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In early 2010, with an infant in her arms, another on the way, and a heavy load of daily household chores, Meeta quickly grew weak and ill with exhaustion. But Ramkishore, her husband, did not help her with the chores.
In Madhopur, India, where they live, household tasks are deemed "woman's work." Men seldom lend a hand around the house and often taunt other men who do.
A social worker in the village noticed how weak and tired Meeta looked and invited her and Ramkishore to attend one of CARE's maternal health meetings.
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Ramkishore's eyes were opened during these maternal health meetings. He didn't realize he was placing a burden on Meeta by not helping with the chores or taking care of their daughter. Once he understood what Meeta was going through, he enthusiastically committed himself to helping her.
Ramkishore was so moved by the profound and positive transformation in his home, that he began sharing his knowledge with other men in the village, organizing theater performances and film screenings to foster discussions of social issues. Understanding his wife's needs turned him into an activist for the equality and well-being of all women.
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Bible stories have emerged from the rubble of the tornado that ravaged Oklahoma.
Bible stories have emerged from the rubble of the tornado that ravaged communities in central Oklahoma last week. From the pages of Psalms plastered on a windshield to judgmental interpretations of Job, the stories were characterized as heavenly signs and insensitive statements. The latest report with a biblical twist came from President Barack Obama's visit over the weekend to Moore, Okla., where seven children lost their lives when the twister flattened an elementary school. The president briefly recalled a story that was aired by NBC-affiliate KFOR that told of a storm chaser who found a Bible amid the debris of a home. The chaser shot video of the book that was opened to a passage in the Old Testament book of Isaiah, chapter 32, which reads, "A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, and a cover from the tempest." "The Lord must be with us, I guess," Gage Ross, who came across the same Bible while helping clean up the mess, told the news station. Obama said during his visit with residents of Moore that he was touched by the story and, according to the Christian Post, he offered an interpretation of the scriptural passage: "And it's a reminder, as scripture often is, that God has a plan, and it's important, though, that we also recognize we're an instrument of his will," Obama said. "And we need to know that as fellow Americans, we're going to be there as shelter from the storm for the people of Moore who have been impacted." Get Religion's Joe Carter chided the press for not digging into whether Obama's interpretation was accurate or "if the president really believes what he said." Carter offered a pair of 16th and 18th century interpretations by Protestant theologians John Calvin and John Wesley, which say the verses mean that good government will protect the people from evil. Carter then asks whether Obama has the same understanding. "The media doesn't seem to understand what the passage means - believing it to be shelter from a natural storm - and probably assumes that Obama shares their misinterpretation. Perhaps President Obama (and his speechwriter) have indeed misunderstood Isaiah's meaning. "But what if he didn't? What if he clearly understood the context? What then should we make of his speech? Was it a throwaway line or is it revelatory of President Obama's theological understanding of theodicy and his role as chief executive? "Historians may someday seek answers to those questions and be dismayed that there were no biblically literate and enterprising journalists around in 2013 to ask."%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D81375%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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hoi.polloi wrote:I am not into the numerology thing, I think it's a pretty weak argument for the artificiality of a story compared to the blatantly false pictures, but it does seem odd that a number reminiscent of digital bytes (32 is one of the numbers created by doubling each successive product after 1: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, etc. and 1024 is considered 1000 for naming conventions: bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, etc.) is chosen to accompany a formulaic spiral. Are people meant to be viewed as dispassionate numbers? Is that one of the purposes of these simulated death events? Dehumanize the way we remember people by subliminally, habitually turning the symbol of "death" into computerized war statistics?
hoi.polloi wrote:Heiwa, are you standing by the idea that the Costa Concordia was some kind of real socio-political event/disaster with no photoshop skullduggery involved?
Heiwa wrote:hoi.polloi wrote:Heiwa, are you standing by the idea that the Costa Concordia was some kind of real socio-political event/disaster with no photoshop skullduggery involved?
It seems so. But blaming the Master for everything while the ship-owner collects billions from insurance is evidently wrong. Master is innocent and the ship-owner/directors should be in jail and insurance should pay zero. That 4 000+ survivors (passengers and crew) managed to embark at Porto Giglio Friday 13 January 2012 late evening and then were shipped away Saturday 14 January to the mainland (Porto Steafano) is very strange. How was it done?
"the ship collided with a reef (sic) off the Tuscan island of Giglio (13 January 2012), killing 32 people"
"the cruise ship ran aground (13 January 2012) off the north-west (sic) Italian coast."
"the vessel capsized (correct - but it happened 14 January 2012 ... and why?) … Some 32 people died when the boat hit a reef and partially sank (what?) on 13 January 2012 off the Tuscan island of Giglio."
"The cruise liner capsized after it struck rocks (sic) off Italy's Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea in January 2012, killing 32 of the 4,200 people on board."
