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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Officials: Ebola breaks out in Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) ? The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, Ugandan health officials said on Saturday, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disease that had many people fleeing their homes.
The officials and a World Health Organization representative told a news conference in Kampala Saturday that there is "an outbreak of Ebola" in Uganda.
"Laboratory investigations done at the Uganda Virus Research Institute...have confirmed that the strange disease reported in Kibaale is indeed Ebola hemorrhagic fever," the Ugandan government and WHO said in joint statement.
Kibaale is a district in midwestern Uganda, where people in recent weeks have been troubled by a mysterious illness that seemed to have come from nowhere. Ugandan health officials had been stumped as well, and spent weeks conducting laboratory tests that were at first inconclusive.
On Friday, Joaquim Saweka, the WHO representative in Uganda, told The Associated Press that investigators were "not so sure" it was Ebola, and a Ugandan health official dismissed the possibility of Ebola as merely a rumor. It appears firm evidence of Ebola was clinched overnight.
Health officials told reporters in Kampala that the 14 dead were among 20 reported with the disease. Two of the infected have been isolated for examination by researchers and health officials. A clinical officer and, days later, her 4-month-old baby died from the disease caused by the Ebola virus, officials said.
Officials urged Ugandans to be calm, saying a national emergency taskforce had been set up to stop the disease from spreading far and wide.
There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola, and in Uganda, where in 2000 the disease killed 224 people and left hundreds more traumatized, it resurrects terrible memories. There have been isolated cases since, such as in 2007 when an outbreak of a new strain of Ebola killed at least 37 people in Bundibugyo, a remote district close to the Congolese border, but none as deadly as in 2000.
Ebola, which manifests itself as a hemorrhagic fever, is highly infectious and kills quickly. It was first reported in 1976 in Congo and is named for the river where it was recognized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A CDC factsheet on Ebola says the disease is "characterized by fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness, followed by diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain. A rash, red eyes, hiccups and internal and external bleeding may be seen in some patients."
Scientists don't know the natural reservoir of the virus, but they suspect the first victim in an Ebola outbreak gets infected through contact with an infected animal, such as a monkey.
The virus can be transmitted through direct contact with the blood or secretions of an infected person, or objects that have been contaminated with infected secretions. During communal funerals, for example, when the bereaved come into contact with an Ebola victim, the virus can be contracted, officials said, warning against unnecessary contact with suspected cases of Ebola.
In Kibaale, some villagers had started abandoning their homes in recent weeks to escape what they thought was an illness that had something to do with bad luck, because people were quickly falling ill and dying, and there was no immediate explanation, officials said.
Officials said now that they've verified Ebola in the area they can concentrate on controlling the disease. Ebola patients were being treated at the only major hospital in Kibaale, said Stephen Byaruhanga, the district's health secretary.
"Being a strange disease, we were shocked to learn that it was Ebola," Byaruhanga said. "Our only hope is that in the past when Ebola broke out in other parts of Uganda it was controlled."
The challenge, he said, was retaining the services of all the nurses and doctors who are being asked to risk their lives in order to look after the sick.
"Their lives are at stake," he said.
Officials also worry that other villagers suffering from other diseases might be afraid to visit the hospital for fear of catching Ebola, he said.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Syria 'armed to the teeth' with chemical weapons
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The Furqlus Weapons Depot, approximately 30 miles outside Homs, Syria, is shown in this July 6 satellite image.
By Robert WindremNBC News
Like a three-card monte player, the Syrian government has been shifting its chemical weapons around the country in the midst of the country?s increasingly violent and chaotic civil war, leaving foreign intelligence agencies to guess where the outlawed weapons of mass destruction might end up ? and under whose control.
U.S. and Israeli officials fear that the weapons and chemical agents, which typically are kept separately until they are ready for use, could fall into the hands of terrorists or be used against rebel forces by the ruling Alawites in a last-ditch stand.
Almost as frightening, experts say, would be if rebel forces seized some of the weapons.
?No one but the Syrians knows the inventory, and if the rebels overrun one of these depots, there are worries about the physical control of the weapons,? said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank. ?It may get down to individual Syrian soldiers making decisions.?
Syria acknowledges it has chemical weapons, will use them if attacked
The fluid situation on the ground and questions about the locations and quantities of the chemical weapons have intelligence analysts grasping at straws, said Rob Danin, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former U.S. intelligence analyst on Syria.
?No scenario is too fanciful,? he said. ?We are in such uncharted territory. The regime is reeling and armed to the teeth.?
Rebels fear Syria's 'ghost fighters,' the regime's hidden militia
But intelligence reports and U.S. and Israeli experts interviewed by NBC News say two things are certain: The Syrian government has the most developed chemical weapons program in the Third World and it has used them on its own people at least once before.
Heightening concern about the weapons, a Syrian military defector, Gen. Mustafa Sheikh, claimed in an interview with Reuters on Saturday that Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar Assad were repositioning chemical weapons for possible use against the opposition in retaliation for the assassination of four top security officials.?
