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World Hot Topics Blog : Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked with a hammer at the couple’s home in San Francisco

2022-10-28T09:40:00.001-07:00

Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked with a hammer at the couple’s home in San Francisco

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Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked with a hammer at the couple’s home in San Francisco by a male assailant early Friday morning, law enforcement sources tell CNN.

The assailant who attacked Paul Pelosi was searching for the speaker of the House, according to a source briefed on the attack. The intruder confronted the speaker’s husband in their San Francisco home shouting “Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” according to the source.

Pelosi, 82, was hospitalized but is expected to make a full recovery, the Democratic speaker’s office said in a statement.

The US Capitol Police released a statement saying that they are assisting the FBI and the San Francisco Police “with a joint investigation” into the break-in at the Pelosi residence in California.

The statement provides further information on how law enforcement responded, saying that special agents with the USCP’s California Field Office “quickly arrived on scene, while a team of investigators from the Department’s Threat Assessment Section was simultaneously dispatched from the East Coast to assist the FBI and the San Francisco Police with a joint investigation.”

Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Nancy Pelosi, said the assailant is in custody and a motive is being investigated. The speaker was in Washington at the time of the attack, a spokesperson said.

“The Speaker and her family are grateful to the first responders and medical professionals involved, and request privacy at this time,” Hammill said in his statement.

The assailant entered the Pelosi residence through the back of the house, according two sources familiar with the early details of the incident.

With Speaker Pelosi away, there would not have been a security detail at the residence, according to one source familiar with protocol.

There may be video that US Capitol Police and law enforcement can review as there are security cameras at the home, according to two law enforcement sources.

President Joe Biden spoke with Speaker Pelosi, the White House said.

“The President is praying for Paul Pelosi and for Speaker Pelosi’s whole family. This morning he called Speaker Pelosi to express his support after this horrible attack,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

She continued: “He is also very glad that a full recovery is expected. The President continues to condemn all violence, and asks that the family’s desire for privacy be respected.”

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell said in a tweet on Friday he is “horrified and disgusted” by the reports that Pelosi was assaulted in his home.

“Grateful to hear that Paul is on track to make a full recovery and that law enforcement including our stellar Capitol Police are on the case,” the Kentucky Republican said.

The Pelosis have been married since 1963 and have five children.

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World Hot Topics Blog : Best Comments on What is your most replayed video game?

2022-10-20T09:18:00.004-07:00

World Hot Topics Blog : Best Comments on What is your most replayed video game?

Readers reveal the non-multiplayer games they’ve completed the most, from Into The Breach to Final Fantasy 7.

The subject for this week’s Hot Topic was suggested by reader Chevy Malibu (PSN ID), and while technically you could nominate a multiplayer game, we were more interested in games you come back to every few years to play through again.

To our surprise (and approval) XCOM 2 was by far the most popular pick, in fact we’ve seldom known a Hot Topic to be so dominated by a single game. Especially as many of the other choices were also turn-based strategies.

In deep
There’s never been an easier question to answer: it’s XCOM 2. I’ve played XCOM: Enemy Unknown a lot as well, and did a few run troughs of Enemy Within, but it’s XCOM 2 by a mile.

I have the platinum for XCOM 2 on PlayStation 4. Just getting that achievement took a ridiculous amount of playing time. That’s beside the fact I also own it on Xbox and Switch and have put in Sisyphean numbers on both those systems.

PlayStation a few years ago did a year end wrap where you could see your most played game, etc. I had 140 hours in that year and that wasn’t the platinum run year, I only started that in lockdown.

I’m way past addicted.
Deceitfularcher (gamertag/PSN ID)

Hard achievement
My most replayed game would have to be Into The Breach. It’s roguelike nature lends itself to repeated runs, as you keep playing to finish a run and then try further runs to unlock new squads and unlock the in-game achievements. It’s weird to think that at first, I didn’t click with the game but then returned to it a couple of years later and now it is firmly my favourite indie game of all time.

I have put 60 hours into it on Switch which I know isn’t a lot for some people but for me to spend that much time with one game is unusual and I still have a few achievements to get. This is all without touching the new free DLC expansion either. I want to try and get all the in-game achievements before starting the DLC and I’m nearly there, just beating the game on Hard difficulty is the one to allude me so far.

It is quite a simple game to get your head around on easy but there is lots of strategy to consider on medium and hard difficulties, however it is easy to pick up and play if you have been away from the game for a while, so it’s one I like to return to every now and then for a few runs.
Angry_Kurt (Twitter)
Now playing: God Of War (PS5) and Tinykin (Steamdeck)

Turn-based triumvirate
Turn-based strategies have practically ruined gaming for me. The holy trinity of Advance Wars, Into The Breach, and XCOM (especially 2) are so utterly compelling, with no two play throughs the same, that many other games I could be investing time into get side-lined. Astral Chain, Metroid Dread, and countless PlayStation 4 games, including Elden Ring, have suffered this fate.

While mentally taxing, Into The Breach is perfect after a hard day’s work, when you just want to wind down. I’ve played it so much that it’s left an almost ruinous ghostly image on my 65” OLED television.

I’ve played the Super Mario Galaxy games multiple times over. Their sheer inventiveness, staggering amount of variety, perfect gameplay mechanics, and utter joyousness make them masterclasses of form. Games so immersive that the barrier between reality and virtuality dissolves: you flow into and with them. In that space, of that time and physics, you really are Mario, you really are in another world.

However, second to the above trio, is the Splatoon series. A game that keeps on giving; it’s a real blast, as they say.
Ciara

Losing count

My game is XCOM 2, both the base game and the War Of The Chosen DLC. I first bought it on the PlayStation 4 and then the Switch. I must have played it six or seven times, frankly I’ve lost count.

It’s one of those few games that get close to perfection. The research and design of alien tech, an atmosphere of tension that’s up there with the Souls games, varied missions and you can just tell the thought and imagination put into it.
Chevy Malibu (PSN ID)

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The original
There’s a few games I revisit fairly frequently, but the one I’ve overall probably spent the most time with is UFO: Enemy Unknown (the original XCOM game).

The main factor for replay ability is the research tree, allowing you to go different ways with the weapons and therefore tactics in the squad turn-based combat (the meat of the game). The time unit system is also a big factor – unlike most games of the genre, you can do multiple varied actions (or just the same one many times) with one character in a turn.

Each action costs time units, which are replenished at the beginning of the next turn. At the beginning of the game with rookies you don’t feel the benefit of this system so much, but with each mission, as long as the squad members play at least a small part in the mission and stay alive, their TU maximum will often increase – along with your action possibilities.

The excellent pixel art graphics and MIDI music do evoke nostalgia in me, but it’s the core gaming mechanics, which in some ways haven’t been bettered almost 30 years later, that are the big draw for me to keep coming back to it. The excellent open source OpenXcom fan project, which squashes original bugs and adds new quality of life features, also makes it very accessible today, blunting some of the flaws that could otherwise cause me to play it less often.

What makes a game replayable is a difficult question. The other games I replay all have different reasons. Zelda 2, I still adore the fast paced combat of. Prince Of Persia is a mix of nostalgia (my first ever game) and the strict momentum-based platforming, which remains very fresh. Breath Of Fire 3 has a unique ‘master’ system where you can push your character’s stats in the direction you prefer, allowing for varied team compositions.

Chrono Trigger has an excellent New Game+ system that allows you to totally break the game. I don’t think there’s a single answer to what makes a game replayable, there’s lots of possibilities that can keep you engaged with the game.

I don’t specifically consider it an important feature; replayability is cool, but sometimes I just want to play a point ‘n’ click game, like the recent Return To Monkey Island – I very much enjoyed it, will likely not play it for a long time, but consider my money well spent for the experience.

In the same way there are many games I wouldn’t want to replay because completing them was really hard and time consuming the first time round, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the journey – for every horrific Bart Vs. The Space Mutants there’s a sublime Contra 3, which I completed on Hard mode many years ago and have no intention of ever doing again!
Lord Darkstorm

Game of Throne
Nuclear Throne. It’s simply the combination of weapons coupled with how well the weapons are executed that makes another playthrough easy to begin. Additionally, the game doesn’t end. There’s a loop that takes you to a more difficult run, so, it’s about how far you can reach. Perfect ingredients for replayability!

Nuclear throne, you’re the king.
Henry

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World Hot Topics Blog : The 10 Senate seats probably going to flip in 2022

2022-10-04T15:54:00.003-07:00

World Hot Topics Blog : The 10 Senate seats probably going to flip in 2022

The race for the Senate is subjective depending on each person's preferences under about a month and a half from Final voting day, with promotions about early termination, wrongdoing and expansion ruling the wireless transmissions in key states as missions test the hypothesis of the 2022 political decision.

The cycle began as a mandate on President Joe Biden - an obvious objective for conservatives, who need a net increase of only one seat to flip the equally separated chamber. Then the US High Court's late June choice upsetting Roe v. Swim offered leftists the chance to paint a difference as conservatives attempted to make sense of their help for an early termination deciding that most of the nation goes against. Previous President Donald Trump's ubiquity in the titles gave liberals another foil.

Yet, the good faith a few liberals felt close to the furthest limit of the mid year, closely following Biden's regulative successes and the stirring high court choice, has been tempered somewhat by the eagerly awaited fixing of a few vital races as political promoting slopes up on television and citizens tune in after Work Day.

Conservatives, who have midterm history on their side as the party out of the White House, have pounded Biden and liberals for supporting strategies they contend fuel expansion. Biden's endorsement rating remains at 41% with 54% opposing in the most recent CNN Survey of Surveys, which tracks the normal of late reviews. What's more, for certain costs creeping back up after a concise break, the economy and expansion - which Americans the nation over recognize as their top worry in numerous surveys - are probably going to assume a urgent part in choosing citizens' inclinations.

