Since he wasn?t being asked to rush the passer last season, Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan ballooned up to 300 pounds.
But now that he has a coach who trusts him, and needs him, a slimmed down Jordan is beginning to justify the first-round pick they spent on him.
?It?s awesome to be able to have the trust from the coaches to be able to do all these positions,? Jordan told Alex Marvez of FoxSports.com.
Jordan might be the one qualified pass-rushing defensive lineman to truly fit into defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo?s system in New Orleans, and he?s getting plenty of chances.
Pigeonholed a year ago as a run-stopper only, and subbed out on third downs, Jordan bulked up.
?Halfway through the season, it was like, ?I?m going to be stuck in this role, I?m going to hit somebody in the mouth [on running plays],? Jordan said. ?I don?t need to worry about pass rush anymore. It was a bitter moment.?
But unlike former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, Spagnuolo isn?t going to blitz as much, wanting to get all his pressure from his front four.
And he?s using the now-285-pound Jordan all along the front four to try to get some push, the way Spagnuolo used to use Justin Tuck and Osi Umenyiora in New York.
?Everyone has comparisons of what I could be or can do,? Jordan said. ?It?s more along the lines of, ?What do our coaches think I can do now???
He leads all NFL defensive linemen in tackle. That?s partly because the Saints can?t get off the field, allowing the fourth-most plays from scrimmage in the league. But he?s also been noticeable in his impact, something that wasn?t being said last year.
CHICAGO, Sept. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --?Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa addressed an historic gathering of hundreds of Teamster local unions and school bus members today in Chicago at the 2012 Teamsters School Bus Workers Congress.
"There is a war on workers being waged by anti-worker politicians and employers, but Teamsters are fighting back. We've built a movement of school bus workers across North America who are gaining the respect, dignity and working conditions that they deserve," Hoffa said.
Hoffa noted the unprecedented success of the Teamsters' Drive Up Standards campaign, which has brought 35,000 drivers, monitors, aides and mechanics into the union since 2006.
The 2012 Teamsters School Bus Workers Congress is a two-day event that brings together Teamster local union representatives and school bus workers to participate in a national dialogue, learn more about the industry and the Teamsters' role in driving up standards, all in preparation for a year of increased activity.
Rick Middleton, International Vice President and Chair of the Teamsters national school bus campaign, pointed to the union's success in protecting workers' rights at First Student as having laid the groundwork for other private, multinational school bus companies.
"It wasn't easy. We spent many years raising our concerns about the discrepancies between the way workers were treated in the U.K. and in North America. Global corporations appear to have different standards in their home countries and become bad actors when they enter the North American market," Middleton said. "Our allies in the U.K. and throughout Europe helped us illuminate the need for a real policy to protect workers' rights, and today more than 21,000 men and women are protected by a national agreement with First Student."
John T. Coli, International Vice President and President of Teamsters Joint Council 25, welcomed the Congress attendees to Chicago, and also gave a warm welcome to the newest Teamster members?the 270 Alpha School Bus drivers and attendants in Crestwood, Ill., who joined Teamsters Local 777 in an election held Friday night. Alpha School Bus is one of 14 Cook-Illinois Corporation subsidiaries.
"Illinois workers want and need strong union representation. We've organized 4,000 workers over the past six years at First Student, Cook-Illinois, Illinois Central, Latino Express and a number of other private school bus companies," Coli said. "By working together, at all levels of our union, and with the hardworking men and women who transport our children, we are transforming this industry for the better."
School bus workers from a number of companies spoke about current conditions in the school bus industry, detailing contract wins, organizing successes and legislative initiatives that impact school bus workers nationwide.
Terry Riley, a driver with Durham School Services in Albuquerque, N.M., is currently working with his 200 coworkers to join the Teamsters.
"We are treated at our companies like we are the problem, not like we are part of the solution. I am here to thank the Teamsters for their Drive Up Standards school bus campaign because it gives us hope. We are the 99% and we have to stand up and speak up," Riley said.
The national gathering of Teamsters looked at workers' rights abuses and safety issues at National Express Group, parent company to Durham in the U.S. and Stock Transportation in Canada.
The event hosted global partner delegates from Teamsters sister union "Unite the Union" in the U.K. and the International Transport Workers' Federation, in preparation for Teamster efforts at National Express in the coming year.
Other speakers and supporters in attendance include Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora); Bobby Morton, National Officer for Transport, Unite the Union (U.K.); Mac Urata, Inland Transport Secretary, International Transport Workers' Federation; Rev. C.J. Hawking, Executive Director, ARISE Chicago; and Kim Bobo, Executive Director, Interfaith Worker Justice.
"We have so much to be proud of. We've built a movement of school bus workers across North America, and working together, we are an unstoppable force for change. We have an exciting year ahead," Hoffa said.?
For more information on the Drive Up Standards campaign, go to www.driveupstandards.org.
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) ? A new study reveals that cognitive therapy over the phone is just as effective as meeting face-to-face. The research was published September 28, in the journal PLoS ONE.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge together with the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care (NIHR CLAHRC) and NHS Midlands & East also found that providing talking therapy over the phone increases access to psychological therapies for people with common mental disorders and potentially saves the NHS money.
