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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

National Sleep Foundation launches free 'Sleep Disorders' online resource guide for primary care

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National Sleep Foundation

Understand sleep disorders, provide correct diagnosis and treatment

WASHINGTON, DC, April 2, 2013-- The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce the launch of a comprehensive free online sleep disorders resource for all professionals in primary care. The "Sleep Disorders" guide is the updated web version of Dr. Peter Hauri's book, The Sleep Disorders, first published in 1977.

"We are honored to have worked with Dr. Hauri to extend the important work he began over 35 years ago," said David Cloud, CEO of NSF. The book has long served as a sleep care primer for generations of non-sleep medicine physicians and technologists. "The NSF will maintain and update this book as a free online resource for future generations as a tribute to Dr. Hauri."

Dr. Hauri served as a resource in bringing the book back for this new and permanent application and unfortunately died shortly before its completion. He was a psychologist and pioneer in researching the mechanics of a good night's sleep offering guidelines to combat insomnia. He retired as the director of the Mayo Sleep Disorders Center.

"Finding sufficient time for sleep care education within formal medical school and other health care training programs has remained an elusive goal for decades," explains Cloud. "To address this challenge, the National Sleep Foundation is proud to make this "Sleep Disorders" resource accessible through a free and easy to navigate web resource. We developed this resource specifically for the non-specialist who needed a free, fast and convenient tool."

This online resources serves as a practical introduction to sleep apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy, circadian rhythm disruption, parasomnia, sleep-related movement disorders, and more. Easily accessible on portable devices such as iPad, ebook readers, this tool can be instantly pulled up in a physician's office.

Visit http://www.sleepdisorders.sleepfoundation.org for free answers about sleep disorders available online 24/7. While designed for primary care physicians and professionals, the general public is welcomed to access the content. It will soon be available in print.

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About the National Sleep Foundation

The National Sleep Foundation is dedicated to improving sleep health and safety through education, public awareness and advocacy. It is well-known for its annual Sleep in America poll. The Foundation is a charitable, educational and scientific not-for-profit organization located in Washington, DC. Its membership includes researchers and clinicians focused on sleep medicine, professionals in the health, medical and science fields, individuals, patients, families affected by drowsy driving and more than 900 healthcare facilities throughout North America. Please visit http://www.sleepfoundation.org for more information.

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National Sleep Foundation launches free 'Sleep Disorders' online resource guide for primary care

Public release date: 2-Apr-2013
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Contact: Jennifer Williams
jwilliams@sleepfoundation.org
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National Sleep Foundation

Understand sleep disorders, provide correct diagnosis and treatment

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About the National Sleep Foundation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
6:00 A.M.
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

Contact:

Jennifer Cowher Williams
National Sleep Foundation
Phone: (202) 631-1205
Email: JWilliams@sleepfoundation.org

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/nsf-nsf040213.php

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Rapist captured in Maine after 34 years returns to Massachusetts

By Daniel Lovering

BOSTON (Reuters) - A man who fled Massachusetts after being convicted of rape 34 years ago and was arrested in Maine last week, has been returned to the state for sentencing, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Gary Irving, 52, was convicted in 1979 in Norfolk Superior Court in Massachusetts for crimes committed the previous year, but fled to Maine after a judge released him so he could make arrangements before the sentencing proceeding.

At the time, Irving was facing a possible life sentence on three counts of rape and three counts of kidnapping, said David Traub, a spokesman for the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office.

Traub said Irving appeared in court in Maine on Monday before being handed over to Massachusetts police, who transported him to Norfolk Superior Court. He said Irving was ordered held without bail and his next court appearance was scheduled for April 12.

Irving became one of the most-wanted fugitives in Massachusetts, and a decades-long manhunt ended on Wednesday night when police arrested him at his home in Gorham, Maine.

He had been living quietly under the assumed name Gregg Irving.

Prosecutors expect Irving to be sentenced on the original rape and kidnapping charges in the coming weeks, the spokesman said.

Police and FBI agents said they discovered numerous guns at Irving's residence and that he will face illegal firearms possession charges and charges of being a fugitive.

