Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Hanson's "MMMBop": Hear What They Sound Like Now!

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Engadget HD Podcast 334 - 01.28.2013

Did you miss us? Richard and Ben needed a second dose of recovery time after all the madness from our post-CES podcast, but now we're back to normalcy. This week, we do our best to keep the earnings numbers to a minimum and, instead, focus on topics like the amazing CGI effects from Jurassic Park and Ben's fascination with the moon landing conspiracy debunks. Oh, yeah, and the notable HD news from the past week. All that and maybe more, so get to listening down below.

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Disney closing 'Epic Mickey' video game developer

FILE - This undated publicity file photo provided by Disney shows Mickey Mouse using a paintbrush to fight a monster in "Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two," (Disney, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99; Wii U, $54.99; Wii, $49.99). The interactive arm of the Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, that it is closing Junction Point Studios. The Austin, Texas-based video game developer created 2010's "Disney Epic Mickey" and its 2012 sequel "Epic Mickey 2." (AP Photo/Disney)

FILE - This undated publicity file photo provided by Disney shows Mickey Mouse using a paintbrush to fight a monster in "Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two," (Disney, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99; Wii U, $54.99; Wii, $49.99). The interactive arm of the Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, that it is closing Junction Point Studios. The Austin, Texas-based video game developer created 2010's "Disney Epic Mickey" and its 2012 sequel "Epic Mickey 2." (AP Photo/Disney)

(AP) ? Now it's time to say goodbye to "Epic Mickey."

The interactive division of the Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that it is closing Junction Point Studios, its Austin, Texas-based developer that created 2010's "Disney Epic Mickey" and its 2012 sequel "Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two."

Disney said the closure is part of its "effort to address the fast-evolving gaming platforms and marketplace" and to align its resources with its key priorities.

"We're extremely grateful to Warren Spector and the Junction Point team for their creative contributions to Disney with 'Disney Epic Mickey' and 'Disney Epic Mickey 2,'" the studio said in a statement.

Disney acquired Junction Point in 2007. The studio was led by "Deus Ex" and "Thief" creator Warren Spector.

Both "Epic Mickey" games were set in a twisted version of Disneyland called Wasteland and featured Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit as protagonists.

"I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the 'Epic Mickey' journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history,'" Spector posted Monday on Facebook. "Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that. With Mickey Mouse as our hero, we introduced a mainstream audience to some cool 'core game' concepts ? and, most especially, we restored Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to a place of prominence."

The first "Epic Mickey," which was released only for the Nintendo Wii, was the sixth best-selling game the month it was released in 2010. "Epic Mickey 2," which was available for the Wii, as well as the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360, didn't crack the top 10 when it was released last November, according to gaming industry tracker NPD Group.

Disney unveiled plans earlier this month for a new franchise combining a toy line and a game called "Disney Infinity," similar to "Skylanders" from Activision-Blizzard Inc. "Infinity" is being developed by Disney's Salt Lake City, Utah-based developer Avalanche Software and is set to debut in June alongside "Monsters University," the 3-D prequel to the 2001 Disney-Pixar film "Monsters Inc."

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British Airways flight makes emergency landing in Cardiff

LONDON (Reuters) - A British Airways flight from Houston in the United States to London's Heathrow airport made an emergency landing in Cardiff on Monday.

BA, part of the IAG group, said the Boeing 747 jet, which was carrying 138 passengers, landed normally on Monday morning after the pilot noticed a "potential technical problem".

BA said the plane was assessed by engineers who found no problem with it. The airline added that the plane would complete its journey to London later on Monday afternoon.

(Reporting by Rhys Jones; Editing by Brenda Goh)

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Yahoo's 4Q report shows more signs of progress

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, file photo, Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, listens during the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. Yahoo showed more signs of progress during the fourth quarter of 2012m, as the Internet company took advantage of higher ad prices and rising earnings from its international investments to deliver numbers that exceeded analyst forecasts. The results announced Monday, Jan 28, 2013, covered Yahoo's first full quarter under Mayer. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, file photo, Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, listens during the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. Yahoo showed more signs of progress during the fourth quarter of 2012m, as the Internet company took advantage of higher ad prices and rising earnings from its international investments to deliver numbers that exceeded analyst forecasts. The results announced Monday, Jan 28, 2013, covered Yahoo's first full quarter under Mayer. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)

(AP) ? Yahoo showed more signs of progress during the fourth quarter as the Internet company took advantage of higher ad prices and rising earnings from its international investments to deliver numbers that exceeded analyst forecasts.

The results announced Monday covered Yahoo's first full quarter under CEO Marissa Mayer. Yahoo Inc. lured Mayer away from Google Inc. in mid-July in its latest attempt to snap out of a funk that had depressed its revenue and stock price.

The company fared well enough in the final three months of last year to produce its first full-year gain in revenue since 2008.

Yahoo is now being run by its fifth permanent or interim CEO since then. Mayer, 37, has been focusing on improving employee morale and building better mobile and social networking services so Yahoo can make more money from two of technology's hottest trends.

Her efforts so far haven't made a huge difference in Yahoo's ad sales ? the company's main way of making money. For instance, during the final three months of last year, Yahoo's revenue from search and display advertising totaled $1.07 billion, roughly the same as a year earlier.

But Yahoo's average price for display ad on its website rose 7 percent from the previous year. Meanwhile, the average price for Yahoo's search ads increased by 1 percent from the previous year. The upturn indicates advertisers believe Mayer's changes are paying off.

Investors are clearly impressed with what Mayer has been doing. Yahoo's stock gained 92 cents, or 4.5 percent, to $21.23 in extended trading. The shares are now up by 35 percent since Mayer joined the Sunnyvale, Calif., company.

Yahoo has been benefiting from its significant stakes in Yahoo Japan and China's Alibaba Group, two Internet companies that have been thriving. Yahoo's fourth-quarter income from its investments increased 17 percent from the previous year to nearly $149 million.

Overall, Yahoo's fourth-quarter earnings dipped 8 percent from the previous year to $272 million, or 23 cents per share, from $296 million, or 24 cents per share. The earnings would have been higher than the previous year, if not for a charge to close its South Korea operations and other one-time accounting items.

If not for those charges, Yahoo said it would have earned 32 cents per share. On that basis, Yahoo topped the average estimate of 27 cents per share among analysts surveyed by FactSet.

Yahoo's fourth-quarter revenue increased 2 percent from the previous year to $1.35 billion.

After subtracting advertising commissions, Yahoo's fourth-quarter revenue stood at $1.22 billion ? about $10 million above analyst forecasts.

