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April 12, 2013
21 Foot Wasp Nest Found in Abandoned House in Spain.
not a pretty nest, you are warned..
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/scary-mother-nature-giant-wasp-nest-housing-millions-of-stingers-found-in-abandoned-house.html
April 8, 2013
7 April 2013 Last updated at 20:08 ET
Red meat chemical 'damages heart', say US scientists.
By James Gallagher
Health and science reporter, BBC News
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A study in the journal Nature Medicine showed that carnitine in red meat was broken down by bacteria in the gut. This kicked off a chain of events that resulted in higher levels of cholesterol and an increased risk of heart disease.
Dieticians warned there may be a risk to people taking carnitine supplements. There has been a wealth of studies suggesting that regularly eating red meat may be damaging to health.
In the UK, the government recommends eating no more than 70g of red or processed meat a day - the equivalent of two slices of bacon.
Saturated fat and the way processed meat is preserved are thought to contribute to heart problems. However, this was not thought to be the whole story.................
Gut bugs
Experiments on mice and people showed that bacteria in the gut could eat carnitine. Carnitine was broken down into a gas, which was converted in the liver to a chemical called TMAO. In the study, TMAO was strongly linked with the build-up of fatty deposits in blood vessels, which can lead to heart disease and death.
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another more complete link from Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=red-meat-clogs-arteries-bacteria
This is another link on the study ( the actual study is in Nature Medicine)..this is Nature Magazine:
http://www.nature.com/news/red-meat-wrong-bacteria-bad-news-for-hearts-1.12746
This proves the theory about red meat. The study presents a smoking gun for heart disease. Guess who consumes the most red meat?? Not the U.S.A...we are second:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/world-meat-consumption_n_1475760.html#s935926&title=2_United_States
Red Meat Chemical Damages Heart, Say U.S. Scientists: BBC Health
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22042995#7 April 2013 Last updated at 20:08 ET
Red meat chemical 'damages heart', say US scientists.
By James Gallagher
Health and science reporter, BBC News
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
A study in the journal Nature Medicine showed that carnitine in red meat was broken down by bacteria in the gut. This kicked off a chain of events that resulted in higher levels of cholesterol and an increased risk of heart disease.
Dieticians warned there may be a risk to people taking carnitine supplements. There has been a wealth of studies suggesting that regularly eating red meat may be damaging to health.
In the UK, the government recommends eating no more than 70g of red or processed meat a day - the equivalent of two slices of bacon.
Saturated fat and the way processed meat is preserved are thought to contribute to heart problems. However, this was not thought to be the whole story.................
Gut bugs
Experiments on mice and people showed that bacteria in the gut could eat carnitine. Carnitine was broken down into a gas, which was converted in the liver to a chemical called TMAO. In the study, TMAO was strongly linked with the build-up of fatty deposits in blood vessels, which can lead to heart disease and death.
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another more complete link from Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=red-meat-clogs-arteries-bacteria
This is another link on the study ( the actual study is in Nature Medicine)..this is Nature Magazine:
http://www.nature.com/news/red-meat-wrong-bacteria-bad-news-for-hearts-1.12746
This proves the theory about red meat. The study presents a smoking gun for heart disease. Guess who consumes the most red meat?? Not the U.S.A...we are second:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/world-meat-consumption_n_1475760.html#s935926&title=2_United_States
April 7, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some people have had it with TV. They've had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don't like timing their lives around network show schedules. They're tired of $100-plus monthly bills.
A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don't even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. These people are watching shows and movies on the Internet, sometimes via cellphone connections. Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from 2 million in 2007.
Winning back the Zero TV crowd will be one of the many issues broadcasters discuss at their national meeting, called the NAB Show, taking place this week in Las Vegas.
While show creators and networks make money from this group's viewing habits through deals with online video providers and from advertising on their own websites and apps, broadcasters only get paid when they relay such programming in traditional ways. Unless broadcasters can adapt to modern platforms, their revenue from Zero TV viewers will be zero.
"Getting broadcast programing on all the gizmos and gadgets — like tablets, the backseats of cars, and laptops — is hugely important," says Dennis Wharton, a spokesman for the National Association of Broadcasters.
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I have a TV and use it for broadcast stuff, very rarely..Occasionally for some news. I do not have cable, I have never had it, have a free antenna and don't know crap about the shows. I really lost interest when they took off, Star Trek Enterprise..and that was not last week. I catch a lot of the stuff that is important right here at DU and on the net..
