November e-Newsletter ? the energy bill, mystery shopping at High ...

In this edition:

? The energy bill
? Are you being served?
? Charter for regulators
? Rolling-out smart metering reports
? Civil society and the market place

Energy bill

The Government has published its?Energy Bill in Parliament today (29 November). To make sure the Energy Bill delivers change in a fair and cost effective way for consumers, Consumer Focus is calling for:

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Are you being served?

This week we published the latest edition of our rolling programme of mystery shopping research, looking at queue times, quality of service and accessibility of the larger, busier Post Office branches found on our high streets ? Crown branches, franchised branches and WH Smith branches.

The research has revealed a mixed picture for consumers. There is good news on accessibility, significantly shorter queues and investment in flagship Crown branches. However, the research also reveals concerns about the quality and accuracy of counter staff knowledge, with researchers sometimes sold a more expensive product than they needed.

The research, carried for our report ? Are You Being Served? ? was designed to test the quality of a customers? experience when visiting High Street branches. This includes Crown branches, franchised branches and a further 70 branches managed by WH Smith. The report was published this week.

We?ve also published a report looking at consumers? knowledge of Royal Mail?s products. Getting the most from the post? looks at how well consumers understand the main Royal Mail products and whether they use they the right ones.

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Charter for regulators

A coalition of leading consumer organisations is urging Chairs of Parliamentary Select Committees to use its new Consumer Charter to hold the UK?s regulatory bodies to account for their performance in protecting consumers.

The Consumer Charter for Regulators is a statement of what consumers should reasonably expect any regulator to deliver. Select Committees play a vital public interest role in monitoring the performance of regulators, but they currently lack a simple framework to help them check whether these bodies are achieving the objectives set for them by Parliament.

The move follows a National Consumer Federation Consumer Congress Workshop in March 2012, sponsored by Consumer Focus, entitled Are Regulators failing the consumer? and new research by Which? highlighting a lack of public confidence in how key professions are regulated. Just one in 10 people consider that bankers are regulated effectively, while none of the professions were considered to be well regulated by more than half of those surveyed.

The charter was launched on Tuesday 27 November at the House of Commons at the All Party Parliamentary Group for Consumer Affairs and Trading Standards, chaired by Austin Mitchell MP.

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Rolling-out smart metering reports

In-home energy display guidance and report launch
On Wednesday 21 November, we launched our In-home Display (IHD) industry good practice guidance and report Making energy use visible ? Smart meter in-home display usability research with consumers together with our advice guide for customers to help them select an energy display.

IHDs will be provided to all homes in Great Britain that have a smart meter installed, and will have the capability of displaying near real-time data on their energy consumption.
The research was designed to help us understand the extent to which IHDs are usable. It entailed user testing a range of IHDs with a diverse group of consumers, including older and disabled people. The industry-facing guidance was created to support IHD design inclusivity, including specific features and characteristics that should be considered as a minimum.

The launch was chaired by Consumer Focus Director of Policy and External Affairs, Adam Scorer, with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) presenting the latest policy context around IHDs including requirements on usability. Zoe McLeod, Head of Smart & Sustainable Energy Markets at Consumer Focus, presented the key findings from the report together with the research company, Ricability. The launch event was attended by IHD manufacturers, DECC, Ofgem, energy suppliers, relevant charities and other consumer groups.

Smart for All
Also on the 21 November, we launched our joint report with DECC and National Energy Action (NEA) Smart for All ? Understanding consumer vulnerability during the experience of smart meter installation at the All Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group?s Annual General Meeting.

The meeting was co-chaired by Caroline Lucas MP (Green Party), Rebecca Harris MP (Conservative) and Kelvin Hopkins MP (Labour).

• DECC outlined the Smart Meter Roll-out Consumer Engagement Strategy
• NEA presented the key report findings
• E.ON presented on its vulnerable customer journey
• Zoe McLeod outlined Consumer Focus?s key asks for Government and industry to ensure low income and consumers in vulnerable situations also benefit from the roll-out of smart meters

Key asks to ensure smart for all:

• Accurate bills and an end to back billing
• Offer functions to help customers budget, especially an accurate account balance on the IHD
• Make smart prepay work and make it a higher priority
• Make technology user-friendly
• Ensure fast and easy switching
• Make smart tariffs work for consumers
• Ensure roll-out is affordable and offers value for money for all
• Deliver an Extra Help Scheme for people in fuel poverty and vulnerable situations

Zoe?s presentation to the Group with more detail on our key asks: Smart for All ? Delivering benefits to low income and vulnerable consumers

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Civil society and the market place

Consumer Focus and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) have joined forces to bring together a number of organisations who offer a range of services and/or products to consumers, whether it is insurance for older people, loans at affordable rates or energy on a not-for-profit basis, for a free half-day conference.
In the current economic and policy environment, this has become more topical than ever and more civil society organisations are generating income through trading.?However, this is not just about income generation. Some organisations are deliberately challenging the markets to make them more inclusive and beneficial to those in vulnerable positions.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Angela Knight, Chief Executive of Energy UK
• Phil Levermore, Managing Director of Ebico
• Mark Lyonette, Chief Executive of the Association of British Credit Unions
• Nigel Mason, Business Development Manager at Co-operative Energy
• Benita Matofska, Founder of The People Who Share
• Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK
• Tess Pendle, Head of My Home Finance
• Jennifer Smith, Head of Operations at The Plunkett Foundation
• Jane Vass, Head of Public Policy at Age UK?

When: The conference will start at 09:00 on Thursday 6 December 2012 and is due to finish at 13:15.
Where: Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW12BJ Book online

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Coming soon

We?ll be publishing reports on internet traffic management, price comparison websites and an examination of consumers? willingness to pay for energy efficiency and carbon reduction initiatives.

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Source: http://www.consumerfocus.org.uk/news/e-newsletter/november-e-newsletter-the-energy-bill-mystery-shopping-at-high-street-post-offices-smart-metering-civil-society-event-and-new-consumer-charter-for-regulators

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How I Power My Business: Mari Luangrath of Foiled Cupcakes ...

