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Saturday, May 26, 2012
Dylan Ratigan: Sustainability = Security: The Next Mission for America's Vets
As our nation starts to draw down the wars overseas, over a million vets will be re-entering civilian life over the next five years -- one of the largest in our country's recent history.
This Memorial Day weekend, we are focusing on the next mission facing our war heroes. We all know our service members and returning vets are committed to our national security -- but as they return home, that mission extends beyond the battlefield, as vets work to ensure that future generations never go to war over resources.?The need for sustainable energy and sustainable food are what many of the wars around the world are fought over now -- our returning marines know it, and they're doing something about it.
Watch as Dylan Ratigan talks about the connection between vets, jobs, sustainability and security with Liz Perez of GC Green, and John Hofmeister, former CEO of Shell Oil and founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy, as well as some amazing veterans he met on the road on the West Coast who are working for change.
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Healthy Snacks for Weight Loss - Easy and Delicious!
When it comes to losing weight, eating is where most of us end up doing everything wrong. Or completely ignore health when it comes to our favorite food between meals or just eat too much of a snack. Either way the result is we eat more calories, fat and sodium than they need to lose weight and ended up with the exact opposite.
What we need are healthy snacks for weight loss, eliminate snacks altogether is not realistic. The key is to find healthy snacks that are both easy and delicious for us to enjoy weight loss without hunger. Read on to learn more!
Why is it necessary Snacks for Weight Loss?
As much as you want, you can resist the temptation to grab a snack when your stomach starts to growl, the truth is that having healthy snacks for weight loss is necessary to prevent overeating at meals. If you let yourself die of hunger between meals it is likely that compenses over for lunch and eat until you end up being about to explode.
The trick is to find healthy snacks for weight loss that are low in the bad things and a lot of good things.
Nuts
Often when we think of snacks on potato chips or candy, but nuts and seeds make great healthy snacks for weight loss. Nuts such as almonds and peanuts or seeds such as sunflower or flax are important protein that can help you lose weight since protein makes you feel fuller longer so you will not unnecessary snacks throughout the day.
A small portion of nuts or seeds -1 / 4 cup or less can make a good healthy snack for weight loss. Although you may think that a handful of nuts or seeds could not provide you with a snack attack, the truth is they?re pretty stuffed and healthy so you can keep calories to a minimum while you get a good dose of good fat in your diet.
All-fiber cereal snacks to lose weight healthy and wealthy
Because whole grains are an essential part of a healthy diet, it follows that also was a good healthy snack for weight loss. Some whole grain snacks are rich in fiber, which is an amazing fat burner, but also are rich in complex carbohydrates that keep you energized all day. Unlike other sweet snacks, healthy snacks for weight loss and whole grains can give an energy boost at the right time for you to maintain concentration throughout the day.
By choosing healthy whole grain snacks to lose weight, make sure the label says ?whole grain? to make sure you?re getting whole grains, not refined grains. Some products try to entice healthy eaters by labeling products as ?multi-grain? or simply ?wheat? so I think they?re made from whole grains. They are not, are impostors who try to deceive you.
Vegetables and fruit
Fruits and vegetables are perfect healthy snacks for weight loss because they are low in calories and high in fiber, minerals and vitamins so you lose weight and keeps you healthy. Because the plants have almost no fat in them, you can snack without having to worry about your weight loss efforts.
If you have a cup of grapes or blueberries or a small bag of carrots, fruits and vegetables are exactly the kind of healthy snacks for weight loss to be added to your diet.
Snacks milk fat to lose weight
If you are looking for a snack then consider something sweet and low-fat or nonfat yogurt. Nonfat dairy snacks will give you a good dose of protein and calcium, while keeping you from overeating later. Whether you choose to chop sticks, low fat cheese or a cup of cottage cheese, you can not live without dairy products, choose low-fat dairy products for your healthy snacks for weight loss.
