NASA's Mars rover Curiosity successfully landed on the Red Planet late Sunday night (Aug. 5), marking a historic moment in the history of robotic Mars exploration.
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Global Advances in Health and Medicine to Publish Bravewell Collaborative Mapping Study
Global Advances in Health and Medicine (http://www.GAHMJ.com) is proud to announce that Integrative Medicine in America: How Integrative Medicine Is Being Practiced in Clinical Centers Across the United States has been published in the July 2012 issue of GAHMJ.Portland, OR (PRWEB) August 06, 2012 Sponsored by The Bravewell Collaborative (http://www.bravewell. ...
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Liberty Ross wants to meet Pattinson
Los Angeles, Aug 5 (IANS) Actress Liberty Ross hopes to meet Robert Pattinson whose girlfriend Kristen Stewart had a fling with her husband Rupert Sanders.
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Liberty Mutual in talks over RDS naming rights
The Irish Times - Monday, August 6, 2012
CIARN HANCOCK, Business Affairs Correspondent
US INSURER Liberty Mutual has held talks with the Royal Dublin Society about acquiring the naming rights to the RDSs main arena, which hosts Leinsters home rugby matches and the annual Dublin Horse Show.
The RDS is believed to be seeking about 15 million for the rights for a period of 10 years.
These funds would be used to help fund a 17 million redevelopment of the existing stadium into a 23,000 capacity arena from the current 18,500.
In turn, this would help to fund the foundation activities of the RDS, which includes funding for the arts, and science and technology.
The RDS intends to knock the existing, and ageing, two-storey Anglesea Stand and replace it with a new structure offering modern hospitality and spectator facilities.
Liberty is on a short list of potential sponsors that the RDS is negotiating with. Dubai-based airline Emirates has also been linked with the rights.
In May, RDS chief executive Michael Duffy said it was negotiating with four parties.
The US insurer has made no secret of its desire to secure sponsorship to help build recognition of its brand here since its takeover of Quinn Insurance in late 2011 and its rebranding of the business earlier this year. It is also believed to be in talks with RT about sponsoring the Late Late Show.
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Argentina 'to use YPF to search for Falkland Islands oil'
Argentina has set itself on another collision course with Britain by planning to use seized energy company YPF to search for oil around the Falkland Islands, according to reports.
State-controlled YPF, formerly owned by Spain's Repsol, is teaming up with Venezuelan oil giant PDVSA to explore the area.
"We discussed the need for oil and gas exploration in the territory and offshore areas, adjacent to the Falklands, but we have to analyze the costs and time," PDVSA president Rafael Ramirez Carreno told Argentine newspaper Pagina12 .
The executive said he spoke with the president of YPF, Miguel Galuccio, in Buenos Aires last Wednesday.
Argentina's move threatens to further antagonise the UK government on the 30th anniversary of the war the two fought over the Falkland Islands .
Earlier this year the Argentine government sent a letter to 15 British and American banks threatening them with legal action for advising companies exploring for oil around the islands.
The British government tabled a White Paper in June officially pledging to defend the islands and declared there would be "no weakening" in the country's resolve.
Mr Carreno said the prospective investments are the result of joint-ventures in Venezuela between the two South American (Frankfurt: A0MLL6 - news) countries.
"We have a field in the [Venezuelan] Orinoco [Heavy-Oil] Belt, which produces 130,000 barrels a day," he said. "We will increase that production to 160,000 barrels and develop another field, which would produce another 200,000 barrels."
The Orinoco Belt is an area of 21,357 square miles (55,314 square kilometers) in the east of the country that has some 235,000m barrels in proven reserves.
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President unveils disputed islands peace initiative
President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday proposed a peace initiative to address territorial disputes over the Tiaoyu Islands, urging neighboring countries to show restraint and to seek peaceful means to settle the issue.
Under what he called the East China Sea Peace Initiative, Ma urged all parties to refrain from taking antagonistic actions, shelve controversies, observe international law and resolve disputes via peaceful means.
