Bahrain king blasts 'foreign' links in unrest

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BFI London: Russia's State-Backed Film Board Promotes Doc About ...

LONDON ? Russian filmmakers and their work unspooling during the BFI London Film Festival will be promoted by official state promoter Roskino with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for the first time in the history of British shindig.

The push by the Russian state aims to give a boost to a total of five features programmed in this year's line-up, a dramatic increase in numbers on previous years.

Among the titles with Roskino's stamp of approval is Andrey Gryazev's Tomorrow (Zavtra), which screens in competition for the festival?s Sutherland Award, the nod to honor the director "of the most original and imaginative first feature" screening during the festival.

And another Russian title from award-winning documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa comes to the festival with his second fiction feature In The Fog, following its In Competition screening during the Festival de Cannes, where it won the FIPRESCI prize.

Another Russian filmmaker enjoying state-backed promotion is Vasili Sigarev, in town with Living, the second feature from one of the most controversial dramatists and filmmakers working in Russia.

Sigarev's film was nominated for a Tiger Award during the Rotterdam International Film Festival early this year and won the Silver Camera 300 at the world?s oldest festival dedicated to cinematographers in Bitola, Macedonia.

His first feature Wolfy was an award winner at Karlovy Vary three years ago and his stage play Black Milk has enjoyed runs in both New York and London. ?

Also attending the festival, which runs through Oct. 21, is actress Maria Atlas-Popova (I'm Going To Change My Name), producer Roman Borisevich (Living) and Roskino director general Catherine Mtsitouridze alongside directors Mikhail Segal, Gryazev, Maria Saakyan and Loznitsa.

A playwright, musician, poet and promo director, Short Stories is the third film from Segal while I'm Going To Change My Name is the second feature by Saakyan.

Gryazev?s Tomorrow follows the Russian art-terrorist movement Voina, some members of which went on to form the band Pussy Riot whose protests against Vladimir Putin inside Moscow?s Christ the Saviour cathedral landed then in jail.

Aside from its work at international film festivals with titles and talent, Roskino also supports the distribution of Russian films and is on the hunt for investors and partners to explore opportunities for co-production and filming in Russia.

Earlier this year it opened a US branch in Los Angeles.

It is aiming to unveil details of a deal with VOD operator Hulu during the upcoming American Film Market in Santa Monica which runs Oct. 31 through Nov. 7.

Russia is one of the world?s fastest-growing markets for film with 406 films released, attracting 172 million admissions a year in 2011

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Chronic stress during pregnancy prevents brain benefits of motherhood, study shows

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614-292-5218
Ohio State University

COLUMBUS, Ohio A new study in animals shows that chronic stress during pregnancy prevents brain benefits of motherhood, a finding that researchers suggest could increase understanding of postpartum depression.

Rat mothers showed an increase in brain cell connections in regions associated with learning, memory and mood. In contrast, the brains of mother rats that were stressed twice a day throughout pregnancy did not show this increase.

The researchers were specifically interested in dendritic spines hair-like growths on brain cells that are used to exchange information with other neurons.

Previous animal studies conducted by lead author Benedetta Leuner of Ohio State University showed that an increase of dendritic spines in new mothers' brains was associated with improved cognitive function on a task that requires behavioral flexibility in essence, enabling more effective multitasking. The dendritic spines increased by about 20 percent in these brain regions in new mothers, according to her findings.

The stress in this new study negated those brain benefits of motherhood, causing the stressed rats' brains to match brain characteristics of animals that had no reproductive or maternal experience.

The stressed rats also had less physical interaction with their babies than did unstressed rats, a behavior observed in human mothers who experience postpartum depression.

"Animal mothers in our research that are unstressed show an increase in the number of connections between neurons. Stressed mothers don't," said Leuner, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State. "We think that makes the stressed mothers more vulnerable. They don't have the capacity for brain plasticity that the unstressed mothers do, and somehow that's contributing to their susceptibility to depression."

Leuner described the research during a talk Saturday (10/13) in New Orleans at Neuroscience 2012, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Previous research has suggested that there are a number of risk factors for postpartum depression, including hormone fluctuations, prior history of mental illness and environmental factors such as smoking or low socioeconomic status. One of the strongest predictors, however, is chronic stress during pregnancy, so Leuner sought to create an animal model that could help explain brain changes linked to postpartum depression.