Boadcasters Worry about Zero TV Homes : Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/broadcasters-worry-zero-tv-homes-154357101--finance.htmlLOS ANGELES (AP) — Some people have had it with TV. They've had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don't like timing their lives around network show schedules. They're tired of $100-plus monthly bills.
A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don't even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. These people are watching shows and movies on the Internet, sometimes via cellphone connections. Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from 2 million in 2007.
Winning back the Zero TV crowd will be one of the many issues broadcasters discuss at their national meeting, called the NAB Show, taking place this week in Las Vegas.
While show creators and networks make money from this group's viewing habits through deals with online video providers and from advertising on their own websites and apps, broadcasters only get paid when they relay such programming in traditional ways. Unless broadcasters can adapt to modern platforms, their revenue from Zero TV viewers will be zero.
"Getting broadcast programing on all the gizmos and gadgets — like tablets, the backseats of cars, and laptops — is hugely important," says Dennis Wharton, a spokesman for the National Association of Broadcasters.
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I have a TV and use it for broadcast stuff, very rarely..Occasionally for some news. I do not have cable, I have never had it, have a free antenna and don't know crap about the shows. I really lost interest when they took off, Star Trek Enterprise..and that was not last week. I catch a lot of the stuff that is important right here at DU and on the net..
April 7, 2013
Think Progress:
By Annie-Rose Strasser on Apr 5, 2013 at 5:30 pm
The Americans Civil Liberties Union on Friday revealed that courts in Ohio are illegally throwing poor people in jail for being unable to pay off a debt.
In a report titled, “The Outskirts of Hope,” (PDF) the ACLU shines a light on a harrowing “debtors’ prison” system in Ohio — one that violates both the United States’ and the Ohio constitution. Ohioans are being jailed for “as small as a few hundred dollars,” despite the constitutional violation, and the economic evidence that it costs the state more to pay for their jail sentence than the amount of the debt.
In its report, the ACLU details the stories of several people sent to debtors’ prison. Jack Dawley owed $1,500 in “fines and costs in the Norwalk Municipal Court,” and was behind on child support payments, leading the Ohio courts to send him to prison in Wisconsin for 3 and a half years. He still struggles with trying to repay the fines. Another victim of the system, single mother Tricia Metcalf, was taken to jail each and every time she wasn’t able to make her $50-a-month payments on fines for writing bad checks. Megan Sharp, whose husband is currently in jail on overdue fines, was unable to pay $300 in fines for driving on a suspended license and went to jail for 10 days. When she got out, she owed $200 more on top of the original amount. Both she and her husband are unemployed.
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Report: Ohio is Illegally Throwing People in Jail for Oweing Money: Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/05/1829601/ohio-debtors-prison/Think Progress:
By Annie-Rose Strasser on Apr 5, 2013 at 5:30 pm
The Americans Civil Liberties Union on Friday revealed that courts in Ohio are illegally throwing poor people in jail for being unable to pay off a debt.
In a report titled, “The Outskirts of Hope,” (PDF) the ACLU shines a light on a harrowing “debtors’ prison” system in Ohio — one that violates both the United States’ and the Ohio constitution. Ohioans are being jailed for “as small as a few hundred dollars,” despite the constitutional violation, and the economic evidence that it costs the state more to pay for their jail sentence than the amount of the debt.
In its report, the ACLU details the stories of several people sent to debtors’ prison. Jack Dawley owed $1,500 in “fines and costs in the Norwalk Municipal Court,” and was behind on child support payments, leading the Ohio courts to send him to prison in Wisconsin for 3 and a half years. He still struggles with trying to repay the fines. Another victim of the system, single mother Tricia Metcalf, was taken to jail each and every time she wasn’t able to make her $50-a-month payments on fines for writing bad checks. Megan Sharp, whose husband is currently in jail on overdue fines, was unable to pay $300 in fines for driving on a suspended license and went to jail for 10 days. When she got out, she owed $200 more on top of the original amount. Both she and her husband are unemployed.
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April 7, 2013
I need a list of upbeat movies..please...
I got a list of a couple of years ago..seems to be on the old DU...
could we make another..??? That is a worthwhile idea..thank you...
Well...one of my favorite all time...The Producers...Zero Mostel
April 6, 2013
Think Progress, from: British Medical Journal
By Sy Mukherjee on Apr 5, 2013 at 5:20 pm
In a new study published in the online edition of the British Medical Journal, researchers write that a 50 percent reduction in daily salt intake “could prevent approximately 100,000 deaths from heart attack and stroke in the United States every year.” Curbing salt intake by that high a margin is certainly a mean feat — but not because Americans are saturating their food with sodium. Rather, study authors suggest that the real culprits are food makers who douse their products with harmful levels of salt.
