Haiti assist bid injured by delayed U.N. reply

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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Clutching involuntary attack rifles, truckloads of U.N. infantry patrolled the streets of Haiti"s cracked collateral on the day after the trembler strike last month, clearly preoccupied to the wretchedness around them.

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Cries for assistance from people digging for survivors in collapsed buildings were drowned out by the bark of heavy-duty engines as the infantry plowed by Port-au-Prince but interlude to stick on rescue efforts, majority less lead them.

A usual steer since they were deployed in 2004, the U.N. infantry huddled in the shade of their canopied vehicles.

There were about 9,000 uniformed U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Haiti when the upheaval struck on Jan twelve and they were the judicious "first responders" to the mess in the bankrupt Caribbean country, whose notoriously diseased executive supervision was impressed by the scale of the tragedy.

Initially, however, nothing of the peacekeepers appeared to be concerned in hands-on charitable service in what puncture healing experts report as the vicious initial 72 hours after a harmful trembler strikes.

Their reply to the abominable pang was singular to you do security and seeking for looters after the bulk 7.0 upheaval intended majority of the collateral and took what Haitian President Rene Preval says could be as majority as 300,000 lives.

There was looting in the capital, but it paled in some-more aged with the astringency of the charitable crisis.

Horribly-injured patients flooded overstretched hospitals, forcing healing staff to confirm that patients to yield and that were already as well far left to try saving.

"Doctors played God," pronounced Tyler Marshall, a maestro former Los Angeles Times match operative with an general assist organisation that helped out in a tent city erected at the tallness of the destruction on the drift of Port-au-Prince"s University Hospital, the country"s largest.

Scores of U.N. crew died in the quake, together with Hedi Annabi, head of the U.N. mission that was set up in 2004. That helps insist what majority have criticized as a glacially delayed kickoff of service operations after one of history"s misfortune healthy disasters.

But in the days and weeks that followed it mostly seemed that lessons from alternative disasters were abandoned in Haiti as fears of rioting or anarchy overshadowed concerns about removing assist out quickly.

The U.N."s tip charitable assist official, John Holmes, is between those who have chided service agencies, together with the United Nations itself, for you do as well small to assistance Haiti.

"We cannot ... wait for for for the subsequent puncture for these lessons to be learned," Holmes wrote in a trusted email initial published on the website of the biography Foreign Policy.

"There is an obligatory need to progress significantly genius on the ground, to urge coordination, vital formulation and sustenance of aid," pronounced Holmes.

Edmond Mulet, behaving head of the U.N. mission, concurred in an talk that it played a singular charitable purpose in the initial couple of days after the trembler since the operations were effectively decapitated.

"At the unequivocally commencement it was unequivocally formidable since all the domicile was utterly broken and all the care of the mission was killed," Mulet told Reuters.

"CRIMINALS AND BANDITS"

Mulet gained prominence for wielding an iron fist during a prior army as head of the U.N. mission when he led mostly Brazilian "blue helmet" infantry in a successful crackdown on Haiti"s heavily armed gangs.

And he has finished no tip about sophistry the competing needs of service operations with law enforcement, in his bid to lane down the some-more than 3,000 inmates who took value of the trembler to shun from the main prison.

"We are here additionally to yield security," he pronounced when asked about the mess of convoys of rifle-wielding U.N. infantry to poke for people trapped in the rubble of the busted capital.

"I still have to patrol, I still have to go after all these criminals and bandits that transient from the inhabitant penitentiary, the squad leaders, the criminals, the killers, the kidnappers. I cannot unequivocally confuse myself from you do that."

The service mission shifted in to higher rigging after U.S. infantry deployed in large numbers and set up a supply sequence to get food and disinfectant in to areas great out for aid.

But there were still majority bottlenecks and setbacks, mostly involving U.N.-linked food distributions hobbled by unsound organization, reserve and throng control.

Unfortunately, U.N. infantry in Haiti have over the years gained a repute for toughness and abuse some-more than for easing pang in the lowest nation in the Americas.

"The usually time I"ve seen one of these U.N. infantry burst out of the behind of a lorry was to kick up on somebody or take a shot at them," pronounced a piece of the U.S. Army"s 82nd Airborne Division, as he worked security during a new assist handout.

"These guys have since all of us in unvaried a bad repute here," he said, asking not to be identified.

