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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Hinderaker-Ward Experience, Episode 35: Halloween Edition (Powerlineblog)

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89% Frankenweenie

Question: Have you noticed the past few Tim Burton films are missing that quintessential essence we have grown to love over the last few decades? I can't quite put my finger as to why or what's gone awry, but I really haven't enjoyed his last few films until Frankenweenie! Yep, I saw this one and felt Tim Burton finally got back to his roots. Actually, I found out, after the fact, that this is a remake of a short film Burton did in 1984. Coincidence? Maybe. Perhaps I was able to connect to the story line in Burton's latest stop motion film. I am a huge dog lover and have unfortunately lost a couple of pets throughout my life. Actually my first dog, Auggie, died similarly to Sparky in Frankenweenie. Being the same age as Victor, I could feel his extreme pain over the loss of his best friend. Now I did not try to revive Auggie like Frankenstein's monster, but I completely empathized with the boy trying to fill the void by any means possible. This film is actually listed as horror (plus comedy and animation), and I will say for young children it would be wise for parents to heed that genre listing. Yes, it is rated PG, but for those young children who might scare easily this story is a bit on the dark side and quite intense at times. In fact, a girl and her father left during the film never to return. I noticed the stuffed animal in her hands and she was holding on to it for dear life as she briskly walked out of the theatre. My guess she was about 8 years-old. Now, my nearly 11-year old daughter had no qualms or fear of the story line and was delighted with the entire film. For the parents who see this film I imagine you will revel in some nostalgic memories that Frankenweenie will evoke. I don't want to give away too much but one character in this movie was based on and looks nearly identical to another character from one of the stop motion films from our youth. I will let you figure out which one. Also, there are others who were obviously based on classic horror film characters. I counted at least three but have a feeling there might be more. And I would probably know if their more if I knew a lot more about horror films, but sadly, I was not unlike the little 8 year-old who skedaddled out of the theatre when I was her age. All-in-all, Frankenweenie is the classic Frankenstein tale, no pun intended, so it won't win any originality awards, but there was a good message about loss, science and trying to obtain things for the wrong reasons. A good message for the youngsters out there - and perhaps for a few adults as well. My favorite part: The one character that reminded me of another character from my youth. My least favorite: That it reminded me of the loss of my first dog. Directed (original story) by Tim Burton, Walt Disney Pictures, 2012 Screenplay: Leonard Ripps, John August and Tim Burton. Starring: Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder and Martin Landau. Genre: Animation, Comedy, Horror and Sci-fi. Length: 87 minutes Rating: PG Review: 7 out of 10

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Death toll from meningitis outbreak hits 24

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Better Investments Mean Better Outcomes?Don't Waste Your Time ...

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How to Launch a New Product Online: What to Do and What NOT to ...

My client Morgan Langan once told me, ?Launching isn?t for pussies? and I have to agree.

They should make t-shirts: ?I just survived my first product launch!?

While we?ve built product launch platforms for other entrepreneurs, this is the first time I?ve walked through the fire myself and I wanted to share the mistakes I made and the lessons I learned.

I just ?closed the cart? on Message to Money and I?m excited to have over 60 amazing entrepreneurs and small business owners in the program.

So how did I pull off such a successful first launch? Or what should you do to launch a new product online?

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?1.?Live Webinars ? It?s a lot easier to fill a program if you are able to engage your ideal clients live, whether that?s speaking from the stage or hosting a virtual event. After you?ve had a chance to build a relationship and give value for 60 to 90-minutes, your audience is much more receptive to continuing their journey with you right then and there. You can often ?close? a minimum of 5% of your audience and often 10% or more, after they?ve experienced you live.

While Jeff Walker style email campaigns and video launch sequences are all the rage, I?ve found that this strategy works best for the big dogs who have access to hundreds of thousands of people.

If you?re just starting out and you have a small list, then live webinars are a great way to launch a new product especially if you?re able to enlist a few good partners.

I launched Message to Money exclusively through 6 live webinars ? 3 primarily to my list, and another 3 to partner lists. 8-10% of each audience signed up for the program, which was priced at $497.

