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Gena Lee Nolin (right) and thyroid specialist, Alan Christianson, N.M.D.

?Baywatch? beauty Gena Lee Nolin suffered with thyroid disease for over 20 years, but only recently did she learn that she has an underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism). Now she?s healthier, but there were times when she topped the scales at nearly 200 pounds.

How did Gena regain her health? Join Lifescript?s live Twitter chat at 10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (1 p.m. EDT) on Friday, June 1. We?ll be talking about women?s thyroid health with Gena and her naturopath doctor, Dr. Alan Christianson, N.M.D., and co-author of ?The Complete Idiot?s Guide to Thyroid Disease.? Follow us @lifescript and participate with #lifescriptchat and #thyroid.

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Introducing You To The Game Of Rugby

Just as every other sporting event, the game of Rugby is team-based in which each side aims at getting higher number of points than the other side during the rugby match. During the game, there are two ways in which a team can score points it could be through getting a try or by the kicking of the ball over the crossbar to win a penalty. During a rugby match, a try earns you five points and you have the option of getting additional two points if you can kick the ball over crossbar between the posts. This is referred to as conversion, making it a total of seven points that can be harnessed from a try. A try is scored when a team is able to touch the ball on the ground over the goal line of its opponent.

If you happen to be present at a rugby live match, you will notice that each team on the field has fifteen players with about seven other players on the reserve bench in case there is a need for substitution. The game is played for a total of 80 minutes, with the teams spending 40 minutes for each half.

The game of rugby has basically two positions the backs and the forwards. Usually, the forwards are stronger and bigger leaving the smaller but faster players at the back to run the ball by the time the forwards obtain the ball and pass it to them.

Meanwhile, the players in the forward position are further subdivided into rows: the front and back rows are made up of three players each while the middle row has just two players. These groups represent the position of the players in the crowd. The players in the back position are also divide into three: the halves (made up of 2 players), the three-quarter (has four players) and the fullback.

The match de rugby (rugby match) has a number of rules, although the basics are really easy to grasp. A player must always pass the ball to the back at all times but can make forward kicks. Any one on the field can run with ball, but whenever you are tackled and fall on the ground, you must release the ball to permit the opponent team to pick the ball. To play the ball at any time, you must always be on your feet. Therefore, it is not allowed to touch the ball while on the ground.

During the game, if the ball goes off the pitch beyond the lineout that is similar to the throw-in in football, a player from the opponent side will throw back the ball on the field. To make this throw-in, some of the remaining players will form a line to receive the thrown ball. Meanwhile, if the ball should ran off the field from the pitchs either end, it will be kicked back from the 22 which is a line that is 22 metres away from the goal line.

It is my hope that you have been able to grasp a little about the rugby match. So, when you are going for your prochain match de rugby (next rugby match), either as an amateur player or a spectator, you are equipped with some tools.

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Josephine Martin is the author of the article on match de rugby (rugby match) and rugby streaming. Her field of interest is sports and recreation. For more information visit : http://www.rugbyendirect.net/

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Sharp Pantone 5 ICS phone has 8 color choices, 3.7-inch screen -- oh, and a radiation detector

Color us shocked and jealous at the new Android 4.0 phone from Sharp -- strange and wonderful even by Japan's highly elevated standards. The eight colors of the 3.7-inch Pantone branded phone from carrier Softbank are nice for sure, but the ability to sense between .005 and 9.99 μSv/h of radiation is in a new category altogether. Though Sharp has hedged a bit by describing the detector as "non-compliant" with Japan standards at this point, the possibilities seem endless for such a feature -- the ability to constantly report your location and radiation level to Facebook comes to mind, for instance. It will be offered -- in Japan only, we presume -- with a 4-megapixel rear camera, eight Pantone colors, 0.3-megapixel front camera, 854 x 480 resolution, and will be dust-proof and waterproof. The price hasn't been discussed yet, but we can't imagine too much quibbling whatever it is, for a phone that could keep you gamma-ray safe.

Update: We have an image after the break showing how Sharp reduced the radiation circuits into a tiny package needed for the Pantone 5. The phone even as a dedicated button for the feature.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? A video of a Portland man's elaborate, choreographed marriage proposal to his girlfriend has notched 5 million hits on YouTube ? and raised the bar for unmarried men everywhere.

