'Lost' star Andrews relishes 'Wonderland' change

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? Naveen Andrews says he welcomed the transition from a movie about Princess Diana to a TV series inspired by "Alice in Wonderland."

The former "Lost" star plays the villainous Jafar in ABC's fall series "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland." In the upcoming big-screen "Diana," starring Naomi Watts, Andrews plays love interest Dr. Hasnat Khan.

Andrews said that after "Diana" the "Wonderland" TV series offered a chance to do something completely different that, as he put it, isn't "bound in space and time." He spoke Sunday to the Television Critics Association.

"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" stars Sophie Lowe as a young woman who escapes Victorian England down the fabled rabbit hole in search of adventure and love. It debuts Oct. 10.

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What should we do? Our summer intern is suddenly demanding ...

Q. We hired an intern for the summer. She was eager to work for free to add it to her r?sum?. She ap??proached us about the internship. She isn?t getting college credit and quite frankly she?s more trouble than it?s worth. We told her that after this week we won?t need her. That?s when she said we owe her minimum wage or she?ll complain to the Department of Labor. Do we really have to pay her?

A. To be a bona fide internship, the internship must meet six factors identified by the DOL. If it does not meet all six, then she would be considered an employee and you would owe her minimum wage.

Among other things, the internship should be designed to be an educational experience for the intern. It should primarily benefit the intern, not the company. If she is performing work that you would otherwise pay someone to perform that is primarily for the benefit of the company, then she is likely an employee.

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US diplomat kills man in car crash, leaves Kenya

Latifah Naiman Mariki, widow of the late Haji Lukindo, with two of her children Juma Lukindo, 20, and Shamim Lukindo, 7, outside their house in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. An American diplomat who police say was speeding crossed the center line in his SUV and rammed into a full mini-bus, killing a father of three whose widow is six months pregnant, officials said Friday. Latifah Naiman Mariki, 38, and whose husband was killed in the crash, was almost evicted from her house this week after her landlord demanded rent. Mariki's deceased husband, Haji Lukindo, was the family's only source of income. Mariki told The Associated Press that neither the American driver nor anyone at the U.S. Embassy has contacted her, and she doesn't know how she will provide for her soon-to-be-born child and three children, ages 20, 10 and 7. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Latifah Naiman Mariki, widow of the late Haji Lukindo, with two of her children Juma Lukindo, 20, and Shamim Lukindo, 7, outside their house in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. An American diplomat who police say was speeding crossed the center line in his SUV and rammed into a full mini-bus, killing a father of three whose widow is six months pregnant, officials said Friday. Latifah Naiman Mariki, 38, and whose husband was killed in the crash, was almost evicted from her house this week after her landlord demanded rent. Mariki's deceased husband, Haji Lukindo, was the family's only source of income. Mariki told The Associated Press that neither the American driver nor anyone at the U.S. Embassy has contacted her, and she doesn't know how she will provide for her soon-to-be-born child and three children, ages 20, 10 and 7. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Latifah Naiman Mariki, widow of the late Haji Lukindo, with two of her children Juma Lukindo, 20, and Shamim Lukindo, 7, outside their house in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. An American diplomat who police say was speeding crossed the center line in his SUV and rammed into a full mini-bus, killing a father of three whose widow is six months pregnant, officials said Friday. Latifah Naiman Mariki, 38, and whose husband was killed in the crash, was almost evicted from her house this week after her landlord demanded rent. Mariki's deceased husband, Haji Lukindo, was the family's only source of income. Mariki told The Associated Press that neither the American driver nor anyone at the U.S. Embassy has contacted her, and she doesn't know how she will provide for her soon-to-be-born child and three children, ages 20, 10 and 7. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Latifah Naiman Mariki, widow of the late Haji Lukindo, holds a family photo showing her late husband and her two daughters outside her house in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. An American diplomat who police say was speeding crossed the center line in his SUV and rammed into a full mini-bus, killing a father of three whose widow is six months pregnant, officials said Friday. Latifah Naiman Mariki, 38, and whose husband was killed in the crash, was almost evicted from her house this week after her landlord demanded rent. Mariki's deceased husband, Haji Lukindo, was the family's only source of income. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Latifah Naiman Mariki, widow of the late Haji Lukindo, with two of her children Juma Lukindo, 20, and Shamim Lukindo, 7, left, outside their house in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. An American diplomat who police say was speeding crossed the center line in his SUV and rammed into a full mini-bus, killing a father of three whose widow is six months pregnant, officials said Friday. Latifah Naiman Mariki, 38, and whose husband was killed in the crash, was almost evicted from her house this week after her landlord demanded rent. Mariki's deceased husband, Haji Lukindo, was the family's only source of income. Mariki told The Associated Press that neither the American driver nor anyone at the U.S. Embassy has contacted her, and she doesn't know how she will provide for her soon-to-be-born child and three children, ages 20, 10 and 7. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? An American diplomat who police say was speeding crossed the center line in his SUV and rammed into a full mini-bus, killing a father of three whose widow is six months pregnant, officials said Friday.

U.S. Embassy officials in Nairobi rushed the American and his family out of Kenya the next day, leaving the crash victims with no financial assistance to pay for a funeral and for hospital bills for the eight or so others who were seriously injured.

Latifah Naiman Mariki, 38 and whose husband was killed in the crash, was almost evicted from her house this week after her landlord demanded rent. Mariki's deceased husband, Haji Lukindo, was the family's only source of income.

Mariki told The Associated Press that neither the American driver nor anyone at the U.S. Embassy has contacted her, and she doesn't know how she will provide for her soon-to-be-born child and three children, ages 20, 10 and 7.

"It is difficult for me to handle this matter because my kids need to go to school. They need everything, basic needs," Mariki said. "And we have no place to stay because we have to pay the rent. We have no money. ... Even if my kids are sick I have no money to take them to hospital."

Hilary Renner, a State Department spokeswoman in Washington, said the embassy extends its deepest condolences to Mariki's family and wishes a speedy recovery to those injured. She said she couldn't comment on whether the embassy employee would return to Kenya.

"The embassy is fully cooperating with the Kenyan authorities as they investigate the accident and work to aid the victims," she said.

The American driver of the SUV, Joshua Walde, was an information management officer at the Nairobi embassy when he got in the crash on his way home the evening of July 11. He gave a statement to police but because he has diplomatic immunity he was not detained.

A police dossier on the case shown briefly to an Associated Press reporter contained sketches of how police believe the accident happened. The sketch shows the American's SUV turning at a rounded four-way intersection on the edge of Nairobi and driving into the lane of oncoming traffic.

A police officer familiar with the case who insisted he not be identified by name because he is not an official spokesman said of Walde: "He was driving very fast." Pictures in the dossier show that the SUV hit the front corner and side of the mini-bus, smashing in its frame. Kenyan mini-buses, known as matatus, also frequently drive fast and erratically.

