Earlier this year it was claimed by several news sources, then quoted again just this month by Google, that the Nexus 7 outsold the iPad in Japan in the fourth quarter of 2012. This assertion comes from a report by market research firm BCN, as quoted by Nikkei and re-published by several publications since early this year. Here after Google repeated the claim at their Nexus 7 reboot event, a bit more information on BCN?s study has come to light ? as have some rather contradictory numbers from research firm IDC.
According to BCN?s claim, Google?s Nexus 7 took 44.4 percent of the Japanese tablet market while the iPad took just 40.1 percent of that same market in the month of December. This study was done on a total of 2,400 electronics stores throughout the nation, with the following notable exclusions:
? Softbank ? KDDI ? Apple Store
According to Bylines, BCN covers a total of 16% of tablet-carrying sales channels inside Japan. With a relatively major gap in stores covered in this study ? especially considering the relatively unique nature in which Apple sells its tablets in Apple-exclusive stores ? the simple assertion that the Nexus 7 outsold the iPad across Japan should never have been made.
We?ve also had a chat with IDC Research Director for Tablets, Tom Mainelli, who contests BCN?s numbers with a rather different view:
?Yes, I was a bit puzzled by Google?s claims. We count the Nexus 7 as part of ASUS?s shipments, and looking at our Japan numbers for 4Q12?which represent shipments into the channel?Apple shipped about 773K iPad units versus about 350K Nexus 7 units for ASUS.? ? Tom Mainelli, IDC Research Director, Tablets
Since BCN?s study was a survey, rather than a run-down of shipment numbers, BCN isn?t technically wrong in reporting the information they?ve found ? it?s the suggestion that their information represented the full market results that?s misleading. While we?ve got to consider the limited nature of BCN?s study and the fact that they did not aim to report the full quarter, the result is clear: the Nexus 7 is doing exceedingly well, but it?s still not outselling the iPad in Japan, not by a long shot.
DETROIT (AP) ? U.S. border agents found marijuana on a bus with singer Justin Bieber's tour as it crossed into Detroit from Windsor, Canada.
The Detroit Free Press reports (http://on.freep.com/18O0eS3) that U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ken Hammond confirms that the bus was stopped Sunday as it attempted to enter the U.S. on the Ambassador Bridge.
The singer was not on the bus at the time and performed later that night at Joe Louis Arena.
Hammond says a police dog indicated the presence of drugs on the bus and that drug paraphernalia and a small amount of marijuana were found. He says the bus driver was cited and that the bus and its passengers were allowed to go.
Should Huma Abedin, wife of embattled former congressman and New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, file for divorce in the wake of his latest scandal?
According to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll of 1,000 people, Americans are more likely to say that Abedin should end her marriage, rather than stick around and work on it.
Thirty-nine percent of poll respondents said that Abedin should file for divorce, while just 22 percent said she should stay and try to work on their marriage. Another 39 percent percent said they weren't sure.
Weiner resigned from his congressional seat in 2011 after admitting to sending lewd pictures and messages to women online. He is currently running for mayor of New York City, but his campaign was rattled last week by his admission that he continued the explicit chats even after resigning from office.
Among the 45 percent of respondents who said they had "heard a lot" about Weiner's continued sexting, 48 percent said that Abedin should file for divorce and only 19 percent said that she should not.
Nearly all Americans think what Weiner did counts as cheating, according to the survey. Eighty-two percent said that it does, while only 8 percent said that it does not.
In an additional blow to Weiner, respondents said -- by a 64 percent to 20 percent margin -- that politicians' unfaithful behavior is relevant information for voters to consider. Still, respondents in the Northeast were the least likely to say so -- 57 percent in the Northeast said that it was, compared to 67 percent each in the Midwest and West and 64 percent in the South.
For more interesting survey results, scroll through the slideshow below.
Fifty-one percent of Republicans polled said Abedin should file for divorce, compared to the 29 percent of Democrats.
Forty-six percent of respondents who live in the Midwest said Abedin should divorce Weiner, compared to 38 percent in the Northeast, 33 percent in the South and 35 percent in the West.
Eighty-eight percent of women said that sexting someone other than your spouse counts as cheating, compared to 75 percent of men.
Ninety percent of people over 65 considered sending lewd texts to someone other than your spouse to be cheating, compared to 70 percent of 18-29 year olds.
Forty-eight percent of the registered voters who responded to the poll said that they had heard a lot about the Weiner scandal, compared to 26 percent of respondents who are not registered voters.
Forty-three percent of respondents who did not complete high school had heard nothing about the Weiner sexting scandal. In contrast, only 1 percent of people who had completed post-grad education hadn't heard anything about the news and 9 percent of people with college degrees.
The HuffPost/YouGov poll was conducted July 25-26 among 1,000 adults using a sample selected from YouGov's opt-in online panel to match the demographics and other characteristics of the adult U.S. population. Factors considered include age, race, gender, education, employment, income, marital status, number of children, voter registration, time and location of Internet access, interest in politics, religion and church attendance.
The Huffington Post has teamed up with YouGov to conduct daily opinion polls. You can learn more about this project and take part in YouGov's nationally representative opinion polling.
