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Study shows that bedtime regularity predicts CPAP compliance

Public release date: 7-May-2013
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Addressing sleep hygiene, specifically regularity of sleep schedule, prior to CPAP initiation may be an opportunity to improve adherence

DARIEN, IL A new study suggests that regularity of bedtime prior to initiation of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy is an important factor that may influence treatment compliance in adults with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

Results show that bedtime variability was a significant predictor of CPAP adherence, which was defined as four or more hours of treatment use per night. The odds of one-month CPAP non-adherence were 3.7 times greater for every one unit increase in habitual, or pre-treatment, bedtime variability.

"Long-term use of CPAP, such as after the first month or longer, requires regular routines that are conducive to establishing a new health behavior," said principal investigator Amy M. Sawyer, PhD, RN, assistant professor at Penn State University School of Nursing in University Park, Pa."

The research abstract was published recently in an online supplement of the journal Sleep, and Sawyer will present the findings Wednesday, June 5, in Baltimore, Md., at SLEEP 2013, the 27th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC.

The study group comprised 97 adults with newly diagnosed OSA. Bedtime variability was derived from a seven-day sleep diary completed by each participant before CPAP treatment and one-month CPAP adherence was based on objective data collected from each CPAP device.

According to the authors, the study was not designed to test the effect of bedtime consistency on CPAP use. However, the results do suggest that regularity of bedtime may be a new opportunity for health scientists and health care providers to address the problem of non-adherence to CPAP.

"Our results suggest that CPAP use is associated with stable bedtime schedules," said Sawyer. "By stabilizing bedtime schedules, or promoting consistency in bedtime patterns and routines prior to initiating CPAP treatment, adherence may improve."

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine reports that obstructive sleep apnea is a common sleep illness affecting at least four percent of men and two percent of women. It involves repetitive episodes of complete or partial upper airway obstruction occurring during sleep despite an ongoing effort to breathe. The most effective treatment option for OSA is CPAP therapy, which helps keep the airway open by providing a stream of air through a mask that is worn during sleep.

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For a copy of the abstract, "Sleep schedule and CPAP adherence: Is regularity of pre-treatment bedtime influential on CPAP adherence?", to arrange an interview with Dr. Sawyer or an AASM spokesperson, or to register for a press pass to attend SLEEP 2013, please contact AASM Communications Coordinator Lynn Celmer at 630-737-9700, ext. 9364, or lcelmer@aasmnet.org.

A joint venture of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, the annual SLEEP meeting brings together an international body of more than 5,500 leading clinicians and scientists in the fields of sleep medicine and sleep research. At SLEEP 2013 (http://www.sleepmeeting.org) more than 1,300 research abstract presentations will showcase new findings that contribute to the understanding of sleep and the effective diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders such as insomnia, narcolepsy and sleep apnea.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine considers sleep disorders an illness that has reached epidemic proportions. Board-certified sleep medicine physicians in an AASM-accredited sleep center provide effective treatment. AASM encourages patients to talk to their doctors about sleep problems or visit http://www.sleepeducation.com for a searchable directory of sleep centers.

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Study shows that bedtime regularity predicts CPAP compliance

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/aaos-sst050713.php

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Hyundai Motor says China sales up 26 percent in April

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three brothers were arrested on Monday as suspects in the case of three Ohio women who were reported missing about a decade ago and found alive in a Cleveland house near where they had last been seen, police said. The suspects, ages 50, 52 and 54, were arrested based on information given to investigators by the three women after their rescue, according to Deputy Cleveland Police Chief Ed Tomba, who said the women had probably been held in that house since they vanished. (Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hyundai-motor-says-china-sales-26-percent-april-051558535.html

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Kerr wins again at Kingsmill in 2-hole playoff

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) ? Cristie Kerr likes being emotional on the golf course, and knows there's a time and place for it.

She almost jumped the gun in the Kingsmill Championship before getting it back together.

Kerr made a short par putt on the second hole of a playoff against Suzann Pettersen on Sunday, then hugged her caddie, a few players who stayed around to watch and had one more hug she needed to give.

"Where's my dad?" she asked during the celebration on the 18th hole at Kingsmill's River Course.

Her father, Michael Kerr, was on his way ? as fast as his motorized cart would take him.

"I rarely get nervous when she plays," the career school teacher who has had both knees replaced said. "I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly. This was the most nervous I have been. It wasn't just the playoff. It was the last three holes. Honestly, I was in the bar drinking, which I don't normally do."