How I Power My Business
By Mari Luangrath of Foiled Cupcakes

Mari Luangrath is the founder of Foiled Cupcakes, a?Chicago-based online order, wholesale and personal delivery cupcake service. Foiled Cupcakes
has been featured in?Entrepreneur Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Crain?s Chicago Business, Investor?s Business Daily, Chicago Tribune, Business Week, Inc. Magazine, Reuters, NBC, and WGN.

What apps, software, service or gadgets are essential to the?operations of your business?

37signals Apps: Highrise, Backpack, Basecamp
Authorize.net and Chase Paymentech for payment
Wordpress to run our site (although this will be changing soon)
Boomerang for e-mail management and reminders
Google Apps and Dropbox for file sharing
Skype for conference calls with screen sharing
Twitter for driver reporting and new customer generation
Orchestra for To-Do Lists
Omnigraffle for designing any flow (customer experience, back-end?design, front end, etc.)

What time-saver or money-saver would you love your fellow small?business owners to know about?

Google Labs in Gmail ? Undo Send. I?ve sent so many e-mails, looked,?and retrieved the e-mail to clarify something or send an attachment?that I meant to send. I?ve saved many hours of stress this way, making?sure that e-mails are going to the proper recipient, making sure I?don?t look like an idiot.

Google Calendar ? sharing appointments, sharing specific calendars,?assigning tasks ? it is a huge time-saver and great way to keep track?of everything.

If you find yourself raving about your CRM system, email marketing?software, payments platform or other apps, let?s hear it!

I do LOVE Emma E-mail Marketing ? they are personable, hands-on, and?easygoing. I have a great relationship with my sales account person?and we refer each other business frequently!

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If you?d like to be featured on Firmology?s How I Power My Business series, here?s what we need from you:

1. Read this example post first:?Wanted: Small Businesses for How I Power My Business Series
2. Headshot/Company Photo: Ideally, we?d like a picture of you standing in front of or in your business, but we?ll take your profile headshot by itself or two separate photos too!
3. Company Logo: Who doesn?t have a logo now-a-days? If you don?t have the file, just send us your website link and we?ll grab it from there.
4. Description of Business: Tell us about your business! What is your product or service? Extra points if you have a story of how or why you launched your business.
5. How You Power Your Business: What apps, software, service or gadgets do you use to power your business?

Email the above information to contact@firmology.com with the subject line: How I Power My Business

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For more small business resources, follow Firmology on?Twitter?or?LinkedIn.

Source: http://www.firmology.com/2012/11/30/how-i-power-my-business-mari-luangrath-of-foiled-cupcakes/

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So it is my birthday today. This is me trying not to be ungrateful. I was asked by my mother what I wanted a couple months in advanced, and all I responded with was ?Something vegan. A cookbook or cookies.? And what do I get? My mother buys me a $328.00 Co

brittlepeas asked: So it is my birthday today. This is me trying not to be ungrateful. I was asked by my mother what I wanted a couple months in advanced, and all I responded with was ?Something vegan. A cookbook or cookies.? And what do I get? My mother buys me a $328.00 Coach purse. Genuine leather. WHAT DO I DO? If I give it away, it will hurt her feelers beyond belief, because her reasoning for buying me a Coach in the first place, was that her mother bought one for her birthday. It kills me to have to know th

that an innocent cow had to die for a purse that I don?t even need. Advice?

Considering that your mother didn?t even think about your feelings or what you wanted at all for your birthday and just thought about herself, I do find giving it away (or selling it, or selling it and donating money to an animal rights charity) a very strong option.

What if your mom made you a special veal dinner, and it would hurt her feelings if you didn?t eat it? What would you do then? I think we often see these ethical issues clearer when they are on our plate than on our shoulder, but both are equally harmful. If you wouldn?t eat an animal-based dish because of your mother?s feelings, don?t keep an animal-based bag.

I think you should have a talk with your mother, tell her that you deeply admired her sentiment behind the gift but also tell her that it was extremely hurtful/rude that she would just ignore who you are as a person and what you wanted on your own birthday. If she?s a decent mom she might be upset but she will also respect you more - if you can?t stand up for the respect you deserve then you?ll never receive it.

Source: http://soycrates.tumblr.com/post/36737766198

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Wild coyotes 'kind of chilling' by Wrigley Field

CHICAGO (AP) ? Wild baseball fans may be a standard sight at Wrigley Field, but a pair of wild coyotes milling around Chicago's historic ballpark ? surrounded on all sides by bars, restaurants and busy streets ? was not what one photographer was expecting on a busy Friday night.

So he quickly grabbed his camera.

"They were just kind of chilling," freelance photographer Will Byington said. "They were hanging out and not even doing much. They were kind of just checking out the scene on a Friday night in Wrigleyville. It was like they were on a date, taking a stroll."

Byington said he was shooting a concert at a bar across the street from the stadium in the Wrigleyville neighborhood, notoriously crowded and often rowdy on weekend nights, when he saw the two coyotes hanging out by the statute of former Chicago Cubs player Ernie Banks, near the ticketing area.

"It was kind of like they were looking for tickets," the 34-year-old Chicago resident laughed. "They went by the ticket window and unfortunately found it was closed, so they were ready to move onto the bar."

Wildlife ecologist Stanley Gehrt, who has extensively studied coyotes living in and around Chicago, said coyotes have been in the area for the past decade. He said the latest data shows there are at least 2,000 coyotes in Cook County, where Chicago is located.

"That's their territory. They live there," Gehrt, who works at Ohio State University, said of the unusual pair, which he said were born and raised in the city and likely live in Wrigleyville.

Byington had just a few minutes to snap his nighttime photos before the animals moved on. But he said the coyotes appeared unfazed by the honking horns and packed sidewalks. One even stepped onto a street as cabs and cars crawled by in traffic as if the coyote was "trying to figure out, do they want to eat? Or do they want to get a drink?" he said.

Byington didn't think much of his photos until he posted them online. But they started gathering attention after getting picked up on Facebook by the Cubby Bear bar where he had been working that night.

Chicago Cubs fan Dan Michaels reasons that the coyotes were likely fellow fans of the lackluster team and simply mixed up their calendars.

