This is the Modem World: Why we troll

Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.

Back when the PlayStation 2 was the world's most popular game console, the original Xbox was struggling to gain a post-Halo audience and the GameCube was a cute diversion with a couple decent titles, I trolled gaming message boards. I was so sure that anyone who bought anything other than a PS2 was out of their mind that I set on the most immature mission in history: to inform the masses, proselytize the word as handed down by Hirai-san, and ridicule those who were wasting their time with The Wind Waker.

Those who were active gamers at the time probably read that paragraph and are now either annoyed or cracking a wry smile in understanding. The latter are the ones who played Ico. Those who weren't gamers at the time can insert their own products into the mix for context.

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Girl shot by Taliban to undergo final surgery

LONDON (AP) ? A Pakistani girl whose defiance of the Taliban turned her into an international icon is headed toward a full recovery once she undergoes a final surgery to reconstruct her skull, doctors said Wednesday.

Dr. Dave Rosser of Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital said that 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai needs the operation to replace the bone shattered when a Taliban gunman, angered at her objection to the group's restrictions on girls' education, sent a bullet through her skull. Rosser said that Malala had made a "remarkable recovery."

"She's very lively, she's got a great sense of humor," Rosser told journalists at the hospital. "She's not naive at all about what happened to her and the situation she's looking forward to in terms of being a high-profile person, and potentially a high-profile target. She's not naive to any of that, but she remains incredibly determined, incredibly cheerful and incredibly determined to speak for her cause."

That cause has turned Malala into a symbol for a girl's right to an education.

At the age of 11, she began writing a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC about life under the Taliban in Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley, which Taliban militants briefly overran. After the military ousted them in 2009, she began publicly speaking out about the need for girls' education. She appeared frequently in the media and was given one of the country's highest civilian honors for her bravery.

Malala was shot on Oct. 9 as she headed home from school. The Taliban said they targeted her because she promoted "Western thinking," but the attempt to murder a teenage girl over her desire to go to school sent a wave of revulsion around the world. Amid a blaze of publicity over her plight, Malala was flown to England for advanced medical care ? and for her own protection.

There was no indication Wednesday of whether or when she would return to Pakistan, although Rosser said it would likely be a year or 18 months before she made a complete recovery.

"Anybody who's required a lengthy intensive care stay or undergone significant neurological injuries, studies tell us people don't report feeling as well as they used to for 15 to 18 months," he said.

Rosser went on to give a detailed briefing of what Malala could expect from the surgery, planned for some time within the next two weeks. He said doctors also have to remove a piece of Malala's skull that they had surgically inserted into her abdomen ? a common procedure intended to keep the skull fragment from getting infected. Eventually, however, surgeons opted for a titanium plate to cover the hole.

A cochlear implant is also being implanted and will be turned on in about a month's time. Rosser said it should eventually restore her full hearing.

Asked whether Malala showed any signs of brain damage ? such as memory loss or hormonal changes ? Rosser said doctors had seen none.

Barring any complications, he said the skull reconstruction should be Malala's final surgery.

"She's certainly pleased with the thought that this will be the end of it," Rosser said.

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Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium Arrives (Half A Decade Too Late)

In 2006, Google announced its first public release of what later became Google Docs, today known as Google Drive. It's 2013, and only now does it feel like Microsoft is fighting back. Microsoft today announced the reinvention of its Office flagship application for consumers, with the debut of Office 365 Home Premium. The service - yes, it's a subscription-based service - includes support for up to five devices, all the familiar Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, etc., etc. - as well as additional online storage in Sky Drive (20 GB), and 60 free minutes to use on Skype each month.

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Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Foundation Capital?s Anamitra Banerji And Kleiner Perkins? Chi-Hua Chien

We have two guests joining us in the TechCrunch TV studio this week for our Ask A VC series, where you put VCs in the hot seat. First up we have Foundation Capital's newest partner and former Twitter product lead Anamitra Banerji. Later in the week, we'll be joined by Kleiner Perkins' partner Chi-Hua Chien.

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Factbox: Timbuktu, ancient trading town caught up in Mali's war

(Reuters) - The Malian town of Timbuktu, recaptured from Islamist rebels by French and Malian troops, is an ancient center of Islamic culture that grew rich in the 14th and 15th centuries as a trading post for gold and salt crossing the Sahara.

Here are some facts about the town:

* Timbuktu has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988. Founded in 1100 by Tuareg nomads, it was once the richest town in the ancient empire of Mali, whose wealth came from the trans-Saharan caravan trade.

* Three of West Africa's oldest mosques, Djinguereber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, were built in the town during the 14th and early 15th centuries; its libraries contain thousands of priceless manuscripts recording genealogies and scientific theories, as well as intellectual arguments between scholars, teachers and commentators.

