Access K-pop on Your Smartphone with KT's Genie App - HanCinema

Psy amassed millions of fans, raising interest in Korean entertainers in the process. Photo Credit: http://bit.ly/Y2r4MU

Girls' Generation's latest single "I got a boy" racked up over 30 million views on YouTube, but K-pop fans outside of Korea have a new option: Now you can listen to all your favorite K-pop right on your smartphone. KT Corp announced that it was expanding its Genie KPOP mobile music app to 45 countries to meet global demand.

It's undeniable that K-pop fever has only increased with Psy's breakout fame in 2012 and the continued popularity of groups like Big Bang, 2NE1 and SHINee around the world. But it wasn't always easy for fans outside of Korea to buy music and video content of their favorite celebs.

The Genie music service, which helps solve that problem, is already the number 2 music app in the Google Play store. Not only can you purchase the latest songs from entertainment labels like SM, JYP and YG, but music videos, photos and video clips of popular artists are also available.

KT is promising never before seen video footage of K-pop artists as well as fun events to promote new talent on Genie. The only downside to this awesome app that I can discern so far is that it's only available to Android users.

You can listen to Girl's Generation's newest single on Genie KPOP. Photo Credit: http://bit.ly/VXRNLs

If you've ever been undecided about buying a song after listening to the typical 1-minute preview, you'll love the full track previews that Genie offers. This is a unique feature that allows users to listen to an entire track up to three times before purchasing it. Some songs even support full track streaming for free ? just look for the "F Play" icon on the right.

In another groundbreaking move by Genie, the service increased royalties paid to content holders to 70%. In the Korean music industry, where artists typically only pocket the equivalent of about 3 cents per track sold, this is quite radical. This favorable deal convinced Genie's seven major record labels, SM, JYP, YG, Media Line, Empire, Union CAN and Music Factory, to support its global expansion.

Genie has rolled out to 45 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America and Oceania, with a heavy focus on Europe (29 countries). According to KT, Genie will be introduced later in even more countries including Hong Kong, Japan, the UK, and South Africa.

SM Entertainment's iconic boy group Super Junior. Photo Credit: http://bit.ly/YqRThE

A review published by one K-pop enthusiast on Google Play captures why Genie has hit such a positive chord with fans worldwide. "This is the only app that has really satisfied me", the reviewer wrote. She said that not only did the service automatically save all purchases to the phone like a "KPOP iTunes", but that fans could also "help support the artist by paying for [songs]".

Sounds like a win-win situation for music lovers and music producers in the ever-changing world of Korean entertainment.

Source: http://www.hancinema.net/access-k-pop-on-your-smartphone-with-kt-s-genie-app-52421.html

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Programming cells: Importance of the envelope

Feb. 1, 2013 ? In a project that began with the retinal cells of nocturnal animals and has led to fundamental insights into the organization of genomic DNA, researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich show how the nuclear envelope affects nuclear architecture -- and gene regulation.

The double-stranded DNA molecules that make up the genetic material are wrapped around protein complexes to form compacted "chromatin." The active portion of the genome is less densely packed, and thus more easily accessible, than the inactive fraction, and is referred to as euchromatin. Euchromatin is typically located in the inner regions of the cell nucleus, while much of the inactive DNA in "heterochromatin" is associated with the inner face of the nuclear envelope. This type of chromatin organization is found in almost all higher organisms and may have been invented 500 million years ago.

But there is a curious exception to this generalization. In the retinal cells of nocturnal animals, the heterochromation is localized in the central area of the nucleus, as a research group led by LMU biologists Dr. Irina Solovei and Dr. Boris Joffe showed in a previous study. "This got us interested in the mechanisms that control the distribution of chromatin," says Professor Heinrich Leonhardt of LMU's Biozentrum. "How can the nuclear architecture in the rod cells of nocturnal animals be inverted in this way, and what determines the typical positioning of inactive chromatin on the outskirts of the nucleus in normal cells?" Leonhardt and his team have now completed an extensive study in search of the answers.

A fundamental principle unveiled

With the help of targeted genetic manipulations in the mouse, Joffe and Solovei together with their colleagues show for the first time that there are two independent mechanisms for fixing heterochromatin to the inner face of the nuclear envelope. These mechanisms make use of two different components of the inner nuclear membrane as clamps -- lamin A/C, and the so-called lamin-B receptor (LBR), which itself binds to B type lamins.

