The New York State Police do not think it is funny when you place a listing for your two sons on Craigslist.
A 24-year-old man was recently arrested and charged with “falsely reporting an incident” after posting a joke listing for his two sons, a two-year-old and a one-year-old. The man says he was “joking around.”
Police say that the listing for the children said they could be used as “child slaves” and “footstools.” They also pointed out how very not amused they are at having to investigate a joke.
“He didn’t actually sell is children, obviously. But he did cause enough annoyance or problems for three different agencies to get involved. And again, there’s some serious manpower and time that was wasted on something that he said was just a joke,” A State Trooper told WHAM in Rochester, NY. Police went on to note that the man actually clarified in the ad that he was only kidding, but that police took it seriously anyway because kids were involved.
The man says he is sure he will be found not guilty.
“I’m 100% positive this is going not going to be found guilty, because it’s completely ridiculous. It was 100% honest to God a joke, and everybody blew it way out of proportion.”
Brockport Man Says ‘Kids For Sale’ on Craigslist Was a ‘Joke’ [WHAM] (Thanks, Jarrod!)
Foi divulgado pela Ford do Brasil os valores referentes ao novo Fiesta da linha 2011, que vai estar nas concessionárias a partir de maio. O Fiesta vai ser comercializado nas versões com motor 1.0, a partir de R$29.900 a versão hatch e R$33.500 a versão sedã. Também eciste a versão 1.6 com valores que variam de R$ 34.000 e R$ 37.650.
O novo Fiesta lembra bastante o modelo que é vendido na Europa, China e Japão que também vai chegar ao brasil no segundo semestre desse ano. Entre as novidades do novo Fiesta brasileiro, estão os faróis com um novo desenho e mudanças completas na grade frontal e no para-choque.
Os dois modelos do Fiesta são flex e possuem câmbio manual de 5 marchas, e um motor 1.0 de 73 cv e o motor 1.6 com 106 cv. As demais características continuam as mesmas dos modelos anteriores, como de costume.
Via | Carro Online
Reader W. sends in an awkward sign that he saw behind the counter at Domino’s. It instructs delivery people on how to deal with a customer that thinks the “You Got 30 Minutes” slogan means that Domino’s has a delivery guarantee. They don’t, of course, because making pizza delivery people drive like crazy to make a deadline is unsafe. Instead, they explain that the slogan is a “challenge not for us, but for our CUSTOMERS. A challenge for them to be ready. A challenge for them to be hone in time. A challenge to be fully dressed.”
Here’s the sign. We would like to suggest that the idea that the phrase “You Got 30 Minutes” could be interpreted by anyone as instructions to make sure your pants are on in 30 minutes is a little silly, but we can also understand how important pants are in this situation:
Saw a few interesting articles in the last few days,
Filed under: Motorsports
Think F1 racers are more like fighter jets than cars? You’re not far off. Both F1 cars and jets are made primarily of lightweight composites, travel at ludicrous speeds, generate unfathomable Gs of force, have single-seat cockpits, cost millions of dollars, and are developed (and operated) by more engineers than a train yard full of locomotives. And the similarities could be getting even closer if the latest reports are anything to go by.
After recently reporting on a potential shift to small-displacement turbocharged engines in the sport, Pitpass.com says that a proposal on allowing the use of gas turbine engines is now being looked at by the FIA. The proposal was reportedly submitted by Project 1221, which says it could supply teams with race-ready turbines as soon as 2013 if the FIA were to give it the nod. F1 fanatics may recall that Lotus toyed with turbine power back in the 1970s, but never scored a better finish than eighth place at the 1971 Italian Grand Prix before giving up on the project.
The incorporation of turbines would bring several benefits while requiring significant re-adjustments to the current formula. Although turbines use more fuel, they require far less maintenance than a conventional internal-combustion engine – especially the highly-stressed units made for F1. Turbines can run on biofuels, allowing F1 to take a step forward as a “green” leader in motorsports. Since turbines cannot, however, be used as a stressed member of a car’s chassis construction – another innovation pioneered, somewhat ironically, by Lotus – teams employing turbine power would have to switch to a space frame chassis design. Any drawbacks would be offset by the turbine’s smaller form.
