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Childhood obesity could be having a profound effect on reproduction, experts say. Researchers fear it could be triggering the early onset of puberty, leading to a diminished ability to reproduce ? particularly in women.

Experts say that there is still much to learn about the effects of obesity and puberty, as well as its effects on the liver, pancreas and other endocrine glands.

But in general puberty is starting earlier in girls and the problem is accelerating, reports journal Frontiers in Enocrinology.

Professor Patrick Chappell, of Oregon State University, said, ?The issue of so many humans being obese is very recent in evolutionary terms, and since nutritional status is important to reproduction, metabolic syndromes caused by obesity may profoundly affect reproductive capacity.

?Either extreme of the spectrum, anorexia or obesity, can be associated with reproduction problems.?

One theory is that diet is playing havoc with the body clock, causing changes in the balance of hormones. Disrupted sleep-wake cycles can affect the secretion of hormones such as cortisol, testosterone, and insulin, researchers have found.

Prof Chappell said, ?Any disruption of circadian clocks throughout the body can cause a number of problems, and major changes in diet and metabolism can affect these cellular clocks.

?Disruption of the clock through diet can even feed into a further disruption of normal metabolism, making the damage worse, as well as affecting sleep and reproduction.?

Previous studies in humans have found correlations between early puberty and the risk of reproductive cancers, adult-onset diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.

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Porsche will once again host Camp4 Canada at M?caglisse, the renowned proving grounds on the north shore of Montreal. Next February, 20 participants from all over the world will live a unique winter driving experience and even be among the first to try out the new 2013 Porsche 911 Carrera 4.

Drivers will put their skills to the test on snow and ice-covered road courses as well as a giant winter skid pad. You see, Porsche wants to dispel myths that high-performance sports cars should stay in the garage for the cold season.

"Camp4 Canada is [...] designed to convince potential customers that all Porsche vehicles, including the sports cars that form the foundation of the Camp4 Canada program, are all-weather machines and can be driven through the winter with a bit of preparation and the proper driving techniques," said Laurance Yap, Director of Marketing at Porsche Canada.

You want in? Prices begin at $4,995 for Camp4 and $5,995 for Camp4S, and include accommodations, food and transfers between the hotel and the driving centre. For more information, go to www.porsche.ca/camp4.

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Fed up with the conventional way of purchasing things? By definition, the ?conventional? way of doing anything is playing by the rules. Shopping, the conventional way, would therefore involve the ritualistic way of visiting the marketplace. Whilst some enjoy the practice, others get ?browned off? by waiting endlessly in the long-lived queue for one?s turn to arrive. Since time immemorial, this is how routine buying and selling has been takes place all around the world. However, when internet surfaced out, it vivified how conducting business is actually possible outside the conventional ?brick-and-mortal? model. Ushering in a new age of business, an addition of the letter ?e? revolutionized trade referring to those few that utilized ?the dot.com? handle.

Over the two decades, the phenomenon has evolved at a pace that is now looking at the possibility of bridging communication between machines over the internet, through web 3.0, having? passed through the wave of web 2.0 successfully, a proof of which is the ?social media? bubble. As the bubble continues to grow, a larger number of e-retailers have patched an online extension of their business on these social media sites. Yet when profiling a localite, e-shopping still appears murky.

In Pakistan, the concept of e-shopping or e-retailing has never existed. This doesn?t mean that it is prevalent now. The barricades that are impeding its emergence and existence are many, although computers and internet can be found in almost every household of the country. The major reason, however, is the computer and technology illiteracy in Pakistan because of which the majority is unaware of the immense promise of e-retailing and e-commerce concepts. It is the ignorance of the public that is holding the utility stores, businesses, and retailers to go online. Nevertheless, there exists a hope, a means, a solution, and a tool, which is ?a-e- -o-

E-Retailing: Bird-Eye-view of the Pakistani Market

Simply put, e-retailing is an act selling of goods electronically. However, it has been defined as the ?concept of selling of retail goods using electronic media, in particular, the internet.? There are things that are essential ingredients of e-retailing. Therefore, before commencing e-retailing, it is important to ensure the presence of following vital components: Right Revenue-Generation Model, an attractive Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce Portal, and a penetration of the internet, shopping cart, E-Catalog, and a payment gateway.[1]

Expecting Pakistanis to e-shop without any presumed hindrances still seems to be a fantasy. This is largely due to ?our psychological state? that keeps us from engaging in any form of trade whether it includes goods or money, when the act is isn?t tangible. The fate of e-retail is doomed for similar reasons.

There is hardly any superstore or shop that falls in the category of e-retailers. As mentioned above, most of the population is computer illiterate and even if they have knowledge of internet and computers, they use offline methods for shopping. An upsurge of social media has challenged the mindset a bit. As the top-most visited site in Pakistan, Facebook fanpages has given a new hope to the e-retailers to engage the largest number of buyers off a single platform.

