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CNBC.com | June 29, 2012 | 12:42 AM EDT
Despite the fall in China?s property prices over the past eight months and growing worries over the financial health of its developers, investment strategists tell CNBC they are bullish on junk bonds issued by the country?s large real estate firms.
?(Chinese) property bonds are some of the best opportunities out there - they offer 10 to 20 percent yield,? Eddie Tam, Chief Investment Officer at hedge fund Central Asset Investments told CNBC.
?In our analysis, most, if not all of the developers will be able to repay or refinance their debt. They have the most straight forward and valuable assets ? land ? it is simple and doesn?t depreciate. I think the risks are overstated,? he said, adding that sales momentum is picking up after falling in the first four months of the year.
Data in recent weeks have hinted at a turnaround in the property sector. Earlier this month, China?s National Bureau of Statistics reported that May home sales rebounded for the first time this year, rising 19 percent to 375.7 billion yuan ($59 billion) from April.
?Despite the bearishness about the property market, it?s still the asset class of choice in China. Buyers are responding well to the price cuts (by developers), sales are holding up pretty well,? Tam said.
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Gelfandmania in Israel and the online Israel-Spain match
27.06.2012
? Gelfandmania has officially taken over Israel after Boris Gelfand's title run. He has appeared on TV, met the prime minister, given countless interviews and even been parodied by a famous comedy show. More importantly, he has sparked a huge interest in chess, leading to the match between Israeli and Spanish schools made possible through Playchess. GM Boris Alterman shares all.
After his impressive attempt to wrest the world title from Vishy Anand, resulting in a draw in their classical match, Boris Gelfand has become a national hero in Israel. In fact, he is now a super star in Israel with numerous TV appearances, newspaper interviews, and meeting with the Prime Minister etc.
Recently Boris became even a more popular as a parody star in one of the most popular comic show on Israeli TV,"Eretz Nehederet".
This is how a satirized Gelfand looks - Click here for the actual episode
In fact, on the recent TV show "Dancing in with the Stars (Israel)", chess was one of the main items.
Israeli TV Channel 10 has also made a nice report about "chess in school program" in its Prime Time News:
Gelfandomania in Israel - "More and more schools and kindergartens in Israel include chess into their curriculum".
In this video you may see one of the most famous Savyon "Chess in school program"
Adi Tzimmerman, the Israeli Under 12 Girls Champion and product of the Savyon "chess in school program"?plays a?journalist, while beating him in just 3 min. We also see a heavily equipped computer room where kids study chess, solve puzzles, play and work with text books, and Grandmaster Boris Alterman explains the important role of chess in the education system.
There are many Russian emigrants who are still looking for a partner in the park and watching closely after Gelfand.
At the end of the video we see a school from Tel-Aviv Jaffa, where most of the kids are Israeli Arabs studying chess. One of the kids made a great impression on journalists when was asked about a game of chess.
"Is chess a quiet game?" - "It seems quiet but my mind is athletic!"
This year Savyon "Chess in school program" made its next move - On June 18 the first Internet match between two elementary schools took place, one from Savyon (Israel) and one from Salou (Spain).?Savyon's municipality is the small town near Tel-Aviv area with 3500 people. SHowing progressive thinking, it decided to include chess lessons into its education system as early as 2007. Savyon's Mayor Moshik Lipetz believes that chess improves dramatically the scoring level of the students, their mind skills.
Savyon's Mayor Moshik Lipetz
Kids study chess from the Kindergarten up to 3rd?grade, when many also participate in after school chess activities once a week, participating in the regional and national school championships.
The two teams met on the Playchess server with five players playing a double round match at 20min +10 sec increment.
The children from the Salou school in Spain smile for a picture of their online match
"All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"
Grandmaster Arthur Kogan, captain of Salou team, with his class
GM Arthur Kogan reported:
We?lost the first round by 4.5-0.5, but in the second round?our youth nearly caused a sensation?(versus?experienced Israel's school!).
We began with two big wins and 2-0 scoring for Salou and ... a good advantage in the other games ... only at the last moment the advantage of experience helped?and Savyon?turned the tables and won all three games, so we lost by the minimal score 3-2?and an overall 7.5-2.5.
Players from both teams were?happy?and excited.?Bravo to all children of the Savyon School and School of Salou and thanks to the council and club members for helping make this wonderful initiative! Until next time!
The computer room of the Sayvon school
GM Boris Alterman
The match was projected onto a screen so the children could follow
Of course, some preferred to just walk around
The children loved the idea and had a great time
Playchess sysop, Holger Lieske, was a key figure in ensuring a fluid event
Savyon Players: Adi Tzimmerman, Or Ben Shahar, Nitzan Roi, Tom Broyda, Daniel
Moldavsky and the Reserve were Simovich Ariel and Daniel Tzimerman together with
their teachers.
Deepest thanks Holger Lieske and the Playchess/ChessBase team for the great help in organizing the event.
Copyright ChessBase
Source: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8282
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ScienceDaily (June 27, 2012) ? An international team including scientists from the University of Saskatchewan-Saskatoon Health Region and University of British Columbia, with the help of Saskatchewan Mennonite families, has identified an abnormal gene which leads to Parkinson's disease.
