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Sukh Ram's son, Anil Sharma, inducted into Congress govt
-Anil Sharma, son of former telecom minister Sukh Ram, was into state cabinet, gets portfolios of rural development and panchayati raj and animal husbandry
Shimla-Induction of Anil Sharma into state cabinet had become inevitable as Congress has to face a bypoll for Mandi parliament seat, in which Mandi district with 10 assembly seats would play a crucial role. Considering that Sukh Ram still holds clout among voters in Mandi, Kullu and Lahaul-Spiti, the party could not ignore the claim of Anil Sharma for a cabinet berth, though there were many others in the race.
Sharma, who has got portfolios of rural development and panchayati raj and animal husbandry, was minister of state from 1993-97. With his induction, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh's cabinet has been expanded to 11 from 10.
A three-time MLA from Mandi and a former Rajya Sabha member, Sharma had earlier served as minister of state in Virbhadra Singh Cabinet from 1993 to 1996 and had resigned from the council of ministers after his father, Sukh Ram, was arrested in the telecom scam.
Official sources said in the next cabinet expansion the chief minister is keen to induct four to five legislators as chief parliamentary secretaries too. (Agencies)
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As major achievement, Nauni varsity scientists bag International project on oilseed research
Solan: Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni, was in news last week after Jagriti Thakur, a research scholar at the varsity, won US-based International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) Scholar Award for the year 2018.
This week, in a major achievement, the scientists of Department of Plant Pathology at the UHF, have bagged an International collaborative project on developing cutting-edge technology for inducing biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in mustard rape for economic and environmental sustainability.
The University will work with nine leading research organisations of the country besides seven renowned research institutes of United Kingdom in the project. The three-year project has a total budget outlay of more than Rs 7.27 crore as Indian component, which will be distributed to the 10 Indian institutes, which are part of the project. Each Indian institute will work on a different aspect of the project with a researcher working on the same area in the UK.
The project has been sanctioned under the prestigious NEWTON BHABHA Fund UK- India Pulses and Oilseed Research Initiative (PORI). The fund has been created by BBSRC of the Government of the United Kingdom and the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, GoI.
BBSRC which is a part of UK Research and Innovation, a body which works in partnership with universities, research organisations and government for promoting research and innovation is also making upto £3.5 million available to support the UK components of this research.
Dr HR Gautam, Professor and Head of Department of Plant Pathology informed that Dr Anil Handa, Professor of Plant Pathology will be the Principal Investigator and coordinator of this project while Dr Rajnish Sharma working in the Department of Biotechnology will act as the Co-Investigator.
He added that this achievement is one of the cherished moments in 55 years history of the department. Dr JN Sharma, UHF Director of Research, said that the University is making continuous efforts to get projects from various funding agencies and engage in collaborative work to strengthen the research capabilities and infrastructure.
India is one of the major producers and consumers of oilseeds crops in the world. The university scientists will work on 'Genomics-led improvement of biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in mustard rape for economic and environmental sustainability' by utilizing state-of-art advanced molecular approaches like CRISPER/Cas9 for mapping the genes conferring resistance to turnip mosaic virus (TuMV).
The Plant Virology laboratory of the Department of Plant Pathology is an internationally acclaimed laboratory and has facilities for conducting molecular level research for determining the genetic diversity of TuMV in Northern India and developing a panel of Indian TuMV isolates for evaluating European and Indian sources of resistance.
Besides Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, the University of Delhi, South Campus; NIPGR, New Delhi; NBPGR, New Delhi; NRCPB, New Delhi; IARI, New Delhi; PAU, Ludhiana; CAZRI, Jodhpur; DRMR, Bharatpur and IIT Kharagpur will be a part of the project. The University of York, University of Hertfordshire, University of Warwick, University of Essex, Earlham Institute and Rothamsted Research will be the investigators from the United Kingdom.
While congratulating the scientists, UHF Vice-Chancellor Dr HC Sharma said that the project will go a long way in using the latest techniques in biotechnology for disease management to increase the productivity of oilseed crops. This project will also help train our students in using molecular markers for crop improvement.
Through this collaborative project, efforts are being made to encourage multi-institutional collaborations between UK and Indian researchers to undertake high-quality research aimed at increasing crop productivity, resilience, sustainability and quality of pulses and oilseeds grown for food or feed in India. Pulses and oilseeds are important crops in India.
Pulses are relatively under-used crops in the UK but are a major source of dietary protein in India. Oilseeds are grown in both countries and are a valuable source of oil for a variety of uses, as well as animal feed. This collaborative project aims to develop exploit genomic and bioinformatic resources to aid the development of improved varieties for sustainable crop production.
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MoU to construct Naina Devi-Anandpur Sahib ropeway signed
Shimla: A Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) to build ropeway between Shri Naina Devi and Shri Anandpur Sahib was signed by Additional Chief Secretary Tourism Ram Subhag Singh, Himachal Pradesh and Secretary Tourism Punjab Vikas Pratap Singh, in Chandigarh today.
The MOU in the presence of Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and his Punjab counterpart Captain Amrinder Singh.
This ropeway will be constructed by Shri Naina Devi and Sri Anandpur Sahib Ji Ropeway Company Pvt Ltd with an estimated cost of Rs. 210 crores. The ropeway would cover a distance of 3.5 km.
A 10-member Board of Directors would be formed, and each government would nominate five members. The Chairman of the Board of Directors would be nominated by the Punjab government and the Managing Director would be appointed by the Himachal government. Both the governments will deposit 50 Lakhs each as an initial investment.
Chief Minister said that the lower terminal of this project would be at Rampur near Shri Anandpur Sahib, the Intermediate station will be at Toba in Himachal and the upper terminal point would be at Shri Naina Devi. The tourism departments of both the states would work as nodal agencies for this work.
The Tourism and Local Bodies Ministers Navjot Singh Sidhu said that inking of MoU by both the Chief Ministers on the auspicious birthday of Sheed-e- Azam Bhagat Singh is a big gift to the mankind.
