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Nicotine patches significantly improved attention and memory in older people suffering from mild cognitive impairment, which often leads to Alzheimer's, according to a new study.
Before you get excited, smokers, the researchers say the study has nothing to do with cigarettes. They looked at 74 non-smokers with an average age of 76. Half got a nicotine patch of 15 mg per day for six months; the other poor bastards got a placebo. Neither group knew whether they had the real patch.
Dr. Paul Newhouse, director of the Center for Cognitive Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, reports in the journal Neuroscience that the patches helped patients do better on cognitive tests for "attention memory, speed of processing and consistency of processing." After 6 months of treatment, the nicotine group regained 46 percent of normal longterm memory for their age. The placebo group got 26 percent worse.
Dr. Newhouse doesn't recommend running out and buying nicotine patches for elderly family members, or yourself for that matter, because precise dosage seems to be important: "If you're already functioning fine, but slip down the hill, nicotine will push you back up toward the top," he says in a press release. "A little bit of the drug makes poor performers better. Too much, and it makes them worse again, so there's a range. The key issue is to find the sweet spot where it helps."
Plus, while nicotine alone is not nearly as bad for you as when it's delivered via cancer stick, it's not entirely safe. Some of the bad things it does on its own include possibly increasing your chance of getting diabetes, it can speed up tumor growth, it can be intensely addictive, and it can kill you if you overdose. There might be more, research is ongoing.
But in addition to potentially treating Alzheimer's symptoms, researchers are looking to nicotine as a potential treatment for Parkinson's. Studies have also found nicotine helps ulcerative colitis patients suffer fewer flare ups. Stanford research found nicotine helps grow new blood vessels, which can be good in people like diabetes patients with poor circulation (but it's bad when the blood vessels are in tumors).
Something many of these studies have in common is acetylcholine, a naturally-occurring compound and neurotransmitter in the brain that helps nerve cells fire. Nicotine is similar to acetylcholine structurally, so it behaves similarly: it stimulates and regulates the firing of neurons and the release of brain chemicals including serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine (which also makes it a mood booster for some people). Researchers think nicotine's similarity to acetylcholine has something to do with blood vessel formation as well: endothelial cells, which line the inside of blood vessels, carry a receptor that binds to acetylcholine (and probably nicotine too).
The following is my thinking alone, and not a recommendation in any way to anyone: With the recent news that cognitive decline begins as early as age 45, it's a little bit tempting to stock up on nicotine patches. Or e-cigarettes? Oh, and in the study published today, subjects also lost weight. Hm. Twist my arm? [Neurology]
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After years of anticipation, frustration, and delays, Research In Motion (now re-branded BlackBerry) finally lets BlackBerry 10 loose. So now what?
That's the question a lot of folks in the industry are asking now that BlackBerry is just days (or months, depending on the region) from competing in the market with its first legitimately new product in more than a year and a half. BlackBerry 10 offers a refreshingly slick and unique experience, and the two smartphones, the
But whether they're enough to turn some heads and win lost customers back remains to be seen. The past few years have seen BlackBerry's once dominant smartphone market share virtually wiped out, with iOS and Android grabbing 92 percent of the share of smartphones sold in the fourth quarter, according to Strategy Analytics.
After a long stretch in which much of the industry and many investors had written off the company, BlackBerry has more recently enjoyed a renewed sense of excitement -- and heightened expectations -- over the last six months. The company's stock has more than doubled during that period. This week, however, the stock has fallen nearly 12 percent amid fears that BlackBerry may not pull that comeback off after all.
Still, with BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry has its foot in the door of the smartphone market. CNET is here with some unsolicited advice on cracking that door wide open.
Keep the message clear
Many slick products have faltered in the market because of mind-numbingly dumb marketing campaigns. BlackBerry needs a simple, clear, and unified message pushing a handful of advantages that BlackBerry 10 has over the competition. It needs to avoid trying to be too cute or fancy with the ads --BlackBerry users and the power users the company is targeting value their time, so get to the point quickly.
"BlackBerry has to hit end users squarely right between the eyes on how this platform works," said Ramon Llamas, an analyst at IDC.
That message had better flow down to the salespeople on the floor, whether that's in a carrier store or a big-box electronic retailer. Consumers don't have a lot of time to fuss with learning a new operating system, so BlackBerry needs to cut through the noise with its selling point.
BlackBerry seems to get that. Chief Marketing Officer Frank Boulben said during the launch today that every bit of marketing will contain a real-world example of one of the benefits of BlackBerry 10.
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BlackBerry also needs to run its own massive campaign and not just rely on carrier partnerships. The last few years have shown that the companies that succeed are the ones that have taken the marketing efforts into their own hands. That's why Apple and Samsung Electronics are dominating and LG and HTC have lagged.
BlackBerry has a lot of work to rehabilitate a brand that's taken more than its share of lumps over the past few years. While BlackBerry executives would argue the BlackBerry name is still cool to some people, in reality it has a real uphill climb to get people -- particularly in its home market of North America -- to care about BlackBerry again.
Get some carrier love
While BlackBerry needs to establish its own identity, the company will need the support of its carrier partners. While most of the carriers have said the right things about BlackBerry 10, it remains to be seen just how enthusiastically they will actually promote the products.
Again, having the salespeople at the various carrier stores familiar and comfortable with the BlackBerry devices will be crucial to some of them actually recommending the phones to consumers. Ideally, BlackBerry should convince the carriers to offer financial incentives to promote BlackBerry 10 products, but in the least the salespeople should be aware of the products. As we've seen with the Lumia 900 and AT&T, sometimes the execution is lacking.
BlackBerry should shy away from exclusives as well, and so far, that appears to be the case. All of the national carriers in the U.S. will sell the phone, although the company would only say it would be available in mid-March.
While the carriers have talked about fostering a strong third mobile ecosystem, it's still unclear whether that No. 3 player will be BlackBerry, Windows Phone, or some other upstart platform. BlackBerry will have to fight for its position.
"Because of the fast-rising adoption of smartphones, 2013 represents the last, best hope for BlackBerry 10 -- along with endangered specimens like Microsoft's Windows Phone, Nokia's Lumia, and Mozilla's Firefox -- to create a viable third smartphone competitor in the market," said Ian Fogg, an analyst at IHS.
Defend the business front
BlackBerry, ultimately, is still about big businesses and corporate agencies. While the company has made some progress getting some agencies and companies to test out the devices, it will need to put a lot of effort into focusing on businesses.
Samsung Electronics and Apple are already making significant headway into the business and government worlds, and BlackBerry needs to push back hard with BlackBerry 10. Features such as "Balance," which allow the phone to have separate and secure personal and work identities, should help win the hearts and minds of the IT manager.
But BlackBerry needs to be wary of the bring-your-own-device trend, where employers support whatever phones their employees bring in. While the company believes BYOD is a trend that works in its favor, it has arguably been the worst hit by the phenomenon.
Suck up to the BlackBerry faithful
CEO Thorsten Heins likes to talk about the company's 80 million-strong customer base. Well, it's time for BlackBerry to show those customers why they stuck around.
The company needs to make it extremely easy -- and affordable -- to switch. There are BlackBerry users out there who love their keyboard and service, and the company needs to find them and keep them in the fold.
BlackBerry may be making a mistake pushing the Z10 touchscreen device out ahead of the more traditional X10, which is likely what the BlackBerry faithful will want to go with.
But whether its incentives or discounts, BlackBerry has to be aggressive in keeping current BlackBerry users happy.
Widen the market
For BlackBerry, it's time to go big when addressing the potential customer base. A Super Bowl commercial is a nice start, but it'll have to work harder to attract more than just the power user or corporate executive. Beyond these two BlackBerrys, the company will need to have midtier devices that are more affordable. That means accelerating their product rollout to be more inclusive, according to Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi.
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The company also has to show that it's unafraid to take on the likes of Apple and Samsung. Samsung made a name for itself for a series of smart and quirky ads that highlighted some of the weaknesses of the iPhone and the eccentricities of the Apple fanboys. BlackBerry could do the same to both companies.
Marketing chief Boulben said the BlackBerry campaign would kick off with the Super Bowl ad.
In addition, it needs to continue its work cultivating stronger relationships with developers. While BlackBerry has made huge strides in that area, it still lags behind all of the other major platforms.
In the end, BlackBerry has just one shot to make an impression and prove to the consumers, the carriers, and its competitors that it belongs in the game.
