ylvgec's posterous http://ylvgec.posterous.com Most recent posts at ylvgec's posterous posterous.com Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:30:16 -0800 California GOP Pins Its Hopes On Latinos http://ylvgec.posterous.com/california-gop-pins-its-hopes-on-latinos http://ylvgec.posterous.com/california-gop-pins-its-hopes-on-latinos

Hispanic voters are at the heart of a plan to rebuild and reinvigorate the Republican Party in California, the politician expected to take over the leadership of the state GOP has been telling insiders.

Former state Sen. Jim Brulte, the frontrunner to become the next chair of the California GOP has made the state?s Latino electorate the centerpiece of a makeover he says will turnaround the Republican Party?s fortunes.

?Jim Brulte says he has a six-year-plan to make the GOP the party of Hispanics in California,? says political consultant William Orozo. ?He says he?s going to make Latinos forget about Proposition 187 and Pete Wilson.

?And who knows? Politics sometimes has such a short attention span that in six years, 2019, he might just succeed.?

Prop 187 alienated Latinos and was the downfall of the California GOP

Proposition 187 is the anti-immigrant state measure that the GOP championed in the mid-1990s that many blame for alienating Latinos and for the downfall of the Republican Party in the state since that time.

Wilson was the Republican California governor who made Proposition 187 his personal crusade.

Approved by voters in 1994, the measure sought, among other things, to require police, health care professionals and teachers to verify and report the immigration status of all individuals, including children.

The courts eventually dismantled the measure and made it meaningless except as a symbol for Hispanics of GOP exclusion.

The decline of the state GOP became evident this past election in California when only 29 percent of the state?s voters were registered as Republicans, compared to 43 percent for Democrats.

On Monday, California Republican activists became the latest to meet in an attempt to figure out a game plan for making their party viable again.

It was at that meeting in San Diego that Brulte announced he would be a candidate for state GOP chairman, a position he is expected to win.

Jim Brulte may have a tough time with Tea Partiers

In pushing his plan to woo Latinos, though, Brulte will have to walk a fine line with the state?s die-hard conservatives and Tea Party people, say insiders.

?But Jim knows where the future of California politics is,? said one GOP insider. ?It?s the Latino vote, and he knows you have to go after it as you would a pretty girl because, as 2012 showed, the Latino vote is the darling of American politics right now.?

According to insiders, Brulte?s rebuilding is a six-year-plan because the state party has problems that go beyond having alienated Hispanics, resulting in not having any Republican holding a statewide elected office.

The state party is almost broke, with a half-million-dollar debt and down to only three full-time staffers, two of whom work from home. It also has almost no grassroots organization to speak of.

In Brulte, the GOP has a leader who typifies the about-face the party faces, say insiders.

His legislative record was that of a conservative, but he recognizes the new political landscape in California.

?His voting record is strongly conservative, but he also knows how to reach out to moderates and Democrats,? said Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney.

Republican consultant Luis Alvarado, who is also president of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Greater Los Angeles, is among those Hispanics who are encouraged.

?We?re going back to the party of Shogun-type dynasties, where the Tea Party has their coalition, and the moderates have their coalition, and it?s going to be a battle to see who comes out on top,? he had said just weeks ago, in the aftermath of the election.

Now he says Brulte may be the ideal candidate for the political challenge at hand, adding:

?I have not heard a single person tell me that they would be opposed to him as a leader.?

This article originally appeared on VOXXI under the title "Latinos at Center of California GOP Rebuilding."

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Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:44:15 -0800 FSA mulls deadline for PPI claims on banks - sources http://ylvgec.posterous.com/fsa-mulls-deadline-for-ppi-claims-on-banks-so http://ylvgec.posterous.com/fsa-mulls-deadline-for-ppi-claims-on-banks-so

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial regulator is considering putting a deadline on bank customers claiming compensation for being mis-sold insurance on their borrowings, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The Financial Services Authority and UK banks are looking at ways to tackle the spiralling cost of compensating customers mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI). Industry sources have said the total bill could be 25 billion pounds and take banks several years to clear as claims from customers and their agents such as dedicated claims management companies continue to pour in.

With each billion pounds paid out in PPI compensation cutting the amount banks can lend in real terms by 10 billion pounds, the industry has lobbied regulators to put a limit on how much longer customers can have to make claims. But one of the sources stressed that the talks were at an early stage.

"It is far from a done deal", the source said.

The Times newspaper said on Wednesday that the British Bankers Association had suggested a deadline of next summer in return for the banks agreeing to finance a widespread advertising campaign to ensure people are aware that they only have a limited time to make a claim.

The BBA confirmed on Wednesday that it was holding talks over PPI with the Financial Services Authority.

"The ongoing work focuses on three issues as a priority: addressing backlogs, making sure that customers can be confident that the offers they receive are right and highlighting that there is no need for them to engage a claims management company," the BBA said in a statement.

