Illegal Things We’ve All Done Once And Never Knew

#11 Unboxing Videos

People love to show off their fancy new gadgets in movies on YouTube. Contrary to popular belief, it is actually illegal to film yourself opening a new product from its wrapper until 30-days after your purchase.

#10 Nice Rack 

So you want to dry your dishes on top of your kitchen counter? It seems like a good idea since it’s convenient, but it’s also against the law because it exposes the dishes and utensils to harmful bacteria.

#9 These Markers Smell Great! 

Despite the fact that smelling your own permanent markers might feel like your right; it is actually considered drug use depending on which color marker you decide to sniff.

#8 Tap That App 

It’s against the law to say the name of specific apps on television, but there are some loopholes to get around this.

#6 Post No Bills 

It is against the law to pose in pictures while holding more than one-hundred-dollars in certain states.

#5 But Ads Suck!!! 

As annoying as online advertisements can be hugely obnoxious, it is illegal to use a third-party app to block them.

Hot Celebrities Who Insured Their Body Parts!

You need insurance for a lot of things. If you have a boat and fish, you get that insured. A rancher will insure their cattle in case something happens to their livelihood. Celebrities also take out insurance for various reasons. Here are some celebrities which have taken out policies for unique reasons.

MILEY CYRUS – TONGUE $1 MILLION

Miley Cyrus has taken a page out of Gene Simmon’s book and insured her tongue. Her tongue is now worth a cool $1 million dollars. She is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. 

RIHANNA: LEGS – $1 MILLION

Some say Rihanna is the next Tina Turner so her legs are insured for $500,000 each in case something should happen to them. She also joins Tina Turner which happens to be on this list too.

HEIDI KLUM – LEGS $2 MILLION

Heidi Klum’ legs are insured for $2 million. The right leg has a little more insurance than her left does. Her left leg has a scar on it, which brings down the value some. It’s still a pretty good deal when both your legs are insured for about a million each.

MM ALAM(profile)

Alam was listed on the top of the hall of fame list at the PAF Museum in Karachi. Alam is considered a national hero for Pakistan, most significantly for his service in the war of 1965 when he was posted at Sargodha. During this war he was involved in various dogfights while flying his F-86 Sabre fighter. He downed nine Indian Hawker Hunter fighters in air-to-air combat, and damaged two others .^[1] In one mission on 7 September 1965, Alam downed five Indian aircraft in less than a minute, the last four within 30 seconds, establishing a world record, with total of nine aircraft downed in the war.

Early life[edit]

Alam was born on 6 July 1935 to a well-educated family of Calcutta, British India. Born and raised in Bengal, Alam was a fluent Bengalispeaker, however his paternal line was of Urdu-speaking Bihari origin; having emigrated from Patna and settled in the Bengal province of British India for a long time.^[4] The family migrated from Calcutta to eastern Bengal which became East Pakistan following the formation of Pakistan in 1947.^[4] It was in East Pakistan, where Alam completed his secondary education, graduating from the Government High School inDhaka in 1951. He joined the then RPAF (now PAF) in 1952, being commissioned on 2 October 1953.^[5] Alam's brothers are M. Shahid Alam, an economist and a professor at Northeastern University,^[6][7] andM. Sajjad Alam, a particle physicist at SUNY Albany.^[8]

His family moved to West Pakistan in around 1971, after the secession of East Pakistan.^[4] Being the eldest of his 11 siblings, Alam did not marry as he had to assume the responsibilities of the upbringing of his family. Some of his younger brothers became distinguished in various academic careers.^[5]

Death[edit]

