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Friday, October 26, 2012
Retiring Early by Working with a Financial Planner | Quality Life ...
The idea of early retirement often seems like an impossible dream. With necessary expenses, lower wages and an increasingly high cost of living, it is hard to create a budget that puts aside enough to invest and retire early. While it might seem hard, a financial planner can offer assistance to reach the goal.
Job of the Planner:
Working with a financial planner has several possible benefits because the individual is trained to help improve the financial situation. The planner has specific responsibilities that make it easier to overcome the challenges of saving and create a realistic plan to get the situation on the road to early retirement.
Financial planners must evaluate the current situation to determine the necessary steps to reach early retirement. Any planner will look at assets, liabilities, current income, current expenses and any other financial information that applies to the situation.
After evaluating the current financial health, planners will help create a budget that will work and will set realistic short and long-term goals. The goals will make it easier to set aside enough each month to reach the necessary figures to retire early.
Applying the Plan:
Working with a financial planner is about creating a budget, reaching financial goals and working out the best asset allocation to increase funding for the future. Applying the plan falls on the individual or couple because the planner is not able to stop bad spending habits.
The planner will offer advice and a plan that will work, but is not able to put the plan in motion. The individual or couple must take steps to ensure spending is minimized and that the minimum savings goal is met each month.
By following the advice of the planner, an individual or couple will put aside more money and make smart investment choices that allow the funds to grow at a reasonable rate. The growth of funds must exceed inflation to reach retirement goals, so it is important to diversify investments with the help of a planner.
Selecting the Best Professional:
Financial advisors are not in a cookie-cutter profession. An advisor will not always offer the same plan and suggestions as another, so it is important to select an appropriate professional with care.
The best way to select a professional is learning his or her personal morals, facts about his or her style of investing and any further information that will suggest the individual is a good fit for personal goals. The goal of early retirement requires the best professional.
Professionals should offer budgeting advice and a plan that diversifies investments while paying down debts. The only way to obtain an early retirement is eliminating the liabilities while increasing the assets, investments and savings. The best professional will use personal comfort levels in investing as a guide to allocating assets and diversifying investment portfolios.
Working with financial advisers is a necessary part of retiring early. The individual involved will look at the financial situation, offer advice and help make investment decisions for the highest possible return with a limited amount of risk.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
CUNY AND Deputy Mayor Linda I. Gibbs Announce That ...
October 25, 2012 | The University
Innovative program more than doubles graduation rate of comparison groups
City University of New York Chancellor Matthew Goldstein and Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services Linda I. Gibbs today announced independent findings that City University of New York?s Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) saves almost $6,500 per graduate, even though the initiative spends more on advisement, career services and faculty and academic support.
With 55 percent of the students in the program graduating ? compared to 24 percent in a comparison group at the same CUNY community colleges ? CUNY?s innovative approach to speeding community college students toward graduation is more effective and costs less per graduate than the traditional path toward an associate degree, according to an independent study by Professor Henry Levin of Columbia University?s Teachers College. The Chancellor also announced plans to almost double the program.
?Given ASAP?s effectiveness in helping students reach their academic goals, we plan to expand the initiative from the current 2,312 participants to more than 4,000 by fall 2014,? Chancellor Goldstein said. ?We instinctively felt that ASAP would be worth the investment. Having Dr. Levin ? a respected scholar ?
confirm and quantify that is a most encouraging affirmation.?
?CUNY ASAP is one of the most worthwhile programs we have implemented under the city?s larger anti-poverty efforts,? Deputy Mayor Gibbs said. ?Five years later, this report shows that not only is the program having a large impact on graduation rates, but it also is much more cost-effective than the alternative.?
According to Senior University Dean for Academic Affairs and Dean of the School of Professional Studies John Mogulescu, ?One of the most gratifying aspects of the ASAP program is that it has been successful at all six of our partner community colleges. This is due to the extraordinary work of our campus ASAP staff and the tremendous support and leadership of our community college presidents.?
As part of ASAP ? which also was a blueprint for many aspects of CUNY?s New Community College, which opened this semester ? students enroll full time; immediately address any developmental (remedial) education needs; take courses in continuing cohorts with consolidated schedules, which encourages development of supportive peer networks; receive intrusive advisement (meaning that advisors don?t wait to be asked for advice); take a college-success seminar; and have access to intensive tutoring services.
CUNY ASAP is funded by the Center for Economic Opportunity, which Mayor Bloomberg founded in 2006 to seek innovative ways to reduce poverty. It is one of CEO?s most successful programs to date. A partner with CUNY since ASAP began in 2007, CEO has provided assistance with implementation and evaluation. Most recently, CEO funded the cost-benefit research and outreach to help support CUNY?s plans for scaling up the program.
?CUNY ASAP has been tremendously successful in getting students to graduate within three years,? said CEO Executive Director Kristin Morse. ?The cost-effectiveness report shows that the investment has been well worth the effort and that ASAP actually saves money by significantly increasing the number of graduates.?
When the University began ASAP, it set a bold goal of graduating at least half of its initial students within three years. That represented a doubling of the existing completion rate for similar CUNY community college students and three times the national urban community college rate. ASAP did even better. Three years after its start, 55 percent of the first cohort had graduated, compared to 24 percent in a comparison group at the same CUNY community colleges, according to CUNY?s rigorous internal evaluation.
In the following years, as additional cohorts of students have gone through the program, CUNY found that:
- Remedial students graduate from ASAP at rates similar to those who start community college with proficient skills. After three years, 55 percent of both types of ASAP students earn degrees, compared to 20 percent of non-ASAP students with remedial needs and 25 percent of proficient non-ASAP students.
