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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Health insurer Aetna's 2Q profit rises 17 percent
Aetna Inc.'s second-quarter earnings jumped 17 percent, and the health insurer raised its 2013 forecast as it reaped revenue and enrollment gains from its acquisition of fellow insurer Coventry Health Care.
The Hartford, Conn., company said Tuesday that it earned $536 million, or $1.49 per share, in the three months that ended June 30. That's up from $457.6 million, or $1.32 per share, in last year's second quarter.
Adjusted earnings totaled $1.52 per share, excluding capital losses and one-time items such as costs tied to the Coventry deal.
Revenue climbed 31 percent to $11.56 billion, also excluding capital losses.
Analysts forecast earnings of $1.40 per share on about $11.9 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
Aetna is the nation's third-largest health insurer, trailing UnitedHealth Group Inc. and WellPoint Inc. in enrollment. Health insurance is Aetna's main product, but the company also sells dental, group life and disability coverage.
The insurer closed its $6.9 billion acquisition of Coventry Health Care Inc. in May and had raised its full-year earnings forecast then. The acquisition, announced last year, will help Aetna build its presence in the state- and federally funded Medicaid program that covers poor and disabled people and the federally backed Medicare program for the elderly.
Growth in both those segments helped raise Aetna's medical membership 21 percent to nearly 22 million people in the quarter. The company's commercial enrollment, which includes individual and employer-sponsored health insurance, also jumped 15 percent to 18.6 million.
Aetna also booked $101.3 million in costs tied to the Coventry deal in the quarter.
Aetna now expects 2013 adjusted earnings of between $5.80 and $5.90 per share, up from its previous projection of $5.70 to $5.85 per share.
Analysts had expected, on average, $5.80 per share.
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
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Poll-itics: 52% for marriage equality in all 50 states. Against: Weekly churchgoers, men, Southerners, GOP
It?s GOP fake reinvention o?clock again?
Gallup:
Gallup used two separate approaches to measure public support for gay marriage this month, and they produced similar results: 52% would vote for a federal law legalizing same-sex marriages in all 50 states, and 54% think gay marriages should be recognized as valid, with the same rights as marriages between men and women. This adds to the body of evidence in Gallup trends that public opinion on gay marriage has reached a tipping point, whereby the majority now clearly supports it. Nevertheless, the issue remains highly divisive, as large majorities of left-leaning, nonreligious, and younger Americans endorse it, while right-leaning, religious, and older Americans still oppose it.
Many of those who can?t accept that consenting adults want to express their love by devoting the rest of their lives to each other and legally marry are often the same hypocrites who insist they support ?family values.? Like marriage. And having families.
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News in Brief: Mummified Incan teen drank, did drugs
News in Brief: Mummified Incan teen drank, did drugs
Girl, who was sacrificed, may have been sedated by alcohol, coca leaves
Web edition: July 29, 2013
Girl, who was sacrificed, may have been sedated by alcohol, coca leaves
By Rachel Ehrenberg
Web edition: July 29, 2013
CHILD SACRIFICE
The mummified teenager known as the Maiden ingested copious amounts of alcohol and chewed coca leaves in the weeks before her death in an Incan sacrifice ritual, a new analysis of her tightly braided hair finds.
Credit: ? Johan Reinhard
In the month before her death as a sacrifice to Incan gods, a teenage girl drank heavily and chewed coca leaves, according to a new analysis of her mummified remains. The discovery suggests that the girl, known as the Maiden, was heavily sedated or perhaps already dead when she was entombed around 500 years ago in a shrine atop the Llullaillaco volcano on the border between Argentina and Chile. Her death was probably part of the sacrifice ritual called capacocha.
A wad of coca leaves (green), revealed by CT scan, rests in the cheek of a teenage girl who was entombed atop a mountain in Argentina about 500 years ago.
Credit: J. Reinhard and M.C. Ceruti, 2010
CT scans of the girl?s body exposed a mass of coca leaves tucked into her left cheek, an international team reports July 29 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Chemical analyses of her hair reveal that her coca use peaked about 6 months before her death, while her drinking spiked in her final weeks. A young boy entombed at the site also appears to have ingested relatively large amounts of alcohol; levels for the third body, a young girl, vary over the months before her death.
Unlike other mummified Capacocha victims, who show signs of being whacked in the head, the cause of death of the Llullaillaco mummies remains unknown.
Citations
A. S. Wilson et al. Archaeological, radiological, and biological evidence offer insight into Inca child sacrifice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Published July 29, 2013. doi:10.1073/pnas.1305117110 [Go to]
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T. Hesman Saey. Maiden shows signs of TB-like infection. Science News. Vol. 182, September 8, 2012, p. 9. [Go to]
B. Bower. Inca mummies emerge from deep freeze. Science News. Vol. 155, April 17, 1999, p. 244. Available online: [Go to]
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Film Threat - House Of Two Styles: Interview With Filmmaker Jim ...
It?s a treat to find an underground filmmaker dedicated to genre and tradition for what they are. Not to trash hard-core revisionists, who keep things interesting, especially when a style goes stale; they work in spite of those who resist ?typecasting,? which is, obviously, part of the game. And yet genres have remained strong through minor adjustment, to bolster revisionism that is cheered so much. (How often does a critic discuss how a film ?transcends? genre?)
An expressionist tribute, Jim Towns? 2009 Prometheus Triumphant is fine-tuned to depict its creator?s sensibility. His honest, natural approach removes the cold, academic feel common to such projects, while avoiding the temptation for parody. His latest film, House of Bad, fuses the heist film with supernatural horror (in spite of an unfortunately Tyler Perry-esqe title) with no taint of recent cross-promotion exploitation, too common in popular music.
I caught up with Towns over email to discuss his choice for a hybrid film, his love of film history, and his work in light of the current cinema.
Can you discuss how you came across the idea to fuse the crime genre with horror in House of Bad?
