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June 15 (Reuters) – South Korean chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor Inc (000660.KS) said on Tuesday it would invest 456 billion won ($373.4 million) to boost and upgrade its production capacity.
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The announcement comes after the world’s No.2 memory chipmaker recently raised its capital spending plans for 2010 by a third to 3.05 trillion won. [ID:nSEU003065] ($1=1221.2 Won)
(Reporting by Miyoung Kim; Editing by Jonathan Hopfner)
Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), May 8 (ANI): Tibetan exiles” football team played for the first time in a local tournament here in Dharamsala eyeing upon recognition by the All India Football Federation (AIFF).
The 22nd Shaheed Durga Mal Dal Bahadur Memorial Gold Cup Football Tournament is organised in the memory of two Gorkha-Nepali soldiers, who sacrificed their lives for their motherland.
Thirteen teams from different parts of India, including the Tibetan National Sports Association (TNSA) football team, are participating in the five-day tournament.
TNSA General Secretary Kelsang Dhondup said the All India Football Federation (AIFF) did not recognize them, proving to be a major handicap for the Tibetan exiles” budding players.
“This is a step for us to go for a tournament and then the problem for us is the All India Football Federation, sometime they say we are not allowed to play the Indian league. It”s a big problem for us,” said Kelsang Dhondup.
“We have requested the All India Football Federation to give us a chance to play in the domestic tournament,” he added.
“Definitely, if All India Football Federation supports the TNSA it will be very helpful in the development of Tibetan national football,” said Tashi Tsering, the team”s coach.
The Tibetan exiles” football team had earlier played in the Sikkim Gold Cup, held in Gangtok. (ANI)
Melbourne, April 27 (ANI): Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, who has a unique ability to draw detailed city skylines from memory, has his sights set on Sydney.
The architectural artist was diagnosed with autism when he was three years old.
Wiltshire will arrive in Australia this week with hopes to produce a poster-size pen and ink drawing of the harbour city after examining its skyline for just 20 minutes, reports The Herald Sun.
The 36-year-old prodigy draws an image after taking helicopter ride to carefully look at the landscape in detail.
Wiltshire is quite excited about his visit to Australia, “I have never been there before. I wanted to go because it”s a nice, beautiful city. It”s going to be amazing,” he said.
Wiltshire has been invited to Sydney by Autism Spectrum Australia Aspect to mark Autism month. (ANI)
Around 40 people, among them 17 police officers, were injured when soccer fans clashed with police after a 1-1 draw between Sarajevo and Siroki Brijeg late on Wednesday, local official said on Thursday.
Sarajevo supporters had hoped for a victory in memory of a soccer fan killed in violence that accompanied the last match with Siroki Brijeg in October.
“You betrayed us,” supporters shouted at players and club management after the game ended. The players managed to escape safely from the stadium.
Fans then clashed with security and police who tried to stop them from damaging the stadium.
“Seventeen policemen were injured in the violence, several with serious injuries,” Sarajevo police spokesman Dragan Mijokovic said. “Up to 15 people were detained.”
Most people were treated for face and head injuries but nobody was seriously hurt.
Several people were also injured in clashes between police and fans after a match between local rivals Zrinjski and Velez in the ethnically divided southern town of Mostar.
(Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Adam Tanner and Alastair Himmer.
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London, April 19 (ANI): Just like humans, apes are sufficiently self-aware to doubt their own knowledge, says a new study.
As part of the research, Josep Call of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, put food in one of two opaque plastic pipes and had watching bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans pick the one with the food.
Call found that if they were made to wait, the apes sometimes forgot where the food was, but by and large they did well on the task, reports New Scientist.
To find out if the apes doubted their own decisions, Call gave them the option to peek into the end of the pipes before they chose one.
He found that the apes were more likely to check the pipes if they had to wait before picking one.
Call says this suggests that the apes had begun to doubt their memory.
The study has been published in the journal Animal Cognition. (ANI)
London, April 19 (ANI): Just like humans, apes are sufficiently self-aware to doubt their own knowledge, says a new study.
