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Monday, October 31, 2011
Violence more common among kids of combat veterans
ATLANTA (AP) ? A new study suggests that when parents are deployed in the military, their children are more than twice as likely to carry a weapon, join a gang or be involved in fights.
And that includes the daughters.
"This study raises serious concerns about an under-recognized consequence of war," said Sarah Reed, who led the research of military families in Washington state.
Last year, nearly 2 million U.S. children had at least one parent serving in the military. Deployment can hurt a family in a variety of ways. There's stress while that parent is overseas and in danger, as the remaining parent has to shoulder all responsibilities and family roles shift. There can also be challenges after deployed parents' return, especially if they were physically or psychologically damaged.
The effect of military deployment on kids is an emerging field of research. The new study is considered the first of its kind to focus on those affected by deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. It's unique in that it looked at a statewide swath of the population in comparing the behavior of kids in military families to children in non-military families.
The study, to be presented Monday at a public health conference in Washington, D.C., was based on a 2008 questionnaire survey of about 10,000 students in the 8th, 10th and 12th grades in Washington. That state has the sixth largest active duty population in the country.
About 550 of surveyed children said they had a parent deployed to a combat zone in the previous six years.
The study tried to account for potential differences in educational background and other issues between military families and the general population that might skew the results.
Even after taking steps to account for such differences, the researchers found that high school-age daughters of deployed parents were nearly three times more likely than civilian girls to be in a gang or get into a fight. They were more than twice as likely to carry a weapon to school. There were similar increases among boys of deployed families when compared to civilians.
To be sure, such behavior in boys is more common ? the rate of boys from deployed families involved in such violent behaviors was twice as high as for girls in deployed families. For example, 14 percent of girls from these military families said they had been in fights, compared to 28 percent of boys.
Nevertheless, experts say the findings contradict the traditional view that girls under stress exhibit "internalizing" behaviors, like becoming depressed or thinking about suicide, while boys are the ones who "externalize" through violent behavior
The new research may be something of a wake-up call for health professionals who deal with military families, one expert suggested.
"Maybe if we make assumptions about children, we may overlook other ways they may be suffering," said Dr. Gregory Gorman, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
Additional research is needed to confirm the findings, said Reed, who has since left the University of Washington and is now a social worker with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. For example, the survey found that 10 to 20 percent of the adolescents in deployed families said they were in gangs. That's surprisingly high ? more like something seen in New York City in the 1950s. Perhaps a larger, more national study would produce a lower number.
But it's not surprising that kids in deployed families would seek out other kids to help them deal with stress, said Gregory Leskin, a UCLA psychologist who is director of a military family program at the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
"Adolescents may be able to get lost in social networks," he said.
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Hollywood studio defends filming in Chinese city (AP)
BEIJING ? A Hollywood studio on Monday defended its decision to film part of a buddy comedy in a Chinese city where a blind activist is being held under house arrest, saying it advocates human rights and that engaging China in business could bring positive results.
Relativity Media is shooting part of the comedy, "21 and Over," in Linyi, a city in Shandong province where the activist Chen Guangcheng's village is located. Authorities have turned Chen's village of Dongshigu into a no-go zone, where activists, foreign diplomats and reporters have been turned back and threatened.
Rights activists have criticized Relativity's choice of Linyi as a location and the way it touted its close government connections in a press release last week.
Relativity said Monday in an emailed statement: "From its founding, Relativity Media has been a consistent and outspoken supporter of human rights and we would never knowingly do anything to undermine this commitment."
Relativity said it was also proud of its growing business relationships in China. In August, Relativity said that it will distribute future films in China through a joint venture called Sky Land, which it owns with two other companies. Sky Land recently announced an alliance with one of the Chinese government's official film distribution agencies, Huaxia Film Distribution Company.
"As a company, we believe deeply that expanding trade and business ties with our counterparts in China and elsewhere can result in positive outcomes," Relativity said.
The incident points to the potential risks of engaging with the Chinese government to improve one's chances of tapping into one of the movie industry's most coveted yet most inaccessible markets.
Hollywood studios operating in China have been frustrated for years by a de facto quota of 20 foreign blockbusters a year.
Relativity describes "21 and Over" as a comedy about two childhood friends who drag their buddy out to celebrate his 21st birthday.
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Bangkok's Pain: Floodwater Surges Into the Thai Capital (Time.com)
Hitch a lift with an army truck heading across Pinklao Bridge, which spans the swollen Chao Phraya River near the Grand Palace, and you descend into the grim, half-deserted waterworld that is now western Bangkok. The runoff from months of catastrophic flooding in central Thailand began inundating outlying districts of the capital last week. The water is inexorably creeping south and, as it combines with this weekend's unusually high tides, threatens to inundate many districts of Bangkok.
