Thursday, February 28, 2013

Grape seed and skin extract: A weapon in the fight against kidney disease caused by high-fat diets

Feb. 28, 2013 ? New insight into grape seed extract as a therapeutic and preventative measure to fight obesity-induced kidney damage is presented in a new study. Grape seed and skin extract (GSSE) is known to contain powerful antioxidants. This study, published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, is the first to make a link between GSSEs and high-fat-diet-induced renal disease.

The authors examined the effect of GSSE processed from a grape cultivar ('Carignan') of Vitis vinifera from northern Tunisia on rats. Rats were fed a high-fat diet that induced a low-grade reno-lipotoxicity, that is, kidney damage associated with lipids. This was characterized by elevations in plasma urea and protein in the urine. The researchers found increased deposits of triglycerides (TG) (especially saturated fatty acids), increased signs of oxidative stress and depleted copper levels in the kidneys. There was also histological evidence of disturbance in the kidney structure. When the animals received GSSE at 500 mg/kg bw (which corresponds to 35g/day for a 70 kg human adult) along with the high-fat diet there was a partial reversal of the TG deposition as well as the histological damage. The authors suggest polyphenols including resveratrol are likely the components in GSSE responsible for the positive effects. Furthermore the GSSE prevented the oxidative stress and copper depletion.

"In our research, obesity-induced leaky kidney and proteinuria are shown to be prevented by GSSE, which suggests the use of GSSE as a preventive nutriceutical for high-risk patients," said co-author Kamel Charradi, a researcher with the Laboratory of Bioactive Substance at the Center of Biotechnology of Borj-Cedria (CBBC) in Tunisia. This research group has previously published work showing the benefits of GSSE in combating obesity, heart dysfunction, brain lipotoxicity and kidney cancer.

The article "Grape seed and skin extract alleviates high-fat-diet-induced renal lipotoxicity and prevents copper depletion in rats" is available Open Access in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism.

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Linux Gaming: Open-Source Is Better For Everyone - Features ...

The open-source operating system has long been the exclusive domain of programmers and other DIY computer nerds, but big players like Valve have recently begun making real progress in supporting Linux for heavy-duty gaming. Here's why you should cheer for those efforts rather than laughing them off or feeling like they threaten your existing PC gaming domain.

You can't throw a virtual rock on the Internet without hitting a game developer commenting on how dealing with platform holders takes time, effort, and money away from making better games. The additional coding required to conform to standards that affect a tiny portion of their audience in order to pass Microsoft certification comes at a cost. The thirty percent or so (an extremely vague figure, as it varies from game to game and platform to platform) of revenues that platform holders take off the top make it harder for developers to profit from their work. The requirements and restrictions of a platform's exclusive marketplace can make some ideas impossible to bring to life - witness the lack of MMOs on Xbox despite a strong network infrastructure. Finally, onerous burdens like having to pay a platform holder to patch your game make games like Minecraft and Team Fortress 2 lag far behind their PC versions.

With an open-source platform like Linux, there is no platform holder to deal with. Nobody can stop you from making and distributing whatever Linux software you like, charge you a fee for it, or tell you what you can and can't do with a Linux game. That has been the advantage of PC gaming since its inception, and it's done wonderful things for creativity, flexibility, and pricing over the years. With Microsoft pushing Windows in the direction of being a closed platform with Windows 8 (ARM-based tablets running Windows 8 can only run Microsoft-approved programs, and only software sold through Microsoft's digital storefront can access the full suite of Metro UI features), this massive advantage that PC gaming holds could be lost. Linux's open-source nature prevents it from ever being pushed down a similar road.

Valve's Steam service (which recently launched in a Linux incarnation) shares many of the downsides of closed platforms like consoles, iOS, or the Windows Marketplace. However, Valve doesn't control your hardware and cannot prevent any games or content from working on your machine whether it runs Windows, Linux, or Mac. Lacking that stick, Valve and competing companies (including GameStop, which owns Game Informer) must resort to carrots like seamless patching, community features, sales, and other ways to add value in order to attract games and players to their services. Many developers are happy to give Valve and other retailers their cut of a game's sale price in exchange for the visibility and marketing they receive in return, and others prefer using the pre-fab solutions for anti-piracy measures, community/online integration, and other developer-focused added value that Steam in particular offers.

Though Steam and similar services share some downsides with closed platforms like consoles, the key ingredient is choice. If a company doesn't like the way Valve does business, or doesn't think that Steam's positives outweigh its negatives, they're free to ignore it and release their game through other channels. NCsoft and ArenaNet probably didn't need any additional exposure for Guild Wars 2, and obviously decided to avoid losing the revenue that using a reseller like Valve takes off the top. Nonetheless, Guild Wars 2 is available to all PC gamers who own the requisite hardware. Blizzard sticks with its own Battle.net service. EA and Ubisoft insist on annoying players with their own proprietary Origin and Uplay systems. Hundreds of indie developers sell games through their own websites. The PC gaming ecosystem is wider and more diverse than closed platforms by orders of magnitude, and it's all due to its open nature. Game development on Linux will remain open to all business models, types of content, and services, forever.

Finally, a Linux gaming machine will by definition cost around $100 less than the same machine running Windows. Not having to pay Microsoft for its operating system is a huge boon, particularly at the lower end of gaming-capable PC building like Valve's "SteamBox" initiative. A high-end $1,900 machine going up to $2,000 isn't that big of a deal, but bringing a $600 box down to $500 is huge.

