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Dhoom gang in net with loot

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Four burglars from a Dhoom-inspired gang that pulled off Kerala’s biggest bank robbery on New Year’s Eve have been arrested with much of the loot. The gang had broken into South Malabar Gramin Bank and escaped with 80kg of gold jewellery and Rs 24 lakh in cash — Rs 8.25 crore in all. The burglars had confessed they were inspired by the John Abraham-starrer in which the actor drills a hole through the roof of a hotel vault and sweeps it clean while a New Year party is on. Police have recovered 57kg of gold and Rs 5,51,000 from the four — Joseph alias Jaison of Kottayam, Ragesh alias Shibu of Thrissur, and Radhakrishnan and Kankeshwari from Kozhikode. “The accused had sold around 22kg of gold in Bangalore, Chennai and Coimbatore. All the accused were arrested from the house of Radhakrishnan and Kankeshwari at Kottooli in Kozhikode district,”. Two months of planning went into the heist. The robbers booked a room at a hotel in Malappuram, 180km north of Kochi, and drilled a hole in its ceiling to enter the bank located on the floor above. “The main accused told us he got the idea for the theft from the film Dhoom,” Jangpangi said. He added that this was the first time “Kerala police were recovering so much gold in a case of burglary”. Amid speculation that the kingpin was still at large, “I can’t reveal whether more people are involved as the probe is still on.” The investigations had taken the police to neighbouring states as they tracked the suspects’ movements through the cellphones they were using. In the second week of January, Hyderabad police were close to nabbing the robbers who had checked into a hotel in the city. But they fled, leaving behind 1kg of gold ornaments in the room. source: google news http://www.commonwealthtv.tv http://blogs.mindbodynsoul.com Tags:blogs: burglars dhoom inspired robbery

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Does Weight Lifting Make a Better Athlete?

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

MIKE PERRY, a 31-year-old rower, trained by himself in Ann Arbor, Mich., for six years while his wife attended medical school. Now he is a member of the United States rowing team and hopes to be selected in a couple of months to compete in the Summer Olympic Games. These days, he works with a coach and a team, and for the first time he is also going to a gym twice a week and lifting free weights for his upper and lower body, and doing a lot of core exercises, he said. His coach insists upon it. Mr. Perry, though, said he cannot tell whether weight lifting is helping his performance. His 29-year-old teammate, Mark Flickinger, thinks weight lifting has helped him. He said it is difficult to distinguish between the effects of training by rowing on the water and weight lifting at the gym. But, he added, after three years of working with weights — including lifting to failure, the point at which he cannot do another repetition — he has become a better athlete. The training “improved my P.B.’s by a substantial margin,” he said, referring to personal bests, his best performances. As it turns out, the question of whether weight training matters to serious endurance athletes is a matter of debate. Researchers who study weight lifting, or resistance training as it often is called, are adamant. It definitely helps, they say. But other experts in the field are not so sure. And, he said, it is not just runners who become more efficient. “There is no doubt that an appropriate weight-training program would improve efficiency in pretty much any athlete,” Dr. Hunter said. And don’t worry about becoming too muscular, Dr. Kraemer said. “The fear of getting really big is not plausible for most people,” he said. Competitive distance runners and cyclists, who are naturally slender and light, “don’t have the muscle fiber number to get really big,” Dr. Kraemer said. “I can train them until the cows come home and they are not going to have big muscles.” Dr. O’Connor points out that the weight-lifting studies, as is typical in exercise science, are small. And each seems to examine a different regimen, to measure outcome differently and to study different subjects — trained athletes, sedentary people, recreational athletes. It becomes almost impossible to draw conclusions, he said. That may be one reason why different athletes end up doing different weight-lifting exercises. Chris Martin, a 31-year-old chemical engineer who has an elite racing license from USA Triathlon, the governing body for the sport, works on his entire body. But for his legs, he does exercises like leg extensions using one leg at a time, to correct any muscle imbalances or weaknesses. Mr. Martin, who lives in Lawrenceville, N.J., said he got the idea from coaches and from his own reading. “Cycling and running are one-leg-at-a-time activities,” he explained. And one-legged exercises “recruit more muscles that help the hips.” Steve Spence, who won a bronze medal in the marathon at the 1991 track and field world championships in Tokyo, is also a proponent of one-legged exercises. Now 45 years old and the head cross-country coach at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, Mr. Spence enters local 5-kilometer races and typically finishes in about 15 ½ minutes. “I feel that every major breakthrough with my running has come after a period of strength training,” he said. He attributes this to the emphasis he puts on leg exercises, but he also believes that working his upper body and abdomen helped. Other athletes concentrate on exercises that require them to jump or leap to develop explosive power. And many top athletes spend lots of time in gyms lifting weights, and many trainers and coaches swear by it. source: newyorktimes http://blogs.mindbodynsoul.com http://www.commonwealthtv.tv Tags:athlete blogs: weight lifting Energy exercises health strength

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TV Wrestling

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

TV Wrestling affects the teenagers take risks to their life and health.16 to 20 yrs old Americans, watching wrestling are more likely to be violent, and smoke but youngsters take chance to their health.

