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Happy New Year to you! ZvaCreative and our talented NEW 2013 Design Team welcome you to our December blog hop where we officially welcome our new team members to our monthly hops! We are very excited about this year's team and are sure that you will be inspired by and love their work.Are you ready to hop along and get to know them better?
Today's Blog Hop begins at Zva Creative's blog! Be sure head on over to check it out! You will also find a complete list of all the participating blogs there (in case there is a glitch along the way).
As you know, Zva offers many beautiful color groupings of pearls, flowers and crystals. If you like what you see along the hop you can find a list of stores and online retailers that sell Zva HERE.
I created this pretty handmade notebook in a fabric cover, and one of the main embellies here is of course ZVA bling!:) You can't imagine how excited I was, when I found out, that I made the team, I am a real girly girl and I love all the things bling:))) So i really hope it was a match made in heaven, at least for me it really is.
Some close ups:
If you would like to play along with our design team, just follow along the blog path. I am linking to one of the Zva designers and that designer is linking to the next and so on. Be prepared to beinspired along the way!
The Blog Hop starts today, December 31st and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, January 1st.
***Prizes***Hidden on FIVE of the designer's blogs is a Zva Creative prize package! Winners will be randomly chosen after the hop is over. All you need to do is leave a comment on this Blog Hop post... you do not need to leave a comment on each and every designer's blog post to qualify. However, the more times you comment along the blog hop path, the more chances you will have to win.
The 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, January 2nd on Zva Creative's blog. We will do our best to notify each winner,but it's best if you can pop in to Zva's blog on Wednesday to see if you are a winner!
We also thought it would be more fun to add even more chances to win our blog hop prize! To increase your chances of winning:
* Comment to let us know that you posted on your Facebook page about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)
* Comment to let us know that you "tweeted"about our hop (link to any of the blog hop posts)
* Comment to let us know that you asked your local store to carry Zva creative products. If they already do, that's fantastic, maybe you can suggest other products that they don't carry.
*Hop over to Zva's facebook page and "like" our page or leave a comment there to tell us that you already do!
The blog hop begins here at Zva Creative's blog. Your next stop is Andrea Ewen Enjoy!
Thank you for joining us!
P.S. Mark your calendar to join us again on January 28th for our next Zva design team blog hop!
I am also playing at Wild Orchid cgalenge (my small roses are from this shop)
Девочки, а теперь кратенько по-русски:)
Сегодня мы предлагаем вам поиграть в блог хоп с компанией ZVA.
Призов будет несколько, для того, чтобы получить шанс выиграть,
- Вам нужно пройти по блогам дизайнеров и оставить комментарии к посту о блог хопе, список смотрим тут.
- Вам не обязательно комментировать и проходить ВСЕ блоги, но чем больше блогов вы посетите, тем больше у вас шансов.
- Так же для увеличения ваших шансов Вы можете:
- написать у себя на Фейсбуке про наш блог хоп и в любом из блогов дизайнеров написать про это) или тоже самое для twitter
- Поставить лайк на странице ZVA на фейсбуке
5 победителей будут объявлены 2 января в блоге ZVA.
Следующий блог для посещения Andrea Ewen
Удачи всем!


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[Updated at 6:09 p.m. ET] Conflicting reports emerged late Tuesday over whether the 84-year-old former president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, had died.
The state-run Middle East News Agency, citing medical sources, said he was declared clinically dead shortly after arriving at a military hospital in Cairo, where he was taken after suffering a stroke and cardiac arrest earlier in the day.
But Gen. Mamdouh Shahin, a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, told CNN, "He is not clinically dead as reported, but his health is deteriorating and he is in critical condition."
Fast facts about Hosni Mubarak
Adel Saeed, the official spokesman of the Egyptian prosecutor, had said earlier, "We were informed by prison authority that Mubarak's heart has stopped and they used electric shocks and CPR to resurrect him. He is now on an artificial respirator and doctors from the armed forces and International Medical Center will inspect him."
Nile TV reported that Mubarak had suffered a stroke.
Elizabeth Cohen, CNN's senior medical correspondent, said that "clinically dead" usually refers to someone who is brain-dead. In such a case, an electroencephalogram would indicate no real brain activity, she said.
Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison June 2 for the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators last year. He already was suffering from health problems and attended court on a gurney.
His health has been reported to be in decline since he was ousted as president of Egypt in February 2011. On June 11, a prosecutor's spokesman said Mubrak's health deteriorated after the verdict, and that defibrillators had been used several times to revive him "due to heart complications."
Mubarak's latest health crisis came on a day when both candidates who participated in a presidential runoff claimed victory.
iReport.com: Protests in EgyptFULL STORY
Mubarek and associates ran illegal weapons out of Israel through tunnels leading into Egypt.
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The (new) plan is to program Thursdays around a person, a thinker, writer, philosopher, a creative genius, a traveler–a person whose life was (or perhaps is) about the stuff that matters*–share some quotes, lift a few words from a speech or lecture, perhaps recommend a few books by or about. In other words, on Thursdays, we'll turn the podium over to an individual "the house" members might be interested in. That way you'll get a break from my incessant navel gazing and auto-biographical-slash-memoir ramblings. (I hate the ungrammatical "/".) Okay? I'll try to bring you something fresh, and avoid the tired cut-and-paste lame Wikipedia entry.
Today we will begin the series with Mr. Hemingway (1899-1961).
To weigh in just a moment here (so difficult keeping my mouth shut!): I am, like so many others, more a fan of the man's life than I am of his work. Of course Hemingway left us great writing. I am particularly fond, as I've mentioned before, of A Movable Feast. And of course the stories. The great short stories–marvelous stuff, indeed. But it is the life that has the grip on my imagination. (He was life outsized, the Lady Gaga of his era.) He was no Montaigne; he did not talk about how to live outright, he showed us–at least his painful, dangerous, depressed-manic, genius version of life. So here are a few of Ernest Hemingway's thoughts.
Oh hell…when I get excited it is difficult to stay with the program. Let's first set this up with a quote from Joan Didion. We did just talk about her last week. When asked who most influenced her, Ms. Didion said:
I always say Hemingway, because he taught me how sentences worked. When I was fifteen or sixteen I would type out his stories to learn how the sentences worked. I taught myself to type at the same time….I mean they're perfect sentences. Very direct sentences, smooth rivers, clear water over granite, no sinkholes.
Now on to Papa and his work habits:
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but fulling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.
Once, when asked about his style (of writing), Papa replied:
That is a long-term tiring question and if you spent a couple of days answering it you would be so self-conscious that you could not write. I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardness in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people can see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.
