Bangladesh border guards mutiny

Hundreds of Bangladeshi border guards started reporting back to their headquarters after a bloody mutiny left at least 76 people dead and 72 others missing.

The Home Ministry gave guards across the country a 24-hour ultimatum Saturday to return to their posts or report to a local police station or face disciplinary action.

The insurrection — in which mostly army officers were killed — apparently erupted over the guards' long-standing complaints that their pay hasn't kept pace with soldiers in the army.

A few hundred guards, some out of uniform and accompanied by family members, waited outside their headquarters in the capital Sunday as officials checked their credentials.

Some of the returning guards said they were on leave or off duty during the two-day mutiny that ended Thursday, while others claimed they had fled the compound after the violence started.

Writing your Resume

Do's and Don'ts

Smilies.
This is a professional application, not a social networkings, like friendster ot the like profile. Smilies make you look childish and silly.

Cutesy graphics, overly fonts and layouts.
You want to be seen as a professional, not a child. The point is to get the resume read. There are many good sample of resume layouts online.

Gigantic photos of yourself.
You're trying to get hired, not sneered at; if your photo is particularly silly you may find it scanned and posted on the Internet.

Fancy paper.
Colored, scented, textured, etc.;  Clean white coupon bond is the best for readability.

The use of all caps.
"(i.e, GENERAL manager of golf club") or the unnecessary capitalization of certain letters and intercapping ("Presedent of The StudenT BodY). It's not a text message.

Text abbreviations.
Again, you want to be a professional; nobody in their right mind would hire someone who writes this: "N college I wnt t spcl trng sklls."

Things to remember when writing your resume

The resume is meant to present as a professional, not a friend. Do not be cute, and never lie to look better, because HR managers can, and often do, share information.

Be sure to edit your resume for grammar and spelling. Bad grammar, and misspelling the name of your school, for example, is always taken against you.

Include a cover letter, which should never ever exceed one page.

Keep your resume to two pages or less.

Always give your references a copy of your resume and tell them as a references; never blindside a person by listing them then not informing them.

Do not put a date on your resume (i.e., "Updated January 2, 2009") because if your search for a job takes longer than a month, hiring personnel will assume your resume is outdated and will tend to overlook it.

Include the following data about yourself: how you can be contacted (landline, cellphone, email) and avoid including height, weight, religion, comments aboout your health, etc.

Truth About Diet Soda

We talk a lot about ''watching what we eat,'' but if you never gave a thought to what you ate and instead watched only what you drank, you could probably cut 450 calories a day out of your life. (Yes, nearly a pound of fat loss a week!) That's what a study from the University of North Carolina found. Americans today drink about 192 gallons of liquid a year—or about 2 liters a day. To put it into perspective, this is nearly twice as many calories as we did 30 years ago.
When confronted with the growing tide of calories from sweetened beverages, the first response is, “Why not just drink diet soda?” Well, for a few reasons:
Just because diet soda is low in calories doesn't mean it can't lead to weight gain.
It may have only 5 or fewer calories per serving, but emerging research suggests that consuming sugary-tasting beverages--even if they're artificially sweetened--may lead to a high preference for sweetness overall. That means sweeter (and more caloric) cereal, bread, dessert--everything.
Guzzling these drinks all day long forces out the healthy beverages you need. 
Diet soda is 100 percent nutrition-free, and again, it's just as important to actively drink the good stuff as it is to avoid that bad stuff. So one diet soda a day is fine, but if you're downing five or six cans, that means you're limiting your intake of healthful beverages, particularly water and tea.

There remain some concerns over aspartame, the low-calorie chemical used to give diet sodas their flavor.
Aspartame is 180 times sweeter than sugar, and some animal research has linked consumption of high amounts of the sweetener to brain tumors and lymphoma in rodents. The FDA maintains that the sweetener is safe, but reported side effects include dizziness, headaches, diarrhea, memory loss, and mood changes. Bottom line: Diet soda does you no good, and it might just be doing you wrong.

The best way to hydrate is by drinking low-calorie, high-nutrient fluids—and avoiding belt-busting beverages.

Now that you have a hold on your liquid assets, upgrade the rest of your grocery list by avoiding the 13 Worst "Healthy" Foods in the Supermarket. With so many items to choose from, it's easier to fall victim to packaged food lies than you think.
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Blood Pressure Monitors

I remember those time my first time to get the blood pressure of my uncle who was a bed ridden because of stroke. My cousin who is a graduate of nursing tought me to meassure the blood pressure of my uncle. He uses a mercury base instrument to meassure the blood pressure, then my auntie from USA, a nurse brought home a digital blood mesuring device I still remember the brand of that gadget its omron, its easy to use. Now we don't have one because no one in the house who use it anymore..