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Dear Editor,

It is sad and of serious concern that Guyanese society is experiencing moral decay. ?The behaviour displayed by many Guyanese has drifted far from the norm and is skewed towards severe dysfunction.?For example, many Guyanese are not hesitant to show a lack of consideration for each other, thus resulting in abuse, be it domestic or child abuse or any other form.? A main factor causing this behavioural dysfunction is a lack of education.? As a nation, we place low emphasis on educating our citizens regarding social interaction and our psychological well-being, thus resulting in moral decay. Certainly, the individual and society will experience detrimental consequences when there is a high rate of dysfunction.?Where the individual is concerned, dysfunction causes stress, emotional abuse, substance abuse, suicide, mental health issues and a lower life expectancy.? At the level of society as a whole, dysfunction causes it to decay, impairs economic growth and prosperity, and burdens social resources.?In essence, dysfunction is a recipe for failure and hinders a progressive society.

As a culture, we need to immediately educate our citizens during early childhood.? Early childhood is a critical period of development during which time the superego develops.? The superego controls moral behaviour and is moulded early in life. Therefore, education begins from the home and as well as from the community.?Good parenting and positive community involvement will eliminate dysfunction in Guyanese society.

Yours faithfully,
Annie Baliram

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NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A woman whose gang rape provoked protests and rare national debate about violence against women in India died from her injuries on Saturday, prompting promises of action from a government that has struggled to respond to public outrage.

The unidentified 23-year-old medical student suffered a brain injury and massive internal damage in the attack on December 16 and died in hospital in Singapore where she had been taken for treatment.

Protesters rallied peacefully in the capital New Delhi and other cities across India to keep the pressure on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government to get tougher on crimes against women. That was in contrast to the pitched battles protesters fought with police last weekend.

The six suspects held in connection with the attack on the student on a New Delhi bus were charged with murder following her death, police said. The maximum penalty for murder is death.

Authorities, worried about the reaction to the news of her death, deployed thousands of policemen, closed 10 metro stations and banned vehicles from some main roads in the heart of New Delhi, where demonstrators have converged since the attack to demand improved women's rights.

Despite efforts to cordon off the city centre, more than 1,000 people gathered at two locations. Some protesters shouted for justice, others for the death penalty for the rapists.

Most sex crimes in India go unreported, many offenders go unpunished, and the wheels of justice turn slowly, according to social activists who say that successive governments have done little to ensure the safety of women.

Political leaders vowed steps to correct "shameful social attitudes" towards women in the world's biggest democracy.

"The need of the hour is a dispassionate debate and inquiry into the critical changes that are required in societal attitudes," the prime minister said in a statement.

"I hope that the entire political class and civil society will set aside narrow sectional interests and agenda to help us all reach the end that we all desire - making India a demonstrably better and safer place for women to live in."

REPATRIATION

The woman, beaten, raped and thrown out of a moving bus, had been flown to Singapore in a critical condition by the Indian government on Thursday.

She and her male friend were returning home from the cinema, media reports say, when six men on the bus beat them with metal rods and repeatedly raped the woman. Media said a rod was used in the rape, causing internal injuries. The friend survived.

"She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome," Kelvin Loh, chief executive officer of the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore said in a statement announcing her death from multiple organ failure.

The Indian government has chartered an aircraft to fly her body back to India, along with family members, T.C.A. Raghavan, the Indian high commissioner to Singapore, told reporters.

The body was taken from the hospital to a Hindu undertaker in Singapore and hours later, lying in a gold and yellow coffin selected by Indian diplomats, the body was driven in a hearse to the airport.

The plane took off from Singapore at 1630 GMT and was expected to reach New Delhi around 3 a.m. local time on Sunday (2130 GMT Saturday), the NDTV channel reported on its website citing the High Commissioner.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in the northern Indian city of Lucknow. In Hyderabad, in southern India, a group of women marched to demand severe punishment for the rapists. Protests were also held in the cities of Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai.

"For some reason, and I don't really know why, she got through to us," well-known columnist Nilanjana Roy wrote in a blog on Saturday.

"Our words shriveled in the face of what she'd been subjected to by the six men travelling on that bus, who spent an hour torturing and raping her, savagely beating up her male friend."

GENDER ISSUES

Sonia Gandhi, the powerful leader of the ruling Congress party, directly addressed the protesters in a rare broadcast on state television, saying that as a mother and a woman she understood their grievances.

"Your voice has been heard," Gandhi said. "It deepens our determination to battle the pervasive and the shameful social attitudes that allow men to rape and molest women with such impunity."

The attack has put gender issues centre stage in Indian politics. Issues such as rape, dowry-related deaths and female infanticide have rarely entered mainstream political discourse.

Analysts say the death of the woman dubbed "Amanat", an Urdu word meaning "treasure," by some Indian media could change that, although it is too early to say whether the protesters calling for government action to better safeguard women can sustain their momentum through to national elections due in 2014.

The outcry over the attack caught the government off-guard and it was slow to react. It took a week for Singh to make a statement on the attack, infuriating many protesters who saw it as a sign of a government insensitive to the plight of women.

The prime minister, an 80-year-old technocrat who speaks in a low monotone, has struggled to channel the popular outrage in his public statements and convince critics that his eight-year-old government will take steps to improve the safety of women.

"The Congress managers were ham-handed in their handling of the situation that arose after the brutal assault on the girl. The crowd management was poor," a lawmaker from Singh's ruling Congress party said on condition of anonymity.

Commentators and sociologists say the rape has tapped into a deep well of frustration many Indians feel over what they see as weak governance and poor leadership on social issues.

A global poll by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in June found that India was the worst place to be a woman because of high rates of infanticide, child marriage and slavery.

New Delhi has the highest number of sex crimes among India's major cities, with a rape reported on average every 18 hours, according to police figures. Government data show the number of reported rape cases in the country rose by nearly 17 percent between 2007 and 2011.

For a link to the poll, click http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/special-coverage/g20women/

(Additional reporting by Devidutta Tripathy, Satarupa Bhattacharjya, Diksha Madhok, Shashank Chouhan and Suchitra Mohanty in Delhi, Sharat Pradhan in Lucknow, Sujoy Dhar in Kolkata, Anupama Chandrasekaran in Chennai, Eveline Danubrata, Saeed Azhar, Edgar Su and Sanjeev Miglani in Singapore; Editing by Mark Bendeich, Robert Birsel and Alison Williams)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/india-gang-rape-victim-dies-singapore-hospital-002303027.html

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Military Health Care - $16 Billion

In his last offer to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), President Barack Obama lobbied for $16 billion in cuts from the military's health care program, TRICARE. In 2012, the president also proposed hiking fees for military personnel and veterans who receive benefits under the program in an effort to help cut the defense budget. His proposal drew significant fire from Republican lawmakers and veterans' groups.

