Apr. 26, 2013 ? Regular exercise has been proven to reduce the chance of developing liver cancer in a world-first mice study that carries hope for patients at risk from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
The research announced at the International Liver Congress? 2013 involved two groups of mice fed a control diet and a high fat diet then divided into separate exercise and sedentary groups. The exercise groups ran on a motorised treadmill for 60 minutes per day, five days a week.
After 32 weeks of regular exercise, 71% of mice on the controlled diet developed tumours larger than 10mm versus 100% in the sedentary group. The mean number and volume of HCC tumours per liver was also reduced in the exercise group compared to the sedentary group.
EASL's Educational Councillor Prof. Jean-Francois Dufour said the data showed the significant benefit of regular exercise on the development of HCC. Exercise decreased the level of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mice receiving a high-fat diet. He said: "We know that modern, unhealthy lifestyles predispose people to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease which may lead to liver cancer; however it's been previously unknown whether regular exercise reduces the risk of developing HCC. This research is significant because it opens the door for further studies to prove that regular exercise can reduce the chance of people developing HCC."
Prof. Jean-Francois Dufour added: "The results could eventually lead to some very tangible benefits for people staring down the barrel of liver cancer and I look forward to seeing human studies in this important area in the future. The prognosis for liver cancer patients is often bleak as only a proportion of patients are suitable for potentially curative treatments so any kind of positive news in this arena is warmly welcomed."
HCC is a cancer originating in liver cells and is one of the most common types of tumour. Worldwide, HCC accounts for approximately 5.4% of all cancers and causes 695,000 deaths per year, including 47,000 deaths in Europe per annum. It is the fifth most common cause of cancer in men and the eighth most common cause in women.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co's U.S. launch of its redesigned full-size pickup trucks, which is critical to improving the automaker's profitability, remains on track, a top executive said on Friday.
"We're getting close and we're reviewing it on a frequent basis," GM global product development chief Mary Barra said of the launch, which company officials said earlier this month was about a month away. "It's going to be shortly."
The 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks are the most important launch for the Detroit automaker since its bankruptcy and $50 billion U.S. taxpayer-funded bailout in 2009. The trucks are also a linchpin in GM's ongoing battle with No. 2 U.S. carmaker Ford Motor Co , whose F-150 truck is the auto industry's top-selling vehicle.
Analysts estimate GM has invested $3 billion to $4 billion to develop the new trucks and related engines, and to revamp the plants where they are built.
The current versions of the big trucks and related SUVs generate profit of $12,000 or more per vehicle and account for about 60 percent of GM's global profit, according to analysts. Citi has estimated the new models could bring the automaker more than $1 billion in additional operating earnings in 2013 and 2014.
The last major redesign of the trucks was in 2006. Delays in redesign, caused by GM's bankruptcy, have put the company at a competitive disadvantage in a segment that accounts for about 11 percent of the market, analysts have said.?
Barra told reporters at a Detroit elementary school, where she was touting the benefits of math and science to a class of third graders, that GM has had no problems as it moves toward introducing the new trucks.
"I'm very confident that everything's on track and moving forward," she said. "It's been the most rigorous process we've gone through to make sure we put a high-quality truck into the marketplace, day one."
(Reporting by Ben Klayman in Detroit; editing by John Wallace)
Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk pulls no punches when he ponders the loss to the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI.? In his mind, the Pats cheated.
Future (likely) Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner takes a different view.? Recently, he expressed a more passive-aggressive opinion that stops short of accusation but sails past curiosity.
Warner has been making the rounds in support of The Moment, a new reality series on USA Network that gives those who believe they could have achieved their dreams if only they?d chased them a chance to scale the mountain without having to do very much climbing.
?I don?t look at it as tainted at all, that?s not the perspective that I choose to take,? Warner tells 411mania.com regarding the question of whether allegations of cheating tarnish the first of New England?s three Super Bowl wins.? ?But with that being said, I will say that I don?t know how you can?t wonder, how you can?t wonder if something did happen, if there was an advantage.? I simply say that because to know that there was evidence out there, that there were tapes out there, but no one ever got to see the tapes ? the Commissioner or whoever decided they were going to destroy them from what I understand ? and so it continually leaves the question.? Being that it was a part of the history of our game and it was directly part of my history, part of the history of my organization and my teammates, and possibly could have affected my career long term, you have a question; did something go on?
