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Monday, July 15, 2013
Scenes from George Zimmerman's murder trial
"Justice For Trayvon" is written on the ground as people gather at Union Square in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin trial, in New York July 14, 2013. A Florida jury ... more?"Justice For Trayvon" is written on the ground as people gather at Union Square in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin trial, in New York July 14, 2013. A Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman on Saturday for the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in a case that sparked a national debate over racial profiling and self-defense laws. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY POLITICS) less?
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Local golf notebook: Kozel gets second ace
By Tribune-Review
Published: Saturday, July 13, 2013, 5:33?p.m.
Updated 30 minutes ago
He made a hole-in-one while playing in the Constellation Senior Players Championship pro-am on June 26, and Rob Kozel couldn't have scripted it any better.
His son, Doran, was caddying for him that day at Fox Chapel Golf Club. Kenny Perry, who would go on to win the Champions Tour's major, was the pro in his group.
What Kozel couldn't have known after acing the sixth hole at Fox Chapel is that the feat would serve as a mere prelude to something about which most golfers can only dream.
Eight days after his first hole-in-one, Kozel made another ace ? and on a par-4 that played almost 350 yards.
This one came thousands of miles away on July 4, but it also happened in front of family. Kozel was playing with his father at Gozzmer Ranch Golf and Lake Club in Idaho where he belongs and owns a summer home.
Kozel, 50, is a good golfer who has a handicap of 6.6. But after playing the game for 25 years, the Fox Chapel resident had started to believe he would never achieve the golfing feat that requires a combination of skill and luck.
What are the odds that he would record two aces in eight days after going more than two decades without one?
?I'm living under a lucky star right now,? Kozel said with a laugh.
No one would have argued with Kozel, especially after his tee shot cut the corner on a 347-yard par-4 dogleg and found the bottom of the cup.
There is a water hazard less than 100 yards from the green on Gozzmer's sixth hole, and after he couldn't find his tee shot, Kozel took a drop and hit onto the green. What would have been a bogey five turned into a one on his scorecard after Kozel's girlfriend got to the green and announced, ?Hey, somebody left a ball in the hole.?
It was indeed that kind of golfing week for Kozel, who texted Fred Couples and Perry among others about his second ? and more improbable ? ace. Kozel is friends with Couples, and the latter stays with Kozel when he plays in the Senior Players Championship.
?The second (ace) was even more surprising,? Kozel said. ?I always thought it would just be nice to get (one) hole-in-one.?
Good track, better cause
The first Steel City Vets Classic still has room for teams, and the four-person scramble offers golfers a chance to help local veterans while playing one of the top public courses in Western Pennsylvania.
The outing will be held July 28 at Quicksilver Golf Club, a frequent host of U.S. Open qualifiers. The cost is $300 per team and $75 for individual golfers. That includes golf, prizes, a picnic-style lunch and an auction.
Proceeds from the event benefit Pittsburgh-area veterans, and event director Scott Reed is still soliciting teams/players, sponsors and prizes.
For more information, call 412-417-8779 or go to www.steelcityvets.com.
College golfer honored
Josh Stauffer became the first solo winner of the Frank Fuhrer III Award since 2009 last week.
The award is given by the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association to the area's outstanding collegiate golfer.
Stauffer shined as a freshman at St. Bonaventure. The Bradford resident notched three second-place finishes and won Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week honors three times.
Stauffer led the recent West Penn Amateur after two rounds before finishing fourth.
He is the first solo winner of the award since Mike Van Sickle, who has won the West Penn Open and Frank B. Fuhrer Invitational this summer. The award was shared by two players from 2010-2012.
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Jelly Bean, Now The Most Used Android Version [Android Fragmentation]
Recently, the monthly Android distribution figures were updated and for the first time, Jelly Bean came out on top. This is good news and means that a major set of smartphones are having the latest version of Android in them. Finally!
Jelly Bean now has 37.9% share and now holds the first place while displacing Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) which still (nearly after 2 years of launch) has a healthy 34.1% share. Third spot as expected is held by Ice Cream Sandwich (23.3%).
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Observations
The first one is obviously the high percentage of Gingerbread. It is holding on to its own akin to Windows XP in so many ways. While, its era is most certainly gone, there is a slew of phones that found the last update in Gingerbread and such phones are in wide circulation.
Another observation can be made by this data is that about the rise of cheaper smartphones in countries like India. It began with Gingerbread and as most of these phones were never updated to the next level they are adding to the percentage of the phones still having Android 2.3.
