10 home chores that burn the most calories (Y! Green)

(Photo: Paul Marotta/Getty Images) Running marathons and swimming laps are not the only way to burn calories. Housekeeping and yard work can also help you keep off the pounds. Here are 12 of the most common, calorie-burning home and garden chores, with estimated hourly calorie-burn rates for an average 145-pound person. Of course, each person mows, mops, and dusts at a different pace and burns a different number of calories, so these are general estimates.

The first number is provided by the Livestrong Foundation, which lists the number of calories burned for a wide variety of jobs, sports, and other activities. Wherever possible, a second number is provided by My Fitness Pal, which offers tracking for both caloric intake and caloric burn, online or with iPhone and Android apps.

My Fitness Pal has a smaller list of activities, so not all chores have two estimates. For example, the site does not break down specific cleaning activities but estimates that cleaning burns between 164 and 197 calories per hour for a 145-pound person. Likewise, gardening burns about 263 calories per hour, according to My Fitness Pal.

We also list caloric equivalents for the number of calories burned per hour. Many of the items and their caloric values are listed at Fatsecret.com.

1. Shoveling snow (395 to 408): You can sit in front of the fire and eat a guilt-free 8-oz portion of meat lasagna after spending an hour burning off the caloric equivalent of the meal by shoveling the sidewalk. Pushing a snow blower instead of a shovel cuts the caloric burn by 100 calories.

2. Weeding the garden (400): One hour of heavy yard work burns the equivalent of a McDonald?s hamburger and low-fat ice cream cone. Livestrong also lists caulking, interior painting, refinishing furniture, and power-sanding floors at the same caloric burn rate.

3. Manual mowing (395): Eco-conscious homeowners realize the environmental benefits of manual push mowers, but there are health benefits as well. One hour of manual mowing can burn off the famous 395-calorie KFC meal, which includes two pieces of grilled chicken, mashed potatoes, and green beans. Pushing a gas or electric mower is a lesser workout, burning 296 calories per hour.

4. Baking (168 to 348): You can pre-burn a few cookies-worth of calories while preparing them. The caloric burn level of baking varies widely depending on how much effort you put into kneading and rolling. However, keep in mind that each classic Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie has 108 calories, so plan on some strenuous baking if you plan to indulge in a plateful.

5. Cleaning gutters (329): Cleaning gutters burns as many calories as ballroom dancing, and an hour of climbing, reaching, and scraping can burn the equivalent of one cup of chicken fried rice.

6. Raking and bagging leaves (263 to 283): One hour of raking fall leaves can burn the equivalent of a buttermilk biscuit.

7. Scrubbing bathtub and tile (260): The most vigorous indoor cleaning activity is bathroom scrubbing. It is probably my least favorite chore, but at least we can take comfort in knowing one hour of bathroom scrubbing will burn off slightly more than a McDonald?s hamburger.

8. Vigorous cleaning (220 to 250): Mopping, sweeping, vacuuming, edging the lawn, or using a leaf blower all burn about the same number of calories. These tasks are not quite as much work as bathroom scrubbing, but they will burn off at least two chocolate chip cookies per hour.

9. Washing windows (197): Maybe I?m doing it wrong, but washing windows seems at least as strenuous as mopping. Livestrong puts it lower on the exertion scale, and suggests window-washing burns less than two cookies per hour. Also, washing cars, carpentry, and electrical work all burn an equal number of calories to washing windows.

10. Light cleaning (164): Livestrong lists the following light, basic chores at the same caloric burn rate, which is equal to about one ounce of almonds: dusting, clearing dishes, taking out the trash, feeding animals, and changing the sheets. Carrying groceries for an hour will also burn off those almonds, but the rate jumps to 493 if you carry groceries upstairs for an hour.

Finally, the Livestrong folks put ironing at the bottom of the chore list. However, they note that ironing is a full upper-body workout. At 151 calories per hour, ironing more than doubles the caloric burn of sitting and watching TV.

Instead of procrastinating on chores, think about the weight loss potential of all those tasks. Chores from shoveling snow to ironing offer solid health benefits.

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Pink Floyd member's son loses jail term appeal

LONDON (AP) ? Judges have upheld the 16-month jail sentence given to the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour for a violent rampage during student protests last year.

Charlie Gilmour was one of thousands of students who demonstrated in December against rising university tuition fees. He was among a group that broke away from the main demonstration and attacked the convoy carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla.

Gilmour also was photographed hanging from a Union flag on the Cenotaph, a memorial to British war dead.

The 21-year-old Cambridge University student pleaded guilty to violent disorder but challenged the length of his sentence.

But the Court of Appeal said Friday that the sentence was neither "manifestly excessive (nor) wrong in principle."

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Defense companies post profits despite sales pressure (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Defense contractors Raytheon Co and L-3 Communications Holdings topped Wall Street profit estimates on Thursday, citing rising backlogs even as sales softened in wake of budget challenges.

Results at Goodrich, a supplier of plane parts, were buoyed by strong commercial equipment and servicing sales.

"We're taking all the right actions from an earnings and cash flow impact to offset the impact of sales being slightly down," Raytheon Chief Financial Officer Dave Wajsgras said. He added the company has stepped up efforts to cut costs.

Defense contractors are shedding noncore units and reducing headcount in preparation for leaner global defense budgets. They are also buying back shares to boost shareholder returns given an uncertain outlook for spending.

The Defense Department, the world's biggest weapons buyer, is looking to cut at least $350 billion in spending over the next 10 years and could be forced to make steeper cuts should a congressional supercommittee fail to identify $1.2 trillion in government savings later this year.

Delays in contract funding and program cuts have hurt company revenues, and both Raytheon and L-3 cut their full-year sales outlooks on Thursday. Cost-cutting efforts are also impacting sales as some defense firms reduce their exposure to lower-margin work.

"For various different reasons, some bookings have moved to the right which has impacted sales in the near term," Raytheon's Wajsgras said. He added sales for the current period would likely be affected by U.S. budget issues.

General Dynamics Corp and Northrop Grumman also posted lower quarterly sales this week. Lockheed Martin Corp , the industry leader, had higher third quarter sales but forecast flattish sales in 2012.

Raytheon raised its full-year forecast and said bookings, an important gauge of customer demand, strengthened domestically and internationally. Backlog also increased.

Net income at Raytheon was $501 million, or $1.43 a share, in the third quarter, down 31 percent from a year earlier. Analysts expected $1.33 a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Revenue fell 2 percent to $6.13 billion.

L-3 Communications, which plans to spin off some parts of its government services business next year, said third-quarter earnings were $235 million, or $2.24 a diluted share, better than the $2.15 a share expected by analysts.

L-3, whose products monitor and gather intelligence, said funded orders increased to $4.5 billion in the third quarter from $3.5 billion a year earlier, while quarterly sales fell 1 percent to $3.79 billion.

