VictorOps, a stealthy enterprise startup based in Boulder, Colo., has raised $1.58 million in seed funding led by the Foundry Group with participation from Chris Marks at Tango Investments and the startup's three co-founders, Todd Vernon, Bryce Ambraziunas and Dan Jones.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/hVVNt2n3Ras/
Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and the Apocalypse: 2012 had it all. But only 10 stories about the past year's strangest scientific research can make it into our Weird Science hall of fame ? so we're going to need your help.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar was largely unchanged against its U.S. counterpart in quiet trading on Thursday as investors wait for developments in the U.S. budget talks to avert a fiscal cliff and square positions ahead of the year-end.
Markets have been in limbo since last week when President Barack Obama and U.S. lawmakers suspended talks until after Christmas on avoiding $600 billion of spending cuts and tax increases that some economists say threaten to send the economy back into recession.
"We're starting off very quietly as we did yesterday," said Matt Perrier, a director of foreign exchange sales at BMO Capital Markets.
"We may see some year-end things that corporates need to get done, that will hopefully give us some movement, and we've also got the whole fiscal cliff situation coming down to the wire, so there is potential for things to move, we'll just have to wait and see."
At 8:43 a.m. (1343 GMT), the Canadian dollar stood at C$0.9921 versus the U.S. dollar, or $1.0080, just slightly weaker than Monday's North American session close at C$0.9913 versus the U.S. dollar, or $1.0088.
North American markets were closed on December 25 and most Canadian markets remained shut on Wednesday for Boxing Day, so Thursday was the first day of normal trade since markets closed on Monday, Christmas Eve.
Efforts to prevent the U.S. economy from going over a "fiscal cliff" stirred back to life on Wednesday with less than a week to go before potentially disastrous tax hikes and spending cuts kick in at the New Year.
In a sign that there may be a way through deadlock in Congress, Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner urged the Democrat-controlled Senate to act to pull back from the cliff and offered to at least consider any bill the upper chamber produced.
President Barack Obama will try to revive budget crisis talks - which stalled last week - when he returns to Washington on Thursday after cutting short his Christmas holiday in Hawaii.
BMO's Perrier said he doesn't expect much movement in the Canadian dollar as 2012 draws to a close, given the tight range it has traded in recent weeks.
"It will probably close around these levels, in the C$0.9850 and C$0.9950 area. There is certainly some uncertainty with respect to what happens in the U.S. - if we get a fiscal cliff deal or we don't see a fiscal cliff deal - that could create some movement into tomorrow or Monday," he said.
"But given the price action in the last couple of weeks, I'd think we'll probably close (2012) around where we are now."
Canadian government bond prices edged lower along the longer end of the curve. The two-year bond was down 4.5 Canadian cents, yielding 1.147 percent, while the benchmark 10-year bond fell 3 Canadian cents to yield 1.822 percent.
(Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/canadian-dollar-flat-quiet-investors-watch-u-talks-141007540--finance.html
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Maybe something I say will impact people, but I doubt it.? Christmas of 2012 will be remembered something like this:? Parents crying around the tree, trying to reconcile why their son or daughter will not be home for Christmas this year.? This past Friday dozens of innocent children met Cassie Bernall, Rachel Joy Scott, Anthony Scott II and others to name a few of the many children that have died because of senseless, selfish human acts.? Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 many children have died and even more unfortunately we have said, ?what a tragedy, how could this happen.? ??We hear the news media saying these people are mentally ill but what is mental illness really?
We may know a family member who is depressed or a family member who suffers from Alzheimer?s or even amnesia.? Technically, they are considered ?mentally ill.? However, what mechanism makes a person think, ??I?m going to head to my mom?s house and shoot her, proceed to head to the place she use to work, pick up a gun, aim it at someone, look at their crying face, and proceed to pull a trigger, discharge a bullet , watch it hit them and then watch them die. Only to repeat the same motion dozens of times again?? In the average American mind we get on Facebook and talk about unions and how teachers are horrible.? People make death threats towards the governor because he is going to change something we do not like.? School children go on Facebook and bully their class mates, they play violent video games, and they might even use drugs.
The commonality amidst all of this is that the behavior is ?grooming.? It is practice, a repetition, a distancing from reality.? People often remark, ?I go fishing to get my mind off this or that.? For the adolescent mind, it processes differently due to a difference in neurotransmitters chemicals. As much as we want to believe behavior is simply environmental, that is only one factor that determines the bio-chemical makeup of how the cognitive process works.? What are the basic building blocks of the brain?? What is wrong in that gray matter that makes these things happen?
