SkyDrive.com gets a slew of photo and sharing upgrades

Just about a week after rolling out offline file access, Microsoft's file hosting service is getting a number of updates. This time the features are rolling out to SkyDrive.com, starting with support for devices with high DPI. The site will detect and match photos and thumbnails to the resolution of your display. Also on the docket is photo rotation and the ever-important ability to view animated GIFs in their full stop motion glory. There are also a couple of updates on the sharing side of things, including the ability to share individual groups of files from anywhere in your account, while a new shared view shows files you've shared at the top and stuff that's shared with you below. Oh, and when you send someone a document now, recipients can edit it without having to sign in. All of those upgrades and more can be checked out in further detail at the source link below.

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CBS: It was de Pablo's decision to exit 'NCIS'

"This publicity image released by CBS shows Cote de Pablo in a scene from "NCIS." De Pablo will not be returning to the series. CBS Corp. chief executive Les Moonves said Monday, July 29, 2013, that every effort was made to keep actress Cote de Pablo on TV's highest-rated show, "NCIS." (AP Photo/CBS, Cliff Lipson)

"This publicity image released by CBS shows Cote de Pablo in a scene from "NCIS." De Pablo will not be returning to the series. CBS Corp. chief executive Les Moonves said Monday, July 29, 2013, that every effort was made to keep actress Cote de Pablo on TV's highest-rated show, "NCIS." (AP Photo/CBS, Cliff Lipson)

This publicity image released by CBS shows, cast members, from left, Cote de Pablo, Sean Murray and Michael Weatherly in a scene from "NCIS." De Pablo will not be returning to the series. CBS Corp. chief executive Les Moonves said Monday, July 29, 2013, that every effort was made to keep actress Cote de Pablo on TV's highest-rated show, "NCIS." (AP Photo/CBS, Michael Yarish)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? CBS Corp. chief executive Les Moonves says every effort was made to keep the actress who plays Ziva David on TV's highest-rated show, "NCIS."

Moonves says Cote de Pablo was offered, in his words, "a lot of money" because the network didn't want to lose her from the crime drama. Moonves says the offer was then upped.

But he says the actress decided she didn't want to continue on the show.

He noted the social media outcry from de Pablo's disappointed fans, but asserted CBS did everything possible to keep her.

A representative for de Pablo didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

"NCIS" stars Mark Harmon as head of a Navy criminal investigations division. It returns for its 11th season this fall.

Associated Press

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UPDATE: Bicyclist killed in crash on East Washington Ave. identified

John Brendan Primm (Photo from Black Box Theatre Facebook page)

UPDATED Friday, July 26, 2013 --- 2:10 p.m.

The following message was posted Facebook page of Edgewood College's The Black Box Theatre:

We are so very sorry to share news of the death of one of our undergraduate students, John Brendan Primm. Brendan, age 22, died on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, as the result of a bicycle accident. We offer our deepest sympathy to his parents, Patricia Hallinan and John Primm. Brendan?s mother, Pat, is Director of Assessment, Graduate Advising and Curriculum/Instructor in the School of Business.

Brendan was preparing for his final year at the College where as a Theatre Arts major, he was a fully immersed and beloved member of the Theatre ?family,? a strong student leader, mentor and friend who was elected to the theatre assembly planning committee. Last summer he and another student worker in the department spearheaded the move to the new theatre. Brendan?s face was also very familiar to theatre patrons. He performed in The Arabian Nights, Bye Bye Birdie, The Cor Stories, Antigone, Wait Until Dark, The Improv Show, The Patient, and Comedy of Errors. He stage managed Our Town and directed Boxed In for the most recent Student Directed One Acts, and was a performing member of the theatre improv team, YesAnd. His Theatre family will dearly miss him.

Information about plans for services and a link to his obituary will be posted as they become available.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Brendan?s family and friends both here and in the larger community. Those in the college community who are most deeply affected by this loss are urged to seek support for yourself or others. Resources available include Personal Counseling Services at 663-2281; Dominican Life at 663-3451 or 663-3233, Health Center at 663-8334, and Dean of Students at 663-2212.

Please join me in sending our sympathy and hopes for healing to Brendan?s family, friends and all who knew him.

Jeanne Leep, on behalf of the Theatre Arts Department

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UPDATED Friday, July 26, 2013 --- 8:57 a.m.

The Dane Co. Medical Examiner has identified the bicyclist killed in Wednesday's crash on East Washington Ave. as 22-year-old John B. Primm of Madison.

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Posted Wednesday, July 24, 2013 --- 11:41 a.m.

A 22-year-old bicyclist is dead after a crash Wednesday morning on East Washington Ave.

Madison Police say the bicyclist was headed north on S. 1st St. when he collided with a SUV driving outbound on E. Washington Ave. The crash happened around 9:11 a.m.

The bicyclist was wearing a helmet. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. His name is being withheld at this time.

Police do not believe alcohol is a factor in this crash. No citations were issued to the SUV driver.

