Planning to give up smoking is hard, but if you study enough methods beforehand, you’ll definitely accomplish your goal. Here you’ll find five quick tips that should be extremely beneficial in your process of stopping smoking.

Tip #1: List all of your reasons for wanting to quit.

You obviously have many reasons for looking to quit. Bring all of them to mind. It may be your health, it could be saving all the money that cigarettes cost, or it could be looking to set a good example for your children. Whatever the reasons may be, obtain a good image of them in your mind, one that you can return to when you want a cigarette later on. A lot of people find it helpful to write them down and keep a list handy for later on.

Tip #2: Choose a day to stop.

Choosing a date can be a powerful method in keeping your commitment to yourself. Pick a date that gives you time to ready for your life after smoking, but one that is close enough that you will not give yourself the chance to back out. The closer it is, the more you will be able to use your current motivation on that day. Just make sure you pick a day and stick to it.

Tip #3: Plan new activities to replace smoking.

Most of the reasons that people fall back into smoking have to do with it being a habit. They smoke at the bar, or with their daily coffee, or on breaks from work. You are going to need to create a new habit to take the place of when you used to smoke. Something active and physical is especially useful here. What about daily walks with a friend, or even a new sport?

Tip #4: Consider the use of nicotine replacement therapy.

A lot of people find that they are helped greatly in quitting smoking by the use of nicotine replacement therapy. This is the practice of taking a form of nicotine medicine to calm your cravings for a cigarette, and then slowly stepping down the levels of nicotine that you’re receiving until you no longer require any nicotine at all. This helps reduce your addiction and can greatly increase your control over cravings while making your success much more likely.

Tip #5: Reward yourself!

One great side advantage of quitting smoking is that you’ll be saving a ton of money. Cigarettes are not cheap and you’re probably smoking at least some every day. Why not collect all the money you save from no longer buying cigarettes and buy yourself something you’ve really been wanting? It’s important to reward yourself to give you the positive mindset to keep going in your journey to give up smoking!

The crackerjack marketing teams at Unilever Brazil have come up with a promotion for the ages — they’ve implanted GPS tracking devices  into fifty boxes of the popular Omo laundry soap, and plan to follow buyers all the way to their doorsteps. We’re sure it’s a harmless promotion — the chosen get a free video camera — but on paper it sounds hilariously bad. You see, the promotions agency (aptly named Bullet) may be knocking on doors in neighborhoods with high crime rates, where unwitting individuals may not open the door, but should that happen there’s a backup plan — they’ll instruct the box to start beeping  via remote. If the bomb scare doesn’t smoke out prospective winners, we’re not sure if Bullet will bash down the doors, but the disastrous recipe also includes plans to post the general vicinity where winners live (complete with photographs) at an experimental website. And you thought Walmart’s new RFID tags were bad.

Attempts to treat the world’s most common form of dementia may have been attacking its symptoms, not its root cause

I HAVE lost myself,” cried Auguste Deter to her physician. Deter was trying to write her name, scrawling “Mrs” in a spidery script, only to forget the rest every time.

“What are you eating?” the doctor asked Deter on her second day at the hospital for the mentally ill in Frankfurt, Germany, as the confused 51-year-old lunched on cauliflower and pork. “Potatoes,” she replied.

That was in 1901. When Deter died five years later, an autopsy revealed that her brain was riddled with strange tangles and plaques of a fibrous material containing the remnants of dead brain cells. She became the first described case of a form of dementia now known by the name of her doctor – one Alois Alzheimer.

Over a century later, research into Alzheimer’s disease still revolves around efforts to understand those mysterious plaques and tangles. Despite decades of work, no effective treatment exists, never mind a cure. The world’s population is ageing, so that search is becoming more urgent. Alzheimer’s disease is now recognised as the most common form of dementia, with over 25 million people living with the disease worldwide, and that number is expected to pass 100 million by 2050 (see diagram). Yet today, even definitively diagnosing the disease can still only be done at autopsy.

The situation is starting to change, however. Thanks to a new imaging technique, the plaques can now be seen in the brains of living people. Not only could this allow early diagnosis, it is helping to overturn the long-standing orthodoxy over the causes of Alzheimer’s and paving the way for effective treatments.

