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Some iPhone 11 Users Seeing Increased Battery Health Percentages After iOS 14.5 Recalibration Process

April 16, 2021 by www.macrumors.com Leave a Comment

In the sixth beta of iOS 14.5, Apple introduced a recalibration process for the battery health reporting system on the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max to address inaccurate battery health estimates for some users.


Apple said this process might take a few weeks to be completed, and now that two weeks have passed since the sixth beta of iOS 14.5 was released, some users are beginning to see revised battery health percentages. 9to5Mac writer Benjamin Mayo tweeted that his iPhone 11 Pro’s maximum battery capacity relative to when it was new increased from 86% to 90%, for example, and tech website The 8-Bit has compiled other users’ results .

My phone has finished its battery calibration (part of iOS 14.5 for 11 series phones). I went from 86% reported maximum capacity to 90%. So there’s that. pic.twitter.com/g5mttxbkiZ — Benjamin Mayo (@bzamayo) April 11, 2021

In a support document , Apple said this bug with inaccurate battery health reporting does not reflect an issue with an iPhone’s actual battery health, and the recalibration process should resolve the issue. Symptoms of the bug include unexpected battery drain or, in a small number of instances, reduced peak performance capability, according to Apple.

While the battery health reporting system is recalibrating, users will see an “Important Battery Message” in Settings > Battery > Battery Health, but the displayed maximum capacity percentage will not change during recalibration. When the process is complete, the new percentage will appear and the message will be removed.

In a small number of instances, recalibration might not be successful and a new battery service message will appear. If this occurs, an Apple Authorized Service Provider can replace the battery free of charge to restore full performance and capacity, according to Apple, but the company ensures there is no safety risk posed to customers.

iOS 14.5 has been in beta testing for over two months and could be released next week. Apple will be hosting a virtual event on Tuesday, April 10 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, with a new iPad Pro and other announcements expected.

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Pence receives pacemaker after slow heart rate: What to know

April 15, 2021 by www.foxnews.com Leave a Comment

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Breaking news Thursday revealed former Vice President Mike Pence underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker after experiencing a slow heart rate. But what is this device and how does it work?

Pacemakers are small devices designed to regulate the heartbeat.

“A pacemaker is a small device used to treat some arrhythmias,” reads the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s webpage . “During an arrhythmia, the heart can beat too fast, too slow, or with an irregular rhythm.”

The former vice president’s specific diagnosis included a so-called “asymptomatic left bundle branch block,” per a statement from his office. According to the Mayo Clinic, this is a common diagnosis and involves a “delay or blockage of electrical impulses to the left side of the heart,” sometimes complicating efficient blood flow.

FORMER VP PENCE UNDERGOES ROUTINE SURGERY TO IMPLANT PACEMAKER, OFFICE SAYS

Pence’s procedure was successful, with a full recovery expected in the coming days, per the statement.

Generally speaking, a pacemaker works by sending off electrical pulses to maintain a normal rate and rhythm. It can also synchronize the heart chambers for more efficient blood flow. Pacemakers can either be short- or long-term, which dictates where the device would be implanted; temporary devices are “normally inserted through a vein in the neck and remains outside your body,” whereas a more permanent solution would require an implant in the chest or abdomen with wires connecting to electrodes in at least one heart chamber, according to the subdivision under the National Institutes of Health.

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The procedure typically involves a several hours long or overnight hospital stay, with a provider following up afterwards to monitor the device.

“Many people with pacemakers can return to their regular activities within a few days,” the NIH arm says, however it warns patients may need to avoid devices with “strong magnetic fields.” Apple had issued such a warning in March, saying iPhones have magnets, components and radios that release electromagnetic fields, which can potentially interfere with sensors on pacemakers and defibrillators when brought in close contact. The company advised keeping iPhones and MagSafe accessories, which offer wireless charging capabilities, more than 6 inches away.

Fox News’ Thomas Barrabi contributed to this report.

Kayla Rivas is a Health reporter and joined Fox News in April 2020.

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The Golden Voice Behind All Those Ken Burns Documentaries

September 24, 2019 by www.vulture.com Leave a Comment

Peter Coyote.
Peter Coyote. Photo: Miikka Skaffari/FilmMagic

What would a Ken Burns documentary be without its measured, authoritative narration? In The West , The National Parks , Prohibition , The Dust Bowl , The Roosevelts , The Vietnam War , The Mayo Clinic , and now Country Music , actor Peter Coyote delivers hours of often dense, complex text — full of facts, figures, quotes, and grand unifying ideas — in a manner that Burns refers to as “God’s stenographer.” His calm, cowboy-around-a-campfire timbre is basically the voice of America, at least within the orbit of PBS.

