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By Marijke Vroomen Durning
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, June 26 (HealthDay News) ? Obese people may be at higher risk for episodic migraine headaches, a new study suggests.

Migraines involve intense pulsing or throbbing pain in one area of the head, according to the American Academy of Neurology. Symptoms can include nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light and sound. Migraines affect more than 10 percent of the population.

Episodic migraines ? the more common type of migraine ? occur 14 days or fewer per month, while chronic migraines occur at least 15 days per month. Low-frequency episodic migraines occur the least often.

In the new study of nearly 3,700 adults, those with a high body-mass index ? a measure of body fat determined using height and weight ? had much higher odds of having episodic migraines than did those with a lower body-mass index (BMI). This was particularly true among women, whites and people under 50 years old. As the BMI moved from normal weight to overweight to obese, so did the rate of headaches.

The cross-sectional study doesn?t prove that obesity causes episodic migraines. The study does, however, demonstrate that people who are obese have an increased risk of having more of them, even low-frequency ones, said lead author Dr. B. Lee Peterlin, an associate professor of neurology and the director of headache research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in Baltimore.

The study is to be presented this week at the International Headache Congress, in Boston. The data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Dr. Gretchen Tietjen, a professor of neurology and director of the headache treatment and research program at the University of Toledo, in Ohio, said she found the study interesting because previous studies had looked for connections between obesity and chronic migraines.

?That the researchers were able to show an association between obesity and episodic migraine lends more credence to some of the earlier studies that found similar things,? she said.

She pointed out, however, that it still isn?t known which came first ? the obesity or the migraine. There are many possible scenarios, Tietjen said. ?Maybe the person had the migraines first and then started taking medications like amitriptyline or valproic acid,? she said. ?Those medications are associated with weight gain.?

The possible connection between obesity and migraines is under debate. One theory involves inflammatory substances from fat tissue (adipose) that are released into the system, Tietjen said.

Premenopausal women have more total adipose tissue in general than men, and women have more superficial and less deep adipose tissue, Peterlin said. But after menopause, adipose tissue is more similar between the two sexes.

Adipose tissue secretes different inflammatory proteins based on how much tissue there is and where it is located. Since younger women and obese people have more adipose tissue, this could, at least in part, explain why they get more headaches.

On the other hand, Peterlin also suggested that a possible connection may be related to the brain. ?Previous imaging data in migraine patients have shown activation of the hypothalamus, a part of the brain that controls the drive to feed,? she said. Alternatively, it could be that people who have migraines may be more inclined to behaviors associated with weight gain, such as being less active.

Would losing weight mean that migraines will decrease in frequency? Although weight loss is generally encouraged for people who are obese, that won?t necessarily result in migraine relief, both Peterlin and Tietjen cautioned.

At least two small studies have evaluated migraines on people who were obese and underwent bariatric surgery to lose weight, Peterlin said. Although these studies did find that some patients experienced fewer headaches, the studies were small and more research needs to be done to see if this is consistent.

It?s possible that the lifestyle changes needed for weight loss cut the migraine frequency, rather than the weight loss itself, the experts said. People who eliminate processed foods, high-calorie foods and alcohol ? all of which can be migraine triggers ? could end up experiencing fewer headaches.

Unfortunately, the opposite could also be true if dieters introduce new foods that are migraine triggers. Some people may develop migraines when they consume certain sugar substitutes, for example. There also is limited data suggesting that people with severe obesity who exercise may have fewer migraines, Peterlin said.

?Our data and previous research serve as a call to researchers in the headache field to identify safe and appropriate treatment options for obese [people with] episodic migraines of all classifications and not just those who qualify for [weight-loss] surgery,? she said.

Peterlin also suggested that physicians, in addition to providing lifestyle education to their obese patients with episodic migraines, take into account the weight-gain or weight-loss effect that migraine medications may have on their patients.

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Find out more about migraines at the American Academy of Neurology.

