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McConnell takes on group for criticizing wife
FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2007 file photo, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell talks with his wife, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao during the Fraternal Order of Police convention in Louisville, Ky. McConnell is expected to defend his wife in the face of some tweets he didn?t much care for. The group The Progress Kentucky said McConnell?s wife, former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao who was born in Taiwan, may be the reason why U.S. jobs are going to China. The group later removed the tweets and apologized. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2007 file photo, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell talks with his wife, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao during the Fraternal Order of Police convention in Louisville, Ky. McConnell is expected to defend his wife in the face of some tweets he didn?t much care for. The group The Progress Kentucky said McConnell?s wife, former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao who was born in Taiwan, may be the reason why U.S. jobs are going to China. The group later removed the tweets and apologized. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
FILE - In this May 7, 2007 file photo, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walk through the Booksellers Area as they arrive for the State Dinner in honor of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip at the White House in Washington. McConnell is expected to defend his wife, Elaine Chao, in the face of some tweets he didn?t much care for. The group The Progress Kentucky said McConnell?s wife, former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao who was born in Taiwan, may be the reason why U.S. jobs are going to China. The group later removed the tweets and apologized. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, right, and his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, speak with supporters at a Republican dinner in Winchester, Ky., on Saturday, March 2, 2013. A liberal political group had made an issue of Chao?s ethnicity in messages distributed on Twitter earlier this month. (AP Photo/Roger Alford)
WINCHESTER, Ky. (AP) ? Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted a liberal group on Saturday for criticizing the Asian heritage of his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, calling its Twitter messages "racial slurs" and "the ultimate outrage."
"They will not get away with attacking my wife in this campaign," McConnell told about 100 home-state supporters at a Republican dinner in Winchester.
"This woman has the ear of (at)McConnellPress ? she's his (hash)wife," the group Progress Kentucky tweeted on Feb. 14. "May explain why your job moved to (hash)China!"
McConnell forcefully defended Chao, who was born in Taiwan and who moved to the U.S. as an 8-year-old with her family aboard a freight ship.
"Elaine Chao is just as much an American as any of the rest of them," McConnell said. "In fact, she had to go through a lot more to become an American."
McConnell's aides had already criticized the tweets.
"Secretary Chao and her family are shining examples of the American dream: salt-of-the-earth folks who escaped oppression, came here with nothing, joined our great melting pot, worked exceptionally hard to build a thriving business, and then dedicated so much of their lives to giving back," said Jesse Benton, manager of McConnell's re-election campaign. "It is unconscionable that anyone would use blatant race-baiting for political gain."
Progress Kentucky removed the offending comments from Twitter after Louisville public radio station WFPL-FM aired reports about them. And the group issued two apologies over the past week for what they described as "inappropriate tweets sent by our organization."
"Those tweets did not reflect our values, and we are committed to making sure nothing like that happens again," executive director Shawn Reilly said in a statement posted on the group's website. "We also apologize to our many supporters, and all Kentuckians working for change in 2014, for those communications. Comments with references to race, ethnicity or sexual orientation have no place in any debate, and we are deeply embarrassed by such a mistake."
Reilly said the volunteer who posted the comments no longer is affiliated with the group.
Criticism of the group wasn't limited to McConnell and his supporters. Numerous Democratic leaders, including actress Ashley Judd, who is considering a challenge to McConnell in next year's election, spoke up, too.
"Whatever the intention, whatever the venue, whomever the person, attacks or comments on anyone's ethnicity are wrong & patently unacceptable," she wrote in a Twitter message last Sunday.
Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Dan Logsdon said the comments were "deplorable" and "have absolutely no place" in Kentucky politics.
McConnell and his wife have faced similar slights in the past. In 2001, former state Democratic Party chairwoman Nikki Patton apologized for saying that McConnell "passed up some good Kentucky pork to chow down at the Chinese money buffet."
