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The Supreme Court continues to mull the fate of the Affordable Care Act. The House of Representatives continues to push budget bills that would defund ACA programs. Many state legislatures have adjourned for the year without taking significant action to implement state exchanges. But ACA implementation continues its onward march as the federal agencies — the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor — press ahead deeper and deeper into the jungle of the detailed requirements and procedures on which implementation depends.
Much of this is being accomplished through "guidance"– notices, requests for comments, bulletins, and frequently asked questions. Some of this guidance attempts to respond to questions that have arisen regarding provisions of the ACA as to which final rules have already been issued. Other guidance addresses issues that must be sorted out before the legislation is finally fully implemented on January 1, 2014, only twenty months from now. Proposed and final rules on these issues will presumably follow in due course, but for now, the agencies, realizing that insurers, employers, and the states are already preparing for 2014, are signaling their intentions so that planning can proceed.
In a number of instances the agencies are also genuinely asking for ideas: How can particular provisions of the ACA be implemented so as to maximize their intended value for Americans while minimizing the administrative costs they impose on employers, insurers, and the state and federal governments? This guidance has been largely ignored by the media and the public, but it in fact addresses issues that will affect millions of Americans, their employers and insurers.
The Medical Loss Ratio
On April 20, 2012, HHS released a technical guidance with questions and answers regarding the implementation of the medical loss ratio requirements of the ACA. The medical loss ratio requirement of the ACA requires insurers to spend at least a minimum percentage of their adjusted premium revenue (80 percent in the individual ands small group market, 85 percent in the large group market) on health care claims and quality improvement initiatives. Insurers that fail to do so must rebate the difference between their actual expenditures and the target to their enrollees.
Rebates will first be paid on August 1 of 2012 for 2011 coverage and annually thereafter. A Kaiser Family Foundation study of preliminary insurer reports found that insurers project they will pay $1.3 billion in rebates for 2011 to nearly 16 million Americans. While the rebates to enrollees will be comparatively small, $127 in the individual market and $76 in the small group market, they represent the first tangible benefits from the ACA that many Americans will see.
The real purpose of the MLR requirement, however, is not to generate rebates, but rather to drive insurers to become more efficient and to limit their premium increases to increases in their actual claims costs. There is evidence that this strategy is working: Projected rebates for 2010 would have been a third higher than the projected 2011 rebates, demonstrating that insurers are in fact better aligning premiums and claims costs.
The MLR Technical Guidance addresses a number of issues that are in fact very technical — how reinsurance should be handled or whether insurers can pay rebates with debit cards — but a number of the questions address issues of more general interest. The guidance clarifies that the MLR provision does not apply to self-funded, Medicaid managed care, or Medicare Advantage plans. While it should have been obvious that a provision that regulates insurers does not apply to self-funded plans, this may be the clearest ruling yet that Medicaid managed care and Medicare Advantage plans are not group or individual health coverage regulated by the ACA.
The Guidance also clarifies that the ACA only recognizes individual, small group, and large group coverage. State regulatory provisions that recognize "blanket health insurance policies" as a separate category; that treat "groups of one" (consisting of sole proprietors and their spouses but including no other employees) as small group rather than as individual coverage; or that treat individual association policies as group policies, are to be ignored for purposes of the MLR regulation (and presumably for all ACA provisions). The Guidance also says that state law provisions requiring a higher minimum medical loss ratio standard than the federal minimum will only be applied in calculating federal MLR rebates if the state law provision was adopted since the enactment of the ACA on March 23, 2010. This is apparently the case in Massachusetts, New Mexico, and New York.
Finally, and perhaps most interestingly, the Guidance provides that state and federal exchange fees are treated as regulatory fees for purposes of the MLR, and are thus subtracted from premium revenue (that is, essentially disregarded) before the MLR is calculated. This should provide a significant incentive for insurers to participate in the individual and small group exchanges going forward, since user fees (unlike their other marketing costs) will not be treated as administrative expenses.
Verifying Access To Employer-Sponsored Isurance …
Another guidance published by HHS on April 26 addresses the question of how exchanges will verify whether or not applicants for premium tax credits have access to employer-sponsored insurance. Under the ACA, individuals with employer-sponsored coverage are not eligible for premium tax credits as long as the coverage is affordable and provides "minimum value." For each month that a full-time employee of a large employer receives a premium tax credit because employer coverage is not affordable or does not provide minimum value, the employer will owe a penalty equivalent to an annual amount of $3000 up to a maximum annual amount of $2000 times the number of the employer's total full-time employees.
There is currently, however, no available database that identifies whether individuals in fact have access to employer-sponsored insurance, much less whether that insurance is affordable or meets a minimum value test. HHS is considering a two-stage approach to this problem. For years 2014 and 2015, HHS is proposing that it develop a standardized template or method for collecting and communicating information on available employer coverage. Applicants for premium tax credits could request this information from their employers before applying for tax credits or employers could simply make this information available to all employees.
The Guidance also proposes a verification process, under which applicants for premium tax credits would attest to lack of access to affordable and adequate employer-sponsored coverage. The exchange would verify this attestation to the extent possible based on any databases it has available that might contain information on employer-sponsored insurance. If it found an inconsistency in the information, it would provisionally approve the applicant for up to 90 days during which the inconsistency would be resolved. The exchange would then manually verify attestations for a representative sample of enrollees, gathering information directly from employers. This approach would maximize accessibility to tax credits while minimizing the burden on employees and providing some assurances of the integrity of the determinations.
For 2016 and beyond, HHS would attempt to develop a database, perhaps based on reports that employers must file on coverage beginning in 2015 (described below), that would provide real-time verification of employer coverage.
… And Ensuring That Employer-Sponsored Coverage Meets Minimum-Value Requirements
A Notice published by the IRS on April 26, 2012 addresses the subsidiary question of how minimum value will be determined for employer-sponsored plans for purposes of determining eligibility for premium tax credits. Calculation of "minimum value" for self-insured and large employer-sponsored insurance presents a conundrum. The ACA provides that an employer-sponsored plan does not provide minimum value "if the plan's share of total allowed costs of benefits provided under the plan is less than 60 percent of such costs." The ACA also provides that the percentage of total allowed costs is supposed to be determined under the rules that HHS promulgates for calculating actuarial value of exchange-based qualified health plans (QHPs).
The actuarial value of QHPs, however, is calculated based on their provision of the essential health benefits (EHBs), while self-insured and large group employer plans are not required to cover the EHBs. How can HHS determine whether a large-group or self-insured plan covers 60 percent of benefits if there is no requirement as to which benefits it must cover?
Fortunately, the problem is likely to be limited in scope. Employer-sponsored coverage is generally relatively generous. A research brief published by HHS concluded that only 1.6 to 2 percent of employers have employer-sponsored insurance that covers less than 60 percent of allowed costs. But a standard still must be established.
The IRS proposes three approaches to determining minimum value. First, it proposes to create a minimum value (MV) calculator to be used for calculating the value of self-insured and large group plans that would be like the actuarial value calculator it will create for determining the actuarial value of QHPs. (Small group employer plans must cover the EHBs and could use the QHP actuarial value calculator for determining minimum value.) The MV calculator would be based on claims data reflecting typical self-insured plans. An employer-sponsored plan could enter its benefits, coverage of services, and cost-sharing terms into the calculator to determine whether it provides minimum value.
