Sandy delivers heavy blow to US economy

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Superstorm Sandy packed a bigger economic punch than most people had thought.

In its sweep through the Northeast, the storm halted sales at major retailers at the start of the crucial holiday shopping season, closed factories and slowed home sales in one of the most densely populated areas of the country.

On Thursday, for example, Kohl's, Target and Macy's blamed the storm for weak sales in November. Macy's and Nordstrom Inc. reported their first monthly sales drop since late 2009, when the U.S. economy was just emerging from the Great Recession.

And the government said this week that new-home sales plunged 32 percent in the Northeast last month and nearly 12 percent in the South. By contrast, sales surged nearly 63 percent in the Midwest and nearly 9 percent in the West.

Sandy is being blamed for about $62 billion in damage and other losses in the U.S., most of it in New York and New Jersey. It's the second-costliest storm in U.S. history after Hurricane Katrina, which caused $128 billion in damage in inflation-adjusted dollars.

New York is seeking $42 billion in federal aid, including about $9 billion for projects to head off damage in future storms. New Jersey is seeking nearly $37 billion in aid, including $7.4 billion for future projects.

Still, reports this week showed that the economic damage was confined mainly to the Northeast. In other parts of the country, the economy picked up in early November, when many New Yorkers were still without power.

And next year, rebuilding efforts in the Northeast could help jump-start the broader U.S. economy. That's especially true if Congress and the White House reach a budget deal that prevents sharp tax increases and spending cuts from taking effect in January.

Homes must be rebuilt, cars need to be replaced and many people are likely to step up spending once the storm's impact starts to fade. All that would help accelerate growth.

The U.S. economy grew at a moderate 2.7 percent annual rate from July through September, the government said Thursday. Weaker growth is predicted for the October-December quarter.

Sandy shut down businesses from North Carolina to Maine and cut off power to 8 million homes in 10 states. Many people could not go to work and weren't paid for weeks.

Applications for unemployment benefits rose to an 18-month high in the first week of November, driven by a surge in applications in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Such applications have fallen sharply since. But the increase earlier this month will likely depress job growth for November. Many economists predict that net job growth for November will range between 25,000 and 75,000 ? well below the 171,000 jobs added in October.

A Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday said economic activity in October and early November slowed from the previous six-week period in three of its banking districts covering territory from Philadelphia to Maine. That contrasted with the Fed's nine other banking districts, which all reported improvement in growth.

"The storm caused bottlenecks in the production process," said Joel Prakken, senior economist at Macroeconomic Advisers. "If you don't have electric power and transportation, you can't do a lot of things."

The lingering damage from the storm is weighing on the economy at a time of great uncertainty caused by the approaching "fiscal cliff." That's the name for automatic tax increases and spending cuts that will take effect without a federal budget agreement.

Most economists predict economic growth will slow to an annual rate below 2 percent in the October-December quarter. And some say the rate will likely be closer to a meager 1 percent. Prakken said the storm could end up lowering the growth rate by a half percentage point.

But by next year, Prakken said cleanup and rebuilding will start to add to U.S. economic growth.

Many analysts say the region is poised to rebound quickly. Economists at the New York Federal Reserve Bank said Thursday that they expect the economy in the New York region to be back on track by early 2013. Recovery in hard-hit New York communities like Long Beach and the Rockaways will take longer, though.

In the first three months of 2013, the economy's growth could rebound to a rate of 2.5 percent, said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist for IHS Global Insight. Gault predicts a 0.4 percentage point boost from the rebuilding and other factors related to Sandy.

"We think that growth will improve as we go through 2013, but that is contingent on us not messing things up by going over the fiscal cliff," Gault said.

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Associated Press writer Karen Matthews contributed to this report from New York.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sandy-delivers-heavy-blow-us-economy-220220553--finance.html

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Emerging vector-borne diseases create new public health challenges

Public release date: 30-Nov-2012
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Land-use change, globalization of trade and travel, and social upheaval are driving the emergence of diseases in many regions, experts say

West Nile virus, Lyme disease, dengue fever, and plague are examples of "vector-borne zoonotic diseases," caused by pathogens that naturally infect wildlife and are transmitted to humans by vectors such as mosquitoes or ticks.

According to Marm Kilpatrick, who studies the ecology of infectious diseases at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a broad range of human activities can affect the spread of zoonotic diseases. In an article in the December 1 issue of the British medical journal Lancet, Kilpatrick and coauthor Sarah Randolph of the University of Oxford describe how widespread land-use change, globalization of trade and travel, and social upheaval are driving the emergence of zoonotic vector-borne diseases around the world. The article is part of a special series of papers focused on emerging zoonotic diseases.

"This collection of papers offers a bridge between ecologists and clinicians whose combined efforts are needed to address the ongoing challenges of emerging zoonotic diseases," said Kilpatrick, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Emerging infectious diseases can be roughly split between introduced and locally emerging diseases. Introduced diseases arise from the spread of a pathogen to a new location, as when West Nile virus arrived in New York in 1999 and subsequently spread across North America. Locally emerging diseases increase in importance in areas where they are endemic, as with Lyme disease in the United States over the past three decades. These two types of emerging diseases can differ markedly with respect to infection dynamics, or the number of cases over time, Kilpatrick said.

"Introduced diseases often cause a big spike in infections and then decrease substantially. Locally emerging diseases often show a steady, sustained increase," he said.

