I know that male pattern baldness comes from a gene passed from the mother’s father. My father was bald. My son wants to know if there is anything he can do while he still has a full head of hair, rather than waiting until he is bald. Are there any new drugs or homeopathic remedies that help to slow or stop the hair thinning caused by male pattern baldness?
I have a family doctor but I’d rather not go to him if he is just going to refer me to someone else. What doctor do you see if you feel like you are losing more than the normal amount of hair?
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‘The war in Iraq had “no
basis in international law”, a Dutch inquiry found today, in the first
ever independent legal assessment of the decision to invade.
In a series of damning
findings, a seven-member panel in the Netherlands concluded that the
war, which was supported by the Dutch government following intelligence
from Britain and the US, had not been justified in law.’
‘The United States on Tuesday moved to
dismiss any links to a bomb attack in the Iranian capital of Tehran
that killed a nuclear scientist. “Charges of US involvement are absurd,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry earlier accused
the US and Israel of having played a role in the assassination of
Professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, who was killed by a booby-trapped
motorbike blast. “Primary
investigations into the assassination revealed signs of the involvement
of the Zionist regime [Israel], the US and their allies in Iran,”
spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said.’
And if you’re looking to identify a few of the lesser known systems in this pile, Consollection is basically an mini encyclopedia on the matter. [Consollection via Gamefreaks via GameSetWatch via Kotaku]
‘In a unanimous ruling, the European
Court of Human Rights condemns Britain’s anti-terrorism legislation
arguing that it disrespects the private life of an individual. All
the seven judges censuring the UK legislation said that police
searches, without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, breach the
complainants’ right to their private life under Article 8 of the
European Convention on Human Rights, its statement said on Tuesday.
That the police are empowered to search
the person’s clothing and personal belongings, and having personal
information exposed to public view, amounts to a clear interference and
could also cause “humiliation and embarrassment” to the individual,
noted the statement.’
‘Sea water under an East Antarctic ice shelf showed no sign of higher temperatures, first tests showed today.
Despite fears of a thaw
linked to global warming that could bring higher world ocean levels,
tests conducted on the Fimbul Ice Shelf showed the sea water is still
around freezing point.
Thanks to sensors, lowered through three holes drilled in the shelf,
scientists have discovered the water is not at higher temperatures
widely blamed for the break-up of 10 shelves on the Antarctic
Peninsula, the most northerly part of the frozen continent.
‘The thundering knock
came early in the morning. It was 6.30am. Without waiting for an answer
the security chain across the door was smashed from its fittings. Feet
thundered up the staircase. The five children, all under the age of 10,
were alarmed to be woken from their sleep by the dozen burly strangers
who burst into their bedrooms, switched on the lights and shouted at
them to get up.
This is not a police
state. It is Manchester in supposedly civilised Britain in the 21st
century. There is a clue to what this is about in the names of the
children: Nardin, who is 10; Karin who is seven; the three-year-old
twins Bishoy and Anastasia, and their one-year-old baby sister Angela.’
It’s true, Rogers has officially announced that all Canadian HTC Dream owners can upgrade to the HTC Magic free of charge. For background information on this story, please go here and here. The catch is that you must resign your 3-year contract as of the day you order your Magic. This resigning is just like any regular upgrade through Rogers, meaning your old contract is void and the new one is 3 years from the day you order the Magic. For those who still don’t understand (I know you’re still confused because I worked in the wireless business for a while), this means your contract will be extended the number of months since you signed for the Dream. If you payed full price for your Dream, then you will need to sign a contract to get the Magic, sorry.
This comes as great news because if you are willing to sign for the couple extra months(7 or less) then not only do you get a free Magic, you also get to keep your Dream. Yes it’s not a joke, you get 2 Android phones… you could switch them up like outfits! There are two ways to get the Magic which are either by telephone(1-888-Rogers1) or online from MyAccount at Rogers.com. The offer will NOT be available in stores. I personally have already put in my order for my Magic and I would have to suggest the online method, not only for Rogers CS’s sakes, but it is extremely easy and your account has already been flagged for the promotion.
