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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

BMs here: What do you 'get' about step-parenting & dealing with DH ...

How does being a bio parent and having to deal with co-parenting prepare you for/give you better understanding of the following topics. What things to you 'see' that you don't think someone who is not in your shoes would see?

- helping a child transition from divorce to a new family
- managing boundaries with the ex and what those boundaries should be

What do you tolerate or empathize with your partner that you wouldn't otherwise be able to do?

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Video: Time to Think Differently About Investing

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Monday, April 1, 2013

CA-NEWS Summary

Afghanistan's Karzai in Qatar, Taliban talks in focus

DOHA (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai held talks with Qatari leaders on Sunday, official media reported, on a visit the Kabul government has said would seek to explore the possibility of talks with Taliban insurgents on ending Afghanistan's war. Karzai's trip to the Gulf Arab state, a U.S. ally which has mediated in conflicts in Arab or Muslim countries, follows years of stalled discussions among the United States, Pakistan and the Taliban about a possible Afghan settlement.

IMF team to arrive in Egypt on Wednesday for loan talks

CAIRO (Reuters) - An IMF delegation will arrive in Egypt on Wednesday for talks with the government on a $4.8 billion loan, a government spokesman said on Sunday, as Cairo seeks to conclude a deal vital to easing a deep economic crisis. Spokesman Alaa El Hadidi added that Egypt would not seek any emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund and faced no "crisis" in funding the import of essential commodities.

Kenya mostly calm after vote ruling; minor clashes in west

NAIROBI/KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan police clashed on Sunday with a few dozen protesters angry at a court's confirmation of Uhuru Kenyatta as president-elect, but the unrest was minor compared with the nationwide bloodshed after the last disputed election. There was little sign of violence beyond Kisumu, a city in the west of Kenya where there is strong backing for Prime Minister Raila Odinga, loser in the presidential election.

Fighting erupts after car bombing in Mali

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Malian soldiers backed by French fighter jets battled Islamist rebels in Timbuktu on Sunday after insurgents used a car bomb as cover to infiltrate the northern desert town overnight, sources said. The French-led offensive in Mali has pushed a mix of Islamists out of their northern strongholds and remote mountain bases but the militants have hit back with several suicide attacks.

German opposition parties warn each other: don't team up with Merkel

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's two main opposition parties traded warnings on Sunday against joining forces with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives after September's election if they fail to win their own left-of-center majority. The leaders of the Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens party issued unusually shrill messages to each others' supporters about the risk their votes might end up going to a party that could join forces in a coalition with Merkel.

Cyprus details heavy losses for major bank customers

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Major depositors in Cyprus's biggest bank will lose around 60 percent of savings over 100,000 euros, its central bank confirmed on Saturday, sharpening the terms of a bailout that has shaken European banks but saved the island from bankruptcy. Initial signs that big depositors in Bank of Cyprus would take a hit of 30 to 40 percent - the first time the euro zone has made bank customers contribute to a bailout - had already unnerved investors in European lenders this week.

Egypt satirist questioned for insulting Mursi, released on bail

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian prosecutors questioned Egypt's most prominent television satirist on Sunday over allegations he insulted the president and Islam, a case that has increased opposition fears of a crackdown on dissent. Bassem Youssef turned himself in after the prosecutor general issued an arrest warrant for him on Saturday. He was released on bail of 15,000 Egyptian pounds ($2,200), an official in the prosecutor's office said.

Pope appeals for end to Korea tensions in first Easter message

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, appearing before more than 250,000 people for his first Easter Sunday address, called for world peace, respect for the environment and a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the Korean peninsula. In his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message, he also appealed for a resumption of peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, an end to the civil war in Syria and political solutions to conflicts in several African countries.

NATO eyes missile shield progress with Russia after U.S. move

MOSCOW (Reuters) - NATO hopes a U.S. change to global missile defenses will dispel Russian concern and foster cooperation on an issue that has long strained relations, alliance Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow said in an interview. Russia has said U.S. missile shield plans could erode its nuclear deterrent. It has softened criticism since Washington announced on March 16 that it would station 14 missile interceptors in Alaska in response to North Korean nuclear threats and at the same time forgo a new type of interceptor that would have been deployed in Europe.