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Mysterious giant magnet attracts rock-star status

The electromagnet moves down Interstate 88 in Naperville, Ill., Friday, July 26, 2013 on its way to Batavia?s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The electromagnet is 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois. The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will use the gadget to study blazing-fast particles. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

The electromagnet moves down Interstate 88 in Naperville, Ill., Friday, July 26, 2013 on its way to Batavia?s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The electromagnet is 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois. The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will use the gadget to study blazing-fast particles. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

A worker walks underneath the electromagnet as it moves down Butterfield Road in Glen Ellyn, Ill., Thursday, July 25, 2013 enroute to its new home outside Chicago on Friday. The electromagnet is 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

A gigantic electromagnet ended its journey Friday, July 26, 2013 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. where it will be used to study particles. (AP Photo / Daily Herald, Emmalee Luckas)

In this undated photo provided by Brookhaven National Laboratory, a bird?s-eye view of the Muon g-2 ring, 50-foot electromagnet, is ready to be transported across the Brookhaven National Laboratory site on New York's Long Island. The gigantic electromagnet ended its tedious journey early Friday, July 26, 2013, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, near Chicago, where it will be used to study blazing-fast particles. (AP Photo/Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Caleb Bustin, 9, of Warrenville, Ill. watches from the fifteenth floor of Wilson Hall as a gigantic electromagnet ended its journey Friday, July 26, 2013 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, where it will be used to study particles. (AP Photo / Daily Herald, Emmalee Luckas)

GLEN ELLYN, Ill. (AP) ? It skipped tolls. It had a Twitter hashtag and a GPS tracker. It even posed for photos with groupies.

The 50-foot-wide, 15-ton electromagnet attracted a sensation wherever it went during its slow, delicate 3,200-mile journey from New York to suburban Chicago. The land-and-sea trip culminated when scientists threw a rock star's welcome for the mysterious, shrink-wrapped cargo on Friday as it arrived at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to help study blazing-fast particles.

"'Oh look, they found a flying saucer!'" retired software developer Chris Otis recalled thinking when he saw the massive, disc-shaped device when it made a pit-stop in a Costco parking lot.

Otis used his cellphone to take photos as he and others marveling the contraption wondered what would happen if it suddenly went live. Electromagnets need an electric current to work.

"I figure somebody at Fermilab is going to plug the damn thing in, turn it on and my watch is going to stop running, everybody's hearing aides are going to sail across the room," Otis said with a laugh. "I have no idea. Turn it on and the Martians will hone in on it."

Fermilab officials plan to use the magnet in a physics experiment called Muon g-2 that will study subatomic particles at their lab in Batavia, outside Chicago. The experiment will study the properties of muons, subatomic particles that live only 2.2 millionths of a second.

The results of the experiment could create new discoveries in the realm of particle physics, said Chris Polly, manager of the Muon g-2 project at Fermilab.

The hulking magnet is a hand-me-down from New York, where it was built in the 1990s with aluminum and steel by scientists at the Brookhaven National Lab on eastern Long Island. It has superconducting coils inside and, at the time it was built, was the largest electromagnet in the world.

Brookhaven scientists no longer had a need for the electromagnet, and shipping it to the Midwest for about $3 million was cheaper than the alternative. Constructing an entirely new electromagnet could have cost as much as $30 million, Polly estimated.

In any case, at least they did not have to pay tolls on the parts of the journey that took it over land.

"We've been assured that we don't have to pay tolls, but we're waiting to see if we get the violation notice in the mail. It'd be pretty hard to dispute," said Fermilab spokesman Andre Salles, who was among the magnet's traveling companions for about 10 days of the trip.

Moving the thing, however, was in some ways as complicated and as delicate a maneuver as building it. It could not be taken apart or twisted more than about an eighth of an inch without irreparably damaging the coils, Polly said.

It started its trip in late June, floating by barge down the East Coast into the Gulf of Mexico ? where it outran a tropical depression ? then up the Mississippi River, where it was photographed drifting past St. Louis' arch on its way into Illinois.

"We had to hurry up and get going through the Gulf of Mexico and really have the tugboat pour it on," Terry Emmert Jr., vice president of Emmert International, said while recalling the race to avoid the storm. His company moved the magnet across the country.

Earlier in the journey, it spent almost a week docked in Norfolk, Va., because of bad weather, but the team traveling with it found a welcome diversion.

"The port happened to be across the street from a minor league baseball stadium so the barge crew spent the whole week there," Salles said.

Just south of Chicago, it was hauled out of the water and strapped onto a specially made 16-axel flatbed truck for its final leg. It traveled at a mere 5 to 15 mph, with a behemoth bumper sticker informing puzzled onlookers that it was "Driving discovery in particle physics."

It was a night owl that traveled after dark when roads weren't as crowded, staging during the day at a Costco parking lot in suburban Bolingbrook and at a forest preserve.

Thankfully, no damage was done along the way.

"The whole thing went as smoothly as we could have wanted it to," Salles said.

The magnet had its own Twitter hashtag (#bigmove) so fans could keep up. And a specially built website with GPS to track the magnet became Fermilab's most popular page.

As word spread, thousands of people came out to watch it inch along. Some sat in lawn chairs. Others came to chat with the scientists. Television news helicopters swirled overhead.

With a police escort, it finally rolled into the suburban Chicago lab shortly after 4 a.m. Friday with an "oversize load" sign and a waving American flag.

During Friday evening's celebration, Fermilab planned a community open house and magnetic experiments and lessons for children.

The building where the magnet will ultimately be used is still under construction, so the magnet should be operational sometime in 2014.

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Keyser reported from Chicago. Associated Press reporter Ashley Heher contributed to this report from Chicago.

Associated Press

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Apple Responds to Chinese Deaths: Buy Our Chargers to be Safe

By Todd Haselton | July 25, 2013

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Apple recently issued an update on to its Chinese website instructing potential customers to only use its chargers. Why? Because of recent reports that two people have passed away as a result of electrocution ? possibly linked to using third party chargers.

?When you need to charge the iPhone or iPad, we recommend that you use the standard USB adapter and USB cable,? Apple advises on its site. ?These adapters and cables are also available separately from Apple and Apple Authorized Resellers. Apple always put the user?s safety first, so all of our products are subject to stringent safety and reliability testing, and designed to meet government safety standards around the world, including for the iPhone and iPad USB power adapter.?

The company also shows how to identify its official chargers, pointing specifically to the labeling on its wall warts. Apple?s chargers are more expensive than the ones you can pick up from third-party sellers, which often cost just a few bucks, but you don?t want to risk being electrocuted, do you?

