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Gobierno de EEUU no bloquear? legalizaci?n de marihuana en Colorado y Washington
El Secretario de Justicia de EE.UU., Eric Holder, afirm? hoy que no tratar? de bloquear las leyes estatales aprobadas el pasado a?o que permiten el consumo recreativo de peque?as cantidades de marihuana en los estados de Colorado y Washington.
De este modo, el Gobierno federal de EE.UU. permitir? que Colorado y Washington desarrollen su marco legal interno para el consumo de marihuana con fines recreativos, aunque se reserva el derecho de presentar una demanda m?s adelante si considera que se violan normas federales.
Holder explic? en una llamada telef?nica con los gobernadores de ambos estados del oeste de EE.UU. las nuevas directrices federales acerca de la lucha contra el tr?fico de marihuana que deben guiar las actuaciones de las fuerzas de seguridad.Entre ellas, y de acuerdo a un informe divulgado hoy por el Departamento de Justicia, se citan como prioridades la persecuci?n de la distribuci?n a menores, el desv?o de marihuana a otros estados y el uso de marihuana autorizada a nivel estatal para encubrir otras acciones ilegales.
Colorado y Washington aprobaron en noviembre de 2012 sendas medidas por voto popular para permitir el consumo de marihuana por adultos, pero hab?an evitado hasta ahora poner en marcha un sistema legal interno a la espera de la decisi?n del Gobierno federal.
Pese a las leyes estatales, la marihuana sigue siendo considerada una sustancia ilegal en EE.UU., por lo que puede ser perseguida por las autoridades federales.
En los ?ltimos a?os, varios estados han liberalizado sus pol?ticas acerca de la posesi?n de peque?as cantidades de marihuana y actualmente est? despenalizada en casi una veintena de estados: Alaska, California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nueva York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Misisipi, Nevada, Carolina del Norte, Ohio y Vermont.
El pasado 21 de agosto, el propio presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, se refiri? a la cuesti?n al negar que contemplara ?un cambio en las leyes? federales acerca de la marihuana en el pa?s.
No obstante, precis? que no cre?a que ?la persecuci?n de los consumidores individuales? sea la mejor manera de emplear ?los recursos federales?.
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Emma's DIY Wedding Dress
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Source: www.abeautifulmess.com --- Tuesday, August 27, 2013
I'm so excited to share the story of my Wedding dress with you. Other than getting to marry my best friend, my dress is probably one of the most special memories from my Wedding season. First off you should know that my dress is homemade. I forget when I actually told Elsie that I wanted her to design my Wedding dress. But I do remember her mouth dropped a little. And I can understand why?what a lot of pressure. "Hey sister, would you mind making the most speical dress I'll ever wear that I will be in on the most photographed day of my life?" But I couldn't resist. I love my sister's designs (you can see some of her past dress designs here and here). There's a reason I have always been completely confident in her as a creative business partner. She's very talented. And there's no one else I'd rather have design my Wedding dress.Elsie designed and worked on the dress. What made the project EXTRA special is how so many of my other friends and co workers worked on my dress as well. Lots of work was done by: Katie, Kinsey, and Jessica. I even cut out some of circles that became the ruffles. My dress was inspired by this one that Elsie designed for our friend Stacy King to wear for a Sucre shoot. This dress was created from several vintage dresses, pieced together to create the bottom half. The top of my dress is the same design, with a different bottom half. I just loved how the ribbon criss-crossed and became the back of the dress. ...
Source: http://www.abeautifulmess.com/2013/08/emmas-diy-wedding-dress.html
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BT to create 150 Scottish jobs for fibre broadband rollout
BT is creating 150 new engineering jobs in Scotland as it steps up its fibre broadband rollout north of the border.
The broadband provider is to take on new recruits in Inverness, Fort William, Oban and Aberdeen as well as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Dumfries and Galashiels.
BT says the recruitment drive is designed to support its ?2.5 billion commercial investment programme, as well as its next-generation broadband partnerships in rural Scotland.
Around 90 of the new roles will be created in the Highlands and Islands, with successful candidates offered 18-month fixed term contracts with BT's network business Openreach.
Brendan Dick, Director of BT Scotland, said the advance of fibre broadband across Scotland is "good news in more ways than one".
"Faster broadband will help to fuel local economies across rural and urban Scotland and the jobs we?re creating are part of that," he stated.
"We?re looking for dynamic, customer-focused people with a can-do attitude who?ll help build the network infrastructure and deliver fibre products and services into homes and offices in and around these towns and cities."
Mr Dick said BT is offering "skilled, interesting work" which will give the successful recruits the chance to gain experience in a "fast-paced, constantly evolving industry".
Scotland's Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomed the new jobs, saying they will present new business opportunities across the country.?
"These jobs come on the back of our recent announcement of a high speed broadband network, created in partnership with BT," she noted.
"This initiative will connect communities across rural and urban areas, providing a platform for future economic development and regeneration."
Ms Sturgeon claimed this is "one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in the whole of Europe" and will enable Scottish businesses to compete on the international stage.
BT is aiming to ensure 1.46 million Scottish homes and businesses have access to fibre broadband by the end of spring 2014.
Of these, around 650,000 can already take advantage of a super-fast fibre broadband deal.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/uSwitchBroadbandNews/~3/g5DCRn8rljs/
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Tropical Storm Juliette approaches Mexico coast
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico --?
Tropical Storm Juliette bore down on Cabo San Lucas late Wednesday, prompting authorities to issue warnings for the coast of Baja California Sur state and urge residents to spend the night at shelters.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph) late Wednesday and was about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southeast of Cabo San Lucas.
The storm was moving quickly, about 25 mph (40 kph), and was expected to pass near or over Cabo San Lucas during the night and over the southern Baja peninsula into Thursday, when it was expected to weaken, the center said.
In Cabo San Lucas, police officers used their patrol cars' speakers to warn people in neighborhoods prone to flooding and urge them to go to one of 164 shelters set up by authorities.
Baja California Sur Gov. Marcos Covarrubias said the ports of La Paz and Los Cabos had closed navigation to small and medium size vessels and the airports in the port cities were closed to small planes.
"This storm's trajectory is toward our state and it will dump a significant amount of rain, and that's why those who live in high-risk areas should go to a shelter and not wait until the last minute," he said.
The storm was expected to drop 1 to 3 inches of rain over the area.
Source: http://www.fortmilltimes.com/2013/08/28/2920268/tropical-storm-juliette-approaches.html
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Health Notes | Easton Courier
Health Notes is a weekly feature that highlights health and wellness news in the area. Hospitals and other health related agencies may e-mail items to scappetta@hersamacorn.com.
Cholesterol screenings
The Trumbull Monroe Health District (TMHD) will be offering low-cost cholesterol screenings Thursdays, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Aug. 29, Sept, 26, Oct. 24, Nov. 21 and Dec. 19, TMHD offices, 2 Corporate Drive, Suite 116, Trumbull. Fasting is required. Cost is $25, cash or check. Appointments are required. Call 203-452-5195.
