Hotel Near Sports Venues - People Biologically Take Pleasure In The Pain Of Others

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U.S. researchers find people are biologically responsive to taking pleasure in the pain of others -- Schadenfreude -- at least if they envy them. 

Mina Cikara of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Susan Fiske of Princeton University measured the electrical activity of cheek muscles with an electromyogram, which captures the electrical activity of facial movements when an individual smiles. 

Participants were shown photographs of individuals associated with different stereotypes: the elderly (pity), students or Americans (pride), drug addicts (disgust) and rich professionals (envy). 

These images were then paired with everyday events such as: "Won five dollars" (positive) or "Got soaked by a taxi" (negative) or "Went to the bathroom" (neutral). Participants were asked how this would make them feel, and their facial movements were recorded.

"Because people don't like to report envy of Schadenfreude, this was the best method for gathering such responses. And, in this experiment, we were able to viscerally capture malicious glee," Fiske said. "We found that people did smile more in response to negative than positive events, but only for groups they envied."

In a second study, participants viewed the same photographs and events as the first study and were asked to rate how they felt on a scale of 1-9. 

Similar results emerged: Participants felt the worst about positive events and the best about negative events in regards to the rich professionals, the study said. 

"A lack of empathy is not always pathological. It's a human response, and not everyone experiences this, but a significant portion does," Cikara said. "If you think about the way workplaces and organizations are set up, for example, it raises an interesting question: Is competition the best way to get your employees to produce? It's possible, in some circumstances, that competition is good. In other ways, people might be preoccupied with bringing other people down, and that's not what an organization wants."

The findings were reported in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Family Friendly Attractions New Orleans - Google Letting You Hand-Write Your E-mails

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For many, typing has long overtaken handwriting as their primary word and sentence creation method. So much so that some schools no longer teach cursive. 

But Google is bringing some good old fashioned handwriting back to modern communication, adding new handwriting input tools to Gmail and Google Docs. 

Those tools now allow you to write out what you want to say with a mousepad or cursor and Google will do its best to create a typed version of your words. The input box will show the most likely matches for your word, so below your handwritten "cats" it might display this list of possible words: cats, rats, Cats, oats, and carts. Click on the right one and keep on writing. 

The tool might have a harder time deciphering your fancy calligraphy or messy chicken scratches, but it seems to do a decent job with my sloppy cursive-ish writing. 

While English is an option, it's more for complicated alphabets where drawing out a character is sometimes easier than typing it, like Japanese or Hindi. 

"Handwriting input makes the internet easier to use by people worldwide and is also part of a larger effort to break the barrier between languages," said Google's Xiangye Xia in a blog post announcing the feature. 

Gmail users can get the new tool in more than 50 languages, Google Docs users in more than 20.

To test it out, go to your Gmail or Docs settings and, under the Languages setting in the General tab, click "Show all language options." Select the box that says "Enable input tools" and you'll get a list of every type of keyboard Google has to offer. The languages with a pencil icon beside them are the ones that support written words.

Once you've added an input option, you can select it anytime from a drop down on top of the menu bar above the document or email you're writing.

Google already has handwriting support for its mobile translation apps so you can scrawl a word on the screen and see it instantly in another language. This is particularly helpful if you're not familiar with a local alphabet and want to know what something says. 

New Orleans Extended Stay Hotel - Lower Blood Sugar, High Is Your Recalling Power

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If you don’t have diabetes but you suffer from high blood sugar then you may be suffering memory loss. A new study has revealed that people who didn’t have type 2 diabetes but had blood sugar at the high end of the normal range performed worse on memory tests than those with lower blood sugar.

Germany researchers conducted study on 141 people with the average age 63. Only those participants were chosen who didn’t have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. The researchers found that the participants showed no signs of memory problems. Further the study participants took a series of memory tests and had their blood sugar tested. They also had brain scans to measure the size of the hippocampus area, which plays an important role in memory.

Researcher Agnes Flöel of Charité University Medicine in Berlin says she and her colleagues “correlated long-term blood-sugar levels with the number of words people could recall on a memory test.”

During the tests and further research, the team of scientists found that participants with higher long-term blood-sugar levels suffered memory loss as they were able to recall fewer words. Moreover, their hippocampus was also smaller in size. The findings suggested that even for people within the normal range of blood sugar, lowering their levels might be a possible way to prevent memory problems as they age.

 

The findings of the study were published in the medical journal Neurology by the American Academy of Neurology.

Meanwhile, the researchers also expressed need for higher and in-depth study on the issue as the current study is relatively small and doesn’t prove cause and effect. 

Control your glucose

Experts have suggested that glucose levels are key to understand many diseases including stroke, diabetes, brain diseases.

The risk of dementia is higher in people with diabetes. Moreover, the elevated glucose impacts brain function and recovery in people following a stroke.

When something goes wrong with the body’s ability to regulate glucose levels in the blood, the brain is not able work as well as it should, says Keith Fargo of the Alzheimer’s Association.

