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Every day dozens and dozens of new and updated apps and games hit the iOS and Mac App Stores. It’s impossible to keep up with them all, but it’s not impossible to pick out the very best. Here they are! Today we’ve got a music streaming app, a drawing app, an app for finding movies, and more.
If you try any of the apps or updates, let me know how they work for you. If you got any new or updated apps today that you loved, but don’t see here, let us know about them!
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In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, photo, Syrian women stand on the top of a pile searching for Syrian cellular network signal with their mobile phones at Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Jordan. The manager of the largest Syrian refugee camp arranges toy figurines, trucks and houses on a map to illustrate his ambitious vision: He wants to turn the chaotic shantytown of 100,000 into a city with local councils, paved streets, parks, and proper electricity and sewage. Refugees in Zaatari are already increasing putting down roots, creating an elaborate camp economy in a tough, enclosed world. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, photo, Syrian women stand on the top of a pile searching for Syrian cellular network signal with their mobile phones at Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Jordan. The manager of the largest Syrian refugee camp arranges toy figurines, trucks and houses on a map to illustrate his ambitious vision: He wants to turn the chaotic shantytown of 100,000 into a city with local councils, paved streets, parks, and proper electricity and sewage. Refugees in Zaatari are already increasing putting down roots, creating an elaborate camp economy in a tough, enclosed world. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, photo, a Syrian refugee sleeps covered with blankets at the new arrivals point at the Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Jordan. With Syria’s civil war in its third year, more than 2 million Syrians have fled their country. About 100,000 live in this camp. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, photo, the sun rises behind razor and barbed wire at the edge of Zaatari Refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Jordan. With Syria’s civil war in its third year, more than 2 million Syrians have fled their country. About 100,000 live in this camp. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
This Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, photo shows a general view of Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Jordan. With Syria’s civil war in its third year, more than 2 million Syrians have fled their country. About 100,000 live in this camp. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, photo, dozens of Syrian refugees watch a tent and a trailer on fire at the Zaatari Refugee camp near the Syrian border in Jordan. With Syria’s civil war in its third year, more than 2 million Syrians have fled their country. About 100,000 live in this camp. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
A plan to turn a sprawling Syrian refugee shantytown into a functional temporary city has no shortage of difficulties. Zaatari, a desert camp near Jordan’s border with Syria, is the largest camp of its kind in the region. It is home to more than 100,000 people who have fled the bloody Syrian civil war that continues to rage. Zaatari is currently far from the vision that some people have for it: a temporary city with local councils, paved streets, parks, an electricity grid and sewage pipes. Life is tough here. The strong often take from the weak, women fear going to communal bathrooms after dark, sewage runs between pre-fab trailers and boys hustle for pennies carting goods in wheelbarrows instead of going to school. This camp, the size of a modern city, is far from modern.
Here’s a gallery of photos from Zaatari.
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Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan talks about the progress his NBA basketball team is making during an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan talks about the progress his NBA basketball team is making during an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan talks about the progress his NBA basketball team is making during an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan talks about the progress his NBA basketball team is making during an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan smiles as he talks about the progress his NBA basketball team is making during an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press about his NBA basetball team Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan scoffs at the idea of tanking games.
The fiery 14-time All-Star who helped the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships simply doesn’t have it in his makeup to intentionally lose games this season just so his Charlotte Bobcats can get a better draft pick next year.
Forget that the NBA would likely hand down a hefty fine and fans would probably boycott if a team admitted to doing that, the Bobcats owner said purposely losing games is just not part of his competitive DNA.
“I don’t know if some teams have thought of that. That’s not something that we would do,” Jordan told The Associated Press on Friday. “I don’t believe in that.”
He then laughed heartily and said, “If that was my intention I never would have paid (free agent) Al Jefferson $13 million a year.”
It’s not that the Bobcats couldn’t use a player like Andrew Wiggins at Kansas or Duke’s Jabari Parker — two college freshman who many view as potential NBA stars.
Jordan, 50, hasn’t been able to translate his on-court success to winning as an NBA owner and executive. The Bobcats are just 62-168 in his three full seasons as majority owner. They were 21-61 last season.
