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In its first major diplomatic engagement of the new year, India hosted Iran?s supreme national security council secretary and chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, last week. Jalili was in Delhi at the invitation of the national security advisor, Shiv Shankar Menon, and met not only Menon but also the finance minister, P. Chidambaram, and the foreign minister, Salman Khurshid. In spite of bilateral ties between Delhi and Teheran losing their past sheen, Jalili underscored that ?there are very good relations between the two countries? and that the two nations remain ?friends?. The visit was also significant because Jalili is considered as a potential successor to the present Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who completes his two terms in office this year.
The economic situation in Iran has deteriorated rapidly over the last few months. Because the Central Bank of Iran has been having trouble maintaining its currency peg of 12,260 rials to the dollar, more and more Iranians are trying to trade their rials for foreign currency. This has led to a free fall in the value of the rial. The Western sanctions have blocked Iran international bank networks, making it difficult for Iranian businesses to borrow money at a time when the CBI is having difficulty meeting demands for dollars. As a consequence, Iran is facing its worst financial crisis since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. It has therefore become urgent for Iran to reach out to non-Western nations to seek help. Russia, China and India are natural players in this context and so Jalili?s high-profile visit to Delhi is important. Jalili tried to project Iran as a destination where countries like India can fill the vacuum by suggesting that international economic sanctions on Iran were not a ?threat?, but an ?opportunity?. Even the Iranian healthcare system is close to collapse under the weight of sanctions and Teheran has reached out to India for help with life-saving drugs. India is now exporting one of its largest consignments of medicine ever to Iran.
Iran is also trying to make a case to Delhi that it could be a reliable provider of energy security to India even though the past experience of India has been rather problematic. But Jalili argued that ?Iran?s capability is not just supplying oil and gas. Providing security of energy is one of the principles of Iran?s policy in this respect. We have the best capability [among all neighbouring countries] in providing energy security for the region?. Jalili made a case for the extension of the gas pipeline with Pakistan to India underlining that Iran ?has the capacity to provide security?. But India has been trying to reduce its dependence on Iranian oil for some time now and it is not entirely clear if there will be a change of heart in New Delhi because of Jalili?s visit, although India recognizes the benefits of using Iranian territory as a transit route into Afghanistan and Central Asia.
In terms of energy security, actions by the United States of America and the European Union considerably impede India?s pursuit of resources in Iran, where India is the third-largest recipient of exported oil. This is well-illustrated by recent EU sanctions banning European companies from insuring tankers that carry Iranian energy resources anywhere in the world. With nearly all tanker insurance based in Western nations, Indian shipping companies are reportedly forced to rely on state insurance, which only covers tankers for $50 million as opposed to the estimated $1 billion in coverage typically offered by European agencies. Shippers therefore face great risk in transportation. Western efforts to undermine financial institutions in Iran have also complicated payments for Iranian oil exports. An executive order issued by the White House in November 2011 authorizes the US secretary of state to impose financial sanctions on any entity failing to satisfactorily curb support of the Iranian market according to US terms, thus pressuring countries such as India to reduce imports supporting the Iranian economy.
China, like India, has a massive demand for energy security. China is present in nearly every geographic area of importance to India?s energy security and Chinese State-owned companies have proved more willing and able to secure deals at any cost than Indian companies. This intricate challenge of remaining competitive with China and close to the US is manifest in Iran. While New Delhi faces pressure from the West to curb its ties with Iran, Beijing continues to pursue close bilateral relations with Teheran under a firm policy of non-interference to ensure the security of its energy and strategic interests. Beijing was a highly significant factor in Iran?s acquisition of capabilities throughout the 1980s and early 1990s that helped initiate its nuclear programme. Although China curbed official support of Iran?s nuclear programme in 1997 under heavy US pressure, American officials suspect the continuation of informal support under the auspices of non-governmental entities. China continues to supply arms to Iran as well, and although the value of these transfers declined in the first decade of the 2000s, Chinese arms are still presumed to be supporting proxy militant groups in the Middle East via Iran, much to the dismay of Washington. China also functions as a diplomatic ally that can offer leverage to Iran within the International Atomic Energy Agency and United Nations security council. Beijing is vocal in its support for diplomacy rather than force in dealing with Teheran and is adamant in denouncing unilateral or bilateral sanctions that prohibit economic interactions to isolate Iran.
