Trip To Miami - Growing Up Poor Changes Young Brains

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Exposure to poverty in early childhood was associated with smaller brain structures later in life, but nurturing seemed to offset poverty's negative effect, researchers found.

MRI scans showed that impoverished children had smaller white (P=0.005) and gray (P<0.001) matter volumes compared with normative values in early adolescence, according to Joan Luby, MD, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and colleagues.

Poverty was also a significant predictor of left hippocampus volume (P=0.02), and left amygdala volume (P=0.01), they reported online Oct. 28 in JAMA Pediatrics.

The association of poverty with volumes of the right hippocampus and right amygdala only approached statistical significance (P=0.09 for both).

However, supportive parental language during a laboratory task conducted while children were preschool age positively influenced left and right hippocampus volumes later in life (P<0.05 for both).

In addition, stress in a child's life negatively influenced brain development, but only the volume of the right hippocampus (P<0.05).

Regarding the influence of parental education on brain development, researchers found no effect.

"This work adds to our growing awareness that early adversity can powerfully influence human development throughout a life span," wrote Charles A. Nelson, PhD, of Boston Children's Hospital, in an accompanying editorial.

"Exposure to early life adversity should be considered no less toxic than exposure to lead, alcohol, or cocaine, and, as such, it merits similar attention from public health authorities," Nelson concluded.

There is evidence that children exposed to poverty have poorer cognitive skills, but neurobiological data in humans is sparse, Luby and colleagues said.

They investigated the effect of poverty on brain development in a group of children, ages 6 to 12, who were followed since preschool. The 145 children were recruited from a larger group of children who participated in a preschool depression study.

Parents were evaluated annually regarding stress during preschool years. After age 9, both children and parents were interviewed.

The assessment of supportive or hostile parenting was made after evaluating parent/child interactions during a task.

"The finding that the effects of poverty on hippocampal development are mediated through care-giving and stressful life events further underscores the importance of high-quality early childhood care-giving, a task that can be achieved through parenting education and support, as well as through preschool programs that provide high-quality supplementary care-giving and safe haven to vulnerable young children," the authors concluded.

The authors noted limitations of the study including an oversampling of children with depression in the original cohort, the absence of earlier imaging that would have allowed bidirectional mediation modeling, and the absence of more detailed aspects of poverty such as nutrition, parental psychopathology, and genetic factors.

Suites In Miami - 3D iPhones Just The Start Of Nanoveu's Technologies

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Singapore startup Nanoveu has figured out a way to mass produce nanoimprinted products, printing down to a resolution of a nanometer—the dimensions of atomic particles.

There are plenty of potential applications for this, but the eight-man startup has kicked off its commercial portfolio with a set of iPhone and iPad screen protectors that allow users to view 3D movies on the devices without needing to wear 3D glasses. This is pretty similar to what the Nintendo 3DS has on its upper screen, for example.

Nanoveu's founder and CEO, Alfred Cheong, said the company decided to get into this because it was "low-hanging fruit". People understand how to display 3D to the human eye, but the trick to getting these displays to cooperate requires extra-fine manufacturing. To wit, Nanoveu's iPhone screen protector has packed 500,000 separate lenses into its screen surface, indistinguishable to the naked eye. The iPad version has 6 million lenses.

Nanoveu's software takes the left and right eye viewing angles of a 3D movie or photo and separates them, and the individual lenses over each pixel direct the left-right views to the user, resulting in a 3D projection.

You have to view the compatible content through Nanoveu's app, and it takes most standard image formats such as .mpo.

The manufacturing method is based on nanoimprint lithography, which researchers have been working on since the mid-90s. Being able to mass produce nanoimprinted products, though, means the company can put its EyeFly 3D films on retail for just US$25 at Apple stores--it had launched at around US$35. Films to fit Android phones and tablets are in the works.

The company has far bigger ambitions beyond 3D screens, however. The company is in the midst of closing a second round of funding of S$1.8 million (US$1.45 million), having raised its first angel round of S$3 million (US$2.4 million) at the end of 2012. It hasn't started looking for Series A funding from VCs yet, said Chong.

