Sunday, 15 April 2012

PSA: Sony details ICS rollout for 2011 Xperia smartphones, Nordic regions to get first dibs

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Good news for all you owners of 2011 edition Xperia smartphones -- Sony's Xperia Product Blog has just confirmed that the devices will begin receiving a tasty upgrade to Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The update is set to first rollout in the Nordic countries of Norway (naturally), Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Finland -- specifically for the Xperia arc S, ray and neo V -- followed by an expansion into other markets within the next "four to six weeks." Don't fret if you don't own one of the aforementioned devices, though, as Sony has noted that near the end of May it should have ICS ready for the Xperia arc, Play, active, neo mini, mini pro, pro and Sony Ericson Live. If you're hungering for more specific information on when you'll be able to update your device, you'll have to keep it posted to the source links below in the meantime.

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Early 'Avengers' Reviews Point To Fan And Box-Office Gold

Talk Nerdy asks, 'Will the superhero all-star flick live up to the hype?' Fans who got an early peek seem to think so
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"The Avengers," apparently, rules.

After a string of Los Angeles screenings, nerdy tastemakers have been squealing all over Twitter about what director Joss Whedon has delivered for this loooooong-in-development superhero all-star flick. "Like, double plus awesome," declared Seth Green. "Lost" guru Damon Lindelof came up with a Twitter hashtag that's a little too colorful to reprint here without a tweaking: .

To Lindelof, I say right back: F---yeah! Because, honestly, what a relief! For a while now on "Talk Nerdy," Brian Phares and I have been expressing worries like:

» There are too many heroes! With Iron Man fighting for screen time with Captain America, with Thor potentially chaffing against Loki as much in a brother-vs.-brother brouhaha as in matters of plot-point development, "Avengers" is simply going to be overstuffed. No character or storyline will be given room to breathe.

» Is the Hulk going to look hokey? Can the CGI beast hold his own next to his flesh-and-blood compatriots and not come off looking like a cartoon?

» Are 2011's good-but-not-great Marvel installments ("Captain America" and "Thor") a sign of good-but-not-great things to come?

And so on. Now, though, our cautious, please-Joss-don't-hurt-us approach to the film appears to be unfounded. "Avengers" hasn't yet screened in New York, so we can't throw our own nerdy support behind the film, but the future is looking superheroically bright.

Moviegoers are taking notice too. Early box-office tracking suggests the movie will open north of $125 million over the first weekend in May. That'd be double what both "Thor" and "Captain America" reeled in last year. The question is whether "Avengers" can top the $128 million opening weekend of "Iron Man 2" in 2010. If Tony Stark can collect all that cheddar on his own, one would expect a film assembling so many Marvel heroes and villains on one screen would eclipse that mark. Based on the early geek buzz, it does seem like "Avengers" can pull it off. And it's the buzz that Whedon is counting on.

"We really put the characters through it," he told MTV News recently, "and we want the audience to be with them every step of the way and come out of it going, 'That was an extraordinary experience, and now I want to pay to see it again.' "

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Friday, 13 April 2012

Foreclosures slow as pipeline backs up

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Foreclosure activity fell in the first quarter to the lowest level in more than four years, but mainly because the process of removing people from their homes has slowed. The number of homes just beginning the foreclosure process rose in March for a third straight month, a sign that the nation's housing problems are far from over, according to RealtyTrac, which tracks the figures.

?The low foreclosure numbers in the first quarter are not an indication that the massive reservoir of distressed properties built up over the past few years has somehow miraculously evaporated,? said Brandon Moore, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac.

He said a large backlog of bank-owned properties that has accumulated over the past few years will put added pressure on the housing market when banks eventually list them for sale.

?The dam may not burst in the next 30 to 45 days, but it will eventually burst, and everyone downstream should be prepared for that to happen,? he said in a news release.

Foreclosure filings were reported on 572,928 properties during the quarter, down 2 percent from the previous quarter and 16 percent from a year earlier, for the lowest total since the fourth quarter of 2007, RealtyTrac said. A default notice, scheduled auction or bank repossession was reported on one of every 230 U.S. housing units in the quarter.