Results from the controlled study — which measured the blood pressures of 3,000 adults who dramatically curbed their salt intake over the course of a month — indicated an average five point drop in systolic blood pressure, confirming similar findings previously published in the Journal. Last month, Harvard researchers conducting a separate study also found that excess sodium was linked to one in ten American deaths. Since high blood pressure is the number one risk factor associated with heart disease and stroke, the findings suggest that U.S. public health would benefit substantially from lower salt consumption.
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Restaurants and Salt: A case in point...Olive Garden...
A couple of years ago, 2 friends and I went to the Olive Garden for Dinner. We got into this argument about "salt" ..so..when we got back to the house, we looked up how much salt was in each meal. The three of us averaged about 2200mg per meal. Evidently the Olive Garden publishes this info for its customers for some reason... an individual watching salt, should get no more than 2000 mg per day. each meal had more...also... their dinner rolls or whatever they are called...each had over 500 mg of salt ..each one..Haven't been back since..
The Food Industry's Overuse of Salt Contributes to 100,000 American Deaths A Year: Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/05/1827821/food-industry-salt/Think Progress, from: British Medical Journal
By Sy Mukherjee on Apr 5, 2013 at 5:20 pm
In a new study published in the online edition of the British Medical Journal, researchers write that a 50 percent reduction in daily salt intake “could prevent approximately 100,000 deaths from heart attack and stroke in the United States every year.” Curbing salt intake by that high a margin is certainly a mean feat — but not because Americans are saturating their food with sodium. Rather, study authors suggest that the real culprits are food makers who douse their products with harmful levels of salt.
Results from the controlled study — which measured the blood pressures of 3,000 adults who dramatically curbed their salt intake over the course of a month — indicated an average five point drop in systolic blood pressure, confirming similar findings previously published in the Journal. Last month, Harvard researchers conducting a separate study also found that excess sodium was linked to one in ten American deaths. Since high blood pressure is the number one risk factor associated with heart disease and stroke, the findings suggest that U.S. public health would benefit substantially from lower salt consumption.
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Restaurants and Salt: A case in point...Olive Garden...
A couple of years ago, 2 friends and I went to the Olive Garden for Dinner. We got into this argument about "salt" ..so..when we got back to the house, we looked up how much salt was in each meal. The three of us averaged about 2200mg per meal. Evidently the Olive Garden publishes this info for its customers for some reason... an individual watching salt, should get no more than 2000 mg per day. each meal had more...also... their dinner rolls or whatever they are called...each had over 500 mg of salt ..each one..Haven't been back since..
April 6, 2013
So am I.......
I bought a nice new fresh copy...I urge people to read it...but I have only read parts...you want the truth right here...
I am already addicted to that stuff....hard to stay away...believe me..oh welllllllllllll...
April 5, 2013
Zero Stars..
The Green Berets" simply will not do as a film about the war in Vietnam. It is offensive not only to those who oppose American policy but even to those who support it. At this moment in our history, locked in the longest and one of the most controversial wars we have ever fought, what we certainly do not need is a movie depicting Vietnam in terms of cowboys and Indians. That is cruel and dishonest and unworthy of the thousands who have died there.
It is not a simple war. We all know it is not simple. Perhaps we could have believed this film in 1962 or 1963, when most of us didn't much care what was happening in Vietnam. But we cannot believe it today. Not after television has brought the reality of the war to us. Not after the Fulbright hearings and the congressional debates and the primaries. Not after 23,000 Americans have been killed.
Whether we are for the war or against it, we all know it is a terribly complicated struggle. There is a desperate need in this country for a film that will depict the war in honest terms. There have been two such films: Eugene Jones' heart-wrenching masterpiece "A Face of War" and the Academy Award-winning documentary "The Anderson Platoon." The Jones film has never played in Chicago. The other closed after a week.
Neither film is against the war. Instead, both try to explain it in terms of the confused struggle there, and the soldiers who are fighting it. It is this sort of film that many Americans hunger for: a film that will tell it like it is. We need no more propaganda.
But propaganda is what we get in "The Green Berets," a heavy-handed, remarkably old-fashioned film. It is supposed to be about Vietnam, but it isn't. The military adventures we see could be from any war. In one, the enemy attacks a camp and the two sides shoot at each other. In the other, a team of soldiers kidnaps a Viet Cong general.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680626/REVIEWS/806260301/1023
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The rest of the review is at the link above......................