- Students from underrepresented groups appear to benefit more from ASAP than other students.
- Sixty-three percent of students graduate, transfer to a baccalaureate program or both three years after starting ASAP, compared to 44 percent of a comparison group.
- More importantly, CUNY found, ASAP students graduate at more that double the rates of non-ASAP students, with increases in graduation rates after three years of at least 30 percent.
The independent analysis of ASAP?s performance is the first installment of a two-part cost-benefit study by the Columbia Teachers College team led by Dr. Levin, the William Heard Kilpatrick professor of economics and education and director of the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education. The second part, expected to be completed later this fall, will examine the benefits of timely graduation for both the individual and society.
Levin predicts that as CUNY expands the program, ?the added cost of ASAP services is more than compensated for by a higher production of degrees. The larger investment will result in a lower cost per degree and large aggregated savings of degree production for CUNY community colleges ? What is also noteworthy is the likelihood that ASAP is more likely to succeed with less advantaged students rather than experiencing a high proportion? of dropouts among those who quickly see that they are not likely to complete their studies.
Looking ahead to the study?s forthcoming second part, Levin writes that the benefits of increasing graduation rates will ripple though society. ?ASAP should not be considered only as an added cost, but also as an investment in which there may be a considerable payoff or social return. Graduates experience higher employment and income than non-graduates, as well as greater social status and civic activity. Additional graduates also improve the competitiveness of the labor force and return the investment to the taxpayer in the form of higher tax revenues and lower costs for social services, including public health, criminal justice, and public assistance.?
The report concludes: ?ASAP is so much more effective in producing additional graduates in a timely fashion and ? the cost per graduate for ASAP is comparable to or less than that of the traditional approach. ASAP can increase considerably the number of CUNY community college graduates while actually reducing costs.?
Joining Levin in writing the report was co-author Emma Garcia, a doctoral candidate in the economics and education program in Teachers College?s Department of Educational Policy and Social Analysis and a research assistant in the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education.?Master?s student James Morgan assisted them. CUNY?s Offices of Academic Affairs and Institutional Research and Assessment commissioned the Teachers College study. The report is available at both www.cuny.edu/asap and www.nyc.gov/ceo. ?-
ASAP also shined in a separate study in which 900 students were randomly assigned to the program, according to preliminary results released in June. MDRC, a leading public policy research organization, found that ASAP increases full-time enrollment, credits earned, completion of developmental coursework and first- to second-semester retention. ASAP?s initial effects are larger than those of most community college programs that MDRC has studied. The MDRC preliminary report is at http://www.mdrc.org/publications/637/overview.html.
ASAP cost $6.5 million a year through FY 2010 and then increased to $6.8 million in FY 2011. The New York City Center for Economic Opportunity provided additional funds to include an evening/weekend ASAP program at Borough of Manhattan Community College. The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and the Robin Hood Foundation also supported ASAP.
The City University of New York is the nation?s leading urban public university. Founded in 1847 as The Free Academy, the University has 24 institutions: 11 senior colleges, seven community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the CUNY School of Law, the CUNY School of Professional Studies and the CUNY School of Public Health. The University serves over 269,000 degree-credit students and 269,808 adult, continuing and professional education students. College Now, the University?s academic enrichment program, is offered at CUNY campuses and more than 300 high schools throughout the five boroughs of New York City. The University offers online baccalaureate degrees through the School of Professional Studies and an individualized baccalaureate through the CUNY Baccalaureate Degree. More than 1 million visitors and 2 million page views are served each month by www.cuny.edu, the University?s website.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
ESRB now supports Windows 8, introduces cost-free questionnaire for rating digital games
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has a huge responsibility -- to rate and regulate the entire medium of video games -- but only has so many resources with which to do so. With the rise of digital delivery, it's become increasingly difficult to fulfill the task of rating every single title that comes out, but the ESRB is betting on a new initiative that'll help streamline that process. The new "Digital Rating Service" employs an online questionnaire to determine a wide variety of criteria, beyond just age-appropriateness: content, interactivity, and privacy settings (whether or not it shares your data). As the name implies, the DRS specifically applies to digital delivery services: Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network (on PS3 and Vita), PlayStation Certified devices, Nintendo's eShop (on the Wii, DS, and 3DS), and Windows 8.
That last one sounds new because it is -- Windows 8 games are now part of the ESRB's rating system. In addition to the new initiative and new platform, the ESRB is also adding more guidance to its game ratings. "Shares Info," "Shares Locations," and "Users Interact" are all now part of ESRB guidance, per the changing nature of digital, portable games. The ESRB says its new system will help to streamline its rating process for both itself and game creators, and this will resultant in faster ratings for consumers.
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California gas prices record for Oct. 22
(LATIMES) ? California gasoline prices have dropped by an average of 24.4 cents a gallon since hitting a record for the state on Oct. 9. But the decline hardly amounts to the relief from high prices that most motorists would love to see.
Even with the drop in prices, the average cost of a gallon of gasoline in California is still a whopping 56.5 cents a gallon higher than the old record for Oct. 22, which was set last year, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.
California?s average was also still high enough to beat Hawaii ($4.424 a gallon) as the nation?s most expensive gasoline.
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Israel to expel last pro-Palestinian flotilla activists
Israel will on Wednesday expel the last of 17 foreign activists arrested when the navy intercepted their ship during an attempt to breach Israel's maritime blockade on Gaza, a spokesperson said.
"The 17 detainees will be deported during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday depending on available seats on airlines," said Sabine Hadad, spokesperson for the Israeli immigration service.