"This discovery paves the way for further research to determine the nature of brain abnormalities which this gene defect produces," says Dr. Ali Rajput, a world expert in Parkinson's disease who has been studying the disease for 45 years and working with the main family in the study since 1983.
"It also promises to help us find ways to detect Parkinson's disease early, and to develop drugs which will one day halt the progression of the disease."
The abnormal gene is a mutated version of a gene called DNAJC13, identified by UBC medical genetics professor Matthew Farrer, who led the study.
Thirteen of 57 members of one extended Saskatchewan family in the study had been previously diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Three other single cases from Saskatchewan and one family from British Columbia were also found to have the same mutation. All were of Mennonite background, a Christian group who share Dutch-German-Russian ancestry.
The findings were presented last week to the more than 5,000 delegates at the 16th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in Dublin, Ireland.
Rajput and his son, fellow neurologist and researcher Alex Rajput, are long-time collaborators of Farrer. The research drew on the Rajputs' work over the past four decades. The research team also includes scientists from McGill University, the Mayo Clinic in Florida, and St. Olav's Hospital in Norway.
A key contribution is the Rajputs' collection of more than 500 brains and nearly 2,200 blood samples from Parkinson's patients. Farrer explains that confirmation of the gene's linkage with Parkinson's disease required DNA samples from thousands of patients with the disease and healthy individuals. He adds that the contributions of the Saskatchewan Mennonite family, who have asked to remain anonymous, were critical.
"A breakthrough like this would not be possible without their involvement and support. They gave up considerable time, contributed clinical information, donated blood samples, participated in PET imaging studies and -- on more than one occasion following the death of a family member -- donated brain samples," says Farrer, who holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurogenetics and Translational Neuroscience.
"The whole-hearted and unselfish commitment of this family is remarkable," Rajput says. "They went out of their way in every conceivable manner to help solve this mystery. We, on behalf of all the Parkinson's disease patients in this province, Canada, and around the world, are grateful to them for making this discovery possible."
In a Parkinson's patient, cells in an area of the brain called the substantia nigra (black substance) die and there are abnormal, round clumps of protein known as Lewy bodies inside the brain cells. Examination of the brains from the Mennonite family revealed the same Lewy body Parkinson's disease as seen in other patients.
Parkinson's disease is a progressive condition that causes symptoms such as tremors, slowness of movement, stiffness, and mental impairment. In most cases, symptoms appear after age 40. It is estimated that about one million people in North America and more than four million people worldwide are affected by the disease.
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??Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A new poll suggests Americans would prefer to have Barack Obama rather than Mitt Romney in charge if extraterrestrials attack. Which raises a serious question: Who's really supposed to be in charge of responding to alien signals?
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This week on home video, we've got a number of new releases to talk about, and all of them are, for better or worse, kind of interesting in their own ways. First, we've got this year's Best Picture Oscar winner, a surprising reboot of an '80s TV show, and the sequel to a poorly-reviewed adventure. Then, we've got a funny take on Snow White, Eddie Murphy's latest misfire, a couple of acclaimed foreign films, and a couple of worthy new Criterion releases. See below for the full list!
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Within a PR and digital marketing environment, the importance of blogging is an established truism. Blogger engagement and relationship management regularly features on daily task lists of communication professionals. It is hardly surprising then that Singapore too has a rich blogging community ? one that spans across fashion, food, satire and personal (often controversial) rants. Visually compelling, these blogs are marvels in themselves. The authors are the new breed of ?online celebrity?. But this is where similarities with the global blogging world perhaps end. Singapore?s bloggers can be broadly categorised into two groups:
1.??? The blogger
2.??? The paid blogger
How do paid advertorials work? In the same way they do with newspapers or magazines ? you can get your content pushed out to a reader base depending on the target audience you wish to secure. An advertorial will ensure that your product will always be portrayed in a positive light. Bloggers in Singapore and from around the region sign up with companies who put advertisers in touch with relevant bloggers. So for example, if you are a blogger writing about skincare products, these companies would be able to (for a fee) put the advertiser in touch with you based on pre-agreed terms like number of blog posts, tweets, instagram uploads, etc. for the product. It?s not uncommon for bloggers to invite advertisers or ?sponsors? if they are looking for a particular product or service.? For example, Xiaxue invited sponsors to help renovate her new house and everything from new doors to bathroom fittings and paint jobs were ?sponsored?. In the same way, Qui Qui who recently got engaged, invited sponsors for her upcoming nuptials.
The ROI for the sponsors is the eyeballs that these blogs get. In return, sponsorships are often not restricted to bartering blog posts for products or services; they can, at times, also involve monetary compensation. All this is done in the hope that the venture will pay off with increased visits or sales from readers based on the bloggers? influence.
There is always a risk with paid engagements ? but more so in a nascent environment where relationships mean everything. If a collaboration goes wrong, the blogger in question could be very vocal about her negative experience. This could lead to a potential backlash not just from customers, but from the online community.
On the other end of the spectrum, there are bloggers like Ang Mo Girl who do not do paid advertorials as a matter of principle. When I contacted her to engage her in an influencer program, she was very firm about not receiving freebies ? not that any were on offer ? and didn?t bat an eyelid when explaining why.
How do we work in this environment? We operate on a no strings attached principle. If we, for instance, seed bloggers and influencers with a product, there are no expectations of good reviews.