For the past two decades, Alzheimer’s research has been dominated by the “amyloid cascade hypothesis”: the idea that it is the plaques themselves that lead to the cognitive problems of Alzheimer’s. They are aggregations of a protein called amyloid beta, which forms naturally in the brain, but whose production somehow goes into overdrive during Alzheimer’s disease (see “Brain defence gone wrong?”). The proteins clump together to form plaques, which are toxic to neurons, eventually killing them, or so the theory goes (Science, vol 256, p 184).

Drug developers immediately grasped the implication of the theory, that medicines able to block or break up the plaques should slow, or even reverse, the progression of the disease. This idea has guided millions of dollars’ worth of drug development effort. Just about every potential Alzheimer’s drug in the pipeline targets amyloid and its supposed toxicity.

The excitement has faded fast. So far, at least, none of the treatments derived from the amyloid hypothesis has ever resulted in significant clinical improvement in clinical trials. “It has been a problem for people working on [the amyloid plaque theory] for 20 years – the drugs that have come out of it have all failed at stage II or III of clinical trials,” says Susanne Sorensen, head of research at the UK’s Alzheimer’s Society. Sorensen has never seen a trial that reported people getting better.

Take b-mab, for example. This drug was developed to clear amyloid plaques from the brain, but results released in 2008 showed that it had no significant effect on the rate of cognitive decline (Neurology, vol 73, p 2061). That raised a question. Was b-mab failing to clear the plaques, or were the plaques themselves not the problem?

We are now beginning to get answers. A team at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, led by William Klunk and Chester Mathis has developed a brain-imaging marker called PiB that selectively sticks to amyloid plaques, lighting them up in PET scans. The marker means plaques can be seen in living people, and changes in plaque size can be monitored.

In February, a Finnish team used PiB to show that when people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s were given b-mab, the plaques did indeed clear – by as much as 25 per cent over 18 months compared with a placebo (The Lancet Neurology, vol 9, p 363). Yet people given b-mab experienced the same progression of symptoms as those on the placebo. In other words, the drug was doing what it was supposed to do, but without slowing the disease.

The study seems to confirm what has long been suspected from post-mortem evidence: that plaque size and dementia symptoms don’t correlate. That has always been the central objection to the plaque hypothesis, says Dominic Walsh, a neurologist at University College Dublin in Ireland. “Lots of people have Alzheimer’s plaques but are not demented.”

If the plaques aren’t responsible, then what is? Alzheimer saw more than plaques in Deter’s brain: there were also the tangles, which form inside neurons themselves.

The tangled material is now known to be made of a protein called tau, which can build up until it almost fills the neuron, which then dies. Crucially, unlike with plaques, the number of tangles in a patient’s brain seems to correlate well with their level of dementia.

Recent studies also suggest that stopping tau molecules from clumping together could be an effective drug target. A drug called Rember, made by a Singapore-based start-up called TauRx Pharmaceuticals, has shown promising results in early trials, and the company claims to have an even more effective version that will begin final-stage trials this year.

That might seem to be the end of the amyloid theory. Not quite. A number of studies have investigated what triggers tau to accumulate in neurons in the first place, and they point right back to amyloid beta (Science, vol 293, p 1491). So even if tau is the direct cause of dementia, amyloid beta build-up could still be the trigger.

If that is the case, then why don’t plaque-targeting drugs seem to work? A growing number of researchers suspect that the problem is that they have been looking at the wrong form of the protein. There is increasing evidence that short chains of amyloid beta molecules known as oligomers are really responsible for the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Oligomers – small, soluble precursors to the large, insoluble plaques – appear from cell and animal studies to be damaging to neurons. In fact, many now believe that the plaques may actually be the brain’s way of disposing of something toxic.

In April, this theory got a huge boost from a study by Sam Gandy at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and his colleagues. The team engineered mice to produce oligomers but stop short of developing plaques and found that the animals experienced the same memory and cognitive problems as those that had plaques did (Annals of Neurology, DOI: 10.1002/ana.22052). “At least in mice, the oligomer dose did seem to correspond pretty much with the severity of the memory problems,” says Gandy.
The real bad boys

The study is a coup de grâce, says Rudolph Tanzi, an Alzheimer’s researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. “It finally shows exactly what all the previous data were pointing to but never directly showed – we can have a brain with no plaques but still have problems.”

Gandy thinks the oligomers may kill brain cells by making them leaky. Like cell membranes, amyloid beta is relatively hydrophobic, which could draw the two together. If the oligomer then punctured the membrane, it would kill the cell. Alternatively, the oligomers may be acting indirectly: other studies have shown that they can cause the precursors of tau tangles to appear (The Journal of Neuroscience, vol 30, p 4845). No one knows for sure, though, and to find out researchers first need to know exactly which size of oligomer is the guilty party.

