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There was a time when the smartphone was a tool of the businessman. The BlackBerrys and Treos and Windows Mobile smartphones were connected corporate networks - and often issued by those corporations. Over the last several years that has changed dramatically, with smartphones becoming the province of the consumer.

So prevalent has smartphone usage become among the general public that corporations are beginning to perform a 180 on smartphone policy. They're increasingly comfortable with you hooking up your personal device to their secured corporate network.

Does that mean we need a new breed of device, something that can balance the needs of the personal user and the business user? Or do we already have the smartphones and tablets that can do that? And how do you manage the distraction of the personal at work and the work at home? Would we be better off just shoving the phone into a drawer throughout the day, or is there benefit to being able to pick it up and get in a quick Facebook check?

Navigating the world of smartphones and business, work and personal, isn't the easiest thing, but there's got to be a solution, right?

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Abandoned US College Student Drank Own Urine, Hallucinated, 'Screamed' Over Four Days In Windowless DEA Cell

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Interior of a solitary confinement cell at a new detention centre is pictured at the U.S. Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul November 15, 2009.

A 25-year-old college student who has reached a $4.1 million settlement with the US government after he was abandoned in a windowless cell for more than four days without food or water, has described his ordeal.

Daniel Chong said he drank his own urine to stay alive, hallucinated that agents were trying to poison him with gases through the vents, and tried to carve a farewell message to his mother in his arm.

Chong was taken into custody during a drug raid and placed in the cell in April 2012 by a police officer authorised to perform Drug Enforcement Administration work. The officer told Chong he would not be charged and said, "'Hang tight, we'll come get you in a minute,'" Mr Iredale said.

The door to the five-by-ten-foot cell did not reopen for four-and-a-half days.

Justice Department spokeswoman Allison Price confirmed the settlement was reached for $4.1 million but declined to answer other questions. The DEA didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

"I didn't just sit there quietly. I was kicking the door yelling. I even put some shoestrings, shoelaces through the crack of the door for visual signs. I didn't stay still, no, I was screaming," said Mr Chong.

It remained unclear how the situation occurred, and no one has been disciplined, said Eugene Iredale, an attorney for Chong, The Justice Department's inspector general is investigating.

"We hope that at some point there can be at least the individual attribution of responsibility for what happened and some kind of appropriate administrative sanction if nothing more than to rebuke the suggestion that when you put someone in a holding cell without food or water, you should let them out before five days at best," said Mr Iredale.

Mr Chong, now an economics student at the University of California, San Diego, said he planned to buy his parents a house.

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Times Union Center bidding on three NCAA Division I tournaments

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The Times Union Center has hosted NCAA men?s basketball and wrestling championship tournaments in various years since the arena opened in 1990, but never women?s basketball or women?s volleyball.

The Times Union Center could host up to three NCAA Division I championship tournaments starting in 2015 -- games that would not require expanding the sports arena at an estimated cost of $6 million to $11 million.

The arena?s general manager, Bob Belber, said bids will be submitted to the NCAA to host regional championship tournaments for women?s basketball, women?s volleyball, and men?s ice hockey from 2015 to 2018.

Belber is working with the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Siena College on the women?s basketball and volleyball bids. The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College are teaming up with the arena on the hockey bid.

The bids are due Sept. 16. The NCAA will announce the winning sites in December.

The games, if awarded, are expected to draw thousands of fans to the county-owned arena for two-day tournaments in March and December of those years, and help fill local bars, restaurants and hotels.

?The reality is if you bring in, for example, the regional women?s basketball tournament my guess is we?ll probably have close to 65 to 70 percent of the people who attend the event come from outside this market, and fill every hotel in a 50-mile radius,? Belber said.

The Times Union Center last hosted an NCAA Division I tournament in 2010, when the men?s ice hockey East Regional was played there.

The arena has also hosted NCAA men?s basketball and wrestling championship tournaments in various years since the arena opened in 1990, but never women?s basketball or women?s volleyball.

?These championships that we?re bidding on we feel can bring in huge crowds,? Belber said. ?We can generate not just enough to cover expenses but to provide the NCAA with the net revenues they?re looking for.?

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Stewart fine after sprint car accident in Canada

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? Tony Stewart was not injured in a scary accident in Canada in which his sprint car rolled five times.

A day after Monday's wreck, Stewart was still scheduled for the World of Outlaws race Tuesday night at Ohsweken Speedway in Ontario. He's the defending race winner.

