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NEW YORK (AP) ? Airlines hastily canceled flights in the Northeast Sunday as Hurricane Sandy moved up the coast. The massive storm threatens to bring a near halt to air travel for at least two days in a key region for both domestic and international flights.
Major carriers such as American Airlines, JetBlue and Delta planned Sunday night to cancel all flights into and out of three area airports in New York, the nation's busiest airspace. Delays rippled across the U.S. and the Atlantic, affecting travelers in cities such as San Francisco, Chicago and Paris.
Cancellations are mounting. According to the flight-tracking service FlightAware, more than 7,200 flights had been canceled for Sunday and Monday as of late Sunday evening. Both Philadelphia International Airport and Newark International Airport, a hub for United Airlines, each had more than 1,200 cancellations for the two days.
The disruption spread to Asia where numerous airlines canceled or rescheduled flights to New York and Washington from cities such as Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul, South Korea. Flight cancelations from European cities also mounted.
At New York's LaGuardia on Sunday, crowds filled the American Airlines terminal near midday, with families sitting on the floor waiting for a flight out ? any flight out. A few travelers were sitting at a bar having a beer, watching football. Others nervously paced before flight information boards showing canceled flights, hoping their flight wouldn't be added to that list. It was almost double the normal crowd. Travelers were calm, but anxious.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs five airports in the area, said it expects all carriers to cease operations Sunday night. It advised passengers to check with their carriers before heading to the airport.
Passengers on Sunday were reporting multi-hour wait times at airline call centers.
Eileen Merberg, 50, was booked on a United flight from her home in Rochester, N.Y. to New Orleans, connecting at Washington D.C.'s Dulles airport.
First, the airline sent her an automated message via email saying that her Washington flight was canceled and that she had been rebooked on a flight through Newark. About an hour later that flight was canceled. Another email informed her she was rebooked through Chicago.
By that point, she already had told the higher education conference that she was scheduled to speak at that she wouldn't be coming. She tried to cancel her flight but United's phone lines were jammed. First she waited 62 minutes before her phone battery died. After recharging, she then spent 45 minutes on hold before a recording told her it would be at least another hour before a customer service employee would be available.
"Then I hung up," Merberg said.
Sandy is expected to make landfall Monday, likely in New Jersey. Already, nearly 5,600 flights have been canceled, more than 2,500 of those at Newark, LaGuardia Kennedy airports, according to FlightAware.
A spokesman for United Airlines parent United Continental Holdings Inc. said the carrier has suspended an unspecified number of flights to New York and Washington-area airports beginning Sunday evening with plans to resume Tuesday as conditions permit.
JetBlue Airways Corp., which flies out of JFK, said it has canceled more than 1,000 flights from Sunday through Wednesday morning.
American Airlines and American Eagle canceled 140 flights Sunday and canceled another 1,431 flights Monday through Wednesday due to Hurricane Sandy, the company said.
US Airways said it had suspended all operations at the three New York airports Sunday evening and Monday and at Philadelphia and Washington on Monday.
Disruptions on the East Coast of the U.S. also impact international carriers. Air France has canceled four Monday flights into JFK and two departures. Lufthansa canceled three flights to the Northeast and one flight out of Newark.
South Korean flag carrier Korean Air delayed a flight scheduled to leave Incheon International Airport for JFK on Monday by 22 hours. Asiana Airlines delayed its JFK flight from Seoul by 26 hours. Hong Kong's Cathay canceled two Monday flights to New York. A total of 8 flights out of Tokyo's Narita International Airport to New York, Newark and Washington were canceled.
Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph as of Sunday afternoon, was blamed for 65 deaths in the Caribbean before it began churning up the Eastern Seaboard. It was expected to hook left toward the mid-Atlantic coast and come ashore late Monday or early Tuesday, most likely in New Jersey, colliding with a wintry storm moving in from the west and cold air streaming down from the Arctic. Experts say the rare hybrid storm that results will cause havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes.
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Back in August I had the great opportunity to present at The 21 Convention alongside longtime friends Keith Norris, Skyler Tanner, Greg Swann and...Dr. Doug McGuff. After Doug's presentation, we headed over to Skyler's house for a meal just hours before I was to fly out.
A few days later I blogged about Doug's presentation in detail:?Dr. Doug McGuff?s The 21 Convention Presentation in 2 Words: You?re Fucked. Lot's of good comments on that post expounding upon the problem.
So just today, the video of his full presentation has been released on YouTube. His previous 21 Convention presentation a few years back stands at nearly 190,000 views, so that's an indication of the quality, depth and insight Doug always brings. Of course, those who have read his co-authored book,?Body by Science, already know the kind of knowledge and experience Doug brings to the table.