The Pinklao area was hit hard. Its once traffic-choked roads are now rivers of stinking, chest-high water strewn with garbage. The army truck I ride on is packed with local residents either fleeing the area ? most have already left ? or bringing back supplies. Its passage creates a bow wave which slaps against abandoned storefronts and rolls down canal-like sidestreets plied by a motley flotilla of rowboats, canoes, inflatable dinghies, and makeshift rafts. (See pictures of Thailand's rising floodwaters.)
One of the truck's passengers is a tour guide called Adisak Boonsarn. "I've never seen anything like it," he says. "It's like a tsunami has come." Today, he is heading for his swamped village outside Bangkok, to survey what's left of his house and possessions. The 25-kilometer journey will take him 5 hours ? by truck, by boat, and by wading through chest-deep water. Adisak abandoned the house two weeks ago, dispatched his wife and children to a dry and distant province, and began sleeping on his office floor in Bangkok with other employees. Now the approaching floods might evict him again. Adisak regards this as a minor inconvenience compared to the suffering in the provinces. "Some people are living on their roofs," he says.
A million people have supposedly fled Bangkok. Many hotels in nearby beach resort towns such as Pattaya and Hua Hin are reportedly full. David Williams, an English teacher from Indiana who has lived in Thailand for 19 years, says that of the 30 houses in his Pinklao neighborhood, only three remain occupied. He lives near Klong Bangkok Noi, a major canal west of the Chao Phraya River. The northern runoff engorged the canal and, by Wednesday, his area was knee-deep in water and most neighbors were evacuating. But Williams, his wife and their daughter moved to the second floor of their four-story home and stayed on. Today, the water is waist deep. "My street is now part of the canal," he says. (See the threat to Bangkok's historic buildings.)
Like his neighbors ? and like thousands of residents in areas of Bangkok that are yet to flood ? Williams built a brick wall to protect his property from the deluge. It proved useless. "The water came through the cracks," he says. "The wall is still standing, but my house is flooded." On Saturday, Williams' neighbors on the opposite bank of Klong Bangkok Noi were fighting a similar battle ? this time successfully. The canal water was surging into Taling Chan, a district known to tourists for its floating market. So, with the nearby temple of Wat Kai Tia already shin-deep in putrid water, residents formed a human chain to deliver sandbags that might staunch the torrent.
Their task seemed impossible, but after two backbreaking hours a dyke of concrete-reinforced sandbags reduced the torrent to a trickle. A cheer went up. Women handed out cups of chilled water. One exhausted man flashed the thumbs-up and exclaimed, "Thailand!" The sense of achievement and camaraderie is palpable. Nearby, however, residents were busy erecting brick or sandbag walls outside their homes. It is said the volume of the northern runoff would fill 480,000 Olympic swimming pools ? as if that helps residents of these imperiled districts better comprehend the threat. In Taling Chan, they already know that the water is arriving in such quantity, and with such force, that human barriers won't necessarily stop it.
Many parts of Bangkok remain unvisited by the floods. I live in Yannawa, a district adjoining both the central business district and one of Bangkok's largest slums. We have had no floods, and recently not even much rain, but most homes and businesses are still fortified by sandbags. A visiting alien might assume we were preparing for urban warfare.
Yannawa hugs a bend in the Chao Phraya River, which could yet break its banks and flood my neighborhood. The northern runoff continues its devastating journey toward the Gulf of Thailand. Last week the waters swamped Don Mueang district, closing Bangkok's second airport and forcing the government's flood relief nerve-center to relocate. "Thon Buri Doomed," declares a headline on the Bangkok Post's website, referring to a historic riverside district that city officials predict could soon be under a meter of water. The flood is also closing in on Siriraj Hospital, on the Chao Phraya's western bank, a highly symbolic landmark: Thailand's revered and ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej has lived there since 2009.
It is impossible to ignore the resilience and cheer of the people you meet in Bangkok's flood zones. But their smiles quickly fade, and for good reason. David Williams recalled the last time his area was inundated, in 1995, and the month it took for those much lesser floodwaters to recede. "It could take even longer this time," he says. For many Bangkok people, the ordeal is just beginning.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
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Engadget Podcast 262 - 10.28.2011
Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guest: Myriam Joire
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Try It Out
01:30 - The Nokia World 2011 keynote liveblog!
