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New commitments on climate finance at Copenhagen have broken the negotiating deadlock and opened the way for real negotiations, and Australia must now step up and commit to a 25 per cent emissions reduction target.

"Australia must make the last day of climate change talks one of ambition and action," said WWF-Australia’s Climate Change Policy Manager Kellie Caught.

"We are seeing progress in key areas like financing and mitigation targets but Australia must make one last big push if an effective deal is going to be delivered."

The announcement by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that the United States would contribute to US$100 billion in finance for developing countries has breathed new life into the Copenhagen climate negotiations. Australia must now step up, commit to contributing its fair share and push the ambition higher.

WWF has estimated that developing countries will need US$160 billion of new public funded assistance per year between 2013 and 2017. If Australia committed to its fair share, which is US$3.5 billion, it could encourage other countries to commit more funding.

"If the renewed finance discussion also leads to willingness for more ambition on emissions reductions targets, there could still be a Copenhagen climate deal with some substance," Ms Caught said.

Current emission reduction offers on the table in Copenhagen would result in global temperatures rising on average by 3C, which could result in massive and unacceptable species loss.

The European Union is in talks to raise its emissions reduction target from 20 per cent to 30 per cent, a move that could trigger a chain reaction of other countries boosting their targets.

"While the Australian delegation, including Prime Minister Rudd, has been working hard behind the scenes, Australia now needs to step up one more level and inject some ambition into their action in order to be part of the progress being made," said Ms Caught.

"The best way to do this is by raising Australia’s emissions reduction target to the top of its range. Anything less than 25 per cent will not be enough.

"It is not too late to seal a deal that gives the world a climate-safe future and renewed ambition from Australia could pave the way."

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When Jeff Reed(notes) drilled the extra point that gave Pittsburgh a 37-36 victory over Green Bay on Sunday, it felt as if the Steelers had just won the WAC championship, or your dorm floor’s Tecmo Bowl title. NFL games aren’t supposed to be anything like that. 

Ben Roethlisberger(notes) passed for an absurd 503 yards and three touchdowns, yet he wasn’t even the top fantasy quarterback in the game. Aaron Rodgers(notes) ran for one TD and threw for three others, finishing with 22 yards on the ground and 383 through the air. The Steelers and Packers combined for 973 total net yards. Nine different players had at least 70 receiving yards.

Rodgers was so thoroughly unstoppable that when Pittsburgh attempted an onside kick late in the fourth quarter ahead by two, the decision almost made sense. If the onside gamble failed (which it did, due to a penalty), Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was willing to concede a score (which came quickly, from Rodgers to James Jones(notes)).

Tomlin just wanted his offense to possess the ball at the end of the game. These were his postgame comments:

"First of all, I felt like with the element of surprise we had a chance to get it. But if we didn’t get it and they would have scored, then we would have the necessary time on the clock to go down the field and match their score. … We had 30 minutes of evidence there to show that we could drive the ball on them. We also conversely had 30 minutes of evidence to show that they could drive the ball on us. That’s why we took that risk when we did."

It was certainly a bold call, one that demonstrated (appropriately) no confidence whatsoever in the Steelers defense. If you’re a fantasy owner who started either Roethlisberger or Rodgers in the playoff semis, then you’re not about to argue with Tomlin’s play-for-the-shootout strategy.

Fourth Quarter

• You’ll get a full helping of Jerome Harrison(notes) propaganda below. The Cleveland back posted the third-highest single-game rushing total in NFL history (286), just one week after being decisively outperformed by Chris Jennings(notes). If you saw it coming, we offer you our congratulations (not our jobs). Touché, Mangenius. Harrison gets the Raiders next. That should go well. Credit the Kansas City defense with an assist on Harrison’s insane day; Cedric Benson(notes) gets to face the Chiefs in Week 16. 

• One more Packers-Steelers detail, just for the record: Mike Wallace’s(notes) 19-yard game-winning reception was as impressive as any catch you’ll see all year. Highlight here.

• Justin Fargas(notes) reportedly tweaked a knee early in Oakland’s win over Denver, which led to Michael Bush’s(notes) unexpected workload (18 carries, 133 yards, TD). Darren McFadden(notes) ran well, too, but he lost a fumble in the third quarter and was later stuffed on fourth-and-goal. The game was briefly delayed while stadium security searched for a fan who was distracting players with a laser pointer. It seems so wrong that Ron Jaworski wasn’t broadcasting a contest that featured an actual laser.

