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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
German president faces new trouble in loan affair
BERLIN --?
A German newspaper said Monday that the country's president complained to its editor about its plans to report on a private loan he received and threatened legal action, deepening an affair that has raised mounting questions over the head of state's authority and judgment.
The mass-circulation Bild daily reported for the first time on Dec. 13 that President Christian Wulff received a euro500,000 ($650,000) private loan from the wife of a wealthy businessman and friend, apparently at below market rates, in 2008. At the time, he was governor of Lower Saxony state.
Months before he became president in 2010, regional opposition lawmakers asked Wulff if he had business relations with longtime friend Egon Geerkens, a former jeweler and investor. He said he hadn't, failing to mention the loan from Geerkens' wife.
Critics have said Wulff needs to do more to explain the loan - but also have faulted his handling of the story. Following days of silence in which he communicated mostly through his lawyers, Wulff made a public statement on Dec. 22 apologizing for not disclosing the loan in 2010.
That appeared to calm matters, but on Monday, another newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, reported that Wulff had called Bild editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann to try and halt the Dec. 13 report on the loan.
Wulff's office said he greatly values media freedom and doesn't comment on private or telephone conversations.
Bild said it had given Wulff an opportunity to comment on the loan issue before it went public with the story. It said the president gave, then retracted, a statement on Dec. 12.
Wulff tried to contact Diekmann, but didn't reach him because he was on a business trip, Bild said. The president then left an indignant message about Bild's research into the loan on Diekmann's cellphone mailbox and threatened legal action against the editor involved, it added.
Three days later, Wulff contacted Diekmann again and apologized for "the tone and contents of his comments on the cellphone mailbox," Bild said.
Bild said it then decided not to report on the incident itself - though it has continued to report on details of the loan, which Wulff used to buy a house.
Prosecutors have said they see no evidence of a criminal offense regarding the loan and won't investigate. But Germany's largely ceremonial president is supposed to serve as a moral authority, and critics have raised questions over Wulff's integrity and judgment.
"I appreciate that not everything that is legally legitimate is also correct," Wulff said on Dec. 22. However, he added: "Personal friendships are important to me, but they have not influenced my conduct in office."
Wulff was Chancellor Angela Merkel's candidate for the presidency and before that a deputy leader of her conservative party. Merkel and her party have defended Wulff so far; a resignation would be embarrassing and distracting for the chancellor as she tries to tame the eurozone debt crisis.
The German Journalists' Association noted that the president is supposed to set an example. Its chairman, Michael Konken, said that prominent people have to be prepared to put up with critical reporting.
"No one should know that better than the head of state," he said.
Source: http://www.lakewyliepilot.com/2012/01/02/1379369/german-president-faces-new-fire.html
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Monday, January 2, 2012
The Math behind Screening Tests
It seems like every few months a new study points out the inefficacy of yet another wide-scale cancer screening. In 2009 the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force sug?gested that many women undergo mam?mograms later and less frequently than had been recommended before because there seems to be little, if any, extra benefit from annual tests. This same group recently issued an even more pointed statement about the prostate-specific antigen test for prostate cancer: it blights many lives but overall doesn?t save them.
More recently, researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice announced that just because a mammogram (almost 40 million are taken every year in the U.S.) detects a cancer does not mean it saves a life. They found that of the estimated 138,000 breast cancers detected annually, the test did not help the vast majority of the 120,000 to 134,000 women afflicted. The cancers either were so slow-growing they did not pose a problem, or would have been treated successfully if later discovered clinically, or else were so aggressive that little could be done about them. Chest x-rays for lung cancer and Pap tests for cer?vical cancer have come under simi??lar criticism.
Individual cases dictate what tests and treatment are best, of course, but one factor underlying all these tests is a bit of numerical wisdom that, though well known to mathematicians, bears repeating: when one is looking for something relatively rare (not just cancer but even for, say, terrorists), a positive result is very often false. Either the ?detected? life-threatening cancer is not there, or it is of a sort that will not kill you.
Rather than looking at the numbers for the prevalence of the above cancers and at the sensitivity and specificity of each of the tests mentioned, consider for illustration cancer X, which, let us assume, afflicts 0.4 percent of the peo?ple in a given population (two out of 500)
at a certain time. Let us further assume that if you have this cancer, there is a 99.5 percent chance you will test positive. On the other hand, if you do not, we will assume a 1 percent chance you will test positive. We can plug these numbers into Bayes? theorem, an im?portant result from probability theory, and get some insight, but working directly through the arithmetic is both more illustrative and fun.