Rather than being based on the EHBs, however, the calculator would consider the cost of four categories of services: physician and mid-level practitioner care; hospital and emergency room services; pharmacy benefits; and laboratory and imaging services. These categories account for the vast majority of actuarial value. While plans would not be required to cover these services, virtually all plans in fact do. The calculator would also, as required by the ACA, take into account employer contributions to health savings and reimbursement accounts (HSAs and HRAs) in calculating minimum value. An employer contribution to an account would be treated like a similar payment for first-dollar insurance coverage.
Alternatively, the IRS proposes to create design-based safe harbor checklists. Employer plans that cover the four core benefit categories with cost-sharing attributes (deductibles, co-pays, coinsurance, and maximum out-of-pocket costs) that are at least as generous as those specified in the checklist could be deemed to provide minimum value without performing any calculations. Finally, plans with very unusual benefit designs could qualify as providing minimum value by providing an actuarial certification based on tables and guidance provided by the IRS and recognized actuarial standards of practice. The IRS requests comments on a number of issues related to implementing this strategy.
A practical enforcement plan, but potential risks for employees, particularly the sickest. The IRS approach achieves a practical interpretation of the statute that should minimize the burden on employers of compliance with the minimum value requirement. Presumably most employers will simply ensure that their plan complies with the safe harbor checklist. If employers see the safe harbors as an invitation to reduce benefits to a required minimum, however, employees will be the losers.
Moreover, the IRS requests comments as to whether employers should be able to adjust the value identified by the MV calculator to take account of other benefits, such as wellness benefits. Although wellness benefits are quite popular with employers, they make consumer advocates nervous because they tend to reward the healthy rather than provide care for the sick, the traditional function of health insurance. Allowing employers to meet the minimum value requirement through the provision of wellness benefits could potentially undermine coverage for those who need it most at a time when employer-sponsored coverage is already tending to decrease in value to employees.
In addition, the IRS published two requests for comments on April 26, 2012. IRS Notice 2012-32 requests comments on how the IRS should implement requirements under ACA section 6055 requiring health insurers, self-insured plans, government-sponsored health plans, and other providers of minimum-essential coverage to file reports identifying individuals for whom they provide minimum essential coverage for purposes of determining compliance with the minimum coverage requirement (individual mandate). Notice 2012-33 requests comments on the implementation of ACA section 6056 which requires large employers to file reports on the availability of employer-sponsored coverage for purposes of determining compliance with the employer responsibility provisions of the ACA. Reports are due under these provisions beginning in 2015. The IRS is seeking comments as to how to implement these reporting requirements while minimizing the administrative burden on reporters and duplication of reporting.
Stop-Loss Coverage And Self-Insured Plans
Finally, on April 27, 2012, HHS, Treasury, and Labor published a Request for Information Regarding Stop Loss Insurance. The concern that drives this is the potential of stop loss-insured self-insured employer plans destabilizing the small group insurance market post-2014.
Employers have always had reasons to self-insure. Plans that are self-insured escape state regulation, including state mandates, and can be less expensive than commercial insurance for low-risk groups. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), however, increases these incentives dramatically. Insurers understand this, and are actively marketing "self-insured" products to small groups. These products offer administrative services and "stop-loss" coverage that shields small employers from the risk that would otherwise make self-insured status unattractive. They often have very low "attachment points," which define when the employer ceases to bear risk and the stop-loss insurer takes over. Some stop loss plans are almost indistinguishable from high deductible health plans, except that the risk remains nominally with the employer rather than the employee.
Self-insured plans become more attractive to small groups under the ACA for two reasons. First, they are subject to fewer regulatory requirements than are insured plans. Whether in or out of the exchange, small group plans must offer the essential benefits package, include their members in a single risk pool, participate in the risk adjustment program, offer the same premiums without regard to health status, and offer the precious metal tiers. Self-insured plans are not, however, subject to these requirements. Moreover, neither self-insured plans nor the stop-loss coverage that makes self-insurance possible for small groups are subject to the ACA's minimum medical loss ratio requirements. Self-insured plans are also exempt from a fee imposed on insurers under ACA section 9010 and stop-loss plans do not need to justify unreasonable rate increases.
Second, once the ACA establishes guaranteed issue and bans health status underwriting and pre-existing condition exclusions for small groups in 2014, the risk to small employers of self-insuring will be dramatically reduced. Under current law in most states, a self-insured small employer faces the prospect of significantly increased stop-loss rates or lack of affordable access to conventional insurance if the group's risk profile deteriorates (e.g. an employee or dependent gets cancer or needs an organ transplant). But, beginning in 2014, insurers (in or out of the exchange) will not be able to refuse to insure higher-risk small groups or exclude preexisting conditions, and will have to insure them at standard rates. SHOP (small employer) exchanges cannot have open enrollment periods for employers but must admit small employers whenever they apply for coverage. The threat of adverse selection to the exchanges could be substantial. Healthy small groups will be able to self-insure with stop-loss coverage and then leave that coverage and enter the exchange at standard rates the moment an employee or dependent suffers a serious illness or accident.
Without stop loss insurance, however, self-insured small group plans become much less viable. Few small groups can fully take on the risk of self-insuring without stop-loss. As of this point, stop loss insurance for small groups is not regulated at the federal level and largely unregulated at the state level. The term "self-insured" is not defined in the ACA, and the agencies clearly have the authority to define when a plan with stop-loss coverage is in fact so fully-insured that it ceases to be self-insured. In the request for information, the agencies are seeking to determine how common stop-loss coverage is, how it operates, how insurers decide which employers to insure and how much they charge, and how stop loss insurance is regulated. Presumably regulations will follow.


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Senior members of the Likud are reported to have assured Samuel Flatto-Sharon, who is appealing to the Surpreme Court against a lower court's nine-month prison sentence for bribery in the elections four years ago, that Israel will not agree to a French request for his extradition to France to stand charges there for embezzlement. Flatto-Sharon was sentenced in absentia by a Paris court to 10 years in prison.
Flatto-Sharon's entry into the Knesset four years ago provided him with immunity against the French extradition request. But his parliamentary immunity was lifted by the Knesset earlier this year to allow him to be tried for bribery in the 1977 election campaign. He failed to receive enough votes in last month's elections to provide him with a seat in the Knesset.

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In the new book "A Gangster and A Gentleman" by Kiki Swinson and De'Nesha Diamond, you will read two stories about women who want a lot of bad in their boys.
Grandma always said to find yourself a nice man.