Goodrich, which has agreed to be acquired by United Technologies, said earnings rose about 26 percent to $201 million, or $1.57 a share. Adjusted for merger costs, profit was $1.70 a share, against $1.50 expected by analysts. Goodrich, which derives about a third of its revenue from defense, said total sales rose 16 percent to $2.03 billion.

Shares at L-3 were up 1.9 percent to $69 in morning trading while Raytheon eased 0.1 percent to $42.40. Goodrich, which is being acquired for $127.50 a share, was up 0.4 percent at $122.94.

(Reporting by Karen Jacobs, editing by Dave Zimmerman)

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Syrians stage another pro-regime rally

Two Syrian regime women supporters hold a banner with a sarcastic caricature on it in Umayyad Square in downtown Damascus, Syria. Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011. Tens of thousands of Syrians packed a Damascus square Wednesday in a show of support for embattled President Bashar Assad, a few hours ahead of a visit by senior Arab officials probing ways to start a dialogue between the regime and the opposition. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

Two Syrian regime women supporters hold a banner with a sarcastic caricature on it in Umayyad Square in downtown Damascus, Syria. Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011. Tens of thousands of Syrians packed a Damascus square Wednesday in a show of support for embattled President Bashar Assad, a few hours ahead of a visit by senior Arab officials probing ways to start a dialogue between the regime and the opposition. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

Syrian regime supporters flash the V-victory sign as they hold up a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a rally at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria. Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011. Some thousands of Syrians packed the square Wednesday in a show of support for embattled President Bashar Assad, a few hours ahead of a visit by senior Arab officials probing ways to start a dialogue between the regime and the opposition. (AP Photo/ Bassem Tellawi)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Tens of thousands of Syrians held a mass rally Thursday in support of embattled President Bashar Assad, but the regime's crackdown on dissent continued in opposition areas as security forces killed at least four people, including a teenager, activists said.

The demonstration in the coastal city of Latakia came one day after a similar pro-regime rally in the capital, Damascus, as authorities try to galvanize supporters in the face of a seven-month uprising against Assad.

The U.N. estimates that the government crackdown on protests has killed 3,000 people.

On Thursday, a 14-year-old youth in the southern village of Dael was among at least four people killed by Syrian forces during security raids, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees, another activist group.

A video posted online by activists showed blood pouring from the teenager's head, soaking his blue T-shirt, as another boy screamed in the background.

The video could not be independently verified. Syria has banned most foreign journalists and prevented independent reporting, making witness accounts and activist groups crucial sources of information about the uprising.

It is difficult to gauge the strength of the revolt in Syria, a country of 22 million people, although the movement has been remarkably resilient.

But the regime is strong as well and in no imminent danger of collapse, setting the stage for what could be a drawn-out and bloody stalemate.

Assad's main bases of support include Syrians who have benefited financially from the regime, minority groups who feel they will be targeted if the Sunni majority takes over, and others who see no clear and safe alternative to Assad. For the most part, the military, a key factor, has remained loyal to Assad

The Syrian government insists the unrest is being driven by terrorists and foreign extremists looking to stir up sectarian strife.

The opposition has yet to bring out the middle and upper-middle classes in Damascus and Aleppo, the two economic powerhouses, although protests have been building.

Both sides of the conflict remain energized. Anti-regime protesters pour into the streets across the country every Friday, defying the near-certain barrage of shelling and sniper fire by regime forces.

International sanctions are chipping away at the regime's strength.

On Thursday, Syrian Oil Minister Sufian Allaw acknowledged Damascus was having difficulty selling its oil after the European Union banned oil imports from Syria.

Syria was exporting some 140,000 barrels of oil per day, most of it bound for the European Union. The EU says that Syria earned euro 3.1 billion ($4.35 billion) by selling oil to the EU in 2010.

Allaw said discussions are under way with more than 50 international companies to export the Syrian crude oil, but finding tankers to ship the oil was a challenge.

He added that the government already has signed three contracts, but he did say which countries were involved or offer other details.

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Associated Press writer Albert Aji contributed to this report from Damascus, Syria.

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Ad impressions jump 456 percent for iPads, 60 percent for iOS in total (Appolicious)

Advertising is a big part of the app industry, and among the advertising networks that keep track of just how effective those ads are is mobile ad company Millennial Media. The network?s most recent numbers show Google?s Android pulling down the most impressions of any mobile operating system, but also shows advertising impressions skyrocketing on Apple?s iPad.

TechCrunch has the story, which details Millennial Media?s report for the third quarter of 2011. In it, the company finds that Android accounts for 56 percent of total ad impressions ? instances in which a person actually views an ad ? across all mobile operating systems and devices. But Apple?s iOS operating system had the second-most impressions, dragging in 23 percent for the quarter.

Those numbers break down very similarly to numbers of iPhone and iPad owners as compared to Android device owners, with Android accounting for about half and iOS accounting for roughly 25 percent. But Apple?s devices remain the top ?Connected? devices, meaning that among individual devices, the ones running Apple?s operating system continue to have the highest impressions. The operating system increased its total impressions by 60 percent, and the iPad in particular saw a huge uptick in mobile ad views with a jump of 456 percent over the same period a year before. By comparison, impressions on the iPod Touch increased 30 percent during the quarter over the same time last year. The iPhone accounted for more than half of all the ad impressions generated by iOS in the quarter, with 54 percent; the other 46 percent of impressions were split between the iPad and the iPod Touch.

As a category, smartphones saw 7 percent more ad impressions in Q3 as compared to Q2, and 37 percent over the same period last year. Smartphones led other mobile and connected devices and accounted for 72 percent of ad impressions for all of them in the quarter, with ?connected devices? ? TVs, for example ? and feature phones both responsible for 14 percent of impressions for the quarter.

More games than ever

As has been a trend for a while now, Millennial found that gaming apps were responsible for the most ad impressions among mobile users. Games generated 34 percent of ad impressions from apps, growing 26 percent from the quarter before. News apps also experienced a lot of growth in generating ad impressions ? 36 percent between Q2 and Q3.

Much of Millennial?s information confirms previous trends that have been apparent in mobile advertising, and also echo trends that seem to be constant within the mobile industry: lots of users have Android devices but iOS owners get more usage time out of their apps, and thus often more ad impressions. Games continue to be the apps that people are using, although the growth in impressions in news apps suggests that the providers of those apps are working harder to find an alternative to subscriptions, which reports suggest users aren?t willing to pay.

Apple?s devices are still in good shape in terms of ads, despite the fact that Android leads with more impressions, because devices like the iPad prove to engage more users more often. In order to keep that lead, Apple needs to keep doing what it has been doing, like maintaining quality apps on the platform that draw users to replace their other devices with things like iPads. Millennial?s numbers show that Android hasn?t found a good way to compete with the iPad and the experience it gives users. Improvements in iOS 5 and with the record-breaking iPhone 4S should help Apple continue to enjoy high ranking among advertisers, but the company had best continue keep one wary eye on Android.

