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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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Monday, April 22, 2013
The 5 Faces of Borderline Personality Disorder - Mental Health and ...
Is it possible to have several PD?s at once? Should one even try to distinguish the different PD?s? What if one were to? take meds for every single one of these and the meds are inhibiting the other PD?s ? thus, making the PD?s worse?
Thank? you for doing this video.
I know how you feel or at least I can relate. I am 17 and I? was diagnosed a month ago after showing symptoms for 10 years. When they first talked to me about it I started crying not because i was sad but because for the first time it my life someone fully and compliantly understood, they didn?t tell me I was just depressed or anxious they understood all of it and it was just overwhelming.
This video reminded me of my own life. Feeling? guilty when I?ve let people down. I could feel your sadness.
I got diagnosed today at the age of 25 and probably have been dealing with this since I was a little kid, and it explains so much about why I have been doing the things Ive been doing and feeling the way I feel all the time. I was encouraged to read and watch as much stuff? about it as I could to understand it. And this was the first video I watched and I sent it to my mom. Thank you for making this <3
This is so? interesting, thank you for posting this.
i have?? bpd and im just like that:/
Great ? I have bpd and this is really? well explained!
Just? another amazing person doing amazing things. Not diagnosed , but I know ? so thank you <3
shit..that is? like how I am :O? and I don?t have BPD..??
You in the purple shirt are looking and speaking like a psychologist. Do you have training in that field? It sounds a lot like me, and how I react to situations. Although I couldn?t see a difference in your emotions of you in? the red sweater. Thanks for this video!
All of what he is describing sounds like me, what I do. I wonder? if I have borderline personality disorder?
You?re a fucking GENIUS!!!
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This is really hard, really so hard?
You are an awesome person! I am recovered from BPD and went through this Schema Therapy program. It was the only therapy program that worked for me. I wish there were more people out there in relationships with people with BPD that would support them instead of giving up on them! You are right?we just want? to be loved!!!
Sounds like he was the victim of a narcissistic personality disordered mother who also had an addiction who also gas lighted him.
This is an excellent video. Unbelievably good. Thank you for dumbing things down for us. So many? books are so academic that it is difficult to take the theory and apply it to something that would be helpful in real life.
Wow, this is so informational. My gf has been diagnosed with this disorder and this is her to a T! Good thing that in getting to know the ?real her? behind the mask, I know how to help her when she gets in her extreme moods. It?s definitely hard to handle sometimes but she is worth it. I am her? rock and her safe place and I adore her. All BPD people want is to be loved!!!
the punitive parent part is so me, and the black? and white thoughts too?
you are a good actor man? 
can? you reason with someone that has BPD?
Thank you so much! This helps me so much because I? have a character in a play (angels in america) and this explains so much about her, thank you
Thank you. This helps a lot. Very? insightful.
do you cover the? subjects on cyclothymic disorder and G.A.D ?
I believe you have a lot to learn about the disorder. ? Please do not take it in the wrong way. No one feels everything the same way. In fact, the criteria to meet this disorder is having 5/9 ?symptoms.? I suggest taking a look at the DSM-IV-TR, the so-called ?Psychiatrist?s Bible.? This is just HIS view and from what he has learned/felt.
Yeah, sometimes I think I wouldn?t? be like this if I had a chance.
It?s really scary having borderline? personality disorder.
Thank you. I?ve been? diagnosed by a psychiatrist and my ?talk? therapist knows of the chart. I will show my talk therapist. I think she will really get it. She?s been trying but I think the rarity is almost a distraction. Thank you again.
BPD and inferiority? complex aren?t the same, not to say that a person with BPD can?t have an inferiority complex.
is BPD and? inferiority complex the same thing?
