Diabetes to double or triple in U.S. by 2050 -govt
October 22, 2010 by Trend PK
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WASHINGTON: Up to a third of U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050 if Americans continue to gain weight and avoid exercise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected on Friday.
The numbers are certain to go up as the population gets older, but they will accelerate even more unless Americans change their behavior, the CDC said.
“We project that, over the next 40 years, the prevalence of total diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed) in the United States will increase from its current level of about one in 10 adults to between one in five and one in three adults in 2050,” the CDC’s James Boyle and colleagues wrote in their report.
“These are alarming numbers that show how critical it is to change the course of type-2 diabetes,” CDC diabetes expert Ann Albright said in a statement.
“Successful programs to improve lifestyle choices on healthy
Pakistani scientist lawyers seek 12-year sentence
July 29, 2010 by Trend PK
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NEW YORK: A U.S.-trained scientist from Pakistan who was convicted of trying to murder U.S. agents and military officers in Afghanistan should be sent to prison for 12 years rather than life because she is mentally ill, her lawyers said in court papers Wednesday.
Lawyers for Aafia Siddiqui, 38, made the request in a filing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where she was convicted in February of two counts of attempted murder in the July 2008 attack on U.S. authorities while she was detained in an Afghan police station.
The lawyers said Siddiqui was “driven” to her crime by mental illness.
“While the degree and extent of Dr. Siddiqui”s mental illness has been the subject of much discussion in this case, one thing stands perfectly clear: the victim of Dr. Siddiqui”s irrational behavior is — first and foremost — none other than herself,” the lawyers wrote.
They described her behavior in Ghazni, Afghanistan, as “bizarre,” saying Siddiqui was “cut off from any form of rational thought” by her knowledge that U.S. authorities had engaged in the torture of detainees overseas.
“Cornered in the Afghan National Police compound, and left to her own devices, Dr. Siddiqui tried, by any means available, to escape what she viewed as a horrific fate,” the lawyers said.
During Siddiqui”s three-week trial, FBI agents and U.S. soldiers testified that when they went to interrogate her at an Afghan police station, she snatched an unattended assault rifle and shot at them while yelling, “Death to Americans!” She was wounded by return fire but recovered and was brought to the United States to face trial.
Siddiqui is scheduled to be sentenced in mid-August but the date is expected to be moved to September or later.
Her jury conviction set off protests in Pakistan, where there is a widespread belief that the charges against her were fabricated.
Siddiqui, trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University in the early 1990s, left the United States and returned to Pakistan after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Testifying in her own defense at trial, Siddiqui claimed she was tortured at a “secret prison” before her detention. Charges that she attacked U.S. personnel who wanted to interrogate her were “crazy,” she said. “It”s just ridiculous.”
Her lawyers said her behavior at trial demonstrated her mental illness. They noted that she declared she was boycotting the trial, rejected her lawyers” advice and subjected the court “to frequent, nonsensical outbursts.”
After trial, she refused to meet with the probation officer or her lawyers, they said.
The lawyers urged the sentencing judge to reject the probation office”s recommendation that she be sentenced to life in prison, especially since she was never charged with any crimes of terrorism.
A message left with the federal prosecutors” office seeking comment was not immediately returned.
Octopus predicts German victory in quarterfinal
BERLIN: Paul the octopus who rose to global fame after correctly predicting all four of Germany’s games in this year’s Football World Cup tournament, indicated that Saturday’s game will be a tough battle and that it may even end in a penalty shootout.
The octopus took about an hour to approach a water glass containing a mussel marked with a German flag, said Tanja Munzig, a spokeswoman for Sea Life Aquarium in the western city of Oberhausen.
“Paul kept staring at the German glass and only when we wanted to take out both glasses, he finally jumped inside the German one and gulped down the mussel” Munzig said.
“All of his behavior indicates that Saturday’s game will be very tough and it may even go into extra time and penalty shootout but in the end Germany will win.”