"My personal theory is they don't know that the Cubs play in summer," he said Wednesday as he walked by the stadium. "They picked the wrong season to wait out by the game."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wild-coyotes-kind-chilling-wrigley-field-225114635.html

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Woman locked up in Alec Baldwin NY stalking case

NEW YORK (AP) ? Police surprised a Canadian actress accused of stalking Alec Baldwin by locking her up again Tuesday at the close of an otherwise-routine court appearance.

Authorities wouldn't discuss why Genevieve Sabourin was re-arrested in Manhattan. But a judge had ordered her to stay away from the "30 Rock" star, and there were recent media reports that she had posted angry tweets about his new wife.

"Why am I being arrested?" she asked as she was led away in handcuffs.

Defense attorney Rick Pasacreta confirmed his client was back in custody, but he said he hadn't been informed of any new charges.

There was no immediate response to messages left with the New York Police Department. Prosecutors would say only that Sabourin was due back in court Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

Following Sabourin's arrest on misdemeanor stalking and harassment charges in April, a judge released her on her own recognizance and issued the temporary order of protection for Baldwin.

Sabourin lives in Quebec and has acted in television and film. She and Baldwin met a decade ago on the set of "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," a sci-fi comedy in which he had a cameo and she was a publicist.

Police originally arrested Sabourin after authorities said she had implored Baldwin to see and to marry her in emails sent only days after he became engaged to yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas.

One of Sabourin's messages envisioned Baldwin as her future "husband," while another described "creating Genevieve Baldwin," a complaint said. Authorities said she also showed up at a screening he was hosting and at his apartment building.

"I just came over to see Alec because I need to speak with him," she told police, according to court documents.

Baldwin and Thomas married in June. Baldwin previously was married to actress Kim Basinger; they have a daughter, Ireland.

Another attorney for Sabourin had previously said that his client and Baldwin had a two-year relationship and that she had a "legitimate purpose" for contacting him.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/woman-locked-alec-baldwin-ny-stalking-case-223140231.html

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Judge bows out of 'pink slime' suit over ABC ties

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ? A federal judge has recused himself from presiding over a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit against ABC because his daughter-in-law works as a producer on one of the network's morning shows.

Judge Lawrence L. Piersol recused himself from hearing the defamation lawsuit filed by South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc. against ABC because his daughter-in-law works as a producer on "Good Morning America."

The case has been reassigned to Chief Judge Karen Schreier.

Beef Products Inc. sued ABC in September over its coverage of a meat product called lean, finely textured beef. Critics have dubbed the product "pink slime." The meat processor claims the network damaged the company by misleading consumers into believing the product is unhealthy and unsafe.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/judge-bows-pink-slime-suit-over-abc-ties-192300436--finance.html

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New home sales stagnant, cast shadow on housing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. single-family home sales fell slightly in October and sales for the prior month were revised sharply lower, casting a faint shadow over one of the brighter spots in the U.S. economy.

The Commerce Department said on Wednesday sales dropped 0.3 percent last month to a 368,000-unit annual rate, while September's sales pace was revised to 369,000 from 389,000.

The housing sector has been a point of relative strength this year in an economy beset by flagging business confidence and cooling demand from abroad.

A report last week showed a surprisingly sharp gain in home resales in October, while data this week showed prices for single-family homes have risen continuously since February.

Economists expect home construction to add to economic growth this year for the first time since 2005.

Wednesday's data did not change the view that housing is still in recovery mode, although the pace of new home sales in October was below the level of May, suggesting little upward momentum. "It's just that progress will be slow," said Yelena Shulyatyeva, an economist at BNP Paribas in New York.

Separately, the Federal Reserve said in its anecdotal Beige Book report the market for single-family homes improved in most areas of the nation from late-October through mid-November.

The report, based on comments from the Fed's business contacts, said the economy had grown at a "measured" pace over that period, with consumer spending expanding moderately but manufacturing activity softening. Hiring remained modest, it said.

Weakness in business spending has been restraining growth, but housing has helped offset that. Consumer confidence has also been more bullish.

Wednesday's home sales report showed the median sales price for a new home in October was 5.7 percent higher than a year earlier, but the pace of year-over-year price gains slowed for a second straight month.

U.S. home-builder stocks fell on the data, even as broad market indexes rose slightly.

SALES WEAK IN NORTHEAST

Some analysts suggested the decline in sales in October might be partially due to a mammoth storm that slammed into the U.S. East Coast at the end of October. New sales plunged 32.3 percent in the Northeast, which bore the brunt of the storm.

"Some of this could potentially be Hurricane Sandy," said Megan McGrath, an analyst at MKM Partners in Stamford, Connecticut.

However, the Commerce Department said the storm did not affect data collection at all and its impact on sales was likely "minimal."

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast sales rising to a 390,000-unit rate last month from September's previously reported 389,000-unit rate.

To provide support for the housing market, the Fed has kept interest rates at rock-bottom levels since 2008. In September, it launched an open-ended program to buy mortgage-backed securities, driving mortgage rates to record lows.

In a third report, the Mortgage Bankers Association said applications for home purchase loans rose 2.6 percent last week to their highest level of the year.

(Additional reporting by Gabriel Debenedetti in New York; Editing by Neil Stempleman and Tim Ahmann)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/home-sales-edge-down-prior-estimates-revised-lower-150546662--business.html

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Kansas appellate court upholds constitutionality of state law

Kansas appellate court upholds constitutionality of state law criminalizing sexual relations between teacher and student enrolled at the same school

State of Kansas v. Edwards, No. 106,435 (Kan. App. Ct. Nov. 2, 2012)

Abstract: The Kansas Court of Appeals has ruled that a state law making it a crime for a teacher to engage in sexual relations with a student enrolled at the school where the teacher is employed is constitutional. The appellate court concluded: ?Because the statute applied in this case implicitly recognizes the disparity of power inherent in the teacher/student relationship, we conclude that the right of privacy does not encompass the right of a high school teacher to have sex with students enrolled in the same school system.?

