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Monday, April 16, 2012

People magazine broke the news last week that veteran actor Ryan O?Neal was diagnosed with prostate cancer. O?Neal, 70, who battled leukemia in the 1990s, told the magazine that his prostate cancer was a stage 4 ? but that his doctor gave him a good prognosis.

Stage 4 cancer means the cancer has metastasized (or spread) elsewhere in the body. Stage 4 is the most difficult stage of cancer to treat, and the survival rate for Stage 4 cancer is usually very poor.

Anatomical position

The prostate makes up part of the male reproductive system. Anatomically, the prostate is a gland that sits directly below the bladder. The prostate secretes semen which neutralizes the acid in a woman?s vagina and prolongs the life of sperm (secreted from the testicles).

Female Prostate

Because all embryos (babies) start out as females ? women also have female prostate glands, formerly called Skene?s glands. The female prostate gland (which is now the uterus) sits in the same anatomical position as the male prostate. The opening of the female prostate (Skene?s gland) is near the urethra, which drains urine from the bladder. Like males, the female prostate gland also secretes an alkaline solution, which most women confuse for urine during orgasms.

Causes of prostate Cancer in males

The specific cause of prostate cancer in men is unknown. The average age at diagnosis is 70 (Ryan?s age). But males of any age (usually over 50) are diagnosed with prostate cancer. In the U.S. 30,000 men die of prostate cancer every year. Risk factors include black men, men over 60, diet (too much red meat, high fat diet and not enough fish and vegetables), alcohol, hereditary (a brother of father who was diagnosed), medications (steroid injections), and infections caused by STDs or a retrovirus can all increase the risk of prostate cancer.

Cancer begins when normal prostate cells transforms into cancer cells which rapidly multiply in the prostate. Eventually, the multiplying cancer cells enlarge the prostate gland and it begins to push against other organs, causing pain.

Signs (what you see) and Symptoms (what you feel):

Early prostate cancer usually has no signs or symptoms. Symptoms usually occur when the prostate has enlarged to the point that it invades other organs nearby. You might also experience difficulty obtaining an erection and difficulty ejaculating. If the tumor spreads to the bones or lymph glands, there will be pronounced pain at the sites where the cancer has spread.

Other signs and symptoms include:

• Delayed or slowed start of urinary stream
• Dribbling or leakage of urine, most often after urinating
• Slow urinary stream
• Straining when urinating, or not being able to empty out all of the urine
• Blood in the urine or semen
• Bone pain or tenderness, most often in the lower back and pelvic bones (only when the cancer has spread)

• If you experience any of these signs and symptoms, consult your physician or health care professional. If you do not have a doctor, go to the emergency room.

  Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer in males

  A positive diagnosis is confirmed by performing a biopsy of the tumor.

  Once the prostate has enlarged, it can be detected easily by a doctor or healthcare professional during a digital rectal examination. During the exam, the doctor will wash his hands and put on gloves. With a lubricated and gloved finger, your doctor will feel around inside your rectum for approximately one minute.

  If the doctor feels a tumor inside your rectum, or an uneven area, he will order tests such as a biopsy of the prostate tumor, and/ or urine tests and blood tests to look for the presence of antigens or proteins which indicates cancer. Your doctor might also order a CT Scan, Ultrasound or a MRI to visualize the tumor.

  Treatment

  Treatment includes surgery to remove part or all of the prostate, radiation therapy, chemotherapy or hormones. Depending on your age and he size of the tumor, the doctor might elect not to do anything except monitor your blood work to make sure the tumor does not spread.

  This has been your Medical Minute.

  More Info On the Web

  Prostate Cancer ? Pubmed Health

  Prostate Cancer ? MayoClinic

  Prostate Cancer ? Wikipedia

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Space Shuttle Discovery salutes Washington on historic final flight

As historic flights go, this has to be right up there with the best of 'em. Space Shuttle Discovery performed a final fly-by over the capital, and created a trail of excited spotters as it did so. Perched atop a Boeing 747, the iconic craft was flying at a relatively low 1,500 feet according to NASA. Pictures of the voyage have been popping up on social media and image sharing sites as it headed in from the west, before coming to its final resting place at a special off-shoot of the Smithsonian Institute's National Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airport. Have you spotted Discovery? Be sure to add links in the comments if you do.

[Image credit: NASA]

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Windows Phone exec exits five months after being poached from Samsung

Microsoft's Gavin Kim was a high-profile capture for Redmond, as it poached the former Samsung and Motorola exec to bolster its Windows Phone marketing team. Now, just five months into the job, he's departing after marshaling the "Smoked by Windows Phone" campaign into the world. The company wouldn't go into specifics beyond saying that it was a personal decision to leave and Microsoft bears him no ill will -- but then that's what they always say. He'll be replaced by Eugene Ho, who now has the job of continuing the burgeoning platform's upward trajectory and winning around those European carriers who've greeted it with little more than apathy.

