Chinese think tank urges end to one-child policy

A Chinese woman plays with her grandchild at the Ritan Park in Beijing Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. A government think tank says China should start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015. It remains unclear whether Chinese leaders are ready to take that step. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A Chinese woman plays with her grandchild at the Ritan Park in Beijing Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. A government think tank says China should start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015. It remains unclear whether Chinese leaders are ready to take that step. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A Chinese woman performs a morning exercise next to a family members having a light moment with their infant at the Ritan Park in Beijing Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. A government think tank says China should start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015. It remains unclear whether Chinese leaders are ready to take that step. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Kindergarten teachers play with children during an outdoor activity at the Ritan Park in Beijing Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. A government think tank says China should start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015. It remains unclear whether Chinese leaders are ready to take that step. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Chinese women bring their children to the Ritan Park in Beijing Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. A government think tank says China should start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015. It remains unclear whether Chinese leaders are ready to take that step. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

BEIJING (AP) ? A Chinese government think tank is urging the country's leaders to start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015, a daring proposal to do away with the unpopular policy.

Some demographers see the timeline put forward by the China Development Research Foundation as a bold move by the body close to the central leadership. Others warn that the gradual approach, if implemented, would still be insufficient to help correct the problems that China's strict birth limits have created.

Xie Meng, a press affairs official with the foundation, said the final version of the report wil be released "in a week or two." But Chinese state media have been given advance copies. The official Xinhua News Agency said the foundation recommends a two-child policy in some provinces from this year and a nationwide two-child policy by 2015. It proposes all birth limits be dropped by 2020, Xinhua reported.

"China has paid a huge political and social cost for the policy, as it has resulted in social conflict, high administrative costs and led indirectly to a long-term gender imbalance at birth," Xinhua said, citing the report.

But it remains unclear whether Chinese leaders are ready to take up the recommendations. China's National Population and Family Planning Commission had no immediate comment on the report Wednesday.

Known to many as the one-child policy, China's actual rules are more complicated. The government limits most urban couples to one child, and allows two children for rural families if their first-born is a girl. There are numerous other exceptions as well, including looser rules for minority families and a two-child limit for parents who are themselves both singletons.

Cai Yong, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, said the report holds extra weight because the think tank is under the State Council, China's Cabinet. He said he found it remarkable that state-backed demographers were willing to publicly propose such a detailed schedule and plan on how to get rid of China's birth limits.

"That tells us at least that policy change is inevitable, it's coming," said Cai, who was not involved in the drafting of the report but knows many of the experts who were. Cai is currently a visiting scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai. "It's coming, but we cannot predict when exactly it will come."

Adding to the uncertainty is a once-in-a-decade leadership transition that kicks off Nov. 8 that will see a new slate of top leaders installed by next spring. Cai said the transition could keep population reform on the back burner or changes might be rushed through to help burnish the reputations of President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao on their way out.

There has been growing speculation among Chinese media, experts and ordinary people about whether the government will soon relax the one-child policy ? introduced in 1980 as a temporary measure to curb surging population growth ? and allow more people to have two children.

Though the government credits the policy with preventing hundreds of millions of births and helping lift countless families out of poverty, it is reviled by many ordinary people. The strict limits have led to forced abortions and sterilizations, even though such measures are illegal. Couples who flout the rules face hefty fines, seizure of their property and loss of their jobs.

Many demographers argue that the policy has worsened the country's aging crisis by limiting the size of the young labor pool that must support the large baby boom generation as it retires. They say it has contributed to the imbalanced sex ratio by encouraging families to abort baby girls, preferring to try for a male heir.

The government recognizes those problems and has tried to address them by boosting social services for the elderly. It has also banned sex-selective abortion and rewarded rural families whose only child is a girl.

Many today also see the birth limits as outdated, a relic of the era when housing, jobs and food were provided by the state.

"It has been thirty years since our planned economy was liberalized," commented Wang Yi, the owner of a shop that sells textiles online, under a news report on the foundation's proposal. "So why do we still have to plan our population?"

Though open debate about the policy has flourished in state media and on the Internet, leaders have so far expressed a desire to maintain the status quo. President Hu said last year that China would keep its strict family planning policy to keep the birth rate low and other officials have said that no changes are expected until at least 2015.

Wang Feng, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy and an expert on China's demographics, contributed research material to the foundation's report but has yet to see the full text. He said he welcomed the gist of the document that he's seen in state media.

It says the government "should return the rights of reproduction to the people," he said. "That's very bold."

Gu Baochang, a professor of demography at Beijing's Renmin University and a vocal advocate of reform, said the proposed timeline wasn't aggressive enough.

"They should have reformed this policy ages ago," he said. "It just keeps getting held up, delayed."

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Associated Press researcher Flora Ji in Beijing contributed to this report.

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Syrian pilgrims raise rebel flag at haj as mufti calls for unity

MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Syrian pilgrims raised rebel flags as the haj reached its climax near Mecca on Thursday, despite a call from Saudi Arabia's top cleric for the annual Islamic pilgrimage to be free from nationalist sentiment and Muslim infighting.

This year's haj takes place against a backdrop of divisions among Muslims, as Shi'ite Iran and Sunni countries like Saudi Arabia and Turkey back opposing sides in Syria's civil war.

"My parents asked me to pray for God to bring peace, stability and safety to Syria," said Musa al-Ali, 38, a Syrian man living in Riyadh. "I hope death is brought to a halt in Syria."

Nearly three million Muslims stood at Mount Arafat in western Saudi Arabia on Thursday in the most important ritual of the haj. Most had spent the night at nearby Mina.

The message of the Grand Mufti, the most senior Saudi cleric, echoed comments by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who urged Islamic solidarity during the pilgrimage.

