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Indie workers: Is self-employment the new norm?

Facing a sluggish economy where jobs aren't as secure, A growing number of US workers are foregoing traditional employment to strike out on their own. Some left the workforce for more flexibility, while others were forced into self-employment by an uncertain job market.

By Margaret Price,?Correspondent / June 25, 2012

Customer service representatives for CSN Stores help customers over the phones in Boston in this 2010 file photo. Motivated by factors like the unstable job market and a desire for more flexibility, more and more workers are foregoing the traditional job security in offices like these to become self-employed or temporary workers.

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Attorney Laurie Gray quit the prosecutor's office two years ago and joined the ranks of those leaving secure work behind. Now, the Fort Wayne, Ind., mother of one has more time for her family and professional activities, including writing, teaching, serving as a bilingual interpreter, and running SocraticParenting.com, which she founded to teach parents how to model behaviors their children should adopt.

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More people are trying to create their own work," she says. "They want to follow their passion and work on their own schedule."

Even at a time when a sluggish economy is causing many Americans to look for more job security, a large number of workers are striking out on their own. By one estimate, there are 16 million "career independent workers."

Although experts disagree on the size of the cohort, their numbers do appear to be increasing. The move seems to be a confluence of three trends: workers, especially professionals, seeking more flexibility; technology that makes it easier for them to set up shop; and corporations looking to avoid hiring full-time employees at a time when business cycles are shorter than normal.

"Executives want to be able to ratchet [operations] up and down" in step with "real-time changes in the economy," says Carl Camden, president and chief executive officer of Kelly Services, a large temporary staffing company based in Troy, Mich.

That can require "adjustments to employment, as well as inventory and acquisition of raw materials," he says.

About 44 percent of workers in the United States are already "free agents" ? people working on their own behalf, he estimates. By the end of this decade, he says they'll represent about 50 percent of the workforce. Mr. Camden predicts that newly minted independent workers will most likely be from areas like IT ? information technology.

In turn, more people are seeking greater work-life flexibility. They also want more say in their work and a greater variety of assignments, and through technology and social media, they can access more opportunities.

"Technology has accelerated people's ability to work independently," says Gene Zaino, CEO of MBO Partners, a provider of back-office support to independent consultants.

Most of the existing 16 million independent workers are experts or knowledge workers, and include people who work through temporary staffing agencies or those who own a business with fewer than five employees, says MBO Partners, based in Herndon, Va. It projects that the ranks of such workers will hit some 20 million next year and 70 million by 2020 ? or about half the private, nongovernment workforce.

Not everyone believes such forecasts.

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Learn that tune while fast asleep: Stimulation during sleep can enhance skill learning

ScienceDaily (June 24, 2012) ? Want to nail that tune that you've practiced and practiced? Maybe you should take a nap with the same melody playing during your sleep, new provocative Northwestern University research suggests.

The research grows out of exciting existing evidence that suggests that memories can be reactivated during sleep and storage of them can be strengthened in the process.

In the Northwestern study, research participants learned how to play two artificially generated musical tunes with well-timed key presses. Then while the participants took a 90-minute nap, the researchers presented one of the tunes that had been practiced, but not the other.

"Our results extend prior research by showing that external stimulation during sleep can influence a complex skill," said Ken A. Paller, professor of psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and senior author of the study.

By using EEG methods to record the brain's electrical activity, the researchers ensured that the soft musical "cues" were presented during slow-wave sleep, a stage of sleep previously linked to cementing memories. Participants made fewer errors when pressing the keys to produce the melody that had been presented while they slept, compared to the melody not presented.

"We also found that electrophysiological signals during sleep correlated with the extent to which memory improved," said lead author James Antony of the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at Northwestern. "These signals may thus be measuring the brain events that produce memory improvement during sleep."

The age-old myth that you can learn a foreign language while you sleep is sure to come to mind, said Paul J. Reber, associate professor of psychology at Northwestern and a co-author of the study.

"The critical difference is that our research shows that memory is strengthened for something you've already learned," Reber said. "Rather than learning something new in your sleep, we're talking about enhancing an existing memory by re-activating information recently acquired."

The researchers, he said, are now thinking about how their findings could apply to many other types of learning.

"If you were learning how to speak in a foreign language during the day, for example, and then tried to reactivate those memories during sleep, perhaps you might enhance your learning."

Paller said he hopes the study will help them learn more about the basic brain mechanisms that transpire during sleep to help preserve memory storage.

"These same mechanisms may not only allow an abundance of memories to be maintained throughout a lifetime, but they may also allow memory storage to be enriched through the generation of novel connections among memories," he said.

