Friday, September 28, 2012

Flu And Swine Flu - Allvitalpoints Health and Fitness

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Flu is a very common disease caused by viruses different from those that cause the normal cold and its symptoms?is usually?more severe and?last for longer. A new strain of flu (influenza) is commonly referred to as swine flu, because it is thought to have originated in pigs

Influenza (flu) is a highly contagious infection spread by coughs and sneezes. Contrary to what some people may belief, influenza is not a seasonal flu. The infection can be caught at any time of the year. The reason it is called seasonal flu is because t is more pronounced during the cold or winter season.

Flu causes?a sudden rise in the body temperature, usually followed by headache?and general body aches and pains, feeling of tiredness and often accompanied by sore throat. In addition, some infected people lose their appetite, feel nauseous and have?a cough. In most cases, flu symptoms can make you feel so exhausted and unwell that most infected people would rather stay in bed.

Swine flu symptoms are very similar to?seasonal flu. These are fever or high temperature (over 38?C), aching muscles and sore throat. It may be accompanied by a dry cough. Most infected people will normally recover within a week, even without special treatment.

Flu Pandemic

Swine virus was first identified in Mexico in April 2009. It has since become a pandemic, which means it has spread around the globe. It has spread quickly because it is a new type of?flu virus that few, if any, people have full resistance to.

Flu pandemic is a natural event that occurs from time to time. There had been flu pandemics in 1918, 1957 and 1968 that killed millions of people across the world.?In most cases the virus has proved relatively mild. However, around the world?hundreds of?people have died and it is not yet clear how big a risk the virus is. For this reason, and because all viruses can mutate to become more potent (stronger), scientists are saying we need to be careful.

Most cases of the?swine flu reported so far across the globe have been mild. Only a small number death resulting from serious infections of swine flu has been reported. In any case, these deaths have?often been?in patients?with existing health problems that already weakened their immune systems, such as cancer.

Some people?have suggested that antiviral medication should?only be given to those who are most at risk of developing serious complications from swine flu. In other words, if people are otherwise healthy,?the virus should be treated with?with paracetamol and bed rest until the person is better,?as you would with normal flu. However, some scientists believe that there is still some doubt about the risks of the virus. For example, there are reports of some cases in Argentina where young, healthy adults have become extremely ill from swine flu. Whatever the case, because there is still this doubt, the some authorities offer the antiviral medicines, such as Tamiflu or Relenza, to everyone who is diagnosed with swine flu.

Flu high-risk groups

There are some people that have been identified as being more at risk of serious complications if they catch swine flu. Such group of people should start taking antiviral medication as soon as?it is?diagnosed?that they have?the infection. In other words, doctors should be free to recommend for some high-risk patients to take antiviral medications before they have symptoms, if someone close to them has swine flu.

The group of people already known?that are highly vulnerable to swine flu infection are those who have chronic diseases such as:

  • lung disease,
  • heart disease,
  • kidney disease,
  • liver disease,
  • neurological disease, such as motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson?s disease,
  • immunosuppression and
  • diabetes mellitus.

In addition, the following people have been identified to be at risk:

  • asthma patients who have had drug treatment in the previous three years,
  • pregnant women,
  • older people aged 65 and over, and
  • children under 5 years.

Preventing swine virus

The most significant way to prevent swine flu is to have?good respiratory and hand hygiene. This requires the affected person or anyone to always?sneeze into?a disposable tissue, and get rid of it in a bin as soon as it is used. There are guidelines available on how to properly wash your hands using soap and water. Also, it is important to keep home and work surfaces clean regularly and thoroughly to kill the virus.

It is always important to bear in mind that flu or influenza is not the same as the normal cold. Also that anything that helps building up your immune system will go a long to helping you to fight of flu.

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Rivalry and female relationships in shojo manga ? Shojo Corner

Posted in Gender Roles, Uncategorized tagged Absolute Boyfriend, His and Her Circumstances, Kare Kano, Kimi ni Todoke, Mars, Mars manga, Peach Girl, shojo, shoujo at 12:09 pm by starsamaria

I?ve been thinking a lot lately about the presence of rival female characters in shojo manga. In most shojo series, the protagonist is envied or outright bullied by another female. While this may ring true for many teenage girls in real life, in manga the cruelty these female antagonists display sends a particularly bad message about women in general. Not only do such characters suggest that women are typically catty or downright vicious,?but that there are no positive, loving relationships between women.?The latter is especially true?because often?in shojo manga the only other prominent female character besides the protagonist is her rival, which is probably why?I appreciate female friendships in shojo manga when they do show up.?Many shojo series present female fantasies ? like having the most popular guy in school fall for an average girl ? and it?s sad that the only role other females can play in these fantasies is that of the antagonist. Furthermore, the female rival is almost always more beautiful and ?perfect? than the protagonist?is, which sends the unfortunate message that women can?t be both beautiful and kind, and that women?who are?popular or desired by men are deserving of being hated.?Funnily enough, several other bloggers have also?been pondering the presence of the female rival, so I thought I?d share my thoughts of a few of the best, worst, and downright ugliest female rivals in shojo manga.

