Did you know?! Pet beneficial to human health

Often said that pets can be beneficial to human health. Certainly exercise with a dog will not hurt, but is there any evidence of that? Answer a number of studies already concluded that pets can have a positive impact. Said Detlev Naulth, Secretary-General of the research group "pets in the community",
The prevailing research methodology for decades is the psycho-social approach and held that the study of the effects of certain curriculum for pet owners"
The Naulth indicates that the results were based primarily on surveys and observations, so the results are not very strong. Adding that, however, scientific research approaches evolved gradually. And there is much evidence that pet useful for owners in many ways. For example, there are physical benefits, one of which is clear and is an important exercise.

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For the first time: Messi and Cristiano in the same team!!

And approved a star Barcelona and Real Madrid, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, to join the team and one Ciecklh the International Federation of Football "FIFA" in a campaign aimed at the prevention of disease and the fight against the scourge of drugs, and will be among the events matches charity in different places of the world. Messi and Ronaldo at the forefront of the approvers of the stars of the world to join this team, to be the first time that the two stars Argentine and Portuguese in one team.
And will carry the team, which will include Messi and Ronaldo name "FIFA 11", and will play 11 games in different parts of the world, is likely to see Seen reputed names such as Ivory Coast's Didier Drogba and Italian Gianluigi Buffon and Spain's Carlos Puyol and Samuel Eto'o and Ghana's Michael Essien, and other players. The relationship between the players look at their best, due to the intense competition between them on individual awards and numbers, as well as the historical conflict between their teams Barcelona and Real Madrid, and usually avoid shaking hands with each other after the match "Clasico", or even compliment each other.

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Unidentified attacking the residence of the Ambassador of Egypt, Belgium

Vandals attacked the residence of Egypt's ambassador to Belgium, and set fire to the outer perimeter of the building, also threw glass exterior windows with stones, and they have maimed exterior walls with paint, without causing casualties, while Belgian police continue their efforts to uncover the circumstances of the attack.

As issued by the Egyptian Embassy in Brussels a statement in which it confirmed was the residence of the Ambassador, Fatima Zahra Etman, for "assault" by unknown, at about 1:30 am on Wednesday, are the Belgian capital, officials have ruled out the Egyptian Foreign Ministry to be there, "motivesbehind this political attack.
Confirmed Ambassador Fatima Zahra was at her residence for the attack, and said in remarks to TV "Dream" on Wednesday evening: "I was surprised by the group of people, trying to ignite a fire in the house of the diplomatic mission, and also the home of my, users in that Achammarej, and Alphenabl scorching 

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2013: celestial satellite will pass close to Earth

The year 2013 will be distinctive among astronomers who will allow them to see the number of asteroids and comets that pass along the ground, without being a major threat to the planet.Beginning next week, astronomers will be on a date with the first celestial space Stmraly by the planet, an asteroid, "99,942 Apophis" named after the symbol of evil and darkness the ancient Egyptians.
The diameter of this asteroid 270 meters, and in the event of a collision land will generate energy equivalent to power 25 thousand atomic bomb like those dropped on Hiroshima.This asteroid was raised in 2004, panicking scientists who are conducting a survey to monitor any threat to Earth because of the celestial floating in space.
The radars will remain "NASA" stare toward the asteroid "Apophis" as it passed along the ground tomorrow, at a distance of 14.5 million miles from the Earth's surface. Thanks to these observations, scientists will be able to reduce the margin of error in their calculations. And will be visiting the second asteroid "2012 DA 14", which is smaller than "Apophis", with a diameter of 57 meters, but will pass on February 15 next very close to the surface of the planet at an altitude of 34,500 kilometers, he will cross the parallel orbits satellites Earth-orbiting 

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Knowledge is light .. Slogan "whores" Brazil in preparation for the World Cup!

Jades in the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais province, receive free tuition in the English language for courtesy tourists during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Seda said Vieira, president of the Association jades in Gerais that the idea is intended to teach some English words for girls, such as the names of "certain foods or sexual terms" for ease of understanding with tourists.
And about 20 girls participated night in tutoring, and is expected to record 300 out of 4000 registered member, before the end of the year.
It is expected that the continue Relay quotas between six and eight weeks to begin the first series of lectures in March / March.
 