The brains behind the operation is Frank Chan, Nanoveu's CTO. He was a research scientist working on 3D imaging for medical institutions such as National University Hospital (NUH) and Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and had received several research grants from the National Research Foundation (NRF) to work on glasses-free 3D display technology.

Hotels Near Marlins Park - Cosmetic Contacts Can Be Dangerous

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Lady Gaga-inspired circle lenses or cat’s eye contacts might complete a Halloween look, but without a prescription, cosmetic lenses are illegal and can lead to eye infections or worse.

Federal law requires consumers to have a prescription from a licensed professional to obtain contact lenses, whether they are corrective or not. It’s illegal to sell cosmetic lenses, which the FDA monitors as medical devices, over-the-counter, said Nancy Manns, executive director of the Ohio Optical Dispensers Board.

Since mid-2012, the board’s investigator has served 15 businesses with cease and desist orders, warning them to stop selling cosmetic contacts. The businesses range from a Mexican grocery store in Defiance to a wig shop in Lima and a gas station in Columbus.

Most businesses stop after receiving a letter, but those that persist can face an injunction from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office and a fine, Manns said. With one investigator to review complaints about licenses in addition to roguecat-eye contacts, many businesses continue to sell lenses unchecked.

Without a prescription, the contacts can be dangerous. Using lenses not properly fitted to an eye can cause pain, infection, cornea ulcers and blindness, said Sherry Williams, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness Ohio.

Popular among teenagers and during Halloween, the lenses can cause irrevocable harm within a few hours, Williams said. Across the U.S., an estimated 200 people each year develop serious eye infections that warrant surgery because of improper use of contacts, according to Prevent Blindness Ohio.

“No amount of time is a safe amount of time to wear a black-market contact,” Williams said. “When you’re 13, 14 or 16 and having a corneal transplant, your visual quality is going to be impacted for life.”

Most cosmetic contact lenses are approved for use if obtained through an eye doctor. One exception is circle lenses, popularized by Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” music video because the FDA has not approved them for use.

“I’m certain (Lady Gaga) had no clue, but certainly children don’t understand that, and they want to emulate the celebrity,” Williams said.

Holiday In Miami - The Biggest Complaints About The iPad Air, 9 Days Before It Has Even Been Released

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It's become an annual tradition: Complaining about Apple products before they are released or anyone has even touched them.

The new iPad Air and iPad mini were announced at Apple's press event Tuesday, and the complaints are rolling in, with just over a week before their in-store availability dates. Both devices are, at their cores, newer versions of last year's iPads, with some improved specs and added features.

What features and improvements did Apple leave out? How did Apple screw up its newest iPads? Well, that's evidently for Twitter to decide.

What follows is a comprehensive rundown of the most persistent complaints about the iPad Air and the iPad mini, days before either has been released. While new complaints are sure to pop up as soon as these tablets start shipping, let's focus on the perceived errors of Apple's yet-to-be-sold latest.

(Sidenote: Many deskchair pundits were most disappointed by Internet rumors that didn't pan out: a Microsoft Surface-like keyboard cover, a gold color option, the inclusion of Touch ID, Apple's fingerprint sensor technology. Indeed: A surprising number of Twitter users really wanted the gold.)

Hotels Near Marlins Park - Sleep Walking And 5 Other Crazy Things People Do In Their Sleep

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Sleep walking can be embarrassing – especially if you happen to, say, wander onto the subway tracks in Boston and stir up a panic among fellow commuters who have to rescue you. 

That's what happened to one Boston woman earlier this week in the city's Davis Square station. The woman told first responders she fell asleep on a station bench and woke up on the tracks, according to Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority officials. 

The woman escaped with only an arm injury because no train was coming when she fell, officials said. 

On the bright side, she didn't sleep-swim, sleep-have-sex-with-anyone or sleep-shoot-herself-in-the-knee.

Click through to check out some more wacky things people have done in their sleep.

Suites Near University Of Miami - A New Biological Clock Measures Altered DNA, Not Birthday Candles

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Move over birthday candles, and step aside telomeres; there may be a new kind of biological clock in town. And this one may prove useful in predicting where age-related diseases such as cancer are most likely to strike.

