[AnNahar] Nearly all Irish adults are likely to be overweight in 15 years' time, said a study Wednesday that warned of a European "obesity crisis of enormous proportions".
On current trends, some 89 percent of Irish men will be overweight by 2030, and nearly half obese, said a World Health Organization study to be presented at a European Congress on Obesity in Prague. This was up from 74 percent overweight, and 26 percent obese in 2010 in one of Europe's fattest nations.
The explanation reminds of the old joke of what constitutes an Irish seven-course dinner: a potato and a six-pack...
Of Irish women, 85 percent are likely to be overweight and 57 percent obese by 2030, said the study, also well up on the 2010 figures.
The growing numbers of overweight and obese people are a growing cause of disease and disability around the world.
"Even in countries with a traditionally lower prevalence of obesity such as Sweden, obesity rates are predicted to rise sharply," the congress report said.
Over a quarter of Swedish men will be obese by 2030, and 22 percent of women.
People with a BMI (body weight index, a ratio of weight to height) of 25 and higher are classified overweight, and 30 and over obese.
In the UK, "one third (33 percent) of women are forecast to be obese in 2030, compared with over one quarter (26 percent) in 2010," the congress press statement said. Sixty-four percent of UK women and 74 percent of men will be overweight in 2030.
"Overall, the data show no evidence of a plateau in adult obesity in most countries," said the statement.
Other countries with projected steep rises in obesity over this period include Greece, Spain, Austria and the Czech Republic, according to the study of 53 countries.
An estimated 77 percent of Greek men are predicted to be overweight by 2030 and 67 percent of women, and the proportion of obese men and women will more than double from 20 percent to about 40 percent.
For Spain, obesity in women is set to rise from 16 percent in 2010 to 21 percent in 2030, and in men from 19 percent to 36 percent, said the statement issued by congress organisers.
About 37 percent of women in the Czech Republic, hosting the gathering, will be obese by 2030 and 36 percent of men.
The Dutch are the thinnest of the lot, according to the study.
About 49 percent of men will be overweight and eight percent obese by 2030, compared to 54 percent and 10 percent in 2010. For women, overweight rates will remain stable at around 43/44 percent, while obesity is likely to drop from 13 percent to nine percent.
A study last November by the McKinsey Global Institute said more than 2.1 billion people globally -- nearly 30 percent of the world population -- are now overweight or obese.
Obesity was causing about five percent of all deaths worldwide, it said, and costing the global economy $2 trillion (1.8 trillion euros) in healthcare and lost productivity -- or 2.8 percent of global GDP.
But try pointing out to someone that he/she is too large and should consider losing weight, and you'll be accused of 'fat-shaming'. Seriously. The world is whacked.
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Sound's like it time for a famine. In the public good, of course.
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Outdated 1970's ideas about the fat/carbohydrate ratio in one's diet + mainstreaming of hours spent watching television = obesity problem in developed countries.
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The comments from the Feds really show the limited thinking behind their effort.
“We’re facing a situation where anyone—a felon, a terrorist—can open a gun factory in their garage and the weapons they make will be undetectable. It’s stomach-churning,” Schumer said at a news conference in May 2013.
That's cute. You really think a felon and/or terrorist would worry about opening up a factory to make illegal guns? They would smuggle them in, like they did in Texas and then use them. They don't need to make weapons and they sure as fuck WON'T follow the law.
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That's the joke, Darth. Bureaucrats always assume that you'll follow the law in order to break it.
In my younger hot rod days, I was out street racing, and was chased by a cop. I lost him when I turned the wrong way up a (empty) one way street, pulled in, and parked. He couldn't figure it out.
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It’s stomach-churning
Sort of like maintaining a super secret email server?
Remember its not a felony when 'our' people do it!
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“We’re facing a situation where anyone—a felon, a terrorist—can open a gun factory in their garage and the weapons they make will be undetectable. It’s stomach-churning,” Schumer said at a news conference in May 2013.
What's stomach-churning is Schumer.
Years ago there was a movie made with Jimmy Stewart, I believe. It was titled "Carbine Williams." It was about a guy who killed a deputy and was serving time in prison in NC. While there, he developed what was basically the M1, 30 cal lightweight carbine. Maybe some of you recall the story. It was very interesting.
“A couple of months after Ed Browning's death in May 1939, Winchester hired David Marshall "Carbine" Williams who had begun work on a short-stroke gas piston design while serving a prison sentence at a North Carolina minimum-security work farm.” Carbine Williams.