As glorious as a Linux-centric PC gaming future would be, there are a number of hurdles that must be cleared for any serious Linux development to take root. Come back Friday for a look at those, and leave your thoughts in the comments section below in the meantime.

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Census body: Egypt population reaching 92 million

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's government says in March, the number of Egyptian citizens will reach 92 million.

Of those, 84 million live in Egypt and 8 million abroad.

The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, the government's census authority, said the country's population has increased by one million since August 2012.

Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East. A 2006 census put the population at 76.6 million, a 25 percent increase in a decade.

CAPMAS says Cairo, the capital, is home to 7.1 percent of the country's population, making it the largest and most densely populated city. The population of greater Cairo is estimated at 18 million.

The agency said the majority of Egypt's population resides along the Nile river valley, in just 7.7 percent of the country's territory.

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Analysis: Election result may condemn Italy to weak, short government

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's electoral earthquake seems to have condemned the country to the thing it needs least - a short-term government and new elections in as little as six months or a year.

A huge protest vote in the Feb 24-25 election produced the worst possible result for Italy's stagnant and recession-hit economy - a parliament in which no single group has a workable majority and populist leader Beppe Grillo has the whip hand.

Global markets plunged immediately after the election before calming on Wednesday. But there are deep concerns that sustained instability in the euro zone's third largest economy could reignite Europe's debt crisis.

Italy has a long history through decades of instability of finding a way out of apparently intractable political stalemate but there appear to be only two options this time and neither of them looks very easy.

The first is a government led by center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani, who has a majority in the lower house but not the Senate, and backed by Grillo's 5-Star Movement.

The second is an alliance between Bersani and those on the opposite side of the political spectrum, the center-right of Silvio Berlusconi, who staged an astonishing fight back to recover from scandal and humiliation and come within a whisker of beating the center-left in the election.

However, Grillo has dismissed the first option and there is great opposition among the center-left rank and file to any alliance with Berlusconi, who often dismisses Bersani's supporters as communists.

Berlusconi, a 76-year-old billionaire media magnate, has been uncharacteristically quiet since the election, but appears to favor a pact with Bersani to stay in the game. Bersani's leftist ally, Nichi Vendola, has brusquely ruled such a "grand coalition" out of court.

"Over both scenarios hangs a shadow of inescapable uncertainty," said respected commentator Massimo Franco.

Grillo said on Wednesday he would not support a vote of confidence in any government.

He appears to want the right and left to discredit themselves further in an ineffective and fractious joint government - their only option without his support - before a new election in which he will score an even bigger victory. He expects it to take no more than a year for such a government to fall.

To make things worse there will be a constitutional vacuum until after March 15, which is the earliest date that President Giorgio Napolitano, the head of state, can start consultations with the politicians aimed at finding a government.

Napolitano himself leaves office in mid-May, adding to the uncertainty that has seen Italians faced by political deadlock and the shock resignation of Pope Benedict all at the same time.

With a sophisticated campaign on the Internet and in a tour of Italy in which he shouted himself hoarse insulting the politicians, Grillo scored one of the biggest ever victories for a populist party anywhere, taking 25 percent of the vote.

GRILLO TACTICS

Grillo's tactics may be astute.

Maurizio Pessato, vice-president of the SWG polling firm, told Reuters that as many people agreed with Grillo's denunciations of a tired political class but did not vote for him as those that did in this week's election.

That gives him a potential voting poll of 50 percent of the electorate, according to Pessato.

"We could say half the country agrees with him," he said.

Before the vote, many analysts had warned Italy's politicians that rage with their waste and corruption threatened a political revolution, but few took much notice.

Now they are fighting for survival with both center-left and center-right facing internal splits that could blow them apart.

"They really must change their leadership or offer answers or they will be swept away," Pessato said.

There are, however, a few glimmers of hope for at least a temporary solution to the crisis, not least that early declarations by politicians may be negotiating ploys.

Grillo's stream of insults against Bersani's cautious overtures towards the 5-Star Movement did not go down well with many of the group's supporters, who often seem more moderate than their outspoken leader.

An online petition supporting a vote of confidence in a center-left government committed to changing Italy has collected more than 100,000 signatures in the last 24 hours - apparently with support from many of those who supported Grillo's campaign.

Bersani has proposed a list of reforms as the program for a new government, many of which coincide with the 5-Star Movement's aims.

They include repealing the hated electoral law which has been a major contributor to the crisis, a sharp reduction in the number of parliamentarians and their extravagant privileges, and a powerful new law against corruption.

Another possible source of hope is the fact that Grillo has praised the system in Sicily, where a center-left government is successfully supported by the 5-Star Movement. However, in the island's regional administration there is no need for the vote of confidence that is essential for a national government.

END OF AN ERA

Senior center-left official and former premier Massimo D'Alema said on Thursday the election, "marked the end of an era". "But," he added, "The country must be governed."

In an interview with the Corriere della Sera daily, D'Alema said: "Nobody has an interest in precipitating the country towards new elections that would be a dramatic shock, not even the 5-Star Movement, which ...I reasonably believe wants to show its ability to bring positive changes for Italy."

Establishment politicians may believe that once Grillo's 162 representatives enter the Senate and lower house these new politicians will break the iron grip of their "spokesman", who will himself not enter parliament, and will be more susceptible to various forms of persuasion by veteran parliamentarians.

Populist movements have a tendency to rapid expansion and contraction, analysts say, and other fresh faces have in the past been absorbed into a more cynical politics.

