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The actress was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 36 in 2008. One month later, after learning she had tested positive for the BRCA1 gene (also known as the breast cancer gene), she underwent a prophylactic double mastectomy, rather than opting for radiation or chemotherapy, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5606034&page=1#.UMj-eHPjkgs">she told ABC's Good Morning America at the time</a>. "I didn't want to go back to the doctors every four months for testing and squishing and everything. I just wanted to kind of get rid of this whole thing for me. This was the choice that I made and it was a tough one," she said <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5606034&page=1" target="_hplink">in the interview</a>. "Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing." In 2011, Applegate <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20466433,00.html">gave birth to her first child</a>, daughter Sadie. "She's healed me in so many ways," she told <em>People</em> magazine.
The MTV star was first diagnosed with stage 2 ovarian cancer in September 2005 at just 24 years old, <em>Glamour</em> reported in 2006 -- one ovary, several lymph nodes and part of one fallopian tube were removed, according to the magazine. "I had no idea why this was happening to me. I?m a healthy girl: I?m a vegetarian; I don?t smoke; I barely drink," <a href="http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/2006/10/cancer-diary-diem-brown">she told <em>Glamour</em></a>. "I kept thinking, I have so much to do; I?m not ready to die." One month after surgery, Diem traveled to Australia for the Real World/Road Rules Challenge on MTV. Earlier this year, at age 30, Brown revealed that she is <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20603790,00.html">again battling ovarian cancer,</a> <em>People</em> reported. Over the past several months, she's been blogging about her experience for the publication (<a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20639905,00.html">check out a video of her post-chemo hair loss here</a>). She wrote in a <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20650760,00.html">recent People.com post</a>: <blockquote>A year ... If you would have told me that after I climbed an Icelandic glacier on MTV's The Challenge, I would find a cancer-filled cyst, freeze eggs, have two surgeries, start early menopause, go through chemo for a second time and film/post my chemo hair loss process make-up free and bald, I would tell you to put me back on that glacier! However, now I can look back at those seemingly overwhelming moments, happy to be where I am: Rounding out the end of this trying journey, ready to move on from my "frenemy" cancer once and for all.</blockquote>
The <a href="http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway/season-9/designers/anthony-ryan-auld">Project Runway season 9</a> contestant (and current contender on season two of Lifetime's Project Runway All Stars) was diagnosed with testicular cancer at age 25, <a href="http://www.healthline.com/health/ryan-auld-project-runway#2">Healthline.com reports</a>. He had one testicle removed and then underwent about six months of chemotherapy in early 2009. "One of the things I got from my cancer experience is to be appreciative for every day that you're given," <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2012/11/15/anthony-ryan-auld-wins-project-runway-all-stars-challenge/1707295/">Auld told <em>USA Today</em> in November</a>. "Just the little things in the day. Regardless of if you get to have 10 minutes with your grandmother for the day or you get to call your mom and say I love you. You really have to take those and enjoy them." After his first Project Runway appearance, Auld launched a nonprofit called ROCKONE1, supporting cancer patients and their support networks through fashion, whether that means going shopping together or designing a new outfit, <a href="http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/project-runway-all-stars/season-2/designers/anthony-ryan-auld">according to <em>USA Today</em></a>.
At age 27, while auditioning for Broadway's Hairspray (which she later earned a Tony for), the actress was diagnosed with cervical cancer after a routine Pap smear, <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20009915,00.html">People.com reported</a>. A few days after diagnosis, she had part of her cervix removed -- a week later, she found out the cancer had spread, meaning she needed to have a hysterectomy. "Shortly after the second surgery, I got the part [in Hairspray]. I didn't have time to be sick -- I so wanted this part," she wrote for <em>People</em>. I repeated over and over, "I'm going to be okay." Now a married mom (via a surrogate), Winkour has had stints on "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/17/marissa-jaret-winokur-lea_n_809932.html">The Talk</a>" and "Dancing With The Stars" over the past few years. And just this past October, she unveiled a dramatic <a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-11-01/news/34862111_1_sizes-cervical-cancer-thin-crowd">60-pound weight loss</a>.