Generations of kids first met Coyote as the embodiment of authority — he played Keys, the head scientist in E.T. the Extra Terrestrial — but the man himself has lived a Zelig-like life. Growing up as a secular Jew with communist relatives during the McCarthy era, Coyote was an early convert to political activism and the counterculture. “I saw grown-ups weeping in my living room,” he says. “Men and women who were broken by lies the government was telling.” As a young man, he was invited into Kennedy’s White House after staging a protest against nuclear testing during the Cuban missile crisis, threw himself headlong into a decade of drugs, Hell’s Angels, and commune living , narrowly escaped being drafted to Vietnam by pretending to be a cold-blooded marauder, helped run the California State Arts Council for eight years, and then decided to become an actor. These days, he’s also an ordained Zen Buddhist priest.

Coyote has lent his voice to a plethora of ads and documentaries over the decades, but his decades-long relationship with Burns is something special. Vulture spoke with both men about Coyote’s unequaled voice, their unique recording process, and how they handle political disagreements.

Peter, how did you get into the narration game? Peter Coyote : I was broke after ten years in the counterculture and I needed a way to make some money. I wasn’t an actor at that time, so I made a comedic CD of myself talking in about 15 different accents, telling people how unreliable and unhirable this guy Peter Coyote was. I walked it around to every ad agency in San Francisco and I started getting work for ads. I got my first Screen Actors Guild card in 1979, and by 1980 I was making five-digit money. After E.T. and Jagged Edge and Outrageous Fortune , I did a lot of ads — General Motors, Chevy, Cadillac, Tylenol, New York Life. Then I did a great movie for Alex Gibney, comparing American labor practices to Japanese labor practices. That may have been one of the first documentaries that really synced totally with my politics and my ideas. I don’t know in what year it was that I did The West [ Editor’s note: It was 1996 ], but that began my relationship with Ken.

Ken, is it project-specific when you choose to use Peter? Ken Burns : Yes it is. I would ask him for every project except those that are subject-wise African-American. There’s a process: We would prefer that Peter not see the script and he prefers not to see the script. And we do not run the film while we’re recording. We get about 95 percent of the way through editing, and then we say, “Time for Peter.” An episode might run an hour and 50 minutes. Peter reads it cold. And more often than you could possibly believe, that first take is often terrific. It’s usually two, three takes. I’m sure it now drives him insane. I always say, “Perfect. One more for the insurance company.”

Is it more than just an easy paycheck? Peter Coyote : Nobody does a documentary to get rich. They do it because they really care about it. There are a number of them I do for free, because I want to help the idea get currency. There are some of them I do because it’s like a master’s degree in a subject. And then Ken’s really stand above and apart like a Ph.D. in the subject. The challenge of taking the reader through complex sentences, with lots of clauses and subclauses, is something I have an idiot savant’s talent to be able to do. I have a very wide peripheral vision. I can see when a comma is coming, I can see when a period is coming and I have to dismount. I understand what I’m reading — fully. Very often, we’ll stop and have discussions about something in the text, or I’ll tell him some little historical piece of relevance that I’ve uncovered.

Ken Burns : He feels like Zelig. There’s rarely been a project that, when we’re taking a break or between sessions, he doesn’t regale us with stories of the people that our film is about, or experiences that he had in a national park, or stuff that he did during the Vietnam War. I mean, he’s the intersection of the second half of the 20th century and American culture and life.

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Peter Coyote as “Keys” in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Photo: Archive Photos/Getty Images

When you work with Peter, are you just looking for his natural speaking voice, or do you ask him for a certain tone? Ken Burns : We want him to be “God’s stenographer,” as [late NBC Nightly News anchor] John Chancellor told me after I’d spent an hour or so breaking his very understandable broadcast [habits]. He was our narrator of Baseball back in the early ’90s. After a while he said, “Oh, you want me to God’s stenographer?” I cracked up and I said, “Yes, John, that’s exactly it.” It’s not soft-spoken. It’s not damped-down. It has all the meaning. All of the import, none of the ego.

How much of voice-over work is performance? Is it more than simply reading in a compelling way? Peter Coyote : No, I don’t think it is. As a matter of fact, the only area where Ken and I have any kind of instinctive difference is my people are Jews and we’re minor key people. Ken is not. He wants zero performance. But, of course, he also wants me to reflect the gravity of the text when it’s grave, or catch an ironic note when it’s there. I don’t feel like I’m doing a performance. I always do them cold. I never read the scripts in advance.

