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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Russian Hacker Gets a Taste of His Own Malware
After a persistent series of attacks on its government computers by a Russian hacker, the Republic of Georgia got mad and refused to take it anymore. In a reversal of roles, members of the country's Computer Emergency Response Team suckered the cybermiscreant into downloading a file infected with his own spyware that allowed CERT to photograph the alleged hacker with his computer's webcam and ransack its hard drive for files.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
3 family members killed, 2 hospitalized in Downey shootings - KPCC
Police are investigating shootings in Downey that killed three family members and sent another two to the hospital.
The shootings took place at a house and family-owned business on the same street. A man and woman were killed at the business, with a woman killed at the home, according to?Downey Police Lt. Dean Milligan.
One of the shooting victims who survived was a 13-year-old boy, who was shot in the upper arm. He's been giving the police more information, Milligan said.
"We don't believe this is a random act of violence but we are not sure why the suspect targeted the family," Milligan said.
Words were exchanged at both the home and the business, Milligan said.
Police are searching for a black Camaro that was reportedly stolen from the business after the shooting, KNX reports.
Nearby schools were placed on lockdown.
Below is a map with the approximate location of the shootings.
This story has been updated.
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Source: http://www.scpr.org/blogs/news/2012/10/24/10678/report-5-people-shot-2-dead-downey/
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Microsoft Surface review: The PC of the future needs more apps
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Microsoft's first tablet is beautifully designed outside but software still needs work
- One of the device's weakness is its small app selection
- The Surface starts at $499 for a 32GB model
(Time.com) -- When Microsoft first demoed Windows 8 at the Wall Street Journal's D Conference in June 2011, it was instantly obvious that it wasn't a Windows upgrade in the conventional sense. Instead, with its radically new, touch-centric interface, it was an attempt to reimagine the PC for the post-PC era. A wildly ambitious attempt ? maybe even a visionary one.
But for all Microsoft's power and influence over the PC industry, it was in no place to reinvent the PC single-handedly. Sure, it could write a new operating system. It could also make suggestions to its hardware-manufacturing partners, But it couldn't, you know, try to build the PC of the future.
Except that it did.
In June of this year, the company unveiled Surface, a pair of tablets it designed from scratch. (One, Surface with Windows RT, runs Windows RT, the version for devices based on ARM technology; the other, Surface with Windows 8 Pro, uses full-blown Windows 8 and isn't due until early next year.) They're iPad competitors, and that's important. But they're also PCs ? the first ones that Microsoft has created on its own in its 37-year history. As such, they're the clearest possible expression of where the company thinks the PC should go.
Surface for Windows RT goes on sale at Microsoft Stores and some temporary pop-up retail outlets, and at Microsoft.com, this Friday. It starts at $499 for a 32GB model: the same opening price as the current full-sized iPad, but with double the storage. Microsoft provided me with a unit for this review, and I've been using it for a little over a week.
If you were excited by Surface based on its unveiling in June of this year, I think there's a good chance you'll be excited by the shipping product. And if the idea left you skeptical ? well, you probably won't be won over by this initial incarnation.
At that June Surface event ? and then at a smaller press briefing at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters last week ? company executives spent so much time lavishing praise on their own design choices and technical innovations that I wondered if they'd somehow convinced Apple's Sir Jonathan Ive to tutor them.
It turns out that much of the self-laudatory hoopla wasn't wildly off base. The Surface hardware is indeed a beautiful piece of work, one that's worthy of comparison to Apple's designs even though many of Microsoft's specific choices are distinctly un-Applelike.
Its slate-colored magnesium case, manufactured using a process Microsoft calls VaporMg, is really, really nice. It's good-looking, it's sturdy and it helps keep the weight down ? Surface is only slightly heavier than the iPad at 1.5 pounds, even though it has got a substantially roomier 10.6? screen. Microsoft also says that the case is pretty much scratchproof, though you might want to be careful about tossing the tablet in a backpack: I noticed that the Windows logo on the backside of my review unit began scraping off almost immediately.
Surface has a kickstand ? a fold-out flap on the back, which, when used in conjunction with a keyboard cover I'll talk about in a bit, lets you use the tablet like an undersized laptop. The care that Microsoft poured into it shows: When it's closed it's flush with the rest of the case and when it's open it keeps the tablet perfectly stable. And the hinge has a luxe feel, reminiscent of the high-end car door Microsoft says was its inspiration.
(I just said that you can use Surface like a laptop, but when I first saw it, I wondered if the kickstand would prevent you from using it in your lap at all. Not in my experience: I was able to balance it and the keyboard cover on my thigh without worrying too much about the whole contraption tipping over.)
That 10.6? screen has 1366 by 768 pixels; Microsoft used its ClearType technology to improve text display, and glued the touchscreen directly on the LCD, which makes for a thinner, less reflective display. At the Redmond press event, a Microsoft engineer argued that despite the lower resolution, the screen beats the iPad's 2048 by 1536 Retina display in some circumstances; he also said that people who are 45 and above generally can't tell a Retina screen from a lower-resolution one.
My 48-year-old eyeballs have no trouble telling the difference between iPad Retina text and the Surface's ClearType ? but overall, the Surface's screen is one of the best I've seen on a tablet.
The screen, incidentally, is 16:9, an aspect ratio designed with Windows 8?s panoramic interface in mind. It lets you see more apps without panning, and is well suited to the feature that allows you to snap a widget-like version of one app on the side of the primary program you're using. Microsoft thinks Surface buyers will use the tablet mostly in landscape mode; it works in portrait orientation too, although the aspect ratio leaves it looking like a small-but-tall magazine.
Surface has basic cameras on the front and back, as you'd expect from any $499 tablet. It also has a USB port and a MicroSDXC slot that lets you add extra storage, two features that add to its PC-like personality. Microsoft doesn't seem to be making a claim about battery life except to say that the tablet is designed for "all day" use, and in my time with it, it lived up to that vague claim.
