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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
With mobile apps, the more things change
Change. It seems like the last year has brought more change to mobile apps and the digital publishing space than the previous ten years combined. At the company where I work,?Zinio, we have watched our entire world change as we grew to 5,500 magazines and moved from desktop into PCs, iPads, smartphones and eBooks.
If you?re reading this, it?s a safe bet to say that your reading habits have changed significantly over the past year. Pew Research claims digital media is now the second most popular way to get news. More people reported getting news from online and mobile sites than from radio or print newspapers. This year, for the first time, 100% of publishers will format content for mobile, according to an?Alliance for Audited Media survey of 210 media companies in North America. The development points to the importance of digital publishing as well as the overwhelming change that readers have demanded.
Digital content is truly available anytime and anywhere and app users know it. Publishers get it at varying degrees. Hearst (Elle,?House Beautiful,?O) now reports that smaller tablet sizes have finally moved to digital subscriptions on their biggest titles. In fact 40 percent of its traffic is mobile. But maybe the most high-profile change has come from the oldest magazine in America:?The Atlantic.
The Atlantic has long-embraced mobile apps. In fact it has adapted its content packages extremely well for online, print, and then mobile. It?s 155 years old. But its latest redesign announced on Feb. 21, shows a great willingness to change.
In a Feb. 21 editorial, Editor James Bennett says, ?The Atlantic has also thrived, in part, by changing. To promote the competition of ideas,?The Atlantic now has three Web sites and conducts dozens of live events a year. Our ?printed? words are also conveyed digitally, on the Web and on tablets and phones. We are reaching a far larger audience than we ever have. Optimism about change?impatience for it?was part of the radical founding ethos of?The Atlantic, and this has turned out to be a good thing, today as in 1957, given all the forms and means of expression that are clamoring for your attention (though still not drowning out the poor LP, let alone radio, television, or the picture book?maybe because, in testament to the suppleness of human intelligence, technologies have a way of supplementing, rather than simply replacing, one another.)?
Although at Zinio we think wide selection and discovering new content will change the way you read, we don?t expect it to completely replace your old habits. In fact we see that 15% of our readers use all three platforms to reach their magazines each month. All of which goes back to James Bennett?s point that technology definitely supplements rather than replaces consumer behavior and the same holds true with digital publishing. We?re with James Bennett and kudos to?The Atlantic.
Zinio is a promotional partner of Appolicious.
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General Motors Cars Will Be Internet Hotspots | RV Business
General Motors Co., laying down a high-stakes bet on the future of vehicle connectivity, plans to make each of its cars an Internet hotspot with a high-speed broadband connection.
Automotive News reported that by mid-2014, GM will team with AT&T Inc. to equip most 2015 models in the United States and Canada with 4G LTE broadband, the fastest type of wireless Internet connection now available. GM says it eventually will offer the service across nearly its entire global lineup.
Most in-car systems now require a linked smartphone to get Internet content such as Pandora online radio or live traffic information. GM?s plan to build in wireless capability will untether users from outside devices.
GM?s decision is the strongest signal yet that automakers are moving toward embedded solutions, rather than drivers? smartphones, to offer a faster, more-reliable connection to infotainment offerings.
Perhaps just as important, hard-wiring cars with broadband will make it easy to upgrade infotainment units without hardware changes so buyers aren?t stuck with an outmoded system a year or two after purchase.
It?s unlikely GM?s hotspots would remain active when the vehicle is turned off ? providing a household Internet connection from a garage ? but details are still being developed, a GM spokesman said.
?A lot of those types of details haven?t been finalized just yet, but like most in-vehicle technologies you can probably expect it to work for a certain amount of time after the ignition is turned off and then time out eventually,? the spokesman said today in an e-mail.
