Men with high blood levels of lycopene ? the compound that makes tomatoes red ? are about half as likely to have a stroke as those low on lycopene, researchers in Finland report October 9 in Neurology.
Some evidence suggests that lycopene quells inflammation, limits cholesterol production and inhibits blood clotting. But first and foremost, lycopene is a carotenoid, an antioxidant that sops up unstable molecules in the body called free radicals ?agents that can induce DNA damage, kill cells, attack proteins and contribute to blood vessel disease.
Lycopene?s direct effect on stroke risk is less clear. Studies have found that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, meaning plenty of carotenoids, seems to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. But few studies have analyzed lycopene?s effect specifically on stroke risk over time, the researchers note.
Jouni Karppi and colleagues at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio used blood tests to determine the lycopene levels of 1,031 men ages 46 to 65. Afterward, the men were monitored for a median of 12 years. The researchers tallied 67 strokes in the men over that span. Men with the lowest lycopene levels at the outset were more than twice as likely to have a stroke later as were those with the highest.
?This is a very good study, and I?m really surprised they were able to find this relationship with only 67 strokes,? says Lyn Steffen, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota.
The researchers also accounted for differences between the men such as smoking, body mass, blood pressure, LDL cholesterol, diabetes and any history of stroke.
It?s not certain that the effect apparent in this study arises solely from lycopene. Tomatoes are loaded with it, but they have many other useful ingredients as well, says John Erdman, a nutritionist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. So high lycopene levels in the blood may suggest high tomato consumption, and therefore high levels of those other components, he says, such as polyphenols, folic acid, and vitamins C and E. Polyphenols are potent antioxidants that show up in red and purple fruits, chocolate, coffee, red wine and vegetables.
?There hasn?t been a heck of a lot of lycopene/tomato research in stroke,? Erdman says. ?It?s encouraging that they?ve got these results.? Lycopene also appears in guava, papaya, pink grapefruit, red peppers, rose hips and watermelon.
Steffen says high lycopene levels might also flag people who have a healthy diet, ingesting lots of fruits, veggies and whole grains at the expense of red meats and processed grains. ?In Finland they have this rye bread that?s really wonderful as a whole grain. So the risk of stroke is lower not just because of lycopene but also from the background diet.?
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Increasing your income through utilizing the internet is possible with Webcamp. Webcamp will be opening the gates for you to learn how to make more money online. Webcamp 2012 is an internet business super conference to be helad at Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City on November 28.
Head straight to the venue at 5:30 pm and start learning how to grow your online business. Technopreneurs are not the only one invited to join this great money-making event. Even if you have a day job, be it a teacher, a lawyer, a secretary, an accountant, or a photographer, you are very much welcome to attend this Webcamp.
This is a very promising seminar because you will hear great stuff from Webcamp?s successful speakers. One of the speakers is Jorge ?Jojy? Azurin, the #1 expert on membership sites who earned six figures in USD on his executive book summary service and sold it to one of the biggest content publishers in the world. During the Webcamp, he will share his insights on How to Create Your Lean, Mean, Money-Making Online Machine. Another great speaker is Ian del Carmen, a former TV scriptwriter of ABS-CBN. He is also the #1 internet marketer in the Philippines who made a lot of money selling e-books and other digital products and now runs an internet marketing empire catering to over 70,000 clients worldwide. He will be teaching you on How to Build Your Own Internet Marketing Empire.
Grab also this opportunity to hear tips from Eireen Diokno-Bernardo, the #1 e-commerce specialist in the country who is an eBay Power Seller endorsed by eBay, PayPal, and UnionBank and who has trained thousands of budding online entrepreneurs. She will teach you how to Run your Own Global E-Commerce Business. Our last speaker is Chris Ducker, the #1 virtual outsourcing service provider in the Philippines offering virtual assistance and call center services to the world and a fast rising blogger in the international scene. He will teach you how to Become your Own Virtual CEO.
Just prepare a fee of 995 pesos. This is nothing compared to what you will learn at the Webcamp. Your 995 pesos can be worth a lot of money in the near future when you participate in this event. This is really inspiring. Who doesn?t want to earn more money? Start saving your buck each day so that you won?t miss out this great event. Get paid even when you sleep.
WebGeek is amongst the official media for the Webcamp 2012
Featuring bravura set pieces, sly humor, and white-knuckle action, Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the most consummately entertaining adventure pictures of all time.
