The massive Tokyo Game show 2012 not only ended with a record attendance of 223,753 people, it also saw the release of new console games and other much-expected titles. However, the video game expo that showcased exhibits from 209 corporations and organizations from 19 different countries and regions revealed a trend towards smartphones and social gaming instead.
Amongst the usual names in gaming such as SEGA, Konami, Bandai Namco, CAPCOM, one of the expo?s largest exhibitors was GREE, Inc, a?Japanese Internet media company that houses one of the world?s largest mobile social gaming platform, reaching 169 countries. Speaking to Shino Tokimatsu, Global PR of GREE, she mentioned that unlike game consoles, smartphones?have greater and more extensive connectivity. Therefore, projects by GREE this year have been focusing more on bringing new and novel game experiences through hand held devices, such as War Corps.
Due for release next year, War Corps is the world?s first social third-person shooter game. Gamers enlist in one of three mighty factions?struggling for world domination and will be able to team up with your friends and wage war across major cities like New York, London and Tokyo. Other popular games that has been well received other than Japan include games such as Zombie Jombie in the United States, and Driland in Asia.
GREE?s?first expansion out of Japan was in January, 2011, in San Francisco. Since then, they have established 8 more offices in the globe. GREE is also planning on launching the GREE Global Platform in 14 different languages. This will enable their users from all over the world to utilize the GREE platform.
The Tokyo Game show this year also hosted a ?Asia New Stars Area? which welcomed eight corporations from Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia and Vietnam. It seems that indeed, the future of gaming is looking increasingly social, and not a fad or a bubble.
The TOKYO GAME SHOW 2013 is scheduled to be held at Makuhari Messe from Thursday,?September 19 to Sunday, September 22, 2013.
To take a look at more photos taken at the Tokyo Game show 2012, head on to e27?s facebook page.
Sony recent announced it has begun to roll out Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) to three of their devices. The Xperia U, Xperia Sola and Xperia Go were all released with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) as they represent entry level devices in Sony's lineup. We saw an update a few weeks back for these devices and we wondered whether or not that would pave the way for ICS, and we're glad to see that it did.
Here are some of the new features you can expect with the update:
Lock screen with better functionality
Resizable widgets
Improved control of data consumption
New ways to experience your Sony content in WALKMAN, Album and Movies
The Xperia Sola will also be getting 'glove mode', which will add Sony's "floating touch" technology to make it work well while wearing gloves
Remember, if you are going to update, you'll need to ensure that your device is attached to a computer. The update is beginning to rollout today and it will continue over the next few weeks, so if you haven't seen it yet, hold tight.
Have you received your update yet? We'd love to hear from you in our Sony Xperia Forum.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada said on Friday it was aware of an attempt by hackers to target a domestic energy company, the second time in 24 hours Ottawa had acknowledged a cyber security attack against a Canadian firm.
In both cases the Canadian government declined to comment on reports which suggested a Chinese connection.
The news comes at an awkward time for Canada's Conservative government, which is deciding whether to approve a landmark $15.1 billion bid by China's CNOOC Ltd to take over Canadian oil producer Nexen Inc.
Some Conservative legislators are wary of the proposed CNOOC takeover, in part because of what they say are China's unfair business practices.
Ottawa revealed the second case after being asked about a security report from computer manufacturer Dell Inc, which said it had tracked hackers who targeted a number of firms around the world, including an unnamed energy company in Canada. Dell said on its website that the hackers had used a Chinese service provider based in Beijing Province.
"The Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre is aware of this incident," said Jean-Paul Duval, a spokesman for Canada's public safety ministry. Dell did not name the firm and Duval declined to comment further.
Less than 24 hours earlier Duval said Canada knew hackers had breached security at a domestic manufacturer of software used by big energy companies.
Calgary-based Telvent Canada Ltd, which is owned by France's Schneider Electric SA, warned customers about the attack, which hit operations in the United States, Canada and Spain, the cyber security news site KrebsOnSecurity.com reported on Wednesday. It cited experts who said digital fingerprints left during the attack pointed to Chinese hackers.
China is often cited as a suspect in various hacking attacks on companies in the United States and other nations. Beijing dismisses allegations it is involved.
The U.S. Cyber Command's top intelligence officer accused China on Thursday of persistent efforts to pierce Pentagon computer networks.
Candice Bergen, an aide to Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, did not directly address the Telvent incident when asked about it in Parliament.
The opposition New Democratic Party said the Conservatives needed to pay more attention to security concerns when looking at foreign takeover bids.
"Cyber security is something we have to pay attention to and that ... includes how deals are set up and trade deals are set up and acquisitions are made," said legislator Paul Dewar, the party's foreign affairs spokesman.
Although Industry Minister Christian Paradis is responsible for deciding whether the CNOOC bid should be approved, independent Conservative legislator Peter Goldring says a parliamentary committee ought to examine it.
"One of the main priorities of this committee will be to determine whether a foreign state-owned enterprise is an acceptable bidder ... for taking over a Canadian corporation," he said in a statement.
If a committee were set up it could delay the government's timetable for a ruling on the CNOOC deal. Paradis is expected to announce that decision by Nov 12.