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The picture of a BMW E36 M3 (or fake M3) burning in the southern snow is one of the more popular images of this recent weather mess. Here's video of it exploding.
Here's the picture I'm referring to, and here's its caption from the Associated Press.
Brookhaven police monitor a car fire in a vehicle left overnight by a motorist who was stranded by impassable roads after winter weather moved through Georgia, pictured Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Brookhaven, Ga. (AP Photo/John Amis)
Jalopnik reader Adam sent this video over, having seen it posted on a friend's Facebook page.
This Bimmerforums thread has some good evidence that this is a S54-swapped car, one that was recently sold as well. The cause of the fire is still a bit of a mystery, though it might have nothing to do with the weather.
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Ellen DeGeneres was the highlight of the evening at the 86th Academy Awards.
She brought her a-game with jokes and costume changes. Plus, she also took a record-setting selfie that broke Twitter and then ordered pizza, distributing it to the celebrity audience.
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Messe Düsseldorf is expanding its activities in China, hosting two trade shows Aug. 10-12 including ALL in CARAVANNING 2012 and an event focused on professional car tuning.
According to a press release, the shows will take place at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center in Beijing on over 215,000 square feet of display space. More than 150 exhibitors will present innovations in car tuning, concept cars, personalized vehicle construction, racing cars and accessories as well as motorhomes, RVs, caravans, off-road vehicles and base vehicles. A total of 10,000 visitors are expected to attend.
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A judge on Tuesday dismissed model Janice Dickinson's defamation claim filed against Bill Cosby's former lawyer for denying her allegations that the comedian had drugged and raped her in 1982.
However, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Debre Katz Weintraub did not dismiss defamation allegations made against Cosby in the same lawsuit.
Weintraub ruled that Dickinson cannot sue attorney Martin Singer because his denial of her allegations was known to her at the time she sued Cosby in May.
Dickinson's lawyers later amended her lawsuit to add the defamation allegations against Singer.
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"And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle." (Revelation 14:14)
This is the last of some 87 New Testament references (84 in the four Gospels, one in Acts, none in the Epistles, two in Revelation) to Christ as the Son of man. Here we see the Son of man coming on a white cloud from heaven (just as He had ascended into heaven after His resurrection) as the conquering King of all the earth.
What a contrast is this to the first New Testament reference to the Son of man. "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head" (Matthew 8:20). From humility and poverty on earth to power and riches in heaven, and for all eternity--this was His journey when Christ left His heavenly glory to join the human family.
In between the poverty and the power lay the whole human experience, for He "was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin" (Hebrews 4:15). Finally, as Son of man He must die for man's sin, for "the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again" (Luke 24:7). Even in heaven He is still the Son of man, for Stephen saw Him thus: "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God" (Acts 7:56).
There is, indeed, a great man in the glory! Christ called Himself "the Son of man" much more often than "the Son of God," though He will eternally be both, the God/man. He delights to identify with those whom He has redeemed, for He "is not ashamed to call them brethren" (Hebrews 2:11). "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" asked Jesus. Then we say, with Peter, "Thou art . . . the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:13, 16). HMM


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How To Display Current Location with iPad's Google Maps
The Google Maps app is preinstalled on iPad 2. With Google Maps, you can display your current location and discover what businesses are nearby. Using your current location, the Maps app can provide directions from where you are to where you want to go. You can also bookmark favorite locations, change views, and lookup phone numbers and addresses of locations shown on the map.
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1From the Home screen, tap the Maps icon.
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British rapper Dan Bull, who we've heard from before, returns with an elegantly worded plea to Bethesda that amounts to: Fallout is nice, but a new Elder Scrolls game would be better.
The man pretty much nails it: while Fallout - the more recent of the two role-playing games - was mechanically superior to Oblivion, the last game in the Elder Scrolls series of role-playing games, its desolate post-apocalyptic world just wasn't much fun. Oblivion's Cyrodiil, on the other hand... well, the game out in 2006 and I still make the time once or twice a year to go smell the fresh air, hunt some deer or clear out a dungeon or two.


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Lea Ann Miller: Showcases her design sensibility at Simon Pearce
Lea Ann Miller has always felt a connection with the Simon Pearce brand, admiring the store's glassware and home decor items so much that she has stacked her kitchen with its products.
Miller, a Greenwich-based event planner, strengthened that connection when, last week, she became the first in a proposed series of local designers to showcase their talents at the Simon Pearce store on East Putnam Avenue in Greenwich.
Miller's display, a table heaped with flowers and decorated in shades of purple and white, used the store's goods to show her design sensibility. This is part of the store's efforts to invite the community into its locations, which stretch across New England, including Greenwich, New York, Boston and Simon Pearce headquarters in Queechee, Vt.