Another interesting thing of note is that while usually (with the exception of Honeycomb), Android updates have been in linear growth. In the sense that when ?clair (2.1) came out it overshadowed Donut (1.6) and when Froyo came out, it became most used OS.
Ice cream sandwich missed that train. It is on the third spot and with Key Lime Pie in sniffing distance, in all probability; it will never see the number 1 spot.
This brings to fore an interesting conclusion?
Companies have improved their updating system. As the requirement for Android 4.1 was same as Android 4.0 most Handsets were eligible for the update. Of course, many of them didn?t get the update or got delayed but the percentage was less than the updates of before.
Also of interest to me is that there are 5% users still using pre-gingerbread phones. This is a shocker even in developing nations. While in percentage, it might not seem much, actual figures will come to few millions of smartphones or users!
The biggest question here is that does it all goes to moot with the release of Key Lime Pie this year?
Google has so far delayed the new version as much as they can. While it may not be ready in all probability, it seems Google wants to add the services without actually adding the version number as can be perceived from this year?s Google I/O.
Even with that, they will have to launch the version this year and as soon as it comes, the biggest share will become of an older Android version and we will be back to square one.
There are rumors that the newer version will be less demanding than even Android 4.1/4.2 (Jelly Bean) so that it is easier to install on older devices. Let?s see if this turns out to be true and more importantly if this persuades the companies towards swifter updates.
Note: This percentage is based on the Android sets accessing the Play Store. The actual number of handsets may be more and might skew the percentage slightly.
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Markets brush off China growth concerns
LONDON (AP) ? The Federal Reserve's vow to support the U.S. economy for as long as needed helped shore up markets Friday despite growing concerns over the scale of the slowdown in China.
A mixed batch of U.S. earnings kept the buying in check as did a weaker than anticipated consumer sentiment survey from the University of Michigan.
This week has been largely positive in stock markets, especially after Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday that the U.S. needs "highly accommodative monetary policy" ? or low interest rates ? "for the foreseeable future."
The S&P 500 index closed Thursday at an all-time high as investor fears that the central bank will pull back on its economic stimulus too quickly were eased. The Fed is buying $85 billion a month in bonds to keep interest rates low and to encourage spending and hiring.
"Equities are still subject to the positive bias established by Bernanke's comments," said David White, a trader at Spreadex.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading 100 shares was up 0.2 percent at 6,556 while Germany's rose 0.7 percent to 8,212. The CAC-40 in France, underperformed, trading 0.3 percent lower at 3,856.
In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.2 percent at 15,492 while the broader S&P 500 index rose 0.1 percent to 1,676.
U.S. traders had a raft of earnings news to digest. While profits at big banks Wells Fargo and JP Morgan came in better than expected, UPS cut its profit outlook and said it's seeing a slowdown in U.S. industry.
Meanwhile, the University of Michigan's main consumer confidence index fell slightly, to 83.9 points in July from 84.1 in June. The median forecast in the markets was for a modest rise to 84.7.
The dollar continued to recoup some of the losses it posted in the wake of Bernanke's pledge, with the euro trading 0.4 percent lower at $1.3043 and the dollar 0.2 percent higher at 99.20 yen. The dollar suffered widespread selling after Bernanke's comments as investors priced in a growing likelihood that the Fed's monetary policy will remain loose for the time being. Looser monetary policy tends to weaken a country's currency.
While the main focus in markets during the latter part of the week has been on the Fed, investors have a number of other issues to contend with, notably the state of the Chinese economy, the world's second-largest.
Surprisingly weak trade figures earlier this week raised the prospect that China's slowdown will be sharper than anticipated as China's central bank tightens credit to reduce financial distortions. China announces April-June growth figures on Monday morning and the mood ahead of the release was nervous ? the main index in Shanghai fell 1.6 percent to 2,134.50.
"China could be a cloud on the horizon after the finance minister suggested that growth could come in at 7 percent for this year, which is below the government's official forecast as well as a whole host of others," said Michael Hewson, senior market analyst at CMC Markets.
Europe's debt crisis also remains in the spotlight amid ongoing concerns over the Portuguese government and whether the country may need another bailout.
However, the overall European concerns have been contained somewhat this week by the news that Greece has managed to get its next batch of bailout cash without too much trouble.