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Under pressure, Boy Scouts may ease no-gays policy

FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Jennifer Tyrrell, right, arrives for a meeting at the Boys Scouts of America national offices in Irving, Texas, with her son Jude Burns, 5, second from right, partner Alicia Burns, and son Cruz Burns, 7, left. The Ohio woman was ousted as a den mother because she is a lesbian. The Boys Scouts of America announced Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, that it is considering a dramatic retreat from its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Jennifer Tyrrell, right, arrives for a meeting at the Boys Scouts of America national offices in Irving, Texas, with her son Jude Burns, 5, second from right, partner Alicia Burns, and son Cruz Burns, 7, left. The Ohio woman was ousted as a den mother because she is a lesbian. The Boys Scouts of America announced Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, that it is considering a dramatic retreat from its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Jennifer Tyrrell hugs her son Cruz Burns, 7, outside Boy Scouts national offices in Irving, Texas, after a meeting with representatives of the 102-year-old organization. The Ohio woman was ousted as a den mother because she is a lesbian. The Boys Scouts of America announced Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, that it is considering a dramatic retreat from its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

A statue of a Boy Scout stands in front of the National Scouting Museum, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, in Irving, Texas. The Boy Scouts of America announced it is considering a dramatic retreat from its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

FILE - In this July 18, 2012 file photo, Jennifer Tyrrell hugs her son Cruz Burns, 7, outside Boy Scouts national offices in Irving, Texas, after a meeting with representatives of the 102-year-old organization. The Ohio woman was ousted as a den mother because she is a lesbian. The Boys Scouts of America announced Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, that it is considering a dramatic retreat from its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Facing diverse and ceaseless protests, the Boy Scouts of America is signaling its readiness to end the nationwide exclusion of gays as scouts or leaders and give the sponsors of local troops the freedom to decide the matter for themselves.

If approved by the Scouts' national executive board, possibly as soon as next week, the change would be another momentous milestone for America's gay-rights movement, following a surge of support for same-sex marriage and the ending of the ban on gays serving opening in military.

"The pulse of equality is strong in America, and today it beats a bit faster with news that the Boy Scouts may finally put an end to its long history of discrimination," said Chad Griffin of the Human Rights Campaign, a major gay-rights group.

Under the proposed change, which was outlined Monday by the Scouts, the different religious and civic groups that sponsor Scout units would be able to decide for themselves how to address the issue ? either maintaining an exclusion of gays, as is now required of all units, or opening up their membership.

Southern Baptist leaders ? who consider homosexuality a sin ? were furious about the possible change and said its approval might encourage Southern Baptist churches to support other boys' organizations instead of the BSA. The Southern Baptists are among the largest sponsors of Scout units, along with the Roman Catholic, Mormon and United Methodist churches.

Under the proposed change, said BSA spokesman Deron Smith, "the Boy Scouts would not, under any circumstances, dictate a position to units, members, or parents."

The Irving, Texas-based BSA, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2010, has long excluded both gays and atheists. Smith said that a change in the policy toward atheists was not being considered and that the BSA continued to view "Duty to God" as one of its basic principles.

Protests over the no-gays policy gained momentum in 2000, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the BSA's right to exclude gays. Scout units lost sponsorships by public schools and other entities that adhered to nondiscrimination policies, and several local Scout councils made public their displeasure with the policy.

More recently, pressure surfaced on the Scouts' own national executive board. Two high-powered members ? Ernst & Young CEO James Turley and AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson ? indicated they would try to work from within to change the membership policy, which stood in contrast to their own companies' non-discrimination policies.

Amid petition campaigns by Change.org, shipping giant UPS Inc. and drug-manufacturer Merck & Co. announced that they were halting donations from their charitable foundations to the Boy Scouts as long as the no-gays policy was in force.

Also, local Scout officials drew widespread criticism last year for ousting Jennifer Tyrrell, a lesbian mom, as a den leader of her son's Cub Scout pack in Ohio and for refusing to approve an Eagle Scout application by Ryan Andresen, a California teen who came out as gay last fall.

Tyrrell said she was thrilled for parents and their children who've been excluded from scouting and "for those who are in Scouts and hiding who they are."

"For me it's not just about the Boy Scouts of America, it's about equality," she told The Associated Press. "This is a step toward equality in all aspects."

Many of the protest campaigns, including one seeking Tyrrell's reinstatement, had been waged with help from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

"The Boy Scouts of America have heard from Scouts, corporations and millions of Americans that discriminating against gay scouts and scout leaders is wrong," said Herndon Graddick, GLAAD's president. "Scouting is a valuable institution, and this change will only strengthen its core principles of fairness and respect."

The Scouts had reaffirmed the no-gays policy as recently as last year and appeared to have strong backing from the conservative religious denominations that sponsor large numbers of Scout units. Under the proposed change, they could continue excluding gays.

Before Monday's announcement, the BSA conferred with some leaders of these religious groups, including the Rev. Frank Page, who leads the Southern Baptist Executive Committee.

According to Roger S. Oldham, a spokesman for the executive committee, Page then wrote to the Scouts "expressing his tremendous dismay at the decision."

"They had been working for months on this proposal and just days before they informed us," Oldham said in a telephone interview. "We would anticipate that there would be a very significant backlash to this as churches re-evaluate whether scouting comports with."

If the Scouts proceed with the change, Oldham said, SBC leaders were likely to issue a statement "expressing disappointed and encouraging our churches to support alternative boys organizations."

Neither the Catholic Church nor the Mormons' Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued official statements as to how they would respond.

Said Sister Mary Ann Walsh, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, "The bishops hope the Boy Scouts will continue to work under the Judeo-Christian principles upon which they were founded and under which they have served youth well."

Were the change adopted, said BSA spokesman Smith, "there would no longer be any national policy regarding sexual orientation."

"BSA members and parents would be able to choose a local unit that best meets the needs of their families," he said. "Under this proposed policy, the BSA would not require any chartered organization to act in ways inconsistent with that organization's mission, principles, or religious beliefs."

The announcement came shortly after new data showed that membership in the Cub Scouts ? the BSA's biggest division ? dropped sharply last year and was down nearly 30 percent over the past 14 years.

According to figures provided by the organization, Cub Scout ranks dwindled by 3.4 percent, from 1,583,166 in 2011 to 1,528,673 in 2012. That's down from 2.17 million in 1998.

The BSA's overall "traditional youth membership" ? Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers ? totaled 2,658,794 in 2012, compared to more than 4 million in peak years of the past.

The Boy Scouts attribute the decline largely to broad social changes, including the allure of video games and the proliferation of youth sports leagues and other options for after-school activities.

However, critics of the Scouts suggest that its recruitment efforts have been hampered by high-profile controversies ? notably the court-ordered release of files dealing with sex abuse allegations and persistent protests over the no-gays policy.

The Scouts have been buffeted in recent years by multiple court cases related to past allegations of sexual abuse by Scout leaders, including those chronicled in long-confidential records that are widely known as the "perversion files."

Through various cases, the Scouts have been forced to reveal files dating from the 1960s to 1991. They detailed numerous cases where abuse claims were made and Boy Scout officials never alerted authorities and sometimes actively sought to protect the accused.

The BSA has apologized for past lapses and cover-ups and has stressed the steps taken to improve youth protection policy. Since 2010, for example, it has mandated that any suspected abuse be reported to police.

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Associated Press writers John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, and Rachel Zoll in New York contributed to this report.