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The Impact of Web-Based Risk Calculators on Health Risk Perceptions and Information Processing
Every day, millions of Americans use the Internet to obtain health information. To satisfy this demand, organizations deliver a variety of content that promotes awareness and education and informs health- related decision making. Given advances in web technology, new statistical models of disease, and the shift towards shared patient decision making, these e-health services are increasingly complex. Through applications such as personal health records and "health risk calculators" Internet users can obtain personalized and interactive feedback about their current health state, model-based predictions about their future health, and tailored education about healthy behavior. While providing the public with more content to inform health-related decisions is an appropriate goal, research in health psychology and behavioral decision making suggest the importance of clearly understanding the perceptual and behavioral responses when laypersons are presented with statistical results and personalized risk information. Little research has studied how web-based personalized and interactive health applications actually impact the beliefs and behavior of users. In two separate experiments, this research measured the effect of a type 2 diabetes "risk calculator" website on user information processing and subjective risk perceptions about diabetes. In the first experiment, 100 middle-aged and elderly adults were randomized to one of three conditions in order to determine how personalized risk estimates and interactive risk feedback influenced information usage and beliefs about future diabetes onset. Results showed that personalization and interactive features did not lead to increases in information utilization as expected. Instead, this research shows in some cases personalization actually reduced the amount of information accessed and the extent to which users attended to and carefully considered health risk content. The experiment did show that personalization was related to modest increases in the accuracy of absolute diabetes risk estimates but did not motivate significant changes in relative or affective risk perceptions. A second study of 34 university staff members was qualitatively suggestive of similar results. Future work is needed to further understand the behavioral implications when complex statistical models are integrated with publicly available health information websites. This may aid the design of health information applications and ensure that providers of these tools are effectively motivating improved awareness and education about health risks.
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I'm 27 years old and of a stable weight a slender build, but I have had cellulite for the past 7 years. No amount of exercise or diet has improved it's appearance at all. I've never had children, I stay well hydrated and take good care of myself so I'm thinking the cellulite is genetic. There is a average quantity of it on my buttocks and upper side, and back thighs. I would like some opinions on the most permanent and guaranteed methods of cellulite removal.
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Cellulaze for long lasting cellulite improvment
You are the type of patient plastic surgeons desire- young, healthy and localized cellulite. All of the devices before Cellulaze were temporary at best with minimal longevity because they could not get to the problem areas directly. Cellulaze does reach the problematic anatomy of cellulite which we have known for years but was unable to address it comfortabily, effectively and with good longevity. Unfortunatley, I would not make any guarantees about this treatment or any others that I perform as a plastic surgeon.
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Hello. You sound like a potentially good candidate for Cellulaze. It is without question the most effective treatment for cellulite, but happy patients are those with realistic expectations on what a procedure will and won't do. Cellulaze is not a cure or perfect treatment by any means. It will definitely improve on cellulite - mild cellulite is probably easier to improve upon than severe cellulite. Look at a lot of before and after photos to get a realistic idea of what the procedure can do for you. It is a one time treatment which is a plus but remember regardless of what anyone tells you there are no guarantees in results with cosmetic surgery. Results with Cellulaze will definitely depend on the skill and understanding of the technology of the physician so do your homework and find a board certified plastic surgeon with an expertise in Cellulaze in your area. Good luck!
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Cellulaze is a method to give you long-lasting results. This procedure is minimally invasive and has the ability to smooth out skin and keep it cellulite-free. This method promotes skin thickening and tightening resulting in tighter, smoother skin.
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If you truly have cellulite, cellulaze may be a good option for you. Cellulaze uses a laser under the skin to attack the anatomic causes of cellulite. It is a minimally invasive procedure that takes 1-2 hours and can be safely done under local or just IV sedation. It is an FDA approved treatment for cellulite and requires only one treatment. Hope this is helpful.
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it is important that you realize that Cellulaze by Cyanosure, can provide a lot of help.
there is no treatment that will make you perfect. i tell all of my patients that you may see improvement in 2 wks or 2 months. i have seen both. you will continue to get better for at least 6 months. i have seen some of my patients continue to improve for up to year. i have been very pleased with my experience using Cellulaze but it is not 100%.
the creams, are of course a waste of time. exercise is a wonderful thing but will not improve your cellulite.
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The data for cellulaze would appear to show it has a long lasting result. The studies had 3 year follow up with good improvement
Finally, an effective cellulite treatment
There is one procedure that has been clinically proven through scientific research to actually effectively target and improve cellulite, that is Cellulaze by Cynosure, a procedure I am excited to offer to my patients. The Cellulaze Laser treatment was specifically designed for cellulite. All three components of cellulite are addressed, including: improvement in the elasticity and thickness of the overlying skin, lysis of underlying fibrous septae and eradication of excess fatty areas. This is performed in a minimally invasive surgical procedure either under local anesthesia or general depending on the surgeon and the extent of the areas treated. Good luck.
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Jem Aswad from Billboard attended the after-party for LED ZEPPELIN's Celebration Day at New York's Monkey Bar, which followed the official US premiere of the film at Ziegfeld Theater. The event featured appearances by KISS' Paul Stanley, METALLICA's Kirk Hammett, JOAN JETT, STEVIE NICKS and of course members of the band; ROBERT PLANT, JIMMY PAGE and JOHN PAUL JONES. Check Aswad's report at this location.
Check out the Reuters report on the New York Celebration Day Event below:
Celebration Day will have its UK premiere at London's Hammersmith Apollo on October 12th. Jones, Page, and Plant will also be attendance for this special event. A very limited number of tickets are available here. Premieres for the film will follow in Berlin on October 15th, where Jones is confirmed to attend and Tokyo on October 16th, where Page will be in attendance.
Celebration Day will see a worldwide theatrical release by Omniverse Vision on October 17th. Celebration Day cinema listings can be found here.
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In the past couple of weeks, I have started to brainstorm new topics and ideas for upcoming posts. Usually, I just write about what is going on in my life, but I have tried to be more proactive in writing articles that will help young adults with their money. It's one thing to tell you all how committed I am to saving money, investing money for retirement, and all of those good things… It's quite another thing to be a one-of-a-kind resource for young adults when it comes to money. Yet, that is what I aspire to be. And I am getting there (with the help of others).
One of the great things about a blog is that it is easy to see the newest content. Most blogs, like this one, feature the newest articles at the top of the page underneath the logo or navigation bar. Yet, the downside is that many great articles get buried. For example, if you just started reading this blog regularly, you might have missed some of the great content from 2012. In order of fix that, at least to a small degree, I want to start highlighting some of the old posts. This isn't a ploy to stop producing great content. There will still continue to be at least three quality articles a week, but I'm hopeful that it will help many of you catch up on things you may have missed.
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Today, I am featuring many of the great articles on investing. As many of you already know, in the past year I have become more serious about investing money for our future. I still have a lot to learn, but that doesn't mean that 20's Finances can't help others in a similar boat. Here are some of the older articles on investing:
Picking or buying stocks can be quite complicated. People have written thousands of pages on this very topic, but this post summarizes some of the basic things that you can do to make an informed decision.
Young Adult Retirement Planning
Retirement planning doesn't have to be something just for older people. Young adults can start saving for retirement and have an even larger influence on their retirement than any other age group because of compound interest.
Important Values for Young Investors
Everyone holds different values when it comes to investing. Some take more risk than others and some take less. Find out what should inform your investment decisions when you are a young adult.
Different Approaches to Investing
Everyone also approaches investing differently. This isn't a post about how you should respect everyone's perspective because it is their own, but instead talks about the pros and cons of each one. Let this inform your investment strategy.