A Facebook group of Kenyan mothers took up Mariki's case this week and are trying to raise funds for her. In dozens of comments online, many demanded accountability and expressed dismay that no financial help has been given.

"She's such a decent and honest lady you feel so bad for her. She wasn't employed," Zahra Ashif, who started the Facebook thread, told AP. "The point is that (Walde) is not here so he can't be arrested, but after that point did he not have any courtesy to get in touch? ... For them life has gone on, but what about these kids?"

Walde is an 11-year employee of the State Department who has worked in Kazakhstan, Uruguay and Croatia. Shortly after the crash, Walde updated his work history on the networking site LinkedIn to put his time in Nairobi in the past tense, from July 2012 to July 2013. After the Facebook group noticed the updated resume and pointed to that as evidence that Walde would not return to face charges or help victims, the LinkedIn account was deleted, though a cached version is still available through Google.

Walde's wife circulated an email to sell a family vehicle and try to find new work locations for the family's nanny and gardener after the crash. AP sent an email to Walde's wife on Thursday asking if the family wanted to comment. No response was received.

The U.S. government is concerned about the impact the accident could have on bilateral relations with Kenya, a U.S. government official said. The official noted that embassy employees are typically evacuated for medical evaluations after traumatic events but are also flown out of a country to avoid any possible retribution or attack from others involved in an accident.

The police say the case remains under investigation. The Nairobi traffic police chief, Patrick Lumumba, said he is seeking assistance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to liaise with the U.S. Embassy. He said authorities didn't detain Walde because "we don't take diplomats into custody."

A police spokeswoman, Ziporah Mboroki, said no charges had been filed against Walde the last time she checked.

"He is a diplomat and has the privileges of a diplomat. If you're a diplomat and you commit any crime in Kenya, the case is investigated and is forwarded to your embassy," she said. "That's what the law says and we work per the law."

A State Department guidance paper for U.S. law enforcement officials on how diplomatic immunity works says that even at the highest levels "diplomatic immunity is not intended to serve as a license for persons to flout the law and purposely avoid liability for their actions. The purpose of these privileges and immunities is not to benefit individuals but to ensure the efficient and effective performance of their official missions on behalf of their governments."

Farzana Jiwa employed Lukindo, the man killed in the crash, as a driver for the last seven years. Jiwa ? who gave money to pay for Lukindo's funeral and to help pay his family's August rent ? is angry that neither Walde nor the U.S. Embassy is helping the victims.

"I'm not asking him to go to jail, but do right by the family, it's so simple. Insurance would have taken care of it," Jiwa said. "They couldn't jail him, they couldn't take his passport from him. All we want is for him to take some responsibility."

Mariki, the widow, lives in a $125-a-month sheet-metal home in one of Nairobi's slums. It has no running water and the tiny and dangerous alleyways turn into a swampy mud pit when it rains. She must pay about $500 a year to send her two school-age children to class but doesn't know how she will afford it. She said she would like to see Walde prosecuted in court.

"What I want is justice to be done," she said.

Associated Press

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RadioShack, Dell and Lockheed are big movers

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:

NYSE

RadioShack Corp., down 32 cents to $2.57

The retailer's shares tumbled after Standard & Poor's said the company could default within a year and downgraded its credit rating.

Weight Watchers International Inc., down $9.04 to $37.99

Fewer people are signing up for the company's programs, which drove second-quarter net income down 16 percent. It also booked costs related to paying down debt early.

Cablevision Systems Corp., up 97 cents to $19.61

In response to questions about a possible sale of the company, executives on a conference call did not reject that possibility outright. CEO James Dolan said Cablevision would do what is best for shareholders and customers, and added "you never say never."

Lockheed Martin Corp., up $1.60 to $123.77

The Defense Department stressed that there are no plans to scrap the F-35 program or a project for a new long-range stealth bomber. Lockheed's F-35 is the Pentagon's most expensive weapons acquisition program, and an aircraft with a troubled testing record.

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Dell Inc., up 73 cents to $13.68

Dell's board agreed to an increased offer from founder Michael Dell that would add a special dividend for shareholders. Michael Dell is in a battle to buy the slumping computer maker he founded nearly 30 years ago.

Mylan Inc., up $2.42 to $36.40

The generic pharmaceutical company's stock hit an all-time high on an upgrade from Morgan Stanley. Analyst David Risinger said that Mylan had "crystallized future growth opportunities," which should increase investor confidence.

Body Central Corp., down $3.86 to $8.10

The trendy women's clothing company saw traffic at its stores decline and it was forced to make deep markdowns on its merchandise during the second quarter.

Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc., up 60 cents to $3.15

A recent acquisition, lower costs, more customers and higher roaming revenue translated into a major turnaround in the second quarter for the broadband provider.

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Gerard House celebrating 25 years of helping pregnant teens ...

More than 600 pregnant teens have called Gerard House home over the last 25 years.

For one resident, who cannot be named because she is under 18 and in foster care, the house has given her many things.

?There?s a lot of positive attitude here,? she said.

She was 16 when she came to Gerard House and went on to earn her high school diploma after being put into the state?s custody for a truancy issue. The pregnancy is what got her attention.

?They said if you don?t get straightened out, there?s a chance you could have your kid taken away, so I realized I want to go to school and get everything done,? she said. ?I was in a foster home and it was hard for me at first. It really helped me coming here.?

Now, about to turn 18, she and her 8-month-old son are getting ready for another big change: She?s starting a career to become an aesthetician.

?They?ve brought her stability, learning skills, emotional and financial support, she has her high school diploma and she?s going to Eric Fisher Academy,? said Christy Hannon, the young woman?s family support worker from St. Francis Community Services who works with Gerard House and was a teen mom herself.

The large, but modest house at 3144 N. Hood will take in pregnant teens at any point of their pregnancy and allow them to stay until their babies can crawl. It will celebrate its 25th anniversary Sunday with a reception in downtown Wichita.

Gerard House began as a joint mission of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother and the Congregation of St. Joseph. Now it?s under the umbrella of Via Christi Health in Wichita. It?s named after Gerard Majella, the patron saint of mothers.

According to the most recent figures from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment for 2011, the statewide pregnancy rate for ages 10 to 19 is 20.9 per 1,000, or nearly 4,100 pregnancies. A little more than 890 of those pregnancies were in Sedgwick County.

?School and baby?

The young women have a very structured environment, said Deneen Dryden, Gerard House executive director. They often wake up for school at 6 a.m. and aren?t done with parenting classes, tutoring and counseling until 9 p.m.

In addition to connecting the women with prenatal care ? most of which is paid for by Medicaid ? and parenting classes and counseling, Gerard House also helps some find jobs through the Workforce Alliance.

The state has a program that helps pay for some of the young women to attend selected state schools for higher education, Dryden said, but typically only 2 percent of adolescents who are pregnant before they?re 18 finish college.

