LocateMe + - Navigation iPhone App (PAID)

LocateMe +

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[*]Released on: August 3, 2013

LocateMe is the orientation and maps app for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. "LocateMe" allows it to exactly determine your current position with information like city, street, house number, postal code, district and much more. Just post/tweet or mail your current position. You can also compare routes with splitted map view - so that you can always find the best and fastest direction. The new LocateMe + function displays coordinates, altitude and the traveled distance. With the integrated Google Maps/BingMaps you can search for cities, restaurants and places all over the world. In addition to that you can create detailed route plans and print them out.The various functions:- "LocateMe" function showing city, street, house number, postal code, sub-adminsistrative area and much more (perfect for hikers and outdoor enthusiasts)- Maps, satellite and hybrid view- Facebook, Twitter, Mail and Text Messages integration- Splitted map view for comparing routes and distances- LocateMe + function showing coordinates, altitude and the traveled distance- Google Maps/BingMaps for route planning and StreetView- Print function for printing the Bing/Google information- Hiking function for determining your traveled distance and the needed time (professional stopwatch)- Tracking by GPS, Wi-Fi or cell towers- Compass functionFor iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch available. Including periodic feature updates.

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US army keen to learn from India?s counter-insurgency operations

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Ohio killer set for execution found hanged in cell

CLEVELAND (AP) ? A man condemned to death for fatally stabbing a neighbor during a Cleveland burglary was found hanged in his cell Sunday just days before his Wednesday execution.

Billy Slagle, 44, was found at about 5 a.m. at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution south of Columbus and was declared dead within the hour, prison spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said.

"He was in his cell alone. No other inmates suspected to be involved," Smith said in an email. "It does appear to be a suicide."

Under regular prison policy, he was scheduled to be placed under pre-execution watch Sunday morning but "was not yet placed under constant watch," Smith said.

Slagle was sentenced to die for the 1987 stabbing of Mari Anne Pope, who was killed while two young children she was watching were in the house.

In a rare move, the prosecutor in Cleveland asked the Ohio Parole Board to spare Slagle. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty said jurors today, with the option of life without parole, would be unlikely to sentence Slagle to death.

The parole board and Gov. John Kasich both rejected mercy for Slagle.

Last week, Slagle's attorney argued that a jury never got the chance to hear the full details of his troubled childhood.

The attorneys, arguing for a new trial and to delay his execution, said that information met requirements for asking for a new trial, which normally must happen within four months of a conviction.

Slagle was "unavoidably prevented" from filing his request because his original attorneys didn't develop and present the evidence, the filing said.

McGinty and Slagle's attorneys had cited his age ? at 18, he was barely old enough for execution in Ohio ? and his history of alcohol and drug addiction.

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Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus contributed to this report

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Canada criticizes Russian asylum for leaker Snowden

Canada has added its voice to those criticizing Russia for granting asylum to U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

"This is not something that Canada would have considered to do," Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird told The Canadian Press in an exclusive interview.

"It is an example where it does show Russia is a bit of an outlier in the G8."

Baird's comments were the first from the Canadian government following the Kremlin's decision to allow Snowden to leave the transit zone in the Moscow airport where he has been living since late June.

Russian President Vladimir Putin granted Snowden asylum for one year on the condition that he stop leaking information about the U.S. The White House said it was "extremely disappointed" by the decision not to turn him over to U.S., which wants to prosecute him for espionage.

Baird's remarks also echoed the criticism that Prime Minister Stephen Harper levelled at Putin prior to the most recent G8 summit in June in Northern Ireland.

Harper characterized the Russian leader as the outlier of the G8.

"This is G7 plus one. OK, let's be blunt. That's what this is, G7 plus one," the prime minister said at the time.

Leaker Edward Snowden claimed, in his request for temporary asylum, that he could face torture or death if returned to the U.S. (The Guardian/Associated Press)

Harper was referring to Putin's continuing support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a position that the rest of the G8 does not endorse.

Putin's apparent defiance of the U.S. in the Snowden case comes after his support of Syria has become a serious irritant in Russia's relations with the West.

Baird declined to elaborate further on the Snowden matter.

He has blasted Russia for its controversial new anti-gay law, calling it hateful and saying it could incite violence.

Baird also revealed that Russia once again found itself standing alone in the G8 when the issue of sexual minorities was raised at the previous summit in May 2012. Russia said it wouldn't agree to a statement that expressed support for the group.

"All G7 countries supported and that included centre-right governments in Germany, in France, in Canada, the United Kingdom," Baird said.

The Snowden affair and Russia's controversial law, which imposes heavy fines for spreading information about gay choices to minors, as well as banning gay pride rallies, appears to be casting a pall over next month's G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The White House said it was reassessing whether President Barack Obama would go through with plans for a pre-G20 tete-a-tete with Putin.

A spokeswoman for Harper says Canada does not shy away from raising human-rights issues in its dealings with Russia.

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How Can I Communicate Better at the Office?

Dear Lifehacker,
I feel like I'm never on the same page as my coworkers at work, and I have trouble communicating my ideas to everyone else. Is it possible to improve my communication skills at work so people actually listen to me?

Sincerely,
Quiet Quinn

Dear QQ,
Figuring out the right ways to communicate with your coworkers is a full time job in itself. Everyone's different, as is every office, but let's take a look at how to handle a few of the most common mistakes that might be the root the problem.

Gauge Your Office Environment and Communicate Accordingly

All offices are different. That's partially because companies try and cultivate a specific environment. This means people tend to dress the same and communicate the same in an office. You'll learn these types of things over time, but effective conversation is also about the actual mode of communication.

Every office and every worker has their own communication preference. This might be email, face-to-face conversations, phone, instant messenger, or anything else. US News suggests that a common error amongst coworkers is not figuring out the right mode of communication with each coworker. So, respect the person you're trying to contact and get a hold of them the way they converse best.

