Japan to allow airlines to resume 787 flights

TOKYO (AP) ? Japan's transport minister says the government is poised to allow Japanese carriers to resume flying the Boeing 787 once they complete repairs to problematic lithium ion batteries.

Transport Minister Akihiro Ohta says in a statement on the ministry's website that the approval could come as early as Friday night following an expected official safety order from U.S. federal regulators.

The 50 of the jets in service worldwide were grounded in mid-January following a battery fire on a 787 Dreamliner and a smoking battery that led to an emergency landing by another 787 in Japan.

All Nippon Airways, which has 17 Dreamliners in its fleet, and JAL, with seven, have had to cancel hundreds of flights over the problems.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japan-allow-airlines-resume-787-flights-075835088--finance.html

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DoubleSpring Media Launches Blackmonk: a CMS Product to Host ...

As digital content across the internet increases, content management systems (CMS) and blogging platforms have gained enormous popularity. These platforms make content management and the digitalisation appear like a breeze. BlackMonk is one such CMS product, made for different web portal projects.

BlackMonk is a scalable and highly customizable content management system for building web portals. It powers online newspapers, magazine sites, business directories, city portals, community portals and more. Its modular design and flexible architecture allows customization of functionalities with ease and convenience.

Sites on BlackMonk

BlackMonk is a product of DoubleSpring Media, a Bangalore based mobile & web app development company formed in 2008, that specializes in digital content management. Prior to BlackMonk, DoubleSpring Media had launched MyBangalore.com and a CMS product called LocalEngine, which were CMS system exclusively for city portals.

The BlackMonk product

BlackMonk offers the widest range of functionalities to help its customers get started with just about any type of web portal project. It is equipped with web applications needed for any heavy duty site to run, ranging from content, commerce to community portals. Blackmonk is completely flexible with respect to functionality and work flow. One can add modules as per requirement; it also provides intuitive control panels where both the admin and staff can use the content with ease.

BlackMonk is also customized with popular social media platforms and user generated contents. This gives the end user a leverage to post articles, events or classifieds at their end. Different revenue streams are also integrated with the product like banner ads, promotional contents ecommerce, affiliate marketing and deals. At the same time the user can set up different payment gateways such as Paypal, Google etc.

BlackMonk Interface

A web portal is incomplete if one cannot access it across different hand held devices. BlackMonk gives you an added advantage to publish your web portal across tablets and smart phones. Platforms for Android and iOS have also been integrated and the DoubleSpring team is further working on other mobile platforms.

Even if one gets stuck within the CMS, they can seek contextual help and a handy ?quick help? link leading to relevant page on the online documentation.

The force behind BlackMonk

BlackMonk under the parent company DoubleSpring Media have a 20 member team including Shuhaib Shariff who is the founder and CEO. ?As a team our strength lies in our engineering expertise, and we work with technologies such as Python which will emerge to be the key technologies in the web development arena? shares Shuhaib.

BlackMonk has been in the market for over 5 months now and within this time they have had many adopters from North America and Europe such as 5starwedding directory?(UK), city portal of Austin. Most of these customers came across BlackMonk through organic searches, looking to upgrade their existing web portals. In a desire to build one from scratch, they found BlackMonk very satisfying. ?BlackMonk is the most comprehensive web portal software in the market today, and it is loved by our clients and end-users? adds Shuhaib.

Team Doublespring

The users need to purchase a licence to get started with the product. ?Our licensing terms allows single domain deployment per license ? with absolutely no restrictions on number of users or content pages? Shuhaib clarifies. The licensed user also gets the leverage of playing with the source code to shape it according to their desire. BlackMonk operates in a competitive niche, which is dominated by big international players such as eDirectory, GTxcel, EZ Systems etc. And Shuhaib feels it is due to the sheer strength of their product that they have been able to gain traction in this highly competitive niche.