Tanzi suggests dimers – pairs of amyloid molecules linked by strong covalent bonds. “We believe that these are the real bad boys.” His team has shown that people with Alzheimer’s have equal numbers of antibodies to the amyloid monomer as those without the condition, suggesting that both groups’ immune systems are able to mop up any excess of the amyloid monomer that might accumulate as we age. However, the Alzheimer’s group had significantly fewer antibodies against the stable dimers, so would be less able to remove this seemingly toxic form of amyloid beta (The Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol 280, p 17458).

Whether or not the dimers are the true culprits, or whether larger forms of soluble amyloid beta such as the 12-chained dodecamer are responsible, the oligomer theory is gaining popularity in the field. The theory sounds convincing, says Sorensen.

Dennis Selkoe, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School involved in formulating the original amyloid cascade hypothesis, thinks it’s too early to rule out plaques completely, because they don’t permanently sequester oligomers. Over time, they can also release them. “I believe there’s a limit as to how many oligomers can be efficiently stored within plaques, and when these limits are exceeded, patients begin to experience more and more synaptic dysfunction from free-floating oligomers.”

Other researchers are still to be persuaded by the idea. “The major flaw in the oligomer idea is that nobody has really seen these things in either living patients or autopsy brains,” says Mark Smith, a neurochemist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. They can only be seen after you have isolated them, he points out, so they could just be artefacts of the isolation procedure.

For Gandy, finding a PiB-like marker to show up oligomers in vivo is a priority. Developing PiB took close to a decade, so it might take a while. There might be other ways, though. Not all of the Alzheimer’s drugs being tested at the moment are designed to break up amyloid plaques. Some are targeted much earlier in the process, stopping amyloid beta formation at source – so they should stop oligomer formation too.

One group of drugs, called gamma secretase inhibitors, stop amyloid beta formation by blocking the enzyme that makes it. Although one such drug recently failed a clinical trial, another, developed by drug firms Eli Lilly and Elan Pharmaceuticals, is currently in final-stage clinical trials.

Another promising drug prevents amyloid beta from forming oligomers, as well as breaking up plaques. PBT2 has shown cognitive benefits in trials, according to researchers at Prana, an Australian biotech company. They presented their results at the American Aging Association meeting in Portland, Oregon, in June, adding that the drug also frees the zinc and copper trapped in plaques that are needed for the functioning of nerve cells.

Selkoe suspects that for any of these drugs to work, catching the disease early will be key, which could explain why so many have been disappointing. Clinical trials target people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s, and Selkoe argues that attempting to treat the disease when it is already at the moderate stage is too late. Ideally, drugs should be given before symptoms appear, he says. PiB could be very useful here, as the marker might allow pre-symptomatic cases to be identified.

Whichever theory is correct, that Alzheimer’s research is branching out can only be a good thing. “Before, it was heresy to question the amyloid hypothesis,” says Smith. “I think people are getting a little braver.”
Brain defence gone wrong?

Amyloid beta, the protein synonymous with Alzheimer’s disease, is continually produced by the body throughout life, but its role in normal brain function has remained a mystery. Robert Moir at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston recently noticed that the protein closely resembled others key to the non-specific, or “innate”, part of our immune system.

The innate immune system differs from the “adaptive” immune system in that it produces generic cells and chemicals to fight infection, while the adaptive side churns out specifically targeted lymphocytes and antibodies. The blood-brain barrier protects the brain from most pathogens, but also blocks adaptive cells, so the brain relies on innate immunity for defence.

Amyloid beta might be part of this. Moir’s team tested the protein against 15 important pathogens, and compared its activity to that of an antimicrobial peptide called LL37. Amyloid beta stopped the growth of eight pathogens – in some cases more effectively than LL37. This suggests that Alzheimer’s could be the result of the brain’s own defences going into overdrive (PloS One, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009505).

Moir, along with colleague Rudolph Tanzi, believes that amyloid beta plays a dual role in the brain. The protein seems to be associated with synapses, the junction between neurons. The researchers suspect that during infection, as well as dealing directly with the pathogen, the protein damps down signal transmission at affected synapses.

“But too much of a good thing and it becomes bad,” says Tanzi. Some kind of trauma to the brain, such as chronic infection, a bang to the head or a stroke, could send amyloid production into overdrive, leading to Alzheimer’s.