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Walmart offers discounts to lure holiday shoppers (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Walmart, the U.S. discount chain run by Wal-Mart Stores Inc, plans to offer customers lowest prices on products during the winter holiday season, in a move to lure holiday shoppers amid economic gloom.

The "Christmas Price Guarantee" offer will be applicable on products bought from Walmart stores between November 1 and December 25. If the customer finds a product listed for a lower price at any other store, Walmart will issue a gift card to the customer equal to the difference in amount.

The store said items placed on layaway, where a buyer reserves merchandise by paying a deposit, will also be eligible for the Christmas Price Guarantee.

The winter holiday season, which traditionally runs from the day after U.S. Thanksgiving through Christmas, is the most important time of year for retailers. In recent years, U.S. chains including Walmart have advertised earlier and offered deeper discounts to drive sales amid the struggling economy.

Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is getting back into layaway after a five-year break, albeit on a smaller scale, after other chains received a boost by offering the service during the downturn.

(Reporting by Maneesha Tiwari in Bangalore; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter)

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Earnings forecasts look less bright (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Prospects for corporate earnings are dimmer in the coming quarters, even though reports so far this quarter have been relatively bright.

Third-quarter reports among the big names have been reasonably solid, with Google (GOOG.O), McDonald's (MCD.N) and others reporting strong results.

But, unless there's a turnaround in the outlook for the U.S. economy, the next few quarters may be less rosy.

The next few days may be tricky for stock investors, too, as the market waits to see whether European leaders can find a way to solve the growing euro zone debt crisis.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index (.SPX) rose 1.1 percent last week on hopes leaders were nearing a comprehensive plan that would stop the crisis from worsening. But progress at a summit on Sunday was slight after France bowed to German opposition and abandoned a proposal to use unlimited European Central Bank capital to boost a euro zone rescue fund.

Leaders will hold another summit on Wednesday.

"We just don't know yet what form the solution is going to take and what it's going to cost," said Michael Woolfolk, a senior currency strategist at BNY Mellon in New York.

With so much focus on Europe, earnings -- even with most companies beating expectations -- have been given less of the spotlight.

At the same time, S&P 500 earnings forecasts for the fourth and first quarters have come down since the start of October, especially in the materials, energy and financial sectors, according to Thomson Reuters data.

"That's part of this fear factor that has gripped not only the marketplace but corporate America as well," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital in New York.

Much of what's driving worries about earnings is related to expectations for less demand from Europe and other parts of the world, including China, where indicators show growth is slowing.

The sovereign debt crisis in Europe has plagued markets for months, and the U.S. economy has been a worry, too, with the nation's high unemployment rate among the chief problems.

Much of the third-quarter profit strength stems from still-strong international revenue growth, according to a report from Thomson Reuters earnings analyst Jharonne Martis.

"There is still a dichotomy between robust earnings growth and global economic uncertainty," the report said.

Foreign sales total 30 percent on average for S&P 500 companies.

Of the 133 S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings to date, 68 percent have come in above expectations, above the long-term average, the Thomson Reuters data showed.

On next week's earnings agenda are results from more top S&P 500 names: Caterpillar (CAT.N), Coach (COH.N), Boeing (BA.N) and Procter & Gamble Co (PG.N) among others.

The data shows S&P 500 earnings are expected to have risen 14.7 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, compared with an October 3 estimate for 13.1 percent growth.

Projections for the fourth quarter are for growth of 12.5 percent -- down from an October 3 estimate of 15 percent -- and forecasts for the first quarter of 2012 are for growth of 7.6 percent -- down from an October 3 estimate of 10.2 percent.

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Some analysts said the changes in earnings estimates may just be catching up to sentiment already priced into stocks.

If so, an improvement in the outlook would make the forecasts too low.

"If Europe does satisfy the markets (with a solution to the debt crisis), then I think these estimates will be proven wrong," Cardillo said.

As long as the U.S. economy doesn't fall back into recession, corporations can deliver profit growth, strategists argued.

Among next week's data is a report on U.S. economic growth on Thursday. U.S. gross domestic product likely grew at a 2.5 percent annual rate in the third quarter, according to a Reuters survey, a improvement from 1.3 percent in the second quarter.

"The general macroeconomic data in the U.S. continues to confirm a protracted, slow painful recovery but not a recession at this stage. And if it continues to maintain that however slow pace, on the upside the earnings should be supported by economic activity," said Natalie Trunow, chief investment officer of equities at Calvert Investment Management in Bethesda, Maryland, which manages about $14.8 billion.

(Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch; additional reporting by Steven C. Johnson; Editing by Kenneth Barry and Diane Craft)

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Lytro?s Light Field Camera Creates ?Living? Pictures

Shooting an image in proper focus is a challenge for most budding photographers. Lytro's revolutionary light field camera, which was officially unveiled today, aims to solve all the pain and heartache.

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Cedar Trail-powered Asus VX6S netbook gets some early benchmarks

Benchmarking unreleased hardware is a dodgy business, largely because you're not working with final drivers. Nevertheless, Netbook Live's latest efforts could possibly be seen as establishing a bare minimum of what Cedar Trail is capable of. They put a 12-inch Asus Lamborghini VX6S netbook containing the next-gen Intel D2700 Atom CPU and the AMD Radeon 6470M GPU up against its Pine Trail/ION2-powered VX6 predecessor. For good measure, they also threw in an Eee PC 1215B running on AMD's Zacate E-350 APU (not the superior E-450). The PC Mark benchmarks gave the VX6S a gain of around ten percent against the Eee PC, with the VX6 coming a distant third-- not quite revolutionary, but that's what you get for being impatient. Click the source link for more.

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Penn researchers demonstrate efficacy of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma vaccine

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PHILADELPHIA An experimental vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine is the first veterinary cancer vaccine of its kind that shows an increase in survival time for dogs with spontaneous non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The work shows for the first time the feasibility and therapeutic efficacy of this alternative cell-based vaccine, which could be employed in the treatment of a number of different cancer types.

The research was conducted by Nicola Mason, assistant professor of medicine at Penn Vet; Robert H. Vonderheide, associate professor of hematology and oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine; and Karin U. Sorenmo, associate professor of oncology at Penn Vet. Erika Krick, Beth Overley and Thomas P. Gregor of Penn Vet and Christina M. Coughlin of the School of Medicine also contributed to the research.

Their work was published in the open access journal PLOS ONE.

The team recruited dogs that were brought to Penn's Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to receive the experimental vaccine following standard induction chemotherapy and confirmation of clinical remission. The goal of the study was to determine whether the vaccine would prevent or prolong time to a relapse, a common scenario in both humans and dogs with NHL.

