HBT: Franona interviewing with Indians next week

We heard confirmation yesterday that Terry Francona is indeed a candidate for the Indians manager job and is expected interview in the near future. Nick Camino of WTAM 1100 in Cleveland has the latest update on the situation.

There?s some question about whether the Indians will offer Francona enough money to leave his broadcasting job at ESPN and there?s also the matter of managing a rebuilding team without the big budget of the Red Sox. However, Francona spent the 2001 season as a special assistant to team president Mark Shapiro, who was the GM at the time, so there?s some history here. There?s also only 30 of these jobs to go around and fortunes in the American League Central can change pretty quickly.

Interim manager Sandy Alomar, Jr. is the only other confirmed candidate for the permanent gig. Many consider him the favorite for the job and he?d certainly come cheaper as a first-time skipper.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/09/29/terry-francona-to-interview-for-indians-manager-job-next-week/related

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Crickets causing a stink in Central Texas city

WACO, Texas (AP) ? Several businesses in the Central Texas town of Waco (WAY'-koh) are dealing with a smelly problem that won't go away: decaying cricket carcasses.

A bank, a drugstore and other businesses have been inundated with the odorous onslaught of dead crickets that have been trapped inside walls and have collected on sidewalks.

Jani Rodriguez, the branch manager at Synergy Bank, tells the Waco Tribune-Herald (http://bit.ly/QcSOLs) that scented products have been unable to get rid of the smell. Using air-scrubbing machines hasn't worked either.

Fred Huffman, an entomologist who runs a local pest control business, says the cricket problem has been worse this year because mild winter conditions resulted in the insects appearing earlier than normal.

Health officials say the crickets don't pose any direct health risks.

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Information from: Waco Tribune-Herald, http://www.wacotrib.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/crickets-causing-stink-central-texas-city-232435367.html

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Oregon State outlasts Arizona 38-35

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ? A momentum-swinging game hanging in the balance, Oregon State coach Mike Riley pulled out a play he had been saving all game.

So what if he would have liked more space to run it. This was the time to do ? and it couldn't have worked out any better.

Sean Mannion threw for a career-high 433 yards and hit Connor Hamlett on a 9-yard pass with 1:09 left for his third touchdown, lifting No. 18 Oregon State to wild 38-35 win over Arizona Saturday night.

"I had frankly screwed it up; I was going to call it a little earlier," said Riley, who broke Lon Stiner's school record with his 75th career win at Oregon State. "I was saving that play and wanted it out a little higher, but then we had a good gain. We called it anyway and it came out differently than it ever has, but that's the way we want it right there."

The Beavers sure needed it.

Oregon State (3-0, 1-1 Pac-12) took a 17-0 lead, Arizona charged back and the teams traded scores in the second half of a game filled with big plays and 1,158 yards of combined offense.

Arizona (3-2, 0-1 Pac-12) landed a big blow in the can-you-top this second half, going up 35-31 with 5:34 left when Matt Scott hit Austin Hill on a 7-yard touchdown.

The problem was that it left too much time for Mannion.

Knowing his team had moved the ball all game against the Wildcats, the calm-and-cool sophomore guided the Beavers 75 yards down the field in 10 plays. Facing a third-and-5 with just over a minute left, Mannion called out a play that sent one receiver into the left flat and Hamlett down the sideline. Arizona's defenders followed the receiver in the flat and Mannion whipped a pass to Hamlet, who slipped just inside the pylon for the winning score.

Mannion finished 29 of 45 for the fifth-most passing yards in school history while setting a career high for the second week. He hit Markus Wheaton 10 times for 166 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and Brandin Cooks nine times for 149 yards.

Storm Woods added for 161 yards and a touchdown for the Beavers, off to their first 3-0 start since 2002.

"Arizona's a great team and they came out guns blazing," Beavers cornerback Rashaad Reynolds said. "We had to battle the whole game."

Arizona nearly kept up with them.

Scott fought through a sprained ankle in the second half to throw for a career-high 403 yards and three touchdowns, but had two interceptions, including one near midfield in the final minute. Ka'Deem Carey ran for 115 yards and two touchdowns. Dan Buckner caught six passes for 119 yards and a score.

It wasn't enough for Arizona, which has lost two straight after opening 3-0.

"Losing is losing," Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez said. "The kids are battling and they're going to be all right. Just not right now."

Oregon State had a strange, stop-and-start season before arriving in the desert.

The Beavers had their opener against Nicholls State postponed due to a hurricane, faced a ranked opponent the second week, followed by a bye and another ranked opponent.

They no trouble keeping a rhythm, knocking off No. 13 Wisconsin at home and No. 19 UCLA in the Rose Bowl behind a stingy defense and Mannion's arm.

Oregon State kept the same theme going early against Arizona.

Mannion was sharp early, hitting Cooks on a 57-yard pass in the first quarter to set up a 2-yard touchdown pass to Wheaton in the back of the end zone.

Next series, Mannion hit Wheaton for a 51-yard gain, leading to Trevor Romaine's 30-yard field goal.

Mannion found Kevin Cummings next, on a 38-yard pass to position Tyler Anderson for a 1-yard touchdown dive that put the Beavers up 17-0.

"They had a lot of guys wide open," Rodriguez said. "When we blitzed, we couldn't get to the quarterback and that makes it really tough on our defensive backs."

Arizona's offense tried to answer after sputtering early.

The Beavers bogged Arizona down in the first quarter and held when the Wildcats had their first sustained drive, which ended with John Bonano pushing a 30-yard field goal wide right after Scott was called for intentional grounding.

That wasn't a good sign for the Wildcats, who went 0-for-6 in the red zone in a 49-0 loss to Oregon last week.

Arizona managed to end its red-zone woes late in the second quarter, though, when the officials checked the replay to see if Carey fumbled at the 1-yard line and determined he actually went into the end zone for a score that cut Oregon State's lead to 17-7.

That drive seemed to be the spark the Wildcats needed.

Arizona kept rolling on its opening drive of the second half, quickly marching 91 yards in 10 plays for a 3-yard pass from Scott to Hill.

