Sunday, 18 August 2013

My Life With Multiple Sclerosis: What I Wish Others Knew | Care2 ...

I was in a hurry to get dressed and get to work. Two hours later, I looked down and realized I had my comfortable black working shoes on the wrong feet. This was part of a pivotal moment for me to stop ignoring a series of symptoms I had been experiencing: icy cold feet, numbness, pin and needle pain.

I did not expect a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. But that was back in 2005, when I didn?t know too much about the disease. My primary care physician broke the news to me and warned against researching Multiple Sclerosis on my personal computer. Of course, I nodded in agreement, and then immediately went home and Googled. The first site opened said, ?no hope, no cure.? The second site I opened was from a blogger whose progression was severe enough to put him in a wheelchair.

Both websites depicted a scary future for me. The reality was harsh, and it forced me to see that my life was about to change.

After I had given myself the appropriate amount of mourning for a derailed life and uncertain future, I moved forward. First, I walked with ease. Then I became a ?wall hugger,? using my hand along the surface for balance. Then straight to a walker with wheels. Now the time is coming to resort to a wheelchair, full time. Not yet, but not long in my future.

Every long-term idea now has a codicil of understanding the plan might change. Multiple Sclerosis is unpredictable. If the nerve sheath frays beyond repair, I may find a leg ceasing to move. My progression may force a different set of new challenges hitherto unanticipated. The nature hike I plan in January to be taken in April could become an impossible dream in the few months between winter and spring. A beach vacation might not include walking to the water?s edge and enjoying the feel of sand between my toes, but a cool ocean breeze and the rhythmic sound of waves upon the shore still holds an attraction. Since I do not know what I will be able to do from one day to the next, I want to make no promises. I live in the ?here and now.?

I no longer worry about what I did not accomplish in the day. Rather than retreat from life, I work on solutions. I deal with my spasms, the nerve pain and the numbness by acknowledging it, taking a few medications and giving myself permission to be miserable on the inside but arranging a smile and a positive attitude to those around me. No sense bringing everyone down when each person I meet has the potential of lifting my spirits.

How I Wish Others Would Respond to My M.S.

If I was in control of the words and actions of all people I meet, I would love to stop well-intentioned souls from frantically looking for a place for me to sit down the moment I stand. I want to stand and stretch my body and rearrange my squashed vital organs and relieve pressure from my back.

I have heard many a person thoughtlessly say they would rather die than use a walker or wheelchair. Not me. I will do what is necessary to be out among people. The walls of my house are not enough for me, better to wheel about in my chair than live the life of a hermit.

I would ask for acceptance of my disability rather than an attempt to relate to my plight by telling me about an aged grandmother. Inside, it hurts. On the outside, I smile. I appreciate the desire to sympathize with my challenges, but my ego screams that I am your peer, not two generations older.

I would ask that no one ever envy the handicap placard and think of it as the bright side of not being able to walk long distances. In the heart of every person confined to a wheelchair is a soul willing to park in the farthest spot in a soaking cold rain and walk, skip, or run into the grocery store. I am not happy to avoid the long lines at the airport and cut in line. I will never forget the inconsiderate man who begrudged being displaced momentarily by the skycap assisting me. I hope he will always remember my words when I told him how I wished I could trade his body for mine for just a moment in time. Truth be told, I may not have willingly given it back.

I would ask for a ban on the phrase, ?I have been so busy but I think about you all the time and I have been meaning to call.? This is invariably uttered when I contact a friend or relative. I appreciate your full life and I cannot help but feel envy. In the life I had before Multiple Sclerosis, I do not remember this phrase being uttered. It feels insincere and patronizing.

I would also wish for positive action. You see, I can no longer drive. I am a prisoner in my house. If you truly do think of me, send a random text about something that may have happened just now. It can be happy or humorous or sad. Suddenly I would really be a part of the world through you. People in my condition love the occasional diversion of everyday living.

We don?t pity those we love. We include them.

Cynthia Berg and her husband Aaron currently live in a suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona. They are planning to move into an urban setting to enable Cynthia to have the opportunity of exploring a more interactive lifestyle with activities outside her front door.

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Weather wipes out half of West Texas' cotton acres

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Posted on August 16, 2013 at 4:51 PM

Updated today at 9:34 AM

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) ? Drought, hail and blowing sand have robbed the world's largest contiguous cotton-growing patch of 50 percent of its acreage this year.

