lteydanie: October 2012

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

English town to burn Lance Armstrong in effigy

Artist Frank Shepherd, top, poses with his creation of U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong who has been unveiled as this year's Edenbridge Bonfire Society celebrity guy, during an unveiling for the media in Edenbridge, England, Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012. The Edenbridge Bonfire Society has a long tradition of building symbolic effigies of famous people to burn during their Guy Fawkes bonfire night, and this year it will be disgraced Tour de France cyclist Lance Armstrong who gets torched for his villainy in sport. (AP Photo / Gareth Fuller, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES

Artist Frank Shepherd poses with his creation of U.S. cyclist Lance Armstrong who has been unveiled as this year's Edenbridge Bonfire Society celebrity guy, during an unveiling for the media in Edenbridge, England, Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012. The Edenbridge Bonfire Society has a long tradition of building symbolic effigies of famous people to burn during their Guy Fawkes bonfire night, and this year it will be disgraced Tour de France cyclist Lance Armstrong who gets torched for his villainy in sport. (AP Photo / Gareth Fuller, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES

LONDON (AP) ? His career is in ruins and now an effigy of Lance Armstrong is about to go up in smoke.

The disgraced American cyclist has been chosen as the latest celebrity to be burnt in effigy during an English town's nationally famous Bonfire Night celebrations.

Edenbridge in southeast England has built a 30-foot (9-meter) model of Armstrong, who was stripped recently of his seven Tour de France titles for doping offenses.

The effigy, to be burnt Saturday, sports a sign saying "For sale, racing bike, no longer required."

Towns across Britain light bonfires and set off fireworks on Nov. 5 to commemorate Guy Fawkes' failed plot in 1605 to blow up Parliament.

Associated Press

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Honeybees harbor antibiotic-resistance genes

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? Bacteria in the guts of honeybees are highly resistant to the antibiotic tetracycline, probably as a result of decades of preventive antibiotic use in domesticated hives. Researchers from Yale University identified eight different tetracycline resistance genes among U.S. honeybees that were exposed to the antibiotic, but the genes were largely absent in bees from countries where such antibiotic use is banned.

The study appears on October 30 in mBio?, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

"It [resistance] seems to be everywhere in the U.S.," says Nancy Moran of Yale University, a senior author on the study. "There's a pattern here, where the U.S. has these genes and the others don't."

Honeybees the world over are susceptible to the bacterial disease called "foulbrood," which can wipe out a hive faster than beekeepers can react to the infection. In the U.S., beekeepers have kept the disease at bay with regular preventive applications of the antibiotic oxytetracycline, a compound that closely resembles tetracycline, which is commonly used in humans. Oxytetracycline has been in use among beekeepers since the 1950s, and many genes that confer resistance to oxytetracycline also confer resistance to tetracycline.

Using sensitive molecular techniques, Moran and her colleagues screened honeybees from several locations in the United States and from Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and New Zealand as well as several wild bumblebees from the Czech Republic, for the presence and abundance of tetracycline resistance genes. They found that U.S. honeybees have greater numbers and a more diverse set of tetracycline resistance genes than honeybees from the other countries.

Moran says it is reasonable to expect to see widespread resistance among bees, considering the decades-long use of oxytetracycline in honeybee hives. "It seems likely this reflects a history of using oxytetracycline since the 1950s. It's not terribly surprising. It parallels findings in other domestic animals, like chickens and pigs," says Moran.

Moran notes that beekeepers have long used oxytetracycline to control the bacterium that causes foulbrood, but the pathogen eventually acquired resistance to tetracycline itself. Of the foulbrood pathogens Melissococcus pluton and Paenibacillus larvae, Moran says, "They carry tetL, which is one of the eight resistance genes we found. It's possible that the gene was transferred either from the gut bacteria to the pathogen or from the pathogen to the gut bacteria."

Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and New Zealand do not allow beekeepers to use oxytetracycline in hives, so it is perhaps predictable that honeybees and wild bumblebees from these countries harbored only two or three different resistance genes and only in very low copy numbers, suggesting that the bacteria did not require the genes very frequently.

