Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Oh Spain...*

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Chelsea Handler... will leave to Spain if Trump wins....  May be not.

Pain...*

New guidelines recommend patients with back pain try exercise, yoga, or massage before drug therapies.

Most of us suffer back pain at some point in our lives.  New guidelines from the American College of Physicians say try exercise, yoga, or massage first.

The type of acute pain we're talking about is your "garden variety back pain you might get after shoveling a little too much or over-exercising,"



The new guidelines suggest techniques to speed up the healing process, including heat wraps, massage, acupuncture and spinal manipulation which can "relax the muscles, joints, and tendons so people can be relieved of their low back pain sooner, rather than later."

Other options that can help include exercise, "mind-body" therapies like yoga, tai chi, mindfulness-based stress reduction and guided relaxation techniques.
For patients with chronic pain who just aren't responding to these non-drug therapies, the guidelines recommend medication to reduce inflammation such as ibuprofen.

Weight loss and exercises are key and should be practiced way before you reach this point.

Wifey...*

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Rome's mayor is considering a "red light" district to shield prostitutes from exploitation. Prostitution is legal in Italy, and its practitioners are a common sight along several streets in Rome and many other Italian cities. City officials want to designate certain streets for prostitutes.


EUR official says designated streets will help ensure prostitutes aren't put there by traffickers. Many women leave homes in Africa and Eastern Europe for Italy after promises of work like waitressing, but instead are forced into prostitution by trafficking rackets.  Exploitation of prostitution is illegal. 


The city would provide psychological support and health care to prostitutes on the designated streets. Clients of prostitutes working on non-designated streets would risk fines.
Paolo Lampariello said there are so many prostitutes on the streets that "women can't enter their homes without being mistaken for prostitutes. That is a compliment to the pro. as they look more wife-y type.  Just a thought.

Nuke...*

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An engineer, Szuhsiung "Allen" Ho, working as an operative for the Chinese government in a bid to use American know-how to beef up China's nuclear program pleaded guilty in the first-of-its-kind prosecution in the nation.


Ho, his firm Energy Technology International, and Chinese nuclear power plant China General Nuclear Power were indicted in an alleged plot to lure nuclear experts in the United States into providing information to allow China to develop and produce nuclear material based on American technology and below the radar of the U.S. government.

Tennessee Valley Authority Office of the Inspector General, contacted the FBI with concerns about one of TVA's senior executives, engineer Ching Huey, who later admitted that Ho, and by extension the Chinese government, paid him to supply information about nuclear power production.  Huey agreed to cooperate in the probe and has since struck a plea deal.

Ho is a Taiwan native who became a naturalized U.S. citizen
It is not Russia, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or Pakistan. It is China.   Just a thought.

Spies...*

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Alleged Spy, Anna Chapman.



Someone has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, providing the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers.

It was part of a cluster of spying programs discovered by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software maker that has exposed a series of Western cyber-espionage operations.
The targets included government, military, telecommunication, banks, energy, nuclear researchers, media, and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said.

The firm said it was closely linked to Stuxnet,  attacked Iran's uranium enrichment facility. The NSA is the agency responsible for gathering electronic intelligence on behalf of the United States. 

Disk drive firmware is viewed by spies and cybersecurity experts as the second-most valuable real estate on a PC for a hacker, second only to the BIOS code invoked automatically as a computer boots up.
"The hardware will be able to infect the computer over and over
 

Placebo...*

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Meet...

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Hicks, already spoken with special counsel Mueller's team, has emerged as a central figure in when and where witnesses can legitimately resist answering questions in a congressional probe.  
Neverless, every one wants to meet this Beaut. 

Crash...

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The Democrats are having the most difficult time ever. The Market is up high, the job market is up high, the economy is up high, Tax rebate and tax cuts are up high for individual and corporation, and no New War in the Middle East. It seems that this is Bill Clinton time again on someone else's watch.

No New Ideas from the Dems, No rising star available, no Revolutionary direction is proposed. Same old things from the NY Governor and Mayor, more Tax and more spend.