I can see the value in getting a gut reaction. Peter Coyote : It’s like Allen Ginsberg said, “First thought, best thought.” The first time I read the text, I have the most vivid images. Those images actually control my voice. I’m not manipulating. It’s not my ego or my small mind. It’s fealty to the images.

Your narration is gentle but authoritative, which is really interesting, since this is your first encounter with the script. Peter Coyote : It’s because I’m completely assured about what’s going on in my mental and emotional life. I’m not reading the text and consciously translating it and saying, “How can I reflect this in my tonality and my emotion?” As I’m reading, each sentence is just creating an image. I’m not trying for an effect. My voice is automatically responding to the images in my brain or in my body.

Do you ever get emotional? Peter Coyote : Sometimes. I grew up in a family with a lot of socialists and some communists and people who dedicated their lives to the common good, so when I was reading Roosevelt and watching the New Deal come into place, I was quite moved. But when I got to Vietnam , which was something I was intimately engaged with, it was very hard not to let rage or disgust creep out. When you read, “Five presidents knew the war was unwinnable and couldn’t find a way to get out and save face, and so they let 50,000 [U.S. soldiers] die and 3 million Asians die …” I mean, those are words I would like to spit. But if I do that, then I’m putting my foot in the small of your back and I’m taking your reaction away from you. My discipline is to harness my own feelings, so that you have free rein to yours.

You’re attempting to be as dispassionate as possible? Peter Coyote : I’m attempting to be as transparent as possible. I don’t want you to pay attention to the beautiful quality of my voice, or my articulation, or anything like that. I want to just be there to serve that film. Really, man, I’m a Jew with an animal name who reads good. These guys have been out there for years working, fact-checking, thinking. And there are many ways in which I’m far to the left of Ken. The Vietnam series began by saying: “The war was begun by good people for good motives and went bad.” My leftie friends went ballistic. “Good people? They’re fascist bastards! How can you do that?” And my rejoinder was: “There are about six or seven truly radical analyses of Vietnam in documentary film, and both people who saw them loved them. But Ken Burns got the entire country to sit around and learn that five presidents lied to them, that generals lied to them, we invaded a sovereign country, and we killed 3 million people.” If I had come in with “The fascist bastards started their war …” the majority would have changed the channel. I’d like [Ken] to hit harder sometimes. But he’s the master. And in fairness, he gets the Koch brothers to pay for it.

Ken, it’s not just the volume of words you give him, right? It’s the density and complexity and pronunciations. Ken Burns : We have phonetic guides for me, as a scratch narrator, and for him. More often than not, he knows in advance how to pronounce something. Sometimes we’ll decide how French you want to be in a pronunciation, how Spanish you want to be, how local you want to be. Are we going to say “hollos” or “hollers” in Country Music ? “Missoura” or “Missouri”? These are our big, huge questions. We’re often finding that one reading of his might be longer than mine. We’ll either open him up — that is to say, insert space between phrases and breaths — or we’ll cut the picture differently.

That reminds me of Steven Spielberg recutting the E.T. finale to fit John Williams’s music. Ken Burns : In the case of Williams, who’s such a gifted composer in his own right, the integrity of the original composition is so intense that you’re a fool, as a filmmaker, if you don’t surf that wave. Why would you have him adjust it when it’s the most beautiful wave? You’ve just got to get back on your surfboard. In Country Music , Merle Haggard said, “It’s like things that we believe in and can’t see, like dreams and songs and souls.” And later on, Wynton says, “Music is the only art form that’s invisible.” So why not take advantage of, in this case, the music of that narrator?

It seems like he’s the voice of America for you. Ken Burns : I’ve always looked for a voice — quite frankly, and there’s no ego involved in this — that’s close to my voice. Not in timbre, not in sound, but in meaning. And no one has come closer to my voice in meaning than Peter. No one.

Peter, you’re a pretty political person. What was the initial spark that made you that way? Peter Coyote : Growing up in the ’40s and the ’50s, my family were secular Jews. We couldn’t join the country club a block from our house. I never got over the fact that I’d be playing with my friends and they’d say, “Hey, let’s go swimming!” and I couldn’t go. No one ever said, “Wait, why don’t we do something that Pete can do?” So there’s a lesson in politics right there. Then, in the McCarthy period, my mother’s cousin was the first man fired from the New York City school system for being a communist. I saw grown-ups weeping in my living room, men and women who were broken by lies the government was telling. Then came the civil-rights movement, and here were these well-dressed, well-spoken African-Americans being set on by dogs and firehoses and white peckerwood mouth-breathers for trying to have a crappy sandwich at the Woolworth’s. When you looked at that, you had to take a side. If you didn’t take a side, you were taking a side. And then I was involved with a protest that went outside the White House, called the Grinnell 14 — first [protest] group in history that was ever invited in the White House. So I began to experience what a few people could do by making a commitment, by being well-mannered, well-spoken, knowing their song before they started singing. I’ve never wanted to disenfranchise myself since.