An organization that regulates U.S. electric utilities is looking into the breach at Telvent Canada Ltd, which makes software that energy companies use to manage production and distribution of electricity. Telvent acknowledged a breach had taken place but gave few details.
The government's Canadian Security Intelligence Service says hackers try to break into government networks every day.
"Another traditional economic espionage target we often come across is the oil and gas industry," the spy agency said in its annual report released last week.
CSIS did not identify nations it said were responsible for the attacks. In 2010, the head of CSIS said ministers in two of Canada's 10 provinces were under "the general influence of a foreign government" and made clear he was talking about China.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Carol Bishopric)
Fans of Samsung prepare to smile: a U.S. appeals court has ruled that a lower court can take a second look at the sales ban of Samsung?s?Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet device.
After a lengthy and bruising legal battle with Apple, the trial?s jury decided that Samsung had not in fact committed patent infringement on the issue that led to an injunction banning the sale of its Tab tablet device. Put another way, the jury decided that Samsung hadn?t in fact breached Apple?s IP in the way that was claimed to cause the sales blockage of its hardware.
However, the injunction couldn?t be lifted as Samsung had appealed the ruling, moving it into a sort of legal quagmire. Friday?s ruling clears the path for it to be looked at again. According to Reuters, this means that U.S. Judge Lucy Koh can now ?consider the issue.?
Judge Koh became something of a cult figure in tech circles during the trial between the two giants for her sharp wording and scant patience for tactics that she found slow and?ponderous.
If you aren?t brushed up on the legal spat between Apple and Samsung, don?t worry; it?s but one of the larger battlefield of IP conflicts going on at the moment. What matters in this moment is that even though Samsung took a spanking at the hands of Cupertino in court, the foundational argument for the banning of its tablet?s sales here in the United States has been undermined, and the injunction itself is now in danger.
That?s good news for fans of Samsung?s devices, and likely irksome to those in Apple?s corner.
In recognition of?Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, Eila Skinner, MD, chair of the urology department at Stanford, took questions via the @SUMedicine Twitter feed and Scope on prostate cancer and the research advancements in the screening, diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Below she responds to a selection of the submissions, which ranged from the controversy over the PSA test to the ways the field of genetics is changing prostate-cancer research.
@Prach82 and @gaisison ask: Why is the PSA test not considered to be reliable? Is the PSA test still advisable as a basic screening tool for prostate cancer? Are there updates on the recommendations?
PSA (prostate specific antigen) is a protein that was originally discovered at Stanford and can be detected in the blood. Men with prostate cancer tend to have higher levels of this protein. There is no question that prostate cancer can be detected earlier using this test combined with a prostate examination compared with an exam alone. It is estimated that the cancer can be detected on an average of 5 to 10 years earlier. It is also clear that cancers detected with PSA screening are more likely to be caught before they spread and at a stage when they are more likely to be cured with current treatments. So why the controversy?
First, men with other common prostate problems, like non-cancerous prostate enlargement (called BPH) can have an elevated PSA. Because of this only about 20-30 percent of men with elevated PSA on screening actually have cancer. They often have to undergo invasive testing like prostate biopsy in order to know that there is no cancer there. These tests are expensive and can sometimes cause side effects like infection. We are always searching for a more accurate test to use for screening, and a number of potential alternatives are being developed. Some are already available, like the urine PCA3 test. This test is still very expensive and has not yet gained widespread use as a screening tool.
Secondly, prostate cancer is usually very slow growing. It might take 10 to 30 years for an early cancer to become one that is life threatening. The risk of cancer goes up with age, so many of the men diagnosed with cancer using PSA testing at age 70 or 80 are never going to live long enough for their cancer to cause problems. Many patients are undergoing treatment today, such as surgery or radiation therapy, for cancers that are not destined to threaten their life.
Finally, we still don?t have proof that if every man got tested, even at age 50 or 60, they would end up living longer than ones who didn?t get tested. Current studies trying to test this have been difficult to complete. They suggest that there may be some benefit, but 40 or more men may have to be treated to save one life. Because the treatment can cause significant side effects, it isn?t clear if this is worth it from a public health perspective.
Still, we shouldn?t give up on the PSA test. We need to be smarter about using the test and learning how to predict how a cancer is going to behave in an individual patient. In other words, use the test to find the cancer, but don?t treat everyone?s cancer the same way. Many cancers can be safely watched, thus avoiding the side effects of treatment. On the other hand, the patient with an aggressive cancer that is picked up earlier might be saved with treatment.
At this point,?I?d recommend that you discuss the pros and cons of testing with your doctor.
GS asks: Previous research has found that men who eat one and a half servings of pan-fried red meat weekly have a 30 percent higher risk of being diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. How does eating certain foods increase or decrease you prostate cancer risk?
There have been a number of dietary studies (subscription required) demonstrating a relationship between the intake of red meat and the risk of prostate cancer. Most studies have shown that processed meats, such as hamburger and grilled meats, have the highest risk. These meats seem to particularly increase the risk of more aggressive cancers. Cooking meat to high temperatures on a grill or barbecue, especially when charring occurs, may increase the production of heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, both of which are known carcinogens. White meats, such as chicken, and fish can generate these compounds as well. But they tend to be cooked more quickly, have less charring and generally haven?t?been associated with an increase risk of prostate cancer. Marinating meat before cooking can decrease these compounds. To decrease risk of prostate cancer, eating red meat that is rare or cooked at lower temperatures or eating less red meat and opting for white meats, such as chicken, or fish may be safest.