The movement of pathogens by global trade and travel results in the emergence of diseases in new regions. Once established, introduced pathogens often evolve to take advantage of their new environment, including new hosts and vectors. With so much of the landscape shaped by human activities, pathogens may thrive by infecting hosts and vectors that do well in manmade environments.

"Increasing human population and the urbanization and agricultural intensification of landscapes puts strong selective pressure on vector-borne pathogens to infect humans and be transmitted by vectors and hosts that live around humans," Kilpatrick said.

Emergence of endemic vector-borne diseases can result from changes in land use, such as expansion of people into new habitats, or environmental changes affecting the wild animals that serve as natural hosts or the insect vectors that spread the disease to humans. Although vector-borne diseases are highly sensitive to climate, climate change does not appear to be a major driving force behind emerging diseases, the authors said.

"So far, climate change has been a relatively minor player compared to land use and socioeconomic factors in the emergence of vector-borne disease," Kilpatrick said.

Social and economic changes, ranging from economic downturns to displacement of populations by armed conflict, frequently precipitate disease outbreaks through their impacts on public health systems, sanitation systems, behavioral patterns, and uses of natural environmental resources. One example cited in the article is a large upsurge of tick-borne encephalitis after an economic downturn in eastern Europe resulted in more people harvesting food from forests.

The incidence of any vector-borne disease involves a complex interplay of multiple factors affecting animal hosts, vectors, and people. Kilpatrick and Randolph emphasize that control of these diseases requires combined efforts by clinicians and public health officials to treat patients, promote behavior likely to minimize the risk of infection, and advise on efforts to reverse the ecological drivers of transmission through vector control, urban planning, and ecological restoration.

Publication of the Lancet series coincides with an Institute of Medicine (IOM) symposium on Emerging Infections, Microbial Threats to Health, and the Microbiome, December 11-12 in Washington, D.C. The symposium marks the 20th anniversary of an influential 1992 IOM report on emerging diseases.

"Humans are altering the environment and moving themselves and other organisms around the globe at an ever-increasing pace," said Sam Scheiner, program director for the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program at the National Science Foundation (NSF), a joint effort with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "That has led to a growing disease threat. These papers show how and why that's happening, and what we need to know to ease the disease burden."

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831-459-2495
University of California - Santa Cruz

Land-use change, globalization of trade and travel, and social upheaval are driving the emergence of diseases in many regions, experts say

West Nile virus, Lyme disease, dengue fever, and plague are examples of "vector-borne zoonotic diseases," caused by pathogens that naturally infect wildlife and are transmitted to humans by vectors such as mosquitoes or ticks.

According to Marm Kilpatrick, who studies the ecology of infectious diseases at the University of California, Santa Cruz, a broad range of human activities can affect the spread of zoonotic diseases. In an article in the December 1 issue of the British medical journal Lancet, Kilpatrick and coauthor Sarah Randolph of the University of Oxford describe how widespread land-use change, globalization of trade and travel, and social upheaval are driving the emergence of zoonotic vector-borne diseases around the world. The article is part of a special series of papers focused on emerging zoonotic diseases.

"This collection of papers offers a bridge between ecologists and clinicians whose combined efforts are needed to address the ongoing challenges of emerging zoonotic diseases," said Kilpatrick, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Emerging infectious diseases can be roughly split between introduced and locally emerging diseases. Introduced diseases arise from the spread of a pathogen to a new location, as when West Nile virus arrived in New York in 1999 and subsequently spread across North America. Locally emerging diseases increase in importance in areas where they are endemic, as with Lyme disease in the United States over the past three decades. These two types of emerging diseases can differ markedly with respect to infection dynamics, or the number of cases over time, Kilpatrick said.

"Introduced diseases often cause a big spike in infections and then decrease substantially. Locally emerging diseases often show a steady, sustained increase," he said.

The movement of pathogens by global trade and travel results in the emergence of diseases in new regions. Once established, introduced pathogens often evolve to take advantage of their new environment, including new hosts and vectors. With so much of the landscape shaped by human activities, pathogens may thrive by infecting hosts and vectors that do well in manmade environments.

"Increasing human population and the urbanization and agricultural intensification of landscapes puts strong selective pressure on vector-borne pathogens to infect humans and be transmitted by vectors and hosts that live around humans," Kilpatrick said.

Emergence of endemic vector-borne diseases can result from changes in land use, such as expansion of people into new habitats, or environmental changes affecting the wild animals that serve as natural hosts or the insect vectors that spread the disease to humans. Although vector-borne diseases are highly sensitive to climate, climate change does not appear to be a major driving force behind emerging diseases, the authors said.

"So far, climate change has been a relatively minor player compared to land use and socioeconomic factors in the emergence of vector-borne disease," Kilpatrick said.

Social and economic changes, ranging from economic downturns to displacement of populations by armed conflict, frequently precipitate disease outbreaks through their impacts on public health systems, sanitation systems, behavioral patterns, and uses of natural environmental resources. One example cited in the article is a large upsurge of tick-borne encephalitis after an economic downturn in eastern Europe resulted in more people harvesting food from forests.

The incidence of any vector-borne disease involves a complex interplay of multiple factors affecting animal hosts, vectors, and people. Kilpatrick and Randolph emphasize that control of these diseases requires combined efforts by clinicians and public health officials to treat patients, promote behavior likely to minimize the risk of infection, and advise on efforts to reverse the ecological drivers of transmission through vector control, urban planning, and ecological restoration.

