Google confirms acquisition of Waze

One of the more persistent acquisition rumors as of late has come true: Google just confirmed that it bought Waze. As many expected, the deal will see Waze largely operate independently of its new parent while supplying Google Maps with traffic update features. The stand-alone Waze app, meanwhile, will receive some of Google's know-how in search. While the two sides haven't discussed the much ballyhooed (and reportedly $1 billion-plus) purchase price, we suspect it was just large enough to snub Facebook.

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These New iOS 7 Icons Sure Look Familiar

Apple's new app icons are sure something, aren't they? Each one is so delightful and cheery and vibrant. Who knew shading would look so much better than drop shadows! But wait! I think I've seen some of these before.

That Game Center icon looks a lot like Living Social's color blob. At least we now know what Apple did with that Color acquisition, too! Crazy, I know. This wouldn't be the first time, though. Apple did "borrow" the Swiss National Railway's clock for its new clock icon in iOS 6.

I can't quite put my finger on any of the rest but maybe you're seeing something I'm not?

Source: http://gizmodo.com/these-new-ios-7-icons-sure-look-familiar-512410550

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Pregnant women with severe morning sickness who take antihistamines are significantly more likely to experience adverse outcomes

June 10, 2013 ? Women with a severe form of morning sickness who take antihistamines to help them sleep through their debilitating nausea are significantly more likely to experience adverse pregnancy outcomes, including low birth weight babies and premature births, a UCLA study has found.

The findings, the first to link antihistamine use to adverse pregnancy outcomes, are important because babies born before 37 weeks often are hospitalized longer than full term babies, can experience problems breathing and feeding, are more prone to infection and can suffer from developmental problems. Women with this condition considering taking such medications should know the risks, said study lead author Marlena Fejzo, an assistant professor of research in obstetrics and gynecology at UCLA.

The severe morning sickness, called hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), is the same condition that Duchess Kate Middleton recently experienced. Its cause is unknown and the symptoms are intense -- the continuous nausea and vomiting can be so violent that women in the study reported suffering from detached retinas, blown eardrums, cracked ribs and torn esophagi, Fejzo said. The symptoms can last for several months or the entire pregnancy.

"It was surprising to find the link between antihistamines and adverse outcomes as these are over-the-counter medications that are used commonly by women with HG during pregnancy," said Fejzo, who had undiagnosed HG during her first pregnancy and nearly died during her second, losing the baby at 15 weeks gestation. "Women and their healthcare providers should be aware of the risk for adverse outcomes when deciding which medications to take to treat their HG symptoms."

The study appears June 10, 2013 in the European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology.

The six-year study compared pregnancy outcomes in 254 women with HG who were sick enough that they needed treatment for dehydration with intravenous fluids to 308 women who had normal or no morning sickness during pregnancy. Fejzo said they found women with HG had four times the risk of adverse outcomes. The link between HG and adverse outcomes has been shown in several previous studies.

Fejzo took it a step farther, comparing women with HG who suffered adverse outcomes to women with HG who had good outcomes. They then looked at more than 35 medications and treatments commonly used by women with HG to determine if any were linked to bad outcomes. She found that antihistamines, like those found in Unisom and Benadryl, were taken by more than 50 percent of HG patients who experienced adverse outcomes.

Fejzo also found that the medications were reportedly effective in less than 20 percent of the women that took them.

"Some doctors will suggest that their HG patients take Unisom to help them sleep through their nausea," Fejzo said. "Our findings show not only that the use of antihistamines is linked with adverse outcomes, but also that they're not that effective. Women with HG should be aware of that so they can make educated decisions on how to treat their HG symptoms."

Adrienne Downs of Culver City experienced some nausea and vomiting during her first two pregnancies, but nothing out of the ordinary. Her third pregnancy was not so run-of-the-mill. She soon began suffering from constant nausea, vomiting around the clock every 20 minutes or so. She was hospitalized twice, five days each time, to get intravenous fluids to treat her severe dehydration and malnutrition.