In 2009 my first film Prometheus had just been picked up, and I was working up some ideas for next projects. One of them was this idea about three sisters ? one of them a junkie ? on the run with a suitcase full of stolen drugs, who had to hide out in a motel room for weeks ? it was set in a motel then. I wrote about thirty pages and realized that unless it went somewhere the audience didn?t expect, it was going to get boring very quickly. The girls can only take so many showers, after all. So I let it sit for a while and wrote a few other screenplays. When I revisited it in 2011, it was the most natural jump for me to go ?what if this place they?re hiding in is haunted? What if something horrible happened there?? And then it was on. I like idea of straddling the horror/heist genres, to keep the viewer not knowing where the danger was coming from next- outside the house, or inside it. Nowhere is safe. I figured that would keep people watching.
I know you have a taste for film history, based on your earlier film, Prometheus Triumphant. Would you discuss how earlier styles influenced this film, if at all?
Coming out of fine art, as well as what I guess you?d call ?arthouse? filmmaking, the main thing I took away was the idea of NOT making the medium invisible. I enjoy films that have an almost-tactile texture to them- watching Prometheus; you can tell I obviously appreciate the patina of dust and scratches many early films have acquired over almost a century. Some more recent films have really captured this idea of the screen as a filter more than a window-Inarritu?s 21 Grams and Tony Scott?s Man on Fire are great examples. I think that the actual appearance of the image can in some ways be sympathetic to what?s happening on screen at the moment, so I like to sometimes push the actual film/video elements to capture that emotion as well. Sometimes it?s nice to be able to see the brushstrokes. It?s hard to explain in words ? the best example is, I saw a 70mm print of The Road Warrior a few years back that was totally effed up ? light damaged, dirty, scratched. It looked like the physical film itself had gone through the apocalypse along with the characters and cars you were watching. It was awesome.
I?d like to hear you discuss current horror trends, what inspires you, if any, and perhaps, what you deliberately avoided.
I don?t watch horror movies that start with a group of kids heading up to a remote family cabin to party. Because come on, really? There?s a LOT of crap out there right now? like oceans of it in the small-budget world, and it?s hard to sift through to find the gems, but they are there.
I try to watch a healthy range of what?s coming out in horror, from large to no-budget, to stay current with what?s succeeding and what?s not ? financially and artistically. Right now you?ve got most studios churning out a ton of supernatural stuff, because it?s cheap and you can be scary, but still have a PG-13 rating to get teens in the theater- as opposed to a slasher remake like Last House on the Left (which I didn?t hate). It?s the same as that whole Asian-inspired thing that happened a few years back where they remade every Japanese horror film from the last ten years, all the way down to that flick with Jennifer Connelly, Dark Water. ?Look out! The water is evil!?? This trend will go for a while, then die down. Then the next no-budget film like Paranormal Activity will come out and make a splash, and they?ll do their inflated takes on it. It?s like the horror movie Circle of Life.
I do enjoy some of the studio entries ? the production value is always gorgeous, after all, and they get a high degree of acting talent. But I think what really scares people is the unpredictability (sometimes downright irresponsibility) of films not made under the aegis of studio supervision, test audience input, marketing metrics, what have you. The new generation of Texas Chainsaw movies are good films. Well-conceived, beautifully shot, great performances? but they?re not that scary. Except for R. Lee Ermey? that performance is totally horrifying, haha.
My point is, all that money and resources can actually work against you and soften the raw visceral impact that horror films depend upon, and that?s something I?m careful about when making my own stuff. The original Hooper Chainsaw looks like a friggin? snuff film- it makes you think you?re watching the scariest documentary ever made, haha. There?s this subconscious feeling that maybe you can?t actually trust the people that made the movie you?re watching- like riding a rickety roller coaster, and that?s truly scary because you can?t depend upon the movie to end in one of the four-or-five predictable tropes. So I?m always into films that exist in this outland area of filmmaking, but are really well made, films like Let the Right One In, Rare Exports and Stakeland.
Your use of one principal location is clever in both the budgetary and narrative sense. How important was the theme of claustrophobia to you?
Very. The single location for House of Bad was obviously a budgetary choice to start with, but it?s absolutely at the crux of the story. I?m not going to say the house was one of the characters, because everyone says stuff like that and it?s pretty boring by now. But it was all a very conscious effort between me, my DP Chad Courtney, and my art director Nikki Nemzer to create the same feeling in the viewer as the girl characters are going through ? covering all the window with newspapers to block out the view outside, keeping the lighting dimmed both day and night, just these filtered shafts from outside, and every once in a while cutting to an exterior shot to show where the girls couldn?t go. Every trick we could manage to make your whole being just scream to be let out of that house.
I think horror only really works when it taps into our deep-seeded phobias. The two biggies, probably our most primal ones ? claustrophobia and agoraphobia ? come from when our ancestors lived in caves and were hunted by wolves. They?re universal. They come up in everything from Poe?s stories to I Spit on your Grave ? this fear of either being trapped, or of being exposed and vulnerable in the open ? they?re like twin pillars of terror for a modern society that, if you think about it, has no reasonable need to fear open or enclosed spaces anymore, and yet we do- that?s how ingrained they are in our ape brain.
Fun fact: I actually stayed at the location the entire time we were shooting there, sleeping there at night after we?d wrap. It was a house in Pasadena that belonged to a friend of my wife and I. She went out of town while we took her place over, so I stayed to keep an eye on things while we filmed. I was obviously very busy and focused on the job, and then one day I realized I hadn?t been off the premises in at least four days. I was probably going a little stir crazy. But I think that helped me, going through the same cabin fever the characters were struggling with.
As a low budget production, I?m curious about how this one went as compared to others.