The video, shot last week near the home of Isaac Lamb's parents, begins with his brother tucking Lamb's girlfriend, Amy Frankel, into the back of an SUV with a pair of headphones.

The song "Marry You" by Bruno Mars starts to play as the SUV drives slowly down the street, and friends and neighbors begin appearing before Frankel, lip-synching and dancing to the music. Eventually about 60 people are serenading Frankel in the street.

Lamb told NBC's "Today" show that the proposal was nothing new for the couple, both actors who are used to elaborate stunts.

Asked by host Ann Curry if he wanted to apologize to other single men out there for upping the proposal ante, Lamb laughed and replied: "Guys, I'm sorry. That wasn't my intention."

Frankel, by the way, said yes.

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Jamie Lynn Spears Tweets Cute Pic of Daughter

Britney Spears' little sister Jamie Lynn is enjoying motherhood.

Over the weekend, the 21-year-old tweeted some adorable pics of herself and 3-year-old daughter Maddie Briann having fun by the pool.

Here is one of the aforementioned images:

"#littlegirls #littlemoments" the former Zoey 101 star wrote, linking to a shot of herself and Maddie enjoying the sun in pink bikinis.

And while Jamie Lynn was only 17 when she and then-boyfriend Casey Aldridge welcomed their little girl, she has no regrets about it.

"Casey was my first love. Since the day I saw him, I just wanted to marry him and be with him forever and ever," she told Glamour.

"I truly believe in safety and birth control as prevention. But like many young girls... I was really scared to go to the doctor."

"I did feel responsible for the young girls and the mothers who I probably confused and let down. I apologize for that."

"But I wasn't trying to glamorize teen pregnancy," Jamie Lynn Spears added. "I hated when [celebrity news tabloids] said that. Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them. The hateful comments hurt."

Glad it's in the past, JLS. Good luck to you girl.

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Top Sony AVCHD Converter - Import/Edit Sony NEX 5N videos in Adobe Premiere flawlessly

Top Sony AVCHD Converter - Import/Edit Sony NEX 5N videos in Adobe Premiere flawlessly

Summary: In this guide, you will learn how to import/edit Sony NEX-5N AVCHD videos in Adobe Premiere without rendering by transcoding NEX-5N AVCHD MTS/M2TS to Adobe Premiere friendly format with a top Sony AVCHD Converter.

Sony NEX-5N is all the performance of a DSLR in about half the size and half the weight. It records 1080p 60p and 24p HD movies in AVCHD format, takes astonishing pictures in low-light with the large Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor. If you have got the Sony NEX-5N and have shot some 1080p 60p videos using it, you may want to load NEX-5N AVCHD files into Adobe Prmiere for editing. The issue is that when you import the AVCHD MTS files to Premiere to edit, the timeline becomes extremely sluggish for scan/scrub or when previews. Don't fret! Here I am sharing my experience on how to import Sony NEX-5N AVCHD to Adobe Premiere for editing without rendering time.

As far as I know, the AVCHD MTS/M2TS format recorded by NEX-5N is not supported well by Adobe Premiere. Adobe Premiere best supported videos is WMV format videos, so the best way to edit SONY NEX-5N AVCHD in Premiere is to convert SONY NEX-5N MTS/M2TS files to Adobe Premiere WMV format, then we can import NEX-5N files to Premiere for editing, below is a brief guide for you, and you will know how to convert SONY NEX-5N AVCHD to WMV format for editing smoothly.

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First Impressions from a Long-Time iPhone User Trying a Windows Phone

Yesterday, the HTC Titan that Judie is loaning me for this experiment arrived on my doorstep. I opened the box she had packed it in, saw the AT&T HTC Titan box inside, and I actually stared at it for a few minutes pondering how this process was going to be a lot of fun.

But it was also likely to be kind of painful. ?After all, I?ve been heavily into the iPhone space since its initial release in 2007. ?I had Windows Mobile 6.5 before that, and in the meantime I have also had a couple of Android devices from my work, so I?ve been able to see the good and bad of a number of platforms. ?Now it?s time to see what happens with Windows Phone!