As part of the research, Josep Call of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, put food in one of two opaque plastic pipes and had watching bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans pick the one with the food.
Call found that if they were made to wait, the apes sometimes forgot where the food was, but by and large they did well on the task, reports New Scientist.
To find out if the apes doubted their own decisions, Call gave them the option to peek into the end of the pipes before they chose one.
He found that the apes were more likely to check the pipes if they had to wait before picking one.
Call says this suggests that the apes had begun to doubt their memory.
The study has been published in the journal Animal Cognition. (ANI)
A hole-in-one provided a late highlight in an otherwise disappointing Masters debut for Australian Nathan Green.
Newcastle’s Green was planning to hit a seven-iron from 161 metres at the par-three 16th, but he switched to a six-iron after watching fellow competitor Chad Campbell come up a little short at Augusta National.
Green landed his shot above the pin, which was in its traditional final round position bottom left, and used the slope perfectly as gravity did the rest.
“It’s all luck,” said the modest Green, who nonetheless admitted it had been a huge thrill.
“To do it on this stage in front of a good crowd at the Masters is something you’ll take with you forever.”
It was the 12th hole-in-one at the 16th hole at the Masters and Green said it was his fifth in competition, but not quite as memorable as the ace he made in the 2001 Australian Masters, which earned him $500,000, bankrolling an overseas career that eventually led to the lucrative US PGA Tour.
By comparison, he will receive some crystal for the hole-in-one along with American Ryan Moore who also achieved the feat at the same hole.
Despite the ace, Green could only card 75 to finish at 14-over-par 302.
He blamed poor driving and poor putting for his mediocre total.
“Hopefully I can get back here and give it a better shake next time,” he said.
“It doesn’t matter how big the event is, if you’re playing bad it’s not much fun.”
A 20 year old Perth man has been sentenced to four years jail for a robbery in which the victim was hit across the face with a star picket.
Andrew Peter Schultz and a 16 year old boy attacked a 39 year old man at a service station in Burswood in August last year.
Schultz hit the man with a star picket, the boy took his keys and the two then stole his car.
The victim suffered four broken bones in his face and needed metal plates inserted.
Schultz pleaded guilty to charges of armed robbery and causing grievous bodily harm.
The Supreme Court was told he had no memory of the robbery because he was affected by alcohol and drugs.
Schultz was given another year on top of his sentence because the attack breached a suspended jail term he had received for offences including assault and stealing a car.
He will have to serve three years before he can be released.
Schultz was made eligible for parole.
A major 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck near the Mexico-California border on Sunday, killing at least one person as it rocked buildings, ruptured a highway and panicked residents from Tijuana to Los Angeles.
One person died when a house in Mexicali collapsed, Alfredo Escobedo, director of emergency services in Baja California state, Mexico, said. He said others had been trapped in elevators, retaining walls collapsed in some places and electricity was out in several parts of the state.
“There are around 100 people injured,” Escobedo told Reuters, but he had no reports of people stuck under collapsed buildings.
Local newspaper La Cronica said two people had died.
The relatively shallow quake was centred in a lightly populated area in northeastern Baja California near the city of Mexicali on the U.S. border. It knocked down power lines, cut off most phone communications and tore big cracks in a highway linking Tijuana to Mexicali.
The U.S. town of Calexico, over the border from Mexicali, suffered substantial structural damage but no casualties, local Fire Chief Pete Mercado told ABC7 TV News in Los Angeles.
“We are a population of 40,000 people, bordered next to 1.5 million. So we have a significant amount of damage down in Mexicali,” he said. “I have not got an update from the Mexican side.”
Mexicali is a prosperous city and a busy border crossing with the United States. Local industry is mainly agriculture, food processing plants and assembly-for-export plants. Images after the quake showed damaged but not collapsed buildings.
A series of aftershocks rocked the area around the epicentre, 30 miles (50 km) to the southeast of Mexicali and close to the town of Guadalupe Victoria for several hours.