The proposed new body clock measures DNA methylation -- the process by which genes are altered as the body's cells differentiate and their genetic programs change to meet new demands. Researchers pored over the DNA of some 8,000 samples from 51 different tissues and cells -- including blood, brain, muscle, heart, lungs, liver and pancreas --  to devise a formula by which DNA methylation could be used to determine the age of the tissue from which the tested cells are drawn.

Horvath's research, published Monday in the journal Genome Biology, makes clear that the answer to the question "how old is this person?" may change depending on which tissue is checked.

In a single individual, the "DNAm" ages of diverse tissues largely converge on one number. But certain tissues may diverge from the norm. By comparing a specific tissue's "DNAm" age with the person's chronological age -- or with the DNAm age suggested by the person's other tissues -- physicians may one day be able to identify organs or tissues that are aging at an accelerated rate. That, in turn, may allow them to identify tissues that are vulnerable to abnormal processes such as cancer, or already under attack.

The author of the new research, UCLA bioinformatician Steve Horvath, found that a woman's breast tissue routinely tests as being older than her chronological age by two to three years. That, the authors speculated, may help explain why breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women. Looking at the methylation of cells taken from the breasts of women with breast cancer, Horvath observed that tissue near the site of a tumor was, on average, 12 years older by DNAm standards than the rest of her body.

By contrast, musculoskeletal tissue and cardiac muscle typically look younger on DNAm readings than their owner's actual years -- owing, perhaps, to the rejuvenating effects of stem cells that remain relatively plentiful in those tissues through life, and come to the rescue whenever injury or disease set in.

The resulting "clock" also may one day offer scientists a way to measure whether anti-aging measures and regenerative medicine are delivering on their promise of turning back the hands of time.

Not surprisingly, embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells -- adult cells that have been manipulated to revert to near-embryonic form -- were found to have an age of near zero as measured by this technique.

An exhaustive scan of the 121 sets of data on DNA methylation collected from patients both healthy and sick also showed that we age at different rates over our lifespans.

"The clock's ticking rate isn't constant," Horvath said. "It ticks much faster when we're born and growing from children into teenagers, then slows to a constant rate when we reach 20."

Horvath said he aims to develop and extend his body clock technique by looking at whether measures that stop the body's DNAm clock also stop the aging process, or whether doing so has negative effects. Meanwhile, UCLA has filed a provisional patent on Horvath's DNAm bioticker.

Golf Resort In Miami - Black-Hole Boffins Close In On Gravity Waves

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While the world looks for ways to directly observe gravity waves, boffins at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) say they've used information about the Einsteinian prediction to examine huge black holes.

In what they call a “new chapter in astronomy”, post-doctoral CSIRO fellow Dr Ryan Shannon and PhD student Vikram Ravi believe they've worked out the likely – and low – rate of background gravitational waves in the universe.

They've done this by examining data from the Parkes radio-telescope's PPTA (Parkes Pulsar Timing Array) project which, along with a previous CSIRO-Swinburne University collaboration provides 20 years' worth of pulsar timing data.

The timing of pulsar signals is extremely precise, the researchers say, but as a gravitational wave passes the pulsar's region, it would swell or shrink distances in that region, changing the timing of the pulse from Earth's point of view.

“The strength of the gravitational wave background depends on how often supermassive black holes spiral together and merge, how massive they are, and how far away they are. So if the background is low, that puts a limit on one or more of those factors,” CSIRO says in its media release.

As a result, the group believes one model used to explain supermassive black holes, galactic merger, should be discarded because it doesn't explain enough of the mass of black holes. The timing data will next be used to test other models of supermassive black hole growth.

Project leader, CSIRO's Dr George Hobbs, believes the timing data will one day allow direct detection of gravitational waves. “We haven't yet detected gravitational waves outright, but we're now into the right ballpark to do so,” he says.

He explained that combining pulsar-timing data from Parkes with that from other telescopes in Europe and the USA — a total of about 50 pulsars — should provide enough accuracy to detect gravitational waves “within ten years”.

Extended Stay In Miami - Apple, Google, Facebook Don't Pay The Highest Engineer Salary

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For software engineers, life must seem like it keeps getting better. Not only are salaries on the rise as companies compete for talent, but there are also lively job markets in cities across the US.