?We don't know why" they have begun moving chemical weapons from storage, a senior U.S. official said, confirming the movement. He refused to speculate whether the Assad regime could be preparing to use the weapons in an attempt to quell the continuing civilian uprising.
Machine guns operated by motorcycle brakes? Get a glimpse at the rebels fighting against Assad's forces in Syria's mountainous Jabal al-Zawiya area.
On Monday, Syria responded to the report by saying it would unleash its chemical and biological weapons only in the event of a foreign attack ? the first time it has acknowledged that it possesses such weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The statement ?backfired,? said Danin, the Council on Foreign Relations fellow. "All it did was heighten international concerns about the (chemical weapons) stockpile," he said. ?If anything is going to trigger intervention, it?s this. It?s a potential causus belli? ???cause of war,? in Latin.
'Serious red line'
On Monday, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little warned that if the Assad regime used chemical weapons on civilians, that would cross a ?serious red line.?
"We would, of course, caution them strongly against any intention to use those weapons," he said. Little also reiterated that, at this point, the U.S. believes the chemicals are still secure.
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Anti-government clashes continue as Western and Arab nations launch a diplomatic offensive to halt the violence.
U.S. officials have long believed that the Syrian government had stockpiled the banned chemical weapons.
Last year, in its most recent public report to Congress covering WMD developments, the CIA stated, ?Syria has had a CW (chemical weapons) program for many years and has a stockpile of CW agents, which can be delivered by aerial bombs, ballistic missiles and artillery rockets.?
U.S. intelligence reports indicate that Syria possesses the nerve agents sarin and tabun as well as traditional chemical weapons like mustard gas and hydrogen cyanide. The CIA report also stated that Syria ?is developing the more toxic and persistent nerve agent VX,? which is more persistent than sarin and tabun and capable of rendering an area ? or a city ? uninhabitable ?for some days.??????
US official: Syrian regime seems to be readying for a massacre
Dani Shoham, a chemical weapons expert with the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, at Israel?s Bar-Ilan University, said he believes Assad?s scientists already have done so.
?My assessment is that they successfully developed weaponized VX,? he said.
Syria is believed to have thousands of chemical weapons and hundreds of missiles and aircraft to deliver them. Israel has estimated that Syria has "several thousand" bombs that could be filled mostly with sarin and more than 100 warheads.
The key city of Aleppo has come under ferocious assault, bombarded by fighter jets and machine gun fire. The Syrian government's main priority is taking control of the major cities ? without enough troops to control the entire country, they are on the offensive. NBC's Richard Engel reports from northern Syria.
More significant is that Syria has a chemical weapons infrastructure, not just the weapons themselves. It is said to have vast stocks of ?agents available for loading into munitions as well as the precursor chemicals. It is one of only seven nations in the world that has not ratified the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention, the arms-control agreement that outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of such weapons.
In terms of delivery systems, Syria has a few dozen SS-21 ballistic missiles with a maximum range of 72 miles; 200 Scud-B's, with a maximum range of 180 miles; and 60 to 120 Scud-C's with a maximum range of 300 miles, all of which are mobile and capable of carrying chemical weapons, according U.S. intelligence officials.
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Bombshells filled with chemicals also can be carried by Syrian Air Force fighter-bombers, in particular Sukhoi-22/20, MiG-23 and Sukhoi-24 aircraft. In addition, some reports indicate short-range unguided Frog-7 artillery rockets may be capable of carrying chemical payloads.
The weapons systems are -- or were -- in a number of sites close to Israel and near cities where Syrian security forces have fought rebels and shelled civilian areas. But the shifting of the weapons has disguised their current location and raised new concerns about what the Assad regime is planning to do with them.
Like Iraq and Egypt, Syria has employed chemical agents against its people, using hydrogen cyanide on insurgents in the early 1980s, according to congressional investigators.
Following violent demonstrations by the Muslim Brotherhood in Hama in January and February 1982, Syrian army units sealed off the city. According to a November 1990 Senate Foreign Relations Committee memo, the army units then went to every house suspected of hiding insurgents and pumped in cyanide gas, killing all the occupants. Later, the government broadcast a report saying security forces had taken fierce reprisals against the Brotherhood and its sympathizers, "which stopped them from breathing.?
The Syrian government's army is descending on the northern city of Aleppo where the city was seized by rebels. NBC's John Ray reports.
Danin, the Council on Foreign Relations expert on Syria, said Syria?s statement on Monday acknowledging its chemical weapons was a thinly disguised threat to the rebel forces. ?It was meant as a message to insurgents.?
Beyond their use against insurgents, U.S. and allied fears about the chemical weapons fall into three categories:
- That they could fall into the hands of Sunni jihadis aligned with al-Qaida;
- That the Assad regime could give them to Hezbollah, which is aligned with Iran and already has a significant arsenal of missiles and rockets;
- That they could be used to shield an enclave set up by Assad forces to protect Syria?s minority Alawites, from which most of the government elite is drawn.
Danin thinks all three scenarios are unlikely, but added that they can?t be completely discounted, especially if further movement of the weapons is detected.
