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Wednesday, 11 July 2012 00:00 |
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Today is "World Population Day" and here's what's up...
For something different here are three random facts for your Wednesday
Funny2.com- Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue. |
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012 00:00 |
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"Pina Colada day is today and here are two for your Tuesday..."
Store owner shoots, kills armed robber
Dan Jovic Fox 8- Officials with the Cleveland Police Department say that a man in his 20′s tried to rob the Abe & Son’s Convenience Store at East 70th and Cedar Avenue just before 2:00 p.m. It was a shootout that resulted in the death of a robbery suspect and the victim being injured, police say. The man produced a gun and shots were exchanged between the suspect and the store’s owner. Police say the suspect was struck by a bullet fired by the store’s owner. The man later died from the gun shot wound. According to police the owner was also struck by a bullet. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment. His condition is not known at this time.
Want To Live Longer? Researchers Say Sit Less
Georgiann Caruso, CNN- What would happen if the entire population of adults in the U.S. reduced the amount of time they spent sitting or watching television?
Researchers, whose work is published in the British Medical Journal Open, say Americans may live longer. They estimate a gain of two years to life expectancy for reducing sitting to less than three hours a day, or an additional 1.38 years if everybody limited the time they spent plopped in front of the television to two hours. “Right now, if you’re born in the U.S. this year, your life expectancy is 78.5 years,” said Peter Katzmarzyk, Professor of Epidemiology at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “What we’re saying is, if you got everyone in the U.S. to sit less, that population-level life expectancy would be two years higher. Our life expectancy as a country would be 80 years.” Keep in mind that this research is based on associations, not causes. The researchers did not prove that sitting more is the cause of earlier death. But they examined previous evidence that sitting appears to have detrimental effects on lifestyle. Katzmarzyk, along with I-Min Lee at Harvard Medical School in Boston, quantified the behavior to see the effect on the life expectancy of Americans. They studied five prior studies, which involved 167,000 men and women ages 18 to 90, which were done in several different countries. They looked at the health risks of sitting and then used the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, or NHANES, to determine how prevalent sedentary behavior is in U.S. society. “A lot of people are sitting a lot and a lot of people are watching a lot of TV,” he added. “So when you combine these two things, that’s when you get the true population risk.” Katzmarzyk stresses that the study is not comparing people who are sedentary versus those who are active, but instead looks at the country as a whole. “We know at an individual level that sitting’s bad for you, but by putting this at the level of the population and life expectancy, we understand that it is such a frequent behavior that it’s just as important as obesity, it’s just as important as activity, it’s just as important as smoking,” he said. Studies about interventions to get people to sit less are something that he hopes to see, especially in the workplace. In addition, Katzmarzyk says he would like to see research guiding Americans on how much sitting exactly is “too much.” “Right now, all we can say is we want people to reduce the amount of time they spend sitting,” he said. “We can’t actually say what that magic number is.” The 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans recommend adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each week. “You can meet those guidelines but you can still be very sedentary (or sit a lot) so they’re kind of separate risk factors,” he added. Dr. Melina Jampolis, a physician nutrition specialist and CNNhealth.com’s diet and fitness expert, was not surprised by the study. “We really need to try to be more active in general,” she said. Jampolis gives the following suggestions to turn a sedentary day into an active one.
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Sunday, 08 July 2012 00:00 |
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Today is "SCUD day (Save the comic, unplug the drama day)" and tonight is NewPulse...
- Historic bankrupcy
- Wildfire evacuation
- Zimmerman charges
-Female athletes, in theory
-The tribe
Make sure to tune into 88.3 fm the sting at 5:30 pm for NewsPulse |
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Saturday, 07 July 2012 00:00 |
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I love this day because it is "Chocolate day..."
The Tribe
Bliss Davis Fox 8- It was a hot evening at Progressive Field for the Cleveland Indians (44-40), beating the Tampa Bay Rays (44-41) 7-3. The Indians’ hitters came alive in the second inning, giving them a 3-0 lead with runs by Michael Brantley, Shelley Duncan and Lou Marson. The team added on two more in the third with runs by Asdrubal Cabrera and Jose Lopez. The Rays would get on the board in the fourth inning thanks to a home run by Luke Scott, which also brought home Ben Zobrist. The following innings yielded no runs for either team until the eighth, when Shelley Duncan slammed in a home run for the Indians and giving the Tribe a five point lead. The Rays didn’t go down without a fight, however. A home run by B.J. Upton in the ninth added a run to their score, but in the end it was not enough. The Indians won game three of the four-game series with a final score of 7-3. The win puts them two games behind the Chicago White Sox in the American League Central Division. The Indians finish their series with the Rays on Sunday with first pitch at 1:05 ET.
Obama is committed to ending Bush tax cuts
Ashley Killough CNN- A top adviser for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign said Sunday the president was entirely dedicated to ending the so-called Bush tax cuts for the wealthy at the end of this year. “He is 100% committed to it,” Robert Gibbs said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Obama signed a bill in 2010 to extend the Bush-era tax cuts, citing the need for economic stimulus at the time, but has since vowed he would not permit another extension. The tax breaks are set to expire in what’s known as the “fiscal cliff,” a package of spending cuts and removal of tax breaks that will take place on January 1 if Congress fails to act. In total, $7 trillion could be taken out from the economy. Tax breaks that would end include the Bush tax cuts, middle class protection from the Alternative Minimum Tax, and more than 50 “temporary” tax breaks for individuals and businesses that have been on the books for years. For its part, the White House has proposed raising taxes on the very wealthy as a way to help make a dent in the federal deficit. “Let’s make some progress on our spending by doing away with tax cuts for people that quite frankly don’t need them, tax cuts that haven’t worked and have them pay their fair share,” Gibbs told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley. The so-called “Buffett Rule,” named after billionaire investor Warren Buffett, would impose a minimum 30% tax rate on those making more than $1 million. The measure, however, was blocked in the Democratic-controlled Senate in April. On the campaign trail, the president continues to call for a tax increase on the wealthy, arguing they need to pay their “fair share.” “We have got to make sure that those of us who can afford to do a little bit more – because we have been so blessed by this country – that the wealthiest among us can pay a little bit more to help close this deficit,” Obama said at a campaign stop in Poland, Ohio, on Friday. Republicans, on the other hand, say the solution to the country’s deficit problems should center on spending cuts and further tax breaks. Asked on Sunday about the looming fiscal cliff, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said it would be a mistake for Obama to override the bill. “The president shouldn’t veto that,” he said on the same CNN program. “This is the same president who signed the very same thing two years ago with the argument to do otherwise would make the economy worse.” |
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