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Just after McDonalds on the right of today, there is a house, a laundry mat and
probably my favorite house in all of the town of Bridgewater. It has a nice front
and side porch, nothing painted, flowers and plants not of plastic, but natural to
this earth. It is a one story house, just enough room for its occupants, I believe,
with maybe a small attic. I never been inside this house that I like so much, but
I'd like to. You see, the occupants don't know me and I certainly do not trespass.
Its location is further explained by other businesses nearby. There is an Exxon
station just a ways to the north and the house is straight across from Perdue and
catty-cornered to a drug store, Bridgewater Foods and Ace Hardware across the
street and in that order if your going north. That simple home reminds me of what
might have been for me if had lived 200 years ago....
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"God, Allah and other deities desire that we here on earth take care of those who
are less fortunate than us."
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Most of the burden lies in poorer nations and not the U.S. and other wealthy
countries, study finds.
High Blood Pressure Rates Have Doubled Worldwide Since 1975
"WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- The number of people
worldwide with high blood pressure has nearly doubled over the past 40
years, a new study reveals.
At the same time, average blood pressure levels are at an all-time low in the
United States and other developed nations, the researchers said.
"High blood pressure is the leading risk factor for stroke and heart disease,
and kills around 7.5 million people worldwide every year. Most of these
deaths are experienced in the developing world," said study author Majid
Ezzati, a professor at Imperial College, London in England.
"Taken globally, high blood pressure is no longer a problem of the Western
world or wealthy countries. It is a problem of the world's poorest countries
and people," Ezzati added.
The overall number of people with high blood pressure ("hypertension") rose
from 594 million in 1975 to more than 1 billion in 2015, due to factors such as a
large global population and an increasing number of older adults, the study
authors said.
The largest increases in high blood pressure rates have been in low- and
middle-income countries in south Asia such as Bangladesh and Nepal, and
sub-Saharan African nations such as Ethiopia and Malawi.
High blood pressure also remains a serious problem in some Pacific Island
countries, and some central and eastern European nations, such as Slovenia
and Lithuania.
Meanwhile, the United States and other wealthy countries -- including
Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and Sweden -- have seen significant
reductions in rates of hypertension.
In 2015, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Peru, Singapore South Korea and
the United States had the lowest rates of adults with high blood pressure
-- about one in eight women and one in five men, according to the study.
The results were published Nov. 16 in The Lancet.
The findings "also reveal that [the World Health Organization's] target of
reducing the prevalence of high blood pressure by 25 percent by 2025 is
unlikely to be achieved without effective policies that allow the poorest
countries and people to have healthier diets -- particularly reducing salt
intake and making fruit and vegetables affordable -- as well as improving
detection and treatment with blood-pressure lowering drugs," Ezzati
concluded in a journal news release."
More information
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Kids Can Beat 'Complex' Pneumonia Without IV Antibiotics: Study
Drugs taken by mouth were just as effective for children after hospital
discharge.
"Kids Can Beat 'Complex' Pneumonia Without IV Antibiotics: Study
THURSDAY, Nov. 17, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Antibiotics taken orally are as
effective -- and doubtless much more welcome -- than intravenous antibiotics
for children recovering at home from complex pneumonia, a new study
finds.
Youngsters with complex pneumonia typically have to take antibiotics for one
to three weeks after they leave the hospital, the researchers noted.
To see if one medication method outperformed the other, the investigators
looked at more than 2,100 children treated for complex pneumonia at 36 U.S.
hospitals.
Not only were oral antibiotics as effective as IV ones, they also avoided the
risk of infection and other complications related to so-called peripherally
inserted central venous catheters ("PICC lines"), which are used to administer
intravenous antibiotics, the researchers said.
"PICC line complications can be serious, resulting in hospital readmission,
additional procedures and more medications, as well as missed work or
school, " said study lead author Dr. Samir Shah. He's director of hospital
medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio.
"It's not surprising that children and families would rather not use PICC lines,"
Shah said in a hospital news release.
"Our findings, which provide compelling evidence to support the use of
oral antibiotics for children with complex pneumonia, will contribute to safer
care for children across the country," Shah added.
A PICC line is usually inserted into a vein in the arm and secured to the skin.
Medication is given through the tubing, eliminating the need for frequent
needle jabs.
The study was published online Nov. 17 in Pediatrics.
About 15 percent of children hospitalized for pneumonia develop complex
pneumonia, according to the researchers. Complex pneumonia includes an
infection in the area between the layers of tissue that line the lungs and the
chest cavity."
