Nokia reveals another new Lumia smartphone in UK ad, teases 'more than your eyes can see' (video)

We're still days away from Nokia's London media event, but the comapny's apparently got a real taste for teasers. A new 20-second promo clip aired today in the UK, and although it doesn't outline any outright specs or model numbers, we get a (very) up-close look at a dual-flash arrangement (unlike the xenon flash seen on Verizon's Lumia 928), a glossy white shell and some metal detailing. We're relieved that Nokia has something new to unveil in the UK next week, but we're now itching to hear exactly how this Windows Phone will differ from the now-public Lumia 928. We'll have all the details on Tuesday morning.

Update: The Verge has managed to upload a digital copy of the ad. See it for yourself right after the break.

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5 Staffers to Watch Among House Freshmen

Running an office of a freshman member of Congress is never easy, but certain lawmakers and their top aides have especially unique challenges. Meet the chiefs of staffs of five House members whose election to Congress is somehow notable or newsworthy.

Kat Cammack, chief of staff to Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla. Hardly anyone had heard of Yoho until his surprise primary upset of 12-term Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., in August 2012. The 30-year veterinarian of large animals went on to win the general election.

Now, Yoho and his 25-year-old chief of staff, Cammack, are transitioning from campaign to legislative mode. ?It can be a very slow and tedious process,? Cammack said. ?A lot of the members are chomping at the bit, and you feel the pressure from your constituents. They want to see change.?

Between Yoho and Cammack, the two don?t have much Washington experience. ?We went after an experienced Hill staff that knew the ropes that could both guide Ted and me while respecting what we?re trying to accomplish,? Cammack said. Cammack is from Colorado and earned degrees in international issues from Metro State University in Denver. Her studies abroad, which included visits to about 18 countries, have helped her learn a lot about international affairs, which in turn helps her advise Yoho from his perch on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Kaitlin Fahey, chief of staff to Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. Fahey has worked for Duckworth since her first (unsuccessful) campaign in 2006 and while she was assistant secretary at the Veterans Affairs Department.

Duckworth, an Asian-American, double-amputee veteran of the Iraq war, is one of the more high-profile House Democrats and has given major speeches at the last two Democratic conventions. Because of Duckworth?s diverse background and interesting story, Fahey said Duckworth appeals to all types of people.

?She represents so much to so many different constituent groups?disability community, Asian-American, veterans,? Fahey said. ?One of the challenges we?ve been having is figuring out how to balance and how to be a leader to all of these different communities because she wants to be.?

Duckworth has another community that may seek her help now: The amputee victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. ?She has not officially met with anyone, but she?s certainly in communication with folks there and hopes to be helpful in any way she can,? Fahey said.

Greg Mecher, chief of staff to Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass. Mecher is part of the Kennedy family tradition, even if he doesn?t share the last name. Mecher was the political director for former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., whose retirement in 2010 broke a 63-year tradition of having a Kennedy in public office. ?[Joe Kennedy] has watched his family serve in the past, but he hasn?t served himself,? said the 36-year-old Mecher about his 32-year-old boss. ?It?s a whole new experience when you actually get your name on the door.?

Mecher said the new congressman wants to find new issues he can pursue. ?He?s really taking this opportunity on the committees he?s serving on to identify what he?s most passionate about,? Mecher said.

The family name has been in helpful in some key ways. ?We have had a wonderful outpouring from folks that have in the past worked for some other member of his family,? Mecher said. ?They all want to see Joe do well. There is certainly no lack of folks to bounce ideas off of, which I think is an advantage.?

Jennifer Cox, chief of staff to Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz. Cox and Barber are both former aides to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who resigned in January 2012, a year after she was shot in the head during a constituent event in Tucson, Ariz.

Barber, who was Giffords?s district director, is now representing the seat she left, and Cox has risen to be his chief of staff. Cox notes Barber?s commitment to reducing gun violence, including his vice chairmanship of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

Cox said that, like Giffords, Barber also seeks to put his constituents? concerns atop his legislative agenda, including committee assignments important to southwestern Arizona, such as Armed Services and Veterans' Affairs. Cox, who worked for Giffords since her first congressional campaign in 2006, continues to keep in touch with the former congresswoman and her family.