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Pope to be called 'emeritus pope,' will wear white
Two nuns walk past a photo of Pope Benedict XVI as they leave a souvenir shop just outside the Vatican, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI will be known as "emeritus pope" in his retirement and will continue to wear a white cassock, the Vatican announced Tuesday, again fueling concerns about potential conflicts arising from having both a reigning and a retired pope. The pope's title and what he would wear have been a major source of speculation ever since Benedict stunned the world and announced he would resign on Thursday, the first pontiff to do so in 600 years. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Two nuns walk past a photo of Pope Benedict XVI as they leave a souvenir shop just outside the Vatican, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI will be known as "emeritus pope" in his retirement and will continue to wear a white cassock, the Vatican announced Tuesday, again fueling concerns about potential conflicts arising from having both a reigning and a retired pope. The pope's title and what he would wear have been a major source of speculation ever since Benedict stunned the world and announced he would resign on Thursday, the first pontiff to do so in 600 years. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Workers sets up a stage for the media next to St Peter's Square ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's last public audience Wednesday, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules of the conclave that will elect his successor, allowing cardinals to move up the start date if all of them arrive in Rome before the usual 15-day transition between pontificates. Benedict signed a legal document, issued Monday, with some line-by-line changes to the 1996 Vatican law governing the election of a new pope. It is one of his last acts as pope before resigning Thursday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Posters of Pope Benedict XVI are pictured at a gift shop near the St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Slogan between the pictures reads 'Thanks' in Italian. The Vatican on Tuesday answered some of the outstanding questions about Pope Benedict XVI's future once he's retired, saying he'll be known as "emeritus pope" and continue to wear a white cassock. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
A woman takes photos next to portraits of Pope Benedict XVI, outside a bookshop near the Vatican, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI will be known as "emeritus pope" in his retirement and will continue to wear a white cassock, the Vatican announced Tuesday, again fueling concerns about potential conflicts arising from having both a reigning and a retired pope. The pope's title and what he would wear have been a major source of speculation ever since Benedict stunned the world and announced he would resign on Thursday, the first pontiff to do so in 600 years. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI will be known as "emeritus pope" in his retirement and will continue to wear a white cassock, the Vatican announced Tuesday, again fueling concerns about potential conflicts arising from having both a reigning and a retired pope.
The pope's title and what he would wear have been a major source of speculation ever since Benedict stunned the world and announced he would resign on Thursday, the first pontiff to do so in 600 years.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Benedict himself had made the decision in consultation with others, settling on "Your Holiness Benedict XVI" and either emeritus pope or emeritus Roman pontiff.
Lombardi said he didn't know why Benedict had decided to drop his other main title: bishop of Rome.
In the two weeks since Benedict's resignation announcement, Vatican officials had suggested that Benedict would likely resume wearing the traditional black garb of a cleric and would use the title "emeritus bishop of Rome" so as to not create confusion with the future pope.
Benedict's decision to call himself emeritus pope and to keep wearing white is sure to fan concern voiced privately by some cardinals about the awkward reality of having two popes, both living within the Vatican walls.
Adding to the concern is that Benedict's trusted secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, will be serving both pontiffs ? living with Benedict at the monastery inside the Vatican and keeping his day job as prefect of the new pope's household.
Asked about the potential conflicts, Lombardi was defensive, saying the decisions had been clearly reasoned and were likely chosen for the sake of simplicity.
"I believe it was well thought out," he said.
Benedict himself has made clear he is retiring to a lifetime of prayer and meditation "hidden from the world." However, he still will be very present in the tiny Vatican city-state, where his new home is right next door to the Vatican Radio and has a lovely view of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.
While he will no longer wear his trademark red shoes, Benedict has taken a liking to a pair of hand-crafted brown loafers made for him by artisans in Leon, Mexico, and given to him during his 2012 visit. He will wear those in retirement, Lombardi said.
Lombardi also elaborated on the College of Cardinals meetings that will take place after the papacy becomes vacant ? crucial gatherings in which cardinals will discuss the problems facing the church and set a date for the start of the conclave to elect Benedict's successor.
The first meeting isn't now expected until Monday, Lombardi said, since the official convocation to cardinals to come to Rome will only go out on Friday ? the first day of what's known as the "sede vacante," or the vacancy between papacies.
In all, 115 cardinals under the age of 80 are expected in Rome for the conclave to vote on who should become the next pope; two other eligible cardinals have already said they are not coming, one from Britain and another from Indonesia. Cardinals who are 80 and older can join the College meetings but won't participate in the conclave or vote.
Benedict on Monday gave the cardinals the go-ahead to move up the start date of the conclave ? tossing out the traditional 15-day waiting period. But the cardinals won't actually set a date for the conclave until they begin meeting officially Monday.