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NEWS ISIS UNCOVERED NOV 20 2016, 6:25 AM ET
How All-Female ISIS Morality Police 'Khansaa Brigade' Terrorized Mosul
by LUCY KAFANOV
"KHAZER CAMP, Iraq — Battle-hardened militants were far from the most
terrifying thing for many women living under their harsh rule in the ISIS-
conquered city of Mosul.
"I was much more afraid of women," said Umm Fatma, referring to female
members of the terror organization's morality police, known as the Hisbah.
"The women would beat you for the smallest thing — how you looked or how
you wore your headscarf, " the 28-year-old mother of three who arrived at
the Khazer Camp last week told NBC News. "They used whips and metal
sticks."
Restricted in where they could go and what they could wear while in Mosul,
refugees described living in fear of the Khansaa Brigade, the all-female ISIS
Hisbah units who patrolled the streets tasked with enforcing an extreme
version of Shariah law.
Umm Azma, a 31-year-old mother of eight, said the female morality police
favored a torture tool known as "the biter" — metal prongs designed to clip
chunks of flesh as punishment for women who violated strict ISIS' dress codes.
"They used this on my neighbor who was cleaning in front of her house without
the headscarf," said Umm Azma, gesturing to her own upper arm to illustrate
where the tool had been used. "Then they took her away for lashings. She
never came back."
While it is not possible for NBC News to independently verify such accounts,
several female refugees interviewed this week shared similar stories.
The female units and the torture device were also described in a Human
Rights Watch investigation of the suffering faced by female victims of ISIS.
As the battle for Mosul enters its second month, tens of thousands of Iraqis have
fled the city and are now residing in makeshift camps. Lucy Kafanov / NBC
News
More than 58,000 Iraqis have been displaced since military operations to
clear Mosul began on Oct. 17, according to the United Nations High
Commission for Refugees.
Many have sought refuge in camps like the one in Khazer, where they may
be free of ISIS, but are far from home and haunted by their traumas.
Traumatized by years of conflict
Umm Ali has been through hell and back. Twice.
She said that a Shiite militia killed her 11-year-old son Omar in 2007, during
the height of Iraq's sectarian war — forcing her family to abandon their
home in a Sunni Baghdad neighborhood for the then-relative safety of
Mosul.
Umm Ali and her husband were just starting to rebuild their shattered
lives when tragedy struck again: In 2014, jihadist fighters seized Mosul,
declaring the founding of a modern-day caliphate.(1)
(1) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A caliphate (Arabic: خِلافة khilāfa) is an area containing an Islamic steward known
as a caliph (Arabic: خَليفة khalīfah About this sound pronunciation (help·info))—
a person considered a religious successor to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad
(Muhammad ibn ʿAbdullāh), and a leader of the entire Muslim community.
The Rashidun caliphs, who directly succeeded Muhammad as leaders of the
Muslim community, were chosen through shura, a process of community
consultation that some consider loosely to be an early form of Islamic
democracy. During the history of Islam after the Rashidun period, many
Muslim states, almost all of them hereditary monarchies, have claimed to be
caliphates. Even though caliphs were thought to go back to Muhammad,
they were not thought of as having the same prophetic power as he did.
The Sunni branch of Islam stipulates that, as a head of state, a caliph should be
elected by Muslims or their representatives. Followers of Shia Islam,
however, believe a caliph should be an Imam chosen by God from the
Ahl al-Bayt (the "Family of the House", Muhammad's direct descendants)."
For two years she lived in a state of constant fear, witnessing beatings,
executions, and terror while under ISIS' oppressive rule. Last week, she
and her husband again abandoned their homes for the safety of a camp
for displaced people in Khazer.
"I lost my life in Mosul and I lost my heart in Baghdad," said Umm Ali, 54,
wiping away tears with the corner of her black and blue headscarf. "I
don't want to go anywhere in Iraq — I want to leave this country."
For women, life in the camps offers its own set of challenges.
Aid agencies have had time to prepare tents and bathroom facilities, but
several women interviewed by NBC News said they didn't have enough
supplies such as baby formula and hot water for showers. Privacy was
another issue, as each family was assigned to a single tent.
"Until this week, all we had to feed the children was biscuits," said Sabah,
a 28-year-old mother of three who declined to provide her last name
because of relatives still trapped in ISIS-controlled parts of Mosul. "I just
want to go back home as soon as possible."