Though many teams – complete-package constructors like Ferrari especially – would be hesitant to adopt turbine propulsion, one could easily imagine independents like Red Bull (to say nothing of the reborn Lotus team) jumping at the opportunity. A level playing field would have to be established through equalization regulations with conventional engines, but the people behind Project 1221 say that limiting their turbines’ output would be relatively straightforward, opening the door to multiple engine types in the series. That’s if this idea ever moves anywhere beyond the proposal stage — a pretty big “if” at that.
[Source: Pitpass]
Report: F1 turbine engine proposal being analyzed by FIA? originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) says she’s once again on President Obama’s short list for appointment to the Supreme Court. In an interview with CNN, the term-limited governor says she has talked with people in the Obama administration about the upcoming nomination to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
“It’s a great honor to be on — considered on the list,” said Granholm who went through this process last year with the opening that went to Sonia Sotomayor. She did not say if she’s spoken with the President who Fox News reported this past week held informal discussions with some of the people he’s considering.
Granholm, like Obama, holds a law degree from Harvard and appeals to some people who want the President to pick someone who is not currently serving as a federal appellate court judge. All nine members of the current Court were federal appellate judges before their elevation to the high court.
Granholm shares that interest saying, “I think it’s a very wise move to consider experience that is not just from the judicial monastery because — I mean not just me but Janet Napolitano, people that have applied the laws that Congress enacts, that have seen their impact on people, that — you know, I mean I’m from the most challenged state in the country. And, you know, for somebody to experience and see what everyday people are feeling and experiencing out there, I think is an important thing to consider.”
Last Wednesday, key senators including Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) met with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House. On Fox News Sunday, McConnell said the president didn’t tip his hand about the pick. McConnell also passed on the opportunity to publically support someone for the lifetime appointment. He even made light of the situation saying his support would work against an endorsement. “I don’t want to eliminate somebody’s possibility of being on the Supreme Court by suggesting that I might find them a worthy selection,” McConnell said before adding, “I think it would not do them any good, put it that way.”
More shots from Perth Zoo’s wonderful orangutan exhibit. These apes are incredibly intelligent and it would be terrible to let them sit in an enclosure with nothing to stimulate them. So the zoo runs a “behavioural enrichment” programme, which essentially means that they leave plenty of toys, items and challenges to keep the orangutans mentally engaged. Here’s a sequence of a female making use of one such opportunity, and demonstrating the orangutan’s prowess with tools.
She grabs a sturdy stick from the grounds…
and walks over to a metal tray, where a keeper has hidden something. She fishes around for the treat. Sometimes, they will take the stick out and lick it to see what’s buried.
Nearly there…
Got it! A biscuit. OM NOM NOM. Meanwhile, baby watches intently, probably picking up a few tricks or two.
One of the main features in the home console versions of Disney’s Toy Story 3: The Video Game is a Toy Box mode where where players are free to customize stuff and do whatever they want. This
Exactly much power does it take to run a virtual machine or specific piece of software? That’s the answer the Joulemeter team at Microsoft Research is hoping to answer for IT managers.
Over the years there have been several innovations to reduce energy usage in the data center, from custom, low-power servers to non-traditional cooling approaches. But more recently, attention has been turning to one feature common to all IT infrastructures: software. Intel, for example, recently unveiled its Energy Checker SDK in a bid to help developers optimize their code for energy efficiency. Now Microsoft is getting in on the act with Joulemeter.
Jie Liu, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research
According to Jie Liu, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, along with his fellow researchers Dr. Aman Kansal and Mr. Michel Goraczko, Joulemeter could have big implications for planning and monetizing virtual server environments and cloud infrastructures. In an email Q&A with Jiu, he answers some questions about Joulemeter and its green data center potential. Below is a lightly edited version of our exchange:
GigaOM: How did Joulemeter come about?
Liu: We started the Joulemeter project with the goal of providing visibility and fine-grained control to computer energy usages. The world has over one billion computers. As a whole, the IT industry is one of the fastest-growing energy-consuming sectors. [According to] an EPA study published in 2007, data centers in the U.S. consumed about 60 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006, which is expected to double in five years. The number of consumer computing devices exceeds enterprise and data center installations, so we expect the (corresponding) energy consumption is even higher.