Obviously a lot of people might jump to the conclusion that Apple just wants to make more money by telling people to buy its more expensive products, but it?s probably better to listen and buy something that keeps your product safe and, more importantly, you out of the way of harm.?

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Head of army reserve union seeks to stop misconduct action

The General Secretary of the Reserve Defence Force?s Representative Association (RDFRA) has brought a High Court action aimed at stopping disciplinary proceedings over alleged gross misconduct.

Thomas Walsh, General Secretary of the Association since 2008, is facing allegations of financial irregularities which he fears could result in his dismissal.

The allegations include he claimed payments to which he was not entitled, including for days when it is alleged he was away from his work place engaged as an assistant facilities manager on matchdays at Croke Park. It is also alleged he wrongfully submitted false and bogus claims for expenses which he was not entitled to.

Mr Walsh, who denies any wrongdoing, says he was shocked by the allegations and contends the disciplinary process is flawed.

Mr Walsh, Martinstown Lane, Ballysax, The Curragh, Co Kildare, claims he cannot get a fair hearing at the proposed disciplinary hearing. He says he was first made aware of the allegations last May shortly before he was due to return work after being out for some months on sick leave.

He claims he has not been provided with full details, including documents or the terms of reference underlying the investigation. The RDFRA, he claims, has refused to give him material required to fully defend the allegations in breach of his contractual and procedural rights to fair procedure.

He claims attended a meeting described as a fact finding inquiry last June with members of the RDFRA executive. He was asked questions about the alleged financial irregularities, told a report of their findings would be presented to the National Executive and matters would proceed from there, he claims.

During a recess, one of those questioning him told him it would be better if he resigned, he claims.

Last week, Mr Walsh obtained temporary injunctions preventing RDFRA continuing with the disciplinary process or dismissing him unless the process complies with natural and constitutional justice.

The Association rejects Mr Walsh?s claims and want the injunctions lifted. It denies the disciplinary process is unfair and argue Mr Walsh is well aware of the allegations against him.

When the matter was mentioned yesterday, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy was told there was some degree of urgency in having it determined. The judge adjourned the matter to next Tuesday.

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Nasty! Justin Bieber Spits On Fans In Vancouver!

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Justin Bieber is still acting like a total brat. Just weeks after he was caught peeing in the mop bucket of a New York restaurant, the Canadian singer has been snapped spitting from a balcony of a hotel. Photos show the 19-year-old singer leaning over the balcony above his fans with spit hanging out of ...

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Quantifying cities' emotional effects

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new Web tool could help measure subjective impressions of urban environments, which may have consequences for social behaviors.

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Golf clubs must improve course safety in wake of liability case

The Scottish Golf Union (SGU) issued a warning about on-course safety after the controversial case, which was destined for the Supreme Court, between Niddry Castle Golf Club in West Lothian and two golfers was settled.

Anthony Phee, who was a visitor to the course, lost an eye after being hit by a ball struck by fellow amateur player James Gordon ?in 2007.

Mr Phee was awarded ?397,034.82, with Mr Gordon liable for 70% and the club 30% due to its "failure to place signs at appropriate places".

Niddry Castle appealed the decision, arguing that 30% liability was unfair. But the appeal court in Edinburgh disagreed and substantially altered the award, finding the golf club 80% liable with just 20% liability attributed to Mr Gordon.

In its emailed communiqu? the SGU warned: "The recent decision of the Inner House of the Court Session on Phee v Gordon and Niddry Castle Golf Club makes it imperative that clubs give greater attention to general health and safety procedures, in particular the area of course hazards, and the insurance you have in place at your club.

"The court found the club's failure to warn was a significant failure and was of a greater magnitude than that of Mr Gordon."

The SGU said it was not apparent that the club's accident book has been readily available for the reporting of incidents of accidents caused by golfers.

Glasgow Life and South Lanarkshire Leisure & Culture who operate municpal courses both confirmed they are reviewing safety measures.

Glasgow Life said it was examining its guidance to players in the light of the judgment although it said its six municipal public courses were designed to minimise risk.

A spokeswoman for South Lanarkshire Council said a review is being undertaken "of our on-course risk assessments incorporating directional and safety signage".

Edinburgh Leisure said that after the court case it introduced compulsory golfers' insurance which covers individuals who play on their municipal courses.

David Moir, secretary of Cathkin Braes Golf Club, said it had carried out a risk assessment and new warning notices were now in preparation, although he did point out that "the wee white ball is easily hit poorly and travels in a direction which it is not intended on many occasions".

He said the signs "will help 'advise' members and guests of dangers from, for example, adjoining fairways".

He added: "There are already some signs on the course but these need to be improved.

"The more warning signs the better the chance of all members and guests and walkers on the course will be aware of the need for vigilance."

The SGU pointed out that Niddry Castle had encouraged visitors to play on the golf course, whether or not they were experienced golfers.

"It was not entitled to assume that the people walking on the course were aware of the rules of golf or how to respond to a warning shout," it said.

"It ought to have been aware that some golfers would be beginners or relatively inexperienced and it was not entitled to assume that all golfers would play in a safe manner all of the time."

The SGU added: "Golf clubs and responsible officials need to understand that the general duty of care to members, visitors and employees has not altered, however this judgment places an onerous responsibility on clubs to ensure that the appropriate risk assessments are completed and that members and visitors are fully aware of the rules of golf."

Kate Bennett of HBM Sayers Solicitors, representing Mr Gordon, expressed her client's relief following the appeal court's decision but said her client remained disappointed that there was no finding of negligence on the part of Mr Phee for his failure to respond to warning shouts.

