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Monday, March 25, 2013
Winning $338M Powerball jackpot ticket sold in NJ
FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a Powerball form and purchased ticket are on the counter at the Jayhawk Food Mart in Lawrence, Kan. A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in the Saturday night, March 23, 2013 drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a Powerball form and purchased ticket are on the counter at the Jayhawk Food Mart in Lawrence, Kan. A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in the Saturday night, March 23, 2013 drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. It was the 13th drawing held in the days since a Virginia man won a $217 million jackpot Feb. 6.
Thirteen other tickets worth $1 million each matched all but the final Powerball number on Saturday night. Those tickets were sold in New Jersey and 10 other states. Lottery officials said there was also one Power Play Match 5 winner in Iowa.
The New Jersey Lottery said Sunday that details about the winning ticket would be released Monday, declining to reveal where it had been purchased and whether anyone had immediately come forward. Lottery officials say it was the fourth largest jackpot in Powerball history.
The numbers drawn were 17, 29, 31, 52, 53 and Powerball 31. A lump sum payout would be $221 million.
Lottery officials said the 13 tickets worth $1 million apiece ? matching the first five numbers but missing the Powerball ? were sold in Arizona, Florida (2), Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina and Virginia.
Powerball said on its website that the grand prize jackpot has now been reset to an estimated $40 million or a lump sum cash amount estimated at $25 million for Wednesday's next drawing.
No one had won the Powerball jackpot since early February, when Dave Honeywell in Virginia bought the winning ticket and elected a cash lump sum for his $217 million jackpot.
The largest Powerball jackpot ever came in at $587.5 million in November. The winning numbers were picked on two different tickets ? one by a couple in Missouri and the other by an Arizona man ? and the jackpot was split.
Nebraska still holds the record for the largest Powerball jackpot won on a single ticket ? $365 million. That jackpot was won by eight workers at a Lincoln, Neb., meatpacking plant in February 2006.
Powerball is played in 42 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The chance of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is about 1 in 175 million.
Powerball said on its website that the game is played every Wednesday and Saturday night when five white balls are drawn from a drum of 59 balls and one red ball is picked from a drum with 35 red balls. It added that winners of the Powerball jackpot can elect to be paid out over 29 years at a percentage set by the game's rules ? or in a lump sum cash payment.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Zimbabweans vote in favor of new constitution
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) ? Zimbabwe's electoral body said Tuesday that 94.5 percent of voters cast a ballot in favor of a new constitution that calls for a strengthening of human rights and a curb on presidential powers after a decade of political and economic turmoil in the southern African nation.
But as the results were announced African and international law organizations expressed outrage at the jailing for a third night of prominent rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on charges that she allegedly obstructed justice.
"Her arrest is not just an attack on her profession but on the people of Zimbabwe who have just voted yes to a new constitution that enshrines fundamental human rights," said her lawyer, Thabani Mpofu.
A new constitution was a key demand of regional mediators who forged a shaky and acrimonious coalition between Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the former opposition leader, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, after the last violent and disputed national polls in 2008.
All main political parties had called for a "Yes" vote in the referendum.
Judge Rita Makarau, head of the state electoral commission, said Tuesday that just over 3 million Zimbabweans voted for the draft constitution and 170,489 voted against. Spoiled ballot papers were not factored in to the final results of votes cast by less than 50 percent of those eligible to vote in the referendum.
The 170-page draft constitution has now to be submitted to the Zimbabwe parliament for approval, a procedural formality, before President Mugabe is asked to sign it into law.
The draft limits the future presidential office to two five-year terms, a clause that is not retrospective. Mugabe, 89, who led the nation to independence in 1980, can rule for another two terms if his party wins upcoming five-yearly parliamentary and presidential polls.
The proposed constitution sets up the first Constitutional Court on citizens' grievances and a Peace and Reconciliation Commission to investigate political violence and human rights abuses blamed mainly on Mugabe's ZANU-PF party over the past decade of troubled polling and alleged vote-rigging.
