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Geusam Ginseng Market, Interview with Dr Choi about Health Benefits of Korean Ginseng – Video

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23-06-2012 07:32 - Round the World Travel Video Adventure I visit with Geusam Ginseng Market with Dr. Kwang - Tae Choi, former president of the Korean Society of Ginseng. Geusam is the main region of South Korea where Ginseng is grown. Dr Choi talks about some of the proven health benefits of Ginseng. Some of the benefits of Ginseng include anti - fatigue, antioxidant, improves immune system, improves memory, helps with blood circulation, rids the body of heavy metals, helps reduce the effects of radiation, helps normalise cancer cells, improves sperm count and regulates hormones. Dr Choi discusses the different types of Ginseng available, including Korean Ginseng and American Ginseng and why Korean Ginseng and the Korean peninsula produce the most medicinal Ginseng. Korean Ginseng can grow to six years of age whereas American Ginseng is harvested at four years of age. A big thank you to Shi Keum and Kwang-Tae Choi for helping me in putting together this story about Ginseng. AROUND THE WORLD TRAVEL VIDEO ADVENTURE website: Facebook: twitter: google+:

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Travel photographer Valerie Martin has a new sailing tour to Turkey. Picture: Supplied Source: National Features

Anantara Bali Uluwatu Beach and Resort in Indonesia. Picture: Supplied Source: National Features

A LOOK at what's coming up in the world of travel including a travel photography trip to Turkey, a new Bali resort and the Taste of Margaret River event with top chefs.

1 Resort to a clifftop for fine Bali sunsets

ANANTARA is opening a new resort at Uluwatu in Bali next month.

Perched high on a limestone cliff on the Indonesian island's southwestern tip, each of the 77 suites will have unobstructed views of the ocean and the famous Balinese sunset.

The hotel group also recently opened its first city hotel in Abu Dhabi, Eastern Mangroves Hotel & Spa.

The new property is part of an integrated hotel, marina, retail and residential destination, with 222 guest rooms and suites, three restaurants and bars and a rooftop lounge.

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2 Taste of Margaret River

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Review: 'The Huston Smith Reader' surveys a remarkable life

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The Huston Smith Reader

Edited with an introduction by Jeffery PaineUniversity of California Press: 280 pp., $29.95

A restless curiosity about the sacred dimensions of life drove Huston Smith to seek enlightenment in a Zen monastery in Japan, join a secret Muslim fraternity, make pilgrimages to Himalayan holy sites and investigate the religious import of mind-altering plants.

These experiences also propelled Smith through six decades of scholarly analysis that has made him one of the world's most important writers and thinkers on religions of the world.

Today a new aspect of life absorbs the grand old man of comparative religion. Now living in a room in an assisted-living facility, the 93-year-old Smith has found himself making new friends in a community of senior citizens "in wheelchairs or depressed or withAlzheimer's." There too he ponders this question: What happens when we die?

His 15th book, "The Huston Smith Reader," is a great summing up of Smith's work over the last half-century, from passionate lectures and essays on why religion matters to deeply personal reflections on entering his ninth decade of life.

Taken together, these works offer a portrait of the author who, to describe the world's enduring faiths as accurately as possible, immersed himself in them, participating in their rituals and practices to get, as he put it, "an insider's view."

What is missing is only Huston's classic, "The World's Religions," an introductory college textbook that has sold more than 3 million copies. With few exceptions, the selections are eloquent and filled with anecdotes, character sketches and tales of wonder involving Masai warriors who rescued him from lions, a Japanese spiritual leader who confided the true meaning of Zen Buddhism, and Smith's own parents, evangelical Christians from whom he inherited an abiding trust in God.

In the 1950s, professor S.H. Nasr in Iran provided Smith with an insight that became an inspiring beacon over his long academic career: "Don't search for a single essence that pervades the world's religions. Recognize them as multiple expressions of the Absolute, which is indescribable."

It has been a remarkable life.

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His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda Initiates 354 Disciples into Nirahaara Samyama – To Consciously Generate Energy …

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Life Bliss Foundation stated that it may become the world’s largest number of people voluntarily being without food intake for longest period without any war situation.Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 23, 2012 Madurai Aadheenam, Friday 22nd June 2012: His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda initiated 354 disciples into niraahaara samyama (hunger free samyama), during the worldwide daily satsang ...

