Rosacea may be caused by mite faeces in your pores

There are tiny bugs closely related to spiders living in the pores of your face. They have long been considered mere passengers, doing no harm beyond upsetting the squeamish. But they may be causing an ancient skin disease that is estimated to affect between 5 and 20 per cent of people worldwide, and 16 million in the US alone.

People aged between 30 and 60, especially women, sometimes develop rosacea: red inflamed skin, with swelling, roughness and fine, visible blood vessels, usually in the central zone of the face. Severe cases can resemble acne, irritate the eyes and lead to the bulbous red nose seen in caricatures of the elderly.

The disease affects all races but is known as the "curse of the Celts" as it is thought to especially affect people with very fair skin, although it may simply be more visible on their skin. Rosacea is commonly blamed on another alleged Celtic curse ? excessive drinking. But while alcohol can trigger a flare-up, so can many other kinds of stress. Teetotallers are just as susceptible, according to the US National Rosacea Society.

Kevin Kavanagh of the National University of Ireland, in Maynooth, now thinks he has discovered the cause ? and it isn't for the faint-hearted.

Tiny mites ? eight-legged arachnids related to spiders ? live in the pores of our facial skin. They are particularly fond of the hair follicles of eyebrows and eyelashes, and the oily pores most common on the nose, forehead and cheeks. Called Demodex, the mites eat sebum, or facial oil, and colonise your face at puberty.

Preference for stressed skin

They crawl about your face in the dark to mate, then crawl back into pores to lay their eggs and die. Healthy adults have around one or two mites per square centimetre of facial skin. People with rosacea, however, can have 10 times as many, says Kavanagh. Research suggests that the stress that causes flare-ups of rosacea changes the chemicals in sebum, making it better food for mites.

Rosacea often improves with antibacterial drugs that don't affect the mites, such as tetracyclines. Kavanagh thinks this is because rosacea is caused by a reaction to bacteria in the mite's faeces.

Demodex does not have an anus and therefore cannot get rid of its faeces. "Their abdomen just gets bigger and bigger, and when they die and decompose they release their faeces all at once in the pore," says Kavanagh. When the mites are numerous, he believes that the material is enough to trigger an immune reaction, inflammation and tissue damage.

Kavanagh notes that one kind of bacteria in the mites' guts, Bacillus oleronius, is killed by the antibiotics that work against rosacea, and not by other types of antibiotics. His lab reported in June that 80 per cent of people with the most common kind of rosacea have immune cells in their blood that react strongly to two proteins from B. Oleronius, releasing triggers of inflammation. Only 40 per cent of people without rosacea have this reaction.

Kavanagh is now trying to get funding to develop antibodies to the bacterial proteins, to track their location and link them more firmly to the disease. Ultimately, treatments aimed at the trigger proteins may prevent rosacea.

Reference: Journal of Medical Microbiology, DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.048090-0

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Green Blog: An Unlikely Welcome Wagon, Back in Suburbia

We returned from our year in the woods [series link] on Aug. 1 and are still in the thick of unpacking, resettling, registering the kids for public school, and catching up on doctor appointments. The big surprise was having to fix the myriad house problems that manifested in our absence, such as broken shower nozzles, a broken refrigerator shelf, a year?s worth of untrimmed hedges and mismatched touch-up paint unwittingly applied by our well-meaning tenants throughout the house. My shell of calm began to erode as I drove across the Piscataqua River Bridge ? Maine?s southern border.

Summer rush hour isn?t bad, but on our way to one appointment, we drove past down-at-the-heels urban neighborhoods the whole way.? But upon our return, in a dense residential neighborhood along a busy access road, I glanced left while stopped at a signal. There, running purposefully across a lawn, was a coyote ? big, skinny, grey, with a bushy tail. All we caught of coyotes in Maine was their scat.

The morning after we returned to New Jersey, my husband Craig called us all urgently but quietly to the front yard. We live on a dead-end street, across from a large park-like area overgrown with weeds and trees run amok. There stood a young buck, his antlers no more than a foot long. He paused for a moment and then stepped delicately into the thicket.

Later that day, returning home from running errands at Target and Home Depot, a groundhog waddled rapidly across our road toward the drainage pipe where he has lived since we moved here six years ago. He turned and squatted at his doorstep looking back at me with interest. His black eyes won the staring contest; I parked the car.

Birds thrill to be in our stone birdbath, littering feathers with abandon. The night air quivers with crickets. We have seen more wildlife in New Jersey in a week than we saw in Maine in a month. How do they cope with living amongst us? And at the risk of sounding like a misanthrope: How can I?

What I miss the very most about our year in the woods is privacy. Stepping out our front door in New Jersey, gentle suburbia notwithstanding, feels like jumping off a bridge into the societal maelstrom. People everywhere. Each interaction demanding a socially appropriate response. No downtime.

My antennae are weary.

I miss the time and space we had in the woods. As we gradually unpack the basement room jammed with all the belongings we did not bring to Maine, I find the volume of what we own to be staggering?yet we live in a modest-sized home. Since we?ve returned, I?ve spent at least half my time just looking after our belongings.

Finding space for things. Cleaning objects, washing clothes, doing dishes. Dishes! The kids have observed that it was less work to wash the few dishes we had in Maine by hand than it is to load the dishwasher here in New Jersey because we use so many more dishes each day?and we use them simply because we have them.

Since we have returned, I have not meditated. I have written in my journal four times. I have read one chapter of my current book. I have taken one walk. I think it is simply that it takes much more discipline here in populated places to just be, where so much else clamors for my attention. Perhaps seeking serenity in the woods is the easy way out.

I write this, my final Year in the Woods post, at my desk in a room at the back of our house. The window is open to the cool summer breezes. I hear the leaves whispering and the cicadas chattering, and feel the wind?s caress. Yes, I also hear the low rumble of a jet every few minutes (inescapable in a metropolitan area) and the ever-present drone of traffic from the nearby highways that close us in, and no, I cannot see the horizon. But?

