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AntTek's Quick Settings app brings the shortcut menu to users still waiting on Jelly Bean
Still waiting for that upgrade to Jelly Bean? So are most Android users, if that's any consolation. While you might not see Android 4.2 before Google moves on to the next letter in its OS alphabet, you can get Jelly Bean's Quick Settings feature via a new app from AntTek. Available via Google Play, the program is compatible with Android 2.1 or later (no rooting required). It's pretty straightforward: you get a customizable settings menu, with options such as direct calling and email along with shortcuts to apps.
We downloaded the free app and spent a few minutes toying around -- it looks almost exactly like Quick Settings on Jelly Bean, and there are several controls for tweaking icon size, changing the theme and selecting what actions you'd like to display. We're not huge fans of the red drop-down panel that you swipe to bring up the app, but you can minimize its size and adjust its position on the top of the home screen. AntTek says a pro version, with additional functionality and an unlimited number of icons on the Quick Settings panel, will be available for €1.49. Hit up the source link below to download the app.
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TV drama reopens debate over Germans' war guilt
The undated photo provided by German TV broadcaster ZDF shows Viktor (Ludwig Trepte) after being discovered as a German Jew by partisan leader Jercy (Lucas Gregorowicz), left, in a scene of the wartime drama 'Our mothers, our fathers' (Unsere Muetter, unsere Vaeter). With the wartime generation rapidly disappearing, the television drama about five young Germans in World War II has revived debate in Germany about the role ordinary men and women played in the Nazis' murderous campaign to conquer Europe. Millions tuned in last week to watch the three-part series "Our Mothers, Our Fathers," which follows five young Germans _ two brothers, a nurse, an aspiring female singer and a Jewish tailor _ as they struggle through one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. (AP Photo/ZDF, David Slama)
The undated photo provided by German TV broadcaster ZDF shows Viktor (Ludwig Trepte) after being discovered as a German Jew by partisan leader Jercy (Lucas Gregorowicz), left, in a scene of the wartime drama 'Our mothers, our fathers' (Unsere Muetter, unsere Vaeter). With the wartime generation rapidly disappearing, the television drama about five young Germans in World War II has revived debate in Germany about the role ordinary men and women played in the Nazis' murderous campaign to conquer Europe. Millions tuned in last week to watch the three-part series "Our Mothers, Our Fathers," which follows five young Germans _ two brothers, a nurse, an aspiring female singer and a Jewish tailor _ as they struggle through one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. (AP Photo/ZDF, David Slama)
The undated photo provided by German TV broadcaster ZDF shows a scene of the wartime drama 'Our mothers, our fathers' (Unsere Muetter, unsere Vaeter). With the wartime generation rapidly disappearing, the television drama about five young Germans in World War II has revived debate in Germany about the role ordinary men and women played in the Nazis' murderous campaign to conquer Europe. Millions tuned in last week to watch the three-part series "Our Mothers, Our Fathers," which follows five young Germans _ two brothers, a nurse, an aspiring female singer and a Jewish tailor _ as they struggle through one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. (AP Photo/ZDF, David Slama)
The undated photo provided by German TV broadcaster ZDF shows Greta (Katharina Schuettler) walking through a prison in a scene of the wartime drama 'Our mothers, our fathers' (Unsere Muetter, unsere Vaeter). With the wartime generation rapidly disappearing, the television drama about five young Germans in World War II has revived debate in Germany about the role ordinary men and women played in the Nazis' murderous campaign to conquer Europe. Millions tuned in last week to watch the three-part series "Our Mothers, Our Fathers," which follows five young Germans _ two brothers, a nurse, an aspiring female singer and a Jewish tailor _ as they struggle through one of the bloodiest conflicts in history. (AP Photo/ZDF, David Slama)
BERLIN (AP) ? With the wartime generation rapidly disappearing, a television drama about five young Germans in World War II has revived debate in Germany about the role ordinary men and women played in the Nazis' murderous campaign to conquer Europe.
Millions tuned in last week to watch the three-part series "Our Mothers, Our Fathers," which follows five young Germans ? two brothers, a nurse, an aspiring female singer and a Jewish tailor ? as they struggle through one of the bloodiest conflicts in history.
Three of the characters, including the Jew, survive ? disillusioned and physically broken ? to confront each other and their own demons in the final episode in the ruins of Berlin.
The series begins in 1941, as the Nazis launch their doomed assault on the Soviet Union, with each character slowly realizing that the world they believed in is falling apart. The brothers realize the German army isn't as noble as they thought; the nurse regrets betraying a Jewish colleague; the singer's liaison with an SS member turns sour; and the Jew has to fight his fellow Germans to survive.
The mixed reactions to the series underscore how, nearly 70 years after World War II, the conflict remains a source of bitterness in Europe, even for people born after the fighting ended.