Normally the two components are used sequentially for this purpose. "In the course of differentiation, there is a switch from the LBR to lamin A/C, and there is always a least one type of tether available for attachment of heterochromatin to the nuclear periphery. But if both are missing, the inactive heterochromatin recoils like a severed elastic band and collapses in the center of the nucleus," explains Leonhardt. Moreover, the switch seems to be a fundamental principle of genome organization and cell differentiation in mammalian cells, as the researchers concluded from the study of 39 species and the analysis of diverse tissue types in nine genetic strains of mice.

Prospects for targeted therapies Lamin proteins not only have a structural function but also have an impact on gene regulation. Thus LBR binds B type lamins and regulates stem-cell populations by promoting the expression of genes that are important for the proliferation of rapidly dividing stem cells. The lamin A/C gene on the other hand codes for a structural component of the nuclear envelope, and regulates cellular differentiation programs like e.g. the expression of muscle-specific genes in muscle cells. Mutations in this gene result in so-called laminopathies -- rare genetic diseases that are associated with a broad spectrum of clinical symptoms, including muscular dystrophy and progeria, a premature aging syndrome.

Joffe and Solovei suspect that mutations in lamin A/C affect the expression of specific genes during the maturation and differentiation of cells, with deleterious results for their function and for tissue integrity. This notion could explain the highly diverse and complex symptoms seen in patients with mutations in the lamin A/C gene -- and it could open routes to the design of targeted therapies for laminopathies.

The new findings thus yield fundamentally new insights into how each of the many differentiated cell types in the body arises as the result of the precisely regulated expression of a specific complement of genes appropriate to each. "In the end, we have been brought from studies of night vision and an odd quirk of nature to the discovery of a fundamental regulatory mechanism: The nuclear envelope has a major say in development, and what kind of envelope our genetic material comes in makes a great deal of difference to our fate," Leonhardt concludes.

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Dozens of students withdraw in Harvard cheating scandal

BOSTON (Reuters) - As many as 60 students have been forced to withdraw from Harvard University after cheating on a final exam last year in what has become the largest academic scandal to hit the Ivy League school in recent memory.

Michael Smith, Harvard's Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, sent an email on Friday saying that more than half of the students who faced the school's Administrative Board have been suspended for a time.

Roughly 125 undergraduates were involved in the scandal, which came to light at the end of the spring semester after a professor noticed similarities on a take-home exam that showed students worked together, even though they were instructed to work alone.

The school's student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, has reported that the government class, Introduction to Congress, had 279 students enrolled.

"Somewhat more than half of the Administrative Board cases this past fall required a student to withdraw from the College for a period of time," Smith wrote. "Of the remaining cases, roughly half the students received disciplinary probation, while the balance ended in no disciplinary action."

The cases were resolved during the fall semester, which ended in December, Smith said. Suspensions depend on the student, but traditionally last two semesters and as much as four semesters.

In the last few months, the university has also worked to be clearer about the academic integrity it expects from students.

"While all the fall cases are complete, our work on academic integrity is far from done," Smith added.

(Reporting By Svea Herbst-Bayliss. Editing by Andre Grenon)

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Sweden orders retrial for convicted serial killer

STOCKHOLM (AP) ? Once considered Sweden's worst serial killer, Sture Bergwall confessed to more than 30 murders over three decades, and was convicted of eight of them.

Years later, he changed his mind and said his ghastly tales of slaughter, rape and even cannibalism were all lies, spawned by loneliness, a desire for attention and heavy medication.

In what has become a major embarrassment for the Swedish justice system, Bergwall's convictions are now being overturned one by one.

Courts that once found his chilling descriptions of the victims and the murder scenes enough proof to convict him now realize they may have been duped by a compulsive liar.

"This is the justice scandal of the century," Bergwall, 62, told The Associated Press by telephone from a psychiatric hospital where he's been held since 1991.

Five of his murder convictions have already been annulled. On Friday, a court in northern Sweden ordered retrials in the remaining two cases: the 1976 death of 15-year-old boy whose remains were found 17 years later, and the fatal stabbings of a Dutch couple in 1984.

