China official says spat with Japan derails free trade talks

BEIJING (Reuters) - A festering territorial dispute between China and Japan has derailed talks for a free trade zone involving the two countries and South Korea, an adviser to China's central bank said on Thursday.

Sino-Japanese ties are at their lowest in decades amid a row over a series of islands in the East China Sea, waters believed to be rich in natural gas deposits, with neither side backing down on its claim of sovereignty.

Violent protests broke out across China last week after the Japanese government bought two of the islands, known as the Diaoyu in Chinese and the Senkaku in Japan. Tokyo also has a dispute over other islands with South Korea.

"We hope the suspension is temporary," Chen Yulu, a professor at China's Renmin University and an adviser to the monetary policy committee of the People's Bank of China, said of the free trade zone talks. "It will be a big loss for Asia if the process is terminated."

Chen was speaking on the sidelines of a central banking conference involving representatives of all three nations.

Despite the tension, Japanese and Chinese officials met on Thursday to mark 40 years of diplomatic relations, but the head of the Japanese side said he came "with a heavy heart".

What was meant to be a high-level celebration of normalized relations was instead a stiff acknowledgement that the world's second- and third-largest economies remain neighbors with a long history of cooperation.

"Today I have come to Beijing with a number of people who have worked hard over a long time on relations with China," former Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono told Jia Qinglin, a senior Chinese leader, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People.

"The conditions are rather different from when I met Your Excellency in the spring, and I come this time with a heavy heart."

Jia, the Communist Party's fourth-ranked official, called the Japanese visitors "old friends of the Chinese people".

(Reporting by Terril Yue Jones and Kevin Yao; Editing by Nick Macfie)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-official-says-spat-japan-derails-free-trade-110925902--business.html

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Ke$ha Teases New Album, Once Had Sex with a Ghost

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How Twitter will make you stop obsessing about how many followers you have

Jim Bell, an executive producer at?Today, wants you to know that "it was absolutely" his "call" to fire Ann Curry, throwing himself in front of the criticism Matt Lauer was getting from Curry fans.?Even though Today's ratings have been sagging? ?and the ,?nothing too terrible has happened?the show hasn't ended, the cheeriness is still there, Kathie Lee is still drinking before noon?and now Bell has come forward to claim responsibility for the call. "It was definitely not Matt?s call," . ...

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Copywriting Tips For A Fruitful Online Career | Writing and Speaking

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How Bad Credit Can Stop You From Buying a Home | AOL Real Estate

By Christopher Maag

Melissa was about to try and live the American Dream. Eager to buy a house, she applied for a pre-approved bank loan only to discover that an old unpaid bill that she resolved two years ago is still lingering on her credit report. That's dragging down her score.

And she's getting desperate.

"I can't buy a house without ... these things corrected," she wrote in response to a recent story on Credit.com. "Please, please help!"

Most Americans understand the financial and emotional importance of buying a home. Even though the rate of homeownership has declined from a height of 69.2 percent in 2004 to 65.5 percent in the second quarter of 2012, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, it remains the case that a solid majority of Americans prefer owning a home to renting.

"Traditionally, owning has won out over renting for many reasons," says Gerri Detweiler, Credit.com's consumer credit expert. "Owning a home is still one of the main ways that Americans build wealth over time."

But some credit experts are wondering: What's the rush? At Credit.com, we receive emails, blog comments and forum posts from people with damaged credit scores asking how they can buy a home. And in most cases, the question is asked with a sense of urgency.

Many readers with low credit scores don't just want to buy a home. They want to buy a home now. Steve Campbell, who wrote in August that he and his wife recently filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, asked: "Can we buy a home anytime soon?"

But Barry Paperno, a credit expert and Credit.com's community director, wonders whether that's really the right question to be asking. Perhaps a more relevant question, Paperno says, is: "Are you sure that your financial situation will be stable enough to make those monthly payments for the next 30 years?"

Homeownership has many rewards, but consider the risks, Paperno points out. Unlike during the mortgage bubble, buying a home these days usually requires a significant down payment, and owning it may require substantial investments in renovation, maintenance, insurance and property taxes. If a homeowner loses a job or her income goes down, and she finds herself incapable of making those monthly payments, all of the money she's invested could be lost, Paperno says.

In addition, if a renter finds he can no longer pay the rent, he can simply move out, possibly losing his security deposit. But leaving an apartment is rarely an event that's recorded on a consumer's credit report, whereas losing a home to foreclosure causes serious damage to a credit score.