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Childhood obesity leads to higher rate of problems during surgery

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Add this to the growing list of health challenges faced by obese children: A new study from the University of Michigan Health System finds that obese children are much more likely than normal-weight children to have problems with airway obstruction and other breathing-related functions during surgery, according to Eurekalert, the news service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Obese children were found to have a higher rate of difficult mask ventilation, airway obstruction, major oxygen desaturation (a decrease in oxygen in the patient’s blood), and other airway problems. The study appears in the March issue of the journal Anesthesiology.

“To our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind,” says lead author Alan R. Tait, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the U-M Health System. This large-scale prospective study examines the effect of overweight and obesity on the outcomes of operations in children undergoing elective non-cardiac surgery.

“Based on current trends, it is likely that anesthesiologists will continue to care for an increasing number of children who are overweight or obese,” Tait says, “so it is vital that we are aware of the higher risk they face in the operating room.”

Researchers studied the experiences of 2,025 children who were having elective surgery. Of those, 1,380 were normal weight, 351 were overweight and 294 were obese. Children ranged in age from 2 to 18 years old.

In addition to the problems the obese patients experienced during surgery, they also had a higher rate of illnesses and conditions including asthma, hypertension, sleep apnea and Type II diabetes. These conditions all can contribute to problems during surgery, Tait notes.

By the numbers:

An estimated 15 to 17 percent of children and adolescents in the United States are considered obese.

Major airway obstructions occurred in 19 percent of obese children, compared with 11 percent of normal-weight children.

Nearly 9 percent of obese children experienced difficult mask ventilation, compared with 2 percent of normal-weight children.

17 percent of obese children in the study experienced major oxygen desaturation (decreased oxygen in the blood), compared with 9 percent of normal-weight children.

28 percent of obese children had asthma, compared with 16 percent of normal-weight children.

It should be noted however, that despite the increased risk of adverse events among children who are obese, none resulted in significant illness.

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Probiotics Runners

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Strenuous Training and runners makes their immunity more vulnerable so they can catch colds easily, good bacteria dose immune their system back to speed. Such type of bacteria’s are found in dairy foods such as Yogurt.

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Allow Your Own Inner Light to Guide You

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

There comes a time when you must stand alone. You must feel confident enough within yourself to follow your own dreams. You must be willing to make sacrifices. You must be capable of changing and rearranging your priorities so that your final goal can be achieved. Sometimes, familiarity and comfort need to be challenged. There are times when you must take a few extra chances and create your own realities. Be strong enough to at least try to make your life better. Be confident enough that you won’t settle for a compromise just to get by. Appreciate yourself by allowing yourself the opportunities to grow, develop, and find your true sense of purpose in this life. Don’t stand in someone else’s shadow when it’s your sunlight that should lead the way.

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Ponting praises bowlers

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Ricky Ponting said Australia was winning despite the side not playing to the best of its ability. He described the dismissal of his counterpart M.S. Dhoni as the turning point of the match. “The game was in the balance at that stage and India had its nose in front,” he said. Asked about his own form, Ponting replied, “I’ve played better.” The Australian skipper said, “sometimes chasing small totals can be harder than chasing big ones.” Ponting conceded that a few key players in the side were out of form. “But we have other players putting their hands up. Michael Clarke did that today.” He complimented Mitchell Johnson and the rest of the pacemen for bowling splendidly in the absence of Brett Lee. “This has been a one-day series dominated by the bowlers. And the pitches have been good. But the bowlers have had an upper-hand.”

Ponting said India was going through a re-building phase in ODI cricket. “In 12 months time, they could be doing so in Test cricket as well,” he said. Indian captain M.S. Dhoni was not willing to blame Rohit Sharma for his run-out but added such dismissals could be avoided in the coming matches. Rohit could have started better since the runner has a definite advantage. Dhoni revealed his fitness concern, a bout of cramps, was not serious. He also said Virender Sehwag would recover in time from a side strain for the match against Sri Lanka here. The captain felt the youngsters should perform during adversity. He admitted some of the batsmen were repeating mistakes. About India playing five bowlers again, he said it was a “50-50 situation.”

