Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/281481291?client_source=feed&format=rss
maya angelou joan of arc tony robbins bon iver abraham lincoln vampire hunter their eyes were watching god lara logan
বৃহস্পতিবার, ৩১ জানুয়ারী, ২০১৩
Mexico draws Denmark ahead of WC qualifying
Associated Press Sports
updated 11:27 p.m. ET Jan. 30, 2013
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Andrea Cornelius scored on a penalty kick in the 84th minute to give Denmark a 1-1 draw against Mexico on Wednesday night in an international soccer friendly at University of Phoenix Stadium.
Marco Fabian gave Mexico a 1-0 lead on a penalty in the 68th minute after midfielder Javier Aquino was pulled down just inside the 18-yard box. The lead lasted about 16 minutes, when Cornelius was fouled in the penalty area by Mexico's Jorge Torres Nilo.
It was the 2013 opener for Mexico, the highest-ranked team from North America in FIFA's world soccer rankings at No. 15. Mexico begins World Cup qualifying Feb. 6 in Mexico City against Jamaica.
The final result drew a few jeers from the Mexican partisan crowd of 43,345, which was believed to be the second-largest to see a soccer match in the state of Arizona. Denmark entered the match as FIFA's 23rd-ranked team.
? 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
advertisement
More newsGetty Images ContributorBeckham to sign with PSG
??David Beckham will join Paris Saint-Germain on Thursday, opting for a move to France after mulling over lucrative offers from around the world since leaving the Los Angeles Galaxy.
AFP - Getty ImagesSource: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/50648726/ns/sports-soccer/
pope joan pope joan strikeforce tate vs rousey strawberry festival knicks the monkees ciaa
Majority (63%) of people oppose sending British troops to Mali but plurality sti...
Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/YouGov/posts/334605269977945
robin roberts myocardial infarction What Is Labor Day jersey shore Pasquale Rotella Michael Clark Duncan michael jackson
বুধবার, ৩০ জানুয়ারী, ২০১৩
Deforestation triggers carbon collapse of tropical peatlands
Jan. 30, 2013 ? Deforested tropical peatlands are haemorrhaging carbon from deep within their peat soils, with consequences for the release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, according to new research by The Open University and partners, published January 31 in Nature.
Tropical peatlands, with their high water tables and low decomposition rates, form vast stores of organic carbon tens of metres thick. Most of it is found in Indonesia, where the natural swamp forests (also home to endangered animal species such as orangutans) are increasingly being destroyed by deforestation, drainage and fire, to make way for agriculture, in particular oil palm for biofuels and food.?
Dr Sam Moore, lead author of the study and former Open University PhD student, explained: ?We measured carbon losses in channels draining intact and deforested peatlands, and found it is 50 per cent higher from deforested swamps, compared to intact swamps. Dissolved organic carbon released from intact swamps mainly comes from fresh plant material, but carbon from the deforested swamps is much older ? centuries to millennia ? and comes from deep within the peat column.?
Deforestation of Asian peat swamps is an important source of carbon dioxide emissions globally and its emission may be larger than previously thought. Carbon dating shows that the additional carbon lost from deforested swamps comes from peat which had been securely stored for thousands of years. Carbon lost from the drainage systems of deforested and drained peatlands is often not considered in ecosystem exchange carbon budgets, but the research team found it increased the estimated total carbon loss by 22 per cent.??
Changes in the water cycle seem to be the principal driver of this increase in carbon loss.? Much of the water falling as rain would normally leave the ecosystem through transpiration in vegetation, but deforestation forces it to leave through the peat, where it dissolves fossil carbon on its way.
Dr Vincent Gauci, Senior Lecturer in Earth Systems and Ecosystem Science at The Open University, and corresponding author said: ?Essentially, ancient carbon is being dissolved out of Asian peatlands as they are increasingly being turned over to agriculture to meet global demands for food and biofuels. This has led to a large increase in carbon loss from Southeast Asian rivers draining peatland ecosystems - up by 32 per cent over the last 20 years, which is more than half the entire annual carbon loss from all European peatlands.? The destruction of the Asian peat swamps is a globally significant environmental disaster, but unlike deforestation of the Amazon, few people know that it is happening?.?
The authors concluded that their results increase the urgency for protecting these ecosystems from ongoing destruction for oil palm and other uses.?
Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:
Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:
Story Source:
The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Open University, via AlphaGalileo.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Journal Reference:
- Sam Moore, Chris D. Evans, Susan E. Page, Mark H. Garnett, Tim G. Jones, Chris Freeman, Aljosja Hooijer, Andrew J. Wiltshire, Suwido H. Limin, Vincent Gauci. Deep instability of deforested tropical peatlands revealed by fluvial organic carbon fluxes. Nature, 2013; 493 (7434): 660 DOI: 10.1038/nature11818
Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/lhXsUs_UvjQ/130130132326.htm
Suzanne Barr Clint Eastwood speech Maria Montessori clint eastwood Julian Castro Blue Moon August 2012 Eddie Murphy Dead
Making the Trees Shiver in a Three Stars Garden Book Fair | The ...
Posted by Joelle Blackstock in Shoptalk
on Jan 30th, 2013 | 0 comments
Tristan and Pascale Leone, two of our youngest and brightest stars from NYWC?s Ridge Kids workshop, will be speaking to 4th graders at Community Roots Charter School & PS 67?s Book fair in Brooklyn, NY on February 4. There they will read their work aloud and talk with students along with NYWC staff about the writing process in an effort on behalf of the school?s literacy committee to keep kids in touch with writing and writers in their community. In addition, three of NYWC?s anthologies will be available for purchase at the book fair:?Making the Trees Shiver,?From Kingsbridge to Canarsie, and?I Feel Surreal.
