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Delta updates app with a privacy policy; California is safe again

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Delta Airlines has updated its Android app, bringing $2,500,000,000 worth of new features. All in the form of a privacy policy. 

It's still the same app as before, letting you check in to your flights, grab a mobile boarding pass, or even check your SkyMiles balance. If you are a frequent flier on Delta, it's probably a very useful download.

So what is this upgrade all about, and what does it have to do with billions of dollars? Good question, with an easy answer. Seems that the state of California slapped Delta with a lawsuit because the app had no clear privacy policy attached. Delta had 30 days to comply, or be faced with fines that could total up to $2.5 billion (with a b). Rather than make a large donation to California's economy, Delta updated their app today. Quick work, and the addition of the privacy policy is easy to get to -- simply tap Traveling with Us, then tap Privacy Policy. 

It's good to see a privacy policy for any app, especially one that collects your credit card info by design. It's also good on some level that the state of California looks out for their citizens, keeping them safe from those who would steal and abuse their private data.

But I can't shake the feeling that threatening a $2.5 billion fine ($2,500 per download)is the best way to go about it. Anyhoo, if you're using the Delta app go grab the update, and if you're not using it but think you should be, download it from Google Play.

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Unique Wedding Engagement Rings

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?The two most notable milestones in your life are the engagement and wedding, and if you are looking for unique wedding engagement rings, I assure you that the best place to shop for it is the online jewelry stores. They have a ready stock following the latest trends as well as the classic and vintage, designer rings.

Split shank is in vogue, and at the web portals you will notice that some designs are not only pieces of art but also unique in themselves. Engagement ring split shank can be matched with the wedding ring and you can shop for them together. Regarding the split shank rings, as the name signifies the shank is divided into parts.

There may be two or three shanks together giving a truly suspended look to the diamond that is placed on the top. The jewelry shank is covered with diamonds most often in a channel setting. When the split shank is coupled with the engagement halo ring, it creates another option among unique wedding engagement rings.

The halo engagement ring contains a centrally located large diamond surrounded by other smaller diamonds around it. You must have noticed some celebrities flaunting their large diamonds. Most of them are in halo engagement ring setting. You can also couple a princess cut diamond with a split shank ring.

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Unique Wedding Engagement Rings

The princess cut is one of the elite cuts and takes a lot of precision. It is also made from the finest quality of diamonds. Therefore, while contemplating about unique wedding engagement ring does not forget the princess cut because not many are able to afford a large princess cut diamond.

The idea of unique is something that is rare something that is not common and find in the mass. Following this definition, I suggest you can yourself create your own unique wedding engagement ring. Just peep into your creative genius.

Your love or your beau and awareness of her preferences will surely guide you to make your own masterpiece. Exclusiveness can only be made when you design it on your own, or else there are always chances of other people following the same trend. So go ahead! Choose your diamond and set it in your desired ring.

While choosing your diamond for the unique wedding engagement rings primarily fix your budget. This way you will be able to narrow down your search. The diamond can be in any shape- oval, and rounds are common, but lovers nowadays prefer the heart shaped. It is surely a romantic idea, and when you give it your own touches it becomes a piece that will give your beau unbridled happiness and memories to cherish throughout her life. The next will be to choose the metal and setting of the diamond.

Gold is common, but some people love to wear gold. Lastly do not forget to add the accents.

While giving shape to your idea, do take into account your beaus lifestyle. If you want to wear the engagement wedding ring always then gift her something that she will feel free to wear throughout the day.

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Alicia Keys raises $2.9M at gala, honors Winfrey

NEW YORK (AP) ? During the auction portion of Alicia Keys' Black Ball Redux, one man was ready to jump his bid from $100,000 to $250,000 for a trip to South Africa ? if Keys would join him and his friends.

"I'll go for a little more," Keys said Thursday night at the Apollo Theater, where her charity's annual gala was held.

The man ? pharmaceutical billionaire Stewart Rahr ? didn't raise his bid, but he later pledged $1 million to Keep a Child Alive, helping the R&B singer raise more than $2.9 million.

Keys' charity assists those affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. Thursday's event was originally planned for Nov. 1, but was canceled due to Superstorm Sandy.

"There are places in the world where Keep a Child Alive serves where they have a Hurricane Sandy every day," Keys said in an interview on the red carpet. "They don't have electricity, they don't have heat ... and that made me more invigorated to make sure this Black Ball happened."

Keys honored Oprah Winfrey at the event for the entrepreneur's philanthropic efforts, including her school, The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, which launched in 2007.

"It's a universal truth, Oprah makes change happen," Keys said.