Afghans warned: the taxman is coming after you

KABUL (Reuters) - One of Afghanistan's most surprising success stories lies tucked away on a potholed street notorious for suicide bombings and lined with rusting construction equipment. The work of the country's top tax collector is more inspiring than the view from his office in Kabul. Taxes and customs raised $1.64 billion last financial year, a 14-fold increase on 10 years ago. That means, now, the government can pay just over half of its recurrent costs such as salaries.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ca-news-summary-012101133.html

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All water pills not equally effective against heart failure

Apr. 1, 2013 ? Loop diuretics, more commonly known as water pills, are the most widely prescribed heart failure medications, but few studies had extensively compared their effectiveness until Yale School of Medicine researchers examined three approved loop diuretics and found that even though one of them might offer more benefit, it is rarely prescribed.

Published in the April 1 early edition of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the research compared the potential benefits of using one of three loop diuretics: toresemide, furosemide, and bumetanide.

"Loop diuretics are a cornerstone of heart failure treatment, so it is vital to understand the comparative effectiveness and real-world use of the drugs within this class," said lead author Dr. Behnood Bikdeli, postdoctoral associate in cardiovascular medicine at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE).

With over 5 million Americans suffering from heart failure, Bikdeli said that improving existing treatment options is key to providing the best care.

The team found that among 274,515 hospitalizations for heart failure during 2009 and 2010 across a large group of U.S. hospitals, 92% received loop diuretics during their hospital stay. Of those, 87% received furosemide as their only loop diuretic, 3% received bumetanide, and only 0.4% received torsemide, while 10% received a combination of these agents.

Although torsemide is slightly more expensive, the few available studies suggest that it lasts longer, is better tolerated, and might be associated with better clinical outcomes compared with the two other available water pills.

"There appears to be potential benefits from using torsemide compared with furosemide, but it is rarely used in practice," said Bikdeli. "Furosemide is the dominantly used loop diuretic in practice; however, if the potential advantages of torsemide over furosemide are proven in subsequent comparative effectiveness studies, this drug might become the preferred treatment of chronic heart failure."

Other authors on the study include Kelly Strait, Kumar Dharmarajan, Chohreh Partovian, Steven Coca, Nancy Kim, Shu-Xia Li, Jeffrey Testani, Usman Khan, and Harlan Krumholz.

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Ships must kill off the beasties in the ballast water

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Dangerous biological stowaways could easily be banished from ships' ballast. It's a disgrace that rich nations won't play ball, says Fred Pearce

THEY called it the blob that ate the Black Sea. Thirty years ago, a ship from North America sailed up the Bosphorus and dumped ballast water containing comb jellyfish from back home. The invader ? Mnemiopsis leidyi ? went crazy, gobbling up plankton and triggering a catastrophic decline in marine life, including commercial fisheries. At one point its biomass reached a billion tonnes, 10 times the world's annual fish landings.

Around a decade later an unknown ship, probably from the Bay of Bengal, discharged ballast water into the coastal waters of Peru, releasing a strain of cholera that contaminated shellfish. People ate the shellfish and the disease spread, killing 12,000 across Latin America.

Right now, the same thing, or something worse, could be happening almost anywhere. A United Nations treaty agreed in 2004 requiring ships to install kit to kill off biological stowaways in their ballast water has still not been ratified by enough nations to come into force. Its day may come when the environmental protection committee of the UN's International Maritime Organization (IMO) meets in London in May. We can hope so, but that has been said many times before.

This delay is a disgrace. Environmental problems often remain unfixed because the solutions are too hard or too expensive or the problem itself is contested. But this one continues to grow because of the indolence of governments, the prevarication of shipping companies and the inattention of environmental groups who, had they waged a serious campaign, would surely have prevailed by now. Why aren't Greenpeace and its ilk shutting down ports till they enforce ballast water clean-up?

Most cargo ships and tankers need ballast to avoid capsizing, especially when they are empty. The most convenient source is the sea. Ships take water on board after offloading cargo and discharge the ballast when they take on a new load ? often in a port thousands of kilometres away.

