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Friday, 28 June 2013
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US suspending Bangladesh trade benefits after factory tragedies - source
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June 27, 2013 at 1:41 PM ET
ANDREW BIRAJ / Reuters
People rescue garment workers trapped under rubble at the Rana Plaza building after it collapsed, in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka in this April 24, 2013 file photo. Sources says President Obama will suspend U.S. trade benefits to Bangladesh.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce on Thursday that the United States is suspending trade benefits for Bangladesh after two tragedies in a year in the country's garment sector that killed more than 1,200 workers, a congressional source said.
U.S. trade officials have said they expected Obama to announce a decision on the matter by the end of June. The U.S. Trade Representative's office did not have an immediate comment on whether an announcement would come Thursday.
Suspending Bangladesh from the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences program would increase U.S. duties on an array of products the Asian country exports to the United States, such as tobacco, sporting equipment, porcelain china, plastic products and a small amount of textile products.
But it would not directly affect Bangladesh's main export, clothing, since garments are not eligible for duty cuts under the GSP program, which was created in 1976 to help economic development in the world's poorest countries and to reduce import costs for U.S. companies.
In 2012, Bangladesh was spared about $2 million in U.S. duties on about $35 million worth of goods under GSP, but it paid about $732 million in U.S. duties on $4.9 billion of clothing exports not covered by the program, according to Ed Gresser, a trade analyst with the GlobalWorks Foundation.
Still, Obama's decision would be a repudiation of working conditions in Bangladesh following the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in April that killed 1,129 people and the Tazreen factory fire in November that killed 112. Clothing for several American and European retailers is made in Bangladesh.
It also could influence the European Union's decision whether to suspend trade benefits for Bangladesh, which would have far more impact since Bangladesh's clothing and textiles exports receive duty-free treatment there.
The EU imported roughly 9.2 billion euros ($12.13 billion) of goods from Bangladesh last year, according to data from the EU's executive, the European Commission.
Clothing and textile products ranging from towels and bedding accounted for almost 93 percent of those goods.
EU officials have threatened to kick Bangladesh out of the program - a process that could take more than a year - unless it improves worker safety conditions.
Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.
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Thursday, 27 June 2013
PHOTOS: Channing Tatum Had the Best Press Tour Ever
White House Down, the new action movie starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, hits theatres this Friday and is poised to be a major summer blockbuster. While Channing has been hard at work promoting the film, he's still made time for some fun moments and is graciously sharing them with fans on Twitter.
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Noel, Len atop an NBA draft full of questions
NEW YORK (AP) ? Nerlens Noel is coming off a major knee injury. Alex Len is in a walking boot.
One of them could be the No. 1 pick Thursday in an NBA draft that appears short on stardom, and neither looks ready to get his career off to a running start.
"This draft is really unpredictable, a lot of guys with injuries and you don't have any, like, LeBron James," Len said Wednesday. "So it's going to be interesting."
Ten years after James climbed on stage to start a draft that goes down as one of the best in recent memory, the No. 1 pick again belongs to Cleveland.
The Cavaliers won't find anyone who can play like James on the court ? if they keep the pick ? and even the climbing the stage part will be a challenge for the big men who opened their college seasons against each other and are competing again now.
Noel tore the ACL in his left knee on Feb. 12, ending his lone season at Kentucky. The 6-foot-11 freshman led the nation in shot blocking and his conference in rebounding, but hasn't been able to show the Cavaliers if his offensive game has grown.
The only basketball work he did during his visit to Cleveland was shooting some free throws. Perhaps the pants he wore with his sports jacket and orange tie were just too tight, but Noel was walking gingerly as he exited a hotel ballroom after meeting with the media Wednesday.
"I wanted to do more. Unfortunately I got hurt, but I mean I definitely felt right before I got injured I was really coming along as a player and just really coming into my own during that part of the season," Noel said. "But like I said, unfortunately I got hurt, so I wasn't able to show as much as I wanted to."
Nor has Len, but that hasn't stopped the 7-1 center from the Ukraine who spent two seasons at Maryland from climbing into the mix at No. 1. His left foot started bothering him around February, and he found out after the season that it was a stress fracture.
