Childhood traumatic experiences associated with adult IBS symptoms

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have a significantly greater prevalence of early adverse life events , including general trauma as well as physical, emotional and sexual abuse, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.

"Various types of early adverse events are associated with the development of irritable bowel syndrome, particularly among women," said Lin Chang, MD, of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles and lead author of this study. "Addressing early adverse events and associated psychological symptoms in these patients is important and may help guide management approaches that reduce symptoms and improve overall well-being."

Although associations between an abuse history and IBS have been reported before, in the current study, researchers aimed to assess simultaneously the association of a range of traumatic events ? not limited to abuse ? with IBS and the impact of differences in gender and psychological factors on these associations. Men and women with IBS who were 18 years of age and older were recruited primarily from community advertisements in the greater Los Angeles area. Early adverse life events were evaluated in 294 IBS patients (79 percent were women) and 435 controls (77 percent were women). Validated questionnaires assessed gastrointestinal, psychological and somatic symptoms.

Compared with controls, IBS patients reported a higher prevalence of general trauma, physical punishment, emotional abuse and sexual events. These events included witnessing violence, mental illness in the family, emotional abuse, and being forced to touch intimate parts of a person's body or have genital sex. These significant differences were observed mainly in women. Emotional abuse was the strongest predictor of IBS. Further, the strength of the relationship between the early trauma and IBS was reduced after controlling for the presence of psychological and other non-gastrointestinal symptoms.

Early adverse life events refer to traumatic experiences during childhood encompassing physical, sexual or emotional abuse, as well as discordant relationships with a primary caretaker, or the loss of a parent. These events appear to be associated with an increased vulnerability toward developing functional gastrointestinal disorders, including IBS.

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Babyproof your dog: Start preparing pets before a newborn comes home
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Parents have months to get ready for a baby. Experts say the countdown should include prep time for pets, too.

A baby changes everything for a pet ? from how its home looks, smells and sounds to what the rules are.

Low-energy, friendly, social dogs are the most adaptable pets, while excitable, high-maintenance, busybody dogs are the least adaptable, said San Francisco veterinarian and animal behaviorist Sophia Yin.

?Little dogs can be more jealous and more snippy,? said Lynn Sullivan, community health program manager at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.

When Mary Brown of Royal Oak was pregnant with her first child, she took out the stroller and pushed it around her dog, Maggie, a chocolate Labrador retriever.

?We would kind of roll it around, around her,? Brown said. ?Sometimes, popping the stroller out will scare? dogs.

After her son Drew was born in 2008, her husband, Bill Brown, brought the baby?s hat home from the hospital and let Maggie ? then 1 1/2 ? smell the hat and get used to the scent.

?Then, when I came home from the hospital, I went in first, without the baby,? said Mary Brown, 33. ?We had some treats. ?When she was being gentle with him, we would give her a treat.?

When the Browns? second child, Emmett, arrived in March 2011, they did similar things to prepare Maggie.

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FOLLOWING reports of dogs roaming on rural properties within the South East Livestock Health and Pest Authority, domestic dog owners are being reminded to supervise their dogs at all times to avoid unintentional attacks on livestock.

Rodney Rankin, ranger with the South East LHPA, said the LHPA had been made aware of recent attacks on livestock in the Delegate area, where approximately 50 sheep had been attacked on two properties

?All dogs, including domestic and wild dogs, have the potential to predate on sheep, calves, goats, alpacas and other stock, as well as native wildlife,? he said.

?One of the LHPA?s roles is to assist landholders control wild dogs on their land, but we also get requests for advice on how to deal with domestic dogs that have strayed onto private property.

?Domestic dogs must be kept under control and supervision at all times. If a dog strays onto a private property and if the occupier believes it will molest or injure livestock, the landholder has the right to destroy the animal (section 22(5) of the Companion Animals Act 1998). If dogs cause injury to an animal the owner of the dog is liable for damages.

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Reports: Japan hangs 3, 1st executions since 2010

TOKYO (AP) ? Three death row inmates have been executed by hanging in Japan, the country's first executions in more than a year and a half, according to media reports.

The men were hanged in three different prisons early Thursday, Japanese media reported. One was convicted of killing five people at a train station in 1999.

Justice Ministry officials refused to confirm the reports. The justice minister was expected to give a news conference later in the day.

The executions were the first since July 2010. Capital punishment is usually ordered only for inmates convicted of multiple murders. Japan now has 132 death row convicts, according to the Kyodo news agency.

