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Posted by on February 6, 2012
Map 019 Lot 2889, Seller looking to sell her 3 acre parcel of land. No frontage, some wetlands on the 3 acre parcel, Motivated Seller, Buyer responsible for due diligence, land being sold as is. There is an aceess road the abutting neighbor put in, there is a gate, you have to walk around the gate down that road, land is on the left after the stone wall. This parcel does have access and a right of way on deed with abutting neighbor.
Source: http://www.commonmoves.com/homes/MA/Middleboro/02346/Plymouth_Street/10171334466/
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Argentina and Britain’s Unfinished War: Hate Email, Harrassing Calls and Prince William (Time.com)
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When their mobiles ring, the inhabitants of Port Stanley are learning to check caller ID carefully before answering. If it displays a “long number,” meaning it might be from Argentina, they don’t pick up. “It’s intimidating to be woken in the night to someone shouting at you in Spanish,” says Lisa Watson, editor of The Penguin News, the main and only newspaper of the Falkland Islands, the British Overseas Territory claimed by Argentina as Las Malvinas.
The angry calls are coming with the advent of the 30th anniversary of the 1982 war with Great Britain that started with the occupation of the islands by Argentine military forces on April 2 that year. That 74-day military engagement left more than 900 dead and some 1,800 wounded. Argentina lost the war but it has not forgotten it’s historic claim to the islands that lie a tantalizingly close 300 miles off its coast. The islands have been under British control since 1833 when a British naval squadron arrived to oust the Argentine authorities there. Argentina claims that it inherited the islands from Spain after it gained independence in 1816 but Britain says it had prior jurisdiction through an 18th century settlement. Global Briefing: Falklands, France and a Failed Coup.
Now, the verbal crossfire between London and Buenos Aires — like the email and phone calls in the islands — has started turning ugly with the coming anniversary. Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner has accused Britain of acting like “a coarse and decadent colonial power” because it refuses to accept a United Nations resolution urging Argentina and Britain to negotiate a solution. British Prime Minister David Cameron retorted saying that: “What the Argentinians have been saying recently I would argue is actually far more like colonialism.” That was said after Argentina and its South American neighbors, including new international heavyweight Brazil, agreed to close their ports to ships flying the Falklands flag.
London fears that Argentina’s next move might be to suspend permission for the weekly flights that cross its airspace from Chile to the islands, thus imposing a full economic blockade on their inhabitants. Kirchner vows to continue demanding talks over Malvinas as long as necessary: “We will say it tirelessly, as will those who come after me and the children of our children.” See more international news in Global Spin.
The arrival of Britain’s Prince William to Port Stanley on Thursday on a six-week tour of duty as a Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter pilot has only increased Argentina’s anger. “The Argentine people regret that the royal heir will arrive on national soil in the uniform of the conqueror and not with the wisdom of the statesman who works in the service of peace and dialogue among nations,” said a statement put out by Argentina’s Foreign Ministry. (William’s uncle, Prince Andrew — the Queen’s second son — had also served as a rescue helicopter pilot during the war, assigned to H.M.S. Invincible, which came under Argentine missile attack.)
But it is the islands’ inhabitants, about 3,000 people of mainly British descent, who are feeling increasingly distraught by the rising tension. “I receive threats and insults via our work email address and on Twitter,” says Watson. “Die you decadence [sic] whore,” said one email that held a chilling echo of President Kirchner’s statement about “decadent” Britain. Another read: “I am coming to the Malvinas so walk softy because I will find you.”
Watson tries to take the threats lightly. “How many times must I tell you, insult me in English I don’t speak Spanish,” she tweeted in response to one this week. “I assume it is simply people momentarily angry because they have read something in their newspaper,” she says. “We all feel like that sometimes but threatening to kill me seems a little extreme. Mainly I am referred to as a prostitute, liar, thief and pirate, and other words I really wouldn’t like to mention.”
