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Sunday, July 7, 2013

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg switches flights, avoids Asiana Air crash

Washington: Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and other executives at the social media giant escaped potential disaster when they switched to a United flight returning from a Korean business trip.

They were earlier booked on the Asiana Air flight that crash landed at San Francisco International Airport Saturday morning killing two people and leaving at least 49 critically injured.

"I was on another flight from Korea at the exact same time," USA Today quoted Sandberg's Facebook status update. "We are ok. My friend on that flight is ok, too."

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg switches flights, avoids Asiana Air crash

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and other executives escaped potential disaster when they switched to a United flight.

Sandberg said colleagues Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman also switched flights.

Sandberg author of the recently released best seller "Lean In", took another flight from Seoul to cash in air miles tickets for family members, according to USA Today. She said the United flight landed 20 minutes before the Asiana crashed.

"Thanks you to everyone who is reaching out - and sorry if we worried anyone," she posted.

Full text of Shery's Sandberg's Facebook status update

"Taking a minute to be thankful and explain what happened. My family, colleagues Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman and I were originally going to take the Asiana flight that just crash-landed. We switched to United so we could use miles for my family's tickets. Our flight was scheduled to come in at the same time, but we were early and landed about 20 minutes before the crash. Our friend Dave David Eun was on the Asiana flight and he is fine.

Thank you to everyone who is reaching out - and sorry if we worried anyone.

Serious moment to give thanks."

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Real Estate: Rancho Mirage, a Top 15 Retirement Spot for Investing ...

Looking to invest in a retirement spot?

If so, you might want to check out Rancho Mirage.

This Coachella Valley city made the cut as a Top 15 retirement spot in the country for real estate investing. The only other locale in California to make the list was Seal Beach.

Here?s how it happened: RealtyTrac pulled data from all cities with a population of more than 10,000 that had 33 percent of its resident-base with people who were 65 or older. The list, narrowed to 40, was boiled down even further when the online real estate reporting service looked at cities with a positive capitalization rate using average rents on three bedroom homes and the median sale prices as of ?May 2013.

Annual temperature, sunshine, the cost of living index and annual price appreciation were other factors to arrive at the top spots to buy an investment home.

Bing Crosby estate in Rancho Mirage.
(Photo: VacationPalmSprings.com)

Six Florida cities made the Top 15 list: Naples, North Fort Myers, Punta Gorda, Sun City Center, Venice and Orange City.

In Arizona, Sun City and Green Valley made the cut. Finishing out the list were East Hampton, New York; Florence, Oregon; Douglassville, Pennsylvania; and Hot Springs Village, Arkansas.

?These popular retirement ?cities will likely be an area of growth in the housing market over the next 15 years as ?Baby Boomers? retire in greater numbers,? said RealtyTrac vice president Daren Blomquist.

This generation started retiring in 2011, beginning a phase will continue through 2029. ?That means there will be plenty of ?demand for rentals and owner-occupant purchases in these markets for the foreseeable future.?

For Rancho Mirage, the capitalization rate ? net annual income from rental as a percentage of the purchase price ? was 2.7 percent, Blomquist told The Press-Enterprise.

?That?s not a huge number, but you?d still see an annual return as the home value begins appreciating. If you decide to sell, you will benefit that appreciation, as well,? he said.

Curt Watts, Rancho Mirage development services director, called the Top 15 ranking a validation of what most residents, full-time or part-time, ?are seeing in general with Rancho Mirage, a spot known as the ?Playground of Presidents.?

Residents and investors view the city as a great place to plan their future, or prepare for it: It is not only sensitive to the needs of?active seniors, Watts said it?s a place where one can make wise real estate choices, and feel comfortable that the property is neither overpriced nor mixed with an over-abundance of ?downmarket? ?housing stock, like inexpensive condos and apartments.