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Lower death risk with heart bypass vs. angioplasty

CHICAGO (AP) ? Older patients with clogged heart arteries may have a little lower death risk over time if they get bypass operations instead of angioplasty and stents to fix the problem, new research suggests.

It's not the kind of study that gives conclusive evidence, but doctors say it gives a "real world" look at how people fare in ordinary practice. As such, it could tip the balance toward surgery for patients considering the choice, especially because research already shows bypass gives a better and longer lasting result for people with multiple blockages.

In a bypass operation, doctors move healthy blood vessels from other parts of the body to detour around clogged arteries supplying blood to the heart. Angioplasty treats the problem via a tube pushed through a blood vessel. A tiny balloon is inflated to flatten the clog and a mesh scaffold, a stent, is placed to prop the artery open.

Researchers compared these approaches using records on 190,000 Medicare patients with two or three blockages ? the largest study ever of this issue. Death rates were similar one year after either treatment. But after four years, nearly 21 percent of the angioplasty patients had died versus about 16 percent of those who had bypass surgery.

Results were discussed Tuesday at an American College of Cardiology conference in Chicago and published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.

In the United States, more than a million operations or procedures are done each year to treat clogged arteries, and the study "provides comprehensive, large-scale, national data" to help doctors and patients decide which treatment is best, Dr. Susan Shurin said in a statement. She is acting director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which sponsored the study.

Comparative effectiveness studies like this one are taking on greater importance as more attention turns to the cost of health care.

Researchers used databases kept by the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons on 86,244 people who had bypass surgery and 103,549 others who had angioplasty between 2004 and 2007. They used fancy statistical adjustments to try to compensate for differences in the groups that might affect the results.

They found bypass to give a survival advantage even when they considered factors such as sex, race, age, and conditions like diabetes.

"Everything lines up" in favor of surgery, said study leader Dr. William Weintraub of Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Del. "We were frankly surprised by that."

Still, researchers say differences in the overall health of people who had surgery versus the less drastic procedure could account for some of the results. They say angioplasty remains a good and safe option for many people.

"You're not making a mistake if you still have angioplasty," especially if you have only one or two blockages, said Dr. Kirk Garratt of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. He is a spokesman for the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, doctors who do angioplasties.

There are tests to help decide whether one treatment will be better than another, but "in general, doctors do it intuitively" based on how frail patients look, how easily they walk across the room, how firmly they shake your hand, said Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a health outcomes research specialist at Yale University.

The new study "nudges you a little closer" to favoring bypass, but because of the caveats, "in the end, it says it is a close call," he said.

The fact bypass gives a longer-lasting result is a selling point ? it means fewer repeat procedures, said Dr. Michael Crawford, chief of clinical cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco.

"Some patients buy that and want to go for the long term. Others, it's a tough sell," he said.

The real message is how safe both procedures are, said Dr. Vince Bufalino of Advocate Health Care, a 100-doctor cardiology group that serves 10 hospitals in the Chicago area.

"We still think a traditional operation is excellent" for people with multiple blockages, said Bufalino, an American Heart Association spokesman.

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New England Journal: http://www.nejm.org

Heart disease info: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/cad//

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Man to enter plea for hacking into celeb emails

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A Florida man is headed to court Monday on charges he hacked into the email accounts of such celebrities as Scarlett Johansson whose nude photos eventually landed on the Internet.

A plea agreement filed last week indicates Christopher Chaney of Jacksonville, Fla., will enter a guilty plea to nine counts including wiretapping.

However, Chaney's defense attorney Christopher Chestnut said he was working with prosecutors and wouldn't confirm the number of felony counts involved.

Prosecutors said Chaney hacked into the email accounts of Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Johansson. Nude photos Johansson had taken of herself were later posted on the Internet.

The maximum prison term facing Chaney on the nine felony counts is 60 years.

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World demands justice for Galaxy Nexus owner who 'beat' Windows Phone

Now here's a little righteous indignation to liven up your Monday. It's the sorry and admittedly one-sided tale of Galaxy Nexus-owner Sahas Katta, who claims he beat a "Get Smoked" Windows Phone challenge at a Microsoft store yesterday, but was denied his prize. To win a $1,000 laptop, he simply had to complete a task on his personal phone quicker than a store employee who was using a Windows Phone. It so happened that the task chosen for Sahas's contest suited him perfectly: he was told to cold boot and then bring up the weather in two different cities, and by a stroke of luck he already had two separate weather widgets for San Jose, CA and Berkeley, CA running on his Nexus' home screen. He also had his lock screen disabled, which goes against Google's own security advice but which he says gave him the "split second" edge he needed. The principle of justice, meanwhile, was smothered with lock screens, because Sahas was promptly informed that he'd just been "smoked" by a Windows Phone, even though he'd been quicker. At first he was told that the Windows Phone won because it "displays the weather right there," then he was told it was because both his cities were "in the same state," and finally he just gave up. A Microsoft insider has since tweeted that he'll "make it right" for Sahas, but will it be the kind of right that includes a $1,000 laptop?