I?m happy to reconnect with friends again, pleased to see the boys dive back into social lives, and feel like writing a fan letter to our washer, dryer and dishwasher. No more homeschooling, yippee! And curbside trash pickup, mail delivery, our great public library, and the ease of getting groceries and gas. What luxury.

But, I do not know what phase the moon is in today, nor where and when it will rise and set. The streetlights and the pale-red ambient light from the city flood the clouds from below in the dead of night. Whether the moon is full or not, its light will not keep me awake in New Jersey.

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Gender bias in leading scientific journals

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Fewer women than men are asked to write in the leading scientific journals. That is established by two researchers from Lund University in Sweden, who criticise the gender bias.

In the 30 August issue of Nature, researchers have published an article showing that a much lower percentage of women than men are invited to write articles in News & Views in Nature and Perspectives in Science.

"We believe that fewer women than men are offered the career boost of invitation-only authorship in each of the two leading science journals" says Daniel Conley, a researcher at Lund University.

The consequences are that women are not as visible as men and are not provided the same opportunities for career advancement. The loss of women in science constitutes a brain drain for society.

When Nature was criticized in 2005 for offering too few women the opportunity to write for the Insight section, Nature increased the proportion of women authors.

"Gender parity can be achieved if Nature and Science are willing to make the effort to include more women in their invitation-only sections" says Johanna Stadmark, also from Lund University.

Conley and Stadmark conclude that equality within scientific research has increased in recent decades and that women today in many ways have the same opportunities as men to work within this field. However, they still believe that there is more to be done.

"Examination of the proportion of men and women who are invited to participate in all areas of science, whether it is as an invited speaker, a workshop participant, or for Science and Nature, is only good scientific practice" adds Daniel Conley.

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Fewer women than men are asked to write in the leading scientific journals. That is established by two researchers from Lund University in Sweden, who criticise the gender bias.

In the 30 August issue of Nature, researchers have published an article showing that a much lower percentage of women than men are invited to write articles in News & Views in Nature and Perspectives in Science.

"We believe that fewer women than men are offered the career boost of invitation-only authorship in each of the two leading science journals" says Daniel Conley, a researcher at Lund University.

The consequences are that women are not as visible as men and are not provided the same opportunities for career advancement. The loss of women in science constitutes a brain drain for society.

When Nature was criticized in 2005 for offering too few women the opportunity to write for the Insight section, Nature increased the proportion of women authors.

"Gender parity can be achieved if Nature and Science are willing to make the effort to include more women in their invitation-only sections" says Johanna Stadmark, also from Lund University.

Conley and Stadmark conclude that equality within scientific research has increased in recent decades and that women today in many ways have the same opportunities as men to work within this field. However, they still believe that there is more to be done.

"Examination of the proportion of men and women who are invited to participate in all areas of science, whether it is as an invited speaker, a workshop participant, or for Science and Nature, is only good scientific practice" adds Daniel Conley.

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Urinary protein excretion -- even in the normal range -- raises diabetics' heart risks, study finds

ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2012) ? In individuals with type 2 diabetes, any degree of measurable urinary protein excretion -- even in what is considered the normal range -- increases their risk of experiencing heart problems, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of new study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The findings could help identify patients who should be treated with cardioprotective medications.

Some patients with type 2 diabetes experience kidney problems that cause them to excrete increased amounts of the protein albumin in their urine, a condition called albuminuria. These patients have a considerably higher risk of developing heart problems -- such as heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure -- than other diabetic patients and people in the general population, who are "normoalbuminuric," with urinary albumin excretion levels of less than 20 ?g/min.

Investigators have wondered if any level of albumin excretion -- for example at a level that is the upper range of what is considered normal -- might increase a diabetic patient's risk of developing heart problems. "It would be important to know whether there is a level for albuminuria that differentiates individuals in need of cardioprotective intervention from those with a low risk," said Giuseppe Remuzzi, MD, FRCP, (Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research and Ospedali Riuniti, in Bergamo, Italy). "This is a major health issue since patients with normoalbuminuria account for at least 90% of the diabetic population," he added.

Through an extension of a clinical trial originally designed for other purposes, Dr. Remuzzi, along with Piero Ruggenenti, MD, Esteban Porrini MD (Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research), and others, evaluated the relationship between albumin excretion levels and heart problems in 1,208 normoalbuminuric patients with type 2 diabetes who were followed for an average of 9.2 years.

The researchers found that any degree of measurable albumin excretion bore significant heart risks: ? For each 1 ?g/min in albumin excretion at the start of the study, there was a progressive incremental risk of experiencing heart problems during follow-up. ? Even albuminuria of 1-2 ?g/min significantly associated with increased risk compared with albuminuria <1 ?g/min.

When the investigators looked only at the subgroup of patients who took antihypertensive drugs called ACE inhibitors from the start of the study and throughout the follow-up period, they found no link between albumin excretion levels and heart risks. This suggests that ACE inhibitors have heart-protective properties that may benefit diabetic patients with albuminuria and normoalbuminuria alike. Future clinical trials are needed to identify levels of albumin excretion above which such cardioprotective therapy is beneficial.

Study co-authors include Nicola Motterlini StatSciD, Annalisa Perna, StatSciD, Aneliya Parvanova Ilieva MD, Ilian Petrov Iliev MD, Alessandro Roberto Dodesini MD, Roberto Trevisan MD, Antonio Bossi MD, Giuseppe Sampietro MD, Enrica Capitoni RN, Flavio Gaspari PhD, Nadia Rubis RN, Bogdan Ene-Iordache EngD.

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Entomologists to discuss threat and management of wide range of insect pests

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Daylong conference will take place Sept. 19 in Temecula winery

RIVERSIDE, Calif. How are chemical pesticides impacting honey bees? How can the spread of the deadly Asian citrus psyllid be controlled by a wasp, its natural enemy? Could the olive fruit fly be similarly controlled? How could oils control snails and bugs? And what exactly is the Bagrada bug?

Entomologists from the University of California, Riverside will address these and many other bug-related questions at a conference on Sept. 19 at the South Coast Winery Resort and Spa, 34843 Rancho California Road, Temecula, Calif.