So here you go. Make yourself some available time and watch this, and then spread it around, especially in a time when everyone's going on and on about who's gonna pay for there health care besides themselves. Here's a true look, from the inside and in the trenches.
If I've ever met a nicer guy than Doug, I just don't remember it. Here's a guy who has practiced as an ER doc for 23 years?a place where seconds count and there's never a second chance. He cares deeply for people, yet is no willy-nilly bleeding heart. He knows what it really takes to provide real medical care competently.
Unfortunately, guys like him will never have a seat at the healthcare policy table, when in reality, guys like him are the only ones who ought to have such a seat.
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When a colleague of mine announced her retirement recently, she said she was going to miss her patients ? but not the pressures of running a practice, nor the plethora of new insurance regulations and initiatives to improve the way doctors run their offices.
Unlike her colleagues still practicing, she would no longer have to heed measures like Medicare?s ?meaningful use? regulation, which pushes doctors to use electronic health records with a financial incentive at first, then a penalty later if they do not. She could ignore the new pay-for-performance plans that linked reimbursement to quality measures with little proven effect on patient outcomes. And she could choose to overlook the hullabaloo surrounding the so-called medical home, a strategy to reorganize doctors? offices so that patients have access not just to their familiar doctor but also to a team of nurses, physician assistants and other medical assistants, with minimal delays, and on weekends and evenings if needed.
?Where?s the proof?? she asked tensely, forgetting for a moment that she was retiring. ?Why is it that I can?t prescribe a medication without studies to back me up, but we doctors must overhaul our practices without data to show that the changes will actually make a difference??
She is not the only doctor asking that question.
In blogs, discussion forums and private conversations, a growing number of doctors are voicing serious doubts about the new schemes to improve medical practice. All agree that change of some kind is necessary, but many doctors feel trapped by a reform process that links ?voluntary? changes to reimbursement. Others are overwhelmed by the amount of effort and financial investment required. Still others worry that patient care will end up suffering.
All of these doctors share a common concern: that the changes won?t work because the assumptions underlying them are, well, just assumptions.
Now a study in The Annals of Family Medicine confirms that these doubting doctors may be right.
The study analyzed a central assumption of one proposed change to medical practice: that patients who enjoy regular access to their primary doctors cost less, since they are less likely to go to an emergency room or to require hospitalization than patients who are unable to see a doctor regularly. Continuity of care is a central goal of primary care improvement efforts, because it is assumed that physicians? offices operating as medical homes, with office hours during weekends and evenings, will yield better health outcomes, improve patient satisfaction and save money.
To test this assumption, researchers from the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine in Sacramento analyzed the records of more than 30,000 patients, only some of them enrolled in a medical home. As expected, patients whose doctors offered extended office hours had total health care costs that were at least 10 percent less than patients who could see their doctors only during standard business hours. There were no significant differences in mortality rates.
But when the results were analyzed more closely, it turned out that the savings was not a result of fewer emergency room visits or hospital stays. Rather, costs were lower because doctors offering extended hours tended to prescribe fewer expensive drugs, blood tests, X-rays and other procedures commonly associated with normal office visits.
In other words, the doctors who offered extended hours were, over all, just more cost-conscious than those who did not.
?Offering extended office hours could be a marker for doctors who tend to adopt cost-savings measures in general,? said Dr. Anthony Jerant, the study?s lead author and a professor in the U.C. Davis department of family and community medicine.
The study also raises the broader issue of whether certain proposed policies have the potential to offer more bang for the buck than others. Mandating extended office hours, for example, might be a less effective way of holding down expenditures than creating new ways of rewarding doctors for being cost-conscious in the exam room.
?It might be that what we need to do is teach and reward cost-effective decision-making,? Dr. Jerant said. ?But that?s going to be a hard sell as long as doctors are incentivized to do more. They get paid to do and order more.?
Currently, studies that analyze and test the assumptions underlying proposed initiatives to improve care, particularly those involving primary care, are rare. But Dr. Jerant and his fellow investigators believe that such research could have important implications, particularly as politicians and policy makers attempt to institute changes. Such studies could not only assess the strength of proposed policies, but also provide the evidence that practicing physicians need to get on board with changes.
?We have a golden opportunity right now,? Dr. Jerant said. ?We?re scrutinizing health care and practices as never before.
?Why not choose to do what make the biggest difference for practices and their patients??
Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/how-extended-office-hours-save-money/
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Four of Bowling Green?s teams have a perfect 100 percent GSR and they are hockey, women?s golf, women?s tennis, and volleyball. Thirteen of the Falcons? 16 sports represented have a GSR at or above their sport?s national average.
?This annual release of data continues to confirm what holds true as our standard expectation,? Mark Shook, Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Student-Athlete Services, said. ?We expect our student-athletes to compete in the classroom, as well as on the playing field, and to graduate in higher numbers than our peer Division I institutions. All BGSU fans can be proud of the fact that we make every effort to recruit and retain the best students and the best athletes possible.?
The four sports with a perfect 100 percent GSR are all tied for the highest rank among conference schools. Men?s cross country/track and field and women?s cross country/track and field are both third in the MAC, while football and women?s basketball are fourth. Women?s soccer is fifth to also rank in the top half of the league for their GSR rate.
In addition, the overall grade point average for BGSU student-athletes reached a record 3.11 for all 18 sports at the conclusion of the spring 2012 term.
The Graduation Success Rate was developed by the NCAA as part of its academic reform initiative to more accurately measure the success of Division I student-athletes and it takes into account the many different academic paths followed by today?s college students. Unlike the federal graduation rate, the GSR holds institutions accountable for transfer students. The GSR also accounts for midyear enrollees and is calculated for every sport.
The GSR data released by the NCAA today is based on the four entering freshmen classes in Division I from 2002-03 through 2005-06 and measures graduation within a six-year time frame. The national figure accounts for nearly 105,000 student-athletes.
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We just got some hands-on time with MSI's latest creation, the S20 Slidebook. This ultra light (2.3 pounds / 1kg) and thin (0.78-inches / 19.8mm) convertible Ultrabook runs Windows 8 (naturally) and packs an Intel Core i5 processor (Ivy Bridge), 4GB RAM and a 128GB mSATA SSD. In front, you'll find a gorgeous 11.6-inch 1920x1080-pixel IPS display with a 10-point capacitive multitouch layer plus an HD front-facing camera. This glass panel is surrounded by a glossy white plastic bezel that incorporates the MSI logo and the Windows button. The back cover is made of a silver magnesium alloy with matching plastic antenna covers for the built-in WiFi b/g/n, WiDi and Bluetooth 4.0 radios. Most of the ports are on the right edge along with the power / lock key and LED indicators -- this includes the power input, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, a mini-HDMI output and a pair of USB 3.0 connectors. It features a gigabit Ethernet port on the left side and an SD card reader, orientation lock button and volume rocker in back.
Of course, what sets the S20 apart is its ability to convert instantly from a tablet into a usable laptop. The screen slides up and tilts forward to reveal a quality chiclet keyboard with excellent key travel and decent spacing. You're not limited to any specific angle here -- the display is fully adjustable from flat to almost perpendicular with the keyboard. We spent a few minutes using the Slidebook and came away pretty impressed -- it's incredibly light for its size, the screen is beautiful, the keyboard is comfortable, and it's well made even for a prototype. MSI plans to begin selling this convertible Ultrabook for $1,099 in late November through major US retailers online and in stores. Take a look at our gallery below and hit the break for our hands-on video.
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Stars ripped from their home galaxies as they collide with other galaxies can get slung into giant invisible cocoons of dark matter, researchers say, which might explain mysterious radiation pervading the sky.
These findings suggest the halos of?dark matter?surrounding galaxies are not completely dark after all, but contain a small number of stars, investigators added.
In recent decades, satellite telescopes have detected more infrared light emanating from the sky than known galaxies could account for. Scientists had suggested this strange glow might come from sources too dim for observatories to see directly ? for instance, the earliest, most distant galaxies. If such primordial galaxies were responsible for this radiation, that might suggest far more of them existed than before thought, potentially radically altering notions of how the cosmos evolved.
Now, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have viewed a sufficiently large enough patch of sky to help shed light on this infrared glow. The researchers found that neither primordial galaxies nor faint dwarf galaxies could explain fluctuations in this excess radiation seen across space.
"We have made new measurements of the glow and found it to be brighter in intensity by several orders of magnitude than the first galaxies," study lead author Asantha Cooray, a cosmologist at the University of California, Irvine, told SPACE.com.
Instead, the researchers suggest wandering stars in the gargantuan spherical halos of dark matter enveloping their home galaxies might be responsible for this mysterious light. Physicists think invisible, as-yet-unidentified dark matter makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe.
"These diffuse stripped halo stars explain the missing infrared glow," Cooray said.