In 1987, hundreds of Iranian pilgrims died in clashes with Saudi security forces after protests.

"We want the call of the faithful, not a factional one. Avoid raising national and factional slogans," the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh said in his sermon in the Grand Mosque.

He said Muslim leaders were responsible for the well-being of their people and should resolve problems through religious teaching, not violence.

In his haj message, Ayatollah Khamenei warned that bloodshed in Syria could spill across borders in the Middle East. Iran accuses Turkey and Gulf Arab states of fuelling the Syrian conflict by supporting rebels.

NIGHT PRAYERS

The haj pilgrimage is one of the faith's so-called five pillars and a religious duty for all Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime if they are capable of it.

Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam and its ruling monarchy derives much of its legitimacy from its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites. Saudi Arabia's king is formally titled Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.

Thousands of tents were pitched alongside the main roads to Mount Arafat. As the sun rose, pilgrims were still streaming in and others who had already secured their spot were sleeping in tents or on slabs of rock.

"It's impressive to see the amount of people from all backgrounds asking Allah for forgiveness," said Babacar Diagne, 47, a Canadian originally from Senegal in West Africa. He looked down the mountain towards a sea of people all dressed in simple white robes.

After dusk, pilgrims will head to the plain of Muzdalifah to spend the evening there in preparation for the ritual stoning of the devil in Jamarat.

STAMPEDE RISKS

Saudi authorities have spent billions of dollars in recent years improving haj infrastructure to avoid a repeat of accidents which have killed hundreds of people. But with nearly three million Muslim pilgrims descending on Mecca, disaster is a constant fear.

The last big accident was a stampede in 2006 at Jamarat causing 380 deaths. Two other stampedes at the same place in 1994 and 2004 killed more than 500. In other years, the pilgrimage was marred by deadly fires in the massive camp city.

Hundreds of cameras and other monitoring devices are fixed around the main sites of the haj, including the Grand Mosque, Mount Arafat and Jamarat Bridge, to monitor crowd levels.

"We're using technology that allows us to take the right decisions at the right time," said Mansour al-Turki, the Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman.

"If we notice that the number of pilgrims is increasing in one area we can take preventive measures so that the intensity doesn't grow in a way that harms the pilgrims."

At Jamarat, the authorities built extensive new facilities to ease the flow of pilgrims seeking to hurl pebbles at three pillars representing the devil.

They replaced the pillars with long walls and built a multi-storey bridge around them, creating far more space for the pilgrims to stand on the bridge levels and perform the rite.

(Editing by Angus McDowall and Rosalind Russell)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-pilgrims-raise-rebel-flag-haj-mufti-calls-140403529.html

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Retirement Homes and Assisted Living | All About Estates

Written on October 25, 2012 ? 8:12 am | by Jasmine Sweatman

Depending on the age, health, ability and capacity of seniors, the decision about the appropriate type of seniors? accommodation is often a difficult one. ??According to the Advocacy Centre, seniors make up the fastest growing age group in Canada and they face a myriad of issues related to shortages in long-term care homes, the high financial burden of seniors? accommodations and increased health care needs.

On October 23, 2012, I participated in a webinar on the subject of ?Retirement Homes and Assisted Living in Canada? which was sponsored by the Canadian Bar Association and presented by Judith A. Wahl, Advocacy Centre for the Elderly and John Risk, General Counsel, Retirement Home Regulatory Authority. This webinar provided an overview of (1) the range of models and options in retirement living available across Canada, (2) how retirement homes / assisted living are regulated, (3) an examination of the regulatory system in Ontario, and (4) a review of the key legal issues affecting seniors in regards to retirement living.

A retirement home is a tenancy arrangement between the retirement home (landlord) and the senior (tenant) and the retirement home has no obligation to monitor, assess or provide on-going needs for the senior.?? By contrast, a long term care facility is a publicly funded health care facility which is regulated by the province.? As of July 2012, pursuant to the Retirement Homes Act (Ontario), retirement homes must now be licenced and is subject to a mandatory inspection; however the Residential Tenancies Act (Ontario) continues to apply to retirement homes.

The Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority (?RHRA?) is a not-for-profit corporation which is established to administer the Retirement Homes Act (Ontario), to educate the public about retirement homes and their regulation, and to advise the provincial government.? The RHRA provides consumer information guidance and protection tips for seniors in retirement homes, such as:

• Residents? Bill of Rights
• Written agreements required
• Information for residents (posted and available in the retirement home)
• Resident council and the right to establish
• Residential Tenancies Act, rights and obligations
• Complaint handling process

Lesson Learned: Seniors, care-givers and advisors should be aware of agencies like the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly,?the oversight provided by RHRA, as well as seniors? rights afforded under consumer protection laws and various other laws and public policy regulations.?

Until next time,

Jasmine Sweatman / Sophia Dunkley

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Apple's Mac moves take advantage of Windows 8 hardware uncertainty

Apple launched a new 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina Display that weighs in at 3.57 pounds, will start at $1,699 and starts to ship on Tuesday. The move is designed to trump Microsoft's Windows 8 launch and take advantage of a lot of hardware uncertainty.

Phil Schiller, marketing chief at Apple, unveiled the 13-inch MacBook Pro that is "super thin and light." Those last points are worth noting. The latest MacBook Pro isn't MacBook Air or ultrabook light, but it's not far off.

Apple's message is that it'll continue to innovate with the Mac, but the broader theme is that the company's line-up is easy to understand. Apple launched the 13-inch MacBook Pro, new iMac and Mac Mini. The Apple Mac portfolio features an iMac that's tablet thin too (photos via CNET's James Martin).