"BlackBerry's got to come out guns a blazing," IDC's Llamas said.

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I've always been honest with you about my co-parenting struggles. The relationship with my ex-husband is sometimes unnerving, antagonistic and dysfunctional to say the best. I'm tired. I'm tired of fighting.
I received a certified notice at my house in January. It was a certified letter from my ex's cousin. I opened it up and in it was a Writ of Summons. He was petitioning the court to modify the custody arrangements. I cried.
I couldn't believe that he wouldn't even send me an email or try to communicate with me about his wishes before trying to take me to court. Nine months after custody was finalized he was trying to change it. I couldn't understand why he didn't object in March of last year.
I called Mr. C. I was a wreck. Between tears and anguish, I poured out my heart. I screamed "You see why I don't trust him? Why would he betray me like this?" He said "Babe, calm down."
I couldn't. I couldn't be calm. I had to get a handle on my life right now. I struggled to breathe. How could he do this to me? This is ridiculous.
I have physical custody of my son. My ex-husband has a visitation schedule with joint legal. I talked about this in my post last year entitled Closed. He knew that I was filing for sole physical custody. It was in the best interest of Munch. I never hid that from him. I wanted to modify the visitation schedule we were doing with every other week due to his health issues. He agreed.
I told him that I would give him time to let me know what he would like and proposed a Thursday to Monday every other week. I told him that I was open and to please let me know what he wanted to do. He said "Okay. I'm going to trust you. I'm going to trust that you're not trying to keep my son from me." I've kept up my end of the bargain.
I've never kept him from his son. Never. He came back to me a few months after the divorce was final and said he didn't want to adjust the schedule. He wanted to keep it as is. Trying to appear fair and level headed and not the controlling b*tch that he's called me, I agreed.
Best of interest of Munch. I allowed him to keep Thanksgiving and Easter. I offered him the opportunity to spend time with his son on Christmas Day too. Any additional times he wanted to take Munch out of town or just be present in his life. Yep. I have no problem with that either. That's his dad.
Best interest of Munch.
That is what I kept telling myself. It is in the best interest of Munch. The many arguments, the threats, the name calling. I've endured it all. I never harass him about payment for expenses and I don't ask for child support. We agreed to equally support Munch. It's not equal. I pay for medical expenses, dental expenses, swim lessons, tutoring, guitar, soccer and any and all equipment needed.
His response was "You never tell me how much stuff costs." I sighed and responded "You know it's not free. When I asked you before you said you didn't know when you could give me the money." I let it go. I didn't worry about it.
Munch was my responsibility. I had primary physical custody. I can't complain about the many expenses outside of the $150 a month he pays towards Munch's childcare. I would take care of it. I adapt. I adjust my spending. I adjust and keep it moving. Allow my son to learn and love both parents equally.
I don't say no to the things he needs or the experiences he wants. I figure it out. Alone. I just make sure that my son has the experiences he wants. I didn't have that when I was growing up. My son would never know what that is like.
I submitted my response to the courts last month. I had 30 days. New information was presented to me. I amended my response and submitted it to the courts. I mailed everything to him. Now, we have to do what I thought we never wanted to do…allow the courts to decide what is best for Munch.
Today is the day that the courts have to be in our business and choose for our son. Am I happy about it? Nope. Am I surprised? Honestly, nope. Did I wish for better? Yeah. But, this is the luck of the draw. I chose this situation when I ended my marriage and this is where I find myself. Accepting responsibilities for my choices and fighting for the best interest of my child.
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Woman convicted of neglect in death of 15-pound boy with cerebral palsy
An Indiana woman has been convicted of nine counts of neglect in the death of a 9-year-old blind boy with cerebral palsy who weighed just 15 pounds.
The Tribune-Star reports the Vigo County jury deliberated for three hours Thursday before returning a guilty verdict for 54-year-old Robin Kraemer of Fontanet. She faces a potential prison term of 20 to 40 years on the most serious charge.
The boy, Cameron R. Hoopingarner, weighed less than 15 pounds when he died Feb. 21. The officers were responding to a call about a child in cardiac arrest. Cameron was pronounced dead at a hospital.
"In my 26 years in this office, the pictures that I saw of Cameron and his condition were terrible, beyond terrible," Vigo County Sheriff Greg Ewing said.
Kraemer was the boy's guardian since he was three days old through an agreement with his birth mother. The child was born with multiple medical issues and was diagnosed with "failure to thrive."
Kraemer told the court she voluntarily took care of the child when no one else wanted him. She said she had no time to grieve her mother, who had recently died, and was still mourning the loss of her daughter, who died the year before.
However, she also testified Wednesday that she felt overwhelmed caring for him and admitted smoking methamphetamine days before he died. She said she gave Cameron daily massages, baths and multiple feedings at her home near Terre Haute.
Defense attorneys asked the jury to consider that the woman had been devoted to the child's care for nine years before his death, but prosecutors argued against sympathy.
"There's no excuse, no excuse for having bad days where you allow this to happen to a child," Vigo County Prosecutor Terry Modesitt said. "Especially when you are using methamphetamine and smoking marijuana and things of that nature."
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Last chance to nominate someone special in your life…
For those who have not yet heard, MLB and People Magazine have teamed up for the PEOPLE All-Stars Among Us program for the second year in a row. This Friday is the deadline and thousands of submissions are pouring in for everyday people who go above and beyond in their community.
Maybe they mentored disadvantaged children, cared for abandoned pets or started a community garden. You tell us! You can even nominate yourself.
A total of 30 everyday All-Stars (one representing each MLB team) will be honored at the 2010 MLB All-Star Game in Anaheim on July 13 and one will be featured in PEOPLE magazine.
Take a few minutes and think about the people in your life who make an impact in other people's lives. You'll be glad you did (and so will they!)


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Last week I publicly mulled over what equipment to take along with me on an assignment. I would be flying by myself to Newark, NJ, meet up with my creative director from an Austin advertising agency (who was flying in from a video shoot in Dallas, Tx.) and we'd make our way thirty miles south to shoot for a couple of days at a manufacturing/pharmaceutical concern. I ended up taking along all the right gear and I learned some new things from my (much younger and more tech savvy) client about traveling and making work life easier. Seems there's an app for that --- no matter what "that" is.
I ended up packing a couple Nikon bodies and a flurry of lenses but I only used the D750. It was perfect for the main goal of our shoot which was to make stylized portraits of the company's top executives. By stylized I mean they were lit in a way that reflects my lighting preferences and I don't think I ever used a lens aperture beyond f2.8 (at the smallest). We spent the entirety of the first day shooting these portraits in a giant, spotlessly clean, warehouse. I used diffusion scrims to block most of the light coming from the sodium vapor lights high up in the rafters and I used two speed lights for my main and back light. The main light was bounced into a 60 inch, white umbrella and the back light was used direct from high up (twelve feet) and at least 50 feet behind the subjects.
The main flash was the all manual, Cactus RF 60, which has its own internal radio triggering receiver, and the back light was provided by a Yongnuo flash and triggered by a Cactus V60 transceiver. I thought I should have brought more batteries but when all was said and done the 16 Eneloops were just right. At low power settings like 1/16 and 1/64 the batteries lasted all day long. I can't show the portrait images yet because they need to be approved by the clients first.
I used two different lenses to shoot the portraits and most of you can probably guess which ones there were without me writing it. But for the infrequent readers of the blog they were the Nikon 85mm f1.8G and the older, Nikon 105mm f2.5 ais (manual focus) lens. I worked back and forth with the two lenses in order to vary the look a bit but both were used around f2.8 and both were quite sharp were focused and then dropped out of focus quickly behind --- which is exactly what I wanted.
We spent the next morning finishing up our portraits and then moved on to shooting process shots, working shots and research shots. Our goal will be to use these as splash page images for the website and in some of the company's other collateral. I started shooting with these with the Nikon D750 and the Nikon 24-120 f4 zoom but I really missed the immediacy of an EVF for fast moving images that we were capturing in available light. There is an efficiency to using the EVF that's not talked about enough but it makes all the difference to me in shots where we don't have time to put the camera on a tripod and bring in lights. I also missed the longer reach and perfect image stabilization that my two sets of mirror-free cameras provide.
