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I am the kind of player who always preferred single player experiences and careful consideration of my next move on the multiplayer game modes that required quick thinking and interaction with other players, regardless of the genre. Despite this, I tried the multiplayer in Mass Effect 3 when it launched and I quick... |
7 April 2012
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After I first played through it, I didn’t much care about the suicide mission that ended Mass Effect 2, mainly because it felt manufactured to allow for too much player freedom and it made some of its inner working too obscure.After I first played the ending of Mass Effect 3 (small spoilers might follow), I lov... |
3 April 2012
10:32 GMT |
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Foxconn has reportedly resolved its differences with workers following a strike in which several hundred individuals accusing poor compensation for their work had threatened to commit suicide. One of the most important partners of Apple, Foxconn issued a statement today saying the dispute last week has been resolved... |
12 January 2012
10:01 GMT |
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An anti-government website in China has revealed that 300 workers at a Foxconn factory (Foxconn Technology Park in Wuhan) threatened to commit mass suicide by jumping from the top of a factory. 300 workers reportedly threatened to jump to their demise from the rooftops of a Foxconn plant on January 2nd. Only now is ... |
11 January 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Despite overwhelming odds, comet Lovejoy somehow managed to avoid being entirely disintegrated by solar heat, after passing within 140,000 kilometers (87,000 miles) of the Sun's surface. Astronomers thought it to be a goner for sure.
No other sungrazer comet has ever been observed to escape a head-on encounter... |
16 December 2011
08:14 GMT |
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A team of experts at the University of Washington has determined that suicidal behavior – and, in extreme cases, following through those thoughts – originates inside an individual well before they reach school age.
The new study therefore pushes the age at which these thoughts occur even farther than cu... |
30 November 2011
10:37 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that people below the age of 40, who have a history of depression and/or suicide attempts, are at higher risk of dying from cardiac conditions than peers without such histories.
The investigation also uncovered that the risk was especially high... |
14 November 2011
10:59 GMT |
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University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists say that the number of troubled teens who kill themselves every year could be significantly reduced if authorities, doctors and parents agree to specialized mental health interventions from early on.
In a paper published in the November issue of the journal ... |
4 November 2011
06:50 GMT |
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The brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene was recently linked to a higher chance of suicide in patients suffering from a variety of mental health issues. Those who were diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder and exhibited the BDNF mutation were more likely to kill themselves.
The fact that genetics is invol... |
10 October 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Depressed individuals who commit suicide display a number of modifications in a population of star-shaped neural cells called astrocytes. Investigators made this discovery after analyzing a number of brains belonging to suicide victims. According to the team, it may be that astrocytes also play a role in underlying d... |
5 August 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Facebook scammers are combining old techniques in new campaigns spotted on the social networking website, including clickjacking and registering rogue app pages.After a period of paste-this-code-type scams and fake pages hosted on external servers, affiliate marketing spammers are back to their old tricks, security r... |
1 July 2011
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“Tudors” star Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been hospitalized hours ago after he called paramedics to his $6 million mansion, where he was found slumped on the floor after apparently overdosing on pills. The actor has a long history of alcohol abuse, having been to rehab no less than five times and always rela... |
1 July 2011
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A significant proportion of people who have reoccurring suicidal thoughts also suffer from insomnia or other sleep problems. Researchers say that applying a new type of treatment, based on cognitive-behavioral therapy could allow these people to sleep better.This in turn would eliminate one of the most important prob... |
16 June 2011
08:49 GMT |
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Amber Portwood, star of MTV’s “Teen Mom” series, has been rushed to the hospital after ODing on pills and trying to hang herself. The 911 call was placed by on-and-off boyfriend Gary Shirley, it has emerged. Portwood, who has become quite a tabloid fixture since she first appeared on the reality ser... |
16 June 2011
03:43 GMT |
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The NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) employee that fell to his death from a launch pad catwalk did so on purpose, an investigation revealed. The man committed suicide by jumping from a passageway connecting Launch Pad 39A to the space shuttle Endeavour.
James D. Vanover, 53, ended his own life on March 14, by takin... |
7 May 2011
04:54 GMT |
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While patients who take antidepressants do feel better as far as most of their symptoms go, there are still some issues that these drugs seem unable to resolves. Some of the most common include sadness, decreased concentration and insomnia.Even in people who experience a great deal of success with drugs dedicated to ... |
21 April 2011
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In a new investigation, experts were able to determine that a clear correlation exists between having a poor socioeconomic status and chances of developing a mental illness, or attempting suicide. In other words, being poor makes people more likely to develop neural afflictions, and also to attempt to take their ow... |
5 April 2011
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One of the most important elements in the Total War series is the fact that the player is not actually the general but the intelligence that guides a clan or a country or a faction, a sort of embodiment of its quest to attain power and glory.