When talking about what writers he read, Hemingway launched into a who's-who of influences:
Mark Twain, Flaubert, Stendhal, Bach, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Andrew Marvell, John Donne, Maupassant, the good Kipling, Thoreau, Captain Marryat, Shakespeare, Mozart, Quevedo, Dante, Vergil, Tintoretto, Hieronymus, Bosch, Brueghel, Patinir, Goya, Giotto, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, San Juan de la Cruz, Góngora–it would take a day to remember everyone. Then it would sound as though I were claiming an erudition I did not possess instead of trying to remember all the people who have been an influence on my life and work. This isn't an old dull question. It is a very good but a solemn question and requires an examination of conscience. I put in painters, or started to, because I learn as much from painters about how to write as from writers. You ask how this is done? It would take another day of explaining. I should think what one learns from composers and from the study of harmony and counterpoint would be obvious.
I've read a lot of Hemingway, but it is likely true that I have read more about him than by him. The great biography by Hemingway associate, Carlos Baker, is definitive. (Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's third wife, called it "the King James Version" of Hemingway's life. Not everyone thought so highly of the book. Truman Capote said, "The Baker book was bad all the way through. It was dull, it was uninteresting, it was badly put together." ) There are many others–at last count over 500!–more or less of value. For me, however, one of the most interesting books about Hemingway is Denis Brian's, The True Gen. It's a collection of memories and reminiscences from friends, lovers, enemies, and wives. It's heavy on gossip, but rounded out the man in a way I found compelling and brimming with insight.
*If there was a tag line to "…the house…" it would be, We think about the stuff that matters. But wait!– whether you know it or not, we have a tag line, A Journal of Life Pursued. Can one have too many tag lines? Too many interests?


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I still have some anger in me, apparently. I occasionally "flame out" as one friend said when I disagreed with an email that friend sent. I am regaining my equilibrium, though, able to get through my days mostly even tempered, but one thing continues to raise my ire: when people assume all grief is the same, and especially when they assume they understand the grief of someone who lost a soul mate because they lost a beloved pet. Such a comment set me off tonight, and when my reply ended up being longer than some of my blog posts, I decided to publish the comment here rather than get in a grief match ("my grief is worse than your grief") because, honestly, all loss is devastating, especially when it happens to you.
And yet . . . the death of a pet, no matter how beloved, is not the same as losing a soul mate. Nor is the trauma of losing a brother or a mother the same as losing a long-time spouse. The only thing that comes close is losing a child. (My younger brother's death hastened my mother's death. She died a year after he did.)
I understand there are all kinds of grief, and I know they all have to be honored. Grief of any kind that is not processed can cause additional problems. (Or not. Some people seem to do quite well walling off their grief.)
My concern has always been for those who have to deal with the death of a spouse, whether a life mate or a soul mate because that sort of all-encompassing grief is more than most people can comprehend. I thought I understood grief — after all, I grieved the deaths of my brother and my mother — but until the death of my life mate/soul mate, I never even knew such profound grief existed. During the past two and a half years, I have met dozens, maybe hundreds of women who have lost their mates, and they all mentioned the same thing — they had to hide their grief because no one understood. That is unconscionable. (I didn't have this problem. I'm a quasi hermit, so no one was around to see me mourning.)
The truth is, it's the very prevalence of grief that makes people uncomfortable with the profound grief of someone who lost a soul mate. People figure they got over their grief, whatever or whoever it was for, so you should, too. The trouble with losing your mate is that your grief is not just emotional, but also physical. In addition to the unimaginable agony of loss, you have to deal with shock, a blizzard of hormonal reactions, changes in brain chemistry, an incredible level of stress (losing a mate is considered the most stressful thing a person ever has to deal with; many people end up being treated for PTSD). Your death rate climbs 25% for all causes.
Added to that are all the horrendous "death" chores you have to deal with such as planning a funeral and filling out all the official and financial paperwork involved in "removing" someone from the world. As your emotions begin to stabilize, you have other griefs to deal with since a soul mate is more than a spouse — he's also a best friend, companion, sometimes even a business partner, and all those losses have to be processed. You also grieve for the loss of yourself, at least your coupled self. And then you have to deal with the restructuring of your life. Your dreams are gone as are your plans for the future so you need to find new reasons to live. Sometimes you have to leave your home. It takes years to sort out all the losses so you can process them and begin again.
I don't mean to belittle anyone's grief. But, as I explained in my post, Why I Write About My Grief, people who have lost a mate deserve a lot more consideration and understanding from their family and friends than the assumption that their loss is comparable to the loss of a beloved pet.
Pat Bertram is the author of the conspiracy novels Light Bringer, More Deaths Than One, A Spark of Heavenly Fire, and Daughter Am I. Bertram is also the author of Grief: The Great Yearning, "an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths." Connect with Pat on Google+


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General Electric E1250TW Review
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General Imaging's GE E1250TW digital camera is based around a 12.2 megapixel image sensor coupled to a GE-branded 5x optical zoom lens that offers focal length equivalents from a useful 28mm wide angle to a 140mm telephoto. Maximum aperture varies from f/3.3 to f/5.1 across the zoom range. The minimum focusing distance is ordinarily 60cm at wide angle, and reduces to just 5cm at wide angle in macro mode. There's no form of mechanical image stabilization, with the General Imaging E1250TW instead opting solely for what the company calls an "Electronic Image Stabilizer" which essentially raises the ISO sensitivity (at the expense of image noise / fine detail) so as to offer a higher shutter speed that freezes motion. The GE E1250's sensitivity ranges from a minimum of ISO 80 to a maximum of ISO 1,600 equivalent. There's no optical viewfinder, with images being framed solely on a 3.0" touch-screen LCD display with unspecified resolution. The display also offers an Auto Adjust Brightness function which corrects for ambient lighting conditions to try and keep it visible.
As well as a full auto mode, the General Imaging E1250 offers shooting modes including twelve scene modes and an Auto Scene Detection mode which can automatically recognize the scene type and select a relevant scene mode. The GE E1250TW's 9-point autofocusing system includes an AF assist lamp to help out in low light conditions. There's also face detection capability, linked to both the autofocus and autoexposure systems. General Imaging has also included both a Blink Detection function which alerts the user when their subject has closed their eyes during an exposure, and a Smile Detection function that automatically triggers the shutter while your subject is smiling. There's also a Pan-Capture Panorama mode that can automatically stitch together a panorama created by simply panning the camera across the scene, as well as a Red-Eye Removal function that can be used to correct for this common defect while reviewing an image.
The GE E1250TW stores its images and QuickTime Motion JPEG movies on SD or SDHC cards, or in a generous 116MB of built-in memory. Power comes courtesy of a GB-40 proprietary Lithium Ion rechargeable battery. An integrated proprietary connector provides for both USB 2.0 computer connectivity, as well as an audio/video output, and the E1250TW also offers unspecified HDTV connectivity.
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Long-time partners SAP and Accenture are deepening their relationship with a new offering that calls for Accenture to serve as a single point of contact on projects involving SAP's HANA in-memory database platform and Accenture's own intellectual property.