I know it was a bit sneaky to have included a Panasonic fz 1000 to my camera selection on Monday night, the day before I headed out, but I was really pleased to have it along with me. After half an hour of shooting we dropped the Think Tank roller case full of Nikon stuff into someone's office and spent the rest of the day shooting about 1200 total files in a fast moving blitz through the manufacturing floors and the R&D areas. I could get very tight with the longer end of the Panasonic zoom and I could get relatively wide which made handholding the camera even more stable.
The built in, electronic level was very useful but the image stabilization is so good in this all-in-one camera that I'm thinking it rivals the I.S. in the Olympus EM-5.2 (See hand held shot above).
I have been reviewing the images I took since I got home a little while ago and I am pleased with all the various work we created. It should be an ample trove of images with which to create a first class website with.
The cherry on the top of the trip for me was the flight out of Newark this morning. Our Southwest Airlines flight left right on time at 7:30 am and was scheduled to get into Austin at 11:05 am. We ended up arriving almost one full hour early. Amazing. And the flight was half full. Comfortable.
I was home conferring with Studio Dog about strategy before lunch time. Very grand, I'd say.


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Who can scale a skyscraper, shoot webs out of his wrists and wing through the asphalt jungle like an urban Tarzan? None other than your friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, Spider-Man.
Peter Parker is an insecure, nerdy teen who is picked on at school and ignored by the pretty girl he adores. Then a genetically altered spider bites him and his body undergoes changes that make puberty seem like a hormonal hiccup. He's not sure if it's a blessing or a curse, but he dedicates himself to fighting crime as a masked superhero.
In his feature-film debut, Spidey goes up against the Green Goblin, a self-seeking, power-hungry scientist malevolently transformed by an experiment gone awry.
Spider-Man spins an impressive web of positive themes, including social responsibility, standing up for what's right and being single-minded about one's calling. There's a sharp contrast between loving, supportive family relationships and destructive ones. The film draws a very clear line between good and evil and comes down on the right side.
Peter has loved Mary Jane Watson since before he even started liking girls. When she moved in next door, the inspired fourth grader asked his Aunt May, "Is that an angel?" His continuing respect and adoration for Mary Jane is refreshingly sweet. He stands by her through thick and thin, when others question her motives and virtue—even when she becomes his best friend's girl. Many times Mary Jane is emotionally rescued by Peter's words of encouragement, and physically rescued by Spider-Man. Finally, with her life literally dangling by a thread, Mary Jane experiences her "ah-ha!" moment: Peter is the only one she truly loves. But Peter realizes that Mary Jane's life will be constantly endangered by a romantic relationship with Spider-Man and makes the tough but noble choice to leave his love unspoken. The message that friendship is the most unselfish expression of love is balm for the heartbreak.
Only once does Peter use his newly acquired hyper-strength for less-than-honorable purposes. He punches out a bully, but later expresses remorse and concern for the boy's condition. Uncle Ben underscores the importance of restraint when he tells Peter, "Flash Thompson probably deserved it. But just because you can beat him up, doesn't give you the right to." Ben's last prophetic words to Peter become Spider-Man's call to action: "Remember, with great power comes great responsibility" (echoing Luke 12:48).
Peter comforts his grieving Aunt May and later stays by her hospital bedside until she recovers. He himself grieves on more than one occasion for his murdered uncle, posthumously referring to him as "Dad."
Several references (ranging from lighthearted to reverent) are made to God, mainly by Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Changing a light bulb, Ben says, "And God said, 'Let there be light.'" Aunt May's bedtime recital of the Lord's Prayer turns into a plea for deliverance from a villain. A fight registrar sends Peter into the ring with a glib blessing. In contrast, Dr. Osborn makes a reference to evolution.
Mary Jane dresses immodestly a few times. One sexualized scene has a rain-drenched Mary Jane (who's wearing a low-cut dress) looking for all practical purposes like a wet T-shirt contestant. She chooses that moment to do a slow-peel of Spider-Man's mask and plant a passionate (upside-down) kiss on him.
Scantily clad buxom beauties serve as ringside attendants at a World Wrestling-style fight. Briefly seen posters bear images of nearly-nude women, one of whom is covering her bare breasts with her arms. In a man-on-the-street interview about Spider-Man, a hooker comments, "Guy with eight hands? Sounds hot." Another woman gushes to the cameraman, "He has those tights, and that tight little …" (she trails off before finishing).
The clumsy, bespectacled Peter is tripped, teased and ostracized by cruel classmates. Normally, the gentle-spirited teen takes it in stride. But a school bully who pushes Peter one too many times is propelled backwards several feet by a spider-powered punch. Uncle Ben dies from a robber's crossfire. (The actual murder isn't shown.) Spider-Man makes his first public appearance in a boxing/wrestling match, which might be laughable but for the contender getting taken out of the ring on a stretcher.
An armed man demands cash from a fight boss. A robber/murderer falls backwards through an upper warehouse window and dies. After downing the human enhancer potion that eventually transforms him into the Green Goblin, Dr. Osborn kills another scientist by propelling him through a glass wall. He also terrifies festivalgoers, crashing through buildings and ultimately killing the board of directors that recently fired him. Then, discerning Spider-Man's greatest "weakness," he strikes hard by trying to force our hero to choose between the lives of a sky trolley full of children and the woman he loves.
Action violence builds in intensity as the minutes tick by, causing the film to hit the PG-13 wall with a solid "thumppp!" in a final, sometimes brutal conflict that leaves Green Goblin impaled by his own deadly weapon.
The film suffers from a handful of mild profanities ("h—," "a–") and close to 10 exclamatory uses of the Lord's name, including an emphatic abuse of "Jesus!" Mary Jane's dad is verbally abusive towards her.
There's a cigar-chomping newspaper editor, a cigarette-smoking street hostess and a whiskey-swilling bad guy.
Spidey's heavyweight opponent taunts him into action by asking, "That's a cute outfit—did your husband give it to you?" The Webbed Wonder comes precariously close to taking vengeance on his uncle's killer, but is spared the dubious satisfaction when the man trips over a pipe and falls backwards through an upstairs window.
This coming-of-age arachnid tale is perfectly written to resonate with adolescents, underdogs and the "little guy." Director Sam Raimi explains, "For me, the strength of the character has always been that he is a real person—one of us. He's gone through junior high and high school, he's a bit of an outsider, he can't get the girl, he's broke … he becomes a superhero, but he still has to do his homework in the evenings."
With so many young people likely to identify with Peter, then, parents might ask, "Is that a good thing?" They could do much worse. Peter is humble, selfless, respectful and dedicated to helping others. And he pays attention when his Uncle Ben tells him, "These are the years a man changes into the man he's going to be for the rest of his life. Just be careful who you change into." In the midst of a culture that seems to take pleasure in finding its heroes in all the wrong places, this finely-spun film debut is a refreshing alternative, putting down a solid franchise tent pole with a moral core.


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To date, just one fighter has implemented a game plan to beat Joseph Benavidez.
But Eddie Wineland (16-7-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC), who meets Benavidez (14-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) at Sunday's UFC on Versus 5 event, thinks he's just the guy to replicate that strategy.
After all, when it comes to their striking styles, Wineland sees a lot of similarities between himself and Dominick Cruz, a fighter who recently defeated Benavidez and now holds the belt that Wineland christened back in 2006.
Wineland and Benavidez meet on the preliminary card of UFC on Versus 5, which takes place at Milwaukee's Bradley Center. The bantamweight bout, which is expected to stream on Facebook, takes place prior to the night's Versus-televised main card.
For Wineland, it's a chance to rebound from a UFC-debut loss to Urijah Faber, who's a Benavidez teammate, back in March. And with Cruz, who's defeated Benavidez on two separate occasions, he sees the blueprint for a victory.
"[Cruz and I] don't move the same, but we move similar," Wineland told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "We're always cutting angles. It's never straight forward or straight back. There's always side-to-side movement, and that seemed to be what really slowed Benavidez down. That's a big confident booster since I naturally move like that.
"Benavidez, he comes at weird angles. His standup is very awkward. It's hard to deal with people like that. I have to let my hands go. I need to be the bully in this one."
Wineland was the first-ever WEC bantamweight champion (the title became a UFC championship following the UFC-WEC merger earlier this yer). After losing his title to Chase Beebe, Wineland won six of his next seven bouts. The full-time Indiana firefighter then suffered the loss to Faber.
Wineland looked good early in the fight, but the ex-champ taught him some valuable lessons.