* Ansar Dine, the Islamist group that seized the town in April, declared Timbuktu's shrines and mausoleums, sacred to moderate Sufi Muslims, to be un-Islamic and idolatrous, and militants destroyed several of them. The retreating Islamist rebel fighters also set fire to several buildings, including a library containing thousands of manuscripts.

* Tourism to the area was already suffering from security problems even before the rebels took control. In November 2011, Islamist gunmen seized three foreigners and killed a fourth on a street in Timbuktu in an attack claimed by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

* The Scottish explorer Gordon Laing was the first European to arrive in Timbuktu, in 1826, followed by the French explorer Ren?-Auguste Caillie two years later. The town was captured by the French in 1894, and in 1960 became part of the newly independent Republic of Mali.

(Reporting by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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Nightclub fire kills at least 232 in Brazil

SANTA MARIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A nightclub fire killed at least 232 people in southern Brazil early on Sunday when a band's pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze and fleeing partygoers stampeded toward blocked and overcrowded exits in the ensuing panic, officials said.

The blaze in the university town of Santa Maria was started by a band member or someone from its production team igniting a flare, which then set fire to the ceiling, said Luiza Sousa, a civil police official. The fire spread "in seconds," she said.

Local fire officials said at least one exit was locked and that bouncers, who at first thought those fleeing were trying to skip out on bar tabs, initially blocked patrons from leaving. The security staff relented only when they saw flames engulfing the ceiling.

The tragedy, in a packed venue in one of Brazil's most prosperous states, comes as the country scrambles to improve safety, security and logistical shortfalls ahead of the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympics, both intended to showcase the economic advances and first-world ambitions of Latin America's largest nation.

In Santa Maria, a city of more than 275,000 people, rescue workers and weary officials wept alongside family and friends of the victims at a local gymnasium being used as a makeshift morgue.

"It's the saddest, saddest day of my life," said Neusa Soares, the mother of one of those killed, 22-year-old Viviane Tolio Soares. "I never thought I would have to live to see my girl go away."

President Dilma Rousseff cut short an official visit to Chile and flew to Santa Maria, where she wept as she spoke to relatives of the victims at the gym.

"All I can say at the moment is that my feelings are of deep sorrow," said Rousseff, who began her political career in Rio Grande do Sul, the state where the fire occurred.

News of the fire broke on Sunday morning, when local news broadcast images of shocked people outside the Boate Kiss, as the nightclub was known. Gradually, grisly details emerged.

The vast majority of the victims, most of them university students, died of smoke inhalation, officials said. Others were crushed in the stampede.

"We ran into a barrier of the dead at the exit," Colonel Guido Pedroso de Melo, commander of the fire brigade in Rio Grande do Sul, said of the scene that firefighters found on arrival. "We had to clear a path to get to the rest of those that were inside."

Officials said more than 1,000 people may have been in the club, possibly exceeding its legal capacity. Though Internet postings about the venue suggested as many as 2,000 people at times have crammed into the club, Pedroso de Melo said no more than half that should have been inside.

He said the club was authorized to be open but its permit was in the process of being renewed.

However, Pedroso de Melo did point to several egregious safety violations - from the flare that went off during the show to the locked door that kept people from leaving.

'HAPPENED SO FAST'

When the fire began at about 2:30 a.m., many revelers were unable to find their way out amid the chaos, confusing restroom doors for exits and finding resistance from bouncers when they did find an exit.

"It all happened so fast," survivor Taynne Vendrusculo told GloboNews TV. "Both the panic and the fire spread rapidly, in seconds."

Once security guards realized the building was on fire, they tried in vain to control the blaze with a fire extinguisher, according to a televised interview with one of the guards, Rodrigo Moura. He said patrons were getting trampled as they rushed for the doors, describing it as "a horror film."

One of the club's owners has surrendered to police for questioning, GloboNews reported.

TV footage showed people sobbing outside the club before dawn, while shirtless firefighters used sledge hammers and axes to knock down an exterior wall to open up an exit.

Rescue officials moved the bodies to the local gym and separated them by gender. Male victims were easier to identify because most had identification on them, unlike the women, whose purses were left scattered in the devastated nightclub.

The disaster recalls other incidents including a 2003 fire at a nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, that killed 100 people, and a Buenos Aires nightclub blaze in 2004 that killed nearly 200. In both incidents, a band or members of the audience ignited fires that set the establishment ablaze.

The Rhode Island fire shocked local and federal officials because of the rarity of such incidents in the United States, where enforcement of safety codes is considered to be relatively strict. After the Buenos Aires blaze, Argentine officials closed many nightclubs and other venues and ultimately forced the city's mayor from office because of poor oversight of municipal codes.

