National Jewish Health receives grant to improve care of asthma patients in the San Luis Valley

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National Jewish Health has received a grant for $950,308 from GlaxoSmithKline to improve care of asthma patients in Colorado's San Luis Valley with educational materials for patients and hands-on training for primary health care teams. Asthma is the most common chronic illness in children and adults, and is the greatest cause of missed school days. The San Luis Valley has one of the highest asthma rates in the state.

The two-year Independent Medical Educational Program Grant will allow National Jewish Health to provide primary health care teams in Colorado's San Luis Valley with hands-on training to help physicians and healthcare teams better diagnose and manage asthma.

"This is a great opportunity for our providers and nursing staff to help patients and families learn about asthma and develop the skills that will help them control their disease," said Denise Trujillo, MSN, RN, Director of Nursing at Valley Wide Health Systems. "With well-controlled asthma they are much more likely to stay active and healthy."

Children in the San Luis Valley are among the hardest hit by asthma. In the San Luis Valley, Alamosa and Rio Grande counties have some of the highest rates of hospitalizations for pediatric asthma. Reports show that 14-percent of school-aged children in the San Luis Valley have been diagnosed with asthma by a health care provider, compared to a national average of 9.5 percent.

In response to this need, Conejos County Hospital, the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center and Valley-Wide Health Systems Inc have partnered with National Jewish Health to develop a program known as "Quality Asthma Care in the San Luis Valley."

The National Jewish Health program seeks to provide sustainable improvements in asthma care to two hospitals and a network of provider clinics in the rural San Luis Valley, all of which provide care to a population at risk for significant disparities in health and high asthma burden. The population is a rural community with high rates of poverty, and is a federally designated health professional shortage area, as well as a medically underserved area.

"The San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center and Physician Services is delighted to have this opportunity to collaborate with National Jewish Health and providers in the San Luis Valley to provide this level of expertise and care to members of our community," said Helen Lester, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer at San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center. "It is working together as a team that provides the best of care and outcomes."

The educational grant provides funding for the primary health care teams throughout the San Luis Valley to receive hands-on training related to asthma as well as tools for their clinics to help care for children and adults with asthma and other breathing problems. In addition to training for health care providers, asthma education materials are being developed in English and Spanish to help individuals and families manage their asthma successfully. Asthma QuickFacts are an example of these materials, and are being used with patients in clinics at Conejos County Hospital, the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center and Valley-Wide Health Systems Inc. Each participating clinic has "Asthma Champions" that were provided additional training and work with staff at National Jewish Health to provide the best asthma care. The program kicked-off in the spring of 2011, and the training and development phases of the program will be completed by December 2012.

The goal of this program is to build and provide sustainable infrastructure, education and skill development that supports health care teams to provide quality asthma care that includes assessing, treating and managing asthma as directed by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's evidence-based asthma guidelines. The success of the educational program will be determined by evaluating the participating clinics' practices for key quality asthma care activities, such as coaching patients to use proper inhaler technique. The Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center in Alamosa, which is part of the University of Colorado, is working with the Quality Asthma Care Program for the San Luis Valley team to gather and analyze the data to determine the success of the program. NJH has partnered with a Denver-based educational outcomes provider, Healthcare Research, Inc., to provide an educational outcomes report for this initiative.

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Contact: Adam Dormuth
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National Jewish Health has received a grant for $950,308 from GlaxoSmithKline to improve care of asthma patients in Colorado's San Luis Valley with educational materials for patients and hands-on training for primary health care teams. Asthma is the most common chronic illness in children and adults, and is the greatest cause of missed school days. The San Luis Valley has one of the highest asthma rates in the state.

The two-year Independent Medical Educational Program Grant will allow National Jewish Health to provide primary health care teams in Colorado's San Luis Valley with hands-on training to help physicians and healthcare teams better diagnose and manage asthma.

"This is a great opportunity for our providers and nursing staff to help patients and families learn about asthma and develop the skills that will help them control their disease," said Denise Trujillo, MSN, RN, Director of Nursing at Valley Wide Health Systems. "With well-controlled asthma they are much more likely to stay active and healthy."

Children in the San Luis Valley are among the hardest hit by asthma. In the San Luis Valley, Alamosa and Rio Grande counties have some of the highest rates of hospitalizations for pediatric asthma. Reports show that 14-percent of school-aged children in the San Luis Valley have been diagnosed with asthma by a health care provider, compared to a national average of 9.5 percent.

In response to this need, Conejos County Hospital, the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center and Valley-Wide Health Systems Inc have partnered with National Jewish Health to develop a program known as "Quality Asthma Care in the San Luis Valley."

The National Jewish Health program seeks to provide sustainable improvements in asthma care to two hospitals and a network of provider clinics in the rural San Luis Valley, all of which provide care to a population at risk for significant disparities in health and high asthma burden. The population is a rural community with high rates of poverty, and is a federally designated health professional shortage area, as well as a medically underserved area.

"The San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center and Physician Services is delighted to have this opportunity to collaborate with National Jewish Health and providers in the San Luis Valley to provide this level of expertise and care to members of our community," said Helen Lester, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer at San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center. "It is working together as a team that provides the best of care and outcomes."

The educational grant provides funding for the primary health care teams throughout the San Luis Valley to receive hands-on training related to asthma as well as tools for their clinics to help care for children and adults with asthma and other breathing problems. In addition to training for health care providers, asthma education materials are being developed in English and Spanish to help individuals and families manage their asthma successfully. Asthma QuickFacts are an example of these materials, and are being used with patients in clinics at Conejos County Hospital, the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center and Valley-Wide Health Systems Inc. Each participating clinic has "Asthma Champions" that were provided additional training and work with staff at National Jewish Health to provide the best asthma care. The program kicked-off in the spring of 2011, and the training and development phases of the program will be completed by December 2012.