"It can knock more than a hundred points off your score, and you will not be able to get another mortgage for another few years," Paperno says. "If you're buying a house for security, what happens if you lose your job? How secure is it, really?"

Buying a home still makes lots of sense for the average consumer, Paperno and Detweiler agree. But in some cases, consumers with low credit scores might find it makes more sense to put off purchasing, especially if they are getting turned down for loans, or if the interest rate offers they're receiving now seem exorbitantly high.

"If you're willing to wait just a little bit longer, even 18 to 24 months, you can boost your credit, you may be able to get a better rate," Detweiler says.

There is a counterpoint to this argument, however. In today's weak housing market, an interest rate of seven percent might be abnormally high, especially when people with the best credit scores can get interest rates as low as 3.49 percent, according to Freddie Mac's latest report. But Detweiler had great credit when she bought her home in the late 1990s, and her interest rate then was seven percent.

Which is to say that just because you don't qualify for today's record-low interest rates does not necessarily mean that you're getting a bad deal.

"You may have a tradeoff where you're paying more in interest, but you're still taking advantage of lower overall home prices," Detweiler says. "So it still may be a good idea to buy as long as you get into a decent loan for the long term."

Whatever you eventually decide, it may be best to slow the process down and make sure that buying is the right idea for you in the short term, the credit experts say. The American Dream has a strong pull, as do home prices that have lost much of their housing bubble value. But don't let the dream of homeownership make you feel rushed to make a decision that could hurt you for years to come.

"Don't be discouraged," Detweiler says. "If now's not the right time for you to buy, that doesn't mean that you will never own your own home. A couple of years can make a big difference."

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Romney says Clinton can 'do a man a lot of good'

NEW YORK (AP) ? Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney is unlikely to win Bill Clinton's vote, but that doesn't mean he can't soak up a bit of the popular former president's luster.

The two men stood side by side Tuesday as Clinton introduced Romney before the GOP candidate's speech to Clinton's annual global conference in New York. Clinton recalled working with Romney to save AmeriCorps, and praised the former Massachusetts governor's efforts to persuade fellow Republicans to support the national service program.

Romney, taking the podium, returned the compliment.

"If there's one thing we've learned in this election season, by the way, it is that a few words from Bill Clinton can do a man a lot of good," he said, prompting loud laughter and applause from the crowd.

It was a clear nod to Clinton's speech praising President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., earlier this month, and the slight uptick in the polls that Obama enjoyed soon after.

"All I got to do now is wait a few days for that bounce to happen," Romney quipped.

Such moments of bipartisan levity have been rare in a campaign marked by harsh accusations, heavy-handed rhetoric and relentless attack ads between the presidential campaigns and the outside groups that support them.

Obama's campaign currently is running one such ad against Romney that uses a clip of Clinton's convention speech where the former president says Romney wants to "take us back to the policies that got us into trouble in the first place."

But any resentment was noticeably absent Tuesday as Clinton and Romney appeared chummy, patting each other on the shoulder and chatting onstage after Romney's speech.

"That was good," Clinton told the man hoping to dislodge Clinton's party from the White House.

Before the speech, Romney spoke backstage with Clinton and Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, said Romney spokesman Rick Gorka. He declined to say what they discussed.

Clinton has an outsized influence on the presidential election more than a decade after he left office. Both Obama and Romney have pointed to Clinton's economic leadership as an example for the nation, citing prosperity and a federal budget that was balanced under his leadership.

Clinton is using the full weight of those credentials to boost Obama's bid. In his convention speech, he systematically rebutted Romney's attacks on Obama, accusing the Republican of pushing an economic plan that doesn't add up.

The Obama-Clinton political alliance was back on display a few hours later when the two Democrats shared a handshake and a hug on the same stage where Romney had spoken earlier in the day.

Normal protocol, Clinton said, would require him to simply introduce the president and then be quiet.

"I just want to make one comment. I'm going to finish that speech I started in Charlotte," he said, poking fun at himself over a sermon that at times seemed like it might never end.

Obama, before beginning a wrenching speech about human trafficking, thanked Clinton for the warm introduction.

"Although I have to admit," Obama joked, "I really did like the speech a few weeks ago a little bit better."

