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MORE than one of five people living with cancer in Dorset are suffering with loneliness.
According to Macmillan, this involves an estimated total of 6,500 people with the number of those diagnosed set to double by 2030.
This loneliness is brought on as a result of their cancer, rendering many housebound and unable to feed themselves properly, according to the charity.
New research conducted by Ipsos MORI reveals – for the first time ever – the detrimental impact of being lonely on the lives of people living with cancer.
It compares the experiences of cancer patients who say they feel lonely since their diagnosis, or more lonely than they did before, with those who aren't – and the differences are stark.
People with cancer who are most likely to feel lonely include those with cancer that is advanced or has spread or relapsed, those living alone, and those who have made a change to their working life.
Ciarán Devane, chief executive at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: "Loneliness is blighting the lives of hundreds of thousands of cancer patients in the UK.
"It's hard enough for people being hit with the devastating news that they have cancer, without having to suffer the additional effects that being lonely brings. It's heartbreaking to think of people struggling to eat or leave the house because they have been abandoned and left to deal with cancer alone.
"This is a growing problem which is only set to get worse as the number of people diagnosed with cancer doubles from two to four million in the next 20 years.
"Macmillan provides a range of services – including a Support Line and an online community – that are a lifeline to people affected by cancer.
The executive added: "But we simply can't help everyone who needs us now, let alone those who will need us in the future so we need more public donations and support.
"We also urgently need the NHS, policy makers and local authorities to wake up to this looming loneliness epidemic and work with us to provide these vital services to ensure no one faces cancer alone."
For cancer support every step of the way call Macmillan on 0808 8080000.
To make a donation or find out about volunteering opportunities, visit macmillan.org.uk
MACMILLAN says lonely cancer patients are:
- Three times more likely to drink more alcohol than they usually do.
- Almost five times more likely to have not left the house for days.
- Almost three times more likely to have problems sleeping.
- For many, their diet also suffersas they are five times more likely to skip meals.
- They are almost eight times more likely to eat a poor diet. While the reasons for not eating properly include lack of appetite, having no food in the house and being too weak to cook, 13 per cent of lonely cancer patients who have skipped meals say it is because they cannot afford to buy enough food.


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I am considering getting this for my next phone. It is really big though, but I think I would really like it.
Anyone have one of these? If you do is it too big to use as a phone ?
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I am considering getting this for my next phone. It is really big though, but I think I would really like it.
Anyone have one of these? If you do is it too big to use as a phone ?
I have a Galaxy S3. THE GNote 2 is about 27% larger (in terms of volume).
The GS3 is absolutely perfect size, though something 27% I'm not sure how I'd feel. Admittedly, my hands are somewhat small. I suggest you go to your cell phone service provider's store and try it out.
Other than size though, your phone is a slightly more powerful version of what I have, and I aboslutely LOVE everything about the gs3 software wise. Jelly Bean is a very very operation system.
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I did go to Best Buy and test the size of it. I loved the large size, but that was only holding it for a couple of minutes. I just wonder if lugging it around all day every day will be a hassle. Also the person I was with said it looked goofy when I held it up to my ear.
I think everyone looks goofy when holding these bricks we call smartphones to their face. If it didn't feel awkward in hand to you, I'd say go for it. It should fit in the pockets of most jeans/bball shorts/sweatpants just fine. Other than cosmetics, the phone looks to be an amazing device. 2 gigs of ram in a phone is absolutely ridiculous.
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Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
I am due for a new Smart phone as well. Currently have a Samsung Galaxy Captivate with ATT. I've been looking at the Note 2 as well. Just love the huge screen, would work well for me as I have to use my phone for things like websurfing at work due to nasty key logging software on the main office computers. But I've been hesitant to take the plunge.
1. Its $300 on contract for the cheapest version. OUCH.
2. I own a Mac and i've read that the new Android phones are even less Mac Friendly.
3. The Captivate is barely usable anymore in terms of gaming and productivity apps, and has been that way for about a year. Which makes me weary of getting another Android and it suffering the same obsolescence even quicker. I've already heard rumors about the GS4 coming out in April or May.
Which makes me think I should get the iphone 5 even though it seems very behind on the technology and features. In contrast to the Note 2 which i've heard nothing but rave reviews about.
Also the Xperia Z is coming out around March, and it looks like a real beast of a phone.
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I'm coming up on 2 years with my Droid (Motorola Atrix) and it's still going strong. I wouldn't write them off just because of that lemon.

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This traditional fruit pizza comes from our Test Kitchen staff. Colorful produce, a thick cookie crust and a citrus glaze keep the divine treat memorable. For a version that cuts back on fat and calories, however, check out the recipe for Makeover Fruit Pizza.
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- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 cup cold butter, cubed
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups halved fresh strawberries
- 1 can (11 ounces) mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- In a large bowl, combine flour and confectioners' sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly. Press onto an ungreased 12-in. pizza pan. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until very lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.
- In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread over crust. Arrange the strawberries, oranges and blueberries on top.
- For glaze, in a small saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch. Stir in pineapple juice and lemon juice until smooth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Cool slightly. Drizzle over fruit. Refrigerate until chilled. Yield: 16 servings.
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A BIKER is in a critical condition with serious chest and leg injuries after a horror smash in Bury.
The 22-year-old man was taken to hospital after the crash involving his black Honda motorcycle and a silver Seat Arosa in Wash Lane, near the junction with Fir Street.
Police were called to the scene at 7.35pm last night and are now appealing for witnesses.
Eyewitnesses said the motorcyclist was travelling along Wash Lane when the car pulled out at Fir Street.
One Fir Street resident, who did not wish to be named, said: "After we heard the noise there were quite a few people from the street who came out to see what was going on and to help with first aid.
"The young guy was lying on the floor not moving so we could tell he wasn't in a good way."
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REACHING out to the frustrated children across East Lancashire is a full time job for Katie Khan.
She is a speech and language therapist based in Lower Darwen and says that her business has doubled in size, as language evolves and pressures on local services stretch.
In 2003 the mother-of-two left her NHS job to deliver a better service to children in Lancashire schools, who were struggling.
"I noticed that my caseload grew larger and larger when I was in the NHS, my time was being spread more and more thinly. In particular, I was frustrated that I was unable to offer children and schools more opportunities for the therapy they required," said Katie.
She then formed The Speech Bubble, a company that now employs five speech and language therapists, including her husband Imran.
"I decided that there was a better way to reach more children, and to do just that. I wanted to provide parents and schools with the opportunity for immediate therapy at a time and place convenient for all. No more large caseloads, no waiting lists, no problems with accessibility or reliability, and enough time for every child."
According to Katie, 39, who has been in the industry for 17 years, poor attention spans, digital devices and a lack of family support contribute to children's poor language skills.
"There are more children coming into school with poor attention spans, there's a multitude of things that contribute to their speech. I notice traditions aren't passed down from grandparents and there are parents out there living without family support.
"There's a rise in single young parents who don't have the time and are still learning themselves. Children need stories reading to them and parents don't do that as much," said Katie who also works with adults who struggle with speech.
Katie and her team work exclusively in schools.
"We're not trying to replicate the NHS model of speech and language therapy. we specialise in an area that we feel is vitally important, but often overlooked. We are in an area where English is at a lower level, but that's isn't the main cause of language problems. For a lot of children there's no known cause of a stammer, it can be a mixture of chemicals in the brain and there's children with autism who also struggle," said Katie.
Stammering has been a common problem from celebrities such as singing sensation Gareth Gates to royalty, with King George VI, as highlighted in the 2010, smash-hit movie, The King's Speech.
"For adults who have a stammer, we concentrate on breathing techniques and relaxation and with children we try to change the environmental factors. I aim to make every learning opportunity fun, meaningful and positive for all children. Having operated in schools for several years, I'm confident in our ability to make a difference."