Hi, I recommend the video ?The truth? about ?Borderline Personality Disorder? (BPD)? in the youtube channel ?Gercacn? and the rest of the videos in that channel. It gives in my opinion a valid perspective that BPD (as other so-called personality disorders) are not illnesses but symptoms of wounds inherited in childhood trauma
Cont: I?ve never met a? person with BPD avoiding to express their feelings. Rather the opposite. The stuff about feelings being for jerks is totally alien to me. The feelings they (and I, talking a lot about myself) express are certainly real and seldom held back. BPD:s can be manipulative, but I haven?t heard of anyone hiding their feelings.
The same about the inner parent. Totally unfamiliar to me.
Of course BPD can manifest itself in many ways, but your assumptions strike me as quite weird.
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China rushes relief after Sichuan quake kills 188
A man squats near the collapsed remains of a building destroyed by Saturday's earthquake in Lushan county in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Monday, April 22, 2013. Saturday's earthquake in Sichuan province killed at least 186 people, injured more than 11,000 and left nearly two dozen missing, mostly in the rural communities around Ya'an city, along the same seismic fault where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago in one of China's worst natural disasters.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A man squats near the collapsed remains of a building destroyed by Saturday's earthquake in Lushan county in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Monday, April 22, 2013. Saturday's earthquake in Sichuan province killed at least 186 people, injured more than 11,000 and left nearly two dozen missing, mostly in the rural communities around Ya'an city, along the same seismic fault where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago in one of China's worst natural disasters.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
An elderly Chinese man waits for food to be distributed with his dog at a makeshift tent in Lushan county in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Monday, April 22, 2013. Saturday's earthquake in Sichuan province killed at least 186 people, injured more than 11,000 and left nearly two dozen missing, mostly in the rural communities around Ya'an city, along the same seismic fault where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago in one of China's worst natural disasters. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Residents line up for packets of instant noodles in the earthquake struck county of Lushan in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Monday, April 22, 2013. Saturday's earthquake in Sichuan province killed at least 186 people, injured more than 11,000 and left nearly two dozen missing, mostly in the rural communities around Ya'an city, along the same seismic fault where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago in one of China's worst natural disasters.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
The head of a horse statue decapitated by Saturday's earthquake sits near tents set up for residents displaced by the quake in Lushan county in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Monday, April 22, 2013. Saturday's earthquake in Sichuan province killed at least 186 people, injured more than 11,000 and left nearly two dozen missing, mostly in the rural communities around Ya'an city, along the same seismic fault where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago in one of China's worst natural disasters. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A woman opens business in a shelter near her damaged shop after the earthquake in Yuxi village of Baosheng township in Lushan county in southwest China's Sichuan province Sunday, April 21, 2013. Saturday's earthquake in Sichuan province killed over 200 people, China's Xinhua News Agency said. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
LUSHAN, China (AP) ? After dynamiting through landslide-blocked roads, Chinese relief crews hurried food, water and other supplies into the rural hills of China's Sichuan province Monday, two days after an earthquake killed at least 188 people and injured more than 11,000.
Rescuers reached the most cut-off communities in Baoxing and Lushan counties, though heavy machinery and trucks bearing supplies moved slowly along roads partly blocked by landslide debris. Repairmen hoisted ladders up against electrical poles to fix power lines.
The delivery of relief supplies, while not enough to meet all the demand, marked headway as frustrations grew among survivors.
Near an old house that had crumpled by the roadside in Lushan, about 2,000 people gathered early Monday to complain about the lack of food. A few jumped on to a motorized three-wheel cart to look for officials, and 20 minutes later a truck pulled up and distributed instant noodles. At another street corner, a truck handed out bottled water.
"We're so grateful for these donations," said Ji Yanzi, who was loading cartons of bottled water on to a three-wheeled vehicle to take to her family of 10, including aging parents. "At this point, we don't have much except a tent we made ourselves and some food we were able to pull out from our apartment."
Large parts of Lushan and other towns have been turned into makeshift encampments for people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Saturday's quake or are too scared to stay indoors.
The quake was among the deadliest China has seen in the past three years. The China Earthquake Administration said that 188 people had died, another 25 remain missing and more than 11,000 were injured. More than 2,000 aftershocks have rattled the area since the quake, the agency said.