If glucose is not functioning properly, it can affect brain function and brain health over the long-term, says Rachel Whitmer, a senior research scientist at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research.

Your glucose level is determined by a combination of “genetics, diet and hormonal response,” Ratner says. “For those who have perfectly normal glucose metabolism, there is little they can do to change their level. The body controls glucose very tightly. The body is that good.”

If you want to keep your blood sugar in a healthy range, that doesn’t mean “you should never eat sugar,” he says. It means you should eat a healthy diet with a reasonable number of calories and a balanced intake of protein, fat and carbohydrates, he says.

Exercising regularly and eating a healthy diet can help keep blood sugar at a healthy level.

Attractions In New Orleans - Apps to Protect Your Info Online -- 'TakePart Live' Tech Affect

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Every week we show you some apps, sites, and services that do more than monitor your favorite YouTube cat videos -- they give you high-tech solutions for real life problems. We call it the "Tech Affect."

This week's recommendations -- as featured on the Wednesday, Oct. 23 episode of 'TakePart Live' -- provide with you with tools to keep your personal information safe and private online. All three were handpicked by our special guest expert, CTO of Beyond Trust Marc Maiffret.

2-step Verification – Two-step verification is an optional security feature that requires you to verify your identity using one of your devices, like a phone. This extra layer significantly raises the bar for people who may be trying to hack into your accounts. TrueCrypt – This is a free, open source, on-the-fly encryption service that can encrypt your entire computer, or even selected folders or files within your computer. KeePass – This is a free password manager that keeps you from having to remember all of the many passwords for all of your logins by keeping them all in one place.

Extended Stay In New Orleans - Apple Announces The Thinner, Lighter iPad Air And New iPad Mini

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It was a feature-packed morning of announcements where it seems as though Apple was going to give away everything for free. Sadly the freebies are limited to software and the new range of hardware has to be purchased in the regular way. The big news for tablet fans is the iPad Air. Borrowing its name -- in part at least -- from the MacBook Air range, thinner and faster are the adjectives of the day.

Phil Schiller said: "Thinner, lighter, more powerful than ever before, and incredibly, excitingly new that it deserves a new name: iPad Air". Boasting the same A7 processor as the recently announced iPhone 5s, the iPad Air is just 7.5mm thick and weighs 1 pound -- compare this to 9.4mm and 1.4 pounds for the previous model. Despite the thinner design and smaller battery size, we can still expect 10 hours of usage from the tablet which offers up to eight times the performance of the original iPad, and up to 72 times the GPU performance.

Silver and white, and space gray and black models are available from 1 November with prices starting at $499 for the Wi-Fi-only 16GB model. If you want a cellular data connection, the price jumps to $629. The iPad 2 remains on sale for $399.

The iPad mini is also sure to cause some excitement. This miniature model really is just a shrunken version of its bigger brother. The screen may be smaller but it is now a Retina display which boasts the same number of pixels as the iPad Air. Inside, there's the same A7 processor, up to four times faster graphics than its predecessor and the same 10 hour battery life.

The color choices are the same as with the iPad Air (silver and white, and space gray and black), and the 16GB Wi-Fi-only model starts at $399. The original iPad mini remains on sale for the reduced price of $299. It's still more expensive than the likes of the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HDX, but the gap is closing.

Suites In New Orleans - Scientists Discover DNA Body Clock

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A US scientist has discovered an internal body clock based on DNA that measures the biological age of our tissues and organs.

The clock shows that while many healthy tissues age at the same rate as the body as a whole, some of them age much faster or slower. The age of diseased organs varied hugely, with some many tens of years "older" than healthy tissue in the same person, according to the clock.

Researchers say that unravelling the mechanisms behind the clock will help them understand the ageing process and hopefully lead to drugs and other interventions that slow it down.

Therapies that counteract natural ageing are attracting huge interest from scientists because they target the single most important risk factor for scores of incurable diseases that strike in old age.

"Ultimately, it would be very exciting to develop therapy interventions to reset the clock and hopefully keep us young," said Steve Horvath, professor of genetics and biostatistics at the University of California in Los Angeles.

Horvath looked at the DNA of nearly 8,000 samples of 51 different healthy and cancerous cells and tissues. Specifically, he looked at how methylation, a natural process that chemically modifies DNA, varied with age.

Horvath found that the methylation of 353 DNA markers varied consistently with age and could be used as a biological clock. The clock ticked fastest in the years up to around age 20, then slowed down to a steadier rate. Whether the DNA changes cause ageing or are caused by ageing is an unknown that scientists are now keen to work out.

"Does this relate to something that keeps track of age, or is a consequence of age? I really don't know," Horvath told the Guardian. "The development of grey hair is a marker of ageing, but nobody would say it causes ageing," he said.

The clock has already revealed some intriguing results. Tests on healthy heart tissue showed that its biological age – how worn out it appears to be – was around nine years younger than expected. Female breast tissue aged faster than the rest of the body, on average appearing two years older.

Diseased tissues also aged at different rates, with cancers speeding up the clock by an average of 36 years. Some brain cancer tissues taken from children had a biological age of more than 80 years.

