BlueStacks' second game console, the GamePop Mini, will launch ...

New gaming entrant BlueStacks has announced it will launch a second game console this fall dubbed the GamePop Mini. Like its recently announced $129 GamePop console, the new machine will play mobile games on a big-screen television. The aim is to disrupt traditional game consoles with cheaper Android and iOS-based titles. But this new mini-console will be ?forever free,? says BlueStacks.

The Campbell, Calif.-based BlueStacks calls this the ?Netflixication of gaming.? This means that it plans to disrupt other game businesses by offering $200 in paid games for free, so long as the user pays a $6.99 monthly subscription fee for the company?s GamePop mobile gaming service. The first console, the GamePop, will be free until June 30 for those who sign up for a subscription preorder. But the GamePop Mini will be always free with a subscription. GamePop preorders started on May 9 and the company says they are stronger than expected.

?We have always planned on having a free console option,? said BlueStacks chief executive Rosen Sharma. ?The biggest value of the GamePop service is its content ? not the box. Hardware costs have come down so fast that we?re able to undercut the rest of the market. With the free promotion we?ve been doing in June, we?re already seeing a ton of adoption. That volume then attracts more developers and therefore more and better content. It?s building momentum.?

The new device will be available for preorder on July and will run the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean version and connect to a TV via a HDMI cable. It will come with a curated group of 500 popular mobile games. Partners include?HalfBrick (Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride), Glu (Blood Brothers), and kids app developer Intellijoy. Sharma said that the two consoles will be able to play the same games and use the same subscription service, but the Mini will have less rendering power than the regular GamePop. He also said that the regular GamePop will have more ports, but he declined to be more specific.

It might be easier to do one console at a time, but Sharma said in an interview with GamesBeat, ?We have always been planning to do this for a long time.?

BlueStacks also came out with its ?Looking Glass? technology earlier this month. Looking Glass will enable iOS-only developers to easily launch on GamePop. Titles such as iOS?s first major franchise, the Fieldrunners series, will be able to come to TVs this way.

?We want to make things as easy as possible for app developers to come on board,? said Ben Armstrong on BlueStacks? developer relations team. ?There is a virtuous circle between great content and volume that we?re having a lot of early success jumpstarting that so far. The launch titles a service comes with are critical.?

The GamePop Mini is slated to ship this winter.

BlueStacks was founded in 2009, and it launched an App Player that converts Android software so that it can run on a computer. The company has raised $15 million from Intel, Andreessen-Horowitz, Radar Partners, Redpoint, Ignition Partners, and Qualcomm. App Player has more than 10 million registered users.

The company was particularly inspired by Japanese carrier KDDI?s subscription mobile app service Au Smart Pass, which gives customers access to hundreds of popular paid apps for just a few bucks a month. In just one year, that service managed to bring in $250 million in revenue for KDDI. GamePop does not plan to sell games on an ? la carte basis.

The company will have a lot of competition this fall, including Ouya, the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, and other Android gaming solutions for the living room.

Source: http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/28/bluestacks-second-game-console-the-gamepop-mini-will-launch-as-a-freemium-bundle/

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DfT confirms $2.4 billion train order with Siemens

LONDON (Reuters) - The Department for Transport (DfT) on Thursday confirmed it had awarded Germany's Siemens a $2.4 billion (1.5 billion pounds) contract to build 1,140 new carriages for use on the Thameslink rail line.

The trains, due to be introduced from 2016, will be used on the Thameslink commuter route that runs through London and connects Bedford with Brighton on the south coast of England.

It is confirmation of a decision made in 2011 to name the German industrial conglomerate as the preferred bidder.

The award was a blow to Bombardier, the train maker based in Derby, central England, which was shortlisted for the contract.

The decision to award the deal to Siemens has been widely criticised by UK unions who say Bombardier should have been given the contract to protect jobs in Derby and numerous local suppliers.

Siemens said the trains would be built in Germany but that many of the components for the new trains would be manufactured in Britain.

(Reporting by Rhys Jones, Editing by Brenda Goh)

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The World's Fastest Ship Is Basically an Aquatic Concorde Jet

This is no lumbering Staten Island Ferry. This is the Francisco, a wave-piercing catamaran loaded with modified jet engines set to blast commuters across the River Plate at 58 knots, faster than any other ship in the world.