Kerr's 16th career victory was her third at Kingsmill, and the first that her father got to see in person. He stayed with her throughout her round, then figured his cart couldn't keep up in a crowd, so he found a place to watch.

When he got to the green after the finish, a big hug and many tears awaited.

"This was the best thing that's ever happened to me," he said.

His daughter made it so with a refusal to lose, even after she failed to cash in on her best shot of the day, an approach on the first extra hole that left her with a 6-foot putt to win.

It never even touched the cup, sliding by on the right.

"I wasn't going to lose, not today, not with my dad here," Kerr said.

But she almost let herself start choking up in celebration before she had reason.

"I thought about it a little more and I got a little emotional. Maybe that's why I pushed it and didn't make it. The second time, I was going to make sure, 'OK, I can think about that after. Let's take care of what we've got to take care of right now,'" Kerr said she told herself. "Emotions are good, though. We need emotions to play good."

Kerr closed with a 2-under 69, and Pettersen had a 67 to finish at 12-under 272 on the River Course.

Pettersen, whose first career victory came in a playoff at Kingsmill in 2007, had won at Hawaii in a playoff a few weeks ago, and lost for only the third time in eight career playoffs. She didn't stick around for the celebration.

"I had a chance to win outright on 18 in regulation and I hit a good putt," Pettersen told LPGA officials when reached by telephone. "Obviously, it's disappointing to lose in the playoff, but there was a lot of good to take from it."

It was the second year in the row the tournament ended in a playoff.

Last year, Paula Creamer and Jiyai Shin played the longest two-player playoff in tour history ? nine holes ? before Shin won. The victory came Monday morning, after the two played the 18th hole eight times in a row Sunday night.

The playoff format was changed for this year, with the plan to play No. 18 three times, then move to the par-4 16th, where Shin finally won last year, but Kerr made sure the huge gallery that lined the closing fairway got to see it end.

The finish turned into a two-player battle after looking like it might get wild.

Ariya Jutanugarn, the Thai 17-year-old who led after the first two rounds, made five birdies on the back nine in a 66 to surge into a tie for third with Ilhee Lee, who closed with a career-best 67.

Angela Stanford also had a share of third until the final hole, when she lipped out a short par putt for her first bogey in a closing 69. She shared fifth place with Stacy Lewis, who closed with a 70.

At one point, Pettersen led by a shot, with Kerr, Jutanugarn, Lee and Stanford all one back.

Kerr led most of the day, but when she missed the 14th green to the right, Pettersen hit her approach close. Kerr's sidehill chip left her a long two-putt, and Pettersen's birdie created a two-shot swing and put her in front at -11.

Just as they walked off the green, Lee's third consecutive birdie moved her to 10 under, and Jutanugarn's fifth birdie in six holes also got her to minus 10. Moments later, Stanford rolled in an eagle putt on the par-5 15th to also get to minus 10.

The former champions wasted no time separating themselves again.

Kerr had a chance to regain a share of the lead at No. 15, but her makeable eagle putt slid just by on the left, and she and Pettersen both had short birdie putts, giving the leaders some breathing room.

Kerr, who made several tester putts to save par during her round, pulled even on the par-4 16th, rolling in another from inside 10 feet for birdie after Pettersen's longer birdie attempt missed.

Both parred in, with Pettersen's long birdie try at No. 18 missing right by half an inch, and Kerr having to make yet another tester, this one from about 6 feet, to force the sudden death playoff.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/kerr-wins-again-kingsmill-2-hole-playoff-225801146.html

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Scranton gives big sendoff to TV's 'The Office' after image boost

By Michael Sadowski

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people, including some of the stars of "The Office," gave a rousing send-off to the television comedy show that ends this month in the city where it was set and whose image it changed forever.

When the Emmy-winning comedy started nearly a decade ago, the northeastern Pennsylvania city of Scranton was best known for its former mainstay industry of coal mining, but not anymore.

"The outward perception of the town is that we're a hard-scrabble coal town, but nobody here identifies with that," said Michele Dempsey, an architect and one of the organizers of The Office Wrap Party in the city of 76,000.

"That time is gone. 'The Office' has put Scranton on the map. It's helped make us cool."

More than a dozen members of the show's cast and crew took part in Saturday's event, which included a four-block parade through town where smiling, screaming fans mobbed cast members.

