RIM BlackBerry Torch 9850 (Verizon Wireless)

Research In Motion is living in its own world, divorced from the reality of the smartphone market. The BlackBerry Torch 9850 on Verizon Wireless is only the latest example. Like the similar Sprint and U.S. Cellular versions, the Torch 9850 is a beautiful touch screen cell phone that's neither as powerful, easy to use, or capable as its Android or keyboarded BlackBerry brethren, despite its up-to-the-minute hardware specs.

Design and Call Quality
When turned off, the Torch 9850 certainly looks good. It measures 4.7 by 2.4 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.8 ounces. The soft touch back panel and smooth front coating are classy, and the device feels suitably expensive to hold. The 3.7-inch, 480-by-800-pixel, plastic touch screen matches the HTC Droid Incredible 2's ($199.99, 3.5 stars) in size and resolution. It's reasonably bright and colorful, but a step down from behemoths like the Motorola Droid Bionic ($299.99, 4.5 stars) and HTC Thunderbolt ($249.99, 4 stars). Four hardware buttons sit beneath the screen, along with a redundant touchpad that serves little purpose. Typing on the on-screen keyboard is a royal pain. The portrait mode keys are too small to touch accurately, and the landscape keyboard covers too much of the screen to use with any regularity.

The Torch 9850 is a true world phone, with dual-band EV-DO Rev A (850/1900 MHz), quad-band EDGE (850/1900/1800/1900 MHz), and single-band UMTS (2100 MHz) support. It also hooks into 802.11b/g/n networks?my own 802.11n network was no problem?but doesn't connect to Verizon's 4G LTE network. The SIM card slot is locked, so you must pay Verizon's exorbitant rates when traveling overseas. Sprint and U.S. Cellular both unlock the SIM card slot so you can use local, prepaid SIMs that are much cheaper, although you temporarily lose your phone number in the process.?

Call quality was good, but not great. Voices sounded perfectly intelligible in the earpiece, although there was a little bit of noise around each caller's spoken syllables that shouldn't have been there. Transmissions were a little thin-sounding through the microphone. Reception was fine. Calls sounded clear through an Aliph Jawbone Era Bluetooth headset ($129, 4 stars). Voice dialing worked perfectly over Bluetooth without training. The speakerphone sounded fine and went quite loud. Battery life was excellent at 7 hours and 42 minutes of talk time.

Hardware, OS, and Apps
BlackBerry 7 OS is a useful upgrade to an old platform. The new WebKit browser is a huge improvement, now on par with full-screen browsers on other devices. The built-in Facebook and Twitter clients are good. BlackBerrys are still great messaging devices, and are easy for company IT departments to deploy and manage. You get support for push-email for up to 10 accounts, plus BlackBerry Messenger. It only syncs properly with Microsoft Exchange Server if you have BlackBerry Enterprise Server installed at your company, though.

As with the BlackBerry Bold 9930, the Torch 9850 packs a 1.2GHz, single-core Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8655 CPU. There's also 768MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage (down from 8GB on the Bold 9930). The OS is quite responsive, even with the extra graphics processing required for the larger touch screen.

As we've already mentioned in other BlackBerry handset reviews, BlackBerry App World is a disaster. It's arguably even worse on the Torch 9850, as fewer apps show up as compatible with this handset than on standard, QWERTY-equipped BlackBerrys (although that's steadily improving). As you read this, RIM is busy polishing a new version 3.0 that should address some of the more glaring shortcomings, including a new search feature and additional suggested app lists. Hopefully it will be easier to use and much more reliable. Regardless, think of the Torch 9850 as a well-equipped feature phone, rather than a proper smartphone, as you won't find much joy in the third-party app selection.

Multimedia, Camera, and Conclusions
The microSD card slot and standard-size 3.5mm headphone jack make this a good music player, just like other BlackBerrys. In addition to the 4GB of internal storage, RIM throws in a 16GB microSD card, which is welcome; my own 32GB SanDisk card also worked fine. The music player app is one of the few bright spots, along with the WebKit browser; when playing tracks, you can tap on the artist or track name, which then cues up a search for other similar tracks. Navigation is also easy, and album art graphics are large and colorful. Music tracks sounded punchy through Samsung Modus HM6450 Bluetooth headphones ($99, 4 stars). Standalone videos played smoothly in full screen mode and looked vibrant, both in standard definition and widescreen high definition (720p), which the handset transcoded on the fly.

The 5-megapixel camera has an LED flash and continuous auto-focus. Test photos were about average, with decent resolution and solid light balance, but too much grain in darker rooms and not quite enough color vibrancy outdoors. The autofocus takes a second or two to lock in. The Torch 9850 is a decent camcorder; it records smooth, but dark and slightly soft, high-definition videos at 1280-by-720-pixels and 30 frames per second.