"Female breast tissue, even healthy tissue, seems to be older than other tissues of the human body. That's interesting in the light that breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Also, age is one of the primary risk factors of cancer, so these types of results could explain why cancer of the breast is so common," Horvath said.

Healthy tissue surrounding a breast tumour was on average 12 years older than the rest of the woman's body, the scientist's tests revealed.

Writing in the journal Genome Biology, Horvath showed that the biological clock was reset to zero when cells plucked from an adult were reprogrammed back to a stem-cell-like state. The process for converting adult cells into stem cells, which can grow into any tissue in the body, won the Nobel prize in 2012 for Sir John Gurdon at Cambridge University and Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University.

"It provides a proof of concept that one can reset the clock," said Horvath. The scientist now wants to run tests to see how neurodegenerative and infectious diseases affect, or are affected by, the biological clock.

"These data could prove valuable in furthering our knowledge of the biological changes that are linked to the ageing process," said Veryan Codd, who works on the effects of biological ageing in cardiovascular disease at Leicester University. "It will be important to determine whether the accelerated ageing, as described here, is associated with other age-related diseases and if it is a causal factor in, or a consequence of, disease development.

"As more data becomes available, it will also be interesting to see whether a similar approach could identify tissue-specific ageing signatures, which could also prove important in disease mechanisms," she added.

Suites Near New Orleans Sports Venues - Apple Expected To Unveil New iPads On Tuesday

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With just 66 shopping days left until Christmas, Apple (AAPL) is about to give Santa Claus more goodies to stuff into those stockings.

At an event Tuesday morning in San Francisco, the Cupertino-based tech giant is expected to unveil a fifth-generation iPad as well as a follow-up version of the iPad mini it released a year ago. And while its email invitation cryptically announces, "We still have a lot to cover," one thing is clear: With its stock price well below its onetime high and its share of the tablet market continuing to shrink, Apple has a lot riding on this launch.

IDC analyst Tom Mainelli thinks this week's iPad refresh should help Apple as well as the burgeoning pack of rivals chipping away at the iPad's former dominance.

"A new iPad launch always piques consumer interest in the tablet category, and traditionally that has helped both Apple and its competitors," he said. After Apple skipped its traditional iPad upgrade last spring, Mainelli added, "its numbers were down, but almost everyone else's were down too. So while Apple's market share may have dropped, they still drive the overall tablet market, and consumers are still paying close attention to what Apple is doing with its products."

As with past Apple events, the rumor mill has been working overtime. Most analysts and bloggers expect the new iPad will sport the more powerful 64-bit A7X processor and reveal a slimmer physique than its predecessors. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says the tablet will be 15 percent thinner than the iPad 4 and feature more rounded edges.

And since Apple has historically offered the same features across different platforms, evidenced by the personal assistant Siri eventually showing up on both iPhones and iPads, most observers widely believe the second-version iPad mini will come with the same Retina display that the larger iPad already features.

One big question is whether either of the new devices will feature Touch ID, Apple's proprietary fingerprint identity sensor featured on the new iPhone 5s unveiled last month. A Chinese blog site leaked photos of a purported fifth-generation iPad with the sensor in place of the traditional home button. And analyst Tim Bajarin with Creative Strategies says improving its tablet's security makes sense as Apple continues to push its devices into the business world.

"We believe that as an iPad 5 starts showing up in more and more corporate accounts, and as more employees are taking their tablets to work with them, security becomes an ever more important part of the equation," Bajarin said. "And since Apple owns the Touch ID technology, they could also introduce it on the iPad mini."

Apple's event comes as the tablet computer plays an increasingly significant role both in the lives of consumers and in the way companies conduct business. From iPad-equipped airline pilots and warehouse managers to schoolteachers and their tablet-toting students, the device has become a crucial and handy tool for the mobile masses.

IDC reports that tablet shipments in the fourth quarter are expected for the first time to surpass total PC shipments, which include desktop and laptop computers. And it forecasts tablets will do the same on an annual basis by the end of 2015.

So even though Apple's piece of the global tablet pie may be smaller than it was in 2010 when the first iPad went on sale -- a drop from 77 then to 37 percent today -- IDC's Mainelli says that doesn't necessarily mean Apple's in trouble.

"When the iPad first launched, nobody was really all that competitive in the tablet market, so since then 

Apple has only had one direction to go, and that's down" in terms of market share, he said. "Having said that, Apple doesn't chase market share at the expense of profitability or a good user experience. So while there are a lot of guys out there making Android tablets, not a lot of them are making any money.

"At the end of the day," Mainelli said, "the companies left standing are those who put out good products that people want and make money doing it."