There are still many questions about diet and prostate cancer prevention and treatment, though a few large studies have been completed. Sometimes we have seen opposite effects than we expected. For example, earlier studies suggested high selenium intake might prevent prostate cancer. But the SELECT study of over 30,000 men showed that men who took supplemental selenium did not have less prostate cancer but actually developed more diabetes! Other studies have suggested benefits of some dietary intake such as soy protein and pomegranate juice, but these have not been confirmed by larger studies.
The best advice for men is to follow a heart-healthy diet. Heart disease is still by far the greatest threat to men?s health, and evidence suggests that a heart-healthy diet, which is high in vegetables and fruits and whole grains, low in saturated fats and red meat, is also the best diet for prostate cancer prevention.
Ella asks: Findings published this month show that ?stop-and-start? hormone-deprivation therapy for localized prostate cancer doesn?t shorten overall survival compared to continuous treatment.? What are your thoughts on this type of intermittent therapy approach??
Hormone therapy works by stopping the production of testosterone and other androgens (male hormones) or by blocking their ability to act on the cancer cells. It has been known for over 50 years that removing testosterone will cause the cancer to go into remission, though most advanced cancers will eventually become resistant to this treatment?(called castrate-resistant prostate cancer). This approach is still the mainstay of treatment for men with prostate cancer that has spread outside the prostate. Hormone therapy like this can cause significant side effects including hot flashes, sexual dysfunction and osteoporosis, among others.
It was theorized that hormone blockade could be utilized on an intermittent basis, which might decrease the side effects of treatment or even delay the development of castrate-resistant disease. For these protocols, the hormone therapy is stopped after 9-12 months, when the cancer has usually had the maximum expected response, and testosterone levels are allowed to return to normal. The disease is monitored using serum PSA and the therapy is restarted once the PSA rises to a predetermined level. Such an on-off cycle can be repeated many times if necessary.
There have now been several?(.pdf) randomized trials?comparing this approach to one using continuous hormone therapy in patients with metastatic disease, and several others that are still underway. While the findings?(.pdf)?have been mixed, it appears that intermittent therapy does improve quality of life and is less expensive compared to continuous therapy. While the time to castrate-resistant disease does not appear to be prolonged, it has been basically equivalent to continuous therapy, suggesting that it is safe to use hormone therapy this way. Further analysis of these studies might help us decide which patients gain the most benefit from intermittent therapy, allowing us to individualize our treatments in the future.
JBL asks: How has new research on genes linked to prostate cancer helped scientists better understand how the disease develops??
I asked my colleague Jim Brooks, MD, an expert in genetic predictors of prostate cancer risk and progression, to answer this question. He responds:
Genetic research into the causes of prostate cancer has taken two forms. The first is the investigation of the genes we inherit from our parents that increase our risk of getting prostate cancer. The second is research into the genetic changes that turn normal prostate cells into cancerous cells. In the first, researchers have found several locations in the genome that increase a man?s risk of getting prostate cancer, but surprisingly, they only do so a very small amount. This contrasts sharply with breast cancer in which hereditary gene mutations (in BRCA1 and BRCA2) virtually guarantee that a woman will get breast cancer at some point in her life.
Furthermore, the parts of the DNA that are associated with prostate cancer risk are not found to lie within genes. This surprising finding has begun to make more sense in light of the ENCODE project, which shows that these regions of DNA are important in regulating genes. Of the few spots that lie within genes, these provide hints that inflammation in the prostate might be important in causing prostate cancer.
We have learned more about the genetic changes that distinguish prostate cancers from normal prostate tissues that presumably cause prostate cancer. For example, it appears that each individual patient?s prostate cancer is unique ? i.e. has a set of mutations that make it different from another patient?s. This makes it unlikely that a single therapy will work for all prostate cancers. However, there are several common themes found in the majority of prostate cancers including particular mutations and cell regulating pathways that are activated in prostate cancer. For example, the androgen signaling pathway, which is driven by the male hormone testosterone, is active in nearly all prostate cancers.
Recently, new therapies targeting that pathway have been developed that work for men in whom traditional androgen blocking strategies have failed. We and others are working hard to identify other pathways that are turned on in more aggressive forms of prostate cancer, both for identifying men who need more aggressive therapies and for devising new treatment strategies for treatment. Large efforts are now underway to sequence the DNA in many prostate cancers. In other types of cancer, this has allowed clinicians to choose specific treatments, especially ones they might not have thought of, that are tailored to the genetic changes in an individual?s cancer. This will almost certainly be the case for prostate cancer in the near future.
Peggy P.?asks: My husband was successfully treated for stage II prostate cancer. I?ve?read?that aspirin may aid in prostate cancer recovery. What are your thoughts on research showing that aspirin may play a beneficial role in the treatment, or potentially the prevention, of prostate cancer?