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Home Improvement Help You Need To Succeed | DNF678.com

A home has to be safe as well as good looking. That?s why it?s crucial you are aware of what to do prior to beginning a project. This article gives you the information you seek to help you become a natural handyman.

Your porch might be in need of a fresh coat of paint. You should use a high quality exterior paint. Make sure the bases of the old and new paints match. That means using oil-based paint if the existing paint is oil-based, and the same for water-based paints. An oil-based paint is better for trims and will last a long time but you should use a water-based paint for decks or floors since oil-based paint can become slippery in the winter.

TIP! Use old shoe boxes for storage. You can create great designs by adding leftover wallpaper, or even fabric, as a cover to those old shoe boxes.

If your kitchen?s counter space is very limited, look into over-the-range microwaves. Microwave ovens add class and style to your home, and many come with a lot of special features. They are especially good for cooks who aren?t too focused on ventilation, as they use a recirculating filter only.

A drill is perhaps the most important tool for any home improvement project. You can make holes of all sizes for different screws, and you can drill in the screws using various bits. Aim to use a cordless drill that is battery-powered with 9 volts and drill bits that are 1/32 all the way up to 1/4. You also need attachments for driving Phillips and flat-head screws.

Write a list before visiting your local home improvement facility that contains all the items you need. By doing this, you will make sure to get everything you need the first time you are at the store.

TIP! If you are installing new baseboards, think about using stained wood baseboards opposed to painted baseboards. This look is considered classic, and most homes can benefit from the more natural appeal.

If you?re taking on a home improvement task yourself, make sure you use high quality supplies and tools. It can be expensive, but the expense is worth the value of doing things right. In general, quality products tend to have a longer life and can better go through wear and tear. It?s not desirable to replace expensive tools frequently.

Consider installing motion sensor lights to improve your homes exterior. Motion detector lights turn on automatically when an intruder approaches, providing you with the element of surprise and saving you money on electricity! This keeps intruders away even better than regular lights. When they come on it alerts the household that someone is out there.

Fresh paneling can quickly and easily improve the appearance of your home. Paneling can be relatively inexpensive and adds a new look to your home. Another benefit is that the panels can be removed with little work or damage.

TIP! For an economical approach to floor tiling, consider installing vinyl instead of ceramic or stone. This peel-and-stick brand of flooring comes in a wide variety of colors and styles.

Ceiling fans should be considered as a home improvement project. Adding a ceiling fan to your home is a fairly simple project. It is inexpensive and will help you save money on energy costs.

Make sure that you?ve got a good plan before starting any home improvement project. Decisions regarding costs and changes should all be done before you start your project.

Always be flexible when working on home improvement projects. You may think that something has to be done within a certain period of time, but it can take longer than you thought. You may wish to spend a specific amount of money, however, you may need to pay more. You have to learn to be flexible about these things because these factors are sometimes inevitable.

TIP! Adding attic insulation can help you save money on winter heating bills. Heat rises and, over time, a lot of it is lost during the colder seasons in houses that have poor insulation in the attic.

When preparing to install kitchen cabinets, you should draw a horizontal bench-mark line all around your kitchen?s perimeter. Use this line as a point of reference when measuring for the installation of the base cabinets and wall cabinets. The high point of the floor is the key spot for the benchmark line.

If you will be working around gas in your house, turn it off first. Just because you don?t smoke doesn?t mean you won?t end up creating a spark. Keep in mind that you might let some gas loose while moving lines, even if they are not open.

Trees make a lovely addition to any property. You can plant trees to grow the value of your property that your home sits on. It has been estimated that each tree planted that grows to full size increases your property value by 1,000 dollars.

TIP! It can be simple to make window screens if you can?t find any you like. Frame kits are customizable to various sizes and are inexpensive to use.

You could drastically hurt your home if you don?t know what you?re doing regarding repairs and home improvements. Utilize the information learned in the above article in your next home improvement project.

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Mars Life Search Hindered by Planetary Protection Concerns, Scientists Say

Current policies designed to safeguard Mars against biological contamination from Earth are hampering exploration of the Red Planet and should be relaxed, some scientists say.