New court proceedings may not even be necessary. When retrials were ordered in the other five cases, prosecutors dropped the charges, citing lack of evidence instead of going to court.

"This is the end of a four-year retrial process, but the start of a process to make him a free man," Bergwall's lawyer, Thomas Olsson, told AP after Friday's ruling.

Bergwall grew up with six siblings in a Pentecostal home in Falun, 120 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of Stockholm. He said he developed an "identity crisis" after discovering he was gay and started taking drugs at age 14.

"There was no closet to come out of in those days," Bergwall said. "That's the reason for my drug problems and everything that came after."

Bergwall said he never murdered anyone but molested three young boys in the late '60s. After a bank robbery in 1990, he was found mentally unfit for prison and committed to a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. It was during therapy sessions there, Bergwall said, that he claimed responsibility for a series of unsolved murders going back to 1964.

"Simply put, I felt very lonely," Bergwall told AP. "To make myself interesting I suggested that I had done something difficult. It aroused interest. I was given intense therapy and benzodiazepines."

The sedatives only fuelled his morbid fantasies, said Bergwall, who at the time had changed his name to Thomas Quick.

During his trials, investigators said he gave information about the victims and the places where they were found or disappeared that he couldn't have known unless he was there.

Bergwall said he got some information from newspapers while on leaves of absence from the hospital, but mostly embellished on details he had picked up from police interrogators.

"I didn't know anything. That's the simple truth. The information I got, I got through therapy and through police interrogations," Bergwall said.

The eight murders for which he was tried and convicted had no apparent links. Three were in Norway, the others in different parts of Sweden.

The victims ranged from a 9-year-old Norwegian girl who disappeared in 1988 but whose body still hasn't been found, to the Dutch tourists in their 30s who were stabbed in their tent while camping in the northern Lapland province.

Bergwall's gruesome confessions ? he claimed to have eaten some of his victims ? made headlines in Swedish media in the 1990s. But there was also debate about the lack of technical evidence to support his convictions.

In a 2006 review of Bergwall's case, Sweden's chancellor of justice, Goran Lambertz, cleared Swedish authorities of wrongdoing. Lambertz, who is now a Supreme Court judge, said he still believes the convictions were correct.

"I'm not saying he is guilty, but the evidence was such that it was without doubt correct to convict him," Lambertz said. He added that "there were a number of circumstances" indicating that Bergwall had been present" at the murder scenes.

For example, Bergwall had described the place where the 9-year-old Norwegian girl had disappeared with great detail, Lambertz said. He noted that Bergwall told police he had used a saw to dismember the girl, and a saw blade was found on the site.

Olsson, Bergwall's lawyer, said his descriptions of places were not accurate on closer scrutiny.

"They did find a saw blade in the forest. But it didn't look like (Bergwall) had described it," Olsson said. "Keep in mind there is a large logging area in the vicinity."

Olsson said that if his client is cleared in the remaining two cases, he could be released later this year.

Bergwall said he stuck to his confessions until he stopped taking benzodiazepines in 2001. He then entered what he described as a therapeutic period of silence, speaking to no one for seven years.

In 2008, he withdrew his confessions in a Swedish documentary, and started seeking retrials for his convictions. He said he now considers himself mentally fit to be released.

Bergwall said he felt bad for relatives of the murder victims, some of whose cases are now too old to reopen.

"There's a lot left to explain," Bergwall said. "And I will do that when the time is right."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sweden-orders-retrial-convicted-serial-killer-145652322.html

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Roadside bomb kills 2 polio workers in NW Pakistan

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) ? A roadside bomb killed two Pakistani polio workers on their way to vaccinate children in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border on Thursday, an official said.

The two men were on their way to Malikhel village as part of the U.N.-backed anti-polio campaign when the bomb hit their motorcycle, said government administrator Yousuf Rahim.

The attack ? the third this week against polio workers in Pakistan ? took place in the Kurram region, a known militant stronghold.

On Tuesday, gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a policeman protecting a polio team in Gullu Dheri village of Swabi district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The polio workers escaped unharmed in that attack.

In a separate incident in the northwest on Tuesday, a man wounded a polio worker with an axe.