Publication of the Lancet series coincides with an Institute of Medicine (IOM) symposium on Emerging Infections, Microbial Threats to Health, and the Microbiome, December 11-12 in Washington, D.C. The symposium marks the 20th anniversary of an influential 1992 IOM report on emerging diseases.

"Humans are altering the environment and moving themselves and other organisms around the globe at an ever-increasing pace," said Sam Scheiner, program director for the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program at the National Science Foundation (NSF), a joint effort with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "That has led to a growing disease threat. These papers show how and why that's happening, and what we need to know to ease the disease burden."

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Kilpatrick's research on the ecology of infectious diseases is supported by grants from NSF and NIH.

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Flame Retardants on the Rise in Furniture

Couches and household textiles remain a major source of retardants, which can build up in our bodies and the environment. Some of the semi-volatile chemicals have been linked to cancer and altered hormones in children

By Brett Israel and Environmental Health News

Ironically, flame retardants in furniture may not stop a house fire. California is currently debating a new standard that would reduce the use of flame retardants in furniture. Image: Flickr/macwagen

Flame retardants in U.S. furniture are on the rise, with a new study finding them in nearly all couches tested.

The findings, published today, confirm that household furniture remains a major source of a variety of flame retardants, some of which have been building up in people?s bodies and in the environment.

In the new tests, three out of every four couches purchased before 2005 contained the chemicals, with a now-banned compound in 39 percent. For newer couches, 94 percent contained flame retardants, nearly all next-generation compounds with little known about their potential health effects.

"More furniture appears to be treated with flame retardants today than, say, 15 years ago," said Heather Stapleton, an environmental chemist at Duke University and lead author of the project, which also included researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and Boston University.

In a separate study also published today, researchers found that dust in California homes is contaminated with levels of flame retardants that exceed health risk guidelines developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Some of the chemicals have been linked to cancer, altered hormones or neurological effects in lab animals, fetuses and children. Whether there are health risks from many of the newer flame retardants, however, is largely unknown, and most furniture does not carry labels that provide information to consumers.

"I am concerned by the rise in use and diversity of flame retardants on the market because we have very little information on their toxicity and potential effects on the general population, particularly vulnerable subpopulations such as pregnant women and young children," said Ami Zota, who studies flame retardants and reproductive health at the University of California, San Francisco. She did not participate in the new research.

The scientists discovered one chemical in sofas that had never been reported before as a flame retardant.

"There is little to no information about the potential health effects of these new flame retardants in the peer-reviewed literature," said Heather Patisaul of North Carolina State University, who studies endocrine-disrupting chemicals but was not involved in the research.

A spokesperson from the American Chemistry Council, which represents flame retardant manufacturers, said ?this study confirms what we would expect to find: Furniture manufacturers use approved flame retardants to meet established fire safety standards, which help save lives. There is no data in this study that indicate that the levels of flame retardants found would cause any human health problems."

The use of flame retardants is traced to a California standard adopted in the 1970s, which mandates that foam used in furniture cushions must withstand a 12-second exposure to a small, open flame. Because the market in California is so large, much of the nation's furniture is manufactured with flame retardants to meet that standard.

The scientists tested 102 couches purchased between 1985 and 2010 in the first study that has examined flame retardants that have come onto the market since 2005. The foam samples were not randomly selected, so the results might not represent the United States as a whole, the authors said in their article published in the journal Environmental Science and Toxicology.

In all, 85 percent contained flame retardants. In tests of couches purchased over the past seven years, the chemicals were even more prevalent: 94 percent compared with 75 percent for those purchased between 1985 and 2004.

Tris, a suspected human carcinogen that was banned for use in baby pajamas in the 1970s, was the most prevalent compound in the couches; it was found in 41 percent.

The separate study from the Massachusetts-based Silent Spring Institute, published in the same journal, found two different mixtures of Tris in dust in each of the 16 California homes studied.

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Relationships | Ross Bishop

by Ross Bishop
and Selena Whittle

The most telling thing about a person?s spiritual development is the nature of their relationships. Relationships can be open and loving and sharing, heartfelt and filled with joy, or they can be dismal prisons of stress, discouragement and failure.

What would it look like to hold love with another person, without all the garbage? ?Jesus loved in a real way. ?That should give us a clue. ?He TOLD us it was a clue. ??Love each other as I have loved you.? . . . ?So what does that look like? ??I see you. ?I see your light. ?I see your vulnerabilities. I see your darkness. ?I love you anyway. ?I recognized within you the love that is within all of creation, as I recognize the love in the trees and in the wind. ?I love it all. ?You see all of that too, in me, in the world. ?We stand together, awake, seeing and sharing the love that we see. ?I can watch you doing whatever it is that brings you joy and not smother you or control you. ?I can love you enough to let you leave, if that is what you need to do.?

If your relationships are like this, you don?t need this article. If however, you are having problems, please read on.

We measure our lives by our relationships. They are one of the few things that allow us to tangibly compare our success in life against other people, so we compare. But there is a problem with that. Life is largely about failure, because it is through failure that we learn, and we came to earth to learn.

Relationships are one of our greatest teachers because they reach deeply inside us and expose our most heartfelt fears. The hurt comes in relationship, but the healing is external. So, if you are having a difficult time, remember that you are involved in your learning process. As a child, you didn?t learn to walk without falling down, and the same is true for relationships, and for that matter, life in general. You are not a failure. You just haven?t finished dealing with your fears and anxieties yet.

