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Snoring poses a serious inconvenience and can be incredibly aggravating. No matter if you are the person who snores or it is someone sleeping nearby, it can be difficult to handle. Snoring has an annoying sound, and can affect whether someone is able to get a sufficient amount of sleep. Luckily, there are things you can do about it! This article is filled with tips that will help you handle your snoring issues.
Singing can help cure snoring. The reason for this is that singing makes the muscles in your throat a lot stronger over time. Once your throat muscles are strong, the chances that you will snore will be less. Musical instruments, such as the saxophone or trumpet, may also strengthen throat muscles.
If you snore often, watch what you eat prior to going to sleep. Things such as muscle relaxants and alcohol can cause the throat muscles to relax. These tissues can collapse inward, causing snoring by restricting your air flow. Stick to water if you need to drink something to rehydrate yourself before going to bed.
If you want to reduce or eliminate snoring, try laying on the left side of your body while you sleep. Snoring can cause your partner to lose sleep and be less refreshed and happy in the mornings. This solution hasn?t been clinically proven to work, though. However, according to many snoring sufferers, sleeping on the left side does open nasal passageways and helps reduce snoring.
Snoring exercises may help eliminate your snoring issue. Surprising as it might seem, there are some effective, medically-formulated exercises that can prevent the unwanted muscular relaxation that can cause snoring. Talk to your doctor about these exercises. If he thinks they are appropriate, engage in them every night before bed.
If you?re having trouble sleeping due to snoring, perhaps the best place to search for a solution is right in your own bed. It?s possible that you are allergic to synthetic materials that your sheets and bedding are made from. These allergies may be the cause of the swollen airways and stuffed up nose that cause snoring. Try using plain cotton bedding or even special ?non-allergenic? bedding that can be found at specialty bedding stores.
If you have a loved one that is a snorer, this old wives tale may offer some relief. Because sleeping on your back can cause snoring, you can try attaching a tennis ball to the rear of your pajama shirt, so that you?ll roll to one side or the other while sleeping.
Many people are advocates of a cure aptly named ?tennis ball cure?. This unique method involves putting a tennis ball on your back, by sewing a pocket on your shirt for it or putting it in a sock and pinning it to your back. If you roll over on your back during your sleep the tennis ball will make it very uncomfortable. Over time, it will become natural for you to sleep on your side or stomach; at that point, you can ditch the tennis ball.
One option for snorers is a procedure that can trim or take out the uvula. This is a flap of tissue which bends downward in the back part of the throat. You need to realize that removing the uvula can help alleviate snoring but your risk of choking will increase.
Snoring is hard to cope with. It sounds horrible, and can wake both you and your partner up, meaning you never get enough sleep. The good news is that effective treatments exist to help reduce snoring. This article has shown you different techniques you can use to stop snoring. Use these tips to help you get snoring problems under control.
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PERTH, Australia (AFP) ? American Venus Williams gave her comeback hopes a boost with a win at the Hopman Cup in Perth on Sunday.
Williams beat the 60th-ranked Chanelle Scheepers in three sets to help the United States post a 2-1 win over South Africa in their Group B tie at the mixed teams tournament.
Although Kevin Anderson levelled the tie for South Africa with an upset win with over fellow big man John Isner in the men?s singles, the Americans prevailed in straight sets in the deciding mixed doubles.
Williams, playing for the first time since October and just 24 hours after arriving in Australia, made a slow start against Scheepers but steadied to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
File photo: Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola presents the emblem of the state government to US tennis stars Venus (C) and Serena Williams during a visit at the Government House in Lagos October 31, 2012. AFP PHOTO
The seven-time Grand Slam singles winner has climbed the rankings this year as she recovered from a major setback due to illness in 2011.
Williams has not won a Grand Slam singles title since her 2008 success at Wimbledon. She slipped to 134th in the rankings last year after suffering from Sj?gren?s Syndrome, a systemic autoimmune disease.
However, the 32-year-old has enjoyed much better fortunes this year.
She won her first singles title since 2010 in Luxembourg, teamed with sister Serena to win gold in the doubles at the London Olympics and finished the season ranked 24th in the world.
Speaking after hitting 44 winners in disposing of Scheepers, Williams said this year was a great platform for the coming 12 months.
?Last year was so awesome for me, winning a tournament and getting to the Olympics and getting a gold,? she said. ?I was extremely happy last year and moved up quite a few spots.
?This year is just about building on it and continuing to play deep into the draws and put myself in positions to play well deep into the tournaments.?
Williams, who had to come from a set down against Scheepers, said she still believed she could be a force in the Grand Slams.
?I always feel that way,? she said. ?That?s how you have to feel, you have to be positive.
?I try to be positive and tell myself I?m the best now. It doesn?t happen every time but you?ve got to have that mind frame.?
Anderson, ranked 37th, upset the 14th-ranked Isner 7-6 (7/0), 7-6 (7/5).
The Americans dominated the mixed doubles to win 6-3, 6-2.
Meanwhile, Germany?s Andrea Petkovic has withdrawn from the tournament after injuring her right knee during her singles match on Saturday.
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Apple has been a trendsetter in many areas over the years. The only reason they seem to be "a little ahead of the design curve" is because every time they release a product that is revolutionary, every other company starts up their copiers.
Take for example, the original iMac. Shortly after it's release there were a whole slew of all-in-one machines copy cat machines. Then there were the computers, device, printers, and accessories with customizable colored plastic panels. Even the HP PC I used at work had iMac-esque replaceable color panels on it's case.
