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		<title>Top 8 Workout Plans For Excess Lb loss</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Whilst exercise alone is not enough to entice permanent fat loss, recognising which exercises you can combine with your nutritious dietary plan of fruit and vegetables can help.<span id="more-189"></span></p>
<p>Below we will show you the best exercises you should contemplate  when trying to achieve successful fat loss:</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whilst exercise alone is not enough to entice permanent fat loss, recognising which exercises you can combine with your nutritious dietary plan of fruit and vegetables can help.<span id="more-189"></span></p>
<p>Below we will show you the best exercises you should contemplate  when trying to achieve successful fat loss:</p>
<p><strong>Resistance Workout</strong></p>
<p>Proven to promote muscle growth and enhance calorie loss, this exercise routine utilises either weight machines or weights. Helping to use more fat as your muscles get bigger, research has found that by doing as little as 20 minutes a day of multi-rep lifts (that workout all muscle groups), you can see more fat loss than a 45 minute cardio workout.</p>
<p><strong>Free Weight Workout</strong></p>
<p>Comprising of two hand held weights or barbells, this workout has been created to target your chest, arms, legs and abdomen by providing regular resistance to your body.</p>
<p><strong>Resistance Bands</strong></p>
<p>Harnessing resistance bands to stretch and prompt muscle growth, this fitness regime is perfect as you can strengthen all parts of your body at a level that suits you. For the best weight loss results, purchase low cost bands that are available in levels from 5 to 300 pounds of resistance.</p>
<p><strong>Weight Machines</strong></p>
<p>This weight loss aid is helpful as you can build your resistance. The optimum ones to try are rowing equipment and pulley weight systems as you can enhance your muscles as your routine intensify. Please Note: weight machines are more useful to those wishing to gain muscle mass than those looking to get in shape.</p>
<p><strong>Cardio Workout</strong></p>
<p>Seen to increase your heart rate during a long length of time, cardio can help lessen your risks of developing heart disease and diabetes. To receive maximum results from cardio you will need to perform cardio for at least 30 minutes a day, and increase your workout intensity until you begin sweating.</p>
<p><strong>Walking, Jogging and Running</strong></p>
<p>Most people get rid of approximately 100 calories per mile doing any one of these 3 workouts. The goal is to perform these as regularly as possible at a brisk speed to enhance your weight loss.</p>
<p><strong>Aerobics</strong></p>
<p>Proven to burn 800 calories a hour, aerobics in particular need a small amount of investment but helps to encourage weight loss.</p>
<p><strong>Riding a Bike</strong></p>
<p>Using 500-1,000 calories per hour, cycling is less painful on your knees helping you to last for longer.</p>
<p>However if you are still finding it difficult to lose body fat, despite the amount you exercise every week; combine Proactol with a healthy dietary plan and you can confidently witness monthly fat losses of up to 8lbs a month. Read <a href='http://www.proactolweightlossreview.info/'>Proactol itemized review</a></p>
<p>Helping to remove up to 28% of your daily fat intake, curb your hunger and decrease cholesterol, Proactol can provide you the fat loss assistance you crave and help you to lead a healthier, happier lifestyle.</p>
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		<title>Fenfluramin101</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When food producers began producing instant and synthetic meals,   folks began moving away from wholesome natural meals to consume increasingly junk food resulting in an elevated caloric intake. With this pattern rising more rapidly in the 20th century, weight problems became a health downside of major proportions which continues to the current day. When the health sector and pharmaceutical industry acknowledged what was happening, they got here up with solutions to help these with weight problems and new drugs have been manufactured to combat weight gain.<span id="more-194"></span></p>
<p>It was in 1972 that a <a href='http://www.pills4weightloss.org/'>new weight loss pills</a> often known as fenfluramine was launched to the market with the approval of the US Food and Drug Administration. In accordance with the Fenfluramin historical past of articles, regardless of the hype it created, fenfluramine was not very talked-about as a result of its effects were momentary and lowered just a few pounds of weight in those that tried the drug. At that time however, there was no cause for alarm and fenfluramine remained on the shelves as a moderately successful weight loss drug. By 1994 nonetheless, forty one circumstances of pulmonary hypertension had been noticed,  but only 4 had been reported as being a direct result of the consumption of fenfluramine. </p>
<p>Regardless of these abnormal studies, no action was taken till 1996, when a 30 yr outdated woman who had used the drug only for one month   died of heart problems. It was then that the authorities began taking notice. In 1997, the Mayo Clinic&#8217;s report on 24 circumstances of damaged heart valves in ladies who took the drug opened a can of worms that alerted the medical career to report those who had the identical complications. When sixty six extra circumstances of heart valve harm were reported, it was discovered that all these cases had a historical past of taking both fenfluramin or dexfenfluramine. </p>