He was aware he was projected as a top-10 pick before the draft combine, but may go much higher even though his visits to teams have consisted of nothing more than interviews. He no longer needs crutches but will be in the boot for perhaps two more weeks.
So, with all these injury questions, what about playing it safe and picking a healthy guy?
"I mean, probably a lot of people wish it could be that easy," Kansas guard Ben McLemore said. "But it's a process for the teams, they've got to see what's available and what they really need. And like I said, this draft is up in the air and nobody knows what's going to happen, who's going to get drafted in which order."
Orlando has the No. 2 pick, followed by Washington, Charlotte and Phoenix.
McLemore, Indiana's Victor Oladipo, Georgetown forward Otto Porter and national player of the year Trey Burke of Michigan are among the other players who will hear their names called early at Barclays Center by NBA Commissioner David Stern in his final draft.
It's a class that won't draw any comparisons to the one that James led, which featured future Miami Heat teammates Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, along with NBA scoring champion Carmelo Anthony among the first five picks.
Brooklyn Nets general manager Billy King said a number of teams are trying to trade out of the draft and acquire extra picks for next year, which is expected to be a stronger class. But he doesn't know if there will be enough teams interested in being trade partners to get those deals done.
"There are good players in this draft, but right now, there are not impact players. What I mean by that is that there's no one you look at in this draft that within two years will be an All-Star, say like Kyrie Irving was, players like that," said Minnesota Timberwolves president Flip Saunders, referring to the guard Cleveland took with the No. 1 pick in 2011.
"And so in order for you to move up and dilute your talent pool and your roster, you've got to get an impact-type player, and I just don't believe ... there's good players, probably pretty good players in this league, but are they going to be that impact player who's going to be an All-Star or future Hall of Famer? That's what you don't see. And sometimes that's something you don't see for two or three years in a row."
McLemore has in some ways been hurt by healthy, since by being able to work out he's given teams something to nitpick. Noel and Len have been largely free of criticism while sitting on the sideline.
Instead, Len is hoping his first impression of the season is one that holds up, when he had a career-high 23 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks against Noel in Maryland's loss to Kentucky, right in the building where they will be Thursday.
"I did well against him. So, it's not up to me, it's up to teams," Len said of a team choosing between the two.
Neither player said he knows what the Cavs will do. There has been speculation they are open to dealing the pick, something teams rarely consider in a year with a clear-cut No. 1.
Noel said he had gotten no sense from the Cavs that they had concern about his knee, which could keep him off the court until early in the regular season. And in a draft full of questions, he believes selecting him is the right answer.
"I'm a good teammate, I definitely love to work," Noel said. "I want to get better. I want to be great, I want to reach my potential, be the best player I can be. I definitely do countless hours in the gym and I'm definitely working to get there."
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AP Basketball Writer Jon Krawczynski in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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Governor calls Texas lawmakers back to session on abortion bill
By Sara Morrison LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - There was an amazing made-for-television moment in the Texas state senate last night. And if you were watching any of the big three cable news channels, you didn't see it. Tuesday night (and early into Wednesday morning), the Texas Senate met to vote on a bill that would restrict abortions in the state to the point that most if not all abortion clinics would be forced to close. Democrats staged a filibuster to prevent the vote, with Sen. Wendy Davis going almost 13 hours without sitting, leaning, eat, drinking, or using the bathroom. ...
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Wednesday, 26 June 2013
S. Africa president urges prayers for Mandela
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? South Africa's president on Monday said a critically ill Nelson Mandela was "asleep" when he visited the 94-year-old at the hospital, and he urged the country to pray for Mandela, describing him as the "father of democracy" who made extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of his people.
President Jacob Zuma told dozens of foreign and South African journalists that doctors are doing everything possible to help the former president feel comfortable on his 17th day in a Pretoria hospital, but refused to give details of Mandela's condition, saying: "I'm not a doctor." The briefing came a day after the government said Mandela's condition had deteriorated and was now critical.