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Better Breathing Club
The Better Breathing Club will meet Fridays, Aug. 30 and Sept. 27, 1:30, first-floor Administration Conference Room at Bridgeport Hospital, 267 Grant St. Group meeting is open to anyone with chronic respiratory disease. To register, call 203-336-7375.
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Blood pressure screenings
Screenings offered by Bridgeport Hospital at Fairfield Senior Center, 100 Mona Terrace, Tuesday, Sept. 3, Monday, Sept. 16, 9:30-11:30; Stratford Baldwin Center, 1000 West Broad St., Mondays, Sept. 9, 9:30-11:30; Shelton Senior Center, 81 Wheeler St., Monday, Sept. 23, noon-2, 1-888-357-2396.
Also offered by the South End Community Center in collaboration with the Stratford Health Department, first and third Wednesdays of the month, 10-noon, South End Community Center; 203-385-4058; 203-377-0689.
The Mario and Irma D?Addario Hypertension Program at St. Vincent?s Medical Center provides free blood pressure screenings and information to the public every Tuesday, 11:30-3:30, main lobby of St. V?s Medical Center, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport; 1-877-255-7847.
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First aid/safety class
Bridgeport Hospital?s Emergency Care Institute offers the following self-care classes in the duPont Board Room at Bridgeport Hospital, 267 Grant St. To register, call 203-384-4497.
Adult, child and infant CPR/AED two-year certification, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 6-9, $65; Pediatric first aid & safety and adult, child and infant CPR/defibrillator training two-year certification, Saturdays, Sept. 14 and 28, 8:30-5:30, $100 full class or $70 first aid portion only; Administration of medicine, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 6:30-9:30, $50 full program (three-year certification) or $25 injectable medications only; Basic life support for healthcare providers, two-year certification, Saturday, Aug. 31 and Wednesday, Sept. 18, 6-10, $90 ($65 with unexpired American Heart Association certification card).
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Beginners yoga
?Yoga-Starter? series runs Tuesdays, Sept. 3, 10, 17, 24, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Nature Source Care, 2505 Main Street, Suite 224, Stratford, $40, 203-895-5534, naturesourcecare.com/yoga.
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Stroke support
Bridgeport Hospital?s Ahlbin Rehabilitation Centers will host a free Stroke Support Group meeting for recovering stroke patients and their caregivers Tuesday, Sept. 3, 6-7, Shelton outreach site, 4 Corporate Drive, 203-925-4201.
Also offered third Wednesday of the month, 5:30-7, Seton Room, Level C, St. Vincent?s Medical Center, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport, 203-576-5361.
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Bereavement support
A 10-week program for those grieving the loss of a loved one will begin Wednesday, Sept. 4, 7-8:30 p.m., at Our Lady of Peace Church, 10 Ivy Street.
All meetings will take place the first and third Wednesday of the month.
Registration is required. Call 203-377-4863, ext. 10 to register or for more information.
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Health fair at First Baptist Church
The Health Care Awareness Ministry of First Baptist Church of Stratford, 1301 Stratford Avenue will host a health fair after the worship service on Sunday, Sept. 8, from 1 to 4 p.m.
The fair will include health screenings and information on topics such as Driving and Dementia, Sugar Blues and Nutrition. Persons who are insured or have no insurance may sign up for a mammogram screening.
On Saturday, Sept. 7, the ministry will provide a CPR class at 9:30 a.m.
For more information, call Sister Sandra Fisher, 203-375-3693.
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Free community lectures
Bridgeport Hospital experts will present a series of free community lectures in August and September, 7?9 p.m., at the Trumbull Marriott, 180 Hawley Lane.
On Sept. 11, orthopedic surgeons David Bindelglass, MD and Joel Malin, MD, orthopedic nurse Karen Essig and physical therapist Amy Mooney will discuss the causes of and treatments for hip and knee pain.
On Sept. 18, geriatrician Vivian Argento, MD and psychiatrist Mihaela Nedelcuta, MD, will speak about the symptoms of dementia, how the condition affects the brain and how geriatric assessments can help patients and their families determine the best care options.
On Sept. 26, neurosurgeon Kenneth Lipow, MD, orthopedic surgeon A. Gregory Geiger, MD, neurologist Lisa Webb, MD and pain management specialist Rahul Anand, MD, will discuss medical and surgical options for managing back pain.
Lectures are free, but registration is required, 1-888-357-2396.
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Genetic counseling
Bridgeport Hospital?s Norma F. Pfriem Cancer Institute and Yale Cancer Center provide genetic counseling services by appointment Wednesday, Sept. 11, 5520 Park Ave., Trumbull, 203-764-8400.
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Caregiver support
Group for family members and others responsible for the day-to-day care of elderly relatives meets second Friday of month, noon-1, including Sept. 13, Operations Conference Room, Bridgeport Hospital, 267 Grant St., 1-888-357-2396.
Also, hosted by Maefair Health Care second Tuesday of the month 2:30-3:30, 21 Maefair Court, Trumbull. Meetings are open to all caregivers in the community. Light refreshments, 203-459-5152.
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Senior driving course
AARP?s Senior Driver Safety Program Saturday, Sept. 14, 9-1, first-floor Administration Conference Room at Bridgeport Hospital, 267 Grant St., $12 AARP members, $14 non-members, covers handouts and instructional materials, 1-888-357-2396.
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Moms in Training
Want to get in shape? Meet other moms in town? Help fight cancer? Join The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society?s Moms In Training Team for a flexible nine-week work-out program held at 9 a.m. Saturday mornings at Jennings Beach, Sept. 14-Nov. 17. After the program, join your team of moms to run or walk the Wallingford Turkey Trot five-mile race on Nov. 17 (event day participation is optional).
Space is limited. To register contact Nicole Carrea at 203-665-1418 or nicole.carrea@lls.org.
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Ostomy support
Sunday, Sept. 15, 2 p.m., Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, 40 Lindeman Drive, Trumbull. Meeting is open to anyone who has had or will have an ostomy operation, such as colostomy, urostomy or ileostomy. Spouses welcome. Meetings are held the third Sunday of the month except July and August, 203-384-3209.
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Perinatal grief support
Group for those grieving the loss of a baby through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillborn, or newborn death meets Wednesdays, 7-8:15 p.m., Sept. 18, Oct. 16, Nov. 20 and Dec. 18, Ambulatory Infusion Center waiting area, level 3 of the Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care, adjacent to St. Vincent?s Medical Center.
Free; no registration required, 203-576-5110, 203-576-5716.
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Look Good ?. Feel Better
Free American Cancer Society program helps women with cancer improve their appearance and self-image through hands-on beauty techniques Oct. 10 and Dec. 5, 1-3 p.m., Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care adjacent St. Vincent?s Medical Center, 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport. Reservations required: 203-576-6158. Lunch provided.
Also offered Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2-4 p.m., Norma F. Pfriem Breast Care Center, 111 Beach Road, Fairfield. To register, call 203-255-5300.
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Cancer nutrition and cooking
Free cooking course designed to help attendees prevent and survive cancer through proper diet and nutrition 6-7:45, Sept. 25, Oct. 22, Nov. 20, SWIM Center for Cancer Care, St. Vincent?s Medical Center, 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, 203-576-6158, stvincents.org.