All sides should also seek consensus on a code of conduct in the East China Sea and establish a mechanism for cooperation on exploring resources in the region, the president told a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace between the Republic of China and Japan.
Ma also reiterated Taiwan's claim to sovereignty over the islands, also known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan.
Taiwan, Japan and China have been involved in heated disputes due to competing territorial claims over the Tiaoyu Islands located in a resource-rich region for several years.
According to experts, Ma's remarks yesterday were effective in declaring Taiwan's stance to the international community concerning the controversy.
Ma is voicing his hope to the United States and Japan that the Tiaoyu Islands issue can be resolved peacefully, at the same time expressing his stance to China that Taiwan will not back down from its declaration of sovereignty over the islands, said Huang Chieh-cheng, assistant professor with Tamkang University and former vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council.
Ho Si-shen, Japanese professor with Fu Jen Catholic University, said Ma's intentions were to prevent the territorial row from escalating and to make the government's stance on this issue clearer.
Ma wants the Tiaoyu Islands to become islands of opportunity, not catalyst of conflicts, he said.
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Taiwan president unveils disputed islands peace initiative
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday proposed a peace initiative to address territorial disputes over the Tiaoyu Islands, urging neighbouring countries to show restraint and to seek peaceful means to settle the issue.
Under what he called the East China Sea Peace Initiative, Ma urged all parties to refrain from taking antagonistic actions, shelve controversies, observe international law and resolve disputes via peaceful means.
All sides should also seek consensus on a code of conduct in the East China Sea and establish a mechanism for cooperation on exploring resources in the region, the president told a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace between the Republic of China and Japan.
Ma also reiterated Taiwan's claim to sovereignty over the islands, also known as the Diaoyu Islands in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan.
Taiwan, Japan and China have been involved in heated disputes due to competing territorial claims over the Tiaoyu Islands located in a resource-rich region for several years.
According to experts, Ma's remarks yesterday were effective in declaring Taiwan's stance to the international community concerning the controversy.
Ma is voicing his hope to the United States and Japan that the Tiaoyu Islands issue can be resolved peacefully, at the same time expressing his stance to China that Taiwan will not back down from its declaration of sovereignty over the islands, said Huang Chieh-cheng, assistant professor with Tamkang University and former vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council.
Ho Si-shen, Japanese professor with Fu Jen Catholic University, said Ma's intentions were to prevent the territorial row from escalating and to make the government's stance on this issue clearer.
Ma wants the Tiaoyu Islands to become islands of opportunity, not catalyst of conflicts, he said.
With reports from CNA
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In Cayman Islands, planned tax on expats triggers worries that sun is setting on tax haven
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - One among thousands of lawyers, accountants and other workers from around the globe, Paul Fordham is escaping cold weather and the taxman by working in a sunny British territory in the Caribbean. He and many others, however, worry they soon may be looking for another haven.
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Wildfires rage in western Spain, islands
Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across a western Spanish region and on the Canary Islands on Sunday, threatening to cut off phone contact with one island and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people, officials said Sunday.
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Wildfires rage in western Spain, Canary islands
Wildfires fanned by fierce winds and high temperatures raged across a western Spanish region and on the Canary Islands on Sunday, threatening to cut off phone contact with one island, killing an emergency worker and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people, officials said.
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Barack Obama, Mitt Romney embrace different tactics to address health care law
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama, emboldened by the Supreme Court's affirmation of his health care overhaul, is now embracing the law while campaigning for re-election, just as Republican rival Mitt Romney steps back from it.
Obama sees a second chance to sell voters on the issue despite deep skepticism about it from many people. Romney is avoiding answering hard questions about how he would tackle health care, and thus missing the chance to energize voters who oppose the law.
Democrats say the president always planned to stress health care if the court upheld the law. A month after the ruling, he and his team are focused on promoting individual parts of the law that have proved more popular than the sum. The campaign is targeting its efforts on important groups of voters, including women and Hispanics, who, Obama aides say, will benefit greatly once the law takes full effect.
