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Consuming sweetened drinks, especially of the diet soda or fizzy drink type, is tied to a higher risk for depression, while drinking coffee is linked to a slightly lower risk, according to new research due to be presented at a neurology conference in the US.

Study researcher Honglei Chen, of the National Institutes of Health in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina in the US, tells the press in a statement issued on Tuesday:

"Sweetened beverages, coffee and tea are commonly consumed worldwide and have important physical - and may have important mental - health consequences."

The study will be presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) that is due to take place in March in San Diego.

For the large study, AAN member Chen and colleagues evaluated beverage consumption from 1995 to 1996 among 263,925 people aged between 50 and 71. Beverages included sodas, tea, coffee, and sweetened fruit drinks.

About ten years later, the researchers asked the participants whether, at any time since the year 2000, they had received a diagnosis for depression. 11,311 of the participants reported they had received such a diagnosis.

When they compared the data on drinks consumption with the diagnosis for depression data, the researchers found that participants who drank more than four cups or cans of soda, either sugar-sweetened or diet, per day were 30% more likely to have received a diagnosis for depression than those who consumed none.

Those who drank four cans of fruit punch per day, either sugar-sweetened or diet, were about 38% more likely to develop depression than those who drank no sweetened drinks.

Consuming diet versions of soda, fruit punches and iced tea was associated with a greater risk for depression than consuming versions sweetened with regular sugar.

Coffee consumption, on the other hand, appeared to have a different effect. The researchers found participants who drank four cups of coffee per day were about 10% less likely to develop depression than those who drank none.
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Coffee. The great anti-depressant.
 
Wow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20970928

When you can't feel individual keys on a touchscreen device it can be hard to type at speed.

That is why Tactus, a company based in California, has developed technology which can turn a typical flat tablet screen into a real keyboard with bumpy buttons.

The keyboard rises from the tablet when needed, before disappearing when the typing is done.
 
hockeylover said:
Wow.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20970928

When you can't feel individual keys on a touchscreen device it can be hard to type at speed.

That is why Tactus, a company based in California, has developed technology which can turn a typical flat tablet screen into a real keyboard with bumpy buttons.

The keyboard rises from the tablet when needed, before disappearing when the typing is done.
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That looks awesome.
 
My wife is upset that I am going to go on the same diet as Thief Spence. She's worried about my weight gain.

Here is something to think about.....

In a community meeting, I was told by some very skanked faced man that wind turbines should pay 10% of the gross income to native tribes because.......get ready for this....wind passes over the native lands. No, I'm not making this up.

I did all I could to stop laughing at the threatening skank faces and the absurd claim. But I'm not laughing anymore. There is s systematic legal warfare to lay claim to anything and everything. Even if there is no merit, the intent is to get "settlements".

If you think I'm kidding, you ain't seen nothing yet.........
 
CH1 said:
I actually like how delusional these native leaders appear. Most public sympathy will eventually go against them.

It's time they join the mainstream.
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No they wont. The far left and the majority of Indians want to sell the "colonialism" meme. The implication is that the treaties are irrelevant and were forced through colonial imperialism. All the lands belong to the various tribes and they want a redo....a repossession and leasing out.

You ain't seen nothing yet.....
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Was he drunk or did he smell of lysol/glue? That might be your first clue.
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THEY.....as in three of them. Big, fat, REALLY FAT, and skank faces to die for. Basically couch potatoes, or is that tepee potatoes?

I told them that I "understand their issues" but it's not a provincial issue and they should take up their "moving air rights" with the Federal government. Basically, bullsh*t. And life went on.......until I sell out.

But it doesn't end there...

http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2006-08-10/Front_Page/001.html
 
IrishWolfman said:
The thing about the Idle No More movement is that extremists in the Aboriginal community are taking attention away from the legitimate issues that these communities have.

First off, we need to get rid of the Indian Act. It's a racist, piece of garbage legislation that causes more problems than it will ever solve. About the only people who don't want it eliminated are corrupt chiefs who exploit the blind spots in the current system and morons in the bureaucracy who believe that ensuring Natives remain wards of the State will eventually help them succeed.