The book fair will benefit the three schools located in the building?? Community Roots Charter School, PS 67, and MS 369. Proceeds will also support the schools? Three Stars Garden, an?after school?gardening program, thus bringing together writing, the arts, and the?environment. Below are descriptions of the books of works written by our young writers ?that are available for purchase at the book fair as well as online on the NYWC?website.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
Making the Trees Shiver?is an eclectic collection recreating the magic that is the annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival. Poetry and prose by?Chris Abani,?Amiri Baraka,?Cheryl Boyce-Taylor,?Staceyann Chin,?Kwame Dawes,?Jennifer Egan,?Marlon James, Jacqueline Johnson,?Willie Perdomo,?Sonia Sanchez,?Hal Sirowitz, and?Quincy Troupe?is interspersed with work by the talented next generation of young writers from NY Writers Coalition?s creative writing workshops.?Making the Trees Shiver?celebrates community writing at its finest: expansive, authentic, and full of life. Like Fort Greene Park itself, these pages are noisy at times, chilling at others, but always full of spectacular views. October 2011.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
?
Through writing, interviews, and photography, neighborhood writers create portraits of New York City, then edit the stories with the neighborhoods to ensure authenticity.?This book, in eight distinct voices, vibrantly paints what it is to be young and female and coming of age in New York City.?It is a documentary book project that replicates the highly successful and innovative?New Orleans-based Neighborhood Story Project.
?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
?
I Feel Surreal?is the third book of writing from the Ridge Kids (ages 5-10), NYWC?s long-running workshop at the Brooklyn?Public Library?s Bay Ridge Branch. The pieces are hilarious, heartwarming and unbelievably insightful. A must read.
2012 ncaa bracket john carlson greg smith catamount mike dantoni bulls heat goldman sachs
Gulf leads UN appeal for major boost in Syrian aid
Representatives from member states, UN agencies, and non-governmental organizations pose for a group photo at Bayan Palace in Kuwait City, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. The U.N. chief made a dramatic appeal Wednesday for a major boost in relief aid for Syria, calling for an end to the fighting "in the name of humanity" as an international conference opened in Kuwait with both foes and backers of President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)
Representatives from member states, UN agencies, and non-governmental organizations pose for a group photo at Bayan Palace in Kuwait City, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. The U.N. chief made a dramatic appeal Wednesday for a major boost in relief aid for Syria, calling for an end to the fighting "in the name of humanity" as an international conference opened in Kuwait with both foes and backers of President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)
The Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Sabah, attends the International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria in Bayan Palace, Kuwait City, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. The U.N. chief made a dramatic appeal Wednesday for a major boost in relief aid for Syria, calling for an end to the fighting "in the name of humanity" as an international conference opened in Kuwait with both foes and backers of President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)
FILE - In this Monday Jan. 7, 2013 file photo, a Syrian refugee woman, removes her laundry from the ground after it fell, at a temporary refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj near the border with Syria, Lebanon. International aid officials are framing a new appeal for help in easing Syria's humanitarian crisis in terms not seen since the height of the Iraq war: Refugee numbers possibly swelling toward 1 million and more than double that figure in need of help inside the country. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday Jan. 8, 2013 file photo, Syrian refugees make their way in flooded water at a temporary refugee camp, in the eastern Lebanese Town of Al-Faour near the border with Syria, Lebanon. International aid officials are framing a new appeal for help in easing Syria's humanitarian crisis in terms not seen since the height of the Iraq war: Refugee numbers possibly swelling toward 1 million and more than double that figure in need of help inside the country. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 file photo, a Syrian refugee woman looks out of her tent surrounded with water and mud, at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. International aid officials are framing a new appeal for help in easing Syria's humanitarian crisis in terms not seen since the height of the Iraq war: Refugee numbers possibly swelling toward 1 million and more than double that figure in need of help inside the country. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)
KUWAIT CITY (AP) ? An emergency U.N. appeal to raise $1.5 billion in humanitarian aid for Syria exceeded its goal Wednesday at a conference with dire predictions of rising civilian costs and Jordan's king saying the refugee crunch has pushed his nation's resources to the breaking point.
"We are sending a message to Syrians: You are not alone," said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon even as he described Syria as caught in a "death spiral" and the conditions for many civilians a "living hell."
Wealthy Gulf nations ? traditionally on the sidelines as major donors to U.N. aid efforts ? took the lead in the latest drive with at least $900 million offered in a sign of their expanding political profile since the Arab Spring and their role as critical regional backers of the Syrian rebels.
But the success of swiftly pulling together the funds was tempered by reminders that the aid is expected to cover the relief costs only until summer, highlighting the massive burden to cope with needs from Syria's civil war and its spillover in a region where refugees are sometimes pouring into camps at the rate of 3,000 a day. The concern was evident from Ban even as he lauded the current outpouring, noting that more nations will be asked to give and others may have to dig deeper as the Syrian crisis grows.
The current pledges also will likely face close scrutiny on how quickly the money will reach over-stretched aid groups directed by the U.N. and other agencies. Officials in Egypt and elsewhere have complained that many generous international offers for help after the Arab Spring upheavals have not yet materialized.
Another serious challenge is trying to gain access to civilians in rebel-held territory, aid officials said. The U.N. and other international groups must operate out of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and can be left struggling to arrange convoys through battle lines and making contacts with opposition groups.
"We know we are not reaching all the people who need to be reached," said the U.N.'s humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos, who held talks earlier this week with Syrian officials.
Ban opened the one-day gathering in Kuwait by calling for an end to the fighting "in the name of humanity," yet noted that the fighting shows no signs of easing and crises such as the refugee exodus to places such as Turkey and Jordan could intensify.
Jordan's economic council said the country was already pushed to the limit.
The kingdom has spent more than $833 million on aid for refugees ? accounting for nearly half the estimated 700,000 people who have fled Syria ? and that it was unable to sustain a financial burden that has so far siphoned off about 3 percent of its GDP. Some U.N. officials say the refugee figures could approach 1 million later this year if the conflict in Syria does not ease.
"We have reached the end of the line. We have exhausted our resources," said Jordan's King Abdullah II.
Last week, the king amplified his appeal for international help at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saying "the weakest refugees are struggling now just to survive this year's harsh winter" and up to 3,000 a day are still crossing the Syria-Jordan border.
In his opening remarks to delegates at the donors' conference, Ban urged all sides "and particularly the Syrian government" to halt attacks in the 22-month-old civil war that the U.N. says has claimed more than 60,000 lives.
"In the name of humanity, stop the killing, stop the violence," Ban told envoys from nearly 60 nations, including Russia and Iran, key allies of Assad's regime.