Twenty-four hours have passed since I opened the box and started on this experiment. ?So far, I?ve managed to accomplish the following tasks:

• I put my SIM card in and brought up the device (tied it to my Windows Live account).
• I made test phone calls and sent text messages to?my mother and brother.
• I installed my 3 email services, including one standard POP3 account, GMail, and my work MS Exchange account.
• I made the device live on my home and work networks.
• I installed apps for most of the iPhone apps I had that have direct Windows Phone equivalents or work-alikes.
• I set up my Marketplace account and bought 2 games (that I already had on my iPhone) ? Flight Control, and Civilization Revolution.
• I figured out how to add/remove/rearrange tiles and I started reworking things to my liking including changing the default ?color?.
• I installed the Windows Connector on my MacBook Pro and copied some of my photos, music, and video content to the phone.
• I changed my lock screen image.
• I activated my trial of AT&T Navigator and created a test route from my house to my mom?s house.
• I installed Facebook and Twitter and configured my accounts (including trying the integration with the ?People? tile which I decided I didn?t like and reverted to the stand-alone apps).
• I installed SkyDrive for Mac so I could better move some things to/from the phone.
• I tried importing my contacts from both my MB Pro and my iPhone using processes I learned about on the web and I just ended up with a contact mess ? and half-completed entries.
• I tried migrating my ebooks to Bookviser (via SkyDrive) but I got a lot of failures with an obscure error message (more about that shortly).

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So I got quite a bit done, but there is more to do. ?Here are some things I hope to look at in the coming days:

• I want to sort out the contact mess and get them back into shape.
• I want to investigate the ebook migration errors and see if there is a solution.
• I want to find a way to move some of the content that wouldn?t transfer on the first time (because of DRM etc.).
• I want to find some solutions to the foreign language keyboard limitations I already see on this device.

Despite these initial, small setbacks, I am basically up and running. ?I managed to use the device though my entire work day without going back to my iPhone. ?I had no trouble getting my work email (although it wasn?t issue free ? more on that in a bit), so my overall reaction is ?so far, so good?.

One interesting thing worth noting is that when people see that the screen isn?t an iPhone and it isn?t Android, they get curious. ?I have been asked a couple of times already what it was, and people want to see it and try things out. ?Although the most common comment so far is, ?Oh, I thought it was just another?HTC Android phone?; based on appearances, it might as well be. ?It?s not very spectacular or interesting looking as a device. ?But when people play with it, their reaction is more like ?oh, cool!?

Ok, so let?s take a look at the things that went well and the things I already like a lot.

Although the screen is bigger than the iPhone 4s screen, its pixel density is lower, and that makes it appear a little ?grainy? to me. ?That said, the display is much more readable in sunlight. I noticed that on the walk from my car into my office, and that brought a smile to my face ? not an easy thing to do before I have my first cup of coffee!

When I performed the initial device setup, I was pleased to see that it was really clean and easy. ?Not as fluid as my iPhone setup, but smoother then my Android device setups; it was an unexpectedly pleasant experience.

After one day with this thing, I have to say that I really like the main Metro interface ? the whole ?tile? thing, very much. ?Really, a lot. ?I like the ?live? feeling to many of them; it?s very vibrant and dynamic. ?I do, however, wish they were a little more customizable. ?I?ve seen comments that they are boring because of the limited color, but I have not felt this way. ?I like the appearance and the layout, ?but it does need some kind of folders or a better organization of apps. ?The main interface comes off as a great idea, but not taken far enough. ?I?ll be interested to see how I feel after living with it for a while. ?But really, the whole feel of the OS is nice and clean (for the most part) and snappy. ?I had absolutely no lag, and it is very nice!

I tried playing a movie on the Titan, and it was ? again, an excellent experience; colors were vivid, and the display was very smooth. ?This is something I wasn?t expecting, but I was very happy to see.

One of my favorite things in Windows Phone so far is the Outlook email client. ?I really like Outlook on this device. ?I love the way they implemented multiple item selection and marking/moving messages, but sometimes items ?jump? a little as they expand when they are being selected, especially when opening a conversation thread. ?I?ve started already to learn to select these things from the lowest on to the top one rather that top to bottom. ?The selection process seems to go a bit smoother that way. ?But that little thing aside, I really like the look and feel of the client, and I appreciate the way it?s implemented.

Now let me mention some of the things that haven?t been as good so far.

I already mentioned the difficulties moving my contacts. ?That is partly due to the way Apple implemented them, ?the limits surrounding what they will/will not sync with, and part of it is the limitation on the Windows Phone side and the things it will/will not sync with. ?Short form ? moving contacts is a mess, and I?m going to have to do more work before I can call that a success.

