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Fidel, Ra?l y Ram?n Castro
?Hugo Ch?vez Fr?as
?Y EL DIABLO LOS JUNTA
Una digresi?n: En la foto Fidel, Ra?l y Ram?n Castro visten n los uniformes de las Escuelas C?vico Militares que fund? Fulgencio Batista? en los a?os 30s del pasado siglo XX. Las Escuelas C?vico Militares? formaron parte de un gran movimiento social llevado a cabo por Batista mediante una comisi?n que se ocupaba de la Salud, el Deporte, la Educaci?n, etc.; usando para ello a las instituciones militares. En esa ?poca,? la cara amable del fascismo en la Argentina de Per?n, la Italia de Mussolini, etc.,? se utilizaba a las instituciones militares para obras sociales. No obstante, Herminio Almendros, un hombre que se refugi? en Cuba despu?s de la? derrota de la Rep?blica Espa?ola, rep?blica desbordada por los comunistas, por parte del franquismo, fue asesor de? las instituciones educativas batistianas de esa comisi?n. Su libro para ni?os y adolescentes? ?Oros Viejos?, fue publicado en Cuba.? Su hijo N?stor Almendros en los a?os 80s, realiz? el documental de testimonios antiCastristas ? Nadie escuchaba?.
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Arrebol y malos consejos
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Un libro sobre Ch?vez escrito por dos 'escribidores' cubanos entra en la campa?a electoral.
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Por Ra?l Rivero Madrid
29-09-2012
Un libro autobiogr?fico, una excursi?n a la ni?ez, la juventud y los a?os de gobernante de Hugo Ch?vez, ha entrado a ?ltima hora en la campa?a electoral de Venezuela. La obra, titulada Cuentos del ara?ero, hace todas las maromas posibles para dar una visi?n humana y familiar del hombre que descubri?, en 1999, el confort del palacio de Miraflores. Y quiere seguir all? otros seis a?os.
En medio de la guerra de encuestas y con las cifras de indecisos por encima del 20 por ciento de los convocados a los comicios del 7 de octubre, dos escribidores de Cuba salen a ponerle un poco de colorete a la figura del presidente mediante unas 260 p?ginas de vi?etas y fotos. Los episodios, que se cuentan en primera persona, son testimonios tomados por los expertos caribe?os de casi 400 programas de "Al? Presidente" en los que el dirigente venezolano habla durante horas sobre cualquier tema.
En los ?ltimos d?as se han distribuido gratis por todo el pa?s un mill?n de ejemplares de Cuentos del ara?ero. El t?tulo viene de una etapa de la infancia de Ch?vez en la que el futuro presidente ayudaba a su abuela a vender unos dulces de papaya llamados ara?as por los venezolanos.
Quienes trabajan para mantenerlo en el poder llevan ahora el panfleto en su carpeta de propaganda hasta los sitios donde creen que las urnas les ser?n m?s ariscas.
La visi?n de un ni?o humilde que ayudaba a su familia puede suavizar, ante el conflictivo escenario pre electoral, la imagen de intolerante y bullanguero que el se?or de Barinas se ha construido a mandarriazos. En ese pase de maquillaje le ayuda el libro. El problema es que el cap?tulo final est? dedicado a las relaciones de Ch?vez con Fidel Castro.
El mensaje de su maestro no habla del pasado ni de papayas en alm?bar. Contiene el desprecio natural por el valor de los votos y la obsesi?n ?nica del poder.
Es un advertencia (con miedo a?adido) sobre los riesgos de perder frente a la oposici?n. Ch?vez asegura que en una conversaci?n reciente Castro le dijo que si ganaban sus adversarios "la persecuci?n y el arrase ser? general. Ah? no van a perdonar a nadie... Mira el caso de Pinochet".
No se sabe qui?nes escribir?n los pr?ximos capitulos de esa autobiograf?a intempestiva.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States and its Gulf partners are looking to deepen cooperation on missile defense as tensions rise with Iran, and announcements could come soon on new purchases, U.S. officials said on Friday.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) officials in New York as Washington seeks to boost regional defenses against perceived Iranian threats.
"Our aim is to help our Gulf partners with their defense needs ... there is a missile threat that they face, we want to help them face that threat as best they can," one senior U.S. official said, previewing the meeting for reporters.
"We've had expressions of interest from our partners in the Gulf in additional missile defense capabilities," the official said. "We hope that we will be having announcements in the near future regarding those expressions of interest."
The official declined to provide specifics on the plans with the GCC, a political and economic alliance linking Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.
But Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon's top supplier by sales, received an initial $1.96 billion contract in December for two of its Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon systems for the United Arab Emirates, the first foreign sale of the system.
Lockheed has said other GCC members, including Saudi Arabia, have expressed interest. Other leading missile-defense contractors include Boeing Co, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman Corp.
Friday's talks reflect the increased tempo of U.S. efforts to put pressure on Tehran, which the United States and its allies say is seeking nuclear weapons capability under the cover of a civil program. Iran denies this, but has been hit with a series of international sanctions over its nuclear work.
SECURITY UMBRELLA
The United States has been working with Gulf states on a bilateral basis, not as a group, to boost the range of radar coverage and related capabilities across the Gulf for the earliest possible defense against any missiles fired by Iran.
The Pentagon said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who had planned to attend Friday's meeting along with White House Security Adviser Tom Donilon, was unable to make it due to bad weather in New York.