Aid officials estimate that more than 2 million Syrians have been uprooted or are suffering inside the country as the conflict widens ? including what peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called "unprecedented levels of horror" in an address to the U.N. Security Council after at least 65 bodies were found Tuesday in a suspected execution-style killing near Aleppo.
Before the latest donors' conference, Ban described the international humanitarian response to Syria as "very much limited" in comments to the official Kuwaiti News Agency.
But the meeting opened with Kuwait's ruler, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, promising $300 million. It was quickly matched by Gulf partners Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which are all major backers of Syrian rebel factions. Among other contributions that pushed the total past the U.N. goal was $184 million from Gulf non-government groups and charities.
On Tuesday, the European Union and the U.S. promised a total of nearly $300 million.
The head of the U.S. delegation, Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard, lauded the donations from Gulf nations, which often bankroll their own aid efforts but are not traditional top donors to U.N. programs. She noted, however, that the humanitarian funds are to deal only with immediate needs over the coming months.
"It's good for now, but predictions are that it's not going to be over soon," said Richard, who deals with refugee and migration affairs.
While international aid channels are open to refugee camps in places such as Turkey and Jordan, there is far more limited capacity to organize relief efforts inside Syria because of the fighting and obstacles from Assad's regime.
Paris-based Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, said the U.N. and others need to open more routes for aid to reach rebel-held areas, which now receive only a "tiny share" of international humanitarian help.
"The current aid system is unable to address the worsening living conditions facing people who live inside Syria," MSF president, Marie-Pierre Allie, said in a statement.
The Syrian opposition, meanwhile, has been hobbled by divisions and infighting, which in part has discouraged donors from offering more assistance.
In a sign of persisting friction, Syrian opposition leader Moaz al-Khatib came under criticism Wednesday for comments he allegedly made offering to hold direct dialogue with representatives of the Assad regime if the government releases tens of thousands of political prisoners.
The Syrian government said last week that opposition figures would be allowed safe return to Damascus for national dialogue ? an offer flatly rejected by most opposition leaders.
The comments by al-Khatib, who heads the Syrian National Coalition umbrella group, were allegedly posted on his Facebook page, but appear to have been taken down later.
Instead, was a posting: "There are those who sit on their couches and say ... do not negotiate. We don't negotiate about the regime remaining, but for its departure at the lowest cost in blood and destruction."
___
Associated Press writers Dale Gavlak in Amman, Jordan, and Zeina Karam in Beirut contributed to this report.
Associated Pressbruce arians the misfits hook troy miracle andy whitfield kennedy
'This time, action must follow'
Undocumented immigrant Katherine Taberes watches Obama's immigration speech from New York. (Mario Tama/Getty I??
President Barack Obama unveiled his vision for immigration reform in a speech on Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas, Nev., telling Congress that he will send them his own bill and call for a vote if they don't move fast.
"If Congress is unable to move forward in a timely fashion, I will send up a bill based on my proposal and insist that they vote on it right away," Obama said to applause from students at Del Sol High School.
"It looks like there's a genuine desire to get this done soon, and that's very encouraging," Obama said, mentioning a blueprint put forward by a bipartisan group of eight senators on Monday. "But this time action must follow."
Obama's speech was the latest move in a chess match between the White House and some Republicans in Congress to craft an outline for reform that can both be enacted into law while meeting the expectataions of the growing population of Hispanic voters who now overwhelmingly favor Democrats.
Some Republicans want to support immigration reform in part to combat the party's demographic challenges, but the more involved the president is with the bill, the politically riskier it becomes to support it.
In his speech, Obama laid out "markers" for reform, saying any comprehensive immigration bill must give most of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants a chance to earn their citizenship gradually if they pay a fine, learn English and pass a background check. Immigrants would also have to get to "the back of the line," which means people who have already applied for green cards would have their applications processed first.
The president's bill would also include an employment verification system, more border security and a revamping of the legal immigration system to provide more visas for top graduates of U.S. universities and to reduce lengthy wait times for visas for relatives of U.S. citizens.
The president mentioned the blueprint for reform laid out by senators including rising Republican star Marco Rubio of Florida and John McCain of Arizona, Obama's 2008 GOP presidential rival.
The principles of that outline "are very much in line with the principles I?ve proposed and campaigned on for the last few years," Obama said.
The senators pre-empted Obama's speech by a day to release a blueprint that differs from Obama's earlier immigration proposal in some respects.
Both Obama and the senators agree that the nation's illegal immigrants should be given a chance to legalize and eventually become citizens if they meet certain conditions, but the senators' bill includes a spate of border security requirements that must go into effect before the immigrants are eligible for green cards. Rubio said on Tuesday that he will not sign onto a bill that does not include these border enforcement triggers.
Another potential difference between the plans is that the president believes same-sex partners should be able to sponsor their immigrant husband or wife for citizenship in the same way heterosexual married couples can do now. The Senate proposal does not mention same-sex couples.
Obama said he recognized that immigration is an issue that inflames "passions," but he called on Americans to remember that they belong to a nation of immigrants.
"It's easy sometimes for the discussion to take on a feeling of 'us' versus 'them,'" Obama said. "When that happens a lot of folks forget that most of us used to be them. ... Unless you?re one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from some place else. Somebody brought you."
Welcoming immigrants has made the country stronger, he said. "That's how we will ensure this century is the same as the last, an American century, welcoming of everybody who aspires to do something more, is willing to work hard for it, is willing to pledge allegiance to our flag."
Leaders in the Republican-controlled House have not yet released a significant blueprint or proposal for immigration reform. In response to the speech, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner urged the president to keep his distance while Congress undergoes what will likely be a lengthy legislative process to reach a final bill addressing immigration reform.
?There are a lot of ideas about how best to fix our broken immigration system. Any solution should be a bipartisan one, and we hope the president is careful not to drag the debate to the left and ultimately disrupt the difficult work that is ahead in the House and Senate," said Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck in a statement.
McCain said in a statement after Obama's speech that despite the "differences" in their approaches, he is "cautiously optimistic" that a bill will go forward.