I could go on with other examples, like the iPhone.
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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2006 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush delivers the keynote speech before receiving an honorary Doctor of Public Administration degree at Suffolk University in Boston. A spokesman says Bush's condition continues to improve and that he was moved Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, out of intensive care and into a regular hospital room. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, Pool, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2006 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush delivers the keynote speech before receiving an honorary Doctor of Public Administration degree at Suffolk University in Boston. A spokesman says Bush's condition continues to improve and that he was moved Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, out of intensive care and into a regular hospital room. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, Pool, File)
HOUSTON (AP) ? Former President George H.W. Bush's condition continued to improve Saturday, prompting doctors to move him out of intensive care, a spokesman said.
"President Bush's condition has improved, so he has been moved today from the intensive care unit to a regular patient room at The Methodist Hospital to continue his recovery," family spokesman Jim McGrath said Saturday. "The Bushes thank everyone for their prayers and good wishes."
Bush was hospitalized Nov. 23 for treatment of a bronchitis-related cough. He was moved to intensive care at the Houston hospital on Dec. 23 after he developed a fever.
On Friday, McGrath said Bush had improved since arriving in the ICU. He said he was alert and in good spirits and was even doing some singing.
McGrath said Saturday morning that future updates on Bush's condition would be made as warranted.
Bush, the 41st president, is the country's oldest living former president by a few months.
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SPORTS: Neah Bay blows out Aussie Travelers at Crush in the Slush; other prep basketball results
Tyler McCaulley and Ryan Moss led the offensive onslaught, both drilling five 3-pointers apiece. McCaulley led all scorers with 17 points and Moss had 15.
The Red Devils also got 14 points from Abraham Venske in the win.
After Neah Bay jumped out to a quick 15-2 lead midway through the opening quarter, assistant coach Stan Claplanhoo, who was filling in for head coach Gerrad Brooks, did a five-in, five-out substitution. The Red Devils also pulled back on defense.
?We didn?t show our game today,? Claplanhoo said. ?We usually pressure [on defense] all the time.?
Despite the wholesale changes, Neah Bay continued to roll and finished the quarter with a 26-2 advantage.
The game provide an opportunity to for the Red Devils to play together at full strength.
They were short-handed due to members of the 1B state runner-up football team not having met the required number of practices.
?It was good to get a game in,? Claplanhoo said. ?Some guys? shots are coming around.?
McCaulley is one of those late arrivals finally finding his shooting touch.
?Those shots weren?t falling a week ago,? Claplanhoo said of McCaulley?s hot shooting night.
It was the only game in the Crush in the Slush Tournament for Neah Bay. The Red Devils are off until Tuesday, Jan. 8, when they host Forks, which beat Neah Bay 60-54 earlier this month.
Neah Bay 79, Aussie Travelers 21
Travelers 2 3 5 11? 21
Neah Bay 26 15 26 12? 79
Individual scoring
Neah Bay (79)
Halttunen 8, Venske 14, J. Greene 6, Z. Greene 6, Claplanhoo 5, Doherty 5, Reamer 2, Moss 15, Buttram 2, McCaulley 17.
Forks 62,
Mary M. Knight 30
OCEAN SHORES ? A day after suffering their first loss of the season, the Spartans clubbed the Owls on Friday in the North Beach Invitational.
Forks was coming off a 62-59 setback to a hot-shooting Taholah team Thursday.
?It was good after our first loss to come together and not play sporadic,? Forks coach Rick Gooding said.
?It was a great all-around win. Every single player contributed. We got back to playing team basketball.?
Braden Decker followed up a career-high 29 points Thursday with 14 points, nine rebounds and five assists.
Guard Colton Raben shook off a scoreless game to tie Decker with a game-high 14 points.
Leo Gonzales grabbed 13 rebounds and scored 10 points. Mark Jacobson had 10 boards and eight points.
The Spartans? shooting was much better than Thursday when they only made 29 percent of their shots. They doubled that number Friday, shooting 58 percent from the field.
Forks 62, Mary M. Knight 30
Mary M. Knight 5 10 11 4? 30
Forks 16 11 21 14? 62
Individual scoring
Mary M. Knight (30)
O?Neil 4, Willey 8 Jimenez 7, Robecker 2, Dierkop 6, Ogg 2.
Forks (62)
Raben 14, Abrahams 4, Gilmore 5, Harris 2, Decker 14, Hatch 5, Jacobson 8, Gonzales 10.
Centralia 85,
Port Angeles 63
CENTRALIA ? Justice Tasby exploded for 36 points as the Tigers beat the Roughriders for the second time this season on Thursday.
Port Angeles fell behind 27-10 in the first quarter and was unable to get back in the game.
Hayden Gunderson led the Riders with 15 points. He also dished out five assists and pulled down nine rebounds, including four on the offensive end.
Caleb Treider added 13 for Port Angeles, and Garrett Payton and Derek Schumacher scored 12 each. Schumacher also had seven rebound and Payton had six.
Sophomore Hunter Hathaway grabbed nine boards and scored six points.
Although four players scored in double figures, the Riders only shot 34 percent from the field and were just 4 for 26 on 3-point attempts.
?We shot way too many 3s,? Port Angeles coach Brent Stephens said. ?We settled for 3s when we could have taken good two-point shots.?