Despite apps that let a few lucky Glass owners control their Nest thermostat or unlock that Tesla Model S, one of the futuristic headgear's most practical applications is still just the default turn-by-turn directions that come courtesy of Google. The R&D department over at Mercedes-Benz realizes that as well, but wants to take it a step further. According to a report in the Silicon Valley Business Journal, the automotive company is working on a Google Glass project that combines both pedestrian and automotive directions to take a user literally from door to door. MBRDNA President and CEO Johann Jungwirth told the publication that he wants Glass to seamlessly transition between walking and in-car navigation. Of course, not everyone has access to the pricey wearable just yet, so the project won't likely see real-world application any time soon. In the meantime, Mercedes does have a few more down-to-earth solutions for the gadgets you might already have.
After days of demonstrations and turmoil, Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addressed the public in Tunisia on Monday. Despite calls that he resign in favor of a national unity government, he insisted that he will remain in office, and apparently there will be no major cabinet shuffle. He did make a concession in guaranteeing that new elections for a regular parliament will be held on December 17. That is the third anniversary of the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi touched off the Tunisian and other Arab revolutions.
Also on Monday, Tunisian troops tracking Muslim extremists near the Algerian border got into a firefight with them and 9 troops were killed. For a small country such as Tunisia, it is a very high death toll, and Tunisians are upset because they are not used to this sort of thing.
Euronews reports:
The assassination of the leftist founder of the Popular Front, Mohamed Brahmi, last week, touched off several days of turmoil and provoked demands that the government resign. Over 50 of the 217 members of the transitional parliament have suspended their activities in protest, and on Monday the Education Minister resigned. Critics of the government complain that since it is dominated by devotees of political Islam, it is not sufficiently vigorous in fighting terrorism issuing from the Muslim religious right.
Critics have complained that the current Constituent Assembly was only elected for one year, on Oct. 23, 2011, and that it should have drafted a new constitution and moved to new elections a full year ago. When I was in Tunisia in early April, some youth maintained to me that the parliamentarians would keep delaying new elections because they liked their salaries and connections and were trying for bigger pensions. Many secular Tunisians, and those committed to human rights, also fear that the draft constitution that will be reported out within a few weeks will contain repressive articles, because of the undue influence of the religious right, of which Renaissance forms part.
Larayedh took a hard line on the anti-government demonstrations by 4 or 5 thousand people in Bardo in front of the parliament building in Tunis. He implied that if mob rule were the way his opponents wanted to go, his Muslim fundamentalist Renaissance (Ennahda) Party could put really big masses in the streets. He said he had not gone that route out of a desire to avoid public tumult. He also attacked the deputies of the Democratic Forum for Labor and Liberties (Ettakattul) of Mostapha Ben Jafar for threatening to withdraw from the ruling coalition, saying that they were being opportunistic.
The Forum only has 20 seats out of 217, whereas President Moncef Marzouki?s Congress for the Republic has 29 and the Renaissance Party has 89. Since President Marzouki is sticking with his partnership with Renaissance, Larayedh would actually still have 118 seats, a slim majority, even without the Forum, and besides, finding 20 seats among small parties and independents to replace the Forum would not be that difficult. The Forum leader Mostapha Ben Jafar, would just lose his position as speaker of the Parliament if his party withdrew.
Meanwhile pro-and anti-government demonstrations continue in front of the parliament building.
Euronews has video:
The Renaissance Party?s determination to tough it out and finish out the planned transition normally is made possible by its overwhelming position in parliament, its powerful grassroots organization, and the weakness and smallness of the Tunisian military. Also, that Tunisia has a secular president committed to continuing his coalition with the religious-right Renaissance Party also helps.
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Contact: Dana Mortensen mortensen@email.chop.edu 732-299-0233 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Injury researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia urge review of health system-wide pediatric injury training, triaging and prevention efforts
New research from The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), signals that emergency and outpatient healthcare providers may need to prepare for higher demand for treatment among younger patients with mild and moderate injuries. As federal and state policies encouraging people to be covered by health insurance go into effect, researchers estimate the potential for more than 730,000 additional medically attended injuries annually, or a 6.1 percent increase if all currently uninsured children and young adults (ages 0-26) become insured. The estimates are based on 2008 injury data from the National Health Interview Survey. The study was published in this month's Clinical Pediatrics.
"In order to assist planning efforts by healthcare systems and policymakers, we aimed to examine the impact on trauma systems of increases in young people with health insurance" says Flaura Koplin Winston, MD, PhD, lead author and Scientific Director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP. "This study signals a need to prepare for potential large increases in demand for care of minor and moderate pediatric and young adult injuries in both emergency department and outpatient settings."
According to the study, a significant portion of the increase will come from currently uninsured young adults (18-26 year olds), who will now be able to remain on their parents insurance until age 26 or find affordable care through exchanges. Researchers found that the causes and nature of medically attended injuries differed between insured and uninsured young adults. The uninsured sought medical care for more serious injuries like fractures when compared to other types of injury. The insured sought medical care for a wider distribution of injuries-- with the most common being sprains and strains, as well as open wounds. Of interest, among children under age 18, 11 percent of medically attended injuries among insured kids were related to overexertion, but this injury mechanism did not cause uninsured children to seek care.
Winston and her colleagues based their estimates on recent injury care data and the assumption that those new to insurance would have a probability of medically attended injury that equals that of those who already have insurance. With these assumptions, they predict that each year as many as 510,553 additional children and young adults could be seen for injury treatment in outpatient settings, nearly 195,838 in Emergency Departments or admitted to hospital, with another 30,689 being attended to through phone- only encounters. Winston cautions that the actual health system utilization rates and sites of care may vary as newly insured people may access care differently from those who are already insured.