If you're not sure exactly how you should be communicating, just ask. As 99U points out, you should find the right communication method and act accordingly:

Each individual has a natural communication style, but to work effectively within a team, you need to determine how much communication needs to happen to make everyone comfortable.... Or it could look like setting up a series of ?If, Then? communication triggers.

For example: ?If you will be out of the office for a week, then give me a status report a couple of days before you leave.? Or, ?If you encounter an issue that will lead to a delay, then notify me as soon as possible.? You can also ask for people to not communicate with you about certain things. For example: ?Please, don?t CC me on every e-mail between you and the printer.? Or, ?Please don?t tell me about issues if they?re problems you can fix yourself.?

Some people don't communicate enough, and others too much. Finding that balance isn't easy, but if you talk about it at the office you'll be better at communicating in the long term.

Watch Your Body Language

Body language plays a key role in communication. A major problem you can run into at work is miscommunication through body language.

The real trick for improving your body language at work is to pay attention to it more. We've pointed out before that you should minimize "moving away" behavior like sighing, averting eyes, and negative body language so you don't communicate something you don't intend. Instead, focus more on positive body language like long periods of eye contact, uncrossed limbs, and genuine smiles.

Body language is a tough one to improve on, but it's about being aware of the cues. It's also okay to just fake it until you're comfortable with it. Open body language can feel awkward when you're not used to it, but the more you try it the more comfortable you'll feel in the long run. Once you understand what you're conveying, it's easier to make sure you're conveying the right thing. Body language is only part of the picture, but it's a bigger part than you might think.

Be Direct

Oftentimes the biggest problem with communication in the workplace is miscommunication. This usually comes when someone isn't clear about goals, projects, or the work that needs to get done. Forbes suggests you keep conversations simple and direct in most circumstances:

Another strategy [Karen] Friedman draws from newscasting: Hit the headline first. Too many of us are just plain long-winded, she says. ?People don?t need to know everything we know,? she explains. ?Think about what the single most important point is that you need to make, the central idea. If your computer died or the fire alarm went off, what would be the one thing they needed to hear...?

Do ask open-ended questions. They can buy time, clarify where another person is coming from and prevent misinterpretation. For instance: ?I?m not sure I understand what you?re saying, so could you give me an example??

In general, our workplace communication should be quick and simple. Don't waste time with unnecessary conversation if you're not friends with someone. Get to the point and move along. When you're direct about any questions you have, everyone is on the same page and communicating more effectively.

In the end, it's really about paying attention to any cues you see in the office and trying to fit your communication style to that. It's not always easy, and it often takes time, but with a little effort you'll be there in no time.

Good luck,
Lifehacker

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'Star Trek's' Shuttlecraft Galileo Warps Into Space Center Houston

HOUSTON ??The first shuttlecraft from the original 1967 "Star Trek" television series has landed at a real-life space center for its final away mission.

Space Center Houston, the official visitor center for NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas, unveiled the newly-fan-restored Shuttlecraft Galileo on Wednesday (July 31) during a science fiction celebrity-studded event that featured one of the original actors from the full-scale spacecraft's debut episode.

Actor Don Marshall, who portrayed Starfleet Lieutenant Boma "The Galileo Seven," helped launch the prop's public display. [Restored "Star Trek" Shuttlecraft Galileo Brought Back to Life (Photos)]

"This is Galileo!" announced Marshall as the drape covering the shuttlecraft was pulled away.

Joining Marshall for the lights-and-fog-assisted reveal were actors Robert Picardo ("The Doctor" from "Star Trek: Voyager"), Sylvester McCoy (the seventh "Doctor" from "Doctor Who"), Tracy Scoggins ("Captain Elizabeth Lockley" from "Babylon 5") and Gil Gerard ("Captain William Buck Rogers" from "Buck Rogers in 25th Century"), among other sci-fi stars.

The shuttlecraft's eventual permanent exhibit in Space Center Houston's "Zero-G Diner" will highlight how science fiction has inspired real-life space explorers and workers.

"This is one of our ideas as to what a shuttle should be," NASA astronaut Mike Fincke told SPACE.com after the unveiling. "I had a chance to fly on a real space shuttle, so there is a connection. And it is an exciting connection because now it can be made by everyone."

"Come to Space Center Houston, be inspired and who knows what some of these kids who are going to be inspired what they are going to build in the future," said Fincke, who also had the chance to play an engineer in the final episode of the "Star Trek: Enterprise" TV series in 2005.

Saving the shuttlecraft

The "Galileo" was introduced to viewers in the 16th episode of "Star Trek." The show's producers initially couldn't afford to build the 23-foot-long by 8-foot-tall (7-by-2.4 meter) prop spacecraft. Instead, they relied on the cheaper "Beam us up, Scotty" transporter special effects to show how the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise came and went from the much larger starship. [How 'Star Trek's Shuttlecraft Galileo Was Restored (Video)]

In the Jan. 5, 1967 episode,?the Galileo shuttlecraft was shown transporting Boma (Marshall), Science Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelly), among others, to the surface of the planet "Taurus II" on a mission that would leave the spacecraft in need of repair.

As it turned out, the Galileo suffered even more damage in the decades that followed its seven televised space adventures.

Though never fully dismantled, the steel, wood, and sheet-metal shuttlecraft, which was originally built by a car customizer, fell into disarray as it was passed for a half a century between hands ??first to a school for the blind and then to several "Star Trek" collectors and would-be restorers.

It wasn't until June 2012 when 'Star Trek' superfan Adam Schneider bought the degraded prop through an online auction for $61,000 did the Galileo's fate begin to turn around.