Haiti"s wrecked infrastructure and bad ride links finished it formidable to get assist out and keep it flowing, but that frequency finished the incident opposite from that in alternative new disasters around the globe.

"POOREST AND MOST VULNERABLE"

"The lowest and the majority exposed people lend towards to live in the regions that are strike the majority by healthy disasters," pronounced Solomon Kuah, an puncture healing medicine formed in New York who outlayed 4 weeks in Port-au-Prince after the quake.

There are no arguable estimates for the series of survivors who died from injuries due to unsound healing supplies.

But Henriette Chamouillet, the World Health Organization"s deputy in Haiti, pronounced all from staff shortages to bureaucracy and a miss of make-up lists embroiled the smoothness of containers full of medicines from Port-au-Prince"s airfield to doctors on the ground.

Port-au-Prince sits usually 700 miles off the seashore of Miami, that is home to a large Haitian-American community, and it seemed ludicrous that so couple of the U.S. infantry rushed there spoke French or were accompanied by translators.

One retaining picture of pell-mell food distributions came when U.S. helicopters offloaded boxes of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) at a site in the capital. Many Haitians non-stop them up usually to toss them afar in offend since no French or Creole-language instructions were enclosed with the assumingly invalid packets of dust, explaining that they indispensable to be churned with H2O as piece of their preparation.

Rajiv Shah, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has touted the Haiti service mission as "the largest and majority successful general poke and rescue bid ever fabricated in history."

But some-more than 6 weeks after the upheaval hit, the mission is still mostly in an puncture reply mode. The U.N."s World Food Program is tying the food rations to 55-pound (25 kg) bags of rice and the Haitian supervision estimates that a million upheaval survivors are still vital in the streets in temporary encampments with no using H2O or toilets.

Doctors are roughly finished traffic with dire injuries but reconstruction for a little 40,000 amputees and rebuilding Haiti"s health infrastructure are between long-term challenges.

"This is unequivocally a mess of Biblical proportions," pronounced Lewis Lucke, who was the USAID executive in Iraq prior to entrance to Haiti as U.S. ambassador.

U.N. and alternative officials have pronounced the tellurian reply to Haiti"s upheaval was quicker and some-more in effect than in alternative new disasters, together with the Asian tsunami that killed 226,000 people in thirteen countries in Dec 2004.

But experts contend the United Nations has a lot to sense from smaller, some-more nimble healing groups similar to International Medical Corps, or IMC, and Paris-based Medicins Sans Frontieres, along with charities some-more experienced in distributing aid, such as CARE and Catholic Relief Services.

Kuah, who concurrent service efforts for IMC, a California-based organisation that had rarely learned doctors treating patients in Haiti twenty-three hours after the trembler struck, stressed the "need for speed" when it comes to saving lives.

"When you ask yourself if there were ways you could have prevented some-more mortalities or discontinued additional mortality, with earthquakes, in particular, it"s some-more timing than anything else," pronounced Kuah.

(Additional stating by Catherine Bremer, Jackie Frank, Patricia Zengerle, Mica Rosenberg and Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Kieran Murray)

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Glitch lets young kids catch snippets of Playboy channel TV/Movies

For a integrate of hours early Tuesday, young kids examination dual channels dedicated to childrens radio on Time Warner Cable might have held glimpses of the Playboy channel.

According to Melissa Buscher at Time Warner Cable, adult module previews for the Playboy channel ran in the tip right dilemma of channels 552 and 555, Kids on Demand and Kids Preschool on Demand.

Buscher pronounced an apparatus disaster accounted for the programming complaint in between 6:14 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. She pronounced the calm shown was previews for adult shows, not the tangible adult movies.

Buscher pronounced that majority marketplace areas usually went black when the apparatus failed, but in a little areas of Cary, Garner, Morrisville and Goldsboro, the adult previews were shown. She additionally pronounced it is probable that tools of Johnston County and Wilson experienced the problem.

Time Warner Cable was done wakeful of the complaint when relatives called to inform the issue. The wire association has monitoring procedures in place to catch glitches similar to this, Buscher said, but since it influenced usually small areas, the customary monitoring didnt collect it up.

"We deeply bewail it happened, quite on channels dedicated to childrens programming," Buscher said. "We"ve taken calls from endangered parents, and we assimilate that they are concerned. We"re concerned, too. We"re creation fixes right away to have certain this doesnt occur again."