Just in case you want to get a head start on the market, check out the Bing Crosby estate in the gated Thunderbird section of Rancho Mirage. The legendary celebrity estate, which hit the Multiple Listing Service in 2010 for $3.4 million, is a 7,000-square-foot property that can leased?at monthly rates in the area of $90,000.

Jim Ryan, associate broker for Windermere Real Estate in nearby Indian Wells, said it?s great to have a Coachella Valley city make the Top 15 retirement real estate investment list.

?Getting press that says it?s a great place to retire brings more people hopefully into the valley,? he said. ?That?s exactly what we need.?

Tell us what you think? Would Rancho Mirage be a retirement spot you?d invest in?

Source: http://blog.pe.com/2013/07/05/real-estate-rancho-mirage-a-top-15-retirement-spot-for-investing/

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Security vulnerability discovered after four years affects most Android devices

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Since Android 1.6 ? also known as Donut ? a security vulnerability has been quietly hiding in the mobile operating system for nearly four years. It allows someone to create a malicious version of a legitimate Android app without triggering any warning bells. Here's what you need to know about this recently discovered vulnerability (which can potentially affect most current Android devices).

Every single Android app has a cryptographic signature which is used to verify that it's legitimate and hasn't been tampered with or modified in some way. This is how your phone knows that it shouldn't overwrite Angry Birds with another app that is trying to pass itself off as the popular Rovio game, for example.

As long as you're downloading apps from Google Play, the tech giant's own app store, everything's fine. Google has made sure that no modified versions of legitimate apps can be made available through Google Play.

But if you're willing to check the "Unknown Sources" permission box in your Android settings and download apps from third-party markets ... well, that's another ballgame.

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During a presentation at the Black Hat security conference, Jeff Forristal, CTO of Bluebox Security, indends to break down exactly how someone can "turn any legitimate application into a malicious Trojan" in a way that'll make virtually impossible for a user to notice that something is wrong.

The reason this vulnerability is particularly frightening is that it means someone could create a modified version of one of the Android system apps, which have permission to access just about anything on your device. If you download the malicious app, Forristal, explains, it would replace the legimitate one, and suddenly it "not only has the ability to read arbitrary application data on the device (email, SMS messages, documents, etc.), retrieve all stored account and service passwords, [but] it can essentially take over the normal functioning of the phone and control any function thereof (make arbitrary phone calls, send arbitrary SMS messages, turn on the camera, and record calls)."

Sounds scary, right? But not everyone thinks that it's time to panic just yet. "The risk is when users install applications from third-party websites," Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at Sophos, tells NBC News via email. "This practice is ALWAYS dangerous, this just makes it extra difficult to determine if an app has been tampered with. It should be assumed that an app HAS been tampered with anytime it is acquired from a source other than the original manufacturer or the Play Store."

We've contacted Amazon to see what steps it has taken to protect its own Appstore from malicious apps. While we haven't heard back, Wisniewski has faith in the Web giant. "I have not seen any evidence of Amazon being less thorough than Google, but have not personally investigated their processes," he says.

Until all the details come out, what can you do to keep yourself (and your Android devices) safe? Well, you can don you tinfoil hat and not download any apps from sources other than Google Play. Additionally, you can go into your settings and find the setting which allows "installation of apps from sources other than the Play Store" or "from unknown sources" and uncheck it.

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Egypt: Interim president meets with army chief

Egyptian military soldiers stand guard atop armored personnel carriers at Maspero, an Egypt's state tv and radio station, not far from Tahrir Square in Cairo Saturday, July 6, 2013. Egyptians were on edge Saturday morning after supporters and opponents of ousted President Mohammed Morsi fought overnight street battles that left at least 30 dead across the increasingly divided country. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Opponents of Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood at Tahrir Square in Cairo Saturday, July 6, 2013. Egyptians were on edge Saturday morning after supporters and opponents of ousted President Morsi fought overnight street battles that left at least 30 dead across the increasingly divided country. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

A man sweeps on a bridge leading to Tahrir Square in Cairo Saturday, July 6, 2013. Supporters and opponents of ousted President Mohammed Morsi fought street battles on the bridge Friday night. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

An opponent of Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi chants slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood at Tahrir Square in Cairo Saturday, July 6, 2013. Egyptians were on edge Saturday morning after supporters and opponents of ousted President Morsi fought overnight street battles that left at least 30 dead across the increasingly divided country. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's interim president held talks Saturday with the army chief and interior minister following an outburst of violence between supporters and opponents of ousted leader Mohammed Morsi that killed at least 36 people across the country and deepened the battle lines in the divided nation.

