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Exercise extends life of kidney patients

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:16:20 +0000

Exercise may help extend the lives of people with kidney disease, a new study finds. Many patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) die prematurely, but many of those deaths aren’t directly related to kidney problems, according to background information in the study. Researchers analyzed data collected from 15,368 adult participants of the U.S. National Health and Nutrition [...]

Relive the Brock legend

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:13:35 +0000

PETER Brock fans can now get behind the wheel of their own power-packed piece of Brock history. And it is all thanks to Peter Champion, undoubtedly a Peter Brock fanatic, who has dozens of the late race star’s competition and modified vehicles on display at his Brock museum in Jabiru Drive, Yeppoon. Champion has just unveiled a [...]

FT-86: Toyota’s sports car revealed

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:11:23 +0000

Toyota’s plan to inject more excitement into its brand starts with this - a new rear-wheel-drive coupe concept that’s based on the Subaru Impreza. The car that has been dubbed the ‘Toyobaru’ has been revealed for the first time. Toyota’s new FT-86 concept will appear at this month’s Tokyo motor show as the first half of a [...]

Sony Takes Action Over PS3 Yellow Light Of Death Problem

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:08:08 +0000

Sony Computer Entertainment Australia has started contacting customers who have reported “Yellow light of Death” and Blu ray problems with their PS3 gaming console, following an investigation by SmartHouse which indicates that there are more problems with the PS3 in Australia than Sony are making out. It has also been revealed that several leading mass market [...]

Cisco to Buy Starent for $2.9 Billion for Mobile Gear

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:05:45 +0000

Cisco Systems Inc., the largest maker of networking equipment, agreed to buy Starent Networks Corp. in a deal valued at $2.9 billion, its second multibillion- dollar acquisition in less than two weeks. Cisco will pay $35 a share in cash and assume outstanding equity awards, according to a statement today. The per-share price is 21 percent [...]

History suggests Windows 7 launch could boost Mac sales

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:02:38 +0000

Rather than negatively impacting Mac sales, a new report provides evidence that the impending launch of Windows 7 could actually be a boon for Apple. In a new research note to investors, Brian Marshall with Broadpoint.AmTech looked at the historical trends of new Windows launches and the impact on Mac sales. He found that, if anything, [...]

What’s that whispering? It’s word of mouth for ‘Paranormal’

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:59:27 +0000

Audiences are waking up to the movie that goes bump in the night. Paranormal Activity, a film ostensibly made up of video recordings made by a young couple who believe frightening things are happening in their house as they sleep, has been amassing intense word-of-mouth demand for two weeks after distributor Paramount began an innovative campaign [...]

HP: Touch, Touch, and More Touch

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:56:30 +0000

HP’s TouchSmart laptops and desktops bring touch to the masses. A month ago, HP unveiled a bunch of new Windows 7 PCs, but ones with touchscreens were conspicuous by their absence-and given that HP has been selling TouchSmart models for close to three years now, it would have been startling if it didn’t continue to do [...]

A H1N1 flu to-do (and don’t do) list

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:52:50 +0000

Swine flu vaccines are rolling out this month — finally. Health-care workers in Indiana and Tennessee were the first to get the nose-spray version, while New Yorkers clamoring for the H1N1 vaccine finally had their chance too. However, the onslaught of information about H1N1 — be it playground rumors, employer signs telling you to cover your [...]

Scientists Discover Rare Vegetarian Spider

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:49:32 +0000

American scientists have discovers a spider that feeds almost exclusively on plant food. The findings are significant because of the known approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all were thought to be strict predators. The researchers with Villanova University and Brandeis University, said the spider, the Bagheera kiplingi, lives throughout Central America and southern [...]

Cub Scout utensil gets boy, 6, school suspension

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:46:08 +0000

Dressed in a button-down shirt and tie and speaking calmly and articulately, first-grader Zachary Christie hardly looks or acts like the sort of kid who should be spending 45 days in reform school. But, thanks to a zero-tolerance policy, that’s where Zachary’s Delaware school system wants him to go after he made the mistake of taking [...]

“New” Michael Jackson single a “mistake”

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:42:34 +0000

Michael Jackson didn’t do it his way after all. Hours after the pop singer’s first posthumous single “This Is It” was released amid great hype on Monday, it emerged that the tune had been recorded 18 years ago by an obscure Puerto Rican singer. Moreover the co-author of that tune, “My Way” songwriter Paul Anka, threatened to [...]

Toddler’s body lay in drain for a week while police searched

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:38:51 +0000

Detectives became convinced that two-year-old Aisling had been abducted after she disappeared, in a case that drew comparisons with that of missing British girl Madeleine McCann. Officers found Aisling’s body on Monday after using a digger and a concrete cutter to access the drain, on a property next door to the house in Auckland from which [...]

New Leonardo da Vinci painting ‘discovered’

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:35:55 +0000

Art experts believe a new portrait by Leonardo da Vinci may have been discovered thanks to a 500-year-old fingerprint. The small picture of a young woman in profile was previously believed to be a German work from the early 19th century and has changed hands in recent years for around £12,000. But a growing number of leading [...]

Mother passes on cancer to unborn baby

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:32:20 +0000

British researchers have found that a 28-year-old mother, who died of leukaemia, passed on her malignant cells to her daughter in the womb. The extremely rare event proves once and for all that rogue cancer cells can sometimes bypass nature’s defences and pass from adult to child. There have been 17 previous cases where a mother and [...]

Tracy Lyons - new woman accused over paedophile ring - was also nursery worker

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:28:25 +0000

A second woman nursery worker has been charged in connection with the paedophile ring involving nursery worker Vanessa George, it was confirmed today. Tracy Lyons appeared before magistrates in Portsmouth on Saturday charged with the sexual abuse of a child, taking an indecent image of a child and distributing indecent images of a child. Lyons, a pregnant [...]

Sterling tumbles on shock UK inflation fall

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:25:11 +0000

The pound tumbled to a fresh six-month low against the euro today after inflation fell by more than expected to 1.1 per cent in September due to shrinking energy prices. Sterling declined by 0.5 per cent, making one euro worth 93.8p, the weakest level since March, while the pound lost ground against the dollar at $1.5722 Read [...]

Robbie reveals X Factor blunder

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:21:37 +0000

Robbie Williams has revealed his first live performance in three years did not go to plan, as his entrance on Sunday’s X Factor suffered a malfunction. He wrote on his blog that the sliding door, which was supposed to open before he sang, failed at the last minute. “That’s enough to throw you right off your [...]

Dyson unveils bladeless fan

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:17:11 +0000

Dyson has unveiled its latest invention: a blade free fan. The Dyson Air Multiplier works by using innovative airflow engineering to pull air up through an energy efficient brushless motor in its base, and force it up into the loop amplifier at the top, where the air is amplified 15 times by drawing surrounding air into [...]

Gately died of ‘fluid on lungs’

batchblogs — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:12:51 +0000

Stephen Gately died of a mystery heart problem but Spanish investigators don’t know what caused it. A court official in Majorca - where the BOYZONE star was holidaying at the time of his death - said a post mortem examination had found that the singer suffered a pulmonary oedema, an accumulation of fluid on the lungs. But [...]