010.
2.35pm: Some more on Billabong and the reported pull-out of bidder TPG: City Index chief market analyst Peter Esho says Billabong may have been too optimistic in its guidance assumptions provided to TPG.
"There was never really a formal bid on the table and given the absence of break fees and costs (outlined), TPG not proceeding wouldn't surprise me at all," he says.
Also, in the current climate, TPG may be able to find other opportunities to focus on that made a Billabong buy-out less attractive, Esho says.
2.29pm: An Australian industry pension fund has joined the chorus of US and UK funds planning to vote against Rupert Murdoch's re-election to the News Corp board at its annual meeting in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
Industry fund First Super, which controls $1.7 billion in funds, will vote its shares in support of the removal of the News Corp chairman and against the election of four directors including his sons James and Lachlan.
In a statement, First Super chief executive Graeme Russell said First Super supports a "more independent" News Corp board, with an independent chairman.
"Open, transparent, representative governance is well overdue at News Corp. The interests of minority shareholders have too often been compromised" Mr Russell said.
2.20pm: Former Gunns chief executive Greg L'Estrange has described the fallen timber giant's internal company processes as a compliance nightmare.
In his first comment since administrators and receivers were called in last week and he was sacked, Mr L'Estrange told a court today his hardest task as CEO was getting proper processes in place.
"It's not a company with a culture of complying with policies," Mr L'Estrange said. "Transparency was the most difficult part of my job."
2.14pm: Billabong shares have now entered a trading halt.
2.11pm: As you can see, Billabong shares are struggling after it was reported that TPG may be considering pulling out of a takeover bid for the company.
2.03pm: BC Iron chief executive Mike Young has told the Sydney Mining Club to expect firmer prices for iron ore once the Chinese leadership transition is completed.
After spending most of 2012 in a range between $US150 and $US130, iron ore prices have slumped below $US90 per tonne in recent weeks, and have settled around $US104 per tonne in recent days.
Mr Young said the slump was "a bit of a blip", and daily prices were highly volatile because they were based on a very small number of trades.
Despite gloomy forecasts that a steel surplus in China will keep iron ore prices anchored at low levels, Mr Young said he expects to see a "return to more sustainable prices" within months.
"After we get through this leadership transition we will see some stability come back into things," he said, in reference to next month's imminent change of leadership within the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Mr Young said BC Iron was looking to Brazil for acquisition opportunities.
1.52pm: A resounding 'no comment' was Billabong's response to questions about the AFR report that TPG is no longer interested in buying the retailer.
But get ready for the stock to go into a trading halt while they draft a press release.
It's not the first time speculation has been swirling around that TPG is about to pull the plug on its Billabong bid. Rumours last surfaced two weeks ago when Bain Capital decided to pull out of the bidding.
1.34pm: Retail Food Group has asked its shares be suspended from trading ahead of a planned capital raising and changed the terms of its purchase of the Crust Gourmet Pizza Bars franchise system.
In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange, RFG, the company behind brands such as Brumby's Bakeries, Donut King, and Michel's, requested it shares be suspended as it undertook a capital raising involving institutional and sophisticated investors.
No timeframe was given for when the stock would resume trading.
1.28pm: The AFR reports that TPG, which was looking to buy Billabong, is thinking about withdrawing from the sale process. According to the AFR report, TPG was concerned with some things it found during its due diligence on the surfwear retailer.
1.21pm: More on Billabong. The company's shares dived lower and turnover spiked at about 12.20pm. They fell as low as $US1.02 at 12.40pm, but they're now back to $US1.075. More soon.
1.19pm: Aussie stocks have just retreated from a fresh intraday high. The ASX200 touched 0.38 per cent higher a short time ago, but has since slipped back to a gain of 0.3 per cent.
1.15pm: Billabong shares are down almost 20 per cent - down 25 cents top $1.065. More shortly.
1.06pm: Here's an ANZ view on the building approvals data from earlier today:
Looking through the monthly volatility in approvals data, in trend terms house approvals increased for the third consecutive month - after decreasing for 29 months since December 2009 - while flat/unit/townhouse approvals were lower in the month for the first time since January 2012.
Combined with a re-acceleration in population growth, the broad national trend weakness in dwelling approvals is driving further tightening of housing market balance pressures and should be of increasing concern to policy makers.
12.47pm: After giving up all of the morning's gains around the time of today's retail sales and building approvals data, Aussie stocks are now pressing towards a fresh intraday higher. Markets are back to a gain of 0.2 per ecfnt and looking higher.
12.42pm: Qantas shares have eased 1.25 cents to $1.2175 after it and Emirates said it was no longer seeking interim authorisation from the competition regulator for their proposed alliance.
The decision to drop the request follows Virgin Australia and its alliance partners, Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand, urging the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to block the granting of interim approval for the Qantas-Emirates tie-up. Full story.