While big-name companies, like Google, Apple, and Facebook, tout their engineers as the best and the brightest, these tech giants aren't necessarily paying the most (although they're up there).

A new survey by Glassdoor, released Thursday, lists the top 25 companies that have paid their engineers the highest salaries over the last year. And the unlikely winner is Juniper Networks. Paying $159,990 for its software engineers' average base salary, Juniper is way ahead of other companies on the list.

Coming in No. 2 is LinkedIn, which pays its software engineers $136,427, and No. 3 is Yahoo paying $130,312. Google and Twitter make up No. 4 and No. 5 on the list, respectively, paying $127,143 and $124,863. Apple is No. 6, and Facebook is No. 9.

While people may balk that some of the heavy hitters aren't reaching the top of the list, it's important to note that all of the companies in the top 25 pay above the national annual average, which is $92,790.

These 2013 salaries are quite a bit higher than the numbers released by Glassdoor last year. In 2012, Google earned the top spot, paying its engineers $128,336 (which is actually $1,193 more than this year). Coming in second was Facebook paying $123,626.

Third and fourth place went to Apple and eBay last year. While they dropped in the rankings, both companies are paying more this year than last year -- Apple is paying $10,217 more, and eBay is paying $5,911 more. Zynga, which was No. 5 last year, didn't even make the top 25 list this year.

In this year's survey, Glassdoor also took a look at the average software engineer salary in major cities across the US. Not surprisingly, the San Francisco Bay Area ranks No. 1 with the average base pay at $111,885. A couple of other cities, like Seattle and San Diego, also have above average salaries.

Glassdoor's survey is based on companies that had at least 50 software engineer salary reports filed over the last 12 months. In all, more than 33,000 salary reports were turned into Glassdoor this year.
 

Airport Hotels In Miami - Taking The Internet Underwater

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Wireless networks span the globe. But like a frightened toddler, they don’t go underwater.

That may soon change because University at Buffalo researchers are developing a deep-sea Internet. The technological breakthrough could lead to improvements in tsunami detection, offshore oil and natural gas exploration, surveillance, pollution monitoring and other activities.

“A submerged wireless network will give us an unprecedented ability to collect and analyze data from our oceans in real time," said Tommaso Melodia, UB associate professor of electrical engineering and the project’s lead researcher. “Making this information available to anyone with a smartphone or computer, especially when a tsunami or other type of disaster occurs, could help save lives.”

Melodia and his students will present a paper, “The Internet Underwater: An IP-compatible Protocol Stack for Commercial Undersea Modems,” at the 8th annual International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems. Hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery, the conference runs Nov. 11-13 in Taiwan.

Land-based wireless networks rely on radio waves that transmit data via satellites and antennae. Unfortunately, radio waves work poorly underwater. This is why agencies like the Navy and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use sound wave-based techniques to communicate underwater.

For example, NOAA relies on acoustic waves to send data from tsunami sensors on the sea floor to surface buoys. The buoys convert the acoustic waves into radio waves to send the data to a satellite, which then redirects the radio waves back to land-based computers.

Many systems worldwide employ this paradigm, says Melodia, but sharing data between them is difficult because each system often has a different infrastructure. The framework Melodia is developing would solve that problem. It would transmit data from existing and planned underwater sensor networks to laptops, smartphones and other wireless devices in real time.

It would be, in other words, a deep-sea Internet.

Melodia tested the system recently in Lake Erie, a few miles south of downtown Buffalo. Hovannes Kulhandjian and Zahed Hossain, who are both doctoral candidates in his lab, dropped two, 40-pound sensors into the water. Kulhandjian typed a command into a laptop. Seconds later, a series of high-pitched chirps ricocheted off a nearby concrete wall, an indication that the test worked.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the project is a collaborative effort that includes UB researchers Stella N. Batalama and Dimitris A. Pados, professors of electrical engineering; Weifeng Su, associate professor of electrical engineering; and Joseph Atkinson, professor of environmental engineering.

Melodia, Batalama, Pados, and Su are members of the Signals, Communications and Networking Research Group in UB’s Department of Electrical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Other members of the group are professors Adly T. Fam and Mehrdad Soumekh; associate professors Michael Langberg and Leslie Ying; and assistant professors Nicholas Mastronarde, Gesualdo Scutari, Zhi Sun and Josep M. Jornet.