Rahim said it was not immediately clear if the two workers killed Thursday were the actual target of the bombing. Javed Husain, a doctor at a hospital in the town of Parachinar, said the slain men were working as contractors for the government-run anti-polio program in the area.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but suspicion fell on Islamic militants.

Some of the militants oppose the vaccination campaign, accuse health workers of acting as spies for the U.S. and claim the polio vaccine is intended to make Muslim children sterile.

Pakistan is one of only three countries where the crippling disease is endemic. The virus usually infects children living in unsanitary conditions; it attacks the nerves and can kill or paralyze. As many as 56 polio cases were reported in Pakistan during 2012, down from 190 the previous year, according to the United Nations.

Most of the new cases in Pakistan were in the northwest, where the presence of militants makes it difficult to reach children.

In December, gunmen killed nine polio workers in similar attacks across Pakistan, prompting authorities to suspend the vaccination campaign in the troubled areas. The U.N. also suspended its field operations in December as a result of the attacks, though it has since resumed some activities.

Also Thursday, a gunman opened fire on a vehicle carrying three local Sunni Muslim clerics in the southern city of Karachi, killing the three before fleeing the scene, said police officer Asim Qaimkhani.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which Qaimkhani said was likely sectarian.

Karachi is the capital of southern Sindh province and has witnessed scores of attacks against minority Shiites or majority Sunnis in recent years.

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Associated Press writer Adil Jawad contributed to this report from Karachi, Pakistan.

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Children's Mental Health Takes a Village | Consciousness & Health

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Appeals judges: Anti-paparazzi law appears legal

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2012 file photo, Justin Bieber accepts the award for favorite album - pop/rock for "Believe" at the 40th Anniversary American Music Awards, in Los Angeles. Bieber is one of several stars whose homes have been targeted by pranksters who place fake 911calls to try to draw out large police responses in a hoax known as swatting. The rash of calls against celebrities is taxing police resources and prompted two California lawmakers to propose stiffer penalties for convicted swatters. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2012 file photo, Justin Bieber accepts the award for favorite album - pop/rock for "Believe" at the 40th Anniversary American Music Awards, in Los Angeles. Bieber is one of several stars whose homes have been targeted by pranksters who place fake 911calls to try to draw out large police responses in a hoax known as swatting. The rash of calls against celebrities is taxing police resources and prompted two California lawmakers to propose stiffer penalties for convicted swatters. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? An appeals panel says California's anti-paparazzi statute appears to be constitutional based on a brief filed by prosecutors.

A preliminary statement by three judges in Los Angeles requires a judge who dismissed charges aimed at a paparazzo who authorities say was driving recklessly to review his order. The judge may stick to his ruling, which would trigger a full appeal, or he could schedule further arguments on the case against freelance photographer Paul Raef.

Raef was the first person charged under the new law after a high-speed chase involving Justin Bieber last year.

Superior Court Judge Thomas Rubinson dismissed two charges in November, ruling the law is too broad and is unconstitutional.

Raef's attorney David S. Kestenbaum says he is asking Rubinson to stand by his ruling and allow a full appeal.

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Engadget Podcast 329 - 01.31.13

No sleep 'til... well, let's not do that again. But, yes, it's BlackBerry week, and the podcast crew sift through all the news to come from the New York event. There's plenty of it, too, what with rebrandings, new hardware and, oh, you know BlackBerry 10 an' all. Get it right here.

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US challenges deal to merge Budweiser and Corona

This combination of Associated Press file photos show Budweiser beer in the aisles of Elite Beverages in Indianapolis, and Constellation Brands Corona beers displayed at a liquor store in Palo Alto, Calif. The Justice Department on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, filed a lawsuit to stop Anheuser-Busch InBev's proposed $20.1 billion purchase of Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo, which would unite the ownership of popular beers like Budweiser and Corona. (AP Photos)

This combination of Associated Press file photos show Budweiser beer in the aisles of Elite Beverages in Indianapolis, and Constellation Brands Corona beers displayed at a liquor store in Palo Alto, Calif. The Justice Department on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, filed a lawsuit to stop Anheuser-Busch InBev's proposed $20.1 billion purchase of Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo, which would unite the ownership of popular beers like Budweiser and Corona. (AP Photos)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop Anheuser-Busch InBev's proposed $20.1 billion purchase of Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo, which would unite the ownership of popular beers like Budweiser and Corona.

