UFC lightweight champion Benson Henderson will fight Gilbert Melendez on April 20, but he took on other competitors over the weekend. Henderson competed in the 2013 Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championships. He won his first two matches, but lost 8-0 to Jaime Soares Canuto.
Henderson, a brown belt in jiu-jitsu, decided to do the tournament for fun. It wasn't a break from training for the bout with Melendez. Henderson's coach said he did six rounds of MMA sparring on Saturday before competing on Sunday. Instead, it was just a little bit of competition.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's banks must raise 25 billion pounds of extra capital by December to absorb any future losses on loans, the central bank said, less than investors had expected.
The Bank of England said on Wednesday that major lenders should achieve a core tier 1 capital ratio - a bank's main benchmark of health - of at least 7 percent of their risk-weighted assets.
Replenishing capital buffers, decimated by the financial crisis and heavy fines for misconduct, is crucial to returning part state-owned lenders RBS and Lloyds to full private ownership by the 2015 general election.
The move to strengthen banks should also allow them to lend more and support economic growth, central bank governor Mervyn King said.
He said the banks will not need taxpayers' money to increase their capital.
Matthew Fell, a director at UK business lobby the CBI, said it was difficult to see how banks can meet the capital targets without restricting lending.
Along with RBS and Lloyds, HSBC and Barclays dominate the market with 74 percent of deposits.
Banks have already announced some plans to bolster capital which, along with their expected earnings this year, should cover half of the 25 billion pound shortfall.
The amount they have to raise is less than investors had expected after the central bank said last year the figure could be as high as 60 billion pounds.
Shares in RBS were down 0.4 percent while Lloyds jumped 3.1 percent, with HSBC up 0.1 percent and Barclays up 0.8 percent.
"You can pretty much guess HSBC is going to be in surplus and that Barclays, RBS and Lloyds have probably got a shortfall and I would guess the shortfall is probably biggest at RBS," Shore Capital analyst Gary Cooper said.
The central bank did not give a breakdown of how much each bank needs to raise.
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Banks are expected to say how they will raise the money in the next few weeks. Analysts say they will likely curb dividends and bonuses, although some new capital will be needed.
Banks will have to hold a set amount of capital so they are not tempted to cancel loans to bump up their capital ratios.
Those that hold large amounts of risky commercial property or are exposed to struggling euro zone countries such as Greece or Spain will have to hold even more capital above the 7 percent target.
RBS said its capital position was strong and that it was working with regulators, while Barclays said it was "profitable, strong and well-capitalised".
Santander UK said it would continue to maintain its capital ratios above the industry average.
HSBC and Lloyds declined to comment.
Wednesday's announcement outlined two phases: the December deadline for the minimum capital level, five years earlier than the globally agreed timetable under the Basel III accord, and regular stress testing of banks beyond 2014 that will lead to further capital increases.
The big banks are expected to have capital ratios of 10 percent by the end of 2018.
Bailey, who is also chief executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority, the UK's new banking supervisor from April 1 when the Financial Services Authority is scrapped, will meet banks individually after the Easter holiday to vet their plans.
From April, the central bank's Financial Policy Committee, tasked with spotting broader risks in the financial system, has the power to direct regulators to force banks to comply with requests to bolster capital.
Bailey began his checks on how banks calculate risk on their books to determine overall capital requirements last November and has expressed concern about inadequate provisions for losses on loans.
All four of Britain's biggest banks have been hit with fines totalling more than 14 billion pounds so far for mis-selling loan insurance, putting further strain on capital.
UK MPs are also putting pressure on regulators to increase competition in a sector.
(Additional reporting by William Schomberg; Editing by Erica Billingham)
C. diff infection risk rises with antihistamine use to treat stomach acid, Mayo Clinic findsPublic release date: 27-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Robert Nellis newsbureau@mayo.edu 507-284-5005 Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Patients receiving antihistamines to suppress stomach acid are at greater risk of infection from Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, a common cause of diarrhea, particularly in health care settings, Mayo Clinic researchers have found. The study focused on histamine 2 receptor antagonists. The researchers found no significant risk for people taking over-the-counter antihistamine drugs, however. The findings appear in the online journal PLOS ONE.