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Boy Scouts: http://www.scouting.org/

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Burt Reynolds In ICU With Severe Flu Symptoms

Burt Reynolds In ICU With Severe Flu Symptoms

Burt Reynolds photos“Smokey and the Bandit” star Burt Reynolds is currently battling the flu in a hospital in Florida. Reynolds was dehydrated and suffering from flu symptoms when he went to the hospital, before being transferred to its intensive care unit. Burt Reynolds’ rep, Erik Kritzer, confirmed the actor is hospitalized, but says he is showing improvement. ...

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Fast Acid Reflux Treatment ? Jeff Martin's Heartburn No More Review

Fast Acid Reflux Treatment / Heartburn Treatment: your-health.co Why Is Heartburn No More The Best Selling Acid Reflux Book In Internet History, With Thousands Of Satisfied (And Now Heartburn Free) Users In 121 Countries Worldwide? Thousands of women and men of every age have completely cured their acid reflux condition and gained complete freedom from digestive disorders naturally, without drugs, antacids or ?magic potions,? simply by using the clinically proven, scientifically-accurate step by step method found inside this amazing heartburn freedom guidebook. Jeff Martin, a certified nutritionist, health consultant and author has not just pumped out yet another ?anti-reflux program? into an already over-saturated market. Jeff?s Heartburn No More can be more accurately described as a ?Acid Reflux Bible.? It is quite simply one of the most comprehensive, complete, and precise guides to acid reflux freedom you will ever read. The Heartburn No More book is quite extensive (150 pages of rock solid content) which focuses on 100% natural acid reflux treatment. That means there aren?t recommendations for harsh prescription drugs with nasty side effects. In the Heartburn No More core formula section (The 5 step system) ? Nothing is held back. In this section, Jeff gives a detailed overview of each step, and then dives into the specifics in a perfect chronological order. There are also outstanding charts and checklists which make it very easy to know where you are at in the ?

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The Liver Cleansing Diet by Sandra Cabot: What to eat and foods to ...

The Liver Cleansing Diet (1996/2003/2008) has sold over 2 million copies. It is a 3-stage 8-week detox diet that is dairy-free, mostly vegetarian, minimally processed, high fiber, and low fat, and it includes a lot of raw vegetable and fruit including juices.

This is an outline of the food recommendations in the book ? for the full benefits of the plan, see?The Liver Cleansing Diet book and The Liver Cleansing Diet kindle.

The theory behind The Liver Cleansing Diet

This book argues that the key to solving issues such as excessive weight and sluggish metabolism and other conditions is the liver, which is the supreme organism of metabolism. The correction of a poor liver state is always a vital step in an individual?s healing program. The Liver Cleansing Diet (LCD) works to overcome chronic medical conditions with a diet that reduces the toxic load on the liver and improves liver function.

Health benefits claimed in The Liver Cleansing Diet

The diet in this book claims to reduce the risks for: acid reflux / GERD, allergies, Alzheimer?s disease, arthritis, auto immune diseases (Hashimoto?s thyroiditis, inflammatory bowel disease, lupus), bad breath, bloating, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excessive body heat, brain fog, candida, high cholesterol, chronic fatigue, constipation, depression, diabetes, eczema, fatigue, food addiction, headaches/migraines, hives, hormonal imbalances, hypoglycemia, overburdened immune system, indigestion, infertility, irritable bowel syndrome IBS, low libido, liver diseases (cirrhosis, fatty liver, gall bladder disease, hepatitis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, liver cysts, liver pain and congestion,), poor memory, overweight/obesity, rosacea, sluggish metabolism, skin rashes

As always, this is not intended to be a replacement for professional medical diagnosis or treatment for a medical condition.

The diet includes an 8-week menu plan. If your weight loss is too slow or comes to a plateau, you should eat smaller meals and less carbohydrate and do regular exercise. After you?ve finished the 8-week plan, you should follow the ?twelve general principles for a healthy liver.?

The first two weeks of the 8-week plan are a gentle introduction, followed by 4 more demanding weeks with more vegetarian meals (if you get headaches or feel tired, drink extra water or raw vegetable and herbal juices to flush out toxins). The final 2 weeks are less demanding than the middle four but more than the first two.

This diet was not designed with pregnant women in mind.

The book isn?t entirely prescriptive in terms of foods to eat and avoid, instead it includes menu plans and recipes to follow at each stage of the diet. Portion sizes are included, so although this says it?s not a calorie counting book there?s portion control, mainly for carbohydrates. Here?s a summary based on these suggested menus as well as the rest of the book.

Foods to eat in The Liver Cleansing Diet

Always, eat:

  • Fruit and veg (preferably organic)
    • Raw vegetable juice, soon after waking. Drink a fresh juice at least 4 times a week while on the Liver Cleansing Diet. If you freeze juice immediately after making it and drink it after it thaws, the healing antioxidants and enzymes will not be damaged
    • Seasonal fruits and dried fruit
    • Vegetables of all types, preferably raw, especially:
      • Vegetables containing phytochemicals ? carrots, pumpkins, bell peppers, beets
      • Vegetables high in sulfur ? onions, leeks, red radish, kale, horseradish, garlic, cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower
      • Dark green colored vegetables and grasses such as alfalfa, barley leaf, wheat grass
    • About 40% of your diet ? raw vegetables and fruit, in particular dark green leafy vegetables, orange- and red-colored fruit and vegetables
    • Mushrooms
    • Herbs
  • Grains
    • Unsweetened cereals
    • Whole wheat, buckwheat, sour dough, rye, stone ground, rice, corn, herb and olive, walnut, gluten free or other ?high quality? bread from the health food store. Gluten free breads can be best if you have bloating and allergies. If you have irritable bowel syndrome use stone ground breads which have a fine texture and are free of little grainy bits. Vary the types of bread you eat to reduce allergies
    • Whole grain pasta and spaghetti, made from whole wheat, spelt, kamut, or buckwheat
    • Whole wheat or gluten-free flour
    • Brown rice or wild rice
  • Protein
    • Legumes (beans, peas, lentils), including soy products such as tofu, soy bean burgers, soymilk yogurt. Include sprouted legumes
    • Seeds and nuts including coconut cream. Include sprouted seeds. Nuts should only be eaten fresh ? buy nuts in sealed bags with a use-by date or nuts still in their shells
    • Grains in combination with the above
    • Seafood. Canned fish is healthy
    • Unflavored organic cow?s milk yogurt containing acidophilus and bifidus is listed as acceptable for the 8-week program in one part of this book
  • Fats
    • Omega-6 essential fatty acids including cold pressed sesame, safflower, cotton, and sunflower seeds and oil; corn and corn oil; soybeans; raw nuts; legumes; leafy greens
    • Omega-3 essential fatty acids including fresh fish from cold, deep oceans; rainbow trout; bass; linseed oil; shrimp; oysters; leafy greens; soy beans; walnuts; wheat germ; wheat sprouts; fresh sea vegetables
    • Cold-pressed virgin olive oil
    • Cold-pressed sesame oil
  • Unsweetened soy, almond, coconut, or rice milk
  • Condiments
    • Dry mustard powder
    • Soy sauce
    • Vinegar ? apple cider, balsamic, or white wine
    • Honey
    • Brown rice syrup
    • Stevia
    • Vanilla essence
    • Spices
    • Baking soda
  • Sweets
    • If you want something sweet, use fresh raw fruits, sun-dried fruits, stevia or xylitol
    • Good quality dark chocolate or carob
    • Fruit-based fruit sorbet without sugar (limit this, as it contains a lot of natural sugars)
  • Light breakfast. If you love breakfast or expend a lot of energy, more hearty breakfasts are included in the meal plan. If you have liver disease, or feel that your metabolism is very sluggish / you want to lose weight at a faster pace, limit yourself to raw fruits and raw juices for breakfast. If you have low blood sugar in the mid-morning, add some protein at breakfast.
  • Always have a raw vegetable salad with your main course at dinner to improve digestion
  • Drink at least 10-12 glasses of filtered water daily. Don?t drink large amounts of fluid with meals.
  • Chew your food slowly and thoroughly
  • If you don?t have enough stomach acid, sip a small glass of water containing 1-2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar during every meal.