Actor Steve Carell, who played the bumbling office manager Michael Scott in the show, was a surprise guest at the cast party at a baseball stadium just outside of the city.

"Thank you, Scranton," Carell told the crowd. "This all is because of you."

Outside the Frank Regan Funeral Home, which was mentioned in an early episode of the show, painted tombstones marked the end of the show after an eight-year run. Across the street, actor Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight Schrute, snapped a picture of a fan dressed as a real-life Dwight bobblehead doll.

The party marked the first time the cast had been together since the show wrapped production in March. The final episode is scheduled to air on NBC on May 16.

INSTANT RECOGNITION, CULTURAL CACHE

At the city's courthouse square about 10,000 people greeted guests and stars of the show including John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer. Cast members performed in an impromptu concert on the grandstand with Wilson singing "We Are the Champions," Fischer, Kate Flannery and Ellie Kemper belting out "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and Oscar Nunez and Brian Baumgartner performing "Roxanne."

"I've never seen anything like this," Kemper said after the parade. "I'm still soaking it in. It's like The Rolling Stones came here or something. I told someone it looked like the parade scene in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'"

Saturday's party marked the unofficial end of the city's love affair with "The Office." Greg Daniels, producer and creator of the show, told fans that Scranton first came to mind as the location for the show 10 years ago when he was thinking about a workplace comedy dealing with the paper industry.

He noticed that many greeting cards were made in Scranton, making it a apt real-life model for the show.

"I'm very happy I did now," he added. "I think it was maybe the nostalgic feeling the city had."

"The Office," which was patterned on the original British TV show originated by comedian Ricky Gervais, has helped fuel the city's comeback efforts and made instant tourist attractions out of some of its bars and restaurants.

Steve Talerico, manager of Poor Richard's Pub, a favorite haunt of the employees in the show, said visitors from California and overseas have stopped in just because "The Office" workers do. The bar sells T-shirts, mugs and other show memorabilia.

"It's increased sales between 15 and 20 percent since we've started getting mentioned, especially in the summer," he said.

Austin Burke, president of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce, said the show hasn't prompted any businesses to move to the city but it gave it a foot in the door it wouldn't have had otherwise.

"After 'The Office' premiered, people knew us. That's the biggest thing the show has done, given us name recognition."

"It has this bit of cultural cachet that it didn't have before the show," said Scranton Times-Tribune newspaper reporter Josh McCauliffe, who was mentioned in a recent episode.

"I think a lot of people from here thought that the show would be cruel toward Scranton, as a lot of other TV shows or movies have been, but it really hasn't, at least not in an overt way."

The show has taken some slight swipes at the city, but consistently has treated it like a member of its extended family. On Saturday, Wilson and Krasinski credited fans in the city with helping keep the show on the air.

"When they have made jokes about the city, we've been in on them," Dempsey said. "And that's why this city loves it and always will."

(Editing by Patricia Reaney and Eric Walsh)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/scranton-gives-big-sendoff-tvs-office-image-boost-013544663.html

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Monday, May 6, 2013

Guitars And The Effects Pedals - Artipot

Music is really a living, breathing, pulsing thing. Live instrumentation is among the numerous things that really make music come to life, and no instrument is more widely used in nearly every music genre than the guitar. Just as singers have numerous voices, so do guitars. One way to give a guitar a particular voice and flavor is to use effects pedals. People may be so mesmerized with the sounds of the music to actually consider how all of those sounds are emerging from one guitar, it has to be more than just the strumming of the strings. Individuals who are curious might want to delve more into the background of pedals.

Rack-mounted effects were among the first effects pedals to exist, together with the effects that were found in the amplifiers. There are guitarists who have been known to create or modify their pedals while others choose a personalized mix of effects. All pedal effects can be split up into four individual classes: delay and echo effects, signal modulation, compression/warping/enhancing and various effects.

The very first amplified guitar dates back to the early 1930s. Guitarist wanted more of a range with the sounds their instruments gave off in the 1930s simply because that's when all the big bands were the top dog and the guitarist wanted to make sure they were standing out in these bands. The sound emitted from the very first amplified guitars wasn't very impressive. These effects were built within the guitar, and worked with a motorized pulley that moved the bridge so it could produce a kind of vibrato. It wasn't till the 1940s that the first standalone effect was developed. It was right around the same time frame the guitarist were looking to develop strategies to make an echo when they played and reverb sound that they had heard during soundchecks. One guitarist named Duane Eddy managed to rig together an artificial echo chamber, but recreating the same effect on stage would've required a lot of space because the effect was accomplished by using a massive water tank.

