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Thursday, September 6, 2012
MOST POPULAR
The first lady takes the stage tonight as the most popular figure in this year's presidential campaign. Michelle Obama earns higher favorability ratings than her husband, his Republican rival, the other contender for first lady or either candidate for the vice presidency, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll.
In the poll, conducted before the Republican convention began, 64 percent of Americans said they had a favorable view of Mrs. Obama. President Obama came in at 53 percent favorable, Mitt Romney landed at 44 percent and his wife Ann Romney stood at 40 percent. Joe Biden earned a 42 percent favorability rating; Paul Ryan, 38 percent.
Views of Mrs. Obama tilt favorably among independents and women, two focal points in her husband's campaign for re-election. She garners favorable reviews from 56 percent of independents and is viewed unfavorably by just 18 percent in this group.
Among women, her ratings soar to 72 percent favorable, compared with 55 percent among men. The gender gap is particularly pronounced among Republicans (26 percent of GOP men have a favorable view of the first lady, 52 percent of Republican women do) and married people (75 percent of married women view the first lady favorably compared with 50 percent of married men).
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Egypt's president urges Syrian regime to go, warns Iran to stay out of Arab affairs
CAIRO - Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi gave his first major foreign policy speech on Wednesday, calling on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime to step down and warning Iran against interfering in Arab affairs.
He also voiced support for Palestinian efforts to gain full membership status at the United Nations.
Addressing an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo, the Islamist leader outlined the foreign policy objectives of his administration, more than two months after he took office as the nation's first freely elected and civilian president.
His comments signalled an attempt to reassert Egyptian leadership in the Middle East. Many Egyptians say the country's role was diminished role under Morsi's predecessor, ousted authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak, and that this allowed non-Arab powers such as Turkey and Iran to gain influence in the region.
In lambasting Iran, Morsi has placed Egypt firmly in the camp of Gulf Arab nations led by Saudi Arabia, which see Shiite and Persian Iran to be meddling in their affairs and a threat to their security. The United Arab Emirates, for example, accuses Iran of illegally occupying three islands it claims as its own. Bahrain says Iran is encouraging the Shiite majority in the tiny island nation to rise up against the ruling Sunni minority family for more rights.
Mubarak was overthrown in early 2011 in a popular uprising. After 17 months of military rule, Morsi defeated Mubarak's last prime minister in a presidential election and took office in June.
Morsi, who hails from the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood group, has chosen foreign policy as the forum to make his first mark as president. He started off in Iran last month with a surprisingly hard-hitting speech during a summit of the Nonaligned Movement. He voiced his support for Syrian rebels against Assad's "oppressive" regime.
Those comments took on added significance because they were made in Iran, Assad's closest ally and his main foreign backer.
Morsi continued in the same vein on Wednesday.
"I tell the Syrian regime that there is still a chance to halt the bloodshed," he said. "Don't listen to the voices that tempt you to stay because you will not be there for much longer. There is no room for further delaying a decision that will stop the bloodshed," he added.
"It's too late to talk about reform. This is the time for change. The Syrian regime must learn from recent history," he said. He was alluding to the fate of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen that have been overthrown by Arab Spring uprisings.
The Syrian conflict began nearly 18 months ago with mostly peaceful protests demanding the ouster of Assad, who succeeded his father, Hafez Assad, in 2000. The uprising morphed into a civil war as the opposition took up arms in response to the regime's use of heavy military force to quell the protests.
At least 23,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011, according to anti-regime activists.
"Everyone must realize that the Syrian people have made their decision and that decision must be implemented through change," said Morsi.
Without mentioning Iran by name, Morsi said there can never be any co-operation between the Arab world and neighbouring nations except on the basis of "a clear and candid declaration of respect for the sovereignty of Arab nations and non-interference in their affairs."
On the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Morsi said Israel was not making serious efforts to reach a settlement.
"We need to provide our Palestinian brothers with the necessary support to reach a just settlement," he said. Morsi also labeled as a "fair demand" the Palestinian diplomatic drive to win full membership status at the United Nations.
Israel, which Morsi did not mention by name, is opposed to those Palestinian efforts, arguing that such a move would hinder negotiations to reach a settlement.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-president-urges-syrian-regime-warns-iran-stay-162014372.html
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Physically Fit Obese People Do Not Have Increased Risk of Heart ...
Obesity has been associated with metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol levels, high triglycerides levels, increased visceral fat deposits, and high blood pressure.? Obesity has also been associated with the metabolic syndrome, a condition which increases cardiovascular risk and predisposes to heart attack and stroke.? As a result, obesity has generally been considered an unhealthy state.? There are some obese individuals who do not have any of the previously mentioned metabolic disorders.? Despite being obese, these individuals are generally metabolically healthy and lead an active lifestyle, obtain regular exercise, and are physically fit.? It has been unclear whether these metabolically healthy but obese individuals have the same heart health risks as those individuals that are metabolically unhealthy and obese.