"It's devastating not only for the mother, because it affects her well-being, but previous research also has shown that children of depressed mothers have impaired cognitive and social development, may have impaired physical development, and are more likely as adults to have depression or anxiety," she said. "A better understanding of postpartum depression is important to help the mother but also to prevent some of the damaging effects that this disorder can have on the child."

The researchers exposed pregnant rats to stress twice a day by limiting their mobility on some days and on other days placing them in water. For three weeks after the rats gave birth, Leuner and colleagues monitored the rats.

The animals showed classic signs of the effects of stress, including lower than normal weight gain and enlarged adrenal glands, a sign of high stress-hormone production. The mothers stressed during pregnancy also gave birth to smaller pups.

"And they were not very good mothers," Leuner said. After separation from pups for 30 minutes, unstressed mothers would gather up their babies, put them in the nest and nurse them. Stressed mother rats left the pups scattered around, wandered around the cage and fed the babies less frequently. The stressed mother rats also exhibited more floating than unstressed rats in a water test; animals that float rather than swim are showing depressive-like symptoms.

"These findings in rats mimic some of the symptoms that are seen in women with postpartum depression," Leuner said.

An examination of the animals' brains showed that the rats exposed to chronic stress did not grow the additional dendritic spines in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex that the unstressed mother rats did. The stressed rats' brains more closely resembled the brains of control rats that had never been mothers.

"We don't yet know what the exact trigger is for the increase in spines in motherhood, but we know that the increase goes away with stress," Leuner said.

She is continuing the work by investigating whether the beneficial effects of motherhood on cognitive functions are also blocked in mothers who are exposed to pregnancy stress as well as whether hormonal factors play a role.

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This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award. Leuner co-authored the presentation with Peter Fredericks of Ohio State's Department of Psychology.

Contact: Benedetta Leuner, (614) 292-5218; Leuner.1@osu.edu

Written by Emily Caldwell, (614) 292-8310; Caldwell.151@osu.edu

(Leuner will be at Neuroscience 2012 from Oct. 13-16; before and during that time, contact Leuner via email or by calling Emily Caldwell at (614) 893-4261.)

Editor's note: Leuner will present her talk (No. 12.12) during a nanosymposium titled "Mood Disorders: Animal Models of Stress and Depression" from 1-4:30 p.m. (CT) Saturday (10/13) in room 288 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.



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Contact: Benedetta Leuner
Leuner.1@osu.edu
614-292-5218
Ohio State University

COLUMBUS, Ohio A new study in animals shows that chronic stress during pregnancy prevents brain benefits of motherhood, a finding that researchers suggest could increase understanding of postpartum depression.

Rat mothers showed an increase in brain cell connections in regions associated with learning, memory and mood. In contrast, the brains of mother rats that were stressed twice a day throughout pregnancy did not show this increase.

The researchers were specifically interested in dendritic spines hair-like growths on brain cells that are used to exchange information with other neurons.

Previous animal studies conducted by lead author Benedetta Leuner of Ohio State University showed that an increase of dendritic spines in new mothers' brains was associated with improved cognitive function on a task that requires behavioral flexibility in essence, enabling more effective multitasking. The dendritic spines increased by about 20 percent in these brain regions in new mothers, according to her findings.

The stress in this new study negated those brain benefits of motherhood, causing the stressed rats' brains to match brain characteristics of animals that had no reproductive or maternal experience.

The stressed rats also had less physical interaction with their babies than did unstressed rats, a behavior observed in human mothers who experience postpartum depression.

"Animal mothers in our research that are unstressed show an increase in the number of connections between neurons. Stressed mothers don't," said Leuner, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State. "We think that makes the stressed mothers more vulnerable. They don't have the capacity for brain plasticity that the unstressed mothers do, and somehow that's contributing to their susceptibility to depression."

Leuner described the research during a talk Saturday (10/13) in New Orleans at Neuroscience 2012, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Previous research has suggested that there are a number of risk factors for postpartum depression, including hormone fluctuations, prior history of mental illness and environmental factors such as smoking or low socioeconomic status. One of the strongest predictors, however, is chronic stress during pregnancy, so Leuner sought to create an animal model that could help explain brain changes linked to postpartum depression.

