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Sunday, June 23, 2013
U.S. Senator responds to PIX11 story on federal flood program ...
NEW YORK (PIX11) ? In response to a story we first reported Thursday, one U.S. Senator is calling this situation involving the fed?s flood insurance program ?outrageous.?
Here?s the situation:? we?ve learned thousands of homeowners are being blindsided with flood claim denials on damage to their foundations, that was clearly caused by Sandy?s flood waters.? The Sass family from Manasquan, New Jersey is the perfect example.? Like most coastal homeowners, they have flood insurance through the federal government?s National Flood Insurance Program, NFIP.? When they noticed clear cracks in their foundation after the storm, they thought for certain, they were covered.? Then, their claim was denied, not because the damage was being disputed, but because the policy language (which was written by Congress in recent years) says it ?will not insure loss to property caused directly by earth movement, even if the movement is caused by flood.?
Angie Hu, a spokeswoman for U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sent this statement, saying, ?Senator Gillibrand finds this report about thousands of homeowners having their flood insurance claims denied due to bureaucratic fine print to be outrageous. The Senator is looking into ways to change this policy so families devastated by super storm Sandy get the resources needed to rebuild and recover.?
It is a good thing she is looking into this because it will literally take an act of Congress to change the language so these people are protected by the very policy they paid into.
We contacted the NFIP through FEMA?s DC office and no one has called or emailed back.
Keep in mind, this is the very same flood program that is also requiring people to elevate their homes or else they risk coverage refusal completely. And for those residents who have faulty foundations, they cannot raise their homes unless they fix their foundations.? So those folks are either forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to rebuild from the ground up or they have to walk away from their homes completely.
To read Thursday?s report, click here.
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Climate change, business top Kerry visit to India
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center left, is greeted by Aman Puri, with the Indian protocol office, upon arrival in New Delhi, India on Sunday, June 23, 2013, on his first visit to India as secretary. At right is U.S. Ambassador to India Nancy Powell. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center left, is greeted by Aman Puri, with the Indian protocol office, upon arrival in New Delhi, India on Sunday, June 23, 2013, on his first visit to India as secretary. At right is U.S. Ambassador to India Nancy Powell. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the traveling press on board the airplane as he leaves Doha, Qatar en route to New Delhi, on Sunday, June 23, 2013. In Qatar Kerry spent time discussing Syria and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
NEW DELHI (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will urge fast-growing India on Sunday to curb emissions that contribute to global warming and ease barriers to U.S. business and investment in the world's largest democracy that is viewed as a counterweight to China.
New Delhi is the second stop on Kerry's two-week visit to seven countries in the Mideast and Asia. During his stay, the top U.S. diplomat also is expected to discuss a myriad of other topics, including enhancing security in the region and prospects for finding a political resolution to the war in Afghanistan.
Kerry has traveled to India before, but his two-day visit is his first to the country as secretary of state. He is to deliver a speech that will focus on climate change along with other bilateral issues.
India has installed about 1,000 megawatts of solar power in the past 2 1/2 years ? about one fifth with American financing. Education also will figure prominently in their discussions. India is facing the challenge of educating about 500 million young people during the next decade or so and there is an opportunity for U.S. schools to help meet the demand.
Discussions also will include India's relationship with its archenemy, Pakistan, and the hope that Pakistan's new president, Nawaz Sharif, will try to improve relations, thus reducing the chance of a fourth major war between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Kerry is talking about climate change just two days before President Barack Obama is to unveil his long-awaited national plan on the issue.
People consulting with White House officials on Obama's plan say they expect the president to put forth regulations on heat-trapping gases emitted by coal-fired power plants that are already running. Environmental groups have been pleading with Obama to take that step, but the administration has said it's focused first on controls on new power plants.
More than half of India's power comes from coal and while the U.S. has emission issues of its own, it wants to see India and other nations in the region rely less on old, coal generation facilities. The U.S. is backing a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline that would bring energy to a power-starved region.
Associated PressSaturday, June 22, 2013
With access to airwaves shrinking, Venezuela's opposition turns to the Web
Venezuela's opposition leader Capriles says he's losing space on the airwaves, so he's turned to the Internet to get his voice heard.
Henrique Capriles (c.), Venezuela's opposition leader and governor of Miranda state, greets supporters during a visit to the community of San Francisco de Yare, 45 miles south of Caracas, May 31. Capriles aired the second episode of his Internet program this week as part of his ongoing efforts to maintain coverage.
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EnlargeClaiming he's been increasingly ignored by local media outlets, former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles aired the second episode of his Internet program this week as part of his ongoing efforts to maintain coverage.?