Military Retirement Program - $11 Billion

Both sides agreed to cuts from the military retirement program. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) claimed during July 2011 talks that lawmakers had reached a tentative deal to slash <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/fiscal-cliff-talks-medicare-social-security_n_2113259.html" target="_hplink">$11 billion</a>. Under the current system, military personnel receive immediate retirement benefits after serving for 20 years. According to a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office, the appropriation cost per active military service member has <a href="http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43574" target="_hplink">increased at a higher rate</a> than either inflation or the total pay package of private-sector employees. Given the budget constraints looming before the Defense Department, the CBO floated the idea of transitioning the military retirement program to a matching-payment model.

Federal Employee Retirement Program - $33 -$36 Billion

Cantor claimed that Republicans and Democrats had agreed to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/fiscal-cliff-talks-medicare-social-security_n_2113259.html" target="_hplink">$36 billion in savings</a> over 10 years from civilian retirement programs. The president proposed a marginally more modest figure of <a href="http://presspass.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/11/15089281-white-house-grand-bargain-offer-to-speaker-boehner-obtained-by-bob-woodward#.UKCJftkTtS8.twitter" target="_hplink">$33 billion</a> in his final offer to House Speaker John Boehner. Just this year, Republicans in the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform also looked to find savings from the Federal Employee Retirement System by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/house-committee-approves-measure-upping-federal-employee-contributions-to-retirement-plan/2012/04/26/gIQAuoW6iT_blog.html" target="_hplink">requiring employees to pay more of their salary</a> into their pensions, which Democrats opposed as a pay cut that would make civil service less attractive for top talent. In September 2011, the federal government employed <a href="http://www.fedscope.opm.gov/cognos/cgi-bin/ppdscgi.exe?DC=Q&E=/FSe%20-%20Status/Employment%20-%20September%202012&LA=en&LO=en-us&BACK=/cognos/cgi-bin/ppdscgi.exe?toc=%2FFSe%20-%20Status&LA=en&LO=en-us" target="_hplink">over two million individuals</a>, either through the cabinets or independent agencies. Many Republicans have complained that the federal workforce has ballooned during the Obama administration, and while the raw number of employees has risen by <a href="http://www.thefactfile.com/2012/01/23/the-size-of-the-federal-workforce-rapid-growth-for-some-stagnation-for-others/" target="_hplink">14.4 percent</a> between Sept. 2007 and Sept. 2011, the percentage of public employees out of the total civilian workforce has <a href="http://www.thefactfile.com/2012/01/23/the-size-of-the-federal-workforce-rapid-growth-for-some-stagnation-for-others/" target="_hplink">remained fairly constant</a> around 1.2 percent since 2001. Much of the raw growth has been concentrated in the Department of Defense, Veteran's Affairs and Homeland Security.

Agricultural Subsidies - $30 - $33 Billion

Democrats and Republicans agreed to cut as much as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/12/fiscal-cliff-barack-obama-_n_2118739.html" target="_hplink">$30 billion</a> from agricultural subsidies; the main opposition fell along geographical lines rather than partisan ones. Hailing from an agriculture-heavy state, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) threatened to pull out of talks entirely if a deal included that much in subsidy reduction. The president ended up pushing for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/fiscal-cliff-talks-medicare-social-security_n_2113259.html" target="_hplink">$33 billion in cuts</a>, but that figure also included reductions in conservation programs. Baucus now tells HuffPost any cuts should be made through the farm bill, not fiscal cliff talks.

Food Stamps - $2 to $20 Billion

Cantor pushed hard for significant cuts to food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. He charged that the federal government could save as much as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/fiscal-cliff-talks-medicare-social-security_n_2113259.html" target="_hplink">$20 billion over ten years</a> by eliminating waste and fraud, but the White House countered that the real number was closer to $2 billion. Instead, those cuts would force the program to scale back on the number of enrollees and the level of benefits it could offer.

Flood Assistance - $4 Billion

Obama proposed cutting <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/12/fiscal-cliff-barack-obama-_n_2118739.html" target="_hplink">$4 billion from flood assistance</a> funding in his final offer to Boehner in July 2011. But Hurricane Sandy straining the National Flood Insurance Program; The New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/nyregion/federal-flood-insurance-program-faces-new-stress.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_hplink">reports</a> that thousands of claims are being submitted daily, which could send the overall cost upwards of $7 billion for a program that suffers from a ballooning debt problem. And with climate change promising <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/climate-change-predictions-foresaw-hurricane-sandy-scenario-for-new-york-city/2012/10/31/b78de428-2374-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_blog.html" target="_hplink">future flooding disasters</a> along the eastern seaboard, cutting the program looks unwise.

Home Health Care - $50 Billion

The president offered to cut <a href="http://presspass.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/11/15089281-white-house-grand-bargain-offer-to-speaker-boehner-obtained-by-bob-woodward#.UKCJftkTtS8.twitter" target="_hplink">$110 billion over the next decade</a> from the government's health care spending, excluding Medicare. Among the programs that could lose crucial funding is home health care, where Democrats and Republicans agreed to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/fiscal-cliff-talks-medicare-social-security_n_2113259.html" target="_hplink">$50 billion in reductions</a> over ten years. Cantor pushed for closer to $300 billion in spending cuts to health care, but Democrats appeared to stand firm.

Higher Education - $10 Billion

The president proposed cutting <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/12/fiscal-cliff-barack-obama-_n_2118739.html" target="_hplink">$10 billion from higher education</a> over the next decade, mostly from Pell grants. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/pell-grants-college-costs_n_1835081.html" target="_hplink">Over nine million students</a> relied on federal subsidized loans to afford college during the 2010-2011 school year, and the skyrocketing costs have continued to diminish the purchasing power of the Pell grant program. Obama has actively worked to make college more affordable for lower-income students. Key Republican lawmakers have attempted to cut funding for student loans; most notably, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) slashed the maximum award from $5,550 per student per year down to <a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/07/dems_students_fight_to_save_pell_grants_amidst_debt_ceiling_talks.html" target="_hplink">just $3,040</a>.

