bollywood entertainment news: October 2013

Thursday, October 31, 2013

McIlroy leads by two after Mickelson woe in Shanghai

Shanghai (AFP) - Rory McIlroy found himself leading a golf tournament for the first time since May as he took control of the World Golf Championships HSBC Champions with a superbly crafted seven-under par round of 65 in Shanghai Thursday.

The 24-year-old was helped by world number three Phil Mickelson blowing up in disastrous fashion on the long eighth hole, the 17th of his round, as the American found the Sheshan Golf Club water twice en route to a quadruple-bogey nine.

Moments earlier McIlroy had carded his eighth birdie of the day on the same hole to move to seven under. Mickelson then bogeyed his last hole, the ninth, to drop five shots in two holes and plummet from outright second to tied 28th in the 78-man field with a 71.

On Wednesday McIlroy had said he was capable of winning the tournament with the way the course was set up.

On Thursday he proved it was no idle boast as his swagger and, more importantly, his short game returned to leave a field containing 40 of the world's top 50 in his wake.

The last time McIlroy had even held a share of the lead was after the first round of the Wells Fargo Open at Quail Hollow on May 2.

He leads by two from Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, who carried on his fine form from last week when he won the BMW Masters across the city, by carding a five-under round of 67.

Also on 67 was Jamie Donaldson of Wales.

Back on four-under are the English pair Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood. They were joined on that mark by two Americans, Bubba Watson and US PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Jordan Spieth.

But it was McIlroy's day. The revival he had threatened, with a second place in the Korea Open a fortnight ago and a solid performance -- tee to green at least -- last week at Lake Malaren, at last materialised.

His confidence buoyed by an exhibition match victory over Tiger Woods on Monday in Hainan, McIlroy got off to the best possible start on his opening hole, the 10th.

Having just seen playing partner and US PGA champion Jason Dufner hole his second shot with a sand wedge for an outrageous eagle two, McIlroy almost matched it with a lob wedge of his own -- leaving a tap-in for the first of seven birdies in his opening 11 holes.

His only blemish of a near flawless card -- McIlroy afterwards modestly gave his own ball striking just seven out of 10 -- came at the 11th when the Northern Irishman was plugged after driving into a fairway bunker.

He was forced to advance the ball just 20 yards but still almost saved par with a seven-iron to 15 feet. However, the putt just slipped by.

He got the shot back straightaway at the 225-yard par three 12th when he rolled in a 20-footer for birdie and never looked back.

Birdies followed at 14, 16 and 18 to get to four-under at the turn, and then McIlroy hit what he described as one of his "shots of the day" on the first.

A rare errant drive found deep rough on the right but he struck a nine-iron imperiously from 160 yards to 12 feet and holed the putt.

Another birdie on the long par-five next hole, where he was just short of the green after a driver and a three-iron, took him to six under, until a final birdie at the eighth gave him daylight on the field.

"It was very good," a smiling McIlroy told AFP straight after his round. "And it was needed."

McIlroy this time last year was world and European number one.

He now lies 62nd in the Race to Dubai standings and must record a good finish this week to guarantee being among the top 60 who qualify for the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai in two weeks' time. McIlroy is defending champion there.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mickelson-heads-star-cast-asias-major-005447937--golf.html
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Simple plants aren't always easy: Revision of the liverwort Radula buccinifera complex

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The supposedly widespread and variable Australasian liverwort species Radula buccinifera is nothing of the kind. The species was described in 1844, and reported for New Zealand in 1855. It has gone on to be the most commonly collected species in both countries, yet it doesn't even occur in New Zealand, according to results of research led by Dr Matt Renner at Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust.

Molecular and morphological evidence show that what was thought to be one species of leafy liverwort from Australia and New Zealand is in fact eight different species, and five of these are new to science. The study was published in the open access journal PhytoKeys.

The species is an Australian endemic restricted to the wetter parts of the south-east of the country. Records from the tropics are referable to other species, two of which are found only there. Another two species are endemic to Australia, and a third is shared between Australia and New Zealand. The species may have been confused because many appear similar, and are variable so overlap in form.

