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Sunday, 18 September 2011
Archie Comics' gay wedding: Too political? (The Week)
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Saturday, 17 September 2011
Negotiation and Networking ? Basics About Car Finance Loans
Buying a car is a very exciting activity that most home owners are caught up in. And whilst interest rates can be extremely unaffordable people still find themselves trying to finance loans from banks and car dealerships. And whilst this is well and good there are quite a number of traps that everyone must be careful enough to avoid. Therefore car finance loans should be taken with the greatest caution.
The very most important thing is the overall cost of buying a car. Do not just wait for approval as the most heart stopping process. In actual fact knowing how much the total cost of this hire purchase is. Generally this is the figure that you should use in comparing the various personal loan options.
Interest rates are also another notable cause of concern. The rate of interest on the loan is the amount of profit that a creditor makes for giving you a loan.
Personal loans attract lower rates of interests than car dealerships for some reason or another. So whenever you have a good credit score there is a very good chance that a credit provider will give a discount on interest.
Something else that attracts a lowering of interest is a down payment. A down payment is sort of like the security or deposit on a car. This tells the creditor that you are in a position to pay back the loan and this gives them the confidence to approve a loan application.
Paying for a personal loan can be difficult sometimes owing to job retrenchments and unexpected expenses. And even though you might think the worst that could happen is repossession, but it is not. Make sure you pay off the loan on time as not doing so can negatively impact on your credit score. And like I mentioned before a bad credit score can lead to loan applications in the future being turned down.
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Breast cancer rates increase worldwide, study finds | Healthy Living
Over a same period, a series of cases of cervical cancer has crept adult many some-more solemnly and deaths from that cancer have declined, nonetheless in 2010 it still killed 200,000 women around a world. In 2010, 51 percent of new cases of breast cancer and 76 percent of a 454,000 cases of cervical cancer were in building countries, a researchers noted.
?The universe used to consider of breast cancer as a problem that usually high-income countries had and cervical cancer as a problem generally for building countries,? pronounced coauthor Dr. Rafael Lozano, a highbrow of tellurian health during a university?s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
?What we have found is that while countries such as a United States and United Kingdom have been means to severely revoke a risk of women failing from breast cancer, by improved screening and treatment, countries with fewer resources are saying their risks go up,? he said.
The universe righteously recognizes that no lady should die given of complications associated to pregnancy and childbirth, Lozano said. ?Now that we can clearly see a trends in breast and cervical cancer, they need to turn a executive partial of a contention when priorities are being set for women?s health programs,? he said.
The news was published in a Sept. 15 online book of The Lancet.
For a study, Lozano and colleagues collected information from some-more than 300 cancer registries and cause-of-death offices in 187 countries.
During a 30 years lonesome by a study, breast cancer cases have augmenting in all tools of a universe by 3.1 percent a year, a researchers found.
In addition, among women aged 15 to 49 there were twice as many cases of breast cancer in building countries than in grown countries, they note. Deaths from breast cancer were also aloft in building countries compared with grown countries.
However, around a universe a boost in deaths from breast cancer has been slower than a increases in cases. This might be due presumably to early showing and diagnosis advances in grown countries, a researchers say.
?It is transparent from a information that given a late 1980s, women who rise breast cancer have had a improved possibility of flourishing given early screening is operative and diagnosis is working,? Lozano said.
In 1980, one out of each 32 women in a United States risked failing from breast cancer. By 2010, one out of each 46 women had that risk, he added.
When one looks during countries where screening and diagnosis are not as widely available, a trend is in a conflicting direction, Lozano said.
?In Zimbabwe, for example, a risk has left from one in 64 women failing to one in 35. Not usually is a hazard of breast cancer and cervical cancer changeable some-more heavily toward building countries, it also is changeable to women of reproductive age,? he said.
It used to be that these cancers were predominately a problem for women over 50, though some-more and some-more women in sub-Saharan Africa, a Middle East and South Asia are being strike by these cancers between a ages of 15 and 49, Lozano said. ?In Bangladesh, some-more than 60 percent of women failing from breast cancer are underneath age 50,? he added.