<p>The final word set off that triggered the FDA to request its withdrawal from the market in 1997 was when 30 p.c of the echocardiograms of patients who had taken either of those medicine had been found to be abnormal.   Fenfluramin historical past of articles state that this percentage was regarded as too high when in comparison with the assessments achieved on those that had not taken the drugs. It was finally accepted that the uncomfortable side effects of fenfluramin similar to coronary heart valve damage or pulmonary hypertension have been dangerous and in some circumstances even fatal.</p>
<p>This however was not the final the people heard of fenfluramine. Regardless of the adversarial unwanted effects being made identified, a very talked-about weight loss drug often known as fen-phen was launched to the   market in the 1990&#8242;s. This drug was a mix of fenfluramine and phentermine the last of which had been obtainable from the 60&#8242;s. Fen-phen acted as an appetite suppressant by stimulating the nervous system and hypothalamus gland to maintain the appetite in check. Regardless that the drug was not permitted by the FAD, it was available to be used in the mid 1990&#8242;s.</p>
<p>Fen-phen was imagined to be the miracle drug everyone had been waiting for especially since there were no damaging negative effects seen initially.  It was fairly someday later that   alarm bells began to ring when instances of damaged heart valves and pulmonary hypertension started to surface everywhere in the country. According to the fenfluramine historical past of articles, fen-phen was found to be even more harmful than fenfluramine and withdrawn rapidly; but not earlier than the damage was completed and the producers needed to face a whole series of lawsuits by those who had been affected by the drug.</p>
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		<title>How To Find The Best Fats Burners For 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>As the New Years vacation approaches the idea of weight loss springs to many people&#8217;s mind. You need to start this one off proper by finding the best fat burners for 2011, however maybe you are questioning methods to navigate the market out there. It may be complicated and irritating, but this 12 months is filled with excellent and reasonably priced options. You simply must know what you&#8217;re wanting for.<span id="more-192"></span></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the New Years vacation approaches the idea of weight loss springs to many people&#8217;s mind. You need to start this one off proper by finding the best fat burners for 2011, however maybe you are questioning methods to navigate the market out there. It may be complicated and irritating, but this 12 months is filled with excellent and reasonably priced options. You simply must know what you&#8217;re wanting for.<span id="more-192"></span></p>
<p>You need one thing that will work quick, but still be protected on your body. Burning fats is one thing, however not on the expense of your overall health. Phen375 is a wonderful product that transforms the way your body deals with fat serving to to burn it rapidly and efficiently.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s going to the most effective <a href='http://www.fat-burners.biz/'>fat burners for 2011</a> contain? It is best in case you search for synthetic products that have been examined and proved secure and effective. No know side effects are good. Optimistic opinions from actual customers are the best.</p>
<p>You will wish to look for a product that can take a  pronged attack on fat. Not only ought to the fat burner suppress the body&#8217;s capacity to store fats, but it surely should give that body an elevated capacity to burn off the amount already stored. It will end in fast, noticeable fats burning and consistent weight loss. Phen375 does both of these things and has a strong reputation backing it to ship peace of mind.</p>
<p>The best fats burners of 2011 can even be affordable. In at this time&#8217;s financial system individuals must maintain track of their bills and the price of dietary supplements and medical provides should be intently monitored. If a product is effective and worthwhile the value might be high. However even when something has a low price ticket, with no high fee of effectiveness your cash is all however wasted.</p>
<p>That is where evaluations and testimonials are available handy. By reading about or viewing actual results you can also make a greater knowledgeable decision in regards to the value of a fats burning product which is a large factor to do along with your hard-earned money.</p>
<p>Purchasing online is a fabulous approach to discover these weight loss products. You possibly can try your local well being food store, however typically locations beyond major metropolis centers is not going to have the stock wanted &#8211; particularly of the products in excessive demand. By buying on-line you may have the complement delivered straight to your door and still have a secure and reliable place to reorder. The perfect fat burners for 2011 are readily available online and can ship to anywhere on the continent.</p>