02:00 - Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the 'first real Windows Phone' (video)
02:30 - Nokia Lumia 800 vs. Nokia N9: the tale of the tape
05:00 - Nokia Lumia 800 unboxed: we shed some light on what's inside
14:40 - Nokia's Lumia 710 Windows Phone announced alongside the 800, hitting select markets by end of year
23:30 - Nokia Asha 200, Asha 300 and Asha 303 hands-on (video)
32:00 - Nokia's kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface (video)
36:30 - Future Nokia phones repellent, says water (video)
41:05 - Richard Kerris moves from HP to Nokia, becomes Global Head of Developer Relations
42:00 - HP will keep PC division, hope alive
45:50 - Mythical snow-white N9 spotted at Nokia World
50:05 - Sony to buy out Ericsson's stake in joint venture, call it quits after ten years
50:39 - Motorola Atrix 2 review
53:02 - Porsche Design P'9981 BlackBerry provides a long-awaited design jolt, compensates for a lot
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Study: Rich get a lot richer, outpace middle class (AP)
WASHINGTON ? The richest 1 percent of Americans have been getting far richer over the last three decades while the middle class and poor have seen their after-tax household income only crawl up in comparison, according to a government study.
Average after-tax income for the top 1 percent of U.S. households almost quadrupled, up 275 percent, from 1979 to 2007, the Congressional Budget Office found. For people in the middle of the economic scale, after-tax income grew by just 40 percent. Those at the bottom experienced an 18 percent increase.
The report, based on IRS and Census Bureau data, comes as the Occupy Wall Street movement protests corporate bailouts and the gap between the haves and have-nots. Demonstrators call themselves "the 99 percent."
"The distribution of after-tax income in the United States was substantially more unequal in 2007 than in 1979," CBO Director Doug Elmendorf said in a blog post. "The share of income accruing to higher-income households increased, whereas the share accruing to other households declined."
The top 1 percent made $165,000 or more in 1979; that jumped to $347,000 or more in 2007, the study said. The income for the top fifth started at $51,289 in 1979 and rose to $70,578 in 2007. On the other end of the spectrum, those in the 20th percentile went from $12,823 in 1979 to $14,851 in 2007.
The report also found:
_The top 20 percent of the population earned 53 percent of after-tax income in 2007, as opposed to 43 percent in 1979.
_The top 1 percent reaped a 17 percent share of all income, up from 8 percent in 1979.
_The bottom 20 percent reaped just 5 percent of after-tax income, versus 7 percent in 1979.
Lawmakers and presidential candidates are mulling overhauling the tax code ? some propose a flat tax that critics say could magnify the income gap ? and a congressional "supercommittee" is weighing options to cut the deficit.
President Barack Obama has toured the country promising to raise taxes on the wealthy in order to finance his jobs agenda, which includes continuing a payroll tax cut, boosting infrastructure spending and helping local governments avoid layoffs of teachers, police officers and firefighters.
In a speech Wednesday, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the chairman of the House Budget Committee, decried Obama's moves as "class warfare" and said GOP policies would preserve "equality of opportunity."
"Telling people they are stuck in their current station in life, that they are victims of circumstances beyond their control, and that the government's role is to help them cope with it ? well, that's not who we are," Ryan said at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Report details inequities for kids of gay parents
According to her dads, life is good for Carrigan Starling-Littlefield, a spunky 5-year-old being raised by two gay men in South Carolina, which doesn't recognize their out-of-state marriage.
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"We've found that being a family has created a lot of common ground with other families. We've not had many issues at all," said Tommy Starling, a partner in a food brokerage.
Yet he and his husband, Jeff Littlefield, who became parents through a California-based surrogacy program, remain wary as they contemplate Carrigan growing older and confronting challenges beyond their supportive community in Pawley's Island, S.C.
"We're cautious about where we go, because we don't want our daughter to see any negativity," said Starling, 39. "We have some longer-term apprehensions that she'll face issues as she gets older, and we're trying to prepare her for that ... I feel she's the type of person who will stand up for her family."
Carrigan is among a growing multitude of American children ? possibly more than 1.2 million of them ? being raised by gay and lesbian parents, often without all the legal protections afforded to mom-and-dad households.
Increasingly, the welfare of these children will be a core part of gay-rights strategies, as evidenced by a comprehensive report being released Tuesday. Compiled by an alliance of advocacy and child-welfare groups, it summarizes how laws and social stigma create distinctive challenges for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender families.
"There are myriad ways that our families are discounted by government at all levels, and children are hurt the most," said Jennifer Chrisler of the Family Equality Council, one of the three groups authoring the report.
The other groups are the liberal Center for American Progress and the Movement Advancement Project, a gay-rights think tank. Among other participants in the project were the National Association of Social Workers and the Child Welfare League of America.
The U.S. census does not attempt to count the number of children being raised by gays and lesbians. Demographer Gary Gates of the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, who has been a consultant to the Census Bureau, estimates the number at 1.2 million, while the new report uses the figure of 2 million, including children with bisexual and transgender parents.
Whatever their numbers, the families are striking for their diversity ? encompassing many low-income and minority households, and spread across about 96 percent of America's counties, according to data compiled by Gates and others.