Many critics have praised the series as a milestone in Germany's troubled reckoning with its past and an overdue examination of individual guilt in the war. But the drama's depiction of Polish resistance fighters as anti-Semites and Russian soldiers raping the German nurse have drawn particularly angry reactions in Eastern Europe, which suffered the most from the slaughter.
In Germany, meanwhile, some accuse the film of sidelining the Holocaust and depicting Germans as victims rather than a nation responsible for starting a war and committing genocide.
"A film about World War II that omits the bothersome question of six million dead Jews," remarked columnist Jennifer Nathalie Pyka in Juedische Allgemeine, Germany's leading Jewish weekly.
Jan Sueselbeck, a researcher at the University of Marburg, said the series reflects wishful thinking rather than historical facts. The drama glosses over Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the outbreak of war by beginning the story in 1941, two years into the European conflict.
"This film depicts Germans once more the way they would like to have been, but in fact the broad masses were never like that," Sueselbeck said.
On Wednesday, Poland's ambassador to Berlin, Jerzy Marganski, slammed the series in a letter sent to Germany public television ZDF, which broadcast the 14 million-euro production.
"The image of Poland and the Polish resistance against the German occupiers as conveyed by this series is perceived by most Poles as extremely unjust and offensive," Marganski wrote. "I, too, am shocked."
Among other criticisms, Marganski said viewers learn nothing of the Warsaw uprising, in which up to 200,000 Polish civilians died, nor of the many Poles who helped Jews. Producer Nico Hofmann said the depictions of "the Polish situation .... are based on historically vetted material" and there was no intention to defame the Poles.
The series also includes an improbable ending in which the Jewish character, Viktor, survives the war but his German lover Greta is executed for trying to save him.
The only American shown is a cigar-chomping officer who ignores Viktor's anguished protest against forgiving a former SS member in the post-war West German administration.
Many Germans born after the war remain largely ignorant of what their parents did because, like many combat veterans or survivors, the elders don't want to talk about it.
Hofmann said one of his goals was to encourage a national debate among the generations "to speak for the first time about the experience" of the war. He said the third and final episode drew a 20.5 percent market share among viewers aged 14-59 years, which he described as "extremely high" for ZDF.
A full, dispassionate accounting of German actions during the war never occurred because the Cold War division of Europe forced former enemies on both sides of the Iron Curtain to set aside their differences to confront a new set of rivals.
Until German reunification in October 1990, communist East Germany promoted the notion that Hitler and his fellow Nazis alone were responsible for the war and that Germans who were not Nazi party members were victims, too. Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, many Germans still believe that ordinary soldiers didn't participate in and were ignorant of the atrocities committed by Hitler's feared SS and SA units.
"Were German soldiers really so brutal?" mass-circulation daily Bild newspaper asked after one episode showed German soldiers killing civilians in revenge for a partisan attack.
In fact, soldiers killed thousands of civilians throughout the war and assisted death squads in the large-scale extermination of Eastern Europe's Jews. Some 3 million Russian soldiers died in German captivity, while the final stages of the war saw fanatical Hitler loyalists hand out thousands of death sentences to deserting German soldiers and so-called defeatists.
Since the series aired, newspapers and online forums have been filled with comments by descendants of the war generation, with many saying their parents rarely, if ever, spoke of their experiences.
The debate comes at a sensitive time for Germany's army, which broke with the post-war taboo of sending soldiers abroad only around 20 years ago. Today, almost 5,000 German soldiers are serving alongside Americans and British troops in Afghanistan. Others are involved in international missions in Kosovo, Lebanon and Mali.
"I can imagine that in many families where there are survivors there will be conversations," said Jens Wehner, a historian at the German Military Museum in Dresden.
Many families will have already missed the opportunity to do so, because the number of Germans old enough to have participated in the war and still alive today is dwindling fast.
Census records obtained by The Associated Press put the figure at about 1.85 million, of which fewer than 600,000 are men.
About 5.3 million German soldiers were killed in the war. Another 2.5 million German civilians died in the conflict, excluding almost 150,000 Germans Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
"Soon nobody will be left who experienced (the war)," warned Frank Schirrmacher, publisher of the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He praised the series "for the earnestness, the love of detail and the unwillingness to compromise," which allowed it to have "what it takes to touch the soul of the country."?
Hofmann said he produced the series partly for his own father, who volunteered to join Hitler's army at 18, nearly died from wounds and to this day won't say if he took part in atrocities.
Tomasz Szarota, a historian and expert on Poland's wartime underground movement, said the film appeared to contain numerous factual inaccuracies. But a bigger problem was that the series reinforces a current German interpretation that compares Germany's suffering to that of its victims, he said.
"There is this wave in Germany now of being able to talk about German suffering," Szarota said. "The Germans were the last victim of the war that they themselves started."
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Frank Jordans can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/wirereporter
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Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Poland, contributed to this report.