The fire early on Sunday occurred in one of the wealthiest, most industrious and culturally distinct regions of Brazil. Santa Maria is about 186 miles west of Porto Alegre, the capital of a state settled by Germans and other immigrants from northern Europe.

Local clich?s paint the region as stricter and more squared away than the rest of Brazil, where most residents are a mix descended from native tribes, Portuguese colonists, African slaves, and later influxes of immigrants from southern Europe.

Rio Grande do Sul state's health secretary, Ciro Simoni, said emergency medical supplies from all over the state were being sent to the scene. States from all over Brazil offered support, and sympathy messages poured in from foreign leaders.

(Additional reporting by Guillermo Parra-Bernal, Gustavo Bonato, Jeferson Ribeiro, Eduardo Sim?es, Brian Winter and Guido Nejamkis.; Writing by Paulo Prada; Editing by Todd Benson, Kieran Murray and Eric Beech)

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Actor Taye Diggs captures burglary suspect

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Los Angeles police say actor Taye Diggs chased down and captured a burglary suspect he found rummaging through his garage.

It happened after the "Private Practice" star and his wife returned to their Studio City home from the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Diggs was a presenter.

LAPD spokesman Richard French says shortly before 11:30 p.m. Sunday, Diggs saw a man in his garage, apparently looking for items to steal.

French says the man ran off, but Diggs followed him down the street and held him for police. Neither man was hurt.

Twenty-year-old Hassan Juma was arrested and remains jailed Monday on $50,000 bail.

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Canon EF 180mm Macro f/3.5L USM

By Jim Fisher

The EF 180mm Macro f/3.5L USM ($1,579 list) is a telephoto prime lens for Canon cameras that features macro shooting capability. At its closest focusing distance it supports 1:1 magnification, which means that an object in the image frame will be projected onto the camera's sensor at its actual size. The lens can also be used as a standard telephoto optic?there's a switch on the side of the barrel that allows you to choose between the full focus range for autofocus or to only try and focus on objects that are close to the front element of the lens. One downside to using the lens as a handheld telephoto optic is the lack of image stabilization?something that the similar Sigma 150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro does include.

The lens is very long, but not overly wide?it measures 7.3 by 3.3 inches and is heavy at 2.4 pounds. A tripod collar, which wraps around the lens near its base, is included. It's a good idea to use it rather than your camera's tripod socket, as it evens out weight distribution to lessen the amount of stress placed upon the lens mount. Standard 72mm filters are supported, and the front element is stationery so using a polarizing filter is feasible. A lens hood and carrying case are included.

I used Imatest to check the sharpness of the lens when paired with the full-frame Canon EOS 6D. I also shot the lens with the APS-C Canon EOS Rebel T4i, whose smaller sensor gives the lens a field of view that is nearly 300mm, which came in handy at a baseball game. The lens puts up impressive sharpness figures?it notched 2,414 lines per picture height at f/3.5, well in excess of the 1,800 lines that mark a sharp photo. Performance increases a bit at f/8, where it hits 2,497 lines. Distortion is not a concern?there is only a negligible 0.2 percent shown in test results. The Sigma 150mm is not as sharp at f/2.8 at 1,843 lines, but it does hit 2,400 at f/4 and comes close to 3,000 lines at f/8.

Aside from the lack of image stabilization, which is not a concern when it comes to macro tripod work, there isn't much negative to say about the Canon EF 180mm Macro f/3.5L. It's expensive, but its price is not out of line for its class?the Sigma 150mm is priced at $1,600, although it often sells for much less, and Nikon's similar AF-S Micro-Nikkor 200mm f/4D IF-ED costs nearly $1,800. If you can live with the slightly wider field, choosing the Sigma will add image stabilization without sacrificing magnification or sharpness at comparable apertures?but there's very little chance that you'll be disappointed by the images that this Canon macro lens can capture.

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Who wore it best? Vote on your favorite SAG look

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Take a look at Hollywood's biggest stars showing off their designer gowns and tuxes on the red carpet.

When it comes to the Screen Actors Guild Awards, it?s all about Hollywood?s brightest honoring their own. And on Sunday night, red-carpet veterans such as Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts shared the spotlight with newcomers including Jennifer Lawrence and Amanda Seyfried. Highlights included quite a few navy gowns, a whole lotta updos, and yes, Justin Timberlake in plaid.

We took a look at all the celebs on the red carpet, but only a few left us impressed. Which star had the best style? Check out our favorites below and cast your vote!

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"30 Rock star" Jane Krakowski in a bright, sherbet-colored Kaufman Franco dress at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium.

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Disney chic? "Zero Dark Thirty" star Jessica Chastain channels Jessica Rabbit in a sexy Alexander McQueen silk gown.