EPA to issue manners on smokestack hothouse gases shortly

Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON Fri April 9, 2010 3:28pm EDT Factbox Factbox: Key dates in U.S. EPA meridian regulationFri, April 9 2010

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will shortly issue manners that will establish that energy plants and factories will face hothouse gas regulations, an group central pronounced on Tuesday.

The measure, well known as the "tailoring rule," will set emissions thresholds for the big emitters of gases blamed for warming the planet, such as coal-fired energy plants and plants that have concrete and glass.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson pronounced progressing this year that usually plants that evacuate 75,000 tonnes per year or some-more of CO dioxide are approaching to be regulated underneath the order in the subsequent dual years. The EPA wants to extent U.S. Clean Air Act regulations, or "tailor" them, so they request usually to incomparable polluters to equivocate strenuous sovereign and state agencies with paperwork.

"We"re awaiting that order to be finished really shortly, hopefully by the finish of the month," pronounced Gina McCarthy, an partner director at the Environmental Protection Agency, told a conference.

Regulated plants would be compulsory to hold permits demonstrating that they are utilizing the ultimate record to prune behind emissions. They could additionally face alternative destiny EPA hothouse gas regulations if Congress fails to pass a meridian bill.

The Obama administration department has prolonged pronounced it prefers that Congress pass legislation to extent hothouse gases.

But with meridian legislation stalled in Congress, the EPA has started to issue manners that are approaching to assistance cut emissions -- that has hurt a little U.S. lawmakers and industry.

The 75,000 tonne starting point could lead to a unreasonable of lawsuits opposite the EPA as it pits big energy plants opposite small ones, pronounced Kevin Book, an researcher at ClearView Energy Partners.

Companies such as Calpine Corp, Southern, Dynegy Inc might good since they have "peaker" energy plants that usually run during times of complicated demand. The plants hillside in enlarge during high times of high energy direct but they might shun regulations since their annual emissions are small.

But any association that owns outrageous energy plants that are on majority of the time, together with the on top of ones, could face one more costs that small plants would avoid, Book said.

"The short highway to a law fit is picking winners and losers in an industry," Book pronounced about the rule, that he suspects will lead to an enlarge in lawsuit opposite the EPA.

EPA"s McCarthy pronounced the group is used to lawsuits and will lift on. Last week the EPA released the initial ever U.S. boundary on hothouse gas emissions from vehicles.

Starting subsequent year the EPA will additionally need still sources of the gases, such as energy companies and manufacturers, to get permits observant new plants or expansions make make use of the most appropriate accessible record to cut emissions.

McCarthy pronounced the group is perplexing to relieve fears that the entrance manners will need all big plants to make make use of expensive, untested record such as CO constraint and storage, or CCS. That process would concede snaring of the gas prior to it reaches the smokestack and socking it afar for permanent storage.

"We"ve had discussions with industry sectors that are endangered they we"re going to be requiring CCS for all comforts out there," McCarthy told reporters.

"Clearly the manners underneath the Clean Air Act that we are going to be implementing see at relocating brazen already demonstrated technologies, not innovative technologies that have nonetheless to be scrupulously demonstrated," she said.

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

Xstrata joins ravel over Australian coalminer

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Two months after Mick Davis, the trainer of Xstrata, called a hindrance to acquisitions, the miner has approached Macarthur Coal about a probable 2.25 billion deal.

Mr Davis has paid for thirteen companies given floating Xstrata in 2002, but in Feb he pronounced that the Anglo-Swiss organisation would combine on the own expansion prospects.

Yet it emerged yesterday that Xstrata had approached large investors in Macarthur, an Australian coalminer, about a probable takeover. Xstrata is pronounced to have oral to ArcelorMittal and Posco, the steel producers that together own 24.9 per cent of Macarthur. Xstrata declined to comment.

Xstrata is the worlds largest exporter of thermal spark and the seductiveness in Macarthur comes as prices for the commodity have soared by up to 50 per cent this year. Increased direct from steelmakers for coking spark and physical phenomenon generators for thermal spark have done coalminers tasteful targets.

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Macarthur, that specialises in high-value pulverised coal, had programmed to buy Gloucester Coal, a not as big Australian competitor, for roughly A$1 billion. Peabody Energy, the American-based coalminer, afterwards bid A$3.6 billion (2.18 billion) for Macarthur, call a mad reply from Gloucester shareholders. Then Peabodys bid was trumped yesterday by a A$3.7 billion bid from New Hope, an additional Australian coalminer. Macarthur pronounced that this was as well low and deserted the offer, but, among such interest, it has behind a preference on the Gloucester takeover.