Sponsored by the UC Riverside Department of Entomology, the University of California Cooperative Extension and the California Association of Pest Control Advisers, the daylong conference will begin with registration at 7:30 a.m., followed by a series of short talks on a variety of topics related to insect pests and their management. The conference will end at 5 p.m. following an all-speaker panel discussion at 4:30 p.m.

Registration before Sept. 14 costs $130 per person. At-door registration costs $145. The fee includes a buffet lunch.

"This conference is an excellent occasion for the public to learn about a portion of the diverse work UCR entomologists are doing and the impact that this research has on the citizens of California," said Rick Redak, the chair of the Department of Entomology, who will discuss in the afternoon the glassy-winged sharpshooter and its management. "The topics covered will demonstrate the results of our research as well as the many benefits this work is providing."

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A full agenda of the conference and registration instructions can be accessed here.

Conference participants will have the opportunity to visit with the sponsors of the event in the Exhibit Hall at South Coast Winery Resort and Spa during refreshment breaks at 9:45 a.m. and 2:50 p.m.

Parking at the South Coast Winery Resort and Spa is free of charge.

The University of California, Riverside (www.ucr.edu) is a doctoral research university, a living laboratory for groundbreaking exploration of issues critical to Inland Southern California, the state and communities around the world. Reflecting California's diverse culture, UCR's enrollment has exceeded 20,500 students. The campus will open a medical school in 2013 and has reached the heart of the Coachella Valley by way of the UCR Palm Desert Center. The campus has an annual statewide economic impact of more than $1 billion. A broadcast studio with fiber cable to the AT&T Hollywood hub is available for live or taped interviews. UCR also has ISDN for radio interviews. To learn more, call (951) UCR-NEWS.

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. How are chemical pesticides impacting honey bees? How can the spread of the deadly Asian citrus psyllid be controlled by a wasp, its natural enemy? Could the olive fruit fly be similarly controlled? How could oils control snails and bugs? And what exactly is the Bagrada bug?

Entomologists from the University of California, Riverside will address these and many other bug-related questions at a conference on Sept. 19 at the South Coast Winery Resort and Spa, 34843 Rancho California Road, Temecula, Calif.

Sponsored by the UC Riverside Department of Entomology, the University of California Cooperative Extension and the California Association of Pest Control Advisers, the daylong conference will begin with registration at 7:30 a.m., followed by a series of short talks on a variety of topics related to insect pests and their management. The conference will end at 5 p.m. following an all-speaker panel discussion at 4:30 p.m.

Registration before Sept. 14 costs $130 per person. At-door registration costs $145. The fee includes a buffet lunch.

"This conference is an excellent occasion for the public to learn about a portion of the diverse work UCR entomologists are doing and the impact that this research has on the citizens of California," said Rick Redak, the chair of the Department of Entomology, who will discuss in the afternoon the glassy-winged sharpshooter and its management. "The topics covered will demonstrate the results of our research as well as the many benefits this work is providing."

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A full agenda of the conference and registration instructions can be accessed here.

Conference participants will have the opportunity to visit with the sponsors of the event in the Exhibit Hall at South Coast Winery Resort and Spa during refreshment breaks at 9:45 a.m. and 2:50 p.m.

Parking at the South Coast Winery Resort and Spa is free of charge.

The University of California, Riverside (www.ucr.edu) is a doctoral research university, a living laboratory for groundbreaking exploration of issues critical to Inland Southern California, the state and communities around the world. Reflecting California's diverse culture, UCR's enrollment has exceeded 20,500 students. The campus will open a medical school in 2013 and has reached the heart of the Coachella Valley by way of the UCR Palm Desert Center. The campus has an annual statewide economic impact of more than $1 billion. A broadcast studio with fiber cable to the AT&T Hollywood hub is available for live or taped interviews. UCR also has ISDN for radio interviews. To learn more, call (951) UCR-NEWS.

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HTC Desire X announced: Android 4.0 on a 4-inch Super LCD screen

HTC is keeping a low profile at IFA 2012 this week but it does have at least one phone to reveal to the throng of tech journalists and writers making their way around Berlin, the Desire X (formerly Proto). It's a humbler new handset for the Taiwanese manufacturer and one whose outer hardware has already toured China. It's now been mildly adjusted (that is, improved) with one of Qualcomm's lower-end Snapdragon S4 processors, clocked at 1GHz, while it keeps that 4-inch touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, Beats Audio integration and 4GB of storage we saw earlier. There's also an extra 25 gigs of free cloud storage courtesy of Dropbox, while the camera packs the same capabilities as One series devices including HDR capture, continuous shooting and the ability to capture video and stills at the same time. The device will launch across as-yet unconfirmed countries in Europe and Asia starting next month -- and we'll have a hands-on for you later today.

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Block-by-Blockers Respond to Borrell&#39;s Prescription for Hyperlocal ...

Local research guru and Borrell Associates CEO Gordon Borrell infuriated some hyperlocal publishers earlier this month when he said ?advertisers don?t want to be around local news.? It was a provocative statement, to be sure, prompting The Batavian?s Howard Owens to reply that Borrell was ?100% wrong.?

With hyperlocal publishing conference Block by Block 2012, set to take place on Sept. 13-15 in Chicago, I got back to Borrell to see if he had any advice for independent local publishers as they prepared to grapple with their increasingly urgent issue of how to generate revenue. He did indeed:

?People are beginning to figure out that the display advertising model is a bad carryover from mass media. You can hardly sell enough banner ads to support the staff needed to generate and manage the content. Worse, people don?t see display ads, and they don?t click on them very much at all. What does that mean for the future of hyperlocal websites? I think there?s value in them, but I honestly don?t think there?s enough value to sustain the business model in any single market beyond being a very small niche.

