China marks century-old revolution amid controversy (Reuters)

BEIJING (Reuters) ? China's Communist Party elite on Sunday marked a century since the revolution that ended millennia of rule by emperors, a date that has stoked warnings by critics that the party must tackle deeper reforms or also risk losing power.

China's calendar is speckled with anniversaries heavy with political symbolism, and even the distant events that triggered the fall of the Qing dynasty and birth of a republic in 1911-12 have become a focus for controversy about the country's future.

President Hu Jintao said China's history since the toppling of the Qing dynasty showed that one-party rule remained vital to the nation's hopes for economic prosperity and political unity, including reunification with self-ruled Taiwan.

"To achieve the great revival of the Chinese nation, we must certainly firmly uphold the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party," Hu told hundreds of officials gathered in the cavernous Great Hall of the People in central Beijing in a nationally televised keynote speech celebrating the "Xinhai Revolution."

But the party's version of the fall of the dynasty has been challenged by critics who say the chaotic chain of coups and insurrections that toppled the corrupt empire and subsequent violent faction conflicts and invasion by Japan are a reminder of the need for democratic reform in the present.

China again faces a dangerous confluence of official corruption, volatile public discontent and stalled reform, Zhou Ruijin, the former deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Daily newspaper said in a recent essay about the 1911 revolution.

"Grievances, distrust and rancor that have accumulated over many years have reached a period when they break out," Zhou wrote in a Beijing magazine.

In past months, authorities have shown how sensitive they are about liberal intellectuals using the events of 1911 as a mirror to criticize or cajole the government. Some seminars and debates about the anniversary have been canceled.

"For us, China's Xinhai Revolution is still not dead history, it still has a strong resonance with present-day realities," said Lei Yi, an historian at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.

"A key lesson of the revolution is that the country's fate depends on whether the rulers make the right choices about advancing reforms. Above all, there's still the issue that a modern China needs a modern form of government -- constitutional government."

The 1911 revolution has also been celebrated in television dramas and a movie whose stars include Jackie Chan, a martial arts actor better know for high kicks than high politics.

President Hu is due to leave office from late next year, when a Communist Party congress will install a new leadership.

The 1911 Revolution gave birth to the Republic of China in early 1912 under President Sun Yat-sen. Taiwan is still formally called the Republic of China after Nationalist forces fled there in 1949 to escape advanced Communist forces.

Hu used his anniversary speech to warn Taiwan against ever pursuing outright independence and to call for closer ties with the island, which holds a presidential election in January.

Among the guests in the Great Hall was 85-year-old former president Jiang Zemin, making a rare public appearance after widespread speculation in July that he was in failing health, even near death, after a heart attack.

(Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Ed Lane)

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Apple fans reach for Jobs' devices to mourn him

Apple computer fans hold their iPhones and iPads displaying candle graphics during a candle light vigil to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO, at an Apple Store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Apple announced Jobs' death without giving a specific cause. He died on Wednesdayat the age of 56. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Apple computer fans hold their iPhones and iPads displaying candle graphics during a candle light vigil to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO, at an Apple Store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Apple announced Jobs' death without giving a specific cause. He died on Wednesdayat the age of 56. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Apple computer fans hold their iPhones and iPads displaying candle graphics during a candle light vigil to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO, at an Apple Store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Jobs died on Wednesday at the age of 56. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

A photo of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is displayed as a tribute, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 at Nasdaq in New York. Jobs died Wednesday at age 56 after a long battle with cancer. Apple shares are listed on Nasdaq. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

An iPad displays a candle besides a picture of Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs as to pay tribute at an Apple retail store in Hong Kong Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. and father of the iPhone, has died at age 56. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

A woman touches an iPhone to light a candle graphic during a candle light vigil to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO, at an Apple Store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Apple announced Jobs' death without giving a specific cause. He died on Wednesday at the age of 56. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

He was a conjurer, a modern magician who reached into tomorrow and came up with things that changed millions of lives. And as people gathered at Apple Stores from Sydney to San Francisco to mourn Steve Jobs, the feeling was more than grief for an executive or even an inventor. It was something closer to awe for a wizard.

On Thursday, the admirers who turned his technological marvels into everyday tools used them as instruments of grief. People held up pictures of candles on their iPads, booted up their MacBook Pros to watch old Jobs presentations on YouTube, used their iPhones to sift through remembrances on Twitter.