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The Pasadena Police Department will be conducting a "Zero Tolerance" DUI Saturation Patrol on Saturday March 16, 2013. The program will begin at 8:00 p.m. and will end at 3:00 a.m. This enforcement operation will be in an effort to reduce and remove the number of impaired drivers traveling on city streets. DUI programs are a useful and effective tool for achieving the Pasadena Police Department's goal of detecting and removing impaired drivers from our streets while improving traffic safety, saving lives and preventing injuries during this holiday season.
The Pasadena Police Department encourages people who are leaving home and planning on consuming alcoholic beverages to select a designated driver prior to drinking or to simply telephone one of the many taxi cab services for a safe ride home.
In addition, it is a violation of law for any driver under the age of 21 years to operate a motor vehicle with any measurable amount of alcohol in their system. The public is encouraged to help keep our roadways safe and to Report Drunk Drivers by Calling 911 whenever you see a suspected drunk driver.
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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According to TV show Extra, Brad Pitt did not call Jennifer Aniston to tell her about girlfriend Angelina Jolie's pregnancy announcement. Aniston's publicist, Stephen Huvane, cleared up reports that Pitt and former wife Aniston spoke before the announcement on Wednesday.
"All the reports about phone calls between Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie are all made-up lies," Huvane said.
Oh great. So now we get to see another 4 million articles about what a martyr Jennifer is and how life is so hard and how she struggled and survived. If self-pity was fat, Jennifer would be Butterbean. Here's a news flash: shit happens. I'm not sure on what planet it's harder for people with millions of dollars and millions of fans to deal with life than the rest of us poor shmucks. Oh yes, it's planet Whiny Bitch. Hopefully it'll soon be invaded by planet Chlamydia.


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The last few weeks of her life were very hard, her liver shut down completely and she went into complete renal failure. She was septic and so very sick.
I am grateful that she is now at peace and that her pain is over. Praying I will one day be able to find peace as well.
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W&L Law Dean Rodney A. Smolla said, "I've had the good fortune to come to know Brandon well: he was a student in my constitutional law class, he worked for me as a research assistant in the summer following his first year, and we have shared many conversations on complex issues that face society, the legal profession, and the Law School. His peers have made a superb choice in electing him as the Law Review's editor in chief."
Hasbrouck confessed that he didn't set out to make history two years ago when he came to W&L Law.
"My family instilled in me certain values, that if I was going to do something I was going to do it right and try to be the best," he said. "But I never imagined I would be the first African American editor in chief of the Law Review. I was more worried about getting through Pennoyer v. Neff during Civil Procedure."
Founded in 1938, the Washington and Lee Law Review is a quarterly publication that receives over 2000 annual scholarly submissions from judges, professors, and practitioners. Hasbrouck was selected as a Law Review staff writer after his first year at W&L.
Each year, rising second-year law students compete for these coveted spots during the "write-on" competition, during which they write a paper outlining their solution to a complex problem supplied by the Law Review's editorial board. The submissions, which are anonymous, are graded by the editorial board.
W&L's selection process is unique among the nation's top law schools in that no positions are awarded to students based solely on grades. The authors of the top six submissions receive automatic invitations to join the Law Review. The remaining 20 staff writers are chosen by combining their writing scores with their first-year grades.
Following a year as staff writers, students then apply for editorial and other leadership positions on Law Review. In his application to be editor in chief, Hasbrouck stressed that, if chosen, he would lead with humility and that he understood that the Law Review runs on teamwork.
"I have a limited role as first among equals," said Hasbrouck of his new position. "The Law Review experience is about working on a team, paying attention to details, being reliable, and developing a work ethic that your peers can rely on. We have for next year an extraordinary editorial board with brilliant minds and unique talents."
Hasbrouck's plans for the Law Review include continuing the outgoing board's efforts to transition the publication to an online format. In addition, Hasbrouck intends to create a Law Review council, composed of former editors, which would provide financial support and guidance on the creation of an external symposium to bring together practitioners, judges, and academics to discuss practical legal problems.
Hasbrouck will spend this summer in a highly competitive summer clerkship with the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He plans on working with the white collar criminal defense litigation group and the international dispute resolution group, and will also do some corporate transactional work.
The first member of his family to graduate from college, Hasbrouck graduated from Pine Bush High School in Pine Bush, N.Y. and received his undergraduate degree in history from Dominican College in Orangeburg, N.Y., where he served as a resident advisor and founded the debate team. He is the son of Brad Hasbrouck of Montgomery, N.Y. and Dawn Hasbrouck of Middletown, N.Y.


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Kenya is an extraordinarily diverse country: most of the north and far east is desert or semi-desert, while highlands dominate the centre. Slicing through the west – from Lake Turkana south to the Tanzanian border – is the Great Rift Valley. Beyond the Rift, in the south-west, lies the Maasai Mara National Reserve.


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Speaker after speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference dwelled on the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, but for a brief moment on Friday afternoon, an echo of Republicans' past took the stage to account for his shortcomings.
2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, in his first public speech since losing November's election to President Obama, told the audience that, "my mistakes" aside, "I utterly reject pessimism."
Setbacks like the 2012 rout, Romney said, "prepare us for larger victories," but moving forward, it is "up to us to make sure we learn from our mistakes, my mistakes" to "make sure that we take back the nation, take back the White House."
"In the end," he said, "We'll win for the same reason we won before: because our cause is just and it is right."
"Of course I left the race disappointed that I didn't win," he added, "but I also left honored and humbled to represent the values we believe in."
"We haven't lost the country we love and we have not lost our way," Romney insisted. "We're a patriotic people - the heart of America is good."
Romney cited the example set by the nation's 30 Republican governors as evidence that "The conservative vision can attract the majority of Americans and form a governing coalition."
These governors are "winning elections," he said, "but more importantly, they're solving problems, big problems...they're able to reach across the aisle, offer innovative solutions, and then they're willing to take the heat."
Romney identified the GOP governors of blue and purple states as "the people we have to listen to," naming Govs. Chris Christie, R-N.J., and Bob McDonnell, R-Va., among others.
In a perceived snub, neither Christie nor McDonnell was invited to address CPAC this year. Many speculated that their defiance of conservative orthodoxy on issues like Medicaid and tax policy cost them a speaking slot at the conservative confab.
Romney was introduced by Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C., who initially declined an invitation to address the conference but reconsidered after being asked by Romney to introduce him.
Beyond the governors, Romney congratulated his former running mate, saying, "I applaud the clear and convincing voice of my friend Paul Ryan."
Ryan addressed CPAC on Friday morning, accusing Democrats of "blowing smoke" with their budget and again touting his own fiscal blueprint, which has attracted a cavalcade of detractors and admirers.
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- Democrats "blowing smoke" on the budget, says Paul Ryan
- Looking ahead, some conservatives spurn "stale," "old guard" GOP
Romney closed his remarks with a warning about the emerging international order. "Over the span of the coming century," he warned, "America's preeminent position is not guaranteed," as a host of nations rise to challenge our global leadership.
The problem, Romney said is that the "other leading contenders for world leadership" don't support "freedom the way we understand it."
Our task, Romney said, is to ensure that America remains atop the community of nations by addressing our "mounting debt" and our "failing institutions"
And in that endeavor, Romney said, conservatives will have an ally in him: "I'm sorry I won't be your president, but I will be your coworker and I'll work shoulder-to-shoulder alongside you."