China thus retains significant value for Iran in a manner that would be difficult for India to emulate, particularly given its greater dependency on good relations with the US and basic objections to Iran?s nuclear programme. Teheran and the P-5+1 (the five permanent UN security council members plus Germany) are set to resume talks later this month, although the place and date for the negotiations have not been finalized. The talks would be the first high-level negotitions over Iran?s nuclear programme since the negotiations in Moscow in June, offering at least the prospect of a thaw in a standoff that has grown increasingly tense in recent months. A Washington-Teheran rapprochement will allow India greater strategic space to pursue its diplomatic interests and, as the situation in Afghanistan continues to unravel, this will be useful in shaping the regional environment to India?s advantage.
Source: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130112/jsp/opinion/story_16429609.jsp
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Casio G-Shock GB5600A
Casio G-Shock GB5600A, the new revised smart watch is likely to come to United States.Casio G-Shock GB6900, the smart watch that pairs very well with iPhone and takes down memory lane, was one of the focuses at CES 2013. The new version has obviously adapted itself to the more current era and is available only in Japan, says Engadget. However, the company is likely to bring the sleek G-Shock GB5600A to U.S. that priced somewhere around $200.
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In addition to phone calls, text messages and emails, the novel G-Shock claims Bluetooth 4.0, allowing it to pair nicely alongside iOS devices and displays plenty of notifications on its tiny screen.
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Moreover, there is a Time Adjustment setting for, well, automatically modifying the clock depending on where you are, as well as a Phone Finder that easily locates your iPhone, iPod or iPad with the simple touch of a button, according to Engadget.Casio G-Shock GB6900 made its first appearance in March 2011. At present, the Bluetooth 4.0 packing the smart watch is available at $180. Its amazing feature is hooking up with your iPhone (4S or newer) to synchronize time, throw up call / email alerts and letting you locate your misplaced smartphone.
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Source: http://www.designntrend.com/articles/3104/20130111/ces-reports-new-revised-casio-g-shock.htm
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Saturday, January 12th, 2013
im 22, have hypothyroidism and im looking for some vitamins/supplements to take everyday to help improve my skin, health, hair, metabolism things like that. but don?t know what combination to take if you can suggest some tips or a website id appreciate it thanks 
The need for nutrients goes beyond the risk of deficiency. As research related to nutrition and disease continues to expand, so too does new evidence supporting the need for nutritional supplementation. To get started, consider these main topics.Vitamins and MineralsYour body needs raw materials to prompt proper enzymatic function. Current methods of farming and poor eating habits have resulted in as many as 90 percent of Americans having vitamin deficiencies. Most of the RDAs (Recommended Daily Allowances) are simply too low. A daily multiple should contain optimal nutritional amounts instead. We do not recommend one-a-day formulas because they cannot contain enough nutrients in a single tablet. ? Vitamin A and beta-carotene for healthy eyes, immunity and bones- B vitamins are needed for nerves, hair, skin, and digestion- Vitamin C is the best water-soluble antioxidant- Vitamin D regulates cell growth and function- Vitamin E protects your cells from toxins and carcinogens- Minerals are needed in smaller amounts Fish OilEven many conventional doctors now agree that fish oil supplementation is important. Fish oil contains the omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, which help your body reduce inflammation. Make sure to choose a fish oil that has been filtered for heavy metals. Vegetarians can substitute flax seed oil or algae sources to get their daily dose of omega-3s.Vitamin DLately, higher levels of vitamin D have been linked to the health of many body systems. Experts agree that the current RDA is too low for optimal health and that toxicity is unlikely with recommended use. Tips for vitamin D:- D3 form is the most bioavailable form- Moderate sun exposure without sunscreen allows your skin to produce D3- Northern climates don?t get enough winter sun for D3 productionYou may have noticed that even conventional doctors are now testing blood levels of this important vitamin. We recommend checking your levels prior to supplementing, because this is a fat-soluble vitamin. AntioxidantsFree radicals cause cellular damage, which contributes to the aging process. Antioxidants help counteract the free radical damage. Since we cannot get enough vitamins and minerals through diet alone, supplements like these are recommended. ? Grape Seed Extract- Ubiquinol- Alpha Lipoic Acid If you plan on buying vitamins they can start to get expensive, I suggest you buy off of iHerb.com. It is considerably much more cheaper to buy from iHerb than it is to buy from department stores. Here is a coupon code that I use for iHerb (AJE568) you save $5 off on your first order, free UPS shipping for orders over $40 at iherb.com, 2 free samples. Enjoy!iHerb coupon code: AJE568
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Many websites suggest iodine if you have hypothyroidism but don?t take it until you?ve been tested for Hashimoto?s because in that case it would only worsen your symptoms.
