Pope presides over final general audience

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI is preparing for his final general audience, the weekly appointment he kept with the faithful and tourists to teach them about the Catholic faith.

Some 50,000 tickets have been requested for Benedict's final master class in St. Peter's Square; thousands more people are expected to pack the main boulevard leading to the piazza to watch Wednesday's audience on giant TV screens.

On Tuesday, the Vatican said Benedict would in retirement continue to wear the white cassock of the papacy and be called "emeritus pope" or "Your Holiness," raising questions about the peculiar situation soon to confront the church: having a reigning and a retired pope, living side-by-side.

The Vatican says it foresees no problems and Benedict has said he will pray and be "hidden to the world."

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How to Stop Facebook from Making Its New Notification Sounds

Recently, Facebook started rolling out a new "feature" that plays a sound every time you receive a notification. Luckily, there's an easy way to turn it off.

Facebook Chat already makes a sound whenever you receive a message, but this feature makes a sound when you receive any notification. Here's how to turn that feature off:

1. Click on the gear in the upper right-hand corner and go to Account Settings > Notifications. Alternatively, you can click here to go there directly.
2. Under "How You Get Notifications," click the "View" link next to "On Facebook."
3. Uncheck the box that says "Play a Sound When Each New Notification Is Received." Then click "Save Changes."

This has been rolling out since November, and not everyone has the feature yet. However, this setting affects Facebook Chat's notifications too, so everyone should have it. If you haven't gotten the new "feature," you can still head into the settings now and turn it off before it rolls out to you.

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European Commission invests ?50 million into 5G research with a 2020 target

You're still waiting to get 4G? That's old hat: the European Commission is already thinking about 5G. It's investing €50 million ($65.3 million) into research with the hope that the next-next-generation cellular technology will be a practical reality by 2020. About €16 million ($20.9 million) of that is headed toward METIS, an Ericsson-led alliance hoping to develop wireless with 10 to 100 times the capacity, a similar increase in speed and just a fifth of the lag. Like a UK parallel, though, there's only so much technology talk the Commission can offer at this stage. The funding is as much for regional pride as progress -- officials want 5G to be a Europe-led affair after Asia and North America took center stage on 4G.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/26/european-commission-invests-50-million-into-5g-cellular-research/

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iTunes in the Cloud looks to be hitting parts of Europe with TV series, films

While stateside users might complain that we get all the good stuff in Europe first, Apple's iTunes in the Cloud for movies and TV shows has finally got around to rolling in to France and other parts of Europe, eons after it came out in the US. We confirmed that the new functionality works in France, which lets you buy films and TV shows from a computer, Apple TV or iOS device, then download it for free from the cloud on another. Others have reported by Twitter that it's working in Holland and Sweden as well, making it the first big move for the service since it rolled into the UK, Australia and Canada last summer. Until now, users in those nations were only able to download books, apps and music purchased in iTunes from the cloud. There's still no word from Apple about the move, however, and the list of supported countries hasn't been updated for those features -- so we'll enjoy it for now and hope Cupertino doesn't change its mind.

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Why America?s Charities Are So Uncharitable

Nastia Liukin (right) visits with Emily Crowley at Boston Children's Hospital in 2010. The charitable hospital was recently cited in a government report for its high charges despite sitting on $2.6 billion in investment assets.

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In the 2009 movie Whip It, Ellen Page plays Bliss Cavendar, a 17-year-old from Bodeen, Texas. Bliss is a social misfit yearning to break out of the constraints of small-town culture. After spotting a flier on a trip to Austin, she finds refuge in the speed, violence, and vaguely illicit appeal of Roller Derby. Skating under the name of ?Babe Ruthless,? she becomes a star, a vision of youth and purity amid the tattoos and beer-soaked sexuality of the sport. But her passion for skating quickly collides with her mother?s view of feminine propriety. Mom is horrified to discover her daughter?s love of Roller Derby and tries to bar her from the championship match.

What Bliss needed was a better strategy. She should have argued that her Roller Derby competitions were a socially sanctioned charitable activity, akin to the Red Cross or?better yet?the Junior League. Meet the Renegade Roller Girls of Bend, Ore. Like their fictitious Texas cousins, they promise violence and scantily clad action in the ?hottest show in town, with our no holds barred play,? and they display the same affection for in-rink violence. But unlike the league in the movie, they do not operate in the shadows of abandoned warehouses; instead, they are registered as a 501(c)3 organization, approved as a public charity by the Internal Revenue Service.

The Renegade Rollers are hardly alone. In 2008, the same year that the roller-skating outfit received its charitable status, the IRS approved, along with 50,000 other new charities, the applications of the All Colorado Beer Festival and the Grand Canyon Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. In fact, the IRS routinely approves more than 99.8 percent of the applications it receives for public charity status, often in very short order. In truth, starting a charity takes little more than a stamp, $400 for the filing fee, and a passing facility for filling out government forms.

There are more than 1.1 million charities in the United States, and it is perhaps not surprising that some cases slip through the crack. But the story of the Renegade Roller Girls reveals something more basic about our system for identifying what is or is not a charity. Roughly put, we don?t have one. The failure of the IRS and other regulators to act as gatekeepers has consequences that go beyond a few amusing anecdotes. There are substantial economic costs in the form of lost income tax and property tax revenue from organizations that hardly qualify as charities (as well as the deductions taken by their donors). It also means that more and more charities are competing for a finite amount of money from public and private donors, diminishing the effectiveness of real charities. And when people become aware of this problem, it?s understandable that they come away feeling that many charities are downright uncharitable.

Charitable hospitals are perhaps the best example. They are a linchpin in the American medical system, accounting for about two-thirds of all Medicare beds in this country. And while they are only about 1 percent of the country?s charities, charitable hospitals collect 43 percent of all charitable revenue, about $650 billion a year.

The phrase charity hospital may still conjure up images of scruffy floors, Jell-O-laden dinner trays, and volunteer nuns, but that isn?t the reality anymore. Charitable hospitals can be extraordinarily luxurious. Witness the Greenberg Pavilion at the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, which advertises its hotel-like amenities such as Frette bed linens and original works of art. (A hospital room there can run $2,400 a night.) And they can be extraordinarily profitable, too. Leaders of charitable hospitals routinely are paid into the seven figures, even more on some occasions. In fact, charitable hospitals are far more likely to make money: 77 percent of charitable hospitals are profitable compared to 61 percent of for-profit institutions. Some are immensely profitable, such as Boston Children?s Hospital, which was recently cited in a government report for its high charges despite sitting on $2.6 billion in investment assets.