Regional observers of Saturday's referendum said voting was free of violence except for minor scuffles between rival youth groups. The outcome of voting was seen as "credible" and reflecting the free will of electors.
But independent local monitoring groups reported that Mugabe party loyalists had taken down the names of voters emerging from some polling stations, a possible ploy used to threaten them in the crucial full scale elections.
Human rights groups say the new constitution does not immediately scrap sweeping media and security laws enforced by state institutions loyal to Mugabe, and that can only be done by a the next elected parliament.
The independent Research and Advocacy Unit said in its latest bulletin that reforms proposed in the new constitution "will clearly take a much more energetic parliament than the one we have currently" if they are to be implemented. The group said, "Constitutions are not the panacea for all ills."
The continued jailing of rights lawyer Mtetwa highlights how Mugabe's police and judicial system needs thorough reform, said lawyers.
Police brought her to court Tuesday after ignoring a judge's order to release her Monday.
Mtetwa, arrested Sunday while representing four officials of the prime minister's party who were being searched by police, arrived at the Harare magistrate's court in an open-back police truck. She greeted colleagues and activists with a spirited wave but was not allowed to speak to reporters.
Mtetwa's arrest was a ploy to stop her from defending officials of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party, her attorney argued in court Tuesday.
State prosecutors objected to bail for Mtetwa and the four MDC officials and court was adjourned to Wednesday.
Mtetwa was abused by the police in "the high-handed manner in which they treated her by handcuffing her and throwing her into the back of an open truck as if she was a threat to police and national security," said her lawyer, Mpofu.
While in custody, police confiscated her mobile phone and went through it in breach of norms of attorney-client confidentiality, he said. He said when locked in a cell two male police officers at around midnight even tried to remove prison-issue blankets from her.
To the charge she shouted at police officers and attempted to prevent them from doing their duty, Mtetwa, in her written testimony, said she told the police she wanted to see their search warrants but was ignored.
"What you are doing is unlawful, unconstitutional and undemocratic," she told the officers, Mpofu said.
The police response was to arrest her, he said.
The refusal of police to obey a court order to release Mtetwa showed that Zimbabwe "is a state that is prepared to act like an outlaw," Mpofu told the court.
Obstructing justice carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison.
Mtetwa has represented Tsvangirai and several of his top aides in past cases brought against them. She has also defended human rights defenders and journalists. She holds an array of international awards, including those from the American Bar Association and the main European Bar Human Rights body.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabweans-vote-favor-constitution-172223998.html
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MRI may predict adverse tissue reaction in metal-on-metal hip replacement patients
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CHICAGO Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can detect a failing, or potentially failing, metal-on-metal hip implant (MoM) early on, according to a new study presented today at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Early detection can result in timely revision surgery, decreasing the risk for further tissue damage and pain.
Researchers reviewed the MRI images of 70 patients who ultimately underwent revision surgery for a failed MoM implant. The images were assessed for the presence of tissue damage, swelling and other characteristics.
The study found that an MRI is highly sensitive and specific to identifying tissue damage in MoM total hip replacement (THR) patients. Early identification of at-risk patients can result in timely revision surgery, when necessary, decreasing pain and future damage to surrounding hip tissue.
Also today at the 2013 AAOS Annual meeting, the educational session "Optimizing Management of Patients with Metal-on-metal Hips," featured seven orthopaedic experts discussing the identification and treatment of MoM hip failure.
In December 2012, the Academy issued an Information Statement on Metal-on-metal Hip Arthroplasty (replacement) recommending a "low threshold" for commencing the evaluation of a patient with an MoM hip replacement, as "early recognition and diagnosis will facilitate the initiation of appropriate treatment prior to significant adverse biological reactions." The statement also provides a detailed overview of various diagnostic and treatment methods to limit patient discomfort, and outlines when to quickly initiate treatment, and if necessary revision.
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American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
CHICAGO Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can detect a failing, or potentially failing, metal-on-metal hip implant (MoM) early on, according to a new study presented today at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Early detection can result in timely revision surgery, decreasing the risk for further tissue damage and pain.