But new foreclosure filings, which indicate lenders are beginning the process of repossession, rose by 7 percent in March, the third straight monthly increase. Foreclosure starts topped 100,000 for the first time since November 2011, although they were 11 percent lower than a year ago.

The decrease in foreclosure activity was caused primarily by declining activity in the so-called non-judicial states, led by?Arkansas, with a 79 percent drop, and Nevada, with a 62 percent drop. Recent legislation or court cases in those states have disrupted the normal foreclosure process, according to RealtyTrac.

Foreclosure activity also slowed in other non-judicial states including Washington (down 55 percent), Arizona (down 41 percent), Texas (down 31 percent) and California (down 21 percent).

The 26 states that typically require a judicial review of a foreclosure saw the pace of filings pick up in the first quarter.

The year-over-year pickup in filings in the first quarter was highest in Indiana (up 45 percent), Connecticut (up 38 percent), Massachusetts (up 26 percent), Florida (up 26 percent), South Carolina (up 26 percent), and Pennsylvania (up 23 percent).

States with the biggest monthly increases in foreclosure starts included Nevada (up 153 percent), Utah (up 103 percent), New Jersey (up 73 percent), Maryland (up 53 percent) and North Carolina (up 47 percent).

Nationwide, the length of time it takes to complete a foreclosure continued to rise -- to an average of 370 days in the first quarter from 348 days in the previous quarter. The process is picking up in some states, though. The average time to foreclose in California was 320 days, down from 352 days in the fourth quarter of last year.

The process in some states, though, is taking considerably longer. Foreclosures are taking the longest, on average, in New York (1,056 days), New Jersey (966 days), Florida (861 days), Illinois (628 days) and Maryland.

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Video: Zimmerman in custody, charged with murder



>>> the armed neighborhood watch volunteer who shot an unarmed teenager named trayvon martin after a scuffle, has been charged with murder in the second degree. he has been free, released by police in sanford, florida . he was not arrested until just late today. after weeks of protests and national attention, the case of trayvon martin has now entered a decidedly new phase. our team is in place, and we begin our coverage of this still unfolding tonight with kerry sanders in florida . good evening.

>> good evening. the special prosecutor has charged george zimmerman with second degree murder. george zimmerman , 28 years old, was taken into custody, according to the special prosecutor . he turned himself into the federal department of law enforcement. there was no issue in the fact that he was taken into custody. he is going to eventually be brought here within the next 24 hours to sanford, to the seminole county court where he will be read the charges officially and also have his first appearance where he can ask for a bond to be released from jail. this is what angela corey had to say just a few minutes ago.

>> today, we filed an information charging george zimmerman with murder in the second degree. a capias has been issued for his arrest. with the filing of that information and the issuance of the capias, he will have a right to appear in front of a magistrate in seminole county within 24 hours of his arrest and thus formal prosecution will begin.

>> the special prosecutor says that if zimmerman suggests he did nothing wrong because of florida 's stand your ground law, she will fight that vigorously. now, zimmerman 's new attorney said he's concerned about his client getting a fair trial .

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>> defense attorney marcos maris said when zimmerman is arraigned on the charges, he will plead not guilty.

>> kerry sanders starting off our coveragesanford, florida , tonight.

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? Adapted from ?How to Save an Unproductive Day in 25 Minutes,? Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, The Wall Street Journal; ?Four Reasons to Keep a Work Diary,? Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer, Harvard Business Review.

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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

North Korea says it's fueling rocket for launch

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is threatening what she called "appropriate action" if North Korea goes ahead with the launch of its long-range rocket. NBC's Richard Engel reports.

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By NBC News and news services

Updated at 8:11 a.m. ET: PYONGYANG -- North Korea said on Wednesday it was injecting fuel into a long-range rocket "as we speak'' ahead of a launch condemned by its neighbors and the West.

The launch is set to take place between Thursday and next Monday and has prompted neighbors such as the Philippines to re-route their air traffic just in case.

Japan said it would shoot down the rocket if it crossed its airspace.