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Coral Transplants Offer Hope to Threatened Reefs

Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center student Cameron Baxley hands off stag horn coral to NSU student Pete Grosso

In a delicate operation at sea, 28 healthy laboratory-raised staghorn coral colonies were transplanted last month by our Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center researchers to a threatened reef off the Fort Lauderdale coast. This will ? we expect ? initiate a restoration process for a formally healthy reef that was recently devastated by disease.

Staghorn coral, a fast growing branching variety that look something like deer antlers, were one of the first coral species to be listed as threatened by the Endangered Species Act in 2006. Florida and Caribbean reefs have been ravaged by a number of stresses, including global threats such as rising sea temperatures and ocean acidification as well as more local and human threats, like pollution, over fishing, and development.

NOAA says staghorn coral populations have declined ?up to 98 percent throughout their range? since 1980. Some of our local staghorn reefs have been wiped out nearly completely. It?s bad news for the fish who call the reefs home, but also for the state economy. Florida has 84 percent of the potential coral reef area in the United States, generating more than $6 billion a year and over 71,000 jobs.

Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center student Dana Fisco gives thumbs up to successful transplant.

We are looking for solutions, including raising corals in places where babies and juveniles can be nurtured in a relatively safe place before being moved to a location where we hope to restore the coral population. Offshore nurseries are a great idea, although those can be subject to the same threats ? like hurricanes or disease epidemics ? as natural reefs.

A corollary technique is to grow corals under more controlled conditions in on-land nurseries where they are less subject to stress and variation. Once they grow to the right size, the next step is to transplant them. Nurturing corals in a land-based lab and then transplanting them to the ocean floor is a fairly new idea ? and one among others that we hope will lead to increasing the tools in the toolbox for in restoring coral reefs.

The method sounds easy to do. Corals are famous for their asexual reproduction; a single branch can break off, fall into a crack or cement itself to the bottom, and begin to create a new colony. That?s essentially what we?re doing, although we hope we are doing it efficiently, correctly, and productively. The scientists take a small bit of branch ? maybe an inch or two ? and secure it to a substrate with a small amount of cement. In 400 gallon tanks, with access to good light and seawater, the corals grow very fast. In our on-land nursery, they grew about an inch per month, about twice as fast as they grow in the wild.

After a year or so of careful tending, the corals are ready to be released into the wild. You have to find the right place to put them on the ocean floor; you need to find the right reef, and you need to identify the substrate that will receive them. It needs to be cleared of algae and have a place where the cement will stick.

On February 17, the delicate corals were packed into coolers and ferried offshore. Great care was taken not to abrade or injure them in the process. Diving into a warm, calm Atlantic, the research team carefully transplanted the two-dozen branching coral colonies to a decaying natural reef line about fifteen feet deep, relatively close to shore, just off the coast of Fort Lauderdale beach.

Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center Graduate Research Assistant Ian Rodericks with stag horn coral fragments

NSU Oceanographic Center research assistants and graduate students Abby Renegar and Keri O?Neil are keeping close tabs on the transplanted coral to monitor their success rate and survivability. Is the coral still intact? Are there signs of breakage or disease? Which specimens of various genetic stocks are faring better? So far, the outlook is good and the coral appears to be doing well in their new home.

Dr. Dave Gilliam, assistant professor, is in charge of our off-shore nursery partnership with many other researchers. He is conducting similar growth and transplant activities utilizing our offshore nurseries.

There is a network of offshore nurseries that have been established up along the Florida coast from the Florida Keys to Ft. Lauderdale. On-land nurseries are still uncommon and can play a significant role. We?re expanding our grow-out facilities. With the addition of our new coral reef research center, we?ll triple the size of our nursery operation. We?re looking forward to having more room to grow coral for restoration purposes. In addition, we will have state of the art facilities for study of coral stressors in controlled fashion in order to better understand the impacts of these threats and how to better take corrective actions.

Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center student Pete Grosso places stag horn coral on reef.

Though our transplants have worked well so far, we still have many unanswered questions. For example: What size of coral survives transplants better? When is the best time to conduct the transplantation? What genetic strains of a single species survive best? How do other species compare? How long does it take to restore a reef?

We want to figure out how to stop the stresses that are killing off coral in the wild. But, because of bigger global problems that are not easily or quickly fixed, we must also learn how to help restore our reefs and to make them more resilient.

