Chocolate Cake for Breakfast: It is a Healthy Diet

February 16, 2012

Good news for those who likes desserts: not just can you enjoy cake for breakfast; it actually can help you promote weight loss, according to a new research from a study at the University of Tel Aviv.

According to new study, published in the journal Steroids, the body’s metabolism is most active in the morning, so if you want to eat something sugary, it’s better to do it in the a.m. Usually, people try to completely cut out sweets often end up binging on sugar later in the day.

Katherine Tallmadge, a registered dietitian and author of “Diet Simple”, affirmed that she would never recommend cake for breakfast, while others agreed to eat something sweet at breakfast, as ...

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Scientists Warn: Fake And Poor Quality Malaria Drugs Risk Crisis In Africa

January 18, 2012

Hopes of controlling malaria in Africa could be wrecked by criminals who are circulating counterfeit and substandard drugs, threatening millions of lives, scientists are warning.

They are calling for public health authorities to take urgent action to preserve the efficacy of the anti-malarials now being used in the worst-hit areas of the continent.

There has been growing hope of an end to the age-old scourge of malaria, with U.N. and donor countries having contributed to a massive effort to get modern technological tools to endemic areas, including insecticide-impregnated bed nets and new drugs that had their origins in China, derived from artemisinin plants. Ar...

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Russian prosecutors demand 29-year sentence for pedophile

January 17, 2012

Russian prosecutors have demanded a 29-year sentence for a self-confessed pedophile who was arrested last year on charges of sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl and then released without trial, sparking a public outcry, a spokesman for the Amur Region Prosecutor’s Office said on Tuesday, Jan 10.

Alexei Zhitsky, 40, was arrested in July 2011 after the girl’s mother reported him to the police, but was released the next day for lack of evidence.

However, word of his release spread and Zhitsky was lucky to avoid falling into the hands of an angry crowd of several hundred locals who blocked his house and threatened to kill him. After being arrested again, Zhitsky admitted to raping the girl, as well as to carrying...

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Social strategies

January 11, 2012

Social media is about connecting us to something larger
It’s about people, not the tools

You don’t need a Facebook or Twitter presence — you need a social media strategy that plugs into your business goals. Socialmedia.biz will help you integrate social media into your marketing mix, customer outreach and lead generation. Since 2004, we’ve used social to deliver value and drive new business for top brands.

Before anyone was calling it social media.

Our key differentiator? Real-world experience in creating a Social Media Action Plan that identifies the key strengths of internal champions and leverages external ambassadors on behalf of your brand. We provide wor...

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What is Impaired Risk?

January 11, 2012

When purchasing life insurance coverage, insurance providers have the right to ask you a number of questions based on the policy they are providing. One of the factors that goes into a company’s quote or decision to provide insurance is called “standard of risk,” which is essentially the probability that the insured person will die while covered by that particular policy. “Impaired risk” is any factor that may make one’s standard of risk higher than the average standard of risk, meaning that the person is more likely to die while covered under the insurance policy. Impaired risk conditions will generally be found in one’s medical history, so impaired risk is not a factor for no medical exam life insurance. Here are some examples of impaired risk conditions:

- Cancer
- Heart problems
- Diabetes
- High blood pressure
- High cholestero...

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A Guantanamo prisoner has his day in court

January 6, 2012

The defendants file in—some looking neat and upstanding, some in their best approximation of the same. They all look tired. Sleeping on the floor of a church can do that to a person.

The white haired, slightly amused and always alert judge, the white noise machine when the lawyers confer with the judge, the stern and fit marshals, the wall to wall carpet and wood paneling. Yes—we are in a DC court. Take off your hats, gentlemen and ma’am, no knitting allowed in the court.

The matter before the court is unusual. The defendants are representing themselves, with legal advisors on hand. They stakes are high—if convicted, they could face up to a year in jail.

On June 23, 2011, a day the ...

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Anonymous Tips Solve Crimes Especially Through Social Media

December 28, 2011

There was a story last week over at the Maine Public Broadcasting Network that detailed the way police in Maine are using anonymous tips to solve crimes in their communities. From the story:

“We’ve gotten tips on things like homicides all the way down to panhandlers bothering people,” says Portland Police Commander Vern Malloch. His department allows people to text anonymous tips to police. Malloch says that thousands of tips have come through Text-A-Tip more than a year after the program started.

“It’s helped us solve other crimes, like burglaries and things like that,” he says. “Folks provide the information but don...

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Another Triumph For Google Over Microsoft

December 25, 2011

Many universities over the world choose Google over Microsoft for their campus wide Email and calendar service like The University of California, Berkeley did. But, the question is why? These two companies have been fighting heart and soul to win every triumph. Google wins some, Microsoft also get some. The university at Berkeley explained why they choose Google over Microsoft. The University authority published a detail comparison between these two companies because this public university wants to be transparent about their decision making.

The first reason for choosing Google is that it is cheap as they provide free application and softwares for students. But the university had to look beyon...

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Google Makes $94 Million Worth Investment In Solar Energy

December 22, 2011

Google in partnership with KKR has invested a Ninety Four million dollar in four solar firms near California. Tuesday in a blog post Google said that they have already committed to install solar energy on the roof of ten thousand houses but this investment is the first giant step to add solar power to the energy grid.

Recurrent Energy will be conducting the construction and operation of this facility. Previously Recurrent Energy made deals with Sacramento Utility District for 20-years.

About this investment Google’s assistant treasurer Axel Martinez said that his company believes that investing capital on renewable energy would help the world to move towards more clean energy. Soon all our energy sources will b...

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4 Insights Into Social Media Innovation

December 17, 2011

In a sense there is nothing new in this world.

Communication is communication whether it is by smoke signal, telephone or blog!

So we can all shut down our computers and relax, if there is nothing new to say

..however we know that people have choice, we know that people are using the internet more and more to research and make their purchase.

So if there is nothing really new to say, why bother to use social media?

Because the new is not necessarily inventive…instead…

…it lies in the innovative way we express what we do and the innovative way we show our values – the innovation of expression!

…it lies in the innovative way we m...

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