Fears that Keep Young Adults from Investing
Have you every felt like investing is too risky? I certainly have! Find out where the risk is so that you can overcome it. It can make a huge difference!
I bet you have heard a hundred analogies for investing, but what about baseball. Strangely enough, investing is similar to baseball in a number of ways. Find out more!
Have you jumped into mutual funds without thinking twice about the fees. Find out more before you lose tens of thousands of dollars over the course of your lifetime. This minor change could save you lots of money.
How to Invest Your 401(k) Contributions
People always tell you that you should invest in a 401k, but they hesitate to go beyond that. Find out specific recommendations on what you should do with your 401k and where you should put your money.
How to Start Saving for Retirement
Starting is half of the battle when it comes to investing. I know this to be true for myself. Once I committed to investing aggressively, I saw immediate growth in my net worth. Find out how and why you should start investing today.
The Value of Looking at the Long Term
Young adults struggle with thinking long term because everything is so new to them. Find out how you can benefit from thinking long term.


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How does affiliate marketing work?
Any website owner who wishes to earn extra income from website traffic can sign up to an affiliate program or choose from a variety of affiliate programs available at one of the many affiliate networks. Once they have selected a partner to work with, the necessary tracking is put in place to monitor any sales, leads or other target activities and the affiliate is provided with marketing collateral (such as banners/text-ads and HTML emails) so they can promote the products or services. Any confirmed actions are then checked to eliminate fraud or refunds, and the affiliate is periodically paid the agreed fee or percentage.
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Asking price: $669,000
Sold for: $660,000
Taxes: $3,833 (2012)
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Time on the market: one day
This completely renovated brick home has granite counters and stainless steel appliances in the open-concept kitchen, crown moulding and a bay window in the living room and french doors and a walkout to a deck from the dining room.
All three bedrooms have double closets. Lower-level features include a recreation room, a panelled library and a laundry room.
An updated main-floor bathroom, a separate entrance to the lower level, hardwood floors and a built-in dishwasher are other highlights.
The 52×115-foot lot has a one-car garage and a private driveway. The driveway and interlocking walkway were recently completed.
"Bathurst Manor is in demand with first-time buyers, downsizers and investors," listing agent Marci Koifman says.
Listing Broker: Royal LePage Partners Realty (Marci Koifman)
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Plans to re-open a Woolwich nightclub described as a magnet for London's most notorious gangsters have been slammed by the police.
Officers claim Club Da Boss in Woolwich High Street has been responsible for a string of violent incidents and that its closure last year led to a fall in crime.
Incidents included a man stabbed and attacked with sticks outside the venue and a woman being smashed over the head with a bottle of Tennessee whisky as she changed her shoes on the stairs outside.
Shockingly, one woman was sexually assaulted by a man who, after urinating in the street, lifted up the victim's dress to expose the fact she was not wearing underwear.
But now a licensing committee will meet on July 22 to discuss plans to transfer the premises licence to a new holder who hopes to re-open the venue.
In an objection, Greenwich police's licensing officer PC Jason Coombes claimed there were 400 intelligence reports linked to the club including reports of drugs, guns, knives and gang fights.
He said: "It has attracted some of the most notorious gang members from across London and has been the subject of several voluntary closures due to the threat to life or threat or disorder."
PC Coombes went on: "Since the closure of this venue the police have had no incidents of note in this area relating to licensed venues.
"It is apparent from this and its history that these premises were a massive crime generator for the Woolwich area."
Originally featuring striptease and known as the Mermaid Club, the venue attracted widespread complaints about noise. Pole-dancing was stopped in 2008 but complaints continued and the club finally closed last September
Police warn that even plans by the new licence holders to introduce better security and a strict entry policy could create more trouble as angry people linked to the old club go on the rampage.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistan military declared Sunday that it doesn't need U.S. aid, as the White House confirmed that United States is withholding about $800 million in aid to Pakistan's armed forces.
Tense relations between Islamabad and Washington worsened in May after the U.S. raid in northern Pakistan, during which Osama bin Laden was killed.
At stake is Pakistan's cooperation against al-Qaida, the Taliban and other extremist groups. Much of al-Qaida's remaining leadership is believed to be hiding in Pakistan, while Pakistani territory is used as a haven by the Afghan Taliban and the allied Haqqani network, fighting across the border in Afghanistan.
"The Pakistani relationship is difficult, but it must be made to work over time," William Daley, the White House chief of staff, said on ABC television Sunday. "But until we get through these difficulties, we will hold back some of the money that the American taxpayers have committed to give them." Daley said the figure amounted to about $800 million.
The cutback seemed to be a direct response to recent moves by Pakistan, which expelled U.S. military trainers from the country, limited the ability of U.S. diplomats and other officials to get visas and restricted CIA operations allowed on its territory.
There are also questions about U.S. civilian aid to Pakistan, about $1.5 billion a year.
Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, the chief spokesman for the Pakistan armed forces, said the military was not officially notified that aid had been cut. He also pointed out that the army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, had declared that U.S. cash reimbursements to the military should go instead to the civilian government, which needed the money more.
"We have conducted our (anti-extremist) military operations without external support or assistance," Abbas said. "Reports coming out of the U.S. are aimed at undermining the authority of our military organizations."


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Danny Califf, 24 hours later, is still smarting about his trade from the Philadelphia Union to Chivas USA.
Califf, after all, was the team captain. He's angry that Union G.M. Peter Nowak tried to spin it that Califf, 32, had wanted to be traded to a club near his hometown of Montclair, Calif. Instead, he simply traded him to the highest bidder, and Chivas' offer was better than that of Toronto FC.
"It made me want to throw up," Califf told the Philadelphia Daily News. "Change is never easy and when you give your heart to something and much of yourself, and it all gets ripped out from under you, that part of yourself is essentially ripped away.
"It's like putting a Band-Aid on a scab and then ripping the Band-Aid off over and over and over again. I understand that these types of trades happen in professional sports all the time, I mean I am not stupid to this fact, but we were just in a really good place as a family (here in Philadelphia) and that's why it hurt so bad.
"There was plenty of drama in Philly, plenty of stuff that doesn't need to get rehashed, and a lot of that involves me unfortunately. But I'm just trying to realize this situation, get my feet under me and wrap my head around the fact that I am walking into a locker room full of faces I don't know."
Coming off knee surgery, Califf has played in only four matches this season. He said Friday that he is fit and will be available for Chivas' match Saturday night against the rival L.A. Galaxy.


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Over the course of this week, I've been blogging about post-traumatic stress disorder, the use of alcohol and drugs, and seeking a recovery treatment center or a rehab treatment center for proper care. As I'd stated before, not everyone who has a post-traumatic stress disorder has an alcohol or drug problem. However, drinking and using drugs is a problem if your behavior changes or changes how you use the substances.
The reasons people drink and/or use drugs, as well as how much and how often can lead to an addiction problem. Asking yourself a few questions can help indicate if you have a problem.
• Have family members and friends verbally issued concerns about my use of substances?
• Do I have a guilt feeling associated with drinking or drugs?
• Is there stress in my life that leads me to use drinking or drugs to cope with the stress?