Three days after the military pushed out Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected leader, the country appears to be careening toward further conflict and turmoil. Morsi's supporters have vowed to take to the streets until the toppled Islamist leader is reinstated, while his opponents have called for more mass rallies to defend what they call the "gains of June 30," a reference to the start of massive protests to call for the ouster of the president.

With both sides digging in, the country's acting president, Adly Mansour, met Saturday with army chief and Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as well as Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, who is in charge of the police, at the Ittihadiya presidential palace.

It was the first time Mansour, a previously little known senior judge, has worked out of the president's main offices since he was sworn-in Thursday as the country's interim leader, a day after the military shunted Morsi aside after four days of the street protests that brought millions out into the streets.

Mansour also met Saturday with leaders of Tamrod, or Rebel, the youth movement that organized the mass anti-Morsi demonstrations, according to the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

Mansour was recently appointed by Morsi as chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court, and was only sworn in as the chief justice minutes before he took the oath of office as president.

He took the helm of a fiercely divided country.

Enraged by Morsi's overthrow, tens of thousands of the ousted president's supporters poured into the streets Friday, holding rallies that they have vowed to continue until the former leader is returned to office.

Late Friday, violence erupted in central Cairo as the rival camps clashed on a bridge over the Nile River. Gunfire crackled in the streets and flames leaped from a burning car. The chaotic scenes ended only after the army rushed in with armored vehicles to separate the warring groups.

The clashes had accelerated after the supreme leader of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, defiantly proclaimed his followers would not give up street action until the toppled president's return to office.

"God make Morsi victorious and bring him back to the palace," Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie proclaimed Friday before cheering supporters at a Cairo mosque in his first appearance since the overthrow. "We are his soldiers we defend him with our lives."

Badie said it was a matter of honor for the military to abide by its pledge of loyalty to the president, in what appeared to be an attempt to pull it away from its leadership.

Hours later, his deputy, Khairat el-Shater, considered the most powerful figure in the organization, was arrested in a Cairo apartment along with his brother on allegations of inciting violence, Interior Ministry spokesman Hani Abdel-Latif told The Associated Press.

Across the country, clashes erupted as Morsi supporters tried to storm local government buildings or military facilities, battling police or Morsi opponents. Mohammed Sultan, deputy head of the national ambulance service, said at least 36 people were killed in Friday's clashes, the highest death toll in one day since the protests began last Sunday. Another 1,076 were injured.

In his first public appearance since he was sworn in, Mansour was photographed at the Muslim Friday prayers, which he performed at a mosque near his house in a suburb west of Cairo.

"I want everyone to pray for me. Your prayers are what I need from you," he told worshippers who approached him to shake his hand and wish him well, according to the independent daily el-Tahrir.

The paper said the president spoke to its reporter in a brief interview after the prayer. The president's office could not be immediately reached to confirm the comments.

"We all need national reconciliation and we will work to realize it," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "Egypt is for everyone."

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200-year-old rockfish caught off Alaska coast

200-year-old rockfish:?A Seattle resident caught a shortraker rockfish, which at some two centuries old?might be the oldest one ever caught.

By Elizabeth Barber,?Contributor / July 3, 2013

Sport fisherman Henry Liebman, from Seattle, holds his record-breaking shortraker rockfish at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game office on Friday in Sitka, Alaska. The fish measured more than 40 inches and weighed almost 40 pounds.