The music/videos I chose to sync went pretty well except for DRM-protected materials ? exactly what I would have expected. ?There are tools out there that will remove the DRM, but the biggest one out there won?t work with the current version of iTunes, and it hasn?t been updated yet. ?Although this is a nuisance, this really is NOT any reflection on the OS; it?s simply an issue that has to be worked through.

This evening, I started the process of transferring my books ? many of which are ePubs. ?This involves using SkyDrive (Microsoft?s cloud/sync offering). ?Basically, I move my ePubs up to SkyDrive, and then import them into my eReader app. ?In my case, however, the results have been mixed and?I don?t yet know why. ?I?m using Bookviser?as my eBook app on the Windows Phone. ?I?m seeing an error when I try to download some of my books from SkyDrive ? ?Unable to download book. (Operation not permitted on IsoltatedStorageFileStream.? ?I don?t know what this means ? I haven?t investigated yet, but I have uploaded the error to the developer.

I bought two games ? Flight Control and Civilization Revolution. ?Both look grainier than their iPhone counterparts, and Flight Control definitely had a few small control issues ? it was difficult to get the planes to accept the path sometimes ? an issue I never saw on the iPhone or the iPad, but they played pretty smoothly and I would call them useable, but not particularly impressive ports.

Let me say right now that I am not crazy about the physical aspects of this device. ?With alarming regularity, I find myself accidentally pressing the camera button or the volume controls. ?I don?t like that there is no physical mute toggle, and that the power button is the only way to wake the phone (on an iPhone you can tap the power button or the home button). ?The placement of the earpiece is such that I have to hold the phone in an uncomfortable place on my ear in order to hear, and when I do it seems that my face keeps touching the screen and accidentally muting the call. ?Maybe there is a simple setting somewhere to fix this behavior, maybe not. ?Nonetheless, it?s a little annoying when you are used to an iPhone that came set up to turn the screen off automatically when held against your face.

My mother reports that I sound ?tinny? to her when I am talking on this phone, although I think the speakerphone is better than the one on the iPhone. ?I will likely try pairing a bluetooth headset to this device soon and see if that improves the situation at all. ?I?m also kind of ?meh? on the materials used to construct this device, but that is more a matter of taste than anything else. ?Still, to me, the physical aspects of this device make it feel a little less thought out, less polished and less complete than an iPhone or Nokia Lumias.

Earlier, I mentioned that I like the tiles and the whole tile idea, and I do. ?But I am not always crazy about the way some of those tile links work, or the way things are organized one you select some of the tiles. ?For example ? the Facebook and Twitter integrations as integrated into the ?People? tile seems really muddled and confused to me. ?I tried them, but I immediately didn?t like how things were organized and displayed, and I was much happier once I simply installed separate apps for those services and used them that way. ?I?ll be keeping an eye on how those keep functioning for me.

I also am not crazy about the Office Hub. ?It also seems unnecessarily complicated. ?I just want to create a new document, and it seems like I have to do more steps than I expected to do something that should be very something. ?It?s also not terribly obvious how you are supposed to go about syncing between your desktop/laptop Office apps and the ones on your Windows Phone. ?It?s not that it?s particularly?hard, but it just seems like it is more complicated to do and less intuitive than it should be.

Let?s talk alarms. ?Windows Phone has many ?pretty? alarms just like the iPhone and Android denies do, but I wish the device came with a more aggressive alarm ? maybe like the klaxon alarm sound on the iPhone.

I write emails and such to my friends in numerous countries. ?I?ve learned a enough of several languages that I often find myself needing to type special characters in order to write those words correctly. ?So I have to say that my single biggest disappointment with the OS so far, is the weak foreign keyboard support, especially when it comes to Eastern European languages. ?For example, it?almost seems like the Balkans don?t exist. ?Now I know that MS has indicated that they are committed to more language support and making the OS and devices more availability in more markets, but I have to say that Apple has been consistently way ahead in area of foreign language and keyboard/character support than it?s competitors.

When the iPhone was at the age that Windows Phone is now, it was considerable further ahead in the maturation of these types of services. ?To be fair, Android support for multiple languages and keyboards has historically been weak and slow to come out too, but I am disappointed and I hope that this is an area that improves a lot in the upcoming Windows Phone releases.