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Lederman reported from Washington. AP White House Correspondent Ben Feller in New York contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/romney-says-clinton-man-lot-good-141103450--election.html

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Assessments Rising on Florida MHCs | Daily Business News

The heraldtribune reports from Florida the recent sale of several MHCs for $60,000 plus per home site has unleashed the reassessment of some of the communities, driving up their taxes. Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. purchased Lake Village in Nokomis, Fla., just south of Sarasota for $23.7 million, and is now facing a tax increase of 93 percent. In Polk County, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. paid $57.7 million for an MHC, equaling $68,566 per home site. A survey by the Polk County appraiser?s office counted 25 high-end MHC sales in 11 counties last year. One resident in an MHC where taxes increased 66 percent says his site rental rose $11/mth, but other fees could rise as well. MHProNews has learned property assessments for MHCs in Fla. are derived from a formula based on estimated revenues of what a property owner would expect to receive as a rate of return.

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White matter, old dogs, and new tricks at Dartmouth

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Most people equate "gray matter" with the brain and its higher functions, such as sensation and perception, but this is only one part of the anatomical puzzle inside our heads. Another cerebral component is the white matter, which makes up about half the brain by volume and serves as the communications network.

The gray matter, with its densely packed nerve cell bodies, does the thinking, the computing, the decision-making. But projecting from these cell bodies are the axons?the network cables. They constitute the white matter. Its color derives from myelin--a fat that wraps around the axons, acting like insulation.

Alex Schelgel, first author on a paper in the August 2012 Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, has been using the white matter as a landscape on which to study brain function. An important result of the research is showing that you can indeed "teach old dogs new tricks." The brain you have as an adult is not necessarily the brain you are always going to have. It can still change, even for the better.

"This work is contributing to a new understanding that the brain stays this plastic organ throughout your life, capable of change," Schlegel says. "Knowing what actually happens in the organization of the brain when you are learning has implications for the development of new models of learning as well as potential interventions in cases of stroke and brain damage."

Schlegel is a graduate student working under Peter Tse, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences and a coauthor on the paper. "This study was Peter's idea," Schlegel says. "He wanted to know if we could see white matter change as a result of a long-term learning process. Chinese seemed to him like the most intensive learning experience he could think of."

Twenty-seven Dartmouth students were enrolled in a nine-month Chinese language course between 2007 and 2009, enabling Schlegel to study their white matter in action. While many neuroscientists use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in brain studies, Schlegel turned to a new MRI technology, called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). He used DTI to measure the diffusion of water in axons, tracking the communication pathways in the brain. Restrictions in this diffusion can indicate that more myelin has wrapped around an axon.

"An increase in myelination tells us that axons are being used more, transmitting messages between processing areas," Schlegel says. "It means there is an active process under way."

Their data suggest that white matter myelination is precisely what was seen among the language students. There is a structural change that goes along with this learning process. While some studies have shown that changes in white matter occurred with learning, these observations were made in simple skill learning and strictly on a "before and after" basis.

"This was the first study looking at a really complex, long-term learning process over time, actually looking at changes in individuals as they learn a task," says Schlegel. "You have a much stronger causal argument when you can do that."

The work demonstrates that significant changes are occurring in adults who are learning. The structure of their brains undergoes change.

"This flies in the face of all these traditional views that all structural development happens in infancy, early in childhood," Schlegel says. "Now that we actually do have tools to watch a brain change, we are discovering that in many cases the brain can be just as malleable as an adult as it is when you are a child or an adolescent."

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Emma Watson And 'Perks' Cast Try Out New Accents: 'Ello Guvnah!'

Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller of 'Perks of Being a Wallflower' tackle tough accents ahead of Tuesday's 'MTV First,' airing at 7:56 p.m.
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Mercury Web Browser Pro for iPad

Mozilla has retired its iOS app, Firefox Home, which allowed syncing of bookmarks, history, passwords, tabs and more between your desktop Firefox browser and your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. But not to worry! Mercury gives you syncing, and a wealth of nifty tablet browsing tricks all its own, including full-screen webpage view and gesture support. Unlike most iOS browsers, Mercury comes in both a free and 99 cent Pro version, which adds the Firefox syncing, Dropbox integration, and printing capability.

Interface
Mercury sports the traditional desktop-style tabs along the top of the app, surmounted by standard toolbar buttons?back and forward, home, favorite along the left, and settings, share, and full screen along the right. Separate address and search bars will be welcomed by those who prefer to compartmentalize those two activities. Competing Dolphin (3.5 stars) and Chrome (3.0 stars) iPad browsers use a single box for both activities and with iOS 6, Safari will too, but Maxthon and Opera Miniboth use two separate boxes.