Monday's press gathering highlighted the tension between the government's reluctance to share more information about Mandela on the basis of doctor-patient confidentiality, and media appeals for thorough updates on a figure of global interest. The government's belated acknowledgement that an ambulance carrying Mandela to the hospital on June 8 broke down has fueled the debate about transparency versus the right to privacy.
Zuma's briefing was also an indicator of the extent to which reports on Mandela's health sometimes overshadow the business of the state. Under questioning, Zuma said President Barack Obama would go ahead with a visit to South Africa, despite concerns about Mandela's health.
"President Obama is visiting South Africa," Zuma said. "I don't think you stop a visit because somebody's sick."
Obama, who arrives in Africa this week, is due to visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.
White House spokesman Jay Carney wouldn't speculate about how Mandela's health would impact Obama's upcoming visit to South Africa, saying only that the U.S. president "continues to look forward to his trip."
"The president obviously has long seen Nelson Mandela as one of his personal heroes, and I think he's not alone in that in this country and around the world," Carney said.
Zuma, who in the past has given an overly sunny view of Mandela's health, briefly spoke of his visit Sunday night to Mandela in the hospital in the capital. That visit was mentioned in a presidential statement on the same night that said Mandela, previously described as being in serious but stable condition, had lapsed into critical condition within the previous 24 hours.
"It was late, he was already asleep," Zuma said. "And we then had a bit of a discussion with the doctors as well as his wife, Graca Machel, and we left."
The president said South Africans should accept that Mandela is old, and he urged people to pray for their former leader.
"Madiba is critical in the hospital, and this is the father of democracy. This is the man who fought and sacrificed his life to stay in prison, the longest-serving prisoner in South Africa," Zuma said, using Mandela's clan name.
Mandela, who became South Africa's first black president after the end of apartheid in 1994, was hospitalized for what the government said was a recurring lung infection. This is his fourth hospitalization since December.
Mandela was jailed for 27 years under white racist rule and was released 23 years ago, in 1990. He then played a leading role in steering the divided country from the apartheid era to an all-race democracy. As a result of his sacrifice and peacemaking efforts, he is seen by many around the world as a symbol of reconciliation.
"Nelson Mandela, for me, is like my father," Alex Siake, a South African, said in Pretoria. "Every day, I just pray that he can recover quickly and be among us again."
The Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party, said in a statement that the news that Mandela was in critical condition came "as a blow to all South Africans."
Zuma referred to the transfer of Mandela from an ambulance with engine trouble to another ambulance on the night he was taken to the hospital in Pretoria.
"Nobody can predict whether the car is going to break down or not," he said. But he said he was pleased because seven doctors, including specialists, in the convoy "made all the contingencies before leaving" and Mandela's health was therefore not affected.
Asked why none of Mandela's doctors had been made available for a news briefing, presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said an arrangement had been made in consultation with Mandela's family whereby information would be provided through a "single source in an authoritative way."
"We've come to that arrangement on the basis that we need to respect the privacy of the family, we need to adhere to doctor-patient confidentiality," he said.
"You can be assured that what we are saying is based on agreement with the doctors," Maharaj said. Doctors approve the text of announcements on Mandela's health, and believe some media reporting has transgressed professional ethics, he said.
Monday also marked the 18th anniversary of Mandela's appearance at the 1995 Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg, a day still enshrined as a hugely significant moment for South Africa.
In a move crucial in unifying sections of a previously fractured society, Mandela wore a green and gold Springboks rugby jersey at the June 24 final in Johannesburg and brought all South Africans together in support of their national team ? once an all-white bastion of the apartheid regime and hated by blacks.
Mandela shook hands with and patted the shoulder of the Springboks' captain, Francois Pienaar, after South Africa won a tense final against New Zealand, underlining the new president's dedication to reconciliation.
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Associated Press writer Julie Pace in Washington contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-africa-leader-mandela-asleep-during-visit-164903201.html
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Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Heart failure survivors at greater risk for cancer, study shows
June 25, 2013 ? Heart failure patients are surviving more often with the heart condition but they are increasingly more likely to be diagnosed with cancer, a trend that could be attributed to increased surveillance, side effects of treatments, or other causes, according to a study published online today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
"Heart failure patients are not only at an increased risk for developing cancer, but the occurrence of cancer increases mortality in these patients," explained Dr. Veronique Roger, MD, director of the Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery and co-author of the study. "These findings underscore the importance of cancer surveillance in the management of heart failure patients."