These "planetary protection" requirements impose heavy financial burdens on Mars?missions, partially explaining why no robots have searched for life on the Red Planet's surface since NASA's twin Viking landers ceased operations three decades ago, researchers Alberto Fairen of Cornell University and Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University write in a commentary published online today (June 27) in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Further, such restrictions are unnecessary, because Earth life has doubtless made it to the neighboring Red Planet already inside chunks of rock blasted off our planet by asteroid strikes, the scientists say. [The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)]

"If Earth micro-organisms can thrive on Mars, they almost certainly already do; and if they cannot, the transfer of Earth life to Mars?should be of no concern, as it would simply not survive," Fairen and Schulze-Makuch write in the commentary. "We cannot see how our current program of Mars exploration might pose any real threat to a possible Martian biosphere."

Sterilizing spacecraft

NASA and other space agencies abide by planetary protection guidelines when drawing up missions to solar system bodies such as planets, moons, comets and asteroids.

For example, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity?was sterilized before launch, to ensure that it carried a total of no more than 300,000 bacterial spores on any surface that could allow transfer to the Martian environment. (Getting rid of every last Earth microbe would be pretty much impossible, researchers say.)

Such rigorous spacecraft cleaning is time-consuming and expensive, especially for missions that aim to search for signs of life on Mars. For instance, sterilization procedures accounted for more than 10 percent of the Viking mission's overall $1 billion budget, Schulze-Makuch said.

The Viking figures are in 1970s-era dollars. The costs would be even higher today for missions to Martian locales thought to be capable of supporting microbial life ("special regions" in planetary protection parlance).

"Bottom line is that a thorough cleaning of a spacecraft aimed to in situ search for life on a special region of Mars today would easily cost around $500 million," Schulze-Makuch told SPACE.com via email.

"With that amount of money, you can entirely finance a 'Discovery-type' mission to Mars, similar to Pathfinder or InSight," he added. "Therefore, if we'd relax planetary protection concerns in a Viking-like mission today, we could add another low-budget mission to the space program."

Revising the protocols

Fairen and Schulze-Makuch argue for a general rethink of the sterilization protocols for Mars-bound spacecraft. (Their commentary in Nature Geoscience does not address planetary protection guidelines for other solar system bodies, most of which have not traded material over the eons the way Earth and Mars have.)

Sterilization should be waived for Mars orbiters and surface craft on geological missions, they say. Life-hunting landers and rovers should still be cleaned, but only to make it easier to determine if the microbes they spot are native to Mars (as opposed to hitchhikers from Earth). The protocols for such missions should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Fairen and Schulze-Makuch don't expect their opinion piece to spur immediate and drastic policy changes, but they do hope it stimulates discussion about Mars exploration and planetary protection requirements.

"Changes in space policies and regulations are made slowly and with the greatest possible consensus, and that's good," Fairen told SPACE.com via email. "We simply thought this is an interesting debate and this was a good moment to open it."

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Inbee Park takes early lead at US Women's Open

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) ? Top-ranked Inbee Park took the early lead in the first round of the U.S. Women's Open as she tries to make history by winning the first three majors of the year.

Park had just one bogey in a 5-under 67 for the best score of Thursday's morning groups. Caroline Hedwall of Sweden was a shot back, with six players at 2 under.

Concerned about bad weather, tournament officials moved up the tees, and with the rain holding off, Park was able to play aggressively.

"I never had practiced from those tees, so I was a little bit shocked when I went to the tees," Park said.

Not that she was complaining.

She repeatedly gave herself short putts, and the way she has excelled in her short game lately, Park cruised to a low score.

"So instead of hitting like 5-irons, we were hitting 9-irons, and that was making the course much easier," she said. "I was actually able to go for some pins and give myself a lot of opportunities today. I made a lot of putts and didn't leave much out there."

No player has won the first three majors in a season with at least four majors. The 2008 U.S. Women's Open champion, Park has already won five times this year, including her last two tournaments.

Starting on No. 10, Park birdied her first hole, then started racking up pars. She made the turn at 2 under before birdies on three of her next four holes.

At 5 under, Park briefly struggled with her tee shots, needing to save par on Nos. 5 and 7. On No. 6, her 15th hole of the day, she had to lay up out of the tall grass and settled for her lone bogey.