Tab implementation is pretty good, though you won't find a new twist on touchscreen tabs as you do in Yahoo! Axis (3.5 stars) and Opera Mini. You can open up to ten tabs, compared with Safari's nine and Chrome and Maxthon's unlimited tabs. Dolphin tells you that performance will suffer if you open more than nine, which is probably good advice for anyone browsing on an iPad. An X in every Mercury tab means you can close any of them at any time without having to switch to the tab you want to close as you do with Dolphin and Maxthon. But you can't drag them to change their positions on the tab bar as you can in Chrome and Safari. In one nice tab-and-navigation help, you can hold down a link to open its page in a new tab, but Safari and Dolphin do this too.

Full-screen browsing is a big plus over the stock iPad browser and over Chrome and all other third-party browsers I've tested save Dolphin. This could change with iOS 6, though it's not clear that full screen will be supported on the iPad as well as on the iPhone. When you switch to full-screen view in Mercury, you get small overlay controls along the bottom, for back and forward, entering a new address, returning to standard view, and a circular control. This last looks like a TV remote control, with an Enter symbol in the middle. It's an interface innovation that lets you access pretty much everything you could with the browser's main, non-full-screen toolbar.

The pi?ce de r?sistance of Mercury's interface is its theming capability. None of the alternative iPad browsers I've tested?including Chrome, Dolphin, Maxthon?offered this window-dressing capability, even though their desktop counterparts did. I could choose from 11 options, from Christmas to Yakuza. One of the two wood-grain themes fit my sensibilities perfectly.

Gestures
Gestures are darned handy when you're viewing pages in full-screen, and Mercury offers eight of these, including those for tab switching, navigation, and moving to the top and bottom of a page. You can customize what action happens for any of these gestures from a choice of 19, but you can't create new gestures as you can in Dolphin. You're limited to the eight, while Dolphin doesn't have a limit, and lets you program 20 actions with gestures. But where Dolphin's gestures really top those in Mercury is that they let you create gestures to visit specific websites.

Extra Browsing Helpers
Like Safari and Maxthon, Mercury offers a Readability mode, hiding all but the main text and images of a Web article. When I tried this on PCMag.com's Hands on With the iPhone 5 article, I saw extraneous text at the end. I also prefer how Safari and Maxthon make the reading mode available via a button in the address bar, instead of Mercury's menu choice. Getting back to regular Web view was also easier in the others.

Like most alternative iPad browsers, Mercury lets you tell sites to show their full desktop version, rather than a dumbed-down mobile version. I do like how Mercury actually lets you tell sites you're one of 10 different specific browsers?IE 6 through 8, Chrome, Firefox, or Opera, for example. This means a site that displays correctly in IE but not in Safari will think you're using IE, so you get the correct webpage, but the setting is too buried compared with similar features in Chrome.

A couple things you won't find in Chrome or Safari, however, Mercury's Ad Blocker and dimmer features. The ad blocker spared me from having to see most third-party banner ads, and the dimmer is simply a brightness control that's more accessible than the one in the iPad Settings app.

Other hard-to-find features in Mercury are its download and file managers. You can hold your finger against a link on a Web page, and choose Download Link from the resulting menu. The file is downloaded to the iPad, where you may not be able to do anything with it. Not to worry: The browser comes with a viewer, and if that doesn't work, you can transfer the file to your PC using iTunes. Even better, you can upload the file to your Dropbox folder from a simple sharing button. But don't be deceived into thinking this is as snappy a procedure as it is on a desktop.

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Twitter, Occupy, and the Rule of Law ? The Business Ethics Blog

As the 1-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street approaches, it looks as if Twitter is finally on the verge of handing some key protestor tweets over to a New York judge. The tweets have to do with the timing and planning of a march across a New York bridge, a march that ended in mass arrests.

And, even setting aside the legal consequences of failing to do so, it?s the right thing to do. Companies have a general obligation ? a part of good corporate citizenship in the most literal sense ? to obey the law. There are of course exceptions, for instance in situations approximating some form of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is best thought of as a situation in which an individual, or perhaps a company, openly defies what it takes to be a bad law or an unjust legal ruling. In classic cases, the party engaging in the disobedience does so in an attempt to effect legal change, and shows its commitment by being willing to suffer the consequences of standing on principle.

