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With a budget phone sporting a camera capable of beautiful shots, Sony could be onto something good here.
The Xperia L is Sony Mobile?s latest in a long list of Xperia devices to hit the market, the most recent and notable; the Xperia Z. While there is a good amount of information about the device available through the FCC filings report, there?s no direct indication at this time as to when the Xperia L will be available ?worldwide?.
It appears to hold true to the Sony devices that came before it and has specs that are roughly one generation old. In this case, rather than being slow to market or the result a design fault, it appears to be deliberate decision with the apparent intent to keep the end-user out-of-pocket expense down.
The user manual gives little away as to any special functions of the phone and the pictures look like it?s probably a little on the chunky side for a market that?s obsessed with sleek, thin phones but until we get our hands on one it?s a bit hard to say for sure if the size is justified.
Where do you think the market for a phone like the Xperia L sits? Let us know in the comments below.
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For a few frantic hours Monday night, it seemed like tough-on-pot senators in the Colorado legislature were going to make good on their threat to put a measure on the November ballot that would allow voters to repeal parts of a marijuana legalization amendment if they didn?t also pass a tax measure funding regulation of this new industry.
But the measure failed.
The proposal would have posed two questions to voters ? one asking for approval of two special taxes on recreational marijuana and another stripping the state constitution of provisions that allow for retail pot stores if the first question failed.
Two-dozen senators backed the plan, which was supported by an anti-marijuana group called Smart Colorado.
With just two days left in the legislative session, the proposal was introduced at 6 p.m., the very last minute possible to allow it to be heard and voted on in committee and in both Democratic-controlled chambers before the midnight Wednesday deadline.
An hour after it was introduced, it passed a Senate committee on a 4-1 vote and was due for first reading in the full Senate before midnight.
The Denver Post?reports that?the proposal caused a panic among the many marijuana advocates staying late at the capitol. People scrambled to find paper copies of the proposal (it wasn?t immediately posted on the Senate website) and to sign up to testify against it.
Those opposed to the measure have said anti-marijuana groups would campaign for a ?no? vote on the tax plan in order to kill retail sales, which is included as part of the broad marijuana legalization package in Amendment 64, which?voters approved in November by a 55-45 percent margin.
Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/07/effort-to-repeal-colorados-legal-pot-law-fails-at-the-last-minute/
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Public release date: 7-May-2013
Share ] Contact: Anna Mikulak
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Association for Psychological Science
Some memory problems common to older adults may stem from an inability to segment daily life into discrete experiences, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
The study suggests that problems processing everyday events may be the result of age-related atrophy to a part of the brain called the medial temporal lobe (MTL).
"When you think back on what you did yesterday, you don't just press 'play' and watch a continuous stream of 24 hours," says psychological scientist Heather Bailey of Washington University in St. Louis, who led the study. "Your brain naturally chunks the events in your day into discrete parts."
Bailey and her colleagues hypothesized that older adults may have difficulty with memory for everyday events because they don't segment them in the same way as they're happening.
In the study, older adults some of whom had Alzheimer's type dementia watched short movies of people doing everyday tasks, such as a woman making breakfast or a man building a Lego ship. They were told to separate the movie into chunks by pressing a button whenever they thought one part of the activity in the movie was ending and a new part was beginning.
Afterward, the researchers asked the older adults to recall what happened in the movie. They also measured the size of the older adults' MTL using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
"The older adults who showed atrophy in the MTL weren't as good at remembering the everyday activities, and they weren't as good at segmenting and chunking the events as they were happening," says Bailey. "MTL size accounted for a huge portion of the relationship that we saw between participants' ability to segment and their memory for the events."
These findings suggest that the characteristic forgetfulness of the aging mind isn't just a problem with recalling memories later, but also with how we view and chunk events as they unfold, a process that depends on MTL functioning.
In light of this, focusing on how to better form new memories may be one way to improve older adults' memory for everyday events, even for those adults who have clinical diagnoses like Alzheimer's.