Park got herself back to 5 under on the par-5 No. 8 with a chip shot to about 5 feet for an easy birdie putt.

Hedwall was at 5 under heading into her final hole, No. 9. But she hit over the green into the rough, then just missed her par putt to finish with a 4-under 68.

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Stocks gone wild: Why are investors so panicked?

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John W. Schoen CNBC

June 24, 2013 at 3:25 PM ET

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Traders gather at the post of specialist Patrick Murphy, right, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. Traders in the U.S. dumped stocks, bonds and commodities, prompted by signs of distress in China's economy and worries about the end of the Federal Reserve bank's easy money policies.

The Federal Reserve thinks the economy is improving, so much so that it has hinted it may throttle back a bit on easy money policies in place since the financial crisis. So why are the financial markets acting like the sky is falling?

Stock markets have been in turmoil since Fed chairman Ben Bernanke last week suggested that if the economy continues to perk up the central bank will remove a least some of the low interest rate punch bowls that banks and businesses have been drinking from for years. And while part of Monday's stock drop could be blamed on worries about China's economy, the world's second largest, it came against a backdrop of fears about what the Fed may do later this year.

Stocks dropped again Monday, though the markets recovered some of their losses later in the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed nearly 250 points before making up some of that lost ground, closing 140 points lower, nearly 1 percent down. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also finished off their lows. So far this month, the S&P has shed about 3.5 percent.

Several Fed officials spent the day trying to talk the financial markets off a ledge, and they partly succeeded. But investors remain jittery. They have have good reasons to be concerned. They hate uncertainty, and few people alive today have ever lived through an economic and financial cycle like this one. That?s because the financial panic of 2008 was deeper than any since the Great Depression. And the remedies applied by the Federal Reserve have never been tried on such a giant scale.

But causes of the gut-wrenching market plunge of the last week are pretty easy to spot. Here are the big ones:

Why are interest rates moving higher?

Soon after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, the flow of capital around the planet seized up as banks and investment firms feared lending to one another. No one knew which bank might be the next Lehman. The global credit machine completely froze.

To restart lending, the central banks around the world began pumping trillions of dollars into the financial system. Since then, the Fed has continued pumping $85 billion a month of surplus into the credit markets to keep rates low.

But at its regular policy meeting last week, central bankers said they?re getting ready to ?taper off? that flow of cash. With less money sloshing around the system, the cost of borrowing will begin rising.

That means I?ll get a higher return on my savings account, right? What?s wrong with that?

Nothing, as long as the economy keeps humming along and employers keep creating new jobs. But the worry is that those higher rates could make consumers more reluctant to use their credit cards, or potential home buyers think twice about taking out a mortgage to buy a house.

The Fed, though, thinks the economy may be nearly ready to sustain those higher rates. Consumer confidence and spending have been gathering momentum ? partly because house prices have begun recovering and the job market continues to improve, albeit slowly. And while stock prices have fallen nearly 5 percent in just the last four days trading days, prices are still 20 percent higher than they were a year ago. That extra stock market wealth has also helped fill in the $7 trillion crater in household wealth that was created by the twin collapses of the housing and financial markets five years ago.

Is the market going lower?

Yes, and then higher. But we have no idea when. Or how far. This is a website, not a psychic hotline.

If the folks at the Fed spooked the markets, can?t they calm them down again?

Yes and no. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has made it clear that as central bankers begin slowing the flow of the money fountain, they can always restore full pressure if the economy falters or the markets begin to tank. And the Fed hasn?t actually started to taper off the flow of money ? they?re just telling the world they?re beginning to think about how and when to do so.

But while the Fed?s money machine is the biggest in the world, and the dollar is the closest thing to a global currency, the U.S. central bank isn't the only game in town.

The latest market jitters have been heightened by a much more immediate ? and severe ? credit clampdown in China. On Friday, the People's Bank of China (the country's central bank) tried to cut off the financial oxygen of a loose network of speculators and informal lenders who have been inflating a bubble in stocks and real estate. In doing so, the People's Bank let short term interest rates spike as high as 25 percent.

That sounds a lot like the kind of credit crunch that started this whole mess five years ago.

It certainly spooked investors around the world ? that?s why stocks markets have fallen in unison over the last few week.

