Drugs Addiction vs Drug Control Spending: More Statistics Graphics Should Be Animated [Infographics]

I wish all statistical graphics were animated. They will not automatically become clearer or more illuminating, but many can benefit from it. Some a lot, some less—like like this comparison between drug addition and the money spent in the war on drugs. More »

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Popular Diets Then Again Maybe Not So Popular | Fitness and ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]For any dieter that keeps up to date on the numerous types of diets on the market, the numbers are astounding. It seems next to impossible to know the right diet to use or which one is healthy without any health risk factors.

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'Friday Night Lights' creator: Romney plagiarized

By Tierney Bricker, E! Online

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Use My Phrase! This is basically what "Friday Night Lights" creator Peter Berg told presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a letter, asking the politician to stop using the phrase "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose," a well-known line from the beloved series, during his campaign appearances.?

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"Your politics and campaign are clearly not aligned with the themes we portrayed in our series," Berg writes in the letter. "The only relevant comparison that I see between your campaign and 'Friday Night Lights' is in the character of Buddy Garrity -- who turned his back on American car manufacturers selling imported cars from Japan."

Berg goes on to say that Romney's use of the phrase, which appears on his Facebook page, "falsely and inappropriately associates 'Friday Night Lights' with the Romney/Ryan campaign."

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Romney has used the "Friday Night Lights" motto in several campaign speeches, including one he made earlier this week in Iowa, where he said, "That's Americans...We have clear eyes--we know what we believe. Full hearts--we love this country and we can't lose. This is a time for Americans to make a choice. We're going to take back this country."?

Berg isn't the only "FNL" alum to notice Romney's use of the phrase. Star Scott Porter recently tweeted, "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose. Both Parties using it to win votes. And my boy Pete Berg didn't even trademark it. Shame. #shame

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Back in May, President Barack Obama's campaign also used the phrase as the caption under a photo of the President throwing a football on Tumblr.?

Read Berg's full letter to Romney below:

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Eastern Europe gives Volkswagen a sales boost

BERLIN (AP) ? Strong sales in Eastern Europe helped Volkswagen AG post a 6.5 percent increase in September sales over the same month last year, despite difficulties caused by the European financial crisis.

Volkswagen said Friday it sold 801,000 vehicles in September, against 751,900 in September 2011. Overall sales through September were up 9.7 percent on the same period the previous year to 6.71 million.

The number includes Porsche for the first time, which became a Volkswagen brand in August. Porsche has sold 22,800 vehicles since then.

Group sales in Europe were up 0.8 percent in the first nine months, as a 6 percent drop in western Europe excluding Germany was offset by a 3 percent increase in the home market, and a 23.1 percent increase in central and eastern Europe, including Russia.

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Tumblr Puts More Focus On Photos With Photoset, Its New Standalone iOS App

7501523994_58a55a7564_zTumblr is a company that has built a platform that seemingly morphs every single time I visit it. One of the most popular features of the service is its ability to share photos, and then of course watch them spread throughout the network quickly. Today, Tumblr announced a new standalone photo-sharing app called "Photoset", which allows you to group some pictures together, share them on a web page and spread to your friends on social networks...including Tumblr. Yes, Tumblr is definitely also a social network.

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Bowdoin manufacturer honored with award for innovation, global ...

BOWDOIN, Maine ? A manufacturing company in this town was honored Wednesday for a commitment to innovation that has led to it becoming a global leader in the manufacture of equipment and precision instruments for the neuroscience community.

At an award ceremony held at the company?s headquarters in Bowdoin, the Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership named FHC Inc. as the 2012 Manufacturer of the Year. Maine MEP?s annual award is given to a Maine company that demonstrates outstanding vision, leadership and manufacturing excellence, according to a media release.

?In honoring FHC as the 2012 Maine Manufacturer of the Year, we celebrate a company that recognizes the key elements of success in a competitive global economy,? Bruce Pulkkinen, chairman of Maine MEP, said in a statement.

Pulkkinen lauded FHC for embracing the following four strategies:

  1. Focusing on innovation as a central business strategy and creating an Innovation Center that partners with customers to anticipate and solve their needs.
  2. Investing in its workforce by training employees in advanced innovation techniques and creating a Great Ideas Group that challenges team members to find new solutions.
  3. Continuously improving their operations by applying lean manufacturing techniques.
  4. Targeting global markets for its products, opening offices in Europe and South America, while looking to expand in Asia.

?This combination of internal and external strategies exemplifies what it means to become a next generation manufacturer,? Pulkkinen said.

