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| + | == US consumer spending up weak 0.1 percent in July == | ||
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| + | <html>WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. consumers barely increased their spending in July as their income grew more slowly, held back in part by steep government spending cuts that reduced federal workers salaries. The tepid gains suggest economic growth is off to a weak start in the July-September quarter. | ||
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| + | The Commerce Department said Friday that consumer spending rose just 0.1 percent in July from the previous month. That s slower than June s 0.6 percent increase. Consumers cut their spending on long-lasting manufactured goods, such as cars and appliances. Spending on services was unchanged. | ||
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| + | Income rose 0.1 percent in July following a 0.3 percent June gain. Overall wages and salaries tumbled $21.8 billion from June a third of the decline came from forced furloughs of federal workers. | ||
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| + | Consumers spending drives roughly 70 percent of economic activity. The weak spending report led some economists to sound a more pessimistic note about economic growth in the current July-September quarter. It follows July data showing steep drops in orders for long-lasting manufactured goods and new-home sales. | ||
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| + | Several analysts said that economic growth is unlikely to match the 2.5 percent annual rate reported Thursday for the April-June quarter. That was more than twice the growth rate in the first quarter and far above an initial estimate of a 1.7 percent rate for April through June. | ||
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| + | Marple predicts third-quarter growth will fall around 2 percent, perhaps even lower. | ||
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| + | The Federal Reserve will consider the consumer spending and income data at its September meeting, when it decides whether to begin slowing its $85 billion a month in bond purchases. The bond purchases have helped keep long-term borrowing rates low. | ||
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| + | But the most critical factor that the Fed will weigh is the August employment report, which will be released next Friday. It s the final jobs report before the Fed meets. | ||
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| + | Another concern is that rising interest rates could dampen consumer spending, particularly on homes and cars. Mortgage rates have already risen more than a full percentage point since May. | ||
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| + | The small rise in spending was driven by a 0.8 percent gain in purchases of nondurable goods, such as clothing. Purchases of durable goods such as autos fell 0.2 percent and purchases of services such as utilities and doctor s visits were unchanged in July. | ||
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| + | A price gauge tied to consumer spending was up a small 0.1 percent in July compared to June. Prices excluding volatile food and energy are up just 1.4 percent compared to a year ago, significantly below the Federal Reserve s 2 percent target for inflation. | ||
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| + | == Cardiac arrest does not have to lead to death 0 == | ||
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| + | <html>It is not uncommon nowadays to hear of people who suddenly dropped dead and were said to have suffered cardiac arrest. | ||
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| + | All over the world, incidences of cardiac arrests are becoming more popular, with it accounting for 40 per cent of all deaths in Europe. | ||
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| + | Cardiac arrest, also known as cardiopulmonary arrest or circulatory arrest, is the abrupt cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively during systole. | ||
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| + | Speaking with Saturday Tribune, Dr Mudasiru Salami, a Consultant Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon in the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, said “Cardiac arrest is when the sensation of activities of the heart completely stops. | ||
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| + | “Cardiac arrest is a medical emergency that, in certain groups of patients, is potentially reversible if treated early enough. | ||
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| + | When unexpected cardiac arrest leads to death, it is called sudden cardiac death (SCD).” | ||
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| + | In the same vein, Dr Patience Sotunbi, Consultant Anaesthetist, College Of Medicine, University of Ibadan, UCH and president,? Life Resuscitation Society of Nigeria (LIRESON), said cardiac arrest is different from (but may be caused by) a heart attack (myocardial infarction), where blood flow to the still-beating heart is interrupted (cardiogenic shock). | ||
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| + | “We often hear in news reports that some well-known person has died of a “heart attack” or a “cardiac arrest.” Or worse, after the sudden death of a loved one, a doctor might use one of these two terms to describe the cause of death. Unfortunately, these terms often seem to be used almost interchangeably by news reporters (and even, disturbingly, by some doctors). They are two different things. | ||
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| + | ?“Heart attack or myocardial infarction occurs when a coronary artery (one of the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle) becomes suddenly blocked. The sudden blockage robs a portion of the heart muscle of its vital blood supply and the muscle dies. So, a heart attack is the death of a part of the heart muscle. | ||
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| + | “Cardiac arrest, in contrast, is caused by a sudden heart arrhythmia called ventricular fibrillation. In ventricular fibrillation, the electrical signals within the heart suddenly become completely chaotic. Because these electrical signals control the timing and the organisation of the heartbeat, when those signals degenerate to total chaos, the heart suddenly stops beating. That is, it goes into | ||