Berlusconi himself, now seen as symbol of the discredited old political order, first stormed into politics in 1994 as a new face, billing himself as an anti-politics candidate after the massive Tangentopoli, or Bribesville, graft scandal.

His allies in the federalist Northern League, who originally campaigned in the prosperous, industrial north as a force that would sweep away the privileges of "Robber Rome", were almost destroyed by a giant corruption scandal of their own last year.

But sitting tight and hoping the angry mood of the country will abate may be a fatal mistake for the traditional parties.

SWG's Pessato warned the old-hand politicians against miscalculating the extent of the political revolution.

"It depends on their intelligence," he said. "Whether they understand that they must give signals of change or think that somehow Grillo will conveniently be deflated.

"They may think they can absorb him, but if they do not understand the signals from the electorate, there are some parties that will disappear."

(Writing by Barry Moody; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-election-result-may-condemn-italy-weak-short-180856897.html

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Helping Your Business Go Viral - Social Media Marketing Tips ...

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With today's technology and with everyone on a mobile device, marketing via the Internet and social media is really the only way to go. Social media is a fairly new way to market your business services, but you must learn how to do it to succeed. The article below contains some of the best tips on the subject of social media marketing.

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In the age of the world wide web it can be easy to forget about printed advertising, but it can be quite beneficial to incorporate your social media marketing campaign with your printed ads. You should include your profile address on the publications and post them on your site. This can help you to generate a greater interest in your products, both online and in print format.

Ensure that you are always updating your blog and sharing it with your social media sites. Post any sales or promotions that you are offering in your blog. Also post updates containing information about vital news, such as changes in your operating hours, closings and new locations opening up. You should also put this into your blog.

Do not take time off during the holidays; this is the best time of the year for business. You can inspire holiday spirit and shopping enjoyment by staying in touch with customers during this busy time. Plan the holidays well ahead of time: come up with fun ideas for contests, giveaways or coupons. Customers will pick up on this.

If you have a tough time with formatting, use a list format for the next article you post on your social networking profiles. Doing this will allow you to display important information in an easy to digest manner that lets reader see what's most important. Social media users are usually young people with short attention spans, so this format will get them the information they need without a lot of filler to read through.

Use the Twitter API to keep your feed interesting. This can be performed so that other people's blog posts can be auto-tweeted. Find good blogs that are trustworthy and updated frequently to share with the followers you have. This will help to keep your page new and fresh.

When you publish something new on your company blog, be sure to repost it at your social media venues. By back-linking to your blog, you will be able to tell your social media followers that you have new content available.

Stay active! You can't be successful without being social. If you don't have any activity, then your social media campaign is not going to succeed. Being active can spark the interest of your followers and help you be more successful.

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If you have a blog or a site, you need to ensure that people can subscribe to it easily. Make sure you subscribe and share buttons are visible on your social media pages. When you put it in a noticeable location, it will help your fans sign up easier. Remember, some people may have very slow Internet connections, so it is best to have the subscribe button as the first thing that loads on your page.

Hopefully, the idea of launching a marketing push in social media is now looking a little less complex to you. Once you choose to start such an effort, continuing to educate yourself in trends and techniques will take you far. Consistent yields are the result of constant effort, so apply the ideas and insights from the preceding paragraphs, and block out whatever hours are needed to provide fresh content to your social media profiles with regularity.

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Friday, February 22, 2013

HP shares jump after strong results, analysts raise targets

(Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co shares are set to open more than 4 percent higher after better-than-expected quarterly results that prompted at least six brokerages to raise price targets on the stock, although analysts said problems at the world's No.1 PC maker were far from over.

HP on Thursday reported second-quarter results and forecasts above Wall Street expectations as it cut costs under Chief Executive Meg Whitman's turnaround plan in the face of falling PC sales and slowing corporate IT spending.

"Although a number of businesses remain under pressure, the company's blocking and tackling is improving, and the likelihood of the bottom falling out appears diminished," UBS Investment Research analyst Steven Milunovich said in a note.

Milunovich upgraded his rating on the company to "neutral" and raised the price target on the stock to $17 from $12.

HP, like other PC makers, has been hammered as consumers turn to tablets and other mobile devices. In addition, the company has suffered internal turmoil with a failed spin-off attempt, a botched acquisition and two CEOs losing their jobs.

HP shares, trading at $17.90 before the bell on Friday, have gained around 20 percent since the beginning of the year, helped partly by a buyout offer for rival Dell Inc . They closed at $17.1 on Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange.

J.P. Morgan Securities analyst Mark Moskowitz, who raised his price target on HP stock by $1 to $22, said the company's results and outlook signaled that the worst may be over, but added that there was room for plenty of work to be done.

Whitman, who took over the reins at HP over a year ago, plans to cut an estimated 29,000 jobs, or about 10 percent of the workforce, over the next two years. She has also reversed a decision to spin off HP's PC division.

Jefferies & Co, RBC Capital Markets, Evercore Partners and BMO Capital Markets also increased their price targets on the PC maker's stock.

(Reporting by Himank Sharma in Bangalore; Editing by Rodney Joyce and Ted Kerr)

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Multiple tests needed to detect infection in low birth-weight newborns, study suggests

Feb. 20, 2013 ? New research by Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine finds that cultures commonly used to detect bacterial infections in low birth-weight newborns with early onset sepsis may actually overlook some germs.

The research done at Case Western Reserve supports the need for multiple detection methods, such as DNA genomic analyses and other independent culture technologies, to identify bacteria that culturing may miss, said Yiping Han, professor of Periodontics and Reproductive Biology at the Case Western Reserve dental school and the corresponding author on the study.