Medicaid And Other Health- $110 Billion

The original funding levels proposed by Cantor and the GOP leadership would turn the entitlement program for America's poor into little more than a block grant program, Democrats claimed during the 2011 debt ceiling talks. Under such a program, they argued that states would then <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-11/medicaid-to-lose-1-26-trillion-under-romney-block-grant.html" target="_hplink">drop more people from enrollment</a> and scale back on health benefits. In fiscal year 2009, <a href="http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0151.pdf" target="_hplink">over 62 million Americans</a> -- many of them children -- depended on Medicaid for their health care. But the president did agree to <a href="http://presspass.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/11/15089281-white-house-grand-bargain-offer-to-speaker-boehner-obtained-by-bob-woodward#.UKCJftkTtS8.twitter" target="_hplink">$110 billion</a> in cuts from Medicaid and other health programs.

Medicare - $250 Billion +

Republicans pushed for a drastic overhaul to the entitlement program for America's seniors. Ryan infamously proposed turning Medicare into little more than a voucher system in which seniors would receive checks to purchase their own health care on the open market -- a plan that would ultimately <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kennethdavis/medicare-vouchers_b_1947804.html" target="_hplink">force individuals to shoulder more of the burden</a> for their health care costs. Democrats refused to accept changes similar to those in Ryan's plan. The president, however, was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/fiscal-cliff-talks-medicare-social-security_n_2113259.html" target="_hplink">more open to other GOP suggestions</a> on Medicare. In his final offer to Boehner, he agreed cut $250 billion over the next ten years -- in part by increasing premiums for higher-income seniors and by raising the eligibility age from 65 to 67 (although over a longer time frame).

Tax Reform - $800 Billion - $1.6 Trillion

Republicans have again and again <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0511/Boehner_Medicare_Medicaid__everything_should_be_on_the_table_except_raising_taxes.html" target="_hplink">decried any attempt</a> to raise taxes, either on the highest earners or on corporations. (A Democracy Corps/Campaign for America's Future survey shows that <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/report/2012114508/cafdemocracy-corps-election-poll-2012" target="_hplink">70 percent of voters</a> support raising taxes on the wealthiest two percent of Americans.) Instead, Boehner has pushed for a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/fiscal-cliff-talks-medicare-social-security_n_2113259.html" target="_hplink">comprehensive tax reform bill</a> that would lower the marginal tax rates while closing loopholes and eliminating deductions in order to raise around $800 billion in additional revenues. For many Democrats, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323551004578117152861144968.html" target="_hplink">that figure simply isn't enough</a>. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced Tuesday that the president was aiming for as much as <a href="http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/showing-backbone-on-the-debt/" target="_hplink">$1.6 trillion in new revenues</a>, and the president told reporters on Wednesday that it would be <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/14/obama-tax-cuts_n_2131256.html" target="_hplink">practically impossible</a> to raise the amount of revenue he wanted simply from closing loopholes and lowering rates.

Social Security - $112 Billion

Social Security <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/14/fiscal-cliff-social-security_n_2130762.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular" target="_hplink">isn't driving the deficit</a>, yet Republicans have <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/fiscal-cliff-talks-medicare-social-security_n_2113259.html" target="_hplink">pursued drastic changes</a> to the program. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has promised that Social Security would be <a href="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/reid-no-messing-with-social-security" target="_hplink">off the table</a> in the on-going negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff, but Obama did concede to tying the benefits to a <a href="http://presspass.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/11/15089281-white-house-grand-bargain-offer-to-speaker-boehner-obtained-by-bob-woodward#.UKCJftkTtS8.twitter" target="_hplink">recalculated Consumer Price Index</a> that would ultimately provide less money to retirees. Sen. Bernie Sanders claims that, under such a measure, seniors who are currently 65 years-old would see their benefits drop by <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/267079-reid-assures-sanders-he-wont-agree-to-social-security-cuts-in-debt-deal" target="_hplink">$560 a month in 10 years</a> and by as much as <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/267079-reid-assures-sanders-he-wont-agree-to-social-security-cuts-in-debt-deal" target="_hplink">$1,000 in 20 years</a>. The Moment of Truth project (led by the two former co-chairs of the president's deficit reduction commission, former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles) claims that the recalculated CPI could save as much as <a href="http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11767/the_social_security_cut_washington_does_not_want_you_to_understand/" target="_hplink">$112 billion</a> from Social Security over the next ten years.

Tax Loopholes And Deductions - Up To $180 Billion

Although Cantor and other GOP House members demanded that any deficit-reduction deal brokered in 2011 be classified as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/fiscal-cliff-talks-medicare-social-security_n_2113259.html" target="_hplink">revenue-neutral</a>, they were open to closing particular loopholes in the corporate tax code and limiting itemized deductions for individuals -- given that they were offset by other tax cuts. Out of the $50 billion in savings to be found over the next decade from closing loopholes, Cantor proposed getting $3 billion from eliminating the break for corporate-jet owners and another $20 billion from voiding the subsidies for the oil and gas industries. On the individual earner side, he proposed eliminating the second-home mortgage deduction for $20 billion, as well as limiting the mortgage deduction for higher-income households to rake in another $20 billion. He also offered to tighten the tax treatment of retirement accounts. But Democrats wanted to see even greater action taken on itemized deductions. In June 2011, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) proposed raising $130 billion in new revenues by capping itemized deductions at 35 percent for the highest income brackets. The GOP response to his proposal at the time was a resounding "no."

Bush Tax Cuts For The Wealthy - $950 Billion

Set to expire on Dec. 31, 2012, the Bush tax cuts represent one of the most controversial elements of the so-called fiscal cliff. They added over <a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24editorial_graph2/24editorial_graph2-popup.gif" target="_hplink">$1.8 trillion to the deficit</a> between 2002 and 2009. Yet Republicans argue that an extension is necessary to create jobs and spur economic growth. But a <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/PDF/0915taxesandeconomy.pdf" target="_hplink">study</a> from the Congressional Research Service found that tax cuts for the wealthiest earners had little economic effect. The White House is pushing for a renewal only of those tax breaks for the lower- and middle-class Americans in order to save the average middle-class family <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/01/pf/taxes/fiscal-cliff-tax/index.html" target="_hplink">between $2,000 and $3,500</a> next year. Letting the cuts expire for those earning over $250,000 a year -- or the wealthiest two percent of Americans -- would haul in <a href="http://www.offthechartsblog.org/cbo-ending-high-income-tax-cuts-would-save-almost-1-trillion/" target="_hplink">$950 billion</a> in savings over the next decade, according to the CBO. Obama stressed how much the country stood to gain from such an approach Wednesday during a press conference. "If we right away say 98 percent of Americans are not going to see their taxes go up ? 97 percent of small businesses are not going to see their taxes go up," he said. "If we get that in place, we're actually <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/49821777" target="_hplink">removing half of the fiscal cliff</a>."