Mika Ito (Absolute Boyfriend)

At the beginning of Absolute Boyfriend, Mika is Riiko?s popular?best friend who helps her whenever she gets rejected by a guy. But not long after Riiko begins dating Night, a robot who is programmed to be the best lover, Mika reveals that she stole all the guys who Riiko liked and plans to do the same with Night. Riiko is devastated?to find out that Mika was only pretending to be her friend to make herself look better (since Riiko is ?plain?), and when Night fails to fall for Mika?s seductions, she is rarely heard from or seen again.?Mika is a pretty standard female rival because?the main reason she is?jealous of Riiko?revolves around a man. Furthermore, Mika isn?t given any real personality?- the most important function of her character is to create drama between Riiko and Night, the??more important? romantic relationship.?By having Mika try to steal her ?best friend?s? boyfriend, Absolute Boyfriend implicitly sends the message that not only are females not to?be trusted, but that they are only obstacles in getting the attention of men (and that men are the only ?goals? females seek to attain).

Harumi Sugihara (Mars)

When bad boy Rei Kashino and quiet artist Kira Aso start falling for each other at the beginning of Mars, Rei?s former fling Harumi is none too pleased. ?Harumi?s jealousy becomes so intense that she and a group of girls decide to kidnap Kira?so she?ll break up with Rei, or else?they?ll break her fingers. Kira refuses, but at the last second Harumi decides not to do it. Rei threatens?Harumi not to come near Kira again, and not long after Kira becomes friends with Harumi. While the friendship between Kira and Harumi?is highly unrealistic, because Harumi is the only other female character who is in the manga from beginning to end, we see no alternatives to female relationships, which is highly problematic. Although Harumi?s violent threats were treated as horrible, having her attempt to physically harm Kira suggests that females become completely irrational over men ? and this notion is?somewhat ?normalized? because Kira completely forgives her?Harumi for her vindictiveness?without ever addressing the issue.

Sae Kashiwagi (Peach Girl)

No list of female rivals would be complete without Sae. At the beginning of Peach Girl, Sae is Momo?s ?best friend,? with a tendency to gossip and copy Momo?s fashion sense. But when Sae finds out Momo has a crush on Toji,?a classmate from middle school, Sae does anything and everything to steal him away.?When Toji ends up in the hospital, Sae convinces her entire class not to tell Momo that he?s sick so she can visit him by herself (and so he can think Momo doesn?t care about him since she hadn?t visited him). Momo and Toji do break up temporarily, but before long they are back together and Sae ends up scheming again. She decides to trick Momo by slipping something in her drink, after which Momo wakes up in a hotel with a model who Sae is manipulating. Sae takes blackmail photos and uses them to get Toji to go out with her, which he miserably agrees to do. Once again, Peach Girl presents female rivals whose relationship only?revolves around men, but what?s interesting is that Sae isn?t even in love with Toji. Sae sends the message that females are obsessed with getting a guy ? any guy ? as a sign of their superiority over other females.?Sae is considered the ultimate bitch is shojo manga ? she has no redeeming qualities and the audience is made to hate her, which is unfortunately the fate of many female characters in the?media.?Sae?s machinations?also imply that women are incredibly shallow ? not only is Sae obsessed with taking down?Momo, but in being fawned over (she even briefly becomes a model to attain this goal).?Thus, Peach Girl sends the message that the only role women serve in each others? lives is to make each other miserable.

Ume Kurumizawa (Kimi ni Todoke)

Not long after realizing her own feelings for her popular classmate Kazehaya, Sawako soon discovers that another girl likes him: Kurumi. Kurumi?notices before anyone else does how Kazehaya looks at Sawako, and?she asks Sawako to give?up on him. Sawako refuses, but surprisingly the two?develop a sort-of friendship. Since both love Kazehaya they end up talking about their crushes,?and when?Sawako and Kazehaya?finally start dating each other?both she and the audience can?t help but feel sorry for?Kurumi. Because Kurumi isn?t outright cruel in her treatment of Sawako the way many other female rivals are, she comes across as sympathetic, especially since her feelings for Kazehaya were genuine. Furthermore, because Kimi ni Todoke highlights the friendship between Sawako, Yano, and Chizu, there is a range of female interactions and personalities that are presented beyond Kurumi?s character.?Thus, although Kurumi and Sawako?s relationship is initiated by their common interest of a man, Kimi ni Todoke takes a step in the right direction by fleshing out the female rival.