The appellate court rejected the teacher?s argument that two other state appellate courts had declined to find a teacher civilly liable for sexual relations with a student, thus rendering Kansas? criminal law unconstitutional. Instead, it found that the State had demonstrated that it ?has a legitimate interest in keeping the environment of those children required by law to attend school safe and free from sexual coercion from those in positions of authority or trust,? thus providing a rational basis for the law.

Facts/Issues: Charles Edwards was employed by Wichita Unified School District No. 259 as a choir teacher. A.C.A was enrolled as a student at the same school where Edwards was teaching. At the time she engaged in a consensual sexual relationship with Edwards, she was 18 years old, the age of majority, and was not married to him.

Edwards was charged criminally under?K.S.A. 21-3520(a)(8), which defines unlawful sexual relations as engaging in consensual sexual intercourse, lewd fondling or touching, or sodomy with a person who is not married to the offender if ?the offender is a teacher or a person in a position of authority and the person with whom the offender is engaging in [the prohibited conduct] is a student enrolled at the school where the offender is employed.?

The trial court found Edwards guilty of unlawful sexual relations in violation of the statute. Edwards appealed his conviction, arguing that the statute is unconstitutional because it infringes upon a privacy right,?i.e., the right to engage in private, consensual sexual conduct, protected by both the United States and Kansas Constitutions.

Ruling/Rationale: The Kansas Court of Appeals upheld Edwards? conviction, finding the statute at issue to be constitutional. The appellate court began its analysis by examining whether there is a constitutionally protected right of privacy. Based on U.S. Supreme Court precedent, it concluded that there is a court-recognized right to privacy, but cautioned ?that liberty must never be confused with license.?

The appellate court then examined the language of the statute in question, determining that ?it is clear that the intent of this statute is to prohibit sexual conduct of certain persons who have authority over other persons where the ability to freely consent is questionable.?

The appellate court?then looked at the?right at stake, i.e.,?whether teachers have a right to consensual, private sex with their students, to determine if it is a fundamental right. Based on its review of state and federal cases on the issue, the court agreed with the State and concluded that the ?teacher/student sexual relationship is not a relationship that warrants protection as a fundamental right.?

As a result, the court applied the rational basis test in reviewing the statute to see if the State has a legitimate interest. In addressing that question, the appellate court found that Kansas has such a legitimate interest in criminalizing sexual relations between teachers and students at the same school (regardless of the student?s age), because students are situated in a relationship (teacher-student) where ?consent?may not be easily refused.? Also, the statute ?does not infringe upon any sexual activity unrelated to the job of teachers and does not prevent teachers from having sexual relationships with adults who are not students.?

The appellate court rejected Edwards? reliance on Paschal v. State, 2012 WL 1034538 (Ark. Apr. 2012), in which the Arkansas Supreme Court determined that a state statute criminalizing sexual conduct between a teacher and a student (who is younger than 21) violated the Arkansas Constitution. The appellate court distinguished the Arkansas law on the basis that it ?did not specifically state that the teacher?s behavior was criminal because he or she is in a position of trust or authority.? The appellate court pointed out that ?in contrast to the Arkansas crime, our Kansas statute does recognize the aspect of authority.? The appellate court, therefore, found that there was a rational basis for the Kansas law.

Lastly, as to Edwards? argument that Idaho and Iowa courts have refused to find civil liability based on a teacher?s sexual relations with a student, the appellate court responded that that fact does not make Kansas? criminal statute unconstitutional. It noted that ?Edwards cites no support for the proposition that there can be no criminal liability where there is no corresponding civil liability.? In addition, the court pointed out that ?other courts have held a student does have an action against a teacher for an alleged violation of the Fourteenth Amendment ? as a basis for a 42 U.S.C. ? 1983 claim ? when there was a consensual sexual relationship between the student and teacher.?

State of Kansas v. Edwards, No. 106,435 (Kan. App. Ct. Nov. 2, 2012)

[Editor's Note: In April 2012, Legal Clips summarized the Paschal decision, in which the Arkansas Supreme Court, in a 4-3 split, ruled that a state law making it a crime for a K-12 teacher to engage in consensual sexual contact?with a student who is an adult student violated the state constitution. The court's majority determined that the?state constitution recognizes?a ?fundamental right to privacy implicit in our law? that ?protects all private, consensual, noncommercial acts of sexual intimacy between adults.? While it acknowledged that it was possible that the state legislature ?intended to criminalize a teacher?s use of his or her position of trust or authority over an adult student to procure sex,? the majority pointed out the law contained no language indicating such an intent.]

Tags: Kansas, privacy, state constitution, student safety, teacher misconduct

Source: http://legalclips.nsba.org/?p=17098

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Dr. Joseph E. Murray, Transplant Doctor and Nobel Winner, Dies at 93

Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who opened a new era of medicine with the first successful human organ transplant, died on Monday in Boston. He was 93

He died at Brigham and Women?s Hospital, where he performed his first transplant, said Tom Langford, a hospital spokesman. The cause was complications from a stroke he suffered on Thursday, Mr. Langford said.

Dr. Murray?s groundbreaking surgical feat came in 1954, when he removed a healthy kidney from a 23-year-old man and implanted it in the man?s ailing identical twin. Dr. Murray went on to pioneer techniques that over the years changed the lives of tens of thousands of patients who received new kidneys, hearts, lungs, livers or other organs after their own had failed.

In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

As director of the Surgical Research Laboratory at Harvard Medical School and at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, which became Brigham and Women?s, Dr. Murray was a leader in the study of transplant techniques, the mechanisms of organ rejection and the use of drugs to thwart it.

Among other procedures, he performed kidney transplants involving more than two dozen pairs of identical twins. He performed the first successful transplant to a non-identical recipient, in 1959, and the first using a cadaver kidney, in 1962. And he trained doctors who became leaders in transplantation around the world.

Though Dr. Murray devoted most of his career to reconstructive plastic surgery, he was most famous as a transplant surgeon, especially after receiving the Nobel. He shared the $703,000 prize with Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, a pioneer in bone marrow transplantation, who died in October.

Joseph Edward Murray was born April 1, 1919, in Milford, Mass., the son of William Murray, a judge, and Mary DePasquale Murray, a schoolteacher. He attended the College of the Holy Cross and Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1943. After an abbreviated internship at Brigham, he entered the Army Medical Corps in 1944.