Lombardi also further described Benedict's final 48 hours as pope: On Tuesday, he was packing, arranging for documents to be sent to the various archives at the Vatican and separating out the personal papers he will take with him into retirement.
On Wednesday, Benedict will hold his final public general audience in St. Peter's Square ? an event that has already seen 50,000 ticket requests. He won't greet visiting prelates or VIPs as he normally does at the end but will greet some visiting leaders ? from Slovakia, San Marino, Andorra and his native Bavaria ? privately afterwards.
On Thursday, the pope meets with his cardinals in the morning and then flies by helicopter at 5 p.m. to Castel Gandolfo, the papal residence south of Rome. He will greet parishioners there from the palazzo's loggia (balcony) ? his final public act as pope.
And at 8 p.m., the exact time at which his retirement becomes official, the Swiss Guards standing outside the doors of the palazzo at Castel Gandolfo will go off duty, their service protecting the head of the Catholic Church now finished.
Benedict's personal security will be assured by Vatican police, Lombardi said.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Good Reads: Ideas for Obama, the creep of capitalism, millionaire count, work at the top
This week's round-up of Good Reads include foreign policy advice for President Obama, how entrepreneurs are slowly revitalizing North Korea, a look at what makes a millionaire in the United States, and a dizzying visit to the window washers who clean the nation's highest buildings.
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The January/February issue of Foreign Policy magazine observes tongue in cheek that the paper required to print all of the white papers and op-eds urging President Obama to take various actions on the international scene ?would probably require chopping down the Amazon rain forest.?
The magazine counters with 10 tightly written essays on what Foreign Policy editor Susan Glasser calls ?ideas for what Obama could really accomplish in these next four years to make the world a better place ? concrete, achievable goals that, for the most part, wouldn?t even require the cooperation of Congress.?
Among the recommended actions: having Mr. Obama send the Senate the 1997 treaty on banning land mines (as 161 countries have already done); taking a tougher stance toward allies ? like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain ? with less-than-stellar human rights records; and working with Russia to reduce the hair-trigger, launch-ready alert status on both nations? nuclear-tipped missiles.
Capitalism and North Korea?s leaders
With North Korean leader Kim Jong-un having just overseen his nation?s third nuclear weapons test, The Economist magazine?s Feb. 9 cover story takes a very timely look at how ?capitalism is seeping through the bamboo curtain? with consequences the despotic Mr. Kim may not be able to control.
The North Korean famine of the 1990s, which killed up to 1 million people, triggered a breakdown in the government?s control over food distribution. So individual entrepreneurs began selling food grown in family plots. That market impulse has grown. ?It has become clear that other merchants today operate on a far more ambitious scale, exporting raw materials to China and bringing back consumer goods,? the Economist reports. So, the magazine says, money talks in today?s North Korea in ways that have a variety of destabilizing consequences.
For example, traders bring in computers, radios, and mobile phones, which diminish the Kim regime?s control of information. That allows some North Koreans to have a more acute sense of how impoverished their lives are compared with those of citizens of neighboring South Korea.
The role of the sexes has changed as women, who run some black markets, have become the breadwinners in their families. And there is a widening gap between the lives of market-involved elites centered in Pyongyang and the lives of the chronically underfed rest of the country.
Who are the millionaires?
The debate over how to reform the US tax code will be one of the top political stories of 2013. Whether America?s richest individuals are paying their fair share will be a key aspect of the debate. So it is useful to get a clearer picture of the financially fortunate.
?[T]he common conception of millionaires, on whom so much of the nation?s long-term fiscal viability depends, is largely a caricature,? writes Graeme Wood in the conservative National Review.
The first step in understanding millionaires, Mr. Wood writes, is a matter of definition. One group of millionaires are those who have assets like homes, savings accounts, and pensions that are worth a million dollars. ?The majority are working people,? Wood writes, and some 5.26 million households meet that definition.
The second group of millionaires consists of those who earn a million dollars or more a year. This much more rarefied group includes fewer than half a million households a year. Wood notes that many in this group are ?lucky one-timers,? folks who won the lottery or inherited from wealthy parents.