This role for the player allows him to control all the affairs of a fact... |
4 April 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The results of a large-scale scientific survey conducted on adults who witnessed the divorce of their parents before they themselves turned 18 revealed that a significant portion of these individuals entertained thoughts of suicide. The risk was extremely high when compared to the one exhibited by peers who had not w... |
20 January 2011
19:01 GMT |
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Throughout 2010, especially during the first two quarters, Foxconn was plagued by what could be seen as wave of suicides, and it seems that similar things have started to happen, as another fatal fall happened at the end of the first week of January.
Last year, deaths happened in a fairly quick succession at Foxc... |
15 January 2011
03:43 GMT |
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A researcher from the Psychoimmunology Unit at Lund University discovered that depressed and suicidal people have low levels of cortisol in their blood and saliva, and he also found substances in their spinal fluid which suggest an increased inflammation in the brain.The finding of these two anomalies could lead to t... |
29 November 2010
08:23 GMT |
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For a while now, researchers have been wandering how come HIV kills T cells, when most of them seem to be 'bystander' cells, that are not productively infected, and have now found a reasonable explanation.The death of CD4 T cells is what marks the progression of the HIV virus to fully developed AIDS, and th... |
25 November 2010
03:56 GMT |
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Teen pop star Justin Bieber is the target of Facebook scammers who, in order to attract people's interest and direct them to surveys, claim that he hit a girl for no reason.Users who fall for this trick will unknowingly post spam messages on their walls, that read: "OH MY GOD!...Justin BIEBER Hits Girl For NO Re... |
4 November 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Researchers at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, carried out a study on the suicide risks of veterans diagnosed with a psychiatric illness, and concluded that men with bipolar disorder and women with substance abuse disorders have a particularly high ... |
2 November 2010
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A new study carried out by Andrea Chronis-Tuscano, PhD, of the University of Maryland, College Park, and colleagues suggests that young children suffering from ADHD have a higher risk for adolescent depression and/or suicide attempt five to thirteen years after diagnosis.The researchers focused on 125 kids between 4 ... |
5 October 2010
06:09 GMT |
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Researchers were actually trying to find out if there is a correlation between the decrease of suicide rates and the rise in new antidepressants sales, in the last decades.The Norwegian Institute of Public Health carried out a new study based on figures from the Nordic countries, and concluded that there not enough e... |
30 September 2010
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Baby boomers are now middle-aged and those who are not married or that did not graduate from college, have a very high suicide risk, according to a new study.There is a serious rise in suicide rates among middle-aged people, who are know the baby boomers, say sociologists Ellen Idler of Emory University and Julie Phi... |
28 September 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Rapper and producer Timbaland was the subject of a massive manhunt the other day, after police issued an APB on his name saying he was probably on the verge of attempting suicide. It was just a misunderstanding, Timba explains. The producer called in on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show to explain ongoing rumors about... |
26 August 2010
03:20 GMT |
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The son of a 67-year-old man from Yonkers, New York, who shot himself, believes his father committed suicide after realizing that he felt victim to a 419 scam that cost him over $50,000.Peter Circelli, says that after his father's death he discovered emails suggesting that he was romantically involved with a wom... |
19 August 2010
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In a finding that brings a new ray of hope for experts battling suicidal tendencies, scientists have recently determined that they cannot create a viable model to explain why people would want to take their own lives. There is apparently no way of accounting for why a man or woman may want to do this via generally-va... |
13 August 2010
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Of the many companies that have lately gotten a significant bit of attention on the part of the press, Foxconn can be seen as having had one of, if not the roughest time of all. This is because its plant in Shenzen, China, has seen a fairly long string of tragedies, mostly suicide, this year. The number reached 13 o... |
6 August 2010
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Psychologists at Harvard developed two powerful tests that can predict more accurately patients' risk of attempting suicide.Harvard Professor of Psychology Matthew K. Nock and his colleagues present the tests in two papers, published in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology and in Psychological Science. The... |
28 July 2010
10:52 GMT |
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A recent investigation has revealed that newer versions of epilepsy drugs tend to increase patients' risk of harming themselves, and of committing suicide. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is already requiring drug manufacturers to warn the public if their medication causes elevated risks of suicide, bu... |
27 July 2010
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A shareholders meeting of the Hon Hai Group, Foxconn's parent company, reportedly saw Chairman Terry Gou saying that production would be withdrawn from mainland China and shifted to Taiwan, Vietnam, and India, a move that would render close to a million workers unemployed. Foxconn’s facility in Shenzhen, w... |