Accenture will handle all contracts for software and services, which is a "a true differentiator that allows clients to focus on deployments of the solutions, either as a public or private cloud service," the companies said in the announcement on Thursday.
Any hosting fees will also fall under a customer's contract with Accenture, according to the announcement.
While Accenture and SAP didn't word it this way, along with a simpler contract structure the new arrangement also gives customers a single "throat to choke," as the oft-used industry saying goes.
Initially, Accenture will sell a package aimed at chief marketing officers called Marketing Performance Solution. It combines Accenture's marketing analytics software with HANA, giving marketing executives the ability to analyze ongoing results from marketing campaigns as well as run simulations, with a user interface accessible from both desktop PCs and mobile devices, according to a statement.
Accenture is going to roll out more packages aimed at various verticals, although no details were announced Thursday.
More partnerships?
SAP's deal with Accenture could be followed by similar ones with other large systems integrators.
"While [the Accenture deal] is not an exclusive arrangement, it does validate our strategy to co-innovate with our best partners in areas where they have unique expertise and use HANA as a platform to deliver smarter, faster and simpler solutions," SAP spokesman Jason Loesche said in a statement.
There's little doubt SAP, as well as systems integrators themselves, will seek more such partnerships, according to one industry observer.
"As the services markets move away from body shop time and materials work to delivering more IP and products, we'll be seeing more of these partnerships," said analyst Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research, via email on Thursday. "The lines between services and products are blurring as the services firms realize they have to build IP in order to sustain margins and deliver customer value."
However, customers will need to be careful they understand the financial arrangements between the vendors involved, he added. "Transparency will be key to building trust."
"The press release calls attention to the fact that Accenture will be the single point of contact for all software and services contracts," said analyst Frank Scavo, managing partner of IT consulting firm Strativa. "This is an indication of how complex the offering is. There is an SAP HANA license, hardware licenses, a hosting services contract, a contract for Accenture's BPO services, and licenses for any third-party software. So, SAP and Accenture have taken all this contract complexity away, by offering everything you need under a single Accenture contract."
As for the specific announcement with Accenture, it "also underlines the fact that SAP HANA, by itself, is really not a solution but an enabling technology," Scavo said. "The value really comes from the applications you build on top of HANA. By bundling SAP HANA with its marketing [business process outsourcing] offerings, Accenture allows the customer to focus on the application, not on the technology. For all the talk about CMOs having large IT budgets, they really don't want to manage technology. They want to focus on marketing."
However, as with any BPO service, "I would be concerned about being locked in to an unreasonable contract length, or not being able to cut back on the level of services if I find that they aren't delivering value," Scavo said. "I would encourage customers start small, then scale out based on success, rather than sign a contract up front for the whole enchilada."


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Low melatonin may increase risk of type 2 diabetes
- Researchers are looking at a new piece of the diabetes puzzle
- They found that low levels of melatonin are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes
- Researchers don%27t recommend taking melatonin supplements based on this study
A hormone best known for its role in helping people sleep may play a part in someone's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, based on a new study.
The research, out today, shows that people who have low levels of melatonin while they're sleeping are at a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Melatonin is a hormone produced by the brain mainly at night and then released into the bloodstream. It typically peaks in the body about three to five hours after people go to sleep and regulates their sleep-wake cycles. The nightly increase in melatonin in the blood helps to keep bodily rhythms synchronized. Melatonin is involved in many functions in the body, and some research suggests it affects glucose (sugar) metabolism.
Almost 26 million U.S. adults and children have diabetes. In diabetes, the body does not make enough of the hormone insulin, or it doesn't use it properly. Insulin helps glucose get into cells, where it is used for energy. If there's an insulin problem, sugar builds up in the blood, damaging nerves and blood vessels. There are two major forms: type 1 and type 2. In adults, type 2 diabetes accounts for 90% to 95% of all diagnosed cases.
To investigate the possible association between melatonin and type 2 diabetes, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston examined the blood and urine samples of 370 women who developed type 2 diabetes from 2000 to 2012 and matched them to 370 women of the same race and age who did not develop the disease. All the women were participants in the Nurses' Health Study. The women filled out questionnaires about their physical activity levels, diet, sleep habits, smoking habits and family history of type 2 diabetes.
Findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Women with low levels of melatonin at night had twice the risk of developing type 2 diabetes as those with high levels. That was true even after researchers took into account other risk factors for type 2 diabetes, including being overweight or obese, a family history of the disease, diet and smoking.
"It's possible that melatonin impacts the ability of the pancreas to secrete insulin, and the body's sensitivity to insulin, which could lead to type 2 diabetes," says lead author Ciaran McMullan, a research fellow in medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Studies with rats have shown that feeding them melatonin helps protect against the onset of type 2 diabetes, but that doesn't mean it will work for humans, he says.
"We don't know yet that raising someone's melatonin levels would lower their risk of developing type 2 diabetes," McMullan says. "We cannot make any treatment recommendations on taking melatonin supplements based on this study. "This is an observational study, and randomized trials are needed to confirm our findings."
Sleep researcher Eve Van Cauter, director of the Sleep, Metabolism and Health Center at the University of Chicago, says, "Insufficient sleep, poor sleep quality, including sleep apnea, and irregular sleep-wake cycles such as those that occur in shift work have all been linked to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
"Good regular sleep habits and avoiding light exposure in the wee hours will help to produce melatonin and may reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes."
Some facts about diabetes:
Almost 26 million children and adults (8.3% of the U.S. population) have diabetes.
18.8 million people are diagnosed; an additional 7 million are undiagnosed.
79 million Americans have pre-diabetes and are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
Symptoms of diabetes include thirst, hunger, tiredness, blurry vision, healing problems and frequent urination. However, not all people with diabetes have symptoms. Even if they aren't having symptoms, people who are obese, older or have a family history of diabetes, as well as African Americans, Mexican Americans and American Indians, are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
About one in three Americans may develop diabetes by 2050 if something isn't done to reverse the trend, government statistics show.
Diabetes may lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, foot and leg amputations and blindness.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Diabetes Association


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August 3, 2007
Differences Between Google and Yahoo
ThisNickIsTaken: "Google has a philosophy of keeping things simple so that people who are technically challenged can use it without getting confused, Also that simple things are fast.. Yahoo believes in feature rich application.. their products are more customizable and complex."
Gags: "It's a difficult one to answer since both companies are positioned very very differently; on face value, Yahoo looks hip and colorful, whereas Google looks simple and elegant; (...) Google is more thoughtful and strategic, Yahoo is flamboyant and more reactive; Google concentrates on value added solutions rather than presentation and Yahoo concentrates on superb presentation followed by value creation."
Ravelin101: "Yahoo has tons of media and ADS (loads slower). Google search is better (faster) only text ads. I started with Yahoo since I've known it first: Mail, Photos (now Flickr), Geocities but since Google's introduction, I've been moving things to Google Mail, Photos (Picasa), Googlepages."
