Google Now is a great feature for Android users, and now those who are on iOS devices. The idea is that the more you use Google products, the more it learns about you and the better information it can spit at you proactively. However, if you try and interact with Google Now, specifically on which sports teams you’d like to follow, the app will crash. Not only will Google Now crash, but you’ll get continual pop-up messages telling you that Google Search has crashed, the app that runs the Now experience. It’s quite annoying and it’s something that people have been reporting on Google’s message boards for the past month or so. Even though Google employees have interacted with the community, there’s still no real fix. I tried to delete the Giants, since I’m a Phillies fan, which you can do by tapping on the information button of the Card: It will let you add or remove teams without any problem, but once you go back to Google Now, it crashes and you start seeing this beauty over and over: There’s no official fix from Google, with the only employee feedback on this thread being “Thank you for staying engaged on this issue. We’re continuing to look into it.” The employee then encourages you to send feedback to Google from within Google Now…which you can’t do because the app crashes. The only real fix that I’ve found for the issue is to go into your app settings for the Google Search app and clear out the app data and cache. That will at least let you open up Google Now again and put an end to the annoying crash alerts: Once you open up Google Now again, you’ll have to go through the original process of agreeing to use it and sit through the tour of example cards. However, don’t go ahead and edit the same Card again, or it will start the hellish loop all over again. It reminds me of another Android bug, the one where the team left December out of its date picker entirely. It’s probably something that should have been picked up on during a regular QA process. Let’s hope that Google releases an update to its OS at the I/O conference, so that us sports fans can actually enjoy one of Now’s core functionalities. Or maybe, Googlers just really hate sports. Maybe its users
NEW YORK (AP) ? Major League Baseball suspended umpire Fieldin Culbreth for two games on Friday because he was in charge of the crew that allowed Astros manager Bo Porter to improperly switch relievers in the middle of an inning.
Culbreth and the rest of his crew ? Brian O'Nora, Bill Welke and Adrian Johnson ? were also fined an undisclosed amount after MLB admitted its umps goofed for the second straight day.
"The rule covering pitching changes was not applied correctly by the umpiring crew," MLB said in a statement.
Culbreth and his crew worked the Padres-Rays game in Tampa, Fla., on Friday night.
He told a pool reporter after the game that he takes "all the responsibility" for what happened.
As for the discipline?
"I look at it that baseball has high standards for their umpires and I have high standards for myself and I didn't meet those standards last night, so I am absolutely OK with everything," he said.
The problem in Houston came a day after Angel Hernandez and his crew in Cleveland failed to reverse a clear-cut home run after looking at a video review. MLB executive vice president Joe Torre said the umpires made an "improper call."
Hernandez was booed when the umpires were introduced Friday night before the Washington Nationals hosted the Chicago Cubs.
It's recently been a rough run for umps. Crew chief Tom Hallion was fined earlier this month after getting into a verbal spat with Tampa Bay pitcher David Price.
The latest trouble occurred in the seventh inning at Minute Maid Park. And while baseball does have video replay for some hard-to-tell calls ? and has talked for a couple of years about expanding its scope ? there was no mistaking what umpires saw.
With two outs and the Astros ahead 5-3, Houston reliever Wesley Wright came in from the bullpen and threw several warmup pitches from the mound. Porter, a first-year manager, then ran onto the field to stop him and brought in another reliever, Hector Ambriz.
Angels manager Mike Scioscia argued, correctly contending Wright was required to pitch to at least one batter. But the umpires permitted Ambriz to stay in and Scioscia put the game under protest ? it became moot when the Angels rallied to win 6-5.
Scioscia wasn't surprised by MLB's stern ruling.
"One thing I have found is that in the course of, especially with Joe Torre and Major League Baseball, that I think there is accountability," he said Friday in Chicago. "That might not always show its face but I know behind the scenes it's there and this is one example."
Pinch-hitter Luis Jimenez was on deck when Wright entered. Once Ambriz took over, Scott Cousins came up as a pinch-hitter.
On Friday, Porter was upset that he caused the problem.
"Personally, I want to apologize to their whole crew for putting them in that position," he said. "It's unfortunate for the game of baseball."
A day later, Culbreth tried to explain what happened.
"We just got to cross-sectioning different rules within the changing of a pitcher, and just had a hard time getting back on track from that," he said. "We got confused."