?To me, that?s the saddest statistic,? she said.

?For us the real priority is school and baby. If they haven?t completed their high school diploma or GED, that?s the No. 1 responsibility because the research shows only 40 percent graduate.?

Gerard House also provides the women information on adoption, Dryden said. As a Catholic-sponsored institution, it does not encourage abortion.

?They need to make an informed decision,? she said. ?If they choose to parent we give them the skills and support them in that decision.?

The younger the woman, the less likely they are to place the babies into adoption services, Dryden said. At Gerard House, about one in 20 decide to pursue adoption.

?If you look at infrastructure many come from, they didn?t have family,? she said. ?And they?ll look right at you and say, ?I got pregnant so I would have something to love and to call family.?

?When you?re under that pretense, you think that baby is going to meet your needs instead of the reality that you?re up all night.?

Juvenile system

Often, the young women are referred through foster care or the juvenile justice system, Dryden said. But they also come through private or community referrals by school nurses or families.

?There?s lots of channels that get them here,? Dryden said.

?What we know is that on paper, it really doesn?t matter what it says, we?re dealing with a pregnant teenager who?s got lots going on in their life. So we treat them all the same. They?re the same girl.?

As of July 1, Gerard House is the only contracted maternity home with Juvenile Services in the state.

According to Jeremy Barclay, communications director for the Kansas Department of Corrections, the state used to also contract with Mary Elizabeth Maternity Home in Hays and Grace Center in Kansas City, but the number of teens in the system who are being referred to group homes has decreased over the last several years.

?It?s just an example of oversupply for demand,? Barclay said.

And it?s perhaps a shift in the way society views pregnant teens, Dryden said.

?Initially, it was set up because of the stigma that society placed on (pregnant teens) and the shame,? Dryden said. ?A lot of the girls were sent away and would come back to the community after they had placed for adoption.

?And although times have changed and society has changed, that?s still the mission: to still serve this underserved population that?s very vulnerable.?

Source: http://www.kansas.com/2013/08/03/2922612/gerard-house-celebrating-25-years.html

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Russian blogosphere finds something fishy about Putin's pike

The Russian president purportedly caught a 45-pound pike on a recent outing. But some suspect that's a fish story.

By Fred Weir,?Correspondent / August 2, 2013

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a big pike he caught while fishing during a mini-break in late July in the Siberian Tyva region of Russia. The Kremlin said the pike weighed in at 45 pounds, but Russian bloggers are skeptical.

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But when they happen to be the leaders of fraternal post-Soviet countries, those fish stories may threaten to take over news cycles, and the natural skepticism of those who hear such tales can take on unexpected political freight.

Something like this appears to have overtaken President Vladimir Putin's latest publicity stunt. When he embarked last weekend on a fishing trip to a remote region, it's likely the last thing on his mind was to fan political controversy, much less international rivalry. But he reckoned without the freewheeling Russian blogosphere, and the competitive macho instincts of his Belarussian neighbor, President Alexander Lukashenko.

Mr. Putin visited Tyva, a mountainous republic in southern Siberia, where he piloted a speedboat and, in his now familiar bare-chested style, landed a large pike with a spin-fishing rod. As usual, the Kremlin proudly posted a video of Putin holding up the massive fish and giving it a kiss, along with an entire photo album depicting that feat as well as the president's other vigorous activities.

The Kremlin announced that the fished weighed in at 21 kg, or about 45 pounds.

"I personally saw the scales and was present in the weighing. It was seriously more than 20 kg," Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, was quoted as saying by the independent Interfax news agency.

Russia's pesky blogosphere hooted with derision and also produced pretty convincing evidence that the Kremlin's claim was greatly exaggerated.

One blogger used the Kremlin's own photos of the 5'7" Putin to deduce the fish's length at just under 3 feet and then employed standard fishermen's tables to calculate the fish's actual weight a mere 15.4 pounds, or barely a third of what the Kremlin had claimed.

Another took the route of publishing photos of other fishermen with their catches ? visibly bigger pikes that Putin's, yet somehow weighing half or less of what Putin's "golden fish" was claimed to be.

"The Kremlin probably weighs its fish by the same method it counts votes" in elections, one blogger sneered.

And then Mr. Lukashenko, the flamboyant president of neighboring Belarus, got into the act.

"I personally hauled in a catfish weighing 57 kilograms [126 pounds]! I caught three catfish: 57, 24, and 7 kilograms," during a recent outing on the Pripyat River, Lukashenko said in remarks carried by Belarussian state TV Tuesday.

The Kremlin did not respond. But many in Belarus must have shuddered: The Pripyat River flows from Belarus almost directly into the radioactive exclusion zone of the Chernobyl atomic power station in Ukraine, which suffered one of history's worst nuclear accidents in 1986.

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The Future Of How Businesses Connect With Customers ? ReadWrite

What's the biggest software business nobody seems to talk about?

The numbers suggest it's customer-relationship management, the suite of software tools businesses use to track sales prospects, customers, and marketing campaigns.

And the vast majority of businesses aren't using sophisticated software from Salesforce, Oracle, or Microsoft. They're stuck using email, contact managers, spreadsheets?maybe even paper and pencil.

Software For The 99%

It's not that no one's buying CRM software. Far from it. In June, Gartner upped its 2017 market forecast for customer-relationship management, or CRM, to $37 billion, up sharply from $21 billion this year. That would make CRM software the biggest corporate software market, larger even than enterprise resource planning (ERP).

Gartner's optimism is warranted. The way businesses connect to customers is changing at warp speed. The added dimensions of social media and big data offer rich data hooks to any customer database.

More importantly, the market is underpenetrated. IDC estimates that there are some 1.1 billion mobile workers globally, or 35% of the workforce, which implies a global workforce of 3.4 billion (PDF).?Yet according to SugarCRM, one of many vendors making CRM tools, only 15 million people use any type of software designed to manage those relationships. That amounts to a workforce penetration of just 0.5%.

And there are more than 225 million global businesses, according to the venerable Dun & Bradstreet database. Virtually all of them have customers?otherwise they wouldn't have much of a business.

Yet Salesforce.com, widely considered a CRM leader, has an installed base of just 100,000 customers, according to Gartner Group. While that figure includes some of the world's largest corporations, it represents less than 0.004% of D&B's global commercial database. By the most optimistic numbers,?less than 1% of the global workforce uses CRM tools.

Why We Haven't Automated Our Customer Relationships

One explanation for low use is that implementing a CRM system is a major challenge, particularly for smaller organizations that don't have dedicated IT team.?Fact is, most CRM software is difficult to use, especially in the areas of system integration and reporting.

Forrester notes that about half of 556 large organizations?it?surveyed (PDF) have implemented a CRM solution for marketing, sales, or customer-service applications. An additional 23% plan to use a CRM solution within the next 12 to 24 months.