12.36pm: In case you missed them earlier, here's the full story on retail sales and here's the full story on building approvals.
12.33pm: IG Markets analyst Cameron Peacock said many investors were in a consolidation phase after recent gains on the market.
''The resources sector is like a weight around the market's ankles today,'' he said.
BHP Billiton had dropped 53 cents to $32.90, Rio Tinto was down 52 cents to $53.20 and Fortescue had lost 3.5 cents to $3.49.
However, the major banks were all higher. ANZ was up 24 cents tot $25.29, after announcing plans to spend up to $1.5 billion on new mobile banking apps and upgrades of its branches in a bid to attract more customers.
12.29pm: Shares, meanwhile, have rebounded but not dramatically. The ASX200 is back to about 0.1 per cent higher. The benchmark index rose to a gain of 0.2 per before giving it all back by 11.30am.
12.25pm: Back to the cars data for a moment. Small cars and utes continue to dominate the sales charts with four small cars (Mazda3, Hyundai i30, Toyota Corolla and Cruze) and three utes (HiLux, Mitsubishi Triton and Nissan Navara) in the top 10. Here are the top selling cars for September:
- Mazda3 - 4276
- Toyota HiLux - 3479
- Hyundai i30 - 3144
- Toyota Corolla - 3133
- Holden Commodore - 2532
- Mitsubishi Triton - 2326
- Toyota Camry - 2267
- Holden Cruze - 1951
- Nissan Navara - 1812
- Mazda CX-5 - 1809
12.20pm: As we await the decisions of the big four banks about the levels of the borrowing rates, ANZ Australia chief executive Philip Chronican said the bank would stick to its 10-month old process of setting lending rates on the second Friday of each month.
''Our cost of funds doesn't change on the first Tuesday of the month when the Reserve Bank moves its cash rate. We fund ourselves through a range of term deposits or even wholesale funds,'' Mr Chronican said today.
''We're trying to create a gap between the Reserve Bank's move. Sometimes when the Reserve Bank moves its cash rate down, long term rates go up, sometimes long term rates go down.
''We want to give the market time to settle and see how our rate structure works."
12.14pm: The Aussie dropped to its lowest level in almost a month as the data added to expectations the Reserve Bank of Australia will reduce borrowing costs for a second-straight meeting in November to bolster growth.
''We've been seeing a string of relatively weak data from Australia,'' said Thomas Harr, head of Asia local markets strategy at Standard Chartered, Singapore. ''The risk for the Aussie is still to the downside.''
The local unit fell 0.2 per cent to $1.0192 a few minutes ago after earlier touching $1.0182, the lowest since September 6.
12.09pm: Here are the top 10 companies on the ASX200 shortly after midday:
- BlueScope: +4.6%
- Flexigroup: +3.75%
- Emeco: +3.03%
- FKP Property: +2.86%
- Investa: +2.75%
- Whitehaven: +2.52%
- Cardno: +2.48%
- Commonwealth Property: +2.42%
- Linc Energy: +2.19%
12.05pm: Building approvals and retail spending might be soft but people are still buying new cars, especially SUVs.
Sales of new vehicles in Australia were up a healthy 9 percent in September, compared to the same month last year, led by hefty gains in sports utility and commercial vehicles, industry data showed on Thursday.
The Australian Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries VFACTS report showed total vehicle sales in September were 94,627, compared to 86,819 in the same month last year.
Sales were up 1.1 per cent on August in original terms, while adjusting for seasonal factors left sales up 3.2 per cent for the month, VFACTS said. Sales of sport utility vehicles extended their barnstorming run with a rise of 20.7 per cent on a year earlier.
11.59pm: A day after it was forced to shut down Melbourne's two busiest road tunnels due to a computer malfunction, CityLink operator Transurban says it is looking to hike the cost of peak-hour tolls.
Melbourne's CityLink tunnel network was forced to close early yesterday morning, causing the average 120,000 vehicles that use the roads everyday to be re-routed into city gridlock.
Speaking at the company's annual general meeting this morning, Transurban chairman Lindsay Maxted said he regretted the closure yesterday, but defended the company's overall performance.
''Yesterday's tunnel outage was completely unacceptable for all concerned. However, your board believes yesterday's events are a truly exceptional circumstance - the first such event in 13 years of operations.''
More to come.
11.54am: David De Garis, senior economist at the National Australia Bank, says today's data won;t discourage the RBA board from further rate cuts:
"There was a partial bounce back for department store sales but the data has a soft tinge, maybe that's just the run-off of the government cash payments.
"The data highlights a defensive consumer and it's keeping the door open for further easing from the Reserve Bank."
11.49am: Here's the CBA's Michael Blythe on the building approvals and retail sales data:
"On the retail front we've sunk back into that general torpor that was there before the government cash handouts a few months ago.