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Israel army prevented Assad from the use of a weapon, "the Day of Judgment!"

Israel barred Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of using chemical weapons against his own people, and that before the Syrian army loaded on the aircraft.

The newspaper said that international cooperation unrivaled prevented the Syrian army to strike Syrian cities this weapon, after been mobilized missiles with chemicals, and the army was intended to load the aircraft about a month ago, and that the information thereon arrived in Israel which in turn informed the U.S. Department of Defense"Pentagon", which in turn had contacts with Russia, China and neighboring Arab states in order to put pressure on Assad to prevent the use of these weapons
As a result, these countries were directing a stern warning to Assad that does not use the so-called "doomsday weapon" against the people. It is noted that the Syrian opposition and the army free they emphasize about a month ago that the system used types of chemicals that caused damaged skin and bottlenecks to dozens of citizens, and confirmed the circles in the opposition that the system used types of gas chemical internationally banned by symptoms that appeared on the injured 

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Cleaning teeth reduces the risk of premature birth for pregnant women

According to a British study, clean infected pregnant women gingivitis to the brim, the doctor, help reduce the risk of premature birth. That brushing your teeth with your doctor helps remove accumulated lime around the gums, thus reducing the risk of infection of the gums, which increases the risk of premature birth for pregnant women.

The researchers from Harvard University Dental that severe gum infections increase the secretion of the hormone prostaglandin, and Altnkerz factors that cause the death of cells, the chemicals cause accelerated delivery.

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Violence Against Women bill dies in House

Before wrapping up their session on Tuesday night, Congress had a few things on their to-do list: Vote on the fiscal cliff bill, figure out what they were going to do about the farm bill, authorize relief for Superstorm Sandy victims — and reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

That last item may seem like a no-brainer, even taking into account recent partisan battles that have been paralyzing Congress.
But House leadership chose to let the bill expire, balking at new provisions that would extend protections to undocumented immigrants, Native Americans and LGBT individuals.
This is the first time since the act was introduced in 1994 that the bill hasn't been reauthorized. VAWA has "improved the criminal justice response to violence against women," the White House says, and provides financing for programs that work to end domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking, as well as offer support to victims.

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Mighty Morphin Hillary

Everyone expected Hillary to lower the boom on Bibi Friday night.

The bullying Israeli prime minister is fond of demanding that America set red lines on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But he blithely stuck a finger in the eye of President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton Friday and went over a red line for successive American administrations: Israel gave the White House only a few hours’ notice that it was defying the U.S. and planning new settlements in the most sensitive territory east of Jerusalem, a move that Washington fears could obliterate any prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“If such a project were to go beyond blueprints,” Jodi Rudoren and Mark Landler wrote in The Times, “it could prevent the creation of a viable, contiguous Palestinian state” by closing off the West Bank from East Jerusalem.

The brazen and counterproductive action, designed to punish the Palestinians, flouted the Obama administration, which had Israel’s back twice recently: in the clash with Hamas over Gaza and, despite increased diplomatic isolation, in opposing the successful vote to upgrade Palestine to a nonmember observer state in the United Nations.

The provocation preceded Hillary’s speech at the Saban Forum at the Willard Hotel here Friday night. The conference on the Middle East is run by Haim Saban, an Israeli-American media and entertainment mogul from Beverly Hills who is best known for three things: bringing the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Japan to America, being a vocal supporter of Israel and lavishing the Clintons with donations. (He gave $5 million to the Clinton presidential library, $5 million to the Clinton foundation and avidly supported Hillary’s ’08 bid against Obama.)

Last year, at the Saban forum, Hillary infuriated some Israeli ministers when she said she was alarmed about the rights of women and “antidemocratic” bills proposed by far-right members of the Netanyahu government. She talked about her dismay at learning that some religious Israeli soldiers walked out of events where women were singing and that some buses in Jerusalem operated under gender apartheid — “reminiscent of Rosa Parks,” as she put it. So, many in the audience this time assumed that the outgoing secretary of state would lay down the law to Bibi on settlements, and they were surprised when she pulled her punches and made only a mild reference, eschewing the word “settlements.”

