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The people can access online radio channels from any place all over the world. As a matter of fact, free live radio is a very convenient way of entertainment. One can easily listen various radio programs easily, including songs, programmes, current news and so on. People can listen to the latest songs by accessing several Websites. Nowadays, these websites are being apprehended by the modern people. There are many websites that allow people to listen radio without any registration. But some sites do not provide facility of listening radio programmes as a guest. If you want to use complete facility, you have to register in the radio station websites. Hardly, it will take few minutes in registering. After registration, one can easily do many tasks like, listening several new songs, create playlist and play various games.

Now, we will share one interesting thing about these live online radio stations. You don’t have to pay any charge for such services. An individual can enjoy the regular dose of entertainment by tuning into several radio stations. These online radio websites would also offer you many facilities such as playing games, sending messages, all kinds of songs, listening the several free radio stations and many more.

Previously, radio devices used to operate by catching the radio signals. The radio frequencies used to be very strong at many places but at some places, they were very weak. But these days, with the help of the Internet, the live radio stations work without any interruption. Through these radio stations, one can easily listen the latest news and happening all over the world. These feature is also very useful for those people who frequently travel from one place to another. These live radio stations give the latest news of their native place.

These free live radio stations are not just pampering their listeners with exhaustive range of channels, but are making it a cost-effective process as no charge is incurred on the listeners. A person can listen to witty jokes and interesting incidents with the help of online radio stations. These online jokes would offer you full entertainment by enticing you with pleasing stories and funny commentaries. People can also listen live cricket match commentary without any hassles and they can stay updated with the score board.

World Bank is an indispensable part of the World Bank Group. The World Bank is comprised of two agencies of the World Bank Group namely the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or IBRD and the International Development Association or IDA.

The World Bank came into existence in the year 1945. But the concept was developed in a year before at United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference.

185 Countries of the world hold World Bank membership. These member countries are the shareholders of World Bank who play a vital role in World Bank’s Policy Decisions. The five most prominent members who hold substantial shares of World Bank are France, Germany, Japan, U.K and U.S.A. Among these five the largest shareholder is the United States. So, U.S.A holds the power to nominate the President of World Bank. Other 184 members cast their votes. But as the Voting Power of the member countries are determined by their wealth and their share in World Bank, the election process of the World Bank President is used to be quite unfair.

World Bank was established with the noble cause of helping the poor people all over the world. From the first day, the World Bank activities concentrated upon Reduction of Global Poverty as Elimination of Global Poverty was the main aim of the Organization. To achieve its objective the World Bank decided on providing Low Interest Loans and even No Interest Loans to the poor economies which were in urgent need of it. Following this plan of action the World Bank sanctioned a huge loan of $250 million to France within two years of its establishment. This loan money was used for post war reconstruction of France.

To bring sustained economic development in the underdeveloped and developing economies of the world, World Bank determined four major steps to be followed. The plan of action of the World Bank included Infrastructure Creation, Capacity Building, Development of Efficient Financial Systems and Eradication of Corruption.

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Have you taken up swimming as an exercise to help you to lose weight? If you are, you are not alone because most people think that swimming is effective way to tone muscles and lose weight. This is why the public swimming pools everywhere are always packed in the evenings and on weekends.

Before I disappoint you, I must first declare that I am not against swimming. On the contrary, I swim regularly for the sake of my cardiovascular health.

However, some research seem to suggest that swimming is not an effective way to lose weight and in fact, one can even gain weight with swimming. Getting more bewildering eh?

Swimming is considered by many as one of the best exercises to lose weight and to tone muscles because when you swim, most of your muscles are called into action and you are actually having a full body workout. Furthermore, swimming also has an aerobic effect and so the heart and lungs are getting their dose of exercise as well.

However, a research published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine demostrated that in the absence of a controlled diet, swimming has little or no effect on weight loss.

Professor Grant Gwinup conducted an experiment correlating swimming with weight loss and came up with surprising results.

a) Test subjects put in a cycling program lost 19 pounds in a 90 days study.

b) Those following a walking program lost 17 pounds in the same period.

c) Now, brace yourself for this! Subjects in the swimming program actually gained extra 5 pounds!

Did the findings shock you? I couldn’t believe what I was reading when I first came across the report.

Professor Gwinup then assumes that swimming in cold water stimulates the appetite to increase caloric consumption. Do you feel hungry after a swimming session? If you do, then professor could be right.

Professor Louise Burke, Head of Nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport pointed out that competitive swimmers typically have body fat levels that are higher than those of runners or cyclists who expend a similar amount of energy when they train.

Why is that so? This is because swimmers feel hungry after swimming and may simply replace all the calories they have burned with a large meal and a sugar laden drink after their swim.

On top of that, they may even consume more calories than they have used up.

“Some research suggests that this is due to the cool temperatures in which swimmers often train in and by contrast, runners and cyclists usually experience an increase in body temperature during their training sessions, which may help to suppress appetite.” Professor Burke said.

Professor Burke also noted that competitive swimmers are less active when not in training sessions. The swimmers are so tired from the hours of intensive training that they sleep, relax or avoid any active physical activities outside their training sessions. Deja vu? Do you feel tired and sleepy after a swim?

Now, let’s talk about toning muscles. Do note that most of the work your body does when swimming involves positive muscle actions and no negative action and we know all know that the negative phase, that is, when lowering the weights during weight training is very important in building muscles.

So can your muscles develop properly when only the positive muscles are worked on? By the way, before you say that competitive swimmers have nice muscle tone, that is because they lift weights to maintain muscle balance as well as to gain strength for more powerful strokes.

Please, do not give up swimming if you enjoy the sport. Doing any exercise is better than not exercising at all. Just make sure that you don’t eat more or become more less active after your invigorating swim.