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Lichen can survive in space: Space station research sheds light on origin of life; potential for better sunscreens

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ScienceDaily (June 23, 2012) You can freeze it, thaw it, vacuum dry it and expose it to radiation, but still life survives. ESA's research on the International Space Station is giving credibility to theories that life came from outer space -- as well as helping to create better sunscreens.

In 2008 scientists sent the suitcase-sized Expose-E experiment package to the Space Station filled with organic compounds and living organisms to test their reaction to outer space.

When astronauts venture on a spacewalk, hours are spent preparing protective suits to survive the hostile conditions. No effort was made to protect the bacteria, seeds, lichen and algae attached to the outside of the Space Station, however.

"We are exploring the limits of life," explains ESA's Ren Demets.

Our atmosphere does a wonderful job of protecting life on Earth by absorbing harmful UV rays and keeping temperatures relatively stable.

In contrast, the space samples endured the full power of the Sun's rays. The samples were insulated somewhat by the Space Station but still had to cope with temperatures changing from -12C to +40C over 200 times as they orbited Earth.

The samples returned to Earth in 2009 and the results have now been published in a special issue of the journal Astrobiology.

Lichen have proven to be tough cookies -- back on Earth, some species continue to grow normally.

Ren explains, "These organisms go into a dormant state waiting for better conditions to arrive."

The lichen have attracted interest from cosmetic companies. They can survive the full power of the Sun for 18 months, so knowing more could lead to new ingredients for sunscreen.

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Buy a sweet space suit for $10,000

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A Kickstarter project will help you dress like you belong in space, even if you can't afford an actual ticket to suborbit.

This is an earlier generation of the space suit. The Kickstarter campaign aims to fund improvements.

The commercialization of space travel is well on its way. That means you can't just pop over to NASA and borrow a space suit for your private space flight, which leaves room for some upstarts to get in on the space-clothing action.

Can't afford the whole suit? Just get a helmet. (Click to enlarge.)

Final Frontier Design is working on a lightweight, relatively inexpensive space suit and is looking for $20,000 on Kickstarter to boost the project. The company has already built two generations of suits but is looking to improve the design with a retractable helmet, better gloves, a carbon fiber waist ring, and higher operating pressure.

These suits aren't meant for floating around outside your spacecraft; they're for indoor space use. Final Frontier likens it to safety backup in case of loss of cabin pressure when you're hanging out above the planet.

A ticket on Virgin Galactic's commercial spaceship will set you back $200,000. For just $10,000, you can get a Final Frontier space suit customized for your size. Put it on and pretend you're in space, or save it for when you finally do catch a suborbital ride.

If $10,000 for an outfit you might not get a chance to put through its paces is too much, lower pledge levels include $750 for Anti-G pants for zero gravity or $3,500 for a space suit helmet and tour of the Final Frontier studio.

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Scott Atchison Receives All-Star Support in the Clubhouse, With First Base Coach Alex Ochoa As Primary Witness

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BOSTON -- At 36, Scott Atchison is piecing together a career year.

Through 38 1/3 innings this season, Atchison has turned heads with his performance, striking out 29 batters while surrendering just five runs en route to posting a miniscule 1.17 ERA.

Unlike most in the majors, Red Sox first base coach Alex Ochoa anticipated Atchison's success. After facing Atchison in Japan, Ochoa -- who played for the Hiroshina Toyo Carp -- only mustered up one career hit against the pitcher.

"His approach is what he's using here -- he's using the fastball off his cutter and pounding the outside of the plate with the cutter and in on lefties and just keeping it down," Ochoa said. "That's what he did in Japan. I faced him a lot when I was in Japan and I know exactly how he pitches."

Almost a little too well. Ironically, Ochoa's lone hit against the reliever took place during their first sequence against one another. As a member of the Hanshin Tigers, Atchison fired a fastball inside to Ochoa, who crushed a home run in that at-bat.

To this day, Ochoa reminds Atchison of the mammoth blast in the Red Sox clubhouse and offers up the exact details of the at-bat.

"He was throwing his cutter, he got ahead of the count and tried to throw a fastball in on me," Ochoa said. "I put a good swing on it and got a home run off it. I mess with him all the time about it. But I guess if you hit one home run in 10 at-bats and can't get another hit, I don't know if I have the bragging rights."

So how did Atchison adjust? He started perfecting a pitch -- the cutter -- that would result in his success in 2012.

"After that I ended up throwing a lot of cutters and sliders to him," Atchison said, laughing. "He was really good at spraying the ball over the field, so you had to mix back and forth with your pitches. You couldn't stay in one place on him. But it's friendly fun."