Porter said he spoke with Culbreth after the game and apologized to him when he realized he was wrong. But he still wanted to make a public apology.
"There are some repercussions, and again as I sit here today, it's more that I feel sorry for the crew chief and the crew for having to wear what it is that happened last night," Porter said.
Culbreth said Porter's mistake was not the problem.
"I look at it that the players and the managers, they go out and play the game and it is our job, whether they are knowingly or unknowingly getting outside the boundaries to get them back in, and I fell short of keeping them inside those lines," Culbreth said. "And that falls on me."
Wright, one of the pitchers involved in the fiasco, thinks it's unfortunate that Culbreth was suspended. He said when it happened; he figured he was going to have to stay in to face a batter.
"When they told me I was out of the game I was just kind of like: 'Maybe I don't understand the rule,'" he said. "It was just one of those weird situations."
A day earlier, a mistake in Cleveland caused a lot of commotion.
Adam Rosales and the Athletics were certain he'd hit a game-tying home run in the ninth inning against the Indians. Three umpires went to a video review and instead upheld the original call on the field that the ball didn't clear the left-field wall.
Oakland manager Bob Melvin was ejected and was later contacted by MLB officials.
The mistake drew attention all over the majors. Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said he'd never before seen an obvious miss despite replay.
"This is the first one where there definitely is a line drawn where you go, 'Wow,'" he said.
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AP Sports Writers Kristie Rieken in Houston and Fred Goodall in Tampa, Fla., contributed to this story.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A woman buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against a scene of unimaginable horror where the death toll is more than 1,000 and still rising.
The woman survived in a Muslim prayer room in the the eight-story Rana Plaza building, where crews have been focused on recovering bodies, not rescuing survivors, for days. Trapped in wreckage finally exposed by heavy equipment, she waved a pipe to attract attention.
The crews ordered the cranes and bulldozers to immediately stop work and used handsaws and welding and drilling equipment to cut through the iron rod and debris still trapping her. They gave her water, oxygen and saline as they worked to free her.
When the woman, whom soldiers identified as Reshma, was freed after 40 minutes, the crowd erupted in wild cheers. She appeared to be in remarkably good shape despite her ordeal, and was rushed to a military hospital in an ambulance.
Abdur Razzak, a warrant officer with the military's engineering department who first spotted her in the wreckage, said she could even walk.
"She was fine, no injuries. She was just trapped. The space was wide," said Lt. Col. Moyeen, an army official at the scene.
Reshma, who had been on the second floor, told her rescuers there were no more survivors in her area. Workers began tearing through the nearby rubble anyway, hoping to find another person alive.
The religious aspects of the rescue ? in a Muslim prayer room, on Islam's day of prayer ? was not lost on the ecstatic crowd. Hundreds of people who had been engaged in the grim job of removing decomposing bodies from the site raised their hands together in prayer for her survival.
"Allah, you are the greatest, you can do anything. Please allow us all to rescue the survivor just found," said a man on a loudspeaker leading the supplicants. "We seek apology for our sins. Please pardon us, pardon the person found alive."
Workers at the site had been clearing the rubble since the collapse April 24. More than 2,500 people were rescued in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. However, no survivors had been found in the wreckage since April 28, when Shahin Akter was found amid the wreckage. As workers tried to free her, a fire broke out and she died of smoke inhalation.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina congratulated the rescuers.
"This is an unbelievable feat," she was quoted as saying by her assistant, Mahbubul Haque Shakil.
This is a quarterly index from the the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and is similar to the overall housing market index (HMI). The NAHB started this index in Q4 2008, so?the readings?have been very?low.
From the NAHB: Builder Confidence in the 55+ Housing Market Shows Strong Growth in First Quarter
In the first quarter of 2013, the National Association of Home Builders? (NAHB) 55+ single-family Housing Market Index (HMI) increased 19 points on a year over year basis to 46, which is the highest first-quarter number recorded since the inception of the index in 2008 and sixth consecutive quarter of year over year improvements. ... All of the components of the 55+ single-family HMI showed significant growth from a year ago: present sales climbed 19 points to 46, expected sales for the next six months increased 21 points to 53 and traffic of prospective buyers rose 15 points to 41.
