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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Box Office: Brad Pitt's 'World War Z' Earns Solid $3.6M on Thursday

By Brent Lang

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - So much for bad buzz, because "World War Z" is not the box-office disaster that some observers had gleefully speculated it would be.

The zombie thriller grossed a solid $3.6 million in late night showings Thursday night, according to studio estimates. The Brad Pitt-led cast of thousands racked up those numbers in 2,600 screens. It expands to more than 3,600 screens on Friday and is projected to generate roughly $50 million over the weekend.

The midnight numbers fall short of those generated by blockbusters like "Man of Steel" and "Iron Man 3," but they compare favorably with "The Great Gatsby," which earned $3.25 million in its late night showings on its way to a $50 million opening.

Despite the hot start, "World War Z" is not expected to be the weekend's top film. That honor will likely go to "Monsters University." The 3D prequel to 2001's "Monsters Inc." is projected to matriculate with around $70 million. If tracking holds, that will give Pixar its 14th consecutive first place opening.

Still it's a remarkable turn around for the $190 million-budgeted "World War Z," which had been plagued with reports of cost-overruns and expensive re-shoots, including an 11th hour decision to cook up a new ending.

The global backdrop of the zombie pandemic film appeared to be paying off as well. "World War Z" grossed a total of $5.7 million internationally on Thursday from territories like Korea, Argentina and Australia.

"World War Z" finds Pitt as a United Nations bureaucrat racing around the world in the hopes of stopping a virus that's turning the population into flesh-eating members of the undead. Reviews have been decent with the film earning a respectable 68 percent "fresh" rating on the critics aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/box-office-brad-pitts-world-war-z-earns-224647346.html

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Saturday, June 22, 2013

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Video: Flood evacuations in Canada

Heavy flooding in western Canada could force evacuation of as many as 100,000 people, city officials in Calgary, Alberta, said Friday.

Torrential rains and widespread flooding throughout that province washed out roads and bridges, floated away cars, couches and refrigerators, and left at least one person missing.

Mud slides also forced closure of the Trans-Canada Highway, the Associated Press reported, isolating the mountain towns of Banff and Canmore.

The uploader of this video, Kevin Heinrichs, marked it as footage of people being evacuated during severe flooding in the High River area of Alberta on Thursday. Rescuers employed heavy machinery to try to move people to safety.

In this video, uploaded Thursday to YouTube by Tristan Zaba, a house floats down Bragg Creek, which has obviously swelled to a torrent, and smashes against a bridge.

This video was posted to YouTube by prairieboy18, showing flooding in downtown Calgary itself, including MacLeod Trail and the Stampede Grounds where the city's famed rodeo is held.

This dawn-light view Friday of Louise Bridge in Calgary, showing the swollen Elbow River, was uploaded to YouTube by Dong Kim.
The Elbow began carving out the structure around this bridge southwest of Bragg Creek, Alberta, on Thursday. The bridge carried Highway 66, but later collapsed, according to the uploader of this video, Andrew Morrison.

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Prisoner swap? What Taliban want in return for US soldier Bowe Bergdahl.

US soldier Bowe Bergdahl has been a Taliban captive for four years. The Taliban, after opening an office in Qatar from which to conduct reconciliation talks on Afghanistan, wants a prisoner exchange with the US.

By Anna Mulrine,?Staff writer / June 20, 2013

This file image provided by IntelCenter December 2010 shows a frame grab from a video released by the Taliban containing footage of a man believed to be US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, left. The US military has been trying to rescue Bergdahl since June 2009, when he disappeared in eastern Afghanistan.

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As the Taliban opened an office in Doha, Qatar, this week and prepared for peace talks with the United States and the government of Afghanistan, a spokesman let it be known that one of the top items on the insurgent group?s agenda is a plan for a prisoner exchange.

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?A top negotiating point for the Taliban is that they have been holding US Army Spc. Bowe Bergdahl.?The US military has been trying to rescue Bergdahl since June 2009, when he disappeared in eastern Afghanistan.

Bergdahl ?is as far as I know in good condition,? Taliban spokesman Shaheen Suhail said in an interview with the Associated Press from the group?s newly opened offices in Doha.

The Taliban are proposing that they swap Bergdahl for five Taliban prisoners that the United States is holding at the terrorism detention camp at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba ? a proposal that the Taliban have been making for more than a year.

In May 2012, Bergdahl's parents shared news that the US government was in talks with the Taliban to trade their son for Guant?namo detainees affiliated with the group.?

Bergdahl, from Halley, Idaho, was last seen in Paktika Province in eastern Afghanistan. In a video released shortly after his capture, Bergdahl said he was captured when he lagged behind on a patrol. Some US defense officials said it was also possible he left the base at night with Afghan soldiers, possibly after they had been drinking.?

In the video, Bergdahl said he has a girlfriend back home whom he hopes to marry. ?I am scared ? scared I won?t be able to come home,? he said in the video. ?It is very unnerving to be a prisoner.?

Senior Pentagon officials believe that a particularly violent branch of the Taliban, called the Haqqani network, is holding Bergdahl.