So Google is strongly associated with simplicity, usefulness, pages that load fast (in one word: text), while Yahoo is connected with rich interfaces, complex designs, pages that load slowly (in one word: multimedia). Gags even called Yahoo flamboyant, which means "elaborately and heavily ornamented". It will be interesting to see if the acquisitions of YouTube and DoubleClick will change people's perception about Google.
Defining Google collaboratively
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- AnonymousAugust 3, 2007 at 3:50 PM
Hey GOSReplyDelete
Would you be so kind to do a post on all the google blogs out there, Can you post a list of known blogs, theres so many I can't keep track of them all.
I find this ironic considering google claims its trying to organize the worlds information (It seems google forgot about themselves ;) )
Thank You
Most of them are listed in the sidebar of Google's Official Blog. There's even a super-page that collects the posts from all these blogs and it's available in three flavors:ReplyDelete
* HTML - bookmark this
* ATOM - subscribe in a feed reader
* OPML - import in a feed reader
I don't think it will change people's perceptions at all, at least not for a long while. People tend to continue believing the things they already believe, and as long as the main screen of Google remains what it is, I don't foresee anyone changing their thoughts on the matter.ReplyDelete
I mean, when you're name becomes synonomous with your service...I think you've pretty much become entrenched.
- AnonymousAugust 3, 2007 at 11:40 PM
Ionut Alex Chitu,ReplyDelete
Thank you very much I appreciate it. Also just want to say love the blog too.
Have yourself a wonderful weekend.
- AnonymousAugust 4, 2007 at 2:16 AM
yes, the blog rules, that blue green red id and that snowed pagecurly logo....ReplyDelete
I think Google is going to stay light and fast, at least for now. They are de-cluttering YouTube and will probably even fix DoubleClick.ReplyDelete
I think Gags hit the nail on the head about the Doubleclick acquisition - "strategic." So, no I don't think it'll change peoples' perceptions of Google.ReplyDelete
There's a major difference however between Google and Yahoo which the author failed to mention - the former is one of the wealthiest and most powerful tech firms on earth, while the latter is essentially bankrupt and desperately seeking a buyer to bail out their sinking ship.
Google USED to be about speed, ever since they made the "iGoogle" page the default, BOOM!, speed idea went down.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 10, 2007 at 8:53 PM
The emphasis has pushed Yahoo into territory that Google hasn't tread upon. The list of Yahoo services unavailable at Google include instant messaging, music, gaming, fantasy sports leagues, job placement, matchmaking and broadband service.ReplyDelete
While it offers free versions of all its index services, Yahoo constantly looks for ways to charge its visitors for extra bells and whistles. Google, in contrast, gives just about everything away except a recently acquired 3-D mapping product called Keyhole, which charges less $$$ for its basic software.
- AnonymousNovember 6, 2007 at 10:21 AM
Yes, I agree with thisReplyDelete
Google - Simple, fast and user friendly
Yahoo - Complex, Slow and cluttered
- AnonymousJanuary 10, 2009 at 4:29 AM
Each search engine has its own merits & demerits. Yahoo is obviously showy. They know the tricks of business better than Google. Yahoo is now rated No.1 site. Google is following on Yahoo's footsteps.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 1:56 PM
I was using this for an essay and I noticed that you put all negative things on yahoo and all positive things ongoogle canyou be completely sure about that because there are probably some positive things to yahoo.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 6, 2009 at 2:15 AM
They are both the same!ReplyDelete
Google Simple, Powerful, Fast, Very close to Open Source Software Communities,ReplyDelete
Yahoo is only a commercial site offering good services including a search engine. Yahoo servers are running on FreeBsd though they even dont care to build a messenger for linux users. What a shame Yahoo!
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Thank you for the comments about the difference between google and yahoo because I am trying to find out if google is better than yahoo! I did not have good experience with yahoo so I am gonna to try google. My experience with yahoo as you said not easy, simple to operate. I hope my experience with google as you said easy, fast and simple. Simple is always the best, I like that. Who has time for all the complicated stuff yahoo put out there? Thanks for your sharing of your comments!ReplyDelete
We all should thank to Yahoo! for bring all such stuff on web for us. They are the leader in all section. No doubt Google is ahead of Yahoo! but Yahoo! cares for its customers more.ReplyDelete
Believe it or not but yahoo is for things you need.
Google and Yahoo seem to produce very different search engine results it would be good to understand the reasons why.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2010 at 1:42 AM
Yahoo offers no apologies for whatever search results come up as from entering the word "Jew" in its search field. Google has an official apology which references the ADL as a default disclaimer (look to the right) whenever "Jew" is typed within its field. Yahoo has articles pertaining News Corps acquisition of MySpace, and its deal with Google to manage MySpace's advertising. Google produces no articles on this topic by recourse to key words entered into its search engine. Both Google and Yahoo promote each other, but Google is more clearly biased toward protecting its capitalist allies. I vote for Yahoo. Blacks have suffered far more than Jews, and Google offers no apology for the search results rendered by typing the word "nigger" in its search field. In fact Google encourages racial barbs--if you search for "nigger," Google will offer you related searches pertaining "Mexican Jokes," "Islamic jokes," so on, all promoting racist bigotry. No apology for the word "cunt," nor "faggot," nor "spic," "gook," so on. However, Google has a special statement only as pertains their sponsors. If you type the word "Jew" into its search engine it will spit out an obligatory apology and advert for the racist zionist outfit, the ADL. Yahoo is far more civilized.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 2, 2012 at 1:28 AM
I AM SUGGEST GOOGLE AND YAHOO ARE THE SAME BUT SLIGHTLY DIFFERENCE THAT ARE GOOGLE IS STRONG INFORMATION ARE INCLUDE BUT YAHOO IS BUSINESS WEB SIT.ReplyDelete


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d|Bootcamps Explained
bootcamp: an intensive, hands-on training course, using team-based project work, to quickly teach technical skills
The world is opening up, with increasing amounts of information available to the public for analysis, decision-making, and action. But, to harness and act on this new information, we need new skills to analyze public spending processes, and 'follow the money'.
The ujuzi bootcamps are designed to give journalists, civic activists, and coders a crash-course in the most important techniques and tools needed to analyze public spending information, including through opened budget processes.
The bootcamps were pioneered by the African Media Initiative (AMI) and the World Bank Institute (WBI) in Kenya, in January 2012, and have since been delivered everywhere from Moldova to South Africa and have resulted in scores of civic media projects built by participants.