Now, tech companies like Twitter do have a principled stance to take, here. They are rightly concerned about protecting users? data. But tweets are decidedly and emphatically public, so the present case is quite unlike the case of a company being asked to turn over customers? emails or other private communications.

Twitter is in a sense duty-bound, of course, to put up some resistance. Being overly cooperative with law enforcement tends to look bad on a tech company, even if it?s only because people fail to distinguish between private and non-private information, or fail to distinguish between New York and Beijing. But a year?s worth of resisting is likely sufficient for Twitter to show that it takes privacy seriously. It?s time for Twitter to do its duty as a good corporate citizen in a society governed by the rule of law.

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Discover the best in alternative medicine for cancer

(NaturalNews) First, let's make one thing perfectly clear, conventional (western) medicine does an outstanding job with medical emergencies. When it comes to trauma and (extreme) life-saving intervention techniques or surgical procedures - modern medicine is often times heroic. But, many health experts would agree, when it comes to the treatment of cancer (and other chronic illnesses) conventional medicine has proven to be inadequate.

There is a better way to treat cancer - that does NOT cause you to vomit, lose your hair and slowly die of toxic treatment protocols. Discover how you can reclaim your health utilizing the best of integrative (and alternative) holistic medicine. I urge you to join us for this life-saving program.

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Over 10 years ago - the United States Congress was told the truth about cancer

On June 7 and 8, 2000 - Burton Goldberg, often referred to as "The Voice of Alternative Medicine" - addressed the United States Congress at a hearing on "Integrative Oncology - Cancer Care for the New Millennium". Segments of the presentation have been posted - below:

"A century ago, one in 33 people had cancer; today, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), it is more than one in three, and growing. When I was born in 1926, cancer was the tenth leading cause of death among children - now I am 73 and it is second. No other health topic today has the urgency of cancer because no other health condition is escalating as fast."

"In March of this year, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) released its Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1973-1997. According to the report, some types of cancer had declined more or less, while others had increased. But the NCI proudly trumpeted the fact that for the first time ever in this country, overall cancer incidence and mortality rates had both declined from 1990 through 1997. The amount of decline was the same for both: 0.8%."

"Taking this number at face value (the field report's raw data has yet to be analyzed by objective sources), while it might be statistically significant, this less than 1% decline pales in the face of the grim reality of the ACS's prediction that one out of two men in this country will get cancer. Or that, while in 1950 one out of 20 women got breast cancer, in 1960 it was one in 14, and today it is one out of eight."

Conventional medicine still admits ignorance as to the causes of cancer: without knowing the cause how can there be prevention and cure?

Burton goes on to say: "Our message is simple, direct, and lifesaving: cancer can be - is being - successfully reversed using alternative medicine. Although many of the alternative methods for treating cancer have been with us for perhaps 50 years, it is only recently that these approaches have achieved major clinical breakthroughs and moved into wider public awareness. I wish I had known more about them myself when my sister and my mother were dying of cancer."

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Discover how to defeat cancer - from the inside out - naturally - Thu. Sept. 13

Burton Goldberg, known as "The Voice of Alternative Medicine," spent over 30 years researching every aspect of holistic medicine, including top treatments from the fields of alternative medicine, natural healthcare, integrative medicine, and conventional medicine. He is the best-selling author of Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide - a 1,250-page reference work on how to treat 200 health conditions with alternative medicine.

Several years ago, his research unexpectedly became personal as he developed and subsequently beat cancer not once, but twice. In 2000, he presented information on integrative oncology and cancer treatments before Congress. Although his research and work has included prevention and anti-aging strategies and treatment protocols for many forms of degenerative disease, his primary focus for the last several years has been on the integrative treatment of cancer.

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Chicago teachers strike day two: Stuck on evaluations

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Chicago school teachers picket outside Lane Tech College Prep High School on Tuesday.

By Kari Huus, NBC News

The Chicago Teachers Union and the city's public school district returned to the negotiating table Tuesday as thousands of teachers walked the picket lines for a second day in a strike that affected more than 350,000 students.

A statement issued by the union at midday Tuesday said that the two sides were not close to an agreement, calling that characterization as "misinformation" from the office of Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

"The Chicago Teachers Union has 49 Articles in its contract (and) to date we have only signed off on six of them," said?union spokeswoman Stephanie Gadlin.?"The Chicago Public Schools has made proposals to change nearly every article. It is not accurate to say both sides are extremely close. This is misinformation on behalf of the board and Mayor Emanuel.? We have a considerable way to go. This is a fact they cannot deny."