So let us paint a picture: You did the best you could. You shopped around for what you thought would be a good partner, settled in, and now things aren?t going well. You have your friends, your career, your partner has theirs. You go through the motions, but the thrill is gone. Resentments crop up, the two of you are distant, you don?t really ever talk any more. Sex, when it happens, isn?t very exciting. Clearly, Elvis has left the building.

Where did things go wrong? Where did you go wrong? Is it repairable? How come you didn?t see this coming? How is it that another relationship has gone south? You read all the Cosmo dating advice, you?ve done therapy ? maybe even gone to couples counseling, but it hasn?t helped. And leaving the relationship means feeling alone and starting in the awful dating routine again. And then there are the kids. . . .

Let?s face it, the odds were heavily stacked against you in the first place. Relationships have close to a 100% failure rate. Most people are far better at choosing cars than they are at choosing partners. And yet despite the terrible odds, people keep trying. When you see that sort of an anomaly in human behavior, you have to know that something far more significant is taking place.

Why don?t we see ahead more clearly? Has your partner really changed that much, or have things that were latent just come to the surface? Poets say that ?Love is blind,? but that isn?t true. Love can see just fine. Codependency however, is blind as a bat, and that points to the biggest reason people mess up relationships.

The majority of people are just not ready for a real relationship. They have not addressed their inner pain, and that leaves them unable to emotionally commit to the openness and intimacy that a real relationship requires. So instead, they make compromises.

The dating process becomes a negotiation where the couple agrees to limit the openness and commitment they expect from one another. It is never openly discussed, but becomes the dominant defining quality of the relationship. And so they circle, neither being willing to fully step in, and each feeling cheated. In some relationships one partner capitulates their needs to those of the other in order to have the ?relationship.?

In either case, things go fine for a while, but after the excitement wears off, friction sets in and the resentments build. This is a relationship headed for the ditch. And some people are so dedicated to not looking at their own issues that they continue to try and drive the car long after it?s hit the ditch!

Complicating matters is that many people operate under the fantasy that having a partner will make them feel good enough about themselves so that they can continue to ignore their gnawing feelings of inadequacy. After all, a new relationship feels pretty wonderful! But when the partner doesn?t make their own feelings of inadequacy go away and the relationship starts to sour, they feel betrayed.

It?s a wonderful setup though, because they get to blame their partner for the failure and still avoid having to deal with what?s going on for them. They are free to leave indignantly and find someone else to repeat the process with. Hollywood, country and pop music do a wonderful job of reinforcing the myth that our happiness depends on ?finding Mr. Right.?

Most people don?t know what real love is because they have never experienced it. They didn?t get unconditional love from their parents, weren?t encouraged to find their hearts as they grew up and were essentially brainwashed by movies, music, advertising and television.

The unfortunate consequence is of all this that they are reluctant to be as vulnerable as a real relationship requires, because it will expose their ?inadequacies.? It is the inadequacy wound that drives most of our codependent behavior, by the way. We think we know what love is, but honestly, not many people do. Real love is an incredible thing, once you have experienced it!

So let?s start with a few basics. In the first place, a relationship is an artifice ? it exists only so long as you and I commit to it. I can locate your feelings, I can locate my feelings, but there is no third entity named ?our relationship? hanging out someplace in the cosmos. In the same way this thing we call love is really our ?shared love,? and it can be a really wonderful thing, but it exists only within each of us in our feelings toward each other.

My love emanates from me and if you can relate to it, that?s wonderful! But it is mine, just as yours is yours. If you decide that you feel similarly toward me, that?s wonderful! We can begin a truly remarkable dance together. And if you don?t decide to join me, that is unfortunate. I am not likely to hang out for long feeling that vulnerable, but my feelings are still my own. Kahlil Gibran wrote about relationship:

On Marriage

You were born together,
and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together
when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,?And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another,
but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other?s cup
but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread
but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous,
but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other?s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow
not in each other?s shadow.

We have been taught that love can happen ?across a crowded room,? but that?s attraction, it?s not love. There is a ?flash attraction? that is a past life phenomenon bringing people together to work on unresolved past life issues ? people speak of ?soul mates.? Sometimes it leads to something more, sometimes not. There are also family pressures and cultural issues, but when I speak of a loving relationship, I do not mean a charade where people live together out of social convention, fantasy or convenience.

But the biggest confusion about relationships is that people do not understand how relationships are used by The Universe to help us in our journey towards enlightenment.

Let?s assume that like most people, you feel a bit inadequate. You like yourself, but you don?t love yourself yet, either. Perhaps you still beat yourself up for your mistakes and blunders. Faced with a request for real intimacy and fearing rejection, you will hold back. If you do step in, it will only be partway, but most likely you will reject the offer and find someone less likely to ask of you what you feel unprepared to freely give. This is not something we think about, it happens in a flash when the fear of intimacy arises.

A compromised relationship is destined for trouble, and from The Universe?s point of view, it is a wake-up call asking you to address the fears and beliefs that keep you from loving freely and openly. Until you address the fears and beliefs that reside in your shadow, you will keep making poor choices and suffer the inevitable consequences. And of course, the more you resist, the worse things are going to get.

Rather than address their inner issues, some people opt out and move into a solitary existence rather than deal with their fears. Unfortunately we carry our baggage with us, so the same issues are going to manifest, just differently in that context. I want to be clear, I am speaking of people who choose to avoid their shadow issues. Some people find peace and contentment in being solitary, but they must be vigilant to not rationalize away something they are reluctant to address.

The good thing is that all your troubles will eventually force you to reconsider the beliefs you hold about yourself. I can guarantee you that the negative ones are not true. How can I know that? Think about it.