One minor nit about the hardware: I found that I needed to wriggle the magnetic power connector into place in a way I don't with Apple's MagSafe connectors or even run-of-the-mill, nonmagnetic ones.
So that's Surface's basic hardware ? not flawless, but darn nifty overall. If it ran Android, people might well conclude that it was the best Android tablet on the market.
But this tablet is defined by its operating system: Windows RT.
Despite the lack of an "8? in its moniker, RT has precisely the same user interface as Windows 8. It has the colorful Start screen with auto-updating Live Tiles, each leading to an app or service. It runs the same bundled Windows 8-interface apps: Internet Explorer, Bing, e-mail, a calendar, a news app and more. Everything's touch-friendly and fluid. It's not the Windows we've known, but it's a good start on an interface that might carry Microsoft through the next couple of decades of computing.
Like Windows 8, RT has the Desktop, an area that's essentially Windows 7, except without the Start button. As with Windows 8, switching back and forth between new Windows 8-style apps and the Desktop can be an oddly disjointed experience, as if you're teleporting between two very different planets with very little warning.
On Windows 8, the Desktop has a huge saving grace: It lets you use any old-school Windows program. Windows RT, however, can't run them. They were all written for computers based on x86 (Intel) technology, and are incompatible with Surface's ARM processor.
So why is Desktop there at all? Mostly to run four Microsoft Office 2013 programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. All come bundled with Surface, and all are largely identical to their Windows 8 counterparts, despite being "preview" editions. (Surface buyers will get the final versions free.)
Anyone who's ever struggled to get work done on a tablet with a stripped-down office suite in a Microsoft Office world will appreciate certain things about Surface's Office apps. They support the official Office file formats perfectly and have industrial-strength features such as Word's revision tracking.
Still, I found them the least satisfying thing about Surface. They're the one part of this product Microsoft hasn't reimagined. Instead, it has just tweaked the apps slightly, giving them a Windows 8-type look in certain areas and rejiggering everything else to make it slightly easier to use with a fingertip rather than with a mouse. They work, but the whole experience feels like an exercise in compromise. (I have my fingers crossed that Microsoft has a real Windows 8-style version of Office in the works.)
If you plan to use Office much, you'll certainly want one of Microsoft's keyboard covers; the Touch Cover isn't included with the base $499 Surface, but a black model comes with the $599 version, and additional colors are available for $119.99 apiece. Snap one on, using the magnetic connector, and the Start screen automatically changes color to match ? pretty stylish.
The Touch Cover is super-thin and clicks on and off in a jiffy. (I did find that I occasionally had to remove it and reclick to make it work.) The keyboard's on the inside and draws power from the connector; there's no need to futz with Bluetooth or worry about charging it. The nonkeyboard side has a fleecy surface that feels great in your hand, and the whole thing folds back.
When I first saw this cover in June, I kept an open mind about it. In fact, my mind was so open that I wondered if Microsoft had managed to produce a flat, one-piece keyboard that wouldn't leave many people pining for clacky mechanical keys.
Actually, even at the June event, the company had tipped its hand: It also showed off the Type Cover, which is much like the Touch Cover except that it has discrete keys with real travel. If the Touch Cover had been a miracle, there wouldn't have been a need for the Type Cover.
But if your benchmark is on-screen keyboards rather than conventional physical ones, you might be tickled with the Touch Cover. The keys are surprisingly spacious and there's no need to fumble through multiple modes to get to digits and punctuation. More important, moving the keyboard off the screen frees up the full screen resolution for whatever app you're using ? a plus in all scenarios, and close to a necessity with the Desktop Office apps, all of which work better when they don't have an on-screen keyboard in the way.
As with any unfamiliar input device, I got more comfortable with the Touch Cover as I used it. But if I were buying a Surface to use for anything other than extremely light productivity, I'd spring for the $129.99 Type Cover instead. It's also impressively thin, but comes infinitely closer to a notebook-like feel.
Both the Touch Cover and the Type Cover sport a tiny touchpad. It's approximately the size of an unfolded matchbook, and I found it adequate in a pinch, but nowhere near as nice as a full-sized touchpad on a full-sized notebook. (With the Windows 8 experience, the bigger the touchpad, the better the experience.) With a cover on, I tended to do as much as possible from the keyboard, and simply touch the screen otherwise.
With Office and a Desktop version of Internet Explorer as Surface for Windows RT's only major traditional-Windows apps, anyone who plunks down $499 or more for a Surface today will be largely dependent on Microsoft's Windows Store for software. That's the biggest gamble such buyers are making. Windows 8 is launching with 5,000 apps in the U.S. version of the Windows Store, most of which should be available for Windows RT; they include name-brand wares such as Evernote, Hulu, Netflix, Microsoft's own Skype, TuneIn, a bunch of games and more.
Many of the Windows RT apps I tried make smart use of the Windows 8-style interface. Compared to the 275,000 iPad-optimized apps in Apple's store, though, there simply isn't much there. If Surface's earliest adopters are pleased with their purchase a year from now, it'll be because the Windows Store's offerings got beefier fast; if they're nonplussed, it'll be because the selection remained too meager.
All of which leads to one question: Who should consider buying a Surface with Windows RT? Not anyone who wants the most fully fleshed-out tablet experience right now ? for that, the iPad still has no rival.
Surface offers slick industrial design, an inventive interface, full-blown Office apps that haven't been truly optimized for tablets and two very clever keyboard options. If part or all of that proposition appeals to you ? and you're optimistic about the Windows Store ? this tablet is worth a look. For an audacious version 1.0 product, it's impressive. Now it's up to Microsoft to prove that it's serious enough about this PC business to forge ahead with Surface until it's impressive, period.
This story was originally published on TIME.com
© 2012 TIME, Inc. TIME is a registered trademark of Time Inc. Used with permission.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/tech/mobile/microsoft-surface-reviewed/index.html?eref=rss_latest
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Is Your Business Online? Learn The Tips To Successful Internet ...