More:?Apple trots out 13" MacBook Pro with Retina; upgrades Mac Mini, iMac

The contrast between the Mac launch today and Microsoft's Windows 8 rollout is intense. Microsoft is hitting the market with dozens of form factors. You have convertible devices, tablets, laptops with touchscreens and a lot of uncertainty. The star of the Microsoft show---the Surface---is largely a missing.

Indeed, at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Microsoft's Windows 8 booth was bustling. Tech execs were playing with a bevy of devices, but largely seemed uninspired. Microsoft reps gamely walked people through Windows 8 and a Windows 8 RT tablet. Then a man asked about the elephant in the room.

IT pro: "Where's the Surface?"
Cheery Microsoft rep: "You can preorder one, but they won't appear until Friday."
IT pro: But I don't care about these. I want to see the Surface.
Cheery Microsoft rep: I know but you'll just have to wait.

There are thousands of CIOs passing through Orlando this week. Some of them see the Surface as a convergence device. Microsoft should work that angle.

Gartner analyst David Cearley said one of the biggest questions around Windows 8 is whether notebook/tablet hybrids will be compelling. Intel CEO Paul Otellini noted that it may take a year for Windows 8 to have a hero form factor.

"Our customers are designing entirely new categories of PCs," said Otellini, adding that there will be more than 140 core-based Ultrabooks rolled out next year -- more than 40 of which will have touch capabilities and more than a dozen will be convertibles.

In other words, the Wintel world is throwing form factors against the wall to see what sticks. Apple has Mac clarity. It's going to be an interesting December quarter for client computing.

Also:?Windows 8's competition is Google first, Apple iPad second

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Opposite behaviors? Arctic sea ice shrinks, Antarctic grows

ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2012) ? The steady and dramatic decline in the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean over the last three decades has become a focus of media and public attention. At the opposite end of Earth, however, something more complex is happening.

A new NASA study shows that from 1978 to 2010 the total extent of sea ice surrounding Antarctica in the Southern Ocean grew by roughly 6,600 square miles every year, an area larger than the state of Connecticut. And previous research by the same authors indicates that this rate of increase has recently accelerated, up from an average rate of almost 4,300 square miles per year from 1978 to 2006.

"There's been an overall increase in the sea ice cover in the Antarctic, which is the opposite of what is happening in the Arctic," said lead author Claire Parkinson, a climate scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "However, this growth rate is not nearly as large as the decrease in the Arctic."

Earth's poles have very different geographies. The Arctic Ocean is surrounded by North America, Greenland and Eurasia. These large landmasses trap most of the sea ice, which builds up and retreats with each yearly freeze-and-melt cycle. But a large fraction of the older, thicker Arctic sea ice has disappeared over the last three decades. The shrinking summer ice cover has exposed dark ocean water that absorbs sunlight and warms up, leading to more ice loss.

On the opposite side of the planet, Antarctica is a continent circled by open waters that let sea ice expand during the winter but also offer less shelter during the melt season. Most of the Southern Ocean's frozen cover grows and retreats every year, leading to little perennial sea ice in Antarctica.

Using passive-microwave data from NASA's Nimbus 7 satellite and several Department of Defense meteorological satellites, Parkinson and colleague Don Cavalieri showed that sea ice changes were not uniform around Antarctica. Most of the growth from 1978 to 2010 occurred in the Ross Sea, which gained a little under 5,300 square miles of sea ice per year, with more modest increases in the Weddell Sea and Indian Ocean. At the same time, the region of the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas lost an average of about 3,200 square miles of ice every year.

Parkinson and Cavalieri said that the mixed pattern of ice growth and ice loss around the Southern Ocean could be due to changes in atmospheric circulation. Recent research points at the depleted ozone layer over Antarctica as a possible culprit. Ozone absorbs solar energy, so a lower concentration of this molecule can lead to a cooling of the stratosphere (the layer between six and 30 miles above Earth's surface) over Antarctica. At the same time, the temperate latitudes have been warming, and the differential in temperatures has strengthened the circumpolar winds flowing over the Ross Ice Shelf.

"Winds off the Ross Ice Shelf are getting stronger and stronger, and that causes the sea ice to be pushed off the coast, which generates areas of open water, polynyas," said Josefino Comiso, a senior scientist at NASA Goddard. "The larger the coastal polynya, the more ice it produces, because in polynyas the water is in direct contact with the very cold winter atmosphere and rapidly freezes." As the wind keeps blowing, the ice expands further to the north.

This year's winter Antarctic sea ice maximum extent, reached two weeks after the Arctic Ocean's ice cap experienced an all-time summertime low, was a record high for the satellite era of 7.49 million square miles, about 193,000 square miles more than its average maximum extent for the last three decades.

The Antarctic minimum extents, which are reached in the midst of the Antarctic summer, in February, have also slightly increased to 1.33 million square miles in 2012, or around 251,000 square miles more than the average minimum extent since 1979.

The numbers for the southernmost ocean, however, pale in comparison with the rates at which the Arctic has been losing sea ice -- the extent of the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean in September 2012 was 1.32 million square miles below the average September extent from 1979 to 2000. The lost ice area is equivalent to roughly two Alaskas.

Parkinson said that the fact that some areas of the Southern Ocean are cooling and producing more sea ice does not disprove a warming climate.

"Climate does not change uniformly: The Earth is very large and the expectation definitely would be that there would be different changes in different regions of the world," Parkinson said. "That's true even if overall the system is warming." Another recent NASA study showed that Antarctic sea ice slightly thinned from 2003 to 2008, but increases in the extent of the ice balanced the loss in thickness and led to an overall volume gain.

The new research, which used laser altimetry data from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), was the first to estimate sea ice thickness for the entire Southern Ocean from space.