However the 1950s brought on the legendary rock 'n roll echo sound by using a built-in echo, vibrato, tremolo, and the reverb effect in the amplifiers. Vacuum tubes were used to make one of the first standalone guitar effects but wasn't one of the most practical thing for on stage. The 1960s gave birth to the transistor, and the last years of the 1970s is when solid-state effects truly took off. The creation of the distortion pedal and also the "cry baby" effect are credited to Roger Mayer. Those two effects were found everywhere with all the guitar players into the late 1960s and even throughout the 1970s, and to this very day the recognition of those effects has not faded. Tom Scholz was the member of the band Boston who came up with the portable guitar amp referred to as Rockman, which had the rock band's well-known sound built into it. Tom eventually went on to create a complete collection of effects that followed the model of his trademarked sounds.

The effects pedals we use today have hundreds of effects within them. Recent technology has made it to ensure that guitarists can have the effects they want in just a few moments. It's now even possible to have all of those effects created by making use of a single pedal, making it possible for an almost inexhaustible mixture of effects. However with technology growing each and every day, we will be amazed at the awesome new sounds and effects that'll be available for guitars.

Source: http://www.artipot.com/articles/1568748/guitars-and-the-effects-pedals.htm

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

NRA official: It's a 'culture war' more than gun rights

HOUSTON (AP) ? The National Rifle Association kicked off its annual convention Friday with a warning to its members they are engaged in a "culture war" that stretches beyond gun rights, further ramping up emotions surrounding the gun control debate.

NRA First Vice President James Porter, a Birmingham, Ala., attorney who will assume the organization's presidency Monday, issued a full-throated challenge to President Barack Obama in the wake of a major victory regarding gun control and called on members to dig in for a long fight that will stretch into the 2014 elections.

More than 70,000 NRA members are expected to attend the three-day convention amid the backdrop of the national debate over gun control and the defeat of a U.S. Senate bill that would have expanded background checks for gun sales. It was introduced after December's mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. A small gathering of gun control supporters were outside of the convention in Houston.

Porter's remarks came in a short speech to about 300 people at a grass-roots organizing meeting and set the tone for a "Stand and Fight"-themed convention that is part gun trade show, political rally and strategy meeting.

"This is not a battle about gun rights," Porter said, calling it "a culture war."

"(You) here in this room are the fighters for freedom. We are the protectors," said Porter, whose father was NRA president from 1959-1960.

Rob Heagy, a former parole officer from San Francisco, agreed with Porter's description of a culture war.

"It is a cultural fight on those 10 guarantees," he said, referring to the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution. "Mr. Obama said he wasn't going after our guns. As soon as the Connecticut thing happened, he came after our guns."

That theme carried throughout the day and reached a crescendo in a 3 ?-hour political rally punctuated by fiery speeches from state and national conservative leaders.

"You stood up when freedom was under assault and you stood in the gap, you made a difference," former U.S. senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told the cheering crowd of more than 3,500 at the rally.

"This is a critical time in American history. Something big is happening in America," Santorum said. "Stand for America. Fight for America."

Texas Gov. Rick Perry criticized gun control supporters as opportunists who prey on the raw emotions of tragic events.

"You can almost set your watch for how long it takes for people who hate guns, who hate gun owners, to start a new campaign," after a mass shooting, Perry said.

Obama, who has pushed for gun control measures, was a prime target for criticism the entire day. NRA Executive Director Chris Cox bragged about the organization's political victory.

"It was great to see the president throw a temper tantrum in the Rose Garden," Cox said.

Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, called the culture war reference a sign the NRA is worried about polls that show most Americans support some expansion of background checks.

"They want to make it a culture war," Horwitz said. "They have to make it into something bigger. On the issue of background checks, they can't possibly win."

Gun control advocates were determined to have a presence outside the convention hall. Across the street Friday, the No More Names vigil read the names of gun violence victims since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Gun control advocates also planned a petition drive to support expanded background checks and a Saturday demonstration outside the convention hall.

Erica Lafferty, whose mother, Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung, was killed by the gunman, was outside the building and said she hoped to talk to as many NRA members as she could.