I?ve had some tough shoots in the past. I?ve had films fall apart the weekend before filming, I?ve had to walk away from projects I l was really excited about doing, and I?ve written for others and been astounded at how dysfunctional a set can be- and it always ends up showing on screen. But Filming House of Bad was one of the best experiences of my life. Like, up there with my honeymoon. Okay, not quite. But it was a great time. We collected a fantastic and super-talented little crew, where everyone could do one-and-a-half jobs, so we needed less people. And they all were a blast to be around for those long hours. That?s another thing people always say, but usually they?re lying and I?m not. On any film it always seems you have at least one dickhead in the mix- it?s like the law of averages. But we managed not to. The shoot was hard, of course. We saved money by shooting on a very compressed schedule, but of course that meant regularly doing 10-12 page days, which is unheard of in ?legitimate? filmmaking. But it?s achievable, and not really that hard. The secret, along with hiring the right people, is just knowing exactly what you need to shoot going in- being prepared, being over-prepared- with storyboards, breakdowns, uber-detailed shot lists, whatever you need so that almost everything you?re shooting is worth the time, and you?re not wasting valuable minutes trying to ?find it?. A filmmaker who walks on set without an absolutely clear idea of what he or she wants, to me, is frankly being grossly irresponsible with the trust they?ve been given.
Our post-production, on the other hand, was pretty challenging. It took a long time- over a year, because we were pulling in favors from people who work in the studio world, on films like Public Enemies, etc. So we had to work around a lot of schedules to get our edit, sound, score, color and VFX done. But it was worth the wait, since we got studio-caliber talent to give the film that same high-quality for the modest budget we had.
Many gangster films thrived on various locations, with all the grandeur the scope suggests, except for invasion flicks like The Petrified Forest and Key Largo. I?m curious if this tradition inspires you at all, while recent home invasions, like Funny Games, veer towards extremism.
Key Largo?s one of my all-time favorite films. I once spent the better part of a year- I think it was 1998- watching only films that were made before 1950. I spent a month alone watching only Bogart films like Key Largo, High Sierra and To Have and Have Not. I still read more early-20th century pulp than I do anything else- Raymond Chandler, Sax Rohmer, Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith. I often listen to The Shadow or Inner Sanctum radio shows at night before bed to relax my brain. While I enjoy the hell out of a lot of modern films, I think my tastes have always run towards an older style of drama. Smarter instead of just clever, character-based rather than dependent upon random plot twists, purposely leaving room in the narrative for the viewer to fill in the gaps, rather than pandering to them by explaining every single element and event. Just a classier way of storytelling. I think you can do that, and still be compelling to an audience in the 21st century. Everyone doesn?t have to understand everything about the film the first time they watch it. If they like it, they?ll watch it again and get more and more each time.
You used Funny Games as an example. I thought it was good (both the European & American versions), but it was like torture to watch. Which is the point, of course, I realize. But I mention it because that?s something else I?m a firm believer in- the idea that films have to be at least in some small way enjoyable to watch. That seems like an idiotic statement, right? Of course they have to. But if you think for a second about serious movies, super-serious films like Schindler?s List. It?s a film about heroism in the face of atrocity. It shows awful things happening to innocent people. At the same time, it still manages to be an enjoyable viewing experience. Sad, but incredibly compelling. There are little moments of brevity. It?s not a mordant three-hour trek through human misery. If it were, the thing would be unwatchable. So in some small way, even if the film you?re making is about horrendous stuff? ESPECIALLY if it is, as a filmmaker I think you have to find a way to make it fun for people to watch. Otherwise I think you?re kinda just punishing your viewers, or worse, giving them a kind-of cathartic release in watching people be tortured and/or killed. And making money off that, which is kind of gross to me as well. It?s not about the content; it?s about the way you choose to deliver the content. We hear about that kind of inhumane shit every day, this senseless hurt and violence, I don?t really see the point in just regurgitating it on screen, unless there?s a larger point to be made? I just think as filmmakers we can be more inventive with our storytelling. I?m not down on violence or gore or anything in films, I love all that stuff. Seriously. Just make it worth 90 minutes of my life. Don?t make me sorry I didn?t just re-watch Dog Soldiers for the thirtieth time.
With a cast of mostly women, can you discuss what you looked for in your performers? Is there a certain role on which you think this film relies?
I think Sadie Katz?s character Sirah is the key. She?s the audience?s heart, that middle child who just wants everything to be okay. Sirah doesn?t start out as a hero in any way. Really, she?s the most timid of all three. But when circumstances force her into action she does it, and reveals a depth and strength she (and the viewers) didn?t think she had, and we naturally root for her.
When it came to casting, I was after different qualities for the three different roles in the film. The contrast between the three was the critical element. All three characters had to be very clearly demarcated so there was no room for confusion as to motivations, etc. when things started getting crazy in the film. Sadie had originally auditioned for the Teig character, and she brought this edgy, almost out-of-control rage to it that was amazing to see, but would have been hard to sustain for 90 minutes. Heather Tyler came to me through my producers, who had seen her in a one-woman play. She was probably the most different from the character she played. Cheryl Sands is one of those effortless actors who you say action and she just does it, and is great. It?s like some kind of alchemy.
Do you ever consider the place for women in traditional slasher films, the sexual victims and the virginal ?final girls,? when making your films?
Seriously, no, I don?t think I think about it consciously? I think that whole sexual Darwinism survival clich? grew out of the fact that the main actresses in slasher films were more established and wouldn?t do nudity. So the sex scenes were left to the more minor actresses, who naturally die earlier on than the main girl. That?s why I made all the actresses in House of Bad get naked, so there?s no predicting who will survive.
Slasher films are all about cheating death. If you can just run fast enough, think quick enough, duck at the right moment, you can survive. In real life people get cancer, innocent bystanders get shot, kids get killed by drunk drivers. It?s a thousand times more horrifying than some dude running around with a machete, if you think about it. The sheer randomness- there?s no reason to death at all. It often comes out of nowhere, and we?re powerless to stop it in the end. Slasher films let us pretend that we have a say in our own fate, they give us the vicarious feeling that we have some power over death. It?s like therapy, except you usually don?t spill Diet Coke in your lap during therapy.
You upcoming feature, 13 Girls, also obviously relies on women. It seems as if you have a more sympathetic stance toward then gender, than the objectifying female presence in Prometheus. Can you discuss why the change since then?