Shaoni Bhattacharya is a consultant to New Scientist based in London

Some of the outlandish myths wound up suspiciously close to the mark. How? We have no idea.

The Myth:

Even if you’ve never been in the same room as a Bible, we’re guessing you know the story of Noah’s Ark.

Or have at least seen the ethnic, gay, television drama version of it.

God decides mankind is so utterly corrupt that it’s time to hit the reset switch and just flood the planet. Similar stories come up in folklore all over the world, from the ancient Greeks to the Babylonians, always with a huge flood that kills almost everyone, and often with mankind having to recover its population. For instance, in China, it’s a goddess named Nuwa who stops the flood and creates humans out of clay.

Some are more clay-like than others.

In the Bible’s version, God tells Noah that he is less of a dick than everyone else on Earth, and instructs Noah to build a really big boat. Really, really big. So big that it could hold at least two of every single animal on the entire planet. It rained for 40 days, flooding the world and killing off all life except that which was on Noah’s boat. When the flood ended, all of the animals got off the boat and immediately started boning for their lives, because two individuals needed to repopulate their entire species.

At some point a duck wandered into the wrong tent and POW: Platypuses.

The Science:

A worldwide natural disaster that kills everyone but a huddled few, who then have to repopulate the world? It happens all the time. When biologists analyze the past of a species they often run into what they call genetic bottlenecks, indicating evolutionary events where virtually all of a species were killed or otherwise prevented from reproducing.

For instance, cheetahs had one of these not too long ago. You know how if a human gets a skin graft or kidney transplant, we have to find a relative who’s a close enough match and take immunosuppressants so our body doesn’t reject the donor organ? A cheetah wouldn’t have to do any of that. They had such an extreme genetic bottleneck recently (that is, so few remained) that all the Cheetahs we have now are essentially close relatives.

“Cheetahs are the inbred rednecks of the African savannah.” – Jack Hanna

And humans? We’ve previously talked about the Toba Event, some unknown disaster 75,000 years ago that may have reduced the population of humanity to just 5,000 freaking people.

More than were supposedly on Noah’s Ark, sure, but few enough you could have fit everyone left on Earth on board the Titanic.

And while we’re on the Bible…

The Myth:

So there you are: A descendant of the aforementioned Noah. You think you are so great just because you happen to be a direct descendant of the only righteous man of his time. So, you, along with your brothers and cousins, decide that you will build a huge-ass tower to reach the heavens so that you will be famous and what not. If you know the Old Testament you know that at this point God gets all pissed because… well, we actually don’t know. The story doesn’t really make it clear. If God just hates huge, pointless engineering projects then you’d think Dubai would have been hit by a meteor by now.

Seriously, that sailboat/hotel/island resort thing is about as retarded as it gets.

Anyway, God decides to punish mankind and derail the project by making all of the people at the construction site spontaneously start speaking in different languages. The confused builders abandoned the tower and went their separate ways. That is the Bible’s explanation for why people around the world speak different languages. And to think that was all in nine verses.

The Science:

If you’re into linguistics or have taken a class on the subject, you will recognize how uncannily similar this is to the Theory of Monogenesis. This is one of the major theories out there about the evolution of languages, and it states that all of the world’s languages evolved from one language, in one place, at one time.

The original language? Oddly enough, Pig Latin.

It’s a pretty straightforward idea, albeit controversial.

Alfred Trombetti theorized that this single human language came about right around the same time the first humans came about (though it could also be traced back to the aforementioned near-extinction event, where everyone but the speakers of a single language were killed off).

Either way, the theory is that a single human language arose among a single group of humans in a single region, where it then spread it to the rest of the globe.

Then, there’s Hollywood’s theory that all languages have a British accent.

Then each region and race developed the several thousand languages we have in the world today. Just like in the Tower of Babel story, only without the big-ass tower. It’s impossible to know it if it was also due to mankind doing something to piss off God, so we’re going to guess “yes.”

The Myth:

The Bible has no monopoly on this one. Every culture has a creation myth, which makes sense because from the beginning of time kids have been asking their parents where the world came from and you have to tell them something.

Eventually, jingling keys doesn’t cut it for them.

You can’t just sit there like a dumbass, even if you’re living in an era when science has given you zero information on the subject. We’re humans, we don’t just go around admitting we don’t know.