Second, making it easier to lease land as the federal government is trying to do, will actually benefit bands in the long run. We've heard all about ensuring that they see benefit from resource developments. This is actually going to help do that.

Third, we need fully accountable band elections.We also need more serious accountability measures to ensure money that is actually sent to reservations isn't being misappropriated.

Fourth, civilian authorities responsible for maintaining safe drinking water in surrounding municipalities will take over that responsibility on reserves. A few years ago, a Conservation Authority offered to take over monitoring the drinking water on a nearby reservation. They were allowed on to the reserve but informed the Band Council that they would need access to all the wells and record of maintenance by the band. They were subsequently asked to leave the reserve.
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There is not a single thing in there that I disagree with BUT this is NOT about doing the common sense thing. This is about power and rendering treaties as selectively invalid. Did I mention power?

The meme being sold is that of "colonialism". Why do they insist on the presence of the crown? To sell the meme that Canada is just a negotiation between sovereign nations. If they establish the notion of negotiations between sovereign nations, then they can lay claim of treaties were established under colonialism and they are simply fighting to end colonial rule.

Harper is NOT doing himself a favor by constantly backing away from establishing that the ONLY party they can talk to is Canada and the discussion is about living condition and helping those in need.

At the worse, we may find ourselves playing cowboys and Indians like Oka. Or if there is a hard push by the left to give in, you will find a sudden rise to far right groups or parties.
 
Bait or sarcasm....either way, it's not funny.

Thief Spence and her kind aside, there are too many people living in squalor. Some of it by their own making, some of it by shear incompetence of their leadership choices and some, by Canadians who think by kicking the can down the road makes it better.
 
HabsAddict said:
No they wont. The far left and the majority of Indians want to sell the "colonialism" meme.
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Nobody is buying. I mean, I'm about as socially left as it gets without a degree in women's studies (economics is a different matter mind you), and I'm not buying a single bit that they're selling. Anyone who has been to a rez knows that it's all full of shit.

The implication is that the treaties are irrelevant and were forced through colonial imperialism
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And where I sympathize with this to an extent, I'm not a fan of paying for shit that was done prior to my daddy living inside someone elses balls.

All the lands belong to the various tribes and they want a redo....a repossession and leasing out.
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That shit isn't going to fly with HarperInc. It's one of the few things I trust his judgement on.
 
These issues have mostly been dealt with by Canadian courts already. Read up on Aboriginal title (which incidentally hasn't ever been successfully proven in court). It heavily restricts commercial use of land and resources. I don't see how any of these recent claims will change any of that.
 
MindzEye said:
Nobody is buying. I mean, I'm about as socially left as it gets without a degree in women's studies (economics is a different matter mind you), and I'm not buying a single bit that they're selling. Anyone who has been to a rez knows that it's all full of shit.

And where I sympathize with this to an extent, I'm not a fan of paying for shit that was done prior to my daddy living inside someone elses balls.

That shit isn't going to fly with HarperInc. It's one of the few things I trust his judgement on.
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Neither am I. Not one iota. And I'm probably more willing then most to do Oka again.... without the subsequent appeasing.

Harper already told them that the legislation changes are no go. He's playing them for what they are without showing any teeth. Yet.

I've had limited but bad dealing with any Indian I have come in contact with from a business point of view. McF*ck gives preferential treatment to Indians in his greenwashing projects. It's a point system and if an Indian group is involved, you get extra points and head for the front of the line for approval. I rather go fishing then give an Indian 15% of a multimillion dollar project AND 15% of the profit so he can put his signature on contract. I don't think people realize how corrupt the McF*ck greenwahsing is.

The there was the time when I started my business and needed a few machines from an auction. ALL the machines were WAY overbid and they went to some reserve "initiative", only to find them back on the market within five years. Semi destroyed. I wonder, they can buy machines, but where is the knowledge? I'm not criticizing them for not having it, I'm criticizing those who think that buying machines (Dept of Indian Affairs?) is the only requirement for a successful, competitive business. Particularly in heavy manufacturing.