Among the barriers and inequities they face, as detailed in the report:
?Many government safety net programs use definitions of family tied to marital status which may exclude same-sex partners.
?Because of lack of legal recognition for their unions, gay and lesbian parents can face heavier tax burdens, higher costs for health insurance, and diminished financial protections in the event of death or disability.
?When same-sex parents separate, one parent may lose custody or visitation rights, even in cases where he or she had been a child's primary caregiver.
Overshadowing all these problems is pervasive social stigma, according to the report.
"Many of the challenges LGBT families face stem from a society that assumes that everyone is heterosexual and comes from a family with two married heterosexual parents," it says.
For opponents of same-sex marriage, the issue of children can prompt nuanced responses.
"Certainly children in any household arrangement need to be protected ? need full support and love," said Mary Ellen Russell, executive director of the Catholic Conference of Maryland. But she said such protections should be provided without redefining the traditional concept of marriage as between a man and woman.
Many of the obstacles and inequities outlined in the new report would be addressed if same-sex marriage ? now legal in six states and Washington, D.C. ? were legalized nationwide and recognized by the federal government. However, the report includes numerous recommendations for less sweeping changes that would benefit children with gay parents, such as:
?Broadening the definition of "family" to allow LGBT families to benefit fully from government safety-net programs, and revise the tax code to provide equitable treatment for these families. At present, even legally married same-sex couples who can file joint state tax returns must file separate federal returns.
?Enacting state-level parental recognition laws that would allow joint adoption by LGBT parents. Even with about 110,000 children in foster care who are eligible for adoption, some states and agencies refuse to place children with same-sex couples.
?Ensuring that LGBT families have access to health insurance on equal terms with heterosexual families, and eliminate inequitable taxation of these benefits.
?Ensuring that hospital visitation and medical decision-making policies are inclusive of LGBT families.
?Expanding education and training about LGBT families for social workers, health care providers and other professionals.
Jeff Krehely, director of the Center for American Progress's LGBT research and communications project, said the report is part of an effort to counter arguments that same-sex marriage is a threat to children.
"People who oppose marriage equality have used and exploited children in a very scare-mongering way," said Krehely, who hopes the report will increase public understanding and empathy.
The report, titled "All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families," is being presented Tuesday at event in Washington drawing some high-level government officials.
Bryan Samuels, commissioner of the federal Administration on Children, Youth and Families, is scheduled to be part of a panel discussion, and the opening speech will be given by Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler, a staunch gay-rights supporter in a state where lawmakers will be considering a bill to legalize same-sex marriage next year.
"Same-sex marriage is a pro-family measure," Gansler said in a telephone interview.
Lisa Polyak, chair of the statewide gay-rights group Equality Maryland, says there will be a concerted effort during the legislative debate to highlight the challenges facing children of gays and lesbians.
"If you care about children, you should care that the parents don't have the legal tools to take the best care of them," she said.
Polyak and her partner of 30 years, Gita Deane, were married earlier this year in Washington. They have two daughters, Devi, 12, and Maya, 15, who testified before lawmakers last year in support of same-sex marriage in Maryland.
"The root of my activism is denial of equal treatment of my children," said Polyak, citing instances where her daughters had been hurt by other people's comments.
"One child told my daughter she was not allowed to come over to our house because we weren't really a family," Polyak said. "For them, it's a constant source of sadness and hurtfulness."
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Getty ImagesBefore the season started, we noted that the teams in the AFC North appeared to have an easy schedule.
They face the NFC West and AFC South out of division, which looked soft on paper. ?Usually ?on paper? doesn?t translate to reality, but it did this time around.
The NFC West and AFC South are the two worst divisions in football, despite the presence of the 49ers and Texans. ?ESPN?s John Clayton notes that?if the Jaguars lose tonight, the AFC South will have the worst out of division record in football at 5-16. ?The NFC West is next worse at 6-15.
It shouldn?t be a surprise, then, that every team in the AFC North is .500 or better. The division is home to one of the league?s biggest surprises (Cincy) and the worst 3-3 team we can remember. (Cleveland)
On top of that, the AFC North has the top four defenses in the league according to yards allowed. This is what happens when every team in the division gets to play the Seahawks, Jaguars, Colts, Cardinals, and Rams.
What does it all mean?
The AFC North division champion is almost a lock to get a playoff bye and could get the No. 1 seed. ?Second place in the division is very likely to go to the playoffs, and perhaps the Bengals could hang around the wild card race longer than expected.
So much of the NFL comes down to schedule, but it?s rarely talked about. We?ve heard a number of times this year how the Patriots won 11 games with Matt Cassel, but no one mentions how they faced one of the softest schedules in football that year.