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What's better than Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling sharing a moment in the kitchen? Easy: Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling sharing a moment in the kitchen over jambalaya.
In Warner Brothers' spring 2012 blockbuster "The Lucky One," U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive—a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't know. When he finds out her name and where she lives, he shows up at her door. Rather than spoil the rest, we'll give you a heads up: a luscious Louisiana meal ensues, and it involves one of our favorite Cajun dishes: Jambalaya.
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We're giving away one copy of The Lucky One on Blu-ray™ to one lucky winner. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment telling us which of our Top 27 Louisiana-inspired Recipes you'd make to reign in your crush.
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text: Captain Henry Gary Satterwhite, USCG Ret. began military service, 20 Sep 1955, joining the army reserve, 306th combat engineers. July 1956: He moved to Knoxville, TN. where he was attached to an army depot maintenence division. Feb 1957: He transferred to Coast Guard Officer Candidate Program (OCS) at New London, CT. He was commissioned an ensign in June 1957. His next assignment was to Coast Guard Base, Sand Island, Honolulu, HI. After 18 months service as base maintenence officer he was promoted to LTJG and was assigned to an ocean going buoy tender as operations officer. May 1960: He was transfered to San Francisco and was released from active duty in June of 1960. He affiliated with coast guard reserve units in Tennessee and Kentucky until 1 July 1980 when he transferred to the retired reserve. He earned four medals: Coast Guard Unit Commendation; Coast Guard Meterorious Unit Commendation; National Defense Service Medal; Armed Forces Reserve Medal.


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This article was published 29/12/2012 (1696 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
AS homecomings go, this one would have to rank as one of the triumphant variety.
Fresh off a fall TV season as co-star of one of the year's most popular new shows, Tracy Spiridakos is back in Winnipeg for the holidays, secure in the knowledge that Revolution has been picked up for a full season, happy to have a new puppy in tow and proudly sporting a diamond engagement ring.
Yes, it's been a pretty good year.
"We've been working so much that I really haven't had time to stop and think about it all," Spiridakos says during an afternoon interview at her parents' Portage Avenue eatery, Olympia Diner. "I guess I would say things are going well.
"The last four months have been full-on — lots of work, very little sleep. But I hear sleep's overrated, anyway. It's been nice to finally take a step back, go for a drive and think about how much fun it's all been."
After wrapping up the current round of Revolution shooting in Wilmington, N.C., Spiridakos and fiancé Jon Cor — an actor whose credits include Degrassi: The Next Generation and Being Human — embarked on a two-week road trip that took them from North Carolina to New York City, then on to Toronto, to Cor's hometown of Timmins, Ont., onward to Dryden and then Winnipeg.
"We finished work on Dec. 2, so we left on the 3rd," Spiridakos explains. "And we just got here (Dec. 17). But it was nice; we took our time, and made a few stops along the way."
The road trip started in Wilmington, but Spiridakos's 2012 odyssey really began last spring when her agent submitted an audition tape to Revolution's producers (one of the show's executive producers is J.J. Abrams), complete with the truth-stretching claim that the actress had a black belt in some unspecified martial-arts discipline. Despite the slight fabrication, the producers liked what they saw.
"We took one look at (the tape) and said, 'That's her,'" executive producer Eric Kripke said last summer.
They apparently chose well, as Spiridakos's fresh face and physical performance have proven to have widespread appeal. GQ named the actress one of 2012's sexiest women, claiming, "Geeks, your new crush has arrived"; Entertainment Weekly said, "Spiridakos could, for better or for worse, be the next Hayden Panettiere."
After landing the part, Spiridakos was launched headlong into a gruelling production schedule that includes very long days (14 to 16 hours isn't unusual) and very little down time (the cast and crew sometimes work six days a week).
Revolution, a near-future fantasy about a world without electrical power of any kind, is an extremely physical undertaking for its cast members. As Charlie, a girl in search of the younger brother who was abducted by the marauding militiamen who killed her father, Spiridakos has fought, fled and fired crossbow bolts through a frantic storyline.
"I grew up around boys my whole life (she has two brothers), so that kind of stuff was just an average Wednesday for us," she says. "I love looking on the call sheet and seeing that it's stunt day, and I get to punch somebody or somebody gets to punch me. I'm always going up to Jeff Wolfe, our stunt coordinator, and saying, 'Can I do this one? Can I?' But I have a stunt double who does some of the crazier stuff for me."
There have, she admits, been a few bumps and bruises along the way.
"I'm a walking accident," she says with a laugh. "Staying on my feet when I'm just walking down the street is a bit of a challenge for me, so you can imagine what it's like (on the set). Pretty much every episode, I fall down, all on my own, for no reason. It's kind of an ongoing joke on set — they say they're going to get me a helmet so I don't hurt myself.
"Luckily, as far as the action stuff goes, they take really good care of me to make sure I don't get hurt."
Spiridakos will head back to North Carolina early in the New Year to resume shooting on Revolution, which will return to NBC and Citytv on March 25. But until then, she plans to enjoy a very laid-back holiday season with family, friends, fiancé and her fourmonth- old Rottweiler pup, Nala.
"It's crazy; I think back over the last year, and in 2011, I was working in a bank (in Vancouver), pretty broke while I was auditioning for things," she recalls. "I was just doing the 'artist' thing, trying to make it, and to think of that and then what has happened, it's pretty amazing.
"But I worked a lot, and really hard, to get here, and I will continue to work hard at my craft and get stronger in the places I feel I need to improve. I feel so lucky that people have taken notice of me and have appreciated what I'm doing, and I never want to stop growing. Everything changes in a moment, and you never really know where life is going to take you next."
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A Senate Democrat filed an ethics complaint Monday, March 19, against former Senate deputy majority leader Geoff Michel, R-Edina, charging that Michel lied to the press and public about his knowledge of the Koch scandal.
"I do think he owes us an apology, said Sen. Sandra Pappas, DFL-St. Paul, who filed the complaint.
Even though Michel is not seeking reelection, Pappas said, he's still a sitting senator.
If Michel apologizes on the Senate floor, speaks freely about issues surrounding the Koch matter — a scandal that brought down Minnesota's first woman Senate majority leader Amy Koch of Buffalo — Pappas would "seriously" consider dropping the complaint, she said.
In the complaint, Pappas charges that Michel brought the Senate into dishonor and disrepute by failing to take swift and appropriate action as deputy majority leader to address the alleged inappropriate relationship between Koch and a subordinate Senate staffer until forced by a pending media story.
Further, Pappas charged that although Michel, as subsequent public comments by Senate staff and Michel himself confirms, she said, knew about the alleged inappropriate relationship in September, at a December press conference Michel indicated that he did not know about the alleged relationship until alerted by Senate staff.
Michel further indicated to the press the staff complaints first surfaced in early December.
"This clearly was not honest," said Senate Minority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook.
It made no difference Michel was speaking to the media, not to Senate colleagues, Pappas said.
"Lying to the public is lying to us," she said.
In a statement, Michel suggests the ethics complaint is less inspired by a reverence for truth than politics.
"This is about politics and payback and has nothing to do with ethics. The DFL wants a few more headlines," Michel said in the statement.
"The conflict of interest has been resolved. The workplace environment has improved. And, we did this while protecting whistle blowers and staff," he said.
Michel indicated he wanted an immediate ethics committee hearing to resolve the matter.
Senate Majority Leader David Senjem, R-Rochester, also said the reasoning behind the ethics complaint was political — "pure politics," he said.
"I think Senator Michel was acting in a steadfast and judicious manner," said Senjem.
By Senate rule, the Senate ethics committee must take action within 30 days of filing of an ethics complaint.
According Senate Republican communications director Steve Sviggum, Michel wanted an ethics hearing Monday.
One was tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, but a committee member was unavailable, he said.
Senate Republicans are anxious to put the Democratic political game playing behind them, Sviggum said.
The complaint comes within days of attorneys for former Senate communications director Michael Brodkorb — Brodkorb has publicly indicated that he was the Senate staffer in the intimate relationship with Koch — suggesting that Brodkorb could file a lawsuit regarding his firing from the Senate unless a settlement was reached.
Brodkorb, through his attorneys, argues that his dismissal was discriminatory.
A Senate attorney depicts Brodkorb's claim as meritless.
Koch, like Michel, has decided not to seek reelection.
The reason an ethics complaint hasn't been filed against Koch, Bakk indicated, is because she has suffered as a result of her actions and Democrats did not want to pile on.
Bakk indicated he privately encouraged Republicans to answer unresolved legal and ethical questions surrounding Koch's resignation.
But he was discouraged by the constant refrain from Republicans that they had moved on, Bakk said.


