charmich's posterous http://charmich.posterous.com Most recent posts at charmich's posterous posterous.com Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:34:32 -0700 iPhone 5 Pricing And Availability Revealed: $199 For 16GB, $299 For 32GB, $399 For 64GB, Ships On Sept. 21 http://charmich.posterous.com/iphone-5-pricing-and-availability-revealed-19 http://charmich.posterous.com/iphone-5-pricing-and-availability-revealed-19 iphone5-4Now that everyone's appetite for the iPhone 5 has been whetted, when can people actually get one? Apple's Phil Schiller took the stage after playing a brief video to talk up the new iPhone 5 to finally talk about availability. The pre-orders for the device itself beings on September 14 (that's Friday, in case you were curious), and the iPhone 5 will actually be released into the wild on September 21.

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Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:43:18 -0700 OCZ's new Vector SSD breaks cover at IDF, packs in-house developed Indilinx controller http://charmich.posterous.com/oczs-new-vector-ssd-breaks-cover-at-idf-packs http://charmich.posterous.com/oczs-new-vector-ssd-breaks-cover-at-idf-packs

OCZ's new Vector SSD breaks cover, packs wholly inhouse Indilinx controller

As we were wandering the floor today at IDF 2012, we happened upon an OCZ rep who pulled the company's new 2.5-inch SATA 3 SSD out of his pocket and let us get our mitts on it. Called the Vector, it will replace the well-received Vertex 4 at the top of OCZ's lineup. Like its predecessor, the Vertex packs an Indilinx controller, but this time it's the Barefoot 3, which was developed totally in-house without any assistance from Marvell designs. You can expect to see 256GB and 512GB versions of the Vector hit the market in Q4, with other sizes possibly showing up after. Of course, IOPS, read/write speeds and pricing remain a mystery, but we can share the gallery of shots below.

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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:38:20 -0700 Stefani calls marriage 'biggest accomplishment' http://charmich.posterous.com/stefani-calls-marriage-biggest-accomplishment http://charmich.posterous.com/stefani-calls-marriage-biggest-accomplishment

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Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani with their sons Zuma and Kingston in Los Angeles in June.

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Gwen Stefani and rocker Gavin Rossdale have been married for a decade and the No Doubt frontwoman takes great pride in their longevity as a couple.

?A miracle,? she told the October issue of Marie Claire of staying together for so long. ?My biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it?s hard, everyone knows it?s hard.

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?[Marriage] is something that I always wanted to do successfully,? she added. ?It was a dream of mine. I like the official-ness and the family-ness of it all, having the same name and making decisions together.?

The couple has faced their share of tabloid rumors touting the demise of their relationship over the years, but Stefani said they are still going strong.

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?[Our relationship] is better than it?s ever been,? she said. ?Like, we?re learning about each other all the time. He?s an amazing dad, he works so hard?-- I can hear him writing songs through the wall, and it is at a much quicker pace than me!?

Stefani said one of the things she loves about her husband is how smitten he is with his music superstar wife.

?He balances me out. And he?-- he never stops liking me, which is awesome,? she said. ?It makes me feel happy, that someone likes me as much as he does.?

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The couple is parents to two boys?-- Kingston, 6, and Zuma, 4 -- and Gwen revealed the boys are bundles of energy.

?From the moment they wake up, they start beating on each other,? she said. ?I never knew they would be so physical. They?re just starting to play real well together, but with a lot of fighting. They do look out for each other?-- especially the little one, he really loves his older brother.?

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Gwen would like another child, but said she?s also happy if their family numbers stay the same.

?I really, really, really wanted one about two years ago,? she told Marie Claire of having another baby. ?And it didn?t really work out. So ...?I feel good with what we?ve got. Everything works out how it should. You can?t plan anything, right? You can try.?

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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:47:31 -0700 Do You Have a Photo ID, Young Man? http://charmich.posterous.com/do-you-have-a-photo-id-young-man http://charmich.posterous.com/do-you-have-a-photo-id-young-man A New York Police Department mobile security outpost stands near the World Trade Center site. A New York Police Department mobile security outpost near the World Trade Center site in New York City

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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York is a profound, beautiful monument to the lives lost in the 1993 and 2001 terror attacks at the World Trade Center. But the iron curtain of security surrounding the site forms its own monument: to our successful adaptation to the realities of a post-9/11 world, and perhaps to choices that speak less well of us.