An analysis of 44 prematurely-born babies, the majority of whom were diagnosed with early onset sepsis, was published in the journal PLOS ONE article, "Comparative microbial analysis of paired amniotic fluid and cord blood from pregnancies complicated by preterm birth and early-onset neonatal sepsis."

"Culture independent technology has broadened our scope of understanding human pathogens," said Han. The testing, under the lead investigator and Case Western Reserve postdoctoral scholar Xiaowei Wang, analyzed umbilical cord blood and amniotic fluid samples from Yale University medical school.

The researchers found more than 20 bacterial species not discovered using standard culturing. Some of the uncultured species appeared in both the cord blood and amniotic fluid samples.

The uncultured bacteria were detected with DNA genomic analysis that Han's lab had used in a prior study that discovered the link between oral bacteria that causes still- or premature-births due to infected amniotic fluid that is supposed to be a sterile environment.

"By using molecular biology identity tools this is the first time we have shown that same microbes could move from the amniotic fluid into the fetal bloodstream," said Dr. Catalin S. Buhimschi, MD, from Yale University's Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.

The bacteria enter the fetus' blood after the fetus ingests the amniotic fluid in the lungs or gastrointestinal tract.

Han said the discovery is further evidence of how oral bacteria travel into the maternal blood stream and eventually through the cord blood and amniotic fluid to the baby.

Researchers detected such uncultured bacteria as Fusobacterium nucleatum, which has a key-like mechanism that opens blood-vessel and cell walls to infect other areas of the body.

Han said DNA testing techniques were able for the first time to detect the oral bacteria -- Fusobacterium nucleatum, Begeyalla and Sneathia sanguinegens -- that brought on early neonatal sepsis and put newborns at risk of dying shortly after birth. Among these, Fusobacterium nucleatum was found at the same high frequency as the well-known Escherichia coli, putting the former on the same importance scale as the latter.

Early sepsis develops within 72 hours of birth. Its symptoms are varied, from apnea to low body temperatures. Four of every 1,000 births in the U.S. develop the infections.

Baby's blood or spinal fluid is cultured for bacteria. A positive culture confirms sepsis, but many babies exhibit the symptoms of infection unconfirmed by culturing.

Standard management is to administer antibiotics for three days while doctors monitor the response to treatment.

Dr. Vineet Bhandari, MD, DM, associate professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and director of the Program in Perinatal Research at the Yale University School of Medicine, raises concerns that widespread use of antibiotics could increase antibiotic-resistant bacteria when the exact bacteria are not targeted.

"This research is important in finding the right bug to target for antibiotics," Bhandari said.

Detecting bacteria is also more complicated if the mother has an infection prior to birth and is treated with antibiotics, the neonatologist said. Bhandari explained that treating the mother eliminates many cultured bacteria, making it difficult to determine what is infecting the baby.

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Sentencing reset for woman who falsely claimed her son had terminal cancer

WETUMPKA, Alabama -- A Bainbridge woman who pleaded guilty to charges in connection with falsely claiming her son had terminal cancer and accepting money is now set to be sentenced in April.

Stephanie Nicole Jones, 23, was scheduled to be sentenced in Elmore County Circuit Court this morning, but she was unable to attend the hearing, according to court records. Her sentencing was reset for April 4.

The Montgomery Advertiser reported Jones had been in the hospital.

Jones pleaded guilty to one count of theft of property by deception and one count of attempted theft of property by deception on Oct. 15, 2012, according to court documents.

Authorities say that several fundraisers were held in the community in 2010 for Jones' son Brandon in order to pay for his last dying wish to go to Disney World.

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Air raid leaves 20 dead in Damascus as violence closes in on Syrian president

Independent.ie Wednesday 20th February, 2013

21 February 2013 An air raid on a suburb of the Syrian capital killed at least 20 people and two mortars exploded next to a football stadium in the heart of Damascus left one player dead as violence moved closer to the heart of President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power.

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    High energy imports sees Japan trade deficit swell to $17.4 bn

    Barcelona News.Net Wednesday 20th February, 2013

    Exports climbed 6.4 per cent in January from a year earlier, the first rise in eight months. However, imports increased more dramatically at 7.3 per cent, as resource-starved Japan continued to increase its reliance on oil and gas from other countries.

    Japan's fuel imports have risen since its 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, which forced most of its nuclear power plants offline.

    Investors disregarded the bad economic news Wednesday, however, as Tokyo stocks closed 0.84 per cent higher.

    Weakness in the yen that aids exporters such as Sharp Corp. and Sony Corp. also means the country pays more to import fossil fuels needed as nuclear reactors stand idle after the Fukushima crisis in 2011.

    "The trade deficit means the yen can't just keep weakening," said Takeshi Minami, chief economist at Norinchukin Research Institute Co. in Tokyo. "Abe will probably restart some nuclear plants after the upper house elections in July as, without them, the costs to the economy are too great," according to Bloomberg.

    The yen fell after the data were released, before reversing course to trade 0.1 per cent higher at 93.51 at 12:33 p.m. in Tokyo. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average was 0.8 per cent higher.

    Nearly 80 per cent of Japan's imports were denominated in foreign currencies in the second half of last year, compared with about 60 per cent of exports, according to the Finance Ministry.

    Exports to China rose 3 per cent from a year earlier, the first increase since May, while those to the U.S. gained 10.9 per cent, today's data showed. Shipments to the European Union fell 4.5 per cent.

