Lawmakers urge Obama to push for Mideast peace

More than 400 US lawmakers have signed letters urging President Obama to step up efforts aimed at achieving Mideast peace.In the lower House of Representatives, 330 legislators signed a letter sponsored by Democratic majority leader Steny Hoyer and Republican minority leader Eric Cantor.The letter was sent to the White House, the same day Obama hosted Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas for their first Oval Office talks since the US president took power in January.
In the Senate a similar letter, signed by 76 senators, was sent to Obama last week during a visit here by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."While the obstacles are formidable, we agree with you that every effort should be made to try to realise that peace at the soonest possible time," the House letter reads.
It pointed out key priorities for the lawmakers: the parties must negotiate the peace themselves; the United States would work in close cooperation with Israel; it would insist Palestinians renounce violence and build institutions needed for a viable Palestinian state; and the United States should encourage more participation in the process by Arab states.

A man for 35 years without bathing

Kailash ‘Kalau’ Singh is from the village of Chatav outside the holy city of Varanasi. He is 63-years-old and the father of seven daughters. He has gone for 35 years without bathing apparently in an attempt to have a son.
Madhusudan(his neighbor) says that a seer told Kalau years ago that if he didn’t take a bath, he would be blessed with a male child. It seems that many Indians prefer sons for financial reasons. Sons are breadwinners. Girls have to have the matrimonial dowry for the grooms family when they marry. Also, in Indian culture, all their earnings go to their husband’s family. For those reasons, girl children are considered a burden.
So for 35 years Singh hasn’t bathed. It appears his efforts are not working so far.This has been costly for him. He used to own a grocery store, but had to go out of business when customers quit coming to his store because of his ‘unhealthy personality’. He now works in the fields. He also incurred the anger of his family when he refused to take a ritual dip in the river Ganges even after the death of his brother five years ago.In spite of what his neighbors have said, Kalau claims he doesn’t remember how it all began. He claims his pledge to not wash is in the ‘national interest’. ‘I’ll end this vow only when all problems confronting the nation end,’ he said.
Even though he refuses to take water baths, he does take fire baths. That involves standing on one leg next to a bonfire, smoking marijuana and saying prayers to Lord Shiva. He claims its just as good as using water to bath and the fire kills germs and infection in the body.Oh, and he doesn’t brush his teeth either.Considering this whole scenario its not surprising that he hasn’t had a male child. The surprising thing is that he’s had any children at all.

Secret report led to spy charges on Roxana Saberi

A lawyer for US-born reporter Roxana Saberi, freed this week from a Tehran jail, has said that spy charges she had faced arose after she obtained a classified report on the US war on Iraq.Saberi's father Reza Saberi told reporters in Tehran that his daughter "was not tortured at all" in her custody. He said she initially pleaded guilty to the charges under pressure but retracted her statements later, and the appeals court accepted that.She had a report about the US attack on Iraq prepared by the strategic research centre at the (Iranian) presidency," Saleh Nikbakht said, adding, "The research centre deemed the report as classified. But she had not used it at all.
Nikbakht did not say how Saberi had managed to gain access to the confidential report. At the time, Saberi was doing occasional translations for the Web site of the Expediency Council, which is made up of clerics who mediate among the legislature, presidency, and Iran's clerical leadership over constitutional disputes. Saberi's other lawyer said the journalist received a suspended 2-year jail term from the appeal court as that is the stipulated punishment for such a crime.Saberi was released on Monday after her original 8-year jail term was reduced to a suspended 2-year term by the appeal court. Iran's judiciary has said Saberi's 2-year sentence would be suspended for five years.Saberi's said that I'm of course very happy to be free and to be with my parents again, and I want to thank all the people all over the world - which I'm just finding out about, really - who whether they knew me or not helped me and my family during this period.

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US adopts 'fraud' prevention in H-1B visa programmes

Acting on complaints of alleged "outrageous abuses" by Indian firms of the popular H-1B visa
programmes, the US has adopted "fraud prevention tactics" to prevent misuse of the scheme that mostly benefits highly-skilled professional from India.
The Department of Homeland Security have added fraud prevention tactics and begun looking at other more standard fraud investigatory techniques that weren't being use in H-1B that are now going to employ, include things like sites visits and worksites visits.
As well as top obligations are to American workers, making sure American workers have jobs. From an enforcement standpoint,the departments priority is to make sure that there's not fraud occurring within the H-1B programme at all.
The H-1B work visas for highly skilled professionals have most beneficial from IT
professionals from India. Its quite strange that Congress and the Government has recently taken several steps which restrict hiring of foreign workers under H-1B visa programme.
The Department has added some tools to rigorously enforce H-1B visa programme and prevent fraud.

Aspirin in combat zones be controlled-now prohibit

When I read this article on millitary.com I was quite surprised as well as shocked. The Army and Air Force Exchange Service is pulling all products containing aspirin from the shelves at its contingency locations.Department of Defense officials ordered that aspirin in combat zones be controlled and now prohibit over-the-counter access through AAFES and Morale, Welfare and Recreation activities, an AAFES press release stated.In an order written in March by then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Ward Casscells, service officials were told to make sure all U.S. troops and civilians headed into combat zones stop taking aspirin at least 10 days before they deploy, unless directed by a health care provider.The goal of the policy is to minimize blood loss in combat injuries, he wrote, and cut down on the number of "preventable deaths" associated with those wounds.The concern over aspirin stems from how it affects blood's ability to clot.
Air Force Col. David Schall told that basically, what it does is it inhibits platelet activation and aggregation and this effect lasts for 5 to 7 days after you take aspirin. Personally I would not have gotten through either deployment without Excedrin Migraine.Advil can have an effect on the platelets as well, but aspirin seems to be more potent.If your platelets aren't working, you are going to continue to ooze and ooze.Aspirin blocks an enzyme in platelets.Someone who took aspirin and is injured will have a higher rate of blood loss, and the larger the surface area of the injury that is bleeding, the bigger the problem.