Researchers, led by Dr. Francisco Ortega of the University of Granada in Spain, have found that individuals that are metabolically healthy but obese do not have increased risk of heart disease.? The results of their study were published online in the European Heart Journal.? The researchers measured physical fitness by exercise testing and body fat was measured by body mass index (BMI) and body fat percent by hydrostatic weighing or skinfolds in 43,265 study participants.? Metabolically healthy was defined as meeting 0 or 1 of the criteria for metabolic syndrome.? Metabolically healthy but obese individuals had 38% lower risk of all-cause mortality, and 30-50% lower risk of non-fatal and fatal cardiovascular disease, and cancer mortality when compared to metabolically unhealthy and obese individuals.? In addition, there was no observed difference between metabolically healthy but obese and metabolically healthy normal fat individuals.
The authors wrote, ?The results of the present study suggest that: (i) metabolically healthy but obese individuals have better fitness than their metabolically abnormal obese peers, both in men and women and using BMI or [body fat percent] to define obesity; (ii) for a given fitness level, the metabolically healthy but obese phenotype is a benign condition, since these individuals had a lower risk for mortality and morbidity than that observed in metabolically abnormal obese individuals?.
The authors also wrote, ?The results from the current study have important clinical implications.? Our data suggest that accurate [body fat percent] and fitness assessment can contribute to properly define a subset of obese individuals who do not have an elevated risk of [cardiovascular disease] or cancer?.
In an accompanying editorial it was commented, ?Obesity may carry benefit up to a certain degree, and it should be recognized that obesity is not necessarily associated with abnormal metabolic function?.
This study suggests that obesity is important for health based upon where the fat is carried and how obesity affects other aspects of health.? Obesity in and of itself does not appear to be a health risk factor if the individual has good physical fitness.? When obesity is associated with type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, and the metabolic syndrome, it should be considered an unhealthy state.? Despite this though, as this study has pointed out, metabolically healthy but obese appears to be a benign condition that does not carry increased morbidity and mortality risk.
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Reference:
Francisco B. Ortega et al. ?The intriguing metabolically healthy but obese phenotype: cardiovascular prognosis and role of fitness? European Heart Journal First published online September 4, 2012 doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs174
Tags: BMI, body mass index, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Dr. Francisco Ortega, metabolic syndrome, metabolically healthy obese, obesity, obesity epidemic, triglycerides, type 2 diabetes
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DNC courts corporate donors for convention help
While publicly pledging to refuse corporate money, the official host committee for this week?s Democratic National Convention has quietly and aggressively courted corporate donors ? using a sister nonprofit that has been offering firms special ?sponsorship opportunities? if they ponied up $1 million or more to help cover the costs of the event.
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A 13-page marketing brochure obtained by NBC News shows how New American City, a nonprofit that is closely affiliated with the official Democratic convention host committee,? offered package deals to corporate contributors ? with different benefits? starting at levels of $100,000 and escalating to the top ?Tryon Street Level? of $1 million.
The companies that reached the seven-figure level got ?naming rights? at ?villages? set up for a Charlotte street festival that opened up the convention, as well as guarantees that ?your logo will be featured prominently.? The firms also got to put up banners and logos at other convention-related events ? such as a delegate and media welcoming parties ? as well as the chance? to include their logos in gift bags that are being handed out to 6,000 delegates and over 15, 000 members of the media.
The use of New American City to tap corporate funds appears to have worked. While Charlotte in 2012 has struggled to meet its $37 million fundraising goal, New American City has raised about $15 million from corporate donors that include Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Duke Power and Time Warner Cable, according to public statements by foundation and host committee officials.
The courtship of big corporate donors by New American City stands in contrast to much of the rhetoric that Democrats have used to describe this week?s Charlotte convention. ? By publicly stating that they wouldn?t take money from corporations and lobbyists ? or any donations over $100,000 ? for the official convention host committee, the Democrats have said they are holding a ?people?s convention? unlike any that has come before it.
But campaign spending watchdogs say that the operations of New American City (the foundation accepts donations from lobbyists as well as corporations) reveal some of the Democrats? claims to be hollow.??
?It?s amazing how creative Democrats can be finding loopholes around their own rules,? said Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, a group that t has been tracking the role that corporations and lobbyists have played at both party?s conventions. ?It?s the Super Bowl for special interests at the convention. We?re seeing it in Charlotte the same way that we saw it in Tampa.?
New American City is a nonprofit? set up by Charlotte in 2012 ? the name of the official host committee ? initially to promote ?Charlotte hospitality? and showcase? the city?s reputation ?as a New South City,? according to the marketing brochure. But it has? much of the same staff as Charlotte in 2012 (the foundation?s finance and deputy finance director are the same) and many of the corporate funds that have gone to New American City have been used to pay expenses that would normally be covered by the official host committee.?