Preliminary numbers released this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that cotton producers in West Texas' South Plains are forecast to harvest 1.86 million acres, down from the 3.7 million they planted in the spring.

Producers in the region who lost acres this year continue to deal with a multi-year drought. Hail and blowing sand also forced producers to file insurance claims.

Texas is the nation's leading cotton-producing state and the South Plains region typically produces two-thirds of the state's cotton. The region is forecast to harvest 2.57 million bales of the state's 4.1 million.

Projections show production nationally at 12.5 million bales.

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Europe builds a lead on American soil

PARKER, Colo. (AP) ? With a little help from an incorrect ruling, Europe took an important step Friday toward winning the Solheim Cup on American soil.

Carlota Ciganda of Spain was allowed to hit from the wrong spot and salvaged an unlikely par from a hazard on the par-5 15th hole, keeping her and Suzann Pettersen from falling behind in a pivotal fourballs match. Pettersen won the next hole with a birdie, sending them from 2 down at the turn to a 1-up victory that staked Europe to a 5-3 lead.

A long day at Colorado Golf Club ended with Stacy Lewis, on the losing end of that match, getting into a heated discussion with an official over the use of a laser by the official to determine the right drop. At one point, Lewis threw her hands in the air. Along with using a laser, she was upset with the length of the chaotic ruling.

The laser was used to make sure Ciganda's options would be equal distance from the hole.

"Part of the problem we had with it was the rules official lasered the flag and made it public information. So he gave them a number," Lewis said.

Turns out that wasn't the problem. Ciganda was allowed to drop some 40 yards behind, which is not allowed under Rule 26-1-c.

LPGA Tour rules official Brad Alexander, called in for a second opinion, incorrectly allowed Ciganda to hit from that spot. Because an official made the ruling, it stood even though it was wrong. It was the first of four matches in the afternoon. Momentum was on the American side. And the three groups behind them were stacked up for a half-hour waiting for the situation to get cleared up.

"Obviously, I'm not happy about it," U.S. captain Meg Mallon said. "The thing I'm most unhappy about is that it ... took about 25 minutes for this to happen. And from our perspective the momentum, which was coming in our favor at that point in time, obviously had stopped.

"People make mistakes in rulings. That's not my issue. We have four matches out there and we have officials with every group, and it shouldn't take that long for something like that to happen.

Lewis said the explanation from the rules official "was about as bad as ruling."

"I don't think it was correct," she said, before learning that it was wrong. "It took way too long. It killed the momentum of our match. It killed the momentum of the matches behind us, and it's just not what you want the rules officials to ever do."

It was a tough day for Lewis, coming off a Women's British Open title at St. Andrews.

Lewis struggled with the pace of lightning fast greens on the front nine as she and Lizette Salas fell too far behind to catch up in morning foursomes. Lewis played with another U.S. rookie, Lexi Thompson, who twice squandered good birdie chances late in the fourballs.

Lewis is 1-5 in the Solheim Cup.

Pettersen and Carolina Hedwall led the European charge by winning both their matches. Pettersen, playing in her seventh Solheim Cup, drilled a fairway metal into 20 feet on the 16th hole that set up Beatriz Recari for the eagle putt to take charge in a foursomes match. In the afternoon, it was Pettersen's 7-foot birdie putt on the 16th ? after Thompson three-putted for par ? that gave Europe the lead.

Hedwall was part of what European captain Liselotte Neumann called her "Swedish Vikings" to lead off the warm, sunny opening session south of Denver. Hedwall and Anna Nordqvist finished the front nine with two birdies to build a 3-up lead, and they never let Lewis and Salas any closer.

Angela Stanford's overall record dropped to 3-9-3 as she lost both her matches ? with Brittany Lang in the morning and with rookie Gerina Piller in the afternoon.

The day was not a total loss for Meg Mallon's squad.

She was scrutinized for taking Michelle Wie as a captain's pick. Wie's superb short game combined with Cristie Kerr making big putts early as they disposed of Catriona Matthew and 17-year-old Charley Hull, 2 and 1, in the final match. The Americans picked up another point in the afternoon behind Lang and Lincicome, with Lang holing a bunker shot on the 14th hole to give her side control of the match.

In the morning, the lone American point came from Morgan Pressel and Jessica Korda, a 20-year-old rookie who had a most unusual start.