Macarthur pronounced of the Xstrata proceed to the investors: We assimilate that this contention was rough and rarely conceptual. Macarthur has no serve report about the context or calm of that discussion, nor either Xstrata has any concrete seductiveness in Macarthur or any of the assets.

The scuffle has left Gloucester but a intensity buyer, most to the distrurbance of the Noble Group, a Hong Kong-based commodity merchant that owns 88 per cent.

In a matter last week, Noble said: We destitute the tail to put together a good, satisfactory understanding that will set up a good company. All they [Peabody] are you do is perplexing to throw a wrench in a well- thought-through understanding with a chequebook and try to spin peoples heads with a short-term payoff.

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Sprint unveils HTC WiMax phone EVO 4G

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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp on Tuesday denounced the HTC EVO 4G from HTC Corp, the No. 3 U.S. operator"s initial cellphone that will await the WiMax high-speed wireless service.

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The HTC phone has a 4.3 in. screen, that is written for video observation and Web browsing and is thirty percent bigger than the shade of the Apple Inc iPhone, Sprint said.

The device, that runs on Google Inc software, has an 8 megapixel camera for receiving photos and video and a second camera on the front for applications similar to video chat.

Sprint pronounced it would begin offered the device this summer and would betray pricing for the phone and the wireless use closer to the launch date. David Owens, a cellphone senior manager for Sprint, declined to criticism on the device"s cost but pronounced it would be in the high finish of the smartphone range.

The device will await Sprint"s CDMA network, as well as the higher speed WiMax network operated by Clearwire Corp, in that Sprint has an tenure interest of rounded off 56 percent. Analysts had approaching the phone to be called Supersonic, that Sprint pronounced was the formula name for the phone.

Sprint is anticipating the WiMax use will assistance it branch years of patron losses, as it is the country"s initial fourth-generation 4G phone.

Its greatest opposition -- Verizon Wireless, a try of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc -- is additionally construction a 4G network but does not design to have 4G phones accessible until the center of subsequent year.

"This is going to be an iconic handset but question," Owens pronounced in an talk on the sidelines of the CTIA show where the phone was unveiled.

Owens pronounced that whilst the device was written for the WiMax network, Sprint additionally expects business on the comparison network to buy the phone.

The phone additionally has a small kickstand that allows it to be placed at an point of view for video viewing.

(Reporting by Sinead Carew and Gabriel Madway; Editing by Gary Hill)

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Adams lays out his goals plan

The new head of a Durham drug association is anxious about the job, but says he"ll miss his family during the week.

Adrian Adams, 59, began his on all sides as CEO of Inspire Pharmaceuticals on Monday. Most weeks, he"ll leave his home outward Philadelphia on Monday sunrise and lapse Friday night. That equates to withdrawal at the back of his wife, Kim, and 6 children, who range in age from 5 to 27, and vital alone in a apartment house he not long ago paid for in Chapel Hill.

Adams pronounced his weekends will often be outlayed involving himself in the amicable and sports activities of his young kids and spending time with his wife.

That family concentration could offer him well at Inspire, that grown a clever employee-friendly repute during the past decade when it was run by CEO Christy Shaffer.

Adams spoke by write with staff bard Alan M. Wolf. Here are a little highlights:

On his goals at Inspire: One ofAdams" tip tasks will be creation the association essential by 2012.

"Clearly, as a open company, removing to that idea is unequivocally important," he said.

The association will do that by branch the initial treatments for cystic fibrosis, pinkish eye and alternative diseases in to blurb successes in entrance years, he added. For the 9 months finished Sept. 30, Inspire lost $37.4 million.

On keeping Inspire in the Triangle: Adams recognizes that Inspire and the workers have turn an constituent piece of this community. "In this industry, there has been so most shift and evolution, you can never be sure of anything," he said. But relocating Inspire somewhere else "is not my goal."

Several of the companys directors live in this area and would expected conflict a move, pronounced Inspire authority Kenneth Lee. "He would have a tough time you do that even if he longed for to."

On using companies of opposite size: During his 30-year career, Adams has worked at small companies and big ones. His last pursuit was as CEO of Sepracor, a Massachusetts association with some-more than 2,000 employees. Inspire employs about 235 and Adams pronounced there were questions during the employing routine about how well he would fit in.