Winfrey said she was honored to receive an award from Keys, and that it confirms she's "moving in the right direction."

"You try to keep a child alive and I try to educate them as best as I can," Winfrey said onstage.

Before that, a video played onscreen detailing the launch of Winfrey's school and how the mogul struggled in her early years, riding on a bus with maids from the inner city to the suburbs to attend a better high school.

"When I look at Africans girls I see myself," 58-year-old Winfrey said. "I continue to work for them to have the same opportunities that I have. "

Beninese singer Ang?lique Kidjo was also honored and she joined Keys onstage for some upbeat, drum-filled numbers.

Bonnie Raitt also performed, as she and Keys sang a duet version of her slow groove "I Just Can't Make You Love Me." Keys said it was "one of my dreams to sing" with Raitt.

Jennifer Hudson and Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes also hit the stage, where Whoopi Goldberg worked as the night's emcee.

"I read '50 Shades of Grey' so I stay away from paddles," Goldberg said when the auction began.

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APNewsBreak: Dhaka factory lost fire certification

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012 file photo, Bangladeshi firefighters battle a fire at a garment factory in the Savar neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, late. A Dhaka fire official said the Tazreen factory's fire safety certification had expired on June 30, and fire officials refused to renew it because the building did not have the proper safety arrangements. The factory did not have any fire exits for its 1,400 workers, many of whom became trapped by the blaze. Investigators said the death toll would have been far lower if there had been even a single emergency exit. (AP Photo/Hasan Raza)

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012 file photo, Bangladeshi firefighters battle a fire at a garment factory in the Savar neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, late. A Dhaka fire official said the Tazreen factory's fire safety certification had expired on June 30, and fire officials refused to renew it because the building did not have the proper safety arrangements. The factory did not have any fire exits for its 1,400 workers, many of whom became trapped by the blaze. Investigators said the death toll would have been far lower if there had been even a single emergency exit. (AP Photo/Hasan Raza)

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 26, 2012 file photo, Bangladeshi officials inspect a garment-factory where a fire killed more than 110 people Saturday on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. A Dhaka fire official said the Tazreen factory's fire safety certification had expired on June 30, and fire officials refused to renew it because the building did not have the proper safety arrangements. The factory did not have any fire exits for its 1,400 workers, many of whom became trapped by the blaze. Investigators said the death toll would have been far lower if there had been even a single emergency exit. (AP Photo)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 file photo, hundreds of Bangladeshi mourners watch as the bodies of a part of the victims of Saturday's fire in a garment factory are buried in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A Dhaka fire official said the Tazreen factory's fire safety certification had expired on June 30, and fire officials refused to renew it because the building did not have the proper safety arrangements. The factory did not have any fire exits for its 1,400 workers, many of whom became trapped by the blaze. Investigators said the death toll would have been far lower if there had been even a single emergency exit. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)

(AP) ? The factory where 112 garment workers died in a fire should have been shut down months ago. The fire department refused to renew the certification it needed to operate, a top fire official told The Associated Press. And its owner told AP that just three of the factory's eight floors were legal. He was building a ninth.

Government officials knew of the problems, but the factory just kept running.

The Capital Development Authority could have fined Tazreen Fashions Ltd. or even pushed for the demolition of illegally built portions of the building, said an agency official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. But it chose to do nothing, rather than confront one of Bangladesh's most powerful industries, he said.

"I must say we have our weaknesses. We could not do that," he said. "Not only Tazreen. There are hundreds more buildings. That's the truth."

Bangladesh's $20 billion-a-year garment industry, which accounts for 80 percent of Bangladesh's total export earnings, goes virtually unchallenged by the government, said Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, a labor rights group.

"These factories should be shut down, but who will do that?" she said. "Any good government inspector who wants to act tough against such rogue factories would be removed from office. Who will take that risk?"

Fire officials did challenge the factory, though they appeared reluctant to go too far.

When the factory's fire safety certification expired June 30, Dhaka's fire authorities refused to renew it, a fire official told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

A factory must be certified to operate, but the department usually gives factory owners some time to upgrade conditions. If they fail to do so, the department can file a court case to get it closed down. But it rarely does, and did not in Tazreen's case.

"These factories should be closed, but it is not an easy task," the fire official said. "We need to follow a protracted legal battle. Always there is pressure because the owners are influential. They can manage everything."

The Nov. 24 fire tore through the ground floor of the behemoth white, concrete factory, which fills most of a block in the Dhaka suburb of Savar. About 1,400 employees were cutting fabric and sewing clothes for Wal-Mart, Disney and other Western brands.

Dipa Akter had no idea she was in any danger during the three years she worked at the Tazreen factory.