FHC was founded in 1970 and has become a major player in the neuroscience community. The company?s clients include scientists and clinicians studying at major universities, medical schools, research hospitals, government research institutions and private laboratories located at pharmaceutical, biotechnology and technology-based companies around the world.

Maine MEP, part of a national network of manufacturing extension centers that provide business and technical assistance to small manufacturers, has worked with FHC over the past two years to provide lean manufacturing consulting and management coaching in innovation engineering, the systematic approach to innovation taught at the University of Maine?s Foster Center for Student Innovation.

?Every manufacturer recognizes that innovation is the key to long-term success, but many companies find it one of the most challenging goals to attain,? said George Gervais, commissioner of the Maine Department of Community and Economic Development. ?FHC has distinguished itself by the way in which it has institutionalized the processes for generating new ideas and rapidly testing them for commercial success.?

Gervais said the company?s application of the principles of Innovation Engineering has enabled a Maine company with 100 employees ?to achieve an international reputation in its field.?

Keri Seitz, FHC?s CEO, said she was honored by the award and that it was a testament to the company?s employees and culture of innovation.

?With our guiding principle of innovation through collaboration, we are humbled to work with our customers to provide pioneering solutions for neuroscientists and neurosurgeons worldwide,? Seitz said in a statement. ?This award is testimony that Maine firms can compete with the best in the world.?

The award coincides with October?s designation as Manufacturing Month to highlight the importance of manufacturing in the U.S. economy.

Source: http://bangordailynews.com/2012/10/10/business/bowdoin-manufacturer-honored-with-award-for-innovation-global-leadership/

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FACT CHECK: Slips in vice president's debate

Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin participate in the vice presidential debate at Centre College, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Danville, Ky. (AP Photo/Pool-Rick Wilking)

Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin participate in the vice presidential debate at Centre College, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Danville, Ky. (AP Photo/Pool-Rick Wilking)

Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, right, watches as Vice President Joe Biden, speaks during the vice presidential debate at Centre College, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Danville, Ky. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

(AP) ? Anyone who paid attention to a hearing in Congress this week knew that the administration had been implored to beef up security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya before the deadly terrorist attack there. But in the vice presidential debate Thursday night, Joe Biden seemed unaware.

"We weren't told they wanted more security there," the vice president asserted flatly. During a night in which Biden and Republican rival Paul Ryan both drifted from the facts on a range of domestic and foreign issues, that was a standout.

A look at some of their claims:

BIDEN: "Well, we weren't told they wanted more security there. We did not know they wanted more security again. And by the way, at the time we were told exactly ? we said exactly what the intelligence community told us that they knew. That was the assessment. And as the intelligence community changed their view, we made it clear they changed their view."

RYAN: "There were requests for more security."

THE FACTS: Ryan is right, judging by testimony from Obama administration officials at the hearing a day earlier.

Charlene R. Lamb, a deputy assistant secretary for diplomatic security, told lawmakers she refused requests for more security in Benghazi, saying the department wanted to train Libyans to protect the consulate. "Yes, sir, I said personally I would not support it," she said.

Eric Nordstrom, who was the top security official in Libya earlier this year, testified he was criticized for seeking more security. He said conversations he had with people in Washington led him to believe that it was "abundantly clear we were not going to get resources until the aftermath of an incident. How thin does the ice have to get before someone falls through?"

He said his exasperation reached a point where he told a colleague that "for me the Taliban is on the inside of the building."

___

RYAN: "Look at just the $90 billion in stimulus the vice president was in charge of overseeing ? this $90 billion in green pork to campaign contributors and special interest groups."

THE FACTS: Dismissing an entire package of energy stimulus grants and loans as "green pork" ignores the help that was given to people to make their homes more energy efficient, grants to public entities constructing high speed rail lines and tax credits to manufacturers to install equipment fostering cleaner energy.

To be sure, there were notable failed investments, such as $528 million to the politically connected and now-bankrupt solar power company Solyndra. But Ryan's claim made it sound like every penny went down the drain.

More broadly, economists are nearly universal in saying Obama's $800 billion-plus stimulus passed in early 2009 helped create both public-sector and private-sector jobs, even if they fell short of what sponsors had hoped. Douglas Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, estimated the stimulus saved or created more than 3 million jobs.

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BIDEN: "We went out and rescued General Motors."

THE FACTS: Actually, the auto bailout of General Motors and Chrysler began under President George W. Bush. The Obama administration continued and expanded it.