It was his experience as an Army doctor, especially using cadaver skin to treat burned soldiers, that led him to both transplantation and facial reconstruction, Dr. Murray said in an interview in 2001. Though the transplanted skin would survive for only 8 or 10 days before it would ?begin to melt around the edges,? Dr. Murray recalled, the experience taught him that tissue from one person might survive for a time in another and that it might be possible to use ?tissue from a dead person to save a human life.?

So when he returned to civilian life and began practicing as a plastic and general surgeon at Brigham, he joined colleagues in investigating the possibilities of organ transplants. At the time, he recalled, organ transplantation was considered such a wild dream that a medical school mentor advised him to abandon the idea as a clinical dead end.

At Brigham, the work ?was considered a fringe project,? he wrote in his autobiography, ?Surgery of the Soul,? published in 2001 by History Publications/USA.

But he and his colleagues began testing surgical techniques with dogs, removing and reimplanting kidneys. Then, in October 1954, Richard Herrick, a Massachusetts man dying of chronic nephritis, a kidney disease, was admitted to the hospital, and his doctors referred him to Dr. Murray as a possible transplant recipient. The man?s identical twin, Ronald, was willing to give him a kidney. Would Dr. Murray perform the surgery?

It was a daunting prospect. Dr. Murray worried about ?taking a normal person and doing a major operation not for his benefit but for another person?s,? he said in the 2001 interview.

?We were criticized for playing God,? he said.

After consulting with clergy members from a range of denominations, and comparing the Herricks? fingerprints to be sure they were identical and not merely fraternal twins, Dr. Murray and his colleagues decided to go ahead. They first practiced their surgical techniques on a cadaver. The donor kidney ?was the only kidney in the universe that was compatible,? Dr. Murray said, ?and I did not want to goof it up for technical reasons.?

The surgery took place on Dec. 23, 1954. As Dr. Murray wrote later, ?There was a collective hush in the operating room? as blood began to flow into the implanted kidney and urine began to flow out of it.

Richard Herrick, who later married one of his nurses, survived until 1962, when he died of a recurrence of his original disease. Ronald Herrick died in 2010 at 79.

Two other patients were important to Dr. Murray?s medical career, both professionally and personally.

The first was Charles Woods, a 22-year-old Army flier who had been badly burned in December 1944 when his plane crashed in Burma (now Myanmar). He was flown to Valley Forge General Hospital, in Pennsylvania, where Dr. Murray was a junior member of the medical team that treated Mr. Woods with scores of skin grafts and operations to reconstruct his destroyed face and hands.

Michael Schwirtz contributed reporting.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/health/dr-joseph-e-murray-transplant-doctor-and-nobel-winner-dies-at-93.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Thunder dominate first half, rout Bobcats 114-69

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? Russell Westbrook tipped away a pass, got into the open court all by himself and then braced for a big take-off and a signature throwdown dunk. Instead, he meekly flipped the ball into the basket and grinned sheepishly at the Oklahoma City Thunder bench after the miscue.

"I really thought he was going to do something a little better than what he did, but I'll take up for him and say he slipped a little bit," said Kevin Durant, the three-time NBA scoring champion.

"But he made up for it at the end of the half."

Did he ever.

Westbrook powered home a right-handed slam to put an exclamation point on one of the most dominant first halves in NBA history, putting Oklahoma City up by 40 on its way to a 114-69 blowout of the Charlotte Bobcats on Monday night.

The 64-24 advantage was the fifth-biggest halftime lead in NBA's shot clock era and the largest since Golden State set the record with an 88-41 edge on Sacramento on Nov. 2, 1991, according to STATS.

It ended up as the biggest blowout in Bobcats history.

"We struggled to hit shots, we struggled to get good shots, we got beat on the boards. We got beat in all facets of the game," Charlotte center Brendan Haywood said. "In a game like this tonight, you just basically say they beat us in every which way possible and you bounce back and you learn from the film."

Durant scored 18 points and Westbrook had 12 points and 11 assists. The defending Western Conference champions pulled their starters after Durant's 3-pointer from the right wing made it 79-25 less than 5 minutes into the second half.

"We came out and took care of business, regardless of who the opponent is," Westbrook said. "That's a good team. They came in tonight and had won some big games.

"We just took care of business."

Rookie Jeff Taylor scored 10 points to lead Charlotte, which had shown promise with seven early wins ? the same number it had last season while going 7-59 and setting an NBA record for futility.

The franchise's worst blowout previously had been a 112-68 defeat against Portland on Feb. 1.

"There hasn't been any kind of damage control to be done on this game," first-year coach Mike Dunlap said. "We kind of know that OKC is a test for us, we failed it miserably but there are other, better days ahead."

The Bobcats opened with their worst offensive quarter of the season, scoring just 12 points while committing seven turnovers on their 20 possessions, and it only got worse.

Oklahoma City broke it open with a 22-3 run, scoring the final 10 points of the first quarter and then 12 of the first 15 to start the second. Eric Maynor and Kevin Martin hit 3-pointers on consecutive possessions, and Durant followed that by setting up back-to-back two-handed dunks by Hasheem Thabeet and Nick Collison to make it 40-15 with 8:23 left before halftime.

The Thunder shot 60 percent from the field in the first half while limiting Charlotte to 22 percent and forcing 11 turnovers. The Bobcats made only 3 of 20 shots in the second quarter while getting outscored 36-12.

The biggest concern for Dunlap, though, was a 28-15 disadvantage on the boards that he said comes down to "nothing more than raw bone effort."

"We're obviously better than last year. That shows," said ex-Thunder center Byron Mullens. "But tonight, they just got our number. I don't know what else to say. They got us tonight."

Dunlap said the Bobcats are "too young to throw the tape away" and just act like the game never happened.

"You have to take it serious. You have to look at it definitely seriously and you have to take it as a learning experience," Haywood said.

The last five players on the Thunder bench played the entire fourth quarter but Charlotte still couldn't avoid the most lopsided loss in the franchise's history, despite pulling within 38 twice in the fourth quarter.