"So clearly a pretty soft result for that part of consumer spending at least and there doesn't seem to be much risk of an interest rate led boom breaking out there just yet.
"Building approvals are still a soft result overall, although volatile medium-high component has driven the increase this month, but the underlying trend still looks very soft and one that says rate stimulus is only working through the economy very slowly."
11.46am: Stocks have bounced back into positive territory - just. Both the All Ords and the ASX200 now breaking even for the day.
11.40am: The dollar has sunk to a fresh intraday low on the data release. In recent trade, the local unit was buy $US1.0194, surpassing the overnight low of $US1.0196.
11.37am: Here's the raw numbers for the building approvals data:
Total dwellings 12,046 (August) 11,325 (July)
Priv excluding houses 4,596 3,735
Priv sector houses 7,314 7,350
11.34am: The ASX has dropped into negative territory briefly on the news, handing back all of a 0.2 per cent gain since 11am.
11.32am: Looking at the actual retail numbers, Australian retail spending rose 0.2 per cent in August,falling short of the 0.4 per cent gain expected.
Australian residential building approvals rose 6.4 per cent in August, more than the 4.7 per cent expected in a Bloomberg survey.
11.30am: Today's data is out: retail sales are slightly weaker than expected but still positive. Building approvals are stronger than expected, but are down more sharply than expected for the year.
The Aussie fell to $US1.0207 on the releases but is now back to $US1.0217
11.21am: Qantas and Emirates have dropped their request for the competition regulator to allow them to plan and negotiate their proposed alliance over the coming months but the Australian airline has still pushed ahead with changes to its international route network.
The decision to drop the request follows Virgin Australia and its alliance partners, Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand, urging the ACCC to block the granting of interim approval for the Qantas-Emirates tie-up.
Qantas and Emirates had wanted interim authorisation to begin planning for their alliance, including information sharing on issues such as marketing campaigns and transitions of IT systems. The airlines are still seeking approval for their planned alliance.
But independent of interim authorisation from the ACCC, Qantas has revised its route network to fly to Europe via Duba rather than Singapore. It will enable passengers to book flights through its new hub in Dubai for travel from next March.
Qantas shares are down 0.8 per cent, while Virgin is trading flat.
11.12am: The first US presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney has begun. Follow our live blog to find out who lands the first blow.
11.01am: With the price of China iron ore on hold while China is on holidays, coal for power stations is set to end its longest slump in seven years as producers reduce output, raising the prospect of price increases just as colder weather in the northern hemisphere boosts fuel demand.
Thermal coal at the Australian port of Newcastle, the benchmark for Asia, may rise to more than $US100 a metric ton in the three months ending December 31, from $US84.25 a ton as of September 28, according to UBS.
Macquarie Group predicts prices will average $US98 for the rest of the year while Bank of America and Wood Mackenzie forecast the fuel will cost $US92.
10.57am: The so-called Aussie has climbed against the greenback, rallying from an almost one-month low touched yesterday, ahead of figures that may show retail sales and building approvals increased in August.
''The Australian economy is still looking much better than other parts of the world,'' said Andrew Salter, a strategist ANZ. ''We still think the Australian dollar should appreciate.''
The Aussie added 0.1 per cent to $1.0220 after touching $1.0196 yesterday, the lowest since September 6.
10.52am: Shares in Mayne Pharma Group have entered a trading halt this morning after BusinessDay reported that it was expected to tap investors for a capital raising as early as today to fund the acquisition of a US healthcare company.
Mayne this morning requested its shares be halted, pending the release of an anouncement by Monday, 8 October.
Sources with knowledge of the transaction said Mayne's capital raising and debt issue will be used used to pay for the purchase of the US-based pharma development company Metrics Inc.
10.47am: Oil and gas explorer Drillsearch Energy has made a $118 million takeover offer for fellow explorer Acer Energy.
Drillsearch and Acer each own exploration assets in the Cooper Basin in South Australia, and Acer also has assets in the Bass Straight. Drillsearch has offered 25.5 cents for each Acer share, well above Acer's last traded price of 19.5 cents.
10.44am: The big banks are all higher and well ahead of the general market:
- CBA is 0.5% higher to $56.28
- ANZ is 0.72% higher to $25.23
- NAB is 0.85% higher to $26.17
- Westpac is 0.87% higher to $25.38
10.39am: Woolworths shares have risen 0.6 per cent to $29.08 after it was revealed the retailer was expected to hold on to its lucrative pub portfolio as its prepares a $1.2 billion property spinoff of up to 70 supermarkets. More here.