___ RYAN: "And then they put this new Obamacare board in charge of cutting Medicare each and every year in ways that will lead to denied care for current seniors. This board, by the way, it's 15 people, the president's supposed to appoint them next year. And not one of them even has to have medical training."

THE FACTS: Ryan is referring to the Independent Payment Advisory Board, created under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law. It has the power to force cuts in Medicare payments to service providers if costs rise above certain levels and Congress fails to act. But it doesn't look like the board will be cutting Medicare "each and every year," as Ryan asserts. Medicare costs are currently rising modestly and the government's own experts project the board's intervention will not be needed until 2018 and 2019 at the earliest ? after Obama leaves office if re-elected to a second term.

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BIDEN, when asked who would pay more taxes in Obama's second term: "People making a million dollars or more."

THE FACTS: Obama's proposed tax increase reaches farther down the income ladder than millionaires. He wants to roll back Bush-era tax cuts for individuals making over $200,000 and couples making more than $250,000.

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RYAN: "We cannot allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapons capability. Now, let's take a look at where we've gone ? come from. When Barack Obama was elected, they had enough fissile material ? nuclear material ? to make one bomb. Now they have enough for five. They're racing toward a nuclear weapon. They're four years closer toward a nuclear weapons capability."

THE FACTS: Ryan's claim is misleading. Iran isn't believed to have produced any of the highly enriched uranium needed to produce even one nuclear weapon, let alone five. That point isn't even disputed by Israel, whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored the world at the United Nations last month to create a "red line" at enrichment above 20 percent. Iran would have to enrich uranium at much higher levels to produce a weapon. There is intelligence suggesting that Iran has worked on weapon designs, but not that it has developed a delivery system for any potential nuclear warhead.

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BIDEN: "What we did is, we saved $716 billion and put it back, applied it to Medicare."

THE FACTS: Contrary to Biden's assertion, not all the money cut from Medicare is going back into the program in some other way. The administration is cutting $716 billion over 10 years in Medicare payments to providers and using some of the money to improve benefits under the program. But most of the money is being used to expand health care coverage outside of Medicare.

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RYAN: "What troubles me more is how this administration has handled all of these issues. Look at what they're doing through Obamacare with respect to assaulting the religious liberties of this country. They're infringing upon our first freedom, the freedom of religion, by infringing on Catholic charities, Catholic churches, Catholic hospitals."

THE FACTS: The requirement under the health care law that most employers cover birth control free of charge to female employees does not apply to churches, houses of worship, or other institutions directly involved in propagating a religious faith. It does apply to church-affiliated institutions such as hospitals and charities that serve the general public.

___

BIDEN: "Romney said 'No, let Detroit go bankrupt.'"

THE FACTS: GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has gotten endless grief through the campaign for the headline put on his November 2008 opinion essay that he wrote for The New York Times. But his point was never that he wanted the auto industry to go down the tubes.

Romney opposed using government money to bail out Chrysler and General Motors, instead favoring privately financed bankruptcy restructuring. His prescription seemed improbable. Automakers were hemorrhaging cash and the banking system was in crisis, so private money wasn't available. Without the government money, it's likely both companies would have gone out of business. Romney did propose government-guaranteed private loans for both companies after bankruptcy.

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RYAN: "We should have spoken out right away when the green revolution was up and starting, when the mullahs in Iran were attacking their people. We should not have called Bashar Assad a reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own people.

THE FACTS: Neither President Barack Obama nor anyone else in his administration ever considered the Syrian leader a "reformer." The oft-repeated charge stems from an interview Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave in March 2011 noting that "many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer." She did not endorse that view. The comment was widely perceived to be a knock at senators such as John Kerry of Massachusetts who maintained cordial relations with Assad in the months leading up to his crackdown on protesters.

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RYAN: "This one tax would actually tax about 53 percent of small-business income."

BIDEN: "Ninety-seven percent of the small businesses in America pay less ? make less than $250,000."

THE FACTS: Both are correct, but incomplete, when sizing up the effect on small business of raising taxes for individuals making more than $200,000 and married couples making more than $250,000, as Obama wants to do. Republicans say that would hit small-business owners who report business income on their individual income tax; Democrats say the overwhelming majority of small businesses would not be affected.

According to a 2010 report by the Joint Committee on Taxation, the official scorekeeper for Congress, about 3 percent of people who report business income would face a tax increase under Obama's plan. That support's Biden's point.

The same report says those business owners account for about half of all business income. That supports Ryan.