?True as it may be, nobody in the hyperlocal Internet space wants to hear that message. So here?s how to go beyond that and build a real business: Sell your Internet marketing expertise. Just about everyone I know who runs a local Internet venture is savvy about how to use the Internet to market their own site, or even themselves. Advertisers are willing to pay for that. And the fact that you might have a well-trafficked local website only magnifies your value proposition to the advertiser. It?s an imprimatur on your business card, and it gives you a leg up against the collection of village idiots who are working from their garages trying to resell Google keywords to local merchants.

?The Internet is not really an advertising medium. It?s an advertising utility that proves the efficacy of any advertising that a local business might place. If you can master all the various facets of the Internet as a marketing medium, you?ll morph from being a hyperlocal website to a digital marketing company. And there?s far more money in the latter.?

I went to a few of the conference?s participants for reactions:

Scott Brodbeck, founder and editor/publisher of ARLNow, which, after only two and a half years years, is going great guns covering the inner suburb of Arlington in Northern Virginia, and pulling in a respectable amount of advertising:

?Gordon is right ? at the moment, most truly hyperlocal news sites are only generating enough revenue to support one or two full-time employees and some freelance help.? [But] what Mr. Borrell calls a ?very small niche? we call our homes ? proud and thriving communities that we work hard to serve. ? They?re just the kind of people that small businesses in our community want to reach.? Online display advertising can be effective, if publishers do it right.? That means advertising as content ? well-designed and well-positioned ads for local businesses that are relevant to our local audiences.? From my experience, and the experience of fellow hyperlocal publishers, I can tell you that online display ads are still effective and continue to provide value to local advertisers.

?Mr. Borrell argues that hyperlocal publishers should provide a wider range of internet marketing services. [But] if local publishers were to dive in head-first to the time-consuming business of ?consulting, then why should they be publishers at all? ?think consulting and publisher are separate businesses and that? anybody who tries to do both is going to end up succeeding in one and failing in the other.?

Denise Civiletti, co-publisher of the lively, ad-packed RiverheadLOCAL in urban-suburban Suffolk County on Long Island:

?I?m not interested in ?the collection of village idiots who are working from their garages trying to resell Google keywords.? And Borell?s suggestion that I need to find ?a leg up? on such characters underscores his disconnect from community online news publishers. I?m sure there are plenty of easier ways to make money online than getting local-advertiser support for community news, but that?s not the point. I don?t want to be a marketing consultant any more than I want to be an event planner.

?What I am interested in is how to sustain online community journalism. Banner ads are generating low six-figure revenues for my family-owned community news website. I see the potential for growing revenues another 25-40 percent, and that?s our goal. Our company?s net income may not sustain the kind of newsroom that analysts like Borell think about when they talk about enterprises he refers to as ?real? businesses. But what it will support is OK by me ? though I find Borrell?s condescending and judgmental blow-off offensive. It will, in fact, support the ?the staff needed to generate and manage the content? for a viable community news site. I know it will because we?re doing it at RiverheadLOCAL.

?If someone like Borrell were interested enough to ask, he?d learn that our advertisers find being on our site a very effective way to reach the local community. They get clicks on their ads and customers through their doors.?

Susan Mernit, executive director and editor/publisher of Oakland Local, which gives a digital voice to the ?underrepresented communities? of her predominantly black city on the east side of the Bay:

?Gordon Borrell?s message has some truth. At Oakland Local, the cost of sales is always an issue, because our ad targets are often small businesses with limited ad budgets who need hand-holding and education.? On the other hand, these community members desperately need viable marketing that gets them click-throughs and customers at a fair price ? and we do that. On the other hand, Oakland Local is increasingly offering packages of ads and consulting services to clients as the best option. In fact, there?s been so much interest that in September we?re launching Oakland Local Business Academy, a program of education, consulting and social marketing services for local businesses to better market themselves This program has a newsletter, classes, ad packages and consulting services; we have six clients pre-launch and hope to have 11-15 at any given time.?

Justin Carder, vice president of Seattle-based Instivate, a place-based content and advertising company, and founder of Capitol Hill Seattle:

?Totally agree with Gordon. Except this part: ?Nobody in the hyperlocal Internet space wants to hear that message.? Well, he?s right that I don?t want to hear it. Please shut up about it, actually. But, yeah, that?s why I love my little business.?

Tom Grubisich authors The New News column for Street Fight. He is editorial director of LocalAmerica, which is partnering with InstantAtlas to develop sites built around how communities rate in livability. Local America is featured on Reynolds Journalism Institute?s Pivot Point site.

Source: http://streetfightmag.com/2012/08/30/block-by-blockers-respond-to-borrells-prescription-for-hyperlocal-revenue/

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Everything You Need To Know About Video Gaming | The best junk ...

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Video gaming is not without its faults. You will gain advice from the article below that will help you make the most of the time you spend gaming. Keep reading to learn more.

Before you start buying games that you think your kids will enjoy, try renting them beforehand. Games can be expensive and are often non-returnable, so you will want to purchase one that your child wants. Video game rentals help you get a good feel for the game, without costing you too much for trial and error.

Drink enough water during long video game sessions?don?t get dehydrated. Video games are a lot of fun, but you may become so interested in the game that you don?t take care of yourself. Dehydration can be a major health risk, so be sure you stay properly hydrated while you play your video games.

Games that are difficult are very challenging, and you should not become frustrated with them. Try playing again later, once you are more relaxed and perhaps can look at the problem you have to resolved in a different way. The objective of any game is having fun, so remember to relax!

You can have a lot of fun by playing some older classic games like flv to mov mac. Another advantage of this is that you will save a lot of money if you are able to find the game. Some of them can be bought for practically nothing online.

Stop and stretch your muscles when you are playing video games 4 times an hour. You will tend to get repetitive motion injuries playing video games if you don?t stretch. Your muscles need to be properly stretched to avoid cramping and formation of blood clots. It?s the healthy thing to do.

Checking a game out from the library lets you try it before you spend your money on it. They usually have an assortment to try. Call your library or check their website to find out which video games they have.

You need to utilize the settings regarding parental control. Check to see if you can play the game online. If so, limit how much access your kids have to the Internet. Also, keep close tabs on their friend request and monitor their play.

