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Sunday, March 31, 2013
New clues about how amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) develops
Mar. 31, 2013 ? Johns Hopkins scientists say they have evidence from animal studies that a type of central nervous system cell other than motor neurons plays a fundamental role in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal degenerative disease. The discovery holds promise, they say, for identifying new targets for interrupting the disease's progress.
In a study described online in Nature Neuroscience, the researchers found that, in mice bred with a gene mutation that causes human ALS, dramatic changes occurred in oligodendrocytes -- cells that create insulation for the nerves of the central nervous system -- long before the first physical symptoms of the disease appeared. Oligodendrocytes located near motor neurons -- cells that govern movement -- died off at very high rates, and new ones regenerated in their place were inferior and unhealthy.
The researchers also found, to their surprise, that suppressing an ALS-causing gene in oligodendrocytes of mice bred with the disease -- while still allowing the gene to remain in the motor neurons -- profoundly delayed the onset of ALS. It also prolonged survival of these mice by more than three months, a long time in the life span of a mouse. These observations suggest that oligodendrocytes play a very significant role in the early stage of the disease.
"The abnormalities in oligodendrocytes appear to be having a negative impact on the survival of motor neurons," says Dwight E. Bergles, Ph.D., a co-author and a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "The motor neurons seem to be dependent on healthy oligodendrocytes for survival, something we didn't appreciate before."
"These findings teach us that cells we never thought had a role in ALS not only are involved but also clearly contribute to the onset of the disease," says co-author Jeffrey D. Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins and director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute.
Scientists have long believed that oligodendrocytes functioned only as structural elements of the central nervous system. They wrap around nerves, making up the myelin sheath that provides the "insulation" that allows nerve signals to be transmitted rapidly and efficiently. However, Rothstein and others recently discovered that oligodendrocytes also deliver essential nutrients to neurons, and that most neurons need this support to survive.
The Johns Hopkins team of Bergles and Rothstein published a paper in 2010 that described in mice with ALS an unexpected massive proliferation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells in the spinal cord's motor neurons, and that these progenitors were being mobilized to make new oligodendrocytes. The researchers believed that these cells were multiplying because of an injury to oligodendrocytes, but they weren't sure what was happening. Using a genetic method of tracking the fate of oligodendrocytes, in the new study, the researchers found that cells present in young mice with ALS were dying off at an increasing rate in concert with advancing disease. Moreover, the development of the newly formed oligodendrocytes was stalled and they were not able to provide motor neurons with a needed source of cell nutrients.
To determine whether the changes to the oligodendrocytes were just a side effect of the death of motor neurons, the scientists used a poison to kill motor neurons in the ALS mice and found no response from the progenitors, suggesting, says Rothstein, that it is the mutant ALS gene that is damaging oligodendrocytes directly.
Meanwhile, in separate experiments, the researchers found similar changes in samples of tissues from the brains of 35 people who died of ALS. Rothstein says it may be possible to see those changes early on in the disease and use MRI technology to follow progression.
"If our research is confirmed, perhaps we can start looking at ALS patients in a different way, looking for damage to oligodendrocytes as a marker for disease progression," Rothstein says. "This could not only lead to new treatment targets but also help us to monitor whether the treatments we offer are actually working."
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, named for the Yankee baseball great who died from it, affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement. The nerve cells waste away or die, and can no longer send messages to muscles, eventually leading to muscle weakening, twitching and an inability to move the arms, legs and body. Onset is typically around age 50 and death often occurs within three to five years of diagnosis. Some 10 percent of cases are hereditary.
There is no cure for ALS and there is only one FDA-approved drug treatment, which has just a small effect in slowing disease progression and increasing survival.
Even though myelin loss has not previously been thought to occur in the gray matter, a region in the brain where neurons process information, the researchers in the new study found in ALS patients a significant loss of myelin in one of every three samples of human tissue taken from the brain's gray matter, suggesting that the oligodendrocytes were abnormal. It isn't clear if the oligodendrocytes that form this myelin in the gray matter play a different role than in white matter -- the region in the brain where signals are relayed.
The findings further suggest that clues to the treatment of other diseases long believed to be focused in the brain's gray matter -- such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease -- may be informed by studies of diseases of the white matter, such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Bergles says ALS and MS researchers never really thought their diseases had much in common before.
Oligodendrocytes have been under intense scrutiny in MS, Bergles says. In MS, the disease over time can transform from a remitting-relapsing form -- in which myelin is attacked but then is regenerated when existing progenitors create new oligodendrocytes to re-form myelin -- to a more chronic stage in which oligodendrocytes are no longer regenerated. MS researchers are working to identify new ways to induce the creation of new oligodendrocytes and improve their survival. "It's possible that we may be able to dovetail with some of the same therapeutics to slow the progression of ALS," Bergles says.
Other Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study include Shin H. Kang, Ph.D.; Ying Li, Ph.D.; Ileana Lorenzini, M.S.; and Lyle Ostrow, M.D., Ph.D.
This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS 051509), the ALS Association, P2ALS, the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins and the Brain Science Institute.
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Death toll in Tanzania building collapse rises to 17
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The death toll from the collapse of a building in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam has climbed to 17, a senior government official said on Saturday.
The building of more than 12 storeys, which had been under construction, collapsed on Friday morning near a mosque in the Kariakoo district around the city centre. Several cars were crushed by falling masonry.
Tanzania's buoyant economy has fuelled a building boom, especially in Kariakoo and the city centre. But the speed of construction has raised concerns about standards.
"I can confirm that so far 17 people have been killed and their bodies have already been recovered," Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Said Meck Sadick told Reuters.
State television carried the same figure after conflicting reports on Friday about the death toll.
"Eighteen people survived the collapse of the building, but the search for more survivors continues," Sadick said, adding that the rescue operation had run through the night and would continue until everyone was accounted for.
"There is still a lot of work to be done," he said. "There is a lot of rubble that still has to be removed."
Witnesses said they believed construction workers were inside the building when it collapsed, and up to four boys who had been playing soccer at the nearby mosque were missing.
Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, who visited the scene on Friday, ordered authorities to take action against responsible parties. Police officials said four suspects had been arrested, including the building owner and contractor.
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Eating Disorders.
I thought that this topic would have been mentioned a few more times than it has been on this website. I'm not an expert in eating disorders however i have suffered for one on and off for a few years now.
I am under my Doctor so i have to see her regularly.