Source: http://healthy-tips.net/skin-health-tips-what-vitamins-minirals-and-supplements-can-i-take/
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Graphic shows pap smear method of detecting a variety of gynecological cancers
Graphic shows pap smear method of detecting a variety of gynecological cancers
WASHINGTON (AP) ? For years, doctors have lamented that there's no Pap test for deadly ovarian cancer. Wednesday, scientists reported encouraging signs that one day, there might be.
Researchers are trying to retool the Pap, a test for cervical cancer that millions of women get, so that it could spot early signs of other gynecologic cancers, too.
How? It turns out that cells can flake off of tumors in the ovaries or the lining of the uterus, and float down to rest in the cervix, where Pap tests are performed. These cells are too rare to recognize under the microscope. But researchers from Johns Hopkins University used some sophisticated DNA testing on the Pap samples to uncover the evidence ? gene mutations that show cancer is present.
In a pilot study, they analyzed Pap smears from 46 women who already were diagnosed with either ovarian or endometrial cancer. The new technique found all the endometrial cancers and 41 percent of the ovarian tumors, the team reported Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
This is very early-stage research, and women shouldn't expect any change in their routine Paps. It will take years of additional testing to prove if the so-called PapGene technique really could work as a screening tool, used to spot cancer in women who thought they were healthy.
"Now the hard work begins," said Hopkins oncologist Dr. Luis Diaz, whose team is collecting hundreds of additional Pap samples for more study and is exploring ways to enhance the detection of ovarian cancer.
But if it ultimately pans out, "the neat part about this is, the patient won't feel anything different," and the Pap wouldn't be performed differently, Diaz added. The extra work would come in a lab.
The gene-based technique marks a new approach toward cancer screening, and specialists are watching closely.
"This is very encouraging, and it shows great potential," said American Cancer Society genetics expert Michael Melner.
"We are a long way from being able to see any impact on our patients," cautioned Dr. Shannon Westin of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She reviewed the research in an accompanying editorial, and said the ovarian cancer detection would need improvement if the test is to work.
But she noted that ovarian cancer has poor survival rates because it's rarely caught early. "If this screening test could identify ovarian cancer at an early stage, there would be a profound impact on patient outcomes and mortality," Westin said.
More than 22,000 U.S. women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year, and more than 15,000 die. Symptoms such as pain and bloating seldom are obvious until the cancer is more advanced, and numerous attempts at screening tests have failed.
Endometrial cancer affects about 47,000 women a year, and kills about 8,000. There is no screening test for it either, but most women are diagnosed early because of postmenopausal bleeding.
The Hopkins research piggybacks on one of the most successful cancer screening tools, the Pap, and a newer technology used along with it. With a standard Pap, a little brush scrapes off cells from the cervix, which are stored in a vial to examine for signs of cervical cancer. Today, many women's Paps undergo an additional DNA-based test to see if they harbor the HPV virus, which can spur cervical cancer.
So the Hopkins team, funded largely by cancer advocacy groups, decided to look for DNA evidence of other gynecologic tumors. It developed a method to rapidly screen the Pap samples for those mutations using standard genetics equipment that Diaz said wouldn't add much to the cost of a Pap-plus-HPV test. He said the technique could detect both early-stage and more advanced tumors. Importantly, tests of Paps from 14 healthy women turned up no false alarms.
The endometrial cancers may have been easier to find because cells from those tumors don't have as far to travel as ovarian cancer cells, Diaz said. Researchers will study whether inserting the Pap brush deeper, testing during different times of the menstrual cycle, or other factors might improve detection of ovarian cancer.
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It?s funny how subjective using social media tools can be from person to person. Every day, I use at least a half dozen tools to post and track social activity online, primarily SocialFlow, Chartbeat, Google Analytics, Tweetdeck, Facebook Insights, Exact Target.