Update: Looks like the gent got an apology, a laptop and a phone out of the deal. And suddenly, all was well in the world.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in.]

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The subsequent exercises continue to be as well of great benefit indicative ice skating furthermore still left ice sports.They stay possibly amazing considered at a gym unless an individual carry out a weights bar, dumb-bells, gym field furthermore wobble come back at home.To service stamina additionally speed Do three sets of 10 lower calf squats in a weights club all over the spinal of your shoulders.Lower your knees toward a 90 intensity angle, lifting alert to a condition position.Do get rid of routine at an alter speed, the superior faster plus the third faster still.Perform second 2 bottle daily, three age a week.To assistance build leg in addition lower-leg muscles Do four sets of 20 limb lunges, alternating amid legs.Step forwards, dropping each and every calf apart to 90 degrees.To destroyed it further more difficult, keep back a dumb-bell according to either hand.Perform extra once a day, three times more a week.

To fine-tune the middle abdominal, pelvic also backbone muscles important in symmetry Sit in front of you a gym sphere and also improve tire leg rinse the ground, although getting the outstanding in direction of fatigue the field spinal also forwards.Change leg also duplicate four times.Follow legitimate less than popularity in advance a wobble board, or in front roll leg according to your lower body piece bent, even though swaying additionally trying on the way to claim your symmetry right up till you deliver tired.Once you become capable at this, tack under flexing moreover extending your elegant whilst balancing onward the stop leg.To promote flexibility also minimize the pressure of injury.Always lengthen now that exercising, ice skating or leftover ice sports.Stretch all sorts of things the tendons nearby the legs in addition to decrease back.Sit on top the surface area also extend your hamstrings by means of coming in contact with involving car tire foot at a session below your legs very well straight.Lean against a kennel area in addition to expand your Achilles tendons by way of important your heel closer to the surface within your limb straight, nevertheless the reverse tibia remote island bent.

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A Review Of Affirm Ware | Growing Self Esteem

Hey, thank you for visiting this critique. Right now I will be reviewing Affirm Ware.

What do you receive when you purchase Affirm Ware? Well, the item comes with a 60 day surefire refund period. It can also be purchased with a Affirm Ware bonus.

Now, what exactly is it? Well, to put it simply, let?s look at the publisher?s brief description:

? The Sculptor3-Sculptor Method is key to Positive Affirmation ? Goal setting and motivational, used for for improved mental / physical health, personal growth, healing and self-improvement
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This improves on pre-existing systems to provide a completely unique and simple experience. Users will see that it really cannot be compared to any other product in overall usability and attributes. As opposed to adopting the tried-and-tested ways of carrying out ostensibly simple features, it is able to draw from a large source of technology to provide a sort of amalgam approach to accomplishing tasks. This original approach secures it in a niche position which has stayed generally unexplored till now.

The Refund Rate shows how many units of this product were refunded because of user unhappiness or other issues. Of course, you?d probably want the Refund Rate to be as low as possible because that may indicate very good end user satisfaction. For this review, I took the total refund rate and scored it between 1-5, with 1 being the best rating and 5 being the worst.The Refund Rate of this product is 2/5. This shows that quite a small number of users have requested a refund from the manufacturer until now. This signifies that the this product is generally well received amongst current consumers and that it runs fairly well. Just like any product, a small percentage of customers are bound to be unhappy with the product for whatever reason. In the case of the product, this percentage is lower than average which demonstrates that the product runs great and consumers love it. The Affirm Ware is certainly recommended.

So what do users think of it? Now that we have covered the features of Affirm Ware, it?s time to check out how it has been received amongst customers up to now. To obtain a gauge at how content people are with it, we take a look at two ratings: the Refund Rate as well as the Sales Rank.

This product has gotten lots of media buzz ever since it was launched. On the other hand, behind all the buzz, what precisely does it accomplish? This review is going to take you behind the curtain to explain to you what exactly it can do and more importantly, whether it justifies the media hype surrounding it.

Before we proceed, I will in addition mention that it may be worth your while to check out another product too ? it really is a great idea to have different alternatives. I advise you check out a Diciembre 2012 overview, and weigh them up alongside each other.