• Vincent Jackson(notes) returned to dominance against a Cincinnati defense that’s defended elite wideouts well all year. V-Jax finished with five catches for 108 yards and two scores. Malcom Floyd(notes) added four catches for 63, as quarterback Philip Rivers(notes) connected with nine different receivers.

• Matt Hasselbeck(notes) was notably awful on Sunday, turning the ball over five times against the Bucs. Tampa Bay entered the week allowing 27.4 points and 361.5 total yards per game. 

• Rams running back Steven Jackson is dealing with more ailments than just about anyone in the NFL, and his team’s short-term situation is hopeless. But he’s earning all kinds of fantasy cred by playing out the year and continuing to deliver useful numbers. Jackson gained 123 total yards against the Texans on Sunday, leading his team in both rushing and receiving (and attempts to destroy Bernard Pollard(notes)). That’s the 11th time S-Jax has reached triple-digit yardage this season. He’s averaging 119.6 yards from scrimmage for a team that only gains 298.9. He’s clearly not the fantasy MVP, but he deserves some sort of imaginary hardware for his efforts on our behalf. 

• We leave you with a quote from CBS’ Gus Johnson. This declaration followed JaMarcus Russell’s(notes) late TD pass to Chaz Schilens(notes):

"JaMARCUS RUSSELL OFF THE BENCH LIKE JOHNNY U!!!!!"

Yup, that’s what he said. There are not enough exclamation points or capital letters to do it justice. The man is excitement itself. 

Posted at 10:30 pm ET

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Third Quarter

As you might have heard, the East Coast was hit by an epic, record-breaking storm this weekend. Baltimore reportedly received 21 inches of snow. Philadelphia was buried by 23 inches. (That appears to be Alexis Bledel digging out Lincoln Financial. Fell on tough times after Gilmore Girls. Very sad).

But so far, weather is one of Sunday’s least valuable players. It hasn’t been an overwhelming factor in any game, unless Alex Smith intends to blame his atrocious half on the wintry conditions in Philly (7-for-17, three INTs).

Donovan McNabb(notes) has passed for 179 yards and one TD against the Niners, and he ran for another score. Michael Vick(notes) suffered a thigh injury in the first half, so McNabb may not lose red zone opportunities this week. DeSean Jackson(notes) broke the plane from 19, which is roughly 40 yards shorter than his usual score.

• San Francisco head coach Mike Singletary had a few thoughts for Vernon Davis(notes) after the tight end failed to make a play on this ball, conceding the interception. Davis has an outstanding matchup against a Philly defense that allows almost unlimited fantasy points to TEs, but he caught just one pass in the first half. 

• If you’re a fan of turnovers and missed field goals, we urge you to get yourself in front of the Bucs-Seahawks game immediately. It has much to offer. We have no idea what Matt Hasselbeck was attempting to do on this play. That was no ordinary fumble. Whatever it was, it deserves its own stat.

• Greg Jennings(notes) has been a significant disappointment through 14 weeks, considering his average draft position. But he’s on his way to a season-best performance at Pittsburgh, thanks to an 83-yard first quarter TD reception.

• You’re not surprised that Baltimore is destroying Chicago, right? Good. The Bears were a very quotable team all week, discussing players who are no longer on the roster and coaches who shouldn’t be on the payroll…but no one ever mentioned the Ravens. It was perfectly clear that Chicago wasn’t prepared to play a live opponent. Jay Cutler(notes) threw a pair of first half interceptions, his 23rd and 24th of the year.

• Michael Bush and Darren McFadden are splitting the rushing workload for the stubbornly competitive Raiders. Bush has the only TD for Oakland. He went 23 yards, untouched through a massive running lane.

Posted at 6:15 pm ET 

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Second Quarter

Two weeks ago, Jerome Harrison was the Cleveland running back to own. Last week, it was Chris Jennings. This week, it’s Harrison again – and he delivered a historic fantasy line, not merely a good one.

Harrison carried 34 times for an obscene 286 yards and three touchdowns against the Chiefs. That yardage total is actually the third highest in NFL history. Harrison scored from long-distance and he scored from short-range. Cleveland’s run-blocking was obviously spectacular. Browns fullback Lawrence Vickers(notes) blocked with Charles Jefferson-style aggression. He was a beast.