(Editing by Scott Malone, Cynthia Johnston and Grant McCool)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rapist-captured-maine-34-years-returns-massachusetts-172601458.html

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Kosovo Serbs anxious over Brussels talks

In this photo taken Friday, March 29, 2013, Serbian flags fly over a barricade in front of the main bridge, one of two bridges between the southern, ethnic Albanian-dominated and northern, Serb-dominated part of Mitrovica, Kosovo. Mitrovica, a former mining center in northern Kosovo, was sharply split into Serb and Albanian parts at the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. The town?s fate has come into renewed focus as officials from Serbia and Kosovo meet in Brussels on Tuesday in hopes of reaching an agreement that could pave the way for reuniting the divided city. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

In this photo taken Friday, March 29, 2013, a general view of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo. Mitrovica, a former mining center in northern Kosovo, was sharply split into Serb and Albanian parts at the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. The town?s fate has come into renewed focus as officials from Serbia and Kosovo meet in Brussels on Tuesday in hopes of reaching an agreement that could pave the way for reuniting the divided city. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

In this photo taken Friday, March 29, 2013, a billboard that reads "This is Serbia" is seen on the road near Leposavic in northern Kosovo. Mitrovica, a former mining center in northern Kosovo, was sharply split into Serb and Albanian parts at the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. The town?s fate has come into renewed focus as officials from Serbia and Kosovo meet in Brussels on Tuesday in hopes of reaching an agreement that could pave the way for reuniting the divided city. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

In this photo taken Saturday, March 30, 2013, a boy plays with a toy weapon in the northern Serb-dominated part of the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo. Mitrovica, a former mining center in northern Kosovo, was sharply split into Serb and Albanian parts at the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. The town?s fate has come into renewed focus as officials from Serbia and Kosovo meet in Brussels on Tuesday in hopes of reaching an agreement that could pave the way for reuniting the divided city. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

In this photo taken Friday, March 29, 2013, a billboard damaged with bullet holes shows honorary citizens of Zvecan, from left, tennis player Novak Djokovic, Dr. Zoran Krivokapic, politician Jugoslav Kostic and Russian President Vladimir Putin, on a road near Zvecan northern Kosovo. Mitrovica, a former mining center in northern Kosovo, was sharply split into Serb and Albanian parts at the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. The town?s fate has come into renewed focus as officials from Serbia and Kosovo meet in Brussels on Tuesday in hopes of reaching an agreement that could pave the way for reuniting the divided city. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) ? Branimir Cvetnic likes to remember his hometown of Mitrovica as the lively, multicultural industrial hub it once was, rather than the grim symbol of Kosovo's ethnic division it has become.

"Back then, Mitrovica was an open city, a city for everybody. And, now ... it's not even possible to compare," said Cvetnic, 57, whose family has lived here for almost a century. "We used to live together, but can we do it again? I don't know."

Mitrovica, a former mining center in northern Kosovo, was sharply split into Serb and Albanian parts at the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. Officials from Serbia and Kosovo meet in Brussels on Tuesday in hopes of reaching an agreement that could pave the way for reuniting the city ? an agreement that the town's Serbs fear could see their demands sacrificed by a Serbia desperate to join the European Union.

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, but until now the Serbian government has refused to accept the split. The Serbs of northern Kosovo ? up to 50,000 people ? have rejected any authority of the ethnic Albanian government in Pristina. They have created parallel institutions, including hospitals and schools, all financed and supported from the Serbian capital, Belgrade.

But Serbia's bid for membership in the European Union has been conditioned on normalizing relations with its former province and abolishing the parallel structures.

Impoverished by years of wars and international sanctions during the 1990s, Serbia is desperately seeking to move closer to EU membership. If a deal is reached on Tuesday, Serbia will likely be granted a date to open talks with the 27-nation bloc, which means access to pre-entry funds and an improved position in the eyes of international investors. If the deal is not reached, the idea of Serbian membership would likely be put on hold by the EU.

"It will be hard economically if we don't open talks with the EU," Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic told reporters on Monday.

In a sign that agreement may be near, Serbia's influential deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said over the weekend that the country "can no longer afford a frozen conflict."

Kosovo Serbs now fear the Serbian government will abandon them to save the EU deal. In Mitrovica, they warn that reuniting the town against their will could lead to a Serb exodus or to unrest.

The ethnic division is clear in every corner of Mitrovica ? whose population is unknown since the divided groups have never managed to carry out a reliable census. A huge pile of sand and soil blocks the bridge over the Ibar river that leads into the southern, Albanian part, while Serb flags flutter on buildings and lamp posts in the northern part.

A big banner in the town center reads: "The Serb Town." The street signs are written in the Cyrillic alphabet traditionally used by Serbs, and the official currency remains the Serbian dinar, instead of the euro used by ethnic Albanians.

Underscoring the religious split ? the Serbs are Orthodox Christians while ethnic Albanians are mostly Muslims ? a large Serbian Orthodox Church overlooks the town from the Serb side. In the distance, a mosque minaret is visible in the southern part of the city. Residents from the two sides hardly ever mix.

"Whatever they may sign (in Brussels) we will fight for this to remain part of Serbia," said housewife Gordana Djokovic, defiantly.

The dispute over the Serb-held north of Kosovo has been a constant source of tension and occasional violence over the years. Clashes between Serb hardliners and NATO-led peacekeepers have led to injuries on both sides. Last year, Serb nationalists set up barricades to prevent the Kosovo authorities from taking over border checkpoints. The roadblocks were dismantled following a deal on joint Kosovo and Serb manning of the crossings.