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Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares to kill our hero. In the first of many serial-like escapes, Indy eludes Belloq by hopping into a convenient plane. So, then: is Indiana Jones afraid of anything? Yes, snakes. The next time we see Jones, he's a soft-spoken, bespectacled professor. He is then summoned from his ivy-covered environs by Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant. The Nazis, it seems, are already searching for the Ark, which the mystical-minded Hitler hopes to use to make his stormtroopers invincible. But to find the Ark, Indy must first secure a medallion kept under the protection of Indy's old friend Abner Ravenwood, whose daughter, Marion (Karen Allen), evidently has a "history" with Jones. Whatever their personal differences, Indy and Marion become partners in one action-packed adventure after another, ranging from wandering the snake pits of the Well of Souls to surviving the pyrotechnic unearthing of the sacred Ark. A joint project of Hollywood prodigies George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, with a script co-written by Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman, among others, Raiders of the Lost Ark is not so much a movie as a 115-minute thrill ride. Costing 22 million dollars (nearly three times the original estimate), Raiders of the Lost Ark reaped 200 million dollars during its first run. It was followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), as well as a short-lived TV-series "prequel." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
It's finally time for Rex to get his party on. The lovable "Toy Story" dinosaur has been a staple of the Pixar franchise and many of its spinoff short films, but never in a role like this. A new short, titled "Partysaurus Rex," has been released online by Disney after it premiered in front of [...]
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Mountain marvels of French Polynesia
Do you have it in mind to go to a mountain top and study beetles that nobody else has ever seen? Well, there are two fewer such mountains available now that beetle species discovered on Mont Tohiea and Mont Mauru in the Society Islands have been named. James Liebherr, Curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, has just described 14 species of predatory carabid beetle, also called ground beetles, as part of a U.S. National Science Foundation team that surveyed the insects and spiders of French Polynesia.
Liebherr described the species in two papers published in the on-line journal, ZooKeys, taking advantage of the recent changes to rules that now allow electronic publication of names for newly described animal species.
The new beetles are members of the genus Mecyclothorax, a group that seems to have found a home in remote Pacific Islands. The Society Islands have about 100 species, and the Hawaiian Islands support well over 200 species. Conversely, the Australian continent, where all this evolution presumably started, is home to a mere 25 species. Like the flightless Dodos of Mauritius, all the Pacific Island beetles are flightless, whereas many of the Australian species can fly.
Liebherr's discoveries of the seven new species on Moorea's Mont Tohiea expands the known distribution of the genus in the Society Islands from Tahiti to the island of Moorea, mirroring the distribution of related beetles in Hawaii, where members of the genus are recorded from Oahu to Hawaii Island. In Tahiti and Moorea these beetles are very rarely recorded below 1000 m elevation, so the new species have very limited geographic distributions. "When we travel to a new mountain we find only new species. It's like moving to a different continent as far as these beetles are concerned" says Liebherr. Being able to identify these small areas of endemism is essential for justifying conservation programs that can maintain biodiversity.
The new species take their place in the Tahitian fauna next to 67 species revised by the late Dr. Georges Perrault, whose collection of Tahitian beetles is housed at the Natural History Museum in Paris. "Georges Perrault made this study possible through his valuable work describing the Tahitian beetle fauna. If he hadn't completed his work, we would not have been able to gain the support needed to expand upon his studies of this remarkable fauna" states Liebherr. These new species are not the end of biodiversity discovery for these beetles and their relatives.
Liebherr is working in the lab to name more collected from other mountains, and many more no doubt occur on unexplored peaks. Conservation programs in French Polynesia will be busy for a long time documenting these hidden gems of the Pacific.
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Liebherr J (2012) The first precinctive Carabidae from Moorea, Society Islands: new Mecyclothorax spp. (Coleoptera) from the summit of Mont Tohiea. ZooKeys 224: 37-80. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.224.3675
Liebherr J (2012) New Mecyclothorax spp. (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) define Mont Mauru, eastern Tahiti Nui, as a distinct area of endemism. ZooKeys 227: 63-99. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.227.3797
About ZooKeys
ZooKeys is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal launched to support free exchange of ideas and information in biodiversity science, issued by Pensoft Publishers. All papers published in ZooKeys can be freely copied, downloaded, printed and distributed at no charge for the reader. ZooKeys implemented several cutting-edge innovation in publishing and dissemination of science information and is considered a technological leader in its field.
Additional Information
National Science Foundation DEB-0451971; Biotic Surveys and Inventory: Arthropods of French Polynesia (R. G. Gillespie, PI)
Richard B. Gump South Pacific Field Station http://moorea.berkeley.edu/
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Sitting on top of the worldPublic release date: 10-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Dr. James Liebherr JKL5@cornell.edu 607-255-4507 Pensoft Publishers
Mountain marvels of French Polynesia
Do you have it in mind to go to a mountain top and study beetles that nobody else has ever seen? Well, there are two fewer such mountains available now that beetle species discovered on Mont Tohiea and Mont Mauru in the Society Islands have been named. James Liebherr, Curator of the Cornell University Insect Collection, has just described 14 species of predatory carabid beetle, also called ground beetles, as part of a U.S. National Science Foundation team that surveyed the insects and spiders of French Polynesia.