Since 1980, new cases and deaths from cervical cancer have augmenting generally in south and easterly Asia, Latin America, and Africa, though have forsaken roughly in high-income countries, quite where widespread screening is available, Lozano?s organisation found.
?Our regard there is that this is a illness that is roughly wholly preventable by protected sex practices and early detection, nonetheless it continues to kill? hundreds of thousands of women each year, Lozano said.
Ahmedin Jemal, clamp boss for notice investigate during a American Cancer Society, pronounced a boost in breast cancer diagnosis is partly to augmenting awareness.
But many importantly, he said, a risk factors for breast cancer embody reproductive factors such as late child temperament and late menopause. These factors boost with mercantile growth [and so] augmenting in a building universe ? not as many as in a grown world. But, that?s a pushing factor,? he said.
In addition, plumpness is a risk cause for breast cancer and it has been augmenting around a world, Jemal said.
To revoke a occurrence of breast cancer, Jemal says, some-more recognition of early showing and entrance to caring is needed. Also, women should be speedy to revoke a famous risk factors for a disease, he said, such as obesity.
As distant as cervical cancer is concerned, a boost in building areas is due to miss of entrance to screening with Pap tests, he said. With a growth of a HPV vaccine, Jemal pronounced he hopes to see a rate of cervical cancer decline, generally given drug makers are creation a vaccine accessible during a low cost to building areas.
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Friday, 16 September 2011
Strikes against Iraq security forces kill 19
An Injured man receives treatment at a Hospital in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. A car bomb went off outside a restaurant where local police were having breakfast Wednesday morning, killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
An Injured man receives treatment at a Hospital in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. A car bomb went off outside a restaurant where local police were having breakfast Wednesday morning, killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo / Karim Kadim)
Injured men receive treatment at a Hospital in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. A car bomb went off outside a restaurant where local police were having breakfast Wednesday morning, killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
BAGHDAD (AP) ? Three violent strikes against Iraqi security forces on Wednesday killed 19 people and wounded more than 50 across Iraq as the country struggles to protect itself while facing the U.S. military's departure at the end of the year.
Two morning bombings and a drive-by shooting at dawn revealed how vulnerable Iraqi forces remain to attacks after more than eight years of war.
Iraqi soldiers and police are a favorite target for militants, and are branded as traitors because of their training and working with American troops.
In the bloodiest attack Wednesday, a car bomb parked outside a restaurant where local police were having breakfast killed 15 people and wounded 41 in the southern town of al-Shumali, said Hillah hospital Dr. Zuhair al-Khafaji. Deputy governor of Babil province, Faleh al-Mahna, confirmed the toll.
Two of the dead were police, and four others were among the wounded, al-Khafaji said. The bodies and wounded victims were brought to his hospital.
Associated Press video of the scene showed charred, crumpled cars outside the eatery that was painted orange and purple. Small groups of men stood ankle-deep in the wreckage.
An eyewitness, who refused to give his name fearing he would be targeted, said the restaurant was full when the car bomb exploded shortly before 8 a.m. "A lot of travelers and innocent people were inside the place having their breakfast when the car bomb went off," he said.
Al-Shumali is just south of Hillah and about 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of Baghdad. It is also a popular resting place for Shiite pilgrims headed to the holy shrine of the Imam al-Hamza, located three miles (four kilometers) south of the town.
Earlier, in the dawn attack, gunmen opened fire on a security patrol in a mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood in northeastern Baghdad. The gunmen escaped after killing two policemen and wounding a third, according to a police official and a medic at Baghdad city hospital.
Later in the morning, about a half hour after the al-Shumali blast and more than 100 miles (145 kilometers) away, a bomb exploded on a minibus that was carrying soldiers to a training area in western Iraq's Anbar province. Two soldiers were killed and 11 wounded by the bomb, which was hidden on the bus, inside their own camp near the town of Habbaniyah, 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Baghdad.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to release the information.