Only the 200,000 households with $20 million or more in assets have ?the financial equivalent of a perpetual-motion machine, capable of spontaneously replenishing itself and fairly reliably producing large amounts of money for its fortunate owner,? Wood says.
The window washers? life at the top
The New Yorker provides a vicarious glimpse into the dangerous, silent, and exhilarating world of skyscraper window washers for readers whose own jobs may offer less excitement.
The advent of computer design software made it practical for architects to create buildings with a different window configuration on every floor, ?turning Manhattan into a crystal garden of geometric forms and irregular shapes,? writes Adam Higginbotham. At the same time, the work of men with buckets and squeegees has remained just outside the reach of automation.
Thus it is that window washers still have to step out onto an 18-inch-wide walkway outside the 103rd floor of the Empire State Building.
When Mr. Higginbotham joined a window washer there, briefly, he writes, ?I sank to my knees in what may have resembled an attitude of pure terror.?
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Lawyer trapped, forgotten inside San Diego-area jail
By Tony Shin, NBCSanDiego.com
A North County lawyer is furious after being trapped and forgotten inside a local jail for hours.
Attorney Erubey Lopez spoke to NBC 7 about the ordeal for the first time Friday.
Lopez said it all began when he was trying to visit a client in jail on Tuesday. He went into a visiting room -- not knowing he would be trapped in there for hours.
Patiently waiting inside a locked visiting room, Lopez said he didn?t think anything unusual until a half hour passed and his client still hadn?t been brought down to him.
?I know it takes a while to get the people, so I?m patient,? said Lopez while recalling the ordeal. ?I don?t have my cellphone with me because the policy is you can?t use a cellphone inside the jail.?
At that point, Lopez said he tried to contact the guards through an intercom system inside the visiting room.
?So, I press the intercom button and nothing. I press it again, ?and it doesn?t work,? he explained.
A half-hour soon turns into an hour.
"At that time, I'm really mad, and I'm thinking, ?How can they forget about me?? So, I start hitting the door really loud to get someone to let me out."
Two hours go by. All the while, Lopez is screaming while pounding on the door.
He finally accepts the strong possibility that he'll be sleeping on the cold concrete floor.
"I have a sweater and a jacket, and I take off my sweater and I try to use it as a pillow," he said.
Lopez thinks about Daniel Chong, a UCSD student who was left inside a Kearny Mesa holding cell last April after being forgotten by DEA officers for five days. Chong would eventually file a claim asking for $20 million following the incident, which he called ?life-altering.?
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?I can't imagine how you could last that long without going crazy," said Lopez.
Finally, after four long hours, Lopez said a guard heard him and freed him.
Lopez, who?s also a Vista Parks and Rec commissioner, said a sheriff?s official called him and apologized following the incident.
But the attorney is concerned about safety inside San Diego jails, saying a colleague later told him that the intercom he had used inside the visiting room had been broken for eight months.
?[What] if I was unhealthy ? had a heart attack? What if I had diabetes and had a sugar issue?? he pondered. ?If they hadn?t heard me with the screaming and banging ? there was no other way they were going to hear me.?
At this point, Lopez said he?s not sure if he plans to file a lawsuit.
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Oscars' Five Funniest Moments: Seth MacFarlane, Halle Berry's 'Pussy Galore'
By Ryan J. Downey
Seth MacFarlane at the 2013 Oscars
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'Amour' wins Oscar for best foreign language film
Actress Emmanuelle Riva arrives at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision/AP)
Actress Emmanuelle Riva arrives at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision/AP)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Michael Haneke's brutal depiction of an aging couple, "Amour," has won the Academy Award for best foreign language film.
It's the second time an Austrian film has won the best foreign language film award, following "The Counterfeiters" in 2008.
Haneke, 70, thanked his wife Susanne after receiving the award.
"Thank you to my wife, she was a member of the crew," he said onstage. "You are the center of my life."
Though "Amour" was Austria's submission, it was a multinational production. The film's German-born director is Austrian, but it's in French and stars two French film legends, Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
They play a loving, elderly Parisian couple. When Anne, played by Riva, has a stroke, her husband Georges is left to care for her. Riva is also up for a best actress Oscar.
"Amour" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and received a total of five Oscar nominations, including best picture.