The goal of this program is to build and provide sustainable infrastructure, education and skill development that supports health care teams to provide quality asthma care that includes assessing, treating and managing asthma as directed by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's evidence-based asthma guidelines. The success of the educational program will be determined by evaluating the participating clinics' practices for key quality asthma care activities, such as coaching patients to use proper inhaler technique. The Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center in Alamosa, which is part of the University of Colorado, is working with the Quality Asthma Care Program for the San Luis Valley team to gather and analyze the data to determine the success of the program. NJH has partnered with a Denver-based educational outcomes provider, Healthcare Research, Inc., to provide an educational outcomes report for this initiative.

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Open your eyes and smell the roses: Activating the visual cortex improves our sense of smell

ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2012) ? A new study reveals for the first time that activating the brain's visual cortex with a small amount of electrical stimulation actually improves our sense of smell. The finding published in the Journal of Neuroscience by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -- The Neuro, McGill University and the Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, revises our understanding of the complex biology of the senses in the brain.

"It's known that there are separate specialized brain areas for the different senses such as vision, smell, touch and so forth but, when you experience the world around you, you get a coherent picture based on information from all the senses. We wanted to find out how this works in the brain," says Dr. Christopher Pack, lead investigator at The Neuro. "In particular we wanted to test the idea that activation of brain regions primarily dedicated to one sense might influence processing in other senses. What we found was that electrically stimulating the visual cortex improves performance on a task that requires participants to identify the odd odor out of a group of three." This result is interesting because it shows, for the first time, that on a basic level the brain structures involved in different senses are really quite interconnected in everyone -- more so than previously understood.

"This 'cross-wiring' of senses has been described in people with synesthesia, a condition in which stimulation of one sense leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sense, causing people to see the colour of numbers, or smell words, or hear odours for example, says Dr. Johan Lundstrom at Monell Chemical Senses Center. "Now this study shows that cross-wiring of the senses exists in all of us, so we could all be considered synesthetic to a degree."

To examine the possibility that activating the visual cortex influences the sense of smell, people were tested on smell tasks before and after application of TMS, a non-invasive method of stimulating targeted brain areas. TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation, was directed towards the visual cortex using a protocol that had been previously shown by researchers at The Neuro to improve visual perception. TMS is already widely used in the treatment of certain disease symptoms, and because TMS alters brain activity in a targeted area, it provides a powerful test of the hypothesis that visual cortex activation changes olfactory perception.

The results demonstrate that visual cortex activity is incorporated into the processing of smells, proving for the first time a cross-wiring of the visual and olfactory systems in the brain. Interestingly, the team did not find evidence for similar cross-wiring between olfactory and auditory systems. This suggests that vision may play a special role in binding together information from the different senses, a possibility that the researchers are currently exploring. In addition to Drs. Pack and Lundstrom, the research was carried out by Jahan Jadauji, a Master's student, and Jelena Djordjevic, a clinical neuropsychologist and neuroscientist, both at The Neuro. This collaboration between researchers and clinicians was made possible by The Neuro's integrated research institute and hospital.

This study was funded by a Centre of Excellence in Commercialization and Research grant, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council, as well as support from Mrs. Anna Engel.

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Chinese architect Wang Shu wins Pritzker Prize

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Chinese architect Wang Shu, whose buildings have been praised for their commanding presence and careful attention to the environment, has won the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury announced Monday.

The 49-year-old architect joins Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando and Eduardo Souto de Moura in receiving the honor that's been called architecture's Nobel Prize. Wang, the first Chinese architect to receive the honor, is recognized for his museums, libraries, apartment complexes and other structures.

Some of Wang's notable design accomplishments include salvaging more than two million tiles from demolished traditional houses to cover the roofs of Xingshan Campus buildings and designing half the Library of Wenzheng College underground.

The formal Pritzker ceremony will be held May 25 in Beijing. Wang will receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion.

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Alternate Publishing: POD to Finish a Series ? Fiction Notes

Alternate publishing has been a quiet, behind-the-scenes subject for the last two or three years, but I keep hearing people talking about how they?ve taken the plunge. The terms vary: self-publishing, indie publishing, niche publishing. Some authors are apologetic; some are arrogant; some are business-like. But more and more, people are taking their copyright into their own hands and asking: how can I make money with what I have written. This week, we?ll look at seven stories of people who have done exactly that. For every story told here, I probably know of two or three more similar stories.

Dusting off an old publisher?s hat

Guest post by Joni Sensel

My latest book starts with a mouse-gnawed, bedraggled hat, and I found myself donning an old hat myself to get this book to readers who were asking for it.

More than ten years ago, I started a small press and self-published two picture books. One earned an award, both sold out their print runs, and I got a terrific crash-course in publishing ? enough to know I?d rather write. I stuffed my publishing hat into a closet.

After four traditionally published middle-grade novels, however, I dusted off my DIY cap. Having published THE FARWALKER?S QUEST and its sequel (which were contracted individually), Bloomsbury didn?t even want to consider the trilogy?s finale. Though the books earned good reviews and even a little award notice, sufficient copies didn?t sell for the company to invest in the third.