Advance tickets are required to enter this public, outdoor memorial. To book them, you?re obliged to provide your home address, email address, and phone number, and the full names of everyone in your party. It is ?strongly recommended? that you print your tickets at home, which is where you must leave explosives, large bags, hand soap, glass bottles, rope, and bubbles. Also, ?personal wheeled vehicles? not limited to bicycles, skateboards, and scooters, and anything else deemed inappropriate. Anyone age 13 or older must carry photo ID, to be displayed ?when required and/or requested.?

Once at the memorial you must go through a metal detector and your belongings must be X-rayed. Officers will inspect your ticket?that invulnerable document you nearly left on your printer?at least five times. One will draw a blue line on it; 40 yards (and around a dozen security cameras) later, another officer will shout at you if your ticket and its blue line are not visible. Eventually you?ll reach the memorial itself, where there are more officers and no bathrooms. You?re allowed to take photographs anywhere outside the security screening area?in theory if not always in practice.

Eleven years after 9/11 and a year after the memorial opened, it?s time for a freedom-loving people to consider the purpose and impact of such security measures. Let?s ask the experts?and ourselves?three questions. Is enhanced security necessary at the memorial? Are the specific measures in place likely to be effective? And what is their cost to a free society??

At first glance, the need for security at the Sept. 11 memorial seems self-evident. The memorial stands on some of the most sacred ground in America; a third attack there would be an unimaginable blow. But just because an incident would be tragic doesn?t mean it?s a serious possibility. Depending on who?s counting, either 14 or 16 people in America have been killed by Islamic extremists since 9/11?13 at Fort Hood, Texas. There have been other plots, of course, disrupted by law enforcement, though a recent study described about half of those as ?essentially created or facilitated in a major way by the authorities.? Meanwhile about 15,000 Americans are murdered annually. Tobacco claims the lives of around 440,000 Americans per year. In 2011, lightning killed 26.? ?

Counterterror experts I spoke with differed on the level of security required at the Sept. 11 memorial. But even among those who said they understood the enhanced security, nearly all couched that understanding in terms of the site?s iconic status, not actual risk to the memorial. Richard Barrett, coordinator for the U.N.?s al-Qaeda and Taliban monitoring team, described the likelihood of an attack on the memorial as ?incredibly small.? Max Abrahms, a counterterrorism fellow at Johns Hopkins University, said that although the memorial?s ?extra psychological importance? warrants heightened security, ?it's now clear that sleeper cells are not infesting our country ? al-Qaeda can hardly generate any violence at all.? In policy circles, al-Qaeda and the term ?strategic defeat? increasingly go together.

Of course, even if there is little risk to the site, the security measures may have some emotional value. The best argument I heard for enhanced security is the comfort that it gives some 9/11 family members and survivors. A representative for the September 11th Families' Association told me they ?appreciate all measures taken to insure the safety of visitors.? The president of the World Trade Center Survivors? Network said much the same?though he also acknowledged a ?diversity of opinion? among members. But not everyone is comforted by heavy security. John Mueller, a counterterror expert at Ohio State University and the Cato Institute, says that ?visible?security measures dealing with terrorism?tend to make people more anxious?about it.? He has research to back himself up.

If the purpose of elaborate security is to protect raw nerves rather than to address an active threat, it?s reasonable to ask how long it will be in place. Some memorial documents refer to controlled access during an ?interim operating period? that runs through the end of 2013; others promise ?open access ? from all sides? only when the entire World Trade Center site (not just the main tower) is fully rebuilt. It?s unclear when that will be?2016? TBD? (It wasn?t any clearer to a spokesman for the memorial.) And if the security measures are a response to an active threat, wouldn?t it be ill-advised to dispense with them the day the WTC site is finished?

For the sake of argument, let?s assume the memorial really is at risk. Are the current measures effective??

It?s not giving anything away to point out that the memorial?s security measures?at least the visible measures to which visitors are subjected?will not prevent a well-planned attack. Many of the most onerous requirements, even if they were effective deterrents, are unevenly enforced. For example, the requirement to provide names, addresses, et cetera in advance is undermined by the occasional distribution of a few same-day, timed tickets at several downtown locations and by the controversial ticket allocations to tour operators. (If an additional goal of named, prebooked tickets is to prevent reselling and control capacity, then the memorial could simply get rid of all tickets and count visitors as they enter and exit.) Then there?s the photo-ID rule, without which the requirement to give your name is meaningless. It?s at once overly restrictive?how many 13-year-olds have photo ID??and largely unenforced (my ID was requested on only the first of my three visits). ?