But for Sabah and the other refugees here, the wait is likely to be a long one.
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I have had a terrible time trying to remember who is bad and who is good in
the Muslim World. Since Saudi Arabia is Sunni and Iran is Shia, I'll try to
remember that the good, Sunni Saudi Arabia has two u' s and the bad, Shia Iran,
has none. Works for me.
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Trump election: Mitt Romney considered for secretary of state
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Both Mr Trump and Mr Romney were tight-lipped after their meeting in New Jersey
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The hotel developer who became president
"US Vice-President-elect Mike Pence has confirmed that Mitt Romney is being
considered for the post of secretary of state, among others.
The statement, in a Fox News interview, comes after President-elect Donald
Trump met Mr Romney, a Republican who criticised him during the campaign.
There has been speculation that the post of top diplomat was discussed.
Neither man gave details of their meeting on Saturday. Mr Romney said talks
had been "far-reaching".
Mr Romney, who ran an unsuccessful campaign against Barack Obama in 2012,
met Mr Trump at the president-elect's golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
"It was a warm and a substantive exchange and I know he is under active
consideration to be secretary of state (...) along with some other distinguished
Americans," Mr Pence told the Fox News Sunday programme.
In March, during the Republican primary race, Mr Romney said Mr Trump
had neither "the temperament nor the judgement to be president", accusing
him of bullying, misogyny (1) and dishonesty.
(1) Note: definition of misogyny: "a noun meaning dislike of, contempt for, or
ingrained prejudice against women."
"Prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished" if Mr
Trump became the nominee, he said.
Donald Trump said his meeting with Mitt Romney 'went great'
Mr Trump responded by mocking Mr Romney, calling him a "failed
candidate" and a "choke artist".
However, US media have suggested that the role of secretary of state could be
up for grabs. In the past, Mr Romney has taken a far more critical line on
Russia than that suggested by Mr Trump.
Mr Trump has settled several posts so far, a number of them controversial.
They include:
The nominee for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who was rejected from
becoming a federal judge in 1986 because of alleged racist remarks
Lt Gen Michael Flynn, who is to be national security adviser and has drawn
concern over his strident views on Islam
Mike Pompeo, a combative congressman who is a fierce critic of former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Chief strategist Stephen Bannon, the driving force behind the right-wing
Breitbart News website.
Mr Pence was asked about the way he was treated when attending a
performance of the Broadway musical Hamilton on Friday.
The audience booed the vice-president elect and a cast member read out
a letter saying "diverse America" was "alarmed and anxious" at the future
administration.
Mr Pence told Fox News Sunday that he was relaxed about it and had said to
his daughter during the incident: "That's what freedom sounds like.''
But Mr Trump renewed his criticism of the cast on Sunday.
"The cast and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is highly overrated, should
immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior,'' he tweeted.
On Saturday Mr Trump tweeted: "Our wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was
harassed last night at the theater by the cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing.
This should not happen!"
Hamilton won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, along with 11 Tony awards
for live theatre. Tickets to the show are the most coveted on Broadway,
sometimes changing hands for thousands of dollars."
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Christie re-emerges after his falling out with Trump. But is he back on the inside?
By Karen Tumulty and Robert Costa November 20
"He was in. And then he was out. And now, he’s — well, it’s hard to tell exactly
where New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stands in the intrigue-filled orbit of those
who surround the president-elect of the United States.
What is clear is that Christie has become an object lesson of the perils that face
those who try to navigate Donald Trump’s world, a place where loyalty is
demanded, but not always one where it is returned in kind.
Nine days after the public humiliation of being unceremoniously dumped as the
head of Trump’s presidential transition, Christie on Sunday showed up among
the parade of potential Trump administration job seekers to meet with the
president-elect at his New Jersey golf course.
Asked if there would be a place for Christie in his administration, Trump did not
exactly say yes. Instead, he declared Christie “a very talented” man, who is also
“really smart and tough.”
A half-hour later, Trump ushered Christie out, following a private session that
both men pronounced to have been a positive one.
Here’s what President-elect Donald Trump has been doing after the election
He has been holding interviews and meeting with Congress and the president
as he prepares to transition into the White House.
Also among those who met with Trump on Sunday was former New York mayor
Rudolph W. Giuliani, who is said to be under consideration for secretary of state.
How the Trump-Christie relationship came asunder — and whether there is
any chance of putting it back together — suggests cautionary lessons for
anyone in close proximity to the president-elect.