"I unequivocally suffer entrepreneurial, focused companies," he said. "I was captivated to Inspire since of where the at in the theatre of evolution."

On keeping Inspires culture: A U.K. native, Adams came from a medium credentials and embraces integrity, humility, tough work and transparency. If a personality can rise a enlightenment centered on great people, it fosters group suggestion and growth, he said.

"Great cultures are changed and should be nurtured," he added. "I have no time for people who get formula at the responsibility of others and concentration not only on what people do but how they do it."

On a couple of his the one preferred things: Adams and his mother are concerned in a series of charitable, propagandize and church activities. Adams, who has a chemistry grade from Salford University in Manchester, enjoys essence song and the Star Trek movies.

His the one preferred book is Stephen Kings "The Stand," and his the one preferred commercial operation book is "Leading Change" by John Kotter. He not long ago review "True Compass," by Ted Kennedy, and "How the Mighty Fail," by Tim Collins.

Computer games can learn schools a little lessons

Commercial video games, the ones that have a lot of money, are zero but problem-solving spaces, says Gee, the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Chair in Literacy Studies in the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education at Arizona State University.

Gee common his imagination on games and guidance in a symposium, First-Person Solvers? Learning Mathematics in a Video Game, on Feb nineteen at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting.

Gee was one of the initial scholars to inspect the tutorial intensity of video games. In 2004 he wrote one of the commencement books about how games have make use of great guidance beliefs -- What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy. This year he comes out with a new book, Women as Gamers: The Sims and 21st Century Learning. The book is co-written with Elisabeth Hayes, additionally a highbrow in the Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education.

Gee says that video games optimize guidance in multiform ways. First, games yield report when it is needed, rather than all at once in the beginning.

We lend towards to sense science, for example, by revelation you a lot of things and afterwards vouchsafing you do science. Games sense the alternative way. They have you do stuff, and afterwards as you need to know information, they discuss it it to you, he explains.

Games additionally yield an sourroundings that Gee calls agreeably frustrating. They are severe but doable. Thata really motivating state for human beings. Sometimes itcalled the "flow" state, he says.

Many diversion developers additionally entice players to cgange their products by modding. The developers share the program and inspire players to emanate new levels or scenarios.

Think about it. If I have to have the game, or a piece of the game, I come to a low bargain of the diversion as a order system. If I had to mod scholarship -- that is, I had to have a little of my own curriculum or my own experiments -- afterwards I"d have an bargain at a low turn of what the manners are, Gee says.

Assessment is a argumentative issue in preparation today. Typically, comment happens by standardised testing. In games, however, guidance and comment are firmly married. The diversion gives consistent feedback and collects report about players" performances. For example, the large multiplayer online diversion World of Warcraft, with fifteen million players around the world, is utterly standardized. The association that combined the diversion has picked up implausible amounts of report about the players and put it in to utterly statistical terms. Gee adds that integrating comment and guidance is less costly than ancillary a apart contrast industry.

The thought that educators can sense from the gaming industry is apropos increasingly popular. For example, in Nov 2009, President Obama voiced a debate to urge science, technology, engineering and arithmetic education. As piece of the campaign, the Macarthur Foundation and multiform record companies have launched a foe to rise video games for training scholarship and math.

Educators do not need to have make use of tangible computer-based games to soak up these tutorial principles, Gee says. This sort of guidance that games do I call "situated learning," since you"re situated in an tangible problem-solving space. Situated guidance can be finished with or but a game. Good teachers have regularly finished it.

Job Loss Takes a Toll on Mental Health

In an epoch of 9.7 percent unemployment, no one needs to betold that losing your pursuit is bad for your bank account. But stagnation alsoundermines a less-obvious magnitude of well-being: mental health.

A new Gallup check finds that a infancy of impoverished andunderemployed Americans inform themselves as "struggling." Theyrealso some-more expected to inform basin and feelings of dolour and be concerned thantheir in use counterparts.

Such mental misunderstanding isnt surprising, pronounced HarveyBrenner, a highbrow of open health at the University of North Texas HealthScience Center and Johns Hopkins University, who studies the relationshipsbetween mercantile trends and psychologicalwell-being.

"The anticipating is very, really unchanging that higherunemployment is associated to higher occurrence of critical mental commotion anddepression," he said.