Port Angeles was without its best post player, Marshall Elliott, who is out for three weeks with a concussion.
They also didn?t have Nathan Angevine and Lambros Rogers, both key members of the Riders? rotation.
Centralia beat Port Angeles earlier this month 92-53.
?We bridged the gap [17 points] from last time,? Stephens said. ?We made it competitive.
?For us to bridge the gap like that without a starter and two other contributing players [shows] we?re improving.?
Centralia 85, Port Angeles 63
Port Angeles 10 15 24 14? 63
Centralia 27 13 22 23? 85
Individual scoring
Port Angeles (63)
Gunderson 15, Hathaway 3, Isett 6, Payton 12, Rixon 2, Schumacher 12, Treider 13.
Home (85)
Blaser 9, Scott 11, Neely 5, Waring 3, Housden 3, Tasby 36, Stodeman 8, Baumann 10.
Girls Basketball
Sequim 36,
Mornington 29
PORT TOWNSEND ? A 25-point second half helped the Wolves overcome a slow start and beat the Mornington Breakers of Australia in the Crush in the Slush Tournament at Port Angeles High School on Friday morning.
Sequim nearly went the entire first quarter without a point, scoring its first and only bucket with five second remaining in the period.
Any win is a beautiful win for the Wolves, though, especially considering they were without their leading scorer, Alexas Besand, and only senior, Columbia Haupt.
?It?s a big win, especially for our confidence,? Sequim coach Evan Still said.
With those key players missing, Still said the focus was to give playing time to less-experienced players.
Two players typically on the Sequim JV team, Jordan Miller and Judy Villella, were important contributors to the win, especially in the first half when the offense was stagnant.
Villella finished with four points and Miller scored three.
Hailey Lester and Elise Beuke led Sequim with seven points apiece. Emily Wallner added six.
Because they were facing a team from another continent, Sequim had to play without any prior scouting. Therefore, the Wolves had no choice but to keep the game plan simple.
?We just told the girls to play our game, and for the most part we did,? Still said.
Sequim 36, Mornington Breakers 29
Mornington 5 10 8 6? 29
Sequim 2 9 13 12? 36
Individual scoring
Sequim (36)
Miller 3, Lester 7, Cummins 2, Bentz 3, Guan 2, Wallner 6, Beuke 7, Villella 4, Anderson 2.
Quilcene 47,
Clallam Bay 27
QUILCENE ? The Rangers earned a non-league win over the Bruins on Friday behind 15 points, six rebounds and fives steals by freshman Jerrica Viloria.
?Our girls really came together and played as a team,? Quilcene coach Briana Weller said.
?We saw the floor and were able to react to the Bruins? physical play.?
Weller added that tough defense gave the Rangers several fast-break opportunities.
Many Quilcene players contributed to the victory.
Team captain Andrea Lara scored 13 points and tallied five steals.
Sophomore center Sammy Rae had 11 points, 12 rebounds and three blocked shots; freshman Megan Weller had four points, 10 boards, five assists and six steals; and Alex Johnson, yet another freshman, scored two points, grabbed three boards and finished with two steals off the bench.
Zeria Signor led the Bruins with 10 points.
?I was happy with our defense, we had 20 steals as a team,? Clallam Bay coach Kathleen Winter said.
?We had two quarters that we couldn?t make much happen offensively. We had 31 turnovers for the game.?
The Bruins? record is now 4-2 on the season. They start league play Friday at Crescent.
Quilcene improved to 4-5. The Rangers next travel to Seattle on Friday to face Shorewood Christian in a league matchup.
Quilcene 47, Clallam Bay 27
Clallam Bay 11 4 10 2? 27
Quilcene 8 17 13 13? 47
Individual scoring
Clallam Bay (27)
Signor 10, Erickson 7, Welever 4, Larrechea 4, Butler 2.
Quilcene (47)
Viloria 15, Lara 13, Rae 11, Weller 4, Johnsen 2, Kieffer 2.
Burlington-Ed. 69,
Port Angeles 42
PORT ANGELES ? Shayla Northern?s 13 points weren?t enough for the Roughriders on Friday afternoon.
Krista Johnson contributed nine points for Port Angeles and Krista Johnson added nine more.
The Tigers, who Port Angeles coach considers one of the top 2A teams in the state, were led by Sydney Brown with 21 points and Mariah Swanson with 15.
Burlington-Edison 69,
Port Angeles 42
Burlington-Edison 17 18 19 15? 69
Port Angeles 15 9 9 9? 42
Individual scoring
Burlington-Edison (69)
Brown 21, Swanson 15, Agen 11, Lopez 7, Torset 4, Capron 4, Brecknridge 4, Rabenstein 2, McTaggart 1.
Port Angeles (42)
Northern 13, Johnson 9, Walker 6, Jeffers 4, Jones 3, Hinrichs 2, Millsap 2, Lee 2, Hofer 1.
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Fourteen percent of schools in Sarawak have opted to use English in their Maths and Science, but parents doubt the Education Ministry?s commitment to their choice.
With schools set to begin their term next week, parents and teachers in Sarawak are in a dilemma over ?inconsistent? education policies and the lack of English language books for Mathematics and Science subjects.
Some 14% of primary and secondary schools in in East Malaysian state have opted to continue learning Mathematics and Science in English next year, but have failed to receive their English text books todate.
Said Batu Lintang assemblyman See Chee How: ?On this eve of the opening of the new school year, it is discovered that schools in Sarawak have not received their English textbooks and workbooks, but only the Bahasa Malaysia versions were distributed to all the students.