The Wildcats needed a minute to score again, this one a 24-yard run up the middle by Carey, who carried a couple of Oregon State defenders into the end zone with him to put Arizona up 21-17.

Scott made a mistake on the next drive, when Jordan Poyer missed an interception at midfield, then got it when the ball caromed off Richard Morrison. That set up a 1-yard touchdown run by Woods to give Oregon State the lead back.

Woods followed with a mistake of his own, losing a fumble at Oregon State's 40. Scott then threw to the corner of the end zone to Buckner, who's over-the-shoulder, 16-yard TD catch put the Wildcats up 28-24.

Mannion's turn was next. Using a pump fake, he got the entire right side of Arizona's defense to bite and winged a 20-yard touchdown to Wheaton that put the Beavers back out front.

Scott answered, marching the Wildcats for a 7-yard touchdown pass to Hill, who dived in the final yard to make it 35-31.

He just left too much time for Mannion and the Beavers, who head home to play Washington State next week with plenty of momentum on their side.

"We're definitely enjoying this moment," Woods said. "It took an entire year last years to get where we are today. The sky is the limit for us right now."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-state-outlasts-arizona-38-35-055139716--spt.html

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Galaxy Note II Poised to Hit the Runway for US Debut

Samsung on Thursday emailed out a teaser that sparked frenzied speculation about its being a harbinger for the launch of the company's Galaxy Note II phablet. The email is titled "The Next Big Thing Is Here," and carries an edge-on lengthwise shot of what appears to be a Samsung Galaxy Note, with the tip of the S pen sticking out from the top. Recipients are urged to save the date, October 24, at 7 pm, and New York City is given as the venue.

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Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem? - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech

Forstall demoing Apple's new Maps app

FORTUNE -- There's no shortage of embarrassing instances where Apple (AAPL) Maps "fell short" -- as Tim Cook's public apology put it -- but on Friday Canadian reader John Garner pointed me to a particularly striking one.

Jason Matheson, a fellow Canadian with a knack for Mac programming, ran a quick Xcode script that compared the iPhone 5's map of Ontario with an official list of the province's cities and towns. Of 2,028 place names, Matheson reports, 400 were correct on Apple's Maps app, 389 were pretty close, 551 were clearly incorrect and 688 weren't on the map at all.

"There's no excuse," Garner writes. "Quality control on Apple Maps had to have been terrible to not get this right. Bluntly, Scott Forstall should be fired over this mess."

Garner is not alone in pointing the finger at Forstall, the senior vice president for iOS software and the Apple executive -- after Cook -- most often described as an heir apparent to Steve Jobs.

In his current Monday Note, Jean-Louis Gass?e called the ridicule Apple has suffered these last two weeks "largely self-inflicted." Apple usually under-promises and over-delivers, but according to Gass?e Forstall did just the opposite:

"[Forstall's] demo was flawless, 2D and 3D maps, turn-by-turn navigation, spectacular flyovers? but not a word from the stage about the app's limitations, no self-deprecating wink, no admission that iOS Maps is an infant that needs to learn to crawl before walking, running, and ultimately lapping the frontrunner, Google Maps. Instead, we're told that Apple's Maps may be 'the most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever.'"

Forstall did something similar last year when he unveiled Siri -- Apple's voice-activated personal assistant. Although it was labeled "beta" -- computer jargon for "work in progress" -- in Forstall's demo the application seemed not only to understand every question he put to it, but to have a snappy answer. It has not worked so well in the wild, at least not for me.

"Siri has been an embarrassment for Apple," writes Business Insider's Jay Yarow in a piece titled The Apple Maps Disaster Is Really Bad News For Apple's 'CEO-In-Waiting'. "This is his second consecutive high-profile screw up with iOS software."

Forstall came to Apple from NeXT and first rose to power on the strength of OS X Leopard, a project he managed. But it was by creating the original iPhone operating system -- since renamed iOS -- that he achieved his current status. As the manager of the platform that generates more than half of Apple's revenue, Forstall has amassed enormous clout within the company -- and more than his share of enemies.

"If there's a knock on Forstall," wrote Adam Lashinsky in Inside Apple, "it's that he wears his ambition in plainer view than the typical Apple executive. He blatantly accumulated influence in recent years, including, it is whispered, when Jobs was on medical leave."

According to an unflattering profile in Bloomberg Businessweek last year, Forstall has such a fraught relationship with other members of the executive team -- including Jony Ive and Bob Mansfield -- that they avoid meetings with him unless Tim Cook is present. The piece goes on to say:

"Some former associates of Forstall, none of whom would comment on the record for fear of alienating Apple, say he routinely takes credit for collaborative successes [and] deflects blame for mistakes."

That's one way to manage a team. In fact, it was often said that it was Steve Jobs' way. But it may not be Tim Cook's.

Source: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/29/does-apple-have-a-scott-forstall-problem/

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Dan Hardy vs. Rory Markham is your knockout of the week

Dan Hardy usually fights well in his home country of England. For example, check out what he did to Rory Markham at UFC 95 in London.

On Saturday, he will fight Amir Sadollah in his hometown of Nottingham. He's gone 1-4 in his last five fights, but recaptured that knockout ability against Duane Ludwig in May. Will Hardy come up with another fine performance for the people of Nottingham? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or Twitter.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/dan-hardy-vs-rory-markham-knockout-week-131950070--mma.html

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Communication Items You'll Want Before TSHTF ? Part 1

Dan & Sheila
Surviving Survivalism
September 27th, 2012
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Having good radio equipment is important for many reasons. What will you do when there is no Internet? What will you do when there is no cellphone service? How will you know what?s going on in other parts of the country, let alone the world? Radio signals don?t need an intermediary, they just bounce all over the earth and are received by radios.

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It?s not even necessary that you transmit (speak) on the radio, but the information you can garner from just listening to others from far away is worth the time it takes to understand how to use a radio.

There are many ways to go in purchasing a communications radio, depending on your budget. You can buy yourself a brand new, state-of-the-art Kenwood or I-com for example, both of which are great radios. But the expense can be quite high, typically in the many hundreds of dollars.