Trumpworld is a place where there are dueling centers of power, where
actual motives are opaque and where only those related by blood or marriage
are ever truly trusted and invulnerable.
“Trump’s little black book of people he trusts in politics is two pages long.
The way it runs, which isn’t in Trump’s interest, is like court politics for some
potentate in the 17th century,” said veteran GOP consultant Mike Murphy,
who has been a vocal Trump critic. “It’s a snake pit where people die. But
even when people die, they can get resurrected when there’s a vacuum.”
Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, who
worked with Christie informally on the transition, said he would like to see
the governor have a role in the new administration.
“My hope is that no one has sidelined Chris Christie. That would be a mistake.
It goes beyond loyalty,” Steele said. “It’s about competence and that’s
something I’m sure isn’t lost on Donald Trump, even if there are storms
brewing in the family.”
Trump and Christie are old friends, going back years before either decided
to run for the highest office in the land.
When his own bid faltered, Christie became the earliest big national name
to get behind Trump’s campaign — awkwardly at times and at a cost to his
own stature.
On Super Tuesday in March, Christie’s discomfort as he stood onstage
behind Trump at his victory rally was so evident that it quickly became an
Internet meme and prompted Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) to tweet that it
looked like “a hostage situation.”
When Trump headlined a fundraiser in May to help Christie retire his
campaign debt, he pointed at the portly New Jersey governor and asked:
“You’re not eating Oreos anymore, are you?”
And then Trump passed over Christie in selecting his vice-presidential
running mate, picking instead another governor whom he barely knew.
But entrusting Christie last May with putting together a transition had been
seen as a sign of how crucial he had become to the New York real estate
mogul. The combative, quick-witted New Jersey governor had also been
deemed invaluable during Trump’s debate preparation, where he played
the role of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Christie’s camp also recalls that he used his political muscle to help deliver
New Jersey’s 51 Republican convention delegates to Trump — an important
boost at a time when there was talk that the Cleveland convention might be
brokered.
So it came as a shock to Christie, his allies say, when he was informed three
days after the election that he was out as head of the transition, to be replaced
by Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
“He was just taken by surprise,” said one Christie ally, who asked for
anonymity to speak frankly. “I don’t think he has any inkling.”
The news was delivered not by Trump, but by campaign chief executive
Stephen K. Bannon, whom Trump subsequently named as his pick to become
his top White House strategist.
Soon, most of the people Christie had brought in to run the transition were
gone as well.
The Christie associate noted that the New Jersey governor had been meeting
weekly with Trump’s adult children, as well as his son-in-law Jared Kushner,
to brief them on transition planning, and that they had signed off on
everything he had done.
Christie’s camp speculates that Kushner might have been the driving
force in banishing the New Jersey governor. As a federal prosecutor,
Christie prosecuted Kushner’s father, who in 2005 was sent to prison for
tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions.
“I don’t know if that was all because of Jared. It’s hard to explain it any other
way,” one Christie associate said.
Trump advisers, however, insist that Kushner played no role in the decision
to hand over the management of the transition to Pence. They say the
problem was Christie’s own performance.
One of the few things that Christie’s and Trump’s camps agree upon is that
Trump had not paid all that much attention to his transition operation until
after the surprising Nov. 8 election that made it clear he would actually
need it.
Trump’s camp says it was then they discovered that Christie had installed
lobbyists in key posts, undermining Trump’s frequent vow as a candidate
that he would “drain the swamp.”
“The overall organization wasn’t where it should be,” said one Trump
adviser. “Things just weren’t put together very well.”
They were also concerned about lingering fallout from the Nov. 4 conviction
of two former Christie aides of charges stemming from a scheme to snarl
traffic near the George Washington Bridge in 2013 to punish a mayor who
had not endorsed the governor’s reelection.
“Chris has taken a justifiable pounding from Team Trump because the
post-Bridgegate world reveals the raw flaws,” said New Jersey state Sen.
Joseph Kyrillos (R), his former gubernatorial campaign chairman. “But
he’s smart and resilient and will likely find a way back.”"
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Mon CLOUDY 36° 23°
Tue PARTLY_CLOUDY 40° 23°
Wed RAIN 40° 36°
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For two days now I have done nothing in the flower beds or yard. I guess that
both being covered by a dusting of snow would be a good reason, but I have
never liked hibernating like a bear.
I went to the garage (2:52 AM 11/21/2016 EDT) this morning to make my first pot
of coffee. I was about 32° with a milder wind chill than yesterday of about 28°.
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