Source: http://yourstory.in/2013/04/doublespring-media-launches-blackmonk-a-cms-product-to-host-web-apps/

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New technique measures evaporation globally

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First method to use weather station measurements to obtain daily evaporation rates

New York, NYApril 11, 2013Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Boston University have developed the first method to map evaporation globally using weather stations, which will help scientists evaluate water resource management, assess recent trends of evaporation throughout the globe, and validate surface hydrologic models in various conditions. The study was published in the April 1 online Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

"This is the first time we've been able to map evaporation in a consistent way, using concrete measurements that are available around the world," says Pierre Gentine, assistant professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia. "This is a big step forward in our understanding of how the water cycle impacts life on Earth."

The Earth's surface hydrologic cycle comprises precipitation, runoff, and evaporation fluctuations. Scientists can measure precipitation across the globe using rain gauges or microwave remote sensing devices. In places where streamflow measurements are available, they can also measure the runoff. But measuring evaporation has always been difficult.

"Global measurements of evaporation have been a longstanding and frustrating challenge for the hydrologic community," says Gentine. "And now, for the first time, we show that simple weather station measurements of air temperature and humidity can be used across the globe to obtain the daily evaporation."

Evaporation is a key component of the hydrological cycle: it tells us how much water leaves the soil and therefore how much should be left there for a broad range of applications such as agriculture, water resource management, and weather forecasting.

Gentine, who studies the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science and its impact on climate change, collaborated on this research with Guido D. Salvucci, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston University and the paper's lead author. Using data from weather stations, widely available across the globe, they focused on evaporation and discovered an emergent relationship between evaporation and relative humidity that gave them the evaporation rates.

Gentine and Salvucci plan to provide daily maps of evaporation around the world that will enable scientists to evaluate changes in water table, calculate water requirements for agriculture, and measure more accurate evaporation fluctuations into the atmosphere.

"Sharing our data with researchers around the world will help us learn more about the Earth's hydrologic cycle and assess recent trends such as whether it is accelerating," adds Gentine. "Acceleration could greatly impact our climate, locally, nationally, and globally."

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The research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Columbia Engineering

Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, founded in 1864, offers programs in nine departments to both undergraduate and graduate students. With facilities specifically designed and equipped to meet the laboratory and research needs of faculty and students, Columbia Engineering is home to NSF-NIH funded centers in genomic science, molecular nanostructures, materials science, and energy, as well as one of the world's leading programs in financial engineering. These interdisciplinary centers are leading the way in their respective fields while individual groups of engineers and scientists collaborate to solve some of modern society's more difficult challenges. http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/

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New York, NYApril 11, 2013Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Boston University have developed the first method to map evaporation globally using weather stations, which will help scientists evaluate water resource management, assess recent trends of evaporation throughout the globe, and validate surface hydrologic models in various conditions. The study was published in the April 1 online Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

"This is the first time we've been able to map evaporation in a consistent way, using concrete measurements that are available around the world," says Pierre Gentine, assistant professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia. "This is a big step forward in our understanding of how the water cycle impacts life on Earth."

The Earth's surface hydrologic cycle comprises precipitation, runoff, and evaporation fluctuations. Scientists can measure precipitation across the globe using rain gauges or microwave remote sensing devices. In places where streamflow measurements are available, they can also measure the runoff. But measuring evaporation has always been difficult.

"Global measurements of evaporation have been a longstanding and frustrating challenge for the hydrologic community," says Gentine. "And now, for the first time, we show that simple weather station measurements of air temperature and humidity can be used across the globe to obtain the daily evaporation."

Evaporation is a key component of the hydrological cycle: it tells us how much water leaves the soil and therefore how much should be left there for a broad range of applications such as agriculture, water resource management, and weather forecasting.

Gentine, who studies the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science and its impact on climate change, collaborated on this research with Guido D. Salvucci, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston University and the paper's lead author. Using data from weather stations, widely available across the globe, they focused on evaporation and discovered an emergent relationship between evaporation and relative humidity that gave them the evaporation rates.