"Alzheimer's disease attacks the MTL in the early stages of the disease," says Bailey. "But even with MTL atrophy you may be able to train people to chunk better, which might help them to remember their everyday activities better, too."
As part of their future research, Bailey and colleagues hope to further investigate the link between event perception and memory to see if they can combat memory impairments in older adults.
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Co-authors on the research include Jeffrey M. Zacks and Denise Head of Washington University in St. Louis; David Z. Hambrick and Rose T. Zacks of Michigan State University; Christopher A. Kurby and Jesse Q. Sargent of Francis Marion University.
This research was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants R01 AG031150 and F32 AG039162; and National Institute on Aging Grants P50 AG05681, P01 AG03991, and P01 AG26276.
For more information about this study, please contact: Heather R. Bailey at hroth@artsci.wustl.edu.
The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Medial Temporal Lobe Volume Predicts Elders' Everyday Memory" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.
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Public release date: 7-May-2013 Share ] Contact: Anna Mikulak
amikulak@psychologicalscience.org
202-293-9300
Association for Psychological Science
Some memory problems common to older adults may stem from an inability to segment daily life into discrete experiences, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
The study suggests that problems processing everyday events may be the result of age-related atrophy to a part of the brain called the medial temporal lobe (MTL).
"When you think back on what you did yesterday, you don't just press 'play' and watch a continuous stream of 24 hours," says psychological scientist Heather Bailey of Washington University in St. Louis, who led the study. "Your brain naturally chunks the events in your day into discrete parts."
Bailey and her colleagues hypothesized that older adults may have difficulty with memory for everyday events because they don't segment them in the same way as they're happening.
In the study, older adults some of whom had Alzheimer's type dementia watched short movies of people doing everyday tasks, such as a woman making breakfast or a man building a Lego ship. They were told to separate the movie into chunks by pressing a button whenever they thought one part of the activity in the movie was ending and a new part was beginning.
Afterward, the researchers asked the older adults to recall what happened in the movie. They also measured the size of the older adults' MTL using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
"The older adults who showed atrophy in the MTL weren't as good at remembering the everyday activities, and they weren't as good at segmenting and chunking the events as they were happening," says Bailey. "MTL size accounted for a huge portion of the relationship that we saw between participants' ability to segment and their memory for the events."
These findings suggest that the characteristic forgetfulness of the aging mind isn't just a problem with recalling memories later, but also with how we view and chunk events as they unfold, a process that depends on MTL functioning.
In light of this, focusing on how to better form new memories may be one way to improve older adults' memory for everyday events, even for those adults who have clinical diagnoses like Alzheimer's.
"Alzheimer's disease attacks the MTL in the early stages of the disease," says Bailey. "But even with MTL atrophy you may be able to train people to chunk better, which might help them to remember their everyday activities better, too."
As part of their future research, Bailey and colleagues hope to further investigate the link between event perception and memory to see if they can combat memory impairments in older adults.
###
Co-authors on the research include Jeffrey M. Zacks and Denise Head of Washington University in St. Louis; David Z. Hambrick and Rose T. Zacks of Michigan State University; Christopher A. Kurby and Jesse Q. Sargent of Francis Marion University.
This research was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants R01 AG031150 and F32 AG039162; and National Institute on Aging Grants P50 AG05681, P01 AG03991, and P01 AG26276.
For more information about this study, please contact: Heather R. Bailey at hroth@artsci.wustl.edu.
The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Medial Temporal Lobe Volume Predicts Elders' Everyday Memory" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/afps-oam050713.php
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Public release date: 6-May-2013 Share ] Contact: Julie Robert
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McGill University Health Centre
This news release is available in French.
Physicians from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the University of Calgary have published a review article in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) to help family doctors diagnose and treat fibromyalgia. The article represents the first time researchers have published Canadian guidelines to help manage the condition.
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that affects the central nervous system causing pain throughout the body. It is often accompanied by fatigue, depression and sleep problems. It affects mostly women and their multiple symptoms often go years without a proper diagnosis and treatment.
