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ASUS could enter the U.S. smartphone market in 2014
Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS is a big player in the Android tablet world, having seen success with the dockable Transformer series, not to mention Google's Nexus 7 devices. But despite the launch of gimmicky smartphone devices like the Padfone and Fonepad, ASUS has yet to enter the phone market in a big way, particularly in the United States.
But that may be about to change, according to company chairman Jonney Shih. Speaking with AllThingsD, Shih said, "for the phone, frankly speaking, we are still the latecomers," adding that the company is nevertheless making progress. While the company is apparently hard at work, a 2013 entry into the U.S. smartphone market might not be feasible, Shih told the publication, however "next year is more reasonable."
We've been impressed with the quality of ASUS' Padfone devices, particularly the Padfone Infinity, which was unveiled at this year's Mobile World Congress. But the appeal of these products has been hampered by the fact that they're tied to bulky (and expensive) tablet add-ons, rather than being sold on their own at subsidized prices. ASUS certainly has the ability to produce a compelling smartphone, but it remains to be seen whether it'll have the clout to woo U.S. carriers.
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98% Mud
All Critics (154) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (151) | Rotten (3)
For at least three-quarters of the way, this is a fine film, and one that kids and parents could see together.
There is an enchanted-fairy-tale aspect to Mud, but its bright, calm surface only barely disguises a strong, churning undercurrent.
A modern fairy tale, steeped in the sleepy Mississippi lore of Twain and similar American writers, and with a heart as big as the river is wide.
Nichols has a strong feeling for the tactility of natural elements-water, wood, terrain, weather.
Nichols takes his time with the story, dwelling on how the boy is shaped by the killer's tragic sense of romance, yet the suspense holds.
"Mud" isn't just a movie. It's the firm confirmation of a career.
Warm, humorous, and smart, a Huckleberry Finnish snapshot of carefree boyhood on the brink of adolescence.
Mud is about the fragility of men, the craving to be loved - by a woman, by other men - and how easily that love is misplaced, taken away, cheated or lost.
Mud has a rare big-screen beauty, and its old-fashioned storytelling recalls A River Runs Through It, Night of the Hunter, and Stand By Me.
This moody, broody character-driven crime story is another fine step in the career redemption of Matthew McConaughey.
Mud is the kind of small scale, character driven drama one rarely sees out of the States any more, and cements Nichols as one of his country's most significant independent auteurs.
Just like its lead character, this film is packed to the brim with sadness, swagger and soul.
All the women in this movie are shrews, liars and/or emasculators.
Mud is a moving exploration into the nature of manhood, with superb performances, striking location and engrossing story creating a mesmerising and heartfelt coming of age drama.
A stripped back approach to tracking the process of growing up, but lacks the faith to see the plan executed to the end
Nichols takes his time unravelling Mud and Ellis's entwined fates, but his characters are so rich that it's well worth being in their company.
In its energy and nuance, Mud seems like the kind of film Hollywood would've made in the Seventies, and would've continued to do if not for the advent of market-conscious filmmaking.
More than a mere tribute to Twain and Dickens: this has all the makings of a modern classic.
An extremely sophisticated and progressive examination on how adolescent masculinity is defined by often-contradictory cultural attitudes towards femininity.
Mud is as beautiful to watch as it is to listen to, and feel kinship to, whether you're from the South or just Southern at heart.
In Jeff Nichols, America has a champion of the religious and working class. With the schism between the right and left in the U.S. growing ever larger... his ascent couldn't have come at a better time.
This is a film with a great naturalistic style and captivating performances and which does just about everything right.
Jeff Nichols writes characters with depth, nurtures strong performances form his cast and allows the screenplay's backwater setting to effectively create tone and texture.
This is American cinema at its very best as Huckleberry Finn meets Stand By Me.The two boys are terrific and McConaughey is sensational as Mud, dazzlingly frazzled as the hunted and haunted man on the run.
Up till just past the three-quarter mark, Mud is one heck of a nifty psychological fable.
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
India's $1,583 heart surgery that costs $106,385 in US could get even cheaper
Staff members work in a ward of the Narayana Hrudayalaya cardiac-care hospital in Bangalore. (Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)
MUMBAI, India ? Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.
Shetty is not a public health official motivated by charity. He's a heart surgeon turned businessman who has started a chain of 21 medical centers around India. By trimming costs with such measures as buying cheaper scrubs and spurning air- conditioning, he has cut the price of artery-clearing coronary bypass surgery to 95,000 rupees ($1,583), half of what it was 20 years ago, and wants to get the price down to $800 within a decade. The same procedure costs $106,385 at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
"It shows that costs can be substantially contained," said Srinath Reddy, president of the Geneva-based World Heart Federation, of Shetty's approach. "It's possible to deliver very high quality cardiac care at a relatively low cost."
Medical experts like Reddy are watching closely, eager to see if Shetty's driven cost-cutting can point the way for hospitals to boost revenue on a wider scale by making life- saving heart operations more accessible to potentially millions of people in India and other developing countries.
"The current price of everything that you see in health care is predominantly opportunistic pricing and the outcome of inefficiency," Shetty, 60, said in an interview in his office in Bangalore.
Cutting costs is especially vital in India, where more than two-thirds of the population lives on less than $2 a day and 86 percent of health care is paid out of pocket by individuals. A recent study by the Public Health Foundation of India and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine found that in India non-communicable ailments such as heart disease are now more common among the poor than the rich.
