Forgotten: Black Women & Obesity ? To Your Health!

Derek Caffe, C.F.T.
- Atlanta?s #1 Healthy Lifestyle Specialist
- Author ?4 Secrets to a Healthy Life!?

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As I sit at my desk to write this blog, I wish I was a poet. I wish I could eloquently arrange the ideas in my head. Put my thoughts and emotions into a beautiful bouquet of words, sentences and paragraphs for the world to read in awe. Sadly, I am not a poet. However, I am Atlanta?s #1 healthy lifestyle specialist. So here goes.

Many overweight and obese black women are being left for dead.

They are being left behind because of :

• Miseducation
• Society
• Black fitness and health professionals
• Complacency
• Crab mentality
• Black men
• Hair
• Cultural legacy
• Slave legacy
• Media
• And more. . .

Here?s the issue; many adult black women are overweight or obese. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services nearly 80% of all African American women are overweight or obese. Don?t fall for the hype that it?s genetics that predisposes black women to certain medical conditions. Genetics, arguably, accounts for approximately 30% of your predisposition to being overweight or obese. What blacks are more predisposed to, just as others, are family lifestyle habits. You learn what you know about health, fitness and nutrition from your family. If your family has unhealthy lifestyle habits, you are more likely to adopt these unhealthy lifestyle habits too.

The bigger issue with this is the way society works. The best resources go to those who already have. While those who struggle are left by the wayside. Meaning society gives special attention to people who show an exceptional ability or interest toward a topic. This special attention acts as a self ? fulfilling prophecy. Because society offers certain people additional opportunities to advance in the topic, that?s exactly what happens, they advance. ?The problem is those who are not chosen are mostly ignored and left to fend for themselves. This also produces a self ? fulfilling prophecy since the lack of attention and lack of nurturing causes those not nurtured to display inferior abilities in said topic.?Author Malcolm Gladwell discusses this theory in his book ?Outliers?.

Self ? Fulfilling Prophecy ? Any positive or negative expectation about circumstances,?events, or people that may affect a?person?s?behavior?toward them in a manner that?causes?those?expectations?to be fulfilled.

Example: ?A parent, for example, who expects their child to be successful will likely treat their child in a way that will elicit the very response he or she expects.

An example of this is the ?gifted? program present in many schools across the nation. Some children show advanced intelligence at an early age and are picked out and given additional nurturing. This pattern normally continues from elementary all the way to high school. Meanwhile other normal students, or rather ??non-gifted? students, are treated as such and their grades and performance confirm it. Gifted children as a result of showing advanced signs of intelligence at an early age were given a boost that would follow them the rest of their lives. ?How do I know? I was one of those gifted kids.

I can personally attest to the special nurturing and raised expectations that were given to me. This special privilege followed me throughout grade school. As a result I performed up to and sometimes beyond what was expected of me. I was given the sense that I was special. That gave me a sense of entitlement that I could do anything if I worked hard enough because I was special. Not to say I didn?t have special innate abilities, but due to the fact that someone recognized it, nurtured those abilities and expected more of me, I expected more of myself.

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. ? Matthew 25:29

What does this have to do with black women and obesity? Everything. Black women have basically become the ?regular? kids in the classroom. The kids who aren?t nurtured and expected to achieve as much, so they don?t. There are a myriad of factors driving this which I previously mentioned. In order to address this issue we have to draw attention to it, but there seems to be a sense of complacency among black women about being overweight and obese. According to a study released by the journal?Applied Research in Quality of Life, the studies authors noted that:

. . .black women are typically more accepting of larger body sizes, which may explain why their quality of life is less affected by weight.

The number one driver behind any real change is a burning desire. ?A burning and all- consuming desire to achieve your goals. A place where there is no option for defeat.

Complacency is the enemy of change. This doesn?t mean you have to beat yourself up about being overweight or obese. It does mean accepting that there is an issue and working daily towards improving upon that issue. Complacency has caused some black health and fitness professionals to focus their efforts on other groups. Only adding to the descent of the black women in today?s society.

At what point does "thick" go overboard?

There are a number of black fitness and health professionals who have simply given up promoting their services to other blacks. Since I?ve moved to Atlanta at the end of 2010, this has been a prevalent topic among black fitness professionals. And it?s not that these black fitness and health professionals don?t want to help. They site strong resistance and a sense of complacency on the part of their fellow blacks as the number one cause of giving up. They state that blacks don?t value health and fitness as much as whites.

Why do I feel that it is particularly important for ?black? health and fitness professionals to care versus other groups? Simple. Blacks are more likely to show interest in the welfare of other blacks. This is the same way Jews have been known to take care of other Jews. Whites take care of other whites. Asians take care of other Asians, and on, and on. This doesn?t mean this is always the case, but it?s definitely a predominant theme. We can?t look to others to save us, we have to work together and help each other to solve our problems. But first we have to recognize that a problem exist.

Now I would like to think I?m presenting a somewhat unbiased piece. It?s not that all blacks don?t value their health and fitness. I would be considered black and I highly value my health and fitness. It?s a number one priority in my life. Facts are, blacks make up roughly 12 ? 13% of the U.S. population according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Whites make up approximately 72% of our population. By numbers alone you will run into more whites who prioritize health and fitness over blacks due to the fact that there are simply more whites than blacks! However, the larger numbers of whites doesn?t explain why obesity and other preventable chronic diseases such as Type II diabetes and heart disease?disproportionately affect blacks.