What Watson finds really disturbing are the random abusive phone calls. “My friend’s seven-year-old daughter has a mobile phone just for when she goes to play at the park with her pals. Even she has received abusive calls. My friend has had to tell her not to answer phone calls that have a long number.”
Watson’s family arrived in 1840 as servants to a rich family and have been farm workers since. The unwanted attention she has been getting is in total disproportion to the tiny weekly paper she edits. The Penguin News tends to the tiny community of farmers who inhabit the cold, wind-swept islands. The job qualifications include “knowing the name of every sheep breed and being able to dig a bogged Land Rover out of a peat bank,” she likes to quip.
But her job description should now be expanded to include the fascinating dialogue she has developed with other much friendlier, and extremely curious, Argentines following her on Twitter (@Lisafalklands). “We not province of UK nor want to be province of Argentina. Are overseas territory with relationship with UK,” she tweeted in response to Hern?n Adastra, an Argentine who suggested not much would change if Argentina gained sovereignty.
To Dario Romero, a student who sent Watson a link to a song by the Irish rebel band The Wolfe Tones that mentions the “Islas Malvinas Argentinas”, she amicably replied: “Well done getting Irish folk band on side. Won’t help.”
“I have no objection to chatting and debating with Argentines,” Watson says. “My reason for doing so is in the hope they will see us as a people with our own culture and our own thoughts. I live in hope that they will understand we are not ‘British imperialists’ but a population that has struggled to develop this little country and deserve to be allowed to live in peace. I should say that I also receive many messages of support from Argentines or messages from people who do not agree with my point of view but want to offer kind thoughts anyway.” See TIME’s Falklands Covers.
Many of the islanders (or “Islanders” with a capital I, as they describe themselves in the Penguin News) are trying to maintain calm despite harrowing memories of the 1982 war. “These big anniversaries seem to bring out the most extreme demonstrations of jingoism and hysteria from both sides — most particularly from people who were not involved in 1982,” says John Fowler, the director of the Penguin News, who saw three friends killed in his own home by misdirected British fire 30 years ago. “Those of us who were here do not need a special day to remember what happened, though, like me, I suspect that many prefer to keep the most painful memories hidden deep inside as far as possible.”
Although patriotic fervor over Malvinas has remained high since the war, even intensified with the new diplomatic confrontation, a few Argentines are starting to question their country’s traditional hard-line attitude regarding the islands’ inhabitants. In the past this has ranged from affirming that they are actually Argentines to suggestions they should be evicted post-haste to Britain. “We have to move away from the old sloganeering,” says Gustavo Arballo, 36, a law professor at the University of La Pampa in central Argentina who recently penned a column in the left-wing daily Pagina/12 suggesting the islands should be granted wide autonomy in any future arrangement. “We’re a nation of 40 million against islands with only a few thousand inhabitants, that’s like an 18-wheeler bearing down on a bicycle.”
Despite the email threats and abusive calls, Watson bravely keeps the channel with Argentina open, in the hope that she can somehow lower the level of confrontation. “My parents have a sheep farm on East Falklands and I often assist them on the weekends along with my two brothers. I’m described by my friends as horse-obsessed — another reason I wish the Falklands and Argentina could get along happily, Argentina has the best horses in the world.”
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Forget Romney or Obama, the voters want Tim Tebow: poll (Reuters)
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BOSTON (Reuters) ? He won’t be in this Sunday’s Super Bowl and his Denver Broncos are already 50-to-1 longshots for next year’s National Football League title, but if Tim Tebow swapped the pigskin for politics, he just might be a shoo-in for the White House.
Asked which NFL playoff quarterback they would choose for president of the United States in the coming election, more than one in four voters go for Tebow, according to the results of a new Reuters/Ipsos poll of likely voters released on Friday.
Tebow’s success on the field in the past few months helped to make him a media sensation as he turned a struggling Denver Broncos team around. His open and oft-professed religious faith gained him huge support in the evangelical community.