“These activities,” she said, “set back the cause of a negotiated peace.”

She said the Palestinians could have a state “as old as I am” if in 1947 they had made “the right decision” or if they had “worked with my husband” in 2000. And she urged Israel to be “generous” toward the Palestinians. But she didn’t whack Bibi, as he deserved. Many there came away assuming that it was the beginning of Hillary’s 2016 campaign, that she was thinking about her future rather than her present. Her reasoning, they reckoned, was this: If Obama doesn’t want to have anything to do with the settlement issue, if he’d rather spend his time in Myanmar than Israel, then why should she stir up trouble with Israel and her pro-Israel supporters on her way out the door?

And aside from the dog that didn’t bark, there was the video that roared. A film that introduced Hillary featured leaders and Israeli pols — including Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres and Tzipi Livni — gushing over the secretary.

In a dispatch headlined “Hillary Is Running,” David Remnick, The New Yorker editor, wrote: “The film was like an international endorsement four years in advance of the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary.”

How can we focus on Barry’s transition when Hillary’s is so much more riveting? Far from being depleted and ready for a spa, she’s energetically rounding up the usual suspects. She “took steps to solidify her relationships with some Democrats by sending hand-signed notes to candidates who got bested in close Congressional races,” offering them encouragement and succor, The New York Observer’s politics blog reports. That provided a marked contrast to Obama, who did not bother to rally Democrats in his acceptance speech.

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Aurora, Colo., Shooting Kills Four

The episode began about 3 a.m. when shots were heard on East Ithaca Place, about 16 miles southeast of downtown Denver, said Sgt. Cassidee Carlson, a spokeswoman for the Aurora Police Department.
A woman who had escaped from the house told officers that shots had been fired and “that she observed three people inside the home who appeared lifeless as she was leaving,” according to a statement released by the police on Saturday afternoon.

About 50 officers, including members of a SWAT unit and hostage negotiators were called, Ms. Carlson said. When attempts to talk to the man by telephone and over a bullhorn were unsuccessful, the police statement said, officers moved in using an armored vehicle around 8 a.m., which was fired upon.
The police were unable to force the gunman out of the house using gas, Sgt. Carlson said, and about an hour later, officers shot him to death after he appeared in a second-floor window, she said.
Inside, the police said they also found the bodies of a woman and two other men. Sgt. Carlson did not identify the victims or the gunman, and said investigators did not know what set off the episode.
In July, 12 people were killed and 58 wounded in a shooting at an Aurora movie theater during midnight screening of the Batman sequel “The Dark Knight Rises.” The gunman, wearing what the police described as ballistic gear, used an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun and a handgun in the shooting, the police said.
James Eagan Holmes, 24, was arrested outside the theater and has been charged in the killings. Prosecutors are scheduled to present their case against Mr. Holmes at a preliminary hearing on Monday that is expected to be attended by many of the survivors and family members of those who died.
Bob Broom, a member of the Aurora City Council, said memories of the movie theater shootings were still fresh but that life in the city had begun to resume its normal rhythms. He said he did not believe the shooting on Saturday shooting would reopen those wounds because it appeared to have been an act of domestic violence.
“When the theater shooting first happened, there was incredible grief,” said Mr. Broom, who said he lives in the subdivision where the shooting on Saturday took place. “But time heals. And it has healed in this situation.”
Barb Helzer, co-owner of the Rock Restaurant and Bar, said she tensed up when she heard news of the shooting on Saturday. “My whole staff, even the young staff, who normally don’t pay attention, we all said, ‘Oh my God, there’s been another shooting,’ ” she said.
Ms. Helzer says she has friends whose Aurora businesses have struggled since the summer. Others will not go to the movies.
“It is all still a recent reality here. We’re still nervous,” Ms. Helzer said. “You find yourself looking at people differently. We’re careful when we ask people to leave the bar. You don’t take things for granted anymore.”
The theater where the shootings took place, the Century 16, is scheduled to reopen on Jan. 17. The theater’s operator, Cinemark, has been criticized for sending out invitations for the reopening to relatives of those who were killed.
Parents, grandparents, cousins and a widow of 9 of the 12 people killed said they were asked to attend an “evening of remembrance” followed by a movie on Jan. 17, according to an open letter to Cinemark published by The Denver Post.
In the letter, many of the relatives said the company had never offered its condolences and had refused to meet with them without the company’s lawyers being present.
“Our family members will never be on this earth with us again, and a movie ticket and some token words from people who didn’t care enough to reach out to us, nor respond when we reached out to them to talk, is appalling,” the letter said.
The families, some of whom have sued Cinemark, described the invitation as a “thinly veiled publicity ploy” and called for a boycott of the theater. Cinemark did not immediately return a message seeking comment on Saturday.