"It's devastating not only for the mother, because it affects her well-being, but previous research also has shown that children of depressed mothers have impaired cognitive and social development, may have impaired physical development, and are more likely as adults to have depression or anxiety," she said. "A better understanding of postpartum depression is important to help the mother but also to prevent some of the damaging effects that this disorder can have on the child."

The researchers exposed pregnant rats to stress twice a day by limiting their mobility on some days and on other days placing them in water. For three weeks after the rats gave birth, Leuner and colleagues monitored the rats.

The animals showed classic signs of the effects of stress, including lower than normal weight gain and enlarged adrenal glands, a sign of high stress-hormone production. The mothers stressed during pregnancy also gave birth to smaller pups.

"And they were not very good mothers," Leuner said. After separation from pups for 30 minutes, unstressed mothers would gather up their babies, put them in the nest and nurse them. Stressed mother rats left the pups scattered around, wandered around the cage and fed the babies less frequently. The stressed mother rats also exhibited more floating than unstressed rats in a water test; animals that float rather than swim are showing depressive-like symptoms.

"These findings in rats mimic some of the symptoms that are seen in women with postpartum depression," Leuner said.

An examination of the animals' brains showed that the rats exposed to chronic stress did not grow the additional dendritic spines in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex that the unstressed mother rats did. The stressed rats' brains more closely resembled the brains of control rats that had never been mothers.

"We don't yet know what the exact trigger is for the increase in spines in motherhood, but we know that the increase goes away with stress," Leuner said.

She is continuing the work by investigating whether the beneficial effects of motherhood on cognitive functions are also blocked in mothers who are exposed to pregnancy stress as well as whether hormonal factors play a role.

###

This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award. Leuner co-authored the presentation with Peter Fredericks of Ohio State's Department of Psychology.

Contact: Benedetta Leuner, (614) 292-5218; Leuner.1@osu.edu

Written by Emily Caldwell, (614) 292-8310; Caldwell.151@osu.edu

(Leuner will be at Neuroscience 2012 from Oct. 13-16; before and during that time, contact Leuner via email or by calling Emily Caldwell at (614) 893-4261.)

Editor's note: Leuner will present her talk (No. 12.12) during a nanosymposium titled "Mood Disorders: Animal Models of Stress and Depression" from 1-4:30 p.m. (CT) Saturday (10/13) in room 288 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.



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Actor, TV host Gary Collins dead at 74

By NBC News

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Actor Gary Collins, shown in 2010.

BILOXI, Miss. -- Gary Collins,?actor, TV?host and former master of ceremonies for the Miss America Pageant,?died Saturday of natural causes at the age of 74, Harrison County, Miss.,?Chief Deputy Coroner Brian Switzer told NBC News.

Collins, a resident of Biloxi,?died?just before 1 a.m.?after he was brought to Biloxi Regional Medical Center,?Switzer said.

During the 1980s, Collins hosted the Miss America pageant and TV's "Hour Magazine."


As an actor he appeared in numerous movies and TV shows dating back to the 1960s. He was a cast member of the series "The Wackiest Ship in the Army" in the 1960s, and the star of the series "The Sixth Sense" in the 1970s. He also?appeared on "Charlie's Angels," "The Love Boat," and "Fantasy Island."

In 1967, he married actress Mary Ann Mobley,?who was crowned?Miss America in 1959. They co-hosted the 1989 Miss America pageant.?They separated last year.

Collins is survived by his three children -- one with?Mobley, and two from a previous marriage.

Collins?in January?2011?was arrested after walking out of Jazzeppi's restaurant in Biloxi without paying his $60?bill, according to media reports at the time. The Biloxi-based Sun Herald reported?Collins paid a $500 fine two weeks after the incident and did not appear in court.

He?was arrested on?driving-under-the-influence charges in California in 2007, 2008 and 2009, People magazine reported.??In 2007, The 2007 incident resulted in Collins being?sentenced to four days in jail as the result of a car wreck, Reuters recounted. Police blamed that accident on the driver of the other car, though Collins pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor DUI charge.