?But I don?t allow that to taint or affect the way I look at it. The Patriots beat us in that game ? they outplayed us, they deserved to win ? but it?s hard to just let it go by saying, ?Oh, I don?t know if anything happened.? I still have a question on what exactly when down in that whole time period; did they get some kind of advantage? Maybe it wasn?t in our game but did they get some kind of advantage in any game?? I think it?s unfortunate for us and the people involved and for the people that are football fans that we have to even wonder ?what if?? but I?m not going to take that credit away from them and those players because I have really no idea what happened, if anything.? I?m not going to automatically chalk it up as they cheated or they did do something or did have something because I don?t know.? It?s unfortunate that I have to sit back and other players and fans have to sit back and wonder if.?
Warner could have shortened the answer up considerably by saying, ?I?m not saying, I?m just saying.?
In Warner?s mind, the passage of time and an admittedly false report from the Boston Herald have morphed together into not-so-subtle accusations of skullduggery and subterfuge.? After the Patriots were caught taping defensive coaching signals during Week One of the 2007 season, no one suggested that their first Super Bowl win was in any way tainted ? even though the Rams fell into that relatively narrow band of teams New England had played once before earlier in the season, giving the Patriots a chance to tape defensive coaching signals and in turn to crack the code regarding the blitzes, coverages, etc. for the rematch.
It wasn?t until two days before the Patriots? attempt to finish the 2007 with a 19-0 record that the report surfaced of allegedly secret videotaping of the final St. Louis walk-through practice before Super Bowl XXXVI.? John Tomase of the Herald (whatever happened to that guy?) reported it, an eleventh-hour storm of something other than rain and wind immediately descended on the Patriots, and the Herald later recanted its claims.
More than six years later, Warner is connecting the quick destruction of evidence that was surrendered in 2007 regarding the taping of defensive coaching signals with the potential disappearance of the tape that was made (or that wasn?t made) nearly six years earlier as the Rams finalized their game plan for what ultimately became one of the biggest Super Bowl upsets in NFL history.
While it?s possible that the Patriots videotaped defensive coaching signals when playing the Rams during the regular season and used the information during the Super Bowl, the most stunning aspect of that game came from New England?s ability to shut down the St. Louis offense.? And there?s still no evidence that this happened for any reason other than former Rams coach Mike Martz stubbornly refusing to run the ball more, even as the Pats were dropping nearly everyone into pass coverage.
Of course, the fact that the Patriots eventually were caught red-handed invites plenty of speculation.? Which is essentially what Warner is doing.? And if Warner is willing to do it, plenty of others will, too.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan authorities have arrested 20 people after an attack on a police vehicle compound in the desert south in which one person was killed, the army chief said on Saturday.
The attack on the compound took place on Thursday in the southern town of Sabha, some 800 km (500 miles) south of the capital Tripoli.
"They arrived by car, armed with guns and starting shooting. They stole some cars and escaped," Yusef al-Mangoush, army chief of staff, told Reuters.
"One person died from injuries sustained in the attack. Those arrested have been transferred to Tripoli. We cannot say who they are yet as the investigation is still ongoing," he said, adding the stolen cars had been retrieved.
In the chaos since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya's vast desert south has become a smuggling route for weapons which have reached al Qaeda militants deeper in the Sahara.
Libya's national congress declared the south a military zone in December and ordered the temporary closure of borders with Algeria, Niger, Chad and Sudan.
Earlier on Saturday, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan met Mangoush, members of the ruling national congress and other officials to discuss improving security in the region.
"There are plans for developing the area - with better military and police," Zeidan told reporters.
Last month, two Libyan military officers were killed and three soldiers injured when unknown assailants forced their way into a military camp near Sabha.
