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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

HTC One Developer Edition announced, $649 with SIM and bootloader unlocked

HTC is getting into the Developer Edition trend -- a compromise necessary since CEO Peter Chou's plan to stop locking bootloaders entirely didn't stick -- as it's announced tonight that a variant of its new One that will be available with both SIM and bootloader unlocked. Due to arrive in the US at the same time as the standard carrier versions, it will keep the same powerful specs and slick design (no, the case is not transparent) we loved in our review, but without the restrictions. One thing it's missing? AWS HSPA/WCDMA access, which should limit its opportunities on T-Mobile until it rolls out LTE service. The price is $649 up front and it will ship in "limited quantities," so we'd figure that's just one more thing to keep in mind before the next Galaxy S is announced on Thursday.

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Student who played piano for Joel not 'nervous'

By Randee Dawn, TODAY contributor

Michael Pollack grew up playing piano on Long Island, NY, and as he noted to TODAY anchors Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Natalie Morales and Al Roker on Wednesday, that meant he was naturally drawn to the area's best-known keyboard hero.

"Every Long Island piano player aspires to be Billy Joel," he said. "You don't have a choice. And I've been playing his music since I'm 10, 11, 12."

So the Vanderbilt University freshman took advantage of his talents and a stroke of good luck when he attended a Q&A in January with Joel -- and ended up onstage playing his favorite song, "New York State of Mind," while the Piano Man sang along.

"You can hear my voice shaking," said Pollack, recounting the episode. "But once he said 'OK,' I got up there. I was so excited, I wasn't even nervous."

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Fluorescent light revealed as gauge of coral health

Public release date: 12-Mar-2013
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Mysterious glow of light found to correlate with coral stress prior to bleaching

Coral reefs not only provide the world with rich, productive ecosystems and photogenic undersea settings, they also contribute an economic boost valued at hundreds of billions of dollars. But their decline in recent years due to a variety of threatsfrom pollution to climate warminghas lent urgency to the search for new ways to evaluate their health.

A new study by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego scientists has revealed that fluorescence, the dazzling but poorly understood light produced by corals, can be an effective tool for gauging their health.

As described in the March 12 edition of Scientific Reports (a publication of the Nature Publishing Group), marine biologists Melissa Roth and Dimitri Deheyn describe groundbreaking research using fluorescence to test coral stress prompted from cold and heat exposures.

In experimental studies conducted at Scripps, Roth and Deheyn tested the common Indo-Pacific reef-building branching coral Acropora yongei under various temperatures. Branching corals are susceptible to temperature stress and often one of the first to show signs of distress on a reef. Roth and Deheyn found, at the induction of both cold and heat stress, corals rapidly display a decline in fluorescence levels. If the corals are able to adapt to the new conditions, such as to the cold settings in the experiment, then the fluorescence returns to normal levels upon acclimation.

While the corals recovered from cold stress, the heat-treated corals eventually bleached and remained so until the conclusion of the experiment. Coral bleaching, the loss of tiny symbiotic algae that are critical for coral survival, is a primary threat to coral reefs and has been increasing in severity and scale due to climate change. In this study, the very onset of bleaching caused fluorescence to spike to levels that remained high until the end of the experiment. The researchers noted that the initial spike was caused by the loss of "shading" from the symbiotic algae.

"This is the first study to quantify fluorescence before, during, and after stress," said Deheyn. "Through these results we have demonstrated that changes in coral fluorescence can be a good proxy for coral health."

Deheyn said the new method improves upon current technologies for testing coral health, which include conducting molecular analyses in which coral must be collected from their habitat, as opposed to fluorescence that can be tested non-invasively directly in the field.

Corals are known to produce fluorescence through green fluorescent proteins, but little is known about the emitted light's function or purpose. Scientists believe fluorescence could offer protection from damaging sunlight or be used as a biochemical defense generated during times of stress.

"This study is novel because it follows the dynamics of both fluorescent protein levels and coral fluorescence during temperature stress, and shows how coral fluorescence can be utilized as an early indicator of coral stress" said Roth, a Scripps alumna who is now a postdoctoral scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley.