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Sleep disturbance is a frequently overlooked complication of intensive care unit (ICU) stay.
To evaluate sleep quality among patients admitted to ICU and investigate environmental and non-environmental factors that affect sleep quality in ICU.
Over a 22-month period, we consecutively recruited patients who spent ≥ 2 nights post-endotracheal extubation in ICU and who were orientated to time, place, and person on the day of discharge. Self-reported sleep quality, according to a modified Freedman questionnaire, which provided data on self-reported ICU sleep quality in ICU and environmental factors affecting sleep quality in the ICU, were collected. We also investigated non-environmental factors, such as severity of illness, ICU interventions, and medications that can affect sleep quality.
Fifty males and 50 females were recruited with a mean (± SD) age of 65.1 ± 15.2 years. APACHE II score at admission to ICU was 18.1 ± 7.5 with duration of stay 6.7 ± 6.5days. Self-reported sleep quality score at home (1 = worst; 10 = best) was 7.0 ± 2.2; this decreased to 4.0 ± 1.7 during their stay in ICU (p < 0.001). In multivariate analysis with APACHE III as severity of illness (R2 = 0.25), factors [exp(b)(95% CI), p value] which significantly affected sleep in ICU were sex [0.37(0.19-0.72), p < 0.01], age and sex interaction [1.02(1.01-1.03), p < 0.01], bedside phone [0.92(0.87-0.97), p < 0.01], prior quality of sleep at home [1.30(1.05-1.62), p = 0.02], and use of steroids [0.82(0.69-0.98), p = 0.03] during the stay in ICU.
Reduced sleep quality is a common problem in ICU with a multifactorial etiology.
Bihari S; McEvoy RD; Kim S; Woodman RJ; Bersten AD. Factors affecting sleep quality of patients in intensive care unit. J Clin Sleep Med 2012;8(3):301-307.
A frequently overlooked complication of intensive care unit (ICU) admission is a lack of adequate sleep. In critically ill patients the prevalence of sleep disturbance has been shown to be more than 50%.1 Disrupted sleep is associated with immune system dysfunction, impaired resistance to infection, alterations in nitrogen balance, impaired wound healing, and cardiorespiratory and neurological consequences.2 Several polysomnographic studies have demonstrated decreased total sleep time, sleep fragmentation, and altered sleep architecture in patients in ICU.3–10 When examining the etiologies of sleep disturbance, these studies have focused on environmental stimuli such as increased noise.11 However, increased ICU noise level as the sole cause of sleep deprivation has been questioned.12–14 Frequent interruptions for diagnostic tests and routine patient care may also cause frequent arousals from sleep.1,2
In addition to environmental causes of poor sleep, sleep disturbance may also be related to non-environmental factors, including the condition at presentation (e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary edema, myocardial infarction, postoperative state), disease or illness severity, patient discomfort,2,4,5,10,15,16 patient medications (home medications) prior to admission, particularly those prescribed for insomnia and anxiety or depression, ICU interventions such as ventilators (invasive and noninvasive), dialysis, intra-aortic balloon counter pulsation (IABP) and the drugs administered in ICU. We therefore aimed to examine the effects of these non-environmental factors on sleep quality in ICU in addition to the already established environmental factors.
Current Knowledge/Study Rationale: Environmental factors are known to affect quality of sleep in ICU.
Study Impact: In addition to previously established environmental factors, several non-environmental factors were identified which were associated with self-reported poor quality sleep in ICU.
A cross-sectional study using a recall questionnaire was conducted on patients admitted to the Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) Intensive Care Unit (ICU). FMC is a University teaching hospital and its ICU a 32-bed tertiary level adult medical and surgical unit. There are over 2200 medical, surgical, trauma, and post-cardiovascular surgical admissions per year. There is a dedicated room for each bed and a 1:1 nursing ratio for all ventilated patients. Personal mobile phones are blocked in ICU, but most of the doctors carry a digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) phone and/or a pager. Land line phones are located in every patient bed and in the central nursing station, which overlooks the patient bays. Each ICU bay has a central monitor, which monitors patients heart rate, blood pressure (both invasive and noninvasive), respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and various other vital parameters depending upon the patient's illness and its severity. There are various machines present in the patient's bay, such as a mechanical ventilator, dialysis machines, and nebulizers, according to the patient's requirement. Each patient is rolled every couple of hours to prevent development of pressure areas. Patients are also given a wash early in the morning before the nurse's handover at 07:00.
Inclusion criteria were: patients admitted to ICU for ≥ 2 nights (≥ 2 nights post extubation from endotracheal intubation) who were orientated to time, place, and person at discharge when the survey was performed. All ICU patients discharged between March 2009 and December 2010 were eligible to participate in the study; patients with moderate to severe dementia and patients who declined to provide consent were excluded. Patients receiving noninvasive mechanical ventilation or tracheostomy at the time of discharge were not excluded. Potential participants were consecutively screened every morning Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 12:00 at the time of discharge from ICU.
The study was approved by the committee on human research at Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia, and written consent was given by all subjects.
Patients were asked to complete a modified ICU quality of sleep questionnaire developed by Freedman et al.12 (Figure 1). The Freedman questionnaire collects data on a variety of environmental factors known to affect sleep quality. We modified the questionnaire to include pain, as pain can also affect sleep quality in ICU. The questionnaire requires participants to retrospectively rate their overall quality of sleep on a 10-point scale ranging from 1 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible) (a) at home in the weeks and months before their admission to the ICU; (b) averaged across their whole ICU admission; and (c) on the first day, the midpoint, and the end of their ICU stay. Participants were also ask to rate their day time sleepiness (1 = unable to stay awake; 10 = fully alert) averaged across their whole ICU admission and on the first day, the midpoint, and the end of their ICU stay. Participants were then asked to rate on a 10-point scale to what extent they considered various environmental factors caused their sleep to be disrupted (1 = no disruption and 10 = significant disruption). It took approximately 10 minutes for the participant to fill out the questionnaire. If they were unable to fill out the questionnaire because of muscle weakness, poor eyesight, or tracheotomy, the questionnaire was read aloud to them and their responses were recorded.
The questionnaire utilized in the study. Modified from Freedman et al.12
Sleep questionnaireThe questionnaire utilized in the study. Modified from Freedman et al.12
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Data were collected on age at admission, sex, principal diagnosis, length of stay in ICU, length of hospital stay, requirement for intubation, APACHE II and APACHE III score at admission, postoperative state, dialysis, IABP, noninvasive ventilation (NIV), treatment of hypo- and hyperthyroidism, intravenous magnesium administration, inotropes, steroids, β-blockers, antipsychotics, diuretics, benzodiazepine (BZD), regular opioids, anti-anxiety, anti-depressant drugs, and sleeping tablets in ICU. Past history of regular use of sleeping tablets, antidepressants, antipsychotics, or anti-mania drugs was also recorded. These data were collected on the day of the discharge of the patients from their clinical notes and ICU charts. Data regarding the length of ICU and hospital stay was recorded from the ICU database at a later date. The whole data collection approximately took 15 min per patient.
Dementia status was assessed using the global clinical dementia rating score (CDR).17 This is a clinical staging instrument for dementia. It characterizes 6 domains of cognitive and functional performance: memory, orientation, judgment and problem solving, community affairs, home and hobbies, and personal care. The necessary information to make each rating was obtained through a semi-structured interview of the patient plus a reliable informant or collateral source. Patients with a CDR score > 2 were excluded.
Data were analyzed using Stata version 11.0 (Statacorp, Texas, USA). Quality of sleep in the ICU (first, mid, end and overall), quality of sleep at home, and daytime sleepiness were log-transformed. Mixed effects linear regression (Stata xtmixed command) was used to assess whether the quality of sleep was different at different time points (home; first, middle, and end of stay in the ICU; and ICU overall, used as a categorical variable from 1-5) with the patient as a random effect (random intercept). A linear regression model (Stata regress command) was used to examine the effect of length of stay on the quality of sleep and the daytime sleepiness.
Generalized linear model (Stata glm command) was used to assess factors affecting the quality of sleep in the ICU. In univariate analysis, the 43 variables listed in Table 1 were individually assessed as predictors of the quality of sleep in the ICU. Variables significant at α = 0.10 level were then assessed for possible inclusion in multivariate regression. For the multivariate regression, age, sex, and severity of illness (APACHE II, APACHE III, or SAPS II) were included in the model regardless of their significance. The interaction between age and sex on sleep quality was also examined. A type 1 error rate of α = 0.05 was considered statistically significant. The goodness of fit was assessed using the QQ plot of standardized residuals.
Variables examined in univariate analysis as predictors of quality of sleep in ICU
All descriptive data are presented as mean ± SD unless otherwise stated.
A total of 148 patients were screened on their day of discharge from ICU. Forty-eight patients were excluded (24 denied consent for the study and 24 patients had CDR ≥ 2) leaving 100 patients who completed the questionnaire. Mean (± SD) patient age was 63.2 ± 16.7 years. APACHE II and APACHE III scores at admission to ICU were 18.1 ± 7.5 and 59.3 ± 24.9, respectively. Duration of stay in ICU was 6.7 ± 6.5 days, and duration of stay in hospital was 23.4 ± 24.0 days.
Of all the total discharges (3199 patients) during this time period of study mean (± SD) APACHE II and APACHE III scores at admission to ICU were 18.5 ± 7.6 and 65.6 ± 28.2, respectively, and duration of stay in ICU was 6.1 ± 9.5 days.
Self-reported quality of sleep decreased from 7.03 ± 2.2 at home to 4.0 ± 1.7 during their stay in ICU (p < 0.001). The daytime sleepiness score among subjects during their ICU stay was 5.0 ± 1.4. Twenty-six percent of patients rated their daytime sleepiness from 1 to 3; 53% rated it between 4 and 6; and 21% rated it ≥ 7. Quality of sleep or daytime sleepiness did not change significantly over the course of any patient's ICU stay. Neither quality nor perceived daytime sleepiness was significantly affected by the length of stay in the ICU (p > 0.05).
Multiple environmental factors and noises were reported to disrupt sleep (Figures 2 and 3). The frequency of interventions and medications that affected sleep quality is listed in Table 2. In univariate analysis, the non-environmental factors significantly associated with sleep quality in ICU were quality of sleep at home (p = 0.02), use of regular sleeping tablets before ICU (p = 0.07), treatment for hypo-/hyperthyroidism (p = 0.10), use of both benzodiazepines (p = 0.04) and steroids (p = 0.07) during the ICU stay, and environmental factors such as noise from intravenous pump alarms (p = 0.05), televisions (p = 0.03), and bedside telephones (p = 0.02) (Table 1). We examined the effect of vasoactive drugs individually and as a class of drugs and did not find any association with sleep quality.
1 = no disruption to 10 = significant disruption. Bars represent upper 95% confidence limits.
Mean perceived level of disruption of sleep quality from various ICU activities1 = no disruption to 10 = significant disruption. Bars represent upper 95% confidence limits.
Disruptions rated on a scale of 1 = no disruption to 10 = significant disruption. Bars represent upper 95% confidence limits.
Mean perceived disruption in sleep quality from various sources of noiseDisruptions rated on a scale of 1 = no disruption to 10 = significant disruption. Bars represent upper 95% confidence limits.
Frequency of ICU interventions and medications (n = 100)
Spearman correlation coefficients were calculated to examine the correlations among various noise sources and also the correlations among various ICU activities. Nursing intervention, diagnostic testing, vital sign measurement, blood samples, and administration of medicines were significantly positively correlated (r between 0.58 and 0.75, p < 0.01). Doctors and nurses' phone and pagers, bedside phone, and television were significantly positively correlated (r between 0.59 and 0.70, p < 0.01), only one of these activities and the noise source that gave the strongest effect were included in the final multiple regression model.
In multivariate analysis with APACHE III as severity of illness (R2 = 0.25), factors [exp(b)(95% CI), p value] which significantly affected sleep in ICU were sex [0.37(0.19-0.72), p < 0.01], age and sex interaction [1.02(1.01-1.03), p < 0.01], bedside phone [0.92(0.87-0.97), p < 0.01], prior quality of sleep at home [1.30(1.05-1.62), p = 0.02], and use of drugs such as steroids [0.82(0.69-0.98), p = 0.03] during the stay in ICU (Table 3). Age [1.00 (0.99-1.00), p = 0.38], APACHE III [1.00(1.00-1.00), p = 0.483], and benzodiazepines [0.83(0.68-1.02), p = 0.08] during the stay in the ICU were not significant but included in the model. The model with different severity of illness score such as APACHE III and SAPS II and without the severity of illness score were also examined and are shown in Table 3.