2. Good Timing ? I offered the first version of my Message to Money program in 2010. At the time, I wasn?t ready. I only had a few hundred people on my mailing list and I was making just $50K/year. Before I could be successful with an online product launch, I needed to focus first on growing my client-base, building my web presence and following. While you can fill a small group coaching program by reaching out to people one-on-one, it?s difficult to fill a larger program if you don?t have some sort of following or a few good partners.

3. Impeccable Materials ? How you do anything is how you do everything. If you send out boring emails, have an unconvincing sales page or deliver surface-level content, then no one is going to want to join your program.

So many people have bought programs that didn?t deliver on their basic promise that they?re hesitant to buy. While any launch is bound to turn some people off who are just flat out uncomfortable with marketing, you want to make sure that you?re selling with integrity and turning more people on then you?re turning off. You also want to understand people?s desires and objections and address them head on in your materials. Finally, you want to differentiate your program in some way ? whether it?s through your hook, your testimonials, your bonuses, the experience you create or the community you provide? to give people a reason to buy from you.

4. Amazing Support & Block Time ? Any launch, big or small, is more work than you can imagine. If you?re juggling a launch with other work, then you?re going to need support. Simply having one other person to help you set up squeeze pages, post replays, edit emails, and manage the technology and live chat aspect of a webinar is indispensable. By having a virtual assistant or partner support you on the details, you can focus on the big picture of showing up and delivering great content.

In addition to support, you need to give yourself the time and space to create new content without distraction. Any launch requires a huge amount of content ? from the free value you provide on webinars, through emails, blog posts, and social media, to the program itself.

I stopped taking new clients for two solid months to give myself time to create and launch Message to Money. While that was scary, because I didn?t have income coming in, I knew that time was an investment in the future of my business. I knew that I needed to start offering products and group programs to leverage my time and scale my business.

5. Faith & Courage ? Any time you take your knowledge and expertise into the market in a big way, you?re going to come face-to-face with your own self-doubt, negative thoughts and limiting beliefs. Here?s the thing: other people can sense your doubts and fears. You have to believe from the bottom of your heart that what you do is valuable and that you can transform people?s lives with your content. That doesn?t mean you?re not going to doubt yourself or worry that no one?s going to sign up, it simply means acknowledging these thoughts for what they are and pushing through.

Before you think this launch was smooth sailing, I want to share some of the mistakes I made or what NOT to do when launching a new product online.

1. Don?t Wait Too Long to Approach Partners or Rely Too Heavily on Partners ? By the time I figured out what I was doing and started contacting partners, there was just 2 months lead-time. Most pros book their marketing and promotion calendar 3-6 months out, so I was only able to schedule 5 webinars and 2 of them got cancelled at the last minute due to changes in my partners schedules. Even if you do everything right, you have to realize that some partners will fall through and make sure you have a back-up plan.

2. Make Sure You Give Value Right Away ? Before I officially launched Message to Money, I had it available from my website in a different format. The thing is, I wasn?t ready to fully deliver the program at the time, so the people who bought did not receive the complete course until several months later. By the time I was ready, some of them had lost interest. While many marketers encourage you to sell a program before you create it to make sure you have a profitable idea, you also have to be prepared to really deliver once people start to buy.

While most people gave me the benefit of the doubt, I?m so committed to over delivering for all my clients that I felt bad and I felt I was letting people down.

3. Be Careful Who You Hire ? I spent a significant amount of money on a copywriter for my Message to Money sales page and I was underwhelmed by what he delivered. I hired my copywriter based on a glowing personal recommendation and didn?t take the time to do diligence, get referrals and find out more about his process. I was disappointed to find out that he stopped at 2 revisions, regardless of whether I was happy or not. And that he countered all my feedback with the argument that he had ?launched million dollar products? and that he knew what he was doing and I didn?t. The thing is, I know my business and audience better than anyone and I need to work with people who will consider my feedback as valid. The irony is that all the sales I made came from my webinars and none came from ?warm leads? to the sales page.

4. Make Sure Everyone On Your Team is Prepared ? I had heard that it?s much better to have someone host you on a webinar than to host yourself, so I asked a client of mine to step in and host. We were writing the script until just an hour before the call, so even though I had prepped her the night before, she didn?t have enough time to rehearse and she sounded stilted and unnatural. Then she didn?t engage during the call like we discussed, so it seemed to come out of nowhere when she stepped in to make the sales offer at the end of the call. Because I didn?t take the time to prepare her properly, she didn?t perform as well as she could and we had the worst sales ever for biggest call. I had 183 people on the line and people raved about the content afterwards, but just 7 signed up for the program.