That means that even among large enterprises, the very market most CRM vendors target, the glass is half empty. ReadWrite summarized the failings of the CRM industry succinctly: In the span of 10 years, $75 billion was spent on CRM software, according to Gartner. But during that period, customer satisfaction rose just 3-5%.

Fast-moving market trends, however, may help reshape the CRM landscape. Forrester identifies three phenomena that are reinvigorating CRM:

• Mobile?The U.S. has the highest percentage of mobile workers in its workforce, with 72% of the U.S. workforce being mobile as of 2008. Yet Forrester found that "despite the growing maturity of mobile CRM solutions, business and IT leaders remained perplexed by the complexities of the different mobile options and architectures."
• Cloud?It should be no surprise that given the large influx of smartphone and tablet users, many of whom adhere to the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend, cloud data syncing has become essential.
• Social media?The influx of social-media-generated customer intelligence has resulted in a never-ending river of data, leading many organizations to show a growing interest in social media integration and big-data applications.

How are next-wave CRM tools tackling this potential opportunity? I looked at three relatively new contenders: Base CRM, Contactually, and Intuit's QuickBase. Each is trying to solve the complexity challenge in its own way.

Base CRM

Base CRM, which debuted as PipeJump, introduced an iPhone and Android app in January 2012, and relaunched its Web-based solution in late June. The company has received a total of $7.9 million in venture-capital funding.

A Base CRM enterprise solution starts at $15/mo., which includes no Base branding, unlimited deals and third-party integrations, like Dropbox and Mailchimp, plus 2GB storage. For $45/mo. per user, you also get sales goals and forecasting, plus task automation and 5GB of storage.

As Base CRM CEO Uzi Shmilovici tells me, the company is aware that CRM systems' lack of adoption is due to the fact that users face an "intense effort" to maintain their contact lists, so the company wants to reduce input by automating the process as much as possible.?To enable that effort, Base has 90 employees today, with 71 focused on product development. Shmilovici says the company's development efforts have resulted in many positive reviews and top rankings in Google and Apple's app stores.

Base CRM certainly appears to have taken the lead in ease of use. The program boasts a number of nicely integrated features, including web calling, e-mail synchronization, plus sales pipeline and funnel analysis.

Another welcome feature is a Chrome extension that grabs LinkedIn contact information and adds it to your contact list.

Contactually

A different approach to easing contact entry comes from Contactually, a Web-based CRM application. It simplifies contact categorization by turning the chore into a quasi-entertaining "bucket game."

The program syncs with your IMAP email account, a nice feature that helps users build a contact list dynamically without having to import an address book (although it does that too). Another benefit of email syncing is that Contactually can "nag" you to recontact people you've been in touch with in the past.

Contactually also will find duplicate contacts that use different email addresses, allowing you to quickly merge them. But the best new feature may well be "Introductions," which makes introducing two people in your network quick and easy. In this day and age of high-octane networking, that's a big time-saver.

A Contactually Small Business account costs $40/mo. per user. Unfortunately, the Introductions feature is not available on the lower cost $20/mo. Premium plan.

Intuit QuickBase

While Base CRM and Contactually take a dynamic interface approach, Intuit's QuickBase goes in the opposite direction with a more traditional spreadsheet-like grid layout in every module of the application. QuickBase includes all the usual components, contact management, project management and sales management.

The design is pretty straightforward but its four top navigation menus can look quite intimidating at first. QuickBase also lacks special social-media features, dedicated import filters, and MailChimp integration. While there's no email synchronization, you can at least send emails from QuickBase, but that's a pretty basic function.

Unfortunately, QuickBase has a high cost of entry with pricing starting at $299/mo. for up to 10 users. QuickBase's conservative user interface is likely to appeal to people familiar with?Salesforce.com, as the design metaphor is quite similar.

The Next Big Opportunity

There is no question that CRM tools are getting more adept at social networking while improving ease of use across all platforms. Yet I would still like to see a tighter integration, particularly with LinkedIn. Nimble, for example, lets users send messages directly to social media followers.?

Given the massive opportunity of equipping millions of businesses with tools they need to better service customers, easier-to-use CRM applications will proliferate and that's a relationship any business or customer should welcome with open arms.

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Source: http://readwrite.com/2013/08/01/new-wave-crm-tools

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Snowden thanks Russians for asylum approval

MOSCOW (AP) ? National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for a year, his lawyer said Thursday, a move that suggests the Kremlin isn't shying away from further conflict with the United States.

Snowden's whereabouts will be kept a secret for security reasons, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said, making it even harder to keep track of the former NSA systems analyst, who has been largely hiding out at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23.

The U.S. has demanded that Russia send Snowden home to face prosecution for espionage over his leaks that revealed wide U.S. Internet surveillance practices, but Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the request. In a statement released by the WikiLeaks secret-spilling site, Snowden thanked Russia and lashed out at the Obama administration.

"Over the past eight weeks we have seen the Obama administration show no respect for international or domestic law, but in the end the law is winning," he said. "I thank the Russian Federation for granting me asylum in accordance with its laws and international obligations."

The move could further strain U.S.-Russian relations already tense amid differences over Syria, U.S. criticism of Russia's human rights record and other disputes. Putin has said his asylum was contingent on him not hurting U.S. interests, but the Kremlin could have interpreted that to exclude documents he had already leaked to newspapers that continue to trickle out.

In his application for asylum, Snowden said he feared he could face torture or capital punishment if he is returned to the U.S., though the U.S. has promised Russia that is not the case. The U.S. has revoked his passport, and the logistics of him reaching other countries that have offered him asylum, including Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, are complicated.

"He now is one of the most sought after men in the world," Kucherena told reporters at the airport. "The issue of security is very important for him."

The Guardian newspaper on Wednesday published a new report on U.S. intelligence-gathering based on information from Snowden, but Kucherena said the material was provided before Snowden promised to stop leaking.

The one-year asylum can be extended indefinitely, and Snowden also has the right to seek Russian citizenship. According to the rules set by the Russian government, a person who has temporary asylum would lose it if he travels abroad.

Kucherena said it would be up to Snowden to decide whether to travel to any foreign destination, but added that "he now has no such plans."

Snowden's father said in remarks broadcast Wednesday on Russian television that he would like to visit his son. Kucherena said he is arranging the trip.

WikiLeaks, which has adopted Snowden's cause, said in its statement that legal adviser Sarah Harrison has been with him in the transit zone for 39 days and remains with him. It said only that they left the airport in a taxi and that they are heading to a "secure, confidential place."

The group also praised Russia for providing him shelter.

"We would like to thank the Russian people and all those others who have helped to protect Mr. Snowden," WikiLeaks said on Twitter. "We have won the battle ? now the war."

Kucherena said that Snowden spent little time packing. The lawyer said the fugitive had friends in Russia, including some Americans, who could help ensure his security, but wouldn't elaborate.