Sitting near chunks of concrete, bricks and a ripped orange sofa in the hard-hit Lushan village of Longmen, Luo Shiqiang told how his grandfather was just returning from feeding chickens when their house collapsed and crushed him to death.
"We lost everything in such a short time," the 20-year-old college student said on Sunday. His cousin was injured in the collapse, but other family members were spared because they were working in the fields.
The quake, which the earthquake agency measured at magnitude-7 and the U.S. Geological Survey put at 6.6., occurred farther to the south on the same fault line where a devastating 2008 quake killed more 90,000 people. Because Lushan and Baoxing were largely spared in 2008, they also had not benefited from the massive rebuilding efforts and its emphasis on earthquake safety.
Luo said he wished more had been done to make his community's buildings quake-resistant.
"Maybe the country's leaders really wanted to help us, but when it comes to the lower levels the officials don't carry it out," he said.
Relief teams flew in helicopters and dynamited through landslides Sunday to reach some of the most isolated communities, where rescuers in orange overalls led sniffer dogs through piles of brick, concrete and wood debris to search for survivors.
"I was working in the field when I heard the explosions of the earthquake, and I turned around and saw my house simply flatten in front of me," said Fu Qiuyue, a 70-year-old rapeseed farmer in Longmen.
Fu sat with her husband, Ren Dehua, in a makeshift shelter of logs and a plastic sheet on a patch of grass near where a helicopter had parked to reach their community of terraced grain and vegetable fields. She said the collapse of the house had crushed eight pigs to death.
"It was the scariest sound I have ever heard," she said.
The government mobilized thousands of soldiers and emergency personnel, sending excavators and other heavy machinery as well as tents, blankets and other emergency supplies. The Chinese Red Cross said it had deployed relief teams with food, water, medicine and rescue equipment to the disaster areas.
As happens now after natural disasters, Chinese with cars were packing them with supplies and heading to the disaster area. The State Council, or Cabinet, issued a notice Monday asking volunteers, tourists and others not trained as rescuers to stay out of the disaster area.
At the Lushan county seat, tents have been set up on open spaces, and volunteers doled out noodles and boxed meals to survivors from stalls and the backs of vans.
A large van with a convertible side served as a mobile bank with an ATM, military medical trucks provided X-rays for people with minor injuries, and military doctors administered basic first aid, applying iodine solution to cuts and examining bruises.
Patients with minor ailments were lying in tents in the yard of the hospital, which was wrecked by the quake, with the most severely injured patients sent to the provincial capital. With a limited water supply and buildings inaccessible, sanitation is a problem for the survivors.
One of the patients receiving care in the hospital's yard was the son of odd-job laborer Zhou Lin, 22. The baby boy was born a day before the quake struck. Zhou said he was relieved that his newborn son and wife were safe and healthy but was worried about his 60-year-old father and other relatives who have been unreachable in Baoxing.
"I can't get through on the phone, so I don't know what's going on there and they don't know if we are all right," he said.
Every so often, an aftershock struck, shaking windows of buildings and sending murmurs through the crowds.
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How long does Apple keep Siri user data? Two years.
But Apple says that six months after a Siri request or command is made, the phone number of the user is 'disassociated' with the audio clip in question.?
A user enters a command for Siri, Apple's voice-activated personal assistant.
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EnlargeAccording to the privacy agreement for Apple's Siri service, Apple is authorized to collect and store data from user commands. But how long can Apple keep that data? This was the question posed earlier this week by a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, who registered her concerns in an interview with?Robert McMillan of Wired.
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And now we have an answer, courtesy of Apple spokeswoman?Trudy Muller: Two years. "If a user turns Siri off, both identifiers are deleted immediately along with any associated data," Ms. Muller told Wired.