Social Media: Good Omen for E-Retailers?

Still puzzled what is ?a-e- -o- and why increased use of social networking sites is a like a silver lining in Pakistan? The good-old Facebook explains this best. Although the platform has largely been used for social networking only till date, it has become a tool for marketers and advertisers aiming to earn a mileage off the budget set for promotions, bearing the least expense. The sharing feature on Facebook comes handy in particular. For instance if someone purchases something online through Facebook and spreads his/her experience through word of mouth or via sharing, the purchasing is likely to grow. Henceforth, this mutually benefits both the platform and the e-retailer. As stated by Vice President of Partnerships and Platform Marketing at Facebook, ?We now have a direct link between sharing on Facebook and revenue generation at e-commerce sites.? [2]

Facebook, by allowing retailers and companies a platform for displaying, promoting, and selling their products, acts as catalyst in introducing and making common the concept of e-retailing in the country. It serves as a tool for marketers and businesses and a source of information and communication for people. The more e-commerce takes place through Facebook, the more the public will be able to learn about the online methods of shopping.

However, will the e-retailers be able to fulfill the essentials of e-retailing as given above, and even if they do, will the terms like e-catalog and shopping cart, be understood by the people? Moreover, the privacy concerns of people remain where they were, even if they are purchasing through Facebook. It will still be a challenge for e-retailers to attract and convince individuals to buy things online and to continue e-retailing as it is quite difficult to make customers feel satisfied in the environment where the goods they are purchasing are not available physically.

Source: http://ciopakistan.com/2012/08/e-retailing-through-social-media/

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Pianist Van Cliburn poses for a portrait at the Steinway & Sons showroom in New York on March 18, 1994. Renowned classical pianist Van Cliburn has been diagnosed with advanced bone cancer and is resting comfortably at his Texas home, his publicist said Monday Aug. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Wyatt Counts, file) NO SALES

In this photo provided by the Van Cliburn Foundation, Texas pianist Van Cliburn performs to a packed audience in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in Moscow, Russia, in April 1958 during the first International Tchaikovsky Competition, which he won. Van Cliburn has been diagnosed with advanced bone cancer and is resting comfortably at his Texas home, his publicist said Monday Aug. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Van Cliburn Foundation, file)

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) ? Renowned classical pianist Van Cliburn has been diagnosed with advanced bone cancer and is resting comfortably at his Texas home, his publicist said Monday.

The 78-year-old Cliburn is under excellent care and his spirits are high, said longtime friend and publicist Mary Lou Falcone.

Cliburn skyrocketed to fame in 1958 when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow at age 23. He triumphantly returned to a New York ticker tape parade, the only one ever for a classical musician, and a Time magazine cover proclaimed him "The Texan Who Conquered Russia."

In the years that followed, Cliburn's popularity soared, and the young man from the small east Texas town of Kilgore sold out concerts, broke record sales, caused riots when spotted in public and even prompted an Elvis Presley fan club to change its name to his.

But he tired of years of performing mainly the same pieces that made him famous ? such as Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1," which had sealed his Moscow win ? and took a sabbatical in 1978, feeling emotionally drained from nonstop touring. Cliburn later moved from New York to Fort Worth, where he currently lives and where he remained active in the arts and social scenes. He began playing publicly again in the late 1980s.

Until only recently, Cliburn practiced daily and performed limited engagements.

He has performed for every president since Harry Truman, and for years has devoted his time to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Founded by Fort Worth music teachers in 1962, it's held every four years and considered among the world's premier piano competitions.

Cliburn won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004, and was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.

He was already an accomplished pianist before winning the 1958 competition in Moscow. He started taking piano lessons from his mother at age 3, then debuted with the Houston Symphony Orchestra at age 12. He studied at Juilliard, won the famed Leventritt Competition and performed with several orchestras across the country ? including the New York Philharmonic.

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AMES, Iowa (AP) ? President Barack Obama, appealing to students who powered his first White House run, swooped onto college campuses Tuesday to remind those returning to class that they hold a unique power to determine the election.

"Your vote matters. Your vote made a difference," Obama told about 6,000 students at Iowa State University, many wearing cardinal and gold T-shirts. "Change was possible because of you and now we've got more work to do."

Obama told the students that they had much at stake in the Nov. 6 presidential election, panning Republican rival Mitt Romney as a candidate without a plan to move the country forward. "Last week my opponents' campaign went so far as to write you off as a lost generation. That's you according to them," the president said, referring to a Romney news release last week that referred to college students as the "Obama Economy's Lost Generation."