Be that as it may, there's been a consistent expansion in promotions about wrongdoing too as the GOP gets back to a recognizable analysis, portraying liberals as feeble on open security. Cops have been pervasive in television advertisements this cycle - competitors from the two sides of the walkway have found cops to affirm on camera to their supportive of police qualifications. Vote based promotions likewise highlight ladies discussing the danger of a public fetus removal boycott should the Senate fall into GOP hands, while conservatives have spent similarly less attempting to depict liberals as the fanatics on the point.

While the issue sets have varied, the Senate map hasn't changed. Conservatives' top pickup amazing open doors have forever been Nevada, Georgia, Arizona and New Hampshire - all expresses that Biden conveyed in 2020. In two of those states, in any case, the GOP has huge issues, albeit the actual states keep the races serious. Arizona chosen one Blake Bosses is currently without the help of the party's significant super PAC, which believes its cash can be better spent somewhere else, remembering for New Hampshire, where resigned Armed force Brig. Gen. Wear Bolduc is a long way from the candidate the public GOP had needed. However, this is the season while poor raising money can truly become clear since television promotion rates favor competitors and a super PAC gets significantly less value for its money.

The race for Senate control might boil down to three states: Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania, which are all evaluated as "Shot in the dark" races by Inside Decisions with Nathan L. Gonzales. As conservatives hope to flip the Senate, which Minority Pioneer Mitch McConnell has called a "50-50 suggestion," they're attempting to get the initial two and clutch the last option.

Senate liberals' way to holding their larger part lies with safeguarding their occupants. Taking out a GOP-held seat like Pennsylvania - still the probably going to flip in CNN's positioning - would assist with relieving any misfortunes. Wisconsin, where GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is competing for a third term, seems to be liberals' next best pickup opportunity, however that race drops in the rankings this month as conservative assaults negatively affect the Vote based chosen one in the surveys.

These rankings depend on CNN's revealing, raising support and promoting information, and surveying, as well as authentic information about how states and applicants have performed. It will be refreshed once again before Final voting day.

1. Pennsylvania

Officeholder: Conservative Pat Toomey (resigning)

The most steady thing about CNN's rankings, tracing all the way back to 2021, has been Pennsylvania's spot in the lead position. Be that as it may, the competition to supplant resigning GOP Sen. Pat Toomey has fixed since the primaries in May, when Conservative Mehmet Oz arose gravely swollen from a frightful intraparty challenge. In a CNN Survey of Surveys normal of ongoing overviews in the state, Liberal John Fetterman, the state lieutenant lead representative, had the help of half of likely citizens to Oz's 45%. (The Survey of Surveys is a normal of the four latest neutral reviews of likely citizens that satisfy CNN's guidelines.) Fetterman is as yet overperforming Biden, who barely conveyed Pennsylvania in 2020. Fetterman's positivity evaluations are likewise reliably higher than Oz's.

One potential pain point for the Leftist: More electors in a late September Franklin and Marshall School Survey saw Oz has having strategies that would advance citizens' monetary conditions, with the economy and expansion staying the top worry for electors across a scope of reviews. Yet, almost five months after the essential, the big name specialist actually appears to definitely disapprove of his base. A higher level of liberals were supporting Fetterman than conservatives were moving Oz in a new Fox News study, for instance, with quite a bit of that owing to bring down help from GOP ladies than men. Fetterman allies were likewise substantially more excited about their up-and-comer than Oz allies.

Conservatives have been pounding Fetterman on wrongdoing, explicitly his residency on the state Leading group of Exculpations: A promotion from the Senate Initiative Asset includes a Bucks District sheriff saying, "Safeguard your loved ones. Try not to cast a ballot Fetterman." However the lieutenant lead representative is likewise utilizing sheriffs on camera to protect his record. Furthermore, with rural electors being a vital segment, Popularity based promoting is likewise inclining toward early termination, similar to this Senate Larger part PAC advertisement that includes a female specialist as storyteller and plays Oz's remarks from during the essential about fetus removal being "murder." Oz's mission has said that he upholds exemptions for "the existence of the mother, assault and inbreeding" and that "he'd need to ensure that the central government isn't engaged with disrupting the state's choices on the subject. World Hot Topics Blog

2. Nevada

Officeholder: Leftist Catherine Cortez Masto

Conservatives have four principal pickup open doors - and at the present time, Popularity based Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto's seat seems as though quite possibly of their absolute best. Biden conveyed Nevada by a somewhat bigger edge than two of those other GOP-designated states, yet the Silver State's huge transient populace adds a level of vulnerability to this challenge.

Conservatives have attempted to attach the initial term representative to Washington spending and expansion, which might be especially resounding where normal gas costs are presently back up to more than $5 a gallon. Leftists are focusing in on early termination privileges and raising the danger that a GOP-controlled Senate could pass a public fetus removal boycott. Previous state Principal legal officer Adam Laxalt - the interesting GOP candidate to have joined McConnell and Trump right off the bat - called the 1973 Roe v. Swim managing a "joke" under the watchful eye of the High Court toppled the choice in June. Liberals have been very glad to utilize that remark against him, yet Laxalt has attempted to get around those assaults by saying he doesn't uphold a public boycott and directing out that the right toward a fetus removal is settled regulation in Nevada.

3. Georgia

Officeholder: Liberal Raphael Warnock

The nearer we get to Final voting day, the more we really want to discuss the Georgia Senate race going over the wire. On the off chance that neither one of the competitors gets a greater part of the vote in November, the challenge will go to a December overflow. There was no reasonable forerunner in a new Marist survey that had Vote based Sen. Raphael Warnock, who's running for an entire six-year term, and conservative challenger Herschel Walker both under half among the individuals who say they certainly plan to cast a ballot.

Warnock's edge from prior this cycle has restricted, which knocks this seat up one spot on the rankings. The uplifting news for Warnock is that he's as yet overperforming Biden's endorsement numbers in an express that the President flipped in 2020 by under 12,000 votes. Thus far, he is by all accounts keeping the Senate race nearer than the gubernatorial challenge, for which a few surveys have shown GOP Gov. Brian Kemp ahead. Warnock's attempting to project a bipartisan picture that he thinks will assist him with hanging on in what had up to this point been a dependably red state. Standing midriff somewhere down in peanuts in a single ongoing promotion, he promotes his work with Alabama GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville to "kill the guidelines," never referencing his own party. However, conservatives have kept on attempting to attach the representative to his party - explicitly for deciding in favor of measures in Washington that they guarantee have exacerbated expansion.

Liberals are trusting that enough Georgians won't consider deciding in favor of Walker to be a choice - regardless of whether they back Kemp. Leftists have amped up their assaults on abusive behavior at home charges against the previous football star and unattractive titles about his business record. And everyone's eyes will be on the mid-October discussion to perceive how Walker, who has a past filled with offering dubious and counter-intuitive remarks, handles himself in front of an audience against the more cleaned occupant. World Hot Topics Blog

4. Wisconsin

Occupant: Conservative Ron Johnson

Sen. Ron Johnson is the main conservative running for re-appointment in a state Biden won in 2020 - as a matter of fact, he broke his own service time restraints to run a third time, saying he accepted America was "in danger." And despite the fact that Johnson has had low endorsement numbers for a large part of the cycle, leftists have underrated him previously. This challenge drops down one spot on the positioning as Johnson's race against Vote based Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes has fixed, setting the congressperson in a superior position.

Barnes coasted through the August essential after his greatest adversaries exited the race, yet as the candidate, he's confronted an invasion of assaults, particularly on wrongdoing, utilizing against him his previous words about finishing cash bail and diverting some subsidizing from police spending plans to social administrations. Barnes has endeavored to answer those assaults in his promotions, similar to this one highlighting a resigned police sergeant who says he knows "Mandela would rather not undermine the police."

A Marquette College Graduate school survey from early September showed no unmistakable pioneer, with Johnson at 49% and Barnes at 48% among likely citizens, which is a fixing from the 7-point edge Barnes delighted in a similar survey's August overview. Prominently, free thinkers were breaking somewhat for Johnson after fundamentally leaning toward Barnes in the August review. The impact of the GOP's enemy of Barnes promoting can probably be found in the rising level of enlisted electors in a late September Fox News review who view the liberal as "excessively outrageous," putting him on equality with Johnson on that inquiry. Johnson allies are likewise significantly more excited about their up-and-comer.

5. Arizona

Occupant: Leftist Imprint Kelly

Majority rule Sen. Mark Kelly, who's running for an entire six-year term in the wake of winning a 2020 exceptional political race, is as yet one of the most weak Senate occupants in an express that has as of late become cutthroat on the government level. Yet, conservative candidate Blake Experts is no place near matching Kelly in raising support, and significant GOP outside capability is currently gone. In the wake of dropping its September television reservations in Arizona to divert cash to Ohio, the Senate Administration Asset has cut its October spending as well.

Other moderate gatherings are spending for Bosses yet have work to do to hurt Kelly, a very much subsidized officeholder with a solid individual brand. Kelly drove Experts 51% to 41% among enrolled citizens in a September Marist survey, albeit that hole limited among the people who said they most certainly plan to cast a ballot. A Fox overview from a little later in the month comparatively showed Kelly with a 5-point edge among those sure to cast a ballot, just inside the safety buffer.

Aces has endeavored to direct his fetus removal position since winning his August essential, floated by a Trump support, yet Kelly has kept on going after him on the issue. What's more, a new court choice permitting the implementation of a 1901 state prohibition on essentially all fetus removals has given liberals additional grain to paint conservatives as a danger to ladies' regenerative freedoms.

6. North Carolina

Officeholder: Conservative Richard Burr (resigning)

North Carolina slides up one spot on the rankings, exchanging places with New Hampshire. The open-seat competition to supplant resigning GOP Sen. Richard Burr hasn't produced as much public buzz as different states given that leftists haven't won a Senate seat in that frame of mind beginning around 2008.