A year later, Serb and Kosovo border officials are stationed at the boundary, but there is no sign to mark that the visitors are entering the territory of Kosovo.

"We will not accept any integration into Kosovo," Milan Ivanovic, a hardline Serb leader from northern Kosovo told The Associated Press.

He said that if Serbian government officials agree in Brussels on Tuesday to lift their hold over northern Kosovo, four Serb municipalities in the region ? including Mitrovica ? will form a self-styled association and declare that they will remain within Serbia.

Some 10,000 people died in Kosovo before 78 days of NATO bombing in 1999 forced the Serbian army and police to pull out. Tens of thousands of Serbs then fled or were driven out. Some who stayed behind gathered in the northern parts bordering Serbia.

Serbia has insisted on a high level of self-rule for the Kosovo Serbs, including their own police and judicial authorities. But this has been rejected by Kosovo Albanians as a de-facto partition of Kosovo, which enjoys the backing of the United States and most European Union countries.

"What Pristina wants, and that is independence, will never be possible without Serbia," said Nikolic, the Serbian president. "There will never again be a military solution for the problems in the Balkans."

In the Kosovo capital, Pristina, officials say they will not budge. Prime Minister Hashim Thaci made a rare appearance in the area over the weekend, visiting the home of Ali Kadrija, an ethnic Albanian who rebuilt his house which lies along the route leading into the Serb-held part of Mitrovica.

Many ethnic Albanians that lived in the northern part have now sold their properties and moved altogether from the troubled town. Some, however, insist they will stay on despite pressure from Serbs to move south with the rest of Kosovo's Albanians.

"I will never leave this place," Kadrija said.

Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, who is the chief Serbian negotiator, recently demanded more concessions from the Albanians, saying they could regain the Serb-controlled northern Kosovo only by force.

Over the weekend, several thousand Albanian demonstrators gathered in the southern part of Mitrovica demanding that the town be reintegrated fully and without delay.

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Nebi Qena from Pristina and Zvezdan Djukanovic from Mitrovica contributed.

Associated Press

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Monday, April 1, 2013

Video: Can Rodgers, Packers get it done?

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Price of cooking gas soars in Egypt | Morocco World News

CAIRO, April 1, 2013 (AFP)

Cash-strapped Egypt on Monday hiked the price?of subsidised cooking gas by 60 percent, triggering market chaos, officials?and media reported, ahead of a visit by the IMF for talks on a $4.8-billion?loan.

Ahram Online quoted an official from the domestic trade and supply ministry?as saying the price of subsidised standard gas cylinders had been set at eight?dollars ($1.15), from five pounds ($0.73) previously.

?Raising butane prices is one of the government?s steps to rein in its?subsidy bill, in an attempt to meet the International Monetary Fund?s?pre-conditions to secure a long-awaited $4.8-billion loan,? the news website?said.

?Authorities believe the loan will help restore investor confidence in Egypt?where unrest that accompanied the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak?caused a significant drop in revenue from the once-lucrative tourism industry.

Foreign reserves have plunged from $36 billion to $13 billion in two years,?and the budget deficit is increasing.

The IMF delegation is expected in Cairo in the coming days to resume talks?on the loan.

The gas price hike sparked a work stoppage at warehouses across Egypt where?the cylinders are kept, the state-run MENA news agency reported quoting Hossam?Arafat, an official at the general federation of chambers of commerce.

The decision to raise the price was taken ?suddenly? by the authorities?without any prior notification given to managers of the warehouses and as a?result triggered ?confusion? on the market, Arafat said.

Ahram Online, the website of the pro-government Ahram newspaper, said 12?million Egyptian homes use gas cylinders for cooking and other domestic chores.

?Only 4.5 million households in Egypt ? the Arab world?s most populous?nation with more than 80 million people ? receive gas through pipes.

The measure is the latest by the authorities to help shore up the economy.

Authorities have decided to partly close Cairo?s international airport,?shutting down two runways for four hours overnight from June ?in order to save?energy?, civil aviation minister Wael al-Maadawi said on Monday.

Maadawi said airport revenues were not enough to cover the cost of keeping?the runways open.

Only one runway, at Terminal 3 ? which serves as a regional hub ? will?remain open 24 hours a day.

With the economic crisis biting Egypt has also witnessed increasingly?frequent power cuts aimed at saving energy.

The oil ministry last week admitted it does not have money to buy enough?fuel for all of its power stations.

President Mohamed Morsi?s administration has been plagued by unrest and?deadly clashes between protesters and police, blocking efforts to build?broad-based support for a needed programme of economic reform.