So there you have it!

I know that I?ve learned a lot from this process and will approach my next Message to Money launch in March/April 2013 with my eyes wide open. I hope that you can learn from my experiences, and have an amazingly successful online product launch.

Source: http://www.liveyourmessage.com/how-to-launch-a-new-product-online

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Video: Clinton: Libya emails don't paint full picture (cbsnews)

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Facebook Woos Small Biz, Merchants Reluctant | Small Business ...

Facebook reaches out to small businesses as customers for its advertising services, but a recent study suggests this target group may remain reluctant to pay for advertising or any other promotional services from the social networking site. Here?s a look at where things stand with Facebook?s efforts to woo more small business advertising dollars and what other ways you can use the social media site to benefit your small business.

Facing Advertising Realities

Laying it on thick. This post looks at how Facebook has been ?laying it one thick? in an effort to convince small businesses to advertise to its members. Note the site?s development of an interface created to nudge Facebook page owners to upgrade from regular to promoted posts. Facebook also upgraded its mobile page app to sell ads to business customers. Wired

Setting things in motion. One Facebook intern gives us a tour of the mobile advertising interface he helped create, the very first mobile advertising interface ever implemented on Facebook, he proudly reminds us. The effort was motivated in part by a desire to create advertising services to reach 600 million users now active on the social network?s mobile app every month. Facebook Engineering

Keeping it real. The trouble with all this is that, while businesses like using Facebook?s free features to promote their brands, they aren?t too keen on paying for anything extra. A recent e-mail survey of 3,434 member merchants of MerhantCircle.com suggested that while 68.7 percent favored using Facebook?s free platform to promote their businesses, only 6.6 percent said they used Facebook?s pay options. AllFacebook

How Do You ?Like? It?

Building your fan base. Getting ?likes? on your Facebook page as a way to promote your business isn?t a matter of luck or popularity alone. In fact, blogger Samuel Pustea insists there are a number of simple steps any online business owner can take to increase the number of ?likes? their page receives. Here?s one approach for growing your fan base. Internet Dreams

Staying on schedule. But there may be an even simpler approach to improving your marketing results with Facebook. Just as with your business blog, establishing a posting schedule for Facebook will work wonders, says online marketing consultant Allison Semancik. Here are some benefits of establishing a Facebook posting schedule and some advice on how to create one. Idea Sprouts

Getting on the ball. If you haven?t got one yet, it?s time to start a Facebook page for your business today. Guest blogger Jennifer Koebele gives some examples of how to create content for your small business or brand, and looks at some of the obvious benefits too. Though maintaining a Facebook page for your business will take some time, the benefits outweigh the investment. Small Biz Diamonds

Setting up shop. You may have heard that Facebook and other social media are for marketing and building your brand, not for selling products. But guest blogger Debbie Dragon has these suggestions for setting up shop on the social networking giant using the Facebook Store App. Then follow these simple steps to start selling your products to Facebook users following you. Denise O?Berry

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Accused Cole bomber seeks to halt Guantanamo trial

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2000 file photo, investigators in a speed boat examine the hull of the USS Cole at the Yemeni port of Aden, after a powerful explosion ripped a hole in the U.S Navy destroyer, killing at least 17 sailors and injuring some 30 others. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi national accused in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, faces trial in a special tribunal for war-time offenses known as a military commission for allegedly orchestrating the bombing of the USS Cole as well as attacks on two other ships. But his lawyers say that since the U.S. wasn't at war at that time, the 47-year-old shouldn't be tried at Guantanamo. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis, file)

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) ? A U.S. military war tribunal is weighing a question that might seem better suited for a history class than a courtroom: How long has the United States been at war?

The question is more than academic for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, whose lawyers are appearing before the tribunal this week at the U.S. base in Guantanamo, Cuba, to seek the dismissal of war crimes charges that were approved by a Pentagon-appointed legal official.