The 55+ multifamily condo HMI posted a substantial gain of 23 points to 38, which is the highest first-quarter reading since the inception of the index. All 55+ multifamily condo HMI components increased compared to a year ago as present sales rose 23 points to 37, expected sales for the next six months climbed 23 points to 43 and traffic of prospective buyers rose 23 points to 38. ... The strong year over year increase in confidence reported by builders for the 55+ market is consistent with year over year increases in other segments of the home building industry,? said NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe. ?While demand for new 55+ housing has improved due to a reduced inventory of homes on the market and low interest rates, builders? ability to respond to the demand is being limited by a shortage of labor with basic construction skills and rising prices for some building materials.?
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This graph shows the NAHB 55+ HMI through Q1 2013. All of the readings have been low for this index, but the trend is up. Still, any reading below 50 "indicates that more builders view conditions as poor than good."
This is going to be a key demographic for household formation over the next couple of decades, but only if the baby boomers can sell their current homes.
There are two key drivers: 1) there is a large cohort moving into the 55+ group, and 2) the homeownership rate typically increases for people in the 55 to 70 year old age group.
The second graph shows the homeownership rate by age for 1990, 2000, and 2010. This shows that the homeownership rate usually increases until 70 years old or so.
So demographics?should be favorable for the 55+ market.
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD Position: CENTER DIRECTOR The University is seeking a Center Director to be responsible for recruitment, admissions and growth of the Bakersfield Center, through leadership and supervision of the Center's operations and staff. Primary responsibilities include: -Developing and implementing student recruitment strategies and retention procedures to achieve admission and enrollment expectations. -Monitoring the effectiveness of the center's lead-tracking, admissions conversions and retention procedures. -Providing leadership and motivation for staff while facilitating a positive environment for staff and students. -Maintaining comprehensive knowledge of University programs, policies and procedures and applying this knowledge in training staff, maintaining standards and resolving student issues. -Engaging in outreach and outside recruitment activities to include interfacing with local community colleges, other colleges, local governmental agencies, school districts, businesses, etc., to promote University awareness, student transfers and admissions. -Acting as a liaison between the student and University personnel and departments. -Working with the Lead Faculty, Associate Regional Dean and School Deans in planning and coordinating the center's class schedule, including analyzing the schedule of course and degree programs for assigned center and making appropriate recommendations for modifications. -Interfacing with the academic departments concerning the inter-relationship of classroom instruction and the impact on student recruitment and retention. -Coordinating, monitoring, and supervising off-site programs. -Hiring, supervising, evaluating and training assigned center staff. -Reviewing student files as a method of quality control. Ensuring students are properly scheduled, financial aid needs are addressed, data is entered into the MIS system correctly, and other vital needs have been met or addressed. -Attending management, academic planning, staff, and regional meetings representing admissions department issues and point of view. Qualifications: -Bachelor's degree in management, business, communication, human behavior, psychology or marketing. -Minimum five years student advisor and management experience. -Ability to exercise sound independent judgment without direct supervision. -Proven ability to mediate and resolve conflict. -Demonstrated interviewing skills. -Ability to handle multiple tasks in a demanding environment, higher sense of ethics, action oriented with proven ability to make decisions. -Proven interpersonal, oral and written communication abilities. -Demonstrated ability to motivate and provide leadership and training in complex areas. -Able to professionally represent the University in marketing and public relations activities. TO APPLY Visit our website at http://www.nu.edu/OurUniversity/Employment.html to apply by 5/10/2013.
The Valles Marineris is seen in the center of this image of Mars.
By Larry O'Hanlon Discovery News
Eroded channels and chasms from catastrophic floods between martian basins are the strongest evidence yet that there were once large, deep bodies of water on early Mars, according to a new study using the latest imagery and topographic data.
The outflow channels of Mars have been a puzzle ever since they were first spotted in images from the Viking spacecraft four decades ago. In that time every sort of mechanism has been called on to carve them -- among them winds, lava and carbon dioxide-powered debris flows. But none has settled the issue.
"These features have been wracking people's brains since the 70s," said planetary scientist Keith Harrison of the Southwest Research Institute. And they aren't settled yet.
If it was water that carved them, which seems the most likely candidate, the mystery remains as to where all the water came from. Groundwater has long been the logical choice, but how does groundwater flood out with enough power to erode such giant channels? The answer is lakes. Deep lakes. Five-kilometer-deep lakes. The evidence for these lakes is the channels themselves, which have now been studied using higher-resolution imagery and topographic data than ever before.
