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Three islands belong to Iran: Hassanein Heikal

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Source: Tehran Times

Prominent Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal says that the three Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa, the Greater Tunb, and the Lesser Tunb belong to Iran, and the United Arab Emirates' dispute over Iran's sovereignty over the islands is baseless and politically motivated.

"I was present at the negotiations during the time of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt and Feisal in Saudi Arabia in which the Arab states traded the three islands for Bahrain," the Iranian daily Jomhouri-e-Eslami quoted Heikal as saying in an interview with the CBS network.

"They legitimized the rule of the Sunni minority over a big Shia majority in Bahrain to recognize it as an Arab state," he said.

"Instead of insisting on the notion that the islands belong to the UAE, one should accept the balance of power in the region," he added.

According to the daily, Haikal concluded his remarks on the issue by asking, "Why didn't the Arabs dare to raise the issue of the three islands at the time of the shah, but only started to highlight the case after the revolution of 1979 and continue to sow discord."

Iranian islands of Abu Musa, the Greater and the Lesser Tunbs

Iran's sovereignty over Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs has been disputed by the UAE. The dispute between Iran and the UAE began in 1974, three years after the UAE became independent.

Iran's historical claim to sovereignty over the islands goes back to the Parthian Empire (247 BC to 224 CE) and the Sassanid Empire (224 to 651 CE). Iran believes the islands were occupied by Britain and refers to the agreement between Iran and the Emirate of Sharjah of 1971.

The current emir of Dubai (who is also the vice president, prime minister, and defense minister of the UAE), Sheikh Muhammad, has stated publicly that "he believes the tensions over the islands have been fabricated by the United States."

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Indonesia relocates families to build resorts

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Lombok, Indonesia - As the boat approaches Indonesia's Gili Sunut island, the captain shuts down the engines, letting it drift the final few metres towards the shore. A strange quiet hangs in the air, punctuated by the water slopping against the hull.

Once home to 109 families, this tiny island now lies deserted. Skeletal concrete structures dot the landscape, their door frames and windows removed. Only the roof of the mosque has been left out of respect for Allah, but that too will be razed when a "six-star resort" is constructed here over the coming years.

"The government came to Sunut, to the mosque, and held a meeting with the local people to talk about the development," says Mustiadi, a fisherman, who like many Indonesians goes by one name."We refused the idea of relocation, but after more consultations they told us that we didn't have any choice."

The People's Coalition for Fisheries Justice Indonesia (KIARA), a sea and land rights advocacy group, says the fate of Mustiadi and his community will become more common under a new government programme to promote investment in islands and coastal areas. KIARA says many more islands will effectively be sold to foreign buyers, trampling the rights of fishermen and threatening traditional livelihoods.

After their eviction in June, the former residents of Gili Sunut were relocated to a new settlement on the other side of the bay. The Singaporean developer, Ocean Blue Resorts, has provided each family with a new bungalow and between 3m and 5m rupiah ($246 to $411) in compensation. But Mustiadi says it's not enough.

"They gave us a bungalow, but the roof leaked and it was very poor quality. I decided to rebuild mine, but not everyone could afford to do that. They still haven't paid us for our ruined houses on Gili Sunut," he said."Now life is harder because we live further from our fishing waters. In our new village there is no school, and still we have no road and no running water.It feels like the government hasn't taken care of us."

Booming tourism

Tourism is booming on the island of Lombok. In September, the land division of Indonesian media conglomerate MNC reportedly set aside 700bn ($57.4m) rupiah to invest in an "integrated tourist resort" in Kuta on the island's south coast. The completion of a sealed coast road and the opening of an international airport in 2011 are rapidly boosting the number of visitors.

The locals take what they're given and they don't know how to fight the government. Often the police and the army are used to push people out.

- Selamet Daroyni, KIARA coordinator for education

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Rend Lake College launches Community Health Care class

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INA Those interested in a career in health care, Rend Lake College is offering a Community Health Care course.

Community Health Care is a study of key issues and focuses on developing practical approaches to supporting patients. The class will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Mondays beginning Jan. 13 and will run through May 12 at the Rend Lake College MarketPlace in Mount Vernon.

The course aims to give individuals the foundation for a future career in the health care industry. It also provides great information for family members caring for elderly or sick relatives.

The health care field is still seeing rapid growth in terms of occupations, Kim Robert, dean of RLCs Allied Health Division, said in a news release. Health care coaching is just another aspect of that, as new jobs and disciplines emerge. St. Marys Good Samaritan sees a need for health care coaches, and we are glad to work with them to develop the training for it.

Health care coaches, also known as wellness or health coaches, will help individuals implement the activities and plans the patient creates with his or her nurse, social worker or other clinician. The goal of the health care coach is to motivate and lead his or her clients to positive behavioral change and better health.