The authors of the study point out that by encouraging resistance and altering the bacteria that live in honeybee guts, decades of antibiotic applications may have actually been detrimental to honeybee wellbeing. Studies have suggested that the bacterial residents of the honeybee gut play beneficial roles in neutralizing toxins in the bees' diet, nutrition, and in defending the bee against pathogens. By disrupting the honeybee microbiota and reducing its diversity, long-term antibiotic use could weaken honeybee resistance to other diseases. Hence, the treatment that was meant to prevent disease and strengthen the hive may actually weaken its ability to fight off other pathogens.

Moran says while the study is interesting from the perspective of honeybee health and could have implications for how honeybee diseases are managed, the presence of resistance genes in the honeybee gut doesn't pose a direct risk to humans. These gut bacteria, says Moran, "don't actually live in the honey, they live in the bee. We've never actually detected them in the honey. When people are eating honey, they're not eating these bacteria."

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Friday, October 19, 2012

Miley Cyrus on New Nick Jonas Song: Totes About Me!

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Instant View: Nokia Q3 in red, sees tough Q4

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia reported another quarterly loss and dwindling cash reserves on Thursday, raising the stakes for next month's launch of new Lumia smartphones it hopes can dent the dominance of market leaders Apple and Samsung.

The following are analysts' reactions:

INGE HEYDORN, FUND MANAGER, SENTAT ASSET MANAGEMENT

"Networks is what stands out as being really, really good, both on sales and margin. So the market is trading up Ericsson shares on this. In the phone business there's nothing odd, neither in terms of profit in the third quarter, nor in terms of the guidance for the fourth quarter."

"I think Nokia will continue to have a rough ride (for cellphones). Networks is also a tough business, but they seem to do pretty well in the third and fourth quarters."

ANALYST MIKKO ERVASTI, EVLI BANK

"The outlook was a bit soft, but quite in the ballpark."

"Nokia Siemens Networks' result was amazing, it seems the cost savings start to push through. The cash-burn rate for the company is tolerable and totally understandable taking into account Nokia's situation."

NEIL MAWSTON, STRATEGY ANALYTICS

"It looks like feature phone numbers were above expectations slightly, but the smartphone numbers are quite a bit below. It's likely that other vendors like HTC or Sony or RIM may have overtaken Nokia in smartphones, though that is not confirmed yet."

"While their smartphone division is struggling their feature phone division is doing okay, but feature phones are a sunset technology and smartphones are sun rising, so they need to transfer growth to the sun rising technology."

CAROLINA MILANESI, GARTNER

"Mobile phones were good, but this was the only place to look for a good news. Nothing good could have come from smart devices as there were no new products."

"The fourth quarter will be tough for everybody in mature markets as you will not see the typical hype around smartphones. The hype this year will be about tablets."

PETE CUNNINGHAM, CANALYS

"We expected that Nokia's third quarter was going to be tough for its smartphone business due to the announcement of Windows Phone 8, however this is worse than expected."

"The fourth quarter will be a tough one as it will take a couple of quarters to ramp up Windows Phone 8 volumes due to the competitive landscape."

GREGER JOHANSSON, REDEYE

"Looking at the Q3 figures, Mobile Phones was as expected while Networks actually came in quite a bit better, both in terms of margin and sales, so that is positive."

"On the other hand, I saw that the guiding for the fourth quarter was pretty broad in terms of results, which could be interpreted quite negatively."

"Overall, in light of the fact that the stock has fallen so extremely much, and with all the known problems, nobody was expecting any great things. So, against that backdrop, the report was alright, and they still have quite a bit of cash left."

GEOFF BLABER, CCS INSIGHT

"Lofty market expectations for Q4 ignore the reality that new products will ship halfway through the quarter into an overwhelmingly competitive and congested market."

"Nokia has never been more reliant on its mobile phone business. Success with Windows Phone remains as dependent on the continued success of Series 40 as it is on Microsoft."

(Compiled by Helsinki and Stockholm newsrooms; Editing by Hans-Juergen Peters)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/instant-view-nokia-q3-red-sees-tough-q4-101936242.html

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Bullet tax? Chicago eyes curbing violence, raising money.

