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NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Despite a budget crunch, New York City might have to increase funding for programs to help AIDS patients as its cost-cutting efforts have floundered and the state or federal governments could slice spending, a new report said on Tuesday.
New York City has one of the nation's largest populations of people living with AIDS -- 66,398 patients in 2009, the most recent data available.
The increase in this population has slowed from its 1990s spike to an average of about 1,669 new patients a year, according to the report by the Independent Budget Office. But the city has little control over the number of patients because doctors determine whether someone has AIDS.
Further, the city's cash crunch is far from unique.
New York State faces future deficits that run in the multibillions of dollars while the federal government is struggling to cut its own deficit.
The city will contribute about half of the total of $225 million earmarked for assisting AIDS patients with housing, health and homemaker services, and the like in the current budget, the report said.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a political independent, has failed repeatedly to curb the costs of caring for AIDS patients. Legal requirements Bloomberg could not overturn set the number of caseload managers, and the City Council, led by Democrats, repeatedly restored his cuts, the report said.
AIDS patients, who lived an average of just over 109 months in 2008, also get the benefit of other public assistance, such as Medicaid, the federal-state plan for the poor, elderly and disabled, and the federal food stamp program, for example.
In November, Bloomberg did not propose any new cuts for the HIV/AIDS programs, the report said.
"This may reflect that the city's efforts to find savings in the HIV/AIDS Services Administration are not likely to get any easier in the future," it added.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/t7KYPm Independent Budget Office, November 29, 2011.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) ? Britain has evacuated all its diplomatic staff from Iran, Western diplomatic sources told Reuters on Wednesday, a day after protesters stormed and ransacked its embassy and a residential compound.
Britain said it was outraged by the attacks and warned of "serious consequences." The U.N. Security Council condemned the attacks "in the strongest terms." U.S. President Barack Obama called on Iran to hold those responsible to account.
No comment was immediately available from the British government on the reported withdrawal of embassy staff from Iran.
On Tuesday, Iranian protesters stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran, smashing windows, torching a car and burning the British flag in protest against new sanctions imposed by London.
The attacks occurred at a time of rising diplomatic tension between Iran and Western nations, which last week imposed fresh sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program that they believe is aimed at achieving the capability of making an atomic bomb.
Iran, the world's fifth biggest oil exporter, says it wants nuclear plants only for the generation of electricity.
The embassy storming was also a sign of deepening political infighting within Iran's ruling hardline elites, with the conservative-led parliament attempting to force the hand of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and expel the British ambassador.
"Radicals in Iran and in the West are always in favor of crisis ... Such radical hardliners in Iran will use the crisis to unite people and also to blame the crisis for the fading economy," said political analyst Hasan Sedghi.
Several dozen protesters broke away from a crowd of a few hundred outside the main British embassy compound in Tehran, scaled the gates, broke the locks and went inside.
Protesters pulled down the British flag, burned it and put up the Iranian flag, Iranian news agencies and news pictures showed. Inside, the demonstrators smashed windows of office and residential quarters and set a car ablaze, news pictures showed.
One took a framed picture of Queen Elizabeth, state TV showed. Others carried the royal crest out through the embassy gate as police stood by, pictures carried by the semi-official Fars news agency showed.
All embassy personnel were accounted for, a British diplomat told Reuters in Washington, saying Britain did not believe that any sensitive materials had been seized.
Demonstrators waved flags symbolizing martyrdom and held aloft portraits of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has the final say on matters of state in Iran.
Another group of protesters broke into a second British compound at Qolhak in north Tehran, the IRNA state news agency said. Once the embassy's summer quarters, the sprawling, tree-lined compound is now used to house diplomatic staff.
An Iranian report said six British embassy staff had been briefly held by the protesters. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the situation had been "confusing" and that he would not have called them "hostages."
"Police freed the six people working for the British embassy in Qolhak garden," Iran's Fars news agency said.
A German school next to the Qolhak compound was also damaged, the German government said.
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Police appeared to have cleared the demonstrators in front of the main embassy compound, but later clashed with protesters and fired tear gas to try to disperse them, Fars said. Protesters nevertheless entered the compound a second time, before once again leaving, it said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a meeting of the government crisis committee to discuss the attacks, which he said were "outrageous and indefensible."
"The failure of the Iranian government to defend British staff and property was a disgrace," he said in a statement.
"The Iranian government must recognize that there will be serious consequences for failing to protect our staff. We will consider what these measures should be in the coming days."
The United States, alongside the European Union and many of its member states also strongly condemned the attacks.
There have been regular protests outside the British embassy over the years since the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah, but never have any been so violent.
The attacks and hostage-taking were a reminder of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran carried out by radical students who held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The United States cut diplomatic ties with Iran after the hostage-taking.