At the end of the day, it is about the relationships built with the bloggers. There?s a lot of time invested in getting to know them personally, reading their blogs, understanding their interests and passions, pet peeves and favourite colours. Getting the bloggers to know and trust you is half the battle won. You then need to figure out how to sustain your relationship and not make it work only because work demands it.
What do you think of advertorials on blogs? Ever engaged with a paid blogger in your part of the world? Tell us about in the comments below or on twitter: lewispr_asia
Tags: blog, communications, Digital PR, PR, Social Media
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You may not know it by all the headlines today, but Oprah Winfrey talked with more than just Kim Kardashian last night in the talk show host's desperate ratings grab.
The formerly respectable television personality also sat down with Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom, the former of whom went into detail about the pressures of marriage.
"I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public," Khloe said. "This is my marriage, this is my real life. I feel the pressure from me, from myself, to be a great wife."
As for Khloe's take on Scott Disick? Watch the following video excerpt:
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Here is a food that will keep your heart healthy. As well as the proper way to store food so that benefits are not reduced when the consumption.
1. Almond
Almond nuts contain vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin E, magnesium and zinc as a whole will make your heart is in the 'mood' is good. Eating almonds 1/4 cups a day is much healthier than a bag of chips. Almond is a delicious breakfast you can intervene on your oatmeal. Hmm ... definitely delicious and tasty.
Storing tips:
Buy almonds roasted without salt and store in airtight container.
2. Asparagus
This potent green vegetables to keep your heart health. The content of folate, vitamin C and vitamin D will prevent your heart from inflammation. Moreover, the asparagus is also low in calories. You can process the asparagus by boiling and then given a splash of olive oil, lemon juice and a little sprinkling of parmesan cheese.
Storing tips:
Buy freshly harvested asparagus. The green can survive if kept on a regular cabinet, but for fresher, you can store in the refrigerator.
3. Red beans
Nuts contain vegetable protein, vitamin B, iron, and calcium. 15 grams in a serving of soup will help fight bad cholesterol that is harmful to your heart health. Just make a mixed bean soup tomatoes, carrots, celery and a little pepper.
Storing tips:
Buy dried beans and put in airtight containers and avoid direct sun exposure.
4. Blueberry
Almost all fresh fruits good for your heart health. But blueberries are the best choice. Fruit with dark purple-blue color is rich in antioxidants and vitamin C, both are able to handle stress and low in calories so it is good for your heart. No need to be processed all kinds, you can eat them straight. Can also be made with a mixture of plain yogurt smoothie, smiling ...
Storing tips:
Buy fresh blueberries and store in refrigerator.
5. Broccoli
Broccoli contains vitamin B and foliacid, both of which help reduce stress and panic. In addition, natural nutrients to the heart is also good if cooked the right way. Broccoli is best when steamed or boiled for a short time. Then give a squeeze of lemon, extra virgin olive oil and sprinkle with if like spicy chili powder.
Storing tips:
Buy fresh broccoli in a traditional market. If you want to store it in a long time, boiled broccoli with water that has been given a little salt for 3 to 4 minutes. Drain and place in container in the freezer. Broccoli will keep up to 2 months.
6. Brown
Not just any chocolate, but dark chocolate (with at least 75% cocoa content) will be good for relieving stress and good for your heart. A study at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania showed that eating 6 ounces of dark chocolate a day can lower bad cholesterol levels. For this one, do not need to be prepared all kinds, also delicious bite immediately.
Storing tips:
During the period is long expired, you can buy dark chocolate on a discount rack and store in a dry house in a closet and away from heat sources.
7. Green leafy vegetables
Spinach, kale, turnip leaf and green leaf vegetables are an amazing food because they contain plenty of iron, vitamin C, both are good for healthy bones, teeth and hair, but it contains vitamin A and magnesium will keep your mood. All the good nutrition will also be good for your heart. Vegetables can be anything you though, do not be too long to cook it so that its natural nutrients are not lost.
Storing tips:
Buy all the vegetables in a fresh condition. You can store it in the refrigerator and will last for a week. If you put in the freezer will hold for three months.
8. Lean Meat
Somewhat surprising is not it? Meat is usually not an option for maintaining heart health. In fact you can still enjoy red meat (beef, goat, sheep) without any fat. 4 to 6 ounces of lean meat to stay healthy for your heart because it is rich in iron, zinc, vitamin B which overall will make you more calm. Lean meat is your best presented in the form of steak.
Storing tips:
We recommend that you either buy lean meat in slaughterhouses. After the wash clean and place in freezer.
9. Salmon and Other Fish
The majority of marine fish contain vitamin B6 and B12 can help the body produce serotonin, a substance that will make you relaxed and happy. Marine fish also contains omega-3 is good to normalize blood pressure and reduces risk of heart disease. Serve the fish is baked or steamed.
Storing tips:
Choose fish with a freshness that is still good with the fishy smell fresh. Clean the inside of the fish and place in container and store in freezer.
10. Sweet potato
Colored vegetables are always good for your health, including sweet potatoes. Tubers of plants similar to potato contains antioxidants that will help keep your heart health. Even if the shape is not exciting, delicious taste and natural sweetness. You can cook with steam or sweet potatoes cut in small size and mixed with grilled chicken.