Cook County official proposes a five-cent bullet tax to curb violence. Bullet tax would raise an estimated $1 million a year.

By Don Babwin,?Associated Press / October 18, 2012

In this Wednesday photo, boxes of ammunition line the shelves of a gun shop in Tinley Park, Ill. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is proposing a five-cent bullet tax in an effort to lower violence in greater Chicago.

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As Chicago struggles to quell gang violence that has contributed to a jump in homicides, a top elected official wants to?tax?the sale of every?bullet?and firearm ? an effort even she acknowledges could spark a legal challenge.

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Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle will submit a budget proposal Thursday that calls for a?tax?of a nickel for each?bullet?and $25 for each firearm sold in the nation's second-largest county, which encompasses Chicago.

Preckwinkle's office estimates the?tax?will generate about $1 million a year, money that would be used for various county services including medical care for gunshot victims. Law enforcement officials would not have to pay the?tax, but the office said it would apply to 40 federally licensed gun dealers in the county.

Through last week, the city reported 409 homicides this year compared to 324 during the same period in 2011. Although the violence still doesn't approach the nearly 900 homicides a year Chicago averaged in the 1990s, officials say gang violence was largely to blame for a rash of shootings earlier this year.

Preckwinkle insists the ordinance is far more about addressing gun violence than raising money for a county that faces a deficit of more than $100 million next year.

"We think that's an appropriate thing to do, especially in the light of the gun violence we struggle to deal with in our criminal justice system and our public health system," she told a local newspaper editorial board this week, according to a transcript of the meeting provided by her office. "The legal gun shops in suburban Cook County are a conduit for crimes in Chicago. There's no way around it."

Preckwinkle declined to speak with The Associated Press ahead of the announcement Thursday, but her spokeswoman Kristen Mack confirmed the details of the plan.

Mack said the office has found no other local jurisdiction in the nation that has imposed a?tax?on?bullets, even though several have considered it. Legislation on such a?tax?was previously introduced by state lawmakers in Springfield, but it was never been voted on, she said.

Richard Pearson, the executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, scoffs at such talk, saying thetax?wouldn't do anything to address gang violence but would harm local businesses and law-abiding citizens.

"If she wants to get to the people causing all the problems she ought to put a?tax?on street gangs," he said. "All this is going to do is drive business out of Cook County, into other counties, Indiana and Wisconsin."

One suburban gun shop owner agreed, saying that his customers, many of whom are hunters and police officers, will simply go elsewhere.

"Who's going to come to Tinley Park to buy ammunition," said Fred Lutger, the owner of Freddie Bear Sport in that suburban Chicago community.

And, said Lutger of that money going toward treating gunshot victims, "Why should be paying for gang bangers shooting each other? You're?taxing?law-abiding citizens for what criminals are doing."

Gun rights advocates spent years challenging in court Chicago's handgun ban, which was ultimately overturned in 2010 by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Preckwinkle's proposal has caught the attention of gun rights advocates across the nation, according a national firearms civil rights organization.

"This is putting the budget woes of Cook County on the backs of gun owners," said Dave Workman, of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. "It's not the law abiding citizens stacking bodies like cord wood in Chicago, it's the bad guys."

Workman said that while it is too early to say what the response might be to a proposal that may or may not be improved, "I could envision a coalition of different groups saying 'Wait a minute, you are making us financially responsible for the Cook County government's inability to hold down spending."

In Illinois, Lutger said a lawsuit was certain and Pearson said he and others started talking about a legal challenge as soon as they heard Preckwinkle was considering the?tax.

Even Preckwinkle seemed resigned to a legal challenge in her comments to the newspaper board.

"You can't make decisions based on the basis of whether or not somebody's going to sue you or then you'll never do anything," she said.

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Ride-Sharing Service Lyft Adds A Waitlist, Cancellation Fee, And More Drivers To Meet Growing Demand

Lyft so popular you can barely catch a ride through the service anymore. Well, it's trying to solve that problem through a number of initiatives, including an increase in driver supply, as well as a few updates to the service that will reduce the number of new users and cancellations that it sees.