The purpose here is not to demonize charitable hospitals; they are the product of a changing business, regulatory, and health care system. Charitable hospitals are not worse than for-profit hospitals; they are, in fact, fundamentally the same. In 2006, the Congressional Budget Office compared for-profit and charitable hospitals across various critical service criteria and found only the smallest differences between them. The CBO study found the charitable hospitals to be slightly more likely to provide uncompensated and specialized services; on the other hand, for-profit hospitals were modestly more likely to provide Medicare or Medicaid services and to serve economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. It is hard to come away from the CBO study with the view that there are any significant business differences between the two, which makes the lucrative charitable tax exemption that charitable hospitals receive all the more puzzling. Illinois, for one, has tried to strip several of its charitable hospitals of their tax exemptions for just this reason.

It?s hard to understand why some organizations receive charitable status and others do not. One of our core, and fairly obvious, organizing principles is that a charity must dispense a public service rather than a private good. But many of our most prominent civic charities would struggle to meet that basic test. Tickets to symphonies, operas, and the like are often so prohibitively expensive that their primary services effectively exclude everyone but the well-off.

Private schools are perhaps an even better example, not only because they charge enormous tuition fees but also because they are of questionable social value. Average costs at prep schools exceed $10,000 a year?a figure that has skyrocketed in recent years?and can reach more than $40,000 in some cases. Not surprisingly given these costs, private school students tend to be wealthy, white, and from much better educated families than their public school peers. Nevertheless, we grant these institutions of privilege charitable and tax-exempt status, even though they unquestionably lead to greater social and economic stratification through the hollowing out of the public school system. Private schools are of course largely supported by their tuition fees, but the benefits they receive from their charitable status are substantial. Indeed, sometimes it is that very status that leads the superwealthy to make incredible gifts to some very fortunate schools. Take, for example, the $49 million Ethel Allen left the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., last year, or the $50 million gift by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to support the Adelson Educational Campus in Las Vegas.

It may seem that changing the charitable status for private schools is unthinkable. Perhaps, but it has been tried before. In 2009, the British Charity Commission revoked the charitable charters for two private schools, finding that they provided too little in the way of financial aid to needy students. While the commission?s ruling was ultimately overturned by the courts, the commission?s position still stands for the common sense notion that charities should demonstrate a public benefit in order to maintain their charitable status. When so much of the American charitable sector seems so uncharitable, it is perhaps time we remind ourselves what a charity is really supposed to be.

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Oscars Red Carpet: The Best Moments You Didn't See

MTV News' memorable run-ins with Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence and other A-listers — with co-host Al Roker?
By Josh Horowitz

Kristen Stewart at the 2013 Oscars
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Florida town remembers Trayvon Martin a year after killing

SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - A year after the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in this central Florida town, there is a small memorial, a new police chief and an effort to improve race relations.

Trayvon Martin, 17, was gunned down on February 26, 2012, as he walked to his father's fiancee's home in one of Sanford's gated communities. The man accused of his killing, George Zimmerman, 28, a white Hispanic on neighborhood watch, is set to be tried on June 10.

A judge could grant immunity to Zimmerman at a pre-trial hearing on April 29 under Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law, which allows people to use lethal force in self defense if they are in fear of serious bodily harm.

Martin's death drew top-tier civil rights leaders, such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who brought a national spotlight to this town just north of Orlando and not far from Disney World.

That spotlight forced the town of 53,000 to confront police work that seemed to be a throwback to the days of separate and resolutely unequal racial sensibilities.

"This situation, with all eyes on Sanford is making them (city leaders) do something about it now," said Cindy Philemon, 49, who helps run the local black heritage museum and welcome center.

A year later Martin's family says it does not want the case considered in racial terms. "We don't want people to see this as a black kid. I want people to see this as a teenager ... who was walking, minding his own business," Martin's mother, Sabrina Fulton, told the NPR radio show "Tell Me More" on Monday night.

Despite the pain of losing her son, Fulton said she was glad that a debate had opened up about Florida's Stand Your Ground law.

The family is backing an amendment to the law seeking to restrict its application. "You can't follow, pursue and chase anyone, be the aggressor, have a confrontation with him, shoot and kill him, and then go home to your bed and nothing happens," she said.

During the weekend, volunteers in the black community hastily worked to complete a modest memorial of stuffed animals, cards and crosses in time to remember the first anniversary of Martin's shooting. It has also become a way for Sanford to remember the many other black victims of violence whose stories largely went untold.

City Manager Norton Bonaparte, who is black, said Sanford had begun to tackle deep-seated problems between police and the black community that were exposed in public forums after Martin's death.

"In honoring Trayvon's life, we have to make ourselves a better community," Bonaparte said.

The police chief at the time of Martin's shooting lost his job over criticism that his department and prosecutors chose not to charge or arrest Zimmerman.

The new chief starts his job in April.

"Now, it's like the police are getting more involved in being with the community," Philemon said. "They are starting to do their part in interacting with us. They say there is not as many shootings as there once was."

Another resident, Thelma Holmes, 62, agreed saying, "It is better than what it was before, because we had a lot of killings of young men ... The people and the police, they're both trying."

Trayvon's death will not be forgotten.

"It started people to come forward. So his death is not going to be in vain," Philemon said. "And he will always be remembered."

Martin's parents and lawyers will be in New York City, not Sanford, to hold a candlelight vigil on Tuesday night.

Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder, was granted bond and ordered to surrender his passport, agree to be electronically monitored, reside in Seminole County, and observe a nighttime curfew.

(Editing by David Adams, Leslie Gevirtz and Bill Trott)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/florida-town-remembers-trayvon-martin-killing-034053549.html

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Sony?s New a58 DSLT Camera Features People And Object Autofocus Tracking, Selective Digital Noise Reduction

Sony today announced a new entry-priced DSLT (Digital Single Lens Translucent) camera, the a58, priced at $600 bundled with a newly designed 18-55mm zoom kit lens, and coming to retail in April this year. The a58 pushes the needle forward for Sony's DSLR-style interchangeable lens line, with a nice hop-on point for the company's Translucent Mirror tech for consumers looking to get into more pro-style gear.

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Cameron Holland Helps Clients Flip Homes 'With Training Wheels ...