That?s an interesting comparison. Prometheus? story was really built around a variety of themes and motifs appropriated from films we were emulating style-wise as well ? Nosferatu, Caligari, Phantom of the Opera ? and others. So that?s why you have the Esmeralda character treated as both a piece of flesh, and also this paragon of womanhood. Thinking back, that was maybe a carry-over from our source material, rather than a conscious decision.
You?re always looking for things that you do better than your competitors in filmmaking. One of those things for me, as I?ve grown as a writer over the last ten years, is this ability to write rounded, believable female characters. Maybe its because I was raised by a single mother, maybe it?s a past-life thing, who knows ? but it?s been a gift in that I was able to attract very talented actresses like Sadie, Heather & Cheryl to HoB. Sadie is the lead in 13 Girls, which will feature other great actresses like Jamie Bernadette, Stef Dawson, and hopefully some legendary female horror icons like PJ Soles, because they like the way I write women. I?m a firm believer that to be really pulled into a film, you have to care about the characters, and for you to care about the characters they have to feel real, like someone you know. It?s all about the verisimilitude.
How do you feel about remake-crazy studio films, especially horror? If you had the chance to remake one classic horror film ? assuming you?d be delighted to take on a legacy ? which would it be and why?
Studios remake things, because then whatever they?re making is already a proven property- it?s been market-tested. That?s why they reboot hits like Total Recall, and don?t remake The Golden Child. They?ve been doing this ever since the 30?s when they remade all the silents into talkies. They remade Ben Hur and Robin Hood in the 30?s and they remade Mystery of the Wax Museum in the 50?s and The Thing in the 80?s and Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street in the last few years, and they?ll keep doing it. Some of those remakes blow, some are great. Carpenter?s TheThing is fantastic. I think the Steven Sommers Mummy films are fun, and I really like Zach Snyder?s Dawn of the Dead remake. Doesn?t mean I don?t like the original versions, too.
Film is a bizarre art form. It has this communal thing, where viewers feel like they have a certain ownership in your work. That?s what?s great about the medium, but it comes with its share of grief, too. I got full-on laughed at during my first short film screening in 2003. Like out loud. If you?re going to sustain a career making movies, you very quickly resign yourself to the fact that some people are going to love whatever you do, some are going to hate it. Some are going to decide they hate it before they?ve even seen it, and they?re not budging. You can?t please everyone. The trick is to just make a rocking movie, I guess, something that you would love to go see if someone else had made it.
I?d love to do a steampunk-inspired version of Robert Louis Stevenson?s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Of all the classic horror icons, that?s the one that, if we?re honest, has NEVER really been done exceptionally well. The book itself is a brilliant concept but falls way short on drama, and films have more-or-less followed its lead. Jekyll?s ?evil? alter ego is far-too often just, well, kinda rude, rather than actually evil. A few films have touched on the pool of savagery that could be exploited, but I think there?s still an unrealized opportunity there to infuse the Victorian vibe of the story with some real kinetic elements, not dissimilar to Guy Ritchie?s Holmes films- maybe a little less cheeky, though. Okay, maybe a lot less.
There?s a few bizarre little films I think deserve a new incarnation, like Tod Browning?s West of Zanzibar, which stars Lon Chaney Sr., about a crippled stage magician who goes to Africa and becomes a witch doctor. Browning?s biographer and all-around classic horror guru David J. Skal called Zanzibar the most ?Emotionally corrosive? film of Browning?s career. That?d be worth a shot, right?
Ever see the Shaw Brothers? Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires? That totally needs a fresh take. Come on, it?s got Van Helsing?s daughter fighting samurai vampires. It?d be awesome. Someday, maybe.
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Youth pastor, wife, chaperone died in bus crash
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? The youth pastor of an Indianapolis church and his pregnant wife were among the three dead in this weekend's bus crash, a church leader said Sunday.
Youth pastor Chad Phelps and his wife, Courtney Phelps, were expecting their second child next month, Colonial Hills Baptist Church deacon Jeff Leffew said at a news conference. Chad Phelps is the son of the church's main pastor, Charles Phelps.
Tonya Weindorf, a mother of five who was a chaperone on the trip to the northern Michigan youth camp, also died, Leffew said.
"Our church grieves now. We grieve the fact that they're not here now. We miss them," Leffew said.
Dozens were injured in the crash, which happened Saturday afternoon on an Interstate 465 exit ramp. Bus driver Dennis Mauer, 68, told the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police that the brakes failed and he wasn't able to keep the vehicle from striking a retaining wall and flipping on its side, the Indianapolis Star reported.
A toddler was among the injured passengers, Leffew said, noting it was the Phelps' 2-year-old son. IU Health spokeswoman Sally Winter said Sunday that the toddler had been released from the hospital.
The investigation into the crash is ongoing, authorities said. The bus was nearly finished with a 365-mile journey, overturning just a mile from the church, where parents were waiting to pick up their children after a weeklong camp filled with prayer, zip lines and basketball.
Leffew, 44, of Fishers, had sent four daughters to Camp CoBeAc, near Prudenville, Mich. Only one daughter was on the bus that pulled into the parking lot, and he raced to the crash site in northern Indianapolis. What he found was a surreal scene, with clothing and other items strewn about and windows missing from the bus.
"You're just praying that it's not as bad as it looks," he said. His daughters escaped with just bumps and bruises.
Indianapolis Public Safety Director Troy Riggs called the crash a "great tragedy."
"They were not that far from home. ... That only adds to the tragedy," Riggs said at the crash scene. He said there was no indication that the driver had a medical emergency.
Witnesses described a horrifying scene.
Duane Lloyd told WTHR that he heard a loud noise behind him as he was traveling near the intersection and saw the crash around 4:15 p.m. ? about the time Chad Phelps had tweeted that the group would arrive at the church.
"I heard a skid. I looked back. I see this bus in the air and people falling out of the bus," Lloyd said. "I could have gone my whole life without seeing that."