This trend of issues prevalent in the larger population disproportionately affecting blacks is nothing new. A myriad of factors influence this including:

• Social economics issues
• Political issues
• Slave legacy
• Cultural legacies
• And more

However, without your health, you cannot begin to build any sort of sustainable recovery. Your health is vital to your ability to work and produce. A community effort is needed for this change to occur. This isn?t something that can be overcome by the efforts of one lone wolf (despite what you?ve heard from success stories in the news). One person can be the catalyst for change, but it takes the efforts of many to carry it to fruition.

You have to change your lifestyle vs. participating in diet and exercise alone. ?This means building the four principles of a healthy life into your lifestyle which?I discuss in my book?4 Secrets to a Healthy Life!. ?But what exactly does a healthy lifestyle look like? What foods do you need to eat? What activities do you need to participate in? Many need a lot more guidance and this is the reason why both black women and black health and fitness professionals need to redouble efforts and not give up on each other.

As stated previously those who have more will have more given to them. In society black women have become similar to the normal child and because of this they need more nurturing and support. Don?t get my wrong, when it comes to helping others live a health lifestyle I see no color.

However, in our society some groups face additional hurdles and I?ve adopted a ?No Human Left Behind? policy when it comes to issues of health and fitness. This is a two way street and there needs to be a desire on the both sides for the change to take place. After all, poor health = death.

I will go into more depth on this issue in later post. One thing is certain. If we don?t support each other, none of us have a chance at true success.

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Let me know your thoughts, by commenting below.

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About Derek Caffe

Derek Caffe, C.F.T., is Atlanta?s #1 healthy lifestyle specialist and motivational speaker. Derek is a personal trainer and works as a fitness consultant at Bodyplex Atlanta located in the heart of downtown Atlanta. He is also author of 4 Secrets to a Healthy Life!. Derek was recently publicized as ?fitness guru?. He was listed as one of 30 Young Professionals Under 30 to follow on Twitter by hiremecampaign.com.

Derek helps clients create, implement and maintain a healthy lifestyle as Atlanta?s #1 healthy lifestyle specialist. If you?d like more information about Derek?s services please visit www.derekcaffe.com or call (678) 701- 4401.

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Zoologger: The bird that cares for its rival's chicks

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Species: Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus
Habitat: living in m?nages ? cinq in Australasia and New Zealand, with other subspecies on mainland Asia, Africa and southern Europe

Some people are very forbearing. Take Georgiana Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806). Her best friend, Elizabeth Foster, had a long-standing affair with Georgiana's husband. Yet for many years Georgiana shared a house with them. Elizabeth even had two illegitimate children with the duke: Georgiana raised them with her own.

Of course, Georgiana was constrained by the society she lived in. Nowadays most people in her position would disown their friend and divorce their spouse. It's the same in the animal kingdom. Females often get cross if their male mates with a rival, particularly if they get landed with the resulting offspring.

But one bird is just as tolerant of adultery and illegitimate offspring as Georgiana was. Female p?kekos cheerfully let other females lay eggs in their nest, and share the task of caring for them, despite the cost to themselves.

M?nage ? trois ou cinq

P?kekos are a subspecies of purple gallinule. They are an iconic animal in New Zealand, where thanks to their pugnacious personalities and intelligence they're often used in TV adverts (here's an example). If you're not sure how to pronounce their name, the stress is on the first syllable.

On New Zealand's South Island, they live in groups up to eight strong. Each group will have between one and three breeding males and one or two breeding females, and perhaps a few non-breeding adults as well. The breeding adults are polygamous: every male mates with every female, regardless of how dominant they are.

Within each group, the females often lay their eggs in the same nest. All the adults then share the work of caring for them. This marks the p?kekos as oddities in the bird kingdom.

"Only 3 per cent of birds have a system where adult birds care for young not their own," says James Quinn of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Of those the vast majority are older siblings that haven't yet managed to breed for themselves. Caring for unrelated young, as the p?kekos do, is virtually unheard of.

Caring sharing birds

Quinn has found that sharing a nest in this way actively harms a female p?keko's ability to reproduce. Joint clutches can contain 10 eggs, compared to just six in solitary clutches. The total number of eggs that hatch from a joint clutch is higher, on average, but eggs are also more likely to be accidentally broken in a crowded nest ? so the chances of any individual egg hatching goes down. Weighing the two factors against each other, a female is better off going solo.

Given that, why do the female p?kekos put up with other females laying eggs in their nests? They could throw the offending eggs out, or just attack the other female when she tries to lay. But they don't.

Quinn wondered if the females were worried about retaliation. After all, if a female threw out a rival's eggs, the rival might then attack her eggs in return. To find out if this went on, he monitored 19 joint nests. From each he removed all the eggs laid by one of the two females.

Six nests were abandoned entirely, and another five fell victim to predators. But at the remaining eight, the parents continued caring for the eggs, seemingly unaffected. There was no sign of increased aggression between the females. "Robbed females do not retaliate," Quinn says.

We need a boy

Quinn suspects that the males might be responsible for the females' bizarre cooperativeness. Male p?kekos play a big role in childcare, including incubating the eggs at night. So if they abandon the nest, the offspring are doomed.

From a male's point of view, it's better to incubate a joint clutch because more eggs ? all of which carry his genes ? will hatch. So if one of the females was destroying eggs and the clutch got smaller, the male might abandon it and start again in the hope of getting a joint clutch.

For now, that's just speculation. But Georgiana might have appreciated the irony. For female p?kekos, tolerating adultery might be the only way to guarantee that their males help out with the kids.