They grieved his loss through devices that before his time, or without his vision, would have been considered beyond humanity's reach.

Ten years ago, the only people who carried their music around were tech geeks, music obsessives and those willing to tote a clunky CD player. Presto ? the iPod, and everyone wanted one. And then another and another.

Five years ago, cellphones had hinges, and the displays looked more like the age of Atari than the age of the Internet. Texting, for the most part, was a matter of cryptography, tapping out strings of numbers to make words. Presto ? the iPhone, and everyone wanted one of those, too.

Two years ago, the economy had just tanked, and it was hard enough for companies to persuade people to buy the things they needed. Getting people to buy a product they didn't need was out of the question. Most people already had a desktop computer, or a laptop, or a smartphone. And yet, presto ? the iPad.

Nothing up his sleeve. Though Jobs, ever the showman, once reached into the tiny fifth pocket of his trademark blue jeans at an Apple event and fished out an iPod Nano, just to emphasize how small the gadget was. They always were. Ever smaller, ever sleeker, ever cooler.

Anne Sweeney, the president of Disney and ABC, remembered when Jobs flew from Cupertino, Calif., to Burbank to persuade her to license ABC shows to be shown on the tiny screen of his newest invention, the video iPod. He wowed them by playing an episode of ABC's own hit show, "Lost."

Sweeney was so bowled over she forgot to ask where he got a copy of the program.

"I thought, 'He's Steve Jobs. He can do anything,'" she remembered.

One day after his death, two days after Apple introduced the latest incarnation of a touch-screen phone that touched pop culture, sadness and admiration poured out ? not for a rock star, not for a religious figure, but for an American corporate executive.

"He was a genius," Rosario Hidalgo said outside an Apple Store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan while her daughter, 21-month-old Carlotta, used an iPhone to play an app that teaches children to match animal sounds to animal pictures.

For people who have grown up in a world where iPod headphones are as ubiquitous as wristwatches were to a previous generation, Jobs was remembered as their Elvis Presley or John Lennon. Perhaps even their Thomas Edison.

"It's like the end of the innovators," said Scott Robbins, 34, who described himself as an Apple fan of 20 years and who rushed to an Apple Store in San Francisco when he heard the news.

Apple announced Jobs' death Wednesday night and remembered him as a "visionary and creative genius." The company announced no cause of death, but Jobs had been diagnosed with a rare pancreatic cancer seven years ago and had a liver transplant in 2009. He was 56. The company did not release any details about Jobs' funeral; a spokesman said there would be no public services.

On Thursday, the Apple website, which usually features slick presentations of multicolored iPods and ever-thinner MacBook laptop computers, simply displayed a black-and-white photo of Jobs, thumb and finger to his beard as if in contemplation.

Around the world, tributes sprang up of the highest and lowest technology.

In the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo, people held up iPhones and iPads, their screens facing outward and displaying sharply defined, touchable graphics of flickering candles.

At an Apple Store in Hong Kong, old and new means of grief came together: People scribbled "RIP" and "We miss Steve" and longer notes of condolence on Post-It notes, and stuck them to an iPad display.

And at the 24-hour Apple Store in midtown Manhattan, the remembrances were more traditional. Passersby left flowers and candles, actual ones. Even there, people snapped pictures of the memorial with their iPhones.

"I was so saddened. For me it was like Michael Jackson or Princess Diana ? that magnitude," Stephen Jarjoura said at the Apple Store in Sydney. His said Jobs left a legacy to rival Edison and Albert Einstein.

Philippe Meunier, a senior partner of a Canadian ad agency who was visiting New York from Montreal, reflected on how weird it was to receive the news of Jobs' death on the phone he invented.

Even in Syria, seven months into an uprising, people paused to take pride in Jobs, whose father was born in Homs, the third-largest city.

"This shows that this country can produce geniuses, if only we had freedoms instead of a suffocating dictatorship," said Sara, a 23-year-old Syrian student who refused to give her full name for fear of Syrian government reprisal.

Apple has sold 129 million iPhones and 29 million iPads. And in the decade since it revolutionized the music industry by offering "1,000 songs in your pocket," it has sold 300 million iPods, or roughly enough to outfit every person in the United States.