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Chicago school board President David Vitale wouldn't comment Tuesday ahead of the continued negotiations, but he insisted Monday night the two sides were close on the two major remaining issues --?teacher evaluations and job security.

"We're ready to go to work," Vitale said earlier in the day. "We're disappointed that the urgency we feel doesn't seem to be shared on the other side."?

"We did not pick this fight," union president Karen Lewis told reporters as she arrived for the meeting at the offices of Bloch, Dowd & Bennett. "They've known since May they had this deadline and this could happen. ... For some reason deadlines don't mean anything to them.

Lewis said?teachers don't like the amount of standardized testing required to evaluate them and worry the evaluations could mean lost jobs.

In a letter sent Tuesday to Lewis on behalf of 30 Chicago school principals, A.N. Pritzker Elementary School Principal Dr. Joenile S. Albert-Reese wrote, "It's imperative that principals be given the autonomy they need in the hiring process.

"This autonomy is necessary to ensure that principals can hire the most qualified and best fit candidate for the position and our kids," Albert-Reese wrote. "Without this autonomy, principals may be forced to hire individuals whose skill set and value systems are not conducive to the school?s culture, mission and vision."

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Chicago parents ask: How long will strike go on?

The strike is not primarily about compensation.? Chicago teachers make an average of $75,000 per year, according to the Chicago school system web site. The deal CPS put on the table includes a 16 percent raise over four years.

Click here to see the Chicago Public School's offer to unionized teachers

In the Chicago press, there has been speculation that Mayor ?Emanuel may seek a court injunction to stop the strike, under a provision of the Illinois Education Labor Relations Act that makes it allowable if a teacher strike "is or has become a clear and present danger to the public.?But how a judge would interpret the law?is uncertain, according to a report in Catalyst Chicago, a website that reports on urban education.

"(Emanuel) doesn't have a legal standing,"?Lewis said. "We have a completely legal work stoppage, we have followed every rule!"

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel urges teachers to "stay at the table" and negotiate a deal "for our children." Watch the news confernce.

More than 26,000 teachers and support staff went on strike Monday morning after talks broke down Sunday night. The move left students in nearly 700 schools without classroom instruction.

Teachers at Chicago's charter schools, which serve about 45,000 students, are not striking and those schools remain open.

Meantime, parents were offered some options for placing their children who were displaced from school by the labor dispute.

The school district opened 144 schools to accommodate kids whose parents were working and provided breakfast and lunch. Dozens of other sites run by churches and community organizations were also available, but for the second day attendance ?was lower than expected. At a South Side YMCA, the site saw 35 kids Monday and Tuesday, fewer than expected.

NBC Chicago live blog of the strike

Many striking teachers were planning to remain on picket lines in the morning then attend a 2:30 p.m. mass rally at the school district headquarters.

In a gathering Monday in front of the headquarters, marchers expressed impatience, the Chicago Tribune reported.

"This could have been solved on day negative five," complained Christopher Barker, a math teacher at George Manierre Elementary School, speaking to the Tribune. But he added, "I'll be here as long as I need to."

A fellow picketer Susan Hickey, a social worker for the district,?was worried about students most in need of help.

"These children need these services," Hickey told the Tribune.?"They need more quality services."

The only consolation, she said, was that the strike provided "a bit of a history lesson."

"We're telling them, 'This is how you stand for your rights,'" she said.

WMAQ's Phil Rogers shares the latest on the teachers strike in Chicago. Emmeline Zhao then joins to discuss the key issues separating Chicago Public School and the Chicago Teachers Union.

NBC Chicago contributed to this report.

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Chicago parents ask: How long will strike go on?

As Chicago teachers enter day two of their massive strike, parents and students are struggling with unexpected days off. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports.

By Kevin Tibbles, NBC News correspondent

CHICAGO ??Felicia O?Connor, a young mother?with a child in tow, approached the picket line. She asked the picketing teachers if they ?know how long this thing will be going on??

She leaves for work each day before the sun comes up and said she was unaware of the late night Sunday decision by the Chicago teachers? union to hit the bricks.?

Now she is stuck with trying to sort out childcare for her 6- year-old daughter, Michaela.?She didn?t get an answer to her question from the teachers.

?They don?t know anything. I don?t know anything. We?re just out here blank and I have to go to work,? O?Connor said.

