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AP Sports Writer
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updated 7:50 p.m. ET May 30, 2012
LONDON (AP) -Liverpool appears set to hire Brendan Rodgers as its new manager.
The hire would vault the Northern Irishman from relative obscurity to one of the toughest jobs in soccer, with his current club Swansea claiming a deal was expected to be finalized on Thursday.
Following talks with Liverpool's American owners - Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Boston Red Sox - Rodgers told Swansea on Wednesday he has been offered the job as Kenny Dalglish's replacement at Anfield and was ready to accept.
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By Allison Linn
More than 1.3 million working-age veterans don?t have health insurance and are failing to take advantage of health care available through Veterans Affairs, a new study finds.
Researchers at the Urban Institute used census data to estimate health insurance coverage for veterans aged 19 to 64.
While veterans are more likely to have health insurance than the general population, about 1 in 10 of the nearly 12.5 million veterans under age 65 do not have health coverage either through the VA or other insurers.
The rates of uninsurance appear to be especially high for veterans under age?35.
?They are disproportionately younger, and they appear to have served more recently,? said Genevieve Kenney, a senior fellow with the Urban Institute and co-author of the report.
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Kenney said the uninsured veterans also tended to have lower incomes and lower levels of education and were less likely to be full-time workers than the veterans with health coverage.
Contrary to popular belief, veterans are not automatically eligible for health care coverage once they leave the military. Jacob Gadd, deputy director for health care with the American Legion, said health coverage is generally provided to the poorest and the most badly injured of those who have served.
For example, combat veterans are eligible for five years of free medical care for any service-related issues. Other veterans can get at least some coverage for injuries if they can prove they are related to their service.
In addition, veterans who have very little income or are in financial distress can qualify to receive care through Veterans Affairs medical centers. (The VA provides an overview of who is eligible.)
Gadd said many veterans don?t appear to be aware of what benefits are available to them, especially if they have injuries from their time in service.
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American Legion research has shown that only about half of military members who have returned home from deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan have enrolled in the VA for health care.
?We are worried about the other half, whether they know if benefits are available to them,? Gadd said.
Gadd said some veterans may be choosing not to seek out health care, especially if they have post-traumatic stress or other conditions they fear could carry a stigma.
There are clear costs to not having health insurance. Kenney, of the Urban Institute, said separate research has shown that high numbers of uninsured veterans have health issues that are not being addressed.
About one-third of uninsured veterans said they were delaying care due to cost, the researcher found.
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By Alistair Barr and Edwin Chan
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc shares slid below $29 to a new low on Tuesday as nervous investors fled the company's shares, concerned about the social network's long-term business prospects and an initial offering price that proved too rich.
Shares of the No. 1 social network fell 10 percent to an all-time low of $28.65, before closing at $28.84, or down 9.6 percent. Since its market debut at $38 on May 18, the eight-year-old company has shed approximately $25 billion in value - roughly equivalent to the market capitalization of Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter of Facebook's IPO.
Wall Street has harbored concerns that Facebook, while boasting nearly a billion users worldwide and dominating Internet social-networking, would have difficulty translating its growing presence on smartphones and other mobile devices into revenue. Rivals Google Inc and Apple Inc currently dominate the mobile arena.
Facebook's quest to monetize mobile is spurring widespread speculation over its next moves. Technology bankers say the company would benefit from tacking on mobile operating software through an acquisition of Norway's Opera, which has been on the auction block for a while.
The New York Times cited sources dredging up a longstanding rumor that Zuckerberg was pondering building a Facebook phone, and that an easy way to acquire the hardware expertise needed was to buy troubled Research in Motion.
The Blackberry maker said late on Tuesday that it hired J.P. Morgan and RBC Capital Markets to help the company and its board with a "strategic review.
"They are clearly looking at smartphones and are trying to become more vertically integrated with their users," said Ryan Jacob of the Jacob Internet Fund. "They just don't want to be another app on Google's or Apple's platform."
"Speculation that Facebook is dabbling outside their main expertise and possibly planning another large acquisition may be unsettling to some investors," he added. "But I think options trading is behind today's drop in the shares."
TEMPTING OPTION
Facebook options began trading on Tuesday, presenting a tempting target as more investors bet the underlying stock would head south. They piled into put and call options - granting investors the right to sell or buy stock at a certain price - marking one of the busiest debuts ever in the options market.
"The fact that the stock has been weak on the first day of options trading means people are betting on future declines or buying insurance," Jacob said. "Investors may want to hold the stock but are buying protection in case the price falls further."
Jacob said he did not buy Facebook shares in the IPO and has not bought the stock since the debut.
"If the price is right we would consider buying," he added. "It's not quite there yet."
Janet Tavakoli, president of Tavakoli Structured Finance Inc in Chicago, said she bought puts expiring in September with a strike price of $25, at a cost of $210 per contract, with each contract representing 100 shares.
"The valuation is a complete bluff. There is still a long way to go down from here," she said. "There will be insiders selling their shares on August 20, when the first lockout period is over. There will be a lot of shares that will hit the market and more in coming months."
'TRANSITION'
Analysts say apart from the challenge of earning money off smartphone and tablet users, Facebook - which relies on advertising for the majority of its revenue --may also find it difficult to lure and keep large advertisers.
Days before Facebook's debut, General Motors announced it was pulling out of paid advertising on the social network, citing Facebook's unproven track record and echoing potential concerns about the lack of evidence that advertising on Facebook yielded strong returns on investment.