Researchers conducted the study using medical records from the Rochester Epidemiology Project, which links the inpatient and outpatient records from all providers used by the population of Olmsted County, Minn. The study included 596 patients with heart failure paired with the same number of similar healthy subjects.
The study looked at two 11-year time periods. Patients diagnosed with heart failure between 1979 and 1990 had a 48 percent increased risk of cancer, while patients diagnosed between 1991 and 2002 had an 86 percent increased risk. Roger and colleagues suggest several possible causes for the increased risk of cancer in heart failure patients, including side effects of cardiovascular treatments, or stress from illness or other mechanisms associated with the physiology of heart failure such as inflammation.
Investigators stress the importance of the findings in the treatment and management of heart failure, concluding patients should be monitored closely for signs of cancer.
"These findings also illustrate the importance of multi-morbidity among patients living with chronic diseases and support the concept of providing holistic rather than disease-based care," the authors said.
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Sunday, 16 June 2013
Arabs put (slim) hopes in new Iranian president
By Alastair Macdonald and Angus McDowall
CAIRO/RIYADH (Reuters) - The election of a moderate Iranian president could help rein in hostility between Tehran and its Arab neighbors, but many Arabs doubt he can end a sectarian confrontation that has been inflamed by war in Syria.
Hassan Rohani, a Shi'ite cleric known for a conciliatory approach and backed by reformists, will have only limited say in policy determined by Iran's supreme leader; but with the Syrian carnage fuelling rage among Sunni Arabs across the region, any gestures from Tehran may help contain it.
"We hope the new Iranian president will be a believer in a political solution in Syria," said one ambassador at the Arab League in Cairo. "All that we read about Rohani might be grounds for hope - but there is a great difference between election campaigns and what is said once in office."
For the United States and Western powers, at odds with Iran for decades and now rallying with arms behind rebels fighting Syria's Iranian-backed president, fierce religious enmities in the oil-rich Middle East add to fears of wider instability.
In Saudi Arabia, whose U.S.-allied rulers lead opposition to what they see as Iran's drive to spread its power and religion, well-informed analyst Jamal Khashoggi said: "I'm sure for the Saudi leadership this is the best outcome of the elections."
He recalled that Iran's last reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, who visited Riyadh while in office from 1997-2005, had mended ties - but at a time of less ferocious disputes. Unlike now, Khashoggi said, "Iran was not meddling heavily in Syria, Bahrain and Yemen ... There were no Shi'ites killing Sunnis."
In Syria, where mainly Sunni rebels are battling Iran's ally President Bashar al-Assad and his Alawite establishment, who belong to an offshoot of Shi'ism, opposition activists saw little hope for change from Rohani:
"The election is cosmetic," said Omar al-Hariri from Deraa, where the uprising began during the Arab Spring two years ago.
Muhammed al-Husseini, from the Sunni Islamist rebel group Ahrar al-Sham in Raqaa, noted power in Iran rested with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "The powers given to the Iranian president are weak these days," he said. "They are fake powers."
In Bahrain, whose Saudi-backed Sunni monarchy accuses Iran of fomenting protests among the Shi'ite majority on the island since 2011, Information Minister Samira Rajab told Reuters: "I think Rohani is one of a team. And anybody who comes from that team will continue the same policy ... We have no more trust in the Iranian regime after what happened in Bahrain."
EGYPTIAN CAUTION
In Egypt, by far the biggest Arab nation, new rulers from the Muslim Brotherhood had lately launched a rapprochement with Iran but have now joined a Sunni call for jihad in Syria after Iran's Lebanese ally Hezbollah sent in its fighters last month.
Traditionally more open than the Saudi clerical hierarchy to conciliation across the sectarian divide, the Brotherhood still hopes for a change of heart in Tehran: "We are looking forward to seeing how the winner is going to act," said Murad Ali, a spokesman for the Islamist movement's Freedom and Justice Party.