"He has got friends, including on Russian territory, American friends, who would be able to ensure his safety for the time being," Kucherena said.

He refused to say whether Snowden would stay in Moscow or move to stay elsewhere in Russia, saying the fugitive would discuss the issue with his family.

Kucherena argued that Russia did the right thing by offering shelter to Snowden despite U.S. pressure. "Russia has fulfilled a humanitarian mission with regard to the U.S. citizen who has found himself in a difficult situation," he said, voicing hope that the U.S. wouldn't try to slam Russia with sanctions.

Putin's foreign affairs aide, Yuri Ushakov, sought Thursday to downplay the impact on relations between the two countries.

"This issue isn't significant enough to have an impact on political relations," he said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies.

He said that the Kremlin hasn't heard any signal from Washington that Obama could cancel his visit to Moscow ahead of next month's G-20 summit in St. Petersburg.

But Sen. Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement that the Russian decision to grant asylum to Snowden would hurt ties.

"Edward Snowden is a fugitive who belongs in a United States courtroom, not a free man deserving of asylum in Russia," the Democratic lawmaker said. "Regardless of the fact that Russia is granting asylum for one year, this action is a setback to U.S.-Russia relations. Edward Snowden will potentially do great damage to U.S. national security interests and the information he is leaking could aid terrorists and others around the world who want to do real harm to our country."

Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a veteran of Russia's human rights movement and head of the respected Moscow Helsinki Group, welcomed the news on asylum for Snowden, but added that his quest for freedom of information has landed him in a country that has little respect for that and other freedoms.

"Having fought for the freedom and rights, Snowden has ended up in a country that cracks down on them," Alexeyeva said, according to the Interfax news agency.

Rachel Denber of Human Rights Watch sounded a similar note. "He cannot but be aware of the unprecedented crackdown on human rights that the government has unleashed in the past 15 months," Denber said in an e-mailed comment.

Putin has launched a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent since his inauguration for a third presidential term in May 2012, with the Kremlin-controlled parliament stamping a series of laws that introduced heavy fines for participants in unsanctioned protests, imposed new tough restrictions on non-government organizations.

A law passed in June bans imposes hefty fines for providing information about the gay community to minors or holding gay pride rallies, a move that has prompted gays in the U.S. and elsewhere to call for boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

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Laura Mills contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/snowden-thanks-russians-asylum-approval-160731290.html

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Is one of the Burgas terror suspects actively using Facebook?

Hezbollah operatives Meliad Farah, left; and Hassan El Hajj Hassan, right.

On July 25, Bulgarian authorities released the names and photos of two Hezbollah operatives, Hassan el Hajj Hassan and Meliad Farah, who are wanted in connection with the July 2012 terror attack in Burgas that killed five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian national. Subsequent press reports have made a few new claims regarding the suspects, whose names were known to investigators since at least February, such as that the suspects received $100,000 in money transfers from Hezbollah and that they smuggled parts of the bomb on a train from Poland.

Yet an interesting detail about the elder suspect appears to have gone relatively unnoticed. Farah, an Australian national who is believed to have built the bomb in Bulgaria, may still be active on Facebook as authorities search for him.

One Facebook account possibly attributable to Farah states that the user studied at the Lebanese International University (LIU) and lives in Australia. According to press reports, the printer utilized to create the forged licenses carried by the Hezbollah cell responsible for the Burgas terror attack was based at LIU, where the suspects are said to have studied engineering.

The user of this account, who has 'liked' an array of celebrities and athletes, including Usher and David Beckham, appears to have used online chat services, such as Tohla and Omegle, among others. The user of the account was also involved in online poker via Facebook.

Interestingly, none of the publicly available photos linked to the account provides a match to the photo released by Bulgarian authorities. In fact, the user has used photos of Turkish actor Necati ?a?maz and Iranian actor Mostafa Zamani as profile pictures. A photo of Zamani is currently adopted as the user's profile picture.

The last public activity for this account, which has 62 friends, was today, July 29, when the user became friends with a few women based in Bulgaria, including at least one in Burgas.

A second account potentially tied to the wanted Meliad Farah shares a few Facebook friends with the first account. In addition, the account, which says Farah is married, lists his hometown and current location as Sydney, Australia.

Coincidentally, the second account, which currently has 65 friends and 'liked' a page about the AK-47, has uploaded a few of the same photos used by the first Meliad Farah account.

The user also appears to have played online poker via Facebook similar to the first account. In addition, the second account 'liked' a number of the same pages as the first account. The second account 'liked' nearly twice as many pages as did the first suspect account, however, including one honoring former Hezbollah spiritual guide Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah.

Also, while the first account used a photo of Iranian actor Mostafa Zamani as its profile picture, the second account appears to use a photo of the aforementioned Necati ?a?maz.

Of further note is the fact that the second account, which was used as recently as July 26, became friends lately with a number of women in Bulgaria, at least one of whom is also friend of the first account. It is also eye-catching that a couple of the friends of the second account have hardcore Hezbollah material on their own Facebook accounts.

Finally, a third account potentially tied to Farah, who allegedly returned to Lebanon a day before the attack in Burgas, was started on June 12, 2012. Within a day of starting the account, the user changed its profile picture to an image seen on a number of websites and videos sympathetic to Hezbollah.

This account appears to have taken greater steps to limit how much of the profile can be viewed by the public, so not much else can be gleaned.

While it is currently close to impossible to definitively say that any of these accounts are tied to the Meliad Farah wanted in connection with the Burgas terror attack, there are lots of coincidences.

Almost too many.

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Win a Sony Xperia Tablet Z case just by being friendly!

It?s Coolsmartphone competition time again! Yay! This week we?re giving away the two Sony Xperia Tablet Z cases that we?ve recently reviewed.

Seeing as I?m in in charge of this competition it has to be really simple, so all you have to do is read the reviews of the Zenus Masstige case (worth ?44.95) and the Tabletwear Advanced case (worth ?19.95) because they?re dead good (even though I wrote them!), then write a comment on those articles or any post on the site that?s published between today (25th July 2013) and Saturday 3rd August 2013.

Every comment will get an entry, so the more you comment the more likely you are to win!

The two winners will be drawn out of my ridiculously camp cowboy hat and announced on Monday.

Rules: Spam, inappropriate comments and trolling will result in the removal of your entries.
Coolsmartphone contributors? comments will not be entered into the draw.
Winners will be announced in an article on Monday 5th August 2013. It will then be up to the winners to contact Coolsmartphone with their postal address details.
Entries limited to UK only. Apologies to our international readers.

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About Ronnie Whelan

I work in IT and marketing, I spend my spare money on smartphones and tablets. My friends have grown weary of my fascination with mobile technology, so I write about it in the hope that someone out there is as obsessed as me? and it seems there is. Welcome to my world.