There have been a number of studies suggesting that long-term regular use of aspirin may decrease the risk of developing prostate cancer. The?Health Professionals Follow-up Study?found that men who took aspirin regularly experienced a 10-15 percent decrease risk of prostate cancer. The benefit was most in men who took aspirin daily over 5 years or more, and the effect seemed to be greatest in reducing the most aggressive types of cancer. However, starting aspirin after diagnosis did not seem to change the course of the disease. Similar results have been demonstrated in other studies.
Once again, the greatest risk to health for men is heart disease, and there is very strong evidence that daily aspirin can have a positive effect on cardiovascular health. The possible preventive effect on the risk of prostate cancer is a bonus.
Greg asks: I am a 55 year old male recently diagnosed with prostate cancer? My urologist recommends either DaVinci prostatectomy or brachytherapy. Which treatment option carries the lowest risk of side effects?
There are currently a number of different treatment options for localized prostate cancer, including the two mentioned above plus open surgery, external radiation, cryosurgery and others. There are many factors that need to be considered when recommending a specific therapy. These include the aggressiveness and extent of the cancer and the patient?s symptoms, age, general health and preferences. There are also physician factors including the doctor?s experience with the treatment and the equipment available to him or her.
The best way to answer the question of which treatment is best would be to run a large randomized trial including several thousand men where the type of treatment was determined by a flip of a coin. These studies have been unpopular and extremely difficult to complete, so we don?t have this type of information available today. The best we have been able to do is to follow patients treated with the different types of therapy, trying to match the patients as best we can and see which is best from the standpoint of cancer cure and side effects.
From these studies it appears that the effectiveness of surgery and radiation for the average patient is similar, in other words both have a similar cure rate in the long term. Every type of treatment for prostate cancer has potential side effects, especially on urinary symptoms and sexual function. The types of side effects and their timing vary between these treatment options. For example, men who undergo a surgical prostatectomy tend to have some incontinence and impotence that are worse right after surgery and often improve over time. There are also some relatively rare complications from the operation itself. Men with brachytherapy (also called ?seed implants?) have less incontinence but tend to have significant bladder irritation at the beginning causing urinary frequency and urgency, which also improves over time. Impotence with radiation tends to occur later, perhaps a year or more after treatment. Rectal problems are more common with radiation treatments than with surgery. As you can imagine, it is difficult to say one of these treatments is ?best?.
I would recommend that you have a frank discussion with your doctor about the expected cure rate with each of these treatments in your particular situation, as well as the risks of the side effects mentioned above. I would highly recommend that you get a second opinion, and consult with both a surgeon and a radiation therapist before making a final decision.
Previously: Stanford Hospital to host free panel discussion about prostate cancer on Saturday,?Ask Stanford Med: Urology chair taking questions on prostate cancer and the latest research,?Study calls for increased awareness for minorities and gay men following prostate cancer treatment?and?Making difficult choices about prostate cancer Photo by Malik_Braun
ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) ? An international research team has created unique photoluminescent nanoparticles that shine clearly through more than 3 centimeters of biological tissue -- a depth that makes them a promising tool for deep-tissue optical bioimaging.
Though optical imaging is a robust and inexpensive technique commonly used in biomedical applications, current technologies lack the ability to look deep into tissue, the researchers said.
This creates a demand for the development of new approaches that provide high-resolution, high-contrast optical bioimaging that doctors and scientists could use to identify tumors or other anomalies deep beneath the skin.
The newly created nanoparticles consist of a nanocrystalline core containing thulium, sodium, ytterbium and fluorine, all encased inside a square, calcium-fluoride shell.
The particles are special for several reasons. First, they absorb and emit near-infrared light, with the emitted light having a much shorter wavelength than the absorbed light. This is different from how molecules in biological tissues absorb and emit light, which means that scientists can use the particles to obtain deeper, higher-contrast imaging than traditional fluorescence-based techniques.
Second, the material for the nanoparticles' shell --calcium fluoride -- is a substance found in bone and tooth mineral. This makes the particles compatible with human biology, reducing the risk of adverse effects. The shell is also found to significantly increase the photoluminescence efficiency.
To emit light, the particles employ a process called near-infrared-to-near-infrared up-conversion, or "NIR-to-NIR." Through this process, the particles absorb pairs of photons and combine these into single, higher-energy photons that are then emitted.
One reason NIR-to-NIR is ideal for optical imaging is that the particles absorb and emit light in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, which helps reduce background interference. This region of the spectrum is known as the "window of optical transparency" for biological tissue, since the biological tissue absorbs and scatters light the least in this range.
The scientists tested the particles in experiments that included imaging them injected in mice, and imaging a capsule full of the particles through a slice of pork more than 3 centimeters thick. In each case, the researchers were able to obtain vibrant, high-contrast images of the particles shining through tissue.
The results of the study appeared online on Aug. 28 in the ACS Nano journal. The international collaboration included researchers from the University at Buffalo and other institutions in the U.S., China, South Korea and Sweden. It was co-led by Paras N. Prasad, a SUNY Distinguished Professor and executive director of UB's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (ILPB), and Gang Han, an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School.
"We expect that the unprecedented properties in the core/shell nanocrystals we designed will bridge numerous disconnections between in vitro and in vivo studies, and eventually lead to new discoveries in the fields of biology and medicine," said Han, expressing his excitement about the research findings.
Study co-author Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy, a deputy director of ILPB, believes the 3-centimeter optical imaging depth is unprecedented for nanoparticles that provide such high-contrast visualization.