Better understanding of species diversity has implications for studies of biogeography, in that this 'widespread species' is actually a complex of geographically restricted species. Liverworts also contain many bioactive compounds, which exhibit a range of activity including anti-microbial and anti-retroviral properties, and the greater the recognized species diversity the greater the pool of potentially useful molecules.

"There may be no direct application of this research unless you are identifying liverworts, but direct application is only one kind of benefit, and solid taxonomic studies have many, the least of which is that we learn what is out there in the world around us," comments the lead author Dr Matt Renner.
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Renner MAM, Devos N, Patio J, Brown EA, Orme A, Elgey M, Wilson TC, Gray LJ, von Konrat MJ (2013) Integrative taxonomy resolves the cryptic and pseudo-cryptic Radula buccinifera complex (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida), including two reinstated and five new species. PhytoKeys 27: 1113. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.27.5523

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The supposedly widespread and variable Australasian liverwort species Radula buccinifera is nothing of the kind. The species was described in 1844, and reported for New Zealand in 1855. It has gone on to be the most commonly collected species in both countries, yet it doesn't even occur in New Zealand, according to results of research led by Dr Matt Renner at Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust.

Molecular and morphological evidence show that what was thought to be one species of leafy liverwort from Australia and New Zealand is in fact eight different species, and five of these are new to science. The study was published in the open access journal PhytoKeys.

The species is an Australian endemic restricted to the wetter parts of the south-east of the country. Records from the tropics are referable to other species, two of which are found only there. Another two species are endemic to Australia, and a third is shared between Australia and New Zealand. The species may have been confused because many appear similar, and are variable so overlap in form.

Better understanding of species diversity has implications for studies of biogeography, in that this 'widespread species' is actually a complex of geographically restricted species. Liverworts also contain many bioactive compounds, which exhibit a range of activity including anti-microbial and anti-retroviral properties, and the greater the recognized species diversity the greater the pool of potentially useful molecules.

"There may be no direct application of this research unless you are identifying liverworts, but direct application is only one kind of benefit, and solid taxonomic studies have many, the least of which is that we learn what is out there in the world around us," comments the lead author Dr Matt Renner.
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Renner MAM, Devos N, Patio J, Brown EA, Orme A, Elgey M, Wilson TC, Gray LJ, von Konrat MJ (2013) Integrative taxonomy resolves the cryptic and pseudo-cryptic Radula buccinifera complex (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida), including two reinstated and five new species. PhytoKeys 27: 1113. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.27.5523

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SoftLayer CEO: A very Big Blue cloud is coming

One of the funny things about the cloud is that it's often difficult to know what's behind the curtain. Before IBM bought IaaS provider SoftLayer in June, we were hard-pressed to determine precisely what sort of IaaS Big Blue was offering. Yes, they had a virtual server configurator similar to Amazon's, but the self-service stopped there: you'd tally up your config, submit it, and IBM would get back to you.

Then there was that fuss in July about the SEC investigating IBM to discover exactly how Big Blue was calculating the 70 percent increase in cloud revenue it reported for the first half of 2013 (although, to be fair, cloud-washing like this seems commonplace).

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IBM acquired a big hunk of cloud credibility with the $2 billion it paid for SoftLayer. According to SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby, whom I interviewed last week, SoftLayer has 120,000 physical nodes in 13 data centers. And thanks to IBM, that footprint is poised to get a whole lot bigger. "We're going to have massive expansion in the next 24 months," Crosby says.

The quiet cloud company
Founded in Dallas in 2005, SoftLayer was the largest privately held IaaS provider until it became part of IBM. "We were cloud before cloud was cool," says Crosby, offering both multitenanted and single-tenanted IaaS. And self-service has always been part of the deal, right up until the acquisition. "We were at $500 million in revenue without an outbound salesperson, so it's all self service."