The attacks come at a precarious time for Iraq, torn between wanting to assert its sovereignty without the help of U.S. forces while also recognizing that its own soldiers and police are not yet ready to stop militants on their own.
Iraqi leaders are grappling with whether they will formally ask the Obama administration to keep a relatively small number of U.S. troops ? between 3,000 and 10,000 ? in Iraq beyond the military's December 31 withdrawal deadline.
Talks among the leaders of Iraq's top political groups have stalled, and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has signaled that the final decision will be left to parliament, where most lawmakers have been reluctant to embrace a continued U.S. troops presence that is unpopular with many voters.
There are currently about 45,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. Plans by the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad call for hiring just under 8,000 private security contractors to protect American government offices and residential buildings in Iraq if the military leaves.
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Associated Press Writers Sameer N. Yacoub, Saad Abdul-Kadir, Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Hamid Ahmed contributed to this report.
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Thursday, 15 September 2011
Hitchhiking snails fly from ocean to ocean
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Smithsonian scientists and colleagues report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine organisms, twice in the past million yearsboth times probably by flying across Mexico, stuck to the legs or riding on the bellies of shorebirds and introducing new genes that contribute to the marine biodiversity on each coast.
"Just as people use airplanes to fly overseas, marine snails may use birds to fly over land," said Mark Torchin, staff scientist at the Smithsonian. "It just happens much less frequently. There's also a big difference between one or two individuals ending up in a new place, and a really successful invasion, in which several animals survive, reproduce and establish new populations."
The discovery of the hitchhiking snails, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society: B, has broad implications. "Not only snails, but many intertidal organisms may be able to 'fly' with birds," said first author of the study, Osamu Miura, assistant professor at Japan's Kochi University and former postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Chance events that occur only once in a great while may be extremely important in the history of life. In 1940, George Gaylord Simpson, who studied natural history as recorded in fossils, coined the term "sweepstakes dispersal" to describe the unlikely events in which animals cross over a barrier resulting in major consequences for the diversity of life on Earth. Simpson was thinking about land-based animals that might "get lucky" and cross between continents or islands by floating on rafts of debris. Sometimes such events result in devastating biological invasionsintroducing new diseases, wiping out resident species or causing economic damage to food crops.
The idea of land snails hitching rides on birds goes back to Charles Darwin, who speculated that migratory birds could transport snails to distant places. In fact, birds are thought to have carried land snails 5,500 miles from Europe to Tristan de Cunha Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and back. But this is the first report of a marine snail "flying" from one ocean to another.
Scientists working at the Smithsonian in Panama have long been interested in how the rise of the Central American land bridge more than 3 million years ago drove speciation and increased biodiversity. It formed a barrier between marine species, some of which evolved in their new surroundings, becoming new "sister" species that could no longer mate with their former relatives.
By studying the genetics of two sister species of Horn Snails, Cerithideopsis californica and C. pliculosa, collected at 29 different locations in mudflats and mangrove habitats from California to Panama on the Pacific and from Texas to Panama on the Atlantic, the researchers discovered that, about 750,000 years ago, these snails invaded the Atlantic from the Pacific, and then, about 72,000 years ago, Atlantic populations returned to invade Pacific shores.
"Shorebirds mostly move back and forth across Central America via a couple of flyways," said Torchin. "We think that the snails were able to cross the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico because it's a major bird flyway and is a relatively flat and narrow stretch of land with ideal tidal flat habitat on either side."
"There is a chance that the hitchhiking snails benefited native populations by bringing in new genes that helped them resist common parasites that castrate the snails and keep them from reproducing," said Ryan Hechinger, associate research biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "Now we are looking at the parasite genes to see if they jumped Central America too."
Understanding that such hitchhiking occurs can help reveal where new species might have become established or where they might establish in the future," said Eldredge Bermingham, STRI director and staff scientist."I am here in Panama watching as snails fly over my head. Tongue in cheek, I fail to understand why others did not notice this before! I suspect our interpretation of this phylogeographic pattern would make George Gaylord Simpson smile."