Despite its obvious improvements over last-generation BlackBerrys, the Torch 9850 is a disappointment. The 9850 swaps out a BlackBerry's best feature, its excellent hardware keyboard, for frustrating, subpar touch keyboard. There's no reason to go for this. The Bold 9930 is a better choice; it offers a sublime hardware keyboard, plus a smaller touch LCD that you can ignore most of the time, especially with the included trackpad. But if you want a full-blown touch screen phone, you have plenty of better options, including the HTC Thunderbolt, the Motorola Droid Bionic, the Apple iPhone 4 ($199.99, 4 stars), and the Samsung Droid Charge ($299.99, 4 stars). The Android phones hook into Verizon's blazing 4G LTE data network, and all sport larger screens; some even have dual-core CPUs. The Apple iPhone 4, meanwhile, has the best third-party app market in the industry, with over 400,000 apps available; Android Market has over 250,000 as well.?

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5. Carry Electronic Documents Rather than Hard Copy Rather than carry heavy stacks of brochures or sales letters, take electronic documents on diskettes and have them printed at a local printing service. Similarly, if you are working a booth in a trade show, it's a good idea to carry electronic documents in case you run out of the stack you shipped from the office.

6. Find Hotels that Cater to Business Travelers Hotels that cater to business travelers will have Internet capabilities and offer access to business machines such as faxes and photocopiers.

7. Remember Adaptors and Converters If you're traveling to a foreign country, remember that you might need special voltage adaptors for electricity. You might also need plug adapters to accommodate both electrical plugs and telephone jacks. A good travel store will be able to help you decide what's needed.

8. Use Calling Cards When you're staying at a hotel, the phone bill can be a major expense. The cost of calling your family, checking your voice mail and checking your email is best handled by using a telephone calling card or a corporate credit card.

9. Check your Cellular Service Cellular phone companies regularly offer new rates. Check to be sure you're getting the best deal -- some now include long distance charges in the monthly fee. If your business travel will take you to small, out-of-the way towns, your digital phone might not work. You will need an analog or dual digital/anlog phone for such trips.

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Amazon reveals $79 Kindle!

As if a $199 Kindle Fire wasn't enough, Amazon's also launching a Kindle e-reader that'll dip below triple-digits for the first time. You heard right -- a $79 Kindle. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the company's Kindle line will "start" at the aforesaid price as of today, a marked drop from the $114 being charged for its lowest end unit earlier in the week. If anything, that's a huge blow for Barnes & Noble, and we're surmising that a reactionary drop will be coming soon in the Nook family if it hopes to keep pace.

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Today, at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, two new risk indicators for prostate cancer will be revealed.

The investigation, led by Dr David Orsted at the Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, reveals that men who are diagnosed with benign prostate enlargement have a higher risk of developing and dying from prostate cancer. The second investigation reveals that the long-term risk of healthy men developing and dying from this disease can be predicted by monitoring prostate-specific antigen levels. As a result these investigations could lead to more efficient and cost-effective screening for prostate cancer, with reductions in over-diagnosis and unnecessary treatment.

In Europe each year, more than 70,000 men die from prostate cancer according to European Cancer Observatory statistics. Prostate cancer shares common features with benign enlargement of the prostate gland (benign prostatic hyperplasia). In both conditions, the growth of the gland is dependent on hormone levels, and both prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia respond to anti-androgen treatment, however, up till now it was not believed that benign prostatic hyperplasia was a precursor to tumor development.
The investigators studies the connection between the two conditions by analyzing data from five national registries, on a total of 3,009,258 men from Denmark.

53,315 diagnoses of prostate cancer and 25,459 cases of death due to the disease, were included in the sample. Between the years 1980 and 2006, clinical benign prostatic hyperplasia was concluded by records of men hospitalized (187,591) and/or if they underwent surgery for the condition (77,698 men), as well as the use of certain medications suggested for the condition between the years 1995 and 2006 (143,365 and 47,465 men respectively for the two treatments). The reference group consisted of men without benign prostate hyperplasia.

Over the 27 years, they discovered that clinical benign prostate hyperplasia was connected to a two to three times increased risk of men developing prostate cancer, and a two to eight times increased risk from dying from the disease.

Investigation team member Dr. Stig Bojesen will explain to the congress:

?Benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer and the most common prostatic conditions with a large number of incident and prevalent cases each year. A possible association has been debated for several years but previous studies have generated ambiguous results.?

Further investigations are required to find out if benign prostate enlargement could be a potential cause of prostate cancer, but given the large number of individuals affected, the results already have important implications. Dr. Bojesen says:

?The possible clinical implication of our study might be that physicians treating men with benign prostatic hyperplasia should follow these men carefully, to ensure early diagnosis and treatment of a possible prostate cancer, thereby enhancing the chance of curative treatment. However, our study does not allow us to suggest the optimal surveillance program for these men. This question should be addressed in future studies.?