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Nicole Kidman goes for sheer in an embellished gown by Vivienne Westwood.

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Flower power: Julianne Moore opts for a sexy, plunging Chanel gown.

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Marion Cotillard wears a festive two-tone gown designed by Dior Haute Couture.

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"Les Miserables" star Amanda Seyfried wears a chic, romantic gown by Zac Posen.

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Kerry Washington of "Django Unchained" wears a structured, sexy Rodarte gown.

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Going for gold: Actress Jennifer Garner looks regal in an Oscar de la Renta gown.

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Freida Pinto goes for a hot-pink Roland Mouret design.

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Bright white: Actress Naomi Watts sparkles in Marchesa.

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Who wore it best?

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Kerry Washington	? 19.9% (1,446 votes)
Amanda Seyfried	? 19.1% (1,392 votes)
Jennifer Garner	? 14.8% (1,078 votes)
Nicole Kidman	? 11.6% (842 votes)
Marion Cotillard	? 8.7% (634 votes)
Jessica Chastain	? 6.8% (494 votes)
Jane Krakowski	? 6.7% (491 votes)
Naomi Watts	? 6.6% (479 votes)
Freida Pinto	? 4.1% (295 votes)
Julianne Moore	? 1.7% (126 votes)

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Mashreq Qatar launches Majestic 2 bundled Personal Loan with a ...

Customers can now look forward to a tailor-made bundled Personal Loan that caters to their needs. With an aim to achieve that, leading regional financial institution, Mashreq Qatar announced the launch of Majestic 2 Loan proposition, which can be availed by all salaried individuals who earn QAR 5,000 or more per month.

Depending on the loan size, the customers will receive a guaranteed free iPad 4 16 GB Wi-Fi or a Samsung S3 Mini 8GB or a Blackberry Curve 9220, allowing them to keep up to date with their financials anywhere and at anytime through the bank?s award winning online banking, which allows a variety of payment solutions.

Niranjan Mendonca, Head of Retail Banking, Mashreq Qatar said, ?We continue to offer strong and solid financial products to our customers coupled with convenience and innovation. Banking with Mashreq is forever evolving and our endeavor is to extend a truly exceptional experience to our customers who are the core focus of our strategy.?

The limited period promotion offers competitive interest rates, a Platinum Credit Card loaded with unmatched benefits and a convenient Overdraft Facility.?As part of this unique package, the Platinum card also offers customers discounted balance transfer, QAR 5,000 of free offers, free shopping, discounts at leading lifestyle partners and much more!

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Fight blood cancer - PNW Riders

It's that time of year again, and i've been training for the Seattle stairclimb to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

I will be participating in the Scott Firefighter Stairclimb, a race up 69 flights of stairs in full fire gear and SCBA, on March 10th, 2013. While this will be an incredibly tough climb, the real challenge is to help fight blood cancers. All proceeds from the competition benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). Please support me by going to http://soc.li/mbCU05b
and click donate. Type my name in (Nathan Sharp) and then donate. It's that easy! Thank you for supporting me in the fight against blood cancers!"-

Last year there was posters in the stairwell of people fighting a blood cancer, or those who have been lost to a blood cancer. These pictures helped tremendously as I climbed. As before, if anyone would like a poster put up for either of these reasons, please send me a PM and I will see what I can do.

For those of you who donate, this is a tax deductible donation for next years taxes.

I completely understand with the economy, this has been a difficult time for everyone. Every little bit helps. Donations add up quickly, $1, $5, $10... it all goes to blood cancer research.

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A drone flyover at inauguration? The Onion strikes again

The Onion's fake story of a drone flyer on inauguration day (The Onion)

The Onion strikes again.

A radio host fell for a fake story from the satirical website that showed a doctored image of a ?drone flyover? on President Barack Obama?s inauguration day.

The post on the Facebook page of KFAI host Andy Driscoll was surfaced by City Pages, which pointed out that Driscoll, who hosts ?TruthToTell? on the community radio station in Saint Paul, Minn., had written "ugly" underneath an image that showed what appeared to be three remote-controlled drones ominously hovering over the enormous crowds.

Driscoll's posting sparked a long comment thread, including this from Kristin Tapper: ?1984 is no longer fiction.?

Driscoll seemed to agree: ?Never seen three in a cluster formation like that, but they're obviously scanning the crowd for potential trouble?all monitored by a site in Las Vegas.?

But even when Driscoll learned the story was fake, he argued that it felt true: ?There's a reason the Onion can make satire out of this photo, which was obviously doctored to give us a laugh (ceremonial drone flyover, indeed! HA!), is that satire is a stretch of the truth."