My current devices are: Oppo Find 5, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Ativ S and a Huawei G300.

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Microsoft sets Xbox One game prices at ?50 in UK

Microsoft already announced first-party Xbox One games will retail for $59.99 in the U.S., and now the U.K. price has been formally confirmed at??49.99.

The U.K. Microsoft Store lists upcoming games such as "Ryse: Son of Rome," "Dead Rising 3" and "Forza Motorsport 5" as all being priced at??49.99. That price shouldn't be too surprising, as it's the same as Xbox 360 game prices in the country. Previous speculation hoped Microsoft would drop prices, however, as U.S. $59.99 converts to less than??39.99 in U.K. currency based on current exchange rates, though the U.K.'s value-added tax is included in prices prior to checkout while sales taxes are added during checkout in the U.S..

Also noteworthy is the fact that Kinect-only games, such as "Kinect Sports Rivals," will share the same price point as regular games in both the U.S. and U.K. Kinect-only games for the Xbox 360 cost less than regular titles?? in the U.S., Kinect games for the Xbox 360 cost $49.99 versus the $59.99 price of regular releases. The change is likely due to the fact that Microsoft is pushing developers to make use of the next-generation Kinect that comes bundled with every Xbox One console, blurring the lines between what is a "Kinect game."

Sony has yet to announce prices for PlayStation 4 games, though Jack Tretton, chief executive of Sony's U.S. business, previously said prices would top out at $60 in the U.S. Tretton said prices would range from 99 cents up to that price point.

The Xbox One is scheduled to launch in the U.S. and U.K. sometime in November. In the U.S., the Xbox One will cost $499, while it will cost??429 in the U.K.

Source: Microsoft via The Official Xbox Magazine (U.K.)

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-sets-xbox-one-game-prices-at-50-in-uk

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Anthony Weiner: Why his wife stands by him

Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 and apologized for the explicit text messages. Now a candidate for the mayor of New York City, Anthony Weiner is apologizing again, this time with his wife beside him.

By Jonathan Lemire,?Associated Press / July 24, 2013

New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner glances at his wife, Huma Abedin, as she speaks during a news conference Tuesday, July 23, 2013, in New York.

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When a heckled, harried Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress and apologized for the explicit text messages that had destroyed his career, a key figure was notably absent: his then-pregnant wife, Huma Abedin.

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On Tuesday, there was Weiner again, making a public mea culpa for a newfound sexting scandal that erupted amid the mayoral run he hopes will rewrite his political future. But the Democrat was there to stay in, not bow out ? and Abedin was by his side.

"I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him," and the sexting matter is "between us," she said, a message that could prove important to shaping voters' views as they digest his latest admission.

After the gossip website The Dirty posted X-rated text messages and a crotch shot that it said the former congressman exchanged with an unidentified woman, Weiner acknowledged sending such messages as recently as last summer, more than a year after he resigned from the House because of similar behavior with at least a half-dozen women. With Abedin smiling at his side, he said at a news conference that "this is entirely behind me," and both made it clear they were moving ahead with his campaign.

"I want to bring my vision to the people of the city of New York. I hope they are willing to still continue to give me a second chance," a collected Weiner said. Then he went on to talk policy at a candidate forum on gay men's issues, where he was warmly received.

Weiner, 48, has been near the top of most polls since his late entry into the race in May. The latest disclosures could severely test voters' willingness to forgive him. The New York Times, the Daily News and some of his mayoral rivals called on him to drop out of the race.

But Abedin's visible support may help him win voters' approval, too.

"I don't think it's a good sign" that Weiner's behavior continued even after his resignation, said Andrew Taub, 22, who works in the venture capital arena. "But I do believe for some people looking for a sign, for something to bolster his campaign, (the fact that Abedin is staying with him) says a lot."

Still, the disclosure suddenly puts Weiner's indiscretions, judgment and candor back in the forefront of his campaign, and political analysts say it could be damaging: "It makes it tougher to believe this is behind him," said Democratic former state Assemblyman Michael Benjamin, now a political consultant.

And some voters who were open-minded about a second chance may not be able to stomach a third.

"He had a chance to redeem himself, and if he did it twice, he really betrayed the public's trust again," Jeremy Green said. "I think he's past the point of no return."

Weiner and Abedin, however, sought to cast the newly revealed messages as nothing really new. "I said that other texts and photos were likely to come out, and today they have," Weiner said. In a sign of how much he was projecting taking the messages in stride, he added that he was surprised that more hadn't come out sooner.

Abedin said her husband had made some "horrible mistakes both before he resigned from Congress and after" but insisted she and her husband discussed "all of this" before he jumped into the mayor's race in May. Seeming a bit choked with emotion, she noted that she had chosen to stay in the marriage, but "it was not an easy choice."

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/Vr0p9aalYSA/Anthony-Weiner-Why-his-wife-stands-by-him

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Religion in the American Family in the 1950s ? Justin Taylor

For the majority of us, our knowledge of the American family in the 1950s is almost entirely mediated through popular culture. It?s sometimes hard to understand how the idyllic home life of the Baby Boomers in the 1950s turned into the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960s, though if we know the economy of the gospel, we know that moralism is often the mother of?licentiousness.

We still find Christians today, however, pining for the supposed golden age of the 1950s.

D. G. Hart, reviewing Mary Eberstadt?s How the West Really Lost God, makes a helpful point on the religious life of American families in the 1950s:

That post-war family may now be forever tarnished by such maudlin television shows as ?Leave It to Beaver? or ?Ozzie and Harriet.? Even if those network families did not depict accurately the virtues of white, middle-class, suburban families (who never seemed to go to church), the Christianity of the 1950?s that blessed those families is not one that Eberstadt should use to support her case. For Protestants it was a time of neo-orthodoxy lite?more Niebuhr than Barth?when the American way of life (freedom and democracy)?not faith and repentance or word and sacrament?was synonymous with Protestantism. The situation among Roman Catholics was better but not by much. As Roman Catholics (in the United States at least) left behind their ghettos for suburban parishes, they assimilated American norms in ways that prepared the way for Vatican II?s engagement with the modern world, a posture that significantly undercut rationales for becoming a priest, nun, or monk. Of course, the families of the 1950?s were as responsible for increasing membership in conservative as in liberal churches. But in the case of liberal Christian families, domestic ties could not withstand the baby-boomers loss of faith.

. . .?If the family ever becomes more important to the conservative Protestant wing of ?family values? voters than the gospel and the Christian ministry, then what happened to 1950?s churches and families could well be the fate of Christian defenders of the family.

Copyright ? 2013 by the author listed above. Used by permission.

Source: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2013/07/23/religion-in-the-american-family-in-the-1950s/

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One killed in attack on pro-Mursi protest in Cairo: state news website

CAIRO (Reuters) - One man was killed and 15 people were injured in an attack against a protest by hundreds of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi near Cairo University early Tuesday morning, a state-run news website said.