Banks have so far set aside more than 12 billion pounds to deal with the biggest mis-selling scandal in British history and are struggling to cope with a mounting backlog of complaints.

The policies were meant to protect borrowers who found themselves out of work because of sickness or redundancy but were found to have often been sold to customers who did not want or need them.

Last week, the Financial Ombudsman Services, which steps in when banks and their customers can't reach a settlement, said it was currently receiving 5,000 PPI-related complaints each week and was recruiting 1,000 new staff to process them.

The FSA said it was looking at ways to deal with the unprecedented level of claims.

"We have considered a number of options and continue to do so. PPI is an ongoing and high-profile issue and we are monitoring it closely," the regulator said.

Typically Lloyds Banking Group has an army of 6,000 workers processing claims and has put aside 5.3 billion pounds for compensation.

Banks are also co-operating more with claims management firms to process the claims, despite their public criticism of the companies, which have been urging borrowers to claim.

(Editing by Edwina Gibbs and Greg Mahlich)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fsa-mulls-deadline-ppi-claims-banks-sources-170716781--finance.html

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Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:49:18 -0800 More Americans hunt, fish, and enjoy wildlife-associated recreation http://ylvgec.posterous.com/more-americans-hunt-fish-and-enjoy-wildlife-a http://ylvgec.posterous.com/more-americans-hunt-fish-and-enjoy-wildlife-a

Thirty-eight percent of Americans over 16 years of age hunted, fished, or participated in some kind of wildlife-related activity in 2011, according to the quinquennial national survey?issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In pursuit of their interests, these sportsmen and women spent $145 billion, or one dollar out of every hundred dollars of goods and services produced in the U.S.

Compared to the prior national survey, released in 2006, there was a 9 percent increase in hunting, with the biggest gains seen among migratory bird hunters. Fishing participation increased by 11 percent. Numbers of wildlife-watchers stayed steady.

The economic impact of outdoor sports and recreation is widespread, with money spent on equipment, travel and lodging, licenses and fees, membership dues and contributions, land leasing and ownership, and plantings for hunting. ?From local guides and restaurant workers to airlines and national manufacturers, numerous sectors of the economy benefit from Americans? enthusiasm to enjoy the outdoors and connect with the natural world.

Wildlife-associated recreation also results in significant financial support for conservation. A report?from the American Sportsfishing Organization points out that anglers? purchase of license fees and payment of excise taxes on tack and on motorboat fuel fund state fish and wildlife agency projects that improve water quality and support fisheries? and habitat conservation, contributing to the nation?s overall environmental health.

Source: http://beyondseasonsend.org/more-americans-hunt-fish-and-enjoy-wildlife-associated-recreation/

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Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:03:17 -0800 Team finds gene that promotes drug resistance in cancer http://ylvgec.posterous.com/team-finds-gene-that-promotes-drug-resistance http://ylvgec.posterous.com/team-finds-gene-that-promotes-drug-resistance Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Scientists from the University of Iowa and Brigham Young University (BYU) have identified a gene that may be a target for overcoming drug resistance in cancer. The finding could not only improve prognostic and diagnostic tools for evaluating cancer and monitoring patients' response to treatment but also could lead to new therapies directed at eradicating drug-resistant cancer cells.

Drug resistance is a common problem in many metastatic cancers. It leads to failure of chemotherapy treatments and is associated with poor patient outcomes, including rapid relapse and death.

The research team, including Fenghuang (Frank) Zhan, M.D., Ph.D., and Guido Tricot, M.D., Ph.D., from the UI, and David Bearss, Ph.D., from BYU, initially focused on identifying genes linked to the development of drug resistance in multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer that affects more than 20,000 Americans and causes almost 11,000 deaths annually.

Working with serial biopsied cells from 19 myeloma patients, the researchers analyzed genetic changes in the cells that occurred over the course of treatment with very intensive chemotherapy drugs. This approach identified a gene called NEK2 that is strongly associated with increased drug-resistance, faster cancer growth, and poorer survival for patients. The study was published Jan. 14 in the journal Cancer Cell.

Having established the relationship between high expression of the NEK2 gene and poor patient outcome in myeloma, the team then examined the relationship in other common cancers -- including breast, lung, and bladder cancer -- by analyzing gene expression profiles from 2,500 patients' cells with eight different cancers in Zhan's lab.

"In all cases, an increase in the NEK2 gene was associated with rapid death of the patient," says Tricot, who is director of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center's Bone Marrow Transplant and Myeloma Program at UI Hospitals and Clinics. "So this finding was not unique to myeloma; this is basically seen in every single cancer we looked at."

Taking the findings back to the lab, the team then examined the effect on cancer cells of either enhancing or blocking the expression of the NEK2 gene.

