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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.
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.
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."
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- 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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