For the study, data from 39,000 patients in seven established Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services (an initiative which aims to expand the availability of psychological therapies) in the East of England were used to compare Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) delivered face-to-face versus over the phone. For all but an infrequent, identifiable clinical group with more severe illness, therapy over the phone was as effective as face to face, and the cost per session was 36.2% lower.
Patients may be unable to access health services due to transport problems, work commitments and physical disability, among many reasons. So increasing availability of talking therapies over the phone will make mental health services more accessible to patients.
On the back of the study results, NHS Midlands & East has instigated a regional training programme to standardise service delivery and ensure therapists are competent at phone contacts. The training programme has recently been extended into a partnership with a third party organisation.
Professor Peter Jones, Principal Investigator of the study from the University of Cambridge, said: "Providing therapy over the phone will not only help individuals gain much-needed access to mental health treatment, it will provide a more cost effective way of providing these services at a time when everyone is concerned about cutting costs."
Mental health illnesses affect one in four adults in Britain every year. Additionally, the NHS spends more on mental health than it does on cancer, heart disease, stroke and asthma put together (a total of ?9.95 billion in 2010-2011), with general practitioners spending more than a third of their time on mental health issues.
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We all know smoking is just a bad habit. Actually smokers know that smoking is a bad practice. They?re also conscious of the dangerous aftereffects of cigarettes not merely to themselves but to the people around them. Nevertheless, most smokers are quite impervious to the feelings of others. You can view them lighting up their cigarettes with their Zippo lighters anywhere that will let them with total disregard to the people around them. Certainly, there ought to be some kind of smokers? etiquette to be followed. After all, everyone?s health and wellbeing is at stake.Is Smoke-free Really Clear Of Smoke?For recent years, anti-smoking strategies have already been modern ? at least, in some however, not all public places. Most towns all around the world have since restricted smoking in public areas transport, interior facilities like museums, restaurants and centers, and libraries. Nevertheless, smokers are still smoking cigarettes with their Zippo lighters in street cafes, areas, and pubs since these are areas visited by smokers. What most regulations did not consider could be the fact that non-smokers also frequent these places, if perhaps to breathe oxygen. That is made impossible by the number of Zippo lighters smoking cigarettes in every direction.Indeed, anti-smoking propaganda must be increased to force smokers to conform to good etiquette and not require others in their unsavory routine. Outside places must certanly be reported smoke-free. There must be right partitions between smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants to avoid smoke from coming up to one other side. There must be restaurants, bars, and rooms dedicated to smokers where they and their Zippo lighters can gather and destroy one another, and leave the healthier population out of it.In Good CompanyOf program, being in the business of a can never be avoided, especially if they are a family member, pal, or co-worker. Short of getting them into quarantine, smokers should follow specific decorum when in the presence of a non-smoker.For instance, smoking paraphernalia like cigarettes, Zippo matches, and cigarette cases should be kept out of view while the smoker and the non-smoker are engaged in meals. A smoker shouldn?t be allowed to light within 6 feet of a non-smoker. A smoker must have the decency to leave the area and head to the nearest smoke-friendly area before smoking cigarettes with Zippo lighters. In this manner, the smoker just jeopardizes himself and not the lives of the people around him.Non-smokers also have to do their parts. After all, smokers will not be aware of your feelings or will at least continue steadily to ignore it until you do something about it. Remember that your silence is reassurance. Smokers will continue steadily to smoke and be unmindful of your thoughts should you choose not speak up. Put your foot down once and for all and you?ll discover that most smokers are good enough to put away their cigarettes and Zippo lighters for you, at least, until you are no further in the immediate vicinity. And that should be sufficient. All things considered, negative habits die hard.
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An old insect pest reemerges in organic orchardsPublic release date: 28-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
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A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management offers information and methods of managing the apple flea weevil
The apple flea weevil, a sporadic insect pest in the early 1900s, has reemerged as a severe pest in organic apple orchards in Michigan, where outbreak population levels have been observed since 2008, and damage has resulted in up to 90% losses for apple growers.
According to the authors of "The Reemergence of an Old Pest, Orchestes pallicornis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)," an open-access article appearing in the lastest issue of the Journal of Integrated Pest Management, the weevil can be managed by broad-spectrum insecticides used in conventional agriculture, but there are currently no proven management options for use in organic production. And, as broad-spectrum materials are replaced by reduced-risk compounds, it is possible that the apple flea weevil will increasingly become an important pest in apple production.
The apple flea weevil is a small, 2-3 millimeter black weevil with enlarged high legs for jumping. Adults feed on buds and leaves, and the larvae are leaf miners.
In the article, the authors discuss the apple flea weevil's biology and the damage it does to plants, as well as methods for growers to monitor and manage them.
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The Journal of Integrated Pest Management is an open-access, peer-reviewed, extension journal covering the field of integrated pest management. The intended readership for the journal is any professional who is engaged in any aspect of integrated pest management, including, but not limited to, crop producers, individuals working in crop protection, retailers, manufacturers and suppliers of pest management products, educators, and pest control operators.