"We vaccinated dogs, which were in clinical remission following chemotherapy, three times," Mason said. "We then tracked them over several years to see if the vaccine would prevent relapse and would prolong overall survival.

"We found that, although the vaccinated dogs still relapsed with clinical disease when they were treated with rescue chemotherapy, they had significantly increased overall survival times when compared to an unvaccinated control group. Some of these dogs are still alive and cancer free more than three years later.

"The results with these dogs indicate that our immunotherapy and rescue chemotherapy appear to act synergistically to prevent a second relapse a phenomenon that has been previously recognized in human patients treated with other types of immunotherapy," she said.

Previous cell based vaccines have utilized genetically engineering dendritic cells which are part of the immune system to stimulate immune responses against cancers. Similar to using weakened viruses in traditional vaccines, scientists load these cells with tumor proteins and inject the cells back into the patient's body. Such cell-based vaccines are already being used to treat prostate cancer in humans, but engineering these cells is expensive and time consuming. Furthermore, patients must also endure long, leukapheresis sessions in which the necessary dendritic cells are harvested from their blood.

The Penn team hypothesized that another kind of immune cell, B-cells, could work just as well under the right conditions. Unlike dendritic cells, many B-cells can be grown from a small blood sample, removing the requirement for leukapheresis.

Mason's team made the vaccine by culturing B-cells from the blood taken from the dogs with NHL. These cells were then loaded with RNA that had been isolated from the patient's own tumor.

The results were impressive.

"Though vaccinated and unvaccinated dogs relapsed with clinical disease at the same time, 40 percent of vaccinated dogs that relapsed experienced long-term survival after a second round of chemotherapy; only 7 percent of unvaccinated dogs that relapsed and were treated with the same rescue chemotherapy protocol survived long term," Mason said. "Furthermore, when the vaccinated long-term survivors did eventually die, they showed no evidence of lymphoma on full necropsy."

While the molecular mechanisms responsible for these observed synergistic effects are currently unknown, Mason believes that the vaccine-primed immune system may be boosted by the effects of rescue chemotherapy leading to long term second remissions.

Though the increases in long-term survival are already unprecedented and the proof-of-concept for B-cell-based cancer vaccines represents a step forward in cell-based vaccine development, future research could have even more exciting results.

"These dogs just received three doses of vaccine, three weeks apart. If we kept boosting the immune system in this way by vaccination, perhaps the dogs would not relapse in the first place" Mason said.

Work is now underway to streamline B-cell vaccine generation and initiate further clinical trials aimed at optimizing this novel cell-based approach.

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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, Onyx and Breezy Foundation, Barry and Savannah Poodle Memorial Fund, Mari Lowe Comparative Oncology Center, Immunobiology Program of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania and Oncology Research Fund at the Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

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PHILADELPHIA An experimental vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine is the first veterinary cancer vaccine of its kind that shows an increase in survival time for dogs with spontaneous non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The work shows for the first time the feasibility and therapeutic efficacy of this alternative cell-based vaccine, which could be employed in the treatment of a number of different cancer types.

The research was conducted by Nicola Mason, assistant professor of medicine at Penn Vet; Robert H. Vonderheide, associate professor of hematology and oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine; and Karin U. Sorenmo, associate professor of oncology at Penn Vet. Erika Krick, Beth Overley and Thomas P. Gregor of Penn Vet and Christina M. Coughlin of the School of Medicine also contributed to the research.

Their work was published in the open access journal PLOS ONE.

The team recruited dogs that were brought to Penn's Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to receive the experimental vaccine following standard induction chemotherapy and confirmation of clinical remission. The goal of the study was to determine whether the vaccine would prevent or prolong time to a relapse, a common scenario in both humans and dogs with NHL.

"We vaccinated dogs, which were in clinical remission following chemotherapy, three times," Mason said. "We then tracked them over several years to see if the vaccine would prevent relapse and would prolong overall survival.

"We found that, although the vaccinated dogs still relapsed with clinical disease when they were treated with rescue chemotherapy, they had significantly increased overall survival times when compared to an unvaccinated control group. Some of these dogs are still alive and cancer free more than three years later.

"The results with these dogs indicate that our immunotherapy and rescue chemotherapy appear to act synergistically to prevent a second relapse a phenomenon that has been previously recognized in human patients treated with other types of immunotherapy," she said.

Previous cell based vaccines have utilized genetically engineering dendritic cells which are part of the immune system to stimulate immune responses against cancers. Similar to using weakened viruses in traditional vaccines, scientists load these cells with tumor proteins and inject the cells back into the patient's body. Such cell-based vaccines are already being used to treat prostate cancer in humans, but engineering these cells is expensive and time consuming. Furthermore, patients must also endure long, leukapheresis sessions in which the necessary dendritic cells are harvested from their blood.

The Penn team hypothesized that another kind of immune cell, B-cells, could work just as well under the right conditions. Unlike dendritic cells, many B-cells can be grown from a small blood sample, removing the requirement for leukapheresis.

Mason's team made the vaccine by culturing B-cells from the blood taken from the dogs with NHL. These cells were then loaded with RNA that had been isolated from the patient's own tumor.

The results were impressive.

"Though vaccinated and unvaccinated dogs relapsed with clinical disease at the same time, 40 percent of vaccinated dogs that relapsed experienced long-term survival after a second round of chemotherapy; only 7 percent of unvaccinated dogs that relapsed and were treated with the same rescue chemotherapy protocol survived long term," Mason said. "Furthermore, when the vaccinated long-term survivors did eventually die, they showed no evidence of lymphoma on full necropsy."

While the molecular mechanisms responsible for these observed synergistic effects are currently unknown, Mason believes that the vaccine-primed immune system may be boosted by the effects of rescue chemotherapy leading to long term second remissions.

Though the increases in long-term survival are already unprecedented and the proof-of-concept for B-cell-based cancer vaccines represents a step forward in cell-based vaccine development, future research could have even more exciting results.

"These dogs just received three doses of vaccine, three weeks apart. If we kept boosting the immune system in this way by vaccination, perhaps the dogs would not relapse in the first place" Mason said.

Work is now underway to streamline B-cell vaccine generation and initiate further clinical trials aimed at optimizing this novel cell-based approach.

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This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, Onyx and Breezy Foundation, Barry and Savannah Poodle Memorial Fund, Mari Lowe Comparative Oncology Center, Immunobiology Program of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania and Oncology Research Fund at the Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Mojang's Scrolls legal victory explained News - PC - Page 1 ...

Today's Scrolls victory for Mojang bodes well for the Swedish Minecraft maker, legal representative Sheridans has explained to Eurogamer.

Was Zenimax, owner of Bethesda, ever to prevent permanent use of the game-title Scrolls, then a temporary ban - an interim injunction - should have been the first step.