Most computers, except the most recent servers, do not provide continuous monitoring of their energy consumption. Hardware metering, in addition to their cost, can only measure the power consumption for physical components (namely the entire computer or its key components like CPU, memory and disk). But computers are multitasking and the logical components in them (such as application, drives, and virtual machines) are what users understand and control. Thus, a software-based solution is very attractive both because it can be low-cost and because it can provide user-friendly granularities of energy-consumption measures.
GigaOM: Joulemeter not only measures energy use for servers and PCs but also virtual machines. Why is this important?
Liu: Infrastructure computers, as in data centers and large enterprises, are becoming virtualized for resource efficiency and isolation. Measuring energy use at the virtual machine-level enables several capabilities that were not possible before. For example, cloud computer hosts can charge their clients on a pay-as-you-go basis rather than the current pay-as-provisioned model. Better visibility also brings better control. For example, when power quality or the total consumption in a data center becomes a problem, we only need to throttle VMs of lower priority and preserve high-priority VM performance. Knowing how much power each VM is consuming prevents us from making decisions in the dark.
GigaOM: What’s the implication for software developers?
Liu: Software developers constantly make decisions during software development to optimize for, e.g. speed, memory size, storage, etc. Giving energy consumption visibility to developers will help improve software energy consumption in the design phase.
In Fine-Grained Energy Profiling for Power-Aware Application Design, we gave an example of two different compression libraries, which gives different performance and energy consumption characteristics. We advocate that developers should make informed decisions. In the future, is it also possible that compilers will help developers make such tradeoffs by providing energy-optimized executable code.
GigaOM: What impact would a tool like Joulemeter have on cloud computing platforms?
Liu: Joulemeter helps cloud computing twofold. One is at the service provisioning phase. VM power consumption, together with other VM placement constraints can help better assignment from VMs to physical machines. In addition, continuous monitoring of VM power consumption during operation can enable scenarios like charge-as-you-go and selective power-capping.
GigaOM: What have your own tests taught you?
Liu: We find that we can do much better data center provisioning (up to 15 percent) based on measure power consumption and VM-level power-capping capability. This means that for the same investment in building a data center, we can host 15 percent more servers without sacrificing application performance.
In another example, we have deployed Joulemeter to more than 50 computers in Microsoft Research. We were able to identify why some of the machines do not go to sleep at night when they should be, due to conflicting policy settings and misconfiguration. It clearly shows that visibility is important.
According to Liu, the general public will get its hands on Joulemeter in the “near future,” however he stresses that it’s strictly a research prototype at this point and may never see the light of day as part of a commercialized product. However, don’t be shocked if some of the concepts behind Joulemeter inform Microsoft’s offerings and internal strategies, particularly in light of the company’s efforts behind its Azure cloud computing platform (GigaOM Pro, subscription required).
For more on software and energy efficiency, join the GigaOM Network at Green:Net on April 29th in San Francisco. For more on cloud computing, join us at Structure June 23 & 24th, also in San Francisco.
Images courtesy of Microsoft Research
Dell, ever the leaky sieve after this week’s unexpected Flash/Thunder/Smoke peepshow, has let slip a presentation that outlines a number of upcoming gadgets, including Sparta/Athens netbooks, the Looking Glass Pro and three Streak variants. More »
Senator Graham (R-SC) told reporters Saturday that he was outraged at the idea that now immigration reform might be voted on before the climate and energy bill and is no longer unveiling it Monday as promised.
He has been working for weeks with Senators Kerry (D-NH) and Liebermnan (I-CT) on making the climate and renewable energy bill just fossil-friendly-enough to actually hurdle the unethical 41 vote filibuster of all Democratic majority legislation routinely employed by Republicans since 2006 when they lost the majority in the Senate.
His frustration came because he had also spent weeks working with Democrats to make the immigration measure bipartisan and had not been alerted to the change in plans, moving the immigration vote first.
On Saturday night he said he can not now help unveil the long-awaited climate bill due Monday. But this could put it off till the new congress, when there will be several more Republicans in the Senate, ending the chances for US climate legislation indefinitely. (more…)
Reader J was at the Giants game the other day and bought a seriously overpriced ballpark item from a vendor and was wondering if an additional tip was appropriate for a $6 hot chocolate.