Source: http://news.health.com/2013/06/26/obesity-may-boost-migraine-odds/

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Team Light Skin vs. Team Dark Skin? Your Beauty and Relationships

Welcome to Love School. Class is in session! Abiola?s Love School is a weekly empowered Love Lesson, inspirational class and juicy conversation about love, relationships, dating, sex, commitment and self worth. Each assignment will include homework, resources and actionable steps. Let?s move beyond the surface to experience the true love and intimacy we deserve. Are you in??

?To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don?t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.? ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Lesson: #TeamBeauty, Self-Love and Why It Matters

When OWN broadcast the heartfelt documentary ?Dark Girls,? it didn?t reveal anything new. That was not the objective, however. The film was extremely valuable in bringing a conversation to the forefront that most people still view as ?dirty laundry.? In addition, it gives voice to deep shame that many people thought was long gone.

Just as any individual is only as sick as her secrets, the same can be said for any group of people. Bill Duke and his team created a naked and honest examination of colorism and the beauty myth in the African American community, the legacy of mass historical ?trauma.

Dark Child.

Whenever I give talks as a coach about being bullied, people assume that I am discussing experiences at the predominantly wealthy, white prep school I attended. They?re shocked when I reveal that while in school I was a curiosity and often felt excluded for class-based reasons, it was in my own neighborhood that I was taunted by people who looked exactly like me. My Queens block was populated by mostly light-skinned descendants of the South. Nicknames like ?Blackie? rolled easily off of their tongues.

Being a dark brown girl whose parents are from another country I was bullied terribly in my black New York City neighborhood. Many children are teased but my I was actually bullied by the children AND adults that I grew up with. Parents of my ?friends? routinely said things like, you need to get back on the boat to Africa as their kids called me ?African Booty Scratcher.? I remember even at a young age feeling sorry for the people who bullied me and verbally harassed my family because my parents had steeped me with a strong sense of history.

Although this a a love column, this is a critical conversation to have on a parenting blog. My father named me ?Abiola? in tribute to his love and respect of African culture. I read his worn copy of ?The Autobiography of Malcolm X? at age 8 and saw a dashiki as the wardrobe of strength. I had a dress called my ?Afro Dress? that I remember wearing when my Aunt Wendy visited from Tuskegee. My natural hair was a source of pride although I remember people questioning my mom (as several ignorant stylists have done now) about why my soft coily wavy kinks didn?t ?match? my complexion. They made the same comments when my brother?s hair grew from the scalp red and my sister burned easily in the sun.

Because my parents had given me a strong foundation in this area, it took a long time for me to feel the effects. My family is a rainbow and all skin tones are praised. I knew that ?redbone? and ?ebony? skin were equally beautiful. In fact, the aunt in my family regarded as most beautiful was the darkest. I remember not being able to even process the bullies? ideas that I might be inherently inferior as a blacker berry. It was as foreign, funny and ridiculous at first; as if someone said, ?You?re a green Martian.?

Sure I wore hideous glasses until I got contacts at age 12, I was a shy, super geek who loved to sit in the front row and raise her hand, but ugly? Me? The idea (until adolescence) was laughable because I had been pre-programmed first with other messages.

Dark Woman.

The ?Dark Girls? movie and experiences of my brown-skinned friends unveil a coterie of male opinions and the flat out rejection of black beauty. Much is made of black women?s self hatred but a critical conversation to have is the rampant self-loathing of African American men. One only need listen to almost any rap song or visit a barber shop wall in Anyhood, USA to get the same message.

• Consider this is a self-love assignment for all of us, regardless of skin color or ethnicity. Black, white, yellow, red or brown, feeling ?beauty-full? is a part of your birthright as a fully expressed and self-loving human being.

When I hosted my own show at BET and viewers complained about the dim lighting of the program, my producer said, ?Maybe the problem is the black ass host.? He laughed and I stupidly laughed along, not feeling the same confidence I had as a kid to stand up and say, ?You?re an idiot and that?s ignorant.? After all, now I was an adult with a job and needed to pay pills and make career moves. I died a little inside for not having the courage to defend myself when these kinds of comments were made frequently.