Korda described the opening tee shot as "very scary," and the rest of the first hole as simply surreal.

After a breakfast of milk and cereal, she was munching on a banana down the first fairway when she became nauseous. She walked over to the side of the fairway and threw up, news that spread quickly across the expansive course and gave her teammates a moment of levity.

"After I got past the first hole, I was pretty OK," said Korda, whose 7-foot par putt to halve the 16th hole clinched the match.

Thompson, another rookie, stole a page from Bubba Watson at the Ryder Cup when she asked the crowd to crank up the noise as she hit the opening tee shot. Thompson smashed one on the 635-yard hole, and with help from the mile-high air, reached the green in two.

That was the highlight. Even with Ciganda scrambling out of the hazard, Thompson was just short of the green in two on the 15th. She hit a poor pitch some 18 feet from the hole and missed the birdie putt. On the next hole, Thompson three-putted from the back of the green or par, badly missing the birdie putt from 5 feet.

Europe also had the lead after the opening day two years ago in Ireland, and it went on to win the Solheim Cup. This is the largest lead it has had on Friday since 5-3 at Crooked Stick in 2005. The Americans came back to win, and still have never lost the cup on home soil.

That might be tested this week in Colorado.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/europe-builds-lead-american-soil-004934675.html

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Saturday, 17 August 2013

Pay For the Year Up Front to Save On Car Insurance - Lifehacker

Pay For the Year Up Front to Save On Car Insurance

Yearly car insurance costs can get pretty pricey. However, if you pay it all at once, you may end up paying less overall.

Some insurance companies charge an extra fee to pay your premiums on a month-to-month basis. This fee can be as much as $10 a month, which is an extra $120 over a year that could be better spent elsewhere. If you're paying monthly, and you can comfortably deal with one big lump sum, talk to your insurance provider to see if you can get a discount for paying up front.

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Perbesar Invasi, Apple Merapat Ke Operator Terbesar China

Oleh Denny Mahardy

Posted: 16/08/2013 19:48

Liputan6.com, China : Apple telah melakukan kerjasama dengan 2 dari 3 operator di China. Perjanjian kerjasama anatara Apple dengan operator di Negeri Panda itu telah dijalin sejak tahun 2009 silam.

Dua operator rekanan Apple itu adalah China Unicom dan Chine Telecom yang menjadi operator kedua dan ketiga terbesar di China. Sayangnya, Apple tampak masih belum puas karena masih belum berhasil menggaet operator terbesar di China bahkan dunia, China Mobile.

CEO Apple Tim Cook dikabarkan telah melakukan perjalanan keduanya ke China pada tahun ini. Keberangkatan Cook ke China tak lain adalah untuk menemui Xi Guohua yang merupakan Chairman China Mobile.

"Kami secara aktif melakukan negosiasi atas ketertarikan kedua belah pihak. Masih ada beberapa masalah komersial dan teknologi yang membutuhkan waktu untuk diselesaikan," ungkap Guohua seperti dilansir GSM Arena, Sabtu (17/8/2013).

Apple sebelumnya dikabarkan juga telah merangkul Qualcomm sebagai pembuat chipset yang mendukung teknologi 4G China. Penggunaan chipset tersebut bisa membantu Apple untuk mengefisienkan waktu dan tenaga demi membuat iPhone yang bisa dipasarkan di China.

Perusahaan asal Cupertino itu sebelumnya dikabarkan enggan untuk melakukan adopsi teknologi yang mendukung jaringan China. Namun, kebutuhan pemasaran untuk mendongkrak penjualannya yang makin menurun sepertinya telah membuat Apple sebagai perusahaan yang mau kompromi atas keinginan pasar.

Analis dari Canalys menyebutkan bahwa Apple akan melakukan invasi besar ke China dengan iPhone 5C yang dirumorkan akan dibanderol dengan harga terjangkau. Cook ingin mendapatkan pangsa yang besar di pasar smartphone China dan global dengan menggandeng operator terbesar dengan 740 juta pelanggan tersebut. (den/gal)

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Oil rises for 6th day in a row

The price of oil rose for the sixth consecutive day Friday on continuing violence in Egypt and supply disruptions elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.

U.S. benchmark crude edged up 13 cents to $107.46 Friday. It rose 1.4 percent for the week. Brent crude, which is used to price imported crude used by many U.S. refineries, rose 80 cents to $110.40 per barrel for October delivery.