It may seem relatively easy to jump in with Internet marketing without researching, but it?s vital that you understand the way to do it right. You can acquire some useful information by reading through this article.
Use ?guaranteed? in your text to enhance your readers? trust in your product or service offerings, and increase your marketing success. Even though your guarantee offer is only as solid as your company, you will help customers feel they are shielded from any risk by purchasing your product. People are squeezed due to the bad economy, so they don?t take purchase decisions lightly. A guarantee can give them some measure of assurance.
The things that ensure Internet success is not always a set formula and creativity is an important component. Before you begin Internet marketing, try to both aspects. Be analytical of relevant data while expressing your creative side through the aesthetics and theme of your site.
Look into testing the emails that you send out to see what your customers think and how they respond. One method to try is called A/B testing. Create an email, and then change up one thing in it. You could alternate different email subjects, try different calls to action, or vary the introduction paragraphs. Each unique version of the email should be distributed to a random, comparably sized portion of your mailing list. Next, measure the success of each version. Whichever one works best is the one that you should use for the rest of your emailing campaign.
Direct marketing is another way to improve your Internet marketing campaign. You can reach your customers by phone, email, or fax to let them know the specials and services you have. Also, take a look at your yellow pages and phone books to acquire available information.
When using images and pictures on your site, make sure to include captions. Search engine algorithms will factor the relevancy of text in the captions in to how relevant your site is to a keyword being searched. Using captions can help your pages rise in the SERPs.
Try using product pages that have things like photos and videos to convince the audience that they should get your product. They will be able to see the product?s features with their own eyes and will feel more confident about it. This tells them that you are just supplying information; the choice of whether to buy or not is entirely up to them.
For example, a website developer can partner with a writer, and you can both offer customer discounts. Your partner and your can offer discounted bundles and lateral services to both your client bases.
If you are trying to find a niche market, learn what people are complaining the most about. How can this be? In this way you can locate similar problems in need of solutions. Try creating a FAQ to answer everyday issues. Filling a specific niche that has gone unnoticed is a good way to ensure success.
It would take extensive articles and books to explain every aspect of Internet marketing, yet all successful businesses need to start somewhere. The best and most successful know that they never stop learning and you can learn right along with the best with the advice in the article above.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
With iPad And iBooks In 2500 U.S. Classrooms, Apple Reaffirms Commitment To Education With Updated iBooks Author
There?s been plenty of buzz about the iPad mini and the potential role in could play in reaffirming Apple?s commitment education, and now CEO Tim Cook is spending some time on stage to discuss the sort of impact immensely-popular tablet has had in schools. After noting that the iPad (and iBooks) has now found a home in 2500 classrooms in the U.S., Cook revealed that a new version of the company's iBooks Author will be available for free today.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ikFg_ldyAVk/
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Final Presidential Debate 2012, Thread Four, Wrap-Up Part 2 (Little green footballs)
Britain to double number of drones in Afghanistan: report
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Survey says: The biggest readers in the U.S. are ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most likely book readers in the United States are high-school students, college-age adults and people in their 30s, with e-book use highest among 30-somethings, a survey released on Tuesday showed.
Seventy-eight percent of Americans had read at least one book in the previous 12 months, with the rate 83 percent among those aged between 16 and 29, according to the survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project.
The survey is part of Pew's effort to assess U.S. reading habits as e-books change the reading landscape and the borrowing services of libraries.
The highest percentage of readers by age was 88 percent, among the 18-24 age group, followed by 86 percent in the 16-17 range. Readers in the 30-39 group trailed at 84 percent.
The lowest percentage of readers was among people older than 65, at 68 percent. The survey covered books in print, in electronic formats and audiobooks.
Among Americans who read e-books, those under 30 are more likely to read them on a cell phone, at 41 percent, or on a computer (55 percent) than on an e-book reader (23 percent) or tablet (16 percent).
Forty-seven percent of younger Americans read long-form e-content such as books, magazines or newspapers. But the highest e-book use was among people 30 to 39, at one quarter.
The findings were the result of a phone survey of 2,986 people aged 16 and older conducted between November 16 and December 21. The margin of error is 2.2 percentage points.
In a separate May 2012 survey, 60 percent of respondents under 30 said they used a library in the past year.
"Many of these young readers do not know they can borrow an e-book from a library, and a majority of them express the wish they could do so on pre-loaded e-readers," the Pew report said.
The library survey was done online, with 6,573 people answering at least some questions and 4,396 completing the questionnaire. No margin of error was given.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson; editing by David Brunnstrom)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/biggest-readers-u-teens-30-somethings-survey-040721665.html
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Massive day for San Jose soccer
What a day for the San Jose Earthquakes, who poured a lot of history into one afternoon.
It did not end perfectly as the club could manage only a 2-2 draw with the Galaxy. But in the big picture that singular result in one little ol? soccer game doesn?t mean a thing.
The Earthquakes had officially captured the Supporters Shield a night before, when Sporting Kansas City failed to grab all the points in a draw at New York. Long, slow applause for that one.
With a brave header in the second half of Sunday?s contest, Chris Wondolowski moved a step closer to historic heights. So many will be pulling for him in this week?s season finale, as he attempts to match Roy Lassiter?s 17-year-old record for most goals over a single MLS season.
(MORE: Chris Wondolowski?s 26th goal of 2012)
But again, the match and the individual heroics are radar blips in the big, big picture for owner Lew Wolf (pictured, along with ? uh ? well, he?s pictured) and his club. ?San Jose?s well-attended ground-breaking on a new 18,000-seat facility (set to open in 2014) is what really matters.
The organization even broke a Guinness world record (quaint as Guinness world records seem these days) for the largest groundbreaking. Some 6,256 fans had small shovels and dug for two minutes in the ceremonial construction start.