"Facebook is in a transition in their business model," Walter Price, portfolio manager of the Wells Fargo Advantage Specialized Technology Fund, told Reuters Insider. "It was easy to get the first 5 to 10 percent of an advertising budget to try it on Facebook and do some brand advertising, but getting the next 5 to 10 percent, you've got to displace TV and that's a lot more difficult to do.
"Facebook still doesn't have the metrics to prove profitability and prove growth and awareness from their platform," he added.
Facebook debut after an IPO that raised $16 billion was to have been the culmination of years of breakneck growth for the cultural and Internet phenomenon. But a software error on Nasdaq OMX Group Inc's U.S. exchange delayed the start of trade by 30 minutes.
Then, claims of selective disclosure in the days leading up to the IPO about Facebook's slowing revenue growth engulfed the company in controversy, as did perceptions among some investors that the stock had been overpriced coming out the gate.
Skeptics had argued even before the botched debut and subsequent selloff that Facebook's starting valuation of more than $100 billion - about equivalent to that of Amazon.com Inc and exceeding that of Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc combined - was too high for a company that posted $1 billion in profit on revenue of $3.7 billion in 2011.
Facebook stock debuted at over 100 times historical earnings versus Apple's 14 times. Despite that, many investors bet on a modest first-day pop for the company, which upended traditional technology and business models and is used by about one in seven people on the planet.
"We've been talking about a $50 billion valuation as one that makes sense, I think that would be a stock price around $20," Price said. But "the infrastructure that Facebook is building, and the fact that they have many advertisers that have built followers and fans on their platform, gives them a base to build a great business."
WHAT'S NEXT?
Vague talk about Facebook's next moves in a hotly contested mobile arena may also be giving some investors pause. Rumors that the company may be considering acquiring Opera pushed the Oslo-listed shares up more than 26 percent on Tuesday.
Analysts say the mobile-phone software maker could prove a crucial component in Facebook's still-patchy strategy to earn revenue from smartphones, but it could carry a price tag of as high as $1 billion.
Many Wall Street analysts had also been concerned about the apparent hastiness with which Facebook concluded its $1 billion purchase of photo-sharing service Instagram, though Zuckerberg later said it had been considered for months.
A industry source told Reuters on Tuesday that antitrust regulators had given Facebook notice that its proposed Instagram acquisition will get an extended review.
Speculation has been rife about how Facebook might spearhead a drive into mobile advertising, in which its Instagram purchase was considered key.
Talk that the social networking company might actually get into the hardware business re-surfaced after Google, whose Android OS is now the most commonly used mobile software, completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
Bankers and analysts say BlackBerry maker RIM, left behind in the smartphone race against Apple and Samsung, might be doing shareholders a service by allowing itself to be acquired.
Others worry about how Zuckerberg commands more than half of the company's voting shares through agreements with other investors, granting him near-absolute control over Facebook.
The 28-year-old has so far refrained from commenting publicly about the controversy, and in fact is reportedly not even in the country.
As Facebook shares hit a record low on Tuesday, photos of Zuckerberg and his new bride spread across the Internet, depicting the couple - who wed the day after Facebook debuted - touring the Sistine Chapel and sharing a fast-food meal on their honeymoon in Rome.
(Additional reporting by Doris Frankel and Angela Moon in New York; Writing by Edwin Chan; Editing by Matthew Lewis, Steve Orlofsky and Tim Dobbyn)
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Organizations find creative ways to solve problems
May 29, 2012 6:00 AM
Virginia?s nonprofits go far beyond helping the homeless, feeding the hungry or mentoring troubled children.
Innovative programs throughout the state are helping people overcome disabilities, find affordable housing and gain employment.
Here is a sampling of the services of three organizations, Hollins Communications Research Institute in Roanoke, Virginia Community Capital in Richmond and Christiansburg and the Virginia Goodwill Network, which has operations throughout the commonwealth.
Help for stutterers
At just 28 years old, Randy Marcus had accomplished more professionally than many people twice his age. He?d successfully managed Bill Bolling?s 2005 campaign for lieutenant governor and was subsequently appointed Bolling?s chief of staff.
But Marcus felt his lifelong struggle with stuttering was holding him back. He was particularly self-conscious while on the phone or introducing himself in public.
?When I was in one of those big meeting situations where you had to go around the room and introduce yourself, I would make an excuse to get up [and leave the room], so I wouldn?t have to say my name and stutter in front of everyone,? Marcus recalls. ?I felt it was limiting what I could do.?
Marcus had been treated by speech therapists off and on since he was in elementary school with mixed success. In 2006, he attended an intensive 12-day therapy program for stuttering at Hollins Communications Research Institute in Roanoke.
HCRI was founded in 1972 by Dr. Ronald Webster and has been recognized for its pioneering work in research and treatment of stuttering. More than 6,000 clients from 48 countries have gone to HCRI for therapy. Previous clients include Fox News broadcaster John Stossel and Annie Glenn, wife of astronaut and Sen. John Glenn.
?People who stutter are often stereotyped by employers and the general public as nervous, disorganized or mentally deficient,? says Webster, HCRI?s president. ?Yet, there is no mental or emotional flaw that drives the problem.?
HCRI research has discovered that stuttering is a physically based condition. The institute?s therapy program teaches clients how to control the muscles in the throat, tongue, jaw and lips that cause stuttering and uses technology to monitor their progress.
?I learned to talk all over again,? Marcus says. ?It was a completely different way of understanding the challenges stutterers face.?