J says:
So I went to a baseball game over the weekend, (Giants @ at&t park!) and I had a question. Now we all know food there is expensive, overpriced, but that’s how the stadium makes money, and we just buy it because we’re having a good time, so a little overpriced food for a day of fun isn’t a big deal.
My question is, with all those vendors walking around selling things like cotton candy, popcorn, coffee, hot chocolate, etc etc, are we suppose to tip them? I mean I’m already paying for overpriced food, and it’s their job to walk around selling food, but should we tip as well?
I was purchasing an overpriced cup of hot chocolate for $6, and I had a $10 bill, and the guy asked if I wanted my change. In another instance, when another vendor was selling a cup of hot chocolate (or coffee) to another customer, the customer paid $12, but only for one cup. The vendor confirmed either the guy wanted one or two cups (he wanted one), so the vendor gave back his change, but I swore he only gave back $5, so did he take $1 as a tip?
I also know there are these people that walk around with menus that let you order, and they bring the food to you, I assume you should tip them, since they’re more like waiters? I’m not sure but I don’t go to baseball games too much, so I was just wondering!
As a person who only buys beer at these kinds of things (Hey, I like beer,) it had never really occurred to me not to tip a vendor, but I can see how it would be hard to tip when buying a $6 cup of Swiss Miss. The last time I bought Swiss Miss it was, like, $0.75 for a whole box of little packets.
Even so, we’re pretty sure you should tip the vendor — because according to this article in Slate, they don’t get to pick what they sell. So if they get stuck selling King Midas’ Swiss Miss, it’s not really their fault.
From Slate:
Sellers get paid on commission, so expensive items that sell in high volume (i.e., beer) are the most coveted. On game day, each vendor buys a lot of their assigned product at the commissary; any beers that get stolen, lost, or given away as freebies come out of his pocket. After work, the cashier at the commissary pays him a certain sum for each beer (or other food item) sold. Commissions range from about 7 percent to 19 percent—up to $1.14 on a $6 beer. In some ballparks, commissions increase as a vendor meets sales goals.
In general, the best and the most-senior vendors choose to sell beer, while the rookies handle hot dogs and peanuts. To sell beer, you have to be 21 years old, and you’re supposed to undergo special training. ARAMARK, which manages concessions for 11 teams (including the Angels, Astros, Red Sox, and Braves), requires that all beer vendors study how to identify and deal with drunken fans.
Location also makes a difference in meeting your sales goals. Folks in the cheap seats tend to buy in bulk but give less in tips. If the sales manager doesn’t assign areas of the stadium, vendors work out informal systems to divvy up the sections based on seniority.
Being a stadium vendor is also something of an art form, MentalFloss has a list of 9 famous stadium vendors — one of them even has his own baseball card!
Here’s a particularly awesome guy who sells beer at Cleveland Indians games:
So, in short, yes a tip for good service is appropriate. The real problem here is that even for a baseball stadium, AT&T park is somewhat overpriced. Maybe next time skip the expensive hot chocolate and get some garlic fries and an Anchor Steam.
So, You Want to Be a Beer Vendor [Slate]
9 Famous Stadium Vendors [MentalFloss]
In the mood for some intense mecha action? Check out this new Another Century’s Episode: R trailer.
A tornado destroyed the Hillside Baptist Church but today its members gathered next to the rubble and gave thanks to God. It was a two story building but you wouldn’t know it by looking at it. Now it is just a pile of wood and concrete and steel. Before they started, members picked through the wreckage to find church books so they could hold their service. I heard one woman say “We don’t need a building to be a church.”
Dale Thrasher was the only one inside that church when the tornado hit yesterday. He dove under the Communion table and says “God wrapped him arms around me. ” When the storm had passed, he looked up and saw the sky. He didn’t have a scratch on him.
Today Thrasher talked to his fellow church members and told them they will build back again, bigger and better.
After the second televised prime ministerial debate
, Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats continue to run neck-and-neck in opinion polls with David Cameron’s Conservatives, with Gordon Brown and Labour in third place.
