Congo president adviser among 2 dead in jet crash

KINSHASA, Congo?? A senior presidential adviser was among two killed after a private jet crashed while landing in Congo's eastern city of Bukavu, a transport minister said Sunday.

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"We've extracted two bodies from the plane, that of the honorable Augustin Katumba Mwanke who has just been moved to the morgue, and that of a co-pilot," said Provincial Transport Minister Laban Kyalangalilwa. He said there were 2 pilots and 10 passengers on the private jet.

South Kivu Governor Marcellin Cishambo has been admitted to the hospital for emergency treatment, and most of the other passengers were taken from the plane alive, Kyalangalilwa said.

"We do not know the cause of the crash and we await the investigations, but apparently there was not bad weather here in Bukavu," he said.

Congo has one of the worst air safety records in the world. The Central African country's safety regulations are notoriously lax. Few passable roads traverse the country after decades of war, forcing the population to rely on ill-maintained planes and boats.

In July, a Hewa Bora plane crashed in a thunderstorm as it was attempting to land at the Kisangani airport in eastern Congo, killing 85 people. In 2008 a DC-9 owned by the same company rammed into a market, killing at least 40 people. A few months later, one of its planes went down, killing 17.

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LinkedIn surges, setting the tone for social media

Managers of LinkedIn celebrate as the company goes public in May, 2011.

By Roland Jones

Shares of professional-networking website LinkedIn surged Friday, jumping 18 percent, after the company reported quarterly sales that more than doubled and passed a major milestone, chalking up 150 million registered users worldwide.

Michael Graham, an Internet analyst at Canaccord Genuity, raised his earnings estimate for the company, writing in a research note that LinkedIn has taken ?another step on the path toward becoming the default global hiring solution.?

The growth in users cements LinkedIn?s position as the largest professional network on the Internet. The company?s performance and outlook is keenly watched by investors as an indication of whether the business model of Internet companies is solid -- especially in light of Facebook?s filing for an IPO last week.

Facebook?s public offering looks set to be one of the largest and most talked about in recent memory and follows public offerings from other companies in the social media space, including Groupon, Pandora, Zynga and LinkedIn.

Started in the living room of ex-PayPal executive Reid Hoffman in 2002 and officially launched in May 2003, LinkedIn is similar to Facebook in that it connects people but it is much smaller and is geared towards professionals.

It makes money by selling premium subscriptions to its members and by helping companies with hiring and marketing. Its services are also used by professionals seeking jobs or contacts.

Speaking on CNBC Friday about his company?s strong quarter, LinkedIn?s CEO Jeff Weiner said the company is able to grow in any economic environment.

?When times get tough, when there?s macroeconomic uncertainty, we see a number of people turning to LinkedIn, specifically turning to their networks, specifically for job security,? he said. ?But by the same token when the economy starts to improve and recruiting starts to pick up that benefits the hiring solutions business.?

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said it saw double-digit revenue growth in its subscription base in the fourth quarter and its marketing solutions, while revenue from its hiring solutions product showed triple-digit revenue growth.

Shares of LinkedIn are up 41 percent so far this year, outperforming the?Standard & Poor's 500, which has grown 7 percent. But not every new tech company in the recent rash of social media IPOs has performed as well.

Earlier this week, daily deals website Groupon surprised Wall Street by failing to make a profit since becoming a publicly-traded company in late 2011. It saw a fourth-quarter net loss of $42.7 million. That?s better than one year ago, when it saw a loss of $378.6 million, but still disappointing to analysts who had expected a small profit.

Shares of Groupon are essentially flat for the year.

Canaccord Genuity?s Graham cautions that LinkedIn could face threats in the future. Facebook and Google+ have not made significant moves into LinkedIn?s business, but were they to do so it could hurt LinkedIn?s growth and profitability, he said.

Also, given that LinkedIn has penetrated a majority of the U.S. market for knowledge workers, the company is dependent upon international markets for the majority of its member growth. If LinkedIn is unable to roll out strong local-language sites at a rapid enough pace, or if potential international members don't find the service compelling, member growth could stall, Graham said.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Penile Papules And Stds

Published by Sherry | February 9, 2012 | | 23

There is a definite difference in pearly penile papules and STDs. Most will be quite shocked to learn that having a papule can mean a number of different things, and it doesn?t always mean that a man is infected with a disease that can be spread by sexual contact. Many times, a man with a growth on his penis may actually have a benign condition that didn?t result from a contagious illness.
A penile papule that is not the result of an infection may be caused by a skin issue known as pearly penile papules. Men who have this condition will display raised bumps around the head of the penis. Because the etiology of this skin condition is mostly unknown, many sexual partners may be confused as to why a growth may be present on the penis. To understand why these growths occur, it is necessary to understand the difference between STDs and a penile papule.
Persons who have an STD have picked up an infectious organism from a sexual encounter with a partner that contracted the disease. Many STDs can cause additional health concerns, so it is necessary to find out which particular STD it is that has been contracted. STDs can be caused by viruses, bacteria or parasites and can quite easily be passed to a partner through sexual contact. This is where the difference lies between STDs and papules.
Papules occur when the skin around the head of the penis starts to grow continuously to the point where small, raised areas are present all around the circumference of the penis. When several of these growths become visible, many men will seek the assistance of a medical care provider. Once these growths are tested and observed by a doctor, it is discovered that they are not the result of an STD, but the product of the pearly penile papule skin disorder.
Having the disorder does not mean that the man will develop any other health concerns like those of people that have untreated STDs. The main concern with papules is purely aesthetic. Many men who have the disorder are not concerned and go on to have very happy and satisfying sex lives.
For men that are very concerned that their penile growths are causing issues with their sexual encounters, making an appointment with a physician can help to calm their concerns. There are treatment options available that will effectively remove the lesions, but there is still a chance that the growths will return. This can be discussed with the doctor.