But perhaps it is his famous post-touchdown knelt-in-prayer pose – known as “Tebowing” – that has most inspired fans around the world. Many have posted pictures of themselves “Tebowing” on sites such as Tebowing.com.
The online survey of 2,475 people was conducted earlier this week, just ahead of the Super Bowl, the annual championship for America’s most popular sport.
The precision of the Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.
Tebow managed to do something in the poll he could not quite manage on the field – easily beat New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
Brady, who is married to super model Gisele Bundchen, came third, one percentage point behind New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, ironic since they face each other this Sunday in the Super Bowl.
The only other quarterback to start in the playoffs this year who got into double digits in the poll was New Orleans’ Drew Brees, at 15 percent.
Of course, at 24, Tebow is too young by the standards of the U.S. Constitution to be president (you have to be at least 35). There might also be questions over whether he could be disqualified because he was born in the Philippines – his parents were American missionaries.
But this isn’t real life, this is football.
“For all the support I’m very appreciative, it means a lot,” Tebow told Reuters on the sidelines of the pre-game festivities for the Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
Asked if he would consider a political career at some stage he said: “Maybe one day in the future, not right now though.”
WINNER ACROSS THE SPECTRUM
Tebow was the overwhelming first choice of Republicans in the poll, taking 39 percent of their vote, while he was second to Manning among Democrats and third among those identifying themselves as independent.
Geographically, his biggest strength was in the south and the west, where he nearly doubled his closest rivals’ support. Before the NFL, Tebow was a college star at the University of Florida, where he won a Heisman Trophy as college football’s top player as well as two national championships.
In an unusual twist, Tebow was the clear first choice of every age demographic – young and old, except for people aged 45 to 54 who favored Manning by a wide margin.
Tebow’s popularity crossed lines as well – he was the favorite of both men and women, as well as both whites and Hispanics. (He was third among African-Americans behind Brees and Brady).
Overall, the victory clearly went to Tebow, by an eight-point margin even Mitt Romney could envy.
STRONGER BASE
Tebow has far from universal support. Tebowing has been mocked by comedians and rival players and many football purists do not consider him an especially good quarterback.
But he has helped his team to a series of improbable victories this season that had even the most hardened sports fans wondering if God was also watching the game on Sundays.
His convincing win in the Reuters/Ipsos poll is little surprise to political professionals.
“He has got a stronger base than any other quarterback. Brady may be the best known but in a Republican primary, Tebow would crush him – religious conservatives, economic conservatives and football fans,” Republican strategist and Fox News contributor Frank Luntz told Reuters on the sidelines of the pre-game festivities for the Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
(Reporting By Ben Berkowitz, additional reporting by Simon Evans in Indianapolis; Editing by Edward Tobin and Martin Howell)
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Posted by on February 5, 2012
?I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems,? she once wrote in her poem called ?Possibilities.?
Yesterday, I read the news of the passing of Wislawa Szymborska, one of my favorite contemporary poets. This humble post is not going to write, once again, what respectable papers like The New York Times or Los Angeles Times have written. For more factual information there are, for sure, better sources.
Before she won the Nobel Prize in literature in December of 1996, she was mostly unknown outside Poland. 1996 was the year I moved to New York City. That year, in the fall, while waiting in my doctor?s office I came across a piece of writing that touched me in such a way that I tore the page and took it with me. It was a poem called ?Nothing Twice.? I fall in love with Szymborska?s poetry from the moment I read the first line: ?Nothing can ever happen twice??
I became obsessed with her writing that, immediately after the doctor?s office, I made a trip to the bookstore looking for her books. Like a hungry child, I devoured every poem. Each poem read became my favorite until I read another one.
Her poetry is political yet playful. She used humor in surprising ways. In her work, I found some of the things I yearn to find not only in people, or places but also in great design: elegance, irony, simplicity, humor, humanity and beauty.