Multivariate analysis of perceived sleep quality in the ICU
We found that female subjects had an improvement in sleep with increasing age, while there was no difference in male subjects. This interaction of age and sex is shown in Figure 4. There was no effect of quality of sleep on length of stay in ICU and length of hospital stay (p > 0.05).
There was no effect in males of increasing age in sleep quality in ICU, while in female subjects, quality of sleep increased with increasing age. The shaded lines represent 95% confidence interval.
Graph showing the interaction of age and sex with sleep quality in ICUThere was no effect in males of increasing age in sleep quality in ICU, while in female subjects, quality of sleep increased with increasing age. The shaded lines represent 95% confidence interval.
Consistent with previous studies,12,14 we observed that patients admitted to ICU experienced much poorer sleep quality compared to that at home. The majority of patients also had daytime sleepiness consistent with a lack of sleep overnight. Compared to previous studies we studied a broader range of factors that could potentially affect sleep quality. In addition to examining commonly studied environmental factors as reported, for example, by Freedman et al.,12 our analysis also examined the effect of non-environmental factors such as illness severity, ICU interventions (intubation, dialysis, noninvasive ventilator, postoperative status), length of ICU stay, pain, the presence of thyroid related problems, and medications used during the ICU stay. We also studied how a history of regular sleeping tablet use before ICU admission influenced self-reported sleep during the stay in ICU. We considered it important to study these clinical factors together with environmental factors if we were to get a full picture of the likely origins of sleep disturbance in the ICU. To the best of our knowledge this is the first paper to assess both environmental and non-environmental factors together affecting sleep quality of patients in the intensive care unit. In our multivariate analysis model, we found both non-environmental and environmental factors impacted sleep during patients' ICU stay.
Our results also demonstrated that perceived sleep quality does not improve over the course of ICU stay. Our results are consistent with polysomnographic studies showing that between 40% and 50% of total sleep time in an ICU occurs during the day and that sleep quality does not improve over the course of a patient's ICU stay. It has been shown that sleep may take several days to normalize after transfer of the patient to a general hospital ward.5,6,9,10
Among non-environmental factors, self-reported quality of sleep at home prior to the ICU admission was strongly associated with ICU sleep quality. Almost 40% of patients were receiving medications in the form of regular sleeping tablets, antidepressants, or antipsychotic or anti-mania drugs before being admitted to ICU. This potentially underlines the importance of continuing patients' normal sleep medications during their time in ICU (if not medically contraindicated). Patients receiving these medications prior to their acute illness generally slept poorly in ICU. Sudden discontinuation of chronic benzodiazepine hypnotic use is well known to result in rebound insomnia. Particular attention to providing a "sleep-friendly" environment to ICU patients with a history of prior insomnia or sleeping difficulties should be a part of good ICU practice. Similarly, patients with hypo- or hyperthyroidism were observed to sleep poorly in ICU and should therefore be monitored closely for their sleep quality.
The effect of drugs such as steroids and benzodiazepines on sleep is well known but has not been studied in the ICU environment. Patients receiving these drugs in ICU should be specially monitored for the quality of their sleep. Both corticosteroids and benzodiazepines and their withdrawal have been known to affect sleep architecture and decrease sleep quality. Corticosteroids have been known to decrease REM sleep and slow wave sleep and increase wakefulness and stage 2 NREM sleep.18,19 Benzodiazepines are known to decrease wakefulness, REM sleep, slow wave sleep, and sleep latency while increasing total sleep time and stage 2 sleep.20,21 The requirement for benzodiazepines is also a marker for agitation, which can cause poor sleep quality in ICU.
We observed that older patients slept better in the ICU than younger patients. This is in contrast to previous studies in which older people were found to be more readily aroused from sleep than younger individuals.22,23 However, older patients did not receive more sedatives and narcotics or more anaesthetic drugs, excluding these as possible confounders. Whether or not the ICU environment is specifically responsible for this finding requires further investigation. When subjects were divided into males and females (Figure 4), we found that female subjects had an improvement in sleep with increasing age while there was no difference in male subjects. It is known that older female subjects have more slow wave sleep than male subjects, and this may explain the age and gender interaction effects that we found.24
Surprisingly, severity (APACHE II, APACHE III score) or type of illness, length of stay in ICU, postoperative status, and ICU interventions were not associated with sleep quality in ICU. One possible explanation for this could be the use of anesthetic drugs in patients who require multiple invasive interventions, which may affect the recall potential of these subjects.
The negative effects of noise11 (particularly telephone noise) on sleep quality in the ICU has been reported previously. The effects of noise observed in our study appeared to relate particularly to the use of bedside phones. A potential solution to this problem might be to insist that phones are switched to vibration mode at night. Other noises that affected sleep quality, for example, those from intravenous pump alarms and ventilator alarms have been reported previously to adversely affect sleep. These should be attended to immediately, if they alarm, to minimize noise. Our findings do not support the hypothesis that ICU noise is the most disruptive stimulus for sleep for most ICU patients. This finding contradicts much of the current literature, which suggests that noise is the major ICU factor responsible for sleep disruption.3,16,25–30 As suggested before,12 noise may cause arousal, but not awakening, leading to sleep fragmentation and poor sleep quality. Patients who were never fully awakened from sleep may not however have been able to recall the etiology of their fragmented sleep.
Our study design had several limitations. Firstly, the study assessed sleep quality and influencing factors subjectively. We were therefore unable to determine the patients true sleep architecture and degree of sleep disruption caused by the various environmental stimuli. Recall bias is another potentially confounding problem for questionnaire studies in general. However, we think this methodological issue is unlikely to have seriously distorted or invalidated our results. Recall bias was examined previously by Freedman and reported not to be a problem over the relatively short recall periods of patient stay in ICU.12 Wrist actigraphy is a potentially cheap and non–labor-intensive mode for monitoring sleep wake and agitation,31 though it has not yet been fully validated in ICU.32,33 Additionally, there may have been a recruitment and selection bias that limits the generalizability of the results to the ICU population as a whole. Only subjects discharged on Monday to Friday mornings from 08:00 to 12:00 were invited to participate, and the sample of 100 patients was mainly a convenience sample. However, most discharges are performed during this time frame. Similarly this study did not include patients who died before their ICU discharge. Finally, the possibility of delirium cannot be ruled out in our patients, although we required orientation to time, place, and person for inclusion in the study. We also screened for dementia by CDR score, which has secondary variables such as judgement and problem solving. We excluded 24 patients based on CDR score ≥ 2. The possibility of recall bias caused by delirium some time during the acute illnesses cannot be excluded but seems unlikely to have been a major confounder, given the orientation of patients and their low CDR scores.
Data regarding the total doses of medications used were not collected in this study, and it would be a useful in future studies. Similarly, objective noise and light intensity measurements would be a useful addition in future studies.
In conclusion, our results support the hypothesis12–14 that interruptions of sleep in the ICU are multifactorial. In addition to previously identified environmental factors, several non-environmental factors, such as prior quality of sleep at home, use of regular sleeping tablets before ICU admission, treatment for hypo-/hyperthyroidism, plus use of benzodiazepines and steroids administration during the ICU stay were associated with self-reported poor quality sleep. Although environmental factors such as telephone noise are important contributors to sleep disruption in the ICU, there are a number of other important factors intrinsic to the ICU encounter or intrinsic to the patient that may adversely influence sleep quality in ICU. Patients who have a prior history of sleeping difficulties or who have used hypnotic of other psychotropic drugs may be at particular risk of sleeping poorly in the ICU and should perhaps be the target for special attention to improve their sleep environment.
This was not an industry supported study. The authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 22/11/2012 (1734 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Dec. 31 is the deadline for a number of tax-planning issues, tax-deductible items and other tax related applications.
If you plan to make a withdrawal from your TFSA (tax-free savings account) in the next six months or so, I suggest you consider doing it before Dec. 31. This would mean you could pay it back into the plan in 2013. If, instead, you defer until January to withdraw, then you must wait until 2014 before re-depositing.
For example, if it's your plan to withdraw this to cover your holiday credit card bills or take a winter vacation, then withdraw from the TFSA now.
Year-end is the last day for 2012 contributions to Registered Education Savings Plans and Registered Disability Savings Plans, which attract government grants.
The RDSP is limited to people who qualify for the disability tax credit.
For people who turned 71 in 2012 and have RRSP contribution room, Dec. 31 is their RRSP deadline (unless they have a younger spouse), as RRSPs must be converted to RRIFs before year-end. If these people wait until the usual deadline for RRSPs of 60 days after year-end, they will be prohibited from contributing, as it will be the year in which they turn 72.
Dec. 31 is the annual deadline for alimony and maintenance payments, medical expenses, child-care expenses, child fitness and artistic activity fees, public transit passes, moving expenses, political contributions, investment counsel fees and safety deposit box rental fees, repayments to your corporation that might otherwise become taxable, and several other tax-related expenses.
Deductible business expenses, which mostly relates to business owners and commission salespeople must generally be incurred within the year in order to be deductible.
If you can deduct depreciation on capital items such as office equipment or a car, buying before year-end allows you half of the usual full-year capital cost allowance (depreciation deduction), as this would be your year of purchase for the item. If you wait until January, you will still only get half the regular rate, but for all of 2013. The CCA rate allowed is always reduced by half in the year of purchase, so make it a short "year."
Donations reduce your taxes by about 27 per cent of the first $200 you donate each year, and 44 per cent of all donations above that amount. Dec. 31 is the deadline. If you are married, I suggest you claim both spouses' receipts on one tax return, so you deduct all but $200 of donations at the higher rate.
The deadline for selling stocks or mutual funds to realize a capital loss this year is even sooner than Dec. 31. You might want to do this in order to offset capital gains you have realized in 2012, capital gains distributions from mutual funds you own, or to carry back losses to any of the previous three years.
If you finish 2012 with more capital losses than capital gains, you may be able to apply those net capital losses to any of 2011, 2010 or 2009, if you paid tax on net capital gains in any of those years. You do this by filing a T1A Request for Loss Carryback when you file your 2012 return.
Ask your investment adviser for a realized capital-gains report for the year-to-date, to evaluate the need to realize losses, and then compare the market value of your investments to the book value shown on your statement. This will show the potential losses to be realized by selling. You have a likely sale deadline of Dec. 21 in order to have your trade (investment sale) settle in 2012. Check with your adviser for that company's deadline.
If you still want to own the stock or fund, you can buy it back 31 days later, but you may also substitute for it a similar investment that's expected to act the same way in the near future.
If you have potentially significant tax claims or complicated issues, consult your tax adviser now. You can't go back after the deadline.
Dollars and Sense is meant as an introduction to this topic and should not in any way be construed as a replacement for personalized professional advice, please consult a tax expert for your individual tax situation. David Christianson is a financial planner.