Storing tips:
Fresh sweet potatoes that you place in your home should keep out of the red onion because it will quickly be damaged. Keep away from heat as well make it more durable.
11. Walnuts
Walnuts are one type of bean that has tremendous benefits. The content of alpha-linolenic acid, which is part of the omega 3 can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease. These delicious nuts can you eat as a snack. You can also mix in your breakfast oatmeal with a piece of blueberry.
Storing tips:
Just like other nuts. Buy walnuts dried without salt. Store in an airtight container and away from the reach of the sun.
12. Whole Wheat
Whole grains rich in fiber and can make you feel full longer. In addition, whole grains will supply the serotonin that will make you feel happy. Eating half a cup of whole grains a day will keep levels of bad cholesterol in the blood decreases. You can eat whole grains need to be watered only instant hot water to eat.
Storing tips:
Keep whole wheat in the dry container out of reach of the sun and make sure no moisture so as not easy to mold.
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FILE - This Nov. 3, 2010 file photo shows author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron at her home in New York. Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author Nora Ephron is very ill, according to a representative for her publisher. Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf confirmed her condition on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, hours after celebrity columnist and friend Liz Smith published what appeared to be a memorial for the writer. Smith told The Associated Press that she had spoken to Ephron's son Tuesday morning and was told that Ephron was dying. She said when she heard that funeral plans had already been arranged, she published the column on the website Women on the Web. Latimer did not provide any additional information on Ephron's condition. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
FILE - This Nov. 3, 2010 file photo shows author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron at her home in New York. Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author Nora Ephron is very ill, according to a representative for her publisher. Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf confirmed her condition on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, hours after celebrity columnist and friend Liz Smith published what appeared to be a memorial for the writer. Smith told The Associated Press that she had spoken to Ephron's son Tuesday morning and was told that Ephron was dying. She said when she heard that funeral plans had already been arranged, she published the column on the website Women on the Web. Latimer did not provide any additional information on Ephron's condition. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
FILE - This Nov. 3, 2010 file photo shows author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron at her home in New York. Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author Nora Ephron is very ill, according to a representative for her publisher. Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf confirmed her condition on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, hours after celebrity columnist and friend Liz Smith published what appeared to be a memorial for the writer. Smith told The Associated Press that she had spoken to Ephron's son Tuesday morning and was told that Ephron was dying. She said when she heard that funeral plans had already been arranged, she published the column on the website Women on the Web. Latimer did not provide any additional information on Ephron's condition. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2008 file photo, director Nora Ephron poses on the press line at "One Night Only...With a Little Help From Our Friends" benefiting UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television at Royce Hall in Los Angeles. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf confirmed Tuesday, June 26, 2012, that author and filmmaker Nora Ephron died Tuesday of leukemia. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)
FILE - This July 27, 2009 file photo shows director and writer Nora Ephron, left, and cast members Meryl Streep, center, and Amy Adams pose together at the premiere of "Julie and Julia" in Los Angeles. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf confirmed Tuesday, June 26, 2012, that author and filmmaker Nora Ephron died Tuesday of leukemia in New York. She was 71. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)
In this film publicity image released by Columbia Pictures, Meryl Streep portrays Julia Child in a scene from, "Julie & Julia," written and directed by Nora Ephron. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf confirmed Tuesday, June 26, 2012, that author and filmmaker Nora Ephron died Tuesday of leukemia in New York. She was 71. The film, starring Streep, Amy Adams and Stanley Tucci was Ephron's last film. (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures/Sony, Jonathan Wenk)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it.
"She was so, so alive," says her friend Carrie Fisher. "It makes no sense to me that she isn't alive anymore."
Ephron, the essayist, author and filmmaker who challenged and thrived in the male-dominated worlds of movies and journalism and was loved, respected and feared for her devastating and diverting wit, died Tuesday in Manhattan. Her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, announced that she died of leukemia at age 71.
Born into a family of screenwriters, a top journalist in her 20s and 30s, then a best-selling author and successful director, Ephron was among the most quotable and influential writers of her generation. She wrote and directed such favorites as "Julie & Julia" and "Sleepless in Seattle," and her books included the novel "Heartburn," a knockout roman a clef about her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein; and the popular essay collections "I Feel Bad About My Neck" and "I Remember Nothing."
She was tough on others ? Bernstein's marital transgressions were immortalized by the horndog spouse in "Heartburn," a man "capable of having sex with a Venetian blind" ? and relentless about herself. She wrote openly about her difficult childhood, her failed relationships, her doubts about her physical appearance and the hated intrusion of age.
"We all look good for our age. Except for our necks," she wrote in the title piece from "I Feel Bad About My Neck," published in 2006. "Oh, the necks. There are chicken necks. There are turkey gobbler necks. There are elephant necks. There are necks with wattles and necks with creases that are on the verge of becoming wattles. ... According to my dermatologist, the neck starts to go at 43 and that's that."
Even within the smart-talking axis of New York-Washington-Los Angeles, no one bettered Ephron, slender and dark-haired, her bright and pointed smile like a one-liner made flesh. Friends from Mike Nichols and Meryl Streep to Calvin Trillin and Pete Hamill adored her for her wisdom, her loyalty and turns of phrase.