I talked to Bruce Schneier, a leading thinker on security and the man who coined the term ?security theater? to describe measures that are visible or intrusive but also pointless or ineffective. Schneier responded to a description of the memorial?s visible security with a pointed question: Is the memorial to the victims?or to our collective stupidity? The tactics, Schneier said, ?assume we can guess the plot. But as long as the terrorists can avoid them by making a minor change in their tactics or target, they're wastes of money.? What isn?t a waste of money? ?Investigation, intelligence, and emergency response?stuff that doesn?t require you to guess the plot.??

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Turkeys sustainable economy increases the countrys credibility in terms of business and construction investments. During the 20072011 review period, the country witnessed a significant rise in investments in key sectors such as education, healthcare, manufacturing and infrastructure. The growth in the construction industry during the review period was characterized by continued government encouragement of foreign direct investment (FDI) and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the country. The country ranks as the worlds 13th-most attractive destination for FDI, according to the FDI confidence index, and over the 20122016 forecast period, when the global economic scenario is likely to improve with the EU and US economies stabilizing, Turkey will be able to attract increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources.Scope
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Rendering of new medical facilities at 525 East 73rd Street

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The city reached an agreement with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the City University of New York today for the construction of two new state-of-the-art science and medical facilities on Manhattan?s Upper East Side.

The city will sell a 66,000 s/f site at 525 East 73rd Street for $215 million, what Mayor Bloomberg called ?easily one of the largest real estate transactions the city has ever been involved in? during a live press conference.

MSKCC will cover roughly 70 percent of the asking price and CUNY will pay the rest, said a spokesperson for the New York City Economic Development, which negotiated the agreement.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center will construct an up to 750,000 s/f cancer care facility and CUNY Hunter College will build an up to 336,000 s/f Science and Health Professions building to upgrade its science and nursing facilities.

?Thanks to our innovative approach to economic development, today?s announcement is yet another step towards making New York City home to the world?s most talented workforce,? Bloomberg said. ?Not only will these two great institutions play a critical role in creating great jobs in one of the city?s growing industries, but they usher in the innovators and medical advancements of tomorrow.?

A Newmark Grubb Knight Frank team made up of Mark S. Weiss, Justin DiMare and Howard Kesseler?represented Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the purchase and identified a replacement site for a Department of Sanitation garage that was originally planned for the site.

?In doing so, we were able to arrange the acquisition of the 73rd?Street site, which is large enough for MSKCC to expand its New York City footprint and for CUNY to develop the Hunter College Science and Health Professions Building, advancing both institution?s important roles in New York City,? Weiss said.

The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center will be well-positioned near the hospital?s main campus at 1275 York Ave. and will provide outpatient treatment programs for patients with lung, head, neck and hematological cancers and will include state-of-the-art outpatient bone marrow transplantation services.

?This new facility will play a critically important role in our overall cancer care delivery system,? said Dr. Craig B. Thompson, president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in a statement. ?It will have a patient-oriented physical design ? equipped with almost everything patients will need under one roof ? making their experience as streamlined and easy as possible.?

The site will also enable CUNY Hunter to create consolidated science and nursing facilities, eliminating the need for duplicate eating halls, libraries and other facilities at the current 25th Street campus, which will ultimately be vacated, the school?s president said.

?The relationship between Hunter College and Memorial Sloan-Kettering underscores Mayor Bloomberg?s unwavering support for STEM and for public education, and highlights the great importance of public and private collaborations,? said Jennifer J. Raab, president of CUNY Hunter College. ?We are proud of the many contributions Hunter College is making to science and will continue to make, expanding its work in neuroscience and cancer research, as we train the next generation of scientists, particularly minorities and women, in conjunction with Memorial Sloan-Kettering.?

The project is expected to create more than 3,200 construction jobs and nearly 830 permanent jobs, according to an analysis conducted by the New York City Economic Development Corporation, capitalizing on considerable growth that?s occurring in science, technology and research fields in New York.