It?s not like it?s the fault of the Ravens, Steelers, Browns, and Bengals. These things even out. It?s up to them to take advantage while they can.
Which reminds me: Are you ready for some football tonight? A Monday night blowout!
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
APNewsBreak: Stevie Wonder headlines NYE in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Music legend Stevie Wonder plans to headline in Sin City on New Year's Eve, playing to a ballroom crowd at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and to thousands of revelers on the Las Vegas Strip by video.
Casino officials told The Associated Press the 25-time Grammy winner known for top hits including "Superstition" and "You are the Sunshine of My Life" will be its top performer one year after an exclusive grand opening bash that featured Jay-Z and Coldplay.
This year's party is slightly more accessible than last year's invite-only affair ? a limited number of tickets start at $250 and include an open bar.
The New Year's Eve show caps a year of entertainment at the Cosmopolitan that featured top acts including Adele, the Flaming Lips and Deadmau5.
Wonder's concert will stream to partiers on the Las Vegas Strip, which will shut down to vehicle traffic and fill up with tourists.
Lisa Marchese, the Cosmopolitan's chief marketing officer, said Wonder has proven over several decades of performing he can appeal to audiences young and old.
In June, the former child prodigy was honored at the Apollo in New York with induction into the Legends Hall of Fame, joining Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson and Ella Fitzgerald.
But Wonder, who has seven Billboard No. 1 singles, got top billing in September at the Austin City Limits music festival, which featured dozens of acts including Coldplay, Kanye West and Arcade Fire.
"He's gotten cool again in a whole different way with a young group of people who didn't grow up with his music," Marchese said. "He's legendary, he's an impresario, he's contemporary but old school in this really unexpected way."
Marchese said other acts and surprises would likely be added to the show, and other acts will perform throughout the property, including Mayer Hawthorne at a lounge on the casino floor.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
U.S. says N. Korea talks positive, issues remain (Reuters)
GENEVA (Reuters) ? The United States and North Korea have narrowed differences in a second set of talks since wider negotiations on nuclear disarmament collapsed in 2009, but issues remain, the top U.S. negotiator said on Monday.
Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, said the U.S. goal was to find a "solid foundation" on which to relaunch bilateral and multilateral talks with Pyongyang.
"We are moving in a positive direction. We have narrowed some differences but we still have differences that we have to resolve," Bosworth told reporters in Geneva after a first day of meetings and a dinner that he hosted for the North Korean delegation, led by First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan.
"We will continue to try to narrow differences," he added.
Bosworth said that the discussions had been very intensive but gave no clue as to where progress had been made or what areas remained problematic.
There was no immediate comment from North Korean officials who are to host the talks on Tuesday, including a possible joint lunch. Bosworth said he expected to make a statement after the talks conclude.
Earlier, Clifford Hart, U.S. special envoy for the stalled six-party talks, told reporters after the morning session that each side had made "useful presentations" of its position.
The session, which follows talks in New York in late July, is aimed more at managing tensions on the divided Korean peninsula than resuming stalled regional talks on ending the North's nuclear programs.
U.S. officials have described the talks as "exploratory" and aimed at keeping Pyongyang engaged so as to avoid any "miscalculations" by the reclusive nation.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, speaking to reporters in Washington shortly before Bosworth's remarks, said the talks were proceeding "in a very businesslike fashion."
"In July, we gave the North Koreans a specific set of initiatives that we'd like to see to demonstrate that they are prepared to take concrete steps to meet their denuclearization obligations," Nuland said, saying the United States planned to follow up on all those issues during the current talks.
"Where are they now on their readiness to make concrete progress on their...nuclear responsibilities? How do they evaluate the first round of talks that they had with the...the South Koreans? ...Are they prepared to commit to continue this process?," she said.
SLIGHT EASING OF TENSIONS
U.S. officials and analysts were keeping expectations low, despite a slight easing of tensions between American ally South Korea and North Korea, and Pyongyang's repeated calls for resuming nuclear talks.
The six-party talks, including North Korea's ally China as well as Russia, Japan and South Korea, fell apart in 2009 when North Korea quit the process after U.N. sanctions were imposed following its second nuclear test.
China wants North Korea to deepen talks with the South and the United States in the hope of restarting nuclear negotiations, the Chinese vice premier told his North Korean counterpart, state media reported on Monday.
The six-party forum offers the North economic aid in return for dismantling its nuclear program which is believed to have yielded enough fissile material to make up to 10 atomic bombs.
Last year, the North unveiled a uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon, which opens a second route to make a nuclear bomb along with its plutonium program, and argued it was for peaceful purposes. It says uranium enrichment falls outside the realm of previous six-party negotiations.
A September 2005 agreement reached by all sides does not specifically refer to uranium enrichment, only stating that the North must cease all nuclear activities.