This interesting, but not entirely unexpected, turn of events has little to do with Clegg’s personal charisma or a sudden rush of popular enthusiasm for Lib Dem policies, like their strong support for Britain’s membership of the EU, their redistributionist tax schemes (among other measures, they’d raise the basic tax threshold to £10,000 per annum and slap a “mansion tax” on houses worth more than £2m), and their championing of civil liberties against New Labour’s increased use of extended detention without trial and mass surveillance. Polling suggests that most Britons are either lukewarm about the Lib Dem proposals or don’t know what they are. Their enthusiasm for Clegg, and their seeming readiness to vote Lib Dem on May 6, has another likely explanation.
Most commentators have pointed to the great parliamentary expenses scandal of last spring as the “cause” of the present mood of distrust and contempt for politicians in general. But it was not the cause so much as the convenient catalyst for a breaking wave of fury that had been building in strength from around the midpoint of Tony Blair’s second term in office (2001-2005). The huge unpopularity of the 2003 Iraq invasion (supported by the Conservatives, but opposed by the Lib Dems), followed by the bursting of the property bubble and the steep rise of unemployment and home foreclosures that came with deepening recession, had turned British voters against their political class long before the Telegraph got hold of its bootleg disk of MPs’ claims on their allowances.
When the scandal broke in April, it seemed to ratify everyone’s worst opinion of parliamentarians—that they were all in it for themselves, all had their snouts in the same trough, and none were to be trusted with running the country. Timing was everything. The story happened to come out when Britain was enduring the worst of the recession, when people were baying for a scapegoat to blame for their shuttered businesses and underwater mortgages, and MPs as a class became that useful animal, and more easily targeted than the hated bankers. On May 14, 2009, in Question Time with David Dimbleby, broadcast from Grimsby, the audience treated the politicians on stage as if they were miscreants on exhibition in the village stocks. Interestingly, the then leader of the Lib Dems, Sir Menzies Campbell, was treated with as much disrespect as his fellows.
The expenses scandal was clearly a cathartic moment for the electorate, the perfect opportunity to put MPs in their place, take them down a peg, and tell them what’s what in no uncertain terms. The May 6 election seems to present just such another opportunity. When Brown and Cameron agreed to allow Nick Clegg to make a threesome in their debates, they can’t have foreseen what now look like the inevitable consequences. For as soon as Clegg appeared at his own lectern, on an equal footing with Brown and Cameron, British voters appeared to scent a fresh catharsis in the immediate offing.
Clegg’s great attraction in the first debate was that he managed to look and sound like a disgruntled voter when he said, “Don’t let them tell you that the only choice is between two old parties that have been playing pass the parcel with your government for 65 years now, making the same old promises, breaking the same old promises,” and, of Brown and Cameron, “The more they attack each other, the more they sound exactly the same.” In the second debate, he maintained his edge by playing the part of the man of practical common sense, sandwiched (literally, for this time he stood at the center lectern) between two tiresome, warring ideologues. It’s a role at which he is surprisingly good. Though, like Cameron, he comes from a rich family and was privately educated, Clegg’s accent is mongrel-London and his pleasant face looks more fils du peuple than to-the-manor-born. His great strength is that he comes off as entirely inoffensive; decent, knowledgeable, articulate without being dangerously eloquent or witty, bright but not brilliant, telegenic but not a natural star. Eight days of national fame have led to a rash of silly comparisons with Obama, which, I think, miss the whole point of Nick Clegg, one of whose chief merits, to the skeptical British eye, is that he is no Obama.
Clegg and the Lib Dems give the electorate the chance to teach the British parliament a lesson that it won’t forget. It’s no wonder that support seems to be draining from the odious British National Party and the eccentric, noisy United Kingdom Independence Party, for protest has found a more effective way of registering its dissent—by hanging parliament, as if by the neck. On the BBC election website, there’s an interactive toy, the Election Seat Calculator, with which one can (crudely) translate votes into seats. On April 23, the day after the second debate, the “poll of polls” gave the Lib Dems 30 per cent, Conservatives 33 per cent, Labour 27 per cent, and Others (including the Scottish and Welsh nationalists) 10 per cent. According to Britain’s first past the post system—which essentially negates Lib Dem votes in Labour and Conservative strongholds, provided the incumbent party still wins those constituencies—this would work out as 261 seats for Labour, 258 for the Conservatives, 102 for the Lib Dems, and 10 for Others—a result manifestly unfair (the party with the fewest votes takes the most seats), but also pretty satisfying if you are, as Britain is now, in a plague-on-all-their-houses mood. It will give politicians of the three biggest parties a blinding headache, and by doing so it will assure an angry and cynical electorate that this time it has managed to pull off something really big at the ballot box.