The second Danish study, also led by Dr ?rsted, looked at whether prostate-specific antigen levels could predict prostate cancer incidence and mortality in the general population.

Prostate-specific antigen is a protein produced by the prostate gland. Men who are healthy have low levels of the antigen in their blood, however, raised levels are believed to be a sign of prostate cancer in addition to other conditions of the prostate gland. Though, it is not clear if antigen levels in men that are healthy predict long-term risk of developing prostate cancer.

Blood collected from 4,383 men between the ages of 20 and 94 from the general population who participated in the Copenhagen City Heart Study and followed from 1981 through to 2009, was examined by the investigators. The researchers measured baseline levels of prostate specific antigen and examined if this related with prostate cancer occurring later and mortality.

Throughout the 28 years of follow-up that was covered by the Heart Study, 170 men who participated developed the disease and 94 died from prostate cancer. While measuring the antigen levels, they discovered that stepwise increases in prostate-specific antigen predicted a 3 to 44 times increased risk of developing prostate cancer and a 2 to 12 times increased risk of dying from prostate cancer.

For men with prostate-specific antigen levels of 4.01-10.00 ng/ml the 10-year absolute risk for developing prostate cancer was 11-22%, compared to the risk of 37-79% in men whose levels were above 10.00 ng/ml, they discovered.

Dr. ?rsted will explain to the congress that the ranges are wide and the higher risk for some men can be explained:

?The high risk for some men is probably due to some of the participants having already developed sub-clinical prostate cancer at the time of their entry to the study. These men would have had a shorter time from study entry to diagnosis and consequently, higher risk estimates.?

The results from the investigation could be used to target certain sections of the population for screening. Dr. ?rsted said:

?One of the major problems in prostate cancer is over-diagnosis. Furthermore, two large randomized studies have shown that the benefit of general screening for prostate cancer is limited. Our results indicate that physicians could focus screening efforts on men with higher baseline prostate specific antigen values while men with lower levels could avoid having frequent and unnecessary diagnostic examinations. This could reduce over-diagnosis and unnecessary treatment as well as reduce expenditure in already strained healthy systems.?

President of ECCO, Professor Michael Baumann, explained:

?These studies demonstrate how important it is to have good cancer registries and skilled cancer epidemiologists available. Large cancer registries, which contain high quality data and link to several items, enable us to address specific questions; for example, whether there is a link between benign prostate hyperplasia or long-term PSA levels and the risk of prostate cancer. Such research allows us to draft hypotheses for further research and to create more efficient screening and prevention programs.?

ESMO spokesperson, Professor Hein Van Poppel, Director of the European School of Urology, said:

?The first study indicates the need for future research to focus on how to follow patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia in order to recognise an eventual cancer in time. PCA3, genetic fusion markers or methylation markers could be explored for this purpose.

For PSA screening, the ideal screening timetable needs to be investigated. It could well be that screening needs to start at an age where there is no interference from the benign prostatic hyperplasia in PSA production, i.e. at age 40; by repeating the PSA measurement at 45 and 50 years old, the PSA slope can probably recognize those with a high likelihood of ever developing cancer, but also those who will not need further screening because their chance or ever developing significant prostate cancer is minimal.?

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Mexico's Maxcom to launch TV streaming, video (Reuters)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? Mexico's Maxcom Telecomunicaciones is set to launch an online video and live television rental service using a technology that allows streaming with a very low broadband speed.

Maxcom already offers phone and internet services in Mexico, where it has around 100,000 broadband users, and its new offering will pit it against U.S. firm Netflix.

Vice President of marketing Gabriel Cejudo told Reuters on Friday that the new service, Yuzu, to be launched next week, will offer a monthly subscription price of 149 pesos ($11) while the service reaches its first 10,000 users.

Yuzu's offer is slightly above the $8 proposal from Netflix, which opened shop in Mexico last week, but unlike the U.S. online video rental giant, the Mexican company will add live television streaming to its mix.

"If you run on at least half a MB (megabit), our platform will work just fine," Cejudo said, adding that the technology used by Yuzu allows the streaming to automatically adjust to fluctuating broadband speed -- common in Mexico depending on traffic -- to always guarantee a steady image.

Mexican users have an average internet connection speed of 2 MB, though much faster and pricier speeds of up to 50 MB or 100 MB are available with a handful of providers, mostly in large cities.

Yuzu, which expects to reach half a million subscribers within its first year of operation, will offer an initial movie catalog of some 500 titles but by early 2012 it expects to grow it to 3,000 titles.

Additionally, it will offer 20 channels like HBO, Fox and Turner, for live television streaming on anything from laptops to smartphones.

Cejudo said Yuzu will focus on the Mexican market for now.

However, it could consider striking deals with companies like Apple to also sell tablet computers to customers, a model that has proved quite successful for companies like tycoon Carlos Slim's Telefonos de Mexico.

"We are in talks with several providers," Cejudo said, without elaborating.