A less expensive but just as viable way to go is a ?free band radio?. This is a 10 meter ham radio that has had additional freeband frequencies installed. This will expand coverage to include the 12, 11 (the CB frequency band) and sometimes 9 meter bands. In a converted CB radio, this is called a radio with extra channels.

A 10 meter radio is very common and inexpensive, as well as their low-rent cousins, CB radios. Many can be found on ebay for under $200 and may already have the additional frequencies installed. Also any good SSB (single side band) CB radio can have what they call ?Extra Channels Added? by any good tech. (Lots of mods here?http://www.dxzone.com/tag-cb-mods/.) CB shops at truck stops often times have used free band radios for sale at good prices, but check Ebay for prices on used radios before going.

Any frequency on the radio can be used in various modes, the most common being AM, Single Side Band (SSB), Upper Side Band (USB) and CW. CW means constant wave mode, which is the mode used for Morse Code and RTTY. It is possible to send several and receive multiple pages of text files via RTTY. The software needed can be found here (http://gmfsk.sourceforge.net/?). Radios with a CW mode like the RCI 2950 (et al) and the Uniden HR2510 have the CW mode installed. There are other models that also have CW mode, however no CB radios have CW mode. You can send pictures and text files to others, similar to a fax. This will be an excellent way for the people to maintain contact with others during times of crisis or total collapse.

The legal frequency range of a Citizens Band radio is 26905 megahertz through 27405 megahertz (mostly in 10 kilocycle steps per channel), covering the 40 channels of CB radio. Freebanding is when an unlicensed radio operator uses the non-allocated frequencies in the 11 meter band (CB radio and beyond). When society has collapsed, who care who has a license?

Most freebanders use the Single Side Band (SSB) mode of these channels as opposed to the AM mode. The chatter you may have heard on channel 19 (the truckers channel) is in the AM mode. AM mode of operation is limited in range, however using the SSB mode affords greater range and more output power. A legal CB radio has 4 watts output on the AM band and 12 watts on the SSB band.

This means that when conditions are right (sunspots, etc.) SSB signals can travel greater distances than those in the AM mode. One early morning, while driving west on I-90 in Idaho, I made a contact with Tokyo, Japan using SSB and a HR 2510 Uniden radio. That was a contact of over 7000 miles with less than 20 watts of power.

Once the world goes in to collapse there will still be thousands of people using the freebands. This can be used to create a radio round-robin or?relay?to share information and help others.

The international call frequencies are:

27555 USB The US and the world except for Europe

26285 USB Europe

First a little bit about how to use a call frequency. A call frequency is a frequency on which we make contact with someone who would like to have a conversation with us. The parties then go to another frequency of their choice to continue the conversation. It is unlike the chatter you may have heard on the AM side ? CB Channel 19 and all that noise. The conversation is called a QSO.

First we must wait for a moment of silence to break in and make our call. The protocol for asking for a QSO is like this:

?C-Q, C-Q, NEW MEXICO CALLING AND LISTING ON 27560? is a typical call or CQ (?seek-you?). This tells listeners on the call frequency where to find you to have a conversation. Then we move our frequency dial to that frequency. Once there we make another call like this:

?CQ CQ New Mexico calling for any and all stations.? Or if your are looking to make a contact in a specific place:

?CQ CQ New Mexico Calling for all stations in _____? (the place of your choosing) ?and standing by for contact.?

Antennas

There are many different kinds of viable antennas to use with your radio, some very cheap some very expensive.

Some of you may choose to make a wire antenna. One of the simplest wire antennas is the ?Inverted V? ? very good for long distance communications (what the radio community calls ?skip?). The inverted V can be made for the cost of some wire and a pole.

Others may prefer to purchase something ready made, in a box. For those of you who do, we can strongly suggest the ?V Quad?. This is a directional aluminum antenna that sends a strong signal in only one direction. Like the directional TV antennas of past times, this antenna needs a rotor (this is a motor to turn the antenna from the radio shack or you can use the ?armstrong? method). It is the best non-homebrew antenna that I have ever used.?http://www.livecbradio.com/11-meter-loop-antenna.htm

Either way, when the conditions are right you?ll be talking to the world.

When radio operators say, ?conditions are right? they mean that the skip conditions are good, allowing the radio signals to be received over longer distances than normal. Skip is when the signal travels along a mostly horizontal plane before it eventually hits the ionosphere. Like a flat rock across a lake, the signal will skip along rather than pierce the ionosphere and go out into space. This skip can cause your signal to be received with nearly as much strength as it had when it left your antenna. The contact I had with Tokyo gave me an S10 signal strength, and that is as high as it gets. Sunspots are generally the cause for good skip conditions.

Coming up in Part 2 ? Family Radio Service, Business Radio Service and Scanners.

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Wall Street Week Ahead: Stock bulls eye Spain, Bernanke and jobs

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street will open October with a busy week, highlighted by low expectations for global manufacturing data and the U.S. jobs report, but that could set the stage for positive surprises that help lift the market.

The S&P 500 <.inx><.spx> finished its third positive quarter in the last four on Friday, despite suffering its largest weekly percentage decline since June. For the past three months, the S&P 500 gained 5.9 percent - its best third quarter since 2010. In contrast, the index was down 1.3 percent for the week.

The benchmark S&P 500 earlier this month reached its highest level since late 2007. Yet uncertainty remains over whether stocks can hold their gains against the headwinds of a struggling economy. That explains, in part, the retreat over the last several days.

The S&P 500 hit a high of 1,474.51 in mid-September before pulling back by a bit more than 2 percent. A run at 1,500 seems possible, but the flurry of economic and world events ahead probably will prevent a major advance in the coming week.

Bulls are betting this week's Spanish budget proposals will be a preamble to a bailout request by Mariano Rajoy's government. The move would be seen as a first step to get the finances of the euro zone's fourth-largest economy in order and would clear some of the market uncertainty regarding the euro zone crisis.

Monetary policy is also on the list of market catalysts next week. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to speak on Monday and the minutes of the latest FOMC meeting are set for release later in the week. The week's agenda includes meetings of the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan.