He said people approached and tried to help.
"People were literally trying to lift the bus," Lloyd said. "You just try to do what you can do."
Sasha Sample, 28, told The Indianapolis Star some victims were lying in the road, while others were able to limp to the side.
"Everybody had boils and scrapes on them," she said. "People were trying to climb from under the bus."
Sample, a nurse, said she borrowed a belt to make a tourniquet for the bus driver's arm but wasn't able to help the man next to him, who was already dead.
"I couldn't do anything for him," Sample said. "So you triage. You help those you can."
Fire officials said 37 people were on the bus. Three teenagers were still at IU Health Methodist Hospital, Winter said Sunday, including one in critical condition. Five teenagers remained at the Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. Many of the patients had head, arm and leg injuries, fire officials said.
Families of the bus passengers gathered at the church Saturday evening to comfort each other and pray.
Mayor Greg Ballard described many as "remarkably positive" despite their sorrow, but said there will be difficult days ahead.
"Some of the teenagers are hurting pretty bad and you can see that in their faces," he said.
Leffew thanked rescue workers and good Samaritans who tried to help after the crash, as well as local churches and businesses that have offered their support.
"We are so grateful for that outpouring of love and care," he said Sunday.
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Associated Press reporter Tom Murphy contributed to this story.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Monson: Utah football will dominate the Pac-12 ? or not ? in 2013
Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham, center, talks to the media as he is joined by tight end Jake Murphy, left, and defensive end Trevor Reilly during NCAA college football Pac-12 media day on Friday, July 26, 2013, in Culver City, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
One thing Friday?s Pac-12 media day did was fire up a whole lot of people for college football, regardless of where their team finished a season ago or where their team is predicted to finish this time around. By the last week of July, yesterday?s losses had faded and tomorrow?s wins were vibrant.
Part of this optimism was provided by the league?s coaches, so eager to move forward, the big winners toward continued success, the middle-of-the-packers toward increased success, the losers toward any success.
Utah?s Kyle Whittingham was one of the more efficient presenters, doling out information to reporters as though they were players in his team room. Concise. Direct. Honest. He said last year?s 5-7 season, 3-6 in league, "ticks you off. It leaves a bad taste in your mouth. It?s motivation."
He added that the Utes being picked by the media to finish fifth in the Pac-12 South was of little significance to him and his team. "It means nothing," he said. "It?s something we don?t pay any attention to. The players glance at it and put it aside."
More from Whittingham in a minute. First, a few observations from and about other Pac-12 coaches:
Stanford?s David Shaw was articulate and smooth, half answering questions, half selling the merits of his program. When asked, off subject a bit, whether athletes should be given additional money for playing college football, he showed empathy for the needs of student-athletes, but reminded everybody that, at Stanford, those student-athletes already were getting a $58,000-a-year education.
Mike Leach reacted to questions about his old statements regarding last year?s Wazzu team being a bunch of zombies and corpses. He said those zombies and corpses had a great offseason. He also talked about his upcoming book and said that everybody should buy it.
Sonny Dykes, the new coach at Cal, said the pomp and circumstance surrounding the Pac-12 was a lot different than what he experienced at La. Tech in the WAC. He said the Bears would take their offense up-tempo, that doing so was not unsafe for players, and that Cal, coming off a woeful 3-9 season, 2-7 in league, was going to "surprise some people."
Washington?s Steve Sarkisian, also known as Seven-Win Steve, said his team is looking forward to better performances, better fortune and, at last, more wins. He?s gone 7-6 the past three seasons, which is an improvement over his first year (5-7).
Mark Helfrich sounded and looked like a man comfortable enough to have been stretching out on his Barcalounger. Despite being a new head coach at Oregon, he knows he?s got the fastest car on the track, a car he helped build and tune as the Ducks? offensive crew chief the past four seasons. "It?s an honor to follow in Chip Kelly?s footsteps," he said. It?s even more of an honor when you?ve got De?Anthony Thomas, who rolled for 1,757 all-purpose yards in 2012 and Marcus Mariota, an All-Pac-12 quarterback who broke the league?s freshman record for touchdown passes with 32.
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Lane Kiffin?s Q-and-A session lasted longer than anyone else?s. No big surprise. USC underachieved badly last season with a 7-6 record, 5-4 in the South, and, despite Trojan AD Pat Haden saying Kiffin?s job is safe, nobody believes that. The coach has to come up with a new starting quarterback and overall consistency that last year?s team lacked. Kiffin talked about the bevy of four-star recruits SC is bringing in this season and he admitted his team needs them.
Of all the coaches, though, Whttingham burned from Point A to Point Z with the most candor and clarity. He said Utah?s top three biggest failings from a year ago were "the throw game, red-zone defense and lack of takeaways." He talked about Travis Wilson and how desperate the Utes are for continuity at quarterback, something they haven?t had over the past four seasons. He also addressed how much quality recruiting has picked up since Utah joined the Pac-12, saying that many ? up to three-fourths ? of the athletes the program has recently attracted wouldn?t have come otherwise.
Utah?s in deep need, having lost so many players from last year?s team.
"[We] can?t wait to get back at it after the obvious disappointment of last season, not getting to a bowl game," Whittingham said. "It gave us a lot of time to reflect in the offseason. ? Offensively, we didn?t throw the ball near well enough. That?s the primary reason we brought Dennis [Erickson] in ? to jump-start the offense, the throw game in particular.
"Defensively, we?ve got some things to correct. Red-zone defense was awful compared to what we?re used to. Didn?t take the ball away nearly enough. Those are the two biggest areas that led to a very average year on defense. ? We?ve got some things to work on, without a doubt."
Two bits of buoyancy for the Utes, Whittingham said, are found where the rough stuff happens: "We feel we are much improved on the offensive line, and we will once again be one of the best defensive lines in the conference."
Take, then, what you will from Pac-12 media day ? optimism, pessimism or realism. In the final week of July, winning or even losing sounds better than no football at all.