Gentine and Salvucci plan to provide daily maps of evaporation around the world that will enable scientists to evaluate changes in water table, calculate water requirements for agriculture, and measure more accurate evaporation fluctuations into the atmosphere.

"Sharing our data with researchers around the world will help us learn more about the Earth's hydrologic cycle and assess recent trends such as whether it is accelerating," adds Gentine. "Acceleration could greatly impact our climate, locally, nationally, and globally."

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The research has been funded by the National Science Foundation.

Columbia Engineering

Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, founded in 1864, offers programs in nine departments to both undergraduate and graduate students. With facilities specifically designed and equipped to meet the laboratory and research needs of faculty and students, Columbia Engineering is home to NSF-NIH funded centers in genomic science, molecular nanostructures, materials science, and energy, as well as one of the world's leading programs in financial engineering. These interdisciplinary centers are leading the way in their respective fields while individual groups of engineers and scientists collaborate to solve some of modern society's more difficult challenges. http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/

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N. Korea's peasant army prepares to farm, not arm

By Ju-min Park

SEOUL (Reuters) - As a North Korean army signaler near the tense sea border with the South, Lee So-yeon was given live ammunition and a steel helmet during a 1993 crisis, but soon found herself back doing what she and her comrades did most - farming.

It's a vital service in a country where millions cannot find enough to eat.

That crisis 20 years ago - Pyongyang announced it was quitting a global nuclear pact - eventually passed. For hundreds of thousands of soldiers now fired up for the possibility of war by Pyongyang's propaganda machine, Lee said spring planting would soon become the top priority.

Several other North Korean army defectors said nothing had changed since Lee was a signaler, suggesting Pyongyang might soon tone down its rhetoric against Washington and Seoul so its soldiers can sow rice, cabbage, beans, corn, potatoes and onions.

"North Korea can't farm without the army ... The North Korean army's main job is malnutrition eradication," said Kim Na-young, a North Korean female army defector who spent five years until 1996 in an army unit on the east coast and came to South Korea in late 2008.

Jang Jin-sung, a former North Korean government propagandist who defected in 2004 and runs a defector publication in Seoul, said the military had not changed over the decades.

"They are doing the same work and the same duties," he said.

DRILL ENDS, PLANTING STARTS

Spring planting, usually around May and June, would coincide with the end of two months of U.S.-South Korean military drills, which Pyongyang has claimed were a prelude to an invasion.

Those exercises began around the same time fresh U.N. sanctions were imposed on North Korea for its third nuclear test in February, sparking a furious response from Pyongyang, which has threatened both Washington and Seoul with nuclear attack.

North Korea has suffered chronic food shortages since the mid-1990s. The last food shipments from Washington were in 2008 and 2009 when it sent around a third of a planned 500,000 metric tons before the program was suspended.

As well as food, the United States had shipped fuel oil to the energy-starved country and medical supplies.

U.N. reports show a third of children under five years suffer from chronic malnutrition in North Korea.

Lee, who arrived in South Korea in 2008, said army life centered around planting rice or corn to help farmers and getting donations of food from farms in return after the harvest in the fall.

"With our steel helmets on, we headed out to farm," said Lee, now aged 39, who served in the North's 4th Army Corps for 10 years until 2002.

Lee was stationed with an army unit near a disputed maritime border with the South that was recently visited by North Korea's 30-year old leader, Kim Jong-un.

They sometimes dug clams and other seafood from the island's mud flats to export to China and earn hard currency for a country whose devastated economy is 1/40th the size of South Korea's and was stricken by famine in the 1990s.

"Everyone in my unit went out to mud flats in April with a cold wind blowing," Lee told Reuters in Seoul.

INDOCTRINATION THEN OFF TO THE FARM

The Korean People's Army (KPA) is the world's fourth largest in terms of manpower at 1.2 million.