We are talking about a lot of water. A large ship can carry 60,000 tonnes of ballast. The 70,000 or so vessels that would be covered by the treaty transport more than 7 billion tonnes of ballast water round the world each year, says David Smith, head of technical services at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK. At any one time the world's ballast water contains an estimated 7000 different species in the form of seeds, spores, plankton, bacteria and the eggs and larvae of larger creatures.

Ecologists say that alien species are the second biggest threat to the planet's biodiversity after habitat destruction. Marine species are among the most enthusiastic invaders, and the global transport of ballast water is the single biggest cause of their spread. That's how the European zebra mussel got into North America's Great Lakes, where billions of dollars were spent to keep it from blocking irrigation channels and water pipes. That is how the dinoflagellates that cause toxic "red tides" spread round the globe, how Chinese mitten crabs reached Europe, how Asian kelp made it to southern Australia, and how Mediterranean mussels came to carpet the coast of South Africa.

The Mediterranean, the world's busiest sea, has 900 alien species in its waters, mostly discharged from ballast tanks. A new one arrives every nine days, according to the UN Environment Programme. Not all alien species cause trouble. Most are harmless. But the risk of a new zebra mussel or comb jellyfish or disease infestation is ever present. So why the delay in addressing the threat?

To come into force, the Ballast Water Convention requires 30 nations to ratify the treaty, which they have ? but those nations must hold the registrations for 35 per cent of the world's merchant shipping tonnage. So far the ratifiers only rack up a smidgen over 29 per cent.

The prime villains are the small nations that offer "flags of convenience" to foreign shipping lines so they can benefit from low taxes and lax regulations. Of the major flag of convenience nations, only Liberia, the Marshall Islands and Antigua and Barbuda ? which together hold about 17 per cent of the world's shipping tonnage ? have ratified. Panama, the Bahamas, Malta and Cyprus, which collectively account for 30 per cent, have not.

But perhaps the real scandal is that many industrialised nations, which enjoy lecturing small nations about their environmental inadequacies, have also chickened out. If the US, UK, Germany, Italy and Japan got off their high horses and ratified the convention, their collective tonnage would instantly trigger the treaty into force. They should.

The technology is available. The IMO has certified more than 20 commercial treatment systems involving various combinations of filtration, irradiation, ozone, heat, electrolysis and biocides.

Admittedly, retrofitting the fleet will be costly ? up to $500,000 dollars per ship for the biggest vessels ? and take time. But a study by the environment group WWF suggests that the economic cost of dealing with existing invasive species from ballast water is more than three times the cost of preventing more. And the polluter should pay.

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?Violeta Went To Heaven' Arrives In U.S., Telling Story Of Legendary Folksinger Violeta Parra (VIDEO)

Elton John

British singer Elton John performs during the 54nd Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 28, 2013 in Vina del Mar,Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Elton John

English singer Elton John performs during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 28, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Elton John

British singer Elton John shows a silver seagull award during the 54nd Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 28, 2013 in Vina del Mar,Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Jonas Brothers

Nick and Joe Jonas of the American pop rock band perform during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 26, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Jonas Brothers

(L-R) Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas of the American pop rock band perform during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 26, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Jonas Brothers

Joe Jonas of the American pop rock band performs during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 26, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Jonas Brothers

Fans of the American pop rock band Jonas Brothers enjoy the band performace at the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 26, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Miguel Bos?

Fans of US band Jonas Brothers wait for the show during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 26, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Miguel Bos?

Spanish singer Miguel Bose (c) performs during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 26, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Spanish singer Miguel Bose performs during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 26, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Miguel Bos?

Spanish singer Miguel Bose (C) performs during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 26, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Romeo Santos

Dominican singer Romeo Santos performs during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 25, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Man?

Members of Mexican band Mana perform during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 24, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Man?

Mexican band Mana's Fernando Olvera performs during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 24, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Man?

Mexican band Mana performs during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 24, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Man?