The first two weeks, eat:

  • Protein sources: free-range or organic chicken (skinless) and eggs

The middle four weeks, eat:

  • Protein sources: egg white

The last two weeks, eat:

  • Protein sources: free-range or organic chicken (skinless) and eggs

Other recommendations of foods to eat for lifetime diet

?Always? foods above, plus:

  • Nice wines and spirits in moderation
  • Chicken and eggs, preferably organic / free range
  • Fresh, lean red meat, preferably organic (no more than 4 times weekly)
  • Cheeses
  • It?s not clear whether you?re allowed dairy apart from cheese for your lifetime diet, but the book advises that a lot of medical conditions result from milk and gluten consumption so this implies that it should perhaps be limited
  • Obtain your dietary protein from diverse sources, and not just from animal products (such as meat, dairy and eggs)
  • Processed and refined foods
    • Processed and sugary foods ?French fries, chips, pretzels, cookies, cakes, donuts, candies, processed jellies and jams high in sugar, soft drinks, white bread
    • Deep fried foods? ? especially if you have gallbladder disease
    • Fast food and takeout food
    • White flour, white rice
    • Sugar, especially refined sugars
    • Preserved meat such as Italian sausage, ham, smoked meats, sausages, frankfurters, corned beef, bacon, pizza meats
    • Smoked foods including fish

Foods to avoid or limit with The Liver Cleansing Diet

Always, avoid:

  • Bad fats
    • Omega-6 non-essential fatty acid (arachidonic acid) ? fatty red meats, some dairy products (not explained), preserved meats, deep fried food, processed foods and hydrogenated oil
    • Processed fats or damaged fats ? margarines, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils / trans-fatty acids, shortening, oils used for deep frying and/or repeatedly reheated, and rancid oils
  • Stimulants
    • Tea ? restrict to 2-3 cups a day
    • Coffee ? restrict to 1 cup a day. If you use decaffeinated coffee make sure chemicals haven?t been used to remove the caffeine
    • Alcohol ? preferably don?t drink, but if you do don?t drink more than 3-4 glasses of alcohol per week
  • MSG, artificial, artificial sweeteners, colorings, and preservatives
  • Food containing undercooked eggs
  • Foods you may be allergic to
  • If you have problems with gluten (such as intestinal irritation and irritable bowel syndrome), avoid foods containing gluten
  • Don?t eat if you?re not hungry
  • Don?t eat if you feel stressed or anxious
  • Never reheat food more than once
  • You can?t be perfect, but do your best to follow this diet

If you have cirrhosis of the liver, poor liver function, or liver failure, minimize consumption of red meat, pork and poultry

All 8 weeks of the 8-week plan

  • Dairy products (milk, butter, cheese, cream, flavored yogurt, ice cream, full cream-chocolate)
  • Meat, and meat products including gelatin
  • If you want to speed up your weight loss, reduce the amount of oil found in some of the recipes or eliminate it
  • Do not have more than two courses in any one meal, as poor or excessive food combining is hard work for the liver
  • Only have raw fruit for dessert for lunch and dinner, or skip it altogether
  • Eat a maximum of three main meals daily and small snacks in between, preferably not more than 2-3 snacks daily

The first two weeks

  • Protein sources: meat, non-free-range chicken

The middle four weeks

  • Protein sources: meat, chicken of any kind, and egg yolk

The last two weeks

  • Protein sources: meat, non-free-range chicken

Other recommendations of foods to avoid/limit for lifetime diet

?Always? foods above, plus:

  • Excessive wines and spirits
  • Fatty red meat

For people with irritable bowel syndrome, the LCD may need to be modified as sufferers are unable to tolerate small unground seeds, nuts, and grains. These people should pass seeds, nuts, and grains through a grinder and grate harder salad vegetables such as carrots and beets. They should also avoid or reduce products containing gluten.

For more information on the recommendations and recipes and meal plans, see?The Liver Cleansing Diet book and The Liver Cleansing Diet kindle.

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Weekly Good: Here?s How $7 Can Help Change The World

weekly-good41[Editor's Note: This is a weekly series. If your company is doing something amazing to help a charitable cause or doing some good in your community, please reach out.] What if just by buying a t-shirt that spreads a message for a charitable cause, you could help fund that cause? What if there was a website that highlighted a specific cause and t-shirt every week? And what if that website donated $7 from each sale to that cause? You’d have Sevenly.org, and a pretty amazing startup with the sole purpose of helping to raise both money and awareness, all with fashion, e-commerce and you of course. By highlighting one cause a week, Sevenly puts all of its focus on promoting that cause, who benefits from it, and gives you a simple call to action…buy a t-shirt. I spoke to Ryan Wood from Sevenly and here’s how he describes his startup’s mission: The way that our model works is that for every single product purchased from our website, Sevenly donates $7 to that weeks cause on behalf of the supporter. For example, if our supporters purchase 1,000 products during the 7 day campaign, Sevenly will write a check for $7,000 and donate it directly to the cause (charity partner) for that week. Through this model we’re also able to do some pretty exciting things. Often times we’re able to quantify our purchases to say, for example, for every item purchased an orphaned child in Thailand will be provided with daily meals for an entire month. Or, for every item purchased a child struggling with cancer will be given a jar full of toys that will bring joy and happiness to their lives. In addition to being able to quantify these purchases, we are able to introduce match donors occassionaly for our campaigns, raising the donation amount from $7 to $14 per item purchased, and in some cases, a full $21 donated per item purchased. This week’s shirt benefits Child Help, which is dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. The company has already raised $1,554,040 for various causes since its launch, with its items being shared on various social networks 4,018,721 times. That’s quite a network effect, and pretty good for a company that started less than two years ago. While I’m not a fan of infographics, Sevenly has put one together that shows you why their model works

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Blackhawks tie franchise-best start with 3-2 win

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? This was supposed to be the weekend for the NHL All-Star Game at Nationwide Arena.