JIPM is published by the Entomological Society of America (ESA), the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and people in related disciplines. Founded in 1889, ESA today has more than 6,000 members affiliated with educational institutions, health agencies, private industry, and government. Members are students, researchers, teachers, extension service personnel, administrators, marketing representatives, research technicians, consultants, and hobbyists. For more information, please visit http://www.entsoc.org.
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An old insect pest reemerges in organic orchardsPublic release date: 28-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Richard Levine rlevine@entsoc.org 301-731-4535 Entomological Society of America
A new, open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management offers information and methods of managing the apple flea weevil
The apple flea weevil, a sporadic insect pest in the early 1900s, has reemerged as a severe pest in organic apple orchards in Michigan, where outbreak population levels have been observed since 2008, and damage has resulted in up to 90% losses for apple growers.
According to the authors of "The Reemergence of an Old Pest, Orchestes pallicornis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)," an open-access article appearing in the lastest issue of the Journal of Integrated Pest Management, the weevil can be managed by broad-spectrum insecticides used in conventional agriculture, but there are currently no proven management options for use in organic production. And, as broad-spectrum materials are replaced by reduced-risk compounds, it is possible that the apple flea weevil will increasingly become an important pest in apple production.
The apple flea weevil is a small, 2-3 millimeter black weevil with enlarged high legs for jumping. Adults feed on buds and leaves, and the larvae are leaf miners.
In the article, the authors discuss the apple flea weevil's biology and the damage it does to plants, as well as methods for growers to monitor and manage them.
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The full article is available for free at http://tinyurl.com/8rr3g2z.
The Journal of Integrated Pest Management is an open-access, peer-reviewed, extension journal covering the field of integrated pest management. The intended readership for the journal is any professional who is engaged in any aspect of integrated pest management, including, but not limited to, crop producers, individuals working in crop protection, retailers, manufacturers and suppliers of pest management products, educators, and pest control operators.
JIPM is published by the Entomological Society of America (ESA), the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and people in related disciplines. Founded in 1889, ESA today has more than 6,000 members affiliated with educational institutions, health agencies, private industry, and government. Members are students, researchers, teachers, extension service personnel, administrators, marketing representatives, research technicians, consultants, and hobbyists. For more information, please visit http://www.entsoc.org.
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This undated image provided by Facebook shows a new service called Gifts which, as its name suggests, lets users send chocolate, coffee, socks and other real-life presents to one another. Facebook Gifts will be available Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, to a subset of users in the U.S. and will roll out to more over the coming months as people begin to send gifts to each other. (AP Photo/Facebook)
This undated image provided by Facebook shows a new service called Gifts which, as its name suggests, lets users send chocolate, coffee, socks and other real-life presents to one another. Facebook Gifts will be available Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, to a subset of users in the U.S. and will roll out to more over the coming months as people begin to send gifts to each other. (AP Photo/Facebook)
This undated image provided by Facebook shows a new service called Gifts which, as its name suggests, lets users send chocolate, coffee, socks and other real-life presents to one another. Facebook Gifts will be available Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, to a subset of users in the U.S. and will roll out to more over the coming months as people begin to send gifts to each other. (AP Photo/Facebook)
This undated image provided by Facebook shows a new service called Gifts which, as its name suggests, lets users send chocolate, coffee, socks and other real-life presents to one another. Facebook Gifts will be available Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, to a subset of users in the U.S. and will roll out to more over the coming months as people begin to send gifts to each other. (AP Photo/Facebook)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Facebook is rolling out a service called Gifts which, as its name suggests, lets users send chocolate, coffee, socks and other real-life presents to one another.
Facebook Gifts launched Thursday to a subset of users in the U.S. and will roll out to more over the coming months as people begin to send gifts to each other.
Users will be able to click on a "gifts" icon on their Facebook friends' pages on Facebook's website or on Android mobile phones. (IPhone and iPad versions are coming soon.)
The icon will also show up on the right side of users' Facebook pages with the notifications for friends' birthdays, weddings and other life events. For example, if your friend's birthday is coming up in two days, you'll now see a "give her a gift" link and the gift icon next to her name and photo.
Clicking the icon will display presents you can buy, such as a Starbucks gift card, cupcakes or a teddy bear.
The recipient will be notified through Facebook to enter a shipping address for the presents. In some cases, they'll be able to select their own cupcake flavors or size and style of socks. They can also exchange gifts for other items if they don't like chocolate or don't wear socks.
The move represents Facebook Inc.'s first real foray into e-commerce. The company will take an unspecified cut from each item sold. On Thursday, possible gifts included gourmet ice cream, Andy Warhol prints, flowers, organic dog toys and spa packages.
Facebook Gifts is the result of Facebook's acquisition of Karma, a 16-person startup based in San Francisco. Facebook bought the company on May 18, the day of its rocky initial public offering. Karma's mobile app let people send gifts to their friends on the go. Facebook Gifts, of course, works both on computers and mobile devices.