The Air Force legend was admitted to Pakistan Naval Station Shifa Hospital in Karachi.^[17] Alam died in Karachi on 18 March 2013. He was 77. He was being treated for respiratory problems for 18 months. Alam's funeral prayer was performed at thePAF Base Masroor, where he served some of the significant years of his career. Alam was buried at the Shuhuda (Martyrs) Graveyard, located at PAF Masroor Airbase. Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad, Air Chief Marshal (Ret.) Farooq Feroz Khan, Sindh corps commander Lt. Gen Ijaz Chaudhry, Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) Director-General Maj. Gen. Rizwan Akhter, Base Commander PAF Base Masroor Air Commodore Usaid ur Rehman, many war veterans of the 1965 war and Alam's closest colleagues attended the funeral. One of the younger brothers of the deceased, Zubair Alam, was also present.^[5]

Memorials[edit]

M. M. Alam Road, a major road in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan is named in honour of the flying ace of Pakistan Air Force, Air Commodore Muhammad Mahmood Alam, running from Main Market to Gulberg. The road runs parallel to famous Main Boulevard thus providing an alternate route and is a commercial hub with many restaurants, fashion boutiques, shopping malls, beauty saloons and décor stores. M.M. Alam Road hosts a variety of flamboyant restaurants in modern Lahore.^[18]On 20 March 2014, on account of his first death anniversary, the PAF Airbase Mianwali was renamed after him as PAF Base M.M. Alam.

Trump victory a major global risk: EIU 

March 17, 2016 @ 12:05 PM

LONDON: The prospect of Donald Trump winning the US presidency represents a global threat on a par with jihadist militancy destabilising the world economy, according to British research group EIU.

In the latest version of its Global Risk assessment, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked victory for the Republican front-runner at 12 on an index where the current top threat is a Chinese economic “hard landing” rated 20.

Justifying the threat level, the EIU highlighted the tycoon’s alienation towards China as well as his comments on Islamist extremism, saying a proposal to stop Muslims from entering the United States would be a “potent recruitment tool for jihadi groups”.

It also raised the spectre of a trade war under a Trump presidency and pointed out that his policies “tend to be prone to constant revision”.

“He has been exceptionally hostile towards free trade, including notably NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement), and has repeatedly labelled China as a ‘currency manipulator’.” it said.

“He has also taken an exceptionally right-wing stance on the Middle East and jiadhi terrorism, including, among other things, advocating the killing of families of terrorists and launching a land incursion into Syria to wipe out IS (and acquire its oil).”

By comparison it gave a possible armed clash in the South China Sea an eight — the same as the threat posed by Britain leaving the European Union — and ranked an emerging market debt crisis at 16.

A Trump victory, it said, would at least scupper the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and 11 other American and Asian states signed in February, while “his hostile attitude to free trade, and alienation of Mexico and China in particular, could escalate rapidly into a trade war.”

“There are risks to this forecast, especially in the event of a terrorist attack on US soil or a sudden economic downturn,” it added.

However, the organisation said it did not expect Trump to defeat his most likely Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, in an election and pointed out that Congress would likely block some of his more radical proposals if he won November’s election.

Rated at 12 alongside the prospect of a Trump presidency was the threat of Islamic State, which the EIU said risked ending a five-year bull run on US and European stock markets if terrorist attacks escalated.

The break-up of the eurozone following a Greek exit from the bloc was rated 15, while the prospect of a new “cold war” fuelled by Russian interventions in Ukraine and Syria was put at 16.

People who cycle, walk or catch the train or bus to work keep more weight off than commuters who travel by car, a large

People who cycle, walk or catch the train or bus to work keep more weight off than commuters who travel by car, a large UK study has found. 

The results come from 150,000 UK adults aged 40 or older who agreed to be measured and weighed and fill in a survey about their typical journey to and from work. 

Cycling came out as the best activity for staying trim, followed by walking. 

But even those who used public transport were leaner than car users. 

The authors of the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology study say the findings show even a little physical activity is better than nothing at all. 

They reached their conclusions by comparing the bodyweights and lifestyles of the 72,999 men and 83,667 women in their study. 

Even when they factored in differences such as leisure-time, exercise, diet and occupation, the trend between commute method and bodyweight remained. 

And for both cycling and walking, greater travelling distances were associated with greater reductions in percentage body fat.

By their calculations, an "average" height man would weigh around 5kg (11lbs) less if he were to cycle rather than drive to work each day. 