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Miller has a further link to the Pearce family, one that surprised her.
A former Olympic figure skater, she related to the story of Kevin, Simon Pearce's son, who suffered a traumatic brain injury while snowboarding in the run-up to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, in which Kevin was expected to shine. The accident, and Kevin's recovery, was chronicled in the HBO documentary "The Crash Reel." She, too, had suffered brain injuries from skating training.
"I felt almost a spiritual connection to Simon Pearce," Miller said. "Maybe it's something about the ice and the glass. There's this circle about winter sports, glass, and the artistic side of things. I live with this glass every day and now they've given me this opportunity. Sometimes things in life just line up."
In her post-Olympic career, Miller transitioned from choreographing figure skating to event production, and noted that, like skating, planning weddings, corporate events and other parties requires a creative sensibility and an element of performance.
"Just organizing an event and getting that adrenaline rush when it all comes together -- it's the same," Miller said.
Miller will be Simon Pearce's designer in residence for the month, working partly out of the store during that time until the next designer, F.J. Truzuskowski of Flowermuse.com, takes the space.
"What I loved is that when I walked in, it smelled like peonies," said Betty Condon, a Greenwich resident who attended Miller's opening last week. "The colors are so nice, and I love Simon Pearce glassware."


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Autistic adults have unreliable neural responses, study finds
Autism is a disorder well known for its complex changes in behavior—including repeating actions over and over and having difficulty with social interactions and language. Current approaches to understanding what causes these atypical behaviors focus primarily on specific brain regions associated with these specific behaviors without necessarily linking back to fundamental properties of the brain's signaling abilities.
New research led by Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists takes the first step toward deciphering the connection between general brain function and the emergent behavioral patterns in autism. Published in the journal Neuron, the study shows that autistic adults have unreliable neural sensory responses to visual, auditory and somatosensory, or touch, stimuli. This poor response reliability appears to be a fundamental neural characteristic of autism.
"Within the autism research community, most researchers are looking for the location in the brain where autism happens," said Ilan Dinstein, a postdoctoral researcher in Carnegie Mellon's Department of Psychology and lead author of the study. "We're taking a different approach and thinking about how a general characteristic of the brain could be different in autism—and how that might lead to behavioral changes."
For the study, 14 adults with autism and 14 without—all between the ages of 19 and 39—completed sensory experiments while inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine located at CMU's Scientific Imaging and Brain Research center. To test the visual system's neural response, participants were shown a pattern of moving dots. The auditory stimulation consisted of pure tones presented to both ears, and short air puffs were used to stimulate the somatosensory senses. The fMRI measured each individual's brain activity during the experiments.
In all of the primary cortices, visual, auditory and somatosensory, the within-individual response reliability was significantly lower—by 30-40 percent—in autism; meaning, there was not a typical, predictable response from trial to trial. Thus, in the individuals with autism, there was significant intra-individual variability, with responses varying from strong to weak. Non-autistic adults had replicable and consistent responses from trial to trial.
"This suggests that there is something very fundamental that is altered in the cortical responses in individual's with autism," said Marlene Behrmann, professor of psychology at CMU and a leading expert on using brain imaging to understand autism. "It also begins to build a bridge between the kind of genetic changes that might have given rise to autism in the first place—and the kind of changes in the brain that are responsible for autistic behavioral patterns.
"And, what I think is so powerful is that we sampled visual, auditory and somatosensory senses. We were unbelievably thorough and attacked every sensory modality and showed the same pattern of unreliability across all three senses."
The study also presents the first time that researchers have investigated multiple sensory systems—at a primary brain function level—within the same autistic individual.
"One of the problems with autism is that there is considerable variability in symptoms across individuals," Dinstein said. "In this case, we have a tremendous amount of data on each individual and each of their three sensory systems. And, we see the same unreliability across all of them in autism relative to the controls."
While this study focused on adults, the team plans on taking the research further to study how the details of sensory unreliability play out in younger autistic groups.
"We are not suggesting that unreliable sensory—visual, auditory, touch—responses cause autism," said David Heeger, professor of psychology and neural science at New York University. "But rather that autism might be a consequence of unreliable activity throughout the brain during development. We've measured it in sensory areas of the brain but we hypothesize that the same kind of unreliability might be what's limiting the development of social and language abilities in the brain areas that subserve those functions."
In addition to expanding autism research to determine when and how basic neural processing affects autism, the research may have clinical implications.
"The poor cortical response reliability observed in the individuals with autism in this study may represent a biomarker which could contribute to better define Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) subtypes," said Pauline Chaste, a visiting research scholar at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center who was not affiliated with the research but studies how genetic mutations affect psychiatric disorders. "This is very important because of the great heterogeneity of phenotype in ASD which makes the definition of subphenotypes critical for genetic studies as well as for treatment studies. Thus, the use of this biomarker may help to define new targets for treatment but also to assess efficacy. Moreover this study brings new insight into understanding atypical sensory sensitivity in autism, which is a major concern for a vast majority of patients and remains sorely underexplored."