11 June 2010
04:56 GMT |
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The giant Chinese electronics manufacturer and Apple partner known as Foxconn has reportedly promised another raise to its factory workers, in an effort to further eliminate bad press. Following reports of around a dozen suicides occurring at the Chinese company’s facilities, Foxconn will pay 66 percent more to... |
7 June 2010
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Foxconn has reportedly raised the pay for all of its Chinese production workers by 30 percent, as of June 1st, according to parent company Hon Hai. Shift hours, however, remain an unresolved issue, reports say, while the pay raises are reportedly not about suicides, but rather because of a shortage of skilled laborer... |
3 June 2010
04:27 GMT |
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Foxconn may have done its best to save face after the multiple suicides that occurred at its facility in Shenzhen, but even the most recent public statement made by the company in its defense lost credibility when another suicide occurred just hours later. As the situation gained more and more attention from the medi... |
29 May 2010
06:03 GMT |
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Chinese media reports claim that Hon Hai Precision Industry plans to raise workers' salaries by around 20 percent at its Foxconn unit in China, further addressing an overflow of worker suicides and rising public anger, msnbc reports. The news comes soon after Foxconn, which assembles Apple’s iPhone and iP... |
28 May 2010
08:11 GMT |
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As Foxconn rushes to clear up an image that became progressively tarnished due to multiple worker suicide reports, Chinese state media now informs that another employee fell to his death yesterday at the company's plant in southern China. This makes the 11th such death this year, the Sydney Morning Herald points... |
27 May 2010
05:59 GMT |
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Apple has involved itself in the investigation of suicides at Foxconn (Hon Hai), the company’s manufacturing partner responsible for producing the popular iPhone and now the iPad as well. The Chinese manufacturing facility has made headlines on numerous accounts concerning worker suicides, one of which involved... |
26 May 2010
05:14 GMT |
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A recent string of stranger and stranger suicides recently got Foxconn a rather high amount of attention from the press. Until several days ago, ten people had fallen to their deaths from dorm windows at the company's factory in Shenzhen, one of which was found to had previously been stabbed with a knife several... |
25 May 2010
11:08 GMT |
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The most recent news about Foxconn most likely revolved around how it had been getting increased orders from HP, Apple, Sony and other top players, causing its first-quarter profits to surge by 35%. However, there is a rather dark, if not morbid, side to this story. To put it bluntly, while the factory churns out var... |
22 May 2010
05:54 GMT |
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A suicide report issued by Business Week today is likely not tied to the latest missing iPhone prototype, yet news of a worker at Hon Hai Group killing herself comes extremely close to the unveiling of another such device. Hon Hai Group, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, confirmed that a... |
12 May 2010
09:45 GMT |
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Google takes much pride in its algorithms, it is a company built by engineers after all, and it is especially proud of its search-ranking algorithm, still its biggest product. Over time, the company has always steered clear of adjusting the search results manually or intervening in any other way, even if it was clear... |
6 April 2010
09:46 GMT |
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The son of entertainer Marie Osmond, Michael Blosil, aged only 18, took his own life on Friday night, jumping off a 15-storey building. Initial reports say illegal substances or drugs hadn’t anything to do with Michael’s death, but that he was suffering from severe depression. He also left a note behind t... |
1 March 2010
02:28 GMT |
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The body of the star of the popular ‘80s sitcom “Growing Pains,” Andrew Koenig, was found a few hours ago in Vancouver, where it is believed he was trying to relocate after clearing out his apartment in Los Angeles. The actor had been missing since February 16 and suffered from severe depression at ... |
26 February 2010
03:26 GMT |
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Curious about what teens perceive as grounds for suicide, a scientist has traveled to Australia, Italy and India to find the answer. She was also curios about the values and social significance that teenagers gave to this action, as well as about the attitudes associated with it. The investigator interviewed more tha... |
9 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Comedian Artie Lange, Howard Stern’s sidekick, has been hospitalized on Saturday for reasons that were not disclosed to the public, his rep telling the media such matters would remain only between him and his doctor. It would seem that the funnyman had sunken back into depression and, in an attempt to end his o... |
8 January 2010
09:53 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently published a new paper arguing that monitoring the activity that teens and children have on social-networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, could lead to a decrease in the number of suicides in this age group. Victoria University School of Information Management Professor Dr. ... |
14 October 2009
10:56 GMT |
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A 25-year-old Chinese worker for Foxconn, Sun Danyong, has reportedly committed suicide after finding out that a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was entrusted with went missing. According to DigitalBeat, this story is mainly meant to show how Apple’s secretive ways put a large amount of pressure all the w... |
21 July 2009
07:03 GMT |
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