Records of Antarctic sea ice thickness are much patchier than those of the Arctic, due to the logistical challenges of taking regular measurements in the fierce and frigid waters around Antarctica. The field data collection is mostly limited to research icebreakers that generally only travel there during spring and summer -- so the sole means to get large-scale thickness measurements is from space.

"We have a good handle of the extent of the Antarctic sea ice, but the thickness has been the missing piece to monitor the sea ice mass balance," said Thorsten Markus, one of the authors of the study and Project Scientist for ICESat-2, a satellite mission designed to replace the now defunct ICESat. ICESat-2 is scheduled to launch in 2016. "The extent can be greater, but if the sea ice gets thinner, the volume could stay the same."

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GU Student Debt $1,435 Above National Average

While Georgetown student debt in 2011 was slightly higher than the national average, a lower overall proportion of its students were in debt.

According to a study released Oct. 18 by the Institute for College Access and Success, approximately 66 percent of 2011 American college graduates had student debt, which averaged $26,600 per student. In contrast, the study found that only 39 percent of Georgetown students graduated with debt, with an average of $28,035 per borrower in 2011. This figure represents a 10.7 percent increase over the 2010 average debt of $25,315, with the percentage of students in debt remaining unchanged.

The study broke down average student debt by state as well as by institution. The District of Columbia had the ninth highest level of debt, with 52 percent of students graduating from D.C. schools saddled with an average of $28,241 in debt. The George Washington University had an average student debt of $32,714, with 45 percent of students facing debt. Students at American University had the highest debt levels in the District in 2011, soaring to $37,674 and affecting 58 percent of students.

Schools with the highest student debts included Kentucky State University, Temple University and La Salle University, each of which had average student debts between $31,900 and $45,100.

In comparison, colleges and universities that had the lowest debt included Yale, Princeton and Williams College with student debts averaging between $3,000 and $9,750.

According to Scott Fleming (F ?72), associate vice president for federal relations, the university tries to work with students to minimize the amount of debt they will carry come graduation day.

Georgetown?s recently launched Capital Campaign seeks to raise $1.5 billion, a part of which will be used for student scholarships. In particular, the new 1789 Scholarship fund will raise money for 1,789 new scholarships.

?The university continues its efforts to increase Georgetown scholarship funding, including making funds for Georgetown scholarships a major focus of the ongoing Capital Campaign,? Fleming said. ?Increasing the pool of resources available for Georgetown?s scholarships, along with our work in the federal relations office to maintain strong federal grant aid programs, including Pell Grants and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, is designed to hold down the loan component of Georgetown financial aid packages.?

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Florida, Ohio polls support more state and federal spending on foreign

The presidential debate on foreign policy is tonight. The presidential race is tight, with Ohio and Florida as key battleground states. Polls taken October 3-7 by the the Hill Research Consultants (Florida) and Mellman Group (Ohio) asked voters in Ohio and Florida questions related to foreign policy. (Full poll results are here). Ohio results are in black. Florida results are in red.

As an advocate of more foreign language and study abroad programs, especially related to China, I find the poll results both surprising and supportive. Here are a few.

Both states, by large margins, support studying geography in schools.

Both states, again by large margins, think it is important for "children to conduct exchanges with other countries." Perhaps my proposal for paid high school study abroad programs would receive similar public support in polls.

In both states, Chinese follows Spanish as the most important language to learn.

Both states, again by substantial margins, support "increased federal and state spending for teaching geography, foreign languages and cultures."

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GANDALF'S FIST From A Point Of Existence music review by Dr Ball

Great. Balls. Of. Fire. What an absolutely cracking album. Whilst members of the progarchive community may recognise that Gandalf's Fist has hastily became one of my top 2 favourite bands, I should make a quick note that this album surpasses all expectations I had for the little Cumbrian duo and is an essencial piece of work that would fit handsomely and impressively into any prog lovers music collection. It is adventurous and diverse with lots of cheeky motifs one does not expect to come flying out of the laptop speakers, through the pantry, and into the sitting room whilst one is nonchalantly eating muesli - this is an epic and should be treated as such!

The introductory track made my organs feel a bit unsettled, but in a good way...the anticipation in this short sequence is incredible and opens for the marathon monster 15 minute + title track that makes even an M.D like me feel inferior to these two musical warriors. My favourite track (today at least) is 'There and Back Again', an obvious homage to Tolkien with a bit of an 80s ballad vibe - a great departure from GF's usual style but with excellent results! The simplicity brings the album back to earth in contrast with the complexity and mind-melting quality of some of the other tracks, showing the duo are not just your usual prog privateers, but instead are capable of bringing much more to the feast, in the form of a sprinkling of metal, a dash of psychedelic rock and a thin slice of cheese.

Equally impressive is the standard of complementary artwork for this album. GF's page narrates in some manner about some space age conspiracy story about an Ice cream man named William Small; the hallucinogenic ice cream and disgruntled robin takes me back to the day when music and art didn't have to make sense or have an 'agenda'... it just had to smell and taste like tangerines.

For those suffering from confusion over what constitutes as music nowadays, Dr Ball prescribes the PURCHASING of this album and 18 hours in the bath listening to it on loop, whilst pretending you are a giant and vicious sea worm breaking the balls of musical pirates.

Dr Ball | 5/5 | 2012-10-21

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Gain More Muscle With This Bodybuilding Advice | Somanabolic

TIP! Always adhere to proper technique and form when lifting weights. Just picking up a weight and lifting it without focusing on good form can create a serious injury.

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TIP! Find a good protein supplement you can include in making energy shakes. Because your protein requirements during the mass-building process are so high, you may find it easier to consume your protein in the form of shakes or smoothies, rather than eating too much meat or dozens of eggs.