Famously devoted to Apple products ? and often mocked, it must be said, by people who are not ? even the acolytes of Jobs paused to reflect on how deeply his creations were enmeshed in their lives. Seamlessly, of course.

"I'm Apple everything," said Alison Brie, who plays Annie Edison on the NBC comedy show "Community." ''It's changed the way we listen to music and watch TV, connect to fans. Twitter on my phone is ? it's huge."

In New York, a family visiting from Norway waited for the 9 a.m. opening of an Apple Store. Jorund Skurdal said his family owned about 15 Apple gadgets, including "a couple iPads, iPods, an iMac, an iBook, and some other things."

Five-year-old son Carsten already had his own MacBook, and 3-year-old Sanna was an iPod fan. Carsten had just bought a new app yesterday ? Life of George, an interactive Lego game.

"He was one of a kind," Skurdal, who lives in Oslo, said of Jobs. "He was able to take these boring computer items and make them accessible, usable and very sexy." His main interest now, he said, "is that the company survives, and thrives. I think it will."

Jobs' death came a day after Tim Cook, who took over as Apple CEO when Jobs stepped down in August, presided over the launch of the iPhone 4S. It was the first time in years Apple had launched a major product without Jobs to advertise it in his trademark jeans and black mock turtleneck.

Apple stock, which traded at about $5 a share when Jobs assumed the CEO job for the second time in 1997, passed $400 earlier this year. Investors have worried for years about what would happen to the company without him.

Because so many products that were graced by the Jobs touch are still in the sales pipeline, it will take years to measure the impact of his death. On Thursday, the stock fluctuated, but only by a couple of percentage points. It closed down 88 cents at $377.37.

In a measure of his impact on personal technology, Jobs was venerated by his fiercest competitors in the hours after his death.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, a company that Apple once treated as Goliath to its David and then blew past in market value, said it was "an insanely great honor" to have known Jobs. A statement of grief came from Sony, whose Walkman and Discman were buried by the iPod.

Google added a link to the Apple site on its famously minimalist search page. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, thanked him for changing the world.

To the extent that there is an online version of the old-time public square, it was overrun Thursday by remembrances of Jobs.

On Twitter, where the most popular "trending" topics change by the hour, "ThankYouSteve" and "iSad" were still high on the list a day after his death.

On Facebook, people posted revisions of the Apple logo, a stylized apple with a detached leaf and a half-moon bite taken out. One added a frown and tears to the apple. Another replaced the bite with a silhouette of Jobs himself.

Heads of state around the world added their thoughts. President Barack Obama said Jobs exemplified American ingenuity. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon bemoaned the loss of "one of the most visionary minds of our times." India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was "deeply saddened."

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Associated Press writers Karen Matthews and Jocelyn Noveck in New York, Ryan Nakashima in Los Angeles and Zeina Karam in Beirut contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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San Francisco 49ers DL Ricky Jean-Francois might get the start in Week 5 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers if Isaac Sopoaga (infection) cannot play.

Updating a previous report, San Francisco 49ers DL Isaac Sopoaga (infection) has a staph infection, according to a source. His status for Week 5 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is in question.

San Francisco 49ers SS Donte Whitner (hip) practiced in full Wednesday, Oct. 5, and he is not listed on the team injury report after being listed last week with [ More ]

San Francisco 49ers OGs Mike Iupati (neck) and Adam Snyder (hamstring) were each listed as limited participants in practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

San Francisco 49ers DL Isaac Sopoaga (infection) and CB Shawntae Spencer (toe) were unable to practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

The Detroit Lions signed free-agent FS Vincent Fuller (Titans) Wednesday, Oct. 5. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.

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New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan said he isn't sure who CB Darrelle Revis will cover against the New England Patriots in Week 5. 'We have, but that [ More ]

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San Diego Chargers WR Vincent Jackson (hamstring) did not practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

The Indianapolis Colts signed free-agent TE Dedrick Epps (Dolphins) and DL Kade Weston (Patriots) to their practice squad Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Seattle Seahawks OG Robert Gallery (groin) has been ruled out for Week 5.

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Houston Texans head coach Gary Kubiak said RB Ben Tate (groin) is a little ahead of RB Derrick Ward (ankle) in terms of their recovery from injuries.