Whenever I tried to discuss these things my lighter-skinned black friends said, ?but I was called ?high yella?? and my white friends lamented not having blonde hair and blue eyes. I wanted to explain that the difference was those equally idiotic comments were bouncing against a greater opinion of society that you are beautiful.

• However, the most unhealthy conversations are competitions for suffering of the ?I had it worse? variety. Everyone?s pain deserves a voice.

What?s Beauty Got to Do With It?

Beauty matters. Beauty is different from vanity. True beauty is inherent. We all know that a woman?s only worth is not in the way she looks. Our battles with body acceptance, hair appreciation and skin color may seem like surface issues but they aren?t. Being able to look into a mirror and loving the reflection is a critical key of self-worth. Self-acceptance is everything. In addition, beauty is currency in our society.

The psychological effects of black women being rejected by black men cannot be underestimated. Just as women are taught to hate themselves and each other, so are people of African descent.

It was a light skinned sister who leaned in conspiratorially during my starter marriage to an Ivy League brother to say, ?Look around. You?re the only one.? We were in the Hamptons for a weekend wedding of one of my ex?s frat brothers. She was pointing out what I had failed to notice: I was the only chocolate woman there. All of my husband?s Ivy League brothers and corporate buddies had wives and girlfriends who were light skinned with long hair. It was certainly an interesting observation, to say the least.

I didn?t notice because my brain isn?t tuned to that particular inferiority channel. If we don?t check ourselves we have many reasons to indulge in self-rejection or to feel ugly. Unfortunately, I was probably tuning into other reasons to feel less than worthy like my body size, age or career achievements. The words ?black is beautiful? cause a response of ?duh, obviously? in my head.

Maybe it?s for that reason that I?ve never experienced a drought of ?quality? eligible men of any complexion who seek to make me their long term mate. Perhaps that?s why I?ve been derided as ?Miss Picky,? as in how dare you have the nerve to be selective about who to love. This could be why when someone I was dating asked whether I was jealous of another woman solely for the reason that she could pass a paper bag test I laughed and asked,?You think that I would be jealous of another woman over her skin tone? Have you seen me??

Takeaways on Your Beauty & Your Love Life.

1. If no one has told you today, you?re gorgeous! Don?t just fall in and believe everything you already think. Question what has been handed down to you.
2. Your love life reflects exactly what you think of yourself. When you know that you are worthy and you love yourself, you will only accept partners who feel the same way. Don?t play the race martyr in your love life.?You deserve big, bodacious, full love.
3. If you feel rejected by the dating pool you?re swimming in then jump into a bigger pool. It?s a big world filled with all colors, races, religious backgrounds, creeds and religions. You don?t need everyone to think you?re beautiful and you don?t need every man to want you. You only need one.
4. Release diminishing tags like #TeamLightSkin and #TeamDarkSkin. Be #TeamSelfWorth instead.?You are not pretty for a dark-skinned girl or pretty for a light skinned girl. You are a beautiful and valuable expression of the Most High. -Anyone who disagrees is not worthy of your consideration. Period.

This Week?s Self Love Homework:

1. Self Love Assessment.

You can?t love anyone else if you hate yourself. How much do you really love yourself? Women are taught to care for everyone else besides themselves. When you love someone you treat them in loving ways. You give them only the very best in company, food and affection.

Questions: How do you treat yourself? Do you only accept friends and romantic partners who treat you like the jewel you are? Do you feed yourself with healthy food and positive images and entertainment? Do you affirm your own beauty?

2. The Mirror Exercise.

The most powerful thing you can do is to look into your own eyes and say ?I love you.? Maybe you won?t mean it at first and maybe you will, but here?s the assignment. Every morning when you wake up, look into your own eyes and say, ?I love you? plus your name. Do the same at night before you go to bed.

A woman who knows her own worth and beauty is magnetic and attractive to all she desires. There is no force more powerful than a woman who genuinely loves herself without comparisons to or in competition with others. If you love your own beauty there is no need to hate, reject or ridicule anyone else?s.