These stars were likely torn from the main bodies of their galaxies during epic collisions with other galaxies. They may have also been stripped away from their original homes by other galaxies pulling at them with their gravity, just as the moon's gravity tugs at Earth's oceans to generate tides. [Photos of Great Galaxy Crashes]
"For a typical Milky Way-sized galaxy, the intensity of light coming from these halo stars is about 1 percent of the total light from that galaxy," Cooray said. "That fraction grows rapidly, to as high as 20 percent, in denser galaxy environments like galaxy groups and clusters, as collisions and tidal stripping are more frequent in dense regions of the universe."
Mostly, these stars were only exiled to the most distant outskirts of their home galaxies instead of getting hurled out into intergalactic space, trapped as they were by the gravitational pull of the dark matter halos surrounding their galaxies. Galaxies exist in dark matter halos that are much larger than the galaxies; when galaxies merge together, stars and gas sink to the middle of the resulting combined halo.
"If I sum all of the galaxies out to about a billion years since the Big Bang from today, the stripped diffuse stars contribute about 10 percent of the total infrared light intensity seen by Spitzer ? the rest is the light from galaxies," Cooray said. "The previous explanation attributed that 10 percent of unexplained intensity to primordial galaxies and stars, but the most recent estimates by a variety of authors, not just my group, are that the primordial galaxies contribute at most 0.5 percent."
Future research can see whether data from other telescopes and experiments will confirm the research team's model.
"These halo stars, while bright in the infrared, should also emit visible optical light," Cooray said. As such, the Hubble Space Telescope should be able to see these stars as well, he explained.
The scientists detailed their findings in the Oct. 25 issue of the journal Nature.
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Following finance minister P. Chidambaram's plea to banks to take steps to accelerate growth in banking sector, public sector banks have responded by either reducing the interest rates or by eliminating the processing fees on car and home loans to increase demand in the market.
It is reported that the finance minster is happy with the steps taken by the banks. At a recent meeting held by the minister with the chiefs of various public sector banks, he is said to have urged banks to introduce reduced interest rates on various loans to accelerate growth in retail loans segment.
The banks which have heeded finance minister's advice include banks like Bank of India, Central Bank of India, Canara Bank, Indian bank, Allahabad Bank and Bank of Baroda. These lenders have introduced interest rate cuts in home loans or car loans or have slashed their processing fees completely on these loans.
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2012) ? Mothers and newborns who are both admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) after delivery are significantly more likely to die compared with mom-baby pairs not needing ICU admission, found a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). As well, when both mother and baby require admission to an ICU, they are much more likely to be managed at different hospitals, thereby negatively impacting maternal-infant bonding.
Researchers completed a population-based study of all 1.02 million live born singleton deliveries in Ontario between 2002 and 2010. They found that infant mortality was 28 times higher and maternal death 330 times higher when a newborn was admitted to a neonatal ICU (NICU) while its mother was admitted to an adult ICU -- collectively called "co-ICU" -- than when neither mom nor baby was admitted to an ICU. Separation of mother and infant soon after birth was 31 times more common with co-ICU than no ICU, because one or both needed to be transferred to another hospital.
"In addition to being at high risk of death, newborns admitted to the NICU experience long-term morbidity," writes lead author Dr. Joel Ray, Departments of Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St. Michael's Hospital, and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. "This produces a great deal of stress for the parents." When the mother requires admission to an ICU as well, she may be unable to care for, or bond with, her baby. This can have long-term implications for mother-child bonding.
To explain the higher risk of death for mothers and babies both admitted to an ICU, the authors suggest that "abnormalities of the maternal and fetal placental circulations may often co-exist, and a diseased placenta may adversely affect mother and fetus alike. Placental dysfunction may result in preeclampsia, placental abruption and placental infarction, paralleled by an increased rate of preterm cesarean delivery and involvement of the maternal hepatic, cardiac, renal and cerebral systems."
Coordination of care plans by ICU staff for mothers and babies in their respective ICUs, especially by trained social workers, as well as efforts to transfer mothers and babies to the same hospital, may help lessen the burden of maternal-newborn separation.
The authors conclude that "co-ICU admission may be one optimal marker of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality beyond maternal ICU or NICU admission alone."
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'You've gotta get out there and have a voice,' actress tells MTV News as part of our Power of 12 countdown to Election Day on November 6.
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It's all fun and games rehearsing for Dancing with the Stars -- until someone gets hurt. The latest victim on the injury-prone reality show is Melissa Rycroft.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - About 500 protesters broke into the grounds of Libya's parliament building on Sunday to demand an end to violence in Bani Walid, a former stronghold of the late Muammar Gaddafi that is being shelled by militiamen from a rival town.