The primary focus of his campaign speeches remains the economy, the race's dominant issue.
Romney, who declared the overhaul a bad law after the court ruled, has become less aggressive and less expansive in his discussion of health care.
At some recent events, Romney hasn't talked about the issue at all. Romney hasn't featured health care prominently in any television ads since the ruling June 28, but has made a few high-profile comments. The Republican was booed repeatedly during a July speech to the NAACP when he pledged to repeal the law if elected.
He has and will continue to discuss the president's failures on health care, Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said,adding that the candidate will deliver a new direction and will take action to repeal and replace Obamacare.
In a deadlocked race, Romney is hampered by his support for a health care measure similar to Obama's while he was Massachusetts governor. Also, Romney's calls for repeal raise complex questions about what he would do in place of the law; those are questions Romney has struggled to answer.
For Obama, there's a political risk in fully embracing his health care overhaul because the law remains unpopular with many.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted in early July showed 47 percent of Americans supporting the law and 47 percent opposing it.
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No `free' health care: Letters to the Editor for Monday, August 6, 2012
No `free' health care
Re "No such thing as free" (Letters, July 20):
The letter writer is absolutely incorrect. There is no "free" health care in the UK. I am a British citizen currently living in the U.S. The National Health Service is something that everyone pays into on the day that they are employed, which for me was at 15 years old. As your wage increases so does the amount you pay into the NHS. At such a young age, one hopes they won't have many health issues, but you pay anyway and when the time comes and you do need health care, it is there for you. It would be nice if people got their facts correct before spouting forth something they obviously know little about. My family and I were well taken care of in England. I say that if you cannot afford health insurance in the U.S., you are standing on insecure ground.
- Joan Debbage, Cerritos
Israel's capital
Re "Just smile, Romney" (Letters, Aug. 2):
The letter writer has two misconceptions about U.S. policy regarding Israel's capital. Congress is responsible for setting foreign policy, the president for executing it. Romney can rely on Congress' decision that the American Embassy in Israel should be located in Jerusalem, and the president is remiss in failing to move it there. The world need not "declare" where Israel's capital is. I know of precedents of international recognition (or refusal to recognize)
- Louis Richter, Reseda
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Chuck Seeman: Put aside partisanship to meet health needs
The Supreme Courts recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act has ignited another round of debate over health care reform.
Unfortunately, that debate is not a sincere effort by interested parties to find a workable solution to the health care needs of the 40 million people in this country that do not have health insurance. Instead, the issue of health care reform has become just another topic that political partisans distort to further their own agenda.
At United Community and Family Services, we do not have the luxury of waiting for the political process to return to reason. We must meet the growing need for our services every day.
Each day, people come to our health centers for comprehensive health services. We offer pediatric and primary care, dental care, behavioral health and womens health services to residents of Eastern Connecticut without regard to their ability to pay.
In the past year, we provided more than 88,000 visits, an increase of 18 percent from the year before.
Because of the growing demand, we are renovating our health center in Norwich, planning to expand our health center in Jewett City and looking at opening a new health center in Plainfield. Weve added providers in our dental, primary care and behavioral health practices, and have added staff in our Access to Care program that helps people determine if they qualify for Medicaid or other programs providing support for health services.
In the past 12 months alone, this free service has helped more than 2,255 people in the region qualify for Medicaid and other entitlement programs.
To meet the needs of our patients, we must take advantage of every resource available to us within the current system. In the past year, with the great support of our area legislators and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, we were fortunate to receive bond money from the state to support the renovation of our Norwich Health Center.
Federal assistance
On the federal level, we continue to work with U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, and our federal legislative delegation to secure designation as a funded Federally Qualified Health Center, which will enable us to further expand our services.
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Brown's plan to expand dental care stumbles
Budget-strapped California is aggressively moving its poorest residents to managed health care, whether they're seniors, rural residents or people with disabilities.