"Our studies show that over-expression of NEK2 in cancer cells significantly enhances the activity of drug efflux proteins to pump chemotherapy drugs out of cells, resulting in drug resistance. Furthermore, silencing NEK2 in cancer cells potently decreased drug resistance, induced cell-cycle arrest, cell death, and inhibited cancer cell growth in vitro and in vivo," says Zhan, UI professor of internal medicine.

The research team is now developing compounds to inhibit NEK2 by collaborating with David Bearss, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and developmental biology at BYU, in the hope that these compounds may overcome drug resistance in cancer cells.

"We were able to show that if we inhibit NEK2, then we can actually restore sensitivity to drugs that we use right now," Bearss says.

Although development and clinical testing of such drugs for use in patients is not imminent, Tricot notes that the findings may have clinical use within the next several years.

"NEK2 expression may be a diagnostic or prognostic marker for drug-resistant cancer," he says. "If NEK2 is high, that would suggest that the prognosis is poorer and the patient might benefit from more aggressive treatment. The other potential use is for monitoring the cancer's response to therapy. If NEK2 levels increase, that would suggest development of increased drug resistance and might indicate that a change of treatment would be helpful."

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Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:12:16 -0800 Enlightened, Season 2 http://ylvgec.posterous.com/enlightened-season-2 http://ylvgec.posterous.com/enlightened-season-2

As Amy?s manic effort to bring down Abaddon kicked in during Enlightened?s season premiere, so did Tyler?s reluctance to get drawn deeper into her game. Amy?s perennial sidekick?even after she rebuffed his fumbling advances?Tyler often seems even more hapless than our ostensible heroine. Amy tries to plunder more private emails of Abaddon?s higher-ups, but he balks, as only Tyler can: ?My aunt died and I just found out I got her timeshare, so I?m going to go to the Bahamas for two weeks a year!?

Tyler?s objections are at once pathetic and hilarious, as so much in Enlightened is. But when he finds out that he will lose his job whether or not he helps Amy, he allows himself to be drawn back into her grandiose, self-centered scheme, apparently because he detects a loneliness in Amy that mirrors his own. ?I don?t know anything else,? he tells her when she asks if he wants to stop feeling invisible. When Amy suggests that Tyler could become Time?s Person of the Year, he shares an eye roll with us, but his lingering stare also betrays a sense of longing that clearly gets his wheels turning.

If there is any real hero in Enlightened, Tyler has to be it. Amy?s enthusiasm for crushing Abaddon arises from a self-professed sense of ?obligation? that?s clearly her own need for self-renewal. She fits the self-righteous profile we often associate with whistleblowers, but Tyler is a complicated figure that may have more in common with whistleblowers in reality: He?s so used to being marginal that the alternative no longer seems appealing to him. He?s exactly the sort of broken-down drone Amy hopes to liberate, a fact that escapes them both. Not only does Tyler supply the means to bring down Abaddon (even with the password, Amy can?t figure out how to print the files), he also seems to embody the soul of the effort?and, crucially, provide an abiding reason they deserve to succeed.

Series co-creator Mike White cast himself in the role almost as an act of pity; he spares other actors the grim duty of playing a guy so broken that he accepts regular humiliation because his employee card helped get him a gym membership. White?a gaunt, pallid writer who occasionally acts?tends to write roles for himself that involve peripheral characters with a detached, sometimes ominous edge (if you haven?t caught his most famous role, in Chuck & Buck, do so immediately). That persona couldn?t be further from the man himself, if his unlikely bid on reality TV with his dad is to be believed, and yet he plays on his naturally eerie screen presence to revealing effect. The performance is so insistently unshowy that it?s easy to overlook the quiet, dutiful compass Tyler has become?both for Amy and for us.

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Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:26:17 -0800 Amsterdam professors are sick en masse after party http://ylvgec.posterous.com/amsterdam-professors-are-sick-en-masse-after http://ylvgec.posterous.com/amsterdam-professors-are-sick-en-masse-after

AMSTERDAM (AP) ? Was it the fish?

An estimated 230 University of Amsterdam professors or their spouses got violently ill last week after the school's annual faculty party. Spokesman Joost van Tilburg said food poisoning was believed to be the cause.

He says the professors' distress "mostly involved stomach problems."

Some 400 people attended the party.

The results of an investigation by health authorities are due Thursday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/amsterdam-professors-sick-en-masse-party-153408891.html

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Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:04:18 -0800 Armstrong comments on doping were not as expected: Oprah Winfrey http://ylvgec.posterous.com/armstrong-comments-on-doping-were-not-as-expe http://ylvgec.posterous.com/armstrong-comments-on-doping-were-not-as-expe

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong "did not come clean in the way I expected" on whether he used performance-enhancing drugs in his cycling career, celebrated talk show host Oprah Winfrey said on Tuesday, a day after a lengthy interview with the disgraced athlete.

Armstrong, 41, has always vehemently denied using the drugs and had never tested positive to a doping test. But the evidence against him has been overwhelming and pressure has been building on him to admit that he cheated.