Journal reference: Animal Behaviour, DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.027

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Scores apply to test menus for Mars

Astronauts may have more food options available to them by the time they go on trips to Mars, as shown in this artist's conception, and NASA wants to be ready when the time comes.

By Alan Boyle

Want to get paid $5,500, plus expenses,?for tasting different kinds of space food on Hawaii's Big Island for four months? Join the crowd: About 100 people have applied for the job so far, and there are still six days to go before the deadline.

There are a few catches, though: You'd have to be cooped up in a fake Mars habitat for most of that time, cut off from the rest of the world except for a time-delayed communication link. Forget about packing the bikini. Anytime you leave the habitat, you'd have to wear a bulky spacesuit. And don't expect a luau. The whole point of this exercise is to find out whether it's better to feed you freeze-dried and dehydrated foods, or let you make your own meals from "shelf-stable" ingredients such as flour, beans, rice and cheese. For 120 days, you'll have to write detailed assessments of all those meals ... as well as your own mood.

Such is the life awaiting six prime crew members and two alternates next year during a 120-day simulated Mars mission known as Hawaii Space Exploration Analogue and Simulation, or HI-SEAS.

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University of Hawaii researcher Kim Binsted says the applications have been streaming in as the Feb. 29 deadline approaches. She can tell where HI-SEAS has gotten a shot of publicity by keeping track of where the emails are coming from on any particular day. "Apparently Italy heard about us yesterday," she said. By next week, she expects to have 200 or so applications to choose from.

The selection criteria are relatively stringent: a bachelor's degree in science, math or engineering ... three years of graduate school or professional experience ... ability to pass a flight physical exam ... 24 months of being tobacco-free. Plus, of course, a normal sense of taste and smell. "We're looking for people who would be as astronaut-like as possible," Binsted told me.

The simulation, conducted by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is designed to find out which kinds of foods would make the most sense for a months-long mission beyond Earth orbit. Are meals be more satisfying if they're made from bulk ingredients, or will it turn out that the usual pre-packaged, no-muss meals are actually more suited to space missions?

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Gus Frederick, right, examines his camera as Greg Drayer looks on during a mission near the Mars Desert Research Station, northwest of Hanksville, Utah. The Hawaii mission simulation is likely to use a similar type of mock spacesuit.

After selection and training, the crew members will travel to Hawaii in early 2013 and get settled inside a simulated habitat that will probably be set up in the Big Island's Saddle Road area. Binsted said "it's very stark, very Marslike," with fresh lava flows from the Mauna Loa volcano. In addition to their food-tasting duties, the crew members should have some spare time to conduct other research studies, as long as they stay in character for the simulation.

Binsted said the entire three-year project is supported by a $947,000 NASA grant, and about a third of that will go toward the 120-day taste test. The project also includes a head-down, bed-rest study that's being conducted at the NASA Flight Analogs Research Center in Galveston, Texas, to simulate the effects of long-term microgravity.

Many astronauts have observed that food seems to lose its flavor in space ? which is why hot sauce is such a popular condiment for crews on the International Space Station. Binsted said the bed-rest study could determine whether the hot-sauce effect arises because of a physical effect (for example, swelling of the nasal passages in zero-G) or a psychological effect.

"There's not a lot of 'spice' in their life, so maybe they have to get it from their food," she said.

More about space food and simulations:

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To learn more about Hi-SEAS and apply to join the crew, check out the project's call for participants. Application deadline is 11:59 p.m. Hawaii time on Feb. 29. You can also follow @HI-SEAS on Twitter.

Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter or following the Cosmic Log Google+ page. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.

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Tiny, implantable medical device can propel itself through bloodstream

ScienceDaily (Feb. 22, 2012) ? For 50 years, scientists had searched for the secret to making tiny implantable devices that could travel through the bloodstream. Engineers at Stanford have demonstrated a wirelessly powered device that just may make the dream a reality.

Someday, your doctor may turn to you and say, "Take two surgeons and call me in the morning." If that day arrives, you may just have Ada Poon to thank.

Yesterday, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) before an audience of her peers, electrical engineer Poon demonstrated a tiny, wirelessly powered, self-propelled medical device capable of controlled motion through a fluid -- blood more specifically. The era of swallow-the-surgeon medical care may no longer be the stuff of science fiction.

Poon is an assistant professor at the Stanford School of Engineering. She is developing a new class of medical devices that can be implanted or injected into the human body and powered wirelessly using electromagnetic radio waves. No batteries to wear out. No cables to provide power.

"Such devices could revolutionize medical technology," said Poon. "Applications include everything from diagnostics to minimally invasive surgeries."

Certain of these new devices, like heart probes, chemical and pressure sensors, cochlear implants, pacemakers, and drug pumps, would be stationary within the body. Others, like Poon's most recent creations, could travel through the bloodstream to deliver drugs, perform analyses, and perhaps even zap blood clots or removing plaque from sclerotic arteries.

Challenged by power

The idea of implantable medical devices is not new, but most of today's implements are challenged by power, namely the size of their batteries, which are large, heavy and must be replaced periodically. Fully half the volume of most of these devices is consumed by battery.

"While we have gotten very good at shrinking electronic and mechanical components of implants, energy storage has lagged in the move to miniaturize," said co-author Teresa Meng, a professor of electrical engineering and of computer science at Stanford. "This hinders us in where we can place implants within the body, but also creates the risk of corrosion or broken wires, not to mention replacing aging batteries."