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Breast cancer survivor support
Breast cancer survivor support group meets first and third Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-7, Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care, St. V?s, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport, 203-576-6158, tmclaugh@st.vincentss.org.
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Overeaters self-help group
Overeaters Anonymous is a 12-Step self-help group for compulsive overeaters. The group meets every Sunday, 8:45-9:45 a.m., at St. Vincent?s Hospital, 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, in the Seton Room on Level C.
There are no dues, fees or weigh-ins. The only requirement is a desire to stop eating compulsively. For more information, visit swctoa.org or call Bill M., 203-455-7766.
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Nutrition for cancer survivors
Class provides information and resources for healthy eating during and after treatment in addition with dietary tips and modifications to help improve overall wellness and health, the second Wednesday of every month. 5-6 p.m. St. Vincent?s Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care adjacent to the hospital. To register, call 203-576-6158.
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Family support group
For adult patients, family members and friends who are coping with a diagnose of leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and Hodgkin?s Disease, first Tuesday of every month, 4-5:30, St. V?s Elizabeth M. Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care, Level 3 Medical Oncology Conference Room, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport, 203-576-6158; tmclaugh@stvincent.org.
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Hospice volunteer training
The Connecticut Hospice, Inc. is sponsoring its fall volunteer training this October. The course will inform and prepare prospective volunteers in all aspects of Hospice Care for patients in lower Fairfield County, 203-315-7510, 1-800-8-HOSPICE ext. 510, jcullen@hospice.com.
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Breastfeeding support
Free breastfeeding support group for new and expectant mothers, first and third Wednesday of the month, 10-noon, 5520 Park Ave., Trumbull, 1-888-357-2396.
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Cancer survivor support
A free patient and caregiver support program also offered the last Tuesday of the month, 6-7:30, St. Vincent?s Medical Oncology Conference Room, Level 3 of the Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care. Open to all cancer patients and survivors along with their caregivers, family, friends, 203-576-6158.
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Lunch & learn cancer support
A free Lunch & Learn Cancer Support Group offered by St. Vincent?s third Thursday of the month noon-1, Oncology Conference Room, Elizabeth M. Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care, adjacent to the St. Vincent?s Medical Center, 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, 203-576-6158, tmclaugh@stvincents.org.
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Al-Anon meetings
Al-Anon is a resource for family members and friends affected by alcoholism.
Al-Anon meets Sundays, 6:30 and Wednesdays, 7:30, St. Ann?s, old convent behind church, Brewster Street, Black Rock; Sundays, 7, St. Charles Church, (Spanish meeting), 391 Ogden Street, Bridgeport; Fridays, 8, Bridgeport Mental Health Center, 1635 Central Avenue, first floor (park & enter from parking deck off Mead Street).
For information about groups in Connecticut, call 1-888-825-2666. For more information about Al-Anon, visit ct-al-anon.org. A free publication is available at Al-AnonFamilyGroups.org.
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Addiction support
Are you dealing with an addiction in your life or the life of a family member? Higher Ground Ministry is non-denominational offering help that is permanent through biblical truths. Weekly meetings are held where one receives support, encouragement and spiritual guidance. Meetings are Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.m., Trinity Baptist Church, 300 North Benson Road, Fairfield.
Also, Sundays, 6-7:30 p.m., Stepney Baptist Church, 423 Main St., Monroe; Mondays, 7:30-9 p.m., Huntington Chapel, 177 Ripton Road, Huntington; Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m., Christ the King Church at American Legion Hall, 21 Cedar St., Naugatuck; Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. and Fridays, 7-8:30 p.m., First Baptist Church of Shelton, 178 Leavenworth Road, Shelton; Fridays, 7-8:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 235 Prindle Ave., Ansonia; and Tuesdays, 7:30-9 p.m., Grace Baptist Church, 400 Burnt Plains Road, Milford. Information: 203-888-9974; highergroundministry.org.
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Diabetes education
Fourth Thursday of the month, 6-7:30, St. Vincent?s Level 4 Seton Conference Room, 203-576-6168.
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Bereavement support
An eight-week support group facilitated by Ximena? Varas, certified lay minister and chaplain meets Mondays, 7-8:30 p.m at First United Methodist Church, 188 Rocky Rest Road.
Registration required: ximenavaras@umcshelton.org or 203-278-1568.
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Yoga classes
?New ?Mindful Flow? yoga class series offered Fridays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. at 2505 Main St., Suite 224, Stationhouse Square, Stratford, naturesourcecare.com/yoga; 203-895-5534, info@naturesourcecare.com.
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Free yoga for cancer patients
Restorative yoga, chair yoga with breathing and meditation for patients in active treatment or post-surgery, Tuesdays, 10 a.m., The Watermark, 303 Park Ave., Bridgeport; Thursdays, 10 a.m., Yoga Room, Level 3 of St. Vincent?s Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care, adjacent to the Medical Center. Gentle Yoga, for patients in treatment or recently finished, Saturdays, 8:30 a.m., Yoga for Everybody, 27 Unquowa Road, Fairfield. Formal Yoga, for cancer survivors of five years or less, Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m., The Watermark, 3030 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 203-576-6158.
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Healthcare and Medicare information
St. Vincent?s Medical Center is offering a free program of health insurance and Medicare information and counseling to the public every week. Individuals can meet with the health insurance specialist by appointment in the privacy of the Banks Library located on the third level of St. Vincent?s.
To schedule an appointment or for more information call St. Vincent?s Volunteer Office at 203-576-5111.
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Free HIV/HCV tests
The Greater Bridgeport Area Prevention Program and the Stratford Health Department will offer rapid HIV and Hepatitis C testing with results in 20 minutes every first and third Tuesday of the month from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Stratford Health Dept., 468 Birdseye St., Stratford.
To schedule an appointment call 203-385-4058.
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Cancer support group
Ongoing monthly group is focused on giving support to patients and families who have been diagnosed with lung, colon, head and neck, esophageal, GI cancers and other solid tumors. Meetings are the third Wednesday of the month, 9-10 a.m., Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care, third floor conference room, St. V?s, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport. Call 203-576-6158.
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Healthy traveler service
Bridgeport Hospital?s Healthy Traveler Service provides pre-travel consultations, travel vaccines, medications and comprehensive travel information to help prepare for a healthy and safe international trip. For information or to make an appointment, call 203-384-3613.
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Ring for Your Rhythm
Bridgeport Hospital?s ?Ring for Your Rhythm? line provides recorded, step-by-step instructions for taking a pulse reading, to help detect atrial fibrillation (a-fib) and possibly prevent a stroke. Call toll free, 24/7, at 1-855-247-8573.
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Community acupuncture
Led by licensed acupuncturist Gregor Wei, Mondays, 10-2, Norma F. Pfriem Breast Care Center, 111 Beach Road, Fairfield. Call 203-255-5300 to register. Advance registration requested. Private appointments available.
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Massage therapy
Massage is offered for oncology patients undergoing definitive active treatment and for survivors who have completed treatment. Call 203-576-6158 for an appointments. Program takes place on third floor of Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care at St. V?s, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport.