All men serve for 10 years from the age of 17.

Some 40 percent of the populace serve in some military, paramilitary, or defense-related industry and can be mobilized easily for war, the U.S. Army War College said in a 2007 paper.

"Whether elite military officers or the rank and file, we all had to keep helping farmers, it was part of our daily life and duty as a party organ," said Choi Joo-hwal, a former veteran military officer with a 27-year career at North Korea's Ministry of People's Armed Forces.

Choi was conscripted into a parachute regiment in 1968 when North Korea seized the USS Pueblo, an American Navy intelligence-gathering ship and held its crew hostage.

Even though North Korea declared a state of war at the time, Choi and his elite regiment would spend time with shovels in their hands.

"Every Friday and at the weekends, we went to plant corn, cabbages or to compost an orchard," Choi said.

North Korean defectors who served in the military said a typical day would see them wake early in summer.

After breakfast, exercises and two hours of ideological education on the country's founding father, Kim Il-Sung and his family, a battalion commander would give each platoon tasks that ranged from farming to fishing and firewood gathering.

"Because they farm for 10 years, soldiers are better at farming than actual farmers," said Kim, the female army defector.

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Unusual anal fin offers new insight into evolution

Apr. 10, 2013 ? An unusual fossil fish that has fins behind its anus could have implications for human evolution according to a scientist at The University of Manchester.

Dr Robert Sansom from the Faculty of Life Sciences identified the paired fins of Euphanerops, a fossil jawless fish that swam in the seas around 370 million years ago. The find makes the fish one of the first vertebrate to develop paired appendages such as fins, legs or arms.

However, their positioning is incredibly unusual, as Dr Sansom explains: "Euphanerops is unique because its anal fin is paired meaning there is one fin on each side of the fish. Up until now anal fins have only been seen on jawed fish where they are unpaired and this is true of both extinct and modern fish. The age of Euphanerops is important as it dates from the time of a deep evolutionary split between jawed and jawless fish, the two main divisions of vertebrates alive today. As such, it represents an important stage in the evolution of paired appendages."

He continues: "It's not clear why the fins are positioned so far back on the fish, or what advantage they might have provided. However, they do show that our early vertebrate ancestors tried out lots of different body plans before settling on two arms and two legs. If they hadn't then our bodies would have looked very different!"

Dr Sansom came across the paired fins as part of a study of Euphanerops fossils in Quebec, Canada. 3D surface scans of fossils and comparison of specimens preserved in different conditions revealed that there were two fan-shaped fins, a left and a right.

Dr Sansom's research on the paired fins followed on from a 2009 study of early vertebrate evolution and fossil preservation with colleagues from The University of Leicester. Their findings have been published in the Royal Society's journal Biology Letters.

Dr Sansom says it was an exciting find: "The unusual paired anal fin of Euphanerops lends support to the idea that there was some degree of developmental and evolutionary experimentation in some fish. After the Devonian period and the extinction of a lot of species, the jawed vertebrate body exhibits fewer deviations from the formula of paired pectoral, paired pelvic, unpaired dorsal and unpaired anal appendages. The discovery of new anatomical conditions will hopefully shed more light on the timing and sequence of the events underlying the origin and diversification of vertebrate appendages."

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Private company M&A and venture capital database CB Insights has issued its Q1 2013 report on venture capital and deals. According to the report, VCs invested $6.9 billion across 841 deals (eclipsing a Q3 2012 high), which is the highest level since dot-com days, says CB Insight. You can find a full copy of the report here.