?This is despite the fact that these schools have filled in and submitted a designated form distributed by the Education Department asking them to decide and indicate whether their primary school students from the PPSMI batch chooses to continue PPSMI fully in English, Bahasa Malaysia or both.
?These schools have expressly opted for English language for those students now in Standard 4 to Standard 6.
?In fact, it was the Deputy PM (Muhyiddin Yassin) himself who revealed last year that 5% from the total classes in 7,495 primary schools and 9% out of 2,192 secondary schools chose to fully used English for Maths and Science.
?He is fully aware of the needs and extent of schools requiring textbooks and workbooks in English for the batch of students still under PPSMI policy, yet these textbooks and workbooks are not being printed and distributed.
?The schools were given the textbooks and workbooks in Bahasa Malaysia instead.?
He added that a quick survey in the bookshops had shown that no English reference books are prepared and printed in English, as the profit-driven private companies are switching immediately to produce reference texts and workbooks for the policy of MBMMBI (Upholding the Malay Language, Strengthening the English Language) whereby Mathematics and Science are only taught and learned in Bahasa Malaysia.
?Muhyiddin is worst Education Minister?
See, who is also state PKR vice president, said parents were now doubtful as to whether or not the Education Department has the contents and syllabus of the books prepared.
?The schools and parents can?t be blamed for their doubts and queries as to whether the education department is going to supply the requisite textbooks and workbooks in English to these schools.
?There are even doubts whether the education department has the syllabus and contents of the textbooks and workbooks prepared and whether it is printing them,? he said.
See said the availability of Malay language books on the subjects meant teachers and parents were forced to translate the syllabus and contents, according to their own respective understanding and perception of the Bahasa Malaysia texts.
?It certainly reflects poorly on the Umno-led BN federal government. The Education Ministry should have the proper planning in the formulation and implementation of the country?s education policies and plans.
?The Deputy PM and Education Minister (Muhyiddin) has failed to appreciate the sensitivity and special needs in the East Malaysian states, particularly Sarawak, where English is also an official language and that special rights to use English is cherished and dear to Sarawakians.
?The inconsistency in the formulation and implementation of the educational policies, regulations, guidelines and instructions are the hallmark of his ministership. He is the country?s worst Education Minister,? he said .
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler
"I am confident that we will be ahead of our rivals by 2020 at the latest," he told Boersen-Zeitung in an interview published on Saturday.
He said he hoped to reach that target during his time in office. Zetsche's contract currently runs until December 2013 but is expected to be extended by three years in February.
Daimler has already promised 2 billion euros ($2.6 billion)in cost cuts at the Mercedes-Benz division by the end of 2014 after warning in October that it would miss its operating profit target this year by 1 billion euros.
Zetsche told the paper Mercedes had failed to keep up with its rivals in the compact car market and in China.
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A new slow loris species was discovered in Borneo, named Nycticebus kayan.?The little primate weighs less than a pound.
The newly discovered slow loris primate (Nycticebus kayan) has a furry "face mask" distinct from other slow loris species.
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EnlargeA new small primate with a toxic bite and distinctive facial fur markings has been discovered in the jungles of Borneo.
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The new slow loris species is found in the highlands of the island of Borneo and has been named Nycticebus kayan, after a major river, the Kayan, flowing through the region. The trio of scientists also found that two species previously considered sub-species in the Nycticebus genus are officially unique species.
"Historically, many species went unrecognized as they were falsely lumped together as one species," researcher Rachel Munds, of the University of Missouri Columbia, said in a statement.
Closely related to lemurs, the slow loris is found across Southeast Asia, from Bangladesh and China's Yunnan province to Borneo. To distinguish between species, the researchers focused on the seeming face masks of Borneo's slow lorises; fur patches cover their eyes, while their heads are covered with differently shaped caps. The examined photographs and museum samples for eight face mask features, finding there were four species of Bornean lorises. [See Photos of the Slow Loris Primates]
The new species to science, N. kayan, showed a dark, highly contrasting face mask, with dark patches around its eyes. From the specimen examined, the species is about 10.8 inches (273 millimeters) long and weighs about 14.5 ounces (411 grams). The other species include: N. menagensis, N. bancanus and N. borneanus. (N. menagensis had already been recognized as a species.)
The newly identified species illustrate the breadth of biodiversity yet to be discovered in the jungles of Borneo and nearby islands, the researchers noted. The slow lorises, as with other animals on these islands, face threats from human activity.
"The pet trade is a serious threat for slow lorises in Indonesia, and recognition of these new species raises issues regarding where to release confiscated Bornean slow lorises, as recognition by nonexperts can be difficult," said study researcher Anna Nekaris, of Oxford Brookes University in England, in a statement.
Munds, Nekaris and co-author Susan Ford of Southern Illinois University also note this week in the American Journal of Primatology that their results confirm the use of fur color and pattern as a valid way of distinguishing between species of small primates. Some researchers, they wrote, had claimed that because Bornean slow lorises are not a diverse group because they share similar cranial features and all are lacking an upper second incisor. The new study suggests otherwise, the team added.
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NASA has unveiled amazing new views of the planet Saturn showcasing the ringed wonder's moons, rings and turbulent atmosphere as seen by the Cassini spacecraft.
The first photo, which NASA released on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), clearly shows Saturn's south pole and distinctive rings. But the image also holds a few surprises.