However, it has stayed a tight challenge with Leftist Cheri Beasley, who is offering to turn into the state's most memorable Dark congressperson, going head to head against GOP Rep. Ted Budd, for whom Trump as of late crusaded. Beasley lost re-appointment as state High Court boss equity by something like 400 votes in 2020 when Trump barely conveyed the Tar Heel state. In any case, leftists trust that she'll have the option to support turnout among provincial Dark electors who could not any other way vote during a midterm political decision and that more safe conservatives and free thinkers will consider Budd to be excessively outrageous. One of Beasley's new spots includes a progression of generally White, silver haired resigned decided in suits embracing her as "somebody unique" while going after Budd similar to an ordinary legislator out for himself.

Budd is inclining toward current expansion burdens, explicitly pursuing Biden in certain advertisements that highlight half-void shopping baskets, without referencing Beasley. Senate Authority Asset is accomplishing crafted by attempting to attach the leftist to Washington - one late spot nearly makes her seem to be the occupant in the race, superimposing her photograph over a picture of the US Legislative hall and showing her face close to Biden's. Both SLF and Budd are additionally focusing on Beasley over her help for liberals' as of late ordered medical care, duty and environment bill. "Liberal legislator Cheri Beasley is coming for you - and your wallet," the storyteller from one SLF promotion articulates, before later adding, "Beasley will thump on your entryway with a multitude of new IRS specialists." (The new regulation increments financing for the IRS, including for reviews. Yet, liberals and the Trump-selected IRS chief have said the expectation is to pursue well off charge cheats, not the working class.)

7. New Hampshire

Officeholder: Liberal Maggie Hassan

A ton has been made of GOP competitor quality this cycle. Be that as it may, there are not many states where the distinction between the chosen one conservatives have and the one they'd wanted to have has changed these rankings very as much as New Hampshire.

Resigned Armed force Brig. Gen. Wear Bolduc, who lost a 2020 GOP bid for the state's other Senate seat, won last month's conservative essential to take on initial term Vote based Sen. Maggie Hassan. The issue for him, however, is that he doesn't have a lot of cash to wage that battle. Bolduc had raised a sum of $579,000 through August 24 contrasted and Hassan's $31.4 million. Senate Administration Asset is on air in New Hampshire to help the GOP candidate - going after Hassan for casting a ballot with Biden and her help of her party's medical care, expense and environment bundle. But since super PACs get considerably less ideal television promoting rates than up-and-comers, those millions won't go even close to the extent that Hassan's dollars will.

A year prior, conservatives were as yet hopeful that Gov. Chris Sununu would run for Senate, giving them a well known fetus removal freedoms supporting candidate in an express that is moved blue in ongoing government decisions. Bolduc told WMUR after his essential win that he'd cast a ballot against a public fetus removal boycott. Yet, advertisements from Hassan and Senate Greater part PAC have held onto on his idea in the very interview that the congressperson ought to "move past" the fetus removal issue. Conservatives perceive that fetus removal is a notable figure a state Biden conveyed by 7, yet they likewise contend that the political decision - as Bolduc shared with WMUR - will be about the economy and that Hassan is a disagreeable and distant officeholder.

Hassan drove Bolduc 49% to 41% among likely electors in a Stone State Survey led by the College of New Hampshire Study Center. The occupant has united Vote based help, yet just 83% of conservatives said they were with Bolduc, the overview found. In any case, a portion of those conservatives, similar to the people who said they were uncertain, could return home to the GOP candidate as the overall political decision draws nearer, and that implies Bolduc has space to develop. He'll require something other than conservatives to break his direction, be that as it may, which is one explanation he immediately turned on the major question of whether the 2020 political decision was taken days after he won the essential.

8. Ohio

Officeholder: Conservative Loot Portman (resigning)

Ohio - an express that two times decided in favor of Trump by 8 - shouldn't be on this rundown at No. 8, above Florida, which supported the previous President by much smaller edges. Yet, it's at No. 8 for the second month straight. Conservative chosen one J.D. Vance's poor gathering pledges has constrained Senate Initiative Asset to divert millions from different rushes to Ohio to support him and assault Rep. Tim Ryan, the Majority rule candidate who had the wireless transmissions to himself throughout the mid year. The 10-term representative has been attempting to move away from his party in the majority of his promotions, every now and again referencing that he "casted a ballot with Trump on exchange" and scrutinizing the "undermine the police" development. Vance is at long last on the air, attempting to punch a few holes in Ryan's picture.

However, surveying actually shows a tight race with no unmistakable pioneer. Ryan had an edge with free movers in a new Siena School/Range News survey, which likewise showed that Vance - Trump's pick for the designation - has more work to do to combine GOP support after a monstrous May essential. Expecting he makes up that help and late uncertain citizens break his direction, Vance will probably hold the benefit in the end given the Buckeye State's cementing red lean.

9. Florida

Occupant: Conservative Marco Rubio

Liberals face a daunting struggle against GOP Sen. Marco Rubio in an undeniably red-moving state, which Trump conveyed by around 3 focuses in 2020 - almost significantly increasing his edge from four years sooner.

Popularity based Rep. Val Demings, who effectively won the party's selection in August, is areas of strength for a who has even outraised the GOP occupant, yet not by enough to risk his benefit genuinely. She's inclining toward her experience as the previous Orlando police boss - it includes conspicuously in her publicizing, in which she more than once dismisses the possibility of undermining the police. In any case, Rubio has attempted to attach her to the "revolutionary left" in Washington to undermine her own policing.

10. Colorado

Occupant: Leftist Michael Bennet

Popularity based Sen. Michael Bennet is no more bizarre to intense races. In 2016, he just won re-appointment by 6 against an underfunded GOP challenger whom the public party had deserted. Given GOP gathering pledges difficulties in a portion of their top races, the party hasn't had the assets to put resources into the Centennial Express this year genuinely.

In any case, in his bid for a third full term, Bennet is facing a more grounded challenger in financial specialist Joe O'Dea, who told CNN he contradicted the High Court's choice to upset Roe v. Swim. His significant other and little girl star in his promotions as he attempts to cut a more safe profile and promises not to cast a ballot the partisan principal in Washington.

Bennet, nonetheless, is going after O'Dea for deciding in favor of a bombed 2020 state polling form measure to boycott early termination following 22 weeks of pregnancy and contending that anything O'Dea says regarding supporting fetus removal privileges, he'd give McConnell "the larger part he wants" to pass a public early termination boycott.

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World Hot Topics Blog : Can Wine Ward Off Cataracts?

2021-04-02T16:09:00.003-07:00

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Can Wine Ward Off Cataracts?

Cataracts are a threat to the vision of millions, but new study suggests a welcome aid to prevention: wine.

A few glasses of alcohol -- especially red wine -- a week may help reduce your risk of cataract surgery, new British research suggests.

"The fact that our findings were particularly evident in wine drinkers may suggest a protective role of polyphenol antioxidants, which are especially abundant in red wine," said study lead author Sharon Chua, a researcher from University College London Institute of Ophthalmology. Her team noted that grape skin is abundant in with healthy antioxidants, an antioxidant-like compound known as resveratrol, and other heathy chemicals called flavonoids.

Too much alcohol -- a drink a day or more -- wasn't great for eye health, however. In heavier drinkers, the odds for cataracts actually began to rise, according to the study.

Cataracts often develop with age and occur when the normally clear lens of the eye becomes clouded.

"Cataracts are one of the leading causes of reversible vision loss and blurry vision in the world," said Dr. Matthew Gorski, an ophthalmologist at Northwell Health in Great Neck, N.Y., who wasn't involved in the new study.

"Symptoms of cataracts include glare, halos, double vision, loss of contrast sensitivity, dimness of vision, or difficulty with depth perception and can lead to trouble reading or difficulty with driving during the day or night," he explained. "Cataract surgery is the only way to treat cataracts and is a low-risk, quick and efficient procedure to improve vision."

But could alcohol intake affect a person's odds for cataracts? To find out, Chua's group tracked the health and lifestyle of 490,000 people in the United Kingdom.

After taking into account factors known to affect cataract risk -- age, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomics, weight, smoking and diabetes -- the researchers found that people who consumed about 6.5 standard glasses of wine per week (a level that's within guidelines for safe alcohol intake in the United States and United) were less likely to undergo cataract surgery.

Compared to people who abstained or drank other types of alcohol, wine drinkers were between 14% and 23% less likely to require cataract surgery, the study found.

Compared to people who abstained, moderate drinkers of white wine or champagne had a 10% lower risk, and moderate drinkers of beer and spirits had a 13% and 14% lower risk, respectively.

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Daily or near daily consumption of beer or spirits was not associated with a lower risk.

The study also found that people who had any type of alcohol 1-2 and 3-4 times a week had a 7% and 6% lower risk of cataract surgery, respectively.

But people who drank alcohol daily or almost daily were 5% and 6% more likely to have cataract surgery than those who had alcohol 1-2 times and 3-4 times a week, respectively.

The study was published March 31 in the journal Ophthalmology.

The researchers noted that their findings don't prove cause and effect; it only shows a strong association between alcohol consumption and cataracts.

"Cataract development may be due to gradual damage from oxidative stress during aging," Chua said in a journal news release, so the antioxidants in wine might help counter that.

Still, Gorski agreed that the research couldn't prove alcohol promotes eye health.

"I think that this is an important study, however further studies are necessary to see if the findings will be repeated," he cautioned. "At this time, I will certainly not be telling my patients to drink small amounts of alcohol in order to decrease the chance of cataract surgery."

Dr. Mark Fromer is an ophthalmologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Reading over the findings, he agreed that "further studies will be necessary to determine whether this association is causal in nature. If, in fact, low to moderate levels of alcohol intake has a causal effect on the reduction of cataract formation, it is likely that it occurs over a long period of time."

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World Hot Topics Blog - Acne and Ayurveda

2018-08-08T08:53:00.004-07:00

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Acne and Ayurveda

There is a famous quote that 'First impression is last impression' .

This is really important now days; where we have to face many people in a single day and at that time face value plays a lead role.