Coral reefs are the rainforests of the sea. They create vast ecologies which result in healthy reefs and flourishing economies. Reefs are under extreme threat today and have experienced significant degradation. Finding ways to stop and minimize stresses on reefs is paramount. Research to understand how to best help restore reefs is a worthy endeavor and one in which we feel we are making a difference.

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Police hunt for killers of 3 at rural NC store

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Images of the suspects captured on a surveillance camera at the convenience store where three employees were shot to death.

By Kari Huus, msnbc.com

Law enforcers in a rural North Carolina community on Tuesday were engaged in an ?all hands on deck? manhunt for three suspects who robbed an isolated convenience store and shot to death three young men working there, according to a report from NBC affiliate station WITN.

Victims at the Hustle Mart 3 on a sparsely populated county road in Farmville, N.C. were identified by the sheriff?s office as Nabil Nasser Saeed Al?mogannahi , 26, Gaber Alawi, 24 and Mokbel (Sam) Mohamed Almujanhi, 16.

One of the victims was found dead on the scene and the other two later died at a hospital, the local Daily Reflector newspaper reported Tuesday.

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The three employees, including the store owner?s teenage son and two cousins, were closing the store when three men with handguns burst in and demanded money, the newspaper reported.

After taking an undisclosed amount of cash and a pack of cigarettes, the gunmen shot all three employees, even though they offered no resistance, officials quoted by WITN said. A customer who entered the store at about 10 p.m. found the victims and called 911, WITN reported.

Pitts County sheriff Neil Elks said his office has been ?all hands on deck? since the shootings which took place, about 10 p.m. Sunday evening, WITN reported.

"We have been working this case as hard as we can since Sunday night," Elks told the station. "Our deputies have been canvassing the area, going door to door and following every lead that we have. These are dangerous men we are dealing with, and we are determined to catch them as fast as possible."

On Monday, the sheriff's office released photos of the suspects taken from the store's surveillance video, in an effort to generate tips. It also released a short clip of the video from the robbery, but not the very graphic portion that captured the murders, according to Christy Wallace, the sheriff's public information director.

The family and Crimestoppers have offered a $10,000 reward for tips leading to arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators.

The sheriff's department has received a steady stream of tips since the images and a short portion of the surveillance video were made public, said?Wallace.

"It's keeping the detectives adrenalin up and keeping them so encouraged," she said Tuesday evening, adding that some had hardly slept since Sunday. "They are still at work right now."

Farmville has a population of about 4,500 located and is located about 71 miles east of Raleigh, N.C.

"The people had been at this store for years," Wallace said of the family. "They were well known and loved by the community."

Students from Farmville Central High School, where the youngest victim was a 10th-grade student, held a candlelight vigil Monday night outside the store for Almujanhi, who told friends to call him Sam because they had difficulty pronouncing his name.

A funeral for the three victims, who were originally from Yemen, was held Tuesday Al-Masjid Islamic Center and Mosque in Greenville, N.C., the Daily Reflector reported.

"This is very hard," a spokesman for the family, Tony Muhssen, said during a news conference in Farmville on Tuesday, the Reflector reported. "We lost three. The family just can't understand."

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Sony Xperia S ? Review

It?s impossible to hate Sony?s hardware design, it?s beautiful to look at, and it?s impressive to hold in your hand. It makes a statement, and most of all, it makes you feel classy as hell. As I said in the intro, the hardware on this device isn?t a problem at all ? it?s right up there with the best of the best in Android devices. The camera took some pretty decent photos, although the camera was shaky even with stabilisation on. The screen isn?t AMOLED, but it?s colour production is very natural and appealing to look at ? it?s a shame Sony make their icons look so damn bland. For people who use their phones outdoors, you?ll have no problem seeing the display. I found direct sunlight to have very little effect on the readability of the display.

A problem I had on previous Sony Ericsson device was the power button being recessed into the phone so it was hard to hit it, with the Xperia S it sticks out and is simple to press when holding the phone naturally. The inclusion of a HDMI-out port is fantastic for playing high-definition content from your phone onto your TV, although considering the amazing display on the Xperia S, I doubt you?ll bother playing it on your TV too often.

The glowing translucent plastic below the display is a really nice touch. It doesn?t shine light directly into your eyes (like the Xperia X10) instead it has a gentle glow 360 degrees around it and shows the icons of where you should press the capacitive buttons above (when they decide to work). I still kind of find it annoying how the icons are on the plastic as you sometimes ending pressing it instead of the buttons.