Israeli troops on Saturday boarded the Finnish-flagged MV Estelle in international waters, ending the latest bid by activists to reach the Palestinian enclave by sea.
Among those taken into custody was 79-year-old Canadian former lawmaker Jim Manly, as well as Finnish nationals, Norwegians, Spaniards and Swedes. Five members of the European Parliament were also on board the ship.
A court in southern Israel on Monday freed from custody three Israeli citizens who accompanied the pro-Palestinian activists, according to their lawyer.
Nine foreign activists had already been expelled on Sunday ? five Greeks, three Spaniards and an Italian ? after they waived their right to appeal an Israeli judge's decision to expel them.
Israel says its blockade of the Gaza Strip is necessary to prevent weapons from entering the coastal territory, which is run by the Islamist Hamas movement.
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Baseball: Giants oust reigning champs to reach World Series
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QUITE A WIN. Pitcher Sergio Romo #54 and catcher Buster Posey #28 of the San Francisco Giants celebrate after the Giants defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 in Game Seven of the National League Championship Series at AT&T Park
SAN FRANCISCO, USA - Rising from the brink of elimination, the San Francisco Giants reached the World Series by beating St. Louis 9-0 on Monday, October 22, ousting the reigning champions from the Major League Baseball playoffs.
The Giants captured the best-of-seven National League Championship Series 4-3 after having trailed the Cardinals 3-1. For the second playoff series in a row, San Francisco advanced by winning the last three games.
San Francisco will face the Detroit Tigers, who swept the New York Yankees in the American League final, when the best-of-seven World Series championship series starts Wednesday, October 24 in the Giants' ballpark.
The Giants seek their second World Series crown in three seasons while the Tigers, who lost to St. Louis in 2006 in their most recent World Series, have not won the championship since 1984.
Giants dominate
Winning pitcher Matt Cain pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings for the Giants, striking out four Cardinals while surrendering five hits and a walk, and aided his own cause by knocking in a run in the second inning.
San Francisco opened the scoring in the first when Angel Pagan singled, took third base on a Marco Scutaro single and crossed home plate on Pablo Sandoval's ground out to the pitcher.
The Giants took a 2-0 lead when Gregor Blanco singled, advanced on Brandon Crawford's ground out to first base and scored on a Cain single up the middle.
San Francisco pounded in five runs in the third inning to seize command.
Hunter Pence blasted a bases-loaded double to centerfield to drive in two runs and a fielding error on the play by Jon Jay allowed a third run to score.
Pence advanced to third on Brandon Belt's single and scored when Crawford hit into a bases-loaded fielder's choice. Belt scored from third when Pagan hit into a fielder's choice and the Giants took a 7-0 edge.
Blanco scored from third base in the seventh inning when Aubrey Huff grounded into a double play and Belt blasted a solo home run in the eighth for the Giants' final runs.
St. Louis threatened in the eighth with runners at second and third and one out, but David Freese grounded out to the pitcher and Giants relief pitcher Javier Lopez struck out pinch-hitter Tony Cruz to end the inning.
The Cardinals put runners on second and third again in the ninth inning with two outs but Matt Holliday flew out to second baseman Scutaro to end the game in heavy rain. - Agence France-Presse
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Obama and Romney meet for final debate as race tightens
BOCA RATON, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face off in front of the cameras for a final time on Monday as opinion polls show their battle for the White House has tightened to a dead heat.
With 15 days to go until the November 6 election, the two candidates turn to foreign policy for their third and last debate, which starts at 9 p.m. (0100 GMT on Tuesday).
The stakes are high. The two candidates are tied at 46 percent each in the Reuters/Ipsos online daily tracking poll, and the debate will likely be the last time either candidate will be able to directly appeal to millions of voters.
Though few voters cite the war in Afghanistan or other national-security topics as a top concern, Obama can point to a number of successes on his watch, from the end of the Iraq war to the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Romney will use worries about the prospect of a nuclear Iran and turmoil in Libya to try to amplify concerns about Obama's leadership at home and abroad.
"Many voters are ready to fire Obama if they see Romney as an acceptable alternative," said David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Center at Southern Illinois University. "Foreign policy has not been a big driver of this campaign but I think Romney could add some icing to his cake if people say, 'Hey, this guy is on top of world affairs.'"
Presidential debates have not always been consequential, but this year they have had an impact.
Romney's strong performance in the first debate in Denver on October 3 helped him recover from a series of stumbles and wiped out Obama's advantage in opinion polls.
Obama fared better in their second encounter on October 16, but that has not helped him regain the lead.
The Obama campaign is now playing defense as it tries to limit Romney's gains in several of the battleground states that will decide the election.
Romney could have a hard time winning the White House if he does not carry Ohio, and a new Quinnipiac/CBS poll shows Obama leading by 5 percentage points in the Midwestern state.
LAST-CHANCE DEBATE
More than 60 million viewers watched each of their previous two debates, but the television audience this time could be smaller as it will air at the same time as high-profile baseball and football games.
Much of the exchange, which takes place at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, will likely focus on the Middle East. Other topics such as trade with China and the debt crisis in Europe could allow the candidates to circle back to the economic concerns that are topmost on voters' minds.
Campaigning in Canton, Ohio, Vice President Joe Biden on Monday reminded voters of Obama's pledge to pull troops out of Afghanistan in the next two years and pointed out that Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan have made no such guarantees.
"They said, quote, it depends. Ladies and gentlemen, like everything with them, it depends," Biden said. "It depends on what day you find these guys."
Romney accuses Obama of presiding over a weakening in U.S. influence abroad, but he has to assure voters he is a credible alternative to the president on the world stage. The former Massachusetts governor's July trip to London, Jerusalem and Poland was marked by missteps.