(Additional reporting by Hossein Jaseb and Hashem Kalantari in Tehran, Parisa Hafezi in Istanbul, William Maclean and Adrian Croft in London and Arshad Mohammed in Washington. Writing by Jon Hemming, editing by Ralph Gowling)
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FILE - A file photo provided Thursday Aug. 11, 2011 by Aruba police, shows U.S. citizen Gary V. Giordano, 50, of Gaithersburg, Md., in an Aruba police mugshot in Oranjestad, Aruba. Giordano is to be released by Tuesday evening on the order of a judge, who ruled authorities failed to justify continuing to hold him nearly four months since his companion, Robyn Gardner, vanished during their five-day excursion to the Dutch Caribbean island. (AP Photo/Aruba Police, File)
FILE - A file photo provided Thursday Aug. 11, 2011 by Aruba police, shows U.S. citizen Gary V. Giordano, 50, of Gaithersburg, Md., in an Aruba police mugshot in Oranjestad, Aruba. Giordano is to be released by Tuesday evening on the order of a judge, who ruled authorities failed to justify continuing to hold him nearly four months since his companion, Robyn Gardner, vanished during their five-day excursion to the Dutch Caribbean island. (AP Photo/Aruba Police, File)
FILE -- This undated handout file photo, released by the Natalee Holloway Resource Center on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011, shows Robyn Gardner, 35, of Frederick, Maryland. Gary V. Giordano is to be released by Tuesday evening on the order of a judge, who ruled authorities failed to justify continuing to hold him nearly four months since his companion, Robyn Gardner, vanished during their five-day excursion to the Dutch Caribbean island. (AP Photo/Natalee Holloway Resource Center)
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (AP) ? U.S. businessman Gary Giordano has been released from jail in Aruba after nearly four months of detention as a suspect in the disappearance of his traveling companion, Robyn Gardner.
Giordano is now free to leave the Dutch Caribbean island but his immediate plans are not clear. Prosecutors still consider him a suspect in Gardner's presumed death. He left the jail with his lawyers.
A judge allowed his pretrial detention order to expire Tuesday, ruling prosecutors failed to present enough evidence to continue holding him as a suspect in the presumed death of Robyn Gardner.
Giordano has denied wrongdoing. He says she was swept out to sea while they were snorkeling.
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LONDON (AP) ? The newspaper coverage was troubling: London's huge international showcase was beset by planning problems, local opposition and labor woes ? and the transport was a mess.
It sounds like the 2012 Olympics, but this was the Great Exhibition of 1851 generating stories of late trains, unscrupulous landlords and dangerous overcrowding.
Coverage of the event is found in 4 million pages of newspapers from the 18th and 19th centuries being made available online Tuesday by the British Library, in what head of newspapers Ed King calls "a digital Aladdin's Cave" for researchers.
The online archive is a partnership between the library and digital publishing firm Brightsolid, which has been scanning 8,000 pages a day from the library's vast periodical archive for the past year and plans to digitize 40 million pages over the next decade.
A glance at the stories of crime and scandal shows some things haven't changed ? including grumbling letter-writers complaining about disruption caused by the 1851 exhibition, held inside a specially built Crystal Palace in London's Hyde Park.
"People were saying, 'This isn't good, I can't ride my horse in Hyde Park,'" said King. One regional newspaper editor complained that the "celebrated p.m. fast train service to London" arrived two hours late and warned visitors "not to trust themselves to the tender mercies of the numerous private housekeepers" renting out rooms at exorbitant prices.
The library hopes the searchable online trove will be a major resource for academics and researchers. The vast majority of the British Library's 750 million pages of newspapers ? the largest collection in the world ? are currently available only on microfilm or bound in bulky volumes at a newspaper archive in north London, where the yellowing journals cover 20 miles (32 kilometers) of shelves.
"We've got 200 years of newspapers locked away," King said. "We're trying to open it up to a wider audience."
There will be a cost to download articles online, though they can be accessed for free at the library's London reading rooms.
Most of the first batch of 4 million pages are from the 19th century, and include stories about huge international events, freak accidents and local crimes, as well as articles about Victorian celebrities such as Florence Nightingale, whose nursing of troops in the Crimean War made her famous.
There are stories of war and famine, crime and punishment, alongside birth and death notices, family announcements and advertisements for soap, cocoa, marmalade, miracle cures and treatments for baldness.
Crime columns provide a glimpse at rough 19th-century justice. Newspapers printed lists of people transported to Australia for stealing money, silver, cloth, hay and, in one case, "seven cups and five saucers."
The archive includes national and regional newspapers from Britain and Ireland, as well as more specialized publications. The Cheltenham Looker-On reported on society, fashions and gossip in the genteel English spa town. The Poor Law Unions' Gazette contained vivid accounts of workhouse life, and descriptions of inmates who had absconded.
King said the library hopes the archive will also help amateur genealogists find information about their ancestors.
Library staff have already highlighted a few links to the famous, including an 1852 appearance in insolvency court by Simon Cowell's great-great-great grandfather, Michael Gashion, and a local newspaper item about the great-great grandfather of actress Kate Winslet, who was "embedded in a mass of bricks and timber" when a hotel facade fell on him in 1903.
Bob Satchwell of press trade group the Society of Editors welcomed the archive ? some good news for newspapers amid all the negative press from Britain's ongoing phone hacking scandal.
He said the website "opens up a magical new window on a magnificent treasure trove of real history, recording the lives of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in vibrant communities, rather than merely the cold facts of politics and pestilence."
