Indiana dog that crashed half-marathon gets medal

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) ? An Indiana dog that became an Internet sensation after crashing a half marathon has won a medal ? and an appointment with a veterinarian to nip his wandering ways in the bud.

The chocolate Labrador retriever named Boogie ran most of the 13.1 miles in Saturday's Evansville event and then was taken to Animal Control.

Owner Jerry Butts tells the Evansville Courier & Press (http://bit.ly/17dIIR1 ) that the 100-pound dog slipped his leash Friday night. It was his fourth escape.

Butts says Boogie now has a microchip and an appointment to be neutered.

Boogie finished the race in 2 hours, 15 minutes. That's better than more than half of the race's participants.

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Information from: Evansville Courier & Press, http://www.courierpress.com

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Telecoms firm Alcatel-Lucent to cut 10,000 jobs

PARIS (AP) ? Telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA said Tuesday that it plans to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide over the next two years, the latest cost-cutting drive from the loss-making company.

The job cuts are part of a restructuring plan to make the French-American company more competitive. The plan is to reduce fixed costs by cutting 1 billion euros ($1.36 billion), or about 15 percent, by the end of 2015. Under the plan, the company will reallocate research investment to next-generation technology and cut investment in older technology.

The company has struggled since its inception in 2006, when France's Alcatel and the U.S.'s Lucent merged. The savings anticipated by combining research and development costs and reducing staff were quickly offset by pressure to lower prices amid increasing competition from the likes of China's Huawei Technologies Co. and Ericsson AB of Sweden. Last year, the company lost 1.37 billion euros ($1.86 billion), and a new chief executive took over earlier this year.

Alcatel said the job cuts would be presented to its European works council on Tuesday. The cuts will come from all of the regions in which the company operates: 4,100 positions will be cut in its Europe, Middle East and Africa region, 3,800 in the Asia-Pacific zone and 2,100 in the Americas.

In a sign that the layoffs will likely face stiff resistance, especially in Europe, elected officials from western France, the site of an Alcatel-Lucent plant, urged the company to abandon the restructuring plan. The officials said in a statement that they feared the local plant would be closed and accused the company of reneging on promises to keep it open.

Investors appeared at first glance to be backing the plan. The company's share price was trading 1.5 percent higher in morning trading in Paris.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/telecoms-firm-alcatel-lucent-cut-10-000-jobs-075257910--finance.html

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Android 4.4 KitKat Downloads UI leaks, reveals Holo Light theme

Normally, when new Android versions are released to the world, Android fans such as ourselves don?t head to the Downloads app to look for any new goodies. However, when the Downloads app is about to undergo a complete graphical redesign, we pay attention. As we continue towards the next batch of Nexus devices and the inevitable Android 4.4. KitKat release, the pace for leaks has quickened. Let?s take a look at what we have this time around.

• Pictured above, you can see the side by side differences between the leaked UI and the current Jelly Bean UI.
• New Holo Light theme instead of Holo Dark. A white, light theme matches other core Google apps and seems to fit quite nicely with other leaks depicting a whiter Android UI.
• The Downloads icon is now much cleaner and flatter.
• The action bar also includes two new icons. The icon with the three lines most likely contains sorting options for sorting by file size or by date. ?The four square dots icon is most likely for changing the view from displaying files line by line, to a cards view, similar to how Google Drive currently looks and functions as shown below.

Do you like the new Holo Light theme with flatter icons that seem to be the theme with Android 4.4? Let us know in the comments.

Source: Android Police

Source: http://phandroid.com/2013/10/08/android-4-4-kitkat-downloads-ui-leaks-holo-light-theme/

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