3. Makeup Free Mondays.

In the book ?Mirror Mirror Off the Wall,? author Kjerstin Gruys went without looking into a mirror for a year and also enacted ?Makeup-free Mondays? for herself.?Do you dare?

There is nothing on the surface wrong with makeup, weaves, wigs and other adornment. Dressing up is a fun means of self expression. However, if you can?t appear publicly and feel good in your skin without these extras, this is something to think about. Revel in your natural beauty. Make a cut and paste collage of your most beautiful moments.

4. Self Talk, Self Care.

What kind of language do you use to speak about yourself? Whether you?re talking to yourself or others this is super important to your overall well beings. Make note of any negative self talk. Use affirmations such as: I am incredibly beautiful, I love life and life loves me, It feels good to take great care of myself, I love, honor and cherish myself, I love me, I am enough.

Don?t indulge in any ignorant conversations like ?You know how black people are.? Even seemingly harmful statements like, ?that?s black parenting? are ignorant and limiting. There is no such thing as ?black parenting.? Were those of us not parented in ?expected? ways less than black? Stop feeding into stereotypes. Let dangerous and damaging cycles end with you.

5. Girlfriend, Interrupted.

Entrenched limiting beliefs can?t be affirmed and vision boarded away, although these tools help. Beliefs like ?I am ugly? and ?Men aren?t attracted to women like me? have to be dissolved on a core level. Try a thought-interrupting method such as Emotional Freedom Technique to transform and dismantle negative beliefs about yourself.

Good self care is not just manicures, pedicures and massages. It?s getting help for yourself if you have any issues to double that you are worthy, that you are enough. That?s how to be a good girlfriend to yourself.

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Passionate Living Coach Abiola Abrams gives extraordinary women inspiring advice on healthy relationships, evolved sexuality and getting the love we deserve. You?ve seen her love interventions in magazines from Essence to JET and on shows from MTV?s ?Made? to the CW Network?s ?Bill Cunningham Show.? Find love class worksheets, advice videos, coaching, and more at ?Abiola?s Love University.? Tweet @abiolaTV or #loveclass.?

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Obama links Keystone approval to carbon emissions

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project from Canada to Texas should only be approved if it doesn't worsen carbon pollution.

The $7 billion pipeline has become a contentious issue, with Republicans touting the jobs it would create and demanding its approval and environmentalists urging the Obama administration to reject it, because it would carry carbon-intensive oil from Canadian tar sands to the Texas Gulf Coast.

"Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation's interests," Obama said in a speech on climate change at Georgetown University. "Our national interest would be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution."

While his remarks appeared designed to reassure environmentalist fearful that the pipeline will be approved, they could also indicate an easing of the way for the pipeline, if the carbon standard is met.

The White House has insisted the State Department is making the decision about whether the pipeline is in the national interest, but Obama made it clear Tuesday he was instructing the department to approve it only if the project won't increase overall, net emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.

A State Department report on the pipeline earlier this year acknowledged that development of tar sands in Alberta would create greenhouse gases, but also made clear that other methods to transport the oil ? including rail, trucks and barges ? also pose a risk to the environment. For instance, a scenario that would move the oil on trains to mostly existing pipelines would release 8 percent more greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide than Keystone XL, the State report said.

The report also said that even without the pipeline, extraction of oil from the tar sands would likely not be affected.

A top aide to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Obama's comments indicated that the pipeline should be approved.

"The standard the president set today should lead to speedy approval of the Keystone pipeline," Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said. "Based on the lengthy review by the State Department, construction of the pipeline would not have a significant environmental impact. It's time to sign off on Keystone and put Americans to work."

Still, environmentalist took heart in Obama's remarks, noting it was the first time the administration had directly linked approval of the 1,700-mile pipeline to its effect on pollution. The White House has previously resisted efforts by environmental groups to link the Keystone project to broader efforts to curb carbon pollution from power plants.