HCRI is currently developing a ?speech microscope,? a tool that measures the fine details of speech sounds while they?re being made. The better diagnostic information will help researchers improve the precision and effectiveness of therapy for stuttering.
HCRI also hopes to introduce its unique treatment methods to a world audience through the Internet. According to the National Institutes of Health, there are 66 million people in the world who stutter, including 3 million in the U.S.
Despite the popularity of ?The King?s Speech,? the Academy Award-winning 2010 film about the stuttering problems of British King George VI, a lack of funding has slowed HCRI?s expansion plans.
?We have terrible problems trying to raise funds because no one cares about stuttering,? Webster says. ?It?s so misunderstood that foundations, government agencies and philanthropists seem not to have any interest. That?s why I say it?s the invisible problem.?
But for millions of people, like Marcus, stuttering is anything but invisible. HCRI?s therapy program can be life changing.
?Hollins was integral to me breaking through some personal barriers,? Marcus says. ?I couldn?t be happier about going through the experience and what they were able to do for me.?
Community funding source
The reputation of the U.S. banking industry took a beating in the 2008-09 financial crisis. Virginia Community Capital (VCC), a nonprofit community development financial institution, is doing its part to change that.
With locations in Richmond and Christiansburg, VCC is made up of a nonprofit loan fund and a for-profit bank, which focuses on financing projects in four areas: affordable housing, community facilities, neighborhood/business district revitalization and local economic development/job creation.
One of VCC?s recent projects involved providing construction funding to renovate Suburbia Fairfax, an aging apartment complex near downtown Fairfax that?s home to more than 100 lower-income residents. Community Preservation and Development Corp., one of the largest affordable-housing developers in the mid-Atlantic region, is upgrading all 54 apartment units with energy-efficient appliances, low-flow toilets and faucets, and other improvements. The $10 million project should be complete by August.? ?We thought it was important to have some homes in the area for people who were not the wealthiest,? says Tim Westrich, CPDC?s real estate development officer.
Other VCC-funded projects include a new community health-care center in Floyd County, a senior adult day-care center in Richmond and an expansion of plastic tubing manufacturer Essel Propack?s plant in Danville.
During the past five years, VCC has helped build or preserve more than 3,800 affordable housing units and created or retained more than 1,100 jobs.? ?All of the work we do is mission-focused,? says Jane Henderson, VCC?s president and CEO. ?With everything we put together as far as a financing packaging, there?s always a good, warm-hearted story that goes along with it.?
Putting people to work
There?s much more behind Goodwill?s storefronts than castoff clothing and second-hand furniture. Those $5 sweaters and $1 paperback novels ultimately put people to work.
?Our model is we sell those clothes [and other items] to help people become self-sufficient through the job-training programs we do,? says Jim Shaver, vice president of marketing and development for Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, one of six organizations that make up the Virginia Goodwill Network. ?Everything we do is about work.?
In 2011, VGN was responsible for generating about 7,500 jobs and almost $13.3 million in tax revenues to Virginia and its localities. VGN?s overall annual economic impact in Virginia was $470 million, according to the Elliott D. Pollack research organization.
Henrico County resident Lenny Abele is one of the job seekers who have found work thanks to Goodwill. He was out of work for two years after he suffered a traumatic brain injury during a vehicle crash.
Through Goodwill?s Supported Employment Vocational Services program, Abele was hired to do custodial work at a Richmond courthouse. In April, he accepted a new job with ABM Janitorial Service in Richmond.
?This company puts him in a position where he?s doing some things he knows well, but he may also have some advancement opportunities in management,? says Taylor Greene, manager of the Goodwill program.
The Supported Employment program provides intensive, ongoing job-placement and coaching services to individuals with disabilities.
?Goodwill helped me 100 percent,? Abele says. ?I?m glad to get back into the work force. Just having money in my pocket means the world to me ? being able to help my better half with the bills means the world to me.?
Many of Goodwill?s services for job seekers are available free-of-charge. In the Richmond and Hampton Roads areas, Goodwill operates five employment centers that offer classes, career planning, r?sum?/interview preparation, job fairs, labor market information and more.
?We?ve had a wide array of people using our services, from computer technicians to someone who is an entry-level worker,? says Derby Brackett, VP of marketing and communications for Goodwill Industries Serving Hampton Roads and Central Virginia. ?It?s really based on the need to get a job. That?s really the only qualifier.?
VGN itself also puts people to work in its stores and through contracts with various companies around the state.
In Radford, for example, Goodwill Industries of the Valleys employs four people who build tractor-trailer, sleep-cab components for Volvo Trucks North America. Another 10 people manufacture ?Happy Turtles? for Tetra, one of the world?s largest suppliers of aquarium equipment. (The turtles are made out of a plaster-like material and help clarify aquarium water.) In Christiansburg, four people work for Goodwill?s wood pallet shop, supplying custom shipping pallets to several western Virginia companies.
?Everything behind our retail environment goes toward our mission of ? putting people to work,? Brackett says.?
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ? The family of the Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping the United States track down Osama bin Laden said Monday the man is innocent and dismissed his trial as a sham.
The conviction of Shakil Afridi last week added another pressure point in Pakistan's already fractured relationship with the U.S. Senior American officials have urged Pakistan to release the doctor, regarding him as a hero who worked to stop the terrorist leader. Islamabad views Afridi as a traitor who colluded with a foreign intelligence agency in an illegal operation on Pakistani soil.