Farwalker?s Quest was a 2009 Cybil Award finalist and a 2010 Bank Street College ?Best Book?.
REVIEWS

• This is a solid and well-paced fantasy in which the journey is more important than the conclusion. The theme of finding and accepting one?s true calling resonates. ?School Library Journal
• [T]he book is at once elegant and lyrical, while also offering an intensely paced and action-driven plot for readers who are seeking adventure along with poetic contemplation.
  ?The Bulletin of the Center for Children?s Books
• This stand-alone fantasy has a unique setting with an intriguing history and a suspenseful plot. ?Booklist
• The story offers crisp dialogue, an exciting plot, and strong secondary characters. ?Kirkus

Yet readers were asking for more. So I finished it myself.

I did plenty of homework, including talking with others who were self-publishing to finish a traditional series. These included Book 6 in Kevin Emerson?s Oliver Nocturne series (Scholastic) and Book 4 in Chris Eboch?s Haunted series (Aladdin). (Chris has since self-published several books, though not that one yet, I think. Kevin?s series finale came out last May.)

One thing I did differently was to hire my Bloomsbury editor, partly because I wanted more third-party sanction (and more confidence in the work). I got lucky; her moonlit editorial notes came dirt cheap. Since I couldn?t afford the busy illustrator who did the first two covers, I paid a friend, Kirsten Carlson ? who?d previously helped with marketing materials ? to create the cover. For middle-graders, I wanted a physical book, so I used CreateSpace. (Next time, if there is one, I?ll look at Lightning Source for their distribution options, or the new Apple app.) I formatted the book and did my own ebook prep, too. The latter took the most effort.

Pulling my print-on-demand (POD) proof from the mail was as thrilling as getting an ARC from New York ? just with more proofing pressure! THE SKELETON?S KNIFE was published in November, and readers I?ve heard from so far have loved it. Yahoo!

My marketing plan is, frankly, minimal. I didn?t do this to sell lots of books, and I haven?t?about 100 copies in three months, though that?s still more than I expected. Really, I just wanted closure and something to offer fans who asked for more (without mailing them pages in a three-ring binder!).

That said, I did the same social media, blogger outreach, and announcements I would?ve done if someone else had published it, but at a lower volume, in part because my audience is mostly those who?ve read the first one or two, anyway. I?m pleased to have gotten a great review from a recognized kidlit blogger, Charlotte Taylor at Charlotte?s Library, as well as several on the book?s Amazon page. My attitude hasn?t changed, though ? I?d rather write. Yes, I know marketing is part of the writer?s job. After four traditionally published novels, however, with equal effort on my part and distinctly different sales results, I?m not convinced there?s much relationship between the author?s efforts and sales. (And none of my editors have thought so, either. Others, of course, disagree.)

I?m not planning to self-publish again soon. I think there are good reasons and bad reasons to do so, and I?m leery of the bad reasons. I still want the experts? imprimatur and thus the confidence that I?m not embarrassing myself before my peers and readers. I also want to spend maximum time writing (regardless of the results).

I?ll keep my worn publisher?s hat handy, though. Whether I like it or not, it probably won?t be another 10 years before I need it again!

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Tips on Consolidating Your Debt and Repairing Your Credit - Finance

Don?t think that you are alone with your debt because this isn?t true. In one way or another, everyone is in debt regardless of economic status or situation. Chances are, you might have small debts such as credit cards or financing or even large debts like student loans and mortgages. Regardless of this, your level of debt directly affects your credit.

You have trouble getting a loan or a mortgage, or even a debit card which are things that most of us take for granted unless you have a good credit score. Your credit score is maintained through a credit bureau and it is the key to your credit report. Your credit rating will fall as a result if you miss payments or fall into default on a debt and it will be reported to your credit bureau. Repairing your credit score is unique to each individual and it is also an effective process with many steps. But there is one method of improving credit scores that has worked for individuals in many situations and that is called debt consolidation.

When dealing with credit repair, it is important to act quickly. Your credit rating may have become damaged as soon as you missed a payment on your loan or debt but even so, it will get worse and be more difficult to act on later if you don?t act right away. It is a common misconception that you either have ?good? or ?bad? credit and once you get behind, it?s pointless to try and fix it. This is not true! The best thing to do is work on your credit issues right away, because if given the opportunity, they will get worse.

Repairing your credit requires that you pay your debts as quickly as you can even if you haven?t been able to pay your creditors on time. Unfortunately, your economic situation is probably such that you don?t have all the money you need to pay your debts, or you wouldn?t be missing your payments in the first place. In credit repair, debt consolidation can therefore be a great tool.

When it comes to debt consolidation, it works by combining all of your existing debts into one loan. If you have several different existing debts, then this would mean that you can take out a single loan from one bank or company, pay your existing debts with that loan, and be left with only one loan to pay off.

Debt consolidation allows you flexibility in situations where your outstanding debts have become unmanageable. Though the amount of money you owe won?t change, you could get a long-term loan for your debt consolidation and your monthly payments will be lower. The best part is that debt consolidation will immediately bring you current with your creditors and it will ultimately be easier to repair your credit. Debt consolidation is not a quick-fix credit solution, but it will prevent additional immediate damage to your credit, and allow you to begin repairing your credit right away.

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The internet marketing online courses give students a way to continue an education and earn money at the same time. The students can choose the program from the comforts and privacy of ones home. These online professional training courses have many programs that enable the student to get an overview of their education and career training progress. There are a number of distance programs that the student can choose from.

Email based correspondence courses can be free or paid. Theoretically, email based correspondence courses are very subtle sales pitches, which urge clients to purchase a product or hire a service. No matter if you offer such courses for free or charge for them; their content has to be accurate because prospects will assess your credibility on the basis of how accurate the information is that you provide through these courses. Your clients will move away from you, if they find your information to be inaccurate.

