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Sunday, April 7, 2013
Trayvon Martin's parents settle with homeowners association
The parents of Trayvon Martin reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount in their wrongful-death claim against the Florida homeowners association in the subdivision where their son was killed.
Tracy Martin, (l.), and Sybrina Fulton, (center), parents of Trayvon Martin, attend a candlelight vigil in Union Square in New York City, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of their 17-year-old son by neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman in Florida, Feb. 26.
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EnlargeThe parents of a teenager who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer last year have settled a wrongful-death claim against the homeowners association of the Florida subdivision where their son was killed.
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The Orlando Sentinel reported Friday that an attorney for?Trayvon?Martin's?parents ? Sybrina Fulton and Tracy?Martin?? filed that paperwork in Seminole County and that portions of it were made available for public review Friday.
According to the newspaper, the settlement amount was marked out in five pages that it reviewed. Lower in the agreement, the parties specify that they will keep the amount confidential.
Benjamin Crump, the attorney for?Trayvon?Martin's?parents, declined to comment Friday. He told The Associated Press that the filing was confidential.
A telephone message left Friday evening by AP with the homeowner association's attorney, Thomas R. Slaten Jr., wasn't immediately returned.
Martin?was fatally shot in February, 2012 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman during a confrontation in a subdivision in Sanford, about 30 miles north of Orlando.
A month-and-a-half delay in Zimmerman's arrest led to nationwide protests in the racially charged case.
Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder in?Martin's?death. Zimmerman claims he was attacked and acted in self-defense, but?Martin's?family claims he targeted the unarmed 17-year-old mainly because?Martin?was black. Zimmerman's parents are white and Hispanic.
Under the terms of the settlement,?Trayvon?Martin's?parents and his estate agreed to set aside their wrongful-death claim and claims for pain and suffering, loss of earnings and expenses, the Sentinel reported.
According to a cover page attached to the settlement that was placed in Zimmerman's criminal case file, copies of the settlement were given Thursday to Zimmerman's attorney, as well as to the prosecutor and the judge, the newspaper reported.
Crump has previously said he intends to file suit later against Zimmerman, and the settlement specified that Zimmerman was not part of the homeowner association's?
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Exploring the very painful world of friendship breakups. | Offbeat Home
I recently went through a period where I thought a friendship of mine was dying. It didn't, thankfully, and much of the anxiety I had about it was in my own head. I had never experienced an adult friendship breakup, and I had no idea how to handle it. Did I need to put a fine point on it, to pronounce it as dead? Did we need to have a talk, or could we let it die with the dignity of cowardly silence?
Whether because of a fight, distance, or natural causes, friendship death can be especially painful. Unlike romantic relationships, we don't expect friendships to have expiration dates. There are no "where is this going?" conversations, no breakup war stories, no vows or pronouncements in front of friends and family. Friendships are what you turn to when you end a romantic relationship; they're there when you begin a new one. Friendships can be forever.
But the most painful breakup I've ever had wasn't with a romantic partner.
I was 12, and, at that time, had started rigorous figure skating training. I had been skating since I was 8 years old, but adolescence became the time to up the ante in order to show you were getting better, to prove your parents' investment was worth it. It's the age when many figure skaters quit, as the next few years become only more intense. Like every figure skater at that age, I had Olympic dreams and the injuries to show for it.
My best ice skating friend, Nina, was the same age as me but had started skating about six months earlier. It was understood that anyone who started before you would perform better than you in competitions. It was only natural, and everyone accepted it. Until you got to the top of the game, the narrowest point of the pyramid, could you expect those age and time differences to even out. But not at our level. Nina was always just a bit ahead of me ? a better jumper, taller and stronger, better at dealing with thumps and bruises. She trained hard.
Nina and I took every class together, rolled our eyes at instructors we didn't like. We listened to the same music (Paula Abdul was one of our favorites). I made her laugh. We had sleepovers together, lunches together. She was my favorite Marco Polo partner for the pool. Nina was an only child being raised by a single mother, and she was fond of telling me that if she could have a sister, I would be that person. I once worked on a friendship bracelet for her that was so involved it took me two months to complete it. She wore it to competitions.
You get the picture. As with many friendships, ours was based on the fact that we were isolated together, going through a unique experience most others couldn't comprehend.
Nina was my best friend for two years. Then, in the summer of 1991, right before I turned 13, Nina and I both entered the same competition somewhere outside of Philadelphia. We had competed before ? Nina always placing ahead of me, as was the natural way. But unlike those other competitions, I had recently started landing the Axel jump (arguably the hardest jump in figure skating), as well as a few double jumps, and they were incorporated into my program. In essence, Nina and I were now on the same level.
We both did okay in the competition. Not great, but not bad. I stumbled once, and she fell on a double jump. The results were posted on a wall across the rink. She grabbed my hand and we ran over together. We couldn't see over the heads of the other competitors. But once they cleared, my eyes landed on the middle of list, hoping to find my name. I would never look to the top three ? it seemed impossible that my name would be there.