Instead, the Chicago Blackhawks flaunted their own constellation of stars.

Patrick Kane had yet another multipoint game with two assists, Jonathan Toews scored the game-winner early in the third period and Corey Crawford had 24 saves to help Chicago match the best start in franchise history with a 3-2 victory Saturday night over the Columbus Blue Jackets.

The only other time the Blackhawks began a season 5-0-0 was 1971-72.

"That was one of those games where maybe we didn't play our best hockey like we've seen in the last five games, but as a team it doesn't matter who goes out there you've got to find a way to win," Toews said. "And we did that."

Crawford, who won for the fourth time this season, was solid all night but particularly when the Blackhawks were a man down. They killed all five penalties.

"I feel good, I feel focused," Crawford said. "The puck looks pretty big right now. Also, everyone's making the effort to play defense. It's showing in the first bunch of games ? guys are coming back to help out and that helps us get to offense after that."

Badly outplayed at the outset, the Blackhawks played methodical, poised and unhurried hockey all night. Even when down 1-0, it seemed only a matter of time before they collected themselves and took control.

"Finding ways to win is important," coach Joel Quenneville said. "You're not going to be great every night or your best every night. Columbus played a hard-working game, working harder than us tonight. But we got key saves from (Crawford) tonight and that helped us."

The All-Star Game, of course, was cancelled by the 119-day lockout that reduced the season to 48 games for each team over 99 days.

Steve Mason held his own with 21 saves for the Blue Jackets, who lost their third in a row. A goal by Derick Brassard was waved off in the second period when the officials ruled Nick Foligno interfered with Crawford. That decision caused a sellout crowd of 18,381 to boo throughout the game.

"You never know how a game's going to end up," Blue Jackets coach Todd Richards said. "(The goal being disallowed) certainly changed the course of the game. At the time, we were down 2-1. It's a huge play. He (referee Dan O'Rourke) makes the call, he saw what he saw. There's nothing we can do once he makes the call."

On the power play after Jamal Mayers went to the penalty box for unsportsmanlike conduct, Brassard's slap shot from the point beat Crawford. But O'Rourke immediately waved off the goal. Replays showed Foligno's right skate was in the crease, although there was no apparent contact between him and Crawford.

Between periods, Foligno said O'Rourke told him that the goal was disallowed because "I had bumped (Crawford) and didn't give him time to reset."

The crowd booed lustily at every opportunity the rest of the night.

Quenneville said later that replays showed clearly that it should have been a tying goal.

Mark Letestu gave Columbus a 1-0 lead and Artem Anisimov scored late to make it interesting for the Blue Jackets, who have been outscored 12-3 in their losing skid.

Toews, off of Kane's second assist of the night, put the Blackhawks up two goals 6:35 into the third after a turnover in the Chicago zone. Letestu's pass was deflected by Marian Hossa with Kane retrieving it. He fired a blind, quick pass to Toews who was all alone behind the defense. Toews faked left, then right, before flipping the puck past Mason for his third of the year and a 3-1 lead.

Anisimov backhanded in Brandon Dubinsky's wraparound attempt with 2:19 left in regulation, but the Blue Jackets could not get the equalizer.

Kane now has more than one point in four of the five Chicago games and has two goals and seven assists.

"You can tell he's good ol' Kaner," Toews said. "He's going to work hard and make plays."

The Blue Jackets could only think about the goal that didn't count.

"Overall everybody worked hard," Mason said. "It's unfortunate. I'm not sure what the call was on that second goal for us but the guys kept working and we just came up a little short."

NOTES: Chicago won all six meetings against the Blue Jackets last season and is now 20-12-4 all-time at Nationwide Arena. ... The Blackhawks improved to 4-0-0 on the road this season. ... The Blue Jackets were without RW Cam Atkinson, who suffered a lower-body injury in camp. He may be out at least a week. ... Hossa has 35 points (17 goals, 18 assists) in 29 career games against Columbus while Kane has 34 points (12 goals, 22 assists) and Toews 33 (14 goals, 20 assists) in 31 games against the Blue Jackets.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blackhawks-tie-franchise-best-start-3-2-win-025010617--spt.html

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

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John Kerry: Global climate change is a 'life-threatening issue'

John Kerry said the US must play a key role in slowing the effects of climate change in his confirmation hearing Thursday. Climate change has been a central focus of Sen. John Kerry's political career.

By Matthew Daly,?Associated Press / January 24, 2013

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday. John Kerry told fellow senators he would be a "passionate advocate" on slowing climate change if confirmed as secretary of state.

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Calling global climate change a "life-threatening issue," Secretary of State nomineeJohn?Kerry?said Thursday that the United States must play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.

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Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, said at his confirmation hearing that the U.S. should pursue policies to boost clean energy and energy efficiency. In his state and others, such as California, "the fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy,"?Kerry?said. "It's a job creator."

Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has made climate change a central focus of his Senate career and led a failed effort in the Senate for a climate change bill in 2010.

Kerry?told fellow senators he would be a "passionate advocate" on the issue if confirmed as secretary of state, "not based on ideology but based on facts, based on science. And I hope to sit with all of you and convince you that this $6 trillion (energy) market is worth millions of American jobs and leadership, and we better go after it."

Failing to deal with climate change was more of a risk than addressing it head-on,?Kerry?said, citing damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, drought and wildfires. Congress is expected to approve more $50 billion in disaster relief for Sandy victims alone. The storm pounded Northeastern states in late October and has been blamed for 140 deaths.

"If we can't see the downside of spending that money" as a short-term fix after a disaster "and risking lives for all the changes that are taking place ? to agriculture, to our communities, the ocean and so forth, we're ignoring what science is telling us,"?Kerry?said.

On a related issue,?Kerry?said he has made no decision about the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. Environmental groups have been pressuring the Obama administration to reject the pipeline, saying it would carry "dirty oil" that contributes to global warming.

Kerry?said a review process is well underway at the State Department. The department has jurisdiction over the pipeline because it crosses an international border.

"It will not be long before that comes across my desk,"?Kerry?said. "And at that time, I'll make the appropriate judgments about it."

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Friday, January 25, 2013

Israeli voters force Netanyahu to seek centrist partner

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's next government must heed voters and devote itself to bread-and-butter issues, not foreign policy problems such as Iran's nuclear plans and the Palestinian conflict, senior politicians said on Thursday.

Israelis worried about housing, prices and taxes reshaped parliament in Tuesday's national election, forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to woo their centrist champion as his main coalition partner.

Defence Minister Ehud Barak said voters had imposed new constraints on the next government. "It will be much more balanced, probably limited, cannot do whatever it wants and will have to take into account the growing pressure from within to focus on many internal issues," he told CNN.

Final election results that confirmed earlier projections were published on Thursday. They showed Yair Lapid, the surprise success of the ballot, stormed to second place with 19 seats in the 120-member assembly. Netanyahu's alliance of his Likud party and ultra-nationalists led by former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman won 31 seats.

Formal coalition talks have yet to begin, but Netanyahu and Lapid held a long meeting on Thursday, a Likud statement said.