Are people born mentally ill or do they grow into it?? Simply put, the brain is a vast interconnection of devices that sent electrical signals from point A to point B through a piece of the mind called a Synapse.? Through these synapses flow chemicals called neurotransmitters and these neurotransmitters make things happen.? For example a computer understands 0 and 1 and these signals are determined by simply sending electrical impulses through a processor.? To under simplify the brain it sends 0?s, 1?s, 2?s,3?s, 4?s, 5?s etc.? Either GO or STOP.? The brain has ON neurotransmitters and chemicals called neuromodulators, and inhibitory neurotransmitters.?? The reason why science says ?we are what we eat.? is because it is absolutely true.
Science also states they do not know the exact reason why that atypical antipsychotics work.? They simply offer a pill and hope it mutes and inhibits a mentally ill person just enough to make them compliant.? These medications put these people into an inhibitory fog so their abnormal brain chemistry can be modified. This works fine until the drugs are stopped. After all, the mentally ill can surely afford a prescription that costs $900 a monthly on their minimum wage job right?
Let?s start with something simple called Inflammation to understand the general concept. ?Asthma for example causes a person the impossibility of breathing. The air way swells and closes off and swells.? Without a steroid to stop the inflammation they will probably die.
Inflammation also occurs in the brain, but it is much less likely to be noticed. Why?? Well, we do not have the ability to take a look at our brain daily.? Do we know what to look for?? When inflammation continues long enough it can cause tissue death or destruction.? Generally, when this happens it will appear as a brain lesion. Tumors, trauma, etc. also cause these lesions.
So, let?s say for example the part of the brain that is responsible for making the inhibitory neurotransmitter that tells the brain to ?cool it? before it acts out on aggression abruptly dies then what?? Rage can build. What if there is an issue on the side of the brain responsible for your ?imagination.? And that imagination runs away and there is no functional part of the brain able to stop that?
Society says, let?s medicate with a very dangerous class of drugs called benzodiazepines.? With long term use of benzodiazepines there is an apparent decrease in the efficacy of GABA-A receptors (these receptors are responsible for ?calming the brain.? ? the efficacy goes down as a method of tolerance it is thought.? So, when a person abruptly stops taking their medication this ?reduced? transmitter isn?t stopping the compulsion portion of the brain. It?s a ticket into hyper mode and over-drive.
I?m not going to go into a hundred page paper of the brain and these chemicals but what I do want you to gather is that the medical community needs to ask this, ?Where do neurotransmitters come from.? The reason why is this, if you put someone on a drug that can cause their mind to die, and become more dangerous how can you ensure they remain on it forever?? If you are what you eat, doesn?t logic create the idea that certain nutrients, vitamins, foods you eat become a part of you and help you regenerate these missing links?
A great example is that of B vitamins.? These vitamins are all water soluble and so if you drink a ton of caffeine (that makes your body loose a ton of water.) isn?t it fair to say you are at some point going to become deficient in B vitamins?? The rate you lose them is much faster than you can gain them by eating food too.? B vitamins (along with a long list of other amino acids, fatty acids, etc.) also modulate and influence neurotransmitters and inflammation.
Let?s also consider that certain psycho-tropic drugs diminish these levels of vitamins as well. Zyprexa is a popular drug used to ?control? schizophrenic patients.? It is also known to lower Vitamin D.? Vitamin D is both a hormone and a vitamin that is fat soluble.? Vitamin D is part of a cycle called the krebs which several important minerals are modulated.? Vitamin D3 is made from your skin absorbing sunlight, or perhaps in your diet etc.? However, some people can?t absorb vitamin D properly due to other bio chemical imbalances in their body and as a result it diminishes.? D is needed for your body to absorb Calcium and Calcium needs Magnesium to modulate it.? Why is this important?? Well, Magnesium is also important in the brain to help clear out Fluoride from the Pinal gland.? Calcium triggers the release of adrenaline into the blood stream.? Magnesium is responsible to help up regulate GABA (that neurotransmitter that helps calm.) and all of this need to balance out.? Zinc binds to Magnesium and lowers it; Fluoride binds to Magnesium and causes it to be used up. Everything must ?balance? but for simple discussion, put someone on a drug that lowers vitamin D and you can start to lower their ability for their brain to work properly.