"What they hope is that by telling you these things, you'll get discouraged and you'll just stay home this time," Obama said. "But you can't believe it. I don't believe it."

Romney's campaign dismissed Obama's remarks, saying he had "brought the same policies to Iowa that have failed to help young Americans across the country" and left many of them "facing higher unemployment, mounting debt, rising costs, and fewer opportunities."

With Republicans gathering in Tampa, Fla., for their party convention, Obama sought to tap the same enthusiasm that propelled millions of young people to campaign and vote for him in 2008. He noted that many of the students on campus were in high school four years ago. "For the first time in most of your lives, you will get a chance to pick a president," he said.

The president, who once led a voter registration drive in Chicago, tried to motivate the young people to register to vote, telling them that "everybody else is waiting for you, if they see you register, they'll register."

Obama aides see college campuses as fertile ground for registering and recruiting some of the more than 15 million young people who have become eligible to vote since the 2008 election. After the stop at Iowa State, he was making the same appeal to college voters in two other university towns: Fort Collins, Colo., on Tuesday, and Charlottesville, Va., on Wednesday.

Romney's campaign sees an opportunity to cut into the president's support among young people by pushing a three-pronged economic argument focusing on the nation's high unemployment rate, soaring college costs and the national debt.

"These kids haven't even entered the workforce and they already owe the government a bill for the debt Obama has rung up," said Joshua Baca, the Romney campaign's national coalitions director.

Like the Republicans in Tampa, however, the president has been forced to balance campaign politics with attention to Hurricane Isaac as it powers its way toward the Gulf Coast. Obama made a bipartisan pitch, saying that the nation would help people in the storm's path recover "because when disaster strikes, we're not Democrats or Republicans first, we are Americans first. We're one family."

Aides said that while there were no current plans to change Obama's itinerary, the White House was monitoring the storm and would adjust his schedule if necessary. Before departing the White House, Obama warned residents in the storm's path to heed the advice from local officials.

The courtship of young voters is an essential part of Obama's campaign plan. Four years ago, Obama won two-thirds of the vote among 18- to 29-year-olds, compared with just 32 percent for his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, according to exit polls.

Polls show him leading Romney with college-age voters in this year's race but the president faces an undeniable challenge as he seeks to convince young people that he is the right steward for the economy as they eye a shaky post-graduation job market.

Seeking to overcome that economic uncertainty, Obama's campus staffers and volunteers are touting the president's positions on social issues, like gay rights, that garner significant support among young people. Obama has stressed his effort to freeze interest rates on new federal student loans, a pitch he personalizes by reminding voters that he and the first lady were once buried under a "mountain" of student loan debt after law school.

They have also turned to Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as his running mate, saying Ryan's budget would cut funding for Pell Grants, the federal need-based program for students.

Obama campaign officials say the start of the new school year is a particularly crucial time to ramp up college registration and make sure those new voters get to the polls. In many of the battleground states, about 50 percent of the college students register to vote on campus after Labor Day, according to the campaign. And even those who are already registered may need to change their address or other personal details after moving to new dorms.

Obama's campaign said it registered 10,000 voters on college campuses in Ohio last week and signed up 300 new volunteers at colleges in Iowa.

At the University of Dayton, Daniel Rajaiah encourages his fellow Democrats to carry voter registration forms to class, to parties and around campus in case they find someone who hasn't registered. Members of the College Democrats set up tables in the middle of campus a few days a week to catch students walking to class or to the cafeteria.

"Our game plan this fall is to hit voter registration very hard," said Rajaiah, who is president of the College Democrats of Ohio.

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Thomas reported from Washington. Associated Press News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.

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By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on August 28, 2012

As Those With Autism Get Older, Fewer Proven Interventions Available Researchers say current interventional therapies for autism among adolescents and young adults are not supported, or refuted, by existing outcome evidence.

Vanderbilt University scientists say the dearth of evidence calls for an immediate round of structured interventions that can be accurately tracked for success or failure.

Although the prevalence of autism is on the rise, much remains to be discovered when it comes to interventions for this population, the researchers concluded.

?Overall, there is very little evidence in all areas of care for adolescents and young adults with autism, and it is urgent that more rigorous studies be developed and conducted,? said Melissa McPheeters, Ph.D., M.P.H., and senior author of the report.

The report is a systematic review of therapies published by the Department of Health and Human Services? Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Zachary Warren, Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center?s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders, said, ?There are growing numbers of adolescents and adults with autism in need of substantial support.

?Without a stronger evidence base, it is very hard to know which interventions will yield the most meaningful outcomes for individuals with autism and their families.?

As a basis for the report, researchers systematically screened more than 4,500 studies and reviewed the 32 studies published from January 1980 to December 2011 on therapies for people ages 13 to 30 with autism spectrum disorders.