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Fitness classes
Bridgeport Hospital?s Ahlbin Rehabilitation Centers offers weekly fitness classes in Bridgeport and Stratford:
Boot Camp, Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:45-6:45 a.m., 226 Mill Hill Ave., Bridgeport; Saturdays, 10-11 a.m., 3585 Main St., Stratford.
Women?s Strength Training, Tuesdays, 11-noon; Thursdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m., 226 Mill Hill, Bridgeport; Saturdays, 8-9 a.m., 3585 Main St., Stratford.
Zumba, Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m., 226 Mill Hill, Bridgeport; Saturdays, 8-9 a.m., 3585 Main St., Stratford.
$8 per class or $75 for 10 classes. Tickets are available at all Ahlbin Centers locations, or before or after classes. For information or to register, call 203-336-7301 (Bridgeport) or 203-380-4672 (Stratford).
In addition to Bridgeport and Stratford, Ahlbin Centers has outpatient facilities at 4 Corporate Drive, Shelton; 2600 Post Road, Southport; and 2750 Reservoir Ave., Trumbull.
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Health and wellness classes
St. Vincent?s Medical Center, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport offers a variety of health and wellness classes. Most sessions run for 10 weeks with the exception of pilates, which is six weeks; and Y Diabetes Prevention Program and Weight Watchers program, 16 and 17-week sessions respectively. 10-week sessions: $90. Information/registration: 203-576-6267; scollins@stvincents.org.
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Free exercise video program
A new online video program called A-B-E (Activity Bursts Everywhere) for Fitness, designed specifically to help adults meet those recommendations for daily physical activity, is available at abeforfitness.com.
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Kripalu yoga
Beginner and intermediate level, runs weekly, Fridays, 9:15 a.m., Norma F. Pfriem Breast Care Center, 111 Beach Road, Fairfield. Class size limited to six students. Advance registration requested; 203-255-5300; bridgeporthospital.org. Yoga, restorative yoga and teen yoga classes also available. Call for full class schedule.
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Pilates
Weekly, Mondays, 5:30 p.m., Norma F. Pfriem Breast Care Center, 111 Beach Road, Fairfield. Class size limited to six students. Advance registration requested; 203-255-5300.
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Wellness booth
St. Vincent?s Wellness Booth has relocated to the main lobby of the Medical Center, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport. Health screenings and services offered to the public every Tuesday and Wednesday, 11:30-3:30. No appointment required for any of the screenings.
Free blood pressure screenings are performed every Tuesday. On Wednesdays, Cholesterol/HDL ratio/glucose screening, $18; a lipid panel requiring a four-hour fast, $25; blood sugar screening alone requiring a two-hour fast, $1.
For more information call St. Vincent?s toll-free Care Line at 1-877-255-SVHS (7847).
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Heart-disease risk quiz
Bridgeport Hospital offers ?Take 10 for Your Ticker,? a free online heart-disease risk quiz. Quiz is available at bridgeporthospital.org, by clicking on the link in the ?Take 10 for Your Ticker? box.
For those without access to the Internet, a free printed copy of the quiz, with an explanation of results, is available by calling 1-888-357-2396.
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Help for new movers
Bridgeport Hospital?s free Newcomer Concierge Service helps new residents of Bridgeport and surrounding towns locate physicians to meet personal and family health needs. Service also provides information on health-related events and activities. To reach the Newcomer Concierge Service, call 203-330-7462, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays or Fridays, 9-3.
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Caregiver support
Atria Stratford Assisted Living, 6911 Main St., offers a support group for family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer?s disease, or related dementia, living at home or in an extended care facility. Group meets first Wednesday of the month, 6-7; 203-380-0006.
Grasmere By The Sea: One Post Road, Fairfield, offers open discussion about Alzheimer?s disease and related dementias, first Thursday of month, 4 p.m.; 203-365-6470.
Jewish Family Service, 2370 Park Ave., Bridgeport, offers support group for family members or friends helping with the care of adults over 60, meets first Wednesday of month, 6-7:30 p.m. RSVP: 366-5438, Ext. 219.
Sunset Shores Adult Day Health Center, 720 Barnum Avenue Cut Off, Stratford, offers a support group for people caring for a loved one with Alzheimer?s disease or a related dementia. Meetings are the second Wednesday of the month, 4-5; 380-1228.
St. Vincent?s SWIM family support group meets first Tuesday of each month, 4-5:30 p.m., Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care at St. V?s, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport. No reservations required; 203-576-6158; tmclaugh@st.vincents.org.
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Prostate cancer survivors
St. Vincent?s SWIM Prostate Cancer Survivors Educational Lecture Series and Support Group meets at Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care, at St. V?s, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport. Call 203-576-6158 or e-mail tmlaugh@stvincents.org for dates and times of lectures. No reservations required.
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Breast cancer wellness
St. Vincent?s Breast Cancer Survivor Wellness program, intended for women who have recently undergone breast cancer surgery and those further along in their recovery, 4:30-5:30, Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care at St. V?s, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport. No reservations required. For dates, call 203-576-6158.
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Breast cancer stories
Bizymoms.com has helped many women with whatever information it is they may be seeking about breast cancer. A panel of cancer experts, women, wives, and mothers are waiting to share their expertise and stories while learning about yours. Visit bizymoms.com/cares/breastcancer.
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Cancer boutique
St. Vincent?s partners with Saxon-Kent Lingerie of Orange to provide special products for women battling cancer. Boutique hours: Monday-Friday, 10-4. Fitting hours for wigs, prosthesis, mastectomy bras, lymphedema sleeves etc: Tuesdays, 2-4; Wednesdays, 10-noon; or by appointment; 203-576-6158; tmclaugh@stvincents.org. Boutique hours: 10-4.
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Breast cancer support
Woman-to-Woman, an American Cancer Society sponsored support group for women who have had breast cancer or who have been newly diagnosed, meets monthly, 2-4 p.m., Cambridge Manor, 2428 Easton Tpke., Fairfield; 1-800-889-3340.
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Cancer resource library
St. Vincent?s SWIM Cancer Resource Library is open Monday-Friday, 9-5, Maureen Ringel Cancer Resource Library, Elizabeth Pfriem SWIM Center for Cancer Care, St. V?s. Medical Center, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport. A representative is available to assist visitors with navigation of web-based searches, cancer clinical trial searches and direct patient referrals to a variety of free resources Monday-Friday, 9-1.
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MS support
Trumbull MS support group meets third Tuesday of each month, 6:30-8, Trumbull Library, 33 Quality St. Ed, 445-0118; 1-800- FIGHT MS; ctfightsMS.org.
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Scleroderma support
The American Society For Scleroderma Research has formed a support group for all afflicted by this disease. The group meets every second Thursday, 6:30-7:30, St. Vincent Medical Center, Main Street, Bridgeport; Aimee Turiano or Joy LoSchiavo, 203-273-2034.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Researcher controls colleague's motions in first human brain-to-brain interface
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher.
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Syria vows to defend itself as pressure grows
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? Syria's foreign minister said Tuesday his country would defend itself using "all means available" in case of a U.S. strike, denying his government was behind an alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus and challenging Washington to present proof backing up its accusations.
