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Facing soaring diesel fuel prices and intense competition in India?s two-wheeler sector, the Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Private Limited (HMSI) factory in Manesar in the state of Haryana has contracted Clarke Energy to install two of GE?s (NYSE: GE) ecomagination-qualified, natural gas-fired Jenbacher cogeneration?units that use less expensive natural gas to generate 4 megawatts (MW) of reliable on-site power.

HMSI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Japan, installed the Jenbacher units to lower energy costs at the flagship Manesar factory as the company prepares to dramatically expand production in India.

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An iPhone Lover?s Confession: I Switched To the Nexus 4. Completely.

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Preparing for Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) Speaking and ...

These tips for exam success will help you get the most out of the Cambridge English: Advanced?exam.

Speaking test tips

• Practise speaking in English as much as you can.?If you have friends in English speaking countries, try talking to them on Skype, or speak in English to friends or teachers. Joining an English speaking club can also be a fun way to prepare for your exam.
• Familiarise yourself with the format of the Speaking test with the free sample papers. This will give you extra confidence on exam day.

Writing test tips

• Practise your writing skills by completing timed essays.?Always check that you?ve addressed the question fully and no important details are missing.
• When writing, consider who the ?target reader? is and write in an appropriate style and tone.
• Don?t forget that both parts of the Writing section are equally important and carry the same number of marks.?

Remember, preparing for Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) doesn?t just help you pass your exam, it gives you the language skills you need for successful study. Once you have passed, you can use it for your visa and university applications.

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Hundreds arrested in child exploitation probe

WASHINGTON (AP) ? U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says more than 200 adults have been arrested in a five-week, international investigation of child pornography.

ICE Director John Morton says 123 child victims were identified in the investigation, which ended in early December. It found 110 victims in 19 U.S. states. The others were living in six countries.

Morton says the investigation is part of the agency's effort to find and rescue victims, and arrest abusers and people who make or transmit child pornography.

Two unidentified adults have also been charged in Los Angeles with molesting a girl who appeared in online photos to be about 13 when she was abused. The man and woman are charged as "Jane Doe" and "John Doe."

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Before I had my family, I vowed I would never be one of those mothers who didn?t stay on top of my precious kids' photos, art projects, and notable milestones. ?Eight kids later, I humbly wave my white flag and eat those words.

Because most of us live extremely busy lives, we don?t always have time to dutifully record the milestones our kids reach. Here are some easy ways to preserve your family?s memories without investing an exorbitant amount of time or money:

Create a Memory Box

A memory box is one of the simplest ways to keep track of all the sweet, funny, poignant, remarkable, and everything-else-in-between memories and milestones of your child. All you need is a large index card box, some dividers and 365 4 X 6 index cards. ?Label the months of the year on the dividers and then divide the index cards so you have approximately 30 per section.

Keep the box in a convenient place such as in your kitchen and whenever something notable happens, simply write the date and year and a one or two line description of what happened on one of the index cards. At the end of the month move the cards to the back of the box so you?ll always have a fresh card waiting when a new memory occurs. ?

The idea is that over the years, we'll have cards filled with memories and at a glance will be able to see the fun and memorable things that happened on that date.

Create Digital Scrapbooks

Collect all your shoeboxes and Tupperware bins of loose and disorganized photos and create a digital scrapbook. Digitally scan old prints and then save them onto CDs or DVDs or an external hard drive. There are dozens of online scrapbooking sites that you can use like Shutterfly and Smilebooks who will create a hard cover photo book for under $30.

Record Your Kids'?Voices

Invest in a tape recorder that you can use to record family birthday parties, or after school conversations, your newborn?s cries and coos, or a grandparent reading a book to your child. ?These recordings may not mean much now, but 15 ? 20 years down the road, you will be so grateful to have captured those slices of time when your kids were so young.

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American Horror Story, Season 2

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Every week in?Slate?s?American Horror Story TV club, J. Bryan Lowder will have an IM conversation with a different?AHS fan. This week, he rehashes episode 2.10 with Jeff Bloomer, SlateV?s editor/blogger. ?

J. Bryan Lowder: Happy New Year Jeff! I hope your celebrations were hearty, and that our time off from American Horror Story over these past few weeks has left you ready for the sensory assault that the remaining four episodes promise. Speaking of which, they say the start of a new planetary revolution is a time for reflection and change, and boy if we didn't see a bunch of that latter thing tonight! All kinds of power reversals and upheavals went down, and our main baddie duo has shuffled off this mortal coil (at least for now).?