So, the ancient Egyptians told their kids, “A lotus flower arose from the sea by way of an explosive interaction as a bud. Then the lotus flower opens and Khepri emerges.” (Khepri being a deity who gives birth to creation.) Meanwhile, thousands of miles way, some Chinese parent was telling his kid that, “A cosmic egg appeared in the chaos by way of 18,000 years of the chaos coalescing. Then the cosmic egg cracks and P’an-Ku emerges.” Again, P’an-Ku is a being who creates the universe.

Here, the Chinese creation story is recreated by the WWE.

And of course, we have the Genesis account of the universe being formless and empty, then God speaking a word that brings forth light and matter and life.

What’s remarkable is how similar these universal creation myths are, be they Chinese, Egyptian, Hindu, Finnish or otherwise. And, whether it is a golden womb, a cosmic egg or a flower blossom, it’s all generally the same idea, you just plug in the words:

In the beginning, there was nothing but chaos, often depicted by a vast sea. Then, suddenly, a (noun) (arose from/appeared in) the (sea/chaos/nothingness) by way of (some event or lack thereof). Then the (same noun) (erupts/cracks/opens) and (a deity/creation) emerges.

Garnish with warfare and hilarious laws for flavor.

The Science:

You’ve already guessed it. As fantastic as the mythical versions are, the mechanics of the modern Big Bang theory are remarkably similar. In the beginning of the universe, there was nothing. Not even empty space – merely nothing.

This.

Then, suddenly, a primeval atom forms and explodes, creating the universe.

You can fit it exactly into the framework proposed above: In the beginning, there was nothing. Then, suddenly, an atom appeared in the nothingness. Then the primeval atom erupts and the universe emerges.

Whether or not you practice any of the aforementioned religions, you’ve got to admit that’s an impressive guess for people who would have burned you as a witch if you’d shown them a telescope.

Thanks to new research, diabetics could one day have a long-term solution to glucose monitoring. According to Technology Review, researchers implanted glucose sensors in pigs, and have concluded that they worked successfully for two years. Now, David Gough, the bioengineer who founded the company behind the pig experiment, GlySens, is petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve his invention for testing in humans. If approved, this device, which has a diameter of 3 centimeters and is about 1-centimeter thick, could change the lives of diabetics.

There are other implantable glucose-monitoring devices available to diabetics, but each one must be connected via a wire to a processing unit, which has to be carried by the person and replaced every week or so. Gough’s model is unique. The sensor, which would be implanted in the chest, measures glucose levels in tissue, and sends the data to a wireless receiver (like a cell phone or compute), thereby eliminating the need to continually test blood sugar. If the human trials are permitted and yield similarly successful results, this sensor could be a long-term solution for diabetes sufferers.

We’ve seen our diabetic friends prick their fingers enough times to know a small implant would be a major improvement. Also, a device that continuously measures blood-sugar levels and gives accurate readings will allow users to see trends in their health (e.g., spikes in sugar during times of stress). That may mean longer, healthier and happier lives for those that currently invest large amounts of time and energy into insulin management.

Let’s not kid ourselves, when we are hungry we are more inclined to eat food that is easy. “Easy” food is usually pre-prepared & loaded with sodium, calories, etc. Eliminate the temptation for the easy meal. Here are some useful tips:

If you have good intentions and buy vegetables and fruit only to have them rot in the fridge because you don’t want to cut them up, make your life easier and buy the packages of fruit and veggies that are already prepared. So next time you reach for a snack, you can be sure that you don’t have to put forth a lot of effort to eat.

1) Cook several days’ worth of food at one time. Throw a few extra pieces of chicken on the grill, or make an extra batch of pasta. Leftovers can be kept in the fridge for a few days, or easily frozen. When you are hungry, all you have to do is heat it up instead of running out to get the fat-laden burger.

2) There is always a person in the office who keeps a candy dish for everyone to help themselves. Break form, and keep a small basket of fruit on your desk. Apples, oranges, pears of bananas make a great afternoon snack instead of that dish of chocolate.

3) Discuss your nutritional goals with your friends and co-workers. Maybe you will be the inspiration for everyone to eat better. Good habits can be contagious! This will also help keep you on track.

4) Keep carrot sticks or other cut-up vegetables on hand to satisfy that craving for something crunchy. If your office doesn’t have a refrigerator, use a small lunch cooler. Stock peanut butter and jelly or tuna, and a loaf of wheat bread to make a quick sandwich. Instead of skipping lunch or ordering fast food, your body will function more efficiently because you gave it fuel, not empty calories.