Still, he doesn’t believe there are shortcuts to winning.
While the 2014 NBA draft offers hopes to fledgling teams with a host of talented players, Jordan made it clear he isn’t thinking about losing.
“It’s not guaranteed (the player) you are going to get is going to be that star anyway,” Jordan said. “I did read that certain teams are thinking about doing it. But I’m not one of them.
“So let’s alleviate that conversation.”
Jordan, relaxed and at ease at the Bobcats headquarters hours before his team’s regular season home opener, has been widely criticized for his failures with the Bobcats and for his struggles in the front office with the Washington Wizards.
He said some of that comes with the territory.
“It’s somewhat unfair, but you come to expect it,” said Jordan, who became the majority owner of the Bobcats in 2010. “You set certain standards as a player that transcend whatever you do. It goes where you go. You will be wearing that around your neck so that when people see the name they expect the results.
“It’s somewhat unfair but it is what it is. I don’t let it define me.”
However, Jordan said he remains committed to the Bobcats and said he’s tried to be transparent with the fans about the direction of the team.
This past offseason he used the amnesty clause on forward Tyrus Thomas, a move that took his hefty contract off the books.
Jordan still has to pay Thomas $18 million, but the move freed up that money under the salary cap as part of a one-time policy under the new collective bargaining agreement. The Bobcats used that money to sign Jefferson to three-year $41 million contact and to re-sign guard Gerald Henderson for $18 million over three seasons.
“I mean, that was a statement,” Jordan said of his commitment to the Bobcats. “I still have to pay more than $17 million, but it was a move that we needed to make to build and go get a guy like Big Al.”
Jordan also feels like he finally has the right man in charge in new coach Steve Clifford, a long-time NBA assistant who took over for Mike Dunlap, who was fired after one season.
“We’re focused on what we’re trying to do,” Jordan said. “I think the direction we’re moving is positive. … It is baby steps. Every now and again you have a hiccup. But I must admit that we’re headed in the right direction and I’m very happy with that.”
The Bobcats, however, along with other small market NBA teams, are at a disadvantage with potential free agents like LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh — who all could be a part of the 2014 class.
The stars want to go “where the lights are,” Jordan said.
He said last year he didn’t think the new CBA did enough to help level the playing field for small market teams in terms of helping them land — or keep — a high-profile difference maker in free agency.
A year later, after seeing the system at work, he has eased up on that stance.
“It’s better,” Jordan said. “We are still going through and seeing the full effects of it. From a business standpoint if you operate your team in the right way it gives you a chance to break even or be profitable. And it makes it more difficult for your talent to get up and go somewhere else.
“You can provide more advantages than other teams to keep your player. It’s a fair assessment that if you get your star you can get parity within the league. I think parity is starting to happen within the league.”
Jordan doesn’t feel players orchestrating deals that land a trio of stars in big markets to form a “big three” is necessarily good for the game.
“I’m not a big advocate for it,” Jordan said. “I came from an era where it didn’t happen. If that happened to evolve from the draft, then you seemed pretty smart.”
Now he’s trying to make that happen in Charlotte.
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FILE – In this Oct. 3, 2011 file photo, Dr. Conrad Murray listens to testimony seated near his attorney Nareg Gourjian, right, during Murray’s trial in the death of pop star Michael Jackson, in Los Angeles. Murray, who was convicted in Jackson’s death is suing the state of Texas for stripping his right to practice medicine, and his attorney said Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013, that the cardiologist has former patients eager for him to work again.(AP Photo/Mario Anzuoni, Pool, File)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas doctor convicted in the death of pop superstar Michael Jackson is suing the state for stripping his right to practice medicine, and his attorney said Thursday that the cardiologist has former patients eager for him to work again.
Conrad Murray, who was released from a California jail this week after serving less than two years for involuntary manslaughter in Jackson’s death, accuses the Texas Medical Board of prematurely revoking his license. Murray claims in his lawsuit filed in Austin that his 2011 conviction isn’t final in California until his appeals are exhausted.
Murray states in an affidavit that he is more than $400,000 in debt and can’t afford to pay court costs.