Call quality was perfectly fine and data speeds weren?t really an issue on Optus? 3G network, though they weren?t mind-blowing either. Battery life is good, but not great, considering it takes much longer than my Galaxy Nexus to charge, I would have thought it would have lasted a bit longer ? terrible logic to go by, obviously.

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Giant Food and USO of Metropolitan Washington Team Up for a Second Year

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Giant Food of Landover, Md. is extending its in-store giving campaign to benefit the USO of Metropolitan Washington and support military families across the Mid-Atlantic region.? Through April 6, Giant will sell CareOne Care Packages for our troops and accept monetary donations at check out to support USO-Metro programs and initiatives.

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For $5, customers can purchase a CareOne Care Package, which contains a toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, lip balm, hand sanitizer, and ibuprofen. USO-Metro will distribute CareOne Care Packages at airport lounges across the region as troops return home as well as deploy for service. Customers can also support military families by adding $1, $3, or $5 to their grocery bill at check out. Additionally, each neighborhood Giant will feature a station where children can make cards for service members. The campaign will continue in all 173 Giant stores through midnight on April 6, 2012.

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Giant first partnered with the USO of Metropolitan Washington in March 2011 during its 75th?anniversary year. At the end of the month-long giving campaign, Giant delivered $108,000 and nearly 10,000 pounds of food to USO-Metro to?help support its programs and establish a food pantry at Fort Belvoir in Virginia.?Hundreds of soldiers received cards from children decorated with their original artwork and created at Giant?s card-making stations.

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Samsung introduces 6.7-inch Galaxy Note 2 Quad: ?because we can?

23. ZEUS.the.thunder.god posted on 4 hours ago 4 0

i m gonna pass sgs III for this beast:)

happy april fools:D

3. redmd posted on 5 hours ago 7 0

Yay, I want one, but today is just the first of April so...

4. djripster posted on 5 hours ago 7 0

PhoneArena seams to be on a roll with their April Fool jokes...

5. gemmabba posted on 5 hours ago 2 16

"We just wanted to make a phone that is twice bigger than the iPhone"
seriously??? why are you so obsessed with apple? leave them be, dont imitate how they run business

44. Nathan posted on 2 hours ago 6 0

Wait, you do realize this is an April Fools joke right?

6. roscuthiii posted on 5 hours ago 5 0

Ah, this made my day. I'm stuck at work so I'll probably come back every once in a while just to read the "Tim" quote and perk my day up. Better than 5 Hour Energy.

14. good2great posted on 4 hours ago 2 0

i'm at work as well... i could DEFINITELY use that "5 hour energy" zzzzz hahaha but i must admit this article did wake me up!

7. hung2900 posted on 5 hours ago 2 2

In fact 6.7 inch is nearly 4 times bigger than iphone, not 2 times!
Fail!! ^^

9. abdane posted on 4 hours ago 5 0

dafauq ??? the iphone is 3.5 ... 3.5 x 2 = 7 !!! HOW ITS NEARLY 4 TIMES ???

29. darkkjedii posted on 3 hours ago 2 0

U need to go back to math class dude. 3.5x2=7... So 6.7 isn't even twice as big.

32. frommars posted on 3 hours ago 1 3

it's nearly 4 times bigger than iphone do the math again.

53. starandmountain posted on 24 min ago 0 0

frommars is right,
if you've got a 7 inch screen you need four 3,5 inch screens to fill a 7 inch screen, it is diagonal. if you draw in on a paper. you'ill see frommars is right;)

8. PackMan posted on 4 hours ago 4 0

victor got a chance to bash samsung in the name of April fool's day.

10. Walter.D.DROID posted on 4 hours ago 3 0

damn this day I guess :@ they could joke with something related with iPhone -.-
I have a Galaxy Note and expecting a sequel, but not 6.7inch, my guess is that, it will be between 5.5-6inch and all the way with quad :P

27. Gcombs posted on 3 hours ago 1 0

I'm guessing the same 5.3 but with the borderless design so it makes it smaller in design but with that nice screeen.

47. Walter.D.DROID posted on 2 hours ago 1 0

hmmm, i would like it that screen a little more bigger, 5.8inch maybe, but we will see about that, if it even will there be a sequel, Samsung Galaxy Note II? dreams for now, atleast we can imagine how it goes when the specs (and SGS3 itself) for SGS3 are finally unveiled -.-' quad core, ice cream sandwhich or jelly bean are a must, oh and a little bump on the screen resolutions! 1280x800 on the note 10.1 was a let down :@

cheers

12. apocalypsebc posted on 4 hours ago 4 0

They haven't made a 5.3" Windows Phone yet. lol

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