Also Monday, two suspected U.S. missile strikes pounded militant hide-outs in a tribal region close to Afghan border, killing nine alleged insurgents, officials said. There have been five such attacks this week. The strikes have also raised tensions between the U.S. and Pakistan.
Afridi ran a vaccination campaign on behalf of the CIA to collect blood samples of bin Laden's family at a compound in Abbottabad where U.S. commandos killed the al-Qaida leader in May 2011. The samples were intended to help the U.S. match the family's DNA to verify his presence in the garrison city.
Afridi's older brother Jamil and two lawyers representing the doctor said at a news conference in the frontier city of Peshawar that they will appeal the verdict, which was handed down last week in a tribal court whose proceedings were never made public.
"This was a one-sided decision," said Jamil. "All allegations against him are false. He didn't do anything against the national interest."
Afridi was tried under the Frontier Crimes Regulations, the set of laws that govern Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal region. The FCR doesn't allow suspects to have legal representation, present material evidence or cross-examine witnesses. Verdicts are handled by a government official in consultation with a council of elders, instead of by a judge.
The raid by American commandos infuriated Pakistani officials who were not told ahead of time or of the CIA operation in their country to track him down. Afridi was arrested in the weeks after the raid. He was convicted and sentenced last week for conspiring against the state.
The lawyers said authorities have not given them documents related to the case, including a copy of the verdict.
Afridi's brother said the doctor had an American visa and pointed out that he stayed in Pakistan after the bin Laden raid for 20 days, and didn't leave the country.
"Had he been guilty, he would have escaped," Jamil Afridi said.
He did not comment on whether he thought his brother should have helped the U.S.
The case puts the family in a delicate situation. Anti-American sentiment is widespread in Pakistan, and people who are viewed as supporting the U.S. or working for Washington are sometimes targeted by militants, especially in the tribal areas.
In his first comments on Afridi's conviction, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called Afridi's actions a "serious offense" but said he had the right to a fair trial.
"His deed is not good," Gilani said in an interview with Pakistani Geo News TV. "His deed is a serious offense," Gilani said, but Afridi should have an access to the judicial process.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Sunday criticized Pakistan over Afridi's conviction and sentencing, calling it "disturbing."
U.S.-Pakistani relations plummeted to new lows in November, when American airstrikes inadvertently killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, prompting Islamabad to block U.S. and NATO supply lines into Afghanistan.
Pakistan has demanded an apology over the raid and an end to drone strikes against militants along the Afghan border as a precursor to reopening the supply lines.
The U.S. has shown no sign of stopping the covert CIA attacks, which have picked up pace this week after a lull for most of the year.
In the latest attack Monday, a pair of suspected U.S. missiles hit a compound and a vehicle in Datta Khel in North Waziristan, less than 24 hours after another such strike late Sunday had killed five suspected Islamist militants in the same tribal region, Pakistani intelligence officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters.
The identities of the dead were not known, but the region is home to al-Qaida militants and insurgents fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Associated Press Writers Rasool Dawar in Peshawar, and Asif Shahzad and Rebecca Santana in Islamabad contributed to this report.
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At the end of my first week here in St. Thomas, Jamaica I feel much more comfortable than when I left the airport this past Sunday. In fact, I?d go as far to say that I am pretty much settled in. Those feelings come and go, but for the most part I?m pretty happy with where I am and what I?m doing. That?s not to say that I didn?t and still don?t go through some culture shock here and there! So far the days have been long and busy. In this blog post I will attempt to detail everything as much as I can. Here goes nothing!
The first week was mostly visiting the sites that we would be given the opportunity to work at over the month here. We started at Yallahs Primary School. As an early childhood education major, I was set up in a first grade class. Miss Bogel?s classroom had ?43 students, a few of which, as she told me had severe autism. As it was just day one in the room, my main goal was to just observe; to feel things out. I noticed that Miss Bogel rarely included the children with autism. They were given seats off to the side, where they played with toys or ?read? from books. It was hard for me to see. In the States, children with disabilities are given IEP and receive special attention and accomodations to help them learn. It appeared that here in Jamaica, at least in my classroom, that was not really included. Miss Bogel seemed to care about the children and their education, but simply did not quite know how to deal with them. She would hug them often and occasionally check up on them, but they were not really being taught like the other kids. That frustrated me; I thought Miss Bogel was failing them a bit as a teacher. But then I realized she had 40 some other students to teach and probably was not trained in special education. I began to realize the education system in Jamaica was just totally different from mine at home. When I return to the Primary School next week I hope to give these kids some individual help. I also observed the use of corporal punishment in the classroom, something I disagree with strongly and plan to provide a different approach to dealing with challenging behavior for Yallahs Primary.
After the Primary School, we visited the Basic School and the High School (both in Yallahs). Basic Schools are very interesting here in Jamaica; they are schools that start children at the age of three. It was so much fun to work with these little tikes! They get a lot of play time and important socialization. In addition, they are taught self-help skills. My favorite part of working with these kids was watching them play with my camera. They loved seeing their own face on the screen; it was like magic. I plan to work at the Basic School as my secondary site here. The High School was a totally different atmosphere than the Basic School. It was very strict, especially the dress code. Students in most Jamaican schools are required to wear uniforms, but at Yallahs High there are rules about how low you can wear your pants and that shirts must be tucked in. Talking to the principal we found out the reason they are so strict about everything is because High School is pretty much these students last chance to make something of their lives; most Jamaica students will not continue to University. For this reason, the high school is set up like a technical school as well. There are classes for the agriculture field (complete with a farm and chickens), the cosmetology field, and the metal works field. In addition to that they have the standard English, science, computer, etc.