Currently there are nearly 400 venture capital firms investing over $560 million in healthcare and biomedical innovation in the city and almost 100 companies based in the biotech, medical device, and biomedical IT industries, according to data from Mayor Bloomberg?s office.

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Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:45:32 -0700 Obama's Weekly Address: Commemorating the 11th Anniversary of 9/11 http://charmich.posterous.com/obamas-weekly-address-commemorating-the-11th http://charmich.posterous.com/obamas-weekly-address-commemorating-the-11th

As the nation prepares to mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, President Obama is reflecting on "just how far we've come as a nation" and highlighting his administration's foreign policy successes.

In his weekly address, the president paid tribute to those who lost their lives and honored the first responders who fought to save them.

"On that clear September morning, as America watched the towers fall, and the Pentagon burn and the wreckage smoldering in a Pennsylvania field, we were filled with questions. Where had the attacks come from, and how would America respond? Would they fundamentally weaken the country we love? Would they change who we are?" Obama said.

"The last decade has been a difficult one," he said. "But together, we have answered those questions and come back stronger as a nation."

Echoing his remarks at the Democratic National Convention this week, Obama said al Qaeda is "on the path to defeat," and, "Osama bin Laden will never threaten America again" because of his leadership.

The president also touted the end of the Iraq war and the transition in Afghanistan.

"Instead of changing who we are, the attacks have brought out the best in the American people," he said. "Instead of turning on each other, we've resisted the temptation to give in to mistrust and suspicion. I have always said that America is at war with al Qaeda and its affiliates - and we will never be at war with Islam or any other religion. We are the United States of America. Our freedom and diversity make us unique, and they will always be central to who we are as a nation.

"Eleven years later, that's the legacy of 9/11 - the ability to say with confidence that no adversary and no act of terrorism can change who we are," he said. "We are Americans, and we will protect and preserve this country we love. On this solemn anniversary, let's remember those we lost, let us reaffirm the values they stood for, and let us keep moving forward as one nation and one people."

The president will mark the upcoming anniversary by attending a memorial service at the Pentagon and meeting with wounded service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

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Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:02:33 -0700 A Crazy Running Bike, Boxed Wine Disguised, and More | Greatist http://charmich.posterous.com/a-crazy-running-bike-boxed-wine-disguised-and http://charmich.posterous.com/a-crazy-running-bike-boxed-wine-disguised-and

Happy Sunday! As always,?Links We Love?brings you our favorite?health?and?fitness?inspiration from around the web. This week, we have a video of a crazy bike-meets-run contraption, and an interesting way to set goals. We want to show some love and share kick-ass content in the wellness world, so here are our picks:?

Fitness

Crazy Running Bike Unleashed on the World ? Runner?s World
What happens when you cross running with biking (besides ?bunning?)? You get this crazy contraption that provides the best of both fitness worlds.

Health

Boxed Wine Now Comes in a High End Fashion Purse ? NPR The Salt
Boxed wine. Shaped as a handbag. Need we say more?

Happiness

The Surefire Way to Stick To Your Goals ? the DailyMuse
Nope, it?s not a to-do list, or an ice-cream sundae reward. Learn about a website that helps people keep their goals with an interesting incentive.

Blog Spotlight

The Back-to-School Mindset: How to Stay Positive ? Positively Present
School is in session! Forget the post-summer blues with these tips to make any start of the school-year a great one.

Grab Bag

?You Know What Distracts You From Happiness? Rushing? ? The Happiness Project
Sloooow down. This thought-proving interview discusses all-things happiness, including what may stop people from feeling content.

Source: http://greatist.com/team/links-we-love-090912/

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Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:08:24 -0700 Fly Or Die: Amazon Kindle Fire HD http://charmich.posterous.com/fly-or-die-amazon-kindle-fire-hd http://charmich.posterous.com/fly-or-die-amazon-kindle-fire-hd The Kindle Fire HD is a big deal. Big. It has rather excellent specs — a 1280x800 7-inch display, TI OMAP processor, dual stereo speakers, and dual-antennae Wifi (with MIMO) — and it comes at a ridiculously low price: $199.

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Sat, 08 Sep 2012 23:25:13 -0700 SFU Study Seeks New Insight Into Declining South Asian Child Heart http://charmich.posterous.com/sfu-study-seeks-new-insight-into-declining-so http://charmich.posterous.com/sfu-study-seeks-new-insight-into-declining-so

BURNABY ? Simon Fraser University professor Scott Lear is embarking on a new international study on childhood health ? and reaching out to the local South Asian community to help.