Al-Ahram Online said police fired tear gas to quell the violence and several cars in the area were destroyed or set on fire.

Police sources said hundreds of pro-Mursi supporters clashed with local residents, street vendors and others near Cairo University's main campus in Giza province, south of Cairo. They said gunshots were fired and stones were thrown during the incident.

One person was killed and around 20 were injured on Monday in clashes between Mursi supporters and opponents in central Cairo. Around 100 have been killed since the army overthrew Mursi, elected last year, on July 3 after mass protests.

The Muslim Brotherhood said on the Facebook page of its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), which Mursi headed before he was elected president in June 2012, that five were killed in Tuesday's clashes.

"Leaders of the military coup continue to terrorize the peaceful protesters in Egypt," the FJP said in a statement in English.

The Brotherhood accuses the army of orchestrating a coup that has exposed deep political divisions in the Arab world's most populous and influential nation.

FJP said the ministers of defense and interior, whom it called "the leaders of the coup," would be held responsible for any future attempts to evacuate the Brotherhood protest areas.

Mursi's supporters are maintaining a round-the-clock vigil, now in its third week, in a Cairo suburb. They say they will continue until Mursi, held by the army in an unknown location since his ouster, is reinstated.

Some residents close to the Brotherhood's main protest area in Nasr City have filed a complaint with the public prosecutor asking for the removal of the protesters, who they say are disturbing their lives.

An informed security source said the case is expected to be taken to a court and ruled upon soon "to give the army a legal basis to end the protests."

(Reporting by Yasmine Saleh and Ahmed Tolba; Writing by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Eric Walsh)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/one-killed-attack-pro-mursi-protest-cairo-state-024744316.html

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White House, Senate Democrat at Odds Over Energy Revenue Sharing

If the Senate increases energy-revenue sharing for coastal states, it will do so without the?support of the Obama administration -- and likely after a debate that pits interior states against?their coastal counterparts in the fight for federal dollars.

For the White House, the measure to reallocate 37.5 percent of energy?revenues to coastal states poses a deficit challenge, according to Interior Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Pamela Haze, who said the U.S. Treasury would lose more than $5 billion if the bill became law.

She cited sequestration, saying the proposal from Democrat Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska would stress an already reduced federal budget.

That did nothing to quash the senators? anger over the Obama administration?s position. Landrieu and Murkowski grilled Haze, noting the revenue sharing granted to interior states for coal and?gas revenues is about 50 percent.

?Is it the Department?s intention to perpetuate a double?standard?? Landrieu asked.

When Haze said the administration is not explicitly opposing?the bill, but simply ?cannot support it,? Landrieu cut her off. ?It?s the same thing,? the senator said.

Haze did not address the discrepancy in revenue sharing for interior states, stating only that the administration??would continue revenue sharing based on existing law.?

Murkowski responded, ?Right now, you?have a double standard.?

While Republican Sen. John Barrasso from landlocked Wyoming pushed back against the double standard argument, his GOP colleague Tim Scott,?R-S.C., argued for more Atlantic energy development. ?Unfortunately, it seems unless we do it?legislatively, the Atlantic will never be included ? in energy production,? Scott said. ?It would only?be appropriate and fair if the Atlantic states got the same 37.5 percent revenue sharing as Gulf?states.?

Landrieu added an emotional appeal in her questioning of Haze. ?After losing 1,400 lives in the?devastating floodwaters of Katrina and Rita ? I find it tragic the administration?s position on?this issue, and seemingly heartless considering the issues before the Gulf Coast states.? While?interior states have no requirements for conservation spending for their energy revenue funds,?Landrieu said, the proposal revenues for coastal states have such a mandate built in.

Committee Chairman Ron Wyden?s statement on the bill expressed a desire for more?information. ?I?m anxious to learn more about the substance of the bill, and the economic and?environmental benefits,? Wyden said. He said he wished the committee could start with a "clean slate" rather than comparing previous states' precedents. But, of course, coastal states that feel they aren't getting their fair share are unlikely to overlook the funding allocated to their landlocked counterparts.

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Murkowski's political party affiliation.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-senate-democrat-odds-over-energy-revenue-175440788.html

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Royal Baby Boy Arrives, Twitter Reacts With Joy, Humor

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Matchmaker, matchmaker: Roy Nelson and Daniel Cormier among the fights made

The matchmakers of the MMA world have been busy lately, so let's see what they have done.

-- Roy Nelson has re-signed with the UFC and agreed to a fight with Daniel Cormier at UFC 166 in Houston. The Houston Chronicle reports it's the co-main event for the fight card headlined by Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos for the heavyweight belt. Cormier and Nelson have been jawing at each other for weeks, and Cormier even drew up a "fight contract" for their bout.

-- Pat Healy's suspension for testing positive for marijuana is up this week. His next fight is also set. Healy will fight undefeated lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 165 in September.

-- Kurt Pellegrino retired after his 2011 loss to Patricky Freire in Bellator. He is coming out of retirement to fight Saul Almeida at a Bellator show in Atlantic City in November.

Related coverage on Yahoo! Sports:
? Fighter mocks Steven Seagal for horning in
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Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/matchmaker-matchmaker-roy-nelson-daniel-cormier-among-fights-124158434.html

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Scientific experiment creates a wave frozen in time

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Scientists have created, in a laboratory, a static pipeline wave, with a crest that moves neither forward nor backward. This research will allow improvement in boat and seaport designs and will enable analysis of how carbon dioxide exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere occurs.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/nBRf7Fwa9wU/130722105601.htm

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Skipping breakfast may increase heart attack risk

ATLANTA (AP) ? Another reason to eat breakfast: Skipping it may increase your chances of a heart attack.

A study of older men found those who regularly skipped breakfast had a 27 percent higher risk of a heart attack than those who ate a morning meal. There's no reason why the results wouldn't apply to other people, too, the Harvard researchers said.

Other studies have suggested a link between breakfast and obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and other health problems seen as precursors to heart problems.

"But no studies looked at long-term risk of heart attack," said Eric Rimm, one of the study authors at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Why would skipping breakfast be a heart attack risk?

Experts aren't certain, but here's what they think: People who don't eat breakfast are more likely to be hungrier later in the day and eat larger meals. Those meals mean the body must process a larger amount of calories in a shorter amount of time. That can spike sugar levels in the blood and perhaps lead to clogged arteries.

But is a stack of syrupy pancakes, greasy eggs and lots of bacon really better than eating nothing?

The researchers did not ask what the study participants ate for breakfast, and were not prepared to pass judgment on whether a fatty, sugary breakfast is better than no breakfast at all.

Other experts agreed that it's hard to say.

"We don't know whether it's the timing or content of breakfast that's important. It's probably both," said Andrew Odegaard, a University of Minnesota researcher who has studied a link between skipping breakfast and health problems like obesity and high blood pressure.