Contrary to the approach of Amazon Web Services, Crosby always believed in giving complete visibility into the hardware infrastructure behind the cloud. "The concept of creating this fungible machine where you don't have to worry about the underlying infrastructure -- it's nonsense," says Crosby. "In SoftLayer, you can drill down to the server, the rack, the network board, the serial numbers ... everything down to the encryption level on the drive" even in multi-tenanted systems.

That may not seem very cloudy to some. But according to Crosby, offering such transparency -- and in single-tenanted systems, granular control over configuration -- delivers special benefit to SoftLayer customers. He provides a detailed example:

We have a customer who is writing a big data solution for retail. They're using SSD drives, and their developers are saying "you should be getting better performance from the drives." The [customer's] devops guys looked into the drives, and their drives actually had two versions of firmware: one for 1GB or less and one for over 1GB. They swapped the firmware on the drives -- they pushed a button and made an API call -- and performance went up 25 percent. In Amazon land, you've got to buy 25 percent more machine.

Crosby said he pushed his engineers from the beginning to build in this extreme level of visibility, which resulted in SoftLayer's Infrastructure Management System (IMS), an API layer that today offers 2,200 documented methods across 180 discrete services. According to Crosby, he allowed his good friend Lanham Napier, CEO of Rackspace, to use IMS as the original framework for OpenStack, which now stands as the open source leader in cloud software platforms.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cloud-computing/softlayer-ceo-very-big-blue-cloud-coming-229605?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_
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Jessica Alba and Pierce Brosnan Engage in Lip Lock on Set

Locking lips for a special scene in LA today (October 30), the lovely Jessica Alba and suave and sophisticated Pierce Brosnan continued filming "How to Make Love Like an Englishman."

Each of them looked fantastic during their passionate kiss scene, the "James Bond" stud in jeans and an overcoat, and the "Killer Inside Me" sweetheart dressed in a tan sweater and jeans, her lovely flowing hair down about her shoulders. Both exchanged smiles as they finished off the scene.

"How to Make Love to Make Love Like an Englishman" comes at us from "Extraordinary Measures" director, Tom Vaughan, the movie also stars the multi-talented Salma Hayek.

According to the romantic flick's synopsis, "A drama about a Cambridge poetry professor who begins to re-evaluate his life of Byronic excess."

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Actress Laverne Cox On The Music That Gets Her Dancing

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Republic Wireless running contest to give away Moto X prize pack

Republic Wireless Moto X

Win a phone, 12 months of free service and various accessories

You can pick up a Moto X on Republic Wireless for the low price of $299 unsubsidized, but getting it for free would be better. The scrappy upstart carrier is currently running a contest on its Facebook page that is giving away what it calls "Moto X Prize Pack," including a device, 12 months of service from the carrier and a nice package of accessories — you'll pick up a wireless speaker, car charger, Motorola Skip, case and set of earbuds.

In order to enter you'll first need to head to the Republic Wireless Facebook page (linked below), then "like" their page and enter a little bit of identifying information so that you can be contacted if you've won. If you end up referring more friends to enter the contest, you'll also get more entries for yourself to up your chances.

It's not hard to enter and you could win a free Moto X — we don't see much wrong with that equation. You can enter at the source link below.

Source: Republic Wireless

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'We made it. No more fear... No more Taliban'

Afghan War ally Janis Shinwari’s well-publicized effort to find refuge in America came to a successful conclusion late Tuesday when the translator and his family walked off a plane in Washington, D.C.

“We are so happy,” Shinwari told Yahoo News on Wednesday. “We made it. No more fear. No more threat. No more Taliban.”

Shinwari, who served as an interpreter for U.S. military forces in Afghanistan for nearly seven years, says he had become a top target of insurgents, who considered him a traitor and made it known that they wanted to behead him.

Threats against his life were “increasing day by day,” said Shinwari, a 35-year-old married father of two young children.

The Shinwaris applied to come to the U.S. more than two years ago under a special immigration visa (SIV) program for people who helped American forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the request had been riddled with red tape.