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I watch this amazingly cute cat doing amazingly cute things and I think it may not be real. I mean, it looks real, but it's so perfectly cute that it can be computer generated. You know, like Puss in Boots! Watch it and tell us: is this real?
Look at the smile at the end! What is that?! And those paws! Those aren't possible, are they?! Is this a cat monkey?! And the tiny head! With the huge eyes! What gives! Who knows! I don't know anymore! Seriously! I tell you, I don't bloody know! I'm just going to keep writing with slammers at the end of every sentence! All day long! Thank you!


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IMPACT OF ACCREDITATION ACTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF TWO COLLEGES WITHIN WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES' ACCREDITING COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY AND JUNIOR COLLEGES by Dipte D. Patel A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION December 2012 Copyright 2012 Dipte D. Patel
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Letter between Robert S. Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists, concerning planning for an upcoming meeting on Molecular Quantum Mechanics.
- Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
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Here's video of Alabama coach Nick Saban having a heated conversation/keeping his pimp-hand strong with backup QB A.J. McCarron last night.
For the mop-up-time record, McCarron rushed for negative 10 yards and completed 2 of 5 passes for 50 yards in a 30-10 win over Mississippi State. (H/T Ethan Jaynes)


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The Human ON-TARGETplus Ion Channels library contains siRNA reagents targeting transmembrane proteins having known or predicted ion channel activity. These include both ligand-gated channels, such as the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, and voltage-gated channels, such as those that regulate the passage of potassium, sodium, and calcium during polarization and depolarization of the cell membrane.
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siGENOME and ON-TARGETplus siRNA reagents (SMARTpool and three of four individual siRNAs) are guaranteed to silence target gene expression by at least 75% at the mRNA level when demonstrated to have been used under optimal delivery conditions (confirmed using validated positive control and measured at the mRNA level 24 to 48 hours after transfection using 100 nM siRNA).
Note: Most siGENOME and ON-TARGETplus siRNA products are highly functional at 5 to 25 nM working concentration.
Figure 1. The effect of silencing ARPC1B on cell migration was studied in a breast cancer cell line. A monolayer of cells was uniformly scraped and the rate of cell migration to close the scrape (wound healing) was evaluated. Both unmodified and ON-TARGETplus siRNA reagents induced potent target knockdown. Inconsistent phenotypes due to off-target effects (red outline), were observed for cells transfected with unmodified individual siRNAs. The unmodified SMARTpool improved the false phenotype considerably, while the ON-TARGETplus SMARTpool significantly reduced off-target effects to produce a consistent phenotype. In collaboration with Kaylene Simpson, Laura Selfors and Joan Brugge, Harvard Medical School.
Figure 2. (A) and (B) are representative examples of off-target signatures with and without application of ON-TARGETplus modifications to (A) a single siRNA and (B) a SMARTpool reagent. Green bars indicate genes with 2-fold or more reduction of expression when treated with the indicated siRNA reagent. The ON-TARGETplus modifications reduced the off-targets when compared to unmodified siRNA. Pooling of siRNA and the ON-TARGETplus modification pattern independently, and in combination, provide significant reduction in off-target gene silencing. Panel (C) represents quantitation of off-targets (down-regulated by 2-fold or more) induced by the indicated siRNA reagents targeting 10 different genes (4 siRNAs per gene or a single SMARTpool reagent). Off-targets were quantified using microarray analysis (Agilent) then compiled. Each shaded box represents the middle 50% of the data set. Horizontal line in box: Median value of the data set. Vertical bars: minimum and maximum data values.


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GEARHART, Ore. — New maps show there's less high ground than previously thought for refuge from the most serious earthquake and tsunami projected along Oregon's northwest coast, leaving city officials unsettled.
Oregon geology experts have compiled the maps using laser-based remote sensing technology and have been showing them to city officials at council meetings.
They are to be released publicly on Tuesday, the Daily Astorian reported. That's to be followed later this month by a series of community rallies to encourage preparedness.
In Gearhart, a city of about 1,500 south of Astoria, Mayor Dianne Widdop said she couldn't sleep after hearing what the maps showed: In the biggest of tsunamis, Gearhart residents wouldn't have anywhere they could be assured of safety.
"Gearhart doesn't really have any good options for high ground," said Rachel Lyles Smith of the state Department of Geology and Mineral Industries at a recent council meeting.
Questioned about one part of town, she used T-shirt sizes to describe the most serious tsunamis.