But there?s a big difference between the panic-induced collapse of Lehman Brothers and the People's Bank- engineered Chinese credit crunch. China?s central bankers can restore the flow of credit with the click of a mouse (or two).

That makes the Chinese crunch more like the U.S. interest rate spike of the early 1980s, when then Fed chairman Paul Volcker all but strangled the U.S. bond market. Volcker?s move was designed to snap a decade of runaway inflation and reignite growth. It worked. Once inflation subsided, the Fed let rates fall, and the economy and stock market roared back to life.

China faces a very different set of problems, and the Chinese state-owned banking system is very different than the U.S. But the current credit crunch that is rippling through Asia could easily be reversed.

Chinese officials are betting that a short-term credit squeeze will throw enough cold water on the speculators and show banking lenders to prevent another bubble-bust cycle.

But there?s not a lot that Fed Chairman Bernanke and his Fed colleagues can do if the People's Bank made the wrong bet.

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Group: Kenya police death squad kill 2 suspects

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? Kenyan police say a terror suspect was killed in a gun battle and present weapons to the media. Hours later another suspect accused of terror links is dead in what police described as a shootout.

Witnesses and the family of the slain suspects tell a different story: That the suspects were arrested without a fight. One was handcuffed, and both were executed.

Human rights group, Muslim for Human Rights, says that police last week targeted the two terror suspects for execution. The group said Wednesday Kenya maintains a police death squad tasked with eliminating suspects with links to terror groups.

The head of Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit, Boniface Mwaniki, denied that a death squad exists, calling the allegations "outrageous."

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Melanoma Deaths More Likely in Young Men Than Women

Young men are more likely to die of the skin cancer melanoma than young women, regardless of the severity of the tumor, a new study found. This suggests there are fundamental biological differences between melanoma in men and women, the researchers said.

Looking at melanoma cases among a population of young, white men and women over 10 years, the researchers found that men accounted for 40 percent of the cancer cases, but 64 percent of the deaths.

Overall, men were 55 percent more likely to die of melanoma than women of the same age, after adjusting for other factors such as a tumor's type, thickness and location, according to the study published today (June 26) in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

In an editorial accompanying the study in the journal, experts said that the study revealed a "striking disparity" between men and women in terms of survival.

"The findings are so consistent that they imply a fundamental biological difference in 'male' versus 'female' melanoma," wrote editorial authors Dr. David Fisher, a dermatologist at Harvard Medical School and Alan Geller, a lecturer at Harvard School of Public Health.

Previous studies showing a gender difference in skin cancer have focused on older people, in whom skin cancer is more likely to occur. They have found that in older people, male patients have poorer survival from skin cancer than females.

The difference has been attributed to behavioral factors ? for example, the fact that women are more likely to examine their skin and visit doctors, which helps early detection and better survival.

"We thought that it would be novel and interesting to look at a younger population," said study researcher Dr. Susan Swetter, a professor of dermatology at Stanford University. "Younger people don't tend to see a doctor as frequently," she said.

In the study, the researchers included about 26,000 white adolescents and young adults ages 15 to 39, who were diagnosed with melanoma between 1989 and 2009. White people are far more likely to develop melanoma than those of other races.

During the study period, 1,561 patients died from melanoma. Men were more likely to die in each category of the tumor, and each age group, the study showed.

Among patients who had an additional cancer besides melanoma, men were twice as likely to die.

The researchers said women's survival advantage may be due to habits such as better health maintenance or more visits to the doctor, which helps detect tumors when they are smaller and more curable.

However, among those who had the thinnest tumors, men were still twice as likely to die, which suggests that men's disadvantage is due to biological differences rather than behavioral ones, according to the study.

Little is known about the biological differences that might result in different melanoma survival rates in men and women. Some proposed explanations involve the immune system, sex hormones, genetic factors and vitamin D metabolism.

While further studies are needed to investigate these possible biological differences, the dramatic difference in survival calls for behavioral interventions to promote early detection strategies in young men, the researchers said.

Public health messages that warn against risky behavior such as skin tanning are more likely to be heeded by women. Swetter said that such messages should target men too, and emphasize that men are at higher risk of dying of melanoma.

Email Bahar Gholipour or follow her @alterwired. Follow?LiveScience?@livescience, Facebook?& Google+. Original article on LiveScience.com.

