Identity Theft, Credit Card Fraud, Spam...

Identity Theft, Credit Card Fraud, Spam, Virus and Internet Scam Alerts.

So I got this weird e-mail. Look below to check it out:
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Subject Line: (Blank)
Mrs. Lisa Fredrick winner@lottery.co.uk

Your E-Address was selected for category B in this weeks International Coca-Cola Lotto programme. These are your details.Ref Number: EUM DN 0508-9T6 Batch Number: BT:12052008Ticket Number: 7PWYZ2008 Serial Number: NPU-34Lucky Number: 05 13 27 33 42 (02-04)Please contact the programm co-ordinator. Complete the informations below and forward same and above stated details strictly to the programm co-ordinator. Your draw has a total value of One Million Pounds,(ﾃつ｣1,000.000.00).Full Names:____________Country of Residence:______Address:_________________Email:___________________Age:____________________Nationality:_______________Occupation:_________________Telephone:________________Fax Number:_____________________Date of Birth:_________________Sex:______________________PROGRAM CO-ORDINATORName: Mr. Wayne BillmanE-mail: mr.wayne_billman@live.comPhone: +44-703-189-8008Fax: +44-707-505-5400LOCATION: BRIDGE LONDON SW1V 3DWUNITED KINGDOM
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Obviously someone was using my e-mail address to see if the contest was legit!
I don't buy lottery tickets, so why was this e-mail sent to my inbox???

Anyway, if you got e-mail and you have no idea where it's coming from, first label it as spam or send it your bulk inbox and then delete!

I love virtual space!

Taking the Pill protects against ovarian cancer...

Even decades later: study
The original article can be found here.

Provided by: The Canadian Press
Written by: Helen Branswell, Medical Reporter,
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Jan. 24, 2008


A woman holds a birth control pill dispenser indicating the day of the week in New York in August 1974. Use of oral contraceptives significantly lowers a woman's risk of developing ovarian cancer, even decades after she stops taking the Pill, a new study confirms. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ AP - Jerry Mosey

TORONTO - Women who take oral contraceptives lower their risk of developing ovarian cancer, with the protective effect still shielding them decades later, even if they've long since stopped taking the pill, a new study concludes.

The medical journal that published the article, The Lancet, called for wider over-the-counter access to oral contraceptives, saying there are "few drugs available that confer powerful and long-lasting protection against a highly lethal malignancy after such a short exposure."

"Women deserve the choice to obtain oral contraceptives over-the-counter, removing a huge and unnecessary barrier to a potentially powerful cancer preventing agent," the influential journal said in an unsigned editorial.

The senior author of the study, Dr. Valerie Beral of Cancer Research UK epidemiology unit at Oxford University, called the ovarian cancer protection offered by oral contraceptives "a bonus."

"Young women don't take the pill because of cancer, they take it to not get pregnant. And actually many of them, I think, worry because of all the press stories and so on that maybe this is putting them at risk of cancer in later life. But in fact, the reverse is true," Beral said in an interview from Britain on Thursday.

"It is a very fatal cancer. So it's a nice bonus to have."

Ovarian cancer is one of the heartbreaking forms of the disease. It is curable if detected early, but is almost never diagnosed in the early stages, because symptoms are vague and there is no screening test at present.

The Canadian Cancer Society estimates 2,400 women were diagnosed with ovarian cancer in this country last year and 1,700 women died from it. On the list of cancer killers of Canadian women it ranks fifth, after lung, breast, colorectal and pancreatic cancer.

Beral and her co-authors - from the collaborative group on epidemiological studies of ovarian cancer - estimated 200,000 cases of ovarian cancer and 100,000 deaths from it have been avoided worldwide because women have used oral contraceptives since they were introduced in the 1960s.

With global numbers of women using oral contraceptives having risen in later decades, the authors estimate the number of ovarian cancers being prevented will rise to at least 30,000 a year in years to come.

"When you save 30,000 deaths from ovarian cancer, that's major. In cardiovascular health or any other field they would be celebrating this," said Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada.

The study, which will be in Saturday's issue of The Lancet, is actually a pooling of data from 45 previous studies which followed a total of over 110,000 women. About 40,000 of them had used oral contraceptives.

The longer women used oral contraceptives, the greater the reduction in their cancer risk. The reduction persisted long after women stopped using the pill - though the protection appeared to attenuate a bit as time from usage increased.

The protective effect was seen regardless of ethnicity, education level, age at which a woman's period began, family's history of breast cancer, use of hormone replacement therapy, weight, height, smoking and drinking history.