Three months ago, former Army Capt. Matt Zeller, an intelligence officer who says Shinwari saved his life by killing an encroaching insurgent in Afghanistan, began aggressively lobbying his friend’s case. A Change.org petition drew more than 100,000 signatures, and news stories documented the delays Shinwari and other war allies often experience getting their special immigrant visas approved.

In early September, the State Department finally approved the visas for the Shinwari family, but then it put them on hold 14 days later without explanation. Zeller and Shinwari believe the Taliban may have called in a phony tip to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in an effort to sabotage Shinwari’s escape.

“Afghanistan is not safe anymore for any Afghan who is working for the U.S. government, especially those working for the U.S. Army,” Shinwari said Wednesday.

He had to pass two more polygraph exams and wait until the end of the U.S. government shutdown before learning that his family’s visas had been reinstated and they could begin planning their travel.

“We are now all free,” said Shinwari, who had to move his family often in the last few weeks. “We won’t be locked down in the home. I can send my kids to school. They can play outside with other kids.”

The family spent part of Wednesday working on temporary housing through the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Meanwhile, Zeller has started an online fund to help the family get settled.

“They're coming with nothing more than the clothes on their back and whatever they can fit into one suitcase,” he wrote. “Please help me get their new lives started.”

Shinwari, who said he hopes to find work in the U.S. as a government translator, will also use his freedom to encourage improvements to the SIV program. Shinwari and Zeller will meet with members of Congress next week to discuss his work as a battlefield interpreter and the obstacles he faced getting his visa.

“I want them to speed up the process and save the lives of others,” Shinwari said.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., is one of the politicians working to address shortcomings in the SIV program. In a statement, he called Shinwari’s arrival in the U.S. “an amazing day” which “embodies a promise kept.”

“But while he is an example of the SIV program eventually working,” Blumenauer wrote, “there are still thousands of brave translators and their families stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not every applicant is lucky enough to have an effective and perseverant advocate like Matt Zeller.”

Their embrace at the airport in Washington late Tuesday was the first time Shinwari and Zeller had seen one another in five years.

“I thank the Lord for Zeller, he saved my life,” Shinwari said. “He gave me a new life. I won’t forget it.”

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-war-ally-janis-shinwari-finally-finds-safety-in-america-182755540.html
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The ultimate guide to preventing DNS-based DDoS attacks

When it comes to DNS, Cricket Liu literally wrote the book. He has co-authored all five editions of O'Reilly's "DNS and BIND" book, which is generally regarded as the definitive guide on all things relating to the Domain Name System. Cricket is currently chief infrastructure officer at Infoblox.

DNS is clearly a critical component of computer networking, but there are times when these tools can be used for malfeasance. In this week's New Tech Forum, Cricket takes a look at the growing problem of DNS-based DDoS attacks and how to deal with them. -- Paul Venezia

DNS-based DDoS attacks: How they work and how to stop them
The DNS-based DDoS (distributed denial-of-service attack) has become one of the most common destructive attacks on the Internet. But how do they work? And what can we do to defend against them?

In this article, I'll describe how DDoS attacks both exploit and target DNS infrastructure. I'll also show you what you can do to protect yourself and others.

The big spoof
Generating a DDoS attack using DNS infrastructure is remarkably simple: The attackers send queries to name servers across the Internet, and those name servers return responses. Instead of sending the queries from their own IP addresses, though, the attackers spoof the address of their target -- which could be a Web server, a router, another name server, or just about any node on the Internet.

Spoofing DNS queries is particularly easy because they are usually carried over UDP (the connectionless User Datagram Protocol). Sending a DNS query from an arbitrary IP address is about as simple and has roughly the same effect as writing someone else's return address on a postcard.

Spoofing queries isn't enough to incapacitate a target, though. If the responses to those queries were no larger than the queries themselves, an attacker would do just as well to flood the target with spoofed queries. No, to maximize the damage to the target, each query should return a very large response. It turns out that's very easy to instigate.