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Yes they can Ebb. You can build your own lower receiver which doesn't need a serial number or a license. So the argument that printing the gun for personal use is different is just flat out wrong. And ignorant.
It is still easier and cheaper for criminals to buy/smuggle stolen guns than to make them.
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Sent the link to an Armored Cav Sarg I know at Hood. His response: The drive transmission on the right hand side is worn out, keeps lagging under load. So it keeps skewing to the right.
For what it's worth.
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While observers have focused attention on road improvements along the DPRK’s east and west coasts in Rason and Sinuiju, since 2011, the DPRK has been constructing a new highway segment linking Huichon to Manpho, where a new border crossing is under construction. This new road and border crossing is important because, once completed, it will offer Pyongyang its first true international trade route on a paved highway. This will open up trading opportunities between China and the DPRK, particularly in the reclusive Jagang Province, in tourism, consumer goods, minerals/mining and (potentially) military hardware.
Planning for this new road and border crossing likely began in 2010 when Chinese-DPRK relations were at a high point. The Chinese government was interested in promoting economic development in its northeast provinces which would require numerous initiatives to achieve greater access to the DPRK’s ports, natural resources and consumers. At the same time, in North Korea, there appeared a desire to expand cooperation on economic projects with China. Additionally, in January 2011, the DPRK cabinet is reported to have adopted the “10-Year State Strategy Plan for Economic Development,” which, among other things, calls for an investment into programs for developing natural resources and the construction of 3,000 km of highways.
Based on KCTV footage and KCNA reports, work on the highway segment probably began in early 2011. In addition to the road itself, new supporting infrastructure such as gas stations, cell phone towers, and possible security checkpoints have also been constructed. Work on the new road, however, is not complete. Commercial satellite imagery dated as late as October 2014 indicates that the southern segment of the new road, linking Huichon and Kanggye, has received priority over the northern segment linking Kanggye with the new border crossing in Manpho. The pattern of construction, in which work is proceeding, from the south towards the northern border in Manpho, implies that the road work is being driven by the North Koreans themselves rather than the Chinese (who would travel south from the border along the new road as they were constructing it).
On the Chinese side of the border, a village next to the river was displaced shortly after construction began to make way for the new bridge. As of October 2014, little progress seems to have been made on a Chinese customs office or road transportation. The Chinese are not ignoring the project, however. Although no significant work has yet begun on the road on the Chinese side of the border, they have moved ahead with renovations and improvements to a levee that will simultaneously reduce potential flood damage and hinder the ability of North Koreans who try to unofficially cross the river and enter Chinese territory.
[AnNahar] Lawyers representing the widow of late Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday denounced a French decision to close a murder inquiry into his 2004 death and vowed to ensure the investigation continued.
"Where's the damned Kruggerands???"
"We do not approve of this decision... and we will obviously seek further investigation," said Suha Arafat's lawyers, Francis Szpiner and Renaud Semerdjian.
"You will keep searching until you find proof the Israelis dunnit!" Suha shrieked, stamping her feet with the sound of an elephant stampede.
On Tuesday, judges reexamining evidence surrounding the historic leader's death wrapped up their investigations.
The prosecutor now has three months to prepare his submissions on whether to dismiss the case or forward it to court.
In the meantime interested parties can produce written depositions. However if, as is currently the case, there is no defendant's name attached to the proceedings, the case is likely to be dismissed.
"With all due respect to the judges and the prosecutor, no-one can say what Yasser Arafat died of nor explain the circumstances of his death," his widow's lawyers told AFP.
"This element alone means the inquiry should continue," they said, adding that they were "shocked at the speed" with which the investigation was closed.
Arafat died aged 75 on November 11, 2004, at the Percy military hospital in Clamart, close to Gay Paree.
He was admitted there after developing stomach pains at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where he had lived since December 2001, surrounded by the Israeli army.
Arafat's widow Suha lodged a complaint at a court in Nanterre near Gay Paree in 2012, claiming that her husband was assassinated. The complaint triggered a murder inquiry.
She had to say something, anything to deflect attention from all the money that Yasser stole and that she in turn purloined...
The same year, Arafat's tomb in Ramallah was opened for a few hours allowing French, Swiss and Russian Sherlocks to collect samples from his remains.