?Any movement or potential movement raises the ante,? he said. ?You can be agnostic about whether (Assad) stays or goes, but this is one area that that mobilizes the U.S. and Israel to move to preparatory steps. Both the threat and objective are clear and identifiable.?
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Danin said that terrorists -- either Islamic jihadis fighting with the rebels or Hezbollah fighters ? gaining control of such weapons would be the most dangerous scenario.
?Shifting them to Hezbollah would be dangerous, provocative and incendiary,? he said. That, he said, would be ?a Doomsday scenario and it would prompt prevention measures.?
But Leonard Spector, deputy director of the Washington, D.C., office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said even a rebel seizure of chemical weaponry would be alarming, since they could conceivably be quickly be spirited away.
?Should the insurgents overrun one of the chemical weapons depots, the question is, if you walk into a room are there weapons you wheel out or do they require more attention?? he said. ?Some are ?ready to roll? is my impression.?
'Threat is real indeed'
Indeed, while the location of the stockpiles is now in question, the areas where the weapons were believed to be stored all are near scenes of some of the worst violence since the uprising against Assad began 1 ? years ago.
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While some concerns have been raised that ?Syria could use the weapons against Israel or Turkey, perhaps as a diversion, most experts see that possibility as far-fetched.
?In terms of the size, diversity, quality and operability of the CW arsenal, the threat is real indeed,? said Shoham, the Israeli expert. ?In terms of likelihood that it would be employed, I would level it low against Israel and Turkey and appreciable against the insurgents.?
However, the general threat to Israel was noted by the CIA as far back as 2001, "Syria probably has weaponized sarin into aerial bombs and SCUD missile warheads, which gives Syria the capability to employ chemical agents against targets in Israel. ...While the SS-21s likely would be employed primarily against military bases and forces in northern Israel, the SCUD's longer range and larger warhead suggests that it could be used against Tel Aviv and other cities."?
Myth vs. truth in the Syrian conflict
Even if Syria?s chemical weapons are never used, they could play a role in ending the conflict.
Danin suggested that if the weapons remain in secure locations, they could serve as a deterrent against foreign intervention.
?I think it does play a role at the end of the day,? he said. ?It provokes and deters at the same time. It makes a country like Turkey think twice about a limited military intervention and reinforces the notion that Syria has a very powerful military.?
But Spector, of the Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said the weapons would be a wildcard in a negotiated settlement that would see Assad relinquish power.
?The best outcome would be for those who guard the chemical stocks to remain in place during any transition of power, and to place the sites under international supervision so that the weapons would remain secure and a process could be developed to verifiably destroy them,? he said.
That would require some delicate conversations, Spector said, with whomever winds up in control of the weapons.
?You may have to persuade those in control to manage the weapons and not let them be purchased, have some understanding with them that they will be provided with supplies and their families safeguarded,? he said.
Robert Windrem is a senior investigative producer for NBC News.
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In 2011, approximately 6.5 million Americans used the services of a personal athletic trainer. Unfortunately, most of them wasted their money on trainers without adequate training. By doing this, they may be putting their health at risk, since proper exercise is necessary to maintain good health and fitness. This article discusses the most important things to consider when choosing a personal athletic trainer.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
eToys Vets Launch Wonderville, A Platform For Early Childhood ...
Wonderville, an education-focused technology startup built by eToys vets from the dotcom era, is today making its public debut. You might, at first glance, think of the company as something like a ?Khan Academy? for the younger crowd, given that its goal is to augment a child?s education (K-8) with additional materials and teachings. But the?similarities?end there. Where Khan Academy focuses on delivering video tutorials to students, Wonderville sources third-party content from a number of places all over the web. This includes not only YouTube, but also Amazon and iTunes, among other things.
The company was founded in January 2011, and includes dotcom pioneers and advisors from?eToys, eBay, Discovery, Disney, Scholastic, Sesame Street, and Child Magazine. All three Wonderville co-founders, Mark Eastwood, David Lenz, and Lawrence Leach, worked together at eToys back in the day.
?We?re going to have 80%-90% coverage of what?s happening in the classroom already,? says Eastwood, detailing Wonderville?s ambitions. ?In addition to that, if you look at the core curriculum standards, one of the things we pride ourselves on is that, in the U.S., more and more focus is going towards reading, writing, math, and a little bit of science, and a lot of our stuff is really designed to augment the arts, civics, and geography,? he adds.
From iTunes, Wonderville pulls in mobile apps, ebooks and TV shows, and it uses these alongside the other sources, to build what it calls ?smart galleries.? Each gallery contains a collection of digital content based on what kids are actually learning about in school. For example, a gallery might contain apps, videos, quizzes, and ?fun facts,? related to Abraham Lincoln?or Amelia Earhart, for example.
But not all the content is dry and stuffy. There are also collections about things which kids are just curious about, like Bigfoot, Evel Knievel, or puppies, for example. And the content is carefully vetted by those on the team with backgrounds in education before inclusion, of course.
Currently, Wonderville has sourced 3,000 items from iTunes and 4,000 videos from YouTube for its smart galleries. It will also soon launch an ebook platform with content from 500 independent authors. Initially, everything on Wonderville be free. However, after ebooks arrive later this fall, the plan is to beginning charging for access to those titles. Pricing is expected around $5.99/month per child or $9.99/month for a family.