Day one completed with a visit to the Women?s Center, an education setting for teenage mothers. I found out that most of the girls there were only 15 years old! We met some of them and their babies, who often come to the center with them. The place was very hospitable and if you ask me, a very important place.
On our next day visiting sites, we went to RADA and WRADA. RADA stands for rural agriculture development authority, while WRADA is the women?s sector of that. Both these sites were located far away from our residence, so we crammed into buses and headed off. On the bus I really noticed how bad the roads here in Jamaica are. Yet, the people have no trouble driving. They zoom down those things like they?re constantly rushing to be somewhere on time. I found this funny, because as I am learning, Jamaican culture is at a much slower pace than American. They are a much more laid back people who seem to do things on their own time. It appears they really enjoy their lives this way. But getting back to RADA. RADA is essentially set up to educate and help farmers, whether that be finding them work, assisting their wives in cooking help, identifying the best crops to grow. I loved the women?s part of RADA. The women we met were so independent; proud and happy about their work. They seemed like awesome people. In addition, they welcomed us with great warmth. They gave us samples of their mango wine and guava cheese (which tasted exactly like natural fruit roll ups). I plan to make the trip to Bath once a week to help at WRADA.
The rest of the week was spent exploring and adjusting to Jamaican life. We had wonderful food, like jerk chicken, cod fish, rice and peas, porridge, chicken and beef pattys, bread fruit?the list goes on and on. We had a few lessons in Patois, the Creole language here. We went swimming in the beautiful blue waters. We met some wonderful people from the neighborhood, like good old Aunt G who sits outside her home/store everyday selling ?anything you?d ever need.? This weekend we get another beach day and will be going to Kingston to see a Jamaican national soccer game, a world cup qualifier. So far, the experience has been a ride of ups and downs, but overall quite amazing. There are moments where I feel uncomfortable: I may miss home friends and family or feel guilty for my wealth compared to the people here or not know how to handle being called whitey or being hit on every moment?but all that being said, I?ve been laughing and smiling everyday. Living in a foreign country is tough, but this service-learning trip will be an experience unlike any other. Bring on week two!
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Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that intensively controlling glucose (glycemic) levels in type-2 diabetes patients may not reduce the risk of kidney failure. The study, which is a review of data from seven clinical trials, is published in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
To test the hypothesis that aggressive glycemic control can prevent renal disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, first author Steven G. Coca of Yale and colleagues searched available medical literature and evaluated seven randomized trials involving 28,065 adult patients who were monitored for two to 15 years.
The team found that compared with those who had usual treatment, intensively controlling glucose with higher doses of medication did not definitively reduce the risk of impaired kidney function, the need for dialysis, or death from kidney disease.
Coca said many researchers have presumed that such intensive treatment would benefit patients by protecting the kidneys, but these results question whether patients truly are better off with this approach.
"After pooling the results from the follow-up data in the seven studies examined, our analysis shows that intensive glycemic control may improve some things about the kidney that we measure, but did not affect patients' outcomes," said Coca, assistant professor in the section of nephrology in the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale.
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Other authors on the study include Faramarz Ismail-Beigi, Nowreen Haq, Harlan M. Krumholz, and Chirag R. Parikh.
The study was funded in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Center for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research at Yale University. Krumholz is also the recipient of a research grant from Medtronic, Inc. through Yale University.
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Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that intensively controlling glucose (glycemic) levels in type-2 diabetes patients may not reduce the risk of kidney failure. The study, which is a review of data from seven clinical trials, is published in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
To test the hypothesis that aggressive glycemic control can prevent renal disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, first author Steven G. Coca of Yale and colleagues searched available medical literature and evaluated seven randomized trials involving 28,065 adult patients who were monitored for two to 15 years.
The team found that compared with those who had usual treatment, intensively controlling glucose with higher doses of medication did not definitively reduce the risk of impaired kidney function, the need for dialysis, or death from kidney disease.
Coca said many researchers have presumed that such intensive treatment would benefit patients by protecting the kidneys, but these results question whether patients truly are better off with this approach.
"After pooling the results from the follow-up data in the seven studies examined, our analysis shows that intensive glycemic control may improve some things about the kidney that we measure, but did not affect patients' outcomes," said Coca, assistant professor in the section of nephrology in the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale.
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Other authors on the study include Faramarz Ismail-Beigi, Nowreen Haq, Harlan M. Krumholz, and Chirag R. Parikh.
The study was funded in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Center for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research at Yale University. Krumholz is also the recipient of a research grant from Medtronic, Inc. through Yale University.
Citation: Arch Intern Med. Vol. 172, No. 10 (May 28, 2012)
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They found that the ICD has identified one and shocked his heart back into a normal rhythm in 25 percent of patients.
A genetic disease that causes the walls of the heart to become enlarged, called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , was associated with a risk of sudden death due to an unhealthy heart rhythms, called arrhythmias.
?Even on the basis of this article, if a patient should have a defibrillator is not an easy question to answer,? he said. ?There are some patients whose risk of dying from a HC is low. The party today is the most difficult to decide where a patient fits.?
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However, ?a patient with HC should not assume that they will be a candidate for an ICD,? said Maron. ?This is not a cure for the disease itself and should be given to those who are at high risk of sudden death. In addition, CIM is not without its negative consequences such as infections and inappropriate shocks.?
