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Mae Young Passes Away (Woman Wrestler)

World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Famer Mae Young has passed away after beingunder hospice care recently.
Young died Tuesday at the age of 90, a WWE representative told E!

"There will never be another Mae Young," said WWE Chairman Vince McMahon in a statement. "Her longevity in sports entertainment may never be matched, and I will forever be grateful for all of her contributions to the industry. On behalf of WWE, I extend out sincerest condolences to her family and friends."

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson took to Twitter Thursday to share his thoughts on Young.

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"She's a wrestling pioneer. I truly had deep affection & respect for 'Aunty Mae' Young. RIP. #IMissUMae," wrote Johnson.

Young's first bout was in 1939, and in 2000, she was crowned "Miss Royal Rumble," at the age of 77. In 2008, she was the third woman to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. In March 2013, WWE stars and fans celebrated her 90th birthday live on Monday Night Raw.

She is hailed as "one of the original WWE Divas," by WWE.com.

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China's Huawei profit jumps on smartphones, U.S. asks Hua-who?

A multi-chassis cluster router is shown inside the exhibition hall at Huawei's headquarters in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, Guangdong province, in this October 16, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/Files

Source: http://in.reuters.com

(Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd HWT.UL, known more for its telecom networking prowess than its razor-thin smartphones, is starting to see success in its consumer electronics business, though the key U.S. market remains elusive.
Huawei became the world's third-biggest smartphone manufacturer last year, mainly due to a fast-growing Chinese market. That is helping cushion the impact of a global slowdown in network equipment spending, which caused the company to miss its revenue growth target last year.
Consumer devices will also help Huawei buy some time before 4G network upgrades in China lead to more orders for telecom equipment.
Huawei's smartphone ventures, like its domestic rivals ZTE Corp 000063.SZ (0763.HK) and Lenovo Group Ltd (0992.HK), have so far focused on selling low- and mid-priced handsets in emerging markets.
The companies have yet to gain a foothold in the high-end segment of developed markets - such as the United States - that offer wider margins.
Huawei's name is virtually unknown - and unpronounceable - in the U.S., the second-biggest smartphone market, where lawmakers have flagged Chinese telecommunications equipment as potential security risks.
"Huawei in an ideal world would love to be in the U.S. but it's probably better for them to be seen as eyeing up the market than be seen as begging," said Duncan Clark, chairman of Beijing-based tech advisory BDA.
"They can probably succeed in the U.S. in this world of consumer electronics, where consumers, not carriers, can choose what to buy."
Consumer devices accounted for 23 percent of Huawei's overall revenue last year, up from 22 percent in 2012. That helped lift total unaudited revenue to 238 billion yuan to 240 billion yuan, Chief Financial Officer Cathy Meng told a press briefing on Wednesday.
Unaudited revenue grew 8 percent, compared with a target of 10 percent annual growth for the next five years, starting in 2013.
Unaudited operating profit rose to 28.6 billion yuan to 29.4 billion yuan, the company said. That compared with an audited 2012 operating profit of 19.96 billion yuan - an increase of 43.3 percent.
The company put the leap in operating profit down to changes in internal management and reducing operating costs.
Huawei will release audited results in March or April, including net profit which should not be largely different from operating profit, the company said.
SMARTPHONES
Huawei had a 5.1 percent share of the global smartphone market in October-December, a distant third behind Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) with 35.2 percent and Apple Inc (AAPL.O) with 13.4 percent, according to Strategy Analytics.
"Huawei had some ambivalence to smartphones, at one point thinking of selling off the unit, but they made a conscious decision to embrace it," said BDA's Clark.
"It's been a lower-margin business than other areas but the end-to-end vision, it's going to be part of the future."
Huawei aspires to challenge Samsung and Apple and in the United States but it has virtually no brand recognition there beyond its association with espionage, and has only a smattering of low-key tie-ups with U.S. carriers through which most consumers buy their phones.
The Shenzhen-based maker has sought to change that by splashing out on a prime location at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
It has no such issues in its home market which contributed around 50 percent of growth last year in its consumer devices business, a company spokesman said.
Sales are also strong in Europe, according to the company, where the European Commission is poised to launch an investigation into anti-competitive behaviour by Chinese producers of telecoms equipment.
Its consumer electronics business grew 13.2 percent year-on-year based on Reuters calculations.
"The handset business is quite profitable and operating above expectations," said Huang Leping, a Hong Kong-based technology analyst with Nomura.
Huawei targeted smartphone shipments of 60 million units last year. The company said actual shipments reached 52 million units, which Huang called "quite a good result."
NETWORKING
Huawei is the world's second-biggest telecom equipment maker after Sweden's Ericsson (ERICb.ST), and is known for aggressively gaining sales by edging out rivals such as Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O), Alcatel-Lucent SA (ALUA.PA), Nokia Siemens Networks NOKI.UL.
Its carrier network business booked 70 percent of unaudited revenue for 2013 but only grew 4.1 percent according to Reuters calculations, despite China and a slew of other countries contracting Huawei to help build fourth-generation mobile networks.
The company has also suffered by being excluded from building networks in the U.S. and Australia because of fears it is linked to the Chinese government - allegations it denies. The company has come under scrutiny in Britain over cyber security issues.
The carrier business group's growth rate "was not as pretty as the two other groups, but the base number is very big," Chief Financial Officer Cathy Meng told a press briefing.
But analysts say 4G deployment in China hasn't been as fast as expected, so revenue from the network roll-out destined for Huawei and cross-town competitor ZTE will not be seen until the first half of this year.
"For 4G, they have a delay on revenue in China," said Nomura's Huang.
"Deployment was slower than expected, so there is revenue postponed until the first half of this year, particularly some short-term delays on China Mobile's deployment speed."
The rest of Huawei's revenue, or 7 percent, comes from its enterprise segment, which makes telecommunications devices for businesses and institutions, and which is not profitable, according to Meng.
Addressing the company's woes over cyber-security issues in the U.S. and elsewhere, Meng said it is "all decided by the market."
"We have seen no incidents on networks due to security problems," Meng said. "A lot of reports say Huawei equipment has more vulnerabilities or is more easily breached. These reports are groundless."
(Editing by Christopher Cushing)