USA Today reported on Monday that Armstrong had confessed to the doping in the interview with Winfrey, which will air on Thursday and Friday on Winfrey's OWN Network, and other media say they have confirmed the report.

In an appearance on CBS' "This Morning" show on Tuesday, Winfrey stopped short of confirming a confession and said she would leave to others to decide if Armstrong had been contrite in the interview. She added that she found him to be thoughtful and serious.

When asked why Armstrong, who had his seven Tour de France titles stripped last year, had agreed to an interview that lasted more than two hours, Winfrey said: "I think he was just ready."

"I didn't get all the questions asked, but I think the most important questions and the answers that people around the world have been waiting to hear were answered," Winfrey told CBS.

A cancer survivor who went on to become the greatest cyclist the world has seen, Armstrong's fall from grace has been as swift and spectacular as his rise through the French Alps.

Long dogged by accusations he cheated his way to the top, an October report from the U.S. anti-doping body USADA ultimately triggered his rapid slide.

USADA exposed Armstrong as a liar and a cheat, describing him as the ringmaster of the "most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen," involving anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, blood transfusions and other doping.

(Reporting by Dan Burns; Editing by Paul Simao)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/armstrong-admits-doping-during-winfrey-interview-report-012657188--spt.html

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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:42:14 -0800 Play.com closes direct retail business?.. | Hi-Def Ninja http://ylvgec.posterous.com/playcom-closes-direct-retail-business-hi-def http://ylvgec.posterous.com/playcom-closes-direct-retail-business-hi-def

Online retailer Play.com is to shut down its retail business to become a marketplace-only, from March.

The Jersey-based firm blamed the move on the ending of Low Value Consignment Relief, which allowed items less than ?15 to be sold to the UK VAT-free. All 147 staff in Jersey are to be made redundant as well as 67 in its Cambridge and Bristol offices. Play.com will now become more like a shopping centre, no longer selling directly to customers. The Low Value Consignment Relief (LVCR) loophole was closed by the UK government in April 2012.

In a statement Play.com said: ?Moving forward we are intending to focus exclusively on our successful marketplace, which is our main business area, and to phase out the direct-retail part of our business.?

A spokesperson confirmed the changes meant they were completely pulling out of Jersey, but about 200 staff would be left in the restructured company, which will be based in Cambridge.

Jersey?s Economic Development Minister, Senator Alan Maclean, said now in total about 600 people had lost their jobs in the island because of the end of LVCR. Senator Maclean said: ?I?m saddened, this is a Jersey business, set up in the island that did extraordinarily well, that became a global brand. We will work with other businesses and entrepreneurs to help them develop the next Play.com.? He said the government would do all it could to support those out of work.

David Warr, president of Jersey?s Chamber of Commerce, said it was another hammer blow to the island?s economy. He said: ?That?s a significant increase in the number of people unemployed? and obviously that should be a concern to everyone. I think we are going to have to work very hard to find these people new places to work.?

Garry Todd, a tax analyst, said LVCR ended almost a year ago and most businesses that would close have, indicating Jersey is through the worst of it.

In September 2011, Play.com was taken over by Japanese e-commerce operator Rakuten. It paid ?25m ($39.3m, 28.6m euros) for the company, which at the time had 14m registered users and was one of the largest online retailers in the UK.

Source: http://www.hidefninja.com/2013/01/13/play-com-closes-direct-retail-business/

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Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:23:16 -0800 Economics and Investing: - SurvivalBlog.com http://ylvgec.posterous.com/economics-and-investing-survivalblogcom http://ylvgec.posterous.com/economics-and-investing-survivalblogcom

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Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:27:17 -0800 Japan's Nishikori calls Pan Pacific loss 'bad news' http://ylvgec.posterous.com/japans-nishikori-calls-pan-pacific-loss-bad-n http://ylvgec.posterous.com/japans-nishikori-calls-pan-pacific-loss-bad-n

MELBOURNE: Kei Nishikori Sunday admitted Japan losing its top tennis tournament to China was "bad news" but added that he wanted more events in the region to encourage emerging players.

The world number 18 called it "sad" that the 30-year-old Pan Pacific Open women's tournament had been replaced by a new event in China as part of a push into the country by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA).

"Yeah, it is bad news. But I don't know much about why they moved to China, so I can't say anything," he said at the Australian Open. "Yeah, it's sad to see. I want more tournaments in Japan."

Wuhan, home city of Chinese star Li Na, will host a new tournament next year in place of Tokyo's Pan Pacific, whose list of winners includes Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Maria Sharapova.

New events in Shenzhen and Hong Kong will take the number of women's tournaments on Chinese territory to five by next year as the WTA puts heavy emphasis on the country.

But Nishikori backed moves to bring more events to the Asia-Pacific region.

The 23-year-old became the Japan Open's first home-grown winner last year and Australia's Bernard Tomic, 20, won his maiden title in Sydney on Saturday.