In 2012-13, the efforts were made to build this ropeway and 14 acres of land was also acquired for this but due to some circumstances, the work could not be completed.
Naina Devi is one of the 52 famous Shakti Peethas of the country and is one of the most prominent religious places for not only the peoples of the country but the entire world. Likewise, Shri Anandpur Sahib is also a prominent international the religious place.
This project would boost the tourism sector in both the states alongwith strengthening the bond between two states besides facilitating the devotees visiting these two religious places.
It was informed that 80 percent pilgrims come to Shri Naina Devi from Punjab and during last one year, 20 Lakh devotees paid their obeisance in this Shakti Peeth.
The Chief Minister informed that for the construction of this impending ropeway, the matter had been taken up with his Punjab counterpart Captain Amarinder Singh on February 26, 2018.
The Chief Minister of Punjab said that with the construction of this ropeway the pilgrims of Punjab would get rid of the difficulty in reaching Shri Naina Devi.
He said that people of both the states would like to see this project completed at earliest and three year's time frame has been fixed for its completion.
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Himachal suffers Rs. 1479 crore losses in 4 days alone, Centre releases Rs. 122 crore for rehabilitation
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has suffered losses of about Rs. 1479 crore and during the last four days alone. Five choppers of Indian Air Force had been pressed into service to evacuate the stranded tourists and local people.
Chief Minister, who chaired a review meeting today, informed that the Centre Government has released Rs. 122 crore as the first instalment for the State for undertaking immediate rehabilitation measures.
Over one thousand people have been rescued from Lahaul valley out of these 147 have been airlifted and remaining have been evacuated by road.
He said the road would be cleared upto Baralacha by this evening. All the rescued people were being taken for medical examinations. Efforts were being made to restore communication network in Lahaul valley.
He directed the officers to ensure adequate availability of essential commodities in the valley. He said that a team of BSNL would visit Sisu today for the restoration of communication in the area. The Government has assured all possible help to the BSNL in restoration work.
Out of 18 towers of BSNL in the valley, seven were working properly.
It was informed in the meeting that 18000-litre petrol and 27000-litre diesel was made available. LPG and other food items were also in sufficient quantity. It was informed in the meeting that water Supply to Manali has been restored and Lahaul valley was also almost restored.
Till the electricity supply was restored in the valley, efforts would be made to provide solar lamps and lights to the people, it was informed. Small transformers would be airlifted from Kullu to replace damaged transformers.
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The rise, fall and stubborn survival of Kiki Kannibal, a teenage Internet celebrity who discovered that the real world can be a very scary place he first thing Kiki Ostrenga saw as she ran out the front door of her family's white ranch house were the neon-green words spray-painted across the front path: "Regal Slut." She stopped short. Her mother and 11-year-old sister stepped outside, and their faces froze in horror. Just this week, at an all-ages punk show, a pack of girls had recognized Kiki in the audience and jumped her, cramming gum into her bleached-blond hair.
One of these priorities is believed to be the much-anticipated "unsend" feature, which will let you recall messages you've sent, within a five-minute window.However, it could also prove extremely annoying, especially if you're busy while other people in the group chat are free, bored and looking to cause mischief.WABeta Info, which has expected the move for some time, spotted a subtle reference to the upcoming features in a recent Whats App blog post.Whats App appears to be planning to bring voice and video calls to group chats.You can currently use the popular messaging app to ring up your individual contacts, but the voice and video call options only appear inside one-on-one conversations.
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erna, your points are very well taken. As for Jeff, he's the man. I just wonder why he has yet to get his own show. He may be a better behind-the-scenes man with research and advising. He does have a good on-air voice, so who knows.
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I feel the same way when I see Jeff's name it's cool.
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A lot of companies are racing to claim their share of the wearable device market, but on Friday, one major player pulled out of the race. Fitness gear maker Nike is getting out of the wearable hardware game and refocusing its FitTech efforts on software, according to reports.
Cnet broke the story, reporting that as many as 55 people were let go from the Nike division that develops the $149 FuelBand hardware. Plans to come out with a slimmer version of the FuelBand this fall have been shelved. Instead, Nike is putting its efforts into software, leaving the business of developing wearable fitness hardware to other companies.
Could one of those companies turn out to be Apple? You can't browse the Web these days without scrolling upon a rumor that Apple is going to develop some sort of wearable. News that Nike will instead focus on fitness-tracking software could mean a pair up with some Apple-built device--especially when you consider that Apple CEO Tim Cook sits on Nike's board of directors.
Cnet cited a person "familiar with the matter" as the basis of its report, and got an email confirmation of sorts from Nike spokesman Brian Strong who told the website, "As a fast-paced, global business we continually align resources with business priorities."
Nike's FuelBand is a rubber wristband that tracks movements via a built-in accelerometer, converting your activity into NikeFuel points and motivating you to meet daily exercise goals. The single-button device won praise for its simplicity--not to mention some criticism for a lack of features.
Nike released a new version of the FuelBand last fall. It remains on sale at Nike's online store, even as Nike is apparently shutting down its hardware efforts.
We'll follow up on this story as more details emerge. For now, should Nike keep developing activity-tracking software, the fitness giant will at least have some presence in the wearables market. Its impending exit from the hardware side of things, though, proves just how hard it is to stand out amid the myriad Fitbits, Gear Fits, and other wrist monitors, even when you've got a world-famous swoosh on your label.


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I am a 35 yr. old mother of one and have been married 17 yrs. I was Born an raised in East Tennessee and my father was a Holliness minister. We had to wear long dresses, no jewelry, no makeup. Television and music was not allowed in our home and we could read no books but The Bible and The New Testament. My father died when I was 9 and I started to live a more normal life. When I was about 11 I joined the Mormom church. I had had it (literally) beat into me as a child that I had to believe, I had to follow something. My teenage years were spent in a deep depression because I honestly thought there was something wrong with me because I didnt believe in what I was being told. Yet until I was 18 I went to church faithfully, and joined in all the youth activities etc.