U.S. officials said the ultimate goal is a regional shield that can be coordinated with U.S. systems - parallel with Washington's drive to expand missile defense to protect NATO's European territory against ballistic missiles that could be fired by Iran.
The officials said expanded security cooperation with the Gulf is already bearing fruit and pointed to recent joint anti-mining exercises by the navies of 12 countries.
Iran has threatened to target U.S. interests in the Gulf, including military bases, and to block vital oil tanker routes in the Strait of Hormuz if it is attacked.
Plans for a joint missile shield in the Gulf have been on the table for some time, but progress has been slow due to unease among some GCC members about sharing data and where such a system would be commanded.
Individual Gulf states have acquired some advanced defense systems, including the latest versions of the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System. The United Arab Emirates has spent billions of dollars in recent years to protect its cities and oil infrastructure from missile attack.
(Reporting By Andrew Quinn; Editing by David Brunnstrom and Christopher Wilson)
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's butler, accused of using his access to the pope to steal papers that he thought would expose Vatican corruption, suffered a blow on Saturday's first day of his trial when judges refused to admit evidence from the Church's own investigation.
Gabriele's arrest in May, after police found confidential documents in his apartment inside the Vatican, not only threw a spotlight on allegations of malpractice but also pointed to a power struggle at the highest levels of the Church.
The 46-year-old Paolo Gabriele, an unassuming man who served the pope his meals and helped him dress, looked pale at his first public appearance since May. He smiled as he chatted with his lawyer but often staring into space during a hearing that lasted just under two and a half hours.
His lawyer, Cristiana Arru, had asked the court to allow as evidence the results of an inquiry by a commission of three cardinals who questioned Vatican employees, including prelates, about the leaks of the documents to Italian media.
But chief judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre, sitting before a crucifix and with a large, framed picture of Benedict looking down from the wall, said the commission answered only to the pope and had "no relevance" to the Vatican City's penal code.
According to an indictment issued in August, Gabriele told investigators he had acted because he saw "evil and corruption everywhere in the Church" and wanted to help root it out "because the pope was not sufficiently informed".
Domenico Giani, head of the Vatican police force, told the court that 82 boxes of evidence had been seized in Gabriele's apartments in the Vatican and in the papal summer residence.
Arru had wanted to see the commission's transcripts in the hope that they could help to explain her client's motives.
19TH CENTURY CODE
Instead, trial evidence will be based solely on the results of the investigation by a Vatican prosecutor and Vatican police.
The trial is being held under a 19th-century criminal code, so Gabriele did not enter a plea and did not speak. He is expected to testify when the trial resumes on Tuesday.
In a mostly procedural session, the court split off the case of Claudio Sciarpelletti, a Vatican computer expert charged with helping Gabriele who was not present in court.
The session was attended by eight police witnesses. The other four witnesses, including the pope's private secretary, Monsignor Georg Ganswein, were not present but are expected to give evidence next week. Gabriele's family also did not attend
Dalla Torre, wearing a black robe with gold epaulettes and a white, ruffled cravat, said he hoped to wind up the proceedings next week. It was not clear when the verdict would come.
The self-styled whistle-blower, who wore a smart light grey suit and light grey tie, could be jailed for four years.
Gabriele, who has said he saw himself as an "agent of the Holy Spirit", is widely expected to be found guilty because he has confessed.
"He has done harm by leaking this information because there will always be somebody who will take advantage of these things to denigrate the Church," said Rome resident Sergio Caldari in Saint Peter's Square.
Another local onlooker, Giovanni Maisto, said he was hopeful that the trial could mark "a new dimension of openness and transparency" in the Church's affairs.
Gabriele, a father of three who lived a simple but comfortable life in the city-state, told investigators after his arrest that he believed a shock "could be a healthy thing to bring the Church back on the right track".
MONTHS OF INTRIGUE
His capture capped nearly five months of intrigue and suspense after a string of documents and private letters found their way into the Italian media.
It was the latest embarrassment for a Church still reeling from the scandal of worldwide sexual abuse by members of its clergy.
The most notorious of the letters were written to the pope by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, currently Vatican's ambassador to Washington, who was deputy governor of the Vatican City at the time.
In one, Vigano complains that when he took office in 2009, he discovered corruption, nepotism and cronyism linked to the awarding of contracts to outside companies at inflated prices.
Vigano later wrote to the pope about a smear campaign against him by other Vatican officials who were upset that he had taken drastic steps to clean up the purchasing procedures.
Despite begging not to be moved, Vigano was later transferred to Washington by Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, effectively the Vatican's prime minister.
Since the papal state has no prison, Gabriele would serve time in an Italian jail, though the pope is widely expected to pardon him.
Television cameras, tape recorders and computers were not allowed into the court, a small, wood-paneled room with an ornate papal emblem on its ceiling.
The eight journalists allowed to cover the hearing were even blocked from bringing their own pens inside for fear that they could contain hidden recorders or cameras. (additional reporting by Gavin Jones and Eleanor Biles; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Today?s Federal Way vehicles have more electrical components and do-dads than ever before. This really strains your electrical system, making it hard for the battery to keep up. Think about it: electric seats, seat heaters, power locks, windows and sun roofs. And then we have all the power outlets for our cell phones, computers, and DVD players. We also have navigation systems and powerful stereos.