The shadow of Saturn's moon Mimas appears in the photo as a small, oblique dark spot slightly to the left and above the planet's south pole. Mimas is perhaps best known for a huge crater that dominates one of its hemispheres, leading some "Star Wars" fans to compare its look to the "Death Star."
Cassini also captured Janus, another of the more than 60 known moons of Saturn, in the top left section of the image. The small satellite is difficult to spot, but appears as a tiny white dot just over the planet's north pole. While NASA released the photo of Saturn, Mimas and Janus this week, Cassini actually snapped the image in August. Since then, mission scientists processed and polished the image to highlight its features. [Amazing Photos of Saturn's Rings]
A second Saturn photo, a raw, unprocessed view released Wednesday (Dec. 26), shows Saturn's turbulent surface in extreme detail. Violent storms churning among Saturn's cloud tops appear as delicate whorls and swirls.
Both of the new Saturn photos were taken with Cassini's wide-angle camera, but they represent two different ways NASA handles space images. The first photo of Saturn, Janus and Mimas was refined to bring out the most interesting aspects of the photos. For example, Janus was barely visible in the original, raw image, so image specialists opted to brighten the small moon in the final, refined image.
The second image is part of a larger database of raw images that NASA releases online soon after they are sent to Earth by Cassini. Like the first photo, this somewhat foggy depiction of Saturn's surface will eventually be treated to bring out its most stunning aspects.
The Cassini spacecraft has logged more than 3.8 billion miles (6.1 billion km) since its launch with the Huygens lander in 1997. Cassini arrived at Saturn in 2004 and dropped European-built Huygens onto the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. The Cassini- Huygens mission is a joint project of NASA, the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency.
During its time in space, Cassini has taken more than 300,000 images of the Saturn and its moons. The spacecraft is currently in an extended phase of its mission that runs through 2017.
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(Reuters) - A union representing dockworkers on the U.S. East Coast and an alliance of shippers have reached a labor agreement that will avert a strike that threatened to wreak havoc on the United States' economy.
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), which represents 14,500 workers at 15 container ports in the eastern United States, and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) of shippers, terminal operators and port authorities, have agreed to extend their current contract by 30 days to finalize details, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service said in a statement on Friday.
Both sides have agreed "in principle" on the contentious issue of royalty payments for shipping containers, payments to ILA workers based on the tons of container cargo that move through a port.
The statement on Friday was light on details of the actual agreement, and the USMX declined to comment further.
The new contract does not eliminate the royalty payments, according to Benny Holland, an executive vice president for the ILA.
"The royalty will stay intact. We have worked out a formula for it," he said in an interview.
Established in 1960, the royalty payments to ILA workers are based on the tons of container cargo that move through a port. That tonnage has risen from 50 million tons in 1996 to 110 million last year, according to the alliance. Total payments last year were $211 million, according to the USMX, or an average of $15,500 per worker.
The original idea of the royalty payments was to protect longshoremen from wage losses expected as a result of "containerization," in which more and more goods are packed in the now-familiar 20- and 40-foot long boxes. Those take less manpower to off-load than the less-standardized containers they replaced.
Both sides also fought over the guaranteed eight-hour workday in the current contract and the seven-man "lashing gang." Lashing crews, or gangs, secure the cargo containers to the vessel using metal lashing rods to keep them from moving while the vessel is at sea. The maritime alliance wanted to eliminate each.
The agreement comes as union forces felt emboldened by recent victories by other unions across the United States. At the same time, shipping companies and port operators have been using more automation, and have seen profits shrink. The Baltic Dry index, which tracks the cost to ship materials overseas, is down 55 percent in the past year and currently at levels it hasn't been in a decade.
(Reporting By Ernest Scheyder, additional reporting by Kevin Gray in Miami; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Bob Burgdorfer and Andrew Hay)
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Meredith Sue Israel Thomas, a publicist for key acts like Dave Matthews Band and Christina Aguilera, died from cancer last week. She was 39.
A memorial service was held Monday in New York for the former RCA Records publicist.
Israel Thomas was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in 2008. She shared stories about her cancer battle on the website for the non-profit organization, CaringBridge. She also worked on publicity campaigns for Kings of Leon and Lit.
The New Jersey-born publicist attended Syracuse University. She is survived by her five-year-old daughter Niomi Thomas, her husband Gary Thomas, parents Laurie and Joel Israel and brother Hank Israel.
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Dec. 27, 2012 ? Researchers have discovered that adding lovastatin, a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug, to traditional antimalarial treatment decreases neuroinflammation and protects against cognitive impairment in a mouse model of cerebral malaria. Although there are differences between mouse models of cerebral malaria and human disease, these new findings indicate that statins are worthy of consideration in clinical trials of cerebral malaria, according to an article published in the Dec. 27 issue of PLOS Pathogens.
Malaria, a parasitic infection that is transmitted to humans by the female Anopheles mosquito, is one of the leading infectious diseases worldwide. Cerebral malaria is a severe, potentially fatal neurologic complication of infection by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Studies of children with cerebral malaria show that cognitive deficits, such as impaired memory, learning, language, and mathematical abilities, persist in many survivors long after the infection itself is cured.
"Over 500,000 children develop cerebral malaria each year in sub-Saharan Africa, and persistent cognitive dysfunction in survivors is not only a major public health concern, but also a significant socioeconomic burden," says Guy Zimmerman M.D., associate chair for research in the Department of Medicine at the University of Utah and senior co-author on the study. "There is an urgent and unmet medical need for therapies that treat or prevent cognitive impairment in cerebral malaria."