The study opens the door for future studies of sleep-based memory processing for many different types of motor skills, habits and behavioral dispositions, Paller said.

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Advice Needed: What do you like most in a book?

Hey there, pioneercadet! Just wanted to let you know that I have moved this thread from the Writing subforum, which is a place to post one-shots, essays, and original works of fiction, to here - the DIscussion & Debate forum, which is a better place for a discussion like this.

To answer your question, I like books that aren't just gobs of descriptive text. I like dialogue, but sparse dialogue that's offset with character action. I also like being thrust into the middle of the action in the opening page.

I heard somewhere that if you can make the reader turn the page in your book when they pick it up in the store or the library, then they'll buy it. So remember that. Put all your charged energy or whatever, into the first few paragraphs.

I also like stories that don't take themselves too seriously and let the characters have a bit of fun every once in a while.

Hope that helps!

-VV

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Rodney King, key figure in LA race riot, reported dead

Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, died Sunday.

By Christopher Weber,?Associated Press / June 17, 2012

This 1994 photo shows Rodney King speaking at a news conference in Santa Ana, Calif. King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, has died.

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Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers was the touchstone for one of the most destructive race riots in the nation's history, died Sunday. He was 47.

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King's fianc? called 911 at 5:25 a.m. to report that she found him at the bottom of the swimming pool at their home in Rialto, Calif., police Lt. Dean Hardin said.

Officers arrived to find King in the water and unresponsive, with no signs of foul play. The San Bernardino County coroner will perform an autopsy within 48 hours.

The 1992 riots, which were set off by the acquittals of the officers who beat King, lasted three days and left 55 people dead, more than 2,000 injured and swaths of Los Angeles on fire. At the height of the violence, King pleaded on television: "Can we all get along?"

King was stopped for speeding on a darkened street on March 3, 1991. Four Los Angeles police officers hit him more than 50 times with their batons, kicked him and shot him with stun guns.

A man who had quietly stepped outside his home to observe the commotion videotaped most of it and turned a copy over to a TV station. It was played over and over for the following year, inflaming racial tensions across the country.

It seemed that the videotape would be the key evidence to a guilty verdict against the officers, whose trial was moved to the predominantly white suburb of Simi Valley, Calif. Instead, on April 29, 1992, a jury with no black members acquitted three of the officers; a mistrial was declared for a fourth.

Violence erupted immediately, starting in South Los Angeles.

Police, seemingly caught off-guard, were quickly outnumbered by rioters and retreated. As the uprising spread to the city's Koreatown area, shop owners armed themselves and engaged in running gun battles with looters.

During the riots, a white truck driver named Reginald Denny was pulled by several black men from his cab and beaten almost to death.

The police chief, Daryl Gates, came under intense criticism from city officials who said officers were slow to respond to the riots. He was forced to retire. Gates died in 2010.

In the two decades after he became the central figure in the riots, King was arrested several times, mostly for alcohol-related crimes. He later became a record company executive and a reality TV star, appearing on shows such as "Celebrity Rehab."

In an interview earlier this year with The Associated Press, King said he was a happy man.

"America's been good to me after I paid the price and stayed alive through it all," he says. "This part of my life is the easy part now.

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Flint tops list of America's most dangerous cities

By Michael B. Sauter, Douglas A. McIntyre, Ashley C. Allen, Alexander E. M. Hess, 24/7 Wa

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With a 32.3 percent poverty rate and nearly 20 percent unemployment, Detroit also has the second-highest violent crime rate in the country.

This week, the FBI announced that violent crime dropped 4 percent in 2011, compared to a 5.5 percent drop in 2010. Nationally, the murder rate fell 1.9 percent from 2010, and robbery, forcible rape and assault fell 4 percent each. However, among the cities with the highest violent crimes rates, the trend is not entirely positive.

A 24/7 Wall St. review of 2011 FBI crime data shows that violent crime rose in more than half of the cities that have among the highest rates in the country. In seven of the 10 cities, murder rates increased. In eight of the 10, burglary went up.

Strained budgets are forcing police layoffs that many cities can?t afford to make. More than half of local police departments that responded to a national survey reported cuts in the 2011 fiscal year, according to the Police Executive Research Forum, an organization of police executives from across the country. Many are cutting police forces through planned layoffs and attrition.

More than half of the cities with the highest violent crime rates are cutting law enforcement budgets and police forces as well. However, unlike the national picture, the situation is worse for these cities, which depend on tax bases that are shrinking faster than most.

The cities with the highest crime rates tend to have particularly high poverty rates, high unemployment and low median income. Two of the worst-off cities, Flint and Detroit, Mich., both have had well-publicized budget woes. Flint was taken over by an emergency city manager after failing to pay its bills in 2011. Detroit is facing similar budget problems and recently came to a temporary oversight agreement with the ?state.