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As I was leaving Italy after Milan Fashion Week, I was chatting to Guglielmo Miani, the young-ish CEO of Larusmiani, a family-owned manufacturer of luxurious materials, when he let drop an interesting fact. Last week the Italian government quietly changed the law it passed in November that banned retail establishments from accepting more than €1,000 in cash. Surprise!
What changed?
Now, retail establishments have no limit on the cash they can accept from foreigners, as long as they take a photocopy of said foreigner's passport. I'll say that again: no limit. Italians are still restricted to €1,000. Read more


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The Big Hoo-Ha Co's final collaborative film editing workshop with Otley Courthouse will be held next week.
The session, which arms aspiring filmmakers with the skills they need to edit, add effects and merge clips, takes place at the Big Hoo-Ha Co's Woolpack Studios, on Bondgate, from 7.30pm to 9pm on Tuesday, June 24. Admission
costs £4.
The Courthouse's next Science Cafe, meanwhile, takes place on Thursday, June 26, when several experts in their field will give quickfire slide presentations followed by question and answer sessions. Open to all, the Science Cafe
starts at 7.30pm and costs £4 or £3.
Then on Saturday, June 28, cycling fans will have the chance to star in their very own version of the Tour de France when Harrogate Theatre and Il Pixel Rosso present Le Grand Voyage.
Each 15 minute show - there will be 22 between 2pm and 9pm - involves one person being equipped with video goggles and headphones and then asked to mirror the actions being shown in a film to enjoy an immersive race - or
unexpected detour.
Courthouse centre manager Chloe Perry said: "It is brilliant fun as you're immersed into the race, until you take a wrong turn and end up on a fantastical voyage.
"It's the Tour de France meets Wacky Races via the opening credits of Police Squad."
Tickets for Le Grand Voyage, which is for anyone aged 12 or over, cost £5.
For more details visit the Courthouse, call (01943) 467466, or go to www.otleycourthouse.org.uk .