"Generally, people who eat breakfast tend to eat a healthier diet," he added.

The new research was released Monday by the journal Circulation. It was an observational study, so it's not designed to prove a cause and effect. But when done well, such studies can reveal important health risks.

The researchers surveyed nearly 27,000 men about their eating habits in 1992. About 13 percent of them said they regularly skipped breakfast. They all were educated health professionals ? like dentists and veterinarians ? and were at least 45.

Over the next 16 years, 1,527 suffered fatal or non-fatal heart attacks, including 171 who had said they regularly skipped breakfast.

In other words, over 7 percent of the men who skipped breakfast had heart attacks, compared to nearly 6 percent of those who ate breakfast.

The researchers calculated the increased risk at 27 percent, taking into account other factors like smoking, drinking, diet and health problems like high blood pressure and obesity.

As many as 18 percent of U.S. adults regularly skip breakfast, according to federal estimates. So the study could be important news for many, Rimm said.

"It's a really simple message," he said. "Breakfast is an important meal."

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Online:

Circulation: http://circ.ahajournals.org/

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/skipping-breakfast-may-increase-heart-attack-risk-210037837.html

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'Alarming' rise in children injured by falling TVs

CHICAGO (AP) ? Falling televisions sent nearly 200,000 U.S. children to the emergency room over 20 years and the injury rate has climbed substantially for these sometimes deadly accidents, a study found.

Doctors and safety experts say better awareness is needed about the dangers ? especially the risks of putting heavier, older model TV sets on top of dressers and other furniture young children may try to climb on.

Most injuries are in kids under 5; head and neck injuries including concussions are the most common.

"This is a problem that is increasing at an alarming rate," said lead author Dr. Gary Smith, a pediatric emergency specialist and president of the Child Injury Prevention Alliance in Columbus, Ohio.

Smith said it is unclear from the data what type of TV sets are involved in the accidents or whether older, heavier models are the most common culprit.

The study was published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

In 2011, 12,300 children nationwide got ER treatment for TV-related injuries, compared with 5,455 in 1990. The injury rate nearly doubled, from 0.85 injuries per 10,000 children aged 17 and younger in 1990 to 1.66 per 10,000 in 2011, the study found.

The researchers examined national ER data on non-fatal television-related injuries to kids from 1990-2011. In many cases, the set had been placed on a dresser and the child used open drawers as stairs to climb up and reach the TV, toppling it.

Over those two decades, 215 children died from these injuries, government data show, and news reports indicate that since January 2012, at least six young children have been killed nationwide by falling TVs.

Scott Wolfson, spokesman for the government's Consumer Product Safety Commission, said as flat screen TVs have become more popular, many families move heavier old TVs to bedrooms, placing them on dressers or other unsteady furniture not designed to hold them.

The commission urges parents to anchor furniture to the wall or floor with brackets or other specially designed tethers. TVs also should be anchored to sturdy surfaces, the commission recommends.

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UN group to issue warning about mobile phone hacking

Mobile

Jim Finkle Reuters

15 hours ago

NBC News

Experts say a potential security vulnerability has been found in some types of SIM cards, which are used in a wide variety of mobile devices.

BOSTON ? A U.N. group that advises nations on cybersecurity plans to send out an alert about significant vulnerabilities in mobile phone technology that could let hackers attack at least half a billion phones.

The bug, discovered by a German firm, lets hackers gain remote control and clone certain types of mobile SIM cards.

Hackers could use the compromised SIMs to commit financial crimes or engage in electronic espionage, according to Berlin's Security Research Labs, which will describe the vulnerabilities at the Black Hat hacking conference opening in Las Vegas on July 31.

The United Nations' Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union, which has reviewed the research, described it as "hugely significant."

"These findings show us where we could be heading in terms of cybersecurity risks," ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Tour? told Reuters.

He said the agency would notify telecommunications regulators and other government agencies in nearly 200 countries about the potential threat, and also reach out to hundreds of mobile companies, academics and other industry experts.

A spokeswoman for the GSMA, which represents nearly 800 mobile operators worldwide, said it also reviewed the research. "We have been able to consider the implications and provide guidance to those network operators and SIM vendors that may be impacted," said GSMA spokeswoman Claire Cranton.

Nicole Smith, a spokeswoman for Gemalto NV, the world's biggest maker of SIM cards, said her company supported GSMA's response.

"Our policy is to refrain from commenting on details relating to our customers' operations," she said.

Becoming the SIM
Cracking SIM cards has long been a holy grail for hackers, because the tiny devices are located in phones and allow operators to identify and authenticate subscribers as they use networks.

Karsten Nohl, the chief scientist who led the research team and will reveal the details at Black Hat, said the hacking only works on SIMs that use an old encryption technology known as DES. Nohl said he conservatively estimates that at least 500 million phones are vulnerable to the attacks he will discuss at Black Hat. He added that the number could grow if other researchers start looking into the issue and find other ways to exploit the same class of vulnerabilities.

The ITU estimates that 6 billion mobile phones are in use worldwide. It plans to work with the industry to identify how to protect vulnerable devices from attack, Tour? said.

Once a hacker copies a SIM, it can be used to make calls and send text messages impersonating the owner of the phone, said Nohl, who has a doctorate in computer engineering from the University of Virginia.

"We become the SIM card. We can do anything the normal phone users can do," Nohl said in a phone interview. "If you have a MasterCard number or PayPal data on the phone, we get that too," if it is stored on the SIM.

The newly identified attack method only grants access to data stored on the SIM, which means payment applications that store their secrets outside of the SIM card are not vulnerable to this particular hacking approach. Yet Nohl warned that when data is stored outside of a SIM card it could fall victim to a large range of other already known vulnerabilities, which is what has prompted the industry to put payment information on SIMs in the first place.

All types of phones vulnerable
The mobile industry has spent several decades defining common identification and security standards for SIMs to protect data for mobile payment systems and credit card numbers. SIMs are also capable of running apps.

Nohl said Security Research Labs found mobile operators in many countries whose phones were vulnerable, but declined to identify them. He said mobile phone users in Africa could be among the most vulnerable because banking is widely done via mobile payment systems with credentials stored on SIMs.

All types of phones are vulnerable, including iPhones from Apple, phones that run Google's Android software and BlackBerry smartphones, he said.

BlackBerry's director of security response and threat analysis, Adrian Stone, said in a statement that his company proposed new SIM card standards last year to protect against the types of attacks described by Nohl, which the GSMA has adopted and advised members to implement.

Apple and Google declined comment.

CTIA, a U.S. mobile industry trade group based in Washington, said the new research likely posed no immediate threat. "We understand the vulnerability and are working on it," said CTIA Vice President John Marinho. "This is not what hackers are focused on. This does not seem to be something they are exploiting."

Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.

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