The group carries out research in wireless communications and networking, cognitive radios, extreme environment (i.e., underwater, underground) communications, secure communications, data hiding, information theory and coding, adaptive signal processing, compressed sensing,  multimedia systems, magnetic resonance imaging and radar systems.

A deep-sea Internet has many applications, including linking together buoy networks that detect tsunamis. In these situations, it could deliver a more reliable warning thereby increasing the odds that coastal residents can evacuate, Melodia said.

It may also help collect oceanographic data and monitoring pollution. The framework will encourage collaboration among researchers and, potentially, eliminate the duplicative deployments of sensors and other equipment, he said.

There are also military and law enforcement applications. For example, drug smugglers recently have deployed makeshift submarines to clandestinely ferry narcotics long distances underwater. An improved, more robust underwater sensor network could help spot these vessels.

The framework could also be useful to the energy industry, which typically relies on seismic waves to search for underwater oil and natural gas. Industry’s efforts could be aided by network of interconnected devices working together, he said.

"We could even use it to monitor fish and marine mammals, and find out how to best protect them from shipping traffic and other dangers," Melodia said. "An Internet underwater has so many possibilities."

Hotels Near Doral Golf Resort - Depression During Pregnancy May Raise Risk Of Psychiatric Trouble In Kids

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Teens are more likely to experience depression at age 18 if their mothers were depressed during pregnancy, a new study finds.

The analysis of data from more than 4,500 parents and their teen children in the United Kingdom also found that the risk of depression was higher among the children of mothers with low levels of education who had depression after giving birth -- postpartum depression.

The study was published online Oct. 9 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.

"The findings have important implications for the nature and timing of interventions aimed at preventing depression in the offspring of depressed mothers," study author Rebecca Pearson, of the University of Bristol, said in a journal news release. "In particular, the findings suggest that treating depression in pregnancy, irrespective of background, may be most effective."

Depression in the late teens is a public-health issue worldwide and identifying early life risk factors would help guide prevention and intervention efforts, the researchers said.

Suites Near International Dolphin Mall - Apple Is Said To Debut New IPads At Oct. 22 Event

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Apple Inc. (AAPL) will update its lineup of iPads at an Oct. 22 event, a person with knowledge of the plans said, as the company works to remain ahead of rivals in the increasingly crowded tablet market. 

The Cupertino, California-based company will unveil a new version of the original 9.7-inch iPad as well as the smaller iPad mini, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the plans haven’t been made official. Apple also will show its new Mac personal-computer operating system, called Mavericks, and Mac Pro PC, the person said. 

The event, scheduled for a month after Apple debuted two new iPhone models, will feature changes to the bigger iPad that include a thinner design, people familiar with the plans said in August. A new iPad mini will sport the high-definition screen now on the iPhone and bigger iPads, the people said. 

The event was reported earlier by AllThingsD. Trudy Muller, a spokeswoman for Apple, declined to comment. 

In the absence of a new iPad, the tablet market shrank in the second quarter, suggesting pent-up demand for the new models. Global tablet unit sales fell 9.7 percent to 45.1 million, with iPad shipments falling to 14.6 million units from 19.5 million in the first quarter, according to researcher IDC. 

While Apple remains the market leader for tablets, which meld the functions of touch-screen smartphones and laptops, its share has been threatened as competitors such as Amazon.com Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) and Microsoft Corp. introduce other models. 

Apple shares fell 1.4 percent to $480.94 at yesterday’s close in New York. The stock has fallen 9.6 percent this year.

Golf Resort In Miami - Why Hard Drinkers Have Problems With Bones

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It's a long-known association: hard drinking leads to weak bones. Doctors know that alcohol abusers are more likely than abstainers to suffer from frequent bone fractures, and slow bone healing.

However, precisely why this is the case has been a mystery. Doctors have attributed the association to multiple reasons, such as the malnutrition commonly seen among alcoholics, as well as myriad interactions between alcohol and hormones.

Now a team of researchers from Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., has found how alcohol slows bone healing at a cellular and molecular level. This effect of poor bone healing, the researchers said, would apply to binge drinkers as well as alcoholics.