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The National Science Foundation (NSF), an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research's Natural Materials, Systems and Extremophiles program supported the research. Birch Aquarium at Scripps provided the corals and technical support for the experiments.

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Vitriolic campaign to replace Chav?z gets under way, with country's grief still raw

Presidential candidates?Nicolas Maduro?and?Henrique Capriles have leapt into the election campaign at full speed, with strident personal attacks against each other.

By Andrew Cawthorne,?Reuters / March 11, 2013

Acting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a copy of the Venezuelan constitution while speaking to the media in Caracas Sunday. Maduro, who was sworn in as acting president after Chav?z succumbed to cancer last week, is seen as the favorite to win the election next month.

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Presidential candidates?Nicolas Maduro?and?Henrique Capriles?have begun?Venezuela's election race with scathing personal attacks even as mourners were still filing past the late?Hugo Chav?z's corpse.

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Maduro, who was sworn in as acting president after Chav?z succumbed to cancer last week, is seen as the favorite to win the April 14 election, bolstered by an oil-financed state apparatus and a wave of public sympathy over Chav?z's death.

Chav?z made it clear before his fourth and last cancer operation in December that he wanted Maduro to be his Socialist Party's candidate to succeed him if he died.

Maduro promises to continue the socialist policies of Chav?z's 14-year rule, including the popular use of?Venezuela's vast oil revenues to finance social programs.

But Capriles is promising a tough fight.

"Nicolas, I'm not going to give you a free passage ... you are not Chav?z," Capriles said in a combative speech late on Sunday. He also accused Maduro of lying to minimize Chav?z's medical condition while he prepared his candidacy.

"Nicolas lied to this country for months," Capriles said. "You are exploiting someone who is no longer here because you have nothing else to offer the country ... I don't play with death, I don't play with suffering, like that."

Within minutes, in a late-night address to the nation, Maduro said his rival was playing with fire, offending Chav?z's family and risking legal action.

"You can see the disgusting face of the fascist that he is," a visibly furious Maduro said, alleging that the opposition was hoping to stir up violence. "His aim is to provoke the Venezuelan people."

At stake in the election is not only the future of Chav?z's socialist "revolution," but the continuation of Venezuelan oil subsidies and other aid crucial to the economies of left-wing allies around?Latin America, from?Cuba?to?Bolivia.

Venezuela, a member of OPEC, boasts the world's largest oil reserves.?

Both Maduro and Capriles were to formally register their candidacies with?Venezuela's election authority on Monday.

Shaken by Chav?z's death and now immersed in the ugly election campaign, Venezuelans saw some semblance of normality return on Monday as most schools and shops re-opened after being closed for most of last week.?

Grief

The official mourning period for Chav?z ends on Tuesday.

Several million have paid their respects at his coffin at a military academy in a dramatic outpouring of grief.

Though criticized by many for his authoritarian tendencies and handling of the economy, Chav?z was loved by millions, especially the poor, because of his own humble background, plain language, attacks on global "imperialists" and the domestic "elite," as well as his welfare policies in?Venezuela's slums.

In death, he is fast earning a near-religious status among supporters, perhaps akin to that of?Argentina's former populist ruler Juan Peron and his deeply loved wife?Eva Peron.

State television has been playing speeches and appearances by Chav?z over and over, next to a banner saying "Chav?z lives forever."

"We have the honor of having shared with the Bolivarian leader the same ideals of social justice and of support for the exploited," Chav?z's friend and mentor,?Fidel Castro, said in the latest of many tributes to him.

"I remembered the times he joked with me saying that when both of us finished our revolutionary work, he would invite me to spend time by the Arauca River in Venezuelan territory, which reminded him of the rest he never had."

Chav?z's many detractors are keeping a low profile. But they say his memory is being burnished to forget less savory aspects of his rule like the bullying of opponents and the stifling of private businesses with nationalizations often announced on a whim.

Capriles, a 40-year-old centrist governor who describes himself as a "progressive" and an admirer of?Brazil's political model, ran at the last presidential election in October, taking 44 percent of the votes, but was unable to prevent Chav?z's re-election.

While attacking Maduro's handling of the crisis over Chav?z's cancer, Capriles will try to turn the focus of this month-long election campaign to the many day-to-day problems afflicting Venezuelans, from electricity cuts to crime and an inflation rate that is among the world's highest.