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4 New Genes Linked to Type 2 Diabetes (HealthDay)

THURSDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Four new genes associated with type 2 diabetes have been identified by researchers, who also pinpointed six independent diabetes-associated gene variants at previously known locations on chromosomes.

These findings, from an analysis of 50,000 genetic variants across 2,000 genes linked to heart and metabolic function, appear in the Feb. 9 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.

The results offer valuable insight into the genetic risk for type 2 diabetes in multiple ethnic groups and could help lead to new treatments, according to a journal news release.

A number of environmental and genetic factors are associated with type 2 diabetes.

"Together, known [type 2 diabetes] genetic variants explain only about 10 percent of the genetic variance, indicating that additional genetic factors are likely to contribute to disease risk," senior study co-author Dr. Brendan Keating, of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said in the news release.

"Further, previous studies have been based almost exclusively on individuals of European ancestry, and genetic contributors to [type 2 diabetes] are less well understood in non-European populations," he added. "An important first step towards understanding genetic risk across populations is to establish whether known [diabetes-associated] genes span ethnicities or are population-specific."

Keating and an international team of colleagues analyzed 39 multiethnic studies on type 2 diabetes that included more than 17,000 people with diabetes and 70,000 people without the disease.

"As a result of our large-scale genetic analysis, we uncovered previously unknown European and multiethnic genetic variants and confirmed that, together, known genetic risk factors influence [type 2 diabetes] risk in multiethnic populations, including African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians," senior co-author Richa Saxena, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said in the release.

Saxena said that identifying new genes associated with type 2 diabetes in diverse ethnic groups could eventually guide strategies for developing treatments.

More information

For more on type 2 diabetes, go to Medline.

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Romanian accused of hacking NASA-JPL computers (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? A federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Tuesday's indictment charges Robert Butyka, 25, with one count of unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.

Officials said the 2010 attack made computers in the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Program unusable for two months while malicious code was removed and data restored. The program is used in climate research and weather forecasting.

The U.S. attorney's office said NASA worked with Romanian authorities, resulting in Butyka's conviction in Romania last month. He has been sentenced to three years in prison there and would face a sentence of up to 10 years if convicted in the U.S.

JPL spokeswoman Veronica McGregor said it won't disclose how far the hacker got into the system, but he wasn't able to access the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument in space that transmits weather measurements back to Earth.

Damage from the hacking was estimated at $500,000, including costs of work on the computers and lost research time.

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Tibetan sets himself on fire in China (AP)

BEIJING ? Another Tibetan has set himself on fire in western China to protest government policies while thousands marched in another part of China to show support for their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a report said.

U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia said a man, apparently a monk, set himself on fire in Sichuan province's Aba prefecture on Wednesday and was taken away by soldiers and police. His condition was not immediately clear. It said the man shouted slogans before setting himself ablaze, citing a statement from Losang Yeshe and Kanyag Tsering, exiled Tibetan monks in India.

If confirmed, the incident would bring to at least 20 the number of monks, nuns and lay Tibetans who have set themselves on fire over the last year, mostly in traditionally Tibetan areas of Sichuan province. Most have chanted for Tibetan freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama, who fled to India amid an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.

Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama and his supporters of encouraging the immolations.

Radio Free Asia also said Tibetan protests erupted Wednesday in two counties in Qinghai province in northwest China, with about 1,000 people marching in each. Citing local sources and exiles with contacts in the region, it said security surrounded protesters but no violence occurred.

The broadcaster said protesters shouted slogans and carried banners calling for a "free Tibet," the release of all Tibetan political prisoners, and the return of the Dalai Lama.

A police officer reached Thursday by telephone in Nangqian, where one of the protests allegedly occurred, said he had no reports of any protests. Like many Chinese officials, he refused to give his name.

In recent protests in Sichuan, Tibetan activist groups said at least six Tibetans were killed when police fired on protesters. The Chinese government says two rioters died and 24 police and firefighters were injured when rock-wielding Tibetan separatists attacked police stations.

This has been the region's most violent period since 2008, when deadly rioting in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, spread to Tibetan areas in adjoining provinces. China responded then by flooding the area with troops and closing Tibetan regions entirely to foreigners for about a year.

Western media trying to visit areas where unrest has been reported in the last several weeks have been turned away by security forces.

Lobsang Sangay, the leader of Tibetans' self-declared exile government, said Wednesday that convoys of Chinese security forces have been seen moving toward Tibet in recent days, ahead of the Tibetan New Year on Feb. 22 and the March anniversary of the failed 1959 uprising.

"If the Chinese government think that the Tibet issue can be solved through violence, intimidation, then it's not going to happen, because the Tibetan spirit is strong," he said in Dharmsala, India.

China on Tuesday vowed to crack down on the unrest and accused overseas activist groups and the Dalai Lama of fomenting the violence.

"We believe that this is a case of a handful of criminals illegally gathering and smashing and looting," Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said in a routine briefing.

China says Tibet has been under its rule for centuries, but many Tibetans say the region was functionally independent for most of that time. The Dalai Lama has called greater autonomy for Tibet and denies Beijing's claims that he is a separatist.

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