Other companies offering a more limited but free access to online series and movies in the region include Argentina's Cuevana. Slim has flirted with paid online access in Colombia via Telmex TV Online service.

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From worst to first! D-backs win NL West

??The Arizona Diamondbacks completed an improbable run to their first NL West crown in four years, beating San Francisco 3-1 Friday night when rookie Paul Goldschmidt lined a two-run triple off Sergio Romo in the eighth inning.

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Lung Disease Puts Many Black Patients Back in Hospital: Report

THURSDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) ? Among U.S. patients aged 40 and older with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), blacks have the highest rate of hospital readmission, a new report reveals.

COPD, a common lung disease that makes it hard to breathe and gets worse over time, includes two main conditions: emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

In 2008, COPD patient hospital readmissions within 30 days were 30 percent higher among blacks than Hispanics or Asians and Pacific Islanders, and about 9 percent higher than among whites, according to an analysis of data from State Inpatient Databases for 15 states, including: Arkansas, California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Washington.

Overall, in 2008, about 7 percent of COPD patients were readmitted within 30 days principally for COPD, and 21 percent were readmitted for any type of health problem (?all-cause readmission?), according to the Sept. 14 News and Numbers summary from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The 190,700 initial hospital admissions to treat COPD cost an average of $7,100 each. The average cost for readmission principally for COPD was $8,400 per stay (18 percent higher than for the initial stay) and $11,100 for all-cause readmission (50 percent higher), the investigators reported.

Readmissions were 22 percent higher among patients in the poorest communities than among patients in high-income areas, and 13 percent higher among men than women, the report indicated.

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The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has more about COPD.

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Lady Gaga Plays Yuyi In Third 'You And I' Fashion Film

Third of six fashion films for 'Yoü and I' features Gaga's mermaid character.
By Jocelyn Vena

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Three down, three to go. Lady Gaga released her third "Yoü and I" fashion film, and this time she's portraying her mermaid incarnation, Yüyi.

The previous two videos took a closer look at her Nymph character and her Bride character from the original, full-length "Yoü and I" video.

The latest installment features a montage of behind-the-scenes shots of Gaga making her way out of her trailer as she is carried around the Nebraska set of her video to the barn where a majority of the video takes place. She's carried through the cornfields of Nebraska by two crew members.

Gaga is seen gyrating on the all-white set as Yüyi, bouncing on her director's chair and flopping around like the fish out of water her character is. The Inez-and-Vinoodh-directed video also features cameos by a bare-chested cowboy, one of the crew members who carried her around in the behind-the-scenes footage, and Nicola Formichetti, the singer's longtime stylist and Mugler creative director.

The clip closes out as Yüyi-fied Gaga and her crew make their way into the barn, where all the original "Yoü and I" magic took place. "It's like she really gives so much," Inez recalled of shooting the clips. "Sometimes we were shooting, it was like 3 a.m., and she's been on set forever and still you get an incredible performance — full of fire.

"It was exciting, it was intense. It was 108 degrees, but it was exciting because there's so much energy. We had great people around us," the fashion photographer added.

In addition to its Web debut late Tuesday, Formichetti tweeted an invitation to a premiere event for the new "Yoü and I" fashion film held at a New York pop-up store. The video premiered there on the eve of the store's closing.

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Burning Man's creator: Joyful, goofy, thought-provoking fun.

Where Else Can You Try a Snack Glory Hole?

By Seth Stevenson
Posted Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, at 8:21 PM ET

A bunny leaders takes a bite of a carrot during the Billion Bunny March.

People who haven't been to Burning Man often assume the festival is full of dreadlocked drug abusers and hippy-dippy crystal worshipers. Yes, those folks are there, in droves. But consider: Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, are big-time Burners (in fact the very first Google Doodle was of the man himself). Rosario Dawson is a regular (and who could not love and respect Rosario Dawson?). Even my own camp featured a few consultants from Bain and McKinsey, a wealth management guy from Goldman Sachs, a patent lawyer, a couple of librarians, and a mechanical engineer.

Why do all these sharp, high-powered, decidedly non-dippy people attend? They go because Burning Man offers oodles of joyful, goofy, thought-provoking fun.

There was, for instance, a snack glory hole. I am not going to explain what a traditional glory hole is. (You can look that up on the Internet?preferably when you are not stationed at a work computer.) As for a snack glory hole, it is a hole in a wall that you press your mouth up to. Some unseen being on the other side of the wall then shoves delicious mystery snacks down your gullet until you say uncle.

There was also a Billion Bunny March. This involved hundreds of people?sorry bunnies, journalistic ethics require me to provide a factual attendance estimate?dressed in bunny costumes, parading together around the city. OK, I hear you saying, cute, fine, whatever. But then people in carrot costumes show up to protest the march! With signs demanding bunny-carrot equality!