"Will there be any change to the policies from the Iranians, especially concerning the Syrian crisis? We are in general open to cooperation with Iran ... However, we do have our concerns ... related to ... their interference in Syrian affairs."
On the streets of Cairo, however, sectarian passions are running high, piling pressure on Egyptian and other Arab rulers.
Outside the Al-Azhar Mosque, built 1,000 years ago by the Shi'ite Fatimid caliphs who founded the city but now a major seat of Sunni learning, construction worker Mohamed Abdelsattar, 35, said: "All Egyptians hate Iran after what has happened in Syria. What's happening there now is Shi'ites killing Sunnis."
Limousine driver Abdelaziz Darwish, 57, had low expectations of any change in Tehran: "All Iranians are the same," he said. "Shi'ites are more dangerous even than the Jews."
Standing by his fresh-juice stand, Khaled Fathi, 49, twinned his anger at Iranian involvement in Syria with suspicion of the welcome that Islamist President Mohamed Mursi gave earlier this year to Iran's hardline outgoing president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
"Iran makes problems for us all over the world," he said. "Iran is helping Mursi, I'm sure of it."
A group of Lebanese Sunni clerics, visiting Al-Azhar while attending the Cairo conference that has issued a call for holy war in Syria, voiced some hope for change from Rohani, however:
"Maybe this new president in Iran will be better," said Sheikh Hassan Abdelrahman from the city of Tripoli, which has seen recent fighting between Lebanese Sunnis and Shi'ites.
Sheikh Malik al-Jdeideh, also from Tripoli, said: "We came to Egypt to tell Mohamed Mursi that we reject Iranian actions in Syria ... But we are working for all religions to be at peace."
Sectarian atrocities in Syria, and the open appearance of Iran's Lebanese allies on the battlefield, has forged an unusual degree of unity among major Arab governments following the wave of revolt that shook the region and notably replaced U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak in Egypt with the Islamists of the Brotherhood.
GULF TENSIONS
Iran's new influence in Iraq - after the 2003 U.S. invasion replaced the Sunni Saddam Hussein with an elected, Shi'ite-led government - had already put Saudi Arabia on the defensive. And Tehran's nuclear dispute with the West and Israel has alarmed oil-exporting neighbors, who fear a war, with all the upheaval it would bring.
One Arab League ambassador said Gulf states hoped Rohani, a former nuclear negotiator, might help to defuse that tension.
But a Gulf envoy at the League said Rohani would have little power and was unlikely, in any case, to differ in his views: "They all aim to export the Iranian revolution to neighboring states and interfere in the Gulf states and Syria and Lebanon."
For Shi'ites who live in Sunni-ruled states, and often complain of being unfairly branded as agents of the Persian-speaking power, any reduction in tension would be welcome.
Khalil Ebrahim al-Marzooq of Bahrain's opposition al-Wefaq party, which speaks for many Shi'ites, said the election might bring warmer ties across the Gulf that would help his community.
"When relations are better," he said, "it gives the government no excuses to deprive the people of Bahrain of their rights."
Jafar al-Shayab, a former elected official in the mainly Shi'ite Saudi district of Qatif, said: "If this sectarian war going on in the region can cool down or stabilize, that will help to improve the relations between the Sunnis and the Shi'ites here."
Khalil al-Anani, a senior fellow at Washington's Middle East Institute currently in Cairo, said Rohani's ability to induce the Iranian leadership to take the heat out of its standoff with the Sunni Arab powers was unclear, but of vital importance.
"Mending Iran's relations with Arabs would require Rohani to secure strong support from other influential power centers in Iran ... which is unlikely in the short term," he said.
"The question of whether Rohani can be another Khatami is important and crucial for both Iran and the Arabs."
(Additional reporting by Ayman Samir and Tom Perry in Cairo, Oliver Holmes in Beirut; Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/arabs-put-slim-hopes-iranian-president-163819391.html
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Saturday, 15 June 2013
Norman Malware Cleaner 2.08
For all-day every day security, you want a full-scale antivirus to keep malware attacks away from your system. Sometimes, though, you can't even install that full-scale protection because the malware fights back. In cases like that, a free, cleanup-only tool like Norman Malware Cleaner 2.08 can be a life saver. It doesn't need installation; you just download it and run a scan. Delete it when you're done, because there's a new version every day.