"I think we could see a rebound next week if we get some of the stars aligning and have Spain ask for a bailout, the ECB announcing favorable terms for that bailout, and if we see the Bank of Japan announce further monetary intervention," said Brian Jacobsen, chief portfolio strategist at Wells Fargo Funds Management in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

"If Spain and the ECB don't deliver, we could set ourselves up for a further lateral move in the markets. A negative would be if Rajoy flat-out denies that they need a bailout."

The ECB and BOJ are set to meet on Thursday, with the Bank of Japan's meeting extending until Friday.

FACTORIES, JOBS AND THE DEBATES

Chinese factory and business conditions data will kick off a numbers-heavy calendar for markets. Manufacturing PMI, due on Monday, is expected to show a second straight month of contraction.

A snapshot of U.S. manufacturing activity will be provided on Monday when the Institute for Supply Management releases its September index. The September ISM reading is expected to show another month of contraction, but at a slightly slower pace than in August. On Wednesday, the ISM will release its U.S. services-sector Purchasing Managers' Index, which could show a slight deceleration in the pace of growth in the non-manufacturing sector.

"We have Chinese economic data over the weekend, and we'll see how markets react on Monday," said Wasif Latif, vice president of equity investments at San Antonio, Texas-based USAA Investment Management.

"It seems like the market is bracing for bad numbers, meaning if they're not as bad, it could be market-positive," Latif said.

Non-farm payrolls for September, due on Friday, are seen up 115,000, while the U.S. unemployment rate is seen ticking up 0.1 percent from August to 8.2 percent in September.

The jobs data will come on the heels of the first of three U.S. presidential debates, scheduled for Wednesday night. Recent poll numbers point to a strengthening lead by President Barack Obama, but a weak payrolls reading could give some hope to Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

"If Romney doesn't turn the ship with a very strong (debate)performance, the president is going to win," said Jack de Gan, chief investment officer at Harbor Advisory Corp in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

He said the trend in the polls has taken away some of the market uncertainty regarding the presidential election. He added that an ECB- or Spain-related headline out of Europe on Thursday could overcome almost anything that would happen Wednesday night during the debate.

"I think the market is coming to terms with the fact the president is ahead, and unless something significant changes, (he) will prevail."

(Wall Street Week Ahead runs every Friday. Questions or comments on this column can be emailed to: rodrigo.campos(at)thomsonreuters.com)

(Editing by Jan Paschal)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wall-street-week-ahead-stock-bulls-eye-spain-224239042--finance.html

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MyVR Raises $1.4M From YC, SV Angel, Chris Dixon To Attack The $85B Vacation Rental Industry

Thanks to the HomeAways and Airbnbs of the world, more and more people are looking to rent their apartments and homes. There are currently some six million active vacation rentals in the U.S. and Europe, and this number is growing. However, the problem is that the vast majority of vacation rental owners aren't taking advantage of the available technology to market, manage or share their properties. MyVR, a San Francisco-based startup that graduated from Y Combinator in March, sees a big opportunity to help owners and operators alleviate the offline pain of managing their vacation rentals and help bring them new (or at least more regular) business.

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In 2-minute ad, Obama touts 'economic patriotism'

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is pitching a broad economic argument to voters ahead of next week's debate with Republican opponent Mitt Romney, buying TV time in seven battleground states to promote what he calls a "new economic patriotism."

In a two-minute ad, Obama looks into the camera as he promotes an economic plan he says will create 1 million manufacturing jobs, cut oil imports and hire thousands of new teachers.

The ad set to air in New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada and Colorado comes as Obama and Republican Mitt Romney shadow each other while looking for votes in a closely contested race. On Thursday, the two candidates are scheduled to campaign in the same state for the third straight day, this time in Virginia, a critical battleground in the Nov. 6 election.

Romney is to appear in suburban Washington for a veterans event, while Obama speaks to a farm bureau in Virginia Beach.

The simultaneous visits follow an all-day duel Wednesday in Ohio, where Romney declared he can do more than Obama to improve the lives of average people. Obama scoffed that a challenger who calls half the nation "victims" was unlikely to be of much help.

Meanwhile, new Republican-leaning independent groups have entered the presidential advertising fray as polling suggests Romney's campaign may be losing ground against Obama in key states such as Ohio and Florida.

The commercials, aimed at voters who supported Obama in 2008 but are now undecided, join those from the campaigns and outside groups swamping a narrow and possibly shrinking map of competitive states in the fast-moving presidential contest. Americans for Job Security launched an $8.7 million ad buy in six battleground states, while the Ending Spending Action Fund, a new conservative group bankrolled by billionaire Joe Ricketts, was set to debut a $10 million, four-state ad campaign on Thursday.

Polls show Obama widening his lead in several key states amid backlash from a leaked video in which Romney disparages the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income tax as government-dependent Obama supporters who see themselves as victims and won't take responsibility for their own lives.

Obama's campaign was reveling in the latest public polling but trying to crush any sense of overconfidence. "If we need to pass out horse blinders to all of our staff, we will do that," campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday.

Romney went after working-class voters at three stops in Ohio, while Obama rallied college crowds at Bowling Green and Kent State. Early voting in Ohio begins next week.

"If President Obama were to be re-elected, what you'd see is four more years like the last four years, and we can't afford another four more years like the last four years," Romney told a boisterous crowd in Toledo at the day's final stop.

Romney said the country had lost more than half a million manufacturing jobs in the past four years. "This is not the path we want for America," he said.

Romney's campaign has been reeling from his caught-on-video comments at a Florida fundraiser last May. New opinion polls, conducted after the video became public last week, show Obama opening up apparent leads over Romney in battleground states, including Ohio and Virginia.

Romney told ABC News that the race was in a statistical tie in some national polls.

"I'm very pleased with some polls, less so with other polls, but frankly at this early stage, polls go up, polls go down," he said.

Obama was not about to let the video comments fade away. He said Wednesday that "America is not about what can be done for us. It's about what can be done by us together, as one nation, as one people."

He added, "You can't make it happen if you write off half the nation before you take office."

Obama supporters are also working to keep Romney's "47 percent" comments alive. Democratic super PAC Priorities USA Action and a political group tied to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees released a radio ad in Ohio and Virginia airing the remarks. The ad, part of a $1.25 million radio buy, tells listeners Romney's "just not looking out for us."

