Illustrating how very, very hard it is to have a breakout hit in today's mobile app stores, a report from app store analytics firm Distimo released today finds that only 2 percent of the top 250 publishers in the iPhone App Store are "newcomers," versus just 3 percent in the Android store, Google Play.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/XDEVZB9lOGw/
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JOLIET, Ill. (AP) ? Drew Peterson showed nearly no emotion during his trial, yet the once famously jocular ex-Illinois police officer screamed out his innocence before he was sentenced to 38 years in prison for his third wife's death in an outburst that suggested reality may be settling in.
"I did not kill Kathleen!" Peterson shouted as he leaned into a courtroom microphone Thursday, emphasizing each of the five words.
Without missing a beat, his dead wife's sister, Susan Doman, shouted back, "Yes, you did! You liar!" before the judge ordered sheriff's deputies to remove her from the courtroom.
For years, Peterson casually dismissed and even joked about suggestions he killed his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2004, or that he was behind the 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson.
His sudden explosion of fury Thursday as he stepped up to address the judge who would sentence him for Savio's death left spectators gasping. Lead state prosecutor James Glasgow said it exposed the real Drew Peterson ? the one more than capable of murder.
"We all got an opportunity to see a psychopath reveal himself in open court," Glasgow told reporters shortly after Thursday's hearing. "That shrill ... screech. ... That's the guy that killed Kathy."
"It was scary," Doman added later. "This is what my sister had to go through."
It was a climax in a long-running drama that has played out in the media amid speculation that Peterson sought to use his law enforcement expertise to get away with murder.
Savio's death was initially ruled an accident after her body was found jammed into a dry bathtub at her home, a gash on the back of her head and her hair soaked in blood. It was Stacy Peterson's 2007 disappearance that prompted authorities to take another look and eventually reclassify Savio's death as a homicide.
But the sentencing likely isn't the end of the story. Prosecutors said they could charge Peterson in the disappearance of his fourth wife, who vanished when she was 23. An appeal also awaits, and defense attorneys believe the conviction could easily get tossed, in part because prosecutors heavily relied on hearsay evidence.
"It has a good a chance of a successful appeal as any case I've ever seen," Steve Greenberg, one of Peterson's attorneys, said late Thursday.
Illinois does not have the death penalty, and the 59-year-old Peterson had faced a maximum 60-year prison term. Judge Edward Burmila gave him four years' credit for time he has served since his 2009 arrest.
Before the sentence was announced, Peterson started his statement to the judge with a startling scream ? then went on for 30 more minutes, continuing in mostly hushed tones, crying and trying to regain his composure at times. His voice quivered and his hands were shaking as he reached for a glass of water.
"I loved Kathy. She was a good mom," he said, tearing up. "She did not deserve to die. But she died in an accident."
At times, Peterson seemed to wallow in self-pity, telling the judge tearfully: "I don't deserve this." Another time, he seethed, blaming prosecutors for what he called "the largest railroad job ever" in his case.
Minutes later, Peterson glared at Glasgow and challenged him to look him in the eyes. Glasgow, who had been taking notes, laid down his pen, folded his arms and looked straight back at Peterson. "Never forget what you've done here," Peterson said.
Glasgow later told reporters about that moment, saying, "I was thinking, 'You're a cold-blooded murderer and I'll stare you down until I die.'"
Peterson had divorced Savio a year before her death. His motive for killing her, prosecutors said, was fear that a pending settlement would wipe him out financially.
The glib, cocky former Chicago-area police officer seemed to taunt authorities before his arrest, once suggesting a "Win a Date With Drew Contest," and then after his arrest, a "Win a Conjugal Visit With Drew Contest." More recently, his story inspired a TV movie starring Rob Lowe.
Earlier during Thursday's sentencing hearing, Savio's family members took the stand to convey how their own lives had been shattered by the murder. Henry Savio Jr., the victim's brother, said he hoped Drew Peterson saw visions of his sister.
"I hope she is haunting him in his dreams," he said, adding later that he hoped his sister "is watching (Peterson's) descent into hell."
Another sister, Anna Doman, said she couldn't help thinking about what her sister went through in the moments before she died: "The horror and the betrayal she felt when she realized that someone she had trusted and loved more than anything was killing her."
At one point, Peterson said he'd paid for Kathleen Savio's funeral, prompting her brother to shout across the courtroom, "That's a lie!" He was ordered to leave the courtroom, and later told reporters he couldn't hold himself back.
"It was constant lies out of his mouth," he said. "So, I just erupted and had to tell him."
Prosecutors had no physical evidence tying Peterson to Savio's death and no witnesses placing him at the scene ? something Peterson alluded to in his statement.
During last year's trial, they relied on typically barred hearsay ? statements Savio made to others before she died and that Stacy Peterson made before she vanished. Illinois passed a hearsay law in 2008, tailored to Drew Peterson's case and dubbed "Drew's Law," which assisted in making some of the evidence admissible.
The hearsay included a friend testifying that Savio told her Peterson once put a knife to her throat and warned her, "I could kill you and make it look like an accident."
Prosecutors suspect Peterson killed his fourth wife because she could point to him for Savio's death. Peterson has maintained his fourth wife ran off with another man and is still alive.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/drew-peterson-screams-gets-prison-wifes-death-075621793.html
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From the NY Times:
A plan by President Obama for an overhaul of the immigration?system would put illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship that could begin after about eight years and would require them to go to the back of the line behind legal applicants, according to a draft of the legislation that the White House has circulated in the administration.?
