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Released on July 20th, 2012

SHANGHAI, July 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ ? Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD; ?Spreadtrum? or the ?Company?), a leading fabless semiconductor provider in China with advanced technology in 2G, 3G and 4G wireless communications standards, today announced that it will release unaudited financial results for the second quarter 2012 after the US market close on Thursday, August 9, 2012. The earnings release and accompanying financial results presentation will be available on the investor relations section of the Company?s website at http://ir.spreadtrum.com.

Following the earnings announcement, the Company?s senior management will host a conference call at 9:00 pm (Eastern) / 6:00 pm (Pacific) on Thursday, August 9, 2012, which is 9:00 am (Hong Kong) on Friday, August 10, 2012, to discuss the financial results and recent business activities. The conference call may be accessed by dialing:

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- Singapore+ 65 672 39381
- Hong Kong+852 2475 0994
- United Kingdom+44 20 3059 8139
Participant Passcode?SPRD? or ?Spreadtrum?
A telephone replay will be available shortly after the call until August 17, 2012 at (US Toll / International) +1 718 354 1232, passcode: 11970452.

A live webcast of the conference call and replay will be available in the investor relations section of the Company?s website.

About Spreadtrum Communications, Inc.

Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD; ?Spreadtrum?) is a fabless semiconductor company that develops mobile chipset platforms for smartphones, feature phones and other consumer electronics products, supporting 2G, 3G and 4G wireless communications standards. Spreadtrum?s solutions combine its highly integrated, power-efficient chipsets with customizable software and reference designs in a complete turnkey platform, enabling customers to achieve faster design cycles with a lower development cost. Spreadtrum?s customers include global and China-based manufacturers developing mobile products for consumers in China and emerging markets around the world. For more information, visit www.spreadtrum.com.

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As a practical matter, military women and men can miss out on having a normal dating and social life due to the fact their commitment to the service interferes. Fortunately, modern technology, the Internet, the advent of Internet cafes, and email have all combined to offer military men and women the tools required to find and build relationships, and to connect with their companions at the speed of light whenever the opportunity arises.

Coping with long distance relationships and absence for prolonged or indefinite periods of time can be tough. The fear of losing a loved one who is on active duty can harm a relationship, too. Dating websites intended for people in the military also provide relationship advice and resources specifically made to support people in military relationships.
With a website for military dating, servicemen and women can create meaningful relationships and friendships while doing work in the service of their country. They can also find resources made to help them make the most of search for intimacy and the best of what a loving relationship offers.

This composition was written by Ema Harper. Ema is an professional writer who explores material relevant to servicemen and women. Ema is also the founder of Military Pen Pals where men and women can easily search for matches, soul mates and, of course, military pen pals.

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'The Girl from Ipanema' turns 50

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? "Tall and tan and young and lovely..." You've heard of her. The Girl From Ipanema.

You might have come across the bossa nova classic while on hold on the phone, during a long elevator ride, or in a cafe in Beirut or Bangkok ? but you've heard it. It's been recorded by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Amy Winehouse, and survived bad lounge singers and Muzak incarnations to become, according to Performing Songwriter magazine, the second most recorded song in the world.

The quintessential bossa nova tune, inspired by a young woman who passed the songwriters in a beachside bar on her way to the sea, introduced Rio de Janeiro to the world. Now, it's turning 50, and to its legions of fans, the decades have only heightened its allure, adding a wash of nostalgia to this hymn to passing youth and beauty.

"I love this music, and had been searching for this place," said Venezuelan tourist Xiomara Castillo, who with her husband was taking pictures inside the bar where the song's authors watched their muse saunter by in the song's eponymous neighborhood. "For me, Rio de Janeiro is this song, is bossa nova; the city has this rhythm, this charm, this sensuality."

Indeed, the song carries within its chords and lyrics an image of a city that's light and easy, palm trees and blue sky, a sun-kissed life without care.

Rio is in "the levity of the song, its absolute elegance, the way it doesn't take itself seriously" said Ruy Castro, a writer and journalist who has chronicled the city, its music and its nightlife.

This girl who "swings so cool and sways so gently" first stepped out in public on August 1962, in a cramped Copacabana nightclub.

On stage together, for the first and only time, were the architects of bossa nova: Tom Jobim on piano and Joao Gilberto on guitar, with help from the poet Vinicius de Moraes, who gave "The Girl" her lyrics. Also performing was the vocal group Os Cariocas.

Bossa nova was still young then, somewhat of a novelty even in Rio. The name meant "new trend" or "new way," and that's what it was: a fresh, jazzy take on Brazil's holiest tradition, the samba.