Christian Morgan, chief of staff to Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo. Wagner, a former cochair of the Republican National Committee, and Morgan, a political consultant who has a decade of directing political campaigns at all levels, are key assets to the National Republican Congressional Committee as it seeks to recruit GOP candidates.

?With my background in politics and the congresswoman?s background in politics, the NRCC is utilizing us in messaging and candidate recruiting,? Morgan said. It could be a little ironic that the seat she?s filling was vacated by Todd Akin, the beleaguered Senate candidate who lost to Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., in 2012, largely because of his comments about rape.

But Akin?s shadow doesn?t hang too heavily on Wagner?s representation, in part because redistricting changed the makeup of Missouri?s 2nd District, Morgan said. ?We haven?t had many complaints or concerns at all,? Morgan said.

Morgan and Wagner are focusing much of the congresswoman?s time on issues she handles as part of her membership on the Financial Services Committee.

Hot Seats is a weekly series highlighting significant staff positions in the 113th Congress. To suggest a position or staffer for the list, please tweet to @NJLeadership or e-mail Managing Editor Kristin Roberts atkroberts@nationaljournal.com.

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Judge Tosses DMCA Defenses, Creating Unexpected Copyright Liability For Web Services In New York

Editor?s note: Sid Venkatesan is an IP partner specializing in high stakes IP disputes and IP counseling for technology companies in the Silicon Valley office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.?James Freedman?is an associate in Orrick?s IP group and a recent Stanford Law School graduate.? A New York appellate court has recently ruled in?UMG Recordings v. Escape Media Group that the safe harbor protections that Congress designed for Internet companies do not cover sound recordings made before 1972. The decision is a new and unexpected break with earlier decisions by?state?and federal?trial courts.

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Documentary spotlights Chinese artists Wang Guangyi, Liu Gang

BEIJING -- One scene of the new documentary ?Chimeras? shows the young Chinese artist Liu Gang wandering with his camera around a town in China that's been built to resemble an English village. Liu is in Thames Town, a development outside Shanghai that's eerily empty, aside from the couples posing in matching outfits for wedding photographs on faux cobbled streets.

In a series of satirical, candid shots called ?Better Life,? Liu explores China?s conflicted aspirations. Our ideas of a better life, the artist explains, are ?all indeed fantasies from the West.?

Finnish filmmaker Mika Mattila?s thought-provoking ?Chimeras? -- which played this week at the San Francisco International Film Festival -- is a documentary about the search for a uniquely Chinese aesthetic in an international art world dominated by the West. But it is also an intimate portrait of two very different artists -- Liu Gang and Wang Guangyi -- as they navigate an explosion of possibilities along with feelings of frustration, even confusion.

Mattila first wanted to make a documentary that elevated itself above ?China? as? subject matter. With this in mind, he chose what he considered to be the suitably global world of Chinese art and picked five subjects to film.

?I wanted to focus more on the dynamics of how the art boom was operating,? he explained. ?But as I went along, the issues of identity, and East and West, emerged more and more. And Liu Gang and Wang emerged as the more central characters. Artists constantly examine themselves and how they are in relationships with society.??

The more famous of the two featured artists, Wang is a striking, uncompromising, erudite man in his 50s often seen wielding a smoldering cigar. Early on in the film, an auction of one of his pieces starts at $1.5 million -- and we learn that in 2008, a year before filming began, the annual auction sale of his works totaled $23 million, ranking him eighth among living artists in the world.?

Wang made his name, and fortune, in his ?Great Criticism? series that combined Mao-era social-realist propaganda with Western brand logos such as Cartier, Hermes and Walt Disney. He has heavily drawn on the Western canon. But looking back, Wang believes he has been brainwashed -- first, by Mao Tse-tung during his childhood in the Cultural Revolution, and second by Western art history. He mourns: ?We are always blatantly imitating the West.?

?He is a paradoxical character,? said Mattila. ?His opinions can be challenging for a Westerner. What he says and what he does, sometimes, at least, it feels contradictory.?

This is displayed starkly. Wang attends glitzy dinners and hobnobs at Dior events. But during one informal gathering of artists and academics, he declares that every Chinese who has studied abroad should be executed. His friends take it as a joke but Wang is not laughing. You cannot help but think he is most angry with himself.?