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Christian Rocker Slams Kanye West as Blasphemous, False God

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Disney renames Mouseketeer stage for Funicello

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) ? The stage at Walt Disney Studios where "The Mickey Mouse Club" was filmed is now officially the Annette Funicello Stage.

Disney chief Bob Iger led a ceremony Monday dedicating the soundstage to Funicello, the Mouseketeer-turned-movie star who died in April at age 70.

Iger confessed to having a crush on Funicello when he was growing up, as many who watched the perky brunette on TV did.

Former Mouseketeers, Funicello's family and colleagues and Mickey Mouse himself also participated in Monday's dedication. Frankie Avalon, Richard Sherman and Leonard Maltin were among those honoring the late actress.

Julie Andrews is the only other entertainer to have a namesake stage at Disney studios.

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Is Twitter photo of Kate Gosselin racist?

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Randee Dawn TODAY contributor

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It doesn't look good. But what, exactly, does this photo -- posted on Twitter, featuring Kate Gosselin but not apparently posted to the former reality TV star's account -- actually say?

Here's what we know: Someone calling him or herself "KatieDeen" created a fresh account on Twitter on Sunday evening, and posted just one item -- this picture, with the accompanying caption information.

The comment -- that Gosselin "makes fun of Asians with 8 half Korean children" is making an assumption about what's going on in the picture, which shows Gosselin wearing a dark-haired plastic wig (with a bun on the top that could be said to resemble a geisha hairdo) and pulling the far corners of her eyes back.

The pose could be interpreted as a Caucasian trying to make "Asian eyes," a particularly offensive, racially-imitative motion that has popped up occasionally in odd places, including in 2008 when the Spanish Olympic Team were photographed en masse for an advertisement making the gesture.

Us Weekly speculated that the photo may have been taken prior to her separation from Jon Gosselin in 2009, owing to the band on her wedding finger.

Worth noting: The comment appended to the Twitter post itself is somewhat ill-informed. Gosselin's children, with her ex-husband Jon Gosselin, are not "half Korean": Jon Gosselin was born in Wisconsin, and his parents are a mix of European and Korean descent. Not that this should matter -- but it's clear a lot of jumping-to-conclusions are being done with one photo.

A representative for Kate Gosselin did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

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Doctors make progress toward 'artificial pancreas'

Doctors are reporting a major step toward an "artificial pancreas," a device that would constantly monitor blood sugar in people with diabetes and automatically supply insulin as needed.

A key component of such a system ? an insulin pump programmed to shut down if blood-sugar dips too low while people are sleeping ? worked as intended in a three-month study of 247 patients.

This "smart pump," made by Minneapolis-based Medtronic Inc., is already sold in Europe, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing it now. Whether it also can be programmed to mimic a real pancreas and constantly adjust insulin based on continuous readings from a blood-sugar monitor requires more testing, but doctors say the new study suggests that's a realistic goal.

"This is the first step in the development of the artificial pancreas," said Dr. Richard Bergenstal, diabetes chief at Park Nicollet, a large clinic in St. Louis Park, Minn. "Before we said it's a dream. We have the first part of it now and I really think it will be developed."

He led the company-sponsored study and gave results Saturday at an American Diabetes Association conference in Chicago. They also were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study involved people with Type 1 diabetes, the kind usually diagnosed during childhood. About 5 percent of the 26 million Americans with diabetes have this type. Their bodies don't make insulin, a hormone needed to turn food into energy. That causes high blood-sugar levels and raises the risk for heart disease and many other health problems.

Some people with the more common Type 2 diabetes, the kind linked to obesity, also need insulin and might also benefit from a device like an artificial pancreas. For now, though, it's aimed at people with Type 1 diabetes who must inject insulin several times a day or get it through a pump with a narrow tube that goes under the skin. The pump is about the size of a cellphone and can be worn on a belt or kept in a pocket.

The pumps give a steady amount of insulin, and patients must monitor their sugar levels and give themselves more insulin at meals or whenever needed to keep blood sugar from getting too high.

A big danger is having too much insulin in the body overnight, when blood-sugar levels naturally fall. People can go into comas, suffer seizures and even die. Parents of children with diabetes often worry so much about this that they sneak into their bedrooms at night to check their child's blood-sugar monitor.