The study will focus on child heart health and targets 5,400 students in Grades 2 ? 3 and 9 ? 10 to determine how the home, community and school environments affect child behaviours and health in urban Canada, urban India and rural India.

Special attention will be given to Vancouver?s South Asian community, which is at greater risk for heart disease than other ethnic groups.

?The health of Canadian children is quickly deteriorating ? in just 30 years, the number of children who are overweight and obese has nearly doubled and at the same time fitness levels of our children has decreased substantially,? says Lear. ?Together, this puts our children at great risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease as young adults.

?While we know the problem, we don?t know the solutions or have enough information to develop effective solutions.?

The study is dubbed RICH LEGACY ? Research in International Cardiovascular Health ? Lifestyles, Environments and Genetic Attributes in Children and Youth.

?With this study we hope to identify causes and consequences of poor childhood health to help develop programs in each of these environments,? says Lear, who also holds the Pfizer/Heart and Stroke Foundation Chair in Cardiovascular Prevention Research at St. Paul?s Hospital.

Researchers are aiming to identify social, environmental and biological characteristics related to heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, obesity and abnormal cholesterol in children.

?These risk factors for heart disease are increasing in children throughout the world and as a result, diabetes and heart disease are occurring at younger ages,? says Lear.

Researchers are looking to partner with Greater Vancouver schools and parent associations to participate in the study. Once results are known, Lear will work with the children, parents and partnering schools to develop programs that can help improve child heart health.

?Understanding how the environment our children live in, whether the home, school or local community, affects health will help to identify possible solutions to the problem of? increasing child obesity and poor health,? Lear says. ?Working with the community will help us create solutions that work.?

The study is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the CANNeCTIN cardiovascular trial network.

Source: http://thelinkpaper.ca/?p=22219

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Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:32:31 -0700 GM Glowing Pet Fish Has Researchers Concerned : TreeHugger http://charmich.posterous.com/gm-glowing-pet-fish-has-researchers-concerned http://charmich.posterous.com/gm-glowing-pet-fish-has-researchers-concerned


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Who wouldn?t want a glow in the dark pet fish? That?s exactly what Yorktown Technologies thought when they brought a genetically modified pet fish called the GloFish to market in 2003.

The fluorescent fish, a modified version of the zebra fish, was undoubtedly popular, and as a result, this February Yorktown introduced the Electric Green Tetra fish, an altered version of the black Tetra fish. It?s a small freshwater fish that with the help of glowing coral genetic material, turns neon in black light, according to The Washington Post.

The Two Aren't the Same

But environmentalists fear that these two fish are actually much different than they seem because the Electric Green Tetra can survive in US waterways, particularly those in South Florida, while the GloFish can only survive in southern Asia waters.

?My worry is that they?ll be such a novelty that they will be imported back to [South America] and kids will let them go and they?ll start interbreeding with fish whose genomes are very similar,?? said Barry Chernoff, a freshwater fish biologist and chair of the environmental studies program at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn on The Washington Post. ?We would see the spreading of the fluorescent coral gene in the native fish.??

Setting Pets Free

Once people tire of their pets, many decide to set them free, which creates a huge problem in the wild, like in the case of the Burmese python in the South Florida. Yorktown?s CEO claims that the fish in question isn?t aggressive and rather vulnerable, so it?s not likely to become an invasive species. But researchers aren?t so sure.

?The neotropical region contains the most diverse freshwater fish fauna and complex freshwater ecosystem in the world, with some 6,025 fish species so far recognized,?? Gordon McGregor Reid, chair of the Wetlands International Freshwater Fish Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, said in an e-mail to The Washington Post. ?We meddle with this at our peril.?

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Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:41:06 -0700 Ginger More Powerful than Drugs as Treatment for Heartburn http://charmich.posterous.com/ginger-more-powerful-than-drugs-as-treatment http://charmich.posterous.com/ginger-more-powerful-than-drugs-as-treatment

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September 8, 2012

gingerroot1 235x147 Ginger More Powerful than Drugs as Treatment for HeartburnShould it surprise us that ginger, a cousin of the celebrated turmeric root, is outperforming Big Pharma? Millions suffering from heartburn and indigestion might be saving a pretty penny if they gave ginger a try as a treatment for heartburn instead of the multi-billion dollar drug industry?s many acid-blockers.