How has all of that shaped you as an actor, or as a storyteller? Peter Coyote : I think of myself as a writer who makes his living as an actor — or who made his living, because I’m sort of retired. By the time I started acting, I had a family and I had real economic pressures on me. I didn’t feel like I had the leeway to do what I would have liked to do, which would be to go to the London Academy of Dramatic Arts, which turns out the greatest English-speaking actors on Earth. My inability to get that training left me with certain insecurities. I was not always as bold as I should have been because of that, and I really didn’t seek out challenges because of that. I also had the idea, not to make an excuse, but I better make my offstage life my first priority. So I did, and I paid a tax on my career for that. I’m extremely grateful for having done 160 films and working with great directors like Polanski and Walter Hill and Steven Spielberg and Pedro Almodóvar. But it was never the source of my joy and fulfillment. That’s just the truth. One felt authentic, and one didn’t.

You’re also an ordained Buddhist priest. How does that affect the way you respond to the conditions of the world? Peter Coyote : It complicates it. The core truth of Buddhism is that everything is interdependent. There’s no “you” without sunlight, without oxygen, without water, without microbes in the soil that grow your food, without pollinating insects that help it, without birds to eat the pests. So the biggest thing that I learned — that served me first in politics with [California governor] Jerry Brown — was that I’m made of the same stuff as the people I abhor, or whose behavior I abhor. I’d like to think that I’m this pure, wonderful warrior with no negative human potentiality, but I’m made of the same stuff as Hitler and Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan. So when I speak to people, I have to do it without being judgmental. We’re the same animal. That, to me, is a very Buddhist way of looking at things: to strive for the fact that I have shadows, I have anger, I have jealousy, I have envy, I have greed. I have everything that my opponent does. My job as a priest, certainly, but as any Buddhist, is to monitor my internal life to make sure it doesn’t leak. When you do that, and when you fix your intention on compassion with the force of habit, then you can trust yourself to be spontaneous without worrying about what’s going to come out. I have a lot of trouble with people in my own political persuasions, because they like to pretend that they’re all good and all the evil is out there. They’re screaming at people for peace and they don’t see the contradiction.

This interview has been edited and condensed from separate conversations with Peter Coyote and Ken Burns.

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Energy Drinks May Be Risky for People with Genetic Heart Condition

May 9, 2017 by www.livescience.com Leave a Comment

Consuming energy drinks may be particularly risky for people with a certain genetic heart condition, a new study from Australia suggests.

The study looked at 24 people who had inherited long QT syndrome, a condition that can cause dangerous irregular heartbeats. About one person in every 2,000 has this condition, the researchers said.

Participants in the study received either two sugar-free energy drinks containing a total of 160 milligrams of caffeine plus 2,000 mg of the chemical taurine, or a control drink, which consisted of juice that didn’t contain any caffeine or taurine. A chemical that’s often added to energy drinks, taurine has been purported to enhance mental and athletic performance. Participants in the study weren’t told whether they’d received the energy drink or the control drink.

The results showed that participants’ blood pressure increased significantly when they consumed the energy drink, compared to when they consumed the control drink, the study said.

What’s more, after consuming the energy drink, three participants experienced a dangerous increase in a part of their heartbeat’s electrical cycle known as the QT interval. This interval corresponds to the time it takes for the heart to contract and refill with blood, according to the Mayo Clinic. Although this prolonged QT interval doesn’t always cause problems, it can trigger life-threatening irregular heartbeats in people with long QT syndrome. [ 10 Interesting Facts About Caffeine ]

“The potential cardiovascular risk of energy drinks continues to emerge as an important public health issue,” study co-author Dr. Christopher Semsarian, a cardiologist and professor at the University of Sydney in Australia, said in a statement . The researchers said that people with long QT syndrome should be cautious about consuming energy drinks.

Many previous studies have found links between energy-drink consumption and heart problems . For example, one study published in 2015 found that consuming just one energy drink can increase blood pressure in healthy people. And there have been several reports of young people who have suffered heart attacks or abnormal heart rhythms after consuming energy drinks.