"One million Canadians have fibromyalgia and the time has come to take their suffering seriously. This is a real condition that greatly impacts patients and their families. Finally there are national guidelines to help diagnose and treat this syndrome," says Dr. John Pereira, a study co-author from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine and a physician at the Calgary Chronic Pain Centre.
Fibromyalgia is usually diagnosed by rheumatologists but due to the high prevalence of the disease many patients are not able to seek advice from a specialist. Therefore, primary care physicians are best positioned to take over this role, as recommended by the 2012 Canadian Fibromyalgia Guidelines. In the review, the authors provide evidence-based tools for primary care physicians to make the diagnosis and manage the condition long-term.
"We are the first ones to develop guidelines that look at diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of fibromyalgia," says Dr. Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, corresponding author from the Research Institute of the MUHC and MUHC's rheumatologist. "Currently, there is no cure for fibromyalgia but the guidelines set out the most appropriate management strategy."
Authors recommend non-pharmaceutical interventions such as exercise, relaxation techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy as well as medications tailored to the individual patient. The main treatment goal is to improve quality of life by alleviating the most troublesome symptom(s), with pain recognized as the most common and serious.
The authors also urge more research into the effects of early diagnosis and treatment as well as other treatment options. For more information on fibromyalgia, visit http://fmguidelines.ca/.
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Media contacts:
Calgary for Dr. John Pereira
Marta Cyperling, Media Relations Manager, University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine;
403-210-3835, marta.cyperling@ucalgary.ca
Montreal for Dr. Mary-Ann Fitzcharles
Julie Robert, Communications Coordinator, Research, Public Affairs & Strategic Planning, McGill University Health Centre;
514-934-1934 ext. 71381, julie.robert@muhc.mcgill.ca
MEDIA NOTE:
Please use the following public link to access the online study: http://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.121414
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Public release date: 6-May-2013 Share ] Contact: Julie Robert
julie.robert@muhc.mcgill.ca
514-934-1934 x71381
McGill University Health Centre
This news release is available in French.
Physicians from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the University of Calgary have published a review article in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) to help family doctors diagnose and treat fibromyalgia. The article represents the first time researchers have published Canadian guidelines to help manage the condition.
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that affects the central nervous system causing pain throughout the body. It is often accompanied by fatigue, depression and sleep problems. It affects mostly women and their multiple symptoms often go years without a proper diagnosis and treatment.
"One million Canadians have fibromyalgia and the time has come to take their suffering seriously. This is a real condition that greatly impacts patients and their families. Finally there are national guidelines to help diagnose and treat this syndrome," says Dr. John Pereira, a study co-author from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine and a physician at the Calgary Chronic Pain Centre.
Fibromyalgia is usually diagnosed by rheumatologists but due to the high prevalence of the disease many patients are not able to seek advice from a specialist. Therefore, primary care physicians are best positioned to take over this role, as recommended by the 2012 Canadian Fibromyalgia Guidelines. In the review, the authors provide evidence-based tools for primary care physicians to make the diagnosis and manage the condition long-term.
"We are the first ones to develop guidelines that look at diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of fibromyalgia," says Dr. Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, corresponding author from the Research Institute of the MUHC and MUHC's rheumatologist. "Currently, there is no cure for fibromyalgia but the guidelines set out the most appropriate management strategy."
Authors recommend non-pharmaceutical interventions such as exercise, relaxation techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy as well as medications tailored to the individual patient. The main treatment goal is to improve quality of life by alleviating the most troublesome symptom(s), with pain recognized as the most common and serious.
The authors also urge more research into the effects of early diagnosis and treatment as well as other treatment options. For more information on fibromyalgia, visit http://fmguidelines.ca/.
###
Media contacts:
Calgary for Dr. John Pereira
Marta Cyperling, Media Relations Manager, University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine;
403-210-3835, marta.cyperling@ucalgary.ca
Montreal for Dr. Mary-Ann Fitzcharles
Julie Robert, Communications Coordinator, Research, Public Affairs & Strategic Planning, McGill University Health Centre;
514-934-1934 ext. 71381, julie.robert@muhc.mcgill.ca
MEDIA NOTE:
Please use the following public link to access the online study: http://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.121414
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AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/muhc-ncg050313.php
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Due to the changes in our economic society today, more people are looking online to either add to their income or to have this as their primary source of revenue. Online marketing seems to have a lot to offer many people.
