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This is my personal blog, Malaysia language version.

Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day helped protect older women against some age-related memory decline, giving women more reason to love the world’s most popular stimulant.

“The more coffee one drank, the better the effects seemed to be on (women’s) memory functioning in particular,” said Karen Ritchie at the French National Institute of Medical Research, whose work appears in the journal, Neurology.

The researchers followed more than 7000 men and women in three French cities, checking their health and mental function and asking them about their current and past eating and drinking habits, their friends, and their daily activities.

The study found women who drank more than three cups of coffee per day, or its caffeine equivalent in tea, retained more of their verbal and - to a lesser extent - visual memories over four years.Women over 80 reaping more benefits from these beverages than those who were 10 to 15 years younger.

But the researchers didn’t find a similarly protective effect in men, although other studies have found a benefit to males.How might caffeine help ward off cognitive decline? “It is a cognitive stimulant,” said Ritchie.

It also helps to reduce levels of the protein called beta amyloid in the brain, she said, “whose accumulation is responsible for Alzheimer’s disease but which also occurs in normal aging.”Ritchie said she wasn’t sure why men in the study didn’t benefit from caffeine. “Our hypothesis is that either women metabolize caffeine differently than men, or there may be an interaction [of the caffeine] with the sex hormones, the estrogen-progesterone balance,” she said.

Some studies in mice have suggested that caffeine might block the buildup of proteins that lead to mental decline.Ritchie is not sure why only women benefited in her study.

Today I’ve read an article regarding the study on the reasons to have sex. The interesting thing according to this the study found men and women have sex for the same reasons, those reasons are lust, not love.

After asking nearly 2000 people why they’d had sex, the researchers in the University of Texas have assembled and categorized a total of 237 reasons.

“I was attracted to the person” was the number one reason for both sexes.

To make sense of the 237 reasons, researchers David Buss and Cindy Meston prioritized the responses in four general categories:

• “The person had beautiful eyes,” or “a desirable body,” or “was a good kisser,” or “too physically attractive to resist.” Or “I wanted to achieve an orgasm.”

• “I wanted to even the score with a cheating partner,” or “break up a rival’s relationship,” or “make money,” or “be popular.” Or “because of a bet.”

• “I wanted to communicate at a deeper level,” or “lift my partner’s spirits,” or “say `Thank you.’.” Or just because “the person was intelligent.”

• “I felt like it was my duty,” or “I wanted to boost my self-esteem,” or “It was the only way my partner would spend time with me.

The answer “I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease” ranked last for women and second last for men.

The rest of the top 10 were also almost the same for each gender, including “I wanted to express my love for the person,”

I was sexually aroused and wanted the release,” and “It’s fun.

Women were more likely to say they had sex because, “I wanted to express my love for the person” and “I realized I was in love.”

“A person offered to give me drugs for doing it” was the worst reason for having sex.

It’s refuted a lot of gender stereotypes … that men only want sex for the physical pleasure and women want love,” said University of Texas clinical psychology professor Cindy Meston, the study’s co-author.

Global warming refers to the rise in the earth’s temperature resulting from an increase in heat trapping gases in the atmosphere.

Wikipedia : Global warming refers to the increase in thetemperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans indecades and its projected continuation.

Global average air temperature near the Earth’s surface rose 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the twentieth century.

According to The Christian Science Monitor, climate scientists studying global warming now predict that it’s highly likely the world is undergoing significant, human-induced climate changes. They may result in more intense storms, droughts, sea-level rise, wildlife extinction, and other serious problems. But humanity is not a helpless victim. Much is being done to limit the effects of global warming, and more efforts are being planned.

Scientists have concluded that human activities are contributing to global warming by adding large amounts of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Our fossil fuel use is the main source of these gases. Every time we drive a car, use electricity from coal-fired power plants, or heat our homes with oil or natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the air.

The second most important source of greenhouse gases is deforestation, mainly in the tropics, and other land-use changes.

What we can do to slow global warming is to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases by:

• driving less and driving more fuel-efficient and less-polluting cars

• using energy-efficient appliances

• insulating homes

• using less electricity in general

Scientists predict that even if we stopped emitting heat-trapping gases immediately, the climate would not stabilize for many decades because the gases we have already released into the atmosphere will stay there for years or even centuries. So while the warming may be lower or increase at a slower rate than predicted if we reduce emissions significantly, global temperatures cannot quickly return to today’s averages. And the faster and more the Earth warms, the greater the chances are for some irreversible climate changes.

