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According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, an estimated 410 Georgia women were newly diagnosed with cervical cancer in Georgia in 2011. ?January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month and Fulton County Health Services encourages all women to take control of their health by having annual cervical cancer screenings known as Pap tests and to make healthier lifestyle choices.??
If detected and treated early, cervical cancer is 90% curable.? In Georgia, it is estimated that 134 women die of cervical cancer each year. Symptoms of early stage cervical cancer or pre-cancer are not easily identified and often have no signs or symptoms. ?Women 21 and older need to have regular Pap tests to monitor cervical health.?
All women who have not had a hysterectomy are at risk of developing cervical cancer.? Many cervical cancer risk factors are linked to lifestyle behaviors.? Risks include: having multiple sexual partners; smoking or a history of smoking; early age of first sexual encounters, being overweight; not using barrier methods of birth control such as condoms; and not getting regular Pap tests.
Cervical cancer is the 12th most common cancer diagnosed in Georgia women.? Early detection through routine screening has reduced cervical cancer to less than one percent of cancer deaths in the United States.? All women under the age of 26 are encouraged to get the HPV vaccine for added protection against cervical cancer and other diseases such as genital warts.? Pelvic examinations, Pap tests and the HPV vaccine are available at health centers for eligible low-income and uninsured women through the BreasTEST & MORE prevention program.
Exams and Pap tests are available at the following Women?s Health Clinics:
Adamsville Health Center, 3699 Bakers Ferry Road, SW, Atlanta, GA 30330 (404) 699-4215
Center Hill Health Center, 3201 Atlanta Industrial Pkwy., SW, Atlanta, GA 30318 (404) 699-6370
Center for Health and Rehabilitation, 265 Boulevard, NE, 3rd Floor, Atlanta, GA 30312 (404) 730-5835
College Park Regional Health Center, 1920 John Wesley Ave., Atlanta, GA 30337 (404) 765-4155
Lakewood Health Center, 1853 Jonesboro Rd., SE, Atlanta, GA 30315 (404) 624-0626
North Fulton Regional Health Center, 3155 Royal Drive, Alpharetta, GA 30022 (404) 332-1876
For more information about health screenings and vaccinations, contact one of the Fulton County Women?s Health Clinics at the telephone numbers listed or log-on to www.fultoncountygahealth.org.
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NEW DELHI ? Would the sex, drugs and rock-n-roll fueled TV show "Californication" be worth watching without the sex, drugs and rock-n- roll? What about serial killer series "Dexter" without the gore?
In an effort to attract younger viewers without offending the older ones, Indian TV is now showing some of America's edgiest shows ? but cutting out the edge.
As India urbanizes and its middle class grows, a delicate dilemma has hit a media culture long dominated by local TV shows aimed at rural audiences, such as the soap opera "Baalika Vadhu" or "Child Bride," about a girl married off at age 10. While the young and hip audiences that attract advertising dollars want foreign imports, no broadcaster wants to upset conservative viewers or attract government ire.
"This is a very sensitive time for the media in India," said TV critic Shailaja Bajpai. "Many stations are afraid of government banning orders," but at the same time, output needs refreshing to bring in audiences."
So TV channels resort to inconsistent and clumsy self-censorship, snipping scenes that are central to a show's plot with abandon. While they bleep out profanities, they will also cut a reference to the drug "crack" from one part of a show, while letting it slide a few minutes later.
Even more absurd are the imports that have English subtitles to assist those with a shaky grasp of the language. Censors often let the spoken word slide through, but change it or strike it completely from the subtitles. So while a character on "The Big Bang Theory" is allowed to say the word "intimate," the subtitles only showed "int ------."
One incident turned an episode of "Friends" into a legend of unwatchable TV. The show hinged on the gag that two pages in a cookbook got stuck together and the character Rachel mistakenly made a fruit pastry with beef. The station bleeped out the word "beef," a show of sensitivity for Hindus' reverence for cows, leaving viewers to guess why her diners were so disgusted.
It's just as perplexing for the suddenly chaste vampires of HBO's lusty "True Blood" and for the serial killer star of "Dexter," who is constantly changing blood-splattered clothes for no apparent reason on Indian TV. Or for David Duchovny's "Californication" lech Hank Moody, who disappears into a bedroom with a beautiful women and then suddenly appears in a disjointed scene from later in the episode.
Nevertheless, young Indians, who have embraced Levis, McDonalds and MTV, are hungering for Western television.
"I no longer want to watch the stupid shows I watched with my family growing up, I want entertainment and there is very little on Hindi-language television," said Abhinav Mohan, a 22-year-old mass-communication student, who watches the disjointed imports instead. "Though heavily censored, I can still follow them."
Broadcasting the shows, while editing them into confusion, underscores the fine line entertainment companies like the NewsCorp-owned Star and FX are trying to walk to attract urban youth while not angering their more traditional parents.
Bollywood actors only began kissing onscreen in the last decade. As recently as 2007, an arrest warrant was briefly issued for Hollywood star Richard Gere after he kissed the cheek of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness rally.
"Indian produced movies and TV are very formulaic, you always know what you are going to get," said Rahul Gupta, a media company owner in New Delhi. "Today's youth are more likely to get what they want from Hollywood than Bollywood and TV companies are starting to realize it and hope to cash in."
In an effort to head off government interference, the industry created its own regulatory body in June to deal with complaints. Now, in addition to the odd censoring, viewers must also suffer a banner that repeatedly scrolls across the screen, advising viewers how to complain to the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council. More than 3,000 have.