The radio host shouldn't feel bad about being fooled; after all, the Onion got China's main newspaper, People's Daily Online, to run a story announcing that North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un had been named Sexiest Man Alive.

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Twitter Link Roundup #163 ? Small Business, Social Media, Design ...

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account, I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design, web design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I?ve liked and shared this past week!

The image above shows how the stress of being the President of the United States can quickly age a person. Time is rough to presidents. For more examples of how stress affected the aging of other presidents and the science behind aging, look in the Other section below.

How To Avoid Disaster In Your Small Business Digital Marketing Efforts ? http://crowdspring.co/WFLMRn

10 Ways to Measure Your Competition ? http://crowdspring.co/YpKCPd

The Work/Home M?bius Strip | crowdSPRING Blog ? http://crowdspring.co/WzNfIW

crowdSPRING?s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: TripBucket ? http://crowdspring.co/WLShlN

Never Say Die: Finding Small Business Success in Tough Times ? http://crowdspring.co/Uj438H

SMB Marketing in 2013: 68% of small businesses to increase marketing budget | MarketingSherpa Blog ? http://crowdspring.co/VP4SHe

Maples? Law: A million ways your startup can die and only one unsatisfying way to make sure it lives ? http://crowdspring.co/VPp1Np

Startup Business Development 101 | A VC ? http://crowdspring.co/WdvfEe

Does It Pay to Become an Entrepreneur? | Forbes ? http://crowdspring.co/YjW4f2

The Ideation Switch ? http://crowdspring.co/YjVI8e

The Work/Home M?bius Strip | crowdSPRING Blog ? http://crowdspring.co/WzNfIW

Market Size: Is Your Market Really As Big As You Think? | OpenView ? http://crowdspring.co/YlGL5y

Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up ? http://crowdspring.co/VKy7uN

10 Ways to Measure Your Competition ? http://crowdspring.co/YpKCPd

How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes ? http://crowdspring.co/WdUZ3v

5 Rules for Designing Like Apple | ZURB ? http://crowdspring.co/W85sgA

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Canceled Soaps ?All My Children? And ?One Life To Live? Coming Back From The Dead On Hulu, iTunes

It's no "Arrested Development," but Hulu is today announcing that it, too, is bringing TV programs back from the dead. (Coming back from the dead - hey, that sounds like a soap plot!). Hulu has now signed a deal with media production Prospect Park to air the previously canceled soap operas "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" on Hulu and Hulu Plus, where they're air in addition to Apple's iTunes.

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Trial under way in LA hip joint replacement suit

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A lawsuit brought by a man whose hip implant caused metal poisoning accuses medical giant Johnson & Johnson of knowingly marketing the faulty implant that lawyers say left thousands of people with crippling problems or in need of replacement surgeries.

A California jury heard opening statements on Friday in the fraud and negligence suit ? the first of thousands of similar suits to reach trial in the United States that involve an all-metal ball-and-socket hip joint that was pulled from the market two years ago.

A lawyer for plaintiff Loren Kransky showed jurors pictures from a surgery in which black material could be seen in the patient's hip socket. Attorney Michael Kelly said the material was from pieces of metal that had flaked off of the implant.

Kelly also played a segment of a doctor's audio deposition in which he said he feared that if the material wasn't removed, Kransky would have died. The pieces of metal were causing a form of metal poisoning, he said.

Kransky, a former North Dakota prison guard, sought hip replacement to relieve arthritic pain. He received the implant in 2007 and has since has had it replaced. He listened to opening statements Friday from a front row seat.

A lawyer for Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary, DePuy Orthopedics Inc., which manufactured the metal implant, said Friday that the 64-year-old Kransky had many pre-existing medical ailments. Attorney Alexander Calfo presented a list of 16 major diseases, including kidney cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and vascular disease as well as exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

"Mr. Kransky did not get worse because of the (implant) and did not get better when it was removed," he said.

He added, "Hip surgery is not perfect. No material to this very day has proven to be perfect."

Calfo said the metal implant had been designed to improve on plastic and ceramic implants.

The artificial hip socket was sold for eight years to some 35,000 people in the U.S. and more than 90,000 people worldwide. New Brunswick, N.J.-based Johnson & Johnson stopped making the product in 2009 and recalled it the next year.

However, documents unsealed in the court case last week indicated that Johnson & Johnson officials were aware of problems with the device at least as far back as 2008.

Also, according to a deposition from a DePuy official, a 2011 company review of a patient registry concluded that more than a third of the implants were expected to fail within five years of their implantation.

Johnson & Johnson has put aside around $1 billion to deal with the costs of the recall and lawsuits.

Last year, British experts at the world's biggest artificial joint registry said doctors should stop using metal-on-metal hip replacements after a study found that, after five years, about 6 percent of people who had used them needed surgery to fix or replace them.