Lee Linden, the former head of Karma, is now head product manager for Facebook Gifts, which he says incorporates "the heart and soul of the Karma experience."
"We think gifting is a form of communication," he said.
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Like clockwork, Larry Laden has yearly prostate checks. During his last check up, he received news no one wants to hear.
?I?ve got this prostate cancer and I want it gone," Laden said.
Larry had surgery, which for him was a no-brainer because of the yearly tests that screen for prostate cancer, called a PSA test.
While it was Larry?s choice, the tests have recently caught some controversy.
?The PSA is not a perfect test,? urologist Dr. Brett Baker said. ?It?s a good test. It?s a screening tool.?
According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, the test can give false alarms, and with it, unnecessary biopsies. When the cancer is found, treatments can leave men impotent, even though their cancers were not life threatening.
?As an urologist and a person who is treating prostate cancer, sitting down with patients, I definitely see the value in PSAs,? Dr. Baker said.
So does Larry.
?I didn?t have any symptoms. The cancer is just in there, growing along, so far as I know, the only way to check on that is a PSA,? he said.
Doctors say the PSA is the one test out there to check for and catch prostate cancer early. By the time a patient sees the doctor with symptoms, the cancer is already advanced. For Larry, the test is a life saver.
?It is easy, it?s a couple of minutes with the doc, a blood draw, you?re good for a year,? he said.
Now, Larry is cancer-free and credits the test -- warts and all -- for saving his life.
Dr. Baker says if you have a family history of prostate cancer, begin yearly screenings at 40 years old, if not, start at age 50.
We'll have to give it to AT&T for going with something a wee bit different than what we're accustomed to seeing in the world of handy MiFis -- but with touchscreens apparently being a thing nowadays, it also shouldn't surprise us that the company chose to go this route. Either way, the newly introduced MiFi Liberate will surely be of help to those who need to stay connected while on the go, offering features such as LTE connectivity (provided the network's live in the area, of course), simultaneous pairing of up to 10 WiFi devices, 11-hour battery life, a microSD slot, DLNA capabilities and, as you can see above, a 2.8-inch touchscreen display. Unfortunately, the carrier didn't say when we can expect the Liberate to be up for grabs (or for how much), with a company representative only telling us that it'll be at some point "in the coming months." While we wait for those details, however, feel free to check out the extra pic located just past the break.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is ready to provide facilities at its state of the art National Cricket Academy (NCA) to train and groom players of associate members of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC).
A PCB official, demanding anonymity, said the board had completed its homework to provide the facilities on demand to countries like China, Bahrain, Iran and Maldives, reports Xinhua.
"PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf extended offer to the ACC associate members and PCB would provide all kind of support to improve skills of their players at our training academies," said the official.
Pakistan established the NCA in February 2003 in Lahore with the purpose of meeting international training standards by producing quality players, coaches and supporting staff through scientific methods and techniques.
Ashraf extended this offer during the meeting of the ACC Development Committee in Islamabad on Monday which was called in to discuss the development aspects of the sports in the region.
According to a source, the participants of the meeting discussed ongoing plans and future programmes for the game's development in the region.
During the meeting, ACC members also stressed that Pakistan and Indian cricket boards should come forward to promote the game in the region.
A numbers of players from China and Afghanistan have been taking training and coaching from Pakistani coaches, both at home and abroad.
Afghanistan, under a Pakistani coach, played at the T20 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka, the second time after 2010 in West Indies.
Pakistan has also invited ACC members to play in Pakistan as an attempt to revive international cricket, suspended since the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in March 2009.
Tajikistan and Cambodia have also submitted applications to join the affiliate members' pool that already has 11 countries, including China, Bahrain, Iran and Maldives.
The PCB chairman said at the meeting that China has 71 coaches of level-I and 10 coaches of level-II coaches.
A manhunt for a 73-year-old diabetic wanted for murder entered its fourth day Thursday as authorities in Rockland County, N.Y., looked for proof that their suspect was even in the state park they were searching.
"The woods are too thick for a general sweep," Haverstraw Police Chief Charles Miller said. "There are so many places to hide ... [Or] he could have made it to a road and gotten picked up by somebody, and he could be staying elsewhere."
Eugene Palmer, of Haverstraw, is accused of killing his estranged daughter-in-law, Tammy Palmer, 39, who lived in a trailer 50 feet from his house, The New York Times reported.?His sister, Elaine Babcock, said he stopped by her nearby home Monday morning, gave her money for his property taxes, and then told her that he had killed Palmer before asking her to wait an hour before calling police.
But Babcock immediately called 911, The Journal News in New York's Hudson Valley reported. Officers said a separate 911 caller heard three gunshots coming from the home; they found Tammy Palmer, who has two teenage sons with Eugene's son, dead on the ground behind her trailer, NBCNewYork.com reported.
Authorities have been combing the thick woods of the 46,000-acre Harriman State Park, which spans Rockland County and Orange County, in their search for Palmer. They believe Palmer is armed with at least one shotgun; at a news conference at the state park on Wednesday, Haverstraw Police Chief Miller said there is also "a lone rifle missing from his house. I don't know if he has that."