Maho Izawa (His and Her Circumstances)

His and Her Circumstances? protagonist Yukino is the smartest and most popular girl in school, to the envy of her classmate Maho. Like Yukino, Maho?has always?been the center of attention and loves being praised, and she convinces the other girls in her class to start ignoring Yukino so she can reclaim her throne.?Her plan fails, however, and soon Yukino helps her realize that there?s more to life than being number one ? like having good friends.?One thing I appreciate is that Maho?s rivalry with?Yukino is not about men at all. While her reasons for hating Yukino?(or actually, loving, since she wishes to be like Yukino) are still superficial, His and Her Circumstances at least shows how important it is to have close female friends by showing that Yukino was missing something from her life without them.?And unlike other female rivals who try to bring each other down, once Maho becomes friends with?Yukino they try to?help each other correct their old ways and start focusing on new goals, which is a refreshing change to?the sadly combative female dynamic that is typically shown not just in shojo manga, but in?media in general.

The female rival is a clich? that is insidious because it is?used in such misogynistic ways. It has become so common to have a ?bitchy? female character that it is easy not to even question why females in media are so consistently made to be hated. Yet not all female rivals come across as unsympathetic or feel like unnecessary plot devices.?What do you?guys think of the presence of?girls whose?only purpose is to?torment?the protagonist? And are there female rivals who you?ve liked or you felt served a purpose to the plot beyond creating drama? Share your thoughts, guys!

Source: http://shojocorner.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/rivalry-and-female-relationships-in-shojo-manga/

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Disability Accommodations: The 'Reasonable' List Grows ...

Wouldn?t it be nice if there was a final list of what the courts say are ?reasonable? accommodations under the disability laws? Employers are truly confused about how far they must legally go to accommodate disabled employees. Well, grab your pencil and the list. One court recently added a new one. And it?s a shocker ?

Case in Point: Clarice Sanchez, an administrative employee at the Department of Agriculture office in Lufkin, Texas, fell down a flight of stairs at work. She lost the left half of her field of vision. Seven weeks later, she returned to work. But that wasn?t the end.

Sanchez then requested a transfer from Lufkin to the agency office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her reasoning: There were no doctors in Lufkin qualified to provide the specialized therapy she needed to adjust to her injury. She also said Lufkin lacked public transportation, plus Albuquerque was home to several family and friends who could support her during her vision recovery.

The Ag Department denied her transfer request, saying it was unreasonable because the transfer was not tied to Sanchez?s need for fulfill the essential functions of her job. The agency argued that federal disability discrimination law doesn?t obligate an employer to grant an employee's request for a transfer solely for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment. (Sanchez v. Vilsack,?10th Cir., 9/19/12)

What happened next? The court rejected the agency?s argument and sent the case to trial. It sided with the EEOC and ruled that, ?a transfer accommodation for medical care or treatment is not per se unreasonable, even if an employee is able to perform the essential functions of her job without it.?

3 Lessons Learned ? Without Going to Court

  1. Go beyond the ?essential functions? test. As this case shows, when an employee has requested a reasonable accommodation, the request no longer has to be tied just to the essential functions of the job. You now must consider other issues. This is why every reasonable accommodation situation under the disability laws must be decided on a case-by-case basis.
  2. Grant medical treatment transfers. Add this new one to your list of reasonable accommodations. It?s no longer about just providing equipment or changing shifts. It is now about changing locations, too.
  3. Let the EEOC be your guide. The EEOC had already recognized medical transfers in its regulations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Always check out www.eeoc.gov before making employment decisions under the ADA. (Another good resource: The Job Accommodation Network.)

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'HabCam' opens window to seafloor life

The oceans are getting the red-carpet treatment with a new project from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: HabCam, an optical imaging endeavor that provides researchers with a one-of-a-kind glimpse of the seafloor.

The "Cam" part of HabCam is a camera system that is towed over the ocean bottom along the continental shelf (where a continent drops off under the ocean) off the East Coast of the United States. The system snaps six images per second ? that's a half-million images per day; then, a process corrects the color and an algorithm stitches the pictures together to create a giant panorama of the seafloor. Each day, HabCam can capture 100 nautical miles (185 kilometers) of ocean floor.

Amber York, a biology research associate at Woods Hole who works on HabCam, told OurAmazingPlanet that pictures have already sparked her interest: She has spotted an anemone and a worm that could be new species.