Aquariums In New Orleans - WiFi Wobbling Hand Gestures Could Control Home

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Thanks to WiFi we can watch movies, play games, and check email, from the comfort of the couch. And soon we may be able to repurpose our WiFi signals so we can turn on the coffeemaker or turn off the TV with a simple flick of a finger, from anywhere in the house. Researchers described their prospective system, called WiSee, at the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. [Qifan Pu et al, Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless Signals]

The idea is similar in concept to the Xbox Kinect, which uses cameras to recognize a game player’s movements, and translates them into an action onscreen. But WiSee works without cameras. Instead, it uses the ambient wireless signals put out by our smart phones, laptops, routers and tablets.

When we move, we alter the patterns of these WiFi signals. The WiSee receiver detects these disturbances and interprets the motions that caused them, like waving or swinging your fists. Of 900 gestures tested, WiSee could identify 94 percent.

The user assigns a particular motion to a specific gadget—the motion doesn’t have to be the one that works in the real world. So if all goes well, you may actually be able to punch your lights out.

Hotel Reservations New Orleans - Lenovo Unveils 8-Inch Miix2 Tablet With Windows 8.1

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Lenovo today introduced an 8-inch version of its Miix tablet, which will run Microsoft's updated Windows 8.1 operating system.

The Lenovo Miix2 will be available later this month starting at $299, sporting a 10-point multi-touch, 800-by-1,280 display with a 178-degree viewing angle. It includes a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and 2-megapixel front-facing cam.

The Miix2 will run an Intel Bay Trail-T quad-core processor, Intel HD graphics, and Windows 8.1, which is scheduled to launch early Friday morning in the U.S. with enhancements like Internet Explorer 11, touch optimization, and the return of the "Start" button.

The Miix2 will be pre-installed with Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013, which users can access via touch or with the optional stylus. A cover accessory also doubles as a stand.

"Many users want the convenience of a smaller screen tablet, but do not want to lose the performance and convenience of a powerful, quad core Windows 8.1 device. With the Lenovo Miix2 8-inch, users can take advantage of a small, light form factor without sacrificing performance," Bai Peng, vice president and general manager of Lenovo's notebook business unit, said in a statement. "The Lenovo Miix2 8-inch is a great example of how thoughtful design can deliver the best of both worlds."

The 32GB model will start at $299, while a 64GB version will be $349, and the cover/stylus will set you back another $20, according to ZDNet. The Miix2 supports an additional 32GB via microSD.

The 10.1-inch Miix tablet was introduced in June. It was built around the Intel Atom (Cloverfield) platform, with a 5-point touch screen, 2GB of system memory, 802.11 b/g/n, optional 3G WWAN, and 64GB of flash storage.

Suites In Downtown New Orleans - Samsung's Curved Smartphone: A Big Innovation Or a Novelty?

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The first curved display smartphone, the 5.7-in. Samsung Galaxy Round, goes on sale today in South Korea for 1 million Korean won, equal to about $1,015. Whether the device, which runs Android 4.3, ever goes on sale in the U.S. or Europe is unknown. 

Analysts predict a small group of early adopters in the U.S. will favor the Round's distinctive look, but only at half that price. If anything, a curved display could be as intriguing to buyers as the new iPhone 5S encased in metal with a shade of gold.

Is a curved display a significant innovation? Or, is Samsung just doing what it always does: Churning out product after product to prove that it can do so faster and more efficiently than anyone else? Maybe both.

Samsung has shown it can release unusual new products quickly. In the past three months, new Galaxy Tab tablets have arrived, most recently the Galaxy Note 3 with its digital stylus and phablet-sized display that's also 5.7-in. The company also introduced, to mixed reviews, the $300 Galaxy Gear smartwatch that works with the Note 3 in early September. 

Samsung seems to want to release a mobile product to serve every conceivable niche market of consumers. Maybe that's Samsung's way of achieving a marketing edge over Apple, which releases new tablets and smartphones on a fixed timetable.

It's worth noting that its strategy has worked, helping make Samsung the largest phone maker in the world. It's not the flat, relatively straightforward product-innovation-and-release approach of many vendors (Apple included). You could call it skewed, or "curved," marketing -- a fitting approach for launching a new curved display smartphone.

As to whether a curved touchscreen display is a significant advance in technology, there's also plenty of evidence. Samsung is already designing many bigger -- arguably, more important -- uses for its flexible OLED displays. 

At International CES last January, Samsung showed a prototype smartphone fitted with flexible OLED that wrapped around part of the device to cover the left and right edges. If the phone were lying face down on a table, messages could be displayed along the edges. 

A four-minute YouTube video from a CES stage presentation shows Samsung executives describing that smartphone prototype along with another foldable smartphone prototype with a flexible display. Samsung even had a USB stick prototype at CES with a display that could be rolled out the side like a scroll, and then rolled back in when no longer needed. An ad in the video also depicts how future "bendable, foldable and rollable" displays might be used in products in the real world. 

The flexible OLED ideas were introduced in January under the Youm brand, although Samsung didn't include the word Youm in describing its new Galaxy Round.

Other companies are also developing flexible displays, including Sony and Corning, the maker of the Gorilla Glass used in many smartphones today. At the IFA trade show in Germany in September, Samsung joined LG Electronics and Sony in showing off curved-screen TVs. Some were based on OLED, which is best known for producing blacker blacks to improve the viewing experience on a color display. 