But the day clearly belonged to Harrison. When you manage to bump Jim Brown’s name from the Cleveland record book, you’ve done something right. Harrison is only owned in 24 percent of standard Yahoo! leagues and he’s at home against Oakland next week.

You know what to do. 

• Beanie Wells(notes) rushed for 110 yards and one score on 17 carries against the Lions. Delightfully, he didn’t fumble in Arizona’s 31-24 win. The widely available Maurice Morris(notes) gained 161 total yards for Detroit, leading his team in both rushing (126) and receiving (5-for-35). Those of you in the deepest two-quarterback leagues will note that Daunte Culpepper(notes) was benched in favor of Drew Stanton(notes).

• Welcome back to the end zone, Kevin Walter(notes). He caught an easy 3-yard score in the third quarter at St. Louis. Joel Dreesen was open on the play as well. Matt Schaub(notes) finished with 367 passing yards in a shockingly narrow win over the Rams. Andre Johnson(notes) again dominated a grossly overmatched secondary, catching nine balls for 196 yards. Arian Foster(notes) wasn’t heard from again following the early fumble. 

• Chad Henne(notes) threw for 349 yards on Sunday, but he made a few spectacularly bad throws. Chris Hope(notes) picked off a pass in the end zone that was a mile short of its intended target. Henne lucked into a late 57-yard completion after Michael Griffin(notes) had the interception in his hands, but couldn’t hold on. Griffin made amends, however, intercepting a pass in overtime to setup Rob Bironas’(notes) game-winning field goal. 

• Arizona’s Bryan Robinson(notes) drew two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties within approximately 30 seconds during a third quarter mini-implosion by the Cards at Detroit. Those flags, plus a nifty gain by Aaron Brown on an end-around, setup a Jason Hanson(notes) field goal that tied the game at 17. 

• The head official in New York had to ask Jets fans to please stop whistling in the stands. It should never come to that. Fans need to police that situation themselves. Whistlers must be silenced. 

• New England wisely involved Randy Moss(notes) early and often, keeping No. 81 alert and engaged throughout the win over the Bills. Moss finished with five receptions for 70 yards and a TD. 

• Lee Evans(notes) ran a beautiful route on his late 11-yard score against the Pats, making a terrific play on the back-shoulder throw. The Bills recovered an onside kick following the TD, but they were flagged for going offsides. 

Posted at 4:45 pm ET

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First Quarter

It’s been another lost year for the Cleveland Browns, but you can’t assign any blame to Joshua Cribbs(notes).
His 100-yard kickoff return touchdown in the first quarter at Kansas City established a new all-time NFL record. And just to prove that the first seven career TDs weren’t flukes, Cribbs added a 103-yard return in the second quarter. 

The first touchdown had a slightly higher degree of difficulty, as Cribbs broke multiple arm tackles, then outran the Chiefs’ coverage team to the end zone. Here’s the clip via NFL.com. Incredibly, Cribbs has at least one kickoff return TD in each of his five seasons. 

• Jamaal Charles(notes) is having the excellent game you should have expected for KC. He’s rushed for 94 yards and a touchdown on 12 carries, and he’s added a pair of catches for 16 yards. He’s making a strong late-season charge into the first round of 2010 drafts. Charles has now found the end zone in six straight games.

• This year, Houston running backs are fumbling as if it’s a scripted play. Unreal. Arian Foster brought a premature end to the Texans’ opening drive by putting the ball on the turf at the end of a 13-yard gain. Lowlight here. Gary Kubiak does not need another fumbler, Arian. His cupboard’s full. Ryan Moats(notes) took over on the next series for Houston. He’s picked up 28 yards on six carries. Foster didn’t receive another look in the first half after the turnover.

• Dwayne Bowe(notes) returned from his four-game suspension and he’s back in mid-season form, dropping passes. Bowe failed to hold onto a TD pass over the middle in the end zone. He’s fine to start in fantasy, but he’s torture to watch. 

• Tom Brady(notes) was held without a passing yard in the first quarter against Buffalo, a team with one of the NFL’s stingiest pass defenses. But Randy Moss finally surfaced on the Pats’ first drive of the second quarter, drawing a long interference penalty, then catching a 13-yard score. New England had a short first-and-goal following the PI call, but they went with play-action instead of running. Because the Patriots hate you, Laurence Maroney(notes) owner. (OK, so Maroney had a TD late in the half. But some of us could use another). 

