The Importance Of Exercising And Blood Pressure

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High blood pressure, also referred to as hypertension, is a condition where there is abnormal pressure in the arteries. The possibility of getting high blood pressure increases as one becomes older. Medication can help you deal with high blood pressure. 

There is yet a way free of drugs that you can use to control your high blood pressure. Exercises may help decrease the blood pressure and sustain it at controllable levels. However, what is the link between exercise and hypertension? 

There are many exercises help to strengthen your heart. Strong hearts do not struggle to pump blood to different parts of your body. When the heart uses little effort to pump blood, the force on the arteries is reduced thus decreasing the blood pressure. 

For the most part, exercising works better than medication.  can help those suffering from primary blood pressure manage their high blood pressure problem for the last time. In addition to lowering blood pressure, exercises can also help to maintain it at normal levels. To appreciate the benefits, you must exercise regularly. The only way this works is by exercising on a regular basis. 

With that being said, understanding the fact that the benefits last only as long as one goes on exercising is vital. Aerobics are said to be the most helpful exercises. However, you may also participate in strength exercises such as weight lifting. Cycling, climbing stairs, walking, swimming and jogging are examples of other undemanding yet highly helpful exercises. 

One important thing you need to do before joining an exercise program is to get an approval from your doctor. Particular groups of people ought to check with their physicians before exercising. They are those more than 40 years, smokers, those that have suffered heart attacks obese individuals as well as those obese people. 

In addition you must also consider consulting your physician if you are on medication for information on whether exercise will affect its efficacy. Make certain you start little by little. Prior to embarking on serious exercises, always engage in warm ups. If you experience dizziness, faintness, chest pains, shortness of breath and excessive fatigue when exercise stop.

 These are some of the warning signs that not everything is right. You should make sure that you monitor your blood pressure as you perform your exercises. You could buy a blood pressure monitor for this function. Check the pressure before and after you exercise and document the changes. If you suffer from hypertension, getting regular exercise is not only the best option, it is the most cost effective as well.

Michael Sams Drafted By Rams In Seventh Round

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Michael Sam waited and waited. Hours passed, rounds came and went, and eventually, there were only eight more picks left on the third and final day of the NFL draft.

For just a moment, it looked as if his chance of being picked by a pro team and becoming the league’s first openly gay player might take a detour. Or at least be delayed.

The call finally came in Saturday from the St. Louis Rams, the team right down the road from where Sam played his college ball at the University of Missouri.

Sam was selected in the seventh and final round and admitted it was a frustrating wait. He said teams that passed on him chickened out and he should have been drafted sooner.

“From last season alone, I should’ve been in the first three rounds. SEC Defensive Player of the Year, All-American,” Sam said. He stopped short of directly saying his stock dropped in the draft because he came out.

“You know what, who knows? Who knows? Only the people who sit in the war room know,” he said. “They saw Michael Sam, day after day they scratched it off the board. That was their loss. But St. Louis kept me on that board. And you know what I feel like I’m a (Jadeveon) Clowney, a first draft pick. I’m proud of where I am now.”

Sam came out as gay in media interviews earlier this year. His team and coaches knew his secret and kept it for his final college season. He went on to have the best year of his career He was the co-defensive player of the year in the nation’s best college football conference and had 11.5 sacks.

The pick came after several rounds of suspense. The first round of the day, No. 4 overall, came and went, no Sam. Then the fifth and sixth, and finally, the day was down to just a handful of picks.

When Mike Kensil, the NFL’s vice president of game operations, walked to the podium at Radio City Music Hall in the draft’s final minutes to announce the Rams’ second-to-last pick, the crowd got a sense something was up. Very few of the last day picks were announced at the podium. Twitter lit up with suggestions the Rams were about to make news.

When Kensil said “The St. Louis Rams select … Michael Sam…” the fans gave a hearty cheer, chanting “Yes! Yes! Yes!” and “Michael Sam!”

Sam was in San Diego watching with friends and family at the home of his agent, Joe Barkett of Empire Athletes. ESPN and the NFL Network had cameras there and showed Sam’s reaction.

Sam was on the phone bending over, with his boyfriend hugging him and rubbing his left bicep. When Sam got off the phone, the tears started. He gave his boyfriend a big kiss and a long hug as he cried and his eyes reddened. After, they shared cake — and another kiss.

“Thank you to the St. Louis Rams and the whole city of St. Louis. I’m using every once of this to achieve greatness!!” Sam tweeted with a frenzied typo moments after he was picked, with a picture of himself wearing a Rams cap and a pink polo shirt.

The 6-foot-2, 255-pound Sam was considered a mid-to-late round pick, far from a sure thing to be drafted. He played defensive end in college, but he’s short for that position in the NFL and slower than most outside linebackers, the position he’ll need to transition to at the professional level.