The launch of the Unha-3 rocket, which North Korea says will merely put a weather satellite into space, breaches U.N. sanctions imposed to prevent Pyongyang from developing a missile that could carry a nuclear warhead.

North Korea's 'unconvincing' answers to satellite questions

It coincides with the 100th birthday celebrations of the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung, whose grandson, Kim Jong-un, now rules. Kim Il-sung died in 1994.

"I think the fuel injection will be completed at an appropriate date,'' Paek Chang-ho, head of the satellite control center of the Korean Committee of Space Technology, told a group of foreign journalists in the North Korea capital, Pyongyang.

He would not comment on when the fuel injection would be complete. "And as for the exact timing of the launch, it will be decided by my superiors'', Paek said.

Bobby Yip / Reuters

A North Korean scientist looks at a monitor showing the Unha-3 (Milky Way 3) rocket on a launch pad on Thursday.

Space consultant James Oberg asked, "When would we get the first radio signals from the satellite?" The director said the first radio signals would be received about 12 hours after launch.

Oberg told NBC News that he had plotted the orbit of the satellite and said it would not really come directly over North Korea for about 11 or 12 hours. However, radio amateurs outside North Korea have a much better opportunity to pick up signals from the satellite beginning in western Australia 20 minutes after launch. The U.S. eastern seaboard would be able to hear it in the following hour.

The director said the satellite would be broadcasting North Korean songs celebrating the "Dear Leader" and encouraged people around the world to tune in and listen.

Regional powers said the launch is a disguised test of the North's long-range missile.

NBC's Richard Engel visits a state-run apple orchard, a breeding house for turtles and an apple juice factory.

South Korea, which remains technically at war with the North after their 1950-53 conflict ended with a truce rather than a peace treaty, warned Pyongyang it would deepen its isolation if it went ahead with the launch.

Security sources in Seoul, citing satellite images, have said that North Korea, which walked out of "six-party'' disarmament talks three years ago, is also preparing a third nuclear test following the launch, something it did in 2009, and a move bound to trigger further condemnation and isolation.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that history pointed to "additional provocations" from North Korea after the launch, apparently a reference to a nuclear test.

Clinton says North Korea should scrub rocket launch if it wants 'better future'

"This launch will give credence to the view that North Korean leaders see improved relations with the outside world as a threat to their system,'' she told cadets at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

"And recent history strongly suggests that additional provocations may follow."

She also called on China to do more to ensure regional stability.

China, impoverished North Korea's only major ally, on Tuesday reiterated its pleas for calm and said it had "repeatedly expressed its concern and anxiety about the developments", Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told a press briefing in Beijing.

NBC News' Ed Flanagan and Reuters contributed to this report.

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North Korea: Our rocket is ready to launch

Bobby Yip / Reuters

Journalists escorted to site for launch that is stirring tensions

By Ed Flanagan, NBC News in Pyongyang, and msnbc.com news services

Space officials in North Korea told NBC Tuesday that all assembly and preparations for its new satellite and rocket have been completed, saying it will be launched sometime between Thursday and Monday.


Speaking at a press conference in the capital, Pyongyang, the experts refused to answer the question about whether the rocket has been fueled yet, but they said assembly and other preparations are done.

Inside North Korea: Closely watched launch poses risks

They also repeated their insistence that that satellite is not a cover for a missile test, adding that "the right to have a satellite is a universal right of every nation."

Regarding U.S. concerns, the official said, "These are things that shouldn't be worried about."

NBC space expert on North Korea satellite launch: 'It's not a military missile ... but it's darn close'

The launch of the Unha-3 rocket, which North Korea says will merely put a weather satellite into space, breaches U.N. sanctions imposed to prevent Pyongyang from developing a missile that could carry a nuclear warhead.

Russia, a former backer of North Korea which has boosted economic ties with Pyongyang, has denounced the program.

Slideshow: North Korea

The space experts said there is a five-year North Korean space program to develop larger rockets, improve satellite control centers and organize better cameras to observe Earth.