Norman Malware Cleaner opens to a page that offers a quick, full, or custom scan. You won't go wrong by simply selecting a full scan and clicking start. However, you may want to make one small change to the configuration settings. All of the scanning options are turned on by default, including scanning for rootkits. However, for some reason the option to clean rootkits is disabled by default. I enabled it for all of my tests.
I should point out that this truly is a newer product than Norman Malware Cleaner 2.1, which I reviewed previously. That was actually version 2.01; a quirk in presentation eliminated the zero.
A Few Obstacles
Norman Malware Cleaner ran without incident on ten of my twelve malware-infested test systems. On six of those systems it asked permission to reboot the system and rescan to complete the cleanup process; I always said yes to that offer.
On one test system, it asked to reboot and rescan over and over. After repeating this six times, I took a look at the log files. To my surprise, Windows asked what program it should use to open them. A little investigation showed that notepad.exe, along with literally hundreds of other files, had been quarantined. At the tech support agent's request, I supplied a dozen or so of those quarantined files.
Tech support analyzed the problem and updated the next day's edition of Norman Malware Cleaner to handle it. I simply restored all of the files from quarantine and ran a new scan. Note that the same problem happened during my testing of Norman Antivirus 10??? , but without the same easy resolution. The antivirus uses a version of Norman Malware Cleaner to perform a pre-install scan, but this scan doesn't leave a log or identify quarantined files. Norman's designers plan to change that.
The cleanup process on another test system eliminated some essential Windows files, rendering the system completely unbootable. At the advice of tech support I created a bootable Ubuntu USB drive?it was surprisingly easy. I booted from the drive, sent the log to tech support, and got back instructions that let me restore the system to health.
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Tuesday, 11 June 2013
B&G Foods to buy owner of Pirate's Booty brand
PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) ? Food maker B&G Foods Inc. is buying Robert's American Gourmet Food, which owns the Pirate's Booty brand, for $195 million in cash.
B&G Foods makes foods under brands such as Cream of Wheat, Mrs. Dash and Grandma's Molasses. CEO David Wenner says the acquisition helps it grow its natural snacks business.
Robert's American brands also include Smart Puffs and Original Tings and is owned by VMG Partners, Driven Capital Management, founder Robert Ehrlich and other owners.
The acquisition will be funded by a recent senior notes offering and revolving credit borrowings. It is expected to immediately benefit net income.
The deal is expected to close in July.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/b-g-foods-buy-owner-pirates-booty-brand-124444600.html
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New tasks become as simple as waving a hand with brain-computer interfaces
June 11, 2013 ? Small electrodes placed on or inside the brain allow patients to interact with computers or control robotic limbs simply by thinking about how to execute those actions. This technology could improve communication and daily life for a person who is paralyzed or has lost the ability to speak from a stroke or neurodegenerative disease.
Now, University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that when humans use this technology -- called a brain-computer interface -- the brain behaves much like it does when completing simple motor skills such as kicking a ball, typing or waving a hand. Learning to control a robotic arm or a prosthetic limb could become second nature for people who are paralyzed.
"What we're seeing is that practice makes perfect with these tasks," said Rajesh Rao, a UW professor of computer science and engineering and a senior researcher involved in the study. "There's a lot of engagement of the brain's cognitive resources at the very beginning, but as you get better at the task, those resources aren't needed anymore and the brain is freed up."
Rao and UW collaborators Jeffrey Ojemann, a professor of neurological surgery, and Jeremiah Wander, a doctoral student in bioengineering, published their results online June 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In this study, seven people with severe epilepsy were hospitalized for a monitoring procedure that tries to identify where in the brain seizures originate. Physicians cut through the scalp, drilled into the skull and placed a thin sheet of electrodes directly on top of the brain. While they were watching for seizure signals, the researchers also conducted this study.
The patients were asked to move a mouse cursor on a computer screen by using only their thoughts to control the cursor's movement. Electrodes on their brains picked up the signals directing the cursor to move, sending them to an amplifier and then a laptop to be analyzed. Within 40 milliseconds, the computer calculated the intentions transmitted through the signal and updated the movement of the cursor on the screen.