He was taken with the 249th overall pick out of 256. Players from Marist, Maine and McGill University in Canada were selected before Sam.

“In the world of diversity we live in now, I’m honored to be a part of this,” Rams coach Jeff Fisher said during an interview on ESPN.

The NFL had no comment on Sam being drafted.

The impact of Sam’s selection goes far beyond football. At a time when gay marriage is gaining acceptance among Americans, Sam’s entry into the NFL is a huge step toward the integration of gay men into professional team sports. Pro sports have in many ways lagged behind the rest of society in acceptance.

“Michael Sam wouldn’t have been drafted five years ago,” said former Viking punter Chris Kluwe, who has accused Minnesota of cutting him in part because of his vocal support for gay rights.

In the last year, NBA veteran Jason Collins has come out publicly as gay, and is now playing for the Brooklyn Nets. Collins said before the Nets’ playoff game against the Heat that he was watching the draft and texted Sam after he was picked.

“It’s a great day for Michael and his family and for the NFL,” Collins said.

Publicly, most people in and related to the NFL have been supportive of Sam. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has said Sam would be welcome in the league and judged solely on his ability to play. A few wondered whether teams would be reluctant to draft Sam because of all the media attention that would come with it.

Fair or not, the NFL — coming off a season in which a bullying scandal involving players on the Miami Dolphins was one of the biggest stories in sports — was looking at a possible public relations hit if Sam was not drafted. He would likely have been signed as a free agent and given a chance to make a team in training camp, but to many it would have looked as if he was being rejected.

Now that he’s there, it could be seen as an opportunity for the NFL to show that crass locker room culture is not as prevalent as it might have looked to those who followed the embarrassing Dolphins scandal. But all the reaction to Sam’s news wasn’t positive from the league.

Miami safety Don Jones posted a one-word tweet, “Horrible” shortly after Sam was drafted. It was later taken down. The team’s general manager said he was aware, and was disappointed.

Wade Davis, a gay former NFL player who is now the executive director of the gay rights advocacy group “You Can Play,” said that Sam only needs to do his job to have an impact beyond the field.

“Michael Sam doesn’t have to be a vocal advocate (for gay rights),” Davis said. “His visibility is his advocacy.”

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Babettes French Restaurant

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Babette’s Cafe restaurant near downtown Atlanta that features a gluten free menu. The restaurant also has an extensive wine list and holds monthy wine tasting events.

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Babettes Cafe

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French restaurant located in the Virginia Highland area of metro Atlanta. The menu is French European with a mix of Mediteranean cuisine.

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Pakistan Serial Killer Admits To Using Gay Sites To Lure Victims

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Police officials in the eastern city of Lahore said the man, a paramedic named Muhammad Ejaz, was under arrest on suspicion of killing three men he had met on Manjam, a social networking website for gay men that has thousands of members in Pakistan.

Investigators said Mr. Ejaz, 28, had made a full confession since being arrested in a police sting operation last week. He told officers that he had met the victims, including a retired army officer, at their homes, drugged them with sedatives hidden in food and strangled them.

News of the arrest caused Manjam to announce on Sunday that it was closing its website to nonmembers in Pakistan until further notice, citing security and privacy concerns.

In an interview Sunday night at the police station where he is being held, Mr. Ejaz confirmed that he had confessed to killing the three men and offered an explanation for his actions. “I tried to convince them to stop their dirty acts, but they would not,” he said. “So I decided to kill them.”

He is expected to face full charges in the coming days.

Speculation about the murders had been coursing through gay circles in Lahore since mid-March, when the first killing took place. “People are quite frightened,” said one gay man, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the law against homosexuality. “They feel both violated and exposed.”

Another man said there was speculation that the victims had been picked up on Grindr, another popular social networking website. “Some of my friends deleted their profiles because they were worried,” he said.

Mr. Ejaz denied police claims that he had had sex with his victims before killing them, claiming instead that sexual abuse he had suffered as a teenager had driven him to act.

While his arrest removed a security worry for some gay men and lesbians, it also raised fears that hostile news media coverage could lead to restrictions on the use of networking sites.

“The reporting has a very moralistic tone,” another gay man said. “They’re talking about how people are being picked up on the Internet as if it’s a new thing. But it’s been going on for years.”

Gay men and lesbians occupy a complex place in Pakistani society. Although homosexual acts are outlawed and carry a potential life sentence, prosecutions are rare. Gay men typically hide their sexuality from family members, out of fear of being ostracized. Yet at the same time, they meet openly at private parties and even religious shrines, and some post photographs of themselves on websites like Manjam. One man told a BBC reporter last year that Pakistan was a “gay man’s paradise.”

But these freedoms are exercised within tightly defined limits, and discrimination and prejudice still run deep, particularly for lesbians, because women generally enjoy fewer social freedoms than men in Pakistani society.