In response to a question about the cost of the satellite, a North Korean Space Tech Committee representative said, "An appropriate amount has been invested."

China on Tuesday reiterated its calls for calm and restraint on the Korean peninsula.

North Korean space officials say they will go along with a planned rocket launch this week.? NBC's Richard Engel reports.

All sides should respect international law to prevent the worsening of tensions on the peninsula, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told a daily news briefing.

A rare peek inside North Korea

Another nuclear test would almost certainly alarm neighbors and infuriate the West, which has long sought to curb the North's nuclear ambitions.

Meanwhile a U.S.-based rights organization Tuesday published a report saying at least 150,000 North Koreans are languishing in gulags.

The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea said its report was based on extensive interviews with over 60 defectors and more than 40 satellite photos of North Korean political prisoner camps.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Pockets In Graphene Layers Allow Viewing of Liquids With an Electron Microscope

TFA seems inconsistent with a recent report that graphene is so transparent to water than one can in effect use a graphene barrier to selectively out-diffuse water. (http://biology-forums.com/index.php?topic=18349.0;topicseen) gives a popularized account of the original work that indicates you can concentrate alcohol in alcohol/water solutions by simply putting a graphene film bottlecap on the bottle. Yahoo! for those of us who want to make EverClear from vodka, I guess.

So if this story is talking about using graphene to enable TEM examination of aqueous systems, I don't see why the water doesn't diffuse rapidly out of the graphene bubble boundary, especially given the tiny volumes that would be involved in a TEM specimen.

The graphene water diffusion paper is "Unimpeded Permeation of Water Through Helium-LeakTight Graphene-Based Membranes", paywalled at Science Mag. Really interesting.

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Baby Boomer Dating ? Mental Seduction For More Satisfying ...

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Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Lose Considerable Amount of Physique Weight By Acquiring Green ...

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What less difficult way is there to shed weight than drinking a cup or two of tea everyday? Are you able to truly see outcomes with something that very simple? Drinking green tea can actually enable you within your weight reduction journey but you?ll nonetheless need to exercising routinely and eat correct. But green tea has been shown to make the weight-loss method simpler when used regularly. In this report we?ll explore many of the techniques green tea will help you to safely slim down.

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An individual is faced with tough challenges when he or she is quit to care for a maturing parent, a household partner, an older husband or wife or a close friend especially if it is immediate and unexpected for. In particular, one?s father can tumble and get hospitalized with a cracked hip as a result needing a rehab service or a medical home in which he will restore. Other than fast causes, a series of unsettling incidents can suggest that a person needs long-term elder care. Probably, one?s spouse has wandered off and gotten lost a number of situations. A long-time friend who has lost a lot of weight and who seldom leaves home is also an specific that requires care giving.

Not many facilities are equipped to provide enough staff to look after an elder day and night and those that are equipped enough are extremely expensive and unaffordable to many. The safe environment provided by the facility (free of items that can cause tripping and falls) can be created at home. This is where Elder care at home sets in. A major concern as people age is tripping and falling. Elder care at home can be made safe once the risks of trips and falls are reduced.

The basic idea is to understand the things that cause tripping and falling at home such as slippery floors, lack of handrails, improper footwear, uneven floors, clutter, and placement of furniture inappropriately. Initial steps as one begins to care for an elder at home would be to remove area rugs, getting rid of clutter, installation of handrails, avoid using slippery shoes and correct uneven floors and if they cannot be repaired then move to another house.

Senior care at home can also be supplied in facilities delivering community-based services certain to the requires of the elder. Eldercare at Home is one such ability that supplies services for elders who want to stay at home. Aging does not mean that our elders do not want to stay effective and proceed being productive. Through functioning closely with consumers and families, problems can be identified by Eldercare at Home, solutions designed and senior care services, home-based assisted living and also geriatric care supervision services totally provided. Elder Care at home uses for a certain duration of time till the option of taking care of the senior at home becomes too tough hence requiring them to join an assisted living facility or a competent nursing home.