At one point I happened upon a wooden pier in the middle of the open desert. It was about 75 feet long, and 20 feet high at its furthest reach. Actual ocean-going yachts (they had been refitted with motorized wheels) pulled up to the pier and docked at it, sometimes three at a time. Passengers would disembark and party on the pier to the thumping sounds of a DJ. Then people hopped back on the yachts?often different yachts than they'd arrived on?and the boats pulled away and sailed off into the desert again.

When there were no yachts at the pier you could go fishing off its edges. A woman handed us a fishing rod with a small toy tied to the end of its line, urging us to dangle our lure and see what we might catch. After a few moments, a dude in a crab costume jumped out from beneath the pier and grabbed the toy in his mouth.

(For no clear reason I could discern, there was a nautical vibe all over the place. A boat shaped like a narwhal was roaming around, as were a flame-shooting octopus, a giant airborne shark balloon, and scores of illuminated jellyfish puppets. Among the smaller maritime craft was a motorized rowboat with "Gone Fistin'" painted on its transom. Even the musical acts joined in: One band played a song called "Shark Attack." When they got to the chorus, accomplices in shark costumes suddenly rushed the dance floor to maul the startled, delighted crowd.)

An art car glides through the desert.

I went without a watch all week, didn't carry my phone, and never checked the Internet. I just floated around in a spacey, amused bubble, hopscotching from one surreal encounter to the next. One afternoon I went to the Period Bar, where a woman made me press my lips to a plastic vulva. She poured chunky red sangria through this vagina-funnel until my chin was dripping. Moments later, I hopped onto a car shaped like a peacock, with a 17-foot-wide hydraulic tail that could fan out or retract. The topless man and woman in the front seat were pretty clearly on their way to or from some kind of mutual sexual encounter. They dropped me off after a few blocks, inviting me to meet them later at a rave on the other side of the city. When people in my camp chatted about their itineraries each day, the conversation would go something like: "I'm headed to the slingshot tournament. How about you?" "Probably nude dodgeball."

Burners work and plan all year to create this single week of bizarre experiences for each other. They ask nothing in return. Buying and selling are basically forbidden. Even bartering is discouraged. The "gifting economy" relies on everybody contributing and nobody expecting any recompense. It's not a viable model in the real world, but at this event?for just one week?people have successfully eliminated economic competition and want.

Dourado Lyhe, right, and his son Nakota, four, hang out in an art car that is fashioned to look like an old West bar.

I talked to one guy who'd set up a hot dog stand in the desert. He said he'd given away more than 1,000 dogs over the course of the event, working a few hours a day. He was thrilled to do it. Other folks had built a mobile 1950s-style diner, complete with u-shaped counter and round stools. They would drive around in the middle of the night, occasionally stopping to serve coffee and grilled cheese sandwiches to hungry wanderers they encountered.

People in my camp had the foresight to bring s'mores fixings?we roasted marshmallows over a fire in a barrel at a busy intersection, and then doled out s'mores to stoned and tripping Burners who happened by. When I handed a warm s'more to a ravenous woman and watched her devour it with glee, I'm almost certain the transaction gave me more pleasure than it gave her. (I believe there is a wise old aphorism that sums up the relative merits of giving and receiving, addressing which one is better.)

On the Saturday night at the end of the week, the man burns. This moment means different things to different people. The transit of the human spirit. The exultation of pagan ritual. The simple, ancient joy of fire. The culmination of a 150-hour party. Whatever its meaning, it is spectacular?a colossal, billowing inferno, with explosions and face-searing heat blasts, and people cheering and dancing and stripping all their clothes off. At this point, stuff gets crazy.

The man burns.

The partying after the man burns is laced with a wild-eyed, desperate passion. The touchstone of Burner society?and the city's central visual landmark?has been burned to the ground. Order is disintegrating. Other structures will begin disappearing soon, one by one. Time is fleeting. Our little universe is evaporating before our eyes.

That night I ended up on the second story of a bar, looking out over the city and the still-smoldering embers of the man. This bar was lined with velvet banquettes. A DJ spun records in an elevated booth. A packed crowd of beautiful, half-dressed people writhed?obscured by a shimmering dust storm howling through the windows.

A week ago, there had been nothing but empty desert here. Very soon, all this would vanish, leaving nothing but empty desert behind. For just this one night, we danced with the sort of abandon that can only be summoned when a world is ending.

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2009 H1N1 pandemic flu more damaging to lungs, opens opportunities for bacterial infection

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2011) ? Many of the people who died from the new strain of H1N1 influenza that broke out in 2009 were suffering from another infection as well: pneumonia. A new study being published Sept. 19 in the online journal mBio? reveals how the two infections, pandemic influenza and pneumonia, interact to make to make a lethal combination.

Back in 2009, autopsies of 34 of the victims of the H1N1 pandemic influenza virus revealed that about half showed signs of bacterial co-infection in their lungs. This was a telling sign that the two pathogens are playing off one another, but until now little was known about the biological interactions between them or why influenza was so lethal when accompanied by pneumonia.