"Medical imaging is an emerging area, and optical imaging is an important technique in this area," said Ohulchanskyy. "Developing this new nanoplatform is a real step forward for deeper tissue optical bioimaging."
The paper's first authors were Guanying Chen, research assistant professor at ILPB and scientist at China's Harbin Institute of Technology and Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology and Jie Shen of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Other institutions that contributed included Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Korea University at Seoul.
The next step in the research is to explore ways of targeting the nanoparticles to cancer cells and other biological targets that could be imaged. Chen, Shen and Ohulchanskyy said the hope is for the nanoparticles to become a platform for multimodal bioimaging.
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When your business?s finances have taken a turn for the worse, you may be tempted to invest additional funds in marketing, new merchandise or new technology. These sorts of moves can actually be counter-productive to the success of your business. Instead of continuing to spend more money to save your business, it is in the best interest of a business to meet with commercial lawyers to discuss the possibility of bankruptcy and other debt management solutions. Here are some reasons to get you started:
By meeting with business lawyers, your business may discover that other debt management solutions are available aside from filing for bankruptcy. Your business may be able to sell significant assets, such as real estate or valuable equipment, in order to stay out of debt. A business lawyer can also discuss the possibility of selling a part of your business to another company in order to avoid the danger of bankruptcy. These are all options that lawyers who have an expertise in bankruptcy can help you weigh.
In some instances, filing for bankruptcy may be the easiest way to deal with outstanding debts that have become too much of a burden to handle. Filing for bankruptcy allows your business to have a fresh start. This will allow your business to reorganize its debts and continue its operations.
Most businesses are not able to obtain a discharge when they file for bankruptcy. If you have a sole proprietorship, then you may be able to obtain a discharge of all of your debts. Instead, your business will be given a repayment plan that will last for three to five years. The repayment plan will require your business to steadily pay back creditors. At the end of the repayment plan, then a judge may wipe out the rest of the debts that your business owes.
When your business can not afford to continue its current operations, then this is a sign that your company may be headed for financial disaster. It is important to meet with a bankruptcy solicitor who will be able to negotiate with your creditors and fully explain your legal options to you. While filing for bankruptcy may not be your preferred way of dealing with your financial situation, it may ultimately become the best option for helping your company regain financial stability. A bankruptcy solicitor will help your business regain control of its finances.
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Menopause relief may seem difficult, but with a few tips towards this, you may find the change easier to deal with than you thought possible. Menopause relief can be achieved when a woman is supplied with some vitamins especially Vitamin D and Vitamin B complex. Multivitamins may help in this way and are preferred by health care provider. Menopause relief does not have to come from synthetic hormone replacement therapy. If you are concerned about the side effects of HRT, consider the natural help with menopause our products can provide. Menopause remedies for mood swings are often sought after for women that are experiencing them. You may find yourself feeling overly sad or even very excited without any reason at all.
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Women aren?t getting any preferential treatment, and that goes double when our hormones are imbalanced. Aren?t you tired of night sweats ? sluggish thinking ? hot flashes ? emotional rollercoaster rides ? waking up and feeling as if you haven?t slept at all? Women who experience age-related energy problems and other age-related health problems due to an imbalance of female hormones can be greatly benefited by taking menopause herbs. Female menopause Rejuvenator also helps ease the well-known problems that are associated with PMS in younger women. Women who are experiencing female menopause hot flashes are often self-conscience and quite uncomfortable when a hot flash leads to profuse sweating. A woman may also feel confused, disoriented and may also feel sick to her stomach. Women with sensitive skin may find patches cause irritation. If you notice any skin irritation, report it to your doctor. Women aren?t truly menopausal until they?ve had an absence of periods for 12 consecutive months. Symptoms and their severity vary from woman to woman. Menopause remedies will help to control the symptoms associated with menopause.
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Herbal menopause treatment from naturally occurring plants can dramatically reduce menopause symptoms and prevent diseases caused by the loss of oestrogen in the body. Oestrogen that occurs in plants is called phytoestrogen. Herbal remedies for menopause relief may include herbs and natural supplements to give relief from menopause and it may include Hen?s Egg Shell Calx, zahar mohra power, Terminalia chebula and Saraca indica herbs. The Saraca indica herb is a useful herb to decrease disorders from menopause. Herbal teas, and using onion, garlic and lemon instead of salt should help as well. One study at UCLA noted that garlic halted the advance of heart disease in post-menopausal women.
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Whether you are looking for help with menopausal symptoms or you simply want to enjoy vibrant health, What You Must Know About Women?s Hormones can make a profound difference in your life.
Australian baggage handlers were recently flustered to find a crocodile roaming freely among the suitcases in the airplane?s cargo hold after escaping its plastic carrier during the flight. It?s not every day that work involves a brush with a reptile as primitive as a dinosaur!
It may be that you get home from work with lesser tales of woe, but tales of woe nonetheless. Life on land is a series of accomplishments and challenges, the latter ranging from serious lifestyle-threatening trials like layoffs and foreclosures to smaller annoyances like burned-out appliances. Less often do we grapple with the ancient enemies of disease and predation (think of that crocodile in the luggage!).