In April 2009, the then 30-year-old winner of Survivor: Africa was diagnosed with Stage 2 Hodgkin's disease, <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20279566,00.html">People.com reported at the time</a>. He underwent chemotherapy and then a stem cell transplant -- 20 months after he went into remission, in September 2011, <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20541727,00.html">according to People</a>, he found out the cancer had returned in his chest. Zohn underwent "smart" chemotherapy, followed by a stem cell transplant in February 2012, <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/lymphoma/0518/ethan-zohn-im-getting-stronger-every-day.aspx">Everyday Health reports</a>. "I?m doing great,? he told the publication in May. "Maybe great isn?t the right word. I?m tired all the time, I don?t have a good appetite, I don?t have much energy, I?m weak, I?m skinny, I?m still bald ... but I?m getting stronger every day, and things are going according to plan in terms of my recovery. It?s all par for the course -- it?s just taking a little longer to get back to normal.?
At age 36, while undergoing in vitro fertilization for the third time, the E! News Host was diagnosed with breast cancer. After previous treatments were unsuccessful, she opted to have a double mastectomy in December 2011, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/double-mastectomy-giuliana-rancic-breast-cancer_n_1129433.html">HuffPost reported at the time</a>. "If I had chosen to just do another lumpectomy and then do radiation and then do anti-estrogen therapy, which means two to five years of medication, that basically puts me into early menopause, then I would have to put off having a baby for several years," she told TODAY! of her decision. "So that was something we took into account. But to be honest, at the end it all came down to was just choosing to live and not looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life." On Aug. 29, 2012, Rancic and husband Bill Rancic got their happy ending with the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/edward-duke-rancic-photo-giuliana-bill-rancic-baby-boy_n_1876694.html">birth of baby Edward Duke Rancic</a> via gestational surrogate.
At age 25, Reiser, screenwriter of the 2011 film 50/50, was experiencing strange symptoms, including weight loss, a horrible fatigue and night sweats. Convinced he was diabetic based on a Google search of his symptoms, he finally went to the doctor, who ran a series of tests. After several misdiagnoses, he was eventually properly diagnosed with a large tumor that had wrapped itself around his spine. "You've just suddenly been given the news that your body is attacking itself, your body is destroying itself from the inside," he told HuffPost Healthy Living during an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/03/dating-cancer-generation-why_n_2214749.html?utm_hp_ref=generation-why">interview for the Generation Why series</a>. "It was like this hurricane just swept through my body and left me in total disarray." Surgery successfully removed the tumor, and Reiser went on to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/5050-cancer-humor_n_988254.html">write 50/50</a>, which was inspired by his experience, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and real-life friend Seth Rogen.
The star of A&E's series "Paranormal State" announced he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this past August, at the age of 30, <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20619106,00.html"><em>People</em> magazine reported</a>. Keeping his fans updated on social media throughout his battle, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RyanDBuell">he posted this message on December 11</a>: <blockquote>I know many amazing fans have been asking daily for updates on the status of my health. I can say that it has been the hardest year of my life, but I am also incredibly thankful for that. I had to put some of my dreams and goals aside to focus on myself. I'm also thankful for that. Although I feel that now is not the time to open up about it all, just know that I'm fighting the fight and I love you all!</blockquote>
In early 2010, a spokesperson for the "Dexter" star revealed that he was undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/13/michael-c-hall-cancer-sho_n_422247.html">The Huffington Post reported</a>. "I feel fortunate to have been diagnosed with an imminently treatable and curable condition, and I thank my doctors and nurses for their expertise and care," he said in a statement at the time. At age 38, he was just a year younger than his father was when he died from prostate cancer at 39. "I think I?ve been preoccupied since I was 11, and my father died, with the idea of the age 39: Would I live that long? What would that be like?? <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/arts/television/19hall.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&">he told <em>The New York Times</em> in 2010</a>. "To discover that I had the Hodgkin?s was alarming, but at the same time I felt kind of bemused, like: Wow. Huh. How interesting." In April 2010, his wife Jennifer Carpenter said that the actor was "fully recovered," <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/23/michael-c-hall-fully-reco_n_550174.html">according to the AP</a>.