Her poems not only have nourished my intellect and my soul, but also have benefited me professionally. When directing the short film ?Every Person, Every Place? for The Center for Architecture, I interviewed the gifted ?and giving? Polish-born architect Daniel Libeskind. I remembered mentioning my admiration for Szymborska?s work. This earned me a personal tour of Mr. Libeskind?s library where we spent generous amount of time discussing poetry and reading Szymborska?s work.
“Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.” sketch by Rafael Esquer
I have purchased many of her books. In fact, I have many copies of the same volume. Her books are special presents ?at least I like to think so? I love giving to those selected special people I have the, once in a while, fortune to meet. The day after I met my mentor, the late Eiko Ishioka, I gave her a hard copy of Poems New and Collected. My beloved friend, the artist Laura Anderson Barbata received Miracle Fair: Selected Poems by Wyslawa Szymborska. My client and now friend Guadalupe Pineda, whose voice is singing poetry, also received a book.
Every time I travel, the first thing I pack (sometimes even before than my passport!) is a Szymborska?s book. Getting to know her work has given me unforgettable moments. One of the highlights of my last visit home for the holidays was the evening we all spent reading one of my personal favorites: ?Possibilities.?
If you have read this far, I?d like to leave you with a poem called ?Cat in an Empty Apartment,? as translated by Dr. Clare Cavanagh and Mr. Stanis?aw Bara?czak. It?s a touching poem that is a eulogy. ?It?s about the death of someone close to her that?s done from the point of view of the person?s cat,? the poet said.
?Cat in an Empty Apartment,? opens:
Die ? You can?t do that to a cat.
Since what can a cat do
in an empty apartment?
Climb the walls?
Rub up against the furniture?
Nothing seems different here,
but nothing is the same.
Nothing has been moved,
but there?s more space.
And at nighttime no lamps are lit.
Footsteps on the staircase,
but they?re new ones.
The hand that puts fish on the saucer
has changed, too.
Something doesn?t start
at its usual time.
Something doesn?t happen
as it should. Someone was always, always here,
then suddenly disappeared
and stubbornly stays disappeared.
Illustration of the poet by Gabriela Molina for Alfalfa Studio
Source: http://alfalfastudio.com/2012/02/remembering-the-mozart-of-poetry-wislawa-szymborska/
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Egypt market plunges after deadly soccer riots (AP)
Posted by on February 4, 2012
CAIRO ? Egypt’s benchmark stock index fell over 2 percent Thursday, paring an earlier plunge stemming from deadly soccer riots the night before that left 74 dead and rekindled fears of fresh instability akin to the unrest that has battered the country and its economy in the year since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
The benchmark EGX30 index shot down about 4.6 percent within minutes of the start of trade, but rebounded as bargain hunters stepped in. The index closed down 2.2 percent, at 4,584 points.
The declines halted a rally in the market over the past week that had been fueled by newfound optimism after the peaceful passing of the one year anniversary of the Jan. 25 uprising that pushed Mubarak from power. Investors had also found cause to cheer in the convening of the country’s first post-Mubarak parliament ? a legislature that was seated after Egypt’s freest elections in decades.
But the riots by football fans late Wednesday in the Mediterranean city of Port Said reignited simmering criticism of the country’s military rulers, with witnesses saying the police stood idly by while the violence broke out after the match. Parliament convened an emergency session ? a move also mirrored by the Cabinet.
“There are a lot of fears, a lot of concerns, a lot of potential clashes,” said Mustafa Abdel-Aziz, senior broker with Mideast investment bank Beltone Financial’s brokerage division. “But we’re seeing the market react much better than it should” given the night’s violence.
Abdel-Aziz said that the early sell-off triggered buying interest, with investors stepping in to snap up deals.
In a market that ended 2011 over 45 percent below its level at the end of 2010, the recent gains have offered a measure of optimism as the country pushes ahead with a rocky transition to democracy that has been defined by continued protests and a growing mistrust of a military that had been hailed at the start of the uprising as heroes.