“Anybody who wants to work in this country ought to be able to have the right to do so. Dr. Murray is like everyone else, in that he needs to be able to do his line of work,” said Charles Peckham, Murray’s attorney.
Texas Medical Board spokesman Jarrett Schneider said the agency cannot comment on pending litigation.
Murray was convicted of causing Jackson’s death in June 2009 by providing him with the powerful anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid. Jackson was in the midst of preparations for a series of comeback concerts and Murray was serving as his physician.
Murray filed the lawsuit Friday, three days before he was freed after serving half of a maximum four-year sentence.
Murray previously maintained clinics in Houston and Las Vegas. His medical license is currently suspended in California.
In court papers filed in Texas, Murray expresses concern that the revocation of his Texas license could give California reason to take the same action.
“The Texas Medical Board, in taking my license puts me in imminent harm of irreparable injury,” Murray said in court papers.
Brian Panish, an attorney for the Jackson family, has said Murray should not have “a chance to hurt anyone else” by practicing medicine.
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FILE – In this Oct. 24, 2013 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks in Phoenix. As the public face of President Barack Obama’s signature health care program, Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout. Republicans want her to resign and even some Democrats _ while not mentioning her name _ say someone needs to be fired. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to cast blame, lawmakers are preparing to grill President Barack Obama’s top health official over problems with the rollout of the government’s health care website.
A growing number of Republicans in Congress are calling for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to step down or be fired because of problems consumers are having signing up for insurance coverage on the government’s new website.
On Wednesday, Sebelius heads to Capitol Hill to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, her first appearance before Congress since state-based health exchanges opened for business on Oct. 1.
Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Senate Health Committee, on Tuesday joined the list of GOP lawmakers calling for Sebelius to go.
“Taxpayers have spent $400 million to create exchanges that, after 3½ years, still don’t work,” Alexander said. “No private-sector chief executive officer would escape accountability after such a poor performance.”
Sebelius is likely to face questions about problems with the website as well as a wave of cancellation notices hitting small businesses and individuals who buy their own insurance. Lawmakers also want to know how many people have enrolled in plans through the health exchanges, a number the Obama administration has so far refused to divulge.
On Tuesday, Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner was questioned for nearly three hours by members of the House Ways and Means Committee who wanted to know why so many of their constituents were getting cancellation notices from their insurance companies.
“So what happened to the ‘If you like your insurance, you can keep it’ question?” asked Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
Camp was referring to one of Obama’s earliest promises about the health law: You can keep your plan if you like it. Obama’s promise dates back to June 2009, when Congress was starting to grapple with overhauling the health care system to cover uninsured Americans.
As early as last spring, state insurance commissioners started giving insurers the option of canceling existing individual plans for 2014, because the coverage required under Obama’s law is significantly more robust. Some states directed insurers to issue cancellations. Large employer plans that cover most workers and their families are unlikely to be affected.
The law includes a complicated “grandfathering” system to try to make good on Obama’s pledge. It shields plans from the law’s requirements provided the plans themselves change very little. Insurers say it has proven impractical. The cancellation notices are now reaching policyholders.
Tavenner blamed insurance companies for cancelling the policies and said most people who lose coverage will be able to find better replacement plans in the health insurance exchanges, in some cases for less money. Change is a constant in the individual insurance market, she added, saying that about half of plans “churn” over in any given year.
Tavenner delivered the most direct mea culpa yet from the administration for the technical problems that have kept many Americans from signing up through HealthCare.gov. Consumers complain that the site is slow, locks up and often kicks them off before they can complete their application.
“I want to apologize to you that the website has not worked as well as it should,” she told the Ways and Means Committee.
Tavenner said the website is improving and the problems should be resolved by the end of November, giving consumers time to get coverage by the March 31 deadline.
The first senior official to publicly answer questions from lawmakers, Tavenner was also pressed about the number of people who have so far enrolled in health plans through the exchanges. Committee members asked Tavenner at least 19 times about the number of people who have so far enrolled through the exchanges.
Each time, she gave a well-rehearsed answer: “We will not have those numbers available until mid-November.”
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