When I met my now husband it was like a weight had been lifted off me, because I finally found someone like me, someone I could talk openly to. I was excomunicated from the Mormon church about 6 month after meeting my husband (they found out we were living together) and I never looked back.
We live in a small town and have had to keep pretty quiet about being atheists out of fear of losing our jobs. Our daughter is 16 and is having a tough time at school, a lot of kids call her a satanist and tell her she is going to hell. Sometimes it feels like we are completely alone and are desperate to find other families to communicate with and share our problems and beliefs. It is hard for atheists who live in rural areas to communicate and meet with other atheists and there needs to be even more web communities etc. for them to meet.
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"Firefox OS could actually be wildly successful, no matter how underwhelming the actual phones may be. And that's because - at least for now - you're not the customer; your carrier is." I'm extremely disappointed by Firefox OS so far. There's nothing wrong with the low-end hardware we've seen during MWC, but there is something wrong with low-end hardware that can't even properly run its operating system. To make matters worse, carriers are the boss here. Terrible first impression.


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ROCKFORD (AP) – A northern Illinois woman has pleaded not guilty to charges she left her newborn daughter to freeze to death on a rural roadside in 2004.
The Rockford Register Star reports Katie Stockton of Rockton entered the plea Thursday to a new indictment in her case. The indictment replaces four death penalty-eligible charges with six new charges punishable by life in prison. Illinois abolished the death penalty in 2011.
It has been more than 3 years since Stockton was arrested in connection with the death of the infant known as Baby Crystal.


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The Vatican responded Feb. 5 to a report by the United Nations released on the Rights of a Child, saying that the U.N. report "will be submitted to a thorough study and examination."
The statement reproaches the U.N. for including "some points [that] attempt to interfere with Catholic Church teaching" and "reiterates its commitment to defending and protecting the rights of the child, in line with the principles promoted by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and according to the moral and religious values offered by Catholic doctrine."
The U.N. report, released earlier today, strongly criticized the Vatican for policies regarding sexual abuse, urged the Vatican to release all case files on clergy sex abuse, and demanded the removal of all priests known or suspected of child abuse, according to Vatican Insider.
"The committee is gravely concerned that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, has not taken the necessary measures to address cases of child sexual abuse and to protect children, and has adopted policies and practices which have led to the continuation of the abuse by and the impunity of the perpetrators," the report said.
The report contended that the Holy See "systematically placed preservation of the reputation of the church and the alleged offender over the protection of child victims." It accuses the Vatican of cover-ups, transferring offenders and failing to report appropriately to law enforcement.
The report also chided the Vatican for positions on homosexuality, contraception and abortion.
The accusations leveled in the report are not new to the Catholic Church. In fact, according to Catholic News Service, they seem somewhat dated, said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican representative to U.N. agencies in Geneva, who testified with Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna of Malta before the U.N. committee Jan. 16.
"The negative aspect of the document they produced makes it seem that it was prepared before," said Archbishop Tomasi. "In fact, the document doesn't seem to have been updated to take into account what has been done in the past few years."
The most recent effort of the Church to protect young people from abuse is a papal commission for child protection announced Dec. 5, 2013. It is an extension of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's efforts to fight sexual abuse.
The Vatican also signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990, as well as two "optional protocols" in 2001. It also followed procedure requirements by sending a written response to U.N. questions in November 2013.
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I was able to help Mimi and Karl test their high-tech Cliquebooth last Saturday at a wedding in the Tagatay Midlands. I can tell the guests liked it a lot. The younger set had multiple runs at it. Luigi and Ria Trillo had their clique(?) taken. Rissa Samson and her friend had theirs too. Vicky Morales wanted one with her friends but the booth was already closed. Even the not-so-young seemed impressed with Karl's idea of photo-on-demand. I ran out of business cards that Mimi had given me because people were interested about the possibility of renting the photobooth for their own events. We're still working out some kinks in the hardware and materials department but I'm confident that the booth will be ready for its formal launch in the near future. Too bad i can't show you more photos at this time because they may contain proprietary information. =P
This was also the first wedding that my friend King and I were able to assist together. It was fun because it reminded me of our UPZS days. We (Mimi, King, and I) were part of the executive council then. Karl was always there to support Mimi, us and the org. We were, and still are a good team. It seemed more like a reunion gimik than a wedding gig.
The wedding itself was a new experience for me. The guest list included high-profile personalities. I was personally overwhelmed with the many beautiful ladies in attendance. I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of my (and King's) high school batchmates was present. We chatted for a while. She asked Lem for a discount. Kailan kaya?;-)
The wedding preps were well-thought of. The fireworks display after the program was amazing. Too bad it took the club management a long time to fix its power supply problems. Five black-outs during the reception were too much. We feel for the groom and bride. The venue also was too windy for comfort. Wind screens would have been a good idea. Luckily, the Cliquebooth was there to provide the fun factor... he he he.
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Last night at Mobile Monday Sydney Todd Graham gave a great presentation on mobile advertising that reconfirmed many of the views that infome is based on. Todd Graham is the CEO of M-Vouch a coupon advertising network available on 3 mobile.
Here is what Todd had to say:
- Mobile advertising must be free to the consumer. There is so much that the consumer can do for free that there just isn't anything in it to make the consumer. Ask yourself, why would they pay to receive advertising when they can receive it for free?
- It must be easy for the consumer. Keep mobile advertising simple.
- You can't spam or push to the consumer. Carriers have a wealth of information on their customers but they CAN'T push messages to them because the customer will just consider it spam. It must be opt-in. Additionally, Todd used the example of inserting an ad for Starbucks above someone's messages on Facebook. This type of ad is more likely to annoy someone than get them to buy a coffee.
- High ROI is a must for mobile advertising. Based on Todd's conversations with advertising executives, marketers and brands need to see a high ROI for mobile advertising. Having a background in television Todd considers mobile a much more effective form on advertising than television. This is probably because mobile is a new medium, so people are hesitant and want to be sure they will see strong results.