But it wasn't; the interim injunction was denied.

"An interim injunction in Sweden is decided on the merits of the case only to the extent that the plaintiff has to show 'probable grounds' for trade mark infringement," explained Alex Chapman from Sheridans, "and it is reasonably expected that the continued use of the mark diminishes the value of the exclusive right to the trade mark.

"That means that the burden of proof on Zenimax should have been lower than with a full and final assessment of the case and it should have been easier for Zenimax to get what it wanted at this stage compared with a full trial."

"The court's decision vindicates the position Mojang has taken and their commitment to stand up for what they believe in - when many would have felt forced to give in."

Alex Chapman, lawyer, Sheridans

What happens next, explained Chapman, will be one of three things. Either Zenimax accepts the interim decision and withdraws its claim. Or, Zenimax continues with the full action, bearing in mind that it has only lost an application for an interim injunction. Or, Zenimax and Bethesda can settle the dispute.

"We will of course have to speak with our client as to what it wants to do but Markus [Persson], Jakob [Porser] and Carl [Manneh] have made no secret of the fact that they are prepared to settle the matter so long as they are able to use the name 'Scrolls' in the title of their game - which is no more than they are entitled to," Chapman went on.

"The court's decision vindicates the position Mojang has taken and their commitment to stand up for what they believe in - when many would have felt forced to give in.

"I think great credit has to go to them for that," he added, "and also to their fans and indie dev community for their support."

Scrolls is a fantasy card-battling (scroll-battling, in this case) game.

"Tear your opponent limb from limb with the might of your summoned armies, lay waste to the defenses with the obliterating power of your siege weapons or open up the very skies and let bolts of lightning shower his minions until only ash remains," the Scrolls website reads. "The road to victory is yours to choose. Obtain the powerful scrolls and decide which ones you will take to battle as you fight to become the mightiest Magician of all."

Sign-ups for Scrolls alpha testing are open now.

What similarities the game will share to the ultra-successful Minecraft remain to be seen.

Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-10-18-mojang-scrolls-legal-victory-explained

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Greek cartoonists draw the crisis (AP)

ATHENS, Greece ? The ancient philosophers had their golden age. Now it's the turn of Greek newspaper cartoonists. The economic crisis that threatens to go global offers a bonanza for satirists with a talent for the scathing image or caption.

Cartoonists have portrayed the Greek economy as the Titanic, that eternal symbol of disaster; Greek leaders as buffoons shielded from mobs by robotic police with gas masks and truncheons; and ordinary Greeks as beggars, at the mercy of fat cats in top hats who represent international creditors.

"Bad times are good times for cartoonists," said Maria Tzaboura, a cartoonist for the Greek newspaper Proto Thema who sees humor as a form of protest and "less is more" as a guide for her simply drawn victims of circumstance, their limbs scattered about like a dismembered children's doll.

Greece's economic upheaval affects almost everyone, consuming commentators, cartoonists among them, who channel a nation's confusion and anger over slashed wages and benefits, higher taxes, goalpost-shifting politicians and the austere dictates of foreign creditors worried about their own portfolios.

Greek cartoonists eviscerate every conceivable culprit with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel or, better said, an assassin's dagger. Sometimes, they unleash happy-go-lucky blasts of sarcasm that yank a grin or snigger.

They don't just play for populist laughs in blogs and newspapers. It is serious social commentary by people who seek to shape the outcome of the crisis. Some have lost their jobs to it. As Dimitris Georgopalis, treasurer of the Greek Cartoonists Association, wrote in an email: "We are not casual observers. We live and work in this situation and the influence is visible in our work."

Their travails reflect a polarized society. Caricaturist Tasos Anastasiou was recently dismissed from the newspaper Ta Nea, ostensibly for economic reasons. He alleged in a letter to the journalists' union that he was fired because he harshly criticized the government.

The Benaki Museum in Athens hosted an exhibition of crisis cartoons by 24 members of the nonprofit association, which sold T-shirts with cartoons to cover costs. The show ended early this month.

"I know what Greeks have done wrong or badly, but at this point, it's not just the Greeks. We're part of something bigger. We're not the problem, we're part of it. This whole crisis comes from the banks. We could have prevented some things," mused cartoonist Tzaboura, who also illustrates children's books.

Pondering the massive U.S. debt, and Italy's shaky finances, she suggested her nation was a diversion, or scapegoat: "Thank God they've got Greece now. I'm not saying it's an excuse."

Tzaboura favors Greek wordplay. One cartoon shows a human form in five pieces, with arrows identifying each as a "dosi," or "installment" in Greek. The term refers to bailout tranches from European creditors and the International Monetary Fund that keep Greece afloat, though the cartoon implies the pact has chopped up the Greek psyche like mincemeat.

Another shows uplifted hands with fingers extended in a traditional Greek gesture of insult known called "moutza" that is often seen during protests outside parliament in central Athens. The caption refers to "moutza-xedin," an approximation of "mujaheddin," or Muslim fighters engaged in what they believe to be a holy struggle.

"It's something that has pushed people to choose sides. We don't just observe right now. We're becoming more active," said cartoonist Spiros Derveniotis. He said he was laid off at the City Press newspaper for economic reasons this summer, but is counting on work in comics or foreign publications.

One of his images portrays what he calls the isolation of Greek leaders, showing a caricature of Prime Minister George Papandreou and government ministers, flanked by police, occupying a Parthenon-like structure as an angry mob pelts them with tomatoes and what appear to be gobs of yoghurt. Another cartoon displays a pair of hands shackled by two gold euro symbols, transformed into handcuffs.

The latter image describes "how we managed to make ourselves a golden cage. Being in the euro, and part of the European integration, was supposed to give us benefits," Derveniotis said. "Apart from that, it was also something that was taking, from a sovereign country, the tools to decide its path. Nowadays, it's becoming more and more apparent. Now it's official. We can't do anything on our own."

He cited Charlie Chaplin roles like the gold prospector as an influence for Greek cartoonists, as well as the Marx Brothers; the revolutionary mood of France in 1968, where some Greek cartoonists studied; Greece's military rule from 1967 to 1974, when cartoonists only hinted at touchy topics to avoid censorship or arrest; and an angry, aggressive tone that seems, well, quite Greek.

One image making the rounds is a doctored photograph of Papandreou in a black turtleneck, hand raised to his chin in the iconic pose of the late tech visionary, Steve Jobs. The caption refers to the Greek prime minister's turbulent tenure: "No Jobs, 2009-2011."

Students at a Greek high school compiled a cartoon calendar that skewers Germany, which is pushing Greece for austerity measures in return for loans, by recalling the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II. An image depicts a euro symbol instead of a swastika on the Nazi flag, and another shows a German officer denying a last cigarette to a condemned man because of the high tax on tobacco.