Acne is a very common & irritating problem. Most of the people think that it is related to teen age, or oily skin.

But according to Ayurveda, it is a Pitta disorder. When Pitta Dosh get increased in body, it get mix with blood & this impure blood cause Acne.

There are variety of reasons which increases Pitta Dosh, namely :--

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Ayurveda Amogh Blog by Dr Amogh Deshpande

1) Salty, chilly, deep fried, fermented food in regular & in large quentity.

2) Not having proper stool & urine out put.

3) Short temper nature & hyperness.

4) Lack of water intake & irregular food habits.

5) Late night sleeping time.

All these are commen causes for Acne.

Some simple home remedies are :--

1) Use mild sope for face or just milk cream.

2) Rinse your face after every 4 hours.

3) Try to eat fresh salad, as they help in water balance & for good bowl.

For futher details Contact :

Dr Amogh Deshpande

Ojas Ayurved clinic, in front of pmc main building,
shaniwar peth, Pune – India

Mobile : 9860097753

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World Hot Topics Blog - Preventing Chronic Kidney Disease

2018-05-15T10:59:00.003-07:00

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Preventing Chronic Kidney Disease

You are more likely to develop kidney disease if you have

· diabetes

· high blood pressure

· heart disease

· a family history of kidney failure

What can I do to keep my kidneys healthy?

You can protect your kidneys by preventing or managing health conditions that cause kidney damage, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. The steps described below may help keep your whole body healthy, including your kidneys.

During your next medical visit, you may want to ask your health care provider about your kidney health. Early kidney disease may not have any symptoms, so getting tested may be the only way to know your kidneys are healthy. Your health care provider will help decide how often you should be tested.

See a provider right away if you develop a urinary tract infection (UTI), which can cause kidney damage if left untreated.

Make healthy food choices

Choose foods that are healthy for your heart and your entire body: fresh fruits, fresh or frozen vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat or fat-free dairy products. Eat healthy meals, and cut back on salt and added sugars. Aim for less than 2,300 milligrams of sodium each day. Try to have less than 10 percent of your daily calories come from added sugars.

Choose foods that are healthy for your body.

Tips for making healthy food choices

· Cook with a mix of spices instead of salt.

· Choose veggie toppings such as spinach, broccoli, and peppers for your pizza.

· Try baking or broiling meat, chicken, and fish instead of frying.

· Serve foods without gravy or added fats.

· Try to choose foods with little or no added sugar.

· Gradually work your way down from whole milk to 2 percent milk until you’re drinking and cooking with fat-free (skim) or low-fat milk and milk products.

· Eat foods made from whole grains—such as whole wheat, brown rice, oats, and whole-grain corn—every day. Use whole-grain bread for toast and sandwiches; substitute brown rice for white rice for home-cooked meals and when dining out.

· Read food labels. Choose foods low in saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, salt (sodium), and added sugars.

· Slow down at snack time. Eating a bag of low-fat popcorn takes longer than eating a slice of cake. Peel and eat an orange instead of drinking orange juice.

· Try keeping a written record of what you eat for a week. It can help you see when you tend to overeat or eat foods high in fat or calories.

Research has shown that the DASH eating plan may help you lower your blood pressure. If you have diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease, you may want to locate and work with a dietitian to create a meal plan that meets your needs.

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Make physical activity part of your routine

Be active for 30 minutes or more on most days. If you are not active now, ask your health care provider about the types and amounts of physical activity that are right for you. Add more activity to your life with these tips to help you get active.

Aim for a healthy weight

The NIH Body Weight Planner is an online tool to help you tailor your plans to achieve and stay at a healthy weight. The Body Weight Planner is a part of the SuperTracker , a free food-, physical activity-, and weight-tracking tool from ChooseMyPlate.gov that will help you build a healthier diet, manage your weight, and reduce your risk of chronic disease, including kidney disease.

If you are overweight or obese, work with your health care provider or dietitian to create a realistic weight-loss plan. View more weight control and physical activity resources to help you get and stay motivated.

Get enough sleep

Aim for 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night. If you have trouble sleeping, take steps to improve your sleep habits .

Stop smoking

If you smoke or use other tobacco products, stop. Ask for help so you don’t have to do it alone. You can start by calling the national quitline at 1-800-QUITNOW or 1-800-784-8669. For tips on quitting, go to Smokefree.gov .

Limit alcohol intake

Drinking too much alcohol can increase your blood pressure and add extra calories, which can lead to weight gain. If you drink alcohol , limit yourself to one drink per day if you are a woman and two drinks per day if you are a man. One drink is:

· 12 ounces of beer

· 5 ounces of wine

· 1.5 ounces of liquor

Explore stress-reducing activities

Learning how to manage stress , relax, and cope with problems can improve emotional and physical health. Physical activity can help reduce stress, as can mind and body practices such as meditation , yoga , or tai chi .

Manage diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease

If you have diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease, the best way to protect your kidneys from damage is to

Keep blood glucose numbers close to your goal. Checking your blood glucose, or blood sugar, level is an important way to manage your diabetes. Your health care team may want you to test your blood glucose one or more times a day.

Keep your blood pressure numbers close to your goal. The blood pressure goal for most people with diabetes is below 140/90 mm Hg. Read more about high blood pressure .

Take all your medicines as prescribed. Talk with your health care provider about certain blood pressure medicines, called ACE inhibitors and ARBs, which may protect your kidneys. The names of these medicines end in –pril or –sartan.

Be careful about the daily use of over-the-counter pain medications. Regular use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen and naproxen , can damage your kidneys. Learn more about over-the-counter medicines and your kidneys.

To help prevent heart attacks and stroke, keep your cholesterol levels in the target range.There are two kinds of cholesterol in your blood: LDL and HDL. LDL or “bad” cholesterol can build up and clog your blood vessels, which can cause a heart attack or stroke. HDL or “good” cholesterol helps remove the “bad” cholesterol from your blood vessels. A cholesterol test also may measure another type of blood fat called triglycerides.

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Ask your health care provider questions

Ask your health care provider the following key questions about your kidney health during your next medical visit. The sooner you know you have kidney disease, the sooner you can get treatment to help protect your kidneys.

Key questions for your health care provider:

· What is my glomerular filtration rate (GFR)?

· What is my urine albumin result?

· What is my blood pressure?

· What is my blood glucose (for people with diabetes)?

· How often should I get my kidneys checked?

Other important questions:

· What should I do to keep my kidneys healthy?

· Do I need to be taking different medicines?

· Should I be more physically active?

· What kind of physical activity can I do?

· What can I eat?

· Am I at a healthy weight?

· Do I need to talk with a dietitian to get help with meal planning?

· Should I be taking ACE inhibitors or ARBs for my kidneys?

· What happens if I have kidney disease?

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World Hot Topics Blog : How to Start Selling Physical Products Online

2017-05-08T12:02:00.001-07:00

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How to Start Selling Physical Products Online

Last week I got an email from one of digmlm reader Sangeeta Wallia who is a budding entrepreneur and just started making home made chocolates under brand name of “Cocoa Art” and willing to learn that how one can start selling physical products online.

As I know that similar question was hitting my email account again and again from different business owners hence I decided to write this detailed post to help everyone who needs it.

P.S – Now you can send your questions using the box fixed below every article of digmlm and an expert will get back to you probably with an another article.

So what it takes to sell products online ?

Have products to sell
Create an official website with blog
Use classified sites, online retailers and publishers

Here in this article you will learn extra points like how to contact retailers for selling physical products online, how to advertise your business the right way, list of 7 best advertisement programs, list of 10 Indian classified sites, list of 15 online shopping sites etc.

Have Products to Sell

Products means either physical or digital you can sell anything in today’s global market that can be operated from your home using an Internet connection with a PC.

So develop a product before thinking about online selling and keep it in your mind that every product will get success online as well as offline if the same is solving the peoples problem or giving satisfaction worth the equal amount you are charging.

If you have a product then it’s the best thing because you have full control over the product and you have a better future being an entrepreneur, while you can also become a re-seller who sells other’s products (that is also known as affiliate marketing) the same way anyone sells his own products or services online.

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Create an Official Website with Blog

Note* – Don’t choose between website and blog but have them both connected with each other.

If you are thinking of selling physical products online then their is no means of working without an official website including a blog because that would be the lading page where your products will get show cased and you will also build a brand in the mean time because people will come to know about you company and where you are situated from your about page and how you deals with the customers from your blog.

Your business blog will help you to announce anything like discount, offer, launching, partnership or else that would drive a huge traffic some time that ends with selling your company products or giving you a movement in social media or the main stream, media that would always help you to grow your brand the better way the big way.

An official website and blog of your company would act something like heart which pumps blood and keeps your body active and live, here your website and blog will help your business to grow and get stability due to building a brand name what is also have an online address and people can trust over the offerings because they knows you very well.

Use Classified Sites, Online Retailers and Publishers

Both the above points were targeting the beginner entrepreneurs who are thinking about building a presence online and getting their business expansion in online market that is huge and connected globally.

Now it is all about getting your products advertised and sold online from the day one after setting your products and services up for sell on your official website including the blog.

Here’s exactly how you will sell your products online ?

You will need a list of classified sites or the online shopping sites where you can add your products and showcase the same in between the targeted customers who are actually looking for the same category products or services you are dealing with but here you have to be different and more powerful than the competitors because when a customer comes online then he have a lot of time to do a good research before ending up buying anything.

After getting list of classified sites, online retailers and publishers –

So you have a list where you want to sell your company products then it’s a good thing because now you have a lot of customers in hand and you have to go infront of them but before thinking too much you have to pitch the sells managers of those sites you listed out and let them know that you have something valuable and in demand to add in their category.

Note* – You should always use Contact Form or Official Email for Business related queries.