Researchers reviewed the MRI images of 70 patients who ultimately underwent revision surgery for a failed MoM implant. The images were assessed for the presence of tissue damage, swelling and other characteristics.
The study found that an MRI is highly sensitive and specific to identifying tissue damage in MoM total hip replacement (THR) patients. Early identification of at-risk patients can result in timely revision surgery, when necessary, decreasing pain and future damage to surrounding hip tissue.
Also today at the 2013 AAOS Annual meeting, the educational session "Optimizing Management of Patients with Metal-on-metal Hips," featured seven orthopaedic experts discussing the identification and treatment of MoM hip failure.
In December 2012, the Academy issued an Information Statement on Metal-on-metal Hip Arthroplasty (replacement) recommending a "low threshold" for commencing the evaluation of a patient with an MoM hip replacement, as "early recognition and diagnosis will facilitate the initiation of appropriate treatment prior to significant adverse biological reactions." The statement also provides a detailed overview of various diagnostic and treatment methods to limit patient discomfort, and outlines when to quickly initiate treatment, and if necessary revision.
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Read more about AAOS: http://www.aaos.org
Follow us on Facebook.com/AAOS1 and Twitter.com/AAOS1
A Nation in Motion
More than one in four Americans have bone or joint health problems, making them the greatest cause of lost work days in the U.S. When orthopaedic surgeons restore mobility and reduce pain, they help people get back to work and to independent, productive lives. Orthopaedic surgeons provide a great value, in both human and economic terms; and access to high-quality orthopaedic care keeps this "Nation in Motion." To learn more, to read hundreds of patient stories or to submit your own story, visit ANationinMotion.org.
For more information on bone and joint health, visit Orthoinfo.org.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Gantz brothers discuss 'American Winter' documentary
Premiering on HBO on March 18, 2013, AMERICAN WINTER is a powerful and timely documentary that follows the stories of eight families struggling to survive in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and reveals the impact of rising economic inequality, cuts to social services, and the fracturing of the American Dream.
By Barbara Raab, Senior Producer, NBC News
??Forget the dreams, how do we make it to tomorrow?? asks Ben, ?a husband and father who?s been laid off from his job at the credit branch of a car company, has fallen behind on the mortgage and is struggling to provide the basics for his family.
Ben is one of the distressed Americans trying to keep his head above water in ?American Winter,? a documentary produced by Emmy award-winning filmmakers Joe and Harry Gantz, and debuting tonight on Monday, March 18th on HBO. It tells the story of the worst recession of our lifetime through the eyes of eight families in Portland, Oregon during one winter.
Working with the nonprofit organization 211info in Portland, the Gantz?s were given full access to monitor and record calls from families calling the emergency hotline for help. They followed some of these callers over the next several months.
NBC News talked with Joe and Harry Gantz about their film, and about what they hope to achieve with their firsthand view of the struggle millions of Americans are experiencing.
NBC News: The tag line to the film is ?a documentary about a country in search of its promise. ? What do you mean by that?
Joe Gantz: The promise is that America is the land of opportunity. The American dream is that anybody can make it in this country, ?that we?re all having equal opportunity, and if you try hard, you work hard, and you?re talented, you can achieve a comfortable life. I think that is slipping away in a lot of respects. It?s becoming harder and harder for somebody to raise a family. The wages for many Americans even if they?re working fulltime and overtime,? they?re working at very low paid jobs and they?re not able to support a family.? The families we followed in this film were comfortable three or four years ago, many of them were solidly middle class, they never envisioned being in this situation. As [Portland Commissioner] Nick Fish says in the film, we?re in a ?one strike and you?re out? economy, and so these families find themselves falling over the cliff, struggling in ways they never envisioned.
NBC News: Were you shocked at what you found when you really got into their homes and their lives and their stories?