Immigrant groups and labor organizations are rallying behind the new push for reform. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told Yahoo News on Tuesday that organized labor is ?entirely behind? comprehensive immigration reform and will mount a ?full-fledged? campaign to help drive it through Congress.
?Olivier Knox, Rachel Rose Hartman and Chris Moody contributed to this report.
kickoff time super bowl 2012 superbowl national anthem patriots vs giants super bowl superbowl halftime show jason wu for target underwood buffalo wings
Video: Giffords calls for gun control in Congress hearing
>> a moment to remember back clearly to the very moment we learned about the shootings at sandy hook elementary school in newtown , connecticut. to remember how shocked we all were and how sad and sorry a scene that was. well, this is still very much the post newtown era. so there was great emotion today at a hearing on guns on capitol hill . especially when a very well-known survivor of gun violence , gabby giffords , came forward to deliver her own remarks. and yet during the hearing, we learned of another shooting. this one in arizona. a workplace, one gunman, three shooting victims, one fatal. we begin tonight with this emotional issue. our report from nbc's kelly o'donnell on capitol hill .
>> reporter: good evening, brian. the passion so deep, this hearing room was packed, included many families and survivors, victims of other shootings. and it was a group of people asking congress to do something, and that is the cause that changed the life of former congresswoman, gabby giffords , and brought her back to washington today. her gift of speech is a distant memory, said husband mark kelly . yet gabby giffords ' halting words.
>> too many children.
>> reporter: here as a survivor of the tucson assassination attempt that left her partially blind and partially paralyzed.
>> you must act. be bold, be courageous.
>> reporter: giffords and kelly, both gun owners , want congress to expand background checks to gun shows and private sales to make it harder for criminals and the mentally ill to get weapons.
>> my wife would not be sitting in this seat. she would not have been sitting here today, if we had stronger background checks .
>> reporter: but this first hearing on guns since the newtown massacre had another center of gravity . the national rifle association 's ceo, wayne lapierre .
>> should we have mandatory background checks at gun shows?
>> if you're a dealer, that's already the law.
>> reporter: of all the gun-related ideas on the table, democrats believe universal background checks has the
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/50645616/
nevada caucus ufc 143 what time does the super bowl start super bowl 2012 josephine baker ben gazzara nfl hall of fame 2012
13.01.30 11:00 Martin Luther King Jr. Exhibit - Wednesday January 30, 2013 from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm @ DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
Sorry, Readability was unable to parse this page for content.
Source: http://www.calendarwiz.com/calendars/popup.php?op=view&id=57212759&crd=wmdt
chk ryan o neal dark knight rises trailer dark knight rises trailer vince young vince young evan longoria
Former CF Mayor to pay ethics violation
We welcome your thoughtful comments. Be the first to participate in the discussion. All comments will display your username and avatar.
Add a Comment
Sign in or join now to post a comment. All comments will display your username and avatar.
jermaine jones hbo luck unc asheville stephen jackson nba trade deadline ncaa tournament marchmadness
365Scores Secures $1.2M Series A Round, Puts Out Improved iOS/Android App
You may be getting your sports results on your smartphone from one of the major results providers like ESPN, MLB NFL, but a number of others have appeared in the space. One getting traction and now funding is 365Scores, an online sports notification app. The Tel-Aviv-based startup has today signed a $1.2 million Series A round funding from Cedar Fund, Tal Elyashiv and Shy Datika in order to grow the product.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/WuYbt1JgxyM/
2012 grammys foo fighters nikki minaj grammys album of the year grammy red carpet grammy award winners
Injecting botox into stomach does not promote weight loss
Jan. 28, 2013 ? Gastric injections of botulinum toxin A (BTA) can delay gastric emptying but do not make obese individuals feel more full, alter their eating behaviors, or cause them to lose weight, according to the February issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
In attempts to help people lose weight, researchers have tested ways to slow gastric emptying (movement of food from the stomach to the small intestine) and increase satiation (feeling full). Gastric injections of BTA have been reported to delay gastric emptying, increase satiation, and reduce body weight, but with inconsistent results.
Botulinum toxin -- a protein and neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum -- reduces muscle activity by blocking the release of acetylcholine from neurons.
Mark Topazian et al. compared the effects of injecting different doses of BTA into the stomachs of 60 individuals with mild-to-moderate obesity.
Study participants were each given 1 injection of BTA (100, 300, or 500 U), or placebo, in the gastric antral muscularis propria, guided by endoscopic ultrasound. Gastric emptying of solids was measured by scintigraphy. Topazian et al. also measured participants' body weights every 2 weeks, along with satiation (based on maximum tolerated volume in a caloric liquid drink test), calorie intake (based on a questionnaire), gastrointestinal symptoms, and psychological aspects of eating.
Two weeks after the injections, the mean half-time for gastric emptying of solids increased by 0.8, 14, 24, and 14 minutes among subjects given placebo, 100, 300, or 500 U BTA, respectively.
Sixteen weeks after the injections, mean body weights were reduced by 2.2, 0.2, 2.3, and 3.0 kg in these groups, respectively -- not a statistically significant difference.
Nor were there significant differences among groups in satiation volume, caloric intake, gastrointestinal symptoms, or psychological aspects of eating among groups.
So, although stomach injection of BTA slows gastric emptying, it does not increase the feeling of fullness or lead to loss of body weight. The authors say is unlikely that higher doses of BTA than those tested would induce additional delays in gastric emptying or weight loss.
Previous studies have associated gastrointestinal symptoms with eating behaviors. Topazian et al. did observe that a higher maximum tolerated volume, a physiological measure of satiation, correlated with less control over eating. They propose that educating obese patients about physiological differences in stomach volume might help them improve their ability to control how much they eat.
Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:
Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:
Story Source:
The above story is reprinted from materials provided by American Gastroenterological Association.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Journal Reference:
- Mark Topazian, Michael Camilleri, Felicity T. Enders, Jonathan E. Clain, Ferga C. Gleeson, Michael J. Levy, Elizabeth Rajan, Vandana Nehra, Ross A. Dierkhising, Maria L. Collazo?Clavell, Nicholas J. Talley, Matthew M. Clark. Gastric Antral Injections of Botulinum Toxin Delay Gastric Emptying but Do Not Reduce Body Weight. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2013; 11 (2): 145 DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2012.09.029
Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.
Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/top_health/~3/fN4hrzaVQog/130128163405.htm
nfl playoff picture nfl playoff picture Peter Billingsley Larry King Suzy Favor Hamilton mayan calendar end of the world
মঙ্গলবার, ২৯ জানুয়ারী, ২০১৩
Doctor killed in Calif. clinic shooting
By By Jason Kandel and Vikki Vargas, NBCLosAngeles.com
A doctor was fatally shot and the suspected gunman was in custody on Monday after a shooting at a doctor's office in Newport Beach, police said.
The shooting happened at 2:45 p.m. in a second floor patient room at 520 Superior Avenue, said Kathy?Lowe, of the the Newport Beach Police Department.
Read more on NBCLosAngeles.com
Lowe said police received a call from someone reporting hearing up to seven shots fired in the medical office. Police arrived and found both the gunman and the shooting victim in the office.
The gunman, whose name was not immediately released, was arrested without a struggle.
Police did not identify the person who was shot, but witnesses told NBC4 that the man was possibly a urologist.
Police did not have details about the relationship between the gunman and victim.
acl earthquake los angeles unemployment 2012 nfl draft grades young justice nfl draft d rose
Syrian activists say 65 bodies found in Aleppo
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows dead bodies on a street in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Syrian activists say at least 65 bodies, some of them with their hands tied behind their back, found on a river bank in the northern city of Aleppo. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows dead bodies on a street in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Syrian activists say at least 65 bodies, some of them with their hands tied behind their back, found on a river bank in the northern city of Aleppo. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Revolution Against Assad's Regime which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows dead bodies on a street in Aleppo, Syria Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Syrian activists say at least 65 bodies, some of them with their hands tied behind their back, found on a river bank in the northern city of Aleppo. (AP Photo/Aleppo Revolution Against Assad Regime)
In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Smoke rises from heavy shelling in Deir el-Zour, Syria, on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Revolution Against Assad's Regime which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows dead bodies on astreet in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Syrian activists say at least 65 bodies, some of them with their hands tied behind their back, found on a river bank in the northern city of Aleppo. (AP Photo/Aleppo Revolution Against Assad Regime)
BEIRUT (AP) ? The bodies of at least 65 people, some with hands tied behind their backs, were found in Syria's northern city of Aleppo Tuesday as the government and rebels trying to overthrow it blamed each other for the latest mass killing.
Also Tuesday, a bomb wounded former legislator and once governor of the central province of Hama, Abdul-Razzak Qtini, as he was in his car, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a neighbor of Qtini said. The neighbor, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said Qtini is receiving treatment in a Damascus hospital.
The bodies, almost all of men in their 20s and 30s, were discovered in the contested neighborhood of Bustan al-Qasr, the director of the Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman said. Intense clashes between rebels and government troops have raged in the district since opposition forces launched an offensive on Aleppo in July.
Abdul-Rahman said the identities of the dead were unknown, and it was not clear who was behind the killings or when they occurred. A government official told The Associated Press in Damascus that the dead were residents of Bustan al-Qasr who were kidnapped and later killed.
Syrian state TV said the men were killed by members of Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaida-linked group that the Obama administration has labeled as a terrorist organization. It said the men were killed after they demanded members of the group to leave their areas.
Another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, put the number of bodies found at 80. It blamed government forces for the killing.
Such exchanges of accusations over killings have been common in Syria since the country's conflict began in March 2011. With lawlessness and joblessness now rife in many areas, kidnappings for ransom are not uncommon.
An amateur video posted online showed dozens of bodies placed in rows on the ground and wrapped in blue blankets. A crowd of men, many covering their noses with scarves, walk among the dead, apparently trying to identify them.
A voice in the background says "number them," while another says "pray for them." At one point, a man stops at a body and breaks down into tears, shouting: "he's my brother."
The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting on the events depicted.
The Observatory said a total of at least 160 people were killed in Syria Tuesday, while the LCC put the figure at 162. They numbers included the bodies of the men found in Aleppo.
The violence came a day ahead of a donors conference for the Syrian opposition headed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in the oil-rich Gulf state of Kuwait.
In Washington, President Barack Obama authorized an additional $155 million in humanitarian aid for the Syrian people Tuesday, as his administration grapples for a way to stem the violence without direct U.S. military involvement.
The fresh funding brings the total U.S. humanitarian aid to Syria over two years to $365 million, according to the White House. Officials said the money was being used to immunize one million Syrian children, purchase winter supplies for a half million people, and to help alleviate food shortages.
The U.S. has long called for Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave power and says the fall of his regime is inevitable. In addition to the humanitarian aid, the White House has also ratcheted up economic sanctions on Assad's regime and recognized the rebel-led Syrian Opposition Council as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
Also, EU humanitarian aid Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva said the EU committed another 100 million euros ($134 million) in help, bringing the overall EU total so far to 360 million euros.
Earlier in the day, Syrian rebels stormed a government intelligence complex in the oil-rich east of the country, freeing at least 11 people held in a prison at the facility, activists said.
After five days of heavy clashes around the intelligence compound in the city of Deir el-Zour, rebels finally overran the complex early Tuesday, the Observatory said. It was not immediately clear whether those freed from the compound's prison Tuesday were fighters or activists.
The activists said the compound was run by the Political Security Department, one of Syria's four most powerful intelligence agencies.
Amateur videos showed rebels raising an Islamic flag on top of the three-story building as fighters carted away rifles and boxes of ammunition.
Deir el-Zour has been the scene of heavy fighting since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011. The province, which goes by the same name as the city, is located along Syria's border with Iraq and includes several oil installations that the rebels have repeatedly targeted.
The aid group Doctors Without Borders said last month that government forces are shelling and bombing Deir el-Zour almost daily. It said tens of thousands of Syrians, many of them wounded, remain trapped in the city.
Also Tuesday, regime warplanes also carried several airstrikes on rebel positions in restive towns and villages around Damascus, including eastern Ghouta and Yalda, the Observatory said. The group relies on reports from activists on the ground.
After capturing several major army bases and government outposts, the rebels control large swathes of land in northeastern Syria. Assad's troops, however, continue to hold a tight grip on the capital after nearly two years of conflict.
