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BALTIMORE, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --SocialToaster, the new innovative software company that creates fan advocacy programs to increase social sharing on social networking sites, announced the launch of Baltimore Child Abuse Center's Advocacy Program. The program is designed to help the Baltimore Child Abuse Center (BCAC) promote their participation in the Liberty Mutual Insurance's Like My Baltimore Project, a program designed to honor the people and organizations that are doing the right thing all over Baltimore.

BCAC is using SocialToaster to amplify their message and to engage with more fans, to secure 'Like' votes on Facebook and mobile text votes for the opportunity to receive $30,000. The Liberty Mutual Insurance's Like My Baltimore Campaign runs through August 20. Voters can vote DAILY on Facebook athttp://bit.ly/Lc50YHand can cast a vote by texting daily LMBAL1 to 61698.

For over 25 years, BCAC has provided a gateway for hope, justice and solutions for victims, families, and professionals fighting sexual child abuse. BCAC focuses on intervention when abuse is reported, treatment to aid in the healing of survivors and their families, education around recognizing, preventing, and reporting suspicions of abuse, and advocacy at the local, state and national levels.

"Having children who are safe from sexual child abuse doesn't happen easily," states Executive Director Adam Rosenberg, "We are honored to be nominated to participate in Liberty Mutual Insurance's Like My Baltimore Campaign."

Rosenberg continued, "In a post Penn-State era, we have engaged with SocialToaster to amplify our social media efforts, increase our reach and share rate to win votes and increase our chances of receiving the $30,000, in order for BCAC to continue to provide high-quality services to our community and make sure that any child who is experiencing sexual abuse has a voice, is heard and receives the justice and resources he/she deserves."

"Child abuse is unfortunately a big issue in the Baltimore region and SocialToaster is aware of the successes and milestones BCAC has achieved in the past year alone in regards to their mission and this local issue. We feel very strongly about supporting BCAC in their efforts to educate the region and to ensure that BCAC continues to receive the necessary funds for them to continue their mission to provide readily available resources for children who are victims of sexual abuse," said Brian Razzaque, CEO of SocialToaster.

"SocialToaster has a footprint in working with non-profits and charitable organizations and is well-educated on the challenges they face both from a fundraising and monetary stand point as well as engaging with current and new supporters. We have crafted a customizable solution for this market in order to create campaigns that will resonate with their fans, truly increase their social sharing rate and engage with fans on a different level," Razzaque concluded.

About Baltimore Child Abuse Center

Baltimore Child Abuse Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit that provides all reported victims of child sexual abuse in Baltimore City and their non-offending caretakers with comprehensive interviews, medical treatment, and crisis counseling services. Baltimore Child Abuse Center is the oldest children's advocacy center in Maryland and served close to 1,000 children in 2010. For more information, visit: http://www.BaltimoreChildAbuseCenter.org.

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Apple Chief Executive Timothy Cook recently appeared to acknowledge the company needs to take part in social networking.

Twitter could have been the answer.

Sources tell The New York Times that Apple has chatted with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in the social networking site in a deal that would have valued it at more than $10 billion. Apple has considered an investment in the hundreds of milliosn of dollars, according to the Times.

However, two sources told Bloomberg that Apple isn't in talks with Twitter. While the companies were in discussions more than a year ago, the talks ended without an agreement, the news agency reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. Reuters also separately reported that Apple and Twitter are not currently in talks.

That Apple would eye a stake in a social networking platform like Twitter seems to be a logical move. Consumers increasingly are turning to mobile devices including the iPhone to access Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites. Of course, Facebook has encountered challenges capitalizing monetarily on the hundreds of millions of active users who use its mobile products.

Still, Apple hasn't brushed off the importance of social media. Apple doesnt have to own a social network," the Times quoted Cook as saying at a recent technology conference. But does Apple need to be social? Yes."

Purchasing a stake in Twitter wouldn't have busted Apple's bank; the consumer electronics giant lists nearly $8 billion in cash and equivalents as of June 30, and that excludes a whopping $109.28 billion in short-term and long-term marketable securities.

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KAMPALA: Uganda's president Monday warned against physical contact after a victim of a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus was reported in the capital Kampala for the first time.