Liebherr described the species in two papers published in the on-line journal, ZooKeys, taking advantage of the recent changes to rules that now allow electronic publication of names for newly described animal species.
The new beetles are members of the genus Mecyclothorax, a group that seems to have found a home in remote Pacific Islands. The Society Islands have about 100 species, and the Hawaiian Islands support well over 200 species. Conversely, the Australian continent, where all this evolution presumably started, is home to a mere 25 species. Like the flightless Dodos of Mauritius, all the Pacific Island beetles are flightless, whereas many of the Australian species can fly.
Liebherr's discoveries of the seven new species on Moorea's Mont Tohiea expands the known distribution of the genus in the Society Islands from Tahiti to the island of Moorea, mirroring the distribution of related beetles in Hawaii, where members of the genus are recorded from Oahu to Hawaii Island. In Tahiti and Moorea these beetles are very rarely recorded below 1000 m elevation, so the new species have very limited geographic distributions. "When we travel to a new mountain we find only new species. It's like moving to a different continent as far as these beetles are concerned" says Liebherr. Being able to identify these small areas of endemism is essential for justifying conservation programs that can maintain biodiversity.
The new species take their place in the Tahitian fauna next to 67 species revised by the late Dr. Georges Perrault, whose collection of Tahitian beetles is housed at the Natural History Museum in Paris. "Georges Perrault made this study possible through his valuable work describing the Tahitian beetle fauna. If he hadn't completed his work, we would not have been able to gain the support needed to expand upon his studies of this remarkable fauna" states Liebherr. These new species are not the end of biodiversity discovery for these beetles and their relatives.
Liebherr is working in the lab to name more collected from other mountains, and many more no doubt occur on unexplored peaks. Conservation programs in French Polynesia will be busy for a long time documenting these hidden gems of the Pacific.
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Original sources:
Liebherr J (2012) The first precinctive Carabidae from Moorea, Society Islands: new Mecyclothorax spp. (Coleoptera) from the summit of Mont Tohiea. ZooKeys 224: 37-80. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.224.3675
Liebherr J (2012) New Mecyclothorax spp. (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) define Mont Mauru, eastern Tahiti Nui, as a distinct area of endemism. ZooKeys 227: 63-99. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.227.3797
About ZooKeys
ZooKeys is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal launched to support free exchange of ideas and information in biodiversity science, issued by Pensoft Publishers. All papers published in ZooKeys can be freely copied, downloaded, printed and distributed at no charge for the reader. ZooKeys implemented several cutting-edge innovation in publishing and dissemination of science information and is considered a technological leader in its field.
Additional Information
National Science Foundation DEB-0451971; Biotic Surveys and Inventory: Arthropods of French Polynesia (R. G. Gillespie, PI)
Richard B. Gump South Pacific Field Station http://moorea.berkeley.edu/
Posted by Pensoft Publishers.
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Back when Lenovo formally announced the ThinkPad Tablet 2, it shared almost everything there was to know about its new Windows 8 slate: specs, an approximate shipping date and details on the optional accessories. The one thing Lenovo didn't reveal? The price. Well, you can rest easy now because the company just announced the tablet will start at $649, making it slightly more expensive than other Atom-powered slates running Windows 8. (To be fair, it does offer NFC and pen input, so perhaps we can all agree to call it even.) As a quick refresher, other key specs include a 10.1-inch (1,366 x 768) IPS display, a 10-hour battery, dual 2MP / 8MP cameras and optional 3G / 4G connectivity, with AT&T's LTE network being the spectrum of choice in the US. You'll also be able to buy it with an optional keyboard and a dock with three USB ports, HDMI-out and an Ethernet jack. That's all coming soon, so hopefully our full review won't be too far off either.
What happens to all of your emails stored in Outlook if your hard drive dies or, worse, your computer is stolen? More importantly, what happens to your future??This and other less dramatic incidents can leave you missing some important emails you had stored in Outlook. Emails that contained vital files, instructions and even recommendations from your professors!?Fortunately, there are several ways you can guard against losing your information. These won?t prevent your computer from crashing or being stolen. They will, however, make sure your emails and documents are safe no matter what happens to your computer.
Outlook Repair Tools. There are plenty of Outlook repair tools available that are worth your money today. They?re the ultimate in protection, since they?re designed to help you recover files. Simply install a recovery program and keep it updated. You won?t need to touch it unless your Outlook does crash and you need to run your recovery program.