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Romney Rewrites Bush's Small-Business Legacy - NYTimes.com

The Agenda

How small-business issues are shaping politics and policy.

Small business made an appearance in Tuesday?s second presidential debate where we least expected it. An undecided voter in the audience asked Governor Romney how he distinguished himself from the last Republican president, George W. Bush. One of those ways, it turns out, is his full embrace of small businesses:

And then let?s take the last one, championing small business. Our party has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That?s why everything I?ll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.

That bit of news probably comes as a surprise to Mr. Bush, who somewhat famously said, before he was elected, ?I understand small-business growth. I was one.? Mr. Bush started an oil and gas exploration company before forming an investment partnership that bought the Texas Rangers.

Mr. Romney?s assertion might also come as a surprise to Hector Barreto, Mr. Romney?s ambassador to the Hispanic vote and the administrator of the Small Business Administration during most of the Bush administration. In an interview with this reporter in 2006, Mr. Barreto cited Mr. Bush?s business experience as the reason his boss was ?passionate? about small businesses. ?I believe that the biggest champion of small business is the president of the United States,? Mr. Barreto said. ?I don?t remember any time in my lifetime where I?ve heard a president of the United States talk as much about small business as he does.?

A further irony here is the way that Mr. Romney expressed this distinction from Mr. Bush ? suggesting that he, unlike the former president, ?came through small business.? It may strike some as a bit of a stretch to say that Mr. Romney?s Bain pedigree amounts to more of a true small-business experience than Mr. Bush?s oil and gas ventures.

A similar issue arose during Mr. Romney?s 2008 White House run when the candidate occasionally called himself an entrepreneur. But as The Agenda (in an earlier incarnation) noted at the time, drawing on reporting by The Boston Globe, much of Mr. Romney?s tenure suggested the opposite of the risk-taking that most people associate with entrepreneurship. He risked little to start the company (his boss promised him his old job, with salary increases, if the new venture failed), and the business model shied away from investing in young companies. Quoted in the Globe article, Mr. Romney said, ?I didn?t want to invest in start-ups where the success of the enterprise depended upon something that was out of our control, such as ?Could Dr. X make the technology work?? ?

In any case, Mr. Bush?s and Mr. Romney?s approaches to small business seem pretty similar ? essentially lower taxes and fewer regulations. It?s an odd place to draw a distinction.

Source: http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/romney-rewrites-bushs-small-business-legacy/

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Daily Kos: Romney urged business owners to tell employees how to ...

Well, this is a bit odd. In a conference call from early June, here's Mitt Romney encouraging business owners to tell their employees how they ought to vote:

[26:30] ?I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope, you pass those along to your employees. There's nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision. And of course doing that with your family and your kids as well.

Most of the rest of the tape is shudderingly dull, boilerplate stuff that we've come to expect from Mitt, but at the end he adds that little bit in on his own, as his closing statement. Aside from that being a not-at-all-veiled suggestion that businesses, ahem, let employees know which vote would be "in the best interest of your enterprise, and therefore their job," there's also the rather obvious issue of that indeed happening over the summer. Gawker, for example, got hold of a lovely crazy rant from semi-prominent real estate asshole David Siegel to his employees threatening to fire those employees and close his company if Obama was reelected?a letter inspired, according to the crazy rich person himself, from an over-the-top chain letter from four years ago.

I think the takeaway here is that yes, Mitt Romney is as much of a jerk in his business dealings as we already knew he was. If you're willing to outsource entire manufacturing lines to China to save a few bucks, I suppose it's not very surprising that you'd also be perfectly willing to gently threaten your employees in order to get them to vote the right way. Or stand in front of a bunch of coal miners who were told attendance at your political rally was "mandatory" and that they wouldn't be getting paid for the day, for that matter.

(For more discussion, see the diary by TheGreatLeapForward)

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Stepdad of border guard shooter says he texted mom

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Stepdad of border guard shooter says he texted mom
By GENE JOHNSONBy GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press?