<p>You can start the brand new year off with the physique that you&#8217;ve all the time dreamed of &#8211; a leaner, thinner you that also has more energy. Trimming down the fats with a fat burning product is a straight ahead, effective strategy to grow to be the individual you have always wanted to be. With one of the best fats burners for 2011 you&#8217;ll be that much closer.</p>
<p>Research the merchandise, learn the evaluations, store at handy online places and sit up for improbable results fast. Your whole family and friends are sure to be amazed.</p>
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		<title>Homeopathy – can it improve your health?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Last year Boots revealed that they didn’t believe homeopathy works. However, despite this discovery and continual studies which prove that homeopathy produces no more than placebo , the NHS still spent over four million pounds  in the last 12 monthsdeveloping homeopathic remedies.<span id="more-183"></span></p>
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<p>Shocked by the NHS’s and Boot&#8217;s ‘no harm’ attitude to homeopathy, more than three hundred protestors are now planning to take part in a group homeopathic binge to help increase public knowledge about the ineffectiveness of homeopathic remedies.</p>
<p>During this demonstrationwhich is set to take place on the 30th January 2010, all three hundred protestors will publicly swallow a completebottle of <a href="http://www.pills4diet.org/">homeopathic diet pills</a> to demonstrate that they are nothing more than sugar pills as well as encourage pharmacies to stop selling them</p>
<p>Where did Homeopathy originate?</p>
<p>Ask consumers and they will describe homeopathy as an &#8216;organic herbal medicine&#8217; the majority of the substances found within this complementary herbal medicine are so weakthat there really is nothing to them.</p>
<p>Yet further background checks into the discovery of homeopathy has found that there is nothing medicinal about it, but that it is solely structuredon three ideas developed in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann. Threebeliefs which are still used today:</p>
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<li>The Law of Similars the theory where the cause of your illness can also cause them i.e. taking caffeine to cure sleep deprevation</li>
<li>The Law of Infinitesimals where the more weak the remedy, the more potent it will become</li>
<li>The Law of Succession where intense mixing of a homeopathic solution would intensify its strength</li>
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<p>Reviewingthis history, it is easily understandable why activists are requesting that the government to instruct the NIHCE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) to assess whether it is necessary for the NHS to fund homeopathic remedies. Providing limited if any results, all clinical studies have the same conclusion that they will not improve your well-being.</p>
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		<title>How Is Tava Tea So Great?</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First people want to know what is in Tava Tea, what makes Tava Tea so superior to any other kind of tea? And that is a an excellent question. It comprises of Green Puerh, Wuyi Cliff Oolong, and Steamed Green Sencha, and these specially selected very special ingredients put together have been revealed to provide fantastic benefits to your health, it truly has bowled everyone over.<span id="more-180"></span></p>
<p>The great amount of antioxidants are a great benefit of Tava Tea. Tava Tea releases your body from harmful free radicals and because of this will end the chain reaction of free radicals that harm your cells. It is used to put a stop to strokes and many other neurodegenerative diseases as an outcome.</p>
<p>It is fast becoming a hugely popular health aid. The eastern nations have consumed it for this very reason for centuries, and that’s why it is so unusual to see an obese Asian, there are exceptions to the rule, for the Sumo wrestlers who put on fat on purpose, as gaining weight is a vital part of their training program</p>
<p>It is a completely natural <a href='http://www.weightlosstea.us/'>organic weight loss tea</a>. Unlike so many products that we consume on a daily basis, most of which are damaged with a large amount of dangerous stimulants or chemicals that have a laxative effect due to loose bowel movements, you will find that Tava Tea is pure and natural.<br />
It reduces Cholesterol. It is normally thought that this tea accomplishes this by bonding to the cholesterol, helping the body to break it down naturally. The Green Puerh in Tava Tea is said to actually break down your fat by eradicating it from your body. </p>
<p>Puerh tea has been found to help in lowering bad cholesterol and blood pressure levels due to its capability to disperse fat and oils and assistthe progress of the digestive process.  Its weight loss efficacy is so fantastic because of the energy burning procedure that medically speaking is known as thermogenesis, this is an established requirement in losing weight. A review of this product would not be complete without advising you that Tava Tea, as with every variety of tea, contains some naturally occurring caffeine. </p>