Walid al-Moallem spoke at a press conference in Damascus as condemnation of President Bashar Assad's grew over last week's purported attack with poison gas, which activists say killed hundreds of people. The Arab League threw its weight behind calls for punitive action, blaming the Syrian government for the attack and calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
The announcement by the 22-member body, which is dominated by Gulf powerhouses Saudi Arabia and Qatar, provides indirect Arab cover for any potential military attack by Western powers.
The United Nations, meanwhile, said that its team of chemical weapons experts in Syria has delayed a second trip to investigate the alleged attack near Damascus by one day for security reasons.
Al-Moallem, speaking at a press conference in Damascus, likened U.S. allegations that President Bashar Assad's regime was behind the attack to false American charges that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of that country.
"They have a history of lies ? Iraq," he said. Al-Moallem spoke a day after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said there was "undeniable" evidence of a large-scale chemical attack likely launched by Assad's regime.
Kerry's comments and tough language Monday laid out the clearest argument yet for U.S. military action in Syria, which, if President Barack Obama decides to order it, would most likely involve sea-launched cruise missile attacks on Syrian military targets.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that U.S. forces are now ready to act on any such order.
In an interview with BBC television during a visit to the southeast Asian nation of Brunei, he said the U.S. Navy has four destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea positioned within range of targets inside Syria. U.S. warplanes are also in the region, he said.
Support for some sort of international military response is likely to grow if it is confirmed that Assad's regime was responsible for the Aug. 21 attack that activists say killed hundreds of people. The group Doctors Without Borders put the death toll at 355.
In an emergency meeting held Tuesday, the Arab League also called on members of the U.N. Security Council to overcome their differences and agree on "deterrent" measures against those who committed "this heinous crime." The League said it will convene a meeting at the ministerial level next week to follow up on the situation in Syria.
"The council holds the Syrian regime totally responsible for this heinous crime and calls for all involved in the despicable crime to be given a fair international trial like other war criminals," a statement issued by the League said.
Obama has yet to say how he will respond, but appeared to be moving ahead even as the U.N. team on the ground in Syria collected evidence from the attack.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament on Tuesday for an urgent discussion on a possible military response, as the army drew up contingency plans.
Cameron's office said that Britain is considering a "proportionate" response that would deter Assad from using chemical weapons in the future.
At the Syrian news conference, Al-Moallem called the U.S. accusations "categorically false."
"I challenge those who accuse our forces of using these weapons to come forward with the evidence," he said. Syria would fight back in case of a U.S. strike, he added.
"We have the means to defend ourselves and we will surprise everyone," he told reporters in Damascus. "We will defend ourselves using all means available. I don't want to say more than that," he added.
Al-Moallem also rejected accusations that Syria was destroying evidence of the alleged attack. He said he was personally unconvinced that there will be international military action, but that if there was Syria could handle it.
"The strike will come and go. We get mortars every day and we have learned to live with them," he said.
He also blamed the postponement of the U.N. team's planned visit to the eastern Ghouta suburb on disputes between rebel gunmen who could not agree on safety guarantees for the investigators.
The U.N confirmed the one-day delay, saying only it was for security reasons. A statement said the decision was made Tuesday in order to improve preparedness and safety, after unidentified snipers opened fire on the team's convoy on Monday on a similar trip to the region.
"The Secretary-General again urges all sides in the conflict to give safe passage and access to the team," the statement said.
The U.N. team traveled Monday to the western Damascus suburb Moadamiyeh, one of the areas affected by purported chemical attack, where they collected samples and testimony after a treacherous journey through government and rebel-held territory. Their convoy was hit by snipers but members of the team were unharmed.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had instructed U.N. disarmament chief Angela Kane in Damascus "to register a strong complaint" with both the Syrian government and opposition representatives for the convoy attack.
In Geneva, U.N. spokeswoman Alessandra Vellucci told reporters that the inspection team might need longer than the planned 14 days to complete its work and its priority now is to determine what chemical weapons might have been used in the Aug. 21 attack. "This is the first priority," she said.
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Associated Press writers Zeina Karam and Bassem Mroue contributed from Beirut, John Heilprin from Geneva and Sarah El Deeb from Cairo.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syria-vows-defend-itself-pressure-grows-150706773.html
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The Tuition is Too Damn High, Part II: Why college is still worth it
The first class of Thiel Fellows, who got money from PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel for dropping out of college. That might not be such a great idea. (The Thiel Foundation)
Before diving into the causes of rising higher education spending, it?s worth asking if we ought to care. It?s obvious that we should care about, say, our rising spending on health care. It is very important for cancer patients to be able to afford chemotherapy; any argument that it?s not fails the laugh test. But it?s become somewhat fashionable of late to claim that higher education isn?t really that essential. Perhaps the answer to the cost problem is for kids to simply stop going.
?For an increasing number of kids, the extra time and money spent pursuing a college diploma will leave them worse off than they were before they set foot on campus,? Megan McArdle concluded in a Newsweek cover story last fall. Peter Thiel, the billionaire PayPal co-founder, has been paying smart undergraduates to drop out and start working on something, anything, other than college.
So does college raise incomes? Is it an investment good enough to make widely accessible?
Yes, it is. Period. Usually, this would be the part of the article where I note that there?s disagreement and perhaps a slight weighting of evidence to one side or the other. I won?t. Even McArdle and other college skeptics acknowledge that the average college graduate today will make far more over the course of his or her life than the average high-school graduate who doesn?t attend college. And the bulk of the information indicates that college really is the cause. Going to college means you make more money than you otherwise would, and that benefit far, far outstrips its upfront price.
First, the raw numbers. According to the Census Bureau?s Current Population Survey, in 2011 the median income of a high school grad who never went to college was $28,659; for those with some college but no degree, it was $32,036. By contrast, college graduates without advanced degrees had a median income of $49,648. Those with professional degrees had a median income of $87,356, more than three times that for high school grads.
The premium has held even as incomes have stagnated. People with bachelor?s degrees don?t make much more than they did 20 years ago, but they still make way more than high school grads. The college wage premium is real, and it is huge.
But that alone doesn?t tell you that college is causing those earnings differentials. Maybe it?s just that naturally smart people tend both to get a lot of education and to earn a lot, but the two aren?t actually related. For example, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates both went to Harvard and became billionaires, the theory goes, because they were smart. Harvard didn?t cause their riches. They dropped out before earning degrees, in fact. Their smarts caused both Harvard and the riches.
The evidence, however, suggests that the relationship is in fact causal. One prominent strand of research compares earnings of siblings or twins with different degrees of academic achievement. Genetically identical twins raised in the same environment are likely to have very similar ability levels to start with, which enables one to isolate the effect of education.
If one of the Winklevii twins had more education than the other, they?d be an interesting datum. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
The economists Orley Ashenfelter and Alan Krueger (the latter of whom served as President Obama?s chief economist) found that people with one more year of schooling than their twin earn, on average, 12 to 16 percent more. Cecilia Rouse (a former Obama adviser herself) found similar results with a larger version of Ashenfelter and Krueger?s sample, and another study conducted by Ashenfelter with siblings, rather than twins, confirmed the findings.