If you didn?t install an Outlook recovery program, you can always visit your local Mac or PC technician. This is especially helpcul when you need your emails or emailed files ASAP and didn?t plan ahead with a repair tool. A technician should be able to recover most if not all of your files if you stop using your computer immediately after the crash. If you continue to save files, there?s a good chance you?ll save over your lost files. Just shut the computer down and take it to your nearest technician.
Another data recovery option you may want to try is your local Linux User Group (LUG). Linux is a powerful operating systems that comes in many different ?flavors?. Some of these flavors, such as TestDisk and ddrescue, are specifically tailored towards data recovery.
Almost everyone you meet at these meetings will be happy to introduce you to the Linux operating system, even if you?re just there to learn about data recovery. But there are also a couple of options you can implement so that you won?t have to worry about recovering your .PST files again, regardless of what happens to your computer.
Dropbox. Dropbox is a cloud-based file storing website that will allow you to store your files from any computer to the web. They offer a downloadable application so that you don?t have to individually save each file you want to save.
Best of all for students, it?s absolutely free! While the free service only starts out at 2GB, you can quickly increase it by performing tasks such as giving user feedback, Tweeting about it or mentioning Dropbox on Facebook.
If you really want to rack up some extra space, you can get a ton just for referring other people to the service. Dropbox will give you 250MB of space for each person who signs up! Best of all, you?ll be helping yourself while you introduce your friends to a useful service. It?s a great option to check out.
Google Drive. While Google Drive won?t automatically save your emails and documents from Outlook, it is a reliable place for you to copy-and-paste your important documents and communications. You can even upload your own files, as opposed to just copying and pasting.
Google Drive gives 5GB of space at no cost to every Gmail account. While it?s not as easy an option as Outlook Repair or Dropbox, it?s still an option?one you can easily use from any Internet-connected computer?that won?t cost you anything.
These aren?t the only solutions available to you. You may also want to make backups of your important documents on a USB drive, or even back up your entire system on an external hard drive on a regular basis. Then, once you utilize cloud storage options like Dropbox or Google Drive, and have access to good data recovery software, you won?t ever have to worry about deleted emails or lost Outlook .PST files again!
FILE - In this June 2, 2012 file photo, Mike Love, right, of The Beach Boys, performs alongside fellow band member David Marks at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Brian Wilson says he felt blindsided by a news release from his Beach Boys bandmate Mike Love that ended the good vibrations on the band's 50th anniversary tour. Wilson says the expectation was that both sides would help craft and approve the news release. That didn't happen and now he thinks it's Love's turn to reach out. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this June 2, 2012 file photo, Mike Love, right, of The Beach Boys, performs alongside fellow band member David Marks at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Brian Wilson says he felt blindsided by a news release from his Beach Boys bandmate Mike Love that ended the good vibrations on the band's 50th anniversary tour. Wilson says the expectation was that both sides would help craft and approve the news release. That didn't happen and now he thinks it's Love's turn to reach out. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this June 2, 2012 file photo, The Beach Boys perform at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Brian Wilson says he felt blindsided by a news release from his Beach Boys bandmate Mike Love that ended the good vibrations on the band's 50th anniversary tour. Wilson says the expectation was that both sides would help craft and approve the news release. That didn't happen and now he thinks it's Love's turn to reach out. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Brian Wilson says he felt blindsided by a news release from his Beach Boys band mate Mike Love that ended the good vibrations on the band's 50th anniversary tour.
Wilson answered Mike Love's recent explanation in The Los Angeles Times with a response in the newspaper Tuesday. Love says he was simply trying to clear up confusion about post-50th anniversary dates when he issued the news release, but many ? including band members Wilson, Al Jardine and David Marks ? took the release as news of a firing.
"As far as I know I can't be fired ? that wouldn't be cool," Wilson wrote in the Times. "The negativity surrounding all the comments bummed me out. What's confusing is that by Mike not wanting or letting Al, David and me tour with the band, it sort of feels like we're being fired."
The dueling newspaper notes are the latest turn in what's been an off-and-on again relationship for decades. Wilson and Love are cousins and founding members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band that helped crystalize the California sound of the 1960s. Wilson stopped touring regularly in 1964, notes Love, who has led a version of the band on the road for the last 13 years.
As the 50th anniversary of the Beach Boys' founding approached, Wilson and Love agreed to perform with the band's surviving early members for a new album and tour. Wilson, the creative force behind many of the band's iconic hits, said everything exceeded his expectations.
"Mike kept saying throughout the tour 'The whole is greater than the sum of its parts,' and both Al and I agree, which made us all think that he wanted to continue," Wilson wrote. "We originally started out with 50 shows, but the success and the demand kept growing and we obliged. No one knew in the beginning that this was going to be so rewarding and popular with our fans. Once we got cooking we were all stoked!"