<p>Those who are highly sensitive to stimulants may decide to speak to their medical professional before drinking it. However, it consists of such a minute amount that adverse effects are uncommon. So there really is qualms Tava Tea is a safe beverage to drink.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We have all heard  and   accept that water is good for you and  it is important to try to drink the &#8216;eight glasses a day&#8217;  which is  the advised and we  trust the  health articles that  assert we will perform better,  achieve more and  become fitter if we  continue in drinking water  at the recommended amount.<span id="more-186"></span></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have all heard  and   accept that water is good for you and  it is important to try to drink the &#8216;eight glasses a day&#8217;  which is  the advised and we  trust the  health articles that  assert we will perform better,  achieve more and  become fitter if we  continue in drinking water  at the recommended amount.<span id="more-186"></span></p>
<p>That&#8217;s  okay,  but have we  taken into account that water  is a great tool to  help us shed pounds? Yes, that&#8217;s right fill up on  water and <a href='http://www.pills4weightloss.org/'>follow a weight loss pills</a> and exercise regime and  finally lose those last few excess pounds. </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how and why:</p>
<p>* We often confuse thirst with hunger, which means when we  presume that our body is craving extra food; it could  in fact  only require rehydration.  When you are tempted to snack,  have a drink of water and  consider if you are  really hungry, or  just needed a drink.<br />
* Water is naturally an appetite suppressant, and when you drink water  when drank  before consuming food, it  should  help you feel fuller  without piling more food on your plate.<br />
* Interestingly, the most appropriate cure for water retention is to  try and have more water. The reason for this is that water retention is  created  the body believes it is in danger of dehydrating,  causing it to store water, which can cause swollen,  ankles and hands.  When  the body is  hydrated again,  the water that has been retained will be  relieved  and will cause  a reduction in weight  because water retention  increases your weight.<br />
* Drinking water will speed up your metabolism  .This will ensure that you will be able to burn calories  with greater success,  .This of course,  leads to  you to lose weight.<br />
* Having a drink of water before eating  will  ensure you feel full quickly which will result in  being satisfied with less food.  You will consume less calories by eating smaller portions  which is great news for those who are trying to shed a few pounds.<br />
* Water is void of calories which means that by  switching to water rather than calorific beverages,  you shall be  decreasing your daily calorie intake.</p>
<p>Other things you should know so that you really benefit from drinking water for weight loss are:</p>
<p>* During exercise, your body will need  a lot more water  than is usually recommended. This is because, when  working out,  your body will begin to perspire to moderate the temperature of your body.  Any water lost  during perspiration  must be  restored to keep your body sufficiently hydrated.<br />
* 6-8 glasses of fresh water is the recommended amount for the average person.</p>
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		<title>In an underactive thyroid affecting your weight loss?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Up to 1% of patients all over the planet are predicted to be impacted by hypothyroidism, an underactive thyroid that can contribute to a slower metabolism, weight gain, tiredness, depression and ineffective digestion.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Up to 1% of patients all over the planet are predicted to be impacted by hypothyroidism, an underactive thyroid that can contribute to a slower metabolism, weight gain, tiredness, depression and ineffective digestion.</p>
<p>How is an underactive thyroid caused?</p>
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<p>Triggered by childbirth or excess stress, an underactive thyroid can come on at any stage in your life, despite common theories that it only happens in your 40’s-50’s. Related to an increase in size of the thyroid gland; the body’s immune system is believed to manufacture antibodies against your thyroid that pushes you to secrete little essential hormones that can contribute to the above health problems…</p>
<p>Yet you don’t have to let an underactive thyroid control your health. As long as you eat healthy, exercise often and regularly see your doctor you can lose weight and get this underactive thyroid under control.</p>
<p>Can I lose weight?</p>
<p>One of the main indications of having an underactive thyroid is a slow metabolism and a habit to put on extra weight gain that is impossible to shed.</p>
<p>If this summary sounds like you and you are worried that you are experiencingan underactive gland, there are a numerousstrategies you can utilise to help you <a href='http://www.burn-calories.net/burn-calories-benefits/'>benefit from natural burn calories</a>:</p>
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<li>Exercise daily – if you can&#8217;t findtime to go to the gym, go to  a cardio session or train with an instructor, simply going for a daily intensive walk can help you to restart your metabolism and cause quality weight loss.