Using mice, Kash et al., from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), teased the problem apart. They infected some mice with the seasonal flu virus and others with the 2009 pandemic strain and waited 48 hours for the influenza to take hold. Next, they exposed some of the mice to the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, one of the leading causes of pneumonia.

In mice that were only given either of the flu viruses, influenza had the same effects it has in humans, including weight loss, but all the mice infected with influenza alone survived. The mice infected with seasonal influenza and S. pneumoniae had slightly enhanced lung tissue damage, but they all survived the dual infections.

In contrast, all the mice co-infected with both the 2009 pandemic flu and S. pneumoniae showed severe weight loss and 100% mortality. The lung tissues of the dead mice revealed that the alveoli were severely inflamed and the surfaces of the bronchioles were wiped clean of the protective layer of cells called the epithelium. There was also increased bacterial replication in the lungs of the co-infected mice, a sign that the bacteria were thriving there.

Looking at the mouse genes that were expressed during infection revealed more details about how the pandemic influenza virus sets the stage for lethal bacterial infections. Mice infected with the pandemic flu virus and S. pneumoniae had a similar inflammatory response as the other mice, but they lack responses that would repair and regenerate their damaged epithelial cells, those protective tissues that would otherwise keep bacteria from penetrating to deeper layers of tissue.

All these factors add up to big problems in the lung: as compared with seasonal flu, infection with the pandemic strain of flu was associated with more extensive damage to the epithelium that requires more extensive tissue repair. This opens the body up to attack from bacterial invaders, including Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Keith Klugman, who studies pneumonia and pneumococcal disease at Emory University, edited the paper. He says the study has a number of implications for treatment of pandemic flu.

"One implication is that if you can prevent the bacterial infection, you may be able to prevent a significant fraction of the pneumonia that leads to death. There may be a role for antibiotics in the severe pneumonias that follow influenza," says Klugman.

Klugman points out that a vaccine for S. pneumoniae exists and that it is effective at interrupting transmission of pneumonia in the community. Now that we know pandemic flu causes increased susceptibility to pneumonia, says Klugman, we might head off deadly influenza-S. pneumoniae co-infections with more proactive vaccination programs.

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Taylor Armstrong says late husband was abusive (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Taylor Armstrong of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" said in a TV interview that her late husband subjected her to an abusive and frightening life.

On a segment of "Entertainment Tonight" airing Tuesday, Armstrong talks about her marriage with Russell Armstrong, who committed suicide last month, and its effect on their daughter.

"He grabbed me by the neck and shoved me against the wall and he said, `If you ever make my children a pizza without a vegetable again, I'll kill you," Taylor Armstrong told "Entertainment Tonight," according to a transcript from the entertainment news program.

The couple was estranged when Russell Armstrong, 47, hanged himself Aug. 15. He was depressed about financial issues and problems with his wife, according to a coroner's report.

Taylor Armstrong says she explained his death carefully to her young daughter.

"I just told her Daddy got sick and he died, and that we could pick a star in the sky that could be daddy and that she could talk to him every night," she told "Entertainment Tonight."

Taylor Armstrong filed for divorce July 15. Russell Armstrong had yet to respond to her petition when he committed suicide.

Russell Armstrong addressed rumors about the couple's problems in an interview with People magazine in July:

"Did I push her? Yes, maybe things happened in the heat of the moment, but it was during a time in our lives that was not characteristic of who we were. This show has literally pushed us to the limit."

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Want to be a millionaire? It's a longshot

By Sharon Epperson
CNBC

?The idea of becoming a millionaire may seem like a pipe dream.

When it comes to retirement, most Americans doubt they've saved or invested enough to retire comfortably, let alone reach that million-dollar milestone. A new AP-CNBC poll finds nearly one-third (31 percent) of U.S. residents believe they would need a minimum savings of $100,000 to $500,000 if retiring this year in order to be confident of living comfortably in retirement, and 22 percent believe the minimum is $1 million or more to retire comfortably.

Only one-fifth of U.S. respondents think it's likely that their net worth with total at least one million dollars in the next 10 years, while 62 percent said that is "very unlikely." The consensus from the majority of respondents (61 percent): It is "extremely" or "very difficult" to become a millionaire in the United States today.

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But many are still trying to hit that million-dollar mark?and millions of Americans have already attained that goal.

The number of millionaires in the country is growing. The U.S. has more than 10 million. Despite the European debt crisis and worries about the U.S. economy, a May 2011 report from the Deloitte Center for Financial Services projects that the number of millionaire households in the U.S. will more than double to 20.5 million in 2020, with combined wealth of $87 trillion, up from $39 trillion in 2011.