The violence in Port Said, however, reflected how fragile the gains could be at a time when Egypt’s economy is reeling from the overall effect of the uprising. The protests and associated violence have hammered the country’s chief foreign currency sources ? foreign investment and tourism.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s net international reserves were down 50 percent year-on-year by the end of December, leaving wide open questions about how the country will raise new cash to bridge a widening deficit and worries over the balance of payments. It is now discussing with the International Monetary Fund a $3.2 billion loan.
The Finance Ministry on Wednesday said it would secure $1.1 billion in aid from the European Union and the World Bank. While Egyptian media have reported the loans appear to be a done deal, an EU financial official in Cairo told The Associated Press that the EU portion of the aid ? known as Macro-financial Assistance ? was predicated on Egypt securing the IMF loan.
An EU team was scheduled to come to Cairo on Feb. 22 for discussions, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue.
The World Bank said Thursday that Egypt had asked for $1 billion in aid and that discussions would begin with the government on the request.
Separately, the Egyptian Central Bank held its benchmark interest rate unchanged, in a move London-based Capital Economics said appeared to reflect the government’s confidence in securing the IMF loan.
But Capital Economics said in a research note that while there have been indications that investors are more optimistic, the country continues to face risks from devaluation pressure on the pound and continued political instability.
For investors, the macroeconomic concerns appear to have been factored into their investment strategy, said brokers.
But what’s “not quantifiable is the extended tension between the police, the protesters and the army,” said Abdel-Aziz. “Definitely, if there’s an extended tension in this relationship, you could see another wave of selling.”
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7 Things You Must Do to Survive and Thrive in 2012 and Beyond …
Posted by on February 3, 2012
By Jed Diamond, Ph.D., LCSW
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In his book, A Vision for 2012, futurist John Petersen says, ?Converging trends strongly suggest that the world ? and our country ? are about to experience the greatest change and disruption known in our history. The next half dozen years will likely see rapid, global climate change coupled with the beginning of the end of the petroleum era and a reorganization of the planetary energy regime, a major shock to the global financial system, and unprecedented food prices.?
Here are seven things you can do now to make this year the best ever:
1. Open your eyes, your mind, and your heart to the reality of the change.
Most people live in denial. We see what we want to see. We accept what the major media tell us. We would rather ?eat, drink, and be merry? than see the tidal wave of change that is upon us.
?People don?t seem to realize that it is not like we?re on the Titanic and we have to avoid the iceberg,? says Rob Watson, CEO and Chief Scientist of The EcoTech International Group, who Pulitizer-Prize winning author Tom Friedman calls one of the best environmental minds in America. ?We?ve already hit the iceberg. The water is rushing in down below. But some people just don?t want to leave the dance floor; others don?t want to give up on the buffet. But if we don?t make the hard choices, nature will make them for us.?
We don?t need to be afraid of change, but we must accept that the changes we are experiencing will have a major impact on our lives.
2. Remember that preparation is 65% mental, 20% physical, and 15% fiscal.
Most people will remain in denial. They would rather stay on the ship, dancing and eating, than make preparations. Those who are willing to prepare often go about it backwards. They worry about their money, spend time following the gold market, or looking for some safe investment overseas. I?m not saying that money issues aren?t important. They are, but not as important as physical and mental preparation.
How does one prepare mentally? Well, let?s start with accepting that no matter what we do, we?re all going to die. It may not be on December 21, 2012, but none of us will escape death. We don?t have to grab more and more in a vain attempt to survive at any cost. We can relax into the future. It can be a comfort when we realize that we don?t have to prevent the unpreventable.
To prepare physically is to learn to live with less. We live on a finite planet with limited resources. Yet, we?ve been using our water, land, minerals, and other supplies as though they were limitless. Though we?ll have less ?stuff,? we can still have more love, support, companionship, and all the things that money can?t buy.