Have any of you suffered with an eating disorder, know of someone who has or is or are you suddering with one right now?
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Weekend linkdown: Fukushima, drunken bets and Bruce Willis chuckling
By Rob Walker
As the work-week winds (or crawls) to an end, we?re all looking for ways to look busy, or kill time. As always, I?m here to help.
Armchair Traveler, Fukushima Edition: As a rule, Google Street View strikes me as a poor substitute for exploring the physical world. But I admit that since physically strolling around an area near a nuclear disaster isn?t a practical idea, the Google Street View tours of Namie-machi, a presently abandoned city in Japan?s Fukushima Prefecture, are better than the real thing. The Google Lat Long blog offers several starting points for wandering this now-haunting cityscape from afar, with context in a guest post written by Nami-machi?s mayor. Via Google Sightseeing.
Not a Tree: Wired?s Raw File finds cell phone towers disguised as trees, as documented by photographer Dillon Marsh, ?puzzling.? I think they?re kinda cool.
What?s New With Robot Snakes? According to The Verge, they now have ?the ability to hug things.? This brief video from the Carnegie Mellon Biorobotics Lab demonstrates ?snake robot perching?: Robot snakes are tossed at lampposts, trees, and goalposts, which they coil about and grasp. Thanks for that, Science.
Dumb, Officially: Next time you make some foolish, drunken boast about how many McRibs you can eat in one sitting or some such, you can define the terms and conditions for your regrettable wager, thanks to SpitShake.com. This helps you ?make your ridiculous idea a reality,? a promo video promises. I bet. Via BoingBoing.
Idealized Scenes, From Prison: A fascinating photo project by Alyse Emdur documents painted optimistic backdrops created by prisoners for portraits intended for family and friends. The always surprising Venue project, devoted to exploring overlooked features of the American landscape, interviews Emdur and shares a number of her images.
Bruce Willis: Survivor: Footage from 39 movies gets diced into a 10-minute supercut quasi-narrative video called "Everybody Wants To Kill Bruce Willis." There?s no dialogue but?spoiler alert?Bruce is still chuckling manically at the end.
Non pet Sounds: On a more soothing note, here is a pleasant collection of field recordings of whales and elephants on SoundCloud, courtesy of "On Being." Have a relaxing weekend.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Head-on collisions between DNA-code reading machineries accelerate gene evolution
Mar. 28, 2013 ? Bacteria appear to speed up their evolution by positioning specific genes along the route of expected traffic jams in DNA encoding. Certain genes are in prime collision paths for the moving molecular machineries that read the DNA code, as University of Washington scientists explain in this week's edition of Nature.
The spatial-organization tactics their model organism, Bacillus subtilis, takes to evolve and adapt might be imitated in other related Gram-positive bacteria, including harmful, ever-changing germs like staph, strep, and listeria, to strengthen their virulence or cause persistent infections. The researchers think that these mechanisms for accelerating evolution may be found in other living creatures as well.
Replication -- the duplicating of the genetic code to create a new set of genes- and transcription -- the copying of DNA code to produce a protein -- are not separated by time or space in bacteria. Therefore, clashes between these machineries are inevitable. Replication traveling rapidly along a DNA strand can be stalled by a head-on encounter or same-direction brush with slower-moving transcription.
The senior authors of the study, Houra Merrikh, UW assistant professor of microbiology, and Evgeni Sokurenko, UW professor of microbiology, and their research teams are collaborating to understand the evolutionary consequences of these conflicts. The major focus of Merrikh and her research team is on understanding mechanistic and physiological aspects of conflicts in living cells -- including why and how these collisions lead to mutations.
Impediments to replication, they noted, can cause instability within the genome, such as chromosome deletions or rearrangements, or incomplete separation of genetic material during cell division. When dangerous collisions take place, bacteria sometimes employ methods to repair, and then restart, the paused DNA replication, Merrikh discovered in her earlier work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
To avoid unwanted encounters, bacteria orient most of their genes along what is called the leading strand of DNA, rather than the lagging. The terms refer to the direction the encoding activities travel on different forks of the unwinding DNA. Head-on collisions between replication and transcription happen on the lagging strand.
Despite the heightened risk of gene-altering clashes, the study bacteria B. subtilis still orients 25 percent of all its genes, and 6 percent of its essential genes, on the lagging strand.
The scientist observed that genes under the greatest natural selection pressure for amino-acid mutations, a sign of their adaptive significance, were on the lagging strand. Amino acids are the building blocks for proteins. Based on their analysis of mutations on the leading and the lagging strands, the researchers found that the rate of accumulation of mutations was faster in the genes oriented to be subject to head-on replication-transcription conflicts, in contrast to co-directional conflicts.
According to the researchers, together the mutational analyses of the genomes and the experimental findings indicate that head-on conflicts were more likely than same-direction conflicts to cause mutations. They also found that longer genes provided more opportunities for replication-transcription conflicts to occur. Lengthy genes were more prone to mutate.
The researchers noted that head-on replication-transcription encounters, and the subsequent mutations, could significantly increase structural variations in the proteins coded by the affected genes. Some of these chance variations might give the bacteria new options for adapting to changes or stresses in their environment. Like savvy investors, the bacteria appear to protect most of their genetic assets, but offer a few up to the high-roll stakes of mutation.
The researchers pointed out, "A simple switch in gene orientation ?could facilitate evolution in specific genes in a targeted way. Investigating the main targets of conflict-mediated formation of mutations is likely to show far-reaching insights into adaptation and evolution of organisms."
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Review: The Host | People's Critic: Film Reviews - seattlepi.com
Stephanie Meyer trades in vampires and werewolves for an alien invasion in The Host.
How cool would it be to see a movie that?s Twilight meets Independence Day. Really cool, except The Host is more like SYFY movie of the week meets a Hallmark teen love story.
The Host is almost flawed from the start. The movie takes place sometime in the near future where earth is invaded by Invasion of the Body Snatcher jellyfish who drive shiny cars. The film?s plot revolves around Melanie (Saoirse Ronan) who, after being captured by aliens, has her body inhabited by an alien creature named Wanderer. Melanie fights to stay alive and preserve herself, but mostly because her memories may lead the aliens to the resistance where her little brother and boyfriend (Max Irons) are living. Wanderer gains information from Melanie?s life through a series of dreams that look like deleted scenes from a Nicholas Sparks movie.