5) Pack your lunch the night before to avoid having to go for fast food at lunch time due to lack of time in the morning.

Foods to enjoy daily

Fish (Salmon, Halibut, Trout, Tuna, Sardines, Flounder, etc). Preferably baked, grilled, or broiled.

Lean Meat (Beef, Pork, Ham, Roast Beef, Venison, etc). Please see the section titled Eat Better Meat to learn more about good choices.

Poultry (Chicken, Turkey, Duck, Pheasant, Cornish Hen). Preferably grilled, baked or broiled.

Shellfish (Crab, Oysters, Clams, Mussels, Lobster, Shrimp). Preferably grilled, broiled, or canned.

Eggs (Scrambled, Fried, Omelets, Hard boiled, etc)

Nuts or seeds (any kind) Limit to two handfuls per day.

Cheese (Feta, Mozzarella, Parmesan, Cottage, Soy and low fat varieties) Limit to 2-3 oz per day.

Salad – Any kind of lettuce or greens (Red Leaf lettuce, Iceburg, Romaine, Spinach, Arugula, Endive, etc) Preferably include 4 cups per day or 2 cups salad vegetables
and 1 cup of cooked

vegetables (see below).

Other vegetables for a salad or as a raw snack – Alfalfa sprouts, cabbage, celery, cucumber, carrots, mushrooms, olives, parsley, green and red peppers, onions, tomatoes, zucchini)

Salad dressings – Olive oil and balsamic vinegar, lemon/lime juice or Italian. Other toppings can include nuts, seeds and cheese.

Cooked vegetables (Include 1 cup of cooked vegetables if you’ve eaten only 2 cups of salad vegetables.) Broccoli, cauliflower, squash, zucchini, cabbage, carrots, asparagus, avocado, brussel sprouts, collard greens, eggplant, kale, kohlrabi, Okra, Onion, Rhubarb, Spinach, Snow peas, Turnips, tomatoes, artichokes, beets.

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There are many who face this problem. Young married  people or even guys who are into very good friendship  with their lady friends and want some more from her but don’t know the proper way to approach here. Actually the ways are very simple and your feelings for her also may be very innocent, but the way of approaching is little bit wrong. Here are some tips that should prove very useful to make her love you for the rest of her life!

First of all, for those who have a good friendship relation with their lady friends, they should follow some simple steps to make her realize that you expect something more from her now. The first thing to do is that suddenly try to maintain some distance from her. Act as if you are genuinely busy and have no time to spend with her. Show her that you are busy with your life and you are enjoying your life. Remember this, even if you are her best friend, she considers you to be “hers”. So this feeling that you are enjoying your life without her turns her into a jealous friend. And in this if you add that you are with some other girl, then that’s it. You have made half the battle. Then try meeting her for more occasions and try to spend your time more with her. From your actions, let her know that you need something more, that you look upon her as your girlfriend not just a friend. You do normal flirting that is obvious when you are just friends also, but there are certain more deeds that clearly show what you expect the other person to react upon as. Slowly, she will understand and start to love you and will look upon you as the man for her.

Apart form these; there are certain things married men should follow to make their wives love them forever. Firstly you should be strong emotionally and that should reflect from your actions. You should not always be insecure about your wife. If she meets some of her old guy friends, you should not directly think that she may be betraying you. This shows that you are not confident about yourself. Consider yourself the best for her. This will make her feel that you are very much strong and confident about your relationship. Always try to avoid telling her your problems and pains. She is your wife and she very well knows what problems you are facing. But telling your problems to her every now and then shows that you are not strong emotionally and you seek her to make you stable. This is not expected by any women. What women expect is that they should look upon you for their problems and you should be the one consoling them. Even if you cannot be that strong, at least you can pretend to be. Apart from all these ways, what matters and is very important is that how much faith, commitment and responsibility you both share between you. This sense of faith and responsibility build a strong relation and always keeps it intact.

When you walk into a coffee shop, or even if you make coffee at home, the smell of the brewing coffee is tantalizing, the clink of the cups and saucers reassuring, and then, the coffee is sitting in front of you and you are taking the first sip… There is NOTHING more disappointing than a mouthful of bitter coffee. It does not matter whether you drink French Press, Espresso-based, Filter based or Extract-based coffee: bitter coffee is a downright “slap in the face”.