They focused on the outcomes, including harms and adverse effects, of interventions, including medical, behavioral, educational and vocational.

Some evidence revealed that treatments could improve social skills and educational outcomes such as vocabulary or reading, but the studies were generally small and had limited follow-up;
Limited evidence supports the use of medical interventions in adolescents and young adults with autism. The most consistent findings were identified for the effects of antipsychotic medications on reducing problem behaviors that tend to occur with autism, such as irritability and aggression. Harms associated with medications included sedation and weight gain;
Only five articles tested vocational interventions, all of which suggested that certain vocational interventions may be effective for certain individuals, but each study had significant flaws that limited the researchers? confidence in their conclusions.

The researchers? findings on vocational interventions will be featured in the Aug. 27 issue of Pediatrics.

Newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that one in 88 children has an autism spectrum disorder. Boys with autism outnumber girls 5-to-1, which which works out to one in 54 boys in the U.S. with? autism.

?With more and more youth with autism leaving high school and entering the adult world, there is urgent need for evidence-based interventions that can improve their quality of life and functioning,? said Julie Lounds Taylor, Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics and special education and lead author of the report.

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 27, 2012) ? New research by a University of Rhode Island professor suggests that the length of human pregnancy is limited primarily by a mother's metabolism, not the size of the birth canal. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of August 27, challenges the long-held notion of an evolutionary trade-off between childbirth and a pelvis adapted for walking upright.

Two traits that set humans apart from other primates -- big brains and the ability to walk upright -- could be at odds when it comes to childbirth. Big brains and the big heads that encase them are hard to push through the human birth canal, but a wider pelvis might compromise bipedal walking. Scientists have long posited that nature's solution to this problem, which is known as the "obstetric dilemma," was to shorten the duration of gestation so that babies are born before their heads get too big. As a result, human babies are relatively helpless and seemingly underdeveloped in terms of motor and cognitive ability compared to other primates.

"All these fascinating phenomena in human evolution -- bipedalism, difficult childbirth, wide female hips, big brains, relatively helpless babies -- have traditionally been tied together with the obstetric dilemma," said Holly Dunsworth, an anthropologist at the University of Rhode Island and lead author of the research. "It's been taught in anthropology courses for decades, but when I looked for hard evidence that it's actually true, I struck out."

The first problem with the theory is that there is no evidence that hips wide enough to deliver a more developed baby would be a detriment to walking, Dunsworth said. Anna Warrener, a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University and one of the paper's co-authors, has studied how hip breadth affects locomotion with women on treadmills. She found that there is no correlation between wider hips and a diminished locomotor economy.

"That throws doubt on the assumption that the size of the birth canal is limited by bipedalism," Dunsworth said. "Wide hips don't mean you can't walk efficiently."

Then Dunsworth looked for evidence that human pregnancy is shortened compared to other primates and mammals. She found well-established research to the contrary. "Controlling for mother's body size, human gestation is a bit longer than expected compared to other primates, not shorter," she said. "And babies are a bit larger than expected, not smaller. Although babies behave like it, they're not born early."

For mammals in general, including humans, gestation length and offspring size are predicted by mother's body size. Because body size is a good proxy for an animal's metabolic rate and function, Dunsworth started to wonder if metabolism might offer a better explanation for the timing of human birth than the pelvis.

To investigate that possibility, she enlisted the help of Peter Ellison of Harvard University and Herman Pontzer of Hunter College in New York, two experts in human physiology and energetics. Building on Ellison's prior work on human pregnancy and childbirth, the researchers developed a new hypothesis for the timing of human birth called the EGG (energetics, gestation, and growth).

"Under the EGG, babies are born when they're born because mother cannot put any more energy into gestation and fetal growth," Dunsworth explains. "Mom's energy is the primary evolutionary constraint, not the hips."

Using metabolic data on pregnant women, the researchers show that women give birth just as they are about to cross into a metabolic danger zone.

"There is a limit to the number of calories our bodies can burn each day," says Pontzer. "During pregnancy, women approach that energetic ceiling and give birth right before they reach it. That suggests there is an energetic limit to human gestation length and fetal growth."

Those metabolic constraints help explain why human babies are so helpless compared to our primate kin, like chimpanzees. A chimp baby begins crawling at one month, whereas human babies don't crawl until around seven months. But for a human to give birth to a newborn at the same developmental level as chimp, it would take a 16-month gestation. That would place mothers well past their energetic limits. In fact, even one extra month of gestation would cross into the metabolic danger zone, the researchers found.

"It would be physiologically impossible, regardless of pelvic bone anatomy, to birth a more developed baby," Dunsworth said. "Our helplessness at birth is just a sign of how much more brain growth we have to achieve once we start living outside our mother."