Make sure you are eating food that supports your workout schedule. It is important to consume plenty of protein and limit your fat intake when you are trying to build muscle. This does not mean you should eat more food; this means you should have a more balanced diet. Try using vitamins and supplements to build muscle.

TIP! Listen to experts if you want to build a quality program for building muscle mass. By learning from a professional, you will have a leg up on the competition, building a strong foundation for success.

Meat is very helpful for building up your muscles. Try to eat about 1 gram of protein packed meat for every pound that is on your body. This is important because it allows you to store a protein reserve that your body will be able to use to build muscle.

TIP! If muscle-building is your goal, a good diet is required. There are nutrients your body needs to rebuild muscles in the body.

Start keeping a training log. It is crucial to keep track of your progress when you are working on building muscle. You can use a fitness log to do this. When you are working out, make sure you write down what exercises you did and how many reps you completed. You will stay motivated once you see how far you?ve come.

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TIP! Alcohol should not be consumed when you?re in muscle building mode. A beer here and there, or a little bit of wine is okay, but alcohol should never be drank in excess.

You should always set goals that are realistic when attempting to increase muscle mass. Remember that it will take a lot of time and effort to reach your ultimate goal. You can do more harm that good if you attempt to build up muscle mass fast by using steroids, stimulants or other harmful substances.

TIP! Before you start a muscle-building workout, you need to load up on protein. Before doing your workouts, consume about twenty grams of whey protein.

Avoid rapidly boosting your protein intake immediately after you begin your new workout plan. Starting too soon will increase your caloric intake as well, leading to fat deposits. Increase your protein gradually as you increase the intensity of your weightlifting exercises.

TIP! Always remember to eat prior to and after working out. If you are just getting started with your body building, try some high quality protein food.

You must always remember to stretch for 10 minutes before starting a routine for weight lifting. This helps warm up your muscles prior to lifting any heavy weights. An additional advantage of preventing injuries is that you can spend more time working out instead of recovering.

TIP! Completely utilize creatine in order to achieve optimum muscle growth. Creatine adds muscle size and increases strength by as much as ten pounds in the first few weeks, just by allowing you to work harder and longer.

Some people mistakenly emphasize speed over technique while working out. You?ll always get better results if you complete repetitions slowly and correctly, rather than if you try to get your reps done too fast. Do not rush, and be sure to properly do these exercises.

TIP! When trying to build muscle, do not cut good fats out of your diet. Good fats, like Omega-3 fatty acids, are essential to proper muscle growth.

Compound exercises may be the key to maximizing your muscle-building results and getting the most out of your workouts. The theory behind these exercises is that you should use a variety of muscles during one exercise. A great example of a compound exercise is bench pressing. This exercise works your triceps, chest and shoulders all at the same time.

TIP! Concentrate on deadlifts, squats and bench presses. These exercises are commonly considered the foundation of a successful bodybuilder?s program and there are good reasons for this.

Developing good technique is the most important factor in weight lifting, ahead of speed, frequency of exercise or even how much weight is used. Each individual aspect of your routine needs considerable practice until mastered completely. Master a new exercise by practicing it with lighter weights first. This can lead to better results in the long run.

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TIP! It is crucial that you never avoid breakfast, particularly when trying to create muscles. A high-protein but healthy breakfast will help you get your body started for the day.

Attempting a muscle building program while involved in difficult cardiovascular workouts or training for an upcoming marathon is not recommended. While engaging in cardio exercise is key to good health, it can negate the work you do on your muscle mass. When you are trying to build up your muscle mass, concentrate more on your strength exercises and a little less on conditioning.

TIP! When you are building muscle, you need to work your muscles to exhaustion on your final set. You need to exercise until you literally are unable to finish the rep in the set you?re working on.

You must restrict weekly workouts to no more than four. This allows your muscles to repair and rebuild themselves with a bit of rest. When you workout too much, you can make your body overwork itself and not build muscles and get into shape properly, so you won?t get the results you?re seeking.

TIP! If you start to feel pain, it is important that you immediately stop your workout. It is easy to injure your muscles and tendons, so don?t push yourself too hard just to build muscle.

In order to succeed in anything in life, knowing what tools to use and the proper way to do it is key. It all holds true with muscle development as well. Use what you have found in this article to enhance your workouts, and you will soon achieve bigger muscles.

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What are the characteristics with the kindle? This informative article talks in regards to the major six options from the wireless reading device, Kindle Fire. It enables user to surf the net, listen to music, watch movie, read books and etc. Listed below are the major six options from the?amazon prime review that I?m going to share with you:

Dual core processor

The wireless reading device, Kindle Fire utilizes the dual core processor for quickly, effective efficiency. Stream music when browsing the web or read books though downloading movies. It could take care of multitasking smoothly.

E-reading

Countless books could be found in the library. You can borrow books from the library. Besides that, you also can download the sample and read the critiques. When you are searching for an e-reader with astounding color display, The Fire is a suitable e-reader for you.

No cost 1 month membership of Amazon Prime

You will be able to stream unlimited of Television shows and motion pictures. You?ll find 1000s of movies within the library that happen to be accessible to stream, download, buy or rent. You can stream and watch it anytime, anyplace you?d like as long as your Fire gets connected towards the wireless. Together with the membership, you get to access towards the Lending Library exactly where it is possible to stream thousand of movies from there.

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Stop worrying about memory. Amazon gives you a 5GB no cost storage for all of your Amazon digital contents. You get to download and stream all your movies and apps instantly with a touch of your finger.