NBC News' Jim Gold contributed to this story.

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Diamond-studded planet orbits sun-like star ( video)

Resent research found that more than one-third of the newly discovered planet, 55 Cancri e, may be covered in diamonds. This discovery marks the first of a planet so fundamentally different from Earth.?

By Chris Wickham,?Reuters / October 11, 2012

This NASA handout artist's rendition shows the planet 55 Cancri e orbiting its sun in the constellation of Cancer. Discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have determined that the surface of the planet is likely covered with graphite and diamond.

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Forget the diamond?as big as the Ritz. This one's bigger than planet Earth.

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Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our own made largely out of diamond.

The rocky planet, called '55 Cancri e', orbits a sun-like star in the constellation of Cancer and is moving so fast that a year there lasts a mere 18 hours.

Discovered by a U.S.-Franco research team, its radius is twice that of Earth's with a mass eight times greater. That would give it the same density as Earth, although previously observed diamond?planets are reckoned to be a lot more dense. It is also incredibly hot, with temperatures on its surface reaching 3,900 degrees Fahrenheit (1,648 Celsius).

"The surface of this planet is likely covered in graphite and diamond?rather than water and granite," said Nikku Madhusudhan, the?Yale?researcher whose findings are due to be published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The study - with?Olivier Mousis?at the?Institut de Recherche?en Astrophysique et Planetologie in?Toulouse,?France?- estimates that at least a third of the planet's mass, the equivalent of about three Earth masses, could be diamond.

Diamond planets have been spotted before but this is the first time one has been seen orbiting a sun-like star and studied in such detail.

"This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fundamentally different chemistry from Earth," Madhusudhan said, adding that the discovery of the carbon-rich planet meant distant rocky planets could no longer be assumed to have chemical constituents, interiors, atmospheres, or biologies similar to Earth.

David Spergel, an astronomer at?Princeton University, said it was relatively simple to work out the basic structure and history of a star once you know its mass and age.

"Planets are much more complex. This 'diamond-rich super-Earth' is likely just one example of the rich sets of discoveries that await us as we begin to explore planets around nearby stars."

"Nearby" is a relative concept in astronomy. Any fortune-hunter not dissuaded by "The Diamond?as Big as the Ritz", F.Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age morality tale of thwarted greed, will find Cancri e about 40 light years, or 230 trillion miles, from Park Avenue.

(Editing by Andrew Osborn, Alistair Macdonald and Sandra Maler)

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As EU basks in peace prize, separatists on rise

People opposed to the independence of the Catalonia region of Spain, hold Catalan and Spanish flags during the holiday known as Dia de la Hispanidad, Spain's National Day in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Spain is in recession and under pressure to fix its finances while celebrating the day Christopher Columbus discovered America in the name of the Spanish Crown. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

People opposed to the independence of the Catalonia region of Spain, hold Catalan and Spanish flags during the holiday known as Dia de la Hispanidad, Spain's National Day in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Spain is in recession and under pressure to fix its finances while celebrating the day Christopher Columbus discovered America in the name of the Spanish Crown. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

A woman draped in the Spanish flag is seen during the holiday known as Dia de la Hispanidad, Spain's National Day in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Spain is observing its National Day festivities in somber mood as the traditional military pageant was scaled back to cut costs. Spain is in recession and under pressure to fix its finances while celebrating the day Christopher Columbus discovered America in the name of the Spanish Crown. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

People opposed to the independence of Catalonia hold Catalan and Spanish flags during the holiday known as Dia de la Hispanidad, Spain's National Day in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Barcelona soccer fans hold up 'Estelada', center, the Catalan independence flag, amongst color cards forming the red-and-yellow stripes of Catalonia's "la senyera" flag before the Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. Moves toward separatism are getting a bigger following these past months as the economic crisis pushes people faster toward stark choices on nationhood and their future. It is no different in Spain's Catalonia, a wealthy region grousing that it has to pay for others in its crisis-hit country. Real Madrid is still identified with the unified Spanish state and was met with a mosaic of color cards forming the red-and-yellow stripes of Catalonia's "la senyera" flag. At one stage during the match, incessant collective shouts of "Independence!" cascaded down the stands as fans waved the pro-independence "estelada" flag. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

(AP) ? Historic world port and fashionista capital, Antwerp has always lived on the crest of the wave. Now, a separatist party heading into municipal elections Sunday wants to use the city as a base for breaking away from Belgium ? putting it at the forefront of a European breakaway trend just as the EU celebrates winning the Nobel Peace Prize for fostering continental unity.