Al-Nashiri faces trial in a special tribunal for war-time offenses known as a military commission for allegedly orchestrating the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 as well as attacks on two other ships. But his lawyers say that since the U.S. wasn't at war at that time, the 47-year-old shouldn't be tried at Guantanamo.

"The fact of going to war is a decision by the political branches, either Congress or the president or both," attorney Richard Kammen said Monday. "It's not something to be arrived at retroactively by a bureaucrat who is not appointed by Congress because it has huge consequences."

Al-Nashiri's lawyers say that the U.S. wasn't at war until after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and then-President George W. Bush did not certify the existence of hostilities of any kind in Yemen until September 2003.

The motion for dismissal is one of 21 matters set for consideration at a hearing scheduled to start Tuesday at the base, where the U.S. holds 166 prisoners, most of whom have not been charged with any crime. The hearing is scheduled to run through Thursday but officials were trying to condense the agenda because of the approach of Tropical Storm Sandy, which was heading north in the Caribbean Sea on a track to reach southeastern Cuba on Thursday.

Other items on this week's agenda include whether al-Nashiri should be forced to attend the hearings and whether the U.S. government should turn over information about a man killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2002 who was identified in some media reports as the mastermind of the Cole attack.

"If he was killed based on the fact that he was the mastermind behind the USS Cole that's relevant," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Reyes, his military lawyer.

Al-Nashiri, who was born in Saudi Arabia to a Yemeni father and a Saudi mother, has been held at Guantanamo since September 2006. An allegedly senior member of al-Qaida, he was held for four years in the CIA's secret network of overseas prisons, where he was subjected to the "enhanced" interrogation program that included at least two instances of the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding. The government has said he was also threatened with a gun and a power drill because interrogators believed he was withholding information about possible attacks against the U.S.

In November, he was arraigned on charges that include terrorism and murder for the attack on the Cole, which killed 17 sailors and wounded 37, as well as for orchestrating the October 2002 bombing of the French tanker MV Limburg, which killed one crewman, and a failed January 2000 plot on the USS The Sullivans. He could get the death penalty at a trial that his lawyers say is at least a year away.

In making the case for the military tribunal, prosecutors lay out the history of what they see as al-Qaida's escalating war against the U.S., starting with an August 1996 declaration by Osama bin Laden calling for the murder of U.S. personnel serving on the Arabian peninsula, though it wasn't until a week after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that Congress and Bush approved an authorization for military force.

Al-Nashiri's lawyers say that former President Bill Clinton repeatedly noted that the country was at peace in the aftermath of the Cole attack.

A group of retired admirals and generals who served as senior military legal officials called for the military charges to be dismissed and for the case to be shifted to a civilian criminal court. In a brief in October as part of a civil challenge to the case, they also argued that the definition of war was being improperly expanded to include non-war offenses in the al-Nashiri case, and that such a use of the military courts could put U.S. soldiers and citizens in jeopardy in the future if other countries did the same thing to them.

"If countries can retroactively decide we were at war and chuck people from the civilian court systems into prisoner of war systems with the attendant lack of protections, that road runs both ways," Kammen said. "Once you get to go back in time and rewrite history that's a very, very dangerous precedent."

Prosecutors say in court papers that it will be up to the jury to decide whether the war crimes were properly filed in this case, and that it's too early for the judge to rule on the question. The judge, Army Col. James Pohl, is not expected to issue an immediate ruling on the motion.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Travcoa Transforms How Travelers Experience The World : Leisure ...

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Updated: Oct 23, 2012 09:38 AM EDT

Baby Boomers and Families Can Explore the World in More Than 100 Ways with a New Collection of Luxury Independent Journeys

(TRAVPR.COM) USA - October 22nd, 2012 - EL SEGUNDO, CA - Travcoa, the world leader in luxury travel, is transforming the way guests experience travel with the recently released 2013 Independent Journeys Collection brochure that features 78 finely-crafted itineraries to 66 countries. Forty-six new journeys have been added to the collection for 2013, which now includes 100 journeys to 70 countries available for sale on the company's website.