3. Put down your roots in your community.
If you haven?t already, find the place you intend to live for the next 20 to 30 years and put down roots. With the changes that are coming down you want to be in a place where you will have a great deal of social support. Throughout human history, humans have been suspicious of strangers and supportive of those people they know well.
Make connections with like-minded people in your community. In our town of Willits, California, 5 years ago we created WELL, the Willits, Economic LocaLization Group to prepare for the coming changes. You can check out what we do at www.Well95490.org.
4. Commit to healing the important relationships in your life.
We are social beings. When our important social relationships are dysfunctional or unhappy, we are vulnerable to all kinds of problems. As stress increases in the world, those people who have joyful relationships with their spouse, parents, children, cousins, friends, etc. will likely prosper. Those who do not are likely to have a much more difficult time. Recent research has shown the surprising ways in which our social relationships shape our lives.
It?s never too late to heal a relationship that has been neglected. Remember, your life may depend on how close you are to your spouse, your parents, or your children. Most of us have one or two family members or friends where the relationship has become strained or broken. Don?t wait. Reach out and heal those relationships. You?ll be glad you did.
5. Learn to honor and respect those you most strongly disagree with.
We can?t afford to live in a world where we see ourselves surrounded by enemies who we can never learn to get along with. In a world that is becoming increasingly complex, one way to simplify things is to become oppositional. If we divide the world into ?good guys? and ?bad guys? we can simplify things. It?s easy to fall into the trap of ?I?m right? and ?you?re wrong.?
The problem with that attitude is that it creates gridlock. We see it in our government. ?If they?re for it, we?re against it.? Meanwhile the citizens are caught in the middle as our representatives in government trade insults. One of the reasons people are taking to the streets and organizing the 99% is because they are tired of an ?us vs. them? mentality. The next step is to invite the 1% to join us. The world works best when we all share more equally. A country that has a rich ruling class and a lot of poor people doesn?t work well for the poor or the rich.
6. Get in shape. Those who survive and thrive the coming changes will be the ones who get healthy now.
Surviving and thriving with the changes that are coming will require you to be at your very best-physically, emotionally, interpersonally, socially, economically, and spiritually. Like all pioneers you will face many difficulties in your new life. I want us to survive and prosper, but here?s what I?m seeing:
- Most of us are overweight. Our big bellies get in the way.
- Most of us don?t have the aerobic capacity to run for our lives.
- Most of us aren?t strong enough to lift, push, and pull ourselves out of harm?s way.
- Most of us are not flexible enough to live well in the world of the future.
- Most of us are so sleep deprived that we are a danger to ourselves and others.
- Most of us are so stressed out by our daily struggle to survive that we have little energy left for ourselves and our families.
We all make New Year?s resolutions about losing weight and staying in shape. They often don?t last until March. But we have an extra incentive this year. We are entering a new era, one that is different than anything we?ve ever experienced. We need to be in the best shape of our lives. Hey, what could be better than getting in the best shape of our lives? Let?s make this New Year?s resolution a reality.
7. Let go of our addiction to Empire and return to our roots in the Earth Community.
Although I have been a scientist for most of my adult life, I recognize that much of the important things we need to learn in life come from our intuition. I?ve learned to trust these moments of insight. One such insight occurred for me in 1995 while sitting in a ?sweat lodge? at a men?s conference in Indiana.
I had a vision that showed me that the ?ship of civilization? was sinking and a new way of life was emerging that will allow us to let go of the addictive practices that have developed over the last 5,000 years and led us to try to dominate the planet. That same year I read an important book by David C. Korten called When Corporations Rule the World. It showed clearly why our business practices were unsustainable and will likely crash.
I?ve been following Korten?s work since then. He describes his current thinking on his website, www.davidkorten.org. I believe it offers our best hope for the future.