We keep saying it ? but it continues to be true. Nothing matters more in Major League Soccer?s ongoing development than getting clubs into their own, dedicated facilities. TV contracts are important, too ? but these new arenas were always the first building blocks in that initiative, too.
As successful as San Jose has been on the field and at the gate in 2012, existence as a renter, stripped of opportunities to control all those important revenue streams, is not sustainable for any franchise.
Further, nothing establishes a sense of permanence and staying-power like a physical building. It helps to establish ?place? in the community and it tells fans, media and potential sponsors ?we aren?t going anywhere.?
San Jose?s facility will be the 15th to constructed or rebuilt specifically for an MLS club.
Source: http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/22/what-a-massive-day-it-was-for-san-jose-soccer/related/
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Bullying May Be Linked to Mental Disorders - Health News and ...
MONDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) ?
Children with mental health disorders are more likely than other kids to be bullies, a new study finds.
Researchers analyzed data from children ages 6 to 17 included in the 2007 U.S. National Survey of Children?s Health and found that more than 15 percent were identified as bullies by a parent or guardian, and that children with mental health disorders were three times more likely than their peers to bully other children.
The researchers also focused on the link between specific mental health disorders and bullying. Depression was associated with a three-fold increased risk of being a bully, while a diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder increased the risk six times.
The study was scheduled for presentation Monday at an American Academy of Pediatrics meeting in New Orleans.
?These findings highlight the importance of providing psychological support not only to victims of bullying, but to bullies as well,? study author Dr. Frances Turcotte-Benedict, a Brown University master?s of public health student and a fellow at Hasbro Children?s Hospital in Providence, R.I., said in an AAP news release.
?In order to create successful anti-bullying prevention and intervention programs, there certainly is a need for more research to understand the relationship more thoroughly, and especially, the risk profile of childhood bullies,? she added.
Bullying was defined as repetitive aggression involving a difference of power between the victim and perpetrator.
A 2011 nationwide survey found 20 percent of U.S. high school students were bullied during the preceding 12 months. It is well-established that victims of bullying are at increased risk for mental health illness and suicide, but few studies have examined the mental health status of bullies.
Data and conclusions presented at medical meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
More information
You can learn more about bullying at stopbullying.gov.
? Robert Preidt
SOURCE: American Academy of Pediatrics, news release, Oct. 22, 2012
Last Updated: Oct. 22, 2012
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Pope creates first Native American saint
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A statue of St. Kateri Tekakwitha in Auriesville, New York, seen on Friday.
By Claudio Lavanga, NBC News
VATICAN CITY - She was known as Lily of the Mohawks, or the Pocahontas of the Catholic Church. But on ?Sunday, Kateri Tekakwitha went down in history as the first Native American saint.
Born more than 300 years ago in the Mohawks village of Ossernion - today Ausierville, forty miles from Albany NY - she was one of seven people canonized by Pope Benedict XVI Sunday in an open-air ceremony held in Saint Peter?s Square.?
One of the remaining six was also American: Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun who cared for leprosy patients in Hawaii.
Kateri had a short life ? she died at 24 ? and yet, as for most saints, her devotion to Christianity, sacrifices and ?heroic virtue? were so inspirational that her legacy survived for generations.
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Pope Benedict XVI kisses the altar as he celebrates a canonization ceremony, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday.
Her mother was a Christian Algonquin woman who was captured during a raid and given as wife to a Mohawks tribal member. She was born in the middle of the 17th century, a time of infighting between rival American tribes, deadly diseases and colonization. And a time when French Jesuit priests preached in the area, trying to convert locals to Christianity.
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Kateri was only four years old when a smallpox epidemic spread among the Mohawks tribe. Her parents and younger brother were killed and although she survived she was left with permanent scars on her face and an impaired vision. The Jesuit priests were held accountable for having brought the disease, and three of them were slaughtered.
And yet, at the age of 20, Kateri swapped the Totem for the Crucifix.
She converted to Catholicism after living close to French Jesuit priests, something her family and village saw as a betrayal for siding up with colonizers. She soon became a pariah in her own tribe after refusing to marry a Mohawk man, and was forced to leave the village to practice freely her new faith. She walked hundreds of miles to Quebec, Canada, to join a community of Christian women, and took a vow of lifetime chastity.
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Soon her devotion led to self-inflicted painful penances. She is believed to have walked barefoot in show, for whipping herself bloody with reeds, praying hours in an unheated chapel on her bare knees on a cold stone floor or for sleeping on a bed of thorns.
In the end, the punishing penances are believed to have contributed to the weakening of her health, until her premature death at 24 years old. And it was immediately after her death, the legend goes, that it became clear she would be on her way to sainthood. Her smallpox scars, witnesses claimed, miraculously disappeared minutes after her death.
Although the petition for her canonization was filed in 1884, she was only blessed ? the first step to become a saint ? by Pope John Paul II in 1980.
The miracle that sealed her sainthood came in 2006, when Jake Finkbonner, then a 5-year old boy from Ferndale, WA, miraculously recovered from a flash-eating bacteria, allegedly through Kateri?s intercession. Jake contracted Necrotizing fasciitis, a potentially deadly infection, after cutting his lip on a baseball field. In a matter of days, his condition became so critical his parents gave him his last rites and discussed donating his organs.
When medical help seemed hopeless, his father Donny, a Catholic member of the native American Lummi tribe, turned to Kateri, already an icon in the local catholic community and the subject of many stories he heard as a child. His congregation prayed Kateri and his mother even placed a small relic, a small piece of Tekakwitha?s wrist bone, on his body. ?Soon after, Jake recovered.
On his website, Jake also remembers the role played by doctors: ?Please don't confuse the issue which is that my survival is a miracle?, he writes.? ?We thank the doctors at Children's Hospital for all that they did to save my life.? I wouldn't be here without them?.