PS: Over the weekend of April 24-25, half a dozen polls showed a slight decrease in support for Clegg and the Lib Dems, and a corresponding rise in support for Cameron and the Conservatives. Impossible to tell yet whether this is a blip or a serious augury. Some commentators are saying that Clegg’s moment of glory has likely peaked, others that his souffle-like rise is showing the first signs of collapse. The reliable go-to site on new polls and their interpretation is Anthony Wells’s UK Polling Report.
The “largest climate rally ever” is taking place on DC mall right now. You can watch the live stream of everyone from James Hansen to James Cameron, from Sting to me, right here:
I’m supposed to be on around 4:50 pm for 3 minutes, though severe weather could obviously change that.
If someone can find a full schedule, please post the link. You can get more information by clicking on the Earth Day Network website.
Sting I believe it will be on last, right before the 7 pm end. Other speakers this afternoon include:
Climate scientists like James Hansen, and Stephen Schneider.
EPA chief (and heroine!) Lisa Jackson & CEQ Chair Nancy Sutley
Cultural leaders like James Cameron (Avatar; Titanic) and Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale; The Blind Assassin)
Top business executives from Siemens, Phillips, UL, Future Friendly & SunEdison
Top labor leaders, including the President of the AFL-CIO and Secretary of the SEIU.
Progressive activists, including Jesse Jackson, Lydia Camarillo, & Hilary Shelton
Climate policy gurus like Joe Romm, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, & Rafael Fantauzzi
Spiritual leaders, including Rev. Theresa Thames, Rev. Richard Cizik, & Rabbi Warren Stone
Athletes like Dhani Jones, Aaron Peirsol, & Billy Demong
Environmentalists like Bobby Kennedy & Phillipe Cousteau
In between the speakers we will hear from some of the most committed artists in the nation, including Sting, John Legend, The Roots, Willie Colon, Passion Pit, Bob Weir, Jimmy Cliff, Joss Stone, Booker T, The Honor Society, Mavis Staples….
vitamin b12 vegetarians
Vitamin B12 is an essential water soluble vitamin that is commonly found in a variety of foods such as fish, shellfish, meats, and dairy products. Vitamin B12 is frequently used in combination with other B vitamins in a vitamin B complex formulation. It helps maintain healthy nerve cells and red blood cells, and is also needed to make DNA, the genetic material in all cells. Vitamin B12 is bound to the protein in food. Hydrochloric acid in the stomach releases B12 from protein during digestion. Once released, B12 combines with a substance called intrinsic factor (IF) before it is absorbed into the bloodstream.
Studies have shown that a deficiency of vitamin B12 can lead to abnormal neurologic and psychiatric symptoms. These symptoms may include: ataxia (shaky movements and unsteady gait), muscle weakness, spasticity, incontinence, hypotension, vision problems, dementia, psychoses, and mood disturbances. Researchers report that these symptoms may occur when vitamin B12 levels are just slightly lower than normal and are considerably above the levels normally associated with anemia. People at risk for vitamin B12 deficiency include strict vegetarians, elderly people, and people with increased vitamin B12 requirements associated with pregnancy, thyrotoxicosis, hemolytic anemia, hemorrhage, malignancy, liver or kidney disease.
Vitamin B12 deficiency is a cause of megaloblastic anemia. In this type of anemia, red blood cells are larger than normal, and the ratio of nucleus size to cell cytoplasm is increased. There are other potential causes of megaloblastic anemia, including folate deficiency or various inborn metabolic disorders. If the cause is B12 deficiency, then treatment with B12 is the standard approach.
Pernicious anemia (blood abnormality) is a form of anemia that occurs when there is an absence of intrinsic factor, a substance normally present in the stomach. Vitamin B12 binds with intrinsic factor before it is absorbed and used by the body. An absence of intrinsic factor prevents normal absorption of B12 and may result in pernicious anemia. Pernicious anemia treatment is usually lifelong supplemental vitamin B12 given either intramuscularly, intranasally, or by mouth.
There is evidence that intramuscular injections of 5mg of vitamin B12 given twice per week might improve the general well being and happiness of patients complaining of tiredness or fatigue.