The offer is only valid from January 12 – January 26, 2010. So be quick to get your order in if you would like to take advantage of the offer. I would also point out that it is not mandatory that Canadian Dream owners get the Magic if you are already satisfied with your device and it’s functionality. Now I cannot promote and tell you about this offer without thanking the efforts of IWMOPS (IWantMyOnePointSix) and Michael Schmidt(IWMOPS Spokesperson). It is the IWMOPS group that put in the time and effort to come to this resolve so that HTC Dream owners would not have endure the rest of their phones lifetime with outdated Android 1.5(Cupcake) software. So once again thank you to them and if you would like to give them your own thanks, Michael Schmidt the spokesperson can be reached on Twitter @IWMOPS.
The estimates are coming in for the first week of Nexus One sales and they’re not terribly surprising. Mobile analytics firm Flurry has just announced a report which ballparks the handset at 20,000 units sold in the first week. While this number is considerably smaller than that of the Motorola Droid or myTouch 3G, it should be pointed out that there are factors that contributed a lighter than expected week.
There are no ad campaigns from Google, HTC or T-Mobile to drive traffic. In fact, the tiny ad placed on Google’s search page appears to be gone after less than a week. We’re likely not going to see any commercials from any players. You’ll just have to know about the phone or learn of it from someone else.
We’ve heard the term “experiment” used more than a few times to describe the Google page to order handsets. Much like everything else done out of Mountain View, it’s probably being treated like a beta project with early adopters forming how things are handled in the future. The channel for ordering the Nexus One is unlike anything else we’ve seen so far here in the United States. There are plenty of factors to consider as to why the handset doesn’t have higher initial sales. We don’t know how many more units would have been sold had there been 3G support for AT&T’s network. Further, we have no idea how many of those people would want to shell out $530 for the phone.
After hearing about the 3G troubles and general support issues, perhaps consumers are taking a “wait and see” approach. It will be interesting to see what happens when other carriers get on board with the Google approach to mobile sales. Will the number skyrocket once Verizon or Vodafone start offering the Nexus One?
Google takes a pretty clear stance against paid links, the practice of buying and selling links to and from other websites in order to build up traffic and possibly search engine rankings, and has enforced that stance on numerous occasions. In an interesting development, Google has had to stand by its own rules and has penalized itself, most recently th… (read more)
While the rest of the teams competing in the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship will be launching and testing new cars together at European tracks, America’s own will launch and test its car right in the good ol’ U.S. of A.
Due to the team’s location across the Atlantic, the FIA selected Barber Motorsport Park, the 740-acre facility in Birmingham, Alabama, set to host an IRL grand prix this year on its 2.3-mile road course, as the designated test track. After conducting three test sessions at Barber, USF1 will ship its car to Spain for the final group test prior to the season opener in Bahrain on March 14.
Team principal (and longtime motorsport journalist) Peter Windsor says the team will soon announce its driver line-up. Contrary to earlier reports that the team would employ American drivers (like Danica Patrick or Kyle Busch), it now appears most likely the team will use whatever drivers it can get its hands on. Among the current front-runners include Argentine pay-driver Jose Maria Lopez and British aspirant James Rossiter, a former ALMS driver and Super Aguri tester.
A genetic discovery by researchers at Children’s and Brigham and Women’s Hospital brings new hope for a mysterious, devastating kidney disease called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). It’s the second leading cause of kidney failure in children and forces patients onto dialysis and, all too often, kidney transplant – only to recur in the transplanted kidney, sometimes within hours.
The research team, led by Elizabeth Brown, MD, of Children’s Division of Nephrology, performed a genetic linkage analysis in two large families with FSGS and identified a variety of mutations in a gene known as INF2. They then sequenced INF2 in 91 additional families. In all, they found INF2 mutations in 11 of 93 families, as reported online in Nature Genetics on December 20.
Other genes have been linked with FSGS, but Brown and colleagues think INF2 is an important find, as it seems to affect a larger number of families. The discovery may also shed some light on why the disease occurs.
INF2 encodes a protein that regulates actin, a protein vital to creating and maintaining the architecture of cells. Both actin and INF2 are abundant in podocytes, the kidney cells that are crucial in filtering toxins. The researchers thus believe the cause of FSGS may be disruption of podocytes’ structure and, therefore, function.