Pope Benedict's XVI former butler took the stand in a Vatican courtroom and admitted to stealing private documents from the papal apartment, but ?Paulo Gabriele said he didn't feel guilty of aggravated theft.? He also said he feels guilty of betraying the pontiff's trust.? NBC's Claudio Lavanga reports.??
The canonization of Kateri has been welcomed with mixed feelings in the 2.5 million-strong Native American community. While most of the 680,000 catholic Native Americans are thrilled to finally have their own saint and icon, others still resent the role of Catholicism during the colonial era and the way it affected the indigenous traditions, culture and customs.?
The Vatican's complicated saint-making procedure requires that the Vatican certify a "miracle" was performed through the intercession of the candidate ? a medically inexplicable cure that can be directly linked to the prayers offered by the faithful. One miracle is needed for beatification, a second for canonization.?
The five other new saints are: Jacques Berthieu, a 19th century French Jesuit who was killed by rebels in Madagascar, where he had worked as a missionary; Giovanni Battista Piamarta, an Italian who founded a religious order in 1900 and established a Catholic printing and publishing house in his native Brescia; Carmen Salles Y Barangueras, a Spanish nun who founded a religious order to educate children in 1892; and Anna Schaeffer, a 19th century German lay woman who became a model for the sick and suffering after she fell into a boiler and badly burned her legs. The wounds never healed, causing her constant pain.
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Bus crash in Iran kills 26 schoolgirls
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The worst business decisions of all time
By Douglas A. McIntyre, Ashley C. Allen, Samuel Weigley and Michael B. Sauter,?24/7 Wall Street?
In the long history of poor management decisions made at major American companies, only a few proved to be fatal. It is hard to ruin a company with a single decision. That is especially true when the company has the advantages of huge market share, large and rising revenue, and a history of success. But not all bad decisions are created equal. 24/7 Wall St. set out to identify the worst business decisions of all time. These decisions cost these companies billions of dollars and, eventually, their independence.
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Bad business decisions result in financial loss. The worst business decisions lose companies billions in revenue. Our editors relied on Fortune magazine?s annual list of the largest 500 companies ranked by revenue to identify the companies that were the biggest in America and, as a result, capable of losing the most money.
To make the initial cut, companies had to be on the Fortune 100 list for at least 10 consecutive years and then drop off the top 100 ranking for good. We then looked for the companies that made a single identifiable decision that cost them significant revenue and ultimately led to their decline. Based on this cut, 24/7 Wall St. identified the eight companies that suffered from the worst business decisions of all time.
Inclusion at the top of the Fortune 500 is hard to get, but, once won, it is also hard to lose. Nearly three-quarters of 2012?s 100 largest companies have been in the top 100 for at least a decade. This includes 23 that have been there for a quarter century, as well as 13 companies that have been on the list since it debuted in 1955. Even if a company falls out of the top 100, it usually remains a large company for a long time. Seventy companies from the original Fortune 100 are still somewhere on the Fortune 500 list.
Most bad business decisions are not fatal. General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) has made several mistakes, none as harmful as the decision to continue to manufacture large vehicles when the market was trending toward smaller cars. These poor judgment calls led to GM?s bankruptcy in 2009, but with the help of a government bailout it remains in the Fortune 100 today. This is not the case with the companies on this list. The decisions made at these companies eventually ruined each of them.
The worst bad decisions fall into three categories. The managements of Lehman Brothers and Firestone were simply reckless. Leading up to the housing collapse, Lehman executives overleveraged the investment bank, far more than any other large financial institution. Firestone hastily tried to expand into production of a new kind of tire. Both companies ignored internal warnings that their decisions were highly risky.
In the case of Kodak and Motorola, management missed tectonic shifts in their industries until it was too late. Motorola held on to its old cellphone business too long, failing to leverage its Razr brand or couple it with a smartphone until the brand had lost its relevance. Kodak, which actually held a patent for digital cameras well before they were mass produced, eventually was left behind by other digital camera manufacturers like Fuji and Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) that moved quickly to establish market dominance.
Kmart, meanwhile, showed a general lack of foresight. The retailer failed to create modern supply chain management that could support an increase in customers, something it should have expected following its price war with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and aggressive advertising.
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To identify the worst business decisions of all time, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed all Fortune 500 companies since 1955 that have, at any point, been in the top 100 for at least 10 years, but were no longer among them in 2012. A company needed to have either filed for bankruptcy protection or been acquired. The declines in the company?s fortunes also had to have been traced to one identifiable bad decision. For each of these companies, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed revenue and sales data, obtained from Capital IQ, as well as stock price performance.
1. Motorola
- Years on Fortune 500: 56
- Peak Fortune 500 rank: 23 (1994)
- Peak revenue: $43.7 billion (2006)
- Current status: Split, Mobility unit sold
The success of the thin and stylish Razr cellphone drove Motorola?s 22 percent market share in mobile phones in 2006. However, the company failed to launch a new generation of smartphones leveraging the Razr brand, and by 2007 the company was selling the traditional cellphone at a discount. By the time the company released a new line of Razr phones in 2010, Motorola had to compete with products such as the iPhone and BlackBerry. While sales in 2006 were more than $43 billion, they were only $22 billion by 2010. Between October 2006 and March 2009, the company?s shares fell more than 90 percent from over $107 to less than $13. Motorola Mobility, now owned by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), had 11.2 percent market share of mobile phones in Aug. 2012, according to comScore. Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, released in 2007, had a 17.1 percent market share.