She welcomed the Scottish Golf Union's decision to recommend golf clubs give greater attention to general health and safety procedures and insurance arrangements, adding that individual golfers are also encouraged to carry specialist golfers' insurance.

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Don't Go It Alone: How Do You Get the Support You Need? | Joslin ...

When the 2013 American Diabetes Association Medical Guidelines for Diabetes came out, they included a reference to patient support. This is a watershed in many ways because it recognizes in one fell swoop the impact of diabetes? chronic nature on the ability of people to manage the disease.? It acknowledges that all the clinical interventions and education in the world won?t be sufficient if patients do not receive continued support. It essentially says this disease is too hard to handle all on your own and we expect that you will need help (of differing amounts and kinds) as you life with diabetes goes on.

In fact, the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME) states ?While DSME is necessary and effective; it does not in itself guarantee a lifetime of effective diabetes self-care. Initial improvements in participants metabolic and other outcomes have been found to diminish after approximately 6 months. To sustain the level of self-management needed to effectively manage prediabetes and diabetes over the long term, most participants need ongoing DSMS? (Diabetes Self Management Support).

So let?s look at this concept of support.? What exactly is it and how can you make sure you get it?

Support can come in many guises from many different sources. It can be clinical, educational or emotional. And the amount and types of support people need varies over time.

The support needed from health care professionals is ongoing. Of course, clinical support is expected, but people with diabetes also need to know that someone is available to answer questions and provide guidance without being pedantic. Support often means presenting patients with options, explaining the benefits and possible consequences of those options, providing an expert (medical/educational) opinion as to which options make the most sense from a clinical perspective, and then accepting that the patient must make his or her own informed decision.

Although the National Standards (for education) were written to encourage clinicians and educators to provide people with diabetes with support, it doesn?t mean that all support must stem from only these avenues. People usually need assistance from family and friends to make it easier to manage the disease.

This type of support can consist of doing such things as serving diabetes friendly meals that the whole family can enjoy, including exercise in family activities or stepping back to allow the person with diabetes to make his own decisions regarding his food choices or the number of times he checks his glucose reading, whether or not it complies with some universal standard. It can mean offering your assistance without trampling on peoples? independence or privacy.

Employers are another group of people from whom people with diabetes may require support.? A supportive workplace is one where individuals are free to check their blood glucose or eat a snack without fear of retribution.

People with diabetes also need educational support.? In our fast-paced world information changes constantly. Knowing the most up-to-date material can make managing your diabetes easier. Many people use visits with their diabetes educators, nurses, dietitians and exercise physiologist as the foundation of this type of support. However, joining a cooking group, subscribing to an on-line chat group (that is moderated by a professional), consistently reading diabetes magazines or articles can also be a means of reinforcing your knowledge base.? Joining a gym, a weight loss program or a diabetes support group can help you keep up the activities of diabetes self-management.

So part of your interactions with your doctor, educator and family members should be around the support you need to help you pilot the plane. After all, if pilots need co-pilots surely people with diabetes need the assistance of others to safely navigate their plane through a difficult flight pattern.

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California-Riverside (SID): UC Riverside Athletics And The Aspire Group Announce Partnership

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Hazy UC visibility clouds videoconferencing surge - IT World Canada

Growing mainstream adoption of videoconferencing and cloud technology is being dampened by lack of visibility or enterprise management and IT administrators into unified communications (UC) user experience, according to a recent survey.

In general, enterprise organizations are moving beyond voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and more readily embracing technologies under the UC banner, according to Network Instruments LLC (NI), a provider of network appliance performance monitoring tools.

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The company?s 2013 State of Network report released today indicated that well over 61 per cent of respondents across the globe have deployed videoconferencing systems. About 70 per cent of those polled said they have deployed VoIP technologies in the workplace. The figures mark a 35 per cent growth in adoption of these two technologies over the last four years, NI officials said.

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The monitoring solution vendor interviewed 170 IT directors, IT consultants, network engineers and other IT professionals from businesses in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, North America and Australia on areas such as: UC adoption challenges, cloud trends and challenges; and key application management issues.

Key UC deployments were:

• VoIP ? 70 per cent
• Instant messaging ? 62 per cent
• Videoconferencing ? 61 per cent
• Web collaboration applications 52 per cent
• Fax over IP ? 25 per cent

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?Interestingly, despite the near ubiquity of UC technologies, organizations were reporting difficulties in gauging performance, how they were being used and the benefits they brought to the business,? said Charles Thompson, director of product strategy for NI. ?There was simply inadequacy of understanding due to a lack of monitoring tools.?

The top three UC management challenges reported by respondents were: Lack of visibility into user experience; difficulties in accessing bandwidth usage; and inability to view edge or branch environments.

The NI survey also reported that cloud adoption reached 70 per cent this year representing a 10 per cent increase from 2012 figures.

The top cloud computing technologies were:

• Internal private cloud ? 37 per cent
• Software-as-a-service ? 37 per cent
• Infrastructure as a service ? 18 per cent
• External private cloud ? 14 per cent
• Platform-as-a-service ? 11 per cent

Cloud technologies, according to Brad Reinboldt, senior product manager at NI, were primarily being used in: email (59 per cent); Web hosting (48 per cent); storage (45 per cent); testing and development (41per cent); and database hosting (32 per cent).

?However, respondents indicated that as cloud application ability improves (43 per cent), IT teams troubleshooting capabilities decreased (23 per cent),? said Reinboldt.

?For the sixth year in a row, the number one application challenge faced by organizations was identifying from which silo of IT app issues are coming from,? he said. ?As much as 68 per cent of respondents reported difficulty in determining whether problems are being caused by the network, the system or the application.?