The other nominees Sunday night were Norway's "Kon-Tiki," Chile's "No," Denmark's "A Royal Affair" and Canada's "War Witch."
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Osborne: we are delivering on our commitment to tackle UK debt
George Osborne today refused to admit having failed in his commitment to protect Britain?s AAA credit rating after it was cut last night for the first time in the country?s history.
The Chancellor insisted that Britain?s credibility remained intact despite the agency Moody?s having cut the credit rating by one notch to AA1 because of ?subdued? growth prospects and a ?high and rising debt burden?.
He today reaffirmed his intention to stick with his plan for economic recovery, although the downgrade deals him a major blow. Maintaining the top credit rating for Government bonds has been a keystone in the
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It's official: Samsung's got a new 8-inch Note tablet
The rumors you might've heard are true: Samsung's got a new 8-inch tablet, appropriately named the Galaxy Note 8.0, on the way.
The new tablet will sit between the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note 2 smartphone and the 10.1-inch Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. It competes with Apple's 7.9-inch iPad Mini and Google's 7-inch Nexus 7.
Like the other devices in Samsung's Galaxy Note line, the Galaxy Note 8.0 will include the S Pen, which Samsung emphasizes is not merely a stylus. You can use the pressure-sensitive digital pen ? which is powered by technology created by Wacom, the company behind professional-grade digital drawing tablets ? to add notes, manipulate content on the screen, and even preview videos and emails by simply hovering it close to the Galaxy Note 8.0's screen.
The Galaxy Note 8.0 will run Android 4.1.2 (better known as Jellybean). Under the hood, it has a 1.6GHz quad-core processor, a 5 megapixel camera in the back, a 1.3 megapixel camera in the front, 2GB of RAM, and a microSD slot. The tablet's 8-inch display offers 1280x800 pixels, which breaks down to 189 pixels per inch (ppi). (In comparison, the iPad Mini and Nexus 7 have 163 ppi and 216 ppi displays, respectively.)
Those who were intrigued by the Galaxy Note 10.1's multi-app split-screen feature will likely jump for joy when they hear that it is included on the Galaxy Note 8.0 and that it now supports nearly any app ? not just Samsung's included suite of tools. (This means that you can take notes while watching a video, type out emails while editing a spreadsheet on the side, scribble over a photo while checking out instructions in a document, and so on.)
The Galaxy Note 8.0 will come in 16GB and 32GB versions. No word yet on pricing details, but since we should see the tablet hit shelves in the second quarter of this year, it won't be too long before we find out how much Samsung wants for its latest gadget.
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ZTE reveals competitive pricing on Grand S LTE in China
ZTE is looking to launch its flagship Grand S LTE in mainland China at a competitive price, based on statements by executives. With a svelte design concealing a 1080P 5-inch display, Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and 13MP camera, you might expect its price to fall in line with other high-end devices. Instead, head of ZTE's mobile division He Shiyou estimates the Grand S will hit mainland China in the range of ¥3,000 to ¥3,500 (or $480 to $560).
In our time with the device at CES 2013 we came away impressed with the step up in quality from what ZTE has offered in the past. The price may still have to come down a bit more to entice users away from other handsets though, especially considering the price sensitivity of the Chinese market. As for the U.S. market, we don't have any notable information on pricing or availability.
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Live SmackDown Results: Feb. 22, 2013
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Rights group urges Yemen to investigate violations
SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? An international human rights group urged Yemen's government Saturday to crack down on human rights violations it says have taken place since the country's 2011 uprising.
Human Rights Watch, in a statement, also urged Yemeni authorities to investigate the death of at least four protesters who died in clashes with security forces in the city of Aden on Thursday.
The group said President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi had failed to fulfill a pledge to form a committee to investigate human rights crimes committed during the uprising.
"President Hadi should crack down on rights abusers and consolidate the rule of law," said Joe Stork, HRW deputy Middle East director.
The group noticed some improvements in Yemen but also expressed concern over the slow pace of reform.
Meanwhile, clashes between protesters and security forces broke out Saturday in the southern province of Hadramawt, where insurgents are fighting for secession from the country. One protester from a separatist movement was killed and three others wounded, activist Nasser Baqazqouz said.