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Biological transistor enables computing within living cells
Mar. 28, 2013 ? When Charles Babbage prototyped the first computing machine in the 19th century, he imagined using mechanical gears and latches to control information. ENIAC, the first modern computer developed in the 1940s, used vacuum tubes and electricity. Today, computers use transistors made from highly engineered semiconducting materials to carry out their logical operations.
And now a team of Stanford University bioengineers has taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology. In a paper to be published March 28 in Science, the team details a biological transistor made from genetic material -- DNA and RNA -- in place of gears or electrons. The team calls its biological transistor the "transcriptor."
"Transcriptors are the key component behind amplifying genetic logic -- akin to the transistor and electronics," said Jerome Bonnet, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering and the paper's lead author.
The creation of the transcriptor allows engineers to compute inside living cells to record, for instance, when cells have been exposed to certain external stimuli or environmental factors, or even to turn on and off cell reproduction as needed.
"Biological computers can be used to study and reprogram living systems, monitor environments and improve cellular therapeutics," said Drew Endy, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering and the paper's senior author.
The biological computer
In electronics, a transistor controls the flow of electrons along a circuit. Similarly, in biologics, a transcriptor controls the flow of a specific protein, RNA polymerase, as it travels along a strand of DNA.
"We have repurposed a group of natural proteins, called integrases, to realize digital control over the flow of RNA polymerase along DNA, which in turn allowed us to engineer amplifying genetic logic," said Endy.
Using transcriptors, the team has created what are known in electrical engineering as logic gates that can derive true-false answers to virtually any biochemical question that might be posed within a cell.
They refer to their transcriptor-based logic gates as "Boolean Integrase Logic," or "BIL gates" for short.
Transcriptor-based gates alone do not constitute a computer, but they are the third and final component of a biological computer that could operate within individual living cells.
Despite their outward differences, all modern computers, from ENIAC to Apple, share three basic functions: storing, transmitting and performing logical operations on information.
Last year, Endy and his team made news in delivering the other two core components of a fully functional genetic computer. The first was a type of rewritable digital data storage within DNA. They also developed a mechanism for transmitting genetic information from cell to cell, a sort of biological Internet.
It all adds up to creating a computer inside a living cell.
Boole's gold
Digital logic is often referred to as "Boolean logic," after George Boole, the mathematician who proposed the system in 1854. Today, Boolean logic typically takes the form of 1s and 0s within a computer. Answer true, gate open; answer false, gate closed. Open. Closed. On. Off. 1. 0. It's that basic. But it turns out that with just these simple tools and ways of thinking you can accomplish quite a lot.
"AND" and "OR" are just two of the most basic Boolean logic gates. An "AND" gate, for instance, is "true" when both of its inputs are true -- when "a" and "b" are true. An "OR" gate, on the other hand, is true when either or both of its inputs are true.
In a biological setting, the possibilities for logic are as limitless as in electronics, Bonnet explained. "You could test whether a given cell had been exposed to any number of external stimuli -- the presence of glucose and caffeine, for instance. BIL gates would allow you to make that determination and to store that information so you could easily identify those which had been exposed and which had not," he said.
By the same token, you could tell the cell to start or stop reproducing if certain factors were present. And, by coupling BIL gates with the team's biological Internet, it is possible to communicate genetic information from cell to cell to orchestrate the behavior of a group of cells.
"The potential applications are limited only by the imagination of the researcher," said co-author Monica Ortiz, a PhD candidate in bioengineering who demonstrated autonomous cell-to-cell communication of DNA encoding various BIL gates.
Building a transcriptor
To create transcriptors and logic gates, the team used carefully calibrated combinations of enzymes -- the integrases mentioned earlier -- that control the flow of RNA polymerase along strands of DNA. If this were electronics, DNA is the wire and RNA polymerase is the electron.
"The choice of enzymes is important," Bonnet said. "We have been careful to select enzymes that function in bacteria, fungi, plants and animals, so that bio-computers can be engineered within a variety of organisms."
On the technical side, the transcriptor achieves a key similarity between the biological transistor and its semiconducting cousin: signal amplification.
With transcriptors, a very small change in the expression of an integrase can create a very large change in the expression of any two other genes.
To understand the importance of amplification, consider that the transistor was first conceived as a way to replace expensive, inefficient and unreliable vacuum tubes in the amplification of telephone signals for transcontinental phone calls. Electrical signals traveling along wires get weaker the farther they travel, but if you put an amplifier every so often along the way, you can relay the signal across a great distance. The same would hold in biological systems as signals get transmitted among a group of cells.
"It is a concept similar to transistor radios," said Pakpoom Subsoontorn, a PhD candidate in bioengineering and co-author of the study who developed theoretical models to predict the behavior of BIL gates. "Relatively weak radio waves traveling through the air can get amplified into sound."
Public-domain biotechnology
To bring the age of the biological computer to a much speedier reality, Endy and his team have contributed all of BIL gates to the public domain so that others can immediately harness and improve upon the tools.