Statins, a class of drugs best known for their ability to lower cholesterol, have also been shown to be active in modulating a variety of immune system responses. In their research, Zimmerman and his Brazilian colleagues evaluated the effect of statins in a mouse model of cerebral malaria. The researchers found that adding a drug called lovastatin to traditional antimalarial therapy prevented cognitive dysfunction in mice infected with cerebral malaria. They discovered that addition of lovastatin decreased white blood cell accumulation and leakiness in blood vessels in the brain. Lovastatin also reduced production of damaging oxygen-containing molecules and other factors that promote inflammation.
"The molecular mechanisms that give rise to cerebral malaria and subsequent cognitive dysfunction are not yet known," says Zimmerman. "However, the fact that statin treatment decreases both injurious blood vessel inflammation and cognitive dysfunction suggests that a combination of vascular and inflammatory triggers leads to cerebral pathology and intellectual deficits."
Zimmerman and his colleagues also studied lovastatin in an experimental model of bacterial sepsis, a severe whole-body inflammatory state that can also lead to cognitive impairment. They found that lovastatin also prevented cognitive impairment after bacterial sepsis.
"Our findings are exciting because the clinical implications extend beyond cerebral malaria to other severe systemic inflammatory syndromes complicated by brain involvement," says Zimmerman. "We believe our observations are the first experimental evidence to support the possibility of using statins to reduce cognitive impairment in critically ill patients."
This study is the latest result of a long-term collaboration between Zimmerman and Dr. Hugo Castro-Faria-Neto and his group at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a Brazilian research institute dedicated to the study, prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases. This collaboration began when Dr. Castro-Faria-Neto was a visiting scientist at the University of Utah. Future research will focus on additional investigation into the molecular mechanisms of cerebral malaria and the responses of key immune cells to malaria toxins, as well as on studies of the systemic inflammatory component of malaria in human patients.
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Some of us have been feeding advice to DARPA's ACTUV sub-tracking drone project for more than a year, but we haven't had a in-depth look at how the autonomous ship will go about its business, especially when chasing very silent diesel-electric subs. Thankfully, craft designer SAIC has stepped in with a detailed video tour. If there's suspicions that a diesel sub is in the area, the US Navy can deploy sonar buoys that give the ACTUV an inkling of where to go first. After that, the drone takes over with both long-range and short-range sonar. The vehicle can gauge the intent of ships in its path (with human failsafes) and hound a target for up to 13 weeks -- either letting the Navy close in for an attack or, ideally, spooking the sub into avoiding conflict in the first place. While ACTUV won't hit the waves for years, there's a promise that we'll always know about underwater threats and deal with them on our own terms.
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DIYer Adam uses his Nexus 7 for just about everything, including the music and navigation in his car. But unlike phones, tablets?even smaller ones like the Nexus 7?don't mount quite as easily. Here's how he got his tablet up and running in his car.
He wanted to make a mount that didn't replace any of the car's innards (so he could resell it later on), so he ended up using InstaMorph and a few painted lumber connecting straps. He took out the factory stereo and velcroed the mount on the top and bottom before putting it back in, so some disassembly will be necessary. But, the final product looks pretty great, so it's worth the work (and, of course, be sure to use hands-free devices to keep you safe on the road). Hit the link to see the full project.
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Nissan has thrown down the warranty gauntlet to other EV makers by announcing it would be the first to "restore" battery capacity if a Leaf's full charge fell below 9 out of 12 "bars" within 5 years or 60k miles. The new clause was announced by VP Andy Palmer and will go into effect in spring of next year on all models, including those sold in 2011 and 2012. The company stressed it would only "repair or replace the battery under warranty with a new or remanufactured unit to restore capacity at or above a minimum of nine bars," and not a full charge -- saying a gradual, but not excessive loss of charge was normal. Nissan added that it'd look to improve the accuracy of the battery gauge, since the aforementioned bars on the dash were computer managed and not exactly scientific. All of this applies to US-only vehicles for now, but similar policies will soon go into effect worldwide, according to the statement. So, if you've been starting to get range anxiety, check the PR below the break for more info.
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"Releasing your potential is a very dangerous idea. You should stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up." ?- Dylan Moran
Self-improvement is a dirty word.
On one hand, it's a bit wanky and we think of it as quick fixes that don't really work. On the other, it threatens our sense of self with change or compromise.
I used to think greater self-confidence awaited on the other side. You know, once I was a better me.
The more successful people I've met, the more I've come to see it the other way around.
Here's what I've observed with some successful friends you may know, and their responses below:
I met Joel Gascoigne, the founder of Buffer, years ago when he was working on his previous startup. While we could speculate how he got Buffer as a startup to take off, he points to his habits as the foundation of his success. Seems he's constantly reading about habit-forming and experimenting with it in his own life. A year ago, he was creating new habits as a tool in his quest for better life-balance. Now, he's building on cemented habits, allowing him to evolve with his role as Buffer grows.
Notice how in this framing, it's not about specific or one-time gains? Exercise isn't to look better. Learning skills isn't to do something better. The emphasis is interesting - it's the small habits that get his attention. These lead to better life-balance, which enables him to do the right things. This leads to his personal growth and happiness.