Earlier this year, the band released a new album that debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200.
Love's news release ended those feelings, though. It came just before the Beach Boys were to play the last of 75 50th anniversary shows late last month in London. Love wrote in an article that the 50th anniversary tour was always finite and that the new dates in smaller venues had long been set for the lineup toured by him.
"To avoid public confusion, and at the request of Brian's representative, we had a press release sent out detailing the differences between the two Beach Boys tours and its varying lineups," wrote Love, who noted that over a decade ago he was granted an exclusive license to tour as the "Beach Boys." ''I was surprised that Brian and Al said they were surprised by this announcement. Some media outlets interpreted all of this as me firing the band."
Wilson says the expectation was that both sides would help craft and approve the news release. That didn't happen and now he thinks it's Love's turn to reach out.
"That's it in a nutshell, all these conversations need to be between the shareholders, and I welcome Mike to call me," he wrote.
Samsung isn't the only one upgrading their tablets to ICS today. Motorola has begun rolling out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the DROID XYBOARD 10.1 and 8.2 (also known as the Xoom 2 in Europe), as expected. Motorola has provided a nice little walkthrough video showing all of the latest updates. The new quick access lock screen, and the usual ICS goodies. The Wi-Fi-only models got their upgrade over the summer.
If you're looking to pick one up from Verizon, the 10.1-inch model starts at $549.99 and the 8.2-inch model goes for $429.99, but be sure to check out our pre-ICS review before taking the plunge. What do you guys think - do the new Motorola customizations in ice Cream Sandwich add some freshness to the XYBOARD family, or are they still too samey compared to alternative Android tablets out there?
This update corrects the spelling of Georgetown Law School?s Jonathan Band.
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) ? Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court?s agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother?s antique furniture to your iPhone 4.
At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like electronics, books, artwork and furniture, as well as CDs and DVDs, without getting permission from the copyright holder of those products.
Under the doctrine, which the Supreme Court has recognized since 1908, you can resell your stuff without worry because the copyright holder only had control over the first sale.
Put simply, though Apple Inc. AAPL -2.13% has the copyright on the iPhone and Mark Owen has it on the book ?No Easy Day,? you can still sell your copies to whomever you please whenever you want without retribution.
That?s being challenged now for products that are made abroad, and if the Supreme Court upholds an appellate court ruling, it would mean that the copyright holders of anything you own that has been made in China, Japan or Europe, for example, would have to give you permission to sell it.
?It means that it?s harder for consumers to buy used products and harder for them to sell them,? said Jonathan Band, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, who filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Association for Research Libraries. ?This has huge consumer impact on all consumer groups.?
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Turkey's state-run news agency says a Syrian shell landed on Turkish territory for a sixth day, but made no mention of any immediate Turkish retaliation.
The Anadolu Agency said the shell landed on a cotton field in an area close to the border town of Altinozu, in Hatay province on Monday. People were working in the field at the time, but no one was injured.
Turkey and Syria have been firing artillery and mortars across their volatile border since Wednesday after shelling from Syria killed five civilians.
The exchange of fire stoked fears that Syria's civil war will escalate into a regional conflagration drawing in NATO member Turkey.
It maybe Octoberfest in Munich this month but if you are an animal lover on Kauai, it?s Adoptoberfest!!
Kauai?s Humane Society is hosting a great event on Saturday, October 13th. If you have a crowd-friendly dog, bring them to Freddie?s Dog Park! The fun starts at 9:00am and goes on until 1:00pm. There will be contests varying from Pet/Owner Look-a-Like, to Best Trick, to Best Costume. Ron Wiley will be broadcasting live and there will be local vendors with their goods on display and Fido can even get a bath!
While attending, if you happen to find a new and special four-legged family member, there will even be special adoption pricing! As I am one of the honorary photographers, I will shoot a picture of you and your new furry friend, on this special day of new beginnings.
Bring the entire family and have a blast with fellow animal lovers. Admission is free but donations to this great cause will be gladly accepted.
For more information, go to the following web address:
Bring Fido or adopt a pet and check out Kauai Humane Society?s Adoptoberfest!
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FRANKFURT ? After decades as the poor relation of global air transport, Africa is attracting carriers from Brussels to Beijing as a commodities boom spurs economic growth.
British Airways began serving its 19th destination there on Sept. 10, while Qatar Airways adds its fourth route of the year next month and FastJet starts flights in November with the aim of becoming the first ever pan-African discount carrier.
Airlines hurt by traffic declines elsewhere are rushing to tap a rare growth market as economies in the sub-Saharan region expand an average 5.3 percent in 2012, outpacing Russia, Brazil and much of Asia, according to International Monetary Fund estimates. Hurdles to expansion include safety issues, corruption, state interference and of selling tickets in economies reliant on cash and lacking ready internet access.