Liu, by contrast, is tentative and contemplative, observing the world through a boyish fringe and his camera lens. He is torn in different directions: his girlfriend is pressuring him to get married; his parents want him to save marriage for later and concentrate on his career.

He lives in a cramped apartment in Beijing and his parents are cooks at a school canteen in the southern province of Guizhou. At one of his first solo exhibitions in the capital?s most prestigious art gallery, where he is propelled to 15? minutes of fame, he is told: ?Only in China could this happen.? ?

If Wang?s story shows an artistic and intellectual giant at work, Liu?s is just as compelling, largely because it delves more deeply into his personal life. Mattila spent four years trailing both subjects and previously worked as a news cameraman in Beijing (?Chimeras? is his debut film). He is able to home in on the smallest of details.?

Some are painful. At one point, Liu?s father points out a crease in a photo during his son's first big art opening, saying awkwardly, ?This one?s damaged.? The young artist winces at the comment, because the crease? is deliberate. At another moment, Liu rubs his eye as his family warns him against tackling the country's one-child policy as a subject of his art -- it is too political, they say.?

Liu?s work, like Wang?s, merges his personal quest for answers with China?s. His first series consists of photographic advertisements of housing developments and highways from newspaper. He cuts them out, creases them, folds them and crumples them before reshooting them. Sitting in a coffee shop in central Beijing this week to discuss the documentary, he explained that he named the series ?Paper Dreams? because ?paper is fragile. You can see it is easily destroyed.?

In the documentary, Liu says: ?I myself don?t have such big dreams. I just hope I can concentrate on my art.? Since filming finished earlier this year, however, the 30-year-old has taken a break from art to take up a stable job? to? better provide for his wife and new baby.?

A chimera is defined as a thing that is hoped for but is in fact illusory, or an organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed from fusion, grafting or mutation. Both definitions seem to pertain to Wang and Liu, as they examine and try to reconcile Chinese life and culture with global influences such as Coca-Cola and villa developments -- both in their art and for themselves.?

?Where are our roots?? Wang asks simply.?

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Weaker Yen Is Mixed Bag for Japan Auto Makers

By YOREE KOH

TOKYO?Japan's auto makers have been some of the most vociferous proponents of a weaker yen?calling for the U.S. dollar to appreciate to ?100 or more.

That is because they should be among the biggest beneficiaries: A weaker yen makes Japanese-made cars and trucks less expensive around the world and helps increase overseas earnings when they are repatriated into yen.

But a closer look at two auto makers, Mazda Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co., shows that the benefits of a weaker yen to Japan Inc. are anything but clear.

Hiroshima-based Mazda is the car company most likely to pop the Champagne when the dollar hits ?100. That is because Japan's fifth-largest auto maker produces about 71% of its cars at home and exports roughly 80% of them, meaning a move in the currency can deliver a heavy blow or sudden windfall.

One reason for the high percentage of exports is Mazda's small size: Last year it produced only 1.18 million vehicles, versus Nissan's 4.88 million. Despite the currency risk, Mazda decided it would be more efficient to concentrate its factories in Japan, rather than spreading them throughout the world.

Even as the yen strengthened in 2012, Mazda brought production of its Mazda6 sports sedan back home, after falling vehicle sales in the U.S. spurred them to pull out of a Michigan assembly plant run jointly with Ford Motor Co.

For the fiscal year ended March 31, the move means the amount Mazda lost for every one-yen appreciation versus the dollar climbed to ?3.5 billion?about 6.4% of the company's ?53.9 billion operating profit??1 billion more than it would have been two years ago. A strong yen?the dollar hit a post-World War II low of ?75.31 in October 2011?has been a big factor behind Mazda's four consecutive years in the red, totaling ?245.7 billion in net losses.

Now the yen's rapid slide means Mazda's fortunes are changing.