"As a biologist, I think what excites me more than anything about this project is the ability to see these organisms in a large scale in their natural habitat," York said. "A lot of these off-shore species are not as well-documented as the coastal ones on the beach. It's intense detective work trying to identify them." [ HabCam Images: Peek Beneath the Waves ]

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Zigzagging over the seafloor
HabCam's 2-megapixel camera is towed on a large metal skeleton by a 103-foot (31 meters) sea scallop trawler, above coastal regions of the Northeast, including Georges Bank, the Mid-Atlantic Bight and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. To collect the photos, HabCam is towed from a ship and travels in patterns from zigzags to spirals through the ocean about 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 m) above the seafloor, collecting more than 40 million images in total. The newest version of the system also includes a side scan acoustics system that gathers information on seafloor roughness ? something that is difficult to see with the photos alone.

The pictures also give scientists a window into how marine life on the seafloor acts. In the past, biologists have used giant trawlers to scoop up critters and dump them on the deck of ships for analysis. The problem, York said, is that the creatures look different when they come up than they do in their natural habitat.

"They may change their color as they come up, or they get broken up too much in the process," she said.

HabCam also gives a peek into the way the creatures live on the floor. For example, sea stars were thought to be relatively spread out, but York has noticed that they tend to gather in armies ? she calls them hordes ? and eat everything in their path as they move across a scallop field.

Counting scallops and sea stars
The camera is helping scientists count scallops on the seafloor, and helping them understand the health of the ecosystem. Right now, it's being used to count scallops in a way that is much more rigorous than previous methods. They want to create a quantifiable marker for the habitat, including factors such as species richness, diversity, the composition of the material the creatures live on and ecosystem change through time and over different areas. HabCam will help create a historical baseline for the seafloor health to be evaluated in the future.

Of course, it's a lot of work sifting through all those images. To help, those running HabCam have reached out to the Citizen Science Alliance and launched an interactive website called "Seafloor Explorer," where people can help identify scallops, sea stars and other creatures in the pictures. The project is starting with 100,000 images to annotate.

"We are interested in finding out what is happening to the seafloor over time, but we also need help in identifying individuals in all the photos," York said. The research group is working on a system to train computers to classify the images, but first they need people power to interpret what they're seeing.

York is positively pumped over the future of the field.

"I think this is just the start of a whole field of research ? imaging of marine life on the seafloor," she said.

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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49181305/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

How Can I Get Wi-Fi at a Location that Doesn't Offer It? [Ask Lifehacker]

How Can I Get Wi-Fi at a Location that Doesn't Offer It? Dear Lifehacker,
I often find myself in places where there's a wired ethernet connection, but no Wi-Fi, like my dorm room or a hotel room when I travel. I don't want to be tethered to one spot! How can I add Wi-Fi to one of these places on the cheap?

Signed,
Wire Free

Dear Wire Free,
While most places do have Wi-Fi these days, it sucks when you get to your hotel for vacation to find out that the room has wired ethernet and no wireless, or if you've just settled into your dorm to find out the rooms are wired-only. It's not difficult to fix, but you do need to exercise caution about how you do it, and some methods are more tech-savvy than others. Let's look at a couple of options.

Buy a Wireless Router and Set It In Bridge Mode

How Can I Get Wi-Fi at a Location that Doesn't Offer It? Buying a cheap wireless router, like an Apple Airport Express or an old Linksys WRT54G and setting it up as a wireless bridge is probably the fastest and easiest way to give any space with a wired connection an instant wireless network. Bridge mode means that instead of managing the traffic on your LAN, like most routers do, it's just sharing your existing LAN?that is, the hotel or dorm room's network?among a few specific devices over the air. Photo by Ryoichi Tanaka.

When I travel, I still pack one of the old-style Airport Express models in my laptop bag. I can plug it into the wall, plug in an ethernet cable in my hotel room, and use my laptop anywhere in the room, or connect my Wi-Fi iPad to the network if I choose. The same applies for dorm rooms and other locations with only wired connections. If you want to go the extra mile, install the Tomato or DD-WRT replacement firmware on your router to add tons of useful features, like bandwidth throttling, added security tools, reporting and monitoring, and access controls. You can even give your laptops priority over your XBox, for example, so your roommate's gaming habits don't get in the way of your studying and research.

How Can I Get Wi-Fi at a Location that Doesn't Offer It? Warning: In most dorms, adding a wireless router is against your campus IT department's usage rules, and may get you in trouble if you're busted. I worked in campus IT for my alma mater several years ago, and every single year we inevitably had some freshman somewhere on campus who hooked up a router to their room's ethernet jack, misconfigured it, and their router started acting like the gateway for every computer on their local LAN?which meant no one in the building or on the floor could connect to the internet. They all called us to complain, and we had to track the unlucky kid down and pull out his router. Photo by webhamster.