Gordon Monson hosts "The Big Show" with Spence Checketts weekdays from 3-7 p.m. on 97.5 FM/1280 and 960 AM The Zone. Twitter: @GordonMonson.
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Chromecast rooted, operating system detailed
The operating system looks to be a special blend of Google Chrome and Android; more work to be done.
If anyone had any doubts, put them to rest because the Chromecast has been rooted. We're not surprised at this -- any device that runs an OS that accepts input will get exploited eventually -- but what the GTV Hacker crew found inside is a bit more intriguing.
Google says the Chromecast runs ChromeOS, and when you power it up it says Chrome big as life, but the folks at GTV Hacker say that's not really so. After digging into the software a little (rooting gives you access via telnet) they say what's there is closer to Android or Google TV than it is to Chrome. There are no methods to run any apps on the system, but they don't rule out the possibility of a real Android port to the $35 dongle.
If you have a powered USB OTG cable and a flash drive you can erase, you can give this a try yourself. The process seems trivial, though there's nothing you can do with it once you're finished other than look at the system files. For some of us though, that's reason enough. Let's hope content companies aren't scared off of the whole Google Cast concept now.
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Ford's New Shift Knob Teaches You to Drive Stick
In this touchscreen, push-button, mouse-click world, there's an undeniable mechanical satisfaction about driving a manual transmission. A perfectly rev-matched downshift proves to the world that you're the master of the machine, not vice-versa. But if you're a stick shift novice raised on video games, how will you teach your button-mashing hands to finesse a gear lever? An inventive Ford engineer has your answer in a smart shift knob that tells you when to shift.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/fords-new-shift-knob-teaches-you-to-drive-stick-922521040
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India Thought Jupiter and Venus Were Actually Chinese Spy Drones
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Chinese spy drone! Oh, and there's another one! That's what the Indian Army must've thought when they saw two specks of something "spying on them" in the sky. Instead, what India thought were Chinese spy drones turned out to be... Jupiter and Venus.
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Egypt's Military Calls for Protests
Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Morsi take part in a protest in Mansoura, north of Cairo, on July 21, 2013
Three weeks after the Egyptian army ousted President Mohamed Morsi from power, the country?s political?fault lines?are deepening, and many expect continuing violence. Scattered clashes around the country have killed at least 100 since Morsi?s July 3 ouster ? the vast majority from the former President?s Muslim Brotherhood ? but tens of thousands of Morsi supporters remain entrenched in an open-ended sit-in around a mosque in northeastern Cairo. On July 24, Defense Minister and military chief General Abdel Fatah al-Sissi raised the prospect of a security crackdown on the defiant Brotherhood as he called on supporters of the military-appointed transitional government to stage demonstrations of their own.
General al-Sissi?s call, in a speech delivered at a military-academy graduation ceremony and broadcast on state television, called for massive demonstrations on Friday in support of the military?s intervention and its post-Morsi transitional road map.
?On Friday, every honorable and honest Egyptian must come out. Come out and remind the whole world that you have a will and resolve of your own,? General al-Sissi said. ?Please, shoulder your responsibility with me, your army and the police and show your size and steadfastness in the face of what is happening.? He also framed the rallies as necessary in order to ?authorize the armed forces to confront violence and terrorism.?
That phrasing is already prompting Brotherhood claims that al-Sissi is seeking a public green light to purge the Islamist movement. Marginalized since Morsi?s ouster, the Brotherhood has been angrily denouncing the entire transition scenario as a coup, even as the administration of interim President Adly Mansour forges ahead without them
(PHOTOS: Chaos in Tahrir Square)
?Al-Sissi and the intelligence service are instructing the Interior Ministry to commit those crimes against peaceful protesters who are being punished for merely saying no to the military coup,? senior Brotherhood member Mohamed al-Beltagy told the state-owned Al-Ahram online news portal. Another senior Brotherhood official, Essam el-Erian, posted a Facebook message that ridiculed al-Sissi and concluded, ?Your threat will not prevent millions from continuing to gather.?
The proclamations followed a week of steady deterioration in Cairo?s politically crucial street-protest scene. Morsi supporters have frequently clashed with both police and opposing demonstrators; a recent Brotherhood attempt to march to the U.S. and U.K. embassies, just outside Tahrir Square, led to fresh clashes that injured dozens more Morsi supporters. Even the Brotherhood?s long-term sit-in location has become slightly hostile amid reports that neighborhood residents were seeking to violently expel the group.
Early on Wednesday morning an explosive device detonated outside a police station in the rural city of Mansoura, killing one police conscript and injuring dozens. Brotherhood officials quickly denied knowledge or responsibility and hinted that the attack may have been staged by the security forces to justify a crackdown.
A senior Egyptian military official, Major General Mohamed Elkeshky, endorsed al-Sissi?s maneuver as necessary, ?in order to gain the legitimacy from the Egyptians?to confront violence,? he said in a statement to TIME. Elkeshky, who served in the Egyptian embassy in Washington for more than a decade before recently returning to Egypt, didn?t mention the Muslim Brotherhood by name but said al-Sissi seeks popular backing to confront an adversary that has attacked police stations and government institutions and made residential areas in Cairo less secure. Elkeshky also accused the transitional government?s opponents of ?spreading an atmosphere of horror?in different areas all over urban and rural Egypt.?
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Among the pro-Morsi crowds outside the Rabaa Adaweya mosque in Cairo?s Nasr City district, the reaction to al-Sissi?s call was one of defiant fatalism. The crowds there chanted, ?Kill one, kill 100/ We won?t leave [Egypt] to the thugs and the thieves.? About an hour before sunset, the rally leader on the loudspeaker told the assembled masses, ?There are citizens out there who never thought to join us before. But after they heard al-Sissi?s speech, now they know the truth.?