"With the right cost structure there's no reason why airlines shouldn't succeed," International Air Transport Association Chief Executive Officer Tony Tyler said by phone from Dakar during a visit to Senegal this month. "We've seen that happen in Asia, Latin America and other parts of the developing world. People here say the easiest way to fly anywhere in Africa is via Paris, which is ridiculous."
British Airways, a unit of International Consolidated Airlines Group, added flights to Liberia via Sierra Leone on Sept. 10 and now serves 16 Africa countries. Brussels Airlines ? 45 percent owned by Germany's Deutsche Lufthansa ? has almost doubled the number of passengers it carries to the continent since 2008 and founded a subsidiary in the Congo.
Gulf carriers are also adding African routes, with Dubai- based Emirates, the world's biggest airline by international traffic, leading the way with 22 destinations, including the addition this year of Lusaka in Zambia and Harare in Zimbabwe.
Qatar Air will fly to Mozambique from October, its 18th African route, after already adding the sub-Saharan destinations of Mombassa in Kenya, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Kigali in Rwanda ? the fastest growing of Africa's top 25 airports. Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways this year began flights to Nairobi and Lagos, the continent's two busiest hubs, and will serve Addis Ababa from November for a total of eight African cities.
Asian operators are also joining the rush, with China Southern Airlines Co., the nation's biggest carrier by passenger numbers, prioritizing African expansion above other markets, Si Xianmin, the Guangzhou-based company's chairman, said June 6.
Still, the industry is starting from a low base, adding $8 billion to Africa's gross domestic product in 2011, the smallest contribution in any continent, and employing 260,000 people, IATA says. That compares with $231.9 billion and 3.1 million jobs in North America, which has the biggest aviation economy.
Air links have traditionally been strongest with former colonial nations in Europe, in southern and eastern Africa, and on a north-south axis down the continent's spine. That means growth opportunities are greatest on ill-served east-west routes, both within the region and to the Americas and Asia, said Herman Carpentier, Africa sales chief at Brussels Airlines.
The company's response has been to establish Korongo Airlines, an $11 million joint venture with mining entrepreneur George Forrest's Groupe Forrest International in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a former Belgian colony where the economy is forecast to grow 3 percent this year.
The unit, which operates from Lubumbashi in the south of the country to the capital Kinshasa and to Johannesburg, plans to expand to commercial hub Mbuji-Mayi and mining center Kolwezi in the next year, according to Carpentier, who said the model could be replicated in other African countries if successful.
"There's a general lack of intra-African flights, yet other infrastructure is very basic or non-existent in some areas, so air travel is the best way to get around," Carpentier said in a phone interview from Brussels. "I think there's real demand."
High fuel prices generally viewed as negative for airlines are also driving growth in states with crude deposits, boosting business flights and stirring leisure demand among a nascent middle class. Oil is spurring travel across central Africa, from Angola as far east as Uganda and Kenya, Carpentier said.
It's in the east that FastJet will commence flying with the aim of becoming the first discount carrier to span the region. The company is building a fleet of Airbus SAS A319 jets and will operate first from Tanzania then Kenya, Ghana and Angola using licenses held by majority investor Lonrho, a mining, oil and agricultural group active in Africa for more than 100 years.
The challenges for such startups are very different from those faced elsewhere, according to Ron Peri, CEO of Orlando- based airline ticketing specialist Radixx International, who sums them up as the "Three Cs" ? for a cash-based economy, the prevalence of corruption, and a general lack of competence.
"If you have strong cash markets but not necessarily the strongest personal ethics you wind up with corruption all over the place," Peri said in an interview. "You need to have audit trails everywhere. In Africa they talk about 'revenue leakage,' which is shorthand for 'my employees are robbing me blind.'"
Graft isn't limited to those directly involved in revenue collection, according to IATA's Tyler.
"Governments can't stop interfering and squeezing to try and get money," he said. "They should look at aviation not as a cash cow to be milked but as an engine for economic growth which in the long run will provide much more tax revenue, employment and social development. We've seen that happen in Asia."
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The only upgrades available for our puny human hands are gaming controller calluses, but if you're sporting an i-LIMB digits hand prosthesis, you can now grab a set of improved fingers. Touch Bionics' "smaller, lighter and more anatomically accurate" appendages are now available worldwide, as well as a new wrist-band unit which houses all the necessary computing power and juice for their function. Best of all, these developments allow more people to adopt the tech than the previous generation, including those with more petite hands or finger amputations closer to the knuckle. We don't know how much it'll cost for a fresh set, but we'll let health agencies and insurance companies deal with that part. With these upgrades and RSL Steeper's latest offering, it won't be long before our flesh-based variants are meager in comparison.