Plus there are all the truck engine and transmission computers, traction control, stability control, anti-lock brakes, sensors and on and on. Even the security system is running off the battery while the car is turned off. And of course, summer heat can take a real toll on battery life. Fortunately, battery technology has given Federal Way drivers resilient batteries that are able to meet these strenuous requirements. But the fact is; truck batteries just wear out over time. Eventually, every battery gets to the point where it cannot hold enough of a charge to start your car. Sometimes batteries need to be replaced because they have developed a leak.
Replacement batteries come in all shapes and sizes. Some Federal Way cars have limited space that requires a specially shaped battery to fit. Larger truck engines require more powerful batteries to get them started. If you live in a cold climate you will need a more powerful battery because engines are harder to start when it is cold.
In WA, batteries come in ?good?, ?better?, and ?best? grades. More expensive batteries may have a longer warranty and are guaranteed to last longer. As with most things Federal Way auto owners need to purchase to keep their cars in good condition, paying a little more up front saves money in the long run. Ask your knowledgeable NorthShore Automotive & RV Repair service advisor to test your battery and advise you on how much life it has left.
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I told you about a new feature from the Snapjoy team just the other day, but it seems like things are picking up for the small Boulder company. Co-founder Michael Dwan understands the dilemma of keeping all of your photos online and in one place, better than most companies I've ever discussed the subject with. It's that, combined with a beautiful design and comprehensive, yet simple, feature set, that impresses me.
The flagship model for Sony for this year is the Xperia T. However the company has responded well and backed it up with a budget Smartphone that will surely raise lots of eyebrows. The Sony Xperia J is well on its way to becoming one of the most successful phones from the house of Sony. The reasons are quite simple with loads of features and a stunning screen means that the Smartphone stands for itself. As far as the design and curves are concerned, Sony is spot on. The phone fits into the hand exceptionally well all thanks to the rubber back of the phone. If you are a fan of solid body built, then the Xperia J will not disappoint you at all. A close look at the Xperia T would reveal that the Xperia J is largely based on the design of Xperia T but of course has lots of variations. For an instance the Xpera J allows you to open up the back cover and have access to the sim card slot along with the micro SD card slot.
Sony made sure that the Xperia J is not shy of features so that people consider it to be good value for their money. That is the very reason this Smartphone comes with a 1GHz single core processor which is good enough to carry out most of the operations and application without any issues. The phone also comes with a 512Mb RAM which is again good enough but not the best. But then it is supposed to be a budget phone, so one cannot expect to have all the best features stuffed inside it. However the 4-inch FWVGA screen is the highlight of the phone. The screen is large and bright and the 480 x 854 resolution makes sure pictures and videos are rich with colors and sharp as well. The phone features Android Ice Cream Sandwichh, the latest os available under the Android banner.
The phone has a 5Mp camera along with LED flash so that you can take pictures anywhere. However the camera application does take couple of seconds to start up. Presence of a secondary camera in front ensures it can be used for 3G with ease. The battery back-up of Xperia J is pretty decent as well. If you are looking for a good looking and decent performing Smartphone that is affordable, Xperia J might be a good choice.
In a new survey from Canada, 45 percent of people said that money is an acceptable incentive for organ donations from living donors, while 70 percent of survey respondents said that cash is an acceptable enticement for people to donate their organs after death.
"We do need to consider a system where we compensate people for their giving," said study researcher Dr. Braden Manns, professor of nephrology at the University of Calgary in Canada.
The idea of paying organ donors is not new. "We have more patients on dialysis, but we don't have more donors; so we're looking at other ways to motivate people to donate," Manns said.
However, while the survey found that many people's think cash incentives are acceptable, people's answers may be different than their opinions when faced with the grueling realities of donations.
"Surveys are quick measures of people's feelings that may be relatively uninformed," said Peter H. Schwartz, a faculty investigator at the Indiana University Center for Bioethics who had no role in the new study.
Cash for kidneys?
In North America, "opt-in" organ donation programs are common; people must actively to choose to donate. In Europe, it's more common for countries to have "opt-out" programs, in which people become organ donors unless they expressely state they wish otherwise.
"Every option raises at least some concerns," Schwartz said. In opt-in programs, relatives can still control whether a person's organs are actually donated after their death. "We need to do better at encouraging organ donations," he said.
While selling organs is illegal, financial incentives are common in Canada and the U.S; these typically take the form of reimbursements from foundations for funeral expenses for deceased donors, and tax breaks from the government on expenses incurred during recovery for living donors, according to policy researchers.
Manns and colleagues looked at whether people would find it acceptable for additional incentives, to compensate living donors for the time and inconvenience involved in having surgery.
They conducted their web-based survey in October 2011, and included 2,004 people in the general public ? a nationally representative sample from Canada ? along with 339 health professionals and 268 people affected by kidney disease.
Results showed that health care workers were least likely to support the idea of financial incentives for donors. Just 14 percent said it was a good idea, whereas 45 percent of the general public said so.
The kidney disease patients fell in the middle range, with 27 percent saying paying for organs should be allowed.
"Very often, the reason health professionals give for their opposition to financial incentives is that the public would find them to be objectionable, but as this study and others suggest, the greatest source of concern is the health professionals themselves," said Robert Truog, director of clinical ethics at Harvard Medical School.
Though health care professionals may find financial incentives unpalatable, a regulated system would work, Truog said.
What kind of system would work?