When you come to know the truth about yourself a whole new universe of possibilities opens before you. It will offer up the things that have been denied you by your fear. It is doing life the hard way, but that is the path most people choose, but that can change . . .

Here are a few comments that felt insightful:

??We?re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you?ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there?s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn?t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems-the ones that make you truly who you are-that we?re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you?re looking for. You?re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person-someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, ?This is the problem I want to have.??

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Let our scars fall in love.? ? ? ? ??Galway Kinnell

?When we?re incomplete, we?re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we?re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on?series polygamy?until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.?? ? ? ? ?Tom Robbins

??Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you?re in it, when you?re up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don?t exactly notice how bad things really are. It?s not always as apparent as it would seem. Unhappiness, when it involves another person, can be like that line from The Sun Also Rises about going bankrupt, how it happens two ways: gradually, and then suddenly.?? ? ? ? ? ?Sarah Dunn

?Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.?? ? ?Ravi Zacharias

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Source: http://rossbishop.com/blog/2012/11/28/relationships/

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Robert Zemeckis Wants 'Roger Rabbit' Sequel To Take 'Flight'

'Flight' filmmaker talks 'Roger Rabbit 2,' the future of 3-D and performance-capture, and why he doesn't see himself directing new 'Star Wars' movies.
By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

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Photo: MTV News

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ANN ARBOR: University of Michigan ranks highest public university spender for research and development

Inside the Newsroom @ Reporter and News-Leader

Staff writers at The Saline Reporter and Milan News-Leader write about their beats, sharing their thoughts and insights while covering local events and issues in both communities, and adding local photos and video.

A2 Journal Blog

Welcome to Inside the Newsroom at A2 Journal, a blog written by the newspaper's staff at A2 Journal, a new, weekly, community newspaper covering Ann Arbor. We will include photo galleries, videos and links, and encourage readers to post their comments.

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Verizon Galaxy Note 2 shipping rewards patience

It has been a frustrating time for Verizon consumers lately. Whether you are a Galaxy S3 customer waiting for a Jelly Bean update or a customer waiting for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 to arrive ? it?s clear that Verizon really needs to do a better job in the communication department. Their infamous silence has already caused many customers to leave their network, but thankfully we do have some positive news at last to bring future Galaxy Note 2 owners.

As most of you know, the highly sought after Verizon Galaxy Note 2 had been up for pre-order for weeks already. During this time, Verizon has still not committed to an official release date, instead allowing customers to order the device under the assumption that it will be at least available before the end of November.

The good news, is that there are already reports of Galaxy Note 2 shipping notices that have been sent to early pre-order customers, informing them that their device will be reaching them before the end of the week. Thursday has been touted as the magical day that first in line customers will receive their Note 2, but again ? we see no official statement from Verizon confirming this, or any movement on the Galaxy Note 2 product page on Verizon?s website.

If you head over to the AndroidForums though, you?ll see that one customer in particular has already received his Galaxy Note 2 shipping notification and is expected to get his device on Thursday at 7pm after initially ordering the device from Verizon on November 17.

Have you had the same luck and already received an email confirming your imminent delivery? If the devices really are due to reach customers on Thursday, it seems a little strange that we haven?t had any word on Verizon on when they will finally start selling the device in retail stores.

If you have had a notification already, you should be able to use a tracking number to see where your Note 2 is specifically and find out what time the device will reach you. Some communication from Verizon would have been nice regardless ? let us know where you stand at the moment if you have ordered a Galaxy Note 2 online.

Are you looking forward to having a device with its own unique Verizon branded home button?

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Intuit Launches Its Square Competitor In The UK

Financial software giant Intuit offers a Square-competitor, GoPayment, which allows users in the U.S. and Canada to accept payments via a reader that attaches to any smartphone. Today, Intuit is expanding across the pond with the launch of a mobile card reader in the UK, however; the offering has a different name--Intuit Pay.

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Romney adviser brags about losing poor, minority voters?

Mitt Romney can take some solace in his devastating loss on Nov. 6: at least he won the voters who really count.

That's the thesis anyway of top adviser Stuart Stevens, who penned an op-ed in the Washington Post on Wednesday arguing that by winning wealthier and whiter voters, Romney secured the moral victory over Obama.

"On Nov. 6, Mitt Romney carried the majority of every economic group except those with less than $50,000 a year in household income," Stevens wrote. "That means he carried the majority of middle-class voters. While John McCain lost white voters under 30 by 10 points, Romney won those voters by seven points, a 17-point shift."

According to Stevens, "The Republican Party has problems, but as we go forward, let's remember that any party that captures the majority of the middle class must be doing something right." As a result, "Republican ideals -- Mitt Romney -- carried the day."

The argument that poorer voters are inherently inferior seems to undercut the campaign's central message over the last two years: that Romney's top concern was providing jobs for the jobless. The unemployed Americans Romney highlighted in ads, speeches and photo-ops make under $50,000 a year almost by definition and campaign videos like the one below are jarring next to Stevens' latest piece.

Stevens notably never mentioned jobs and unemployment in his op-ed, instead focusing on how Romney championed "the moral case for free enterprise and conservative economics."

Unfortunately for Romney, poor and minority votes counted just the same as the allegedly superior votes Stevens favored. The result was an electoral college blowout for the president powered by strong turnout and margins among young voters, Latinos, African Americans, and women.

