////////////////////////Check these out:
* 20% of criminals account for 80% of crime
* 20% of motorists account for 80% of accidents
* 20% of married individuals account for 80% of divorces
* 20% of your carpet probably gets 80% of the wear
* 20% of streets account for 80% of the traffic
* 20% of product flaws account for 80% of problems
* 20% of clients usually account for 80% of an organization’s profits
////////////////////////Chapter IX: The Yoga of the Royal Science and Royal SecretIX.16. AHAM KRATURAHAM YAJNAH SWADHAA'HAMAHAMAUSHADHAM; MANTRO'HAMAHAMEVAAJYAM AHAMAGNIRAHAM HUTAM. (Krishna speaking to Arjuna)I am the Kratu; I am the Yajna; I am the offering (food) to the manes; I am the medicinal herb and all the plants; I am the Mantra; I am also the ghee or melted butter; I am the fire; I am the oblation.
GON-GOM- PANTHEISM
/////////////////////The Vinegar Tasters is antasting it; one man reacts with a sour expression, one reacts with a bitter expression, and one reacts with a happy expression.
Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Each man's expression represents the predominant attitude of the religion: Confucianism saw life as sour, in need of rules to correct the degeneration of people; Buddhism saw life as bitter, dominated by pain and suffering; and Taoism saw life as fundamentally good in its natural state.
///////////////////Understanding Role Of Stress In Just About EverythingStress, to put it bluntly, is bad for you. It can kill you, in fact. A study now reveals that stress causes deterioration in everything from your gums to your heart and can make you more susceptible to everything from the common cold to cancer. Thanks to new research crossing the disciplines of psychology, medicine, neuroscience, and genetics, the mechanisms underlying the connection are rapidly becoming understood.http://www.curingdeath.com/research/Understanding_Role_Of_Stress_In_Just_About_Everything.asp
NATURAL STRESS-SEE THE SQUIRRELS
////////////////////1964: Riots in Calcutta leave more than 100 deadHindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.
/////////////////////Irreligion · Religion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(either due to not having information about religion or to not believing in it)
hostility to religion
behaving in such a way that fails to live up to one's religious tenets
Although people classified as irreligious might not follow any religion, not all are necessarily without belief in the . In particular, those who associate organized religion with negative qualities, but still hold spiritual beliefs, might describe themselves as irreligious.
//////////////////////////MCLWP=Having the option of taking one's life is a comfort even to some who never do it.
////////////////////Why don't penguins' feet freeze? The answer is counter-current exchange.
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Posted: 09 Jan 2008 08:00 AM CST
One other possible explanation for the inaccurate NH poll predictions is the so-called Bradley Effect. Below is part of the discussion at , a hypothesis that Krosnick is then quoted as doubting:
This sort of jarring of our expectations conjures up past examples of black candidates who have polled significantly higher than their white opponents, only to confront a very different reality when the votes are counted. Pollsters know this as the "Bradley Effect," christened for former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a black man who narrowly lost the 1982 California gubernatorial election to a white opponent even though Bradley led in the polls. (It's sometimes also referred to as the "Wilder Effect," after Douglas Wilder, who had been polling at 10 points ahead of Marshall Coleman in the 1989 governor's race, beat Coleman by less than a point.) Harold Ford Jr., who lost his bid for a Senate seat in Tennessee in 2006, also polled better than he performed.
One theory is that voters contacted by pollsters are more likely to say they support a black candidate running against a white candidate out of desire to seem progressive. Social psychologists called this "social desirability" - the urge to act in ways that one believes his or her environment finds appropriate.
In a February 2007 article, the Pew Research Center noted that this effect was decidedly less pronounced in 2006. While black candidates lost four of five statewide races against white opponents, the polling tended to reflect this. "Taken together," it states, "the accuracy of the polling in these five biracial elections suggests that the problems that bedeviled polling in the 1980s and early 1990s may no longer be so serious."