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LONDON (AP) ? A patient being treated for a mysterious SARS-like virus has died, a British hospital said Tuesday.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, central England, said the coronavirus victim was also being treated for "a long-term, complex unrelated health problem" and already had a compromised immune system.
A total of 12 people worldwide have been diagnosed with the disease, six of whom have died.
The virus was first identified last year in the Middle East. Most of those infected had traveled to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Pakistan, but the person who just died is believed to have caught it from a relative in Britain, where there have been four confirmed cases.
The new coronavirus is part of a family of viruses that cause ailments including the common cold and SARS. In 2003, a global outbreak of SARS killed about 800 people worldwide.
Health experts still aren't sure exactly how humans are being infected. The new coronavirus is most closely related to a bat virus and scientists are considering whether bats or other animals like goats or camels are a possible source of infection.
Britain's Health Protection Agency has said while it appears the virus can spread from person to person, "the risk of infection in contacts in most circumstances is still considered to be low."
Officials at the World Health Organization said the new virus has probably already spread between humans in some instances. In Saudi Arabia last year, four members of the same family fell ill and two died. And in a cluster of about a dozen people in Jordan, the virus may have spread at a hospital's intensive care unit.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-patient-dies-sars-coronavirus-110739376.html
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - French and Malian troops secured the north Mali town of Bourem on Sunday, tightening their control over areas where Islamist insurgents have been launching guerrilla attacks to harass the French-led military operation.
"Bourem is a bastion of Islamists," said a military official from an African military contingent called AFISMA.
African troops in this contingent are being deployed behind the French forward lines in the five-week-old intervention by Paris in its former Sahel colony.
Located by the Niger River, Bourem is about 80 km (50 miles) north of Gao at a crossroads between Timbuktu to the west and Kidal to the north, both of which are now under French and Malian government control.
"All the current problems in Gao come from Bourem," said the official, who asked not to be named. He said there had been no real fighting to take the town.
French leaders have said they intend to start pulling out the 4,000 French troops in Mali in March to hand over security to the Malian army and to the U.N.-backed AFISMA force, which is expected to exceed 8,000 soldiers and is drawn mainly from Mali's West African neighbors.
SUICIDE BOMBERS
Last week two suicide bombers struck at the same checkpoint on the road coming into Gao from Bourem, while insurgents also launched a surprise raid in Gao battling French and local troops.
The attacks, two weeks after Gao was liberated from al Qaeda-allied rebels who had held it for 11 months, surprised the French and the Malian soldiers there and raised the prospect of a laborious counter-insurgency task for Paris' forces.
After driving the jihadist rebels from main northern towns such as Gao and Timbuktu, French warplanes and special forces are searching for rebel hideouts in the remote and mountainous northeast, where Paris believes the insurgents may be holding French hostages sized in the Sahel and Nigeria.
The United States and Europe back the French-led operation against al Qaeda and its allies in Mali, hoping it will ward off the threat of jihadist attacks in Africa and elsewhere.
But while providing logistical and intelligence support in Mali, the American and European governments have ruled out sending their own ground troops, and analysts say the French may be left with a messy anti-guerrilla war on their hands.
(Reporting By Tiemoko Diallo; Writing by John Irish; Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Stephen Powell)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/french-malian-troops-secure-rebel-strongpoint-near-gao-181546298.html
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EUGENE, OR ? February 18, 2013 ? (RealEstateRama) ? Today, Florida real estate broker Scott Sadlon and IDX, Inc. announce the unveiling of the comprehensive real estate website Sadlon has synchronized with an IDX solution. The IDX Broker software he has integrated onto his search page gives Sadlon and his clients a detailed database of thousands of Brevard MLS (BMLS) listings seamlessly and instantly. Home seekers can experience an online property search comparable to none, thanks to the IDX-enabled website Sadlon hosts.
The custom IDX Quick Search feature offers Sadlon a myriad of search options for a truly integrated IDX solution. He can use the generated code and plug directly into his existing website, or he can export the generated HTML for even better integration. Using the unique Web 2.0 drag and drop interface, Sadlon can completely customize which search fields he wants to display in his quick search widget. He can even rename the column labels, set the font, font size, or even add his own code and CSS to personalize it completely. The possibilities for complete integration are endless.
An administrative login page allows Sadlon to efficiently and effectively manage all aspects of his website, from an unseen and personalized access page. Changing and customizing the look, layout and functionality of his search page has never been simpler, thanks to the IDX solution he employs. Sadlon can edit the CSS and global wrappers of his page effortlessly, creating a more recognizable brand for his real estate business and website. IDX Broker software has given Sadlon and his clients so many unique and valuable tools to simplify the online real estate marketplace.
Scott Sadlon
Scott Sadlon is a real estate broker with Explicit Real Estate of Melbourne, Florida.
About IDX, Inc.
Based in Eugene, Oregon, IDX Inc. is nationally known as a leading provider of real estate search applications. IDX, Inc. actively manages over $1 trillion worth of active listings data from over 500 individual Multiple Listings Services (MLS). IDX, Inc. provides integrated IDX software, customizable listing search utilities and lead management tools for real estate based websites (IDX Broker ). In addition to the primary web-based software, IDX also provides an integrated WordPress widget for use in WordPress based blogs and websites (IDX Broker WordPress Plugin ) as well as a dedicated mobile application available for the iPhone and iPad (myAgent IDX ). The entire suite of real estate software available from IDX is easy to manage and maintain and helps real estate professionals display real estate data from their multiple listing service (MLS) regardless of their technical ability. For more information on all the services provided by IDX, Inc., please visit www.idxbroker.com .
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