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A Career In Phlebotomy ? All About Everything

Phlebotomy schools give students the courses necessary to be a medical professional who is able to draw and collect blood from patients. This training includes specialized coursework which often is done when the student receives his / her phlebotomy certification. Those invoved with this profession earn a decent income, job prospects being very high. For anybody who is wanting to operate in the healthcare industry than phlebotomy training is an excellent way to get started.

When thinking about the average phlebotomy technician salary, four factors are important variables: geographic location, education, job location, and the demand. To land employment as a technician it isn?t really necessary to be certified however it?s becoming increasingly hard to find employment for those who are not certified. In United States, the median salary for a phlebotomist is just a little short of $29,000 per year. Areas such as New York, Mississippi, and West Virginia offer higher salaries ranging from $38,000-$44,000 annually. Considering the current economic conditions we are experiencing in this country, various parts of the U.S. experience different effects.

Places where you can expect to earn an average salary would be in states like Texas, California, New Mexico, Indiana, and Oklahoma. Most other states offer salaries ranging between $31,000 and $37,000 per year except for the three states mentioned previously. Geography also plays a role whereas supply and demand often dictate available jobs in one region versus another.

Except for Louisiana and California, states do not require that a phlebotomist be certified in order to draw blood from patients or animals. Both these states require that anyone in the health profession who is not certified as a doctor, nurse, or clinical laboratory scientist must be certified in phlebotomy in order to draw blood from patients. In general, without getting a certification there is little chance you will be able to get a well-paying job in this profession.

There are various ways to find phlebotomy courses since they are provided by many different schools to include: trade schools, vocational schools, community college, and some four-year institutions. You may also find phlebotomy programs by searching online. School courses vary in length from school to school. Some are quite short and require only four months of education. Other schools can take as long as a year to complete the course. Trade schools and vocational schools usually have the shortest courses and also the most economical.

The common cost to take a phlebotomy course ranges anywhere between $1500 and $3000. The cost usually covers the fee for the certification exam. Courses cover a number of topics that relate to the required knowledge a phlebotomist should have. These include human anatomy, basic first aid, blood-drawing techniques, biohazard issues, and many other related topics.

For those who have chosen to go into this health profession, now is a good time because jobs are increasing in demand. Based on the salary and the short amount of time required for training, you can be well on your way to becoming a certified phlebotomist quickly. Feel free to check out other articles on this topic in order to get you on your new career path.

Check our resources for information on schools for phlebotomy and phlebotomy exam.

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Here's another Internet meme game for your future nostalgia

15 hrs.

Helen A.S. Popkin

It's only a matter of time before Parker Brothers or some other such mega family game conglomerate mass produce a board game based on the Internet's favorite pastime ? image macro memes. As it is, super imposing funny phrases over amusing photos or illustrations (that's what an image macro is, BTW), is now so mainstream that more than a few self-starters have made a go of it.

The latest comes in a form of a drinking board game that uses 24 memes as spaces, reports Mashable.

Starting with the Rent Is Too Damn High guy and ending with the Most Interesting Man in the World, the game is currently all the rage on Reddit, and features meme favorites such as Scumbag Steve, High Expectations Asian Father, Annoying Facebook Girl, and more. (Click the dang links if you have no idea what I'm talking about ? though at this point, you should. You're on the Internet right now, after all.)?

The Meme Drinking Board Game, created by Reddit user Marc Sloan, follows other attempts at meme gamification, including the Rage Face Drinking Game, the Kickstarter-funded For the Win, and a not-so-successful meme card game.?

As Mashable notes, one fan has already posted an Internet version of Sloan's Meme Drinking game ? ? which serves to illustrate the built-in flaw with any meme based game that attempts a static existence outside the Internet.

We love memes because they're not static. Each and every iteration of something the Most Interesting Man in the World doesn't always do -- or some new bit of advice from Insanity Wolf?-- causes us to spit coffee, Diet Coke, Red Bull, what have you, because the funny is fresh and ever-evolving. ?Once you've laminated the gag, it ceases to be amusing.?

Though I'm sure alcohol doesn't hurt.?

More on the annoying way we live now:?

Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.?

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Taliban: 2 American Troops Killed In Retaliation For Quran Burnings

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A gunman killed two American military advisers with shots to the back of the head Saturday inside a heavily guarded ministry building, and NATO ordered military workers out of Afghan ministries as protests raged for a fifth day over the burning of copies of the Quran at a U.S. army base.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Interior Ministry attack, saying it was retaliation for the Quran burnings, after the U.S. servicemen ? a lieutenant colonel and a major ? were found dead on the floor of an office that only people who know a numerical combination can get into, Afghan and Western officials said.

The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces recalled all international military personnel from the ministries, an unprecedented action in the decade-long war that highlights the growing friction between Afghans and their foreign partners at a critical juncture in the war.

The U.S.-led coalition is trying to mentor and strengthen Afghan security forces so they can lead the fight against the Taliban and foreign troops can go home. That mission, however, requires a measure of trust at a time when anti-Western sentiment is at an all-time high.

Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak called U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to apologize for the shooting and offer his condolences, Pentagon press secretary George Little said in a statement released in Washington.

?This act is unacceptable and the United States condemns it in the strongest possible terms,? Little said.

Security is tight in the capital, which is covered in snow, and foreigners working at the U.S. Embassy and at international organizations have been banned from leaving their compounds.