So when Gov. Jerry Brown proposed earlier this year to transfer the nearly 900,000 poor children in the Healthy Families insurance program into Medi-Cal, he saw it as another opportunity to reduce costs by expanding dental managed care.
But something happened between then and now - and that was Sacramento County.
Sacramento's poor-performing Medi-Cal dental managed care program foiled Brown's plans, legislators say.
"That failure certainly has stopped the expansion of dental managed care," said Assemblyman Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat who also is a pediatrician.
"Hopefully, we as a state have learned from that failure, and not only on the dental side.
"Hopefully, we can apply those lessons on the medical side."
Sacramento joins Los Angeles as the only two counties with Medi-Cal dental managed care.
Their lackluster performance getting poor children into dentists made legislative leaders balk at adding Healthy Families kids to Medi-Cal dental managed care.
Instead Sen. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento and Assembly Speaker John P rez of Los Angeles negotiated a deal to move Healthy Families kids into the more flexible - and potentially more expensive - "fee-for-service" dental care model under Medi-Cal, interrupting the state's seemingly
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Managed health care takes a fall
Budget-strapped California is aggressively moving its poorest residents to managed health care, whether they're seniors, rural residents or people with disabilities.
So, when Gov. Jerry Brown proposed earlier this year to transfer the nearly 900,000 poor children in the Healthy Families insurance program into Medi-Cal, he saw it as another opportunity to reduce costs by expanding dental managed care.
But something happened between then and now - and that was Sacramento County.
Sacramento's poor-performing Medi-Cal dental managed care program foiled Brown's plans, legislators say.
"That failure certainly has stopped the expansion of dental managed care," said Assemblyman Richard Pan, a Sacramento Democrat who also is a pediatrician.
"Hopefully we as a state have learned from that failure, and not only on the dental side.
"Hopefully, we can apply those lessons on the medical side."
Sacramento joins Los Angeles as the only two counties with Medi-Cal dental managed care.
Their lackluster performance getting poor children into dentists made legislative leaders balk at adding Healthy Families kids to Medi-Cal dental managed care.
Instead, Sen. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg of Sacramento and Assembly Speaker John Prez of Los Angeles negotiated a deal to move Healthy Families kids into the more flexible - and potentially more expensive - "fee-for-service" dental care model under Medi-
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Military health care fee hikes criticized after surplus shown
The Defense Department's push to phase in substantial Tricare fee increases for military retirees came under fresh attack from Congress and military associations this week after officials conceded an unexpected "downward spike" in Tricare cost growth tied to private sector health care.
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McClellan tries to make sense of health insurance
If chicken sandwiches can become political, how can health care be immune?
Last week, I wrote about Susan, a divorced woman in Ladue who decided to go back to school and become a teacher. To comply with student teaching requirements, she quit a nonteaching job with the Clayton School District. That job had provided her with health insurance.
So she got health insurance through COBRA, a program that requires employers with group health insurance to offer former employees the opportunity to buy insurance through the group plan for up to 18 months.
Susan figured she would get a teaching job before the 18 months were up.
That has not worked out. She graduated this spring but has been unable to find a position.
As I mentioned in the column, the job market is tight and nobody was willing to take a chance with a first-time, 50-year-old teacher.
She has decided to work as a substitute teacher. Maybe that experience will help her get a job.
But her 18 months of COBRA will run out in December. She tried to get an individual policy, but because of pre-existing conditions scoliosis and a mild blood disorder she was turned down.
Susan told me she doesn't know what she will do. She said she won't be eligible for pool insurance until she has been without insurance for six months.
She said she is waiting to see what happens with Obamacare. Under the new law, insurance companies would not be allowed to deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
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Genetically modified mosquitoes combat disease
Brazil is using genetic engineering to help fight dengue fever, creating mosquitoes whose offspring die before they mature. Tests in two towns have been successful - but are there ecological implications?
Dengue is a tropical fever with similar symptoms to the flu: feverand shivering, headache and joint pain, and a rash. Most infections are comparatively mild and last no longerthan a week.