If you are out of shape and want an easy way to get some exercise, consider purchasing a Wii console. The Wii works with your own body movements and has an array of games that incorporate fitness.

If you want to buy a hot new game, make sure you reserve it at the store in advance, rather than waiting for a general release date. Many games these days have what is called a ?pre-order bonus,? which is an item given to those who order the game early. For example, you might be awarded character options and features that are not available to those who purchase the game after the release date.

If you buy used games, you need an adequate disc-cleaning kit. You never know what sort of shape your game will be in when you do this. These kits can help you restore your games to working condition, even if they used to be really grungy. It is a good idea to look at several cleaning disc options. Many kits are available in stores today.

Always use a high grade video connector when setting up your video game system. Consoles come with different cables to use to connect to the display of your choice. What cables are you to use for the best gaming experience? Whenever you can, use DVI or HDMI to get the highest grade of signal and clarity in your display. After them, the best are S-Video, Composite, and RCA. Coaxial connections are the most common connector; however, they are also the lowest quality. Only use it if you don?t have a choice.

Going online is a fun way to get to know other video gamers. Playing video games may be antisocial, so be sure to make time to socialize with other gamers online. Join an online forum so you can share tips and talk about your favorite games.

Keep the computer you?re on clear and make sure everything is up-to-date. If you game often on a particular system, avoid installing too many applications. You also need to run certain maintenance programs like Defrag and ScanDisk. This will keep your system running at peak performance.

Who needs to sleep when you are having fun? Most gamers use this myth as an excuse to play as much as possible. This is nonsense! A person needs a full 8 hours to keep their body healthy.

Be sure to thoroughly check a video game?s rating before letting little kids have it. The most violent, profane or sexual video games come with a rating of M or A. Do not let your children play these games or watch while you play. Violent or otherwise inappropriate video games can result in behavior changes or nightmares in children.

Are you struggling to find which console is the best for your needs? Think about what you like in a gaming system and find the console that best suits your needs. Hit the Internet to do some research. Check out reviews from other gamers, too. become informed before buying a console.

Video games can change your life for the better. You can also learn lots of new things as well as being a winner at whatever game you are playing! Whatever types of video games you enjoy playing, use the things you?ve learned here to help you have a more quality experience while gaming.

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U.S. soldier accused of leading militia plot was suspect in wife's death

(Reuters) - The U.S. Army private accused of being the ringleader of an anti-government militia in Georgia was a suspect in the death of his wife months before prosecutors say he and three fellow soldiers murdered two people to keep their clandestine group secret, authorities said.

Isaac Aguigui funded the anarchist militia FEAR, or Forever Enduring Always Ready, with up to $500,000 in life insurance benefits he collected after his wife's death in July 2011, prosecutors said.

Aguigui and three other soldiers stationed at Fort Stewart in southeastern Georgia near Savannah have since been charged with murder and other offenses stemming from the December 5, 2011, shooting deaths of a former soldier and his teenage girlfriend.

Aguigui, 21, and two others were scheduled to appear in court in Long County, Georgia, for a hearing on Thursday. A third co-defendant reached a plea deal with prosecutors on Monday.

The accused militia members had plotted to assassinate President Barack Obama and to attack their Army base and a dam in Aguigui's home state of Washington, Assistant County District Attorney Isabel Pauley said during those proceedings.

They also discussed poisoning the apple crop in Washington state and had purchased $87,000 worth of weapons to carry out their planned attacks, she said.

Prosecutors said the group crossed the line from conspiracy to actual violence when they killed Michael Roark, 19, and Tiffany York, 17, whose bodies were found in a wooded area near the base, in a bid to keep them from exposing the militia.

One of the four accused killers, Private First-Class Michael Burnett, pleaded guilty on Monday to a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and agreed to testify against his three co-defendants.

As part of the plea deal, he would be spared the death penalty so long as he cooperates.

WIFE'S SUSPICIOUS DEATH

Months before the two slayings in December, military authorities were investigating Aguigui's role in the death of his wife, also a soldier at Fort Stewart, according to Sergeant John Kruse of the police department in Wenatchee, near Aguigui's northwest Washington hometown of Cashmere.

Kruse told Reuters on Wednesday he inquired about Aguigui with the Army Criminal Investigation Command when a member of Aguigui's family approached the police sergeant with concerns she had about her relative. At the time, Kruse said, Aguigui was on leave from the Army and visiting his old neighborhood.

In addition to confirming the relative's claims that Aguigui was under investigation in connection with the suspicious death of his wife, Kruse said he also confirmed with a local gun merchant that Aguigui had recently purchased 15 firearms, several of them semiautomatic rifles.

Kruse said he informed the FBI about his findings and that Aguigui was interviewed by FBI agents before he returned to Fort Stewart.

Army Criminal Investigation Command spokesman Chris Grey said the agency has an ongoing investigation against Aguigui but declined to comment further. The FBI declined comment.

Pauley, the Long County prosecutor, also has said the death of Aguigui's wife, Deirdre Wetzker Aguigui, was regarded as suspicious. None of the authorities Reuters contacted revealed any of the circumstances known about her death.

She was 24 years old and five months pregnant when she died in July 2011, said her father, Alma Wetzker, reached by telephone at his home in Minnesota. He declined to speculate about his daughter's death while it was under investigation.

He said the couple met at the U.S. Military Preparatory Academy in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

"Isaac is a natural leader and he has tremendous capacity to do whatever he wants to accomplish," Wetzker said, adding that his daughter "never would have gone along with what they're accusing Isaac of."

His late daughter was an Arab-language linguist for the Army who had served in Iraq and was promoted to the rank of sergeant shortly before her death, he said.