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Project-based 'public financial management' training, over three-days, where journalists and civic activists are teamed-up to strengthen their understanding of the country's national budget process, from an introduction to South Sudan's budget cycle – including key entry points across the full fiscal year for media – to a 'deep dive' exploration of national procurement processes and resultant delivery or gaps in public services, through the lens of journalistic investigation and demand-driven issue analysis. Participants are additionally brought together with Parliamentarians from across South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia, for immersive learning on Public Accounts Committee functions and processes, including working together in a series of exercises and collaborative mock hearings. Participating journalists and civic activists are also enabled to engage these MPs as equals, to collectively explore public spending issues in a constructive atmosphere, toward improved sensitization of media and parliamentarians to each other, and better enabling government to understand the crucial role of a budget-literate, issue-savvy media for lasting social and economic development.
Trainers have included the public financial management experts from OpenSpending, Upande, the Open Institute, O'Reilly Media's Radar, the World Bank's Open Finances team, and a range of leading economic and development journalists.
Right from the beginning, participants self-organize themselves into a series of small teams, each focused on a theme or project that they develop into a fully-fledged narrative by the end of the three-day workshop. Participants work with real spending data, on a real news project, in a team made up of journalists and civic activists, with one-on-one tuition from global experts. They get immediate, and ongoing, constructive feedback both from team-mates and mentors, as well as the larger bootcamp, through daily report-backs and critiques.
New ideas need more than technical support to succeed. They also need a community of supporters, collaborators, and champions. All bootcamp participants are encouraged to join their local chapter of HacksHackers, which bring together journalists (hacks) with technologists (hackers) for monthly meet-ups and skills exchanges on ways to change how the media gathers, reports, and then disseminates the news.


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Some Suggestions for New Pulitzer Prizes
Dear Pulitzer Prize Committee: what is the point of you? Though we enjoyed this year's editorial-writing and fiction trolling — how very internet of you, Pulitzer Prize Committee — you are still, basically, worthless, and, worse, boring. You need some kind of makeover. You need Ryan Seacrest to host the awards. You need new categories, Pulitzer Prize Committee. We have some suggestions:
- Public Service (Super Bowl Time)
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- Michelle Obama Eating Hamburgers Reporting
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- March Bracket for Something Wacky That Isn't Basketball Teams Reporting
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Washington (CNN) - Half the public says the U.S. doesn't have a responsibility to do something about escalating bloodshed in Iraq, according to a new national poll.
The CBS News/New York Times survey released Monday also indicates a plurality of Americans say President Barack Obama has had the appropriate response so far to the aggressive drive by radical Sunni militants in capturing city after city in northern and central Iraq as they march towards Baghdad.
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According to the poll, which was conducted over the weekend, 50% of those questioned say the U.S doesn't have a responsibility to do anything about the fighting, with 42% saying Washington does have a responsibility to get involved.
There's a partisan divide, with a majority of independents and Democrats saying the U.S. doesn't have a responsibility and a majority of Republicans disagreeing.
Latest CNN reporting on bloodshed in Iraq
The survey's release came as Secretary of State John Kerry, in Baghdad Monday, said that U.S. support for Iraq will be "intense" and "sustained," and will be effective if Iraqi leaders unite to face the militant threat.
President Obama's actions
Forty-one percent of those questioned say the President's response to the crisis has been appropriate, with nearly three in 10 saying Obama should do more and 22% saying he should do less. As expected, there's a wide partisan divide on that question, with a majority of Republicans saying the President should do more, and more than six in 10 Democrats saying Obama's had the right response.
The poll also indicates that 44% of Americans say the violence in Iraq will cause the threat of terrorism in the U.S. to rise, with half of those questioned saying it will stay the same.
The CBS News/New York Times poll was conducted June 20-22, with 1,009 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report
@Silence, with all due respect to the 4,000+ Americans and the untold number of Iraqis who died as a result of our "mistake", the fact that we lost over 58,000 US dead in Viet Nam and hundreds of thousands (if not more) Vietnamese dead makes Viet Nam the most costly mistake that the US has committed in modern history. Having had the "pleasure " of serving in Viet Nam, I can assure you that the debacle was bipartisan in nature, both in origin and in lack of execution. Though Bush is the boogie man for Iraq (and rightly so), that endeavor(Iraq war) was also bipartisan in nature, as are all wars. Sadly, most posters seem to think little about the people who died, and only want to score cheap political points.
@smith – "@Rudy-I never said military aid, I said aid. There is a big difference. What does the surge have to do with Clinton`s statement about the troop withdraw? Hmm, nothing. On this issue the Dems and Repubs are flip floppin` big time."
You're off the deep end, buddy. I said something. You said "Clinton said something different than you." How does that prove anyone is flip flopping? What you don't seem to understand is that nobody is disagreeing about Iraq falling apart because we left. It is. And for us to leave we had to have invaded in the first place. The fact is, WE HAD BOUND OURSELVES TO LEAVE AND HAD NO WAY OF STAYING. Maliki didn't want us to continue our presence. To force ourselves upon his country after we invaded and pretended that installing him in power (this was during the BUSH administration) was our success in bringing democracy to Iraq, etc. etc., helping them create their own sovereign democratic state, etc. etc....to essentially "invade" again by refusing to leave and refusing to obey the SOFA that BUSH negotiated and signed would have been nothing but hypocrisy and the kind of tyranny and colonialism we claim we're not involved in and are fighting against when we do things like invade another country and kill 100,000 of its innocent civilians. The point is that all of this is occurring because we went there in the first place and it was inevitable that we would, at some point, have to leave. Pretending we could stay when we couldn't and pretending that this all would have been avoided if we just stayed longer to "make sure everything was ready for us to leave" or any other number of rationalizations for trying to shift the blame to Obama is all just idiocy and ignores the long-standing history of the region, Iraq itself as a cobbled-together state and the kind of glaring lack of long-term foresight it required to get involved in Iraq in the first place. This ALL rests on the shoulders of Dubya, Cheney, Rummy and anyone who voted for it...altho those who voted do get some level of forgiveness since they were lied to. NOTION BUILDING DOES NOT WORK. But the MSM and GOP/Teatrolls are in love with the romanticized notions of it and the naïve "world power" mentality of the neocons, so they continue to push it and allow it to be pushed as an idea. It's no different than when 2008 disproved all the "free market" deregulatory "the economy polices and fixes itself" nonsense the GOP has been pushing for 5+ decades and the MSM and GOP/Teatrolls quickly did everything in their power to blame the collapse of the financial markets and the eeconomy on gov't spending and debt instead of Wall Street and the failure of the conservative ideology.
@Silence, with all due respect to the 4,000+ Americans and the untold number of Iraqis who died as a result of our "mistake", the fact that we lost over 58,000 US dead in Viet Nam and hundreds of thousands (if not more) Vietnamese dead makes Viet Nam the most costly mistake that the US has committed in modern history. Having had the "pleasure " of serving in Viet Nam, I can assure you that the debacle was bipartisan in nature, both in origin and in lack of execution. Though Bush is the boogie man for Iraq (and rightly so), that endeavor(Iraq war) was also bipartisan in nature, as are all wars. Sadly, most posters seem to think little about the people who died, and only want to score cheap political points.
