Children who eat a Mediterranean diet have a lower risk of developing asthma, but eating three or more burgers a week is linked to a higher risk, research suggests.Read More......
Researchers looked at 50,000 children from 20 countries.
Writing in the journal Thorax, they said eating fruit, vegetables and fish appeared to protect against asthma.
But they said eating burgers could be linked to other unhealthy habits, which may be the real trigger factor.
In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer.I remember hearing of an attempt to do this in Europe - I want to say France - a few years back. Does anyone remember the details? Read More......
Even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists.
The legal justification for arresting the "shooter" rests on existing wiretapping or eavesdropping laws, with statutes against obstructing law enforcement sometimes cited. Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland are among the 12 states in which all parties must consent for a recording to be legal unless, as with TV news crews, it is obvious to all that recording is underway. Since the police do not consent, the camera-wielder can be arrested. Most all-party-consent states also include an exception for recording in public places where "no expectation of privacy exists" (Illinois does not) but in practice this exception is not being recognized.
It never ends with this guy. Here's Mark Kirk, writing a constituent:Read More......It is time to break the boom and bust cycle of high gas prices and the need to deploy three separate armies to the Middle East (Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom). As you may know, I am a veteran of the Desert Storm and Enduring Freedom missions.Wow, Kirk served in Desert Storm? He's proud enough of that letter that he posted it on his official House site. But, it's not technically true.He completed three tours of duty aboard the USS Stennis, four tours of duty supporting counter-narcotics operations in Panama, and worked at the Office of Naval Intelligence during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.The Office of Naval Intelligence is right outside of Washington DC.
"This is the first significant amount of oil residue to hit Mississippi since the Deepwater Horizon explosion six weeks ago," Gov. Haley Barbour said. "While it's the first, it won't be the last."Read More......
During a news conference in Jackson on Tuesday, Barbour said this is no reason for "anybody to panic." The state's beaches and ports remain open, and Barbour said, "We're told that it's not toxic."
"But it is a reason for everybody to remember that there is a likelihood that there is going to be more intrusion of some form of depleted oil, tar balls, tar mats, emulsified oil, that's going to reach the barrier islands," Barbour said.
We must weep at how the sickness of hate still flows freely. How can we, as human beings, do such things to one another?It's horrible. Just horrible. Read More......The shooting death of a black man whose body was dragged for several miles is being investigated as a possible hate crime after the arrest of a white man he worked with, South Carolina's state police chief said.
Gregory Collins, 19, is charged with murder and made his first court appearance Thursday. No bond was set and he did not yet have an attorney, Newberry County Magistrate Ron Halfacre said.
...Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said Collins and Hill spent most of Tuesday together and were at Collins' mobile home late Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning when Hill was shot.
Foster said Collins then attached a nylon rope around Hill's body and began dragging it behind his truck, apparently until the rope snapped several miles later.
While acknowledging that his contacts in the deep-sea industry do not drill for oil, Cameron said that they are accustomed to operating various underwater vehicles and electronic optical fiber systems.Read More......
"Most importantly," he added, "they know the engineering that it requires to get something done at that depth."
Among the key issues that Cameron said he is interested in helping the government with are methods of monitoring the oil leak and investigating it.
"The government really needs to have its own independent ability to go down there and image the site, survey the site and do its own investigation," he said.
"Because if you're not monitoring it independently, you're asking the perpetrator to give you the video of the crime scene," Cameron added.
For days now, Dr. Damon Dietrich has seen patients come through his emergency room at West Jefferson Medical Center with similar symptoms: respiratory problems, headaches and nausea.Read More......
In the past week, 11 workers who have been out on the water cleaning up oil from BP's blown-out well have been treated for what Dietrich calls "a pattern of symptoms" that could have been caused by the burning of crude oil, noxious fumes from the oil or the dispersants dumped in the Gulf to break it up. All workers were treated and released.
"One person comes in, it could be multiple things," he said. "Eleven people come in with these symptoms, it makes it incredibly suspicious."