"Health care delivery systems across the US need to have sufficient numbers of general and pediatric healthcare providers who are trained in treating moderate trauma and injury and can staff urgent carecenters, health centers, primary care practices, call centers, and emergency departments," says Dr. Winston. "In keeping with the aims of the Affordable Care Act, the goal should be that all young patients who seek care for their injuries get the appropriate care at the right time and right place."
The study authors recommend several steps health care systems can take to manage the potential increase in patients and avoid both the expensive overuse of emergency services and the long-term effects on communities of inadequately treated injury:
Train medical students and residents with relevant course content on diagnosis and treatment of concussions, musculoskeletal injury, sports medicine and open wound care.
Expand programs such as Poison Control Centers and call centers, and remote medical command for triage and treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Prevent injuries to children by allocating federal and state resources to proven injury prevention strategies. They cost less than medical care needed to treat injuries.
Implement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Action Plan for Childhood Injury Prevention.
Develop or expand proven off-the-job injury prevention strategies. The cost of insuring this new population of youth, the majority of whom currently live with an employed head of household, may fall to employers.
"Injury is the leading health risk for children and young adults. Proven prevention strategies and appropriate acute care will reduce fatalities and the long-term consequences that injury can have on quality of life," says Dr. Winston.
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Dr. Winston's co-authors include Mark R. Zonfrillo, MD, MSCE of CHOP, J Felipe Garcia-Espana, PhD of Coriell Institute for Medical Research, and Ted R. Miller, PhD of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. The study was supported by National Science Foundation Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies, Pennsylvania Department of Health, and the Health Resources and Administration's Children's Safety Network.
About The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was established in 1998 to advance the safety and health of children, adolescents, and young adults through comprehensive research that encompasses before-the-injury prevention to after-the-injury healing. The Center's multidisciplinary research team, with expertise in Behavioral Sciences; Medicine; Engineering, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Human Factors; Public Health; and Communication, translates rigorous scientific research into practical tools and guidelines for families, professionals, and policymakers to ensure research results extend to the real world. For more information on the Center and its research initiatives, visit injury.research.chop.edu.
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Study predicts potential surge in medically-attended injuriesPublic release date: 29-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Dana Mortensen mortensen@email.chop.edu 732-299-0233 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Injury researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia urge review of health system-wide pediatric injury training, triaging and prevention efforts
New research from The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), signals that emergency and outpatient healthcare providers may need to prepare for higher demand for treatment among younger patients with mild and moderate injuries. As federal and state policies encouraging people to be covered by health insurance go into effect, researchers estimate the potential for more than 730,000 additional medically attended injuries annually, or a 6.1 percent increase if all currently uninsured children and young adults (ages 0-26) become insured. The estimates are based on 2008 injury data from the National Health Interview Survey. The study was published in this month's Clinical Pediatrics.
"In order to assist planning efforts by healthcare systems and policymakers, we aimed to examine the impact on trauma systems of increases in young people with health insurance" says Flaura Koplin Winston, MD, PhD, lead author and Scientific Director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at CHOP. "This study signals a need to prepare for potential large increases in demand for care of minor and moderate pediatric and young adult injuries in both emergency department and outpatient settings."
According to the study, a significant portion of the increase will come from currently uninsured young adults (18-26 year olds), who will now be able to remain on their parents insurance until age 26 or find affordable care through exchanges. Researchers found that the causes and nature of medically attended injuries differed between insured and uninsured young adults. The uninsured sought medical care for more serious injuries like fractures when compared to other types of injury. The insured sought medical care for a wider distribution of injuries-- with the most common being sprains and strains, as well as open wounds. Of interest, among children under age 18, 11 percent of medically attended injuries among insured kids were related to overexertion, but this injury mechanism did not cause uninsured children to seek care.
Winston and her colleagues based their estimates on recent injury care data and the assumption that those new to insurance would have a probability of medically attended injury that equals that of those who already have insurance. With these assumptions, they predict that each year as many as 510,553 additional children and young adults could be seen for injury treatment in outpatient settings, nearly 195,838 in Emergency Departments or admitted to hospital, with another 30,689 being attended to through phone- only encounters. Winston cautions that the actual health system utilization rates and sites of care may vary as newly insured people may access care differently from those who are already insured.
"Health care delivery systems across the US need to have sufficient numbers of general and pediatric healthcare providers who are trained in treating moderate trauma and injury and can staff urgent carecenters, health centers, primary care practices, call centers, and emergency departments," says Dr. Winston. "In keeping with the aims of the Affordable Care Act, the goal should be that all young patients who seek care for their injuries get the appropriate care at the right time and right place."
The study authors recommend several steps health care systems can take to manage the potential increase in patients and avoid both the expensive overuse of emergency services and the long-term effects on communities of inadequately treated injury:
Train medical students and residents with relevant course content on diagnosis and treatment of concussions, musculoskeletal injury, sports medicine and open wound care.
Expand programs such as Poison Control Centers and call centers, and remote medical command for triage and treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Prevent injuries to children by allocating federal and state resources to proven injury prevention strategies. They cost less than medical care needed to treat injuries.
Implement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Action Plan for Childhood Injury Prevention.
Develop or expand proven off-the-job injury prevention strategies. The cost of insuring this new population of youth, the majority of whom currently live with an employed head of household, may fall to employers.
"Injury is the leading health risk for children and young adults. Proven prevention strategies and appropriate acute care will reduce fatalities and the long-term consequences that injury can have on quality of life," says Dr. Winston.