While the Police Executive Research Forum notes that budget cuts appear to be slowing in police departments in the United States, most departments are still cutting. According to the group?s April report on local police budgets, this includes many of the cities on this list.

Oakland, Calif., cut its budget by 7 percent in the current fiscal year, with an additional 5 percent cut on the way, according to PERF. In the past two years, the city lost 80 police officers to layoffs and another 108 to attrition. This occurred despite increases in both violent and property crime in 2011.

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Similarly, while the Detroit Police Department reported no cuts for fiscal year 2012, the city is planning a 15 percent cut next year. Detroit also has one of the highest crime rates in the country.

On its website, the FBI cautions against using crime data to compare city violence because rankings tend to be simplistic and ignore factors that influence crime, as well as the different ways crimes are measured and reported. ?Data users should not rank locales because there are many factors that cause the nature and type of crime to vary from place to place,? the FBI warns.

Congressional Quarterly,?which publishes and analyzes FBI crime statistics each year, referred to crime rate in terms of the ?safest? and ?most dangerous? cities. However, the publication recently dropped the terms ?safe? and ?dangerous? due to the concerns of criminologists, Rachel Boba Santos,?professor of criminology at Florida Atlantic University who wrote the introduction to the Congressional Quarterly Report,?told 24/7 Wall St.

Despite these objections, Santos said the data is useful to get a feel for the needs of a particular community and to look at a specific city?s trends on a year-over-year basis. She said the data also is used at the federal level to determine funding resources for different communities, comparing crime rates.

Based on the FBI?s Uniform Crime Report, 24/7 Wall St. identified the 10 U.S. cities with populations of 100,000 or more with the highest rates of violent crime per 1,000 residents. Using the estimated populations and crime incidents from UCR, which measures incidents of eight types of violent and nonviolent crime for 2011, 24/7 Wall St. calculated the incidence of the four types of violent crime per 1,000 persons for that year: murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In addition to crime data, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed median income and poverty rates for these cities from the U.S. Census Bureau for 2010, the most recent available year. We also included average 2011 unemployment rates for these cities, provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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These are the 10 cities with the highest rates of violent crime.

1. Flint, Mich.

• ?Violent crimes per 1,000: 23.4
• ?Population: 102,357
• ?2011 murders: 52
• ?Median income: $22,672
• ?Unemployment rate: 18.9 percent

According to the FBI examined, no city with more than 100,000 residents had a higher violent crime rate than Flint. In 2011, there were 2,392 incidents of violent crime in Flint, which has a population just above 100,000. That same year, there were just 1,246 violent crimes in all 10 of the safest cities in America -- which have 13 times as many residents as Flint among them. Flint has the second-highest murder rate and the highest rates of aggravated assault, burglary and arson in the nation. According to Flint Mayor Dayne Walling: ?there are too many guns on the street and it?s easy for individuals with evil motives to take another human being?s life.? Though the violent crime has long been a problem in Flint, in 2010 the city laid off 20 of its 140 police officers, a decision that diminished both the police?s street presence and response times to crime.

2. Detroit, Mich.

• ?Violent crimes per 1,000: 21.4
• ?Population: 713,239
• ?2011 murders: 344
• ?Median income: $25,787
• ?Unemployment rate: 19.9 percent

Long regarded as one of the poorest cities in the U.S., with a 32.3 percent poverty rate and nearly 20 percent unemployment in 2010, Detroit has the second-highest violent crime rate in the country. Homicide increased by 11 percent in 2011, while robbery and aggravated assault are fourth and second highest in the country, respectively. Nonviolent crime is also an issue, with burglary, motor vehicle theft and arson rates in the top 10 rankings in the country.?In response to an 18 percent decrease in the Detroit police budget, which will result in the elimination of 380 positions through attrition and early retirement, the city has begun taking steps to decrease police funding by introducing ?Virtual Precincts.? The plan, which closes police stations between 4 p.m. and 8 a.m, requires citizens to report non-emergency crime to a call center, and frees up more patrol officers to respond to 911 emergency calls.

3. St. Louis, Mo.

• ?Violent crimes per 1,000: 18.6
• ?Population: 320,454
• ?2011 murders: 113
• ?Median income: $32,688
• ?Unemployment rate: 11.7 percent

Although the total number of murders in the city has decreased by 31 since 2010, crime in St. Louis did not improve overall last year. Violent crime rates in St. Louis have risen dramatically, from 17.5 to 18.6 cases per 1,000 people. And the city?s murder rate is still the fourth highest in the nation, its robbery rate is the fifth highest in the nation and its aggravated assault rate is third-highest in the nation. Despite these troubling facts, the St. Louis Police Department recently faced potentially drastic budget cuts that may require the elimination of 100 street-patrolling officer positions through attrition.