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Online: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
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LESTER HOLT, anchor: Back now with our Education Nation report and the growing number of schools across the country that are offering, some even requiring online classes for middle and high school students. In fact, some of these public schools exist completely online. We get our report tonight from our chief education correspondent Rehema Ellis .
REHEMA ELLIS reporting: It's time for school for Allison Schnacke .
Ms. ALLISON SCHNACKE: I wake up at eight, I eat breakfast. I go onto my school.
ELLIS: But for Allison class is right at home.
Ms. SCHNACKE: In the kitchen, on the table, in my room.
ELLIS: She and her brother Noah are enrolled full-time in the Florida Virtual School , an Internet-based public school . Virtual schools are expanding quickly for students from kindergarten to 12th grade, allowing them to take some or all f their classes from home.
Mr. JASON TORRES (Online Teacher): You can try unit one.
ELLIS: Online instructors can answer questions by email, phone, even video conference.
Mr. TORRES: It's providing them skills that they're going to need; time management and consistency in your work, communication with instructors.
ELLIS: And just like a student, some teachers do it right from home. Nationwide, 250,000 students are enrolled in full-time virtual schools, up 40 percent in the last three years. Thirty states offer a full-time online education to at least some students. Advocates say this technology is one way cash-strapped districts can save money. Variety and flexibility are also major draws.
Ms. JULIE YOUNG (Florida Virtual School): We don't believe that virtual schools are going to replace public schools . We believe they're going to change them.
ELLIS: Still, some question the effectiveness of online learning , saying more research needs to be done. Though programs do include teacher and student interaction, critics argue school is about more than just completing a lesson.
Mr. JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN (New York University): Schools historically in this country have existed not simply to teach people to read or to count, but also to teach them how to be citizens.
ELLIS: For the Schnackes , the ability to juggle school work around their busy schedules is part of the allure and the challenge.
Mr. NOAH SCHNACKE: You have to push yourself a lot harder because no one's here saying, 'You got to do it' and jamming it down your throat.
ELLIS: A new way of teaching and learning, redefining just what it means to go to school. Rehema Ellis, NBC News, New York.
Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/45454710/
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WASHINGTON ? Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich looked to turn an endorsement from New Hampshire's largest newspaper into momentum elsewhere, heading to South Carolina for a three-day campaign swing with tea party members.
His leading rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, did not schedule campaign appearances on Monday, but his advisers were working to downplay The New Hampshire Union Leader's backing of Gingrich in Romney's back yard. The newspaper's rejection of Romney, who enjoys solid polling leads in New Hampshire and has worked to line up activists, stood to potentially reshape the campaign in that state .
"We don't back candidates based on popularity polls or big-shot backers. We look for conservatives of courage and conviction who are independent-minded, grounded in their core beliefs about this nation and its people, and best equipped for the job," the newspaper said in its Sunday front-page editorial.
The Union Leader's editorial is a sign that conservative concerns about Romney's shifts on crucial issues of abortion and gay rights were unlikely to fade. Those worries have led Romney to keep Iowa's Jan. 3 caucuses ? where conservatives hold great sway ? at arm's length.
At the same time, the endorsement boosts Gingrich's conservative credentials. He spent the week defending his immigration policies against accusations they represent a form of amnesty. On Monday, Gingrich was to begin a campaign swing through South Carolina, the South's first primary state. There, he will have a town hall meeting with Rep. Tim Scott and tea party activists in Charleston.
Romney, taking a few days' break for the Thanksgiving holiday, has kept focused on a long-term strategy that doesn't lurch from one development to another. Last week, he picked up the backing of Sen. John Thune, a South Dakota conservative, to add to his roster of supporters.
Romney planned to return to the campaign on Tuesday in Florida.
The Union Leader's rejection of Romney wasn't surprising despite his efforts to woo state leaders. The newspaper rejected Romney four years ago in favor of Arizona Sen. John McCain, using front-page columns and editorials to promote McCain and criticize Romney.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who has a vacation home in the state and has been called a "nearly native son of New Hampshire," absorbed the blow heading into the Jan. 10 vote that's vital to his campaign strategy.
Yet with six weeks until the primary, The Union Leader's move could again shuffle the race, further boosting Gingrich and driving a steady stream of criticism against his rivals. In recent weeks, the former House speaker has seen a surge in some polls as Republicans focus more closely on deciding who they consider best positioned to take on President Barack Obama.