Amazon?s Apps Shop

You could download apps from Amazon?s apps retailer. It has a wide range of apps you may download. Apart from that, it presents a paid app free of charge everyday! You?ll be able to play Angry Bird on your Kindle!

Kindle owner?s Lending Library

There are more than a hundred thousand books within the Lending Library. With an Amazon Prime membership, Kindle owners can pick a book to borrow for free.

Fire is really a excellent decision amongst the many tablets. It characteristics astounding color display, wide range of apps, streaming music and motion pictures that is certainly compatible with Adobe?s Flash. In term of price, it fees only $199. It can be quite cheap to get a tablet. It permits you to get virtually 5GB absolutely free storage with Amazon?s Cloud storage. Apart from that, none of any customers complain regarding the Kindle Fire?s battery life. Begin asking yourself, what are you currently really looking for? In case you just wish to read some books, surf the world wide web, listen to some musics, why not going for this terrific device?

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Weak earnings season casts?pall over stocks

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A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on October 19, 2012 in New York City. Stocks fell Friday after the release of poor earnings reports. Analysts say they expect more earnings-related angst to come.

By Caroline Valetkevitch, Reuters

U.S. earnings started the quarter on the wrong foot, and things have only gotten worse.

Expectations for the third quarter were dismal, with forecasts for a decline in profits from a year ago. But a recent flurry of high-profile reports has investors scowling at the weak revenue numbers, adding to worries about the state of the U.S. economy and the outlook for corporate America.

"The earnings season is not looking very bright," said Larry Peruzzi, senior equity trader at Cabrera Capital Markets Inc., in Boston.

International Business Machines , General Electric and Microsoft fell short of revenue expectations, creating a sour mood early in the third-quarter reporting period.

The third quarter is among the most important for investors and economists because it is when companies begin to give a better picture of what the following year may look like.?

The pace of earnings reports will accelerate next week, with eight Dow components and 155 S&P 500 companies scheduled to release results. Tech heavyweight Apple Inc will be among them.

Just 38 percent of S&P 500 companies beat expectations on revenue in the past week, compared with 41 percent since the start of the reporting period, and well below the 62 percent long-term average, Thomson Reuters data showed.

On the earnings side, the data has been slightly more upbeat: 62 percent of companies that reported this week beat expectations versus 60.3 percent since the start of the earnings period, and the 62 percent long-term average, the data showed.

Investors have sold off shares after weak results, and more profit taking may be in store for stocks, given the big gains they've seen since the start of the year, Peruzzi said.

Worst day in four months
Friday's sell-off gave Wall Street its worst day in four months. The market's decline came on the 25th anniversary of Black Monday, when the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 22.6 percent in its worst one-day percentage loss ever.

The S&P 500 ended the week up just 0.3 percent. That's a modest showing when compared with its gain of 2.3 percent in the first three days alone.

For the year, the benchmark S&P 500 Index is still up 14 percent.

Much is riding on Apple, especially given the weakness in technology earnings so far this reporting period. Besides IBM and Microsoft, Intel and Google disappointed Wall Street with their results this week as well. Google's big miss came as a shock to many investors.

Apple "is certainly a bellwether, and today more than any other stock, sets the mood for investors," said Lawrence Creatura, portfolio manager at Federated Investors in Rochester, New York.

Besides Apple, results are expected next week from Caterpillar , Yahoo , United Parcel Service and Whirlpool .

Based on results from 116 companies and estimates for the rest, earnings for S&P 500 companies are expected to decline 1.8 percent from a year ago - the first such decline in three years. Without Apple, that decline would be about 2.3 percent, according to Thomson Reuters earnings analyst Greg Harrison.

Outlooks from U.S. companies have added to worries.

So far for the fourth quarter, there have been 17 negative outlooks from companies, no positive outlooks and one in line. That compares with 11 negative outlooks, two positive outlooks and two in line at a comparable period for third quarter guidance, Thomson Reuters data showed.

"Now is when the truth is revealed," Creatura said. "Now is when management teams begin to bracket what 2013 results might look like."

Taking some of the focus away from earnings next week will be the Federal Reserve's policy meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. After last month's meeting, the Fed announced its third round of aggressive economic stimulus, causing stocks to rally despite a slew of earnings warnings.

While investors welcomed the Fed's plan for more economic stimulus, known as quantitative easing, the move underscored worries that the U.S. economy may be in worse shape than feared.

Worsening macroeconomic conditions, namely sluggishness in the U.S. economy along with a dramatic slowdown in Europe and weakness in China, have been among the chief reasons cited by companies in their warnings about earnings and revenue.

U.S. economic indicators to watch next week will include new home sales for September on Wednesday and durable goods orders for September on Thursday, followed by the first look at third-quarter GDP on Friday, as well as the final reading for October on consumer sentiment from the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan surveys.

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She's planning her wedding. But she doesn't have a groom. Mamamia

by NATALIA JASTRZAB

Comrades, let us hope that my boyfriend doesn?t read this. Because it may see him packing his things and moving very, very far away. To somewhere where they don?t have phones. Or email. Or even walkie-talkies.

You see, we are not engaged. Nor close to engaged. The boy has far more pressing things on his plate, such as video games and? video games.

But I still love to take part in a spot of fantasy wedding planning on the odd occasion that I find myself with a bit of spare time. Pinterest is so fun, after all. So is Etsy. Hellloooooo Etsy.

I know that I would like a lot of fairy lights to be involved in my future wedding. I have my dress picked out. Bridesmaids dresses also sorted. Location TBC, although there?s a list of potentials already in my head.

It?s gotten to the point that when ANYTHING vaguely wedding-related comes up in the office, my colleagues say: ?Hey Nat, you can write that. You like that stuff.? (Hence this post.)