Elder care is a very competitive job therefore the need for quality services that will attract other families in search of elder care at home services and retain the present clients. The rising need to home individuals within the elderly bracket and who require such services has led to the opening of several pension and nursing homes forinstance in New Jersey. The occupation is lucrative because the population of the elderly in retirement and nursing continues to rise and the number of elder care specialists is not that high.

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Exclusive - Aid taps expected to open for new Malawi president - minister

Malawi's finance minister expects suspended international aid to be restored under its new president, Joyce Banda, helping prop up a budget increasingly under strain after the previous president picked fights with overseas donors.

Finance Minister Ken Lipenga also told Reuters on Monday that former President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died on Thursday of a heart attack, had blocked plans called for by the International Monetary Fund to devalue the currency because he was worried the move would hurt the poor.

Aid-dependent Malawi slid into economic crisis over the past year as Mutharika, a professorial but temperamental former World Bank economist, squabbled with major western donors who then froze millions of dollars of assistance that had traditionally bankrolled about 40 percent of the budget.

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"I expect the resumption of aid will happen," Lipenga said.

Foreign diplomats showed their support for Banda by visiting her residence even before she had been officially installed, but so far there have been no concrete signs the West is preparing to restart the flow of aid.

The finance minister has not yet discussed economic policy with Banda since she became president but he thinks she will be able to address some issues that raised red flags with donors including suppression of human rights and the media.

"The donors were emphasising the concerns of the Malawi people," he said.

Mutharika plunged the country into isolation last year when he expelled the ambassador from former colonial master and biggest aid donor Britain, who said in a leaked diplomatic cable Mutharika was autocratic and intolerant of criticism.

In a watershed moment for the normally peaceful state known as the "Warm Heart of Africa" Mutharika's police killed 20 people in anti-government protests in July 2011, leading to international condemnation and a cut of aid packages from other donors.

DEVALUED

The IMF, which has suspended a $79 million aid facility due to conflict with Mutharika, wants to see Malawi's currency, the kwacha, further devalued, saying too much of the state's precious reserves are being used to defend it.

Malawi devalued the kwacha last year to 165 to the dollar from 150. On the black market, the price is nearly double, reaching 295 to the dollar just before Mutharika's death.

On news of his death, the rate dropped to 270-275 with many anticipating an end to a foreign currency crisis that had crippled the economy. As dollars disappeared, fuel prices had soared and foreign goods such as medicine became prohibitively expensive.

Lipenga said the government was poised for another devaluation in September, after he returned from a meeting with the IMF in Washington, but Mutharika blocked it.

"He was very much against devaluation unaccompanied by other measures because he argued it would hurt the poor," Lipenga said.

Malawi was one of the fastest growing economies in the world after Mutharika took office in 2004, averaging 7 percent expansion between 2005-2010 thanks to internationally funded fertiliser subsidies and seed programmes that turned the nation of subsistence farmers into food exporters.

But the aid cut-off and Mutharika's steadfast ways put the economy on a death spiral.

Lipenga said the economy could return to its fast rate of growth if aid was restored but added the country needed to move away from its biggest cash crop tobacco, which at one point provided up to 80 percent of its foreign currency, by increasing the strength of its value-added businesses.

"We really need to start generating forex for ourselves," he said.

(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz, editing by Ed Stoddard and)

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Monday, 9 April 2012

Fish Oil No Help for Secondary CVD Prevention (CME/CE)



By?Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today

Published: April 09, 2012

Reviewed?by?Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Omega-3 fatty acid supplements failed to show a benefit for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), authors of a meta-analysis concluded.

Data from 14 randomized trials showed a relative risk of 0.99 for patients treated with omega-3 supplements, virtually identical to the risk in the placebo groups.

A small reduction in cardiovascular death disappeared after exclusion of a trial that had major methodologic problems, investigators reported online in Archives of Internal Medicine.

"Our results show insufficient evidence of a secondary preventive effect of omega-3 fatty acid supplements against overall cardiovascular events among patients with a history of cardiovascular disease," Seung-Kwon Myung, MD, of the National Cancer Center in Ilsan, South Korea, and co-authors concluded in their article.