Contacting Flipkart for Business

You should use contact form or official email of the online shopping sites, like I choose Flipkart for demonstration purposes and that is :-

Step 1. Flipkart contact form – http://www.flipkart.com/s/contact
Step 2. Send us an email form
Step 3. Enter your email address
Step 4. Select issue type – Business Related Query
Step 5. Compose your query in the message box and click on send email

Send an email on – business@flipkart.com

So the online shopping sites will not allow you to create your account like you do in case of classified sites as some of them are listed below and you can create your business account today to get started for free.

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In case of eBay

No one can ignore sites like eBay when it comes to sell your company products online because here you will get highlighted in between millions of customers per month and they will surely buy from you if you have something to sell that is valuable, and they likes to give feedback too that will help in creating a better business in future.

And yes don’t forget reading this amazing book before creating your eBay store – eBay For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))

10 Sites like eBay –

1. Junglee.com

2. Auction.com

3. Bidtopia.com

4. Bonanzle.com

5. eBid.net

6. ePier.com

7. iOffer.com

8. OnlineAuction.com

9. Overstock.com

10. Webidz.com

You can create your official account on sites like listed above and offer your products to their potential customers who comes mainly yo do online shopping from home.

Who are publishers, I’m talking about ?

You have your official website and now you have to get ranking higher in search engines to get traffic and the main goal that is sells so take help of publishers where you can contact bloggers, social media experts, forum moderators, book authors etc because they can promote your site and offerings in their followers for free because they need news or say content to feed their audience and you are providing the same.

Advertise

Some times you can also advertise your products or services on the publishers place if they are writing in similar niche you are dealing with like if you have something to sell in between the business owners and business minded students then you can look at digmlm advertising opportunities page.

Your advertisement campaign can be in any form like audio and video, textual or image based. Consider trying every available format of advertising because no one knows which form of advertisement will work for a company so you should run a test for few months and then stick with the best one.

Best Advertisement Programs

Google Adsense
BuySellAds
Facebook Ads
LinkedIn Ads
StumbleUpon Ads
Direct Banner Ads
Reviews

And many more are there you can try but these are the most cost effective and lead giving platforms you can use in the beginning of advertising your business.

YOU have Something to ADD ?

If you thinks I forgot anything important about selling physical products online then please add the same in the comments below and don’t leave the page without sharing this article in your friends who might get it valuable and use it for developing their business to grow more and more.

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http://www.buzzinbiz.com/selling-physical-products-online/

World Hot Topics Blog : Drugs urgently needed to fight superbugs.

2017-02-27T10:41:00.001-08:00

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Drugs urgently needed to fight superbugs.

New antibiotics need to be developed urgently to combat 12 families of bacteria, the World Health Organization says, describing these "priority pathogens" as the greatest threats to human health.

The United National health agency said many of these bacteria have already evolved into deadly superbugs that are resistant to many antibiotics.

The bugs "have built-in abilities to find new ways to resist treatment" the WHO said, and can also pass on genetic material that allows other bacteria to become drug-resistant.

Governments need to invest in research and development (R&D)if new drugs are to be found in time, because market forces cannot be relied upon to boost the funds needed to fight the bugs, it said.

"Antibiotic resistance is growing, and we are fast running out of treatment options," the WHO's assistant director-general for health systems and innovation, Marie-Paule Kieny, said.

"If we leave it to market forces alone, the new antibiotics we most urgently need are not going to be developed in time."

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In recent decades, drug-resistant bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or Clostridium difficile, have become a global health threat, while superbug strains of infections such as tuberculosis and gonorrhoea are now untreatable.

The WHO has previously warned that many antibiotics could become totally redundant this century, leaving patients exposed to deadly infections and threatening the future of medicine.

The "priority pathogens" list published by the WHO on Monday has three rankings - critical, high and medium - according to how urgently new antibiotics are needed.

The critical group includes multidrug-resistant bacteria that pose a particular threat in hospitals, nursing homes, and other care facilities. These include Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas and various Enterobacteriaceae that can cause severe and often deadly infections such as pneumonia and septicaemia. The second and third tiers contain other increasingly drug-resistant bacteria that cause more common diseases such as gonorrhoea and food poisoning caused by salmonella.

The WHO said the list is intended to spur governments to put in place policies that incentivise basic and advanced R&D.

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http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/drugs-urgently-needed-to-fight-superbugs/news-story/c6d76d67cecec016891ec361eabf6e39

Georgia state House votes to allow guns on public college campuses

2016-02-23T09:46:00.002-08:00

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Georgia state House votes to allow guns on public college campuses

By David Beasley

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Concealed handguns would be allowed on Georgia's public college campuses under a measure that cleared the state's House of Representatives on Monday and now heads to the Senate over the objections of university leaders.

The bill would let anyone 21 or over with a concealed weapons permit take their handguns on public college campuses but not into dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses or sporting events.

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"The House took a very clear position that the Second Amendment does not stop at the edge of a college campus," Speaker David Ralston, a Republican, said following passage of the bill, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

A Democratic opponent of the bill, State Representative Robert Trammell, said in a phone interview on Tuesday that he believed the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment allowed handguns to be barred from "sensitive" places such as college campuses.

"In addition to the question of public safety, a weapon in a classroom environment is antithetical to the idea and mission of post-secondary education," Trammell said.

Supporters of the measure have cited several recent armed robberies of students in the library at Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta as evidence that students should be allowed to arm themselves.

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But Trammell said there is no data showing that campuses would be safer if students were allowed to carry weapons.

The Georgia Board of Regents, which governs the state's colleges and universities, opposes the bill, spokesman Charles Sutlive said. The Georgia legislature defeated a similar bill in 2014.

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Last week, the president of the University of Texas reluctantly approved plans that would allow licensed concealed handgun holders to bring pistols into classrooms, after the Texas legislature last year approved a "campus carry" law similar to the one proposed in Georgia.

Georgia's bill covers only public colleges. Texas allows private colleges to opt out of campus carry, and most of the best-known private schools have.

(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Jonathan Oatis)

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http://news.yahoo.com/georgia-state-house-votes-allow-guns-public-college-165628262.html

Should Obama Change His Approach to the Islamic State Group After Paris?

2016-02-22T08:02:00.001-08:00

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Should Obama Change His Approach to the Islamic State Group After Paris?

The world is still reeling from deadly terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday, and with fears of a similar assault in the U.S., some have criticized President Barack Obama for dismissing calls to scale up U.S. military efforts against the Islamic State group and for doubling down on his approach thus far. World Hot Topics Blog

"We have always understood that this will be a long-term campaign," the president said, speaking at the G-20 summit in Turkey on Monday. "There will be setbacks and there will be successes. The terrible events in Paris were obviously a terrible and sickening setback." Obama also rejected calls to put ground troops in Syria, saying, "It's best that we don't shoot first and aim later." The president's deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes underscored Obama's approach, saying, "We don't believe U.S. troops are the answer to the problem." Other Obama advisers, The New York Times reports, say the administration is considering several response options, which include aiding allies in the region, more airstrikes and raids by special operations forces. World Hot Topics Blog

But Republicans are slamming the president's game plan against the Islamic State group and response to the Paris attacks. 2016 GOP hopeful and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush admonished Obama, saying he "doesn't understand we're at war." South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, also a Republican presidential candidate, advocated for U.S. ground troops in the region, telling CNN that "without American boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq, we're going to get hit here at home. And if you don't understand that, you're not ready to be commander-in-chief, in my view."

Even Hillary Clinton, the front-runner in the Democratic presidential race, has insisted the U.S. amp up its efforts to defeat the Islamic State group. While she agreed that boots on the ground are not the answer, she refuted Obama's assertion that the group had been "contained" and called for increased airstrikes and a no-fly zone in northern Syria. She also noted the 50 special operations soldiers Obama ordered to Syria last month have not left yet and must be "immediately" deployed.

The president, for his part, announced new counterterrorism efforts on Monday to prevent another tragedy like Paris. "We're streamlining the process by which we share intelligence and operational military information with France," he said at the G-20 summit, adding that "we need to be doing everything we can to protect against more attacks and protect our citizens." World Hot Topics Blog

So should Obama change his approach to the Islamic State group after the Paris attacks? Here's the Debate Club's take:

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http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/should-obama-change-his-approach-to-the-islamic-state-group-after-paris

Two Deaths Confirmed In Cucumber Salmonella Outbreak

2015-09-24T12:34:00.003-07:00

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Two Deaths Confirmed In Cucumber Salmonella Outbreak

9/10/2015 3:45 PM ET

Two people have reportedly died as a result of a salmonella outbreak linked with cucumbers. The Centers for Disease Control has confirmed a total of 341 cases directly linked with the cucumbers, which were imported from Mexico.

The CDC released an official statement on the outbreak.

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"Seventy ill people have been hospitalized, and two deaths have been reported from California and Texas. Arizona, California, Montana, and Nevada isolated Salmonella from samples of cucumbers collected from various locations that were distributed by Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce," the CDC explained.

"Consumers should not eat, restaurants should not serve, and retailers should not sell recalled cucumbers," they added. "If you aren't sure if your cucumbers were recalled, ask the place of purchase or your supplier. When in doubt, don't eat, sell, or serve them and throw them out."

What are the Symptoms of Salmonella?

Most people infected with Salmonella develop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most people recover without treatment. It is important to note that this outbreak is caused bySalmonella Poona.

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How Soon do Symptoms Appear After Exposure?

Most people infected with Salmonella develop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection.

What are the Complications of Salmonella Infections?

In some people, the diarrhea may be so severe that they need to be hospitalized. In these patients, theSalmonella infection may spread from the intestines to the blood stream, and then to other body sites and can cause death unless the person is treated promptly with antibiotics.

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Who is at Risk?

Children are the most likely to get salmonellosis. The rate of diagnosed infections in children less than five years old is higher than the rate in all other people. Children younger than 5 years of age, the elderly, and those people with weakened immune systems are more likely to have severe infections. It is estimated that approximately 400 persons in the United States die each year with acute salmonellosis.

