US F-16 fighter crashes off coast of Japan

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F-16 jet fighters taxi ahead of takeoff in Misawa Air Base in northern Japan in December. A U.S. military F-16 fighter jet from the base crashed into the sea off northern Japan on Sunday and its solo pilot was waiting for rescue at sea after ejecting, the coast guard said.

By Reuters

TOKYO --?A U.S. F-16 fighter jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern Japan on Sunday and efforts were underway to rescue the pilot, a spokeswoman for the Misawa Air Base said.

The jet took off from the U.S. air base in Aomori and crashed about 11:30 Japan time (10:30 ET) some 200 miles northeast of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, the spokesperson said.

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"One person, the pilot, was on board. Efforts are currently underway to retrieve the pilot," she said, reading from a statement.

"The aircraft was?en-route?to North America when the incident occurred. The cause of the incident is unknown at this time."

The F-16 is made by Lockheed Martin Corp.

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The health care challenge for small business ? Business ? Bangor ...

The National Federation of Independent Business recently reported that small businesses identified increasing health care costs as their No. 1 problem. While escalating costs hurt all employers, small business has been particularly disadvantaged by the way health insurance is paid for in this country. Short of more dramatic reform, Maine?s small businesses and their employees would benefit by gaining access to larger insurance pools and an opportunity to participate in Accountable Care Organizations.

Let?s face it ? the United States health insurance system was not created with small business in mind. In fact, employers became the primary providers of health insurance only by an accident of history, when the federal government initiated a wage freeze during World War II and businesses competed for skilled workers by offering the additional benefit of health insurance.

The federal government encouraged businesses to include health insurance as a benefit by making employer-paid health insurance tax-free to employees. But what started as a fairly modest expenditure has become an unsustainable cost for small business.

Even though providing health care to the citizens of the richest country in the world ought to be a national priority, placing the cost of health care on the backs of business has been too much for many small businesses to bear. It has become a financial burden for many small businesses to provide health insurance but also a significant challenge for small businesses to attract employees without providing health insurance. Tying health insurance to employment creates a disincentive to start a business and a difficulty for small businesses to recruit and retain high-quality employees.

To compound the problem, many small businesses that offer health insurance to their employees end up paying more than larger companies because small groups have a higher risk pool with higher premium costs per employee. Insurance works most effectively when there is a large pool of participants but only a small number who make a claim against the premiums collected.

Small businesses have ended up in insurance rate setting pools with the least optimal characteristics and that historically have large claims. These out-sized claims drive up insurance premiums for the business and increase deductibles for employees. With higher insurance premiums, small businesses tend to shift more of the costs to employees and those employees also tend to have higher co-pays and larger deductibles than those in larger organizations. As their out-of-pocket costs increase, young and healthy employees often decline the insurance offered, which only exacerbates the situation by creating a vicious cycle that leaves only those people more likely to make large claims left in these high-risk pools.

But even if these insurance pools can be structured with a larger, more representative population, which is the hope of the Affordable Care Act in creating exchanges for small businesses and individuals, they will still have to overcome other weaknesses in our health care system to prevent costs from escalating. Health care costs rise for good reasons such as breakthroughs in medical technology and pharmaceuticals, as well as the simple fact that the population is getting older and requires more care. Insurance premiums also increase because the commercial sector is indirectly picking up costs for both the uninsured and the inadequate payments for care covered by Medicare and Medicaid. In addition, we can point to overuse of medical services, an abuse attributed to having third-party payers, and inefficiencies that arise in a system with fee-for-service payment methods that compensate physicians for the amount of services provided rather than hold them accountable for improving the health of their patients.

Accountable Care Organizations, or ACOs, such as Kaiser Permanente and those now forming in MaineHealth and Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems are trying to overcome these weaknesses in our current health care system. These organizations link patients, providers and payers in a system of mutual cooperation. Under ACOs, these plans provide incentives for patients to take greater responsibility for their own health with proper diet and exercise, physicians are rewarded by patient outcomes rather than fees for the amount of service provided and office visits, hospital stays and post-acute care are seamlessly linked to achieve greater efficiencies.

As health care costs continue to rise, there will be an increased outcry for solutions. Providing small businesses and individuals with opportunities to participate in larger insurance pools and in Accountable Care Organizations will be steps in the right direction.

Joseph McDonnell is dean of the College of Management and Human Service at the University of Southern Maine, and faculty member in the Muskie School of Public Service. He formerly served as dean of the College of Business at Stony Brook University in New York, and has held executive management positions within both Fortune 500s and start-ups.

Source: http://bangordailynews.com/2012/07/20/business/the-health-care-challenge-for-small-business/

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Should You Drink Sports Drinks to Refuel? | Dual Fit

The 2012 Olympics will soon be underway, and this will lead to an increase in advertisements for sports drinks, sports wear, energy gels and protein bars. While Powerade may be the official sports drink of the Olympic games, this does not mean that you have to follow suit. Sports drinks are widely sold in grocery stores, health centers and on the high street, but are they all they make out to be?

Many Olympians will be paid to promote energy foods and drinks, but this doesn?t mean that pro athletes and sports nutritionists are hooked on the supposed benefits of such products. Nutrition expert David Katz claims that sports drinks are similar to soda, but the marketing is done in such a way to make the consumer believe it could turn him or her into an athlete. Many people forget that sugar is the prime ingredient in many of these sports drinks, and sugar is loaded with calories and is very addictive.

WHAT DO MANUFACTURERS AND EXPERTS SAY ABOUT SPORTS DRINKS?

Sports drinks like Gatorade claim to rehydrate the body faster by providing essential electrolytes?small chemicals that help the body function efficiently. Potassium and sodium are lost through perspiration, and sports drinks claim to replenish these levels. Sodium (or salt) is an essential electrolyte, as it transfers electrical signals to the muscles and brain. Dehydration?hypernatremia? can lead to muscle weakness, but drinking too much water?hyponatremia?is associated with thyroid problems and brain disease.