A member of Mexican band Mana performs during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on February 24, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Jonas Brothers

VINA DEL MAR, CHILE - FEBRUARY 26: Jonas Brothers's fans screams at the Quinta Vergara during the 53rd Vina del Mar International Music Festival on February 26, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. (Photo by Marcelo Benitez/LatinContent/GettyImages)

Daddy Yankee

Puerto Rican singer Daddy Yankee performs at the Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Vina del Mar, Chile, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Believed to be one of the largest musical events in Latin America, the annual 5-day festival was inaugurated in 1960. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

Daddy Yankee

Puerto Rican singer Daddy Yankee performs at the Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Vina del Mar, Chile, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Believed to be one of the largest musical events in Latin America, the annual five-day festival was inaugurated in 1960. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

Daddy Yankee

Puerto Rican singer Daddy Yankee performs at the Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Vina del Mar, Chile, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Believed to be one of the largest musical events in Latin America, the annual five-day festival was inaugurated in 1960. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

Gloria Trevi

Mexican singer Gloria Trevi performs during the 54nd Vina del Mar International Song Festival on March 01, 2013 in Vina del Mar,Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Gloria Trevi

Mexican singer Gloria Trevi performs at the Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Vina del Mar, Chile, Friday, March 1, 2013. Believed to be one of the largest musical events in Latin America, the annual 5-day festival was inaugurated in 1960. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

Gloria Trevi

Wisin & Yandel

Puerto Rican duo Wisin & Yandel perform at the Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Vina del Mar, Chile, Friday, March 1, 2013. Believed to be one of the largest musical events in Latin America, the annual 5-day festival was inaugurated in 1960. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

Wisin & Yandel

Puerto Rican duo Wisin & Yandel perform during the Vina del Mar International Song Festival in Vina del Mar, Chile, Friday, March 1, 2013. Believed to be one of the largest musical events in Latin America, the annual 5-day festival was inaugurated in 1960. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

Wisin & Yandel

Wisin (R) & Yandel, perform during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on March 1, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Wisin & Yandel

Wisin of the Wisin & Yandel perform during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on March 1, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

Wisin & Yandel

(L-R) Wisin & Yandel, perform during the 54th Vina del Mar International Song Festival on March 1, 2013 in Vina del Mar, Chile. AFP PHOTO/MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images)

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AP opens full news bureau in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) ? The Associated Press on Saturday became the first international news agency to open a bureau in Myanmar since a reformist government took power two years ago and began relaxing restrictions on the media for the first time in decades.

The opening paves the way for AP to expand its coverage of the unfolding transition in Myanmar, which is still emerging from nearly half a century of military rule, for its members and customers around the world.

Six multi-format journalists will staff the new AP bureau full time. Among them is award-winning correspondent Aye Aye Win, who has reported from her native country for the AP since 1989 and was honored for courage in 2008 by the International Women's Media Foundation. She succeeded another AP veteran in Yangon ? her father, Sein Win, who covered the nation also known as Burma for AP for 20 years and was imprisoned several times, including during the failed pro-democracy uprising in 1988.

"AP has a proud history of reportage from Myanmar, and the new multimedia bureau marks the beginning of an even more robust commitment," said AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt. "We hope to build on our efforts and cover the important changes there for many years to come."

Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll said: "We take great pride in our independent and impartial reporting, and coverage of Myanmar has been a priority for many years. A full-time, multimedia bureau staffed by talented local and international journalists will enable AP to provide even more coverage of the historic changes under way in Myanmar."

The Information Ministry informed the AP on Saturday it had granted the news agency permission to open a full-fledged office in the main city, Yangon. Japanese broadcaster NHK was also granted permission.

Although the AP has deployed visiting foreign staff regularly to Myanmar since the nation began opening up two years ago, it had previously been prohibited from basing international journalists permanently in the country. Today, there are several dozen journalists working in Myanmar for various international news outlets. Under the previous military regime, China's Xinhua News Agency and Guangming Daily were the only foreign news outlets allowed to have their nationals as resident correspondents.

The reform process under President Thein Sein, who took office two years ago this month, has included the abolition of direct censorship of local media. On Monday, independent daily newspapers will be able to publish for the first time since 1964.

The opening of AP's bureau in Myanmar follows by a little more than a year the opening of a bureau providing text stories and photos from Pyongyang, North Korea, which made AP the first Western news organization to operate fully in all media time in the mostly shrouded state. AP previously had a video news office in the country since 2006.

Founded in 1846 and headquartered in New York City, the AP provides news in print, photos, video, mobile and online. It is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative owned by member newspapers and broadcasters in the United States and operating from 280 locations in 110 countries around the world.

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