Roger was named film critic of the Sun Times on April 5, 1967. So he was on the job for about a year and 2 months when he wrote this.
A young unknown critic takes a shot at a John Wayne film...................
The Green Barets...was a movie about Viet Nam..propaganda......for this death filled war...wrongly fought for the wrong reasons.. I followed Ebert most of my life..as I stated in another post..so..when he wrote this review..zero stars..... in the middle of the Viet Nam War..note (23,000 American killed)...I took real note..and I will always remember it...I had just graduated from college, Roger was new on the job ..and he wrote this great review.. ..... ..one that says a whole lot more about Roger as a person, as we now know...
Roger Ebert's Review..."The Green Barets" June 28, 1968
Zero Stars..
The Green Berets" simply will not do as a film about the war in Vietnam. It is offensive not only to those who oppose American policy but even to those who support it. At this moment in our history, locked in the longest and one of the most controversial wars we have ever fought, what we certainly do not need is a movie depicting Vietnam in terms of cowboys and Indians. That is cruel and dishonest and unworthy of the thousands who have died there.
It is not a simple war. We all know it is not simple. Perhaps we could have believed this film in 1962 or 1963, when most of us didn't much care what was happening in Vietnam. But we cannot believe it today. Not after television has brought the reality of the war to us. Not after the Fulbright hearings and the congressional debates and the primaries. Not after 23,000 Americans have been killed.
Whether we are for the war or against it, we all know it is a terribly complicated struggle. There is a desperate need in this country for a film that will depict the war in honest terms. There have been two such films: Eugene Jones' heart-wrenching masterpiece "A Face of War" and the Academy Award-winning documentary "The Anderson Platoon." The Jones film has never played in Chicago. The other closed after a week.
Neither film is against the war. Instead, both try to explain it in terms of the confused struggle there, and the soldiers who are fighting it. It is this sort of film that many Americans hunger for: a film that will tell it like it is. We need no more propaganda.
But propaganda is what we get in "The Green Berets," a heavy-handed, remarkably old-fashioned film. It is supposed to be about Vietnam, but it isn't. The military adventures we see could be from any war. In one, the enemy attacks a camp and the two sides shoot at each other. In the other, a team of soldiers kidnaps a Viet Cong general.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680626/REVIEWS/806260301/1023
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The rest of the review is at the link above......................
Roger was named film critic of the Sun Times on April 5, 1967. So he was on the job for about a year and 2 months when he wrote this.
A young unknown critic takes a shot at a John Wayne film...................
The Green Barets...was a movie about Viet Nam..propaganda......for this death filled war...wrongly fought for the wrong reasons.. I followed Ebert most of my life..as I stated in another post..so..when he wrote this review..zero stars..... in the middle of the Viet Nam War..note (23,000 American killed)...I took real note..and I will always remember it...I had just graduated from college, Roger was new on the job ..and he wrote this great review.. ..... ..one that says a whole lot more about Roger as a person, as we now know...
April 4, 2013
In 1966 or 7 he wrote a column for the Daily Illini which I read when I was at U of I.
It was this essay against apartheid. He had traveled to South Africa and wrote this scathing column against it. I never forgot that.
Somehow the way he wrote stuck in my head then and now. I once wrote him about that many years later, he responded with a kind letter....
He was always a progressive ..always.. a great human being..
April 4, 2013
So this is what this guy gets for his actions...$622,500 plus $100,000. Not bad for being a complete asshole......Someone who its his student. Now, I used to teach..and if I hit my students, repeatedly........well, maybe jail... not a bonus..
Rutgers owes Ex Coach $100,000 Bonus
Source: Huffington Post, AP
By GEOFF MULVIHILL 04/04/13 10:54 AM ET EDT
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Rutgers University's fired basketball coach is due a $100,000 bonus for lasting through the season.
Mike Rice was dismissed Wednesday after a video was made public of him kicking and shoving players and spewing gay slurs during practices.
He would not be collecting the bonus if he had been fired in December when the university first saw the video and the administration decided only to discipline him.
Rice was paid $622,500 last year under a deal that also included bonuses for winning games and graduating players. His five-year contract called for a $100,000 bonus if he completed the 2012-13 season.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/mike-rice-bonus-rutgers-fired-coach_n_3014848.html
So this is what this guy gets for his actions...$622,500 plus $100,000. Not bad for being a complete asshole......Someone who its his student. Now, I used to teach..and if I hit my students, repeatedly........well, maybe jail... not a bonus..
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