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Dr. Winston's co-authors include Mark R. Zonfrillo, MD, MSCE of CHOP, J Felipe Garcia-Espana, PhD of Coriell Institute for Medical Research, and Ted R. Miller, PhD of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. The study was supported by National Science Foundation Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies, Pennsylvania Department of Health, and the Health Resources and Administration's Children's Safety Network.
About The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was established in 1998 to advance the safety and health of children, adolescents, and young adults through comprehensive research that encompasses before-the-injury prevention to after-the-injury healing. The Center's multidisciplinary research team, with expertise in Behavioral Sciences; Medicine; Engineering, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Human Factors; Public Health; and Communication, translates rigorous scientific research into practical tools and guidelines for families, professionals, and policymakers to ensure research results extend to the real world. For more information on the Center and its research initiatives, visit injury.research.chop.edu.
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Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com --- Sunday, July 28, 2013 Bollywood actress Vidya Balan and anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare have been invited to take part in an annual Indian Independence day Parade here on August 18, considered one of the colourful events of New York. ? ? ? ? ...
Afghanistan War: Troops risking their lives for a chance of normality
6:00pm Monday 29th July 2013 in News By Tom Jennings, covering Witney and West Oxfordshire. Call me on 01865 425403
Vehicles from Abingdon?s 3 Close Support Logistic Regiment in Afghanistan
ONE of the most dangerous jobs in Afghanistan at the moment is carried out by men and women from Abingdon-based 3 Logistic Support Regiment.
The regiment, which is known as 3 Close Support Logistic Regiment (CSLR) in Afghanistan, transports equipment and supplies in convoys of up to 100 heavily-armoured and armed vehicles back and forth between Camp Bastion and outlying bases.
Between April 1 and July 1 this year alone, personnel from 3 CSLR have travelled 121,705 miles ? equivalent to around the world five times ? to deliver equipment including 1.8m litres of bottled water and enough fuel to travel to the moon and back six times.
The convoys are led by three Mastiffs or Ridgebacks and backed by another two. The vehicles feature distinctive bars to protect from rocket attacks, a bomb-proof undercarriage and vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns that are accurate up to two kilometres.
But the job is nonetheless one of the most exposed and dangerous at present because UK infantry have handed over to the Afghan National Army and are no longer carrying out so many patrols.
The men and women from 3 CSLR told of being attacked by small arms fire, woken by rockets and hearing threats of suicide bombers over the radio, all while working in 50C or more in vehicles for days.
Commander follows dad?s footsteps
Lieutenant Sarah Dunn, 24, was brought up in Bloxham and has followed her father into the Army. She now commands a troop and is one of the few women in 3 CSLR. The former Bloxham School student said: ?My father was in the forces and I always thought it would be an exciting job. I get to travel and I get the responsibility. ?I have 30 people in the camp to command and 16 vehicles that I have to maintain. I don?t know many other 24-year-olds who can say that.? Lt Dunn is in charge of where the vehicles are, where they are going and what they are carrying. She also manages the drop-off when the vehicles arrive at their destination. She added: ?Everyone?s got this sort of romantic idea of going to war. I?m almost glad I can go home and say I have experienced it, but then the other side is that people have died and it?s very serious.? She has witnessed a fatal attack while monitoring overhead cameras and has come under rocket and small arms fire herself, but she said one of the biggest dangers was maintaining focus while working for hours at a time. She said: ?We have had people go to sleep and go off the road and when you?re on top cover for 15 hours in the heat and you?re tired, that?s when people stop looking. That?s the hardest, to motivate yourself when you?re in the same state, and to motivate everyone else.? But Lt Dunn also faces the challenge of being one of the few women working in 3 CSLR. She said: ?Sometimes when you are working with the interpreters they make comments to the other lads asking if I?ve got a boyfriend, and one of the local shopkeepers wanted to buy me because he wanted to get back to the UK. ?But I don?t see anything different. No-one is trying to prove themselves out here, we are just out doing a job like everyone else ? you?re either good or you?re not.?