As the body perspires during exercise, this liquid must be replaced, but the loss of electrolytes can cause general weakness. This is where sports drinks like Gatorade claim to help. Leslie Bonci, a consultant for Gatorade boasts that the body can absorb Gatorade more quickly than water alone. The sugar in Gatorade provides the needed calories that are absent in water. What sports drink manufacturers fail to mention, however, is that electrolytes are found naturally in milk, grains, vegetables, fruits and coconut water. Other experts state that the sugar content may create havoc in the body, as the higher a food on the glycemic index, the quicker the body can fatigue through the sugar slump.

DO SPORTS DRINKS REPLENISH THE BODY POST WORKOUT?

Manufacturers of sports drinks not only encourage consumers to drink during exercise, but prior to and post exercise. The sugar is not beneficial to teeth, and if these sugar starches are not burnt off, they could settle on the body and cause unwanted weight gain.

A popular brand, GU Energy, claims that one of their gel packs provides sufficient energy before a workout, but the consumer should also suck on an energy pack every 45 to 60 minutes into the workout. At 100 calories per pack, the body will be consuming more calories than it burns off. The manufacturer then recommends additional products to use post workout.

THE DOWNSIDE TO USING SPORTS DRINKS

Manufacturers do not care if the consumer if under or overweight. Their only motivation is to sell the product, and they will hire experts with knowledge of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to sell a product. The focus of this type of marketing is to make the consumer want something, and it is effective worldwide.

With nutritional experts claiming that obesity is on the rise, even children are now drinking sugary sports drinks and sodas at break time, which can cause weight gain and hyperactivity.

Manufacturers are unlikely to claim that their product causes weight gain more than its original claim that the product fuels the body, but the use of celebrities to endorse the product encourages the consumer to buy it. Gary Fisher, mountain biking legend, claims that these ?engineered nutrition? products can encourage more weight gain than muscle mass. The athlete puts in the hard work, but struggles to lose the gut. Gary prefers to consume a healthy meal prior to a workout, and then snacks on bananas throughout his bike ride. Afterward, he eats a healthy serving of chicken or fish with salad.

Ultra marathoner, Scott Jurek, drinks smoothies before his 30-mile training workouts, eats hummus wraps and rice balls while traveling, and consumes beans, quinoa, tempe, and brown rice afterward.

Energy gels are versatile and replenish the body quickly, but they can could cause overheating and further dehydrate the body. The South African sports nutritionist, Timothy Noakes, mentions that water is effective enough to treat dehydration, and sports drink companies publicize the fact that their products fuel the body better than water.

5 NATURAL WAYS TO ENERGIZE AND HYDRATE THE BODY

• Fruits and vegetables: Many consumers forget that fruits and vegetables contain water. Even bananas contain 80 percent water. Eating an apple prior to a workout provides natural sugars and prevents the common sugar slump caused by processed foods and drinks.

• Black coffee: Many sports drinks and gels contain caffeine, as it is a useful weight loss aid. Caffeine is a potent antioxidant, important to help the body recover, whilst also supporting overall immune health. Coffee also encourages the release of free fatty acids, which can be oxidized during a workout. Drink black coffee on an empty stomach, but only in moderation. The stimulation to the central nervous system increases the body?s metabolism. However, experts recommend that you avoid the consumption of caffeine with carbohydrates, as the increased insulin production can interfere with its fat burning effects.

• Nuts and Seeds: Buy the unsalted varieties of nuts and seeds. A handful before a workout supplies the body with protein and energy. They are also useful to eat post workout.

• Coconut water: It tastes delicious, is nutritionally dense, and it contains electrolytes to replenish the body prior to, during, and post workout.

• Fiber rich/protein rich foods: Try whole wheat bread, protein bars made with dried fruit and pecan nuts prior to a workout, and consume fish, poultry and other lean meats after a workout.

IN SUMMARY

Sports drinks may be popular, but experts believe they can cause more harm than good. They recommend that the body would benefit better from natural foods and drinks, including coconut water, fruits and vegetables, and black coffee before a workout.

Source: http://dualfit.com/should-you-drink-sports-drinks-to-refuel/

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Grain prices set records as U.S. drought, food worries spread

CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Grain prices pushed to record highs on Thursday as scattered rains in U.S. Midwest did little to douse fears that the worst drought in half a century will not end soon or relieve worries around the world about higher food prices.

Government forecasters did not rule out that the drought in the U.S. heartland could last past October, continuing what has been the hottest half-year on record.

"There's a greater chance that there is no relief possible or in sight" for the U.S. Midwest, Dan Collins of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center said on Thursday.

More than half the United States was experiencing moderate drought or worse this week, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor report issued on Thursday.

More than 70 percent of the Midwest Corn Belt was in some stage of drought in the week ended July 17, up from 63 percent a week earlier. It adds up to the worst drought conditions in the United States since at least 1956, climate experts said.

"We don't have a reason for saying it's going to improve," Kelly Helm Smith of the National Drought Mitigation Center told a briefing on Thursday, adding that warmer conditions in the coming months might well exceed current levels.

CROPS PLOWED UNDER

That is bad news for farmers and consumers, with corn, soybeans and wheat in the United States -- the largest world exporter of those key crops -- baking in fields, losing yield potential daily or being plowed under for insurance claims.

Corn for September delivery at the Chicago Board of Trade set a record high of $8.16-3/4 a bushel, while soybeans for August delivery also set a record high of $17.49. Wheat for September rose 4 percent at $9.35 and set a four-year high.

The knock-on effect of such soaring prices was already being felt around the world, where drought has also hit other grain exporters who are starting to cancel previous sales and leave hungry countries in the Middle East and elsewhere scrambling.

"A lot of buyers waited in the hope that rain in the U.S. and east Europe would cool prices," one grain exporter said. "But this is not happening and the U.S. drought is not over."

The two big questions in the U.S. Corn Belt -- how low the harvest and how high the prices -- were still unanswered. But conditions were worsening as corn was failing to pollinate and soybeans, planted later, face their key growth stage in stress.