Even as the US begins peace talks with the Taliban, the Haqqani network may prove irreconcilable, Gen. Joseph Dunford, commander of US troops in Afghanistan, said Tuesday.

When news broke last year of the proposed prisoner swap, senior Pentagon officials refused to comment but did stress that the Pentagon had long been trying to rescue Bergdahl.

?I can assure you that we are doing everything in our power, using our intelligence resource across the government, to try to find, locate him,? Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters last May.

Dempsey added that he is in touch with Bergdahl?s parents. They have visited his office, and he has corresponded with them several times, he told reporters at the time.

He also said a poster of Bergdahl hangs in the US Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., which has responsibility for running the war in Afghanistan.

Prisoner exchanges must be the top item on the agenda in any talks, the Taliban have demanded. ?FIrst has to be the release of the detainees,? Mr. Suhail said. ?Then step by step, we want to build bridges of confidence to go forward.?

In the meantime, the Taliban, which held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their offices Tuesday, said they would not stop fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan.?

They claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on a large US base in Afghanistan that same day that killed four US troops.

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Sleep deprivation in teens linked to poor dietary choices

June 20, 2013 ? Well-rested teenagers tend to make more healthful food choices than their sleep-deprived peers, according to a study led by Lauren Hale, PhD, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. The finding, presented at SLEEP 2013, the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, may be key to understanding the link between sleep and obesity.

"Not only do sleepy teens on average eat more food that's bad for them, they also eat less food that is good for them," said Dr. Hale, speaking about the study results. "While we already know that sleep duration is associated with a range of health consequences, this study speaks to some of the mechanisms, i.e., nutrition and decision making, through which health outcomes are affected."

The study, which was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, examined the association between sleep duration and food choices in a national representative sample of 13,284 teenagers in the second wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The data were collected in 1996 when the interview subjects had a mean age of 16 years.

The authors found that those teens who reported sleeping fewer than seven hours per night -- 18 percent of respondents -- were more likely to consume fast food two or more times per week and less likely to eat healthful food such as fruits and vegetables. The results took into account factors such as age, gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, physical activity and family structure, and found that short sleep duration had an independent effect on both healthy and unhealthy food choices.

The respondents fell into one of three categories: short sleepers, who received fewer than seven hours per night; mid-range sleepers, who had seven to eight hours per night; and recommended sleepers, who received more than eight hours per night. The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends that adolescents get between nine and 10 hours of sleep per night.

"We are interested in the association between sleep duration and food choices in teenagers because adolescence is a critical developmental period between childhood and adulthood," said the first author of the study, Allison Kruger, MPH, a community health worker at Stony Brook University Hospital. "Teenagers have a fair amount of control over their food and sleep, and the habits they form in adolescence can strongly impact their habits as adults."

The research team -- which included co-authors Eric N. Reither, PhD, Utah State University; Patrick Krueger, PhD, University of Colorado at Denver; and Paul E. Peppard, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison -- concluded that addressing sleep deficiency may be a novel and effective way to improve obesity prevention and health promotion interventions.

Dr. Hale said that one of the next steps in the research will be to explore whether the association between sleep duration and food choices is causal.

"If we determine that there is a causal link between chronic sleep and poor dietary choices, then we need to start thinking about how to more actively incorporate sleep hygiene education into obesity prevention and health promotion interventions," she said.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/health_medicine/nutrition/~3/M7Fj0YVNSm4/130620162746.htm

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Greek PM says determined to avoid early elections

Antonis Samaras, Prime Minister of Greece arrives for a meeting of leaders of the European People's Party (EPP) in Vienna, Austria on Thursday, June 20, 2013. On the agenda will be the preparation of the European Council, scheduled for June 27 and 28. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)

Fired employees of the Greek state broadcaster ERT are protesting outside a high court that convened to consider union objections to the closure of broadcaster ERT in Athens on Thursday june 20, 2013 ahead of talks by the troubled coalition government on restarting the station's transmissions. Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is due to meet center-left coalition partners for a third time this week to decide on the fate of the future public TV and radio company and its nearly 2,700 employees, which it closed down nine days ago. (AP Photo.Dimitri Messinis)

Socialist party leader Evangelos Venizelos leaves the prime minister's office after a meeting in Athens, on Thursday, June 20, 2013. Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was meeting with coalition partners for a third time this week late Thursday to decide on the fate of public broadcaster ERT, after it was shut down nine days ago, causing a political crisis. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Leader of Democratic Left party Fotis Kouvelis leaves the prime minister's office after a meeting in Athens, on Thursday, June 20, 2013. Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was meeting with coalition partners for a third time this week late Thursday to decide on the fate of public broadcaster ERT, after it was shut down nine days ago, causing a political crisis. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Greece's prime minister said Friday he's determined to avoid early elections despite a deep rift with a coalition ally, which threatened new political instability in the bailed-out country and prompted warnings from international creditors.

One year into his mandate, at the head of a three-party coalition formed to stave off financial collapse, Antonis Samaras said his overriding priority was to persevere with reforms demanded to keep the country's rescue loans flowing.