But the three-time NASCAR champion will sit out a pair of races this weekend as his team takes its cars to Indiana for repairs.

Stewart finished fourth Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and said he'd be in a race car every day this week. Although he declined to reveal his entire schedule, he said he was testing Wednesday, racing Thursday and would be at Pocono Raceway this weekend.

Spokesman Mike Arning says races Friday and Saturday night have been scrapped only for car repairs.

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The new and improved Zagat for Android (pictures)

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We take a look at the recently rebuilt Zagat Android app, which offers users more access to editorial content among other features. ...

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United States Presses Israel to Release Murderers But Won?t Release Pollard

Jonathan Pollard.

The Israeli cabinet took a courageous and politically unpopular step by approving the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners, including many terrorists who had murdered Israeli babies, women, the elderly and other civilians.? According to Israeli intelligence some of these released murderers are likely to rejoin terrorist organizations and may kill again. ?Relatives and friends of the victims have protested the decision to release these killers.? Yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet withstood these pressures and ordered their release.

The United States government had pressured the Israeli government to release these prisoners because the Palestinian Authority had made their release a condition to resuming peace talks.? The Israeli government, which had agreed to peace talks with no preconditions, submitted to the Palestinian precondition, and talks are now likely to go forward.

Prime Minister Netanyahu had reportedly asked the Obama Administration to make it easier for him to release Palestinian murderers by releasing Jonathan Pollard, who has already served 28 years for spying for Israel.? No American in history has ever come close to serving that long?indeed none has ever served a double digit sentence?for spying for an American ally.? Moreover, there were grave doubts about the lawfulness of Pollard?s sentence, as evidenced by the strong words of the dissenting judge who characterized the government?s breach of the plea agreement as a ?fundamental miscarriage of justice requiring relief??

But the Obama Administration slammed the door in Netanyahu?s face by categorically rejecting the request to commute Pollard?s sentence to the excessive term he has already served.? Despite this rebuff from the Obama Administration, Netanyahu agreed to release the prisoners.? Now the Palestinian Authority is asking for more prisoners to be released including some of the most dangerous terrorists on the face of the earth.? The United States will probably continue to put pressure on Israel to risk the lives of its own civilians by releasing more Palestinian terrorists in order to get the Palestinians to continue to negotiate.

The time has come?indeed it is well passed?for the United States to do the right thing with regard to Jonathan Pollard.? Pollard poses no continuing danger to America, since he has not had access to our secrets for nearly 30 years.? Unlike the Palestinian prisoners who are to be released, he has expressed regret over his actions and has sought forgiveness.? Moreover, his life sentence is excessive by any standard of justice and it violated the government?s plea bargain which promised, in exchange for Pollard?s guilty plea, not to seek life imprisonment.

Peace between Israel and the Palestinians requires the active involvement of the United States, as evidenced by Secretary John Kerry?s intensive efforts to bring the parties together.? But if peace is in our national interest, as the Obama Administration insists it is, and if peace requires sacrifice by both Israel and the Palestinians, then we too must be willing to give a little.? Releasing Jonathan Pollard after requiring him to serve 27 years, some in solitary confinement, is not much of a sacrifice to ask of the United States.? It is the least we can do to make it easier for Israel to make far greater sacrifices and take far more dangerous risks in order to secure peace.

The request to release Pollard now has bipartisan support in the United States and multi-partisan support in Israel.? Knesset members on all sides of the Israeli political spectrum have called for Pollard?s release as a way of encouraging the peace process.? ?It?s a window of opportunity of good will to Israeli, who are not going through an easy time,? said Labor MK Nachman Shai.? ?It would build up public support for negotiations and show that the US also understands the gravity of this historic moment.?

American political leaders from both sides of the aisle, as well as from all religious backgrounds, have called for Pollard?s release on compassionate grounds, based on the length of his sentence and his deteriorating physical condition.

Israel will go forward with negotiations regardless of whether Pollard is released, because the Israeli government wants a peaceful resolution that assures security.? But in the end the Israeli public will have to vote for any deal struck between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, with the help of American negotiators.? The outcome of any such referendum will depend on whether Israeli voters believe that their security has been assured and that the United States continues to stand behind them.? Releasing Jonathan Pollard?as a gesture of good will, as a show of American support, and in the interests of justice and compassion?will go a long way toward encouraging the Israeli public to vote in favor of a peace agreement that requires great sacrifices on their part.

Source: http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/07/29/united-states-presses-israel-to-release-murderers-but-won%E2%80%99t-release-pollard/

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