But I know I?m not alone. I know girls who have entire desktop folders on their computers dedicated to inspiration images for their future weddings. It?s also a regular topic of discussion amongst my girlfriends (let?s hope that none of their boyfriends read this either).

But none of us have gone to the extent that Anita Chakraburtty?has. She?s booked a date, location, flowers, cake and bought a dress for her wedding. The only thing she doesn?t have? A groom.

Awkward.

This from the Sydney Morning Herald:

Anita

As a professional astrologer, the British-born Chakraburtty, 42, says she is destined to meet her future husband any day now.

?Astrologically I?ve got quite a lot of activity happening in October and November in my charts,? she says. She picked the date of the wedding, April 7, 2013, because it has once-in-a-lifetime planetary alignments favouring relationships, she says, and also happens to be her birthday.

?I?ve got a red dress because I?m Aries, a fire sign, and I?ve also bought shoes with diamante on them ? and diamond is the birthstone of Aries,? she says. ?And a friend is making a chilli chocolate wedding cake.?

Chakraburtty, who has lived in Coogee for six years, wants to get married on a hill there, followed by a beach barbecue. Friends and family are planning to come over from Britain for the wedding ?but they?ve told me they aren?t going to book tickets until I at least start dating?.

Chakraburtty, who also works as a naturopath, believes the universe is backing her choice of wedding date. She was a first-time bridesmaid at a friend?s wedding recently and caught the bouquet.

?There are all these signs from the universe, milestones for me to say ?yes, you?re on track?. I really, really know that I will get married on this day and I?m going to meet a brilliant guy in the next few months,? she says. ?I?ve got so much love to offer someone.?

Mostly single for nine years, she denies she is a wedding obsessive. ?I was never this little girl who always wanted to be married and have a big dress. I?ve got a Masters in Chemistry and I was the head of risk in a bank in the UK so I?ve come from a very masculine education and career. I?m like one of the boys.?

We really hope Anita finds herself a husband. But at least if she doesn?t she?ll be able to drown her sorrows with the leftover champagne.

Have you every been guilty of planning a wedding that doesn?t exist? Have you thought about flowers or engagement rings? Have you ever gone to a wedding and though to yourself ?mine would be better?.??

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Greek Society Unravels Under Austerity Measures ? naked capitalism

Costas Lapavitsas is a professor in economics at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. He teaches the political economy of finance, and he?s a regular columnist for The Guardian. Here he?s interviewed by Paul Jay of the Real News Network.

Listening, it sounds like a situation with the potential to become overly dynamic. Or kinetic. This passage caught my eye:

JAY: [In] an interview I once did with Noam Chomsky a couple of years ago, he made a point which I thought was interesting, which?just how quickly German society accepted a Hitler and how quickly you go from kind of an avant-garde, libertarian Berlin to a fascist Berlin. I mean, what?s the danger of that in Greece?

LAPAVITSAS: Oh, the danger is very real. The danger is very real. I mean, the center of politics, the political organizations that have run Greece for four decades, have been hollowed out.

You see, people misunderstand. They think that the Greek state has always been very weak, inefficient, the Greek politicians are incapable, and so on. That is nonsense. The Greek state has been a very capable state and it has been able to deliver all kinds of things. You know, it?s a middle-income country. Its political system has been uniquely stable in Europe. Two parties have alternated in power and nothing has been changing for three to four decades.

Now that?s finished. That?s come to an end. These two parties are completely discredited. The center is hollowed out. And what has happened is that parties on the left and parties on the extreme right have been strengthened.

And that?s a reflection of what I mentioned to you before of the confusion, the despondency, and the anger among ordinary people. They do not look at the center any longer for solutions; they look at both ends of the political spectrum. Now, the dominant side there is the left. People look towards the left. They expect the solution from the left, from SYRIZA.

However, an increasing number of people, people who used to be to [incompr.] to the main part of the right now are looking to the extreme right. And it?s a logical thing. It?s a logical thing. If the center-right has made itself discredited, then a lot of people will look to the extreme right, which promises clean hands, efficiency, dealing with foreigners the way in which they understand that, and so on. That can be very quick. That can be very fast.

?They expect the solution from the left, from SYRIZA.? OK, and? Readers?

Source: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/10/greek-society-unravels-under-austerity-measures.html

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Bangladesh probing background of NY terror suspect

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ? Police in Bangladesh on Saturday interviewed former teachers and classmates of a Bangladeshi man charged with trying to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York, investigating whether he had connections with radical groups at home.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police official Monirul Islam said detectives on Saturday will visit North South University in Dhaka where Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis studied before going to the United States. They were to interview teachers, classmates and school officials.

Bangladeshi detectives have already visited Nafis' village, where they found no evidence of ties with radical groups.

Nafis, 21, was arrested in New York on Wednesday in an FBI sting operation. A criminal complaint says he made several attempts to blow up a fake 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) car bomb near the Federal Reserve.

Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir has pledged that Bangladesh will assist the United States in investigating Nafis.

Nafis' family in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka denied he could have been involved in the plot and said he went to America only to study.

U.S. federal investigators, often accused by defense attorneys of entrapping and leading would-be terrorists along, said Nafis made the first move over the summer, reaching out for accomplices and eventually contacting a government informant, who then went to federal authorities.

They said he also selected his target, drove the van loaded with dummy explosives up to the door of the bank, and tried to set off the bomb from a hotel room using a cellphone he thought had been rigged as a detonator.

During the investigation, he and the informant corresponded via Facebook and other social media, talked on the phone and met in hotel rooms, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Nafis spoke of his admiration for Osama bin Laden, talked of writing an article about his plot for an al-Qaida-affiliated magazine, and said he would be willing to be a martyr but preferred to go home to his family after carrying out the attack, authorities said. And he also talked about wanting to kill President Barack Obama and bomb the New York Stock Exchange, a law enforcement official said.