So far, clues have been sparse in the manhunt for Palmer. On Tuesday, authorities found Palmer's abandoned pickup truck at Harriman State Park, The Journal News reported. And on Wednesday, police said dogs followed his scent to leftovers of a campfire close to the truck in an area of the park known as the Irish Potato Trail, but they lost his scent afterwards, Miller said in Wednesday's news conference.
About 30 officers from Haverstraw were looking for Palmer on Wednesday, and authorities from nearby jurisdictions were also participating. The Department of Defense was sending infrared helicopters to track Palmer's body heat, Miller told reporters.
His family does not know whether Palmer, who is a diabetic and who suffered a heart attack about a year ago, brought any medication with him.
"I'm hopeful he is still alive," Miller said, adding police would like to "hear his side of the story."
Part of what makes the search difficult is Palmer's familiarity with the area. According to New York Times, Palmer was known as a loner to his neighbors. He would frequently go into the woods to camp and hunt on his own.
Palmer's dislike for his daughter-in-law was obvious to family members.
"He's been trying to look out for the kids, and her being a mother, didn't want him butting in. But him being a grandfather, thought it was his place, so they started to aggravate and annoy each other," his sister, Babcock, said, according to NBCNewYork.com. She said the feuding also was related to marital problems between Tammy and Palmer's son.
Tammy Palmer and John Palmer had been married for about 17 years, John Pannirello, Tammy's father, told The New York Times, but they separated five months ago, and in the past few weeks, they had been in a custody battle over the kids.?
?He?s very coldhearted,? Pannirello told The Times of Eugene Palmer. ?The detective says he won?t be surprised if something goes on between us and him, if he has guns with him. I just have a bad, bad feeling.??
Haverstraw police confirmed on Thursday they were still searching for Palmer, but said they would provide more details on Thursday's efforts later in the day.
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Five years ago my friend (let's call her Jane) discovered her husband (let's call him Steve) was having an affair with a colleague.For a few weeks, their marriage teetered on the brink. Jane was shocked at Steve's "betrayal", uncertain whether she could ever trust him again. Everything ? including the future for the couple's two children ? hung in the balance.This week I met Jane for lunch... and what a difference five years has made. She's happy, fulfilled, forging ahead with an important work project.She and Steve have just had a holiday ? deux and their marriage seems unshakeable.But Steve still sometimes sees his other lover. And what's more, Jane now has an extramarital love interest, too. "We've got a new arrangement," is how Jane explains it. "Sometimes I think it's complicated ? at other times, it seems ridiculously easy. Basically, we sat down and worked out that we're really happy with what we've got together ? a lovely home, three gorgeous kids, fulfilling jobs. But we've been honest about the fact that we sometimes need a bit more."Rewriting the rules around marriage, as Steve and Jane have done, is catching on, and there's a spate of new books and movies out to prove it: books that aim to unpick why we can't be more imaginative in the ways we live out our long-term relationships and films such as Hope Springs that seek to remind us that a long-term relationship doesn't have to dissolve into a stale and lonely old age.Psychologist and relationship therapist Meg Barker is the author of Rewriting the Rules (Routledge), out this month. She says there are several differences in today's long-term committed relationships that underpin the need for change. "Number one is that people are living to be a lot older ? so a long-term relationship is a much longer deal," she says. "And another thing that's changed is expectations: we require so much more from a relationship than people did in the past."There's been a huge growth in the recent past of this idea that you need one perfect relationship; that you will get everything from it ? romance and children and financial stability and friendship and a great sex life. No other generation had such huge hopes invested in just one relationship and it is an enormous ask."An enormous ask that, more and more, is prompting people to wonder if the time has come to dismantle the scaffolding that holds marriage together and to look at whether it couldn't be constructed in another way. Because perhaps the over-expectations we've come to invest in marriage have made the scaffolding too shaky: maybe the time has inevitably come to realise that, as a society, we've been piling too much weight onto just one frame.That's certainly how social scientist Catherine Hakim sees it: and her take is that it's Anglo-Saxons who are worst at loading the weights onto marriage and then watching as it wobbles under the strain. No surprise, she argues in her new book The New Rules: Internet Dating, Playfairs and Erotic Power (Gibson Square Books), that it's Britons and Americans who have the highest divorce rates on the planet ? because these nations are also the ones whose citizens have the highest (and, she would argue, the most unrealistic) expectations of the institution itself.More than 90 per cent of Americans and 80 per cent of Britons condemn extramarital affairs as wrong, compared with just two in five people in Italy and France.And guess what, says Hakim: in Italy and France, divorce is far less common. "There is no assumption [in these countries] that spouses must fulfil all of each other's needs, all of the time, exclusively," she explains.Hakim's take is that affairs happen ? and when they do, couples (especially in Britain and America) are using sledgehammers to crack nuts. That's what, she would say, a couple like Jane and Steve would have done if they'd ended their marriage five years ago. At root, their relationship is fine: not perfect (but who, and what, is?), but