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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Pope 2008 visit to NY free

Pope coming to New York in 2008 AP - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
AP News NEW YORK - Admission to the pope's Mass next year at Yankees Stadium won't come at major league prices: Tickets are free.

The Archdiocese of New York says it plans to distribute the tickets through its parishes, though it has yet to decide when to begin handing them out.
Diocesan spokesman Joseph Zwilling says tickets will also be available to worshippers coming from elsewhere.
The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Benedict XVI would travel to the United States for the first time as pontiff next year to meet with President Bush, address the United Nations and visit ground zero and Yankee Stadium.

Wilkommen to New York, Pope Benedict!
The German-born pontiff will make his first trip to the Big Apple this April as the leader of the Roman Catholic church, Archbishop Pietro Sambi told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops today.
The Pope will celebrate Mass at Yankee Stadium and will mark the first time a pontiff has visited Ground Zero.
Pope Benedict will make that pilgrimage to show "solidarity with those who have died, with their families and with all those who wish an end of violence and in the search of peace," said Sambi, the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S.
The visit will take place on the third anniversary of Benedict's election to succeed Pope John Paul, who died in April 2005.
The first leg of the papal visit to the U.S. will be Washington, where Pope Benedict's agenda includes an official White House reception on April 16.
He will celebrate Mass at the new National Stadium in Washington on April 17 and hold meetings with Catholic priests, university presidents, diocesan educators, and youth organizers.
"The pope will not travel much, but he will address himself to the people of the United States and the whole Catholic Church," Sambi said.
After that, the Pope will fly to New York where he is scheduled to address the United Nations on April 18 and celebrate Mass the next day for thousands of worshippers at Yankee Stadium.
By CORKY SIEMASZKODAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, November 12th 2007, 12:58 PM

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Sunday, November 04, 2007

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Surge from Tropical Storm Noel dumps sand, water onto A1A in Fort Lauderdale

Stretch of road in Lauderdale closed after storm surge. Surge from Noel

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The view looking south toward Sunrise Blvd., as surge caused the ocean to get past the seawall , flooding the northbound lanes on AIA, just north of Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. (Sun-Sentinel/Andrew Innerarity / November 3, 2007) By Brian Haas South Florida Sun-Sentinel November 4, 2007 FORT LAUDERDALE - Call it a parting gift from what was once Hurricane Noel.
Weather experts said ocean swells whipped up by the departing tropical storm are what turned parts of State Road A1A into an extension of Fort Lauderdale beach Saturday as high tides swept up and dumped sand and water onto the roadway.
Police had to close the north-south oceanfront road from Sunrise Boulevard north to Northeast 21st Street as knee-high salt water ebbed and flowed over sections of the pavement around 5 p.m.
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"This is definitely awesome," said Chuck Holloway, 35, who was vacationing from Mansfield, Ohio. "I've never seen anything like this."
Holloway and John Pruitt, 35, also from Mansfield, stared in awe at the sight of the washed-out road. A beach garbage can that had floated out of its holder sat in the middle of A1A near the traffic light at Northeast 14th Court. The sidewalk in the area had disappeared under sand and ocean water. A flooded-out Jeep sat idle with water up to its doors as two people tried to restart it.
"It's sort of beautiful in its own way," said Pruitt. "Even if it is a disaster."
Disaster might be the word used by those tracking the extensive beach erosion that many South Florida beaches have experienced in the past few weeks, including from Noel, which scraped away huge amounts of sand, especially in Palm Beach County. High winds have generated battering waves that have gobbled away shoreline, shrinking beaches like the one Ed Moles lives on.
Moles, a resident of Pompano Beach Club in Pompano Beach, said in the six years he's lived there, he's never seen the beaches in such poor shape and waves so close to his building.
Moles said that beach conditions over the past week or so have made him re-think how devastating the storm surge could be if the area is hit head-on by a hurricane.
"It's looking like if we get another storm, there's not going to be any beach left," he said.
Fortunately, the worst should be over, at least in the near term.
Dan Dixon, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami, said Noel sent a swell of high winds and water straight at South Florida as it passed to the northeast. The storm's center Saturday night was in the open Atlantic and far from land, though it might spawn high rains and showers that will reach New England. As it continues to move away from South Florida, Dixon said, conditions here should improve.
In addition, a series of cool fronts over the next few days should make things drier and more comfortable in South Florida he said.
"It is going to be getting better," Dixon said.
Brian Haas can be reached at bhaas@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4597.