On Wonderville, parents will set up accounts for their children, and each of these are personalized around the child?s age and interests. As the kids begin to customize the system by decorating their virtual ?room,? their interests, as derived by their selections, will be later used to inform Wonderville about what kind of content will appeal to the child in future products.?For example, a girl who chooses to decorate her ?room? with soccer balls, won?t be shown the same ebook titles as a girl who chooses unicorns.
Further down the line, the company is planning to release a music subscription service as well (WKID radio), which will not just feature ?kids music,? but will offer a wide selection of songs, while also teaching the child about what they?re hearing through things like artists bios and descriptions.
Wonderville is currently bootstrapped through private investments from the founders, friends and family, and others. Currently an HTML5-only offering, the startup is now thinking about raising in order to begin development of native applications.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Additional Music Industry Leaders Join SoundExchange Board of ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. /Music Industry Newswire/ ? Last week, SoundExchange announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors: Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Ray Hair and Paul Robinson will bring their collective knowledge and fresh perspectives garnered from their work across and within the music industry to the SoundExchange board.
Crabtree-Ireland, Hair and Robinson will fill the positions previously held by Kim Roberts Hedgpeth, national executive director, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA); Patricia Polach, of counsel, Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C.; and Tucker McCrady, former vice president, Litigation, Warner Music Group, respectively. The SoundExchange Board of Directors is comprised of 18 individuals, split evenly between artists and label representatives, serving virtually all aspects of the recorded music industry.
?I am pleased to welcome these three new members to the SoundExchange Board of Directors, and would like to also thank the outgoing board members for their dedication to growing the digital music landscape,? said Michael Huppe, president, SoundExchange. ?We look forward to working with these new board members on moving the music industry forward. I know they will bring energy as well as new perspectives to the unique challenges that SoundExchange faces every day.?
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland serves as the chief administrative office and general counsel of SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild ? American Federation of Television and Radio Artists). In his position, he is responsible for oversight of the organization?s legal, human resources, governance, foreign royalties and administrative functions. Additionally, he oversees the talent agency relations, contracts financial assurances departments and oversees legal aspects of collective bargaining and contract enforcement for the entertainment and commercials contracts. Mr. Crabtree-Ireland serves as a judge pro tem for the Los Angeles Superior Court and is an adjunct professor at USC Law School. He serves on the boards of the Conference of California Bar Associations, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Screen Actors Guild-Producers Pension and Health Plans, and the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the UC Davis School of Law.
Ray Hair is the international president of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM). He was elected international president of the organization in June 2010 after serving on the AFM International Executive Board for 21 years. He is responsible for negotiating the Federation?s international agreements with the sound recording industry, the motion picture and television industries and other industry associations that employ professional musicians. He is a professional musician himself and has performed all styles of popular music for more than 45 years. Mr. Hair also pioneered the free-to-attend, continuous, multi-stage festival entertainment format in North Texas with Denton Jazzfest (now the Denton Arts and Jazz Festival) and has served as the music director for a number of outdoor music and arts festivals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Paul Robinson is the executive vice president and general counsel for Warner Music Group. He was named to the position in 2006, and is responsible for Warner Music Group?s legal and public policy strategy worldwide. He has worked with Warner Music Group since 1995, and previously served as a partner in the New York City law firm Mayer, Katz, Baker, Leibowitz & Roberts. Robinson was a board member at the formation of SoundExchange and continued on the board until September 2008. He has a bachelor?s degree in English from Williams College and received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.
With the appointment of three new members to the Board of Directors, the collective group will continue to serve SoundExchange by overseeing the organization and its operation.
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Monday, July 23, 2012
10 million Galaxy S III phones sold, says Samsung Mobile head
Samsung Mobile head JK Shin has reportedly told the Korean press that the company's flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, has sold more than 10 million units worldwide. The news follows earlier reports that Samsung intended to reach the 10 million milestone by the end of July, which it's now achieved with weeks to spare. In the two months since the device made its international debut in London, the Galaxy S III has gone on sale in all major smartphone markets, including the U.S. and Sammy's native South Korea, where it enjoyed record first-day sales.
The number puts the Galaxy S III on track to surpass sales of its predecessor, the Galaxy S II, which sold 20 million units worldwide inside of its first year of availability. By contrast, that phone took around five months to reach the 10 million mark.
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Tirupati taxi hire is more popular from Bangalore. Travelers can hire a taxi from Bangalore airport. It will be easily accessible as it is a base for the south Indian tour people can book cab from Bangalore airport. Instead of reaching the city and searching for the taxi service it is easy to hire a car rental from airport itself.
Ooty is around 256km from Bangalore. It is a summer resort and is a popular weekend tourist destination. Ooty is also called Udhagamandalam. It attracts number of tourists with its greenery and it has numerous tea plantations. To enjoy the trip to Ooty hire cab from Bangalore to Ooty for a hassle free journey. In and around Ooty there are many of the sight seeing places.