Police investigate a van at the scene of a shooting at the Blaine, Wash./Surrey, British Columbia border crossing Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in a van with Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

United States border agents work at the closed Surrey, B.C./Blaine, Wash., border crossing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in a van with Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

Map shows Peace Arch border crossing on the US-Canada border, where a gunman wounds a border agent, kills self.

Police investigate a van, rear left, at the scene of a shooting at the Blaine, Wash./Surrey, British Columbia border crossing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Surrey. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in the van bearing Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

Police investigate a shooting at the Blaine, Wash./Surrey, British Columbia border crossing, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Surrey. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Bert Paquet says a border officer was in her booth when she was shot in the neck at about 2 p.m. Tuesday by a man trying to enter Canada in a van with Washington state plates. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

SEATTLE (AP) ? The stepfather of a motorist who police say wounded a Canadian border guard at a U.S.-Canada crossing before killing himself says the 32-year-old Seattle man texted his mother hours earlier to say he loved her ? and was sorry.

Danny Lupinek of Henderson, Nev., says Andrew Crews didn't indicate what he meant in that Tuesday text, and the family was unable to reach him after that.

Canadian investigators say Crews was driving into Canada in a van Tuesday afternoon when he shot Officer Lori Bowcock in the neck at the Peace Arch border crossing at Blaine, about 100 miles north of Seattle. He then fatally shot himself.

Police haven't discussed a motive.

Associated Press

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Ancient jawed fish had mouthful of teeth

A set of jaws can invoke visions of deadly toothy sharks, and now scientists find the earliest fish with chops ? the ancestors of all jawed creatures with backbones ? were also armed with teeth, researchers say.

The evolution of teeth and jaws in vertebrates ? animals with backbones ? about 420 million years ago is considered to be a key factor behind their success, making everything from a T. rex's razor-sharp teeth to a dwarf mammoth's grinding molars possible. However, whether jaws or teeth came first remains uncertain.

"It has long been thought that the first jawed vertebrates were gummy ? (they had) jaws without teeth, capturing prey by suction-feeding," researcher Philip Donoghue, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England, told LiveScience.

To investigate this mystery, Donoghue and his colleagues analyzed 370-million-year-old fossils of a diverse and extinct group of armored fish known as placoderms, the first-known jawed vertebrates. These marine specimens were collected in Australia by researchers at the Natural History Museum London and from the Western Australia Museum.

The researchers analyzed specimens from an extinct placoderm, Compagopiscis, using high-energy X-rays from a kind of particle accelerator known as a synchrotron at the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. [ Image Gallery: Stunning Fish X-Rays ]

"The fossils are very rare and so no museum would ever allow anyone to cut them up to study structure," Donoghue said.

Regular CT scanning would not reveal the internal structure of these fossils at a resolution fine enough to look for signs of teeth. "It is only with synchrotron tomography that we can obtain the high resolution we need using a non-destructive method," Donoghue said. This technique involves speeding charged particles through magnetic fields; the resulting release of high-energy light can penetrate opaque materials like bones to produce high-resolution 3D images.

"We were able to visualize every tissue, cell and growth line within the bony jaws, allowing us to study the development of the jaws," researcher Martin R?cklin at the University of Bristol said in a statement.

The placoderm teeth had components seen in modern teeth, such as dentin, the hard, dense bony tissue forming the bulk of the tooth beneath the enamel, and a pulp cavity, which creates dentin.

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"We show that the juveniles had teeth for processing and capturing prey before they were worn away in the adults," Donoghue said.

This discovery that the earliest jawed vertebrates were toothy suggests teeth evolved along with or soon after jaws did. The scientists detailed their findings online Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Follow LiveScience on Twitter @livescience. We're also on Facebook? and Google+.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49452834/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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Nexus 7 vs. PlayBook, Android 4.1.2 OTA For Yakju [From the Forums]

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Three 6 Mafia's DJ Paul Arrested Over Open Beer, Taser

Oscar-winning rapper taken into custody after he told New York police he had a Taser in his pocket.
By Gil Kaufman

DJ Paul
Photo: Maury Phillips/ WireImage

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1695534/three-6-mafia-dj-paul-arrested.jhtml

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Egypt: Court delays ruling on constitutional panel

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How Google Will Ease Android Fragmentation

iOS 6 Adoption 12 Days Chitika ad network?s stats on iOS 6 adoption between September 18 and October 1 should make Apple users happy. In fact, they have every right to taunt their Android friends.