Researchers reviewed 35 observations based on 33 separate studies involving C. diff and antihistamines used for stomach acid suppressive therapy. The researchers found a clear association between histamine 2 receptor antagonists use and C. diff infection. They say it was especially pronounced and caused the greatest risk for hospitalized patients receiving antibiotics. "It's not clear why these antihistamines increase the risk of C. diff infection, because gastric acid does not affect C. diff spores," says senior author Larry Baddour, M.D., a Mayo infectious diseases expert. "However, it may be that vegetative forms of C.diff, which are normally killed by stomach acid, survive due to use of stomach acid suppressors and cause infection."
Researchers say the study highlights the need for judicious use of histamine 2 receptor antagonists in hospitalized patients, and that reducing the use of these drugs could significantly reduce the risk of C. diff infections.
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Co-authors include Imad M. Tleyjeh, M.D., M.Sc.; Muhammad Riaz, M.Sc.; Musa Garbati, M.D.; Mohamad Al-Tannir, DMD, MPH; Faisal Alasmari, M.D.; Mushabab AlGhamdi, M.D.; all of King Fahad Medical City; Aref Bin Abdulhak, M.D.; University of Missouri Kansas City; Abdur Rahman Khan, M.D.; Toledo Medical Center; Patricia Erwin, M.L.S, and Imad M. Tleyjeh, M.D.; M.Sc., Mayo Clinic; and Alex Sutton, Ph.D.; University of Leicester.
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C. diff infection risk rises with antihistamine use to treat stomach acid, Mayo Clinic findsPublic release date: 27-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Robert Nellis newsbureau@mayo.edu 507-284-5005 Mayo Clinic
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Patients receiving antihistamines to suppress stomach acid are at greater risk of infection from Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, a common cause of diarrhea, particularly in health care settings, Mayo Clinic researchers have found. The study focused on histamine 2 receptor antagonists. The researchers found no significant risk for people taking over-the-counter antihistamine drugs, however. The findings appear in the online journal PLOS ONE.
Researchers reviewed 35 observations based on 33 separate studies involving C. diff and antihistamines used for stomach acid suppressive therapy. The researchers found a clear association between histamine 2 receptor antagonists use and C. diff infection. They say it was especially pronounced and caused the greatest risk for hospitalized patients receiving antibiotics. "It's not clear why these antihistamines increase the risk of C. diff infection, because gastric acid does not affect C. diff spores," says senior author Larry Baddour, M.D., a Mayo infectious diseases expert. "However, it may be that vegetative forms of C.diff, which are normally killed by stomach acid, survive due to use of stomach acid suppressors and cause infection."
Researchers say the study highlights the need for judicious use of histamine 2 receptor antagonists in hospitalized patients, and that reducing the use of these drugs could significantly reduce the risk of C. diff infections.
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Co-authors include Imad M. Tleyjeh, M.D., M.Sc.; Muhammad Riaz, M.Sc.; Musa Garbati, M.D.; Mohamad Al-Tannir, DMD, MPH; Faisal Alasmari, M.D.; Mushabab AlGhamdi, M.D.; all of King Fahad Medical City; Aref Bin Abdulhak, M.D.; University of Missouri Kansas City; Abdur Rahman Khan, M.D.; Toledo Medical Center; Patricia Erwin, M.L.S, and Imad M. Tleyjeh, M.D.; M.Sc., Mayo Clinic; and Alex Sutton, Ph.D.; University of Leicester.
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Mar. 25, 2013 ? Being exposed to arguments between parents is associated with the way babies' brains process emotional tone of voice, according to a new study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
The study, conducted by graduate student Alice Graham with her advisors Phil Fisher and Jennifer Pfeifer of the University of Oregon, found that infants respond to angry tone of voice, even when they're asleep.
Babies' brains are highly plastic, allowing them to develop in response to the environments and encounters they experience. But this plasticity comes with a certain degree of vulnerability -- research has shown that severe stress, such as maltreatment or institutionalization, can have a significant, negative impact on child development.
Graham and colleagues wondered what the impact of more moderate stressors might be.
"We were interested in whether a common source of early stress in children's lives -- conflict between parents -- is associated with how infants' brains function," says Graham.
Graham and colleagues decided to take advantage of recent developments in fMRI scanning with infants to answer this question.
Twenty infants, ranging in age from 6 to 12 months, came into the lab at their regular bedtime. While they were asleep in the scanner, the infants were presented with nonsense sentences spoken in very angry, mildly angry, happy, and neutral tones of voice by a male adult.
"Even during sleep, infants showed distinct patterns of brain activity depending on the emotional tone of voice we presented," says Graham.