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Without the aid of anyone or anything, how is it possible to tell how far away a thunderstorm is, from where you stand?
AnswerLight travels at 186,000 miles per second and sound travels about one mile every five seconds. Since the thunder is the product of lightning, when you see the lightning you should begin to count until you hear the thunder. In this way you are able to tell how far the thunder has travelled. Example: If you see lightning and are able to count to ten before you hear the thunder, you know that the storm is about two miles away.
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On the corner of the old Oregon Trail (B avenue) and Gekeler in La Grande, this beautiful city park is sponsored by the Lions Club and includes an abstract pioneer memorial and a life size wrought iron pioneer play wagon. This was a camping and staging area for the Oregon Trail emigrants who had to combine teams to ascend the steep valley walls.
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Andrews University Dining Services has a variety of employment opportunities for full-time, part time staff along with full-time Andrews University students. The Dining Services Department is one of the largest student employers on the campus. Academics come first to all our student workers, and with the variety of job offerings and wide range of hours for different positions we can easily provide flexible work hours to choose from. Most students find that 12 to 15 hours of work per week is about the maximum amount they can handle while carrying a full class load. However, a student may work up to 20 hours per week.
Gain experience for future career advancement through leadership, teamwork, professionalism and customer service. You also get discounts on meals once you have worked a shift. After each shift worked at Dining Services students must fill in a 40% off discount card. Once students have worked and logged 12 hours on the discount card they may use it to purchase one meal in the Terrace Cafe or Gazebo for 40% off.
Jobs available for students include serving, assisting in the various aspects of food preparation (salads, cook's assistant, ingredient preparation), cashiering, sanitation, assisting in banquets and other special events, and working in the Gazebo, the university made-to-order grill and campus grocer.
We no longer accept paper applications. To apply for a job at Dining Services we would greatly appreciate if you would visit the Human Resources website for the current positions we have available. If there are no positions available at this time, please check back frequently, as various positions need to be filled throughout the year with students coming and going. The best times of year to check and apply for jobs are at the beginning of each semester when there are a greater quantity of positions to be filled. Generally, we do not hire new student workers for the summer months.


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Topic: Honey I'M BAAACK & Let's Meet
OK, I confess I spent the last 2 days adjusting & thinking about me. But I am over it now and ready to get on with life! I did want to mention that on Friday when I got all my news on my DX the ONC did say that the strength I pull on I have gotten from our CC web site. So I thank you all.
You can tell I am feeling better as I have another idea. What would you think of setting up a 2-3 day weekend here in Phoenix this winter for Caretaker/Patients who would like to come meet one another. We could use the time to relax, talk and do a little sight seeing. What I would like to know... is there anyone who would be interested in a get together like that? I know Marion would be but we need more than the 2 of us. Please let me know if you are interested and if so what month would work for you. I will be happy to keep track of what we hope will be a nice long list.