"It's make me more hungry," Wineland said of the Faber loss. "No one wants to lose, but unfortunately in the game we're in, it's bound to happen. No one goes unbeaten. You take it, and you learn from it.
"My wrestling was on par, so it taught me to let my hands go and not worry about the takedown as much."
Although Wineland is coming off the loss, Benavidez is riding a two-fight win streak with a WEC victory over Wagnney Fabiano and a UFC 128 win over Ian Loveland. Still, though, they're stuck on Sunday's untelevised portion of the card.
Wineland isn't sulking, though. If anything, he's thankful this his UFC 128 co-main event with Faber brought him unparalleled attention, which was bolstered by a "UFC Countdown" special that introduced Wineland to the masses.
And with an impressive victory over Benavidez, he knows he can get right back in the spotlight.
"It sucks, but it's the nature of the beast," he said. "They've got the big-name UFC guys, and unfortunately, they're the ones everyone knows. People who are real deep into MMA, they know who Benevidez and myself are. But they've got to keep the fans happy, and I think it'll sell more on the card to see people everyone knows.
"Of course, our fight is probably going to be 'Fight of the Night.' It has all the potential. So I think sooner or later, people will see it."
For more on UFC on Versus 5, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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Bessette Closes In
This was to be the stage that Lyne Bessette (Canadian National) took charge at the Grand Prix Feminin, and she did not disappoint, winning the stage and closing to within 16 seconds of leader Sarah Symington (British National).
The 100 kilometre third stage began in Richford, Vermont, and the constant rollercoaster climbs immediately put some members of the peloton in trouble. However, it wasn't until the race was a quarter over that a frustrated Jeannie Longo (Bermuda/France) finally got the show under way. For 40 kilometres Longo was out in front, climbing with grace and rhythm.
"I was getting very worried when her (Longo) lead reached 1 minute and 15 seconds", admitted Bessette. "But, my team mate Anne Samplonius came up and told me not to panic, to ride my own rhythm. With the wind in her face, Longo would have trouble, said Anne." It was wise advice, and a group of 9, including Bessette, Samplonius, Symington and Pam Schuster (International Mixed Team), eventually reeled in the French legend.
With 15 kilometre to go, the final selection was made, with the quartet of Bessette, Longo, Cerie Gilfillan (British National) and 17 year old junior sensation Nicole Cooke (Wales) dropping the others. Bessette began attacking the others in the last kilometres, but was unable to drop them. It ended up not mattering, as Canadian Olympic team member's finishing kick was strong enough to hold off Cooke at the line. Symington finished in the chase group, 49 seconds back.
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Davis, John
or Davys, John, 1550?–1605, English navigator. He made his first voyage in search of the Northwest Passage in 1585, continuing the work of Martin Frobisher. On this voyage he discovered Cumberland Sound of Baffin Island and made explorations that prepared the way for his later voyages in 1586 and 1587. On the third exploration he sailed through Davis Strait into Baffin Bay and coasted down Baffin Island and across the east end of Hudson Strait. He clarified much of the confusion over the geography of that region. In 1591, Davis sailed S for the Straits of Magellan, and in 1592 he sighted the Falkland Islands. He later made voyages to the East Indies and was killed in a fight with Japanese pirates. A type of quadrant he invented was used for more than a century, and he wrote a manual, The Seaman's Secrets (1594).
See The Voyages and Works of John Davis, ed. by A. H. Markham (1880, repr. 1970); biography by Sir Clements Markham (1889, repr. 1970).
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Economic Development
During the community's two-year Strategic Planning process one of the four goals established was "Valdez will have a healthy, diverse economy." In February of this year the City Council determined development of a comprehensive economic diversification program to be a top priority. To that end the City has adopted what are being called "Interim Measures." To address economic diversification and development opportunities in a comprehensive manner the community needs an economic diversification strategy, and a way to implement it. Implementation includes having the appropriate resources and organizational structure to address needs and opportunities. The community currently lacks both of these key components.
Interim Measures
Through Interim Measures (IM) we hope to solve these deficiencies. During IM the newly formed Economic Diversification Commission will lead the public process to develop an economic diversification strategy and determine the best permanent structure for organizational implementation of the work associated with the strategy. It is anticipated IM will last between 12-18 months. The Commission will accomplish this with the assistance of leadership/mentorship by the University of Alaska Center for Economic Development (UACED), likely with the use of a process called Strategic Doing. Temporary staff (either City or contract) will also be assigned to work with the Commission.
Strategic Doing
Strategic Doing is a process developed by Ed Morrison with the Purdue University Center for Regional Development that guides groups through accomplishing action items associated with long term goals, rather than just developing another "shelf-sitter" plan. During mid-April Mr. Morrison was in Valdez and provided an introduction to the process at both a Council work session and a community workshop. Strategic Doing is very simple in concept, but takes considerable discipline. Once appointed, the Commission will go through an intensive training workshop on Strategic Doing. That is anticipated to happen sometime in early fall. There will also be another community workshop to provide an additional opportunity for the public to learn about the process. Information about Strategic Doing is included on the City's website as one of the downloadable documents available with the information about the new Commission.
Commission Longevity
The Council established the Economic Diversification Commission through ordinance. A copy of the ordinance is also available for review on the website. While the Commission is initially being seated as an interim body, the ordinance was written such that the Commission can remain in place in perpetuity if necessary. The role and responsibility of the Commission, as outlined in the ordinance, is also suggestive of long-term engagement. But it is important that prospective commissioners understand that the Commission may sunset following the completion of work on Interim Measures. The development of an organizational implementation plan will include exploring all options of economic development organizations (EDO). This will include, but certainly may not be limited to, a private non-profit organization, a public-private partnership, or a new/expanded City department. The preferred structure may, or may not include the continuation of the Commission.
Initial Commission Roles & Responsibilities
During Interim Measures (again 12-18 months) the Commission will be responsible for leading the public process in:
- Development of a Comprehensive Economic Diversification Strategy
- Determination of a preferred organizational structure for strategy implementation
- Recommendations for implementation funding
- Oversight of gathering and tracking baseline socio-economic data for the community and region
- Oversight of some economic diversification/development opportunities currently in play
Commission Membership
The Commission is made up of seven members. Each member must work within one of 15 industry sectors identified in the ordinance. No more than one person from each sector may serve on the Commission at the same time. Those 15 sectors are:
- Accommodations
- Commercial Fishers
- Contracting/Trades
- Food & Beverage
- Healthcare
- Micro Business/Non-Professional Sole Proprietors
- Oil & Gas
- Professional Services (attorney, engineer, banker, real-estate, media, etc.)
- Retail
- Seafood Processing
- Sport Fisheries
- Summer Tours & Attractions
- Transportation
- Utilities
- Winter Tours & Attractions
Commissioner Appointment & Terms
In the event the Commission survives the IM process, the term of each Commission seat will be for three years. To keep all Commission seats from expiring at the same time the initial terms will be staggered (2-1 year terms; 2-2 year terms; 3-3 year terms). The Council will appoint seven members from the pool of candidates, again only one from each industry sector. At the time of appointment the term length for each seat will be drawn randomly. Please remember, the Commission may sunset at the completion of Interim Measures.
Questions should be directed Email Martha Barberio in the Economic Development Department or by phone at 834-3490.


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Charita Goshay: Dissent is an American value, hatred isn't
Ours seems to be the only culture in which people riot when their side wins.
The ongoing blowback over President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize — a recognition he neither expected nor lobbied for — is the emotional equivalent of setting a police car on fire because your team won the Super Bowl.
No president is entitled to a pass on political criticism and second-guessing. But the actual question of whether a rookie president deserves a Nobel Peace Prize after less than a year in office, as well as other issues, are increasingly shanghaied by irrational hissy fits regarding anything Obama.
It's gotten to the point where some people who say they love their country have, in some instances, cheered against it.
Ho, ho ... hoax
Irrationality leads people to fall head-first for the ludicrous, from bogus birth certificates to charges of Marxism to the recent e-mail hoax that the Obamas have banned Christmas from the White House.
If Obama's Nobel is indeed premature, even a farce, as Liz Cheney recently put it, shouldn't the anger be directed at the five Norwegians who awarded it?
Former President George W. Bush left office with barrel-scraping poll numbers, but even Bush's most vocal critics were taken aback at his being assaulted by an Iraqi journalist in 2008.
It's not brain surgery: He was our president.