2. Lehman Bros.
- Years on Fortune 500: 14
- Peak Fortune 500 rank: 37 (2008)
- Peak revenue: $59.0 billion (2007)
- Status: Went bankrupt
During the final few years of the housing bubble, Lehman Brothers increased the amount it borrowed to buy more mortgage-backed securities and real estate. By 2007, the company?s leverage ratio was at least 31-to-1, meaning it borrowed $31 for every $1 in equity. This brought Lehman Brothers huge profits in the boom era but became a serious problem once the housing bubble burst. The firm was unable to unload those assets onto the market once home and commercial real estate prices began falling, leading to unsustainable losses. While other investment banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), were heavily leveraged as well, they were able to survive by becoming bank holding companies eligible to receive the necessary emergency funds from the government to continue operations. Those aid programs however, became available too late for Lehman, which went bankrupt in 2008. A federal-bankruptcy-court-sponsored report later found that Lehman and its accounting firm partner, Ernst & Young, used misleading accounting tactics to conceal the extent of Lehman?s overleveraging, which the authors claimed was as high as 44-to-1. Both Lehman executives and Ernst & Young denied these claims. Between 1999 and 2007 Lehman?s revenue grew from less than $19 billion to more than $59 billion. During that time, the company?s rank on the Fortune 500 rose from 88th to 37th.
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3. Firestone
- Years on Fortune 500: 34
- Peak Fortune 500 rank: 24 (1956)
- Peak revenue: $5.3 billion (1979)
- Current status: Bought out
Firestone began manufacturing radial tires in 1972 to lengthen the life of the products. The company used a new technique to get its tires to market ahead of competitors. That year, after Firestone?s tire was in production, company documents reported that the rubber came off the wire when the tire was in use. Despite these problems, the company continued to manufacture the tires throughout the 1970s to satisfy demand from customers like General Motors. But following pressure from the government and consumer advocacy groups that were concerned about the safety of the tires, the company recalled approximately 10 million tires in 1978. Initially, Firestone blamed tire failure on substandard maintenance by the consumer. However, an investigation by the National Highway and Traffic Administration in 1980 found that Firestone was actually aware of the defective products, citing to the 1972 documents.This lead to lawsuits and negative publicity that hurt earnings and sales. Although the stock bounced back from its low of $6.25 in April 1980, shares were still below their 1969 peak of $33.25 when Bridgestone successfully bid for the company in 1988.
4. Digital Equipment Corp.
- Years on Fortune 500: 25
- Peak Fortune 500 rank: 27 (1990, 1993)
- Peak revenue: $14.6 billion (1996)
- Current status: Bought out
The fortunes of Digital Equipment Corp., maker of commercial electronics known as minicomputers, began to decline in the 1990s. DEC was successful because its products were priced below mainframes, which were made primarily by International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM). DEC controlled the minicomputer market from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s but failed to enter the workstation and personal computer markets quickly. When DEC finally decided to get into PCs, it tried to use its own operating platform, VMS, without success. Meanwhile, companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) and Sun Microsystems were able to gain market share in workstations by using UNIX operating system, which allowed for many more software applications than VMS. Meanwhile, computers from Hewlett-Packard and IBM, which were based on the Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) blueprint and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) OS, began to dominate the PC market in the late 1980s. Between 1991 and 1996, DEC lost money every year except for one, including more than $2 billion in 1992 and 1994. After joining the Fortune 500 in 1974, the company peaked in 1993 at 27th. In just six years, it fell to 118th place before Compaq bought it out in 1998.
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Defining A Growth Hacker: Growth Is Not A Marketing Strategy
In this series titled ?Defining a growth hacker,? I will be exploring the meaning and practical application of growth hacking through a number of interviews with prominent growth hackers. This is the third post of the series on product. You can find the first post on common characteristics here and growth hacking?s impact on marketing here. ?Viral marketing is not a marketing strategy,? Andrew Chen wrote back in 2007. ?Successful viral products don?t have viral marketing bolted on once the product has been developed. It?s not a marketing strategy. Instead, it?s designed into the product from the very beginning as part of the fundamental architecture of the experience.? While growth hacking has changed the worldview of many great marketers, growth hackers are also rethinking and redesigning the way products are developed and analyzed. Today, successful growth implementation starts at the product level because growth hacking at its core is a product-based role. A growth hacker is a product-based role for four reasons: growth hacking is a sub-specialty of both marketing and product, engagement is central to growth hackers, growth is a form of product ?R&D,? and growth hackers are empowered in a product role. Growth as a sub-specialty Growth is a blend of both marketing and product. While both specialties contain a partial growth perspective, growth hacking is a sub-specialty with the sole focus on pushing metrics and designing outcomes around growth. Matt Humphrey, co-founder of HomeRun, explained that growth hacking is not a new role that fits within marketing. ?It?s an entire product and business level understanding of what drives users to the product, back to the product, and into their wallets,? said Humphrey. Growth hackers have a much deeper technical understanding of product as it relates to marketing. This technical and scientific perspective on marketing pushes for a different attitude towards distribution and getting in front of customers. ?Growth hacking is definitely more than direct marketing, quantitative analysis, and engineering,? said Jesse Farmer, co-founder of Everlane. ?For example, Tumblr just updated their API to permit user-to-user following via HTTP POST. That sentence is a Bat Signal for any growth hacker but probably means nothing to the average marketer.? On product, growth hackers zero in on the distribution and engagement side of product. Growth hackers are ?syncing with product teams to ensure the product is built around distribution or core features are put in place with distribution as aSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/APLq7I12e0c/
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Pregnant women can eat pomelo? Pregnant women eat grapefruit What are the considerations?
Pregnant women eat pomelo benefits
1, Grapefruit contains vitamin C, B2, P, folic acid, and calcium, chromium, phosphorus, iron, potassium and other minerals. grapefruit vitamin C content much higher than other fruits, with Victoria C 57 mg per 100 grams of grapefruit meat, which is 10 times the pear. Of pregnant women need multivitamin supplement, on this point, pregnant women can eat grapefruit.
2, Diabetic pregnant women eat grapefruit benefits:
The fresh grapefruit meat containing insulin-like ingredients, it is the ideal food for diabetic patients. Therefore, pregnant mothers with diabetes, grapefruit course is the best fruit.