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4. Oakland, Calif.

• ?Violent crimes per 1,000: 16.8
• ?Population: 395,317
• ?2011 murders: 104
• ?Median income: $49,190
• ?Unemployment rate: 15.6 percent

Oakland historically has been among the most crime-ridden cities in California, with a violent crime rate this year of 16.8 per 1,000 people. There were 14 more murders in 2011 than in 2010, causing Oakland to maintain the ninth-highest murder rate in the country two years in a row. Oakland is the number one city for both robbery and motor vehicle theft rates in the country. Oakland city councilmember Desley Brooks, who wants to allocate $11 million in revenue to the police force, acknowledges the increased violent crime, saying, ?we cannot ignore that we have had an increase in violent crime, and so we cannot continue to do the same thing the same way and expect that it?s going to be a different result.?

5. Memphis, Tenn.

• ?Violent crimes per 1,000: 15.8
• ?Population: 652,725
• ?2011 murders: 117
• ?Median income: $37,045
• ?Unemployment rate: 11.1 percent

In 2011, Memphis defied the national trend of declining crime rates in major U.S. cities. The rate of violent crimes per 1,000 people increased, from 15.4 to 15.8. This was the product of increases in murders, which rose from 89 to 117, and aggravated assault incidents, which rose by 100 cases. A rising unemployment rate, which grew 1.2 percent to 11.1 percent in 2011, likely has not helped to reduce criminal behavior. With a current budget deficit of $45 million, Mayor Wharton says he may need to consider ?taking boots off the street,? by laying off members of the police force in the near future.

Read the rest of the list of most dangerous cities at 24/7 Wall St.'s Web site.

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Dateline NBC

'Dateline NBC,' the signature broadcast for NBC News in primetime, premiered in 1992. Since then, it has been pioneering a new approach to primetime news programming. The multi-night franchise, supplemented by frequent specials, allows NBC to consistently and comprehensively present the highest-quality reporting, investigative features, breaking news coverage and newsmaker profiles.

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Jeremy Hackett was in a literary mood, pulling his inspirations straight from the pages of "The Great Gatsby" and "Brideshead Revisited." The designer effortlessly blended tailored and sporty looks, turning out natty seersucker suits in brown or blue, and a linen one in dusty rose, worn with a cropped waistcoat. He closed the show with a lineup of men in bowler hats and tailored suits in heritage fabrics ? and it worked a treat. An odd footnote to this collection were the more casual, hippies-in-Goa bottoms, including paisley trousers, baggy shorts, and faded cotton trousers.

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China launches woman into space

16 June 2012 Last updated at 10:42 GMT By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

China launches Shenzhou-9 capsule carrying its first female astronaut

China has launched its latest manned space mission - whose crew includes its first female astronaut, Liu Yang.

The Shenzhou-9 capsule rode to orbit atop a Long March rocket from the Jiuquan spaceport on the edge of the Gobi desert.

Ms Liu and her two male colleagues are heading to the Tiangong space lab.

They will spend over a week living and working on the 335km-high vessel, testing new systems and conducting a number of scientific experiments.

Before leaving, the crew were presented to Communist Party officials, VIPs and the media.

Wearing their flight suits and sitting behind glass, they waved and smiled.

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Astronaut Liu Yang

• Born in Henan province and an only child
• Married, with no children
• Air force pilot with rank of major
• Member of Communist Party
• Honoured as a "model" pilot in March 2010
• Landed a plane safely after it was struck by 18 pigeons
• Goes by "little flying knight" on the QQ instant messaging service
• Has been described as having a penchant for patriotic speeches

"We will obey orders, listen to directions and be calm; and co-ordinate together to successfully complete China's first manned rendezvous and docking mission," said Commander Jing Haipeng.

China's top legislator, Wu Bangguo, wished them well and told them: "We are expecting your safe return."

The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft lifted off on schedule at 18:37 local time (10:37 GMT; 11:37 BST).

All systems appeared to function normally and eight minutes later, the spacecraft had entered orbit. Very shortly after Shenzhou-9 had unfurled its solar panels.

It will take a couple of days to reach Tiangong. A docking is planned for Monday at 15:00 Beijing time (07:00 GMT; 08:00 BST).

Mr Jing, 46, is making his second spaceflight after participating in the Shenzhou-7 outing in 2008 - the mission that included China's first spacewalk.

His flight engineers are both first-timers, however.

Liu Wang, 42, a People's Liberation Army fighter pilot, has got his chance after spending 14 years in the China National Space Administration's astronaut corps.

