Many
countries face a growing gap between the amount of water they can
supply reliably and the amount they need. By 2030, water supplies will
satisfy only 60% of global demand — and less than 50%
in many developing regions where water supplies are already under
stress. Governments will have to manage demand by raising the price of
water or capping the amount users can draw.
This is supposedly why T. Boone Pickens has been going after water for the last few years
Indianapolis Colts 13/2 San Diego Chargers 8/1 New England Patriots 10/1 New Orleans Saints 10/1 Pittsburgh Steelers 11/1 Dallas Cowboys 12/1 Green Bay Packers 12/1 Minnesota Vikings 12/1 Philadelphia Eagles 16/1 Baltimore Ravens 20/1 New York Giants 20/1
The Jets are 25 to 1 and the Pats are 10 to 1. That's just crazy!
When the Saints looked at the Colts on tape, they saw two up-men on
the front line of the Indy kick-return team cheating. That is, when the
kicker approached the ball, two guys on the right of the kick-return
unit -- as the kickoff team looked ahead, to the left -- turned and
began retreating to set up their blocks for a return just before the
ball was kicked. So when Payton saw this, he figured the Saints would
definitely try an onside kick at some point of the game.
In
each of their three practices last week, the Saints worked on the
onside kick five times. They christened it "Ambush'' for the element of
surprise, obviously. And they practiced it the same way every time:
with Morstead, the neophyte, approaching the ball from the left, as
right-footed soccer-style kickers do, and kicking the ball almost
across his body to the left, to the exact spot where the Saints thought
the two Colts would be leaving early. Payton knew he wouldn't try the
kick early in the game; he wanted time to set the Colts up. Before the
game, he made a point to talk to ref Scott Green and his crew
to be on the lookout for it so they wouldn't be surprised, and so
they'd be ready to determine possession in the inevitable scrum.
Steve Clemons posts a link to an in-depth piece of the craziness that is the inner sanctum of the White House. This piece is popping up all over the place this morning.
I can't seem to login to that site to see the full article.
Some of Clemons's summary:
To hit some of the later highlights, Luce speaks with political
giants 'inside' the Obama tent who suggest that Rahm Emanuel lost track
of the importance of communicating to the public about health care,
despite some success in legislative deal-making. While Luce doesn't
explicate this topic, I would also suggest that Rahm pulled the plug on
shuttering GITMO, which had a good plan on paper, but was unwilling to
move the political wheels to get that done -- not understanding that
this was a key pillar of progressive political support for Obama.
The article goes on to document how people like Health Secretary and
former Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius were kept off television --
along with others like Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Add to this others that Luce does
not name -- including important voices like Paul Volcker and Austan
Goolsbee on Obama's economic team, who saw their public voices choked
off by a media-dominating Lawrence Summers with support from Robert
Gibbs and Rahm Emanuel.
In a particularly cutting depiction of Emanuel, Luce writes:
Administration insiders say the famously irascible Mr
Emanuel treats cabinet principals like minions. "I am not sure the
president realises how much he is humiliating some of the big figures
he spent so much trouble recruiting into his cabinet," says the head of
a presidential advisory board who visits the Oval Office frequently.
"If you want people to trust you, you must first place trust in them."
I will never forget when Rahm Emanuel laughingly responded well
within earshot of several national media (and this blogger/writer) at
an Inaugural bash to an inquiry if Emanuel was enjoying putting Tom
Daschle on the basement floor of the White House in a non-descript
office pretty far from the President. Emanuel joked back glibly that
Daschle had to be happy with any office in the White House because "any
square inch of real estate inside the White House -- no matter where it
is -- is more valuable than anything outside it."
Rham seems to be the center of alot of the spats going on both inside and outside the White House. He has always been seen as an ahole. It should come as no surprise...
The Saints going to those short drops and quick hits really took advantage of Brees' skills. He was amazing.
And blitzing Manning worked just enough to slow the Colts down, and caused the big turnover.
Reggie Wayne got real lazy a couple of times and it really hurt.
Imagine if Garcon had caught that pass in the 2nd quarter where he was wide open about 30 yards down field and streaking through the middle. That was a huge play.
Class act Tony Dungy took alot of cheap shots at guys this week. And he basically said that the only way the Colts would lose if they got outcoached. I wonder what he'll say now.
Its hard to believe that the Saints outscored the Colts 31-7 after the first 10 minutes.
"I know what this is. I come from Jersey—it's the same thing: "I'm not
saying your mother's a whore. I'm just saying she has sex for money.
With people." [F]ox News used to be all about, you don't criticize a
president during wartime. It's unacceptable, it's treasonous, it gives
aid and comfort to the enemy. All of a sudden, for some reason you can
run out there and say, "Barack Obama is destroying the fabric of this
country.""