One problem with offering financial incentives is that the organ transplant communitiy is deeply committed to the view that organs are always "gifts," and never "commodities." This view has always been problematic, but has become increasingly so as the shortage of organs has become more pronounced, and in the face of compelling arguments for the ethical use of financial incentives," Truog said.
Public support for financial incentives does not mean that they would work to increase organ transplants, he said.
"It's the physicians who actually perform the transplants; if they're not behind (financial incentives), they're not going to take part in it," George Annas, a bioethicist at Boston University School of Public Health, told MyHealthNewsDaily.
"People need to stop looking at just the supply side, but look at the demand side," Annas said, including preventative and less invasive medical interventions along with figuring out the underlying causes of the diseases.
"People can't let go of the notion of this as a cash-and-carry type of business," he said.
The survey results are detailed today (Sept. 27) in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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Bank?of?America?says it has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit related to its acquisition of Merrill Lynch.?Investors that bought or held?Bank?of?America?stock when the company announced its plans to buy Merrill Lynch claim that the bank made misleading statements about both companies' financial health.
By The Associated Press / September 28, 2012
Tourists walk past a Bank of America banking center in Times Square in New York in this June 2012 file photo.The bank has agreed to pay $2.43 billion in a lawsuit related to its acquisition of Merrill Lynch.
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?Bank?of?America?says it has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit related to its acquisition of Merrill Lynch.
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The lawsuit was filed on behalf of investors that bought or held?Bank?of?America?stock when the company announced its plans to buy Merrill Lynch as the?banking?industry and federal government struggled to contain fallout from the financial crisis in the fall of 2008.
Among the plaintiffs allegations was that?Bank?of?America?and some of its officers made false or misleading statements about both companies' financial health.
In announcing the proposed settlement on Friday,?Bank?of?America?denied the allegations and says it agreed to the settlement to get rid of the uncertainties, burden and costs related to the lawsuit.
"As we work to put these long-standing issues behind us, our primary focus is on the future and serving our customers and clients,"?Bank?of?America?CEO Brian Moynihan said in a statement.
The settlement still needs court approval and will be reviewed by Judge Kevin Castel in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
As part of the settlement, the?bank?has also agreed to adopt several corporate governance policies until Jan. 1, 2015. These policies include those related to majority voting in board member elections, annual disclosure of noncompliance with stock ownership guidelines, policies for a board committee regarding future acquisitions, the independence of the board's compensation committee and its compensation consultants and conducting an annual "say-on-pay" vote by shareholders.
The?bank?said Friday that it will pay for the settlement with existing litigation reserves and about $1.6 billion in litigation expense that will be recorded in its third quarter. The company cautioned that this expense, coupled with some other charges, is expected to lower its third-quarter earnings by about 28 cents per share.
Bank?of?America?will report its third-quarter financial results on Oct. 17.
Shares of?Bank?of?America?Corp. fell 7 cents to $8.90 in premarket trading Friday.
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Exposure to snot-nosed kids ups severity of cold infectionsPublic release date: 26-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Tom Rickey tom_rickey@urmc.rochester.edu 585-275-7954 University of Rochester Medical Center
Exposure to school-age children raises the odds that a person with lung disease who catches a cold will actually suffer symptoms like a runny nose, sore throat and cough, according to a study just published in the Journal of Clinical Virology.
That finding, the result of a study that drew upon a databank of 1,000 samples of sputum and nasal secretions from people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, comes as a surprise, says Ann Falsey, M.D., professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester and an infectious disease expert at Rochester General Hospital. Falsey is senior author of the study, which was led by first author Anurag Gandhi, M.D., an infectious disease fellow at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
"Before we conducted this study, I would have expected other factors, perhaps the severity of underlying disease the state of the patient's general health to indicate who would actually suffer symptoms from their colds," said Falsey. "Instead, contact with school-age children is the only risk factor we found, and it increases both the risk of infection and also the risk of suffering symptoms once you've caught a cold."
Many studies, including this one, have found that being around school-age children increases the risk of infection, but the new findings go one step further. Of people who come down with colds, the course of the infection is much more likely to be worse in people exposed to children.
In everyday life, many people have no symptoms and don't even realize it when they catch a cold. It comes as no surprise that Gandhi and Falsey found that more than one-third of people infected with a rhinovirus, the bug that causes most colds, had no symptoms.
But further analysis of the data showed that of those people who were infected, people whose infection turned into real-life symptoms congestion, runny nose, sore throat, hoarseness and so on were about twice as likely to have contact with school-age children as people whose infections did not become symptomatic.
While the study was not designed to tease out a possible explanation, Falsey said it's possibly because colds run a bit more rampant in young children. That's because they haven't had many years to build up immunity to the vast family of rhinoviruses that we encounter repeatedly throughout our lives. Children's colds simply tend to be worse; they have more nasal secretions, for instance, as anyone who has tracked a sick child throughout a household will attest.
"We know that kids shed more virus longer when they get a cold," Falsey said. "It may be that your chance of developing cold symptoms is related to the amount of virus you're exposed to, and if you're around small children, you're exposed to more virus. The idea makes sense, but it's speculation at this point."
To avoid colds, Falsey counsels everyone people with emphysema like those in the study, but everyone else as well to practice good hand hygiene. That means washing your hands often, especially after you have sneezed or covered your mouth when coughing. Also, avoid touching your eyes and nose as much as possible. And, try to avoid sick children.