The areas on the capital's doorstep have been rebel strongholds since early on in the revolt. In recent months, the rebels have used them as a base from which they have been trying to push into central Damascus, the seat of Assad's power.
Back on the front line in Aleppo, a veiled female sniper who identified herself as Givara told the AP that when she decided to fight against Assad's troops people used to tell her that it would be difficult as a woman.
"No it's not difficult ... I want to defend my life," she said, adding that her husband is proud of her and that she was fighting because she didn't want to see her children reduced to "pieces of flesh" by government attacks.
Associated Presschad ochocinco roman numerals superbowl halftime madonna madonna papa johns guacamole recipe
Iran denies blast at nuclear site
28 January 2013
Last updated at 06:32 ET
Iran has denied foreign media reports of a major explosion at one of its underground uranium enrichment sites.
The deputy head of Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) called the reports "Western propaganda" designed to influence forthcoming nuclear talks.
Reports in Israeli and Western media said a blast at the Fordo facility near Qom had caused significant damage.
Meanwhile, Russia has criticised the West and Iran for a fresh delay to the talks, six months after the last round.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused them as "behaving like capricious little children" for failing to agree on a location for the talks, which had been due to take place this month.
Mr Lavrov described it as an "ideology-driven argument" between Iran and the so-called P5+1 - Russia, the US, UK, China, France and Germany - and hoped that "common sense" would prevail and a date and location would be agreed soon.
'Workers trapped'"The false news of an explosion at Fordo is Western propaganda ahead of nuclear negotiations to influence their process and outcome," Saeed Shamseddin Bar Broudi, deputy of the AEOI, was quoted as saying by the state news agency, Irna.
The head of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign affairs committee, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, was also quoted by Irna as strongly denying the reports.
Since Friday, various Western and Israeli media have been quoting Iranian sources as saying that the Fordo enrichment facility was rocked by a massive explosion a few days ago - shortly before Israel's general elections on 22 January.
One unconfirmed report said as many as 200 people were feared trapped inside the facility.
Israeli Civil Defence Minister Avi Dichter told Israel's Army Radio that he could not say anything about the reported blast "beyond what I heard in the media".
Fordo, which is buried deep under a mountain inside a military base near the holy city of Qom, has long been of concern to the West.
A leaked report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last November said Iran was ready to double its output of 20%-enriched (medium-enriched) uranium at the site.
Fordo is designed to contain 16 cascades of centrifuges producing 20%-enriched uranium, which experts say could be enriched to about 90%, or weapons-grade, in a relatively short time. The IAEA said half of the cascades could be fully operational within months.
Tehran insists its nuclear activities are for solely peaceful purposes, but Western powers fear Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21230686#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
rose parade bowl games rose bowl auld lang syne dick clark Happy new year fiscal cliff
Is Obama about to blow his climate credentials?
The US president could be poised to approve the doubling of imports of tar sands oil, one of the filthiest fuels on Earth
FACED with rising anger from environmentalists last year over his plans for a transcontinental pipeline to deliver treacly Canadian tar sands to Texas oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, the CEO of TransCanada, Russ Girling, expressed surprise. After all, his company had laid 300,000 kilometres of such pipes across North America. "The pipeline is routine. Something we do every day," he told Canadian journalists.
But that's the point. It is routine. The oil industry does do it every day. And if it carries on, it will wreck the world.
We need not rely on climate-changing fossil fuels. Alternative energy technologies are available. But fossil fuels, and the pipelines and other 20th-century infrastructure that underpin them, have created what John Schellnhuber, director of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, describes in a new paper as "lock-in dominance" (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219791110). Even though we know how harmful it is, the "largest business on Earth" has ossified and is proving immovable, he says.
The question is how to break the lock and let in alternatives. Schellnhuber, a wily and worldly climate scientist, has an idea, to which I will return. But first the tar-sands pipeline, known as Keystone XL in the parlance of outsize clothing. Proponents say it would create jobs and improve US energy security. But for environmentalists in the US, the decision - due any time - on whether it should go ahead is a touchstone for Barack Obama's willingness to confront climate change in his second term.
Superficially, Keystone XL doesn't look like a huge deal. Since 2010, there has been a cross-border pipe bringing oil from tar sands in northern Alberta to the US Midwest. But this second link would double capacity and deliver oil to the refineries of the Gulf for global export. It looks like the key to a planned doubling of output from one of the world's largest deposits of one of the world's dirtiest fuels. And because the pipe would cross the US border, it requires state department and presidential sign-off.
Environmentalists are up in arms. They fear leaks. No matter what its sponsors suggest, this is no ordinary pipeline. The tar-sands oil - essentially diluted bitumen - is more acidic than regular oil and contains more sediment and moves at higher pressures. Critics say it risks corroding and grinding away the insides of the pipes. The US National Academy of Sciences has just begun a study on this, but its findings will probably be too late to influence Obama.
If there is a leak, clean-up will be difficult, as shown by the messy, protracted and acrimonious attempt to cleanse the Kalamazoo river in Michigan after tar-sands oil oozed into it in 2010.
To make matters worse, the pipeline would cross almost the entire length of the Ogallala aquifer, one of the world's largest underground water reserves, from South Dakota to Texas. Ogallala is a lifeline for the dust-bowl states of the Midwest. While TransCanada has agreed to bypass the ecologically important Sand Hills of Nebraska, where the water table is only 6 metres below the surface in places, a big unseen spill could still be disastrous.
Climate change is still the biggest deal. Extracting and processing tar sands creates a carbon footprint three times that of conventional crude. Obama would rightly lose all environmental credibility if he were to approve a scheme to double his country's imports of this fossil-fuel basket case. Yet he may do it. Why? Because of fossil-fuel lock-in. Changing course is hard. Really hard.
Part of the reason for the lock-in is the vast infrastructure dedicated to sustaining the supply of coal, oil and gas. There is no better symbol of that than a new pipeline. Partly it is political. Nobody has more political muscle than the fossil fuel industry, especially in Washington. And partly it is commercial. As Schellnhuber puts it: "Heavy investments in fossil fuels have led to big profits for shareholders, which in turn leads to greater investments in technologies that have proven to be profitable."