More than 10 million Americans have migraines creating a burden of mostly unnecessary suffering.(i)
These severe, nearly disabling headaches can occur from once a year to
three to four times a week. They can last from hours to days. They are
often associated with an aura, light sensitivity, nausea, vomiting, and
severe throbbing pain on one or both sides of the head. Migraines are
even associated with stroke-like symptoms or paralysis in some cases ...
The cost to society is also enormous. Migraine headaches add $13
billion to $17 billion to our healthcare costs each year. These costs
include medications, emergency room visits, hospitalization, physician
services (primary care and specialty), laboratory and diagnostic
services, and managing the side effects of treatment.
Migraines have indirect costs too. A headache is the most frequent
pain-related complaint among workers. Focusing specifically on
migraines, one study found that the annual cost to employers exceeded
$14.5 billion, of which $7.9 billion was due to absenteeism and $5.4
billion to diminished productivity.(ii)
So this is a HUGE problem -- both to those who suffer and to society as a whole.
Worse, migraines are hard to treat and very difficult to prevent
with conventional approaches. There are a host of preventive drugs --
calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers, anti-seizure medications, antidepressants,
and more --which work poorly, if at all, and are accompanied by
frequent side effects. Some doctors are now even using Botox to
paralyze neck muscles in the hopes of easing migraines.
Hyman then lists different possible sources of migraines and steps to deal with them. He claims he can help people in a week. Here's one example:
• The testing: Check an IgG food allergy (vii) panel and also check a celiac panel because wheat and gluten
(viii) are among the biggest causes of headaches and migraines. Stool
testing and urine testing for yeast or bacterial imbalances that come
from the gut can also be helpful.
• The treatment: An elimination diet -- getting rid
of gluten, dairy, eggs, and yeast -- is a good way to start. Corn can
also be a common problem. Getting the gut healthy with enzymes,
probiotics, and omega-3 fats is also important.
Chemical Triggers
• The causes: A processed-food diet including aspartame,
MSG (monosodium glutamate), nitrates (in deli meats), sulfites (found
in wine, dried fruit, and food from salad bars) is to blame.
Tyramine-containing foods like chocolate and cheese are also triggers.
• The treatment: Get rid of additives, sweeteners, sulfites, and processed food. Eat a diet rich in whole foods and phytonutrients.
Chemical Triggers
• The causes: A processed-food diet including aspartame,
MSG (monosodium glutamate), nitrates (in deli meats), sulfites (found
in wine, dried fruit, and food from salad bars) is to blame.
Tyramine-containing foods like chocolate and cheese are also triggers.
• The treatment: Get rid of additives, sweeteners, sulfites, and processed food. Eat a diet rich in whole foods and phytonutrients.
This is one of the plants that, given a choice, I’d have to have
with me on a desert island. It has shockingly broad medicinal uses,
tastes great, deters garden pests, grows easily and is very space
efficient. What’s not to love?
It’s a must-have herb during the winter for its broad antimicrobial
effects. Not only is it effective at fighting viruses and bacteria, but
it also knocks out parasites and fungi including Candida albicans. This
makes it useful for infections almost anywhere in the body, taken
internally in food or applied topically to an infected site.
Garlic also lowers bad cholesterol while raising good cholesterol,
and helps lower high blood pressure. It prevents dangerous blood clots,
lowers high blood pressure and has been shown to help limit cancer
growth.
It may come as a big surprise to learn that "mindless" eating, or
eating without awareness, can have negative health consequences.
Scientists are beginning to evaluate and better understand the complex
role of the mind-body connection in eating behavior. It turns out that
when our mind is tuned out during mealtime, the digestive process may
be 30% to 40% less effective. This can contribute to digestive
distress, such as gas, bloating and bowel irregularities.
Gas and
bloating aside, overeating and obesity are perhaps the most significant
health problems caused, at least in part, by mindless eating. The
mind-body connection plays a pivotal role in our ability to accurately
assess hunger and fullness.
While the precise mechanisms of
hunger and fullness are not completely understood, we do know that the
brain and central nervous system receive signals from the body when
food is desired or needed. These signals can be caused by many
triggers, including psychological states such as our mood. Once eating
is under way, the brain has a key role to send out a signal when
fullness is approaching. If the mind is "multi-tasking" during eating,
critical signals that regulate food intake may not be received by the
brain. If the brain does not receive certain messages that occur during
eating, such as sensation of taste and satisfaction, it may fail to
register the event as "eating". This scenario can lead to the brain's
continuing to send out additional signals of hunger, increasing the
risk of overeating.
They also have some pointers in the article on how to eat more mindfully.
These filters may actually increase your exposure to disease-producing microorganisms. In time, the tap water no longer comes in contact with the charcoal granules (the filter) because channels are formed as the water repeatedly runs through the unit. Eventually, residue from previously filtered water collects on these channels and acts as a breeding ground for harmful organisms.