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Russian folk choreographer Moiseyev dies

Igor Moiseyev, the founder of the Moiseyev Dance Company, at a rehearsal in 1986.

By JACK ANDERSON

Igor Moiseyev, the master choreographer who created a new form of theatrical folk dance in Russia and whose troupe was one of the most popular dance companies of the 20th century, died yesterday in Moscow. He was 101. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated Press

Igor Moiseyev, a Russian choreographer, in 2006.

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The company in performance in 2003.

His death, at a hospital where he had been unconscious for three days, was announced by the troupe’s director, Yelena Shcherbakova, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The Kremlin said that President Vladimir V. Putin expressed condolences.

The Moiseyev Dance Company’s energy, virtuosity, precision and ingenious distillation of folk styles from many lands set audiences cheering worldwide. When the troupe made its New York debut in 1958, presented by the impresario Sol Hurok at the Metropolitan Opera House, it became the first major Soviet dance group to perform in the United States. The visit helped usher in a new era of cultural exchange, formalized that year by an agreement signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.

John Martin, the dance critic of The New York Times, pronounced the New York debut “stupendous.” And Ed Sullivan gave the troupe national exposure during the same trip, presenting the dancers for a full hour on his television variety show, “Toast of the Town” (later renamed “The Ed Sullivan Show”).

Although Mr. Moiseyev’s choreography derived from folk sources, he created his works for professional dancers: as observers noted from the start, no peasants or villagers ever danced with such theatrical flair.

“Moiseyev is an astute folklorist and a good artist,” Mr. Martin wrote in 1958. “His company, 100 strong, is warm, vital, vivacious, remarkably trained, energetic beyond belief, and above all performers deluxe.”

Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev (pronounced moy-SAY-yeff) was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1906, the only child of a Russian lawyer and a French-Romanian seamstress. His family lived in Paris until he was 8, and throughout his life he spoke to Western journalists in fluent French.

After the family returned to Russia he studied ballet privately in Moscow, then entered the Bolshoi Ballet School in 1921. From 1924 to 1939 he was a member of the Bolshoi, sympathetic to the efforts of innovative Soviet choreographers of the 1920s and ’30s.

He developed his own interest in choreography, and his early ballets — among them “The Footballer” (1930), “Salammbô” (1932) and “Three Fat Men” (1935) — were noted for their experimentation, drama and characterization.

In 1936 Mr. Moiseyev was appointed dance director of the Moscow Theater of Folk Art, from which emerged, a year later, the Soviet Union’s first folk-dance ensemble. The troupe originally included many amateurs, but it soon employed professionally trained dancers. Officially known as the State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Union, the troupe was usually billed in the West simply as the Moiseyev Dance Company.

Most of Mr. Moiseyev’s works were inspired by the traditions of the various regions in the Soviet Union. But he also created dances with Chinese, Cuban, Sicilian and Argentine themes, and in the early ’60s his dancers amused American audiences by performing the Virginia reel and a parody of rock ’n’ roll.

Mr. Moiseyev attributed his dancers’ virtuosity and versatility to their training in classical ballet, which he described in a 1970 interview as “the grammar of movement.”

“With ballet technique as a base,” he added, “one can do everything.”

He continued to work with traditional ballet companies throughout his career. In 1958, he staged his own version of “Spartacus” for the Bolshoi Ballet.

In addition to directing his folk ensemble, from 1967 to 1971 he headed a classical ballet troupe. Among its members were Alexander Filipov and Alexander Godunov, who both later joined American Ballet Theater in New York.

It was always Mr. Moiseyev’s folk dances that brought him international attention and acclaim. A favorite with audiences everywhere was the dramatic “Partisans,” which was both a tribute to Soviet guerrilla fighters in World War II and a technical tour de force that required dancers to imitate the gait of mounted soldiers whose “horses” were invisible under their cloaks.