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Companies struggle to popularize mobile money
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 photo, a man uses the NFC payment Visa system at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 photo, a man uses the NFC payment Visa system at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, a man uses the NFC communicate library system at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, a man uses the "Paypal here" system of payment with the phone at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Mobile money may seem like a hot concept, but consumers aren't warming to it.
At the world's largest cellphone trade show, here in Barcelona this week, the 70,000 attendees are encouraged to use their cellphones ?instead their keycards? to get past the turnstiles at the door. But very few people took the chance to do that. The process of setting up the phone to act as a keycard proved too much of a hassle.
It's a poor omen for an industry that's eager to have the cellphone replace both tickets and credit cards. Companies are building chips antennas into phones that let the gadgets interact with "tap to pay" terminals and other devices equipped with short-range sensors, like subway turnstiles. But getting the technology to do something useful and convincing people to adopt it is a slow process.
To make a payment in a store with your cellphone, "you need a lot of things to align," said Reed Peterson, who heads the Near-Field Communications initiative for the GSM Association, a global trade group for the wireless industry. The phone needs to be properly equipped with NFC hardware and software; the store needs to have the proper equipment and training. The phone company needs to support the transaction, and banks and payment processors need to be in on it.
Some of these things have fallen into place, Peterson said, but the network of commercial agreements that supports these payments needs to expand. And consumer demand remains elusive.
"I want to get to the point where the consumer goes into the store and says 'Show me only the phones that have NFC'," Peterson said.
Today, a buyer is quite likely to go into a store and ask for an iPhone, and that's an obstacle to NFC adoption. Apple Inc. is the lone holdout among major smartphone makers, and hasn't built NFC into any of its devices yet.
Visa, the global payments network, announced a coup at the show: it has struck a deal with Samsung Electronics to take charge of the "secure element" in the next flagship phone from the South Korean company. The Galaxy S IV is expected to be launched at an event in New York on Mar. 14, though the name has not been confirmed.
The "secure element" is sort of like a safe inside the phone. Whoever controls access to it decides which credit cards, transit passes or other verified "documents" the phone can store. A bank that wants to let customers use their Samsung smartphones as virtual credit cards will have to go through Visa.
Control of the secure element is a crucial battleground for NFC. The GSMA, which is dominated by cellphone carriers, advocates putting the secure element not in the phone itself, but in the subscriber identity module, or SIM card, which plugs into the phone to identify the user and supply a phone number to the network. SIM cards are issued and controlled by the carriers who would like to be the ones in control of the secure element.
While Visa, phone companies and Google (which has its own payment initiative) duel over the secure element, eBay Inc.'s PayPal is wondering what all the fuss is about. The online payment network thinks NFC is a lot more trouble than it's worth. The company isn't afraid to say so at the wireless industry tradeshow.
"If you want to change something, you have to solve problems that people have in everyday life," said David Marcus, the president of PayPal. "It's not like everyone is thinking 'Oh, I wish someone came up with something better'" than paper money and credit cards.
PayPal is putting a lot of effort into making cellphones central to the way we shop, but is focusing on the shopping experience itself, rather than payments. The company's ideal vision for buying a cup of coffee: You pull out your phone on the way to the store, fire up PayPal's app to order your double-skim latte and pay for it in advance. When you arrive at the counter, the barista has your picture and your coffee, and gives it to you right away. Then you're out the door.
Thirty years ago, Marcus said, store clerks knew the people in their neighborhood and greeted them by name.
"We think with this technology, we could recreate that personal connection," he said. "We feel this is going to leapfrog the efforts of NFC."
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New Study Links BPA and Childhood Asthma
Kids exposed to a commonplace chemical early in life are more likely to have asthma, according to a study published today.
The study, which tested 568 children and their mothers in New York City, is the first to link early childhood exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) with asthma. Studies with lab mice, however, have found a similar link.