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Intramural Policies
Back to Intramurals. I Intramural Policies PDF.
SIGN UP: Team roster/entry forms will not be accepted after the sign up deadline. Team sign up must be completed on an intramural roster form. The entry fee for each team varies per sport. Entry fees must be paid prior to the first scheduled game.
ELIGIBILITY: All current Belhaven students (traditional), faculty and staff are eligible to play. Individuals may only play for one intramural team per sport season, per league.
ATHLETES/COACHES: Any athlete appearing on a current Belhaven athletic roster may not participate in an associate sport. Coaches may not participate in their associated sport. (For example: volleyball players and/or coaches may not play intramural volleyball.)
AWARDS: Specially designed awards will be presented to the intramural champion team. Awards are limited to the number of players on a roster up to twelve. Additional shirts may be purchased at the expense of the team.
FORFEIT: Entry forms, once completed, constitute an agreement between the team and the Intramural Office. Please honor the agreement. A fine ($15) will be assessed for each forfeit. If a forfeit occurs, the fee must be paid prior to the next scheduled game. If a forfeit occurs during tournament play the fee must be paid within one week of the forfeit.
DEFAULT: If a team is unable to make a match, a forfeit can be avoided by calling the Intramural Office 24 hours prior to the scheduled game time. We will call your opponent and the forfeit fee will not be assessed. The team initiating the default will be assessed a loss. A team may declare a default prior to game time by using an ineligible player. Teams are allowed one default per sport season; future defaults will be declared forfeits.
ROSTER ADDITION: Teams can add players to the team roster up to the last game of the season. Players must compete in a minimum of one intramural regular season game in order to participate in tournament play.
FREE AGENT: A free agent is a person who is interested in playing an intramural sport but is having difficulty finding enough people to constitute a team. A free agent will be assisted in finding a team. If one learns about Intramurals after the sign up deadline they are encouraged to contact a team captain on the playing field and ask if they can join their team.
SCHEDULING: The Intramural Office will make every effort to accommodate schedules of all participants. However, due to limited time and access to the playing fields, teams should be ready to play according to the schedules. During tournament play, the Office of Intramurals may not be able to accommodate schedules, requests or re-scheduling.
RE-SCHEDULING: The Intramural Office must be notified 48 hours prior to the scheduled game time, with the exception of tournament play, for re-scheduling to be an option (no guarantee). Policies for rescheduling: 1) The team initiating the re-scheduling is allowed one per season. 2) The team initiating the rescheduling must contact the Intramural Office to discuss and agree upon a rescheduling option. 3) The rescheduling agreement must take place prior to the originally scheduled game; if not, the initiating team will be issued a default. 4) The opposing team captain or co-captain is not obligated to reschedule.
EJECTION: Unsportsmanlike conduct (foul language, unnecessary roughness, arguing with officials, abuse of equipment, etc.) of any kind will not be tolerated. If a player is removed from a game for behavioral reasons the player will be suspended from all Intramural play pending a meeting with the Coordinator of Student Leadership & Intramurals. The length of the player's suspension will be determined at the meeting. An ejection will result in a minimum of one game suspension.
SPORTSMANSHIP: Teams will be rated on sportsmanship by the game officials after each game. Ratings are on an A, B, C scale.
TOURNAMENT PLAY: Inclusion in tournament play will be based on overall team record as the primary criteria. Teams with identical
records will have their overall sportsmanship during the course of season play taken into account as the tiebreaker.
TEAM CAPTAIN INFORMATION: It is advisable for teams to be at all games 15 minutes prior to each game. Game time is forfeit time! It is the captain's responsibility to sign in each team member prior to game time. Captains will not be allowed to add names to the sign in sheet after the game has started. Only the team captain is to represent the team at all discussions with the game officials; teams not conforming to this rule will be given a warning on their first offense. A team technical foul will be given for all subsequent offenses.
INTRAMURAL STAFF: Officiating will be done by officials who are in absolute control of the game. The official has the power to make decisions on any matters or questions not specifically covered in the rules.
ID POLICY: All intramural participants are required to turn in their current Belhaven ID card prior to game time. IDs should be given to the official scorekeeper. Anyone who has not turned in their ID before game time will not be allowed to play under any circumstances.
DISCIPLINE: The Coordinator of Student Leadership & Intramurals reserves the right to take the necessary disciplinary measures in a situation concerning an intramural participant, coach, or spectator displaying conduct unbecoming of an intramural competitor or the intramural program.
PLAYER'S ATTIRE: Tennis shoes and athletic attire must be worn by all intramural participants. Street clothes prohibited.


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A GROUP of students from Blackburn got the chance to experience what life was like for a Namibian tribe during a fact finding trip.
Degree students from the University Centre at Blackburn College visited a village in the Kamajab region inhabited by Himba people.
They spent time watching the tribes women getting ready for the day, which involved applying homemade perfumes and a mixture of butter fat and ochre, called otjize, to protect themselves from the sun.
They also got the chance to visit the Etosha National park and took part in a range of activities including game drives, elephant tracking and horse riding.
Psychology student Hayley O'Brien, who went on the trip, said: "Visiting the local primary school put things into perspective for me. The teachers and children are so inspiring, they make the most of what little resources they have.
"But visiting the Himba tribe was the highlight of my trip. We heard from a 17-year-old girl who explained her life to us, and watched a group of tribeswomen get ready in the morning by applying a protective balm which turned them a funny shade of red.
"It was truly humbling to learn they choose to live such a simple yet traditional way of life. I would love to go back one day."
The college offers a number of international trips designed as part of its strategy to internationalise the curriculum and enhance its students' learning experience by widening their horizons.
Hayley said: "This opportunity has inspired me to pursue my dream of working with children as well as travelling and visiting schools worldwide to offer my assistance in any way that I can."


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Richard Newton, charged by police with the murder of his wife, Suzanne Newton, will appear at Bristol Crown Court tomorrow morning.
Newton, 51, of Barnes Wallis Close, Bowerhill, appeared before magistrates in Salisbury this morning and has been remanded in custody to appear at Bristol in the morning.
Mrs Newton, 45, who worked for a recruitment agency in Calne, was found dead at their Melksham home on Sunday morning.
Mr Newton was arrested on Monday in Dulverton, Devon, after his blue Volkswagen Polo was found abandoned at Brendon Common, Exmoor.
He was initially taken to hospital in Taunton where he spent the night under police guard, but was brought to Melksham police station for questioning on Tuesday and later charged with her murder.


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My name is Sharon Torres and I am a physics major in my junior year at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, with aspirations to attend graduate school for astrophysics. As part of an Army family, I have had the privilege to live across the United States and Japan. I attended three different high schools before graduating summa cum laude from Forest Park High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, with a clear determination to pursue physics. My family, originally from Puerto Rico and now currently in Northern Virginia, consists of: my younger brother and sister, who are entering high school and college, respectively; my mother, who has a career in nuclear medicine; and my father, who retired from the Army two years ago and has a career in health physics.


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***PHOTO1*** The Atlanta Braves had quite an offseason, which included passing on re-signing an excellent leadoff man in Michael Bourn; instead, they made B.J. Upton the highest paid member of the Atlanta franchise with a 5 year, 75.25 million dollar contract. Not only did the Braves get B.J., but they...