Since the advent of EDNS0, a set of extensions to DNS introduced back in 1999, UDP-based DNS messages have been able to carry lots of data. A response can be as large as 4,096 bytes. Most queries, on the other hand, are fewer than 100 bytes in length.

Once upon a time, it was relatively difficult to find a response that large in the Internet's namespace. But now that organizations have begun deploying DNSSEC, the DNS Security Extensions, it's much easier. DNSSEC stores cryptographic keys and digital signatures in records in the namespace. These are positively enormous.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/security/the-ultimate-guide-preventing-dns-based-ddos-attacks-229790?source=rss_infoworld_blogs
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Search for dark matter comes up empty so far

In this Oct. 29, 2013 photo, physicist Dan McKinsey of Yale University explains an experiment being conducted deep in an abandoned gold mine in Lead, S.D., to search for elusive and mysterious dark matter. In an announcement released Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, scientists at the Sanford Underground Research Facility say they found absolutely no evidence of dark matter in what is the most technologically advanced Earth-based search for the material that has mass but cannot be seen. They’ll keep looking for another year, but scientists were not optimistic about finding dark matter with the current setup and are already planning to build a more sensitive experiment on the site. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Kristina Barker)

In this Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 photo, is monitoring equipment at the Large Underground Xenon Experiment at Sanford Underground Research Facility deep in an abandoned gold mine in Lead, S.D. Scientists in the experiment to search for elusive and mysterious dark matter announced Wednesday the experiment found absolutely no evidence of dark matter in what is the most technologically advanced Earth-based search for the material that has mass but cannot be seen. They’ll keep looking for another year, but scientists were not optimistic about finding dark matter with the current setup and are already planning to build a more sensitive experiment on the site. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Kristina Barker)

In this Oct. 29, 2013 photo, a 6-foot-tall titanium tank is filled with almost a third of a ton of liquid xenon at the Large Underground Xenon Experiment at Sanford Underground Research Facility deep in an abandoned gold mine in Lead, S.D. Scientists in the experiment to search for elusive and mysterious dark matter announced Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, the experiment found absolutely no evidence of dark matter in what is the most technologically advanced Earth-based search for the material that has mass but cannot be seen. Theyâ€™ll keep looking for another year, but scientists were not optimistic about finding dark matter with the current setup and are already planning to build a more sensitive experiment on the site. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Kristina Barker)

LEAD, S.D. (AP) — Nearly a mile underground in an abandoned gold mine, one of the most important quests in physics has so far come up empty in the search for the elusive substance known as dark matter, scientists announced Wednesday.

But physicists on the project were upbeat, saying they had developed a new, more sensitive method of searching for the mysterious material that has mass but cannot be seen. They planned to keep looking.

"This is just the opening salvo," said Richard Gaitskell of Brown University, a scientist working on the Large Underground Xenon experiment, or LUX, the most advanced Earth-based search for dark matter. A detector attached to the International Space Station has so far failed to find any dark matter either.

The researchers released their initial findings Wednesday after the experiment's first few months at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, which was built in the former Homestake gold mine in South Dakota's Black Hills.

With more than 4,800 feet of earth helping screen out background radiation, scientists tried to trap dark matter, which they hoped would be revealed in the form of weakly interacting massive particles, nicknamed WIMPS. The search, using the most sensitive equipment in the world, is looking for the light fingerprint of a WIMP bouncing off an atomic nucleus of xenon cooled to minus 150 degrees.

But nothing has been found. The team will continue looking for another year and plans to build a more sensitive experiment on the site, using a bigger tank of xenon. Scientists involved in the experiment said it had eliminated some theoretical candidates for dark matter, and there are many more theoretical models to search for.

"The short story is that we didn't see dark matter interacting, but we had the most sensitive search for dark matter ever performed in the world," said Daniel McKinsey, a physicist at Yale University.

The LUX experiment was 20 times more sensitive than any previous experiments, scientists said. The proposed next experiment would be 1,000 times more sensitive still.