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FDA: Menthol cigarettes likely pose health risk

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? A Food and Drug Administration review concludes that menthol cigarettes likely pose a greater public health risk than regular cigarettes but does not make a recommendation on whether to limit or ban the minty smokes ? one of the few growth sectors of the shrinking cigarette business.

The federal agency released the independent review on Tuesday and is seeking input from the health community, the tobacco industry and others on possible restrictions on the mint-flavored cigarettes.

The FDA evaluation concluded that there is little evidence to suggest that menthol cigarettes are more or less toxic or contribute to more disease risk to smokers than regular cigarettes. However, there is adequate data to suggest that menthol use is likely associated with increased smoking initiation by younger people and that menthol smokers have a harder time quitting, the review said.

There's also evidence indicating that menthol's cooling properties can reduce the harshness of cigarette smoke and that menthol cigarettes are marketed as a smoother alternative, the review said.

"Menthol cigarettes raise critical public health questions," Mitch Zeller, director of the Center for Tobacco Products, said in a conference call with reporters.

Zeller said there's "no holdup" on the FDA proposing restrictions on menthol but that there are still "some important questions" that need to be answered. The agency is commissioning further research.

A 2011 FDA advisory panel report, which was mandated under the 2009 law giving the agency the authority to regulate tobacco, made many of the same findings, and said that removing menthol cigarettes from the market would benefit public health and highlighted greater use among minorities, teenagers and low-income people. Panels like the tobacco committee advise the FDA on scientific issues. The agency doesn't have to follow its recommendations, but often does.

Meanwhile, a tobacco industry report to the FDA acknowledged that all cigarettes are hazardous but said there's no scientific basis for regulating menthols differently. The industry also has raised concerns that restrictions on menthol would lead to a black market for the cigarettes.

Menthol cigarettes are one of the few growth areas in a shrinking cigarette market. The percentage of U.S. cigarette smokers using menthol brands grew from 33.9 percent in 2008 to 37.5 percent in 2011, according to a study by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, with more significant growth among younger smokers.

The FDA is "simply kicking the can down the road," Joseph Califano Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter, and Louis Sullivan, former Health and Human Services Secretary for President George H.W. Bush, said in a joint statement. Along with other public health advocates Tuesday, they urged the agency to ban menthol cigarettes. "The failure of this administration to act undermines the public health and is particularly harmful to vulnerable young Americans and African-Americans," they said.

A menthol ban or other restriction on the flavored cigarettes would fall heavily on Lorillard Inc., whose Newport brand is the top-selling menthol cigarette in the U.S., with nearly 38 percent of the market. Lorillard, based in Greensboro, N.C., is the country's third-largest tobacco company.

CEO Murray Kessler said in a statement that Lorillard looks forward to participating in the regulatory process and reiterated its long-held belief that menthol cigarettes shouldn't be treated differently.

The move comes ahead of a Wednesday deadline for the U.S. to respond to the World Trade Organization's findings last year that the FDA's ban on manufacturing, importing, marketing and distributing candy-, fruit- and clove-flavored tobacco breaks trade rules because it exempts menthol cigarettes, most of which are made in the U.S.. The investigation was launched following a request from Indonesia, which claims more than 6 million of its people depend on the production of clove cigarettes ? a staple of the country's smoking culture.

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Palestinians, Israelis play down chances of imminent talks

By Ali Sawafta and Allyn Fisher-Ilan

RAMALLAH, West Bank/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israelis and Palestinians played down on Monday the prospects of their envoys meeting in Washington any time soon, and the White House said getting the two sides to agree a peace deal remained an "enormous challenge".

Palestinians said negotiations could not begin unless it was clear in advance that they would be about a future state based on pre-1967 borders, while an Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would seek the approval of his cabinet before going ahead.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, winding up months of intensive mediation, said on Friday that Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and his Israeli counterpart, Tzipi Livni, would join him in Washington "to begin initial talks within the next week or so".

The talks would be aimed at resuming negotiations stalled since 2010 in a dispute over Jewish settlement building on land Palestinians seek for a state.

But an Israeli official said "it looks like negotiations will begin only next week, not this week."

In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said: "We are working on a date for the parties to come to Washington in the coming weeks to move that process along."

Speaking of the prospects of a peace deal, he said: "This is an enormous challenge and has been an enormous challenge for Israelis and Palestinians, and for successive administrations here in Washington."

Netanyahu, some of whose ministers oppose negotiations that may yield land to the Palestinians, will seek their support for talks, either at the next full cabinet meeting on July 28, or from a session of the smaller security cabinet.

An official said Netanyahu hoped to persuade ministers to back the effort as "a strategic process to tighten relations with the United States," emphasizing the importance of close U.S. ties to cope with threats posed by Iran's nuclear program and by strife in Syria and Egypt.

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Netanyahu also vowed he would seek a public referendum before signing any peace deal, saying on Monday such a plebiscite "could prevent a rift among the people."

"Any settlement that isn't approved by the public should not be signed," Netanyahu told reporters, adding: "Achieving peace is a crucial goal for Israel."

Nabil Abu Rdaineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said chief negotiator Saeb Erekat had yet to be invited to Washington. When he does go, it would be firstly to determine the framework of negotiations, rather than to dive into more substantive talks, he said.

"If they reach an agreement over the details, in accordance with the Palestinian demands, then the launch of negotiations will be announced," Abu Rdaineh told Reuters on Monday.

Those demands, relayed by Abbas to Kerry, include Israel's recognition that a two-state solution would be predicated on pre-1967 borders, before the war in which Israel seized control of territories Palestinians seek for a state, and clarifications about a prisoner release Israel has agreed to as a goodwill gesture.

Israel said that, starting in September, it would free 82 Palestinians jailed before 1993, when the sides signed interim peace accords. But Qadoura Fares of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, an organization that works for the interests of inmates and their families, said Abbas wanted 103 people released.