Life at sea is more like a series of challenges. Working with wild dolphins as I do, it?s impossible to ignore their raw battles with the ancient enemies. This is the somber tale of one little lady?s fight, a yearling bottlenose dolphin we call Ballou. She was born to Bet last summer (Dolphin Watch?s I?ve known her all my life).
Mammal babies are cheerful creatures and dolphin calves are no exception. Ballou always struck me as the most cheerful of the John?s Pass calves.
In the beginning, she did what all bottlenose dolphin calves do: spent her first summer at dolphin sea school learning the basics of nursing without lips and ceaseless swimming while her mom ushered her slowly alongside friends with other newborns.
She?d mastered these vital lessons of life by her first autumn, and then her cheerful nature emerged. Last October, she spent a jovial afternoon of gentle tickling, poking and prodding from mom Bet and Slight Twin as three dozen giant white pelicans migrated overhead in classic V-formation. She often wore a play-face that day, which is the broad open-mouth facial expression that universally signals when someone is playing, and why I think of Ballou as more cheerful than most.
A couple of weeks later, Ballou wove merrily around her mom and another friend, AM, as the festooned boats assembled off the American Legion hall in Madeira Beach for a maritime Veteran?s Day Parade.
When we saw Bet and Ballou the following spring, she was gaily continuing her social studies at dolphin sea school and progressing steadily through the standard stages of dolphin development. Now her companions included older dolphins in her mom?s social circle. She grappled easily with three-year-old Nougat and big bull BB, learning the limits of her yearling stamina. Evenly matched, she and yearling Senna excitedly threw around a horsetail (mangrove seedpod).
One evening, she and mom Bet ran into PC, a native son about Bet?s age. Ballou had two remoras, the itchy tickly cleaner fish that provoke great wiggling responses in dolphin kids. Seasoned in the fine art of rolling over bigger adults, Ballou used PC and mom Bet as emery boards to scrub the remoras off. PC accommodated this affably. It also let Bet show how smart she is.
For example, Bet tried to bite off one of the remoras tickling Ballou?s belly, which suggests that Bet understood Ballou?s dilemma. She also tried to carry Ballou on her back.
We didn?t see them again until late June this summer. They raced around the vicinity of three other mom-calf pairs so elusively, I couldn?t get a good look at them. The pictures I snapped were poor because the dolphins remained at a distance, but were sufficient to show that Ballou had developed a horrible skin rash.
Over the July 4th holiday, we got the details I was itching for. Poor little Ballou was covered from head to toe, so to speak, with little white dots. Even her dorsal fin was covered. This was most unusual.
?Dots? like this tend to cover a specific portion of the body that, to my previous knowledge, excluded dorsal fins. Ballou also had two giant white patches, as if her silvery gray skin had been briskly rubbed off.
A touch of pox on a dolphin isn?t unusual. But Ballou?s response - or rather apparent lack of immunological response - was markedly atypical. The condition had spread appallingly in just a few days.
It was ironic; I got a picture of Ballou surfacing with her little face poking over the water surface. She seemed to be smiling. But her dolphin?s smile was an illusion.
She was a pretty sick little girl through the summer, rarely venturing from mom?s side to play with the numerous playmates at her disposal. Mom Bet did not get the pox, so it either wasn?t contagious or her more mature immune system fought it off.
Finally, by the end of August, Ballou was healing! The dots were gone from her dorsal fin. The remaining dots on her left side were fading, though there were still many dots on her right side. Though Ballou was light-colored as local dolphins go, now she looks white. You can see her from quite a distance, which is a risky condition for a dolphin.
She looked like she felt better too. She and Bet rolled around each other briefly like in the old days, and Ballou even playfully surfaced under a little mass of grass to wear it briefly.
By Sept. 23, Ballou?s body was clean of all signs of infection. But the top of her dorsal fin had been bitten off.
How much is this little girl supposed to take? How much can she take?
The brilliant woman who overcame challenges that none of us can fathom, Helen Keller, observed that security is an illusion that certainly does not exist in nature. You might want to think about that the next time you?re tempted to tell a tale of woe.
Dr. Weaver studies wild dolphins under federal permit 16299, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Send her an email at dazzled@tampabay.rr.com or visit her website www.dolphinsuperstore.com. Read her award-winning Dolphin Watch column weekly at www.TBNweekly.com. NOAA advises anyone who sees a stranded dolphin in the Gulf of Mexico to call 877-942-5343 or 877-433-8299.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The presidential election is Nov. 6, but it could take days to figure out the winner if the vote is close. New voting laws are likely to increase the number of people who have to cast provisional ballots in key states.
Tight races for Congress, governor and local offices also could be stuck in limbo while election officials scrutinize ballots, a scenario that would surely attract legions of campaign lawyers from both parties.
"It's a possibility of a complete meltdown for the election," said Daniel Smith, a political scientist at the University of Florida.
Voters cast provisional ballots for a variety of reasons: They don't bring proper ID to the polls; they fail to update their voter registration after moving; they try to vote at the wrong precinct; or their right to vote is challenged by someone.
These voters may have their votes counted, but only if election officials can verify that they were eligible to vote, a process that can take days or weeks. Adding to the potential for chaos: Many states won't even know how many provisional ballots have been cast until sometime after Election Day.