Dan Frosch contributed reporting from Albuquerque, N.M.

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Common Sense: Google Finds a Line Between ‘Aggressive’ and ‘Evil’

“Don’t Be Evil,” the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, proclaimed in their 2004 “Owner’s Manual” for prospective investors in the company. Despite widespread cynicism, criticism and even mockery, the company has never backed down on this core premise, reiterating in its most recent list of the “things we know to be true” that “you can make money without doing evil.”
Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the F.T.C., at the announcement of its Google antitrust ruling.
Yet the company has been dogged for years by widespread allegations that it violates its own pledge by manipulating the search results that remain the core of the company and the primary source of its enormous profits.
Google insists that its results have always been “unbiased and objective” and that they are “the best we know how to produce.” But for competitive reasons, it never disclosed the secret algorithms that produce those results, so no one outside the company knew for sure. A growing chorus of complaints from companies like Expedia, Yelp and, especially, Microsoft that Google manipulates the results to favor its interests at the expense of competitors led both the United States government and the European Union to take up the issue. On Thursday, after nearly two years of investigation, the Federal Trade Commission rendered a verdict: Google isn’t evil.
It may have been “aggressive,” as the commission delicately put it. But “regarding the specific allegations that the company biased its search results to hurt competition, the evidence collected to date did not justify legal action by the commission,” said Beth Wilkinson, outside counsel to the F.T.C. “The F.T.C.’s mission is to protect competition, and not individual competitors.”
The decision is “a huge victory for Google,” Randal Picker, a professor of commercial law at the University of Chicago Law School and a specialist in antitrust and intellectual property, told me just after this week’s decision.
It’s also a vindication of the integrity of Google’s search results and the company’s credibility. “There’s never been any evidence that consumers were harmed by Google’s practices, and no evidence that Google ever engaged in any manipulation that violates antitrust law,” said Eric Goldman, a professor of law and director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law.
The decision is also likely to set standards for competition on the Internet for years to come. It’s a blow to competitors like Microsoft, which has been stirring up opposition to Google for years, not to mention newer rivals like Facebook, Apple and Amazon. “The gloves will be off,” Professor Picker predicted. “The F.T.C. has indicated it’s going to be taking a very cautious approach toward regulating competition on the Internet.”
But will the decision ultimately prove to be good for consumers?
The F.T.C. did secure some concessions from Google regarding patent licensing and advertiser options. But to call those a slap on the wrist would be an overstatement.
What mattered most to both Google users and competitors was Google’s search practices, which had never been put under the regulatory microscope to such a degree and which the F.T.C. left untouched.
Google’s search results have evolved significantly from its early, simpler days. When I searched for “flight JFK to LAX” this week, I got three categories of results: paid ads at the top and on the right; a Google-produced chart comparing flight options with the disclaimer, which you need to click on, that “Google may be compensated by these providers”; and so-called organic results below that. The first two organic results were entries for Expedia, a rival to Google’s travel site. But given the layout and size of my screen, none of the organic results were visible unless I scrolled down.
However clearly labeled, the prominence of Google’s own travel results gives pause to some antitrust experts. “Location is important,” Professor Picker said. “No one thinks otherwise. Years ago, it was important for airlines’ reservations systems to be on the first screen. But I’m not sure this is an antitrust problem.”

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