Samsung took nearly four years to reach the point of a production-quality Galaxy Round device. OLEDs emit their own light and as a result don't need a rigid, thick backlight like an LCD screen does.

Displays using OLED, (Organic Light Emitting Diode), are made of electroluminescent films of organic semiconductors that are usually 100nm thick. The semiconductors are usually fabricated on a glass substrate at first, but the glass is replaced with a flexible plastic such as polyethylene terephthalate to make a flexible display.

The Galaxy Round's display is flexible AMOLED, a variant of OLED, that refers to Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. It is also a high- definition display.

Family Friendly Attractions New Orleans - 10 Apps To Install First On a New iPhone 5S

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Here's a checklist to prime your new device for maximum productivity.

Before you hand an employee (or yourself) a new iPhone 5S or 5C, there are a few things to do first. One is to hope they don't lose it. Another is to prime it for maximum productivity.

It's a good idea to preload a few apps. Below are the apps I always install when I'm testing out a new model. (They're in order of importance to me and my work needs.)

By the way, I glossed over the bundled apps like Twitter and Facebook, which are both integrated into the iOS even though you do need to install them.

1. Evernote
Not everyone is going to think of Evernote as the first app to install. I use it for three things on every smartphone. One is to jot down article ideas. I also snap photos of receipts for expenses. (A new feature called Post-It Notes captures a square shot and converts the note to text.) I also use Evernote to record audio memos to myself.

2. Google Search
That's right, my next important iPhone app is one from Google. It's the bread-and-butter search app but also integrates Google Now. There are cards that show you things like flight info, and I love the way the search is so contextual. (Ask "Who is Barack Obama?," get the answer, then ask "How old is he?" and Google Now will know who you mean.)

3. AroundMe
I've been relying on this app more as I've been traveling lately. What I like most is the interface. You can find places around you like gas stations and hotels. There's one quick list of categories and the app uses location services to find points of interest. And if you've ever been in the situation of scrambling to find a place to stay at 2 a.m. after a flight cancellation, you'll appreciate the no-fuss approach. When you drill into the info, there's a summary, links, and photos to help.

4. SproutSocial
I've mentioned SproutSocial a few times before. As you can guess, this social media manager is the one I use to create a post that I then send to multiple services (and multiple accounts on those services). I can also quickly scan through tweets, mentions, and direct messages.

5. GroupMe
I belong to several GroupMe chats, and not all of them are business-related. (I use one to see if any friends are playing disc golf.) On a few projects, I've noticed that GroupMe made all of the difference in having good direct communication between a few colleagues.

6. Yahoo! Weather
Part of going mobile is knowing what to expect. Yahoo's weather app is about the best one I've found because it shows a detailed forecast in just one up-swipe. I love how the app fills in a local photo that matches the weather for that day.

7. Kayak
I know about a few recent travel apps that do a bit more than Kayak, but I like the expediency of the results. Sometimes I just want to know if there is a flight leaving SFO the next day and get the price. The app seems geared for speed as much as detailed info.

8. Google Chrome
Chrome is an obvious choice for me. Once you download the app, you can drop the Safari app into the app screen and add the one for Chrome ot the bottom row of icons. Once you login, you can then sync your browsing history. Also, Chrome is fast and reliable for most sites.

9. Badland
What, you thought a work iPhone was only for serious apps? Gifting an app like Badland, a side-scroller with some amazing small-screen graphics and awesome sound, means you are saying it is okay to take a break or while away the time at an airport.

10. iBooks
Speaking of letting employees have some downtime: I also install iBooks right away. Even on the small iPhone 5S, it's great to read a book when you are waiting for an appointment. You can always use a large font--and the e-books are priced reasonably.

Any you'd add to this "must install" list? Post in comments.

Accommodation In New Orleans - Forget The iPhone 5S, Let's Talk About The iPhone 6

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Sales of Apple's iPhone 5S have been impressive so far, but an iPhone 6 next year will likely give the company an even bigger boost, according to an analyst report. 

Apple's iPhone 6 will likely be larger than the current models, featuring a display screen that is 4.8-inches, which will prompt more people who are available for an upgrade to purchase the device, said Peter Misek, an equity analyst at Jefferies, in a note. The latest models are 4-inches. 

"Also the ecosystem is excited about the iPhone 6, which we feel is warranted. We think the stock will appreciate ahead of the iPhone 6 launch," he said in his note. 

Misek, who recently returned from a trip to Asia where he met with Apple's suppliers, increased his price target for Apple from $425 to $600 and increased his rating for the stock to buy from hold.

Previously, Misek feared Apple's gross margins would shrink because of increased costs from suppliers, but after his trip he said they have become more lenient on pricing. 

"In contrast to earlier this year when suppliers boasted that Apple would not be able to push them around anymore, they are now scrambling to be in Apple's supply chain as competitor ramps have not gone as planned," he said in his note. 