Assuming ?100 is worth a dollar, "we estimate additional profit of ?60-?70 billion versus" Mazda's guidance of ?120 billion in operating profit for this fiscal year through March 2014, J.P. Morgan analyst Kohei Takahashi said in a research note after the company announced earnings on April 26. Mazda projects its operating profit could increase ?56 billion based on currency gains in the current fiscal year, ?17 billion of which can be attributed to dollar-yen gains alone assuming a conservative rate of ?90 to the dollar.

In contrast, Yokohama-based Nissan has gradually shifted more production away from Japan over the last decade, in order to reduce costs and protect against currency fluctuations. The Japan-made portion of global production dropped to 24% in 2012 from 38% four years earlier, although with increasing sales, the export levels from Japan stayed relatively steady at 60%.

Nissan has also aggressively increased the use of components made elsewhere in Asia to lower yen-based costs. Deutsche Bank estimates Nissan now sources more than 40% of its auto parts from overseas, up from 10% to 20% several years ago. Nissan's best-selling domestic car, the compact Note car, imports about 45% to 50% of the parts used to build the vehicle at its factory in southern Japan.

Nissan says a bigger shift is on the horizon: it plans to move production of its two popular sport-utility vehicles to the U.S. The small Rogue crossover is scheduled to make the move this year, while the next generation of the Murano luxury SUV will follow when production is expected to begin in 2014. Nissan said 259,000 Murano and Rogue SUVs were produced in Japan last year?about 23% of domestic vehicle production.

That very different profile means every one yen change versus the dollar's average during the just-ended year has a ?15 billion impact on Nissan's operating profit, according to Koji Endo, a senior auto analyst at Tokyo-based Advanced Research Japan. That is 2.6% of what Nissan estimates will be its full-year operating profit. At a dollar level of ?100 compared with his previous fiscal year's estimate of ?82, Mr. Endo says operating profit this fiscal year at Nissan would increase ?270 billion from just dollar-yen effects.

Nissan is scheduled to report its earnings for the just-ended fiscal year Friday afternoon in Tokyo.

With the weaker yen, some question whether Nissan will follow through with its plan to shift SUV production to the U.S. On April 12, the Nikkei business daily reported that the auto maker may delay the production shift. A Nissan spokesman said the company's plans "to manufacture the next generation Rogue and Murano in the U.S. remain unchanged" and called the Japanese business newspaper's report "unauthorized and unfounded."

At the New York International Auto Show in March, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn also suggested its plans will stay. "We moved production outside of Japan and it's not going to come back," he said.

Going to a ?75 to the dollar level was "a shock," Mr. Ghosn said. Although the yen has weakened in recent months, "we are not very far from a historic level," he said.

--Joseph B. White in New York contributed to this article.

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Police: Ohio captive suffered 5 miscarriages

Ariel Castro appears in Cleveland Municipal court Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape after three women missing for about a decade and one of their young daughters were found alive at his home earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Ariel Castro appears in Cleveland Municipal court Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape after three women missing for about a decade and one of their young daughters were found alive at his home earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty leaves Fort Huntington Park and chased by the media after holding a news-conference regarding Ariel Castro's involvement in the disappearance of Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight, and Gina DeJesus Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Law enforcement officials gather evidence at the crime scene where three women were hjeld captive in Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Ariel Castro, a 52-year-old former school bus driver, is being held on $8 million bail under a suicide watch in jail, where he is charged with rape and kidnapping for allegedly abducting three women and holding them captive in his home for a decade. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

Ariel Castro appears in Cleveland Municipal court alongside defense attorney Kathleen DeMetz, right, Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape after three women missing for about a decade and one of their young daughters were found alive at his home earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Defense attorney Kathleen DeMetz, second from right, talks with Pedro Castro as Onil Castro, left, watches and Ariel Castro, right, looks down, in Cleveland Municipal court Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Ariel Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. Pedro and Onil Castro, were held but faced no immediate charges. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

CLEVELAND (AP) ? Prosecutors said Thursday they may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for a decade, as police charged that he impregnated one of his captives at least five times and made her miscarry by starving her and punching her in the belly.

The horrific allegations were contained in a police report that also said another one of the women, Amanda Berry, was forced to give birth in a plastic kiddie pool.

Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty said his office will decide whether to bring aggravated murder charges punishable by death in connection with the pregnancies that were terminated by force.