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
Just a reminder? TO ME! ? blog.wmcbariatric.com
I read an article on Real Age online about some things that could be contributing in a person?s struggle to lose weight.? I find them also very helpful for weight loss surgery patients.? I want to lose some more weight.? So I needed to re-evaluate what I had been doing correctly and what bad habits I was falling back into.? I hate it when I have to look myself over with a more critical eye.? I am already pretty tough on me as it is.? But look my habits over and realized that I was falling back into some bad patterns.? I don?t want to regain any of the weight I have lost but if I had not taken inventory I am sure I would have.
1. Mindless Eating
When I first had gastric bypass surgery on May 12, 2008 ? I couldn?t eat very much.? In fact I didn?t have an appetite at all.? I had to train myself to eat.? Before surgery I was an undiagnosed diabetic and after I started losing weight I was having sugar issues again.? The difference after surgery is that my sugar was now low.? So in speaking with Robin and Dr Glembot at one of my follow up visits they suggested I eat 5 to 6 small meals a day.? So I developed the habit of eating a ?meal? every two hours.? Now this meal could be a piece of cheese or some cucumbers and low fat dip.? But I was consistently eating every two to three hours and my sugar was staying within a normal range.? ??Now that I have lost 220 + pounds and my sugar has stabilized I don?t need to do that anymore.? But my brain was so used to telling me to eat I began to pick up those grazing habits again.? I was probably consuming too many calories even with eating small snacks.? How do I correct this going back to keeping a food journal and track EVERYTHING.? Even the two small chocolate covered pretzels that my boss offered me out of her Snack Wells? 100 calorie bag? Journaling is a small habit that can definitely assist in weight loss or maintaining weight loss.
2. Stress
Oh yeah? I have that.? Who doesn?t?? But stress may be hindering my weight loss. That?s because a body releases the hormone cortisol when stressed, which makes ME crave fatty, sugary foods that promote weight gain. I do what I can to alleviate stress.? Not always successful but I do try to de-stress every day.? I figure the less I stress, the less I will crave and less chance I will medicate myself with food.
3. ?Healthy? Food
You?d think food labeled ?healthy? or ?low calorie? would be a WLS patient?s best friend. Not really, says Brian Wansink, Ph.D., of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University. ?Low-calorie restaurant and fast-food offerings have a ?health halo? that leads diners to underestimate the calories in healthy entrees and ?reward? themselves by ordering high-calorie sides and drinks. The result? They gobble almost 45% more calories than they think. People also routinely underestimate the calories in food labeled ?organic? by up to 40%.? ?It takes me longer to grocery shop now because I check nutrition info, if it?s available. If it isn?t, I estimate the calorie count and double it and 9 times out of ten if there isn?t a label ? such as a restaurant menu ? I simply don?t order it.
4. Clever Food Marketing
Clever food marketing can trick not just those of us who are WLS patients but anyone who is health conscious into eating all kinds of junk food: ?fruit chews? that are really gummy bears, calorie-laden milkshakes masquerading as smoothies and protein drinks, and veggie chips that have as many (or more!) calories as regular potato chips. CHECK THE NUTRITION LABELS!!!!!!
5. Individually Wrapped Snacks and Candy
Individually wrapped snacks or candy seem like healthy portion control made easy, right? Wrong. According to a recent study ? people are prone to eat more candy when it?s individually wrapped because they give up control when they spy a small package, says researcher Jennifer Argo, of the University of Alberta. Once again ? REAL THE NUTRITION LABEL.? Does anyone else spot a pattern here???? I know that sometimes I can?t resist those cute little packages so I just avoid them entirely!
6. Poor Sleep
Who would have thought that skimping on sleep can sabotage my weight loss efforts. It throws off key appetite-regulating hormones, so I?m more likely to overeat. Did you know that chronic insomnia boosts the risk of diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes. ?
I try to get at least 6to 8 hours of sleep a night.? Not always easy but I have chosen that as a daily goal to help me continue to make healthy choices when it comes to either losing or maintaining my weight.
7. Eating Out
?Americans now eat a third of their meals away from home, according to USDA research.?? I get it.? We are all living a fast paced lifestyle to keep up with everything we have going on.? But unfortunately, if I eat out a lot, my calorie intake is higher than if I was at home cooking or planning ahead and packing food to take with me to work, or if I am out running errands.? There are insulated lunch boxes and you can put freezer packs in or simply ice in a Ziploc bag to keep items cold.?? Restaurant and fast-food fare tends to be higher in calories, fat, and sodium than home cooking. ??I have chosen to make cooking a priority. It?s one of the best things I can do for my weight. I am not saying I never eat out.? I do but I try to choose simply prepared foods, such as salads with grilled chicken and steamed or sauteed veggies, with an oil and vinegar based dressing on the side.
8. Skipping Exercise
I KNOW I KNOW when I don?t exercise, I don?t burn extra calories. I think skipping workouts hurts me in another way: I am more likely to give into temptation. Fight back:Exercising is the most difficult thing for me to remain consistent with.? Simply put? I don?t like it.? But I know I have to do it. I do have to MAKE myself do it.? It?s probably the area that I am the weakest in.? Those of you who live near the Wellness Center at WMC?? USE IT!? There are so many varieties of exercise options available to you.? I hate that I live 100 miles from Winchester or else I would definitely take classes and change up my routine every 90 days with a different class!? ?