Misek estimates that there will be 85 million iPhones eligible for an upgrade by the time the iPhone 6 launches--which he expects to happen next September. In addition, the 5 million to 10 million customers who passed on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C cycle may upgrade at that time. 

"A poor iPhone 5s/5c cycle means a bigger upgrade opportunity for the iPhone 6," he wrote. The larger screen and the estimated number of current Apple users expected to upgrade to an iPhone 6 next year will boost the company in 2015, he said.

However, Misek notes that while Apple's iPhone 5S remains in demand, the company is actually cutting orders for the less-expensive iPhone 5C because of slow sales. He estimates the company is cutting orders from 30 million to between 15 million and 20 million. And he said Apple may cut the price of the device to boost sales.

Budget Hotel In New Orleans - Scientists Begin To Unlock The Secrets Of Einstein’s Brain

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A new study points to a potential reason that Einstein was so clever– the left and right hemispheres of his brain were extremely well-connected, according to a press release published by EurekAlert. The study examines the interior of Einstein’s brain more than previous studies, shedding new light on the eccentric genius.

Published in the journal Brain, the study  ”The Corpus Callosum of Albert Einstein’s Brain: Another Clue to His High Intelligence,” created an entirely new technique in order to further study the brain. Einstein’s brain has been the subject of numerous studies before conducted by scientists seeking to understand his high level of intelligence, some say genius.

The study is the first to look in depth at Einstein’s corpus callosum, which is a large bundle of nerves between the two hemispheres of the brain that allows communication between the two hemispheres. Pathologist Dr. Thomas Harvey harvested Einstein’s brain in 1955 after his death, leading to a continuous study of the brain to attempt to discover why Einstein was so much smarter than the average human. The team analyzed the thickness of the corpus callosum in Einstein’s brain and then compared it to the corpus callosum in brains from 15 elderly men as well as 52 younger men from 1905, The Huffington Post explains.

Compared to other men (both the older group and the younger group), Einstein’s corpus callosum was much thicker in many different areas. This indicates that the brain had a greater connectivity between the left (analytical) hemisphere and the right (creative) hemisphere. In the past, a thicker corpus callosum has been associated with higher intelligence. At only 26 years old Einstein had what was termed a “miracle year” and published articles that contributed to the founding of modern physics as well as changed the way that scientists and the ordinary human view the world. Therefore, these new findings seem in keeping with the idea that a thicker corpus callosum is an indicator of high intelligence or even genius.

Lead author Weiwei Men of East China Normal University’s Department of Physics initiated the study of Einstein’s corpus callosum based on photographs of Einstein’s brain that had been published in 2012 of the interior surfaces of the great scientist’s brain. The study is not the first to examine Einstein’s brain nor is it likely the last as modern-day physicists and other scientists seek to understand why Einstein was able to comprehend so much at such a young age.

New Orleans Extended Stay Hotel - Super Highway: A14 To Become Britain's First Internet-Connected Road

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One of the UK's most congested highways, connecting the busy container port at Felixstowe to Birmingham, is to become Britain's first internet-connected road in a pilot project that could pave the way for everything from tolls to self-driving cars.

A network of sensors will be placed along a 50-mile stretch of the A14 in a collaboration between BT, the Department for Transport and the Cambridge start-up Neul, creating a smart road which can monitor traffic by sending signals to and from mobile phones in moving vehicles.

The technology, which sends signals over the white spaces between television channels instead of mobile phone networks, could even pave the way for government systems to automatically control car speeds.

The telecoms watchdog Ofcom, which on Wednesday approved the project as part of its new blueprint for how Britain will use spectrum, is already forecasting what high technology traffic systems will look like.

"Sensors in cars and on the roads monitor the build-up of congestions and wirelessly send this information to a central traffic control system, which automatically imposes variable speed limits that smooth the flow of traffic," Ofcom said. "This system could also communicate directly with cars, directing them along diverted routes to avoid the congestion and even managing their speed."

Onboard computers could essentially override the driver, imposing maximum speeds on the vehicle by controlling the brakes and the engine. While the concept may sound futuristic, Google is already developing a computer-driven car, which uses cameras, radar, and range finders to detect obstacles and other vehicles. 

The Google smart car has been extensively tested on public highways and smart roads lined with sensors.

The A14 project will not involve smart cars, but is a first step in building the infrastructure such vehicles will need. It could also lay the ground for charging motorists to use busy roads.

The Highways Agency is proposing a £1.5bn improvement to the A14 which would be paid for by a toll, with lorries paying up to £3 to use the improved route. The BT's sensor project could help design the toll and the road improvements. The project will initially gather information on car drivers before moving on to collect information on heavy goods vehicles. The information will be sent back to a database to which the Department for Transport will have access.

"Understanding traffic patterns, in different weather conditions at different times of day, will allow changes to traffic regulation," said Stan Boland, chief executive of Neul. "In the future it might provide data that could be used for road pricing, vehicle tracking, and breakdown."

Within one or two years, Boland believes the UK will have national, regional and city-wide networks of sensors, connected to simple tracking devices monitoring everything from whether council bins need emptying and which parking spaces are free to the location of missing pets.