The average retail price for a gallon of gasoline rose less than a penny to $3.54 per gallon. It is down 9 cents per gallon in August, however, and it is 17 cents lower than it was last year.

Turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa has disrupted some production and exports, especially in Libya and Iraq. It has also raised the specter of spreading violence that could block important supply routes.

Violence in Egypt continued Friday as tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters fought with armed civilians, police and troops in Cairo. At least 60 people were killed in the fighting nationwide Friday. Nearly 700 people have been killed since violence erupted Wednesday.

Egypt is not a major oil exporter, but there is concern that an escalation in fighting could spread to neighboring countries or disrupt the Suez Canal, a major trade route.

Rising oil production in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere has helped keep the market supplied with oil, and global demand is rising only modestly. That has kept prices from rising even further amid the Middle Eastern violence, analysts say.

In other energy futures trading:

? Heating oil rose 1 cent to close at $3.08 a gallon.

? Wholesale gasoline fell 1 cent to close at $2.97 a gallon.

? Natural gas fell 5 cents to $3.37 per 1,000 cubic feet.

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Pablo Gorondi in Budapest and Pamela Sampson in Bangkok contributed to this report.

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NYC officials to appeal federal 'stop and frisk' judgement

Seth Wenig / AP file

Police officers talk with a woman who had her phone stolen in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. A federal judge's stinging rebuke of the police department's stop-and-frisk policy as discriminatory could usher in a return to the days of high violent crime rates and end New York's tenure as "America's safest big city," Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned.

By Pete Williams and Andrew Rafferty, NBC News

New York City officials say they are ready to begin their appeal of a federal judge?s ruling that a controversial NYPD tactic known as ?stop and frisk? violates the constitutional rights of blacks and Hispanics.

Michael Cardozo, corporate counsel of the New York City Law Department, said they will file a notice of appeal on Friday.

The announcement comes just three days after U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled the way that the way ?stop and frisk? is administered is a violation of the federal rights of minorities guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

"As the mayor and Police Commissioner Kelly said on Monday, we strongly disagree with Judge Scheindlin's order.? We said we'd take immediate steps to appeal, and we plan to do so tomorrow,? Cardoza said in a statement.

Outlining the actual substance of the objection will be the next step in the appeals process. It remains to be seen if city officials will ask for a stay of the judge?s order while the appeal is pending.

Shortly after Monday?s ruling, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly denounced the judge?s decision, saying it jeopardizes the progress Bloomberg?s administration has made in fighting crime in America?s largest city.

?Crime can come back anytime the criminals think that they?re going to get away with things. We just cannot let that happen,? the mayor said. Over the course of his nearly 12 years leading the city, the New York?s murder rate has fallen by half.

The tactic in question allows police to stop and pat down ("frisk") anyone they deem suspicious. Scheindlin found it was used 4.4 million times between 2004 and 2012, and that 80 percent of the stops were of blacks and Hispanics.

In her ruling, she wrote, ?In their zeal to defend a policy that they believe to be effective, they have willfully ignored overwhelming proof that the policy of targeting ?the right people? is racially discriminatory and therefore violates the United States Constitution.?

NBC's Erin McClam contributed to this report.

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Friday, 16 August 2013

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Summer Jobs Filled by Surprising Applicants (NBC33 VIDEO)

August 14, 2013 Updated Aug 14, 2013 at 6:29 PM EDT

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (www.nbc33.com) ? Every year around this time students head back to class for the fall semester, but what happens to all the summer jobs that just became vacated?

Recent trends show those part-time summer jobs are being filled by an older crowd of sorts who can't find permanent work. A big reason appears to be related to the disconnect between the high number of available specialty jobs ? such as CDL drivers or certified welders - and the lack of qualified candidates. And as the CEO and President of Northeast Indiana Workforce Investment Board Kathleen Randolph says, this trend will continue until job seekers receive the certification or specialized training they need.

"I think it's a long, long term problem. But it's become more acute as a result of the recession because what has happened is, many people lost their jobs through no fault of their own, then jobs that are becoming available and open now require a skill set that many of our unemployed individuals simply don't have."

Institutions such as Ivy Tech and IPFW offer a number of courses that provide opportunities for job seekers to become qualified in those specific areas.