Iowa and Illinois, which together produce about a third of all U.S. corn and soybeans, continue to bake.

"The soil moisture in Iowa is pretty much gone so there's not much to keep crops going. Even if temperatures went down 5 degrees and rainfall increased 50 percent for the rest of this month, it might slow the rate of decline but it's not going to reverse the decline in crop conditions and the ultimate yield," said Harry Hillaker, Iowa state climatologist. "There's not much left of the Corn Belt that's in good shape."

In Williamsport, Ohio, Scott Metzger, 37, said it rained for about 45 minutes on his farm on Thursday and according to his rain gauge he got 1-3/10 inch of rain. But since May 13, he said, the farm has only had 2.1 inches of rain.

"This has been my toughest year of farming so far," he said, saying his corn crop was "finished" because it never pollinated.

WARMEST HALF-YEAR IN HISTORY

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that the January-June period was the hottest half-year on record in the United States, with 29 states seriously affected.

Around the world, last month was the fourth-warmest June, NOAA experts said. Temperatures on land were the warmest ever recorded, while ocean temperatures were the 10th warmest. The Northern Hemisphere had its second-warmest June on record.

A La Nina pattern of cool water in the equatorial Pacific, which normally brings colder, wetter conditions to parts of the continental United States, ended earlier this year, and there is a good chance that an El Nino pattern could develop before year's end and prolong drought in the central United States, Collins of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center said on Thursday.

U.S. grain farmers, buoyed in recent years by soaring prices for grain and farmland, are in better shape to weather the storm than in 1988, the year of the last major drought.

But worst hit are likely to be dairy, pork, poultry and beef farmers, who are seeing their feed costs go through the roof and already taking action to reduce their herd sizes. Consumers may not see immediate food inflation, but it is coming.

(Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee and Kim Palmer in Cleveland. Writing by Peter Bohan; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

(This story has been refiled to add the dropped word "not" in the first paragraph)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/grain-prices-set-records-drought-food-worries-spread-001844345.html

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Dad of Ohio cancer patient, 4, denies Disney trip

FILE - In this May 7, 2012, file photo, Whitney Hughs and her daughter McKenna May are seen at their home in Haskins, Ohio. William May says he blocked his 4-year-old daughter's Make-A-Wish trip to Disney World because he doesn't believe donations to the wish-granting organization should be spent on a child who appears clear of illness after two years of cancer treatments. (AP Photo/Sentinel-Tribune, Enoch Wu) MANDATORY CREDIT, TOLEDO BLADE OUT

FILE - In this May 7, 2012, file photo, Whitney Hughs and her daughter McKenna May are seen at their home in Haskins, Ohio. William May says he blocked his 4-year-old daughter's Make-A-Wish trip to Disney World because he doesn't believe donations to the wish-granting organization should be spent on a child who appears clear of illness after two years of cancer treatments. (AP Photo/Sentinel-Tribune, Enoch Wu) MANDATORY CREDIT, TOLEDO BLADE OUT

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) ? A 4-year-old girl who went through two years of cancer treatments isn't being allowed to go on a Make-A-Wish trip to Disney World because her father said she's in remission and the trips should go to children who are sicker than his daughter.

The young girl, McKenna May of Haskins, had the trip postponed twice while she was undergoing treatment for leukemia and finally was set to go in August when the father refused to sign off on the trip, the girl's mother and grandmother said Thursday.

The family said Make-A-Wish requires signatures from both parents if either have visitation rights or is listed on the birth certificate. McKenna's parents never married or lived together. Her grandmother said the father only recently received visitation privileges.

McKenna's mother and grandmother are now collecting donations at local businesses to pay for the trip to Disney on their own. Money has poured in since their story spread beyond northwest Ohio. They haven't told McKenna why the Make-A-Wish trip was canceled.

"We've told her we're still going to Disney, just not when she thought it was happening," said her grandmother, Lori Helppie. "We don't want her to judge her father."

Her father, William May of Toledo, said donations made to the organization should help those who are terminally ill.

"Spend the money on a child who this might be their last memory," May said Thursday. "Kids who are only going to live a year or six months."

The girl's grandmother said that McKenna has had a rough two years and won't be judged to be free of cancer until five years after her last treatment, which was last month.

McKenna was diagnosed with leukemia in April 2010, just before she turned two. Chemotherapy treatments affected her speech and immune system, and she had three extended stays in the hospital. She also broke her leg in a fall. Doctors told the family that it would be better to wait to go to Disney until McKenna was done with treatment, Helppie said.

"She's been through quite a bit," Helppie said. "We have had quite the journey getting her back to being like every other 4-year-old."

McKenna's mother, Whitney Hughes, said she's overwhelmed that so many people have reached out to help. The family expects that they'll soon have enough money to go to Disney. It's something McKenna has talked about for months, her mom said.

"She wants to go see Mickey and the princesses," Hughes said.

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Goodbye, Linsanity: Knicks let Lin walk

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2012, file photo, New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin (17) and teammate Carmelo Anthony (7) talk during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat in Miami. Linsanity could be put to rest in New York when the clock strikes midnight. That's the deadline the Knicks face to match the daunting offer the Houston Rockets have made to Lin, the Harvard point guard who dazzled all of basketball for a brief stretch last season. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2012, file photo, New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin (17) and teammate Carmelo Anthony (7) talk during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat in Miami. Linsanity could be put to rest in New York when the clock strikes midnight. That's the deadline the Knicks face to match the daunting offer the Houston Rockets have made to Lin, the Harvard point guard who dazzled all of basketball for a brief stretch last season. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2012, file photo, New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin reacts during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks in New York. Linsanity could be put to rest in New York when the clock strikes midnight. That's the deadline the Knicks face to match the daunting offer the Houston Rockets have made to Lin, the Harvard point guard who dazzled all of basketball for a brief stretch last season. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2012, file photo, New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin drives to the basket during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game New Jersey Nets at Madison Square Garden in New York. Linsanity could be put to rest in New York when the clock strikes midnight. That's the deadline the Knicks face to match the daunting offer the Houston Rockets have made to Lin, the Harvard point guard who dazzled all of basketball for a brief stretch last season. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2011 file photo, Houston Rockets' Jeremy Lin is shown during the team's NBA basketball media day in Houston. Linsanity could be put to rest in New York when the clock strikes midnight. That's the deadline the New York Knicks face to match the daunting offer the Rockets have made to Lin, the Harvard point guard who dazzled all of basketball for a brief stretch last season. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

En esta foto del 4 de febrero de 2012, Jeremy Lin salta hacia la cesta durante un partido contra los Nets de Nueva Jersey. El diario New York Times report? el martes 17 de julio que Lin dejar? las filas de los Knicks para jugar en los Rockets de Houston (AP Foto/Bill Kostroun, archivo)

HOUSTON (AP) ? Say goodbye to Linsanity, New York.