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The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, headquartered in Panama City, Panama, is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution. The Institute furthers the understanding of tropical nature and its importance to human welfare, trains students to conduct research in the tropics and promotes conservation by increasing public awareness of the beauty and importance of tropical ecosystems. Website: www.stri.org.
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Public release date: 14-Sep-2011[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Beth King
kingb@si.edu
703-487-3770
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Smithsonian scientists and colleagues report that snails successfully crossed Central America, long considered an impenetrable barrier to marine organisms, twice in the past million yearsboth times probably by flying across Mexico, stuck to the legs or riding on the bellies of shorebirds and introducing new genes that contribute to the marine biodiversity on each coast.
"Just as people use airplanes to fly overseas, marine snails may use birds to fly over land," said Mark Torchin, staff scientist at the Smithsonian. "It just happens much less frequently. There's also a big difference between one or two individuals ending up in a new place, and a really successful invasion, in which several animals survive, reproduce and establish new populations."
The discovery of the hitchhiking snails, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society: B, has broad implications. "Not only snails, but many intertidal organisms may be able to 'fly' with birds," said first author of the study, Osamu Miura, assistant professor at Japan's Kochi University and former postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Chance events that occur only once in a great while may be extremely important in the history of life. In 1940, George Gaylord Simpson, who studied natural history as recorded in fossils, coined the term "sweepstakes dispersal" to describe the unlikely events in which animals cross over a barrier resulting in major consequences for the diversity of life on Earth. Simpson was thinking about land-based animals that might "get lucky" and cross between continents or islands by floating on rafts of debris. Sometimes such events result in devastating biological invasionsintroducing new diseases, wiping out resident species or causing economic damage to food crops.
The idea of land snails hitching rides on birds goes back to Charles Darwin, who speculated that migratory birds could transport snails to distant places. In fact, birds are thought to have carried land snails 5,500 miles from Europe to Tristan de Cunha Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and back. But this is the first report of a marine snail "flying" from one ocean to another.
Scientists working at the Smithsonian in Panama have long been interested in how the rise of the Central American land bridge more than 3 million years ago drove speciation and increased biodiversity. It formed a barrier between marine species, some of which evolved in their new surroundings, becoming new "sister" species that could no longer mate with their former relatives.
By studying the genetics of two sister species of Horn Snails, Cerithideopsis californica and C. pliculosa, collected at 29 different locations in mudflats and mangrove habitats from California to Panama on the Pacific and from Texas to Panama on the Atlantic, the researchers discovered that, about 750,000 years ago, these snails invaded the Atlantic from the Pacific, and then, about 72,000 years ago, Atlantic populations returned to invade Pacific shores.
"Shorebirds mostly move back and forth across Central America via a couple of flyways," said Torchin. "We think that the snails were able to cross the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico because it's a major bird flyway and is a relatively flat and narrow stretch of land with ideal tidal flat habitat on either side."
"There is a chance that the hitchhiking snails benefited native populations by bringing in new genes that helped them resist common parasites that castrate the snails and keep them from reproducing," said Ryan Hechinger, associate research biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "Now we are looking at the parasite genes to see if they jumped Central America too."
Understanding that such hitchhiking occurs can help reveal where new species might have become established or where they might establish in the future," said Eldredge Bermingham, STRI director and staff scientist."I am here in Panama watching as snails fly over my head. Tongue in cheek, I fail to understand why others did not notice this before! I suspect our interpretation of this phylogeographic pattern would make George Gaylord Simpson smile."
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The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, headquartered in Panama City, Panama, is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution. The Institute furthers the understanding of tropical nature and its importance to human welfare, trains students to conduct research in the tropics and promotes conservation by increasing public awareness of the beauty and importance of tropical ecosystems. Website: www.stri.org.