Right now treatments for FSGS are only guesses, because no one’s understood its underlying cause, says William Harmon, MD, chief of Children’s Division of Nephrology. Patients are mainly treated with steroids, which are only partially effective and have harsh side effects.
“FSGS is a frustrating disease for clinicians, as we have little understanding of the biology and poor treatment options,” says Brown. “We hope that further scientific work on INF2 will lead to better options.”
It will be the first Mercedes to show design boss Gordon Wagener’s new design philosophy, which will also include a new identity for the Mercedes front end, based on the grille of the 300 SL. In the future there will be less variation across the range in the front end, which will become more corporate.
As already suspected, the new CLS will include a shooting brake style, rather than a station wagon model, as some rumours have suggested. Wagener is aiming for the “most beautiful cars in the world” and has said that a shooting brake would be the most stunning car in its sector, we should think in direct competition with Audi’s sportback style.
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By now most of us would have seen James Cameron’s new blockbuster, Avatar the one with the plucky blue hunter-gatherers on an alternate earth called Pandora. Now I am not going to talk about whether the film was good or not, I leave that up to everybody else. What I do want to talk about, are some of the themes raised in the movie and its relevance with our species current peception of the planet we live on.
The themes of the film are fairly standard fare for Sci-Fi movies of this kind i.e. industrialisation, capatalism etc. However, it takes a novell approach as it creates an alternate setting and time period for European expansion and Colonisation of North America, Africa and Asia etc. Many people have rightly indicated that the local indigenous folk is at best an idealised version of Native-Americans/Paleo-Indians or just the perception of what hunter-gatherers ought to be like. However, the biggest poblem is that two conflicting ideas are presented: that of the ‘noble savage’ and that of the ‘original affluent society’. The Noble Savage is best understood within the iconography of the 16th, 17th and to some extent the 18th century. On the other hand the ‘original affluent society’ is clearly rooted within 1950s and 1960s anthropological research.
So what is the message of the film? That idustrialisation is bad? That hunter-gatherers are free of internal and external strife, no wars, no resources stress? That the pursuit of more and more resources will ultimately lead to the downfall of our species/global warming/wars etc.
So I pose this question. How does every emerging economy in the world play catch up with the rest without industrialisation?
Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z are Hollywood’s Top-Earning Couple. The “Sasha Fierce” hitmaker and her hip-hop mogul hubby have topped Forbes’ annual poll of Hollywood’s Highest-Earning Couples, with combined earnings of $122 million between June 2008 and June 2009.
Hip-hop’s royal couple amassed the massive sum through their music, movies, fragrances and endorsement deals with brands including Budweiser and American Express. Hov and B’s earnings were almost double that of second runners-up Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart, who have earned $69 million over the past year.
Other couples to make the list include Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who made $14 million last year, Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, and Victoria and David Beckham at number five with $46 million.
Forbes.com’s Top-Earning Couples in Hollywood:
1. Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z ($122 million)
2. Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart ($69 million)
3. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ($55 million)
4. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith ($48 million)
5. David and Victoria Beckham ($46 million)
6. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi ($36 million)
7. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson ($35.5 million)
8. Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy ($34 million)
9. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes ($33.5 million)
10. Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow ($33 million)
Hitachi and Hitachi Vehicle Energy Ltd. is expected to ship the samples of their newly developed lithium-ion battery to automobile manufacturers in Japan and overseas in the spring of 2010. This new product has more energy and output density as compared to others of its genre. Up to now, batteries manufactured from the same manufacturer were less efficient in output. Now, with the development of this new battery the capacity has been increased up to 25 Ah, which is 4-5 times more than the earlier ones. It boasts Energy density of 120 Wh/kg and power density of 2,400 W/kg. To prevent the internal short circuit, a heat-resistant has been incorporated. It provides safety, especially when these batteries are being used in automotive applications.