"I can't sugarcoat it," she said. "It's dire if (the tsunami) is an XXL. There will be a lot of fatalities in this area."
A key feature of tsunami planning along the coast has been identifying assembly areas on high ground and marking routes for residents to get there quickly, preferably afoot since traffic is expected to be disrupted.
In Warrenton, Commissioner Mark Baldwin reviewed the new maps and noted that while two refuge areas continued to be marked as above the highest expected water marks, another wasn't.
"The grade school's gone," he said.
In Astoria, Deputy Police Chief Brad Johnston said the new mapping "changes the paradigm for Astoria related to tsunamis. Astoria never had to worry about significant inundation zones, and now we've started that conversation in a way we never had to before."
When the Gearhart city administrator, police chief and fire chief got their first look at the new maps, they worried that residents wouldn't even try to reach high ground if the map didn't show something. So the state designated two "optional high ground assembly" areas, something that hadn't been done anywhere else.
One is a strip of ground by the local golf course that would be above water in an estimated 95 percent of tsunamis, and another is a narrow strip of ground that would be only a potential oasis amid the tsunami waters.
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Military barge to become boat launch site in Southold
A boarded-up military barge, which once served as a popular floating restaurant in Southold, will get a new identity over the next few years as state officials turn the reed-covered site into a boating and kayak launch area.
The 3.2-acre site, which is nearly obscured off Old Main Road, will be the state Department of Environmental Conservation's first public access spot on Peconic Bay. The $200,000 project is expected to draw people back to where restaurant-goers once watched as baymen raked clams that soon landed on patrons' plates.
"Times have changed," James King, president of Southold's town trustees, reflected Monday. "The water has changed. . . . The atmosphere has changed."
Local and state officials were looking to the future, not the past, as they gathered in front of the former World War II ammunition barge to talk about the new access site. But in a nod to the past, the old barge will again become a fishing station as it originally was when the Denson family bought the site in 1938 and opened their fishing station in the 1940s.
Carol Reiter Denson, on hand for the ceremony, said the state was doing exactly what she and her husband, Costel, wanted by transforming it into a public water-access site.
The new improvements at the site will be paid for by the DEC, using federal funds distributed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and raised through special taxes on fishing equipment and import duties on fishing tackle, yachts and pleasure craft.
The $2 million property was purchased through a federal Aid to Sports Fish Restoration grant and a donation from the Carl D. and Helen Reiter family that owned the property. The state closed on the property on Dec. 26.
The work is one of four projects on Long Island announced by the governor's office. They are part of a $17 million effort to improve outdoor recreation facilities across the state and all are to begin this summer.
Along with the Hashamomuck Waterway access in Southold, the state will spend $750,000 to reconstruct a dam and build a canoe slide on the Peconic River in Riverhead, $300,000 to create boat access sites on Forge Pond and Salamander Pond in Calverton, and $50,000 for improvements at Mullener Pond in North Merrick.
Among the projects statewide are new parking sites, signs and kiosks, which will make it possible for people to access 7,200 acres of forest preserves along the Hudson River between Newcomb and Indian Lake, the governor's office said. The areas have not been open to the public for 100 years, the governor's office added. New York City will get $134,500 for five projects, including $26,300 for an access trail and handicapped-accessible parking at North Mount Loretto state forest in Staten Island.
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HIV Infection in Adolescents and Young Adults in the U.S.
There is a rising concern about the effects of HIV/AIDS among adolescents and young adults between ages of 13 to 24 in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 40,049 cumulative cases of AIDS among people ages 13 to 24 through 2004. Since the epidemic began, an estimated 10,129 adolescents and young adults with AIDS have died and the proportion diagnosed with AIDS has also increased. Likewise, the proportion of adolescents and young adults with an AIDS diagnosis has increased from 3.9 percent in 1999 to 4.2 percent in 2004.
Moreover, African-American and Hispanic adolescents have been disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Between the ages of 13 and 19, African-Americans and Hispanics accounted for 66 percent and 21 percent, respectively, of the reported AIDS cases in 2003.
Because the average duration from HIV infection to the development of AIDS is 10 years, most adults with AIDS were likely infected as adolescents or young adults. In 2004, an estimated 4,883 were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, while an estimated 18,293 were living with HIV/AIDS. However, health experts estimate the number of adolescents and adults living with HIV infection to be much higher.
Modes of Transmission
Most HIV-infected adolescents and young adults are exposed to the virus through sexual intercourse. Recent HIV surveillance data suggest that the majority of HIV-infected adolescent and young adult males are infected through sex with men. Only a small percentage of males appear to be exposed by injection drug use and/or heterosexual contact. These data also suggest that adolescent and young adult females infected with HIV were exposed through heterosexual contact, with a very small percentage through injection drug use. In addition, there is an increasing number of children who were infected as infants that are now surviving to adolescence.