While the protective effect was not as great as that associated with never smoking or quitting smoking, it is nonetheless substantial, Beral said.

"There's nothing much you can do for 10 years that reduces your risk for the rest of your life by 30 per cent life."

Beral didn't want to comment on The Lancet's call for over-the-counter access to oral contraceptives, though she noted Britain is in the process of mounting a pilot study which will have trained pharmacists prescribing the medications in drug stores.

Lalonde said he thought it was too soon for Canada to move in this direction.

"I think that over-the-counter, we're not there yet," he said, suggesting a Quebec program allowing nurses and nurse practitioners to prescribe oral contraceptives should be watched and assessed before further moves are considered.

And Eduardo Franco, head of McGill University's division of cancer epidemiology, also cautioned against the idea.

Franco, who wrote a commentary that accompanied the Beral article, said a decision to use oral contraceptives should be discussed with a health-care provider, because it involves weighing other risks and benefits.

That kind of encounter also gives health-care providers the chance to discuss other important reproductive health issues, such as the importance of having safer sex and the need to have regular cervical cancer screening. Franco said forgoing the discussion would mean "we're missing a wonderful opportunity to provide a message."
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Taking the pill protects against ovarian cancer, even decades later: study
Provided by: The Canadian Press
Written by: Helen Branswell, Medical Reporter,
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Jan. 24, 2008
The original article can be found here.

No Posts 4 a While...

Feeling under the weather...

Click here to find out how to prevent or at least recover from a cold or flu.

For my undelete clients,
for now visit Google's Account Help form

(it's the same one in the right column, under Google Stuff
called Google Accounts Help on my blog)

How To Earn a Six Figure Income from Blogging in Two Easy Steps!

Just lovely! I found this gem at: engtech's blog

How do undelete blog via photos

First I'll show how to prevent ACCIDENTALLY deleting your blog:

1. Login to your Google Account

2. For some reason it redirects me to the site below.

Click on "My Accounts"

3. Beside "My services" click on "Edit"

4. Under "Close Account" click on "Close account and delete all services and info associated with it." Now remember, you're entering the danger zone. You have no business being in this section unless you really want to delete things like the following: YOUR BLOG, ADSENSE, PICASO, WEB HISTORY, GOOGLE CHECKOUT, etc.

PROCEED WITH CAUTION

5. READ the TIITLE of the PAGE. It does say "Delete Google Account." You are here because you want to delete anything and everything you have that is associated with Google.

You have two choices here:

A). If you DO NOT want to delete anything click on the "Cancel" button beside the "Delete Google Account."

B). If you WANT to DELETE your account, then checkmark every box and then select "Delete Google Account" button. BTW, you HAVE to select all the checkmarks. This page is making sure you're aware of what you are doing and the consequences of those actions.

6. Sorry, I'm didn't want to delete my Google Account. That's why the cancel button brought me back to my account information with a message at the top that reassures me that I didn't delete anything. If you want, you can confirm this by clicking on the "OK" link.

7. So if you actually deleted your blog it`s now time to go to The Undelete My Blog Project. And then click on the Blog Undelete Utility

8. Type in the address of the deleted blog. Leave out the "www." Select "Google Cache." Google Cache will show you the layout of your deleted blog which helps if you never backed up your HTML. Let`s start with this one. When you`re done, please click on "Retrieve cache."

9. My deleted blog looked like the screenshot below with a message from Google

10. If you had the Blog Archive widget on your blog then try to go to the first post you ever made. Right-click the link for a menu to appear

12. Select "Copy Shortcut"

13. Keep that link you just copied and go back to the Blog Undelete Utility page. Paste your link insie the "Enter your blog address" textbox. Then select "Google (Text only)" if you want to save your posts via copy + paste. It wil help you to re-insert your posts inside your blog. Then lastly click on "Retrieve cache" button to continue.

Which Office Character Are You Most Like?

the Office, such a funny show...

Check out this quiz:
Which 'Office' character are you?
By: Denette Wilford

I DID IT!! I DID IT!! I FULLY RECOVERED MY DELETED BLOG!!

Okay, I'm actually missing 2 posts out of 63 that I made during last year.

For some reason I'm missing the post from Febuary 2007's "It's That Spiritual Time Again" and another one from December 2007's post, but I don't know which one it was.

I don't care! My next post I will show you how to recover an accidentally deleted blog and how to backup EVERYTHING just in case it ever happens again via photos.