Ochoa cited the improvement of Atchison's cutter for his success. The late-breaking movement has stifled opposing batters this season, reminding the Red Sox first-base coach of his own challenges against the reliever.

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S. Carolina heads to finals with 3-2 win over Hogs

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Tyler Webb and Matt Price combined for seven innings of shutout relief, and 2-time defending national champion South Carolina returned to the College World Series finals with a 3-2 win over Arkansas on Friday night.

The Gamecocks (49-18) took the lead in the bottom of the seventh inning on Barrett Astin's two-out, bases-loaded walk to Adam Matthews.

South Carolina will play Arizona in the best-of-3 finals beginning Sunday.

The Gamecocks erased a 2-0 deficit in the fifth, with DJ Baxendale walking Christian Walker with the bases loaded to force in the tying run.

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Vettel heads Hamilton in Valencia

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Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel took a stunning pole position at the European Grand Prix.

The world champion was 0.324 seconds clear of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton in an otherwise closely fought qualifying session on the Valencia street track.

I expected to be further back. We had to make some guesses as to what kind of set-up we wanted and it seemed to work OK

Williams's Pastor Maldonado was third, ahead of the Lotus drivers Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen, with Jenson Button ninth.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Red Bull's Mark Webber were 11th and 19th.

The Force Indias looked like they might challenge at the front but Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta ended up eighth and 10th.

Di Resta admitted that a mistake in the final corner on his final lap cost him the chance to be much higher up.

"I think we wouldn't have been far away but I just locked a wheel," Di Resta said.

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg was sixth, ahead of Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi.

Vettel's pole was his third in a row at this track, and the 33rd of his career, matching the great Jim Clark and Alain Prost.

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SU scientists use nanotechnology to replicate light produced by fireflies

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One day, energy provided by batteries and electricity may be replaced by the replication of one of natures bright and luminous wonders: the glow produced by fireflies.

Syracuse University scientists recently replicated the light fireflies provide by using nanotechnology. The research team, led by Matthew Maye, assistant professor of chemistry, discovered that products with multicolor string of light could function with the energy created by fireflies, according to an article published by i09.com.

Nanotechnology uses semiconductive nanomaterials, also known as quantum dots, Maye said in an email. The quantum dots accepted the energy or light from the fireflies. Maye said this light was then emitted from the dots, allowing the color to change. This process is called Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer.

The main impact of this discovery is that now researchers in the field of nanoscience have some design parameters for efficient interactions between bioluminescent biomaterials, Maye said.

The idea for the project originated from a firefly experts presentation, which Maye attended. The presenter and Maye began collaborating on the project about a year and a half ago.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the Department of Defense funded the project, Maye said. He indicated that a project of this kind is expensive but did not specify how much the team received in funding.

SU graduate students and undergraduates majoring in chemistry and biochemistry made up a large portion of the research team, Maye said. He credited doctorate candidate Rabeka Alam for the projects success.

She is one of the top students at SU and has an amazing future ahead of her, Maye said.

Throughout the course of a year, there were many highs and lows, Alam said in an email. In the beginning, she said, the researchers were not getting any type of result no matter how hard they tried, but this eventually changed.

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One day, energy provided by batteries and electricity may be replaced by the replication of one of natures bright and luminous wonders: the glow produced by fireflies.

Syracuse University scientists recently replicated the light fireflies provide by using nanotechnology. The research team, led by Matthew Maye, assistant professor of chemistry, discovered that products with multicolor string of light could function with the energy created by fireflies, according to an article published by i09.com.

Nanotechnology uses semiconductive nanomaterials, also known as quantum dots, Maye said in an email. The quantum dots accepted the energy or light from the fireflies. Maye said this light was then emitted from the dots, allowing the color to change. This process is called Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer.

The main impact of this discovery is that now researchers in the field of nanoscience have some design parameters for efficient interactions between bioluminescent biomaterials, Maye said.

The idea for the project originated from a firefly experts presentation, which Maye attended. The presenter and Maye began collaborating on the project about a year and a half ago.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research through the Department of Defense funded the project, Maye said. He indicated that a project of this kind is expensive but did not specify how much the team received in funding.

SU graduate students and undergraduates majoring in chemistry and biochemistry made up a large portion of the research team, Maye said. He credited doctorate candidate Rabeka Alam for the projects success.

She is one of the top students at SU and has an amazing future ahead of her, Maye said.

Throughout the course of a year, there were many highs and lows, Alam said in an email. In the beginning, she said, the researchers were not getting any type of result no matter how hard they tried, but this eventually changed.