Jeremy Lin is taking his game off Broadway ? way off ? to Houston after the Knicks announced Tuesday night they would not match the Rockets' three-year, $25 million offer for the restricted free agent.

"Extremely excited and honored to be a Houston Rocket again!!" Lin posted on his Twitter account.

"Much love and thankfulness to the Knicks and New York for your support the past year...easily the best year of my life."

The 23-year-old point guard, undrafted out of Harvard, became an international phenomenon and the biggest story in sports during one dazzling month in the Big Apple. But the Knicks decided keeping the show in town was too costly.

Rockets general manager Daryl Morey celebrated the re-acquisition on Twitter:

"Welcome to Houston (at)JLin7. We plan to hang on this time. You will love (hash)RedNation."

The Rockets waived Lin after two weeks in their training camp in December. Team owner Leslie Alexander said in a statement late Tuesday that the team was "thrilled to have Jeremy back."

"In his limited opportunity last season, Jeremy showed that he has all the skills to be a great player in this league for many years to come," Alexander said. "In addition to being a great passer, he is also exceptional at driving to the rim and finishing plays. He also showed a poise well beyond his years by making winning plays at the end of numerous games last season. Jeremy is a winner on and off the court and we view him as an important part of our plan to build a championship contender."

The Knicks said they would match any offer to retain Lin, but the Rockets made it tough for New York to keep him by backloading their offer sheet with a $15 million salary in the third season. If the Knicks agreed to that deal, they would've faced a hefty luxury tax in 2014-15 because of other big contracts on their books ? between $30-40 million.

One sports consultant said the adjustment to the offer sheet was a stroke of genius by Morey.

"The Rockets deserve a lot of credit for the way they've gone about this," said Marc Ganis, president of Chicago-based SportsCorp. "It was extremely intelligent ? with an assassin's touch."

But Houston made the bad move, initially, waiving Lin because it already had Goran Dragic and Kyle Lowry on the roster.

The Knicks picked him up and gave him first real shot. He was briefly demoted to the developmental league, recalled and finally got his chance when coach Mike D'Antoni put him in with the Knicks floundering at 8-15. Lin scored a career-high 25 points in a 99-92 win over New Jersey Nets and "Linsanity" was born.

Lin had slept on teammate Landry Fields' couch the night before, still refusing to get his own place as he headed into that week, knowing the Knicks would have to decide whether to cut him or guarantee his contract for the rest of the season.

But Lin proved more than just a one-hit wonder ? he had 28 and 23 points in his first two NBA starts, and then scored a career-high 38 in a 92-85 victory over Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers.

The stock price for Madison Square Garden Inc. surged on the production and popularity of the team's international star. Lin, the NBA's first American-born player of Taiwanese or Chinese descent, also made the Sports Illustrated cover in consecutive weeks, only the 12th athlete to hold that distinction since 1990. On Tuesday, Lin had more than 829,000 followers on Twitter.

The more opponents saw Lin, though, the more they seemed to figure him out as the season wore on. He went 1 for 11 with eight turnovers in a humbling, nationally televised loss in Miami and the Knicks dropped their first six games in March.

D'Antoni resigned in mid-March and Lin hurt his left knee less than two weeks later. The Knicks revealed on April 1 that Lin needed surgery to repair a meniscus tear and would miss six weeks.

The Knicks made the playoffs behind surging Carmelo Anthony, but bowed out to Miami in the first round. The Rockets, meanwhile, missed the postseason for the third straight year and have spent the offseason completely rebuilding their roster.

Houston has been trying to put together a package of assets and draft picks to offer Orlando in exchange for disgruntled All-Star center Dwight Howard. In the process, the Rockets lost the unrestricted free agent Dragic to Phoenix, then traded Lowry to Toronto in exchange for a future first-round pick with lottery protection.

With no true point guard left on the roster, the Rockets turned back to Lin. The Knicks showed their hand when they brought back Raymond Felton in a sign-and-trade deal with Portland ? after signing Jason Kidd as a free agent.

Houston, meanwhile, jumped at the chance to rekindle their popularity in China, where Yao Ming became a larger-than-life figure. Many Rockets landed lucrative shoe contracts with Chinese companies on Yao's coattails and Rockets' games drew massive television ratings there.

David Schwab, who specializes in matching brands with celebrities as managing director at Octagon First Call, said that while Lin is an American success story, he'll reopen marketing in-roads for Houston during Yao's eight seasons (2002-11).

"Teams base their decisions on wins and losses, because wins and losses ultimately affect ticket sales, sponsorships," Schwab said. "I still think it's a win-loss decision, but I think, in their case, it's weighed more as a marketing decision. They've got more to gain right now, with a decade of Yao and companies they've done business with. They've got kind of the next frontier there."

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iPad App Allows Single Sign-On For Enterprise Apps

Want to provide single sign-on (SSO) to business applications hosted in the cloud, via an iPad? There's an app for that now.

Cloud-based identity and access management vendor OneLogin Wednesday released what it calls the "first-ever iPad app for enterprise single sign-on." Available via Apple's App Store, OneLogin for iPad is designed to work with OneLogin's cloud-based identity management service, which provides SSO for Web applications. OneLogin for iPad also gives users a single interface--built using native iPad browser functionality--through which they can tab between all of the SaaS applications they're entitled to use.