3, Anemia in pregnant women eat grapefruit benefits:
Anemia is a more common phenomenon of pregnancy! Grapefruit with the effectiveness of the prevention of the symptoms of anemia and to promote the normal development of the fetus. Grapefruit can enhance physical fitness, and easier to help the body absorb calcium and iron.
4, Colds pregnant women eat Grapefruit benefits:
Pregnant mother colds troublesome thing! Because of fear of medication on the fetus and the consumption of Grapefruit can be effective in treating colds, relieve sore throat. Dry fall and winter climate, the pregnant mother is also for mouth ulcers, sore gums distress it? Grapefruit can reduce anger inhibition of oral ulcers, might as well eat some Grapefruit!
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1, Grapefruit cold, the body Deficiency pregnant women should not eat more.
2, Hypertension in pregnant women should not eat pomelo, especially grapefruits.
3, If pregnant women not to eat Grapefruit, while taking the drug in order to avoid overdose. Bitter grapefruit should not eat.
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Democratic donors energize "Super PACs" as U.S. election nears
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic donors gave unprecedented amounts of money in September to their party's three main "Super PACs," federal disclosures revealed on Friday, a reflection of how wealthy Democrats' reluctance to give to such groups has faded in the weeks before the November 6 election.
A fundraising laggard for much of the campaign, the political action committee (PAC) backing President Barack Obama raised more than a rival group backing Republican Mitt Romney, the second consecutive month the Democratic group has done so.
The pro-Obama group Priorities USA Action raised $15.2 million in September, compared with $14.8 million for the pro-Romney group Restore Our Future, according to new filings with the Federal Election Commission.
Restore Our Future, a formidable advertising force whose attack ads on Romney's Republican rivals helped him secure the party's presidential nomination, began the crucial month of October with $16.6 million in cash on hand.
American Crossroads, a Super PAC run by veteran Republican operative Karl Rove, on Saturday reported raising $11.7 million and kicking off October with $15.8 million in cash on hand.
DONORS GIVE BIG
Republican PACs have invested far more in advertising than Obama's backers, spending $84.1 million since September 10 alone, according to a Reuters analysis of disclosures through October 18. Democratic-aligned groups spent $23.1 million in that time.
Early this year, many Democratic donors were reluctant to donate to PACs supporting their party's candidates because they disliked the idea of contributing to attack ads and other negative advertising - a staple of spending by groups known as "Super PACs" because they have no limits on how much they can raise and spend.
In recent months, fundraising for Democratic PACs has accelerated to counter the waves of anti-Obama and anti-Democratic ads from Republican groups.
Priorities in September received $2 million from founder of Newsweb Corp Fred Eychaner; $1.5 million from billionaire hedge fund manager of Renaissance Technologies Corp James Simons; and $1 million each from film director Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and New York lawyer David Boies Jr, according to filings.
The group had $7.3 million in cash on hand at the end of last month, Saturday's filing showed. Spending nearly three times less than Priorities in September, Restore Our Future started October with $16.6 million.
Restore's biggest donors in September included Texas home builder Bob Perry and billionaire Harold Simmons.
Perry gave $2 million in September and leads all donors with $10 million contributed to Restore Our Future during this election cycle. Simmons gave $500,000 for the month, increasing his total to the group to $1.3 million.
Simmons is also the biggest donor to American Crossroads. The Dallas patron was the group's biggest donor, giving $2.5 million in September. Together with his firm Contran Corp, Simmons has given $15.5 million to the Super PAC.
Its other big September donors included telecommunications conglomerate Armstrong Group of Pennsylvania, which gave $1.3 million, and Jay Bergman of PETCO Petroleum Corp in Illinois, who gave $1 million.
CONTROL OF CONGRESS
The Democratic PACs seeking to help candidates win House of Representatives and Senate seats also saw donations rise in September.
Majority PAC, the group helping Democratic candidates for the Senate, announced on Friday its biggest cash haul since its creation in 2010: $10.4 million in September, and another $9.7 million during the first week of October.
Its sister group, House Majority PAC, also had its best month in September and is on track to double that in October, an aide to the group said.
Democrats need a net gain of 25 seats to become the majority party in the 435-seat House, an outcome that most pollsters see as unlikely. Republicans need a net gain of four seats to take control of the Senate. Most pollsters also see that as unlikely.
Scores of Republican PACs and tax-exempt groups have been formed to support Republican House and Senate candidates. Tax-exempt groups do not disclose their finances.
American Crossroads alone spent $27.9 million on polling and ads, among other things, in September, filings showed.
Republicans showed greater fundraising strength at the party level in September.
The Republican National Committee raised $48.4 million and ended September with $82.6 million in cash on hand. Its Democratic counterpart took out a large loan.
The Democratic National Committee, which has focused on races for the Senate and House, raised $20.3 million in September and borrowed $10.5 million. It ended September $20.5 million in debt, according to its filing with the FEC.
A DNC representative declined to comment on the reason for the debt and how it might affect Democratic candidates in the final two weeks before the election. The party had $4.6 million in cash on hand heading into October.
The RNC reported $9.9 million in debt at the end of September, with its $82.6 million in cash on hand.
Unlike the DNC, the Republican Party has been working closely with its presidential candidate, Romney, who heavily relies on its grassroots operation. On the Democratic side, Obama's campaign has a huge grassroots organization itself and does not need such help from its party.
(Additional reporting by Alexander Cohen; Editing by David Lindsey, Bill Trott and Todd Eastham)
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No. 3 Florida drubs No. 9 South Carolina 44-11
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) ? Jeff Driskel threw four touchdown passes ? three of them after turnovers ? and No. 3 Florida matched its win total from last season with a 44-11 drubbing of ninth-ranked South Carolina on Saturday.
The Gators avenged consecutive losses to the Gamecocks, including one two years ago that ended with Steve Spurrier and his players celebrating a division title in The Swamp.