“It’s still shaking,” Nadia Camacho, a receptionist at a Mexicali hotel which had cracks in its floor and walls, said hours after the quake struck at 3:40 p.m. Pacific time (2240 GMT). “We are all on alert. Nobody is inside the hotel, everybody’s outside.”
NERVES IN QUAKE-PRONE AREAS
The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at 7.2, a magnitude that can cause serious damage to urban areas.
Devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile this year have left many people nervous across tremor-prone Latin America.
An empty multistory parking garage under construction in Mexicali collapsed and broken gas pipes sparked a number of fires, Baja California civil protection official Eduardo Sandoval told Mexican radio.
In Tijuana, about 135 miles (200 km) from the epicentre, a Reuters witness said the quake visibly jolted cars in a parking lot and shook a computer on her desk.
Some neighbourhoods of San Diego reported minor structural damage and burst water pipes and callers to local radio said the rolling tremor made it hard to keep vehicles on the road.
“This was by far in recent memory the biggest jolt to our area,” said a commentator on local San Diego radio station.
People in Los Angeles, some 200 miles (320 km) northwest of the epicentre, felt buildings swaying.
“I’m shaking like a leaf … the pool water was just going everywhere,” said Jean Nelson in Indio, California, outside Palm Springs, about 120 miles (190 km) from the epicentre.
Southern California with its many active faults is prone to frequent quakes, and many residents fearfully anticipate the next big one. The last to cause major damage was the 6.7 magnitude Northridge quake in 1994 that left 57 dead, injured 9,000 and resulted in about $40 billion in property damage.
(Additional reporting by Robert Campbell and Tomas Sarmiento in Mexico City, Mary Milliken in Los Angeles and Jackie Frank in Washington; Writing by Robert Campbell and Catherine Bremer; Editing by Will Dunham and Chris Wilson)
TOKYO, April 2 (Reuters) – Japanese memory chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc (6665.T) will raise 11.7 billion yen ($125 million) by issuing 6.47 million new shares to U.S. DRAM module supplier Kingston Technology, according to a regulatory filing.
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Elpida will also issue a $75 million convertible bond maturing in 2013 to Kingston, a separate filing showed.
TOKYO, April 2 (Reuters) – Japanese memory chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc (6665.T) will raise 11.7 billion yen ($125 million) by issuing 6.47 million new shares to U.S. DRAM module supplier Kingston Technology, according to a regulatory filing.
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Elpida will also issue a $75 million convertible bond maturing in 2013 to Kingston, a separate filing showed.
London, Mar 31 (ANI): Inter Milan boss Jose Mourinho broke his media silence to admit that he still misses the English Premier League.
The ex-Chelsea boss, now at Inter Milan, has staged a press blackout since receiving a three-game touchline ban in Serie A for a handcuffs gesture towards a referee.
But Champions League rules saw him break his exile ahead of tonight’s quarterfinal first leg game against CSKA Moscow, The Sun reports.
He said: “I miss the Premiership and the Premiership misses me.”
Asked if he would consider a summer offer from an English club, he replied: “At Inter I’m very busy with the championship, Italian Cup and Champions League, this takes up all my time.”
The CSKA players are expected to wear black armbands in memory of those killed in Monday’s Moscow suicide bombings. (ANI)
Washington, Mar 31 (ANI): Remembering to take a daily medication is apparently a tough task for many. Now, researchers have pointed out the reason behind the forgetfulness.
The landmark study from North Carolina State University has found that changes in daily behavior have a significant effect on whether we remember to take our medication – and that these changes influence older and younger adults differently.
“We’ve found that it is not just differences between people, but differences in what we do each day, that affect our ability to remember to take medication,” says Dr. Shevaun Neupert, an assistant professor of psychology at NC State and lead author of a paper describing the research. “This is the first time anyone has looked at the effect daily changes in how busy we are affects our ability to remember medications. We also learned that these changes in daily behavior affect different age groups in different ways.
“For example, young people do the best job of remembering to take their medication on days when they are busier than usual,” Neupert says. “But older adults do a better job of remembering their medication on days when they are less busy.”