In case you?ve been keeping score at home, we?ve got one alien invasion, one resistance group, a boyfriend, a brother, one girl?s body, and two people living inside of it.
Fearing they?re both going to be killed, Wanderer and Melanie escape. Despite the poorly planned escape, they both reunite with the resistance group. Melanie can?t let anyone know she?s alive inside the Wanderer ? I?m not completely sure why ? but it does lead to Wanderer falling in love with Ian (Jake Abel). That?s right! Another Stephanie Meyer love triangle.
If you?re stills scoring at home we?ve got one body, two souls, two boyfriends, and one messy love triangle.
The love triangle lead to a few of the most ridiculous movie scenes I?ve seen in the past 24 months. Inner monologues while kissing, numerous kiss/punch combos, a tag team make out session, humans falling in love with aliens, and one painful ?I love you? speech. The mushy teen love angle is so annoying, I wanted the aliens to win just so it would stop.
Two people living inside of Melanie is where the film is fatally flawed. Director Andrew Niccol?s choice to use voiceovers to tell audiences what Melanie was thinking is bearable for the first 15 minutes her body is inhabited. After that, the constant voiceovers are annoying ? especially when you realize they will keep popping up the rest of the film.
I?ll be the first to admit that inner dialogue is tough to translate into film; it?s even tougher when the script doesn?t support it. ?The film can?t be totally blamed on the flawed premise, The Host waste opportunities to tell a compelling story and focuses on the puppy love story. If ?the movie was cut by 30 minutes and also spent a little time explaining the alien world they live in, I think the film is a lot more enjoyable.
What could be a cool concept for a sci-fi tween love story is ruined by bad dialogue and a forced love triangle. The Host doesn?t offer much, but a decent look at cool alien technology and plenty of shots of the desert.
Grade: D
Source: http://blog.seattlepi.com/peoplescritic/2013/03/28/review-the-host/
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Experts debate the psychology of ?Star Trek? vs. ?Star Wars?
Wondercon 2013: The psychology of Star Trek vs. Star Wars (Eric Pfeiffer/Yahoo News)ANAHEIM, Calif.?At Friday?s opening day of Wondercon 2013, the swords were drawn early. Or, more specifically, the light sabers were drawn and the phasers were set to kill.
Four experts, including two psychologists, debated four specific topics as part of an epic breakdown analyzing the respective strengths and weaknesses of Star Wars and Star Trek.
To an outsider, the debate might seem trivial. But to fans of each series, the differences have long run deep, pitting the more cerebral science fiction of Star Trek against the emotional, fantasy driven stories of the Star Wars universe.
As the debate opened, it was clear a majority of the hundreds of Wondercon attendees who packed into the ballroom showed up in, er, Force, to support Star Wars.
Well, first of all, there are not as many Trekkies here because they are all at work today,? quipped NYU clinical psychologist Dr. Ali Mattu.
Round 1: Nature vs. Nurture
Thanks to the infamous Star Wars prequels we now know that the villainous Darth Vader was not always bad. But Star Trek?s greatest villain, Khan Noonan Singh was literally born bad ? a product of genetic engineering who believed himself superior lesser men. So, which is the better story?
?Vader is someone you can probably diagnose with borderline personality disorder,? Mattu said. ?In fact, the American Psychological Association hosted a talk on this very topic in 2007.. Whereas Khan is the most dangerous thing in social psychology, when you dehumanize people. You get things like the Eugenics Wars and the Nazis.?
?Khan had a later life transformation,? said Larry Nemecek, author of the Star Trek The Next Generation Companion Guide. ?When we first met him in the Stark Trek television series, he was a villain. But when he comes back in the second film (?Wrath of Kahn,?) his wife has been killed and his adopted planet ruined.?
For her part, Dr. Andrea Letamendi, a psychologist, said Vader?s story was more compelling because of its complexity.
?George Lucas really has an understanding of what makes evil.? she said. ?There is a sophistication of what makes risk, loss and antisocial behavior. We are reminded that humans are complex.?
For his part, Robot Chicken writer Hugh Sterbakov did see one common failing of the two diabolical leaders: ?They're both really bad at choosing assistants,? he said, noting that in the accompanying photos for the panel, both men are seen lifting men into the air by their throats.
Round 2: Strength and Resilience
But who in the two competing sagas over the most adversity? Was it the crew of the Enterprise overcoming the death of Spock? Or, Luke Skywalker seeing his murdered aunt and uncle and being forced into a completely new world?
Dr. Letamendi said both series have similarities in the way that their characters maintain their behavioral patterns even after trying situations. For example, in Star Trek 2, Spock is willing to accept death during an unwinnable computer simulation. Later in the film, he sacrifices his own life to save the crew of the Enterprise.
And in The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker in quick to anger during a test of character in the caves of Degobah. Later in the film, he succumbs to the same behavior, and suffers for it, when he is quick to confront Vader.
?The main point is not win or lose but how you went down,? Nemecek said.
Round 3: Artificial Intelligence
The panelists weren?t allowed to speculate on who would win in a fight between Captain Kirk and Han Solo. But they were free to debate who has the better robots.
?There's a spectrum of how they treat artificial intelligence in Star Trek,? said Nemecek. ?Even Data's creator was an outcast. It's a complex question in the Star Trek universe.?
Letamendi responded by saying that the Star Wars androids were more likeable because they are less human, citing the ?Uncanny Valley? concept, which states that humans are emotionally put off by artificial intelligence the more closely it resembles actual human behavior and appearance.
But Mattu disagreed, agreeing with Nemecek that the wide variety of artificial intelligence on display in the Star Trek universe was met with different responses from different cultures.
Round 4: The Test
The panelists then moved on to the final round to argue which saga showcases the greater journey for its characters. From there, it was left to the audience to decide who had won the debate.
?It's an inspirational, motivational story that goes to the core of what it means to experience self-actualization and self individualization,? Letamendi said of Star Wars. ?It's actually what psychologists consider to be the most advanced state of being. And they have badass costumes.?
Mattu offered the counterpoint, saying of his own experience:
?What happened to me when I saw Star Trek was that I could see myself there. It was a future we could see, a mirror into ourselves. How with empathy, science and knowledge we can grow, improve as a society and overcome.?
?Plus, only in Star Trek can you blow up a planet and create one simultaneously using science.?
Ultimately, the cheers were loud for both sides, though it appeared that the Star Trek argument came out slightly ahead, reversing what had seemed like an audience stacked in favor of Star Wars at the onset.