In one study, doctors found an electronic device called a defibrillator, shock, arrhythmias detected and stopped with potentially harmful to the heart of almost 25 percent of patients.
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Since being introduced in the mid 1990's social networking sites have revolutionized the way we do business online.
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Richmond, Indiana, to be exact.
Located on the edge of the Ohio and Indiana state line, about an hour's drive from Indianapolis, Richmond is the home of the aptly-titled Richmond Red Devils. The community houses less than forty thousand people; a little over fifteen hundred high school students. Despite the fever and the hype that the adults and administration try and keep up, Richmond isn't what it used to be... and neither is it's high school.
The drop-out rate is staggering, teen pregnancy is at an all-time high, and the high school sports are barely surviving as enrollment drops. The Tiernan Center fills every chilly winter Friday for basketball, and McBride Stadium fills for baseball... and Lybolt Field continues to house more empty seats than not during it's Friday night lights.
The football head coach's contract expires and he, like many people in Richmond, leaves without giving it a second chance, and leaving a team of disheartened teenage boys in his wake for a bigger city. Jared Walton steps in and hopes to change everything about the Richmond High School football program. If anything could bring Richmond back into the twenty first century - and put the town's name back into the papers - it's the reputation he's going make for the high school's football team.
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Have you ever tried product creation or development? This is a business model that has worked for people for decades. If you encounter rough times, you need to have enough motivation within you to keep moving forward regardless of what is happening. Along with that, if you are inexperienced, then you will have to get up to speed with the marketing aspect as well. To help you out, we are going to discuss the steps necessary to do proper product creation and marketing. Calling Men
You can save yourself a great deal of anguish and heartache by avoiding the path of trail blazing. Making money on the Internet can be fairly easy, but you can choose this path if you want to. Essentially, you want to find products that are easy to sell, not difficult. Once you find a niche that is profitable, then look for products to create or promote that have a real demand. Different classes of products exist for you to choose from, including fad products that can be popular. The window of opportunity for selling fad products comes and goes very quickly, but a lot of money can be made.
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High fuel prices are an unpleasant fact of life for today?s boaters. But taking these six actions conserves fuel without diminishing fun on the water.
1. Tune the engine. Change the oil and spark plugs regularly to ensure top performance.
2. Fresh fuel is always best. Old fuel that has been sloshing around in the tank for months can hurt engine performance.
3. Clean the hull. Scale and growths undermine the boat?s ability to glide through the water, which means the engines burn more fuel.
4. Lighten the load. The more weight the boat carries, the harder the engines work.
5. Check the propellers. Nicks and dents not only rob fuel mileage, they also increase engine wear through excessive vibrations.
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Science in crisis
Scientists ? and science generally ? are in a moment of crisis on multiple fronts. The gap between science and society has grown to a chasm, with disastrous consequences for issue after issue. For example, just last month, Tennessee passed legislation permitting creation ?science? into classrooms. On another front, the concern of Americans about global warming has dramatically declined over the past decade, ?despite the scientific consensus on the clear and present danger caused by climate change.
But science illiteracy in the general public isn?t the only crisis in science. Funding for research is becoming increasingly unattainable, with funding rates at their lowest levels in a decade at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the two most important American science agencies (see here and here for details). The situation in many other nations is no better. In Spain, for example, science spending by the central government has fallen by 20% since 2009. Even worse, research funding from traditional sources will likely be even harder to come by in the years to come due to ongoing economic instability around the world.
The solution
The public disengagement with science and the difficulty of funding research are very different problems. Unexpectedly though, there is a new solution that might just answer both problems: science crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is a relatively new internet-based method of fundraising. With crowdfunding, individuals post projects that need funding on websites, like RocketHub and Kickstarter, and then solicit contributions for those projects from the general public. Crowdfunding has grown explosively over the past few years as a source of funding in many fields (like arts and technology), with $1.5 billion raised by this method in 2011 alone. The arts-based Kickstarter expects to disburse $150 million this year, more than the National Endowment for the Arts. In the sciences, the British charity Cancer Research UK regularly funds specific cancer-related research projects to the tune of fifty thousand pounds and above.
With the exception of Cancer Research UK, science has been essentially untouched by crowdfunding until recently. ?However, given the crowdfunding amounts that have been raised elsewhere, the potential of generating significant amounts of research cash by this method is obvious. It might seem less obvious how science crowdfunding could help close the yawning gap between science and society. To understand the connection, it is important to note that the culture of science itself shares a lot of the blame for the public?s science illiteracy.
It is not news that the culture of science generally frowns upon researchers engaging in science outreach with the wider world (though a recent paper in the journal PLoS ONE lays out the case in depressing detail). Even when science outreach does occur, the focus is often not on the public, but instead on decision-makers ? the elite few who most directly move the levers of power.
Why is crowdfunding good news for connecting science and society?
Science crowdfunding changes the equation by adding a powerful new incentive for scientists to engage the public with science: the potential for raising money for research directly from the public. What makes crowdfunding such a powerful potential lever to connect science and society is that the amount of money that can be raised in this way is directly proportional to the size of the audience that has been built. As an example, if we look at the six projects on Kickstarter that each have raised over a million dollars this year, all but one tapped into huge networks of people that the project creators had been building for years. I am the co-organizer of a science crowdfunding effort called the #SciFund Challenge and the results from our own projects show the same thing: money raised depends on the audience that has been built.