"These are mega outflow channels," said Mars researcher Nicholas Warner of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "There is the analogy of the Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington State" which were carved by very short-lived, catastrophic floods. "Those are pretty small in comparison to the five-kilometer-deep channels on Mars."
Warner and his colleagues used the data from cameras on the European Space Agency's Mars express as well as NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to digitize and count craters in the eastern Valles Marineris region. Craters are the only way to establish the approximate ages of features on Mars. The craters revealed that the basins were there before the channels, and that the channels were carved from the top-down, as would be expected from a flood from one basin to the next. The detailed results of the study were published in the April 29 online issue of the journal Geology.
In fact, the whole scenario is being called "fill and spill." Groundwater slowly fills a basin, eventually getting kilometers deep. Then it spills over. Where it spills there is rapid erosion and a channel forms that erodes back toward the lake, increasing the flood and the rush of waters out of the basin, which naturally increases the erosion of the channel. Before you know it, you have a really big chasm.
And these aren't the only flood channels on Mars. There are many basins and many have channels between them, said Warner. In other words, the ground water filled the basins, then one basin overflowed into another, carving a channel that caused the drainage to increase, and that flood caused the next basin below it to overflow into the next basin, carving channels there, and so on and so forth. Whether this happened all at once or in a series of separate and repeated events is unknown.
"There's no clear cut way to tell if it's millions of years or hundreds of days," said Warner. But one thing the channels and craters are suggesting is that water was flowing later and later in Mars' early history.
"There were large amounts of water on Mars early on," commented Harrison. "There is no dispute about that." But was the water in these deep lakes, shallow seas, locked up as ground water, or as ice on the poles? And if it melted into liquid form, as the channels strongly suggest, there is another problem: There is not enough atmosphere on Mars today to keep liquid water from subliming away into the air. Did Mars have a much thicker atmosphere once?
To put it another way: The brain wracking is expected to continue
We almost always buy in the same shopsPublic release date: 6-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
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This research study attempts to identify just how predictable we consumers are with respect to shopping patterns. As explained by one of its authors, Esteban Moro of the Department of Mathematics at UC3M, "the main conclusion we have drawn is that people's behavior is repetitive when it comes to visiting and spending in shops, and as such it is possible to have some success in predicting where we are going to buy in the future". Published in Scientific Reports, the open journal of the Nature group, the study was also produced by scientists from the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, the University of California in San Diego (U.S.A), M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and NICTA (Australia).
In order to carry out the study, researchers analyzed hundreds of thousands of de-identified economic transactions made with credit cards on both sides of the Atlantic. The goal was to find the predictability' of the time series of consumption in almost a year's worth of credit card purchases made by more than 50 million accounts. "What we found"- the researcher points out- "is that people are quite regular when visiting (and purchasing in shops and that there is quite a bit of predictability', above all in the long term". To put it another way, it is difficult to predict where your next purchase will be on the basis of where you are doing your shopping now. However, as Professor Moro indicates, it is possible to know with a fair degree of probability where you will go shopping during the next month. In short: we go back to the same shops with remarkable regularity.
As pointed out by the researchers, the study has various applications that range from geomarketing (marketing in specific areas of the city), provision of points of sale, locating cash tellers or detecting fraud. There is still not enough information available to the researchers as to whether this data can be extrapolated to cash operations.
Over the past few years there has been a good deal of research on the 'predictability' of social behavior. By using different data sources (telephones, Wi-Fi points, GPS data, etc.), many groups of scientists have studied how predictable our mobility is- that is, the routes, walks and places that we use to move about in the city.
While this mobility is determined by the tasks we have to carry out throughout the day (going to work, going home, etc.), there are also many variables throughout the day that are not completely predictable (where to, take out money, etc.). As Esteban Moro puts it, "our goal was to try to observe to what extent this 'predictability' also exists in economic decisions (how much and where I use the credit card). Although they are conditioned by our daily mobility, these decisions have a completely different dimension."
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We almost always buy in the same shopsPublic release date: 6-May-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: ana herrera oic@uc3m.es Carlos III University of Madrid
This news release is available in Spanish.
This research study attempts to identify just how predictable we consumers are with respect to shopping patterns. As explained by one of its authors, Esteban Moro of the Department of Mathematics at UC3M, "the main conclusion we have drawn is that people's behavior is repetitive when it comes to visiting and spending in shops, and as such it is possible to have some success in predicting where we are going to buy in the future". Published in Scientific Reports, the open journal of the Nature group, the study was also produced by scientists from the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, the University of California in San Diego (U.S.A), M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and NICTA (Australia).