Thirty-three-year-old Liu Yang, also a fighter pilot, has on the other hand emerged as China's first woman astronaut after just two years of training.

Her role in the mission will be to run the medical experiments in orbit.

Shenzhou-9 follows on from the unmanned Shenzhou-8 venture last year that tested the technologies required to join a capsule to the Tiangong lab.

Those manoeuvres went well and gave Chinese officials the confidence to send up humans.

When it arrives at Tiangong, the Shenzhou-9 craft is expected to make a fully automated docking, but there is a plan to try a manual docking later in the mission.

This would see the crew uncouple their vehicle from the lab, retreat to a defined distance and then command their ship to re-attach itself.

Liu Wang will take the lead in this activity. "We've done many simulations," he said during the pre-launch press conference.

"We've mastered the techniques and skills. China has first class technologies and astronauts, and therefore I'm confident we will fulfil the manual rendezvous."

Tiangong is the next step in a strategy that Beijing authorities hope will lead ultimately to the construction and operation of a large, permanently manned space station.

It is merely the prototype for the modules China expects to build and join in orbit. Mastering the rendezvous and docking procedures is central to this strategy.

Patriotic pride

At about 60 tonnes in mass, this proposed station would be considerably smaller than the 400-tonne international platform operated by the US, Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan, but its mere presence in the sky would nonetheless represent a remarkable achievement.

Concept drawings describe a core module weighing some 20-22 tonnes, flanked by two slightly smaller laboratory vessels.

Officials say it would be supplied by freighters in exactly the same way that robotic cargo ships keep the International Space Station (ISS) today stocked with fuel, food, water, air, and spare parts.

China is investing billions of dollars in its space programme. It has a strong space science effort under way, with two orbiting satellites having already been launched to the Moon. A third mission is expected to put a rover on the lunar surface.

The Asian country is also deploying its own satellite-navigation system known as BeiDou, or Compass.

Before leaving Earth, Liu Yang said the Shenzhou-9 mission would generate further pride in Chinese people. "When I was a pilot I flew in the sky; now as an astronaut, I'm going into space. It's higher and it's farther," she said.

"I have a lot of tasks to fulfil, but besides these tasks I want to feel the unique environment in space and admire the views. I want to explore a beautiful Earth, a beautiful home.

"I want to record all my feelings and my work, to share with my friends, and my comrades and my future colleagues."

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US Soccer Team Disses Troops on Guatamalan Tarmac

The US Soccer Team dissed US troops on the tarmac in Guatamala. The team blew past the troops who came out to greet them and went straight to their bus when they landed in Central America.

TMZ reported, via Orbusmax:

The U.S. soccer team insists ? they didn?t mean to snub American troops at a Guatemalan airport Monday ? blowing past the soldiers? big welcoming party for the team ? so the players are apologizing.

Team America flew in for a World Cup qualifying match against Guatemala ? and troops stationed in the Central American country came to greet them on the tarmac and cheer them on to victory.

But when the team got off the plane ? they made a beeline for the bus, not saying a word to the soldiers ? not even a ?thank you.? The troops were understandably insulted.

The soldiers? friends and family took to Facebook to express their disgust ? writing messages like, ?What a disgrace that a team that wears our American colors can?t take 5 minutes to acknowledge the soldiers that fight for what those colors represent.?

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Samsung Galaxy Player 4.2

An Android smartphone without the phone, the Samsung Galaxy Player 4.2 ($199.99 list) is the same price as the Apple?iPod Touch ($199, 5 stars), but doesn't quite measure up. It's good enough, though, for people who want to run Android apps without investing in a smartphone and a data plan.?

Physical Design and Networking
Looking a lot like a midrange Android smartphone, the Galaxy Player 4.2 is constructed from black and chrome plastic, with a physical Home button beneath the 4.2-inch, 800-by-480 IPS LCD screen. It's slim at 2.6 by 4.89 by .35 inches (HWD) and light at 4 ounces, but it doesn't have the premium feel of the iPod touch.

There's a 2-megapixel camera around back and a VGA camera on the front. The power and headphone jacks are on the bottom panel, and the MicroSD card slot is under the removable plastic back, next to the removable battery. The player comes with unremarkable earbuds and a power adapter.

The Galaxy Player 4.2 connects to the Internet using Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, albeit only at 2.4 (not 5) GHz. The player also integrates GPS, which is of questionable value, as pretty much everywhere you'd need GPS, you won't have an Internet connection. There's Bluetooth too, and the player can act as a Bluetooth headset for another phone.?