Working with "Star Trek" blogger Alec Peters, Schneider and the team at Master Shipwrights in New Jersey used photos and tips from fans of the show to restore the shuttlecraft to its original screen appearance. The repairs, which took nine months under the guidance of craftsman Hans Mikatis, were completed in June when the Galileo was trucked from the Garden State to the Lone Star State for public display.

"If you had told us a year and a month ago that we would have been able to obtain this thing [and] that we'd be able to figure out how to fix it ... and that we'd be able to donate it to Space Center Houston, the home of America's manned space program, I would have said that's just fabulous," Schneider said.

Galileo Seven meets Faith 7

Now part of Space Center Houston's collection, the Galileo shuttlecraft will be displayed in the same building as some of NASA's most historic spacecraft.

"The addition of Galileo adds to the rich history of space exploration as it pays tribute to the way science fiction ignites our imaginations and has inspired generations of innovators," said Richard Allen, president and CEO of Space Center Houston. "Galileo will join the ranks of many other inspiring exhibits at Space Center Houston, including the recent space shuttle mockup addition and the biggest expansion in our history, the 747 Shuttle Carrier Project."

During the same visit to see Galileo, Space Center Houston guests can see the Apollo command module "America" that flew astronauts on the last mission to the moon, the two-man Gemini 5 spacecraft and "Faith 7," Gordon Cooper's Mercury capsule that 50 years ago this past May lifted off on NASA's last one-man mission.

But the Galileo is not Space Center Houston's first foray into exhibiting science fiction artifacts.

Previous temporary exhibits have included costumes and props from the "Star Wars" movies, including a full-size Starfighter vessel and an original prop lightsaber that was flown aboard the real-life space shuttle.

"As Galileo takes it place at Space Center Houston, it does so to capture the imagination and inspire the next generations,? Allen said. ?It will serve as a tool with which we can imagine endless possibilities."

This article was corrected to reflect that Capt. Kirk was not part of the Galileo crew during the "Galileo Seven" episode.

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U.S. Air National Guard pilot rescued at sea after mid-air collision

By Gary Robertson

RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - A pilot was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard off the coast of Virginia after two Air National Guard fighter jets collided when their wings came in contact in mid-air, authorities said on Friday.

The F-16C Falcon jets from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland were on a routine training mission late on Thursday when they "clipped wings", the National Guard said in a statement.

They were about 35 miles southeast of Chincoteague, Virginia, according to the Coast Guard.

One of the pilots ejected and his ejection seat sent a satellite-aided distress signal that alerted the Coast Guard to the crash at 10:28 p.m. on Thursday, the Coast Guard said.

The pilot, who had minor injuries, used an emergency raft to stay afloat until he was rescued by an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter at about 12:30 a.m. Friday.

The other pilot was able to fly his jet back to base.

The pilots, who were not identified, are attached to the 113th Wing D.C. Air National Guard.

"We are extremely fortunate to have lost only metal, and not the life of one of our Airmen," Brigadier General Marc Sasseville, the 113th Wing Commander, said in a statement.

The Air National Guard said on Friday that salvage operations were under way to retrieve the damaged jet, which was in water 100 feet deep.

The cost of an F-16C Falcon jet is $18.8 million, according to the U.S. Air Force website.

(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Gunna Dickson)

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Immigration Reform Stalled in Washington

(KUTV) Immigration Reform is stalled in Washington.

Just over a month ago, the Senate passed a big, comprehensive immigration bill ? but Senate leader Democrat Harry Reid hasn?t sent that bill to the House of Representatives yet.

Some say he fears defeat.

Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz sits on the House Committee on the issue.

?The Senate bill is dead on arrival when they send it over. They haven?t sent it over yet ? if they send it over,? he said.

Chaffetz says the bill, passed in June, won?t be passed by the House ? and that instead, they?ll tackle immigration piecemeal.

Chaffetz main worry with the bill is that it will provide a form of amnesty for illegal immigrants that are already here without securing the borders and without providing a workable plan for legal immigration.

?If you don?t figure out visas and close the border and do those things there is no way you can pass a form of amnesty,? said Chaffetz.

Senators note their bill would hire 20,000 new border police and spend billions to toughen border security.

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Flaring burns more than $100 million a month in North Dakota

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Natural gas flares are seen at an oil pump site outside of Williston, North Dakota in this March 11, 2013 file photo. Oil drillers in North Dakota's Bakken shale fields are losing out on more than $100 million per month in lost revenue as the amount of natural gas flared continues to balloon, despite near-universal efforts to curb the controversial practice, according to a recent study.

NEW YORK -- Oil drillers in North Dakota's Bakken shale fields are allowing nearly a third of the natural gas they drill to burn off into the air, with a value of more than $100 million per month, according to a study to be released on Monday.

Remote well locations, combined with historically low natural gas prices and the extensive time needed to develop pipeline networks, have fueled the controversial practice, commonly known as flaring. While oil can be stored in tanks indefinitely after drilling, natural gas must be immediately piped to a processing facility.

SHANNON STAPLETON / Reuters

An aerial image shows a natural gas flare after sunset outside of Williston, North Dakota in this March 12, 2013 file photo.

Flaring has tripled in the past three years, according to the report from Ceres, a nonprofit group that tracks environmental records of public companies.

"There's a lot of shareholder value going up in flames due to flaring," said Ryan Salmon, who wrote the report for Ceres. "Investors want companies to have a more aggressive reaction to flaring and disclose clear steps to fix the problem."

The amount lost to flaring pales in comparison to the $2.21 billion in crude oil production for May in North Dakota.

Still, energy companies are working to build more pipelines and processing facilities to connect many of the state's 9,000 wells - a number expected to hit 50,000 by 2030. But it is a process that takes time and is not always feasible.

SHANNON STAPLETON / Reuters

Natural gas flares are seen at an oil pump site outside of Williston, North Dakota March 11, 2013.