Voters cast nearly 2.1 million provisional ballots in the 2008 presidential election. About 69 percent were eventually counted, according to election results compiled by The Associated Press.
New election laws in competitive states like Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will probably increase the number of provisional ballots in those states this year, according to voting experts, although the new laws in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are being challenged in court.
New voter ID laws in states like Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee could affect state or local elections, though some of those laws also are being challenged.
Provisional ballots don't get much attention if an election is a landslide. But what if the vote is close, as the polls suggest in the race between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney?
Most of today's voting nightmares go back to Florida in 2000, when the results of balloting and thus the winner of the presidential contest were not known for weeks after Election Day. Questions about recount irregularities and the validity of ballots with hanging chads ? paper fragments still attached to punch-card ballots ? preceded the eventual declaration that George W. Bush had won the state by 537 votes and was the next president.
"In a close election, all eyes are going to be on those provisional ballots, and those same canvassing boards that were looking at pregnant chads and hanging chads back in 2000," Smith said. "It's a potential mess."
The federal election law passed in response to the 2000 presidential election gives voters the option to cast a provisional ballot, if poll workers deny them a regular one. New voter ID laws could slow the count even more.
In Virginia and Wisconsin, voters who don't bring an ID to the polls can still have their votes counted if they produce an ID by the Friday following Election Day. Pennsylvania's law gives voters six days to produce an ID.
In Ohio, which has competitive races for both president and the Senate, provisional voters have up to 10 days following the election to bring an ID to the county board of elections.
If voters in Florida don't bring an ID to the polls, they must sign a provisional ballot envelope. Canvassing boards then will try to match the signatures with those in voter registration records, a process that conjures up images of the 2000 presidential election in Florida.
"Americans have gotten used to the expectation that you could turn on the TV and you would know that night who won the election, even after Florida in 2000," said Edward B. Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University. "But this could be an election in which we don't know the answer for several days."
Florida could see a big increase in provisional ballots because the state has tightened its change-of-address requirements. This year, voters who move from one county to another in Florida without updating their voter registration will have to cast provisional ballots. In previous elections, they could change their address on Election Day and cast a regular ballot.
Four years ago, Florida voters cast about 36,000 provisional ballots. About half of them were eventually counted, though the percentages varied greatly from county to county.
This year, Florida could have 300,000 provisional ballots, said Michael McDonald, an election expert at George Mason University.
"You want to see chaos in Florida? There it is," McDonald said.
In Ohio, address changes were the biggest reason voters cast provisional ballots in 2008, said Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. Ohio voters cast about 207,000 provisional ballots in the 2008 presidential election ? second only to California. About 130,000 of them were cast because voters moved and didn't update their voter registration, Husted said.
In 2004, the number of provisional ballots cast in Ohio was larger than President George W. Bush's margin of victory over Democrat John Kerry. Kerry didn't concede until the following morning, when the provisional ballot picture became clear.
In 2008, the number of provisional ballots cast in North Carolina was larger than Obama's margin of victory over Republican John McCain. The Associated Press didn't declare the state for Obama until the day after Election Day, though Obama had already won enough states to claim the presidency.
Husted said his office is trying to reduce the number of provisional ballots in Ohio by using change-of-address information from the Postal Service to send out more than 300,000 postcards to Ohio voters, reminding them to update their registration.
"If we can potentially reduce the number of ballots cast provisionally, then you lessen the likelihood that there will have to be a prolonged process as it relates to those ballots," Husted said. "Understand, a provisional ballot is a second chance because you didn't do it right the first time, meaning that you didn't update your address, you didn't bring in the proper form of ID, there's something that the voter didn't do at the onset that prevented them from voting a regular ballot."
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Associated Press writer Connie Cass and AP election research coordinator Christina Bryant contributed to this report.
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Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by Capaccini(m): 5:02pm On Sep 23
Well if you ask me lack of communication,unforgiveness,immaturity,weak mindset e.tc Tell me yours
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by MRbrownJAY(m): 8:45pm On Sep 23
sometimes it just comes down to something as simple as: YOU GOT WHAT YOU CAME FOR.
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by CrazyMan(m): 10:18pm On Sep 23
Pride and lack of understanding...
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by Capaccini(m): 5:51pm On Sep 24
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by omega25red(m): 6:03pm On Sep 24
It comes down to 1. atrraction 2. communication 3. interests 4. dollar dollar bill yoooooo
attraction: The most basic part of any relationship is the fact that there is some sort of mutual attraction (physical, mental, cash etc)
communication: Boredom in relationships happen because you can't carry on a convo that is interesting ( this happens to most guys after sex )
interests: if you dont have similar interests or if you are not willing to embrace your GF/BF interests then the relationship is doomed
dollar dollar bill yooooo: self explanatory
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by kunletiwoo(m): 12:14pm On Sep 25
Lack of GOAL.
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by jammyng(m): 12:27pm On Sep 25
Fear of the unknown!
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by jeron1(m): 12:30pm On Sep 25
Lies and lack of trust
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by slimojas89(m): 12:33pm On Sep 25
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by seyizma: 12:35pm On Sep 25
[color=#990000][/color]lack of trust
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by montero4relo(m): 12:36pm On Sep 25
I believe the key factor is noffin but the four strongest letter in the world "LOVE" Any relationship that is not built on love will surfer a dash break up. because if you love your spouse you will understand, tolerate, endure be patience in every situation...