So, In general, I?m enjoying my first day with this device. ?I was afraid I?d be fighting it a lot, but that hasn?t been the case. ?For me, that is saying a lot! ?Many things went more smoothly than I expected, and the snags are ones that I think I can work through.

Looking ahead, I have a lot of language learning apps on my iPhone. ?This is an area of particular interest to me. ?I already know, however, that this category of apps isn?t very strong in the Windows Phone Marketplace yet. ?The pickings are?really slim. ?And you?ve already heard me mention the lack of keyboards for many languages. ?So I?ll be talking more about these things in the near future, but for now, it?s important to note that

• My basic services are functioning,
• I?m starting to work on the more difficult transition issues,
• And I?m having a good time doing it so far!

So now we will see how it goes for at the next few days or so! ?Stay tuned!

If you have any recommendations to share for the things that I?ve mentioned so far, please feel free to share!

Have you recently made a platform transition? ?How did it go for you? ?Are you happy with the change?

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Tags: Apple iPhone, HTC, Microsoft Windows Phone Apps, Microsoft Windows Phone Devices

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How To Do Paid Online Surveys | The Article Resource Guide

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Paid online surveys are offered by many marketing companies who want to get the opinions of consumers about products and services that they need to sell. Many individuals take advantage of these paid surveys as a way to generate extra income and have an influence on some of the products that come to the market. For those who are interested in completing these paid service, the process is pretty simple, but it does require a little bit of effort on the part of the participant.

Find Online Survey Companies

The first part of the process is to find companies that offer online surveys for consumers to take. By doing a simple search, a consumer can usually find many different market research firms that offer survey opportunities for individuals. Participants can visit the websites of these companies and sign up to be included in future survey opportunities.

Signing Up for Surveys

Once market research companies have been located, the next part of the process is to sign up for access to surveys. Typically, this is done by creating an account with a site and then providing some basic personal information. The participant, may need to provide his name, address and phone number. The application may also ask for some basic demographic information like age, sex, income level and education level.

Respond to Invitations

When a survey opportunity comes up, the market research company will email the people who fit certain criteria. For example, the survey company may send out an invitation to women between the ages of 28 and 36 who are married and have kids. When a market research company sends out an invitation, the recipient typically has a limited amount of time to respond to the invitation in order to be considered for the survey opportunity. The participant will need to open the email and click on a link within it to be included.

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Understanding Peripheral Neuropathy Symptoms - Health and Fitness

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Beryl threatens rain, winds on southeast US coast

This image provided by NASA shows Subtropical Storm Beryl along the South Carolina Georgia coastlines. The image was acquired Friday May 25, 2012 at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Tropical storm warnings have been issued for the Southeast coast from north Florida to South Carolina as a cluster of thunderstorms was gathering strength Friday night and expected to become Tropical Storm Beryl over the Memorial Day weekend. The National Weather Service said that the storm's maximum sustained winds were at 45 mph. But they are expected to increase as the storm moves over the waters of the Atlantic. (AP Photo/NASA)

This image provided by NASA shows Subtropical Storm Beryl along the South Carolina Georgia coastlines. The image was acquired Friday May 25, 2012 at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Tropical storm warnings have been issued for the Southeast coast from north Florida to South Carolina as a cluster of thunderstorms was gathering strength Friday night and expected to become Tropical Storm Beryl over the Memorial Day weekend. The National Weather Service said that the storm's maximum sustained winds were at 45 mph. But they are expected to increase as the storm moves over the waters of the Atlantic. (AP Photo/NASA)

Joel Izaguirre, left, and Dorian Hernandez of Dunn ride some heavy surf at Carolina Beach, N.C. Saturday, May 26, 2012. Strong rip currents created dangerous swimming conditions and prompted Carolina Beach Ocean Rescue to close the beach to swimming and not allow people in past their knees. (AP Photo/The Star-News,Matt Born )

Carolina Beach Ocean Rescue squad leader Evan Anderson places a sign in the sand closing the beach to swimming Saturday, May 26, 2012 at Carolina Beach, N.C. Strong rip currents created dangerous swimming conditions and prompted Carolina Beach Ocean Rescue to close the beach to swimming and not allow people in past their knees. (AP Photo/The Star-News,Matt Born )

Carolina Beach Ocean Rescue squad leader Evan Anderson places a sign in the sand closing the beach to swimming at Carolina Beach, N.C. Saturday, May 26, 2012. Strong rip currents created dangerous swimming conditions and prompted Carolina Beach Ocean Rescue to close the beach to swimming and not allow people in past their knees. (AP Photo/The Star-News,Matt Born )

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ? Subtropical storm Beryl began moving faster toward an expected landfall Sunday night on the Southeast U.S. coast, threatening Memorial Day beachgoers with forecast conditions of dangerous surf and drenching rains from northeast Florida up through a swath of the Carolinas.