But every year there are around half a millionserious cases,some of which prove fatal.The disease hasspread considerably in recent years. Even Europe is no longer safe. In 2010, more than 600 travellers returning to Europe from abroadwere diagnosed with dengue fever. "The number of unreported cases is estimated to be farhigher," says Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg."We believe it could be ten times as many."2010 alsosaw the very first cases of infection in France and Croatia.
The root of the problem
Aedes aegypti, the mosquito's scientific name,has a black and white patternand is actually quite pretty, as insects go. Butit can carry andtransmit several viruses. It's one of the maincarriers of yellow fever, and for humans it can be disastrous. In the Spanish-American War of 1898, the number of US soldiers who diedof this kind of infectious diseaseis believed to have beenhigher than the number killed in battle. There is nowa vaccine against yellow fever, but none has yet been foundto preventdengue fever.
Fertile breeding ground for mosquitoes: a teaspoonful of standing water is enough
All attempts to fight the mosquitoes with the help of insecticide have failed. In Brazil, awareness campaigns warn peoplenot leavecar tires lying around where rain can collect inside them, and toflush toiletsregularly, even if they're not beingused.Thedangerous larvae generally breed in standing water,which people are advised to avoid - but the mosquitoes can also breed ina puddle, a hollow in a rock, or eventheheart ofa flower.A teaspoon of water isallthey needin order to deposittheir eggs.
Assistance fromgenetic engineering
British scientistswith the company Oxitec have now developed a genetically-modified male mosquito whose offspringare unable to survive into adulthood. The idea is that the genetically-modifiedmalesarereleased intoa natural environmentandallowed tomate with female mosquitoes. The fertilized eggs developinto larvae or pupae, andthen die.
Oxitec hasconducted successfulfield trials on the Cayman Islands and in Malaysia. In 2011, the biotech company Moscamed in the Brazilian city of Juazeiro joined the project. Here, in the hinterland of Brazil's Bahia state, dengue is more common than almost anywhere else in the world.
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Get The Answers: Short-term strategy essential for new ventures
Great innovations are often launched on modest budgets, writes Tim Longhurst, a trend spotter and futurist, and founder of strategy consultancy, Key Message. For small business owners setting up in business with the expectation...
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Jacquot's Three Run Homer Leads Freedom to Victory
August 5, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Florence, KY-The The Florence Freedom(38-32) came back from a 4-2 deficit and rallied for a 5-4 win Sunday night over the Road Warriors. The Freedom hit three homeruns and remained in contention for a wild card berth in the Frontier League playoffs. With the win, and Windy City splitting their doubleheader against Rockford, the Freedom are now 2.5 games behind Windy City for the final wild card spot.
With the Freedom trailing 4-2 in the 5th and two runners on base, Freedom catcher Jim Jacquot muscled a three run homerun over the left field wall. The homerun just barely made it over the fence as Matt Wright nearly brought the ball back on a leaping effort. Jacquot's 7th homerun of the season gave the Freedom a 5-4 lead.
The trio of Jose Velazquez, Matt Kline, and Brennan Flick were terrific out of the Freedom bullpen combining for 4.1 innings of hitless baseball. Velazquez raised his record to 5-0 after reliving starter Brent Choban with two outs in the fifth. Choban took the no decision going 4.2 innings allowing 4 hits, on 2 earned runs.
The Freedom came back from an early deficit of 2-0, as David Harris led off the 1st, with a solo homerun. It was Harris's 7th homer of the year. The Freedom then tied it on another solo shot, this one coming from John Malloy in the 2nd. Malloy now has a team lead of 10 homeruns for a Freedom team that ranks second in the Frontier League in homeruns hit.
The Freedom and Road Warriors will play a doubleheader Monday evening, with both contests scheduled for 7 innings. LHP Greg Hendrix(0-1, 18.00) will start for the Road Warriors as LHP Andres Caceres(6-3, 4.48) will climb the hill for Florence. The game can be heard starting at 5:45 with Steve Jarnicki on Real Talk 1160 AM and realtalk1160.com.
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