The Moiseyev company consistently received critical acclaim. Yet as its repertory became familiar, the pioneering dancers of the original troupe were replaced by younger performers more concerned with technique than with motivating impulse. Reviewers began to notice limitations in the troupe’s aesthetic approach.

As a popular Soviet cultural export, the Moiseyev company was occasionally the target of American groups protesting Soviet policies. Most such demonstrations involved only picketing, but others turned violent. At a Moiseyev opening in September 1986, Russian members of the Jewish Defense League threw a tear gas canister into the audience at the Metropolitan Opera House, sending nearly 4,000 people streaming out of the hall.

Controversies also developed over the ideological content of Mr. Moiseyev’s work. Many Western critics found his happy folk to be in line with an accent on the positive required by Socialist Realism. A defender of expressive dramatic content in choreography, Mr. Moiseyev reiterated the dominant Soviet aesthetics of the cold war period when he deplored abstraction in ballet.

But Mr. Moiseyev, who refused to join the Communist Party, did more than parrot officially sanctioned views. In 1959 he was reprimanded by Soviet authorities for delivering a speech in which he maintained that American culture, far from being inherently decadent, was blessed with vigor. In 1967 he ruffled the Soviet authorities by asserting in a Pravda article that Soviet ballet was deadened by its preoccupation with princes and princesses and its unwillingness to tackle contemporary themes.

Mr. Moiseyev married the dancer Tamara Zeifert in 1940; she became his choreographic assistant. Other members of the company included their daughter, Olga Moiseyeva, and her husband, Boris Petrov. Mr. Moiseyev married a second time, and his wife is among his survivors, Ms. Shcherbakova said.

In poor health in recent years, he was rarely seen in public. But he appeared at a concert in Moscow last year to celebrate his 100th birthday. On his centenary, he received the Order of Merit, Russia’s highest civilian decoration. He had earlier been named People’s Artist of the U.S.S.R.. His other honors included the Dance Magazine Award in the United States, the Lenin Prize and three Stalin Prizes.

A creatively passionate man, Mr. Moiseyev said in a 1965 interview: “Everything I’ve done, I love. If you’re not in love, you can’t create. And if you’re calm when you’ve created something, you can rest assured that you’ve created nothing.”

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Igor Moiseyev, a celebrated Russian choreographer who left the Bolshoi Ballet in 1937 to form a world-renowned folk ballet troupe, has died, the Agency for Culture and Cinema said Friday. He was 101.

AFP/POOL/File Photo: Igor Moiseyev, a celebrated Russian choreographer seen here in in 2006 and who left the Bolshoi Ballet in 1937 to form a world-renowned folk ballet troupe, has died at the age of 101.(AFP/POOL/File) Ballerina Ekaterina Berezina (R) of Moscow's Classical Ballet company performs during their dress rehearsal of "Cinderella" in Madrid October 30, 2007. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (SPAIN)

Ballet dancers Ekaterina Berezina (L), Alexey Orlov (C) and Daria Liakisheva of Moscow's Classical Ballet company perform during their dress rehearsal of "Cinderella" in Madrid October 30, 2007. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (SPAIN)

President Vladimir Putin on Friday offered his condolences to relatives and friends of Moiseyev, who continued to direct his troupe until shortly before his death.

"Moiseyev played an exceptional role in world dance," former Bolshoi star Lyudmila Semenyaka told Interfax news agency on Friday. "He took folk dance to an incredible height, creating a new form of choreography," she said. "Today's tragic news has shaken me."

Born in Kiev on January 21, 1906, he formed the "Moiseyev Ballet" in Moscow at the height of Stalin's purges after several years dancing for the Bolshoi, the country's top ballet company.

His idea of forming a school to focus on the national dances of the Soviet Union received the personal approval of Soviet prime minister Vyacheslav Molotov.

Moiseyev travelled across the Soviet Union, from the Caucasus to the Ural Mountains, collecting material for his repertoire.

A disciple of the avant-garde choreographer Kasyan Goleizovsky, Moiseyev transformed the dances, infusing them with classical ballet techniques.

