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01-08-2012 10:35 The oldest 100-meter Olympic champion is back in London for the games. 89-year-old American Harrison Dillard, was honored Wednesday at Britain's Foreign Office where the 1948 torch from those London games in on display. (Aug. 1)
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MyLife.com ("MyLife") today announced the results of a commissioned survey of social media behavior, conducted online by Harris Interactive. According to the 2012 Connecting and Communicating Online: State of Social Media study consumersthat is, online adults in the U.S. who are 18 and older--fear of missing out (FOMO) may be heightened by their growing reliance on social networks. 62 percent of adults who are currently a member of more than one social networking site say they keep an eye on their social networks because they dont want to miss something (e.g., news or an important event or status update). The findings also indicate that nearly 40 percent would rather undertake unpleasant or potentially painful activities, from getting a root canal to reading War and Peace or spending the night in jail, before they would give up their social networking profiles.
Consumers are bombarded with so much information online from status updates and photos to tweets and check-ins that our anxiety around missing out has shifted to our digital lives, said Jeff Tinsley, CEO of MyLife. The fact that many people would rather run a marathon or spend a night in jail than give up their Facebook or Twitter account is proof positive.
The Facebook Fix
Not only are consumers afraid that theyre missing out if they go too long between log-ins, but the younger generation often checks in with their friends and followers online before theyve even rubbed the sleep from their eyes. More than half of social media multi-taskers want a solution to help them manage their online overload.
Ill Do Anything
Think waiting in the interminable line at the DMV is painful? Not more painful than being asked to give up their social networks according to many respondents. Plenty of social media users, including more than half of Gen Y, would prefer to undergo an arduous task, including tackling one of the longest novels ever, than be forced to delete their social media accounts.
Different Strokes for Different Folks
While Facebook is widely known to be the most popular social network worldwide, the site actually doesnt top social media users lists when it comes to being the primary social profile they turn to for consuming or sharing content, or even a mix of both. LinkedIn is tops for consumption (i.e., to observe without actively posting anything); 68% of online adults who are a member of LinkedIn say they use the site mainly to consume content.
Surprisingly enough, while everyone knows different social networks serve different purposes, the way people are using sites to consume or share content doesnt fall in line with what we might expect, continued Tinsley. Facebook was passed by Foursquare as the primary place people share content and newcomer Pinterest edged out the social media giant when it came to the site where users equally share in both activities.
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At least 15 people have died in Uganda from the deadly Ebola virus with the toll likely to rise further, the health ministry said Wednesday.
Ebola broke out in early July in Uganda's western Kibale district, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Kampala, and around 50 kilometres from the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.
"Two more deaths were last evening recorded at Kagadi Government Hospital in Kibale district... The first death was a female who had earlier tested positive for Ebola," said Dennis Lwamafa, Uganda's director general for health services.
The other death, a "new admission", was feared to have also been due to Ebola, although tests had yet to confirm the exact cause, Lwamafa said in statement.
A health worker from western Uganda last week fell sick and travelled to Kampala, later dying in hospital. It was the first time the killer virus, one of the most virulent diseases in the world, had hit the city of 1.5 million.
A sample has also been collected from a patient in Mbarara, another district of western Uganda, some 100 kilometres from Kibale -- and it is currently being analysed.
In Kibale, health workers are monitoring "two confirmed cases of Ebola and 16 unconfirmed admitted at the hospital isolation facility," Lwamafa said.
In addition, 178 people remain under surveillance in the district, he added.
Ebola, which can cause both internal and external bleeding, spreads by direct contact with the blood or other body fluids of infected persons, according to the World Health Organisation.
The rare haemorrhagic disease, named after a small river in DR Congo, killed 37 people in western Uganda in 2007 and at least 170 in the north of the country in 2000.
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
A FIVE-year-old boy from Tublay, Benguet, was tested positive for Enterovirus-71, the same killer virus that killed several children in Cambodia last month.
This is the second case of E-71 or hand, foot, and mouth disease monitored in the country after swab samples from the boy tested positive in laboratory testing at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine.
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Department of Health-Cordillera Dr. Amelita Pangilinan said the infected boy is now recuperating at home, indicating that the countrys EV-71 is mild and not fatal unlike in Cambodia where close to 60 children have died since June.
Pangilinan said the case of the boy is non-neurologic exhibiting only on and off fever, cough, and cold and exhibiting pustules in the hand, mouth and feet.
The boy was already discharged from the Benguet General Hospital where he was admitted for days.
A surveillance team was also sent by the DOH to monitor the brother of the boy as well as other children whom he had close contact but tests results came out negative. (JM Agreda)
Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on August 02, 2012.
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A fund raising money for Republican state Senate candidates seeks to get an extra boost in donations, including for District 44 candidate Brad Bourn, based on comments made by Bourn's Democratic opponent over the weekend.
During a Day of Action for Democratic President Barack Obama on Saturday, state Sen. Tom Courtney, D-Burlington, called Bourn, among other Republicans, "nuts."
The Iowa Senate Republican Majority Fund wrote a blog post Monday about Courtney's comments. It was titled simply, "Nuts?"
The post stated, "It's not surprising that Courtney has resorted to personal, negative attacks given that he has little of his own record to run on. How's Courtney's record working for Iowans? Bleak to say the least," before listing some legislation the Iowa Senate did not pass during the 2012 session.
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"Sadly, petty partisanship is all that is left of Tom Courtney's legacy," Bourn wrote. "He will not answer to 'We the People' on why he blocked property tax reform, why he blocked rule and regulatory reform, why he voted against education reform changes, why he always supports budgets that spend more than the state takes in or why he blocked a ban on late-term abortions and the list goes on and on.
"My message is about the prosperity that true freedom brings. Tom can't argue against my message so he resorts to childish name calling. Again, this is just sad to see a sitting state senator act this way."
Courtney on Tuesday acknowledged it was a poor choice of words, but said he was simply firing up fellow Democrats before they went door-knocking.
"Maybe I shouldn't have said he was nuts, but I sure think the stuff that he's saying does not make much sense for Iowans," Courtney said, pointing in part to a statement Bourn made at the Des Moines County Fair last week, where he said his top priority would be to outlaw abortions in Iowa.
But the Burlington Democrat stuck by his statements calling former President George W. Bush "nuts," and he added "it's nutty, it's crazy" what's happening in the state's Republican Party.
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