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When Cyber Monday rolls around, everyone's eyes dart to the big boys like Amazon and Newegg for cheap goods, but niche retailers have their own deals too. Case in point: the DIY repair nuts at iFixit have whipped together a nifty bundle for aspiring iPhone modders who would like to see the fruits of Apple's design savvy instead of an opaque black panel.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ZWTtxFErUis/
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Congolese president Joseph Kabila casts his ballot in the country's presidential election at a polling station in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday Nov. 28, 2011. Voting began Monday with delays and setbacks in this massive nation pummeled by war for an election that could further consolidate the country's peace or drag Congo back into conflict. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Congolese president Joseph Kabila casts his ballot in the country's presidential election at a polling station in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday Nov. 28, 2011. Voting began Monday with delays and setbacks in this massive nation pummeled by war for an election that could further consolidate the country's peace or drag Congo back into conflict. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Unable to read, Sabine Tunga, left, is being helped by election witness Roger Kipundu to fill the 30 pages long ballot for parliamentary elections at a Matonge neighborhood polling station in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday Nov. 28, 2011. Voting began Monday with delays and setbacks in this massive nation pummeled by war for an election that could further consolidate the country's peace or drag Congo back into conflict. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Voters check for their names on lists at the Monseigneur Moke school polling station in the Matonge district in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday Nov. 28, 2011.Voting began Monday with delays and setbacks in this massive nation pummeled by war for an election that could further consolidate the country's peace or drag Congo back into conflict. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Congolese president Joseph Kabila casts his ballot in the country's presidential election at a polling station in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday Nov. 28, 2011. Voting began Monday with delays and setbacks in this massive nation pummeled by war for an election that could further consolidate the country's peace or drag Congo back into conflict. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Voters check for their names on lists at the Monseigneur Moke school polling station in the Matonge district in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Monday Nov. 28, 2011. Voting began Monday with delays and setbacks in this massive nation pummeled by war for an election that could further consolidate the country's peace or drag Congo back into conflict. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) ? Voting materials failed to arrive in some opposition strongholds but the country's election went ahead Monday, raising doubts about the legitimacy of a poll that already has seen at least nine people killed and could drag sub-Saharan Africa's biggest nation back into conflict.
Country experts and opposition leaders had urged the government to delay the vote due to massive logistical problems in Congo, which suffered decades of dictatorship and civil war. Some polling stations are so remote that ballot boxes had to be transported for across muddy trails on the heads of porters and by dugout canoe across churning rivers.
There are fears that election disputes could spark more violence in this country, where militias and rebel groups still terrorize citizens in the country's east.
Violence over the weekend left at least four people dead, and it continued overnight Monday when gunmen opened fire on a truck transporting ballots in the southeastern town of Lubumbashi. That attack and a subsequent one on a voting center left five more dead, according to Dikanga Kazadi, the provincial interior minister. In the capital, police fired tear gas at a polling station after rival political supporters clashed.
In pockets throughout the country, voting centers were forced to open late, and some didn't open at all as they waited for trucks ferrying the necessary forms and equipment. At polling station No. 10053 located in the same Catholic school, election officials could not open because the ink used to mark the index fingers of voters hadn't been delivered.
"We can't start like this. We're not even properly dressed," said Baudouin Lusagila, the head of the polling station, whose team also lacked the signature blue vests printed with the electoral commission's logo. "Of course I'm worried. There is too much improvisation. Too many delays."
The vote is the second since the end of Congo's last war and the first to be organized by the government instead of the international community. There were delays at every step in the preparation. The ballots were only printed in South Africa two weeks ago ? not enough time to deliver them to the remote corners of a nation the size of Western Europe where less than 2 percent of the roads are paved.
The government is in a hurry to hold the vote because incumbent President Joseph Kabila's term expires in the first week of December. If a new president is not elected by then, analysts say the country could slide into a situation of unconstitutional power, a scenario that could provoke further unrest.
At polling stations that opened on time in the capital, lines were small and several were empty after a torrential rain began to pound the pavement. Inside the Gombe secondary school where Kabila cast his ballot, the women lined up after him were wearing shower caps. Kabila urged citizens to go to the polls and warned of what was at stake.
"Our country, the Democratic Republic of Congo has come a long way, from a situation of war, and of all manner of conflict whose end result was suffering," Kabila said on state television on the eve of the election. "Let us be careful not to return to where we have come from. By participating in the vote ... we are guaranteeing the stability and the future of our country."
Among the logistical challenges is the staggering number of candidates (18,385) competing for the 500 seats in parliament. Posters of candidates featured their number on the ballot, which is as thick as a weekend supplement in a major newspaper. A third of Congolese adults can't read, a rate that is even higher among women. Many were showing up with slips of paper filled in by relatives stating the number of their candidate of choice.
Even that didn't help Celine Madiata, first in line to vote at the polling station inside a Catholic college in the capital. She stepped behind the cardboard voting screen, and opened the voluminous ballot paper, carefully scrolling down.
It took her several minutes to recognize the No. 50, which she circled. "I voted for Bala Basu," she said.
Except that Candidate No. 50 isn't Bala Basu. It's a politician named Rubenga Kamanda. Country watchers worry that mistakes like Madiata's are being repeated throughout the country and could delegitimize the election in the eyes of the population.
"It's like leading an animal to the slaughterhouse. It doesn't realize until it gets there what is in store for it," said Jerome Bonso, coordinator of the Coalition for Peaceful and Transparent Elections. "They led us into this election. The population was not prepared for it. And now there is a real risk of conflict when the results come out."
It's unclear if the lateness observed in voting centers nationwide will affect the outcome of the vote, but it added to a cloud of uncertainty. Because the opposition is split with 10 candidates vying to unseat the 40-year-old Kabila, most analysts expect him to win.