"The meeting, which lasted two and a half hours, was conducted in a very good atmosphere. Netanyahu and Lapid discussed the challenges facing the country and ways to grapple with them. They agreed to meet again soon," the statement said.

Netanyahu also held phone conversations with all the other possible coalition partners, a Likud spokeswoman added later.

Netanyahu has swiftly adopted chunks of Lapid's election platform as his own, keen to seal a deal that would create a solid base of 50 seats before drawing in other partners from the right or center needed for a stable ruling majority.

Lapid, a former TV talk show host, said "colour had returned to the cheeks" of Israelis following the vote, adding that he was happy Netanyahu had now embraced his party's themes of "equal sharing of the burden" and helping the middle class, especially with housing and education.

"Equal sharing" is political code for meeting the complaints of secular tax-payers about the concessions given to the ultra-Orthodox, whose men study in Jewish seminaries, often on state stipends, and who are not drafted into the army.

"EQUAL BURDEN"

Lulled by pre-election opinion polls, Netanyahu may have assumed he could coast back to power at the head of a right-wing coalition enthused by his mission to halt Iran's nuclear drive and eager to settle more Jews in the occupied West Bank.

But Likud and Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu lost 11 of the seats they had won at the last election in 2009, punished by voters more preoccupied with problems of daily life.

Lieberman said he and Netanyahu shared with Lapid and Naftali Bennett, leader of a new far-right party, the goals of "equal burden, living costs and affordable housing".

But Lieberman told Army Radio that reaching a similar consensus on foreign policy might prove elusive. "We can start with diplomacy, but that will impair the government's functioning," he said. "This government must focus on domestic issues."

In its first reaction to the election, the United States, Israel's chief ally, renewed a call for resuming stalled peace talks with the Palestinians, but huge obstacles remain, even if the next Israeli government gains a more moderate flavour.

Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the PLO executive committee, said Palestinian leaders were watching for change after a vote that had given Israel a "new and different opportunity".

He told reporters any renewed talks must be based on creating a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 war lines.

"We are not ready to be part of the process of more political theatre or to give cover for government policy which represents the same policies as the last one, while settlements continue and we experience daily killing and repression."

U.S.-brokered peace talks broke down in 2010 amid mutual acrimony. Since then Israel has accelerated settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem - land the Palestinians want for their future state - much to the anger of Western partners.

RAZOR-THIN

Complicating Netanyahu's quest for a workable coalition is the difficulty of reconciling the demands of a dozen factions in parliament, where those on the right hold a razor-thin edge.

Lapid, who founded his Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party only a year ago, wants to end exemptions from military service for Israel's 10 percent minority of ultra-Orthodox Jews who also receive generous state benefits.

Those privileges were extracted from successive governments by religious parties such as Shas and the United Torah Party in exchange for their backing. The two parties have a combined total of 18 seats in parliament, and Netanyahu is likely to want to include at least one of them for a broad-based coalition.

He may also turn to the hardline Jewish Home group led by his former protege Bennett, a millionaire software entrepreneur, which won 12 seats. The Likud spokeswoman said Netanyahu congratulated Bennett in their phone conversation but other details were not revealed.

"Jewish Home can certainly be one of the desired partners in the new coalition," Likud lawmaker Zeev Elkin told Israel Radio.

However, Bennett has denounced the idea of Palestinian statehood and advocates annexing swathes of the West Bank, putting him at odds with Lapid, who wants "divorce" talks with the Palestinians to end the decades-old Middle East conflict.

The Labour party came third with 15 seats after putting economic and social issues at the forefront of its campaign, not the Middle East peacemaking it once championed. It has promised not to join any Netanyahu-led coalition.

Once the results are published officially on January 30, President Shimon Peres will ask someone, almost certainly Netanyahu, to try to form a government, a process that may take several weeks.

(Reporting by Jerusalem bureau; Editing by Giles Elgood and David Stamp)

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Intimate Ilm: Teacher: Most redundant category in the Educational ...

There
is no dearth of talks about education in India; there is no scarcity of
perspectives on the issues in education; there are volumes of rims with printed
words and endless discourses on the question of education. Yet, very
ironically, the category of teacher seems to be a redundant one with scant
reflection on the idea of teaching and being of teacher. Many of us, who took
to teaching in schools, at some point in our biographies, were told: teaching
is all about managing a classroom. Furthermore in the undergraduate colleges it
appeared that teaching is, in addition to managing the class by taking
attendance and keeping records, also about following the masters/ curriculum
designers sitting in university departments. It were as if the high priests in
the university departments design curriculum and college teachers, like the
workers in the machinery of Charles Chaplin?s Modern Times, follow them. The
situation is not much different in the postgraduate programs where teachers
also become, in addition to managers of the class, researchers seeking for
funded projects and publishing machine worshipping the fetish of printed words.? The complexity is manifold. And yet, our
educational debates buried in the tomes of literature, make it appear overly
simpler by blaming the teachers for all the ills or blaming the structure for
befalling the teachers. This is though only a lip service, when it comes to
higher education. Our educational discourses give this clear signal that all
the ills with teaching belong to school education while all the errors (not
clearly with reference to teaching) in higher education (in colleges and in
varsities) are due to the structural-political economic factors.? The understated assumption, more often than
not, is that teachers in universities are infallible sacred totems. Everything
around this totem could bear profane implication. But teachers, in the ivory
towers of university, can seldom be erroneous. Only the lower graded teachers,
in the colleges and schools, or in regional universities at most, could be
monsters. Isn?t it a deeply Brahmanical an idea which anybody and everybody in
the Delhi-centric higher education in India subscribes to? In our reasoning
with the category of teacher, and vocation of teaching, we take for granted the
hierarchical scheme. And Dumont established it at the dawn of social
anthropology in India, that hierarchy revolves around the binaries of purity
and pollution. Thus, teachers in universities, no matter how polluted by the
greed to get maximum scores in the UGC scheme of assessment, would be ever
purer due to the status and location in the hierarchy. On the other hand,
teachers in schools and colleges, no matter how much sincere in the vocation of
teaching, will be butt of ridicule. Does it help in understanding the being of
teacher? Does it further a quest in understanding the vocation of teaching?
Arguably it does not.
Recently
in a panel discussion on ?Rediscovering Teacher? at South Asian University
(Delhi) a student of postgraduate program echoed a unique concern. Everyday
students are regulated and disciplined by teachers; everyday there is a threat
of evaluation and grading; everyday a teacher walks into the classroom to
deliver something called lecture; and yet everyday every student grapples with
a question: where is the teacher, who could fire our imagination, who could
offer various molds for our fresh thinking, who could be our guide in the quest
of knowledge! While some of us as teachers in schools, colleges, and
universities, tend to use the autonomous force of agency and subvert the
structural constraints in humble and small ways we are all also predisposed to
catch up with the systemic-institutional expectations. Hence as a
schoolteacher, even the most innovative of teachers is not free from the worry
of helping students pass examination. Hence a teacher in college is bound to
follow the outdated syllabi without questioning it and meanwhile fret about the
necessity of participating in all kinds of seminars by paying good amount of
money for the certificates of participation. Hence we at universities are
worried that if we do not publish, in the rat race of publication, we will
perish as it were. In a lecture, titled ?Universities in Crises? a renowned
neo-Marxist Sociologist Michael Burawoy deliberated upon precisely this issue.
According to him, all over the world university academia suffers from
disappearing teachers as the so-called teachers are regulated by market and monetary-funding
agencies. Where are the teachers to spend time in critical-knowledge
production? Even in the publications, be it in book form or in journals, and
publication in journals present worse cases, there is no honesty of intellect.
It is calculative, lifeless, and cold professional writings that we get to
read. And this is a heavy price that printed shoclarship has to pay due to a
heavy compromise on critical reflection. Why this compromise- because scholars
would like to publish on the terms and conditions of the publishers.
Then,
it indeed demands a teacher, who aspires to remain a teachers against all the
oddities, to remember the monumental poem of Rabindranath Tagore- Ekla Chalo Re
(Do walk alone, if nobody hears your voice). This is the ultimate manifestation
of an agential drive in the vocation of teaching. And only this way, by
experimenting with young minds inside as well as outside classroom, a teacher
can retain the sanity of his/her existence.