It didn't come close to the NBA record for margin of victory ? from Cleveland's 148-80 rout of Miami on Dec. 17, 1991.

"You can overreact in these situations, but we need to react and respond to it, no doubt," Dunlap said.

It still wasn't a Thunder franchise record for a halftime margin. When the team was based in Seattle, the SuperSonics held a 75-31 lead at Boston on Nov. 23, 1967 ? the second-largest margin in the shot clock era, which started in the 1954-55 season.

Westbrook playfully dodged giving an explanation of his open-court flub, simply taking credit for it as "two points."

About a minute and a half later he atoned for it with the last of the Thunder's 13 straight points to finish the first half.

"They was sleeping. Everybody's head turned, so I decided to go and take off," Westbrook said.

Asked whether there was any reason he slammed the ball down so hard, he gave a big grin and said: "It's a tendency. I have a tendency of dunking the ball like that. Just natural, I guess."

Notes: Oklahoma City's highest-scoring first half this season came at New Orleans on Nov. 15, when the Thunder took a 66-37 lead. ... Charlotte's Bismack Biyombo missed his second straight game with a left leg contusion. Dunlap had called him a game-time decision. Gerald Henderson (sprained left foot) and Tyrus Thomas (left calf strain) also sat out.

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Certain enterprises are destined to grow into giants, and some are meant to stay small. Unfortunately, most businesses will fail. Many online businesses have been known to fail. Read the following article to keep your business from failing and learn some Internet marketing tips.

A great way to increase traffic to your site is to offer a free course. This makes for savvy Internet marketing, because your free product acts as a persuasive advertisement for the materials you?re actually trying to sell. You can use your ad campaign to detail your customers about the contest.

Try asking for feedback from customers who don?t buy anything. Ask them what you can do to get their business. Their specific reasons will be a great help to you in improving your site.

Start small when you are first setting out with marketing your product or service on a new website. Search engines are more capable of cataloging sites with fewer subpages, than sites that have large quantities of pages.

Look at this great internet marketing tip. Reassure your visitors that they can have confidence when they come to your site. A privacy policy that is located in an easily accessible part of your website will do wonders to assure your readers. This can put your customers? minds at ease, letting them know their personal information will be securely handled. They will be more likely to purchase what you?re selling if they know you are protecting their identity.

Email marketing is an important, beneficial tool. You need to ensure that your mail stays safe. For instance, try to avoid those services out there offering you mail for free. There?s always something buggy about those particular services that will bite you in the end, such as deleting old messages. You may handle arrangements for archiving messages yourself.

All Internet marketers should be absolutely certain of assuring customers of a secure and safe website from which to place orders. People are hesitant to send out personal information via the internet so do your best to assure them that your site is secure.

Nothing will drive customers away faster than spam. While it may seem efficient to post a bunch of comments on sites, those posts won?t have the positive effect you desire. Actually, impersonal advertising will turn off people giving them the opposite effect you intended to give.

Consider making your website accessible to people around the world. Offer visitors the option of choosing their own language when viewing your site. You will get many more customers from different parts of the globe, and you are likely to see an impressive boost in traffic. If a person can read your website in their preferred language, they will feel more comfortable, and you raise the chance that they will place an order with you.

When your consumer has purchased your service or product, up-sell them by forwarding an online classification or product list with links to corresponding products they might be interested in. You could, for example, suggest other cookbooks to customers who have purchased a cookbook from your site already. You can increase your sales by tailoring your product offerings to their purchasing trends.

It is important to watch what your competition is doing. Whatever field you operate in will always have competition.

Know your competition when you market on the Internet. Have a look at your competition and see what they are showing on their websites. Your goal is to create a better site that people will check instead of your competitors?.

Conducting business online can often seem very impersonal. Small businesses benefit from this the most as they rely on a more personal and relationship based strategy to help sell, and create a lifelong customer base.

An effective way to provide content that is sought after and to establish respectability on your site is to have interviews from noted people in your industry. You can conduct this interview via video or audio. Interviews and contact with respected successful people in your industry will bring give you greater presences and reputability and can bring you new visitors and potential customers.

A great way to participate in link-sharing or advertising in general is to have a professional-looking ?Advertise with Us? badge built on your site. This helps to establish a nice flow on your site, as customers will be more apt to click on advertisements with the assurance that you are offering something legitimate.

Post customer commentary about your products on your website. People like to see what others have said about the product, and they enjoy reading about the experience that someone else had. These comments can make them feel better about doing business with you, and it will increase their chances of purchasing the product.

A successful online marketing strategy contains healthy doses of human interest, art and science. Before you begin Internet marketing, try to both aspects. For the sales end and profitability, etc. you can follow the analytic approach, but attempt to use creativity and inventiveness for the motivational, visual and design aspects.

This business may be one of the exceptions to the commonly held belief that you should not mix business and pleasure. This is because the pressure is lower and it can be seen as being a hobby that just happens to make you money. Consider doing this with your spouse to see if you can make it work.

You can use tools to see how many people are visiting your site versus how many people are ordering from your site. Analyze the information, and you can get quick feedback on whether your online marketing is effective or not. Many companies have tools that you can install on your web server to track visitor behavior.

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Health and environmental risk in flame retardants in building insulation

ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2012) ? Researchers in the United States are calling for a change to the US building codes, following a study showing that the mandatory flame retardants routinely added to foam insulation are not only harmful to human health and the environment, but also make no difference to the prevention of fire in buildings where a fire-safe thermal barrier already exists. Such a change would bring the US building codes in line with regulations in Sweden and Norway.

The research team, which is drawn from US-based centres of excellence including the University of California and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, conducted a thorough review of fire safety literature since the mid-1970s and conclude that the addition of halogenated organic compounds to plastic insulation materials such as polystyrene, polyisocyanurate and polyurethane is costly, ineffective and environmentally damaging. Their conclusions are published in the latest issue of the journal Building Research and Information.