"Nobody hates flaring more than the oil operator and the royalty owners," said Ron Ness of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, an industry trade group. "We all understand that the flaring is an economic waste."

Alliance Pipeline is spending about $141 million on a 79-mile pipeline that will carry natural gas from Bakken wells to Alliance's larger interstate pipeline, which cuts through North Dakota from Alberta.

Hess Corp is spending $325 million to more than double its Tioga, North Dakota, processing plant's daily capacity once it opens in October.

Visible from space
Roughly 29 percent of natural gas extracted in North Dakota was flared in May, down from an all-time high of 36 percent in September 2011. But the volume of natural gas produced has nearly tripled in that timeframe to about 900,000 cubic feet per day, boosting flaring in the state to roughly 266,000 million cubic feet per day, according to North Dakota state and Ceres data.

NASA

NASA astronauts can see flaring from space. Williston is the cluster of lights on the upper left side of the photograph; Minneapolis is the bright splotch on the lower right.

North Dakota's flaring, which NASA astronauts can see from space, releases fewer greenhouse gases than direct emission of natural gas into the air, but it is essentially burning product that could be sold at a profit if there were pipelines.

In Texas and Alaska, which have a well-developed energy infrastructure, less than 1 percent of natural gas extracted along with oil is burnt off, according to state data.

Oil production remains king in North Dakota, outpacing the amount of natural gas extracted and funding many infrastructure projects. Yet production of natural gas likely will double by 2025, increasing flaring, according to state forecasts.

Drillers have promised to end the practice. Continental Resources Inc , the second-largest Bakken operator with 1.1 million acres under its control, famously declared in March it wants to reduce flaring to "as close to zero percent flaring as possible."

Continental says it flares 10.8 percent of natural gas it produces, and is working with pipeline companies and landowners to cut the number further.

SHANNON STAPLETON / Reuters

A warning sign for a natural gas pipeline is seen in front of natural gas flares at an oil pump site outside of Williston, North Dakota in this March 11, 2013 file photo.

"Internally, it's a front-and-center focus for our company to have wells connected," said Jeff Hume, Continental's vice chairman of strategic growth initiatives. "Everybody makes money when that product is sold, not flared."

The components of natural gas, including low-value methane and lucrative butane, a so-called "natural gas liquid" highly prized by chemical makers, are worth roughly $13 per million cubic feet of natural gas before taxes and transportation fees, at current prices.

With more than 266,000 million cubic feet flared each day in North Dakota, that's roughly $3.6 million in lost revenue, more than $100 million per month.

Roughly 2,300 miles of new pipeline were installed in North Dakota in 2011, the latest year for which data is available. Still, the Bakken spans 18,000 square miles and is the largest oil field in North America.

And about 13 percent of natural gas flared is at wells that already have pipelines that are too small to handle the high volume of natural gas being drilled, an additional infrastructure problem.

"Everyone's on the same page as far as getting the flaring reduced," said Justin Kringstad, head of the North Dakota Pipeline Authority, a state agency. "It's going to take time to get all the necessary infrastructure built out."

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Monsoon remains active over North India

Monsoon remained active over most parts of North India on Tuesday and three persons, including two kids, were killed in a rain-related incident in Rajasthan's Kota district.

A humid weather left people sweating in national capital Delhi despite a dip in the mercury, the Met department said.

The minimum and maximum temperature in the national capital remained below the season's average but humidity level was as high as 95 per cent.

The maximum was recorded at 33.1 degree Celsius, while the minimum was 25.8 deg C, both one point below normal for this time of the year.

Heavy rains hit normal life in parts of Kota, Baran and Jhalawar districts of Rajasthan.

A man and his two minor children died in a house collapse in Itawa area of Kota last night, officials said.

River Parvati was flowing at full spate in Baran and Kota and many low lying areas were inundated with people stuck in their houses.

Atru recorded a maximum rainfall of 80 mm followed by Kishangarh 70 mm, the MeT officials said.

Monsoon remains active over North, rains kills three in Rajasthan:

According to a Central Water Commission report, all major rivers in Uttar Pradesh remained in spate, with the Ganga flowing above the danger mark in Ballia.

Ken and Betwa were flowing above the danger level in Banda and Mohana (Jalaun). Similarly, Sharda river was flowing above the danger mark in Pallian Kalan.

Light to moderate rains lashed the state today, and Deoband in Saharanpur district received the maximum rainfall on 11 cm, a MeT report said.

Punjab also received light to moderate rains, with maximum temperatures in the region witnessing a slight decrease.

According to the MeT Department here, Chandigarh had received a rainfall of over 30 mm during the past 24 hours.
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Overweight While Younger Ups Kidney Risk Later - Health News ...

THURSDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) ? Overweight young adults are much more likely than those who are not overweight to develop kidney disease by the time they are seniors, according to a new study.

Researchers analyzed data from a long-term study of nearly 4,600 people in the United Kingdom who were born in March 1946. The data included the participants? body-mass index at ages 20, 26, 36, 43, 53 and 60 to 64. Body-mass index is a measurement of body fat based on height and weight.

Participants who were overweight in early adulthood ? ages 26 or 36 ? were twice as likely to have chronic kidney disease at ages 60 to 64, compared with those who were never overweight or did not become overweight until ages 60 to 64.

Having a larger waist-to-hip ratio (called an apple-shaped body) during middle age also was associated with chronic kidney disease at ages 60 to 64, according to the study, which was published online April 4 in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

The researchers calculated that 36 percent of chronic kidney disease cases in people aged 60 to 64 could be prevented if nobody became overweight until at least that age.

?To our knowledge we are the first to report how age of exposure to overweight ? may affect kidney disease risk,? study author Dr. Dorothea Nitsch, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said in a journal news release.