Harry Gantz: I wouldn?t say we were shocked, but it certainly affected us to see the level of desperation and how it affects everybody emotionally. It?s not just trying to find a job, or trying to navigate the social services. That?s a full time job in itself. But it?s the emotional impact. Hearing these kids feel like they don?t know what their futures are going to be. This is the first generation of families that feels like it?s not going to get better. And because of the lack of decent social services and decent paying jobs, people feel like, the American dream, as one of the subjects in our film says, is [just] turning the heat on, turning the lights on.
Joe: ?We could listen to all the [211info] calls coming in. And there are hundreds of calls every day. ?And that is overwhelming. You?re just inundated by the level of desperation in this country. The people who aren?t in that situation often don?t know what 211is and don?t know what it?s like for the people who are in that situation. But you listen to those phone calls, ?how do I get my heat on??, ?how do I get help for getting my electricity turned off??, ?how do I get help with my rent? , ?how do I get food?? It?s just call after call after call.
NBC News: In some ways, the people you got to know are in plain sight. And yet, people who are not in that situation don?t seem to be aware of them.
Joe: There may be a bit of willful ignorance, on the one hand, by the people who are making it. But on the other hand, the people who are struggling are so ashamed. Our society says if you work hard and you?re talented, you push and go by the rules, you will succeed. And they?re not succeeding, they?re struggling mightily, so they are ashamed. They don?t tell people. We were working with families, and the children?s friends would come over, and I?d meet the family of that child that was visiting, and I?d explain what we were working on, and they?d say, ?We?re in the same boat.? But they wouldn?t talk to each other because the parents had so much shame, they wouldn?t want to tell what was going on in their households. The shame keeps everyone extremely isolated.
Harry: The fear of destitution is inherent in everybody. So it?s in everybody?s best interests in this country to have a strong middle class, and to help people ascend from poverty.
Joe: The way people ignore this vast chunk of America that is falling off the financial cliff is by using these derogatory stereotypes about people who need help. They say they?re lazy, they made their own mistakes, if they were capable they would be succeeding, they should pull themselves up on their own. But when you follow these families as we did, over months, and you live with them and walk in their shoes and see what they?re dealing with, these families are all extremely hard-working, they?re loving families, and they want nothing more than to get back on their feet and be a contributing member of society.
NBC News: When you talk about help, what is your answer? Is it to put more money into the traditional safety net, or something else?
Harry: Whether it?s from taxpayers, or secular social services, or religious social services, it takes all of those three in order to deal with this problem. That?s the short term solution. Of course the longer term solution is a living wage job and a safety net that if you have a bump in the road and your kid gets sick or you lose your job, that there?s a net that society provides to help you get back on your feet.
Joe: And not just a net that helps you barely survive, not just a safety net that allows you not to starve. But a safety net that really helps you get back to where you once were so you can contribute once again.
Harry: There?s such a backlash right now about anything the government is doing.? [Poor people] have been demonized to the point where it?s better just to cut government spending and ?good luck, we?re all on our own, we?ll make it that way, leave me alone.? There are people in our film who felt that, and then found themselves in this situation and suddenly they had so much more insight and compassion for people in this position. What I learned is that no parent is perfect ? most of these people got in this situation through no fault of their own. But even if it was their fault, and they made a bad decision ? do the children deserve to suffer? No.
Joe: When the children suffer, the repercussions last for 20 or 30 years. They don?t graduate from high school, they don?t get a good job, they can wind up in prison ? and the repercussions and costs for those kids go on and on.
NBC News: Do you feel after doing this project that there?s some takeaway that?s optimistic or some reason for hope?
Joe: What?s not depressing is spending time with these families. And seeing how their backs are against the wall, and seeing how these families come together because they have no one else to rely on. Most of these families don?t have financial help through their circle of friends or family. They have this core of love for each other and they?re determined to get through it. When you?re in a low paying job that takes a tremendous amount of your time, it takes a tremendous amount of time to track down social services, they don?t just come to your door and hand it to you. You spend so much time just calling and going to places and seeing what you can get, so it?s difficult. The difficulties of being on the financial edge are unimaginable if you haven?t been there. And yet these families have this much love for each other and this much struggle to keep going and be positive and keep their hopes up. The human spirit is something I?m optimistic about on an individual basis.
