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Marquez:
‘Success can make you uncomfortable’
Having re-written the record books in 2014, sealing more
pole positions and Grand Prix victories than any other rider had previously
done in a single season of the premier class, Marquez was naturally the centre
of attention in the majority of press conferences and media gatherings. Having
won four World Championship titles in the last five years, some may say the 21-year-old Spaniard is becoming
accustomed to such worldwide acclaim, but even he admits this can be a tough
challenge at times.
"I remember how all of the questions to the other riders would continue to
be the same," Marquez recalls. "It would be things like: ‘What do you
need to do to beat Marquez?’ and ‘How can you stop Marquez?’ Somehow I was a bit
uncomfortable about it because, as a rider, I know how it feels when they ask
you about your rival and not about yourself. If it is only one or two questions
it is okay, but when you get the same thing all the time, the same questions
about the same competitor…I was worried that even riders I get on well with
would end up hating me!
"It was a bit bizarre. In reality the more you win, the greater your
advantage. So the pressure should be decreased because, each time you win, you
are having to risk less on the following occasion in order to push for the
championship. Instead, every time I won I was having more and more pressure
because I felt like people were just waiting for me to make a mistake. I always
felt that the day I failed would make big news. Finally, when I finished fourth
at Brno, it actually came as a huge relief, as I was able to say to myself,
‘Okay, now people will stop talking about whether I can win all of the
races…they will move on, so things will go back to normal and I will be able to
concentrate more on myself.’"
In 2015, Marquez will be looking to become the first rider to win three
consecutive premier class world titles since Valentino Rossi in the middle of
the last decade.
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Military to help
clean up Ciliwung
Dewanti A. Wardhani
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | November 29 2014 | 11:14 AM
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The Jakarta
administration is planning to conduct a massive clean-up of the degraded and
dirty Ciliwung River starting in December, in order to mitigate the flooding
that plagues the city annually. Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama
claimed that the city would be relentless in cleaning up the Ciliwung and its
banks.
“We will start
cleaning up the river in December. The operation will go on for at least a
year,” Ahok said on Friday.
The governor explained that the city would cooperate with soldiers from the
Jakarta Military Command (Kodam) in cleaning up the river, adding that the
soldiers would not only help to clean up the river, but also make sure that
residents stopped throwing their waste into it.
He went on to say that the city would also hire scavengers to help with the
operation.
The Ciliwung River is 120 kilometers long with a 387-square kilometer
watershed. The river runs through South and East Jakarta and also through
Depok, Bekasi and Bogor in West Java. Thousands of squatters have built homes
on the banks of the Ciliwung, decreasing the river’s water-catchment area when
it overflows. The river is also filled with trash.
The city administration has on numerous occasions made efforts to clean up the
river and widen its water-catchment area. For example, the city administration
plans to “normalize” the river by dredging and widening it where it runs
through Kampung Pulo and Condet in East Jakarta. The city is currently building
a rusunawa (low-cost apartment building) to house relocated Kampung Pulo
residents.
The city is also
developing a 1.27-kilometer underground tunnel connecting the Ciliwung to the
East Flood Canal (KBT) in order to lighten the river’s load.
However, the city’s efforts have been hampered by the issue of land
acquisition, with many residents refusing to be relocated, causing efforts to
be delayed.
Meanwhile, the city’s most indigent continue to squat on the banks of the
Ciliwung and residents continue to dispose of their waste in the river.
“We must stop this habit of disposing of trash in the river. This is what
degrades our rivers and causes annual flooding,” Ahok said.
Meanwhile, Kodam Jakarta chief of staff Brig. Gen. Teddy Laksmana said that
more than 1,100 soldiers were ready to help the city administration to clean up
the Ciliwung.
“As a regional military command, we must help the city administration. We will
help the city to clean up the Ciliwung River starting in December,” Teddy said.
He added that the military command headquarters would deploy 1,155 soldiers in
the operation and also enlist 2,000 residents to help them.
Ahok explained that once the river was clean, the city administration intended
to develop it as an ecotourism destination.
“We will build piers along the river and procure boats so people can tour or
travel on the river. We will also develop jogging tracks along the Ciliwung,
like on the KBT in East Jakarta. These projects will be included in the 2015
city budget,” he said.
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Watching TV shortens life span, study finds
Australian researchers find that each hour a day spent in front of television
is linked with an 18% greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and an
11% greater risk of all causes of death.