Sense of humour is key but safety is paramount
Corporal Darran Price, 32, commands the vehicle second from the front of 3 CSLR?s huge convoys, but he cannot wait to return home to his wife and four children in Abingdon. He said: ?We have a laugh on operations. It is a lot of fun ? the squaddie sense of humour ? but we get the job done and don?t want to let each other down. ?We are the main guys on the ground now because the infantry are in Forward Operating Bases. ?That?s why there has been a lot less causalities recently ? the Taliban don?t want to mess with a Mastiff. We do get pot shots but the boys have got bigger answers on these. ?We have had a few contacts where they have fired at us, otherwise they?ve put in IEDs (improvised explosive devices) knowing we?re going back that way. ?In Nad Ali (a district in Helmand province) there is always small arms fire, and we have had threats of suicide IEDs.? Cpl Price, who is originally from Blackwood in South Wales, has a wife, Nikki, and four children, Shauna, 13, Ellie, 10, Kayden, six, and Rose, one. He said: ?It gets hard, to be honest with you. I miss them a lot, I really do. When you come out to places like this it makes you think what you have really got back home and what life really means. I have got R&R (rest and recuperation) in two weeks and I can?t wait. ?We have just had the garden done at home and I?m going to sit in the garden and play with the kids, and then take Rose to the beach for the first time.? But Cpl Price said he planned to stay in the Army for another nine years and, when asked if he ever felt like leaving, said: ?This is what I know. I joined up at 16 and it?s all I have ever done.? Private Daniel Beesley, 20, joined the Army to make his father proud and is now a driver and gunner for 3 CSLR in Mastiffs or Ridgebacks. He said: ?It?s very difficult at times, especially when you?re driving these at night because the visibility is not very good. ?The roads in Afghanistan are not like what they are in the UK.? He said that during his first operation his vehicle almost ended up in the river after the back wheel skidded on mud as he tried to pass over a gap. He said: ?We were near on 45 degrees. We were looking towards the river alongside us and thinking that was a bit sketchy.? But Pte Beesley said he felt safe within the vehicle, adding: ?As long as you?re in the vehicle and in your kit and seatbelt, nine times out of 10 you will be okay. ?They might blow up the vehicle but everyone inside should be okay. ?We?ve been shot at before and the rounds hit the vehicle but they don?t penetrate it.? He added: ?I appreciate if people haven?t been out here before they don?t know what it is like and don?t understand it, but it?s one of those things. ?We don?t live in fear, we just go about our daily business.? Pte Beesley, who is originally from Yorkshire, joined the Army four years ago, aged 16. Asked why he had signed up, he said: ?My old man. He was a police officer for about 15 years. ?My brother went into the police, one of my sisters went into the Navy, and my dad, ever since I was young, thought I would suit the Army. It was his call.? Asked if he had joined to make his father proud, he said: ?Yes.? Lance Corporal Ian Hughes, 31, dedicates his time in the UK to fostering children with his wife, but in Afghanistan he commands the third vehicle leading the 3 CSLR convoys. He described the operations as ?chatting sessions? of talking, taking the mickey out of each other and pulling pranks such as gluing money to the footwells of the vehicles. But he said during an incident the mood would change, adding: ?Everyone gets serious then. ?For instance, last time when we went out we saw an IED planted. We went out and blew it up ? that?s what we?re trained to do.? He said the convoys were most frequently attacked by groups of young children throwing stones. He said: ?These guys are extremely accurate. The kid looks seven years old but he can chuck it right into the turret. ?I think they think it?s a game. It makes a loud noise and they think it?s funny as hell. If you?re sat in the wagon you are laughing as well, but if you?re on top cover you?re ducking and diving. ?But it?s better that than them not being there. If they disappear, you tense up. ?If there?s no-one around the village or it?s quiet, that?s when you know something is planned or going to happen.? L Cpl Hughes, who is originally from South Africa, has been fostering children with his wife, Fleur Hughes, in Abingdon for the past two years. He said: ?It?s my contribution to living in the UK, but it has stopped for six months because I?m out here and she?s doing a music therapy degree. ?It?s rewarding to look after them and it takes your mind away from?working. When I get back we are going for long-term placement so we can start building that relationship. If it goes well then adoption might become available as well.?
Padre swaps his home church pulpit for the God quad
Padre Giles Allen, 43, is attached to Saints Peter and Paul?s Church in Wantage in the UK, but in Afghanistan he is the chaplain for 3 CSLR.
He said: ?The most important thing a padre does is pray for the troops. ?We still have our priestly discipline, morning and evening prayers every day and duties in the chapel, but on a nice, quiet week we spend most of our time visiting troops. ?At the moment it seems to be mostly family issues ? there are a number of people whose wives are pregnant so they are coping with that ? but at the beginning of the tour it was bereavement, people whose grandparents or parents had died.? Padre Allen, who has been in the Territorial Army (TA) for five years and became a regular in October, volunteered to join troops in Afghanistan. He said: ?If you had seen me when I was 20 years old I wouldn?t have dreamed I would be sitting here in uniform. I thought I would be a parish priest for the rest of my life. ?But I sincerely believe it?s divine intervention and inspiration. We think we are living in our comfortable little world, doing what God wants us to do, and then something comes into your mind and won?t go away. ?I really do think God has taken me out of my comfort zone.? He added: ?It is a great privilege to be here. When you are in the barracks you are with soldiers Monday to Friday, 8am until 5pm, but out here you are living with them, eating with them, working with them. You see them in the highs and the lows. ?I suppose I do feel a bit responsible for them ? I love them, I care for them. ?Like any person, they make you worried and you despair sometimes, but you are always concerned and thinking of them.? Padre Allen, like other padres in theatre, has a quad bike to get around Camp Bastion ? dubbed a God Quad ? and hands out sweets donated by the Wantage congregation to the troops. ?It is amazing how a simple little sweet will put a smile on faces.? Padre Allen lives in Didcot when he is in the UK with his wife, Fiona, and their two children, Joe, 13, and Martha, four.
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CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) ? Rex Ryan isn't sure what all the fuss is about.
Sure, general manager John Idzik wouldn't say the coach has the final call on determining the New York Jets' starting quarterback. But Ryan is on board with that, and insisted he always has been.
"I think you guys are making a mountain out of a molehill, to be honest with you," Ryan said Sunday. "Ever since I've been here, and this is my fifth year here, not one decision has ever been made by one man. Not one decision. And that's whether it's who's up, who is active, who's going to be the starter at this and this, who we draft.
"It's always a group effort on what is best for this team."
On Saturday, Idzik raised some eyebrows when he repeatedly said the quarterback decision ? along with other roster spots ? would be a "collaborative effort." He insisted that he, Ryan and others in the organization talk constantly as they evaluate the entire roster.
But, the final call on whether the quarterback is Mark Sanchez or Geno Smith won't be Ryan's alone.
"There's a lot of teams in this league where the head coach does not have the final say on who makes the 53-man roster," Ryan said.