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IDC: PC shipments in Q1 faced their steepest known drop to date

If Windows 8 is the ticket to a bounce-back in PC sales, it's going to be a long, slow recovery. At least, as long as you ask IDC. It estimates that worldwide computer shipments in the first quarter of 2013 fell 13.9 percent to 76.3 million, which is the steepest quarterly drop the research firm has recorded since it started tracking PCs back in 1994. While the exact factors at work aren't clear, IDC blames it on a mix of customers spooked by Windows 8's unfamiliar interface, the continued rise of mobile devices, and the decline of the netbook. This isn't helped by the higher typical prices of touchscreen PCs, or by restructuring efforts at computing giants like Dell and HP.

Who's reigning in this apparently declining PC empire, then? Worldwide, it's a different picture than it was a few months ago: HP is back on top at 15.7 percent, followed by Lenovo, Dell, Acer and ASUS. The American climate is somewhat more familiar, with HP in front at 25.1 percent while being chased by Dell, Apple, Toshiba and Lenovo. With the exception of Lenovo, however, virtually all of the manufacturers involved saw at least some decline in their PC shipments. To IDC, that's a sign that vendors and Microsoft need to find an antidote to the crazes for smartphones and tablets -- and find it quickly.

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Workplace Wellness - Help Employees Build ... - Ergonomics Plus

Editor?s note: The following is an excerpt from our Building Wellness from the Inside Out workbook and training program. If you like what you see here, download a free copy of the workbook to see if you would be interested in providing the Building Wellness book and training program for employees at your facility.?

Building a Wellness Plan

?Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel?it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print,?and then begin to build.?

~Robert Collier

Building Block #1: Face the Truth

When I enter a final destination address into my GPS, it first calculates my current location before it gives me the directions and road map. Considering where we are and where we want to be is an important initial step that we must not overlook. Taking an ?inside-out? approach to my personal health means to start first with myself, to take responsibility and remove the excuse list that serves as a barrier to my improved health and wellness. Only after the ?excuse? and ?blame? factors are identified and eliminated can I go to work on building a better plan for my health.

Some may be afraid to get moving in another direction because of past failure. I understand that feeling, been there and done that. But friends, we can do absolutely nothing about the past. It?s over. Done. May I suggest that you bury your past today? Do it, and this will allow you to take control of your future. You can make changes that will stick, changes that will have a great and positive impact on your future. You can make changes in your life and lifestyle?just give yourself a chance.

Building Block #2: Identify the Reasons

The next question to address is not ?How?? or ?What? It?s ?Why?? Having a powerful reason to make important?changes in your lifestyle is something that no one can give you. I encourage you to take time to identify?some powerful reasons to make changes in your lifestyle. When you identify reasons that are important?enough, you will be better equipped to handle the inner battles that will inevitably take place as you seek to?form new habits.

Like me, maybe your ?why? is that you are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. Maybe it?s being there for?your family. Maybe it?s keeping your job. Living longer and healthier. Looking better on the beach.?Here?s another important ?why.? We are living longer, but we are not living healthier. We are aging prematurely?in this country, and the decline in health that we see around us is not related primarily to chronological age.?Abnormal and early loss of functional health is caused by lifestyle diseases.

Early aging leads to a lower quality?of life in the last years of life, which is very sad indeed. One of the most important reasons to build a good?wellness plan is so that we can live a longer, healthier, and happier life. Lifestyle determines the aging process,?not merely the number of years that we?ve lived. There?s an important difference between lifespan (how long?you live) and health span (how long you stay healthy). It?s very important to keep the difference between the?two very small, a good wellness plan will help us do just that.

What are your reasons?

Building Block #3: Decide

The next step toward positive change is making a clear and definite decision that you are determined to do?something, or to stop doing something.?Back in my days as a professional football athletic trainer, our coach was Marv Levy who later led the Buffalo?Bills to four Super Bowls. I?ll never forget what Coach Levy frequently told our team. He said, ?It?s not enough?to have a desire to win, guys. Everyone has the desire to win, but not everyone is willing to do what it takes to?win. Are you willing to do what it takes? That means doing the simple things, the daily disciplines needed to?become a winner.