U.S. officials said they were searching for the assailant, who has not been identified by name or nationality.

The two American service members were found by another foreigner who went into the room, according to the Afghan official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose details about the shootings. They were shot in the back of the head, according to Western officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the information. Authorities were poring over security camera video for clues, the Afghan official said.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid identified the shooter as one of their sympathizers, Abdul Rahman. He said an accomplice inside the ministry helped Rahman get inside the compound to kill the Americans in retaliation for the Quran burnings.

?After the attack, Rahman informed us by telephone that he was able to kill four high-ranking American advisers,? Mujahid said. The Taliban often inflate death tolls and sometimes claim responsibility for killings they did not conduct.

Little, the Pentagon press secretary, said Wardak indicated that President Hamid Karzai was assembling religious leaders and other senior Afghan officials to take urgent steps to protect coalition forces.

U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, met with Afghan Interior Minister Bismullah Khan Mohammadi, who offered both his condolences to the families of the victims and his apologies, Little said.

Afghanistan?s interior and defense ministers are expected in Washington next week.

Allen said he recalled all NATO personnel from the ministries ?for obvious force protection reasons? but also said the alliance remains committed to its partnership with the Afghan government. NATO forces have advisers embedded in many Afghan ministries. The advisers are helping to develop the ministries so that Afghans can take the lead by the end of 2014, when foreign combat forces are to transfer control of security to Afghan security forces.

At least 28 people have been killed and hundreds wounded since Tuesday, when it first emerged that Qurans and other religious materials had been thrown into a fire pit used to burn garbage at Bagram Air Field, a large U.S. base north of Kabul.

President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials have apologized for what they said was a mistake, but their regrets have not quelled the deadly protests.

An Afghan soldier turned his gun on foreign troops, killing two American soldiers, during one riot outside a U.S. base in Nangarhar province on Thursday. It was the latest in a rising number of incidents where Afghan soldiers or policemen, or gunmen wearing their uniforms, have killed NATO forces. Last month, France suspended its training program and threatened to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan a year ahead of schedule after an Afghan soldier shot and killed four French soldiers on a base in the east.

Karzai has said that the Afghan people have a right to protest the Quran burnings, but he urged them to demonstrate peacefully and refrain from destroying property. In a statement on Saturday, Karzai urged Afghan security forces to be patient with the protesters.

Hundreds of demonstrators staged peaceful protests in Afghanistan, but ones in Laghman, Kunduz and Logar provinces turned violent.

?The culprits of the burning of the holy Quran should be arrested and hanged to death in public,? said Mohammad Karim, one of 1,000 protesters who burned tires and threw stones at Afghan police in Mohammad Agha district of Logar province, south of Kabul. ?We don?t accept it when they say `We apologize. We apologize.? We don?t want Americans here at all.?

Laghman provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang said about 1,000 protesters threw stones at Afghan security forces, smashed windows of government buildings and tried to attack the nearby governor?s house in the provincial capital of Mehterlam.

In Kunduz, the capital of Kunduz province in northeastern Afghanistan, more than 1,000 protesters threw rocks at government buildings and a U.N. office, said Sarwer Hussaini, a spokesman for the provincial police. He said the police fired into the air to try to disperse the crowd. Dr. Saad Mukhtar, health department director in Kunduz, said at least three protesters died and 50 others were injured in the melee.

In a statement, the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said the U.N. had deep respect for the Islamic faith and understood why Muslims were upset about the desecration of their holy book, but urged the demonstrators to exercise self-restraint and not let militants use the protests to foment violence.

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42000 Irish men and women having affairs on the Internet | Irish ...

?Married but looking? numbers are eye-popping

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IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Friday, February 24, 2012, 8:23 AM

Updated Friday, February 24, 2012, 9:22 AM

There are an eye-popping 630,000 registered users from Ireland and the UK making using of IllicitEncounters.com

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42,000 Irish men and women are hoping to conduct an extramarital affair. And with help from the internet they're exploring physical relationships outside of their own marriages.

According to the Evening Herald there are an eye-popping 630,000 registered users from Ireland and the UK making using of IllicitEncounters.com - a website that discreetly helps people on the look out for affairs online.

Not everyone thinks a cheating website deserves any attention, of course. But the owner has defended what she calls her 'match-making' service. Rosie Freeman-Jones claims she does not feel guilty about the nature of the site, which was founded in 2003.

Said Freeman-Jones: 'I don't think there is a great moral problem, we don't necessarily think an affair is a bad thing. I've been doing this job for four years and I sleep very well at night. I am comfortable with it. People come to a site like ours simply because they want to feel they are not alone, if they are bored in their relationship. We recognize that this is happening and it is happening on a huge scale, our impact on marriages of the masses is very small.'

'In a way it provides a bit of perspective. Once they have gone elsewhere they might think, no this is not what I want and that is a win, win for us.'

But living a second life doesn't come cheap. Men who join have to be willing to pay $133 a month to avail of the service, and that's whether they're looking to flirt or pursue a physical affair.

Freeman-Jones claims the majority of the sites users are aged between 35 and 40 and are financially stable.

'I think we have a tendency to demonize people who seek extramarital relationships and I think there is a fundamental problem with that.

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'At the end of the day we are looking at between 40 percent and 60 percent of people who will cheat. You can either ignore it and say it is wrong and put it in a box somewhere or you can acknowledge it.

'Some people, maybe their confidence is low and they might come online just to flirt a bit. There are people who come looking for a specific type of relationship. I think there are quite a lot of things that motivate people and I don't think they are things you would expect.