Performance
Performance is adequate but uninspiring. The Galaxy Player 4.2 is basically a 2010-era Galaxy S phone, with a single-core?1GHz Cortex-A8 processor running Android 2.3. (Don't expect an Android 4.0 update.) Benchmarks are roughly on par with lower-midrange smartphones like the LG Optimus M+ ($129,?3.5 stars), LG Optimus Elite ($29.99,?3 stars), and Samsung Exhibit II ($199.99,?3.5 stars). It's what you'd expect at this price.

The Player comes with all the standard Android apps, so you can browse the Web, check your email, chat online, and such. The Home screen comes set up with attractive clock and weather widgets, but of course, this being Android, you can toss those out and replace them with others if you'd like.

Samsung bundles some really ambitious games with the Galaxy Player 4.2, though: Need for Speed Hot Pursuit and FIFA 12. Both are console-quality titles that require massive extra downloads (290MB and 1.6GB respectively) and both run adequately, but not perfectly smoothly. I'd stick more with casual games on this device.

Smart View is another interesting pre-loaded app; it turns the Galaxy Player 4.2 into a smart remote control for a Samsung TV. I tested it with a Samsung UN46ES8000F ($2,999.99, 3.5 stars). The app configured automatically, and let me pick apps from the HDTV's Smart Hub. But the main, virtual remote is a series of scrolling screens, and it took quite a few flicks to get to the feature I was looking for sometimes. If you're looking for a fancy remote for your TV, a Samsung tablet like the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) ($249,?4 stars) would be a better bet because of its greater real estate.

Otherwise, the Google Play market is here, and the Galaxy Player 4.2 is compatible with the 400,000 apps there.

Multimedia, Storage and Battery Life
The Galaxy Player comes with about 6.5GB of storage, but did you see how big those game downloads are? A memory card is practically a must here; it's a good thing that our 64GB SanDisk card worked fine.

True to its name, the Galaxy Player can handle a range of music and video formats including MP3, AAC, MPEG4, H.264, DivX, Xvid, and WMV. It handles files up to 720p HD, but not 1080p HD video. There's an FM radio onboard, which works when headphones are plugged in. Sound quality is very good, with no hiss, and the music player comes with an equalizer option offering various scenarios for different types of music.

It's hard to get your video onto a TV, though. The Galaxy Player didn't support our MHL HDMI adapter, and attempts to stream video over Samsung's AllShare DLNA app ended in endless buffering.

The 2-megapixel camera offers no surprises, capturing moderately sharp photos in daylight, and somewhat blurry ones in low light. The images aren't noisy, but two megapixels is behind the times. The VGA front camera, on the other hand, is hideously noisy. The main camera records smooth-enough 640-by-480 video at 25 frames per second indoors and out.

We got 6 hours, 57 minutes of solid video playback with the screen set to maximum brightness. That's longer than the competing iPod touch, and promises a solid day's worth of use.

Conclusions
If you want to run 400,000 Android apps and don't want to invest in a smartphone, the Galaxy Player 4.2 is among your better bets. It's less expensive and more capable than the older Galaxy Player 4.0 and the Sony NQZ-Z1000 ($249, 3 stars), and has a decent screen resolution unlike the Galaxy Player 3.6 ($149, 3 stars). We'd give this handheld a higher rating if it wasn't running last year's version of Android on two-year-old hardware, but even so, it performs well.

The Apple iPod touch is a better device overall: the same price, but slimmer, with a higher-quality display, better video recording, even more apps, and a stronger track record for software updates.?It's not so much better to outweigh the platform question, though. Maybe you hate iTunes with a burning passion.?Maybe you need a lot of storage (a Galaxy Player with 64GB card bought from Amazon costs $263; a 64GB iPod touch is $399.) While the iPod touch is still our Editors' Choice MP3 player, the Samsung Galaxy Player 4.2 is a top pick for?Android partisans who don't want an Android phone.

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Space 'not as knotty as thought'

13 June 2012 Last updated at 04:03 ET By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News

The very fabric of space is not as "knotted" as some theories predict it should be, say researchers.

Just after the Big Bang, the Universe began to coalesce into the structure we see today, which in some theories would result in knots or "textures".

The warm glow left over from that is now spread across all of space, and is used to test theories of those moments.

But a close study of this glow reported in Physical Review Letters has found no evidence of these textures.

The cosmic microwave background (CMB), as it is known, is just a few degrees above absolute zero, but it is the minute variations in the glow across the sky that has intrigued astrophysicists.

Crystal clear?

The earliest Universe was an unimaginably dense place, where the laws of physics as we now know them were subject to very different conditions.

The first few instants after the Big Bang gave rise to variations in the dense lump of matter, which now manifest as variations in the CMB.