(This version of the story has been corrected to change suspect's age from 19 to 21 in 4th paragraph)

(Reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky in Olympia, Washington, and David Beasley in Atlanta; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' robotic prototype lander takes 100-foot free flight

ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) ? With a whistle and a roar, the "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, sailed to an altitude of 100 feet during another successful free flight Aug. 28 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

During the 35-second run, the vehicle was "open loop" -- navigating autonomously without the command of the onboard camera and flying on a preprogrammed flight profile. Once it reached the 100-foot mark, the "Mighty Eagle" identified a new, larger target on the ground about 100 feet away, took pictures, processed the images and safely landed. The test is part of a new series of free flights testing the robotic prototype lander's autonomous rendezvous and capture capabilities. Testing will continue through September.

"We met our goal for this flight, which was to test the new software at triple the height of our last flight," said Dr. Greg Chavers, "Mighty Eagle" test lead at the Marshall Center. "The higher we go, the more realistic the scenario is compared to an actual descent."

"This test article is a vehicle system and requires a lot of team interaction," said Jake Parton, test conductor on the flight. Parton is one of several young engineers gaining experience and getting guidance from senior engineers on the "Mighty Eagle" project. The test team's ages range from 25 to 71.

"We are getting good experience in handling flight hardware and reacting to real-time conditions and anomalies," said Parton. "Each time we test, we load propellant, launch the vehicle, fly the vehicle and land the vehicle. It's hands-on flight experience for young engineers."

Nicknamed the "Mighty Eagle" after one of the characters in the popular "Angry Birds" game, the vehicle is a three-legged prototype that resembles an actual flight lander design. It is 4 feet tall and 8 feet in diameter and, when fueled, weighs 700 pounds. It is fueled by 90 percent pure hydrogen peroxide and receives its commands from an onboard computer that activates its onboard thrusters to carry it to a controlled landing using a pre-programmed flight profile.

NASA will use the "Mighty Eagle" to mature the technology needed to develop a new generation of small, smart, versatile robotic landers capable of achieving scientific and exploration goals on the surface of the moon, asteroids or other airless bodies.

The "Mighty Eagle" was developed by the Marshall Center and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., for NASA's Planetary Sciences Division, Headquarters Science Mission Directorate. Key partners in this project include the Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation, which includes the Science Applications International Corporation, Dynetics Corp., and Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc., all of Huntsville.

Watch the video of the Mighty Eagle flight on Aug. 28 at the Marshall Center: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=151295641

For more information on NASA's robotic landers, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lunarquest/robotic/index.html

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Artists turn old prosthetic limbs into artworks

South African Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius smiles as he speaks during a news conference at the 2012 Paralympics, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in London. Pistorius became the first double leg amputee to participate in the Olympics at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

South African Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius smiles as he speaks during a news conference at the 2012 Paralympics, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in London. Pistorius became the first double leg amputee to participate in the Olympics at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

South African Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius smiles as he speaks during a news conference at the 2012 Paralympics, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in London. Pistorius became the first double leg amputee to participate in the Olympics at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The Agitos, the official symbol design of the 2012 Paralympic Games are seen with the Orbit viewing platform artwork structure in background, as preparations are made at the Olympic Park ahead of the 2012 Paralympics, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in London. The Paralympics will start with the opening ceremony on Aug. 29. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

LONDON (AP) ? Prosthetics can change the life of an amputee. But when an old limb no longer fits or just gets worn out, it can be hard to part ways with an item that offered the liberating chance to jump, dance or simply walk.

Priscilla Sutton has a solution: turn these "pre-loved" limbs into artwork. The Australian curator came up with "Spare Parts London," an exhibition of altered prosthetics that has opened in time for the Paralympics, which start Wednesday.

"I was cleaning my home and I found two old legs in my cupboard," said Sutton, a below-the-knee amputee. "I thought it was a bit crazy to keep hoarding my legs."

The exhibition, which includes works by artists from Britain, Australia, the United States and Japan, comes as people are paying new attention to the devices.

Public awareness of prosthetics has been heightened by the popularity of double amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, the South African known as the "Blade Runner." The exhibition will showcase the "Cheetah" ? the carbon fiber running leg Pistorius uses that has a flex foot designed to replicate the hind leg of the fastest animal on land.

The show also displays arms and legs hanging from the ceiling and others in glass cabinets. A creation by British artist Rachel Ball features a little girl's leg covered in colorful crochet and painted with henna on the foot.

"It reflects the original owner's personality," Sutton said.

Since coming up with the idea, 33-year-old Sutton has collected prosthetics donated by amputees, their families or health services around the world.

"I got a box of arms from the NHS (Britain's National Health Service)," she said.

Owners change their prosthetics for a variety of reasons, including wear and weight fluctuations. For kids, the stump changes as they grow. For adults, muscles sometimes waste away.

While many keep their limbs for sentimental reasons ? parents might keep the first leg of their children, for example ? many limbs also end up on the scrap heap.

Sutton hopes the art show will lead to an open conversation about prosthetics, but others argue there are better uses for them.

"It seems an odd way to showcase it," said Penny Broomhead, a physiotherapist specializing in rehabilitation for amputees. "I would rather people look at it in a more practical point of view."

Broomhead thinks a better use for old prosthetic limbs would be to send them to developing countries, where their components could potentially provide prosthetics to those who can't afford them.

"Spare Parts London" marks the second time Sutton has used legs and arms as artwork, after a 2010 show on the same theme in Brisbane, Australia.

Sutton said the earlier exhibition made people ask questions they never dared to ask before, such as whether she sleeps with her leg. (The answer is no).

Sutton was born without a fibula in her right leg and the doctors wanted to amputate. Her family left it up to her.

"In my twenties, I took the decision to chop it off because it was getting worse and worse," she said. "It was the best decision of my life and I never looked back."

After her operation, Sutton had her leg cremated.

"It was a good form of closure," she said.

She has two "spare parts:" An "everyday" leg covered with a design by American pop surrealist artist Marc Ryden and a sports leg that displays a traditional Japanese print with gold flowers and cherries.

The curator said the exhibition was a therapeutic experience to produce.

"I think it's a wonderful way to celebrate and share my love of prosthetics," she said.

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"Spare Parts London" is at The Rag Factory, Brick Lane, in London until Sept. 9.