Seoul and Washington insist that Pyongyang must first halt its nuclear activities, including its uranium enrichment program, before six-party talks can restart.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, on his first visit to Asia, said in an op-ed published in Japan's Yomiuri newspaper that the common challenges faced by the United States and Japan included North Korea and China.
South Korea said last week that Pyongyang's defiance over uranium enrichment remains the biggest hurdle.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has stated his readiness to return to the nuclear talks "without any preconditions." He says the North remains committed to fulfilling the September agreement with the aim of denuclearizing the entire peninsula.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed in Washington and Phil Stewart in Japan; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Residency program focuses on overlooked mental health needs
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Unchecked problems hurting patients, Michigan State University physician says
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Despite the fact mental health problems are more common than high blood pressure and diabetes combined, about two-thirds of mental health patients are cared for entirely by primary care providers without proper training.
Additionally, even larger numbers of other patients regularly have their psychosocial and emotional needs overlooked.
A new five-year, $1 million grant allows Michigan State University to develop an intensive three-year residency curriculum focused on primary care mental health, the result of which means better-trained physicians meeting patients' needs.
Led by Robert Smith of the College of Human Medicine's Division of General Internal Medicine, the program will use a "train the trainer" model to produce skilled faculty to train residents in mental health care.
"Most mental health patients are cared for entirely by primary care providers, since there no longer is sufficient numbers of mental health professionals," Smith said. "But, through no fault of their own, most primary care providers have not been trained for this. The result is that most patients with mental health problems receive very marginal care."
Compounding the problem is that patients with organic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure do worse in the presence of unchecked mental illness. Also, mental health problems are more common in underserved/high risk groups such as minorities, the poor, homeless, and those battling substance abuse and suffering from domestic violence.
The new MSU program, funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, will develop and test a curriculum for primary care residents with increased amounts of mental health training, Smith said. About 40 residents will be trained each year for five years.
"Our goal is that graduating residents be as skilled with treating major depression or stress, for example, as they are with diabetes or hypertension," he said. "Given the dearth of available mental health professionals, the limiting factor in achieving and sustaining such a new curriculum is faculty development of general internal medicine teachers and other primary care teachers."
Smith said the program addresses that by using a "train the trainer" model to produce skilled faculty to train residents. Each resident will undergo 100 hours of training each year. The goal is once started, the residencies will become self-sufficient and training will be offered throughout other sites in the MSU health care education system. Also, there will be high rate of placement of resident graduates in medically underserved communities, he added.
The College of Human Medicine's community-based linkages will be vital in expanding the program statewide, Smith said.
"With campuses across Michigan, the college's standing in local communities provides the foundation to develop and expand a new residency," he said.
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Unchecked problems hurting patients, Michigan State University physician says
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Despite the fact mental health problems are more common than high blood pressure and diabetes combined, about two-thirds of mental health patients are cared for entirely by primary care providers without proper training.
Additionally, even larger numbers of other patients regularly have their psychosocial and emotional needs overlooked.
A new five-year, $1 million grant allows Michigan State University to develop an intensive three-year residency curriculum focused on primary care mental health, the result of which means better-trained physicians meeting patients' needs.
Led by Robert Smith of the College of Human Medicine's Division of General Internal Medicine, the program will use a "train the trainer" model to produce skilled faculty to train residents in mental health care.
"Most mental health patients are cared for entirely by primary care providers, since there no longer is sufficient numbers of mental health professionals," Smith said. "But, through no fault of their own, most primary care providers have not been trained for this. The result is that most patients with mental health problems receive very marginal care."
Compounding the problem is that patients with organic diseases such as diabetes and heart failure do worse in the presence of unchecked mental illness. Also, mental health problems are more common in underserved/high risk groups such as minorities, the poor, homeless, and those battling substance abuse and suffering from domestic violence.
The new MSU program, funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, will develop and test a curriculum for primary care residents with increased amounts of mental health training, Smith said. About 40 residents will be trained each year for five years.
"Our goal is that graduating residents be as skilled with treating major depression or stress, for example, as they are with diabetes or hypertension," he said. "Given the dearth of available mental health professionals, the limiting factor in achieving and sustaining such a new curriculum is faculty development of general internal medicine teachers and other primary care teachers."
Smith said the program addresses that by using a "train the trainer" model to produce skilled faculty to train residents. Each resident will undergo 100 hours of training each year. The goal is once started, the residencies will become self-sufficient and training will be offered throughout other sites in the MSU health care education system. Also, there will be high rate of placement of resident graduates in medically underserved communities, he added.
The College of Human Medicine's community-based linkages will be vital in expanding the program statewide, Smith said.
"With campuses across Michigan, the college's standing in local communities provides the foundation to develop and expand a new residency," he said.