Poon's devices are different. They consist of a radio transmitter outside the body sending signals to an independent device inside the body that picks up the signal with an antenna of coiled wire. The transmitter and the antenna are magnetically coupled such that any change in current flow in the transmitter produces a voltage in the coiled wire -- or, more accurately, it induces a voltage. The power is transferred wirelessly. The electricity runs electronics on the device and propels it through the bloodstream, if so desired.

Upending convention

It sounds easy, but it is not. Poon had to first upend some long-held assumptions about the delivery of wireless power inside the human body.

For fifty years, scientists have been working on wireless electromagnetic powering of implantable devices, but they ran up against mathematics. According to the models, high-frequency radio waves dissipate quickly in human tissue, fading exponentially the deeper they go.

Low-frequency signals, on the other hand, penetrate well, but require antennae a few centimeters in diameter to generate enough power for the device, far too large to fit through all but the biggest arteries. In essence, because the math said it could not be done, the engineers never tried.

Then a curious thing happened. Poon started to look more closely at the models. She realized that scientists were approaching the problem incorrectly. In their models, they assumed that human muscle, fat and bone were generally good conductors of electricity, and therefore governed by a specific subset of the mathematical principles known as Maxwell's equations -- the "quasi-static approximation" to be exact.

Poon took a different tack, choosing instead to model tissue as a dielectric -- a type of insulator. As it turns out human tissue is a poor conductor of electricity. But, radio waves can still move through them. In a dielectric, the signal is conveyed as waves of shifting polarization of atoms within cells. Even better, Poon also discovered that human tissue is a "low-loss" dielectric -- that is to say little of the signal gets lost along the way.

She recalculated and made a surprising find: Using new equations she learned high-frequency radio waves \ travel much farther in human tissue than originally thought.

Revelation

"When we extended things to higher frequencies using a simple model of tissue we realized that the optimal frequency for wireless powering is actually around one gigahertz," said Poon, "about 100 times higher than previously thought."

More significantly, however, her revelation meant that antennae inside the body could be 100 times smaller and yet deliver the same power.

Poon was not so much in search of a new technology; she was in search of a new math. The antenna on the device Poon demonstrated at the conference yesterday is just two millimeters square; small enough to travel through the bloodstream.

She has developed two types of self-propelled devices. One drives electrical current directly through the fluid to create a directional force that pushes the device forward. This type of device is capable of moving at just over half-a-centimeter per second. The second type switches current back-and-forth in a wire loop to produce swishing motion similar to the motion a kayaker makes to paddle upstream.

"There is considerable room for improvement and much work remains before these devices are ready for medical applications," said Poon. "But for the first time in decades the possibility seems closer than ever."

Stanford doctoral candidates Daniel Pivonka and Anatoly Yakovlev contributed to this research.

Ada Poon's research was made possible by the support of C2S2 Focus Center, Olympus Corporation, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.

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Franchise business opportunities can be very attractive ? but there are some very important facts you need to be aware of.

Over the years I have incorporated a number franchise business opportunities into some of my business on the basis that the franchise brand would attract more customers. However, I quickly discovered that the forecasts and costs were not what was predicted.

We have all heard of McDonald?s and the Starbucks and even thought to ourselves what it would be like to invest and own such a franchise business opportunity. Although a franchise may look like a very lucrative business opportunity, that?s not always the case.? In fact many franchises fail with in the first year of starting.

Many people are looking for small business ideas and the idea of a franchise opportunity very often appeals due to the comfort of being able to sell a well known brand and having support readily available when help and advice is needed. Most people think that a franchise business opportunity is the perfect business to own. It is a business model that can work well if it has a proven brand or idea that can make money.? However there are many risks involved in opening up a franchise.?

The biggest problem with a small franchise business opportunity idea is the start up costs. The franchise costs do vary between thousands to millions of pounds / dollars. The average McDonald?s start up cost is between 250k and 500k with many more franchises costing the same. However, the cost involved always comes down to the type of franchise and how well known it is. The other huge costs people over look are the yearly royalties that need to be paid out as well as on some occasions a percentage of the profits you make. So as you can see despite all of the hard work, time and effort you put into your franchise business opportunity the profits can get smaller and smaller.

In some ways owning a franchise means that you are still working for someone else i.e. the franchise company rather than yourself. Some have very lax regulations, whereby you are able to make the decisions but other franchise companies keep control on everything that you do. If you decide that the franchise contract you have entered into is not working for you it can be difficult to sell on the franchise. So keep that in mind when you look at buying a franchise business opportunity or idea.

Not all is lost with franchising as some franchising business opportunities far outweigh any risks involved, but ensure that you seek outside advice from an accountant and solicitor before entering into any contract. Make sure you use your common sense and that you choose the right franchise for the lifestyle and the business model you want to follow other wise you may regret it.

I did enjoy operating the franchises I ran but mainly because I had complete control over them and the amount of royalty payments that I paid each year. That said with the business models and successful alternatives we now share with individuals seeking to start their own business I would have to be biased and advice them to go with one of the alternatives we have readily available. They really do offer the best alternative to franchise business opportunities, the start up costs are often minimal and offer extremely high profit margins. ?

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When Poole started flight attendant training, the first step was Grooming 101, where all attendants were taught how to properly maintain their appearance. (One of the most important rules? "No frizzies" in your hair.) After the grooming instructors taught them how to create and maintain an airline-approved beauty regimen, trainees were held to those rules for the rest of the instruction time. Often, Poole writes, an instructor would enter a room and say, "Ladies!" At first, they didn't know what that meant, but they quickly learned it meant someone's lipstick wasn't up to scratch and needed to be fixed, now. If they didn't reapply immediately, the offender would get kicked out of class permanently.