Nishikori also reached the quarter-finals at last year's Australian Open, the best ever Grand Slam performance by a Japanese man.

"I want to see more tournaments in Asia. A lot of guys are coming now. Tomic just won a tournament. I think we're doing great," Nishikori said.

"So hopefully more players are coming up and more tournaments will be played in Asia."

Nishikori added that his knee was 90 percent fit after an injury which forced him out of this month's Brisbane International. But he admitted to feeling extra pressure after last year's run at the Australian Open.

"It's going to be pressure for sure from the first round," said Nishikori, who plays Romania's Victor Hanescu on Monday.

"But I'm getting a lot of confidence getting through last year and won the Japan Open, beating a lot of top 10 players. I'm getting a lot of confidence, so hopefully I can go play my best tennis and get a good result." -AFP

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Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:46:19 -0800 merifontain: Own Publishing Has Come A Long Way ? Writing and ... http://ylvgec.posterous.com/merifontain-own-publishing-has-come-a-long-wa http://ylvgec.posterous.com/merifontain-own-publishing-has-come-a-long-wa

The increase of self publishing has gained momentum in recent years and isn?t really presenting indications of reducing anytime quickly.

Digital Book World mentions that in 2012 self-publishing has taken $ 100 thousand out of the UNITED STATE profession incomes in 2011. Even though the revenues guide business made were close to $ 14 billion, that is still a large piece and it is anticipated to enhance annually.

Nevertheless you choose to look at it, self publishing has actually had a significant influence on the publishing world in 2012. There are a number of stories concerning major publishers acquiring the civil liberties to a book that was initially self published.

A major ripple in the publishing neighborhood norm came when Simon & Schuster obtained the rights to publish the print edition of Hugh Howey?s book Wool. After already offering over 300,000 ebooks, this deal will no question assistance Howey in to the mainstream.

Numerous of the authors in the top-selling group for 2012 on websites like Amazon and iTunes have begun as self published authors. And lately there has been another major turning point in the means self published authors are seen.

In a very first ever occasion a self published book has actually made it to the New York Moments listing of the top-ten publications of 2012. Reviewer Michiko Kakutani, valued in the business as one of the toughest book critics, decided on The Revolution Was Telecasted: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers That Transformed TELEVISION Dramatization Forever by Alan Sepinwall for her top-ten list and unlike the additional titles in the checklist it didn?t have actually a publisher named.

Self publishing has its origins in the aged ?Vanity Publishing? of the past, which was where an author can go to get their book released if they had actually been refused by the larger publishing houses.

Vanity Publishing constantly held with it the marketing of being made use of by talentless individuals who saw themselves as authors, which is just how it got it?s label. Without fuss they published and released the manuscript ?as is? when you delivered it to them, ran off a thousand approximately copies and dumped them in your lap, or garage area or cellar, you get the picture.

Self publishing today has taken on a whole various worth and direction of its very own and individuals who have real skill are no longer shed in the shuffle of the publishing houses and they aren?t required to spend cash they don?t have and might never have the ability to recover, so they can easily provide their imagination with the rest of us.

Self publishing is a popular form of book publishing but you have to know the proper way of self book publishing.


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Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:56:18 -0800 Anti-aging Nutritional Supplements | Health and Fitness Tips ... http://ylvgec.posterous.com/anti-aging-nutritional-supplements-health-and http://ylvgec.posterous.com/anti-aging-nutritional-supplements-health-and

The very best anti-aging supplements are individuals that repair the harm towards the body by natural techniques. Aging is thought to become triggered through the stress put on our bodies by the entire process of oxidation triggered by toxins. The oxidation triggered by toxins leads to a series reaction which extracts electrons using their company cells, resulting in their damage. You will find many factors accountable for free electrons for example polluting of the environment, ultraviolet sun rays, toxic chemicals, fatty and fried food products, tobacco smoke, among many more.

Anti-oxidants work, because the title indicates, being an anti from the oxidation process and prevents the response of toxins. A few of the anti-aging supplements you can test are the following:

Anti-oxidants ? You ought to have meals which contain greater number of these for example gingko, grape seek extract and eco-friendly tea. Aside from these herbal treatments, certain spices or herbs also contain anti-oxidants. They?re celery, cloves, oregano, rosemary oil and sage. You may also get supplements of numerous anti-oxidants created by the body besides certain proteins that behave as anti-oxidants.

DHEA supplements ? DHEA is definitely an adrenal hormone that is created most abundantly within your body. It?s been reported to possess excellent anti-aging effect on women with restoration of the excess estrogen, progesterone, estradiol and estrone towards the youth levels. In males it enhances the amount of testosterone and androstenedione with benefits for example lower stress, mood enhancement, enhanced memory and sleep. However this nutritional supplement is suggested for individuals over 3 decades old.