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Online: http://spareparts2012.com/

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GOP's gold standard idea comes up short

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Back to the gold standard? There's not enough gold in the coffers.

By John W. Schoen, NBC News

Tapping a popular idea to restore confidence in the dollar, the Republican Party is expected to call for a commission to look at the idea of returning the U.S. to the gold standard.

To make that happen, they're going to have to?find a lot more gold.

The idea, which has gained currency since the Federal Reserve flooded the financial system with money following the Panic of 2008, will be floated as a proposed plank in the party platform, to be voted on this week at the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla.

Proponents of the idea point to the creation of a Federal Gold Commission shortly after Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, when double-digit inflation was crippling the U.S. economy. Today, the fear is that massive government spending and more than $1 trillion in monetary expansion by the Fed will spark a new wave of inflation in the future.

?People believe we need to do something about the Fed; we need to do something about inflation,? said Marsha Blackburn, a Republican congresswoman from Tennessee and GOP platform committee co-chair. ??When things you are doing aren't working you start looking at options, just like Reagan did."

The idea of restoring the link between the?dollar and gold that was severed 40 years ago got some traction earlier in the presidential campaign?from candidate Ron Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas, who continues to support?the idea.

"It is horribly unjust to force the American people to do business with a dollar that is continuously debased by the Federal Reserve," he said at a recent hearing on monetary policy.

No one disputes that the swollen national debt poses a threat to the long-term health of the?economy. Some Fed policymakers have recently expressed concerns about the possible side effects of another round of financial pump-priming that would further expand the central bank?s balance sheet.

?I do worry that we're facilitating debt buildup in the U.S.,? said James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. ?This is the wrong time in the global situation to be building up a lot of debt. You?ve just seen the terrible consequences in Europe from doing that, so I do worry about that."

Though the demise of the gold standard played out over decades, President Richard Nixon officially broke the link between gold and the dollar after the 1971 oil crisis sparked a surge in demand for gold redemptions from U.S. trading partners. Since then, the value of the currency has been set by daily fluctuations on a global market where values can change in a fraction of a second.

?Back in the 1950s, and before that, when you were making economic decisions on a quarterly basis you could move slowly,? said Ralph Silva, director at Silva Research. ?Today you?ve got to make decisions on a quarter-of-a-second basis.?

Popular support for a return to the gold standard is fueled, in part, by nostalgia for a simpler time.

?If we could turn the clock back maybe 150 years then it?s possible for the U.S. dollar to be linked to gold,? said Moorad Choudhry, treasurer of the corporate banking division of RBS. ?I think it?s absolutely nonsensical. It won?t work. There?s a very good reason (the U.S.) unhooked it in 1971. It?s because their deficit didn?t enable them to maintain (the gold standard) with their supply of gold.?

That problem would be an order of magnitude worse today.

The U.S. holds?8,133 metric tons of gold reserves, according to the World Gold Council, or about 261 million ounces. At current market prices of about $1,667 an ounce, those reserves are worth roughly $435 billion.

That would cover less than 3 percent of the $15.9 trillion in Treasury debt outstanding. To back its entire debt, the U.S. would somehow have to acquire pretty much all of the worlds? reserves -- estimated at 31,353 tons, or just over a billion ounces.

But that?s just the money owed holders of public debt. On top of that $15.9 trillion, the U.S. would have to be willing and ready to exchange gold for the additional $10 trillion supply of money, from paper currency to bank deposits, denominated in dollars. ?

That was one of the reasons cited by Reagan?s gold commission when it recommended against the idea in March 1982.

?Most of us believe that even if other countries with substantial gold stocks and the major gold-producing countries were to agree with us on a restoration of an international gold standard, the United States -- and the system as a whole -- would confront an as-yet unsolved problem of the vast quantity of dollars world-wide with potential claims to gold convertibility,? the commissioners wrote in their final report.

Below, Rep. Ron Paul, (R-Texas), discusses a return to the gold standard with CNBC.

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Riots in Mombasa after killing of Muslim cleric

FILE - In this photo of June 13, 2001, controversial Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo is seen in in Nairobi High Court, Kenya, during a hearing on terrorism charges. Rogo has been shot dead at a beach in Mombasa according to local sources Monday Aug. 27 2012. Rogo was among three Kenyans whose assets were frozen by the US government over alleged links to terrorism. But the three Aboud Rogo, Abubaker Shariff Ahmed and Omar Awadh Omar denied the charges and challenged the US government to table evidence against them. The cleric was shot inside his car in front of his wife and children. Reports indicate that the wife was injured during the shooting and his 5 year old daughter was shot on her right leg.(AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)

FILE - In this photo of June 13, 2001, controversial Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo is seen in in Nairobi High Court, Kenya, during a hearing on terrorism charges. Rogo has been shot dead at a beach in Mombasa according to local sources Monday Aug. 27 2012. Rogo was among three Kenyans whose assets were frozen by the US government over alleged links to terrorism. But the three Aboud Rogo, Abubaker Shariff Ahmed and Omar Awadh Omar denied the charges and challenged the US government to table evidence against them. The cleric was shot inside his car in front of his wife and children. Reports indicate that the wife was injured during the shooting and his 5 year old daughter was shot on her right leg.(AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)

FILE - In this photo of March 15 2000, controversial Muslim cleric Aboud Rogo is seen in in Nairobi High Court, Kenya, during his hearing on terrorism charges. Rogo has been shot dead at a beach in Mombasa according to local sources Monday Aug. 27 2012. Rogo was among three Kenyans whose assets were frozen by the US government over alleged links to terrorism. But the three Aboud Rogo, Abubaker Shariff Ahmed and Omar Awadh Omar denied the charges and challenged the US government to table evidence against them. The cleric was shot inside his car in front of his wife and children. Reports indicate that the wife was injured during the shooting and his 5 year old daughter was shot on her right leg.(AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)