- Incorrectly target your mobile advertising and you've just lost a customer.
- 25-35 is the most responsive age group to M-Vouch campaigns.
- MAKE SURE ITS RELEVANT. M-Vouch ensures it is relevant to what the customer wants by being opt-in and being able to base the vouchers on location and category of what the individual is after. You've got to make sure your advertising is relevant.
Todd's product looks great in action. He and his team gave us all a live demo where we could all text in and receive a free beer voucher to collect then and there.
I'm really excited to see where it goes.
Note: The bold points are the points/facts that Todd made/stated. The text that follows maybe my intepretation or spin on what he said just because I can't remember his exact wording from last night!
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Hazrat Mahdi (as) will prove the fact of creation to people by means of fossils
SKELETON BONES, MORE THAN A THOUSAND YEARS OLD, WILL CONVERSE WITH HAZRAT MAHDI (AS). (Mikyaal al-Makaarem, Vol. 1, pp. 223-224)
It is clearly understood that while proving the invalidity of materialism and Darwinism, Hazrat Mahdi (as) will benefit from bones older than a thousand years, that is, fossils dating back to millions of years. The hadith indicates that, literally by the language of their state, fossils will give the message, "Hujjat Mahdi (as), we are a proof from Allah; you can communicate people by showing us as proofs that we have not evolved, but remained the same, unchanged since the first Creation," and Hazrat Mahdi (as) will explain this fact to people by means of photographs, essays, books, video films and documents in which unearthed fossils are used.
Another name of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is "the one who brings proof" that is "Hujjat". Hujjat Mahdi (as) will speak with hujjat (proof). Allah will grant this opportunity to him and each one of the bones of living beings will become a proof (hujjat) for Hazrat Mahdi (as).
Hazrat Mahdi (as) will employ each one of these fossils against the atheist, materialist and Darwinists of that time, as irrefutable, absolute proof (hujjat) and thus will defeat Darwinists and completely abolish irreligious materialist system.
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi also mentioned in his works that the first duty of Hazrat Mahdi (as) is to demolish the "materialist and naturalist plague", in other words the idea of materialism and Darwinism based on the denial of Allah and make it completely ineffective:
And he [Hazrat Mahdi (as)] will have three major duties; First: Under the effect of science and philosophy, and the contagious plague known as materialism and naturalism, and its SPREAD AMONG PEOPLE, HE WILL FIRST OF ALL SAVE THE FAITH IN SUCH A WAY AS TO SILENCE PHILOSOPHY AND MATERIALSIM…(Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Emirdag Addendum, p. 259)


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Can You Pay Your Taxes with Credit Cards?
Although it sounds absurd that one would want to use their credit card to pay the tax man, but in the U.S. about 3 million citizens do just that each year. And even the IRS accepts and encourages such activity. Despite the fact that these citizens get charged an additional 2-4% fee just to have the "convenience" to use their cards to pay tax bills this does not discourage them. It's a really troubling sign of how credit debt has taken over the psyche of those south of our border.
Fortunately, here in Canada the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is well aware of the consequences of allowing its people to use credit cards to pay their tax owing and so forbid it. One can only pay taxes from an account that actually has money. Granted, one can get around this by taking out a cash advance but because there are no rewards/points for advances, and you get charged much higher interest rates the very moment its withdrawn, most people don't do it.
The reasoning sighted by CRA is simple. If you could pay off a tax bill by swiping a credit card you risk falling into debt and at a macro level having a nation that enters the red, potentially risking a tsunami-like recession. The IRS is aware of this but not concerned of it because when you follow the legislative paper trail you find a host of credit card lobbyists who had bribed policy makers into passing laws to make such actions legal. This is a testament to how relatively stable our government is and how it is still working for its voters not against it.
Is it possible that in the near future we could follow the U.S. lead and end up being permitted to use our credit cards so irresponsibly for a few more reward points and cash backs? Of course. But when such times come, as a smart investor, you will know to keep your mind clear and make the prudent decisions necessary that will better drive your dollar.


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2008 and 2009 have been very interesting in the world of the GPU - not because we have seen huge increases in available performance (though the GeForce GTX 295 and Radeon HD 4890 are good cards) but because of the dramatic shift to incredibly low priced parts. It wasn't long ago that top-end GPUs were going to run you $599 or more; now you can find AMD's best single-GPU configuration for $230 or so and the computing power encompassed in it is impressive.
Of course as the various new GPU releases came out at lower and lower prices, the remainder of the market has been compressing down into even lower prices and smaller margins. We have seen the HD 4870 and HD 4850 drop to $150 or less and now with today's release, there is a new contender in the sub-$100 market.
AMD Introduces the Radeon HD 4770 GPU
The new AMD Radeon HD 4770 GPU, previously known as the RV740 product, is AMD's updated offering for the $99-109 product segment. This GPU is significant not only because of its pricing and position, but because it is the first GPU to be manufactured on the 40nm process from either GPU vendor. That allows AMD to make the part cheap and power efficient.
Obviously AMD is hoping the new Radeon HD 4770 will take over as the dominant product in the $99 segment.
AMD including GDDR5 memory on such a low cost product is also an interesting move - obviously GDDR3 would save them even more money but they feel that the extra memory bandwidth is required to keep the 640 shader cores fed efficiently.
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Letter to Vivie, Miami, USA
Olga, Kingston, Jamaica.
Dearest Vivie
There's been a terrible scandal in the family. You just won't believe what happened last Saturday morning when we came down to breakfast.
"That's strange; I can't smell any burnt toast". Dolly said. You remember how Aggie Burns insisted we eat burnt toast, because for some reason she thinks it's good for us. Mammie said Aggie hadn't turned up for work and she asked Pearl to go to Aggie's house and see if she was alright.
Pearl said "No, Mammie, I get frightened when I go near that house, it's full of voodoo stuff". Pearl's right. If we have a boiled egg for our breakfast, Aggie Burns makes us smash the empty egg shell because she said if we don't, then witches can use them as boats and control the winds. What's wrong with that, I wonder?