Someone told me the other day that I made WLS look easy.? I told them the weight loss surgery was EASY.? I didn?t have to perform it.? But the complete lifestyle change I had to adopt has been anything BUT easy.? I work at it daily.? Some days I am successful and other days? not so much.? But each day is a new day and I wake up with a clean slate to make better choices.? No, the lifestyle change hasn?t been easy but the rewards have been so worth it!
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Mars Odyssey Spacecraft Will Recover From Recent Glitch, NASA Says
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Trio of astronauts help restore faith in Russian space program
The safe arrival Tuesday of an American, Japanese, and Russian astronauts at the International Space Station helps improve confidence in the Russian space program. The Russian effort has been beset by problems lately.
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, center, U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, right, and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, left, crew members of the next mission to the International Space Station, ISS, before the launch from the Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, Sunday. The crew arrived safely at the ISS early Tuesday July 17, 2012
(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, Pool)
EnlargeA trio of Russian, Japanese and U.S. astronauts arrived safely at the International Space Station (ISS) early Tuesday (EDT), to begin a four-month mission.
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For Moscow, its a mission that it hopes will help restore confidence in its space program.
Veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide rode aboard the Soyuz TMA-05M rocket which lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan two days ago.
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The were greeted by NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin aboard the ISS, a $100 billion research complex orbiting 240 miles (385 km) above Earth.
"So, a smooth and uneventful docking, by the book," NASA flight commentator Rob Navias said.
The space station will be a busy port orbiting Earth in the coming weeks. Japan's HTV3 cargo ship arrives next week, the first of several spacecraft scheduled to contact the ISS over the next 17 days.
Since the retirement of the space shuttles last year, the United States is dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the ISS, which costs the nation $60 million per person.
Moscow hopes this mission will help to restore confidence in its once-pioneering space program after a string of launch mishaps last year, including the failure of a mission to return samples from the Martian moon Phobos.
The previous Soyuz launch on May 15 was delayed by more than one month to allow Russia's partly state-owned space contractor, RKK Energia, to prepare a new capsule for launch after an accident during pressure tests damaged the Soyuz crew capsule.
There were no such delays with Sunday's launch.
Williams and Hoshide are both on their second space flight and their first aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. They, along with Malenchenko, are scheduled to return to Earth in mid-November.
The previous crew of three at the ISS returned on July 1. Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers helped to dock the first privately owned spacecraft during a six-month stint in orbit.
At the end of May, this crew released Space Exploration Technologies' unmanned Dragon cargo, which arrived as part of a test flight and was the first privately owned spaceship to reach the 15-nation ISS project.
Sunday's launch took place less than three weeks after China's Shenzhou 9 spacecraft returned to Earth, ending a mission that put the country's first woman in space .
Although China is far from catching up with the United States and Russia, the Shenzhou 9 marked China's fourth manned space mission since 2003 and comes as budget restraints and shifting priorities have held back U.S. manned space launches. (Editing by Eric Walsh)
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
New battle opens Texas town's racial scars
Reporting from Jasper, Texas?
On June 11, just before the City Council fired this town's first African American police chief, the Rev. John D. Hardin addressed the packed council chambers, blacks sitting on one side, whites on the other.Hardin, the 82-year-old pastor of the black Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, paraphrased lyrics from an old song by Texas country legends Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, "Just to Satisfy You":
Somebody's gonna get hurt before we're through,
And don't be surprised
If that somebody is you.
It wasn't so much a warning as a plea for this East Texas logging town to avoid racial conflict.
But a battle was already underway, especially between two men: the police chief standing in the back and the white mayor sitting up front, preparing to oust him.
Both felt they were acting against racism. Both took the struggle personally. Fourteen years earlier, both had witnessed the aftermath of a hate crime that would long define their town. And both had hoped Jasper had moved beyond that awful time.
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In the wee hours of June 7, 1998, three white men in a pickup traveling a road at the edge of town offered a ride to a black man headed home on foot.
Later that morning, the mangled remains of James Byrd Jr., 49, were found strewn along a 1 1/2-mile stretch of blacktop.
When Rodney Pearson, then a 32-year-old state trooper, first heard a report of body parts on Huff Creek Road, he figured somebody must have dug up a grave. Pearson recalls walking the road with Jasper County's sheriff, following a trail of blood to a discarded tool etched with the name of a local man, Shawn Berry.
Pearson, the first black highway patrolman in Jasper, got a cold, cold feeling.
A local reporter was also on the scene that day. Mike Lout, then 42, covered the story for KJAS, the radio station he ran out of his house. He was the first to report that Byrd had been alive when he was chained to the truck and dragged, and that the killing was racially motivated.
"That set the world on fire," Lout said.
Reporters flocked to the town of 8,000, followed by the KKK and the Black Panthers.