In addition, she explained, six months after you issue a command or query to Siri, your phone number will be "disassociated" from the audio recording (although it will not be fully scrubbed from Apple servers for another 18 months after that). Apple says it uses all that data to help improve the Siri platform, and to better understand how consumers use the service. ?
As Darrell Etherington notes over at TechCrunch, Apple isn't exactly doing anything new here.?
"The bottom line is that if an app or service requires a data connection, in all likelihood there?s a back and forth transmission of information going on, and if privacy is one of your top-of-mind concerns, you should be cautious in any such situation," Etherington writes. "Apple?s policies with Siri seem no more or less egregious than any other, but it is nice to see the company spell it out in no uncertain terms."?
Monitor readers may remember that back in March of last year, IBM revealed that it had?banned employees from using Siri on company iPhones. The reason was simple: IBM has no control over (and not much information on) what Apple does with the data. ?
"We're just extraordinarily conservative," an IBM exec said at the time. "It's the nature of our business."
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Foursquare?s New Game: Predicting Your Future
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Monday, April 8, 2013
Deal of the Day ? Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TF1 16MP waterproof digital camera with bundle
Saturday’s LogicBUY Deal is the?2013 Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TF1 waterproof digital camera with bundle for?$198.00. ?Features: 16.1MP 1/2.3″ Super HAD CCD sensor 2.7″ LCD monitor 4x Optical Zoom Water, shock, freeze, and dustproof HD 720p Video at 30fps SteadyShot image stabilization Bundle includes:?deluxe carrying case, 4GB micro SD memory card, and cleaning kit $208 – $10 [...]
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Sunday, April 7, 2013
First glimpse of deadly sinkhole in Florida (+video)
More than one month after a sinkhole opened up and swallowed a sleeping man in Florida, local authorities show what the deadly pit looks like inside. ?
Jeremy Bush, right, is consoled by an unidentified woman last month as he sits outside a home where a sinkhole opened up underneath a bedroom, swallowing his brother, Jeffrey Bush, in Seffner, Fla.
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EnlargeFlorida's Hillsborough County has made public the first footage inside the large sinkhole that cost the life of a Seffner man at midnight on Feb. 28.
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A short video clip, showing the sinkhole underneath a Seffner, Florida home that claimed the life of one of the residents.The 54-second video, according to the local ABC-TV affiliate, was recorded hours after the hole swallowed Jeff Bush as he was sleeping in his bedroom.
Taken with a tiny camera mounted to a pole and passed through Jeff's bedroom window, the footage provides the clearest view of the sinkhole that officials estimate eventually grew to be 60 feet deep.
It shows that the walls and ceiling in Jeff's bedroom remained standing, while much of the floor collapsed into the crater.
Speaking to Bay News 9, Jeff's brother said the video helps him understand why rescuers were unable to recover the victim's body.
"It'll help people understand what was going on and what the county saw that everybody else couldn't see," said Jeremy, who in desperation jumped into the sinkhole to try to save his brother.?
Engineers who worked on the sinkhole, told ABCActionNews that, at that time, the sinkhole became fiercely steep, incredibly unstable, and too risky for anyone to jump in and try to save Jeff.
Jeff's family members were struck by the footage.?
"It looks totally different than what we saw then," Rachel Wicker, Jeff's sister-in-law, told ABCActionNews. Rachel said when she and her family ran to Jeff's bedroom, "all we've seen was a big hole. And Jeff has gone."
"You can't even see his bed," Jeremy said to Bay News 9. "It looks totally different than from when I seen it. It's much deeper. Like I said, you can't see anything that was in there, than what I seen before when I first jumped in," added Jeremy, who was?pulled out of the sinkhole by a Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy.
Hillsborough County officials said it was too dangerous to recover Jeff's body.?Instead, the pit was filled in and the home was demolished.
The two houses adjacent to the sinkhole were?evacuated as well, because the ground was thought to be unstable.?Officials said soil samples taken in the neighborhood have deemed the rest of the street safe.