As a screenwriter, Ephron was nominated three times for Academy Awards, for "Silkwood," ''When Harry Met Sally ..." and "Sleepless in Seattle," and was the rare woman to write, direct and produce Hollywood movies. Fisher and Meg Ryan were among the many actresses who said they loved working with Ephron because she understood them so much better than did her male peers.
"I suppose you could say Nora was my ideal," Fisher said. "In a world where we're told that you can't have it all, Nora consistently proved that adage wrong. A writer, director, wife, mother, chef, wit ? there didn't seem to be anything she couldn't do. And not just do it, but excel at it, revolutionize it, set the bar for every other screenwriter, novelist, director."
"Nora Ephron was a journalist-artist who knew what was important to know; how things really worked, what was worthwhile, who was fascinating and why," said "Sleepless in Seattle" star Tom Hanks. "At a dinner table and on a film set she lifted us all with wisdom and wit mixed with love for us and love for life."
The eldest of four children, Ephron was born in New York to screenwriters Harry and Phoebe Ephron, who moved to Beverly Hills, Calif., when she was 4 years old. Words, words, words were the air she breathed. Regular visitors included "Casablanca" co-writer Julius J. Epstein, "Sunset Boulevard" collaborator Charles Brackett, and the team of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, who worked on "The Thin Man" and "It's a Wonderful Life."
Everyone was in movies, "the business."
"People who were not in the business were known as civilians," Ephron wrote in "I Remember Nothing."
If the best humor is born out of sadness, then Ephron was destined for comedy. She was 15, she recalled, when her mother became an alcoholic, finishing off a bottle of scotch a night. Her father, too, was a heavy drinker, "sloppy, sentimental," although "somehow his alcoholism was more benign."
Determined by high school to be a journalist, Ephron graduated from the single-sex Wellesley College in 1962, moved to New York and started out as a "mail girl" and fact checker at Newsweek. A newspaper strike at the end of the year gave her a chance. Victor Navasky, the future editor of The Nation, was then running a satirical magazine called the Monacle. He was working on a parody of the New York Post, "The New York Pest," and asked Ephron for a spoof of Post columnist Leonard Lyons.
She succeeded so well that the newspaper's publisher, Dorothy Schiff, reasoned that anyone who could make fun of the Post could also write for it. Ephron was asked to try out as a reporter. Within a week, she had a permanent job and remained there five years. The Post, she later wrote, was a "terrible paper," and she envied her peers at The New York Times and elsewhere who had more time to work on stories and had better access to people they wanted to interview.
"But the point is this. I was better off ..." she wrote in the introduction to the essay collection "Wallflower at the Orgy, published in 1970. "I learned to go through the clips, find the names of people from the subject's past, hunt them up in old telephone books, track them down, and pull out anecdotes they knew. What I'm saying may seem obvious; but one of the things that stuns me is how seldom reporters do this."
Ephron began writing for Esquire and The New York Times and developed a national following as a throwback to the prime of Dorothy Parker and S.J. Perelman and a worthy peer of such new and hip journalists as Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe. She covered political conventions, the feminist movement and Wellesley, which she labeled a factory for "docile" women. Part of her gift was her fresh takes on such traditional subjects for women as food and fashion, like in the essay "The Food Establishment: Life in the Land of the Rising Souffle (Or Is It the Rising Meringue?)"
"The typical member of the Food Establishment," she wrote, "is given to telling you, apropos of nothing, how many souffles he has been known to make in a short period of time. ... He gossips a good deal about his colleagues, about what they are cooking, writing, and eating; and whom they are talking to, about everything, in fact, except the one thing everyone else in the universe gossips about ? who is sleeping with whom."
By the 1970s, she had met Bernstein, who teamed with fellow Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon. They married in 1976, and had two children, but love soon turned to hate ? and matured into art. Ephron was pregnant with their second child when she learned Bernstein was having an affair, a betrayal that had its rewards, once she stopped crying.
She wrote "Heartburn," later a film starring Streep and Jack Nicholson and directed by Nichols, with whom she collaborated often. The book was so close to her life that Bernstein threatened to sue. Decades later, the memory of the book's birth was easily summoned.
"Yes, totally, completely, absolutely, sitting at the legendary and long-gone Smith Corona electric typewriter that I once had," she told The Associated Press in 2010. "I was working on a screenplay and wrote the first 10 pages of a novel, and I knew the title, knew there were going to be recipes in it. This I remember, exactly where I was, working and knowing, 'Oh, I see, enough time has passed that I'm ready to do this.'"
Another perk from her time with Bernstein: She sussed out that "Deep Throat," the unnamed and unknown Watergate source, was in fact FBI official Mark Felt. She would allege that she told countless people about Felt, who did not acknowledge his role until years later.
Her screenwriting credits included "Heartburn," the nuclear power drama "Silkwood" and the romantic comedy "When Harry Met Sally ..." She twice directed the team of Ryan and Hanks, in "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail," and also worked with John Travolta (in the fantasy "Michael"), Steve Martin ("Mixed Nuts") and Nicole Kidman ("Bewitched").
Ephron had a great nose for nonsense, but was enough a citizen of Hollywood to fall, and fall hard, for a happy ending. "Sleepless in Seattle," in which Ryan and Hanks play long-distance admirers who meet at film's end, was not only a remake of the weeper "An Affair to Remember," but a tribute to how movies might tell us how to live. Ryan and her best pal, played by Rosie O'Donnell, are seen watching "Affair to Remember," which inspires Ryan to suggest to Hanks that they meet ? like Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr ? on top of the Empire State Building, on Valentine's Day.