Fourth. I was fourth. Fourth! I was excited ? it was my best performance to date at this new, higher level. I looked closer. I wasn't the only one in fourth place ? there was another name there.
"Nina!" I screamed, turning to find her face, "We tied! We tied together for fourth place!"
I don't know what I expected. Did I expect her to be happy because this was one more thing we could share? Her face was unreadable. She stared at the paper again. "There must be a mistake," she said. Then she turned away.
That was the last time Nina ever spoke to me.
We would see each other at the skating rink every day after that competition, making it painful and embarrassing when our mutual friends asked what had happened. I didn't know, and saying so turned my cheeks crimson. I quit skating one year later, right before I entered high school. I didn't quit skating because of Nina, but the loss of friendship there certainly made the decision easier.
I never quite recovered from Nina dumping me. It took me a long time to understand how it could have happened, to understand what I might have done (or not done).
Today, I can understand why a 12-year-old might, under pressure from her mother to perform, cut off a friendship with someone who had caught up with her, skills-wise. She couldn't afford to be nice to someone who might one day beat her. I understand that now. And if the roles had been switched, perhaps I would have done the same. I'd like to think not ? but we were 12, and many 12-year-olds don't know magnanimity.
But the experience created a blind spot in me. I can't see how to bring a friendship to a gentle end. Maybe when you're dumped like that, it's too painful to think you might have to do it to someone else. Maybe there are no nice breakups, no matter how you view it.
I would love to hear your own friendship breakup stories ? what worked, what didn't, and how you coped.
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Source: http://offbeathome.com/2013/04/friendship-breakups
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
IU & Regenstrief conducting nation's first randomized controlled dementia screening trial
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute are conducting the nation's first randomized controlled dementia screening trial to weigh the benefits and risks of routine screening for dementia. The results of the five-year trial will help policy-makers, individuals and families weigh the pros and cons of routine screening of adults age 65 and older.
The Indiana University Dementia Screening Trial: The IU Choice Study is enrolling 4,000 participants randomized into usual care or screening. Those who receive usual care will not be screened for dementia on a routine basis. Patients randomized to the screening track will receive dementia screening, and those whose screening results are positive for cognitive impairment will participate in the Healthy Aging Brain Care collaborative dementia care program. Patients from both study arms will be followed for at least 12 months.
"A fundamental tenet of any screening program is that it should reduce individual and societal burdens," said Regenstrief Institute investigator Malaz Boustani, M.D., MPH, the study's principal investigator. He is the associate director of the IU Center for Aging Research and an associate professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine. He sees patients at the Wishard Healthy Aging Brain Center and is also an IU Health physician. "Until we have data we can't make the right decision on whether or not physicians should conduct routine dementia screening of individuals who have no symptoms of memory problems. IU Choice is the first step in the direction of acquiring that critical data."
In 2003, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reviewed existing evidence regarding dementia screening in primary care and reported it could not determine whether the benefits outweighed the harms.
According to Dr. Boustani, who was a lead author of the U.S. Preventive Services report, this lack of evidence persists a decade later. Yet since 2011, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has reimbursed physicians for an annual wellness visit that includes detection of cognitive impairment, he said.
"We need to know whether routine screening serves patients, families and society," said Dr. Boustani, who is a geriatrician and health services researcher. "Will routine dementia screening ensure better care and better health at a lower cost, or will it be a burden to the health care system with little benefit to older adults? Is early recognition of cognitive decline helpful? Should we wait until dementia becomes symptomatic, or should primary care doctors screen everyone?"
"We don't know enough to tell doctors to screen all their older patients for dementia. There is just not enough data to make the right decision on routine dementia screening. All these questions require answers before recommendations can be made."
Dr. Boustani and colleagues previously conducted a study on the stigma associated with dementia screening. Almost 90 percent of the 554 people in the study, who ranged in age from 65 to 96, indicated willingness by undergoing actual screening.
Routine screenings for conditions such as colon cancer have improved patient health and reduced societal burdens of diseases. However, screening may cause side effects, excessive costs and controversy, as in the case of prostate cancer screening.
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The IU Choice Trial is an academic-community partnership served by health information technology. Patients of 10 Eskenazi Medical Group, Wishard Health Services and IU Health primary care clinics are eligible to participate in the ground-breaking trial. The study is supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health through award number R01AG040220.
Co-investigators of the study are Regenstrief Institute investigators Greg Sachs, M.D., Christopher Callahan, M.D., and Paul Dexter, M.D. Dr. Sachs is an IU Center for Aging Research scientist and director of the Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Callahan is founding director of the IU Center for Aging Research and Cornelius and Yvonne Pettinga Professor in Aging Research at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Dexter is associate professor of clinical medicine at the IU School of Medicine and chief medical information officer for Wishard Health Services. Drs. Sachs and Callahan as well as Dr. Boustani see patients at the Healthy Aging Brain Center at Wishard. Amie Frame, MPH of the Regenstrief Institute is the study research manager.