A passenger plane has crashed and burst into flames at Brazil’s busiest airport, in the heart of Sao Paulo, killing up to 200 people. Rescue crews said none of the 176 people on board the Airbus A320 could have survived, while more people were killed on the ground.The TAM airliner skidded off the runway as it landed in wet weather, shot over a busy road and hit a fuel depot.Concerns had been raised about the safety of the runway during heavy rain.

There had been persistent, heavy downpours in the two hours before the accident. Up to 200 people were feared dead after a plane overshot a runway and crashed on landing in Sao Paulo, Brazil.The TAM airlines Airbus A320 slid off the end of the runway at Congonhas airport as it landed in wet conditions, then crashed into a fuel and cargo depot. The depot was busy with airport workers, some of whom had to jump out of windows. The state governor said none of the 176 people on board the plane could have survived, and a number of people on the ground also died.

There had been persistent, heavy downpours in the two hours before the accident.

The plane skidded across a main road before hitting a fuel depot

Up to 200 people were feared dead after a plane overshot a runway and crashed on landing in Sao Paulo, Brazil

The TAM airlines Airbus A320 slid off the end of the runway at Congonhas airport as it landed in wet conditions, then crashed into a fuel and cargo depot.

27th Aug the Whole World is waiting for………….*

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August. It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will cultivate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth. Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am . It will look like the
earth has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.

I have good article to share..

“Can someone track a user (name, home address, etc.) simply by having their email or IP address? The reason I ask is my kids play some games online, and these sites sometimes have a chat area, where the players can talk to each other while playing. Can my kids be tracked down in any way?”

Are You Invisible Online?

It’s true that your IP address is no secret. It’s a basic part of internet communication protocols to send your IP address whenever you connect to another site, request a web page, chat, play an online game, etc. Without your IP address, the computer on the other end wouldn’t know where to send the reply.

But that doesn’t mean that Evildoers can find your house if they know your IP address. Each time you go online (if you have dialup) or each time you start your computer (if you have cable or dsl) you will be assigned an IP address, randomly selected from a pool of IP’s assigned to your Internet service provider (ISP). WHOIS Your ISP

So a person MIGHT be able to get a general idea of your geographic location, based on your IP address, by doing a lookup on the WHOIS database, but that will only tell them the physical location of your ISP — not YOUR home address.

And if you use a large regional or nationwide ISP, the IP lookup probably reveals nothing of interest. For example, if you are an AOL subscriber, your IP address lookup will show the location as Dulles, Virginia — regardless of where you live. When The Law Comes A Knockin’

Of course there is an exception to every rule. If Joe or Jane User calls your ISP and wants to know who was using a certain IP address last Tuesday, the ISP will tell them to go away. But if an officer of the law hands your ISP a court order to reveal that information, they must do so. Your ISP’s logs will enable them to determine which customer was using a certain IP address on a certain date & time, and they must reveal that information if a court has found probable cause that a crime was committed by that person.

But for the truly paranoid (or the criminally inclined) there are ways to surf the web anonymously. The Anonymizer service will act as a proxy between you and your ISP, and they claim that your information cannot be subpoenaed because they do not store it. What About Email Addresses?

The same concepts apply to your email address. The part that follows the “@” sign is your ISP’s domain name. And given the domain name, one can determine the ISP’s physical location, but nothing personally identifying about the email user without a court order.

Web-based email accounts are not truly anonymous, either. Even if you don’t provide your real name when signing up, they can capture your IP address and track you through your ISP if necessary. Other Considerations

It’s much more likely that you or your children will reveal your physical location the old fashioned way — by just blurting it out. Kids who chat or play online games should be reminded often that they should never reveal any personal information, including their last name, phone number or home address.

Source : http://www.scriptinn.com/misc/does_ip_address_reveal_my_physical_location_/

I launched my first oil and gas directory and Workpacking site on April 11, 2007.

I tried to move this blog from intaionline.com to subdomain blog.intaionline.com. Back up all those thing and export to phpmyadmin. Remove existing database and uninstall wordpress from cpanel.

Reinstall wordpress in subdomain and reinstate the back up files. Grrr…. the back up files cant be imported from my hard disk.

#1007 - Can’t create database ‘intaionl_wrdp1′; database exists

I think I may lose all my posting in January 2007. What to do..