The lab, in a bright, clean space at the end of an old mining tunnel filled with pipes and electric cables, is reached by a 10-minute ride in an elevator that once carried miners. Gaitskell and McKinsey said the experiment has far less radiation interference from cosmic rays than any other dark-matter lab.

Essentially, scientists are searching for something they are fairly sure exists and is crucial to the entire universe. But they do not know what it looks like or where to find it. And they are not sure if it is a bunch of light particles that weakly interact or if it is more like a black hole.

"It's ghost-like matter," McKinsey said.

Researchers "are really searching in the dark in a way," said Harvard University physicist Avi Loeb, who is not part of the LUX team. "We have no clue. We don't know what this matter is."

Even more so than the recently discovered Higgs boson, dark matter is central to the universe.

About one-quarter of the cosmos is comprised of dark matter — five times that of the ordinary matter that makes up everything we see. Dark matter is often defined by what it isn't: something that can be seen and something that is energy.

Scientists are pretty sure dark matter exists, but they are not certain what it is made of or how it interacts with ordinary matter. It is considered vital to all the scientific theories explaining how the universe is expanding and how galaxies move and interact.

"We know there's stuff out there that is something else, and that makes these searches hugely important because we know we are missing most of the universe," said Neal Weiner, director of the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics at New York University, who was not part of the search.

The lack of success could mean the instruments are inadequate, Gaitskell and McKinsey said.

Or, considering the lack of knowledge about what dark matter really is, "perhaps we're going in the wrong direction," Loeb said.

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Borenstein reported from Washington. He can be followed at http://twitter.com/borenbears .

Chet Brokaw can be followed at http://twitter.com/ChetBrokaw .

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The Dark Mail Alliance Wants to Reinvent Email as We Know It

In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks, we've seen at least two encrypted email services close shop in the face of government scrutiny. They're not giving up on the mission, however. In fact, these freedom fighters now say they're coming back twice as strong and twice as committed to shutting out the NSA.

Kristin Cavallari, Jay Cutler expecting 2nd baby

FILE - This April 12, 2012 file photo shows Kristin Cavallari at the Conde Nast Traveler Hot List Party at The Presidential Suite of Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. Cavallari and her Chicago Bears quarterback husband Jay Cutler are expecting their second baby. The 26-year-old former star of MTV’s “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills” confirmed the news Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, on Twitter. The couple have a 14-month-old son and were married last June in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Kristin Cavallari and her Chicago Bears quarterback husband Jay Cutler are one step closer to having their own football team.

Cavallari is pregnant with their second baby. The 26-year-old former star of MTV's "Laguna Beach" and "The Hills" confirmed the news Wednesday on Twitter. She wrote: "We are so excited for Camden to be a big brother!"

Camden is the couple's 14-month-old son.

Cavallari and Cutler were married last June in Nashville, Tenn.

The family splits their time between Nashville and Chicago.

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LeAnn Rimes' invasion of privacy suit dismissed

FILE - In this July 1, 2013 file photo, Leann Rimes performs at the Friend Movement Anti-Bullying Benefit Concert at the El Rey Theatre, in Los Angeles. Los Angeles court records show a judge on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, dismissed an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by Rimes against two women she claimed illegally recorded a phone conversation with her and posted it online. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, file)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An invasion of privacy lawsuit that LeAnn Rimes filed against two Northern California women has been dismissed.

Los Angeles court records show the actress-singer's suit against Kimberly Smiley and her daughter Alexis Smiley was dismissed Monday. The dismissal prevents Rimes from re-filing the case.

Rimes sued the women in August 2012 claiming they recorded a phone conversation with her and posted it online. She said the recording damaged her reputation and relationships, and caused her emotional distress.

Kimberly Smiley denied wrongdoing in an interview after the suit was filed.

Steve White, an attorney representing the Smileys, says the two sides resolved their differences and he could not comment further.

Rimes' lawyer, Larry Stein, was not immediately available to comment.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

O2 vs Vodafone vs Three vs EE: Which UK iPad Air or iPad mini carrier should you choose?