<p>Aim to switch between slow and brisk walkingevery ten minutes, as well as swinging your arms. This will enhance the strength of your routine and quicken your metabolic rate.</p>
<p>Another useful technique is to fasten weights to your areas of your bodyto prompt your muscles to push harder.</li>
<li>Decide your foods sensibly – meals embellished in iodine are reputed for interfering with your thyroid gland. The primary dishes to avoid/minimise consist of cabbage, kale, broccoli, mustard, linseed, sweet potato, peanuts and soy meals.</li>
<li>Exclude products renowned for containing stimulants &#8211; any kind of stimulant whether it is a fluid such as coffee, tea or cola, or oral experience such as smoking or alcoholic drinks can affect your thyroid and ultimately your weight loss, so cut these out of your weight loss plan and keep them to as little as possible</li>
<li>Try a dietarysupplement – adding a proven fat binder such as Proactol into your dietary plan can help to ease the stress of monitoring your thyroid condition and dietary plan. Scientifically proven to cut up to 28% of your fat consumption, Proactol can help to weakenthe affects of hypothyroidism on your quality of life, boost your calorie burn and give you the energy you need to perform daily exercise and lose weight.</li>
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		<title>Thoughts on the rioting in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>It’s interesting to go around “our” side of the blogosphere — where “we” is defined as those who generally support the current U.S. administration, particularly in foreign policy — and read the bloggers grappling over to what degree there is an islamist element to the French riots.  Powerline’s Paul seems to believe that Islamist leaders may be directing disaffected foot soldiers.  Captain Ed takes the suggestion further by noting evidence of planned Muslim attacks in France and other countries.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s interesting to go around “our” side of the blogosphere — where “we” is defined as those who generally support the current U.S. administration, particularly in foreign policy — and read the bloggers grappling over to what degree there is an islamist element to the French riots.  Powerline’s Paul seems to believe that Islamist leaders may be directing disaffected foot soldiers.  Captain Ed takes the suggestion further by noting evidence of planned Muslim attacks in France and other countries.</p>
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<p>On the other side we have people like Stephen Schwartz and Ralph Peters, who insist that the socio-economic factors that have been cited as reasons for the rioting are not just a bunch of bleeding heart baloney.  Schwartz writes about his personal experiences:</p>
<p>Observing the gap between the French and their neighbors of North African origin, I learned another disturbing truth: that the latter had a deep fear of the Parisian police. I had more ready cash than my comrades, and one Friday night invited them all to go with me to the wonderful urban district of Saint-Michel, with its glamorous cafés, bookshops, and lots of cute girls. Saleh and Cherif refused. They said they were not safe in Saint-Michel on weekend nights, even though both possessed legal status and were quite respectable in their dress and manners, notwithstanding their radical politics. They told me that even with their papers in order North Africans living in Paris could be picked up by the police without any pretext, beaten, and even killed.</p>
<p>Ralph Peters is very outspoken about the French “apartheid system”:</p>
<p>Utterly devoid of self-awareness, the French cherish their image of America as racist. (…) In France, the non-white poor never have a chance of any kind.</p>
<p>France has no Colin Powell or Condi Rice, no minority heading the equivalent of a Fortune 500 company, no vibrant minority political culture. When Americans who adore la vie en France go to Paris (the intelligentsia&#8217;s Orlando), they don&#8217;t visit the drug-and-crime-plagued slums. If tourists encounter a Moroccan or a Senegalese &#8220;Frenchman,&#8221; he&#8217;s cleaning up the sidewalks after the dogs of the bourgeoisie.</p>
<p>Peters ends with this: “Meanwhile, every American who believes in racial equality and human dignity should sympathize with the rioters, not with the effete bigots on the Seine.”</p>