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Food And Drink ? Very Low Calorie Diets ? The Pros And Cons
When it comes to very low calorie diets, there are lots of opinions. People support them and say they are the best way to lose weight, whilst others are against them and say they are not healthy. You should gather information about these diets if you are planning to start one, and contact your doctor about it too. For your research on very low calorie diets, the following facts can be a good starting point. Whether or not you would like to follow a low calorie diet plan, or some thing related to yoga top guarantee that you are focused on taking early action.
Some people believe that the key to living a long life is a very low calorie diet, but some experts will disagree and say that very low calorie diets are not healthy. It?s claimed, based on one theory that has research mainly done on animals, that you can slow the aging process down and prevent a number of diseases by cutting your calorie intake severely. People who subscribe to this view may go on a very low calorie diet even if they?re not overweight, because they believe it will help them live longer. An organization dedicated to this practice exists, and it?s called the Calorie Restriction Society. This is most definitely an area that is worth doing research on, even though there isn?t any research done on humans that?s conclusive to prove or disprove the theory.
The Rice Diet has been in existence since the 1930s and has been used for patients suffering from hypertension and kidney diseases. This is a low calorie diet that can also help people to lose weight. You consume more foods than rice alone; however rice is eaten with every meal. The advantage of the Rice Diet is that it cuts out processed foods, and is extremely low in fat, salt and sugar. Most people will not prefer to stay on this diet for any length of time, given its strong nature. So if you?re looking out to shed women yoga clothes weight then see to it that you?re not ignoring the basics.
Obese people find very low calorie diets to be appealing, but so do people suffering from eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, which is one danger of these diets. Being thin preoccupies people with this condition and they also have a view of themselves that?s distorted. A lot of people who suffer from such eating disorders will think of themselves as fat, whilst other people will see them as very thin. Such people will often refuse to eat anything but very low calorie foods, and this can bring about nutritional deficiencies and many side effects such as depression, problems with the hair and nails, and hypothermia, which makes them feel cold because their body temperature is lower than it should be. You should talk anybody who?s on a very low calorie diet into seeking help if they appear to be very thin.
To sum things up, if you need to lose some weight and your local health care provider says you are healthy enough to do it; you may consider one of these low cal food regimens. There are a few different options, some of which we?ve looked at in this article. No matter what kind of diet you?re considering, though, it?s best to do your research and look at a variety of opinions. Regardless of whether you would like to shed weight or began a yoga accessories company, remember that guidance is truly important.
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011
St Paul Web Design for Business Websites | Article Tavern
In the event that you are reading this post then you must have made a decision to spend money on a business website for your organization in order to begin on internet marketing. At this moment, the next phase that you simply have to take (in the event that you?re not too tech savvy) is to select the best website designer to take your business online. Even though you will find a multitude of options for web site designers in the online community, selecting just the proper web design company isn?t a easy. Selecting a web design company is actually more difficult in St Paul web design; companies which have experience in obtaining outcomes for business websites aren?t so common.
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It?s no different whether or not you?re a business owner in New York or St. Paul; web design takes a whole lot of time, effort and research. Don?t be surprised by the attractive graphics or the bright colors of the layout. Ask your possible web designer for your alternatives and a concrete idea. Several web designers will be speedy to tell you that a return of investment can?t be measured in internet marketing (unlike traditional marketing) yet that?s not totally true. It?s more precise to say that computing the results in online marketing is different, nevertheless, you should really expect to have results.
A great sign of an excellent web design firm is their readiness to take a seat with you and discuss your company. In the event that you?re a business owner situated in St. Paul, web design services is one thing that can give you the edge on the competition, however it just isn?t enough to merely have a website. It must be supported with efficient online marketing techniques.
When you?re trying to find a good quality St. Paul web design firm to aid you get started with online marketing, hopefully that this write-up has been beneficial in permitting you to winnow out the so-so from those that get you results. In this point in time where dominating the online market is as effective as dominating the market generally speaking, you?ll surely want your online marketing campaign in excellent hands.
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