Baqazqouz said protesters set fire to two headquarters of the Islamist Islah party in Hadramawt, accusing the Islamists of taking part in demonstrations Thursday where they voiced their strong opposition to southern secession.
In a separate attack the coastal city of Aden, Colonel Abdel-Hafez al-Saqqaf, an army commander, told The Associated Press that one soldier was killed and three others wounded Saturday by unknown men firing machine guns.
Al-Saqqaf doubted that southern secessionists were behind the shooting. Instead he accused members of al-Qaida of slipping into the ranks of the demonstrators, who have been protesting against the central government since last week, with the aim to kill security forces.
Security forces were deployed heavily in Aden Saturday as protesters continued to block several main streets and burn tires. Many shops have closed in response to a call for civil disobedience by the secessionist Southern Movement. Traffic in most main streets has been very slow or stand-still.
Mohammed Huzam, a shop-owner in al-Mualla neighborhood in Aden, said he feared demonstrations would turn violent so he closed down his shop. Others however have voluntarily taken part in the civil disobedience.
An activist with the Southern Movement in Aden, Adnan al-Ajam said a stray bullet wounded a man Saturday in the Shiekh Othman neighborhood. He said many people have stayed indoors for fear of shooting.
Al-Ajam said the government was responsible for the deaths, saying that "security forces have been using excessive force as a means to defy the sentiments of the people and their right to demonstrate peacefully."
Flags of the formerly independent South Yemen have been flown from many buildings in Aden. Yemen's north and south were merged in 1990 but later southerners complained of being discriminated against by the northerners.
Separately, a militant website close to al-Qaida said that one of two men killed yesterday by government troops in Aden was a well-known journalist and al-Qaida member named Wajdi al-Shaabi. The website also published photos of him with the group's leader in Abyen province, an al-Qaida stronghold.
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Maamoun Youssef contributed reporting from Cairo
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rights-group-urges-yemen-investigate-violations-094609796.html
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Android 4.2.2 factory image now available for download
Google's been rolling out Android 4.2.2 to all manner of Nexi recently, including the Nexus 4. However, should you be among those yet to receive the latest and greatest Jelly Bean build, you can go grab the software yourself and do your updating the old fashioned (as opposed to the OTA) way. The code is currently available for the Nexus 4, 7, 10 and GSM GNex models, so impatient owners should head on over to Google Developers and get their download on.
Via: Android Central
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Joshua Fields Millburn Talks 18-Minute Minimalist Fitness
Whether it?s a lack of time, energy or cash, there are a million excuses that can get in the way of our staying fit. After all, exercise can be difficult to fit into our busy schedules. But self-proclaimed minimalist and best-selling author?Joshua Fields Millburn?is calling bluff on all of those excuses and he?s going to tell you why.
Millburn, 31, shares his ?minimalist? lifestyle on The Minimalists, a blog he co-authors with longtime friend Ryan Nicodemus.
The pair define minimalism as ?a shedding of life?s excess in favor of what?s important,? which allows them to ?spend less time and money on material possessions and focus instead on health, relationships, and pursuing their passions, among other things.?
Minimalism has affected all areas of Millburn?s life, including his fitness routine. Millburn, who once counted himself as ?doughy, flabby and weak? at the age of 28, created a set of simple exercises that require just 18 minutes of his time and yield measurable results. His daily workouts paired with a clean diet have allowed him to shed 70 pounds and be in the best shape of his life.
We spoke with Millburn about how minimalism has affected his view on health and fitness, and how it?s helped propel him toward optimum health.
What inspired you to get healthy??
I felt like crap. I was tired and sluggish and it was harder to enjoy my life. To top it off, I looked like crap, too; I was 70 pounds heavier than I am now. I realized that without my health, nothing else really matters anyway.
How has minimalism shaped your approach to health and fitness?
I do simple exercises that I enjoy. I discovered that I didn?t need to hit the gym for two hours a day to get fit. I can exercise for less than 20 minutes and if I do that every day, it makes a massive difference in my life.
In your article ?Minimalism is Healthy: How I Lost 70 Pounds,? you recommend associating junk food with pain to gain leverage not to eat poorly. How has this approach helped you clean up your diet?