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Share ] Contact: Cindy Fox Aisen
caisen@iupui.edu
317-843-2276
Indiana University
INDIANAPOLIS -- Researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute are conducting the nation's first randomized controlled dementia screening trial to weigh the benefits and risks of routine screening for dementia. The results of the five-year trial will help policy-makers, individuals and families weigh the pros and cons of routine screening of adults age 65 and older.
The Indiana University Dementia Screening Trial: The IU Choice Study is enrolling 4,000 participants randomized into usual care or screening. Those who receive usual care will not be screened for dementia on a routine basis. Patients randomized to the screening track will receive dementia screening, and those whose screening results are positive for cognitive impairment will participate in the Healthy Aging Brain Care collaborative dementia care program. Patients from both study arms will be followed for at least 12 months.
"A fundamental tenet of any screening program is that it should reduce individual and societal burdens," said Regenstrief Institute investigator Malaz Boustani, M.D., MPH, the study's principal investigator. He is the associate director of the IU Center for Aging Research and an associate professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine. He sees patients at the Wishard Healthy Aging Brain Center and is also an IU Health physician. "Until we have data we can't make the right decision on whether or not physicians should conduct routine dementia screening of individuals who have no symptoms of memory problems. IU Choice is the first step in the direction of acquiring that critical data."
In 2003, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reviewed existing evidence regarding dementia screening in primary care and reported it could not determine whether the benefits outweighed the harms.
According to Dr. Boustani, who was a lead author of the U.S. Preventive Services report, this lack of evidence persists a decade later. Yet since 2011, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has reimbursed physicians for an annual wellness visit that includes detection of cognitive impairment, he said.
"We need to know whether routine screening serves patients, families and society," said Dr. Boustani, who is a geriatrician and health services researcher. "Will routine dementia screening ensure better care and better health at a lower cost, or will it be a burden to the health care system with little benefit to older adults? Is early recognition of cognitive decline helpful? Should we wait until dementia becomes symptomatic, or should primary care doctors screen everyone?"
"We don't know enough to tell doctors to screen all their older patients for dementia. There is just not enough data to make the right decision on routine dementia screening. All these questions require answers before recommendations can be made."
Dr. Boustani and colleagues previously conducted a study on the stigma associated with dementia screening. Almost 90 percent of the 554 people in the study, who ranged in age from 65 to 96, indicated willingness by undergoing actual screening.
Routine screenings for conditions such as colon cancer have improved patient health and reduced societal burdens of diseases. However, screening may cause side effects, excessive costs and controversy, as in the case of prostate cancer screening.
###
The IU Choice Trial is an academic-community partnership served by health information technology. Patients of 10 Eskenazi Medical Group, Wishard Health Services and IU Health primary care clinics are eligible to participate in the ground-breaking trial. The study is supported by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health through award number R01AG040220.
Co-investigators of the study are Regenstrief Institute investigators Greg Sachs, M.D., Christopher Callahan, M.D., and Paul Dexter, M.D. Dr. Sachs is an IU Center for Aging Research scientist and director of the Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Callahan is founding director of the IU Center for Aging Research and Cornelius and Yvonne Pettinga Professor in Aging Research at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Dexter is associate professor of clinical medicine at the IU School of Medicine and chief medical information officer for Wishard Health Services. Drs. Sachs and Callahan as well as Dr. Boustani see patients at the Healthy Aging Brain Center at Wishard. Amie Frame, MPH of the Regenstrief Institute is the study research manager.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/iu-ir040413.php
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iPad: 3 years later
3 years ago today, Apple shipped the original iPad Wi-Fi. It had been called unimaginative. It had been called unnecessary. Even after Steve Jobs had taken the stage only a few months earlier and made the case that there was room for a new product category between the smartphone and the laptop, even after Apple's multitouch interface had mainstreamed computing like never before, it was called "just a big iPhone".
And it was. An iPhone gone IMAX. Widescreen experiences gone tall screen. Single column apps gone double column. Small device gone big.
If analysts didn't get it, if pundits didn't get it, if everyone inside Apple didn't get the full extent of it, it didn't matter. We got it. By the millions. Tens of millions.
It was early days still, before they were comfortable enough to have Peter Coyote say technology alone wasn't enough.
But even in its original form, the iPad made computing accessible to people for whom even Macs were confusing and intimidating, for whom mice and keyboards were awkward and off-putting, for whom multiple windows were frustrating and disorienting, for whom everything about a personal computers was still far too impersonal.
It empowered them.
Three years later, with the web in the palm of our hands, with games and videos that fill our field of vision, with apps that let us finger-paint with productivity and pinch and swipe and tap information around the world, with sizes both full and mini, the iPad is a success.
Undeniably, phenomenally, transformative-ly, confounding-ly a success.
And it's only been three years. How far can the iPad go in another three?
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