The energetics, gestation and growth hypothesis would downplay an implication of the obstetric dilemma that Dunsworth finds odd.

"We've been doing anthropology with this warped view of the male pelvis as the ideal form, while the female pelvis is seen as less than ideal because of childbirth," she said. "The female births the babies. So if there's an ideal, it's female and it's no more compromised than anything else out there. Selection maintains its adequacy for locomotion and for childbirth.

"If it didn't, we'd have gone extinct," Dunsworth said.

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Britannia Community Centre presents Fresh Air Movie Night - Ratatouille on September 5, 2012

Britannia Community Services Centre celebrates its community volunteers with outdoor music and a movie in Grandview Park

Britannia celebrates volunteerism with its first outdoor music and movie night on September 5, 2012 in Grandview Park. Due in large part to the work of the more than 300 volunteers who serve the Centre and the community, Grandview-Woodland is known to be one of the most dynamic, vibrant and engaged communities in the city. The volunteers keep that reputation alive, and ?this event invites the rest of the Grandview-Woodland and Strathcona neighborhoods to recognize and celebrate the contributions and commitment that our volunteers at Britannia have made for the community, and do so in a fun-filled, safe and exciting environment,? says Li-Mei Yip, Britannia Volunteer and Volunteer Committee member.

?This event is designed as an inclusive event where volunteers can bring their family and friends, all while encouraging the greater community to join as well. It?s a great way to celebrate the many contributions of Britannia?s volunteers,? says Executive Director, Cynthia Low. ?This event is a token of gratitude for the caring and appreciation that individuals have for each other, which is what creates such a vibrant and active neighborhood.?

?The community has been involved in Britannia from the very beginning. We have many wonderful programs and ways to get involved. I am always welcomed as if I were family and I hope that others feel that way too,? says Allan Ross, local resident and long-time Britannia Volunteer. The services provided at Britannia not only bring respite, joy and pleasure to individuals and their families but they support people in gaining a foothold to make positive changes for themselves and the world around them.

Event festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. with food vendors, face painting, music and live entertainment including Kutapira. Movie screening of the Pixar animated film ?Ratatouille? begins at dusk.

Movie:?Disney / Pixar?s Ratatouille

Admission: Free

Date: September 5, 2012

Time: Movie starts at dusk. Be sure to bring a blanket or lawn chair. In case of rain, film in Britannia Gym D.

Location: Grandview Park (1657 Charles Street, Vancouver) Off?Commercial?Drive

Live music and entertainment provided by?Kutapira

Face-painter Lunar Marula will be present and you won?t want to miss some yummy food from the food vendors, The Chilli Truck and La Boheme Creperie!

For more information, please visit:?www.britanniacentre.org

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I sat down in an examining room with shaking knees, a sober-faced doctor and biopsy results. The news was not good.

There are moments that change your life forever. This was one of them. I was diagnosed with cervical cancer, a mother of two in my 30s. I?ll never feel invulnerable again.

I?d missed a yearly Pap smear, but I was young and, I thought, healthy. I made the mistake of putting myself last, as women too often do; taking care of everyone else?s needs but neglecting to tend my own.

Regret is wasteful and useless and empty; it deters action and voids hope. But that was all I could feel at first, knowing a simple screening could have changed my life.

If only, if only, if only.?.?. the chorus drummed in my head over and over again, an anchoring beat for the chirping fears and incessant what-ifs that flew through my head like scattered birdsong. I wondered if I would get to see my babies grow up, reach for unfulfilled dreams, or live to see 40.

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide. It?s also incredibly preventable: Ninety-two percent of women diagnosed with cervical cancer will survive if it?s found early. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend an annual Pap smear once women turn 21, or within three years of becoming sexually active.

Yet, cervical cancer screenings across the United States are declining more than any other preventive health measure for women: All but three states reported a drop in the number of women receiving Pap smears in 2010, according to the National Women?s Law Center.

And, despite its preventability, one-third of the 12,000 U.S. women diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2008 died from this disease, says the CDC. Had I waited even one more year for a screening, I would have been one of them.

Too many women are still skipping screenings, often because they?re financially strapped. It?s no coincidence that cervical cancer occurs more frequently in women who are poor or without health insurance.

That?s a sobering thought when we think of Mitt Romney?s intent to cut federal funding for both Planned Parenthood and Title X reproductive health services if he?s elected president this fall.

There?s a four-letter word nicely suited to that problem: v-o-t-e. We have an opportunity in November to vote against any state or national politician who would deliberately put women in harm?s way for the sake of ideology.

Because while the cost of healthcare is often high, the cost of neglecting a Pap test is higher. Even for those who survive, there?s still an awful lot to lose.