"Capital punishment must be reserved for those crimes that are truly the worst examples of human conduct," he said. "The reality is we still have brutal criminals in our midst who have no respect for the rule of law or human life."

Castro, a 52-year-old former school bus driver, is being held on $8 million bail under a suicide watch in jail, where he is charged with rape and kidnapping.

McGinty said Castro will be charged for every act of sexual violence, assault and other crimes committed against the women, suggesting the counts could number in the hundreds, if not thousands.

Among the chilling details in the police report, obtained Thursday by news organizations:

? Berry, now 27, told officers that she was forced to give birth in a plastic pool in the house so it would be easier to clean up. Berry said she, her baby, now 6, and the two other rescued women had never been to a doctor during their captivity.

? Michelle Knight, now 32, said her five pregnancies ended after Castro starved her for at least two weeks and "repeatedly punched her in the stomach until she miscarried." She also said Castro forced her to deliver Berry's baby under threat of death if the infant died. Knight said that when the newborn stopped breathing, she revived the child through mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

? All three women said Castro chained them up in the basement but eventually let them live upstairs on the second floor. Each woman told a similar story about being abducted after accepting a ride from Castro.

During his brief arraignment Thursday, Castro tried to hide his face, tucking his chin inside his collar. He appeared to close his eyes during the hearing and awkwardly signed documents while handcuffed. He did not speak or enter a plea.

In court, prosecutor Brian Murphy said Castro used the women "in whatever self-gratifying, self-serving way he saw fit."

Kathleen DeMetz, a public defender assigned to represent him at the hearing, didn't comment on his guilt or innocence or object when prosecutors recommended bail be set at $5 million. The judge, instead, ordered Castro held on $8 million.

Castro has been under arrest since Monday, when Berry broke out of his run-down house and called 911 while he was away. Police found the two other women inside. The women had vanished separately between 2002 and 2004 when they 14, 16 and 20.

Berry and former captive Gina DeJesus, 22, went home with relatives on Wednesday. Knight was reported in good condition at a Cleveland hospital.

The police report gave a detailed account of their escape, beginning with Berry's discovery that a door was unlocked, leaving only a bolted outer door between her and freedom.

Berry feared it was a test: She said Castro occasionally left a door unlocked to test them. But she called to neighbors on a porch for help and was able to get out.

Police then entered the house and found the other women, who threw themselves into the officers' arms.

Castro's two brothers, who were arrested with him but later cleared of involvement in the kidnapping case, appeared in court on unrelated charges Thursday and were released.

Ariel Castro's former daughter-in-law, Monica Stephens, told The Associated Press that her former husband said Castro had an extremely violent nature.

"He was always described to me as a violent, just a scary violent person," Stephens said.

"He talked about how his father had beaten him and his mother severely. They were like hostages in their own house. They were locked in," said the woman, who now lives in Florida.

A musician who often practiced at Castro's house said he was there last week and heard noises, "like banging on the wall." Ricky Sanchez said he asked Castro about it, and he blamed it on the dogs. He also said Castro ? a bass guitarist in merengue and salsa bands ? liked to play his music loud.

On his most recent visit, Sanchez said, a little girl came out from the kitchen and stared at him but didn't say anything. He said he also noticed there were four or five locks on the outside door.

"When I was about to leave, I tried to open the door. I couldn't even, because there were so many locks in there," he said.

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Associated Press writers Mike Householder and freelance reporter John Coyne in Cleveland; Brendan Farrington in Florida; and Dan Sewell in Cincinnati contributed to this report.

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Detroit adds watches to the list of stuff it makes

DETROIT (AP) ? Detroit has a long history of making stuff ? cars, steel, even popcorn.

Now, the city is home to a manufacturing facility devoted to the production of an item not made at this scale in the U.S. for decades: Wristwatches.

A Dallas-based company has set up a production line for its Shinola brand of watches in Detroit.

Shinola officials say their watch production target for this year is 45,000, to be sold online, at flagship stores in Detroit and New York and at fashion and jewelry retailers and department stores around the country.

Early returns are positive. Shinola sold a limited-edition round of 2,500 watches in less than a week.

Either way, watchmaking, which hasn't been a thriving American industry for a while, once again appears to be ticking.

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