It didn't seem to matter that Jasperites, even James Byrd's mother, Stella "Mama" Byrd, insisted their town was a loving, peaceful place. It didn't seem to matter when the town buried Byrd and tore down the cemetery wall that had separated black and white graves.
Jasper, which bills itself as "the jewel of the forest," became fixed in the collective imagination as a bastion of racism.
In time, Berry, Lawrence Brewer and John King were convicted of Byrd's murder. Brewer was executed, King sent to death row and Berry sentenced to life.
Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-jasper-20120709,0,250716.story?track=rss
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
The Insider Secrets Of Real Estate Buying Discovered | Realty ...
For rental properties, clarify issues like yard maintenance and landscaping services before the lease is signed. Although these costs are normally covered by the landlord, you need to know for sure. Other landlords treat the agreement more like a condo and include outdoor maintenance in the rent.
When searching for any type of property, hiring a realtor with integrity and a solid reputation is paramount. The BBB, or Better Business Bureau, is a great place for you to acquire the information you need about your real estate agent. You can also look online. The best references are from family, friends and trusted co-workers.
If a home is in need of many repairs and updates, it is likely to be sold at a greatly reduced price. This gives you the opportunity to get in at a lower cost, and spend money in smaller bursts over time as you make repairs. Doing this allows you to make the design changes you want, and also build valuable equity in the home through improvement projects. Try to envision what the house might look like once all the improvements are made rather than dwelling on its current condition. Your dream house could be hiding beneath some dingy carpet and outdated wallpaper.
Banks do not always require home inspections, but you should have one done anyway. When purchasing a property, it is essential that you know what you are buying, so be sure to have a home inspection done by a professional. It is important that a home inspector gives your future home an objective assessment before purchase; there are numerous problems that can arise that an untrained person may not see.
Go online and check the registry for local sex offenders in the neighborhoods you are looking at buying in. You can do this quickly and easily, and it could keep your whole family safer in your new home. The information is publicly available and free to obtain. It is highly unlikely that any real estate agent would have knowledge of the sex offender status within a neighborhood, and if they do, you won?t find out about it. Research these things yourself.
Utilizing the above tips will help make buying a home a piece of cake. If you have the knowledge, you are halfway there.
Source: http://www.realtyservicesplus.com/the-insider-secrets-of-real-estate-buying-discovered/
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Infant Formula Can Be a Major Source of BPA: Experts
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Alaska aquarium cares for abandoned beluga calf
This photo taken July 4, 2012, at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska, shows Dennis Christen of the Georgia Aquarium feed a bottle to a baby beluga calf being rehabilitated at the center. The whale was approximately two days old when it was found in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and separated from its mother. Staff from the Alaska SeaLife Center is receiving help with the whale's care from the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Shedd Aquarium in ChiCago and SeaWord in San Diego. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
This photo taken July 4, 2012, at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska, shows Dennis Christen of the Georgia Aquarium feed a bottle to a baby beluga calf being rehabilitated at the center. The whale was approximately two days old when it was found in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and separated from its mother. Staff from the Alaska SeaLife Center is receiving help with the whale's care from the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Shedd Aquarium in ChiCago and SeaWord in San Diego. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
This photo taken July 4, 2012, at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska, shows Elizabeth Davis from the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, left, and Dennis Christen of the Georgia Aquarium feed a bottle to a baby beluga calf being rehabilitated at the center. The whale was approximately two days old when it was found in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and separated from its mother. Staff from the Alaska SeaLife Center is receiving help with the whale's care from the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Shedd Aquarium in ChiCago and SeaWord in San Diego.. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
This photo taken July 4, 2012, at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska, shows a baby beluga calf being rehabilitated at the center. The whale was approximately two days old when it was found in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and separated from its mother. Staff from the Alaska SeaLife Center is receiving help with the whale's care from the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Shedd Aquarium in ChiCago and SeaWord in San Diego.. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
SEWARD, Alaska (AP) ? Marine mammal specialists from across the country have descended on an Alaska aquarium to help care for a baby beluga whale that became separated from its mother shortly after its birth.
The male calf is under 24-hour care at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, being fed by a stomach tube while learning how to suckle from a bottle.
"He's currently doing very well, swimming on his own and he has been from the first time he got here, learning to take food from a bottle, which has been challenging," said Tara Riemer Jones, the center's president and CEO.
It's believed to be the first baby beluga rescue in the United States, at least since federal record keeping began in 1972, she said. Other attempts at rescue resulted in calf deaths or in one case, the calf being returned to its pod.
It's such a rare event that specialists have been helping with the animal's care, including staff members from the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Shedd Aquarium in Chicago and SeaWorld in San Diego.
"It's actually a pretty unprecedented event in certain ways," said Dennis Christen, the Georgia Aquarium's director of animal training who was in place 29 hours after the calf arrived in Seward.
The whale was estimated to be 2 days old when it was found near South Naknek, in Alaska's Bristol Bay, on June 18. Officials believe a storm likely separated the calf from its mother.
Tim Lebling, the Alaska SeaLife Center's stranding coordinator, flew to South Naknek that afternoon to retrieve the calf.