And, for some reason, more often than not we seem to think that bitter is normal, that we should accept it, that we are just not “coffee-aficionado ‘ enough to appreciate that bitterness. Since we get served bitter coffee so often it MUST be the norm! People, you cannot be more wrong! Coffee, made with fresh coffee beans, roasted to a great flavor profile by a master roaster, and brewed with the right temperature of water in the right way is NEVER bitter!

And yes, ALL these things can go wrong, from roaster to cup.

• The Roast:

Coffee beans can be over-roasted, to the point that the sugars, which are present in the beans, get carbonized instead of caramelized… it is one thing to roast coffee to a darker profile, but the blackened lumps I have seen in shops marked as “Italian” or “Full City ” roast will surely do a better job as pot-scourer than as the base for a good cup of coffee. A good coffee roaster knows how to preserve the flavour nuances, as well as retain the inherent sweetness of each bean variety.

• The Water

Similarly, a good barista should know what temperature the beans currently int eh grinder need to get the best coffee out of them. Before a new variety is added to the range in the shop, the coffee should be tasted and tasted again, until the perfect temperature settings for that bean have been found. Naturally, if you make coffee at home you can only do so much testing and adjusting, but it pays to check if the water which comes out of your espresso machine is too hot and burns the coffee, which would result in a bitter flavor (it should be 92 degrees Celsius). If you use a filter machine, the same thing can happen, although in most filter machines it is not the water going IN the coffee which is the problem, but the hot plate UNDER the coffee… it is often way too hot and cooks the coffee like an old-fashioned coffee pot on a stove!

• And, then there is “false economy”!

Of-course, coffee is expensive and you should be trying to get the most out of it, but please: that should be “the most flavour”, not “the most brownish, bitter liquid”!! When you start extracting coffee from coffee grinds, the first few millilitres of thick brown liquid have most of the flavour-oils ( and comparative very little caffeine!) As you flush the grinds out further and further, the content of flavoursome coffee oils gets less, but the bitter component remain, resulting in weak, but bitter coffee.

So, if you try to make more cups of coffee than the quantity of grinds can produce you end up with bitter coffee! If you use a French Press and choose to let the coffee sit on the grinds “to get a bit stronger”, you get the same result… the bitterness will increase. So, in short, the rules for sweet, flavorsome coffee are:

1. Fresh coffee beans
2. Properly roasted by someone who knows what he/she is doing
3. Ground to suit the extraction method
4. Extracted with the right water temperature
5. Not over-extracted
6. Kept on a hotplate only for a short time

Courtesy : Robert Booth

Are you interested in becoming a vet tech, but want to know more about the basic pros and cons behind choosing this career? Each person relates to aspects of the job in a different way, but hopefully this article can give you a general idea about what to expect if you decide to become a veterinary technician.

Pros:

* You get to work with animals. Of course, if you don’t like animals, then this is a downside, but why would you even consider being a vet tech if that was the case! Vet techs get to interact with animals and increase the quality of their lives on a daily basis. This job is a great fit for an animal lover.

* Vet techs are in high demand. The profession is actually relatively new to the field of veterinary medicine. With more people willing to spend for quality pet care, vets are in dire need of qualified vet techs who can help their practice evolve and grow. It won’t be hard for you to find a job as a licensed vet tech – some experts estimate that there are 5 open positions for every 1 graduate!

* Never a dull moment. I’ve spoken with vet techs who have worked for decades in the profession and love how the job constantly challenges them and presents new and unique situations every day. If the thought of sitting at a desk bores you to tears, you’ll love working on your feet in a fast-paced environment as a veterinary technician.

Cons:

* Low salary. One of the biggest concerns of veterinary techs is the low salaries that seem to be commonplace throughout the profession. In 2008 the mean annual salary was around $30,000. There is not much room for advancement as a tech, unless you move into a management position. Techs with lots of experience tend to max out at around $20-22/hour.

* Hazardous working conditions. If you become a veterinary tech, you need to understand that you’ll be working with some animals that aren’t very friendly. You’ll get scratched and bitten often, and you’ll be exposed to urine, feces, blood, and vomit on a daily basis. If you can’t stomach these kind of working conditions, this is not the career for you.

* Heartbreak. Another inevitability you’ll run into as a tech are the heartbreaking cases. Animals with terminal illnesses will have to be euthanized, and you’ll see a lot of pain and suffering in general. Of course you can take solace in the fact that you are doing the best you can to help your patients, but when it comes down to it, this job isn’t always glamorous.

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini pro will have to stand on its toes to be seen but it doesn’t have to yell to be heard. Small and boxy, this certainly is not just another mobile phone. The X10 mini pro will impress many with the degree of miniaturization.