For right now the sad truth for Android fans is that their fragmentation persists, while Apple customers needn?t worry this will ever be an issue for them.

A Little History

Apple is great at building operating systems. They have a long history of creating robust products like Mac OS, originally introduced in 1984 as?System Software to run the first Macintosh computers. Fast forward 23 years, and Apple reinvents the smartphone and the mobile operating system with the release of the iPhone and iOS.

Apple updates iOS each year. In the scant weeks since it was released on September 18, it?s been adopted by almost 60 percent of iPhone users, 45 percent of iPad users and 39 percent of iPod users. Was a big marketing pitch behind it? No. Apple just rolls out the update and politely tells users it?s available.

Can Google do the same thing? No.

Google and partners released the Android OS in September 2008 as an alternative to iOS. The first versions were so ugly and sluggish you couldn?t even compare them with Apple?s product. And though Android?s improved, an ecosystem of dozens of devices made by dozens of manufacturers, each seeking to differentiate itself, led inevitably to fragmentation and compatibility issues cropping up. Although its interface was revamped with Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 and Jelly Bean 4.1, fragmentation remains Android?s biggest problem.

Google?s Fault?

Since Android is Google?s brainchild, can we blame it for this? Yes, but not entirely.

When Google promised to deliver an open source mobile OS, its partners rapidly adopted it, but soon decided Android in itself wasn?t enough and its interface needed improvement. They may have been right, but their buggy, sluggish and ugly solutions like Sense UI and WizTouch soon divided the landscape.

You don?t have to be a tech guy to understand that it takes time to modify an open source OS and put your own interface on top of it. This is what Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG and others are doing. The real, untouched version of Android runs perfectly fine, but only on Google devices: Nexus One, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 Tablet.

And what happens when a new Android version is released? Devices that use untouched, original Android get it in just a few weeks or less. Other manufacturers, the ones that like to put their own interface on top, update their devices months later ? five or six months later, if not more.

Taking this approach with an open source platform isn?t normal. That?s some why users end up hating Android devices. Meanwhile Apple users are happy to use their perfectly optimized OS, which doesn?t seem sluggish and receives updates fast.

Android Fragmentation Oct 2012 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is a about year old, and stats from the Android website show that nearly 24 percent of Android devices use it. The Jelly Bean update runs on less than 2 percent. So almost 12 months after a major update, 74 percent of Androids run older versions.

Google?s Solution

Google unveiled its solutions during this year?s Google I/O. Without mentioning ?fragmentation,? the company said a Platform Development Kit for chipset vendors and other hardware partners would be available two to three months ahead of each major Android release. This way, OEMs would have access to updates version months before it?s even announced. By? providing the PDK early, OEMs should be able to focus on testing and updating their devices, and eliminate the need for all of their customization.

Of course the key phrase here is ?should be.? Now, we?ll have to see how they do.

Exercise Makes You More Productive - 5 Legitimate Reasons to Hire ...

Put the word ?personal? in front of any service?trainer, stylist, dog groomer?and it immediately takes on an elitist (read: expensive) ring. But a personal trainer is not just for those with big bank accounts. We talked to Jason Karp, Ph.D, an exercise physiologist and author of Running for Women, for a few perfectly legit reasons anyone can hire a personal trainer?and why it actually doesn?t have to break the bank.