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Long before Alaska was a state, a fish was born there. And for 200 years that fish lived off Alaska?s coast, oblivious to the centuries of national and personal dramas that played out nearby. Until now.

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A Seattle resident has caught a 39-pound, 41-inch-long shortracker rockfish that is estimated to be some two centuries old. If the age is correct, then it will be the oldest shortracker ever caught, as well as one of the oldest fish ever caught, the?Daily Sitka Sentinel reported.?The fisherman, Henry Liebman, has now passed the fish to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for?age verification, the Sentinel said.

The Rockfish ? which looks like a goldfish that has magically enlarged and burst from its bowl ? are common off Alaska, as well as near the coasts of eastern Russia and northern California. The shimmering, neon orange, and somewhat bloated looking?fish is generally found either alone or in small groups at a depth of between about 990 ft. to 1,650 ft., with old fish deeper than their younger counterparts, preying on small crustaceans that live on underwater boulder fields.?

The Shortraker rockfish are thought to average in lifespan about 120 years and to be the second-longest-living of all the varieties of rockfish, with the Rougheye species topping the lifespan list at some 140 years.?That means rockfish are some of the world?s oldest living fish, matched only by equally long-lived fish like the sturgeon, an ancient fish found in North America that can live to be more than a century old.

?Rockfish are way out at one extreme in terms of lifespan,? said?James Haynes, a professor of?Environmental Science & Biology at SUNY?Brockport.?Of the worlds some 25,000 identified species of fish, most are concentrated closer to the other lifespan extreme, about 2-10 years, he said.?

But even by rockfish standards, this latest catch is unusually old.

?This is an extraordinarily old individual," said Haynes "The vast majority of rockfish won't live to 200 ? this fish had a certain genetic endowment, and it didn?t get sick and it didn?t get eaten.? ?

The fish?s size likely also played into its old age, since size is often correlated to age in fish, said Dr.?Haynes. The previous record age for a caught rockfish was about 175-years-old, and that fish, at about 32.5-inches-long, was smaller than this latest catch.

Fish age is usually determined using the animal?s otoliths ? its earbones ? as those bones contain a record of seasonal growth patterns, much as do tree rings. Since in temperate zones fish grow more in the summer than they do in winter, patterns in the otoliths suggest how many full years that fish has weathered, with alternating wide summer zones and narrow winter zones.

Those patterns are less discernable in polar zones, and even less so in tropical zones, where there is less seasonal variation in temperature, said Dr. Haynes. A fish caught in Alaska, at the boundary between the temperate and polar zones, likely experiences enough temperature change that its otoliths can be read for its age, he said.

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Friday, July 5, 2013

Mysterious radio flashes may be farewell greetings from massive stars collapsing into black holes

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Mysterious bright radio flashes that appear for only a brief moment on the sky and do not repeat could be the final farewell greetings of a massive star collapsing into a black hole, astronomers argue.

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AP Interview: Vatican's 007 on money-laundering

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? The revelations of wrongdoing currently rocking the Vatican bank couldn't have come at a worse time for the Swiss-born anti-money laundering expert hired to lead the Holy See's push for greater financial transparency.

Rene Bruelhart was heading to Sun City, South Africa, for the annual meeting of the Egmont Group, a gathering of financial information agencies from 130 countries, when the Vatican announced that its top two bank managers had resigned amid a blossoming financial scandal involving a Vatican accountant.

The two executives were responsible for implementing the Vatican bank's much-touted anti-money laundering efforts, but a preliminary internal investigation showed "clear failings" in the way the accountant's transactions were handled.

Despite the news, the Holy See won coveted membership in the Egmont Group this week, joining a club that aims to share financial information in the global fight against money laundering and terror financing.

For Bruelhart, dubbed the "James Bond of the financial world" by some media, joining Egmont means that the Vatican now is part of a trusted "family" and has more help in combating financial crimes ? even if it can't root them out entirely.