"Most of biotechnology has not yet been imagined, let alone made true. By freely sharing important basic tools everyone can work better together," Bonnet said.
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- Jerome Bonnet, Peter Yin, Monica E. Ortiz, Pakpoom Subsoontorn, and Drew Endy. Amplifying Genetic Logic Gates. Science, 28 March 2013 DOI: 10.1126/science.1232758
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Lockheed Martin will make commercial use of quantum computing, which could solve some business and science problems millions of times faster than can be done today.
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The Dell XPS 13-MLK ($1,399) is an ultrabook built for travel, with a strong, compact chassis made with exotic materials. It has most of the high-end features that power users look for, including a high-performance Core i5 processor, a sizable solid-state drive (SSD), and a comfortable full-size keyboard. Physically, it's a match for those 11-inch laptops that you've got your eye on, but the 13-inch screen is much larger. A couple of omissions keep it from our highest honors, but if you're willing to overlook those stumbles, the XPS 13 makes for a road warrior's dream machine.
Design and Features
The XPS 13 is svelte, with an aluminum, Gorilla Glass, and carbon fiber composite construction that feels sturdy. It measures about 0.71 by 12.5 by 8 inches (HWD) and weighs 2.96 pounds (without the AC adapter), making the XPS 13 a skoch larger and heavier than the Apple MacBook Air 11-inch (Mid 2012) ($999), but measurably smaller and lighter than our current Editors' Choice for high-end ultrabooks, the 13-inch Asus Zenbook Prime Touch UX31A-BHI5T ($1,199). This makes the XPS 13 as portable and compact as the 11-inch class of laptops, a plus if you're a road warrior with an already overloaded travel bag.
It's also a boon if you regularly compute on an airline tray table, as the extra inch of depth can mean the difference between using the screen tilted back or tilted forward if the person in front of you suddenly reclines his seat. Unfortunately, the XPS 13 doesn't have a touch screen, which would add some thickness and probably some depth to the system. While the system's trackpad is very responsive and works well with Windows 8 gestures, we still found ourselves trying to tap elements on the system's screen.
In addition to the new Intel Core i5-3337U processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000, the XPS 13's newsworthy feature is the system's new 1,920-by-1,080-resolution 13-inch screen. This is an improvement over the 1,366-by-768 screen in the 2012 version of the Dell XPS 13 ($1,000). The screen is bright and has a good range of brightness settings so you can use the system in both dim and daylight-lit environments. Speaking of dim light, the system's backlit chiclet-style keyboard was both visible and very comfortable to use, with contoured keys and good key placement. Boot up and waking the system from sleep was quick, thanks to the system's 256GB SSD. The drive has a very good 186GB of 221GB free on the C: drive when you take it out of the box. The recovery partition, the OS, and the pre-installed programs occupy the rest of the SSD.
Because of its compact chassis, the XPS 13 doesn't have too much room for extraneous I/O ports. Therefore, it is no surprise that the XPS 13 only has a pair of USB 3.0 ports and a mini-DisplayPort in addition to the headset jack. The USB 3.0 ports are black, instead of the more traditional blue-colored ports. Thankfully, the system doesn't have any USB 2.0 ports that could be confused for the faster USB 3.0 ports. The mini-DisplayPort is the only video port, so you'll need an adapter to use the system with DVI, VGA, or HDMI. The only other features on the side bezels are the system's AC adapter jack and a nice push-button controlled row of LEDs to let you know the system's battery status. The system comes with a sealed 47WHr battery, par for the compact ultrabook category. If you want a removable battery, you'll have to buy a larger laptop.
The system comes with a few pre-installed apps, including Kindle, Amazon, Getting Started with Windows 8, McAfee Security Center, Skype, Dell Shop, Dell Support Center, Microsoft Office Trial, and Absolute Data Protect. These apps are in addition to the usual Windows 8 apps that come with every system, like the Windows Store, music player, Bing News, and photo viewer. All in all, this isn't a bad selection of pre-installed apps, especially compared with systems with a plethora of pre-installed apps like games from the Xbox store.
Performance
If the XPS 13 has any failings in the performance department, it's that the system's hungry 1080p display and slim sealed battery are only good for a moderate five hours (4:56) on our battery rundown test. While that score is better than the Vizio CT14-A4 (4:30) and HP Spectre XT (4:03), all these battery times are woefully short of the 6:38 that the Asus Zenbook UX31A-BHI5T scored.