Job loss and sadnessgo hand-in-hand

Gallup questioned 40,000 adult Americans about their employmentstatus, emotions and activities. People operative full-time or calm with apart-time report were counted as "employed," whilst those who wereworking part-time but longed for full-time work and those who were not operative atall but longed for to be were labeled "underemployed."

Negative emotions were some-more usual between the underemployed,46 percent of whom reported feelings of be concerned and twenty-seven percent of whom reportedsadness. For the employed, those numbers were twenty-nine percent and thirteen percent,respectively.

In addition, twenty-one percent of the underemployed pronounced theydbeen told by a healing veteran they had depression, a numberthat was only twelve percent for people who were employed.

Snapshot of theunemployed

The check represents a image in time and cant be used todetermine if underemployment causes basin or if vexed people are morelikely to lose their jobs. But longitudinal investigate that follows the samepeople over majority years suggests that pursuit loss does diminution psychologicalwell-being, pronounced David Dooley, a highbrow of psychology and amicable function atthe University of California, Irvine.

"Our investigate finds that an inauspicious shift in jobsituation does lead to an enlarge in symptoms of depression," Dooleysaid. High underemployment additionally causes an uptick in peoples reports ofsadness, he said. In alternative words, in bad times, everyones mood takes a turnfor the worse.

Factors such as age and preparation affect how people copewith jobloss, Dooley said. For example, hes found that people in their earlytwenties are some-more expected to injustice ethanol after losing a pursuit than people intheir late twenties. That could be since age brings family obligations andresponsibilities similar to home ownership, Dooley said, so comparison workers are lessfree to drown their sorrows.�

The bulk of stagnation investigate has been pessimistic, includinga 1998 investigate from the University of Wales that found the impoverished in Englandand Wales were twice as expected to die from self-murder as the employed. Researchpublished this month in the biography Legal Medicine found that suicides in SouthKorea climb with unemployment, a anticipating replicated in majority industrializednations. Unemployment has additionally been correlated with miss of preventativemedical care, low birth-weight babies and bad diet.

Perhaps the biggest risk of stagnation is that it tendsto put people at the back of in the prolonged run, pronounced Johns Hopkins Brenner.

"To the border that people lapse to work after aperiod of extensive unemployment, they lend towards to lose salary and benefits andlong-term pensions and so forth," Brenner said. That loss causes a loiter insocioeconomic status, that is the majority absolute predictor of mankind acrossnations, he said.

Glass half-fullperspective

If theres any china backing to be found, Dooley said, itsthat 42 percent of the underemployed told Gallup they were"thriving." Thats nineteen commission points reduce than the series ofemployed workers who were thriving, but it suggests that losing your jobdoesnt meant involuntary mental ruin, Dooley said.

Underemployment can give people time to reevaluate goals, get healthierand outlay time with desired ones, he said, adding that the plea forpsychologists and policy-makers is to foster these certain adaptations.

"Unemployment can be a churned bag. It can be a downrightgood thing if the pursuit youre removing afar from is intensely formidable andunpleasant," Dooley said. "Its not startling that a little peoplereport that theyre satisfied. Theyre anticipating utilitarian and profitable things todo with their increasing time."

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Adding gluten early might means constipation in babies

Rachael Myers Lowe Tue Mar 9, 2010 3:54pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Giving gluten-containing foods to infants too soon may trigger long-lasting tummy troubles but more study is needed before changing recommendations for parents, Dutch researchers conclude.

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Writing in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, J. C. Kiefte-de Jong and colleagues at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam report that 2-year-olds introduced to gluten before 6 months of age had a "significantly higher" rate of "functional" constipation -- defined as fewer than 3 bowel movements per week and/or hard stools for 2 or more weeks -- than children who were introduced to gluten later.

At the same time, introducing other allergy-inducing foods in the first year of life such as peanuts, cow"s milk, or hen"s eggs was not linked to constipation.

Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye and, as a result, is present in many cereals and breads. It is not present in all grains, however. Wild rice, corn, buckwheat, millet, amaranth, quinoa, oats, soybeans, and sunflower seeds do not contain gluten protein.

Earlier studies implied a relationship between early gluten introduction and celiac disease, a digestive disorder caused by an abnormal immune response to gluten. The disease damages structures in the lining of the small intestine called villi, impairing the body"s absorption of nutrients.