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RYAN: Notes that there have been four rounds of U.N. sanctions on Iran to deter its nuclear program, three during the Bush administration and one under Obama. "And the only reason we got it is because Russia watered it down and prevented the sanctions from hitting the central bank. Mitt Romney proposed these sanctions in 2007. In Congress, I've been fighting for these sanctions since 2009. The administration was blocking us every step of the way." He also noted the administration has granted 20 waivers to the sanctions.

THE FACTS: The argument that the administration was watering down or delaying sanctions is misleading. For sanctions to work, they need maximum global agreement and cooperation. Russia watered down U.N. sanctions not only under Obama, but also under Bush. And it's highly unlikely that a Romney administration, particularly led by a candidate who says Russia is the biggest geostrategic threat to the U.S., would be able to get Russia completely on board with what the U.S. wants to ? either in Iran or Syria.

The more absolute U.S. sanctions that Ryan and others have pushed in Congress would have punished U.S. allies, including most countries in Europe as well as Japan and South Korea, along with good friends like India and Singapore ? without the exemptions that were put in place.

The administration has indeed granted 20 waivers, to countries that made significant reductions in Iranian oil imports. And the sanctions are pinching; Iran has been convulsed over the past week with protests over the collapse of its currency, which most people say is a direct result of the sanctions that the U.S. and others have imposed.

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Associated Press writers Bradley Klapper, Tom Raum, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Stephen Ohlemacher, Tom Krisher and Matthew Lee contributed to this report.

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Cell Phone Records Track Malaria in Kenya

Malaria has been fought with mosquito nets, medication, and now?cell phones.

Cell phone data was used to track the travel patterns of about 15 million people in Kenya, which ultimately provided clues as to how malaria spreads via humans in the country.

A study released today in the journal Science found that a popular travel route for malaria starts in the country?s Lake Victoria region in the western part of the country and goes east toward the capital, Nairobi.

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"This is the first time that such a massive amount of cell phone data?from millions of individuals over the course of a year?has been used, together with detailed infectious disease data, to measure human mobility and understand how a disease is spreading," senior author Caroline Buckee said in a news release. Buckee is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

According to the World Health Organization, in 2010 there were some 216 million cases of malaria that caused about 665,000 deaths. Of those deaths, 90 percent occurred over most of the African continent, the majority targeting children under the age of five.

Malaria is spread via the bites of mosquitos infected with a parasite, and early symptoms are flulike and include fever, nausea and aches. If left untreated it can be fatal.

Since 2000, death rates have dropped by a third in Africa thanks to better prevention and control programs, but the region remains a hot spot.

MORE: Global Child Death Rates Drop Dramatically

For the study researchers used cell phone records from almost 15 million Kenyans plus a map of malaria frequency to determine the likelihood of infection among residents and among visitors traveling to specific areas.

They identified two ways that parasites could be imported: people traveling to regions where malaria is pervasive could become infected while there and carry the parasite back home, and people who are already infected could carry the parasite with them when they went to other settlements in the country.

The largest number of imported infections seemed to wind up in Nairobi, as people who were infected returned there from Lake Victoria or the coastal area.

It?s believed that this use of cell phone data plus information about malaria rates will help public health officials see how the disease is spread and assist them in managing malaria cases. On a local scale, the authors said, this would allow high-transmission areas to be treated with insecticide, the removal of mosquito habitats, and the use of bed nets.

This isn?t the only way cell phones are being used to battle malaria. Last month AFP reported that cell phone texts are being used in a pilot program in Cambodia to report new cases of the disease.

Do you think cell phone records should be used to track diseases? Let us know in the comments.

Related Stories on TakePart:

? West Nile Virus and Other Diseases May Have an Unexpected Accomplice: Climate Change

? World Malaria Day: Put the Bite on the Bug

? Study Uncovers Alarming Worldwide Rates of Drug-Resistant TB


Jeannine Stein, a California native, wrote about health for the Los Angeles Times. In her pursuit of a healthy lifestyle she has taken countless fitness classes, hiked in Nepal, and has gotten in a boxing ring. Email Jeannine | TakePart.com

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New Hope for those at High Risk for Mesothelioma ? Chris Placitella ...

All too often people who develop mesothelioma are diagnosed at an advanced stage and at a time when it is very difficult to provide treatment that presents any real hope of long term survival. I had many conversations with the late Dr. Irving Selikoff, the pioneeer, in this area, of the need for modern medicine to find a way to identify the disease at an early stage to maximize the chance of survival. Please see the story belwo for some great news.