The two men at their second debate last week clashed bitterly over Libya, a preview of what is to come on Monday evening. They argued over Obama's handling of the attack last month on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
The Obama administration first labeled the incident a spontaneous reaction to a video made in the United States that lampooned the Prophet Mohammad. Later, it said it was a terrorist assault on the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
This shifting account, and the fact that Obama went on a campaign trip the day after the attack, has given Romney ammunition to use at Monday's debate.
"The statements were either misleading by intention or they were misleading by accident. Either way, though, he's got to get to the bottom of this," Romney adviser Dan Senor said on NBC's "Today" show.
Obama and his allies charge that Romney exploited the Benghazi attack for political points while officials were still accounting for the wellbeing of U.S. diplomats.
Regarding foreign policy overall, Obama's allies accuse Romney of relying on generalities and platitudes.
"It is astonishing that Romney has run for president for six years and never once bothered to put forward a plan to end the war in Afghanistan, for example, or to formulate a policy to go after al Qaeda," U.S. Senator John Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee, wrote in a memo released by the Obama campaign on Monday.
Romney has promised to tighten the screws over Iran's nuclear program and accused Obama of "leading from behind" as Syria's civil war expands. He also has faulted Obama for setting up a politically timed exit from the unpopular Afghanistan war, and accused him of failing to support Israel, an important ally in the Middle East.
The Republican challenger is likely to bring up a New York Times report from Saturday that said the United States and Iran had agreed in principle to hold bilateral negotiations to halt what Washington and its allies say is a plan by Tehran to develop nuclear weapons.
The 90-minute debate, moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS, will be divided into six segments: America's role in the world; the war in Afghanistan; Israel and Iran; the changing Middle East; terrorism; and China's rise.
(Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick, Mark Felsenthal and Susan Heavey; Writing by Andy Sullivan; Editing by Karey Wutkowski and Paul Simao)
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Monday, October 15, 2012
The Scene to be Green - Property Report
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It was only a matter of time before Singapore caught the attention of the hosts of 100 % Design 2012. This year was the inaugural event in Singapore, and after personally attending the event, something tells
me it won?t be the last.
Being held right next door to South East Asia?s leading exhibition for green building ? BEX Asia 2012, provided a perfect collaboration of creativity, technology and forward thinking with 100% Design 2012.?BEX Asia 2012 covered everything from green infrastructure and energy saving capabilities to space saving. Companies flew in from all around the world to demonstrate their work and reveal the latest?technology. Terence Tan, director of Johnson Controls, who is paving the way with its forward thinking green initiatives, explained: ?As humans, we?re getting smarter so that should reflect in our technology,? he told me. Veera, managing director at Greenology PTE LTD, agreed and was proud to display examples of his work. Metres of green and colourful strips decorate his stand ? a display of what he has coined GVG (Greenology Vertical Greenery). The vertical greenery that you see in terminals 1 through to 3 at Changi Airport is Veera?s handiwork. Perfect for space saving in countries such as Singapore where space is of the essence.
But it was not just BEX Asia 2012 that is concerned with space saving; next-door at 100% Design 2012, interior designers, furniture designers and high-end furnishings companies from around the globe also flew in to showcase their talents. The furniture design at Spaceman, for example, offered an interesting take on space saving ? even offering a sofa bed/bunk bed among its many solutions. There were many more fancy installations to catch my eye, such as Design Intervention i.d?s creative inventions and the thick, luscious carpets at Four-O-Nine?s stand that combine design and luxury seamlessly. It?s no wonder that joint founders and creative directors Lukasz B. Kos and Andrei Zerebecky are anticipating the future ? given the positive response they had at the show. ?We have had some big hotel brands contact us on the back of this show,? said Zerebecky. ?And we could even have an order already.?
Singapore, with its strategic location and plethora of luxury hotels is increasingly becoming a hub for MICE events and although this was 100% Design?s first year in the Lion State, it did not fail to impress. Here in Singapore, it?s not just the scene to be seen, it?s the scene to be green.
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Sara Scott is Singapore editor of Property Report South East Asia
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
saltcellar atrophy: Scuba Diving Essentials To Buy At Online Dive ...
Scuba Diving is a fun, recreational sport that has caught the imagination of adventure sports lovers across the world. The sport requires a number of safety equipment and special gear that helps in enjoying the sport with care and also improves a diver???s experience underwater. The name of the spot is itself derived from the main equipment used for it, ???SCUBA??? meaning ???self-contained underwater breathing apparatus???.
Need of Scuba Dive Gear
This form of sport is practiced and is popular across most adventure sports circuits for its thrill being underwater and the experience of being face-to-face with the natural beauty and the flora and fauna underwater. Since it is an underwater sport, there is also certain safety measures required and some risks-reducing gear that are necessary to enhance a diver???s experience. Moreover, there are various scuba dive accessories that can be used to make the dives even more enjoyable.
Online Dive Store
There are popular online dive stores that offer a wide variety of equipment and essential gear that are absolutely mandatory for this sport and some are required to add on to the whole experience of exploring the beauty underwater world. From the all-important dive cylinders, scuba gear, to accessories such as watches and masks, an online dive store offers all that you need under one roof. One can also make online purchases, prepare a wish list of desired products, browse the store for latest arrivals, dig through the latest schemes and offers and also make online payments and book for products on the site itself.
Some of the popular and essential equipment available at an Online Dive Store include the following:
Cylinders/ Tanks
The cylinder or dive tank should be filled and checked every time you go down to dive. Aluminum tanks are a good choice to be purchased at an online shop.