"I am not against people owning guns. I am asking for safe and responsible gun ownership and gun laws. I don't understand where the problem is with background checks," Lafferty said.

While national polls have shown that a majority of Americans are in favor of expanding background checks, many convention attendees said Friday they were not in favor of such efforts.

"We already have something like those laws now. We don't need new laws on top of the old laws. They need to enforce the laws that we have," said Charles Henderson, 59, a farmer from Amarillo, Texas.

Inside the hall, visitors strolled past acres of displays of rifles, pistols, swords and hunting gear. Under Texas law, attendees could carry concealed weapons with a permit.

Debbie and Daniel Ferris of Gun Barrel City, Texas, attended the grass-roots organizing workshop and agreed with Porter's assessment of a culture war.

"It's about fighting tyranny," said Debbie Ferris, who has been an NRA member for five years. Her 35-year-old husband is a lifetime member.

"We don't like to be pushed around," Daniel Ferris said. "We are free Americans."

Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice presidential nominee and ex-Alaska governor, spoke to personal freedoms at the political rally as well, saying NRA members should "keep the faith" and "stand up and fight for our freedoms."

But gun control supporters promise to keep pressing the issue and have made significant strides at the state level.

Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, has said he will re-introduce the bill to require criminal and mental health background checks for gun buyers at shows and online.

Colorado lawmakers recently passed new restrictions on firearms, including required background checks for private and online gun sales and a ban on ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. Connecticut added more than 100 firearms to the state's assault weapons ban and now requires background checks for private gun sales.

Maryland and New York have passed sweeping new guns laws, and in Washington state, supporters of universal background checks recently announced a statewide campaign to collect 300,000 signatures to take the issue straight to voters.

"There are 90 percent of Americans that support this," Lafferty said. "We are not going away. It's a huge issue."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nra-official-culture-war-more-gun-rights-163302097.html

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Bangladeshi engineer arrested in building collapse

A worker is seen through a broken cement wall as he toils in the collapsed garment factory building in search for bodies on Thursday, May 2, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rescuers found more bodies in the concrete debris of a collapsed garment factory building Thursday and authorities say it may take another five days to clear the rubble. In addition to the 430 confirmed dead, police report another 149 people are still missing in what has become the worst disaster for Bangladesh's $20 billion-a-year garment industry that supplies global retailers. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

In this photograph taken on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Farida, center, cries as she searches for her sister-in-law Fahima, seen in photographs. Just moments before Fahima was to be placed in one of the dozens of unmarked graves dug for victims of Bangladesh's building collapse, Farida was able to claim and leave with her sister-in-law's body. For Farida and countless other relatives of the garment workers who disappeared when Rana Plaza came crashing down, the past week has been one of tumbling expectations, as hope that their loved ones survived faded into the realization that they may have to return home without even a body to bury. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

A woman grieves while others hold up pictures of their missing relatives at a school turned make-shift morgue where family members come to identify and claim bodies found in the garment factory building collapse, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rescuers found more bodies in the concrete debris of a collapsed garment factory building Thursday and authorities said it may take another five days to clear the rubble. In addition to the 430 confirmed dead, police report another 149 people are still missing in what has become the worst disaster for Bangladesh's $20 billion-a-year garment industry that supplies global retailers.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Women cover their noses as they watch people identify bodies at a school turned make-shift morgue where family members come to identify and claim bodies found in the garment factory building collapse, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rescuers found more bodies in the concrete debris of the collapsed garment factory building Thursday and authorities said it may take another five days to clear the rubble. In addition to the 430 confirmed dead, police report another 149 people are still missing in what has become the worst disaster for Bangladesh's $20 billion-a-year garment industry that supplies global retailers.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Anna, 16, who worked as a helper at Rana Plaza, was trapped for 3 days and had her right hand amputated in order to be rescued, has her hair brushed by her mother at the Enam Medical College on Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rescuers found more bodies in the concrete debris of a collapsed garment factory building Thursday and authorities said it may take another five days to clear the rubble. In addition to the 430 confirmed dead, police report another 149 people are still missing in what has become the worst disaster for Bangladesh's $20 billion-a-year garment industry that supplies global retailers. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ? More than 500 bodies have been recovered from the Bangladesh garment-factory building that collapsed last week, authorities said Friday after arresting an engineer who warned the building was unsafe but is also accused of helping the owner add three illegal floors to the structure.