Sinkholes are an increasingly deadly risk in Florida, due primarily to the region's geology, Marc Lallanilla wrote on LiveScience in early March:
The state is largely underlain by porous limestone, which can hold immense amounts of water in underground aquifers. As groundwater slowly flows through the limestone, it forms a landscape called karst, known for features like caves, springs and sinkholes.
The water in aquifers also exerts pressure on the limestone and helps to stabilize the overlying surface layer, usually clay, silt and sand in Florida. Sinkholes form?when that layer of surface material caves in.??
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Italian govt speeds state payments to vendors
MILAN (AP) ? The Italian government has approved a decree to pay 40 billion euros ($52 billion) owed by government entities to private businesses over the next 12 months to help relaunch Italy's stagnant economy.
Premier Mario Monti acknowledged Saturday after his caretaker government adopted the decree that overdue payments had become "a bad habit" that put a heavy burden on business owners.
State entities on an average pay their bills six months after services are rendered and some 90 days after the official due date, which Monti said put Italy behind Spain, Portugal and Greece.
Delayed government payments are a major factor behind liquidity shortages faced by many small and medium-sized Italian companies. Reduced turnover in the recession means many businesses, in turn, are having trouble keeping up with even small debts.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italian-govt-speeds-state-payments-vendors-160007775--finance.html
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Friday, April 5, 2013
'American Idol' vs 'The Voice' Smackdown!
On Mondays and Tuesdays, we've got The Voice (NBC, 8 p.m. ET). On Wednesdays and Thursdays, we've got American Idol (Fox, 8 p.m. ET). And on Fridays, we wake up and ask ourselves, "Did I just watch a singing competition every night this week?"
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3-D printer can build synthetic tissues
Apr. 4, 2013 ? A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues, Oxford University scientists have demonstrated.
The new type of material consists of thousands of connected water droplets, encapsulated within lipid films, which can perform some of the functions of the cells inside our bodies.
These printed 'droplet networks' could be the building blocks of a new kind of technology for delivering drugs to places where they are needed and potentially one day replacing or interfacing with damaged human tissues. Because droplet networks are entirely synthetic, have no genome and do not replicate, they avoid some of the problems associated with other approaches to creating artificial tissues -- such as those that use stem cells.
The team report their findings in this week's Science.
'We aren't trying to make materials that faithfully resemble tissues but rather structures that can carry out the functions of tissues,' said Professor Hagan Bayley of Oxford University's Department of Chemistry, who led the research. 'We've shown that it is possible to create networks of tens of thousands connected droplets. The droplets can be printed with protein pores to form pathways through the network that mimic nerves and are able to transmit electrical signals from one side of a network to the other.'
Each droplet is an aqueous compartment about 50 microns in diameter. Although this is around five times larger than living cells the researchers believe there is no reason why they could not be made smaller. The networks remain stable for weeks.
'Conventional 3D printers aren't up to the job of creating these droplet networks, so we custom built one in our Oxford lab to do it,' said Professor Bayley. 'At the moment we've created networks of up to 35,000 droplets but the size of network we can make is really only limited by time and money. For our experiments we used two different types of droplet, but there's no reason why you couldn't use 50 or more different kinds.'
The unique 3D printer was built by Gabriel Villar, a DPhil student in Professor Bayley's group and the lead author of the paper.
The droplet networks can be designed to fold themselves into different shapes after printing -- so, for example, a flat shape that resembles the petals of a flower is 'programmed' to fold itself into a hollow ball, which cannot be obtained by direct printing. The folding, which resembles muscle movement, is powered by osmolarity differences that generate water transfer between droplets.
Gabriel Villar of Oxford University's Department of Chemistry said: 'We have created a scalable way of producing a new type of soft material. The printed structures could in principle employ much of the biological machinery that enables the sophisticated behaviour of living cells and tissues.'
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US trade deficit narrows to $43B in February
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in February as exports climbed close to an all-time high and the volume of imported crude oil fell to the lowest level in 17 years.