It isn?t clear whether being overweight in early adulthood or the length of time people are overweight is behind the increased risk of chronic kidney disease at ages 60 to 64. Either explanation suggests that preventing excess weight gain in early adulthood could greatly reduce a person?s risk of developing chronic kidney disease, the researchers said.

They added that preventing excess weight gain in early adulthood appears to have a larger effect than any known treatment for chronic kidney disease.

Although the study tied being overweight in young adulthood to kidney disease later in life, it did not establish a cause-and-effect relationship.

More than 1.4 billion adults worldwide were overweight in 2008, including about 500 million who were obese, according to the World Health Organization.

More information

The National Kidney Foundation has more about chronic kidney disease.

Source: http://news.health.com/2013/04/04/overweight-while-younger-ups-kidney-risk-later/

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Pirate perch probably use chemical camouflage to fool prey

Mar. 28, 2013 ? It?s a nocturnal aquatic predator that will eat anything that fits in its large mouth.

Dark and sleek, it hides beneath the water waiting for prey. A Texas Tech University researcher says the target will never know what hit them because they probably can?t smell the voracious pirate perch.

After careful investigations, William Resetarits Jr., a professor of biology at Texas Tech, and Christopher A. Binckley, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Arcadia University, found that animals normally attuned to predators from their smell didn?t seem to detect the pirate perch. It could be the first animal discovered that is capable of generalized chemical camouflage that works against a wide variety of prey.

The team published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal The American Naturalist.

Thankfully, at five-and-a-half inches long, only insects, invertebrates, amphibians and other small fish need worry about the danger hiding near the bottom among the roots and plantlife, Resetarits said.

?We use the term ?camouflage,? because it is readily understandable,? he said. ?What we really are dealing with is some form of ?chemical deception.? The actual mechanism may be camouflage that makes an organism difficult to detect, mimicry that makes an organism difficult to correctly identify, or cloaking where the organism simply does not produce a signal detectable to the receiver.?

Resetarits said pirate perch aren?t really perch at all, but related to the Amblyopsid cave fish family. Fossils from this fish date back about 24 million years ago.

They make their homes in freshwater ponds and streams in the Eastern United States. Once considered for the aquarium market, the fish got its name because of its penchant for eating all tank mates.

?Pirate perch have some unique aspects to their morphology and life history, but they are generalist predators, and so should have been avoided by prey animals like all the other fish tested,? he said. ?For some reason, they weren?t avoided at all.?

To test their theory, Resetarits and Binckley ran a series of experiments in artificial pools housing 11 different species of fish, including pirate perch.

The fish were kept at bay at the bottom of the pools with screens so that they could not prey on the beetles and tree frogs that colonized the water.

When it came to choosing a pool, the beetles and frogs consistently steered clear of the water with other fish species in them, most likely because they could smell the presence of fish in the water. However, they had no qualms about moving into pools containing the pirate perch.

?We were incredibly surprised,? Resetarits said. ?It took a while for us to pull this all together. When we first observed it with tree frogs, we were very surprised and puzzled. But when the same lack of response was shown by aquatic beetles, we were quite literally flabbergasted. We continued to do experiments with other fish and always got the same results. All fish except pirate perch were avoided.?

Exactly what the pirate perch is doing to hide isn?t yet known, he said. Researchers want to determine how the pirate perch are either scrambling chemical signals or masking their odor. Once they have identified chemical compounds that might explain the behavior, they will return to the field to test with the same tree frogs and beetles as well as other organisms known to respond to fish chemical cues, such as mosquitoes and water fleas.

?We will also test whether this chemical deception works against the pirate perch?s own predators,? Resetarits said. ?Of course, other critical questions that we are working on include just how much advantage in terms of prey acquisition do pirate perch gain as a result of chemical deception. Does this phenomenon occur in closely related species, such as cavefish? Are there prey species that have found a way around the chemical deception? There are many questions now, and I think we have just scratched the surface.

?I think the most important aspect is not the bizarre, just-so story, but the fact that there is no reason to believe that chemical camouflage is less common than visual camouflage. Humans? sense of smell is just not very sophisticated, so we can?t simply ?notice? examples of chemical camouflage the way we do visual camouflage. I think chemical camouflage is likely quite common. We are starting pursuit of the larger question, starting with close relatives of pirate perch.?

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Dwolla Is Latest Victim Of DDoS Attacks: Site & API Down For Second Day

While the media continues to debate the severity of the denial-of-service attacks taking place across the web this month, they appear to have claimed another victim: payments startup Dwolla announced today that it, too, is now?experiencing?a distributed denial-of-service event (DDoS attack). The attack, which is still underway, began yesterday, resulting in either limited or no availability to the company's website, Dwolla.com.

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Mind, Body, Spirit Expo was a hit - The Chestermere Anchor

Event Was Just For The Health Of It

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CHESTERMERE ? Now if you missed the 5th Annual Mind Body & Spirit Expo on Saturday March 23rd at the Chestermere Recreation Centre, don?t worry, it?ll be back next year. It was such a fantastic event and the attendance seems to grow each year so be sure to put it in your planner one year from now. There was lots of information to soak up and be enlightened by all of the interesting displays throughout the Rec. Centre gym and MPP room.
The theme this year was SMILE and Cheryl Oberg of Edge of a Smile Inc. got a lot of attention as her and her group of laughers wandered between the rooms contagiously chanting and affecting everyone with laughter and smiles. All of the exhibitors from Aromatherapy, Chiropractic Care, Crystal bowl therapy, Massage Therapists, Sound Therapy, Fitness Clubs, Yoga, to the CIBC Financial Fitness provided all kinds of wellness information to the masses.
The Interactive Positive Mental Health Room was once again a hit with its Milkshake Breathing, Brain Math and much much more. The Zone 2 ? 55 Plus leaders, Brian and Holly Wood, had a booth set up for those interested in joining in on the next Provincial Summer Games, Bernie Maillot had information on the next Loop Around the Lake and Chestermere Library?s Cathy Burness was there with information about Chestermere?s Community Garden, Container Gardening on Patios and Decks and Worm Farms.
Local churches were there to provide the spiritual side of the event and many others were there giving you information about their products that are good for your body both inside and out. There were just so many products and services to see that you will want to be sure to catch this event next year. It?s an event you don?t want to miss.