Another set of studies use a method called ?instrumental variables? to isolate the effect of education. That is, researchers find a third variable, aside from education levels and income, which would be expected to increase education levels but not to increase income except insofar as it increases education levels.
Krueger and Joshua Angrist, for example, used date of birth as an instrumental variable, as compulsory schooling laws mean that high schoolers whose birth date is closer to the beginning of the school year who drop out lose out on more schooling than those born at the end. If you drop out on your 16th birthday, you leave with a lot more education under your belt if that birthday?s in June than if it?s in September. They found that older students earned less, suggesting that the education they lost by dropping out earlier would have gained them money.
Rouse and Thomas Kane used distance from a college as an instrumental variable to measure the economic impact of two- and four-year colleges, as you?d expect people growing up near colleges to be be likelier to go but not necessarily likelier to earn more. They too found significant effects of both two- and four-year college degrees, though some have cast doubt on that particular instrumental variable (maybe areas with more colleges are also likelier to earn more regardless of how much education you get).
Truly experimental evidence is hard to find, as it?s difficult to design a study in which people are randomly assigned to go to college or to stay home. But something close to that happened when Mathematica Policy Research ran a randomized evaluation of Job Corps, a vocational education program run by the federal government. It found significant positive impacts on earnings from the education included in Job Corps.
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Something close to randomized design also happened by accident during the Vietnam War. The draft lottery meant that service in Vietnam was, to some degree, randomized, and thus, so was access to the G.I. Bill. That lets you isolate the returns to education for those returning soldiers, by comparing their earnings to those of people who got more favorable lottery numbers. Angrist and Stacey Chen analyzed the education levels and earnings of those selected into and out of service, and estimated a return to education of about 7 percent a year.
The University of British Columbia?s Thomas Lemieux and Berkeley?s David Card looked at Canada?s version of the GI Bill, noting that it provided much greater benefits to Ontario residents than Quebec natives, due to differential enlistment rates. Comparing Ontarians and Quebecois?s earnings and educational attainment, they estimated a return to education of about 15 percent.
?The results of all these studies ? those using family relationships, those using [instrumental variables], and that from the Job Corps evaluation ? are surprisingly consistent,? Rouse writes in a summary of the research. ?They indicate that the return to schooling is not dominated by an omitted correlation between ability and schooling.? In plain English: they suggest that schooling does, in fact, cause incomes to increase.
There?s another strand of criticism that alleges that whatever effect college has on wages is an effect of signaling. It?s the degree that matters, as a way to tell employers you?re smart and accomplished, rather than what you learn in pursuit of the degree, under this theory. Note, first of all, that this doesn?t really negate the finding that college causes higher earnings. It just presents a slightly cynical explanation of how it is that college causes that earnings bump.
Tom Haverford?s name change from Darwish Sabir Ismael Gani is a great example of signaling in practice. (NBC)
This theory makes a prediction: If signaling is leading to income gains, you?d expect the gains to education to be ?non-linear?. You?d expect that a one-year increase in education that brings a degree with it (say, going from three years of college to four years and a bachelor?s) to have more of an effect on earnings than a one-year increase that doesn?t come with a degree (say, going from dropping out of college after two years to dropping out after three years). Sure enough, that?s exactly what the data show, as Thomas Hungerford and Gary Solon first demonstrated in 1987.
But signaling doesn?t explain all of the gains. Getting actual degrees seems to increase earnings on its own, but so does increased schooling with degrees to go along with it. ?Completing an associate?s degree appears to be associated with a 15 to 27 percent increase in annual earnings,? Kane and Rouse write. ?Since estimates suggest that two years of community college credit is associated with a 10 to 16 percent increase in earnings?there appears to be some additional gain to the associate?s degree itself.? But if those numbers are correct, then the credential itself accounts for well less than half the total effect. The actual schooling, apart from its signaling effects, still matters.
Perhaps the most persuasive skeptical case to be made in the face of all this evidence is that while the average student still benefits from college, that doesn?t mean the marginal student does. That is, the fact that a typical college student gets a wage bump from his time in the classroom doesn?t mean that a student on the margins, who may or may not be ready for college and is weighing his options, would get a similar benefit. If that?s true, then encouraging more people to go to college may not make sense. This is the case McArdle makes. ?Experts tend to agree that for the average student, college is still worth it today, but they also agree that the rapid increase in price is eating up more and more of the potential return,? she writes. ?For borderline students, tuition hikes can push those returns into negative territory.?
So what does college do for ?borderline? students? The best study I?ve seen on this comes from Seth Zimmerman, a PhD student at Yale. He compared the earnings of Florida students whose GPAs were just above and just below the Florida State University system?s cutoff. There?s a huge effect of being just above the cutoff (3.0, for most students), suggesting that students at the margin still gain substantially from college.?Some of the students below the cutoff still attended college, but at a much lower rate than those above the threshold, which enables Zimmerman to estimate the effect on the marginal student.
Work by Nobel laureate James Heckman and his colleagues backs this up. While in some cases, the marginal effect of policies that spur marginal students to attend college is lower than the effect of college for average students, ?for other policies associated with other marginal expansions, the marginal gains are substantial.? So too does a paper by the University of Toronto?s Philip Oreopoulos and Uros Petronijevic. Marginal students may not gain as much as average students, but they still gain substantially in many cases.
College matters. It causes real, large increases in lifetime earnings, both for average students and those teetering between going and not going to college. And it has other benefits too. Oreopoulos and the Norwegian School of Economics?s Kjell G. Salvanes find that life satisfaction rises with increased years in college, even when you control for income. That?s why keeping its price low and enrollment accessible is so vitally important.
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Boeing's Newer, Bigger, Less Flammable Dreamliner Is Ready to Fly
This last year has not been kind to Boeing's fledgling 787 Dreamliner class airplanes, what with the repeated electrical fires, fleet groundings, and bad publicity. But Boeing is confident that it's worked the kinks out in its newest Dreamliner iteration, the 787-9, which rolled out of the factory earlier today and is eagerly awaiting its first test flight.
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Monday, August 26, 2013
Things To Look For In A Serious Home Based Business Opportunity ...
There are many reasons you might want to give up your day job in favor of a serious home based business opportunity. First of all, working from home lets you be with your family and your children, and take care of things around the house. It also allows you to be the boss of yourself, which means that you get to decide what days you take off, and what time you get to work in the morning. A serious home based business opportunity can give you all of these things, but it can also allow you the freedom of truly doing things that you love in order to make a living.
That is why it is very important to first look at the things that the serious home based business opportunity has to offer you. Where can you go once you have started? Is this business something that you are going to want to do for years and pass on to your children when your retire? Is it profitable, and it is going to be fun for you? These are the questions that you have to ask yourself before you find out if a serious home based business opportunity is right for you or not.