If you're going to do this, Plug in your router and set up its network config in bridge mode before you plug in that ethernet jack-this ensures you won't have any networking snafus when you first plug it in. If you get your connection privileges revoked by the powers that be, don't blame us!

Turn Your PC Into a Wireless HotSpot

If you don't have the budget for a wireless router, or left yours at home, you're not out of options. You can always use Internet Connection Sharing on your Mac or Windows system to share your connection with other devices nearby. We've shown you how to do this in Windows and in OS X before, but the premise is simple: as long as your laptop is connected to wired ethernet, you can turn your PC into a hotspot for your tablet, phone, or other devices to connect to. It takes a little setup, but once you're finished, you won't even need the router. You just have to make sure the PC that's sharing its connection is on and online at all times, though.

Tether Your Phone

How Can I Get Wi-Fi at a Location that Doesn't Offer It? If you have a smartphone with a data plan, tethering has never been a better option. Verizon and AT&T now include tethering in the costs of their base plans, and as long as you don't go over your bandwidth limits for the month, you're in the clear. If your wi-fi needs are occasional, like the occasional game or web surfing on your tablet, or you want to use your laptop from bed and your cable doesn't reach, it's a good option. If you're trying to connect a dozen devices like game consoles, smart TVs, multiple tablets and laptops, and more to the internet, it's not going to work too well. Photo by Danny Choo.

Buy an 3G/4G Access Point

How Can I Get Wi-Fi at a Location that Doesn't Offer It? If you have money to spend and you don't want to run afoul of your campus (or hotel!) IT department, buying a 3G/4G USB modem or shared access point like a MiFi is definitely the way to go. Those devices usually come with generous monthly data plans (in some cases, up to 10GB/mo,) and allow you to connect multiple devices at the same time.

If you're headed to a conference, meetup, or some other big event and want to make sure you'll have an internet connection when you get there, this is the best way to go. Still, MiFis and other cellular APs are geared more for business travelers than dorm rooms, so the bandwidth limits won't stand up to a month of Netflix streaming, mind you. If you're trying to hook up your Xbox for online gaming and Netflix streaming in your dorm room, it might not be the best option?not because of performance, but because you'll probably run out of data after a few short days. Photo by Samat Jain.

No Matter What, Keep Your Connection Secure

How Can I Get Wi-Fi at a Location that Doesn't Offer It? Whichever option you choose, make sure you set up your wireless network as securely as possible. Remember that WEP is extremely easy to crack and WPA is stronger, but not impossible to crack, so a combination of WPA2, a good strong password for your network, and access controls for specific devices (MAC Address filtering alone is so insecure it's not worth mentioning, but when used together with strong passwords and WPA2, it offers another layer of protection and teaches you to get familiar with the MAC addresses for your gadgets?that way you know if the MAC for your Xbox is online and you can see it's turned off, someone's spoofing it) is the way to keep your fledgling network secure.

A little security through obscurity is a good idea too. If you're using your network in a hotel that's packed with convention attendees or a dorm full of students with the same problem you have. Hide your SSID and keep your network to yourself. The last thing you want to do is wind up inadvertently running an open network, and get into trouble yourself when someone else does something illegal on it.

We hope at least one of these options works for your use case, Wire Free! Remember, be careful with whatever network you set up. With care and caution, you can add the Wi-Fi you need to almost any space. If you go cellular, you don't even need a wired connection to ride on. Good luck!

Sincerely,
Lifehacker

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NH Library Jobline: Educational Resource Center/Reference ...


Title: Educational Resource Center/Reference Librarian,? Rivier University, Nashua

Duties: Rivier University has a position available for a full time Educational Resource Center/Reference Librarian.? The Cho Educational Resource Center (ERC) is a curriculum support library designed to serve the research needs of the University?s education students.? The ERC is located in the Benoit Education Center, a facility separate from the main (Regina) Library.? The ERC is fully part of the University?s Library system and the Library?s User Services Department.