"Aggie lives alone and maybe she's ill or hurt, after all it's very unusual for her not to turn up for work". Mammie was clearly very worried about her.
But, as we all know, she doesn't really live alone. She lives with talking peacocks, voodoo dolls, three scrawny chickens, a pet mongoose and that whopping big black cat of hers, called Lucifer, which follows her just about everywhere she goes.
Do you remember when Aggie first started working for us it used to follow her here and, because Mammie wouldn't allow it in the house, it used to curl up under the cotton tree out the front and wait for her to leave at the end of the day. I tried to stroke it a couple of times but it would hiss at me.
I certainly didn't want to go to Aggie Burns house and neither did Ruby, so Mammie said she'd go, but in the meantime Cassie was to get breakfast ready while Ruby went upstairs to wake Sydney, because he hadn't appeared either. Well, within minutes Ruby came running down the stairs and into the kitchen very excited and announced that Sydney's bed hasn't been slept in all night.
Now that's quite unusual for Sydney I know, but I told Mammie that Sydney had probably been working late and fallen asleep on the couch in the office at the back of the bicycle shop.
"I expect he'll come home shortly to wash and change his clothes. After breakfast I'll go with you, Mammie, to Aggie Burns' house" I said.
So, just as we're finishing breakfast in walks Sydney and we all heave a sigh of relief.
He sits down and says "I have something to tell you" and without even pausing for breath he says "I'm getting married".
Mammie throws her arms around his neck and gives him a big hug; there's lots of excitement and laughter. And then he says
"I'm going to live with Aggie Burns".
Well, I don't mind telling you, Vivie, there was silence, a big silence. He's not serious I thought. Never mind she's black, she's a witch for heaven's sake.
How can the head of the Browney family live with a witch? What will people think? What will Father Butler think? It's quite common for Jamaicans to just live together without being married, although respectable people are expected marry. But Sydney is still married to Janetha and the Catholic Church doesn't allow divorce so that's why they're going to live together.
Our faces must have shown the disbelief and disappointment we all felt.
Ruby got up and quietly left the room. Dolly and I followed leaving Mammie and Sydney to talk, but the talk didn't last long or go well because Sydney came roaring out of the dining room saying he would never set foot in the house again and slammed the front door as he left. He was in a big rage Vivie. Mammie started crying and in between her sobs she asked me to contact Cissie and Dyke in Montego Bay. So, I left and sent Cissie a message.
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Urgent. Come quickly. Sydney gone off with the cook .
Dolly ran to Boysie to tell him what had happened. He came round straightaway and gave Mammie a big hug and told her not to worry, he would talk to Sydney and everything would be alright.
Later on, who do you think walked in, Vivie, none other than Aggie Burns herself, all dressed up and wearing, I must admit, a very nice straw hat with flowers all round the brim.
"I've come for some of Sydney's possessions".
"Why would you want Mr Sydney's things, Aggie" Mammie asked her.
"Because we are in love and he's living with me now". Honestly, she was so cocky I wanted to hit her.
"I've brought a suitcase with me so I'll just pop upstairs and get a few things".
"Pop upstairs" sounded funny coming from Aggie Burns, it's so English and she's so witchy.
And then she said to Mammie
"He won't be giving you any more money. He will need all his money for the family I will give him".
As she turned to go upstairs, Mammie jumped up, rushed over to Aggie Burns, put her hands on her shoulders and pushed her away from the stairs. Dolly, Ruby and I joined in and the four of us pushed her right out the front door and told her never to set foot in our house again.
The next day Cissie came up from Montego Bay and took charge of the kitchen. She did lots of cooking, baking bread, bulla cakes and biscuits. Oh, she was wonderful and she gave Mammie some money to stop her worrying.
Boysie and I continued to go to the shop but Sydney didn't appear for about a week and when he did he and Boysie went into the back office to have a little chat. Boysie was concerned that even though we were giving Mammie nearly all our wages now, we were still short of money.
"It's not like you can't afford it", Boysie told Sydney. But Sydney wouldn't budge. He said he was going to start his own family now and was not prepared to support us any more. Boysie was horrified, and what started off as a calm conversation developed into a huge quarrel with Boysie finally saying he was ending their partnership and wouldn't be coming to the shop again.
Now Sydney was coming to the shop every day but Boysie wasn't. I wasn't happy working there and wanted to leave, but, couldn't. I'm trapped here, Vivie. I hate him. All my love, Olga.
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Many of my favorite tasks are in TAR 15. Eat the Wasabiiii!!The Dubai legs <33 Gold counting, briefcase opening, snow, desert, slides <33The Netherlands epic Detour <333The SwitchbackGnome ring tossThe "candle a bra" invisible ink <33 Mud volleyball and cabbage slingshotsSearch for the mini instruments <33333 And the second Czech leg was in the top most epic legs in TAR history But the horrible finale
I haven't been following TAR20 that much but, is the Paraguayan leg that good? Most of the posts refer to that leg
It is true about the position changes. The finale was probably more fun to watch than TAR18 or 19 or a few others but I thought the final task was very poorly planned.
Bungee Jumping, Sky Diving, Sky Jump, etc. I always wanna try those! Haven't watched TAR 1,2,4,6,7. I don't have time and dunno where to watch. Can you give me links? TAR3: One of my favorite seasons! I almost love everything! Final Roadblock <3. Basket Boat in Vietnam (Flo <33). Selling escargot. TAR5: Palawan tasks. Plow detour in Laguna. Zorb RB in NZ. Ostrich Egg RB in Tanzania. Caviar RB.TAR8: Final Roadblock <3333333 One of my favorite final Roadblocks ever! TAR9: Final Roadblock Too! TAR10: Maze task in Barcelona + Tomatina Detour. TAR11: Sausage eating task. lit candles in Krakow. All tasks in Hong Kong. TAR12: Final Roadblock again! <3TAR13: Final Roadblock and New Delhi's Roadblock (Festival of Colours)TAR14: Bob sled. Swiss Cheese. RB in Novosibirsk (Running in underwear). Calligraphy Detour in Guilin. TAR15: Mud Volleyball. FRANZ Roadblock. Hay Bale RB. Wasabe RB.TAR16: Star War task. TAR17: Watermelon RB in London. <3333333. Sled Dog RB in Sweden. Final Task. TAR18: Scuba Dive RB in Manly. Frog of Luck Detour. Riding Yak in Lijiang. Dinasour Roadblock in Kunming <333333333. Gnome chocolate making Roadblock. TAR19: Final Roadblock. Body Building Task. TAR20: All Paraguay tasks.