Vitamin B12 Injections is important for metabolism. Metabolism within the body includes the processes of energy generation and use — including nutrition, digestion, absorption, elimination, respiration, circulation, and temperature regulation. Studies indicate that absorption of Vitamin B12 decreases with an increase in age. Hence, an increased intake of B12 Injections is extremely useful for adults above fifty.
About the Author
Hi,
I am Alina.
Author of this article professionally MBA.
Vitamin B12 Injectionsis important for metabolism. Metabolism within the body includes the processes of energy generation and use — including nutrition, digestion, absorption, elimination, respiration, circulation, and temperature regulation. Studies indicate that absorption of Vitamin B12 decreases with an increase in age. Hence, an increased intake of B12 Injectionsis extremely useful for adults above fifty.
I’m vegetarian so how can i get vitamin B12 if i don’t eat meat, and can i take vitamin B12 injection?
every week. and is that enough cause i know that vitamin B12 is stored in liver.
If you are not vegan, then you can get your B12 from eggs and milk products. Otherwise, many fortified breakfast cereals will provide you with the B12 you need. Injections are possible, but unless you have an extreme case, I don’t think they’re necessary. B12 could be more easily taken in pill form.
[phpbay]vitamin b12 vegetarians, 100[/phpbay]
Vitamin B12 Vegetarians is a post from the Vegetarian Vitamins Guide blog where you can find suggestions and advice from vegetarians and vegans on vegetarian diets, supplements, vitamins and overall nutrition.
by Julian Ku
I still think there is no chance of this happening, but Christopher Hitchens offers this narrative of how and why he is pushing for legal action against the Vatican, or maybe at least a deposition of the Pope himself.
I telephoned a distinguished human-rights counsel in London, Geoffrey Robertson, and asked him if the law was powerless to intervene. Not at all, was his calm reply. If His Holiness tries to travel outside his own territory—as he proposes to travel to Britain in the fall—there is no more reason for him to feel safe than there was for the once magnificently uniformed General Pinochet, who had passed a Chilean law that he thought would guarantee his own immunity, but who was visited by British bobbies all the same. As I am writing this, plaintiffs are coming forward and strategies being readied (on both sides, since the Vatican itself scents the danger). In Kentucky, a suit is before the courts seeking the testimony of the pope himself. In Britain, it is being proposed that any one of the numberless possible plaintiffs might privately serve the pope with a writ if he shows his face. Also being considered are two international approaches, one to the European Court of Human Rights and another to the International Criminal Court. The ICC—which has already this year overruled immunity and indicted the gruesome president of Sudan—can be asked to rule on “crimes against humanity”; a legal definition that happens to include any consistent pattern of rape, or exploitation of children, that has been endorsed by any government.
Obviously, there is a lot of technical legal analysis Hitchens is missing here. Pinochet was former head of state, for instance, sought under Spain’s universal jurisdiction law, not the U.K.’s own laws. And how would the ECtHR get involved?
But the core of his argument is that the Vatican and the Pope do not deserve immunity. I just don’t see how he can get around this problem since the UK and the US both recognize the immunity of the Vatican and UK and U.S. courts will almost certainly enforce this recognition.
Next week is the last for oral arguments this term. Here’s a look at the four cases. The biggest cases are on Tuesday with a look at Alfalfa Seeds and on Wednesday over a dispute related to the 2009 referendum out of Washington that set aside that state’s civil union law:
Case: Rent-a-Center, West v. Jackson
Date: Monday April 26, 2010
Issue: Congress passed the Federal Arbitration Act so disputing parties could resolve their differences and without clogging the court system. An employment-employer agreement in this case called for the mandatory resolution of claims under the FAA. Antonio Jackson claims his bosses at Rent-a-Center, a national retailer that specializes in rent-to-own installment plans for furniture and electronics, subjected him to racial discrimination and retaliation. Jackson contends the employment agreement was one-sided and decided to sue in federal court. But the trial court dismissed the case ruling that Jackson’s employment contract mandated arbitration. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals set aside that decision and now the case is before the Supreme Court. The question presented to the justices: Is the district court required in all cases to determine claims that an arbitration agreement subject to the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) is unconscionable, even when the parties to the contract have clearly and unmistakably assigned this “gateway” issue to the arbitrator for decision?