But to any attendees who felt disappointed with the results, Mattu offered some positive news.
?Here's how we all win: We all have J.J. Abrams now.?
Can these experts finally solve the Star Trek vs. Star Wars debate? (Eric Pfeiffer/Yahoo News
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NKorea threatens to shut down joint factory park
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? North Korea is threatening to shut down a factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.
A spokesman for the North's office controlling the Kaesong industrial complex said Saturday that it would close the factory park just across the border in North Korea if South Korea continued to undermine its dignity.
Pyongyang expressed anger over media reports that said the factory remained open because it's a source of hard currency for the North.
North Korea has previously made such threats, and Saturday's warning is part of a torrent of bellicose rhetoric in recent weeks. North Korea is angry about annual South Korea-U.S. military drills and U.N. sanctions over its nuclear test last month.
Business has been operating normally at Kaesong despite the rising animosity between the Koreas.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nkorea-threatens-shut-down-joint-factory-park-103141961.html
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Muslims vanish as Buddhist attacks approach Myanmar's biggest city
By Jason Szep
SIT KWIN, Myanmar (Reuters) - The Muslims of Sit Kwin were always a small group who numbered no more than 100 of the village's 2,000 people. But as sectarian violence led by Buddhist mobs spreads across central Myanmar, they and many other Muslims are disappearing.
Their homes, shops and mosques destroyed, some end up in refugee camps or hide in the homes of friends or relatives. Dozens have been killed.
"We don't know where they are," says Aung Ko Myint, 24, a taxi driver in Sit Kwin, a farming village where on Friday Buddhists ransacked a store owned by the town's last remaining Muslim. "He escaped this morning just before the mob got here."
Since 42 people were killed in violence that erupted in Meikhtila town on March 20, unrest led by hardline Buddhists has spread to at least 10 other towns and villages in central Myanmar, with the latest incidents only about a two-hour drive from the commercial capital, Yangon.
The crowds are fired up by anti-Muslim rhetoric spread over the Internet and by word of mouth from monks preaching a movement known as "969". The three numbers refer to various attributes of the Buddha, his teachings and the monkhood. But it has come to represent a radical form of anti-Islamic nationalism which urges Buddhists to boycott Muslim-run shops and services.
Myanmar is predominantly Buddhist but about 5 percent of its 60 million people are Muslims. There are large Muslim communities in Yangon, Mandalay and towns across Myanmar's heartland where the religions have co-existed for generations.
But as violence spreads from village to village, the unleashing of ethnic hatred, suppressed during 49 years of military rule that ended in March 2011, is challenging the reformist government of one of Asia's most ethnically diverse countries.
Dusk-to-dawn curfews are in effect in many areas of Bago, the region where Sit Kwin lies, while four townships in central Myanmar are under a state of emergency imposed last week.
"I will not hesitate to use force as a last resort to protect the lives and safeguard the property of the general public," President Thein Sein said in a nationally televised speech on Thursday, warning "political opportunists and religious extremists" against instigating further violence.
The unrest has made almost 13,000 people homeless, according to the United Nations. State-run media reports 68 people have been arrested.
RUMOURS
The trouble in Sit Kwin began four days ago when people riding 30 motorbikes drove through town urging villagers to expel Muslim residents, said witnesses. They then trashed a mosque and a row of Muslim shops and houses.
"They came with anger that was born from rumors," said one man who declined to be identified.
Further south, police in Letpadan have stepped up patrols in the farming village of 22,000 people about 160 km (100 miles) from Yangon.
Three monks led a 30-strong group towards a mosque on Friday. Police dispersed the crowd, many of whom carried knives and staves, and briefly detained two people. They were later released at the request of township officials, police said.
"I won't let it happen again," said police commander Phone Myint. "The president yesterday gave the police authority to control the situation."
The abbot who led the protest, Khamainda, said he took to the streets after hearing rumors passed by other monks by telephone, about violence between Buddhists and Muslims in other towns. He said he wanted revenge against Muslims for the destruction by the Taliban of Buddhist statues in Bamiyan province in Afghanistan in 2001.
"There is no problem with the way they live. But they are the minority and we are the majority. And when the minority insults our religion we get concerned," he told Reuters. "We will come out again if we get a chance."
Letpadan villagers fear the tension will explode. "I'm sure they will come back and destroy the mosque," says Aung San Kyaw, 35, a Muslim. "We've never experienced anything like this."
Across the street, Hla Tan, a 67-year-old Buddhist, shares the fear. "We have lived peacefully for years. Nothing can happen between us unless outsiders come. But if they come, I know we can't stop them," he said.
North of Sit Kwin, the farming town of Minhla endured about three hours of violence on both Wednesday and Thursday.
About 300 people, many from the nearby village of Ye Kyaw, gathered on Wednesday afternoon. The crowd swelled to about 800 as townsfolk joined, a Minhla policeman told Reuters. They then destroyed three mosques and 17 shops and houses, he said. No Buddhist monks were involved, said witnesses.
"VERY NERVOUS"
The mob carried sticks, metal pipes and hammers, said Hla Soe, 60, a Buddhist who runs an electrical repair shop in Minhla. "No one could stop them," he said.
About 200 soldiers and police eventually intervened to restore a fragile peace. "I'm very nervous that it will happen again," he said.
About 500 of Minhla's township's 100,000 people are Muslims, said the police officer, who estimated two-thirds of those Muslims had fled.
However, Tun Tun is staying. "I have no choice," says the 26-year-old, whose tea shop was destroyed and looted by Buddhists, one armed with a chainsaw.
He plans to rebuild his shop, whose daily income of 10,000 kyat ($11) supports an extended family of 12. On the wall of his ransacked kitchen is a portrait of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He did not believe she could do anything to help.
Tun Tun traced the rising communal tension in Minhla to speeches given on February 26 and 27 by a celebrated monk visiting from Mon State, to the east of Yangon. He spoke to a crowd of 2,000 about the "969 movement", said Win Myint, 59, who runs a Buddhist community centre which hosted the monk.
After the 969 talks, Muslims were jeered and fewer Buddhists frequented his tea shop, said Tun Tun. Stickers bearing pastel hues overlaid with the numerals 969 appeared on non-Muslim street stalls across Minhla.
President Thein Sein's ambitious reform program has won praise, but his government has also been criticized for failing to stem violence last year in Rakhine State in western Myanmar, where officials say 110 people were killed and 120,000 were left homeless, most of them Rohingya Muslims.