For a long time, I treated food as entertainment?as a sort of pacifier. No more. Now food is nutrition; it?s my fuel. I had to stop thinking of it as entertainment. That doesn?t mean I don?t enjoy my meals. I enjoy them immensely. I just don?t eat to pacify myself any longer.
How did you formulate your ?18 minute workout? plan? What do you do when you get bored with it?
In addition to my daily 18 minutes, I walk a lot, which is my form of mediation?just me and my thoughts. That said, I don?t get bored with my exercises, because I push myself, which is never boring.
Diet is clearly a huge part of staying fit. In brief, how would you describe your approach to a healthy diet?
Diet is so important. I eat a lot of greens, a lot of fruits and vegetables. Other than fish, I don?t eat meat, nor do I eat sugar or bread. I avoid dairy and processed foods. And I don?t have ?cheat days.?
You argue that exercise gives us more time rather than less time, like most people assume. Can you elaborate/expound on this idea?
When I was fat (yes I was fat; let?s call a spade a spade), I was tired and I would often crash in the afternoons or evenings. I don?t crash anymore; I have more energy at age 31 than I ever did in my corpulent 20s. I also require less sleep these days, which gives me extra time to write/read/think/live life.
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Millburn closed our interview with this simple encouragement: ?Health is a lifetime commitment. You?ll never ?get there.? Thus, the key is to make tiny improvements each day, incremental improvements that?ll drastically change your health in the long run. It?s amazing what you?ll see in the rearview after a month, a year, two years of traveling down the right path.?
Count us encouraged.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Photos: Amateur snapper takes amazing shots of the sun
DEAR ABBY: My daughters are attractive young women, both doing well in their professional careers. "Melanie," who is 27, is married to "Sam," an extremely attractive and successful man.My 30-year-old daughter, "Alicia," has been divorced for a year. Her marriage failed two years ago because she and her husband had an appetite for sex outside their marriage. While I was disturbed about that, I was horrified to learn that Melanie allows her sister to occasionally have sex with Sam.Melanie's argument is that Sam is less likely to cheat given this situation. ...
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Clues to childhood respiratory virus: Human metapneumovirus
Feb. 13, 2013 ? New Vanderbilt-led research published in the Feb. 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has identified the relatively unknown human metapneumovirus (MPV) as the second most common cause of severe bronchiolitis in young children.
Senior author John Williams, M.D., associate professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and a well-known expert in MPV research, said it is gratifying to offer a clearer picture of how this virus impacts children.
"We found MPV is as important a cause of respiratory illness as influenza, and caused more illness than the three common types of parainfluenza virus combined. In fact, in young children, the burden of MPV was second only to RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) as a cause of bronchiolitis," Williams said.
The prospective research spanned six years, from 2003 to 2009, and involved samples taken from more than 10,000 children under age 5. The children were hospitalized, treated in an emergency department, or seen in an outpatient clinic with a lower respiratory infection (bronchiolitis).
Lead author Kathryn Edwards, M.D., the Sarah H. Sell and Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, led the clinical portion of the study while Williams' laboratory tested the samples for their viral content.
Three New Vaccine Surveillance Network (NVSN) sites participated: Rochester, N.Y., Cincinnati and Nashville, making this the largest prospective trial to date to investigate the burden of MPV.
Researchers found MPV tends to affect more children over age 1 than RSV, and while both viral infections strike in late winter or spring, MPV has a seasonal peak that lags behind the typical peak for RSV by about a month. The authors said physicians commonly see patients with this virus, but know little about it.
"It is important to understand the burden of disease caused by human metapneumovirus so that we can work on vaccines to prevent them. We want to understand the enemy so that we can counteract it," said Edwards.
MPV was first described in 2001 and there are no specific treatments or vaccines for it other than supportive care for bronchiolitis, such as oxygen, bronchodilators and intravenous fluids. No children involved in this study died from their infections. Williams said this is generally true for all the major causes of bronchiolitis in the United States because of the level of medical care available in this country.
"But in developing nations worldwide, lower respiratory illness is a leading cause of death in young children. Only diarrhea kills more children under the age of 5. We can infer, because of this study, that MPV is a major contributor to these deaths worldwide. We hope this will help stimulate more interest in research on vaccines and treatment for MPV," Williams said.