"I literally could keep nothing down for months," said Downs. "I couldn't even get up out of bed and take care of my family. It was horrible. I was very scared for my baby. How would it get any nutrition if I couldn't eat or drink?"

Downs lost 12 pounds in three weeks early in her pregnancy. Her mother had to move in to take care of Downs' sons, 4 and 2, and try to find something her daughter could keep in her system. Now at 21 weeks gestation, Downs' symptoms have subsided somewhat, although she still can only keep down fluids. She had gained back some of the weight she lost.

Downs said she did not take antihistamines to treat her HG symptoms, but she said the findings are important.

"As pregnant moms, we want to be the best 'house' for our babies that we can," she said. "I had never heard of this condition before I got it, so I'm glad that UCLA researchers are studying HG and may one day find the cause."

Fejzo said HG is diagnosed in 0.2 to 2 percent of pregnant women, although rates are higher in China. She said much more work needs to be done to study the short- and long-term outcomes of medication use during pregnancy.

She and her team currently are studying outcomes in HG pregnancies to determine if the violent nausea and vomiting have any effects on the children later in life.

"We desperately need support for research into HG to determine its cause so that medications can be designed that are safe and effective," Fejzo said. "The greatest risk factor for HG other than a previous HG pregnancy is having a sister who had HG, which increases the risk by 17-fold. This suggests a genetic component is at work."

Fejzo and her team are collecting saliva from women with HG and women with normal pregnancies and are studying the DNA extracted from the saliva to look for genes that may predispose women for HG. She hopes once a cause is discovered, drugs can be developed to either prevent or more effectively treat the condition.

The study was funded by the Hyperemesis Education and Research Foundation.

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Records reveal rocky past at Calif. gunman's home

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) ? The mother of a gunman who fatally shot five people in Santa Monica once said the shooter's father had threatened to kill her at least twice during years of turmoil in the family, according to court records obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

"'If I had a gun it would be over,'" Randa Abdou quoted her husband in a 1998 document seeking a temporary restraining order.

The mother of John Zawahri also said her husband had threatened to take their two young sons away to Canada after the couple separated, and that he once punched her and stole her jewelry, purse, and unfiled divorce papers.

Authorities said the gunman, John Zawahri, 23, shot his 55-year-old father, Samir Zawahri, and his 24-year-old brother, Christopher, on Friday and left their home in flames before shooting at strangers in cars and on the Santa Monica College campus during a 15-minute rampage.

The former student at the school was heavily armed and carrying a duffel bag with 1,300 rounds of ammunition when officers killed him in the campus library.

Randa Abdou cut short a visit with family in Lebanon to return to Los Angeles on Sunday and had spoken with investigators who hoped she could provide clues to what sparked the violence.

Neighbor Beverly Meadows said she spoke with Abdou on the phone on Monday and being told Abdou was in mourning and concerned about those who were hurt.

"She is very, very fragile right now, and at this point in time, everybody else is gone," Meadows said.

Abdou has not spoken to the media.

"Please respect the fact that this woman is devastated," Meadows said. "She is absolutely overwhelmed and she doesn't know how to process it. She sounds like she's done nothing but cry...She still feels like maybe she should have done something."

Santa Monica College reopened on Monday for final exams and for students to recover backpacks, cars and other items left behind when they fled the violence. Extra security and counselors were on hand but the library ? where Zawahri was shot by police ? remained closed.

Investigators were still trying to determine what prompted the attack and if it might have involved some type of mental illness.

Zawahri's parents married in 1985, and his father brought his family to the neighborhood of small homes and apartment buildings tucked up against Interstate 10 in the mid-1990s, according to property records.

When Zawahri was 9, his now-separated mother sought the restraining order.

In the 1998 document, Abdou said she left Lebanon and joined her husband in the U.S. five years after their wedding, and the couple "have had marital troubles ever since."

Her estranged husband had been "verbally abusive and controlling," she stated, adding that she was afraid he might do something "drastic because he seems to become increasingly angry and frustrated over our separation."

Abdou said her husband has "followed me, struck me, taken the children without telling me, and entered my apartment without my permission and removed photographs."

He once came to the apartment and told her that he was going to take the children to Canada, she said.