The researchers found that infants from high conflict homes showed greater reactivity to very angry tone of voice in brain areas linked to stress and emotion regulation, such as the anterior cingulate cortex, caudate, thalamus, and hypothalamus.
Previous research with animals has shown that these brain areas play an important role in the impact of early life stress on development -- the results of this new study suggest that the same might be true for human infants.
According to Graham and colleagues, these findings show that babies are not oblivious to their parents' conflicts, and exposure to these conflicts may influence the way babies' brains process emotion and stress.
Support for this work was provided by the Center for Drug Abuse Prevention in the Child Welfare System (1-P30-DA023920); the Early Experience, Stress, and Neurobehavioral Development Center (1-P50-MH078105); a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F31-10667639); and the Lewis Center for NeuroImaging at the University of Oregon.
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Rep. Jessica Upshaw was found dead from a gunshot wound Sunday afternoon.
By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News
Mississippi officials are investigating the?death of state legislator who was found?at the home of a former colleague Sunday afternoon, according to local reports.
State Rep. Jessica Upshaw, 53, appeared to have died of a gunshot wound, Simpson County Sheriff Kenneth Lewis told NBC station WLBT in Jackson, Miss.
?It appeared she had a gunshot wound to her head. It appeared to be self-inflicted,? Lewis told WLBT.
Upshaw, a Republican who had served in the state legislature since 2004 representing District 95, was discovered at the private residence of former state lawmaker Clint Rotenberry, in Mendenhall, Miss., according to The Clarion-Ledger.
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) released a statement Sunday evening praising the late lawmaker.
"I have known Jessica for many years as an unselfish and dedicated public servant. This is a tragic loss for her family and all Mississippians, and our thoughts and prayers go out to her family during this difficult time," Bryant said.
Upshaw, a former attorney, was chairwoman of the Conservation and Natural Resources Committee in the Mississippi House of Representatives.
The Iberian lynx is the most endangered wild cat species worldwide.
By Megan Gannon LiveScience
It seems counterintuitive that castration could help save a species facing extinction. But through removing the ovaries of a female Iberian lynx, scientists say they were able to collect and preserve embryos from the world's most endangered wild cat for the first time.
Conservationists are hoping the fertilized eggs could be implanted into a surrogate mother of a closely related species, possibly a Eurasian lynx female. Even one successful surrogate pregnancy could be a boost for felines, whose declining population had been estimated to be less than 200 a decade ago.
One Iberian lynx named Azahar, which was part of a breeding program in Silves, Portugal, had problems giving birth and underwent two emergency Caesarean sections in two consecutive pregnancies. Conservationists decided that, for health reasons, they shouldn't try breeding Azahar again and the cat's ovaries were removed by castration.
But immediately after Azahar's castration surgery, scientists say they obtained embryos and ovarian pieces from the feline in a process adapted from one used on domestic cats. [Feline Fun! 10 Amazing Facts About Cats]
"Seven days after mating we expected to flush embryos?from the uterus," Katarina Jewgenow, a specialist from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin, said in a statement. But instead, the oocytes (unfertilized eggs) and embryos had to be flushed out of the oviducts. This told the team something new about Iberian lynxes ? their embryos develop more slowly than those of domestic cats.
The group of specialists also intervened when scientists decided to castrate a female Iberian lynx in captivity in Do?ana, Spain. Named Saliega, this cat was relatively old (12 years), already gave birth to 16 cubs, and developed a mammary tumor last summer after her last lactating period.
"From her we only flushed unfertilized eggs, thus the male was not fertile," Natalia Mikolaewska, an IZW doctoral student, said in a statement. But the team was at least able to recover and freeze those oocytes, which could later be fertilized and implanted in a surrogate.
"The next step we are discussing right now is to implant these embryos into a foster mother, which might be an Eurasian lynx female," said Jewgenow.
The Iberian lynx is the only wild cat to be listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and IZW is working with the Iberian lynx Conservation Breeding Program to help save them.
If reviving a dying species sounds ambitious, consider the scientists who are trying to bring back animals that are already extinct. Biologists did actually resurrect the extinct Pyrenean ibex?in 2003 by creating a clone from a frozen tissue sample harvested before the goat's entire population vanished in 2000. But that clone survived for only a few minutes after birth. Researchers gathered in Washington, D.C., on March 15 for a forum called TEDxDeExtinction, hosted by the National Geographic Society, to dive into some of the practical and ethical questions surrounding current efforts to revive animals that have been dead for much longer than the Pyrenean ibex, such as the passenger pigeon and woolly mammoth.
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