Irregular pre-cancerous cells are easily removed. Once cancer develops, however, a common treatment is to cut off part of the cervix, putting future pregnancies at risk. I traded a piece of my cervix for a chance at survival. It was painful and I was scared, but they cut out all the cancer.

It was then that I met cancer?s sinister shadow. You can get cancer ? and it can come back. I was paroled, but not free: Without a hysterectomy, there was a 20 percent chance the cancer would return. I hadn?t yet closed the door on more children, but cancer slammed it shut.

I had to choose between having more children and living to see the children I have grow up. Put that way, it?s an easy decision. But the truth is there?s nothing easy about cancer. No woman should have to lose her life, or her fertility, to such a preventable disease.

We can help all women by fighting to retain funding for screenings, and exercising our right to vote. We can help ourselves by honoring that fight, getting checked regularly, and encouraging our loved ones to do the same.

If only, if only, if only.?.?. don?t let the beat go on.

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* This story is revised and updated from a 2011 essay.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama hailed the late astronaut Neil Armstrong as one of the greatest of American heroes, "not just of his time, but of all time."

The first man to walk on the moon, Armstrong died Saturday at the age of 82.

In a statement issued by the White House, Obama said Armstrong and the rest of the crew carried with them the aspirations of an entire nation when the Apollo 11 mission traveled to the moon in 1969.

"They set out to show the world that the American spirit can see beyond what seems unimaginable ? that with enough drive and ingenuity, anything is possible. And when Neil stepped foot on the surface of the moon for the first time, he delivered a moment of human achievement that will never be forgotten," Obama said.

The president said Armstrong's "spirit of discovery" lives on today in all men and women who have devoted their lives to exploring the unknown.

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Apple Inc. scored a sweeping legal victory over Samsung on Friday as a U.S. jury found the Korean company had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded the U.S. company $1.051 billion in damages.

The verdict ? which came much sooner than expected ? could lead to an outright ban on sales of key Samsung products and will likely solidify Apple?s dominance of the exploding mobile computing market.

A number of companies that sell smartphones based on Google?s Android operating system may now face further legal challenges from Apple, a company that is already among the largest and most profitable in business history.

Shares in Apple, which just this week became the biggest company by market value in history, climbed almost 2 percent to a record high of $675 in after-hours trade.

Brian Love, a Santa Clara law school professor, described it as a crushing victory for Apple: ?This is the best-case scenario Apple could have hoped for.?

The jury deliberated for less than three days before delivering the verdict on seven Apple patent claims and five Samsung patent claims ? suggesting that the nine-person panel had little difficulty in concluding that Samsung had copied the iPhone and the iPad.

Billions of dollars in future sales hang in the balance.

Apple?s charges that Samsung copied its designs and features are widely viewed as an attack on Google Inc and its Android software, which drives Samsung?s devices and has become the most-used mobile software.

Apple and Samsung, two companies that sell more than half the world?s smartphones and tablets, have locked legal horns in several countries this year.

Earlier on Friday, a South Korean court found that both companies shared blame, ordering Samsung to stop selling 10 products including its Galaxy S II phone and banning Apple from selling four different products, including its iPhone 4.

But the trial on Apple?s home turf ? the world?s largest and most influential technology market ? is considered the most important.

The fight began last year when Apple sued Samsung in multiple countries, accusing the South Korean company of slavishly copying the iPhone and iPad. Samsung countersued. Apple had sought more than $2.5 billion in damages from Samsung, which has disputed that figure.

The companies are rivals, but also have a $5 billion-plus supply relationship. Apple is Samsung?s biggest customer for microprocessors and other parts central to Apple?s devices.

A NEAR CLEAN SWEEP?

The U.S. jury spent most of August in a packed federal courtroom in San Jose ? just miles from Apple?s headquarters in Cupertino ? listening to testimony, examining evidence and watching lawyers from both sides joust about seven Apple patents, five Samsung patents, and damage claims.

Jurors received 100 pages of legal instructions from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh on Aug. 21 prior to hearing the closing arguments from attorneys.

Lawyers from both tech giants used their 25 hours each of trial time to present internal emails, draw testimony from designers and experts, and put on product demonstrations and mockups to convince the jury.

At times, their questions drew testimony that offered glimpses behind the corporate facade, such as the margins on the iPhone and Samsung?s sales figures in the United States.

From the beginning, Apple?s tactic was to present what it thought was chronological evidence of Samsung copying its phone.

Juxtaposing pictures of phones from both companies and internal Samsung emails that specifically analyzed the features of the iPhone, Apple?s attorneys accused Samsung of taking shortcuts after realizing it could not keep up.