Tropical storm warnings were in effect for the entire Georgia coastline, as well as parts of Florida and South Carolina, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters at the center in Miami said the system of powerful thunderstorms was expected to make landfall sometime Sunday night in the region.

Beryl was technically considered a "subtropical storm," but the system of menacing storms was expected to bring winds and rain to the area regardless of its official classification.

At 5 a.m. EDT Sunday, Beryl was centered about 175 miles (285 kilometers) southeast of Savannah. Forecasters said the system had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph) and was moving toward the west-southwest at 10 mph (17 kph) ? up from a forward speed of 7 mph (11 kph) reported hours earlier.

Tropical storm conditions ? meaning maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (72 kph) ? were expected to reach the coast late Sunday morning or afternoon and continue through the night. Three to six inches of rain were forecast for a wide area from northern Florida up the coast to the southeastern portion of North Carolina. Some coastal flooding also was in the forecast, as the rain could cause high tides.

Dangerous surf conditions, including rip currents, are possible from northeast Florida to North Carolina in the coming hours, forecasters added.

Meanwhile, little change in strength was expected before Beryl makes landfall and the storm system was then expected to weaken to a depression Monday once ashore, the center said.

The Southeast coast is popular with tourists who visit the beaches and wilderness areas and generally throng to many of its beach communities and resort towns each Memorial Day weekend.

"A three-day thunderstorm is what it's probably going to be," said Jay Wiggins, emergency management director for Glynn County, which is about 60 miles south of Savannah and includes Brunswick and St. Simons Island in Georgia. "Unfortunately, it's going to ruin a lot of Memorial Day plans."

Wiggins said he expects some flooded roadways and scattered power outages, perhaps some minor flooding in waterfront homes, but otherwise little damage. However, he urged beachgoers to beware of dangerous rip currents.

On Tybee Island, home to Georgia's largest public beach east of Savannah, employees at Amy Gaster's home and condo rental business were making sure arriving guests were aware of the approaching storm during the weekend. Gaster said her 180 rentals were sold out and nobody was canceling plans or asking to check out early.

While Georgia hasn't taken a direct hit from a major hurricane in 114 years, the last time a tropical storm made landfall here was in August 1988. Tropical Storm Chris hit near Savannah but did little damage as it pushed northward into South Carolina.

In South Carolina, Beaufort County Emergency Management deputy director David Zeoli (zee-oli) said Saturday that word went out to first-responders along the coast near the Georgia line to pay attention to the storm's progress.

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MIND Reviews: Connectome

Connectome: How the Brain?s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
by Sebastian Seung. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

To truly understand how the human brain works, Massachusetts Institute of Technology computational neuroscientist Seung argues that researchers should focus on what he dubs the connectome?the set of connections among all neurons in the brain.

In Connectome, Seung argues that these maps might explain what makes us unique: revealing, for example, why two people react to the same social situation differently or why some individuals are afflicted with, for instance, schizophrenia, but others are spared.

Puzzling out the connectome would allow the fabled frontier of personalized neuroscience to become a reality. Yet with more than 100 billion neurons in the human brain, some say this mapping project is practically impossible.

Seung postulates, however, that recent technological advances have made it doable. Equipped with new devices, scientists may be able to work synapse by synapse to understand how brain wiring can go awry to cause disease and find suitable targets for drug interventions.

First, Seung offers sound explanations of state-of-the-art tools and processes that may allow us to map our connectomes. He then takes liberties, discussing his thought experiments on what might become possible if researchers could tap into personal connectomes. He wonders, for example, whether scientists will be able to reconstruct our experiences in a computer simulation, displaying, for instance, a memory of a loved one?s smile.

Although he entertains the ?what if? scenarios, Seung remains pragmatic about which milestones are currently possible and which are decades or several hundred years away. Seung is clearly onto something, and he believes the payoff will be worth the wait.