• Larry Fitzgerald(notes) owners spent the week panicking about the condition of their No. 1 receiver’s knee. But Fitz rewarded those who kept the faith, catching an early 1-yard score. The ball was up for grabs, but Larry generally wins those battles. Video here. Annoyingly enough, Tim Hightower(notes) later poached a short-yardage score from Beanie Wells. However, the rookie is dominating the rushing workload, as has been the case in recent weeks.

• Fred Jackson(notes) had a first quarter touchdown negated by a false start penalty. Too bad, because he certainly earned the points. Jackson gained 39 yards on seven touches during the drive.

• So far the hit of the day belongs to Vince Young(notes), who simply demolished Vontae Davis(notes). Unfortunately for VY owners, the tackle ended an interception return. Chris Johnson is on pace for his ninth straight 100-yard rushing effort to no one’s surprise. He’s picked up 71 first half yards on 14 carries. But oddly enough, Justin Gage(notes) has both of the Titans’ TDs.

• The Falcons-Jets tilt is hardly a thing of beauty, although Braylon Edwards(notes) hauled in a 65-yard score. Mark Sanchez(notes) has thrown two more picks, Matt Ryan(notes) is 5-for-17 at half, and Michael Turner(notes) checked out after one carry after aggravating his ankle injury.

Posted at 2:45 pm ET

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Early injury updates: Steven Jackson (flu, back, Ramness) participated in a walk-through on Saturday, so there’s hope for him. Early signs also point to "yes" for Michael Turner (ankle), Matt Ryan (toe), Larry Fitzgerald (knee), Sidney Rice(notes) (flu), Vince Young (hamstring) and Calvin Johnson(notes) (knee).

Posted at 10:20 am ET

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Pregame

Welcome to Week 15, fantasy owner. If you’ve made it this far, congratulations. But this is a messy weekend full of injuries, illnesses and meteorological events. Please join us over at Fantasy Football Live at noon ET for last-minute updates and analysis (and our favorite holiday recipes!)

There’s swine flu goin’ around, Snowman, so please cover your mouth and carrot when you sneeze.

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Here’s a quick look at what Thrive was up to last week.

The Boston Globe Magazine quotes a Children’s psychologist in an article on how to raise kids with allergies. Do you know how to keep holiday ornaments from being hazardous to kids? The CDC recalled 800,000 children’s H1N1 vaccine doses. In our first Kids Giving Back to Kids post, we learn about children in medical research. Children’s nutrition specialist gives tips on healthy holiday eating. Claire McCarthy, MD emphasizes downtime for your kids this holiday season. Boston moves to ban texting while driving. Former Children’s patient, Glen Martin, is giving back to kids. WBZ-TV shares the story of a Children’s patient who is battling stage IV neuroblastoma. Children’s patient, Minnie, shares her story about how having Type 2 diabetes has changed her life.

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1. This week on Thrive: Nov. 16 – 20
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Cancer prevention is a popular topic that people wish me to write more in my Cytogenetics and Cancer Research blog. Cancer prevention is the best possible way to reduce the death rate of cancer worldwide. According to Fundamentals of Cancer Prevention, written by David S. A. and Lisa M. H., cancer prevention research can be divided to 3 approaches to target different aspects in order to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary prevention.
 

Primary Cancer Prevention

Primary cancer prevention is an approach to reduce the impact of carcinogens. We can do this through administration of a chemopreventive agent or remove the environmental carcinogens. The main aim of primary prevention is to prevent a cancer from the very beginning to the developing by reducing individual risk.

 
There are many primary cancer prevention methods which include the lifestyle modification or interventions that modify risk. These methods will become more effective if those cancers in which causes are known.
 
Below are some of the factors that can help to reduce overall cancer incidence:

i. Minimize the exposure to carcinogens. For example, we should avoid from consuming tobacco which contains carcinogen.
 
ii. Dietary modification. For example, we should take balanced meal and reduce the consuming of salt, sugar and high cholesterol foods.
 
iii. Increasing physical activity. For example, we should do some exercises during our daily life like jogging, swimming and so on to keep our body fit.
 