Diving Suit
A good wet suit and in some cases, a dry suit are absolutely essential to have a good diving experience underwater.
Masks
Good visibility is a must underwater; hence, the masks become essential for divers.
Snorkel
It is again a diving apparatus used to ensure conservation of air in your cylinder/ tank.
Fins
They help in swimming in the waters and also maintain one???s balance.
Booties
These are essential gear items that keep your feet warm in cold water. A must have for colder regions!
BCD
Buoyancy Control Device or simply BCD is required to maintain buoyancy both at the surface as well as underwater.
The aforementioned equipment along with some necessary personal gear such as dive computers, compass, weight, dive watches are just about mandatory for a safe and enjoyable dive.
Diving Locker is a Vancouver-based scuba diving training center offering a wide range of diving adventure, programs and tours to choose from. It also offers a variety of essential equipment for purchase at its online dive store.
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Iran's Salehi visits Qatar to discuss Iranians seized in Syria
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi visited Qatar in the past week to discuss the fate of 48 Iranians kidnapped by rebels in Syria, a deputy foreign minister said on Saturday, according to Iran's Fars news agency.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian did not say who Salehi met while in Qatar, whose government is a major supporter of rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iran's closest ally in the region.
Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow Assad seized the group of 48 Iranians in August, accusing them of being members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards sent to help Syrian government forces crush the uprising which began in March last year.
Iran says the group was on a religious pilgrimage and has called for their immediate release.
"During this trip in addition to the developments in Syria, specifically the 48 kidnapped Iranian pilgrims in Syria were discussed," Amir-Abdollahian said, according to Fars.
Iran has called on Turkey and Qatar to use their links with rebel groups to help secure their freedom.
The al-Baraa brigade, part of the main rebel group, the Free Syrian Army, said last week it would start killing the Iranians within 48 hours unless Assad freed Syrian opposition detainees and stopped shelling civilian areas.
But Qatar, following a request from Iran, urged the rebels not to carry out the threat. Amir-Abdollahian said on Saturday the kidnapped Iranians were in good health.
Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, also visited Qatar this week, Qatari news agencies reported. Saudi Arabia is also supporting the Syrian rebels.
There was no indication of any link between the two visits.
(Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Jon Hemming)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/irans-salehi-visits-qatar-discuss-iranians-seized-syria-134736051.html
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Informaciones principales de The Associated Press
Viernes 12 de octubre del 2012
AGREGA:
CUBA-CASTRO
Uni?n Europea gana el Premio Nobel de la Paz
Biden y Ryan marcan pauta para pr?ximo debate Obama-Romney
Activistas sirios dicen que yihadistas tomaron base de misiles en Siria
Colombia: Militares dialogan con el enemigo
Exclusivo de AP: Longoria dedica todo su tiempo a la campa?a de Obama
Eliminatorias de la Copa Mundial
Playoffs: Quinto juego entre Yanquis-Orioles y Nacionales-Cardenales.
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EUR-GEN NOBEL-PAZ
OSLO ? La Uni?n Europea es distinguida con el Premio Nobel de la Paz por fomentar la concordia y la democracia en el continente, en medio de la peor crisis que ha afrontado el bloque desde sus or?genes en la d?cada de 1950. AP Fotos. Por Julia Gronnevet y Karl Ritter. ENVIADO.
?ASI-GEN NOBEL-LITERATURA: Chino ganador del Nobel de Literatura pide liberaci?n de compatriota galardonado en 2010. ENVIADO.
AMN-POL EEUU-ELEC
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the tap: While the BBC rapes your children, the NHS kills your parents.
Sent in by David Turnbull. 
- Peter Tulloch believes doctors sought to hasten his mother's death
- He was informed that mother Jean Tulloch had just weeks to live
- Without his knowledge, doctors removed her drip but Mr Tulloch believes she was still aware of her surroundings
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Peter Tulloch is in no doubt that doctors sought to hasten his mother?s death. Looking back, he says, there were clear signs that 83-year-old Jean Tulloch had become a burden to the hospital whose care she was in.
After informing Mr Tulloch that she had just a few weeks to live, doctors attempted to persuade him to take her back to her care home. He didn?t know it at the time, but there was a shortage of beds at Edinburgh?s Western General Hospital, where the retired nurse was being treated for a urinary and chest infection. Medical staff, it seemed to Mr Tulloch, needed Mrs Tulloch?s bed back. In short, they wanted her out.
After Mr Tulloch told a doctor he had to return to London temporarily for work, they decided, he believes, to ?get it over with?.
Wanted her out: Jean Tulloch was being treated for a urinary and chest infection when doctors told her son Peter Tulloch that she had just weeks to live. He says there were clear signs that she had become a burden to the hospital
On March 14 this year, without his knowledge, doctors removed the intravenous drip attached to his mother, from which she was receiving vital fluids.?
It was only because Mr Tulloch visited the hospital on an impulse on his way to catch the train that he discovered what they had done.??
After Mr Tulloch complained, another drip was attached, but Mrs Tulloch died on March 27. She?d been left without fluids or nutrition for 30 hours.
?My mother was conscious and had an awareness of her surroundings,? says Mr Tulloch. ?In my view, to totally deprive her of nutrition or hydration in these circumstances is not euthanasia, it is verging on murder.?
A very serious accusation, and one Dr David Farquharson, medical director of NHS Lothian, vehemently denies.
In a statement, he said: ?Mr Tulloch?s recollection of events does not correlate with the recollection of any of our medical staff involved with his mother?s care.
?We have expressed our sincere apologies that he has misunderstood the details that we tried to explain to him, which we accept can be complex.