In the study, all patients had sensors that continuously monitored their blood sugar. Half of them had ordinary insulin pumps and the others had pumps programmed to stop supplying insulin for two hours when blood-sugar fell to a certain threshold.

Over three months, low-sugar episodes were reduced by about one-third in people using the pump with the shut-off feature. Importantly, these people had no cases of severely low blood sugar ? the most dangerous kind that require medical aid or help from another person. There were four cases in the group using the standard pump.

"As a first step, I think we should all be very excited that it works," an independent expert, Dr. Irl Hirsch of the University of Washington in Seattle, said of the programmable pump.

The next step is to test having it turn off sooner, before sugar falls so much, and to have it automatically supply insulin to prevent high blood sugar, too.

Dr. Anne Peters, a diabetes specialist at the University of Southern California, said the study "represents a major step forward" for an artificial pancreas.

One participant, Spears Mallis, 34, a manager for a cancer center in Gainesville, Ga., wishes these devices were available now. He typically gets low-sugar about 8 to 10 times a week, at least once a week while he's asleep.

"I would set an alarm in the middle of the night just to be sure I was OK. That will cause you to not get a good night of rest," he said.

His "smart pump" stopped giving insulin several times during the study when his sugar fell low, and he wasn't always aware of it. That's a well-known problem for people with Type 1 diabetes ? over time, "you become less and less sensitive to feeling the low blood sugars" and don't recognize symptoms in time to drink juice or do something else to raise sugar a bit, he said.

Besides Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson and several other research groups are working on artificial pancreas devices.

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Diabetes info: http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/

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North Korea World Heritage Sites: Kaesong Fortress Added To UNESCO List (PHOTOS)

KAESONG, North Korea -- The remains of a fortress that once surrounded Kaesong, the ancient capital of Korea's Koryo Dynasty, is among sites in North Korea that made it onto UNESCO's World Heritage list on Sunday.

North Korea's bid to have the sites added to the list was approved at a UNESCO meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Kaesong, located just north of the border with South Korea, was the capital of the kingdom that ruled Korea from 918 to 1392. It's also where the two Koreas ran a joint factory park until tensions forced its closure in April.

Twelve sites added include the ruins of the Manwoldae palace; a 1,000-year-old academy that was the top school during that era; relics housed at a museum at the school; and the mausoleum of King Kongmin.

"These valuable cultural relics are the pride of our nation and they are precious cultural relics that show the long history of our nation," Kim Jin Sok, a researcher at Kaesong City Management Office for Preserving National Heritage, told The Associated Press. "Also these relics, some preserved for very long periods, are well known as relics with which we can stand proud in the eyes of the world."

A complex in North Korea of ancient tombs from a previous kingdom won heritage status in 2004.

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Tesla's 90 second battery swaps will power EVs faster than gas pumps fill tanks (video)

Tesla founder Elon Musk has mentioned battery swap service stations as an even faster alternative to charging for EV drivers, and tonight the company showed just how efficiently it can be done. In a demonstration at its design studio, it beat what it claims is the fastest gas pump in LA by exchanging a drained car battery pack for a fresh fully charged one in just 90 seconds. When the $500,000 stations start rolling out, owners will stay in the car the whole time then either swap the battery back for their original on a return trip, or get a bill for the difference based on how new their battery is. According to Reuters, the exchange is expected to cost owners between $60 - $80 each time or about the cost of 15 gallons of gas

Of course, failed outfit Better Place proposed a similar service before it shut down, but Tesla is betting that it can make it work this time. The first service stations are coming to busy corridors, with some planned for I5 in California. Still need more proof? Elon Musk tweeted that video of the event will be available in "about an hour," so check back then.

Update: We're still waiting on the official video, but reader Weapon sent in a link to video shot by an event attendee, which can be viewed after the break. Take a peek and see a pair Tesla's Model S sedans get quick battery service, one after the other in less time than a fuel pump can deliver one tank of gas.

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PocketStrings ? A guitar practice tool that you can carry in your pocket

In order to master the guitar, you need to practice… a LOT. The old saying “practice makes perfect” is very true, so today I wanted to show all of you wannabe shredders a tool that you can take with you so you can practice ANYWHERE. Guitars aren’t small, so having one with you all the [...]

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