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Middle Minds birthday event – Flute toots and Nazi mice – Video

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22-06-2012 14:47 So it was my 18th birthday on the 19th, so the sunday before that, us: - Me - The Citizens Mind - JaSoR122 - Declans Mind - - Jala1250 - Mind of a Marine - - SwedenSpeedway - Jimmys Mind - Got together to celebrate in what could be called the first recorded meeting of the Middle Minds (pretentious I know, but we decided it would be a convenient group name for when we're gathered) by playing online flash games, but as you will see we chose a bullshit flash game site so it just devolved into watching old Batman clips. I tried to upload this on my birthday but it got immediately blocked for copyright so I cut out the videos and I'll link to the copyrighted videos we were watching instead. - (18:13) - (22:20) - (35:15) - (38:06) - (42:04) - (46:50) Also I swear I'm never stutter or lisp this much off-mic.

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In depth: Siri, how do I feel?

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Microsoft is working on technology that will spy on you in your own home, watching your body language and face and listening to your voice for cues about your mood and emotional state.

But would you want to install such a device in your home?

Maybe you already have.

Microsoft's technology works via Kinect for Xbox 360, the company's popular motion-detection gaming peripheral.

Microsoft this month filed a patent application for a method of " Targeting Advertisements Based on Emotion."

The idea is that users would install Kinect for the fun and games. But when they're not playing, Kinect will continue to watch everything they do. It will know when they're laughing and crying, slumping or beaming.

Microsoft wants to combine this data with information collected as people conduct searches with Bing and surf the Web with Internet Explorer. Using that data, the system will build an emotional profile of a user that will enable it to deliver ads "with the highest monetization values to the users that are emotionally compatible," according to the patent application.

Microsoft's plans are merely at the patent application stage. Other major companies are much closer to implementing emotion-sensing technology.

Feeling social?

Facebook has acquired the face-recognition startup Face.com, a company whose software can scan a photograph and identify who's in it, based on user tagging.

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Medicine for a mutation

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A new class of drugs offers hope to lung cancer patients who have a specific mutation in their tumour cells.

LG LAU was in her mid-thirties when she was first diagnosed with lung cancer. She had caught a normal cold, and her early symptoms included persistent coughing, shortness of breath, loss of weight and a hoarse voice.

When her cough worsened and wouldnt go away for several weeks, she went to see a doctor, who diagnosed her condition as tuberculosis.

After taking the prescribed medication for about two weeks, there was no improvement in her condition.

In fact, her health gradually worsened, and by the end of the third week, she had difficulty eating and started losing weight.

By the end of the month, she became too weak to move around on her own and had to get about in a wheelchair.

Her husband finally couldnt bear to watch her suffer any longer, and in spite of her protests, brought her to see a specialist, who ordered a chest X-ray and CT scan.

The results were conclusive; although she had never smoked in her life, she was diagnosed with Stage 3B non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Her doctor insisted that she go for a follow-up biopsy to determine if she was EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) mutation positive. EGFR is a cell membrane receptor found on tumour cells, which shows increased activity in cancer cases.

The results came back positive, so her doctor put her on drugs that inhibit EGFR (called EGFR-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors, or EGFR-TKI) for a month as part of her first-line treatment.

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What will make Robi quit showbiz?

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Robi Domingo (NPPA Images)Robi Domingo may have his hands full as host of ABS-CBNs new reality show I Dare You. But he revealed that he might get into medical school next year and quit showbiz.

Yes. (Showbiz) no more, he revealed at the launch of The Body Shops cruelty-free Lily Cole makeup line at the Mall of Asia last Thursday, June 21.

Ironically, Robis revelation came at a time when he admits enjoying showbiz.

It has been really weird, awkward, but duringI thinkor (towards) my fifth year, Im beginning to enjoy everything because when I started last to 2008 up to 2012 I was doing some school things at the same time. At least (for) now its just thinking about showbiz, not school anymore. Its not the typical kind of thing for me before that youll be going to school, to Ateneo then going to ABS after, the Pinoy Big Brother alumnus said.

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Robi was not as open about his love life, though. He regretted talking about it for the first time in a TV show and is afraid discussing it again might get him in trouble. Hed rather talk about I Dare You, which Robi describes as more intense and more challenging, as it will feature more than the one-day immersion seen in the the previous season.

Hosting the show with Robi are John Prats, Pinoy Big Brothers Deniesse Joaquin, and I Dare You first season host Melai Cantiveros.

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