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Monday, December 5, 2011
Eye-Fi Connect X2
The Eye-Fi Connect X2 ($49.99 direct) is a 4GB memory card for digital cameras. It features a Wi-Fi modem, compatible with 802.11n networks, that makes it possible to wirelessly offload photos from your camera to your computer, Android, or iOS device. You can also configure the Eye-Fi card to upload photos to photo sharing sites, including Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook.
Most current cameras are compatible with Eye-Fi cards, but if you have an older model you'll want to check on its compatibility. Using the card eliminates the hassle of connecting your camera to your computer via an often-proprietary cable, or removing the SD card for use in your PC's card reader. Eye-Fi also markets the Mobile X2 ($79.99, 4 stars) and Pro X2 ($149.99, 4 stars) memory cards, both of which hold up to 8GB of photos. Save the difference in capacity, the Mobile X2 offers the same feature set as the Connect X2. The Pro X2 adds support for Raw images, automatic geotagging, and Wi-Fi hotspot access.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Apple juice can pose a health risk _ from calories
FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2011 photo, an apple and a pitcher of apple juice are posed together in Moreland Hills, Ohio. Despite the government's consideration of new arsenic limits on the juice, the real danger, nutrition experts say, is to waistlines and teeth. Apple juice and other juice-based beverages have relatively few natural nutrients, many calories and more sugar, in many cases, than a can of soda. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2011 photo, an apple and a pitcher of apple juice are posed together in Moreland Hills, Ohio. Despite the government's consideration of new arsenic limits on the juice, the real danger, nutrition experts say, is to waistlines and teeth. Apple juice and other juice-based beverages have relatively few natural nutrients, many calories and more sugar, in many cases, than a can of soda. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
Chart shows per capita consumption of juice
It's true ? apple juice can pose a risk to your health. But not necessarily from the trace amounts of arsenic that people are arguing about.
Despite the government's consideration of new limits on arsenic, nutrition experts say apple juice's real danger is to waistlines and children's teeth. Apple juice has few natural nutrients, lots of calories and, in some cases, more sugar than soda has. It trains a child to like very sweet things, displaces better beverages and foods, and adds to the obesity problem, its critics say.
"It's like sugar water," said Judith Stern, a nutrition professor at the University of California, Davis, who has consulted for candy makers as well as for Weight Watchers. "I won't let my 3-year-old grandson drink apple juice."
Many juices are fortified with vitamins, so they're not just empty calories. But that doesn't appease some nutritionists.
"If it wasn't healthy in the first place, adding vitamins doesn't make it into a health food," and if it causes weight gain, it's not a healthy choice, said Karen Ansel, a registered dietitian in New York and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says juice can be part of a healthy diet, but its policy is blunt: "Fruit juice offers no nutritional benefit for infants younger than 6 months" and no benefits over whole fruit for older kids.
Kids under 12 consume 28 percent of all juice and juice drinks, according to the academy. Nationwide, apple juice is second only to orange juice in popularity. Americans slurp 267 ounces of apple juice on average each year, according to the Food Institute's Almanac of Juice Products and the Juice Products Association, a trade group. Lots more is consumed as an ingredient in juice drinks and various foods.
Only 17 percent of the apple juice sold in the U.S. is produced here. The rest comes from other countries, mostly China, Argentina, Chile and Brazil, the association says.
Television's Dr. Mehmet Oz made that a key point a few months ago when he raised an alarm ? some say a false alarm ? over arsenic in apple juice, based on tests his show commissioned by a private lab. The Food and Drug Administration said that its own tests disagreed and that apple juice is safe.
However, on Wednesday, after Consumer Reports did its own tests on several juice brands and called along with other consumer groups for stricter standards, the FDA said it will examine whether its restrictions on the amount of arsenic allowed in apple juice are stringent enough.
Some forms of arsenic, such as the type found in pesticides, can be toxic and may pose a cancer risk if consumed at high levels or over a long period.
All juice sold in the United States must be safe and meet U.S. standards, said Pat Faison, technical director for the juice association. As for making good nutrition choices, "a lot of the information that people need about fruit juices is on the label," she said.
So what's on those labels?
Carbohydrates, mostly sugars, in a much higher concentration than in milk. Juice has a small amount of protein and minerals and lacks the fiber in whole fruit, the pediatrics academy notes.
Drinking juice delivers a lot of calories quickly so you don't realize how much you've consumed, whereas you would have to eat a lot of apples to get the same amount, and "you would feel much, much more full from the apples," Ansel said.
"Whole fruits are much better for you," said Dr. Frank Greer, a University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor and former head of the pediatrics academy's nutrition committee.