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She wound up leaving her daughter in good hands at a local Boys and Girls Club for a few hours while she went out, in vain, in search of a day care. She?s already missed one day of work and hopes her employers will show some understanding.

?Education is important. If my child is not in school, getting the education she needs, you know what? I don?t know, it is just irritating right now," she said.?

Parents in Chicago, like Felicia O'Connor seen above, scrambled to find accommodations for their kids after 26,000 teachers and support staff walked out in the nation's third-largest school district. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports.

Picking sides
Two days into this work stoppage by the city?s third largest school district, and one finds folks starting to choose sides.

Chicago teachers strike day two: Talks stuck on evaluations

?I haven?t had a raise in seven years,? said one middle-aged woman who walked past me as I stood watching teachers march outside the headquarters of the Chicago School Board. ?They?re already making more money than I am.?

?I support the teachers because I support my kids,? said a young mother who stood and watched teachers march for a few minutes. ?My daughter was in a class with more than 35 kids last year; this year it is up to 41.?

About 26,000 teachers and support staff?launched a strike?on Monday morning ? all dressed in bright red t-shirts and carrying placards ? demanding a new contract between the teacher?s union and the city?s school district.

Other parents complained about a lack of school supplies or decent air conditioning for their kids on sweltering Chicago days.

One can likely assume the longer this thing drags on, the more entrenched each side is going to get. ?Day One? of the strike came with a bit of a party atmosphere. By ?Day Two? on Tuesday, teachers had already started fingering the mayor and chanting, ?Hey Hey Ho Ho Rahm Emanuel has got to go.?

NBC Chicago's LIVE Blog: Chicago Teachers Strike

In Chicago, 26,000 teachers and support staff walked out in the nation's third-largest school district after a weekend of unsuccessful eleventh-hour contract negotiations between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago's public schools. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.

Bigger city issues
Parents also have other concerns that are more a reflection of the city we live in. This has been a particularly deadly year on the streets of Chicago, with the homicide rate up about 30 percent from what it was a year ago. The overwhelming majority of the dead are young minorities. To give kids a "safe haven" during the strike, several churches have opened their doors.?

?There's so much violence skyrocketing in the city of Chicago. We want our kids to be in a safe place,? said Sergio Ramirez, who runs a ?safe haven? in the city?s Pilsen neighborhood.?

Some 80 percent of kids in Chicago?s schools are provided with breakfast and lunch at school because they come from impoverished backgrounds. The job of teaching here, and administering an education system, has many more challenges than just ensuring kids are learning the 3Rs.

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Physician's empathy directly associated with positive clinical outcomes, confirms large study

Physician's empathy directly associated with positive clinical outcomes, confirms large study

Monday, September 10, 2012

Patients of doctors who are more empathic have better outcomes and fewer complications, concludes a large, empirical study by a team of Thomas Jefferson University and Italian researchers who evaluated relationships between physician empathy and clinical outcomes among 20,961 diabetic patients and 242 physicians in Italy.

The study was published in the September 2012 issue of Academic Medicine, and serves as a follow up to a smaller study published in the same journal in March 2011 from Thomas Jefferson University investigating physician empathy and its impact on patient outcomes. That study included 891 diabetic patients and 29 physicians and concluded similar findings: patients of physicians with high empathy scores had better clinical outcomes than patients of other physicians with lower scores.

"This new, large-scale research study has confirmed that empathic physician-patient relationships is an important factor in positive outcomes," said Mohammadreza Hojat, Ph.D., research professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior; and director, Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education in the Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care at Jefferson Medical College. "It takes our hypothesis one step further. Compared to our initial study, it has a much larger number of patients and physicians, a different tangible clinical outcome, hospital admission for acute metabolic complications, and a cross-cultural feature that will allow for generalization of the findings in different cultures, and different health care systems."

Participants in this study were 20,961 diabetic patients from a population of over 284,000 adult patients in the Local Health Authority, Parma, Italy, enrolled with one of 242 primary care physicians.

Researchers used the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) ? developed in 2001 as an instrument to measure empathy in the context of medical education and patient care. This validated instrument relies on the definition of empathy in the context of patient care as a predominately cognitive attribute that involves an understanding of patient's concerns, pain, and suffering, and an intention to help. The scale includes 20 items answered on a seven-point Likert-type scale (strongly agree = 7, strongly disagree = 1). The 242 physicians completed the JSE.