"His greatest achievement was forming a genre in which he synthesized the classical choreography of the Bolshoi Theatre... with elements of folk dance," Russia's minister for culture, Alexander Sokolov said Friday, RIA Novosti reported.

During World War II the troupe toured the country, performing for soldiers, workers and the infirm, according to a biography posted on the troupe's web site.

Later touring extensively in the West, the troupe's dancers became famous for kicks and acrobatic jumps inspired by the Caucasus mountains dances and the Cossacks.

Moiseyev earnt an exalted place for himself in Moscow's cultural hierarchy that he managed to retain after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

A memorial service will be held on Wednesday at Moscow's Chaikovsky Concert Hall, an official at the Moiseyev Ballet told Interfax on Friday. Fri Nov 2, 3:28 PM ET

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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Pray for President Bush

Found Free Republic and attached to the home page is Pray for President Bush. Day 2602 Pray for Bush, all begins at Pray for President Bush - Day 2585

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Rising Feed Costs Causing Surge in Neglect Cases/Free My Horse Presentation

Idaho Authorities Say Rising Feed Costs Causing Surge in Neglect Cases visit site Society & Culture (tags: )

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- 52 minutes ago - thehorse.com Authorities in northern Idaho who recently found four dead horses and eight others that were malnourished say high feed prices could lead to more such cases. "We all know that hay and feed prices are skyrocketing

Idaho Authorities Say Rising Feed Costs Causing Surge in Neglect Cases

Authorities in northern Idaho who recently found four dead horses and eight others that were malnourished say high feed prices could lead to more such cases.

"We all know that hay and feed prices are skyrocketing and that causes some people to not properly nourish their animals," said Kootenai County sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger. "We need to hear about that."

Animal control officers last week found two dead horses at the former Coeur d'Alene Auction Yards, along with eight malnourished horses and five others that appeared OK. Officers gave the unidentified owner instructions for proper care.

But when authorities returned on Monday they found nothing had changed and seized the horses. Authorities then checked another site that Wolfinger said is owned by the same person and found two more dead horses.

In all, 13 horses were seized, and are being held by Panhandle Equine Rescue. They are being treated by veterinarians, officials said.

Wolfinger said an investigation should be complete next week, at which time the county prosecutor's office will decide whether to file charges.

Christy Hilbert, manager of Rathdrum Country Store, said hay prices have gone from $97 per ton last year to more than $180 a ton this year.

"I think it's a big problem," said Hilbert, who said she had to sell two of her horses so she could feed the other three.

Drought and farmers switching from growing hay to growing corn for ethanol are among the factors that have contributed to rising hay prices.

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10 Simple things that make a difference

The Green movement is gaining momentum and many US consumers are jumping on board. Unfortunately many still think that they have to invest more than time and effort to be part of this important movement. They think $$ is the only way to be vested in this, and the simple fact is that is not true. We can all make a difference, everyday, by making simple changes in our lives with the only commitment being our time and a little effort. You can make a difference by yourself and go a long way toward making our planet safer, cleaner and providing hope for our children. If we don't make the effort and change, how can we expect them to. Think about this: How hard is it to fix a leaky faucet? Take shorter showers? Change a light bulb?

Listed below are 10 VERY SIMPLE things we can all do to make a difference by incorporating these tasks into our everyday lives:

1. Keep your tire pressure up to manufacturer standards and improve gas mileage by 33% and save $.07 per gallon on gas!

2. Start replacing your ordinary light bulbs with compact fluorescentbulbs - they will last 10 times and you can save 75% on your lighting! You don't have to change them all at once, but when an ordinary bulb burns out replace it!

3. Open the blinds/drapes on the sunny side of the house in the winter and help warm your house - and if you live in a HOT climate like I do in Arizona, close them during the summer and save on your cooling bills!

4. Use low flow shower heads in all of you showers and reduce water usage by 50%-70%. Cost for these shower heads is around $20.00 and it will pay for itself in no time.