In the past, however, Ryan has claimed sole responsibility for some decisions. In 2009, the coach said it was "strictly my decision" when he chose Sanchez over Kellen Clemens to be the starting quarterback. Last year, Ryan also said it was all his call to bench Sanchez in favor of Greg McElroy ? but acknowledged Sunday that he said that to funnel all criticism to him.
"If someone wanted to throw arrows," he said, "they would be launched at me."
Ryan also recently implied that the decision on the quarterback this preseason would be made by him "if there's a split camp or whatever." He backed off that, though, Sunday.
"It's always a group effort on what is best for this year," he said. "And so, if I misspoke or misled in any way, shape or form, that's it."
There have, however, been several other examples of Ryan collaborating on decisions. During the 2010 season of HBO's "Hard Knocks," Ryan, then-general manager Mike Tannenbaum, and former coordinators Brian Schottenheimer and Mike Pettine were often shown debating over which guys to cut or keep on the roster.
When it comes to making that final call on the quarterback in a few weeks, Ryan will be the one who sits down with Sanchez and Smith and delivers that news. He'll also be the one to tell the media.
"But at no time is it a one-man show," he said. "It's always a team decision. And that's the way it's always been. Whether it's talking about a player, or talking about the draft."
While Ryan is considered by many to be in a make-or-break season, he insists that he has "100 percent support" from Idzik to owner Woody Johnson and the rest of the organization.
"Our thought process is so similar, John and I, that we are side by side," Ryan said. "It's so smooth. ... You guys are trying to make this a situation that doesn't exist."
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Google Places is one local listing you don't want to miss. Having a solid Google Places listing is a great way to position your company as a leader in a your business niche in a particular location.
While some industries might cater to this more than others (restaurants for example), every business can benefit from connecting with locals. The local sphere is smaller, and although you might have a lot of competition, you have a much better chance of connecting with relevant users than if you just focus on the national Google search engine.
Long story short: This should be a priority for any company looking to take advantage of the online community.
How to Submit Your Site to Google Places
Google Places makes it incredibly easy to get started. In less than 5 minutes, you can get your business listing up and running on the largest search engine out there. Follow the steps below to get started:
Step 1: Visit this link, agree to the Terms, and start adding information about your business in the blanks.
This might seem like more than one step, but it's so quick that clicking the link and agreeing to the terms doesn't need much discussion. You will be asked to type in your email address (use the one you want associated with your listing), and then you're on your way. You will be taken to a screen like the one shown below, so simply fill in your information as best you can:
Step 2: Verify your business, or continue and come back later.
At one point or another, you're going to have to verify your business by mail. This will ensure that your business really is located where you say it is. You will be taken to the screen (shown below). For now, we'll skip the verification.
Step 3: Get started filling out information regarding your listing, AdWords, and other offers from Google.
This is essentially the final section of your Google Places listing, but there are several parts that go into this section. As showns in the screenshot below, there are four options on the left sidebar (the below screenshot is the general "Places for Business" overview tab). You can click each tab to begin filling out information.
As you can see, none of the edits will show up until you have verified that you are the owner of the business (Step 2). Other tabs include listings tab, offers, and AdWords Express.
Extra Step: Get started with AdWords Express.
The AdWords Express tab will take you to a new page where you can create an ad and set your budget. This isn't necessary right away, but those companies using AdWords could really benefit from this feature.
As shown in the screenshot below, there is again a tab on the left with different options and categories. These include select your audience (screenshot shown below), create your ad, set your budget, review your ad, and checkout.
It's as simple as that! Once you're verified, all of your edits will show up and your listing will become a part of the Google Places community.
Next comes optimizing this business listing so that it shows up at the top of a SERP ? the same way it works when trying to optimize a website for Google search. A few quick ways to make sure your listing is optimized:
Fill in all of the information allowed (description, contact info, hours, headline, address etc.).
Add high-quality, relevant photos.
Work to improve your number of reviews by making it easy to find your Google+ page.
Consider using keywords throughout your listing.
Put your Google Listing on your website and in your email signature.
Claiming your business isn't going to do much if your listing isn't optimized. Remember, people come to your listing in order to learn more about your company, so not only will your listing likely not show up in a Google search, but it wouldn't help customers consider your business when it comes time to make a purchasing decision.
Google+ Local versus Google Places
Now that Google+ Local has entered onto the local search scene, the distinction between the two has become confusing. Essentially, Google+ allows companies to have business pages (much the same way that Facebook allows you to have a business page).
This is where your customers and clients can go to rate and review your business. It helps bring your business into the social sphere for more visibility.
You can, however, merge all of your Google Places information onto your Google+ Local page. In short, Google Places can still be used to manage your business listing, but it is Google+ that is likely going to give you all of your engagement. Whether or not Google will completely do away with Google Places is unknown, but for now it seems that many companies can get away with just a Google+ Local account, so the choice is up to you.
Google Places Overview
So a quick recap of Google Places:
Google Places is one of the most effective ways to get your website in front of the eyes of relevant and local users.
You can visit this link to get started following the steps to claim your business. It only takes a few minutes to claim your listing and fill out all of the information needed.
AdWords Express makes it easy to create an ad for your audience.
It's important to optimize your Google Places listing by filling out all of the information you can, including high-quality photos, utilizing keywords throughout the listing, and engaging with reviews.
Is your company using Google Places? What about Google+ Local? Have you seen any improvements in your traffic and/or sales since you started getting involved with local search? Let us know your story and your thoughts in the comments below.