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/fiscal-cliff-talks_n_2372571.html

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Honduras

Recently, Rolando Padilla, 16, was met with standing ovation as part of the theatre group that performed The Wizard of Oz at Teatro Manuel Bonilla, the most important cultural center in Honduras.

Bu,t before 2008, Padilla was living in the Villafranca neighborhood, some miles west of Honduras?s capital, Tegucigalpa. Villafranca is notorious for its infiltration by several gangs, such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Mara 18.

In 2008, Padilla joined the Comprehensive Pilot Program to Combat Urban Poverty (PPICPU). Run by the Ministry of Finance and a part of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (ERP), this program employs art as a tool for social inclusion, for building children?s self-esteem, and for encouraging family involvement.

One of PPICPU?s main objectives was to provide a creative platform for poor children so that they could stay off the streets and not get involved in gang activities. Today, children like Padilla take classes in various art forms in addition to regular school education.

At least 61.9% of Honduras?s 8.2 million people live under the poverty line. Poor children often wash car windows and do odd jobs to be able to buy food. But PPICPU?s efforts have brought such children together to experience respectable creative lives and dream of professions instead of foraging for basic nourishment.

The PPICPU organizes its activities around age groups:

Children between one and six years of age benefit from early learning services, nutritional services, school materials, and meals under the Comprehensive Care Pilot Program. The program takes 150 children each year.
Children between seven and 14 years of age learn dance, music, visual arts, and theater. They also get meals, computer classes, and psychological care. This Complementary Cultural Care Pilot Program serves 350 children each year.
Children between 14 and 18 years have access to lessons in dressmaking, cosmetology, carpentry, electricity, mechanics, refrigeration, and baking. This Technical Training Pilot Program serves 200 children each year.

Working on an annual budget of US $414,500, the PPICPU has progressed from taking children off the streets into an initiative to cultivate and train professional artists.

Jacqueline Duarte, the general coordinator of PPICPU, says the results of the initiative are obvious: 80% of students between seven and 14 years of age gain admission to the National Academy of Music, the National Academy of Dance, and the National Academy of Theater, while 60% of students excel in their performances in regular school.

Ronaldo Padilla is one such star theater student among the many successfully?groomed?by the PPICPU.

-?Mantra Roy

Source: http://www.openequalfree.org/at-risk-youth-in-honduras-get-education-arts-and-entertainment/18983

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The prevalence of obesity and extreme obesity among young U.S. children seems to be on the decline, according to government researchers.

In a study of almost 27 million children ages 2 to 4 living in low-income families, obesity prevalence fell slightly between 2003 and 2010, from 15.21% to 14.94%, after steadily increasing since 1998, Liping Pan, MD, MPH, of the CDC, and colleagues reported in a research letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The prevalence of extreme obesity -- having a body mass index (BMI) above 120% of the 95th percentile -- fell from 2.22% to 2.07% during that time.

This is the "first national study to show that the prevalence of obesity and extreme obesity among young U.S. children may have begun to decline," Pan and colleague wrote.

They noted that few studies have focused on extreme obesity because of its relatively low prevalence in national data, so Pan and colleagues looked at data from the Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System, on 26.7 million children in 30 states and Washington, D.C., who were eligible for federally funded maternal and child health and nutrition programs.

All had consistently reported height and weight between 1998 and 2010.

They measured obesity and extreme obesity; the former was defined as being above the 95th percentile for BMI for age and sex.

The researchers found that the prevalence of obesity rose from about 13% in 1998 to 15.21% in 2003, and extreme obesity rose from 1.75% to 2.22% during that time.

But that started to fall after 2003, with obesity prevalence dropping to 14.94% in 2010 and extreme obesity declining to 2.07% at that time.

Specifically with regard to extreme obesity, its prevalence increased overall and in all groups except Asians/Pacific Islanders between 1998 and 2003, they reported.

The greatest average annual increases were among 4-year-olds and non-Hispanic whites, they found. For instance, the prevalence among 4-year-olds was up from 2.4 in 1998 to 3.21 in 2003, and from 1.17 to 1.64 in whites during that time.

But extreme obesity fell between 2003 and 2010 overall and in all groups except American Indians/Alaska Natives (adjusted odds ratio 0.983), they found, with the greatest decreases among those ages 2 and under and among Asians/Pacific Islanders.

Study limitations included the lack of data from every U.S. state.

The results suggest "modest recent progress of obesity prevention among young children," Pan and colleagues concluded, but pointed out that that they still "may have important public health implications because of the lifelong health risks of obesity and extreme obesity in early childhood."

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/tots-turning-obesity-corner/story?id=18069107

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Eleanor Bertine is yet another of the great Depth Psychology pioneers who is largely unknown or forgotten yet she made monumental contributions to Depth Psychology. Her book "Jung's Contribution to Our Time" is a fine book both for those knowledgeable about Dr. Jung's work but it is written in a language that a layperson can find enjoyable and informative reading.

Below are some Eleanor Bertine Quotations:

"All down the ages the existence of a supreme value has
been attested by religious and mystical people, but Jung's
gift to his generation is the discovery that this value
lies within the human psyche itself. Moreover, he has
elaborated a method by which it can be sought there,
without the necessity of any dogma or belief, and in
addition can be formulated in terms consonant with the
best of modern science." --Eleanor Bertine

"In the multiplicity of impressions and reactions which
form the content of human life, man has always sought some
principle of order. This search involves finding a point
of reference to which each fragmentary experience can be
related - into whose lines of force it can be fitted - in
such a way that the chaos of event and circumstance takes
on a pattern and so finds coherence and meaning. ... That
which is unknown, shifting, changing, always produces a
sense of dread, of insecurity. He who would venture into
strange and unexplored realms, either inner or outer,
desires at least a thread of Ariadne to guarantee an
unbroken connection with his known and familiar world, and,
when the adventure is finished, the promise of a way back.
Psychologically, when this connection is lost and in
consequence the person comes to feel that things are strange
and uncanny, there arises such a flood of terror that he
believes himself, perhaps not without reason, to be on the
verge of madness." --Eleanor Bertine

"This age seems to be particularly cut off from the sense of
any such accepted central truth which would give coherence
and meaning to the concerns of the individual. ... For the
primitive, too, there was of course a vast unknown, but it
was adequately explainable to himself. The void was largely
filled by well-organized projections, which Levy-Bruhl calls
representations collectives... The world of sound and sense
is experienced as ultimate and demonstrable reality, which
fact would not occur to the simple mind to question, unless
that mind were to assume that the validity of appearances
had been distorted by magic. Yet, though the reality of the
primitive was contaminated almost beyond recognition by the
projection of the whole content of his unknown and
unsuspected psychic life, his naive non-realization of that
fact saved him from doubting his world. The sights and
sounds of dreams were to him no less convincing than those
of the waking state." --Eleanor Bertine