That compares with just 1.7 to 2.3 percent of people who had ceramic or plastic joints.

Kelly said he will ask the jury to assess punitive damages at the end of the trial "to send a message to the defendants who failed to share with doctors what they knew."

He said that when DePuy Orthopedics learned the device they manufactured might be defective, "They acted in a manner that was indifferent."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/trial-under-way-la-hip-joint-replacement-suit-192353763.html

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Hot topics in translational bone research at IOF-ESCEO 3rd Pre-Clinical Symposium

Public release date: 25-Jan-2013
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Pre-clinical Symposium to enhance European Congress on Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis in Rome, from April 17-20, 2013

Investigators with an interest in pre-clinical and translational musculoskeletal research are invited to attend the 3rd IOF-ESCEO Pre-Clinical Symposium to be held on April 18, in Rome, Italy.

The Symposium will be held in conjunction with the European Congress on Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis (ESCEO13-IOF) from April 17-20, 2013. This key clinical bone event is held annually by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO), http://www.ecceo13-iof.org

The Congress will present more than 700 scientific abstracts and is expected to attract over 5000 delegates from around the world.

Chaired by Anna Teti, Professor of Histology at the University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy, the half-day IOF-ESCEO Pre-Clinical Symposium features eight invited lectures by well-known researchers in the field:

How do rare genetic diseases contribute to the understanding of common bone diseases?

• The contribution of chondrodysplasias to the understanding of osteoarthritis - Michael Briggs
• The contribution of osteodysplasias to the understanding of osteoporosis - Wim van Hul

How do preclinical studies offer new options for future developments?

• Future molecular therapies for osteoporosis - Lorenz C Hofbauer
• New potential developments using siRNA and small peptides - Anna Teti

How does the skeleton impact muscle cells?

• Vascular calcification - Catherine Shanahan
• Key regulators of muscle-bone unit - Roger Fielding

How does the skeleton contribute to ion metabolism?

• Anion transport mechanisms and diseases - Thomas J Jentsch
• Cation transport mechanisms and diseases - H. van Leeuwen

The 3rd Pre-Clinical Symposium is free of charge to registrants of ESCEO13-IOF, while delegates to the Symposium alone may register for only 150 Euro. With the low registration rate, IOF and ESCEO specifically aim to make the Symposium accessible to young investigators in the field.

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Pre-clinical Symposium to enhance European Congress on Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis in Rome, from April 17-20, 2013

Investigators with an interest in pre-clinical and translational musculoskeletal research are invited to attend the 3rd IOF-ESCEO Pre-Clinical Symposium to be held on April 18, in Rome, Italy.

The Symposium will be held in conjunction with the European Congress on Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis (ESCEO13-IOF) from April 17-20, 2013. This key clinical bone event is held annually by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO), http://www.ecceo13-iof.org

The Congress will present more than 700 scientific abstracts and is expected to attract over 5000 delegates from around the world.

Chaired by Anna Teti, Professor of Histology at the University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy, the half-day IOF-ESCEO Pre-Clinical Symposium features eight invited lectures by well-known researchers in the field:

How do rare genetic diseases contribute to the understanding of common bone diseases?

• The contribution of chondrodysplasias to the understanding of osteoarthritis - Michael Briggs
• The contribution of osteodysplasias to the understanding of osteoporosis - Wim van Hul

How do preclinical studies offer new options for future developments?

• Future molecular therapies for osteoporosis - Lorenz C Hofbauer
• New potential developments using siRNA and small peptides - Anna Teti

How does the skeleton impact muscle cells?

• Vascular calcification - Catherine Shanahan
• Key regulators of muscle-bone unit - Roger Fielding

How does the skeleton contribute to ion metabolism?

• Anion transport mechanisms and diseases - Thomas J Jentsch
• Cation transport mechanisms and diseases - H. van Leeuwen

The 3rd Pre-Clinical Symposium is free of charge to registrants of ESCEO13-IOF, while delegates to the Symposium alone may register for only 150 Euro. With the low registration rate, IOF and ESCEO specifically aim to make the Symposium accessible to young investigators in the field.

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Complete information and online is available at http://www.ecceo13-iof.org/.