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Battroborg updates Rock'em Sock'em Robots for the Wii generation, we go hands-on

Battroborg updates Rock'em Sock'em Robots for the Wii Generation

When Battroborg hit shelves in Japan last June we were, admittedly, a tad jealous. Where were our tiny, motion controlled boxing bots? Well, if you can be just a bit more patient, the vicious little toys should be landing stateside in time for Christmas. Tomy was nice enough to bring them by our office for a little preview and to help us work out some intra-office tension. So, beyond the obvious Wii and Rock'em Sock'em Robots comparisons, what's it like piloting these puny pugilists through battle? Head on after the break for impressions, pics and a dose of combat -- Engadget style.


When Tomy rep, Jamie Kieffer, took out the Battroborgs we were immediately struck by how small they were. Maybe previous coverage didn't give us proper perspective, but at about two or three inches tall, they're damn-near pocketable, which was a tad unexpected. In fact, if we think they were a precursor to our Real Steel fantasies coming true, we'd say they were cute. Their exceptionally light plastic bodies have two arms with joints at the elbow and shoulder, which allow them to throw straight rights and jabs. We also discovered, accidentally, that if you pop the elbow joint out of place you can "teach" the little guys to throw a hook. The controller bears obvious similarities to the Wii controller and Nunchuk. Two white plastic parts are connected by a thin cord with the larger half housing four AA batteries and an on off switch. Both pieces house accelerometers that translate your furious flurries into robot rights and lefts.

Operation is pretty simple. A small connector on the front of the controller lets you dock a robot and charge it for up to 20 minutes of continuous combat. When its time to do battle you flick a tiny switch on the back of your Battroborg then turn on the controller (in that order, please) to pair the two using 2.4GHz wireless. Communication between the two is instantaneous and, even with four slugging it out simultaneously, there seemed to be no interference from the devices. In fact, TOMY claims you can have up to 20 of them slug it out simultaneously. While the punching controls are pretty self explanatory, moving about takes some adjustment. Since a single motor drives the whole bot, moving forward is accomplished through throwing a series of alternating punches. (Throwing one punch over and over will spin you in a circle.)

Battroborgs should be hitting American retailers in time Christmas, with two bots and an arena expected to cost between $70 and $80. While additional combatants can be purchased separately for around $30.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Is the aviation industry doing enough to make air travel accessible to ...

Wheelchair bound passenger small Is the aviation industry doing enough to make air travel accessible to persons with reduced mobility?For millions of travellers worldwide, a host of permanent and short term conditions conspire to make air travel at best difficult, and, in many cases, all but impossible.

Accessibility barriers are not just mobility related but also stem from hearing, vision, and coordination problems that affect a passenger?s ability to hear boarding calls, read signage, and manipulate websites.

The vast array of air travel access barriers arise from a shifting web of safety, security, and cost/comfort/convenience factors that will ultimately require all of the stakeholders to compromise a little bit if any progress is to be made.

COMMON AIR TRAVEL ACCESS BARRIERS

For travellers with reduced mobility (and anyone with health conditions outside the ?norm?) the hardest part of travelling is, by far, the uncertainty and capriciousness of an ever-changing system. Will I have to give up my wheelchair at check-in, or can I take it all the way to the gate? Will my medications, or assistive devices be allowed through security? Do I have the right documentation for everything? While regulatory agencies tell us that the answers to these questions are straightforward and clearly posted on their web sites, the practical application of regulations is inconsistent at best.

Disabled travellers report that procedures in the US and abroad vary widely from day to day, even within the same airline at the same airport.? It?s this uncertainty that causes extreme levels of anxiety for many travellers. Even when they?ve done everything ?right?, they may still be denied use of their chairs, or access to their medication.

And assuming they make it to the aircraft door with body, soul, and equipment intact, passengers with reduced mobility (PRMs) face the prospect of being unceremoniously hoisted up the stairs and onto the aeroplane if the gate has no jet bridge, or the aircraft has no aisle chair. It?s a process that many cite as being stressful on good days, and outright dehumanising on others.

Additionally, ticket consolidators and airline web sites that fail to offer online booking for assistive devices ? or are unusable by passengers incapable of manipulating a mouse ? often require these passengers to place toll calls to make reservations. This also means that they may be unable to take advantage of the best rates, or web only deals.

To be fair, airlines and airports work hard at standardising policies, but in a world of sub-contractors, and decentralized responsibilities, this is becoming increasingly difficult to control.

ACCESS IN AIRPORTS, AIRLINES AND AIRCRAFT

For PRMs, access issues arise the moment that they get to the airport. Are the elevators roomy enough to accommodate their chair? Once they?re inside the airport, if they are hearing or sight impaired, will they find alternative instructional signage to compensate for small print or inaudible public address announcements? Once they reach their gate, these passengers face another range of uncertainty. Will there be a jetway, an elevator, stairs, or some combination of all three?

But for passengers in their own wheelchairs, the most consistent access barrier comes at check in. Will the airline ask them to surrender their chair with their luggage? The airlines or airport may well provide a chair, but to satisfy a variety of needs, this equipment is typically basic at best.? For many wheelchair users, their chair?s functionality and padding is the result of years of refinements and costly prescription customisation. Forcing them to hand over this piece of their lives at check-in is like requiring a grown man with size 11ft to walk to the gate in size four ballet slippers, do without his asthma medication, and ask permission to go to the bathroom.

At the gate, simply getting on board is the next hurdle. Will the airline have an aisle chair, or will members of the ground crew be required to bodily carry me to my seat? Once seated, barriers persist. If there?s no aisle chair, I better not drink in flight because I have no way of getting to the bathroom.