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"Some are interested in blocking information and making us invisible, but here we are," Mr. Capriles told the nearly 37,000 viewers of his hour-long, weekly Web-streamed program Venezuela Somos Todos, or All of Us are Venezuela.
Capriles is the first Venezuelan politician on the national stage to follow in the footsteps of former President Hugo Ch?vez in creating his own show. Mr. Ch?vez was famous for his rambling, marathon broadcasts on his talk show Al? Presidente (Hello Mr. President), a staple of his presidency.
Despite his gift for gab, the charismatic president often clashed with private media. Dozens of radio stations and a handful of cable channels were closed following the 2002 coup attempt, as Ch?vez largely blamed these outlets responsible for his brief ousting.
In addition to a shrinking media market, several important outlets have recently changed hands. Venezuela's opposition leader claims he's losing space on the airwaves and has since turned to the Internet to ensure his voice is heard. Capriles may now be making headlines as Twitter's most popular Latin American politician (second only to the late Ch?vez); however, analysts fear that social media and Web streams may struggle to compete with TV and radio news programming dominated by the state-run media, essentially keeping opposition media in an echo chamber.
Sale of Globovisi?n
Globovisi?n, widely considered to be the last standing television station to aggressively criticize the Ch?vez regime, was sold last month to a group of businessmen believed to be friendly with the government.
"It's a huge loss," says Mariana Bacalao, a media expert and professor at the Central University of Venezuela. Ms. Bacalao says options are shrinking for messages that don't walk the government line.
Observers say a narrow media market is a threat to freedom of information. "Clearly, when the [media] spectrum is only filled with official voices, the public loses diversity," says Carlos Laur?a, senior Americas program coordinator at the Center to Protect Journalists in New York.
Since the string of closures,?Globovisi?n was the only Venezuelan news network to regularly broadcast the opposition party's speeches live. Especially during the most recent presidential campaign.
Underscoring the quick change in editorial line after the sale, one outspoken Globovisi?n talk show host, Francisco "Kiko" Bautista, claimed he was fired for airing Capriles' speeches on his show shortly after the channel changed ownership.
But concerns go beyond just losing valuable airtime. Media group, Cadena Capriles ? which owns Venezuela's largest circulated print daily, ?ltimas Noticas ? was sold to an unidentified buyer earlier this month. The sale of the conglomerate, who's founder is said to be a distant relative of Capriles the politician, has led many to fear that Venezuelan newspapers will relegate opposition coverage to the back page.
'Alternative means'
"[We've been] forced to develop alternative means to expand access to our message," Capriles told reporters in his studio following Tuesday's broadcast.
Capriles fielded questions from a panel of journalists and responded to inquiries sent to his twitter feed during the hour-long show.
"The majority of Venezuelans still rely on traditional media [print and television] for their news and information,? Bacalao says. So, though the young Miranda State governor currently boasts about 3.5 million Twitter followers, his audience is likely to be specifically seeking him out. The Venezuelan Chamber of Electronic Commerce estimates that as much as half the public lacks Internet access.
Election season
At present, the opposition may be more concerned with upcoming municipal elections than pushing back against the government for space on the airwaves. Elections were recently announced for December 2013. The opposition is now gearing up for a renewed campaign, even developing a smart phone app to help connect voters to its candidates.
Marianela Balbi, executive director of Venezuela's Institute of Press and Society, says the opposition's efforts are part of greater media shift in the country in response to the closure of many outlets. "In [Venezuelan] elections there's a push away from traditional media," Ms. Balbi says.
Pointing to polarization in the media, and utilization of social media by the entire political spectrum ? Ch?vez started the twitter trend, constantly sending out endorsements of his party's candidates ? Balbi argues that, "We're moving away from a just few outlets, to greater participation by the electorate."
She says Venezuelans are now turning more to Twitter and Facebook to form their political opinions.
While it's too soon to tell if tweets and web streams can try to compete with the presence and accessibility to Venezuelan television, Balbi says that, given its options, the opposition's Internet-based efforts "are necessary."
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UK Ministry of Defence's UFO department was disbanded three years ago, had 'no defense purpose'
National Archive documents recently released show that the UK government's very own UFO department, which had reported on sightings for over 50 years, was shut down three years ago. The department apparently never revealed any "potential threats" to the country, so the Ministry of Defence closed both the hotline and email address that fielded the public's sightings of UFOs. A civil servant briefed the current defence minister, Bob Ainsworth, saying: "The level of resources diverted to this task is increasing in response to a recent upsurge in reported sightings, diverting staff from more valuable defence-related activities." The recently released files also covered some of the sightings reported from across the UK in 2009, which included, perhaps unsurprisingly, Stonehenge.