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Netflix has been beta-testing the new iPad app, which is "really an application browser," said Mike Kail, vice president of IT operations for Netflix, in a phone interview. "You fire up the OneLogin app, and it gives you a list of all the apps you can toggle between." Beyond simplifying the password management picture for users, he said it also offers an iPad productivity boost. "You don't have to switch between apps; you can switch between tabs in the OneLogin application. So I can be in Workday doing an expense report, and pulling data from a spreadsheet in Google," he said. Previously, users would have had to log in to each application using Safari and manually switch between them.

[ For more on BYOD in the enterprise, see Avaya Bets On BYOD With Unified Communications Update. ]

Netflix is a heavy user of SaaS applications, including Box for cloud storage, Google Apps for collaboration, Workday for human capital management and expenses, AppDynamics for cloud performance tracking, and JIRA for bug tracking. Given the widespread use of different SaaS applications, Kail explained, "We want a way to tie back into one authentication mechanism or account versus all of our users having user IDs and passwords for every SaaS app."

Many businesses are pursuing similar SaaS application access management strategies. "A big dilemma is, how do we protect these? And even before we get there, how do we establish access controls?" said Eric Ahlm, a research director at Gartner. Traditionally, IT departments could require remote users to always log on to enterprise applications via a VPN connection. But with more businesses now adopting SaaS applications, they stand to lose some of the accompanying benefits--such as remote users being able to log onto a local SaaS vendor's website--by forcing them to always use VPN connections.

According to Gartner, Apple iOS is the dominant mobile operating system inside businesses, and it predicts that in 2012, nearly two-thirds of all tablets sold will be iPads. Still, how many businesses today require an iPad app to facilitate SSO for the SaaS applications? "From my vantage point, I'm not having users bang down my door saying, 'where is this single log-on app for my iPad?' today, but I anticipate it coming," said Ahlm. "The iPad onboarding and the iPad security challenge is not going away."

Ahlm said that businesses are extremely concerned with how to manage smartphones, as well as mobile security. "The problem is huge, and onboarding with the iPad is not solved by an MDM solution," he said, referring to mobile device management software. "That's a big part of it, and it's certainly a huge step [toward] trying to lock this stuff down and do due diligence." But MDM goes only so far. "When they want to do more, and lock down devices like they've been doing with laptops for 15 years, they're going to need more controls."

Of course, locking down devices gets more difficult when businesses don't own those devices. In the bring your own device (BYOD) trend, employees purchase their own cutting-edge mobile devices and bring them to work--saving businesses money but complicating attempts to keep such devices secure. Netflix is no exception to this trend. "Maybe 30% of the company has iPads," said Kail. "[At] Netflix, we support a bunch of different devices for our apps, so people have different devices. We won't push any one device; we really operate in a BYOD atmosphere."

To handle access rights, Netflix has OneLogin connect to its Microsoft Active Directory service. "We run the OneLogin SSL connector, so they connect securely to our domain controller, and we've had no issues," Kail said. Removing a user from Active Directory immediately revokes all of their OneLogin-handled cloud access rights.

To date, Kail said that OneLogin has performed as advertised--including simplifying SaaS application provisioning and de-provisioning, by offering him a single, centralized access control management interface. Meanwhile, Netflix doesn't need to secure employee-owned iPads. Instead, it can just offer the OneLogin app for when iOS users want to get work done.

Kail is also a fan of OneLogin's handling of cloud integration by using XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data. Furthermore, any Web app that's SAML-compliant can be served via the OneLogin app. "Now that software as a service has been proven, especially by Salesforce.com, Box, and other big vendors, the SAML spec can just tag along, because no one should want to support plaintext password authentication," Kail said. "It's in everyone's best interests to support SAML for increased security."

Private clouds are more than a trendy buzzword--they represent Virtualization 2.0. For IT organizations willing to dispense with traditional application hosting models, a plethora of pure cloud software options beckons. Our Understanding Private Cloud Stacks report explains what's available. (Free registration required.)

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The Magic 3-Step Formula for Attracting Anything

I?ve come across this formula in multiple courses, books and teachings on success, either spelled out or implied. ?It is the no-fail, tried and true secret to success that all masters use and most people get completely backwards. ?I have applied it to my own life and it always works. ?I?ve attracted work I love, friends I adore, an amazing life-partner and family of my own, and beautiful places to live every time I?ve desired to move.

Ready for it? ?It?s BE-DO-HAVE.

Most of us focus on what we would like to HAVE, and go after it thinking that once we?ve attained or achieved it, we can do what we want to DO and then we will BE happy. ?The thing we want may be a nice house, a job, an amount of money, a marriage, children, our ideal body weight?and we are completely convinced that once we have attained this thing we will be fulfilled. ?We are so convinced of this, we would work in a job we don?t enjoy, hold off on dating someone we?re really psyched about, or spend years pursuing goals that are not our true passions.

When we do life according to: ?HAVE-DO-BE, it never works to generate true fulfillment and Wellness. ?Never.

I described some of this in an earlier post?HERE.

Why is it impossible? ?We can never experience happiness, peace or any kind of fullfilment as long as we put it in the future. ?Happiness can only exist Now, because life occurs in the present. ?Also, as long as we make our happiness contingent on something external, it is conditional, and it will always be linked to the fear of losing that thing. ?True happiness is generated within, is unconditional and cannot be taken away.

Think about it. ?Have you ever attained a goal only to find the initial joy of attaining it wore off? ?Have you ever reached a milestone you were sure would bring fulfillment only to find it be ultimately empty? ?Have you ever completed something, only to then find yourself pushing the bar higher?

The joy and happiness that come from attaining a goal are limited and fleeting unless we are able to BE in Joy and happiness. ?Once we are being that (happy, fulfilled, worthy, successful) all the circumstances to support it come flooding into our life. ?They can?t not come into our experience.