Marine Phytoplankton ? Phytoplankton lies at the bottom of the meals chain and is regarded as accountable for 75 % from the Earth?s oxygen. If it?s consumed like a food supplement, it brings oxygen in your body. Oxygen may be the element required to make good the harm triggered through the toxins in your body. Make certain the phytoplankton you achieve with a home store doesn?t contain useless additives, because the entire process of transforming the marine version into human consumable version is extremely costly.

Whatever anti-aging health supplement you select, it ought to be done after due thought on the next:

Observe your skin by searching carefully at the skin inside a mirror. You should know whether the skin is oily, dry or normal. This could let you know the best kind of supplement to consider for controlling aging.

Be aware of elements and health problems connected health problems from the supplement you want to take. You may be allergic to a few of the elements.

Verify if the supplement qualifies the Fda (Food and drug administration) in USA, and relevant health government bodies in other nations.

You might like to browse the supplements which have money-back guarantee, when the claims from the producers don?t satisfy you.

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Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:31:17 -0800 The loss of a landline means big change in communications | voip ... http://ylvgec.posterous.com/the-loss-of-a-landline-means-big-change-in-co http://ylvgec.posterous.com/the-loss-of-a-landline-means-big-change-in-co

The loss of a landline is something that every business will have to deal with over the next few years. A recent report by inetwork, a division of ATLANTIC-ACM, shows that 74 percent of those polled believe that the death of the office landline and deskphone will be one of the most significant forces in the world of voice services. The continued spread of mobile devices and?unified communications?will be big for many of these companies look beyond landlines.

The report also showed that 72 percent of respondents believe the adoption and migration to?VoIP?solutions was inevitable over the long-term evolution in market disruption. This represents the blurring of lines between wireless carriers and VoIP services. Another statistic from the report showed that 70 percent cited the death of old-school telephone service as the third most disruptive factor in business, saying these legacy phone service users will likely need to adopt some of the characteristics of?IP telephony?and other digital voice companies to stay relevant.

About half of those that responded to this survey said new competition is their biggest threat, which beat out others like market consolidation or pricing, so new companies looking at VoIP and other similar services will likely need to aggressively move toward these solutions to be sure they are gaining a competitive edge over other organizations.

?While certain resellers will claim there is still money to be made in Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), the overall market continues to decline,? said Dr. Judy Reed Smith, CEO of ATLANTIC-ACM. ?End-user migration to wireless, VoIP and everything in between will drive shrinking demand for traditional wholesale voice services, leaving those providers unwilling to deviate from ?business-as-usual? in the dust.?

According to a recent report from Infonetics, the global VoIP and IMS equipment market saw big gains in North America, growing 20 percent. Latin America also saw a large growth, at 34 percent. Infonetics analyst Diane Myers in February said she expected 2012 to be a big year for the industry, saying she believes it will grow 46 percent to $3.8 billion.

?We?ll see this trend shift starting this year as the high-growth market segments ? including IMS core equipment and session border controllers ? become collectively large enough to offset the ongoing declines of the legacy products,? Myers said in the report, according to Fierce Enterprise Communications.

Source: http://www.voip-sip.org/the-loss-of-a-landline-voip/

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:41:16 -0800 Obama won't support building 'Death Star' http://ylvgec.posterous.com/obama-wont-support-building-death-star http://ylvgec.posterous.com/obama-wont-support-building-death-star

President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question during a joint news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question during a joint news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

(AP) ? A "Death Star" won't be a part of the U.S. military's arsenal any time soon.

More than 34,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the Obama administration to build the "Star Wars" inspired super-weapon to spur job growth and bolster national defense.

But in a posting Friday on the White House website, Paul Shawcross, an administration adviser on science and space, says a Death Star would cost too much to build ? an estimated $850 quadrillion ? at a time the White House is working to reduce the federal budget.

Besides, Shawcross says, the Obama administration "does not support blowing up planets."

The U.S., Shawcross points out, is already involved in several out-of-this-world projects, including the International Space Station, which is currently orbiting Earth with a half-dozen astronauts.

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Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:40:17 -0800 Miss America contestant pursuing double mastectomy http://ylvgec.posterous.com/miss-america-contestant-pursuing-double-maste http://ylvgec.posterous.com/miss-america-contestant-pursuing-double-maste

LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Win or lose Saturday, Miss America contestant Allyn Rose will have conveyed a message about breast cancer prevention using her primary tool as a beauty queen: her body.

The 24-year-old Miss D.C. plans to undergo a double mastectomy after she struts in a bikini and flaunts her roller skating talent. She is removing both breasts as a preventive measure to reduce her chances of developing the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and great aunt.

"My mom would have given up every part of her body to be here for me, to watch me in the pageant," she said Wednesday between dress rehearsals and preliminary competitions at Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas Strip. "If there's something that I can do to be proactive, it might hurt my body, it might hurt my physical beauty, but I'm going to be alive."