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Denver Broncos CB Champ Bailey (hamstring) and DL Marcus Thomas (groin) practiced in full Wednesday, Oct. 5.

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Jacksonville Jaguars LB Russell Allen (undisclosed), CB Derek Cox (groin) and FB Montell Owens (knee) did not practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

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Jacksonville Jaguars RB Maurice Jones-Drew (undisclosed) was limited in practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

New Orleans Saints LBs Jonathan Vilma (knee) and Martez Wilson (neck) were limited in practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Houston Texans WR Jacoby Jones (knee) was limited in practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Houston Texans OG Thomas Austin (knee), CB Johnathan Joseph (hamstring), C Chris Myers (elbow, ankle) and DL Antonio D. Smith (ankle) practiced in full Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Oakland Raiders LB Ricky Brown (concussion), TE Richard Gordon (hand), CB Chris X. Johnson (groin), RB Marcel Reece (ankle) and DL Matt Shaughnessy (shoulder) did not practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Oakland Raiders QB Jason Campbell (foot), CB Chimdi Chekwa (hamstring), S Michael Huff (ankle), DL Jarvis Moss (chest) and WR Louis Murphy (groin) were limited in practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Oakland Raiders S Jerome Boyd (knee), RB Michael Bush (ankle), RB Taiwan Jones (calf) and S Michael Mitchell (knee) practiced in full Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Houston Texans LB Tim Dobbins (hamstring), RB Ben Tate (groin) and RB Derrick Ward (ankle, shoulder) did not practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Houston Texans CB Kareem Jackson (knee), CB Brice McCain (groin), CB Sherrick McManis (hamstring) and LB DeMeco Ryans (elbow, hamstring) were limited in practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Indianapolis Colts QB Peyton Manning (neck) has been ruled out for Week 5.

Indianapolis Colts OT Anthony Castonzo (ankle), OG Ryan Diem (ankle), DL Dwight Freeney (abdominal), DL Fili Moala (ankle) and DL Drake Nevis (back) did not practice Wednesday, Oct. 5.

Source: http://www.rtsports.com/football-news/1000080518

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The New BMW ActiveHybrid 5 Challenges Competition | Automotive ...

Written on October 4, 2011 by Dottie Hanan Smith Filed under Automotive News

It took a while for ?green? vehicles to break into the luxury market. They made their start in the eco-friendly segment as economy models first, slowly working their way to the top of the list. Green vehicles have finally made it, proudly filling a niche as a good choice for eco-friendly folks who hanker for luxury. Now BMW is introducing their new ActiveHybrid 5, which is expected to provide a challenge to other competitors in the emerging mid-size luxury hybrid niche.

The ActiveHybrid 5 uses a pairing of a 55-horsepower electric motor with a 3.0-liter turbo-charged six-cylinder engine, providing a total of 335 horsepower. This represents an increase of 35 horsepower over the 535i, upon which the ActiveHybrid was based. The hybrid vehicle boasts an eight-speed automatic and claims a 0 to 60 mph acceleration speed of 5.7 seconds.

The ActiveHybrid 5 has enough electric power capability to drive for 2.5 miles at 37 mph, unaided by the gas engine. The vehicle?s climate control system is also powered by the electric engine.

The ActiveHybrid 5 comes with innovative features like automatic start-stop, useful for in- town driving. This feature turns the engine off when the vehicle is standing still; when coasting, the engine shuts off at speeds up to 100 mph, and the electric motor takes over as needed. The coasting mode also disconnects the engine and the driveshaft so that engine braking doesn?t slow the vehicle.

The ActiveHybrid 5 comes equipped with an energy control display and an Eco Pro mode that acts on the vehicle?s transmission and throttle to provide a relaxed and efficient drive. The vehicle comes with standard navigation system and four-zone climate control.

The ActiveHybrid 5 hasn?t yet jumped through EPA hoops, so its fuel economy has not been tested. David Buchko, the company?s PR representatives, says that the automaker expects the ActiveHybrid to achieve ?double-digit improvement??a phrase that could cover a lot of ground.

The ActiveHybrid 5 will be available for purchase in March 2012. BMW expects their new hybrid to provide stiff competition for the Infiniti M35h and the soon-to-be-released Lexus GS450h.

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Source: http://automotivediscovery.com/the-new-bmw-activehybrid-5-challenges-competition/9210399/

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