Al-Sissi?s call is likely to produce a robust street response on Friday. Morsi?s ouster came in the wake of unprecedented national demonstrations demanding early elections ? with numbers that matched or even exceeded the peaks of the original 2011 revolution. That deep reservoir of antipathy toward Morsi and the Brotherhood remains, but the anti-Morsi numbers in Tahrir and outside the presidential palace have thinned since the start of Ramadan on July 10. The smaller crowds are likely a result of winners? complacency and the hardships of the Muslim fasting month.
But the Brotherhood has maintained its numbers, and in a conflict that seems to be partially judged by the size and density of the crowds, it has won the visual battle for the past two weeks. On Friday, supporters of the military transition seek to reverse that perception.
In his speech, al-Sissi also offered some unexpected insights into his relationship with Morsi ? the man who elevated him to the military-chief post less than a year ago. Al-Sissi spoke at length about a steady deterioration in their relationship over what he claimed was Morsi?s stubborn refusal to acknowledge the need for new elections in the face of a public loss of confidence. Al-Sissi said he had told Morsi: ?Political pride dictates that if the people reject you, you should either step down, or re-establish confidence through a referendum.?
But in the end Morsi repeatedly refused, and al-Sissi in retrospect offered him no sympathy. ?Some people,? he said, ?want to either rule the country or destroy it.?
Khalil is a Cairo-based journalist and author of?Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation.
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Adventure Cruising on the Upswing - Leisure Group Travel
Lindblad Antarctica. ?Michael S. Nolan for Lindblad Antarctica
As the cruise industry continues to evolve, so does the actual experience. Interest in adventure cruising has really taken off in the past decade as travelers seek active, mind-expanding vacation experiences to write home about. From niche cruise lines to high-end ones, there are more options than ever before. Adventure cruising is something to seriously consider when dreaming up your next group cruise.
The world has become smaller because it?s so much easier to navigate. Does your group want a cold- or warm-weather adventure? Frosty-weather fans choose Antarctica, a continent that was virtually untouched by humans until the 20th century. Today more cruise lines than ever are offering Antarctica options. Seabourn Cruise Line just unveiled plans to offer four ?Ultimate Antarctica and Patagonia? voyages, with the first departure this fall.
If your group prefers a balmy clime, consider the Amazon River or Galapagos Islands. Both Celebrity Cruises? Celebrity Xpedition and Lindblad Expeditions offer year-round cruising in the Galapagos.
Celebrity Galapagos. Photo credits: Celebrity Cruises
Celebrity Cruises is the only major cruise line that sails to the Galapagos. Its Celebrity Xpedition is an intimate mega-yacht that accommodates just 94 guests. Celebrity Xpedition has two exclusive itineraries that call on more than 20 island locations and works closely with the Galapagos National Park to ensure low-impact travel, leaving the islands pristine. All sailings are accompanied by naturalist guides certified by the national park.
Another nice touch? The Celebrity Xpedition is a seamless all-inclusive experience. The price covers all beverages (bottled water, beer, wine, spirits, as well as coffee and tea service, including espresso and cappuccino), gratuities and shore excursions. All snorkeling equipment is provided ? wet suits, fins, masks, snorkels and vests. Three levels of excursions are ranked according to the activity involved.
Celebrity Xpedition?s seven-night cruise departs on Sundays. The cruise can be combined with pre- or post-cruise hotel stays in Quito, Ecuador, creating a 10- or 11-night experience. A post-cruise Peru visit also can be part of the package.
G Adventures recently increased capacity on the Amazon River with the launch of its newly refurbished purpose-built vessel, the Queen Violet. Departures began in May and continue through January 2014. The Queen Violet accommodates only 32 guests, and each journey includes visits to local villages where guests can spend time with a family.
Lindblad Antarctica.?Michael S. Nolan for Lindblad Antarctica
A company that created quite a legacy, Lindblad Expeditions was the first to take travelers to places where only scientists had gone. Sven Lindblad has continued what his father, Lars-Eric Lindblad, pioneered. Lars was among the first to take explorers to many offbeat destinations, including Antarctica (1966) and the Galapagos (1967).
Lindblad has increased the size of its owned and chartered fleet to 10 ships, with two of them based in the Galapagos. Worldwide options range from West Africa to the Arctic. It has added some new programs to its expeditions, such as kayaking in the polar regions and the Galapagos.
In 2004 Sven Lindblad created an unprecedented alliance with the National Geographic Society, and since then guests have been able to travel with National Geographic explorers, scientists, writers and other experts in diverse fields. Lindblad?s 96-passenger National Geographic Endeavor and 48-passenger National Geographic Islander expedition ships offer 10-day trips in the Galapagos. A 16-day option combines the cruise with a visit to Peru.
Silversea Cruises in 2008 launched its first expedition ship, the Prince Albert II, offering a new product that combined adventure cruising with its trademark ultra-luxury ambience. In 2011 the line renamed the ship the Silver Explorer and continues to market itineraries ideal for adventure-seeking travelers who appreciate returning to Silversea?s pampering after a day of authentic experiences in wild places. The 132-passenger ship roams the world, from Antarctica and Polynesia to Norway, Iceland and Northern Canada. The line?s newest addition, the 100-guest Silver Galapagos, starts seven-night Galapagos cruises in September.
The Silverseas expedition leader works closely with the captain to make sure opportunities for exploration and adventure are the best possible, based on weather, wildlife activity and other factors. Zodiac excursions are led by the expedition team or a guest host. Activities vary with the actual itinerary and are designed for different levels of physical ability and interests. Shore excursions are complimentary. Another nice touch: The itineraries follow a tentative schedule, which allows for some flexibility as far as staying longer at a site of particular interest.
Seabourn Cruise Line?s new, all-inclusive Antarctica/Patagonia cruises include five days touring the White Continent. The Seabourn Quest departs Nov. 20, Jan. 4 and Jan. 25 on 21-day cruises, while a special 24-day holiday version departs Dec. 11 and includes South Georgia Island. Passengers will be able to view glaciers and wildlife while cruising along the shore in Zodiac rafts. While in Antarctica, guests will be led by a team of naturalists, scientists and historians. Seabourn ensures that these itineraries will have a minimal impact on the environment. For instance, guests will be required to disinfect their shoes before traveling to and from shore. Once on land, they must stay in a small, contained group. Because of the great interest, Seabourn plans to offer a few more Antarctica voyages later in 2014.