Con?sider that tests for this cancer are administered to one million people. Because the prevalence is two out of 500, approximately 4,000 (1,000,000 x 2/500) people will have it. By assump?tion, 99.5 percent of these 4,000 people will test positive. That is 3,980 (4,000 x 0.995) positive tests. But 996,000 (1,000,000 ? 4,000) of the people tested will be healthy. Yet by assumption, 1 percent of these 996,000 people will also test positive. That is, there will be about 9,960 (996,000 x 0.01) false positive tests. Thus, of the 13,940 positive tests (3,980 + 9,960), only 3,980/13,940, or 28.6 percent, will be true positives.
If the 9,960 healthy people are sub?jected to harmful treatments ranging from surgery to chemotherapy to radi?ation, the net benefit of the tests might very well be negative.
The numbers will vary with different cancers and tests, but this kind of trade-off will always arise in that nebulous region between psychology and mathe?matics. A life saved because of a test, though not that common, is a much more psychologically available outcome than the many substantial, yet relatively invisible, ill effects to which the test often leads.
Source: http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=24dc76b891102996fbb6b985f1180a2c
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Photo Organization Service Everpix Launches Public Beta
Photo organization service (and?TechCrunch Disrupt finalist)?Everpix?has just launched into public beta, bringing with it a number of changes to its backend infrastructure, web interface and its desktop software. The service, for those unaware, automatically organizes and combines all your photos, whether they're stored on your computer or in the cloud. It then combines them into an online photo gallery where groups of photos are laid out into attractive albums called "Moments."Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/svLQS-Ayumk/
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Lumia 800 Battery Test Results (Vs. N9, iPhone, Galaxy Nexus?)
GSMarenas Battery test for the Lumia 800 are in; and the results are bittersweet. Just to keep?things?in?perspective for everyone; the main comparison should?be between the Lumia 800 and the N9, considering that they both have the same battery, same type of screen and almost the same screen size (Lumia 800 is .2 inches smaller screen-wise).
3G talk time:
Ooooo Pretty colors!
As you can tell from the graph above the 800 did quite decent in regards to 3G talk time, scoring the 4th highest battery life on leaderboard, with almost an hour and a half more talking time than it?s twin the N9. In fact according to GSM arena the 800 was the WP device with the longest talk-time.
?The Lumia 800 also outdid the other Windows Phone smartphones we have tested so far ? HTC Radar and Samsung i937 Focus S.?
Video playback:
Unfortunately the 800 didn?t do as well in video playback scoring a?meager ?5:52? while the slightly larger screened N9 scored ?8:40?. that?s almost 3?hours more!!
Web Browsing:
Even worse is the web browsing times, the 800 barely lasted 4 hours! ?(N9 was about 30 minutes more), of course this is mainly due to Amoled screens not playing nice with Web page backgrounds; but still kinda sad.
Find the full review over at GSM Arena:?http://blog.gsmarena.com/nokia-lumia-800-battery-test-now-over-see-how-it-did-test/
Side Note: after testing the 800 GSM arena did the battery tests on Androids latest flagship ?The Galaxy Nexus?? (which if you recall beat out the 800 for?gizmodos gadget of the year) the Nexus scored almost the same as the 800 when it came to Talk Time and Video playback, but if you thought the 4 hours on the 800 was bad, well then? the Nexus just?scraped 3 hours of browsing time! That?s just?embarrassing?
(Nexus Battery Review here:?http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-battery-life-fully-tested-results-come-out-disappointing-test/?)
*Note: I?m not sure what the status of the 800 they tested on is but I?m assuming that it wasn?t suffering any severe undercapacity issues, still there is hope for the 800 once Nokia release the battery fix (rumored to be Jan 18th)
Thanks to Vikas for the tip, Source: GSMarena 1?, 2
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Category: Android, Battery Life, Competition, HTC, Mango, MeeGo, Nokia, Samsung, Windows, Windows Phone
Source: http://mynokiablog.com/2011/12/31/lumia-800-battery-test-results-are-out/
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