Case: Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Ins.
Date: Monday April 26, 2010
Issue: This is yet another case involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, (ERISA) to come to the high court. This case involves a dispute over the payment of attorney fees and whether a prevailing party is the only side entitled to those claims. Certain language in the ERISA law suggest a trial court judge has the discretionary authority to award the payment of costs to either party in a particular case.
Case: Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms
Date: Tuesday April 27, 2010
Issue: Put simply this case is a fight between big agri-business and a family-operated farm with environmental sensitivities. But as is often the case, the underlying legal dispute is considerably more pedantic. At issue is the authority of a federal trial court judge to issue a sweeping injunction under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Monsanto is one of the world’s largest agriculture companies and has developed a genetically engineered alfalfa variety known as Roundup Ready alfalfa. Monsanto claims its product is simply another in a line of stronger seeds that have “become a mainstay of American agriculture” because of the ability to generate higher yields which means more money in farmers pockets. Its Roundup Ready alfalfa seed is believed to offer greater resistance to a common herbicide.
Geertson Seed Farm objects to the Monsanto seed believing it will contaminate organically produced alfalfa. The Idaho-based operation contends Roundup Ready alfalfa will be difficult to kill and will cross-pollinate with natural alfalfa seeds. Geertson claims this “will contaminate other feral plants and conventional alfalfa seed fields in the area. In a few years, it will be extremely difficult to avoid contamination from [genetically engineered] alfalfa to conventional alfalfa seed.”
Geertson sued and convinced a federal judge to issue a nationwide injunction preventing Monsanto from selling its alfalfa seed. The judge ruled that certain procedures weren’t followed under NEPA and that Monsanto couldn’t sell its seed until those protocols were completed.
Monsanto says Geertson’s “science fiction-like scenarios” about the fate of natural alfalfa seeds are bogus. It also objects to the judge’s decision to issue the injunction which Monsanto claims is an “extraordinary remedy” that should be granted only when necessary to prevent likely irreparable harm.”
The justices will likely decide the case on the legal merits of the injunction and stay away from the back-and-forth over the seed. The judge who issued the injunction, Charles Breyer, is the brother of Justice Stephen Breyer who has recused himself from the case. That means eight justices will decide the matter and if they split, the ruling of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which affirmed the injunction order will be upheld.
Case: John Doe #1, #2, and Protect Marriage Washington v. Reed
Date: Wednesday April 28, 2010
Issue: This is the term’s final case set for oral arguments which means it will likely be the last one heard by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. It concerns the names of people who signed a petition to overturn Washington’s civil union statute passed by state lawmakers. An attempt was made to obtain the petition and publish the names on the internet.
The core issue before the high court is determining what level of protected speech is given to the petition-signers. Should their identities be kept anonymous out of fear of retribution or should the names be exposed as a matter of public record?
Last May Washington lawmakers passed a law expanding the rights of same-sex partners. In response, a group called Protect Marriage Washington circulated a petition to force the issue onto the November ballot. Washington, similar to other states, allows voters to overturn state laws by referendum. The state requires a sufficient number of names on the referendum petition to place the matter before the voters. Protect Marriage Washington submitted more than 138,500 names to the Secretary of State who verified the petition and placed the issue on that November’s ballot.
During the petition gathering process, several groups supportive of the civil union measure announced their intentions to use an open records law to obtain the petition list and publish the names on the internet. Referendum supporters expressed concern that the people who signed the petition could be subject to retributive attacks. They pointed to violence associated with the contentious fight over California’s Proposition 8 and went to court to stop the names from becoming public.
A trial court judge initially enjoined the state from releasing the names but the Ninth Circuit U.S Court of Appeals ruled the names should be made public. The lower courts disagreed over the level of First Amendment protection petition signers are entitled. Referendum supporters argue an abridgement of their privacy rights violates “core political speech” which in this case requires a level of anonymity. The groups seeking access to the names argue “there is no right, fundamental or otherwise, to secrecy in the legislative process.”
In taking the case, the high court stayed the Ninth Circuit’s disclosure order pending its ruling which is expected in a couple of months. As for the November referendum, Washington voters with a 53% majority decided to overturn the civil union law.