?We humans,? says Korten, ?are Creation?s most daring experiment with reflective consciousness. This gift is the source of our distinctive capacity to choose our future as an intentional collective act. For some 5,000 years, we have demonstrated our ability to use this capacity foolishly at an enormous cost to ourselves and to other living beings. We must now take the step to a new level of species maturity and demonstrate our ability to act with collective wisdom and foresight.?
We can change the human course by changing the framing stories of our dominant culture. The prevailing Empire stories celebrate the individualism, violence, and greed that express the pathologies of our collective human immaturity, while denying the potentials for community, love, and nurturing service that define our more mature human nature. The turning from Empire to Earth Community depends on changing these stories through conversations that make public the transformative inner wisdom we posses as individuals. Institutional change will follow naturally.
It?s a great time to be alive. I look forward to our continued journey together.
Jed Diamond, Ph.D. has been a health-care professional for the last 45 years. He is the author of 9 books, including Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places, Male Menopause, The Irritable Male Syndrome, and Mr. Mean: Saving Your Relationship from the Irritable Male Syndrome. He offers counseling to men, women, and couples in his office in California or by phone with people throughout the U.S. and around the world. To receive a free E-book on Men?s Health and a free subscription to Jed?s e-newsletter go to www.MenAlive.com. If you enjoy his articles, he encourages you to subscribe. Jed writes to everyone who joins his Scribd team.
For more than 40 years Diamond has specialized in men?s health and has developed new and innovative programs to treat male-type depression and other problems that are common in males. For more information on Dr. Diamond?s work contact: Jed Diamond, www.MenAlive.com, Jed@MenAlive.com, Phone: 707 459-5505.
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New Map Shows that Most Lyme-Infected Ticks Are in Northeast, Northern Midwest
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Female blacklegged tick courtesy of Graham Hickling/University of Tennessee
Lyme disease is notoriously tough to diagnose. The symptoms often don?t appear for one or two weeks after a bite and can vary from feeling flu-ish to longer-term neurological damage. And ticks seem to lie in wait throughout much of the U.S., prepared to pounce and infect a passerby.
Part of the difficulty in confirming the condition, which is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, is that its range has been unclear. Previous estimates were based on tick distribution and diagnostic reports. But as researchers have pointed out, reporting of tick populations can vary from county to county, and Lyme disease in humans is frequently under-, over- and misdiagnosed, skewing our understanding of its prevalence.
A new study skipped the human reports and went straight to the source: Ixodes scapularis (commonly known as blacklegged or deer ticks) nymphs infected with the pathogen. Teams of researchers and field workers swept through more than 300 sites in 37 states in the eastern half of the country, dragging large squares of corduroy during prime tick time?May through August?between 2004 and 2007 to see how many ticks would hop on. Collected ticks were tested for the bacterium. The results and a distribution map were published online Wednesday in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
?A better understanding of where Lyme disease is likely to be endemic is a significant factor in improving prevention, diagnosis and treatment,? Maria Diuk-Wasser, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Public Health and co-author of the new study, said in a prepared statement. The areas of highest risk are southern Maine through Washington, D.C., as well as Minnesota and Wisconsin.
New map of Lyme disease risk courtesy of Maria Diuk-Wasser/Yale School of Public Health
These findings should help doctors better evaluate a person?s actual risk of having contracted Lyme disease, which is key to effective treatment and avoiding false positives. ?Our sampling of tick populations at hundreds of sites suggests that any diagnosis of Lyme disease in most of the South should be put in serious doubt, unless it involves someone who has traveled to an area where the disease is common,? Diuk-Wasser said. Folks in the South might be more likely to encounter the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum), whose bite can be easy to confuse with an infected deer tick bite because it can also cause a rash that resembles the telltale Lyme disease ?bull?s eye.? Such cases could result in mis-diagnosis with Lyme disease.