'I don't think everybody using the site is missing something at home and that is something that is important to get across. These aren't people who are necessarily in an unhappy marriage but this a feeling among them that they get to a stage in their life where they feel as if they should be happy with their monogamous relationship and they are not and they feel confused and conflicted,' she added.

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Treating Yourself With A Great Outdoor Adventure | Swiss Travel

Young experts have lots of work. They do not have enough time and do not have extra time to spend for vacation. Before you decide to take a rest and go for a trip, you should perform all the duties and responsibilities. If you have got time for vacation, it is always limited. Some people choose staying at home and take a rest.

However, there can be many ways to treat oneself with vacation. It does not need much planning. Backpacking is an excellent example of this. This is an outdoor trip that differs from the usual understanding of vocation concept totally. Commonly, people would think about visiting other countries. This activity is all about the unrevealed riches of the Nature. It is like hiking and camping in one experience.

Backpacking is associated with backpacks where you should put all the things that you require for the trip. Some people call it ìcowboy tripî. You should take things that are necessary to you during the tour. You will need things for emergency cases, clothes, items for personal hygiene and tents. All of them should fit into your bag. Make sure that the bag is light. Take into consideration that you will hike before getting to the place. So, make sure that everything is convenient.

If you are a newbie on this kind of travelling, there are some recommendations that will give you an idea about the event.
Destination/Place ñ Before you start backpacking, you should plan where need to go. Consider the places that will be interesting and exciting to come to. Backpacking experts suggest places that will make you appreciate and get to know more about nature. It can be rather demanding to visit the places which you have never visited and are not familiar with. Use maps, they can be good guides. This is really an excellent adventurous trip for you and your mates.

Companion ñ Going on backpacking alone is not a great idea, isnít it? It would be interesting and exciting if you invite a few mates with you. Others decide to link to groups that have visited the place a few times. In such a way, they do not stick to a specific plan or get confused on the guidebook.

Backpacking items ñ Prepare all the important equipment that you will utilize for the journey. Do not take too much of them, because it is not an ordinary outdoor adventure that you should carry many items with you. When going on backpacking trip you will obviously require clothes, sleeping bags, tents and first aid items. You will need to fit in all these things with big necessity to you. If you carry a big bag, you will not get fun and satisfaction from your adventure.

Organize your holiday carefully to avoid many headaches along the way. Take into account that your goal is to treat yourself with holiday.

People have always been attracted by adventures. And today a number of people want to try outdoor adventures 2011. No doubt, a great part of those people are experienced, the other part can take advantage of outdoor adventure guide. The next step is visiting outdoor adventure store, and you are ready.

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Why India Is a Better Outsourcing Destination Than Philippines ...

Even with the emerging destinations for outsourcing, such as the Philippines, Brazil and Sri Lanka, India continues to top charts when it comes to IT outsourcing.

The old adage says: ?The old wine tastes better.? This implies that whatever is the test of time has to be right in context. This goes well with the global outsourcing industry. Beware of the changing dynamics and trends in the outsourcing industry, India has very well adapted to the market and delivered sustained in the decade. What began in the 1980s that has the back-end operations, has grown into a major investment with the Internet boom and bust in telecommunications late 90s until 2003. Times have changed and so also the clothing business, but India as an outsourcing hub shaped his ability to provide quality ?Differentiated flavors

Currently, India and the Philippines in the global outsourcing market. The race to conquer the market and is triggered in this competition has always been a tremendous growth in the outsourcing market. With regard to the availability of labor, India wins hands down. With more than 1 billion people, there is a definite advantage over the Philippines with 94 million. In addition, with the Indians percent to 50% with an average age of 25 years, India seems much more lucrative target. Outside the workforce, are more important factors of success in business outsourcing rates determined for work, English accent, technology and government support. When compared to the Philippines, is the average salary of an Indian is much lower than that of a Filipino. In terms of English accent, the emphasis Philippines as much better than the Indians in terms of clarity and quality.

Technological progress is the backbone of the company?s outsourcing. The technological advancement of India in the global scenario has been in the League of Nations with its own identity. The colleges and institutions in India have developed their program not only increase awareness of future technologies, but also about the computer skills of potential workers to polish.

For any new business it is important to support a strong public policy in place and to encourage them to have such a company. Though both Indian and Philippine government easy to be open to foreign investment, it is India, the ?National IT Task Force 108? Action Plan developed in order to promote the growth of information technology established in India. Philippines is relatively new and has not yet been subjected to market transitions.

From the above discussion it is clear that if India is set at the top of the business outsourcing, the Philippines is relatively new and not yet reached this level.

Coming back from where we started, remains the same old wine quality when they needed a new packaging in accordance with the time.

Employees worldwide is a one-stop shop for all your needs outsourcing. For more insights and further information visit outsourcing in India.

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The Most Important Form of Communication: Self Talk by Mona ...

The Most Important Form of Communication: Self Talk by Mona?Andrei

Posted by Jared Karol on February 24, 2012 ? Leave a Comment?

Topic: Communication

When I first read the email about the return of The Write On Project (TWOP) and the invitation to write a post for the month of February, one word came to mind: ?Yayyy!?

Then when I saw the topic ? ?Communication? ? I got even more excited. Partly because I love anything that has to do with communicating (talking, writing, marketing, social media) but mostly because I do all of these things on a daily basis ? as both my vocation and my passion.