Agreed. Both were horrible. I pray to God our President stays the course of diplomacy and measured responses.
"Sadly, most posters seem to think little about the people who died, and only want to score cheap political points."
Yeah, defending Obama by saying "hey, it's not his fault, it's the fault of the people who actually caused this by invading in the first place" is totally just "trying to score cheap political points." Meanwhile, we get treated to one of the architects of the power vacuum in Iraq, the destruction of its infrastructure, the people who promised that we could train their armies to protect themselves (which promptly fell apart and abandoned their uniforms in the face of ISIS), that we could build democracy in the region through abject murder and violence, a show trial and botched execution of a known dictator, and walking the people in the region through the motions of one vote...that we could somehow build their nation as a major democratic ally in the region and that a couple epochs of sectarianism and ethnic clashing would somehow all fall by the wayside in the glorious face of democracy...we have to listen to the people who said those ridiculous, daydreamy, naïve, ideologically handicapped things try to spin it all to be Obama's fault that we're watching chaos break out...and the MSM uncritically helping them make and broadcast these claims because it will get more viewers if Obama's being blamed instead of Bush. What a joke.
Oh yes I remember Viet Nam and will never forget..... I remember urine coated pungi sticks, I remember bamboo cages, I remember napalm, I remember when we bugged out leaving (abandoning hundreds) who stood by us at the American Embassy too be tortured and murdered, I remember the Bui Doi, I remember Tet, I remember thousands who never saw home again....I remember all those things and way way more. Obviously many of the posters here do not, or choose not too. You go back and we will repeat the outcome of Viet Nam. Then truly every man and woman who died in the jungle there, and every one who have died in Iraq so far will have died in vain......because we did not learn not to repeat our mistakes.
Our biggest mistake was not moving faster at installing fast food restaurants and connivence stores all over Iraq , AMPM's , 7/11s , Chucky Cheese's , Jack in the Box's, Micky D's , Carl's Jr and Wings & Things .
We wasted 21 billon on an embassy in Bagdad and it doesn't have a drive thru window !
The one question America should be asking is where is Ahmad Chalabi and why is the guy a free man .
@Sniffit-Both sides have totally flopped on Iraq. How you don`t see that is beyond me. As far as not going to war in the first place, whats done is done and living in past won`t accomplish a thing. Newsflash, our goverment doesn`t learn from past mistakes.
That's a joke.
As someone who was opposed to Iraq I can say that all you're trying to do is score cheap political points. When the thrust of your argument is all based upon WHO gets blamed then. Yes, your concern is only political in nature. The main reason is that you fa to even mention that President Obama CHOSE to follow the SOFA agreement. Obama made THAT decision and he must deal with those repercussions. Your comments are very very transparent. All you care about, and nothing else, is Obama NOT bearing any responsibility. Plain and simple
AND it must be said this is NOT all Obama's fault. Not at all. But he's president now. He now has responsibility so he absolutely shares in the "blame" (and I know that's all you care about so I want to abundantly clear)
Stupid, naive government. Really, when will it learn that some creatures are just inherently what they are. Like scorpions. You can't trust it not to sting, it's in its nature. Plain and simple. Same with Muslim jihadists. Thousands of years of unevolved ways. Unenlightened to the joys, beauties and goodness of life. It's in their nature. Can't change them, can't trust them, can't try to think because we are of a higher sense of self realization and self actualization that these hardened and heartless creatures are of the same make up. They aren't. Let them just be as they are. Kill off each other and run around like rabid dogs. We can pity them for who they are, but we should never, ever, get tangled up in their dog fights. We win nothing, we learn nothing, we benefit nothing. A thousand years from now these same tribal factious creatures will STILL be murdering each other in cold blood. We are NOT like them and need to stay away from them or their heartless and cruel ways may start rubbing off on some within the government.
@sniffit....case in point.
Iraq and Afghanistan represent to me the same problem civil war that is fundamentally caused by severely different interpretations of the Qu'ran namely Sunni / Shiite or Taliban/Pashtuns and other more moderate Muslims in Afghanistan. Also both these countries are and remain very multi tribal tribal..... where religion and law version is dictated by the leaders of the tribe and his council. If thy choose have civil war ( Jihad) for that reason we should stay out of it as long as it stays out of attacking USA or European nation by respecting their right to freedom of religion.
We can use diplomacy and aid carrots to improve the economic and educational aspects of those countries but it will not change the extremists who within any faith are minority, and the citizens will revolt if the extremists try to enforce their version of religious belief by force on all citizens there have been Sunnis and Shiite and wahabi for centuries and so it will remain.... the US going to war will not change that.
The debate about who started these two wars and whether leaving troops behind 10,000 or so In Iraq and Afghanistan and whether pulling out those from Iraq is the cause of ISIL or ISIS will depend on your party affiliation and will be a futile debate in congress or the Senate., and this blog.
Please remember everyone these religious groups were fighting amongst themselves before, during, and after invasion. any reasonably stable Arab Islamic states are run by monarchy or dictators even Iran the Ayatollah has edict power to control everything.


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The Emoji Movie unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone's user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression - except for Gene, an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak. Together, they embark on an epic "app-venture" through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it's deleted forever. Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment
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If your doctor has told you that you have high blood pressure, or hypertension, you may well have groaned at the thought of more dietary restrictions and/or another pill to take. Or maybe you just tuned him out. After all, you have enough to do with caring for your diabetes[1], and how serious could high blood pressure be, anyway, since it has no symptoms?
In fact, high blood pressure is very serious. But paying attention to it now can save you a lot of grief down the road.
High blood pressure is one of the most important risk factors for stroke,[2] heart attack,[3] and kidney failure[4] in people with diabetes. While the relationship between high blood pressure and diabetes is not fully understood, it is known that high blood pressure is two times more common in people with diabetes than in the general population. More than half of people with Type 2 diabetes already have high blood pressure at the time of their diabetes diagnosis.
In a person with diabetes, high blood pressure accelerates the blood vessel damage caused by high blood glucose. High blood pressure contributes to more than two-thirds of the serious and life-threatening complications of diabetes, including stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure. However, numerous studies have shown that treating high blood pressure aggressively substantially reduces the risk of death from stroke and heart attack.
For people with diabetes, the goal for blood pressure control is to keep it below 140/90 mm Hg[5]. This target was established on the basis of large-scale studies that showed significant reductions in stroke and heart disease when blood pressure was maintained at this level. However, studies also suggest that blood pressure goals are not being met: Only about half of people with diabetes are reaching this goal consistently.
The heart pumps blood through more than 93 miles of blood vessels, which act as a plumbing system, carrying blood to all the vital organs. A certain amount of pressure within this system is necessary to keep the blood moving, but too much pressure can damage the vessels and organs. If the heart pumps too hard or the body's smaller blood vessels become narrow, the pressure rises. If a person's blood pressure is persistently elevated, the diagnosis of high blood pressure is made.
Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). The first, or "top," number is the systolic pressure and measures the force on the blood vessel walls as the heart squeezes, or contracts. The second, or "lower," number is the diastolic pressure, which is the force on the vessel walls as the heart relaxes. A person's blood pressure is categorized as normal, prehypertensive (high-normal), or hypertensive. The hypertensive group is further divided into stage 1 and stage 2[6], based on how high the measurements are above normal. Stage 1 refers to blood pressure levels from 140/90 mm Hg to 159/99 mm Hg. Stage 2 refers to blood pressure levels of 160/100 mm Hg or higher.
Blood pressure is very dynamic, meaning that it can change instantaneously in response to the internal or external environment. For example, if you have an injury that causes severe bleeding, your blood pressure drops rapidly. But your body also responds to that drop within seconds by squeezing and narrowing the blood vessels and increasing heart activity to bring the pressure back up.
The body has numerous ways of adjusting blood pressure as needed to be sure its organs (primarily the brain) maintain a good supply of oxygen. This dynamic response is part of the reason some people have what is called white-coat hypertension. Being nervous in the medical office can result in a substantial increase in blood pressure that is not present at home. White-coat hypertension can make it difficult to get an accurate blood pressure measurement.
For the most accurate blood pressure measurement at a medical appointment, it's best to sit quietly and rest for at least five minutes before having your blood pressure measured. Smoking and caffeine both raise blood pressure, so avoid both for at least an hour before your appointment. (Ideally, smoking should be avoided for life, so if you smoke, talk to your doctor about quitting if you haven't already.)
When your blood pressure is measured, your arm should be at the level of your heart, and the blood pressure cuff should be sized appropriately for your arm. If the cuff just barely fits around your arm or pops off once it is in place, it may be too small, and you are likely to get a falsely elevated reading. Two readings are often sufficient at a medical visit, but at times, a reading taken at the end of the visit is most accurate because you are more relaxed.
It's a good idea to write down your blood pressure readings taken at the doctor's office, both for your own information, and to show to any other health-care providers you may see. This helps your health-care providers coordinate their care and see whether the measurements they're getting are typical for you. It's also important to discuss your blood pressure goal with the various members of your health-care team to be sure you're all shooting for the goal established for people who have diabetes, less than 140/90 mm Hg. If you find that different members of your team have different goals in mind, you may need to take the lead in letting everyone know what your goal is.
Measuring your blood pressure at home is also very valuable, especially during periods of medication adjustments. Home blood pressure monitors typically cost about $40 to $60, and they are well worth the investment. Wrist monitors may not be as reliable as those that have a cuff that wraps around the upper arm. If you use a home blood pressure monitor, you should bring it to your doctor appointments periodically to be sure it is accurate. A good time to monitor at home is in the morning before you take any medicines. Early morning is when blood pressure tends to be highest and when the effects of some drugs are wearing off. It is also the highest risk period for stroke and heart attack.
Another tool that is often used to diagnose high blood pressure is the 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor. This is a blood pressure monitor that is clipped onto a belt and connected to an arm cuff for a 24-hour period. Depending on how it is programmed, the cuff automatically inflates every 20–60 minutes to measure and record blood pressure throughout the day and night. It is a very useful tool to assess people with white-coat hypertension, difficult-to-control high blood pressure, or symptoms of low blood pressure (which may mean that a person's high blood pressure is being overtreated). Measuring blood pressure while a person is asleep is important because blood pressure is expected to drop by about 10% to 20% at night. This is called a nocturnal dip. Absence of the nocturnal dip is associated with a higher risk of heart disease and stroke.
As stated earlier, the goal blood pressure for people with diabetes is less than 140/90 mm Hg consistently. That means the highest reading you should see is 139/89 mm Hg. Persistent readings above this target should prompt a focused evaluation of your blood pressure by you and your health-care team. The initial evaluation covers three major issues: identifying the cause of high blood pressure, looking for evidence of organ damage that may have already taken place, and discussing lifestyle issues that may be affecting blood pressure.
The causes of high blood pressure are divided into two broad groups. The first group is called primary, or essential, hypertension. This is the most common form of high blood pressure, and the exact cause is not clearly understood. However, it is believed to be due in part to a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Having diabetes may amplify some of these factors. In people with Type 1 diabetes, kidney disease is also believed to play a central role in the progression of high blood pressure. In people with Type 2 diabetes, obesity and insulin resistance may be important factors. However, it should be noted that some studies show a stronger connection between high blood pressure and diabetes in people with Type 2 diabetes who are thin.
The second form of high blood pressure is appropriately called secondary hypertension, and while it is less common, it is at times curable without the need for long-term drug treatment. There is a long list of conditions and medicines that can cause secondary hypertension. Kidney disease is probably the most common form of secondary hypertension. The kidneys are supplied by two main kidney arteries, and when a kidney artery develops a narrowing, the kidney "believes" your blood pressure is too low. It then sends signals to raise your blood pressure inappropriately. This is called renal (kidney) artery hypertension. Opening the blocked artery with a balloon and stent (a sort of medical scaffolding) can cure this type of high blood pressure in some cases.
Sleep apnea, thyroid disease[7], and certain hormone-producing tumors can lead to high blood pressure as well. Some prescription and over-the-counter drugs can also raise blood pressure. Steroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen), and certain cold medicines (including those containing pseudoephedrine) are a few of the more common culprits. Oral contraceptives are also associated with high blood pressure in women, especially women who smoke or are obese.
High blood pressure is often called "the silent killer," because even while it is damaging your organs, it usually does not cause any symptoms. That's why an important part of the initial evaluation of high blood pressure is identifying any damage that has already been caused by it. Constantly pumping against a very high pressure can strain the heart and cause it to become enlarged, or hypertrophied. An enlarged heart is associated with an increased risk of heart attack, heart failure, sudden death, and stroke. An electrocardiogram or echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) can identify this complication. Constantly filtering under high pressure can lead to kidney damage, resulting in abnormal kidney function and the leakage of protein into the urine. These types of complications of high blood pressure are called end-organ damage, but they can potentially improve with aggressive treatment of the high blood pressure.
Essential hypertension generally progresses very slowly over years. This is in sharp contrast to secondary hypertension, which more frequently progresses quickly over months, weeks, or even days, leading to a rapid rise in blood pressure. This is termed accelerated hypertension and can be associated with symptoms such as headache, nausea, visual problems, confusion, or drowsiness. Anyone with rapidly worsening blood pressure and significant symptoms should be evaluated immediately by their physician. The pace of the blood pressure rise can be an important clue to the cause.