?Staff are deeply upset at Mr Tulloch?s assertion that their care of his mother was anything other than compassionate, professional and in her best interests.?
After his mother's drip was removed with his knowledge, Mr Tulloch said it was 'verging on murder' as she was still aware of her surroundings
Mrs Tulloch had been placed on the Liverpool Care Pathway, or LCP, a code of conduct for doctors and nurses who are caring for the dying.
Devised by the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute in the 1990s and adopted nationwide in 2010, its aims are laudable. Pointless and potentially distressing interventions aimed at prolonging life are halted. The objective is to ensure dignity, comfort and as little distress as possible in a dying person?s last days.
One of the Pathway?s ten ?key messages? is: ?The LCP neither hastens nor postpones death.?
Yet Mrs Tulloch?s son says all the evidence suggests doctors did hasten her death.
He is not alone in his criticism of the system. There is growing concern that the LCP has being misused, with patients being heavily sedated and deprived of fluids in order to make them die more quickly. Yesterday the Mail reported the case of Andrea West, a mother-of-six, whose family believe she was hastened towards an unnecessarily early death when terminally ill with cancer.
The 35-year-old was expected to live for at least 18 months. Yet her husband Chris described how Mrs West was labelled with a ?do not resuscitate notice? and died days later, robbing her of precious last months with her family.
Mr West claims he was told by a nurse and his family doctor that his wife had been put on the LCP ? although this was denied by the Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust, which runs the clinic where Mrs West died.
?Andrea had a lot of things she wanted to do for the children. She didn?t get a chance to say goodbye to them,? said Mr West.
In June this year, Professor Patrick Pullicino, a consultant neurologist for East Kent Hospitals and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at Kent University, told a conference the LCP had become an ?assisted death pathway?.
?Very likely, many elderly patients who could live substantially longer are being killed by the LCP,? he said.
His is not a lone voice. A group of six doctors sent a letter to a newspaper in support of Professor Pullicino, warning that the LCP is built on an utterly flawed premise because there is no ?scientific way of diagnosing imminent death?.
One of the signatories, Dr Gillian Craig, a retired geriatrician and former vice-chairman of the Medical Ethics Alliance, said: ?If you are cynical about it, as I am, you can see it as a cost-cutting measure, if you don?t want your beds to be filled with old people.?
Around 130,000 patients each year are placed on the Liverpool Care Pathway. One in four of us will be put on it when it is our turn to die ? a prospect that is deeply worrying.
Peter Tulloch, for one, remains devastated by his mother?s experience. It is certainly a disturbing tale.
In the Sixties, Mrs Tulloch trained as a nurse and worked as a cleaner at the very hospital where she was to die. She had two children, Peter and his sister Anne, with her first husband, but they separated when Peter was two.
Mrs Tulloch then married an electrician with three children of his own, and they had a daughter together. Mrs Tulloch was widowed in 2001 but remained fairly fit and active until the past few years.
Accusation denied: Dr David Farquharson, Medical Director of NHS Lothian, vehemently denies Mr Tulloch's accusations over his mother's care at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital (pictured)
?Ten years ago Mum had a hip replacement and a few years ago she had a couple of nasty falls,? says Peter Tulloch, a 55-year-old systems engineer for London Underground who lives in Bedfordshire with his 47-year-old partner and their nine-year-old son. ?She was becoming a bit frail, so in December 2010 the family agreed it would be best for her to go into a care home.?
On March 4 this year, Mr Tulloch took a call from a member of staff at the care home, who told him his mother was very unwell. ?She was sitting in her chair but was unresponsive,? recalls Mr Tulloch.?
Mrs Tulloch was admitted to Western General and placed in Ward 26, a general ward, where she was treated for a urinary infection and chest infection.?
Due to work commitments, Mr Tulloch was unable to visit her until March 12.?
?She looked very poorly, suddenly very old,? he says. ?She was conscious but couldn?t communicate.?
He and his sister, Anne, had a meeting with a doctor.?
'She looked helpless and abandoned'
?She told us that our mother had been cleared of all infection but that she? had been diagnosed as ?dying?,? he says. ?She didn?t explain how they had reached that diagnosis. She wasn?t sure how? long she had to live, but that it could? be weeks.
?During the course of our conversation, the doctor said our mother should really go back to her care home, but also mentioned putting her on the Liverpool Care Pathway, which I hadn?t heard of.
?She said that since there seemed to be no medical interventions that could usefully be carried out, the best thing to do would be to ensure our mother was kept comfortable until she died.
?Obviously it was a shock and I felt very sad, but I was reassured that she would at least be kept comfortable.?
When Mr Tulloch visited his mother the following day, she seemed a little brighter. ?Her eyes followed me around the room. She could manage the odd feeble ?yes? and ?no?.?
Encouraged by this, Mr Tulloch felt able to go back to work in London, reassured that if there was any dramatic deterioration in his mother?s condition, he would get a call.
But, on an impulse the next morning, he called by the hospital to see his mother.
He was distraught to find that the intravenous drip supplying vital fluids had been removed. She was alone, conscious, but unable to communicate.
?I got there about 9.45am, outside visiting hours. She looked helpless, abandoned,? he recalls. ?I was incredibly upset. I?d told them I had to go back to work and I have no doubt in my mind that they thought: ?OK, the son?s off to London ? let?s get it over with.?
?The effect on me was the equivalent to walking into an intensive care unit to discover a patient has been disconnected from their life support machine and the machine removed.
?I did not notice any change in my mother?s condition from the previous day and was alarmed that she was cut off from any means of sustenance.