People sometimes don't take marriage as a precious and serious matter

Woman sues solicitors because they 'did not explain that finalising her divorce would terminate her marriage'

A British woman has attempted to sue her former lawyers for professional negligence claiming they failed to properly explain to her that getting a divorce would end her marriage.

Jane Mulcahy claimed that, alongside a number of other allegations, her solicitors failed to advise her that finalising divorce proceedings would officially end her marriage.

The Roman Catholic argued that the lawyers should have clearly explained that a divorce would terminate her marriage.

The woman claims lawyers failed to advise that finalising divorce proceedings would officially end her marriage

She claimed lawyers failed to take into account her faith and should have recommended judicial separation - a step away from full divorce - as an alternative course of action, the Independent reported.

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Her claims, which were made against two separate firms of solicitors, had already been rejected by the court, but Ms Mulcahy sunbequently appealed against the dismissal of certain aspects of the case.

Thrown out: Judge Lord Justice Briggs dismissed the case

The presiding judge, Lord Justice Briggs said: 'The most striking of Mrs Mulcahy's many allegations of negligence against her solicitors was that, having regard to her Roman Catholic faith, Mrs Boots had failed to give her the advice which was requisite in view of her firmly held belief in the sanctity of marriage...

'...either in terms of the alternative of judicial separation, or about the impossibility of pursuing divorce proceedings to a clean break settlement, without thereby inevitably bringing about the final termination of her marriage, which she wished to avoid.'

Her case was rejected by the court.

The curious case follows another bizarre divorce proceeding - a woman who is splitting from her husband over peas.

Just one week after getting married, a woman in Kuwait has filed for divorce after discovering her husband prefers to use bread, rather than a fork, to eat peas.

Traumatised by the 'shocking sight', she said she could no longer live with him, owing to his lack of etiquette.

The Court of Appeal in London regularly hears bizarre divorce proceedings

The case of the 'shocking' peas, reported in the daily Al Qabas today, is not the only bizarre reason for wanting a divorce in Kuwait.

One woman wanted a divorce because her husband insisted on squeezing the toothpaste tube in the middle and not the end. 'We are always arguing... He is so obstinate,' she said.

Another woman divorced her husband on their wedding day because the groom had not made the costly arrangements that she had asked for.

The Wolf of Wall Street (this movie has the most f-bombs)

Source: http://www.news.com.au/

MARTIN Scorsese's new film The Wolf of Wall Street has set a new record for using the f-word. The film, starring Leonardo Di Caprio as a disgraced New York financier, uses the swear word a total of 506 times.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort likes to talk dirty. Paramount Pictures.
Scorsese's film beats the previous non-documentary record set by Spike Lee's serial killer movie Summer of Sam, which dropped the f-bomb 435 times, according to Britain's Daily Mail.
The newspaper says The Wolf of Wall Street is only out-sworn by a 2005 documentary entitled F***, which had a whopping 857 f-word count, which equates to 9.21 uses of the word per minute.

Spike Lee has nothing on Scorsese. Paramount Pictures. Source: AP

The Wolf of Wall Street used the word 2.83 times per minute. Scorsese's film is based on Jordan Belfort's memoir, which chronicles his lavish life in banking and his subsequent downfall as he was jailed for securities fraud and money laundering.

You might need to leave the kids at home for this one. Paramount Pictures. Source: AP

The Wolf of Wall Street releases in Australia on January 23.
The newspaper says The Wolf of Wall Street is only out-sworn by a 2005 documentary entitled F***, which had a whopping 857 f-word count, which equates to 9.21 uses of the word per minute.

Spike Lee has nothing on Scorsese. Paramount Pictures. Source: AP

You might need to leave the kids at home for this one. Paramount Pictures. Source: AP

The Wolf of Wall Street releases in Australia on January 23.