Moves toward separatism have been getting a bigger these past months as the economic crisis pushes people faster toward stark choices on nationhood and their future. It is no different in Spain's Catalonia, another wealthy region grousing that it has to pay for others in its crisis-hit country.

Scotland, too, is looking at the option of going its own way, making the United Kingdom a little less united.

Two days after the European Union won the Peace Prize for bridging ties between former enemies, Belgium holds municipal elections in which separatists hope to pick up city halls across Dutch-speaking northern Flanders. Bart De Wever, the leader of a Flemish separatist party, is running for mayor of wealthy Antwerp and has been perennially at odds with ailing French-speaking Wallonia.

If elected, De Wever plans to use city hall as a platform for the 2014 national election and an even more ambitious program of separatism.

By that time, he says, he will be counting on a "democratic revolt" at the polls.

De Wever's NV-A party already surged in the 2010 national elections, and was the main reason why Belgium had the longest period without a government on record ? at 541 days. Coalition-building was paralyzed as the separatists sought concessions to give Flanders as much autonomy as possible.

It didn't work out and De Wever ended up in opposition facing French-speaking socialist Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, a staunch defender of the Belgian nation-state. But De Wever is the frontrunner in Sunday's Antwerp vote, and his party is likely to surge across Flanders, polls have shown.

For De Wever, the municipal elections are not primarily about parking spots or ring-roads. They are about the fate of the 6 million Flemings in the kingdom of 11 million, and he chides Di Rupo for imposing too many taxes, sapping too much money from Flanders.

"Little by little, the Flemings don't take that anymore and they are worried about their wealth," De Wever said.

The city is still dripping with exterior signs of wealth, though. The Antwerp fashion designers have turned the historic center into a magnet of conspicuous consumption, its gothic and baroque landmarks are examples of sumptuous renovation, its MAS museum an icon of contemporary design, and its famous port is still thriving.

Separatism is also rife in Spain ? a country at the center of Europe's crisis with a youth unemployment rate of more than 50 percent.

While De Wever was making reasoned arguments in a political debate last Sunday, the 98,000-capacity Camp Nou of FC Barcelona was already a scene of seething Catalan foment for the famed encounter against Real Madrid.

Real Madrid is still identified with the unified Spanish state and was met with a mosaic of color cards forming the red-and-yellow stripes of Catalonia's "la senyera" flag. At one stage during the match, incessant collective shouts of "Independence!" cascaded down the stands as fans waved the pro-independence "estelada" flag.

Last month, 1.5 million Catalans took to the streets in Barcelona to call for a separate state in the biggest march since the 1970s. Catalonia's regional government voted on Sept. 27 to hold a referendum on Catalonia's self-determination at a date still yet to be set. The Spanish government says this would be unconstitutional.

Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy said on Tuesday that those seeking independence for Spain are making "a mistake of colossal proportions."

But Rajoy, like many of his fellow European leaders, is in a bind: National governments have had both to cede power to the supranational EU and to regions demanding greater autonomy and local accountability.

"People are anxious because the European Union seems far away," said Prof. Hendrik Vos, head of Ghent University's Center for EU Studies. "That is why there is this yearning to keep things close."

And local control has become ever more important for rich pockets of Europe.

"Those regions say how hard they had to work for their wealth," Vos said, "and they don't want to throw it away or share with the rest of the EU."

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Associated Press Writer Joseph Wilson contributed from Barcelona.

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The Dirty Truth Behind Those Celebrity Cleanses JJ Virgin's ? Blog

Your best friend just bought a one-week detox kit from Whole Foods, your sister raves about this lemon-juice-and-pepper cleanse, and your mom swears by a ?colonic purging? she gets at her neighborhood spa.

Break the news to them gently. They?re all doing potentially irreversible damage with these programs that are heavy in price but weak on science.