Topics covered will include: challenges of delivering adequate health care in communities; population medicine; specific problems posed by diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease; ethical dimensions of the concept of underinsurance; community medicine and the law; methods of improving compliance, and measuring outcomes.

The classroom course format is three hours of lecture, while the internship period with St. Marys Good Samaritan is in-the-field and may include accompanying individuals to doctors appointments, going to individuals homes to assist in a healthy home set up, and providing reinforcement of directions given by health care providers.

For more information or to register for Community Health Care, contact the Rend Lake College Allied Health Division at 618-437-5321, ext. 1251, or at alliedhealth@rlc.edu.

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Noseworthy speaks for restructuring health-care system

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While saying health care reform is a good start, Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. John Noseworthy cited a need to address the "sustainability of Medicare" as well as other issues while speaking on "Meet The Press with David Gregory" this morning.

Dr. Noseworthy appeared on the live news show alongside Dr. Toby Cosgrove, CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, to discuss "How does Obamacare impact your health coverage?"

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Ohio, U.S. expects major job growth in health care

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The health care and social assistance sector has been a main driver of Ohios job growth, and it could remain that way since the sector will lead the nation in employment gains in the next decade, according to new labor projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Health care and social assistance is projected to create five million new jobs nationwide by 2022, the bureau said. Nearly half of the 30 projected fastest-growing U.S. occupations are in health care.

Health care and social assistance employs more Ohio workers than any other sector, and the state more heavily relies on these areas for jobs than most of the country.

Continued health care growth will translate into more jobs for Ohio workers, according to some groups.

At this point, there is no reason to expect that the growth in health care and social assistance jobs will slow in Ohio, said Benjamin Johnson, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

But some labor experts said they believe the governments employment projections are inflated, and hiring will have to slow down because otherwise it will outpace demand for medical services and providers will not be able to bring rising costs under control.

If health care continues to grow as rapidly as it has in the recent past, then you really have to be concerned about our ability to pay for it and the effectiveness of any sort of health care reform, said Edward Hill, dean and professor at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.

Ohios health care and social assistance sector has been a powerhouse of hiring for years, with payrolls increasing annually since at least 1990, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

The sector employed 765,200 Ohio workers in November, which was down slightly from the summer of 2013, but up 10,600 from November 2012, the data show.

The U.S. recession officially ended in June 2009, but the sector continued adding jobs during the economic downturn.

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NAACP helps local residents sign up for health care

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The clock is ticking for Texans to sign up for health care under the federal Affordable Care Act.

As of today, there are a little more than 80 days left in the open enrollment period to sign up for coverage under the new law. Those who miss the March 31 deadline and remain uninsured could face a fine.

Its a deadline that Killeen resident Phyllis Jones is painfully aware of.

Its challenging, because a lot of people in Texas need health care, but they also have a lot of questions and are looking for information, Jones said.

Jones, who serves as education chairperson for the Texas State NAACP, is part of an effort to help educate Texans about the Affordable Care Act, and encourage them to enroll.

In December, Jones held an information session at Moss Rose Community Center in Killeen. She outlined the challenges of trying to get the information to those who need it most: uninsured and economically disadvantaged residents.

They need help, Jones said at the center. They need to be educated in the terms and language, and how coverage works.

21 percent uninsured

Jones said the NAACP has given similar presentations all over Texas, where roughly 24.6 percent of residents, or 6.2 million people, are uninsured. According to a June report from Seton Healthcare, Bell County has an uninsured rate of roughly 21 percent.

Jones said reaching the uninsured may take more than just information. She said people are more likely to sign up if they have someone to answer questions during the process.

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Health Minister calls on health care workers to get immunized as flu spreads

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EDMONTON Immunization clinics reopened across Alberta Friday morning to deal with a surge of flu cases.In Edmonton, the Bonnie Doon Health Centre and Northgate Health Centre were open to the public.

We have entered a very critical period in Alberta, Health Minister Fred Horne said. Over the last couple of weeks weve seen a very large escalation in the number of flu cases in the province.

Horne says the increase is very concerning.

I am concerned from a number of standpoints. First and foremost, we are beginning to see increasing strain on the health care system that has the potential to escalate.

READ MORE: Health officials issue warning about severity of flu outbreak

As of Thursday, Alberta Health Services (AHS) said there have been five reported deaths in Alberta as a result of influenza and 965 lab-confirmed cases of the flu province-wide, 920 of which were the H1N1 form of the virus.

We also know that today there are over 270 people in this province whove been hospitalized for influenza, many of them with the H1N1 strain, which is the dominant strain this year, Horne added.

The H1N1 strain is attacking primarily adults in their 30s, 40s, and 50s.

READ MORE:Edmonton mans wife in intensive care battling H1N1

And the worst is yet to come, according to Horne, who added influenza is expected to peak in mid-February.