The rhythm was the same. But where samba was cathartic, communal, built on drums and powerful voices, bossa was intimate, contemplative, just a singer and a song. The melody, on guitar or piano, stepped up to the front. Percussion receded, played sometimes with brushes for a softer texture reminiscent of surf washing on the sand.

The 1962 show at the club Au Bon Gourmet established bossa nova, wrote Castro in his book about the genre. It didn't just introduce the Jobim-penned "Girl"; other bossa classics, such as "So danco samba" and "Samba da bencao," also were played publicly for the first time.

The small club ? 20 by 130 feet ? sold out every night as patrons realized something extraordinary was happening on the cramped little stage.

Severino Filho was there when it happened. As an original member of Os Cariocas, he was one of the first to ever hear the song.

"Tom and Vinicius had just composed it; it was still on a scrap of paper. Only later did they write it out on a clean sheet," he said. "At first, people in the audience just listened. But they'd come back, and would start to sing along. After that, bossa nova just exploded."

That was also the year most Americans first heard bossa nova. The 1962 record "Jazz Samba," by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, took the sound of Brazil and filtered it through the sensibility of American musicians, making it palatable to the country's listeners. Although an instrumental jazz album, it remained on the Billboard charts for 70 weeks.

After that, everyone wanted a bit of Brazil. Jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald made bossa-inspired recordings. Performing Songwriter magazine says only The Beatles' "Yesterday" has been recorded more often.

Still, it wasn't until 1964 that "The Girl" came to the U.S., with its English lyrics written by American Norman Gimbel. The words are different from the original Portuguese ones but remain true to their spirit.

It could have been a dud.

Astrud Gilberto, Joao Gilberto's then-wife, sang the English words in the album "Getz/Gilberto." It was her first professional gig. Her voice is young, breathy, but there's a little hesitation; she trips over her English oh-so-lightly.

As it turns out, she was perfect: exotic but accessible, sultry and innocent at once. Like the girl in the song, Astrud's voice suggested a beauty that was enticing but just out of reach: "Each day, when she walks to the sea, she looks straight ahead not at he."

American Tryg Sletteland, for one, fell under the song's spell from the moment he first heard it while in college in the early 60s, he said during a recent walk along Ipanema beach.

In fact, "The Girl from Ipanema" primed him for romance, Sletteland said amid the beach's bustle.

When he met Sonia Madeira de Ley, who'd gone from Rio to Vermont to study English, he felt like he'd found his own "Girl from Ipanema."

"She was the embodiment of the song: long dark hair to the middle of her back, big dark eyes, and this 'morena' skin," he said. "And she was so graceful ... She was exotic and beautiful. I'd never met anyone like that."

Their whirlwind romance ended when she returned to Rio. More than 30 years later, with help from the Internet, the two reconnected. Now they're finally together, and split their time between Rio and California.

"He still calls me his Girl From Ipanema," said Sonia, who now goes by her married name, Sletteland.

The "Getz/Gilberto" album eventually won the 1965 Grammy for best album of the year, and suddenly, everyone was talking about "The Girl."

Except the girl herself. Because there was a girl: Heloisa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, then 17 years old, known among her friends as Helo.

The teenager's days were spent between home, school and the beach, a path that often took her by the bar where de Moraes and Jobim spent long hours nursing their drinks. Their eyes would follow Helo when she passed, entranced with her glowing skin and long dark hair.

Helo had no idea. When she first heard the hit on the radio, she liked it. She'd whistle it sometimes. But she never suspected she'd inspired the lyrics.

There were rumors from the guys at the bar, but she wouldn't believe them. Finally, in 1965, Moraes offered the definitive proof, writing in a magazine that Helo was the beauty behind the song, "the golden girl, mix of flower and mermaid, full of light and grace, but whose sight is also sad because it carries within it, on the way to the sea, the sense of youth that passes, of beauty that doesn't belong only to us."

In spite of the stir she created, Helo had a traditional upbringing, and the song did little to change that, she said. Between her strict parents and her fiance, then husband, she turned down invitations to do films and shows on TV.

"I was flattered, of course. But it left me wondering, do I really deserve all this?" she said. "It was a weight, trying to please everyone, to show these characteristics that the song called for."

Her fiance, who had been her high-school boyfriend, pushed for a quick wedding, and she spent the next decade as a housewife. Now, at 68, she's far more comfortable with her notoriety, doing two TV shows and planning to launch a book in English about her past.

"Back then, I never thought I'd get old," she said. "But youth passes. We have to live each moment."