2013 iPad guide: How to choose between O2, Vodafone, Three and EE, and a popular MVNO alternative.

If you're in the UK with eyes on a new cellular iPad Air or Retina iPad mini, the decision on which carrier to go with is more difficult than ever. This time around 4G LTE is a factor, with three of the four big carriers having recently flipped the switch, with one more to come before the end of the year. As such, getting the most bang for your buck while accessing this superfast mobile data on your new iPad is likely top of the agenda. But it doesn't end there.

Let's take a look at what's on offer from the big four.

O2 vs EE vs Vodafone vs Three - The big four

As with the recent iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c launch, 4G LTE is the hot property in deciding where to go with your devices. If you want LTE out of the box, then Three can be discounted immediately. Three will be getting it, but not until December when the rollout will finally begin. That said, Three is notorious for offering great value for money on data allowances, and the HSPA+ offered currently will in places match the LTE offered by rival carriers for download speed.

O2 and Vodafone are still in the early stages of their respective rollouts, so for anyone serious about 4G right now, EE is the best looking option. Of the big four carriers, only O2 at the moment seems to have no plans to offer the iPad Air at launch. No pricing for subsidized models is available at the time of writing, but we'll update as and when that information becomes available.

The MVNO way

Perhaps not something that immediately springs to mind, but beyond the main four carriers there is still chance to get some data for your new iPad Air. Probably the most popular – and worth considering – is GiffGaff. And, while the selection of plans is limited, there's still a chance to get a decent bucket of data for not a lot of money. And, since it runs on the O2 network, the signal should be pretty good.

The best option for prospective iPad Air buyers is the £12.50 per month 'Gigabag,' which offers 3GB of mobile data. There are options at 500MB and 1GB for £5 and £7.50 per month respectively, but for not a lot more cash you get a decent extra chunk of data. If you're buying your new iPad from Apple, this option is absolutely worth considering.

The only real drawback; in the event of issues, you won't have as easy access to customer service as you would with the major carriers. GiffGaff has a big community focus, but the lack of high street stores could deter many.

Network availability

Beyond just thinking about the financial side, there's coverage to take into account. After all, there's little point paying out if you're not going to be getting what you're paying for. Generally the big four all have excellent coverage nationwide, with the usual blackspots to be expected. The best thing to do is to check out the coverage maps at the links below for each of them.

Who should get their iPad on Three?

If you don't mind waiting for LTE, Three is well worth a look. The HSPA+ offered by Three is more than competitive in terms of download speeds when compared to LTE enabled competitors, and is definitely to be considered by the data hungry iPad owner.

Three iPad plans

Who should get their iPad on EE?

Anyone who wants LTE, in more locations, now. EE has more coverage than the other LTE enabled carriers by far, and has even started rolling out double-speed data in certain locations such as London and Birmingham. The network that came together as a combined effort of Orange and T-Mobile has solid signal over most of the UK, and also has a decent reputation for working indoors.

EE iPad plans

Who should get their iPad on Vodafone?

At this point, the strongest argument is that if the signal in your area is strongest on Vodafone, then go with them. Their LTE offering is still in its infancy, and Vodafone traditionally hasn't been as price competitive as some of the other carriers. Long serving customers and folks who enjoy the best signal are best suited to Vodafone.

Vodafone iPad plans

Who should get their iPad on O2?

As with Vodafone, O2 has a 4G LTE network currently in its infancy. The good news is that the spectrum used for it will work better indoors, so as it rolls out that might be something to consider. The main issue currently is that O2 has no apparent plans to sell subsidized iPads, so this one is strictly for those buying from Apple. For now.

O2 iPad plans

Still undecided?

If you're still not sure about which UK carrier to get for your iPad Air or iPad mini jump into our iPad discussion forums and the best community in mobile will happily help you out, or hey, maybe Wi-Fi-only is good enough for you. Let know in the comments - which one did you go with and why?

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