First of all, when you are looking to start a serious home based business opportunity, you have to take a look at where there is room for advancement. You want to be sure that the business has the ability to expand and to grow, and that you are going to be able to somewhere with it. This is very important because in everything that you do there has to be room for improvement, and room for you to go forward. The next thing that you have to look at when you are deciding whether a serious home based business opportunity is right for is whether or not the business is something that you want to do for the long term, and something that you want to pass on to your children. Remember that a home based business should be just like a regular business, it should be something that you can do for a long time and finally pass onto your children, when you are tired of doing it. So, it has to be something that can last you for the long term, and something that you don?t want to end up being sorry you started. The other thing that you have to ask yourself when you are looking for a serious home based business opportunity is whether or not it is going to be profitable. All home based businesses will have a period of time in which you have to invest some money to get it up off the ground and running, but after that the business should turn a profit. You have to be sure that you see this happening before you begin, and that you have a plan in place to make sure you make money. And last, you have to make sure that the serious home based business opportunity you choose is going to be fun for you. Part of working at home is being able to relax and enjoy your life, so make sure that your business does this for you.
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Sunday, August 25, 2013
Syria warns US not to intervene militarily
This citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office Of Douma City which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man mourning over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. Syrian regime forces fired intense artillery and rocket barrages Wednesday on the eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus, in what two pro-opposition groups claimed was a "poisonous gas" attack that killed dozens of people. (AP Photo/Media Office Of Douma City)
This citizen journalism image provided by the Media Office Of Douma City which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man mourning over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. Syrian regime forces fired intense artillery and rocket barrages Wednesday on the eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus, in what two pro-opposition groups claimed was a "poisonous gas" attack that killed dozens of people. (AP Photo/Media Office Of Douma City)
In this photo taken on a government organized media tour, a Syrian army soldier walks on a street in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Syrian state media accused rebels of using chemical arms on Saturday against government troops trying to storm a contested neighborhood of Damascus, claiming a major army offensive in recent days had forced the opposition fighters to resort to such weapons "as their last card." State TV broadcast images of plastic jugs, gas masks, vials of an unspecified medication, explosives and other items that it said were seized from rebel hideouts. It did not, however, show any video of soldiers reportedly affected by toxic gas in the fighting in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus. (AP Photo)
In this photo taken on a government organized tour, Syrian army soldiers evacuate a comrade injured during heavy clashes with Syrian rebels in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Syrian state media accused rebels of using chemical arms on Saturday against government troops trying to storm a contested neighborhood of Damascus, claiming a major army offensive in recent days had forced the opposition fighters to resort to such weapons "as their last card." State TV broadcast images of plastic jugs, gas masks, vials of an unspecified medication, explosives and other items that it said were seized from rebel hideouts. It did not, however, show any video of soldiers reportedly affected by toxic gas in the fighting in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus. (AP Photo)
In this photo taken on a government organized media tour, Syrian army soldiers evacuate their commander who was injured during heavy clashes with Syrian rebels in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Syrian state media accused rebels of using chemical arms on Saturday against government troops trying to storm a contested neighborhood of Damascus, claiming a major army offensive in recent days had forced the opposition fighters to resort to such weapons "as their last card." State TV broadcast images of plastic jugs, gas masks, vials of an unspecified medication, explosives and other items that it said were seized from rebel hideouts. It did not, however, show any video of soldiers reportedly affected by toxic gas in the fighting in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus. (AP Photo)
In this photo taken on a government organized tour, canisters and other material that the Syrian military says it uncovered in a raid on a rebel hideout are lined up, in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Syrian state media accused rebels of using chemical arms on Saturday against government troops trying to storm a contested neighborhood of Damascus, claiming a major army offensive in recent days had forced the opposition fighters to resort to such weapons "as their last card." State TV broadcast images of plastic jugs, gas masks, vials of an unspecified medication, explosives and other items that it said were seized from rebel hideouts. It did not, however, show any video of soldiers reportedly affected by toxic gas in the fighting in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus. (AP Photo)
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) ? The Syrian government accused rebels of using chemical weapons Saturday and warned the United States not to launch any military action against Damascus over an alleged chemical attack last week, saying such a move would set the Middle East ablaze.
The accusations by the regime of President Bashar Assad against opposition forces came as an international aid group said it has tallied 355 deaths from a purported chemical weapons attack on Wednesday in a suburb of the Syrian capital known as Ghouta.
Syria is intertwined in alliances with Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militant groups. The country also borders its longtime foe and U.S. ally Israel, making the fallout from military action unpredictable.
Violence in Syria has already spilled over the past year to Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Battle-hardened Hezbollah fighters have joined the combat alongside Assad's forces.
Meanwhile, U.S. naval units are moving closer to Syria as President Barack Obama considers a military response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by Assad's government.
U.S. defense officials told The Associated Press that the Navy had sent a fourth warship armed with ballistic missiles into the eastern Mediterranean Sea but without immediate orders for any missile launch into Syria. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss ship movements publicly.
Obama emphasized that a quick intervention in the Syrian civil war was problematic, given the international considerations that should precede a military strike.
After Obama met with his national security team Saturday, the White House said U.S. intelligence officials are still trying to determine whether Assad's government unleashed the chemical weapons attack earlier this week.
The White House statement said Obama received a detailed review of the range of options he has requested for the U.S. and the international community to respond if it is determined that Assad has engaged in deadly chemical warfare.
Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi dismissed the possibility of an American attack, warning that such a move would risk triggering more violence in the region.
"The basic repercussion would be a ball of fire that would burn not only Syria but the whole Middle East," al-Zoubi said in an interview with Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV. "An attack on Syria would be no easy trip."
In Tehran, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Abbas Arakji, warned that an American military intervention in Syria will "complicate matters."
"Sending warships will not solve the problems but will worsen the situation," Arakji said in comments carried by Iran's Arabic-language TV Al-Alam. He added that any such U.S. move does not have international backing and that Iran "rejects military solutions."
In France, Doctors Without Borders said three hospitals it supports in the eastern Damascus region reported receiving roughly 3,600 patients with "neurotoxic symptoms" over less than three hours on Wednesday morning, when the attack in the eastern Ghouta area took place.
Of those, 355 died, the Paris-based group said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday that its estimated death toll from the alleged chemical attack had reached 322, including 54 children, 82 women and dozens of fighters. It said the dead included 16 people who have not been identified.
The group said it raised its death toll from an earlier figure of 136, which had been calculated before its activists in the stricken areas met doctors, residents and saw medical reports. It said the dead "fell in the massacre committed by the Syrian regime."
Death tolls have varied wildly over the alleged attack, with Syrian anti-government activists reporting between 322 and 1,300 killed.
Al-Zoubi blamed the rebels for the chemical attacks in Ghouta, saying that the Syrian government had proof of their responsibility but without giving details. "The rockets were fired from their positions and fell on civilians. They are responsible," he said.
With the pressure increasing, Syria's state media accused rebels in the contested district of Jobar near Damascus of using chemical weapons against government troops Saturday.
State TV broadcast images of plastic jugs, gas masks, vials of an unspecified medication, explosives and other items that it said were seized from rebel hideouts Saturday.