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Michigan State University has been working to advance the common good in uncommon ways for more than 150 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU focuses its vast resources on creating solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges, while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.
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Shop Locally, Online: Five Local Farmers Market Favorites Not In Stores
So you stopped by the local farmers market and sampled the most ah-mayzing sauces ? and now you can?t find them in any market. Here are five fantabulous local goodies that may show up at specialty events but can otherwise only be bought online.
Pastamore: Forget Italy ? get gourmet, hand-made pastas through Pastamore along with infused olive oils, marinades and vinegars. We?re a huge fan of the sun-dried chipotle chile oil.
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Whit?s: Get your sweet tooth fix without adding toxins to the mix ?Whit?s caramelsare completely organic and 100 percent delicious.
Yaffa?s Savory: Chef Yaffa creates authentic Mediterranean fare. While there?s not a bad order in the house, we strongly suggest you go here for your tapenade needs.
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Cook-N-Shoupe: Cooking at higher temps for ?altitude infused? sauces, this local ?Microbrew of BBQ? currently features a bold-n-tangy mustard sauce and a sweet-n-spicy flavor. Heat seakers: Keep an eye out for their upcoming Angry Poltergeist with ghost peppers.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Gadhafi's death resonates with Lockerbie relatives
CHERRY HILL, New Jersey?? Susan Cohen had been waiting for this day since her daughter was blown out of the sky by a terrorist bomb in 1988, allegedly at the behest of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
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Thursday morning, she got the news: Gadhafi was dead. And she planned to keep a promise that she had made long ago.
"I'm just going to go out and buy an expensive bottle of champagne to celebrate," she said.
Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. Many victims were Americans from New Jersey and New York flying home for the holidays.
The U.S. government implicated Gadhafi's regime, and a Libyan intelligence agent, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, was convicted as the mastermind.
He was released from British captivity in 2009 on humanitarian grounds because he was supposedly near death. But the fact that he remains alive two years later remains a concern to U.S. officials and relatives of the victims.
Video: Junger: Good step for Libya and the worldKara Weipz, whose 20-year-old brother, Richard Monetti, was aboard the flight, said she was stunned to hear of the dictator's death. She was feeling "relief, knowing he can't hurt and torture anyone else. For 20-some years, I never thought this day would come. The world is a better and safer place today."
Her father, Bob Monetti, said there's still a lot of information that relatives need to know.
"There are a number of people who were involved in the bombing who have not been arrested or captured," he said.
Weipz said Gadhafi's death still doesn't end the Lockerbie story.
"Ultimately, the one thing I hope is he had evidence on him," she said. "All the families really want to know the truth of how this happened. That has been our motto since 1988, and it remains our motto in 2011."
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'Is Dracula really dead?'
In London, British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged assistance to Libya's leaders as they work to form a new government.
"Today is a day to remember all of Gadhafi's victims," he said. "We should also remember the many, many people who died at the hands of this brutal dictator and his regime."
Bert Ammerman, whose brother, Tom, died in the bombing, praised President Barack Obama with the military action that resulted in the death of Gadhafi, as well as that of Osama Bin Laden.
Video: Picture apparently shows captured Gadhafi"He eliminated bin Laden; he's now eliminated Gadhafi. That's the right way to go," he said. "We never again should occupy these countries; we should use our technology, our intelligence and work through an allied group like NATO. And if we do that we will eliminate, I think, future areas of state-sponsored terrorism."
Cohen said she spent an anxious morning devouring news reports that initially hinted ? but could not confirm ? that Gadhafi was dead.
"This was sort of like Dracula: Is Dracula really dead?" she asked. "It's great now that we know. I didn't want him to go to a trial. When you have a tyrant, a monster like him, we're all better off with him dead. Now there can be no illusion of him ever returning to power."
News of Gadhafi's death was met joyously by members of Southern California's small Libyan-American community. Most will not return to Libya, but all have friends or relatives there.
"Every family that I know is happy. We were calling each other at 4:30 this morning ... congratulating each other," said Idris Traina, president of the Libyan-American Association of Southern California.
Parry reported from Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Shawn Marsh and Larry Rosenthal in Trenton, Robert Jablon in Los Angeles and David Stringer in London.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44978706/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Women do not get enough vitamin D during the menopause, Spanish study suggests
ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2011) ? A healthy diet is especially important during the menopause -- a period in which the risk of suffering from health problems increases. Various studies analyse the diet of peri- and postmenopausal women in Spain alongside the troubles that come with this transition. The results show that all of those groups studied have a deficient intake of vitamin D.
Marina Poll?n, researcher at the Carlos III Institute of Health and one of the authors of the study explains that "biological and physiological changes in women caused by the menopause come with a greater risk of developing health problems in which diet plays an important role. These include diabetes, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and certain types of cancer."