Having said that, I'm sure that there are plenty of successful Indian businesses. Most probably started by the Indians themselves rather then buying machines in an auction and parachuting them on a reserve.

I feel for the 95 percenters on reserves. I can see how everything that can go wrong will go wrong with the system that they and we have in place.
 
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manny said:
These issues have mostly been dealt with by Canadian courts already. Read up on Aboriginal title (which incidentally hasn't ever been successfully proven in court). It heavily restricts commercial use of land and resources. I don't see how any of these recent claims will change any of that.
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I don't think that there is any independent green projects on treaty lands. From what I was told (second/third hand), there is no way to win commercial disputes from a lawsuit. And even if the ruling is in your favor, there is no way to enforce it.
 
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/14/169305324/beijings-air-quality-reaches-hazardous-levels

In China's capital, they're calling it the "airpocalypse," with air pollution that's literally off the charts. The air has been classified as hazardous to human health for a fifth consecutive day, at its worst hitting pollution levels 25 times that considered safe in the U.S. The entire city is blanketed in a thick grey smog that smells of coal and stings the eyes, leading to official warnings to stay inside.

Environmentalists say it's the worst pollution since monitoring began last year, while many others believe the levels are unprecedented in Beijing's history. The smog has affected more than 30 cities in China, leading even the official mouthpiece, the People's Daily, to ask plaintively: "How can we get out of this suffocating siege of pollution?"

The conditions are expected to linger for two more days.

China is choking on its own breakneck development, with thousands of new cars taking to the road every day. This year, the pollution has been exacerbated by weather patterns, combined with an unusually cold spell.

"In the winter, we have to burn more coal to get heating," says Zhou Rong of Greenpeace. She says around 50 percent of Beijing's air pollution is historically due to coal-fired power stations. "Another reason is the weather pattern makes the whole atmosphere very, very stable, and so all the air pollution accumulates down to the ground, so we are getting higher and higher air pollution."
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China is choking on its own breakneck development, with thousands of new cars taking to the road every day. This year, the pollution has been exacerbated by weather patterns, combined with an unusually cold spell.

"In the winter, we have to burn more coal to get heating," says Zhou Rong of Greenpeace. She says around 50 percent of Beijing's air pollution is historically due to coal-fired power stations. "Another reason is the weather pattern makes the whole atmosphere very, very stable, and so all the air pollution accumulates down to the ground, so we are getting higher and higher air pollution."
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The end result of that will be the inevitable end to China's financial advantage. Once they start putting in the same environmental laws we have here to prevent this kind of shit, suddenly, it won't be as cheap to build it all there.
And that's when the 1% "job creators" will start exploiting another area.
 
http://www.latimes.com/business/tec...urce=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=515009

Too lazy to look into whether this is actually serious or not, but I saw this on Twitter and can't recall anything similar to this. It sounds like they have found pretty big loopholes in java's security and Homeland Security is now recommending that people disable Java in their web browsers. I don't think Java is as prevalent as it once was (not like Flash), but am sure it must still be floating around for some purpose on the interwebs in some way.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is continuing to advise users to disable Java on their Web browsers, despite Oracle issuing an update that the company said would fix the software's vulnerability to hackers.

Oracle, which owns Java, issued an update Sunday that supposedly fixed a security flaw found in the software. The update came after Homeland Security warned users last week of a vulnerability within the software that could be exploited by hackers to install malware on users' computers.

Oracle "strongly" recommended that all users update in order to get the fix.

But Homeland Security said it may not be enough.

"Unless it is absolutely necessary to run Java in Web browsers, disable it," Homeland Security's computer emergency readiness team said in a note updated Monday.
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for those who think there's reason for some concern, here's a link to disable (big pain in the ass if you're on explorer).

http://www.slashgear.com/turn-off-java-they-warn-heres-how-you-do-it-12265037/
 
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