As we all know, unhealthy diet and tobacco use are the leading risk factors for cancer. Smoking cessation is the best way to avoid ourselves from cancer developing. Benefis of quitting smoking begin within the first year of stopping and continue to increase. If you wish to know more about the benefits of smoking cessation, you may read the 15 Benefits of Smoking Cessation. In addition, the role of diet, nutrition and maintaining a healthy body weight is critical to lessen the cancer risk.
 

Secondary Cancer Prevention

Secondary cancer prevention is an approach to detect the abnormal changes at the beginning of the development of malignancy. It involves screening and early detection methods like mammogram, pap test and so on. This can help us to identify any abnormal changes of our body before they become cancerous. Therefore, it is effective to prevent cancer from fully developing. Sometimes, secondary cancer prevention can involve the treatment of precancerous lesions in an attempt to reverse carcinogenesis so that the lesion can regress.
 

Tertiary Cancer Prevention

Tertiary cancer prevention is an approach to control the cancer and prevention of disease-related complications. It involves a variety of aspects of patient care such as quality of life, adjuvant therapies, surgical intervention and palliative care.
 
In conclusion, we can see that the primary cancer prevention is the main role of cancer prevention. Unfortunately, the primary prevention research and efforts are largely underfunded. This lack of prioritization cause the delays in improving and delivering early detection and prevention methods that can save millions of lives.
 

Do you know any methods of cancer prevention? Come and share with us! Prevention is always better than cure!

Say No to Cancer! – 3 Approaches to Prevent Cancer is a post from: Cytogenetics and Cancer Research

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No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007.

Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world?s top climate scientist”), as a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics he has no qualifications in climate science at all.

What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations.

These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in ‘carbon trading’ and ‘sustainable technologies’, which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year.

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As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band [of Climategate scientists] saw the Medieval Warm Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word about global warming. If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of all possible times would be undermined.

With the help of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the highest climate change authority of all, they published what became the icon of their movement – the hockey stick graph. This icon showed temperatures in the last 1,000 years to have been stable – no Medieval Warm Period, not even the Little Ice Age of a few centuries ago.

But the UN’s official verdict that the Medieval Warm Period had not existed did not erase the countless schoolbooks, encyclopedias, and other scholarly sources that claimed it had. Rewriting those would take decades, time that the band members didn?t have if they were to save the globe from warming.

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The answers won’t entirely please either side.

These are hard times for climate scientists who want government action on global warming. Not only has the Copenhagen summit largely produced discord, but an embarrassing public release of private e-mails exposed attempts by a group of climate scientists to hide scientific evidence that didn’t conform to their beliefs or pronouncements.

As CBS News put it, the scandal, called “Climategate,” is “casting doubts on the very science on which this summit is based.” In a widely noted Washington Post column, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin argued, “the documents show that there was no real consensus” among climate scientists. And a new ABC News poll finds that only 29% of the public now place “a lot” of trust in what scientists say about the environment.

The question of whether there is a scientific consensus on human-induced global warming has long inspired heated debate among both scientists and politicians. The most recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes global warming as “unequivocal” and “very likely” caused by human activity. But skeptics have argued that the IPCC, which is tasked by the United Nations with evaluating the risks of climate change, is itself influenced by political considerations and “pre-conceived agendas.”

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Each Sunday I highlight the Carnivals I participated in over the past week, along with any notable articles that I came across. For those readers not familiar with carnivals, it’s where personal finance bloggers submit their best articles of the week with one blog serving as the host. The entries are separated into various categories such as Investing, Credit, Debt, Budgeting, Frugality, Wealth Building, Money Management, Financial Planning, Insurance, Taxes, The Economy, Real Estate, et. al.

Below are the carnivals that I participated in this week, along with a link to my article:

• Festival of Stocks published: HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. (HCC) Dividend Stock Analysis
• Carnival of Personal Finance published: 3 Styles Of Sucessful Dividend Investing
• Carnival of Money Hacks published: 11 Dividend Stocks Giving You More To Spend

Articles I enjoyed reading included (in no particular order):

The DIV-Net Featured Articles

• Dividends4Life presented Stock Analysis: Nucor Corporation (NUE)
• The Dividend Guy presented 10 Books I am Reading on my Kindle
• Barel Karsan presented Shareholder Rights? Not So Much
• Dividend Tree presented Graco Inc., – Stock Analysis for Dividend Growth Portfolio
• Dividend Growth Investor presented Changes in the Dividend Aristocrats