The gap between exports and imports shrank to $43 billion in February, down 3.4 percent from January's revised $44.5 billion, the Commerce Department said Friday. It was the smallest trade imbalance since December when the gap had declined to $38.1 billion, the lowest point in nearly three years.
Exports rose 0.8 percent to $186 billion, close to the record high set in December. Stronger exports of U.S. energy products and autos offset declines in sales of airplanes and farm equipment.
Imports were flat at $228.9 billion with the volume of crude oil falling to the lowest point since March 1996.
The politically sensitive deficit with China shrank to $23.4 billion, the lowest point in 11 months. Exports to the European Union were down 0.9 percent in February, compared to January, reflecting continued economic weakness as that region struggles with a recession triggered by a debt crisis.
Through the first two months of this year, the U.S. deficit is running at an annual rate of $524.5 billion, down slightly from last year's $539.5 billion imbalance.
Economists expect the deficit this year will narrow slightly, in part because of continued gains in U.S. energy exports. A narrower trade gap boosts growth because it means U.S. companies are earning more from overseas sales while U.S. consumers and businesses are spending less on foreign products.
But Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said that he was worried that expectations for exports to keep rising faster than imports may fall short given uncertain global conditions.
"We are concerned that subdued global demand will hold back export growth. And the rest of the data released this week makes us more concerned that the domestic economy is a bit weaker than we thought," he said.
In a separate report Friday, the government said that the U.S. economy created just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months.
The economy as measured by the gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 0.4 percent in the October-December quarter. Economists believe economic growth strengthened in the January-March quarter to around 3 percent.
In addition to increases in U.S. energy exports, economists are also hopeful that exports of other products will rise this year as well, helped by stronger growth in some major export markets.
That forecast is based on an assumption that the European debt crisis will stabilize, helping boost exports to that region and that growth in Asia will rebound further. The outlook for Europe has been clouded in recent weeks by a flare-up of financial problems in Cyprus and raised new worries about the danger that the debt troubles could destabilize more European nations.
For all of 2012, the trade deficit with China increased to $315.1 billion, the largest imbalance ever recorded with a single country. The high deficits with China are adding pressure on the Obama administration to take a harder line on China's trade practices. Some U.S. manufacturers contend that China keeps the value of its currency artificially low to make its exports to the U.S. cheaper.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew traveled to Beijing last month on his first foreign trip since taking over the Treasury job from Timothy Geithner. Lew discussed a variety of trade issues including currency, copy-right piracy and computer hacking. In his talks with the Chinese, Lew drew a distinction between criminal cyberattacks, which are a common threat, and spying by state-sponsored enterprises. The White House has called on Beijing to take action to stop computer attacks aimed at stealing company secrets.
Production of oil and natural gas has been rising in the United States because drillers have learned to tap once-inaccessible reserved trapped in shale formations. New techniques such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have made this possible.