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Director: Kutcher 'spoke the language' of 'Jobs'

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"Jobs" covers the period in Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' life until he developed the Macintosh computer in 1984.

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Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad in the biopic "Jobs" as Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

When it came to telling the story of Steve Jobs? life, ?Jobs? director Joshua Michael Stern knew he had to choose between two eras: before the 1998 introduction of the iMac, or after the iMac.

Stern could pick the time in the Apple co-founder?s trailblazing career before his meteoric rise and track the hurdles he faced until he revolutionized personal computing, created an iconic brand, and was forced out of his company. Or he could cover Jobs? mythic rise in the 1990s, after one of the most noteworthy comebacks in history, his cancer diagnosis, and his 2011 death.

?For me, the origins story was the most interesting part of Steve?s life,? Stern told NBC News. ?The iMac really established him as a sort of force of nature in our culture, and so everything that occurred before that to me ? the struggles he went through, the clashes, really were where the drama was. But more than that, in a culture where we?re in this post-industrial age, in a recession where more companies are doing bigger volume with less people, where there?s no longer that pension job you would get right after school where you?re guaranteed a certain security, the new reality of the economy is going to be self-motivated. And with Steve Jobs, it was just that. He was just a guy in a garage with his friends who built this incredible machine that ended up revolutionizing a lot of the different ways we communicate with each other.?

As a result, "Jobs," starring Ashton Kutcher, is as much the story of Apple as it is of Jobs. The film, which opens Friday, quickly dispenses with Jobs? decision to drop out of college and the challenges he faced working at Atari. Instead it moves rapidly into Jobs' launch of Apple Computer with his friend, Steve Wozniak (Josh Gad), from the Jobs family garage at the age of 21. The film trails the young entrepreneur?s rise in the late 1970s and includes the day in 1985 when Apple?s board of directors pushed the 30-year-old Jobs out of the company.

?I wanted to tell the story of a man who creates the company Apple and how at one point the company becomes the man and the man becomes the company, and they become inextricably linked together,? Stern said. ?One doesn?t ultimately exist without the other in many ways. From the iMac on, it was the beginning of his real legacy; that?s when he came into his own as a cultural icon, and I think people can sort of fill in the blanks when we end our movie.?

Stern deliberately avoided delving deeply into Jobs? personal life and stuck only to facts that had been publicly established, such as his rejection of his first-born daughter when Apple was in its infancy. In the film, Jobs? genius, darkness, and eccentricities are on display, including the fact that he didn?t like to wear shoes, had a tendency to park illegally in spots for the handicapped, and did not suffer fools gladly. But ?Jobs? is not a documentary and takes liberties, sometimes leaving key players and significant events out entirely.

?(Jobs) really was an enigma,? Stern said. ?I didn?t want to venture into too much conjecture. We chose to show the moments in progression that we felt were the most linear and most connected to Apple. And I tried to show everything from the perspective of Steve, so everything going on outside of Apple, we don?t see.? (That includes his 20-year marriage to Laurene Powell and their three children).

The casting of Kutcher created an unexpected collaboration, Stern said. The 35-year-old actor, known mostly for his air-headed comedic roles, studied Jobs' life and related to his technological innovations more than another actor might have, Stern said. Kutcher has made a second career as a venture capitalist nurturing young technology companies.

"I knew from the beginning of this movie that the part was important to him," Stern said. " He felt he could bring something to it. He knew so much about the technical world going in, much more than I did. He spoke the language, and he knew that all these kids who come to him with ideas for the newest app or mobile function are as obsessed with their idea as Steve was with the personal computer. He gets the nature of obsession."

Kutcher watched hundreds of hours of videotapes to study Jobs' gestures and his hunched walk, and even went on Jobs? infamous fruitarian diet, which made him lose 18 pounds and landed him in the hospital two days before shooting began. During a Q&A at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Kutcher said playing someone he admired ?was terrifying.? It also scared him to take on an icon who is still fresh in the minds of so many, although Kutcher said he was able to relate to Jobs' need to be loved.

?For all the amazing things that Steve Jobs did in the world, at the end of the day he was a person just like you and me,? Kutcher posted recently on Reddit. ?He had scars, and flaws, and gifts, and my ultimate effort was to humanize an icon. So that people had a feeling and an understanding that they are capable of great things.?