The U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar said on Thursday he had received reports of "state involvement" in the recent violence at Meikhtila.
Soldiers and police sometimes stood by "while atrocities have been committed before their very eyes, including by well-organized ultra-nationalist Buddhist mobs", said the rapporteur, Tomas Ojea Quintana. "This may indicate direct involvement by some sections of the state or implicit collusion and support for such actions."
Ye Htut, a presidential spokesman and deputy minister of information, called those accusations "groundless". "In fact, the military and the government could not be concerned more about this situation," he said in a Facebook post.
Late on Friday, three monks were preparing to give another "969" speech in Ok Kan, a town 113 km (70 miles) from Yangon.
(Additional reporting by Min Zayar Oo; Editing by Andrew R.C. Marshall and Robert Birsel)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/muslims-vanish-buddhist-attacks-approach-myanmars-biggest-city-034801049.html
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Children with sleep apnea have higher risk of behavioral, adaptive and learning problems
Mar. 29, 2013 ? A new study found that obstructive sleep apnea, a common form of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), is associated with increased rates of ADHD-like behavioral problems in children as well as other adaptive and learning problems.
"This study provides some helpful information for medical professionals consulting with parents about treatment options for children with SDB that, although it may remit, there are considerable behavioral risks associated with continued SDB," said Michelle Perfect, PhD, the study's lead author and assistant professor in the school psychology program in the department of disability and psychoeducational studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "School personnel should also consider the possibility that SDB contributes to difficulties with hyperactivity, learning and behavioral and emotional dysregulation in the classroom."
The five-year study, which appears in the April issue of the journal SLEEP, utilized data from a longitudinal cohort, the Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea Study (TuCASA). The TuCASA study prospectively examined Hispanic and Caucasian children between 6 and 11 years of age to determine the prevalence and incidence of SDB and its effects on neurobehavioral functioning. The study involved 263 children who completed an overnight sleep study and a neurobehavioral battery of assessments that included parent and youth reported rating scales.
Results show that 23 children had incident sleep apnea that developed during the study period, and 21 children had persistent sleep apnea throughout the entire study. Another 41 children who initially had sleep apnea no longer had breathing problems during sleep at the five-year follow-up.
The odds of having behavioral problems were four to five times higher in children with incident sleep apnea and six times higher in children who had persistent sleep apnea. Compared to youth who never had SDB, children with sleep apnea were more likely to have parent-reported problems in the areas of hyperactivity, attention, disruptive behaviors, communication, social competency and self-care. Children with persistent sleep apnea also were seven times more likely to have parent-reported learning problems and three times more likely to have school grades of C or lower.
The authors report that this is the first sleep-related study to use a standardized questionnaire to assess adaptive functioning in typically developing youth with and without SDB.
"Even though SDB appears to decline into adolescence, taking a wait and see approach is risky and families and clinicians alike should identify potential treatments," said Perfect.
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Brain scans might predict future criminal behavior
Friday, March 29, 2013
A new study conducted by The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., shows that neuroimaging data can predict the likelihood of whether a criminal will reoffend following release from prison.
The paper, which is to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, studied impulsive and antisocial behavior and centered on the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a portion of the brain that deals with regulating behavior and impulsivity.
The study demonstrated that inmates with relatively low anterior cingulate activity were twice as likely to reoffend than inmates with high-brain activity in this region.
"These findings have incredibly significant ramifications for the future of how our society deals with criminal justice and offenders," said Dr. Kent A. Kiehl, who was senior author on the study and is director of mobile imaging at MRN and an associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico. "Not only does this study give us a tool to predict which criminals may reoffend and which ones will not reoffend, it also provides a path forward for steering offenders into more effective targeted therapies to reduce the risk of future criminal activity."
The study looked at 96 adult male criminal offenders aged 20-52 who volunteered to participate in research studies. This study population was followed over a period of up to four years after inmates were released from prison.
"These results point the way toward a promising method of neuroprediction with great practical potential in the legal system," said Dr. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Philosophy Department and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, who collaborated on the study. "Much more work needs to be done, but this line of research could help to make our criminal justice system more effective."
The study used the Mind Research Network's Mobile Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) System to collect neuroimaging data as the inmate volunteers completed a series of mental tests.
"People who reoffended were much more likely to have lower activity in the anterior cingulate cortices than those who had higher functioning ACCs," Kiehl said. "This means we can see on an MRI a part of the brain that might not be working correctly -- giving us a look into who is more likely to demonstrate impulsive and anti-social behavior that leads to re-arrest."
The anterior cingulate cortex of the brain is "associated with error processing, conflict monitoring, response selection, and avoidance learning," according to the paper. People who have this area of the brain damaged have been "shown to produce changes in disinhibition, apathy, and aggressiveness. Indeed, ACC-damaged patients have been classed in the 'acquired psychopathic personality' genre."
Kiehl says he is working on developing treatments that increase activity within the ACC to attempt to treat the high-risk offenders.
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When it comes to sports & recreation, what does Bend/Central ...
The Bend Parks & Rec. passed their bond and we know we?ve got an ice rink on the way. We are trail town USA and perhaps the most dog-friendly town in the world. We?ve got a ski resort, rivers, lakes, golf courses? what else do we need?
Seriously though, what would you like to see come to Bend or Central Oregon?
Something new? More of something we already have? A better version of something we already have?
As a tennis coach, I can tell you that Bend needs more tennis courts. As a basketball coach I can also tell you that Central Oregon could use more basketball courts.
I also know that many want a new skate park, we are on our way to having more pickleball courts? but what say you?
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Libyan official: 3 Pakistani activists raped
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? Libya's deputy prime minister says pro-government militiamen are suspected of having raped three British female activists of Pakistani origin in the eastern city of Benghazi.
Awsad al-Barassi says the women were part of an overland aid convoy bound for Gaza. The women were traveling with two male companions when they were kidnapped Tuesday on their way to the Benghazi airport after deciding return to Britain.
Al-Barassi told Libya al-Hurra TV late Thursday that he has met with the women and they are in "very bad shape."
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry condemned the incident and said Islamabad is in contact with Libyan authorities.
Britain's Foreign Office said it is aware of an incident involving British nationals who were part of an aid convoy. It did not elaborate.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-official-3-pakistani-activists-raped-130540911.html
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Friday, March 29, 2013
2014 Camaro Z28: Iconic muscle car makes a comeback
2014 Camaro Z28 will be faster and lighter than a standard Camaro and designed to hit the racetrack. The 2014 Camaro Z28 will be the first Z28 sold in over a decade by Chevy.?