What actually works in attracting our heart?s desire is: ?BE-DO-HAVE. ?Once we are able to BE happy (or healthy, or anything) the actions and behaviors we DO change and are easy to maintain, and this creates and attracts what it is we are wanting to HAVE.

So how to BE?.? ?There are several tools to assist with this and I teach many in my courses and coaching sessions. For instance, imagine what you desire (a slim fit body, money, success, freedom, partnership?) and see how you feel. ?How would you feel if you had it now?

Let?s say you want a slim fit healthy body. ?Are you able to clearly imagine BEing this? ?Are you able to muster up the feeling of lightness, alignment, vitality and health? ?If not, what thoughts come to mind? ?Are you thinking: ??I feel like crap.? ?OR ?I?m a big, fat slob.? ?OR ??No way could I have that????It?s not possible for me.???I don?t deserve to have this.? -or any other limiting beliefs? ?Maybe you?re not able to feel your body at all.

If you are able to feel good as you imagine having what you desire, you are close to creating it. ?Keep using visualization or a positive mantra and plug it into your every moment. ?Play the ?What if UP? game to keep yourself in an inspired state.

If you are unable to imagine this for yourself for any reason, you have beliefs to clear. ?Your limiting beliefs will become apparent when you move toward what you desire. ?Release the old beliefs. ?Program yourself with new beliefs that are aligned with what you would like, such as: ??I have a gorgeous slim, fit, healthy body.?

This can be used for anything you are wanting to attract. ?Note: ?Be sure you focus on what you do want instead of what you don?t want. ?The body will respond positively to the above mantra, and negatively to: ??I am not fat and sick.? OR ?I am not in pain.?

When your unconscious thoughts are programmed for failure, you can fight it by pushing yourself, working out like a fiend and eating next to nothing?and even if you do get results you will have to continue to work very hard to keep them. ?Until your thoughts are in alignment with health and fitness this will be an uphill battle. ?All the willpower in the world will not ?ultimately overcome this. ?However, once you change your thoughts, it will be effortless to do the behaviors that are consistent with them. ?You will be craving carrots and broccoli in no time!

The next step is: ?DO. ?What would you be doing if you were a success? ?How would you walk and talk? ?How would you move if you were loved beyond measure? ?What would you look like if you were happy now? ?Research has shown that even the simple act of smiling induces a state of happiness by increasing hormones that initiate this state. ?So DO whatever it is you would do if you were already BEing what it is you are wanting to BE.

From this heightened state of existence you will attract life circumstances consistent with staying in that state: ?people will treat you differently, new opportunities will open up to you, and your physiology will respond positively. ?Think about it: ?if your body has the ability to slough off unneeded pounds, why wouldn?t it do that? ?It?s because of your programming.

It may take a little faith at first to see if this works. ?Maybe for years you?ve been told to work hard to HAVE security, and once you have it, then you can do what you really want to do. ?Maybe you believe that you will finally be happy once you meet a romantic partner. ?Release your ideas about how life works. ?You are running a rat race. ?Security, peace, love or any other state we are desiring comes from within. ?Try it and look for evidence of your life responding.

I am here for assistance! ?The life you desire is available to you. ?You are moving in the right direction. ?Keep going!

More resources and guidance to come!

Be well,

-Dr. Kim

Source: http://www.youattractwellness.com/the-magic-3-step-formula-for-attracting-anything/

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Athletes, visitors flock to London after security row

LONDON (Reuters) - The first wave of Olympic athletes and visitors began pouring into Britain on Monday as officials played down fears that a packed London would buckle under the pressure of its biggest peacetime security and transport operation.

An embarrassing shortage of security guards, fears over airport queues and questions about the capital's creaking transport system have overshadowed preparations for the Games.

Extra soldiers and police were mobilised to help guard the Games after private security firm G4S said it had run out of time to train all its newly recruited staff.

Less than two weeks before the opening ceremony on July 27, Prime Minister David Cameron said the G4S shambles would not compromise Britain's largest peacetime policing exercise.

"We had contingency plans, we are using those contingency plans and we will do whatever it takes to deliver a safe and secure Games," Cameron told a news conference.

The security fiasco dominated headlines and Cameron's coalition government was forced to defend itself in parliament from media accusations it had known for months of G4S's recruitment problems.

"In fact, G4S repeatedly assured us they would overshoot their targets," Home Secretary Theresa May, the minister responsible for domestic security, told MPs.

"G4S only told the government that they would be unable to meet their contractual obligations last Wednesday," she added, the day before May announced Britain would deploy a further 3,500 troops to make up the shortfall.

Police said personnel from eight forces across Britain had been deployed earlier than planned because of G4S's failings as part of a force that will peak at 12,500 officers on Olympics duty a day.

"SHAMBLES"

The police staff association condemned G4S, a company they see taking jobs from its members as forces look to the private sector to cope with spending cuts.

"What is unacceptable is that the officers I represent have to have their plans changed at such short notice to back fill for what is a shambles by a private company G4S who failed to deliver," West Midlands Police Federation Chairman Ian Edwards told Sky News.

Shares in G4S fell to the lowest level in more than six months on fears the fallout from the botched contract could hurt its chances of winning work in Britain and abroad.

Security chiefs said they were prepared for threats on the scale of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Four British Islamist suicide bombers killed 52 people on three trains and a bus in London on the day after London won the Games in July 2005.

The private guards, police and soldiers are being backed up by fighter jets and missile batteries placed on the top of apartment blocks near the Olympics site in east London.

The International Olympic Committee said on Monday safety levels had not been compromised by the G4S glitch.

U.S. transport officials will also be based at London's main Heathrow Airport and some other British airports for the duration of the Games, as part of a separate security arrangement that has nothing "whatsoever to do with the G4S issue," a UK Department of Transport spokesman said.

"The Department for Transport is in regular contact with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and we have been planning Olympics liaison arrangements with the U.S. for several months."

The spokesman would not comment on reports that the U.S. officials will help U.S. carriers and also assist British carriers travelling to and from the United States.