Jeff Bloomer: My celebrations were lovely! And yes, the show definitely saw fit to clean house for the new year. Dr. Arden's trip to the incinerator came at the right time for me (and with his Auschwitz past, it was certainly an appropriate send-off). Sister Mary Eunice's demise, however, has me a little bummed. I was so looking forward to a passing reference in future episodes of an epic throw down in Rome!

Lowder: Ah! I will be honest and say that my relief at not witnessing an instance of necrophilia caused me to miss the poetry of that reference, but right you are! As for Mary Eunice, I noted in my notes that her fall fell a mite too soon for me as well. We had only just had the truth fully out for the defiled Monsignor, and before any magic-wand-lasers could clash and spark in midair, our goodly possession victim was bleeding out on the floor! But surely that plot line isn't over?I'm not certain if you?re an expert on matters of the occult, but it seems to me that the Angel of Death absorbing both the DEVIL and a human soul at the same time is, well, a special case. Jeff, be real with me: are we about to see a death-kiss wielding seraphim possessed by Satan descend with great and terrible power on Briarcliff? (I've already started on the fanfic, in any case.)

Bloomer: Ha, perhaps! The Angel of Death seems to be one of the more benevolent spiritual presences this season. I hope for all our sake that you're right though, and Frances Conroy is unleashed?her crazed housekeeper has definitely been missed. Did I miss something in that final moment, though? I assumed the devil just went back chez devil and it was only Mary Eunice who ate it.

Lowder: You've rightly divined my secret desire to have more Francis Conroy on the show by hook or by crook (though, I maintain that an entire series could be dedicated to just watching Jessica Lange smoke a ciggy); however, I do think you may have missed our dark angel's words as she locked lips with Sister Mary Eunice?something like ?I?ll take you both.? Unless the Devil somehow jumped into the Monsignor while the Sister fell?there was that slow-motion moment?I think he's somehow wrapped up with the angel. But time will tell. Speaking of plot lines, what did you make of the unceremonious execution of Dr. Arden's little woodland experiments? If that's truly the end of them, I'm a little disappointed in the Lost-ness of that kind of sloppy writing.

Bloomer: Yes, that was very strange. We never did learn much about them, and they mostly served as a way to keep flighty residents in the hospital. Since they barely registered in the first place, though, I guess the harm is limited. What real antagonists do we have left at this point, anyway? Is it all Bloody Face, all the time from here on out?

Lowder: That's a great question. By my count, the only genuine villain left is Thredson, and even he seems to have his hands tied by Lana's potent blackmail scheme. But if you think about it, the reverse is also true: those who claim to be virtuous?the Monsignor, Sister Jude, etc?have all been compromised as well. Only the moral agnostics in the middle (Lana, Kit, and possibly Grace) seem to be faring well?relatively speaking, of course. And then there is the increasing showing of menacing but I guess ultimately neutral power the aliens are making via Pepper. I'm not sure what all this means, but watching the positions shift is tantalizing.

Bloomer: That's true. Briarcliff's filth has spread to everyone. I am still puzzled by what exactly the aliens are up to?that baby was not as green as I'd hoped, and it didn't have any obvious messianic traits. I'm not sure I care much about Grace?her character is so thin?but I am stubbornly holding out hope that Lana and Kit make it out of there in one piece. Is there any chance we'll be seeing more of his wife, or do you think she has a permanent seat in the cosmos? And what does a happy ending for Lana look like at this point? We know she carries her baby to term, unless she too gets a visit from the little green men.

Lowder: This episode raised so many questions! I have a feeling that Lana and Kit will make it out, and I have to say, I'm finding their queer hack of the traditional romantically involved couple we're used to seeing in horror settings more and more compelling. We already know that gears have starting turning for Lana, as the beneficent Mother Superior seems to be at least considering Sister Jude's plea to help her new ally. As for Alma, I expect we'll see her again, but probably not in any crucial way?perhaps she and Kit will walk off into some celestial paradise free of racism and violence, idk.