So, how do scientists go about building an audience interested in their research? Where does the crowd in crowdfunding come from? A great model lies no further than your radio: your local NPR station. Most of the time, NPR member stations are just pushing out fantastic programming (Fresh Air, I am looking at you). Every so often though, the stations reach out to you to ask for cash to keep the programming rolling. Whether or not you give money though, they still want you listening to the programming.
A very similar model could work well for science crowdfunding. On a regular basis, a scientist would be reaching out with her science message to broader audiences (via public talks, blog posts, and so on). The message of the scientist would not be focussed on money, but rather on compelling stories in science (the scientist?s own research, interesting developments in the scientist?s field, etc.). By regularly reaching out with her science, the researcher would over time build credibility with a growing audience. And every so often, if the scientist reached out to that audience to request funds to keep the research rolling, that audience would respond. How much money could a scientist actually raise for her research this way? The example of Cancer Research UK shows that, if the audience is large, a large amount can be raised.
One way to think of the relationship between audience and crowdfunding potential is a version of the Thousand True Fans Model. Musicians, videomakers, and other artists have used this model for a few years now to figure out how to make a living from their art. The idea behind the model is that only the most committed fraction of your audience will provide the majority of the dollars to keep the art going. Consequently, the goal of the artist is to cater to that fraction and to grow that fraction over time. For science, the Thousand True Fans Model goes a bit differently, because those audience members who aren?t contributing dollars are still incredibly valuable. ?All members of a researcher?s audience (contributing or not) are connected to science and those individual connections are essential for closing the gap between science and society.
What would this world look like if every scientist touched a thousand people each year with their science message? How would science-related policy decisions be different if every citizen had a scientist that they personally knew? One thing is for sure: a world with closer connections between scientists and the public would be a better world. And crowdfunding might just help to get us there.
As I mentioned earlier, I am one of the co-organizers of the #SciFund Challenge, a volunteer-run science crowdfunding organization. We train scientists how to run crowdfunding projects, provide community, and also provide some publicity once projects launch. We currently have 75 amazing science crowdfunding projects that are running for the month of May. You can find the projects listed by category at scifundchallenge.org or directly at scifund.rockethub.com.
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Sculpture is regarded as a visual art form dating back thousands of years. You may find sculptures out of concrete as relief on structures, and miniatures created from ivory or ceramic. Marble is probably the most well-known medium for sculpture, but other media can be used for it too, such as bronze.
Bronze is among the sculpture media that remains in modern art. The mix of copper and tin, bronze is among the strongest metal alloys used in any application. Even when it corrodes, this shiny red-gold metal turns into a magnificent and even stronger blue-green material. Bronze may or may not be mixed in sculpture with other various media like glass, plastic, or steel.
There are lots of sculptures that follow the tradition of several art genres. Modern and postmodern sculptures are captivating in their impressive utilization of figures and shade.
Contemporary art may or may not be regularly shaped; asymmetrical figures are the most recognizable qualities of several artworks made in recent years.Though, art lovers might also admire near-photographic images reminiscent of classical and renaissance sculptures. This is possibly why a lot of people are impressed by bronze sculpture. Catching specific depiction of life through bronze is a feat for those with astute minds and artistic hands.
Bronze sculptures are produced using the lost wax casting approach. Which means that the sculptor should first make a mould of the image; this takes exceptional attention to make the image realistic later on. After that, molten bronze is carefully put in the mould, where it is kept to cool. When you go to a shop with bronze sculpture for sale, it is likely that the sculptures are forged this way.
Dark grey or blue-green staining on bronze is called patina; not like rust, patina serves as a protective layer over the bronze to stop additional oxidation. French bronze sculptures with patina tend to be stronger than freshly made red-gold bronze. Several sculptures purposely put patina on the sculpture by causing an effect using ammonium sulphide, liver of sulphur, or ferric nitrate. A distinctive light green patina known as verdigris is a result of chlorides, sulphides, and carbonates.
Certain sculptures are finalized with ormolu as opposed to corrosive substances. Ormolu is a combination of ground gold and soft bronze to give the bronze sculpture a gold-like appeal, making the bronze's strength unaffected. Ormolu finishing is prominent in French sculptures; it is significantly utilized in watches, fancy storage units, and candlesticks. For additional information, see BronzeSculpture.com.
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A reporter covering Anders Behring Breivik's trial marvels at the degree of civility Norwegians have shown him, considering the brutality of the July 2011 terror attacks and his lack of remorse.
Anders Behring Breivik sits in the Oslo Courthouse, Norway, Thursday, May 3, on the 11th day of the terror trial.
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EnlargeIn the first two weeks of Anders Behring Breivik's trial, the Norwegian man reiterated his conviction that he did the right thing when he killed 77 people on July 22, 2011 ? even if it meant shooting unarmed Labor party youth members as young as 14 trapped on an island or bombing government buildings in Oslo. Those killed were??legitimate political targets,? he said.
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The attacks were ?gruesome but necessary" for preventing Labor from continuing to undermine Norwegian society with its lenient immigration policies, Mr. Breivik said. The party had betrayed the country by promoting the Islamic colonization of Norway and ipso facto the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Norwegians. He would do it all again, he said.?
International onlookers have been shocked to see how civil the whole trial is proceeding, given the scale and brutality of his crimes ? together they are?the worst national tragedy the country has experienced since World War II ??and Breivik's lack of remorse.?