On occasion, that toolset grows: Google Webmaster Tools, Simply Measured, PageLever, Followerwonk, Raven Tools, Curalate, Twitter Analytics, bitly, Muckrack, Tweetreach, Google Insights, Statigram, IFTTT? and there are more if I count the tools I use on a personal basis. I haven?t used Union metrics for Tumblr yet (frankly I am sitting on my hands until something cheaper comes out), and just today our Founding Editor?Danny Sullivan introduced me to another potential tool, Crowdbooster?(see this week?s Link Week column from Julie Joyce for more about that).
Many of these tools listen, track performance, provide competitive data, even make recommendations. They are all unique ? although they may be working with the same datasets, or use the same APIs, they each provide something useful.?Yet despite all of this data and opportunity, aggregating and understanding how our content is being shared across the most popular social channels simply just seems daunting.
Fortunately, while during our end-of-the-year posts, I had the opportunity to dig into Social Crawlytics, a social analysis tool that crawls sites and generates a report that shows how often each URL was shared on different social platforms.
There?s no easy way to run a report like this in Google Analytics (that I know of anyway), and looking at individual URL metrics within social platforms is not efficient. I had the chance to talk to Yousaf Sekander from RocketMill,?who created the tool, and asked him a few questions on how the tool works.
Social Crawlytics is free when you first start using it. Once you sign up, you?ll notice you?ll have 5,000 credits. Each credit is for one page on a domain, so you?ll be able to crawl and analyze 5,000 pages right away. You can donate to get more pages, or you may consider signing up for the enterprise level program, depending on what?s best for you.
Be warned: it can take anywhere between 1-6 hours to crawl 5,000 pages, so be prepared to build in some time to generate your reports.
When you are setting up the domain you want to crawl, you have the option to schedule a report. You can choose to skip this step, but if you prefer to monitor a domain regularly, scheduling a report is a good option.
Yousef recommended that a sites like Search Engine Land or Marketing Land that generate a lot daily content and social activity should be scheduled at least twice a month in order to get a historical snapshot of shares for each URL. Of course, each time a you run a report for a site with thousands of pages you?ll use up your credits rather quickly, so use your best judgement.
The last step in generating a report is simply filling out the notification form, this will let you know when the crawl is complete and the data is ready to be viewed. This is important: you don?t want to download data that?s incomplete.
Under ?Reports? in the left navigation you will see the domain for reports generated ? the most recent report will be listed at the bottom. Yousef mentioned that he is still tweaking with the reports, and plans on adding dates to these soon. If you are regularly monitoring a domain and have a report scheduled, it creates a new report each time the crawler runs. All metrics are cumulative, so the most recent report will show the total shares generated at that time.
Below is the last report we ran for Marketing Land, you can see right away that our posts are monthly shared on Twitter, Followed by LinkedIn.
You can also see the most popular authors based on social stats alone. the colored graph are the Page Shares Per Network, where Social Crawlytics takes the top 50 shared pages, and brakes them down by network. Each color block represents a URL; for example, a recent post called Content Marketing for People Who Hate Writing took off on StumbleUpon. That same shade of yellow is represents the same URL in the rest of the graph.
One of the most useful aspects of the tool, however, is the .csv export. Although you can see page-level results within the dashboard, exporting the data as a spreadsheet allows you to customize results and sort by the number of shares that occurred on a specific social channel: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google+ and Pinterest.
You can also sort by the total number of shares a specific URL received. The tool also goes one step further by including the anchor text pointing to the URL, and the header status code for that page.
I asked Yousef his motivation behind building such a great tool:
?Creating compelling content is not cheap nor is it easy, it is imperative to carry out research to find out what type of content has worked for your competitors.?I created Social Crawlytics because there was nothing out there that could allow me to carry out this type of research, particularly for large websites.?
Yousef also repeatedly mentioned that Social Crawlytics is a free service, and he does not have any commercial motives at this time. ?It is a tool made out of love and passion,?? he said, ?I am footing the server bills myself? I don?t ask for money but if a user thinks the service is worthy or useful they can choose to donate.?
Personally, with the countless tools I use regularly, ?I can attest that this tool fulfills a professional need, not just for social media marketers and community managers, but for any business who markets online and relies on site traffic and visibility. And not just for internal business reasons, but for competitive analyses as well.
How will you use a tool like this? Share your ideas in the comments below.
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