    A central bank board member said the yen's fall was helping exports -- they posted their first annual rise in January in eight months -- and said the Bank of Japan would push on with its policy, but analysts expect trade deficits to persist for some time yet.

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has staked his political career on lifting Japan out of decades of malaise through aggressive fiscal and monetary policy, but the data indicated a rise in exports on its own was not enough to turn things around.

    "This shows that on a net basis money is leaving the country. We need to turn this around by increasing our earning power from exports. A weak yen will help, but it won't solve all our problems," said Reuters.

    The finance ministry data showed Japan suffered a shortfall of 1.63 trillion yen ($17.4 billion) in January, the worst deficit on record for a single month, exceeding the previous record of 1.48 trillion yen for the same month last year.

    Comparable data began in 1979. Japan tends to post bad trade figures in January, with exports stalling because of New Year holidays.

    Economists on average had expected a shortfall of 1.3 trillion yen.

    A lower yen is good for Japanese exporters but there have been accusations in recent weeks, particularly in Europe, that Tokyo is deliberately trying to manipulate currency rates.

    The yen was trading around 93.70 to the dollar early Wednesday.

    The yen has fallen more than 13 per cent against the dollar in the past three months as Prime Minister Abe calls for aggressive monetary easing to end deflation.

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    MLB At Bat 2013 app warms up for spring training, starts pitching in BB10's bullpen


    MLB at bat 2013 app warms up for spring training, starts pitching in BB10's bullpen

    For some, the change of the season is marked not by calendars or climate changes, but by the beat of sports fandom. Rest easy, baseball fans: spring is finally here. Naturally, Major League Baseball is heralding in the weather by updating its MLB At Bat app for 2013 spring training, touting new features for Android and iOS users alike. The apps updated team pages, retooled navigation and classic games library are universally available to both Android and iOS users, but the iPhone will score an enhanced and searchable video library and an exclusive home screen customization feature. MLB promises to pipe in more functionality before the season opens, however -- including mobile access for BlackBerry 10 users. What hasn't changed? The price, of course: Android subscribers will need to pony up $20 for the year, while iOS retains its $3 monthly subscription plan. Slide past the break for the official press release.

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    New emphysema procedure tested

    Feb. 20, 2013 ? A patient at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) became the first person in America to undergo an investigational therapy for emphysema that uses a foam sealant sprayed into the lungs.

    On Oct. 29, 2012, Perry Waldrop, 55, of Cullman, Ala., was treated in a late-stage clinical trial of the AeriSeal System. The therapy, approved for use in parts of Europe and Israel, is undergoing investigation in the United States as a potential method of reducing lung volume in patients with severe emphysema.

    About 4.9 million Americans have been diagnosed with emphysema, a lung disease usually caused by smoking. Emphysema damages air sacs in the lung called alveoli. The sacs fill with air that the body is unable to exhale, causing the lungs to expand. This in turn flattens the diaphragm, the primary muscle used for breathing. The flattened diaphragm is unable to function properly, making it extremely difficult for the individual to breathe.

    The most common therapy is lung volume reduction surgery, first introduced in the 1950s. The over-inflated, diseased parts of the lung are cut away, allowing the lung to return to a more normal size, which allows the diaphragm to return to normal function. Surgery is effective, but there are some risks involved.

    "There is a 50-60 percent risk of pulmonary or cardiac complications and a small risk of perioperative death following lung volume reduction surgery," said Mark Dransfield, M.D., associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine and principal investigator in the AeriSeal trial.

    Dransfield said there are other techniques under investigation as well, including one-way valves or using steam to close off diseased parts of the lungs.

    "The idea behind all lung volume reduction procedures is to reduce the volume in the lung and allow the diaphragm to return to its normal shape and function," he said. "We're looking for a less-invasive way to achieve that goal without the risks inherent in surgery."

    The AeriSeal system uses a proprietary polymer that is injected into the lung. Similar to a two-part epoxy, the two liquid components are mixed at the time of injection, and they produce a foam when air is added. Within about 30 minutes of injection, the foam hardens to a rubbery consistency, blocking off the holes in the air sacs and sealing the damaged regions of lung. Over the course of several months, the air sacs deflate, and the lung shrinks in size, clearing the way for the diaphragm to return to normal function.

    Perry Waldrop, who started smoking at an early age, was quick to agree to be the first U.S. patient.

    "I just couldn't do anything," Waldrop said. "I had no energy, I couldn't even walk. When you can't breathe, anything is worth a try."

    The procedure, which takes about 45 minutes, is done under light anesthesia. Patients typically stay in the hospital overnight to monitor their reaction. Three months after his injection, Waldrop said he sees improvement, but it will be another couple of months and the arrival of drier weather before he is truly able to gauge the benefit.

    Dransfield said his expectation is that the procedure will prove to be much safer than surgery, with similar results.

    "We don't yet know the balance of risks and benefits for this procedure as well as we do for surgery," Dransfield said. "Certainly the hope is the risk will be far lower, and the preliminary data from Europe indicates that that is true. The risk of major cardio- or pulmonary complications is quite low. I think having a safer option that is as effective or almost as effective as surgery will greatly improve our ability to take care of these folks."

    So far, the major complication is an immune system inflammatory response with flu-like symptoms that typically resolves over the course of two or three days.

    Waldrop, who is on supplemental oxygen, would like to one day leave that oxygen tank at home.