"We never thought such a big fire could happen at Tazreen. We thought there would be no problem if there was a fire. There are three stairways ... we never thought our colleagues would die this way," she said.

Now, the factory stands gutted, its cavernous floors littered with burned clothes, yarn, machinery and furniture. Glass from windows broken by desperate workers who tried to jump to safety is scattered along with black ash on the floors and staircases.

Though the factory had three staircases, it had no specially designed emergency exits. Fire extinguishers in the building either didn't work or workers didn't know how to use them, survivors said.

The fire official declined to provide specifics about what violations the department had uncovered in the months before the fire.

"I can't explain more because the case is very sensitive and this is under investigation," the official said.

The chairman of the Capital Development Authority, Nurul Huda, did not return calls seeking comment.

Tazreen's owner, Delwar Hossain, said the government granted him authorization to construct a three-story factory. Nonetheless, he added five more floors and was constructing a ninth when the blaze broke out, he said late Thursday.

The construction is in direct violation of a law that requires advance written approval of factory construction and expansion.

When asked why he went ahead with the expansion anyway, he responded: "My mental condition is not good. I am under pressure. Please don't ask me anything else."

Hossain is a former accounts manager at a garment factory who started his own company, Tuba Textiles Mills Ltd., in 2004 and now has a dozen factories of his own.

Other factory owners hold parliamentary posts and other prestigious positions. In one sign of the industry's power, the government has dispatched a special police force just to maintain order in the factories.

The risky conditions at the Tazreen plant were known not only to government officials, but to major U.S. retailers whose products were made there.

Wal-Mart audited Tazreen in 2011, giving it an "orange" or high-risk rating. Months later it did a second audit, and early this year the factory was no longer authorized to produce merchandise for the retail giant. However, an AP reporter who visited the factory last week found Wal-Mart brands were still being made there. The company said a supplier ? who has since been fired ? had moved Wal-Mart production there without its knowledge.

Akter, the rights activist, estimates that more than half the nation's more than 4,000 garment factories have safety arrangements only on paper.

Factory owners "are very powerful, or backed by powerful associations and people," Akter said. She added that many inspectors are bribed to ignore violations.

In the two weeks since the blaze, the fire department has inspected 232 factories in the industrial area where Tazreen was located. It found that more than one-quarter of them ? 64 ? lacked fire safety licenses or safety measures such as fire extinguishers, water reservoirs and workers trained to fight a fire, said Dhaka fire chief M. Abdus Salam.

Those 64 factories will be shut down if they fail to address the issues within a month, Salam said.

In the meantime, they continue producing clothes.

Associated Press

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How to Say Google in Different Languages

Google, the word not the company, has become such a common word for anyone who uses a computer (other than the yahoos who still use Yahoo, I guess) that it's surprising to learn that other languages have a different word for it. Like Italians say Googlare. Or that the Portugese say Googlar. It gets weirder. More »

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US (CA): California farmers report labor shortages

The survey, conducted by the Calfornia Farm Bureau Federation, found that 61 percent of respondents reported worker shortages. At 71 percent, a larger percentage of farmers who grow labor-intensive crops reported experiencing worker shortages. The survey's findings also showed that farmers resorted to a variety of measures to deal with labor shortages, including offering higher wages, adjusting harvesting and pruning times, relying more on mechanization, and, in some cases, planting fewer acres or cutting the harvest short.

California Farm Bureau President, Paul Wenger, said in a CFBF press release that the survey's findings raise issues that must be addressed by farmers and non-farmers alike; especially considering that farmers rely on a largely immigrant workforce.

?Through this survey, California farmers have given us a glimpse into what may happen if current trends continue,? he said. ?Without the creation of a secure, effective program that allows people from foreign countries to work legally in the United States to harvest crops, we could see continuing or worsening problems, especially for small or midsized farms.?

The results of the survey are contained in a CFBF report titled ?Walking the Tightrope: California Farmers Struggle with Employee Shortages.? It can be found at cfbf.com.

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Netflix CEO Reed Hasting Faces Possible SEC Charges Over Facebook Post

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is under investigation by the?Securities and Exchange Commission because of a Facebook post the CEO made in July.

On his personal Facebook page Hastings announced that Netflix had surpassed one billion hours of streaming video in a single month, the first time Netflix has reached that milestone in its short lived history. SEC officials now claim that disclosing that information only to his Facebook followers may have been a violation of fair disclosure laws.

The SEC could choose to go after Hastings and Netflix in civil court.

The Facebook post was not a secret, Hastings? Facebook account post was seen by more than 200,000 followers. Even with a post seen by hundreds of thousands of followers the SEC believes it may still be ?selective disclosure? of material information.