The Sales Rank shows the number of units are sold everyday normally. The Sales Rank can give a sign of how fashionable a product is, and also to a certain extent, also shows how well the item works. I have scored the Sales Rank between 1-4, with 1 being the best possible score and 4 being the worst.The Sales Rank of the Affirm Ware is 3/4. This demonstrates that it is experiencing poor sales up to now. This means that the product isn?t popular with lots of people and that most people have a rather poor perception of the product. Potential customers might want to perform a little more research to see why it?s been accomplishing so badly before committing to buy the product.

The concept behind it offers quite a bit of potential and, given enough development, it might just be the next cutting edge product. However, as it stands, it isn?t nearly quite as finished and a number of benefits need honing. Certain features of it don?t gel too well with the others. With it?s completely unique strategy, it is certainly fascinating to find out where they will go with this product. To learn more about the product, you can visit its website at affirmware.com.au

In summary, Affirm Ware is definitely a product that some might consider purchasing. Aside from this review, I would also recommend any interested readers to do a little more research into the product before committing to buy it ? check out the website link elsewhere on this page. Thank you for reading this Affirm Ware review and I wish you the best of luck if you do buy this product.

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A lot of people get in touch with me to request acquiring dwelling take care of a relatives memberwho typically don?t know whatservices can be obtained or what might be a proper degree of maintain their loved ones.If this talks about you do not come to feel only.

If you?re looking for House Health care in lieu of institutional care you?ll find in essence about three stages of dwelling proper care and several types of services for every single stage. In Sarasota you can find Partner Businesses which might be official within the state guiidelines to deliver solutions for example shopping, move program, wrinkle removal, housekeeping services, preparing food and friendship. Lasting love may integrate consider the buyer for just a stroll everyday, profit the consumer to write down letters, and aid in preparing reports and pieces of thehome. Frequently an aged customer just requires a person to assist the puppy to jot down the dates and times for medical doctor visits to the doctor and give take todoctors offices. Acquiring worthwhile to many people older persons. You need to understand even so that a Spouse Agency is bound inside opportunity of their desire to only neo-personalized health care providers.A Associate Bureau can offer stand-by guidance on taking a bath and pet grooming so long as the caregiver does not have to bodily hint anybody for whom they may be aiding.A person who demands extra individual proper care calls for to the next stage of proper care.

Your Home Health Agency less than Florida polices is authorized to rent household health and fitness aides to supply personalized attention for example baths, outfitting, looking after, toileting and urinary incontinence attention. The identical home wellbeing aide may also perform food shopping, baking, wrinkle removal, house cleaning, escort solutions, and camaraderie. A home health assist is either a Cna who have received specific coaching to help you people inside the property or can provide homeowners received 40 to 75 several hours of particular training to provide dwelling overall health assist to sufferers from the property.Home well being helps in Fl must have learning places such as the protection against pores and skin explanation, tending to affected individuals with Alzheimers ailment or dementia, infection control options, tumble prevention, and looking after older persons with hearing loss or imaginative and prescient vision reduction.Home well being helps are constrained from the extent of their process. For instance they may not be conditioned to do injure care or give shots or do blood sugar assessments and are not allowed less than Texas laws to take action. The skills which property health and fitness aides supply are custodial health care companies.

A Residence Health and fitness Business may perhaps supply experienced breastfeeding products and services to help you affected individuals with such things as prescription medication control, injury treatment as well as therapy for diabetes and so forth. Nurses are taught to review clients health position plus in carrying out something such as ended caution a nurse has the capacity to determine thewound for warning signs of disease or not for- response to treatment. Residence Health and fitness Specialists include Confidential Obligation Property Health and fitness Organizations, Nurse Registries, and Home Health Organizations Escort Agency that are given through Medicare insurance or Significant Health Insurance. Non-public Responsibility Household Proper care Organizations offer companies which have been typically paid for straight through the affected individual.Some individuals have Lasting Proper care Insurance policy which will cover home caution products and services. A Person Job House Treatment Organization employs dwelling health and fitness helps and nursing staff whore personnel and that happen to be administered because of the agency right.The business is mainly responsible for the worker fees, any injury that your employee may have on the job, the sufferer?s legal responsibility, and the personnel is insured over the company.Florida legislations necessitates that backdrop screening process is done per staff member every single 2 years understanding that the worker has sources from original companies. Doctor Registries uncover property overall health aides and nurse practitioners who will be then chosen by way of the individual. The individual is then dependable to supervise their unique caution and keep track of the performance entrance wellness aide or nurse. Nurse Registries provide providers which can be taken care of by way of the patient instantly.The patient as being the supervisor is eventually liable for the employeetaxes and liability. The California Bureau for Medical Care Government conducts oversight audits in excess of Individual Job Specialists and Registered nurse Registries each 24 months.