    "I want to play golf," he said. "I'd like to just be able to go play golf, or just enjoy something every once in a while and not have to worry about running out of energy. Quality of life is everything, and I'd like my quality of life to come back up to where I can do things and not have to worry so much -- and not have my wife worry about me so much."

    UAB is part of an international phase III trial of the AeriSeal System treatment aiming to enroll 300 patients in Europe, Israel and the United States.

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    Apple's Chinese Manufacturer Foxconn Introduces Nationwide Hiring Freeze

    According to the Financial Times, the world?s biggest contract electronics manufacturer and one of Apple, Inc.?s main suppliers will suspend hiring new employees due to the lowered demand for Apple products. The last time Foxconn had a countrywide hiring freeze was in 2009, because the global financial crisis affected demand. Now, an independent recruiter in Shandong province said that Foxconn new hires are as low as they were during the 2009 economic crisis.

    The recruitment freeze comes during the peak hiring season in China, after the Spring Festival holiday, and human resources officials at the company are saying they do not plan on hiring again until the end of March at the earliest.

    Independent recruiters for a facility in Zhengzhou, Foxconn?s second largest factory, are seeing the drastic hiring changes take place. ?Last year at this time, the workers were busy all day and night and had to recruit more than 4,000 new people,? a staff member of a local employment center said to Chinese business paper First Financial Daily. Now, recruiters are not seeing any job listings from the electronic manufacturer. ?

    Liu Kun, a spokesperson at one of Foxconn?s largest facilities, a factory located in the southern city of Shenzhen that currently has more than 200,000 workers, told the Financial Times that ?currently, none of the plants in mainland China have hiring plans.? Though some factories will be hiring some technicians, workers on production lines for the iPhone and iPad are not needed. Both of Foxconn?s biggest plants and iPhone suppliers in China in Shenzhen and Zhengzhou, each with roughly 200,000 employees, are all putting a freeze on hiring.

    Another factory in Taiyuan, which has an estimated 79,000 employees, has seen significantly fewer employees after the holiday season. According to the Global Times, this year, a significant portion of migrant workers did not return to their factory jobs because they were able to find work in their hometowns. Foxconn?s hiring freeze will not replace the jobs that have been vacated, reducing a significant part of the workforce.?

    The slowed production is a direct effect of the disappointing iPhone 5 sales in China at the end of last year.?

    ?Apple?s flagship store in Beijing?s upscale Sanlitun shopping district began selling the iPhone 5 for the first time on Friday in what was arguably the least eventful launch of an Apple device in the company?s four-year history in the Chinese capital,? the Wall Street Journal reported.

    But other reports are suggesting that the hiring freeze is also in part due to a shift in mechanical production lines at Foxconn factories. China?s online news site NetEase.com said that insider sources say that in addition to adjusting production lines, the hiring freeze will also allow for more mechanized production to occur.

    ?This also indicates that Foxconn is preparing to rebalance the distribution of manual line production with mechanical production,? the NetEase report said.

    In the past Foxconn has endured many labor-related woes as international media, labor rights groups and the general public all criticized the company for intolerable work conditions. And though Foxconn has made efforts to improve work-life balance, hours, compensation and benefits, a shift toward mechanized production could help prevent future labor-related scandals.?

    Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/apples-chinese-manufacturer-foxconn-introduces-nationwide-hiring-freeze-1097718

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    Opposition activists say 31 dead in Damascus blast

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    Opposition activists say 31 dead in Damascus blast
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    This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian security agents carrying a body following a huge explosion that shook central Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A car bomb shook central Damascus on Thursday, exploding near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy, eyewitnesses and opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

    This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian security agents carrying a body following a huge explosion that shook central Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A car bomb shook central Damascus on Thursday, exploding near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy, eyewitnesses and opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

    This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows flames and smoke rising from burned cars after a huge explosion that shook central Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A car bomb shook central Damascus on Thursday, exploding near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy, eyewitnesses and opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

    This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian fire fighters extinguishing burning cars after huge explosion that shook central Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A car bomb shook central Damascus on Thursday, exploding near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy, eyewitnesses and opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

    This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows an injured Syrian man lying on the ground after a huge explosion that shook central Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A car bomb shook central Damascus on Thursday, exploding near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy, eyewitnesses and opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

    This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian security agents next to a vehicle on fire following a huge explosion that shook central Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A car bomb shook central Damascus on Thursday, exploding near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy, eyewitnesses and opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

    (AP) ? Opposition activists say at least 31 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in Damascus near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy.

    The Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of the dead were civilians, but members of the Syrian security services were also killed in Thursday's attack.

    Witnesses and opposition activists said the explosion targeted a security checkpoint central Mazraa neighborhood.

    Syrian state TV also reported the blast, calling it a "terrorist" attack by a suicide bomber on a heavily populated area.

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    Thursday, February 21, 2013

    Winter storm brings rare tornado to northern California

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    Major snowstorm lashes U.S. Great Plains, heads east

    Kansas City, Missouri (Reuters) - A major winter storm pounded the U.S. Great Plains on Thursday creating hazardous travel that resulted in at least one death, closing schools, scuttling air travel, and cutting off power to some communities.

    Winter storm warnings and advisories were in place for much of the central and southern Plains and into the upper Midwest and Mississippi River Valley as the storm moved east, packing snow, sleet and freezing rain, the National Weather Service said.

    Ice storm warnings were in effect for parts of northern Arkansas. The massive storm was expected to spawn thunderstorms and rain on its southern edge from eastern Texas to Georgia, the forecaster said.

    Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency because of hazardous travel and possible power outages. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback ordered state offices closed because of the storm.