"That's a chicks' movie," Hanks' character says when he learns about the film's plot.
Ephron was married three times: to Dan Greenburg, Bernstein and, quite happily, to "Wiseguys" author Nicholas Pileggi, whose book was adapted into the Martin Scorsese film "Goodfellas." Sisters Delia, Amy and Hallie Ephron also are writers and Nora and Delia collaborated on such films as "This Is My Life" and "Sleepless in Seattle."
In her essay "The O Word," Nora Ephron anticipated growing too old to make jokes about her age. She would be "really old," beyond sex in a hotel room, or even a frozen custard at Shake Shack. It would be nice if she believed in a higher being, but the phrase "everything happens for a reason" is a sermon that only annoys her.
Ephron wrote of summers in the Hamptons on Long Island when her children were little, of fireworks on the Fourth of July and picnics on the beach. She loved the sound of geese in mid-July ? "one of the things that made the summers out there so magical." As she aged, the geese reminded her that summer will end, and so will everything else.
"I especially began to hate their sound, which was not beating wings ? how could I have ever thought it was? ? but a lot of uneuphonious honks," she writes. "Now we don't go to Long Island in the summer and I don't hear the geese. Sometimes, instead, we go to Los Angeles, where there are hummingbirds, and I love to watch them because they're so busy getting the most out of life."
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?There is asbestosis and mesothelioma and both are causally related to asbestos exposure. They are not one and the same disease although one may lead to the other. The person who has asbestosis has generally been in a long term industrial exposure in the mining or production of asbestos products.
Exposure to asbestos occurs mostly in the working environment where asbestos fibre is most prevalent. However there are men and women who have worked long term in the industries of mining or production with the asbestos fibre in the air they have been breathing and yet have no evidence lung disease.
On the other hand there are cases studies from Australian Asbestos mining, specifically in Wittenoom Australia, where a significant number of the wives of mining workers have suffered and some have died from asbestosis and mesothelioma.
These wives of the workers were never in the mines and their only contact with the fibre that was the washing of clothing worn by their husbands.The working clothes would be shaken out to release the dust and asbestos fibre before being placed in the washing machine and this was sufficient asbestos exposure to cause death in their later years.
There appears to be an unknown factor as to why one person working alongside another breathing in the asbestos fibre over a long term will not develop a lung disease while another person briefly exposed will go on to suffer asbestosis or a full case of mesothelioma. No research to date has revealed what other causal factors may be at play be they a genetic or environmental difference in particular industries.
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Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, right, is escorted by Centre County Sheriff Denny Nau, left, as he is taken into custody at the Centre County Courthouse after being found guilty of multiple charges of child sexual abuse in Bellefonte, Pa., Friday, June 22, 2012. Sandusky was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years on Friday, accusations that had sent shock waves through the college campus known as Happy Valley and led to the firing of Penn State's beloved Hall of Fame coach, Joe Paterno. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, right, is escorted by Centre County Sheriff Denny Nau, left, as he is taken into custody at the Centre County Courthouse after being found guilty of multiple charges of child sexual abuse in Bellefonte, Pa., Friday, June 22, 2012. Sandusky was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 boys over 15 years on Friday, accusations that had sent shock waves through the college campus known as Happy Valley and led to the firing of Penn State's beloved Hall of Fame coach, Joe Paterno. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ? As Jerry Sandusky insisted through a lawyer Monday that he is not guilty of sexually abusing children, a juror who voted to convict the retired Penn State assistant coach said she hoped the verdict would help his accusers heal.
The jury found the testimony of the eight victims who took the witness stand compelling, Ann Van Kuren said Monday. Jurors weighed the accounts and evidence diligently before finding Sandusky guilty last week of 45 counts for sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years, she said.
She expressed empathy for the eight men who offered emotional and explicit testimony.
"I really feel for the victims and any other victims that are out there that haven't come forward," Van Kuren said. "That all of them need to heal. I'm hoping that this trial, with this verdict, will help them heal."
The sweeping case rocked the Penn State community following Sandusky's arrest in November. The ensuing scandal led to the ousters of Sandusky's former boss ? Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno ? and the university's president, while forcing a re-examination of the role that college administrators played in reporting abuse allegations.
Sandusky, 68, is under observation at the Centre County jail, where he is being kept away from other inmates pending a psychological review that will help determine the next step toward his sentencing in about three months.
"He's defiant and wants the truth to be told. He wants people to know that he's not guilty," said defense lawyer Karl Rominger, who visited his incarcerated client Monday.
Also Monday, Judge John Cleland ordered county probation officers to evaluate whether Sandusky is a sexual predator, a finding that could factor into his prison placement. Such orders are pro forma in sex abuse cases. Sex offenders are required to undergo treatment while in prison, so Sandusky, if deemed a predator, would likely be sent to a facility with such a program.
Sandusky, who has been placed under a suicide watch, said he doesn't want to kill himself and wants to get the separate psychological examination done so that he can receive visits from his friends and family, Rominger said.
"He's fine but he's just not been evaluated," the lawyer said.