The Australian singer, now 44, was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/17/kylie-minogue-cancer_n_1972656.html">diagnosed with breast cancer</a> in 2005. "Everyone?s story is different. It depends what the cancer was, how it affected you, the treatment you had. There are so many variables but for a lot of people, myself included, it?s not like it happened, it was dealt with and it stops," <a href="http://metro.co.uk/2012/10/16/kylie-minogue-cancer-diagnosis-still-affects-me-but-ive-had-to-adapt-to-it-601837/">she told Metro in 2010</a>. "I have reminders of it every day so it definitely affects my life in a small part, so you just have to adapt and do things slightly differently ... just deal with it and move on."
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India has received a fresh tranche of crucial documents from Italy in connection with Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal which is likely to help CBI in expediting the probe into the bribery scam allegedly involving the then Indian Air Force chief S P Tyagi.
CBI sources said a DIG Mahipal Yadav returned today from Milan where the trial against the then executives of Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland are being prosecuted by the Italian authorities for alleged international corruption.
India is being represented as civil party in the case by Defence Ministry.
They said CBI was expecting to get copies of transcripts of phone conversations of middlemen which were intercepted by the Italian agencies but it may take some time because of court's procedural issues.
The sources said a fresh tranche of documents have been handed over to the Indian mission on the orders of the Milan court but did not give their details as it might compromise their ongoing probe by the agency.
The sources said a set of over 40,000 documents related to contours of money trail has already been received by the CBI from the Italian court after Defence Ministry became a civil party in the ongoing case in the European country.
The sources said once CBI gets these records it might question Tyagi and other accused again before starting to prepare the charge sheet against the accused.
CBI which carried out probe in India had named 13 individuals, including Tyagi and European middlemen Carlo Gerosa, Christian Michel and Guido Haschke, in the FIR as accused, in connection with the alleged bribery.
Italian agencies had arrested the then CEO of AgustaWestland Giuseppe Orsi for alleged bribe given to Indian middlemen to clinch the deal.
The supply of 12 VVIP helicopters from AgustaWestland had come under scanner after Italian authorities alleged that bribe money was given by the company to clinch the deal.
The Italian prosecutor, who carried out the preliminary enquiry, alleged that the CEO of Finmeccanica, parent company of UK-based AgustaWestland, had used services of middlemen to bribe Indian officials in India.
The probe agency has alleged that during his tenure as the IAF chief, Tyagi and "with his approval" the Air Force "conceded to reduce the service ceiling for VVIP helicopters from 6,000 m to 4,500 m as mandatory to which it was opposing vehemently on the grounds of security constraints and other related reasons".
According to the FIR, "Haschke Guido and Gerosa Carlo (middlemen) managed to send Euro 5.6 million through Mohali-based IDS Infotech and Chandigarh-based Aeromatrix Info Solutions Private Ltd to India and kept the remaining amount out of about Euro 24.30 million received from AgustaWestland with themselves in the account of IDS Tunisia."
Both the Indian companies have denied involvement in the bribery scandal.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? NBC's "Parks and Recreation" is losing two of its cast members.
Rob Lowe and Rashida Jones will leave the series after the 13th episode of the upcoming sixth season.
They play characters Chris Traeger and Ann Perkins.
The news was first reported by Buzzfeed.
In an emailed statement from the show's Executive Producer Mike Schur, he said, "Heading into this year, with the two of them contemplating parenthood, it felt like the natural time to move them into the next phase."
On "Parks and Rec," Lowe and Jones' characters dated on-and-off and have decided to try to have a baby together.
"Parks and Recreation" also stars Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza and Aziz Ansari as employees working in local government in Indiana.
Jones has been on the series since its first episode. Lowe joined the show in season two.
This isn't the first time Lowe has left a TV series before it went off the air. He left NBC's "The West Wing" and ABC's "Brothers and Sisters" after four seasons.
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Creepy drone spying is no longer just the purview of the military in the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration recently cleared two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for commercial use surveilling the Alaskan coast, marking a sharp turn for the future of domestic drone use.
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If there?s one part of gaming that I hate, it?s waiting. Hell, I get edgy just waiting for a cut-scene to finish. Dammit, I need action now! And when it comes to online gaming, lobbies are the limbo of that painful waiting experience. The Xbox One has a way of dealing with that horrible wait though. And it actually sounds kind of cool.