House Well being Firms which be given capital by patients important health care insurance usually offer experienced nursing jobs companies. These contractors are generally examined and audited by country wide accrediting firms.Sometimes I get a consumer or relation identify that the Key Health Insurance will offer for aHome Health and fitness Assist to aid inbathing and looking after. This is true provided the sufferer has any excuses for competent caregiving in your house. If you find do not any excuses for a competent nurse the insurer will not likely go over your house health aide. Insurance policy won?t go over custodial proper care company with no experienced health care in your house.

Residence Health firms which be given finance by way of Medicare insurance in most cases supply experienced sanita health care as well.Some residence attention firms deliver both Medicare insurance insured providers and Key Insurance protected products and services.A Medicare financed organization is specific below u . s . pointers typically through a nation?s accrediting bureau.Medicare will never cover custodial caution as well. Who do you ultimately choose? I usually counsel clientele to obtain Medicare pay for what Medicare will cover.Then if the individual has significant medical insurance and expert medical policy for house health with a firm who are able to accept key health insurance. Consult your insurance carrier that is a preferred professional in your area.If you will need only custodial care, does your momma or daddy have Long Run Proper care Insurance?I have gotten children reserve custodial take good care of their dad and mom and find out several weeks in the future their moms and dads have Long Lasting Care Insurance policies which will have settled providers!If you want a person Work Household Wellbeing Firm or Healthcare professional Pc registry it is best to request a replicate of thestate certificate as well as personal references.Companion Companies provide a fantastic assistance for older persons for any limited time. You will need to look for the agencystate registration with theAgency for Medical Current administration, check with how the personnel income tax are withheld and also a backup of their total liability insurance and workers compensation affirmation website. Dwelling caution organizations can help your household to be their houses easily and in good condition for a lot longer compared to what they would without the assistance they desire.

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Obama to China: Help rein in North Korea

SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama urged China on Sunday to use its influence to rein in North Korea instead of "turning a blind eye" to its nuclear defiance, and warned of tighter sanctions if the reclusive state goes ahead with a rocket launch next month.

"North Korea will achieve nothing by threats or provocations," a stern-faced Obama said after a tour of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas resonant with echoes of the Cold War.

Such a launch would only lead to further isolation of the impoverished North, which much show its sincerity if on-again-off-again six-party aid-for-disarmament talks are to restart, Obama told a news conference in the South Korean capital.

Seoul and Washington say the launch will be a disguised test of a ballistic missile that violates Pyongyang's latest international commitments. North Korea says it merely wants to put a satellite into orbit.

Even as Obama warned North Korea of the consequences of its actions, he spoke bluntly to China, the closest thing Pyongyang has to an ally, of its international obligations.

Obama said Beijing's actions of "rewarding bad behavior (and) turning a blind eye to deliberate provocations" were obviously not working, and he promised to raise the matter at a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Seoul on Monday.

"I believe that China is very sincere that it does not want to see North Korea with a nuclear weapon," he told a news conference in Seoul before a global summit on nuclear security. "But it is going to have to act on that interest in a sustained way."

It was Obama's sharpest message yet to China to use its clout with North Korea in a nuclear standoff with the West, and dovetails with recent calls for Beijing to meet its responsibilities as a rising world power.

In an election year when Republicans have accused Obama of not being strong enough with Beijing, talking tough on China is seen as a potential vote-winner after three years of troubled diplomacy in dealings with Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

China is host to the six-party talks, which involve Japan and Russia as well as the two Koreas and the United States.

DMZ TOUR

Obama earlier visited a U.S. base on the edge of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) as a solemn North Korea came to a halt to mark the 100th day after "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il's death.

"You guys are at freedom's frontier," Obama, wearing an Air Force One bomber jacket, told about 50 troops crammed into the Camp Bonifas mess hall at one of the world's most heavily fortified frontiers.

He spent about 10 minutes on a camouflaged viewing platform at the DMZ, talking with some of the soldiers on guard and peering with binoculars across the border into North Korea as flags flapped loudly in the brisk, cold wind.

The White House cast Obama's first visit to the DMZ, which has bisected the peninsula since the end of the Korean War in 1953, as a way to showcase the strength of the U.S.-South Korean alliance and thank some of the nearly 30,000 American troops still deployed in South Korea.