5. Fix leaky faucets and save about 200 gallons per month. Most of the time all it takes is replacing a washer.

6. Keep air conditioner and heating filters clean and replace your fiberglass filters with reusable, washable filters.

7. Set your thermostat on your hot water filter at 140 degrees if you have an electric dishwasher and 120 degrees if you don't. 20% of your electric bill goes toward heating water.

8. Drain a gallon of water from your hot water heater each year to remove sediment and improve efficiency!

9. Vacuum the coils on your refrigerator and freezer every 3 months to improve efficiency and lower energy costs.

10. Take shorter showers: you use 2 gallons per minute for every shower. It's easy to do the math to see how much you can save if you cut your shower time by even 1 minute.

Take a look at this list and pick 3 from this list you want to change and once you have mastered these move on to the next 3 and so on and so on...

There are many more simple things you can do like reusing plastic grocery bags for bathroom trash can liners and reducing junk mail by canceling unwanted catalogs.

You can find these and many more helpful hints at the following websites:

Let's work together toward building a green path to the future.

Written by: Gary Hillery, The Green Path Company Found at C2NN

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Judge booted for flipping coin to decide

AP Photo: Judge James Michael Shull is shown in this undated photo, in Gate City, Va. RICHMOND, Va. - A judge who ordered a woman to drop her pants and decided a custody dispute by flipping a coin was removed from the bench by the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday. The decision against Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Judge James Michael Shull of Gate City was unanimous.

"Unless our citizens can trust that judges will fairly resolve the disputes brought before our courts, and treat all litigants with dignity, our courts will lose the public's respect and confidence upon which our legal system depends," Justice Barbara Milano Keenan wrote.

According to the court, Shull admitted tossing a coin to determine which parent would have visitation with a child on Christmas. Shull said he was trying to encourage the parents to decide the issue themselves but later acknowledged that he was wrong.

The pants-dropping incidents, the court said, "were even more egregious."

The court said they occurred when a woman was seeking a protective order against a partner who she said had stabbed her in the leg. Shull knew the woman had a history of mental problems and insisted on seeing the wound, the court said.

The woman dropped her pants once to display the wound, then dropped them a second time after Shull left the bench for a closer look to determine whether the woman had received stitches.

A court bailiff testified before the commission that after the hearing, he asked Shull, "Did you see what that lady had on?" According to the bailiff, Shull replied: "Yeah, a black lacy thing ... it looked good, didn't it?"

Shull denied making the comment. His attorney, Russell V. Palmore, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Friday.

The justices could have merely censured Shull, but they noted that he had appeared before the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission in 2004 for allegedly calling a teenager a "mama's boy" and a "wuss" and advising a woman to marry her abusive boyfriend. That complaint was dismissed with an admonition to Shull to chalk it up as a learning experience.

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Clinton, Wal-Mart Push 'Green' Cities

AP Photo: Former President Bill Clinton shakes hands after the Mayors Climate Protection Summit

SEATTLE - Former President Bill Clinton told more than 100 mayors Thursday that stopping global warming depends on them demonstrating that it makes economic sense. He said his foundation is teaming up with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to save cities money on environmentally friendly supplies by buying in bulk.

"We will not get a global agreement on climate change unless you can prove this is not a burden," he said. "This is the greatest opportunity we have had in our lifetimes."

The Clinton Foundation has previously worked with 40 of the world's largest cities to create a buying pool to bring down prices for green supplies such as hybrid vehicles and more efficient street lights. It's the same approach the foundation used to dramatically cut the price of AIDS drugs in Africa.

In addressing a climate summit organized by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Clinton announced that the 1,100 cities represented by that organization will become part of the purchasing group. Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, said it would work with Clinton's foundation and the cities to bundle orders and product specifications for green technology.

Clinton and many of the mayors present criticized the White House, saying it has done little about global warming and has missed a chance to boost the nascent "green collar" economy — the jobs created by making the U.S. more sustainable, from the people who install solar panels to scientists who develop new technologies.

Wal-Mart, which has embarked on a broad environmental drive to cut costs and burnish its reputation, is offering to help the mayors as it has met resistance in some big cities, including New York and Chicago, to its plans to expand into metro areas from its rural and suburban base.