"He is very disappointed to be in prison. He is anxious to get out of this suicide watch," Rominger said, adding that Sandusky told him: "If I have to keep sitting in this room for another three or four days without being able to talk to anybody, I might start to need help at that point."
The state investigation into Sandusky didn't begin until after the ex-coach was barred from a high school in 2009, when a mother complained about the former coach. At the time, Gov. Tom Corbett was the state attorney general. Charges were filed in November 2011.
Investigators took into account Sandusky's status as a celebrated assistant coach in building the case, Corbett said Monday when asked in Harrisburg why charges weren't filed after the first accuser came forward.
"If it's one-on-one and now put the celebrity status in, put (that) Jerry Sandusky is loved by everybody ... how can anybody say there must be something wrong," Corbett said. "You'd better corroborate it, and that's what they started doing. They started pulling strings and gathering and gathering and gathering, and that's my experience. You build those cases, as well as you can."
Corbett said that while he worried that Sandusky might find a new victim while the investigation continued, "I believed (Sandusky) had to know we were looking at him at some point in time. In a sense, if you know that they're looking at you, you kind of back away. But it was a calculated risk, not one that you really easily want to take."
Sandusky has repeatedly maintained his innocence. He will likely die in prison, given mandatory minimum sentencing requirements.
The conviction is just the start of possibly years of legal proceedings over the case. Besides appeals, there remains an active investigation into Sandusky by the state attorney general's office, as well as a federal investigation.
Corbett said Penn State trustees are still awaiting the results of an internal investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh into the school's handling of the Sandusky case.
The university could also face a wave of new lawsuits. An hour after the verdict Friday night, Penn State said in a statement it was inviting victims to "participate in a program to facilitate the resolution of claims against the university arising out of Mr. Sandusky's conduct." The school said it sought to address victims' concerns privately, expeditiously and fairly.
Asked to clarify Monday, school spokesman Dave LaTorre said the university won't discuss details about litigation or how much money might be set aside for potential settlements, and declined to comment further.
The verdict was another hurdle for a fractured Penn State community eager to continue what figures to be a long, arduous healing process. Artist Michael Pilato hoped to aid in that effort Monday when he painted a blue ribbon ? a symbol for awareness of child sexual abuse ? on the portion of his "Inspiration State College" mural downtown that once included Sandusky.
Over the weekend, he replaced the Sandusky image with Van Kuren's red handprint and a depiction of Dora McQuaid, a poet and advocate for domestic and sexual violence victims and issues. McQuaid is a Penn State graduate and former professor.
Van Kuren said she and Pilato were connected over the weekend through a mutual acquaintance.
"These young people that were the victims of the Sandusky case in my mind are the survivors," Pilato said. He painted the blue ribbon around McQuaid's image.
Van Kuren, who runs a nonprofit dance company, called the last few weeks difficult as she and other jurors were ordered to refrain from watching or reading the news and talking about the case with family and friends.
Jurors, she said, took a systematic approach in deliberations, weighing the counts in order as laid out in the state's presentment. Van Kuren said that in instances when jurors had additional questions for the judge ? such as when the jury requested a re-reading of key prosecution witness Mike McQueary's testimony of a 2001 allegation between Sandusky and a child in a shower ? they put counts related to that victim aside and moved to the next set of charges.
Asked about her perception now of Sandusky, Van Kuren said "I think we all felt that when we saw him, and even now what we hear about him, (that) he knows what he did."
The jury had a good rapport, but the difficult part about deliberations, she said, was the volume of testimony and evidence that had to be weighed. The jurors were respectful of the situations of "all parties" and took everything into consideration, she added.
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Associated Press writer Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pa., contributed to this report.
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ScienceDaily (June 25, 2012) ? You're minding your own business when a food craving suddenly hits, and if you just saw an image of a cupcake, or consumed a sugary soda, that may be no accident.
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) will present preliminary findings June 26 at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting demonstrating that viewing pictures of high-fat foods and drinking sweetened beverages while viewing the pictures stimulate appetite and reward centers in the brain.
"Studies have shown that advertisements featuring food make us think of eating, but our research looked at how the brain responds to food cues and how that increases hunger and desire for certain foods," said Kathleen Page, principal investigator and assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. "This stimulation of the brain's reward areas may contribute to overeating and obesity, and has important public health implications."
Page's presentation, "Fructose Compared to Glucose Ingestion Preferentially Activates Brain Reward Regions in Response to High-Calorie Food Cues in Young, Obese Hispanic Females," will be made on June 26, during the Endocrine Society meeting, which takes place from July 23 to 26 in Houston, Texas.
Page and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure the brain responses of 13 obese, Hispanic adolescent women ranging in age from 15 to 25. Women were chosen because prior research indicates they are more responsive to food cues; the study group was narrowed to Hispanic women because of the high risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the Hispanic community.
The women's brain responses were scanned twice as they looked at pictures of high-calorie foods, such as hamburgers, cookies, and cakes, and low-calorie foods such as fruits and vegetables. After seeing the high-calorie and low-calorie groupings, the participants rated their hunger and desire for sweet or savory foods on a scale from one to 10.
Halfway through the scans, the women drank 50 grams of glucose -- equivalent to a can of soda -- and another time, they drank 50 grams of fructose. Glucose and fructose are the main components of table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup.