Obviously, the latest RB in TAR 21, Leg 8.NEXT ROUNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.
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1. inconsistency - noun
· the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
Synonym(s): incompatibility, mutual_exclusiveness, repugnance
Hypernym(s): contradictoriness
2. inconsistency - noun
· the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts
Hypernym(s): nonuniformity
Antonym(s): consistency
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Aaron Swartz's passing affected us all at Rhizome. We're grateful to Artinfo for writing the piece that, in our sadness and confusion, we couldn't quite write ourselves – about our work with him, how much his work meant to those in our field, and how artists found a like mind in him. We on the staff and Board are grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Aaron through Seven on Seven. We put this here as a fitting profile and tribute, alongside the documentation of his Seven on Seven presentation with Taryn Simon, in order that he might continue to inspire us.
Ben Davis writes:
Last year, Swartz was one of the figures invited by curator Lauren Cornell to take part in Rhizome.org's "Seven on Seven" event at the New Museum, which pairs technologists with contemporary artists to brainstorm productive collaborations. Of the various pairings, Swartz's work with photo-conceptualist Taryn Simon was particularly impressive. In fact, in a blog post, I dubbed it "The Coolest Art-Tech Project From This Weekend's Seven on Seven Conference."
What it amounted to was a prototype for "Image Atlas," a website that ran simultaneous searches on locally preferred engines in a variety of nations around the world, and displayed the results side by side. Thus, you could compare what images represented "freedom," or "death," or "America" in different countries — a simple and surprisingly effective device to make the point of how our local contexts shape our view of the world.
Introducing the results of their 12-hour brainstorming session onstage, Swartz explained the impulse behind it in a way that suggests the moral vision behind the project:
"One of the things that people are paying more attention to… is the way that these sort of neutral tools like Facebook and Google and so on, which claim to present an almost unmediated view of the world, through statistics and algorithms and analyses, in fact are programmed and are programming us. So we wanted to find a way to visualize that, to expose some of the value judgments that get made."
Last August, the work was launched on the New Museum's website as part of its "First Look" series of Internet art. It remains online, now serving the added purpose of standing as a tribute to Swartz's sensitive and critical mind.
"Watching him program was akin to watching a magician in speed and ability," Taryn Simon wrote in an email today. "I've never witnessed anything like it. It looked like a court stenographer, but he wasn't recording something, he was constructing and creating."
Curator Lauren Cornell described Swartz as "a wonderful collaborator, warm and enthusiastic, excited at every aspect of participating in the event, and at every step of realizing the project in the months afterwards." She described herself as "devastated by the loss."
Aaron Swartz's work, Cornell said, "represents incredibly important values and goals that are urgent in our time."
An interview with Aaron from Steal This Film II, 2007, directed by Jamie King.


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Bryce Canyon is a truly stunning location that plays second fiddle to the relatively nearby Grand Canyon. It is not subjected to the same level of public pressure and is virtually empty at times during the winter months. Take four wheel drive and enjoy the solitude!
Utah is a state located in the westcentral region of the United States of America. Utah is the 13th largest state by area, ranks 34th by population and 10th by population density of the 50 United States. Utah was the 45th state to be admitted into the Union, on January 4, 1896. Utah is landlocked, being bordered by the states of Idaho to the north, Wyoming to the northeast, Nevada on the west, Colorado on the east and Arizona to the south. Utah is very mountainous and is a popular outing destination of the outdoorsman. The state population is about 2.82M with 95% being Caucasian, 2.4% Asian, 1.7% Native American and 1.3% Black. The state capital and largest city is Salt Lake City.Source: wikipedia


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Check out our review of the Nokia Lumia 920 Windows 8 phone.
Nokia has announced the Lumia 920, its first Windows Phone 8 smartphones, and the second set to be revealed following the Samsung Ativ S last week.
CEO Stephen Elop took to the stage at 10am, blissfully unaware that the livestream webcast had broken, and talked about Windows Phone. He said Nokia shared a vision with Microsoft, and that together they would create "a new smartphone experience," and something "very unique in the market."
With several Lumia devices already on sale, he introduced Jo Harlow to tell us all about the latest additions to the family — first, the Windows Phone 8 Lumia 920.
The Lumia 920 was described as the "most innovative smartphone in the world," and boasts a camera with PureView technology, just like the Symbian-based PureView 808.
Except it's not the same 41-megapixel lens found in that device — which explains why it's not quite as bulky — but a Carl Zeiss-branded, 8.7-megapixel sensor instead. Nokia say it has a "floating lens," which compensates for the tiny, imperceptible movements your hands make when holding the phone.
The Lumia 920's curved glass screen measures 4.5-inches, with a WXGA HD resolution, which will adjust its brightness depending on available light levels when you're using it outside. Nokia's Kevin Shields also demonstrated that the screen will recognize when you're wearing gloves, and works as normal. Nokia call this Super Sensitive touch.
Snapdragon S4 and wireless charging
The processor inside the Lumia 920 is a dual-core 1.5Ghz Snapdragon S4 chip, which has 1GB of RAM to exploit, plus there is 32GB of onboard memory too.
Other features include a forward-facing 1.2-megapixel video-call lens, that also shoots 720p video, plus NFC, 1080p video capture from the PureView camera, plus variants with LTE and HSPA+ connectivity.