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New evidence ancient asteroid caused global firestorm on Earth

Mar. 27, 2013 ? A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every twig, bush and tree on Earth and led to the extinction of 80 percent of all Earth's species, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.

Led by Douglas Robertson of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, the team used models that show the collision would have vaporized huge amounts of rock that were then blown high above Earth's atmosphere. The re-entering ejected material would have heated the upper atmosphere enough to glow red for several hours at roughly 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit -- about the temperature of an oven broiler element -- killing every living thing not sheltered underground or underwater.

The CU-led team developed an alternate explanation for the fact that there is little charcoal found at the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, boundary some 66 million years ago when the asteroid struck Earth and the cataclysmic fires are believed to have occurred. The CU researchers found that similar studies had corrected their data for changing sedimentation rates. When the charcoal data were corrected for the same changing sedimentation rates they show an excess of charcoal, not a deficiency, Robertson said.

"Our data show the conditions back then are consistent with widespread fires across the planet," said Robertson, a research scientist at CIRES, which is a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "Those conditions resulted in 100 percent extinction rates for about 80 percent of all life on Earth."

A paper on the subject was published online this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. Co-authors on the study include CIRES Interim Director William Lewis, CU Professor Brian Toon of the atmospheric and oceanic sciences department and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and Peter Sheehan of the Milwaukee Public Museum in Wisconsin.

Geological evidence indicates the asteroid collided with Earth about 66 million years ago and carved the Chicxulub crater in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula that is more than 110 miles in diameter. In 2010, experts from 33 institutions worldwide issued a report that concluded the impact at Chicxulub triggered mass extinctions, including dinosaurs, at the K-Pg boundary.

The conditions leading to the global firestorm were set up by the vaporization of rock following the impact, which condensed into sand-grain-sized spheres as they rose above the atmosphere. As the ejected material re-entered Earth's atmosphere, it dumped enough heat in the upper atmosphere to trigger an infrared "heat pulse" so hot it caused the sky to glow red for several hours, even though part of the radiation was blocked from Earth by the falling material, he said.

But there was enough infrared radiation from the upper atmosphere that reached Earth's surface to create searing conditions that likely ignited tinder, including dead leaves and pine needles. If a person was on Earth back then, it would have been like sitting in a broiler oven for two or three hours, said Robertson.

The amount of energy created by the infrared radiation the day of the asteroid-Earth collision is mind-boggling, said Robertson. "It's likely that the total amount of infrared heat was equal to a 1 megaton bomb exploding every four miles over the entire Earth."

A 1-megaton hydrogen bomb has about the same explosive power as 80 Hiroshima-type nuclear bombs, he said. The asteroid-Earth collision is thought to have generated about 100 million megatons of energy, said Robertson.

Some researchers have suggested that a layer of soot found at the K-Pg boundary layer roughly 66 million years ago was created by the impact itself. But Robertson and his colleagues calculated that the amount of soot was too high to have been created during the massive impact event and was consistent with the amount that would be expected from global fires.

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Nexus 4 gets subtle design tweaks, nubbin to write home about

If the one thing you wanted from your Nexus 4 was LTE (we mean proper support), then still no joy. That said, some recent modifications suggest that LG and Google are still working to improve it in other -- albeit utilitarian -- ways. Spotted by German site MobiFlip, was the addition of a small protuberance at the base of the rear, and a difference in the aperture of the camera hole. It's suggested that the former might exist to help project sound from the rear speakers while the phone rests on a table, or to prevent that smooth, glass back from scratches. The camera tweak, however seems less clear, and possibly less functional in its existence. So, if you have one of the newer designs, let us know when and where you got it. If you don't, then just think of yours as a limited edition.

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Single concussion may cause lasting brain damage

Mar. 12, 2013 ? A single concussion may cause lasting structural damage to the brain, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

"This is the first study that shows brain areas undergo measureable volume loss after concussion," said Yvonne W. Lui, M.D., Neuroradiology section chief and assistant professor of radiology at NYU Langone School of Medicine. "In some patients, there are structural changes to the brain after a single concussive episode."

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the U.S., 1.7 million people sustain traumatic brain injuries, resulting from sudden trauma to the brain. Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), or concussion, accounts for at least 75 percent of all traumatic brain injuries.

Following a concussion, some patients experience a brief loss of consciousness. Other symptoms include headache, dizziness, memory loss, attention deficit, depression and anxiety. Some of these conditions may persist for months or even years.

Studies show that 10 to 20 percent of MTBI patients continue to experience neurological and psychological symptoms more than one year following trauma. Brain atrophy has long been known to occur after moderate and severe head trauma, but less is known about the lasting effects of a single concussion.

Dr. Lui and colleagues set out to investigate changes in global and regional brain volume in patients one year after MTBI. Twenty-eight MTBI patients (with 19 followed at one year) with post-traumatic symptoms after injury and 22 matched controls (with 12 followed at one year) were enrolled in the study. The researchers used three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine regional gray matter and white matter volumes and correlated these findings with other clinical and cognitive measurements.

The researchers found that at one year after concussion, there was measurable global and regional brain atrophy in the MTBI patients. These findings show that brain atrophy is not exclusive to more severe brain injuries but can occur after a single concussion.