That will come as an especially hard blow in Kinshasa, where his popularity has hit rock bottom due to the spiraling cost of basic goods and worsening poverty. Billboards showing the youthful president have been defaced, tarred with mud.
Kabila was first thrust into the position of president a decade ago, after the assassination of his father, Laurent Kabila, the rebel leader who toppled the country's dictator of 32 years, Mobutu Sese Seko and later won the country's 2006 election.
The younger Kabila initially benefited from his father's aura, who was credited with ridding the country of a man known for chartering the Concorde for personal trips and sipping pink champagne while his population languished in abject poverty.
People celebrated when the ruler's family was forced to run onto a cargo plane to escape, the first lady still wearing her nightgown. But a campaign poster for Mobutu's son ? Francois Joseph Mobutu, who is one of the 11 presidential candidates ? underlines how much the younger Kabila's popularity has dipped since he was first elected five years ago.
"Mobutu was there for 32 years. He pillaged the country. But are we any better off now? The Democratic Republic of Congo has manganese, cobalt, coltan, oil, diamonds," said 45-year-old Ndukis Mubiala, a taxi driver who is voting for the ex-dictator's son. "I'm a chauffeur. I don't own a house. In my bank account, there's zero. Like before, 10 percent of the population gets everything, 90 percent gets nothing."
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Associated Press writer Saleh Mwanamilongo in Kinshasa, Congo contributed to this report.
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Women dieters who grab a snack between breakfast and lunch lose less weight compared to those who abstain from a mid-morning snack, according to a study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
The results of this randomized trial, led by Anne McTiernan, M.D., Ph.D., a member of the Hutchinson Center's Public Health Sciences Division and director of its Prevention Center, will be published in the December issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
In the course of the year-long study, the researchers found that mid-morning snackers lost an average of 7 percent of their total body weight while those who ate a healthy breakfast but did not snack before lunch lost more than 11 percent of their body weight. For the study, a snack was defined as any food or drink that was consumed between main meals.
"We think this finding may not relate necessarily to the time of day one snacks, but rather to the short interval between breakfast and lunch. Mid-morning snacking therefore might be a reflection of recreational or mindless eating habits rather than eating to satisfy true hunger," said McTiernan, the corresponding author of the paper.
While snacking too close to a main meal may be detrimental to weight loss, waiting too long between meals also may sabotage dieting efforts, she said. "Snacking could be part of a dieter's toolkit if they're eating in response to true hunger. Individuals should determine if they experience long intervals ? such as more than five hours ? between meals. Adding a snack might help people deal better with hunger and ultimately help them to make more sound choices at their next meal."
The study also revealed that women who reported eating more than two snacks a day had higher fiber intake than those who snacked less frequently, and afternoon nibblers ate more fruits and vegetables compared to women who didn't snack between lunch and dinner.
The ancillary study, part of a larger randomized clinical trial designed to test the effects of nutrition and exercise on breast cancer risk, involved 123 overweight-to-obese postmenopausal Seattle-area women, ages 50 to 75, who were randomly assigned to either a diet-alone intervention (goal: 1,200 to 2,000 calories a day, depending on starting weight, and fewer than 30 percent of daily calories from fat), or diet plus exercise (same calorie and fat restrictions plus 45 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise per day, five days a week). While the women received nutrition counseling they were not given any specific instructions or recommendations about snacking behavior.
At the end of the study the women were asked to record the time, type and frequency of meals consumed on a normal day. Percent of calories from fat, fiber and fruit and vegetable intake were also estimated using a food-frequency questionnaire.
"Many people think that a weight-loss program has to mean always feeling hungry," McTiernan said. "Our study suggests that snacking may actually help with weight loss if not done too close to another meal, particularly if the snacks are healthy foods that can help you feel full without adding too many calories."
Nationwide surveys indicate that 97 percent of U.S. adults report snacking, and such behavior is consistent across age groups. One study that surveyed a national random sample of more than 1,500 adults found that the most commonly preferred snacks were salty and crunchy items such as potato chips, pretzels and nuts; baked goods such as cookies and cakes; fruits; and ice cream.
Not all snacks are created equal, however. Foods less conducive to weight loss include empty-calorie items that contribute fat, salt, sugar and little nutritional value, such as potato chips and sugar-sweetened beverages.
For a woman on a weight-loss diet, a healthy snack should pack a nutritional wallop without breaking the calorie bank. "Since women on a weight-loss program only have a limited number of calories to spend each day, it is important for them to incorporate nutrient-dense foods that are no more than 200 calories per serving," McTiernan said. "The best snacks for a weight-loss program are proteins such as low-fat yogurt, string cheese, or a small handful of nuts; non-starchy vegetables; fresh fruits; whole-grain crackers; and non-calorie beverages such as water, coffee and tea."
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Go ahead ... Google your business! Don't be shy -- it's just as important as checking yourself out in the mirror before you leave for a job interview!
We have all Googled our own keywords at one point or another, and as marketers, many of us obsess over getting the highest rankings in the eponymous search engine. But there are still a huge swath of businesses that are letting someone else do their search engine optimization and Googling ... and it turns out, they are leaving money on the table.