Led by internationally renowned fire expert Dr Vytenis Babrauskas of Fire Science & Technology Inc., the research team investigated the impact of the "Steiner Tunnel test," which is used to test the propagation of fire over the surface of all sorts of building materials in the early stages of fire (before flashover point is reached). Their paper suggests that changing the US building codes to exempt foam plastic insulation materials from the test would avoid the use of thousands of tonnes of flame retardants that are known or suspected to be persistent organic pollutants. They conclude:

"Such a change would ? decrease the cost of foam plastic insulation and encourage the use of insulation materials for increasing building energy efficiency and mitigating climate change. The potential for health and ecological harm from the use of flame retardant chemicals would be reduced and the fire safety of buildings would be maintained.

The Steiner Tunnel test, showing the flame being applied to the ceiling, is an inadequate and inappropriate method for testing insulation safety. Photo: IntertekTesting Services Inc.

Their article begins with a review of the development of the US building codes in relation to fire safety, and foam insulation in particular, and explains that foam plastics used for insulation have required a thermal barrier (usually 12.7 mm (1/2 inch) thick gypsum wallboard) since 1976. In addition, chemicals such as hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) and Tris (1-chloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TCPP) are routinely added in order to meet the requirements of the Steiner Tunnel test. The building codes have never stipulated that chemicals be added to foam plastic insulation, however doing so is the most common way to meet the Steiner test. These additives are semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) which do not bind to the insulation material and are known to be released into the environment throughout the life cycle of insulation. The chemicals can persist and accumulate, and have been implicated in thyroid hormone disruption and nervous system development problems and are potentially carcinogenic.

The experts suggest that exempting foam plastic insulation materials from the Steiner Tunnel test would mean there was no longer a need to add these flame retardants.

As well as presenting a detailed analysis of the problems associated with the Steiner Tunnel test, the article reviews the:

? Adequacy of the thermal barrier

? Fire propagation into a cavity constructed in violation of codes

? Behaviour of exposed foam insulation installed in violation of codes.

The article also discusses alternative courses of action, including the possible development of a more accurate test, the use of different flame retardant chemicals and a range of options for mitigating the impact of the flame retardants currently used.

Finally, the article says that such an action would not be without precedent. Flame retardants were once routinely added to children's pajamas, but their use was discontinued in many regions after a range of adverse environmental and health impacts were identified. Dr Babrauskas and his team conclude that, in the light of their evidence, an equivalent volte-face should be implemented in the US building codes as soon as possible. They also recommend a root and branch review of the process of designing fire standards and building codes, in particular to ensure that fire scientists, building code officials and other regulators consider the efficacy, life cycle, health and ecological impacts of building materials.

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Reading, writing and playing games may help aging brains stay healthy

ScienceDaily (Nov. 25, 2012) ? Mental activities like reading and writing can preserve structural integrity in the brains of older people, according to a new study presented November 25 at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

While previous research has shown an association between late-life cognitive activity and better mental acuity, the new study from Konstantinos Arfanakis, Ph.D., and colleagues from Rush University Medical Center and Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago studied what effect late-life cognitive activity might have on the brain's white matter, which is composed of nerve fibers, or axons, that transmit information throughout the brain.

"Reading the newspaper, writing letters, visiting a library, attending a play or playing games, such as chess or checkers, are all simple activities that can contribute to a healthier brain," Dr. Arfanakis said.

The researchers used a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to generate data on diffusion anisotropy, a measure of how water molecules move through the brain. In white matter, diffusion anisotropy exploits the fact that water moves more easily in a direction parallel to the brain's axons, and less easily perpendicular to the axons, because it is impeded by structures such as axonal membranes and myelin. "This difference in the diffusion rates along different directions increases diffusion anisotropy values," Dr. Arfanakis said. "Diffusion anisotropy is higher when more diffusion is happening in one direction compared to others."

The anisotropy values in white matter drop, however, with aging, injury and disease.

"In healthy white matter tissue, water can't move as much in directions perpendicular to the nerve fibers," Dr. Arfanakis said. "But if, for example, you have lower neuronal density or less myelin, then the water has more freedom to move perpendicular to the fibers, so you would have reduced diffusion anisotropy. Lower diffusion anisotropy values are consistent with aging."

The study included 152 elderly participants, mean age 81 years, from the Rush Memory and Aging Project, a large-scale study looking at risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. Participants were without dementia or mild cognitive impairment, based on a detailed clinical evaluation. Researchers asked the participants to rate on a scale of 1 to 5 the frequency with which they participated in a list of mentally engaging activities during the last year. Among the activities were reading newspapers and magazines, writing letters and playing cards and board games.

Participants underwent brain MRI using a 1.5-T scanner within one year of clinical evaluation. The researchers collected anatomical and DTI data and used it to generate diffusion anisotropy maps.

Data analysis revealed significant associations between the frequency of cognitive activity in later life and higher diffusion anisotropy values in the brain.

"Several areas throughout the brain, including regions quite important to cognition, showed higher microstructural integrity with more frequent cognitive activity in late life," said Dr. Arfanakis. "Keeping the brain occupied late in life has positive outcomes."

According to Dr. Arfanakis, diffusion anisotropy drops gradually beginning at around age 30. "Higher diffusion anisotropy in elderly patients who engage in frequent cognitive activity suggests that these people have brain properties similar to those of younger individuals," he said.

The researchers will continue to follow the study participants with an eye toward comparing the diffusion anisotropy results over time.

"In these participants, we've shown an association between late-life cognitive activity and structural integrity, but we haven't shown that one causes the other," Dr. Arfanakis said. "We want to follow the same patients over time to demonstrate a causal link."

Coauthors are Anil K. Vasireddi, B.S., Shengwei Zhang, B.Eng., David A. Bennett, M.D., and Debra A. Fleischman, Ph.D.

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No. 2 Alabama steamrolls Auburn 49-0

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) ? Alabama left no doubt it's tops in the state.

Proving it's the best team in the Southeastern Conference and perhaps the nation won't be nearly so easy.

AJ McCarron passed for four touchdowns and Eddie Lacy rushed for 131 yards and two scores to lead the second-ranked Crimson Tide to a 49-0 beatdown of rival Auburn on Saturday, the most lopsided Iron Bowl in 64 years.