<p>I’m not going to pretend to have any kind of insight into French society, so I have no idea who’s right and who’s wrong in this argument.  The only thing that matters to me is the most important point of all, a point which many commentators on “our” side of the blogosphere — commentators on both sides of the Islamist-or-Socioeconomic argument — have stressed.  The point is this: irrespective of whether Islamicism is the chicken or the egg in this situation, one thing is for darn sure, and that’s that the Islamists will make every effort they can to take advantage of this situation.  The people in the western world who are on the “other side” — the side that despises the current administration and America in general — won’t admit it (or can’t see it), but Islamists are at war with the West.  Allow me to repeat that word: war.  W-A-R.  Though we in the west often fail to take this seriously, the Islamists have no such problem.  They know they are at war, they do not hesitate to admit it, and their seriousness about it means that they will make use of every battleground they can reach.  If the French battleground is open to them thanks to chaos and insecurity, then they will use it.  Period.</p>
<p>Now for more random thoughts — thinking out loud — about the situation in France:</p>
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<div>As someone who lives in a European city with a large Muslim minority, it’s interesting to compare Vienna with Paris.  Paris has this phenomenon of ghetto-suburbs, which, if I’m not mistaken (and I could well be), is utterly absent here in Austria.  Turkish people make up the largest segment of the Muslim minority and I think of them as living much more directly in the city than in any kind of suburbs around the city.  I’m definitely no expert, by the way, since I never go to the suburbs here (I just have no reason to.)</div>
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<div>In thinking more about Peters and Schwartz (see above), I have to wonder this: if the allegations that the French are so chauvinistic are true, why are there so many Muslims living in France? Nidra Poller, in another article which, like Schwartz’s, appears at Tech Central Station, poses the question this way:</div>
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<li dir="ltr">Of course the French have been known for shabby treatment of the people they colonized, including Africans, Arab-Muslim immigrants, and Black citizens of the overseas territories and departments. But this is only half the story. The colonies have been independent for fifty years. What have they done with their independence? <span style="text-decoration: underline;">If the French are so nasty, why are millions of Muslims pouring in from all sides, by all means, legal and illegal, forthright and stealthy, justified and unjustified?</span> Why are some of those &#8220;immigrant&#8221; children and grandchildren sacking and burning schools instead of taking advantage of the education that is offered to them? [my emphasis]</li>
<li dir="ltr">No matter who is right about the chicken-and-egg question of Islamicism versus Socio-economic factors at play in France, the questions about Islamicism, or even Islam in general and what role it plays or does not play among the rioting youths, is certainly a valid one that should be brought up.  Yet, two nights ago, I saw the TV news on Germany’s SAT.1 and noticed that they made it through a full report on the French situation without ever once mentioning the dreaded M or I words.</li>
<li dir="ltr">In a few different places today I’ve seen mention of the popularity of rap music among the rioting French youths.  One of those places was an article at the website of the Austrian daily, Der Standard.  That article mentions, among others, rappers IAM and NTM (these links point to english-language biographies at RFIMusique.)  Time Magazine’s website includes an commentary by French (and muslim) rapper, Medine.</li>
<li dir="ltr">My favorite quote amongst all of the blogosphere articles I perused today was this: “Instead of creating tomorrow&#8217;s jobs, Europe protects yesterday&#8217;s.” (Ralph Peters).</li>
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		<title>Austrian National Holiday 2005</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I enjoyed the big parade today as Austria celebrated Nationalfeiertag, which is the office state holiday commemorating the anniversary of the declaration of Austrian neutrality.  Today was the 50th anniversary of that event and is also considered the 50th anniversary of the modern-day (i.e., post-occupation) Austrian military.  The military put on a great show: almost 100 aircraft, 4200 soldiers, 180 tanks, and heck of a lot more.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I enjoyed the big parade today as Austria celebrated Nationalfeiertag, which is the office state holiday commemorating the anniversary of the declaration of Austrian neutrality.  Today was the 50th anniversary of that event and is also considered the 50th anniversary of the modern-day (i.e., post-occupation) Austrian military.  The military put on a great show: almost 100 aircraft, 4200 soldiers, 180 tanks, and heck of a lot more.</p>