In order to carry out the study, researchers analyzed hundreds of thousands of de-identified economic transactions made with credit cards on both sides of the Atlantic. The goal was to find the predictability' of the time series of consumption in almost a year's worth of credit card purchases made by more than 50 million accounts. "What we found"- the researcher points out- "is that people are quite regular when visiting (and purchasing in shops and that there is quite a bit of predictability', above all in the long term". To put it another way, it is difficult to predict where your next purchase will be on the basis of where you are doing your shopping now. However, as Professor Moro indicates, it is possible to know with a fair degree of probability where you will go shopping during the next month. In short: we go back to the same shops with remarkable regularity.
As pointed out by the researchers, the study has various applications that range from geomarketing (marketing in specific areas of the city), provision of points of sale, locating cash tellers or detecting fraud. There is still not enough information available to the researchers as to whether this data can be extrapolated to cash operations.
Over the past few years there has been a good deal of research on the 'predictability' of social behavior. By using different data sources (telephones, Wi-Fi points, GPS data, etc.), many groups of scientists have studied how predictable our mobility is- that is, the routes, walks and places that we use to move about in the city.
While this mobility is determined by the tasks we have to carry out throughout the day (going to work, going home, etc.), there are also many variables throughout the day that are not completely predictable (where to, take out money, etc.). As Esteban Moro puts it, "our goal was to try to observe to what extent this 'predictability' also exists in economic decisions (how much and where I use the credit card). Although they are conditioned by our daily mobility, these decisions have a completely different dimension."
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Further information:
Title: The predictability of consumer visitation patterns
Authors: Coco Krumme, Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Cebrian Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro
Lower image: Trajectory (fictitious) of an individual's movements/shopping in a city
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Items like the McBaguette have helped McDonald's and other fast-food chains gain popularity in France. (Wikico??
It appears that freedom fries have liberated the French from their historically good taste.
The French, who have long held high culinary standards, aren?t afraid to flaunt their commitment to quality. But even the world?s first foodies have their limits, if a new study is to be believed. That?s because new data says the French have surrendered to fast food, which has supplanted restaurants to become the nation?s top dining choice.
NPR reports that fast-food chains are now responsible for 54 percent of all restaurant sales in France. And the number of fast-food sales has increased by 14 percent just in the past year.
"In previous years, we could see fast food was gaining ground, but this is the first time it has overtaken restaurants where you are served at the table," Julien Janneau of food consultancy firm Gira Conseil, whose company provided the data, told the French newspaper Nouvel Observateur.
In addition, Gira Conseil found that the number of French cafes, where more sophisticated and slower-paced dining prevails, has dwindled from more than 200,000 in the 1940s to around 32,000 today.
Global fast-food leaders McDonald?s, Subway and Burger King have all found a strong footing in France. McDonald?s now has more than 1,200 restaurants in the country, and Burger King, which had shuttered all of its French outlets in 1997, made a triumphant return to the country in 2012.
For context, there are more than 34,000 McDonald?s stores worldwide, with about 14,000 of those found in the U.S. If you compare the number of people in the U.S. (about 300 million) and France (about 65 million), there are still about twice as many McDonald's per person in the U.S. as in France.
So, why has haute cuisine given way to the Big Mac?
Experts say it could be a combination of factors, including busier workdays and a desire by younger French citizens to break with their country?s more traditional dining standards. And some French food writers admit that the more polite customer service enforced by corporate food chains is sometimes a welcome alternative to a less predictable experience at independent restaurants or cafes.
In other words, "mangez bien" (eat well) may have given way to, "well, eat."
"The offer has not changed, but the consumer is different," Gira Conseil's Devanne Julien told the French paper.
Of course, as NPR notes, French McDonald?s often offer different menu items from you might find in American outlets, including the McBaguette and the McCamembert, along with healthier and locally produced options.
May 2, 2013 ? The biggest study of fetal growth and autism to date has reported that babies whose growth is at either extreme in the womb, either very big or very small, are at greater risk of developing autism.
It is the first time that a clear link has been made between babies who grow to above average size at birth and risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder and follows from a study of more than 40,000 child health records in Sweden.
The research, led by The University of Manchester, also confirms earlier research which reported that premature and poorly grown, low weight babies appear more susceptible to the condition.