And it’s not just a likeable chubby – the X10 has the element of surprise on its side. It hides a capable keyboard behind its back and you wouldn’t guess it’s a full-featured smartphone from a first glance.

Even though there are so many Minis around – and no less Pros – the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini pro doesn’t risk getting lost in the crowd. Ironically, it’s the diminutive size that makes it prominent enough. A fact’s a fact: full-QWERTY smartphones just don’t get any smaller than that. By the way, did you notice that boxy and squarish messengers are on the rise lately? You can’t help it – market trends call the shots.

Four of a kind is not bad at all for Sony Ericsson and their Android operation. They have a funny thing going on though. They just keep zooming out on the XPERIA X10. So is the next thing we’re likely to expect from them an X10 wristwatch?
Key features

* Ultra compact body
* Physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard
* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, 3G with HSPA
* Customized Android OS v1.6 with Timescape UI
* 2.55″ capacitive touchscreen of QVGA resolution
* Qualcomm MSM7227 600 MHz CPU
* 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and VGA video recording
* Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
* Built-in GPS receiver and digital compass
* Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and turn-to-mute
* Standard miniUSB port for charging and data
* Stereo Bluetooth with A2DP
* microSD card slot with support for up to 8GB (a 2GB card included)
* 3.5mm-compatible audio jack
* Android market
* User-replaceable battery (as opposed to the X10 mini)

Main disadvantages

* QVGA resolution doesn’t do Android graphics justice and limits the number of compatible apps
* Dated OS version
* Limited Android homescreen functionality
* No alternative battery covers bundled
* No smart dialing
* No Bluetooth file transfers from the gallery
* No Flash support for the web browser
* Basic camera interface and features
* Web browser lacks intuitive zooming methods

The XPERIA X10 mini had to be as compact as possible and Sony Ericsson do deserve credit for keeping most of the functionality intact. A valuable feature was inevitably sacrificed though. Proper text input is all but essential in a modern smartphone and the XPERIA X10 mini pro is going to do something about it.

The X10 mini pro has grown in all directions but it’s a matter of mere millimeters – a negligible price for what you get. The extra space has also allowed Sony Ericsson to make the battery user-replaceable. Not that this was a critical flaw for the X10 mini but users were right to complain. It’s now been fixed in the pro.

We did like the original Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini, and this was in no small part due to its cute smallness. The mini pro is perhaps even more impressive. If you’ve seen and held the X10 mini in your hand, the idea of a full QWERTY keyboard would’ve seemed less than brilliant. But Sony Ericsson did it and it looks like they did it right.

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Word on the street had it that Tesla’s $50 million deal with Toyota wasn’t formal back in late May, but evidently things have made positive progress since. According to a new (though admittedly brief) report over at CNN, Toyota is currently working with the electric automaker on a pair of prototype vehicles. As the story goes, Tesla will be delivering two prototypes to Toyota “by the end of the month,” with the vehicles using “Tesla’s electric motors and battery packs and the bodies of Toyota vehicles.” Tesla Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel has been quoted as saying that the two outfits have “made a lot of progress in a short amount of time,” and we couldn’t be more excited to see what kind of results will come from this tie-up. We can’t help but hope that those regenerative brakes do a bit more than regenerate, though. Sorry, we had to. Really.

Courtesy : CNN

In my opinion, this is a very low-key rumor, nonetheless it should be discussed. A Russian mobile journalist has predicted that Android 3.0 codename “Gingerbread” will land sometime in mid-October. There’s no proof on any of this just yet, but if what he says is true, the OS will be very powerful. Plus, it’s likely that 3.0 would be for the ultimate smartphones but Google would continue selling 2.2 on smaller models.

So, what does he expect in 3.0? He expects that most phones running 3.0 will have at least a 4″ display, a minimum 1GHz processor, and a minimum 512MB of memory. The new OS will also support an astounding 1280×760 resolution on displays 4″ and up. Plus, the UI will change drastically.

The problem I have with rumors like this is, Android 2.2 “Froyo” was announced not too long ago and it’s just starting to be rolled out. With companies like Motorola saying the Droid X will get an Android 2.2 update after it ships (say August or September), it doesn’t seem like there’s room for 3.0 in October. Android 2.2 just recently got the OK signal by Google to be pushed out on all Nexus Ones via an OTA update.

So, are all these new specs impressive? Or are they just a little too good to be true?