Harry: I feel the same way as the families do. If you?re not at least optimistic, what are your children going to say? They?re going to feel like they?re doomed. Part of the American spirit is to be optimistic and if you?re not optimistic, it?s hard to get up in the morning and go on in that situation. This film is advocating for not cutting social services. The system can?t take any more.
Joe: Demonstrations are good too! People have to get together and show, this is the majority of this country.? And if by putting these faces in front of the public rids the shame that?s associated with being poor, ?that might empower more poor people to advocate for themselves.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his manager: Unlikely teammates - JNS.org
Moments later, while Morales waited for her flight to Las Vegas, Abdul-Jabbar came and tapped her on the shoulder. ?I think he thought I needed help,? says Morales, who was in fact struggling with some deep issues at the time. ?Somehow he could tell. He definitely intervened and saved me from some very distressing things going on in my life. He?s very spiritual and sensitive.?
?Being that tall,? she laughs, ?is like being a giraffe in the jungle warning the other animals of oncoming danger. Because they can see and hear more than the other animals.?
Abdul-Jabbar can?t remember where he was headed that day. In a seemingly random and fairy godfather sort of way, he became Morales?s ?knight in rusty armor.? The term comes from a book, with the same title, about a knight who cares so much about the plights of those he protects that he neglects his own armor till it rusts. That is Abdul-Jabbar in a nutshell, Morales says. The giant cares more about the people around him than himself, she says, which is likely what brought him to center court in the social justice arena.
The hoops legend has experienced a fair share of unkindness over the years
?Being black, a Muslim, and 7?2? tall is the hat trick of prejudice,? says Abdul-Jabbar. ?My decision to become a political activist at the height of my basketball career created another prejudice among sports fans who prefer their players to just grin and play.?
Morales and Abdul-Jabbar spent the next few years developing their friendship. Fibromyalgia left Morales bedridden for two years.
?I wanted to die. But Kareem wouldn?t let me,? she says.
Abdul-Jabbar brought her books like Man?s Search for Meaning and The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People to read, and films like Sea Biscuit to watch. He surrounded her with positive imagery to help her deal with her struggle. Then one day, with no heralding, an idea came to Morales, riding atop a malapropism. Watching Alan Greenspan on TV, searching for purpose, she said, ?Why can?t I be like Alan Greenspan? Why can?t I be an iconomist??
The word she had been searching for was, of course, economist. But the misspeak changed her life. She went to Abdul-Jabbar with the idea that she, with a background in motivational speaking and sales and an inherent desire to help people, would help him achieve his goals. She would take him, as her slogan promises, from success to significance. Morales became Abdul-Jabbar?s greatest ally.
Which is not to say life suddenly became easy for Morales?a Jewish woman daring to step into a man?s role in the talent management industry.
?Because I had to be a strong-minded woman in an uphill battle in a male-dominated environment, it was like being against a wall in the most vicious game of dodge ball ever,? she says. ?Assertiveness is called bitchiness. Reasonable negotiation is called stubbornness. And so forth. So the success of our partnership has been very fulfilling.?
Abdul-Jabbar says his friendship and business partnership with Morales ?is kind of a bubble that is impervious? to external influences such as concern within the Jewish community about the relationship between Barack Obama, the first black president, and Israel.
?External events do not have any effect on our working relationship, but what it does have an effect on is our ability to accept certain engagements at certain times,? Morales says. ?For example, Kareem is Muslim and therefore we cannot accept any liquor endorsements because of religious beliefs. We argue over other small things, like the time I introduced him to the owner of a large pretzel chain and the first thing he said upon meeting the gentleman was, ?I really hate pretzels.? Of course the man was taken back. Not knowing what to do, he offered Kareem a free card to go and try one of his world-class pretzels.?
?Small dislikes that are unknown to each other play into our business relationship and sometimes cause conflicts,? she added. ?We differ in our political and religious beliefs, but overall we get along and look for the common ground.?
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Friday, March 15, 2013
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