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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_...etables_aging_4
CHICAGO - New research on vegetables and aging gives mothers another reason to say "I told you so." It found that eating vegetables appears to help keep the brain young and may slow the mental decline sometimes associated with growing old. ADVERTISEMENTOn measures of mental sharpness, older people who ate more than two servings of vegetables daily appeared about five years younger at the end of the six-year study than those who ate few or no vegetables.
The research in almost 2,000 Chicago-area men and women doesn't prove that vegetables reduce mental decline, but it adds to mounting evidence pointing in that direction. The findings also echo previous research in women only.
Green leafy vegetables including spinach, kale and collards appeared to be the most beneficial. The researchers said that may be because they contain healthy amounts of vitamin E, an antioxidant that is believed to help fight chemicals produced by the body that can damage cells.
Vegetables generally contain more vitamin E than fruits, which were not linked with slowed mental decline in the study. Vegetables also are often eaten with healthy fats such as salad oils, which help the body absorb vitamin E and other antioxidants, said lead author Martha Clare Morris, a researcher at the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center.
The fats from healthy oils can help keep cholesterol low and arteries clear, which both contribute to brain health.
The study was published in this week's issue of the journal Neurology and funded with grants from the National Institute on Aging.
"This is a sound paper and contributes to our understanding of cognitive decline," said Dr. Meir Stampfer of Harvard's School of Public Health.
"The findings specific for vegetables and not fruit add further credibility that this is not simply a marker of a more healthful lifestyle," said Stampfer, who was not involved in the research.
The research involved 1,946 people aged 65 and older who filled out questionnaires about their eating habits. A vegetable serving equaled about a half-cup chopped or one cup if the vegetable was a raw leafy green like spinach.
They also had mental function tests three times over about six years; about 60 percent of the study volunteers were black.
The tests included measures of short-term and delayed memory, which asked these older people to recall elements of a story that had just been read to them. The participants also were given a flashcard-like exercise using symbols and numbers.
Overall, people did gradually worse on these tests over time, but those who ate more than two vegetable servings a day had about 40 percent less mental decline than those who ate few or no vegetables. Their test results resembled what would be expected in people about five years younger, Morris said,
The study also found that people who ate lots of vegetables were more physically active, adding to evidence that "what's good for your heart is good for your brain," said neuroscientist Maria Carillo, director of medical and scientific relations for the Alzheimer's Association.
The study examined mental decline but did not look at whether any of the study volunteers developed
Alzheimer's disease.
Not that surprising, but more fuel for the parents who demand that children finish their vegetables.
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That was....interesting. Would be cool to see it updated to conform with XP standards/features/etc.
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I did a little research and I found it could be bad capacitors in the motherboard or bad chassis fans. I checked the fans, and they are working. No idea how to check the former, though.
Checking capacitors is very easy. Just take off the sidepanel and inspect all capacitors on the motherboard. If the caps are bloated or there's even goo coming out of them then the capacitors are bad and a new motherboard is likely needed. Bad capacitors usually means that the computer might crash, not boot or do other weird stuff.
Here's a picture of capacitors gone bad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bad_Capacitor_01.jpg
I've never seen that white powedery stuff on a capacitor but i've seen many motherboards and PSUs with bloated caps and goo all over the place.
Ah, it's probably the capacitors then. That seems to be what some of them look like. But why would it work "perfectly" in safe mode but not normal?
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Taks hits Moose for MASSIVE DAMAGE.
Moose: Death
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Seeing as there are very few arcane spells that are actually useful, Im contemplating playing a sorceror for the NWN2 OC. Then I can just whore the good ones ad infinitum
Sorcerer makes life easier in CRPGs.
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Never had a mouse go bad on me. I'm still using my MS optical Intellipoint that came with my computer over 6 years ago. It's my favorite mouse so far (it's got just the right buttons in just the right place). The only problem I've had with it is that the mousewheel button started giving me fits. Eventually, I come to find out that it had a ball of "gunk" that just needed to be removed and good as new it was.
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It would help to know the mobo, cpu, cpu cooler, power supply, vga card, any overclocking, and any changes made to hardware config recently.
It's possible that:
- the CPU cooler was not installed correctly (bad contact with the CPU),
- the fans are not installed correctly (i.e. all blowing in or out instead of circulating air) - typically, the ones in the front and side should blow in, the ones in the back and top should blow out.
- the power supply is either not sufficient for the system or not stable
If the mobo model or manufacturer has a history of bad capacitors (some of the cheaper ones do), your friend might be have to replace the mobo - but that's really a last resort.
It might be worth the effort to strip everything down, clean everything up, and rebuild the system.
Well, it's a Dell (I forget the model, atm), so I would hope that stuff would have been done properly (you never know). Of course, the computer is about 4 years old, so that may have something to do with it as well.
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Building your own PC is fun...unless you get a friend motherboard and have to wait until another one is sent to you. But when everything works, you get a real sense of accomplishment...and a much cheaper rig.