It can lead to severe health problems including anemia, poor bone health, fatigue and weight loss. There is no cure, and the only treatment is a life-long gluten-free diet.

The authors wanted to know whether gluten might also be linked to constipation, which is the main reason for up to 5 percent of all visits to pediatricians. It often develops around the time solid foods are added to an infant"s diet, and when parents transition from breast milk or formula to cow"s milk.

The Dutch researchers analyzed data from more than 4,600 children from birth until young adulthood. Parents completed a questionnaire at 6 and 24 months about their child"s general health, breast feeding, the introduction of solid foods, medications, cow"s milk allergy and other information.

At 24 months, 12 percent - about one in eight -- of the study"s children had functional constipation.

After examining family traits and diets, Kiefte-de Jong concluded that introducing gluten in the first year of life was "a trigger for functional constipation" in some children. On the flip side, constipation may make cow"s milk allergies last longer.

Still, researchers said the study had some weaknesses, including the need to rely on self-reporting by parents about food allergies and the lack of information about lifestyles and psychological factors, and said they would want to see more studies before making any new recommendations to parents.

Dr. Rita Steffen, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Cleveland Clinic Children"s Hospital, agreed.

Parents are usually urged to introduce solids slowly, starting with rice cereal and moving to other grains after 6 months, Steffen told Reuters Health, while acknowledging that parents will do what they want, often jumping the gun on introducing other solids.

If a child is tolerating gluten, Steffen said, there"s no reason yet to remove it from the diet.

"I wouldn"t jump out and change the world based on this," she said. "There"s not enough evidence to support removing gluten from diets."

SOURCE: American Journal of Gastroenterology, March 2010.

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Valiant to buy Antrim section ups interest in Causeway margin

Thu Mar 4, 2010 10:54am EST Stocks & &

(Reuters) - Valiant Petroleum Plc (VPP.L) said on Thursday it conditionally agreed to buy one of Antrim Energy Inc"s (AEN.TO) (AEY.L) units, in a deal that would give the British oil and gas firm a majority stake in the Causeway field in the North Sea.

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Valiant said it expected to assume up to 37 million pounds ($55.6 million) of potential tax losses of the unit, Antrim Causeway, along with a 30 percent interest in the Causeway field, taking its total stake to 54.5 percent.

The company said it agreed to repay a $21.75 million loan note issued by Antrim Causeway in favor of its parent company if the Causeway field gets development sanction from regulators.

Antrim also agreed to transfer operatorship of the field to Valiant, following government approval, Valiant said.

"The recent reduction in rig and service costs and introduction of the small fields allowance in the most recent UK budget are anticipated to make the Causeway field an attractive near-term project for the company," Valiant Chief Executive Peter Buchanan said in a statement.

Valiant shares were down 4.5 percent at 549.5 pence at 1544 GMT, while shares of Antrim Energy were down 10.4 percent at 77.5 pence on the London Stock Exchange.

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(Reporting by Tresa Sherin Morera in Bangalore; Editing by Anne Pallivathuckal)

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Russia Railways arm valued at $5 billion pre-IPO

MOSCOW Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:17pm EDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Railways is preparing to float its freight operator Freight One later this year and has valued the subsidiary at around $5 billion, the head of the division said on Wednesday.

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The state-owned rail operator is planning to offload a number of assets to boost its coffers, and is also in the early stages of floating a major stake in cargo unit TransContainer.

Freight One Chief Executive Salman Babayev told journalists a road show for the IPO could take place in September, when the company receives all necessary ratings.

"I think the company can be valued before the IPO at $5 billion ... We are ready, but the question of exactly when should be directed to (Russian Railways)," he said.

Russia"s railways are a vital part of the economy as they transport vital oil gas and resources from remote regions to Europe and China.

Russia"s weak infrastructure and lack of major highways mean 85 percent of transportation is by rail, compared to just 9 percent by road, according to Russian Railways. This compares to a 53 percent - 33 percent split in India.

Russian Railways Chief Executive Vladimir Yakunin has said around 15 percent of Freight One"s shares could be placed via a private placement, while 35 percent could be floated publicly.

Freight One was established as an independent freight operator in 2007 and owns more than 200,000 units of rolling stock of various types, the company said on its Web site.

(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov; Writing by John Bowker and Lidia Kelly; Editing by David Holmes and Elaine Hardcastle)

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