One of the things that online marketing offers, due to the nature of the internet, is a world-wide marketplace. The more people that can buy your merchandise the more money you can make. Another advantage of an online business is the cost of setting it up. Setting up an online business is a fraction of the cost of setting up a brick and mortar business.
A big attraction for people looking at affiliate marketing is they do not need their own product. With this type of online business you do not even need your own product, you can just sell other people's products. This is known as affiliate marketing and all you need to do is sign up to be an affiliate and you are off and running.
More and more people are turning towards affiliate marketing. One of the big draws is that you can get started fairly quickly since you do not need your own merchandise to sell. We all know however that there is more than that to affiliate marketing.
Usually when you sign up as an affiliate there is no charge. Merchants who do charge a fee usually give some tools and services to the affiliate to get them started. Merchants that require you to have a website will ask you for a URL. By asking to see a URL they know that you do have a website to promote their product on. Other online retailers do not even care if you have a website.
You also can sign up for an affiliate network. An affiliate network hosts many diverse affiliate programs from various online merchants or retailers. It is generally free to sign up and any payments or charges are handled by the network and not the individual merchant. Even though you are a member of the network you still need to join each program that you wish to promote.
These tools will often give an affiliate a good start on their campaign. After all if an affiliate is making money so is the merchant.
Once you become an affiliate do you know what you need to do? We all know that you need to sell the products for the merchant, however there are other ways an affiliate can make money.
Affiliates get paid for three things:
? PPC - Pay Per Click
? PPS - Pay Per Sale
? PPL - Pay Per Lead
An affiliate will earn money by just getting a person to visit the merchant's site they are promoting. In PPS the affiliate gets paid if the person he sent to the merchant's site turns into a customer. The affiliate will earn a certain percentage of the sale. With the PPL type of lead, the lead needs to turn into a sale and then the affiliate is paid a set amount.
There are also two tiered affiliate programs. With this type of affiliate program you can recommend others to sign up under you in the affiliate program. When these affiliates, who are signed up under you, make a sale or generate a lead, you will receive some money also.
Another source of income for an affiliate is residual. An example of this would be when a customer signs up for a site with a recurring monthly fee. As long as they are still a member then you receive income. An affiliate will generate residual revenue when the person who signed up through them buys something. This happens for every product that your sign up buys.
It may now seem a bit clearer as to why people are trying to make money through the internet. If you are willing to put in the time and work really hard you could generate a good deal of revenue. Are you up to the challenge??
Businesses go to so much trouble when there is one sure-fire, simple, very inexpensive way to attract new clients to a business: Teach a free class. That is what article marketing is like. Your articles are just like free classes. You teach your target readers something helpful in your article. Your resource box then says, "If you enjoyed this article you can visit my website and apply what you have learned."
Being an entrepreneur and earning multiple streams of income is a dream that many have, but in reality it does take some initial hard work to achieve this. Earning multiple streams of income is the wave of the future, and here are some tips and advice for you when you are looking for ways in which to do this for yourself.
Starting a home based business to earn income online takes a significant amount of time and energy upfront to get things going. Not seeing results immediately can be discouraging and cause people to give up too early. In this article, we look at the process of starting a home based business and working through the frustrations to be there when the sales come flowing in.
Cyber marketing has now become an indispensable segment of e-commerce as well as the internet and World Wide Web related topics. Cyber marketing simply refers to a technique of attracting potential customers by advertising your products or services through such means as websites, emails, and banners.
If you want your SEO to work you now need to concentrate on appeasing Google Panda, and to do this you need to know what Google Panda's spiders/bots will be looking for. Find out here how to search engine optimise your website for the latest Google Panda algorithm, and achieve the success you deserve.
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