Acid reflux, Drugs, and Side-Effects

Dietary choices?like consuming caffeine, chocolate, fried and fatty foods, and alcohol?and simply overeating can lead to heartburn and acid reflux. In traditional medicine, we reach for pharmaceutical acid blockers like proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) when we have heartburn, but like many drugs these are not only often ineffective, they may exacerbate the condition. By design, acid-blockers can turn chronic heartburn into stomach acid barrier dysfunction by removing acid. These drugs are very dangerous, and shouldn?t be anyone?s first choice solution. Stomach acid, however, protects us from infection, aids in digestion, and manages the absorption of minerals and nutrients from our food.

According to GreenMedInfo, side effects of consuming acid-blockers include:

  • Clostridium infections
  • Diarrhea
  • Pneumonia
  • Bone fractures
  • Gastric lesions
  • Cancer

Ginger as Treatment for Heartburn ? Outperforms Acid-Blockers

Big Pharma profits when people treat symptoms with pills and syringes rather than removing the source of the problem and treating the condition naturally. People across cultures and centuries, however, have treated gastric discomfort and other ailments with ginger, and it seems we still don?t need Big Pharma?s help.

In a 2007 study published in the journal Molecular Research and Food Nutrition, researchers compared the anti-ulcer and anti-Helicobacter plyori (a bacteria linked to ulcers) properties of ginger and conventional acid-blockers like Lansoprazole, or Prevacid. Remarkably, ginger performed six to eight times better than did the drug. Rather than interfering with or removing stomach acid barrier (and thereby deactivating proteolytic enzymes and increasing risk of infection), ginger inhibits acid reflux and contains potent proteolytic enzymes comparable to the celebrated papaya. Researchers cite the ginger root as ?potential in-expensive multistep blockers against ulcer.?

In addition to being a treatment for heartburn, the health benefits of ginger are more than abundant, with the spice also being antibacterial, antiviral, and has antiparasitic properties. It?s been found to kill cancer cells more effectively than often harmful cancer drugs and even ease the common cough.

Explore More:

  1. How to Treat Acid Reflux Naturally Without Drugs
  2. Ginger Destroys Cancer More Effectively than Death-Linked Cancer Drugs
  3. Health Benefits of Ginger ? An Amazingly Healthful Spice
  4. Acid Reflux Caused by too Little Acid
  5. Deglycyrrhizinated Licorice a Lesser Known Solution for Treating Acid Reflux
  6. Buy Tamiflu for Flu Treatment? Flu Drugs Only Make Money for Big Pharma

Source: http://naturalsociety.com/ginger-powerful-treatment-for-heartburn/

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Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:50:26 -0700 Commercial Lending: An Easy Thing in California | Financial Help ... http://charmich.posterous.com/commercial-lending-an-easy-thing-in-californi http://charmich.posterous.com/commercial-lending-an-easy-thing-in-californi

It is always difficult to start a business if it turns out that you do not have enough funds as capital. Despite this, you should still find ways to resolve the issue. This is always what happens when you embark in such an endeavor; the best attitude is not to be discouraged but to look for solutions that are really viable. This means that if the problem is that you lack capital funds, you should look for other sources, such as getting a commercial loan. If you are in California, finding a company that would provide you this type of loan would be easy.

You are lucky if you happen to be based in Southern California because the companies that provide commercial loans are actually very many. Finding these is made easier by the fact that these are in directories and even on the web. However, before you actually apply for the said loan, you also need to identify the basic characteristics. In order to acquire the loans that would really be of help to you, you also need to learn more about each lending firm that you could easily find in this part of the state, particularly in Southern California.

The good thing about dealing with a commercial lender is that you are assured of getting a loan type called hard money. This type of loan is one which provides you with cold cash, which means that you could immediately make use of it as capital. Since this is a commercial loan though, you should expect it to be a secured loan.

This is actually a standard practice not just in California but in the rest of the country. You need to declare a property of yours as collateral for the loan. Once you offer this to the lender, it is very likely that your loan application would be approved.

Before you actually get this loan, you must first find out how much the interest would be. Generally, a good lending firm would never impose interest rates that are too high that all potential borrowers would be afraid of applying for it. If you wish to facilitate a loan application, it would be best if you get the assistance of a lending firm that could really help you with your capital requirement.