Investors got some further relief Friday with a broadly positive assessment of Ireland's public finances by the Standard & Poor's ratings agency. S&P said there is "more than one-in-three probability that Ireland could over-achieve its fiscal targets and reduce its government debt faster than we currently expect." As a result, it revised its outlook on Ireland's BBB+ rating to positive.
Earlier in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 index closed up 0.2 percent at 14,506.25 while Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 0.8 percent to 21,277.28. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.2 percent at 4,973.0.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/markets-brush-off-china-growth-concerns-113104877.html
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Police: Somali suicide bomber kills 2 in attack
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) ? A suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a moving convoy of African Union troops in Somalia's capital, killing himself and at least two people walking by, a police official said Friday.
Mogadishu police official Mohamed Abdi said the dead were civilians, and a spokesman for the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia ?known as AMISOM? said two soldiers were wounded in the attack near Mogadishu's international airport.
"We have two minor injuries. This is not something that can stop AMISOM from stabilizing Somalia," said spokesman Col. Ali Aden Houmed.
The military convoy was returning from its regular patrol of stations in Mogadishu where African Union troops are based when the attack happened, he said.
Yusuf Ali, who witnessed the attack from a safe distance, said the suicide bomber forced his way into the path of a moving military vehicle, narrowly missing it when his bomb went off. The blast blew the bomber into pieces, he said, and then the soldiers started firing into the air to disperse people.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack, but the al-Qaida-linked rebels of al-Shabab frequently stage similar attacks in Mogadishu.
African Union forces expelled al-Shabab from Mogadishu in August 2011, ending years of daily violence that had caused the rest of the world to shun the capital for two decades. After the ouster of al-Shabab the international community started trickling back into the capital, and the United Nations began moving its personnel to Somalia from Kenya.
But the extremists of al-Shabab still hold sway in large parts of rural southern Somalia and retain the ability to stage lethal attacks even in Mogadishu. Last month militants on a suicide mission invaded the U.N. compound in Mogadishu with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the assault.
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Associated Press writer Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda, contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Teachers union asks court to repeal Washington state?s charter school law
By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org
KENT, Wash. ? The Washington Education Association and a collection of public school apologists are turning to the courts in their latest attempt to prevent charter schools from opening in the Evergreen State.
The group wants the law to be declared unconstitutional for ?improperly diverting public school funds to private organizations that are not subject to local voter control? and ?impeding the State?s constitutional obligation to amply provide for and fully fund K-12 public education,? reports The Seattle Times.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson has pledged ?to defend the will of the voters? on this issue.
The logic behind the union?s lawsuit contains several gaping holes.
The WEA?s claim that voters have no control over charter schools may be technically true, but it overlooks the fact that the nine members of the Charter School Commission ? who will authorize most of the charter schools ? are appointed by the governor, the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Representatives.
Voters will be able to influence and shape commission policy through their elected governor and state representatives.
If a Washington school district chooses to start a charter school, that process is overseen by the elected members of the state Board of Education, reports The Seattle Times.
If a charter school operator fails to live up to state-imposed requirements, the organization will lose its charter and go out of business. Taxpayers can only dream of that level of accountability for their neighborhood public schools.
The WEA?s other argument ? that state money spent on charters is money taken away from K-12 funding ? conveniently ignores the reality that charter schools are public schools.
As a Spokesman-Review editorial notes, ?the rationale that this money can?t be counted as part of the total spent on basic education seems specious.?
According to the editorial writers, the WEA?s lawsuit is an attempt to define ?public schools? as only those that exist now, and to ensure that any schools opened in the future operate exactly like the current ones.
?Of course, that defeats the purpose of pursuing charter schools as an alternative,? the editorial states. ?And let?s face it, that?s the real point (of the new law).?
In a letter to the editor of The News Tribune, taxpayer Richard Mannix puts it more bluntly: ?Teachers? unions and some school administrators resisting this new concept (of charter schools) are seeking to maintain a status quo system that has failed.
?Is it their jobs they are worried about rather than our most valuable assets ? our students?? Mannix asks.
He?s exactly right. The teachers union is afraid that once charters take root in Washington, families will learn how effective they can be. When that happens, the demand for charters will grow, and enrollment at union-controlled public schools will drop.
That will leave the WEA with fewer dues-paying members, less money and less clout in the state Legislature.
There?s no word yet as to when a court ruling can be expected.