Likewise, the average height woman would weigh 4.4kg (9.7lbs) less. 

'It's a win win'

In the study, 64% of men and 61% of women commuted by car, while 4% of men and 2% of women reported cycling or doing a mix of cycling and walking. 

In England and Wales, 23.7 million people regularly commute to work and around two-thirds do so by car, according to census data.

Study author Dr Ellen Flint, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "We know that physical activity can help prevent obesity - absolutely we do - and yet, two thirds of the UK population don't achieve weekly recommended levels of physical activity. 

"This study shows basically that people who do manage to build some level of physical exertion into their commute, even if it's just walking to a bus stop or cycling a short distance, they tend to be less heavy and have less body fat than people who drive all the way to work."

She said it was important that policy makers and town planners make it easy for people to walk and cycle to work.

"It's a win, win really for public health and the environment," she said.

Justin Varney, deputy director of Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England, said: "Physical activity can play a role in maintaining a healthy weight, and helps to prevent or manage over 20 long-term conditions such as coronary heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. 

"Walking and cycling are some of the easiest ways for people to incorporate physical activity into their daily lives and it is never too late to start."

Are You Ready To Quit Smoking

People who quit smoking all at once are more likely to be successful than those who cut down on cigarettes gradually, according to a new study.

“For many people, the obvious way to quit smoking is to cut down gradually until they stop,” said lead author Nicola Lindson-Hawley, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford in the UK.

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“However, with smoking, the norm is to advise people to stop all at once and our study found evidence to support that,” Lindson-Hawley toldReuters Health by email. “What we found was that more people managed to quit when they stopped smoking all in one go than when they gradually reduced before quitting.”

The researchers randomly assigned almost 700 adult smokers to either an abrupt quitting or gradual reduction group. Each person set a “quit day” of two weeks after they entered the study, and saw a research nurse once a week until then.

Half of people preferred to cut down gradually, a third preferred abrupt quitting and the rest had no preference before the study began, but preferences did not affect which group they were sorted into.

In the gradual group, the nurse created a reduction schedule for participants to cut back on cigarettes by 75% over those two weeks, and provided participants with nicotine patches and a choice of short-acting nicotine replacement gum, lozenges, nasal spray, sublingual tablets, inhalator, or mouth spray during the reduction period.

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In the abrupt quitting group, the participants were also given nicotine patches of 21 mg per 24 hours, as some evidence suggests doing this before quitting may increase success, but no short-acting products, and were told to smoke as usual until the quit date.

Four weeks later, 40% of the gradual group were still not smoking, compared to 49% of the abrupt quit group, as verified by chemical breath analysis. Those who said they preferred gradually cutting down before the study began were less likely than others to still be abstinent from cigarettes at this point.

By six months, 15% of gradual quitters and 22% of abrupt quitters were still abstinent, as reported March 14 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

“There is a lot of evidence to suggest that if you would like to quit the best way to do so is by seeking help in the form of behavioral counseling and a treatment such as nicotine replacement therapy (i.e. patches or gum) or varenicline,” Lindson-Hawley said. “However, there are also benefits of calling quitlines, particularly if these go on to provide proactive support for quitters.”

Those who choose to quit gradually are often more addicted and have failed to quit abruptly several times before, said Dr. John Hughes of the University of Vermont in Burlington.

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About one third of quit attempts include gradually cutting down, Hughes told Reuters Health by email.

“The decision to quit for most smokers is a sudden one, that often occurs because something happens to motivate them,” Hughes, who was not part of the new study, said. “With abrupt cessation, they can act on the decision to quit immediately, while still highly motivated (in fact half of smokers quit on the same day they decide to quit).”

The new results should be useful for people who want to quit but don’t have a preference for how to do it, Lindson-Hawley said. “In this case we can tell smokers and the people who treat them that the best approach to try is abrupt quitting rather than gradual quitting.”

In most cases health care services already take this approach, so no major change is necessary, she said.