Obama flubbed a line at Kent State while building to his argument for keeping jobs in the United States. He mistakenly said, "I want to see us export more jobs." He quickly corrected himself, saying he meant to say "export more products."

"Excuse me," Obama said. "I was a channeling my opponent there for a second."

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Associated Press writers Kasie Hunt and Steve Peoples in Ohio, Beth Fouhy in New York and Ben Feller and Jim Kuhnhenn in Washington contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/2-minute-ad-obama-touts-economic-patriotism-070804791--election.html

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Ocean Acidification Can Mess with a Fish's Mind

In more acidic waters clown fish wander too far from safety, sea snails fail to avoid prey

By Mark Fischetti

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Monterey, Calif.?Mental problems at sea? Fish and mollusks could begin to have them?thanks to rising CO2 levels. Some of the resulting behaviors are odd, some compromising, and they reveal just how fundamentally carbon emissions are affecting our increasingly fragile Earth.

As humans emit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, more of the gas is absorbed by the oceans, gradually making the water more acidic. Numerous studies in recent years have documented how lower pH (higher acidity) can make it harder for shellfish and tiny organisms to form shells or internal skeletons and to reproduce. The acidity often forces the organisms to expend extra energy to counteract ill effects on their metabolisms as well. But now scientists are finding that lower pH can also mess with ocean animals' minds.

Small clown fish (yes, Nemo), for example, normally stay extremely close to the coral in which they spend their entire lives. But as the water becomes increasingly acidic?as in various recent experiments?they tend to wander farther and farther from home. This uncharacteristic "boldness" is not necessarily a good trait because the farther they swim, the more likely they are to get eaten by predators. Greater acidity also "impairs their ability to discriminate between the smell of kin and not, and of predators and not," according Philip Munday, a professor and research fellow at the Coral Reef Studies center at James Cook University in Australia, who conducted the experiments and presented results at a symposium here this week called The Ocean in a High-CO2 World.

Other species exhibit equally unusual behaviors. A snail known as Chilean abalone, which adheres to rocks along wave-swept shores, quickly rights and reattaches itself when it is dislodged, an important skill for avoiding predators. But when CO2 levels were raised by about 50 percent, some snails were slow to right themselves and others did not do so at all. "Their decision-making is delayed," said Patricio Manriquez, a researcher at the Southern University of Chile. Some snails took wrong turns in trying to avoid crab predators, and some even turned into the crab's claws instead of away from them.

In experiments done at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute here, hermit crabs living in highly acidic conditions did not show the increased boldness of Munday's clown fish, but they took far longer to withdraw into their shells than normal when they came under attack from a potential predator (in this case, a toy octopus).

Researchers are not sure what is causing the peculiar behaviors but Munday suspects that elevated CO2 levels interfere with a neurotransmitter called GABA, which plays a key role in modulating activity in the brain and nervous system of virtually all animals, including humans. In one experiment, Munday exposed reef fish to high CO2, which interfered with their sense of smell. He then administered a compound that helps to facilitate activity by receptors that sit on nerve cells and direct the cells' responses to GABA, and the abnormality was reversed. Because GABA is so ubiquitous, Munday fears that ocean acidification could cause sensory and behavioral problems for many sea creatures if global CO2 levels continue to rise.

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Grilled mushroom and barley pilaf | Food & Drink | The Sun Herald

Grandmas's pilaf made lighter

One easy way to get more grains on the dinner table is to ask, "How did Grandma do it?" You don't need to invent everything yourself. In my family, Grandma served pilafs of kasha and barley flavored with onions and mushrooms that she had sauteed in chicken fat. I've updated her idea to make it lighter and brighter.

GRILLED MUSHROOMAND BARLEY PILAF

1 cup dried pearled barley

2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic

4 tablespoons olive oil

1 pound large mushrooms, a combination of portobello mushroom caps cut into 1/2-inch strips, oyster mushrooms separated into individual petals or small clusters of petals, and white mushrooms stemmed and cut into 1/2-inch slices

2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley

2 tablespoons finely chopped chives

Salt

Freshly ground black pepper

Cook the barley according to the package directions.

Meanwhile, combine the garlic and oil in a small nonstick saute pan or skillet and heat on medium-high. Once the garlic starts to sizzle, reduce the heat to low or medium-low, adjusting it as needed so the garlic cooks slowly but does not brown. Cook for 10 minutes, then remove from the heat.

Prepare the grill for direct heat, or heat a nonstick griddle or grill pan over medium-high heat. If using a gas grill, preheat to medium-high (450 degrees). If using a charcoal grill, light the charcoal or wood briquettes; when the briquettes are ready, distribute them evenly under the cooking area. For a medium-hot fire, you should be able to hold your hand about 6 inches above the coals for 4 to 5 seconds.

Brush the mushroom slices with some of the garlic oil. Transfer them to the grill grate, or use a grill basket to prevent smaller pieces from falling through the grate. Cover the grill and cook, checking every minute or so and turning them to cook evenly, until the mushrooms are cooked through and nicely browned. (If using a grill pan or griddle indoors, place the slices on the preheated pan and cook uncovered.) Watch the mushrooms carefully: They will cook quickly, especially the oyster mushrooms. Cut the cooked mushrooms into half-inch pieces.

Pour the cooked barley into a colander to drain off any excess water; transfer the barley to a large bowl. Add the mushrooms, the remaining garlic oil, the parsley and chives. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Stir to thoroughly incorporate. Taste, and adjust the seasoning as needed. Serve warm.

Makes a scant 6 cups (8 side-dish servings)

Nutrition per serving: 170 calories, 4 g protein, 23 g carbohydrates, 7 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 45 mg sodium, 5 g dietary fiber, 1 g sugar

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Pedal-powered espresso cart a hit for java junkies

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John Roach

An award-winning pedal-powered espresso cart is generating buzz as a fine way for eco-conscious java junkies to get their daily fix.