While there are a host of barriers that plague travellers, it would be wrong to say that airports, airlines, and manufacturers are doing nothing about this situation. Eric Lipp, founder of the Open Doors Organization (ODO) tells us that their biennial Universal Access in Airports conference brings together representatives from airlines, airports, aircraft designers, and airport contractors to discuss best practices, new technology, accessibility design, and regulations.

Lipp believes that this conference, along with ODO?s growing alliance with Airport Council International (ACI) are all signs of the industry?s willingness to take accessibility seriously. He cites Seattle?s coming terminal expansion (with accessibility woven into the fabric of the design from the very beginning), and Boeing?s full-time employment of an accessibility expert as positive signs.

Neither is it appropriate to say that money or market share are the main issues. According to Tanvi Vyas, Trailblazers Campaigns officer for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign in the United Kingdom, ?This is not a premium airline versus budget airline issue, as many factors contribute to service delivery.? Thinking through the usability issues of a website, or whether or not you?ll let wheelchair users take their chairs to the gate costs nothing, and may ultimately save money.? It?s about thinking differently, and approaching the problem with a fresh set of eyes.

BETTER DESIGN

For airports, airlines, and manufacturers, the balance in all things customer related revolves around the three ?C?s? of cost, comfort, and convenience. Balancing those priorities is a complex calculus that focuses on the majority of passengers. For airlines the option of installing a larger lavatory often means removing seats and raising ticket prices. And in this era of instant price comparisons, passengers aren?t going to pay more for a two-hour flight on the off chance that they?ll need to use a disabled lavatory some time in the future. Most people don?t think that far ahead.

But according to Paul Priestman of Priestmangoode, a London-based transportation design firm, that?s exactly what most of us should be thinking about. With advances in medical science, we?re living longer, if not healthier, lives. As a result, there?s a better than average chance that most of us will be relegated to some form of restricted mobility during our lifetime. Unless we want to write off the possibility of air travel, it behoves us to find ways of making it more accessible.

Inspired by Paralympic athletes during last summer?s London Olympics, Priestman and his team took it upon themselves, working in consultation with David Constantine and Motivation, his UK-based wheelchair training, support, and empowerment organisation, to design an alternative airline seating system that addresses many of the accessibility challenges confronted by aircraft manufacturers.

Priestmangoode PRM center Is the aviation industry doing enough to make air travel accessible to persons with reduced mobility?

The Priestmangoode solution incorporates a modular seat that converts to an aisle chair capable of breaking away from a permanent seat base.? The user need only transfer once (moving from their own chair to the aisle chair, which later docks securely with the permanent seat base on the aircraft). While it?s not a perfect solution, and still needs to be refined, several airlines have expressed a willingness to test it in service once a prototype is available. But with seat development costs running into the millions, that first step is often the toughest.

That said, improved accessible seating that helps ground staff get PRMs on and off the plane more efficiently will reduce turnaround time, and may reduce work-related ground staff injuries, both things that speak directly to the airlines? bottom line. And once airlines and aircraft manufacturers realize that disabled/accessibility challenged travellers spend (according to the Open Doors Organisation) upwards of USD5 billion annually on air travel (in the US alone), they may decide that it?s an investment worth making.

It?s also possible that the solutions lie not in spending more money, but in applying existing knowledge in new ways. Airbus has, for example, used lessons learned in its widebody designs to develop Space-Flex, a lavatory system for the airframer?s A320 family of single-aisle aircraft.

The Space-Flex system reduces galley size and puts both lavatories on one side of the aisle. This allows a common wall between lavs to be collapsed, giving PRMs enough space to accommodate their assistive devices. One benefit for operators is that this new configuration allows airlines to install three additional seats, or increase the space between existing rows.

Airbus Space Flex Is the aviation industry doing enough to make air travel accessible to persons with reduced mobility?

The Airbus solution is important to note because the design philosophy solves a tricky design problem in a way that also potentially creates additional revenue for the airlines. To date, Airbus has taken more than one hundred orders to equip A320s with Space-Flex.

But good design, in addition to being functional, usable, and cost effective, must also tick the boxes for safety and security. But whose boxes?

ALPHABET SOUP ? LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS

Most people in the United States have at least heard of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the 1990 US law that, among other things, requires businesses and municipalities to adhere to a strict set of guidelines meant to ensure that the disabled have equal access to commercial and public spaces. And, while the ADA does have a huge impact on accessible air travel, it is just one of many regulatory policies, instituted by a number of agencies around the world.

It?s important to note that the ADA regulates accessibility at airports, and is a US Department of Justice (DOJ) initiative, but the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) regulates access on board aircraft and is administered by the US Department of Transportation (DOT). Additionally, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is primarily tasked with air traffic control and flight safety (but oversees the ADA in air travel on behalf of the DOJ) while the US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is responsible for airport and aircraft security issues.

In Europe, guidelines for accessible air travel are spelled out by the EU 1107 document, which is quite different from both the ADA and the ACAA in the United States. For example, in Europe the airports contract ground handling (wheelchair pushing) companies. So there will usually be one company per airport. But in the US, the airlines contract the wheelchair services, so there may be half a dozen contractors pushing chairs in one airport.

For travellers there are benefits to understanding these regulations.? Laurel Van Horn of the Open Doors Organization tells us that most travellers are not aware that the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) requires all airlines serving US markets to have a Complaints Resolution Officer (CRO) on call during their hours of operation. Airports likewise have an access officer charged with resolving complaints related to accessibility.? At any time during the travel experience (even while booking a ticket), passengers can request assistance from the CRO, or the airport accessibility officer on duty.

Also, complaints about accessibility on airline web sites, at airports, or aboard aircraft should be made in writing to the DOT, because laws require that all written complaints be investigated, while complaints made through a ?hotline? or directly to the airlines are not subject to the same level of oversight.

Knowing who to speak to, when and why is one of the most empowering actions that passengers can take to facilitate their travel plans.

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Sadly there are no easy answers to the problems of accessible air travel.? Airports should build accessibility (of all sorts) into their future plans, and the DOJ, DOT, and FAA must require that all new facilities and planned improvements be comprehensively accessible. Aircraft manufacturers should offer their customers accessibility options that benefit the airline and, in the long term, all of its passengers. And airlines should make their booking services more accessible, and insist that their contractors be trained to meet or exceed the same standards that they themselves are held to.

It?s true also that passengers with accessibility needs must plan ahead, and take the steps necessary to remove doubt and uncertainty from the travel experience. Hopefully, over time, those steps will be greatly reduced or mostly eliminated.

Vicki Curtis, an engineer and accessibility expert at Boeing reminds us that, ?It is all linked; the aeroplane, the airport, the jetway. You can have the most accessible airplane in the world, but unless you can get to it, it is still inaccessible.?

An ageing population and longer life expectancy dictate that everyone will probably experience some level of disability and access limiting illness in their lifetime. So, unless we plan to simply write off air travel during those periods, it?s in all of our interest to make sure that the system is as accessible as possible.

Source: http://blog.apex.aero/cabin-interior/aviation-industry-air-travel-accessible-persons-reduced-mobility/

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