"Today President Obama set a standard that the Keystone XL pipeline cannot harm the climate if it is to be approved. That will be difficult standard to meet," said Daniel J. Weiss, a senior fellow at the liberal leaning Center for American Progress.

"For the first time, the president has set a do-no-climate harm standard before he approves the Keystone XL pipeline," Weiss said.

Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said the argument that the pipeline will exacerbate climate change is "very strong and compelling." He said he expects Obama to reject the pipeline.

TransCanada, the Calgary-based company that has proposed the pipeline, said in a statement Tuesday it was pleased with Obama's comments setting out criteria for pipeline approval.

"The almost five-year review of the project has already repeatedly found that these criteria are satisfied," said Russ Girling, TransCanada's president and CEO.

"If Keystone XL is not built, it's clear that the oil will move to market by truck, rail and tanker, which will significantly add to global greenhouse gas emissions to move the product," Girling said. Pipelines far safer than any other option, he added.

Canada's natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, said Tuesday the proposed pipeline meets Obama's requirement that it not lead to a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

Oliver pointed to the State Department report, which he said concluded that the pipeline "is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands" of Alberta, where the pipeline would begin.

The pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels of oil a day across six states to refineries along the Gulf Coast. A southern leg from Cushing, Okla., to ports near Houston, already has been approved and construction is proceeding.

Supporters say the pipeline would create thousands of jobs, help lower fuel prices and bolster North American energy resources.

Opponents call the project a "carbon bomb" that would carry "dirty oil" that could trigger global warming. They also worry about a spill. Converting tar sands into oil uses as much as 15 percent more energy than conventional oil production.

Obama has twice thwarted the pipeline project amid concerns about a proposed route through environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska. The state's governor and congressional delegation ? all Republicans ? have either backed the plan or relaxed their opposition after the project was re-routed last year.

A national poll by the Pew Research Center showed that 66 percent of those polled favor building the pipeline, compared with 23 percent who oppose it.

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Associated Press writers Josh Lederman in Washington and Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to the report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-links-keystone-approval-carbon-emissions-182107006.html

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Sony announces the Xperia SP M35t, its first TD-LTE device for China Mobile

Announced alongside the Xperia C just now is the TD-LTE version of the Xperia SP (M35t), and naturally, it's headed to China Mobile, which pretty much owns the technology right now. Like before, the device comes with a 4.6-inch 720p plus a touchscreen that works fine with gloves. Additionally, NFC and the iconic illuminating transparent element are still present. Not much was said about the detailed specs, though, so we're not sure if it's the same chipset inside. Again, stay tuned for further announcements.

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Spatial training boosts math skills

June 25, 2013 ? Training young children in spatial reasoning can improve their math performance, according to a groundbreaking study from Michigan State University education scholars.

The researchers trained 6- to 8-year-olds in mental rotation, a spatial ability, and found their scores on addition and subtraction problems improved significantly. The mental rotation training involved imagining how two halves of an object would come together to make a whole, when the halves have been turned at an angle.

Past research has found a link between spatial reasoning and math, but the MSU study is the first to provide direct evidence of a causal connection -- that when children are trained in one ability, improvement is seen in the other. The findings will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Cognition and Development.

Kelly Mix, professor of educational psychology, said the findings suggest spatial training "primes" the brain to better tackle calculation problems. Mix authored the study with Yi-Ling Cheng, a doctoral student in MSU's College of Education.

"What's shocking is that we saw these improvements in math performance after giving the students just one 20-minute training session in spatial ability," Mix said. "Imagine if the training had been six weeks."

Understanding the connection between spatial ability and math, she said, is especially important in the early elementary grades because many studies indicate early intervention is critical for closing achievement gaps in math.

Spatial ability is important for success in many fields, from architecture to engineering to meteorology, according to a Johns Hopkins University paper. An astronomer must visualize the structure of the solar system and the motions of the objects in it, for example, while a radiologist must be able to interpret the image on an X-ray.

Some education experts have called for including spatial reasoning in the elementary math curriculum. But there are many forms of spatial ability and Mix said it's important to first figure out how each of them may or may not relate to the various math disciplines.