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• Former Milan Auto Dealers Sentenced In Federal Court

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• Huge Fire In Rural Geneseo

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• Police Catch "Ray Bandit" Linked To A String Of Robberies

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  The man known as the "Ray Bandit" is in jail. FBI officials believe he's behind at least 17 bank robberies in seven different states since last July, several of them right here in the Quad Cities area.More >>The man known as the "Ray Bandit" is in jail. FBI officials believe he's behind at least 17 bank robberies in seven different states since last July, several of them right here in the Quad Cities area.More >>

• Davenport Police Say Two Arrested In Rolling Meth Lab

  Davenport Police Say Two Arrested In Rolling Meth Lab

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• Woman killed by train in DeWitt, Iowa

  Woman killed by train in DeWitt, Iowa

  Updated: Monday, January 21 2013 7:40 AM EST2013-01-21 12:40:05 GMT

  DEWITT, Iowa ? A woman was struck and killed by a train Friday night at the railroad crossing on 300th Avenue in east DeWitt. The Clinton County Sheriff says the woman was hit by a west-bound Union PacificMore >>DEWITT, Iowa ? A woman was struck and killed by a train Friday night at the railroad crossing on 300th Avenue in east DeWitt. The Clinton County Sheriff says the woman was hit by a west-bound Union PacificMore >>

• Fire At Rock Falls Business- Update

  Fire At Rock Falls Business-Update

  Updated: Wednesday, January 23 2013 5:28 PM EST2013-01-23 22:28:26 GMT

  We have more information on a large fire that broke out at a business in Rock Falls, Ill. Tuesday. The fire started at a truck storage facility located on Rt. 30, just outside of town. Multiple tenantsMore >>We have more information on a large fire that broke out at a business in Rock Falls, Ill. Tuesday. The fire started at a truck storage facility located on Rt. 30, just outside of town. Multiple tenantsMore >>

About 75,000 Perfect Resistance Bands are being recalled. The manufacturer says the fitness bands can detach from the mesh cloth loops and pose injury to its user or anyone nearby.

Implus Footcare has received reports of 12 cases, including injuries to the back, hand and eye.

The bands were sold exclusively at Walmart and online at perfectonline dot com.

Consumers should stop using the fitness bands and contact Implus Footcare for a refund or replacement product at 800-446-7587.

Source: http://www.kwqc.com/story/20670636/fitness-equipment-recalled

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Bangladesh fire victims' families wait for money

In this Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 photo, Bangladeshi man Ansar, who uses one name, reacts at his home near the gutted Tazreen factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Two months after his wife and daughter were killed in a fire at the Bangladeshi garment factory, 55-year-old Ansar is scrambling to survive. Ansar has been unable to pay his rent for two months and fears that if he gets evicted and is forced to return to his home village in the impoverished north, he may never be compensated. The fire drew international attention to the conditions that garment workers toil under in Bangladesh, where the $20 billion-a-year textile industry is incredibly powerful and politically connected. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)

In this Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 photo, Bangladeshi man Ansar, who uses one name, reacts at his home near the gutted Tazreen factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Two months after his wife and daughter were killed in a fire at the Bangladeshi garment factory, 55-year-old Ansar is scrambling to survive. Ansar has been unable to pay his rent for two months and fears that if he gets evicted and is forced to return to his home village in the impoverished north, he may never be compensated. The fire drew international attention to the conditions that garment workers toil under in Bangladesh, where the $20 billion-a-year textile industry is incredibly powerful and politically connected. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)

In this Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 photo, Bangladeshi man Ansar, who uses one name, holds photographs of his wife and daughter at his home near the gutted Tazreen factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Two months after his wife and daughter were killed in a fire at the Bangladeshi garment factory, 55-year-old Ansar is scrambling to survive. Ansar has been unable to pay his rent for two months and fears that if he gets evicted and is forced to return to his home village in the impoverished north, he may never be compensated. The fire drew international attention to the conditions that garment workers toil under in Bangladesh, where the $20 billion-a-year textile industry is incredibly powerful and politically connected. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)

In this Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 photo, Bangladeshi man Ansar, who uses one name, wails holding photographs of his wife and daughter at his home near the gutted Tazreen factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Two months after his wife and daughter were killed in a fire at the Bangladeshi garment factory, 55-year-old Ansar is scrambling to survive. Ansar has been unable to pay his rent for two months and fears that if he gets evicted and is forced to return to his home village in the impoverished north, he may never be compensated. The fire drew international attention to the conditions that garment workers toil under in Bangladesh, where the $20 billion-a-year textile industry is incredibly powerful and politically connected. (AP Photo/A.M.Ahad)

In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 photo, Bangladeshi Zamiron Begum, 45, weeps as she displays a photograph of her daughter Bobita Khatum, 18, a senior sewing machine operator who died in the fire at Tazreen Fashions, in the garment district in Ashulia, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. When fire ravaged the Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition. Two months later, they have yet to receive any of the compensation they were promised - not even their relatives' last paychecks. The remainder were burnt beyond recognition and their remains are undergoing DNA testing to prevent people from filing fake claims. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 photo, Bangladeshi Mohammed Hannan, 35, weeps as he holds a picture of his wife Ahenur, 30, an assistant sewing machine operator who died in the fire at Tazreen Fashions, in the garment district in Ashulia, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. When fire ravaged the Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition. Two months later, they have yet to receive any of the compensation they were promised - not even their relatives' last paychecks. The remainder were burnt beyond recognition and their remains are undergoing DNA testing to prevent people from filing fake claims. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ? When fire ravaged a Bangladeshi garment factory, killing 112 workers, dozens of their families did not even have a body to bury because their loved ones' remains were burned beyond recognition. Two months later, the same families have yet to receive any of the compensation they were promised ? not even their relatives' last paychecks.