The timing, less than two years after Jobs died from complications of pancreatic cancer, never worried Stern.

?I just thought his story was a story for right now,? he said. ?It?s a story of self-motivating yourself. There?s a line at the end of the movie where Steve Jobs says, 'When you wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, you will be free.' I thought that was a message for where people are right now around the world. It?s just not about Steve Jobs. It?s about what he stood for. And what he stood for and what he represented is the model of what one should hope a new world economy will look like. The more people that can be inspired and say to themselves ? ?Well, maybe I didn?t find a job today. But maybe I can go to my garage and figure out this cool new device that I?ve been working on.? Maybe that will help.?

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Car bomb kills 20 in Hezbollah's Beirut stronghold

By Laila Bassam

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A powerful car bomb struck the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group on Thursday, killing 20 people, wounding 120 and trapping many others inside damaged buildings, witnesses and emergency officials said.

The blast, a month after a car bomb injured more than 50 people in the same district of the Lebanese capital, came amid sectarian tensions over the intervention of Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah against Sunni rebels in Syria's civil war.

A Sunni Islamist group calling itself the Brigades of Aisha claimed responsibility for the attack and promised more operations against Hezbollah. It was not immediately possible to verify the statement, which was made in an internet video.

"I don't know what happened. It's as if we were struck by an earthquake," one young man at the scene told Reuters, bleeding from a stomach wound.

Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil said hospitals across the capital had taken in 16 bodies and 226 wounded people.

The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned the attack.

"The members of the Security Council appealed to all Lebanese people to preserve national unity in the face of attempts to undermine the country's stability," the 15-member council said in a statement.

At the heart of the site, where fires raged an hour after the blast, the twisted remains of a large van could be seen.

Many cars were engulfed in flames, the charred bodies of drivers and passengers visible inside. The blast sent a column of black smoke above the densely populated area and the facades of several residential buildings were damaged.

Al Mayadeen television said some people were trapped inside apartments at the scene, close to the Sayyed al-Shuhadaa (Martyrs) complex, where Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah often addresses his followers.

Residents of southern Beirut say Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, had been on high alert and stepped up security in the area after warnings from Syrian rebels of possible retaliation for the group's support for President Bashar al-Assad.

"I heard a huge explosion. It threw me several metres," said a woman in her 50s who said she had been talking to her brother in his shop.

"I don't know what happened to my brother. I can't find him," she said, bleeding from wounds to hands and face.

MORE ATTACKS THREATENED

"This is the second time that we decide the time and place of the battle ... And you will see more, God willing," the Brigades of Aisha statement said, describing Hezbollah and Nasrallah as Iranian agents.

"We send a message to our brothers in Lebanon, we ask you to stay away from all the Iranian colonies in Lebanon ... because your blood is precious to us," a masked spokesman, flanked by two men brandishing rifles, said in the video.

"But Hassan Nasrallah is an agent of Iran and Israel and we promise him more and more (attacks)."

However, many Lebanese politicians blamed Israel. "The explosion was carefully prepared and one of the theories is that it could have been an Israeli retaliation for the Labouneh operation," Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said.

He was referring to an incident last week when four Israeli soldiers were wounded in southern Lebanon. Nasrallah said on Wednesday they were targeted by Hezbollah, which fought a month-long war with Israel in 2006.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati declared Friday would be a day of mourning for the victims of the Beirut blast.

There have been two previous attacks in southern Beirut this year, as Syria's conflagration seeps across the border. Two months before the July 9 car bomb, two rockets were fired into the area.

Sectarian violence fuelled by the Syrian conflict has also erupted in the Bekaa Valley and the Mediterranean port cities of Tripoli and Sidon, reflecting the renewed tensions spreading through the Middle East.

Lebanon's Sunni Muslims mostly support the rebels in Syria, while Shi'ites have largely supported Assad, who is part of the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.

Nasrallah has promised that his group will continue fighting for Assad after it spearheaded the recapture of the strategic town of Qusair in June.

In October last year, a car bomb in the east of the capital killed a senior intelligence official, Wissam al-Hassan, who was close to the country's leading Sunni opposition party, which has supported the uprising in Syria.

(Additional reporting by Stephen Kalin and Samia Nakhoul, and Michelle Nichols; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Andrew Roche, Robin Pomeroy and Bill Trott)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/explosion-beirut-southern-suburbs-witness-152240362.html

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