• Are the amounts I've been currently using greater now?
• Has cutting back, or down, worked?
• Have I been using more to get the same result/effect?
There are also times when you will work hard to convince yourself that you don't necessarily have a problem at all, and unfortunately this path won't get you the help you desperately need. Only drinking beer or wine, or that the fact you don't use drugs, or even that you don't drink everyday are common realizations. The fact you've never missed a day of work is also a common rationalization used to condone usage. Also popular is comparing yourself to your friend's usage and declaring that you can handle it.
But if any of these statements or excuses ring true, getting help through a recovery treatment center is what you need to do. Admitting you need help is quite difficult because guilt and shame are huge factors. So, talk to your doctor and begin searching for a rehab treatment center as soon as possible.
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I know we have these pretty often, but I never got to post a picture of my setup as I didn't want to upload something that wasn't finished. Sorry if that makes you angry. Anyways, my setup is 52" Sony Bravia that I use for PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii-U (when I buy one) gaming. There's only something like 15 millesconds of input lag on it, so it's pretty good. The rest of my setup is for more serious stuff. I have two, 24" monitors, one is a Philips 244E, 1920x1080 5ms 60Hz refresh rate, and the other is an HP Pavilion 23xi IPS LED 1920x1080 5ms 60Hz refresh rate. The one in the middle I just bought yesterday, it's a Asus 27" MX279H 1920x1080 5ms 60Hz refresh rate. I use the Asus for Xbox One and PS4 gaming, and the two other monitors for PC usage. Edit: Forgot to talk about the sound system. Yeah, I've a good sound system. I also have Astro A50's. I also have a minifridge for easy access to soda and other beverages. I look forward to other's setups.
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When that time comes to retire my worn shoes I usually walk into my nearby running shoe store. There I am greeted by a 19 year old sales person whose job is to assist me in finding "the right shoe" for my foot. First off, I know these kids don't have a background in bio mechanics so I have always been wary of heeding their advice. If you have a high arch they push you to buy highly cushioned, super supportive shoes. By the way I have the highest arch you've ever seen; I was born into heels. On the other hand, if you have flat Barney Rubble feet they will try to squeeze you into motion control shoes. I don't mean to discredit the smaller shoe stores staffed with knowledgeable sales people; I am speaking strictly in terms of most major retailers.
A few months ago I switched brands and tried an entirely different type of shoe. I chose a pair that sounded in theory like the right pair but they didn't feel right. Hello Kate! Red flag! Within two weeks I was selling my bib for an upcoming race and doing swim workouts. Why? Because I had a stress fracture in my 3rd metatarsal. It was quite disheartening and since then I listen to my feet and nobody else about running shoes.
Just today, Gretchen Reynolds posted an interesting article about this very topic on her Phys Ed section of the New York Times website titled 'Do certain types of sneakers prevent injury?' I have to say, I love that Gretchen uses the word sneakers. I didn't know people still said "sneakers" and what's worse is my mom calls them "tennies" short for tennis shoes. I find it cute, but let's move on.
In Gretchen's write-up she mentions a few studies conducted by U.S. military researchers that were recently published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine. What they found was almost no correlation at all between wearing the "proper running shoes" and avoiding injury. Injury rates were high among all the runners, but they were highest among the soldiers who had received shoes designed specifically for their foot types. If anything, wearing the "right" shoes for their particular foot type had increased their risk of pain or injury. A later study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found the same thing. "The right shoe" was more likely to result in pain.
Now, in my humble opinion, I do NOT believe a running shoe can prevent injury. That said, I definitely feel a running shoe can contribute in part to injury if one is wearing a shoe that doesn't feel right. My opinion is based off of my own experience and this study seems to validate that. Many even believe that today's shoes weaken the feet by providing too much support. This was one of the controversial messages in the bestseller 'Born to Run' which advocates barefoot running.
I say, go with how you feel. After my fracture I exchanged the awkward feeling shoes for a pair that felt comfortable and I was good to go. I made it through the last several months pain and injury free by listening to my feet instead of the "shoe experts". Sometimes I think we, ourselves, are the best judge for what is right. Common sense prevails this time, my friends!


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It's our first glimpse of Sarah Chalke's baby bump! The pregnant star of Scrubs looked absolutely radiant as she left Joan's on Third and headed back to work in Los Angeles on Friday (October 23). Sarah looked amazing in jeans and a black t-shirt while she talked on her iPhone.
The 33-year-old former Roseanne star and her fiancé, entertainment lawyer Jaime Afifi, are expecting their first child in late 2009. The Canadian actress announced her pregnancy news in August.


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Maternity nurses are qualified, trained and experienced childcare professionals who are able to support mothers and their newborn babies in their homes and usually offer a 24-hour on call service.
Maternity nurses provide expert services (either live-in or live-out) and advice in all areas of infant care, especially with sleep routines, handling and settling of the baby, feeding and breast feeding, weight gain patterns, maintaining good hygiene and managing nursery duties (including keeping the nursery clean and tidy and doing the baby's laundry).
You should have;
- At least two years of childcare references
- We highly recommend having at least undergone an MNT (Maternity Nurse Training) qualification
- Already hold or be prepared to undergo an enhanced CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) check
- Hold a valid Pediatric First Aid Certificate (or be prepared to complete one arranged by the agency)
- Passport and proof of eligibility to work in the UK
Much like nannies, maternity nurses can be live in or out and work day or night.
Maternity nurses are usually on duty 24 hours a day for 6 day a week. She is entitled to at least 2-3 hours off during the day with at least one full day off a week.
Maternity nurse hours and wage are entirely dependent on requirements however experienced maternity nurses can expect to be paid upwards of £600 per week.
Duties of a Maternity Nurse:
- To provide total care and support to mother and baby
- To give advice on all aspects of baby care
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- Care of baby laundry and nursery (washing and ironing of baby clothes)
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PC Application Performance
For general PC performance we've included PCMark Vantage and PCMark 7. Both tests are designed to take advantage of multi-threaded CPUs and measure the time it takes to perform various real-world tasks. Both tests are also sensitive to high-end storage systems and benefit substantially from an SSD or PCIe-based flash.
Both tests show a remarkably small benefit to the 3960X as compared to the 2600K. Even when equipped with a PCI-Express storage device, the additional CPU muscle SB-E offers improved test scores by 11% in Vantage and just five percent in PCMark 7. We suspect most of the app tests in both benchmarks are primarily optimized for quad-core chips with additional provisioning for Intel's Hyper-Threading.
Certainly there are popular commercial applications, like Photoshop CS5, that take advantage of more than four cores — but there's plenty of desktop software that isn't designed for commercial use and doesn't scale very well. If the majority of your work relies on pedestrian consumer software, a six-core Sandy Bridge-E doesn't offer much.
It's not clear why AMD lags Intel's performance so much more in PCMark Vantage than in PCMark 7. In the older benchmark, AMD's FX-8150 is only a bit more than half the speed of Intel's 3960X, while Bulldozer is 32 percent off the front-runner in PCM7.