Over on the Xbox Wire, the new Smart Match mode was detailed. Smart Match basically starts the matchmaking process for you, leaving you to do whatever else on the console instead of sitting around and twiddling your thumbs. Check it:
Smart Match Frees Up Your Time
With Smart Match, you can do whatever you want while Xbox One finds your perfect match. This means that less popular multiplayer modes and maps that have traditionally taken a long time to find players suddenly become playable. Because Snap mode is a core feature of Xbox One that lets you do two things at once, you no longer have to wait in lobbies while Xbox Live is matchmaking for you. One friend can even set up matches for your whole party.While Xbox Live is matchmaking, you?re untethered and free to do what you want, like watch TV or check out your favorite website or apps while waiting for your next game. If you?re playing digital games, you can even play one game while Smart Match prepares a second. This freedom to break out of waiting in lobbies and do whatever you want is what separates Xbox One from systems that don?t have a way to instantly switch between tasks.
And from there, it actually gets better:
Smart Match Lets You Know When Your Game is Ready
After you or a party member inputs the criteria for your perfect game, do something more fun than waiting; it?s up to you. Play another game, find some new downloadable content, or jump on Reddit. Take yourself as many touch points away from the matchmaking process as you can and you still don?t need to worry about finding your way back. Once Xbox One is done finding your perfect match, it will prompt you with a simple toast?no matter where you are or what you?re doing?so you can jump straight into playing.
That?s a great idea I reckon, and indicative of the multi-tasking nature that gaming consoles are headed towards. And being matched with gamers my age and if possible, low enough skill level, instead of foul mouthed Scottish tweens who insist that everyone use a sniper rifle in Call of Duty? That sounds pretty cool to me.
Source: http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/xbox-one-and-smart-match-will-help-you-skip-the-online-lines/
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Shares of China?s property developers rallied Wednesday morning, as concerns over further tightening measures for the country?s real estate sector eased after Beijing?s latest remarks on property market.
China Vanke, the country?s largest property developer by market value, was recently up 4.0% at 9.63 yuan, Gemdale Corp gained 4.9% to 6.86 yuan, while Poly Real Estate added 4.5% to 10.31 yuan.
Analysts said the sector could gain more if Beijing takes measures to relax its controls on the property market, such as loosening curbs on financing options for property developers, in the coming months.
China?s top decision-making body, the Communist Party?s Politburo, said Tuesday that it will maintain steady economic growth in the second half of the year amid ?extremely complicated? domestic and international conditions, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
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"I went because I am trying to get jobs for Minnesota and part of that is meeting with businesses who don?t share my willingness to be put in the public limelight," he told reporters on Tuesday, the first day he met with the media since his mystery mission. "If I am going to have to disclose where I went in that kind of situation, it is going to cost me the opportunity to try to jobs in Minnesota."
Dayton, who left the state last Thursday for the day on an economic development mission but did not say where he went, flashed a bit of annoyance at the media for peppering him with questions about the trip.?
"If we announced this and (said where we were going) I wonder how many of you would have even thought it was worth a story. It is really disappointing how it has been blown out of context," Dayton said.?
The governor said that it was unreasonable to demand full disclosure about what companies he was working to woo and it would destroy the possibility of getting a company to pick Minnesota if that "by making the kind of disclosure you are asking for."
"Do you want us to go out there and try to get people more jobs in Minnesota or not?" he asked. He said that reporters have a "moral responsibility" as well as a "journalistic responsibility."
In response to questions, Dayton said he had not signed a confidentiality agreement with the company in question and had made no commitments to any state subsidy if the company comes to Minnesota. He would not disclose how many jobs were in the offing, saying only it was "enough to warrant my involvement."
The governor said he believed the company would make a decision on whether to expand Minnesota jobs within a few weeks.
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Seven years ago, Dr. Agapito Lopez testified about how he thought a proposed immigration law would affect Hazleton.
Now that another court ruling declared the law unconstitutional, Lopez said the legal process has educated people about immigration in the city that he still calls home.
"I think this is just a learning moment on diversity and tolerance," he said. "I like the city. I'm going to stay here. I won't move anywhere. There's many, many nice people here from all ethnicities."
When the case started in 2006, Lopez testified in Scranton at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania about Hazleton's Illegal Immigration Relief Act.
The act would have penalized landlords who rented properties to people who were in the country without authorization. Businesses could lose licenses and face other penalties for hiring people unauthorized to work in the United States.