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) ? A plane carrying trekkers into the Everest region crashed Friday morning in Nepal's capital, and all 19 people on board are believed dead, authorities said.
Thirteen people on board were foreigners, while three passengers and the three crew members were from Nepal, said Katmandu airport chief Narayan Bastakoti. He said all the 19 were believed to have been killed when the plane crashed.
The twin-engine prop plane belonging to the domestic Sita Air crashed onto open ground near the Manohara River on the southwest edge of Katmandu, just minutes after takeoff. Weather conditions were clear.
Firefighters brought the fire in the wreckage under control and police rescuers were trying to pull out the bodies, Bastakoti said.
The plane was heading for Lukla, the gateway to Mount Everest. Thousands of Westerners head to the region around the world's highest peak yearly for trekking trips. Autumn is considered the best time to trek the foothills of the Himalayan peaks.
The crash follows an avalanche on another Nepal peak Sunday that killed seven foreign climbers and a Nepali guide.
A homecoming prank and its outcome breaks hearts and then warms them: Bullying victim Whitney Kropp was nominated for homecoming court as a joke, but her small town rallies around her.
By Lauren Parker-Gill,?Contributing Blogger / September 27, 2012
Bullying victim Whitney Krapp thanks her community of supporters, posted on September 16, 2012.
It has always been said ? kids are cruel. As time goes by, bullying continues to reach new heights, as Whitney Kropp can unfortunately attest. She was the target of the cruelest of pranks, when her high school nominated her as the sophomore representative for their Homecoming Court.
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At first, she was shocked and excited by the homecoming vote, until she learned the cruel reality ? the students in her school thought it would be funny if an unpopular student won. They wasted no time and began pointing and laughing at her in the hallways and posting about it on her Facebook page.
And the popular football player who was voted to escort her? He withdrew his name because he didn?t want to be linked with her.
?I thought I wasn?t worthy,? said Kropp, 16. ?I was this big old joke.? Whitney was devastated and wanted to withdraw, herself. However, at the urging of her grandmother, mother and sister, she planned to attend the game, to hold her head high and not give the bullies that satisfaction.
As word of this quickly spread through her small town, her community rallied around her. Showering her with support, local businesses offered her everything; a new dress, new shoes and a tiara, as well as having her hair and nails done.The town also plans to pack the football stadium for the homecoming game this weekend, wearing Team Whitney shirts, so they can cheer for her when she is introduced at halftime.
Beyond her town, this story has spread online and a Facebook page called?Support Whitney Kropp?was created 11 days ago, so more people can show her their support. It already has over 46,000 likes.
This story both breaks and warms my heart.
What started out as a heartless and terrible prank on a 16 year-old-girl, has turned into such a positive story because of people willing to take a stand against bullying. I hate to even think about what Homecoming would have been like for Whitney, if her town didn?t rally behind her.
Would the students have further humiliated her by booing when her name was announced? Or would they have done something even worse? This story could have had a very different, very tragic outcome.
I am truly so moved by this town, for taking her by the hand and showing her that she is not a joke ? and she is worthy. Good for them.
As for the bullies who calculated this disgusting act? The school district is conducting an investigation. I?m hoping this isn?t the end of the story ? that there will be consequences for those involved.
If not, do you think the outpouring of support is enough to teach them a lesson?
The Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of the best family and parenting bloggers out there. Our contributing and guest bloggers are not employed or directed by the Monitor, and the views expressed are the bloggers' own, as is responsibility for the content of their blogs. Lauren Parker-Gill blogs at Spill the Beans.
A 1728 oil painting by Cornelis Troost depicting an anatomy lesson using a cadaver
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Two hundred years ago, a Scottish medical student named Robert Christison watched a human vivisection.
It was inadvertent; the subject was meant to be dead. But in the days before people willingly left their bodies to science, surgeons stole them. The aftermath of judicial hangings was a competition between ?the relatives and the [surgical] students?the former to carry off the body intact, the latter to dissect it,? Christison wrote in his autobiography. ?Thus dissection was apt to be performed with indecent, sometimes with dangerous haste. It was no uncommon occurrence that, when the operator proceeded with his work, the body was sensibly warm, the limbs not yet rigid.? Hangings were sometimes ineffective, and the condemned survived. No wonder then that occasionally, in their rush, surgeons got it wrong and opened up a body to demonstrate its anatomy only to discover it was not yet a corpse.