Turns out I?m not the only one who thinks communicating is pretty important. While trying to narrow down the angle for this piece I did a quick keyword search on Twitter and was pleasantly surprised by the number of profound tweets on the subject of ?communication?:

Will Smith:

6 Keys to a great relationship: friendship, freedom, honesty, trust, understanding, and?communication.

Candace:

When there?s no?communication?in a relationship, it opens doors for assumptions.

You Should Have Known:

Long distance relationships PROVE that Love is about?communication.

PJ:

The 3 fastest means of?communication: Telephone, Television, Tell-a-woman.

Um, okay, maybe that last one has nothing to do with my point, but clearly communication is one of the keys to both successful relationships and topical tweets.

And while communicating with others is pretty important, it?s the conversations that we have with ourselves that trickle down to every other aspect and relationship in our lives.

But we all know this, right? I mean the fact that our self talk is the foundation of everything, including both our failures and our successes, is pretty basic stuff, right?

And yet it remains a mystery why we indulge in so much negative self talk. Every single day of our lives.

We tell ourselves that we?re not as smart, that we?re lazy, that we?re not deserving . . .

Truth is, even our pets receive the positive reinforcement that we don?t give to ourselves. Or at least don?t give to ourselves often enough.

I know it?s not New Year?s Eve but I welcome you to join me in forming a new resolution of habits: replacing negative self talk with positive encouragement.

I?am smart. I work hard. And I deserve only the best ? as I?m sure you do too!

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Identity Theft? Someone is signing me up for stuff online.? | Fraud ...

My fiance has been receiving countless cellphone calls in the last two weeks from telemarketers saying he requested information or signed up for something. But he hasn?t done either. The University of Phoenix called saying he requested information even though he?s a semester away from graduating the college he?s really happy with. Baby.com called asking for him by name or for ?the mother-to-be?. I am most definitely not prego! All the callers are from online; they all ask for him by name and say ?you signed up? for it, so we know someone has been giving out his number. We suspect an old friend from high school who is infamous for his prank phone calls. We know its him. My question is this: What kind of legal action can we take against him? Obviously we can change our number but I?m looking for something more. He?s pretending to be my fiance and using my fiance?s identity to sign up for things. Doesn?t that seem like identity theft? How can we prove its him and get him to stop? Thanks!

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Does Overeating Cause Memory Impairment as We Age?

Ask the Experts | Health

Researchers are in the early stages of linking caloric intake to mild cognitive impairment, the stage between normal age-related memory loss and early Alzheimer's disease

By Larry Greenemeier ?| February 23, 2012?|

DIET IMPACTS DEMENTIA?: A recent report suggests overeating may greatly increase the risk of memory loss for elderly people. Image: Courtesy of Julien Tromeur, via iStockphoto.com

Overeating has been linked to a litany of health problems?diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke, to name a few. Memory loss, dementia and even Alzheimer's may someday be added to that list, according to the preliminary findings of a study on aging conducted by the Mayo Clinic.

Mayo researchers caution against reading too much into their work thus far correlating caloric intake in the elderly with the onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI)?the stage between normal age-related memory loss and early Alzheimer's disease. Still, a report they plan to present in April at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans indicates that overeating may greatly increase the risk of memory loss for elderly people.

In 2006 the Mayo Clinic chose a random sample of 1,233 people in Olmsted County, Minn., ages 70 to 89 years old (none previously diagnosed with dementia) and asked them to fill out a questionnaire describing their diets over the previous year. Participants then returned the surveys to the clinic in Rochester, Minn., after which the researchers grouped the study participants into three categories: those whose daily caloric consumption was between 600 and 1,526 calories; between 1,526 and 2,143; and between 2,143 and 6,000. Each participant then underwent a series of MRI brain scans and cognitive tests.

Correlating caloric consumption with test performance, researchers concluded the odds of having MCI more than doubled for those in the highest calorie-consuming group compared with those in the lowest calorie group. There are several caveats to these findings, however. For instance, the report did not take into account the types of food and beverages consumed nor did it examine the rate at which food was eaten throughout a day.

Study author Yonas Geda acknowledges that the research to better understand the link between MCI and eating in the elderly is still preliminary, but he notes that it does create a foundation for more extensive cause-and-effect research, which he and his colleagues are currently pursuing.

Scientific American spoke with Geda, an associate professor of neurology and psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., and co-chair of the clinic's Neuroscience Discipline Oriented Group, about his team's efforts to identify the causes of memory loss in the elderly and what they plan to investigate in their ongoing research.

[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]

What is mild cognitive impairment?
With MCI, the person is not demented. The person is functioning well, but when you test them on certain memory tests they do poorly as compared to their age-, education- and sex-matched peers. We observed that a daily caloric intake in excess of 2,143 was associated with a significant chance of having MCI. If I am consuming more than 2,143 calories per day, my odds of having MCI is twice that of somebody that consumes 1,526 calories per day.

How did researchers test for MCI?
We determined whether participants had MCI based on three hours of testing when participants came to the Mayo Clinic to turn in their questionnaires. This included testing of memory, language and also sense of direction.

How was memory tested?
Participants were asked to memorize 15 different words and then asked over timed intervals to remember as many words as they could. A normal person might remember seven out of 15 words the first time they are asked, then maybe 10 words the second time and 13 words the next time. After a half hour the person might remember 12 out of 15. With Alzheimer's patients, if give them 15 words to remember, they'll remember two initially. After a half hour, they won't remember any.

Were any participants found to be suffering from MCI?
Yes, 163 people in the study were diagnosed with MCI. So then you divide the participants into two groups: The 163 with MCI, and the 1,070 who tested normal. Then you compare the caloric intake between the two groups. And then you say that caloric intake was higher in the MCI group as compared with the normal group, therefore the higher the caloric intake the higher the chance of having MCI.