To that end, Mix is leading a larger study that tests elementary students on different forms of spatial ability and math performance.

Mix's research into spatial ability and math is funded by two grants totaling $2.8 million from the Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

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USTR nominee asked about offshore investments

FILE - In this May 2, 2013 file photo, Michael Froman, President Barack Obama's choice to become US Trade Representative, listens as the president speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Forman appears headed for Senate confirmation despite Republican questions about nominee Michael Froman?s investments in a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands, a well-known tax haven. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

FILE - In this May 2, 2013 file photo, Michael Froman, President Barack Obama's choice to become US Trade Representative, listens as the president speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Forman appears headed for Senate confirmation despite Republican questions about nominee Michael Froman?s investments in a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands, a well-known tax haven. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Michael Froman, the administration's choice to become the next U.S. Trade Representative, appeared headed for Senate confirmation despite Republican questions Thursday about his investments in a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands, a well-known tax haven.

Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said he planned to vote for Froman, who most recently has served as President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs. He has also helped negotiate past trade agreements.

But Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said Froman was the third cabinet-level nominee this year to have made use of offshore investments. Hatch spoke of the "hypocrisy" of the Obama administration, which has strongly condemned corporations and the wealthy who keep money in foreign tax shelters. The other two were Jack Lew, now the Treasury Secretary, and Penny Pritzker, the nominee to head the Commerce Department.

Hatch also noted that Froman received more than $5 million in bonuses while working for Citigroup during the financial crisis when Citigroup was receiving $45 billion in taxpayer assistance.

"The president's rhetoric," Hatch said, "seemed to suggest that offshore investments, investments in outsourcing and Wall Street bonuses are not simply bad policy, but morally wrong. Yet the same vitriol used to attack the president's political opponents does not seem to apply to his nominees for cabinet positions."

Froman, asked about his investment by committee chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said he had invested in the employee-based international fund to diversify his portfolio and not because of where it was located. "I paid every penny of taxes due on that fund. I am not aware of any tax benefit that I received by virtue of investment in that fund," he said.

Otherwise, Froman was widely praised by the committee, and Baucus said he hoped to win quick confirmation for Froman to head the trade office, which employs less than 250 but is responsible for negotiating several major trade agreements.

The USTR hopes to conclude talks this year on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an Asia-Pacific trading bloc that last year purchased some $620 billion, or 40 percent of U.S. goods exports. The administration is also set to launch talks on reducing trade barriers with the European Union known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

It is "one of the most ambitious trade agendas in U.S. history," Froman said.

Froman also assured the senators that Obama supported the renewal of Trade Promotion Authority, also known as fast track, which expired in 2007. Trade Promotion Authority assures that the administration can negotiate trade deals that Congress can accept or reject but cannot change. Trading partners are reluctant to sign on to trade deals that are subject to congressional tinkering, but TPA has never been popular among unions and some Democrats who want to ensure that labor and environmental rights are protected in trade deals.

Senators also presented Froman with a long list of specific trade concerns, including Chinese solar energy exports, Chinese and Japanese currency rates, Japanese obstacles to auto imports, labor rights in Bangladesh and European sanitary standards that block U.S. food product imports. Several senators urged Froman to take a tough stand on Indian policies they said have led to violations of U.S. intellectual property rights and obstacles to U.S. investment.

On Thursday a bipartisan group of 230 House members sent Obama a letter urging him to address currency manipulation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks.

"Over the last couple years I've been in countless meetings with USTR and Treasury pressing them to include meaningful currency provisions in our trade agreements," said Rep. Mike Michaud, D-Maine. "To date they have done nothing."

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These Armored Nike Air Mags Were Made for Iron Man

Though the Nike MAGs are already nostalgically beautiful in their own Back to the Future style, this custom Iron Man version of the Nike MAGs transforms the boot into something even more futuristic. Something that Tony Stark would invent. Something that you could imagine as part of Iron Man's armor. Something that I so desperately want.

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