In the 2011 study, to measure how a physician's empathy impacted a diabetic patient's treatment outcomes, the researchers used the results of two medical tests: the hemoglobin A1c test and cholesterol levels measurements. They found a direct association between a higher physician JSE score and a better control of patients' hemoglobin A1c and cholesterol level.

Here, researchers sought a different tangible clinical outcome. The presence of acute metabolic complications among diabetic patients, including hyperosmolar state, diabetic ketoacides, and coma, for patients who were hospitalized in 2009 was used as the outcome measure. Acute metabolic complications were used because they require hospitalization, can develop rather quickly, and their prevention is more likely to be influenced by the primary care physicians.

A total of 123 patients were hospitalized because of acute metabolic complications in 2009. Results showed that physicians in the higher empathy score group had a lower rate of patients with acute metabolic complications. For example, physicians with higher empathy levels had 29 (out of 7,224) patients admitted to the hospital, whereas physicians with lower levels had 42 (out of 6,434) patients.

There are many factors that add to the strength of the study. Firstly, because of universal health care coverage in Italy, there is no confounding effect of difference in insurance, lack of insurance or financial barriers to access care.

"What's more, this second study was conducted in a health care system in which all residents enroll with a primary care physician resulting in a better defined relationship between the patients and their primary care physicians than what exists in the United States," said co-author Daniel Z. Louis, Managing Director for the Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care and research associate professor of family and community medicine at JMC. "Italy has a lower rate of switching doctors, facilitating long-lasting physician patient relationships," added co-author Vittorio Maio, PharmD, M.S., MSPH, associate professor at the Jefferson School of Population Health.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 25 million people in the U.S. population have been diagnosed with diabetes, with almost 700,000 hospitalizations per year. There are approximately 2 million new cases per year. Worldwide, the number of total cases jumps to 180 million.

"Results of this study confirmed our hypothesis that a validated measure of physician empathy is significantly associated with the incidence of acute metabolic complications in diabetic patients, and provide the much-needed, additional empirical support for the beneficial effects of empathy in patient care" said Dr. Hojat. "These findings also support the recommendations of such professional organizations as the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Board of Internal Medicine of the importance of assessing and enhancing empathic skills in undergraduate and graduate medical education."

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Everpurse arrives on Kickstarter, brings wireless iPhone charging to your purse

The Everpurse has arrived on Kickstarter and it is a really interesting project that may well have huge potential. The Everpurse is a rechargeable purse that can power your iPhone just by slipping it into the purse. There is no connection to be made; the charging is all carried out wirelessly and it has enough power to charge your iPhone from 0% battery right up to fully charged twice over.

Ever notice that your smartphone dies JUST when you need it most? We set out to build something so powerful and easy to use, it would make charging your phone an afterthought. To charge, all you have to do is slip your phone into the Everpurse pocket! Whether you're at work or out on the town, your Everpurse will keep your phone charged all day long. You can carry your Everpurse inside a bigger bag, or by itself. When you get home, simply drop your Everpurse on the white charging mat for wireless charging!

My husband (a serial technology entrepreneur and prototyping enthusiast) and I (a social worker) started building Everpurse for fun over a year ago. It began as a quest to make the perfect purse. One that would let me go through the whole day without ever thinking about charging my phone. It also had to look gorgeous. I was tired of awful charging solutions that were bulky, ugly, and simply a pain to use. Many prototypes and iterations later, we've gotten it down to a beautiful science! Everpurse is now patent-pending and ready to manufacture.

The Everpurse is fully rechargeable and comes with a white charging mat that you just drop it on when you get home. It is then fully charged and ready for the next time you leave the house. The Everpurse will be available in three different colors and in fabric or leather varieties. The most interesting part of this project is the fact that no modifications have to be made to the iPhone and it doesn?t need to have any special case either. There is no explanation as to how this actually works but I guess they want to keep that part quiet for now. If it does work as they claim then this could be a very significant development and one that is sure to take off with massive interest. Shame it is only suitable for those that carry a purse on a regular basis but I am sure other solutions could be brought to market that could utilize this technology in other ways too.

If you like the idea of the Everpurse, you can become an early adopter with a pledge of $99 which will secure one fabric purse complete with white charging mat; should they make it into production. The Everpurse currently has 34 pledges amounting to $4282 and still has a long way to go before it reaches it funding goal of $100,000; it still has 33 days to go and I would not bet against it reaching that target either.

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