Maduro, 50, a burly one-time bus driver and union leader who echoes Chav?z's anti-imperialist rhetoric, is sure to make his former boss the centerpiece of his campaign while casting himself as the only heir.

Two opinion polls before Chav?z's death gave Maduro a lead of more than 10 percentage points.

"This is going to be a really tough campaign for us, we know," said an aide at Capriles' office in?Caracas.

"It's hard to get everyone enthused and pumped again, we've only got a month, and we're fighting Chav?z's ghost, not Maduro. But believe me, we'll give it our best."

Chav?z's death and the imminent election have eclipsed other pressing issues in?Venezuela, including a raft of economic austerity measures that the government had been expected to announce.?

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba names new CEO

BEIJING (AP) ? Alibaba Group, one of the world's biggest e-commerce companies, said Monday its executive vice president will succeed founder Jack Ma as chief executive.

Ma, 48, announced in January he was stepping down as CEO to make way for younger leaders. He stayed on as chairman.

Jonathan Lu Zhaoxi, a 13-year veteran of the company, will take over in May as CEO, said the company, based in the eastern city of Hangzhou.

"He is passionate about and familiar with the group's various businesses," said Ma in the announcement. "Not only has he contributed to building our culture and organization and developed many talented people, he also possesses a unique leadership style and charisma."

Ma, a former English teacher, founded Alibaba in 1999 to link Chinese suppliers with retailers abroad. It has expanded in consumer e-commerce with its Taobao and Tmall platforms, which are among the world's busiest online outlets.

Ma is part of a generation of Chinese Internet entrepreneurs who built successful businesses in e-commerce, entertainment, search and other fields. In addition to Ma, several others have become billionaires, including Robin Li of search giant Baidu and Ma Huateng of Tencent, an entertainment and Web portal company.

Lu, who joined Alibaba in 2000, was the founding president of its online payment service Alipay and worked in Taobao, the company said.

Alibaba announced a reorganization in January to transform its seven business units into 25 smaller divisions to compete more effectively in China's turbulent Internet market.

China has the world's biggest population of Internet users, with 564 million people online at the end of 2012, according to an industry group, the China Internet Network Information Center.

The country trails the United States and Japan in total e-commerce spending but is forecast by the Boston Consulting Group to take the No. 1 position by 2015.

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Education and outreach key to combatting hepatitis outbreak - UNHCR

News Stories, 11 March 2013

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Hawa Hamid Ramadan and her husband turned to traditional medicine when they became infected with hepatitis E.

YUSUF BATIL CAMP, South Sudan, March 11 (UNHCR) ? A month after she began treatment for hepatitis E, the yellow, jaundiced eyes of Hawa Hamid Ramadan are evidence of her battle with the debilitating disease, though she insists she is feeling better.

Her improvement, she says, is not the result of the medications she was provided by health workers in the Yusuf Batil refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile state, but rather the curative properties of a traditional herbal remedy.

Hepatitis E is a liver disease that is transmitted mainly through drinking water that has become contaminated as a result of poor sanitation. In the South Sudan emergency, the disease was first detected in the Yusuf Batil camp in July 2012 and had reached its peak by November.

A second outbreak was discovered a month later. Nearly 64 per cent of more than 6,500 reported cases of the disease in Upper Nile have occurred at the refugee camp, including 94 deaths. The camp currently holds more than 37,500 refugees.

Ramadan's teenage son was the first member of the family to contract the virus. After he passed it on to his father, it was only a matter of time before Ramadan woke up one morning feeling listless and nauseous, her body aching from head to toe.

Like her son and husband before her, 40-year-old Ramadan sought medical attention at the camp's health centre. There is currently no effective treatment for hepatitis E and the illness is normally self-limiting. Prevention, through improved hygiene standards, is the most effective approach to addressing an outbreak.

When her nausea and body aches did not improve with the help of prescription drugs, Ramadan, like many other infected refugees, turned to traditional medicines. Her Ngassana tribe from Sudan's Blue Nile state have traditionally used so ? a combination of herbs and extracts from the bitter tasting leaves of the neem tree ? to treat "yellow eyes," which are caused by jaundice.