A Columbia University research team reported that children with higher levels of BPA at ages 3, 5 and 7 had increased odds of developing the respiratory disease when they were between 5 and 12. The children studied had roughly the same concentrations of BPA as the average for U.S. kids.
?We saw increased risk of asthma at fairly routine, low doses of BPA,? said Dr. Kathleen Donohue, an instructor in clinical medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and lead author of the study, which was published online in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology today.
BPA is used to make polycarbonate plastics and is found in some canned foods and beverages, paper receipts and dental sealants. More than 90 percent of Americans have traces in their bodies.
Medical experts for decades have been trying to figure out what has caused asthma rates to skyrocket in children throughout much of the world, beginning in the 1980s. Many suspect that it might have something to do with early-life exposures and changes in immune systems causing inflammation.
One out of every 10 U.S. children has been diagnosed with asthma, and the rate is even higher for black children ? one out of every six, according to 2011 data from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention.
The study doesn?t mean BPA causes asthma or wheezing. But ?it?s an important study because we don?t know a lot right now about how BPA affects immune response and asthma,? said Kim Harley, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies environmental chemicals and children?s health but did not participate in the new research.
?They measured BPA at different ages, measured asthma and wheeze at multiple points, and still found consistent associations,? she said.
The researchers measured BPA in the women?s urine toward the end of their pregnancies. Once born, their children were then tested for BPA at ages 3, 5 and 7. Then they were tested for asthma and wheezing between the ages of 5 and 12.
Even though the researchers took BPA measurements at multiple times, it?s tricky to pin down exposure levels.
?BPA has a short half life, so whatever we take in today will be gone in about 24 hours,? said Joe Braun, an epidemiology professor at Brown University who was not involved with the research.
Braun said the testing was ?as good as we?re going to get for this type of study.? Still, he said, "we?re still not accurately capturing exposure."
Chemical industry representatives assert that there is no clear evidence of any human health effects from BPA exposure.
?The increasing rate of asthma among children is an important public health issue, but there is no scientific consensus on what is causing the increase and this study adds little relevant information to the debate," Steven Hentges, a representative at the American Chemistry Council, said in a prepared statement.
?Because of the limited study design based on single samples to monitor exposure, it is difficult to draw any meaningful conclusions from this report," he said.
Sixty-five percent of the mothers were Dominican ? the rest were black women ? and mostly low income. This group of women and children has been studied for more than a decade by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children?s Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. They?ve been tested for a variety of potential effects related to consumer chemicals, air pollutants and pesticides.
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Quiksilver to Release FY2013 Quarterly Financial Results on March 7
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.(Feb. 28, 2013) -?Quiksilver, Inc.?(NYSE:ZQK) today announced that it plans to issue a press release reporting its fiscal 2013 first quarter financial results after the close of the market onThursday, March 7, 2013, and will conduct a conference call to review its results at?4:30 p.m. Eastern time?that same day.
The call will also be available through a live, listen-only audio Web broadcast via the Internet at?www.quiksilverinc.com. Listeners are encouraged to visit the Web site at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the scheduled presentation to register, download and install any necessary audio software. A playback of the call will be archived and accessible on the same Web site for at least three months.
About?Quiksilver:
Quiksilver, Inc.?(NYSE:ZQK) is one of the world?s leading outdoor sports lifestyle companies.?Quiksilver?designs, produces and distributes a diversified mix of branded apparel, footwear and accessories. The company?s apparel and footwear brands, inspired by the passion for outdoor action sports, represent a casual lifestyle for young-minded people who connect with its boardriding culture and heritage. The company?s?Quiksilver, Roxy, DC, Lib Tech and Hawk brands are synonymous with the heritage and culture of surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding. The company?s products are sold in over 90 countries in a wide range of distribution, including surf shops, skate shops, snow shops, its proprietary?Boardriders Clubshops and other company-owned retail stores, other specialty stores, select department stores and through various e-commerce channels. Quiksilver?s corporate headquarters are in?Huntington Beach, California.
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