Lopez said he believed the law divided the community and infringed on a constitutional right to housing by lumping together people who looked foreign.
"Whether we're citizens or legal residents or undocumented, we all have the same face," he said.
The court ruled the law to be unconstitutional in 2008. Then, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia upheld that ruling in 2010 and again on Friday after being asked to reconsider the case by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hazleton Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi wants to appeal again to the Supreme Court.
Kris Kobach, the attorney who represented the city and helped write the law, thinks the Third Circuit ruling conflicts with decisions of other circuit courts' decisions.
"It is a case that warrants Supreme Court review," he said by email.
The Supreme Court has upheld provisions of an Arizona law that required employers to use the federal service called E-Verify to check the immigration status of prospective employees. Hazleton's law protected employers who used E-Verify, and the city now uses the service when hiring workers.
Because the courts prevented the law from ever taking effect in Hazleton, Friday's ruling won't affect Hazleton as much as other areas, Lopez believes.
"It will have a big effect nationwide in Arizona and Farmers Branch, Texas, and other cities that are thinking similarly," he said.
In reviewing an Arizona case, the Supreme Court upheld a provision that revoked licenses of businesses that hired undocumented workers.
Hazleton's law strayed too far from federal law by defining businesses so that someone could be sanctioned for buying lemonade from a stand or items at a garage sale, the Philadelphia court ruled.
U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Hazleton, said he has widened his knowledge of immigration by visiting border areas since being elected to Congress after leading the effort to pass the law while he was mayor of Hazleton.
He advocates protecting the southern border with fences, drones and more patrols. A Senate bill creating a way for unauthorized immigrants to become citizens, he said, offers amnesty without security.
"I do support using a physical barrier where plausible, but not as the only means of enforcement," Barletta wrote Monday in an op-ed article for The Washington Times. "We know that 40 percent of the illegal immigrants currently here did not cross what we consider a traditional border. They arrived on a visa, allowed the visa to expire, and simply disappeared into the interior of the country."
To discourage disappearances, he proposed a bill that increases penalties for those who overstay visas. Another bill that he supports would study how a 1986 law that gave citizenship to unauthorized immigrants affected wages and added to the costs of providing social programs.
Hazleton proposed its law after immigration added to costs borne by schools, the hospital and other agencies.
"We noticed that while our population had increased by 50 percent, our tax base had remained the same," Barletta wrote.
Plaintiffs who sued Hazleton, however, noted that Barletta once vowed to make Hazleton the toughest city in the country for "illegal immigrants."
"Hazleton was the first locality or state to try to drive Latinos out, and the courts have repeatedly slapped down its effort," said Juan Cartagena, president and general counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, which provided legal support for the plaintiffs.
"All of the courts have said the same thing: immigration is the purview of the federal government. It's time for Hazleton - and other municipalities and states - to stop trying to harass Latino immigrants out of existence."
Jose Lechuga, a landlord who owned a store in Hazleton with his wife, Rosa, testified seven years ago that the law hurt his business and caused people without legal status to leave Hazleton.
The Lechugas have moved out of Hazleton since then.
Many other plaintiffs remained anonymous and were listed as Jane Doe or John Doe on court documents.
Landlord Pedro Lozano-Gomez, the lead plaintiff in the case known as Lozano v. Hazleton, currently resides in Luzerne County prison, where he awaits trial on charges of child pornography.
Lopez, who testified on behalf of another plaintiff, the Pennsylvania Statewide Latino Coalition, said continuing the appeal to the Supreme Court will add to the legal costs that the city incurred.
Hazleton's law is modeled after legislation proposed, but never enacted, in San Bernardino, Calif.
"They calculated the cost to defend it so they scratched it," Lopez said.
Hazleton collected donations on the Internet to help raise money for its legal defense and Yannuzzi said the city will continue to seek contributions while continuing its appeals.
Victor Perez, president of the Dominican House of Hazleton, another plaintiff, said the city has better ways to spend money than by continuing the appeal.
The president, the Senate and the House of Representatives, he noted, are seeking a new immigration law.
"We believe they are higher authorities. We believe we have to let them decide," Perez said.
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'I love 'Blurred Lines'; I listen to it when I run on the treadmill,' the '2 Guns' actress gushes of one of her fave tracks.