"The Ministry of Health are tracing all the people who have had contact with the victims," Yoweri Museveni said in a state broadcast, adding that 14 people had died in total since Ebola broke out in western Uganda three weeks ago.

Two cases have since been reported in the capital, with one victim reported dead in Kampala's Mulago Hospital, he said, calling on people not to shake hands to avoid the spread of the killer virus.

"Ebola spreads by contact when you contact each other physically... avoid shaking of hands, because that can cause contact through sweat, which can cause problems," Museveni said.

"Do not take on burying somebody who has died from symptoms that look like Ebola - instead call health workers because they know how to do it...avoid promiscuity because this sickness can also go through sex," he added.

Seven doctors and 13 health workers at Mulago hospital are in quarantine after "at least one or two cases" were taken there, with one later dying from the virus.

"I appeal to you to first of all report all cases which appear to be like Ebola, and these are high fever, vomiting, sometimes diarrhoea, and with bleeding," he added.

"When you handle this case well you can eliminate Ebola quickly."

According to experts, despite being extremely virulent, the disease is containable because it kills its victims faster than it can spread to new ones.

It has a fatality ratio of between 23% - 90%, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

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The Ugandan president has called on peopleto limit physical contact with each other, after a victim of a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus was reported in Kampala, the country's capital, for the first time.

"The Ministry of Health are tracing all the people who have had contact with the victims," Yoweri Museveni said in a state broadcast on Monday, adding that 14 people had died in total since Ebola broke out in western Uganda three weeks ago.

Two cases have been reported in the capital since the outbreak began, he said, and one victim is reported to have died in Kampala's Mulago Hospital.

He called on people not to shake hands, to avoid the spread of the killer virus.

"Ebola spreads by contact when you contact each other physically... avoid shaking of hands that can cause contact through sweat, which can cause problems," Museveni said.

"Do not take on burying somebody who has died from symptoms that look like Ebola. Instead, call health workers because they know how to do it...avoid promiscuity because this sickness can also [be transmitted] through sex," he added.

Seven doctors and 13 health workers at Mulago hospital are in quarantine after "at least one or two cases" were taken there, with one later dying from the virus.

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The latest outbreak of the disease started in the country's western district of Kibaale, around 200km west of Kampala. The district is located about 50km from the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Stephen Bayaruhanga, health secretary of Kibaale, said on Monday that six more patients suspected to have contracted Ebola had been admitted to hospital.

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There's been a lot of chin-stroking about the fantastic performance Saturday from Ye Shiwen, a 16-year-old Chinese swimmer who set a new record for the female medley.

Ye set an fantastic world record of 4 minutes 28.43 seconds. Incredibly, over the last 50 meters she swam faster than Ryan Lochte did in the same event even though Lochte set the second fastest men's time in history. Li wasn't even a favorite in the race.

Top US Coach John Leonard, who is the executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, has become the first high-profile person in coaching to openly mention the "d-word", though he did so with some caveats. He told the Guardian today:

"We want to be very careful about calling it doping [...] The one thing I will say is that history in our sport will tell you that every time we see something, and I will put quotation marks around this, 'unbelievable', history shows us that it turns out later on there was doping involved. That last 100m was reminiscent of some old East German swimmers, for people who have been around a while. It was reminiscent of 400m individual medley by a young Irish woman in Atlanta."

(Leonard is referring to the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs by East German swimmers, and the case of Michelle Smith, an Irish swimmer who had an incredibly successful run in the 1996 Atlanta games but left the sport after a subsequent doping ban).

Leonard's skepticism isn't backed up by other high profile officials. Ame Ljungqvist, medical chief of the IOC, addressed the doping theories today in a press conference, and said he had no suspicions.

Lochte himself seems to not be worried about the comparison. "We were all talking about that at dinner last night," he said, according to Yahoo! Sports. "It was pretty impressive. And it was a female. She's fast. If she was there with me, I don't know, she might have beat me."

The New York Times reports China had at least 50 athletes test positive for illegal substances in the 1980s and 1990s. Chinese sporting authorities are said to be extra-vigilant about testing in order to avoid more embarrassment for the country.

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