Investigators said in court papers that he came to the U.S. bent on jihad and worked out the specifics of a plot when he arrived. While Nafis believed he had the blessing of al-Qaida and was acting on behalf of the terrorist group, he has no known ties, according to federal officials.

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Meningitis outbreak toll: 284 cases, 23 deaths

An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled.

Latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

Illnesses: 284, including three joint infections.

Deaths: 23

States: 16; Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

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UK hosting inaugural Makenna Foundation Symposium on Pediatric Pulmonary Disease

Public release date: 19-Oct-2012
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 19, 2012) The University of Kentucky is hosting the first annual Makenna Foundation Symposium on Pediatric Pulmonary Disease next Friday and Saturday.

The symposium will bring together thought leaders across a spectrum of disciplines to discuss recent advances and future direction in the diagnosis, management, surgical and non-surgical therapies for pulmonary diseases.

Event speakers will present the recent advances in the field that can be applied to patient care and include faculty from the University of Kentucky as well as faculty from other top medical programs across the country.

Friday's program will be held in the UK College of Pharmacy's Biological Pharmaceutical Building Room 234B. It will feature educational sessions by:

• Dr. Charles Hoopes, director of the UK Transplant Program
• Sheila David, executive director of the Makenna Foundation
• Robin Shandas, professor and chair of bioengineering at the University of Colorado
• Dr. Mary Mullen, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Brandon Fornwalt, assistant professor at the Kentucky Pediatric Research Institute
• Leighnia Nance, registered nurse at Kentucky Children's Hospital
• Dr. John P. Clancy, director of clinical and translational research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital
• Dr. Albert Faro, co-director of the Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Network
• Dr. Jamshed Kanga, professor and chief of the division of pediatric pulmonology at UK
• Dr. Robert Bartlett, director of the ECMO Circulation Laboratory at the University of Michigan
• Dr. Jay Zwischenberger, UK HealthCare surgeon-in-chief

All health care professionals, from physicians to researchers to nurses and students, are invited to attend both Friday and Saturday sessions. The Saturday sessions are also open to the public and free. They will be held in the UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion A Auditorium and will include the following presentations:

Organ Transplantation: Organ Shortage and Organ Donation; Dr. Andrew Bernard, Chair of the UK Organ Donation and Transplant Action Council PVOD and Lung Transplantation: My Journey; Claire Dowling, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) patient and lung transplant recipient Viewing of "The Power of Two," an award-winning documentary about twin sisters with cystic fibrosis who received life-saving lung transplants Panel discussion on organ donation; Dr. Charles Hoopes

Registration fees for the symposium vary. The fee for physicians is $150 and will include CME credit. Nurses' fee is $35 and will include one CNE credit. The fee for other health professionals is $15; respiratory therapists may receive CEUs for attending. There is no charge for students, residents and fellows.

Attendees must register for the symposium in advance. To register online, visit http://www.cecentral.com/live/5514. For more information regarding registration, contact CE Central at (859) 257-5320 or support@cecentral.com.

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Contact: Allison Perry
allison.perry@uky.edu
859-323-2399
University of Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 19, 2012) The University of Kentucky is hosting the first annual Makenna Foundation Symposium on Pediatric Pulmonary Disease next Friday and Saturday.

The symposium will bring together thought leaders across a spectrum of disciplines to discuss recent advances and future direction in the diagnosis, management, surgical and non-surgical therapies for pulmonary diseases.

Event speakers will present the recent advances in the field that can be applied to patient care and include faculty from the University of Kentucky as well as faculty from other top medical programs across the country.

Friday's program will be held in the UK College of Pharmacy's Biological Pharmaceutical Building Room 234B. It will feature educational sessions by:

• Dr. Charles Hoopes, director of the UK Transplant Program
• Sheila David, executive director of the Makenna Foundation
• Robin Shandas, professor and chair of bioengineering at the University of Colorado
• Dr. Mary Mullen, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
• Dr. Brandon Fornwalt, assistant professor at the Kentucky Pediatric Research Institute
• Leighnia Nance, registered nurse at Kentucky Children's Hospital
• Dr. John P. Clancy, director of clinical and translational research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital
• Dr. Albert Faro, co-director of the Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutics Development Network
• Dr. Jamshed Kanga, professor and chief of the division of pediatric pulmonology at UK
• Dr. Robert Bartlett, director of the ECMO Circulation Laboratory at the University of Michigan
• Dr. Jay Zwischenberger, UK HealthCare surgeon-in-chief

All health care professionals, from physicians to researchers to nurses and students, are invited to attend both Friday and Saturday sessions. The Saturday sessions are also open to the public and free. They will be held in the UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion A Auditorium and will include the following presentations:

Organ Transplantation: Organ Shortage and Organ Donation; Dr. Andrew Bernard, Chair of the UK Organ Donation and Transplant Action Council PVOD and Lung Transplantation: My Journey; Claire Dowling, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) patient and lung transplant recipient Viewing of "The Power of Two," an award-winning documentary about twin sisters with cystic fibrosis who received life-saving lung transplants Panel discussion on organ donation; Dr. Charles Hoopes

Registration fees for the symposium vary. The fee for physicians is $150 and will include CME credit. Nurses' fee is $35 and will include one CNE credit. The fee for other health professionals is $15; respiratory therapists may receive CEUs for attending. There is no charge for students, residents and fellows.

Attendees must register for the symposium in advance. To register online, visit http://www.cecentral.com/live/5514. For more information regarding registration, contact CE Central at (859) 257-5320 or support@cecentral.com.

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