By Rebecca Thomas, with reporting by Josh Horowitz
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Authorities are linking at least four robbery or attempted robberies at Publix stores in Florida to the same criminal.
4:08 p.m. EDT, July 30, 2013
Authorities are linking at least four robbery or attempted robberies at Publix stores in Florida to the same criminal.
Photos were released Tuesday of a man who robbed a Winter Park Publix on Sunday and attempted to rob a Deltona Publix about 90 minutes later.
"Other incidents with a similar description of a suspect were reported in Osceola County on Saturday, and Winter Park and St. Augustine on Sunday," Brandon Haught, a spokesman for the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said in an email.
Winter Park police responded to a report of a robbery with an "implied weapon" at 5:08 p.m. Sunday at the Publix at 440 N. Orlando Avenue, a police report said.
"No information about the amount stolen will be released,'' Winter Park police said.
A man tried to rob a Publix worker at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the store at 2100 Saxon Blvd.
"A man presented a note to a clerk at the customer service counter that demanded cash and warned the clerk not to call for help. However, the clerk didn't comply,'' Haught's email said. The suspect then folded up his note and left. There was no weapon seen or implied."
The store manager went outside said the would-be robber vanished after heading toward Finland Drive.
"But a moment later a small white pickup truck, possibly a Chevrolet S-10 or Ford Ranger, with a white camper top drove recklessly northbound on Finland Drive and then turned right onto Saxon Boulevard,'' Haught's email said.
Anyone who has information about the attempted robbery is asked to call the Volusia County Sheriff's Office at (386) 860-7030.
People with information about the Winter Park robbery call CrimeLine at 1-800-423-TIPS or Detective Lisa Suepat at 407-599-3282 or lsuepat@cityofwinterpark.org.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? A White House official says President Barack Obama will meet Tuesday morning with Israeli and Palestinian negotiators involved in a new round of peace talks.
The meeting was to happen at the White House as a second day of talks overseen by the State Department was getting underway.
The Washington negotiations are the result of Secretary of State John Kerry's six months of furious shuttle diplomacy. A previous Obama administration effort to restart stalled talks collapsed quickly in 2010.
The official insisted on anonymity in order to confirm the meeting before it was formally announced.
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One of the common complaints late in the life of the original Nexus 7 was slow storage I/O performance, leading to an inconsistent user experience. After a fresh flash, the Nexus 7 was speedy and performant, but after months of installing applications and using the tablet, things began slowing down. This was a friction point that many hoped would be fixed in the new Nexus 7 (2013) model, which it was. There?s even more to the story though, it turns out Google has fixed that storage I/O aging problem on all Nexus devices with the Android 4.3 update.
In our Nexus 7 (2013) review, I talked about how I had confirmed that Android 4.3 onboard the device had enabled support for fstrim, an application which TRIMs blocks not in used by the filesystem. TRIM is essentially the paging channel through which the OS tells an SSD or eMMC controller that a block is no longer in use, and thus ready for garbage collection. This is critical for maintaining performance on the controllers in use across smartphones and tablets and preventing aging-related I/O performance slowdown.
Remember that deleting a file in software isn't actually communicated to solid state storage (whether SSD or eMMC). The space is freed up from the user's perspective, but the eMMC controller in this case still treats the pages in NAND as having valid data. Let's say you copy a 3GB movie to your internal storage, watch the movie and later delete it. You'd have 3GB free to re-use, but until you re-write those blocks the eMMC controller would treat all 3GB as valid data. There's a data structure used by the eMMC controller that tracks mapping logical locations to physical locations in NAND. I won't go into great detail here but the more complex that mapping becomes, and the more locations that have to be tracked, the slower internal NAND management works.
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TRIM (and its equivalents) establishes that communication between file system and eMMC/NAND controller. When unused blocks are TRIMed at the OS level, a signal is sent to the eMMC controller telling it that it no longer has to track that data. A good controller will then schedule those NAND pages/blocks for garbage collection/recycling, thus improving performance. Note the use of the phrase "good controller". Enabling TRIM support is most definitely the first step though.
Although I had searched for direct confirmation before posting the Nexus 7 (2013) review, and had found some references to it, a reader of ours found fstrim inside vold (the volume daemon) and the notes essentially describe what I?ve said already.