One barrel had "made in Saudi Arabia" stamped on it. The TV report also showed medicines said to be produced by a Qatari-German medical supplies company. Qatar and Saudi Arabia are strong supporters of the Syrian rebels. The report could not be immediately verified.
An army statement issued late Saturday said the discovery of the weapons "is clear evidence that these gangs are using chemical weapons against our people and soldiers with help from foreign sides."
The claims could muddy the debate about who was responsible for Wednesday's alleged gas attack, which spurred demands for an independent investigation and renewed talk of potential international military action if chemical weapons were used.
Just hours before the state media reports, the U.N. disarmament chief arrived in Damascus to press Assad's regime to allow U.N. experts to investigate the alleged Wednesday attack. The regime has denied allegations it was responsible, calling them "absolutely baseless" and suggesting they are an attempt to discredit the government.
The U.S., Britain, France and Russia have urged the Assad regime and the rebels fighting to overthrow him to cooperate with the United Nations and allow a team of experts already in Syria to look into the latest purported use of chemical agents. The U.N. secretary-general dispatched Angela Kane, the high representative for disarmament affairs, to push for a speedy investigation into Wednesday's purported attack. She did not speak to reporters upon her arrival in Damascus Saturday.
The state news agency said several government troops who took part in the Jobar offensive experienced severe trouble breathing or even "suffocation" after "armed terrorist groups used chemical weapons." It was not clear what was meant by "suffocation," and the report mentioned no fatalities among the troops.
"The Syrian Army achieved major progress in the past days and for that reason, the terrorist groups used chemical weapons as their last card," state TV said. The government refers to rebels fighting to topple Assad as "terrorists."
State TV also broadcast images of a Syrian army officer, wearing a surgical mask, telling reporters wearing similar masks that soldiers were subjected to poisonous attack in Jobar. He spoke inside the depot where the alleged confiscated products were placed.
"Our troops did not suffer body wounds," the officer said. "I believe terrorist groups used special substances that are poisonous in an attempt to affect this advance."
Al-Mayadeen aired interviews with two soldiers hospitalized for possible chemical weapons attack. The two appeared unharmed but were undergoing tests.
"We were advancing and heard an explosion that was not very strong," a soldier said from his bed. "Then there was a strange smell, my eyes and head ached and I struggled to breathe." The other soldier also said he experienced trouble breathing after the explosion.
Al-Mayadeen TV, which has a reporter embedded with the troops in the area, said some 50 soldiers were rushed to Damascus hospitals for treatment and that it was not yet known what type of gas the troops were subjected too.
In Turkey, top Syrian rebel commander Salim Idris told reporters that opposition forces did not use chemical weapons on Saturday and that "the regime is lying."
For days, the government has been trying to counter rebel allegations that the regime used chemical weapons on civilians in rebel-held areas of eastern Damascus, arguing that opposition fighters themselves were responsible for that attack.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius dismissed the Syrian government's claims.
"All the information we have is converging to indicate there was a chemical massacre in Syria, near Damascus, and that Bashar Assad's regime was behind it," Fabius told reporters during a visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah. He did not elaborate.
France has suggested that force could be used against Syria if Assad's regime was proven to have used chemical arms.
The new talk of potential military action in in the country has made an independent investigation by U.N. inspectors critical to determine what exactly transpired.
The U.N. experts already in Syria are tasked with investigating three earlier purported chemical attacks in the country: one in the village of Khan al-Assal outside the northern city of Aleppo in March, as well as two other locations that have been kept secret for security reasons.
It took months of negotiations between the U.N. and Damascus before an agreement was struck to allow the 20-member team into Syria to investigate. Its mandate is limited to those three sites, however, and it is only charged with determining whether chemical weapons were used, not who used them.
Leaders of the main Western-backed Syrian opposition group on Saturday vowed retaliation for the alleged chemical weapons attack.
From Istanbul, the head of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmad Al-Jarba, also criticized the lack of response to the attack by the United Nations and the international community, saying the UN was discrediting itself.
"It does not reach the ethical and legal response that Syrians expect," he said. "As a matter of fact we can describe it as a shame."
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Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten in Paris, Desmond Butler in Istanbul and Bradley Klapper in Washington contributed to this report.
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Can Google build its own ?Nexus car? without the help of automakers?
Google is weighing building its own line of self-driving cars independent of the automakers, according to new report by Amir Efrati on JessicaLessin.com. Efrati doesn?t name his sources, but he?s a veteran Google reporter formerly of the Wall Street Journal so I have little reason to doubt them. But it does raise an interesting question: Can a tech company ? even one with the resources and innovation drive of Google ? build an automobile from scratch?
First the details of the report: Efrati?s sources said Google is making no headway with the entrenched automakers over partnerships to build self-driving vehicles. So it?s opted to go around them, talking to auto-components designers Continental and Magna International about having them build cars to Google?s design. (German paper Frankfurter Allgemeine also reported Continental has struck a deal with both Google and IBM.)
Efrati?s report added that Google might use these cars as part of a ?robo-taxi? service that prowls cities picking up passengers on demand.
Google is no stranger to tackling big hardware projects. It became an ISP when it launched Google Fiber. It makes its own tablets and smartphones, it?s been designing its own data centers for year, and it?s even attempting to create the world?s first borderless network flying in the stratospheric winds with Project Loon.
But make a car? That requires considerable commitment of finances and resources, not to mention the need to recruit a different type of engineer ? mechanical rather software. Silicon Valley has created car companies before, but it?s not as if Elon Musk started Tesla Motors as a side business of PayPal. He helped found a whole new company devoted to making an electric vehicle, received investment from the automakers, and recruited some of the best and brightest of the auto industry to help run it.
While Google is probably one of the few companies in the world with the resources and wherewithal to start an auto-manufacturing operation in-house, you?ve got to wonder if all the trouble is worth it. When Google made its Nexus line of phones, it was mainly trying to create concept phones that demonstrated Android?s full potential. When it got serious about making phones it went out and bought a phone maker: Motorola. I seriously doubt Google is going to go out and buy a struggling automaker.
The Nexus, however, might be a good model if Google is sincere about proving its autonomous car concept. Google could be aiming to create the Nexus equivalent of a vehicle: the car would be built by someone else, while the software and technology that made it autonomous, intelligent and connected would all be Google.
Still, it does seem that the auto industry and Google are heading toward the same goal even if they?re getting there in entirely different ways. While Google appears more focused on building a sensor-driven vehicle, automakers like Ford, Honda and BMW have been trying to combine sensor technologies with networking technologies that allow cars to communicate their positions and intent with one another.
Those automakers could be moving far too slowly ? focusing on ?assisted driving? rather than taking the driver out of the equation ? for Google?s tastes. So maybe Google believes a ?Nexus car,? one demonstrating the full capability of its driverless technology, is the kick in the pants in the auto industry needs.
Source: http://gigaom.com/2013/08/23/can-google-build-its-own-nexus-car-without-the-help-of-automakers/
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What Does Ben Affleck Need To Do To Become Batman?
Oscar winner came out of nowhere to nab the coveted role, but there are a few qualities one has to master to become the Dark Knight.
By Brett White
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1712928/ben-affleck-becoming-batman.jhtml
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