Lots of healthy snacks
An important factor to remember when you take healthy snacks to lose weight is portion size. No matter how healthy is your snack if you eat more than your body needs. If your goal is weight loss, it is suggested snacks with no more than 100 calories. This will help you keep your daily goal caloric intake without feeling hungry all day.
Healthy Snack Ideas
If you?re not sure of healthy snacks for weight loss, I have compiled a few that will help you stay on track. Enjoy these low calorie foods and snacks;
* 4 tablespoons raw almonds
* 6 oz carrots 2 tbsp. Hummus
* 1 cup sliced ??strawberries and bananas
* 2 pieces of light cheese
* 3.5 cups popped popcorn
1 cup grapes
These are just a couple of healthy snacks for weight loss to begin with, but as you become familiar with healthy food choices you will come to mind dozens of healthier snacks for your weight loss efforts easier.
When it comes to losing weight, eating is where most of us end up doing everything wrong. Or completely ignore health when it comes to our favorite food between meals or just eat too much of a snack.
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Welcome me back...Been a while..
Hey everyone. I'm not sure if you all remember me. Boy this site has changed! How long has it been? Maybe...a year. Or two. Anyways, Raff is back! Maybe some of the friends I have here will remember me. Anyways...The reason I haven't been on is because I've had a lot in my mind. And well, I had a lot of writers block. And I kinda' wasn't in the mood of Rping. But I have gotten' to where I miss Rping. And I want to come back. So maybe you all will let me come back in and start Rping with you. ^_^ So, if you will, let me in! Once again..>_>
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Insight: Crisis dims dreams for Europe's poor east
PETRACHIOAIA, Romania (Reuters) - Five years after joining the European Union, this town 13 miles outside of Romania's capital is still waiting for the jump in living standards its politicians said membership would bring.
Four out of five people have no indoor toilet or running water. Homes are heated with wood-burning stoves and most people raise animals in their yards to survive. Just one in five of Petrachioaia's 3,375 inhabitants has a job.
Now Europe's newest citizens - the 100 million people in Romania and nine other eastern European countries who have joined the 27-member bloc since 2004 - may have to retire their earlier dreams.
A growing number of economists working in think tanks and investment banks say the economic crisis in Europe has hurt the chances the EU's poorest members will catch up to, or converge with, living standards in their richer counterparts.
Convergence - the trend for new member countries to move towards Europe's average GDP per capita - has long been one of the rewards of EU membership.
That was what politicians almost universally promised in the run-up to membership, saying generous development aid from Brussels and foreign investment could help them follow the example of Ireland, whose boom took it from EU laggard to Celtic Tiger.
The former Communist states in eastern Europe appeared to be following the same path. But convergence has now slowed in many places, and economists say it could come to a stop in around 20 years at levels far lower than earlier hoped.
"Catching up is unlikely to proceed as rapidly as we thought before 2008," said Ville Kaitila, a researcher at ETLA, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, referring to the most widely used measuring stick for living standards.
"Even though there has been overall long-term convergence in the EU, convergence is not a natural law."
The economic slowdown over the past four years is already taking a toll. Angered by austerity measures and slow progress, some voters have swung away from reform-minded parties in favor of those that promote stronger social safety nets and reject economic reforms.
Constantin Florea, a 63-year-old former mill worker in Petrachioaia who subsists on a military pension of 100 euros a month and by raising animals, sums up the disillusionment.
"I thought they were supposed to raise our wages and pensions and create jobs for young people after we joined," he said as his heifer munched on grass by the side of a road.
"If I didn't have this cow, I'd starve."
BOOM TO BUST
In the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, people popped champagne and danced in the streets when the EU ushered them into its club eight years ago.
Bulgaria and Romania had to wait another three years for accession, which politicians and economists said would boost their economies.
It had elsewhere. In Ireland economic reforms and a torrent of EU development funds, foreign investment and a lending boom to firms and consumers boosted GDP per capita from 65 percent of the EU average in 1960, 13 years before EU entry, to almost 150 percent in 2008.