The Dell XPS 13-MLK is a good fit for the road warrior who wants to carry some multimedia horsepower with her. Its 1080p screen, capacious SSD, and Core i5 power will go a long way if you need to rework a complex PowerPoint presentation or work on some photos for a pitch on the road. They're also good components for the travelling artist, especially if you're already used to carrying your work on an external USB 3.0 drive. The things holding the XPS 13 back from our highest honors are the lack of a touch screen and a lower battery life than the current high-end ultrabook Editor's Choice, the Asus Zenbook Prime Touch UX31A-BHI5T. Thanks to a better bang for the buck and that touch screen, the Asus UX31A-BHI5T holds on to its ultrabook crown.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
NZ's Telecom to slash over 1,000 jobs, more cuts to come
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Telecom Corp said it will slash around 16 percent of its workforce to reduce costs by up to NZ$110 million ($92 million), the country's biggest telecommunications group said on Thursday, warning of more to come as it restructures its ailing businesses.
Telecom said it expected to cut full-time employees to 6,300 to 6,600 by mid-year, from 7,530 at the end of 2012, as the firm struggles to compete in the broadband market.
"This is an important step to build a leaner, more agile organization with a competitive cost structure, setting us up to win in the market," Telecom Chief Executive Simon Moutter said in a statement.
The restructuring, which also includes the Australian operations of its Gen-i unit, would incur a one-off cost of NZ$70 million to NZ$80 million in the current fiscal year.
Telecom said this initial exercise would cut its payroll costs by NZ$90 million to NZ$110 million on an annualized basis, pointing to more redundancy in the pipeline.
The phone operator said it is working through the remainder of its strategic change process, with further job cuts and other one-off costs expected.
"Telecom will provide a second update once decisions are taken," the company said.
The move was expected, as Telecom competes in the broadband market with Vodafone, which bought TelstraClear's operations last year.
Telecom shares were up 0.2 percent at NZ$2.325, compared with a 0.3 percent dip in the broader market.
It retained its adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization guidance of NZ$1.04 billion-NZ$1.06 billion for the year, excluding the restructuring costs.
(Reporting by Naomi Tajitsu; Editing by Bernard Orr)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nzs-telecom-slash-around-1-000-jobs-cut-205958514--finance.html
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Mini Must-Have: Flynn Bloom?s Cute Bag
Find out who makes Miranda Kerr's son's cute doggie backpack.
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
?The Business Of Literature Is Blowing Shit Up?
If you love books--heck, if you even like 'em--run, don't walk, and read this magnificent, magisterial essay by Richard Nash on their past, present and future. It's long. Don't be frightened. But even if the Internet has shredded your attention span, at least scroll down to its epic final paragraph. Go on. I'll wait. It's been a rotten decade for book publishers, newspapers, and anyone else clinging to that 15th century technology called the printing press. Marc Andreessen has advised the mighty New York Times to "burn the boats" and shut down their presses. His partner Ben Horowitz claimed last year that "babies born today will probably never read anything in print."Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5Pj-cw7lMC8/
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Health Information: Get Relief From Eczema By Trying These 6 ...
Suffering from eczema has to rank as one of the most debilitating and painful skin diseases a person could have. The pain and soreness, the inflammation and swelling, and that continual itching that makes you want to run outside and scream. And while for some of us eczema is only an occasional flare up, there are lots of people who have a much more severe case of the condition. Either way, none of us wants to live with eczema for one second longer than we absolutely have to.
Of course eczema is extremely sensitive to touch, which makes it very difficult to treat effectively. But when it comes to babies and young children, they can really suffer badly because they don't understand that scratching all the time makes the pain even worse. That only serves to make children even more irritable and unhappy, and puts your whole family into a constant state of anxiety, wishing you could do something about it.
While it's true that some people can eventually outgrow eczema, unfortunately many will suffer from the condition for the rest of their lives. Most people continue to work, sleep and pursue other activities while suffering from eczema, but virtually all of them would love to be free of the condition if they could be.
Currently doctors and skin specialists agree there is no real cure for eczema, but there are a range of treatments you can use to manage the symptoms.
They include:
1 - Drinking plenty of water every day, because it has the effect of re-hydrating your body and in particular your skin. If you try to drink at least 2 liters of fresh, filtered water daily, both your body and your skin will stay well hydrated and they'll thank you for it
2 - Taking bad-bacteria fighting probiotics can often be very helpful, especially for children, and probiotics have been shown to lower the chance of eczema outbreaks in some people
3 - Taking natural supplements such as vitamin C and E, along with virgin coconut oil, can help to repair skin damage. The anti-oxidant properties of these vitamins, when combined with the strong moisturizing effect of virgin coconut oil, can be very helpful in treating eczema
4 - Keeping your fingernails and toenails cut short can minimize the chances of scratching and inflaming the condition, especially for babies and children
5 - Knowing what types of food can cause an eczema breakout for yourself or others in your family, and avoiding them to minimize the chances of triggering an outbreak
6 - Selecting a good quality natural moisturizing cream instead of cheaper brands can help to keep moisture in your skin so it doesn't dry out. In addition to this, always use gentle soaps when you are washing your face, hands and body. Avoid using harsh detergents or alcohol based products because these can quickly cause eczema to flare up if your skin is susceptible
You'll notice these suggestions are pretty much all-natural because it's usually safer using natural remedies. The ingredients contained in many commercial products can have side-effects for people who suffer with eczema, so it's always a good idea to avoid any kind of harsh chemicals whenever we can.