"It may be exaggerated or considered as offensive to the Germans, but this kind of humor is part of our everyday life," said Elina Makri, an online commentator. "That may explain why one of my law university professors in France once said to me, 'Every time I come to Greece and I watch the news on TV, I am not surprised why drama and comedy were born in Greece.'"

Michael Kountouris, an editorial cartoonist for 25 years who has won international awards, said he valued the example set by the early 20th century Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, who viewed art as a means to shape, rather than reflect, the world.

Kountouris prefers the power of image alone, letting the viewer, he said in an email, "find answers to questions that probably you haven't posed yet."

One drawing shows a forlorn man sitting on top of an ancient column submerged in water. Nearby, a polar bear floats on a small island of ice. In another picture, torch-bearing men in Ku Klux Klan-style hoods and robes stand at night around a flaming euro symbol, a stand-in for a burning cross.

"Until now, Greek cartoons had been dealing with the internal affairs of the country, matters that could even be unknown to the European reader. Lately, the subject we are working on has become of global concern," Kountouris wrote. "The crisis in Greece is turning into an institutional one, a political one, a lack of trust, of reliable information by the media, and last but not least, a lack of humanity."

Kountouris said he was dismissed from his job at the newspaper Eleftheros Typos this month. The newspaper declined to comment.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/europe/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111015/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_crisis_cartoons

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SmackDown milestone moments (cont.)

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2002

Feb. 7, 2002: Comedian Will Sasso of MADtv came to the SmackDown ring dressed as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, kissing Chris Jericho's feet in the process. But, when the real "Stone Cold" arrived and ended up alone in the squared-circle with the stunned comedian, Sasso was obliged to share a drink with the actual Texas Rattlesnake, before becoming the latest victim of the "Stone Cold" Stunner.

March 14, 2002: In the final days before WrestleMania X8, The Rock and Hulk Hogan, two of the biggest icons in the history of WWE, squared off in a historic battle of words.

March 25, 2002: Mr. McMahon used his first round pick of the inaugural WWE Draft in order to bring The Rock to SmackDown. The People's Champion becomes the first Superstar Draftee in the history of WWE. Although it took place on Monday Night Raw, it was a pivotal moment for SmackDown.

June 27, 2002: An unknown John Cena emerges on the scene for the first time ever to nearly beat Kurt Angle, following the Olympic gold medalist's open challenge to anyone who had never faced him to come out and do so.

July 4, 2002: On Independence Day, Edge fulfilled an accomplishment far beyond any dream he had imagined possible when he teamed with his boyhood hero Hulk Hogan to capture the World Tag Team Championship.

Oct. 31, 2002: In a special Halloween episode of SmackDown, John Cena performed the first of many memorable raps for the WWE Universe.

2003

May 1, 2003: On a special airing of Piper's Pit, the masked Mr. America debuted, beginning a two-month quest by Mr. McMahon to prove that the mysterious new Superstar was actually the ousted Hulk Hogan.

June 12, 2003: In a stunning conclusion to a WWE Championship main event, the 7-foot, 500-pound Big Show was supplexed from the top rope, causing the ring to collapse from the impact.

Sept. 11, 2003: The late, great Eddie Guerrero defeated John Cena in a brutal Latino Heat Parking Lot Brawl after Chavo Guerrero hit Cena with a hubcap, setting up the Frog Splash off the minivan for the three-count.

Oct. 19, 2003: A victory by Mr. McMahon over his daughter Stephanie McMahon in an "I Quit" Match at No Mercy forced Stephanie to relinquish her position as SmackDown General Manager.

2004

April 8, 2004: Former APA brawler John Bradshaw Layfield redefined himself as a self-made millionaire with a Central Park address. The Longhorn Loudmouth then went on to show footage of himself stopping Mexicans from coming across the border into America.

July 15, 2004: In a moment reminiscent of the great Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, the late Eddie Guerrero showed amazing guts by executing a Frog Splash onto JBL from the top of a steel cage.

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Source: http://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown/great-moments-smackdown-part-2

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Jerry West reveals lifelong depression

Jerry West says he has battled depression since childhood, when his father would beat the future Hall of Famer, causing low self-esteem that has plagued him despite a successful career as one of the NBA's biggest influences.

West says his West Virginia childhood was devoid of love and filled with anger as a result of his abusive father, who left him feeling tormented and worthless.

"I would go to bed feeling like I didn't even want to live," West says in a segment airing Tuesday on HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel."

"I've been so low sometimes and when everyone else would be so high because I didn't like myself."

West's memoir, "West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life," is in stores Wednesday. It's a book his wife, Karen, their four sons and his four siblings didn't want him to write.

In the HBO interview, West describes his father beating him with a belt, saying, "It was brutal."

He says he never knew what would set his father off. It wasn't until his father hit his sister that West found the courage to stand up to the man that had abused him. At 12, West kept a shotgun under his bed and threatened to use it on his father if the abuse didn't end.

When West's father died of a heart attack, he attended the funeral. He cries in the interview as he talks about wondering whether his father would be proud of him and his achievements.

West says his depression never bothered him as a player during 14 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers because he was so driven by a fear of failure. However, once the season ended, he would dwell on the defeats, including the Lakers' six NBA finals losses to the Boston Celtics.

"He wouldn't speak for days at a time ... It worried me," Karen West says, adding that "Jerry doesn't say 'I love you.'... Maybe once a year."

West tells HBO he tried therapy, but gave it up, preferring to take Prozac and work through his depression by himself. He says his condition has eased in the 10 years since he served as Lakers general manager. He now works as an adviser to the Golden State Warriors.

"I'm the luckiest person in the world," he says.

Associated Press

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SIA Releases 2011 Women&#39;s Market Intelligence Report ...

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SnowSports Industries America (SIA) released the 2011 Women?s Market Intelligence Report, with one of the most impressive statistics stating, ??women influence 80 percent of consumer spending.? The report covers female-focused consumer data in the snowsports industry, breaking down ?participation, sales, demographics, and more.? Highlighted on the list, ?women prefer to shop in specialty shops, where they look for expert advice.?

SIA released the 2011 Women's Market Intelligence Report

Read the skinny from SIA on the specifics of the report:

MCLEAN, ?Va. (Oct. 11, 2011) - SnowSports Industries America (SIA) is pleased to announce the release of the 2011 Women?s Market Intelligence Report, which provides an in-depth look into women?s ?spending in the snow sports marketplace. ?Women are responsible for more than 80% of all consumer spending and despite the fact that more skiers and riders are male, the snow sports market is no exception. ?Last season?women spent a record $941 million on snow sports gear made specifically for them, and had a hand in most other purchasing decisions for their families. ?SIA breaks all this down and more in the 4th annual edition of the Women?s Snow Sports Market Intelligence Report giving companies an accurate snapshot of what/where/how women were buying in 2011.