Articles From DIV-Net Members

• The Dividend Guy presented Your Portfolio Needs Your Help: The Investor’s Manifesto
• Dividend Growth Investor presented Inflation Proof your income in retirement with Dividend Stocks
• Barel Karsan presented Buybacks Are Back
• Dividend Tree presented Index Investing in the Context of Exposure to a Market
• Buy Value presented RSP and Tax Advantages
• Stock Market Prognosticator presented Exxon Mobil – XTO Energy
• Disciplined Approach to Investing presented Pimco Increasing Cash Position
• Old School Value presented 8 Cheap Stocks below Net Net Working Capital
• Everyday Finance presented Why Would you EVER Buy a Book from a Bookstore for a 30% Premium?
• BuyLikeBuffett.com presented Four Employees Fired For Playing Fantasy Football
• Value Investing Pro presented Magic Formula Stocks On The Move 12-13-09
• EPIC INVESTOR presented Why Does Warren Buffett Buy Entire Companies?

Other Articles

• SmartMoney presented Dividends That Pay Their Part
• MSN Money presented 10 dividend payers for volatile times
• Forbes presented Buy Big Tech Dividends
• Globe and Mail presented Why I love dividend growth stocks
• Wall Street Journal presented A Career Spent Finding Value
• Barons presented Some Reasons to Be Bullish About 2010
• Kiplinger presented The 5 Best Stock Funds for 2010
• BusinessWeek presented Investing: Six People Who Helped Shape a Tumultuous Decade

There are some really good articles here, please take time and read a few of them.

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Right now, 20 million Americans are in the midst of an episode of depression.

Some have the incapacitating symptoms of what doctors call a major depression. These symptoms usually require professional attention because they are very severe and demoralizing. Feeling hopeless and worthless, a person with major depression may sleep and eat irregularly.

In the throes of severe depression, it is hard to concentrate, make decisions, or find the energy to do much of anything. Thoughts of suicide are common.

Depression primarily refers to a state of mind that is purely negative, with an inclination to insufficiency and a hopeless lack of interest to do things.

If someone has a minor depression, however, the problem is more manageable. Experts say that people who have some minor depression will feel lousy about themselves and lousy about their lives, but they are managing to function at a high level.

In fact, some of the newfound ways of battling the blues are related to what you do as well as what you feel. Here are some ways that you can prepare your body to help prevent minor depression:

1. Put some spring in your step.

Regular exercise may be the most powerful natural antidepressant available. It is advisable that you take a brisk walk. Exercise helps generate the release of brain chemicals called endorphins. When endorphin levels are low, depression occurs. Exercise also oxygenates the brain, keeping it healthy.

How much should you exercise? Thirty minutes, five or six days a week, at moderate intensity, is a nice level to aim for to help prevent the brain imbalances that can make you vulnerable to depression.

2. Nourish your brain.

Virtually any nutrient deficiency can result in impaired mental function, including depression. To help prevent depression, health experts recommend that people should take high-potency multivitamins or mineral supplement. This will supply the brain with enough nutrients in order to keep it properly functioning and, thus, avoid some mental disorders such as depression.

3. Get enough sleep.

Getting less than eight hours of sleep, night after night, may lower levels of the brain chemical known as “serotonin,” which can make you more prone to depression. To sleep well, health practitioners recommend going to bed and waking up at the same time every day, including weekends.

Relax before bedtime, perhaps with a hot bath. And for the soundest sleep, keep your bedroom quiet and dark.

4. Consider some alternate explanations.

Your emotions, positive or negative, are created not by situations themselves, but by the way you interpret those situations. A very common situation can turn into a reason for hand wringing unless you take mental steps to prevent it.

Suppose a friend is going to pick you up so that the two of you can go somewhere and do something fun together. Now, suppose that time passes, and your friend does not arrive to get you. Your feelings change, quite literally, from moment to moment. If at first you think of your friend as being insensitive and irresponsible, you will find yourself feeling angry at him. If you think that perhaps something bad has happened to him, you will naturally become concerned. If you think that this person does not care much about you and that is why he is late, you feel rejected, lonely, even depressed.

Although the situation does not change, and that your friend is still delayed, you can have a whole range of feelings depending on how you interpret that event.