At first, it looked like the EU newcomers would go the same way.
In the run-up to membership and immediately after, foreign firms ploughed cash into factories in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, making the latter the world's top car producer per head and, in less than a decade, pushing its GDP per person to 75 percent of the bloc's average from just 50.
While the rest of the EU expanded at 2 percent a year from 2000 to 2008, the new eastern states easily grew at double that rate, with Latvia peaking at 11.2 percent in 2006.
Convergence looked a sure thing. Bulgaria's GDP per person reached 44 percent of the EU average in 2008, from just 28 percent at the start of the decade. Romania's rose two-thirds to 47 percent.
The crisis ended the boom, and slowed convergence.
Every country in the region save Poland has had a recession in the past four years. Latvia shrank by more than a fifth from 2008 to 2010, and a two-year contraction in Romania wiped more than 8 percent off its annual output.
Many western European members also suffered recessions. The worst-off - debt-choked Greece - is in its fifth year of what looks set to be a 20 percent contraction.
But it started from a much higher pre-crisis base and its living standards are still roughly 80 percent of the EU average, neck-and-neck with the richest new EU state, Slovenia, and well ahead of the poorest. Ireland too has dropped from its peak but is still roughly at Germany's level.
NOT SO FAST
Since the crisis, eastern Europe's governments have imposed austerity measures including layoffs and wage cuts for state workers, to tackle inefficiencies.
Foreign banks have shut off credit. Loans are harder to get. Romania has just re-entered recession.
"When we joined the EU people believed their world will change," said Decebal Floroaica, a 38-year-old priest who has just opened the first soup kitchen in Pitesti, a southern Romanian town of around 180,000. "Our euphoria was at a maximum and they thought everybody would find jobs abroad. Now we're realizing maybe the EU is not the land of milk and honey."
Economists now expect growth to remain below potential for several years, squeezing the ability of countries to gain ground on their richer neighbors.
"Citizens of new member states must have expected fast convergence. As a result they have been disappointed," Peter Halmai and Viktoria Vasary, Hungarian experts on transition economists, said in an email.
"The convergence machine continues to work, but at a lower level than expected earlier... In certain countries convergence has stopped or slowed down to a great extent."
In forecasts updated from a 2010 paper published in The European Journal of Comparative Economics, Halmai and Vasary see growth in the new member states outpacing that of the EU's original 15 countries, with a peak in 2030 or 2040.
That is when a demographic crisis is expected to hit eastern Europe, as a steep decline in the birth rate after the end of communism in 1989 brings a large fall in the workforce as generations born before then retire.
"The real convergence will stop from 2030 onwards and even a moderate divergence from the EU-15 might occur," Halmai and Vasary wrote.
Though they concede that their long range forecasts are uncertain, the economists believe that in most advanced states - Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic - the eventual ceiling of convergence will peak just around the EU norm before falling back to below that level.
Poland would top out at 76 percent of the EU average in 2060, they said, far short of last year's boast by former finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz that Poland could catch Germany in 20 years, and behind even countries such as troubled euro zone member Portugal.
The poorest two, Bulgaria and Romania, would struggle to break the 60 percent barrier in the next 30 years, and the latter could fall back to below present levels, they said.
Zsolt Darvas, a research fellow at Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, said that compared to Ireland's performance two decades ago, the eastern states are lagging, with some coming to resemble the path of Portugal, Spain and Greece, which made advances but then hit a wall.
Darvas thinks Bulgaria and Romania still "have a lot of chances to converge" but that realistically "in 40-50 years, if they will be around 50 percent of the EU average, that would not be bad for these countries."
END OF MILK AND HONEY
It's not as if EU membership has brought no improvements. In Petrachioaia, the main road was paved for the first time in 2008, a year after Romania joined the EU. The last of the town's four schools got plumbing two years ago.