I hope you've found these 6 tips helpful. While there is currently no cure for eczema, there are things you can do to minimize the symptoms to make life with the disease a little more bearable for yourself and those around you.
Source: http://healthlifeinfo.blogspot.com/2013/03/get-relief-from-eczema-by-trying-these.html
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Snowstorm takes aim at Plains, Midwest
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? An early spring snowstorm forced the cancellation of more than 100 flights at Denver International Airport and closed several roads Saturday as it moved eastward, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places.
The snow started falling around midnight in northeast Colorado and then moved into northwest Kansas and southwest Nebraska.
Ten to 15 inches of snow had fallen by Saturday afternoon north of Interstate 70 in northwest Kansas and northeast Colorado, with another 1 to 2 inches expected in the area, said Ryan Husted, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Goodland, Kan., where 15 inches of snow had fallen.
The storm also dropped up to 7 inches of snow in southwestern Nebraska before tapering off Saturday afternoon, said David Pearson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service near Omaha, Neb.
"But the wind is really blowing, so visibility in those areas is still going to be pretty low," Pearson said.
Husted said winds gusting at speeds of up to 45 mph were creating snow drifts of 2 to 3 feet in parts of Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska.
I-70 had been shut down Saturday from Denver to Colby, Kan., because of poor visibility. The northbound lanes of Interstate 25 also were closed south of Fort Collins, Colo., because of multiple accidents.
"It's a mess here," said Jerry Killingsworth, a National Weather Service meteorologist also based in Goodland, Kan. "Heavy, wet snow, tree limbs down."
At the Goodland 24/7 truck stop, truckers milled around. With roads in the area closed, they are "just waiting," said Samantha Lamb, the truck stop's assistant manager.
"Our hotel across the street from us is pretty full," Lamb said. "Our parking lot has a good 35, 40 trucks in it."
As the system moved eastward, it threatened to inconvenience fans attending the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Kansas City.
Scott Blair, a meteorologist in Pleasant Hill, Mo., said light showers and drizzle began switching over to snow Saturday afternoon in Kansas City and western Missouri. The heaviest snowfall was expected overnight, with up to 6 inches forecast for the Kansas City metropolitan area.
"If people don't need to be out driving tomorrow that would certainly be recommended," he said.
Dan Gavitt, vice president of the NCAA men's basketball championships, said teams and officials already are onsite and that no game delays are anticipated.
"This region routinely has winter snow and has the appropriate equipment and procedures to manage these winter conditions," Gavitt said in a written statement. "We encourage fans planning to attend games to pay attention to the weather, use good judgment and follow any directions from local authorities regarding travel and weather."
North Carolina coach Roy Williams was nonplussed.
"It's no distraction, unless the roof goes off, we'll still be able to play and the whole bit like that," Williams said.
Elsewhere, some churches and other organizations were calling off events. Among them, the final game of the Emporia State baseball series with Southwest Baptist was canceled.
Denver International Airport spokesman Heath Montgomery said about 106 flights have been canceled, many of which involved commuter jets headed to nearby destinations or to mountain towns.
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center said up to a foot of new snow in the mountains could create dangerous avalanche conditions.
Colorado State Patrol troopers also spent part of Saturday working a crash near Johnstown involving a tractor-trailer that burst into flames. An estimated 20 to 50 vehicles, including four tractor-trailers, crashed or slid off the roadway in the area. The patrol said several people were hospitalized, but no fatalities have been reported.
The system will move into Illinois and Indiana overnight and into Sunday.
Meteorologist Dan Smith with the National Weather Service in Lincoln, Ill., said snowstorms aren't uncommon in early spring. The latest the area has seen snow, he said, was April 23, in 1910.
"One good thing about (the snowstorms) is it doesn't matter how much you get, it usually doesn't stick around too long because temperatures start to warm up pretty good," he said.
Farther south, tornadoes were possible in Louisiana and Mississippi, while strong winds and low humidity could lead to forest fires and wildfires in parts of New Mexico and West Texas.
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Associated Press writers Jason Keyser in Chicago, Thomas Peipert in Denver, David Skretta in Kansas City, Mo., and Margery A. Beck in Omaha, Neb., contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/snowstorm-takes-aim-plains-midwest-171700123.html
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House passes GOP budget that sharply cuts spending
WASHINGTON (AP) ? House Republicans have passed a budget plan that would bring the federal government's finances into balance in 10 years by sharply cutting safety-net programs for the poor and by clamping down on domestic agencies.
It would not raise taxes, in sharp contrast to budget plans offered by Democrats.
Instead, the plan written by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan ? which passed on a 221-207 party-line vote ? would reduce spending on the Medicaid health care plan for the poor and eliminate "Obamacare" subsidies.