//////////////////////Fears for oldest human footprints
Fossilized tracks pose preservation puzzle
Threats to the world's oldest hominid footprints in Tanzania are again stirring debate over how to best protect the 3.7-million-year-old tracks.
////////////////////........... saw a cast of the Laetoli footprints in the National Museum of Kenya. It was one of the most moving moments of my life. I encourage formation of a fund to help with the best locally determined preservation method
//////////////////You should be proactive about change and not reactive,
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Prairie Grass: Fuel of the Future?
Josh Funk, Asssociated Press
jan 9, 2008 -- New research shows that prairie grasses grown using only moderate amounts of fertilizer on marginal land can produce significant amounts of ethanol.
The five-year study of switch grass done by the University of Nebraska
//////////////////ocates cholesterol genes; finds surprises about good, bad cholesterol
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---An international study of 20,000 people found seven new genes that influence blood cholesterol levels, a major factor in heart disease, and confirmed 11 other genes previously thought to influence cholesterol.
The international study led by researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health set out to identify or confirm genetic variants that influence lipid levels, and secondly, to see if those variants were linked to the decreased or increased risk of heart disease. The findings will be published online in the journal Nature Genetics on Jan. 13.
The results may lead the medical community to rethink the role of HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) in heart disease, said Goncalo Abecasis, associate professor in the U-M School of Public Health. Abecasis co-directed the study with Karen Mohlke, assistant professor of genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
"It was surprising that while genetic variants that increase your bad cholesterol are also associated with increased risk of heart disease, we did not find that variants influencing your good cholesterol were associated with decreased risk of coronary artery disease. Perhaps that result will lead us to reexamine the roles of good and bad cholesterol in susceptibility to heart disease," Abecasis said.
Coronary artery disease, a condition where plaque accumulates on the walls of coronary arteries, is the most common type of heart disease and a leading cause of death in industrialized countries. The type and amount of cholesterol and other lipids in the bloodstream contribute to the risk of coronary artery disease, which can cause heart attack, stroke, angina and other heart conditions. Both genetic and environmental factors influence a person's cholesterol and blood lipid levels.
"Finding new gene regions associated with cholesterol levels may bring us one step closer to developing better treatments, said Cristen Willer, co-first author and a research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics. "Nearly all of the gene regions that we found to be involved in higher LDL levels were also involved in coronary artery disease risk. This is a remarkable result and suggests that new drug therapies that target the genes in these regions will also help prevent coronary artery disease and allow people to live longer and healthier lives." Serena Sanna, who worked on the paper as a post-doctoral student in Abecasis' group and who is now at the National Research Council di Cagliari in Italy, is co-first author.
Of the seven new variants, two influenced HDL, one influenced LDL, and three influenced triglycerides, which are found in fat and in the bloodstream and like LDL, are associated with increased risk of heart disease. One variant influenced triglycerides and LDL.
Scientists initially examined 2 million genetic variants in 8,800 individuals and ended up focusing on a total of 25 genetic variants on 18 genes. Altogether the variations reported are responsible for less than a quarter of the genetic contributions to lipid levels.
The completion of the map of human genetic variation, or HapMap, has fueled a surge in this type of genome-wide association study, with most of the growth coming in the past 10 months. Researchers around the globe have now associated more than 60 common DNA variants with the risk of more than 20 common diseases or related traits.
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The research received major support from the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, all of which are part of the National Institutes of Health; the American Diabetes Association; the Department of Veterans Affairs; the British Heart Foundation; the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council; and the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
The University of Michigan School of Public Health has been working to promote health and prevent disease since 1941, and is consistently ranked among the top five public health schools in the nation. Faculty and students in the school's five academic departments and dozens of collaborative centers and initiatives are forging new solutions to the complex health challenges of today, including chronic disease, health care quality and finance, emerging genetic technologies, climate change, socioeconomic inequalities and their impact on health, infectious disease and the globalization of health. Whether making new discoveries in the lab or researching and educating in the field, our faculty, students and alumni are deployed around the globe to promote and protect our health.
EDITORS: An image is available at: http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2008/Jan/lipid
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