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Chevrolet is reviving the Z/28?Camaro?as a lighter, high-performance version of the muscle car. The Z/28, which debuted in 1967 and was last sold in 2002, has been reengineered for 2014 at 3,800 pounds, about 100 pounds lighter than a standard?Camaro. It's designed so that it can hit the racetrack, with the Corvette's powerful V-8 engine and bigger brakes. To shed weight, it forgoes some standard comforts, coming with a one-speaker radio, stiffer seats and manual transmission only.
"We really wanted to try to get rid of some of the mass and make it a real enthusiasts' car to be able to use for spirited driving on the street and open track days," said Mark Stielow, performance engineering manager for the Z/28.
Air conditioning is optional and there's less sound insulation. Brake rotors are made of carbon and ceramics instead of heavier steel. It's more aerodynamic than a standard?Camaro, and the suspension is even stiffer than the ZL1, another high-performance version.
"The whole car has been just kind of tauted up. It's kind of a more performance style car," Stielow said.
Even with the changes, he says the car still handles bumpy roads well, though not as well as a standard?Camaro.
Engineers also freshened up the?Camaro's?profile for 2014, reshaping the front and rear to make it more modern and athletic looking.
Alan Batey, General Motors' U.S. sales chief, said the company doesn't expect to sell a lot of Z/28s, but the car does bring back some of the brand's heritage from days when it dominated U.S. roads.
"You don't do this because of how many you're going to sell. You do this because of the statement it can make and the way it can build the brand," he said.
Here are some highlights of the 2014 Z/28:
UNDER THE HOOD: 7-liter (427-cubic-inch) V-8 from the Corvette that puts out more than 500 horsepower. GM wouldn't reveal a zero to 60 mph time. Six-speed manual transmission with close gear range.
OUTSIDE: Fender flares over the wheels to reduce wind drag. Extended panels at the bottom of the doors and a rear spoiler also improve aerodynamics.
INSIDE: New matte-metallic finish on the trim. Flat-bottomed steering wheel, standard Recaro seats that are more supportive for the race track. Front seats don't have power adjustments in order to save weight. Rear seats also were modified to cut pounds.
FUEL ECONOMY: Not disclosed. Likely to be less than the current?Camaro?with a manual transmission and 6.2-liter V-8, which gets 14 mpg in the city and 19 on the highway.
PRICE: Also not released. Available late in 2013. Current?Camaro?SS with a V-8 starts at $31,635.
CHEERS: Harkens back to the glory days of Chevrolet. Will be fast and fun to drive.
JEERS: Ride likely will be harsher and noisier than the standard?Camaro.
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'Biggest cyberattack in history' turns out to be overblown
Is it "the biggest cyberattack in history"? Or just routine flak that network-security providers face all the time?
News websites across the Western world proclaimed Internet Armageddon today (March 27), largely due to a New York Times story detailing a "squabble" between the spam-fighting vigilantes at Spamhaus and the dodgy Dutch Web-hosting company Cyberbunker.
"Fight Jams Internet," the Times headline said. "Global Internet slows," the BBC proclaimed in the wake of the Times' story. Both websites alleged that Netflix streaming was slowing down as a result.
The reality is less exciting, though still serious. The Internet disruptions, which were centered in Western Europe, appear to be largely over, and were largely unnoticed even when occurring.
But, if anything, the incident may prompt a fix for a basic security flaw in the Domain Name System that serves as one of the underpinnings of the Internet.
"Despite the work that has gone into making the Internet extremely resilient, these attacks underscore the fact that there are still some aspects of it that are relatively fragile," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at San Francisco-based network-security provider nCircle.
Too much information
Cyberbunker appears to be behind a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that first tried to first take down Spamhaus, then Spamhaus' network-reliability provider CloudFlare, and finally this past Saturday (March 23) hit CloudFlare's own bandwidth providers in Europe.
Boston-based Akamai Networks told the Times, and Spamhaus told the BBC, that the last round of attacks peaked at 300 gigabits per second, possibly the largest amount of bandwidth ever recorded during a DDoS attack.
According to a CloudFlare blog posting, the attack was launched on March 18 and immediately involved a tactic called DNS amplification, in which unprotected Domain Name System (DNS) servers are used to flood targeted servers with huge amounts of useless information, tying up bandwidth and processing time.
The attacks increased in volume during the week, finally peaking on Saturday when, according to CloudFlare, half of the infrastructure on the London Internet Exchange, an Internet node connecting several large-scale networks, was tied up by the attack. (CloudFlare is based in Palo Alto, Calif., but runs a global network.)
DNS servers are essentially the phone books of the Internet. Every Internet-connected device, from your computer to your smartphone, uses them to match a website address that humans use, such as "www.technewsdaily.com," with an Internet Protocol address that computers and routers use, such as "207.86.128.60."
DNS servers are essential, yet many remain "open," which means they will accept lookup requests from anyone, not just their specified clients.
Attackers make lookup requests using the IP addresses of their targets, then request tons of information, which ends up flooding the targeted servers with huge amounts of DNS information.
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Did two wrongs make a bigger wrong?
Spamhaus, a group of related companies based in London and Geneva, was started in 1998 to track and combat email spam and spammers. It maintains a blacklist of Web-hosting companies known to host spammers, and a whitelist of known "clean" Web hosts.
Both lists are used by Internet service providers around the world, and Spamhaus is partly responsible for the huge drop in email spam in recent years.
Some Web-hosting companies have complained they've been unfairly placed on the Spamhaus blacklist. Spammers have launched DDoS attacks against Spamhaus' website and servers. (There's even a "Stophaus" website based in Russia and dedicated to combating what it calls Spamhaus' "underhanded extortion tactics.")
It appears Cyberbunker has both complained and attacked.
Cyberbunker bases its operations in a decommissioned NATO bunker, built to withstand a nuclear war, in the southern Netherlands. The company was founded in 1998 by a group of hackers who proclaimed the "Republic of Cyberbunker," a sovereign state "surrounded by the Netherlands on all borders."
The company pledges not to ask questions about what its clients are up to.
"In most cases we have no idea as to who or where our customers actually are," the Cyberbunker site proclaims. "Customers are allowed to host any content they like, except child porn and anything related to terrorism. Everything else is fine."