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Caring For Oily Skin | New Health and Fitness | jeremypinc.com

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To begin the discussion on oily skin treatment, it?s vital to first recognize the cause behind oily skin. Put simply, oily skin is caused by excessive production of sebum (an oily compound that is normally produced by skin). As is known to everyone, excess of things are bad; so too much sebum is bad too. It results in clogging of pores of the skin, leading to build up of dead cells and hence development of pimples/acne. Moreover, oily skin spoils your image too. So, ?oily skin care? is just as significant as the ?skin care? for other types of skin.

The normal aim of ?oily skin care? will be the elimination of excessive sebum or oil from your skin. However, oily skin treatment procedures must not result in complete removal of oil. ?Oily skin care? starts off with the use of a cleanser. But, not all cleansers will work. You need a cleanser which contains salicylic acid i.e. a beta-hydroxy acid that retards the rate of sebum production. Cleansing must be done twice daily (and even more in humid and hot conditions).

Many of the oily skin care products are oil-free; but, it is always good to check the ingredients of the product, before you actually buy it. This is especially important if a product is marked as ?suitable for all skin types?, rather than ?oily skin care product?. ?Oily skin care? is also influenced by the degree of oiliness, in case you are not too oily, so some of these ?suitable for all?- sort of products might work for you too. For extremely oily skin, only oily skin treatment products are suitable. Your oily skin treatment regime may include an alcohol based toner (for the extremely oily skin). This can be the second step in your oily skin care routine i.e. soon after cleansing. However, excessive toning may damage the skin.

The next step in your oily skin treatment habit may be a mild moisturizer. Again, the degree of oiliness of your skin will determine whether you have to include this in your oily skin care regimen. If you do decide to include a moisturizer, make sure you use one that is oil-free, wax-free and lipid-free. You could also use a clay mask (say once weekly) as an oily skin treatment measure.

As far as the oily skin care products go, you might need to try out a few before you arrive at the one that is really suitable for your skin.

In case that these measures don?t give you the desired result, consult a good dermatologist for advice. He can prescribe stronger oily skin treatment goods like vitamin A creams, retinoids, sulphur creams etc. , which will help counter the problems of oily skin.

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Greece likely to get bailout but issues remain

Greeces' Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Greek Parliament in Athens on Saturday, Feb. 18 2012. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Greeces' Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Greek Parliament in Athens on Saturday, Feb. 18 2012. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

BRUSSELS (AP) ? Eurozone governments will likely approve on Monday a long-elusive rescue package for Greece, saving it from a potentially calamitous bankruptcy next month, senior officials said.

But finance ministers meeting in Brussels will have a few last issues to wrangle over, such as tighter controls over Greece's spending and further cuts to the country's debt load.

Greece needs to secure the euro130 billion ($170 billion) bailout quickly so it can move ahead with a related euro100 billion ($130 billion) debt relief deal with private investors, which needs to be in place quickly if Athens is to avoid defaulting on a bond repayment on March 20.

An uncontrolled bankruptcy would likely force Greece to leave the 17-country currency union and return to its old currency, the drachma, further shaking its already beaten economy and creating uncertainty across Europe.

French Finance Ministers Francois Baroin told Europe-1 radio that while details will have to be worked out, "the political commitments have been made" for the bailout package, Greece's second in two years.

"We now have all the elements of a deal ? elements of a participation that remains voluntary for banks and private lenders, and for public lenders states, central banks," Baroin said.

He is traveling to Brussels to meet his counterparts from the 16 other euro countries, as well as representatives for the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and private holders of Greek debt.

Greece's Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, who arrived in Brussels Sunday night, said he was also optimistic that the new aid program could be agreed.

"Greece comes into today's Eurogroup meeting having fulfilled all the requirements for the approval of the new program," he said. "For Greeks, this is a matter of national dignity and a national strategic choice and no other integrated and responsible choice can be opposed to it."

The Greek parliament has faced down violent protests in Athens and nationwide strikes to approve the austerity and reform measures demanded by the eurozone. Its main political leaders have committed in writing to uphold the bailout terms even after general elections in April.

Despite Athens' efforts, however, several important elements of the deal remained unsolved.

To convince the rest of the eurozone that the new aid money won't be squandered, Greece will have to set up a separately managed account that would ensure that it services its debt. The idea behind such an escrow account is that it would maintain pressure on Greece to stick to promised austerity and reform measures, without the eurozone risking the destabilizing effects of a default.

The escrow account would give legal priority to debt and interest payments over paying for government services.

Eurozone finance ministry officials Sunday night concluded that only funds from the bailout would be funneled through the account and that Greece won't be required to pay in taxpayer money, German Finance Ministry spokeswoman Marianne Kothe said in Berlin, citing the current state of the negotiations.

The escrow account nevertheless would be an unprecedented intrusion into a sovereign state's fiscal affairs and could ultimately see Greece force to pay interest on its debt rather than its teachers, doctors or other government employees.

A Greek official indicated Monday that "many problematic and unenforceable" elements were taken off the table, but declined to elaborate. The official was also speaking on condition of anonymity because the talks were ongoing.

The second big outstanding issue is how to make sure that the current efforts to save Greece can actually bring the country's debts down to a manageable level in the longer term. In October, eurozone leaders and the IMF said that Greece's debt should be reduced to around 120 percent of annual economic output by 2020, from above 160 percent currently.