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* Canadian Mike Weir gives locals reason to cheer (Completes round adds detail, quotes)
By Steve Keating
OAKVILLE, Ontario, July 26 (Reuters) - American John Merrick set the early pace with a course-record-equaling 10-under 62 but compatriot Hunter Mahan fired a 64 to grab a two-shot lead after the second round of the Canadian Open on Friday.
In ideal early scoring conditions, Merrick had an eagle at the second and eight birdies over his final 12 holes to complete a career-low, error-free round that tied the Glen Abbey Golf Club course record set by Leonard Thompson in 1981 and matched by Greg Norman in 1986.
"Everything kind of clicked today," said Merrick, a winner at February's Northern Trust Open. "I think I played a couple rounds in the past few weeks where I didn't make a birdie and that doesn't happen a lot.
"Maybe that all kind of came back together. Everything came in a rush."
As impressive as Merrick's display was, it was not enough to fend off Mahan, who capped his round in sizzling fashion with three straight birdies to knock his American compatriot from top of the leaderboard with a two-day total of 13-under 131.
"I saw kind of going into nine he (Merrick) was at 11 ... 62 is a pretty good round," said Mahan. "But I didn't really think I had to catch him. There's so much golf to be played here.
"I just wanted to go out there and not try to shoot for a score but just try to play golf.
"I think I was able to birdie the last three because I just kind of kept my head up and kept going."
Big-hitting Bubba Watson, the hugely popular former Masters champion, muscled his way up the leaderboard with five-under 67 to sit alone in third, just four off the pace and well-placed to take a run at his first title since Augusta last year.
Australian Aaron Baddeley returned a 68 for the second straight day to move into a tie for fourth with PGA Tour rookie Patrick Reed (68) on eight-under 136.
Canada's Mike Weir had the local fans cheering as he mounted a second-day charge by moving up the leaderboard with five-under 67 to sit nine back.
The 2003 Masters champion, who is battling back from a string of injuries, had the Glen Abbey crowd buzzing as his name popped up on the leaderboard in a tie for third with 14 holes completed.
Weir wobbled down the home stretch with bogey's on three of his final four holes but at four-under 140 is the top Canadian easily surviving the one-under cut.
Eighteen Canadians teed off on Friday bidding to become the first home grown winner of the national championship since Pat Fletcher in 1954 but only Weir, Brad Fritsch, Roger Sloan and David Hearn, with the help of three birdies on his final three holes, will play the weekend.
British former world number one Luke Donald, who missed the cut at last week's British Open, will also sit out the weekend in Canada returning a 71 to miss the cut by a stroke. (Editing by Frank Pingue)
We are ill-fated idiots. That?s what some popular and supposedly scientific ideas suggest. The ancient Greek meaning of idiot, along with their myths, can help us avert a modern tragedy of reason. Somehow a sub-natural view of rationality ignores evolutions great gifts to us: our capacities for forethought and cooperation.
The myth of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods, describes human origins. For our ancestors ?every act was without knowledge, until Prometheus gave them his illicit gift, which would become their teacher of every art.? The word for ?art? in ancient Greek was ?techne,? the root of technique & technology. Prometheus, whose name means ?fore-thinker,? symbolizes science and foresight.
An un-human ?logic? drives the ?tragedy of the commons.? Garrett Hardin coined that term for the overexploitation of common resources by ?rational beings each?seeking to maximize his gain,? which causes collective disaster by damaging what they depend on. But this is no unavoidable fate. Rather it?s a tragedy of poor thinking by supposedly elite reasoners, blind to simple solutions.
Elinor Olstrom won a Nobel Prize in Economics for researching how groups overcome Hardin?s hard-of-thinking hurdle. But her work isn?t widely known. Before her Nobel, even prominent economists hadn?t heard of her. But we shouldn?t need Nobel laureate to see the obvious. Our survival has long required cooperation. We?ve evolved and developed ways to manage joint resources (e.g. punishing free riders) over about 10,000 generations.
Hardin claimed ?no technical solution? existed and that a ?fundamental extension in morality? was needed. His framing of the moral as distinct from the rational/technical shows how scientists can misunderstand those words. Morals are simply social coordination rules. They can be rational. Aquinas distinguished natural from supernatural moral virtues. The natural virtues, or skills (taken from Aristotle) included justice, temperance, and prudence and were needed for humans to thrive on earth.
Allowing foreseeably bad outcomes isn?t rational. Yet a supposedly rational economistic ?logic? often encourages precisely that. Hardin spoke of a ?tragedy of freedom in a commons,? which pinpoints the real issue. It?s not ?the commons?, but an unsustainable idea of freedom. No community can allow freedom to create foreseeable collective doom. The fate of this logic is inescapable. Damage what you depend on and you risk perishing. Cultures with self-undermining forms of ?rationality? and freedom don?t survive. That?s their common tragedy.
In Plato?s version of the Prometheus myth, ?scattered isolated? humans are given ?political techne? ? the arts needed to create cities. The ?pol? in politics is from ?polis? meaning city. Without this, humans, self-deficient by nature, couldn?t prosper. The political arts of social coordination prevent us from being idiots. In ancient Greek, ?idios? meant ?of one?s own or private.? They believed it crazy and irrational to live only for private interests. They had sustainable self-interest rightly understood. We?d be idiots to ignore that we evolved relational rationality and social coordination rules based on justice. We must think better or bitter fates await.
Illustration by Julia Suits, The New Yorker Cartoonist & author of The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions.