A space telescope called the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe was launched in 2001 to examine those variations.

Studying the detailed maps it has provided is not unlike entering a kitchen and figuring out how the first steps of dinner were prepared based on the distribution of leftover heat.

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The CMB

• A portion of the static on a de-tuned old-fashioned television set is caused by the cosmic microwave background
• It was first discovered in 1964 as a noise in a radio telescope that astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson could not eradicate
• Once put on a theoretical footing, the finding earned them the 1978 Nobel prize
• It is one of the strongest lines of evidence supporting the Big Bang theory
• A continuing series of space telescopes has been deployed to analyse the variations in the CMB in ever-greater detail
• The results can shed light on how the laws of physics developed in the early Universe, and help determine its eventual fate

Nevertheless, such study has provided some insights, shoring up the idea of a vast "inflation" after the Big Bang, adding weight to a model of a Universe rich with dark matter that most astrophysicists agree upon, and finding the first evidence of helium before the first stars formed.

Questions remain, though, about how the fabric of space stretched itself out in those early moments. As the Universe cooled, it underwent a series of "phase transitions", just like water freezing into ice.

Stephen Feeney of University College London (UCL), lead author of the new study, said that the transitions that yielded the space we see today are analogous to the formation of crystals such as diamond or quartz.

"If you cool a liquid very slowly, a regular crystal will form, with the same pattern throughout the entire crystal," he told BBC News.

"When a liquid cools quickly, imperfections in the crystalline pattern can form. Some cosmological theories predict that the Universe itself should be no different.

"However, if you cool the liquid very quickly, the pattern will only be the same over small separations. In between different regions, the patterns won't line up perfectly."

Just as in these "defects" in a crystal, textures are like knots in the structure of space itself.

Some theories that attempt to unify the fundamental forces in nature predict that many textures were formed - and researchers have been scouring the WMap data to find them.

But Mr Feeney and an international team led by UCL cosmologist Hiranya Peiris now say that these knots are unlikely to exist.

"A previous group looked at a particular prominent feature in the WMap data - called the Cold Spot - and concluded that it was likely to be a texture," Mr Feeney said.

First reported in 2007 and published in Science, the study considered a small portion of the sky, using the data available at the time. When the full seven-year data set across the full sky is considered, the story seems different.

"We've shown that when the full WMap data are considered, the texture hypothesis isn't actually favoured," he said.

The analysis, a preprint of which is published online, shows to 95% confidence that theories calling for more than six textures have it wrong - but the team concedes that significantly better data are on the way.

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, launched in 2009 and due to release a fresh trove of results in the coming months, will provide significantly higher sensitivity and resolution - probably putting an end to the knotty question altogether.

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Scientists map genome of the bonobo, a key human ancestor

Researchers have assembled the complete genome of the bonobo, an African ape that is one of humans' closest relatives.

The achievement, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, marks a milestone. Adding the bonobo genome to the already-sequenced human, chimpanzee, gorilla and orangutan genomes gives scientists a complete catalog of the DNA of all of the so-called great apes.

That should help researchers better understand how humans evolved, scientists said.

"There's a common ancestor that we and these apes were derived from. We want to know what that ancestor looked like," said Wes Warren, a geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis, who was not involved in the research. "By adding the bonobo to the mix, we have a better idea."

Now, with all the great ape sequences complete, scientists can better use genetics to help determine whether a particular trait cropped up for the first time in humans, said Kay Pruefer, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.

Pruefer, who was first author of the bonobo genome study, worked with an international team to sequence the DNA of Ulindi, a female bonobo who lives at the Leipzig Zoo.

The work revealed new details about bonobos' early history, he said.

Bonobos and chimps ? which are very closely related but behave in strikingly different ways, with bonobos relying on sex and chimpanzees relying on aggression to resolve conflict ? split from each other about 1 million years ago.

Comparing the genome of Ulindi and a few other bonobos with those of chimps from different parts of Africa, Pruefer and his colleagues found that bonobos share similar amounts of DNA with all of them. That suggested that the split between chimps and bonobos was rapid and complete, with little if any mating between neighboring groups of chimps and bonobos, he said. Otherwise, one would have found that the chimps closest to the bonobos' territory would be more genetically similar.

Such a clean break is unusual among apes, he added: Breeding between early humans and Neanderthals, for example, is still evident in the DNA of people living today.

The clean split may have resulted from the formation of the Congo River, which bisected the territory of the species' shared ancestor, the team wrote.

Ancient humans split away from bonobos and chimps about 4.5 million years ago.

Examining Ulindi's DNA alongside the human genome, the team calculated that about 3% of the human genome is more closely related to bonobos or to chimpanzees than those animals are to each other.