But Stevens had an explanation for that, too. Obama was "a charismatic African American president with a billion dollars, no primary and a media that often felt morally conflicted about being critical. How easy is that to replicate?"

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Immersion reaches settlement on lawsuit

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ? Immersion said Tuesday that it has reached a settlement and license agreement with Google Inc. and Motorola Mobility LLC that resolves a patent infringement lawsuit it brought against Motorola.

Immersion's stock surged $1.01, or 21.5 percent, to $5.70 in morning trading. The shares have traded in a 52-week range of $4.15 to $7.50.

Immersion, a provider of touch feedback technology also known as touchsense haptics, said that the lawsuit was based on Motorola's use of haptic effects in its cell phones.

As part of the settlement and license agreement, Immersion Corp. will receive compensation from previous shipments of Motorola devices containing basic haptics technologies. The companies have agreed to a license that covers future shipments of Motorola devices with basic haptics and resolved certain issues related to Google-branded smartphones with basic haptics.

The agreement does not include other manufacturers' handsets that use the Android operating system.

Immersion said that it will dismiss all pending litigation against Motorola as a result of the settlement.

Immersion CEO Victor Viegas said in a statement that the settlement is not expected to have a material impact on its 2012 financial results.

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Rice meeting with U.S. senators fails to dampen criticism

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Tuesday conceded that an early account she gave about the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, was partly inaccurate, but she failed to win over Republican senators who accused her of misleading the public.

Rice met for about an hour behind closed doors at the U.S. Capitol with Republican Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte, who have threatened to block her nomination if President Barack Obama chooses her for Secretary of State or another top post in his second-term Cabinet.

They have openly criticized her for initial comments after the September 11 attack in Benghazi that suggested it was a spontaneous event arising from protests over an anti-Islam film rather than a premeditated attack.

The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in the attack on the Benghazi mission and a nearby CIA annex. Intelligence officials later said the attack was possibly tied to al Qaeda affiliates.

"We are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got, and some that we didn't get, concerning evidence that was overwhelming leading up to the attack on our consulate," McCain told reporters after the meeting.

"It is clear that the information that she gave the American people was incorrect when she said that it was a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video," he said.

"It was not, and there was compelling evidence at the time that that was certainly not the case, including statements by Libyans as well as other Americans who are fully aware that people don't bring mortars and rocket-propelled grenades to spontaneous demonstrations," McCain said.

Republicans have argued that the Obama administration tried to play down the terrorist angle in its initial comments to avoid undermining the president's claims of success in fighting al Qaeda in the run-up to the November 6 election.

Rice, who was accompanied by acting CIA Director Michael Morell, later issued a statement saying:

"We explained that the talking points provided by the intelligence community, and the initial assessment upon which they were based, were incorrect in a key respect: there was no protest or demonstration in Benghazi."

"While, we certainly wish that we had had perfect information just days after the terrorist attack, as is often the case, the intelligence assessment has evolved," she said.

"We stressed that neither I nor anyone else in the Administration intended to mislead the American people at any stage in this process."

'WAY TOO EARLY TO TELL'

Obama has defended Rice and said if senators have a problem with the administration's handling of Benghazi they should "go after me" rather than try to "besmirch her reputation."

Obama has also said if he believed Rice was the right person for a job in his administration, he would not hesitate to nominate her, throwing down the gauntlet to Republicans.

The White House has not given a timeframe for when the president might nominate Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's replacement. Clinton's aides have said she plans to step down around the inauguration, which is in late January, and would like to stay until her successor is confirmed.

Rice met in the afternoon with Senator Joseph Lieberman, the independent chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and she will return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet with the panel's top Republican, Senator Susan Collins.

Collins said it was "way too early to tell" if Rice could attract the 60 Senate votes needed to overcome any procedural obstacles if she is nominated, but that Rice had erred in being the administration's voice on Benghazi if she was interested in becoming secretary of state.

"The secretary of state is supposed to be above politics, and she played a very political role by appearing at the height of the political campaign, on those shows," Collins said.

Lieberman, after meeting Rice, said: "I specifically asked her whether at any point prior to going on those Sunday morning television shows she was briefed or urged to say certain things by anybody in the White House related to the campaign or political operations. She said 'no.'"

INTELLIGENCE CRITICIZED

Graham also criticized U.S. intelligence agencies that wrote the talking points on which Rice based her public comments.

"I'm very disappointed in our intelligence community. I think they failed in many ways. But with a little bit of inquiry and curiosity, I think it would be pretty clear that to explain this episode as related to a video that created a mob that turned into a riot was far afield," he said. "And at the end of the day, we're going to get to the bottom of this."

Rice's controversial Benghazi statements were based on a set of unclassified talking points prepared by U.S. intelligence agencies for members of Congress.

The initial draft written by the CIA referred to "attacks" carried out by "extremists with ties to al Qaeda." However by the time Rice received them, "attacks" had changed to "demonstrations" and "with ties to al Qaeda" had been deleted, multiple U.S. sources have said.

The White House has denied making those edits and members of Congress are trying to determine where the changes came from.

"The points clearly reflect the early indications of extremist involvement in a direct assault. It wasn't until after they were used in public that analysts reconciled contradictory information about how the assault began," a U.S. intelligence official said. "There was absolutely no intent to misinform."

The senators who met with Rice remained unconvinced by her responses and said her visit left them with greater concerns than before the meeting.

"I wouldn't vote for anybody being nominated out of the Benghazi debacle until I had answers about what happened that I don't have today," Graham said.