The daughter of Aboud Rogo, a Muslim cleric facing terror-related charges, cries out as Rogo's father holds the slumped and blood stained body of his son in the vehicle where Aboud Rogo was shot dead near the Jomo Kenyatta Public beach, Mombasa Kenya, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Gunmen in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa shot dead a Muslim cleric accused by Washington and the United Nations of supporting al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia, sparking rioting by youths who burned at least one police car and stoned businesses. Human rights groups say the killing on Monday of Aboud Rogo falls into a pattern of extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances of suspected terrorists, allegedly being orchestrated by Kenyan police. (AP Photo)

CORRECTS DATE TO AUG. 27, INSTEAD OF AUG. 2 - A relative of Aboud Rogo, a Muslim cleric who was facing terror-related charges, is assisted near the scene where Rogo was shot dead near the Jomo Kenyatta public beach in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. The assassination of Rogo, a Muslim cleric accused by Washington and the United Nations of supporting al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia, sparked rioting by youths who burned at least one police car and stoned businesses. Human rights groups say Rogo's murder falls into a pattern of extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances of suspected terrorists, allegedly being orchestrated by Kenyan police. (AP Photo)

Members of the public gather at the scene where Aboud Rogo was shot and killed in a beach area of Mombasa, Kenya, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, according to local sources. Rogo was among three Kenyans whose assets were frozen by the US government over alleged links to terrorism, but the three Aboud Rogo, Abubaker Shariff Ahmed and Omar Awadh Omar denied the charges and challenged the US government to table evidence against them. Aboud was shot inside his car in front of his wife who was injured during the shooting and his 5-year old daughter who was wounded in her right leg. (AP Photo.(AP Photo)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? Gunmen in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa shot dead a Muslim cleric accused by Washington and the United Nations of supporting al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia, sparking rioting by youths in which one person died and at least one police car was burned.

The killing on Monday of Aboud Rogo fits into a pattern of extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances of suspected terrorists that is allegedly being orchestrated by Kenyan police, say Kenyan human rights groups.

Rogo was shot dead as he drove with his family in Mombasa, Rogo's lawyer, Mbugua Mureithi, told The Associated Press. Rogo's wife was wounded in the leg, said Rogo's father who was also in the car along with Rogo's 5-year-old daughter. He said he and the girl weren't injured.

At the scene of the killing, Rogo's wife angrily accused police of the murder.

"It is you policemen who have killed him, we don't want a post-mortem or any help from you," said Khaniya Said Sagar to police who came to assist her.

Khaniya said that she was being taken to hospital for check after she had miscarriage two weeks ago.

Rogo's killing quickly sparked off protests by hundreds of Muslim youths who went on the rampage on the streets of Mombasa, as his body was being taken for burial, in line with Muslim customs of burying the dead on the same day they died.

The Muslim Human Rights Forum condemned Rogo's murder, calling it an "extrajudicial killing" and calling for an "an end to targeted killings and enforced disappearances of terrorism suspects."

MHRF Chairman Al-Amin Kimathi said that last month Rogo and Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, who were both suspects in a terror-related case, survived an abduction attempt by gunmen they claimed were state agents who accosted them as they arrived in the capital city.

The abduction attempt was foiled by members of the public who came to their aid when the two shouted for help as they resisted the heavily armed men, Kimathi said.

Fearing for their lives they sought an adjournment and a transfer of the case from the Nairobi courts to another town, he said.

Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe and his deputy Charles Owino did not respond to calls and messages seeking comment about allegations that police were involved in the killings.

Earlier this year, Rogo was charged with possession of a cache of guns, ammunition and detonators. Rogo also faced charges of membership in al-Shabab, the Somali rebel group that is linked to al-Qaida and which has been outlawed in Kenya.

Police charged that Rogo was part of terror cell, affiliated to al-Shabab that was planning to bomb Kenyan targets over Christmas. Other members of cell include Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, who police say is on the run.

Lewthwaite is the widow of Jermaine Lindsay, one of the suicide bombers who killed 52 commuters in multiple bombings of London's transport system on July 7, 2005.

The other is Briton Jermaine Grant, sentenced to three years in prison for immigration offenses and lying to a government official about his identity. Grant is also charged with conspiring to commit a felony and possessing explosive materials.

Al-Shabab has vowed to carry out a large-scale attack in Nairobi in retaliation for Kenya sending troops into Somalia to fight the Islamist insurgents. The Kenyan government blames al-Shabab for several kidnappings on Kenyan soil, including those of four Europeans. The kidnappings greatly harmed the Kenya's coastal tourism industry.

Rogo was acquitted in 2005 of murder charges for the 2002 bombing of a tourist hotel which killed more than 12 people.

He is the fifth alleged Muslim extremist who has been killed or who disappeared in the last four months, according to human rights campaigners. One corpse was found mutilated and the other four men vanished.

Hassan Omar Hassan, a former deputy head of the government-funded, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, said police had used the strategy of eliminating suspects before.

In a 2008 report, the commission said Kenyan police were to blame for the executions and disappearances of more than 500 people who were suspected of being members of a notorious gang during a crackdown on the gang from June-October 2007.

After the report's release, a police driver who told the commission he witnessed more than 50 executions by police was killed while in witness protection.

Philip Alston, then the U.N.'s expert on extrajudicial killings, investigated the deaths and disappearance of gang members and concluded in 2009 that Kenyan police were running death squads. A week after Alston's report, two rights activist who spoke to Alston were shot dead. Their car was raked with automatic gunfire on a leafy suburban street a minute's walk from the heavily guarded presidential residence.

Hassan said that the extra-judicial killings and forced disappearances of terror suspects would further radicalize Muslim youth.

"The only way to solve issues is through the rule of law. Apply it objectively," Hassan said.

Kenya police are under pressure to prevent an al-Shabab attack. Already several grenade attacks that police blamed on al-Shabab have been carried out inside Kenya.

Kenya's police force, however, is constrained from carrying out its work because of poor pay, which has led to corruption, and because of a lack of facilities. Few police here have cars, for instance, and those who do are given little fuel.

Britain in April donated six cars to the anti-terror police unit. The German government donated nearly a dozen vehicles to the unit the previous month.

Associated Press

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