The 4-km (2.5-mile) wide DMZ was drawn up at the end of the 1950-53 civil conflict, which ended in a truce that has yet to be finalized with a permanent peace treaty, leaving the two Koreas in effect still at war.

ROCKET LAUNCH CONDEMNED

Washington has condemned next month's planned rocket launch as a violation of North Korea's promise to halt long-range missile firings, nuclear tests and uranium enrichment in return for a resumption of food aid.

Obama said that if the North goes ahead with the rocket launch, a February food aid deal could fall apart and Pyonygang could face a tightening of international sanctions.

Obama said he was sympathetic to China's concerns that too much pressure on North Korea could create a refugee crisis on its borders, but insisted Beijing's approach over the decades had failed to achieve a "fundamental shift" in Pyongyang's behavior.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a military official on Sunday as saying the main body of the rocket had been moved to the launch site on North Korea's west coast. The launch will coincide with big celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the state's founder, Kim Il-sung.

North Korea's defiance is clouding Obama's much-touted nuclear disarmament agenda, which is also being challenged by Iran's persistence with nuclear research in the face of sanctions and international criticism.

Obama will join more than 50 other world leaders on Monday for a follow-up to the inaugural nuclear security summit he organized in Washington in 2010 to help combat the threat of nuclear terrorism.

While North Korea and Iran are not on the guest list or the official agenda, they are expected to be the main focus of Obama's array of bilateral meetings on the sidelines.

NORTH KOREA MOURNS

Obama's visit coincided with the end of the 100-day mourning period for Kim Jong-il, who died in December. Tens of thousands of people crammed into Kim Il-sung Square in central Pyongyang to mark the occasion.

The state's new young leader, Kim Jong-un, the third member of the Kim family to rule the state, bowed before a portrait of his father at the palace where he lies in state. He was joined by his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, and military chief Ri Yong-ho.

Standing alongside South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Obama told reporters it was difficult to get an accurate impression of how the succession process was going because it was not clear who was "calling the shots" in the North.

The young Kim himself made a surprise trip to the DMZ in early March. He looked across the border through binoculars and told troops to "maintain the maximum alertness since (they) stand in confrontation with the enemy at all times".

(Additional reporting by Jack Kim in Seoul; Editing by Jeremy Laurence and Nick Macfie)

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Usually, people will not feel quite difficult to obtain quick funds through loans since many online lenders are available in the financial market of US. If you are desperately in need of immediate cash to meet financial emergencies, you have option to acquire direct deposit loans where you can get instant cash. Nowadays, these loans are widely offered with attractive interest rates online. So, it is easy for you to take such kind of loan.

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Recycling technology would tackle the e-waste problem

Recycling technology would tackle the e-waste problem

Category: Data recovery

23 March, 2012

The rapid improvements in computer technology mean that it has never been more important to erase data safely.

Anja ffrench, director of marketing and communications at Computer Aid, said that while the rate of replacement at the moment is high, the proliferation of smartphones, tablets and other connected devices is only likely to exacerbate the issue of e-waste.

?We?re upgrading all the time and buying the newest devices and changing mobile phones after a year. In the UK, companies are getting rid of computers every three or four years. So it?s growing and it?s growing all over the world,? she explained.

?We need to have solutions in place.?

She suggested that there ought to be an incentive for businesses to reuse equipment to encourage safe data destruction, rather than the current trend to sell it outside the EU.

Her comments come as part of a campaign by Computer Aid to make businesses more accountable for the e-waste they produce.

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Phil Richards Performance ? Health, Fitness & Nutrition

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Carpooling Marketplace Blablacar Acquires PostoinAuto To Drive Into Italy

Back in January BlablaCar, a European carpooling marketplace that connects any driver who has empty seats with paying passengers, raised $10 million in funding from Accel Partners and existing investors, taking it to $12.5 million. And today the startup is putting those funds to good use, rolling up other players. It's acquiring PostoinAuto.it, the largest car sharing site in Italy, in an all-share deal. BlablaCar's move into Italy follows a push into Spain and the UK.

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There is no such factor as ?get wealthy quick? online. You will notice a myriad of books and items available that state they enable you to get an amazing quantity of profits inside your business very rapidly, but you need to know that this type of person only after your hard earned money ? so avoid them.

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Cross-Cultural Leadership in the Implementation of Systems ...

Introduction. Projects are often performed by people from diverse cultural backgrounds. The ability of engineers to manage and work in these cross-cultural teams includes cross-cultural leadership ability. Cross-cultural leadership competence for the engineers supports the quality of the project performance.