Researchers found that when patients started the task, a lot of brain activity was centered in the prefrontal cortex, an area associated with learning a new skill. But after often as little as 10 minutes, frontal brain activity lessened, and the brain signals transitioned to patterns similar to those seen during more automatic actions.
"Now we have a brain marker that shows a patient has actually learned a task," Ojemann said. "Once the signal has turned off, you can assume the person has learned it."
While researchers have demonstrated success in using brain-computer interfaces in monkeys and humans, this is the first study that clearly maps the neurological signals throughout the brain. The researchers were surprised at how many parts of the brain were involved.
"We now have a larger-scale view of what's happening in the brain of a subject as he or she is learning a task," Rao said. "The surprising result is that even though only a very localized population of cells is used in the brain-computer interface, the brain recruits many other areas that aren't directly involved to get the job done."
Several types of brain-computer interfaces are being developed and tested. The least invasive is a device placed on a person's head that can detect weak electrical signatures of brain activity. Basic commercial gaming products are on the market, but this technology isn't very reliable yet because signals from eye blinking and other muscle movements interfere too much.
A more invasive alternative is to surgically place electrodes inside the brain tissue itself to record the activity of individual neurons. Researchers at Brown University and the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated this in humans as patients, unable to move their arms or legs, have learned to control robotic arms using the signal directly from their brain.
The UW team tested electrodes on the surface of the brain, underneath the skull. This allows researchers to record brain signals at higher frequencies and with less interference than measurements from the scalp. A future wireless device could be built to remain inside a person's head for a longer time to be able to control computer cursors or robotic limbs at home.
"This is one push as to how we can improve the devices and make them more useful to people," Wander said. "If we have an understanding of how someone learns to use these devices, we can build them to respond accordingly."
The research team, along with the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering headquartered at the UW, will continue developing these technologies.
This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the NSF, the Army Research Office and the Keck Foundation.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/most_popular/~3/FeMasSoUcUY/130611143315.htm
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Worker's Comp Seminar This Wednesday - KGKL 97.5 FM Country
The Angelo State University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will host an educational seminar on Workers? Compensation this Wednesday, June 12, at the Business Resource Center, 69 N. Chadbourne St.
The seminar, titled ?Basic Workers? Compensation for Medical Office Staff,? will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be presented by a Regina Schwartz of the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers? Compensation (TDI-DWC).? Issues to be addressed include:
- How Workers? Compensation works
- Identifying a Workers? Compensation patient
- Roles and responsibilities of health care providers, including preauthorization, treatment guidelines and pharmacy formulary
- Billing and reimbursement policies and fee guidelines
- Medical documentation
- TDI-DWC required forms
- Dispute resolution
Cost of the seminar is $50 per person and includes a light breakfast and lunch.? Attendees can earn six general insurance continuing education credits by presenting their insurance-related license number at the seminar.
Advance registration is required.? To register and pay online, go to www.sbdc.angelo.edu.? To register and pay by phone, call the SBDC at 325-942-2098.
For more information, contact Jessica Lambert at 325-942-2098 or jessica.lambert@angelo.edu.
Source: http://975kgkl.com/workers-comp-seminar-this-wednesday/
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Monday, 10 June 2013
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PSA: Acer Iconia W3 up for pre-order at Office Depot, Staples starting at $350
It's always refreshing when a product catches us by surprise, but thanks to several leaks, the Acer Iconia W3 definitely didn't fall into that category. So, when it was unveiled at Computex 2013, we were ready for it in all its 8.1-inch 1,280 x 800, dual-core Intel Atom, Windows Pro 8 glory. The wee slate also ushered in Microsoft's temporary offer of Office for free on 10-inch or smaller Windows Pro tablets, and you can now pre-order the 32GB version at Staples for $380 or $350 from Office Depot, while a 64GB version from Amazon will run you $430. An optional keyboard should arrive soon for $90, so if you've been coveting a small form-factor Windows tab -- RT-free -- hit the source.
Source: Amazon, Staples, Office Depot
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