What I'm wondering most is what happens to Sister Jude? I'm still surprised at how the ostensible centerpiece of this installment of AHS has been forced into increasing depths of abjection?was she permanently damaged by Sister Mary Eunice's sadistic turn at the electroshock therapy machine? Her babbling and camptastic musical hallucination would seem to suggest as much. What did you make of "The Name Game", Jeff Jeff Bo Beff, Banana Fanana Fo Feff? Crazy digression, or given Judy's attempt to "name" all the patients later, a moment laden with something deeper?

Bloomer: I'll be honest: I loved it. The breakneck plotting of this season has kept many of the show's wilder whims more in check than I'd like. The foot-play wasn't exactly groundbreaking, but my only real regret is that more of the cast didn't get involved.

And as for Sister Jude, she has a lot to answer for, and I have a feeling that her punishment will continue. You're right that the writers are having a grand old time desecrating the religious elders?our poor priest has now been crucified?and raped!?and even with her change of heart, I think Jude has darker days to come.

Lowder: Well, on that ominous note, I say we call it a night. But before we go, I just want to step back and acknowledge that there is a show on television which, in a single episode, contains both a self-cremation of a former Nazi doctor and a jaunty, Technicolor dance sequence. If that presages anything for 2013 in general, I can't wait!

Bloomer: Seconded! If this keeps up, 2013 might also be the first time a Ryan Murphy show doesn't totally self-destruct in its second season. Who says the new year doesn't bring surprises?

Thursday: What other writers and Slate commenters thought about Episode 10.

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Electric stimulation of brain releases powerful, opiate-like painkiller

Jan. 2, 2013 ? Researchers used electricity on certain regions in the brain of a patient with chronic, severe facial pain to release an opiate-like substance that's considered one of the body's most powerful painkillers.

The findings expand on previous work done at the University of Michigan, Harvard University and the City University of New York where researchers delivered electricity through sensors on the skulls of chronic migraine patients, and found a decrease in the intensity and pain of their headache attacks. However, the researchers then couldn't completely explain how or why.

The current findings help explain what happens in the brain that decreases pain during the brief sessions of electricity, says Alexandre DaSilva, assistant professor of biologic and materials sciences at the U-M School of Dentistry and director of the school's Headache & Orofacial Pain Effort Lab.

In their current study, DaSilva and colleagues intravenously administered a radiotracer that reached important brain areas in a patient with trigeminal neuropathic pain (TNP), a type of chronic, severe facial pain. They applied the electrodes and electrically stimulated the skull right above the motor cortex of the patient for 20 minutes during a PET scan (positron emission tomography). The stimulation is called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).

The radiotracer was specifically designed to measure, indirectly, the local brain release of mu-opioid, a natural substance that alters pain perception. In order for opiate to function, it needs to bind to the mu-opioid receptor (the study assessed levels of this receptor).

"This is arguably the main resource in the brain to reduce pain," DaSilva said. "We're stimulating the release of our (body's) own resources to provide analgesia. Instead of giving more pharmaceutical opiates, we are directly targeting and activating the same areas in the brain on which they work. (Therefore), we can increase the power of this pain-killing effect and even decrease the use of opiates in general, and consequently avoid their side effects, including addiction."

Most pharmaceutical opiates, especially morphine, target the mu-opioid receptors in the brain, DaSilva says.

The dose of electricity is very small, he says. Consider that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which is used to treat depression and other psychiatric conditions, uses amperage in the brain ranging from 200 to 1600 milliamperes (mA). The tDCS protocol used in DaSilva's study delivered 2 mA, considerably lower than ECT.

Just one session immediately improved the patient's threshold for cold pain by 36 percent, but not the patient's clinical, TNP/facial pain. This suggests that repetitive electrical stimulation over several sessions are required to have a lasting effect on clinical pain as shown in their previous migraine study, DaSilva says.

The manuscript appears in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. The group just completed another study with more subjects, and the initial results seem to confirm the findings above, but further analysis is necessary.

Next, researchers will investigate long-term effects of electric stimulation on the brain and find specific targets in the brain that may be more effective depending on the pain condition and patients' status. For example, the frontal areas may be more helpful for chronic pain patients with depression symptoms.

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1. Marcos Fabio Dos Santos, Tiffany M. Love, Ilkka Kristian Martikainen, Thiago Dias Nascimento, Felipe Fregni, Chelsea Cummiford, Misty Dawn Deboer, Jon-Kar Zubieta, Alexandre F. M. DaSilva. Immediate Effects of tDCS on the ?-Opioid System of a Chronic Pain Patient. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2012; 3 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00093

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