Money makes money, but it can be tough to make that money grow in these rocky financial markets. The AP-CNBC poll found six in 10 U.S. residents (62 percent) say their confidence in investing has been shaken by recent volatility in the stock market. That sentiment has increased over the past 12 months. Today, 65 percent of those who own stocks, bonds and mutual funds are less confident about investing, compared with 61 percent last year.

Respondents in the AP-CNBC poll say they're making saving and investing a top priority. The survey asked people what they would do with a million dollars and found, on average, that Americans would spend 31 percent on saving or investing; 17 percent on giving to family; 14 percent on spending; 13 percent on paying down debt; 12 percent on buying real estate and 11 percent on charitable donations. Unfortunately, the reality is that mounting expenses, lower wages and job losses require many Americans to dip into those savings to pay for household bills or pay down debt.

The reality is that investors who stayed the course and did not pull their money out of the market in the last few months may actually have fared pretty well. Despite an almost 8 percent decline since mid-July, the broader stock market, represented by the S&P 500 Index, is up nearly 8 percent over the past 12 months. Certainly it's been a rough few years with the S&P 500, down 8 percent in five years. But over the past decade, the broader stock market is up by more than 10 percent.

In most cases, the road to financial security in retirement comes with steady savings, strategic investing, and probably a later retirement date than you may have envisioned at the start of your career. Keep these three rules in mind: First, you need to live within your means. Next, you have to commit to saving a certain amount every month and stick to that goal. Then, you have to make sure your investments are in a diversified portfolio?a mix of stocks, bonds, and alternative investments (commodities and real estate) and rebalance that mix to attain your goals for growth.

So how long will it take until you're a millionaire?

If you start with an initial $10,000 investment and your portfolio grows by 5 percent every year, here's how much you need to save each month to reach your $1 million goal by age 70.

• 25-year-olds have to save $450 a month. That's just $15 a day for the rest of your working years.
• 35-year-olds have to save $850 a month.
• 45-year-olds have to save $1,700 a month.
• 55-year-olds have to save $4,000 a month. (Of course, with an average inflation rate of 3 percent, that $1,000,000 nest egg will only be worth $642,000 in today's dollars. So that means you'll likely wind up having to save even more.)

Still, for those who start early and save often, becoming a millionaire doesn't have to be a pipe dream.

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A Look At The Different Types Of Wedding Invites And Also Chinese ...

Present day styles in wedding invitation stationary are so different from what it really was in your father?s or mother?s or your grandparent?s day. Brides to be are will no longer need to adhere to white, and these days there are many choices open in any coloration on the rainbow. Earlier, it was very easy to design your wedding invites be noticed just by including a trace of color. These days, together with the large number of styles available, it could take a bit more imagination for obtaining truly unique wedding invites in to the guests? letter boxes.

Here are some elements you?ll be able to have fun with to carry out a different form of card that can leave a longer lasting impact onto your guests. Many wedding invites continue to appear in the traditional rectangular card design. A lot more brides to be are beginning to branch out and distribute square cards, but not many have made use of the numerous other designs easily obtainable.

You can choose a very long, cushioned invite or simply a die-cut invitation in the wedding design. Creative Wedding Invitations with the style of a bride?s gown, or perhaps a sandal for a wedding ceremony that is going to be on a beachfront are certainly distinctive from the standard. Instead of a basic open and shut card, choose a unique style of fold to generate some style on your wedding invites. These kinds of folds could be used with various shades and tones to your wedding ceremony relying on the materials and colorings you choose. Heighten the suspense of your friends and family by wrapping your wedding invitations. Family and friends will probably be intrigued with this whilst trying to reveal the details of your celebration. Cover white-colored invitations in black for an expensive occasion, or show how decadent your marriage ceremony will probably be with a classy flower wrap. Patterns showing roses, darkish crimsons and also pink all will give a distinctive and personal touch to your wedding and reception invitations.

As well as the invites to think about, many different cultures have got to keep to years of traditions, and the most prominent of those has got to be the Chinese Wedding ceremony. There are some Chinese Wedding Traditions guidelines that the couple have to comply with, mainly because weddings are rich in tradition. Whenever an proposal is proclaimed and wedding plans have to begin it?s custom for both the groom and bride parents to meet and set up the date and the specific tradition they are going to abide by. They will likely also go over the Dowry that?s to be paid out by the grooms parents that must be offered prior to the special day. Until this meeting has taken place a wedding ceremony will not proceed. Typically the traditional colour for the celebration is actually red, with a lot of centerpieces, invites as well as the brides gown in this particular colour, as it is considered to bring success.

The color red also features before the wedding ceremony, as traditionally the bride to be will go in to seclusion, about three days before, along with close friends and family to spend precious time with them before she?s got to attend to her partner within their new home and life with each other. During this time she?s going to receive presents in red boxes and baskets from the grooms family members. In some instances, dependent upon the custom they?ve chosen, the groom may also do this, with items from the brides family.