To reach the conclusion, the researchers evaluated study participants who were on prescribed daily medications. The participants were divided into two groups: younger adults (between the ages of 18 and 20) and older adults (between the ages of 60 and 89).
For both age groups, the researchers found that participants were more likely to remember to take their medications on days when they performed better than usual on “cognition” tests – which evaluate memory and critical thinking.
“We found that cognition is an important factor in remembering medications,” Neupert says, “but that how busy we are is also important.” This has very real applications for helping people remember to take medications that can be essential to their health and well-being.
“We’ve found such a disparity between young and old adults, that it’s clear we need to tailor our messages to these two groups,” Neupert says. “For example, it is important for young people to stay busy and be active. That will help them remember to take their medications. However, we need to let older adults know that need to be particularly vigilant about remembering medication on days when they expect to be busier than usual.”
The study, “Age Differences in Daily Predictors of Forgetting to Take Medication: The Importance of Context and Cognition,” will be published in a forthcoming issue of Experimental Aging Research. (ANI)
A 92-year-old Melbourne woman is celebrating the return of her much-loved car after it was stolen last week.
The 1978 Holden Torana Sunbird disappeared from the carport at Mary Shaw’s Ringwood East home and police recovered it yesterday at Coldstream without its number plates.
Mrs Shaw’s husband Bert died just two weeks after they bought the car brand new, and she kept it in his memory.
Mrs Shaw says the car gets a lot of attention wherever she goes.
“I gave the police at least 20 names and telephone numbers of people that had left stickers on the car saying do you want to sell this car,” she said.
“And on another occasion, I came home and drove under the carport and looked and there was a man walking up the path and he said ‘I followed your car home.’
“He said ‘I wanted to see where you lived and if you wanted to sell it.’”
A man has told a Rockhampton murder trial in central Queensland, he considered for a second that he may have killed his father and stepmother.
Hayden Michael Finch, 23, gave evidence in the Supreme Court on his own behalf yesterday and denied shooting Murray Finch and Leonie Musgrove.
But during cross examination by prosecutor Greg Cummings, Finch said when police suggested to him that he had killed the couple but could not remember, he said he considered that possibility for a second.
Finch said he could not remember periods of time on the day of the alleged murder after taking half a packet of sleeping pills.
However, he said his memory became clearer over the next couple of months and he is now certain he did not kill his father and stepmother.
London, Mar 6 (ANI): John Lennon’s son Sean has said there is nothing wrong in the use of his father’s footage in a car advert.
The late Beatles member features in an advert for French firm Citroen, pondering on “copying the past” and “looking backwards”.
Many have condemned Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono for using the interview footage for commercial purpose.
However, the music legend’s son has clarified that it was instead an effort to keep his father in people’s memory.
Sean Tweeted, the ad was “not for money” but was supposed to keep his father “out there in the world”.
“Having just seen [the] ad I realize why people are mad. But [the] intention was not financial,” the BBC quoted him as stating.
Sean also added his mother was just “hoping to keep dad in [the] public consciousness”.
He explained that the Citroen DS3 commercial meant allowing the status of his father an “exposure to [the] young.”
Meanwhile, the car company said Lennon had been chosen for his “universal, timeless and iconic status”. (ANI)
London, Sept 20 (ANI): In one of her missing letters to the Queen Mother Princess Diana claimed that Prince Charles had three lovers while they were married.
Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997, named Camilla, Aussie Lady Dale Tryon – known as Kanga – and another high society squeeze in the sensational note, reports The Daily Star.
A source close to the royals said: “Diana was in a lot of pain at the time and wanted to damage Charles.
“She knew he was close to his grandmother and wanted to lash out to hurt him.
“She thought that if someone he really respected knew her claims, they might be able to make him change.”
The letter is understood to be one of dozens from Diana to the Queen Mother which were later incinerated by Princess Margaret to protect her mother’s memory. (ANI)
London, Sep 19 (ANI): Locals of a North Carolina community, where Patrick Swayze’s film ‘Dirty Dancing’ was shot, are planning a memorial service for the late star.