"With this membership, we are a credible player in the international and global fight against money laundering and terror finance," Bruelhart said in a telephone interview Thursday from Sun City. "They trust us. That is very important."

The Egmont Group, which was created in 1995, aims to smooth the exchange of information and improve cooperation among its members. Those members are the financial intelligence units of countries' central banks ? the departments that collect and investigate reports of suspicious financial transactions.

Bruelhart headed Liechtenstein's financial intelligence unit for eight years, and led the Egmont Group for two before being tapped by the Vatican as a consultant last year. The Holy See eventually named him director of its own financial intelligence unit to oversee all its financial activities. Then-Pope Benedict XVI created the Financial Intelligence Authority, or AIF, in 2010 as part of the Vatican's push to comply with international norms to fight money laundering.

The Vatican's newborn AIF was faulted on several fronts when it was evaluated last year by independent European inspectors, though a follow-up evaluation is scheduled for December.

Bruelhart has said that amended laws and regulations are in the works ahead of the December progress report, and that for now the Holy See was content to have passed the milestone with Egmont. Asked how Egmont could have cleared the Holy See when there are still clearly problems at the bank, Bruelhart stressed the Egmont evaluation criteria was transparent and formal, with on-site visits and evaluations of its legislative framework and regulations.

"No country in the world is 100 percent perfect," he said. "What's important is if something is happening, you have the competent authority and you have the tools and measures to take relevant action."

The Vatican has certainly shown that it is far from perfect.

Last week, Pope Francis named five people to head a commission of inquiry into the Vatican bank, the Institute for Religious Works, or IOR, to get to the root of the problems that have plagued it for decades and mired the Vatican in scandal over the years.

Two days later, a Vatican accountant, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, was arrested in an alleged plot to smuggle 20 million euros from Switzerland to Italy without declaring it at customs. On Friday, a judge denied Scarano's bid for house arrest and ordered him to remain at Rome's Queen of Heaven prison until a decision is made as to whether to indict him.

Then at the start of this week, the top two managers at the IOR resigned. Their boss, bank president Ernst von Freyberg, had just weeks earlier praised Paolo Cipriani and Massimo Tulli as "truly happy" and helpful collaborators as the bank worked to comply with anti-money-laundering norms.

By Monday, von Freyberg said it was clear that the bank needed new leadership "to increase the pace" of the IOR's transformation ? a suggestion that the two managers had in some way held back that transformation.

And by the end of the week, von Freyberg was even more blunt in briefing the bank's board about the Scarano case.

"The internal investigation that I have initiated has proven effective and discovered clear failings," von Freyberg told the board, according to excerpts of his remarks obtained Friday by The Associated Press. "That should serve as a stark reminder of the urgency of improving (the) IOR's processes."

He said the bank was reviewing each of the IOR's 19,000 accounts "and we will systematically identify and eradicate wrongdoing of clients in our institute."

The next step for Bruelhart is to ink a bilateral agreement with Italy to share financial information ? a critical step given that the Italians have been the harshest critics of the Vatican's murky financial dealings, convinced that people have used the IOR to shield money from Italian tax authorities. As it is, Italian prosecutors have various investigations under way targeting the Vatican bank and people who may have used it for less than holy ends.

"We've identified the countries which are of relevance and important for us, and amongst them is Italy," Bruelhart said.

One of those Italian investigations formally wrapped up on Friday as prosecutors prepare to request indictments: In 2010, Rome prosecutors placed Cipriani and the IOR's then-president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, under investigation for allegedly violating Italy's anti-money-laundering norms with a routine bank transaction involving an IOR account at an Italian bank. Police seized 23 million euros, though it was later ordered released.

Italian news reports said prosecutors would exonerate Gotti Tedeschi, given he had nothing to do with the day-to-day functioning of the bank, but would likely seek indictments against Cipriani and Tulli, though the exact nature of the accusations against them remains unclear.

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