Therefore, the analysis of dietary patterns during and after the menopause is of particular interest because of its health implications. However, in Spain there have been very few studies that have assessed the diet of peri- and postmenopausal women.
In order to study these dietary habits, the authors of the study analysed 3574 women from the age of 45 to 68 from October 2007 to July 2008. Each programme contained a minimum of 500 women from seven Spanish cities (La Coru?a, Barcelona, Burgos, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Valencia and Zaragoza) and involved a food frequency questionnaire validated by the Spanish population.
The results show that obesity rates stand at 29% whereas 42% of subjects are overweight. Average calorie intake was 2053 kilocalories (with 43% of energy intake coming from carbohydrates, 36% from fats and 20% from proteins). Researchers highlight that practically all of the women received the recommended intake of all the vitamins, apart from D and E.
The case of vitamin D is striking given that none of the groups reached 50% of their RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance). The average total intake was 2.14 micrograms per day, which constitutes just 39% of the RDA for women of this age group.
"A diet with less fat and protein that is high in vegetables, nuts, and carbohydrate-rich foods will even out the energy balance and corrects levels of vitamin D and E,"according to the researchers. "This is especially important in places that are far away from the Mediterranean Sea where women have a greater tendency to fall short of the current recommendations."
A greater risk of obesity
Another study lead by Faustino R. P?rez-L?pez, coordinator of the study group of the Spanish Association for the Study of the Menopause, links body weight with metabolic and hormonal parameters in 574 postmenopausal women.
Published in the Gynecological Endocrinology journal, the results confirm that Body Mass Index (BMI) during the menopause increases with ages, the time that the menopause began, the number of children and also with blood sugar levels, triglyceride levels and systolic blood pressure.
P?rez-L?pez points out that "this allows us to propose lifestyles changes that could improve quality of life and reduce the mortality rate associated with obesity if they are adopted early on."
Body fat mass distribution, weight regulation and hormone secretion of fat are all different when it comes to men and women. Abdominal obesity is more frequent in postmenopausal women. It increases the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnoea, cancer, arthrosis, mental health problems and even death.
Furthermore, peri- and postmenopausal obesity intensifies the symptoms of the menopause and it is associated with a lower quality of life than that of women of normal weight. "Experimental studies of animals and women show that treatment with ovarian hormones can impede weight gain and muscle mass loss," according to the researcher.
Sexuality during menopause
Another study by Faustino R. P?rez-L?pez, published in the Journal of Sex Medicine, deals with the female sexuality during the menopause. This is usually characterised by organic changes within themselves and their partner alike, previous sexual dysfunctions and socio-demographic factors that change from region to region, or even from one period of time to another.
Experts used the Changes in Sexual Function Questionnaire (CCFS) which consists of 14 simple questions. Its results show that 64.1% of the 117 volunteers (between February and November of 2010 in the Hospital Central de Asturias in Oviedo and the Hospital Cabue?es in Gij?n, Spain) admitted to suffering from female sexual dysfunction.
P?rez-L?pez outlines the importance of highlighting that "a third of Western women display some form of sexual dysfunction throughout their lives. This sometimes comes hand in hand with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and a decrease in their quality of life."
Sexual arousal problems are related to a lowered quality of life and also to urogenital tract problems whereas orgasm problems maintain a link with a decrease in the quality of life. Signs of depression are associated with the supposed onset of female sexual dysfunction.
The score from the CCFS showed a positive correlation between the educational attainment of the woman and her partner and the frequency with which she engages in sexual relations. They showed a negative correlation with depression," according to the conclusions of P?rez-L?pez, who points out that more studies are necessary before we take these findings as a given when talking about other population groups.
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- N. Garc?a-Arenzana et al. Cumplimiento de las recomendaciones diet?ticas vigentes y variabilidad geogr?fica de la dieta en mujeres participantes en 7 programas de cribado de c?ncer de mama en Espa?a. Nutrici?n Hospitalaria, 26(4):863-873; 2011 DOI: 10.3305/nh.2011.26.4.5205
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MP3 purchases from Google are 'close,' Rubin says
So we didn't see any updates to Google Music this week like so many of us had hoped there would be. But Andy Rubin has said that Google is "close" to being able to offer a bona fide MP3 store.
Speaking at the AsiaD conference, he recognised the lack of such content as a key "missing ingredient" in the attempts to lure people away from the Apple and iTunes ecosystem. He also said that Google would not be following "the 99-cent model" but that their pricing would "have a little twist - it will have a little Google in it." Let's hope for some subscriptions, eh?
Not much detail to go on, but it looks as though Google could be about to turn a corner. They're said to have inked a deal with EMI, with negotiations continuing with Universal, Sony Music and Warner Music.
Source: The Guardian
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