Let me share a quick story to illustrate the point. Recently, I learned that I am a proud Aunt of my second nephew who was born several weeks early. Hurrah!?
That meant I was driving up for Thanksgiving without time to have selected the perfect baby gift for this premature bundle of joy. Naturally, while coming home from the gym in my native Austin, Texas, I decided to use my iPhone to solve the problem with a local solution.?
So, I pulled up the maps app and typed in "baby gifts 78704" in the search box.?
The results pictured at right are what I got. That's not much. Seriously, Austin may not be Manhattan, but I was dismayed to find only four shops within a three mile radius of downtown. ?
"No way," I thought. ?
Being a savvy Googler, I altered my search to "baby clothes 78704."? Lo and behold, check out the seven results much closer to my blue dot, several of which were just blocks from my exact location!
Something you'll notice is that a few of the "baby gift" results are NOT in the set for "baby clothes," though having checked out their websites, I know they sell both.
So, I made my way to Wee, which had just the sort of cute, snuggly gifts I was looking for. When I got there, I told the staffer that I couldn't find their store when I searched for "baby gifts." First, she was incredulous, since they have an SEO firm they work with. Then I showed her, and she was really grateful for the tip. ?
While I may have only given her another keyword to target, what I really hope I did was open her eyes to the idea of taking charge herself. If the Wee team had brainstormed and researched its own keyword list and done just a small amount of SEO homework, including Googling themselves, they'd have a much higher possibility of getting found by shopping aunties just like me!
Make sure you're taking control of your business' keywords. You're the expert about your industry and business, and you likely have a better understanding of the types of keywords and terms your prospects are using to find you. If you hire an agency or an SEO consultant to help with the work, make sure you take part in the keyword research and choose a reputable partner you can trust. It's critical to be on the same page about the keywords your prospects and customers are searching to find you. If not, you could be leaving valuable customers on the table.?
When was the last time you Googled your business ... from your buyers' perspective?
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By Paul Lomax
Special to DNAinfo
UNION SQUARE ? It's beginning to look a lot like...June?
Thousands of holiday shoppers basked in the balmy weather this weekend as they picked up gifts for friends and loved ones at the Union Square Holiday Market.
With the temperatures in Manhattan climbing into the 60s Sunday, shoppers hit the streets and the tents to kick off their holiday shopping.
Students Andrea Mufarreh and Ellen Ebert, both 19 and from San Francisco, enjoyed the spring-like weather while shopping for Christmas gifts for family and friends.
"The weather is beautiful," said Mufarreh. "I'm loving it!"
Ebert said that she was "enjoying New York City, especially in this weather. It's beautiful!"
The Holiday Market, which takes over part of the green space from Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve, is a smorgasbord of over 100 merchants hawking everything from handmade jewelry to bags and accessories made from recycled plastic, according to Urban Space, the market's operator.
Alphan Atila, 34, of Turkey, sells home decor from Central Asia and Turkey at a booth called "Tribal Home."
"This is our 10th year here and we love it," he said. "Considering what's going in the world and the economic climate, I really can't complain. So far since we opened business has been good."
Liz Rees, the Director of Marketing for Urban Spaces, said that the opening weekend for the market, which is in its 18th year, was helped along by the nice weather.
"I've been here since 2002 and I've seen an explosion of emerging designers and local artists that have made this market one of the most popular places for people to shop for holiday gifts," she said.
One such emerging business owner is Kip Cosson, 51, the owner of Kip Kids, a childrens' clothing line. This is his 16th year at the market.
"I lost my job as an interior designer 20 years ago, and it was the best thing that happened to me," said Cosson, who just published his first book, "Ned Visits New York."
"Seriously, I haven't looked back since I went out on my own and started my own business."
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This is just a recent rough draft on a poem I am working on, but below will be more finished ones. c:
Never left a note, just packed your bags and left,I rolled and rolled in bed, but never felt quite right.
It was months of a constant numbess before I realized,
you were gone.
"Baby, my darling, reach for the stars and hold on tight,"
He said, "Don't let the darkness own you, keep a clear sight."
But I was rolling, rolling in the same place. Where was the light?
I thought it was going to take days before I could see,
but I learned to see through all you did to me.
Say you're sorry, and wonder if I'll truly forgive you.
And I'll wonder if that hold any effect on you like I hope.
I hope it's the same sinking feeling
I felt within every half assed "I love you, too"
It's funny how quickly the tides change,
how much of a stranger you've become.
I'm just glad I could feel loving you was done.
Though I am guilty, you still play across my mind,
like an old familiar tune, but could never get the name quite right.
Like something I wrote before, but didn't have a chance to save,
and I hope I do learn from every lesson from it all,
because I'm heading through some unfamiliar waters.
I find old fears drowning me,
while new things bring me back to shore.
I keep wondering and wondering if there is going to be more.
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>>> continued as military rulers try to negotiate an end to an increasingly deadly standoff. for the latest we turn to nbc's iman mohadin in cairo. good evening.