Here?s the deal. The Master Cleanse and similar cleanses are almost entirely sugar and provide little if any nutrients. Even worse, they lack protein. Without protein, your body can?t effectively detox.

I?ll spare you the technical biochemistry, but understand the two phases of detoxification and you?ll see how people throw away money and their health on these store-bought and homemade concoctions.

Your liver is detox ground zero. Everything that detoxes goes through your liver in two phases.? During the first phase, your liver converts fat-soluble toxins into water-soluble substances. In phase 2, your liver excretes these toxins via urine, sweat, and other bodily fluids.

Here?s the take home. If you don?t have protein, your liver can?t perform that second phase. That means highly toxic metabolites hang around and wreak havoc in your body.

Let?s ?fess up here: you?re not cleansing or detoxing to rid yourself from toxins, but for fast fat loss. You want to burn 10 pounds by this weekend for your hot date. You?ll probably lose weight on these super low-calorie, near-starvation diets. But most of that weight loss comes?not?from fat, but water and lean muscle tissue. You?re literally wasting your body away.

Now that you know, you want to choose a smart plan that includes plenty of protein and nutrients to help your body effectively detox.

You?ll begin by dumping the processed foods, gluten, artificial sweeteners, alcohol, and caffeine. (If you?re a monster without a morning venti Starbucks, gradually taper off the coffee.)

So what?should?you eat while you?re detoxing?

  1. Clean, lean organic protein. Have four to six ounces of grass-fed beef, cold-water wild fish, chicken or turkey at each meal. Protein shakes make the perfect meal replacement. I use VegaLite from Thorne Research with So Delicious unsweetened coconut milk as well as chia and flax seeds.
  2. Sulfur-containing foods.?Organic eggs (if you don?t have a food sensitivity), broccoli, cabbage, and onions all provide sulfur to boost phase 2 detoxification.
  3. Go green.?Enjoy loads of preferably organic leafy greens. If you?re not meeting your veggie quota, have an organic green drink. And add some cilantro, which is a natural heavy metal chelator, into your meals.
  4. Fiber.?Legumes, raw nuts and seeds, berries, apples, and lentils come packed with fiber. Always buy organic if you can. If you?re not getting 35 grams of fiber from food, add a scoop of Medibulk from Thorne Research into your smoothie.
  5. Water.?Pure spring water in-between meals supports good elimination. I also like antioxidant-rich organic green tea and coconut water to supply your body electrolytes.

? 2012 JJ Virgin & Associates, Inc. Celebrity Nutrition & Fitness Expert JJ Virgin helps clients lose weight fast by breaking free from food allergies. ?She is the bestselling author of Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy, a Huffington Post blogger, creator of the 4X4 Burst Training Workout & co-star of TLC?s Freaky Eaters. Watch for The Virgin Diet: Drop 7 Foods, Lose 7 Pounds, Just 7 Days, Dec. 2012. Visit JJ at?http://www.jjvirgin.com?to get her 3 free training videos on the secrets to achieving fast & lasting fat loss.

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HR Generalist (6 months contract) | You.my

Overall Job Purpose

Functions as a HR Generalist providing support to the Department Head with primary responsibilities as Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) to the departments assigned, providing guidance on HR policies and procedures in line with HR objectives and business needs.?

Key Job Responsibilities

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  • Provide strategic human resources support to the business / departments assigned, functioning as main liaison with the business and providing guidance on HR issues to the Unit Heads in line with business needs and external employment legislations.
  • Coordinate and convey business? requirements to the Talent Acquisition and Talent Management team on a timely basis. .
  • Ensure compliance of Standard Operating Procedures and SLAs (Service Level Agreements) in line with L2 SOS and delivery of HR activities.
  • Function as Compensation Point-of ?Contact (Comp POC) for the dept to the HR Shared Services (HRSS) for monthly salary and incentive payment on Workday and EuHReka payroll system.
  • Monitor the accuracy and timely execution of salary payment and remittance of statutory payment by HRSS.
  • Assist in benchmarking exercise to ensure competitiveness of compensation and benefits in the market and make necessary recommendation for review, and establish new policy as and when necessary.
  • Assist HR Head to administer the salary review and bonus exercises and assist in HR budgeting.
  • Provide guidance to business on staff movement / job changes such as transfers and promotions, to ensure all related practices comply with company policy and employment legislation and are conducted in a fair manner.
  • Provide guidance to business on managing staff performance & disciplinary issues.
  • Assist in various Global and Regional HR Projects as and when required.