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and HIV
Approximately 25 percent of cases of STIs reported in the United States each year are among teenagers. This is particularly significant because the risk of HIV transmission increases substantially if either partner is infected with an STI. Discharge of pus and mucus as a result of STIs such as gonorrhea or chlamydia also increase the risk of HIV transmission three- to five-fold. Likewise, STI-induced ulcers from syphilis or genital herpes increase the risk of HIV transmission nine-fold.
Because many adolescents and young adults tend to think they are invincible, this belief may cause them to engage in risky behavior, delay HIV testing, and if they test positive, delay or refuse treatment. The inability to link them to medical care can lead to increased transmission of HIV. Health care providers report that many young people, when they learn they are HIV-positive, take several months to accept their diagnosis and return for treatment.
Health care providers may be able to help young people understand their situation during visits by
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has also developed documents that address the standard of care for the treatment of HIV, including information about how to treat HIV in adolescents. The documents Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents and Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection are available from AIDSinfo (www.aidsinfo.nih.gov).
According to the Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents, adolescents exposed to HIV sexually or via injection drug use appear to follow a clinical course that is more similar to HIV disease in adults than in children. Most adolescents with sexually acquired HIV are in a relatively early stage of infection and are ideal candidates for early intervention that includes education and counseling, identifying high-risk behaviors, and recommended therapies and behavioral changes.
Adolescents who were infected at birth or via blood products as young children, however, follow a unique clinical course that may differ from that of other adolescents and adults. Health care providers should refer to the treatment guidelines for detailed information about treating HIV-infected adolescents.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) supports research in adolescents and young adults through studies conducted by clinical trial networks and sites within the United States. These studies help evaluate promising therapies to
In response to the growing epidemic among adolescents and young adults in the United States, NIAID supports the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG) (http://pactg.s-3.com), a clinical trial network co-funded with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The PACTG's adolescent treatment research agenda focuses on
In addition, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD supports the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network (ATN) (www.atnonline.org) for HIV/AIDS Interventions. Its mission is to conduct research, both independently and in collaboration with existing research networks supported by NIAID, on promising behavioral, microbicidal, prophylactic, therapeutic, and vaccine modalities in HIV-infected and HIV-at-risk adolescents between the ages 12 to 24 years old.
As such, recruiting adolescents and young adults into clinical trials is important to ensure that research results will be applicable to therapy for that age group. Most clinical trials are open to adolescents and young adults, but in reality very few enroll. Of the approximately 9,500 participants in studies conducted by the NIAID-supported Adult and Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Groups in Fiscal Year 2005, only 5.4 percent of the participants were adolescents (ages 13 to 19).
AIDSinfo is a comprehensive resource for up-to-date information on government- and industry-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention clinical trials. AIDSinfo also maintains the most current, federally approved guidelines for treating and preventing HIV/AIDS in adults, adolescents, and children, for AIDS-related illnesses, for managing occupational exposure to HIV, and for preventing HIV transmission from mother-to-child during pregnancy. AIDSinfo is sponsored by the NIH Office of AIDS Research, NIAID, National Library of Medicine, CDC, Health Resources and Service Administration, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
AIDSinfo P.O. Box 6303
For information specifically about clinical trials conducted by the NIAID Intramural AIDS Research Program, call 1-800-243-7644 (www.clinicaltrials.gov).


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Update: Be sure to read A Davis' comments on this post as well where he provides some more perspective and understanding on the magnitude of the issue.
And in a bit of a break from our usual EMR and EHR content, we have a couple of stories that caught my eye on Fierce Healthcare.
The first story is about a talk on provider disruptive behavior presented at the American College of Healthcare Executives (with the somewhat hilarious acronym ACHE) Annual Congress in Chicago. The kind of behavior that includes ponytail-flipping, pestering patients and colleagues for dates and not taking no for an answer, threatening to use AK47 etc. Rolling your eyes because you've never encountered these doctors from hell? Me too. To a person, the doctors I've encountered here in the US have been professional, courteous and polite.
But how common is this kind of stuff?
The Fierce article doesn't say, but the not-so-subtly titled "Physicians behave badly online" provides some statistics on doctor behavior online.
The litany of complaints against doctors is as long online. The most common complaint is that doctors ask patients out on dates. According to the article, 48 participating state medical boards had at least one case of online misconduct, and the accusations leveled include:
Inappropriate online communication with patients (69 percent), such as sexual misconduct
Inappropriate medical practice (69 percent), such as prescribing medication without establishing a clinical relationship with the patient
Misrepresenting medical credentials online (60 percent)
The penalties for these online faux pas included reprimands, loss of licence, community service, fines etc.