As rumored, Nokia has equipped the 920 with built-in wireless charging for the 2000mAh battery, which works on the Qi standard, and will not only offer a charging pad, but has signed various agreements with companies such as Coffee Bean and Virgin Atlantic, who will all offer wireless charging pads for their customers.
JBL will be producing a speaker box called the Power Up for the Nokia Lumia 920, which in addition to syncing with NFC, has a wireless power dock on the top too.
Design-wise, Nokia hasn't rocked the boat, and the Lumia 920 looks similar to the 800 and 900 phones already on sale. From the pictures, the polycarbonate shell appears more glossy than the cool matte finish found on those devices.
The Lumia 920 was joined on stage by the mid-range Lumia 820, and will be made available in the retina-burning yellow we saw on stage, plus in red, grey, white and black. The release date is still a mystery, with Nokia only committing to it coming out "later in the year."


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Cupping is a practice used almost globally in which a flame is used to produce a vacuum in a cupping vessel, which is then applied to the skin. 'Dry' cupping uses only the heated cup, while 'wet' cupping is a form of blood letting, in which the skin is scarified and blood drawn from the wound by suction. Cupping is mentioned in Hippocrates's works, and was thought to draw excessive humours to the surface of the body.
Cupping was also used in Chinese, Native American, Egyptian and Islamic medicine. Depending on where in the world they were being used, cups could be made from buffalo horn, glass, bronze or tin. In Europe, cupping was often performed by female lay practitioners. From the 1500s to the late 1800s it was also offered by attendants at public baths. In this tradition cupping was used for a wide range of conditions including chest pains, indigestion, muscular problems and colds and flu.
Within the Chinese medical tradition, cupping was described as early as 281 CE. Originally, hollowed animal horns were used to drain toxins from the body. Over time these were replaced by bamboo and glass cups. By the time of the Tang dynasty (618-907), cupping was one of the main treatments for tuberculosis. Cupping remains a standard part of TCM practice. It is sometimes used together with acupuncture or moxibustion. Cupping aims to aid the circulation of stagnant qi energy and remove toxins from the body.
Cupping can be found practised in most Southeast Asian traditions, and has recently had a resurgence of popularity in other parts of the world.
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S Kuriyama, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine, (New York, Zone Books, 1999)
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Recently, I lost a lot of my favorite recipes on Just Bento and Just Hungry. Most of them were no longer on my favorites page anymore. Maki suggested using a bookmarking site to save the recipes I liked, and yesterday I finally joined one. I decided to go through all of Maki's posts on Just Bento to find my favorite recipes again, and also to see all the cool posts Maki had made before I joined. In the process, I came to fully appreciate just how much effort and detail Maki puts into her sites! I think that, because the internet makes it so easy to access any information one could want, it's easy to forget that someone actually puts a lot of time and work into many of the sites people love. I know I have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of Maki's work, so I was wondering about the enjoyment other people got from the site. So, please tell me, what is your favorite recipe or complete bento off of Just Bento? It could be one that Maki made or one by another member. If you can't decide, list several! Just Hungry recipes are OK, too. If you have an interesting story about how Just Bento or Just Hungry has made you happy, please share!
My favorite recipe on here is the curried kidney beans and vegetables recipe:
It was the recipe I used in my first bento. I like it because it's super easy to make, tasty, and it uses ingredients that I always have in my fridge or pantry. It's easily customizable, not to mention vegetarian!
Another favorite recipe of mine is the cauliflower salad recipe submitted by bronwyncarlisle.
Although she says it's her friend's recipe, she still did everyone a favor by submitting it here! The ingredients sound pretty strange, but I tried it anyway because I trust everyone's food tastes on Just Bento. It was so amazing. Both my roommate and my boyfriend love it! The first time I made it for my boyfriend, we ha just moved into our new apartment, and we had hardly any cooking supplies. I managed to make it using only a rice cooker, a large mug, and a soup spoon. I served it to my boyfriend and told him it might not be great because I had to improvise so much, but he inhaled it!
So, anyway, please share your favorite recipes!
And thank you Maki for creating such wonderful websites, and putting so much time, energy, and love into them.
Onaka ga suiteiru!
There are so many recipes that I haven't tested even half of them so I can only speak for the recipes I've tried! But one of my favorites is this vegan potato salad
because I never thought you could use tofu instead / in addition to mayo. I like to make this salad from potatoes and whatever I have in the fridge and it's a great way to use that leftover tofu - it seems I'm never able to spend the whole pack at once! And it makes a good and very filling cold dish so it's very handy to eat almost anywhere.
Kyandasu, you're absolutely right - these sites are awesome and a great source of inspiration for food lovers :)
(Yay, a response! ^_^) It's amazing the different things you can use tofu for! Sometimes I'm a little skeptical, because I'm very picky with the tofu I like. Although I haven't tried this recipe, I really like potato salad, so I might try it! (I really like eggs, though, so I might add those back in.) And if I ever want to finally become vegan, it's a nice recipe to have on hand. It's definitely nice for using up food before it goes bad! (Which happens to me way too often.)
That's one of the things I love about this website. I'm a vegetarian (though not a very good one, sometimes), mostly for health reasons. Unlike many other food websites, on Just Bento it's easy to find healthy, tasty, and SIMPLE vegetarian recipes. Even the recipes that aren't vegetarian, many of them can be adjusted to be vegetarian.
What bookmarking site did you use? I really need a place to organize my bookmarks :P
I used faves.com. I don't know how good it is compared to other ones. I just sort of picked one randomly. But it lets me put a tool on the toolbar of my internet window, so I can just push that button whenever I want to save a page. :)
Evernote is brilliant. Not just a bookmarking site, as well as that it's an application you keep on your computer(s) that bookmarks and clips the stuff you want to keep, so you can see it off-line as well. You can clip just a portion of a page if you want. It syncs across all the computers you have it installed on and has a little button for your browser too.
You can also use it to keep documents and sync them between computers.
I should add that there's a free and a paid version and you can upload more stuff with the paid version. I use the free one and it's always been well and truly enough for me. The only time I used more than half my monthly allowance was when I uploaded three pdf books.