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| + | She further explained that “Arrested blood circulation prevents delivery of oxygen to ‘’all’’ parts of the body. Cerebral hypoxia, or lack of oxygen supply to the brain, causes victims to lose consciousness and to stop normal breathing, although agonal breathing may still occur. Brain injury is likely if cardiac arrest is untreated for more than five minutes, although new treatments such as induced hypothermia have begun to extend this time. To improve survival and neurological recovery, immediate response is paramount.” | ||
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| + | ?“Unfortunately, because death occurs within a few minutes of cardiac arrest unless expert help is available, the large majority of individuals who suffer cardiac arrest are not successfully resuscitated,” she adds. | ||
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| + | Cardiac arrest tends to be much more common in people who have various types of underlying heart disease — most commonly, a prior heart attack or any condition that produces heart failure. Indeed, many patients who have had either a heart attack or heart failure ought to be considered for insertion of an implantable cardiac defibrillator, a device that automatically resuscitates people who suffer cardiac arrests. Other causes of cardiac arrest include certain inherited heart abnormalities that tend to increase the risk of ventricular fibrillation (the most common of these being hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) and the use of various illicit drugs (especially cocaine). | ||
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| + | ?“If a close relative has died in a sudden manner, it is important to try to learn the precise cause of death. Your risk of heart attack, and of some types of cardiac arrest, may be higher if a close relative has experienced these events. Make sure you get as much information as you can. Ask the doctor to speak precisely to you about what actually happened,” she said | ||
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| + | She further explains that, if possible, recognition of illness before the patient develops a cardiac arrest will allow the rescuer to prevent its occurrence. Early recognition that a cardiac arrest has occurred is key to survival - for every minute a patient is in cardiac arrest, their chances of survival drop by roughly 10 per cent: these areas often have first responder schemes, whereby members of the community receive training in resuscitation and are given a defibrillator, and called by the emergency medical services in the case of a collapse in their local area. | ||
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| + | The period (either before or after) surrounding a cardiac arrest is known as the peri-arrest period. During this period, the patient is in a highly unstable condition and must be constantly monitored in order to halt the progression or repeat of a full cardiac arrest. The preventative treatment used during the peri-arrest period depends on the causes of the impending arrest and the likelihood such an event occurring. | ||
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| + | In many cases lack of carotid pulse is the gold standard for diagnosing cardiac arrest, but lack of a pulse (particularly in the peripheral pulses) may be a result of other conditions (e.g. shock), or simply an error on the part of the rescuer. Studies have shown that rescuers often make a mistake when checking the carotid pulse in an emergency, whether they are healthcare professionals or lay persons. | ||
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| + | Owing to the inaccuracy in this method of diagnosis, it has been suggested that the technique should be used only by healthcare professionals with specific training and expertise; and even then, that it should be viewed in conjunction with other indicators such as agonal respiration. | ||
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| + | == PUBLIC ATTITUDE TO PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE, Articles 0 == | ||
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| + | When in May this year, my supervising officer and spokesman of the FRSC, Mr. Jonas Agwu extensively wrote in one of his weekly columns on the on-going drive by the Corps, the Federal Ministry of Works and the World Bank to construct pedestrian bridges at strategic locations in the FCT under the title Naked Roads , I guess it provided some form of increased advocacy for a replication of same strategy in other parts of the country. | ||
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| + | To refresh our memories, Mr. Agwu pointed out that pedestrians bridges in the FCT were not mere architectural efforts but to complement safer road use and further fulfillment of the second pillar of the UN Decade of Action which spells out the need to improve the safety of road networks for the benefit of all road users, especially the most vulnerable: pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists. Despite the current efforts by the Federal government which has spread to states such as Lagos, Rivers, Ondo and others, it is most disturbing to notice the apathy and non-compliance among pedestrians across the country on the use of these bridges. Strictly speaking, how many of us (pedestrians) truly comply with the use of pedestrian bridges which to a large extent, would have reduced the spate of avoidable hit-and-run cases if properly adhered to? As a christian, the Bible says that he that is faithful in little will be faithful in much. What moral justification do we have to complain about inadequate road furniture when we rarely utilize the available ones? | ||
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| + | But not everyone feels the same way: In a of 1,000 people conducted by YouGov, 61 percent of those surveyed stated that they think a women should take her husband’s after marriage. (Yikes.) And the number of women who actually keep their maiden names after marriage is shrinking: Various have that anywhere from 8 to 18 percent of women don’t change their names,[http://sp1wiki.space-pioneers.eu/index.php?title=Benutzer:Ltbsrubhsmi#Costco.27s_Second_0 Costco's Second 0], down from about 23 percent in the ’90s. | ||