(Reporting by Ali Shuaib; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Jason Webb)
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I am having some trouble making this program work the way I want it to. I am supposed to calculate the values inside a text file and put them to an an output text file. The program is reading the file just fine, the only problem is if any of the values are less than or equal to 0, I want the program to output "Invalid Data". Instead, the program continues to read the data that is less than 0. I am wondering if anyone would be so kind as to tell me what I am doing wrong with my code. Please help, I'm such a rookie and I could definitely use some saving.
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#include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <cmath> using namespace std; int main() { float amt1; float amt2; float amt3; float amt4; float startMiles; float endMiles; float mpg; ifstream inMPG; ofstream outMPG; inMPG.open("inmpg.txt"); if(inMPG.fail()) { cout<<"can't find inmpg.txt"<<endl; return 0; } cout<<"Reading from file"<<endl; inMPG>>amt1>>amt2>>amt3>>amt4>>startMiles>>endMiles; outMPG.open("outmpg.txt"); if(outMPG.fail()) { cout<<"cant find outmpg.txt"<<endl; return 0; } while(!inMPG.eof()) { if (amt1 > 0 || amt2 > 0 || amt3 > 0 || amt4 > 0 || startMiles > 0 || endMiles > 0) { mpg = (endMiles - startMiles)/(amt1+amt2+amt3+amt4); cout<<"wrote to file: outmpg.txt"<<endl; cout<<"For the gallon amounts: "<<amt1<<" "<<amt2<<" "<<amt3<<" "<<amt4<< " "<<endl; cout<<"and a starting mileage of "<<startMiles<<endl; cout<<"and an ending mileage of "<<endMiles<<endl; cout<<"the mileage per gallon is "<<mpg<<endl; cout<<"\n Reading the next set of data"<<endl; inMPG>>amt1>>amt2>>amt3>>amt4>>startMiles>>endMiles; } else { cout<<"Invalid Data"<<endl; } } return 0; }
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If you want it to say "Invalid Data" if ANY of the values are less than zero then you have to change your ORs to ANDs:
Most wine is best served between 45 and 60 degrees, so if you pull a bottle off your wine rack, it'll take awhile to lower the temperature in the fridge. It's much quicker to cool down individual glasses of wine, and a stash of frozen grapes is the only tool you need.
All you have to do is toss a few frozen grapes in your glass before you start drinking. Unsurprisingly, red grapes are perfect for red wines, and white grapes go well with white wine, but they won't pass much flavor through the skin, so it's not a huge deal if you only have one variety. The advantage of the grapes is that they won't water down your drink or cool it down too quickly like ice cubes. The grapes might affect the flavor of the wine ever so slightly, so I probably wouldn't use this with an expensive vintage, but it's perfect for cheap table wine. Plus, once you're done drinking, you have a delicious snack waiting for you at the bottom of the glass.
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(Reuters) - An Illinois woman was sentenced to 50 years in prison in the 2004 death of her newborn daughter, whose frozen remains were found in a plastic bag at the roadside, according to local reports.
Katie Stockton, 32, who pleaded guilty in February, was sentenced in a Winnebago County Circuit Court on Friday for the murder of her baby in 2004, the Rockford Register Star newspaper reported.
Stockton gave birth to the baby girl in secret on December 17, 2004, according to the newspaper.
She then put the newborn into a plastic Halloween-themed bag that she placed in a white garbage bag and left at the side of the road 99 feet from her parents' home in Rockton, the Register Star said.
It was believed that the baby either suffocated or froze to death, according to the paper.
An investigation into the deaths of two other infant girls whose skeletal remains were found in plastic bags in the trunk of Stockton's impounded car is still open, the newspaper said.
The Register Star said the remains were found after Stockton's arrest in 2009. Authorities have not been able to determine whether the babies were born alive.
Rockton is about 100 miles northwest of Chicago.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Greg McCune and Gunna Dickson)
Most wine is best served between 45 and 60 degrees, so if you pull a bottle off your wine rack, it'll take awhile to lower the temperature in the fridge. It's much quicker to cool down individual glasses of wine, and a stash of frozen grapes is the only tool you need.