But a new report prepared by the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF concluded that the new bailout, Athens' spending cuts and a planned euro100 billion debt relief from private investors would still leave Greece's debt at almost 129 percent of economic output by the end of the decade.

The eurozone is still discussing several ways to close this financing gap.

The Greek official said there appeared to be agreement on further reducing the interest rate on Greece's first, euro110 billion bailout as well as having national central banks in the eurozone, which also hold some Greek bonds, participate in the debt relief.

But the official said that there was still no final decision from the ECB on whether it would be willing to transfer profits from its Greek bond holdings back to Athens. In contrast to the national central banks, who purchased Greek bonds as part of their overall investment strategies, the ECB bought its Greek holdings in an effort to ease market pressure on Athens.

A forth option for closing the gap would be to demand further losses from Greece's private bondholders like banks and other investment funds. A current plan foresees private creditors to swap their old Greek bonds for new ones with half the face value, lower interest rates and much longer repayment periods.

But now there is a push for bondholders to also give up on an accrued interest payment of around euro5.5 billion on their old bonds.

Another issue due to be discussed Monday is how much the IMF will contribute to the new rescue. The Washington-based fund has provided one-third of the bailouts for Ireland and Portugal and chipped in euro30 billion for Greece's first euro110 billion ($145 billion) rescue. But this time around, it looks as if the IMF will put up much less than one-third.

"The indication is that the figure will be rather low," said the EU official, adding however that a final decision from the fund's board is still outstanding. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde will also be at the Brussels meeting Monday.

The U.S. has expressed support for the IMF to take part in an aid program for Greece.

"This is a very strong and very difficult package of reforms, deserving of support of the international community and the IMF," U.S. treasury chief Timothy Geithner said in a statement Sunday. "The United States will encourage the IMF to support this agreement."

The Greek government is expected to introduce in Parliament on Monday another two pieces of emergency legislation, including wage and pension cuts. There were scattered protests over the cuts in Athens on Sunday.

___

Keaten reported from Paris. Juergen Baetz in Berlin and Elena Becatoros in Athens, Greece, contributed to this story.

Associated Press

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Skin cancer is most popular types of cancer in North The usa, with 1,5 million situations getting diagnosed annually. Roughly 1 million of North Americans populace will build some form of skin cancer by age 60 and its pretty much a half on the populace in North American. The risk is furthermost suitable for individuals who?ve blue or light coloured eyes and red or light-colored hair. But this probability will not be fixed. From time to time some people that never have red or blond hair however endured this disorder.

Skin Cancer

Proper its function, the epidermis safeguards us in opposition to light, high temperature, infection, and high temperature. The epidermis also stores drinking water, vitamin D, or unwanted fat, and regulate entire body temperature. The epidermis made up of two most important layers: the internal dermis and the outer epidermis. The dermis surrounds lymph vessels and blood, glands, and hair follicles. The glands build an oily material that can help maintain the epidermis from drying out and sweat to control sebum and entire body temperature. The epidermis is often fabricated of number like cells and flat. Ordinarily melanocytes is situated on the deepest parts of epidermis. Melanocytes are cells that fabricate melanin which furnish the epidermis its colour. The epidermis cells are actually just higher than the dermis.typically skin cancer positioned at apedermis
Skin Cancer

There are 2 most standard types of skin cancer. These are squamous and basel mobile carcinoma. Squamous mobile carcinoma also hardly at any time extends, even so it does so excess often than basal mobile carcinoma. Basal mobile carcinoma accounts for in surplus of 85 percent on the full epidermis cancers in North The usa. Basal mobile carcinoma is actually a deliberate mounting cancer that hardly ever spreads to other element on the entire body. The other varieties of skin cancer are melanoma. Melanoma commences while in the melanocytes. Melanomas are frequently deadly and speedy to metastasize. Squamous mobile carcinoma and basal mobile carcinoma are occasionally named nonmelanoma skin cancer.

Ultraviolet radiation is come to be the main probability variable. The extreme publicity to ultraviolet radiation can injury the epidermis and can improve the risk of skin cancer. Skin cancers vary substantially while in the system they seem. The most typical warning sign of skin cancer is actually a sore or progress that doesn?t cure. Whereas others to begin with look being a agency red lump, some initiate being a pale waxy lump. Skin cancer also starts being a flat, dry, red spot which is tough, or scaly. Generally nonmelanomas skin cancer are founds on districts on the epidermis that are often uncovered to the sun.

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The Incredible Power Of A Copywriter Course

Article by Elmar Sandyck

Do you often find yourself wanting to be a copywriter but find it hard to incorporate yourself in a copywriter course? Given the wide range of copywriting opportunities offered nowadays, who wouldn?t want to be a copywriter.

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- Be equipped with the skills

A copywriter is one who is well-equipped with the following skills: Active Listening; Critical Thinking; Time Management; Reading Comprehension; Writing; Persuasion; Active Learning; Coordination; Equipment Selection.

- Be knowledgeable

The most basic requirement is the knowledge on the different aspects in copywriting and these are: the knowledge of the English Language, its structure and content; Communications and Media including alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral and visual media; Sales and Marketing as this usually involve promotions of products and ideas.

- Be Able

Another secret of a good copywriter you may find in a copywriting course, is finding one?s capacity and receptiveness in the following: Written Expression; Originality; Oral Expression; Written Comprehension; Oral Comprehension; Near Vision; Fluency of Ideas; Speech Clarity; Speech Recognition and Problem Sensitivity.