Source: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/04/84906/price-of-cooking-gas-soars-in-egypt/

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Prosecutor to Holmes: 'Justice is death'

James Holmes sits with defense attorney Tamara Brady during his arraignment on March 12. (AP)

[Updated at 10:15 a.m. MT]

CENTENNIAL, Colo.?Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler wasted little time Monday morning in announcing he will seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting 70 people, killing 12, during a midnight attack at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater last summer.

"Justice is death," Brauchler told the court, minutes after the hearing started.

Brauchler said his office surveyed victims and hundreds of people connected to the massacre to help make the decision.

"I hope I can be in the room when he dies," said Bryan Beard, whose friend, Alex Sullivan, was killed in the theater. "If you cause death upon somebody, I believe the only justice is death."

Reporters in the courtroom said Holmes appeared to have no reaction. His parents, Robert and Arlene Holmes, reportedly clasped hands and then embraced when the DA revealed his intention.

In another development, 18th Judicial District Chief Judge William Sylvester told the court he has reassigned the Holmes case to Judge Carlos A. Samour. Sylvester, the administrative judge for four counties, wrote that "logistical demands" and the "enormous consumption of resources" of a death penalty case necessitated the switch.

Samour took the bench after a short recess Monday morning. His first decision was to delay the start of the trial from Aug. 5 to Feb. 3, 2014. He projected the trial to last four months, despite Holmes' defense team arguing that they'll need longer.

"We will do what we need to do to defend his life," defense attorney Tamara Brady said in court. "This is not an ordinary case."

The decision to seek the death penalty follows last week?s legal theatrics in which Holmes? defense team said it would enter a guilty plea if the district attorney settled on a life-in-prison sentence.

?It is Mr. Holmes? position that this case could be resolved on April 1,? his public defenders announced last Wednesday in court filings posted online by the Denver Post. ?Mr. Holmes made an offer to the prosecution to resolve this case by pleading guilty and spending the rest of his life in prison, without any opportunity for parole.?

Not only did prosecutors decline the guilty offer?first made prior to Holmes? March 12 arraignment?but they also lambasted the defense for making it public.

In a 13-page rebuttal to the defense, the prosecution dubbed the public announcement ?grossly improper? and ?a calculated attempt to improperly inject? the plea in front of the Aurora community and the world. The prosecution also accused the Colorado public defenders office of violating the court?s order on pretrial publicity.

Because of the defense?s public plea, the "only conclusion that [people] would reach ... is that the defendant knows that he is guilty, the defense attorneys know that he is guilty, and that both of them know that he was not criminally insane,? the prosecution?s filing said.

A mental health defense would be central to Holmes? case, his attorneys have implied repeatedly. Nearly all courtroom argument so far has revolved around his mental state, with the prosecution alleging that Holmes carefully crafted a ?detailed and complex? scheme to commit mass murder?with his sanity fully intact.

At the arraignment, King told Sylvester that Holmes wasn?t ready to enter a plea because the defense didn?t know whether the prosecution wanted to pursue the death penalty. The judge then entered a not-guilty plea on Holmes? behalf, as allowed by law.

Also at Monday?s hearing, Jana Winter, a Fox News reporter, is expected to testify about conversations she had with sources who gave her information for a story she wrote a few days after the July 20, 2012, theater massacre. Her article included details about an unopened package that Holmes mailed to the University of Colorado at Denver. Winter, quoting unnamed law enforcement officials, reported that Holmes sent his former school psychiatrist a notebook containing drawings that foreshadowed the attack. Because of a court gag order, those law enforcement sources were prevented from talking to the media.

Holmes? attorneys have argued that by divulging details to Winter, the two anonymous sources damaged the defendant?s right to a fair trial. Winter, through her attorney, has made multiple attempts to avoid appearing in court. The judge has denied her motions.

Holmes, 25, was a former neuroscience student at CU-Denver before the massacre at the premiere of ?The Dark Knight Rises,? the latest Batman movie. Police arrested Holmes, who was wearing body armor and had weapons close by, behind the theater shortly after the shootings. Police say he also booby-trapped his nearby Aurora apartment with explosives to injure or kill anyone who entered. He faces multiple counts of murder and attempted murder.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/death-penalty-decision-expected-james-holmes-case-113742034.html

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The Weekly Good: KULA Helps You Turn Loyalty Points, Rewards And Miles Into Charitable Donations

It seems like every time we make purchases online or in a store, we're collecting some sort of points or rewards. For the most part, those points go unused, mostly because the companies who give them out don't do a great job of explaining what you can actually do with them. You know the deal, you purchase a video game and you get some GameStop points that you can use after you purchase three more games, or something along those lines. Inevitably, you forget to use them when the time comes or you refuse to sign up to get their card.

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