You need to do the little things in the fitness center, at the dinner table, in every practice, and?on every play. The little things aren?t that hard to do; it?s just easier not to do them.??A desire to be healthy is not enough?desire is not what gets you there. The question we all need to ask ourselves?is: Am I willing to do what it takes? It?s easy to do something when you feel like it. When you don?t?feel like it, you need to draw upon the power that comes from having made an ?all in? decision.

Based on the?strong reasons you?ve identified and the decision you?ve made, you?ll force yourself to do it even when you?don?t feel like it. I?m telling you, this attitude can change the whole direction of your life.?So, here?s the question I had to ask myself. Am I willing to develop the simple daily disciplines needed to be?healthy? It?s an easy question, with a simple ?yes? or ?no? answer. Decide today that you are going to take action?toward your better health and say, ?Yes, I am ready to do this now. I?m all in.?

Building Block #4: Study Wellness

I would encourage you to become a serious student of health and wellness. If you have a strong desire to be?healthy, then you need to study health. Building Wellness from the Inside Out is only one person?s viewpoint.?You need to gather from a wide variety of viewpoints, and then make informed decisions for yourself. Here are?some ways that you can learn from others:

• Learn from others by reading books, articles and blogs about wellness.
• Learn by listening to the wisdom and folly of other people.
• Learn by observing the habits of healthy and unhealthy people.

Make it a habit to capture all the knowledge you can. Make it a daily goal to take at least a few minutes to build?your wellness ?knowledge base. This will help you stay on track and keep you motivated. Study with discernment?and consider the source, and then use all the information that?you?ve?gathered to build a wellness plan?that will work best for you.

Building Block #5: Set Goals

Now is a great time for you to set a better sail for your boat. I believe that setting clear goals is vital. Perhaps the?biggest reason that most people fail to change lifestyle habits is that they don?t clearly define any goals. Success?comes from knowing exactly where you are going, how you are going to get there, what you plan to do along?the way, and who will be coming along for the ride. We need to have very specific, written goals and objectives?when it comes to building a better plan for our wellness.

Work on setting specific goals today. Begin with the?end in mind. What exactly do you want? Write it down. Then, set a deadline date for accomplishing your goals.

When the deadline date arrives, you?ll either wish you had or be glad that you did.

Building Block #6: Plan for Wellness

Investing the necessary time to properly plan for wellness is essential. If you grab the cart in the grocery store?with no healthy meal plan in mind, you will be tempted to just grab whatever looks good to you even if it is not?the healthiest choice. Likewise, if you don?t have an exercise plan it?s very easy to let it slide.

For me this is a weekly and daily habit that is done with pen and paper, actually writing down my plan for each?week and each day on paper. I spend some time on Sunday evening to plan my week in advance, and then each?evening during the week I make my ?to do? list for the next day. Included on this list is my plan for meals and?exercise, in addition to the other things that I need to do for work and home. This technique helps me see exactly?what I will be doing in advance, and the process keeps me focused and very intentional about my choices.

When I determine my day in advance, I find that I?m much less likely to make poor and impulsive choices. I?know what I?m going to do, and I simply execute the plan. At the end of each day, I can easily take inventory of?my performance by comparing my plan with my actual choices.

Building Block # 7: Keep Score

I highly recommend that you use the journal that we have included in the next section of this book. Try it?for the next 30 days, and see if you don?t find it to be very valuable. Journaling is a great way to keep track of?what you eat and how much you exercise, and will really help you stay on top of your goals. It?s a vehicle for?daily self-accountability.

It?s fun to use a journal as a scorecard, checking off the items accomplished on the list?throughout, or at the end, of the day. At the end of each day? I know the score.

Building Block #8: Win the Inner Battle

A constant battle is going on inside of us which determines the choices that we make. Which will we choose?a?doughnut or apple, the couch or exercise, Mountain Dew or water, ease or discipline? The path of immediate?gratification and least resistance pulls hard on us. Each day we encounter choices that will lead us toward good?health, or alternatively toward disease. We know deep down that we need to fight our tendency to take the easy?road, and become disciplined instead.