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Irritable bowel syndrome linked to bacteria in gut

Friday, May 25, 2012

An overgrowth of bacteria in the gut has been linked to Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the results of a new Cedars-Sinai study which used cultures from the small intestine. This is the first study to use this "gold standard" method of connecting bacteria to the cause of the disease that affects an estimated 30 million people in the United States.

Previous studies have indicated that bacteria play a role in the disease, including breath tests detecting methane ? a byproduct of bacterial fermentation in the gut. This study was the first to make the link using bacterial cultures.

The study, in the current issue of Digestive Diseases and Sciences, examined samples of patients' small bowel cultures to confirm the presence of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth ? or SIBO ? in more than 320 subjects. In patients with IBS, more than a third also were diagnosed with small intestine bacterial overgrowth, compared to fewer than 10 percent of those without the disorder. Of those with diarrhea-predominant IBS, 60 percent also had bacterial overgrowth.

"While we found compelling evidence in the past that bacterial overgrowth is a contributing cause of IBS, making this link through bacterial cultures is the gold standard of diagnosis," said Mark Pimentel, MD, director of the Cedars-Sinai GI Motility Program and an author of the study. "This clear evidence of the role bacteria play in the disease underscores our clinical trial findings, which show that antibiotics are a successful treatment for IBS."

IBS is the most common gastrointestinal disorder in the U.S., affecting an estimated 30 million people. Patients with this condition suffer symptoms that can include painful bloating, constipation, diarrhea or an alternating pattern of both. Many patients try to avoid social interactions because they are embarrassed by their symptoms. Pimentel has led clinical trials that have shown rifaximin, a targeted antibiotic absorbed only in the gut, is an effective treatment for patients with IBS.

"In the past, treatments for IBS have always focused on trying to alleviate the symptoms," said Pimentel, who first bucked standard medical thought more than a decade ago when he suggested bacteria played a significant role in the disease. "Patients who take rifaximin experience relief of their symptoms even after they stop taking the medication. This new study confirms what our findings with the antibiotic and our previous studies always led us to believe: Bacteria are key contributors to the cause of IBS."

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'American Idol' Finale Ratings Plummet

While Phillip Phillips' win drew a record 132 million votes, ratings were down 30 percent.
By Gil Kaufman

Phillip Phillips, Jessica Sanchez and Ryan Seacrest on 'American Idol'
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It was the best of times and the worst of times for "American Idol" this week. Yes, a record 132 million votes came in on Tuesday night to help Phillip Phillips
 take home the top prize. But when the ratings for the finale were tallied up, well, nobody was popping corks or firing up the confetti cannons anymore.

Ponder this: Ratings for the season 11 finale were half of what they were during the 2003 season when Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken duked it out in front of 38 million viewers. Half is still 21.5 million, but that number is way down (27 percent) from the 29.3 million who saw Scotty McCreery take home the crown last year.

In fact, according to final Nielsen Co. figures, Wednesday night's "Idol" viewership is the smallest ever for the show's finale. Not only was the tune-in number an all-time low, but the show's 6.4 rating among the coveted adults 18-49 demographic was down 30 percent from last year as well.

"Idol" can take some solace in easily beating the finale ratings for such up-and-coming rivals as "The Voice" (11.93 million viewers, 4.4 rating) and "X Factor" (12.59 million viewers, 3.8 rating). The ratings decline this year was expected, since season 10 got a bit of a boost when Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler were added into the mix following the departure of former lead judge Simon Cowell.

Though it came into the season with the bragging rights as the #1 show on TV, "Idol" shed nearly 25 percent of its audience this year, falling below 20 million viewers for the first time since 2003. According to reports, the steepest drop-off was among viewers 18-49, the most sought-after demographic among networks.

The other shoe to drop on Thursday was that for the first time in eight years, "Idol" will not finish the season as the top-rated primetime program. According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC's "Sunday Night Football" finished the 2011-2012 season as the dominant primetime program in total viewers and in all key audience demographics. "Football" averaged 20.7 million viewers this season and an 8.0 rating in the 28-49 demo.

The Wednesday night "Idol" performance broadcasts averaged 19.7 million viewers and 18.3 million on Thursday for the season, along with a 6.2 rating on Wednesday's.

Get your "Idol" fix on MTV News' "American Idol" page, where you'll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.

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