Cameron Holland, Broker at Howell Holland Real Estate, is a young gun at just 29 years old. And yet, he?s got an eye for real estate and he knows what sells. That?s why friends and clients enlist his expertise to help them flip homes in the higher-end markets of Dallas. Holland just finished consulting on 5514 Monticello Avenue, which is now on the market for $498,000. This Greenland Hills Tudor is so fresh and so clean on the inside that you?d never guess the home was built in 1926. Read on for the skinny:

Address:?5514 Monticello Avenue

Subdivision:?Greenland Hills (M Streets)

City:?Dallas

Price Range:?$498,000 (high 400?s)

Amenities:?Travertine entry way, stacked stone fireplace,?original wood floors,?hand embellished custom millwork and cabinetry,?recessed lighting throughout, absolute black granite countertops,?LG stainless steel appliances,?separate study/nursery in master suite,?restored 1930?s claw foot tub, glass shower wrapped in hand beveled travertine, covered rear porch

How long has this home been on the market? Any offers??25 days and yes

Tell us a little background on this home: My clients purchased this 1,468-square-foot, two-bedroom, one-bath 1920s Greenland Hills Tudor as a short sale in December 2012. Once we closed I drew up the new floor plan and the fun really started. A few months later, 5514 Monticello Avenue was transformed into a three-bedroom, two-bath, 2,169-square-foot French Eclectic Tudor that infused the charm of 1920s Dallas with the best of today.

?Flipping with Training Wheels?: My good friends and clients asked me to help them start flipping houses in Dallas. We spent a month looking at all the great flip neighborhoods such as Devenonshire, Greenway Crest, Lakewood, and M Streets. We selected the Monticello house because it had great bones and oozed potential. I drew up the plans for the renovation along with some renderings. Then I took my clients to the design centers for inspiration and introduced them to my contractor. During the renovation process I would be out at the house about three or more times a week dealing with quick fixes and hurt feelings. The owners and their bulldog Lucy even stayed in my guest bedroom for a week because the contractors needed to shut the water off.

Did you stage it or do anything special??The house was staged by the owners, I helped move furniture around. We made many trips to Home Goods and furniture stores.

What are your best marketing tricks? Hiring a professional photographer. In this case, Stuart Sandlin at NREDS.com

Where are your clients moving??These clients have already purchased another project on Willis Avenue in Vickery Park.

If you had to do it all over again, what would you do differently? Tell my clients not to live in the house while they are renovating it.

Know someone with a great real estate story? Have them contact us at jo@candysdirt.com.?

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Source: http://www.candysdirt.com/2013/02/25/cameron-holland-helps-clients-flip-homes-with-training-wheels-and-this-tudor-on-monticello-is-a-prime-example/

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South Korea's new president demands North drop nuclear ambitions

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's new president Park Geun-hye urged North Korea on Monday to abandon its nuclear ambitions, and to stop wasting its scarce resources on arms development, less than two weeks after the country carried out its third nuclear test.

Park, 61, the daughter of South Korea's former military ruler Park Chung-hee, is the first female president of prosperous South Korea and one of her campaign promises was to engage with the North if it halted its nuclear weapons plans.

"I urge North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions without delay and embark on the path to peace and shared development," Park said after being inaugurated on Monday.

North Korea is ruled by Kim Jong-un, the third of his line to hold power in Pyongyang and the grandson of a man who tried to assassinate Park's father.

Park's father seized power in a 1961 coup and ruled for 18 years until he was gunned down by his security chief in 1979. He helped transform South Korea from a poverty-stricken country where income was just $100 a year into what is now Asia's fourth largest economy and an industrial powerhouse whose cars, telephones and ships are sold worldwide.

Park also urged South Koreans to recreate the drive of a country that was once dubbed "the Miracle on the Han River", as she prepared to return the presidential mansion 33 years after her father's assassination.

In December's presidential poll, one of the most hotly contested elections for years, Park won about 52 percent of the vote, compared with 48 percent for her liberal opponent.

Park served as First Lady to her father Park Chung-hee after her mother was gunned down by a North Korean-backed assassin in 1974. She has been a top legislator since 1998 and has been dubbed "The Queen of Elections" for her ability to score victories for her conservative party.

Park has promised "economic democracy" and to increase "national happiness" in a country where income differentials between the poorest and the richest have soared in recent years.

(Additional reporting by Jack Kim; Editing by David Chance and Michael Perry)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-koreas-president-demands-north-drop-nuclear-ambitions-021646206.html

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Magnitude 6.2 quake jolts eastern Japan, no tsunami warning

It began as a seemingly awkward Jack Nicholson introduction of the very long list on nominees, but the Best Picture denouement?at a very long Oscars ceremony on Sunday turned into a surprise appearance by Michelle Obama, via satellite from the Governors' Ball in Washington, D.C.?where earlier she had sat next to Chris Christie?to introduce and announce the winner,?Argo.?