Wal-Mart has set targets for reducing energy use and packaging waste and selling more environmentally friendly products. Steps include switching to only concentrated liquid laundry detergent that reduces packaging and water use, converting its truck fleet to use less fuel, and asking suppliers to provide data on their greenhouse gas emissions.

But the company isn't the only one whose reputation is at stake. Clinton asked the mayors to think about their legacy and to keep score from an environmental standpoint. "The only way to keep score in public life is whether people are better off when you quit than when you started," he said, telling them the challenge is "your kind of deal."

Cities cover just 2 percent of the planet's land but are responsible for three-quarters of its greenhouse gas emissions — and therefore present the greatest opportunity for reducing those emissions, Clinton said. Much of that progress can be made by picking the low-hanging fruit: replacing wasteful light bulbs with high-efficiency ones, finding the leaks in the water-supply system, capturing the harmful methane produced by landfills and turning it into electricity.

The big orders from cities for more efficient heating and cooling systems for public buildings, ultra-efficient LED lights, or hybrid buses guarantee income for the companies that make them, help bring prices down and create jobs, Clinton said. They also save the cities money on energy.

Earlier in the day, former Vice President Al Gore, winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his climate work, spoke to the mayors by satellite from Tennessee and urged them to continue their work. He told them that his audiences around the world are heartened to learn that while the White House refused to support the Kyoto Treaty, 710 U.S. mayors — led by Seattle's Greg Nickels — have signed an agreement to abide by the treaty's call to reduce carbon emissions.

The two-day summit is designed to allow mayors from around the country to share ideas about how to combat climate change locally. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was scheduled to deliver Friday's keynote address.

AP Business Writer Marcus Kabel contributed to this report. By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Fri Nov 2, 2:13 AM ET

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Doctors Urged on Signs of Lead Poisoning

ATLANTA - Children with blood lead levels lower than the U.S. standard may still suffer lower IQs or other problems, a government advisory panel said Thursday as it urged doctors to be more alert to signs of lead poisoning.
The warning, in a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, comes amid growing parent concerns over imported toys with lead.
Lead poisoning can cause irreversible learning disabilities and behavioral problems and, at very high levels, seizures, coma and even death.

The CDC has never set a threshold for what defines lead poisoning. But it created a standard of sorts in 1991 when it said a lead level of 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood should prompt a doctor to assess the child's environment and take other protective steps.
"You can have toxicity at levels all the way down to zero," said Dr. Morri Markowitz, director of the pediatric environmental sciences clinic at New York City's Montefiore Medical Center. He was not involved in the report.
However, the guideline of 10 micrograms has become the number that doctors use when deciding to refer a child for further attention. The same number is used in Canada and Britain.
This is the first time the Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention has focused on the risks to children with lower levels of lead in their blood, said Dr. Helen Binns of Northwestern University, primary author of the report.
The panel isn't proposing a new standard, she said, but is "emphasizing that all levels are important."
The report is being published in the November issue of the medical journal Pediatrics.
Children with blood lead levels below 10, or even those up to 20, exhibit no obvious symptoms. But scientists believe intellectual development may be affected at lower levels.
The new report was driven by recent research that indicated differences in intellectual development of children with measurable levels of lead poisoning as compared to other kids.
The paper advises doctors how to talk to parents of children who have lower levels of lead and how to describe the risk, nutrition changes and safeguards to prevent any additional exposure, Binns said.
There's no treatment proven effective at reducing these lead levels in children, said Mary Jean Brown, chief of the CDC's lead poisoning prevention branch.
"We don't have an intervention that will lower a blood lead level from 8 to 4," she said.
The paper also recommends that doctors check the labs they use for testing blood, because some are more exact than others.
Approximately 310,000 U.S. children aged 1-5 years have blood lead levels greater than 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood, according to CDC estimates. That's fewer than 2 percent of children in that age bracket. By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
8:01 PM EDT, November 1, 2007
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FDA has not been inspecting foreign drug firms, watchdog finds

WASHINGTON - Two-thirds of the foreign drug manufacturers subject to inspection by the Food and Drug Administration may never have been visited by agency inspectors, a government watchdog reported to Congress on Thursday.