I?ve learned a bit more on the conditions underlying when Android 4.3 will TRIM filesystems, as it wasn?t completely clear before. The Android framework will send out a ?start idle maintenance window? event that the MountService listens for, and then invokes vold to fstrim filesystems when a few conditions have been met ? the device hasn?t been touched for over an hour, no idle maintenance window event has been sent in 24 hours, and the device is either off-charger with 80% battery or on-charger with 30% battery. The goal is to have fstrim run roughly once every 24 hours if you?re in the habit of plugging the device in to charge every night.
Fstrim sends the FITRIM ioctl() command to all writable filesystems when invoked, which discards (TRIMs) blocks on the eMMC not used by the filesystem. Without TRIM the controller will track blocks that have data deleted by the filesystem, but the controller still believes has data it needs to track. TRIM is the signaling pathway through which the filesystem and OS can tell the controller that it can now consider those blocks unused and for garbage collection ??different controllers will behave differently since it?s their prerogative to decide what happens next however.
It?s also easy to check and see that fstrim is running on devices over adb, by running and looking for it:
adb logcat -d | grep -i fstrim
Example output from a few Nexus devices I have handy which have been on for over 24 hours and have the Android 4.3 update installed.
Nexus 7 (2013)
??[brianklug@MBP] - [~/Downloads/APKs] - [Mon Jul 29, 03:30]
??[$] <> ./adb ?logcat -d | grep -i fstrim
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Starting fstrim work...
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Trimmed 564789248 bytes on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /data
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Trimmed 25105637376 bytes on /data
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /persist
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Trimmed 0 bytes on /persist
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Finished fstrim work.
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Starting fstrim work...
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Trimmed 0 bytes on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /data
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Trimmed 1045696512 bytes on /data
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /persist
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Trimmed 0 bytes on /persist
I/fstrim ?( ?172): Finished fstrim work.
Nexus 7 (2012)
??[brianklug@MBP] - [~/Downloads/APKs] - [Mon Jul 29, 03:46]
??[$] <> ./adb ?logcat -d | grep -i fstrim
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Starting fstrim work...
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Trimmed 122961920 bytes on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /data
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Trimmed 1087574016 bytes on /data
E/fstrim ?( ?122): Cannot stat mount point /radio
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Finished fstrim work.
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Starting fstrim work...
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Trimmed 118923264 bytes on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /data
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Trimmed 782077952 bytes on /data
E/fstrim ?( ?122): Cannot stat mount point /radio
I/fstrim ?( ?122): Finished fstrim work.
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Nexus 4
??[brianklug@MBP] - [~/Downloads/APKs] - [Mon Jul 29, 03:47]
??[$] <> ./adb ?logcat -d | grep -i fstrim
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I/fstrim ?( ?169): Starting fstrim work...
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Trimmed 115343360 bytes on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /data
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Trimmed 888254464 bytes on /data
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /persist
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Trimmed 0 bytes on /persist
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Finished fstrim work.
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Starting fstrim work...
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Trimmed 113246208 bytes on /cache
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /data
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Trimmed 1431195648 bytes on /data
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Invoking FITRIM ioctl on /persist
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Trimmed 0 bytes on /persist
I/fstrim ?( ?169): Finished fstrim work.
Users who have been experiencing slow I/O performance should see an improvement after getting the Android 4.3 update and letting fstrim run in the background a few times. Anand (the resident king of SSD and TRIM) is running some tests to investigate how much I/O performance can vary after an fstrim run.?
Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7185/android-43-update-brings-trim-to-all-nexus-devices
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It's been a tough year for Toyota, which hoped to boost its sales numbers with the rugged Toyota Tundra.
For a vehicle with a payload capacity of 2,000 pounds and the ability to tow a 10,000-pound trailer, the 2014 Toyota Tundra will be expected to do some heavy lifting -- and not just on the job site.
It?s been an unusually tough year for Toyota, both here and abroad. While the maker revealed Friday that it had narrowly retained its global sales lead, the gap between the Japanese giant and rival General Motors markedly narrowed and while GM gained 4 percent for the first six months of 2013, Toyota was down 1.2 percent.