?This report is the only place to get women-specific snow sports data including participation, sales, demographics, and more,? said SIA Director of Research, Kelly Davis.

Women can be a tough market to crack, but SIA Research has worked hard?to pull together this data for companies to better understand the women?s market and adjust brand strategies accordingly. The easy to follow report, including charts and numerical breakdowns, gives companies a competitive edge. ?Below is a sample of findings in the 2011 Women?s Market Intelligence Report.

2011?Women?s Intelligence Report Highlights:

• The top-selling ski in 2010/11 was a women?s ski-the K2 Tru Luv
• The typical female snowboarder is between ages 25 and 34
• Thirty-four percent of women cross country skiers report household incomes of $100K+
• Women?s AT/Randonee boots saw an increase of 214% in unit sales last season
• Alpine ski equipment represents 68% of women?s snow sports equipment purchases
• Women can fully outfit themselves for skiing or riding for less than $2,000
• Snowshoeing brings in the most female participants, making up 46% of the category
• Women prefer to shop in specialty shops, where they look for expert advice

The Women?s Market Intelligence is available at no cost to SIA members and $425 for non-members. The 2011 Snow Sports Market Intelligence Report, a wide-ranging report of activity ?in the snow sports marketplace during the 2010/11 season, is also available. Make sure?to look out for the 2011 Juniors Snow Sports Market Intelligence Report, coming soon.

SIA provides research that?covers all aspects of the snow industry, including demographics, consumer ?opinions and behavioral patterns, weather patterns, snow sports participation, ?overall market analysis, and more. Learn more. Be sure to check out the State of the Industry Research Videos that highlight ?the record 2010/11 winter season. If you have any questions or need research?assistance please contact Kelly Davis, SIA?s Director of Research at KDavis@snowsports.org or by phone at 703.506.4224.

SnowSports Industries America (SIA) is ?the national not-for-profit, North American member-owned, trade association ?representing suppliers and service providers of snow sports products with ?constituents in the retailer, rep and resort communities. Established in 1954, ?SIA annually produces the SIA Snow Show the largest snow sports industry trade ?show, on-snow demo and networking environment globally, while delivering ?invaluable data/research reports including the Snow Sports Market Intelligence Report, SnowSports RetailTRAK and Executive Market Summary. SIA helps grow the ?industry with consumer initiatives and websites, snowlink.com, ?marketing products, services and programs helping our Members operate more ?efficiently, bring their products to market and increase participation in snow ?sports.

Source: http://business.transworld.net/75023/news/sia-releases-2011-womens-market-intelligence-report/

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At Risk for Psychosis?

The earlier that people with psychosis symptoms receive treatment, the better their recovery is likely to be. Image: Lauri Rotko Getty Images

Mike (not his real name) had always been an unusual child. Even as a toddler, he had ?difficulties relating to others and making friends, and he seemed strikingly ?suspicious of other people. After he entered high school, Mike became increasingly angry, paranoid and detached. He worried that people were searching his room and his locker when he was not around. His grades plum?meted as he turned ?inward during class, sketch?ing outlandish scenes in his note?books and muttering to himself rather than listening to the instructor.

Paranoia and difficulties connecting with others are signs of psychosis, a mental illness in which people lose touch with reality. Psychotic individuals usually have problems forming rational, coherent thoughts. They also may hear voices or hallucinate while believing that what they perceive is real. Often such delusions result in bizarre behavior and, in severe cases, an inability to ?manage every?day life. But a psychiatrist deemed Mike?s symptoms too mild to qualify him as psychotic. Mike obviously needed some kind of professional intervention, so he bounced among psychiatrists who could not figure out how to help him.

Cases such as Mike?s have prompted some practitioners to propose the inclusion of a new psychosis risk diagnosis to the forthcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the ?bible? of mental health diagnoses. To receive this diagnosis, a patient would first need to report, for example, having delusions or hallucinations about once a week (as opposed to most of the time for at least one month for clinical psychosis). In addition, either the patient or a loved one must be significantly distressed by those symptoms. The idea of including such a diagnosis in the DSM is highly controversial, but supporters argue that patients such as Mike not only need immediate help, they are at increased risk for developing full-blown psychosis, an outcome doctors might be able to prevent with early intervention.

An Ounce of Prevention
Currently patients diagnosed with full-blown psychosis find relief from so-called atypical antipsychotic medications such as risperidone and olanzapine, which help to reduce hallucinations and delusions. Patients may also benefit from some forms of psychotherapy. And data suggest that the earlier such patients receive help by either method, the better they fare. In a study published in 2005 psychiatrist David L. Penn of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his colleagues analyzed 30 studies evaluating treatments for first-episode psychosis. The researchers found that early, aggressive treatment with medication and psychotherapy, as compared with no treatment, showed promise in reducing both psychotic symptoms and their impact on patients? lives. Thus, intervening with patients earlier, at the ?risk? stage, could conceivably be even more beneficial, some argue.

In addition, several recent studies have found that two forms of psychotherapy alone?without medication?can help control psychotic symptoms even before a person can be officially diagnosed as psychotic. Using cognitive-behavior therapy, practitioners encourage patients to look for evidence supporting their hallucinations and delusions. And so-called acceptance and commitment therapy alleviates psychotic symptoms by teaching patients mindfulness?the ability to focus on the moment in a nonjudgmental way. What is more, in a study published in 2010 psychiatrist G. Paul Amminger of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria and his colleagues found that over-the-counter omega-3 fatty acid supplements reduced the onset of full-blown psychosis by 23 percent in young people with subclinical psychosis.

As a result of such data, psychiatrists such as William T. Carpenter, Jr., of the University of Maryland, who chairs the Psychotic Disorders Work Group for DSM-5, believe that intervening at a prepsychotic stage could ameliorate and even thwart this serious mental illness in a large number of people. Preliminary studies, he says, show that individuals who fit the putative criteria for the psychosis risk syndrome?now officially dubbed attenuated psychosis syndrome?are tens to hundreds of times more likely to develop schizophrenia and psychosis than the average person. Preventing some of these cases would be a huge boon to the individuals affected and would lift the burden on their families, communities and the mental health system as a whole.

Source: http://rss.sciam.com/click.phdo?i=9aed7a647c5692b36ef585e726b61a82

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The Equipment of ice Hockey

The equipment of ice hockey
Implements: consist of ice hockey shoes, hockey knife, equipment maintenance, ice hockey stem.

Hockey Shoes: the shoes have tall waist type and hard material of shoes head, supportive, ankles, heel and outer layer. Our leg ankles are wrapped up by the ong tongue and the solid of shoes. It is able to help players to have support and strength. The hockey shoes are made of high quality leather before. From 60s to 7os there are shoes with all the plastic moulding

Now the shoes are nylon fibers supportive and plastic on the bottom of shoes in the international. There are solid, light and good humidity in this kind of shoes and these features are better than shoes with leather. We are able to put on them inside.