happy enough, and friendly enough, and even sexy enough, and certainly functional enough to make a safe home for their children to grow up in. How tragic it would have been, Hakim would say, if a couple like Jane and Steve had chosen to unravel all that in the midst of what was, all said and done, a difficult chapter in their relationship ? but one which, with some straight talking and broad thinking, they were able to work through.The French perspective on affairs is very different: the attitude there is more philosophical and more tolerant. "Affairs are not actively recommended, but they are not prohibited either," says Hakim in her book. Contrast the UK, where (despite the fact that affairs are very common), the language around them is loaded with negativity (think "cheating", "dishonesty", "love rat"). When Jane heard of Steve's extramarital relationship, she felt "betrayed": but why, exactly, did it have to be a betrayal? Relationship psychotherapist Paula Hall of Relate agrees with much of the logic of Hakim and Barker. Her line is that if anyone thinks there's a safe place in a marriage, they're kidding themselves: marriage, like everything else in life, is risky."Monogamy has its risks ? boredom being the main one ? and an open marriage has its risks, too, in the form of jealousy, feelings of rejection and so on," she says."But there are real differences in the landscape of a marriage these days and they're about the internet and opportunities for meeting people as well as in how great our individual expectations are. So we are the generation that can move the boundaries here and look again at how to draw up what a marriage is about," she says.It's even possible, she ventures, that monogamy has played out its usefulness to humankind. "Some experts argue that, from an evolutionary perspective, we simply don't need monogamy as much as human beings did in the past," she says.The key thread that runs through Barker's book and Hakim's, through Hall's words of wisdom and through Hope Springs, is that flexibility ? always an important component of a long-term marriage ? is even more essential today than in the past. Marriage ? certainly where children are concerned ? is well worth fighting for: but to win the war, tactics and manoeuvres that once would have been out of the question could need to be deployed.? Independent
Yes, no Republican has won without Ohio, but it is doable, and polls show the state is looking increasingly out of reach for Mitt Romney, who might be better off spending his time in Florida.
By Liz Marlantes,?Correspondent / September 25, 2012
Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan waves to supporters from a bus, Monday, Sept. 24, at the Veterans Memorial Civic & Convention Center in Lima, Ohio.
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Should Mitt Romney really be spending any more of what little time he has left in Ohio??
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The Monitor's Liz Marlantes looks at the potential electoral-college math post-convention to see which candidate might be in a better position.
We ask this as Mr. Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, embark on a three-day bus tour in the Buckeye State (actually, it?s a three-day tour for Mr. Ryan; Mr. Romney is joining the tour a day late).
Yes, Ohio has long been seen as critical for Romney. At this point, anyone and everyone who follows politics can probably recite the mantra: ?No Republican has won the White House without winning Ohio."?And it?s true that pulling out of Ohio would likely be interpeted as a sign of bigger troubles for the Romney campaign.
But at some point in every election, it becomes clear that certain states regarded as "tossups" are probably lost causes for one candidate or the other. And for some time now, Ohio has not looked good for Romney. President Obama has held a lead in the Buckeye State for many months, and recent polls show that lead is growing. A new Washington Post poll out Tuesday has Obama up in Ohio by eight points ? prompting The Post?s political blog "The Fix" to move the state from ?tossup? to ?lean Obama.?
The reasons behind Ohio?s more Obama-friendly environment range from the auto bailout (which remains popular in a state where one out of eight workers is employed in auto-related jobs) to the fact that Ohio?s economy is actually in better shape than the nation?s as a whole. Romney has also failed miserably at telegraphing the kind of cultural populism that has traditionally boosted Republican candidates among Ohio?s white, working class voters.
All of which makes us wonder if we've reached a point where Romney should just cut his losses and move on? Forget about Ohio, and focus like a laser on the remaining states that polls show he can ? and, in fact, absolutely must ? win. By which we mostly mean: Florida.
You see, Romney can still win without Ohio. It wouldn?t be easy, but it?s technically doable (he would have to win Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire - all states where current polls show Romney behind, but none of which look quite as bad for him as Ohio). But take Florida out of the equation for Romney, and the math becomes nearly impossible. (Without Florida, Romney has to win all the states listed above, plus Wisconsin, which is looking more and more uphill for him, plus, of course, Ohio ? which brings us back to where we started.)
Right now, polls show Romney is also behind in Florida, but not by much ? Tuesday's Washington Post poll shows Obama with a four-point lead. And unlike Ohio, where Obama has been strong pretty much throughout the campaign, Florida has actually had Romney in the lead at different times. It?s not hard to envision him regaining an edge there again.
Bottom line: with just over 40 days to go before Election Day, the Romney campaign needs to think hard about how ? and where ??they?re spending every hour and every dollar. Evidence suggests that these three days in Ohio might be better spent elsewhere.?
NEW YORK (AP) ? Encouraging reports on the housing market and consumer confidence gave the stock market a nudge in early Tuesday trading.