Many Paleostinians believe that the Israelis poisoned Arafat, with the complicity of people in his entourage.
One does wonder what happened to the members of his entourage...
Whatever it was, they deserved worse...
A university in the Swiss city of Lausanne tested samples taken from his belongings given to his widow after his death in Gay Paree, and found "abnormal levels of polonium", but stopped short of saying he had been poisoned by the extremely radioactive toxin.
French experts believe the polonium-210 found in his grave and remains was environmental in nature, Nanterre prosecutor Catherine Denis said last month.
Polonium-210 became famous in 2006 when a runaway Russian intelligence officer turned opponent of President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... , Alexander Litvinenko, was killed in London by a strong dose of the hard-to-get radioactive isotope.
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When people aren't buying is not a good time to raise the price.
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Pennsylvania elected a Democratic tax-tick as governor last year. "Free money" tempts electorates to elect tax ticks whenever a fresh source of taxation shows its head.
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I wonder how the elections in the UK are going? The world goes through phases--sometimes it swings left and then there is a self-correction, after people get tired of being looted and dealing with corruption, and it then swings conservative.
[Breitbart] Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary hearing on open records laws, State Department assistant secretary Joyce Barr said it was "not acceptable" for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to use a private email server.
"I think that the actions that we've taken in the course of recovering these emails have made it very clear what people's responsibilities are with regard to record-keeping," Barr said. "We continue to do training, we've sent department notices, telegrams, we've talked to directors and I think the message is loud and clear that that is not acceptable." Sure glad they caught the infraction when they did. Is "not acceptable" the same as illegal? No? Ok, I didn't think so.
[AnNahar] The United States authorized commercial ferry services to Cuba for the first time in more than a half-century on Tuesday, another major step in improving relations between the two countries.
In what was hailed by ferry operators as "a historical event," the U.S. Treasury lifted a decades-old ban and at least four Florida companies said they had been licensed to launch boat services to the island.
That adds to the charter air services that had been permitted until now, focused on enabling Cuban-Americans to visit their families.
The ferries will also be allowed to carry cargo to the communist island of 11 million, which sits just 150 kilometers (90 miles) off the southern tip of Florida.
Four companies confirmed they had received licenses from the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control to provide ferry travel.
"Today's action was a great step forward," Joseph Hinson, president of Miami-based United Americas Shipping Services, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Havana Ferry Partners of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said on its Facebook page that it too had received a Treasury license for ferry services from four Florida ports.
"This is a historical event. Thanks to President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... , to whom we are very grateful, for his leadership," the firm wrote.
Two others, United Caribbean Lines and Airline Brokers, a travel agency, said they also received licenses.
But Hinson suggested the first trip would still take some time, because other permissions were still needed from authorities in both countries.
- Travel permits still needed -
Whether by plane or ferry, American travelers to Cuba still have to come under one of 12 categories permitted in the landmark easing of U.S. sanctions announced by the White House in December -- including family visits, official government business, humanitarian projects and sports gatherings.
But even under embargo restrictions, the number of Americans traveling to Cuba has surged in recent years, with many going via third countries.
And in a coincidental announcement not tied to the new Treasury rules, U.S. airline JetBlue announced Tuesday it would begin direct charter flights to Havana from the New York City area, home to the second largest population of Cuban-Americans after Florida.
The moves come amid a landmark thaw in relations initiated by Obama on December 17, when he broke a nearly six-decade Cold War-rooted estrangement between the two countries by lifting sanctions on travel and some trade, as the first step toward normalizing relations.
In another event marking the thaw, Obama and Cuban leader Compañero Raul Castro ...Fidel's little brother... spoke together for an hour at the 35-nation Summit of the Americas in Panama.
Obama thanked Castro for his "spirit of openness and courtesy," while Castro, addressing his fellow Latin American leaders, labelled the U.S. president "an honest man."
A week after that event, the White House took the first step toward removing Cuba's longstanding designation as a "state sponsor of terror," which had added to the tough commercial embargo on the island since the beginning of the 1960s.
Cuba was added to the U.S. terror list in 1982, originally designated for its support for armed revolution in Latin America.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[AnNahar] Nearly all Irish adults are likely to be overweight in 15 years' time, said a study Wednesday that warned of a European "obesity crisis of enormous proportions".
[AnNahar] Lawyers representing the widow of late Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday denounced a French decision to close a murder inquiry into his 2004 death and vowed to ensure the investigation continued.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