In an interview with Jordan's Al-Rai newspaper, Abbas held out the possibility that, should diplomacy remain stalled, Palestinians - defying pressure by Israel and the Obama administration - would appeal to the United Nations at its annual assembly in September to support their borders claim.

Denouncing the West Bank settlements as illegal - a view shared by most world powers - Abbas said Israel should "get out of Palestinian land completely" though he voiced willingness to find a formula addressing its security concerns.

(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi and by Roberta Rampton in Washington; Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

(This story was refiled to correct the lead to clarify that it is a peace deal that White House considers "enormous challenge")

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Smartphone laggard Nokia picks up pace under CEO Elop

By Ritsuko Ando

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia CEO Stephen Elop recalls a meeting in August 2011 in which the company's leadership struggled to decide on the name of its new smartphone, the first using Windows Phone software.

"We almost fell into the trap that had often befallen Nokia, which was... let them work on it a bit longer because we couldn't quite reach agreement," Elop said. Instead, he demanded a decision that day.

"Why wait till tomorrow or next week? We could make the decision today. And we did." Lumia was the result.

Senior Nokia employees say Elop, hired in 2010 to revive the once-undisputed leader in mobile phones, has forced them to make faster decisions, which has sped up everything from restructuring to the development of new handsets.

There is no time to waste. Nokia's ability to compete in the global smartphone market is increasingly questioned; its market share is stands at around three percent, far behind Samsung and Apple which control around 50 percent between them.

Second-quarter Lumia sales missed market estimates, and with cash reserves falling, some investors worry how much time Elop has left to validate his decision to adopt Microsoft's untested Windows Phone software. The transition to Windows, which he said would take two years, is now in its third.

Nokia has picked up the pace of product launches this year, including the July 11 unveiling of its Lumia 1020 with a 41-megapixel camera.

Elop reckoned the company spent 22 months on the N8, which used the now-obsolete Symbian operating system and was launched shortly after he joined the company.

"A number of our Windows Phone products are on six to eight month delivery cycles. We are moving so much faster," he said.

Apple has been launching a new iPhone around once a year, and analysts have said it may need to speed its cycle up to compete with the frequency and variety of Samsung product launches. The South Korean company has close to 40 versions on the market compared with around 20 for Nokia.

Nokia's 1020 is the most advanced of its Lumia smartphones, and followed the 925 and 928 launches in May. In February, it introduced the more basic Lumia 520 and 521 models.

Also this year, it announced a 15-euro phone, its cheapest phone ever. It has also upgraded its line of feature phones with the Asha 210 and 310, as well as the more powerful 501 with built-in social media applications.

Elop said the older Nokia prioritized quality and features but was less disciplined about the time it took to deliver.

"There was a pattern in the past where, with Symbian and everything, lots and lots and lots and lots of things got added and it took a long time to get the quality up to the right level," he said.

It has cut one in three jobs under Elop, and some employees say the leaner structure means things get done faster.

BUZZ

Samuli Hanninen, who was in charge of building the imaging software for Lumia 1020 and had returned from its launch event in New York several days earlier, said he was enjoying the same kind of buzz he felt in his early days at Nokia a decade ago.

"We had a culture where we never gave up, we were always working very late, you could call guys at any point of the day to say this needs to be fixed," he said. "We somehow lost it. The process became more important than the product and consumer."

Elop, a Canadian and former Microsoft executive, replaced Olli Pekka Kallasvuo, who led the company from 2006 and was criticized for being complacent about the rise of smartphones.

Elop was the first non-Finn to become CEO of the 148-year-old company, which started as a paper mill and at one point made rubber boots. Many initially wondered whether he could fit in.

His enthusiasm quickly endeared him to staff. In person, he is quick to laugh and to offer jokes, with a down-to-earth style that has little in common with the Microsoft's Steve Ballmer or Apple's former CEO Steve Jobs.

He can also be blunt. In a now-famous 2011 email to staff, he compared Symbian to a "burning platform" that needed to be abandoned. The switch to Windows was a shock, but many said Elop won support with his frankness.

Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner who has followed the industry for over a decade, said the switch was the right choice and one that could only have been made by an outsider.

"You needed someone who wasn't personally invested, who could take a harsher look," she said. "If you'd been there, you'd obviously have been part of what the problem was."

DON'T BE ARROGANT

The problem, Elop says, was a stubbornness that came from years of being at the top. He says he has encouraged employees to adopt a "challenger mindset".

"What I really mean is, don't be arrogant," he said. "There's a number of examples over the last six, seven years, where Nokia heard trends but decided to ignore those trends because it felt that it somehow knew better... And that hurt the company badly for many years."

Alf Noto, head of Nokia's customer care division, said that approach was reflected in the way it now deals with customers. Elop answers around 10-20 customer emails each day, he said.

Others say Nokia has also become more humble towards its partners, including carriers and retailers who sell handsets, as well as developers who create the apps for phones.

"He took a lot of the arrogance out. For a while we were behaving like a market leader and we weren't," said Christof Hellmis, an executive at Nokia's Here navigation business.

Elop, however, has yet to prove he was right to switch to Windows, with Google's Android and Apple's iOS running around 90 percent of smartphones sold today.

He was speaking to Reuters the day before it announced it sold 7.4 million Lumia phones in the second quarter, a 32 percent improvement from the first quarter but fewer than the market's consensus forecast of 8.1 million units.

It chose not to predict future Lumia sales and some, including Pierre Ferragu at Bernstein Research, are skeptical about Nokia's ability to compete in smartphones.

Nokia shares, now around 3 euros, are a fraction of their 2000 peak of 65 euros, and its bonds have junk ratings.