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(AP) ? The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361604549472_3">Roman Catholic church</span> in Philadelphia doesn't need another public relations headache after years of priest-abuse and school-closure headlines, but it's got one in the form of a pony-tailed 11-year-old athlete.</p> <p>Sixth-grader Caroline Pla is fighting the archdiocese for the right to keep playing church-sponsored <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361604549472_7">youth football</span>.</p> <p>The soft-spoken twin has been battling boys on the gridiron since she was 5. She's played the last two seasons in a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361604549472_1">Catholic Youth Organization</span> league, where the 5-foot-3, 110-pound offensive tackle and defensive end made the all-star team.</p> <p>But the archdiocese may put the kibosh on her <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361604549472_2">Catholic youth league</span> career. While at least a few U.S. dioceses let girls play football, and about 1,600 girls play on U.S. high school teams, the Philadelphia league is open only to boys.</p> <p>"First they said it was a boys sport. Then they said it was a safety issue. Then they said it was inappropriate touching. I think they are just constantly looking for excuses to not change it," <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361604549472_4">Caroline</span> said Thursday at her home in Buckingham Township, Bucks County.</p> <p>She first played in a public Pop Warner league, then moved along with her teammates to the Catholic Youth Organization league in fifth grade. After one season without a hitch, she learned last fall that an overlooked boys-only rule would be enforced. The archdiocese, though, agreed to let her finish the season.</p> <p><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361604549472_6">Archbishop Charles J. Chaput</span> is now reviewing the ban, with a decision expected next month after a panel of coaches, parents and doctors weigh in.</p> <p>"Traditionally, football is a boys-only sport due to its full contact nature," the church said in a statement. "Most parents and players have preferred this; some now disagree."</p> <p>Caroline sent Chaput an email in January, explaining that her Catholic youth league team had been the best chapter in her burgeoning, three-season sports career.</p> <p>By then, she and her parents, George and Marycecelia Pla, had taken to the airwaves to lobby for a rule change. An online petition has attracted more than 100,000 signatures, and Caroline recently appeared on Ellen DeGeneris' show as well as newscasts.</p> <p>"I'm perplexed that you would contact me last, after publicizing your situation in both the national and regional media," Chaput wrote in a January email shared by the family. "That kind of approach has no effect on my decision-making. CYO rules exist for good reason."</p> <p>The Women's Sports Foundation believes there are instead good reasons to reverse the rule ? and not just for the sake of girls.</p> <p>"What the diocese is missing is all the wonderful things that come out of co-ed sports. The mutual respect that lasts a lifetime between <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361604549472_5">girls and boys</span>," said lawyer Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a 1984 Olympic gold medalist in swimming who now is senior director of advocacy for the Women's Sports Foundation.</p> <p>From a safety perspective, pre-pubescent girls and boys are often the same size. And legally, private or religious groups that receive any type of federal funding ? through low-income lunch programs or other aid ? must abide by Title IX, the 1972 law that guarantees girls equal access to sports, she said. There are exceptions for contact sports, but they cannot be invoked once girls have been allowed to play in a program, she said.</p> <p>Hogshead-Makar advises colleges to make sports activities co-ed whenever possible ? in the weight room, on the team bus, on the court. She believes the mutual contact fosters respect and reduces rates of violence against women.</p> <p>No matter how Chaput rules, Caroline could still play football next season for Pop Warner or her school team. And she has no plans to play in high school because she doesn't think she'll be big enough to play her position at that level.</p> <p>Her brother plays on the high school freshman team, while her twin sister and an older sister have been cheerleaders.</p> <p>"Right now, I'm one of the biggest because I've hit my growth spurt and a lot of them haven't," said Caroline, who scored her first touchdown this past season on a 15-yard run. 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It?s what is smuggled out that matters ? the stuff of life itself.</p><p>Plenty think the plot is far-fetched, but the women insist that armed with little more than cunning and a concealed container, they can ensure that no wall or coil of barbed wire is a barrier to parenthood.</p> <p>Faridah?Ma?arouf laughed as she recalled hurrying out of the prison gates after visiting day was done, hiding a sample of her son?s sperm.</p><p>?We had a taxi waiting to take us very fast,?? she said. ?I thought I had to get it to the doctor quickly.??</p><p>It seems to have been a successful operation. Three months later Ma?arouf sat in an IVF clinic where the progress of her daughter-in-law?s pregnancy was being monitored.</p><p>It is what could be described as the brainchild of Dr.?Salim Abu Khaizaran, head of the?Razan Center for Infertility in the Palestinian city of Ramallah on the West Bank.</p><p>?We are doing this to help these ladies because we feel as doctors that the wives of prisoners pay a very high price,? Abu Khaizaran said without revealing how many other such procedures he had conducted. ?She has to wait for her husband, sometimes she can spend her lovely youth just waiting. And by the time her husband is out, many of them will not be able to have babies.?</p><img alt="" height="257" id="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130222-sperm5.jpg" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130222-sperm5.380;380;7;70;0.jpg" width="380"/><p class="photo_credit">NBC News</p><p>Faridah Ma'arouf says she smuggled a sample of her son's sperm out of Ofer Prison, above, so that her daughter-in-law could become pregnant. </p><!-- end17043669 --><p>He added: ?The wives lose out twice because the community then pressurizes the husband to marry another woman in order to?fulfill his requirements to become a father, which ... I feel is very sad.?</p><p><strong>'What are you waiting for?'<br/></strong>Many of the men are serving long sentences for terrorist offenses.</p><p>Ammar?Al-Zibben has been in prison for 16 years. He is serving 27 life sentences with an additional 25 years for plotting bomb attacks in Jerusalem that killed 21 people.</p><p>He is also the recent father of a baby boy, named Mohannad, who is just seven months old.</p><p>His wife, Dalal,?32, said the idea to go for?IVF was originally her husband?s. The suggestion took her by surprise. She had expected opposition from family and friends in their conservative community.</p><p>?I was very surprised when I found them encouraging me enthusiastically,? she said. ?Everyone said I should do it and not deny myself and my husband our basic right, to have a family.</p><p>?It reached a point where people would stop me in the street and ask me why I still hadn?t done it,? she added. ?They would say to me, ?What are you waiting for? Why are you wasting time???</p><p>Her husband got to see his son for the first time six months ago.</p><p>?The meeting was happy, sad, exciting. It was mixed with a lot of feelings and tears, I can?t describe to you how we both felt,?? she said.</p><p>?I had sacrificed everything when my husband was arrested,? she said. ?Now I have been given this opportunity to make my dreams come true, to have the family I always wanted. We will be waiting for my husband to come out and join us.??</p><p><strong>Near-miraculous conceptions<br/></strong>As word spread, the?number of?prisoners? wives?waiting for the clinic to make their dreams come true has risen, hospital officials said.</p><img alt="" height="271" id="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130222-smuggled-sperm.jpg" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130222-smuggled-sperm.380;380;7;70;0.jpg" width="380"/><p class="photo_credit">Alaa Badarneh / EPA, file</p><p>Dalal Rabaya holds her son Mohannad at a hospital in the West Bank town of Nablus on Aug. 13.</p><!-- end17044079 --><p>They all face the same, daunting obstacle. Typically a prisoner visitor will pass through an airport style scanner, a body search, and then be asked to leave all their possessions in a locker before they get to see their relative. And then they will be separated by glass and speak only by phone.</p> <p>According to the Israel Prison Service these are near-miraculous conceptions.