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September 3, 2010
The American Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI) applauds the fact that a wide spectrum of 9/11 families have declared their unequivocal support for FDI's September 11 Rally of Remembrance honoring the victims of 9/11-and ensuring that their memories will not be desecrated by the construction of an Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero. The rally will be held on September 11 at 3pm at Park Place and West Broadway. FDI Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: "We are aware that some 9/11 families, while declaring their opposition to the mega-mosque, have asked us to move the date from September 11 because they feel that our rally will be 'disrespectful.' Full release.
Today, a new report "A Strange Case: Violations of Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States by European Multinational Corporations," issued by Human Rights Watch highlighted European corporations including global food services giant Sodexo as carrying out an aggressive campaign to keep American workers from organizing and collective bargaining rights as well as violating international standards and U.S. labor law. Specifically Sodexo was found to have threatened, interrogated, and fired workers who tried to form a union. Even though Sodexo is a self-proclaimed "progressive" company, the report asserts that Sodexo takes advantage of weaker US labor laws than exist in their home country of France. Full release.
Opposing any changes to the tax code that would encourage trial attorneys to file more lawsuits and add to the overall cost of health care, the American Medical Association (AMA) and 90 medical organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Treasury Department. The organizations oppose a policy under consideration that would allow trial attorneys nationwide to deduct litigation expenses from their taxes in certain cases. "Changing the tax policy to allow trial attorneys to deduct court costs and other expenses would cost taxpayers $1.5 billion and increase the cost of health care in our nation," said J. James Rohack, M.D., AMA Immediate Past-President. "This change would encourage trial attorneys to file more lawsuits." The federal government should not create new incentives for attorneys to bring lawsuits. A recent report by the AMA found 95 medical liability claims filed for every 100 physicians. Currently, 65 percent of medical liability claims are dropped or dismissed. Average defense costs range up to more than $100,000 and take physicians away from patient care. Full release.
Nearly one out of every three American children is clinically overweight or obese. The health and well-being of future generations is undeniably at risk. And yet the fastest-growing fitness club chain in the world is about to launch a nationwide campaign featuring TV commercials and full-page ads in USA Today and People magazine which declare "There is no childhood obesity epidemic." "Too much blame is being placed on the kids," says Chuck Runyon, Anytime Fitness CEO. "Adults need to step up and be better role models if we want our kids to be healthy. That is what this is all about." Full release.
The American Red Cross is on the ground in fourteen states along the East Coast as Hurricane Earl heads toward North Carolina with sustained winds of 140 mph. Red Cross shelters are expected to open this afternoon in North Carolina, and additional shelters are poised to open in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with emergency planning continuing in ten other states along the coast. Up-to-date shelter location information is readily available on www.redcross.org by clicking "Find a Shelter." Hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings have been issued by the National Hurricane Center from North Carolina to Maine. More than 350 trained Red Cross disaster workers have been deployed to North Carolina, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, along with more than 60 emergency vehicles. Full release.
Microblogging, famous for its 140 character limit, just got better. At an event hosted by the University of Portland on August 31, PingGadget is set to launch the beta version of its next-generation microblogging and social media service. PingGadget allows users to communicate with one another, stay connected to what is going on around them, and build custom groups specific to their location and interests-all through the microblogging protocol of 140 characters, photos up to 1MB, and video up to 8 MB. PingGadget is a free service and users can sign-up at PingGadget.com. "We saw an opportunity to make some significant improvements for existing users as well as those new to microblogging," said Dennis Moulton, co-founder of PingGadget. "In addition to staying connected to the people you care about and are interested in, we designed the PingGadget system to help users stay connected to what is going on around them within their location." Full release.
Patricia Russo, chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America today provided keynote remarks and joined Steve Pasierb, Partnership CEO and Ken Winters, PhD., chairman of the organization's science advisory board and professor at the University of Minnesota, to review a number of new research-based programs from the Partnership at the National Prevention Network Prevention Research Conference. According to the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health, nine million people in America under the age of 26 need help for substance abuse and addiction. In response to the broad needs of families, the Partnership has developed science-based tools and interactive resources that guide parents from preventing drug and alcohol abuse in their families to intervening when they think their child is having a problem. Full release.
NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad. The application is available free of charge at the App Store from Apple. NASA App HD features live streaming video from NASA Television, an interactive map with links to all the agency's field centers, quick links to feature stories and launch schedules, a scrolling alerts banner, and a NASA Featured link. The first featured link focuses on women in space. The app's landing page features the solar system, where users can learn more about our neighborhood, the universe and NASA missions. The app also enables users to experience and search updated, higher resolution NASA Image of the Day and Astronomy Picture of the Day collections and agency videos on demand. Full release.
ProCon.org, the premier, free, nonpartisan, public service website whose aim is to provide readers with unbiased research on the country's most debated issues has completed its authoritative pros and cons on whether the March 2010 health care reform laws are good for America, and how this legislation impacts the lives of all Americans. The result is Health Care Reform ProCon.org (http://healthcarereform.procon.org) which presents 34 commonly asked questions regarding the March 2010 health care reform laws along with responses from over 150 experts including President Barack Obama (pro), former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (con), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (pro), House Majority Leader John Boehner (con), AARP (pro), US Chamber of Commerce (con), New York Times (pro), Wall Street Journal (con), along with many physicians, economists, government officials, medical organizations, and dozens more. Full release.
Why is it so hard to isolate and purify human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)? Why has no one been able to see, by electron microscopy, a single HIV particle in the blood of AIDS patients, even those who have a "high viral load"? Why does HIV seem to mutate with startling rapidity? AIDS researchers have not been able to come up with answers to these questions. HERVs-human endogenous retroviruses-might provide explanations that have been overlooked for 20 years, writes Professor Etienne de Harven, M.D., in the fall 2010 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. HERVs are present in all of us, and fragments of their DNA may be confused with HIV in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests used to estimate viral load. Full release.
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