Job description: Oversee all services and daily functions of the ERC such as circulation, reserves, shelving and the like. Assist in developing and administering an operating budget for the ERC. Plan hours of operation for the ERC. Provide reference service to students, faculty, staff, and other ERC and library patrons using the full range of technology aids such as e-mail, chat, texting as well as traditional modes of interaction. Provide classroom library instruction, create and edit LibGuides and participate in the library?s Information Literacy Program. Collect and compile library statistics pertaining to the ERC.? Prepare related administrative/ operations reports. In a team setting, edit and revise the ERC and Library web page. Serve as library liaison and collection development specialist for Education faculty and other subject areas as assigned. Assist with selecting database and reference resources. Learn and implement new resources and technologies as they relate to reference and instruction services.? Assist with promoting library services, resources and events. Assist in the coordination and development of materials for library events. Keep abreast of current developments and trends in the field, particularly in technology. Attend relevant professional meetings and conferences.

Qualifications: Required: MLS degree. An MLS degree candidate (near completion) may be considered if applicant has sufficient relevant experience. Experience working in a library, academic library experience preferred. Skills related to reference and circulation services, including database searching, and experience conducting reference interviews. Some web page editing and design experience, as well as library instruction experience. Strong planning, supervisory and writing skills.?Ability to show initiative, prioritize, and complete projects in a timely manner. Excellent customer service and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred: Advanced web editing skills. Experience with creating and editing LibGuides and online tutorials. Experience working with curriculum-based materials and/or an Education background. Experience providing library instruction in accord with the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards.?Some experience with collection development, writing reports, and developing/administering a budget.

Closing Date: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Salary: No information provided

Address: Applicants are asked to please submit a cover letter with pay expectations, resum? and the contact information for 3 professional references to jobs@rivier.edu or Office of Human Resources, Rivier University, Attn:? ERC/Reference Librarian Search, 420 South Main Street, Nashua NH 03060. No agencies please. EOE

Web Site: http://www.rivier.edu/erc/default.aspx?id=11190

Source:
Employer issued job notice, 09/25/2012

Source: http://nhlibraryjobline.blogspot.com/2012/09/educational-resource-centerreference.html

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Monday, September 24, 2012

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Sep 14, 2012

This is all we know for sure: Kari Bowerman, 27, and Cathy Huynh, 26, were backpacking in Vietnam while on break from their jobs teaching English in South Korea.

On July 30, the friends were admitted to Khanh Hoa General Hospital in Nha Trang. Both were vomiting, had difficulty breathing and showed signs of severe dehydration.

Huynh was eventually released from the hospital. She returned later that night to hear the devastating news -- three hours after being admitted, Bowerman had gone into respiratory failure and died.

Two days later, Huynh was dead.

What we don't know for sure is what triggered their deaths.
The travelers' stories are just the latest in a string of mysterious tourist deaths in Southeast Asia. Investigators with the World Health Organization suspect poisoning is to blame, but determining the origin has proven difficult. Meanwhile, friends and family are desperate for answers.

"It's been a nightmare trying to get information," Bowerman's sister Jennifer Jaques said. "No hospital reports. No police report. No nothing. Whatever happened to her we need to make sure doesn't happen to somebody else."

Not yet determined

Almost immediately, international media reports began linking the deaths to an incident in Thailand in June in which two Canadian sisters died.

A hotel maid found Noemi and Audrey Belanger, 25 and 20, in their room on Phi Phi Island more than 12 hours after their deaths. The sisters were covered in vomit, according to CBC News.

In February 2011, New Zealand resident Sarah Carter, 23, died in Chiang Mai, Thailand, after arriving at a local hospital with low blood pressure, difficulty breathing and dehydration from vomiting, according to the New Zealand television network TV3.

In the Downtown Inn where Carter had stayed, the Bangkok Post says three other visitors -- a Thai tour guide and an elderly British couple -- died between January and May 2011.

Other media reports linked Bowerman's and Huynh's deaths to the 2009 deaths of Jill St. Onge and Julie Bergheim, who had similar symptoms in adjacent rooms at the Laleena Guesthouse on the island of Phi Phi. (The hotel has since changed its name).

Speculation on the cause arose with each death -- ranging from alcohol poisoning to something the victims ate.

As Bowerman's relatives read story after story, they realized they weren't the only family frustrated and confused. The cause of death in every case was eerily similar to the one written on Kari's death report: "not yet determined."

Global citizens

Ashley Bowerman says it was "heartbreaking" to unzip her sister's backpack. Inside was a big map of Vietnam, a book about the history of the region and a list of historical sites she wanted to visit.

Her belongings had been returned home to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where the girls grew up. Fundraisers helped offset the more than $10,000 it cost the family to repatriate her cremated body.

Ashley is still in shock. Kari -- beautiful, adventurous, full-of-life Kari -- is dead.

Born just a year and 10 days apart, the sisters talked every day, even when Kari was halfway around the world.

"She was the funniest person I know," Ashley said. "She always made me laugh. She never wasted a day ... every weekend she was doing something exciting."