</p><p>?Due to technological and security restrictions that apply to prisoners in their relationship with family members, one can question the ability to smuggle as claimed,?? Sivan Weizman, spokeswoman for the Prison Authority, said dryly.</p><p>If Abu?Khaizaran has any idea how samples get from prison cell to fertility clinic, he?s not telling. But the hospital insists on the written word of two close family members that the sperm is indeed that of the husband, he said.</p><p>A black-and-white screen showed the outline of a baby in the womb. The loud and rapid beat of its heart reverberated in the fertility clinic?s small ultrasound room.</p><p>?This is the head of the baby. And there?s its hand. He?s moving. It?s a boy. Fifteen weeks,? Abu?Khaizaran told mother-to-be?Lidya Al-Rimawi?who had come in for her first scan. ?Everything looks fine.??</p><p>Like all the women NBC interviewed, Al-Rimawi was coy when asked how she managed to evade Israeli prison guards and their searches.</p><p>?We found much difficulty. But despite the security checks we got through, thanks to God,? she said.</p><p>?Each case is different from another,?? she said when pressed for more detail. ?We smuggled it out in a bag, a small nylon bag. But it is difficult to explain how.?</p><p>?If I told you the way we smuggled it, definitely the army will prevent it from happening and there are prisoners we don?t want to deprive of this same chance.??</p><p>She beamed as she looked at the image of the fast-growing baby inside her.</p><p>?It is a very beautiful feeling,?? she said. ?It is a feeling that cannot be described. 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Only the selective pressures are different.</p><p>The traits that are now selected for are those that are suited for our human-altered world in which dangerous things have warning labels, not those traits that used to be wonderful 20,000 years ago on the savannah, but <i>that's the whole point</i>.</p><p>Similarly, those who you call "genetically weak" aren't. 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Not overnight and not physically, but imagine if everyone who lived there decided to leave, in the space of 10 years. Argyle Street, in the city centre ? empty. Byres Road, next to the university ? derelict. The Crow Road ? abandoned (except, perhaps ? if this were an exciting new BBC drama ? for an old Iain Banks novel, rain-damaged pages flapping in a gutter, symbol of the great evacuation). All those tenements, riverside apartments, suburban villas, all lying vacant. You?d sort of notice, wouldn?t you? You?d expect people to talk about it, at least. </p> <p> To read the BBC article, by the home editor Mark Easton, there is nothing to worry about. Indeed, the historic shift of London, from a city of white Britons to a mixture of minorities, is a cause for celebration, and not just because of that oft?lauded ?vibrancy?. </p> <p> That the proportion of white people in the borough of Barking and Dagenham has dropped from four fifths to less than a half in a decade is nothing more than the natural desire of increasingly prosperous people to retire to the seaside. I?m paraphrasing Mr Easton a little, but that was more or less the suggestion in his commentary. It?s a rising tide of prosperity that first of all flushed the Eastenders from Bethnal Green to Dagenham, and it?s the inexorable rise in property values that leads their descendants to move from metropolitan Essex to that beautiful county?s coastline. </p> <p> ?Leigh[-on-Sea],? said Mr Easton, ?is a particular favourite.? After all: ?Many residents from Barking and Dagenham will have taken the train along the Thames Estuary towards Southend on a work excursion ? the old beano to the seaside.? And so everything is dandy? </p> <p> Fundamentally, none of this is strictly about ?race?, but rather the cultural constructs we layer on to genetics. There are good and bad neighbours of every hue, of course. But the scale of white flight demands more than issuing congratulations to the second and third generation children of immigrants, who?ve done well in life and moved from Zone 2 to Zone 5 of the Central or Northern Underground lines. It?s also absurd to assume that the grandchildren of cockneys are moving still further out, just because their houses have increased in value. </p> <p> Take Bethnal Green. The people leaving Dagenham now are themselves displaced Eastenders. The borough they first left behind would be unrecognisable to their grandparents, with a mayor whose election was supported by an Islamist group with unpleasant (to put matters mildly) views. </p> <p> Hate crimes disfigure its streets: in an ironic reversal of one reason for the East End?s fame ? that it was where indigenous, working-class Londoners faced down home-grown fascists ? the streets of Bethnal Green and Whitechapel are now scenes of increasingly violent attacks on gay people. The BBC doesn?t talk about this, oddly, or wonder why the Eastenders? movement is always away from their original homes: there are plenty of expensive properties in E2. (In 2001, I moved to Bow, from Harlow: my neighbours in Essex thought I was mad, for reasons unconnected with relative property prices.) </p> <p> Discernment is required: nobody decent is arguing for a return to the homogeneity of Call the Midwife?s Poplar. Finally, politicians have admitted that to notice the scale of the immigration engineered by the last Labour government doesn?t make one racist. But neither is it wrong to discuss the cultural changes that large-scale immigration can cause. Six hundred thousand Londoners have left. They didn?t all sell ex-council houses in Barking, in order to purchase five-bedroom cliff-top villas in sunny Leigh-on-Sea. </p><p>Source: <a href="http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568387/s/28dc236d/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0Cnews0Cuknews0Cimmigration0C9888310A0CLets0Etalk0Eabout0Ethe0Eexodus0Eof0E60A0A0A0A0A0Ewhites0Efrom0ELondon0Bhtml/story01.htm">http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568387/s/28dc236d/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0Cnews0Cuknews0Cimmigration0C9888310A0CLets0Etalk0Eabout0Ethe0Eexodus0Eof0E60A0A0A0A0A0Ewhites0Efrom0ELondon0Bhtml/story01.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://bobshots.net/activity/p/11596/">f 18</a> <a href="http://ccc.alphaqnow.com/activity/p/17891/">jet crash in virginia beach</a> <a href="http://churchill.iluv2.org/activity/p/5066/">john tortorella</a> <a href="http://buddy.arabindtk.in/activity/p/4321/">nicki minaj beez in the trap video</a> <a href="http://classifichehouse.altervista.org/blog/activity/p/15482/">food network</a> <a href="http://civilwarwatch.us/blog/activity/p/44779/">good friday</a> <a href="http://canelaworld.com/activity/p/3670/">f/a 18</a> </p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07723245849921509116' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07723245849921509116' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>fichtnerkill</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/let-talk-about-exodus-of-600000-whites.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/let-talk-about-exodus-of-600000-whites.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2013-02-23T18:02:00-08:00'>6:02 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/let-talk-about-exodus-of-600000-whites.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1117924456'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=1375448167576559017&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=1375448167576559017&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=1375448167576559017&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Jihadist fighters fired two rockets at military points in Mali's northern city of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361535608517_3">Gao</span> on Thursday after the military pushed fighters out of the city a day earlier and as a suicide bomber attacked secular rebels near <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361535608517_5">Algeria</span>'s border, officials said.</p> <p>Capt. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361535608517_2">Daouda Diarra</span> said Thursday there was also shooting on the north side of the city.</p> <p>He said the rockets were likely launched by the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361535608517_4">Movement for Oneness and Jihad</span> in West Africa, or MUJAO.</p> <p>"The jihadist have fired two rockets on us that we have recovered," Diarra said. "This is a small group and we will dislodge them and track the rest of the group who have fled 21 kilometers (13 miles) east of Gao on board seven vehicles."</p> <p>Fighters with the al-Qaida-linked group had attacked a Gao checkpoint on Wednesday and fought with the military around the Town Hall in the city center on Thursday. Diarra said 16 jihadists were killed in the fighting and six soldiers were wounded.