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Person Specification

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  • Degree/Diploma holder, preferably in Human Resource Management, Business Administration or related discipline
  • Minimum 5 years of related work experience.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, i.e. Word, Excel & Power point.
  • Good interpersonal and numerical skills.
  • Able to interact effectively with people at all levels.
  • Strong coordination and time management skills.
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    Legal battle between Bangor sandwich shops ends with a dismissal ...

    BANGOR, Maine ? The Queen City?s sandwich battle is over. At least on the legal front it is.

    The debate over who makes sandwiches most like the ones served at the Coffee Pot, a landmark Bangor business on State Street that closed its doors on Dec. 31, 2009, quietly rages on.

    The closure spun off at least five surrogate sandwiches, including those made by the Coffee Pot Cafe at 652 Broadway, owned by Dr. Robert E. Erickson, a Bangor dentist, and The Legacy Sandwich Shop at 163 State St., owned by Bruce and Carol Guimond of Hermon.

    Last year, the Coffee Pot Cafe sued The Legacy Sandwich Shop over the use of the words ?deluxe? and ?superdeluxe? to describes its sandwiches.

    Lawyers for the owners of the two rival Bangor restaurants that make sandwiches similar to the beloved Coffee Pot ? a sandwich made with ham or salami, onions, cheese and vegetables ? on Oct. 1 filed a joint stipulation of dismissal in U.S. District Court in Bangor. The case will be dismissed by U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby ?with prejudice,? which means it can not be resubmitted in federal court or refiled in state court.

    Earlier this week, Erickson referred questions about the dismissal of the lawsuit to his attorney, Anthony D. Pellegrini of Bangor. Pellegrini declined to comment.

    ?A dismissal with prejudice functions as an adjudication on the merits and any attempt to refile similar claims in another court, including state court, is barred,? Sean Sweeney, the Portland attorney who represents the Guimonds, said Thursday in an email. ?Accordingly, because the Coffee Pot Cafe?s complaint expressly raised issues of state unfair competition in Counts 6-10, the Coffee Pot Cafe is precluded from raising these claims again in state court.?

    Carol Guimond said Wednesday that the trademark issue has been hanging over their heads since their second day of business, May 18, 2010, when they received a cease and desist letter from Pellegrini. The lawsuit was filed in March 2012 in federal court in Bangor.

    ?It feels like a great big cloud has been removed but there?s still damage from the storm,? she said Wednesday in a telephone interview. ?It?s been two-and-a-half years of trademark bullying and confusion for our customers.?

    She continued: ?We are moving forward running our business just as we have but without the lawsuit hanging over us. Our customers have been wonderful and very supportive.?

    The complaint alleged that Legacy Sandwich began using nearly identical names ? ?Legacy Deluxe Sandwich,? ?State Street Super Deluxe Ham and Salami Sandwich,? ?State Street Super Deluxe Ham Sandwich? and ?State Street Super Deluxe Salami Sandwich? ? for its own creations when it opened next door to the original Coffee Pot location shortly after the Coffee Pot Cafe made its debut.

    The Coffee Pot Cafe alleged that this ?caused a likelihood of confusion or of misunderstanding? as to the source of Legacy Sandwich sandwiches and that the similarity of its sandwiches? names to those used by the Coffee Pot Cafe led some people to believe that there was an affiliation or association.

    Sweeney said one of the issues that led to the dismissal of the case was that Erickson filed the trademark for the words ?deluxe? and ?superdeluxe? with the Maine Secretary of State?s Office, not with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which conducts a search to see if there are other similar patents or trademarks pending. The state is not able to do similar searches to determine the uniqueness of a patent or name, the attorney said.

    ?A lot of restaurants, including some national chains, use these words,? Sweeney said. ?They are common in the food industry.?

    Source: http://bangordailynews.com/2012/10/11/news/bangor/legal-battle-between-bangor-sandwich-shops-ends-with-a-dismissal/

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