It is very important that you deal with an experienced commercial lender. Through this, you could have some assurance that any problem that would arise could easily be resolved without you having any trouble at all.

Gage Collmeyer loves blogging about the real estate industry. If you are looking for commercial hard money lenders, or to learn more about where to discover hard money lenders Beverly Hills, please go to the Cervenka & Lukes Capital Partners site today.

Source: http://www.financialhelp-forsingleparents.com/loans/commercial-lending-an-easy-thing-in-california.htm

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Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:27:54 -0700 Pint-size molecules show promise against obesity http://charmich.posterous.com/pint-size-molecules-show-promise-against-obes http://charmich.posterous.com/pint-size-molecules-show-promise-against-obes

ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2012) ? Tiny strands of RNA affect how our cells burn fat and sugar -- a finding that gives biologists a place to start in the quest for therapies to treat obesity and related health problems, said scientists at Virginia Tech and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Mice on high fat diets are resistant to obesity when two mini-molecules called microRNAS are missing from their genetic makeup, according to a study this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The discovery suggests that treatments targeting these two specific microRNAs may help stem the nation's obesity epidemic. More than one-third of adults in the United States and about 17 percent of the nation's children are obese, increasing their risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, liver disease, and some cancers, according to the National Institutes of Health.

"Scientists know the best health solution for obesity involves eating less and exercising more," said Matthew W. Hulver, an associate professor with the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech. "But in cases when people can't or won't exercise, if we can identify what is contributing to the regulation of our metabolic circuits, we can target it with a drug or pharmacologic solution."

Once considered to be little more than scrap DNA, scientists now know microRNAs have an important role in regulating how genes shape human health and behavior. They have been linked to heart disease, diabetes, hepatitis C, leukemia, lymphoma, and breast cancer.

Although microRNAs previously have been linked to obesity, the new findings are the first to establish a connection between microRNAs and cellular metabolism.

MicroRNA biologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center modified mice to be genetically unable to produce microRNA-378 and its cousin miR-378*, resulting in relatively trim animals with metabolisms that quickly convert cellular food into energy.

"We did not know the function of this pair of microRNAs, but were intrigued because they arose from a gene connected with metabolism, and they are expressed in a variety of tissues, such as muscle, fat, and liver," said Eric N. Olson, Ph.D., a professor and the chairman of molecular biology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study. "When we modified mice so that they were missing these microRNAs, it permitted their cells to burn more energy and have greater obesity resistance than those of their untreated litter mates. This pair of microRNAs seems to function as key regulators of metabolism, suggesting that a drug designed to inhibit them would have a positive effect against obesity."

Olson's lab has examined the results of microRNA changes on various disease states, including heart disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- also known as Lou Gehrig's disease or ALS.

In the current study, Virginia Tech scientists, including Madlyn I. Frisard, an assistant professor of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, and Hulver, director of the Metabolic Phenotyping Core at Virginia Tech, isolated mitochondria -- the furnaces within cells that turn fat and other fuel into energy -- from liver and skeletal muscle.

When they measured mitochondrial use of fatty acids, they found that a chemical process that releases energy called oxidation was increased, supporting the discovery that loss of the microRNAs results in increased energy expenditure and resistance to obesity, even with a high-fat diet.

"The take home message is microRNAs potentially are a magic bullet against obesity. This is a surprising finding that sheds light on how the body processes food and, in this case, how mice are able to withstand a fat-laden diet and stay skinny," said Dr. Gerald W. Dorn II, the Philip and Sima K. Needleman professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who did not participate in the research. "In perspective, people evolved to be able to survive starvation, but as a culture, we're never much farther than a quarter a mile away from McDonald's. It would be nice to tinker with the metabolic gene program, and this research provides a single target that affects how the body deals with energy."

Hulver is an investigator with the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech.

Miragen Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on the development of drugs to inhibit specific microRNAs, has licensed the technology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

The research was supported by the NIH, the Robert A. Welch Foundation, the American Heart Association, the Jon Holden DeHaan Foundation, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Clinical Cardiovascular Research and the Leducq Foundation.