- Be Sensitive to Opportunities

If you open your eyes, opportunities for Copywriters are limitless. The Internet has truly expanded the range as to venues for copywriters and employers to meet. It has also brought new opportunities for copywriters to learn their craft and conduct research.

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A good copywriter course should be able to inject in you the secret that lies in writing skills, having the ?personality? and move you to ?take action?. Becoming ?The Copywriter? is better than just becoming ?A Copywriter?. You need all of these to create text that kills and one that hits it off with the readers. More than mere good command in English, you will be giving a bit of your personality into the winning letters you will write. What people read will speak strongly of who you are as a person. If you are sure of yourself, then readers are sure to read emotionally and mentally appealing and stimulating lines.

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Thai cops: Iranian suspects partied with prostitutes

BANGKOK?? Three Iranians detained for allegedly plotting bomb attacks in Bangkok on Israeli diplomats apparently had more than terrorism on their minds: Police said Friday the men had also cavorted with prostitutes at a Thai beach resort.

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The news emerged as authorities announced they were searching for two more suspects in the botched bomb plot, including a possible explosives specialist who may have been training the Iranians.

The foiled plan was discovered Tuesday when explosives in the men's rented house blew up by mistake, forcing them to flee.

Two were detained in the Thai capital, and a third was captured Wednesday in neighboring Malaysia as he reportedly tried to return to Iran.

After flying into the southern city of Phuket on Feb. 8, the men moved to Pattaya and stayed there for at least two nights before heading to Bangkok.

Located 45 miles southeast of the Thai capital, Pattaya is particularly notorious for its sleazy sex industry and large contingent of prostitutes.

Hookah pipes and beer
The Iranians hung out with several female sex workers during their stay there, and one of the women was brought to Bangkok to identify the suspects on Thursday, Lt. Col. Noppon Kuldiloke, a senior immigration police investigator in southern Thailand, said.

A cell phone image taken by one of the women, published by the Bangkok Post with an article headlined "Suspects partied in Pattaya," purportedly showed the three Iranians at a Middle Eastern bar or restaurant surrounded by hookah water-pipes, two of them cradling women in their arms.

The men posed for the photo around a low, drink-filled table on which there appeared to be at least one bottle of beer.

The woman who took the image said one of the now-detained suspects, Mohammad Kharzei, had asked her to escort him "because he was not good at speaking English," according to the Bangkok Post.

Thailand: Iranian planned terror attack on Israeli diplomats

She said she brought two companions for Kharzei's friends, and they had drinks and played snooker together.

The woman, named by the Post only as Nan, detected nothing awry, except when one of the Iranians "barred her from approaching a closet" in his hotel room, the newspaper reported.

"What we got from Ms. Nan is circumstantial evidence that helps confirm to us that they were here together in Pattaya," Thawatchai Nongbua, inspector of Chon Buri Immigration Office, told the Post.

Signs of stress
National police chief Priewpan Damapong told the paper that Khazaei had been showing signs of stress and had refused to eat in custody at the immigration bureau.

So they took Nan to see him and afterward Khazaei appeared more relaxed and agreed to have some food, the officer said.

US official: Iran 'unlikely' to provoke conflict

The botched plot has ratcheted up tensions between Iran and Israel, which is accusing Iran of waging a covert campaign of state terror that included a bombing Monday in New Delhi that tore through an Israeli diplomatic vehicle, wounding an Israeli diplomat's wife and driver, and a failed bomb attempt the same day in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Video: Thai blast could escalate Mideast tensions (on this page)

Iran has denied responsibility for all three bomb plots, and blames the Jewish state for the recent killings of Iranian atomic scientists.

Thailand's national police chief said Thursday that the detained Iranians were plotting to attack Israeli diplomats, citing the similarity of so-called "sticky" bombs that can be attached magnetically that were used in New Delhi and Tbilisi.

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On Friday, Bangkok police commissioner Lt. Gen. Winai Thongsong announced authorities were searching for two more suspects in the case, including one man who was seen early Tuesday on closed circuit camera footage as he left the same house where the accidental explosion later took place.

Police said the man was seen leaving the residence with a bag in his hand, and had been coming and going repeatedly in the days prior to that.

Strait of Hormuz: Iranians, smugglers and fireworks

The same cameras captured each of the three Iranian men leaving the residence shortly after an explosion ripped the roof of the house that afternoon.

Winai said the newest suspect was 52 years old and of Middle Eastern descent, but gave no other details and did not give his nationality.

He said police also are looking for an additional suspect who had rented the destroyed home with an Iranian woman named Leila Rohani who is now believed to be back in Tehran.

Besides Kharzei, the two other detained suspects are Saeid Moradi, whose leg was sheared off by explosives he was carrying on a busy Bangkok street as he tried to flee, and Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, who was arrested in Malaysia and was trying to return to Iran.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Senate passes payroll tax cut extension (Reuters)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters - The Senate on Friday passed legislation extending a tax cut for 160 million workers and long-term jobless benefits through December, clearing the way for President Barack Obama to sign the measure into law.

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Beaufort man charged with robbing Chinese restaurant

An 18-year-old Beaufort man has been arrested on charges of robbing a local Chinese restaurant in December.

Calvin White Jr. was charged with one count of strong armed robbery for allegedly holding up the China Town Restaurant on Boundary Street on Dec. 23, said Beaufort Police Chief Matt Clancy.