"We all know that children are efficient germ-spreading vectors," said Falsey, "and we know that young children oftentimes don't have ideal hygiene habits. It's not unusual for them to accidentally sneeze in your face, for instance. If you have a grandchild who is sick, it may simply be smart to plan a visit for another day."
The study relied upon close monitoring and sampling of 127 people with emphysema who were evaluated six times each during one year. At all visits, nasal secretions were sampled, and sputum samples were obtained when available.
Gandhi and Falsey's analysis of the resulting 1,000 samples of bodily fluids, stored for nearly a decade at minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit, also turned up another unexpected finding. They found that adults who were on home oxygen use were somewhat protected against the added risk posed by schoolchildren. Again, the study was not designed to answer why, since the finding was unexpected. It could be, for instance, that young children were more apt to avoid close contact with adults who were wired up with tubes and apparatus that are scary to many children.
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Other authors of the study include Edward Walsh, M.D., professor of Medicine at URMC and an infectious disease expert at RGH; biostatisticians Derick Peterson and Andrea Baran of the University of Rochester Medical Center; and technician Maria Formica and nurses Patricia Hennessey and Mary Criddle at Rochester General Hospital.
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Exposure to snot-nosed kids ups severity of cold infectionsPublic release date: 26-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Tom Rickey tom_rickey@urmc.rochester.edu 585-275-7954 University of Rochester Medical Center
Exposure to school-age children raises the odds that a person with lung disease who catches a cold will actually suffer symptoms like a runny nose, sore throat and cough, according to a study just published in the Journal of Clinical Virology.
That finding, the result of a study that drew upon a databank of 1,000 samples of sputum and nasal secretions from people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, comes as a surprise, says Ann Falsey, M.D., professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester and an infectious disease expert at Rochester General Hospital. Falsey is senior author of the study, which was led by first author Anurag Gandhi, M.D., an infectious disease fellow at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
"Before we conducted this study, I would have expected other factors, perhaps the severity of underlying disease the state of the patient's general health to indicate who would actually suffer symptoms from their colds," said Falsey. "Instead, contact with school-age children is the only risk factor we found, and it increases both the risk of infection and also the risk of suffering symptoms once you've caught a cold."
Many studies, including this one, have found that being around school-age children increases the risk of infection, but the new findings go one step further. Of people who come down with colds, the course of the infection is much more likely to be worse in people exposed to children.
In everyday life, many people have no symptoms and don't even realize it when they catch a cold. It comes as no surprise that Gandhi and Falsey found that more than one-third of people infected with a rhinovirus, the bug that causes most colds, had no symptoms.
But further analysis of the data showed that of those people who were infected, people whose infection turned into real-life symptoms congestion, runny nose, sore throat, hoarseness and so on were about twice as likely to have contact with school-age children as people whose infections did not become symptomatic.
While the study was not designed to tease out a possible explanation, Falsey said it's possibly because colds run a bit more rampant in young children. That's because they haven't had many years to build up immunity to the vast family of rhinoviruses that we encounter repeatedly throughout our lives. Children's colds simply tend to be worse; they have more nasal secretions, for instance, as anyone who has tracked a sick child throughout a household will attest.
"We know that kids shed more virus longer when they get a cold," Falsey said. "It may be that your chance of developing cold symptoms is related to the amount of virus you're exposed to, and if you're around small children, you're exposed to more virus. The idea makes sense, but it's speculation at this point."
To avoid colds, Falsey counsels everyone people with emphysema like those in the study, but everyone else as well to practice good hand hygiene. That means washing your hands often, especially after you have sneezed or covered your mouth when coughing. Also, avoid touching your eyes and nose as much as possible. And, try to avoid sick children.
"We all know that children are efficient germ-spreading vectors," said Falsey, "and we know that young children oftentimes don't have ideal hygiene habits. It's not unusual for them to accidentally sneeze in your face, for instance. If you have a grandchild who is sick, it may simply be smart to plan a visit for another day."
The study relied upon close monitoring and sampling of 127 people with emphysema who were evaluated six times each during one year. At all visits, nasal secretions were sampled, and sputum samples were obtained when available.
Gandhi and Falsey's analysis of the resulting 1,000 samples of bodily fluids, stored for nearly a decade at minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit, also turned up another unexpected finding. They found that adults who were on home oxygen use were somewhat protected against the added risk posed by schoolchildren. Again, the study was not designed to answer why, since the finding was unexpected. It could be, for instance, that young children were more apt to avoid close contact with adults who were wired up with tubes and apparatus that are scary to many children.
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Other authors of the study include Edward Walsh, M.D., professor of Medicine at URMC and an infectious disease expert at RGH; biostatisticians Derick Peterson and Andrea Baran of the University of Rochester Medical Center; and technician Maria Formica and nurses Patricia Hennessey and Mary Criddle at Rochester General Hospital.