The result is domination by an outdated energy system that stifles alternatives. The potential for a renewable energy revolution is often compared to that of the IT revolution 30 years ago. But IT had little to fight except armies of clerks. Schellnhuber compares this lock-in to the synapses of an ageing human brain so exposed to repetitious thought that it "becomes addicted to specific observations and impressions to the exclusion of alternatives". Or, as Girling puts it, new pipelines become "routine".
What might free us from this addiction? With politicians weak, an obvious answer is to hold companies more financially accountable for environmental damage, including climate change. But Schellnhuber says this won't be enough unless individual shareholders become personally liable, too.
Here, he says, the problem is the public limited company (PLC), or publicly traded company in the US, which insulates shareholders from the consequences of decisions taken in their name. Even if their company goes bankrupt with huge debts, all they lose is the value of their shares. The PLC was invented to promote risk-taking in business. But it can also be an environmental menace, massively reducing incentives for industries to clean up their acts.
"If shareholders were held liable," he says, "then next time they might consider the risk before investing or reinvesting." More importantly, it could prevent us being locked into 20th century technologies that are quite incapable of solving 21st century problems. Fat chance, many might say. But just maybe Keystone XL and its uncanny ability to draw global attention will help catalyse growing anger at the environmental immunity of corporate shareholders.
Fred Pearce is a consultant on environmental issues for New Scientist
If you would like to reuse any content from New Scientist, either in print or online, please contact the syndication department first for permission. New Scientist does not own rights to photos, but there are a variety of licensing options available for use of articles and graphics we own the copyright to.
Have your say
Only subscribers may leave comments on this article. Please log in.
Only personal subscribers may leave comments on this article
Subscribe now to comment.
All comments should respect the New Scientist House Rules. If you think a particular comment breaks these rules then please use the "Report" link in that comment to report it to us.
If you are having a technical problem posting a comment, please contact technical support.
uk vs louisville university of kansas buckeye west side story final four 2012 bridesmaids winning lottery numbers
সোমবার, ২৮ জানুয়ারী, ২০১৩
Accelerating neutral atoms on a table top
Jan. 27, 2013 ? Charged particle accelerators have become crucially important to modern day life, be it in health care for cancer treatment or for answering important fundamental scientific questions like the existence of the HIGGS boson, the so called 'God particle'.
In a simple picture, charged particles like electrons and protons are accelerated between two end plates across which an electrical voltage is applied. High energies need high voltages (millions and billions of volts) and long acceleration paths in giant sized machines -- for instance the trillion volt machine called the 'large hadron collider' (LHC) which discovered the Higgs boson, circles over 27 km underground in Geneva! A new concept for a compact accelerator was discovered in the last decade using high powered, short pulses of laser light.
Alternating large electric fields of the light can be transformed in plasmas to create quasi static fields that can produce hundreds of millions volt accelerating voltages just over millimeter lengths on a table top!
How do we accelerate neutral particles -- i.e. particles that cannot be energized by electrical voltages? And do it over millimeters rather than hundreds of meters and moreover using lasers? Research at Ultra Short Pulse High Intensity Lab in TIFR has now found a novel scheme that can do precisely this. The concept uses the ability of powerful lasers to strip nearly 8 electrons per atom in a nano sized, cooled aggregate of argon atoms- a nano piece of ice. A 40,000 atom cluster of argon is charged to 320,000 by a laser that lasts only a 100 billionth of a millionth of a second. Such a super highly charged ice piece explodes soon after, accelerating the charged atoms (Ions) to a million electron volts of energy. The TIFR research now found that all the expelled electrons can be put back into the charged ion that has been accelerated so that it now reverts to being a neutral atom but at high energies. To top it all, this process is nearly 100% efficient at neutralizing the speeding ions and converting them to fast atoms.
Accelerated neutral atoms are very important for many applications. Unaffected by electric or magnetic fields, they penetrate deeper in solids than electrons/ions and thereby create high finesse microstructures for novel electronics and optical devices. Fast atoms are used both as diagnostics and heating sources in Tokomak machines like the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in France, that are being developed to create sustained thermo-nuclear fusion. The TIFR scheme can produce a point source of fast neutral atoms close to the location of an intended application.
This certainly shows that staying neutral under extreme provocation has its advantages.
Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:
Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:
Story Source:
The above story is reprinted from materials provided by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/k-thzKvbSYA/130127134204.htm
Amber Tamblyn Lilit Avagyan Nashville TV Show VP debate drew brees drew brees sandusky
State by state: Implementation of health law
A look at the how states are putting in place President Barack Obama's health care law, including health insurance exchanges and expansion of Medicaid coverage, along with the number of people in each state who don't have health insurance:
| STATE | EXCHANGE OPTION | MEDICAID OPTION | UNINSURED RESIDENTS |
| Alabama | Federal exchange | Not expanding | 696,000 |
| Alaska | Federal exchange | Decision pending | 128,000 |
| Arizona | Federal exchange | Expanding | 1,306,000 |
| Arkansas | Federal-state partnership | Decision pending-x | 545,000 |
| California | State exchange | Expanding | 7,471,000 |
| Colorado | State exchange | Expanding | 817,000 |
| Connecticut | State exchange | Expanding | 391,000 |
| Delaware | Federal-state partnership | Expanding | 115,000 |
| Washington, D.C. | State exchange | Expanding | 65,000 |
| Florida | Decision pending | Decision pending | 3,952,000 |
| Georgia | Federal exchange | Not expanding | 1,992,000 |
| Hawaii | State exchange | Expanding | 102,000 |
| Idaho | State exchange | Decision pending | 239,000 |
| Illinois | Federal-state partnership | Expanding | 1,795,000 |
| Indiana | Federal exchange | Decision pending | 856,000 |
| Iowa | Federal-state partnership | Decision pending | 292,000 |
| Kansas | Federal exchange | Decision pending | 361,000 |