Abdur Razzak Khan worked as the Rana Plaza owner's consultant when the owner made the illegal addition atop his five-story building, police official Ohiduzzaman said Friday. Khan was arrested Thursday on a charge of negligence.

Owner Mohammed Sohel Rana called Khan to inspect the building after it developed cracks on April 23, local media reported. That night Khan appeared on a private television station saying that after his inspection he told Rana to evacuate the building because it was not safe.

Khan, a former engineer at Jahangirnagar University near Savar, said he drew attention of the government engineers for the building to be examined further.

Police ordered the building evacuated, but witnesses say Rana told people gathered outside the next morning that the building was safe and that garment factory managers told their workers to go inside. It collapsed hours later.

The elected mayor of Savar municipality, Mohammad Refatullah, also has been suspended for alleged negligence in approving the design and layout of the doomed building, said Abu Alam, a top official of the local government ministry.

Alam said an official investigation has found that the mayor ignored rules in approving the design and layout. The mayor is from main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and the opposition BNP has criticized the suspension as politically motivated.

The confirmed death toll reached 501 as workers continued to pull bodies from the wreckage. The building collapse was the deadliest disaster in Bangladesh's $20 billion-a-year garment industry, far surpassing a fire late last year that killed 112 workers at a garment factory that had locked doors and no fire escapes.

Workers were carefully using cranes to remove the concrete rubble Friday morning.

"We are still proceeding cautiously so that we get the bodies intact," said Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hassan Suhwardy, the commander of the area's army garrison supervising the rescue operation.

The official number of missing has been 149 since Wednesday, though unofficial estimates are higher.

Rana was arrested earlier and is expected to be charged with negligence, illegal construction and forcing workers to join work, which are punishable by a maximum of seven years in jail. Authorities have not said if more serious crimes will be added.

The Bangladesh High Court has ordered the government to confiscate Rana's property and freeze the assets of the owners of the factories in Rana Plaza so the money can be used to pay the salaries of their workers.

Among the garment makers in the building were Phantom Apparels, Phantom Tac, Ether Tex, New Wave Style and New Wave Bottoms.

Associated Press

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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Why the alleged Boston bombers' mom probably won't be extradited (+video)

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva may stay out of American custody because the US and Russia do not have a bilateral extradition treaty, despite efforts by Moscow to negotiate one.

By Fred Weir,?Correspondent / April 28, 2013

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva at a news conference in Dagestan, Russia, on Thursday. Her sister Maryam, right, is with her.

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The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, has become a focus of interest after it emerged that her name had been added to a key terrorist watchlist in 2011 and fresh materials, including wiretaps, handed over to the US by the Russians showed her "vaguely discussing" jihad with her elder son two years ago.?

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Fred Weir has been the Monitor's Moscow correspondent, covering Russia and the former Soviet Union, since 1998.?

Friday, May 3, 2013

Wil Wheaton recovery roots your HTC One, saves the ship, rolls eyes at adults

ClockWorkMod dev steps in to help actor root his HTC One

Star Trek: The Next Generation actor and all-round alpha-nerd Wil Wheaton is having trouble rooting his HTC One. Of course ClockWorkMod developer Koushik Dutta is going to help out with a limited edition, Wheaton-centric recovery image.

The story, from Koush on Google+, goes something like this --

Tonight, Wil Wheaton was trying to root his HTC One and failing miserably. He was able to get recovery installed, but couldn't figure out how to get Superuser installed through recovery (some issue with mounting, blah blah).

Tough bootloaders call for an even tougher recovery. I'm proud to announce the new Wil Wheaton Recovery. Wil Wheaton will offer to root your device if root access is missing.

That's no joke -- it's exactly what Wil Wheaton recovery for the HTC One does when you install it. Naturally, it's also decorated with a new background image featuring Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher himself (imagine him reversing the polarity or unleashing a swarm of sentient nanites or something).

No word on whether Wheaton's been able to use the new recovery yet; his last Google+ post from a few hours ago said he was "giving up for the night." If you want to try out Wil Wheaton recovery for yourself (HTC One-only, of course), you can grab the download link from Koush's G+ page, linked below.

Source: +Koushik Dutta, +Wil Wheaton

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/SYeXKoEsJV0/story01.htm

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Benedict comes home to new house, new pope

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI comes home on Thursday to a new house and a new pope, as an unprecedented era begins of a retired pontiff living side-by-side with a reigning one inside the Vatican gardens.