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American author William Faulkner was born on Sept. 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi. Uninterested in school, he dropped out after 11th grade without receiving a high school diploma. After applying for the US Army and being rejected because of his height (he was 5?5??), Faulkner enlisted with the Canadian Air Force, but never fought. When he returned from the war, he enrolled in the University of Mississippi and began writing for the university?s paper and magazine. In 1942 he published his first book of poetry, "The Marble Faun," but it received negative reviews and little notice. During a trip to New Orleans Faulkner met Sherwood Anderson, author of "Winesburg, Ohio," and was inspired to try novel writing. Between the years of 1926 and 1931, Faulkner wrote: "Mosquitoes" (1927), "Sartoris" (1929), "The Sound and Fury" (1929), and "As I Lay Dying" (1930). However, he received little attention for any of them. ("As I Lay Dying" was written during night shifts while Faulkner worked at a power plant.) It was "Sanctuary" (1929) that finally gained him literary attention. The next several books he wrote sold better than anything he had written before, and Faulkner went on to write several of his most celebrated works, including "Light in August" (1932) and "Absalom, Absalom!" (1936). Faulkner earned little money from his books, however, and, consequently worked as a Hollywood screenwriter. In 1950, Faulkner was awarded the Novel Prize for Literature, which finally brought him acknowledgement and financial success.?
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1. Conscience
"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."
Even my three year old asks to take money out of his piggy bank to buy ice cream while we are out, so this begs the question ? when IS the best time to set up a bank account for the kids? I feel like it?s never too early to teach your kids the importance of money ? earning, saving and spending. So I feel more inclined to let Luke buy something small while we?re out with his own money but my husband feels it?s more important to emphasize teaching him to save his money. He makes a good point?without saving your money there is no spending! Both are equally important lessons and with most things in life, balance is key!
I know a lot of people who set up bank accounts for the kids from birth, because they have family and friends who prefer to start sending money as gifts for their savings early on and others who wait until they are old enough to understand the value of money. Either way, it?s a great way to help with their savings and teach them the importance and value of money from an early age.
We?ve known relatives who have started special savings accounts which I love because they are education based and as the kids turn 18 they are able to use the money towards ANY educational classes, not just college classes. So if they decide to take cooking classes, art classes etc. they can still use the money that?s been saved for them!
What?s YOUR preference for when to open and bank account for the kids and how have you managed it? Do you have family and friends send money for a bank account to start the kids savings early or are you planning to wait until they get their first job as a teenager??
WASHINGTON (Reuters)- For those who believe in a clash of civilizations between the Islamic world and Western democracy, the last few weeks must seem like final confirmation of their theory.
Even those who reject the term as loaded and simplistic speak sadly of a perhaps catastrophic failure of understanding between Americans in particular and many Muslims.
The outrage and violence over a crude film ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad points to a chasm between Western free speech and individualism and the sensitivities of some Muslims over what they see as a campaign of humiliation.
There seems no shortage of forces on both sides to fan the flames. The tumult over the video had not even subsided when a French magazine this week printed a new cartoon showing the prophet naked.
"It's ridiculous," Zainab Al-Suwaij, executive director of the America Islamic Congress, said of the violence that on Friday killed 15 in Pakistan alone as what were supposed to be peaceful protests turned violent.
"Yes, this video is offensive but it is clearly a grotesque over reaction that in part is being whipped up by radical Islamists in the region for their own ends. But it does show you the depth of misunderstanding between the cultures."
Starting last week with a few relatively small embassy protests and a militant attack in Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three others, violence has since spread to more than a dozen countries across the Middle East and Asia.
Despite the focus on religion, few doubt there are other drivers of confrontation.
The war on terrorism, U.S. drone strikes, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Guantanamo Bay prison simply continue, in many Muslims' perceptions, centuries of Western meddling, hypocrisy and broken promises.
Meanwhile, many Americans see those regions as an inexplicable source of terrorism, hostage-taking, hatred and chaos. In Europe, those same concerns have become intertwined with other battles over immigration and multiculturalism.
"It has always been a difficult relationship and in the last decades it has become even more delicate," said Akbar Ahmed, chair of Islamic studies at American University in Washington. "Even a seemingly minor matter can upset the balance. ... What is needed is more sensitivity and understanding on both sides, but that is difficult to produce."
Not all the news from the region indicates an unbridgeable gap. Many Libyans, especially young ones, came out to mourn Ambassador Chris Stevens after his death and make clear that militants who killed him did not speak for them. Thousands of Libyans marched in Benghazi on Friday to protest the Islamist militias that Washington blames for the attack.
SPREADING DEMOCRACY AND MAKING FRIENDS
Still, the "Arab Spring" appears not to have made as many friends for America as Americans might have hoped.
The very countries in which Washington helped facilitate popular-backed regime change last year - Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen - are seeing some of the greatest anti-West backlash.
The young pro-democracy activists who leapt to the fore in 2011, Washington now believes, have relatively little clout. That leaves U.S. and European officials having to deal with groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood.
There is concern that regional governments such as Egypt might now be playing a "double game", saying one thing to the U.S. while indulging in more anti-Western rhetoric at home.
It may be something Washington must get used to.
"What you're seeing now is that (regional governments) are much more worried about their own domestic population - which means being seen as too close to the U.S. is suddenly ... a liability," says Jon Alterman, a former State Department official and now Middle East specialist at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
The current U.S. administration is not the first to discover democracy does not always directly translate into the sort of governments it would like to see.
In 2006, the election victory of Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip was seen helping prompt the Bush White House to abandon a post-911 push towards for democratic change, sending it back towards Mubarak-type autocrats.
Rachel Kleinfeld, CEO and co-founder of the Truman National Security Project, a body often cited by the Obama campaign on foreign policy, said the new political leadership often had less flexibility than the dictators before them.
"Is that difficult for the U.S.? Yes, of course. But it would be a mistake to simply look at what is happening and decide we should go back to supporting autocrats," she said.