This school shooting was a horrific event and it is tragic that so many families will be without their children this Christmas and many to come.? I also hope I have outlined very briefly just how one or two aspects of science can cause some serious stuff to happen in the mind.? However, this is why it is nearly impossible for a Psychiatrist to make a proper determination of a patient?s mental status with a 15 minute interview and a prescription.
I would propose we seriously look at any person who has mental illness with a much closer eye. Not to humiliate or violate but to be able to better help those who truly need it, before they act out and do any more harm to anyone else or others.? I certainly appreciate everyone in the United States their opinions and bitterness towards this event.? I also think that there are some people better suited to address the issue.
Without conscious effort towards truly improving the mind of the mentally ill, it will be truly impossible to ever end the violence. You could lock up every single weapon in the world, but when these people grow psychotic they also have the power of adrenaline raging through them and become almost super human.? This is why there are many instances of one person being abnormally strong.? Thus, if they want to gain a weapon, they will and nothing is going to stop it aside from either treating it or allowing the rest of the country to be paranoid about it forever.
Hopefully this message will be spread and spread to the decision makers of mental health patients. I pray for our country and hope doctors will run simple tests on patients that are suspect. We live in a country with a great healthcare system and how would it harm to check for certain missing links via blood tests?? I know every doctor I have asked about this simply replies, ?I have no interest, or knowledge? in this area.? There are numerous ways to cross-check for problems by using very inexpensive blood tests.? We can then obtain a picture into the human body and determine at the biochemical level if things are ok or not.? Probably with less side effects and more accurate diagnoses.
Until that school of thought changes though, we are simply treating symptoms and not disease. If we never treat the root cause of mental illness then we can never ensure our freedom from harm. Please pass this along to everyone on your list.
Written by Jason M. Davies, Green Bay, WI? 920.884.1195 techrxgb.com .? The information discussed is based upon years of experience with the mentally ill.? This information is not a substitute for a physician.? I am not a licensed physician and nothing outline here is an attempt to treat, cure, or diagnose any disease.? Any trademarks mentioned are of course the property of the intellectual property owners.
Source: http://techrxgb.com/2012/12/16/mental-illness-the-path-we-should-consider/
That, and I honestly am still on the fence that the Wii U can be considered next gen. Slice it however you want, but aside from that tablet controller, (WHICH is yet to be seen if it can truly reach the potential and innovation it promises, far more promising was the motion control of the wii... and look how that worked.) there isn't really that much next gen in that machine more so than just catching up to the existing machines. HD graphics, Working online with no friend codes? sure, that's great for people that only owned a wii, but for anyone with a 360 or a PS3, that's 7-8 year old news... We'll see though, i guess.
Also, no matter where you sit on the whole ME3 Ending thing, it was still very damn big news, and it was unprecedent, so I definitely vote that as a runner up.
Source: http://www.gamesradar.com/top-7-events-shook-2012/
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Toni Braxton is on the mend following her sudden hospitalization for lupus-induced blood clots, which can be life threatening. The R&B singer has been struggling with the disease for the past couple of years. There is no known cure.
Lupus is an auto-immune disease that is genetically related. Braxton, 45, revealed two years ago that she had contracted the disease.
Her uncle died from lupus-related health problems and her brother also suffers from the illness, she said. Braxton has also struggled with financial difficulties, which she said are related to the disease.
While there is no cure there are treatments to minimize the symptoms, and Braxton tweeted that she was responding to medication. ?I?m in the hospital for health issues related to Lupus & Blood clots, I will be home soon.?
Lupus symptoms can be triggered by any number of factors including stress. Lady Gaga also revealed that she, too, is predisposed to lupus and is trying to keep the disease in check.
?It?s more making sure that I reduce stress in my life to make sure I don?t develop [the disease],? Gaga said in June 2010. ?I make much more of an effort now to minimize the drama or the stress. I take care of myself.? She is ?borderline positive? for the disease.
Gaga, 26, revealed that her aunt died from lupus.
No two cases of lupus are exactly alike, according to the Mayo Clinic. Symptoms may come on suddenly or slowly, may be mild or severe, and may be temporary or permanent.
Among the most common symptoms are fatigue and fever, joint pain, stiffness and swelling, butterfly-shaped rash on the face that covers the cheeks and bridge of the nose and skin lesions that appear or worsen with sun exposure.
Source: http://www.celebrityhealthfitness.com/6562/toni-braxton-mend-lupus-flair-up-hospitalization
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