This problem can be particularly serious during the adolescent and young adult years, when the body is building stores of calcium in bones for long-term bone health.

The researchers present their findings here yesterday (Oct. 6) at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 2013 Annual Meeting.

Alcohol abuse is a double-punch problem for bone health, explained Dr. Roman Natoli, an orthopedic surgery resident at Loyola's Stritch School of Medicine and lead presenter of the study.

"Many bone fractures are alcohol-related, due to car accidents, falls, shootings, etc.," Natoli said. "In addition to contributing to bone fractures, alcohol also impairs the healing process."

Yet the occasional nip might be good for bone health. A study published in 2012 in the journal Menopause found that up to one drink a day could curb bone loss in women over age 50. And a 2008 study in the American Journal of Medicine found that people who consumed a half to one drink a day had a lower risk of hip fracture compared to both abstainers and alcoholics.

To better understand this complicated connection between alcohol and bone health, Natoli and his team turned to mice. The researchers divided ordinary lab mice into two groups, one exposed to alcohol levels about equivalent to three times the legal limit for driving, and a control group given no alcohol.

The researchers found differences between the control group and the alcohol-exposed group in the hard bony tissue that forms around the ends of a fractured bone, called the callus. In the mice exposed to alcohol, the callus was less mineralized, meaning not as much bone was forming. Moreover, the bone that did form was not as strong.

Also, the alcohol-exposed group had signs of oxidative stress, a process that produces chemicals called free radicals that, when at the wrong place at the wrong time, can impair normal cellular functions. Free radicals are highly chemically reactive.

Beyond this, the alcohol-exposed group had significantly lower levels of a protein called osteopontin. Osteopontin, along with a second protein called SDF-1, are involved in recruiting stem cells to the injury site. These stem cells mature into bone cells.

As a follow up to this study, Natoli said he is interested in injecting mice with bone stem cells with an antioxidant that combats oxidative stress called NAc, to see if that speeds up the healing process for mice exposed to alcohol.

Such treatment could help alcoholics, Natoli said. But the best advice for those mending a broken bone may be to pass on heavy drinking for a few months while the bone heals properly.

Hotel Near FIU - Unknown Fatal Dog Virus Spreading From Owners To Pets

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In Michigan, a fatal dog virus has struck in the town of Ann Arbor and has already very quickly killed six canines. Veterinarians are saying it might even be spreading from owners to the pets. The illness showed up in eleven-year-old Brutus during the first of the week, when he began to show symptoms of an unusual illness hitting him.

The dog would try to bark, and then he would whine each time he attempted to bark, said his owner. The Tecumseh, Michigan woman did not get worried until mid-week morning when Brutus did not have any desire to eat and would barely try to move. She explained that she was close to panic at this time and knew she had to get her dog to the vet’s office. “I was trying not to lose it,” she was quoted as saying. Veterinarians did not know exactly what kind of virus Brutus had, because there was no name for it. This was the very first time this type of illness had been seen anywhere in the metro area of Detroit and since then it has taking the lives of dogs very quickly when it has been showing up.

The illness is usually becoming the worst between 12 to 24 hours of when it starts,” stated a veterinarian which works at the Emergency Veterinary Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI. The vet also explained that Brutus and the other dogs seen with the same unknown virus are displaying flu- like symptoms. The animals also have very severe abdominal pain, with vomiting, lethargy, and most of the time bloody diarrhea.

This virus seems to be very similar to the known Circovirus that began making dogs ill last year in San Diego, CA and also in certain parts of Ohio. But how this virus is transmitted is yet unknown, although the dogs that have come down with the illness are seeming to have owners who are also sick.

By tradition human beings do not pass any types of viruses to animals. However, it is appearing that this time, there is some sort of potential that people are doing just that, they are giving their illness to their pets. Brutus’s owner was very quick to admit she had been feeling under the weather since the weekend. She explained that she had stomach pain which had been coming and going, which was located just below her ribcage. However the owner ended up getting lucky. She brought her dog in soon enough so that the illness was able to be caught and treated in time. She added that she simply could not imagine being without her pet.