Netflix officials were quick to point out that the company hinted at the one billion milestone before it was actually posted to Reed Hastings? Facebook page. The video streaming service also claims that revealing such numbers is not ?material? to investors who prefer to know about subscriber numbers both on the instant video streaming and DVD/Blu-ray rental sides.

Netflix says it is ?optimistic that this can be cleared up quickly through the SEC?s review process.?

This isn?t the first time Netflix officials have come under fire for their business practices, many investors were angered when company officials sold millions of Netflix shares before the company lost a large percentage of its users during price increases for its services.

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Teen: Boys want an Easy-Bake Oven, too

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Hasbro's Easy-Bake Oven comes in two colors: purple and pink.

By Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --?Four-year-old Gavyn Boscio loves to cook and asked for an Easy-Bake Oven for Christmas. But when his big sister went to buy one, she discovered to her disappointment that it comes only in girly pink and purple, with girls ? and only girls ? on the box and in the commercials.?

So the eighth-grader from Garfield, N.J., started an online petition asking Pawtucket, R.I.-based Hasbro to make the toy ovens in gender-neutral colors and feature boys on the package.?

By Friday, 13-year-old McKenna Pope's petition had garnered more than 30,000 signatures in a little more than a week.

And celebrity chef Bobby Flay, who owned an Easy-Bake Oven as a boy, is among those weighing in on her side.

In a video McKenna made to accompany her petition on Change.org, Gavyn whips up a batch of cookies and tells his sister he wants a dinosaur and an Easy-Bake Oven for Christmas. When she asks him why there are no boys in the commercial for Easy-Bake Ovens, he explains: "Because only girls play with it."

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McKenna Pope, 13, right, and her brother Gavyn Boscio, 4, pose Dec. 6 for a photo at their home in Garfield, N.J. Pope started a petition demanding the toy company Hasbro make its Easy-Bake Oven more boy friendly.

"Obviously, the way they're marketing this product is influencing what he thinks and the way that he acts," McKenna said in an interview. She said her little brother would probably be OK playing with a purple-and-pink oven by himself but would be too embarrassed to use it in front of his friends.

A spokesman for Hasbro did not return calls for comment.

In a letter McKenna received on Monday, a Hasbro representative told her the company has featured boys on the packaging over the years and said a brother and sister were finalists for the Easy-Bake "Baker of the Year" award in 2009. Hasbro also pointed to Flay as an example of a chef who traced his career to an early experience with the Easy-Bake.

McKenna found the response disappointing.

"All they really told me is that boys play with their products. I already know boys do play with your products, so why are you only marketing them to girls?" she said. "I don't want them to make a boys' Easy-Bake Oven and girls' Easy-Bake Oven. I want them to make an Easy-Bake Oven for kids."

The debate over whether toy companies are reinforcing gender stereotypes ? pinks and princesses for girls, guns and gross things for boys ? seems to flare every year, particularly at Christmas, and has involved such things as LEGOS, toy microscopes and Barbie dolls. Now, it has extended to another one of the most beloved baby boomer toys, introduced in the 1960s.

Flay, 47, said he asked for an Easy-Bake for Christmas when he was about 5. He remembers it as a "putrid green" and recalls baking cakes with his mother from mixes. (The Easy-Bake Oven back then used a light bulb as a heating element; now it operates more like a real oven.) At the time, he said, the stereotype was that only women cooked, but a lot has changed since then.

"I cannot tell you how many young boys are my fans. And they want to grow up, and they want to cook," the Food Network star said.

Jim Silver, a toy expert and editor-in-chief of Timetoplaymag.com, played with an Easy-Bake himself when as a kid and said boys still play with it, just as girls play with Hot Wheels cars. He said Hasbro is simply marketing to the audience most likely to buy the oven and there's nothing wrong with that.

About seven years ago, Hasbro had a cooking product aimed at boys, the Queasy Bake Cookerator, which included recipes for gross-sounding treats such as Dip n' Drool Dog Bones and Mud n' Crud Cake. "Sales failed miserably," Silver said.

Flay said he is not surprised it failed because Hasbro was trying to appeal to boys in a stereotypical way. Instead, he urged the toymaker to think about widening the market for the Easy-Bake.

"Why not actually create something that everybody knows the name, but also it comes in different colors so that boys, girls, doesn't matter, they can pick what color they want and it will make them a little more comfortable to buy it?" he said.

In the meantime, he said, Gavyn's family should buy him an Easy-Bake Oven anyway.

"Absolutely. If that's what he wants, why not get it for him? I mean, who cares what color it is?" he said.

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