It exempts the Pentagon and Social Security beneficiaries from spending cuts but revives a plan to turn Medicare into a voucher-like system for beneficiaries born in 1959 or later.
The plan sets nonbinding targets for taxes and spending.
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Rescued subway worker looking forward to cold beer
Officers of the New York City police Emergency Services Unit, covered in mud and dirt, walk to a waiting bus to warm up after securing the rescue of a construction worker trapped underground at an MTA subway construction project in New York early Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The worker, trapped for several hours, was lifted from underground with the assistance of the New York police and fire departments. Fire officials say he is awake and conscious and is being evaluated at a local hospital. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Officers of the New York City police Emergency Services Unit, covered in mud and dirt, walk to a waiting bus to warm up after securing the rescue of a construction worker trapped underground at an MTA subway construction project in New York early Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The worker, trapped for several hours, was lifted from underground with the assistance of the New York police and fire departments. Fire officials say he is awake and conscious and is being evaluated at a local hospital. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
NEW YORK (AP) ? A New York City subway construction worker who got stuck chest-deep in mud for nearly four hours says he's looking forward to having a beer, relaxing and golfing after he gets out of the hospital.
Joseph Barone of Lyndhurst, N.J., told the New York Post (http://bit.ly/XqJ3LJ ) it got extremely cold the minute the mud sucked him in.
He's being treated at Weill Cornell Medical Center following Tuesday's ordeal. He's in serious but stable condition.
Barone was working on the Second Avenue subway in Manhattan when he became stuck in the tunnel 75 feet below ground.
More than 150 firefighters helped to rescue him.
Barone says the rescuers kept reassuring him. He says he remained calm but did worry who would provide for his family if he didn't make it.
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Information from: New York Post, http://www.nypost.com
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Remains of the Day: A Google Play Redesign May Be Coming Soon
- Preview of New Google Play Version 4.0 Google Play is getting a big redesign for its Android interface. The new UI is more image-driven and pulls a few design cues from Google Now. No word on when it will roll out. [Droid Life]
- Apple Updates Podcasts App to Version 1.2 Today Apple released an update for the stock Podcasts app on iOS. New to the app are custom stations that will update automatically when new episodes are available and support for On-The-Go Playlists. The update also comes with improved playback controls and requisite performance improvements. [The Unofficial Apple Weblog]
- Google's Chrome, Android Systems to Stay Separate After Google's Chrome boss Sundar Pichai took over all things Android, speculation arose that the two divisions might somehow combine in the near future. However, Chairman Eric Schmidt has stated that both will remain separate products with potentially more overlap. [Reuters]
- Understand Your World with Bing Bing is updating it's Knowledge Graph-esque Snapshot feature to include more information on search subjects. Searches for people will now cull information from social networks, while searches for places will display relevant information about the surrounding area along with the answer to any question included in your query. [Bing]
Photo by photastic (Shutterstock), a2bb5s (Shutterstock), and Feng Yu (Shutterstock).
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How Life Changes Affect Your Coverage ? Blog | Health Insurance ...
When you think of life events, what do you think of? Maybe your wedding day, the day your children were born or when they graduated from college.?
While these events each mark an important time in your life, you probably wouldn?t think to share the news with your health insurance company. However, life events during the course of a year can alter your insurance needs. It?s important to let us know because the changes in your life can affect your eligibility and the rates you are charged.
Family ? If your family changes in any way, whether through addition or subtraction, you might qualify for an insurance change. Examples of qualifying family changes include a birth or adoption of a child, or?marriage.
Employment ? If your employment status changes, for example from part-time to full-time, you may be eligible for an insurance change.
Spouse?s Eligibility ? If your spouse either gains or loses eligibility during the year, you might need to add him/her to your plan or take him/her off your plan.
If you?re a Network Health member, you should work with your employer to notify us of these types of events. Your employer will then notify Network Health so we can update our eligibility system with the enrollment change. Based on the type of change, you may expect to receive a new medical and pharmacy card if a person was added or deleted from the policy.
If you have questions about qualifying life events, please call our customer service department at 920-720-1300 or 800-826-0940. If you are a Medicare member, contact your health care concierge.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Why Aren't Small Business Owners Taking ... - Marketing Pilgrim
That?s a lot of advertising and some of it is working because I?ve been known to click and buy things. But when I think about it, I realize that almost all of the ads I see in a day are for big companies and brand names. The last time I saw an ad for a local store it came out of a Val-Pak envelope.
Small businesses generate half of all sales in the United States but they?re barely a blip on the Internet radar. Why is that?
The Boston Consulting Group surveyed 550 small business owners and found that only 3% of their ad budget is spent online. The overwhelming majority of their money is going to coupon mailers like Val-Pak, the Sunday paper and other types of traditional marketing.
Here?s how that looks in comparison to big business:
I?m not sure that 550 small businesses is a large enough sampling but I don?t doubt the general result. You simply don?t see a lot of small business ads online. Why is that?