The government said the deal could lead to higher beer prices in this country because it would substantially reduce competition in the U.S. beer market, particularly in 26 metropolitan areas. It said the merged firm would control nearly half the beer sales in the U.S.

In response, Anheuser-Busch InBev promised a court fight to preserve its deal.

Americans spent at least $80 billion on beer last year. ABI's Bud Light is the best-selling beer in the nation and Modelo's Corona Extra is the best-selling import.

The Justice Department's lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeks to prevent the merger and to continue competition between the firms.

Bill Baer, the assistant attorney general in charge of the department's antitrust division, says Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) would be able to increase beer prices to U.S. consumers if the merger were to go through.

ABI is the largest U.S. brewer and Modelo is the third and together, the two firms control about 46 percent of annual sales in the U.S.

MillerCoors, the second-largest beer company, accounts for 29 percent of nationwide sales.

"What we saw was a pattern of behavior" in which the "big folks were working hard to get price increases and Modelo was a significant constraint" on that behavior, Baer said in an interview with reporters.

Baer said that in the run-up to Thursday's action, the two sides engaged in "frank and candid discussions" but "at the end of the day, we were just too far apart."

Anheuser-Busch InBev said the government's bid to block the proposed merger is inconsistent with the law, the facts and "the reality of the market place."

"We remain confident in our position, and we intend to vigorously contest the DOJ's action in federal court," ABI said.

According to court papers filed in the case, ABI acts as the industry price leader, with MillerCoors and other brewers typically joining the price increases set by ABI. Modelo, in contrast, has not joined.

By pricing aggressively, Modelo ? through its importer, Crown Imports ? puts pressure on ABI to maintain or lower prices.

"Today, Modelo aggressively competes head-to-head with ABI in the United States" and "that competition has resulted in lower prices and product innovations that have benefited consumers across the country," the Justice Department court filing said. "The proposed acquisition would eliminate this competition by further concentrating the beer industry, enhancing ABI's market power, and facilitating coordinated pricing between ABI and the next largest brewer, MillerCoors, LLC."

The government lawsuit harms the chances of Constellation's related $1.85 billion deal that would land it greater U.S. control of Corona and other beers. Constellation was to buy the remaining half of a joint venture with Grupo Modelo, Crown Imports LLC, that has allowed Constellation to import, market and sell Modelo beers in the U.S. for nearly 20 years.

The deal with Constellation was intended to alleviate antitrust concerns. But the Justice Department said that it wasn't enough to protect U.S. beer buyers. Constellation had said its deal would have made it the third-biggest total beverage alcohol company in the U.S.

After the Justice announcement, shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev fell more than 5 percent while Constellation Brands Inc. shares lost 20 percent.

U.S.-based Anheuser-Busch was purchased by Belgium-based InBev in 2008. The combined company is already the world's biggest brewer and makes Budweiser, Beck's and Stella Artois, among others. Its purchase of Grupo Modelo would have given the combined company annual sales of $47 billion and 150,000 workers in 24 countries.

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But who says new construction homes don't need inspecting?

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Take a look at the following pictures very carefully.

What I am hoping you will notice is that the handle on the hot side is in a different position in each photo.?

In the first picture the hot water is turned off and we can see the ?cold water? temperature is 41.2 degrees F.

In the second picture the hot water is turned on and we can see the ?hot water? temperature is 41.0 degrees F.

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Whoops.

It is actually a little hard to imagine how this could happen, but it is another in an endless list of reasons to get new construction inspected.

Turning on the taps for that nice relaxing bath on move-in day might leave the home owner a little ?cold.?? And the call to the agent and inspector might not be too warm either.?

On this particular home I found this issue particularly interesting because water temperature at all of the other taps was 158 degrees F.

For those of you that have been living under a log---158 degrees is WAY too hot and will cause 2^nd and 3^rd degree burns in less than a second.?

Modern fixtures to showers and tub/shower combos are required to be regulated such that these kinds of temperatures cannot be reached?even if the water heater is set too high.? Temperature control devices for this new construction home were either missing or not adjusted properly.

But who says new construction homes don?t need inspecting?

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