This is not an argument in defense of Obama's peace prize. It strikes even me as premature, as wishful thinking, a gesture of seed faith. Nobel Committee Chairman Thobjorn Jagland tried to defend the panel's decision, recently telling The Associated Press:
"Alfred Nobel wrote that the prize should go to the person who has contributed most to the development of peace in the previous year. Who has done more for that than Barack Obama?"
Well, among Americans, Bill and Melinda Gates, for one.
The Microsoft billionaires have devoted their time and hundreds of millions of their fortune to improving children's health in Third World nations. They also have given millions to improving public-school systems around the country, including Canton City Schools.
Spittle fits
Countless other people of all political persuasions have worked tirelessly for world peace, but the majority most likely will have to settle for the satisfaction that comes with loving your neighbor as yourself.
No, the issue isn't about the rightness or wrongness of Obama's winning a Nobel. After all, it's a moot point, isn't it?
It's about — once again — the need for civility and an end to the spittle fits that pass these days for debate.
It's about the Democratic National Committee's inability to resist the temptation to lump in Republicans with terrorists, simply because the GOP couldn't bring itself to offer even generic congratulations to the president.
It's about Obama's critics not conjuring up Adolf Hitler from the dead every other day — let him burn in peace. I'm sure a biracial Hawaiian liberal was exactly what the Nazis had in mind when they dreamed up the Third Reich.
If Obama was anything like Hitler, believe it — you wouldn't be calling him Hitler, at least, not out loud.
It's been said that Obama's Nobel has angered the Taliban. Deserved or not, anything that aggravates those wife-beaters is worth the trouble.
Charita Goshay writes for The Repository in Canton, Ohio. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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At Waterloo station the other day I finally succumbed to curiosity. I found myself staring blankly at a WH Smiths emblazoned with a small red letter "i". In just one moment, demoralised and waiting for a train, all the hype and advertising culminated for me. It was only 20p, let's see what all the fuss is about. I lugged my stuff over to the store, handed over my solitary coin and headed for a drink to dissect the nation's latest news phenomenon.
Or is such a big deal? I sit here with two copies, having purchased a second for the purposes of writing this piece. And from the outside it doesn't look so extraordinary. Sure I'm familiar with the concept, the image they're trying to sell. It's a concise compilation of news and opinion, an intelligent but manageable information snack to be devoured by your busy city type. It ought not to appeal so greatly here in my rural setting, and yet the first two local shops I tried were sold out yesterday. Not just a paper for commuters rushing through London terminals and underground stations then? Perhaps it does have some foundations of longevity; having said that, it could simply be the novelty buy of the moment.
If you're reading this and saying to yourself "what on earth is i?" I am frankly astounded. I don't believe you can have avoided the marketing blitz accompanying its release. It adorns the side of London buses, plasters newspaper stands and rules the ad breaks at times. The strap-line at the top of the front page reads: "As seen on TV: Britain's concise quality paper". They're fully aware of the exposure i is getting and I'm guessing the idea is to hook regular readers early. The dirt cheap price will be crucial to the appeal, as will the two key selling points; concise and quality. It's broadsheet meat in tasty tabloid nuggets.
Essentially it's a bite-size version of The Independent. The fact that it's The Independent launching the i does bode well in many respects; The Independent is the newest established national paper in this country. Launched in the eighties it knew how to exploit gaps in the market with price, design, image and politics. Nicknamed the Indy, it used the slogan "It is. Are you?" at its birth in 1986. Such lines show that even back then this was a paper that knew how to bag itself a target market of aspiring intelligent types looking to distinguish themselves from The Guardian or The Times. It would be simultaneously liberal and opinionated, and respected and trusted. In 2003 it took on a tabloid format, which begs the question, why the need for the i?
The clue is in the name. The i is unashamedly jumping onto the Apple bandwagon. We arrive in a new decade, the teenies or whatever follows the noughties, grappling with the coming of the iPad. The iPad seems to herald a new media age in a lot of ways. Countless commentators and reviews argue over its purpose, with many concluding it does not have a particularly functional one. In technology the iPad is halfway between a laptop or netbook and a smartphone or iPod. It fails to do certain things these old staples do so well, whilst also doing some new things no one is quite sure whether we want yet. Most reviews also conclude that the iPad is so much fun, it scarcely matters what it's for. It's an inexplicable indulgence, until the content starts to catch up.
But unavoidably the ethos around the iPad is the direction of travel, the way things are going. People want everything they do, everything they consume, to be aesthetically dazzling and finely crafted. They want to look cool when they read the news and they want to feel cool. They want it to be easy but still be well informed afterwards. They want colour and images. The i is the newspaper equivalent of the iPad; it's well designed and bright and fun, but it hovers in a new uncertain territory between purposes. Is it broadsheet or tabloid? Paper or magazine? Light or heavy news?
At first I was reading the i trying to work out whether it lived up to its brief of "concise quality" sufficiently, and even if it did, whether it was good enough to warrant such a category of publication. I mean can't even the busiest person simply selectively scan their favourite paper? I was judging each article to decide whether it had the depth of broadsheet and snappy digestibility of tabloid. The selection of topics for articles is certainly suitably intelligent, with nothing too light or smutty about cheap celebrities creeping in. On the snappy front the opening double page has a "news matrix" with summaries of the day's top stories, so the reader has at least an overview of everything. This does seem surprisingly handy.
In fairness to most of the articles about serious stories, they do an admirable job of cutting right to the point without being patronising or watering the issue down. But unavoidably there is an unsatisfying lack of depth. Everyday there is a fairly substantial opinion piece however, which can't be accused of cutting corners. Indeed the opinion section of the paper is a good example of successful fusion between manageable and satisfying content. An "opinion matrix" summarises views from other publications, a bold and genuinely informative move in keeping with The Independent tradition, adjacent to an article from one of their writers. I really like that it quotes other papers, and I imagine the average commuter without the time to buy and read a range, does too. There is only the one opinion piece per day though.
This week the content of the i has been somewhat heavy on anti-Murdoch sentiment, what with the ongoing hacking story and the takeover of Sky forever raging, which I found tiresome. It's of course admirable to expose such stories, under reported in other papers, but it compromises the potential for other news and comment in such a small paper, and also The Independent tradition of staying above the fray (despite an undoubtedly left-wing reputation).
The television schedule is well designed, split as it is into categories with key programmes, and a smaller list with the all junk underneath. Ideal for those that work all day. There's also a section called "iq" which seems to be dedicated to the likes of style and recipes and again has a good balance between brevity and depth. The arts area of the paper seems somewhat recycled each day, with film and theatre listings and descriptions; no reviews. Not being a businessman I wouldn't know if the business section was adequate, but it has its own "news matrix" which seems a good, broad introduction to all the main action of the day. The sports pages are really quite short but do touch on all the main issues; football transfer gossip, Six Nations, Andy Murray.
After all this analysis though I remembered how crucial the comparison with the iPad is to understanding the i. Frequently I toy with it in those cavernous Apple stores, knowing full well I haven't the funds for such an extravagance or even if I would use it at all, should I win the lottery or rob a bank. But every time I go in for a discrete fondle of the touch screen, that indescribable feeling Apple manufactures so well washes over me. That feeling of being at the forefront; the vanguard of technological advancement. As if I'm in an incredibly cool sci-fi film, not my mundane life. That feeling of childish play, somehow fused with the realisation you've arrived as an adult with the James Bond gadget to prove your maturity and success. Look at the tech they let me unleash! Behold the luxuries that make up my exciting everyday existence!
Like the iPad, the i is a symbol of a life style choice, a lot more than just a paper. Now it might be the case that your choice of paper has always been a significant indicator of outlook and ambition, but the i is a heightened version, harnessing the 21st century Apple fever. It popularises that choice and makes it available to the masses as a statement of intent. "Look at me, I am intelligent but too busy to stop, I've arrived!"
Even if you don't consciously think this, the colourful design and appeal of the i put it on that similarly luxurious plain to the iPad. It really is well designed, easy to read and pretty to look at on some pages. And why shouldn't intelligent news be a pleasure to look at? Why does it have to be bunched in dense text and an excruciating eyesore? Especially when you're jammed in like sardines on the tube. The colour coded pages help you swiftly find what you're looking for and the multitude of colour photographs let you feel the news, experience the world, rather than simply read about it. Like the touch screen of the iPad, the i feels interactive at times and immersive despite its concision.