Both Bowerman and Huynh were experienced travelers. Bowerman had applied for the teaching abroad program after graduating from Winona State University in Minnesota. She had already taught for two years in South Korea when the school asked her to come back for a second stint.

"Those kids adored her," Jennifer Jaques said.

Huynh, originally from Hamilton, Ontario, had vacationed in China, Cuba and the United States, her high school friend Jetty Ly said.

Both women had been to Vietnam before and Huynh spoke the language. Among the belongings returned to Huynh's family was detailed information about the Canadian Embassy and emergency contact numbers.

"I encouraged her to follow her dreams, go where her heart wants to go," Ly said. "I wanted to live vicariously through her adventures. But not like this."

When Bowerman's friend Jason Von Seth posted about her death on Facebook, e-mails started flooding in.

A frequent traveler himself, Von Seth had a large network of international acquaintances whom had never heard about this series of mysterious deaths and expressed concern.

He launched a Facebook page last week called Protected Travels. He said he hopes the site will become a community of global citizens who are eager to educate others on the challenges facing travelers abroad.

At the top of the Facebook page is a collection of photos of those who have died in circumstances similar to Huynh and Bowerman.

"All these girls, you see their faces," Von Seth said. "(They're) all young, 20-somethings that just wanted to have a life-changing experience."

Seeking answers

In 2011, TV3 traveled to Chiang Mai, Thailand, to search for evidence in the Sarah Carter case. Show producers spoke with Dr. Ron McDowall, a United Nations toxic chemical consultant, who had reviewed Carter's pathology reports and believed she died of pesticide ingestion.

The swabs collected by TV3 in the Downtown Inn showed moderate levels of chlorpyrifos, McDowall told CNN in an email last week.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, chlorpyrifos can cause nausea, dizziness, confusion and, in high levels, respiratory paralysis and death.

The chemical is banned for use in homes and hotels in most countries, McDowall said. Yet it's still legal in Thailand and Vietnam, he said, and was included in the pesticide sprayed in the Downtown Inn.

"The level of (chlorpyrifos) in this product is quite low and should not normally cause a problem. However, in my work we have found many sprayer companies 'top up' the level of (chlorpyrifos) when they are battling bedbugs in Asia."

Evidence for the insecticide theory is mounting. Thai police recently announced they found traces of the insect repellent DEET in the Belanger sisters' bodies, according CBC. Investigators believe the DEET was added as an ingredient to a popular cocktail served on the island.

The Downtown Inn was torn down this summer after the Thailand Disease Control Department concluded three of the deaths were "probably connected to the use of pesticides," according to the Bangkok Post.

The problem is that chemical poisoning is very hard to verify, McDowall says. Chlorpyrifos' half-life -- or the amount of time that passes before half of the original amount disappears -- in humans is about one day.

Vietnamese authorities have released very little information about the cause of death for Bowerman and Huynh. Investigators might know more when autopsy results come back in a couple of weeks.

But for the survivors, just knowing the answer isn't good enough anymore. They are determined to raise awareness and are searching for the next step, whether that's better education, tougher insecticide regulation or banning these chemicals outright.

"Cathy could have been alive today," said Ly. "I feel like if we can at least let the world know that this is happening ... maybe when a parent's daughter (or) son tells them that they are backpacking in South Asia, it will not be the last goodbye."

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Fox News host Jon Scott claimed that the ?organized bankruptcy? Mitt Romney proposed for General Motors was ?essentially what happened? for the automaker. But experts agree that the strategy Romney proposed for GM and the other automakers would not have worked given the state of the financial markets at the time.

On the September 14 edition of Fox News? Happening Now, Scott and Real Clear Politics reporter Erin McPike were discussing Romney?s lagging poll numbers in ?swing states? like Ohio, a state that has been receptive to Vice President Joe Biden?s claim that ?General Motors is alive? because of the Obama administration. Scott said, ?We?ve also heard Governor Romney talk about the fact that what he proposed for the auto industry was an organized bankruptcy, which is essentially what happened to General Motors.?

Romney first articulated his support for a ?managed bankruptcy? and opposition to bailouts in a November 2008 New York Times op-ed, headlined ?Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.? ?Romney later expressed his sentiment that the automakers needed to go through bankruptcy before receiving any? government assistance. In June, he told The Detroit News:

I think (Democrats) will try to distort what I was saying. As you know from the very beginning, it was my view that the companies ?? if they were in distress ? needed to go through a managed bankruptcy to relieve themselves of their excess debt and other burdens. If they needed help coming out of bankruptcy and government support, that was fine but I was not in favor of the government writing billions of dollars of checks prior to them going into bankruptcy ? and by the way that posture was ultimately agreed upon by people in Washington ? because despite the fact that they resisted going into bankruptcy, they finally came around.