Samsung?s attorneys, on the other hand, maintained Apple had no sole right to geometric designs such as rectangles with rounded corners. They called Apple?s damage claim ?ridiculous? and urged the jury to consider that a verdict in favor of Apple could stifle competition and reduce choices for consumers.

The California trial has produced its share of drama and heated moments. Lawyers routinely bickered over legal matters in the jury?s absence, filed rafts of paperwork to thwart each other?s courtroom strategy, and sometimes even resorted to public relations tactics to make their views known.

Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/24/apple-triumphs-over-samsung

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, step on a podium to listen to the national anthems during a welcome ceremony prior to a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

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In this picture provided by the German Government German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, right, on the terrace of the federal chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Building in the background is the German parliament Reichstag. (AP Photo/Bundesregierung/Guido Bergmann)

A German, Greek and an EU flag wave at the federal chancellery with the German parliament, the Reichstag building in the background during the visit of Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/dapd, Oliver Lang)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, talks to Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras, during a welcome ceremony at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Maja Hitij)

BERLIN (AP) ? Greece made little immediate progress in its quest for more time to carry out painful cuts during talks between its Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday.

But the German leader did offer some support to the stricken country, stressing that Berlin wanted to keep Greece in the euro and that it won't rush to make any premature judgments about its reform efforts.

In German and French media this week, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has been arguing that his country should have more time beyond the mid-2014 deadline to complete reforms that are a condition of it continuing to receive bailout loans. Without the help, Greece would be forced into a chaotic default on its debts and could be forced out of the eurozone.

Leading German politicians have voiced deep skepticism about granting Greece any concessions. Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, meeting a day before Samaras came to Berlin, put the onus squarely on Greece to fulfill its pledges.

Athens has faltered in the speed and effectiveness of implementing the reforms ? irritating creditors, notably Germany, which is the single largest contributor to its ?240 billion ($300 billion) bailout packages. Weeks of political wrangling in Greece that ultimately brought a coalition government under Samaras to power didn't help.

Greece's continued access to the bailout packages hinges on a favorable report next month from the so-called "troika" of the country's debt inspectors ? the European Union, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. If Greece is found to have failed on key economic reforms that are conditions of the bailout loan, vital funds could be halted.

"To win back confidence, we must fulfill expectations, and so I made clear in the talks that we of course expect from Greece that the commitments that were made be implemented, that deeds follow words," Merkel said after meeting Samaras.

"But fulfilling expectations also means that Greece can rightly expect from Germany that we do not pass premature judgments," Merkel said, adding that Germany needs to wait for the debt inspectors' report.

Merkel didn't address Samaras' hopes of winning more time to carry out reforms, which he reiterated at Friday's joint news conference, emphasizing that stimulating economic growth is a priority.

"We don't want more aid, we did not ask for more money; but we need time to breathe ? it is a big leap that Greece is making," he said. He didn't specify how long that "time to breathe" might be.

Germany's finance minister has argued that giving Greece more time wouldn't solve the country's problems, and the parliamentary caucus leader of Merkel's conservative bloc poured more cold water on the idea Friday. Both question Samaras' assertion that giving Greece more time doesn't have to mean giving it more money.

And Merkel would need approval for any extra funding in Parliament, where lawmakers in her center-right coalition have no appetite for another Greek rescue program.

Merkel said there are "two realities" that need to be reconciled by European leaders.

In Greece, she said, there is the perspective of having suffered through years of recession and being asked now for more painful cuts. "And then there's the other reality expressed by many in Germany that we have for more than two years guaranteed programs, support and a lot of money for Greece and it always comes to that point where what we have expected has not happened, and from that has grown a lot of impatience."

Some German politicians have talked openly about the possibility of Greece leaving the euro. The vice chancellor, Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, has said the idea of a Greek exit has "lost its horror."

However, Merkel repeated on Friday that Germany wants Greece to keep the shared currency.

"I want to say very clearly here ... (and) this is also the aim of the entire German government, that Greece is a part of the eurozone and I would like Greece to remain part of the eurozone," she said.

Friday's meeting "was a good beginning, but it also became clear in the talks that there is a lot to do," Merkel said.

Greece "will stay true to its commitments," Samaras insisted. "To be precise, we are already doing so. I am convinced that the report of the troika will signal that the new coalition government in Greece will soon lead to results."

Samaras will meet Hollande in Paris on Saturday. Continuing a round of financial diplomacy, Merkel will meet next Wednesday with Italian Premier Mario Monti, whose country is struggling with high borrowing costs.

Earlier Friday, the parliamentary leader of Merkel's conservative bloc said he was "very skeptical" about giving Greece more time. "My position is that neither the time nor the position in substance can be renegotiated; Greece must now fulfill its duties," Volker Kauder told ZDF television.