On April 16, the first day of the 10-week trial, a lineup of prosecutors, forensic psychiatrists, and the legal counsel for the victims all approached Breivik in court to shake his hand. Wearing a suit and neatly trimmed beard, he politely extended his right hand to greet them. Outside, people lined up orderly to enter Oslo District Court. There was not a single sign denouncing him, nor any banners calling for the death penalty.
On the second day of the trial, he was allowed to begin his six-day testimony of what happened in the years leading up to the attack, including his preparation for that day. At the end of the first week he recounted, in chilling detail, of how, after packing a ham and cheese sandwich that morning, he shot and killed 69 people at the Labor party youth summer camp on Ut?ya with a Glock pistol and Ruger semi-automatic rifle.
If this all sounds surreal, that?s because it is.?
It is surreal to see a well-dressed upper class man sit in a court and calmly explain how he killed Norwegians to prevent Norway?s demise. It?s incomprehensible to hear how a man, who supposedly had all the economic means and generous provisions of a cradle-to-grave welfare system, could turn into Norway?s most notorious killer in modern times. And that is part of what scares Norwegians: the thought that he is one of them.?
Despite the atrocity of his crimes and his behavior, Norwegians still want to see him get a fair trial. But that means?he has a legal right to explain himself in court, even if there is a risk that he spreads his propaganda. The trial is also key in determining Breivik's sanity, which is at the crux of this case. The prosecution even defended his right to keep reading from his prepared speech on his first day of testimony in spite of protests from the legal counsel for the victims, who were offended by his one-hour long monologue.?
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Costco bathroom is the scene of another free-range parenting controversy. If a 5-year-old is doing the potty dance in the check-out line, does a good mom allow her kid to use the bathroom alone?
When a 5-year-old did the potty dance in a Costco check-out line, one mother allowed her daughter to go to the toilet alone, courting some good mother vs. bad mother controversy in the process.
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Enlarge?Hi Readers! You?d think that, after a certain point, I would be inured to cultural confoundedness. (Or ?at least know how to write a sentence in English.) But in fact it is still amazing to me how wild the public imagination has become and how eager it is to imagine the most extremely unlikely, horrifying scenarios. It really is mass psychosis. And here?s just another instance of it, from Hannah Zuniga, a reader who describes herself as a Common Sense Mom.
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Lenore Skenazy is ?America?s Worst Mom.? (Google it!) The New York City columnist-turned-reality show host got that title after?letting her 9-year-old son take the subway alone. In response to the media blowback, she founded the book and?blog, ?Free-Range Kids,?? launching the anti-helicopter parenting movement. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.
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Dear Free-Range Kids: I received my first verbal hand slap regarding my child raising. I have a 5-year-old daughter, a 1-year-old son, and a third on the way. A few weeks ago I was checking out at Costco when my daughter, Elayna, said she had to go to the bathroom. I was at a register near the end where the bathroom was in plain sight, so I told her to go. (She has been allowed to use public bathrooms by herself for some time now, although I am always close by. We are also at Costco once a week, so she is well acquainted with the bathroom.) I finished checking out and pushed my cart and son over to the bathroom and waited for her to come out.
A 5-year-old alone in a public restroom?
After a few minutes, I began to wonder what was taking so long. I wasn?t worried, just curious. Then a woman came out and asked if I was waiting for a little girl in a dress. I said yes, and she told me that my daughter was washing her hands. She laughed and said, ?She seems to really like the hand dryers because she?s washed her hands at least three times.? I laughed, too, and a moment later my daughter came running out, holding up her hands for me to smell because they were so nice and clean. She was very proud of herself.
But what about the predators?
Later that evening, I told my husband, who thought it was funny. The next day, I told my mom, who also thought it was funny. A few days later, my mom told the women she worked with who were absolutely shocked and horrified that I let my daughter go in by herself: ?What if someone had taken her??
My mom tried to point out that I was close enough to see the bathroom the entire time and no one could have gotten past me with my daughter. She pointed out that in a busy place like Costco, it was very unlikely that anyone could kidnap a screaming little girl. She explained that my daughter had been allowed to use public bathrooms herself for the last six months, and that she is a smart, capable child. She also explained that, so far, the only issue Elayna had run into was that some restroom doors are very heavy and hard to open, but that was why Mom, Dad, Grandma, or Grandpa was always near by. Grandpa learned very quickly that Elayna could go in by herself and, if he was concerned, he could always ask one of the women coming or going to check on her, and these ?dangerous? strangers were always happy to help.
Would a good mom let her daughter go to the bathroom alone?
The women at my mom?s work were not mollified, and continued to go down the list of possible things that could have happened.
But they didn?t?happen. What happened was that I was able to check out without having to get out of line. My daughter didn?t have to do the potty dance while waiting for me. I didn?t have to abandon my shopping cart while juggling my son and purse just to stand and watch her do something she?s been capable of doing since she was two. And my daughter got a little boost of pride and self-confidence by doing something herself. But the overall consensus seems to be that I am a bad mother. I guess I?ll just have to live with it. ?- Hannah
Lenore here: And you?ll just have to live with most of us here thinking you are a smart and sane mother, raising what sounds like a lovely little girl!
The Christian Science Monitor has assembled a diverse group of the best family and parenting bloggers out there. Our contributing and guest bloggers are not employed or directed by the Monitor, and the views expressed are the bloggers' own, as is responsibility for the content of their blogs.?Lenore Skenazy?blogs at?Free-Range Kids.
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