"We hypothesized that the reward areas in the women's brains would be activated when they were looking at high-calorie foods, and that did happen," said Page. "What we didn't expect was that consuming the glucose and fructose would increase their hunger and desire for savory foods."
The researchers also noted that fructose stimulated more hunger and desire in the participants' brains than glucose did.
"Our bodies are made to eat food and store energy, and in prehistoric days, it behooved us to eat a lot of high-calorie foods because we didn't know when the next meal was coming," Page said. "But now we have much more access to food, and this research indicates added sweeteners might be affecting our desire for it."
With many questions unanswered about whether these cravings are environmental (caused by obesity) or genetic, Page plans to study what happens to the brains of obese individuals while they are dieting.
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How many times do we hear a sad story on the local news and wish there was something we could do about it?
?and then go back to our lives unchanged?
We?re all guilty of it. ?What can we do?? is the simple question we ask ourselves as we hop back into our routine.
Pete Carroll faced a similar situation in 2003 as head coach of University of Southern California when he heard a news broadcast about a local LA child who had been killed due to gang violence.
Something struck a chord in the football coach and he knew he had to change something. The man known for his catchphrase ?Always Compete? knew he had to compete for a better LA.
So twice a month, Pete Carroll left his home at night and drove to South L.A. where gang wars are prevalent and most see no hope of escape.
As Kurt Streeter of the LA Times noted, ?These are not recruiting visits. He?s trying to save lives.?
Carroll would walk the streets and talk to anyone who would stop, listening to their story, encouraging, and just learning about them.
?I don?t go to judge?just to show that someone cares. Just to give people here a little hope,? he says.
Carroll started A Better LA in the midst of his late night ventures. The organization is dedicated to ending inner-city violence and Carroll hopes that the self-improvement thinking he has long used with coaching will help the individuals trapped in poor and dangerous neighborhoods.
With the help of former gang member Bo Taylor, Carroll and his A Better LA team work to identify the charismatic gang leaders, befriend them, and help them change if needed.
The former head coach of USC ? one of the most well-known and well-liked personalities in Hollywood ? put himself in harm?s way consistently to save lives. How many of us can say that?
Despite his departure to the NFL?s Seattle Seahawks in 2010, the football coach continues to support the LA communities through A Better LA while creating a partner organization ? A Better Seattle ? in his new town.
?The more people who learn about it and spread the word, the better. We?ve learned that you can be so powerful as a force ? by helping others.?
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Is fish oil omega 3 for puppies safe? In a word yes. In fact the health benefits of giving fish oil to your baby dog are too substantial to disregard.
Puppies are baby dogs and the main reason any of us own a dog is because we fell in love with a puppy.
Their most endearing quality is their high energy. Their curiosity about the world around them. Their go-go-go behavior. Hey why walk? When you can run!!
They go full-out ? right from the get-go and do ?interesting? things like:
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They do all this and more, greeting you with unabashed exuberance, excitement, beaming with pride at the work they have accomplished.
But that doesn?t matter ? we love our pets and want the the best possible health for them for as long as possible. As they quickly grow from puppy to dog their brain continues to develop.
A number of clinical studies have shown omega 3 fish oil has produced remarkable results in the development of the brain in human babies. Babies given regular doses of omega 3 show greater intelligence and sharper learning skills.
Could it help your baby-dog?s brain?
Even though a dog?s brain is smaller and less sophisticated. Like a human brain it needs much of the same elements and nutrition to function at it?s highest level.
The Pet food industry is huge with a great deal of profit potential. Some pet food manufacturers have spend a great deal on research and development to produce pet food that meets the high standards of the pet owner, as well as high nutritional value and tastes good to the pet.
But which ones? How do you know for sure which manufacturer produces the best nutritional product for your pet? They all claim they do. Dogs and Cats are meat eaters, their digestive systems are not meant to continually process cereals and fillers.
The same benefits people get from fish oil can be experienced by our pet dogs by adding it their diet. When your dog has the opportunity to eat fish they do so with relish, it?s just not something they come across very often without your intervention.
To be healthy a pet needs proper nutrition and fish oil omega 3 for puppies is highly recommended because It does so much for your dog:
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Omega 3 fish oil normally comes in capsules. Simply snip the capsule and squeeze the fish oil on to your puppy?s favorite food. Your dog ? Male or Female will love the flavor.
There you have it! You now know that fish oil omega 3 for puppies is recommended! Add it to your puppy?s diet?today. After all that puppy is going to be your dog.
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It is a great advantage to open a merchant account when having a small e-commerce business because the business owner will enjoy lots of benefits like increase in business sales and customers, allows business to open 24/7, processes transactions instantly, invites international customers, provides a hassle-free currency conversion, and makes the business more appealing and credible.
More and more businesses are opening their doors to the world of online retailing. Engaging in ecommerce or electronic marketing provides a great opportunity for any business to grow especially when the usage of Internet covers almost all parts of the world.
Opening a merchant account for an ecommerce business is a great advantage. All e-commerce merchants must be aware of the benefits that a merchant account will bring to their businesses. Below are the benefits:
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An e-commerce business with a merchant account that can process credit card payments can increase revenue and business sales for up to 250%. Increase in online business sales is the number one reason why most e-commerce merchants acquire this type of account. This is due to the fact that online buyers prefer an easy and convenient mode of payment using their credit cards.
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