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Vaccinations Aren't Just for Kids (HealthDay)

FRIDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Public health experts often focus immunization awareness efforts toward protecting children, and with good reason: Facing a potentially bewildering schedule of vaccinations for their young ones, parents usually need all the help they can get.

But vaccinations aren't just kid stuff.

Medical science is creating an increasing number of immunizations targeted at adults, to help them avoid life-threatening diseases in middle-age and opportunistic infections when they're older.

"Immunization is a life-long issue that we need to pay a lot of attention to," said Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association.

Some adult vaccinations are very well-known, like the annual shot that aims to prevent the spread of influenza.

"You need an influenza shot every year," Benjamin said. "Part of that is because the virus changes every year, sometimes a little and sometimes a lot."

The flu vaccine is the least challenging of adult vaccines to promote because just about everyone can and should get one, with very few exceptions, said Dr. Carolyn B. Bridges, associate director for adult immunizations at the Immunization Services Division of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"People don't have to go through a process to figure out if they are indicated or not for the vaccine," said Bridges, noting that, as of last year, everyone 6 years and older is recommended to receive an annual flu shot.

Newer vaccines, however, are targeted toward specific age groups, which can make it more difficult to figure out which shots are needed.

For example, the relatively new human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine prevents infection by a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women.

"The vaccine is recommended for younger girls, but young adults who didn't receive it as preteens or teens can get it," Bridges said. It's still being debated whether boys and young men also should receive the vaccine, to keep them from spreading HPV to vulnerable women.

An increasing number of vaccines either target senior citizens specifically or are highly recommended for them. That's because these immunizations give the immune system an extra boost when most needed, Benjamin and Bridges said.

"As we age, our ability to fight off disease wanes," Benjamin said. "Vaccines can help offset the waning of your body's normal immune responses."

One example is the herpes zoster vaccination, which is recommended for everyone 60 or older, according to the CDC. The herpes zoster shot prevents the occurrence of shingles, a painful skin disorder linked to childhood infection with chicken pox, Bridges said.

Other vaccinations recommended for seniors include:

• A pneumococcal vaccination at age 65, if you've never had the shot before. "We try to tag that to when you become Medicare eligible," Benjamin said.
• A second dose of the measles/mumps/rubella vaccination. "We encourage people to get a second dose of MMR at the age of 50 and older," he said.
• A tetanus/diphtheria booster every 10 years after age 65.
• The influenza vaccine, every year. "Flu is still a major problem in terms of mortality for seniors," Benjamin said.

People at increased risk for certain diseases, either because of work, illness or lifestyle, also might require vaccination as an adult.

For instance, those planning to travel abroad should talk with their family physician about shots they might need to provide additional protection against infectious disease. "If you're going to travel to other places where you might have some risk for some diseases, you might need to get a travel vaccine," Benjamin said.

Health-care workers also need to receive a wide variety of vaccinations, including hepatitis A and B shots, tetanus/diphtheria and measles/mumps/rubella, according to the CDC.

However, pregnant women are not recommended to get most vaccinations, Benjamin said. A notable exception, though, is the influenza vaccine, which pregnant women are encouraged to get, Bridges said.

"There are now numerous studies that have shown that influenza vaccine provides protection in an infant's first six months of life," she said. "The mother transfers antibody to the unborn child so when they are born they have some protection against influenza."

Yet despite health-care workers' efforts, some adults remain reluctant to get vaccinated because of various health concerns. A common one is that, by getting the flu shot, they will actually contract the flu.

Bridges said that public health officials need to help people overcome such fears so that they will protect themselves against deadly but easily avoidable illnesses.

"These vaccines are all licensed because they've been deemed safe and effective," she said. "The risk of adverse events is much lower than the risk of severe illness."

More information

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on adult vaccinations.

In a related article, a former public health official talks about fear as vaccination motivation.

Targeted Diseases (HealthDay News) -- Diseases that can be prevented through vaccination, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, include: Anthrax: The vaccine is given to anyone who may be exposed to anthrax, but it is not yet available for the general public. Cervical cancer: The HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine is used to prevent the most common types of HPV that cause cervical cancer. Chicken pox Diphtheria: Several combination vaccines -- DTaP, Tdap, DT and Td -- prevent diphtheria. Genital warts: Protection comes from the HPV vaccine. Hepatitis: Vaccines exist for both hepatitis A and hepatitis B. Influenza Measles Meningitis: Prevention comes from the Hib vaccine (Haemophilus influenzae type b). Mumps Pneumonia: The Hib vaccine prevents pneumonia. Polio Rabies: Exposure to rabies would still require medical attention, but vaccination before exposure may reduce the needed treatment and minimize the person's reaction to the treatment. Shingles Smallpox Tetanus: Several vaccines prevent tetanus, including DTaP, Tdap, DT and Td. Tuberculosis Typhoid Whooping cough Yellow fever

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