?My stomach sinks now just thinking about it.
?I said to a nurse: ?What?s going on here?? She disappeared and at about 10.30am the junior doctor came to speak to me in the corridor.
?I asked him why the drip had been removed ? he ignored the question and said: ?Really you should get her back to the care home.? I told him I didn?t want her to go back there. I said I was very worried that, without sustenance, my mother, who I had been told had several weeks to live, was going to die very quickly.
Worked at hospital: In the Sixties, Mrs Tulloch trained as a nurse and worked as a cleaner at the very hospital where she was to die (pictured in 1973 aged 45)
?He replied: ?You?d be surprised how strong the will to live is and how long someone can survive.??
?I was stunned by his reply ? it was so flippant. After saying goodbye to my mother I left the ward in a state of shock.??
Mr Tulloch, bewildered and upset, had no option but to catch his train to fulfil his work commitments.?
That night he looked up the LCP on the internet and discovered that patients are placed on it in the last days or hours of life. Yet his mother had weeks to live.
At midnight, he fired off an email of complaint to NHS Lothian and his local MP. The next day, he received a call from his mother?s consultant, with a nurse listening in. ?I asked him why my mother?s drip had been removed and he said it had fallen out because her veins had collapsed,? he says.
They suggested giving her fluids subcutaneously ? beneath her skin ? which naturally Mr Tulloch agreed to immediately.
?You have to ask why this alternative method was not applied right away, if this is what actually happened,? he says. ?It was very disturbing. I feel sure they were trying to accelerate her death.?
On March 17, Mr Tulloch journeyed? back to the hospital.
?My mother seemed to have deteriorated, she looked a little worse,? he says. ?Had being denied fluids for so long affected her condition? You would think so, wouldn?t you??
Deeply disturbed by the turn of events, Mr Tulloch entered the doctor?s room next to Ward 26 in search of information.?
On a whiteboard he saw his mother?s name and a discharge date that had been assigned to her (March 15), the day after she appeared to have been? placed on the LCP.
?This reinforced my belief that they just wanted to give up treatment and get her out of the hospital,? says Mr Tulloch. ?My first thought was that that was the date by which they wanted her returned to the care home, but I also had a suspicion that, since we had objected to her going back to the care home, then it was the date they hoped the LCP had done its work by.
?It was only a suspicion with no evidence to prove anything, but after what I had experienced it did nag at me.?
In the event, Mrs Tulloch remained in the care of the Western General. She was not placed back on the LCP and died peacefully on March 27.
?She deteriorated quickly one night and died in the early hours with my sister at her bedside,? says Mr Tulloch.
A month after Mrs Tulloch?s death, inspectors for Healthcare Improvement Scotland visited the hospital and noted a problem with the availability of beds.
?We were told that over 40 patients were currently being boarded [moved from one ward to another to meet the needs of the service, not because of the patient?s clinical needs] to other wards due to a lack of available beds.?
When Mr Tulloch saw the reports, he says things started to fall into place: ?My view is that they basically wanted my mother?s bed,? he says.
In August, Mr Tulloch received a letter from NHS Lothian in response to his complaint. No reference was made to the drip having fallen out. Instead, another explanation was proffered: that blood tests revealed how Mrs Tulloch?s sodium levels were rising, which can cause high blood pressure. A decision was taken to detach the drip and monitor how she progressed without it, before resuming with her fluids again on March 12.
Mr Tulloch says that not only did hospital staff not specifically state whether or why his mother was placed on the LCP, but if she was, they did not say why she was taken off it again.
Determined that the matter would not end there, he wrote to the Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police on October 2.
On Thursday this week, a detective sergeant came to see him. Mr Tulloch was deeply disappointed to be told it was not a matter for the police.
?The police officers said that the LCP was an established hospital procedure, so therefore its use is not a crime. She said the police could hardly go around arresting every doctor who used the LCP, to which I replied, no, but they should arrest every doctor who misuses the LCP.
?I asked her if she thought that putting a pillow over somebody?s face and smothering them would be a crime, and she agreed it would be.
?Surely misusing the LCP to shorten someone?s life is the same thing ? and therefore a crime???
In his statement from the hospital, Dr Farquharson added: ?I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the family.?
?We have asked on several occasions to meet with Mr Tulloch to further explain the circumstances surrounding his mother?s care and to date he has chosen not to do so. That offer remains open.?
Read more:?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2217073/Did-NHS-kill-mother-free-bed.html#ixzz29C2lxPQC
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AND ANOTHER NHS HORROR STORY -
- Andy Flanagan was rescued from dying on debated Liverpool Care Pathway
- Doctors told his family that he was close to death after a cardiac arrest
- His family gave him drops of water that helped him come round before doctors agreed to put him back on a drip
- His sister Lesley Flanagan said the method was 'licence to kill'
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The family of a 48-year-old man have told how they rescued him from dying on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway by reviving him with drops of water.
Andy Flanagan?s family were told that he was severely brain damaged, had organ failure and was close to death after a cardiac arrest.
They gathered at his bedside to say their goodbyes after the hospital withdrew fluids and said it was going to let him ?slip away?.
Told he was dying: The family of Andy Flanagan (pictured with daughter Andi-Jo) were told he was severely brain damaged, had organ failure and close to death after a cardiac arrest but they rescued him from dying after he showed signs that he had not had severe brain damage
But when Mr Flanagan?s sister, who is a nurse, gently moved him to change his bloodstained sheets, he started to murmur words, showing signs that he had not suffered severe brain damage.
Then, as she cleaned his face with a wet cloth, he desperately tried to suck in the moisture. The family continued their vigil at his bedside around the clock, concerned that doctors did not want to keep the patient alive.