Amos Reid Field and Lasse Oiva, graduates of the Royal College of Art in London, describe the Velopresso as a ?celebratory fusion of human power, sensory pleasures and technology -- old tech with hi-tech, bicycles and coffee, their engineering and aesthetics.?

Pedals on the modified tricycle push the cart down the road and grind beans, meaning no whirring motors to startle caffeine-deprived heads.?

Water is currently heated up with a tiny gas canister, though the team is exploring the use of turning old coffee grounds into ethanol to power operations, according to Inhabit.?

When this eco-friendly machine will be brewing your double-tall, extra-hot latte is unknown, but given winning recognition for design in the 2012 Deutsche Bank for Creative Expression and second place in the 2012 Pininfarina Design Contest, it seems as if this espresso cart has momentum.

?? via Gizmag, Inhabit

John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. To learn more about him, check out his website. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.

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Barnes & Noble to launch video service for Nook

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Cities where home prices not rebounding

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Home prices have been slow to rebound in many recession-battered U.S. cities.

By Michael B. Sauter and Alexander E. M. Hess, 24/7 Wall St.

?Since home prices peaked in the beginning of 2006, the U.S. median home price is down by a third. And though the market has begun to show signs of bottoming out, prices are still down nationally by 1.9 percent from last year and are expected to fall an additional 1 percent from the beginning of this year through 2013.

24/7 Wall St.: The 10 states with the strongest housing markets

Of the 384 largest housing markets measured by real estate data company?Fiserv, 69 have seen home prices fall more than the national average. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the markets with the worst home price declines from their pre-recession?peak. Of those metro areas, we identified the markets where the median?price did not improve in any of the periods measured by Fiserv as of the first quarter of 2012. The?10 worst are housing markets that have fallen at least 55 percent and have yet to recover.

While the drop in home prices in these markets has slowed, the local economies have been devastated. July unemployment rates in the worst housing markets were all above the national rate of 8.1 percent. Eight of the 10 have rates of at least 10 percent, and five are above 12 percent. Merced, Calif., one of the?10 worst-off cities, had an unemployment rate of 17.8 percent in July, the fourth-highest in the country.

According Fiserv chief economist David Stiff, the unemployment rates and languishing home prices in these markets are indicative of the underlying problems in these states as a whole. ?The reason the job markets are so weak in these metro areas is that during the boom more than half of the growth was generated either directly or indirectly by residential real estate, and so now the reverse has happened,? Stiff explained.?

Further evidence of the economic troubles heaped on these cities, three of the housing markets ? San Bernardino, Vallejo and Stockton ? have filed for bankruptcy since the recession began. Stockton?s Chapter 9 filing represents the largest such case in U.S. history.

Continually depressed home prices also have led to unusually high foreclosure rates in these markets. According to foreclosure data from RealtyTrac, a site that tracks housing data, these cities had among the worst foreclosure rates in the country as of the second quarter of 2012. Of the 10 cities, eight are among the 20 with the highest foreclosure rates out of the 212 metro regions with populations of 200,000 or more.

Of the cities with the worst home price declines, some have begun to recover. In the Detroit metro area, which did not make the list, the median home price has declined by 55.8 percent from the first quarter of 2006. However, between the first quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012, the median price went up by 8.6 percent, one of the largest increases in the country.

Like Detroit, many of the the 10 worst-off markets appear to be about to recover because buyers see bargains. Home prices in seven of the 10 metro areas were lower than the national median of $159,000. Fiserv projects that of the 10 housing markets on our list, five will increase by more than the national rate of 5 percent between the first quarter of 2013 and the first quarter of 2014. This includes the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach region, which Fiserv projects will have more than 10 percent growth in median home value in that time. Stiff confirmed this: ?Investors, who were part of the problem back in the boom years, will be trying to jump into these markets at a low.?

24/7 Wall St.: Cities with the most homes in foreclosure

24/7 Wall St. reviewed data from Fiserv?to determine the 10 metropolitan areas that had no annual improvement in their housing markets from the first quarter of 2007, the first quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2011, all through the first quarter of 2012. We relied on RealtyTrac for data on foreclosure rates and foreclosure sales (both for second quarter of 2012). We also obtained seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for July from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

These are the?10 towns that cannot turn around.

1. Merced,?Calif.

• ?Decline in home prices (peak to Q1, 2012):?-69.7 percent
• ?Unemployment rate:?17.8 percent (fourth highest)
• ?Median home price:?$110,000 (32nd lowest)
• ?Foreclosure rate:?One in 90.3 housing units (eighth highest)

Nowhere in the U.S. have home prices taken the beating they have in Merced where the median price of a home has fallen at an annualized rate of 19.2 percent in the past five years. That's?the highest rate in the country. Sadly, prices are not expected to begin to rise in 2012, as Fiserv predicts home prices will fall another 4.4 percent between the first quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of?2013. Though home prices were possibly overvalued at their peak, when the median mortgage payment cost 51 percent of monthly income, they would appear to be undervalued now; the median mortgage payment costs just 10 percent of monthly income. The decline in home value has been especially costly for some homeowners, as one in every 90.3 homes was in foreclosure, and 55 percent of all home sales were foreclosure sales. The massive decline in home prices has also caused significant damage to the local economy ? the unemployment rate in Merced was 17.8 percent, higher than almost all other metropolitan areas.

2. Modesto, Calif.

• ?Decline in home prices (peak to Q1, 2012):?-64 percent
• ?Unemployment rate:?15.7 percent (ninth highest)
• ?Median home price:?$139,000 (83rd lowest)
• ?Foreclosure rate:?One in 68.7 housing units (third highest)

Over the past five years Modesto?s median home price has fallen from 7.5 times median family income to just 2.5 times median family income. Though homes in the area have become more affordable, such price declines have devastated present and current homeowners. The area had the third-highest foreclosure rate in the nation at slightly higher than one in every 69 homes, and 57 percent of all homes sold were foreclosed properties. In few places has the economy been weakened by a housing collapse more than in Modesto, where the unemployment rate stood at 15.7 percent, the ninth highest rate nationwide.

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3. Stockton,?Calif.