3D Rendering, Chess Simulation
Sandy Bridge-E's value proposition is much clearer in professional application environments. While its single-threaded performance essentially equals that of the Core i7-2600K, the 3960X's dodecal-threaded CPU makes mincemeat out of Cinebench 11.5's render test. Total performance is 47 percent higher than the Core i7-2600K's.
Our Maxwell Render test was updated to the latest version of the program (18.104.22.168). Sandy Bridge performance improved significantly while AMD lost roughly five percent as compared to 1.7.1. Ultimately the 2600K and FX-8150 effectively tie while the 3960X renders the same scene in just 60 percent of the time it takes the other two.
DIEP, our chess simulator, is another strong win for the 3960X. Intel's new chip cracks the two million node mark, again scaling nearly linearly as we add new cores.
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PAUL Swindlehurst is quite happy for Sheffield to bring a muscular style of play to the Link Centre this evening, as he believes Swindon have the 'skill' to outplay their visitors.
Sheffield caused a stir in the Wildcats camp with their physical approach to the teams' previous EPL meeting this season, a 5-4 overtime victory on the opening weekend.
However, giant D-man Swindlehurst is not bothered if the Steeldogs adopt the same tactics again.
He said: "I've been involved in some physical games and if that's the way they want to play then we'll move around them and play around them.
"If we don't act like they do and continue to play our style of hockey which is pass and move, then even though they are a big team, we will be fine.
"I'd say we've got a more skilled team with the likes of (Matias) Perkkio and (Aaron) Nell in there, we can score goals."
A trip to Bracknell on Sunday provides the second game of the weekend and Swindlehurst is conscious that the Bees are a tougher proposition than in previous campaigns.
"Bracknell are playing really well this year so we're not going to underrate them," he said.
"The league is going to be very close this year and you can't afford to go into any game thinking it's in the bag.
He added: "We've been in top form recently, we've played two of the biggest teams in the league (Basingstoke and Guildford) and we've outscored, outskated and outbattled them.
"We're on a bit of a high at the moment and hopefully we can carry that on.
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Had BR was told to have sutures removed 14-21 days afterwards. They are non absorbable continuous, basically told to get one end with knot cut and pull from other. The longer ones did have visable loop also half way along to make it easier. Have had a few nurses have a go now and so tight could not even get under the knot. I have finally manage to wrench the knot out and cut a couple but unable to pull from other end. If left what damage can be done? How can they be removed?
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Thank you for the question. Is is unlikely that the suture can cause damage. but sometimes they can be the source of infection. Not sure why you have not seen your plastic surgeon about that.
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Web designing has for long been associate with marketing and advertising of products and services. Due to this many other factors of having a great website get overlooked.
Recently a client took me on a tour of his business and we reviewed opportunities for where an online presence can be used to create better interactions with his clients. As we worked our way around his product development process we noted the touch points where we could take an interaction with the client online.


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St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, 2010/07/27 - Netcalls Chief Technical Officer, Richard Farrell, commented that Netcall, the leading provider of Automated Callback and Workforce Management solutions, welcomes the new Ofcom ruling to ban repeat silent calls.
Repeat silent calls are defined by Ofcom as two or more silent calls made to the same person by an organisation in a 24-hour period.
Call centres use predictive diallers that automatically dial batches of telephone numbers and connect these calls to call centre agents. A predictive dialler calls the customer first, before connecting to an agent. Answer Machine Detection (AMD) technology is used to determine the difference between a live caller and an answering machine. A silent call is produced as more calls are created than agents are available to answer.
Many companies believe the answer to be a predictive dialler used in conjunction with an AMD, as the AMD should detect the difference. However, as none of these technologies is 100% accurate, this leads to false positives - live callers being treated as answer machines and played a message or, worse, disconnected.
Ofcom is proposing to ban companies calling any number that has been identified as an answer phone more than once in a 24-hour period, unless an agent can be guaranteed to accept the call. They are taking this new rule very seriously, having increased the fine from £50,000 to a staggering £2 million pound penalty for persistent offenders making silent calls to consumers. Many large corporate companies have been caught out in the past and have been publicly named and shamed.
One of the largest outbound dialling outsourcers in the UK, LBM has recently tested AMD, and as a result has turned it off when making outbound calls. Their view was that the standard tests do not accurately measure the false positive rate and that it is not possible to remain within Ofcom guidelines.
Netcall (netcall.com) agrees with Ofcoms ruling, and its flagship product QueueBuster® has been designed to always secure an agent before any callback is made, thus completely eliminating any risk of silent calls and ensuring full compliance with the requirements set by the regulator.
Some callback solutions designed for the US market use predictive diallers to make their outbound calls, believing that silent calls are an acceptable consequence of the proportion of outbound calls made.
QueueBuster works by making the requested call back automatically once it has reached the front of the queue, and only when an agent is available. The agent receives the requested callback as an incoming call and is whispered the customers information, giving the agent the opportunity to bring up any necessary details and personalise the callback before the call is returned to the customer. It never generates more calls than available agents can deal with, and as customers have to request the callback through QueueBuster, the calls cannot be classed as unsolicited.
An argument often used for predictive dialling for callbacks is that average handle time is reduced. Whilst there is no published evidence that this is the case, some companies still perceive that this is an important measure within a call centre. Typical thinking being if I reduce the variable Average Handling Time (AHT), I reduce the need for agents and we, in turn, reduce costs. This idea is misguided; with any system or action you need to know the outcome, and not the measures it takes to get you there.
Jonty Pearce, Editor of Call Centre Helper, writes about improving customer service through measurements. In his latest interactive session he addresses the problems faced when call centres use Automatic Call Distributor (ACD) statistics to measure the quality of the call. Just because its easy to collect does not make it a good measure is just one quote from the session. Jontys thoughts are clear; Average Handling Time tells you nothing about the outcome of a call. Smarter companies are measuring outcomes on customer satisfaction levels, new business sales, net promoter scores and, importantly, life-time value of customers.
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New! YNAB for the iPhoneWritten by Sam
The creator of You Need A Budget (YNAB) recently announced the launch of YNAB for the iPhone. This could be a hugely useful tool to help you keep track of your spending since you can see your balances as you're out and about. Unfortunately I don't have an iPhone and can't seem to convince anyone to buy one for me and pay for my plan . Therefore, I won't be able to give a personal review on this product.
The launch of this app brings up an interesting point that I've been thinking about. I promote using a cash budget because of the instant feedback it provides. However, as the worlds of cell phones, budgeting software, and payments merges, I could see a world in which you could get the same benefits of using cash while taking advantage of the convenience of electronic payments.
For example, let's take the YNAB iPhone app a step further. Imagine if you could use your iPhone to pay for a purchase (using a technology like contactless payments which already exists) and have an app like YNAB that could sync in real time with your budget. In that scenario you could see in real-time what your balance is for a category, make your purchase, and the iPhone would prompt you (or force you) to choose a category (or categories) for the purchase. That data would be synced real-time so if your spouse was also making a purchase around the same time, he would see the change in balance reflected on his phone. You would have all the real-time feedback of cash with the convenience of e-payments. The only thing this wouldn't simulate is the feel of money leaving your hands which can be quite powerful. You could even enforce restricted spending. For example, on your child's phone you could dictate how much they could spend in any given category.