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by Amya(f): 12:41pm On Sep 25
1. Entering one for the wrong reasons
2. If there's nothing to sustain the initial attraction, it dwindles gradually till it fades
3. Lack of common interest between the parties
4. if you haven't moved on from previous relationships
5. Lack of intimacy or too much intimacy
6. When either of the party are not honest about themselves.
7. When there's so much lies before the relationship solidifies.
8. Multi dating other people.
9. When there's so much focus on materialism especially on the part of the girl.
10. When both party are not on the same wave length/ have very little or no communication between them.
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by Babycake(m): 12:42pm On Sep 25
Immaturity&Intolerance!
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by joey4jo: 12:47pm On Sep 25
Distance
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by Matrin(m): 1:01pm On Sep 25
Lack of Beans
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by kunletiwoo(m): 1:03pm On Sep 25
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by careytommy(m): 1:07pm On Sep 25
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by afam4eva(m): 1:18pm On Sep 25
MRbrownJAY: sometimes it just comes down to something as simple as: YOU GOT WHAT YOU CAME FOR.
But won't you want more?
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by reloadedxxx(m): 1:29pm On Sep 25
Matrin: Lack of Beans
chai what is that.hehehehehehe
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by 27naira(m): 1:33pm On Sep 25
Govt policies
Sharia law (in the North)
stinginess
mouth odour (lmao!)
hairy armpits
empty wallet
***what am i even saying? ***
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by KINGwax(m): 1:42pm On Sep 25
Quick ejac!
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by KINGwax(m): 1:43pm On Sep 25
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by toyindebare(m): 1:47pm On Sep 25
Some relationships won't just work no matter what effort u put into it.I have dated a girl for six years.Endured,made some unbelievable sacrifices but at long run,its gone down the drain .Relationship that is not founded on God. Will definately fail.
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by Capaccini(m): 1:50pm On Sep 25
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by 6packs: 1:51pm On Sep 25
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Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by gentlesmith: 1:52pm On Sep 25
misunderstanding,lie,double dating,lack of finance and laziness
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by anitank(f): 2:13pm On Sep 25
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by kunletiwoo(m): 2:15pm On Sep 25
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by sadeiyare(m): 2:19pm On Sep 25
GREED
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by ikekings(m): 2:25pm On Sep 25
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by kunletiwoo(m): 2:28pm On Sep 25
Re: Key Factors For Short-Lived Relationships? by cindyrella(f): 2:43pm On Sep 25
LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, a former executive in Rupert Murdoch's media empire and friend of British Prime Minister David Cameron, faces charges in court on Wednesday that she conspired to hide evidence from police investigating a phone hacking scandal.
The charges are part of the criminal inquiry into assertions that UK newspapers intercepted messages on the phones of celebrities, politicians and crime victims, and made illegal payments to public officials.
The scandal has damaged the reputation of Murdoch's global media operations, raised questions about Cameron's judgment and exposed the close relations between British politicians, police and journalists.
Brooks, 44, was expected to enter a plea on three counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice between July 6 and July 19, 2011. The hearing will take place at the Central Criminal Court in London.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the first charge alleges she conspired with her husband Charlie Brooks, a racehorse trainer, to "conceal material from the officers of the Metropolitan Police Service" in London.
The second accuses Brooks and Cheryl Carter, her one-time personal assistant, of plotting "to remove seven boxes of material from the archive of News International", Murdoch's UK newspaper business.
The third alleges that Brooks, her husband and three others conspired "to conceal documents, computers and other electronic equipment from officers".
Cameron's ex-media chief Andy Coulson, who also worked as a Murdoch newspaper editor, is due in the same court for a preliminary hearing on charges that he conspired to intercept phone messages.
Brooks is separately charged with conspiracy to intercept phone messages, allegations she has denied. Wednesday's hearing will encompass both the charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and those related to phone messages.
Brooks was one of Murdoch's most trusted and loyal managers, editing two of his top-selling tabloid newspapers before going on to run News International. She was also close to Cameron, exchanging text messages with the Conservative leader. (Reporting by Peter Griffiths; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Today it?s time for the Top 5 Cardio exercises using nothing but your own bodyweight. Now I will say that sprints ? especially hill sprints or stair running are a great cardio workout but this is for people with limited space looking for some home exercise workout solutions or a good hotel room workout .
These are hard ? my clients hate most of them but I love em.
Give the cross-trainer or the treadmill the boot and do some real cardio. Best bit is you can do these anywhere because you only need your own bodyweight.
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David Ryfe at University of Nevada, Reno looks inside American newsrooms in search of answers
RENO, Nev. It's no secret that, with the advent of the Internet and related technologies, American newspapers and other media outlets are struggling. David Ryfe, associate professor of journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, spent five years visiting the newsrooms of three typical midsized American newspapers looking for answers, attempting to define the current state of journalism and where it is headed.
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Contact: Claudene Wharton whartonc@unr.edu 775-784-1169 University of Nevada, Reno
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Ryfe said he watched the confusion and angst grow, firsthand, in the newsrooms.
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