Asked whether the euro would fail if Greece leaves, Kauder replied that rescue funds are in place to help prevent contagion of other countries, so "I would say that this wouldn't be a problem for the euro."

Samaras said it time for an end to talk about Greece leaving the euro.

"Can there be any businessman who invests in this country if he knows that he will invest in euros and get drachma back? No," Samaras said.

"You can imagine that this cacophony ... creates such big problems that one has the impression of fighting for nothing."

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David Rising and Frank Jordans contributed to this story.

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Banners advertising Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S III, left, and Apple's iPhone 4S are displayed at a mobile phone shop in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. The Seoul Central District Court ruled Friday that technology rivals Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. both infringed on each other's patents, and ordered a partial ban of their products in South Korea. Each side was also ordered to pay limited damages. The court ordered Apple to remove the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and iPad 2 from store shelves in South Korea, ruling that the products infringed on two of Samsung's telecommunications patents. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Banners advertising Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S III and Note 10.1 are displayed at the showroom of its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. The Seoul Central District Court ruled Friday that technology rivals Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. both infringed on each other's patents, and ordered a partial ban of their products in South Korea. Each side was also ordered to pay limited damages. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? A South Korean court ruled Friday that technology giants Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. both infringed on each other's patents, and ordered a partial ban of their products in South Korea. The court also denied accusations that Samsung copied the look and feel of the iPhone and iPad.

The Seoul Central District Court ordered Apple to remove the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad 1 and iPad 2 from store shelves in South Korea, ruling that the products infringed on two of Samsung's five disputed patents, including those for telecommunications techology.

The court also denied Apple's claim that Samsung had illegally copied its design, and that the shape and big display screen existed in products before the iPhone and iPad.

"Based on the similarity in these features, it is not possible to assert that the two designs are similar," the court said in a ruling issued in Korean that was translated by the AP into English.

But in a twist, the court also ruled that Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung had infringed on one of Apple's patents related to the screen's bounce-back feature, which causes the screen to bounce back when a user scrolls to an end image. The court banned sales of products using the technology, including the Galaxy S2, in South Korea.

Sales of devices recently released by Samsung and Apple ? including the iPhone 4S and the Galaxy S3 smartphones ? were not affected.

Court spokesman Kim Mun-sung said the court's ruling was to take effect immediately, although companies often request that sanctions be suspended while they evaluate their legal options.

Nam Ki-young, a spokesman for Samsung, said the company has not decided what its next legal step might be. Apple did not respond to requests for comment.

The court also ordered each company to pay monetary compensation to its competitor. Samsung must pay Apple 25 million won ($22,000) while Apple must pay its rival 40 million won.

Legal experts not directly involved in the case said the ruling was favorable to Samsung since the company had won rare recognition from a court ? that Apple infringed its wireless patents, which had been denied by courts in Europe.

"This is basically Samsung's victory on its home territory," said patent attorney Jeong Woo-sung. "Out of nine countries, Samsung got the ruling that it wanted for the first time in South Korea."

Other courts in Europe rejected similar claims by Samsung that Apple violated its wireless patents, because many of the patents are considered to be industry standards. Industry standard patents are a crucial technology for new players to make products compatible with the rest of the market and must be licensed under fair and reasonable terms.

Europe's anti-trust regulator launched an investigation earlier this year into whether Samsung was failing to license its standard patents under fair and reasonable terms. In Friday's ruling, the court found no fault with Samsung and ruled that it did not abuse its industry standard patents.

The lawsuit is part of global, multibillion dollar fight between the world's two largest smartphone makers that has been unfolding in nearly a dozen countries.

However, the biggest stakes are in the U.S., where the two companies are locked in an epic struggle over patents and innovation in a federal court in San Jose, California.

Cupertino, California-based Apple sued Samsung in April 2011 in the U.S., alleging that some of the South Korean company's smartphones and computer tablets are illegal knockoffs of Apple's iPhone and iPad. Samsung denies the allegations and argues that all companies in the cutthroat phone industry mimic each other's successes without crossing the legal line.

Apple is suing Samsung for $2.5 billion and demanding that the court pull its most popular smartphones and computer tablets from the U.S. market, making the case one of the biggest technology disputes in history.

Jury deliberations began Wednesday after three weeks of testimony. The case went to the jury after last-minute talks between the companies' chief executives failed to resolve the dispute.

Shortly after Apple filed its suit in the U.S., Samsung filed a complaint in South Korea against Apple for allegedly breaching its telecommunications patents.

The battle is all the more complex as Apple and Samsung are not only competitors in the fast-growing global market for smartphones and tablet computers, but also have a close business relationship.

Samsung, the world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips and liquid crystal displays, supplies some of the key components that go into Apple products.

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