Asked whether he would block such a nomination, Graham replied: "Oh, absolutely. I would place a hold on anybody that wanted to be promoted for any job that had a role in the Benghazi situation."

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the questions about Rice's appearance on the talk shows and the talking points had been answered. "The focus on - some might say obsession on - comments made on Sunday shows seems to me and to many to be misplaced," he said.

(Additional reporting by Jeff Mason and Mark Hosenball; Editing by Jackie Frank and Todd Eastham)

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Tis The Season for Gratitude | Golda Smith

By Golda Smith

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Here in the U.S. we recently celebrated Thanksgiving which marks the official start of the holiday season. The smell of turkey, fresh cranberry sauce and dressing?it was delightful! This was also the first Thanksgiving without our mom which is probably why we didn?t feel too much like celebrating.

We did however purchase, prepared and distribute food to 21 people. Now that was one of the best gratitude moments I?ve ever had. To be able to do something for someone who could possibly ever repay you is not something I take lightly.

That?s gratitude!

Just the other day my family and I took the train into the city to look at the holiday window displays. They were beautiful. I posted a few photos on my Facebook page. My children were so happy doing something so simple and I was grateful for quality family time.

What are you grateful for and how do you show gratitude?

As a business owner, there is so much that you can do to show your clients that you are grateful for them too. You probably had a Black Friday promotion and gave deep discounts to your shoppers.

What else can you do?

Here are a few ideas:

A Pin It to Win It contest on Pinterest

Create a photo #hashtag contest for your Instagram followers

A random giveaway for your Twitter followers

A 12 Day of Christmas Funtastic Giveaway

Send a pack of Thank You cards to your BEST clients

If you?re a coach, give away a seat in your coaching program

?now THAT?S radical!

That?s just the tip of what you possibly do to show gratitude to your clients during this holiday season. Sure, you?ll hear a lot of people complain that business is slow during this time of year and that?s their excuse for not going to work in their business. I dare to say that they just haven?t been as resourceful as their competitors.

If you want to be given more in life then you have to be grateful for what you already have. In addition, try being generous with what you have. Generous?not foolish, there is a difference. Give to your favorite charity or cause.

If you?re serious about building a profitable business, then it?s time to get serious about showing your gratitude. If you don?t already have one, think about incorporating a gratitude program into your business plan. This year I had the honor of being coached by one of the greatest business minds, Sandi Krakowski. While I?ve learned many lessons from her, one of the greatest is to always show gratitude. Every few months there would come a surprise gift to my door?be it a book, dry erase board, or a picture frame. These were presents to help me grow.

Whatever you give doesn?t need to be expensive. I can hear a sigh of relief from some of you. What matters is that it comes from the heart. I?m grateful for YOU. You who take the time to read and respond to my newsletters, talk to me on social media and allow me the honor of assisting some of your with your social media management needs.

Enjoy the holiday season and if you?re feeling less than celebratory, I promise you that one of the best and quickest ways to feel better is to give the gift of gratitude to someone else.

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Dog bite sidelines 'Dirty Dozen' trumpeter Towns

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Dirty Dozen Brass Band trumpeter Efrem Towns is recovering at home in New Orleans from a vicious attack by a Rottweiler at an Atlanta motel.

He missed performances in Colorado and New Orleans after the attack on Nov. 18, and doesn't know if he'll make the band's next scheduled gig on Dec. 28, The Times-Picayune (http://bit.ly/XOJoNr) reported.

He and baritone sax player Roger Lewis said the dog surged from an open motel room door after Towns knocked on the door of Lewis' room.

"I didn't know if it was a dog, wolverine, bear, mongoose or what. I just knew something had me," Towns said.

He said the dog's owner came out of the next room, and they were able to subdue it.

At Atlanta's Grady Hospital, he received 30 stitches in his groin. Towns, who has health insurance through his wife, Tracie, said he will be seeing a urologist this week.

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band formed in 1977, and is credited with creating the contemporary, funk-infused brass band sound. It's been featured on albums with David Bowie, Elvis Costello and the Black Crowes.

Towns said he probably could practice while convalescing. "But I'm very uncomfortable right now," he said Friday evening. "I'm basically immobilized ? it's hard getting around. I'm kind of miserable."

The experience hasn't soured Towns on dogs. He and his wife own three miniature schnauzers, a standard schnauzer and a mixed breed. On Friday, his daughter's dachshund was visiting.

"I'm a dog person," he said. "And even though I got bit, I hope they don't put that dog to sleep."

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112 killed in fire at Bangladesh garment factory

Bangladeshi firefighters battle a fire at a garment factory in the Savar neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, late Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. At least 112 people were killed in a fire that raced through the multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh's capital, an official said Sunday. (AP Photo/Hasan Raza)

Bangladeshi firefighters battle a fire at a garment factory in the Savar neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, late Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. At least 112 people were killed in a fire that raced through the multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh's capital, an official said Sunday. (AP Photo/Hasan Raza)

Bangladeshis and firefighters battle a fire at a garment factory in the Savar neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, late Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. An official said firefighters have recovered more than 100 bodies after a fire raced through the multi-story garment factory just outside Bangladesh's capital. (AP Photo/Polash Khan)

Bangladeshi women react at the scene of a fire at a garment factory in the Savar neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, late Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. At least 112 people were killed in a fire that raced through the multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh's capital, an official said Sunday. (AP Photo/Hasan Raza)

Bangladeshi firefighters battle a fire at a garment factory in the Savar neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, late Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. At least 112 people were killed in a fire that raced through the multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh's capital, an official said Sunday. (AP Photo/Hasan Raza)

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ? At least 112 people were killed in a fire that raced through a multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh's capital, an official said Sunday.