Militias, many from Misrata and aligned with the Defence Ministry, have been shelling the hilltop town of 70,000 people for several days. State news agency LANA said on Sunday that 22 people had been killed and 200 wounded in the fighting.
"We are here to demand the government find a peaceful solution for the tribal war that is happening in Bani Walid," protester Nasser Ehdein said.
Libya's new rulers have held elections but have struggled to impose their authority on a country awash with weapons a year after Gaddafi was killed and the fighting in Bani Walid underscored how tenuous their control remains.
In a country where rumors abound, there were also conflicting reports over the weekend about the fate of Gaddafi's son Khamis and that of the late autocrat's former spokesman.
In Tripoli, an unarmed group of male and female protesters forced their way past security guards at the gates of the grounds of the parliament buildings, chanting "There is no God but God, and President (Mohammed) Magarief is God's enemy."
Security forces fired rounds into the air as they held their positions at the doors of the building, while elected members of the General National Congress met inside.
Ehdein said most of the protesters were residents of Tripoli who had family in or hailed from Bani Walid.
This is the second time protesters have broken into the grounds of the assembly since it took power in the summer.
The first time was on October 4 when a group of protesters who believed their town was underrepresented in a proposed Libyan government stormed the assembly as it prepared to scrutinize the prime minister-elect's nominations.
In the port city of Benghazi anger boiled over on Sunday night where about 400 unarmed but angry protesters stormed the grounds of private Libyan satellite channel Libya al-Ahrar.
The protesters demanded that the channel air photographic evidence that Gaddafi's son Khamis had been killed in battle. Libyan officials had announced he had been killed in fighting in Bani Walid but that has not been confirmed.
Demonstrators said they were furious over what they deemed a false rumor, saying it had helped fuel violence in Bani Walid and stir up tribal enmity.
Bani Walid was one of the towns that remained loyal to Gaddafi the longest. It remains isolated from the rest of Libya and former rebels say there are still pockets of support for the old government there.
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In Bani Walid itself, 140 km (86 miles) south of Tripoli, militia leader Abdelkarim Ghomaid said fighting was in full swing.
"The shelling is coming from all sides," he said by phone.
A Bani Walid resident said by phone: "Fighting is continuing today. There is smoke rising over certain parts of the city."
Outside Bani Walid, hundreds of vehicles lined up in the village of Weshtata, 80 km (50 miles) from Tripoli, waiting to be checked by government forces as families fled the fighting.
"We are escaping the danger of the rockets, the shrapnel, and the deaths inside. There hasn't been electricity for days," said one man who had his family in a pick-up truck.
A feud between Misrata and Bani Walid was inflamed by the death of rebel Omran Shaban after he was detained for two months in Bani Walid. Shaban, from Misrata, was the man who found Gaddafi hiding in a drain pipe in Sirte on October 20, 2011.
Libya's congress ordered the Defence and Interior Ministries to find those responsible for abducting Shaban and suspected of torturing him. It gave Bani Walid a deadline to hand them over.
Hundreds of families have fled the fighting in Bani Walid to Tarhouna, some 80 km away, where a statement from the prime minister's office on Saturday said militias had captured former Gaddafi spokesman Moussa Ibrahim.
However, in an audio clip posted on Facebook, a person purporting to be Ibrahim, who held news conferences in Tripoli during the war, dismissed news of his arrest.
There was no independent verification of the authenticity or timing of the Facebook post, dated October 20.
Some officials said Gaddafi's son Khamis had been captured in Bani Walid and died after being taken to Misrata. But there was no official written statement from the government on this, as with previous captures of former Gaddafi-era figures.
On Sunday, Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur said on his official Twitter account that the announcement of Ibrahim's arrest and Khamis's death was made without confirmation of the news.
Khamis was reported dead on at least three separate occasions during last year's conflict. A Syrian-based television station that supported Gaddafi said he had been killed in fighting southeast of Tripoli on August 29, 2011.
(Additional reporting by Hadeel al-Shalchi, Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Reuters Television; Editing by Alison Williams and Andrew Osborn)
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Trying to launch a concerted nonprofit video campaign can feel like tilting at windmills: you might have one moment of undivided attention from viewers before they're off to watch cats and Nigerian pygmy goats. Google wants to make the most of that time through its YouTube Campaigns initiative. The strategy brings on-video overlays and channel sections that show viewers both a progress meter for the campaign as well as a handy links to explore and share what they've found. If all goes well, charities and like-minded organizations get more donations and YouTube views, while we in the general public are reminded that there's more to life than K-pop videos. It certainly beats manning the phones for a celebrity fundraiser.
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