On Monday, Heathrow, notorious for passport and security queues, handled what was due to be its busiest day on record, while the Olympic village opened its doors to the first athletes.

"I was expecting a three-hour queue like everyone said. It took not even five minutes. It was flawless - good job London," said John Retsios, 36, who had flown from New York with the U.S. modern pentathlon team.

RECORD DAY

Airport operator BAA Plc, owned by Spain's Ferrovial, said it expected a record 237,000 passengers to use Heathrow on Monday, including 335 athletes. The busiest day for arriving athletes is expected to be July 24.

The first section of road reserved for Olympic athletes and officials began operating on Monday, when one lane of the motorway linking Heathrow with the western edge of the capital was closed to all non-Olympic traffic.

It will form part of a 30-mile (48-km) network of road lanes designed to whisk 82,000 athletes and officials through London's notoriously congested streets. Critics have nicknamed them "Zil lanes" after the roads reserved for the limousines of senior officials in the old Soviet Union.

Traffic in central London was down by 10 percent, the capital's transport chief Peter Hendy said, as drivers took heed of warnings to avoid the capital during the Olympic rush.

Not everything ran to order, however. One member of the U.S. athletics team complained on Twitter that the bus taking him to the Olympic Village was lost for four hours en route.

"Not a good first impression London", twice world 400 metres champion Kerron Clement wrote.

But the U.S. Olympic Committee said feedback from American athletes arriving in London had been "fantastic".

"(London 2012 organiser) LOCOG is to be commended for the professionalism in which they have organised these Games and one bus trip doesn't detract from that a bit," spokesman Patrick Sandusky said.

(Additional reporting by Tim Castle, Omar Oresanya and Stephen Mangan; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge, Tim Pearce and Eric Beech)

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NIH tools facilitate matching cancer drugs with gene targets

Monday, July 16, 2012

A new study details how a suite of web-based tools provides the research community with greatly improved capacity to compare data derived from large collections of genomic information against thousands of drugs. By comparing drugs and genetic targets, researchers can more easily identify pharmaceuticals that could be effective against different forms of cancer.

The newly updated software, called CellMiner, was built for use with the NCI-60, one of the most widely utilized collections of cancer cell samples employed in the testing of potential anti-cancer drugs. The tools, available free, provide rapid access to data from 22,379 genes catalogued in the NCI-60 and from 20,503 previously analyzed chemical compounds, including 102 U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs.

The study, written by the scientists that developed the tools at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, appeared in the July 16, 2012, issue of Cancer Research.

"Previously you would have to hire a bioinformatics team to sort through all of the data, but these tools put the entire database at the fingertips of any researcher," explained Yves Pommier, M.D., Ph.D., of the NCI's Center for Cancer Research. "These tools allow researchers to analyze drug responses as well as make comparisons from drug to drug and gene to gene."

Genomic sequencing and analysis have become increasingly important in biomedicine, but they are yielding data sets so vast that researchers may find it difficult to access and compare them. As new technologies emerge and more data are generated, tools to facilitate the comparative study of genes and potentially promising drugs will be of even greater importance. With the new tools, available at http://discover.nci.nih.gov/cellminer, researchers can compare patterns of drug activity and gene expression, not only to each other but also to other patterns of interest. CellMiner allows the input of large quantities of genomic and drug data, calculates correlations between genes and drug activity profiles, and identifies correlations that are statistically significant. Its data integration capacities are easier, faster, and more flexible than other available methods, and these tools can be adapted for use with other collections of data.

Researchers looking at a particular drug can use the tools to access data from previous experiments done on that drug and analyze how the drug relates to other drugs and various gene profiles. As a case example for this study, the researchers compared drug activity levels and gene expression patterns from previous research to identify an investigational compound, called NSC732298, which is not currently being studied for colon cancer, but could be a potential therapy for the disease based on a CellMiner gene-drug match. In the same exercise, the researchers were able to identify that a second investigational drug that is being tested for colon cancer, called selumetinib, might also be effective against melanoma.

"We're looking forward to seeing how other people are going to use this tool to look at gene co-regulation, regulation of gene expression, and the relationship between gene expression and cancer," said Pommier.

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Citigroup earns $2.9 billion in Q2, beats Street

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My Kind of Elitist

You know the stereotypes already. Both Obamas come from what might loosely be called the intellectual/academic meritocracy, the "liberal elite," the post-WASP Ivy League, easily caricatured as the world of free-trade coffee, organic arugula, smug opinions, and Martha's Vineyard. The Romneys, by contrast, belong to the financial oligarchy, the "global elite," the post-financial-deregulation world which is just as easily caricatured as one of iced champagne, offshore bank accounts, dressage trainers, and private islands. The two groups have some important overlaps. Though Romney got some attention for holding a fundraiser in the Hamptons last week, it is Obama who has raised more money in the Hamptons overall (the president scored particularly well in Sagaponack, by one account, where the median home sells for $4.4 million).

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Obama calls for rise in small business write-offs (The Arizona Republic)

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Microsoft Officially Announces Windows 8 for October

Windows 8 will officially launch to the public by the end of October and the code will be ready by the first week of August, at which point the company will ship Windows RTM (Release to Manufacturer) to its OEM partners.