The findings are at odds with analyses performed before 2010, which showed a significant benefit for secondary prevention, the authors added.

However, the results are consistent with those of the most recent clinical trials, which generally have shown no effect of omega-3 supplements for prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with existing CVD.

A series of articles published in the 1970s made a case for consumption of fish or marine mammals rich in omega-3 fatty acids as the explanation for the low prevalence of CVD among Eskimos living in Greenland.

Subsequent clinical and preclinical investigations supported the epidemiologic evidence by suggesting that omega-3 fatty acids have anti-inflammatory, anti-atherogenic, and anti-arrhythmic effects, the authors wrote in their introduction.

Continued research yielded inconsistent or conflicting results about the effects of omega-3 fatty acids on cardiovascular risk. A systematic review and meta-analysis showed an overall benefit of omega-3 intake on primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention (Am J Clin Nutr 2006; 84: 5-17).

Data from randomized trials, most of which focused on secondary prevention, have remained controversial, owing to inconsistent results and methodologic problems of some studies, the authors continued. Moreover, no meta-analyses have included results of clinical trials published since 2010.

Myung and colleagues performed a comprehensive review and meta-analysis that incorporated the most recent data on the effects of omega-3 supplementation on secondary cardiovascular prevention.

From 1,007 published articles reviewed, they selected 14 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials for the analysis. The trials involved a total of 20,485 patients with a history of CVD. In all of the trials, patients used omega-3 supplements for at least a year.

The primary analysis focused on the association between omega-3 fatty acid supplementation and total cardiovascular events.

The overall lack of benefit extended to all-cause mortality, sudden cardiac death, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, and stroke or transient ischemic attack.

The only benefit identified by the analysis was a 9% reduction in the relative risk of cardiovascular death. After exclusion of a large clinical trial that had methodologic problems, the benefit disappeared.

An extensive subgroup analysis failed to identify any patients who benefited from omega-3 fatty acid supplementation.

Despite the resoundingly negative results, authors of an accompanying editorial left the door open to the possibility of a cardiovascular benefit from omega-3 fatty acid supplementation.

Specifically, they cited the need to await results from an ongoing 20,000-patient randomized trial of vitamin D and omega-3 supplementation for primary prevention. They also suggested a course of action for physicians until the trial results come in.

"To date, there is no conclusive evidence to recommend fish oil supplementation for primary or secondary prevention of CVD," Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD, and JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, of Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, wrote in their summation.

"However, a diet high in fatty fish ... should continue to be recommended for the general population and for patients with existing CVD because fish not only provides omega-3 fatty acids but also may replace less healthy protein sources, such as red meat."

Patients who cannot or will not eat fish should consider increasing consumption of plant-derived omega-3 fatty acids, they suggested.

"For primary or secondary prevention, omega-3 supplementation cannot supersede an overall healthy diet, but a cardioprotective diet needs to be rich in omega-3 fatty acids," Hu and Manson concluded.

Myung and co-authors had no relevant disclosures. Editorialists Hu and Manson also had no relevant disclosures.

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Windows Phone Free-Time Machine draws curious New Yorkers, one Kourtney Kardashian (video)

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Oh the thrill of seeing a familiar face. No, not the Nokia Lumia 900, which made an appearance in several forms at the Windows Phone event in New York City's Bryant Park today, but Kourtney Kardashian, who drew crowds to the Free-Time Machine -- that fled just as quickly as they arrived. The reality TV star far overshadowed the Windows Phone experience, which is on display in several cities across the US today. New Yorkers can visit Bryant or Madison Square Parks for a chance to flick through some Metro tiles on a Lumia 900, and play to win gift certificates and other prizes -- and in the case of one ecstatic youngster, a day with the above-mentioned celebrity and a $5,000 gift certificate. There were also a few smartphone giveaways on order, along with some "free time" prizes, like a dog walker gift certificate or a chance to skip the line (saving "60 minutes") at the city's Shake Shack burger joint. This isn't the first time we've seen an oversized Windows Phone drop by Manhattan, and it's probably not the last. Jump past the break for a peek at the phone, and the Kardashian.

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