• ?Decline in home prices (peak to Q1, 2012):?-62.8 percent
• ?Unemployment rate:?15.0 percent (12th highest)
• ?Median home price:?$170,000 (76th highest)
• ?Foreclosure rate:?1 in 66.2 housing units (the highest)

When Stockton filed for bankruptcy in June, it became the largest-ever U.S. city to do so, according to The Wall Street Journal. The city?s economy has been plagued for years by constantly falling?home prices, which declined at an annualized rate of 16.6 percent between the first quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2012. Stockton also has one of the nation?s highest unemployment rates of 15 percent and a foreclosure rate that leads the nation with one in every 66.2 homes in foreclosure. Though Fiserv projects home prices will rise at an annualized rate of nearly 6 percent between the first quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2017, the housing market remains weak.?Fifty-four percent of all second-quarter home sales were foreclosure sales, and the number of property listings in July was down more than 40 percent year-over-year.

4. Las Vegas-Paradise,?Nev.

• ?Decline in home prices (peak to Q1, 2012):?-61.6 percent
• ?Unemployment rate:?11.7 percent (32nd highest)
• ?Median home price:?$137,000 (79th lowest)
• ?Foreclosure rate:?One in 95.9 housing units (11th highest)

No metropolitan area outside California has seen as large and unabated decline in home prices as Las Vegas. While home prices in other metro areas on this list are expected to improve in the near future, home prices in Las Vegas are projected by Fiserv to decline through at least the first quarter of 2014. Home prices in the area are already low enough that the average discount for purchasing a foreclosed home was just 15.2 percent, less than half the 31.7 percent average discount nationwide.

5. Vallejo-Fairfield,?Calif.

• ?Decline in home prices (peak to Q1, 2012):?-60.1 percent
• ?Unemployment rate:?10.2 percent (56th highest)
• ?Median home price:?$200,000 (47th highest)
• ?Foreclosure rate:?One in 71.4 housing units (fourth highest)

The Vallejo-Fairfield, Calif., metro area home price drop of more than 60 percent since the first quarter of 2006 was the sixth-worst decline during the housing market collapse of the 384 regions measured by Fiserv. Despite the decline, the area?s median home price was still in the top 15 percent, largely because the area contains California?s famous wine region, the Napa Valley. Median family income was among the top 40 in the country at $76,100. Despite this, one in every 71.4 homes was in foreclosure as of the second quarter of this year, the fourth-highest rate in the country.

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Cities such as New York and San Francisco are developing living spaces that are 200 to 300 square feet for residents willing to pare down to the bare essentials. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.

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Source: http://bottomline.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/26/13831186-recession-battered-cities-where-home-prices-not-rebounding?lite

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Google Play celebrates 25 billion app downloads with 25 cent app promotion

Google has announced that its Google Play app store has delivered its 25 billionth app download, up from the 20 billion figure quoted at Google I/O in June. To celebrate, it's launching another app sale, where this time you'll be able to pick up a selection of popular titles from developers like Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Rovio, runtastic and Full Fat for just 25 cents over the next five days. In addition, Google is promising special collections of content in the near future, including "25 movies you must own, 25 banned books and 25 albums that changed the world."

Google Play, which launched a little under four years ago as the Android Market, as grown considerably in the past year, adding movies, TV, music and magazines, and becoming a fully-fledged content platform. And in under twelve months, it's gone from a total of 10 billion downloads to today's 25 billion milestone. The total app count now sits at 675,000, up from 600,000 in June.

Right now we're not seeing any 25 cent apps on Google Play on our devices, but we'll keep you posted when they start to appear. In the meantime, let us know in the comments if you spot any bargains.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/98fS3_ZWAGU/story01.htm

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Caring Health Care = Caring Economics - GingerGarner.com

Caring Health Care = Caring Economics

Dr. Riane Eisler?s work in launching the Caring Economics campaign possesses the potential to positively affect not only our economy, but all the elements that are defined as ?caring or caregiving? in our American society today.? As a graduate of the Caring Economics Leadership program and as health care provider, I can clearly see how Caring Economics = Caring Health Care.

Let me explain how I see Caring Economics making an impact on American health care today, as a physical therapist and health care provider.

According to the Physical Therapist Clinical Performance Instrument, put in place by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) for students of physical therapy (SPT), Promotion of Health and Wellness, and Prevention is listed as part of the skills category for physical therapists.? Yet, the majority of physical therapist?s work occurs in ?curative? or pathophysiology-based settings.? Most physical therapists have little access to ?fitness, wellness, and prevention? populations. This means that most physical therapists work in treating injuries after they occur, rather than preventing them.

In addition to preventive medicine, integrative mind-body therapies are used even less in medical settings. A market study performed by Yoga Journal in 2008 reported that a mere 6.5% of health care professionals recommend yoga to their patients.1 It is not surprising then that yoga, taught at a graduate level in medicine, has not yet been introduced into medical and allied health care curriculum in the US.? However, the landscape of physical therapy education is changing for physical therapy students this fall semester at a large US based university located in the Deep South.

Yoga as Medicine is Coming to a University Near You, and that Means Caring Medicine

Yoga, and the growing body of evidence which supports its efficacy, is a powerful modality for healing that has until now, been relegated to the ?Complementary and Alternative Medicine? category.? This fall, the concept of ?yoga as medicine? will be introduced in the first doctoral level allied health care program through the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC).

The program will be taught using the Professional Yoga Therapy Method curriculum, an evidence-based graduate and post-graduate integrative medicine program. The PYT program was created to bring yoga to mainstream medicine, or the ?frontlines? of medicine.

Yoga as Medicine can Put the ?Care? Back into Health Care in America

2nd Annual Mountain Pose Medicine and Yoga Symposium

In late August of 2012 I spoke at the 2nd Annual Mountain Pose Medicine and Yoga Symposium in Colorado, which was the first CME (continuing medical education) program where doctors were given CME credit to learn and practice yoga postures.? During the symposium I gave a short series of lectures on how yoga can be safely prescribed in physical therapy in the area of orthopaedics and women?s health.? The audience included physicians, nurses, and therapists of all kinds who are dedicated to improving health care in America today.