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These exclusive journeys cater to the traveler who seeks the freedom and intimacy of private travel, the convenience and value of a pre-arranged itinerary, and the style and quality for which Travcoa is renowned. Most journeys depart any day of the week and are suitable for one person or as many as you wish. Guests enjoy the best in a destination - luxury hotels, resorts and lodges; breakfast daily; private car and driver; highly skilled local guides; exceptional excursions; and privileged access to people, places and cultures.

"Travcoa Independent Journeys have become our fastest growing style of travel," stated Jerre Fuqua, President of Travcoa. "They are especially attractive to the discerning Baby Boomer market, as well as individual families and multi-generational family groups, as they provide the benefits of a guided tour with the flexibility and personalization of a private luxury journey."

Guests can select from single and multiple country journeys, such as "ThaiCamLao Discovery" which visits Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. In addition, Independent Journeys can easily be linked together to create an even more highly personalized journey, and guests will save 10% on the cost of the second journey. For example, "Mythical Machu Picchu" can be linked with "Darwin's Gal?pagos" for an exceptional journey to two iconic South American destinations.

For more information, to request a brochure, or to make a reservation, please contact a travel agent or a Travcoa Journey Consultant at 1-800-992-2003, email info@travcoa.com or visit www.travcoa.com.

About Travcoa:
Travcoa has been leading luxury adventures and in-depth explorations of the world's most interesting destinations since 1954. The company offers three types of travel experiences around the globe: small-group Escorted Journeys with comprehensive itineraries guided by professional Travel Directors; pre-designed and priced Independent Journeys for guests who prefer private travel on a date of their choice; and Custom Journeys crafted to individual guest specifications.

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Scientists pinpoint key player in Parkinson's disease neuron loss

Monday, October 22, 2012

By reprogramming skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients with a known genetic mutation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified damage to neural stem cells as a powerful player in the disease. The findings, reported online October 17th in Nature, may lead to new ways to diagnose and treat the disease.

The scientists found that a common mutation to a gene that produce the enzyme LRRK2, which is responsible for both familial and sporadic cases of Parkinson's disease, deforms the membrane surrounding the nucleus of a neural stem cell. Damaging the nuclear architecture leads to destruction of these powerful cells, as well as their decreased ability to spawn functional neurons, such as the ones that respond to dopamine.

The researchers checked their laboratory findings with brain samples from Parkinson's disease patients and found the same nuclear envelope impairment.

"This discovery helps explain how Parkinson's disease, which has been traditionally associated with loss of neurons that produce dopamine and subsequent motor impairment, could lead to locomotor dysfunction and other common non-motor manifestations, such as depression and anxiety," says Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory, who led the research team. "Similarly, current clinical trials explore the possibility of neural stem cell transplantation to compensate for dopamine deficits. Our work provides the platform for similar trials by using patient-specific corrected cells. It identifies degeneration of the nucleus as a previously unknown player in Parkinson's."

Although the researchers say that they don't yet know whether these nuclear aberrations cause Parkinson's disease or are a consequence of it, they say the discovery could offer clues about potential new therapeutic approaches.

For example, they were able to use targeted gene-editing technologies to correct the mutation in patient's nuclear stem cells. This genetic correction repaired the disorganization of the nuclear envelope, and improved overall survival and functioning of the neural stem cells.

They were also able to chemically inhibit damage to the nucleus, producing the same results seen with genetic correction. "This opens the door for drug treatment of Parkinson's disease patients who have this genetic mutation," says Belmonte.

The new finding may also help clinicians better diagnose this form of Parkinson's disease, he adds. "Due to the striking appearance in patient samples, nuclear deformation parameters could add to the pool of diagnostic features for Parkinson's disease," he says.

The research team, which included scientists from China, Spain, and the University of California, San Diego, and Scripps Research Institute, made their discoveries using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). These cells are similar to natural stem cells, such as embryonic stem cells, except that they are derived from adult cells. While generation of these cells has raised expectations within the biomedical community due to their transplant potential----the idea that they could morph into tissue that needs to be replaced----they also provide exceptional research opportunities, says Belmonte.

"We can model disease using these cells in ways that are not possible using traditional research methods, such as established cell lines, primary cultures and animal models," he says.

In this study, the researchers used skin fibroblast cells taken from Parkinson's disease patients who have the LRRK2 mutation, and they reprogrammed them to iPSC stem cells and developed them into neural stem cells.