One in four people there die of a heart attack and per- capita health spending is less than $60 a year. Yet the country performs only 100,000 to 120,000 heart surgeries each year, well short of the 2 million Shetty estimates are needed. The mortality rate from coronary artery disease among South Asians is two to three times higher than that of Caucasians, according to a study published in 2008 in the journal Vascular Health and Risk Management.
"There has been fast urbanization in India that's brought with it a change in dietary patterns and lifestyle," said Usha Shrivastava, head of public health at the National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation. "It's leading to this huge jump in cardiovascular disease."
The average age for a first heart attack in India, Pakistan and other South Asian nations was 53 years, compared with 58.8 years in countries outside the region, according to a study published in 2007 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The biggest impediment for heart surgery in India is accessibility. Shetty aims to bridge that by building hospitals outside India's main cities. He said he plans to add 30,000 beds over the next decade to the 6,000 the hospital chain has currently, and has identified 100 towns with populations of 500,000 to 1 million that have no heart hospital. Continued...
A 300-bed, pre-fabricated, single-story hospital in the city of Mysore cost $6 million and took six months for construction company Larsen & Toubro to build, Shetty said. Only the hospital's operating theaters and intensive-care units are air-conditioned, to reduce energy costs.
One of the ways in which Shetty is able to keep his prices low is by cutting out unnecessary pre-op testing, he said.
Urine samples that were once routine before surgery were eliminated when it was found that only a handful of cases tested positive for harmful bacteria. The chain uses web-based computer software to run logistics, rather than licensing or building expensive new systems for each hospital.
When Shetty couldn't convince a European manufacturer to bring down the price of its disposable surgical gowns and drapes to a level affordable for his hospitals, he convinced a group of young entrepreneurs in Bangalore to make them so he could buy them 60 percent cheaper.
In the future, Shetty sees costs coming down further as more Asian electronics companies enter the market for CT scanners, MRIs and catheterization labs ? bringing down prices. As India trains more diploma holders in specialties such as anesthesiology, gynecology, ophthalmology and radiology, Narayana will be able to hire from a larger, less expensive talent pool.
One positive unforeseen outcome may be that many of the cost-saving approaches could be duplicated in developed economies, especially in the U.S. under health reform.
"Global health-care costs are rising rapidly and as countries move toward universal health coverage, they will have to face the challenge of providing health care at a fairly affordable cost," said the World Heart Federation's Reddy, a New Delhi-based cardiologist who is also president of the Public Health Foundation of India.
Source: http://theoaklandpress.com/articles/2013/07/29/news/d5c55750-aa7b-44f6-8939-3023aea04334.txt
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Obama hosts Israeli, Palestinian peace negotiators
President Barack Obama is hosting the lead Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in newly resumed Middle East peace talks at the White House on Tuesday, officials said. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry also will take part, an administration official told Yahoo News.
The officials requested anonymity to discuss a meeting that was not on the president's public schedule.
Israel?s Haaretz newspaper reported that Obama was expected to deliver a diplomatic pep talk, urging both sides ?to exhibit goodwill and to remain focused and steadfast throughout the talks.?
Still, even if chiefly a symbolic show of support as the two sides embark on a difficult diplomatic journey, the meeting sends an unmistakable sign that the Obama administration is serious about putting its political capital on the line in search of the elusive goal of Middle East peace.
"I know the negotiations are going to be tough, but I also know that the consequences of not trying could be worse," Kerry said Monday. The former Massachusetts senator has played a critical role in restarting the process, making frequent trips to the region in an effort to pull both sides back to the negotiating table.
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My Mixtapez Reimagines Songs Playlists On Google android
Mixtapes were the actual predecessors regarding today?s playlists back when cassettes were still appropriate and you could use a dog pen for one thing other than composing. Mixtapes died using the cassette tape themselves, and we?onal taken to hearing or observing playlists online, upon services like Spotify, YouTube and more. My Mixtapez is definitely an Android application that lets you look for these modern-day mixtapes i.at the. playlists. You can tune in to them online, or acquire them to the device pertaining to offline playback. The iphone app also enables you to watch trending video clips. However, it doesn?t have a built-in video player, and you get to watch these in your visitor.
You don?t need to sign up for an account to make use of My Mixtapez, however, you can connect your Fb, Twitter, as well as Instagram accounts to express what you?re paying attention to.
There are two ways to choose a mixtape; you can search through the results on the home page, or available the routing drawer, enter a song, recording, or artist?s name, and search to get a mixtape featuring music related to your pursuit. At present, there?utes no filtering available for searching tapes by genre.
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Once you locate a tape you want, tap it and you?lmost all be shown a listing of all paths on the mixtape. You can begin listening to any one of the tracks simply by tapping it.
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To download a new tape, tap into the obtain button and choose the paths you want to obtain from the on-screen listing. Videos cannot be downloaded since the app doesn?to play them itself. To view a list of trending videos, tap the ?reel loss on the app?s home screen. Similarly, tap the once again install tab around the app?s home screen, and you?ll be capable of browse the listing of newly extra tapes.?To watch your just lately downloaded tunes, go to the Data tab from the app?s home screen.
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My Mixtapez can be playlists reimagined for your portable device. The possible lack of an option to get mixtapes based on variety is the simply shortcoming that individuals came across. Your search attribute could do with some more development too; it?s slower at times, and takes a good unusually while to load. Lastly, while My Mixtapez supplies a reasonable number of tapes from which to choose, it could do with additional diverse content and tracks, though it?ersus a new services and with the passing of time, it?utes likely likely to improve, especially when it comes to this content available on the idea.
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