That was surprising, Pruefer said, because previous studies of the bonobo genome had suggested that only about 1% of human DNA would be so similar to the apes' DNA.

John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the research, said it would be interesting to learn how these genetic differences influenced behavior.

Perhaps the three species' shared ancestor was more like a chimp ? and humans and chimps share genes, say, for aggression. Or perhaps the shared ancestor was more like a bonobo, with some other consequence for human traits.

"What branch do humans come from? Is it 'Make love, not war,' or 'Make war, not love'?" Hawks wondered.

But for now, Pruefer said, it remains unclear what genetic differences between humans, chimps and bonobos have any bearing on human traits.

"The genome is a resource for further study. You have to go and test the genes," he said.

He said he expected scientists would soon begin doing just that.

eryn.brown@latimes.com

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That Was Fast: iOS 6 Developer Beta Has Already Been Jailbroken

Apple's Scott Forstall officially introduced the world to iOS 6 less than 24 hours ago, and already it seems like an intrepid hacker has managed to jailbreak it. MuscleNerd (of iPhone Dev Team fame) announced from his Twitter account earlier this morning that he managed to jailbreak a 4th generation iPod Touch running the recently-released iOS 6 developer beta, though he's quick to note that it's not exactly ready for prime time yet.

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Electronics Laguna Niguel CA - Few Important Facts

Laguna Niguel is an American city which is located in the southern part of Orange County, CA, USA. This popular and hi-tech city has become one of the major commercial centers in America, especially in the field of electronics and electrical appliances. Laguna has gained good feedback from consumers due to the supply of cost effective electronic appliances. Experts have written many well-informative reviews and analytical notes regarding electronics in Laguna Niguel CA. A person must go through these short reviews and e-journals to get authentic data on electronic appliances and devices which are available at attractive prices.

Laguna-Becomes Major Hub to Sell Electronic Products

As far as electronics in Laguna Niguel, CA, is concerned, maximum scope is provided to international entrepreneurs to sell electronic appliances, musical gadgets, infotainments, in-car accessories and mobile phone handsets at discounted prices. Laguna Niguel in CA has also been dotted with a number of globally recognized IT companies, electronic product manufacturing units and small sized firms. It is to bring speed to the production of electronic devices like dish television sets, internet broadband connection accessories, mobile phones, home appliances, kitchen decor electronic collectibles and so on. For instance, the advent of com cast broadband internet is undoubtedly a turning point for consumers who like to surf the net and connect themselves with the global communities via computers and dish television. High speed internet connection has reformatted the whole communication portal. It is much faster than DSL connection.

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PFT: Jones says no spot for TO with Cowboys

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Another year, another high-profile running back holdout.

But unlike Chris Johnson?s contractual impasse with the Titans in 2011, Maurice Jones-Drew?s face off with the Jaguars entails a very different context.

Johnson was operating under the terms of a slotted rookie contract. ?When drafted near the bottom of the first round in 2008, he had four options: ?(1) sign the deal that the Titans offered; (2) accept the one-year rookie minimum and play on a year-to-year basis until becoming a restricted free agent after three years and/or an unrestricted free agent after four (subject to the franchise tag); (3) sit out the full year and re-enter the draft; or (4) find another line of work.

Jones-Drew, in contrast, has decided to disregard the terms of a four-year extension that he signed in 2009, during his fourth NFL season. ?In order to get $17.5 million in guaranteed money, he agreed to be bound to the team through 2013, at base salaries that he now finds objectionable.

(In Jones-Drew?s defense, if he wasn?t performing well the team could cut him loose without violating the contract. ?But if the players wanted fully-guaranteed contracts, signing bonuses would reduce dramatically or go away entirely.)

While both Johnson and Jones-Drew technically violated their contracts, it?s easier to understand Johnson?s breach because he had no real options or leverage when he signed the deal as a rookie. ?Jones-Drew did; he could have played out his initial contract and eventually landed on the open market, even after a year or two under the franchise tag.

Jones-Drew had other options, within the confines of the four-year deal he negotiated. ?He could have insisted, for example, on significant escalators or incentive payments based on, for instance, leading the NFL in rushing in 2011 ? which he accomplished. ?Or he simply could have asked for higher base salaries, accepting the risk that if he wasn?t playing at a level justifying those amounts, the Jaguars could have squeezed him to take less or cut him loose.

Regardless of context or who?s right and who?s wrong, Jones-Drew knows that if he waits a couple more years to complete his current contract, he won?t be nearly as valuable as he is right now. ?And so the only leverage he has is to withhold services, even if it costs him at least $60,000 for skipping minicamp ? and even if it costs him $30,000 per day once training camp opens.

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