Once high blood pressure is diagnosed, a treatment program should begin immediately. In cases where the blood pressure is very elevated (as in stage 2 hypertension, with systolic blood pressure higher than 160 mm Hg), drug therapy is often initiated right away while lab tests and x-ray studies are obtained. When a person is found to have secondary hypertension, treatment is directed at the cause. For example, if a person is found to have a kidney artery blockage causing hypertension, he will be considered for a procedure to open the blocked kidney artery.
If a curable form of hypertension is found and treated, long-term drug therapy may be avoided. However, in many cases, treatment of the cause does not lead to complete resolution of the elevated blood pressure, and some blood pressure drugs are still needed to keep the blood pressure at goal level (below 140/90 mm Hg).
According to a national committee on hypertension, two of the most important aspects to successfully treating high blood pressure are a trusting relationship with your doctor and the motivation to succeed. Setting goals is the next step and when diabetes and hypertension coexist, the goal is to consistently maintain a blood pressure level lower than 140/90 mm Hg. Lifestyle changes are central to improving blood pressure control in hopes of avoiding or reducing the need for medicines. A heart-healthy lifestyle also improves the effectiveness of medicines when they are needed.
In people who don't have diabetes but do have blood pressures above 140/90 mm Hg, a period of treatment with lifestyle changes alone can be considered. In people with diabetes, the risk of heart disease, stroke, and kidney failure is so much higher that current guidelines recommend initiating drug therapy at the same time as lifestyle changes.
There is enormous overlap between the lifestyle measures that are beneficial for high blood pressure and those that are helpful for controlling diabetes. Performing regular exercise, losing excess weight and keeping it off, and getting adequate sleep are a start. Studies suggest that your blood pressure may decrease 3–5 mm Hg for every 10 pounds of excess weight lost.
Losing weight is extremely challenging, but the health benefits of doing it are substantial. A sensible reduction in calorie intake along with a regular exercise program is the best way to gradually reduce your weight. Moderate-intensity exercise such as brisk walking is felt to be safer than very vigorous exercise. Intense exercise such as heavy lifting or snow shoveling can raise the blood pressure briefly and stress the heart too much. On the other end of the spectrum, very slow movements such as those done in yoga[8] or tai chi may lower blood pressure.
Reducing sodium intake can be effective in lowering blood pressure. Some people are more sensitive to salt than others, meaning that their blood pressure has a more exaggerated response to salt. People with diabetes and people who are obese tend to be salt sensitive. A low-salt diet has been associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease. Reducing sodium intake to below 2400 milligrams daily has significant benefits for blood pressure, but it can't be done by just avoiding table salt since the majority of sodium in American diets comes from processed foods. Reading food package labels to select low-sodium foods is therefore also important. Other dietary changes that are helpful include moderating intake of alcohol and caffeine.
It is unclear why, but a vegetarian diet has been shown to have beneficial effects on blood pressure. This is possibly related to an increased intake in fruits and vegetables as well as lower saturated and total fat intake. The DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) is rich in fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products while avoiding saturated fats. It also provides plenty of calcium[9], potassium[10], and magnesium[11], which are important for lowering blood pressure. The combination of salt restriction and the DASH diet is a great start to improving your blood pressure. Information on the DASH diet is readily available on the Internet at www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/new_dash.pdf[12].
Just as sleep disorders are known to increase blood pressure, good sleep habits benefit blood pressure. In people without hypertension, blood pressure has been found to be higher in the morning after a poor night's sleep. Psychological stress plays a role in hypertension, and stress-reduction and relaxation techniques are beneficial and important parts of a complete treatment program.
In people with diabetes diagnosed with high blood pressure, drug therapy is initiated along with lifestyle changes. Many advances have been made in the understanding of what causes hypertension. This has resulted in the development of a number of different types, or classes, of drugs that lower blood pressure. The major classes of blood-pressure-lowering drugs include diuretics[13] (often called water pills), angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors[14], angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs)[15], beta-blockers[16], alpha-blockers, and calcium channel blockers[17].
All of these classes are commonly used to treat high blood pressure in people with diabetes, but ACE inhibitors and ARBs should be considered as first-line treatment. Over the past few decades, numerous studies have shown that these medicines have protective effects independent of their ability to lower blood pressure: They also reduce the complications of diabetes including heart disease, stroke, and kidney disease. Further studies are looking into whether using both ACE inhibitors and ARBs together would provide even better cardiovascular and kidney protection. These medicines have become the cornerstone of blood pressure treatment, and there is even some evidence that they may prevent or delay the onset of diabetes.
Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) work by relaxing blood vessels, leading to lower blood pressure. They come in two forms, dihydropyridine (DHP) and non-dihydropyridine (non-DHP) CCBs. The non-DHP CCBs have some protective effects on the kidney not seen with DHP CCBs. The use of non-DHP CCBs in combination with ACE inhibitor and ARB therapy to amplify kidney and heart protection is an area of ongoing research.
Diuretics continue to be a very important class of blood pressure medicines. They reduce a person's salt and water content by stimulating urination. They work best when a person is following a salt-restricted diet. Beta-blockers lower the blood pressure and slow the heart rate. They have been found to have significant heart-protective qualities, reducing the risk of death after a heart attack and improving the treatment of heart failure. However, both diuretics and beta-blockers are less desirable as first-line treatments in people with diabetes. These medicines may have negative effects on blood glucose control and weight. However, they are often needed eventually if the blood pressure is difficult to control.
Numerous other blood pressure medicines are available and work in many different ways. As a person is treated for high blood pressure, his medicines are gradually increased and "stacked" one on top of another until the goal blood pressure is achieved. On average, it generally takes three or more blood pressure medicines to adequately control high blood pressure in people with diabetes. While some medicines are more beneficial for people with diabetes than others, reaching the target blood pressure of below 140/90 mm Hg without side effects is the goal. If a person is unable to tolerate therapy with ACE inhibitors or ARBs, this goal must be achieved using other medicines. The cost of many of these medicines is high, and for some people cost may play a role in the choice of drugs as well.
It can take several weeks to several months to find the right dose of a drug or combination of drugs — along with lifestyle changes — to achieve consistent blood pressure measurements below 140/90 mm Hg. If your blood pressure is very high to begin with, it may initially be necessary to see your health-care provider as frequently as once a week to adjust your treatment plan. Once your blood pressure is under control, it should be checked every four to six months at your routine diabetes checkups. Your doctor may also recommend more frequent home monitoring. It's not unusual to eventually need further changes to your blood-pressure-lowering regimen. Some people can maintain control for several years with the same regimen, while others cannot. If blood pressure worsens rapidly, it may be necessary to look for a secondary cause that was not picked up during the first evaluation.
Pursuing blood pressure control with the same vigor as that for blood glucose control will improve your chances of a long and healthy life. The need for multiple medicines and a physically and financially tolerable drug regimen makes controlling hypertension in people with diabetes complicated. Success demands patience and perseverance by you and your health-care team, along with personal motivation and the belief that you can succeed.
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