"The defendant said that he would do anything to make my life miserable and that he could kill me and no restraining order can stop him," she said.

Her husband also waited for her at work once, and when she pulled up in a car with a friend, he struck her in the arm, pulled her hair, took gold bracelets, her purse and unfiled divorce papers.

She was afraid to press charges, she added, because he scared her and she didn't want to enrage him further. "The defendant has told me that life means nothing to him if we are not together," she said.

Abdou asked the court to order the return of her property, including her green card, and to grant her custody of the couple's two sons pending a court hearing.

However, her request for a restraining order was dismissed when she missed the hearing.

Court records indicated that the parents sought divorce at least twice in the 1990s but the documents do not indicate whether a divorce was finalized.

Thomas O'Rourke, a neighbor of Samir Zawahri, said the couple did divorce, with one son living with each parent.

A candlelight vigil for victims was planned Monday evening outside the library.

Earlier, campus police Chief Albert Vasquez identified the woman fatally shot at the school outside the library as Margarita Gomez, 68, of Santa Monica, a non-student who was known for collecting recyclables at the site.

Kelly Williams, 19, said she was nervous about coming to campus to take a psychology final but felt better once she saw a police car parked outside.

"It's kind of scary because it just happened and you don't know if it will happen again," she said.

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Associated Press writers Anthony McCartney and Robert Jablon contributed to this story. Tami Abdollah can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/latams

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Helen Mirren talks royalty and 'Doctor Who'

LONDON (AP) ? Helen Mirren is a star of stage and screen ? and now stage on-screen.

Mirren's award-winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience" will be beamed this week from London's Gielgud Theatre to hundreds of movie theaters around the world in a live broadcast.

It's the latest step in Mirren's glittering regal procession as the monarch. She won an Academy Award for playing Elizabeth in the 2006 movie "The Queen," and gained an Olivier stage trophy in April for her reprise in box-office hit "The Audience."

But the actress, who has made a career of not being typecast, had to be persuaded to wear the crown a second time.

"I really didn't want to play the role again," Mirren said in an interview before another evening donning tiara and pearls. "I was very resistant."

Mirren was won over by the quality of the creative team, which includes director Stephen Daldry, award-winning stage designer Bob Crowley and playwright Peter Morgan, who wrote both "The Queen" and "The Audience."

"It was just an amazing team, and I thought, 'If you walk away from this, you're an idiot,'" Mirren said.

She also felt there was more to explore about the queen, an intensely private and uniquely public figure.

"She's at the same time completely known and completely unknowable," Mirren said. "So there's this extraordinary dichotomy of a very familiar person who is a complete mystery at the same time."

"The Audience" imagines the private weekly meetings between the monarch and Britain's prime ministers ? 12 in all ? over her six-decade reign. Mirren gives a delicately nuanced performance, both regal and vulnerable, in which the queen grows from a tentative 20-something to wise octogenarian while retaining a core of solitude.

Mirren is not a monarchist, but says she has come to sympathize with Elizabeth and the burden of her position.

"This is a woman who has lived with nonstop admiration and a lot of sycophancy, but at the same time is a very straightforward, pragmatic, down to earth person, I suspect.

"It's a life of incredible luxury in many ways, but I don't think luxury is her default mode. I don't think she likes luxury, actually. I think she'd be far happier on a tractor with muddy boots in the kitchen and lots of dogs running around."

"The Audience" will be broadcast to cinemas across Britain and around the world Thursday. Some movie theaters will show it live, while others will show it at different times throughout the summer.

Live theater broadcasts have become a surprise hit since Britain's National Theatre launched its NT Live program four years ago with ? fittingly enough ? a production of Jean Racine's "Phedre" starring Mirren.

What began as an experiment inspired by the Metropolitan Opera's cinema broadcasts has quickly become a cultural fixture. From an initial 280 theaters, the broadcasts now go out to almost 700 venues in 25 countries.

Eight shows a year get the NT Live treatment. Most are National Theatre productions, but some, like "The Audience," come from other theaters. Next up is Kenneth Branagh's "Macbeth," to be broadcast from the Manchester International Festival on July 20.