    Kansas City encountered an unusual mixture of snow, thunder and lightning, with 2 to 3 inches of snow falling per hour.

    "When there is thunder and lightning, it's a pretty screaming clue that you are going to have massive snowfall," said Andy Bailey, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, Missouri. A foot of snow is likely there by Thursday afternoon, he said.

    In Nebraska, a woman was killed in a two-car Interstate 80 accident Wednesday afternoon near Giltner. The victim was identified as Kristina Leigh Allen, 19, of Calloway, Nebraska. The Nebraska State Patrol said weather was a factor.

    More than 90 percent of flights out of Kansas City International Airport were canceled Thursday morning, according the airport website.

    Some 55 commuter flights were canceled out of Denver International Airport overnight, mostly due to adverse conditions in Midwestern destinations in Kansas and Nebraska, said spokeswoman Laura Coale.

    About 30 flights in and out of Omaha's Eppley Airfield were canceled by mid-morning Thursday.

    The brunt of the snowstorm churned through Kansas, causing scores of accidents and vehicles sliding off roads, but no fatalities, according to the state highway patrol. Two semi-trucks got stuck on Interstate 35 near Emporia, Kansas, closing the southbound lane Thursday morning, according to transportation officials.

    "Most of the issues we are dealing with are people getting stuck in the snow on ramps when they go to exit," said Gary Warner of the Kansas Highway Patrol office in Wichita. Snow on Wednesday resulted in about 50 crashes with no injuries and 11 with injuries on Wichita area highways, he said.

    Some parts of southeast Kansas reported power outages because warmer temperatures created sleet and ice on power lines, said Sharon Watson, spokesperson for Kansas emergency management services.

    The snowstorm had been predicted well in advance, convincing schools and offices to close and keeping a lot of people off the roads, said Watson.

    On the positive side, the snow also meant some relief for drought-stricken regions of the Great Plains, one of the world's biggest wheat-growing areas.

    In Oklahoma, up to 12.5 inches of snow fell in northern parts of the state while schools were closed throughout the Oklahoma City area because of treacherous driving conditions.

    Areas of southwest and central Nebraska received eight inches of snow overnight, according to the National Weather Service. Snowfall of three to four inches was widespread in central Nebraska.

    Omaha and Lincoln in eastern Nebraska were bracing for about eight or more inches of snow.

    Even as students were making their way to school this morning in Iowa, administrators in dozens of districts announced early dismissals.

    Few of the 150 members of the Iowa General Assembly were in the state capitol in Des Moines this morning, deciding not to brave the weather.

    Snow from the powerful storm fell as far south as Tucson, Arizona, on Wednesday. The rare snowfall halted play at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play tournament near Tucson.

    (Reporting by Kevin Murphy; Additional reporting by Ian Simpson, Ben Berkowitz, Keith Coffman in Denver, Suzi Parker in Little Rock, Kay Henderson in Des Moines and Steve Olafson in Oklahoma City; Editing by Greg McCune, Jeffrey Benkoe, and Bob Burgdorfer)

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/powerful-snowstorm-bears-down-western-united-states-073721046.html

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    PFT: Player input sought on rules about low blocks

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    The NFLPA just held a conference call with the national media, and while they lacked concrete news on issues such as HGH testing or what the salary cap will be for the coming year, the one thing that?s abundantly clear is the two sides still don?t trust each other any farther than they can throw each other.

    NFLPA president Domonique Foxworth said on the topic of HGH testing that players were willing to ?expose themselves to an imperfect test,? but balked at the lack of an appeal in the current NFL proposal.

    In response, league spokesman Greg Aiello just tweeted ?Not true+he knows it.?

    The lack of trust was mentioned several times during nearly an hour-long call, specifically on the topic of HGH testing (which both sides agree to in theory, but can?t figure out how to implement).

    Much of that lack of trust seems to stem directly from Commissioner Roger Goodell?s handling of the bounty case.

    ?If (players) don?t trust anyone on Park Avenue, it?s hard to get anything done,? Foxworth said. ?If I wanted to get them to trust Roger, I couldn?t.?

    Much of this is simply the saber-rattling that happens when labor unions and employers discuss things. NFLPA assistant executive director of external affairs?George Atallah mentioned issues concerning equipment and training for youth football programs as examples of agreement between the sides.

    But until the two sides can agree on something important at the adult level, it?s unclear if anything will ever be resolved.

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    Exclusive: Disney discovers unreleased Mickey Mouse sketch from 1938

    "Mickey's Toothache," from 1938 shows the famous mouse being chased by a dentist's chair and nemesis "Pete" during??

    More than 80 years after his creation, Mickey Mouse continues to surprise.

    The Disney archives have released a newly discovered sketch from 1938, ?Mickey?s Toothache,? part of an incomplete cartoon that was part of an effort to make Mickey a more complete character.

    In ?Mickey?s Toothache,? created in April 1938, artist Ferdinand Horvath has the newly adventurous Mickey experiencing something akin to a psychedelic nightmare. In the words of Disney Archives Director Becky Cline, Mickey has traveled to the dentist and fallen under the influence of too much laughing gas. The overdose sends Mickey into a ?nightmarish world inhabited by living teeth, dental floss, a psychotic dentist?s chair and a vengeful pair of dental pliers," said Cline.

    Mickey?s then-nemesis Pete also makes an appearance in the nightmare scenario. It culminates with Mickey being put on trial led, of course, by a judgmental wisdom tooth, who charges Mickey with tooth neglect.