The closely watched Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller index of national house prices increased 1.2 percent in July compared with the same month in 2011. Prices rose from June in all 20 major cities tracked by the report. It's the third straight month that prices rose in every city.
A half-hour after the opening bell, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 52 points to 13,610. Home Depot led the 30 stocks in the Dow, gaining 1 percent. The Standard & Poor's 500 index added five points to 1,462.
The Conference Board said its gauge of consumer confidence shot to a seven-month high in September, trumping forecasts by a large margin. People surveyed said they were more optimistic about the job market.
In other trading, the Nasdaq composite index added 10 points to 3,170. Google's stock touched an all-time high in early trading, clearing $758.
Carnival Corp. jumped 3 percent after the cruise-ship company posted better earnings than analysts had expected Tuesday morning. Its stock rose $1.19 to $38.19.
All three major stock indexes have surged this month, buoyed by a new plan from the Federal Reserve to support the sluggish U.S. economy. Both the Dow and the S&P 500, the benchmark for most stock funds, have gained almost 4 percent.
A sea of red ink is confronting the nation and presidents to come.
The budget deficit ? the shortfall created when the government spends more in a given year than it collects in taxes and fees? is on track to top $1 trillion for the fourth straight year. When there's not enough to pay current bills, the government borrows, mostly by selling interest-bearing Treasury bonds, bills and notes to investors and governments worldwide. It now borrows about 40 cents for every dollar it spends.
The national debt refers to the total amount the federal government owes; the deficit is just a one-year slice.
The U.S. has been borrowing since the 1700s, when it needed money to finance the American Revolution. The outstanding debt has since risen to a shade over $16 trillion. While there's plenty of finger-pointing by politicians over who's to blame, deficits historically surge during wars and deep recessions, and the U.S. has had both over the past decade.
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Where they stand:
President Barack Obama has proposed bringing deficits down by slowing spending gradually, to avoid suddenly tipping the economy back into recession. To help, he would raise taxes on households earning over $250,000 annually and impose a surcharge of 30 percent on those making over $1 million.
He acknowledges his spending on recession-fighting stimulus, tax relief and bailout programs ? much of it started under former President George W. Bush ? has contributed to the deficit. But so have bipartisan agreements to extend Bush-era tax cuts, and paying for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Also raising deficits: a falloff in tax revenues as more people found themselves out of work and personal and corporate incomes sagged in the deepest downturn since the Great Depression.
Republican candidate Mitt Romney would lower deficits mostly through deep spending cuts, including some of the reductions proposed by his conservative running mate Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Budget Committee. But many of the cuts they're pushing would be partially negated by their proposals to lower top tax rates on both corporations and individuals.
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Why it matters:
Deficits and debt are important because it's never good to spend more than you make for too long. The party out of power always makes deficits a big issue against the one holding the White House ? as Democrats did in 2008 and Republicans are doing now.
Leaders of both parties agree the burden will become unsustainable if borrowing is not reined in while interest obligations keep rising. But huge policy differences exist over how to balance the budget or at least trim deficits to manageable levels ? whether through spending cuts, tax increases or a mix.
Obama and Democrats tend to favor a combination, while Republicans mostly want just spending cuts, although Romney and Ryan say they'd also end some tax deductions and close loopholes ? without specifying which ones.
Congress sets a ceiling on how much the government can borrow. If this debt limit is breached, the government will default on its obligations. This has never happened, but it almost did last summer in a Capitol Hill standoff. As a consequence, the nation's credit rating was downgraded for the first time ever.
The current $16.4 trillion debt limit will be reached late this year or early next. A slew of tax breaks will expire at the same time.
No matter who wins, he'll immediately have his hands full.
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Virtually every hospital has a doctor on staff that is known for practicing bad medicine but his peers don't call him on it. And the body count from medical mistakes made in American hospitals would fill four jumbo jets a week, according to an essay by noted surgeon Martin Makary that appeared this past weekend in the Wall Street Journal.
Makary is on staff at Johns Hopkins Hospital and previously wrote the groundbreaking book "The Checklist Manifesto," which contained a series of simple guidelines aimed at stopping surgical mistakes and which were later adopted by the World Health Organization. His new book is "Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care."
In his essay this weekend in the Journal Makary says there is a "disturbing closed door culture" in American medicine and that doctors in hospitals routinely cover up or ignore the mistakes of colleagues. As often as 40 times a week across the country a surgeon operates on the wrong body part, he writes.
"Roughly a quarter of all hospitalized patients will be harmed by a medical error of some kind. If medical errors were a disease, they would be the sixth leading cause of death in America?just behind accidents and ahead of Alzheimer's," Makary says in his essay. "The human toll aside, medical errors cost the U.S. health-care system tens of billions a year. Some 20% to 30% of all medications, tests and procedures are unnecessary, according to research done by medical specialists, surveying their own fields. What other industry misses the mark this often?"
The solution he writes, is for health care consumers to become better at checking into the background of their doctors and for the medical community itself to hold each accountable.
In Connecticut there has a been a decline in the number of uninsured people. From 2010 to 2011 the number of people with health insurance rose from 256.6 million to 260.2 million.?