Many of the health care providers there would describe themselves, myself included, as ?Integrative practitioners.?? Patient-centered health care is not a new term in the medical model, but if you asked most patients receiving health care they might say they don?t feel like they are the center of their medical care.? Most patients I have interviewed state they feel ?hurried, rushed,? and often downright ?ignored or demeaned? by the current health care system. Health care professionals are often forced to see more patients in less time and as a result, burnout and reported job stress can be high while patient satisfaction is low.

A September 2009 study in the journal of Physical Therapy reported that job stress is associated with poorer (patient) outcomes.2? This means that the higher the reported job stress, the worse the patient outcomes.? In surveys of physical therapists, both focus groups and small-sample surveys report high levels of job stress.? Burnout and work-related pain in the 2009 study were correlated with situations of low job control and high job demands. Other health care professions report similar findings on job stress.

The good news is that yoga is supported as an effective means of stress management, and is also a low cost method for managing stress.? Using yoga in medicine can create double the benefits.? It can facilitate ?caring health care? for patients while at the same time help providers take care of themselves and manage their job and life stress.

Ginger Garner MPT, ATC, lecturing on yoga in medicine at the 2nd Annual Mountain Pose Medicine and Yoga Symposium in Copper Mountain, Colorado

Yoga used as medicine has long been used in patient-centered and patient-driven health care through using a ?Biopsychosocial Model of Assessment.?? This means that a provider who uses a yogic model will evaluate and prescribe care for you as a ?whole? person and not just based on your medical diagnosis code. This notion of ?holistic, compassionate care for health and well-being? is at the center of yoga?s philosophy.

Compassionate, Cutting Edge Care to Meet Your Health Care Needs

After studying yoga for 10 years while also completing degrees (BA) in athletic training and (MPT) physical therapy, as well as graduate studies in public health and physical therapy, I realized the postures and breath practice of ancient yoga needed a ?scientific upgrade.?? It took 10 more years to photograph and document a system of biomechanically sound ?upgraded? yoga postures.? That system now totals 15 graduate and post-graduate level modules, over 1000 photographic illustrations, and a 4 volume, 1500 page manual entitled the Professional Yoga Therapy Method.

It is this program that will be a part of the first doctoral programming in using yoga as medicine in the United States.? This is a big step in the right direction of putting the ?care? back into health care.? Cross-culturally educating health care professionals about mind-body medicine can influence creation of health care policy, especially in chronic pain and non-communicable disease populations. It can also have an impact on risk management by reducing health care costs and overhead operational expense, all of which can ultimately facilitate economic stability in the US.

Teaching yoga as medicine at a graduate and post-graduate level to medical professionals in order to improve health care and conditions for health care workers is an action which is deliberately congruent with supporting Dr. Riane Eisler?s work in Caring Economics.

How Caring Health Care Supports Caring Economics

The November 2012 slated date for launching doctoral programming in using yoga as medicine in the PYT Method at UMC hopefully marks the beginning of a new era in medical education.? Doctoral students, as part of an elective course in specialty practices in PT, will be learning teachings in the PYT Method of using yoga in rehabilitative medicine.

The adjunct lecturer, Dr. Patricia Oyarce, currently finishing her studies in the PYT Certificate Program, is chiefly responsible for the launch of the University of Mississippi program.? Dr. Oyarce states,

?The teaching of PYT Method in the DPT curriculum is an appropriate skill for DPT students as a complement to his/her academic curriculum both for wellness and as a skill intervention. Using yoga as medicine is also an effective way to not only improve patient outcomes in rehabilitation, but positively impact the health and well-being of the therapist as well.?

For over 10 years I have lectured across the United States to health care providers about using yoga and other mind-body therapies as medicine.? Attendees at the 2nd Annual Mountain Pose Medicine and Yoga Symposium, which consisted of physicians, healthcare providers, and wellness enthusiasts, came to the symposium because they care a great deal about health care ? for that of their patients and themselves.? It was in speaking there that I was able to join my mission in affecting health care and policy with Dr. Eisler?s vision for Caring Economics in America.

Imagine if your physician, nurse, therapist, or health care provider practiced and taught yoga postures, meditation, and breathing techniques that could instantly make an impact on your health ? all without expense drugs, invasive or risky procedures, or costly equipment. What would that look like across America? How would that impact health care?your quality of life?
Respect for the patient and focusing on whole-person care can be accomplished through the incorporation of mind-body therapies such as evidence based yoga.? Health care professionals, specifically those in touch-based and high-contact care, such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, or nursing, can mutually benefit from the use of yoga in medicine as will their patients.

As health care providers, we need to advocate for our patients to receive beneficial and scientifically proven mind-body therapies.? As patients, we need to advocate for holistic, ?whole-person,? care.? We all deserve to have patient-centered care in an environment of mutual respect.

Using mind-body therapies like yoga, and teaching our future doctors, nurses, and therapists how to practice and use them, can have an enormous impact in improving health care in America today.? We can create a healthy dialogue in health care today and a partnership system, that Dr. Eisler is a proponent of in her book, Real Wealth of Nations, instead of the dominator-system which has historically dysregulated both economics and health care.

What Can You Do?

Health care providers and consumers of health care can work to raise the bar of medical education in America?? How can you do this?

???? Ask questions. Don?t assume that ?doctor knows best.?? Educate yourself about integrative medicine and all therapies which will help you enjoy longevity and a high quality of life.
???? Seek out practitioners who use these holistic methods that joint the hands of east-west medicine. You can start by visiting www.professionalyogatherapy.org/FindATherapist? to find a practitioner in your area who practices yoga as medicine.? You can also visit www.iayt.org to learn more about yoga as therapy in general.
???? Support your local university by encouraging inclusion of medical yoga education in medical school and allied health care programs.
???? Support the Caring Economics campaign at www.caringeconomy.org

Together we can improve health care for everyone.? Through embracing mind-body integrative therapies such as yoga, we can advocate to receive an integrative, multi-disciplinary/team approach.? In this way, we are empowering health care professionals (and ourselves) to be change agents for health care policy in the US.? Together, we can put the ?care? back in health care.

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http://www.gingergarner.com/2012/09/25/caring-health-care-caring-economics/

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