Ramadan's husband, Burula Fata Takona arrives at the family's home carrying the herbs he has spent hours searching for in the camp's periphery, digging up tubers and collecting leaves to brew the medicine for his wife. The tubers are pounded into paste and soaked in water while the leaves are steeped in boiling water for maximum effect.

The som, taken before breakfast, encourages vomiting which is believed to remove impurities from the body. The juice from the neem leaves is poured over cooked okra and eaten with sorghum, a staple food in South Sudan. During treatment, the recipients steer clear of oil, salt and meat.

"It works!" Burula exclaims. "Look at me now." Like his wife, he had been bedridden, but after taking the traditional medicines he claims that he is stronger and that his appetite has returned and the yellow tinge in his eyes has diminished.

"While we cannot stop people from using traditional medicines which they have relied on all their lives," says Martin Muita, a UNHCR public health officer. "We can and are providing continuous education, options and examples that demonstrate how, through frequent hand washing after toilet use and before food preparation, one can avoid infection and infecting others."

UNHCR has put in place an enhanced hepatitis E public education strategy, which includes awareness campaigns in all camps on the disease's transmission and the need for proper hand washing.

Latrine cleaning kits have been distributed while soap has been handed out to households, and hand washing facilities outside the latrines are supplied with soap every week. Camp cleaning days, when residents are responsible for cleaning their yards and disposing of refuse, have also been organized.

Community outreach workers and hygiene promoters call on traditional healers, birth attendants, sheiks and other leaders in the refugee camps to explain the need to go to the camps' clinics for proper medical care.

"Over time, we have gained the trust of traditional healers and have explained to them that what we are dealing with here is not malaria, which presents similar symptoms, but hepatitis," says Doctor Muita. "Through their leaders we strongly encourage refugees to take advantage of the free health services in the camp clinics as opposed to relying on alternative medicines to treat hepatitis E."

The construction and decommissioning of latrines is continuing in the camp, water is systematically monitored and tested, and new boreholes for the provision of safe water are being drilled.

By Pumla Rulashe in Maban County, South Sudan

Source: http://www.unhcr.org/513de30f6.html

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Monday, March 11, 2013

Shock teams and ECMO save lives in massive STEMI

Mar. 9, 2013 ? The use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), accompanied by mechanical CPR, in patients with massive myocardial infarctions can lead to unexpected survival. These study findings are being presented March 9 at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions.

ECMO is an advanced technology that functions as a replacement for a critically ill patient's heart and lungs. This is the first report of combined ECMO, mechanical CPR and therapeutic hypothermia (TH) use within a STEMI Network.

"For many patients who present with a severe heart attack, or ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), complicated by cardiogenic shock that progresses to cardiac standstill, the result is almost uniformly fatal," says Michael R. Mooney, MD, a research cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF) and a physician at the Minneapolis Heart Institute? at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. "This aggressive approach despite its complexity extends our ability to salvage the most devastating complication of acute MI."

The patients in this study were a consecutive series with STEMI meeting criteria for ECMO from August 2011 to October 2012. The Shock Team composed of a perfusionist, an advanced heart failure cardiologist, an interventional cardiologist and a cardiac surgeon developed a protocol and a process for emergency ECMO (E-ECMO) in the CV lab. This same team was then used to implement E-ECMO.

The study included five patients (three males) with a median age of 64 years. The median time of cardiac arrest from the initiation of ECMO was 52 minutes, and ECMO was required for a median time of 4 days in these patients. After ECMO was initiated, therapeutic hypothermia was used in 4 of the cases. Mechanical CPR devices were used in all cases.

Of the five patients, four survived to hospital discharge and all of the survivors had "good neurologic recovery at discharge," Mooney reports. Of the four survivors, discharge ejection fraction improved from 0-10% to a median of 45%. Blood transfusions were required in all cases.

This group of patients account for nearly half of all deaths within a STEMI network and no effective treatment was previously available. "ECMO, along with mechanical CPR, and TH can provide survival in situations previously regarded as uniformly fatal. Therefore, ECMO may have a role in selected PCI centers with advanced specialized teams with the appropriate experience," stated Mooney.

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