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At the first big red carpet event of the award season, stars donned bold colors and sophisticated designs in the sweltering heat at television's Emmy Awards on Sunday.
Bright yellow was a popular choice on the red carpet among the younger starlets and veteran actresses, including Julianne Moore (in full-length Christian Dior haute couture), "Homeland" star Claire Danes (in strapless, draped Lanvin), Leslie Mann (in yellow and white Naeem Khan), "Modern Family" Emmy winner Julie Bowen (in Monique Lhuillier), "New Girl" actress Hannah Simone (in asymmetric Pucci) and "Big Bang Theory's" Kaley Cuoco (in a strapless peplum Angel Sanchez).
"It would definitely get an award for bringing the dead back to life in its color," Bowen said of her dress backstage after winning the Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy. "It was bold for me, but it's a classic shape."
Hal Rubenstein, fashion director at InStyle magazine, praised the bold color choices and selected Julianne Moore's full-length yellow Dior couture gown as his favorite.
"On one hand, it recalls the best of Dior, and yet it was mixed through with all the modernity that (designer) Raf Simons brought to the house of Jil Sander and now will bring to the house of Dior," Rubenstein said.
Despite an unseasonably hot September day with temperatures hovering near 90 degrees, actresses managed to look cool in blue, white and grey gowns.
"New Girl" star and nominee Zooey Deschanel wore a pastel blue Reem Acra dress with a full tulle skirt, keeping her hair and makeup simple. Heidi Klum turned out in a turquoise Alexandre Vauthier gown and starlet Hayden Panettiere was attired in a teal and gold asymmetric Marchesa dress.
Pale gray was a hot color for fall, seen on "Revenge" star Emily VanCamp in J Mendel, "Homeland" actress Morena Baccarin in Basil Soda and "Veep" star Anna Chlumsky in Christian Siriano.
Siriano also dressed "Mad Men" bombshell Christina Hendricks in a pale grey-white strapless gown, echoed by 12-year-old "Mad Men" starlet Kiernan Shipka in a pale grey strapless Zac Posen. Lucy Liu shimmered in a fitted, metallic Versace strapless dress.
"The dresses were more influenced by the weather than the trends from the runway for fall. The clothes were actually very bright and sophisticated, there were a lot of ethereal colors and bright colors ... the colors were big, bright and happy," Rubenstein said. "I thought people looked good."
Fashion stylist and expert Sam Saboura was less impressed, saying he was "underwhelmed."
"I thought it was a little subdued. I wasn't blown away by anyone in particular, but key trends tonight were a lot of strapless and A-line dresses," Saboura told Reuters. "Last year we saw a lot of flared gowns hugging the body with mermaid tails, but the A-line was a little softer, a little more relaxed."
Deep red jewel tones also proved popular, with comedian Tina Fey leading a host of stars in a strapless Vivienne Westwood, echoed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Vera Wang, Jena Malone in burgundy J Mendel and "Big Bang Theory" nominee Mayim Bialik in a modest but glamorous Pamella Roland number.
Actress Nicole Kidman in an Antonio Berardi column sheath with blue sequined embellishments had fashionistas and fans split. Saboura said he felt the dress "did not do her justice," while Rubenstein said it was "clean and modern."
Floral prints added interest to the red carpet. Julianna Margulies wore a strapless floral baroque-style Giambattista Valli gown and Ginnifer Goodwin donned a white and red embellished Monique Lhuillier, a choice that Saboura called "interesting."
"There was a lot of sparkle and shine," Saboura said. "I thought it'd be more garish than glamorous, and I thought it was actually understated glamour tonight."
(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Stacey Joyce)
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GOLDSBORO--Passion and praise rang out at the Goldsboro Chapel Free Will Church Sunday morning, all in honor and remembrance of Kennedy McLaurin Jr., the 16-year-old who went missing on September 9. His mother and grandmother describe him as brave and compassionate.
"He was quiet, he was loving and caring, and he loved his family," Ken's mom Kimberly Best said.
"I want my grandson to be remembered for his loving smile and the heart that he had," Ken's grandmother Janice Robinson said.
The McLaurin family said they are at ease since police now have the four suspects in custody. They arrested 21-year-old Leonard Joyner, 19-year-old Jerome Butts, 18-year-old Kevin Smith and 17-year-old Curtis Etheredge in connection with the murder of McLaurin. The family said they are looking forward to finding closure. That's what keeps them coming back to the church where Ken grew up.
"Churches in the area continue to keep the situation on the altar, have posted flyers, and are holding prayer walks," Pastor James Collins said.
"I would like to thank the different churches, and also the community, for helping us and pulling us through," Ken's grandmother Sadie McLaurin said.
As the church and the community continue to comfort the family, Ken's mom shared some advice she knows all to well.
"Pay more attention to your children, pay more attention to what's going on in your house and in your streets," Best said.
Best is celebrating her faith and the life of her 16-year-old son. Three of the four suspects were scheduled to appear in court on Monday, September 24, 2012.
The family said funeral arrangement have not yet been made.
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