He noted that the WIC program ? the U.S. Department of Agriculture's nutrition program for Women, Infants and Children ? revised its rules in 2005 to replace juice with baby food fruits and vegetables for children over 6 months. More than half of all infants born in the U.S. are eligible for WIC, and the government "really cut back severely on the ability of mothers to get fruit juices" through the program, Greer said.
If you or your family drinks juice, here is some advice from nutrition experts:
?Choose a juice fortified with calcium and vitamin D-3.
?Give children only pasteurized juice ? that's the only type safe from germs that can cause serious disease.
?Don't give juice before 6 months of age, and never put it in bottles or covered cups that allow babies and children to consume it throughout the day, which can cause tooth decay. For the same reason, don't give infants juice at bedtime.
?Limit juice to 4 to 6 ounces per day for children ages 1 to 6, and 8 to 12 ounces for those ages 7 to 18.
?Encourage kids to eat fruit.
?Don't be swayed by healthy-sounding label claims. "No sugar added" doesn't mean it isn't full of naturally occurring sugar. And "cholesterol-free" is silly ? only animal products contain cholesterol.
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Marilynn Marchione can be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MMarchioneAP
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Online:
Academy of Pediatrics on juice: http://tinyurl.com/qtkls
FDA: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm271394.htm
WIC program advice: http://bit.ly/sYXqAi
Industry: http://www.fruitjuicefacts.org
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Lobular Breast Cancer Linked to Paternal Cancer History (HealthDay)
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Women with lobular breast cancer are nearly twice as likely as those with other forms of breast cancer to have a father who had cancer, especially prostate cancer, a new study finds.
Swedish researchers examined the family history, pathology reports and hospital records of women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1980 and 2008. About 40 percent of the women had invasive ductal breast cancer and 8 percent had lobular cancer, which starts in the lobules, the parts of the breast that produce milk.
When they were diagnosed, 21 percent of the breast cancer patients had a mother who'd been diagnosed with cancer and 15 percent had a father who'd been diagnosed with cancer, the investigators found.
After adjusting for a number of factors, the researchers concluded that women with a father who'd been diagnosed with cancer were nearly two times more likely to have lobular breast cancer than any other type of breast cancer, according to the report published in the Nov. 28 online edition of the journal BMC Cancer.
"We also looked at grandparents and other family members, but the increased risk of lobular cancer was directly linked to having a father with cancer. This does not necessarily mean that the daughter of a man diagnosed with cancer is more likely to get lobular breast cancer -- it means that if she develops breast cancer it is more likely to be lobular," study author Carolina Ellberg, of Lund University, said in a journal news release.
Previous research has shown that the risk of breast cancer is higher in women with certain genetic and lifestyle factors, such as having the BRCA2 gene, having a first child at an older age, or the use of hormone replacement therapy.
More information
The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about breast cancer.
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Intel, Total Immersion working on augmented reality chipsets (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Total Immersion, a pioneer in emerging field of augmented reality (AR), is working with Intel to bring AR features, like gesture recognition, into Intel's chipsets, an executive of the privately held firm said on Wednesday.
Speaking at the Reuters Global Media Summit, Total Immersion's marketing chief Antoine Brachet said consumer acceptance will decide when products would reach the market, but he thinks this could happen in 2-3 years.
Running on smartphones or computers, AR overlays digital information - text, graphics, games -- on images of the world around us.
Intel, whose processors are used in 80 percent of the world's personal computers, took a stake in Total Immersion in March when its investment arm led the $5.5 million funding round in the firm.
"What we are doing together with Intel is working on their chipset ... so inside the chipset you can have some AR features, like gesture recognition that can be transferred from software to hardware," Brachet said.
Moving the feature into hardware will make it faster to use for consumers and could boost takeup of the new technology among consumers as it would be in all devices, without the need for additional downloads.
The 1999-founded Total Immersion is one of the largest players in the emerging augmented reality industry which has lately attracted technology sector heavyweights like Google, Intel and Qualcomm.
"Those guys understand the fact that something is going to happen and they want to take a potential position in that," Brachet said.
(Reporting By Paul Sandle and Tarmo Virki; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Feisty Cain presses ahead with bid (AP)
WEST CHESTER, Ohio ? His campaign rocked anew, a feisty Herman Cain claimed a "groundswell of positive support" from backers on Wednesday and accused critics of trying to derail his White House bid as he worked to stem the fallout from allegations of a 13-year extramarital affair.
"They're attacking my character, my reputation and my name in order to try to bring me down," a feisty Cain told a friendly crowd without naming his critics. "But, you see, I don't believe that America is going to let that happen."