Eventually the scenario I just explained will happen. All the technologies are there, it's just a matter of them maturing and being adopted on a wide-spread basis.
But I digress, YNAB for the iPhone is a great place to start. If you decide to try it, please let me know what you think so I can pass it along to other readers.
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2 Comments to "New! YNAB for the iPhone"
anthonynp Says:
June 18th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Do note that you can use the YNAB app on an iPod Touch! I don't have an iPhone, but do have an iPod Touch and it works great to enter transactions on the go and keep my budget up to date! An iPod touch is basically an iPhone without the phone, camera and data plan. You can connect anywhere there is free wifi (coffee shops, fast food stores, book stores, etc).
Sam Says:
June 18th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
That's good to know. Now I need someone to buy me an iPad.


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Silica (silicon dioxide) is used in some powdered foods to ensure that they are free flowing. It is also used heavily in the manufacture of steel, thermal insulation, electronic circuit boards, semiconductors, and optical fibers. While its industrial uses are many, its health benefits appear to be nil.
Silica is a compound that is found in soil. There are people who have made the asinine assumption that it must be beneficial to health based on this. Another basis for the assumption about silica's benefits is the fact that trace amounts of it are found inside fruits and vegetables, which could produce some minor contributions to good health, but mostly to the health of those fruits and vegetables. Supplementing with silica has not been shown to provide any health benefits to humans, and all silica supplements contain far more silica than anyone could consume naturally.
Silica dust is a known carcinogen, lung irritant, and a central nervous system toxin. Although, it has been shown to be relatively neutralized when filtered through the human digestive system. This somewhat makes the point about how stupid silica supplementation really is. Since it is destroyed by the human digestive system, injections would be the only way to actually supplement with it. The website owners who profit from the fraud of silica supplements claim that it does all of the following:
Fraudulent Silica Claims
- Prevents Alzheimer's disease
- Prevents atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries)
- Strengthens bones
- Makes the skin "glow"
- Prevents hair thinning
- Increases mucosa during dehydration
- Improves circulation
- Prevents cancer
- And everything else...
The list of supposed silica benefits goes on practically forever, so this is not a full listing of claims. It would be much simpler to list what its sales people do not make any claims about. The latter would be a very short list. Those who have a health condition, could search the Internet for their ailment alongside the word "silica", and they would undoubtedly find accolades about it being the very "miracle" that they had been seeking. Some companies have appeared on the market being dedicated to selling only silica, at prices which exceed those of real supplements. They are essentially selling sand as a high-priced dietary supplement, but it does not actually supplement any nutrient.
When silica is obtained from the horsetail plant (the standard process), it can actually cause a thiamine (vitamin B-1) deficiency. Thiamine is a real nutrient with real benefits. On the other hand, a silica (dirt) supplement simply is not going to be of much use to anyone, except the salesmen. A wise person should instead eat a balanced diet of natural foods, avoid refined sugars, and avoid chemicals. Sure enough, he will get trace amounts of silica in his diet too. Likewise, he will get trace amounts of other unnecessary elements which we would also never recommend supplementing with, like arsenic.
"Studies in mice suggest that horsetail [source of silica supplements] may change the activity of the kidneys, causing abnormal control of the amount of water and potassium release. Low potassium, which in theory may occur with horsetail, can have negative effects on the heart."
-- National Institutes of Health
The above quote cites the only known effect of silica supplementation. Eventual heart attacks are hardly a desirable effect of any supplement. We do not know the effect of supplementing with silica over an extended period of time. No one knows. All we know with certainty is that silica supplementation has never been proven to have any benefits for humans whatsoever, and we also know that it so thoroughly destroys the kidneys of laboratory animals that they become prone to having heart attacks.
Regular vitamins and supplements, which contain small amounts of silica are not harmful; but the presence of silica will not present any therapeutic effect, either.
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I have rheumatoid arthritis. I was taking the generic version of Plaquenil for 3 years with no noticeable difference in my joints. I was always stiff and the days I was without pain were few and far between. It also didn't seem to halt the progress of the disease at all either.
I found silica quite by accident while researching something completely different. I decided it couldn't hurt to try. So I bought a bottle. I started taking 10-20 mg daily.
Within 1 week I noticed a marked difference in not only my pain level but also by flexibility. I was not doing anything different such as diet, exercise, or stretching to explain this. I can only think it was the silica and plan on buying another bottle.
I'm going to be frank and honest here. The fact that silica seems to be helping you is an indication that there is something terrible about your diet -- not that silica is curing you. We know this because the only known biological use for silica is as a filtration agent (cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13471694). In fact, it is used to filter food and aid digestion in birds for that reason. You can even make your beer more pure (www.fuji-silysia.co.jp/english/product/micronized_silica/sylopute.html) with it!
The question is, what exactly is the silica filtering out? In any case, the silica is merely temporarily helping shield you from whatever garbage is going into your body, so it is hardly the best option. The better option is for you to discover and eliminate whatever is aggravating your problems.
Read those labels carefully. They're meant to deceive.
My only experience with silica is eating bread in Africa. I was near the Sahara and there was quite a bit of sand in the food. It served as a pretty good colon scrub....not sure of any other benefits.
From Wikipedia: Equisetum (play /ˌɛkwɨˈsiːtəm/; horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in the Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds. [2]
Equisetum is a "living fossil", as it is the only living genus of the entire class Equisetopsida, which for over one hundred million years was much more diverse and dominated the understory of late Paleozoic forests. Some Equisetopsida were large trees reaching to 100 feet tall.
It is possible that you have hypothyroidism, and you should be able to determine that from reading our article on the topic: How To Cure Hypothyroidism Naturally (https://healthwyze.org/reports/211-how-to-cure-hypothyroidism-naturally)
It could also be caused by your diet. You may find these articles helpful:
The Relationship Between Body pH and Disease (and other facts you're not supposed to know) (https://healthwyze.org/reports/361-the-relationship-between-body-ph-and-disease-and-other-facts-youre-not-supposed-to-know)
God's Nutrition: From The Big Guy Himself (https://healthwyze.org/reports/335-gods-nutrition-from-the-big-guy-himself)
Just wanted to mention that magnesium could be helpful for thicker hair. I was taking it for psoriasis and found it also made my hair thicker and have more life, which I was not expecting. It took about a month to notice a difference if I remember rightly.
doi: 10.3233/JAD-2012-121231
Is Keele University even a real school? Regardless, this will hardly merit mention in the annals of great medical research, and it is something they should be academically ashamed of.
Perhaps you should push the silica supplements over at Cure Zone. You'll have better luck with your "science" over there.


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The ever-elegant Angelina Jolie headed to Cannes, France, this week to promote her new film, "Kung Fu Panda 2" at the city's famed film festival, and the glowing mother of six says the animated flick was a big hit with her and partner Brad Pitt's large brood.
"I brought all [my kids to the movie] - from 2 to almost 10," she told Access Hollywood guest correspondent Tim Vincent at the film's junket in Cannes on Wednesday. "I was nervous at first. I didn't know if they were going to react to some of the issues – very personal family issues [like] adoption and inner peace — and was it too heavy? Or was it too beautiful and not goofy enough?