An official with the country's powerful garment industry said DNA tests must first be conducted to confirm the losses of more than 50 families. He would not say why the families have not even received the wages their relatives had earned before the Nov. 24 blaze.

Many of the families desperately need money after losing their primary breadwinners in the fire at the Tazreen factory, which made clothes for Wal-Mart, Disney and other Western brands.

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, a foreign supplier and the government promised to give the families of the dead 600,000 takas ($7,500) each, finance the education of the dead workers' children and pay the November salaries of both dead and surviving factory workers.

"I have got nothing. Nobody is saying anything," said Ansar, who uses one name and who lost his wife and daughter in the fire.

The 55-year-old is too ill to work himself. His 16-year-old son, who also worked at Tazreen, managed to escape but was traumatized by leaving his mother and sister behind "amid the darkness and ash," Ansar said at his home near the gutted factory.

The boy got a job at another factory but was unable to work because of his trauma.

"My son cannot sleep," Ansar said, sobbing. "He wakes up at midnight and then cries for a long time. The same thing happens to him every night."

Ansar has been unable to pay his rent for two months and fears that if he gets evicted and is forced to return to his home village in the impoverished north, he may never be compensated.

The fire drew international attention to the conditions that garment workers toil under in Bangladesh, where the $20 billion-a-year textile industry is incredibly powerful and politically connected.

The factory lacked emergency exits and its owner said only three floors of the eight-story building were legally built. Surviving employees said gates had been locked and managers had told them to go back to work after the fire alarm went off.

A government panel concluded that the fire was sabotage. No one has been charged with setting the blaze, though three officials accused of locking in workers have been arrested.

Siddiqur Rahman, vice president of the garment association, said checks have been cut for families of the 59 victims whose bodies were identified. In addition, 80 workers injured in the fire received 100,000 takas each.

The other 53 people killed were burned beyond recognition and buried in unmarked graves, after samples of their DNA were taken. The garment industry demanded relatives provide their own DNA samples to ensure their claims were valid. Those samples are undergoing testing.

Rahman said the industry did not want to handle the claims haphazardly and said the money should be disbursed by the end of February.

"We will do whatever we have promised," he said.

He declined to explain why the victim's families had not yet received their November wages, which they would be entitled to whether the employee had died or not. Those wages are much smaller than the promised 600,000 takas; Ansar said his wife and daughter together earned around 10,500 takas a month as sewing machine operators.

When Ansar heard about the compensation, he gave the industry association photographs of his wife and daughter, their employee IDs and copies of their national identity cards. His son gave a blood sample for a DNA test days after the fire, but he has heard nothing.

"We went there; we met the BGMEA officials. They have asked us to wait. They don't make anything clear. They asked us to stay at home, not to go there," he said.

He has their phone numbers, but they don't answer when he calls, he said.

"I went there three times, but returned without anything," he said. "How long should we wait?"

"These families are very poor," said Mahmudul Sumon, an anthropologist from Jahangir Nagar University who is studying the fate of the victims' families. "They have lost their dear ones. Now they are suffering a lot, as many of the families have lost someone who was the main earner in the family."

Ruhul Hannan, who said his 35-year-old wife was killed in the blaze, sent his 18-year-old son for a DNA test, but so far he has received nothing, despite his pleas to the garment trade group.

"I am just waiting. They told me to wait until end of this month for the test result," he said.

Activists criticized the government, the garment industry and the factory for keeping important information secret, including the names of the victims of the fire and who has received compensation.

"Who died, who got compensated, who not? We don't have any clear idea," said Kalpona Akter of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity. "There should not be any plot to play hide-and-seek."

She said the major Western brands that produced clothing in the factory have a responsibility to come to Bangladesh to check on the compensation situation. She also raised concerns about the DNA testing process.

"We don't know why it's taking too much time. If time is required, fine, but there should be proper reasons ... that should be explained," she said.

Ahedul, a mechanic who lost his wife in the fire but could not identify her body, said he has no idea what is happening with his claim.

"I have been asked to stay calm by the BGMEA," said Ahedul, who uses only one name. "They told me they will come to me. I don't need to go to them."

Associated Press

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