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| + | I thought of all this while reading Pamela Paul’s recent essay in the New York Times, about her struggle with the whole name-change issue. “Like others wanting it both ways,” she writes, “I held on to my professional name while also taking on my husband’s.” Paul―who wrote The Starter Marriage, so she’s something of an expert on the subject―describes the challenges inherent to having it both ways, both legally (on things like tax returns and passports), and within her own family. “My young children are all in a permanent state of confusion about the bylines they see under one name and the family name we use at home,” she explains. “Isn’t our shared name part of what unites us as a family? Why would I want to set myself apart?” | ||
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| + | Now more than ever, there’s an opportunity to redefine what the “family name” means. It doesn’t have to be just about a woman changing her identity; it can be about whatever the couple wants. | ||
| + | My ex and I never had kids, so I never had to answer that question. And I don’t begrudge Paul her choice; it’s her life, and not my place to judge, even if I wouldn’t make the same decision. What does bother me is the fact that it’s 2013, and for all the strides that women have made―socially, culturally, politically, everywhere―we’re still expected to change such a fundamental part of ourselves, simply because we got married. | ||
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| + | There are a few reasons why buying into this retrograde notion doesn’t make much sense anymore. For one thing, more women than ever are marrying later, when they’re already established in a career under a maiden name. My personal politics aside, I’ve built up a career and a reputation as a Plitt, and I didn’t want to lose that identity―it’d just be confusing. Furthermore, as gay marriage becomes more and more widespread―hooray!―the conventions of hetereosexual marriage, such as wives taking husband’s names, don’t have to be the norm. It’s silly at best, and exclusionary at worst. | ||
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| + | Look at probably the most famous and awesome married folks in the world right now: Beyoncé and Jay-Z. As the Cut earlier this year, both members of that power couple legally changed their surnames to Carter-Knowles, creating a family unit that represents them both equally. If Bey and Jay can embrace a more progressive, egalitarian path on the name-changing front, perhaps the rest of us should follow suit. | ||
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| + | To an extent, this is true.? Morris doesn’t confront him with things he says that are clearly untrue, with instances in which he insists he never said things that he most certainly did, and with the policies, that he championed, that led to disaster.? The one glaring omission, a surprising one, is that he doesn’t talk about Rumsfeld’s theory of warfare, his insistence on a small invading force, which was fine for overthrowing the government but insufficient for maintaining (or enforcing) peace in Iraq. | ||
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| + | UNKNOWN KNOWN is not about the facts so much as it’s a study of one particular personality — one of the personalities behind a foreign policy calamity.? Instead of agreeing or sympathizing with Rumsfeld, Morris’s challenge is to cover over his own disapproval, enough to create an environment in which Rumsfeld can feel safe enough to reveal himself.? He gets Rumsfeld to perform.? Apparently, Rumsfeld wrote 20,000 memos while serving as Secretary of Defense between 2001 and 2006, and Morris persuades him (you get the feeling it didn’t take much persuasion) to read many of them out loud.? Rumsfeld’s voice is all over the soundtrack. | ||
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| + | I’ll say more in the review, but one of the interesting things about the movie is that Rumsfeld is an engaging, witty personality.? This is inescapable.? And yet after a while the personality reveals deeper layers.? So does the mind.? He goes from being a likable, thinking person to seeming like a colossal narcissist, one who thinks and analyzes and questions, but in circles, and to no avail. | ||
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| + | People walk out of the movie thinking, “Oh, that man is awful — but I’m sure everybody else will love him.”? That in a way is Morris’s sneaky achievement.? I doubt anyone will come away loving Rumsfeld, at least no one who watches more than a half hour of the movie.</html> | ||
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| + | This year, the Rams and Cardinals face off early on the 2013 schedule. Personally, I'd have been happier if this contest happened later in the season. Both teams are in transformation stages, with veteran/second year head coach Jeff Fisher for the Rams, and rookie Bruce Arians taking the helm in Arizona. These two coaches have loads in common if you think about it. What I like most though, is their ability to gather experienced coaching staffs. When Jonathan Cooper went down to injury, I knew Arians would barely blink an eye. His campaign as interim head coach in Indianapolis for Chuck Pagano, featured the Arians led attacking the waiver wire more than any other team in the NFL in 2012. The man knows talent, and showed he's willing to keep looking until he finds the right pieces. | ||
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| + | Some questions come to mind about the 2013 Cardinals, the first of which is how can their defense make up for the loss of Daryl Washington. One of my favorite NFL players, I consider him in the top two or three at his position in the NFL. You have a new defensive coordinator? How does his defense look when compared to the Ray Horton version in 2012? | ||
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| + | Arizona has one of the best wide receiver corps in the NFL. The possible addition of to offensive schemes is going to eat into possible opportunities for Fitz and Co. I'm not sure if this is a good, or bad thing? Thoughts? | ||
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