For this reason, experts contend that situations are usually ambiguous, open to any interpretation. Hence, your interpretation helps create your feelings about the situation. Positive interpretations lead to good feelings and enjoyment; negative interpretations lead to bad feelings and depression. To stay on the positive side, try to look for the positive interpretations.

Indeed, depressions can be very destructive if neglected. Hence, the best way to stop the development of depression is to always put a bright light on the blues and create a positive outlook in life.

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Hat-tip ReadWriteWeb’s Marketing manager Elyssa Pallai, who stumbled upon this humor gem today.

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In part 1 I talked about the importance of eating the meat from animals that have been well treated. Quite apart from any ethical consideration, the fact is it’s better for you.

I also mentioned the cost benefits of including offal in your carnivorous repertoire – first, because bought separately it’s very cheap, and second because if you bought the whole animal in the first place, you are getting more food for your money.

The same arguments apply to another part of the animal people routinely squander – the fat.

For example, when you buy a lamb chop, very often there is a fairly thick rind of fat on it. This probably contains more calories than the meat (as most of you know, fat has 9 cals/g whereas carbs and protein has 4) – but how healthy that fat is depends very much on how the animal was reared.

Quality Matters

As I wrote in part 1, it’s not wise to compromise to eat the fat from industrially farmed animals: they are fed with food like corn and wheat, and kept in unnatural conditions, as a result of which their fat contains more omega 6 and less omega 3 than wild or free-range animals. Eating the fat from such meat is probably not very good for you, though ironically this is not for the reasons the sat-fat-heart brigade claim.

Some Photos of My Fatty Meals

Pork scratchings

Chicken skin

Lamb fat

Duck skin

They key point: fat from free range, organic, or pastured animals is actually good for you.

Eating the Fat Makes the Meat Cheap

Another irony lies in people’s tendency to avoid buying organic, pastured or free-range meat because of the cost. Very often these same people can be seen scraping the fatty offcuts into the bin after a meal or carefully separating the skin from a duck or chicken leg.

The point is that if they bought high quality food, and therefore were able to eat all of the serving, they would need less to be satisfied because of the additional calories from the fat – and it would taste nicer too.

When Mrs M and I buy a small organic chicken, it makes up to four meals. There are all kinds of fatty parts to the animal, many of which become crispy if cooked properly. Personally, I am happy to guzzle the fatty parts whether crispy or not, so I can be satisfied by a much less meat than I would otherwise need.

A £10 organic bird therefore means £2.50 per meal. If we bought a crappy, industrially farmed bird for £5 we’d have no choice to but to avoid the fat, so the cost would be the same because we’d only get two meals out of it.

As an aside, I do appreciate some people may be getting their meals for £1.25 because they eat all of the chicken, in spite of the conditions it was raised in, and that for some this is the only way they can afford to live.

Conditioned Avoidance

We have been conditioned to cut the fat off our meat.

The diet-heart hypothesis – the idea that eating saturated fat leads to heart disease – is so thoroughly entrenched in the psyche of most people that there is an instinctive urge to avoid conspicuous animal fat.

I won’t bore you with the science here, but regular readers of the blogs in my blog roll will know this is a notion that’s being quietly and systematically demolished by authors, commentators and researchers, leaving an ever-dwindling group of establishment die-hards holding aloft a tattered flag.

Even Mrs M, now a fully paid up Paleo queen, cuts the fat off meat when it’s not crispy or when there is what she perceives to be ‘just too much of it.’ As for my Mum and Dad, who themselves have been Paleo for some time, it took them quite a while to get used to the idea that fat is good.

The Power of Indoctrination

What gets me is that nobody wants to leave the crispy skin from a chicken breast. I don’t know many people who’d pass up a pork scratching (albeit accompanied by ooh, I shouldn’t) and the crispy fat from a lamb or beef steak is surely divine.

Yet the same people who seem unable to exercise the willpower necessary to stop eating sugar, cakes or chocolate, appear suddenly to have this iron resolve when it comes to animal fat. As I recall, I was just the same some years ago. I guess this is testament to the power of indoctrination. No one wants to die. You die of heart attacks. We are told fat gives you a heart attack. I don’t remember anyone ever saying that about sugar, albeit that it may turn out to be true.

Paleo Subtleties

It would be remiss of me not to mention that there are differing opinions among advocates of Paleo/Primal eating about how much animal fat we should eat. Some say that wild animals are relatively lean and that our liking for fat was naturally regulated when we were evolving by its relative scarcity. Others say we should freely consume it.