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  1. M. Carrer, N. Liu, C. E. Grueter, A. H. Williams, M. I. Frisard, M. W. Hulver, R. Bassel-Duby, E. N. Olson. Control of mitochondrial metabolism and systemic energy homeostasis by microRNAs 378 and 378. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1207605109

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Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:55:22 -0700 Another 'No Easy Day' revelation: dramatic SEAL search for POW http://charmich.posterous.com/another-no-easy-day-revelation-dramatic-seal http://charmich.posterous.com/another-no-easy-day-revelation-dramatic-seal

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only POW from the Afghanistan war, went missing from his fortified base on June 30, 2009, under circumstances that are not entirely clear before being captured by the Taliban.

Sergeant Bergdahl, now thought to be in the hands of a terrorist network, is hardly a household name in America. The Pentagon for its part rarely discusses him, and the US government has been criticized for lack of attention to his case.

In May his mother, Jani Bergdahl, told The New York Times that President Obama ?has never contacted us. We haven?t gotten a Hallmark card, we haven?t gotten a note signed by an aide, nothing.?

'No Easy Day': Six revelations from the book

Now ?No Easy Day,? the controversial new book by Matt Bissonnette, a former member of the Navy?s SEAL Team 6 that killed Osama bin Laden, is giving a gripping insider account of the Pentagon?s behind-the-scenes efforts to rescue Bergdahl.

?When an American soldier went missing at the start of the summer,? writes Mr. Bissonnette, who wrote the book under the pen name Mark Owen, ?we dropped everything to find him.?

The book sheds light on the issue of POWs, a seldom-discussed topic today, particularly in comparison with the Vietnam War era.

In part, this is because there were far more POWs in Vietnam than in Iraq or Afghanistan, where US troops have largely been confined to heavily-fortified bases.

In 1973, in keeping with the peace accords, Hanoi returned 591 American POWs to the United States. Today, there remain 1,660 US troops who are unaccounted for, according to Department of Defense (DOD) statistics.

Each year, the DOD?s Prisoner of War/Missing Person?s office hosts ?family updates? to discuss ongoing efforts to find the US military?s missing with relatives.

Attendance at these events has been growing steadily from 645 in 2001 to 1,161 in 2011.

The meetings offer updates on the 73,681 US troops who are still considered ?unaccounted for? from World War II, as well as the nearly 8,000 from the Korean War.

The Pentagon, which says there are six US troops still missing from the First Gulf War to the present, has not commented on reports that Bergdahl may have wandered off his fortified base in Paktika Province, near the border with Pakistan, before being captured.

What is clear is that Sergeant Bergdahl was soon in the hands of Taliban forces that ?quickly moved him closer to the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan in hopes of getting him across,? Bissonnette writes.

US intelligence analysts had tracked leads after his disappearance, and the SEALs had launched ?several rescue attempts, but came up empty,? he reports. ?It was a race to get him back before they smuggled him to Pakistan.?

The fear among US officials, he adds, was that the insurgents who captured him would eventually sell him to a more formidable terrorist group ? namely, the Haqqani Network, allied with the Taliban but known for having greater organization and more brutal tactics against US forces.

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It appears, in the end, that this is what happened. A spokesman for US Central Command, which runs the war in Afghanistan, told the weekly newspaper Human Events in May that Bergdahl is believed to be held by the Haqqani Network.

?We?re still actively looking for him and following leads whenever we can get them,? spokesman John Wagner said. ?The Haqqanis are known for their communications security. They are just very quiet, and we?ve asked that they release him, and let him go back to his family.?

His captors did release five videos between December 2009 and May 2011 featuring Bergdahl.

On an evening just after the first video was released, the SEALs got information that Bergdahl was being held south of Kabul, Bissonnette writes. ?We don?t have much intel to go off of,? he reports his troop commander saying as he pointed to a map of central Afghanistan, ?but this is a priority.?

Using a small, extendable ladder that he carried on his back for the mission, Bissonnette reports that he launched a grenade in the direction of enemy fighters who were escaping the compound where they believed Bergdahl was being held.

Among the insurgent fighters the SEAL team killed, they found morphine kits and grenades. ?They were professionals,? he writes, ?not some farmers who picked up AK-47s when the crops weren?t in season.?

Ultimately, the SEALs failed to find Bergdahl during that mission, or during the remainder of their deployment.

?But in my gut, I think he was there at some point,? Bergdahl writes. ?We probably missed him by a few hours, or maybe in the fight they were able to escape.?

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