10.35am: The ASX200 hit an early peak of 0.2 per cent, with financials reaching a gain of almost of 0.7 per cent. Here are some of companies leading the financial sub index higher:
- FKP Property Group: +4.9%
- Mirvac: +2%
- Commonwealth Property Office Fund: +1.93%
- Investa Office Fund: +1.89%
- QBE Insurance: +1.67%
- Platinum Asset Management: +1.1%
10.29am: And now for the early sliders on the ASX200:
- Mirabela Nickel: -4.55%
- Alacer Gold: -2.11%
- Newcrest: -1.35%
- Woodside: -1.31%
- Fletcher Building: -1.01%
10.26am: Here are the best performed companies on the ASX200 in early trade:
- FKP Property: +6.12%
- BlueScope: +3.45%
- Lynas Corp: +2.92%
- Saracen Mining: +2.91%
- Nufarm: +2.36%
10.19am: Financials are leading the market higher - up 0.58 per cent. Here's how the other sub indices are performing:
- Consumer staples: +0.52%
- Info tech: +0.29%
- Health: +0.26%
- Consumer disc.: +0.24%
- Energy: -0.73%
- Telecoms: -0.24%
- Materials: -0.21%
10.13am: In early trade, the All Ordinaries index is 8.4 points higher, or 0.2 per cent, to 4467.2, while the benchmark S&P/ASX200 is 8.7 points higher, or 0.2 per cent, to 4447.3.
10.05am: Australian shares are flat in early trade - both the All Ords and ASX200 are less than 0.1 per cent higher.
9.54am: Interestingly, the interest rate futures market gives another 25 basis point rate cut in November a 78 per cent chance, according to Credit Suisse.
9.49am: Australian bond futures prices are slightly lower, but trading in a narrow range.
At 8.30 AEST, the December 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 97.155 (implying a yield of 2.845 per cent), down from 97.180 (2.820 per cent). The December three-year bond futures contract was at 97.700 (2.300 per cent), down from 97.730 (2.270 per cent).
Despite a rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and some weak trade data this week, the Australian bond market appeared to be in a sluggish mode, Nomura rates strategist Martin Whetton said.
''Bonds did very little overnight,'' he said.
''We've got some data today - that will either reinforce the concern that the economy is slowing down, or they'll be a bit better, and we might get a bit of a sell-off in bonds. Either way, the market seems to be stuck in a bit of a range.''
9.46am: Pharmaceutical company Mayne Pharma Group is expected to tap investors for a deeply discounted $60 million capital raising as early as today to fund acquisition of a US healthcare company.
The capital raising and debt issue will be used to pay for the purchase of the US-based pharma development company Metrics Inc., sources with knowledge of the transaction said. At $100 million, the purchase price would be almost double Mayne's market capitalisation of $55 million. Full story.
9.45am: Some analyst rating changes from late yesterday:
- Flexigroup rated new 'buy' at Deustche Bank
- Tiger Airways cut to 'sell' at Phillip Capital
- Macquarie Atlas raised to 'outperform' at Macquarie
- Commonwealth Bank raised to 'neutral' at Macquarie
9.41am: There are a couple of key piece of economic data out today. Both are due at 11.30am:
- ABS building approvals for August - A Bloomberg survey expects a 4.7% rise for the month, up from a 17.3% fall in July. The year-on-year result is expected to show a 14.3% slide in building approvals
- ABS retail trade for August - A Bloomberg survey expects a 0.4% rise for August, turning around a 0.8% drop in July
9.38am: Borrowers remain on bankwatch this morning as the big four consider how much - if any - of Tuesday's rate cut to pass on. Here's a story getting a lot of interest from readers today. Peter Martin writes that Australian banks have form when it comes to failing to pass on rate cuts in full and over-egging rate rises.
A study in the prestigious Economic Record has found Reserve Bank rate rises have ''a much larger and more instantaneous impact on the mortgage rate than rate cuts''. The size of the difference is shocking. Full story.
9.34am: For a comprehensive look at today's business news, check this morning's need2know. Here are this morning's key market links:
- The SPI was 13 points higher at 4448
- The $A was trading at $US1.0214
- In the US, the S&P500 added 0.36% to 1450.99
- In Europe, the FTSE100 lost 0.28% to 5825.81
- Gold added 0.1% to $US1776.18 an ounce
- WTI crude oil lost $US3.75 to $US88.14 a barrel
- RJ/CRB commodities index 0.63% to 311.26
9.32am: Local stocks are set to open higher after Wall Street rose on some better data. The Aussie is holding steady after losing about 1.5 US cents since Tuesday's decision by the RBA to cut official interest rates. Here's how ANZ economists summed up the overnight action in a note this morning:
Markets were generally quiet overnight ahead of the US payrolls data and ECB and BoE policy meetings over the next two days. This was despite some better-than-expected US data overnight. Equities were mostly a little higher and 'core' bond yields little changed but oil fell sharply after a US Department of Energy report showed US oil production at high levels.
9.30am: Hi everyone. Welcome to the Markets Live blog for Thursday.
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