The Jelly Bean (Android 4, 1, one ) update for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 ten. one that started back in early December is still rolling out across the world, and people of the seven -inch design in the Americas are now reporting an OTA as properly.
Early in the drop of 2012 we observed an update roadmap from Samsung that included the Tab 2, so we shouldn't be shocked that it can be here. We have no concept of the mechanics behind Samsung's update schedule, butwe hope that the rest of the earth will see the Jelly Bean update in quick buy. To examine for your very own update, look in the options underneath "About tablet" or use Samsung Kies' update software. As 4. 1. 1 provides substantially smoother overall performance and fantast ic new characteristics like Google Now, this is one update you won't want to skip.
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Get organized with today?s leading app worth downloading, Agenda Calendar, which provides a slick and simple user interface that lets you see all your appointments at a glance. We?ve also got SleepyTime: Bedtime Calculator, an app designed to help you get the most out of a night?s rest, and Demons? Score THD, a hybrid rhythm/role-playing game from the developer of Final Fantasy.
What?s it about? A minimalist answer to keeping all your appointments organized, Agenda Calendar syncs various calendars and keeps things simple.
What?s cool? The primary reason so many people enjoy Agenda Calendar?s iOS-based counterpart is that it makes viewing appointments and tasks very easy by stripping out all unnecessary visual clutter. The design is meant to be readable ?at a glance? and the app is capable of syncing with your calendars whether you?re a Mac user or have a PC, or prefer the Google brand of web-based products. There are also features like swipe gestures for navigation, and tappable phone numbers and email addresses.
Who?s it for? Users looking to get organized and keep things simple should check out Agenda Calendar.
What?s it like? For more cool calendar apps, try Google Calendar and Touch Calendar.
What?s it about? Ever wake up in the morning feeling more tired than when you went to bed? SleepyTime is an app meant to prevent that from happening by calculating sleep cycles and waking you up in between them.
What?s cool? SleepyTime operates on information about REM sleep cycles. These are the sort of ?dream periods? you go through each night, when your sleep is the heaviest, and they last about 90 minutes each. If you wake up in the middle of one, it can result in feeling groggy and unrested, so SleepyTime calculates how long you need to be asleep and works to wake you up between cycles, for maximum restfulness. It lets you set an alarm at one of the designated wake-up times, and can even take into account the time it takes you to fall asleep when you head to bed.
Who?s it for? If you?re finding you?re having trouble with waking up and feeling good in the morning, SleepyTime might be able to help.
What?s it like? For more sleep help, try Bedtime Calculator or Sleep Time ? Alarm Clock.
What?s it about? Final Fantasy creator Square Enix mixes the role-playing elements for which it is famous with rhythm game mechanics, and the result is Demons? Score.
What?s cool? A role-playing title that has players controlling protagonist Serenity as she searches for her father, Demons? Score is all about fighting demons. To do that, though, you have to keep time with the beat in each battle, using Serenity?s various abilities. Taking down a boss opens up those abilities for you to purchase and change out, so you can customize Serenity for each situation and find new demon powers as you play through the game. Demons? Score has some pretty high production values, with Unreal Engine graphics and a full voice cast, so it?ll feel a bit like a full-on console game.
Who?s it for? Fans of Japanese RPGs and rhythm games should give Demons? Score a look.
What?s it like? Try Square Enix?s other RPG titles, like Final Fantasy and Chaos Rings.
DENVER (CBS4) ? Volunteers for Denver Parks and Recreation and Winter Park Resort have begun snow making at the Ruby Hill Rail Yard.
Snow making began on Friday and when it?s complete the rail yard will open for its seventh season. Weather permitting, the rail yard will be open approximately six to eight weeks.
Skiing or snowboarding at Ruby Hill is free. It features six to eight rails of varying configurations and levels of advancement.
?Christy Sports has again signed on to be our equipment sponsors, providing free equipment for use while at Ruby Hill and even staffing the equipment area to ensure proper fitting and adjustments,? the city of Denver said in a statement.
The Christy Sports on-site facility will be open on Fridays from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sundays from 11 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Ruby Hill Park is located off of South Platte River Drive and West Florida Avenue. The park is open every day from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. and lights will be on at the rail yard until 9 p.m.
Taft Union High School (Bobak Ha'Eri/Wikimedia Commons)
At least one person was shot when a gunman opened fire at a high school in California on Thursday morning, authorities there say.
The shooting occurred in the science building at Taft Union High School in Taft, Calif., at approximately 9 a.m. local time, a Kern County Sheriff's official told Yahoo News.