The Tide (10-1, 7-1 Southeastern Conference) clinched the Western Division title outright and a spot in the conference title game against No. 3 Georgia with the winner likely getting a BCS national championship shot.

"To me, in all those games that I've been a part of, they are about as good as any game in the country other than the national championship game," Alabama coach Nick Saban said of the SEC title matchup.

Georgia will certainly present a tougher challenge the Tide faced Saturday.

Auburn (3-9, 0-8) completed the worst season for any team within two years of winning an Associated Press national title in what might have been the last game for embattled coach Gene Chizik.

University President Jay Gogue has only said he'll evaluate the program at season's end.

Chizik met Saban briefly at midfield, hugged McCarron, and walked off the field with cameras following his every move. He declined to discuss his future afterward.

"I'm not going to go into all of the job situation with any questions," he said. "This isn't about me. I've got a locker room of guys that are here that are very disappointed. That's my focus, I'm not going to entertain any of those questions. My focus is to be back in there with them."

Chizak said the Tigers' performance was "sad."

"Obviously that was a very disappointing loss, embarrassing loss to our state rivals," he said. "It was obvious to everybody.

"The Auburn fans, the Auburn alumni, don't deserve that."

And most haven't seen a game like this one. The biggest Iron Bowl margin was Alabama's 55-0 victory in 1948, the most lopsided in a rivalry that captivates a state.

This one could have topped that but Saban played subs for much of the second half. The Tide lost a fumble inside Auburn's 10 and then ran out the final seconds after getting to the 5.

Alabama outgained the Tigers 483-163 and had 25 first downs to Auburn's seven.

"We didn't take our foot off the gas," Lacy said. "We kept playing in the fourth quarter."

Auburn hasn't scored an offensive touchdown in the last two meetings since Cam Newton & Co. completed the rivalry's largest comeback in the Tigers' last visit to Bryant-Denny Stadium two years ago. This one supplied another milestone of sorts.

It's the first time Alabama has scored 40-plus points in two straight Iron Bowls, following last season's 42-14 win when Auburn managed to score on a kick return and fumble recovery.

The 42-0 halftime score was the same as the Tide had last week against FCS team Western Carolina, which finished 1-10. The previous largest halftime margin in the Iron Bowl was 34-0 by Auburn in 1957 in a 40-0 win during its only national title run before 2010.

"We had that sick feeling in our mouth," offensive lineman Chad Slade said. "You know, you hate to feel that way. I lost it last year, and I lose it this year. It's hard, it's real hard just to speak on it. Next year has to be a different story."

McCarron completed 15 of 21 passes for 216 yards in 2-1/2 quarters, including a pair of touchdowns apiece to Amari Cooper and Kevin Norwood.

Lacy ran 18 times for 131 yards, pinballing off defenders from a defense that ranks last in the SEC against the run.

Auburn freshman Jonathan Wallace completed 5 of 14 passes with two interceptions against the nation's top scoring defense. He's only the third freshman quarterback to start an Iron Bowl for the Tigers and first since Gabe Gross in 1998.

Wallace voiced his support for Chizik.

"He should be back. I definitely love coach Chizik and the whole coaching staff," he said. "They know exactly where this program needs to go, and they know what to do. I hope they are back next year. I really have no doubt. I really do believe they will be."

Tre Mason ran 21 times for 82 yards for Auburn, topping 1,000 for the season on the game's final play.

The Tide produced an array of big plays running and passing. McCarron and Cooper ? who had five catches for 109 yards ? connected for touchdowns of 37 and 29 yards. Norwood scored on a 7-yarder and a 38-yarder that completed the scoring with 24 minutes left.

Alabama produced touchdowns on its first seven possessions until a fumble deep in Auburn territory ended that streak.

The Tide also converted its first 11 third-down tries.

The worst news for Alabama was on the injury front. Saban said wide receiver Kenny Bell sustained a broken left leg and will have to have a rod inserted.

Auburn only pushed the ball across midfield only twice, making it as far as the Tide's 41 in the first quarter before punting. The Tigers have been outscored by 129 points in their last three SEC games, all against Top 10 SEC opponents Texas A&M, Georgia and Alabama.

The Tide shut out four opponents this season, the most in a season for Alabama since 1979. Last season's team also shut out LSU in the BCS title game in January.

"This was a great team victory," Saban said. "Everybody contributed. We asked for everyone to play their best game today. When you make a commitment to something, it comes from the heart, and I really thought our players did that."

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patsyiskul: How to prevent snoring? | Health and Fitness Tips ...

In everyday life, people who snore are not uncommon, many people think this is a performance sleeping, actually snore may not only lead to suffocation and even the night sudden death, and to influence others sleep.Today to tell you how to prevent snoring.

Methods / steps

1, Enhance physical exercise (preferably mountaineering, running, etc.), enhanced lung function.

2, Experts remind, the snoring if smoking habits you need to quit smoking immediately. Because smoking stimulus will only make the already clogged nasal and respiratory nasal mucosa worse. Drinking heavier snoring, nocturnal breathing disorders and hypoxemia. Especially bedtime Drinking.

3, Obese should actively lose weight.

4, Snoring patients more oxygen content decreased, often accompanied by high blood pressure, heart rhythm disorders, blood viscosity increased burden on the heart, easily lead to the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, so attention should be paid to the monitoring of blood pressure, taking time to drop pressure drugs.

5, Bedtime prohibit taking sedative hypnotics and anti-allergic drugs, so as not to aggravate the conditioned inhibition of the respiratory center.

6, Take a lateral position sleep posture, especially in the right lateral position appropriate to avoid the tongue during sleep, the soft palate, uvula relaxation after the fall, adding to the blockage of the upper airway.

7, Patients after surgery to mainly soft food, do not eat hot food. Avoid strenuous activity.

8, Before going to bed try not to drink tea, coffee.

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Don't be fooled! Great camera deals are harder to spot on Black Friday

While there are plenty of deals and discounts to be had on TVs, phones, laptops and other tech products, camera-wise, there aren't a lot of reasons to wait in line until midnight after Thanksgiving dinner. That's because the year's best cameras ? many of which are rounded up here ? simply aren't subject to fire-sale pricing.

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