1. Because Health Equals Wealth

When you?re feeling healthy and physically fit, you?re going to be more productive in any area of your life. Research backs this up: According to a study published in the Journal of Labor Research, people who work out regularly (three times a week) earn about 10 percent more than those who don?t. Using that extra cash on a trainer (which costs, on average, about $50 to $80 per session) is definitely money well spent.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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Bye-Bye Brown Bag: Dunkin' Donuts Launches "UpgraDDe Your Sandwich" Twitter Sweeps

CANTON, Mass., Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --?For anyone whose homemade lunchtime sandwich just isn't cutting it, Dunkin' Donuts, America's all-day, everyday stop for coffee and baked goods, is offering its fans the chance to trade up their sandwiches with the "UpgraDDe Your Sandwich" Twitter Sweepstakes. Today through Friday, October 19, followers of Dunkin' Donuts (@DunkinDonuts) on Twitter can tweet a photo of their lonely lunchmeat, weary wraps and soggy sandwiches with the hashtag #UpgraDDe. Eligible fans who submit a photo of their homemade sandwich will have the chance to win a $50 Dunkin' Donuts Card.

On Friday, five winners will be selected at random from the pool of entrants to each win a $50 Dunkin' Donuts Card to enjoy the brand's Bakery Sandwiches, which pair perfectly with a freshly brewed Iced Tea and Hash Browns. This sweeps is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia), who are eighteen years of age or older. For official rules and additional information related to the "Dunkin' Donuts UpgraDDe Your Sandwich Sweepstakes," visit:?http://www.dunkindonuts.com/content/dunkindonuts/en/promotions/upgradde_your_sandwich_twitter_sweepstakes.html.?

Dunkin' Donuts offers a full lineup of delicious Bakery Sandwiches to keep people running any time of day.?Available in varieties including Ham & Cheese; Turkey, Cheddar & Bacon; Chicken Salad and Tuna Salad, and Texas Toast Grilled Cheese, Dunkin' Donuts' Bakery Sandwiches are served oven-toasted and made-to-order on a French roll, bagel, croissant, or multigrain flatbread, and are part of Dunkin' Donuts' lineup of delicious sandwiches available all day at participating Dunkin' Donuts restaurants nationwide.

To learn more about Dunkin' Donuts, visit www.DunkinDonuts.com or follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/DunkinDonuts) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/DunkinDonuts).

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Argentina sanciona a dos oficiales por buque militar retenido en Ghana

El gobierno argentino sancion? a dos oficiales de la marina de guerra tras la retenci?n en Ghana de la fragata de instrucci?n "Libertad" por un conflicto judicial por bonos impagados de deuda en 'default', inform? el ministerio de Defensa, en un comunicado.

El ministerio dipuso "el pase a disponibilidad" de dos oficiales "con el objetivo de establecer responsabilidades" por la decisi?n de que en su 43?? viaje de instrucci?n el buque escuela "haya hecho escala" en el puerto de Tema, cerca de Accra, se?al? el comunicado.

Un juez de Ghana rechaz? el jueves una petici?n de Argentina de liberar a la fragata que est? retenida desde el 2 de octubre por un reclamo de un fondo especulativo, que no acepta ingresar en el canje de 2005 y 2010 por el cual Buenos Aires refinanci? 93% del adeudo en default (2001) de unos 100.000 millones de d?lares en total.

Seg?n el parte, uno de los sancionados, el ex director general de organizaci?n de la marina Alfredo Mario Blanco, fue quien modific? el derrotero? de la fragata alegando "razones operativas", mientras que tambi?n fue puesto a disponibilidad el secretario general de la fuerza, el almirante Luis Gonz?lez.

El viaje de instrucci?n de la fragata, con una tripulaci?n de m?s de 200? militares y colegas extranjeros invitados, contemplaba varios puntos de Am?rica Latina, Europa y Africa, mientras que en 2011 s?lo atrac? en puertos de la regi?n para evitar, seg?n medios de prensa, intentos de embargo por reclamos de fondos especulativos por una deuda en mora.

Los viceministros de Defensa, Alfredo Forti, y de Relaciones Exteriores, Eduardo Zuain, emprendieron d?as atr?s una misi?n para convencer a las? autoridades de Ghana de que a Argentina le asiste el derecho internacional para reclamar la liberaci?n de la fragata.

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Monday, October 15, 2012

Bahrain king blasts 'foreign' links in unrest

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