Increased production has lowered U.S. prices of crude oil and natural gas, which refiners use to make gasoline, diesel and other fuels. Crude in the U.S. has been selling for $20 per barrel cheaper than international crude. With lower input costs, U.S. refiners are making enormous amounts of petroleum-based fuels and selling them on the international market at a huge profit.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-trade-deficit-narrows-43b-february-123535108--finance.html
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Huawei Says Security Concerns Will Hinder U.S. Growth, But It Still Expects Traction In Europe And Asia
Huawei, the world’s second largest telecom gear marker after Ericsson, said that its U.S. growth will be hindered this year by U.S. security concerns. But Bob Cai, the Chinese company’s vice president in charge of wireless-network marketing, told the Wall Street Journal that Huawei still expects its key wireless-network business to gain ground in Europe and Asia. Huawei has been dealt two major setbacks in the U.S. over the past half-year. In October, a U.S. congressional report said that Huawei and ZTE’s “provision of equipment to U.S. critical infrastructure could undermine core U.S. national-security interests,” a claim that both companies disputed. Then last week, Sprint Nextel and SoftBank pledged not to use gear from Huawei after they merge. Huawei is counting on other overseas markets, as well as its domestic market in China, for revenue growth. In 2011, Huawei’s wireless network business accounted for 45.91 billion yuan (about $7.4 billion USD), or 23 percent of the company’s total revenue of 203.93 billion yuan. Seventy percent of its group revenue is generated abroad and the company says that its biggest markets are in Western Europe and emerging Asian markets like Indonesia. In Europe, Cai told the Wall Street Journal that Huawei has “already built trust” with carriers. Like smaller rival ZTE, Huawei is also pegging its domestic growth on China’s nascent LTE network. The country’s big three mobile carriers–China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom–are all busy building out their LTE infrastructure. Together, the three companies will spend 345 billion yuan ($56 billion USD) on expanding their 4G networks this year. Cai told the Wall Street Journal that last year Huawei made $1 billion in revenue from its LTE network business, and that the company expects that figure to double to about $2 billion this year. Overall, Huawei expects its mobile infrastructure unit to grow by at least 10 percent this year, after 11 percent growth in 2012. Despite the added challenge of U.S. security concerns, Huawei’s competitors like Ericsson have also had tough time over the past few years thanks to the poor economic climate. For instance, Ericsson’s 2012 group revenue was 227.78 billion Swedish kronor ($35.1 billion USD), almost flat when compared with its 2011 revenue of 226.92 billion kronor.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/eCRpnZ0kOFw/
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Female octopuses stretch further
3 April 2013
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Scientists in Italy developed this method of measuring octopuses' arm extensions
Female octopuses go to extra lengths when stretching their arms to reach food, a study has found.
Scientists in Italy measured octopuses' arm extensions as they reached up a tube towards tasty bait.
They found for the first time that octopuses' arm elongation ability differed depending on their sex and size.
The findings are published in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
Scientists had expected to find that smaller octopuses elongated their arms further than larger animals, but "more surprising was the difference between males and females similar in body size", said research team member Dr Laura Margheri, from the BioRobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna university in Pisa, Italy.
In the wild, octopuses employ their flexible appendages in a range of activities such as cleaning, defending themselves, capturing prey and mating.
Their arms make up the majority of their body weight, and contain most of the nervous system.
Researchers wanted to understand more about octopus biomechanics and how this might relate to their behaviour, so set up a novel experiment to measure common octopuses' (Octopus vulgaris) ability to elongate their arms in pursuit of food.
The team set up a tank containing a diagonally-positioned, transparent tube. Octopuses were trained to extend an arm towards a food parcel, which researchers pulled up the tube to encourage the animals to stretch their arm to its maximum length.
The scientists used video cameras to record the octopuses' arm extensions inside the tube. They compared the recorded lengths with the normal length of the animals' arms when swimming with their limbs straight out behind them.
Reaching outThe measurements showed that all 19 octopuses observed could extend their arms more than twice their normal length.
Females and smaller-sized octopuses achieved higher elongation percentages than males and larger animals.
"Greater elongations by smaller animals to reach a food target... may be explained by a greater need of nutrients, higher agility and energetic metabolism," explained Dr Margheri.
But she said that the "influencing behavioural differences between females and males are less clear".
While the octopuses preferred to use their longest arm to reach for the food, the sex divide in stretching ability was greatest when males used an adapted arm called the "hectoctylus".
Males use this specialised limb during mating to insert sperm into the female.
Dr Margheri described the differing elongation of this particular arm as "an interesting observation".
"[It] could be explained as a preservation and defence mechanism of the reproductively modified arm because an injury might preclude any future mating," she said.
She added that previous studies have observed male octopuses holding their hectocotyli close to the body when foraging in the wild.
"It is possible to assume that males would extend [the arm] only for the purpose of mating," she told BBC Nature.
Scientists suggest that studying the biomechanics of octopuses' arms could help them understand how mechanical differences might influence the animals' behaviour such as hunting, exploring and mating.
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21966304
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