Most recently, Romney said on the September 9 edition of NBC?s Meet the Press:

My view was General Motors should have gone into bankruptcy earlier. The president resisted that for six months. I said, ?Let them go into bankruptcy. Help them come out. But let them go in.? And I don?t think most Americans know that GM went bankrupt. That they did go bankrupt. The president put them into bankruptcy. And he finally did what I also thought was the right thing to do, but I thought it from the very beginning.

Scott?s claim echoes what other Fox personalities have said in support of Romney?s vision for handling the auto industry?s problems ? that GM and Chrysler would have successfully navigated a bankruptcy filing without a government bailout. But economists pointed out at the time that credit markets ?? which were in the midst of a financial crisis ? would not have permitted GM and Chrysler to come out of bankruptcy with the private financing it needed to survive and be competitive.

Moody?s chief economist Mark Zandi explained in 2008 that because of the ?credit crunch? resulting from that year?s financial meltdown, private bankruptcy financing was ?all but impossible to get?:

The U.S. auto industry desperately needs financial help, and the federal government should provide it. Without aid, the industry seems headed toward a quick liquidation, which would mean hundreds of thousands of layoffs at just the wrong time for the sliding U.S. economy.

Without government help, the Big Three will almost surely enter the kind of bankruptcy from which there is no exit. They could file for a Chapter 11 restructuring, but would most likely end up in a Chapter 7 liquidation. Their plants and other operations would be shut and their assets sold to pay creditors. Given the collapse in the financial system and resulting credit crunch, so-called ?debtor in possession? or DIP financing would be all but impossible to get. Bankrupt firms need DIP financing to operate?to pay suppliers, finance inventories and meet payroll?while they restructure. It is risky for DIP creditors even in good times, but they do get first dibs on the bankrupt firms? assets and can earn high rates and fees. But in a credit crunch such as we are experiencing now, nothing will convince creditors to take the risk.

Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote shortly before Romney?s op-ed was published: ?If the economy as a whole were in reasonably good shape and the credit markets were functioning, Chapter 11 would be the way to go. Under current circumstances, however, a default by GM would probably mean loss of ability to pay suppliers, which would mean liquidation ? and that, in turn, would mean wiping out probably well over a million jobs at the worst possible moment.?

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, wrote in April 2009 that if automakers filed for bankruptcy at the time Romney wrote his op-ed, ?it would have quickly led to a chain of bankruptcies by a whole set of parts suppliers, all of whom are owed large amounts of money by these two companies. It is virtually certain that these companies and their suppliers would be forced to shut down, because no one would have stepped forward to provide credit to operate through bankruptcy without a government guarantee.? That would have also affected the supply chain of Ford, even though it did not request a government bailout.

Further, the billions the government lent to GM and Chrysler helped the companies move through the bankruptcy process??much faster than anyone thought was possible.? From a ?May 8 CNN Money article:

But the billions of dollars from the federal bailout helped the bankruptcy process get done in about two months, much faster than anyone thought was possible, said Van Conway, CEO of Conway MacKenzie, a restructuring firm in Detroit.

And Conway said the idea of a managed bankruptcy was not unique at the time. ?Romney might very well have had the idea, but it?s not an idea no one else had on their own,? Conway said.

Other supporters of the bailouts, and even some critics of them, say that Romney deserves no credit for the turnaround, given that he opposed the federal bailout that kept the companies alive during the bankruptcy process. Without that $81 billion in funding, the companies would have been forced to go out of business and liquidate, according to those experts.

?There was no way they could get financing,? said Conway. ?They were burning money so fast, with no end in site [sic], that no one but the government was going to give them money.?

CNN Money also quoted Bob Lutz, vice chairman of GM at the time of the bankruptcy, criticizing Romney?s view of the bailout: ?He thinks we didn?t try to borrow money from the banks? ?The banks were even more broke than we were. Who had the money??

Because there was so little private capital available in late 2008 and early 2009 due to the financial crisis, as experts have pointed out, it is unlikely that a bailout of the auto companies that didn?t involve help from the federal government would have happened or succeeded. And that?s why, contrary to Fox?s Scott, what Romney proposed is not ?essentially what happened? to GM and Chrysler.

Media Matters research interns Alessandra DiMonda and Brendan Karet contributed to this report.

Article source: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/14/fox-omits-key-financial-details-to-prop-up-romn/189905

Source: http://creditranker.com/bankruptcy/fox-omits-key-financial-details-to-prop-up-romneys-gm-bankruptcy-plan/

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