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I've got a friend whose computer keeps shutting down when windows is trying to boot up. When it is restarted a message is displayed along the lines of "The computer was shut down due to a previous thermal event..." I did a little research and I found it could be bad capacitors in the motherboard or bad chassis fans. I checked the fans, and they are working. No idea how to check the former, though. The weird thing is, it boots just fine to safe mode. It even worked a couple times regularly after going into safe mode, but then it started having the same problem... Any ideas?
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Liked the "don't trust the skull" twist, but the rest of it felt like a waste of time to me, especially the cop-out "everybody dies and it all begins again" ending.
Hmm...not the ending I got/interperated.
Never really understood why the shadows were out to get him, either.
I remember the conversation that addressed this topic...
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You say that now, but I bet when you receive the bill for the new halo to keep your kids head straight you'd be whistling a different tune.
You know, I've never been put in this situation, and I'd never want to (that I can think of), but I sincerely believe that I am of better character than to punish the school for my child getting injured (even seriously) for doing things that I did as a child.
This is actually discouraging children from being active. I mean, who wants to really let loose and have fun if you have to have a teacher hovering over you.
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Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Many of you seem to have overlooked this tidbit. I think many of the employees at the school would agree that the rule is stupid; they're just afraid of getting sued.
Then we're raising our children to be scared as well as soft. Nice.
'Cautious' is probably a more accurate term than 'scared'.
Edit: Despite my arguments, I'm still against the decision. I just wonder how wrong it is for the school system to try to protect themselves from stupid parents.
These stupid parents that sue the schools should be laughed out of court. People didn't sue the school when kids got hurt even when I was in school, and I'm only 23. This is encouraging our kids to blame others and not accept responsibility for themselves. That's the kind of fear I was talking about.
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Remembers the fmv ending showing the Nameless One as he hefted a vicious looking mace from a stack of the things and walked into the neverending frey of demons and madmen. All the while, Khin-Oin, the Wasting Tower loomed in the distance
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And now insulting other members is ok too as long as you're a mod?
Making an observation based on your reply isn't an insult.
And here we have a loophole. Good day
Now we can say "That was a stupid thing to say and you're a stupid person for saying it...just an observation."
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Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Many of you seem to have overlooked this tidbit. I think many of the employees at the school would agree that the rule is stupid; they're just afraid of getting sued.
Then we're raising our children to be scared as well as soft. Nice.
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Smiley replies aren't spam. Thank you for playing.
Just because you seem to lack the ability to understand replies that are in abstract terms doesn't mean this is the case for everyone.
Have a nice day.
And now insulting other members is ok too as long as you're a mod?
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What the...
This is all kinds of fun and sad at the same time.
...just what are the kids supposed to do now during recess? Bored kids get all kinds of stupid ideas.
Like bringing daddy's handgun to school.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/no.tag.ap/index.html
ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (AP) -- Tag, you're out!Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.
Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.
While there is no districtwide ban on contact sports during recess, local rules have been cropping up. Several school administrators around Attleboro, a city of about 45,000 residents, took aim at dodgeball a few years ago, saying it was exclusionary and dangerous. (Watch how second-grader Kelsey interpreted the rule -- 1:30)
Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Spokane, Washington, also recently banned tag during recess. A suburban Charleston, South Carolina, school outlawed all unsupervised contact sports.
"I think that it's unfortunate that kids' lives are micromanaged and there are social skills they'll never develop on their own," said Debbie Laferriere, who has two children at Willett, about 40 miles south of Boston. "Playing tag is just part of being a kid."
Another Willett parent, Celeste D'Elia, said her son feels safer because of the rule. "I've witnessed enough near collisions," she said.
PS: Thanks Gfted.
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Please spare me your patronizing and your ad nauseum use of emoticons. I don't need you giving me advice or frowning on me because you think I'm in an 'us vs them' mentality. You'll also note I never said that Muslims and Arabs as a whole are our enemies. So don't try to put words in my mouth. I read about what happens overseas. I read about what we do and what they do, and I look at past events as well as future events. And I know enough to know who the 'good guys' and 'bad guys' are in this situation. So please take your self-righteous attitude and put it where the sun doesn't shine. I call it like I see it, and in almost all topics dealing with issues like this, you have repeatedly and rather blatantly seemed to make the west look like the ones at fault for everything that's going wrong in the ME while ignoring the wrongs committed by our enemies. The bias you show is almost laughable. I figured you could use a little perspective on the situation before you go pointing fingers. After all, the truth is out there, right? Thought you might like some for yourself.
If we didn't interfere in those countries in the first place back after world war 2, maybe we wouldn't have the problems we have today.
And what should we have done with the jews? Throw them down a well?
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I finished Planescape Torment and I couldn't help but wonder what happened to the chars in the game, was N.O. dead and unable to leave the Blood war till he serves his time or is he stuck in it forever ?
Nobody leaves the blood war. But by the time he gets there he's certainly powerful enough to not get killed (easily).
Don't forget to eat your vegetables
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That's not mental decline, you were dumb to begin with