So I spent all day yesterday at Public Knowledge’s excellent World Fair Use Day, which was a very worthwhile event. PC World actually has a nice summary of the day’s discussions, and if you want some more detail, some folks at Public Knowledge were live blogging the whole thing — so I’m not going to recap the details of what everyone was saying. What I will say was that it really was an inspiring event in many ways. There were so many brilliant content creators who are doing amazing things that skirt the boundaries (or just ignore them entirely) of copyright law. The creative energy in the room was infectious — and it would be impossible for anyone sitting through some of the examples of the works created to say that what these people do wasn’t “creating something new.” But it went beyond just creating new stuff — the artists in the room have created wonderful works of art, music, video and commentary that are at times hilarious, inspiring or thought-provoking. It’s the type of creativity that copyright is supposed to encourage, not hinder.
But in that point lies the very problem. While the conference was officially about “fair use,” one thing that became clear is that many of the creators have no idea if their works are technically legal. Most noted that they had not been sued (yet). Some paid attention to copyright issues, while others just ignored them altogether. Some had tacit approval from copyright holders. Others had nothing. And, since (as copyright defenders constantly remind us), fair use is not a “right” but a “defense” (and there are reasons why this isn’t quite true), all people can do is offer an opinion on whether their uses were “fair” or not. We can’t say for certain — and that leads to a great deal of uncertainty, and in that uncertainty many other creators dare not tread. That is tragic. As great as the works displayed and discussed at the event, there are an unknown number of additional inspiring works of art that will never get created because people fear the legal risk or they’ve been taught false propaganda by certain industries that any use of their works must be “theft” and not at all a creative new work.
But it’s difficult to see how someone could claim that a work like DJ Earworm’s mashup (both music and video) of the top 25 songs from 2009 isn’t an amazing new and creative work. Yes, it builds on the work of others, but it is very much it’s own unique song:
Given all this it was incredibly encouraging to have the day started off with Rep. Mike Doyle — who first spoke out about these issues three years ago when he introduced Gregg Gillis and Girl Talk to bewildered members of Congress — making incredibly strong statements about why we need to encourage exactly this type of creativity. And while it was certainly nice to hear Congressman Doyle confess in his talk to not just reading Techdirt, but using some of what we discuss here to help shape his understanding of these issues, the key point that came out of his talk is that we need to be encouraging exactly this type of creativity — and that Rep. Doyle appears ready to stand up for such things. Now he’s just one member of Congress, and even he admitted that this is an issue that a very large number of Congressional reps don’t know the slightest thing about. However, slowly but surely, more and more are learning about it and beginning to realize that the simplistic message of “piracy = bad” pushed by certain interests hides a lot more important issues that really do impact creativity and free expression.
So on the whole, the day was at times encouraging, inspiring and exciting. But it was also frustrating in realizing how little concrete progress has been made. Many of these content creators may still face lawsuits in the future. The amount of uncertainty is great — and the political will to help them out may not be there. While it was great to see that we can likely add Rep. Doyle to the list of Congressional Reps who clearly understand the deeper issues here, it’s still a very small list.
Finally, while I focused most of this post on all the content creators, since those were the ones who made the day so worthwhile, I did want to briefly mention the key point that I tried to raise on the panel I was on — which is a point we’ve discussed here over and over again. In so many cases, what are described as “copyright issues” are not really copyright issues at all. Almost always, they’re business model issues (there are some exceptions, but we can deal with them separately). The problem is that someone or some organization has become so used to relying on copyright as a crutch to provide them with a business model that they fail to realize they don’t need crutches to walk, but can throw them aside and run with other, usually better, more consumer-friendly, business models. So when people present “copyright problems” it’s always worthwhile to take a step back and look first to see if it’s a copyright problem or a business model problem.
And if you’re looking to identify a few of the lesser known systems in this pile, Consollection is basically an mini encyclopedia on the matter. [
Google takes a pretty clear stance against paid links, the practice of buying and selling links to and from other websites in order to build up traffic and possibly search engine rankings, and has enforced that stance on numerous occasions. In an interesting development, Google has had to stand by its own rules and has penalized itself, most recently th… (
A genetic discovery by researchers at Children’s and Brigham and Women’s Hospital brings new hope for a mysterious, devastating kidney disease called 
