Fiji Offers More Troops to Golan Heights UN Force

Fiji has offered more than 500 troops to the UN Golan Heights peacekeeping force after several countries withdrew because of the spillover from the Syria conflict, diplomats said Tuesday, according to the AFP news agency.

On Monday it was reported that Fiji will supply 170 troops this month to replace Japanese and Croatian soldiers who have left in previous weeks. Diplomats said Tuesday it has also offered to replace the 370 troops that Austria is withdrawing.

Britain's UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant did not give numbers but confirmed there would be a "substantial inflow" of Fijian troops to the force, which has monitored a ceasefire between Syria and Israel in the Golan since 1974.

He said the bulk of the reinforcements could be in place by the end of July.

Lyall Grant, UN Security Council president for June, said the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) would also get "some heavier weapons", extra body armor and see observation posts reinforced, according to AFP.

In the growing fallout from more than two years of Syrian war, UNDOF peacekeepers have been abducted and wounded by shelling in recent months. One UNDOF staffer from Canada has been held by abductors since February.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week called for better protection for UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights to counter the growing threat of spillover violence from the Syria conflict.

The Fijians will join about 341 troops from the Philippines and 193 from India. Sweden has also had talks with the UN about sending troops to the Golan, reported AFP.

Lyall Grant said there had been "strong support" from the 15-member Security Council for UNDOF and the UN peacekeeping department's efforts to strengthen it, at talks held on Tuesday.

The council is set to renew UNDOF's mission for six months at a meeting next week. Lyall Grant said there would be no change to the ceasefire monitoring mandate.

"It is really a change of the rules of engagement and force posture that is planned for the future," he told reporters, according to AFP.

After the departure of Japan and Croatia, UNDOF's numbers fell to about 910 troops. But the UN has said it wants to increase the force up to its authorized ceiling of 1,250 troops.

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/169082

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Rounds video chat app now lets friends web browse together during ...

Rounds Video Chat and Calling for iOS and Android updated on Tuesday with a new co-browsing feature that enables friends to conduct live video conversations and?securely browse the web together.

A?partnership with Channel.me has integrated the Dutch start-up's co-browser technology into Rounds' iOS and Android?apps, enabling the?synchronisation of touchscreen activity between two mobile users.?

Rounds requires a Facebook friendship for two users to launch video chats with each other.?In addition, thanks to today's update, friends can now surf the web and control their browsing experience. Specific functionality includes clicking links and typing in new URLs. Friends can also view each other's live video streams via a thumbnail preview that's enabled during co-browsing.

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Rounds' video chat app is similar to Google Hangouts, which?allows people to communicate with each other across platforms over the internet via video calls, talking, texting, sharing photos and much more. However, unlike Google's offering, Rounds is the self-dubbed "first hangout network to let friends securely surf the web together during live video conversations".

Co-browsing works with Google Search, Wikipedia, Preen.Me, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Amazon, eBay, ESPN, The Huffington Post, wanelo, Imgur and TheFancy. It also offers?interactive features such as playing HTML5 games during video chats, watching YouTube videos, adding filter effects, doodle capability over each other's video streams and photo-uploading.

As for security, although the video stream depicts two friends as if they're browsing together on one computer in the same location, Rounds clarified that passwords are not visible during the login process.?

The updated Rounds Video Chat and Calling app is available as a free download on Apple's App Store and Google Play. The company said it expected to add more features throughout summer 2013.

Source: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/121842-rounds-video-chat-app-now-lets-friends-web-browse-together-during-calls

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Finding all asteroid threats to human populations: NASA announces asteroid grand challenge

June 18, 2013 ? NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.

The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large-scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists. It complements NASA's recently announced mission to redirect an asteroid and send humans to study it.

"NASA already is working to find asteroids that might be a threat to our planet, and while we have found 95 percent of the large asteroids near the Earth's orbit, we need to find all those that might be a threat to Earth," said NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver. "This Grand Challenge is focused on detecting and characterizing asteroids and learning how to deal with potential threats. We will also harness public engagement, open innovation and citizen science to help solve this global problem."

Grand Challenges are ambitious goals on a national or global scale that capture the imagination and demand advances in innovation and breakthroughs in science and technology. They are an important element of President Obama's Strategy for American Innovation.

"I applaud NASA for issuing this Grand Challenge because finding asteroid threats, and having a plan for dealing with them, needs to be an all-hands-on-deck effort," said Tom Kalil, deputy director for technology and innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. "The efforts of private-sector partners and our citizen scientists will augment the work NASA already is doing to improve near-Earth object detection capabilities."

NASA also released a request for information (RFI) that invites industry and potential partners to offer ideas on accomplishing NASA's goal to locate, redirect, and explore an asteroid, as well as find and plan for asteroid threats. The RFI is open for 30 days, and responses will be used to help develop public engagement opportunities and a September industry workshop.

To watch the archived video of Tuesday's asteroid initiative industry and partner day, visit: http://youtube.com/nasatelevision

For more information about NASA's asteroid initiative, including presentations from Tuesday's event and a link to the new RFI, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/asteroidinitiative

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Eating More Red Meat Increases Risk of Diabetes ? The Health ...

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A new study confirms the link between eating red meat and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus.

With summer almost upon us, backyard grills everywhere will soon be filled with juicy cuts of steak. But if you?re looking to reduce your risk of diabetes, it may be best to steer clear of red meat, say researchers from Singapore.

By analyzing data from three Harvard University studies, the researchers confirmed what previous research has found?eating beef, pork or lamb may increase your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a condition that affects about 24 million Americans.

The new study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, built on previous research by following the changes to the diets of over 149,000 U.S. men and women. Rather than just asking people at the beginning of the study about their eating habits, researchers checked in with the participants every four years using a food questionnaire.

Red Meat Increases Risk of Diabetes

With this new level of detail, researchers found that eating an additional half a serving per day of red meat increased the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 48 percent over the next 4 years.

Cutting back on those juicy cuts of steak, however, seemed to help. People who decreased their red meat consumption by half a serving per day over the first four years of the study had a 14 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes throughout the rest of the study.

A serving of red meat (without the bones) is 3 ounces, roughly the size of a deck of playing cards.

The researchers also found that eating more red meat was linked to weight gain, one of the risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes. This change in weight, however, wasn?t the sole reason for the increased diabetes risk, leaving red meat to take some of the blame directly.

Lifestyle Changes Reduce Risk of Diabetes

The researchers point out in their paper that the study doesn?t prove that eating red meat causes diabetes, but it does add to a growing body of research that supports a connection between diet and this condition, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. and can cause stroke, blindness and chronic kidney disease.

They say that the strong connection found in the study, however, is enough to warrant people cutting back on their consumption of beef, pork or lamb.

Some researchers, however, question whether eating less ?red meat? is the answer, given that the term is not a very clear scientific definition of meat?s characteristics.

?It is not the type of protein (or meat) that is the problem: it is the type of fat,? said William J. Evans, PhD, from Duke University, in a related commentary in the same journal.

He suggests that people who are concerned about their risk of type 2 diabetes focus on eating ?high-quality protein that is low in total and saturated fat,? including:

• low-fat cuts of red meat
• fish
• poultry
• low-fat dairy products
• beans and legumes
• high-protein grains.

These simple dietary changes, along with maintaining a healthy weight and staying physically active can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 60 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If you have already stocked up on charcoal, don?t worry about having to turn off your grill for the summer. As long as you avoiding the fatty options, you can have your meat and eat it, too.

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Source: http://www.thehealthjournals.com/2013/06/eating-more-red-meat-increases-risk-of-diabetes/

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