The blaze broke out at the seven-story factory operated by Tazreen Fashions late Saturday. By Sunday morning, firefighters had recovered 100 bodies, fire department Operations Director Maj. Mohammad Mahbub told The Associated Press.

He said another 12 people who had suffered injuries after jumping from the building to escape the fire later died at hospitals.

The death toll could rise as the search for victims was continuing, he said.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

Bangladesh has some 4,000 garment factories, many without proper safety measures. The country annually earns about $20 billion from exports of garment products, mainly to the United States and Europe.

Mahbub said firefighters recovered 69 bodies from the second floor of the factory alone. He said most of the victims had been trapped inside the factory, located just outside of Dhaka, with no emergency exits leading outside the building.

Many workers who had taken shelter on the roof of the factory were rescued, but firefighters were unable to save those who were trapped inside, Mahbub said.

He said the fire broke out on the ground floor, which is used as a warehouse, and spread quickly to the upper floors.

"The factory had three staircases, and all of them were down through the ground floor," Mahbub said. "So the workers could not come out when the fire engulfed the building."

"Had there been at least one emergency exit through outside the factory, the casualties would have been much lower," he said.

Army soldiers and paramilitary border guards were deployed to help police keep the situation under control as thousands of onlookers and anxious relatives of the factory workers gathered at the scene, Mahbub said.

He would not say how many people were still missing.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her shock at the loss of a huge number of lives in the blaze and asked authorities to properly conduct rescue operations.

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, the apex body of the garment sector, said the association would stand by the victims' families.

Bangladesh's garment factories make clothes for brands including Wal-Mart, JC Penney, H&M, Marks & Spencer, Carrefour and Tesco.

Associated Press

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Thai police use tear gas in clash with royalist protesters

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police fired tear gas at stone-throwing demonstrators and made dozens of arrests on Saturday as thousands demanded the overthrow of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in the biggest street protest yet against her 16-month-old government.

Protesters from the royalist Pitak Siam group, led by retired military general Boonlert Kaewprasit, repeatedly tried to breach police lines in the Thai capital and rammed a six-wheel truck into a security barrier but were held back.

They accused Yingluck's government of corruption, being a puppet of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck's brother, and of disloyalty to Thailand's monarchy. Many were members of a yellow-shirt protest movement that helped trigger a coup by royalist generals in 2006 that toppled Thaksin.

"If I can't overthrow this government, I am prepared to die," Boonlert told supporters. He made a plea for "soldiers to come and protect us" shortly before ending the protest as torrential rain fell in early evening.

The clashes revived memories of a tumultuous 2008, when yellow-shirted protesters seized government offices, fought street battles with police, and occupied Bangkok's main airports for eight days. Amid that turbulence, two pro-Thaksin prime ministers were forced to resign by the courts.

Yingluck won a 2011 election by a landslide on support from the rural and urban poor. Her supporters, who wear red shirts at protests, held mass street rallies in 2010 against a military-backed Democrat-led government. Those demonstrations ended with a bloody army crackdown in which 91 people were killed.

"Our biggest concern is if Pitak Siam decides to escalate their rally or protesters move into key government buildings including parliament," said Piya Uthayo, a national police spokesman.

Pitak Siam, or Defend Siam ? an old name for Thailand -- taps many of the same supporters who backed the yellow shirts: the traditional Bangkok elite that includes generals, royal advisers, middle-class bureaucrats and old-money families.

Saturday's rally follows a visit to Thailand by U.S. President Barack Obama -- part of a three-country tour of Asia -- during which he praised Yingluck, calling her a "democratically-elected Prime Minister who is committed to democracy."

"CORRUPTED AND CRUEL GOVERNMENT"

Thaksin, a billionaire former telecoms tycoon, remains a divisive figure, revered by the rural poor and reviled by Bangkok's elite. He fled Thailand in 2008 and was convicted in absentia of abuse of power -- charges he says were politically motivated. He now lives in Dubai but remains influential.

The confrontation started in the morning when about 500 protesters tried to breach police barricades at Saphan Makawan Bridge and the Misakawan intersection to make their way to a large plaza where about 15,000 protesters gathered. They ignored police who told them to pass through a designated entry point.

At least 42 people were wounded, including seven police, according to the Erawan Medical Center which monitors Bangkok hospitals. Up to 132 protesters were arrested, police said. Knives and bullets were seized from some protesters, they added.

Authorities deployed 17,000 police at the rally site after the government invoked the Internal Security Act allowing police to detain protesters and carry out security checks and set up roadblocks.

The protest highlights tensions that have been simmering since Yingluck's Puea Thai party swept to victory in July 2011.

"The use of tear gas is a bad omen and conjures images of the 2008 anti-government protesters who forced their way into government house and parliament," said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political analyst at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

Protesters held signs with pictures of Yingluck including one bearing the caption "PM=Puppet Moron" as others waved yellow flags associated with the royal family.

"I'm telling Thaksin that if he wants to return to Thailand, he needs to bow before the king and serve his prison sentence," Boonlert told the demonstrators. "The world will see this corrupted and cruel government. The world can see the government under a puppet."

Thailand has seen a series of protests since 2006 with pro-Thaksin and anti-Thaksin groups taking turns to challenge various administrations' right to rule.

(Editing by Jason Szep and Sanjeev Miglani)

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