</p> <p>Meanwhile, further north in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361535608517_6">Kidal</span>, a suicide car bombing killed at least one secular Tuareg rebel, the mayor of Kidal said.</p> <p>Abda Ag Kazina said that a suicide car bomber targeted a base for the secular National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad, or NMLA, near the country's border with Algeria.</p> <p>The Tuaregs and Islamic extremists made rapid advances on Mali's north in the aftermath of a March 2012 coup, seizing the main cities in the north. Poorly armed and demoralized Malian soldiers fled before their advance.</p> <p>But the secular fighters fell out with the Islamist extremists. As the extremists have fled the French bombing campaign, it appears the NMLA fighters have moved back into some areas.</p> <p>The jihadist group MUJAO claimed responsibility for another car explosion Thursday at a mechanics garage in Kidal about 800 meters (875 yards) from a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1361535608517_7">French military base</span>.</p> <p>French and Chadian forces are patrolling the city of Kidal, though it remains unclear if the northern administrative capital is secure.</p> <p>Radical Islamic fighters spent weeks on the run from Malian cities under a French ground and air assault that began Jan. 11 after the rebels had pushed to southern territories. The French, meanwhile, are tightening a dragnet against the al-Qaida-linked militants in one of their last remaining redoubts, mountain sanctuaries near Algeria's border.</p> <p>France has said it will eventually pull out of its Mali operation so that African forces can help stabilize the West African country.</p> <p>U.N. discussions about an African force for Mali have been under way for months, alongside efforts for a European Union training mission to help the Malian military.</p><p>Source: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-rebels-fire-rockets-military-mali-112412410.html">http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-rebels-fire-rockets-military-mali-112412410.html</a></p><p><a href="http://abiturent.ponpesdaarunnahdhah.sch.id/activity/p/26330/">John Witherspoon</a> <a href="http://drjlove.com/activity/p/12934/">george michael</a> <a href="http://dragtivities.com/activity/p/5385/">usain bolt</a> <a href="http://exonblast.com/activity/p/24170/">Closing Ceremony London 2012</a> <a href="http://2bet.es/activity/p/61737/">Tom Daley</a> <a href="http://www.tefltouch.com/activity/p/90499/">Leryn Franco</a> <a href="http://activedenhelp.com/earthwindfire/club/activity/p/3539/">The Campaign</a> </p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07723245849921509116' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07723245849921509116' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>fichtnerkill</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/islamic-rebels-fire-rockets-at-military.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/islamic-rebels-fire-rockets-at-military.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2013-02-23T16:09:00-08:00'>4:09 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/islamic-rebels-fire-rockets-at-military.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1117924456'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=4888802288965193111&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=4888802288965193111&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=4888802288965193111&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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The U.S. auto industry ended 2012 on a high note, with December sales the strongest they have been since before the recession. Analysts predict an even bigger year in 2013, as a stronger economy, low-interest rates, aging cars on the road and competitive new products continue to draw buyers to dealerships.? " height="395" itemprop="associatedMedia" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1270295.1361490125!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/debt-1-0221.jpg" title=" In this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, photo, Honda Pilots are seen outside of a Honda car dealership in Des Plaines, Ill. The U.S. auto industry ended 2012 on a high note, with December sales the strongest they have been since before the recession. Analysts predict an even bigger year in 2013, as a stronger economy, low-interest rates, aging cars on the road and competitive new products continue to draw buyers to dealerships.? " width="635"/><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">Nam Y. Huh/AP</h4> <h4 class="caption" itemprop="description"/><p> Household debt for homes headed by people under the age of 35 plummeted by 29% from 2007 to 2010. One big reason is the millennials are getting by without buying houses and cars, a report by the Pew Research Center found.?</p> <p> The millennial generation seems to have figured out the formula to avoiding racking up debt: buy less stuff.</p> <p> The median debt of American households headed by young adults has plummeted over the course of the great recession, a new study by the Pew Research Center has found.</p> <p> In all, debt in households headed by people under the age of 35 fell by a whopping 29% between 2007 and 2010, the study said.</p> <p><strong>RELATED: MONEY PROS: TAKE THIS QUIZ TO SEE IF YOU HAVE TOO MUCH DEBT </strong></p><p> By comparison, households headed by adults over the age of 35, debt fell by just 8%.</p> <p> More good news for millennials was found in an analysis of their credit card debt. While 48% of adults over the age of 35 carried a credit card balance in 2007, just 39% did in 2010.</p> <p> According to Pew, the sudden frugal streak was best illustrated in two main areas where Americans have routinely found themselves piling on debt: homes and cars.</p> <p><strong>RELATED: DELAYED INSURANCE CHECKS FOR SANDY VICTIMS COULD SLOW RECOVERY</strong></p><p> The share of younger households owning their primary residence fell sharply from 40% in 2007 to 34% in 2011, the study stated.</p> <p> Whether they couldn?t afford to buy one, or identified automobiles as another source of debt, just 66% of millennial households owned a car in 2011, down seven percentage points from 2007.</p> <p> While remaining more or less flat for American households lead by adults over the age of 35, the big drops in the percentage of debt for millennials may signify a cultural sea change.</p> <p> ?These shifts in the debt profile of younger adults reflect a broader societal shift toward delayed marriage and household formation that has been under way for decades,? the Pew report stated.</p> <p> Though student loan debt has continued to edge up over the past 12 years, a record high 22% of younger households reported having no debt whatsoever, which Pew noted was the largest number since the federal government began gathering the data in 1983. ?</p><p>Source: <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nydnrss/life-style/~3/klppOB9BH3Y/story01.htm">http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nydnrss/life-style/~3/klppOB9BH3Y/story01.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://canelaworld.com/activity/p/3668/">Aurora shooting</a> <a href="http://classifichehouse.altervista.org/blog/activity/p/15473/">James Eagan Holmes</a> <a href="http://www.friendinindia.com/activity/p/14565/">jeremy lin</a> <a href="http://www.gatherture.com/wp/activity/p/23376/">Sage Stallone</a> <a href="http://timothyotoole.com/activity/p/736434/">Mermaid Body Found</a> <a href="http://to27.com/activity/p/171745/">Celeste Holm</a> <a href="http://www.galaxys3-forum.com/activity/p/15675/">Stephen Covey</a> </p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07723245849921509116' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07723245849921509116' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>fichtnerkill</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/young-americans-erasing-debt-fast-study.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/young-americans-erasing-debt-fast-study.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2013-02-23T01:04:00-08:00'>1:04 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/young-americans-erasing-debt-fast-study.