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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.
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