Rob's known for taking serial founding to the next level. He's been actually doing Customer Development for longer than anyone I know, and does it in such a natural way that someone once called him The Dude Of Lean Startup. And the funny thing is that Rob generally seems to get good at stuff by hanging out in coffee shops, one of the reasons I love working with him.
Take blogging for example. His blog The Startup Toolkit has been quite successful. ?"Figuring out blogging" was a coffee-shop project for Rob, like many other skills he picked up. He gave himself 2 weeks to write as many posts as he could, most of which were experiments of some sort. His subscriber rate jumped several orders of magnitude in those two weeks. Now, he's one of a small handful of bloggers whose posts have broken 1000 points on Hacker News.
Rob wants to figure things out. He makes time for picking up skills but does it organically and experientially, integrating his learning with his existing way of doing things.
Patrick's the producer of Business Model Generation and the founder of Business Models Inc., a very successful business model innovation consultancy. Before that, Patrick had a great career with a major consultancy. A lot of people who leave high-paying jobs to go for it on their own terms, define themselves in opposition to their old job: "not consulting anymore" or "working for myself." I never heard anything like this from Patrick. He was looking for a better business model for consulting.
He found this better model and Business Models Inc. took off, freeing Patrick, both financially and to do work he loves. (The guy is always smiling!) I don't think this would have been possible if he had constrained himself along the lines of a "leaving consulting" identity.
Kevin was my first co-founder, back when we were both teenagers. We went on to start 3 business together, including a leading IT provider that still operates today (although massively changed under his direction over a decade.) ?As kids, we were a talking point among our parents, teachers and even the local newspapers - a dynamic duo. I was studious and academic and he was a brilliant salesperson. His mom used to joke that I was the brains and he was the bullshit. But Kevin was more than a good salesman, he was the energy, curiosity and willingness to go for it that drove us forward.
Kevin knew his weaknesses and would defer to me readily when appropriate.?In retrospect, I can see it took a huge amount of self-confidence to seek out and trust people with complimentary skills, and to?press forward and figure things out as we went.
In retrospect, I was the one lacking confidence so I focused on being and sounding right. I would study and analyse heavily before opening my mouth, and would try to be as articulate and persuasive as possible. ?But Kevin was more persuasive because he had the confidence to engage in conversation, and learn and improve as he went.
Experimentation is popular among entrepreneurs now - but worthy experiments are backed with a genuine curiosity and willingness to try something new.
Joel's view connecting habits with life-balance and success can be seen elsewhere. ?Duncan Banantyne tells it a similar way in his biography, and the pattern matches with Rob, Kevin and Patrick. Just like diets or exercise routines, you don't expect to see results right away, but anchoring new behaviours or perspectives lead to big improvements over time.?As you improve, your career catches up, but there's a lag.
Massive failures and rebounds are a common theme in entrepreneur biographies, but there's almost always something more than brute tenacity behind them. Look at Felix Dennis, Donald Trump or Richard Branson, and you'll see there's an attitude to perspective and behaviour that underlies their success, and that's what allowed them to break through brick walls.
In all these cases, their confidence and self-awareness allowed them to see self-improvement as part of the journey. The self-improvement itself seems to consistently be tied to some curiosity of how things work or how they could be. And when it comes to identity, I can see my friends are all better, smarter, faster (and in Joel's case, buffer) but they're still the same guy!
Self-improvement requires self-confidence as a starting point. Enough so you have a willingness to try, enough to be sure of your own identity and enough to be humbly aware of your own weaknesses.
Patrick Van Der Pijl:
I have not looked at it from that perspective before. Is self confidence something you're born with or can you develop it? Or do some people think you always need more? I remember one guy at my Business University Nyenrode when we were both studying for our MBA. He - the smartest ass of the class - "I like you Patrick. You are not the smartest in our team, but you always have a positive mindset and you make things work." I think that has also something to do with self confidence. It is about just making it work...
Kevin Haluk:
You taught me that you have to take care of the people around you. Because it's people that make us successful. I've been told that I should focus, so I do the opposite - and it seems to be working.
Joel Gascoigne:
Self improvement is certainly something I consciously work on. I love your observation that there is a lag, that is definitely true if I look back. I'm planning a few changes yet again to my routine and habits, so this is a nice reminder to push forward with the adjustments :-)
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former President George H.W. Bush remained in the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital on Thursday, according to a hospital spokesman.
Bush, 88, a Republican who during his one term in office led a coalition that ejected Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991, was admitted to Methodist Hospital November 23 for bronchitis. He was transferred to intensive care on Sunday after setbacks including a persistent fever, family spokesman Jim McGrath has said.
"I don't have any guidance so far today except to say no news is good news," McGrath said on Thursday.
Hospital spokesman George Kovacik said the former president remained in intensive care on Thursday.
McGrath on Wednesday described Bush as alert and talking to medical staff.
Bush has lower-body parkinsonism, which causes a loss of balance, and has used wheelchairs for more than a year.
The 41st U.S. president, and father of former President George W. Bush, served as a congressman, as ambassador to the United Nations, as envoy to China, as CIA director and as vice president for two terms under Ronald Reagan.
(Reporting by Corrie MacLaggan; Editing by Paul Thomasch and Phil Berlowitz)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful winter storm that has dumped a foot of snow on parts of the United States forced the cancellation of 457 flights on Thursday and threatened more havoc as it hit the New England states with fierce winds.