Chris Weber, executive vice president in charge of global sales and marketing, said its expanded product line, as well as a joint marketing push with Microsoft and AT&T for the Lumia 1020, should help boost sales ahead.

Gartner's Milanesi was also optimistic.

"They're now behaving the way they should, fighting and thinking differently," she said. "Things don't change overnight... But I think the 1020 is going to be the spark to get customers to pay attention to Nokia."

(Additional reporting by Sinead Carew in New York; editing by Philippa Fletcher)

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GSK admits to breaking Chinese law in bribery scandal

GlaxoSmithKline has admitted that some of its China employees broke the law and promised to reform its business practices after revelations of a wide-ranging bribery scam that threatens to engulf its reputation in the fast-growing Asian market.

After a meeting with Chinese officials, Abbas Hussain, GSK?s emerging markets chief who was dispatched to China to tackle the rapidly unfolding scandal at the end of last week, said that executives had breached Chinese law.

It is the first time that the drugs maker has admitted wrongdoing in the case, which police say involved ?323 million of bribes funnelled to doctors, hospitals

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Strong earthquake in western China kills 47 people

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BEIJING (AP) ? A strong earthquake in a dry, hilly farming area in western China knocked down power lines and damaged scores of homes early Monday, killing at least 47 people and injuring nearly 300, the local government said.

The quake hit near the city of Dingxi in Gansu province, a region of mountains, desert and pastureland. Residents described shaking windows and swinging lights but little major damage and little panic. Tremors were felt in the provincial capital of Lanzhou 177 kilometers (110 miles) north, and as far away as Xi'an, 400 kilometers (250 miles) to the east.

"You could see the chandeliers wobble and the windows vibrating and making noise, but there aren't any cracks in the walls. Shop assistants all poured out onto the streets when the shaking began," said a front desk clerk at the Wuyang Hotel in the Zhang County seat about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the epicenter. The clerk surnamed Bao refrained from identifying herself further, as is common among ordinary Chinese.

With a population of 26 million, Gansu is one of China's more lightly populated provinces, although the New Jersey-sized area of Dingxi has a greater concentration of farms in rolling hills terraced with fields for crops and fruit trees. Dingxi has a total population of about 2.7 million.

The deaths and injuries were reported in Min County and other rural southern parts of the municipality, Dingxi Mayor Tang Xiaoming told state broadcaster CCTV. Tang said damage was worst in the counties of Zhang and Min, where scores of homes were damaged and telephone and electricity services knocked out.

Su Wei, leader of a 120-member rescue team from the paramilitary People's Armed Police, told state broadcaster CCTV that they were on their way to the epicenter, but progress was being slowed by mud and rock slides blocking the road.

The Chinese Red Cross said it was shipping 200 tents, 1,000 sets of household items, and 2,000 jackets to the area and sending teams from both Lanzhou and Beijing to help with relief work and assess further needs.

Heavy rain is expected in the area later in the week, raising the need for shelter and increasing the chance of further landslides.

The government's earthquake monitoring center said the initial quake at 7:45 a.m. (2345 GMT Sunday) was magnitude-6.6 and subsequent tremors included a magnitude-5.6.

The quake was shallow, which can be more destructive. The center said it struck about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) beneath the surface, while the Gansu provincial earthquake administration said it was just 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) deep.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude of the initial quake as 5.9 and the depth at 10 kilometers (6 miles).

Initial measurements of an earthquake can vary widely, especially if different monitoring equipment is used.

Dingxi is about 1,233 kilometers (766 miles) west of Beijing.

China's worst earthquake in recent years was a 7.9-magnitude temblor that struck the southwestern province of Sichuan in 2008, leaving 90,000 people dead or missing.

Associated Press

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Thomson Reuters CompuMark Introduces Trademark Analysis for iPad

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Why does Google Drive for Android say "Failed to open the document"?

Periodically, when I try to use Google Drive for Android, it will show the list of documents, and when I click one, it says:

"Failed to open the document. / Unable to open the document. Please make sure you are connected to the Internet and have permission to open the document and try again. / Cancel / Open in browser"

I had the problem Tuesday and couldn't open any documents; by Wednesday it was normal again; today it's back and I can't open any documents. The app is the newest version and has not released any upgrades in the meantime, so I'm thinking it may be caused by the server. Is that plausible? Is there a fix?

I am using Cyanogenmod 10 (Android 4.1.2) on a Samsung Captivate.

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Israel's Netanyahu says peace talks will be tough

JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister says he expects recently announced peace talks with the Palestinians to be tough, and that any agreement reached would have to be ratified in a national Israeli referendum.

Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Sunday at his weekly Cabinet meeting, his first on-camera remarks since U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced the resumption of peace talks over the weekend ? ending a five year deadlock.

Netanyahu said his main guiding principles will be to maintain a Jewish majority in Israel and to avoid a future Palestinian state becoming an Iranian-backed "terror state."

Final status negotiations aim to reach a deal on the core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including borders, the fate of Palestinian refugees and security arrangements. The Palestinians say talks will be based on Israel's pre-1967 borders.

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Apple and Facebook on tap

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

Eye on tech: Several major tech companies will report quarterly results, including Netflix (NFLX), Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500), AT&T (T, Fortune 500), Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) and Zynga (ZNGA).

The financial performance of these companies always garners a lot of attention. But investors are even more keenly awaiting them this time, because they come close on the heels of poor earnings reports from Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) and Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) last week, which dragged the Nasdaq down 0.3%.

Related: Microsoft plunges 11%, worst day since 2009

Other earnings: McDonald's (MCD, Fortune 500), Ford (F, Fortune 500), General Motor (GM, Fortune 500)s and Starbucks (SBUX, Fortune 500) will also report earnings. Boeing (BA, Fortune 500) will also release results, and investors will be listening closely to executives for any additional explanations on the spate of incidents, including fire, on its marquee 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

Housing in play: The housing market will be in focus, as well, this week. The FHFA housing price index, new home sales,home sales and MBA mortgage index are on tap throughout the week.