The popular image of the United States in the Middle East stands in stark contrast to the way Americans view themselves.
Western talk of democracy and human rights is often seen hollow, with Washington and Europe only abandoning autocratic leaders when their fate was already sealed and continuing to back governments such as Bahrain still accused of repression.
"The simple truth is that the American people are never going to understand the region because they never ask the right question - which is what it feels like to be on the receiving end of American power," says Rosemary Hollis, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at London's City University.
MINEFIELD AHEAD
Whoever wins the White House in November will face a string of challenges across the region.
As it faces down Iran over its nuclear program, while backing rebels in Syria and governments in the Gulf, Washington risks being drawn ever deeper into the historic Sunni-Shi'ite sectarian divide within Islam.
Already having to face up to its dwindling influence over Iraq, it must broker its exit from Afghanistan and try to keep nuclear armed Pakistan from chaos.
Then, there are relations with its two key regional allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, both troublesome in different ways.
Israel is threatening military action against Iran over its nuclear program, and U.S. officials fear Americans would feel the consequences if Israel does attack.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains deadlocked, and Obama's rival for the presidency, Republican Mitt Romney, indicated in comments earlier this year and made public this month that he sees little chance of any change there.
Saudi Arabia might be a key oil producer and occasionally invaluable ally, but analysts say some rich Saudis, if not the government itself, have long funded and fueled Islamist and Salifist extremism and perhaps also Sunni-Shi'ite tension.
Said Sadek, professor of politics at the American University in Cairo, said people in the Middle East still prefer Obama to the alternative. "He is seen as the only president to ever really reach out to the Middle East. But (it) is a difficult place," he said. "The countries that have gone through revolutions were always going to be unstable. ... You could have perhaps 5 to 15 years of instability."
While many Americans would like nothing more than to turn their backs on the region, Obama made clear this week he does not see that as an option: "The one thing we can't do is withdraw from the region," he said. "The United States continues to be the one indispensable nation."
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FILLING a cup from this tap would take 40,000 years, but luckily its raison d'?tre has nothing to do with quenching thirst. The trickle in question flows along a silicon chip and is the slowest ever recorded. Its detection should speed up the creation of the first fully electronic lab-on-a-chip.
Such devices are too small for fluids flowing through them to be visible, but measuring the flow rate of an extremely small sample of blood, say, can help detect traces of disease. It is possible to do this using lasers and fluorescent markers, but to interpret the results, the optical signals must be converted into electrical ones, which is cumbersome.
Klaus Mathwig of the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands, and his colleagues wondered whether they could detect tiny flow rates using only electronics. They carved a tunnel, 100 micrometres long, 5 micrometres wide and just 130 nanometres high, in a silicon chip and placed electrodes at each end. Then they pumped through water spiked with electrochemically active molecules, which register a characteristic electrical signal as they flow past the electrodes. This allowed the researchers to measure the fluid's flow rate (Physical Review Letters, doi.org/jcs).
The slowest flow rate recorded was 10 picolitres per minute, a third as fast as the previous lowest flow of 30 picolitres per minute, which was measured optically. "This is the smallest flow reported," confirms team member Serge Lemay.
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There are a lot of benefits to having aged care at home for your elderly loved ones. Home aged care helps them to retain their sense of independence while it provides them with a healthy and safe environment.
The elderly among us were once young and vibrant. They could do all of their chores efficiently and they could take care of themselves. It be very worrying for a senior when they start having difficulty performing some of the tasks they once took for granted. Simple things like dressing themselves, preparing meals, and walking to the mailbox can start to become difficult.
Some elderly members move into the homes of other family members so they will be safe and have someone near when they need a helping hand. This can be a good solution, but some elders would prefer to remain in their own home and retain some independence.
Aged care at home can provide the support an elder to remain in their own home for longer. Falls in the house are common and one of the number one reasons that the elderly have to leave their homes and live in nursing facilities. Personal carers can help ensure a safe environment.
Home aged care workers can help their clients to prepare nutritious meals and can help them establish an exercise regime. They can provide them with companionship and help them maintain social interactions and connections with the local community.
Home aged care nurses and personal care assistants can be employed in a variety of different ways from just a few hours per week to a live in position. Where the elderly person as a health condition a nurse can be employed to dress wounds, administer medications, alert the doctor to changes in the persons eating habits or medical status. Many of the people that use aged care at home receive visits from nurses may live with other family members. Healthcare professionals who have specialized in geriatric patients and are reaching retirement can be engaged to help an elderly patient to stay at home instead of having to go to nursing home facility or hospital.
People who receive home aged care often stay healthier and healthier for longer. The aged care at home services help prevents falls, offer important social interactions, help patients heal quicker from injuries, ensure a healthy diet and help keep the patient active.
Home aged care allows elderly patients to receive help with their daily activities and to remain living in their homes instead of in nursing facilities. Aged care at home is a way for families to be sure their elderly relatives are being taken care of when they cannot be with them.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon knows that even after a much-needed victory, his team still has an uphill battle to make the AL playoffs.
Desmond Jennings hit a two-run triple during Tampa Bay's seven-run sixth-inning, and the Rays snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Boston Red Sox 13-3 on Wednesday night.
Despite the win, Tampa Bay fell 6 1/2 games behind the AL East-leading New York Yankees, who swept a day-night doubleheader against Toronto. The Rays started play six games back in the AL wild-card race.