The complaints range from "scantily and vulgarly dressed women" on MTV's "Grind" to a scene "misguiding children to kill," on the southern Indian family melodrama "Muddu Bidda," or "Cute Girl."
So far, only six channels have been called in for a hearing. Their apologies have been enough to satisfy the council and prevent it from referring the cases to the government, which has the power to ban shows.
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TOKYO (AP) ? A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck under the sea south of Japan on Sunday, shaking buildings in the capital but causing no apparent damage or tsunami.
The quake struck near the uninhabited island of Torishima in the Pacific Ocean, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of Tokyo, and its epicenter was about 370 kilometers (230 miles) below the sea, the Meterological Agency said. It did not generate a tsunami.
Buildings in the Tokyo area shook, but no damage or injuries were reported. Express trains in northern and central Japan were suspended temporarily for safety checks but later resumed.
No abnormalities were reported at power plants, including the crippled nuclear power plant in northeast Japan hit by the March earthquake and tsunami, public broadcaster NHK reported.
A massive earthquake and tsunami March 11 left nearly 20,000 people dead or missing. Japan, which lies along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," is one of the world's most seismically active countries.
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What are Android users like? Are those who use Google's smartphone operating system and its associated gadgetry male or female? What sort of clothes do they wear? Are they married? Do they wear watches? Get your answers to those questions and lots more in this infographic from the people at Bluestacks, makers of an app player that lets users run Android apps on Windows PCs.
[More from Mashable: 5 Apps Worth Downloading This Week]
To find this typical Android user, they put together a seamless and whimsical illustration, encompassing data gathered from their 145,000 Facebook fans, as well as information from Nielsen, all collected between 12/12/11 and 12/19/11.
If the graphic below isn't large enough, click it for a full-sized version.
[More from Mashable: Apple?s Jonathan Ive Is Now a Knight]
Infographic courtesy Bluestacks, used with permission
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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ABUJA (Reuters) ? Nigerian security services are considering making contact with moderate members of shadowy Islamist sect Boko Haram via "back channels," even though explicit talks are officially ruled out, the national security adviser said on Friday.
Speaking a day after emergency meetings with Goodluck Jonathan and top security officials in response to a spate of deadly Christmas Day bombings by the sect, National Security Adviser General Owoye Andrew Azazi told Reuters officials were looking at broadening efforts beyond pure security measures -- including addressing northern economic grievances.
"Even if government has a policy saying that there's no negotiation, that you can't reach out to Boko Haram, intelligence must find a way," Azazi said in an interview.
"I don't think it's everybody (in Boko Haram) who believes in the level of violence ... That's why you could have other channels for discussion ... It's something we could pursue."
Azazi declined to comment on whether contact with moderate members of Boko Haram had already been made.
"From our perspective, you try back channels. And when you are trying back channels, that's not when the president will come and announce to the whole of Nigeria that 'I'm talking to mister A or mister B,'" he said.
Azazi's comments signal an apparent shift from treating Boko Haram purely as a security issue that needs to be tackled militarily. Jonathan has been criticized for ignoring political avenues that might heal the north-south rift partly underpinning the conflict.
The death toll from a bomb attack on a church just outside Nigeria's capital Abuja on Christmas Day rose to 37, with 57 people wounded, emergency services said on Friday, underscoring the pressing need to deal with the threat of Islamist militancy.
"INVISIBLE ENEMY"
Azazi ruled out explicit negotiations of the type that ended the conflict in the oil-rich Niger Delta last year, because the leadership of the radical sect was so secretive.
"For now, Boko Haram is an invisible enemy. You don't have an identifiable person you can talk to," he said. By contrast, in the Niger Delta conflict, "at any time the government wanted a meeting, he rang them and said we'll come and talk. But nobody has come out openly and said 'we're Boko Haram'."
The bombing at St. Theresa's Catholic church in Madalla on Abuja's outskirts during a packed Christmas mass, was the deadliest of a series of Christmas attacks.
They raised fears the group is trying to ignite a sectarian civil war to fracture Nigeria along north-south lines.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sinful" in the northern Hausa language, has been blamed for a campaign of shootings and bombings against security forces and authorities in the north since 2009.
Though firmly rooted in radical Islamist ideology, analysts say the anger on which it draws, especially amongst unemployed youths, has a lot to do with northern grievances about perceived alienation from oil riches concentrated in the south.
Azazi said other measures discussed with the president on Thursday included efforts to address those grievances.
"The president strongly believes that his economic plans will bring productivity to (northern) areas, especially focusing on agriculture. In the north, most people are farmers," he said.
"Someone who is gainfully employed is less likely to join (Boko Haram). They say Western education is taboo. If you go to school and you can't get employed, you'll not see the value in education," he said.
Attacks around the capital - including one on the U.N. headquarters in August that killed at least 24 people - suggest the group is trying to raise its profile.
Azazi said there was now wealth of evidence that Boko Haram had linked up with global jihadists like al Qaeda's north African wing (AQIM), including meetings between the sects members and AQIM, evidence some trained outside of Nigeria and their increasingly sophisticated bomb making technologies.
"Even their choice of targets. The U.N. bombing incident was a very professionally conducted operation," he said.
Other measures being considered included a revamp of intelligence services and a large increase in the police force, which at 350,000 for a population of 160 million was inadequate.
Azazi added that an assault on Boko Haram militants in Damaturu that killed 50 sect members just before Christmas was a "major, major event in which their armory was destroyed."
(Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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