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The Complete Business Innovation | Self Improvement Blogs from ...

Are you looking for making your business highly effective? If sure, you need to believe in innovation and new brilliant ideas.

Good ideas could floor from the farthest reaches of the organization. Thus the problem for prime executives is to stimulate experiments across your complete group, select probably the most promising, and disseminate them quickly and broadly throughout the business.

Now a day there is competitors in consumer demand, info and new technology. Your thought from wherever they come from it have to be nurtured and applied as effectively and effectively as potential as a way to reap economic rewards.

Overview

The early analysis on innovation tended to address the group?s means to reply and adapt to exterior and/or inner modifications (Burns and Stalker) (Hull and Hage). Subsequent work on innovation confused extra proactive innovation and distinguished between sorts of innovation. There are three kinds of innovation (process, product/service, and strategy) each of which might differ from incremental to radical and from sustaining to discontinuous.

Emphasis was on the organization?s capacity to advertise both course of and product innovation, no matter a direct need for change (Kanter).

Innovation VS Invention
The Oxford English Dictionary defines innovation as ?making modifications to something established?. Invention is the act of ?coming upon or finding discovery?. Innovation does not imply changing everything. Ponder about changes; don?t wrestle to discover which is not wanted at all on the junction. We should always not mix innovation with invention.

The Complete Business Innovation

Innovation is generated at Individual, Undertaking, Organization and
Atmosphere levels. Nonetheless, if I say enterprise Innovation includes innovation in each components of enterprise then it isn?t acceptable.

1. Innovate Market or Innovation from Market (Shopper)
2. Innovate Trade or Innovation from Business (Competitor)
3. Innovate Product or Innovation from Product / Process (Operations)
4. Innovate Workforce / Organization or Innovation from Workforce / Organization (Administration)

Innovate Market or Innovation from Market

?Business has solely two fundamental functions advertising and innovation,? says Peter Drucker. Nevertheless Robert Tucker suggests five steps essential to make a business innovative.

1. Innovation have to be approached as a discipline, practiced and taught to employees.
2. It have to be cross-purposeful, not just be the R&D division?s job.
3. It should be proactive, not simply aware of what opponents are doing.
4. It must involve everyone within the organization and everyone?s efficiency evaluation ought to embody it.
5. It must be customer-centered.

First, second and forth steps belong to innovation from organization. Third and fifth belong to innovation from market. Surveys and research carried out at market enable organization to be innovative. We are going to see innovation from organization in details.

Innovation from Organization

Jim Biolos in Harvard Management Update offers the following six steps toward making a workforce innovate:

1. Make sure that the members of the group are communicating with each other in a free-flowing or possibly even freewheeling way.
2. They?ve enough responsibility, together with some you may be tempted to maintain for yourself.
3. Present confidence within the team.
4. Provide the suitable assets to the workforce, and make sure its members know that those sources are available.
5. Guantee that every crew member has challenging work.
6. Monitor the pressure.

Group?s Success

Staff of China?s Haier, for instance, found by visiting rural customers that they often used their washing machines not only to launder garments but also to clean vegetables. By making a number of minor modifications to the washers they manufactured, Haier was in a position to market the machines as versatile sufficient?drugstore.com free shipping 25 to scrub both clothes and vegetables, and quickly grew to become the market chief in rural areas of its home country.

The groups include as much as ten individuals who dedicate about one-quarter of their time to the venture for 3 or four months. Taking part on a group is considered a plum task because it supplies publicity to prime executives. Workforce members also recognize that they must develop an actionable plan for pursuing the opportunities as a result of the innovation committee continuously faucets crew members to implement the idea.

Innovation from Administration

Managers don?t merely copy one thing they see elsewhere. They take items of apply or technology that they find and recombine them in novel ways to solve customer problems. Says Philippe Pommez, Natura?s R&D director, ?The exhausting half just isn?t finding the brand new technology; it?s understanding what you?re looking for. That is the place our conceptualization of recent products and new strains that serve native needs turns into indispensable.?

Managers in growing countries generally despair of closing the hole with bigger and better-funded multinationals. Clearly, there may be hope for corporations wherever on the earth to win by way of innovation and creativity. Moreover, managers anyplace can use the sensible innovation tools utilized by developing country champions to innovate on a shoestring.

Innovate Business or Innovation from Trade

There are three essential fundamentals of innovation and entrepreneurship.

First, Industrialist searches for innovative opportunities and develops an modern idea right into a practical business or service. Second is industrial strategy that brings innovation efficiently to market. Third is free enterprise itself and focuses on the organization that?s the carrier of innovation.

When most people think of innovation, they envision developed-world corporations corresponding to the U.S.A.?s IBM, Japan?s Sony, South Korea?s Samsung, Finland?s Nokia, or Switzerland?s Novartis, know-how leaders which have stayed at the chopping fringe of dynamic industries resembling laptop hardware and software, shopper electronics, and pharmaceuticals.

Joseph Schumpeter defines innovation as the combination and inventive utility of present and new knowledge components to improve existing or develop new products and services, manufacturing process, group-strategies and commercialization in an effort to create or preserve added value.

Innovation in Product

Switching to new market with similar product might be innovative to some extend.

However, Innovation in products is an ultimate aim of team most of the time. Views from clients by means of research carry forwarded to R&D group for additional product innovation. Product innovation will depend on how good you might be at studying from market, business and team. Most likely ?Johnson & Johnson? is great example of successful improvements in products.

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