Hockey knife: it used to make Tito steel blade while it will use all Zdeno Chara Jersey product knife. There are strong advantages of light weight, fight resistance, uneasy to rust and so on in high quality steel blade. The blade of ice hockey is high and short, radian big, thick blade. The tall knife will work well when the athletes take a sudden turn and it is able to avoid the shoes contacting the ice. Because the radian of blade is big and then it only contact small area of surface. It is able to taxiing and come about easily and flexible. The function of thick blade is to fight against and uneasily bend. The hockey knife will have sharp for a long time on that condition of having shallow ridges.

The ice hockey shoes of goalkeepers have special thicken hard leather around the shoes. It is to fight the ball struck and protect their feet. There is big different from ice skate blade between keepers and players. It is made by all metal and blade is short and flat. In order that the ball will escape and then there are a lot of connections between blade and knife. It has one great different from figure skate. That is to say that the surface of stressing is small and it is so agile and it also have the function of resisting impact.

Protective clothing: In order not to get injury in the violent match and the sports men should wear protective clothing all over the body. The protection equipment includes that helmet, masks, protection shoulder, protection breast, protection waist, insulation, protection elbow, gloves, short trousers, leg guards protection ankle, etc. Nowadays, the ice hockey are made of light and hard material and there are plastic shells and inside are sponge or foam cushion. The goalkeepers have special masks, gloves, the thickness of the protection of breast and thicken and widen protection of legs.

The official NHL ice hockey jerseys and Boston Bruins Jerseys store online. Tim Thomas Jersey is popular among Bruins Hockey jerseys.

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Cement in Your Toilet? Foreclosure Market Flush with Damaged ...

This bathroom was trashed by the previous owner

Three years into the national real estate swoon, increasing numbers of real estate agents are collecting more scary tales about what they discover when they step inside a?foreclosure:

?.Baseboards, appliances and a brick pathway completely removed.

?.Cement poured down toilets.

?.Walls covered in spray paint and punched full of holes.

?.Black mold so toxic that the only remedy is to tear down the entire home.

Then, there?s the one about a slew of dead fish left to rot in an attic.

These may sound like scenes out of a horror flick, but this is reality in the post-bubble age of real estate foreclosure. And while not all distressed homeowners inflict damage, the problem has become more rampant and real estate agents have almost come to expect these nightmares on Main Street.

?Nothing shocks me anymore,? said Detroit agent Jim Shaffer. ?Nothing shocks Realtors anymore.?

Damaged homes don?t qualify for loans

According to data from a survey by Campbell Communications, 13.9 percent of all real estate owned by a bank or agency in 2010 was so damaged by deliberate vandalism or harrowing neglect that the property would not qualify for a standard home loan. That has pushed the market for damaged properties toward investors, who often obtain the house at a more significant discount than undamaged foreclosures or short sales, according to the Campbell survey?s analysis.

?It?s been quite severe and drastic because so many homes don?t qualify for FHA (loans), which is the loan most people have,? explained Shaffer.

In an effort to encourage homeowners to leave their foreclosed homes without damage, many banks employ national programs like Cash for Keys, which gives a cash incentive. However, Nevada real estate agent Joanna Piette believes the program has only been a Band-Aid over a serious epidemic.

Shaffer agrees, calling the trend ?a significant problem.?

Nevada has the highest foreclosure rate in the country and along with it, a high rate of foreclosure property crime. ?According to the Las Vegas Review and Journal, over 25 percent of bank-foreclosed homes are intentionally damaged.

Recently, Nevada state legislature passed a law making foreclosure property damage a crime. Beginning October 1, Nevada?s law ?prohibits the destruction of real property that is subject to foreclosure with the intent to defraud.?

Under this law, any person that damages property, causing the lender to suffer a financial loss, is guilty of the misdemeanor crime that carries a penalties of up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

To Piette?s knowledge, no one has been charged yet. She calls the law another incentive for people to leave their homes in a livable state.

?I have seen abandoned animals that are near death in a home. I have seen houses that are completely stripped of every interior item including cover switches; they?re just a shell of a house,? she said, adding that as ?Realtors and plain old consumers, we?re very happy about this law. This is a very big deal for us.?

Selling fixtures on Craigslist

In Detroit, where the real estate market has also taken a significant hit, Shaffer hasn?t heard of banks or the government charging people with property crime, despite the fact that some people brazenly advertise their intent to damage foreclosed homes.

?You can go on Craigslist and some people are quite blatant that they?re in foreclosure. ?They?re inviting people to come and buy things,? Shaffer said.

Although some people in foreclosure may be selling home fixtures in an attempt to recoup some of their equity, Shaffer believes many of them are acting in retaliation for being ousted from their property.

Realistically, Shaffer said, used baseboards stripped from walls won?t add up to much of a net gain. He estimated that a homeowner might get $4,000, but that?s a generous estimate.?The real reason is usually vengeance.

?They don?t realize that they?re not hurting the bank. In reality, they?re hurting their neighbors and new buyers,? Shaffer said.

What?s astounding is the kind of time and energy homeowners will take to damage a house. In one case, a foreclosed homeowner wielded a saw and cut the Sheetrock wall in half.

?The Sheetrock was gone from about four feet up,? Piette said. ?They cut the entire ceiling and removed all the duct work.?

In another case, a Seattle house was made to look as if it had been booby-trapped, with wires, propane tanks and fire extinguishers rigged to doors and windows and apparently set to go off, according to a report by ABC News.

Kirkland, WA.-based real estate?agent Jennifer Reyer said one homeowner was very thorough in his destruction methodology, bashing in the walls inch-by-inch, scratching every window and breaking every mirror.

Each of the walls have been bashed in by a hammer

The previous owner of this foreclosed home removed every appliance and cut all the wiring

Others have used water torture on foreclosed homes, turning on all the faucets, then leaving. It?s no harmless prank.

?The future of real estate and bank-owned properties will be mold houses,? said Reyer. ?It?s more common than you think. I went to a house and every surface of the house was [covered in] the blackest mold you?ve ever seen. They?ll have to bulldoze that house.?

Reyer says she now carries a face mask when visiting foreclosed properties.

As damaged foreclosures glut the market, real estate agents are finding them harder to sell.?The only solution, says Shaffer, is what he?s tried to do in the Detroit area. He works with traditional buyers to get a 203K loan ? a mortgage that allows homeowners to borrow money to update the home.

This solution can turn out to be a boon for buyers of a damaged, foreclosed property, Shaffer said: ??They can go in and put the kitchen of their dreams in and roll that in the cost of their mortgage.?

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Source: http://www.zillow.com/blog/2011-10-11/cement-in-your-toilet-foreclosure-market-flush-with-damaged-inventory/

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