Suzi Emmerling, who serves as spokeswoman for both groups, confirmed that New American City has paid? ?administrative costs? for the convention, such as the salaries and health care benefits of the host committee staff as well as delegate and media welcoming parties and the Charlotte street festival called CarolinaFest.
But Emmerling said that no corporate money has been used to pay for ?official convention? costs as outlined in a contract signed by the Charlotte in 2012 with the Democratic National Committee. She also said that this year?s Democratic convention has gone further than any previous convention in attracting small individual donors, receiving 85 times more such contributions than the Democrats got in 2008.
?We?ve dramatically expanded the donor base,? she said. ?We have gone further than any other convention in trying to keep out corporate money.?
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Corporate and lobbying money has long been a staple of political conventions of both parties; the Republicans placed no restrictions on taking such funds for its convention in Tampa. Moreover, while touting its enlarged base of smaller donors, the Democratic convention host committee has also made strong efforts to attract money from big party bundlers ? many of whom have invaded Charlotte, taken over posh watering holes like the bar at the Ritz Carlton Hotel and who are attending many of the glitzy parties sponsored by big lobbying groups and corporations such as the Recording Industry Association, the Distilled Spirits Council and Google.
A separate package released by Charlotte in 2012 describes a range of packages offered to such party bundlers and big donors. A ?Carolina Package? for those who raised $1 million entitled donors to? ?premier uptown hotel? rooms, concierge services, priority access for rental facilities and multiple ?gold tickets? to convention events, including parties. Lesser packages for those raising $650,000, or $500,000 (the ?Trustee Plus? package or the ?Piedmont Package,? respectively) also got premier rooms and tickets to convention events, but fewer in number.
Despite the organizers? promise to hold ?the most transparent convention? in history and initial pledge to release the names of all donors in real time, the convention organizers now say they won?t release a complete list of the donors to either group until they are required to do under federal election law ? next month, long after the convention is over.
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Survivors mark 40th anniversary of Olympic massacre
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Vice Prime Minister of Israel Silvan Schalom, right, and President of the National Olympic Commitee Zvi Varshaviak take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the commemoration plate for the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, Sept. 5. There ceremony took place in front of the house where the Israeli team stayed during the Olympic Games, in Munich, southern Germany.
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Masked officers of German Police Special Operation Unit SEK participate in security arrangements during the laying of wreaths to commemorate the Israeli athletes who were murdered in a terrorist attack on the Olympic Games 40 years ago in Munich.
Politicians, survivors, and relatives of victims attended a memorial Wednesday to remember the 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team killed at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. The ceremony occurred in the Olympic Village, where the hostage-taking started 40 years ago in Munich, according to the European Press Agency.
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?They were killed in September 1972 by members of the Black September group who broke into the Olympic Village and took several members of the Israeli team hostage. Two Israelis died as they tried to fight the attackers; nine others and a German police officer died during a failed rescue attempt. Continue reading.
London Olympic organizers were criticized after they said they would not hold a moment of silence in memory of the athletes killed at the Munich games, NBC News reports.
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Wrestler Gad Tsabary stands in silence after laying a wreath at the memorial to the eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team and one German police officer who were killed in an attack by the radical Palestinian group Black September, during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
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A woman lights candles in front of wreaths at a memorial at the former accommodation building of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich.
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The house in Connollystrasse 31, where the Israeli team stayed during the Olympic Games 1972, in Munich is seen on Aug. 29.
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Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches were killed by Palestinian gunmen during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.
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'Bride-Napping' Is Still A Trend Around The World | YourTango
Mock abductions of brides are part of marriage ceremonies across the former Soviet Union.
BUCHAREST, Romania ? A white limousine screeches to a halt and a bride, resplendent in frothy gown and veil, is hauled outside by her abductors.
It's one of Romania's more colorful customs: bride-napping. And the tradition of snatching the bride from under the nose of groom and guests with the wedding party in full swing is getting bigger, brasher and an increasingly common sight in the Romanian capital, the Balkans' undisputed party town.
Every Saturday night, brides from Bucharest and beyond are dragged away in a mock abduction by friends and driven to a top tourist spot where they are "held hostage" ? all the while pouting, dancing and striking provocative poses for the cameras.
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SAfrican buffalo sells for record $3.25 million
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? South Africa's Stud Game Breeders' Association says a young buffalo bull sold at auction for a record 26 million rand ($3.25 million).
Owner Jacques Malan of Lumarie Game Farm says the 4 years and 10-month-old bull "Horizon" has horns measuring 51 and three-eighth inches (130.5 centimeters) long.
He told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he applied a knowledge of genetics garnered from his father since childhood pursuing an aim "to breed back the old giants of the bush of Africa which have been hunted out over past centuries."
Horizon will be used for breeding.
The association said it is the most expensive wild animal ever sold in South Africa.
Horizon was sold at a weekend auction, fetching 8 million rand ($1 million) more than a buffalo sold last year.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/safrican-buffalo-sells-record-3-25-million-105847158.html
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