Taken in totality, doctor behavior both on and off-line has some cause for concern. The same behavior in the real world translates to disruptive behavior online. I would also argue that it's not just the same behaviors, but also the same set of doctors who misbehave. If you meet a jerk in the real world, chances are it's the same person that might pursue you on a dating site.
The statistics as reported on Fierce Healthcare are a little fuzzy though. OK, so 69% of the 48 states had at least one reported online misconduct case, but how many doctors were involved? What percentage of doctors displayed inappropriate behavior? Were there repeat offenders, or multiple cases against the same misbehaving doctor? I don't know. The JAMA abstract is woefully short on any meaningful details.
Does the online world just make this worse? Do we see more of this happening and since it's so easy to connect with patients online? Does it also make the doctor more accountable for their actions since something done online can be more easily tracked and reported?


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EU slaps initial sanctions on Russia
BRUSSELS -- The European Union suspended talks with Russia on a wide-ranging economic pact and a visa agreement Thursday in response to its military incursion into Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, threatening tougher sanctions unless Moscow swiftly defuses the crisis.
The moves at an emergency EU summit came on the heels of sanctions by the Obama administration, which imposed visa restrictions on pro-Russian opponents of the new Ukrainian government in Kiev and cleared the way for financial sanctions.
EU President Herman Van Rompuy said further measures could include travel bans, asset freezes and the cancellation of an EU-Russia summit if Moscow does not quickly end its aggression and joins meaningful, multilateral talks within days to halt the crisis.
"We are in close coordination with the United States on this," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. "We cannot go back to business as usual" with Russia, she added.
However, the EU's latest sanctions appeared weak compared to the U.S. ones and to what some more hawkish EU countries wanted, particularly those bordering Russia. Poland's leader noted the resistance to penalizing Moscow remains fairly high among some members of the 28-nation bloc because of Europe's close proximity, energy dependence and trade ties to Russia.
As the EU leaders met, the U.S. also sent six F-15 fighter jets to Lithuania to bolster air patrols over the Baltics, and a U.S. warship is now in the Black Sea to participate in long-planned exercises.
The sanctions on both sides of the Atlantic aimed to rein in Europe's gravest geopolitical crisis in a generation, which developed swiftly again Thursday with Crimean lawmakers declaring their intention to split from Ukraine and join Russia instead and scheduling a referendum in 10 days for voters to decide the fate of the disputed peninsula.
Visiting the summit, Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk branded the referendum illegitimate. "Crimea was, is, and will be an integral part of Ukraine," he told reporters.
In Washington, President Barack Obama said the referendum would violate international law.
The EU put on ice talks on a wide-ranging economic agreement and on granting Russian citizens visa-free travel within the 28-nation bloc, a goal that Moscow has been pursuing for years.
The decision followed tough negotiations among member states divided over how to react to the Russian aggression.
"Not everyone will be satisfied with the decision, but I should say that we did much more together than one could have expected several hours ago," said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Tusk said there was "no enthusiasm" in Europe for sanctioning Russia, but he called the moves inevitable, given the country's blatant violation of international rights by its actions in Crimea.
British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed, while acknowledging that stiffer sanctions would not only hurt Russia.
"Of course there are consequences for Britain if you look at financial services. Of course there are consequences for France if you look at defense. Of course there are consequences for some European countries if you look at energy," he said.
But he said the EU had to take tough action to counter what he called "the most serious crisis in Europe this century."
"If you are going to stand for something, if you're going to stand up to aggression, you have to look at, you have to consider, all and every one of those areas."
Merkel said if Russia fails to stop its destabilizing measures in Ukraine, "then we will see a far-reaching change in our relationship with Russia, which can also include a broad array of economic measures."
"We don't wish for that to happen," she added.
Russia is Europe's third-largest trading partner and its biggest gas and oil supplier. EU exports to Russia in 2012 totaled 123 billion euros ($170 billion), and European banks have about 200 billion euros in outstanding loans to Russia.
The Obama administration restrictions target a number of unidentified people and entities accused of threatening Ukraine's sovereignty and borders.
And like the raft of EU measures, the U.S. sanctions are flexible: The penalties will increase if Russia continues its aggressive policies but also could be ratcheted down if Moscow pulls back its troops in Crimea and recognizes Ukraine's new government.
The United States had already suspended talks on an investment treaty and threatened further steps. NATO on Wednesday suspended most of its meetings with Russian officials, halting military cooperation and deciding to review all aspects of its relationship with Moscow.
In a symbolic victory in the tussle over Ukraine's future allegiances, the EU leaders agreed to swiftly sign a wide-ranging political association agreement as hoped for by Kiev's new government, cementing closer ties with Europe.
Merkel said the agreement will now be signed "very fast," and Cameron called it a "significant decision." Leaders hope to sign the deal even before the Ukrainian elections planned for May.