The heaviest snow was falling on Pennsylvania, New York and New England, and winter storm warnings continued over a majority of the U.S. Northeast, the National Weather Service said.
The massive storm system touched off tornadoes in the South and produced snow in Texas before barreling down on the densely populated Northeast.
The service forecast 12 to 18 inches of snow for northern New England after the storm moved northeast out of the lower Great Lakes, where it left more than a foot of snow on parts of Michigan.
The storm front was accompanied by freezing rain and sleet, creating hazards on the highways and at airports.
A Southwest Airlines jet skidded off the runway at Long Island MacArthur Airport, about 50 miles east of New York City, as it taxied for takeoff, Suffolk County police said.
None of the 134 people aboard Tampa-bound flight No. 4695 was injured, police said.
"It's been undetermined at this time if weather was a factor," a police spokeswoman said.
Snow was due to fall in northern New York, Vermont and New Hampshire at up to 2 inches an hour, with winds gusting to 30 miles per hour (48 km per hour), the weather agency said.
So far, 457 U.S. airline flights scheduled for Thursday had been canceled, according to FlightAware.com, a website that tracks flights.
American Airlines had the most canceled at 55. A total of about 1,500 U.S. flights were canceled on Wednesday.
New York state activated its Emergency Operations Center late on Wednesday to deal with the first major storm of the season.
Governor Andrew Cuomo warned the heads of seven utilities they would be held accountable for their performances. Utilities near New York City were criticized for lingering outages after Superstorm Sandy devastated the region in October.
New York state has seen little snow during autumn and winter. Buffalo, New York, was 23 inches below normal for the season before the storm, said Bill Hibbert, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
"We're short and even this big snow isn't going to make it up for us," he said.
The storm dumped record snow in north Texas and Arkansas before it swept through the U.S. South on Christmas Day and then veered north.
The system spawned tornadoes and left almost 200,000 people in Arkansas and Alabama without power on Wednesday.
At least five people were killed in road accidents related to the bad weather, police said.
(Additional reporting by Dan Burns and Neale Gulley; Editing by Daniel Trotta and Dale Hudson)
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Dec. 24, 2012 ? When heart attack patients present in the emergency department with some degree of anemia, or anemic patients have a heart attack, physicians have a tendency, but not much guidance, about whether to provide a blood transfusion. The idea is that a transfusion could help more oxygen get to the heart. Recent national guidelines suggested that there simply isn't good evidence to encourage or discourage the common practice, but a new meta-analysis of 10 studies involving more than 203,000 such patients comes down on the side of it increasing the risk of death.
The next step for determining when the practice could be appropriate needs rigorous randomized trials that will generate more decisive, high-quality data, said lead author Dr. Saurav Chatterjee, a cardiology fellow at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Providence VA Medical Center.
For the analysis published Dec. 24 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Chatterjee and his co-authors combined and analyzed data from studies in which anemia patients with heart attacks either received "liberal" transfusions or received more restricted versions of the treatment or no transfusions at all. Liberal transfusions were defined as cases in which patients either received two units of blood or more or had a transfusion even with a hematocrit reading (a measure of red blood cell concentration) higher than 30 percent (normal is in the low 40s).
What the researchers found, after statistical adjustments to control for important medical factors, was that the risk of death was 12 percent higher for people who received the liberal transfusions than those who did not. Moreover, the group that received liberal transfusions had twice the odds of having another heart attack.
"What we found is that the possibility of real harm exists with transfusion," Chatterjee said. "It is practiced in emergency departments all across the United States. I think it is high time that we need to answer the question definitively with a randomized trial."
Of the 10 papers that Chatterjee and his co-authors reviewed, all but one were observational studies. The only randomized trial was a small pilot experiment.
Searching for an answer
Chatterjee began the study when he was a resident at Maimonides Medical Center in New York. He noticed a paper by the AABB (formerly the American Association of Blood Banks) in which the association said there was not enough clinical evidence for or against transfusions in heart attack patients.
For clinicians, the practice has always been a tough judgment call. Some transfusions are clearly necessary, for example when a patient's troubles include not just a heart attack but also severe ongoing bleeding, Chatterjee said. But transfusions also create health risks, such as an increase in potential clotting because platelets may clump together more, or from an inflammatory immune response to the introduction of blood of a "foreign" source into the body.
Chatterjee and his co-authors decided to comb the literature to determine whether, if properly combined and analyzed, existing data could provide some insight. They found 729 potentially relevant studies, but only 10 that had the right data to help answer the question.
Few as they were, Chatterjee said, the studies all told much the same story.
"One of the things that struck us is that there were very few studies in evidence of transfusion at all," Chatterjee said. "In our case, though, we found that the effect was pretty consistently harmful across the spectrum of studies, spectrum of time, and spectrum of patients that were enrolled in the individual studies."
Chatterjee said the study should not be taken to mean that transfusions should be stopped altogether for anemic heart attack patients. Instead, he said, doctors must continue exercising their clinical judgment, at least until results from a large, well-designed randomized trial can be produced. Mindful of the risk his study found, however, they might just want to shift their thinking about where the border is among borderline cases.
"Before a definitive trial is out there, we should be conservative, especially considering the high risk of harm," he said.
In addition to Chatterjee, the paper's other authors are Jorn Wetterslev of the Centre for Clinical Intervention Research in Copenhagen, Denmark; Abhishek Sharma and Edgar Lichstein of Maimonedes Medical Center; and Debabrata Mukherjee of Texas Tech University.
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