Autism affects how individuals interact with the world and with other people and there is no known cure. One child in 100 has the condition in the UK according to NHS figures. Researchers believe it has origins in both genetic and environmental causes. Professor Kathryn Abel, from the University's Centre for Women's Mental Health and Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health, led the research published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
Professor Abel said: "The processes that leads to ASD probably begin during fetal life; signs of the disorder can occur as early as three years of age. Fetal growth is influenced by genetic and non-genetic factors. A detailed understanding of how fetal growth is controlled and the ways in which it is associated with ASD are therefore important if we are to advance the search for cures.
"To our knowledge, this is the first large prospective population-based study to describe the association between the degree of deviance in fetal growth from the normal average in a population of children and risk of ASD with and without intellectual disability.
"We have shown for the first time categorically that abnormal fetal growth in both directions increases risk of autism spectrum disorder." Researchers looked at data from the Stockholm Youth Cohort in Sweden, where early ultrasound dating provides detailed weights of the baby's progression in pregnancy. Infants and children then also take part in structured clinical assessments of their social, motor, language and cognitive abilities.
The cohort contained records of 589,114 children aged 0-17 in Sweden between 2001 and 2007. Certain child data was removed, including children too young to have a diagnosis for ASD, adopted children and non Swedish or Stockholm County residents, children not born in Sweden and twins.
From the remaining available data, researchers found 4,283 young people with autism and 36,588 who did not have the condition and who acted as the control.
The study found that bigger babies who were born weighing over 4.5kg (or 9lb 14) showed a higher incidence of autism, as did smaller infants who were born weighing less than 2.5kg (5.5lb).
A baby who had poor fetal growth would therefore have a 63% greater risk of developing autism compared to normally grown babies.
A baby who was large at birth would have a 60% greater risk. This effect was independent of whether or not the baby was born pre- or post-term.
Professor Abel added: "We think that this increase in risk associated with extreme abnormal growth of the fetus shows that something is going wrong during development, possibly with the function of the placenta.
"Anything which encourages abnormalities of development and growth is likely to also affect development of the baby's brain. Risk appeared particularly high in those babies where they were growing poorly and continued in utero until after 40 weeks. This may be because these infants were exposed the longest to unhealthy conditions within the mother's womb.
"We now need more research into fetal growth, how it is controlled by the placenta and how this affects how the brain develops. One of the key areas to research is maternal condition and healthy growth."
The study was also unique as it was big enough to be able to look at the differences between children who developed ASD with and those without intellectual disability as well as differences between children born pre and post-term (after 40 weeks).
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Google Now is a great feature for Android users, and now those who are on iOS devices. The idea is that the more you use Google products, the more it learns about you and the better information it can spit at you proactively. However, if you try and interact with Google Now, specifically on which sports teams you’d like to follow, the app will crash. Not only will Google Now crash, but you’ll get continual pop-up messages telling you that Google Search has crashed, the app that runs the Now experience. It’s quite annoying and it’s something that people have been reporting on Google’s message boards for the past month or so. Even though Google employees have interacted with the community, there’s still no real fix. I tried to delete the Giants, since I’m a Phillies fan, which you can do by tapping on the information button of the Card: It will let you add or remove teams without any problem, but once you go back to Google Now, it crashes and you start seeing this beauty over and over: There’s no official fix from Google, with the only employee feedback on this thread being “Thank you for staying engaged on this issue. We’re continuing to look into it.” The employee then encourages you to send feedback to Google from within Google Now…which you can’t do because the app crashes. The only real fix that I’ve found for the issue is to go into your app settings for the Google Search app and clear out the app data and cache. That will at least let you open up Google Now again and put an end to the annoying crash alerts: Once you open up Google Now again, you’ll have to go through the original process of agreeing to use it and sit through the tour of example cards. However, don’t go ahead and edit the same Card again, or it will start the hellish loop all over again. It reminds me of another Android bug, the one where the team left December out of its date picker entirely. It’s probably something that should have been picked up on during a regular QA process. Let’s hope that Google releases an update to its OS at the I/O conference, so that us sports fans can actually enjoy one of Now’s core functionalities. Or maybe, Googlers just really hate sports. Maybe its users
The second graph shows the homeownership rate by age for 1990, 2000, and 2010. This shows that the homeownership rate usually increases until 70 years old or so.
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