"This study confirms what we have long suspected," Dr. Lui said. "After MTBI, there is true structural injury to the brain, even though we don't see much on routine clinical imaging. This means that patients who are symptomatic in the long-term after a concussion may have a biologic underpinning of their symptoms."

Certain brain regions showed a significant decrease in regional volume in patients with MTBI over the first year after injury, compared to controls. These volume changes correlated with cognitive changes in memory, attention and anxiety.

"Two of the brain regions affected were the anterior cingulate and the precuneal region," Dr. Lui said. "The anterior cingulate has been implicated in mood disorders including depression, and the precuneal region has a lot of different connections to areas of the brain responsible for executive function or higher order thinking."

According to Dr. Lui, researchers are still investigating the long-term effects of concussion, and she advises caution in generalizing the results of this study to any particular individual.

"It is important for patients who have had a concussion to be evaluated by a physician," she said. "If patients continue to have symptoms after concussion, they should follow-up with their physician before engaging in high-risk activities such as contact sports."

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Irish blog: NFL eyes will be on Manti Te'o this week

The NFL will descend on Indianapolis this week, with the first big step in NFL Draft preparations taking place for the 32 member clubs, as they get their chance to poke and prod 333 college prospects. For many eligible draft players, they?ve spent the days since their college careers ended training for the annual cattle call, working on drill specific skills, trying their best to shave away hundredths of a second on their forty times, or working on broad jumps or three-cone shuttle runs that don?t always translate to the football field.

No NFL prospect has had a more adventurous post-season run than Manti Te?o, who has seen his reputation take quite a hit both on and off the field, courtesy of his underwhelming performance against Alabama and the revelation of the hoax surrounding Te?o's long-distance girlfriend Lennay Kekua.

While Te?o made the obligatory media rounds, talking to ESPN?s Jeremy Schaap and Katie Couric, he?ll know have a chance to tell NFL team?s his side of the story, making him one of two athletes with the most at stake at the combine, according to Sports Illustrated?s Peter King.

Here?s what King had to say about Te?o in today?s Monday Morning Quarterback column:

Manti Te?o. The Notre Dame linebacker has spent a lot of time practicing football and practicing what he?s going to say to teams. His last game, against Alabama, was a nightmare (he was awful, and overpowered), and then the whole fake girlfriend story came up, making him a national story and, in some quarters, a national joke. It won?t matter much how he works out in Indianapolis. What will matter are the 15-minute interviews he?ll have in formal evening sessions with teams, and in less formal settings, seeing coaches and personnel people at the stadium and around his hotel.

King puts Te?o in the same category as former Georgia linebacker Alec Ogletree, who was suspended four games this season for failing a drug test and was arrested for DUI last week in Arizona, where he?s preparing for the draft.

Perhaps King hasn?t had a chance to interact with Te?o, because there?s little doubt that the former Irish linebacker will come out of meetings with teams impressing. If the concerns are strictly off the field for Te?o, then it?ll be an easy week for the All-American, who handled the aftermath of the hoax revelation about as well as you could expect the most seasoned political operative, not to mention a 21-year-old kid.

Maybe his body of work over four seasons is enough, but if you?re looking for news from Te?o this week, keep an eye on his measureables. After struggling against Alabama?s massive defensive front, it?s important for Te?o to look the part of an elite inside linebacker, putting up numbers physically that match his productivity over the past four seasons.

While Te?o is listed as 6-foot-2, 255-pounds in Notre Dame?s program, it?ll be interesting to see if he measures that tall at the combine. I?d also expect to see Te?o weigh in a little lighter, with a more sculpted frame helping the linebacker look quick and athletic during the agility and speed portions of the testing.

It?s hard to understand how a linebacker that was part of an elaborate and sick catfishing deception has as much to prove as a guy that?s failed a drug test and can?t stay out of trouble even while preparing for the biggest job interview of his life. But that?s the flip-side of the attention Te?o received all season, where the linebacker finished second in the Heisman Trophy race after leading Notre Dame to a national championship game appearance.

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After years of toil, book names Bosnian war dead

SARAJEVO/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Mirsad Tokaca calls it the "crowning achievement" of 10 years of painstaking research - thousands of grey pages bearing the names of 95,940 victims of the Bosnian war, where they died and when.

Published last month, war crimes researchers say The Bosnian Book of the Dead represents the most comprehensive statistical analysis yet of the bloodshed in Bosnia after federal Yugoslavia fell apart at the close of the 20th century.

For Tokaca, 58, it's the ultimate answer to political leaders across the countries carved from Yugoslavia who still dispute the crimes committed, the numbers killed and who bore the blame when their joint state collapsed.

"You can't deny the crime if you determine the exact number of victims," the former journalist and businessman told Reuters. "Nobody has done anything like this. It's unique."

Rights activists say an accurate picture of what went on in the Bosnian, Croatian and Kosovan wars of the 1990s is vital to the slow process of reconciliation in the Balkans, a region still scarred but seeking to join the European mainstream.

The European Union's external borders will reach Bosnia in July, when neighboring Croatia becomes the bloc's 28th member.

But the book, whose title recalls the funerary texts that ancient Egyptians believed guided the deceased in the afterlife, almost never came about.

For years, a state commission tasked with gathering data on war crimes was starved of funding by Bosnia's central government, an uneasy alliance of the Serb, Croat and Muslim former warring sides.

With thousands of files at risk of falling into disrepair, Tokaca, a former member of the commission, established the Identification and Documentation Centre and launched the book project in 2003 with the help of foreign donors.

SHUNNED BY THE STATE

He took on the records, but was shunned by the state when he asked for funding to continue the research, "probably because they couldn't dictate what it would look like," he said.

Amid a row with donors over how the money was being spent, the book was finally published with the help of the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre, run by Serbian rights campaigner Natasa Kandic.