Florida's latest whatever-it-takes win kept coach Will Muschamp's team undefeated and put it on the cusp of the Southeasten Conference's Eastern Division title. The Gators (7-0, 6-0 SEC) can clinch a spot in the SEC championship game by beating No. 13 Georgia next week in nearby Jacksonville.
Florida won this one with turnovers, stellar defense and more halftime adjustments ? the kind of successful tweaks that are making Muschamp and his staff seem like the right fit in Gainesville.
The Gators finished 7-6 last season, barely avoiding the program's first losing season since 1979. The struggles had outsiders questioning whether Muschamp could get them back to national prominence.
He's got them there now ? even if it hasn't always been pretty.
Florida managed just 29 yards and two first downs in the first half against South Carolina (6-2, 4-2). But the Gators led 21-6 thanks to three turnovers.
Loucheiz Purifoy knocked the ball out of Connor Shaw's hands on the first play. Lerentee McCray recovered, giving Florida the ball at the 2-yard line. Driskel hooked up with Jordan Reed on third down, giving the Gators a lead they would never relinquish.
It also was a sign of things to come for the Gamecocks, who had trouble holding onto the ball all afternoon.
Ace Sanders fumbled on a punt return, Florida recovered and drove 29 yards for a 14-3 lead. Driskel found Quinton Dunbar for a 13-yard score. Dunbar spun out of DeVonte Holloman's grasp before coasting across the goal line.
On the ensuing kickoff, Solomon Patton forced Damiere Byrd to fumble. Chris Johnson picked it up and nearly scored. He was stopped at the 1, setting up Driskel's second TD pass to Reed. Driskel faked a handoff and found Reed alone in the back of the end zone, which made it 21-3.
The Gators could have had a first-half shutout, but penalties set up two field goals for the Gamecocks.
Florida forced South Carolina to punt before one, but a questionable, roughing-the-snapper penalty kept the drive alive. Adam Yates ended the possession with a 35-yarder. His 51-yarder on the final play of the first half came after an offside penalty on McCray.
Muschamp wasn't pleased with all the flags.
But they turned out to be fairly meaningless.
The Gators scored on all three possessions in the third quarter, getting a 6-yard TD run by Omarius Hines, a field goal and a 6-yard pass from Driskel to Frankie Hammond Jr.
They made South Carolina's defensive front, which dominated in the first half, look suspect. They also better controlled standout end pass-rusher Jadeveon Clowney, who gave them fits early. And they kept South Carolina off balance with creative play-calling that included tight end Trey Burton in the wildcat.
Driskel completed 11 of 16 passes for 93 yards. Mike Gillislee ran 19 times for 37 yards. Reed caught four passes for 44 yards.
Florida's defense and special teams were much more impressive.
The Gators held South Carolina to 191 yards, including minus-1 in the third quarter. Marcus Lattimore, who didn't start because of a hip injury, ran just three times for 13 yards. And Florida dominated every aspect of special teams. In addition to the two forced fumbles, Kyle Christy had seven punts of at least 50 yards.
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Like girls, U.S. boys may be hitting puberty earlier
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Boys in the United States may be entering puberty earlier than in generations past, a new study has found, suggesting it's not just girls who are developing at younger ages.
In comparisons with decades-old data, boys who were seen for well-child visits between 2005 and 2010 were maturing six months to two years sooner, based on their genital development.
The finding is significant for researchers seeking to understand why the age of puberty may be creeping down.
The discovery is also important for parents, who have to know how and when to discuss changing bodies with their children, according to the lead author of the study published online Saturday by the journal Pediatrics.
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"They need to talk to their boys earlier than they would have thought about puberty and sexual development and all of those related issues," said Marcia Herman-Giddens at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Recent studies from the United States and elsewhere have shown that girls are maturing at a younger age, with many starting to develop breasts as early as age 7 or 8.
Doctors haven't necessarily thought the same early puberty trend applied to boys. Some doctors blame estrogen-like chemicals in the environment for girls' earlier development. Those same chemicals would be expected to delay sexual maturation in boys.
But even if boys are developing earlier than in the past, that doesn't mean they are more mature socially and psychologically at younger ages, researchers said.
"Now there's probably a bigger disparity between their physical maturation and their psychosocial maturation," said Dr. Frank Biro, head of adolescent medicine at Cincinnati Children's Medical Center, who wasn't involved in the new analysis.
"People are going to interact with them like they're older," he told Reuters Health.
CHANGE MAY NOT BE HEALTHY
Data for the new study came from 144 U.S. pediatric practices and included 4,131 boys age 6 to 16.
Based on the so-called Tanner stages of development - a technique doctors use to measure how far along in puberty a young person is - genital changes in boys started around the age of 9 or 10, and pubic hair appeared between age 10 and 11 1/2, on average.
Testicle size hit a common measure for the start of puberty just before age 10 and full sexual maturity happened at 15 to 16.
In general, African-American boys developed earlier than their white and Hispanic peers, Herman-Giddens and her colleagues reported.
A study from the 1950s through 1970s of white boys in England - for which the Tanner scale is named - found boys started genital development at age 11.6, on average. Other data through the 1970s also put the start of genital changes between age 11 and 12, and pubic hair development typically between 12 and 13 - about two years later than in the new study.
Despite strong evidence showing girls are developing breasts and getting their periods at younger and younger ages, Herman-Giddens said it is still not clear why boys may also be hitting puberty sooner than in years past. One possible explanation is high rates of obesity, which alters the body's hormone levels.
"The reasons it is happening may not be healthy," she told Reuters Health.
The new study wasn't designed to be representative of what is happening across the country. Biro said he thinks puberty is indeed coming earlier in U.S. boys in general, though other researchers may not agree.
Regardless of general trends, it is important for parents to pay attention to their own child's development, researchers said, and to know when to start talking to them about sexual activity, he said.
"Parents need to monitor both their daughters and their sons a little more closely than they would have before," Biro said.
(Editing by Christine Soares, Michele Gershberg and Kenneth Barry)
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