January 12, 2010|By Jeannine Stein
A man working out at The Sports Club in Beverly Hills has the right idea about…
(Ricardo DeAratanha / Los…)
Watching
television for hour upon hour obviously isn't the best way to spend leisure
time -- inactivity has been linked to
obesity and heart disease. But a new study quantifies TV viewing's effect on
risk of death.
Researchers found that each hour a day spent watching TV was linked with an 18%
greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, an 11% greater risk of all
causes of death, and a 9% increased risk of death from cancer.
FOR THE RECORD:
Effects of TV viewing: The headline on an article in Tuesday's Section A that
said "Hours sitting in front of TV found to shorten life" overstated
the results of a study. As the article stated, researchers found a statistical
relationship between long hours of TV viewing and a shortened life span, but
the study did not go so far as to find a direct cause. —
The study, released Monday in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart
Assn., looked at health data among 8,800 men and women older than 25 who were
part of the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study. Participants
recorded their television viewing hours for a week, and researchers separated
the results by amount of viewing: those who watched less than two hours of TV a
day, those who watched two to four hours a day, and those who watched more than
four hours a day.
The subjects also had oral glucose tolerance tests to determine blood sugar and
gave blood samples to establish cholesterol levels at the beginning of the
study. People with a history of cardiovascular disease were not included. In a
follow up about six years later, 87 people had died due to cardiovascular
disease and 125 of cancer.
Researchers found a strong connection between TV hours and death from
cardiovascular disease, not just among the overweight and obese, but among
people who had a healthy weight and exercised.
People who watched more than four hours a day showed an 80% greater risk of
death from cardiovascular disease and a 46% higher risk of all causes of death
compared with those who watched fewer than two hours a day, suggesting that
being sedentary could have general deleterious effects. The numbers were the
same after the researchers controlled for smoking, high blood pressure, high
cholesterol, an unhealthy diet and leisure-time exercise.
"What we showed was that irrespective of a person's exercise level,
sitting for four or more hours watching television was linked to a significant
increase in risk of death compared to watching lower amounts of TV," said
Dr. David Dunstan, lead author of the study and professor and head of the
Physical Activity Laboratory at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in
Victoria, Australia. "The message here is that in addition to promoting
regular exercise, we also need to promote avoiding long periods of sitting,
such as spending long hours in front of the computer screen."
To him, the results weren't unexpected. "When we're in that sitting
posture, we're not using our muscles, and we know from extensive evidence that
muscle contractions are important for the body's regulatory processes, such as
the ability to break down glucose and use it as energy." That can cause
insulin resistance, which can trigger a spike in blood sugar levels, possibly
leading to type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Prediman K. Shah, director of the cardiology division of the Cedars-Sinai
Heart Institute, agreed. He pointed out that muscles become deconditioned when
not used, triggering harmful physiological changes. "If your activity is
slowing down, you metabolize cholesterol less and synthesize it more,"
he said.
Even sporadic exercisers who sit for long periods need to increase their daily
activity.
"The physical activity we do over a 24-hour period is important,"
says Dr. Gerald F. Fletcher, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville,
Fla., and a spokesman for the American Heart Assn.
That means taking the stairs instead of the
elevator, gardening, walking the dog . . .
"For couch potatoes, sitting on your duff is hazardous to your
health," Shah said. "The bottom line is keep moving."
Verb-ing
as a verb
- some may say the 21-year-old
Spaniard is becoming accustomed to such worldwide acclaim, but even he admits
this can be a tough challenge at times.
- The Jakarta administration is
planning to conduct a massive clean-up of the degraded and dirty Ciliwung River
starting in December, in order to mitigate the flooding that plagues the city
annually.
- We will start cleaning up
the river in December. The operation will go on for at least a year,” Ahok said
on Friday.
- The city is also developing a
1.27-kilometer underground tunnel connecting the Ciliwung to the East Flood
Canal (KBT) in order to lighten the river’s load.
- If your activity is slowing
down, you metabolize cholesterol less and
synthesize it more
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- Watching TV shortens life
span, study finds
- Watching television for hour
upon hour obviously isn't the best way to spend leisure time
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Verb-ing
as adjective
- That means taking the stairs
instead of the elevator
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sentence include to verb-in as adjective.
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