"In contrast, we moderns are not convinced of the ultimate
reality of anything at all, not of matter, of the soul, or
God. ... The solid rock itself has come to have no solidity,
at least in our thinking, for we know it to be but the
impression made upon us by vortices of energy. Our world -
what is it?" --Eleanor Bertine

"Religion, when a living experience, embodies the final point
of reference, the absolute to which all else is relative. To
put it theologically, God becomes the focal point in one's
universe. Psychologically expressed - and this is as far as
our capacity to know extends - God may be defined as that
which is the center and ordering-point of one's life, that
which Jung called the unconditional value, the consideration
which, if it conflict with any other, whatsoever it be, will
be given precedence." --Eleanor Bertine

"The power of the archetype, the God-value, does not vanish
from a life even though the religion into which it had been
projected is forsworn and no other accepted in its stead. On
the other hand, if it does really vanish from sight and no
recognized holder of the supreme value is left, chaos will
rule, one part-soul after another holding sway with no
central organizing principle to give meaning or a consistent
purpose to the whole." --Eleanor Bertine

"This disintegration of the central value brings about a
deterioration of the whole level of being. Instead of the
august and inspiring image of the triune God, the evil and
banal totalitarian state may arise to take its place.
Popular 'isms' then draw fanatical support. Pleasure or
power, money (the root of all evil exactly because of its way
of assuming central place), prestige, popularity, even a mere
avoidance of pain may be elevated to the position of ruling
principle by people who would be quite horrified to realize
what had happened. Indeed, when there is not a consciously
accepted unconditional value, there is always danger that
some one-sided drive, some man-made idea or goal may usurp
the central authority and become what Jung has called a
regular demon-possession. The more ardent the nature, the
greater the danger." --Eleanor Bertine

"Perhaps it is no accident that practically the whole group
of modern artists - cubists, surrealists, post impressionists,
and the rest - who gathered in and around Paris about the
turn of the century expressed the disintegration of the age,
not only in their art but in their living also, which seemed
to lack exactly the central guiding point in reference to
which some discipline and order might have been established.
Their lives were crammed with excesses accepted without
resistance if not actually hailed as somehow heroic -
alchohol, women, even murder and suicide - the same protest
and destructiveness which are expressed in their painting.
The 'meaning of the times' seems to be the collapse of an
era, with a freeing of the scene from encumbrance by old
outworn forms, which, however useful in their day, are no
longer valid if they cannot now manifest the spirit of the
new age. In brief, on the psychological side disintegration
moves toward nihilism and chaos, so that this phase of a
culture is peculiarly perilous to the soul." --Eleanor Bertine

"At a time like this conscience is no adequate criterion of
value. ... For conscience, after all, is only collective
morality and has developed with the sanctions and in the lines
of force of the current or most recent religious orientation.
It is a part of the prevailing civilization... Conscience will
work well enough in a thoroughly known situation, where the
average truth is adequate. But if any new or individual
element comes in, then conscience is either impotent or
misleading." --Eleanor Bertine

"Jung, however, discovered something of the structure and
laws of the unconscious, and found that it does actually
contain the integrating, ordering principle for which the
artists had been groping. He found symbols of a supreme
value, of a center to which everything else is relative.
Here was a clue to the answer to that great need of the
age, an absolute, a final point of reference. ... Jung
called this psychological absolute the Self in order to
be able to talk about it at all. But he realized that,
until the end of time or until the ocean of the
unconscious should be drained, it would be unknowable in
its entirety. ... For it belonged to the unconscious as
well as to the conscious; it embodied ultimate mystery as
well as demonstrable truth. Hence it could fittingly
express the whole, but itself could be expressed only in
a symbol, which turns one face toward the day, where it
is easily visible, and one toward the night, where it is
utterly dark. Yet for this very reason it will be suspect
as an adequate guiding principle to some people, who will
demand that it be entirely embraceable by the rational
mind. These people will continue to adhere exclusively to
the chosen light side of the pairs of opposites, only to
be continually ambushed by the other." --Eleanor Bertine

"The Self as the central point is to be realized in no
easy way, but only by tearing apart and reuniting or
reconciling one antimony after another. This means
experiencing the terrific strain and tension of the inner
opposites, which threaten to explode the frail psychic
organization. To be sure the operation of the principle
which Jung has called individuation is not limited to the
psychological life of man, but is found universally
effective in nature also. It is simply the unconscious
tendency of every living thing to fulfill its own unique
potential." --Eleanor Bertine

"But with the rise of ego-consciousness the opposites are
cleft asunder, one pulling one way and one the other. To
the naive mind, if you are this, you cannot also be its
thoroughly inconsistent opposite. So half of the original
components of the psyche tend to be suppressed or otherwise
disposed of in order to preserve some semblance of unity.
Consciousness has split open the world and the soul, has
polarized them and involved them in a civil war. At this
stage it is impossible even to think about individuation,
for individuation is the reconciliation of a paradox in
which one is at the moment submerged up to the eyes, and
thought is powerless. In the tormenting grip of these
eternally clashing antitheses, it is easy to look back to
the paradisaical unity of unconsciousness as to a higher
as well as more complete state, and to envy the natural
dignity and self-agreement of one upon whom the conflict
has not yet dawned. But when once the conscious and the
unconscious have been differentiated, as they have for
civilized man, the wholeness enjoyed by the primitive is
no longer possible, for it does not contain the hard-won
fruits of conscious struggle, and this early state is less
than totality for modern man. Hence a primitive man in
civilization is evil in a way that no real savage ever
is." --Eleanor Bertine

"Only an honest living through of the conflict until the
reconciling symbol appears and lifts the individual above
the warring elements can restore the wholeness rent
asunder when the opposites were differentiated by
consciousness. Duality and its resulting conflict must
be met in one situation after another - one pair of inner
opposites after another must find reconciliation. This is
the very process of psychological individuation. ...the
process must involve a high stage of consciousness. It
begins at the point at which the ego turns to the
unconscious as to its own necessary counterpart and
complement and seems to find in it the guiding indications
for the way of integration." --Eleanor Bertine

"This process of integration may be started in a successful
Jungian analysis. But it also may happen in the course of
life if the individual seeks his own reality ahead of
everything else, noting his reaction to all the experiences
that come to him. ... The constant consideration of the
data of the deeper levels guards against the false starts
which offer such illusory promise." --Eleanor Bertine

"There are many people, for example, who pride themselves
that they are expressing the real Self when they are only
riding high, wide, and handsome on some lusty libido
drive to which they are at the moment identified, though
this drive may never have been synthesized with other
important values which have been rudely shoved out of the
way." --Eleanor Bertine

"There seem to be indications that the lodestar to which
the single person turns for orientation lies itself in a
larger line of force to which he also becomes oriented by
orienting himself to its manifestation in his own psyche.
But we are by our very nature finite beings, and it is
quite beyond our power to know the absolute guiding
principle of the universe. Let it suffice us to seek the
determining point in the microcosm of the individual human
soul." --Eleanor Bertine

Source: http://carljungdepthpsychology.blogspot.com/2012/12/jungs-contribution-to-our-time-by.html

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Dec. 24, 2012 ? Children suspected of having appendicitis are more likely to receive CT scans, which involve radiation, if they are evaluated at a general hospital, a new study by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown.