Such a policy has attracted some unsavory clients, including the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, and, according to Spamhaus, the cybercrime gang known as the Russian Business Network. Cyberbunker also claims to have been raided by a Dutch police SWAT team, which apparently found nothing incriminating on the premises.
It was Cyberbunker's alleged hosting of spammers that caused Spamhaus to place both Cyberbunker and its ISP on the Spamhaus blacklist in the fall of 2011.
As a result, Cyberbunker's ISP dropped it as a client, but both the ISP and Cyberbunker posted long manifestos about why Spamhaus was evil.
The issue seems to have lain dormant until March 18, when a false Anonymous campaign called "Operation Stophaus" was proclaimed on the online bulletin board Pastebin.
It listed a litany of complaints against the "tax-circumventing self-declared Internet terrorists" of Spamhaus, then added a variant of the Anonymous "We Are Legion" tagline.
That posting may have been cover for the DDoS attacks that began the same day. In a statement to the New York Times, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, who claimed to speak for Cyberbunker, and whose Google+ page gives his residence as "Republic Cyberbunker," affirmed that the Dutch hosting company was behind the attacks.
"Nobody ever deputized Spamhaus to determine what goes and does not go on the Internet," Kamphuis told the newspaper. "They worked themselves into that position by pretending to fight spam."
It's hard to see how such an attack can be legally justified. The Netherlands has famously lax laws governing the Internet and other digital communications, but odds are Cyberbunker will be facing another SWAT raid very soon.
Fixing a hole
For his blog posting, CloudFlare's Matthew Prince used the headline "The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet." That's not entirely accurate, since the problems were rather localized.
However, the attack may prompt an overhaul of the DNS system. Prince and others have been vocal about the need to lock down most or all DNS servers so they no longer respond to lookup requests from anyone.
That move would go against the model of openness and accessibility that's guided the Internet for 40 years. The idea has always been that any Internet-connected device can reach any other using any path, and open DNS servers are essential to that model.
But the problem of DNS-amplified attacks has been growing exponentially in just the past few months.
The ongoing attacks against U.S. bank websites which began last September use the tactic, and have reached 100 Gbps at times.
If this week's unrelated attacks truly did hit 300 Gbps, the end to the open-DNS server model may be inevitable.
This story was provided by TechNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. Follow Paul Wagenseil?@snd_wagenseil. Follow us?@TechNewsDaily,?Facebook?or?Google+.
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How Secure Is the Passcode on My Phone?
Dear Lifehacker,
There have been a lot of passcode exploits lately. Like, a whole lot. Should I be worried? How much does protection does my lock screen actually give me?
Sincerely
Perturbed About Passcodes
Dear Perturbed,
Your concern isn't unfounded, and while these exploits don't give an attacker full access to your phone, other tricks can. Here's what you need to know about keeping your phone secure.
What These Exploits Actually Do
Let's start with the iPhone: Both of the recent iOS 6 passcode exploits allowed an attacker to glitch their way only into the Phone app, not the home screen. As such, they could place calls, see/edit your contacts and access your photos via the "assign new picture" option. So while it doesn't give someone total access to your phone, it's still enough to be concerned about.
The exploits affecting Samsung Galaxy phones worked a bit differently, flashing the home screen (or whatever was open before the phone locked) for no more than a second. While it doesn't seem all that nefarious, it's enough time to launch an app, and persistent attackers could use it repeatedly to download an app that would unlock your phone completely.
Both manufacturers are aware of these problems?Apple recently released iOS 6.1.3 to address its passcode issue, only to have it circumvented yet again. Samsung has also stated it's intent to do the same, although at the time that this is being written the only existing fix is a third party one.
A Passcode Doesn't Completely Protect You
It may seem like your phone's security has suddenly been compromised with all these passcode exploits, but really, passcodes have never been foolproof. In fact, they're no more secure than any other password or PIN: they can be cracked, and they really shouldn't be the only thing protecting your smartphone's data.
I reached out to security expert Brandon Gregg about the level of security a passcode affords. Here's what he had to say:
Passcodes do not mean encryption. Only if you specifically go to your Android settings can you encrypt your phone (and SD card) with a separate, strong password. Too many people believe their four digit Android or iOS passcodes protect their private information. First off, anyone can easily brute force your short 10,000 possibility password. Tools like XRY (which I use and was profiled on Gizmodo) can do the crack in milliseconds. Second, a passcode does not protect from direct forensic access by tools like XRY, MPE by Accessdata and the growing list of programs for Law Enforcement. Once inside the phone, all your data is up for grabs. The best thing you can do right now is full encryption. The above tools aren't designed for brute force at that level (yet) and the data will be useless.
Basically, your data is vulnerable on two levels. First, you have a lock screen passcode, which can be cracked, although using a strong alphanumeric password can make brute-forcing your phone take much longer to crack. However, your data is still sitting there on your phone's hard drive, and an attacker with the proper forensic equipment and enough patience can still get at your data?unless you have full disk encryption.
Android has had full disk encryption since Honeycomb (3.0), albeit with some limitations. iOS also has a Data Protection API that apps can use to encrypt and protect your data, but it's up to app developers to incorporate it (and it doesn't work with apps that use iCloud), so its a lot less useful. In both cases, however, the encryption key is the same as your passcode lock, and you'd have to use a strong passcode for the encryption to be effective. But who wants to enter in a long, alphanumeric password every time they need their phone? The point is to make it hard for hackers to get into your phone, not you.
Should I Even Bother with a Passcode Lock?
Of course. There's no reason for you to make things easy for the thief who steals your phone. You could also be very fortunate and end up being robbed by someone who doesn't know the first thing about getting around lock screens. By all means, enable your passcode, and make sure it's a good one.
However, understand that your lock screen alone isn't going to truly protect your data, and encryption is far from perfect. To that end, we recommend setting up a service like Apple's Find My iPhone, or a third-party app like Prey. They can track your smartphone and wipe its data when you lose it (or it gets stolen). Hopefully, you'll never need to worry about this sort of thing, but you know what an ounce of prevention is worth.
Sincerely,
Lifehacker
Photo by Neyro(Shutterstock).
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News in Brief: Termites, not fairies, cause plant circles in African deserts
Underground insect engineers create water traps, allowing rings of green grasses in the sand
Underground insect engineers create water traps, allowing rings of green grasses in the sand
By Susan Milius
Web edition: March 28, 2013
Natural rings of perennial grasses manage to survive in parched terrain of NamibRand, Namibia, thanks to a termite that creates areas of moisture within the sand.