    The previously forgotten piece of artwork was discovered by the Disney animation research department in a folder lost for more than 74 years. It was unearthed just a few months ago.

    ?Mickey?s Toothache? is just one of several unveilings being planned as part of this year?s D23 Disney Fanniversary Celebration, an event that began last year as a way to include members of Disney?s official fan club in some of the company?s milestone events. The Horvath image will be included in a 90-minute presentation showcasing some of this year?s other major Disney anniversaries in 10 different U.S. cities (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Newark, Orlando, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.).

    ?Mickey has been a superstar from almost the beginning. He was immediately popular,? Cline told Yahoo News. ?By 1938, he was just about to step into a finished version of himself. He was boyish and impish. During this period of his growth he became larger than life in some ways.?

    Cline says the artwork showcases the transformation of America's favorite mouse from popular fad to American icon. It's one that can be seen as well in released cartoons of Mickey engaging in various adventures in locales including the deepest jungles of Africa, or in the 1936 cartoon ?Through the Mirror.?

    ?Mickey was kind of growing and stretching. He left the barnyard, and he started to become more adventurous,? Cline said.

    Though most people think of Walt Disney himself in relation to his most-famous individual creation, Horvath was a significant part of the early Disney years. Born in a Russian concentration camp in 1891, he taught himself to draw before immigrating to America on Armistice Day 1921. He worked for the studio from 1934 through 1944, producing between 70 and 80 animated shorts along the way and working on the production of "Snow White."

    Last year, we brought you the story of a newly discovered, 85-year-old Oswald the Rabbit sketch, ?Harem Scarem.? Since then, Disney has pushed forward with efforts to bring Oswald, a Mickey prototype of sorts, back into the Disney fold.

    So, will we ever see a complete version of ?Mickey?s Toothache??

    ?It?s possible,? Cline said. "The animation research library still goes back and refers to those older cartoons. ... Even though we?re still discovering some of this material for the first time in decades, they?re not lost.?

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    Speedlink outs ATHERA multi-profile Bluetooth keyboard

    Speedlink has released the ATHERA Multi-Profile Bluetooth Keyboard

    Speedlink has released the ATHERA Multi-Profile Bluetooth Keyboard

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    Speedlink has launched a new full-size Bluetooth keyboard named ATHERA that's capable of simultaneously connecting with five devices, regardless of resident operating system. Should you worry that this might lead to accidental texts to your boss or embarrassing updates to social network feeds, fear not. Key combinations initiated by the user determine which device the keyboard is wirelessly communicating with at any one time.

    Speedlink says that ATHERA is compatible with all popular operating platforms and will store pairing data in the keyboard itself for easy switching between iOS, Mac, Android and Windows devices. While the 472 x 144 x 27-mm (18.5 x 5.6 x 1.06-inch) keyboard will also work with the PlayStation 3, you won't be able to use the keyboard with Windows Phone 7 or 8 devices.

    According to the company, the combination of 12 multimedia keys and additional hotkeys ensures that all OS-specific special keys are covered, and it benefits from low-profile keys with scissor key technology for reliability, comfort and almost silent typing.

    It has a wireless range of up to 10 meters (33 feet) and ships with a USB cable to cater for use with computers without Bluetooth. The supplied AA-sized batteries are reported to last for at least six months.

    The ATHERA Multi-Profile Keyboard is available now in Europe for a recommended retail price of ?59.99 (US$80).

    The animated video below demonstrates the kind of situations where you might find this keyboard useful.

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    Thousands protest in Armenia after president re-elected

    YEREVAN (Reuters) - About 5,000 flag-waving protesters rallied on Wednesday against Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan's re-election, saying his victory was tainted by fraud.

    Supporters of Sarksyan's second-placed rival Raffi Hovannisian filled Freedom Square in the center of the capital Yerevan to condemn what they said were uncounted ballots and other violations.

    "Are you ready to stay here long?" Hovannisian asked the crowd. "Are you ready to stay here until victory? I'm ready."

    "The constitution should win over fraud," he said, raising a first above his head after kneeling to kiss the national flag.

    Many of Hovannisian's supporters vowed to continue their protests until Sarksyan quits, but the crowd dispersed quietly after three hours and there was no violence.

    Some protesters said they would gather again in the square on Thursday.

    Hovannisian did not make clear whether he would formally challenge the result of Monday's election, which showed Sarksyan won 58.6 percent of votes, far ahead of Hovannisian, a U.S.-born former foreign minister, on nearly 37 percent.

    International observers found an improvement in the conduct of the election compared to the last presidential vote in 2008 but said the vote lacked real competition.

    Some of Sarksyan's most popular political rivals did not take part, saying the vote would be skewed in his favor. Police said they had received reports of voting irregularities which they were looking into.

    Hayrabet Hovannisian, a musician who joined the protest on Wednesday, said he voted for a different opposition candidate but wanted to show his anger over the allegations of fraud.

    "Today I came here to be together with the people, to return to the people their stolen votes," he said.

    Foreign governments and investors fret at any hint of violence in the country of 3.2 million in the South Caucasus because it lies in a volatile region that carries Caspian oil and natural gas to Europe.

    Landlocked Armenia's relations are tense with neighboring Azerbaijan over the mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is inside Azeri territory but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians since a war in the 1990s.

    After the 2008 election, eight protesters and two police were killed in clashes. But there was no violence during Monday's voting.

    (Reporting by Hasmik Mkrtchyan, Writing by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by Tom Pfeiffer)

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-protest-armenia-president-elected-163658272.html

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