Then, by using an approach to model what happens when these neural stem cells aged, they found that older Parkinson disease neural stem cells increasingly displayed deformed nuclear envelopes and nuclear architecture. "This means that, over time, the LRRK2 mutation affects the nucleus of neural stem cells, hampering both their survival and their ability to produce neurons," Belmonte says.

"It is the first time to our knowledge that human neural stem cells have been shown to be affected during Parkinson's pathology due to aberrant LRRK2," he says. "Before development of these reprogramming technologies, studies on human neural stem cells were elusive because they needed to be isolated directly from the brain."

Belmonte speculates that the dysfunctional neural stem cell pools that result from the LRRK2 mutation might contribute to other health issues associated with this form of Parkinson's disease, such as depression, anxiety and the inability to detect smells.

Finally, the study shows that these reprogramming technologies are very useful for modeling disease as well as dysfunction caused by aging, Belmonte says.

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What Is the Diet of Mothers during the Early Pregnancy

Modern people increasingly pay attention to a healthy diet; especially the pregnant women should pay more attention to it. In the early pregnancy, the nutrition is very important. Then what should pregnant mothers eat in the early pregnancy?

In the first month of pregnancy, pregnant women should supply folic acid. The role is to prevent fetal neural organ defects. To supply folic acid can prevent anemia, premature delivery and fetal malformations, which is particularly important during early pregnancy, because the early is the key of the fetal neural organ development. Pregnant mothers should eat folate-rich foods such as bread, pasta, white rice and flour and other cereals, as well as beef liver, spinach, asparagus, beans and apples, citrus and organs and so on.

Moreover, in the second month of pregnancy, you need to guarantee sufficient vitamin C and vitamin B6, to ease bleeding gums, and suppress the vomiting of pregnancy. This time, some pregnant mothers will find you appear bleeding gums when brush, so regular to supply vitamin C can alleviate the phenomenon of bleeding gums. At the same time, it can help improve the body resistance, and prevent dental diseases. In fact, the vitamin C in the life comes from fresh fruits and vegetables, such as green peppers, cauliflower, cabbage, tomato, cucumber, spinach, lemon, strawberry, and apple and so on.

Furthermore, for those pregnant mothers who are puzzled by vomiting, vitamin B6 is the killer of vomiting.

Vitamin B6 has the highest content in maltose, so eating one to two tablespoons of maltose can not only inhibit the vomiting of pregnancy, and can make pregnant women energetic all the day. In addition, the foods rich in vitamin B6 also have bananas, potatoes, soybeans, carrots, walnuts, peanuts, spinach and other plant foods.

In the third month of pregnancy, magnesium and vitamin A is necessary, to promote the growth and development of your baby. Magnesium is not only critical to the health of the fetus muscle, but also contributes to the normal development of bones. More importantly, the amount of the first three months of pregnancy to intake magnesium is related to the neonatal height, weight and head size of baby. In addition, the whole process of fetal development requires vitamin A; in particular, it can guarantee the health of the fetal skin, gastrointestinal tract and lungs. In the first trimester of pregnancy, the fetus cannot store vitamin A, so pregnant mothers must supply sufficient vitamin A to your baby. Sweet potato, pumpkin, spinach, and mangoes and so on all contain a large amount of vitamin A.

Source: http://vitamin.ezinemark.com/what-is-the-diet-of-mothers-during-the-early-pregnancy-7d37f881e4de.html

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Criteria to Choose the Best Antivirus Plan For Ones Wishes ...

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Source: http://www.healthuse.com/criteria-to-choose-the-best-antivirus-plan-for-ones-wishes.html

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Inhabitat's Week in Green: the world's tallest skyscraper, mind-controlled robot exoskeleton and a Lego Bat Cave

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.

At Inhabitat, we always keep our ear to the ground for new green building techniques and technologies as we look for more sustainable ways to shape our world. For the past year, we've been following the story of the Chinese developer BSB, who is planning to build the world's tallest skyscraper -- the entirely prefabricated 220-story building is set to break ground next month, and the building is expected to take just 210 days to build. In Chicago, transportation officials held an official groundbreaking ceremony last week for the "greenest street in America," a 2-mile stretch of road that is paved with permeable, smog-eating pavement.

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

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