Partly, it has to be about habit. So many small businesses are family run, generation after generation, so they follow the same path year after year. The problem is, what worked in 1980 won?t necessarily work in 2013. In 1980, a small hair salon could reel them in with a bold listing in the Yellow Pages. To get that same amount of traffic today, that salon owner is going to have to be a little more creative.
I also think that online advertising is too confusing, leading many people to give up before they start. I?m not saying small business owners can?t handle it, but think about what?s involved in running a proper Adwords campaign or setting up Facebook advertising. The Yellow Pages had a salesman who would come? over and walk you through your options (maybe they still do?). Who does that online?
For the small business owner, it?s all about ROE ? Return on Effort. They already have their hands full with the day to day running of their business, so there?s little time left over for anything else. If all a person has to do is say ?run it again? when the newspaper calls about their ad, that beats the hours it will take to learn about Promoted Tweets on Twitter.
Which brings me to the biggest problem of all ? a lot of online options are simply too expensive for a small business. You could argue that they?ll make it back in trade, just don?t say that to the people who ended up losing money on Groupon coupons.
There are affordable, suitable online options for all kinds of small businesses but until they become as common as direct mail and newspaper advertising, small businesses are going to keep paying for physical rather than digital.
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Nigeria: Suicide car bomb death toll rises to 41
KANO, Nigeria (AP) ? At least 41 people died in a suicide car bomb that struck a bus station in a Christian neighborhood in Kano, northern Nigeria's busiest commercial center, in the most deadly attack in nine months that is blamed on Islamic extremists, an official said Tuesday.
The blast increased tensions in this divided West African nation.
At least 44 others were injured in the attack that hit the city of Kano Monday evening, a rescue official who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the press. Kano state police said Tuesday that two men rammed an explosive-laden blue VW Golf into a full passenger bus in a mainly Christian enclave in the predominantly Muslim commercial center.
By striking at about 5 p.m. Monday, the bombers seemed to have targeted passengers preparing for the 15-hour overnight road trip to the megacity of Lagos in Nigeria's south, loved ones bidding them farewell and vendors selling drinks and snacks. The blast triggered panic and pandemonium in a city that has seen similar violence in the past.
Kano police chief Musa Daura had said in a statement that at least 22 people had died, but the rescue official said there were 41 deaths at least. He said there were 21 bodies were at Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital and 20 more at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, said rescue officials. They are also treating 41 and 3 injured respectively. Police has downplayed figures in the past to avoid reprisals.
The injured suffered varying degrees of wounds. Sabiu Musa, a 29-year old trader, had a burned hand, while Francis Oke sustained injuries so grave that he could barely speak.
Oke's wife sat by his bedside and answered calls from those inquiring over his progress. "Thank God I survived. Thank God I survived," was all her husband kept whispering in a ward dedicated to the blast victims at the specialist hospital.
Assistance to the injured came late because security forces said the explosion site was not safe, said the rescue official, who refused to give his name because he is not authorized to speak to the press. In previous attacks, bombers have timed a second explosion soon after the first one, often causing more damage; but a second bomb did not come in this case. A fire, however, raged for more than four hours before it was put out. At the specialist hospital, nearly all those admitted suffered burns.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion immediately fell on the radical Islamic network Boko Haram. Monday's attack came more than a year after the Jan. 20, 2012 coordinated Boko Haram attacks that left more than 150 people dead in Kano. It also came about nine months after a trio of attacks on churches in the cities of Zaria and Kaduna claimed by the group, setting off violence that eclipsed the original attacks, bringing the death toll to at least 98 people.
The group has been waging a campaign of bombings and shootings across Nigeria's north. It is held responsible for more than 790 deaths last year alone, and dozens more since the beginning of this year.
The car bombing was the latest high-casualty attack deepening religious tensions in a West African nation of more than 160 million people evenly divided between Muslims and Christians. However, Boko Haram has carried out a string of suicide bombings targeting churches, government buildings, security facilities and crowded areas, such as markets and bars, as well as countless drive-by killings.
On Tuesday morning, while the city still reeled from the explosions, a policewoman was killed in a drive-by shooting as she stopped to replace a flat tire, Kano police said. Hours later, three soldiers were killed as a suicide bomber rammed in a military van Tuesday in northeastern city of Maiduguri, the group's spiritual home, said a soldier who survived the attack.
As the extremists' threat grows, the Nigeria government has been unable to stop the killings, even in main centers such as Kano.
Residents of Kano, a city of an estimated 4 million people, said they only wished for normalcy to come back to the region.
"We have no other place to go than Kano," said a Christian community leader, Tobias Michael Idika, who has lived most of his life although he is originally from the country's south. "Government should stop this violence," Idika said.
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Haruna Umar contributed to this report from Maiduguri, Nigeria.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-suicide-car-bomb-death-toll-rises-41-184151159.html
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