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1117924456'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=3936411474889064850&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=3936411474889064850&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=3936411474889064850&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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"/><meta name="keywords" content="Medicine/Health Critical Care/Emergency Medicine Epidemiology Gerontology Health Care Systems/Services Health Professionals Hematology Public Health"/><meta name="date" content="Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content=""/><meta name="journal" content="American Journal of Medicine"/><meta name="type" content="research"/><meta name="institution" content="Michigan State University"/><meta name="meeting" content=""/><meta name="region" content="namerica"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="102.235277463"> <img align="right" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]" border="0" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" width="140"/> <strong class="relemb">Public release date: 21-Feb-2013</strong><br/>[ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> | <img alt="Share" border="0" height="11" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p>Contact: Andy McGlashen<br/>andy.mcglashen@cabs.msu.edu<br/>517-355-5158<br/><span class="relinst">Michigan State University</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle">Researcher to doctors: 'Take the chance'</h2> <p>EAST LANSING, Mich. --- When doctors encounter a patient with a massive pulmonary embolism, they face a difficult choice: Is it wise to administer a drug that could save the patient's life, even though many people suffer life-threatening bleeding as a result?</p> <p>Based on new findings published in the <i>American Journal of Medicine</i>, Michigan State University researchers are answering that question in no uncertain terms.</p> <p>"The message to doctors is clear: Take the chance," said Paul D. Stein, a professor in MSU's Department of Osteopathic Medical Specialties. "It doesn't matter how old the patient is or what other chronic diseases the patient has. Administering the drug saves lives."</p> <p>Pulmonary embolism is a potentially deadly blockage of arteries in the lungs caused by blood clots that travel from elsewhere in the body, usually the leg. Clot-dissolving drugs known as thrombolytic agents often can remove the blockage, but they also can cause brain hemorrhages and other major bleeding. </p> <p>Stein found in an earlier study that only about a third of unstable pulmonary embolism patients -- those who are in shock or require a ventilator -- received thrombolytic therapy, even though the drugs decreased the risk of dying in the hospital from 50 percent to 15 percent.</p> <p>"Doctors are smart," Stein said, "so why are only a third of patients getting the drug?"</p> <p>To find out, Stein and Fadi Matta, MSU associate professor of osteopathic medical specialties, reviewed a national database of records from more than 1,000 hospitals. Their findings suggest that concern over the bleeding associated with thrombolytic therapy may keep doctors from giving the drug to patients who could be at higher risk.</p> <p>In the study, only 20 percent of unstable patients with associated chronic conditions received the drug, compared to 80 percent of those without such conditions. Patients older than 60 also were less likely to receive the treatment.</p> <p>Yet, even if patients had associated chronic conditions in addition to pulmonary embolism, the in-hospital death rate was 20 percent among those who received thrombolytic therapy, compared to 47 percent of those who did not get the clot-dissolving drug. The death rate also was lower among elderly patients who got the drug.</p> <p>"Physicians apparently are afraid to give thrombolytic drugs to pulmonary embolism patients if they are elderly or have associated illnesses, and for good reason," Stein said. 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"/><meta name="keywords" content="Medicine/Health Critical Care/Emergency Medicine Epidemiology Gerontology Health Care Systems/Services Health Professionals Hematology Public Health"/><meta name="date" content="Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:00:00 GMT"/><meta name="funder" content=""/><meta name="journal" content="American Journal of Medicine"/><meta name="type" content="research"/><meta name="institution" content="Michigan State University"/><meta name="meeting" content=""/><meta name="region" content="namerica"/><meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/eurekalert.css"/><link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/e-lert.ico"/><!-- Analytics disabled --></head><body class="release" id="readabilityBody" readability="102.235277463"> <img align="right" alt="[ Back to EurekAlert! ]" border="0" height="36" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif" width="140"/> <strong class="relemb">Public release date: 21-Feb-2013</strong><br/>[ | E-mail <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> | <img alt="Share" border="0" height="11" src="http://www.eurekalert.org/images/share_icon.gif" width="11"/> Share<!-- AddThis Button END --> ] <p>Contact: Andy McGlashen<br/>andy.mcglashen@cabs.msu.edu<br/>517-355-5158<br/><span class="relinst">Michigan State University</span> <br/></p> <h2 class="subtitle">Researcher to doctors: 'Take the chance'</h2> <p>EAST LANSING, Mich. --- When doctors encounter a patient with a massive pulmonary embolism, they face a difficult choice: Is it wise to administer a drug that could save the patient's life, even though many people suffer life-threatening bleeding as a result?</p> <p>Based on new findings published in the <i>American Journal of Medicine</i>, Michigan State University researchers are answering that question in no uncertain terms.</p> <p>"The message to doctors is clear: Take the chance," said Paul D. Stein, a professor in MSU's Department of Osteopathic Medical Specialties. "It doesn't matter how old the patient is or what other chronic diseases the patient has. Administering the drug saves lives."</p> <p>Pulmonary embolism is a potentially deadly blockage of arteries in the lungs caused by blood clots that travel from elsewhere in the body, usually the leg. Clot-dissolving drugs known as thrombolytic agents often can remove the blockage, but they also can cause brain hemorrhages and other major bleeding. </p> <p>Stein found in an earlier study that only about a third of unstable pulmonary embolism patients -- those who are in shock or require a ventilator -- received thrombolytic therapy, even though the drugs decreased the risk of dying in the hospital from 50 percent to 15 percent.</p> <p>"Doctors are smart," Stein said, "so why are only a third of patients getting the drug?"</p> <p>To find out, Stein and Fadi Matta, MSU associate professor of osteopathic medical specialties, reviewed a national database of records from more than 1,000 hospitals. Their findings suggest that concern over the bleeding associated with thrombolytic therapy may keep doctors from giving the drug to patients who could be at higher risk.</p> <p>In the study, only 20 percent of unstable patients with associated chronic conditions received the drug, compared to 80 percent of those without such conditions. Patients older than 60 also were less likely to receive the treatment.</p> <p>Yet, even if patients had associated chronic conditions in addition to pulmonary embolism, the in-hospital death rate was 20 percent among those who received thrombolytic therapy, compared to 47 percent of those who did not get the clot-dissolving drug. The death rate also was lower among elderly patients who got the drug.</p> <p>"Physicians apparently are afraid to give thrombolytic drugs to pulmonary embolism patients if they are elderly or have associated illnesses, and for good reason," Stein said. 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Mark Schnitzer, an associate professor of biology and applied physics at Stanford University, told NBC News. </p><p>He and colleagues described the tool earlier this month in the journal Nature Neuroscience and have launched a startup company, Inscopix Inc., to market the mini microscopes to researchers who study neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer?s and other brain disorders. </p><p><strong>Fluorescing neurons</strong><br/>The mini microscopes are mounted into little circles removed from the mouse cranium. They wear them around like a hat, Schnitzer explained.<br/></p><p>Neurons in the mice?s hippocampus, a region of the brain associated with spatial memory, are genetically engineered to express green fluorescence protein, especially in the presence of calcium. When a neuron fires, the cell naturally floods with calcium ions, and thus fluoresces more intensely.</p><p>The mini microscope is connected to a camera chip, which routes images of neurons fluorescing to a computer screen. The result is a near real-time video of the mouse?s brain activity as it runs around a small enclosure. Check it out in the video below.</p><p>To the untrained eye, the firing neurons appear chaotic and random, but the researchers discerned a clear pattern. Specific neurons fire in association with specific areas in the enclosure.<br/></p><p>?The individual neurons seem to have preferences regarding the mouse?s location in space,? 