Previously in this series:
It Is in Our Nature to Be Self-Deficient Inheriting Second Natures Our Ruly Nature It Is in Our Nature to Need Stories Tools Are in Our Nature We Fit Nature To Us: Evolutions two way street Justice Is In Our Nature Behavioral Telescope Shows How Cooperation Works Selfish Genes Also Must Cooperate Game Theory And The Golden Punishment Rule Revolutionizing Economics by Evolutionizing it. Science?s Mobile Army of Metaphors
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Vivendi SA is selling most of its majority stake in Activision Blizzard Inc. for $8.2 billion, giving the video game company back its independence as the French conglomerate tries to strengthen its balance sheet.
Vivendi said Friday that 429 million of its shares will be sold to Activision itself for $5.83 billion, or $13.60 per share. Another 172 million shares will be sold for $2.34 billion to a consortium of investors including Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Co-chairman Brian Kelly, who are contributing $100 million each.
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Activision makes games such as "World of Warcraft" and the wildly popular "Call of Duty" series. Vivendi acquired a majority stake in Activision in 2008 and combined it with its games unit, which included "Warcraft" publisher Blizzard Entertainment, so Activision will walk away a bigger company.
Vivendi, meanwhile, will reduce its stake in Activision to 12 percent. The French company will continue to hold 83 million Activision shares after the sale, which is expected to close in September.
Activision's newly found independence will come ahead of an important holiday season for video game companies. New consoles from Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. coming out later this year are expected to fuel video game sales starting this fall and through the holidays.
Activision said in a conference call with investors Friday that this is a "tremendous" opportunity for the company and its shareholders. The move will reduce the number of available shares Activision has, which will increase the value of its remaining stock.
"Five years ago, we made one of the best decisions in our company's history when we joined forces with Blizzard Entertainment," Kotick said in the call. Since then, Activision has launched new games including "Diablo III" and the kid-focused "Skylanders."
After Friday's announcement, investors can shift their focus to Activision's games, including the upcoming "Destiny" from "Halo" creator Bungie that could be a "major hit" when it comes out next year, said Cowen and Co. analyst Doug Creutz.
Vivendi, whose shares closed up less than 1 percent to 16.07 euros in trading in Paris, said in a statement that the sale "provides the group with greater financial flexibility and creates value for our shareholders."
Part of the cash will be used to strengthen the balance sheet and maintain its credit rating. Vivendi has been trying to restructure and sell off some businesses in its diverse conglomerate, and announced earlier this week that it's in talks to sell its stake in Moroccan phone company Maroc Telecom.
Shares of Activision jumped $2.28, or 15 percent, to close at $17.46. The company's stock hit $17.76 earlier in the day, its highest level since August 2008.
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Associated Press writers Angela Charlton in Paris and Sarah Skidmore Sell in Portland, Ore. contributed to this story.
Google?s Chromecast is a tiny $35 device designed to let you stream videos from the internet to your TV. It?s running a modified version of Chrome OS, but you?d never really know that to look at it ? there?s virtually no user interface. Instead, when you fire up a video on your phone, tablet, or PC and send it to your Chromecast, the device essentially opens up a browser tab to stream the video or other internet content on your TV.
If you?ve been wondering what kind of hardware it takes to do that, wonder no more. The folks at repair shop iFixit have ripped open a Chromecast to see what lies beneath the 2 inches of plastic.
Here?s the answer, in a nutshell:
Marvell DE3005-A1 system-on-a-chip
4GB of flash stroage
512MB of DDR3 RAM
AzureWave 802.11b/g/n WiFi module with Bluetooth and FM Radio
A big aluminum heat sync
An HDMI connector
A microUSB port (for power)
Normally iFixit assigns repairability scores to the devices it dissects. In this case, there?s not much point. There?s almost nothing you could conceivably replace yourself ? aside from the case and heatsink, every component of the Chromecast is physically attached to the system board.
With a price of $35 though, even if you could replace individual components, you?d probably end up spending more on tools and replacement parts than it would cost to just buy a new unit.
If you feel the urge to open up your case though, all you need to do is slide a thin piece of plastic between the two pieces of the case and gently pry it apart.
It?s interesting to note that the device has a Bluetooth chip and 4GB of built-in storage. While that space is basically designed to hold the Chromecast?s version of Chrome OS, I wouldn?t be shocked if someone eventually figured out a way to side-load other operating systems or software. After all, if you can run Ubuntu on a Chromebook, why not on a Chromecast?
While the sole USB port is used as a power supply, theoretically you may be able to tap into the Bluetooth chip to connect a wireless keyboard and mouse.
Of course, then you?ll have to figure out how many Ubuntu desktop apps you can load on a cheap, relatively slow computer with just 4GB of storage and no SD card slot.
Today Google unveiled a brand new Play Games app, that serves as a companion hub and portal for the Google Play Games Services, announced at I/O. The app serves as a front end for viewing leader boards and connecting with friends (from your Google+ circles, of course), simplifying the act of challenging them in head-to-head competitions. Play Games, in addition to serving as a place to track all of your achievements and other such gaming goodness, serves as a single repository for launching all your games. Think of it like Steam, but for your Android tablet or phone, and with a slightly less graphically-impressive library of titles. Asphalt 8 Airborne, Riptide GP2 and Prince of Persia The Shadow and the Flame are will be among the first to take advantage of the new Play Games App, with the latter hitting virtual shelves tomorrow.
Update: It's now available on Google Play; hit the source link for your download.
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By Tom Jennings
Google Places is one local listing you don't want to miss. Having a solid Google Places listing is a great way to position your company as a leader in a your business niche in a particular location.