The major funding for this work came from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with additional funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Other Vanderbilt authors include Marie Griffin, M.D., MPH, professor of Preventive Medicine and Yuwei Zhu, M.D., M.S., senior associate in Biostatistics.
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- Kathryn M. Edwards, Yuwei Zhu, Marie R. Griffin, Geoffrey A. Weinberg, Caroline B. Hall, Peter G. Szilagyi, Mary A. Staat, Marika Iwane, Mila M. Prill, John V. Williams. Burden of Human Metapneumovirus Infection in Young Children. New England Journal of Medicine, 2013; 368 (7): 633 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1204630
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Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI demands a close look at rules of modern papal election
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New Rochelle, NY, February 13, 2013When Pope Benedict XVI ends his reign at the end of February he will be the first pope to do so before his death in nearly 600 years. He shocked the Catholic Church by announcing his resignation and set in place a centuries-old process to select his successor. The fascinating Conclaves system for electing a new pope, which has been in place since the late 1200s is described in "Creating the Rules of the Modern Papal Election," published in Election Law Journal, from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available on the Election Law Journal website.
Frederic J. Baumgartner, PhD, Professor of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, provides a comprehensive accounting of the early methods used to select a pope and the events leading up to the first Conclave. He traces the arcane rules developed to guide the papal election process and notes that, "The system that has been in place has served the papacy well since the end of the Great Schism. There has not been a serious challenge to the legitimacy of any pope since Martin V was elected in 1417. No other system of governance comes close to matching that record."
Daniel Tokaji, Co-Editor of Election Law Journal and Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, states: "The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI brings into the public spotlight the longest-standing system for conducting elections for the head of any institution on earth. Professor Baumgartner's article offers a lively and accessible summary of the development of the rules for papal elections, a must read for anyone interested in this important topic."
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New Rochelle, NY, February 13, 2013When Pope Benedict XVI ends his reign at the end of February he will be the first pope to do so before his death in nearly 600 years. He shocked the Catholic Church by announcing his resignation and set in place a centuries-old process to select his successor. The fascinating Conclaves system for electing a new pope, which has been in place since the late 1200s is described in "Creating the Rules of the Modern Papal Election," published in Election Law Journal, from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available on the Election Law Journal website.
Frederic J. Baumgartner, PhD, Professor of History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, provides a comprehensive accounting of the early methods used to select a pope and the events leading up to the first Conclave. He traces the arcane rules developed to guide the papal election process and notes that, "The system that has been in place has served the papacy well since the end of the Great Schism. There has not been a serious challenge to the legitimacy of any pope since Martin V was elected in 1417. No other system of governance comes close to matching that record."
Daniel Tokaji, Co-Editor of Election Law Journal and Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, states: "The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI brings into the public spotlight the longest-standing system for conducting elections for the head of any institution on earth. Professor Baumgartner's article offers a lively and accessible summary of the development of the rules for papal elections, a must read for anyone interested in this important topic."
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About the Journal
Election Law Journal is the authoritative peer-reviewed journal on election law, policy, and administration. It is published quarterly in print and online by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. Led by Co-Editors Paul Gronke of Reed College and Daniel P. Tokaji of The Ohio State University, the Journal covers the field of election law for practicing attorneys, election administrators, political professionals, legal scholars, and social scientists, and covers election design and reform on the federal, state, and local levels in the U.S. and in 75 countries around the world. Complete tables of content and a free sample issue may be viewed on the Election Law Journal website.
About the Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative medical and biomedical peer-reviewed journals, including Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, Population Health Management, Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, and Journal of Women's Health. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, newsmagazines, and books is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website at http://www.liebertpub.com.
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 140 Huguenot Street, New Rochelle, NY 10801-5215 www.liebertpub.com
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Apple loses iPhone trademark in Brazil, to a company that makes Android phones
Ouch. We had an inkling this might happen, but now it's official: the Brazilian authorities have just ruled in favor of a small handset manufacturer called Gradiente Eletronica in its trademark tussle with Apple. Gradiente registered the name "iphone" in 2000, seven years before Cupertino set up shop in that country, so now it has the right to continue using the word on its devices -- including the Android-powered iphone Neo One. The BBC reports that Apple is likely to appeal the decision, but if that fails there's always, ahem, the other option.
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