All eyes will be on Benedict's physical state as he is welcomed by Pope Francis at his new retirement home, a converted monastery tucked behind St. Peter's Basilica. The last time he was seen by the public ? March 23 ? Benedict appeared remarkably more frail and thin than when he left the Vatican on his final day as pope three weeks earlier.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, has acknowledged Benedict's post-retirement decline but insists the 86-year-old German isn't suffering from any ailment and is just old.

"He is a man who is not young: He is old and his strength is slowly ebbing," Lombardi said this week. "However, there is no special illness. He is an old man who is healthy."

Since his Feb. 28 resignation, Benedict has been "hidden to the world" as he himself predicted, living at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, in the hills south of Rome. He chose to leave the Vatican immediately after his resignation to physically remove himself from the process of electing his successor and from Pope Francis' first weeks as pontiff.

His absence also gave workers time to finish up renovations on the monastery on the edge of the Vatican gardens that until last year housed groups of cloistered nuns who were invited for a few years at a time to live inside the Vatican to pray for the pontiff and church at large.

In the small building, with a chapel attached, Benedict will live with his personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, and the four consecrated women who look after him, preparing his meals and tending to the household. Inside the small building, Benedict has at his disposal a small library and a study. A guest room is available for when his brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, comes to visit.

"It is certainly small but well-equipped," Lombardi said.

When Benedict announced his intention to resign ? the first pontiff to do so in 600 years ? questions immediately swirled about the implications of having two popes living alongside one another inside the Vatican.

Benedict fueled those concerns when he chose to be called "emeritus pope" and "Your Holiness" rather than "emeritus bishop of Rome." He also raised eyebrows when he chose to continue wearing the white cassock of the papacy.

Given the political intrigues that plague the Vatican, it wasn't much of a stretch of the imagination to wonder if some cardinals, bishops and monsignors ? not to mention ordinary Catholics ? might continue making Benedict their point of reference rather than the new pope.

However, Benedict made clear on his final day as pope that he was renouncing the job and pledged his "unconditional reverence and obedience" to his then-unknown successor. It was a pledge he repeated in person on March 23 when Francis went to have lunch with him at Castel Gandolfo.

It was during that visit that the world saw how frail Benedict had become in the three weeks since his emotional departure from the Apostolic Palace: Always a man with a purposeful walk, he shuffled tentatively that day, using his cane.

Francis, for his part, seems utterly unfazed by the novel situation unfolding. He has frequently invoked Benedict's name and work and has called him on a half-dozen occasions, making clear he has no intention of ignoring the fact that there's another pope still very much alive and now living on the other side of the garden from the Vatican hotel where he lives.

Francis' gestures to Benedict during that March 23 visit were also remarkable: He refused to pray on the special papal kneeler in the small chapel of Castel Gandolfo, preferring to join Benedict on a kneeler in the pews, and referring to his predecessor as his "brother."

Now that they're neighbors, they might bump into one another on walks in the Vatican gardens or at the shrine to the Madonna on the top of the hill, just a stone's throw from Benedict's new home.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/benedict-comes-home-house-pope-092735587.html

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Lee Enterprises refinances $94 million in debt

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) ? Newspaper publishing company Lee Enterprises Inc. said on Tuesday that it has refinanced $94 million worth of debt with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., avoiding an interest rate increase that would have gone into effect next year.

As part of the debt financing deal, Lee added as collateral its 50 percent stake in TNI Partners, which publishes the Arizona Daily Star and azstarnet.com.

Lee said the refinancing reduces the interest to a fixed rate of 9 percent, down from 11.3 percent, and extends the maturity from December 2015 to April 2017. The interest rate was set to rise to 12.05 percent in January 2014 and to 12.8 percent in January 2015.

Lee said it is paying off debt ahead of schedule. Its debt stands at $893 million, the level that it predicted it would reach in September 2014 in its bankruptcy reorganization plan. Lee ended a brief stint under bankruptcy protection in January 2012. Its debt includes $624 million due in December 2015.

Lee Chairman and CEO Mary Junck said the refinancing will reduce the company's interest expense and allow it to repay debt faster. Junck is also chairman of The Associated Press.

Lee said it didn't pay any fees in the refinancing, which has already been approved by its other lenders. The deal is expected to close in early May.

Associated Press

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