Credit: N. J?rgens
The Namib Desert?s version of crop circles turns out to be the handiwork of sand-dwelling termites.
These ?fairy rings? of perennial grass species dot arid, sandy sweeps from Angola to South Africa and have inspired ecological and mythological speculation about their origins. After 40 trips to study the water distribution and life around the fairy rings, Norbert J?rgens of the University of Hamburg in Germany concludes that the sand termite (Psammotermes allocerus) is the hidden force behind them.
Among the hundreds of species that thrive in these rings, the sand termite is the only one found throughout the range, he reports in the March 29 Science.
Termites unintentionally engineer these marvels by eating the roots of grasses, creating a bald patch that becomes the ring?s center. The subsurface depths of that patch stay moister than neighboring areas, where plants draw the water out of the soil. The circles? bull?s eye favors not only the moisture-loving termites, but also a belt around its edge of perennial grasses and many other species that couldn?t survive baked sand.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Ex-Sen. Craig loses bid to dismiss FEC lawsuit
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A federal judge is refusing to dismiss a Federal Election Commission lawsuit accusing former Sen. Larry Craig of misusing $217,000 in campaign funds for his legal defense after his arrest in a 2007 airport bathroom sex sting.
Craig contends that the airport bathroom trip fell under his official duties as senator because he was traveling between Idaho and Washington for work.
But U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in a ruling Thursday that neither the charge nor the underlying conduct had anything to do with Craig's official duties.
The Idaho Republican was arrested by an undercover police officer conducting a sting operation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. After his arrest and guilty plea to disorderly conduct later became public, Craig tried unsuccessfully to reverse his conviction.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-sen-craig-loses-bid-dismiss-fec-lawsuit-211033753--politics.html
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Markets weighed down by euro area woes
LONDON (AP) ? Sentiment in the world's markets remained fragile Wednesday ahead of the reopening of Cyprus' banks and the ongoing political stalemate in Italy.
Cypriot banks, which have been closed for the best part of two weeks, are due to start doing business again on Thursday following an international bailout agreement that's caused jitters around the world ? but particularly in Europe ? over the safety of deposits. Under the terms of the bailout, Cyprus is closing its second-largest bank, Laiki, and raiding big deposits in it, as well as in Bank of Cyprus.
The banks will have a number of restrictions imposed on them in order to prevent large-scale withdrawals that would further dent their prospects and damage the country's economy.
While the uncertainty over Cyprus remained, investors were also growing increasingly cautious about developments in Rome, where center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani was struggling to form a government, a month after inconclusive elections.
"If a coalition that remains amenable to austerity can be cobbled together then Italy may limp on without a new crisis," said David Jones, chief market strategist at IG. "However, if there is one thing the eurozone situation has taught us it is that it is best not to hope for the most sensible outcomes, or for quick solutions."
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed down 0.6 percent at 6,364.03 while Germany's DAX fell 1.3 percent to 7,781.12. The CAC-40 in France ended 1.5 percent lower at 3,694, while Milan's main FTSE MIB index dropped 1.5 percent to 15,265.43.
The euro also remained under pressure, trading 0.8 percent lower at $1.2759. The currency has been on the slide since a top European official said the Cyprus bailout may be a model for the future. Though others have since sought to dismiss that idea, the thought has unsettled investors.
Rising worries over the future of the eurozone was visible in the bond markets too. The yield on Spain's 10-year bond ? a gauge of investors' concerns ? rose 0.11 percentage point to 5.04 percent, while Italy's jumped 0.13 percentage point to 4.67 percent.
"Despite the efforts of various eurozone politicians to reassure depositors that Cyprus's banking bail-in will not be used as a template, they will find it difficult to re-seal the can of worms," said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank International.
In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.6 percent at 14,472 while the broader S&P 500 index fell the same rate to 1,554. On Tuesday, the Dow ended at a record closing high and the S&P just short of its all-time record.
Earlier, Asian stocks fared better as they rose in the slipstream of Tuesday's advance in U.S. stock markets, which saw the S&P 500 edge up towards an all-time high and the Dow rise to a new record.
Japan's Nikkei rose 0.2 percent to 12,493.79 while Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index rose 0.6 percent to close at 22,464.82. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite Index advanced 0.2 percent to 2,301.26 while the smaller Shenzhen Composite rose 0.3 percent to 955.24.
Oil prices tracked equities after hitting a five-week high on Tuesday ? the benchmark crude rate for May delivery fell 59 cents to $95.75 a barrel.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/markets-weighed-down-euro-area-woes-171523760--finance.html
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Mobile ads to push Twitter ad revenue near $1 billion in 2014: report
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter will generate nearly $1 billion in ad revenue next year due to a surge in mobile advertising on its Web microblogging service, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Mobile ads will account for roughly half of Twitter's advertising revenue this year and will make up more than 60 percent of the company's ad revenue by 2015 according to research firm eMarketer.
The increasing popularity of Twitter's mobile ads - introduced in March 2012 - caused eMarketer to raise its 2014 ad revenue estimates for Twitter to $950 million, versus its previous estimate of roughly $800 million. Twitters' ad revenue this year will total $582.8 million, according to the report, roughly double what it was in 2012.
Twitter, which allows people to share 140-character messages on its online service, is privately held and does not disclose financial results.
With more than 200 million monthly active users, Twitter is among the Web's most popular social networking services, along with Facebook Inc, and is expected by analysts to float shares to the public within two years.
As consumers increasingly access the Web on smartphones, mobile ads have become increasingly important to the businesses of Web companies such as Facebook and Google Inc. Facebook said in January that its mobile ad revenue doubled from the third quarter to the fourth quarter, representing roughly 23 percent of its $1.33 billion in fourth-quarter ad revenue.
"Twitter has ultimately benefited from the increased focus on mobile by competitors like Google and Facebook, which have both expanded their own mobile ad offerings and worked to convince advertisers to shift dollars to mobile devices," eMarketer said on Wednesday.
eMarketer said its revenue forecasts are based on analysis of reports that track media buying trends, Twitter usage data and interviews with executives at advertising agencies, online publishers and others.
(Reporting By Alexei Oreskovic; editing by Andrew Hay)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mobile-ads-push-twitter-ad-revenue-near-1-162046260--sector.html
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