Dr. Peter Schwartz and Dr. Federica Dagradi, of the Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias of Genetic Origin in Milan, Italy, who wrote an editorial accompanying the new study, said the findings deserve careful consideration. They noted that patients with long QT syndrome often don’t discover they have the condition until after their teen years.

This “implies that a significant number of youngsters with [long QT syndrome] will help themselves to energy drinks without knowing their real condition and thus endangering themselves,” Schwartz and Dagradi wrote.

Still, the researchers did not find an increase in the QT interval among all participants, which suggests that some people with the condition may be at higher risk than others for this effect.

The study and the editorial were published March 15 in the International Journal of Cardiology.

Original article on Live Science .

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Energy-Drink Habit Sends Man to ER with Heart Problems

August 3, 2016 by www.livescience.com Leave a Comment

A previously healthy 28-year-old man wound up in the emergency room with heart problems after drinking two energy drinks a day, as well as alcohol, for months, according to a new report.

The man experienced a very fast heart rate and an irregular heart rhythm (called arrhythmia), and the report supports a connection found in many previous studies: that there is a link between energy-drink consumption and heart problems .

Although the new report cannot prove that the energy drinks caused the man’s abnormal heart rate, this case, combined with other previous reports, shows the abnormal heart rhythm “could be a complication” of energy-drink consumption, the researchers, from the University of Florida, reported in the July/August issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine.

Given the popularity of energy drinks, doctors should consider asking patients about their energy-drink consumption if they have an unexplained heart rhythm problem, the researchers said. [ 5 Health Problems Linked to Energy Drinks ]

Previous studies have found that consuming just one energy drink can increase blood pressure , sometimes to unhealthy levels. And there have been several reports of young people who have suffered heart attacks after consuming energy drinks , including a 2015 report of a 26-year-old who drank eight to 10 of these highly caffeinated beverages a day.

In the new report, the researchers wrote that the man went to the hospital after he started vomiting blood. He told the doctors that he had consumed two Monster energy drinks that day, each of which contained 160 milligrams of caffeine, for a total of 320 mg of caffeine that day. (For comparison, an 8-ounce cup of coffee contains about 95 to 200 mg of caffeine, according to the Mayo Clinic.) He also reported having consumed two to three beers that day.

A physical exam showed normal results, except that the man’s heart rate was very fast — 130 beats per minute. (A normal heart rate is usually between 60 and 100 beats per minute.) A test of his heart’s electrical activity showed he had atrial fibrillation, or an abnormal heart rhythm. The problem is not usually life-threatening, but it can increase the risk of stroke and other heart complications, according to the Mayo Clinic.

The man was treated with two heart medications (diltiazem and metoprolol), and his heart rate returned to normal within 24 hours. He was released from the hospital three days later, and as of one year after the incident, he had not experienced any more problems with his heart rhythm, the report said.

Monster energy drinks contain about four to five times the amount of caffeine per serving as caffeinated soft drinks. Caffeine can cause heart cells to release calcium, which may affect heartbeat, and high amounts of caffeine can cause heart palpitations and vomiting, the researchers said.

Between 2004 and 2012, the Food and Drug Administration received 40 reports of people experiencing health problems after drinking Monster energy drinks, including abnormal heart rate, increased blood pressure, loss of consciousness and cardiac arrest, the report said.

Still, up to 400 mg of caffeine per day is considered safe for healthy adults, according to the Mayo Clinic.

It’s possible that other ingredients in energy drinks, along with caffeine, contribute to the development of heart problems, the researchers said. For example, taurine, a common ingredient in energy drinks, may heighten the effects of caffeine, the researchers said. Another ingredient, called guarana, also usually contains caffeine and may boost the caffeine content of the whole beverage above what’s listed on the label, they said.

Further studies of the ingredients in energy drinks are needed for experts to better understand how the beverages may be linked with heart problems, the researchers noted.

Consuming alcohol along with energy drinks might also increase the effects of caffeine, allowing the compound to stay in the blood longer, the researchers said. Caffeine also could lower the sedative effects of alcohol, allowing people to continue drinking longer and consume more alcohol, which, in turn, could increase intoxication and lead to arrhythmias, they said.

Although the long-term effects of energy-drink consumption are not known, “it may be reasonable to limit their use, especially in combination with alcohol or illicit substances and in patients predisposed to arrhythmias,” the researchers concluded.

At the time of publication, Monster Energy had not responded to an email request from Live Science for comment on the study.

Original article on Live Science .

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