It hasn?t helped to be caught up in an ongoing political dispute between China and Japan that even saw rioters burn a Toyota dealership. But the maker has also had some unexpected setbacks in what has long been its most profitable market, the U.S., where two key lines, the midsize Camry and the Prius hybrid ?family,? suffered unanticipated sales declines. Meanwhile, the outgoing Toyota Tundra pickup has failed to take advantage of the revival of the U.S. truck market, the fastest-growing segment in the industry this year.
?Toyota will be perfectly positioned to take advantage of that growth,? once it launches a major update of the Tundra next month, predicted Bill Fay, the head of the flagship Toyota division for the U.S. market, during a media drive of the new pickup. He expects a 30 percent jump in sales next year. In a market dominated by Detroit, that?s little more than an after-thought.
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When the outgoing Tundra was introduced in 2007, many analysts had big expectations for the new truck. So did Toyota, which built a dedicated factory in San Antonio, Texas to handle production. But after initially topping 200,000, sales quickly plunged. While much of that was the result of the overall crash in pickup demand during the recession, Fay admits the truck has lagged the segment?s revival.
And it?s not the only product challenge the maker is facing. The Camry, which has been the nation?s best-selling passenger car for more than a decade, suffered a 2 percent decline during the first half of the year even as the rest of the market surged. Meanwhile, the Prius, itself the long-dominant hybrid model, was off 5 percent between January and June.
Fay downplayed both problems, though he acknowledged both of Toyota?s key models are facing tougher competition. Ford, in fact, has made a successful point of targeting the various Prius models with an assortment of its own gas-electric models, including the Fusion Hybrid and C-Max Hybrid, which set sales records for the first half.
The Japanese maker has had to respond by cutting prices on the Camry and by ramping up incentives on both the midsize sedan and the various Prius hybrids. But it can afford to do so, noted analyst George Peterson, chief analyst with AutoPacific, Inc., noting that the weakened yen has given the Japanese maker more cash to play with.
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While Toyota has been increasing incentives selectively, it still has some of the lowest givebacks in the market, an average $1,660 per vehicle in June, according to TrueCar.com, compared to $2,537 for the industry overall.
And Fay suggested Toyota could further rein in that spending with the launch of four new models in 2014, a list that includes not just the Tundra but an all-new version of the Corolla, the 800-pound gorilla in the compact sedan segment.
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But analyst Peterson says Toyota has other worries that aren?t so easy to dismiss. The maker has been lagging in recent AutoPacific studies that focus on not only quality, reliability and dependability ? traditional Toyota strengths ? but also on the factors that surprise and delight consumers.
That was echoed by the results of the new J.D. Power APEAL study which also focuses on what the industry calls ?things-gone-right? factors. While Volkswagen and Chevrolet led the industry, the Toyota brand landed fifth from the bottom. Perhaps equally disconcerting, GM also topped the more traditional J.D. Power Initial Quality Survey last month, handily outperforming Toyota.
?The competition isn?t standing still,? said Peterson. ?Toyota has been building acceptable appliances for decades. Now they have to make products that are exciting and sexy.?
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Indeed, the newly redesigned Toyota Avalon was supposed to be a prime example of what Toyota could do, underscoring the oft-stated goal of CEO Akio Toyoda to put more ?passion? into the brand. But that isn?t as easy as it might seem, as Toyota was reminded when influential Consumer Reports magazine ranked the new Chevrolet Impala tops in the full-size sedan segment, besting the new Avalon.
There are other challenges facing Toyota. For one thing, caution analysts, it has become almost wedded to the Baby Boom generation and is struggling to attract younger, hipper buyers. That was supposed to be the role of Scion. The ?brand-within-a-brand? has clearly been bringing in younger blood ? but despite scoring a hit with the new FR-S sports car, overall Scion sales have fallen sharply the last several years and Toyota is struggling to come up with a rescue strategy.
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Despite the challenges, Toyota brand boss Fay insisted he?s ?pleased with the position we?re in? going into the 2014 model-year.
And, indeed, the maker remains a significant force to be reckoned with, echoed analyst Peterson, noting that his research finds Toyota?s reputation has fully recovered from the hits it took during the unintended acceleration scandal of a few years back.
That said, Peterson and other observers warn that despite its size and power, the Japanese giant has some significant and mounting challenges ahead ? enough to strain even a heavy lifter like the new Toyota Tundra.
Copyright ? 2009-2013, The Detroit Bureau
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