"The entire American public was caught up in a belief that housing prices could not fall dramatically," said Mr Buffett.In this critical piece by The Independent, you can see how the system worked. (How much change today is still debatable.) It's much like the infamous big accounting firms that we heard so much about during the Enron and other "cooking the books" scandals. The deals with businesses become "too big to fail" so nobody wants to rock the boat. Whatever the client wants, the client gets or else the deal is canceled and given to another business that will agree to anything. If none of this had any impact on others -such as retirement accounts or even keeping the economy afloat- this would not matter nearly as much. Unfortunately, this is a critical issue that impacts us all.
He added that if he had known how far the US housing market would collapse, he would have sold his investment firm's stake in Moody's, which currently stands at 13%.
Moody's chief executive Raymond McDaniel admitted to the commission that his company "is certainly not satisfied" with the performance of the ratings it gave the mortgage-linked debt.
He said analysts had growing suspicions that Wall Street was packing CDOs full of increasingly dubious mortgages, but in ways that were difficult for Moody's to detect. Gary Witt, another ex-managing director, said he argued repeatedly for more resources to properly investigate the underlying mortgages and to test more of the assumptions that went into the company's models. He quit when his requests were repeatedly denied.Read More......
Both men said Wall Street bankers would exercise their power as the rating agencies' clients. Mr Kolchinsky said they were granted requests to bar unsympathetic analysts from particular projects, though this was denied in later testimony by the company's chief executive, Raymond McDaniel. Mr Witt said bankers would go over analysts' heads to appeal to their superiors to improve ratings. "They would pull any lever they could," he said.
Mr Kolchinsky called it "a chess game which we kept losing", and he said the balance of power shifted even further in the bankers' favour after they stepped up the pace of CDO creation in 2006, using derivatives of derivatives.
Here's what President Obama didn't see when he visited the Gulf Coast: a dead dolphin rotting in the shore weeds.Read More......
"When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of it. It was the saddest darn thing to look at," said a BP contract worker who took the Daily News on a surreptitious tour of the wildlife disaster unfolding in Louisiana.
His motive: simple outrage.
"There is a lot of coverup for BP. They specifically informed us that they don't want these pictures of the dead animals. They know the ocean will wipe away most of the evidence. It's important to me that people know the truth about what's going on here," the contractor said.
In the programme - called Resist the Power! Saudi Arabia - a girl named only as Fatimah told how she disguised herself as a boy to ride a bicycle in the streets of Jeddah.Read More......
The 20-year-old also railed against the traditional women's dress - a black robe known as an abaya.
She said she made her own abayas in bright colours, which she sold to friends.
A young man, Aziz, talked about his attempts to break the strict segregation of the sexes in Saudi life - to meet his girlfriend for a date.
"We are not free to live as we like," said the 24-year-old.
The four part documentary, which was screened in the US, also followed a Saudi heavy metal band who struggled to find venues that would allow them to play.
An official at a court in Jeddah said the films were being investigated for the crimes of "openly declaring sin" and a decision would be made on whether to prosecute in the next few days, Reuters reported.
Prosecutors say they are investigating the leader of Germany's Roman Catholic bishops on suspicion of aiding and abetting the sexual abuse of children.Read More......
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg is suspected of allowing the re-appointment of a priest accused of child abuse in 1987.
Archbishop Zollitsch was in charge of personnel in Freiburg at the time.
The archdiocese rejected the charge, accusing prosecutors and the media of "sensationalism".
If you're just joining us, Kirk, a U.S. Naval Reserve officer, really has served honorably, but he's also made several claims about his service record that proved to be false. First, Kirk claimed to be "the only member of Congress to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom." That turned out to be untrue -- Kirk served during the conflict, not in it. Second, Kirk claimed to "command the war room in the Pentagon," which also turned out to be untrue. Over the weekend we learned that Kirk repeatedly claimed to have received the U.S. Navy's Intelligence Officer of the Year award, which was also wildly misleading.
This comes on the heels of Hatch's proposal to make it a crime for someone to knowingly make "a fraudulent statement or representation" regarding his or her record of military service "for the purposes of gaining recognition, honorarium, official office, or other position of authority, employment or other benefit."
The point, it seemed, was Hatch targeting Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D), who misspoke about his service record in a speech eight years ago.
I think Hatch meant to say that the law would only apply to Democrats, and forgot to include the language in his proposal.Read More......
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