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http://www.rttnews.com/2551339/two-deaths-confirmed-in-cucumber-salmonella-outbreak.aspx?type=ht

and

http://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/Outbreaks/ucm461317.htm

Bacteria that can help fight cancer

2015-06-09T08:54:00.001-07:00

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Bacteria that can help fight cancer

New York, June 9 (IANS) A toxin secreted by a water and food-borne bacterium that can cause lethal infections in persons with liver disease, has the potential to prevent the growth of tumours, says a new study by Northwestern Medicine scientists.

"A toxin protein from the bacterium Vibrio vulnificus can inhibit tumour cell growth by cutting the protein Ras," researchers said.

"Ras is important for cell proliferation in cancer, so the toxin could potentially be developed as a treatment for different types of tumours," said one of the researchers Karla Satchell, professor in microbiology-immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the US. World Hot Topics Blog

"The bacterium uses the MARTX (multifunctional-autoprocessing repeats-in-toxin) toxin protein to inactivate Ras, increasing its own virulence and allowing it to spread throughout the host," the study said.

"It has been known that Ras has a role in cancer development and targeting Ras has been one of the hardest challenges of cancer research and drug discovery," Satchell said.

The findings appeared in the journal Nature Communications.

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https://in.news.yahoo.com/bacteria-help-fight-cancer-100404790.html

Toronto tunnel mystery solved, say police

2015-03-02T11:13:00.000-08:00

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Toronto tunnel mystery solved, say police

Ottawa (AFP) - Toronto police said Monday they now know who dug a tunnel near a major sporting venue in the city -- a mystery that has been a source of widespread speculation and conspiracy theories.

In a statement, police said two young men stepped forward to acknowledge responsibility after authorities made a public plea for help to determine its purpose.

"The two men told investigators they built the tunnel for personal reasons," police said.

They added that their account has been verified, and that authorities "are satisfied there was neither criminal intent nor any threat to the people or city of Toronto." World Hot Topics Blog

The tunnel, which also is situated near Toronto's York University, was discovered by a wildlife official walking through woods. He spotted a piece of corrugated metal on the ground, lifted it up and found a passageway.

It was more than six feet (1.8 meters) high, almost three feet (0.9 meters) wide and about 33 feet (10 meters) long, and was hidden in a densely wooded area of the city, "well off the beaten path," deputy police chief Mark Saunders told a press conference last week.

Image released on February 24, 2015 by the Toronto Police shows the inside of a tunnel found near Yo …

Had it continued, the tunnel would have exited on the other side of a hill overlooking nearby tennis courts and a sports facility that will host the Pan American Games in July. World Hot Topics Blog

Its discovery provoked widespread speculation about who built it and why.

National security officials were alerted, but suggestions the tunnel posed a threat were quickly dismissed. Police also said it was not a drug lab.

Online sleuths and media suggested it could be a survivalist's fallout shelter, a prank, or a niche home in Toronto's red hot condo market.

American horror writer Stephen King weighed in that it was likely a wormhole built by aliens.

Before it was filled in, the second in command of Canada's largest city police force described the interior of the tunnel as humid and warm.

The walls were lined with plywood and reinforced with wood framing. It was lit by an electric generator and a sump pump was used to keep it dry.

Police also found a bucket and pulleys and a wheelbarrow likely used in the dig.

As well, a rosary with a poppy attached was nailed to an inside wall, and discarded food and beverage containers point to someone having used the tunnel over the winter, Saunders said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/toronto-tunnel-mystery-solved-police-161413862.html

Ayurveda And Multitasking - World Hot Topics Blog

2014-07-16T13:58:00.001-07:00

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Ayurveda And Multitasking

Multitasking is a key word for todays lifestyle. Each of us do it with our thoughts.

is it really helpful for our body & health ?

What exactly multitasking mean?

How does it affects our health?

Let's solve all this in Ayurveda way.

As it indicate, multitasking means doing more than one work at a time.

Usually this refer to have more thoughts at a single time.

Thought is created by brain. Brain is located in skull, at upper most part of body. Brain works on glucose & oxygen supplied by blood. This blood is supplied by heart.

So, when we have a single thought brain is working in single way. As thought is brains own work it did not disturb its rythum. Heart too supply in a single rythumic way. This is a ideal situations for these vital organs. Nobody get hurts.

But, at multitasking, having more thoughts, brain have to work fast. Brain needs to work on several levels. At this point brains own rythum gets disturb. It requires more energy, so heart has to pump the blood towards the brain, against the gravity, which again requires more energy to heart. This all disturbed the working rhythm of brain & heart.

Surely, individual can't get hurt in a single incident. But because of this disturb rhythm these vital organ, VATT dosha get increase. Resulting in many unwanted sings like,

Loss of concentration

Head ache

Memory loss

Harmonal changes

Short temperness

Hyperactivity & Hyperness
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In many more cases Multitasking is a root cause for a disease.

So, how can we avoid it.

First accept the thing that multitasking hurts.

As you accept it, you will start to avoid it.

In Ayurveda, there are two ways for it.

1) To improve strength of brain & heart with medication, good food, & by changing lifestyle.

2) To concentrate on single topic at a single time. If a second though comes in note it down, but don't keep in brain. Finish the first one & then go to second.

This is called Switch on, Switch off method. This method looks difficult, but after some practice, you can enjoy the power of your brain.

Hope this Helps to all busy Multitaskers

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For futher details Contact :
Dr Amogh Deshpande
Ayurved Dep.Hardikar hospital
Shiwajinagar Pune – India
Mobile : 9860097753

5 ways to survive Your first freeze.

2014-02-11T12:48:00.001-08:00

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5 ways to survive Your first freeze.

Editor's note: Charles W. (Chuck) Bryant is the co-host, with Josh Clark, of Discovery Channel's 'Stuff You Should Know.' The pair has released nearly 600 episodes of their award-winning show since 2008.

(CNN) -- If you're from, say, the Midwest or Northeast or Alaska, dealing with the cold is not only a way of life, but also a point of pride: You can take care of yourself, and you're not shy about pointing it out. But, as evidenced by this week's "polar vortex," cold weather can barrel through many parts of the country — Georgia, Florida, Arkansas — where people aren't used to sub-freezing temperatures.

There are some true life-threatening scenarios, like a car breaking down on a rural stretch of wintery road (always pack a blanket), but it can be dangerous even in your own home if you're caught without the necessities you need to keep warm, and this is especially true for the elderly.

If you're in a part of the United States new to this kind of severe weather, here are some suggestions to help you help yourself.

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1: Wind chill can kill

Wind chill is the effect of moving air on exposed skin, a term coined by Antarctic explorer Paul Siple in the late 1930s to help describe how wind figures into heat loss. He experimented with wind chill's effect by timing how long it took to freeze water in varying degrees of wind strength. If you're not used to bitter wind chill, realize that you need to take it seriously when preparing for any outdoor activities. Skin exposed for five minutes in below-zero wind chill conditions can get frostbite. Longer can do worse.

Two University of California at Berkeley economists found that deaths related to cold reduced the average life expectancy of Americans by a decade, if not more. In countries where people were exposed to 10 or fewer days a year, the death rate was substantially higher than in countries with at least 90 cold days a year.

Additionally, cold weather can leave us without our thinking caps, willing to do whatever it takes to warm up. This can indirectly lead to unexpected fatalities because of accidents relating to carbon monoxide poisoning and house fires.

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2: Hypothermia and layering

Hypothermia -- when your body temperature falls to 95 degrees F -- is a grim possibility if you're facing the cold without power, and layering your clothing is your best first defense against it. If you're experiencing slurred speech, stiff joints, a loss of coordination, uncontrollable shivering, loss of bladder control, puffy face or mental confusion, you could be suffering from hypothermia, which can be fatal. To combat this, get yourself into a warmer environment as soon as you can. Cover yourself with any items you can find -- blankets, sleeping bags, pillows. Just as you layer your upper body clothing, you should also layer what you have on your feet. Try a thin pair of nylon, silk or wool socks for starters -- then layer with additional wool socks. If you think a loved one is suffering from hypothermia, you should handle that person with great care, as the condition could make it easy for him or her to go into cardiac arrest.

Keep them horizontal and calm, and reassure them that they're going to be fine. Use each other's body heat to warm up by getting into a sleeping bag together or simply hugging each other tight to create warmth. And, of course, seek medical attention as soon as possible.

3: Wear a hat, despite the myth

You've probably heard the popular myth that you lose most of your body heat through your head. This myth was perpetuated by an outdated U.S. Army survival training manual that stated that 40% to 50% of our body heat is lost through the head. The truth is, you lose the same amount of heat through your head as you would any part of your body that is exposed to the elements However, you're way more likely to go out into the cold without a warm hat, than say, a shirt or a pair of shoes. But just because you don't lose more heat through your head doesn't mean you should leave your winter hat on the rack. Wearing a touque is a great way to assist your heavy coat, gloves, boots and snow pants in keeping all of you warm. Think of it as capping off your winter clothing plan.

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4: Keep Hydrated

Hydration isn't just a warm weather worry. Many people forget that you need water in the freezing cold just as much as you do in hot weather. If your pipes are frozen, eating some snow or ice may seem like a great idea, but it will lower your core temperature and actually bring on dehydration. You can melt the snow or ice, but remember that while it can be safe to ingest in more remote locations, drinking water from melted "city snow" is a risk. You'll also want to avoid drinking only coffee or alcohol as a warming technique. I know this one is tough to resist since it may give you a short-term warm up, but it'll dehydrate you much more quickly. If you must indulge, remember to also drink plenty of water along with your coffee or toddy.

5: Light Your Fire

A fire is the best way to fight a winter chill if you're stuck in your home without power. And this means only fireplaces. You should never use your gas oven or stove to warm up under any circumstances as it could lead to carbon monoxide poisoning. But if you have a fireplace or a kerosene heater you're in luck. Use your fireplace as your main heat source, and if you can, sleep in the room with it — just not too close and with a protective fire screen. The last thing you want to do is wake up to find that fire has moved from the fireplace to your living room carpet.