The building blocks for wellness that we?ve discussed previously in this chapter will help you win this inner?battle and make good choices. But there?s one more important building block that will help you win the daily?inner battles that you will undoubtedly face.

It is this: Don?t go on this journey alone. Recognize that you need?help from others to keep on track. Don?t be afraid to ask others to help you, and bring them along if you can.?It?s more fun than going at it alone, and I believe you will find inspiration and motivation from being a part of?a united effort.

If you have a belief in God, I would encourage you to ask for His help. I realize that this is a workplace taboo,?and I certainly don?t intend to offend anyone or impose my views. My desire is to tell you what helps me stay?on track, and then you can take it or leave it. I believe we are made with a mind, body and spirit that are interrelated,?inseparable and work together in an amazing way. Our health has an effect on our spirit, and our spirit?has an effect on our health. Scripture encourages us to treat our bodies like a temple, with the utmost respect?and care, so it makes sense to me that God will help us with this when we ask.

Building Block #9: Execute the Plan

The process of changing your health begins and ends with action. Action is the ignition switch, the spark that?will bring to you inspiration, accomplishment, and improved health. Our goals determine our actions, and our?actions ensure the desired result. The fact that you are reading these words tells me that you are ready to take?action. The end of this book is the start of your journey. I?m thrilled for you. You are on the way toward building?wellness from the inside out.

Now, I urge you to take the next step. Grab a pen and let?s go to work.

?We must all suffer from one of two pains, the pain of discipline or the pain?of regret. Discipline weighs ounces?regret weighs tons.?

~Jim Rohn

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UN wants to probe Syrian chemical weapons

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ? U.N. experts are poised to move into Syria within 24 hours to investigate reported chemical weapons attacks in the country's civil war, but President Bashar Assad's government still has not given them the green light to enter the country, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday.

Ban told reporters in The Hague that an advance team is already waiting at a final staging post on Cyprus, while the U.N. negotiates "technical and legal" issues with Damascus.

All reports of chemical attacks "should be examined without delay, without conditions and without exceptions," Ban said.

His comments appeared aimed at increasing pressure on Assad's regime and ensuring that U.N. inspectors are given access to all sites of reported chemical weapons attacks and not just those Damascus wants them to see.

Ban said it is "a matter of principle" to investigate all allegations and not just a case in which Syria alleges that rebels used poison gas.

"I am hopeful we will be able to finish this as soon as possible, and I urge the Syrian government to be more flexible so this commission can be deployed as soon as possible," Ban said. "We are ready."

Syria asked the United Nations last month to investigate an alleged chemical weapons attack by rebels on March 19 on Khan al-Assal village in northern Aleppo province. The rebels blamed regime forces for the attack.

Britain and France followed up by asking the U.N. chief to investigate allegations of chemical weapons use in two locations in Khan al-Assal and the village of Ataybah in the vicinity of Damascus, all on March 19, as well as in Homs on Dec. 23.

Ban was speaking at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, which is sending a team of 15 experts to join the commission, along with World Health Organization staff.

The team is led by Ake Sellstrom, a Swedish professor who was a U.N. chemical weapons inspector in Iraq and now works at a research institute that deals with chemical incidents. Ban said he spoke to Sellstrom on Sunday night and he was now heading to join the advance party in Cyprus.

Syria is widely believed to have a large stockpile of chemical weapons, but it is one of only eight countries in the world that have not signed up to the chemical weapons convention, which means that it does not have to report any chemical weapons to the Hague-based organization that monitors compliance with the treaty.

Ban said the experts need to get to Syria as soon as possible to investigate the attacks.

"The longer we wait, the harder this essential mission will be," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/un-chemical-investigators-ready-syria-104632401.html

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