While traffic data is already gathered by companies such as the satnav maker TomTom, using mobile phone networks, the A14 project offers a low-cost alternative. Instead of relying on mobile masts, which costs tens of thousands to install, Neul will use small base stations that cost a few pounds and can be fixed to street lamps or, in the case of the A14, the outside of nearby BT exchanges.

The project is one of a series approved by Ofcom to explore white space, which is currently used by cameras and microphones for films, theatres and live events but in many areas lies empty. In Glasgow, where consumer take-up of broadband is among the lowest in the country, Microsoft will be using the spectrum to install free wifi in the city centre. Working with the University of Strathclyde, the software group will install sensors around the city to measure pollution and humidity.

White space is also useful for getting broadband signals into rural areas, because it travels longer distances and through obstacles such as leaves and trees. On the Isle of Wight, an Ofcom-approved trial will get remote homes online.

Google is also taking part as one of a number of companies developing intelligent databases that could eventually allow smartphones and tablets to use white space to connect to the internet instead as an alternative to mobile signals.

The databases will tell devices which bands are empty in their local area, and at what power level the signal can safely operate without interfering with nearby users. Demand for data over wireless devices is forecast to be 80 times higher than it is today by 2030, and Ofcom is bent on increasing the amount of spectrum available to connect machines ranging from computers to parking meter sensors to the internet.

Suites In New Orleans - 6 Ways to Keep Your Brain from Aging

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As we age, we need all the help we can get when it comes to preventing dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and generally keeping your brain from aging. In fact, your brain is an average 15 percent smaller when you’re 80 then it was when you were 20.  

And diet seems to have a real impact on your brain overtime, the way you feed your body can actually keep your brain from aging. Here's how:

1. Eat sardines. 

A study at the University of Oregon Health and Science School found that those who tested high for omega 3 fatty acids and vitamin D experienced less brain shrinkage than those that didn’t. Sardines are loaded with omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D; they have a number of benefits that other sources of omega fatty acids do not have. Namely, they're much less polluted with mercury when compared to other fatty fish like tuna and salmon. 

2. Indulge in shellfish.

Shellfish are high in B-12 as well as B vitamins like folate and B6, which are known to reduce your risk of Alzheimer's disease. A small Finnish study published in the journal Neurology, found that people who consume foods rich in B12 may reduce their risk of Alzheimer's, a disease that permanently damages the brain, in their later years. 

3. Avoid trans-fats.

Diets high in trans-fats promote brain shrinkage, according to a study published in the journal Neurology. Those who ate the most trans-fats performed the worst on thinking and memory tests. Trans-fats tend to be found in fast food, pre-packaged foods, and margarine spreads, though there has been a move to remove trans-fats from the American diet because of its impact on heart disease.  

4. Eat elderberries.

Elderberries are a tiny, dark purple berry, popular in pies, jams, and jellies. They're packed with quercetin, a flavonoid that’s critical to your brain’s health. Like blueberries and strawberries, the flavonoids found in elderberries help reduce harmful inflammation at a cellular level. Quercetin boosts your mitachondrial level, the cell powerhouse, which amps the overall energy level of the cell.

5. Enjoy beets.

Poor blood flow throughout the body and especially in your brain causes mental decline as we age. Beets are packed with natural nitrates that help improve blood flow. Consider cabbage and radishes as well. 

6. Keep it social.

A Dutch study linked loneliness in old age to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. However, it’s important to note that being alone and loneliness are not the same thing.

Affordable Hotels In New Orleans - How To Boost iPhone's Battery Life On iOS 7

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With the introduction of iOS 7, Apple added a ton of new and exciting features to your iPhone. However, in order to show off all of these new features, Apple has decided to turn them on: all of them. There's an opt-out method (of sorts) when it comes to their use, but depending on the age of the device, this can decrease both performance and battery life. The problem most users are encountering is that they don't know how to selectively opt-out of the features they do not use.

The following will outline how you can fine tune your iOS 7 experience, taking advantage of the features you like and turning off the features you don't. In the end, you may find that you won't need to charge your iPhone quite as often.

Dim the brightness setting: If you think that iOS 7's new display is a whole lot brighter than that of iOS 6, you may what to check your brightness setting. The brightness setting may have changed with a recent update. You can access your brightness setting by swiping up from anywhere with Control Center. More so than any other setting, modifying the brightness of the screen will have the biggest impact to battery life

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Conserving cellular usage: Using airplane mode can be a real power saver when you are in indoors or in bad coverage areas. This can prevent the iPhone from searching for a signal and trying to stay connected. Another good idea is to use Wi-Fi in areas that offer such access to the internet. Accessing the internet using a Wi-Fi network uses less of the battery than accessing the internet over a cellular network. You can even turn on Wi-Fi when using airplane mode.

Within the Cellular section of the Settings app you can also select exactly which apps can access the internet using cellular data. If you are interested in preserving as much battery life as possible, say for an important phone call, you may also want to disable both LTE and Cellular data all together.