"The (Bosnian) state was never interested in taking on that huge documentation," Kandic told Reuters in Belgrade. "If it wasn't for Tokaca, I believe the files would have fallen apart."

The book's four hardback volumes list almost 100,000 dead, civilian and military, in alphabetical order, their ethnicity, and when and where they died. It provides a chilling picture of the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

Roughly half the dead were civilians, while 82 percent of those were Bosnian Muslims (known as Bosniaks). Some 10,000 women were killed, again the majority Bosniaks. Of 24,000 Serb dead, 20,000 were soldiers.

The facts do not alter the narrative of the war as accepted in the West.

But it is another part of a campaign by the likes of Kandic and Tokaca to reconcile Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks around a common view of what went on when Bosnian Serb forces, with the backing of Belgrade, seized and "ethnically cleansed" swathes of Bosnia after it voted to secede from Yugoslavia.

They laid siege to the once multi-ethnic capital Sarajevo for 43 months, killing, according to the book, 14,000 people. Croatia, too, helped foment the fighting on behalf of the Bosnian Croats.

Kandic said a similar project was underway in Kosovo and another planned in Croatia, with the aim of creating a complete registry of the dead from Yugoslavia's collapse.

"It will be a first in the history of the Balkans and the world, and we will know what our legacy is," Kandic said. "Names close down the room for manipulation of numbers, for minimizing other victims and inflating one's own."

CONFLICTING NARRATIVES

Tokaca's research had already halved the estimated number of Bosnian war dead from an earlier figure of 200,000, stirring controversy in a country still hamstrung by ethnic division and conflicting narratives of the conflict.

Besides the book's 95,940 dead, another 5,100 are named but the circumstances of their deaths have yet to be established.

Tokaca, a Bosniak, said he believed the book would serve as a model for other conflict regions such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya or Syria, which is in the grips of an increasingly sectarian conflict often compared to Bosnia in its complexity and big-power inertia.

Without an accurate picture of the human toll, Tokaca believes reconciliation is impossible.

"You can't preach against war and explain to people what war is without demonstrating the price of war in terms of human lives alone," he said.

(Writing by Matt Robinson; editing by Michael Holden)

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UPDATE 2-'Blade Runner' Pistorius faces court on murder charge

* 'Blade Runner' to appear in court at 0700 GMT

* Charged with murdering his girlfriend

* South Africa stunned by fate of sporting hero (Adds details of shooting in domestic media, paragraph 6)

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 15 (Reuters) - South African "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee who became one of the biggest names in world athletics, is due to appear in court on Friday on charges of murdering his girlfriend.

The arrest of the 26-year-old Olympic and Paralympic track star stunned a nation that reveres Pistorius as a hero who triumphed over adversity to compete with able-bodied athletes at the highest levels of sport.

His girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, was found shot dead in his plush Pretoria home in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

Pistorius was led from a local police station wearing a dark suit, his head covered and flanked by police officers before being put into the back of a station wagon to take him to the courthouse.

He had initially been expected to appear in court on Thursday but the hearing was postponed to Friday, National Prosecuting Authority officials said.

Early reports suggested Pistorius may have mistaken Steenkamp for an intruder, but police said neighbours had heard noises before the shots and that there had been previous "domestic" incidents at the house.

Several local media outlets reported that Pistorius had shot Steenkamp four times through a bathroom door. She was hit in the head, chest, pelvis and hand, the Afrikaans-language Beeld newspaper said on its website.

South African newspapers plastered the killing across their front pages, relegating a State of the Nation address by President Jacob Zuma in parliament to a distant second.

The coverage reflected shock and dismay at the fall of a sporting hero who commanded rare respect on all sides of South Africa's racial divides.

"Golden Boy Loses Shine" ran a front page headline in the Sowetan, beside a picture of Pistorius, head bowed in a grey hooded tracksuit being led away from a police station.

Callers to morning radio shows expressed remorse at the death of Steenkamp, who had been due to give a talk at a Johannesburg school this week about violence against women.

There was also widespread disbelief at the fate of a sporting legend regarded as a genuinely "good guy".

"How is it possible for one so high to fall so low so quickly?" Talk Radio 702 host John Robbie said.

PISTORIUS "EMOTIONAL"

A 9 mm pistol was recovered from Pistorius's modern two-storey house in the middle of a heavily guarded gated complex in the northern outskirts of the South African capital.

He was held overnight at Pretoria's Boschkop police station after undergoing medical and forensic examinations, police said. Police have said they will oppose bail.

"He is doing well but very emotional" his lawyer, Kenny Oldwage, told SABC TV, but gave no further comment.

South Africa's M-Net cable TV channel immediately pulled adverts featuring Pistorius off air but most of his sponsors, including sports apparel group Nike, said they would not make any decisions until the police investigation is completed.

Pistorius' endorsements and sponsorships, which also include British telecoms firm BT, sunglasses maker Oakley and French designer Thierry Mugler, are thought to be worth as much as $2 million a year.

Pistorius, who was born without a fibula in both legs, was the first double amputee to run in the Olympics and reached the 400-metres semi-finals in London 2012.

In last year's Paralympics he suffered his first loss over 200 metres in nine years. After the race he questioned the legitimacy of Brazilian winner Alan Oliveira's prosthetic blades, but was quick to express regret for the comments.

South Africa has some of the world's highest rates of violent crime, and many home owners have weapons to defend themselves against intruders, although Pistorius's complex is surrounded by a three-metre high wall and electric fence.

Near the home, people who knew Pistorius recalled a much-loved local hero.

"Some of us were in tears," said Precious, who works at a petrol station where Pistorius used to fill up his McLaren supercar, signing autographs and picking up the tab for people in the convenience store.

"He was just so kind to everyone," Precious said. (Reporting by Ed Cropley; Editing by Pascal Fletcher and David Stamp)

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