I just wing it. For me, variety is the watchword. On some days I eat white fish or offal, which contain relatively little fat anyway – on these days I get most of my fat from olive or coconut oil. On days when I do eat fatty animals I eat the fat freely.

In part 3 – soups and bones. Yes I said bones – you can eat them. Really.

See Also:
Making the Most of Animals: Part 1 – Wonderful Offal
Making the Most of Animals: Part 3 – Beautiful Bones

Venezuela, South America | Natural Wonders

It might look like it’s straight out of a sci-fi movie, but this natural wonder is completely real, and fully awe inspiring. Mount Roraima, bordered by three different countries (Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana) whose border lines intersect of the massive shelf, is surrounded on all four sides by sheer 400-meter high cliffs. While its cliff walls are only scalable by the most experienced of climbers, there is a hiking path up the mountain’s natural ramp-like path (usually a two-day hike).

However, the mountain is worth a visit for more reasons than its impressive cliffs. Mount Roraima, part of Venezuela’s 30000-square-kilometer Canaima National Park, is the site of the highest peak of the country of Guyana’s Highland Range. The mountains of this range, including Roraima, are considered to be some of the oldest geological formations known, some dating back to two-billion years ago. Its near daily rains have also created a unique ecosystem which includes several endemic species, including a unique carnivorous pitcher plant, and some of the highest waterfalls in the world.

Culturally, the mountain has long held significance to the indigenous people of the area and features prominently in their myths and folklore. It was also the inspiration for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel, The Lost World as well as for Paradise Falls in the 2009 Pixar film, Up.

I’ve been looking over the final COP15 decision (here, for now). So far it all looks nonbinding. I was curious how some of the players are reacting.

EDF

“Today’s agreement leaves the U.S. in control of its own destiny. … As President Obama said today, strong action on climate change is in America’s national interest.” — EDF’s Fred Krupp, Dec. 18, 2009

Sierra Club

“The world’s nations have come together and concluded a historic–if incomplete–agreement to begin tackling global warming.  Tonight’s announcement is but a first step and much work remains to be done in the days and months ahead in order to seal a final international climate deal that is fair, binding, and ambitious.  It is imperative that negotiations resume as soon as possible.

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“The agreement reached here has all the ingredients necessary to construct a final treaty–a mitigation target of 2 degrees Celsius, nationally appropriate action plans, a mechanism for international climate finance, and transparency with regard to national commitments.  President Obama has made much progress in past 11 months and it now appears that the U.S.–and the world–is ready to do the hard work necessary to finish what was started here in Copenhagen.

Greenpeace

Copenhagen a cop-out
Two years have passed since world leaders promised all of us a deal to stop climate change. After two weeks of UN negotiations, politicians breezed in, had dinner with the Queen, a three hour lunch, took some photos, and then delivered what could only be described as the 24-hour Head of State tourist brochure of Copenhagen instead of a climate treaty.

League of Conservation Voters (via email)

I’m in Copenhagen and President Obama has just wrapped up a press conference here announcing that a meaningful climate deal has been reached. While there is still much work to be done, the deal reached is a breakthrough for international climate cooperation and provides a path forward towards a binding global treaty in 2010.

Significantly, the United States and China will – for the first time – both be at the table, working to tackle the historic challenge of global climate change. Additionally, the deal allows for more transparency, as developed and developing countries have now agreed to list their national actions and commitments regarding greenhouse gas reductions.

API

“We agree with President Obama on the importance of addressing global climate change. However, Congress’s leading proposals could destroy millions of jobs, drive up fuel prices, and, by shifting much of our refining capacity abroad (along with refinery greenhouse gas emissions), substantially increase our reliance on foreign supplies of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum fuels. Worse, the president’s own EPA is poised to issue an expansive regimen of climate regulations that could cripple business growth and job creation, dimming employment hopes for 15 million now out-of-work Americans.

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“Public support for government climate change proposals has waned. It’s time for all stakeholders to come together to craft a fair, efficient, market-based climate change strategy that minimizes the burden on consumers and jobs.”

Can’t find a final reaction yet: USCAP, WWF, ECF, and many others. Seems like the press releases haven’t all hit yet.

Update 12/22: a nice summary at Roger Peilke’s blog.