One thing that really baffles me is the continually shabby state of The Independent website following the launch of the i. To truly capitalise on the stylish Apple-like aesthetic they're cultivating with the i, they would lure people to their equally swish website. But for ages The Independent's website has been the drabbest online newspaper around. Some would simply call it functional, with its white background and lack of trimmings. But a hideous mustardy brown colour is used across the top and the font is squat and awkward to read. It's a real shame, because it's so bad it often puts me off delving into the regularly insightful, impressive content, which has real depth that goes beyond the snippets in the prettier i.
I would do well not to push the comparison with the iPad too far. The i lacks the level of interactivity and excitement cutting edge technology like the iPad can provide. It is, at the end of the day, a slimmed down newspaper. But its design and marketing reflect a cultural trend. There's nothing wrong with what the i is trying to achieve, and it's admirable in fact to see something try and keep print publications fresh and competitive. The threats of the iPad and the internet could jeopardise journalism and courageous solutions are needed. The i does the right thing by embracing the challenge of our new aesthetically obsessed, Apple stuffed world, rather than denying it. With its colour, cool and seamless advertising spaces and refreshingly un-patronising news, the i has the potential to be more than an early 2011 fad. Crucially, at 20p, you may as well give this stylish "essential daily briefing" a whirl, before properly digesting your preferred daily in the evening.


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Exhausted by work and kids, I was desperate for sleep — but every time I closed my eyes, I saw Elisa's face. I'd e-mailed a group of friends about getting together, and she responded that she would love to see me when she "got back from surgery." What surgery? Oh, just the hysterectomy I'd never heard about because I'd been so bad at keeping in touch. Now I felt guilty. Of course, that's not unusual — I often stay up late fretting about something I've done wrong. My offense doesn't have to be huge (no, I haven't murdered anyone lately); I'm bothered by small things, like wriggling out of a baby shower, leaving wet laundry in the machine overnight, and being less of a friend than I'd like to be. If you're nodding your head, you know exactly what I mean.
Here's the upside of feeling the way we do: Guilt acts as our inner watchdog, says Margaret Clark, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Yale University who studies guilt and close relationships. We have responsibilities to other people, and if we fail to perform as we should, we feel crummy. "In a healthy situation, guilt prompts us to correct our actions or express our regrets," says Clark.
But it's possible to be too hard on yourself — and yes, the female sex is especially adept at this kind of self-sabotage. "Women are more focused on other people than men are," says Vicki Helgeson, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University who studies gender. "We feel guilty if we do something that affects someone else, while men are more concerned with the impact others have on them."
Want to stop playing the self-blame game? Here's how to handle those squirm-inducing situations in all the major aspects of your life.
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Does this sound familiar?
• Your husband dozed off at someone's wedding.
• You're invited to two events on Saturday night — and there's no way you can do both.
• You've missed five turns at carpooling.
• You ducked an acquaintance at the supermarket.
• You made a stupid joke that offended someone.
One woman's experience:
"I wrote — but never mailed — a thank-you note for the most beautiful baby present I've ever received," says Jennifer, 38, a homemaker in Falls Church, Virginia. "It was a hand-knit sweater. The friend who made it lives overseas, so I didn't know the correct postage, and with a newborn, I never had time to find out. The note is still stuck in the pages of my address book — and the 'baby' is now four."
Advice: Apologize
When you've simply missed the boat, there's just one thing to do: Say you're sorry. "Jennifer should mail the thank-you note now," says Clark. "She's saying, 'I had too much responsibility and couldn't do this.' That's fine — but in recent years, it's embarrassment that has stopped her from acting on the problem." Popping the original thank-you into an envelope along with another note admitting that she's been feeling bad about this for ages will not just alleviate Jennifer's guilt — it'll make the knitter understand what happened and feel appreciated at last.
Does this sound familiar?
• The other moms made their kids' Halloween costumes — but yours are from the drugstore.
• You plopped your youngest in front of a video so you could answer some e-mail.
• You talked your daughter into a short haircut, and now she's getting teased for looking like a boy.
• Your family is moving, so your teenager has to leave his old friends.
• You made PB&J for lunch — again.
One woman's experience:
Roz, 45, a freelance writer in Lake Oswego, Oregon, thinks they implant a guilt chip in every woman when she gives birth: "Today, I told my kids I will have to miss their sports-awards ceremony because of work. Their dad will go, but they're still upset I won't be there. I'm sorry, too, but if I don't finish my work, I can't buy them the fancy sneakers they like — and that would make me feel guilty too!"
Advice: Prioritize
Face it: The perfect, June Cleaveresque mother who can fulfill her children's every need does not exist. So when you're feeling like the worst parent in the world, sit down and think about what's most important for you and your family. If Roz's priority is to make money to help pay the bills, that needs to take precedence over attending every single event. Once you've made your choices, stand by them, even when it's difficult. "You know you're doing the right thing in the long run," says Clark. "If you still feel bad, let your child see how much you wish it could be different. That will signal how much you care."
Does this sound familiar?
• A new job means moving your kids away from their grandparents.
• You get only four tickets for your son's confirmation — and everyone wants in.
• You snapped at your husband when he was only trying to help.
• You have to ask for a loan, and it's not like your parents are millionaires.
• You secretly think your little niece is a total brat.
One woman's experience:
"My mom and my mother-in-law have me in a guilt trap," says Hettie, 35, of Chicago. "My dad died a year ago, so we visit my mother often. Meantime, my mother-in-law is jealous that she's not getting as much attention. And my husband travels so much for work that I hate asking him to take more trips on weekends. I try to do right by everyone, but it's hard!"
Advice: Compromise
"You can let everyone have turns — his family gets one visit, your family gets the next — but that leaves out your own needs," says Clark. "What if you just want to stay home?" So try for a compromise. "Think about other ways to keep in touch: cards, e-mails, phone calls, Internet video," says June Tangney, Ph.D., a psychologist and researcher at George Mason University who studies guilt, shame, and empathy. "And you know all that artwork the kids bring home from school? Send some of that along — then you'll also feel less guilty about not being able to keep every bit of it."
Does this sound familiar?
• Instead of finishing the report at work, you sat there surfing the Web.
• You hardly ever take time to dress up for your husband.
• You ate a box of cookies before bed.
• You'd rather read a romance novel than the newspaper.
• Your dog is fat because you don't walk him — you just let him out in the yard.
One woman's experience:
"I just never seem to live up to my own expectations," says Celeste, 30, of Los Angeles. "My husband and I recently moved to a new city, and I feel guilty that I haven't made more friends. My income would be bigger if I didn't work from home. I'm pregnant, but I'd rather eat falafel than whole grains. And with all the landfills bursting with plastic, why can't I ever remember to bring canvas bags to the grocery store?"
Advice: Be specific
"Hoo boy, she sounds overwhelmed," says Tangney, whose first recommendation in this kind of situation is to set goals that are specific and concrete. "Don't say 'I have to find loads of new friends so my husband isn't lonely' — just say 'I'll try to make plans twice a month.'"
Another good goal: limiting negative self-talk, which can really undermine your ability to act effectively. "A little cognitive restructuring — changing the messages in your head — can allow you to be your own cheerleader," says Dale Atkins, Ph.D., a psychologist in New York City. By changing "I did three things wrong today" to "I did three other things right today," you'll build up your emotional shoreline against the erosion caused by guilt. And you'll finally get the good night's sleep you so deserve.


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Wow! Right? Maybe not: Here's what we know: More than 6 million people have signed up for private coverage on insurance exchanges set up through Obamacare.
Here's what we don't know: pretty much anything else.
The 6 million doesn't account for the low-income people who have enrolled in Medicaid or the people who couldn't enroll in Medicaid because their states chose not to participate.
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Finally, the administration has not said who these 6 million people are. Are they young or old? How many of them have paid their premiums? Will insurance companies have to dramatically raise premiums next year? These are key questions that will be needed to put the 6 million in its proper perspective and give Obamacare a full checkup.
This is either a remarkable turnaround or another example of failure, depending on who you talk to. That's the politics of Obamacare.
As CNN's Christine Romans said this morning, the 6 million figure "exceeds lowered expectations."
Unpack that phrase.
That expectation was lowered to 6 million after the epic failure of the insurance exchange rollout back in October. So hitting 6 million enrollments is amazing when you view it through the lens of October, when people who desperately wanted to enroll could not.