Some hidden cellular data features: There are also three somewhat hidden cellular data switches in iOS 7. The first one is in Safari. It will sync items in your reading list from all of your devices connected via iCloud. The second is located in iTunes & App Store settings; it enables music downloads, iTunes Match and iTunes Radio usage over cellular networks. The third hidden cellular data setting is in iCloud's Documents and Data section. It enables syncing of data for apps that use iCloud storage. Here you can also individually pick which apps can sync data with iCloud. Provided you don't feel that each of these settings will affect how you use your iPhone, you may save some power by shutting them off.

Selectively use Bluetooth and Wi-Fi: If you never connect to a Bluetooth device, then there is no reason to have it turned on. If you find that you use it with a headset, external speaker, or car, turn it on only when using those external devices. Like the brightness setting and airplane mode, this too is easily accessible by swiping up to reveal the Control Center. When you are in locations that you know does not have Wi-Fi service, you may think that there is no reason to have your device continue to look for a Wi-Fi hotspot's services. However, depending on how often you are using your device's location services, turning off Wi-Fi can actually have the opposite effect and decrease battery life by forcing your apps and system services to use a GPS signal to find your location.

Turn off AirDrop: AirDrop is a feature where you can quickly share files, photos, map points and links with other nearby iOS devices. It has existed on OS X since Lion. Leaving it turned on will have your device look for nearby devices ever time you access the share option in your apps. Accessible on the Control Center, turning off AirDrop when you are not using it is probably best.

Finding the right location services: Apple uses assisted GPS technology, which will attempt to find your location using the least amount of power possible. Even so, being selective as to which app uses location services can help conserve power as well. To control how location information is used, go to the Privacy section of the Settings app and select Location Services. You can of course turn quickly off all Location Services if you are in a hurry to conserve battery life, but that will also disable the Find my iPhone security feature. It may be better to spend some time and decide which apps and system services you want to use your location information.

Halt background apps from refreshing: New to iOS 7 is the enhanced ability that allows apps to refresh their data in the background, sometimes referred to as multitasking. You can decide which if any apps on your device can take full advantage of this feature. Located under the General section of the Settings app, you can either switch off all of the Background App Refresh services, or you can optionally select which individual apps can refresh their data.

Limit notification wakeups: Notifications wake up your device and allow apps to take action based on some external event. Having every app on your device respond to notifications can have your app powering on the lock screen to display the notification all day long. It is therefore a good idea is to be selective as to exactly which apps can be displayed on the lock screen from within the Privacy section of the Settings app. Easily accessible via the Control Center, Do Not Disturb is another great way to quickly turn off your least important notifications.

Disable spotlight search: Spotlight Search will keep an updated index of all of the information you have collected on your iPhone. Maintaining this index can conserve power. Located under the General section of the Settings app, you can turn Spotlight Search off completely by not checking any of the data types listed. You can also choose exactly which types of information you do want to search for, and adjust the order that the results are displayed.

Push rather than fetch email: The way in which you receive your email can cut down on your battery life as well. Given the fact that GMail has dropped support for pushing your mail message, switching to a fetch based service may be the cause of your battery drain. Fetching email ever five or fifteen minutes can really run your battery down in no time; manually fetch your email instead.

Don't auto download: Auto downloading content to your iPhone can be a convenience, but it also can consume battery life. You may have purchased a song on your Mac, or an app on your iPad, but that does not always mean that you wanted it on your iPhone as well. The Automatic Downloads setting is located in the iTunes & App Store section of the Settings app.

Stop using Parallax and Dynamic Backgrounds: One of the new cool features is all of the advanced motion and three-dimensional effects that have been implemented in iOS 7. Hidden under Accessibility in the General section of the Settings app, the Reduce Motion switch will decrease the amount of motion one sees on the screen. While motion backgrounds are cool looking they really do not add to the overall functionality of the device. Go back to your standard flat wallpaper in an effort to conserve battery life.

Delete some of your apps: Sure, apps are cheap and fun to try out, but having too many of them around may be part of your battery problem. With each app you install comes the opportunity for that app to use background refresh, location and notification services. Pick your favorite most useful apps and configure them to use the services that are right for you, and delete the rest.

Stop running certain apps: Finding out which apps may be using the most battery life can be tricky. While an app is listed in the running list (double tap the Home button to see the list), it can still respond to notification events and wake up in the background. Selectively shutting down certain apps by flicking them off the list is also a good way to try and find out which of your apps is consuming the most battery life.

Don't wait to auto lock: Try and get in the habit of locking your device after each time you finish looking at it. Even if you are just checking the time of day, leaving the screen on for five or even three minutes at a time can add up. Adjusting the auto lock to more quickly turn off the screen can help preserve battery life.

Leaving every service up and running for all apps all of the time will certainly run your battery down. While it may sound like the best way to conserve battery life on your iPhone is to not use your iPhone, a little fine tuning and conservation can go a long way to get your battery life back up to where you like it.