It was flown 90 minutes back to Seward in dry transport. Lebling said the calf was placed on an air mattress in the plane, positioned so its weight wouldn't put pressure on vital organs, and then constantly covered with wet towels.
Lebling said it was touch-and-go for the first part of the flight, probably because of stress.
"We thought he took his last breath at one point," Lebling said, but then he breathed again.
Even though the beluga is still in critical care, caregivers are guardedly optimistic about his rehabilitation.
Survival odds for an animal this age coming into a stranding program are low, said Brett Long, the husbandry director at the center.
"We take it a day at a time," he said. "We're very happy to see that we appear to be meeting its nutritional goals and that it's maintaining its weight, and we're seeing slow, incremental weight gain."
The calf is now about 5 feet long and weighs 115 pounds, up 5 pounds since his arrival.
The biggest worry now is the calf's immune system, which is insufficiently developed because it did not receive any of its mother's milk.
"We are working with other aquariums to provide supplements that will help aid the development of that immune system, but it's a waiting game," Long said.
Jones said there is nothing specifically wrong with the calf medically "other than he's young and at high-risk."
"We're not going to say it hasn't been without some bumps in the road," Christen said. "We're very confident we're on the right path here, but it's still an animal that's in critical care, and we have to be guarded in our optimism, and we're just hopeful we're on the right path."
At the center, the calf has its own pool with toys and constant human companionship. At least three caregivers are with him 24-hours a day, two of them in wet suits and in the pool.
He often will rub up against his human handlers, who also help him learn new swimming patterns and play with him.
He's being kept out of the public's view for now in a pool being fed warmer water and in a sanitary environment. The hope is to move him soon to a larger pool, which can be seen from behind glass inside the Alaska SeaLife Center.
It's running about $2,000 a day to care for the calf, and that's not including the cost of the visiting marine mammal specialists.
Jones said the cost will strain the private, nonprofit research center's stranding program budget for the year, and officials are talking with potential donors and possibly setting up a donation matching program for individuals. They're also planning a 5K Wildlife Rescue Run on Aug. 4, encouraging virtual runners to sign up online to raise funds.
If the calf survives, he'll never see the open ocean again since there is no way now for humans to teach him survival skills.
The National Marine Fisheries Service will eventually decide where he will be placed.
"There are a number of facilities that would make a great home for this young whale, with companion animals that would likely accept him into their kind of family unit," Christen said.
Since facilities that take in animals like to be part of the naming process, the Alaska SeaLife Center hasn't given the calf a name, yet.
But that hasn't stopped most everyone caring for him from calling him "Naknek."
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Three ways work/life balance improves productivity | Dynamic ...
Running a business often doesn?t deliver all the work/life benefits owners dream it will. If this sounds familiar, and your balance is quickly disappearing before your eyes, a productivity expert has three valuable pieces of advice that will help freedom become part of your life again.
My ambition in starting Lady Calamity was to empower small business owners to find that freedom they were searching for when they first started their own business.
You know what I?m referring to ? the magical idea that feeds your belief that working for yourself will mean not only doing what you love, but also deliver a lifetime of half days on a Friday, long weekends, finishing at 3 to pick the kids up from school ? all kinds of magic and delight.
And then, reality sets in. We realise that we not only need to do the work for our clients ? whatever that might be ? but we also need to wear the marketing hat, the HR hat, the bookkeeper hat, the business development hat. How can we possibly wear all these hats and do all these jobs, and still get home by 5pm, let alone 3pm?
Realising how hard business is can be a tough pill to swallow for some, but it doesn?t have to be if you can do three things:
One: Learn how to use your time as productively as possible. How? You start out by keeping an activity diary for the week. Think of it as an elaborate food diary. Be incredibly detailed and honest with yourself and keep a record of how you spend your time for the week. Include travel time, when you stop to check your emails, when you check Facebook and for how long and so on. I promise when you look over it on Friday afternoon, you?ll be surprised at what you find. You will probably realise that you check your emails far too frequently, sit on Facebook for too long, and activities that should probably take you 10 minutes might take you 15 or 20. Find where you?re wasting time and acknowledge it.
Now you know how and where you?re spending time, you can now plan your week more productively. Take the time on a Friday afternoon or Monday morning to plan your week and set yourself appointments ? and keep them by making yourself accountable. For example, from 9:30am ? 10am you might check and respond to weekend emails, and from 10am-11am you?ll work on a proposal, and so on. Now that you?re more focused, you?ll find your productivity skyrockets and wasted time will be minimal.
Finally, you need to realise that you can?t ? and don?t have to ? do everything yourself. If you have trouble with this concept, think about your hourly rate. Say you charge your time at $80 an hour, but a bookkeeper costs $50 an hour and a marketing consultant charges $75 an hour. It?s quite clear you?re better off outsourcing both of these tasks to someone else, while you do what you do best and charge for it.
It?s win-win! Less wasted time means higher productivity and more doing what you love best. The best part if you?re getting paid for it, rather than wasting your time doing something you can?t charge for.
Hopefully these three points might have just empowered some more small business owners to find their freedom.
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