The first change you're likely to notice is the new lock screen, which shows the time and date using Android's lovely new font, Roboto, and displays album art and audio controls during music playback.
At the same time, the lock-up period expired on 234 million shares of Facebook stock Monday and 777 million more shares expire on Nov. 14, as Eric Savitz notes.
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It involved moving mountains and eradicating disease and inventing and constructing by far the hugest locks and lock gates ever conceived at the time and even a 1914 General Electric computer system to run it all.
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At the same time, it became clear that the lock-box was popular with voters, who decided they did not want their contributions frittered away on current spending (no one pointed out that in fact this is not what happens: the budget debate does not affect the rights of pensioners or the status of the trust fund).
When using GLONASS satellites, the time it takes for the receiver to "lock on" to a position is (on average) approximately 20 percent faster than using GPS. And when using both GPS and GLONASS, the receiver has the ability to lock on to 24 more satellites than using GPS alone.
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And though the Democrats are gaining ground in local races, the Republicans are maintaining their lock on nationwide votes perhaps for the last time.
Our correspondent said it is now widely expected that the cardinals will lock themselves away in the conclave in about two weeks' time - around the weekend of 11 March.
This could also be a plus for Qualcomm, which has an effective lock on Windows smartphone business for the time being.
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"We say we want to share generously during really good times, rather than lock in really high wages all the time, " says Mr. Ayer.
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One example of this is in higher education, where the Department of Education has recently tried to define the credit hour in three discreet ways in a specific regulation, which would lock the system further into a seat time regulation you can read about it here.
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The health insurance and managed-care provider is still up 72.5% in the past 12 months, and the gurus decided it was time to jump off of the train and lock in profits, especially since the Medicare Modernization Act, which takes effect next year, could put a crimp in the growth in premiums that health insurance providers can charge.
As a result, even if your uninspired work down at the cracker factory yielded nothing more than cost-of-living raises over the past 40 years, you would become more susceptible to the AMT over time purely because the exemption was not increasing in lock-step with your wages.
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But he also said he had not contacted the company about the searches "because there would be a good possibility that the next time I went there, there would be a lock on the gate".
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Glasgow captain Kellock will lead Scotland out for the first time in his career and Robinson is sure the powerful lock will rise to the occasion.
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Count Mr. Hoshi among those who believe the time is right to lock in lower rates.
When Los Angeles Superior Judge James Dabney sentenced Lohan to 90 days in jail in March he gave her the option of serving the time in a "lock down rehab" facility.
McGeechan has chosen a proven combination, all from the Ospreys, in the back three, but the partnerships of Roberts and Earls at centre, O'Gara and Blair at half-back, and Shaw and O'Connell at lock, will be tried for the first time.
At the time of the collapse, Leekley's boat was in a lock roughly 400 feet from the bridge.
The contract, which allows participants to lock in prices rather than having to pay the going rate at the time they need apples, started trading on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange Inc. on Aug. 13 and was listed on CME Group Inc.
Surrender charges can lock the consumer into the contract for quite some time, often running for seven to ten years.
They come to that conclusion presumably because revenue from the sale of Sun hardware has declined since the acquisition, and they lock on to that opinion in spite of the fact that Oracle executives at the time of the deal said they were going to eliminate unprofitable hardware products, low-value hardware products, and no-future hardware products in spite of the inevitable revenue impacts.
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Lievremont, so often criticised for his chopping and changing of personnel since taking over as coach, has retained the same front row for the fifth time in a row and prefers the relatively untried but impressive Julien Pierre at lock ahead of Sebastien Chabal.
Users can practice this with, for instance, leaving the house without checking the door lock multiple times, over a given time period.
As with any vaccine, the aim is to prompt the immune system to recognise this outer shell and destroy the pathogen before it has time to lock onto cells and infect them with its genetic material.
And I knew at the same time that in the end, at the last minute, Nunu would in fact lock away the silver, and that later still, once the silver was forgotten, when we discussed the whole thing, the thing that could not be hidden, Nunu would be somewhere nearby with her keys, in her best black dress, with her wrinkles, with her silent, observant caution.
If the NFL owners lock out the players this offseason, this is the last game we will see for a long time.
At the same time, Lenovo didn't have to shrink down the Enter, Shift or Caps Lock key to compensate.
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China's Defence Ministry immediately refuted a report on Monday by Japan's Kyodo news agency that said unnamed "senior Chinese military officials" admitting recently, and for the first time, that a Chinese warship did lock weapons-guiding radar on a Japanese destroyer on 30 January.
The immemorial threat of Liberalism and Labourism combining to lock the right out of power has also been seen off for some time.
They do grow over time, but they -- once we lock in the five-year freeze, it has real impact when you get to year two, three, four and five.
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