In this research we conduct a web survey addressing the perception of cross-cultural issues in the implementation of systems engineering (SE) processes in projects. Several questions investigated the engineers? knowledge, experience and perception of how they manage their inter-cultural relationship related to cross-cultural leadership.

Elements of Systems Engineering Processes. The international standard describing the SE processes associated with the system lifecycle is ISO/IEC 15288. This standard is used as the basis of the INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) Systems Engineering Handbook, which in turn is the foundation of the INCOSE systems engineering certification programme (Windiarti, Ferris, and Berryman 2011b).

ISO/IEC 15288 divides the processes to support the system lifecycle into four groups: agreement; organizational project-enabling; project; and technical processes.

Indonesian Expatriate Engineers? Cross-Cultural Leadership Experience. All the participants were in a culturally diverse environment. Those who had familiarity with a multicultural work environment found that cross-cultural adaptation in their workplace was not a major challenge for work performance. They found that the multicultural team helped them to complement each other to improve project achievement and quality. In some cases the limited cross-cultural ability of engineers may reduce project performance rather than lead to improvement. What is leadership? Leadership is a role of influencing group of people or organization in terms of task and objectives, commitment and fulfilment of target achievement, group/organization identification and culture (Yukl 1989). Cross-cultural leadership is basically applying the leadership assignment in the multicultural work environment. The general duty of the leader is to manage the achievements of the project goal and manage job distribution among the team members under the leader?s authority. In cross-cultural leadership, power distance which was one of the Hofstede?s cultural dimension plays an important role (Hofstede 1983). The relationship between leader and follower is influenced by the perception about power distance based on their cultural background.

Conflict Management in the Multicultural Work Team. 45.79% of the respondents answer that the project leader was resolving the conflicts that may occur in the multicultural project team by using existing rules written in the project guidelines. This reveals that most of the project leaders preferred to make a judgment in the multicultural working environment based on existing rules rather than considering the cultural background of the team members. This result reflects a different result than was obtained in the pilot study, where conflict resolution was based on the uniqueness of each individual. The difference would appear to result from the survey requiring selection of a single response in contrast to the free-form response permitted in the interviews.

Decision-Making in a Multicultural Work Team. The research participants were asked about how the team members contribute their ideas to the leader?s decision in risky situations. Based on the accumulated answers, option D that the decisions are always made by collaboration of the leader?s and members? ideas was the most chosen among the research participants. Given the combined options, we found that the important decisions in the project team were made collaboratively, combining the leader?s ideas and members? contribution in analysing the supporting ideas.

Completeness and Perfection of the Project vs. Relationships Between the Team Members. The research participants were asked an open-ended question about which is the most important thing for their organization.

Sixty nine answered that the completeness and perfection of the project is the most important thing for the organization. These engineers explained why they chose this option. In this survey a number of engineers explained their reason that the most important thing in the project is to achieve the project goal. The other reason was that the objective of the company or project is to make profit from the production and services. Some of the research participants are expatriate engineers who work based on the contract. Their job is mainly to accomplish the project?s target in a certain country (within the same company) and they will relocate to another country for other different projects. These circumstances caused the engineers to choose the relationship between team members as being less important than completeness and perfection of the project.

In this question, 135 engineers answered that the most important thing in the organizations is the relationship between team members. Some of the research participants explained that good relationships among team members support the productivity of the team project in achieving the project goal. As discussed in the previous section, in this part, cross-cultural leadership skills also become important in a project related with the importance of team relationships. The last reason is because solid teamwork can be formed and with this solid teamwork the project will run well and the objective can be achieved.

From the survey result, 84 engineers answered that a combination of completeness and perfection of the project and relationships between the team members is useful for the project or organization.

Conclusions. This paper reports that as perceived by Indonesian engineers, conflicts within the project team were mostly resolved based on existing rules rather than considering the cultural background and the important decision in the project team was made by collaboration of the leader?s ideas and members? contribution in analysing the supporting ideas. The other result from this study is that the relationships between team members were more importance to the organization than the project completeness and perfection.

Engineers suggested that a combination of completeness and perfection of the project and relationships between the team members is valuable for the project or organization in implementing SE processes and their implication on the improvement of cross-cultural leadership capability.

Finally, for future work, the diversity in a project team allowed an appropriate cross-correlation analysis between background (experience, demographic and type of industry) and the findings from this research may be used to look at cross-cultural leadership or other topics.