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Follow Juliana Barbassa at http://twitter.com/jbarbassa

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/girl-ipanema-turns-50-144951244.html

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Divorce and Caregiving: A Complicated Relationship ? AARP is a ...

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Divorce can complicate?caregiving, especially for adult children and stepchildren. Taking care of divorced parents?ugh, potentially multiple sets of parents, in-laws, and their spouses, along with dealing with siblings, stepkids, half siblings, or stepsiblings?can be a challenge. Combine ?too many cooks in the kitchen? with ?so much to do, so little time!?

And then there are the slews of divorced caregivers who will require help themselves in the future. Today, one out of every three boomers is single, many due to divorce. Most split years back, but not all.

The demise of first-time, long-term marriages, a phenomenon dubbed ?gray divorce,? is on the rise. The rate of divorce has doubled for the age 50+ demographic since 1990. Women, it turns out, initiate divorce two-thirds of the time.

For many, longevity plays a part. Realizing they?ve got decades ahead, they may decide they don?t want to spend it with someone they no longer love (?that jerk!?) and will have to take care of. And, unmarried boomers are two times as likely to be disabled as those who are wed. They?ll need help.

Who will be their caregivers? Women, regardless of marital status, tend to have a stronger support system than men. Sociologists and divorce experts wonder how fathers, in particular, will fare.

For a piece on divorce I wrote last month for the AARP Bulletin, I interviewed eminent sociologist Andrew Cherlin from Johns Hopkins University. Here are his thoughts:

?For the generation entering old age, the peak years of divorce were the 1970s and 1980s. Men are more vulnerable than women because mothers tended to keep the kids after divorce and some men didn?t stay in touch regularly. Will their kids take responsibility for helping them??

Cherlin thinks that late life divorce and joint custody could benefit Dad, because he?s had more time with the kids, making them more willing to be a caretaker.

But wait: With a remarriage failure rate of 60 percent, stepchildren might not consider what happens to Mom?s ex their problem. And, with cohabitation becoming the ?new marriage,? will Mom?s adult kids feel like becoming the medication manager, wheels, and much more for her boyfriend?

What does this divorce talk mean? It may mean that if you?re divorced, you need to start thinking about your own caregiving situation. Maybe you won?t be able to count on your kids (and maybe you don?t have any).

Would you consider moving to an adult community? Living with a friend? There are many options. The best advice ever: Have a support system in place before you need it.

One more thing: For current or future caregivers whose parents are divorced, save your energy. You?re going to need it!

Sally Abrahms is the co-author of What Every Woman Should Know About Divorce and Custody. Follow her on Twitter @SallyAbrahms.

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Punishment motivated by fairness, not revenge

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Researchers at UCL and Harvard have found that we punish cheats only when they end up better off than us, in a study that challenges the notion that punishment is motivated by revenge.

Published today in the journal Biology Letters, the research shows that victims of cheating compare their own payoffs with those of partners when making punishment decisions.

"Punishment is a costly behaviour which is often aimed at individuals that cheat during social interactions," said Dr Nichola Raihani (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment), lead author of the study. "Imagine a thief steals ?10 from you. Would you punish him because he cost you ?10, or would you only punish if the thief ended up ?10 richer than you?"

Although punishers make an initial investment to harm cheats, the investment may be repaid if the cheat behaves more cooperatively in future interactions. Playing an important role in the maintenance of cooperation in humans, it is this relationship between punishment and cooperation - and the motives that underpin it - that Dr Raihani and colleagues aim to clarify.

To find out more about the underlying motivations of human punishment, the team devised an experiment to see whether it is triggered by a desire to reciprocate losses or by an aversion to unequal outcomes. Subjects were assigned one of two roles, and then allocated money according to one of three different treatments. The team found that humans are sensitive to inequity but not to losses when deciding whether to punish a cheating partner.

"Several previous studies have shown that punishment is motivated by negative emotions. However we wanted to know what precisely makes people want to punish cheats," said Dr Raihani. "Is punishment motivated purely by a desire for revenge, or do individuals judge whether cheats end up better off than them before deciding whether to punish?"

Although negative emotions motivate punishment, it is not yet clear why these emotions are produced during interactions with cheats. One possibility for this behaviour could be that victims of cheats experience negative emotions because cheats violate cooperative norms within society, thereby imposing losses on cooperative partners.

Elucidating the motives that trigger punishment of cheats may yield insights into the ultimate function of punitive behaviour in humans: specifically, it may be the case that punishment is aimed at promoting fair behaviour rather than simply deterring partners from cheating. Such insights may tell us much about the contexts where punishment is most likely to be implemented and also where it is likely to be most effective.

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