But it is a million short of the original expectation. From an insurance policy standpoint, it probably doesn't even matter that much.
Obamacare is a national law, but it plays out at the local level. And it is on the local level that Obamacare will succeed or fail. Insurance exchanges are administered at the state level and insurance pools are divided into even smaller groupings. Many states administering their own exchanges are doing well. States - most of them red ones - that chose to rely on the federal government have far lower enrollment.
Christie won't change: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans his first news conference in months. It comes the day after an internal review said he didn't recall being told about those political payback bridge lane closings last September. But he already told ABC News the scandal won't change his leadership style.
"I am who I am," he told Diane Sawyer. "At core, I am a passionate, loving, caring, direct, truth teller. And for some people, they love it."
Christie denies knowing, calls former staffers 'stupid': Christie says the toxic environment in his office that apparently led to the George Washington Bridge lane shutdowns is news to him and he did nothing to create it.
"I don't think anyone would take that as an indication to do something so incredibly stupid," he told Sawyer.
"You asked if I contributed to a climate," he said. "I don't believe that I did."
He was shocked, he said, to learn of the lane closures.
"It defies credulity to me. Which is why when things were first reported, I said, 'This can't possibly be true.' Because who would do something like that? Sometimes, people do inexplicably stupid things," he said.
Lawyers appointed by Christie released their own internal review that found the governor did nothing wrong.
Internal Probe: Christie doesn't recall being told of traffic jams
Christie probe gets personal with Bridget Kelly: That probe, by the way, is coming under some fire for the way it portrays Bridget Kelly, Christie's former deputy chief of staff, who joked with a Port Authority official about the lane closure.
She is described as "emotional" after the report implies an affair with Christie's campaign manager went south.
Kate Zernike and David Chen write in The New York Times: "The report raises these details but does not explain how or why they would have prompted her to send the damning email. It simply concludes that "events in her personal life may have had some bearing on her subjective motivations and state of mind."
Biden: The undocumented are already Americans: Democrats want to kickstart stalled efforts to enact immigration reform. The main sticking point is - as it has long been - whether the millions of undocumented in this country should be given a pathway to citizenship.
Vice President Joe Biden, in a way that only Joe Biden can, said citizenship is a state of mind as well as a legal term.
"You know, 11 million people that are living in the shadows. I believe they're already Americans citizens," Biden said. "These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to be able to contribute fully. And by that standard, 11 million undocumented aliens are already Americans in my view."
Citing the contribution Hispanics have made to the American economy, Biden stressed the importance of passing immigration reform sooner rather than later, arguing, "It's the single most significant thing we can do. It's a game-changer financially for the country."
Kentucky's McConnell bedeviled by Duke flub: CNN's Political Editor Paul Steinhauser reports that Sen. Mitch McConnell's conservative primary challenger is hoping to score some points off of a highly publicized mistake by the Senate Minority Leader's re-election team.
Louisville businessman Matt Bevin, hoping to boost his underdog challenge against McConnell in Kentucky's May Republican primary, is going up with a TV commercial today that pokes fun at Web video released earlier this week by the senator's campaign that included a clip of a team wearing blue uniforms celebrating a national championship in men's basketball.
The major problem was that the team wasn't the Kentucky Wildcats, but instead the Duke University Blue Devils. There's little love among Kentucky college basketball fans for the powerhouse Atlantic Coast Conference school from North Carolina.
Update: This post originally misidentified Medicaid as Medicare.
What 6 million new enrolled tells us is that the ACA is working, and the GOP/Koch meme is just so much smoke. For the Right, the more who enroll in the ACA, buying insurance, and getting healthier makes their whole "freedom" thing look idiotic. "I'm free to go bankrupt"; "I'm free to die from preventable disease", and on and on.
Is the law perfect? No, but it contains everything the GOP wanted in the '90s in their health program, and virtually everything in "Romneycare" (which only calls into question the GOP's stern anti-ACA stance).
The bottom line: The President tried to make life better for Americans, the GOP complained. That's what we need to remember in November.
This is the utmost nation's dire needed Law. So only, SC Honorable Judge John Roberts upheld. O.k. Don't be crazy just like few corrupted hooligans pupated in GOP corruption by insurance thugs. These are worst than Al Queda. Yes, ACA IS A LAW. You ether put or shut up. Yes, more than 6 million enrolled.
Wake Up People! Many Rivers to cross......
Actually just spewing lies and hate any sane person would know billionaires wouldn't have to spend millions on lying ads if it was going to fail on its own.
well somebody has to get the truth out to the american people. obama, reid, pelosi and the democrats have been lying to the american people for years now about this disaster.
thank god these patriots have stepped forward and educated the country concerning obama liar of the year and all of the lies that were told. but democrats continue to double down on their lies and deceit, thus showing the rest of america just how deceitful they truly are. that will become evident to you in november but i'm sure you will deny it, just as you did in 2010 when obamacare cost the democrats the house. lefties live in a bizarro dream world where nothing is ever their fault.
And how many of these are illegals? There are many reports of the navigators camping out at the Mexican counselates and signing up illegals. Why wouldn't you when Obama has promised the INS would look the other way. Another lie from Obama – no illegals will be allowed to sign up, and yet, his navigators are furiously signing them up. Come one come all, let's bankrupt America which is exactly Obamas hidden agenda
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I can tell you what we do know....Fox-lite wants the ACA to fail.
any sane person can plainly see this disaster is failing all on its own. it needs no help in failing.
Ah so, "any sane person", so that's it. If what you say is true, then why are the Koch brothers spending tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure that it fails? You're suggesting that they're insane.
Don't they tell you what your premiums will be BEFORE you enroll Dar?
Why would people enroll and THEN find out that they can't pay the premiums thus causing them to drop out and pay the penalty?
My insurance company told me what my premiums would be before I signed up with them.
Smith – I hope you realize that insurance companies scrapped plans in order to get premiums increased.
Let's see. In my family alone I've had a mother in law who died from congestive heart failure. A brother in law who has had a heart attack. A niece who underwent a double mastectomy. A great niece who gave birth at age 16.
Each of them (except my great-niece) received their medical coverage via the emergency room. ALL of them were given uninsured medical treatment via taxpayers expenses.
What is the Republican plan for these uninsured ... moochers ... of society?
Any sane person can see that if ACA was bad, the Kochs would not have had to spend their pocket change, $800million, to derail it.
Dominican mama 4 Obama wrote:
"ACA has 6 million enrolled, but it`s mainly the low income, elderly folks, and people with pre-existing conditions. This is not good, next year premiums will skyrocket. It`s time to admit this law has failed and make the proper changes to fix it"
Premiums go up regardless smith.
You seem to be assuming that young people will NEVER sign up for Obamacare.
Yup. YUP. Yup. YUP. Premiums have always gone up. Plans and policies have always been cancelled. All of this would have taken place with or without the ACA. So , Smith, stop blaming everything that normally happens on the ACA. I guess that law is going to be blamed for people actually dying before too long.
Smith, I also find the metric that you used to measure the law's failure extremely appalling. People in need gain health insurance, and you call that a failure. Thanks, for the heads up.
This is pathetic. How can anyone demand to know more about the enrollment on Obamacare. They didn't bother to know more especially on the first 6 people who signed up when the enrollment started , of which was very easy to know. Now they are demanding to know more on 6 million people who have so far signed. Is it because the number is high or is it they have an hidden agenda which we are not aware of?
Why do wingnuts think Fox, the Kochs, Hannity, Limbaugh, and John Boehner are telling the truth?
Tell you this lying is not worst than WMD. Nothing Obama lied. Yes, he said keep your insurance thinking GOP can not instigate insurance thugs to cancel or play politics for THEIR gains of profits. Just get educated first, then talk. This nation needs Education–not wars.
@DM40- I think the pre-existing conditions part of the ACA is good, but letting 18- 26 yr. olds say on their parents plan was a mistake. They need these people to keep premiums down.
Recently, republican senators Hatch, Coburn, and Burr, came out with a health plan that would remove millions of people who already had health insurance, and raise everyone's taxes. Now that is a plan wingnuts would love.
@Rudy-In my lifetime this was the first time I had a policy scrapped. Premuims do go up yearly, but only a couple of dollars. Hardly anything to get bent out of shape over.
@Tampa Tim-Wrong, my policy was scrapped because it didn`t fit the guidelines of the ACA.
@ smith
My 23 year-old just got off my plan.