The ‘Ghost’ star died on Monday evening after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
The town of Lake Lure will pay homage to the 57-year-old during a memorial service on Saturday evening at Firefly Cove, a housing development that was Camp Chimney Rock when ‘Dirty Dancing’ was filmed.
Many outdoor scenes in the film were filmed there, as was the cabin of Johnny Castle, Swayze’s character.
While the memorial service is free, visitors will be asked to donate to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
Rev Everette Chapman, who will be speaking at the memorial service, said that the town’s residents remember Swayze as a kind family man.
Chapman, who lived at Lake Lure when the movie was filmed but did not meet the actors, said he would talk about Swayze’s determination to live each day to the fullest.
“I’ll ask people their memory of him and just talk about him as every woman’s heart-throb and every man’s envy,” said Chapman.
Although organisers have no idea how many people to expect, they have still arranged for police officers to help with parking. (ANI)
Washington, September 15 (ANI): Conducting extensive research into animal cognition, psychologists at the University at Buffalo have found that some animals may share humans’ ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate their states of mind.
“Comparative psychologists have studied the question of whether or not non-human animals have knowledge of their own cognitive states by testing a dolphin, pigeons, rats, monkeys and apes using perception, memory and food-concealment paradigms,” said Dr. J. David Smith, a comparative psychologist at the university.
“The field offers growing evidence that some animals have functional parallels to humans’ consciousness and to humans’ cognitive self-awareness,” he added.
He counts dolphins and macaque monkeys among such species.
Recounting the original animal-metacognition experiment with Natua the dolphin, Smith said: “When uncertain, the dolphin clearly hesitated and wavered between his two possible responses, but when certain, he swam toward his chosen response so fast that his bow wave would soak the researchers’ electronic switches.”
He added: “In sharp contrast, pigeons in several studies have so far not expressed any capacity for metacognition. In addition, several converging studies now show that capuchin monkeys barely express a capacity for metacognition. This last result,” Smith says, “raises important questions about the emergence of reflective or extended mind in the primate order. This research area opens a new window on reflective mind in animals, illuminating its phylogenetic emergence and allowing researchers to trace the antecedents of human consciousness.”
Smith describes metacognition as a sophisticated human capacity linked to hierarchical structure in the mind because the metacognitive executive control processes oversee lower-level cognition, to self-awareness because uncertainty and doubt feel so personal and subjective, and to declarative consciousness because humans are conscious of their states of knowing and can declare them to others.
Therefore, Smith says: “It is a crucial goal of comparative psychology to establish firmly whether animals share humans’ metacognitive capacity. If they do, it could bear on their consciousness and self-awareness, too.”
He concludes, “Metacognition rivals language and tool use in its potential to establish important continuities or discontinuities between human and animal minds.”
A research article describing his study has been published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Science. (ANI)
London, September 13 (ANI): A string of messages penned by Michael Jackson in his final hours have come to light.
Post-its notes and sheets of paper, scribbled as “wishes for the world” have reportedly been found on the mirror in the late singer’s bathroom.
The notes allegedly show the King of Pop’s bizarre state of mind before he died of drug addiction on June 25, reports the News of the World.
Pals of the singer believe Jackson was using the notes as means to prepare himself for his comeback concerts in London.
Note number one, found on the right of Jackson’s gold-framed mirror, apparently read: “I am so grateful that I am a magnet for miracles.”
Note number two, pinned to the bottom of the mirror, a message in large handwriting said: “Love, no violence ever!” And underneath, in smaller handwriting, he had added: “Remember a beautiful future promise of tomorrow.”
Note number three was a startling reminder to perform the hit charity single he recorded with soul legend Lionel Ritchie in 1985, saying: “Do We Are The World in show”.
Note number four read “Call Temperton”, referring to British songwriter and producer Rod Temperton, who co-wrote several Jackson songs including Thriller and Rock With You.
A source said: “It’s worrying that he had to write reminders about things as obvious as these while he was rehearsing for his tour…But the drugs he was taking obviously had a huge impact on his mind and memory.” (ANI)
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