If crowned, the University of Maryland, College Park, politics major could become the first Miss America not endowed with the Barbie silhouette associated with beauty queens.

Rose said it was her father who first broached the subject, during her freshman year of college, two years after the death of her mother

"I said, 'Dad I'm not going to do that. I like the body I have.' He got serious and said, 'Well then you're going to end up dead like your mom.'"

She has pondered that conversation for the past three years, during which she has worked as a model and won several pageants, including Miss Maryland USA, Miss Sinergy and the Miss District of Columbia competition, which put her in the running for Saturday's bonanza.

With her angular face, pale blond hair and watchful blue eyes, Rose is unusually reserved. She acknowledged that she comes off as more of an ice queen than a girl next door

"You have to block out everything and I think sometimes that makes me appear a little cold," she said. "But it's because I had to be my own mentor, I had to be my own best friend."

She measures her age by the time of her mother, Judy Rose's, first diagnosis, at age 27.

"Right now, I'm three years away," she said.

Judy had one breast removed in her 20s but waited until she was 47 to remove the other one, which Rose's father had called a ticking time bomb.

"That's when they found she had a stage-three tumor in her breast," Rose said. "And that's why for me, I'm not going to wait."

She plans to have reconstructive surgery, but said the procedure has complications and there is no guarantee that she will regain her pageant-approved bust.

Preventive surgery is a "very reasonable" choice for someone with Rose's family history and a genetic predisposition, said Patricia Ganz, Director of Cancer Prevention at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center in Los Angeles.

"I've seen young women have it done, and they have great peace of mind," she said, adding that the alternative is repeated mammograms and physical exams, which detect but do not prevent cancer from developing.

The number of women opting for preventive mastectomies increased tenfold between 1998 and 2007, as genetic testing and reconstructive surgery options improved, according to a 2010 study published last year in Annals of Surgical Oncology. The procedure is believed to reduce risk by 90 percent.

Art McMaster, CEO of the Miss America Organization, called Rose an "incredible example" of strength and courage.

The Newburg, Md., native said she has received letters from supporters all over the country, including from fellow "previvors" who say they have been inspired to undergo their own preventive surgeries. The Wynn sports book gives her 25-1 odds of winning the Miss America crown, making her a moderate favorite.

But her decision is drawing criticism as well as praise in the staged-managed world of pageants, where contestants regularly go under the knife for a very different reason.

She also receives hate mail from beauty circuit die-hards who write to insist that she continue filling out her bikini.

"You have people who say, 'Don't have the surgery. This is mutilating your body. You don't have cancer.' They want to pick apart every little thing," she said. Some have even accused her of faking to make herself a more media-friendly candidate.

This kind of pre-emptive surgery has divided the medical community as well. For someone in her early 20s to have the procedure is "very unusual," said Todd Tuttle, chief of surgical oncology at the University of Minnesota.

Sandra Swain, medical director of Washington Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C., fears that women who have lost family members to breast cancer could take Rose's example too literally.

"We're seen a rise in prophylactic mastectomies and a lot of it is not for a medical reason; it is because of fear and anxiety," she said.

Rose does not carry the "breast cancer genes" BRCA1 and BRCA2, but she did inherit a rare genetic mutation which might predispose her to the disease.

Her brother, who works for an oncology association, said he sees the irony in a beauty queen choosing to give up her breasts but supports his sister's choice.

"For me what trumps everything is her living, hopefully to a ripe old age, as opposed to any ancillary things that she might lose from potentially winning Miss America," said Dane Rose, 31.

Rose initially said that if she won the crown, she would postpone her surgery until after her year as a title-holder. But while shopping for earrings to match her black velvet pageant gown Wednesday, she said she was now considering having the surgery during her reign as a way of inscribing her platform of breast cancer prevention on her body.

"I've been thinking how powerful that might be to have a Miss America say, 'I might be Miss America but I'm still going to have surgery. I'm going to take control of my own life, my own health care,' " she said. "So I guess it's up to what happens on Saturday night."

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Hannah Dreier can be reached at http://twitter.com/hannahdreier .

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Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:51:18 -0800 Rebecca Rubin, Alleged Eco-Terrorist And Member Of 'The Family,' Faces Arson Charges http://ylvgec.posterous.com/rebecca-rubin-alleged-eco-terrorist-and-membe http://ylvgec.posterous.com/rebecca-rubin-alleged-eco-terrorist-and-membe
  • In a Saturday Oct. 13, 2012 photo, Amanda McCracken, of Big Stone Gap, stands with her children, Kaylee, 6, and Pryston, 8, at Saturday's United for Coal demonstration in support of her husband and their father, who is a coal miner. Only a few generations ago, coal miners were literally at war with their employers, spilling and shedding blood on West Virginia's Blair Mountain in a historic battle for union representation and fair treatment. Today, their descendants are allies in a carefully choreographed rhetorical war playing out across eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and all of West Virginia. It's fueled by a single, unrelenting message that they now face a common enemy _ the federal government _ that has decided that coal is no longer king, or even noble. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Allie Robinson)