"It's been way beyond our wildest dreams," said David Sabel, executive producer of NT Live. "When we launched it, it was very much an experiment. We were quietly confident, but there were a lot of questions about whether it would work.

"In the past when theater has been filmed, they've put the cameras at the back or on the side so as not to disturb the audience," he said. "And that's why you end up with a product that looks like it wasn't meant to be filmed."

NT Live's approach was to treat the plays like live sports broadcasts, using multiple cameras, tracking shots, and close-ups to merge the immediacy of live theater and the intimacy of film.

Mirren knows from experience the challenge of playing to a live audience while cameras, occupying some of the seats, film the action.

"It's very tricky, because there's such a world of difference between theatre acting and film acting, and this absolutely is right in the middle," Mirren said.

"It's not a process that you get to practice a lot, so it's a bit of a crapshoot. You're working in the dark really, and there's no chance of going back and going 'Oh God, can we do it again?' You just have to go for it, in the way that you do in the theater."

"The Audience" ends its West End run on Saturday, but Mirren may not be finished with the queen yet. She says the play may transfer to Broadway ? "but not for a while."

At 67, Mirren is at the top of her game. In a 45-year career, she's gone from the Royal Shakespeare Company to screen notoriety in the racy "Caligula" to movie classics such as "Excalibur" and "The Long Good Friday." Millions know her as steely detective Jane Tennison in the long-running TV series "Prime Suspect," and she can currently be heard as the voice of a sinister creature in the animated movie "Monsters University."

Dame Helen Mirren ? she received the female equivalent of a knighthood in 2003 ? is as much a national treasure as the queen, though a considerably less buttoned-up one.

She has even been suggested as the next star of "Doctor Who," the beloved BBC sci-fi series about a space-hopping, time-traveling alien hero. Eleven actors have played the role since the show began in 1963, and a 12th is to be announced soon.

That has sparked intense speculation among the show's millions of fans, with some wondering whether the role might go to a woman for the first time. One bookmaker is offering 25-1 odds on it being Mirren.

"Oh, please ? I would put much longer odds on it than that," she scoffed.

"But I think it's absolutely time for a female Doctor Who. I'm so sick of that man with his girl sidekick. I could name at least 10 wonderful British actresses who would absolutely kill in that role."

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The Audience: http://www.theaudienceplay.com/home/

NT Live: http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/

Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

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English wins St. Jude for 1st PGA Tour title

Harris English holds the trophy after winning the St. Jude Classic golf tournament in Memphis, Tenn., with a for his first PGA Tour title, birdieing two of the final three hole and finishing with a 1-under 69 for a 12-under 268 total Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Harris English holds the trophy after winning the St. Jude Classic golf tournament in Memphis, Tenn., with a for his first PGA Tour title, birdieing two of the final three hole and finishing with a 1-under 69 for a 12-under 268 total Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Harris English watches his tee shot down at the second tee during the final round of the St. Jude Classic golf tournament on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Scott Stallings reacts after his putt on the seventh green failed to fall during the final round of the St. Jude Classic golf tournament on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Phil Mickelson and the gallery watch his tee drive off the second tee box during the final round of the St. Jude Classic golf tournament Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Shawn Stefani watches his tee shot on the second tee box in the final round of the St. Jude Classic golf tournament on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ? The support of a handful of old high school buddies, the calming influence of a veteran caddie and timely putting were exactly what Harris English needed to pull out his first PGA Tour victory.

English won the St. Jude Classic on Sunday, birdieing two of the final three holes to hold off Phil Mickelson and Scott Stallings by two strokes.

"I had probably 10 high school friends out there today," English said. "And I know that if I make a birdie or a bogey, they're probably going to be the same and they're rooting me on. I was just really relaxed out there today. Bogeyed eight and nine, which was tough. But I knew if I kept it together on the back nine, I could make a run at the thing."

The 23-year-old former Georgia star in his second year on tour survived a final round where he had six birdies and five bogeys. He finished with a 1-under 69 for a 12-under 268 total to get the victory in the same state where he helped Baylor in Chattanooga win four Tennessee high school golf titles.