Lab tests are more likely to produce false-positive results in areas where Lyme disease is not endemic, the researchers noted. And with some 2.7 million tests for Lyme disease in the U.S. a year, false positives are a concern for patient safety. They also muddy the overall picture of where Lyme occurs nation-wide. Doctors ?may act too aggressively and prescribe unneeded and potentially dangerous treatments if they incorrectly believe their patient was exposed to the pathogen,? Diuk-Wasser said.
The new survey did not cover other parts of the country, such as the West Coast, where another species of tick, the western blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus), is known to carry Lyme disease. And as the ticks move with deer populations?which are, themselves, influenced by changes in land use and climate?the maps should be updated. Early evidence suggests that there are newer centers of Lyme disease in Illinois and Indiana as well as Michigan and even North Dakota.
The good news for those who live in endemic areas is that it takes more than a day post-attachment for a tick to infect a human, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That makes regular tick checks a good preventive measure. And it doesn?t have to be a solitary chore. As country singer Brad Paisley notes, ?I?d like to walk you through a field of wildflowers, and I?d like to check you for ticks.?
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Obama says looks to Christian faith in crafting policies (Reuters)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? U.S. President Barack Obama sought to emphasize his Christian faith on Thursday, telling a key election-year voting bloc that he prays every morning and has crafted elements of his economic policies in line with Jesus’ teachings.
Obama, who rarely goes to church and speaks far less about his religion than his White House predecessors, told about 3,000 people at a National Prayer Breakfast that the challenges facing the United States required him to listen to God, avoid “phony religiosity,” and pursue “bold action” in the face of resistance or indifference.
“I wake up each morning and I say a brief prayer, and I spend a little time in scripture and devotion,” Obama told the annual gathering at a Washington hotel, also saying that pastors periodically stop by the Oval Office, phone him and send emails so they can pray together.
“I don’t stop there. I’d be remiss if I stopped there, if my values were limited to personal moments of prayer or private conversations with pastors or friends,” he said. “I must try to make sure that those values motivate me as one leader of this great nation.”
American voters care deeply about religion, with two-thirds saying it is important for a presidential candidate to have strong religious beliefs.
When he emerged on the national stage, many Americans were uncertain about Obama’s religion and as many as one in five thought he was a Muslim. The president has previously said that although he did not grow up in a religious household, he became a Christian as an adult “by choice.”
On Thursday, he described a 2010 meeting with evangelical leader Billy Graham as transformative to his religious thinking, saying he had “prayed from the heart” at Graham’s North Carolina retreat and frequently thereafter.
“I have fallen on my knees with great regularity since that moment – asking God for guidance not just in my personal life and my Christian walk, but in the life of this nation and in the values that hold us together and keep us strong,” he said.
Mitt Romney, Obama’s most likely opponent in the November 6 election, is a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, a branch of Christianity, known as the Mormons, with socially conservative values that believes Jesus appeared to founder Joseph Smith in America.
Obama, a Democrat, did not reference Romney in his remarks to the prayer breakfast but emphasized his own attention to the poor and fight against inequality. He was clearly trying to draw a contrast with the Republican front-runner, who was widely criticized on Wednesday for saying he was “not concerned about the very poor.”
Obama cloaked his economic platform – including a push for higher taxes on the wealthy, which Republicans in Congress have resisted – in religious scripture, adding a new layer to his re-election stump speech.
“I actually think that’s going to make economic sense. But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’ teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required,’” he said, also referencing “the biblical call” to help poor and marginalized people as reason for his foreign aid choices.
Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican who ended his White House run last month, had accused Obama on the campaign trail of leading a “war on religion,” saying the president’s decision to support gay rights overseas was “not in America’s interest and not worth a dime of taxpayers’ money.”
Obama avoided mention in his prayer breakfast remarks of his administration’s new rule requiring religiously affiliated non-profit groups to provide birth control to women, a decision that spurred opposition from social conservatives and the Catholic Church.
(Additional reporting by Samson Reiny; Editing by Deborah Charles and Eric Beech)
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