  • In this April 2010 photo, miners watch as a piece of equipment passes by in the Tech Leasing and Rebuild Inc. Mine #1 in Buchanan County, Va. Once, coal miners were literally at war with their employers. Today, their descendants are allies in a rhetorical war playing out across eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and all of West Virginia. The message: They now face a common enemy - the federal government, especially the president and the Environmental Protection Agency. The war on coal is a sound bite and a headline, perpetuated by pundits, power companies and public relations consultants who have crafted a neat label for a complex set of realities, one that compels people to choose sides. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, David Crigger)

  • In a Saturday Oct. 13, 2012 photo, hundreds congregated along U.S. 23 from Big Stone Gap to Pound and into Kentucky in support of coal miners and the mining industry. Only a few generations ago, coal miners were literally at war with their employers, spilling and shedding blood on West Virginia's Blair Mountain in a historic battle for union representation and fair treatment. Today, their descendants are allies in a carefully choreographed rhetorical war playing out across eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and all of West Virginia. It's fueled by a single, unrelenting message that they now face a common enemy, the federal government, that has decided that coal is no longer king, or even noble. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Allie Robinson)

  • Republican candidates are using the idea of a "war on coal" in their campaigns this year, as in this sign that targets incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin in Morgantown, W.Va., on Oct. 16, 2012. Once, coal miners were literally at war with their employers. Today, their descendants are allies in a rhetorical war playing out across eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and all of West Virginia. The message: They now face a common enemy, the federal government, especially the president and the Environmental Protection Agency.(AP Photo/Vicki Smith)

  • In this April 2010 photo, a coal miner drives a scoop while working in the Tech Leasing and Rebuild Inc. Mine #1 in Buchanan County, Va. Once, coal miners were literally at war with their employers. Today, their descendants are allies in a rhetorical war playing out across eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and all of West Virginia. The message: They now face a common enemy - the federal government, especially the president and the Environmental Protection Agency. The war on coal is a sound bite and a headline, perpetuated by pundits, power companies and public relations consultants who have crafted a neat label for a complex set of realities, one that compels people to choose sides. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, David Crigger)

  • In this Saturday Oct. 13, 2012 photo, a man speaks to the crowd at a United for Coal event in Pikeville, Ky. Once, coal miners were literally at war with their employers. Today, their descendants are allies in a rhetorical war playing out across eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and all of West Virginia. The message: They now face a common enemy - the federal government, especially the president and the Environmental Protection Agency. The war on coal is a sound bite and a headline, perpetuated by pundits, power companies and public relations consultants who have crafted a neat label for a complex set of realities, one that compels people to choose sides. (AP Photo/Appalachian News-Express, Elizabeth Thompson)

  • A truck passes a political sign in a yard in Dellslow, W.Va., on Oct. 16, 2012. Rhetoric about the administration's alleged "war on coal" has come to dominate conversation this campaign season. Once, coal miners were literally at war with their employers. Today, their descendants are allies in a rhetorical war playing out across eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and all of West Virginia. The message: They now face a common enemy _ the federal government, especially the president and the Environmental Protection Agency. (AP Photo/Vicki Smith)

  • In a Saturday Oct. 13, 2012 photo, hundreds of supporters signed the American Energy Alliance bus, which has for the past two months traveled around the country, during a United for Coal Rally in Southwest Va. Only a few generations ago, coal miners were literally at war with their employers, spilling and shedding blood on West Virginia's Blair Mountain in a historic battle for union representation and fair treatment. Today, their descendants are allies in a carefully choreographed rhetorical war playing out across eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and all of West Virginia. It's fueled by a single, unrelenting message that they now face a common enemy _ the federal government _ that has decided that coal is no longer king, or even noble. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Allie Robinson)

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    Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:01:17 -0800 Cape Cod Ice to pay $225K to settle EPA complaint http://ylvgec.posterous.com/cape-cod-ice-to-pay-225k-to-settle-epa-compla http://ylvgec.posterous.com/cape-cod-ice-to-pay-225k-to-settle-epa-compla

    EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A cold storage and ice manufacturing company with facilities in East Providence, R.I. and Sandwich, Mass., has agreed to pay $225,000 to settle claims by the Environmental Protection Agency that it violated Clean Air Act requirements.

    The EPA alleged in its complaint that Cape Cod Ice didn't have a required risk management plan for ammonia used in the refrigeration system at its East Providence facility. The agency also said the company didn't taken required precautions at its Sandwich facility to minimize the consequences of an accidental release of ammonia.

    The case stemmed from a routine EPA inspection of the Sandwich facility in 2011. The settlement was announced Wednesday.

    The company says it has completed all of the actions required by EPA and settled the case to avoid litigation of its appeals.

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