>> reporter: good evening, lester. it was the prime minister's first day on the job and one that began with tragedy. outside the cabinet office where he was going to assume his responsibilities there was a protest there physically trying to prevent him from entering the building. in the ensuing confrontation, a protester was shot by a security vehicle and he was killed instantly. now, the general prosecutor 's office has launched an investigation into the incident, vowing to hold accountable anyone responsible. but the protesters felt the attack was deliberate. they've seen these types of attacks on the protesters in the past. it gives you legally a senreally a sense of the tension between the two sides. this during negotiations taking place between the military and key protest figures. they've demanding the military step down from power and hand over control to a civilian government. but the civilian government has not been successful in receiving power. they say it may be several months away before power is ready to be handed over to the people.
>> thank you.
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We don't usually talk about our own advertising here on the blog, but it's time to make another exception.The Samsung Galaxy Nexus (note, not the Nexus Prime) is getting some love from Verizon today, and it looks like it'll sell for $199 on contract -- $100 cheaper than a couple other high-end Android smartphones. (Hello, Motorola Droid RAZR and HTC Rezound.) Still no official word on when it'll finally launch, but we're not betting against that December time frame at this point.
This isn't the first time we've seen this happen. You'll recall how the HTC ThunderBolt outed itself in advertising earlier this year. And also note that clicking on the "Learn More" link takes you to Verizon's holiday deals, but the Galaxy Nexus isn't actually listed there.
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BETHANY BEYOND THE JORDAN, Jordan (Reuters) ? Only five years ago, critical remarks by Pope Benedict about Islam sparked off violent protests in several Muslim countries.
Never very good, relations between the world's two largest religions sank to new lows in modern times.
This week, while protesters in the Arab world were demanding democracy and civil rights, Catholics and Muslims met along the Jordan River for frank and friendly talks about their differences and how to get beyond their misunderstandings.
The Catholic-Muslim Forum, which grew out of the tensions following Benedict's speech in the German city of Regensburg, was overshadowed by events in Egypt, Yemen and Syria. The lack of any dramatic news here reflected the progress the two sides have made since 2006.
"We have passed from formal dialogue to a dialogue between friends," Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Vatican's department for interfaith dialogue, said at the conference held near the Jordan River site believed to be where Jesus was baptized. "We realized that we have a common heritage,"
Recalling the strains that prompted Muslims to suggest a dialogue in 2007, Jordan's Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal said: "Since then, despite some misunderstandings, I dare say the general Muslim-Catholic ambiance has ameliorated considerably."
The 24 Catholic and 24 Muslim religious leaders, scholars and educators meeting here debated how each religion uses reason to strengthen insight into its beliefs. Roman Catholicism has long argued that faith without reason can breed superstition while nihilism can emerge from reason without faith.
POPE'S ILL-FATED SPEECH
This was the core message of Benedict's Regensburg speech, but it was drowned out when he quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor describing Islam as violent and irrational. Radical Islamists responded with violent protests.
After he expressed his regrets, 38 Muslim scholars wrote to the pope suggesting a meeting to discuss misreading of Islam they found in his text.
Benedict, who had long thought interfaith dialogue could blur differences between religions, did not reply. He believed discussing theology was all but impossible because they do not analyze the Koran as Christians and Jews do their scriptures.
A year later, 138 Muslim scholars issued a broader appeal to all Christian churches to discuss the commands of love of God and neighbor that both faiths shared. Led by Prince Ghazi, the group included several grand muftis as well as leading Islamic intellectuals from around the Muslim world.
This time, the Vatican reluctantly agreed and hosted the first Catholic-Muslim Forum in November 2008 in Rome.
That meeting was a watershed, allowing Catholics and Muslims to discuss theology seriously instead of simply holding a polite meeting ending with pious calls for peace and understanding.
Although he only met the Muslims at a formal session in the Vatican, Benedict was a quick learner. By May 2009, when he visited Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories, the pope echoed their arguments and eased the quest for common ground.
COMMON SENSE OF URGENCY
Three years after the introductory session, the second Forum on Nov 21-23 focused on the relationship between faith and reason.
Ibrahim Kalin, a Turkish philosopher who is now chief policy advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, explained how Islam also argues that faith must be tempered by reason.
In the main Catholic presentation, Italian philosopher Vittorio Possenti explained how Catholic teaching stresses the intrinsic value and natural rights of every human being.
"There's a common sense of the urgency and importance of this meeting, even though the context and background we're coming from are quite different," said Archbishop Kevin McDonald, the top Catholic official for interfaith dialogue in England and Wales.
The Arab Spring uprisings this year have changed the context, especially by allowing Islamist parties to operate more freely in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
This has also opened the door to the Salafists, radical Islamists who have attacked Egypt's Coptic Christian minority and spread fear among Christians across the Middle East,
FAITH AND THE ARAB SPRING
Aref Ali Nayed, a Libyan theologian who joined his country's revolutionaries and is now Tripoli's ambassador in the United Arab Emirates, said the role of faith in the emerging political systems highlighted the need for reasonable religion to prevail.
"It is extremely important that the massive movements we are experiencing today do not happen at the level of irrationality or mere emotion," he said.