Tiger Woods Press Conference
Tiger Woods Press Conference, Tiger Woods will finally break his silence 
by holding a press conference this Friday at 11am the TPC Sawgrass Clubhouse in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. This will be be his first public appearance since the cheating scandal rocked the news some 10 weeks ago. According to Tiger’s agent Mark Steinberg, “Tiger plans to discuss his past and his future and he plans to apologize for his behavior. This is all about the next step. He’s looking forward to it. It’s time to make amends and to publicly do that.” Tiger has also updated his website with the following message, “While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between him and his wife, he also recognizes that he has hurt and let down a lot of other people who were close to him. He also let down his fans. He wants to begin the process of making amends, and that’s what he’s going to discuss.”
It’s doubtful that Woods will answers press questions and most likely stick to delivering his short written statement. Be sure to tune back here Friday at 11am for the live stream of the Tiger Woods press conference!
Tiger Woods Press Conference was first posted on February 18, 2010 at 7:33 pm.
Kalika Moquin
Kalika Moquin, Life & Style reports that Kalika Moquin, is the latest woman to be connected to Tiger Woods. Reports of Moquin follow rumors about Rachel Uchitel and Jaimee Grubbs, both of whom have been linked to Woods romantically in the past week. Here is the press release from the magazine:
Life & Style can exclusively reveal the identity of a woman who has quietly been seeing golf star Tiger Woods for months — as recently as late October.
Kalika Moquin, a marketing manager for The Bank nightclub in Las Vegas, hooked up with Tiger more than once at his Las Vegas hotel during the weekend of Oct. 23, an insider tells Life & Style. Kalika is the third woman to be publicly linked to Tiger. Club promoter Rachel Uchitel and Los Angeles cocktail waitress Jaimee Grubbs have also been named in shocking reports as women with whom Tiger has cheated on his wife of five years, Elin Nordegren.
When contacted by Life & Style, Kalika neither confirmed nor denied an affair with Tiger. “It’s not appropriate for me to comment one way or the other,” she said. “At this time, I’m just choosing to focus on my job.”
Reps for Tiger would not comment. But the insider tells Life & Style, “They’ve hooked up a bunch of times. Tiger told Kalika that married life isn’t all it’s built up to be. He said he wasn’t happy in his marriage or his home life and that there was just so much pressure on him.”
Kalika Moquin was first posted on December 2, 2009 at 9:19 pm.
Super Adventure Club
Super Adventure Club, The term ‘Super Adventure Club’ has gained lots of popularity among the viewers of the animated series ‘South Park’ . The name of this club has once again become popular in the holiday season and now people are searching the internet for the Super Adventure Club beliefs and story. Though the name of this club had appeared in the television series a long time back, it appears that the club is still popular among fans.
People who are searching for the Super Adventure Club beliefs and story might like to know that this club was introduced in the ‘South Park’ series to mock ‘Scientology’. It has been stated by sources that the show depicted the members of this club as perverted individuals who aimed to abuse children in different parts of the world. Sources also stated that they preferred to molest children as they believed that sexual intercourse with a child would release some particle into their bodies that would in turn make them immortal.
The viewers of the show came to know the story of this club after one of the cast of the ‘South Park’ series, ‘The Chef’ decided to join this club to make his life more exciting. He was unaware of the Super Adventure Club beliefs and story and when he came back children of the South Park saw some significant change in his behavior. They realized that ‘The Chef’ was trying to have sex with them and took him to a psychiatrist for treatment. They investigated the cause of this change and came to know that the Super Adventure Club beliefs had changed the behavior of ‘The Chef’.
Super Adventure Club was first posted on December 2, 2009 at 9:43 pm.
Force Against Blochis Must Stop: Altaf
LONDON: Quaid Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain, expressing condolence on the occasion of third death anniversary of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, prayed on Wednesday for the eternal happiness for soul of deceased Bugti.
According to the statement released from London, Altaf asked government for provision of justice for the suppressed people Balochistan province and urged upon ruling leaders to end use of force against Baloch people.
Those Baloch leaders, who having been sick of the behavior of government, have migrated onto mountains, must be called back to hold dialogue for resolution of their problems and asked ruling leaders for embracing Baloch people after burial of hatches, Altaf urged.
Force Against Blochis Must Stop: Altaf was first posted on August 27, 2009 at 12:21 pm.