Similar patients who went to St. Louis Children's Hospital were more often evaluated with an ultrasound scan, a safer option that uses sound waves instead of radiation to confirm or rule out the need for surgery to remove the appendix.

Use of either scanning technique can potentially reduce the occurrence of unnecessary surgeries and expedite the diagnosis of appendicitis. But recent reports have suggested that the radiation exposures in CT scans can significantly increase children's lifetime cancer risk. As a result, researchers are reassessing the role of CT scans and seeking ways to reduce their use.

The study appears online Dec. 24 in the journal Pediatrics.

"Appendicitis is a very tough diagnosis, because its symptoms overlap with viral infections and other problems," says first author Jacqueline Saito, MD, assistant professor of surgery. "We don't want to operate when the appendix is fine, but if we wait too long, an inflamed appendix can rupture or perforate, making recovery more complicated and much slower."

The appendix is a finger-shaped pouch that extends from the large intestine. Infection or blockage of the appendix causes appendicitis, which can lead to abdominal pain, vomiting and fever.

Saito and her colleagues analyzed case records of 423 children who had appendectomies, or surgery to remove the appendix, at St. Louis Children's Hospital. In 218 patients initially evaluated at Children's Hospital and 205 at general hospitals, researchers reviewed how the patients were evaluated for appendicitis and whether the surgery's results confirmed the diagnosis.

CT scans, which take X-ray images from multiple angles, have been the primary diagnostic scan for detecting appendicitis for many years. About 85 percent of children initially evaluated at a general hospital underwent preoperative CT scans, and 45 percent of children initially seen at St. Louis Children's Hospital had CT scans. Using ultrasound to detect appendicitis has recently become more frequent, especially at St. Louis Children's Hospital; over half of children initially seen at St. Louis Children's Hospital, compared to 20 percent at general hospitals, had preoperative ultrasound.

Only 7 percent were not scanned using either method, and 15 percent had both types of imaging.

While ultrasound scans are safer for diagnosing appendicitis in children, they must be performed and interpreted by personnel who have received specialized training and are familiar with pediatric diagnostics.

"Ultrasound scans are difficult to perform correctly in this context, and what specialists can do at Children's Hospital may not be realistic or even available in a general hospital, which doesn't care for children as often," Saito says.

Saito is currently studying the outcomes of patients whose scans ruled out an appendectomy, looking to see if they had any additional symptoms or eventually had to have their appendixes removed.

"Ultimately what we'd liked to do is learn how we can reduce our use of CT imaging without compromising patient care," she says. "We want to find ways to identify the patients who really need these scans and those who can be effectively evaluated using other methods."

Funding from the National Center for Research Resources (award number UL1RR024992) and the St. Louis Children's Hospital Children's Hospital Children's Surgical Sciences Institute.

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By Dennis Norman, on December 18th, 2012

In a vote of confidence for an improving real estate market, seventy-one percent of homebuyers surveyed by Redfin said they are expecting house prices to increase during the coming year in their neighborhood.? Additionally, the survey showed that over half (59 percent) of homebuyers are concerned about the lack of inventory of homes for sale.? Here in St. Louis, as the table below shows, we have over 25 zip codes that have a 3 month, or less, supply of homes for sale which is making it more of a challenge for home buyers to find a home they like and supports rising home prices so, if you are one of those home buyers waiting for the ?right time to buy?, I wouldn?t wait any longer if I were you.

Other highlights of the survey include:

33% listed rising home prices as a major concern, up from 23% last quarter;
22% of respondents said they were concerned about a weak economy, down from 27% in the third quarter;
57% cited low interest rates as a reason to buy now, down seven percentage points from last quarter and sixteen percentage points from the first quarter, but still the most common motivator for buying now;
59% indicated that low inventory was their top concern with buying a home, consistent with last quarter?s rate;
37% of respondents indicated they are first-time homebuyers, down from 48% last quarter; and
5% of respondents are concerned about the Fiscal Cliff and possible changes to the Mortgage Interest Deduction.

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Best Burger ? Dade County:

Latin House Burger & Taco Bar
Burger & Beer Joint
Shake Shack
Cheeseburger Baby
Blue Collar
Pincho Factory
The Filling Station
LoKal Burgers & Beer
gastroPod
Bourbon Steak

Best Burger ? Broward County/Palm Beach:

Charm City Burger Company
Le Tub
Rok:Brgr
Gilbert?s 17th Street Grill
BurgerFi
Jack?s Old Fashion Hamburgers
Rebel House
BITE Gastrotruck
Georgie?s Alibi
Between the Bun

Best Non-Traditional Burger:

50/50 Burger ? LoKal Burgers & Beer
24K Frita ? Pincho Factory
Patty Melt ? Jefe?s Original Fish Taco & Burgers
Bulgogi Burger ? Sakaya Kitchen
Veggie Burger ? Houston?s/Hillstone
Burgidito ? Bocaditos

Best Food Truck ? Dade:

Ms. Cheezious
Mr. Good Stuff
Jefe?s Original Fish Taco & Burgers
CUBANCUBE
Purple People Eatery
Bocaditos

Best Food Truck ? Broward/Palm Beach:

The Rolling Stove
B.C. Tacos
Palate Party
Slow Food Truck
Dog Eat Dog
Stocked N Loaded

Best Frita:

El Rey de las Fritas
Cuban Guys
CUBANCUBE
El Mago de las Fritas
La Palma
Luis Galindo?s Latin American

Best Restaurant ? Dade:

Blue Collar
Latin House Burger & Taco
Sakaya Kitchen
Bourbon Steak
Pincho Factory
Jimmy Z? Kitchen

Best Restaurant ? Broward/Palm Beach:

Jaxson?s Ice Cream Parlour, Restaurant and Country Store
The Rebel House
Gilbert?s 17th Street Grill
Tom Jenkin?s Bar-B-Q
Cafe Martorano
Direct From Philly

Best Dessert:

Michael?s Genuine Food & Drink
Azucar Ice Cream Company
Cuban Guys
Blue Collar
The Rebel House
SpecialTEA Lounge

Best Dessert Truck:

HipPOPs Handcrafted Gelato Bars
Sugar Yummy Mama
Zombie Ice
Fireman Derek?s World Famous Pies
Dolce Gourmet Cupcakes
Dolci Peccati

Best Pizza:

Andiamo Brick Oven Pizza
Harry?s Pizzeria
Leo?s Pizza
Di Piazza Italian Restaurant
Loven Ovens
King?s County Pizza

Best Sandwich:

Pan con Bistec from Cuban Guys
Blue & Bacon Grilled Cheese from Ms. Cheezious
Flatton from Latin House Burger & Taco
The Big Ragout from Blue Collar
Tripleta from El Rincon del Coqui
Tyler?s Pressed Sandwich from Sparky?s Roadside Barbecue

Best Taco:

B.C. Tacos
Jefe?s Original Fish Taco & Burgers
El Jefe Luchador
The MexZican Gourmet
Purple People Eatery
Jacalito Taqueira

Source: http://burgerbeast.com/2012/12/17/update-on-2013-burgie-awards-voting/

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Things are getting interesting on the Fiscal Cliff front.

Last night it was reported by multiple outlets that John Boehner agreed to let taxes rise on those making $1 million more per year. That was seen by the White House as a too-narrow concession, but it was something, as it meant that the real negotiation was beginning, as the two sides have begun to trade taxes and spending cuts.

Now there's more signs of real movement.

The Washington Post's Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane report that John Boehner has now offered to include a one-year debt ceiling hike in his offer, taking away a key point of Republican leverage coming up in just a couple of months.

From WaPo:

The White House rejected the offer, saying it would raise too little cash to significantly dent record budget deficits and do nothing to extend emergency unemployments benefits into the new year, according to a Democrat familiar with the talks.

But the tax offer was viewed as a breakthrough, the Democrat said. Senior White House officials remained in contact with Boehner?s staff throughout the weekend in a sign that serious negotiations had finally begun after weeks of stalemate and partisan posturing.

Clearly with the clock ticking down, Boehner is actually putting things on the table that represent concessions. Next is for The White House to counter with something new.

That being said, John Boehner is definitely risking revolt on the right with some of these stories.

Republicans resigned to "losing" the Fiscal Cliff fight have been hopeful that they could use the debt ceiling as leverage to get more spending cuts. Now Boehner seems to be giving that up, while also cracking (ever so slightly) on higher taxes.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/boehner-offers-to-push-back-debt-ceiling-for-a-year-2012-12

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With over fifty thousand hotels in the UK; the hospitality sector is a lucrative business and as the continuing economic difficulty leaves many struggling to afford the overseas vacation; the demand for the ?at home? holiday has grown excessively.

Whether you are new to the hotel business, or wish to grow your existing portfolio; a commercial mortgage broker can assist in ensuring the possibility of your venture.

The Hotel Mortgage

The hotel business can be broken down into the following sectors:

City Hotel
Town Hotel
Bed and Breakfast
Country Hotel
Resort Hotel

For those requiring commercial finance for one of the above mentioned ventures; securing the ideal business loan can be difficult; with many smaller hotels considered risky investments. However, whether you have previously been denied commercial finance or not, a commercial mortgage broker, specialising in the leisure and hospitality industry, will assist in providing a multitude of financial options.

A commercial mortgage broker can assist new and existing hotel businesses with securing financial aid for the following:

Purchase of existing hotel business/land/new property
Refinancing
Refurbishments and business expansion
Debt consolidation
Auction purchase

For those in need of commercial finance for a hotel, a qualified mortgage broker can assist in securing the right lending options.

The Hotel Mortgage: The First Step

For those setting up a hotel business for the first time, the leisure industry is difficult which is why, if you are to receive the financing you require to kick start your project; you must have a solid business plan, projections and an understanding of how your business will attract and retain the customers you will need to achieve lasting success.

Type- What type of hotel are you establishing? Is it low budget accommodation ideal for a short night stay, a luxury family resort complete with all the amenities or a couple?s only, guest house? Understanding the type of business you wish to establish, the service you wish to offer and the customers you wish to attract will be the first step to your business plan.
Location- This can often be greatly dictated by the type of hotel you wish to establish. Does your location have a need for your hotel? Will it appeal to those visiting the specific area? Will you be in a position to fulfil the needs of your customers? Location will play an important part in the success of your venture, thus it is wise to consider your options carefully.
Why- Ask yourself, why your customers will choose your hotel? Do you offer everything they would desire? Will your hotel be able to cater for your customers, effectively?
Business Plan- This is a crucial part of the business, and by taking in the above points; will determine the success of your commercial mortgage application. Does your plan outline every detail and financial need of your business? Are your projections accurate?

The above points are just a few of the initial steps required to be undertaken by the hotel entrepreneur however, they may also be the questions asked by commercial lender in determining the capability of your business and in effect the success rate of your mortgage application.

The Hotel Mortgage: Financing ?

If the ideal location has been sought then, obtaining a commercial mortgage will be the next step for your business venture.

With high street lenders continuing to reject business proposals, the alternative lender is now considered the ideal source for commercial finance.

When commencing your commercial mortgage application process, you may need to supply the following information:

Proof of identity
Trading accounts
3 months personal bank statements
3 months trading bank statements
Business plan
Proof of experience

The above specifications may vary from lender to lender however, they will be used by your chosen commercial mortgage broker to determine the LTV ratio of your business. The LTV ratio is a term in which lenders determine the risk value of a borrower; the lower the percentage, the greater the chance for a business to achieve the desired lending.

If a commercial mortgage broker determines that the LTV ratio is acceptable; then they will scour a specialist database to secure the ideal lending and based upon the agreed terms (fixed rate and variable, are amongst the options) your commercial mortgage may be agreed for up to twenty five years.

For those who are beginning 2013 with a new hotel business venture, those who wish to minimise the struggle of their existing business or those who simply wish to access funding for growth and expansion; a specialist commercial mortgage broker will work for your business to ensure only the ideal financial solution is obtained.

Why not contact a mortgage broker and begin your commercial application process today?

Source: http://www.charlestonfinancial.co.uk/the-commercial-mortgage-hotel-and-guest-houses/

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Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961. He later developed an inner ear problem that grounded him from space flight until an operation cured him.