"And they laughed through the whole movie out loud – they loved it," she continued. "They've asked to see it again. I'm a hero at home!"
The DreamWorks sequel tackles the issue of adoption – a topic that hits close to home for a few members of the diverse Jolie-Pitt clan – but the 35-year-old actress said her kids are used to the delicate issue, as she and Brad make an effort to keep the conversation about the children's backgrounds as open as possible
"One of the questions [brought up in the film is about] being a family and how family is made, and adopted families as well," Angelina told Tim. "And because it's such an open discussion in our house, it wasn't a new issue for them. They were just very proud to be more like Po and Tigress [Jack Black and Angelina's 'Kung Fu' characters], so it was, you know, somehow more familiar"
"Kung Fu Panda 2," which also features the voices of Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, Gary Oldman and Jackie Chan, opens nationwide on May 26.


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We like a sale when the stock's okay; we love a sale when the stocks great. Daniel Jenkins' sale falls into the latter category. We've picked out this Lou Dalton jacket, but we could easily pick at least five other pieces that deserve equal billing. While you there you should have a browse – it's 35% off all AW09 stock. And if you think anything's too expensive, just compare it with those 2 grand moth-eaten Rodarte jumpers we featured yesterday. (Daniel Jenkins)
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+6:: FileRead, Contents, C:\teste.txt ;~ newcon := RegExReplace (Contents, "a", "z") StringReplace, newcon, Contents, `(*[0-9]`), ZZ, All StringReplace, newcon, Contents, `—[0-9]`., ZZ, All FileAppend, ( %newcon% ), C:\testeFINAL.txt Return
Hello all!
My goal is to open a txt and replace every part this meets one of the following criteria with "nothing".
1- Is between paretheses AND the last characther before the closing parentheses is a number
2- Starts with — and the last the last characthers are a number followed by a dot.
I can't get RegExReplace to work even to go a simple "a" to "z" swap, so I'm using StringReplace.
Any ideas???
ps.: The "ZZ" is for testing purposes, than I'll chage it to ""
I'm using "autohotkey-L"


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Bars, taverns in expanded Nickels curbs
Published 10:00 pm, Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Is your neighborhood dive bar with the outdated jukebox and wobbly stools a "nightclub?"
Should the local pub with the wannabe Irish ambience and overpriced Guinness be held to the same scrutiny and security standards as the hot new club with the nightly flood of street drunks after last call?
Seattle's mayor and some entertainment industry leaders say yes.
Mayor Greg Nickels has dramatically expanded his controversial nightlife regulation proposal to hold bars and taverns to the same security, noise and litter control requirements as dance and music clubs.
Although some industry insiders like the move, they also complain Nickels' latest plan -- which his office expects to release this week -- deserts its initial mission for a single, holistic approach to nightlife regulation.
"They abandoned the big ideas vision," said Jerry Everard, a part owner of a Capitol Hill club called Neumos and a sports bar called Spitfire who sits on Nickels' advisory nightlife licensing task force.
"The nightlife task force came up with some great ideas that were brushed aside by the city," Everard added. "We had a more comprehensive approach."
The mayor's office has called for a task force meeting Monday to discuss the draft of the new rules, which Nickels hopes to submit soon to the City Council.
Nickels had initially proposed the new regulations be imposed on clubs with live music performers or disc jockeys. Some in the business had called on him to broaden the scope to be more fair.
At one extreme of the old definition, trouble-making bars could be exempted. At the other, restaurants that occasionally offered discreet but live background music worried they'd have to hire bouncers and treat diners like club hoppers.
For example, the iconic Seattle restaurant Salty's on Alki fell under the previous nightclub definition because it brings in a pianist or trio a couple of nights a week.
Salty's owner Gerry Kingen was ready to sue over it, he said in a recent interview.
Kingen said the city should do a better job enforcing rules already on the books to crack down on loud behavior, drug use, violence, parking violations and drunks who are a public nuisance.
His message to politicos: "You've got laws. Do you have the will to enforce them?"
The new definition of "nightclub" would exempt places that are primarily restaurants, Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis said. Instead, inclusion would be based on booze service and crowd size and density, he said.
Nickels' latest draft makes other concessions to the industry. For example, gone is a requirement that clubs and bars "prevent" violence, weapons or drugs on their premises. Instead, establishment owners will be expected to "take all reasonable steps to prevent" such problems.
Also, venues would not have to renew their licenses as often, which would give them a certainty they need to book shows months out, Everard said.
But the plan was supposed to centralize bureaucratic demands on such businesses and create a single authority charged with dealing with problem businesses, Everard said.
Instead, the latest draft grants a new advisory board considerably less clout than many wanted, Everard said. The board was supposed to be the singular clearinghouse of red tape and industry-neighborhood relations, he said.
Ceis countered that the board would indeed be "very influential." The mayor's director of executive administration, who would oversee the new licenses, "has the ability to refer to (the board) for help on corrective action when a club owner is getting into some trouble," Ceis added. "They can help them come up with a way to fix his problems. That's what they're there for."
Everard complained the city didn't seem to seriously consider many of the task force's ideas, drafted with help from a consultant who helped write laws in San Francisco and other cities.
For example, the group broadly supported beefing up police staffing in club areas to help ensure security, especially at closing time. Also, the task force suggested installing neighborhood kiosks for handbills, to prevent a flurry of small fliers left on car windshields from cluttering the streets after clubgoers head home.
It's unclear whether the new licenses would replace the city's controversial "good-neighbor agreements."
Nickels' office had said for some time they would. But business people briefed by his office this week said they were told the mayor's latest plan would retain that second requirement for some establishments.
However, Ceis said it's his understanding that venues would not need both.


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Finnish death metallers OMNIUM GATHERUM will film a video for the song "Into Sea" next month. The track comes off the group's third album, "Stuck Here On Snake's Way", due on April 2 via Candlelight Records. The CD was recorded at Southeast Studios in Karhula, Finland with producer Teemu Aalto."Stuck Here On Snake's Way" track listing: 01. The Snake And The Way
02. Into Sea
03. Dysnomia
04. A-Part Of God
05. Undertaker
06. Bastard-O
07. The Third Flame
08. Just Signs
09. Truth
10. Drudgery
11. In Sane World
12. Spiritual In other news, OMNIUM GATHERUM has uploaded four old videos to its MySpace account. Check out the clips for "The Fall Went Right Through Here", "The Nolans Fati", "Writhen" and "Deathwhite" (live) by clicking here. Also available at the same location are two new demo tracks, "A Part of God" and "Undertaker", taken from the group's latest promotional recording, which the band used to procure its new record deal with Candlelight. The demo marks the first material recorded with brand new OMNIUM GATHERUM vocalist Jukka Pelkonen, who joined the group in May 2006. OMNIUM GATHERUM parted ways with Nuclear Blast Records last year. The band's latest album, "Years in Waste", was released in the U.S. in March 2005. The follow-up to 2003's "Spirits and August Light" was recorded at Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki, Finland with producer Nino Laurenne and engineer Teemu Aalto.