"We want to do a little of Minnesota Fats ... got to run the table," Maddon said. "We've got to believe we can do it. We have to get really hot. We have no alternative. The standings are very difficult, but we are alive and kicking."
Jennings also scored following his triple against reliever Alfredo Aceves when the throw from the outfield eluded third baseman Pedro Ciriaco.
Four Boston pitchers walked six in the sixth, including passes to Carlos Pena and Jose Molina with the bases loaded. Luke Scott had a sacrifice fly, and Jeff Keppinger added an RBI single.
"Walks are the killer bee," Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said.
Keppinger hit a solo homer, and Pena added a two-shot off Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-6) as Tampa Bay went ahead 5-3 in the fourth.
Chris Archer (1-3) allowed three runs and five hits in five innings for the Rays, who won for the second time in nine games. It was the rookie's first major league win.
"It feels pretty good," Archer said. "This is a classic example of keep the team in the game for as long as you can and they'll pull it out for you. I think it was big all around tonight. It's hard not to be selfish, but as a team it's awesome that we got the win, and for it to be my first one, that's pretty amazing, too."
The Red Sox (68-82), assured of their first losing season since 1997, got two RBIs from Jacoby Ellsbury.
Boston took a 3-1 lead in the third on Ellsbury's run-scoring single and an RBI grounder by Dustin Pedroia. Ellsbury has 10 RBIs in his last 11 games.
Ben Zobrist, who drove in four runs in the Rays' 7-5 loss to Boston on Tuesday, cut the deficit to 3-2 with an RBI single later in the third.
Tampa Bay loaded the bases with no outs during the second on singles by Evan Longoria, Scott and Keppinger. The Rays scored just once to tie it at 1 when Matt Joyce followed with a walk. Matsuzaka avoided further damage by striking out Pena and getting a double-play grounder from Molina.
Joyce also had an eighth-inning RBI single.
Matsuzaka gave up five runs and nine hits in three-plus innings. The right-hander is 2-8 in 14 starts against Tampa Bay.
"After the first inning, I kept throwing it where they wanted the ball, and they never miss those pitches. It really hurt me," Matsuzaka said through an interpreter. "As always I'm disappointed in myself for not helping my team out. It's been really hard to keep the positive going so far."
Valentine didn't directly answer a question about whether Matsuzaka will make another start this season.
"We'll see what he's feeling like (Thursday)," Valentine said. "Maybe a little more rest is what's needed at this time of year."
Matsuzaka had elbow ligament replacement surgery in June 2011 and started this season on the disabled list.
Ciriaco had a leadoff single in the first, stole second, and scored on Ellsbury's single to make it 1-0. Ciriaco is 15-for-15 in stolen-base attempts this season.
Notes: Tampa Bay LHP David Price (18-5) will go for his 19th win this season against Boston RHP Clay Buchholz (11-6) in the finale of the four-game series on Thursday night. ... Red Sox RHP Daniel Bard faced five batters. He walked three and gave up one hit. ... Aceves allowed four runs in two-plus innings. ... Justin Gatlin, the 100-meter bronze medalist at the London Olympics, threw the ceremonial first pitch.
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LATEST UPDATE: 9/19/12, 5:40 p.m. The information published about John Cena's recovery was given to WWE.com prior to surgery. In speaking to Dr. Andrews after the procedure, in light of the amount of work that needed to be done and the number of bone chips removed, the prognosis for recovery is closer to six to eight weeks. Knowing John Cena, the former WWE Champion will do everything he needs to get back in the ring as soon as possible.
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John Cena addressed the Cenation following surgery Tuesday afternoon. Cena tweeted:
Leaving the #AndrewsInstitute what a super surgeon #DrJamesAndrews is. U guys have my word, i will do whatever i can to be active ASAP ...
Because of who I have become, i DAILY deal with large doses of negativity. No biggie, always #riseabovehate but seeing all your messages ...
Really means alot to me and I just want to say thanks ...
Oh.. And @CMPunk u TIED a guy with a blown up ankle, and a shattered arm ... what say when i get healthy ...
We show the @wwe who #thechamp really is? And why would u even try and borrow @therock stuff, stick with #hitman n #macho #dontangerdwayne
9/18/12, 5:15 p.m. Update
WWE.com has learned John Cena had surgery to remove bone chips in his right elbow today. Dr. Andrews removed several pieces of bone cartilage from Cena's elbow through a scope.
?He had begun to lose motion in his arm, and it had been locking up,? Andrews said. ?I performed an orthoscopic procedure on his elbow and took out a bunch of spurs. Everything went really well.? Andrews described the procedure as ?straight-forward? despite Cena?s ?big, old arm.?
?Cena?s rehab will start on Monday with trying to improve his range of motion and getting the swelling down,? Andrews explained.
Cena is expected to recover in two to three weeks. As more information comes available, WWE.com will inform the WWE Universe.
Un libro autobiogr?fico, una excursi?n a la ni?ez, la juventud y los a?os de gobernante de Hugo Ch?vez, ha entrado a ?ltima hora en la campa?a electoral de Venezuela. La obra, titulada Cuentos del ara?ero, hace todas las maromas posibles para dar una visi?n humana y familiar del hombre que descubri?, en 1999, el confort del palacio de Miraflores. Y quiere seguir all? otros seis a?os.
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