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Chinese Company Buys Iconic London Building
In the latest move into London by Chinese companies, insurer Ping An has purchased the Grade-1 listed Lloyd's of London tower from Commerz Real AG for ?260 million ($385 million).
Known as the "Inside-Out" building the tower was designed by architect Richard Rogers and opened in 1986. It's modernistic, industrial look with exposed pipes and lifts invoked comparisons to the Pompidou Center in Paris, which was designed by Rogers and Renzo Piano.
Commerz Real bought the building, which is located in the City of London, for ?231 million pounds in 2005. The Society of Lloyd's has leased the building until 2031, consultancy Savills said.??
China will spend as much as $5 billion on overseas real estate this year, a 25 percent increase from 2012, Jones Lang LaSalle predicts.
London "seems to be one of those global markets that everyone in the world is interested in and it seems only natural that Chinese investors would view it similarly," Michael Klibaner, head of greater China research at Jones Lang LaSalle. "It's kind of just saying 'We arrived.'"
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NBA Free Agency 2013: How does Eric Maynor stack up among backup point guards
Finding a backup point guard to spell John Wall was at the top of a lot of fans' wishlists this summer. By signing Eric Maynor to a two year deal worth about four million dollars. Even though he's recovering from a knee injury and had fallen out of the Oklahoma City Thunder's rotation before being dealt to Portland, Maynor is widely considered to be at the very least a decent backup.
But compared to what?
Having a good backup point guard is such a luxury that many teams have one in name only. For example, the San Antonio Spurs gave most of their point guard minutes that Tony Parker didn't soak up to Nando De Colo and Cory Joseph, yet Manu Ginobli, usually with Gary Neal next to him, was the team's primary playmaker and distributor when Parker went to the bench. While De Colo and Joseph were the backup point guards on paper, in practice the role was filled by a couple of wings with decent ball skills.
A lot of teams functioned in a similar manner. Nonetheless, Maynor will likely be asked to play about as much (13 minutes a game) as De Colo and and other guys who only the most hardcore fans have heard of, so as long as he doesn't embarrass himself every time he steps on the court, Washington should be fine. That said, when you examine what he brings to the table compared to other backups, he doesn't look so good.
In terms of Player Efficiency Rating, a weighted and pace-adjusted statistic with a league average of 15, Maynor grades out very poorly in comparison to the performance of other backup point guards. The average PER of the backups I culled the above data from was 12.46 last year, while the average salary was $2.7 million. Maynor's PER last year was only 9.3, the fourth worst mark among the the thirty backup point guards I examined. Even if you chalk up last year's sub-par performance to being out of place on the Thunder, a newcomer on the Blazers and at half-speed due to his knee injury, Maynor's career average of 11.0 would place him in the bottom third of last season's backups.
In his defense, Maynor is being brought in to competently run Washington's offense when Wall steps out. Viewed in that light, he becomes a bit more valuable, and the deal he received begins to make a lot more sense. Maynor finished 39th in Pure Point Rating among point guards who played more than ten minutes a game last year, right between Jrue Holiday and Darren Collison. He's not exactly elite, but among backups, he's one of the better offensive orchestrators out there. Assuming he can continue to hit three pointers at a solid clip (35 percent for his career, 38 percent in Portland last season), he should be OK so long as he's able to play with one or more shot creators. While Maynor has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to make the right pass, he lacks the first step and advanced ball-handling abilities to regularly break down a defense off of the dribble.
Defensively, Maynor is something of a mixed bag. Despite his size, Maynor never picked up a lot of steals or rebounds. He's also too slow to check quick guards, something that could be an issue for a team with a 6'4 point guard. Oklahoma City traditionally defended a bit better with Maynor on the court than off of it, but it's debatable how much of this was a result of a half-hearted defensive effort from Russell Westbrook and Oklahoma City's second unit's overall excellent defensive performance. It's worth noting that Portland was 7.5 points worse per 100 possessions with Maynor on the court last season, although he should get a pass due to frequently having to play out of position at shooting guard next to Damian Lillard.
Maynor seems like a below-average backup. Much like the Martell Webster deal, though, there are some mitigating factors that show why he might fit in well in this specific situation. Maynor has his faults and Washington's defense could suffer when faced with quick guards, but there are worse players out there. As long as he can stay healthy and improve on his performance from last year, Maynor should have one of the fairest contracts in the NBA.
Washington probably could have done better, but in the grand scheme of things, it also could have done far worse.
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