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GMO bill to go before the House this month

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A fight over whether to require genetically modified foods to be labeled in New Hampshire is coming before the House this month.

Supporters argue New Hampshire residents have a right to know whether their food is produced with genetic engineering, but critics say the federal Food and Drug Administration has not mandated the labeling because it determined the foods are safe.

The House Environment and Agriculture Committee split in its recommendation on the bill, with a majority favoring killing it. But a minority is arguing its time for states like New Hampshire to lead, regardless of the federal position on the issue.

While we have concerns about the lack of safety and health testing by parties independent of the bio-tech industry, we are not opposed to the use of (genetic engineering) technology per se. We simply feel that people should have the freedom to make their own choices about food, and since knowledge is essential to the proper exercise of that freedom, information about genetically engineered content should be available on food labels, state Rep. Peter Bixby wrote to the House.

But state Rep. Robert Haefner countered in his message to the House on the bill that a label would in effect serve as a skull and crossbones, suggesting to the consumer that there is something dangerous in the product when in fact science has shown there is not.

Haefner said the bill would be difficult and expensive for the state to enforce.

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Biotech firm joins suit against Penn’s cancer therapy

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A new biotech company with formidable founders and funding has joined a lawsuit that accuses the University of Pennsylvania of misappropriating key technology behind its breakthrough therapy for leukemia.

The company, Juno Therapeutics Inc., was launched early last month by three major cancer institutes - including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - with a massive $120 million investment from leading venture capital firms.

Juno's debut ups the ante in the high-stakes race to commercialize novel therapies that use the patient's immune "T cells" to fight cancer. While the approach is still highly experimental - it has worked primarily against certain blood malignancies - results of early clinical testing at Penn and other leading centers have electrified researchers, the biopharma industry, and patients.

Indeed, Penn entered a much-publicized partnership with the global pharmaceutical giant Novartis in 2012, based on results from just the first three leukemia patients.

Penn's T-cell therapy and its development deal are at the heart of the lawsuit that Juno Therapeutics has joined.

Juno, based in Seattle, is a partnership of Sloan-Kettering, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Seattle Children's Research Institute. Last month, Juno signed a licensing agreement to commercialize T-cell technology patented by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, according to legal papers.

The technology involves a "chimeric antigen receptor," or CAR - a synthetic genetic structure that programs the patient's T cells to target and attack cancer.

St. Jude is suing Penn, accusing the university of breaching an agreement to share St. Jude's CAR and infringing on St. Jude's patent.

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Q&A: Futurist Rebecca Ryan says Madison needs to come to grips with its growing diversity

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Rebecca Ryan has been associated with new-economy Madison for almost a decade now.

In 2005, less than a year after she brought Next Generation Consulting to Madison, the Wisconsin State Journal dubbed her a coolness consultant for her work with companies and cities to attract and retain young people. Shes spoken at the Overture Center on the new economy, been the keynote speaker at a Madison Area Technical College graduation and now chairs the board of Sustain Dane, which aims to make Dane County more environmentally friendly and economically successful at the same time.

As it did for many businesses, the Great Recession changed Next Generation. Down from a peak of 10 employees, the company is now just Ryan, 41, and her partner (both in business and life), Marti Ryan. They are futurists, helping clients (mostly municipalities now) nationwide navigate economic and demographic trends to stay relevant.

Rebecca Ryan is the resident futurist for the Arizona-based Alliance for Innovation, but shes kept a high local profile, including writing a regular column for Madison Magazine. In October, she was the target of some angry blowback for a column titled the Tier-Two Tradeoff in which she said living in a smaller city like Madison comes with an opportunity cost.

Ryan said she was taken aback by the intense reaction to the column, though she conceded in a follow-up piece that tier two which in her line of work refers to a city of between 500,000 and 1 million people might sound like an insult. She also wrote that despite the expressed wishes of some, she has every intent of staying in the city. She came in to the Cap Times offices recently to talk about what Madison has going for it, what its problems are and why shes going to stick around.

Cap Times: Tell me a bit more about Next Generations new focus.

Rebecca Ryan: Version two really came from having a crisis of faith in my clients in some ways. During the first part of my companys history we had helped a lot of companies get on "best places to work" lists and then during the recession, some leaders did things that I just really felt were unconscionable.

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The classic example I got a call from the managing partner of one of the biggest public accounting firms in the world, theyd been a client of ours, and he said, Rebecca, Im going to send you a draft of an email that were going to send out tomorrow first thing and I want you to tell me what you think.

So the email comes to my inbox and its announcing a 15 percent reduction in force effective immediately. I called him and I said, "I remember you telling employees that you were running 5 percent ahead of where you were going to be with some of your initiatives." I asked what communication have they received between then and now and he said, Well, none.

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