If this vortex leaves you worried that winters could be severe in your part of the country from now on, before the next one, make sure you have a nice stockpile of wood, as it will be tougher to find once a storm hits, and outages can last days or weeks depending on how severe the weather is and how competent our utility company is in restoring power.

And here's a new summer task to consider: Make sure your chimney is clear and clean before the chimney sweeps are all booked up — and the next vortex swoops down from the north.

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Kids' chemical injuries down, but may rise in summer

2013-05-14T12:14:00.001-07:00

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Kids' chemical injuries down, but may rise in summer

By Kerry Grens

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Injuries from gasoline, lamp oil and similar chemicals have dropped considerably among small children in the last decade, according to a new study.

"It seems to decline right around 2000, 2001. That's when the Consumer Products Safety Commission mandated products be placed in child-resistant packaging," said Dr. Heath Jolliff, the study's lead author and associate medical director of the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus.

Summertime, however, brings extra risk for exposure to these types of poisonings, especially among toddlers.
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"The kind of gasoline (used) with the lawnmowers, (fuel for) tiki torches and that sort of thing - because of the access, (children) get the exposure," said Dr. Jennifer Lowry, chief of Clinical Toxicology at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.

Fuels such as lamp oil for tiki torches, kerosene for camping stoves and gasoline, as well as turpentine and some lubricants are all hydrocarbons - a category of dangerous liquids that is the third leading cause of children's poisoning deaths, Jolliff and his colleagues write in the journal Pediatrics.

"We had had a child in our hospital who had been exposed to a hydrocarbon and was very ill. And I said, 'let's look at this subcategory since they tend to be very dangerous,'" Jolliff told Reuters Health.

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To get a sense of broader trends in injuries resulting from these chemicals, the researchers gathered information from two large databases spanning the 10 years from 2000 through 2009.

One database includes emergency department records from about 100 hospitals across the U.S. The other has phone calls made to 57 regional poison control centers.

The researchers narrowed down the records to only those involving hydrocarbons and children five years old and younger - which totaled more than 40,000 patients treated in an emergency room and more than 65,000 phone calls to poison control.

They found that emergency room visits dropped over the study period, from roughly 19 out of every 100,000 kids in 2000 to about 14 of every 100,000 in 2009.

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Similarly, calls to poison control centers also fell, from 34 calls for every 100,000 kids in 2000 to about 21 of every 100,000 in 2009.

Injuries were most common among one- and two-year-olds, and kerosene, lamp oil and lighter fluids resulted in the most serious injuries and hospitalizations. Lamp oil was linked to the highest percentage of deaths.

Although the researchers could not determine why poisonings appeared to become less frequent over the 10-year study period, Lowry, who didn't participate in the research, thinks that child-resistant caps on poisonous containers likely helped.

In 2001, the Consumer Product Safety Commission required that all household products containing hydrocarbons be sealed with child-resistant packaging.

In addition, "there was a big educational push in the early 2000s on hydrocarbons and how dangerous they were," Lowry told Reuters Health.

Although injuries declined over time, summertime each year brought a slight bump in cases.
Nearly 32 percent of emergency room visits and poison control calls came during the summer months, compared with 19 percent of emergency room visits and 17 percent of poison control calls during the winter.

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Gasoline was the most common hydrocarbon involved in an injury, Jolliff's team found.

Nearly 32 percent of emergency department visits and 27.6 percent of poison control center calls concerned gasoline.

When the researchers looked through the medical records at the hospitals, they found a surprising cause.

"The number one reason was parents allowing their kids outside the automobile at the gas station, and kids pulled the hose out of the car and got splashed with it," said Jolliff.
What happens then is that because the liquid becomes a gas so quickly, the children inhale it into their lungs.

"It's very unsafe for children five and under to be out there helping to pump gas," said Lowry.
Jolliff said that although child-resistant packaging helps keeps kids out of dangerous chemicals, there is no such thing as child-proof containers.

Another recent study found that prescription drug poisonings among children is on the rise (see Reuters Health story of September 16, 2011 here: http://reut.rs/qIUKP9).
"We have to do better education on placement. One of the poison center mottos is 'up and away.' Keep them out of reach of children," said Lowry.

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Placebo as good as most drugs for kids migraines

2013-01-29T01:13:00.004-08:00

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Placebo as good as most drugs for kids migraines

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A drug-free placebo pill prevents migraines in kids and teens just as well as most headache medicines, according to a new review of past evidence.

Researchers found only two drugs known to help migraine-plagued adults reduced the frequency of kids' headaches better than a placebo. And even in those cases, the effect was small - a difference of less than one headache per month compared to the dummy pills.

"Parents should be aware that our medication choices aren't as good as they should be," said Dr. Jennifer Bickel, a neurologist and headache specialist at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri.

Bickel, who wasn't involved in the new research, said no drugs have been rigorously tested and approved for preventing migraines in kids, so doctors have to rely on headache drugs made for adults. World Hot Topics Blog

Those medicines, she added, are "not a miracle cure."

For cases when medication may not be enough, Bickel told Reuters Health, parents may want to look into relaxation techniques - such as meditation - for kids with chronic headaches.

According to data from the Cleveland Clinic, about 2 percent of young children and 7 to 10 percent of older kids and teenagers up to age 15 get migraines.

In their review, Dr. Jeffrey Jackson from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and his colleagues looked at 21 trials comparing headache drugs to each other or to placebos. They found only topiramate (marketed as Topamax) and trazodone (Oleptro and Desyrel) significantly reduced the frequency of headaches in kids and teens who got regular migraines.

Other adult headache prevention medicines, including flunarizine, propranolol and valproate, were of no help.

"All the drugs in our analysis have been found effective in adults with migraine headaches, but few were beneficial among children," Jackson's team wrote. World Hot Topics Blog

"This suggests there may be something different about pediatric migraines or that the response to treatment differs between children and adults."

Bickel said there is the least research on the one percent of kids who are most severely affected by migraines - those with chronic daily headaches. For those youth, "we don't have any evidence to suggest that the medications are enough," she added.

POWER OF PLACEBO?

In the new analysis, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, placebo pills alone led to a drop in kids' headache frequency from between five and six headaches per month to three per month.

That may have to do with the effect of seeing a doctor and being reassured the pain isn't due to anything serious, Bickel said.

According to a report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published in the same journal issue, two drugs - almotriptan malate (Axert) and rizatriptan benzoate (Maxalt) - are approved to treat (but not prevent) headaches in kids and teens. World Hot Topics Blog

In a review of evidence provided to the FDA, Dr. William Rodriguez and his colleagues also found kids tended to get better after treatment with a placebo more often than adults - possibly related to their headaches lasting less time anyway.

For kids who get headaches once a week or less, Bickel said the pain can be treated with over the counter painkillers, or even just waited out in a quiet place.

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Heart Attack vs Water For your Life

2013-01-07T11:56:00.002-08:00

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This is very true! Tried and tested!

DRINK WATER ON EMPTY STOMACH

It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven its value. We publish below a description of use of water for our readers. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical society as a 100% cure for the following diseases: World Hot Topics Blog
Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases.

METHOD OF TREATMENT
1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml glasses of water

2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minute

3.. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.

4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for 2 hours

5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day.

6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life. World Hot Topics Blog

The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to cure/control/ reduce main diseases:
1. High Blood Pressure (30 days)
2. Gastric (10 days)
3. Diabetes (30 days)
4. Constipation (10 days)
5. Cancer (180 days)
6. TB (90 days)
7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwards – daily..

This treatment method has no side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times.
It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a routine work in our life. Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active.

This makes sense .. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals not cold water. Maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain...

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.
It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion.

Once this'sludge'reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine.
Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
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A serious note about heart attacks:

· Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting,
· Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.
· You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.
· Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.
· 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.
· Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...
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Ten Ideas on Creating Family Traditions for Christmas Eve

2012-12-24T08:27:00.003-08:00

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Ten Ideas on Creating Family Traditions for Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve can be a seemingly magical night, especially for young children. You can create treasured memories by establishing family traditions that they can look forward to each Christmas season. Using any one of the ten suggestions below can help you make Christmas Eve one of the most eagerly anticipated nights of the year. World Hot Topics Blog

1. Get in the kitchen and bake cookies or other goodies together. Make some for your own family as well as some to deliver to neighbors that evening or on Christmas Day. Set a couple of treats out on a plate as a snack for Santa Claus.

2. Have the kids put on their pajamas, take cups and a thermos filled with hot chocolate, and drive through your neighborhood and surrounding areas looking at Christmas lights and displays.

3. Pop some popcorn, then gather in the family room and watch your favorite Christmas show or movie.

4. Have a special Christmas Eve dinner. Serve some of the same foods from year to year. Use your best china, glassware and linens and eat by candlelight, with Christmas music playing softly in the background. World Hot Topics Blog

5. Dress up in holiday dresses or other Christmas attire and attend a Christmas Eve church service.

6. Eat an early dinner at home, then go out to a nice restaurant for dessert. While many eateries may close early in the evening, some stay open a bit later and are generally not very crowded.

7. Allow everyone to open one present on Christmas Eve. This could be the same type of gift each year, such as an ornament to commemorate a milestone that your child has reached during the year or something simple like a pair of Christmas pajamas.

8. Read Christmas stories together at bedtime. Try a children's book that contains the story of Jesus' birth or the traditional 'Twas the Night before Christmas.

9. Set up a treasure hunt around the house or in the yard with Christmas-related clues that lead the children to a special treat or a small gift. World Hot Topics Blog

10. Find a charitable organization that needs volunteer help either for Christmas Eve or in preparation for Christmas Day activities.

Spending time doing something together on Christmas Eve is a great way not only to build family relationships, but also to relax and unwind after the busyness of the holiday season.