The sheriff's official said the suspected shooter?a student at the school?was taken into custody, and a shotgun was recovered at the scene.
One victim, a fellow student, was airlifted to Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, Calif., with a shotgun wound to the upper right chest, the official said. The extent of the student's injuries were not known.
A second person, identified by the official as a teacher at the school, was also injured, but declined medical treatment. The injury?does not appear to be related to the shooting itself, the official said.
According to the school's website, "two campus supervisors and a Kern County Sheriff monitor the campus before, during, and after school." The sheriff's official did not know whether the officer was on duty at the time of the shooting. About 1,000 students attend the high school.
ABC's Kero-Bakersfield affiliate said it received calls from students who were hiding in closets inside the school, located about 120 miles north of Los Angeles.
Students were evacuated while sheriff and fire personnel conducted room-to-room searches. One student told the network that he was in another building participating in an "active shooter drill" when the shooting occurred.
The high school was featured in the 1986 film "The Best of Times" starring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell.
The shootings come less than a month after 26 people, including 20 children, were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. The massacre led to calls for reforms to the country's gun laws.
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden, appointed to lead a task force to reduce U.S. gun violence, was scheduled to meet with members of the National Rifle Association in Washington to discuss gun control.
A leftist raises a Chinese national flag during a counter-protest against supporters of the Southern Weekly newspaper outside the headquarters of the newspaper in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, Jan. 9, 2013.
Did they or didn?t they? A week ago, Chinese journalists at the intrepid Southern Weekend went on strike after they said their paper?s editorial praising constitutional governance was rewritten by provincial propagandists to instead glorify the Chinese Communist Party. On Jan. 9, speculation mounted that a settlement had been reached to allow the paper to be published the following day. Indeed, Southern Weekend, which is based in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou and is also known as Southern Weekly, arrived on newsstands on Thursday, although later than normal in its hometown. An account of the agreement that made its way through Chinese social media maintained that striking reporters would not be punished for their actions and that censorship of the paper, which had gotten more heavy-handed in recent months, might be toned down.
But soon an alternate version of events trickled out that wasn?t quite so positive. This narrative was hard to confirm given the gag orders imposed on Southern Weekend journalists, especially when it came to talking with media of the foreign variety. But one person close to an editor at Southern Weekend says that the newsroom is running scared, with some journalists convinced that punishments will soon be meted out for those who dared to join the protest and whisper support for such radical notions as press freedom.
Up north in Beijing, another journalistic imbroglio bubbled: on Tuesday night, staff at the Beijing News?another enterprising publication that was jointly founded by the Southern Media Group, which owns Southern Weekend?complained they were being forced to run a strident outside editorial from a Communist-linked publication that condemned the Southern Weekend strike and blamed ?external activists? for fomenting the unrest. Sure enough, on January 9th, Beijing News published a shortened version of the forceful editorial from the Global Times, albeit buried on page 20. (Other Beijing newspapers had run the editorial the day before.) The decision led some Beijing News journalists to break down in tears, according to accounts on Twitter, which is banned in China but accessible by subverting the Great Firewall. The publisher offered to resign, said staffers, although there was no evidence that his offer was accepted. Police cars soon idled in front of the paper?s office, presumably to ward off any protesters.
(MORE: Censorship of Newspaper?s New Year Message Touches Off Protest in China)
Now, add some porridge to the already confusing mix. The same day that the Beijing News reluctantly published the anti-Southern Weekend editorial, an article popped up on its website in the culture section. As David Bandurski, with the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong, reported, the Beijing News piece described the warming effects of rice gruel, known in Mandarin as zhou, during China?s long winter. The Beijing News article waxed rhapsodic, according to Bandurski?s translation:
?Hot porridge in an earthen pot, hailing from [China's] southland. Just set upon the table, the porridge still writhes with heat. Perhaps it still has a heart of courage. In the deep of the cold night, you open your mouth and white steam billows. There are so many cares in the world, and all you can count on for warmth is this bowl of porridge. A bowl of hot porridge tells us of the power of love and consolation.?
In Mandarin, Southern Weekend is called Nanfang Zhoumou and its name is often shortened to Nanzhou. Nan means south. Zhou means week. Beijing News? paean to zhou rice porridge, particularly the southern (nan) variety, is no doubt a thinly veiled tribute to Guangzhou?s crusading newspaper, which is one of the most respected publications in China.