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Making it look like something you want to wear</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-7379519640595148952' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p class="image-container" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/21/google-glass-warby-parker-rumor/"><img alt="Google's next task for Glass Making it look like something you want to wear" data-src-height="419" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/02/glass5-619.jpg" /></a></p><p> Google's <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/google,glass/">Glass</a> augmented reality project opened itself to a few thousand more potential wearers with the <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/20/how-you-can-get-your-hands-on-google-glass-early/">#ifihadglass</a> promotion, but according to the <i>New York Times</i> it's already addressing the question of if people <i>want</i> Glass. One major obstacle to introducing such a new type of product is making it look good, and the paper reports Google is negotiating with online glasses seller Warby Parker to help design better looking frames, citing unnamed sources. Of course, we ran to the counter, $1,500 in hand to get a taste of the future of wearable computing -- and take first person pics of that <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/20/google-glass-how-it-feels-video/">group skydiving</a> we're always doing -- but we can imagine any efforts to take Glass mass market will need some refashioning first.</p><p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/wearables/" rel="tag">Wearables</a></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/21/google-glass-warby-parker-rumor/#comments">Comments</a></strong></p><p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/technology/google-looks-to-make-its-computer-glasses-stylish.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a><!--//--></p><p>Source: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/21/google-glass-warby-parker-rumor/">http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/21/google-glass-warby-parker-rumor/</a></p><p><a href="http://buddy.arabindtk.in/activity/p/5246/">young justice</a> <a href="http://community.glowclick.com/activity/p/30244/">nfl draft</a> <a href="http://civilwarwatch.us/blog/activity/p/46478/">d rose</a> <a href="http://canelaworld.com/activity/p/4401/">iman shumpert</a> <a href="http://blog.mvsw.org/activity/p/14180/">mayweather vs cotto</a> <a href="http://porkypip.byethost11.com/content/making-homemade-french-toast-easily">shumpert</a> <a href="http://saveapolarbear.mysocal.com/?q=node/14099">hopkins</a> </p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07723245849921509116' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07723245849921509116' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>fichtnerkill</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-next-task-for-glass-making-it.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-next-task-for-glass-making-it.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2013-02-21T22:35:00-08:00'>10:35 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='http://fichtnerkill.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-next-task-for-glass-making-it.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1117924456'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=7379519640595148952&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> <a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-email' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=7379519640595148952&target=email' target='_blank' title='Email This'><span class='share-button-link-text'>Email This</span></a><a class='goog-inline-block share-button sb-blog' href='https://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=6684351132722929160&postID=7379519640595148952&target=blog' onclick='window.open(this.href, "_blank", "height=270,width=475"); 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Galileo Offline Maps, meanwhile, looks to improve on that vulnerability by offering many of its services without connectivity.</p> <p>Galileo Offline Maps works with most versions of iOS hardware, including iPhone, fourth and fifth generation iPod Touch models, and iPads. It?s not specifically optimized for iPhone 5, which is always a shame, but it works with a sufficiently wide array of devices?anything running iOS 4.3 or later?so the versatility makes up for the lack of optimization. Galileo Offline Maps offers a collection of 15 maps, with the ability to bring in custom map sources via XML files.</p> <p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4137" height="300" src="http://www.halloo.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/galileo-offline-maps-1.jpg" width="400"/></p> <p>That?s a good start, but it continues on with the ability to import both KML and GPX files, allowing users to create waypoints and routes for easy uploading to the app at no additional charge. Saving maps, meanwhile, saves images in the cache, allowing for that offline capability that makes this a valuable app. Users can even conduct searches by point of interest or by address, even by outright GPS coordinates. There?s even support for one-finger zoom, and several paying options available besides for things like bookmarks, GPS track recording and more.</p> <p>It?s not easy to find a complaint about an app that?s not only useful?most GPS navigation systems have that particular quality working for them in a great degree?but also versatile, user-friendly and cost-effective. While the overall app itself isn?t much new, nor is it much removed from a wide variety of similar such software on the market today, it?s got too much going for it to easily pass it up. The app isn?t anything special, but it?s sufficiently powerful and easy to work with that it?s going to make an excellent alternative to many higher-priced systems on the market.</p> <p><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4138" height="400" src="http://www.halloo.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/galileo-offline-maps-2.jpg" width="267"/></p> <p>But as ever, the ability to properly track down locations of? businesses, suppliers, and similar potential contacts is never sufficient in isolation to successfully drive a small business. Cloud-based telephony provides many of the necessary extras to fuel a small business? operations; click to call functionality allows for easier connection between your contacts and your business, while at the same time, screen pops can make the responses you provide to those callers a lot better and more valuable overall, improving the likelihood of better conclusions.</p> <p>Galileo Offline Maps offers a lot of value for small businesses, especially those who have to spend a lot of time out of the office or even out of the town in which the office is located. 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Though it's tough to know what <i>Argo</i>'s chances of winning the Best Picture Oscar are, at least it'll benefit from likely big rental numbers. Otherwise, we've also got Joe Wright's latest period piece with Keira Knightley, a Nickelodeon teen comedy, a fairly well-reviewed horror flick, and a ton of reissues. See below for the full list! </p> <!---------Item 1---------> <!---------Item 2---------> <!---------Item 3---------> <!---------Item 4---------> <h2>Also available this week:</h2> <ul class="article_icons"><li class="fresh"> A Blu-ray release of 1928's <i>The Thief of Bagdad</i> (93%), starring Douglas Fairbanks (not to be confused with the 1940 version, which is available in a Criterion Collection edition). </li> <li class="fresh"> Several new Blu-ray packages for Pixar's <i>Monsters, Inc.</i> (96%) are available this week, including a 5-disc Ultimate Collector's Edition, which has a few new small extras but isn't a gigantic improvement on the 2009 Blu-ray release. </li> <li class="fresh"> The Criterion Collection DVD/Blu-ray release of Elia Kazan's <i>On the Waterfront</i> (100%), featuring one of Marlon Brando's most memorable performances. </li> <li class="fresh"> Last year's Oscar winner for Best Documentary, <i>Undefeated</i> (96%), about an inner-city high school football team pushing towards its first playoff win in the history of the school. </li> <li class="rotten"> The 3D Blu-ray re-release of Tony Scott's <i>Top Gun</i> (54%). </li> <li class="rotten"> For you '80s kids: A Blu-ray of <i>The Monster Squad</i> (53%), about a group of boys battling the classic monsters of the Universal lineup. </li> </ul> <h4 class="fl">Featured on RT</h4> <p>Comments</p> <h4 class="cleardiv">Top Headlines</h4> <p sub="prompt">Log in with Facebook to share your reviews with friends, create a want-to-see list, and more!</p> <p><span class="fb_button_text">Log In with Facebook</span></p> <!-- START Nielsen Online SiteCensus V6.0 --><!-- COPYRIGHT 2010 Nielsen Online --><noscript/> <!-- END Nielsen Online SiteCensus V6.0 --> <noscript> </noscript><p>Source: <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1926866/news/1926866/">http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1926866/news/1926866/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.fundmyfotos.com/activity/p/14419/">Capital STEEZ</a> <a 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