As of this time, no human beings have knowingly died from this virus nor do any doctors think that any individuals will get severely ill. As a reminder, to help stop spreading germs and viruses, medical professionals state that washing a person’s hands and to also use hand sanitizer as often as possible.  Even with the sanitation steps, it is also unknown if the virus can be spread to any other pets such as cats. Right now, the illness has only shown up in dogs.

Miami Airport Hotels - Why Apple's iPhones Have No Appeal In Russia

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Apple's new iPhone may have caused queues in New York, Berlin, Beijing and London but over in Russia the streets were bare with no official release date of the company's latest smartphone expected until November, according to local media reports.

This delay highlights how the U.S. tech giant is faring in Russia, with falling market share and major carriers turning their backs on the smartphones.


Alexey Kornya, the chief financial officer of Russia's biggest mobile service provider MTS, told CNBC that the company is focusing on cheap smartphones as demand for iPhones is low.

"They are not subsidizing in Russia," he said. "You have to pay in full, that is why there is very limited demand for non-subsidized expensive phones and that is why we are moving more focus on cheap smartphones."


An iPhone in Russia could cost over $1000, he said, adding that the bestselling smartphone sold by MTS in the last two months was just $60.


"High-end smartphones like Apple, Samsung of course they are important but they are not much in quantity because we are not subsidizing," he said.


Smartphone shipments were set to grow by over 30 percent this year according to research firm Canalys, but at the same time Apple's market share has contracted in the country.

MTS, as well as Russia's two other to mobile operators - Megafon and Vimpelcom -- have stopped selling the iPhone since reaching a deal back in 2008.

Pete Cunningham, a mobile analyst at Canalys told CNBC that price is certainly a factor in Russia and consumers favored lower-cost Android phones.

But Cunningham said that he wouldn't say the company was failing in Russia, with expectations that the new iPhone 5S sold very well in unofficial trading channels, known as the grey market.

Suites In Miami - iOS 7: Here a Bug, There a Bug, Everywhere a Bug, Bug

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The issue affects just a fraction of a percent of customers who use the system, Apple told the paper, promising a fix in an upcoming software update.

This will be the second fix since the iOS 7 was released Sept. 18. The first was issued Sept. 20 to resolve a problem with the iPhone 5s fingerprint scanner.

At least 16 iOS 7 problems have surfaced so far, including a bug that lets anyone bypass the iPhone's lockscreen, glitchy media controls, users receiving other people's messages or contacts, and complaints that the user interface causes motion sickness.

"Quantitatively, I can't tell you that this is a new record for bugs," ABI Research Senior Analyst Michael Morgan told MacNewsWorld, "but I will say this: Apple has opened the door for this to be a buggy release."

Apple did not respond to our request to comment for this story.

Users have been complaining about the problem with iMessage since June, when the beta was released to registered iOS developers.

User Kjt822 complained about iMessage to the Apple Support Communities on June 3.

On July 21, user BarnYard_63 told the Apple Support Communities that some addressees were not getting iMessages and that Apple Support had denied there was a problem with iMessage.

In the ensuing discussion, BarnYard_63 pointed out that angry users had sent 323,000 tweets about iMessage not working in the previous two days. On Aug. 5, the user said Apple had continued to deny there was a problem.

User gjn6595 brought up the problem with iMessage to the Apple Support Communities Sept. 7 and user Seanm85 did so Sept. 18.

"I would say iOS 7 is buggier than 6 or 5, but that is just an impression and not an empirically based judgment," Andrew Jaquith, chief technology officer at SilverSky, told MacNewsWorld.

Perhaps iOS 7 is especially buggy because Apple was trying to do too much at one time.

New OS releases "are always going to be buggy, but Apple did a lot of big things at once, and they were under time pressure to deliver -- so it's entirely possible that they didn't do quality checks as thoroughly as they could," ABI's Morgan said.

"Normally [Apple] adds a few new features, maybe they add in a Siri, and that's your ordinary update," Morgan explained. "This time you have feature tweaks, a hardware-based fingerprint scanner, the switch to 64-bit processing, and the whole new UI design paradigm."

Apple's release process is also to blame, Ken Dulaney, a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, told MacNewsWorld.