On Yuvraj Singh, Dhoni said “We will not rest him for now. He is a part of the team and will play all the games.” He did not believe sending Irfan Pathan at No. 3 was a mistake. source: google news http://blogs.mindbodynsoul.com http://www.commonwealthtv.tv Tags:batsman blogs; cricket dhoni youngsters

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India facing smoking death crisis

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

One million people a year will die from tobacco smoking in India during the 2010s, research predicts. The New England Journal of Medicine study found smoking already accounts for 900,000 deaths a year in India. The study warns that without action, the death toll from smoking will climb still further. It predicts smoking could soon account for 20% of all male deaths and 5% of all female deaths between the ages of 30 and 69. The researchers have calculated that on average, men who smoke bidi - small hand-rolled cigarettes common in India - lose about six years of life. Men who smoke full-size cigarettes shorten their lives by about ten years. And for women bidi smokers the figure is about eight years. The figures are based on a survey of deaths among a sample of 1.1 million homes in all parts of India carried out by about 900 field workers. Among men who died between the ages of 30 and 69, smoking caused about 38% of deaths from tuberculosis, 32% of deaths from cancer and 20% of deaths from vascular disease. Surprising findings Lead researcher Professor Prabhat Jha, of the University of Toronto, said: “The extreme risks from smoking that we found surprised us, as smokers in India start at a later age than those in Europe or America and smoke less.” It is estimated that there are about 120 million smokers in India. The study found that, among men, about 61% of those who smoke can expect to die at ages 30-69 compared with only 41% of otherwise similar non-smokers. Among women, 62% of those who smoke can expect to die at ages 30-69 compared with only 38% of non-smokers. Professor Amartya Sen, of Harvard University, said: “It is truly remarkable that one single factor, namely smoking, which is entirely preventable, accounts for nearly one in 10 of all deaths in India. “The study brings out forcefully the need for immediate public action in this much-neglected field.” Dr Abumani Ramadoss, India’s health minister, said: “I am alarmed by the results of this study. “The government of India is trying to take all steps to control tobacco use - in particular by informing the many poor and illiterate of smoke risks.” Jean King, director of tobacco control at Cancer Research UK, said India could learn from the UK, where falling smoking rates over the last 30 years have coincided with the world’s biggest drop in deaths from lung cancer, particularly among men. source: google news. http://blogs.mindbodynsoul.com http://www.commonwealthtv.tv

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Great to see 9-year old competing: SRK

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

NEW DELHI: Actor Shah Rukh Khan, just back from the Berlin Film Festival where fans queued up to catch a glimpse of the superstar, was at his ‘one-liner’ best in the capital on Tuesday. He came to the press conference riding a bicycle, and apologised to the audience: “I won’t say my flight got delayed, but it takes time to come from Mumbai to Delhi on a cycle.” It was great to be in Delhi as it was his home town, he said, but added: “It’s a little controversial to say that now,” obviously referring to the recent violence in Mumbai against north Indians. The actor, who jokingly referred to himself as the most famous Indian, also quipped: “I like kids more than girls.” He was in Delhi to announce a new, child-oriented quiz show for a TV channel. To a question by DNA on whether he agreed with Sania Mirza’s decision not to play in India due to controversies, he said: “It’s a personal decision. But it’s unfortunate. She’s one of the best.” He added, “Sania must have been hurt badly to have taken a decision like that.” Although celebrities and controversies often go together, the actor claimed that he was able to stay away from controversies. His on-screen smoking may have irked the Union health minister, but Khan declined to add fuel to the fire. “If there’s a ban (on smoking in films), I would comply.” On the Kolkata team that he recently bought for around Rs312 crore, Shah Rukh reiterated that he would love to have Sourav Ganguly in the team as he’s a great player. source: google news. http://www.commonwealthtv.tv http://blogs.mindbodynsoul.com Tags:ASIA blogs: shahrukh khan capital COMMON WEALTH Energy Entertainment INDIA PUBLIC sania mirza sourav ganguly superstar

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We turn to God for

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

“We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them.” source : google http://www.commonwealthtv.tv http://blogs.mindbodynsoul.com Tags:ASIA blogs: god COUNTRIES foundation INDIA learn shaking

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Dhoom gang in net with loot

Does Weight Lifting Make a Better Athlete?

TV Wrestling

Childhood obesity leads to higher rate of problems during surgery

Probiotics Runners

Allow Your Own Inner Light to Guide You

Ponting praises bowlers

India facing smoking death crisis

Great to see 9-year old competing: SRK

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