Home sales, home prices and construction have been on the rise so far this year, helped by low mortgage rates and a drop in foreclosures. In the last 10 weeks, however, mortgage rates have been climbing steadily, raising the cost of buying a home for potential buyers, even though rates are still low by historical standards.

Related: Scary times hit mortgage shoppers

Last week, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 ended a fourth straight week of wins. The S&P closed at yet another record high on Friday.

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson?s Wedding: ?Never Been Happier?

Posted on July 21st, 2013 at 7:00 am

Modern Family?s Jesse Tyler Ferguson exchanged ?I Dos? with lawyer Justin Mikita in a ceremony in Manhattan on Saturday, RumorFix is reporting.

After his wedding day, Jesse tweeted, ?Never been happier. XO Goodnight!?

Justin?s tweet was more succinct: ?Husband.?

RELATED: Modern Family Cast Trapped In An Elevator

According to Us Weekly, 200 guests joined the celebration including Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, Julie Bowen, Ty Burell, Jerry O? Connell, Rebecca Romijn, Zachary Quinto, Isaac Mizrahi?and husband, Arnold Germer,?Nigel Barker, Cat Deely, Mary Murphy, Tyce Diorio, and?Eric Stonestreet.

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Has Governor Brewer moderated her view of Mexico?

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By Karl Reiner When Gov. Brewer signed SB 1070 into law in April 2010, few of Arizona's political leaders had anything good to say about Mexico. SB 1070 provoked a conflict between federal and state enforcement responsibilities and generated numerous problematic civil rights issues. Picking up on the negative vibrations, Mexico's border state governors refused to attend the border governor's conference if it was held in Arizona in 2010. The publicity SB 1070 generated encumbered Arizona with an economy damaging negative reputation. It has been estimated that the SB 1070 affair cost the state a loss of output in the range of $250 million, resulted in the loss of 2,000 jobs and was responsible for a $9 million drop in tax revenue. Arizona's attempt to become involved in immigration policing also triggered a host of court battles, costing the state over $1 million in legal fees. In the end, much of SB 1070 was set aside by the courts. The widespread and unsettling reaction to the pricey endeavor may have encouraged the governor and some other state politicians to change their myopic view of Mexico. In remarks made at the Arizona-Mexico Commission's session on June 14 in Scottsdale, Gov. Brewer came across as an official who understands Arizona's complex border relationship. Although Gov. Brewer mentioned border security, she also noted that it alone does not define the Arizona-Sonora relationship. The governor's focus was on advanci ...

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Former pastor from St. Charles on run across America to help those in need in Africa

By Linda Girardi For the Beacon-News July 20, 2013 2:54PM

Former Pastor Steve Spear is running the equivalent of a marathon a day from coast-to-coast to raise $1.5 million for clean water in Africa. His cross-country path arrived in St. Charles on Saturday, where supporters and friends held a hometown rally for his efforts. | Linda Girardi~For Sun-Times Media

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Steve Spear of St. Charles is on a mission few people have accomplished.

?It has been the highest of highs and the lowest of lows,? Spear said.

Spear, 49, is running an average of a marathon a day from coast-to-coast to raise $1.5 million to provide clean water for a Kenyan village of 30,000 people.

The former pastor?s 3,243-mile path took him to St. Charles Saturday, where he was greeted with a hometown rally of about 300 friends and supporters in the parking lot of Dick Pond Athletics.

He began his run April 8 from the Santa Monica Pier in California, with a plan to reach New York City in August.

About 50 supporters joined Spear where the route began in Elburn Saturday and at two water stops in La Fox and west of St. Charles. The route crossed country roads leading to the Great Western Trail in western Kane County.

Shalise Hickman, of West Chicago, was one of the followers that joined him in the final seven-mile stretch at La Fox Road and Route 38. Another group joined him at a three-mile mark on Dean Street on the trail.

?Running with him gave me a snapshot of what he has been struggling with and persevering through. I am inspired,? Hickman said.

Spear said he is on his eighth pair of running shoes.

?Being with the energy of a group puts adrenaline in my veins,? he said.

Spear said he has had tremendous moments meeting people but other times the run has been brutal.

?I have a strong faith in God and feel his protection and the prayers of people,? he said.

Spear said for whatever reason he has a body type that seems to recover and stay immune to injury. He took up long-distance running for a cause seven years ago.

Spear left his work this year as pastor of a satellite church of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington to follow something close to his heart.

Spear initiated a ?Running for Water? campaign through Team World Vision, a Christian nonprofit organization that empowers groups and individuals to dedicate their sports and fitness goals to its efforts in Africa.

He had run a Chicago Marathon in 2007 and a 56-mile Ultra Marathon in Africa in 2009, both for Team World Vision.

His initiative was inspired by the millions of children around the world and a 7-year-old girl he met in Kenya.

Spear said he has a picture of Winnie in his RV.

?I think of her about 45 times a day, especially when it gets rough,? he said.

He said families have to walk six to 10 miles a day every day to collect contaminated water in old fuel containers, which weigh up to 50 pounds.

Spear made a mile and a half walk where Winnie and her mother draw water and after he experienced the contaminated water source and carried a container on his back it stayed on his mind.

?Water is something we take for granted,? he said.

Spear said almost a billion people on the planet don?t have access to clean water.

?It leads to disease and death and kids can?t be in school, especially girls because they are the majority of the water carriers,? he said.

He said World Vision has the largest, privately funded water project on the continent of Africa. He said $50 is all it takes for one person to have clean water for life.

For donations, visit teamworldvision.org/runningforwater.

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