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<p>I took a few photos.  Here’s one of what I think is a Blackhawk flying over the parade route, though somebody please correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>Blackhawksmall</p>
<p>I took only seven photos.  You can see them all at Flickr.  Someone else took way more photos than I did, viewable also at Flickr.  And the ORF (public broadcasting) has, of course, some fantastic photos, because they had a big remote camera way up high zooming along cables.  The daily newspaper, Die Presse, also has a nice slideshow.</p>
<p>As always, I enjoyed the flyers the most.  Among the helicopters were Blackhawks and Hueys.  Among the fighter jets were Drakens (being retired this year), some model of Saab that I cannot remember, F-5 Tigers which Austria is leasing from Switzerland as they wait for their first batch of Eurofighter Typhoons in 2007, and then the Eurofighter Typhoons themselves (obviously from another country since Austria doesn’t have them yet.)</p>
<p>The Eurofighter has gotten a ton of bad press over the years.  All the criticism may or may not be justified (or partially so), but I’ll tell you one thing from my little perspective on the ground today: they were awesome!</p>
<p>I was happy to see the Stars and Stripes (with a few Marines) taking part.  I took a few videos (crappy ones using the digital camera), including one of the American flag marching past.  You can see the Brits and the Russian Federation next to it: nfeirtag1.wmv (2.69 MB). </p>
<p>If you want to see a few different Austrian military uniforms, I slammed some short clips together into one movie: nfeirtag2.wmv (6.10 MB).</p>
<p>Of course the whole time I was thinking more about our own troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq.  My heroes.</p>
<p>The crowd at the parade in Vienna was enormous. The exhibits on the Rathausplatz and Heldenplatz were interesting and enjoyable.  I must hand it to the Bundesheer, they put on a really great show.</p>
<p>One thing was very noticeable, so much so that even my wife — an Austrian — commented on it several times: almost nobody waved their Austrian flags or cheered, despite flags being handed out to everybody along the parade route.  That’s quite different from the United States.  And though I would like to see the Austrians be a bit more outwardly proud of their Austrian-ness, I recognize and respect the historical reasons why people might tone down their enthusiasm during military parades.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The real &#8220;Gateway to Europe&#8221; is no more. As this article at European Command explains, the gateway mission will now be shared at two other U.S. air bases in Germany, Ramstein and Spangdahlem.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The real &#8220;Gateway to Europe&#8221; is no more. As this article at European Command explains, the gateway mission will now be shared at two other U.S. air bases in Germany, Ramstein and Spangdahlem.</p>
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<p>Present at the Monday ceremony was retired Colonel Gail Halvorsen, who became famous as the “Candy Bomber” during one of Rhein-Main’s most memorable missions, the Berlin Airlift of 1948–49.  I poked around on the web and found this CNN interview with Halvorsen.  It’s worth reading.  Here’s a little gem:</p>
<p>Kids came up on the other side of the barbed wire [and] looked at me in [my] uniform. &#8230; They came up and started talk to me: &#8220;How many sacks of flour have you got?&#8221;, you know, &#8220;How&#8217;s it going to be tomorrow? More airplanes?&#8221;</p>
<p>They&#8217;d tell me they kept a list, how many airplanes would come in every day, and week-to-week. But they got off the subject of flour very quickly [and onto] the subject of freedom. &#8220;Look,&#8221; [one of them] said. &#8220;Some day we&#8217;ll have enough to eat. Just give us a little. Just don&#8217;t give up on us when the weather gets bad. But we can get along without enough to eat. Some day we&#8217;ll have enough. But if we lose our freedom we may never get it back.&#8221;</p>
<p>And these kids were 8 to 14 years old and blew my mind with their maturity [and] understanding of what was important. They&#8217;d seen enough of Hitler; they saw what Stalin was doing across the border; their aunts and uncles were coming into West Berlin to use the library to find out what&#8217;s going on in the world; they couldn&#8217;t travel; they didn&#8217;t have their church opportunities. So these kids had a real understanding of what was important in their life and they wanted freedom like Americans.</p>
<p>[My emphasis]</p>
<p>31 Americans died during the airlift.</p>
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