Clancy said White walked into the business and ordered food before going behind the restaurant's counter, where he opened the cash register and stole an undisclosed amount of cash. He was chased from the restaurant by an employee who then contacted authorities, Clancy said. No injuries were reported.

On Monday, officers were looking for White near the Quality Inn on Boundary Street after White was spotted entering a motel room. Officers found him hiding in the bathroom and arrested him without incident, Clancy said.

White also was charged with second-degree assault and battery for allegedly punching a man in the face during an argument in the parking lot of a Beaufort apartment complex. The charge was unrelated to the December robbery.

He was being held without bond Tuesday at the Beaufort County Detention Center, according to the jail log.

If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison on the robbery charge, according to state law.

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New defense cuts threaten bases, shipyards

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, right, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, testifies on Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

By Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer

At a time when President Barack Obama is proposing more than $120 billion in new and enhanced tax incentives for companies to manufacture in America, not overseas, one part of the nation?s industrial base -- a sector where foreigners aren't allowed to fully compete -- is under siege.

Smaller defense budgets proposed by Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will cancel some made-in-America ships, airplanes and unmanned aerial vehicles and slow down the purchase of others.

The Obama budget also threatens to shut manufacturing and repair facilities, such as the 212-year old Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which sits on an island between Maine and New Hampshire.

Obama?s budget blueprint calls for defense outlays to drop by 5 percent over the next two years, and fall from 19 percent of federal spending this year to 13 percent by 2022.

In a four-hour hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday, Panetta defended his call for fewer ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, and other hardware.

And he made the case for his proposal for two more rounds of the base realignment and closure (BRAC) process that would close bases and shipyards across America.

But he faced concerns and criticism from both Republicans and Democrats on the committee -- about the threat to blue-collar manufacturing and repair jobs as well to national security.

Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., told Panetta that ?perhaps most disturbing of all? was the fact that at a time when U.S. strategy is increasingly focusing on East Asia and the Pacific, ?this budget would reduce shipbuilding by 28 percent.??

Sen. Roger Wicker, R- Miss., whose state is home to the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, pointed to 8.3 percent unemployment rate and noted that Obama?s budget proposal has various job creation ideas -- such as transportation infrastructure -- in it.

The Grio's Perry Bacon, Former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, and the Huffington Post's Jon Ward discuss the latest political news, including the GOP candidates' public comments about the President's budget.

?It makes no sense to me -- at a time when there is an effort to create more jobs with other spending -- to cut defense spending, which gives us the ?two-fer? of protecting the country and protecting the industrial base, which is a whole lot of Americans working to provide us with the infrastructure we need,? Wicker said. ?It is a fact, is it not, that this budget will have an adverse effect on our industrial base??

Panetta replied, ?We?ve taken a lot of steps to try to protect against that happening, because we absolutely have to protect our industrial base and those industries that support the defense budget. We can?t afford to lose any more and, for that reason, we design an approach that will keep them in business ??

But keep them in business with fewer manufacturing jobs, Wicker noted.

?There will be, I understand that, and that does have some impact,? Panetta admitted.

Later in the hearing, pressed by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Panetta said he would make sure that ?we keep our industrial base busy, serving our needs.?

?Once that industrial base is gone, you never get it back and once those trained workers go into other fields you?ve lost them forever,? Collins told Panetta. ?And that would greatly weaken our capabilities.?

Armed Services Committee members such as Sen. Joe Lieberman, I ?Conn., are also opposing delays in building the Virginia-class submarine, which is built in Connecticut and repaired in New Hampshire.

As for closing excess bases and shipyards, Panetta said, ?I don?t know of any other way? to cut infrastructure and get the savings needed ?without going through that kind of process.?

When Panetta served as a House member from California in 1991, he saw?BRAC first hand when the?BRAC commission closed Ft.?Ord near Monterey, costing more than 16,000 jobs.

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?I?ve been through the process; frankly I don?t wish the process on anybody,? he told Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D- N.H., who was defending the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.?

?Twenty five percent of my local economy was hit by virtue of a?BRAC closure,? Panetta told her. But he said the community did use the closing as an opportunity to develop a college campus.

?I see very little support for the president?s proposal on BRAC,? Collins said, in an interview during a break in the hearing.

?If you look at the GAO reports on the last?BRAC round, it has turned out to cost the government money, rather than saving money -- at least for the first five years. So I think there?s a great deal of skepticism both about the savings that would be produced and also whether there really is excess capacity.?

She said she did not think Congress would vote to launch another?BRAC round. Portsmouth was on the hit list in 2005, but the?BRAC commission overrode the Pentagon recommendation that it be closed. ?Tony Principi, the?BRAC chairman at the time, described Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as ?the gold standard in naval yards.??

The economic impact of closing the shipyard would huge in southern Maine, Collins said: ?It?s a major employer in York County and beyond York County. Half the workers are from New Hampshire -- it affects both states?

In bipartisan accord was her Democratic neighbor,?Shaheen who said after hearing, ?The number one priority is national security. The Portsmouth Naval shipyard was created ? because of national security ? but there are a lot of good jobs there. To look at the equation without factoring that in, along with costs, would be shortsighted.?

One dissenter on the committee was Sen. Lindsey Graham, R- S.C., who said he did not consider defense manufacturing as ?a job creator for America.? He also said he does think it?s necessary to consider another?BRAC round -- ?as hard as that is for my colleagues.?

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Source: http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/14/10408520-new-defense-cuts-threaten-bases-shipyards

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