The FDA this year listed 3,249 foreign pharmaceutical manufacturers subject to its inspection — yet the agency cannot determine whether it has ever inspected 2,133 of them, according to a Government Accountability Office report released during a House subcommittee hearing.

While some of the more than 3,000 firms may never have exported prescription drugs or drug ingredients to the United States, others likely have.

Who are those firms and what are they shipping? asked Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., during Thursday's hearing of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations.

"We don't know and we are not certain the FDA knows," Marcia Crosse, director of health care at the GAO, replied.

The few foreign inspections the FDA does conduct in any given year hit just 7 percent of the foreign drug makers exporting to the U.S., the GAO estimates. That means more than 13 years can pass before a foreign manufacturer is visited even once, Crosse said.

In the case of China, which with 714 drug firms boasts the largest number subject to FDA scrutiny of any country, the record is far worse. The FDA is slated to inspect just 13 Chinese establishments this year, meaning just 1.8 percent will see an FDA inspector, according to the GAO report.

In India, the No. 2 country, the record is far better. There, 65 of its 410 firms, or 15.8 percent, are slated for inspection this year, according to the GAO. That's in line with the 16.8 percent of Swiss drug firms the FDA likely will inspect in 2007.

The GAO and Congress have long warned of the FDA's shortcomings in its foreign drug inspection program. The GAO findings released Thursday largely reprise many of the same warnings outlined in a 1998 report.

"It's deja vu all over again," said Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich.

Most U.S. drug makers are inspected at least once every two years, as mandated by a law drawn up long before imports seized a sizable chunk of the drug market.

There is no such requirement that the FDA conduct foreign inspections with any regularity, even as imports of all kinds grow in volume. Concerns about the safety of imported drugs, food, toys and other consumer products have been at the fore for months.

"We're finding ourselves again on the brink of one more problem dealing with imports into our country," said Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas.

An estimated 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients used to make drugs sold in the U.S. are imported. Among finished drugs, an estimated 40 percent are made abroad. By ANDREW BRIDGES The Associated Press November 2, 2007 More articles

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Mexico's Katrina

Stranded horses stands amongst submerged cars in flooded Villahermosa in Mexico's Gulf coast, Friday, Nov. 2, 2007. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans fled the flooded region of the swampy Gulf coast Friday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) Hundreds of thousands flee Mexico floods
By ANTONIO VILLEGAS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

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VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans fled a flooded region ... The flood affected more than 900000 people in the state of 2 million

Mexican army soldiers evacuate residents from flooded areas in the city of in Villahermosa in Mexico's Gulf coast. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans fled the flooded region of the swampy Gulf coast Friday.

A man swims in flood waters in Villahermosa in Mexico's Gulf coast. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans fled a flooded region of the Gulf coast Friday, jumping from rooftops into rescue helicopters, scrambling into boats or swimming out through murky brown water, while Mexico's President Felipe Calderon called it one of Mexico's worst recent natural disasters.

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico - Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans fled a flooded region of the Gulf coast Friday, jumping from rooftops into rescue helicopters, scrambling into boats or swimming out through murky brown water. President Felipe Calderon called the flooding in Tabasco state one of Mexico's worst recent natural disasters, and pledged to rebuild.

A week of heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, drowning at least 80 percent of the oil-rich state. Much of the state capital, Villahermosa, looked like New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, with water reaching to second-story rooftops and desperate people awaiting rescue.

At least one death was reported and nearly all services, including drinking water and public transportation, were shut down. The flood affected more than 900,000 people in the state of 2 million — their homes flooded, damaged or cut off by high water.

A 10-inch natural gas pipeline sprang a leak after flooding apparently washed away soil underneath it, but it was unclear if other facilities operated by the state-run Petroleos Mexicanos were damaged or if oil production was affected.

Workers tried to protect Villahermosa's famous Olmec statues by placing sandbag collars around their enormous stone heads, and built sandbag walls to hold back the Grijalva River in the state capital.