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Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961. He later developed an inner ear problem that grounded him from space flight until an operation cured him.

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Childhood dreams of being an astronaut are easy. Actually blasting off is a little harder.

But now people who have longed to go into space can buy a ticket, if they've got the cash. Are they healthy enough to make the voyage, though?

That's becoming a pressing question as the options for leaving Earth multiply.

A company called Space Adventures has been sending tourists to the International Space Station since 2001. Virgin Galactic has already signed up more than 500 people to take trips to the edge of space. They'll start blasting off next year. And startup Golden Spike said earlier this month it plans to start sending people to the moon, perhaps as soon as 2020.

"If space tourism starts, everyone who can afford to will be able to fly," says S. Marlene Grenon, a vascular surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco. "That raises the question of how we can make it possible for anyone to fly into space if that's their dream."

With costs ranging from $200,000 to $750 million per flyer, space isn't likely to rival Disneyland for tourists anytime soon. But thousands of people could soon be headed up into space.

NASA's corps of astronauts are pretty fit to begin with. They're put through rigorous medical testing and can be disqualified for conditions ranging from kidney stones to cardiovascular problems. Space tourists and workers could be a less healthy lot.

"All that's required by the FAA is informed consent," Grenon says. "It's up to the operators to decide" who's fit to fly.

Depending on the rules that those operators institute, physicians could be faced with clearing their patients for flight. So Grenon gathered a group of aerospace medical professionals, including astronaut Millie Hughes-Fulford, to provide some advice. Their paper appears in the British Medical Journal.

Space travel, Grenon notes, is very different from life on earth. "Your body doesn't feel gravity," she says, and "the blood volume goes more towards the chest and the face. That's why astronauts have bird legs and puffy faces." Within a few days, space travelers could be experiencing motion sickness, nausea, sinus congestion or dizziness.

Back on the ground, they may suffer bone and muscle loss or kidney stones. They may have a weakened immune system and have a greater risk of infection.

Those risks are all known from extensive studies of the 500 or so people who have gone into space since Russian Yuri Gagarin orbited the planet in 1961. But people with all sorts of pre-existing conditions could soon be following Gagarin's path.

That doesn't mean, however, that any old medical condition should bar someone from space, Grenon and her colleagues say. Instead, a physician might help a patient with coronary artery disease to stabilize his blood pressure and heart rhythm . A pregnant woman would be advised to postpone her trip until after she gives birth.

Grenon recommends that doctors "optimize their medical treatment and make sure the risks are discussed and document those discussions."

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/12/13/167193585/how-to-decide-if-space-tourists-are-fit-to-fly?ft=1&f=1007

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Does any woman have the power to turn "Happy Endings" MVP Max (Adam Pally) straight? Apparently, "Saturday Night Live" alumna Abby Elliott does -- at least as long as she can get Max tickets to Chicago Bulls games. We're guessing their relationship isn't destined for longevity, but we respect Max's dedication to basketball.

According to EW, Eliott will appear as a character named Katie in an episode titled "Flowers for Al-gernon," set to air in the spring.

Other notable guest stars heading to "Happy Endings" in 2013 include Mark-Paul Gosselaar and RuPaul.

In other casting news ...

Beth Grant promoted to series regular on "The Mindy Project." Though she's only appeared in one episode so far, Grant's belligerent, pot-smoking nurse, Beverly, will be a permanent fixture on the Fox comedy in 2013. [The Hollywood Reporter]

"Revenge" and "True Blood" alums join TNT's "Legends." Amber Valletta, Rob Mayes and Tina Majorino are joining the Sean Bean project. Valletta will play Bean's character's ex-wife, Mayes and Majorino will play fellow agents at the DCO. [Deadline]

"Supernatural" favorite visits "The Mentalist." Rob Benedict will play a professor and PhD candidate who happens to work in the same lab where a student was murdered. His episode will air in mid-February. [EW]

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"The Mindy Project," "Teen Patient"
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A yacht can be any kind of pleasure boat, but Americans associate the term with large luxurious vessels.

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A sailboat or motorboat used for recreation. Most yachts are privately owned and big enough to contain a cabin, but even small, cabin-less dinghies are sometimes described as yachts. The Dutch term jacht, meaning hunt, originally applied to light sailboats that were used to pursue pirates. Such boats eventually gained popularity as leisure vessels, and the term was anglicized in the 17^th century when King Charles II returned from his exile from the Commonwealth of England?part of which he had spent in Holland?with a newfound passion for yachting. The term later came to be associated with steamboats and motorboats that were used for leisure purposes, and during the Gilded Age, yachts became a status symbol among wealthy Americans. J.P. Morgan, for instance, owned a 240-foot yacht, the Corsair (which was later acquired by the U.S. Navy and converted to a gunboat). Yacht clubs?exclusive associations of yachtsmen?also became popular around this time and helped associate yachting with wealth in the popular imagination.

Yacht mania dissipated during and after the Great Depression, but when conspicuous consumption came back into style in the 1980s and 1990s, American financiers began vying to see who could acquire the biggest motor-powered yacht. Sometimes called megayachts or superyachts, these large, expensive, privately owned vessels regularly exceed 200 feet in length and can cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars to build. Though very large yachts offer ample space for wine cellars, private screening rooms, and basketball courts, they have drawbacks, too; some of them are too big to enter smaller harbors and thus must dock at commercial marinas with oil tankers and other non-pleasure boats. In 2010, business magnate Larry Ellison decided his 450-foot Rising Sun was too big for his needs and sold it to record executive David Geffen. (Ellison downgraded to a 288-foot vessel.) Ironically, though part of a yacht?s appeal stems from the privacy it offers its owner, very large yachts (in excess of 299 gigatons) are required by the International Maritime Organization to publicly transmit their location at all times via an Automatic Identification System transponder. (You can see the current location of all such yachts?and other very heavy boats?at marinetraffic.com.)

Yachts of all sizes typically cost about 10 percent of their sticker price to maintain each year. Large luxury yachts often require a full-time staff including a captain, engineers, stewards and stewardesses, chefs, and deckhands. Many yacht owners charter their boats when they?re not using them to recoup some of the maintenance costs. American yachts tend to be registered abroad, both for tax reasons and because yacht crews are often not American citizens and therefore can?t work on an American ship without a visa.

In other English-speaking countries, the term yacht isn?t as closely associated with wealth as it is in America, and the term is commonly applied even to very small sailing vessels. Middle-class Brits, Australians, and New Zealanders who enjoy sailing might describe themselves as yachtsmen.

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