"The real criticism is the way they test out the OS," Dulaney said. "Windows sits out in the open market for months and months to shake it out; Apple keeps [iOS] under wraps with limited distribution."

Apple's practice of rolling out an update to everyone at once makes things worse, Morgan suggested. "Once they release a new piece of software, the whole user base is on it and it all happens at once, so all the problems happen to everybody at the same time."

The situation will probably get worse: "As iOS gets more complex -- as it inevitably will -- the process Apple uses will continue to be challenged to keep the introduction bugs at a minimum level," remarked Gartner's Dulaney.

Still, "it's just growing pains," Morgan said. "Most of the issues will be dealt with in the next few months."

About one-third of SilverSky's customers have upgraded their devices to iOS 7 "without too many issues," said Jaquith. "I would say that yes, it is up to snuff, but if you are affected by one of the issues, that won't be much comfort until Apple fixes them."

Hotel Reservations In Miami - It's Risky, But Parents Still Sleep With Infants

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Although infants who sleep in a bed with an adult are at greater risk for accidents or sudden infant death syndrome, a government-sponsored study shows it happens more often than it used to, especially common among black and Hispanic families.

Studies have shown strong association between infant bed sharing and SIDS, noted the background information for a new study, published online this week in JAMA Pediatrics. The study author, Dr. Eve R. Colson of Yale University School of Medicine, noted that the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests infants sleep in their own bed in the same room with their parents, but not in the same bed.

The research was based on data collected from 18,986 people in the National Infant Sleep Position Study, using phone surveys in 48 states, conducted yearly. Most of the respondents were mothers of infants. More than half were 30 or older, college educated and had incomes of at least $50,000. Four out of five participants were white.

The number of infants sharing beds more than doubled from 6.5 percent in 1993 to 13.5 percent in 2010. Among black and Hispanic families, it increased throughout the study period, while for white families it increased until the year 2000, but not thereafter.

The number of black infants co-sleeping with adults rose from 21.2 percent to 38.7 percent over the entire study period, the highest in the study. For Hispanic infants, it increased from 12.5 percent to 20.5. percent.

For white infants, in 1993 it was 4.9 percent, up to 9.1 percent in 2010.

"We found that black infants, who are at highest risk of sudden infant death syndrome and accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed, share a bed most often. Compared with white infants, black infants are 3.5 times more likely to share a bed," Colson and her colleagues wrote.

An article in USA Today said that "caregivers who perceived physicians' attitude as against sharing a bed were about 34 percent less likely to report that the infant usually shared a bed than were caregivers who received no advice."

Infants were also more likely to share a bed if the household income was less than $50,000 compared to those in a higher income range. Fewer families co-slept in the Midwest, compared to the West and South. Co-sleeping was also more common with infants up to age 15 weeks, compared to older, and with being born too early, compared to full-term. The researchers said they hoped that identifying factors associated with sharing will lead to ways to change behaviors.

Confounding the issue is the fact that another recent multi-center study published in JAMA Pediatrics shows that when mom and baby sleep together, baby is more apt to breastfeed longer, compared to babies who sleep separately.

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the "durations of any and exclusive breastfeeding were longest in the often bed sharing group, and shortest in the rare and non-feeding groups." Babies who slept in infant co-sleepers attached at bedside were not considered to be bed sharing, it said.

The benefits of breastfeeding are well documented and include health and developmental benefits, money savings and more. Ironically, breastfeeding is also associated with lower risk of SIDs. But given that co-sleeping can increase that risk, the authors of that study call for strategies to promote breastfeeding without increasing the incidence of bed sharing.

Not everyone agrees the practice of bed sharing is dangerous. In an editorial in the same issue of JAMA Pediatrics, Dr. Abraham B. Bergman, Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, said, "I find the report disquieting because evidence linking bed sharing per se to the increased risk for infant death is lacking."

He said that the campaign against bed sharing stems from recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics. "When condemning a widespread cultural practice, the supporting data should be clear," he wrote. "The studies cited to support the AAP's position share a common flaw: nonuniform and unverifiable information on the cause of death."

Other studies, including an international one by German researchers, found there is a link between SIDs and adults sleeping with infants. That risk is especially strong with parents who smoke and with very young infants, younger than 3 months of age, it said.