But the water rose quickly, surprising residents used to annual floods and forcing soldiers to evacuate the historic city center. The dikes failed Thursday night, and water swamped the capital's bus station and open-air market.

Rain gave way to sunshine Friday, but tens of thousands of people were still stranded on rooftops or in the upper floors of their homes. Rescue workers used tractors, helicopters, jet skis and boats to ferry people to safety, while others swam through water infested by poisonous snakes to reach higher ground.

Calderon met with state officials and flew over the affected areas. The extent of the flooding was clear from the sky — Tabasco state seemed like an inland sea with only rooftops and treetops protruding from the water.

"This is not just the worst natural catastrophe in the state's history but, I would venture to say, one of the worst in the recent history of the country," Calderon said Friday during an emergency meeting with state officials in Villahermosa.

The president ordered the armed forces and federal police to maintain order and prevent looting, and asked residents to remain calm. He canceled a trip to Panama, Colombia and Peru.

"Once we have passed the critical stage ... we are going to reconstruct Tabasco, whatever it takes," Calderon said.

Mexicans rallied around the disaster, with people across the country contributing money and supplies. Television stations dedicated entire newscasts to the flooding and morning shows switched from yoga and home improvement to calls for aid. Friday was the Day of the Dead holiday, but banks opened to accept donations for flood victims.

Food and clean drinking water were extremely scarce in Tabasco state, and federal Deputy Health Secretary Mauricio Hernandez warned that there could be outbreaks of cholera and other waterborne diseases.

"With so many people packed together there is a chance that infectious diseases could spread," he said.

Officials tested for 600 suspected cases of cholera, but none was positive, he said. The waterborne sickness, which can be fatal, has not been reported in Mexico for at least six years.

The government also sent 20,000 Hepatitis A vaccinations and were giving booster shots to children to prevent outbreaks, Hernandez said.

Medical care was difficult, however, because at least 50 of the state's hospitals and medical centers were flooded.

Hotels, parking garages and other dry structures were converted into temporary shelters for those forced from their homes.

Guadalupe de la Cruz, a receptionist at the Hotel Calinda Viva Villahermosa, said the hotel's meeting rooms were being used as shelters for employees' families. She said the 240-room hotel was completely booked, mostly by people who had fled their homes.

Many people were headed to nearby cities unaffected by the floods. Highways that weren't covered with water were packed with residents fleeing in cars and on foot. The exodus appeared to be orderly with no reports of violence.

Villahermosa resident Mauricio Hernandez, 27, who is not related to the federal official, paid a taxi to go to Cardenas, 30 miles away. From there, he planned to hop a bus to the port city of Coatzacoalcos.

"We are leaving because we cannot live like this," he said. "We don't have any water, and the shelters are full. Where are we going to go?"

State officials sent 50 buses to a museum in the capital where hundreds of people gathered.

"We wanted to stay in the city but it is no longer possible," said Jorge Rodriguez, 43. "We have lost everything." By ANTONIO VILLEGAS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

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From another Blogger "Today I'm going off my usual subject to raise awareness and ask you for help in assisting the people of Tabasco, Mexico, my home state."

LINKS TO HELP SITES.
The State of Tabasco Official Site has many links to donation sites and account numbers for monetary donations: http://www.tabasco.gob.mx/

You can also make your contribution directly to the Red Cross of Mexico, their banking account is: Cruz Roja Mexicana I.A.P.Bancomer No. 0147592957
Oficina 0032 DF Palmas
Your contribution is tax-deductible.
For verification, go to the website of the Red Cross of Mexico.

We are also collecting donations and distributing them to two community shelters that the Muñoz and Caldera and other block families are organizing in one of the last dry areas in Villahermosa, Tabasco.
You can send donations via Paypal to Root Coffee Here.

Así mismo, estamos haciendo collectas directas para abastecer de víveres a las personas (conocidos y extraños que buscan resguardo) que se han estado alojando en casa de mi familia y en el resto de la cuadra en una de las areas de Villahermosa que todavia no se ha inundado: Calle Antonio Suarez Hernandez, Colonia Reforma, C.P. 86080. Las donaciones se aceptan via Paypal a Root Coffee Aqui.

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