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Sturgeon seasons wind down after emergency closure in the ...
ASTORIA -- The sturgeon came easily to the boat, offering just cursory tugging against the reel's relentless winch.
Son Bill Jr., occupied on the boat's opposite rail with a second, obviously much-larger fish on a friend's line, glanced nervously from time to time to ensure the double-hookup
didn't become a single nightmare of a tangle.
"Does it feel big, dad?" he shouted over the net poised at his shoulder. "Keep it clear if you can. Let me know if it's net-able."
That last syllable barely reached my ears when the water exploded in my face. An angry six-foot sturgeon, only its tail still in the water, looked me in the eye then fell away and
charged off toward Tongue Point on a line-tearing run.
"It's pretty net-able," I shouted ... almost in unison with Casey Brown of Milwaukie, standing at my side to stay out of Bill Jr.'s way.
As it turned out, of course, neither fish was netted because both were clearly too long for the 54-inch maximum retention limit and couldn't legally be lifted from the water even if we were up to it. Bill simply drew each one close, turned it upside down (it calms a sturgeon) and pulled the barbless hook free.
Five of us returned to port with one-fish limits after nearly 20 bites and a dozen or so landed; four too long to keep.
I never ever thought I'd see the proverbial "last fish" caught, but it was more than an old saw Tuesday. We were barely out of the water when an emergency meeting of the Columbia River Compact was called. I drove home just in time to hear the tail end as biologists in both states shut down the remainder of the Astoria-area retention season (Thursday evening).
Further, fishing has been so good this year it's virtually certain there will be no further retention allowed upriver to Bonneville Dam, which had been scheduled to reopen in October.
Retention also is now closed in the Bonneville Pool reservoir, leaving The Dalles, John Day and McNary pools -- each has a pretty small quota, however.
Two more local retention seasons will create a boating birds nest on the Willamette River, where 1,733 legals have been earmarked for July 11-13 and (if not all are caught) July 18-20.
It takes little imagination to visualize the meeting of hundreds of sturgeon hopefuls and the peak of the recreational boating season.
No additional restrictions are in store for the Oregon Coast, where highly nomadic white sturgeon are found in most estuaries from time to time. Tillamook, Umpqua and Coos bays seem to have the most, with others found in Siuslaw, Yaquina and less frequently in the upper Nehalem.
On Jan. 1, 2014, sturgeon officially become a living relic and no retention at all will be allowed in either state as the states cope with a population decline for what will likely be years to come.
-- Bill Monroe
Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/bill_monroe/index.ssf/2013/06/sturgeon.html
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Medicine Today: A new and safer way to treat heart disease
The most common type of heart disease occurs when blood vessels that supply the heart become too narrow to deliver adequate blood. When such disease cannot be controlled with medications, doctors may suggest a procedure to open the blocked blood vessel. This
procedure is called a percutaneous coronary intervention ? or
PCI.
Similar to the repair of a clogged pipe, the PCI opens the blocked blood vessel to allow better blood flow to the heart. Developed by cardiologists in Georgia, PCIs are now common, with more than 600,000 done in the U.S. yearly.
PCIs have traditionally been performed through a small incision in the groin, and the most frequent complications are bleeding and damage to surrounding blood vessels.
Recently, cardiologists have been able to perform the procedure using a new approach: a small incision near the wrist rather than the groin.
A new study published in the heart journal Circulation shows that the wrist approach is growing in use and has a lower rate of complications.
Dr. Dmitriy Feldman, assistant professor of medicine at Cornell University, and colleagues analyzed nearly 3 million PCIs performed between 2007 and 2012 in a large national database maintained by the American College of Cardiology.
They compared procedures that were performed with a wrist incision vs. those performed with a groin incision. They found that in 2007 fewer than 2 percent of the PCIs used the wrist approach. By 2012, one in every six used the procedure.
During this time, PCIs performed using the wrist had better outcomes for patients, cutting the rates of bleeding and blood-vessel complications in half while maintaining the same rate of success. These findings held true even after adjusting for differences in age and degree of illness among patients.
Unfortunately, all patients may not be candidates for the wrist approach because of the size of blood vessels in their wrist and the type of PCI being performed.
Also, because the wrist approach is a newer technique, not all cardiologists are trained to perform it.
Going forward, more PCIs will likely be performed through the wrist and patients can look forward to a reduced likelihood of complications.
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