With the increased demand for offbeat travel and authentic experiences, adventure cruising appears to be a growth niche that group planners should not ignore. These trips are not for everyone, but for those with the time, the money and a sense of wanderlust, an expedition to the Galapagos, Antarctica or the Amazon promises to be the trip of a lifetime.
?By Cindy Bertram
Source: http://leisuregrouptravel.com/adventure-cruising-on-the-upswing/
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Daily Chronicle | As America Ages, Part One: Boomers often must ...
Linda Chapman used to be a serial caregiver.
The retired high school teacher, who lives in DeKalb, began taking care of her mother after her father died in 1988.
At about the same time, her husband was dealing with a condition called temporomandibular joint disorder, which she described as being an arthritis of the mouth. All the while, she was taking care of her own newborn son.
?The [summer weather] would have sent [my husband] into pain for a couple of weeks at a time,? Chapman said. ?We tried everything we could imagine.?
Chapman?s husband died in 1999, but shortly thereafter, her mother moved in when her Alzheimer?s worsened. Chapman said she provided financial assistance, as well as arranged doctor appointments and transportation, to her mother until she died in 2008.
Chapman is a baby boomer ? one of the 76 million people who were born between 1946 to 1964 after World War II. This large generation has left an indelible mark on society, transforming America?s culture and economy that led to the United States? rise as a global leader.
As baby boomers cross the threshold into retirement age ? 10,000 boomers a day turn 65 ? more of their attention is turning to family and the need to care for their aging parents while helping their adult children in a down economy.
?You have this group of individuals who were looking forward to retirement, and then everything burst, and now they?re having to work longer,? said Tara Culotta, executive director of DeKalb County Elder Care Services. ?Or they?re having grown adult children move back home with them, who are unemployed or are having their own financial problems.?
Elder Care Services provides information assistance to people older than 60, on topics such as managing their finances. They also investigate instances of elder abuse.
Culotta said the agency knew the senior population was increasing, but she is seeing higher numbers of younger seniors needing help. Earlier in her career, Culotta said she dealt with mostly 80-year-olds who were trying to maintain their independence.
Now, many of the people who come into the agency are younger seniors who are having difficulty paying their rent or mortgages, and they?re frustrated.
?I think a lot of them are frustrated because they?re finding themselves in these predicaments they never dreamed of being in at this age,? Culotta said. ?I think all of them kind of thought they had planned well enough or saved enough. They just didn?t picture themselves thrown in a situation where they?re asking for help for somebody to clean their home, or some financial assistance.?
?Sandwich generation?
At the same time, there are baby boomers who are taking care of an older parent while also helping their children. Culotta referred to them as being a ?sandwich generation.?
Nearly 10 million American adult children over the age of 50 now provide care for their aging parents, a 2011 study from MetLife on the caregiving costs for working baby boomers found.
The total lifetime financial impact ? in terms of lost wages, Social Security benefits and private pensions ? for the average baby boomer to care for their parents is $303,880, the study found. That is the cost for leaving the labor force early and/or reduced hours of work because of caregiving responsibilities.
The caregiving role ranges from helping with the bills to helping with medical treatment. About a third of caregivers, the study showed, work less hours or leave the workforce early to focus their efforts on caring for their elderly parents.
?The trend is that people want to live in their homes and not in an institutionalized program,? said Betsy Creamer, supervisor for the Illinois Department on Aging?s Office of Older American Services. ?Baby boomers are providing more and more care to their families as caregivers.?
Creamer?s office helps administers the department?s community care program, which provides in-home services for seniors. The state of Illinois has seen a ?fairly dramatic? increase in demand for the program, which now serves 46,750 more residents than in 2003, Creamer said.
Many baby boomers also feel an obligation to help their children, who are more frequently returning home after college to look for career-oriented job prospects in a slow economy that includes persistently high unemployment.
A 2012 survey from the National Endowment for Financial Education found that 59 percent of parents are providing financial support to adult children who no longer are in school.
The support includes assistance with living expenses, transportation costs, medical bills and repaying home loans, the survey found.
The findings were released at the same time MetLife Mature Market Institute surveyed 2,123 Americans ages 21 to 65 on the level of financial responsibility people of different generations feel in a variety of family roles.
About 44 percent of baby boomers felt an absolute or strong responsibility to provide for their child?s higher education. A near identical amount ? 45 percent ? felt the same way about allowing a child to live at home during times of financial difficulty.
Connie and Ronnie Clarner are perhaps an exception to the rule: As they enter retirement, they have not had to take care of any family members, nor are they taking care of their adult sons, Tom and Jeff.
But that?s because by the time Connie Clarner was 28, she had lost her whole family. Her mother died from a brain tumor at age 50. Five years later, her father suffered a severe heart attack and died in his bathroom at age 61. Three years after that, her sister was shot to death by her husband.
?I outlived them all,? said Clarner, now 65. Her husband Ronnie is in a similar situation ? both of his parents and his brother have died from cancer.
Instead, Clarner takes care of her husband, who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2000. She said she is enjoying retirement, but she recognizes she is fortunate. A lot of her insurance is covered by Northern Illinois University, where her husband worked for decades.
?I was very worried,? Clarner said. ?I kept thinking, ?It?s time to retire,? because the job was getting stressful. But I was very worried because now suddenly you?re going to be taking home a lot less money than what you were used to bringing in.
?But for some reason, it works. It?s because you?re not buying the clothes cause you?re not working. It?s not going every day in the car using gas ... Something?s different.?
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Apple earnings beat with $35.3 billion in sales, 31.2M iPhones: Company's third quarter results come in slightly stronger than expected, fueled by the iPhone, but iPad sales were far below what Wall St. expected.
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