Every ten minutes they gave him drops of water that helped him start to come round before doctors eventually agreed to put him back on a drip. Mr Flanagan recovered and returned home. He lived for another month and was able to properly say farewell to his loved ones.
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His sisters last night called the Liverpool Care Pathway a ?licence to kill?.
It involves withdrawing treatment and the heavy sedation of a patient and removal of tubes providing food and fluid in the last 24 hours of their life.
'Insidious': Sister Lesley Flanagan called the Liverpool Care Pathway a 'licence to kill'
Devised in the 1990s as a means of easing pain for the dying, it has been in widespread use in the NHS in recent years.
However, critics claim it is increasingly being applied to patients without their families? knowledge and when they still have a chance of recovery.
Lesley Flanagan, 53, last night said her brother had been put on the Pathway, which she describes as ?insidious and a licence to kill?, long before he was ?ready to go?.
She said the hospital had chosen to ?give up? on Mr Flanagan,? a father of five and grandfather? of two who had been a carpenter.
Mr Flanagan, who was suffering from pancreatic cancer, was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King?s Lynn in the early hours of June 19 after he had a cardiac arrest.
When Miss Flanagan arrived at the hospital she was told that he was very ill, that his organs were shutting down and that they had taken all of the tubes from him.
She said: ?They told us that he had not got long to live and that the kindest thing to do would be to let him slip away. We did not know that they had instituted the Liverpool Care Pathway.?
?They mentioned something about a care pathway, but we didn?t perceive for a second that it was a way to kill people.
?In the evening my sister, who is a qualified nurse, arrived from Stockton. She was angry because no one had taken care of his basic needs. The bed he was in was dirty and covered with blood.?
?She asked if she could change the sheets and when she asked Andy questions, such as if they could roll him on his side, he replied with ?yes? and started to open his eyes.?
?That is when she began to suspect he had not been brain damaged. When she used a wet cloth to clean his face he tried to suck the moisture. We started to give him water from pipettes ourselves and he gradually became more awake. But we still had to campaign for the doctors to put him back on a drip.? The family also found Mr Flanagan?s medical notes were marked with ?do not resuscitate?, despite this never being discussed with them.
Miss Flanagan added: ?We stayed with him around the clock, because we were scared they were going to try to kill him again.
Admitted: Mr Flanagan, who was suffering from pancreatic cancer, was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital (pictured) after he had a cardiac arrest
?He was terrified of the doctors and at one point told his consultant himself, ?you tried to kill me and told my family that I wanted to die?. He went home at the end of June and lived for another month until July 25.?
Mr Flanagan?s other sister Kathy Flanagan, 57, who has worked as a nurse for 39 years, said: ?We had another five weeks with our brother ? that time was very important for us and everyone else in the family.
?Even when Andy had started to come round we had to beg the doctor to put him back on a drip and he told us that our brother did not like needles and that he was sure that he wouldn?t want to be put back on a drip.
?I think it?s very difficult for relatives to comprehend what?s going on when they?re in state of shock, grieving and hurting. People just listen to doctors and respect them and I?m not saying perhaps at the very end that it might not be appropriate, but who knows when that end stage is.?
Last night a hospital spokesman said: ?This case is subject to an official complaint and we are unable to comment at this time.?
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Inspired by tic-tac-toe, Connect Four's object is to drop four checkers into a row while simultaneously preventing your opponent from "connecting four." It?s simple, fast, and fun.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Single gene variant in donors may affect survival of transplanted kidneys
ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2012) ? A single genetic variant in kidney donors' cells may help determine whether their transplanted organs will survive long term, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The findings provide new information that might be used to improve transplant longevity by revealing that the genetic make-up of kidney transplant donors affects the survival of transplanted organs.
A transplant recipient must take lifelong immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ, but these drugs can have serious side effects, including kidney damage. So, ironically, the very drugs needed to prevent kidney rejection can also be toxic to the kidneys. Research suggests that how well certain proteins pump these drugs out of kidney cells may influence the drugs' kidney toxicity.
Richard Borrows, MB (Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, in the UK) and his colleagues looked to see if variants in the genes that encode such pumps might influence the health of transplanted kidneys. They investigated the links between donor and recipient gene variants with kidney outcome among 811 immunosuppressant-treated kidney transplant recipients.
Among the major findings:
- One particular variant within the multidrug resistance 1 (MDR-1) gene in donors was linked to a 69% increased risk for long-term failure of transplanted organs.
- The researchers validated the link in another 3,660 donors, making this the largest study of its kind.
- This variant affects the expression of the protein that the MDR-1 gene encodes, the drug transporter P-glycoprotein.
- No other genetic variants in donors or recipients were linked with organ survival or failure.
"The study of donor, as opposed to recipient, gene variation is relatively uncommon in the field of transplantation, and it certainly warrants more attention," said Dr. Borrows. He added that a single genetic variant probably has limited effect on its own, but when combined, multiple genetic variants may play an important role in transplant longevity.
Study co-authors include Jason Moore, MBBS, Amy Jayne McKnight, PhD, Bernd D?hler, PhD, Matthew Simmonds, PhD, Aisling Courtney, PhD, Oliver Brand, PhD, David Briggs, PhD, Simon Ball, PhD, Paul Cockwell, PhD, Christopher Patterson, PhD, Alexander Maxwell, PhD, Stephen Gough, PhD, and Gerhard Opelz, PhD.
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Journal Reference:
- Richard Borrows et al. Donor ABCB1 Variant Associates with Increased Risk for Kidney Allograft Failure. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2012; DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2012030260
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