Even if you're in less of a rush, simple observation has always been worryingly fallible when it comes to distinguishing life from death. When I was a junior doctor, I recall the hairs on the back of my neck slowly rising as I walked toward a patient's room. His family had just stopped me at the end of their visit, saying ?I think we'll come back tomorrow, we've been sitting with him for an hour and he's seemed awfully quiet.? He would forever remain that way. I found I often made the reverse mistake: Walking into the room of an elderly patient, it could take some time to recognize their stillness as that of sleep.
Preceding generations adopted technological aids to help them. Holding a mirror over a face to see if it misted up could be genuinely useful. The stethoscope?invented by a French doctor, Rene Laennec, who was embarrassed by putting his ear to his patient's bosom?meant that respiration and heart sounds could be listened for more accurately. All this helped, but it didn't fully solve the problem.
The precise division between life and death has always been unclear. In the 18th century, the chemistry of living (organic) and nonliving (inorganic) things was held to be fundamentally different. Into the former, God placed a spark of life?meaning that biochemical processes were absolutely different from the chemical reactions that could be created by mankind or the natural world. That belief was shown false in the 1820s, when a German chemist, Friedrich W?hler, synthesized the first organic molecules. But even today it lingers on: The vague way in which organic is used as a euphemism for healthy and good is its relic. Throughout the 19th century, the exact spark of life remained an object of great interest, and also of great doubt.
Discussions of the soul tended to lead nowhere, since that word meant so many different things to different people. It was hard to prove when the soul left the body because it was something whose nature and identity no one could agree on. Hence a favorite distinction between the living and the dead rested directly on the word of God. Leviticus 17:11 and 17:14 were clear: Blood?was the stuff of life. William Harvey, who discovered how blood circulated, wrote that it was ?the first to live and the last to die.? Blood was life. So long as it was liquid, life remained.
Hence Christison's alarm as he watched the surgeon cut into the warm body. ?Fluid blood gushed in abundance from the first incisions through the skin ? Instantly I seized [the surgeon's] wrist in great alarm, and arrested his progress; nor was I easily persuaded to let him go on, when I saw the blood coagulate on the table exactly like living blood.? Peer pressure overcame his qualms, however, and he not only released the surgeon but remained part of the attentive audience. He was convinced that the man was alive, but he became willing to watch all the same.
John Hunter, the greatest surgeon of the 18th century, also believed that those whose blood was liquid were still alive, yet he had no problem slicing their hearts out?or even, in the interests of science, tasting them. (Wishing to explore human sexual function, he acquired the corpse of a man who died in the moment before ejaculation. When held in the mouth, Hunter reported, the dead man's semen had a slightly spicy taste.) An appetite for knowledge has never been a guarantee of compassion or of respect for the wishes of the dead.
In the years since Hunter, though, these concerns have genuinely advanced. We're better at saying where life ends and better at honoring the physical remains and the last wishes of our fellows?which is not to say there isn't still room for improvement. For many decades, we accepted that people died when their heart stopped beating, that is, when it stopped circulating blood. Why did we hold onto that notion, even long after we understood that electrical activity was the fundamental substrate for our lives? Once more, the limitation was partly technical?a heartbeat is relatively easy to detect?and partly not. The idea that blood was the stuff of life lingered on, aided by the dual meaning of ?heart? it helped bequeath to our language and our thoughts. Did the body Christison saw being opened still have a beating heart? Was it, in any real way, alive? It certainly was in Cristison?s eyes, but whether it would have been in ours is harder to say.
Once we became confident about the primacy of electrical activity in the brain as the sign of life, we were able to be more positive. The need for donated organs pushed changes in our definition of death, especially because an organ-transplant recipient?s prospects for survival are much better when the organ is taken from a donor with a beating heart. In 1968, the wonderfully named Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School argued that death should no longer be regarded as occurring when the heart stopped, but when electrical activity ceased in the brain. Once that was gone, so was the person.
Following those British-based leaks yesterday, a second mole has now offered us a glimpse at Xbox Music pricing across the Atlantic. It looks like the Zune successor will offer a longer 30-day free trial, alongside $10 per-month and $100 annual subscriptions. Surprise -- looks like Americans are getting a better deal.
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? With his camera-ready good looks, quirky catchphrases and funky fashion choices, swimmer Ryan Lochte parlayed the five medals he won at this summer's Olympic Games into a bourgeoning media career.
But Lochte says he's back in the pool training for future competitions and only embraced Hollywood to raise his sport's profile.
He worked as a fashion correspondent for TV's "Extra" during New York Fashion Week, filmed cameos for "30 Rock" and "90210," introduced Lil Wayne on stage at last week's I Heart Radio concert in Las Vegas and was spoofed by Seth MacFarlane on the season opener of "Saturday Night Live."
Still, if acting calls, he might consider it, saying he "had a blast" working on set. But swimming comes first.
"If it fits into my training," he said, "I'll do it."
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