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NY man nears 3 millionth mile in beloved '66 Volvo

Irv Gordon poses for a picture in his Volvo P1800 in Babylon, N.Y., Monday, July 2, 2012. Gordon's car already holds the world record for the highest recorded milage on a car and he is less than 40,000 miles away from passing three million miles on the Volvo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Irv Gordon poses for a picture in his Volvo P1800 in Babylon, N.Y., Monday, July 2, 2012. Gordon's car already holds the world record for the highest recorded milage on a car and he is less than 40,000 miles away from passing three million miles on the Volvo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Irv Gordon drives his Volvo P1800 in Babylon, N.Y., Monday, July 2, 2012. Gordon's car already holds the world record for the highest recorded milage on a car and he is less than 40,000 miles away from passing three million miles on the Volvo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A two million mile badge adorns Irv Gordon's Volvo P1800 in Babylon, N.Y., Monday, July 2, 2012. Gordon's car already holds the world record for the highest recorded milage on a car and he is less than 40,000 miles away from passing three million miles on the Volvo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Irv Gordon drives his Volvo P1800 in Babylon, N.Y., Monday, July 2, 2012. Gordon's car already holds the world record for the highest recorded milage on a car and he is less than 40,000 miles away from passing three million miles on the Volvo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Irv Gordon poses for a picture in his Volvo P1800 in Babylon, N.Y., Monday, July 2, 2012. Gordon's car already holds the world record for the highest recorded milage on a car and he is less than 40,000 miles away from passing three million miles on the Volvo. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) ? It just keeps going, and going, and going. No, it's not a battery. It's Irvin Gordon's 1966 Volvo P1800S.

Gordon's small, red two-door has well more than 2 million miles on the odometer, the equivalent of nearly 1,176 times across the globe.

The retired schoolteacher from Long Island hopes to reach the 3 million mile mark by next year. He only has 34,000 miles to go.

The 72-year-old Gordon drives his Volvo everywhere. He has held the Guinness World Records mark for High Mileage Vehicle since 2002 and was the first person to hold that record.

"It's just a car I enjoy driving," he said.

He bought his beloved car on June 30, 1966, for $4,150 at the age of 25. "It was a whole year's salary," he said.

Gordon originally wanted the convertible Volvo with air conditioning, but it was too expensive. He paid extra to have an AM/FM radio, though.

"It was $10 extra, and at that time, $10 was a lot. But an AM/FM radio was a big deal," he said.

Gordon's car has just enough room for him and his essentials. His front bumper is filled with pins of his mileage achievements. Even his license plate says "MILNMILER." And his trunk overflows with the many car parts he thinks he might need when on the road.

"I have a set of everything," he said. "If I have it, then I am not going to need it."

Gordon has been taking road trips since he was a kid and continued through his adult years. He says he would just tell his family to pack their things and hit the road. Gordon's two daughters went on his road trips until they outgrew the tiny red car.

"They just couldn't fit in the back anymore. That is when I bought the station wagon," he explained. "Volvo, of course."

His odometer doesn't have enough digits to display the actual mileage, but Gordon has tune-up records verifying it.

Now divorced, Gordon takes road trips alone. With trips to Montreal, Texas and Michigan in just the last month, the last leg of his trip should not be too hard. It took him 21 years to reach the first million miles and 15 more years to reach 2 million. Gordon averages 85,000 to 100,000 miles per year. Most of his trips are for auto shows, but he also takes trips across the country just for a good cup of coffee.

"I have had coffee in every state," Gordon said. "I am my own travel channel."

The avid driver believes in taking care of his car, and he doesn't let anyone else drive it.

"That's why I bought my girls their own cars," he said.

Jordan Weine is a mechanic at Bay Diagnostic, an auto shop based in Brooklyn and a Volvo expert. He says because Gordon takes care of his car, he is able to get high mileage without much change to the car's original mechanics. The car still has the original engine, though it was rebuilt twice in the car's lifetime.

"How high does a redwood grow? If it is not messed with, it will grow," said Weine, who hasn't worked on Gordon's car. "And there are very few redwood trees and the same goes with this. There are very few people that can achieve 3 million miles."

It is clear that Gordon loves his car and he can't imagine getting rid of it.

"Why would I want to get rid of it?" he asked. "Kind of like a good woman."

Gordon's car has brought him fame. Joe Brusack, a mechanic who worked on his car when it was on its millionth mile more than 20 years ago, said it's come a long way.

"I think it was just amazing that he got this far," he said.

Gordon himself is surprised every time he gets into his car and edges closer to his 3 million mile goal. But the miles have taken a toll on the car. Recently, some black tar got into the car's carburetor. He has to get that fixed before he can hit the road again.

Volvo has sent Gordon to trips around the country and the world to represent Volvo in auto shows.

"I don't think (just) any car could do it," said John Maloney, president and CEO of Volvo Cars of North America. "It is a combination of a car beloved by his owner that has gotten Irv to this mileage."

Gordon thinks that his Volvo will last way longer than 3 million miles.

"I have a feeling I'll be dead long before the car."

Associated Press

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Chicago-born head of Orthdox Church in America steps down

BY MONIFA THOMAS Staff Reporter July 9, 2012 1:08PM

Updated: July 9, 2012 4:18PM

The Chicago-born head of the Orthodox Church in America resigned his post over the weekend, saying ?I had come to the realization long ago that that I have neither the personality nor the temperament for the position.?

Metropolitan Jonah presented his resignation to church leaders during a conference call Saturday. He wrote that he was stepping down ?as per your unanimous request, as conveyed to me by Chancellor Fr. John Jillions.?

Born James Paffhausen in Chicago, he currently resides in Washington, D.C. He asked for a new assignment.

?I had come to the realization long ago that that I have neither the personality nor the temperament for the position of Primate, a position I never sought nor desired,? Metropolitan Jonah wrote.

?It is my hope that due consideration will be made for my financial situation, both in any interim and in consideration for any future position. I am the main financial support for both my parents and my sister, beyond my own needs.

?I will appreciate your consideration in this, and beg forgiveness for however I have offended you, and for whatever difficulties have arisen from my own inadequacies and mistakes in judgment.

?Asking your prayers, I remain faithfully yours, Metropolitan Jonah, Archbishop of Washington?

Source: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/13683483-418/chicago-born-head-of-orthdox-church-in-america-steps-down.html

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The best Android phone you can buy, as of July 2012

We’ve heard your cries over the past month or so -- the latest next-gen devices from Samsung and HTC are now on the market, so what’s the best Android phone you can buy? With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean arriving imminently on the Galaxy Nexus, is that phone once again worth considering, despite its ageing hardware? And what of the other contenders from manufacturers like Motorola, LG and Sony?

You’ll find answers to all these questions and more as we seek out the best Android smartphone, as of July 2012.

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