In Bucharest, the capital, luxury cars have replaced dilapidated Soviet-era Dacias and western brands from Gucci to Starbucks stand where just a decade ago were grim shops labeled "shoes" and "food".
But problems persist. Romania's highways link only three cities, and none reach a land border or a port, a red flag for exporting investors.
Only about a quarter of the population hold down steady jobs - there are roughly the same number of pensioners and the same again of subsistence farmers - so the country's production potential is below its better-off peers.
And while Ireland benefited from EU funds, Romania, dogged by corruption, bureaucracy and a lack of co-financing, has used just 8 percent of the 19 billion euros available since 2007.
Polls show that fewer than half of Romanians now have faith in the EU, down from over two thirds before entry. Tom Gallagher, a professor of east European politics at Bradford University, said that raises the risk of political dissent or a rise of radical parties if people become frustrated with the wealth gap.
"Romania will be a permanent drag on the EU if we continue to fall behind, and the country faces long-term underdevelopment and decay unless there is a relaunch of the partnership with the EU," Gallagher said.
Petrachioaia school director Minu Iordanescu, 56, has already adjusted his expectations.
"Living conditions can get better, but that may take 50 years," he said. "So maybe my grandchildren will taste a more civilized life."
(Edited by Simon Robinson and Sara Ledwith)
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Apps for key government services coming within a year
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With more of us relying?on our phones and the hundreds of?thousands of apps available to help manage our lives, the Obama administration Wednesday issued a directive to?every federal agency to make "two key government services the American people depend on available on mobile phones?within the next 12 months."
"Americans deserve a government that works for them anytime, anywhere, and on any device," said President Barack Obama in a statement.?
The plan is part of a larger effort announced Wednesday to make "large amounts of government data more easily accessible to the public to spur entrepreneurs to develop innovative new services and mobile applications that take advantage of this data, creating new opportunities, businesses and jobs in the process. These actions are part of a larger digital strategy being implemented by the Administration?? a roadmap that will guide the Federal government as it makes the most of new sources of digital information."?
"Mobile is rapidly becoming the platform of choice for Americans; it is now anticipated that by 2015 more people will be accessing the Internet via mobile phones than via traditional desktop computer," the White House said in a?statement. "By next spring, the American people will be able to access dozens of additional government services on their mobile phones for the first time."
There are hundreds of federal agencies, so the task will be formidable.?In the?directive, the administration points to some successful examples already done by cities around the country, including San Francisco.
The City of San Francisco releases its raw public transportation data on train routes, schedules, and to-the-minute location updates directly to the public through web services This has enabled citizen developers to write over 10 different mobile applications to help the public navigate San Francisco?s public transit systems???more services than the city could provide if it focused on presentation development rather than opening the data publicly through web services.
Part of the directive calls for launching a "shared mobile application development program, in conjunction with the Federal CIO Council, that will help agencies develop secure, device-agnostic mobile applications, provide a development test environment to streamline app delivery, foster code-sharing, and validate official government applications."
U.S. Chief Information Officer?Steven VanRoekel said, in a statement, that it is "critical that the federal government keep up with the way the American people do business. Already, families can use government apps to check the wait time at the airport, get access to critical veteran services, and check the status of their tax return. Today?s directive will accelerate our drive to make key services easily accessible to more Americans than ever."
Apps are indeed becoming more relevant in some ways than the Internet; the mobile programs are how more and more of us are getting information, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center?Internet & American Life Project and The Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University.
While the government effort is ambitious, security concerns ? a growing issue with mobile phones that have increasingly sophisticated operating systems???are noted in the directive, called "Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People":
The rate of change of mobile operating systems, new update and notification capabilities from external hardware and software vendors, diversity of the devices themselves, and introduction of employee-owned devices (BYOD) also make security in the mobile space more challenging than in a traditional desktop environment and require new approaches to continuously monitor and manage devices and secure the data itself.
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