| Kentucky | State exchange | Decision pending | 727,000 |
| Louisiana | Federal exchange | Not expanding | 811,000 |
| Maine | Federal exchange | Not expanding | 146,000 |
| Maryland | State exchange | Expanding | 734,000 |
| Massachusetts | State exchange | Expanding | 215,000 |
| Michigan | Federal-state partnership | Decision pending | 1,336,000 |
| Minnesota | State exchange | Expanding | 453,000 |
| Mississippi | Decision pending | Not expanding | 530,000 |
| Missouri | Federal exchange | Decision pending-x | 780,000 |
| Montana | Decision pending | Decision pending-x | 179,000 |
| Nebraska | Federal exchange | Decision pending | 226,000 |
| Nevada | State exchange | Expanding | 555,000 |
| New Hampshire | Decision pending | Decision pending | 136,000 |
| New Jersey | Federal exchange | Decision pending | 1,334,000 |
| New Mexico | State exchange | Expanding | 506,000 |
| New York | State exchange | Expanding | 2,780,000 |
| North Carolina | Federal-state partnership | Decision pending | 1,583,000 |
| North Dakota | Decision pending | Decision pending-x | 74,000 |
| Ohio | Federal-state partnership | Decision pending | 1,578,000 |
| Oklahoma | Federal exchange | Not expanding | 597,000 |
| Oregon | State exchange | Expanding | 678,000 |
| Pennsylvania | Federal exchange | Decision pending | 1,319,000 |
| Rhode Island | State exchange | Expanding | 122,000 |
| South Carolina | Federal exchange | Not expanding | 754,000 |
| South Dakota | Federal-state partnership | Not expanding | 108,000 |
| Tennessee | Federal exchange | Decision pending | 982,000 |
| Texas | Federal exchange | Not expanding | 6,654,000 |
| Utah | State exchange | Decision pending | 424,000 |
| Vermont | State exchange | Expanding | 61,000 |
| Virginia | Federal exchange | Not expanding | 1,023,000 |
| Washington | State exchange | Expanding | 812,000 |
| West Virginia | Federal-state partnership | Decision pending | 266,000 |
| Wisconsin | Federal exchange | Decision pending | 562,000 |
| Wyoming | Federal exchange | Not expanding | 84,000 |
x-governor supports; legislature must approve
Sources: Associated Press Research, U.S. Health and Human Services Department and the Urban Institute.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/state-state-implementation-health-law-132011104.html
chase Adam Lanza Facebook the hobbit mick jagger Newton Shooting Newtown Shooting Gangnam Style
রবিবার, ২৭ জানুয়ারী, ২০১৩
My Child Has Autism ? What Now? | Natural Holistic Health Blog
When we become parents, we want the best for our children.? This is especially true for their health.? We view sonograms anxiously before they?re born, and we await word from the doctor that everything is as it should be when they arrive in this world.? We take heed of every little cough and sneeze in an effort to keep them healthy.? That?s one of the many reasons that a diagnosis of autism is so devastating.
Children with autism may display enough signs for a clear diagnosis before one year of age, and almost always do so by the time they?re three years old.? The news that a child is autistic can feel devastating, but it doesn?t have to be.? If we can keep our presence of mind, we can explore the options and get the best possible treatment for our children.? With proper care, many autistic children can grow up to be independent and well-adjusted adults.
It?s hard to know exactly what to do if you?ve never been down this road before.? Here are some tips to get you going in the right direction.
* Understand where your child is on the autism spectrum.? The term ?autism? is actually used interchangeably with several related disorders, each one with its own characteristics.? Some forms of autism are mild enough that they won?t make a big difference in a child?s life, while others require more treatment.? If you?re not sure where your child stands, talk to his doctor about it.? And if he doesn?t explain it sufficiently, consider seeing another one.
* Learn about treatment options.? There is currently no cure, but there are many treatment options that can produce favorable results.? Therapy can improve an autistic child?s language and social skills, and medication can help alleviate emotional and physical symptoms.
* Get support.? Raising an autistic child can be very trying, draining parents both physically and emotionally.? Counseling and respite care can help parents cope with the challenges.
* Make sure the needs of your other children are met.? Being the sibling of an autistic child presents its own unique challenges.? Siblings may resent the extra attention the autistic child requires, and they may become frustrated with the questions and misunderstanding of others.? Making special time for siblings and providing the opportunity for counseling will help them deal with these issues, and maybe even strengthen their relationships with their autistic brother or sister.
* Stay informed about new developments in the fight against autism.? Autism still isn?t well understood by doctors, but research is beginning to provide some answers and bring forth ideas for new treatments.? Staying on top of the latest autism news can give parents hope and encouragement.
We Recommend:
Since it is a spectrum disorder, autism affects children in different ways, and no two autistic children are exactly alike. This makes things very confusing for parents who are battling to come to terms with what is best for their child, as signs of autism vary greatly. It may be helpful to devise an autism symptoms checklist to aid in diagnosing the disorder.
While there is a place for prescription medication in certain cases of autism, careful consideration and caution should be taken due to possible side effects. There are also natural treatments for this disorder, including herbal and homeopathic answers which can help maintain harmony, health, and systemic balance in the brain and nervous system, without side effects or sedation.
MindSoothe ? Promotes balanced mood and feelings, as well as healthy levels of serotonin and other neurotransmitters
PureCalm ? Aids nervous system in stress resistance for balanced moods and feelings of well being
Focus Formula ? Helps maintain optimal mental focus, concentration, attention span and memory function.
Tula Tantrum Tamer ? Helps reduce tantrums, soothe fiery tempers and reduce frustration in young children
Free PDF Health Ebook...Natural Help for a Bad Temper
? ? Simply right click the ebook title above, and choose Save As to save to your desktop!? You can find more FREE Natural Health, Wellness and Pet Ebooks at Remedies4.com!About Dee Braun
Dee is an Adv. Certified Aromatherapist, Reiki Master, Adv. Color/Crystal Therapist, Herbalist, Dr. of Reflexology and single mom who is dedicated to helping others any way she can. One way she chooses to help is by offering information on the benefits and uses of natural health and healing methods for the well-being of both people and pets. Dee also teaches Aromatherapy, Reflexology and Color/Crystal Therapy at the Alternative Healing AcademyRay Lewis Murder Harbaugh brothers baltimore ravens ravens casey anthony Ravens vs Patriots 49ers Vs Falcons
এতে সদস্যতা:
পোস্টগুলি (Atom)