Until then look at my other short post on How to Undeleted Blog here.

Study suggests that healthy habits can mean 14 extra years of life

Nice, looks like I'm already doing what's needed to add 14yrs to my life...
As long as I keep going that is...
Check out this article to find out the secrets of living a longer satisfying life.

Provided by: The Canadian Press
Written by: Maria Cheng, THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJan. 8, 2008
Click here to find the original article
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LONDON - To get an extra 14 years of life, don't smoke, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, exercise regularly and drink alcohol in moderation.
That's the finding of a study that tracked about 20,000 people in the United Kingdom.
Kay-Tee Khaw of the University of Cambridge and colleagues calculated that people who adopted these four healthy habits lived an average of 14 years longer than those who didn't.
"We've known for a long time that these behaviours are good things to do, but we've never seen these additive benefits before," said Susan Jebb, head of Nutrition and Health at Britain's Medical Research Council, which helped pay for the study.
"Just doing one of these behaviours helps, but every step you make to improve your health seems to have an added benefit," said Jebb, who was not involved in the study.
The benefits were also seen regardless of whether or not people were fat and what social class they came from. The findings were published online Monday in the Public Library of Science Medicine journal.
The study included healthy adults aged 45 to 79. Participants filled in a health questionnaire between 1993 and 1997 and nurses conducted a medical exam at a clinic. Participants scored a point each for not smoking, regular physical activity, eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day and moderate alcohol intake.
Until 2006, the researchers tracked deaths from all causes, including cardiovascular disease, cancer and respiratory diseases. People who scored four points were four times less likely to die than those who scored zero, the research showed.
Khaw said that the study should convince people that improving their health does not always require extreme changes to their lifestyles.
"We didn't ask these people to do anything exceptional," Khaw said. "We measured normal behaviours that were entirely feasible within people's normal, everyday lives."
Public health experts said they hoped the study would inspire governments to help people adopt these changes.
"This research is an important piece of work which emphasizes how modifying just a few risk factors can add years to your life," said Dr. Tim Armstrong, a physical activity expert at the World Health Organization.
But because the study only observed people rather than testing specific changes, experts said that it would be impossible to conclude that people who suddenly adopted these healthy behaviours would automatically gain 14 years.
"We can't say that any one person could gain 14 years by doing these things," said Armstrong. "The 14 years is an average across the population of what's theoretically possible."
But experts worry that the new findings may still not be enough to persuade people to change their unhealthy ways.
"Most people know that things like a good diet matter and that smoking is not good for you," Jebb said. "We need to work on providing people with much more practical support to help them change."
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On the Net:
PLoS: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/
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Provided by: The Canadian Press
Written by: Maria Cheng, THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJan. 8, 2008
Click here to find the original article

HOW TO UNDELETE BLOG

Well, this is one way to do it:

1. Go to the Blog Undelete Utility
2. Type in your homepage *exclude the "www"*
3. Select "Google (text only)"
___b. THIS ONE WORKS BETTER TO RETRIEVE EARLY POSTS!!!
4. Press the "Retrieve cache" button
5. I "copy + pasted" each post into a Word document. You could also go to your browser's File/Save As.../ and save each retreived cache into a HTML file.
6. You will have to do this (Steps 1 to 5) for each and every post you ever posted. When you're finished with your homepage just "right click" each post and select "Copy Shortcut" and paste it in the "Enter your blog address" texbox on the Blog Undelete Utility page.
___b. You can try to select the months first and see if it works, if not, then select each post.
REMEMBER:
7. DO THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, because eventually all the links that were associated with your blog will disappear into cyberspace!!!!

Basically what you're trying to do is collect your old data and then recreate
the same blog but from scratch.

I'm currently working on this right now and hopefully I'll have all
my old posts up and running soon.

I suggest you start with your favorite or main blog page. Because after awhile I received this error message after I finished the first blog page. I started to retrieve the cache from my 2nd blog page when I saw this:
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403 Forbidden
Google Error

We're sorry...
... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.

We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google.
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I think when I kept on copying and pasting each link, Google interpreted it
as a virus stealing information or something.

Anyway, I hope this helps!

Dreams of Fantasy

It's good to be back...

It's a new year and I'm starting with a new blog.

I know, it still looks the same except for one thing.

I have a shorter address to remember!

http://kim2thekiko.com

Not hard to remember eh?!!

I had to purchase it though. $10 for one year, not bad I think.

Let's pray to God that I don't accidentally delete this blog!