Isaac Asimov's Predictions For 2014 From 50 Years Ago Are Eerily Accurate

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Fifty years ago, American scientist and author Isaac Asimov published a story in The New York Times that listed his predictions for what the world would be like in 2014.
Asimov wrote more than 500 books in his lifetime, including science fiction novels and nonfiction scientific books, so he was well-versed in thinking about the future.
In his article, called "Visit to the World's Fair of 2014," Asimov got a whole bunch of his guesses right -- and his other predictions are making us a little envious of his imagined future.
Correct Predictions
"By 2014, electroluminescent panels will be in common use."
You may not realize what electroluminescent panels are, but these thin, bright panels are used in retail displays, signs, lighting and flat panel TVs.
isaac asimov 2014

"Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs."
True.

"Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone."
Skype, Google Hangout, FaceTime and more have made video chatting common.
"The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books."
With computers, tablets and smartphones, all of this is true.
“Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.”
If you define "robot" as a computer that looks and acts like a human, then this guess is definitely true. We don't have robot servants or robot friends, but we do have robots that can twerk, do the "Thriller" dance and sing. It sounds like our priorities have been off...
Close, But Not Exact, Predictions
"Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting it to coffee; toasting bread; frying, poaching or scrambling eggs, grilling bacon, and so on."
We have Keurigs and other instant coffee machines -- so he's not too far off there. But as for a total "automeal," we still can't press a button and have breakfast ready. Someone please get on this ASAP.
"Ceilings and walls will glow softly, and in a variety of colors that will change at the touch of a push button.”
This could probably be true if we felt like it, since the technology exists. But glowing walls and ceilings aren't extraordinarily popular.
isaac asimov 2014

“[T]he world population will be 6,500,000,000."
Good guess, but it's actually more like 7,100,000,000.
"Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders. Schools will have to be oriented in this direction."
Sure, computer science has become an important field of study, but we have hardly become "a race of machine tenders." Of course, a lot of us are never far from a machine (our smartphones) that we pretty much constantly "tend."
Incorrect Predictions
“The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long-lived batteries running on radioisotopes.”
We might still use electric cords, but at least we have cool surge protectors, right?
"All the high-school students will be taught the fundamentals of computer technology will become proficient in binary arithmetic and will be trained to perfection in the use of the computer languages that will have developed out of those like the contemporary 'Fortran.'"
We wish this were true. Unfortunately, coding classes are still relatively uncommon in high schools, and just 1.4 percent of high school AP students took the computer science exam in 2012.
We will live in a "society of enforced leisure,” and "the most glorious single word in the vocabulary will have become work!”
Sigh. Not yet, Asimov, not yet.

Powerful Explosion Through Minnesota Building

Source : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

More than a dozen people are hospitalized following a massive building explosion in Minnesota on Wednesday morning.
The blast was reported at about 8:15 a.m. local time at 514 Cedar Avenue South in Minneapolis. According to KARE 11, the explosion and ensuing fire is causing extensive damage to the three-story building.
Robert Ball, of Hennepin County EMS, told KARE that victims were injured by burns and, in some cases, trauma sustained while falling or jumping from windows.
According to argusleader.com, Google Maps indicate the structure houses apartments and a business called the Otanga Grocery.
Search-and-rescue crews are on scene, but authorities believe all occupants of the building have been accounted for.
The incident has been elevated to a three alarm fire, argusleader.com website reported.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A billowing fire engulfed a three-story building near downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, sending 13 people to hospitals with injuries ranging from burns to trauma associated with falls.
Officials said six of those injuries were critical, but no fatalities were reported.
An explosion was reported about 8:15 a.m., and within minutes a fire raged through the building, said Robert Ball, a spokesman for Hennepin County Emergency Medical Services. Paramedics responded to find victims on the ground, some with injuries that suggested they may have fallen multiple stories.
"It's not clear whether people were pushed out of the building from the explosion or whether they fell or jumped out of windows to escape," he said.
Authorities weren't sure whether any residents were still inside. Assistant Minneapolis Fire Chief Cherie Penn said the roof had partially collapsed, and it was too dangerous for firefighters to enter and sweep the premises.
Penn said 13 people were taken to local hospitals, and six were considered to be critically hurt.
Plumes of thick, whitish-gray smoke could be seen rising from the building, which has a grocery store on the ground floor and two levels of apartments above it. Flames could be seen through third-story windows, and the frigid air was filled was the acrid smell of smoke.

Firefighting efforts were being hampered by the sub-zero temperatures. As firefighters aimed their hoses at the flames, water gushed from windows and doorways, forming icicles on window frames and leaving the street slick and icy.
The facade of the building and trees out front were also coated with a layer of ice.
Ball said the frosty conditions were creating an additional set of hazards for the 55 firefighters on the scene.
"While heat-related illnesses are common for firefighters, now you combine that with the rapid onset of frostbite or hypothermia when they come out and they're wet and exposed to bitter cold temperatures," he said.
Outgoing Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak told reporters he was "deeply concerned" about the fire.
"I'm also deeply grateful for the firefighters and other crews who came out here and kept it from getting worse," he said.