"We have three years left, and we will see them through," Samaras said in an address televised live.

The political crisis was sparked by Samaras' unpopular decision last week to yank the state-run broadcaster ERT off the air to save money ? axing all 2,656 jobs. Both his center-left minority partners objected strongly, but matters came to a head late Thursday when the Democratic Left party rejected a compromise that Socialist Pasok accepted.

"I want us to proceed all together, as we started," Samaras said after the negotiations broke down. "But I will forge ahead in any case."

With Pasok, Samaras' conservatives have a slim parliamentary majority that would allow the government to pass key reforms, including the pledged sackings of some 15,000 public sector employees by 2015. It was not immediately clear whether the Democratic Left would remain in the coalition.

Austerity inspectors from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund are in the course of reviewing Greece's progress with reforms, and will return to Athens by early July.

The European Union's top economics official, Olli Rehn, said the ball is in Greece's court.

"It is very important that the Greek government and the administration identify the technical work on the fiscal policies and the structural reforms that need to be adopted before the review can be completed," he said after a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg late Thursday.

Rehn argued that recent stability in Athens has yielded encouraging signs of a recovery for the recession-mired Greek economy.

"I do hope for the sake of the Greek people that this stability will be preserved," he said. "I want to appeal to the sense of responsibility of political leaders in Greece."

IMF spokesman Gerry Rice warned that Greece has just over a month to deliver quickly with pledged reforms to ensure smooth release of bailout payments.

"If the review is concluded by the end of July, as expected, no financing problems will arise because the program is financed till end-July 2014," he said.

ERT, whose workforce costs have been considerably trimmed over the past three years, is funded by obligatory contributions from all Greeks ? whether they own a TV set or not ? and by advertising revenue. After years of murky finances, the corporation is now turning a modest profit, and critics argue that sacking its entire workforce makes no financial sense, particularly as the state budget will have to bear the cost of compensating all laid-off workers.

ERT's closure on June 11 sparked days of protests outside the corporation's Athens headquarters, and was sharply criticized abroad.

The Geneva, Switzerland-based, European Broadcasting Union has backed ongoing broadcasts by ERT employees that are being streamed online, while Amnesty International also condemned the shutdown.

EBU Director General Ingrid Deltenre, speaking at the European Parliament Thursday, sharply criticized Samaras' actions.

"The abrupt decision to close down ERT ... actually isn't going to save the country any money," she said. "ERT was funded from the license fee by citizens. ERT was generating a small surplus. The channel was not bankrupt."

A high court has sanctioned ERT's closure but condemned shutting off the signal, in a provisional ruling issued this week. Fired ERT employees protested outside the central Athens court Thursday as judges met to reach their final decision.

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AP Writer Juergen Baetz in Luxembourg contributed.

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Saturday, June 1, 2013

Major new initiative for patient safety in Europe unveiled

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The European Patient Safety Foundation

A major new initiative for patient safety in Europe is today launched by Professor Eberhard Kochs, President of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA). The new European Patient Safety Foundation, covering all aspects of patient safety was announced by Professor Kochs during his welcome address on Saturday 1 June at the ESA's annual European Anaesthesiology Congress in Barcelona, Spain (1-4 June).

ESA has made patient safety its core mission, and has been extremely proactive in promoting this vital area up the agenda of its 35 member states. Its many initiatives to date include the landmark Helsinki Declaration on Safety in Anaesthesiology (2010), and the Patient Safety Starter Kit, also launched at this year's meeting, that includes a wide range of tools for anaesthesiology departments across Europe to help improve their safety records (such as lectures, podcasts, hazard warnings, safety checklists and texts on patient safety).

"The new European Patient Safety Foundation takes the work we have already done to the next level, and we invite all organisations with a stake in patient safety to join us," said Prof Kochs. "We encourage other medical associations, patient organisations, industry, and government to become part of the Foundation. We are aiming to create a platform for all aspects of patient safety to be discussed in a collaborative and open way."

While the ESA will be the founding member, it is expected that a wide range of affiliates will quickly sign up in order to contribute their views and experience.

The European Patient Safety Foundation will aim to raise safety standards in all countries in Europe and close any existing gaps between them. The Foundation will also aim to work in tandem with patient safety foundations in other parts of the world, such as the USA and Australia.

The new foundation will hold its first major meetingthe European Patient Safety Summitduring Autumn 2014, with exact details of date and venue to be announced later.

"This is the most important initiative on patient safety in Europe for some years," concludes Professor Kochs. "We look forward to working with colleagues across the entire health spectrum as the Foundation develops to improve safety for our patients."

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Major new initiative for patient safety in Europe unveiled

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ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)

The European Patient Safety Foundation

While the ESA will be the founding member, it is expected that a wide range of affiliates will quickly sign up in order to contribute their views and experience.

The new foundation will hold its first major meetingthe European Patient Safety Summitduring Autumn 2014, with exact details of date and venue to be announced later.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/eso-mni052913.php

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