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Thanks so much for the tip, I'm amazed at how awesome Evernote is. Have now spent most of the day inputting things that I had saved all over the place :P
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Health Board renews contracts
As contracts for a family planning pharmacist and school nursing services were renewed, plans were made to replace an administrative position with the Auglaize County Health Department.
During a regular monthly meeting Tuesday, the Auglaize County Health Board accepted the retirement of Kelli Roettger, accounts clerk III, effective Sept. 1.
Roettger, who has been employed with the Health Department for 33 1/2 years, said the decision to retire was a tough one.
"I've enjoyed it very much," said Roettger, who through her position has served as secretary of monthly meetings of the Health Board.
Health Board Vice President Linda Kitzmiller said it was with regret and appreciation for Roettger's years of service that they accepted her retirement.
Auglaize County Health Commissioner Charlotte Parsons said after initial advertising, they have had more than 100 applicants for the position.
Plans are to find someone who can take over the full-time position, she said she hopes to have someone hired by the end of the month so they can train with Roettger for several weeks prior to her retirement.
In other personnel matters, board members renewed a contract with Stephanie Mosler for family planning pharmacist services.
Mosler has filled the role for seven years at a maximum of six hours per month as needed at a rate of pay of $25 an hour. Her contract is renewed annually.
Another contract renewed during the meeting was that for school nursing services provided to Minster and New Knoxville school districts.
The contracts are renewed annually with nursing services provided just to those two districts in Auglaize County as they have no paid school nurses on staff, Parsons said.
The services provided through the contracts include required screenings for kindergarten students, scoliosis and vision. The contract charges are $5 per child per screening.
Parsons said they felt it was fairer to charge a rate per child using it rather than a flat rate for the services.
In other business, board members ordered Country Hearth Inn & Suites, 1410 Commerce Drive, St. Marys, to submit an application and appropriate fees for pool and spa within seven days. The application and fees were due May 1.
They also ordered Cheryl Kuck, 05558 Carter-Creek Road, St. Marys, and Curt Miller, 63 Summerplace Drive, Wapakoneta, to show proof of a current rabies vaccination within seven days.
Environmental Health Director Curt Anderson said both are being required to show proof of rabies vaccinations after dog bites.
He said there have been a lot of dog bite complaints recently, particularly during Memorial Day weekend.


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Filmmaker Using BitTorrent & TopSpin To Distribute Free Copies Of Older Movie To Promote New Skateboarding Documentary
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As skateboarders, as people that have always lived on the outside, have always had to sneak over fences or through the back door, have always had to create our own terrain, we've decided to put that ethic towards how we release "Bones Brigade: An Autobiography." We turned down all of the conventional offers for distribution when we came out of the festival in favor of doing it ourselves.One part of this DIY approach is that to promote this new movie, Peralta teamed up with BitTorrent and TopSpin to help with direct-to-fan digital distribution and promotion. Via BitTorrent, people can download a "Bones Brigade Bundle," including a bunch of extras, and then using a TopSpin feature (either on the web, or directly in the uTorrent client), if you submit your email address, you can download an entirely free copy of the classic skate film, The Search for Animal Chin, which was released 25 years ago, and featured the members of the Bones Brigade. So the combined effort, from Animal Chin to the Bones Brigade documentary is sort of a "full circle" situation.
It's great to see more filmmakers really embracing both direct-to-fan, but also realizing that things like BitTorrent aren't automatically bad, but have a place in a marketing campaign as well. In this case, it's interesting to see Peralta using a combination of a few different tools to create an integrated and comprehensive campaign not only to market the new film, but also to distribute the old film (the first time it's officially available in digital format). Oh, and if you'd like to download The Search for Animal Chin, there's an embedded widget right below this sentence...


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Iron is a mineral that is found in every living cell. Iron exists in two forms—heme and nonheme. Heme iron is part of the hemoglobin and myoglobin molecules in animal tissues. Nonheme iron comes from animal tissues other than hemoglobin and myoglobin and from plant tissues. Iron is found in meats, eggs, milk, vegetables, grains, and other plant foods. The body absorbs heme iron much more efficiently than nonheme iron. Much of the iron in our diet comes from foods, such as breads and cereals that are fortified with this mineral. Worldwide, iron deficiency anemia is the most common form of malnutrition.
Iron's functions include:
Iron needs are greatest during times of rapid growth—childhood, adolescence, and pregnancy. Also, women have higher requirements than men, to replace the iron that is lost with monthly menstruation.
Groups of people who are susceptible to being iron deficient are:
Iron-Deficiency Anemia
There are no symptoms of iron deficiency unless you become anemic. If not corrected, iron deficiency can progress to anemia. Symptoms of
Iron-deficiency anemia is usually treated by increasing iron intake through dietary sources and iron supplementation.
At high levels, iron is toxic. And since the body has no effective means of excreting excess iron, it is possible, although not common, for iron to build up. Iron pills and supplements containing iron that are designed for adults
can cause poisoning in children.
Symptoms of iron toxicity include:
People with the genetic disease hemochromatosis absorb excessive amounts of iron. This leads to a buildup of iron in the bloodstream and in certain organs, including the liver, muscles, pancreas, and heart. Signs and symptoms of disease usually do not appear until midlife. People of Northern European descent and men are at higher risk. Without treatment, high levels of iron can damage these organs. Treatment involves eating a diet low in iron and donating blood regularly.
Some research has suggested that excess levels of iron in the body may lead to an increased risk for heart disease or cancer. These effects may be due to how the body metabolizes iron, as opposed to how much iron is in the diet. However, the research in these areas is still inconclusive.
The amount of iron your body absorbs varies depending on several factors. For example, your body will absorb more iron from foods when your iron stores are low and will absorb less when stores are sufficient.
In addition, certain dietary factors affect absorption:
Note: Consuming heme iron and/or
vitamin C
with nonheme can help compensate for these decreases.
To increase your intake and absorption of dietary iron, try the following:
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