But even if the porridge parry succeeded?and even if Southern Weekend journalists have wrested a decent settlement out of provincial officials?there?s little evidence that any wider media liberalization is set to occur. If anything, the climate has only gotten frostier in recent months, as China prepared for a sensitive leadership transition to new Communist Party chief Xi Jinping. An outspoken publication that gave support to constitutional reforms, the Annals of the Yellow Emperor (or Yanhuang Chunqiu) had its website shuttered. Earlier this month, a directive sent to regional chiefs by the central government?s propaganda office thundered: ?The party has absolute control of China?s media. This basic principle is unshakable.?
(MORE: China?s Nobel Laureate Mo Yan Defends Censorship)
Internet censorship has also tightened, with major Western news websites, like the New York Times and Bloomberg blocked, after the two publications ran long investigative stories on the wealth acquired by Chinese leaders and their families. All too often, the speed of Internet connections has been reduced to a crawl. Virtual private networks (VPNs) that people use to subvert Chinese censors have been attacked.
Striking Southern Weekend journalists weren?t pleading for complete freedom from censorship. That would be too much to ask. Rather, they bridled at having an editorial supporting China?s constitution?a sentiment not so different from one expressed by new Chinese leader Xi?turned into a propaganda vehicle for the Communist Party. No Chinese journalist expects real autonomy to report. ?I?m not optimistic about the future of Chinese media,? says respected investigative journalist Wang Keqin, who believes that 2012 was one of the worst years in recent times for Chinese freedom of the press. ?Only a very few media, using their wisdom, courage and insight, can achieve even a part breakthrough.?
Most Chinese media groups have left behind the days of state subsidization (when they could run the most stultifying or propagandistic content with little fear of alienating readers) for a new era in which papers have to make money and attract readers with alluring content. Nevertheless, each publication must endure the individual ministrations of a Communist Party Secretary, who ensures suitable content. Editors know to self-censor, lest their jobs, or those of their staff, are endangered. In its 2011-2012 Press Freedom Index, the watchdog Reporters Without Borders put China 174th out of 179 countries, outdone only by Iran, Syria, Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea.
(MORE: Chinese Microblogging Site Tests Points-Based Censorship)
Nevertheless, the fighting spirit of Chinese journalists, who this month have been showered by support from social-media activists and Chinese celebrities alike, continued on Thursday. In the first edition of Southern Weekend to be published after the strike, the paper ran an article that recommended an editorial from the People?s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party?s mouthpiece. ?The Party?s methods of controlling the media must move with the times,? wrote the Southern Weekend, summarizing the Communist daily?s editorial. Who can argue with that?
?With reporting by Chengcheng Jiang and Gu Yongqiang/Beijing PHOTOS: Scenes from Inside China?s Prison System
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NEW YORK (AP) ? A 200-foot crane collapsed onto a building under construction near the East River waterfront Wednesday, injuring seven people, three of them seriously.
A two-story framework for the residential building in the New York City borough of Queens had been erected when the red crane toppled and went sprawling across it around 2:30 p.m. behind a big neon "Pepsi Cola" sign, a local landmark.
The three people who were seriously injured were in stable condition.
One person appeared to have a broken bone. Three people had to be extricated from underneath the crane, Deputy Fire Chief Mark Ferran said.
Preston White, 48, a carpenter from the Bronx, was on his first day on the job at the site in the Long Island City neighborhood.
He had turned to speak to a friend when he heard a popping sound and turned back around.
At that moment, "I saw the cable whipping toward the deck. ... You could just hear it buckling," White said.
The impact shook the scaffolding he was on.
The crane cut down the framework of the building "like a hot knife in butter," White said, because there was no plaster on it yet.
A fellow worker, Russell Roberson, 32, of Brooklyn, said the crane had been up about four days ? and went down really fast.
City officials went up in a cherry picker while investigating the accident.
Construction cranes have been a source of safety worries in the city since two giant rigs collapsed within two months of each other in Manhattan in 2008, killing a total of nine people.
Those accidents spurred the resignation of the city's buildings commissioner and fueled new safety measures, including hiring more inspectors and expanding training requirements and inspection checklists.
Another crane fell and killed a worker in April at a construction site for a new subway line. That rig was exempt from most city construction safety rules because it was working for a state-overseen agency that runs the subway system.
During Superstorm Sandy, a construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds and danged precariously for several days until it could be tethered.
What?s it about? A minimalist answer to keeping all your appointments organized, Agenda Calendar syncs various calendars and keeps things simple.
What?s it about? Ever wake up in the morning feeling more tired than when you went to bed? SleepyTime is an app meant to prevent that from happening by calculating sleep cycles and waking you up in between them.
What?s it about? Final Fantasy creator Square Enix mixes the role-playing elements for which it is famous with rhythm game mechanics, and the result is Demons? Score.