One lesbian, writing anonymously in a newspaper blog in 2011, said she felt that she had been treated like a criminal. “You are considered as disgusting as filth, as unnatural as molestation, as uncouth as an animal,” she wrote.

Police investigators said they traced Mr. Ejaz using his victims’ mobile phone records and, using a false identity, lured him last week to an apartment in Lahore where he was arrested.

In the interview, Mr. Ejaz said he started browsing social networking sites for gay men this year, after getting an Internet-capable mobile phone.

The first victim was the retired military officer, who was in his 50s and lived in an apartment in the city’s garrison area. The two later victims were an information technology worker in his 20s and a student at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, a private college.

Mr. Ejaz admitted the murders were “wrong,” but said he wanted to “give a message to these people and to society.”

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Affirmative Action Decision May Mean Bad News For Gays

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The most difficult thing about predicting the outcome in the case of Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action was never whether the Supreme Court would uphold a Michigan ballot initiative banning racial preferences in college admissions, or by implication also endorse similar laws that have been enacted in seven other states. To paraphrase the late great Los Angeles Lakers play-by-play announcer Chick Hearn, you could have “called that one with Braille.”

Even in its long-ago liberal days, the Supreme Court took an ambivalent position on race-based affirmative action. The greater uncertainties in Schuette were always whether the high court, in addition to approving the Michigan measure, would once again embrace the fiction that racial discrimination is a thing of the past, and whether the court would endorse a concept of majority rule or popular sovereignty that could have ripple effects for other constitutional issues, specifically those implicated in statewide bans on same-sex marriage.

Although the court’s 6-2 decision actually consists of five separate opinions—a plurality decision authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, separate concurrences by Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer, and a lengthy dissent by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which was joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—the uncertainties to a significant extent have been resolved, and for the worse. A working majority of the court believes that we live in a post-racial world and that in all but the rarest of circumstances, popular majorities should have the last word on defining the constitutional rights of minorities.

True to the fantasy of ethnic harmony, Kennedy’s opinion refers to contemporary America as a society in which the lines of racial division “are becoming more blurred” and efforts to advance the interests of “certain groups” as opposed to others lack “clear legal standards or accepted sources to guide judicial discretion.” The better course on affirmative action, accordingly, is simply to let the voters of each state decide whether to permit the practice or abolish it. In any event, Kennedy concludes, “[t]here is no authority in the Constitution or in this Court’s precedents” to do otherwise.

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Although Kennedy did not cite Shelby v. Holder, last year’s historic decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act, his reasoning was strikingly reminiscent of Roberts’ majority opinion in Shelby, which also took the view that racism is a remnant of the past. Joined by Kennedy, Scalia and Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, Roberts concocted a novel constitutional doctrine in Shelby—the principle of “equal sovereignty” among the states—to justify the court’s holding that states and localities with histories of racial discrimination in elections could no longer be held to higher levels of legal scrutiny and review than those without such histories.
Sotomayor, by contrast, cited Shelby four times in her impassioned dissenting opinion in Schuette. Emphasizing repeatedly that “race matters,” she castigated the majority for turning its back not only on the Constitution, but on reality itself. Race matters, she wrote, not only because of the nation’s history of denying minorities “access to the political process,” but because of “persistent [present] racial inequality in society—inequality that has produced stark socioeconomic disparities.”

We can see in Shelby and Schuette how the court’s concept of popular sovereignty was utilized to distort reality and undermine voting rights and affirmative action. The big unanswered question now is whether that concept will carry the day if and when the issue of same-sex marriage returns to the court.

Although a growing number of lower courts have invalidated gay marriage bans and recognized the constitutional right of same-sex couples to wed, the Supreme Court has yet to rule on the core constitutional question. Indeed, in its two landmark gay marriage rulings last term—Windsor v. United States and Hollingsworth v. Perry—the court skirted the issue.

In Hollingsworth, the majority dismissed on highly technical federal “standing” grounds the appeal that had been brought by the proponents of California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that voters passed in the 2008 election outlawing gay marriage. In Windsor, the court struck down section three of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman for purposes of federal laws and benefit programs.

But threaded within the majority opinion in Windsor—which was written by none other than Kennedy—was, as I have previously noted on Truthdig, a narrative of states’ rights and popular sovereignty, whereby he and the majority recognized that with few constitutional exceptions (pertaining, for example, to now-defunct state laws prohibiting interracial unions), the definition of marriage traditionally is left to the states and their electorates. The Windsor ruling did not alter that tradition. To the contrary, Kennedy’s Windsor opinion ended with the stark admonition that “its holding [was] confined to those lawful marriages” in states that have opted to recognize same-sex unions.

So will the notion of states’ rights, popular sovereignty and majority rule rippling through Shelby, Windsor and now Schuette ripple further and deal the marriage equality movement a crippling setback? We can be certain only that the legal groundwork has been laid.

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