Ika Safitri Windiarti, M.Eng.Adv. is a PhD candidate from Defence and Systems Institute (DASI), University of South Australia. She received a bachelor?s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia in 2003. In 2009 she completed her master?s of Engineering Advanced in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Her research topic is the Cross-Cultural Impact of Systems Engineering Practices with special reference to Indonesian expatriate engineers.

Email: winis001@mymail.unisa.edu.au

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Tribal Governments Qualify For Federal Health Insurance ? OPB News

David Nogueras | March 20, 2012 4:13 p.m. | Updated: March 20, 2012 4:13 p.m. | Bend, OR

Oregon?s tribal governments will soon be able to buy the same health insurance policies for their workers that federal employees get.

About 8 million people? are already covered by the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.? It lets policyholders pick and choose from a variety of health care products.

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act extends the eligibility for that program to employees of tribal governments.

John O?Brien is the Director of Health Care and Insurance at the Office of Personnel Management.

That?s the agency that administers the plan. He says for the last year his agency has been developing a platform that links the roughly 600 tribal entities that are now eligible.? And he says thanks to the large economies of scale, using the plan could save money.

?Many tribes, from an employment stance, are actually very small.? I mean, we have, I think we?re up to 28 tribes that have signed up, and a number of those are 20 and 30 employees in rural and remote areas,? O'Brien says.

O?Brien says the cost of the plans, including administrative fees, will be shouldered by the tribal governments.

Source: http://news.opb.org/article/tribal-governments-qualify-federal-health-insurance/

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Cyclical relationships common in college, often hard on marriage ...

We?ve all been subjected to the trials of helping friends in relationships that are not stable. We have all coached friends through the lonely first few days of singledom, only to see them run straight back to their former partner when the chance comes around.

While I have been that friend, I have also been the sad, confused soul curled up in bed because of another break-up with the same person.

Research done by Amber Vennum, assistant professor of family studies and human services, shows that this is not an uncommon form of dating. According to the research, about 40 percent of people in college are currently in a cyclical relationship.

?As researchers, we feel that is a decently large number simply because we didn?t realize that people were doing this as frequently as they were,? Vennum said.

The common reference to cyclical relationship is ?on-again, off-again.? The parameters for defining a cyclical relationship are more simplistic than people think.

?At this point, the definition that we have been using and researchers have been using is that they break up and get back together at least once with no further parameters on that,? said Vennum.

One time is all it takes to become another member of the cyclical relationship club. But Vennum did say that the average people in cyclical relationships break up two to three times.

Alexandra Chaffin, junior in human resources management, said that breaking up once is normal but thinks the time frame in which the break-ups happen is important.

?If you break up once and get back together, I think that is normal for everyone to have a little fight. It depends on how often, too. If you break up three times in a month, that?s a little different than three times in 15 years,? Chaffin said.

Part of Vennum?s research focuses on what brings about break-ups in early romantic relationships.

?One of the related concepts to this is sliding through relationship transitions. Which means you are just not considering the implications of them and making a decision based on that,? Vennum said.

In her research, Vennum cites Scott Stanley, Galena Rhoades and Howard Markman?s relationship model which finds, ?sliding through relationship transitions creates risk for future relationship distress by increasing constraints in the relationship without necessarily increasing partners? dedication to one another.?

Relationships are often affected by sliding.

?Partners who had been cyclical prior to marriage entered marriage in a state of lower relationship quality than those who had not had that previous history of instability. They were more likely to experience trial separation during the first three years,? Vennum said.

Tracy Orchester, licensed psychologist in Missouri and Kansas, said that cyclical relationships can feel like a roller coaster.

?When you find yourself back in the same boat you jumped, or were pushed out of again and again, it may mean that you are repeating a pattern that is ultimately dissatisfying to one or both partners,? Orchester said.

When I see my friends struggle with cyclical relationships, I can?t help but think about their health. Orchester said that for most people, living a balanced life and trying to stay away from extremes is important.

Orchester?s advice is simple.

?Sometimes making a positive change feels like bungee jumping. If you stay too long on the platform thinking about it you will psych yourself out. If you want to improve the relationship, it?s important to talk about it,? Orchester said.

Orchester also said that it is important for people in relationships to remember that you can not be responsible for the other person?s behavior.

?You can?t change your partner, but you can ask for change,? Orchester said.

Caroline Sweeney is a senior in English. Please send all comments to edge@kstatecollegian.com.

Source: http://www.sfconline.tv/2012/03/cyclical-relationships-common-in-college-often-hard-on-marriage/

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