He is very gainfully employed smith and I would be paying LESS not having him on my insurance.
Folks think that having your 21-26 year old on your insurance (18 year olds would typically be college bound so they would've been covered under the old rules regardless) doesn't come at a price for the parents. It does.
I would pay less for insurance if it was just for myself than continuing to cover my youngest under my plan (Employee plus One they call it here).
So, he's off my plan (praise the Law and the Lawd!), and I don't think that I'm the ONLY parent that's experiencing this.
The young folks are going to come on board smith,is all I'm saying.
And if the Generation Y and X mentality and behaviour pattern remains true to form they will communicate that with and to each other via the various social media and the floodgates will open.
I think that Obamacare/ACA will be just fine. Give it some time.
@Rudy-The ACA is a failure, in the long run it hurts the people that it was supposed to help. Why not fix it for the better?
My 34 year old son got a silver blue crosse policy in FLORIDA for 62.00 so don't tell me it's not a success. The GOP is doing everything it can to obstruct the roll out and they FAILED AGAIN, why don't you just GIVE UP??????
@DM40- I think the pre-existing conditions part of the ACA is good, but letting 18- 26 yr. olds say on their parents plan was a mistake. They need these people to keep premiums down.
Uh. Duh. They do have those people, well, at least most of them. Allowing parents to keep their kids until age 26 means millions of additional people covered, and hundreds of millions more in additonal premiums. It was a brilliant move from an enrollment standpoint.
PS. Not everyone has a parent who can pick them up, either.
The ACA is a failure, in the long run it hurts the people that it was supposed to help
I would like to hear your reasons for saying that smith.


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Senator H. Truman Chafin, (D-Mingo), today announced that he strongly opposes allowing any merchants to tack on a surcharge of up to 4 percent extra onto your credit card bill simply because you paid with a credit card. The Senator said that it's been a long time practice for most credit card issuers to charge merchants a "so called interchange fee" which earned credit card companies a lot of money.
Under a proposed legal settlement, some merchants can begin soon charging consumers for using a credit card.
Many customers are not aware of the new credit card surcharge and many customers have been unaware that credit card issuers have been charging merchants credit card fees for some time, the Senator said. Chafin plans to introduce legislation to prohibit merchants from doing to West Virginia customers what has been done to them for a long time, that is, charge customers a credit card fee of up to 4 percent simply for using a credit card.
Chafin said under a U. S. District Court ruling last year that merchants may be allowed to pass along the costs of those credit card interchange fees to customers and that some states have protection laws for customers regarding credit card fees and surcharges and he plans to introduce similar legislation to protect West Virginia customers.
Senator Chafin said that under consumer protection laws, merchants should provide "clear and conspicuous disclosure" if any such fees or surcharges are going to be passed along to customers.
"In tough economic times, our West Virginia consumers simply cannot afford further credit card surcharges and I urge my legislative colleagues to join with me to protect the consumers of West Virginia," the Senator said from his Williamson law office Monday afternoon.


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Channel Islands: Independent living > Health & wellbeing services services
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Able Community Care Ltd
Able Community Care Holiday Care Companions
The service provides Holiday Care Companions who will offer domestic, personal and companionship care throughout a person's holiday.The service can start from the person's home and finish when the person returns.
Contact: Holiday Care Companion Service, The Old Parish Rooms Whitlingham Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR14 8TZ.
Compassion in Dying
The End-of-Life Rights Information Line
The End-of-Life Rights Information Line is the only national helpline in the UK that supports people to make decisions about the care and treatment that is right for them at the end of life. We do this by providing...
Contact: End-of-Life Rights Information Line, 181-183 Oxford Street, London, W1D 2JT.
Disabled Living Foundation
Ask Sara
This is an interactive website that helps you to find advice and products that will make daily living easier. It is run by the Disabled Living Foundation charity. It covers a range of topics including managin...
Contact: Ask Sara.
The Ear Wax Removal Specialists
We are a free online tool that allows disabled people or the general public to find and compare audiologists near them and book a appointment if they desire
Contact: The Ear Wax Removal Specialists, 13 King Street, Floor 1, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 1QT.
HomeTouch - Live in Care
We know what it takes to make a great live-in carer – warmth, empathy and expertise. Hometouch is one of the nation's leading providers of live-in care. We have no hidden costs and offer free, no-obligation assess...
Contact: HomeTouch, 40 Clerkenwell Road, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 0NE, LONDON, London, EC1R 0NE.
HSPS Services
The service provide Lifestyle support and home help service to the elderly and vulnerable group (non clinical services) maintaining general health and well being.
Contact: Health and Social Prescribing Services, 27 Gloucester Street, WC1N 3AX.
Kingstanding Food Community
Meals on Wheels
We provide a hand made lunch meal every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday around midday. Each meal includes a drink, sandwich, piece of cake and salad/crisps.Sandwiches and cakes are made fresh every day.
Contact: Kingstanding Wellbeing Centre, Dulwich Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 0EW.
Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Support in your area
We take the time to understand you as a person, so that we can provide the support, tools and inspiration you need to find your best way through. We do it like this because we understand everyone's cancer journey is uniq...
Contact: Macmillan Cancer Support, 89 Albert Embakment, London, SE1 7UQ.
Multiple Sclerosis Society
MS Helpline
Information from the Helpline You can ask us about anything to do with MS. We provide up-to-date, evidence-based information about MS, including: -symptoms -diagnosis -b...
Contact: Multiple Sclerosis Society, Carriage House,, 8 City North Place,, London, N4 3FU.
Radmiser Limited
Control of heating, lighting, power & sensors
Radmiser specialise in supplying heating and lighting systems that can be controlled and monitored either directly, remotely or both. Each room's temperature can be automatically changed according to occupancy/daily...
Contact: Radmiser Limited, 57 Pine Avenue, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 3PP.
Royal Voluntary Service
Advice and Support
Guidance and advice on: Easy exercises to do at home - Eating well when you're over 70 - Feeling well and overcoming loneliness - Guide to Retirement - Hospital stays - Hydration - Keeping active with health condit...
Contact: Royal Voluntary Service, Beck Court , Cardiff Gate Business Park , Cardiff , CF23 8RP.
Hospital Support
We provide a wide range of services and support in hospitals which free up NHS staff time for patient care. Our thousands of hospital volunteers help improve older people's experience in hospital, support their rec...
Contact: Royal Voluntary Service, Beck Court , Cardiff Gate Business Park , Cardiff , CF23 8RP.
Stroke Association
Stroke support in your area
Our services are commissioned locally, and provide a variety of support options Stroke support groups offer peer support to stroke survivors, carers, family and friends. Search to see what's available in your loca...
Contact: Stroke Association, Stroke House, 240 City Road, London, EC1V 2PR.
Vision Call
Home Visit
We provide a free home eye test delivered to you in your home or care home by our highly trained and dedicated team of home visit opticians, optometrists, dispensing opticians and optical assistants, with full&...
Contact: Visioncall, 125 Cambuslang Road, Cambuslang, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G32 8NB.
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Editor's note: Very interesting election analysis regardless of which side you are on. Shows the differences between McCain and Romney's efforts in their respective run for President again Obama.
President Obama carried fewer states than he did four years ago. He won a second term by dominating the nation's large urban areas — although mostly by smaller margins compared to his 2008 vote totals.
To view interactive maps for each state, by county, for 2008 and 2012 click here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/obama-better-or-worse/?hpid=z3


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Sarcoma Research
Clinical studies are an essential step in the development of novel treatment methods for cancer and other diseases. Especially in rare cancers like sarcomas, clinical studies are an important component of treatment concepts, because here the standard forms of therapy are often limited.
Fostering Age Inclusive Research: SPAEN supports the Accelerate Working Group
Research into teenage and young adult cancers has made slower progress than for any other age group. One reason is that many clinical trials exclude patients under eighteen on the basis of age alone, with no other justification. Many of these cancers are sarcomas.
SPAEN is supporting the Accelerate Working Group on Fostering Age Inclusive Research (or FAIR Trials) which has been established to campaign for inclusion. You can find out about the group's work and what you can do to help here.
SPAEN calls on researchers, regulators, and members of ethics committees to consider adolescent inclusion in adult research when relevant as a trial methodology which offers earlier access to investigational and approved medicines for adolescent patients.
Please find more information about clinical studies in general and their importance, study groups and a selection of currently open sarcoma studies in this section.