English said caddie Brian Smith also helped him refocus as he made the turn.

"I really didn't think I'd be in this seat right here coming off 9," English said. "I thought I kind of made some really dumb bogeys on eight, nine and kind of shot myself out of the tournament. But Smitty was saying, 'Hey let's go beat this back nine. Let's get back under par for the tournament for the day, and let's get after it.' So it was almost pedal to the metal."

English got four of his birdies on the back nine and saw on No. 14 that he was the lead at 10 under. He made a 5-foot birdie putt on No. 16 to tie Stallings for the lead, but Stallings bogeyed No. 18 to give English the lead to himself. English made a 17-foot birdie putt on No. 17, and overcame shaking hands as he two-putted No. 18 to pick up the winner's check of $1,026,000.

"It's quite an unbelievable feeling," English said.

Mickelson shot a 67, and Stallings had a 68. Mickelson said English finished strong and has been playing some great golf, but the four-time major winner got most of what he wanted after not playing the previous three weeks as he tuned up for the U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club.

"I'm really encouraged with the way I hit my irons," Mickelson said. "Got to get the 3-wood in play a little bit more, although next week at Merion distance won't be as critical as TPC Southwind. I'll be able to hit higher and softer shots."

English became the fourth player to win the event in his first start since the tournament moved to TPC Southwind in 1989 and the second straight after Dustin Johnson a year ago.

The final round returned to normal Memphis weather with the temperature reaching the high 80s along with the wind blowing from the south at 10-15 mph as it usually does at Southwind.

English won the Southern Amateur in 2011 and was an amateur when he won on the Web.com Tour at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational in July 2011. He moved to the PGA Tour in 2012 and finished 79th on the money list. Now he has his fourth top 10 this year and a precious invitation to the Masters for the Georgia native.

It looked as if Stallings, a two-time winner on tour, would add his third win in three years when he took advantage of consecutive bogeys by English on Nos. 8 and 9 to go up by three strokes. Stallings was 12 under at the turn with four birdies on the front side. But he finished with a double bogey, a birdie and a bogey in his final four holes.

"You have to learn from the experiences that you have like this today and hopefully I'll get a little bit better break next time," Stallings said.

Shawn Stefani, a 31-year-old rookie from Texas, went into the final round with a one-stroke lead, had a 76 to drop into a tie for seventh at 6 under.

English, playing with Stefani in the final group, rallied after his consecutive bogeys.

He birdied No. 10, rolling in a 14-footer from the fringe, and hit his tee shot within 5 feet on the par-3 11th for his second straight birdie and fourth of the round. His fifth bogey of the day, at No. 12, moved him back to 10 under.

Stallings went to 11 under with a birdie on the par-5 16th but missed his own birdie attempt from the same distance a couple feet away on the green, which cost him when English birdied No. 16 a few minutes later to tie him again atop the leaderboard. English then birdied No. 17 when he was just trying to get close.

"It went in dead center and gave me a lot of momentum going into 18," English said.

On No. 18, Stallings hit his tee shot way right between the fairway bunkers and the cart path and put his approach into the right rough 83 feet away. His chip just reached the edge of the green, leaving him nearly 40 feet to the hole. He ran it 5 feet past the hole for a bogey.

"Harris has played great coming down the stretch," Stallings said.

Mickelson birdied Nos. 13 and 16, but he just missed a 13-footer for birdie on the par-4 17th. He then went right at the hole on No. 18 from 151 yards and just missed, leaving a 2-foot birdie putt to tie Stallings at 10 under.

English then finished off the win and celebrated with a simple fist pump.

Notes: The others to win in their first trip to this event at TPC Southwind were Lee Westwood (2010) and Dicky Pride (1994). ... English is the 11th American to win this event since 2000 and the seventh to come from behind in the last eight years here. ... English is the eighth player in his 20s to win this year compared to 15 last year. ... Brad Fritsch finished the tournament in style, holing out from the 18th fairway from 177 yards out. That put him at even par and tied for 56th.

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