Questions about the campaign's viability hovered over Cain's one-day bus tour through Ohio.
It came a day after the candidate told staff he was reassessing his campaign after Ginger White, an Atlanta businesswoman, alleged in media interviews that she and Cain had a long-running sexual affair.
"We are reassessing as we speak. Reassessment means reevaluation," Cain told reporters Wednesday after his well-received speech to roughly 150 people in a hotel meeting room. He gave no indication to the audience that he was considering abandoning his bid despite telling staff that he would make a decision in the next few days about whether to continue it.
Cain received a standing ovation after he spoke about what a "Cain administration" would do. And he said that while some people predicted that the room would be empty, "I don't see any empty seats."
"It's been a groundswell of positive support," Cain insisted to reporters later, even as some backers in early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire who had stuck by him after decade-old allegations of sexual harassment surfaced several weeks ago now indicated they were abandoning him.
Cain's latest turmoil comes just five weeks before the first votes are cast in the state-by-state march to the nomination. The earlier sexual harassment accusations that have taken a toll on both his standing in polls and, supporters say, his fundraising. Prominent conservatives who rushed to his defense earlier this month were all but silent when White stepped forward on Monday to accuse Cain of a consensual sexual relationship that ended this year before he became a White House candidate.
The candidate has denied the affair, and in a letter addressed to "patriots and supporters," called her allegations "completely false" and labeled her "troubled."
White steadfastly stood by her assertion in an interview Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America" and said she was "disappointed" by Cain's characterization of her. She called her relationship with Cain "a very casual affair" that lasted more than a dozen years.
"I'm not here to say anything negative about Mr. Cain," White said, although White added that she didn't think he should be president.
She elaborated on her claims, saying she took several trips with Cain, including a flight to Las Vegas to see a Mike Tyson-Evander Holyfield boxing match. She also said she had "consistently" received gifts and money from Cain over the past two and a half years, but said it was "not sex for cash."
Following Monday's developments, some Cain supporters have started to defect.
New Hampshire state Rep. William Panek endorsed Cain at a news conference earlier this year. But he changed his mind Tuesday after seeing reports that White showed evidence that she had traded 61 text messages and cellphone calls with the candidate. Panek has endorsed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the upcoming primary.
"I felt like we were being lied to," he said. "I'm putting my name in New Hampshire as a state rep behind him, and I just didn't like the way it was being played out."
In Iowa, Cain's campaign has lost some precinct-level supporters following the new allegations, according to Steve Grubbs, Cain's Iowa chairman. Cain was in Iowa for a day last week to film a new ad, but aides say that spending to air it was on hold pending the fundraising in the days to come.
Still, some are sticking by him.
Florida state Rep. Scott Plakon, one of four chairmen for Cain's Florida campaign, said he wanted to see more evidence.
"If it is true that he didn't do this, I think he should fight and kick and scratch and win," Plakon said.
But if Cain did have the affair, Plakon said, "that would be very problematic," he said. "There's the affair itself and then there's the truthful factor. He's been so outspoken in these denials."
White's revelation was the latest setback for a candidate who has been under scrutiny in the past month, since it was revealed that the National Restaurant Association paid settlements to two women who claimed Cain sexually harassed them while he was president of the organization. A third woman told The Associated Press that Cain made inappropriate sexual advanced toward her but that she didn't file a complaint. A fourth woman also stepped forward to accuse Cain of groping her in a car in 1997.
Cain has denied wrongdoing in all cases.
Outwardly on Wednesday, the candidate tried to project an image of a campaign focused on winning ? and not damage control. He planned to continue his bus tour in Dayton and Columbus before heading to New Hampshire later in the day.
On Tuesday, Cain delivered a national security speech to nearly 1,000 people at conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan. He didn't address White's allegations; he also avoided speaking to reporters and stuck to his plan to present his foreign policy vision, one in which the U.S. would stand by friendly nations such as Israel, quit giving money to countries he considered enemies and spend more on defense.
Earlier that day, he acknowledged the "firestorm" that White sparked, and he acknowledged he was assessing whether her claims are too much for his candidacy to go forward.
"If a decision is made, different than to plow ahead, you all will be the first to know," Cain said during the call, according to a transcript from the National Review, which listened in.
In connection with the White allegation, Cain said: "With this latest one, we have to do an assessment as to whether or not this is going to create too much of a cloud, in some people's minds, as to whether or not they would be able to support us going forth."
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Associated Press writers Kathy Barks Hoffman in Hillsdale, Mich., Ray Henry in Atlanta, Thomas Beaumont in Des Moines, Iowa, and Steve Peoples in Amherst, N.H., contributed to this report.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
What's your top 25 pets?
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