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Even moderate drinking in pregnancy may affect child's IQ

2012-12-11T09:29:00.002-08:00

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Even moderate drinking in pregnancy may affect child's IQ

LONDON (Reuters) - Women who drink even moderate amounts of alcohol while pregnant may risk lowering child's intelligence levels, according to a study by British scientists.

Advice to pregnant women about drinking is contradictory, with some guidelines recommending no alcohol at all and others suggesting the odd drink now and then is safe. World Hot Topics Blog

But in a study described as "hugely important" by one expert, researchers using genetic analysis of more than 4,000 mothers and children found that drinking between one and six units of alcohol a week during pregnancy can lead to lower Intelligence Quotient (IQ) scores by the time a child is eight.

"Even at levels of alcohol consumption which are normally considered to be harmless, we can detect differences in childhood IQ which are dependent on the ability of the fetus to clear this alcohol," said Sarah Lewis of Bristol University, who led the study. "This is evidence that even at these moderate levels, alcohol is influencing fetal brain development." World Hot Topics Blog

This study used genetic data from women and children who were part of another study called the Children of the 90s study.

Since the individual genetic variations that people have in their DNA are not connected to lifestyle and social factors, this kind of study avoids potential complications.

Most previous studies have used observational evidence, but experts say this can be misleading because, for example, mothers who drink in moderation while pregnant are typically also well educated, have good diets and are unlikely to smoke - all factors linked to higher IQ in children and which could mask any negative effects of alcohol. World Hot Topics Blog

A U.S. study published in July found that older, educated women are more likely to drink while pregnant.

GENES AFFECT ALCOHOL METABOLISM
This study, published in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday, used a new technique analyzing the genetic variants which modify the effects of alcohol exposure levels.

When a person drinks alcohol, ethanol is converted to acetaldehyde by a group of enzymes, the researchers explained.

Variations in genes that 'encode' these enzymes lead to differences in a person's ability to metabolize ethanol, so in "slow metabolizes", alcohol levels may be higher for longer than in "fast metabolizes". Scientists think fast ethanol metabolism protects against abnormal brain development because less alcohol goes to the fetus.

The mothers were asked to record their alcohol consumption at various stages during pregnancy, and one drink was specified as one unit of alcohol. World Hot Topics Blog

The results showed that four genetic variants in alcohol-metabolizing genes among the 4,167 children were strongly related to lower IQ at age eight. The child's IQ was on average almost two points lower per genetic variation they had.

The effect was only seen among children of women who were moderate drinkers and there was no effect evident in children of mothers who abstained during pregnancy. This strongly suggests it was exposure to alcohol in the womb that led to the difference in child IQ, the researchers said.

"This is a complex study but the message is simple: even moderate amounts of alcohol during pregnancy can have an effect on future child intelligence." said Ron Gray of Oxford University, who was part of Lewis's team. World Hot Topics Blog

David Nutt, a professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London who was not involved in the research, said it was "a hugely important study from the best UK cohort that can study this question".

"Even though the IQ effects are small, if at all possible women should avoid ethanol in pregnancy as it's a known toxin," he said in an emailed comment.

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Shaping a security team, Obama's challenge deepens

2012-11-14T06:24:00.001-08:00

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Shaping a security team, Obama's challenge deepens

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barely a week after winning re-election, President Barack Obama suddenly confronts a deepening challenge in assembling a new national security team, his task complicated by a scandal that has cost him a CIA chief and raised doubts about his Afghanistan war commander.

Hard questions from Congress, potentially bitter confirmation hearings and a scandal of infidelity and inappropriate emails are suddenly shaping the fight ahead. The White House portrayed a president focused on the economy and confident in his military and intelligence leadership, but clearly not thrilled.

When asked if the personnel troubles were an unwelcome distraction, presidential spokesman Jay Carney said: "I certainly wouldn't call it welcome." World Hot Topics Blog

Obama was already expecting to have to replace his chief diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and perhaps his defense secretary, Leon Panetta. Those two alone — plus Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who is also leaving — help shape Obama's thinking and represent him before the world.

Now Obama is without his CIA director, David Petraeus, the once acclaimed military general in Iraq and Afghanistan who resigned in disgrace last week over an extramarital affair.

The details of that scandal keep expanding Tuesday, including the revelation that the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, is under investigation by the Pentagon for potentially inappropriate communications with another woman in the case. That, in turn, has frozen Allen's nomination to be the next commander of U.S. European Command and the commander of NATO forces in Europe, which casts more doubt about a military leadership in which each move affects another.

"It's a hard moment for the administration," said Joshua Rovner, an associate professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College in Rhode Island. "It certainly wasn't expected, but if anything good comes out of it, they do have a chance to take a long, hard look at strategy."

He noted that Petraeus had taken on such revered status for his military career that he won confirmation as CIA chief with little scrutiny. World Hot Topics Blog
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Even beyond the surprise difficulties, Obama could have trouble with the rest of his high-stakes turnover.

When Clinton leaves, a favorite to replace her is Susan Rice, an Obama loyalist who serves as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She could face a bruising confirmation hearing given that she was the first face of the administration's maligned explanation of the fatal attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

"She's clearly going to have a little more difficult time than she would have if she hadn't gone out on all those talk shows," said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the second-ranking Senate Republican. Kyl is retiring at year's end and likely would not get a vote on Rice, but he said: "As of right now, I wouldn't support her."

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Rice could have a difficult time winning confirmation, although he didn't take a position.

"I'm concerned about the fact that she went on Sunday shows and said it was the product of a spontaneous uprising as opposed to a terrorist attack. Why did they wait so long to publicly ...change their position on it? I think she'd have to answer questions about that, no doubt about it." World Hot Topics Blog

Some of Rice's key advocates predict Republican lawmakers would not have the inclination or the votes to try to block Obama from appointing the State Department chief he wants. Yet others expect her confirmation hearing to be contentious and are wary of picking that fight at the start of the second term.

The other top candidate for the State job is Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, who is expected to be confirmed easily by his chamber colleagues. His departure from the Senate, though, could potentially cost Obama's party a seat by creating an opening for the man who just lost the other Senate seat, Scott Brown.
The idea of Kerry as defense secretary, which has also been floated, is not one that he has expressed an interest in, according to people close to him.

For Obama, the post-election period was intended to focus on starting to enact the economic agenda at the core of his re-election bid. He and Congress are in the hunt for elusive compromise before Jan. 1 if they are to avoid a huge package of tax increases and spending cuts that could derail the economic recovery.
Obama is, in fact, pursuing that course. But a story involving sex, resignations, national security and congressional oversight has a way of grabbing attention. World Hot Topics Blog

Carney, the president's spokesman, characterized the cases of Petraeus and Allen as individual matters that reflected no broader theme or challenge.

"I really would ask you to not extrapolate broadly," Carney told reporters. "The president has great confidence in the military, great confidence in his commanders, and will continue to have that confidence."
That expression of confidence extends to Allen, which is significant given the state of America's longest war. Allen is due soon to give Panetta a recommendation on the pace of U.S. troop withdrawals in 2013; about 68,000 U.S. troops are still serving in a war that is on pace to continue until the end of 2014.

How long Panetta himself will lead the defense agency is yet another unknown for Obama. The Pentagon chief Panetta recently has indicated a willingness to stay on for at least some of Obama's second-term.

When asked whether he would rule out staying for all of Obama's second term, Panetta said: "Who the hell knows?"

Associated Press writers Donna Cassata, Julie Pace and Bradley Klapper contributed to this story.

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Man arrested after leading deputies on 100 mph chase

2012-11-12T11:31:00.000-08:00

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Man arrested after leading deputies on 100 mph chase along U.S. 41

Sheriff’s deputies say a 39-year-old North Naples man led them on a chase at speeds of more than 100 mph along U.S. 41.

Timothy J. Varble, of the 3300 block of Bermuda Isle Circle, was arrested early Saturday and charged with high-speed reckless fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer with its lights and sirens active.

A Collier County sheriff’s deputy said he pulled over a pickup Varble was driving after the man made an improper U-turn at U.S. 41 and Immokalee Road about 11 p.m. Friday, reports stated. The deputy said Varble exited the truck and began walking toward him, saying his mother was in the hospital and wanted to leave.World Hot Topics Blog

The deputy, who had asked Varble to return to his pickup, said he found arrest warrants sought Varble on charges of failing to pay child support and driving with a suspended license. When the deputy said he was placing Varble under arrest, Varble fled in the truck north on U.S. 41.

The deputy said he pursued Varble, who was driving at speeds of more than 100 mph along U.S. 41. Varble eventually turned left onto Bonita Beach Road, heading west at speeds approaching 100 mph. Varble crashed his truck just west of Barefoot Beach Road and was treated and released from a hospital for injuries before being booked into the Naples Jail Center.

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N.J. earthquake causes stir in midst of Sandy recovery

2012-11-05T11:15:00.002-08:00

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N.J. earthquake causes stir in midst of Sandy recovery

N.J. earthquake update: Early Monday morning, an earthquake in New Jersey rocked residents in the small town of Ringwood. The temblor measured only 2.0 on the Richter scale, but in the wake of Hurricane "Superstorm" Sandy and widespread power outages, the rare shaking was unsettling.

Monday, the Christian Science Monitor reported that many residents of the town -- less than an hour's drive north from New York, heard a boom at the time of the N.J. earthquake.World Hot Topics Blog

The National Earthquake Information Center reported that shaking was felt in Wanaque, Mahwah, Franklin Lakes, Oakland, West Milford and Paterson. The good news is there are no reports of injuries.
The New Jersey earthquake Monday was the second since February of 2010. Again, this was a mild seismic event, measuring only 2.2 magnitude.

Hurricane "Superstorm" Sandy tore through the East Coast last week and left a path of destruction through several states, mainly in New York and New Jersey. NBCNews reports that as of Monday, 1,389,000 million people in the Mid-Atlantic are without power, down from two million from the day before.

With Election Day Tuesday, round-the-clock efforts are underway to get power restored to residents and businesses.

Did the N.J. earthquake affect your area? Share your shaking experiences.

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