By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) ? A blood test may identify the often difficult-to-diagnose cancer called mesothelioma, new research suggests.

The blood test, along with a lung fluid test, looks for a protein in plasma called fibulin-3 that indicates whether a person has mesothelioma, which is often triggered by asbestos exposure, or was simply exposed to asbestos.

?In the mesothelioma patients, fibulin-3 was four to five times higher than in asbestos-exposed individuals,? said study author Dr. Harvey Pass, a professor of thoracic oncology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.

Results of the study appear in the Oct. 11 issue of the?New England Journal of Medicine.

Mesothelioma develops in the linings of the lungs, chest, abdomen and heart. A major risk factor for the disease is working or living in areas where asbestos is present, according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute. That risk is made worse if someone smokes. Asbestos, a fibrous material resistant to heat and many chemicals, was used in many construction and plumbing products. It?s also found in brake parts on cars and trucks, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Mesothelioma may develop years, often decades after exposure to asbestos, said Pass. Symptoms of the disease include shortness of breath, cough, chest pain, weight loss and night sweats. By the time people are diagnosed with mesothelioma, the survival time is often about 12 months, Pass said.

That?s why Pass and his team have been trying to identify a so-called ?biomarker,? such as fibulin-3, that could lead to earlier detection and probably more effective treatment of mesothelioma.

The researchers tested for fibulin-3 in 92 people with mesothelioma, 136 people who were exposed to asbestos but didn?t have cancer, 93 patients with fluid in their lungs that wasn?t caused by mesothelioma, and 43 healthy people with no asbestos exposure. The study volunteers came from Detroit and New York City.

They also tested lung fluid in 74 people with mesothelioma, 39 with fluid in their lungs but no cancer and 54 with fluid in their lungs and a cancer other than mesothelioma.

Plasma levels of fibulin-3 were significantly higher when mesothelioma was present, the study found. And when lung fluid was tested, the researchers had similar results. Again, levels of fibulin-3 were significantly elevated in people with mesothelioma.

Overall, the researchers found that measuring fibulin-3 levels results in a 96.7 sensitivity (the number of correctly identified cancers) and a specificity of 95.5 percent (the number of people correctly identified as?not?having cancer).

In 2005, Pass reported on another biomarker called osteopontin that looked promising for the early identification of mesothelioma. Other labs had difficulty reproducing the initial success Pass? team had with that biomarker, and Pass said it?s not nearly as specific as fibulin-3 appears to be at identifying an increased risk of mesothelioma.

Still, the current work needs to be validated, he said, adding he?d like to do a trial of people who were exposed to asbestos but don?t have symptoms to see if fibulin-3 can pick up mesothelioma well before symptoms appear.

Dr. Len Horovitz, an internist and pulmonologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said the study findings might prove useful, if confirmed.

?It?s interesting to find a marker like this,? Horovitz said. ?Normal people don?t have the marker; you have to have had asbestos exposure. This may be one way to identify people at risk of mesothelioma that you need to follow more closely.?

But, he said, additional tests need to confirm that the test works, and if it makes a difference.

?Screening is great, but we have to realize we?ll be dealing with false positives and we don?t want them to lead to unnecessary biopsies,? said Horovitz. ?We also need to know, does it really prolong survival or make a difference in mortality??

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Samsung announces Galaxy S III mini: 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 1GHz dual-core CPU, NFC

Samsung announces Galaxy S III mini: 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 1GHz dual-core CPU, NFC

Samsung has just announced the Galaxy S III mini, a 4-inch David version of its Goliath big brother -- will it be worthy of its name? The rumor mill churned out that it might be a dumbed down version, but an oblique comment by mobile head JK Shin suggests otherwise -- either way, we're on the scene in Frankfurt, Germany to give you the long (and short) of it. According to the spec sheet we just received, this Android 4.1 phone features a dual-core 1GHz chip (which is good news for the 1,500mAh battery), 1GB RAM, 8 or 16GB of internal storage plus an extra 32GB maximum via microSD. The 4-inch Super AMOLED screen comes with a WVGA resolution, while the main camera takes five-megapixel photos plus 720p video, and there's a VGA front-facing camera as well for fans of video chats. There's obviously the usual bundle of radios as well, including 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, GPS, GLONASS, FM radio, Bluetooth 4.0 (LE) and even NFC, but for now, this 111.5-gram TouchWiz device will only support HSPA 900/1900/2100 networks along with EDGE 850/900/1800/1900.

Update: Our hands-on with the phone is live!

Richard Lai contributed to this report.

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