"Such movements must be guided by the light of faith, but reasoned faith that encourages thinking and dialogue."
Strains emerged at some of the closed-door talks, especially on the issue of whether Muslims can convert to Christianity.
One Catholic noted the Church could not accept any converts in the Gulf countries but Christian foreign workers there who switched to Islam got a warm public welcome to their new faith.
Another asked why Muslims would not respect the choice made by people who sincerely wanted to convert despite all the problems they knew would come. In response, a Muslim said Islamic countries remained wary because too many conversions were forced in the past.
Some Muslims also expressed difficulty in understanding how the Catholic Church could open dialogue with other faiths after its Second Vatican Council in the 1960s after avoiding it for almost two millennia before that.
They also suggested the Catholics had given in too much to modern secularism and not protested enough against depictions of Jesus that Muslims considered blasphemous.
Still, the strength of their current ties showed when, during a break on the final day, delegates swapped jokes about religion. Bosnia's Chief Mufti Mustafa Ceric turned out to be group's stand-up comedian.
"Did you hear about the preacher and taxi driver?" the Sarajevo-based cleric asked. "When they died and came before God, He sent the preacher to hell and the taxi driver to heaven.
"When the preacher asked why, God said 'When you preached, you put people to sleep. But he used to drive his taxi so fast that he made all his passengers pray for eternal salvation'."
(Reporting By Tom Heneghan; Editing by Jon Hemming)
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? British actor Ben Whishaw will reprise the character of high-tech weapons specialist "Q" in the upcoming James Bond film "Skyfall," a role previously played by actors Desmond Llewelyn and John Cleese, media outlets reported on Friday.
The BBC said Whishaw's agent confirmed the young actor in the role of Q opposite Daniel Craig's Bond in the upcoming 23rd installment of the franchise, directed by Sam Mendes.
Whishaw was introduced as a cast member in a London press conference announcing production on "Skyfall" last month, but his specific role was not revealed at the time.
Q, who dreams up the super secret weapons that British spy Bond uses to track down bad guys, has long been one of the favorite characters in the action-packed movies.
At 31, Whishaw, known for roles in 2008's "Brideshead Revisited" and BBC's drama series "The Hour," is considerably younger than his Q predecessors Llewelyn and Cleese.
Welsh actor Llewelyn played Bond's gadget scientist for 36 years, delivering his trademark reprimands on the hazards of gun play to Bond actors Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan.
After Llewelyn's death in a fatal car collision in 1999 aged 85, "Fawlty Towers" actor John Cleese took over the role of Q for 2002's "Die Another Day."
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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If the battle to eradicate polio were an action movie, this week would be the part where the good guys have racked up spectacular victories ? but look like they may lose anyway.
On the spectacular side, polio may be gone in India. Of the four countries where polio remained entrenched, the giant country was expected to be the last to fall. Yet its most recent case was in January this year, whereas by this time last year, it had had 40 cases.
The intestinal-borne virus hasn't even been found in sewage in India, says Oliver Rosenbauer, spokesman for the polio programme of the World Health Organization, even though the incidence of the disease usually peaks at this time of year.
The victory, says the WHO, is down to repeated, coordinated vaccination drives spearheaded by local officials in affected areas, and the use of a more efficient vaccine that only targets the strains circulating.
Yet as long as polio persists somewhere, India must keep doggedly vaccinating. Experts meeting at the WHO in Geneva this month warned that if eradication fails now, it will be "the most expensive public health failure in history".
In Nigeria, another of the four, cases jumped fourfold this year from last, to 43. "It's worrying," says Rosenbauer, as Nigeria has re-infected three neighbouring, formerly polio-free countries. And the area of north-east Nigeria affected is increasingly hard for vaccination teams to access due to an Islamic militant group called Boko Haram.
Still, outbreaks in polio-free areas can be mopped up quickly. Tajikistan, for example, had 460 cases last year, vaccinated, and had none this year. And unlike 2003, when polio in Nigeria soared after local leaders opposed vaccination, those people are now on-side. Cases are down 95 per cent from 2009, and remain only where local leaders have not taken active responsibility for polio.
They are starting to, says Rosenbauer. "Our analysis shows the extent of local leadership correlates with viral persistence." That was key in Nigeria and India, he says. That, and switching from the old vaccine which contained all three strains of polio virus, to a new single-strain vaccine that induces faster, stronger immunity.
That may crack a third endemic country, Afghanistan, where polio persists in the south near Pakistan. Local violence prevented vaccination and nearly tripled cases this year, to 53. But the new vaccine can be given over one week instead of six, allowing vaccinators and, again, local leaders to negotiate lightning-strike vaccinations during lulls in the hostilities.
The real worry is Pakistan, where polio has spread all over from three strongholds in Karachi, Quetta and the north-west tribal area. Cases stand at 145 people infected so far this year, up from 113 last year. In the first two regions the key again will be local leadership, which may be bolstered with a new national vaccination initiative this year, says Rosenbauer.
The wild north-west of the country will be harder ? especially as the WHO's polio campaign, as ever, is short of cash. A quarter of its $2.2 billion budget for 2011-2012 has not yet been donated.
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