Ukraine's ousted President Viktor Yanukovych in November walked away from signing that agreement and chose a bailout loan package from Russia instead, which fuelled the protests that eventually led to the ouster of his government.
A free-trade part of the agreement won't be signed yet, but the EU decided to unilaterally grant Ukraine the financial advantages deriving from it to help boost its ailing economy until the full deal can be signed.
The EU proposed a $15 billion aid package for Ukraine on Wednesday. The U.S. has pledged $1 billion and is working on a more comprehensive package, in coordination with the EU and the International Monetary Fund as Kiev is running out of cash.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite underscored fears among Moscow's closest neighbors as she entered the summit.
"Russia today is dangerous," she insisted. "After Ukraine will be Moldova, and after Moldova will be different countries."
Associated Press Writer Angela Charlton contributed reporting.
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Tongue Maps Are A Myth: How Taste Really Works
Last week, we talked about Claus Riedel's obsession with designing the perfect wine glass. One of his objectives was to direct the wine to the "correct" part of the mouth so that the right taste buds would make first contact. Well, that seems logical–we all remember those "tongue maps" like the one below from elementary school science class, right? But here's the catch: your tongue doesn't work like that. And what's more, researchers have known it for at least 30 years.
Riedel's advancements in glass design have made a huge impact on the wine industry. Many experts, we at Vintage Cellars among them, agree that enjoying your wine from the correct glass can make a huge difference in the aroma and flavor of your wine. Check out our post on the subject to learn more. But please don't believe any glassware's claims to direct the wine to the "right" area on your tongue, because there isn't one.
Want to know how your sense of taste really works? Here's a little science:
You know all those tiny bumps covering the surface of your tongue? Those aren't your taste buds. They are called papillae, and your taste buds sit on some of them. When you take a sip of wine, it mixes with your saliva and enters small openings on your tongue to come in contact with your taste receptors. (You have many different kinds of receptors; they are what help you sense heat, noise, light, and everything else in the world around you.) The taste receptor cells send information through your seventh, ninth, and tenth cranial nerves to the areas of the brain that process and interpret taste.
You have between 2,000 and 8,000 taste buds that can sense at least five tastes: sweet, salty, biter, sour, and umami (or savory). Although there is some variation, all of your taste buds detect the five tastes more or less equally, regardless of their location on the tongue.
So then how did the myth get started?
In 1901, a German research paper on taste by a scientist named D.P. Hanig was mistranslated by a Harvard academic. Hanig had simply concluded that sensitivity to various tastes seems to vary between different tongue locations. From this paper arose the infamous tongue map. No one challenged this interpretation until 1974, when a scientist named Virginia Collins re-examined Hanig's paper and found that all five tastes can be detected anywhere there are taste buds. Put a little sugar on the back of your tongue. Even though according to the tongue map, it's the front part that perceives "sweet," you'll find that you can taste it no matter where it's placed.
Collins' conclusion: there are indeed variations in how receptors in different parts of the tongue detect tastes. But the variations are so small that they are insignificant. Unfortunately, wine glass makers have chosen to promote the first part, prolonging the myth, and ignore the second part.
So by all means, go out and shop for the best wine glasses for your favorite wine, whether it's Chardonnay or Cab. The correct shape and size can do wonders to improve the flavors of your favorite wine. But shop wisely: any claims a company makes involving your "tongue map" are simply ludicrous.


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In Kuwait, 100,000 people who are officially stateless must register on Tuesday with the authorities to have any chance of gaining citizenship, and those unlucky to be granted citizenship rights will be in great difficulty, reported BBC.online.
The word Bidoon means "without" in Arabic, and refers to people who have no documents to prove their nationality, and consequently have no rights of citizenship.
Many of the Bidoon come from Iraqi or Iranian descent, but have been settled in Kuwait for generations. They face prosecution of deportation if they do not register by the end of Tuesday, said the report.
The BBC said that about one-third of the Bidoon are likely to be granted citizenship, but the rest are put in great difficulty by the deadline for registration.
Unlike the 1.5 million expatriate guest workers, the Bidoon are culturally indistinguishable from ordinary Kuwaitis. However, they have been given none of the benefits enjoyed by their Kuwaiti fellow people, such as government employment and free education.
The Director of the UN Commission for Refugees office in Kuwait, Martin Loftus, told the BBC he was concerned at the threat. He said issuing deadlines like this would not solve the problem.
A spokeswoman for the United States-based campaigning group, Human Rights Watch, was quoted as saying that confusion surrounds the deadline and the fate of those who are not granted citizenship.
"Are they going to be allowed to stay in Kuwait? Are they going to be deported? Where are they going to be deported to?" Clarissa Bencomo wondered.
"The government really is not answering any of these questions and this is creating a climate of terror for those who are living with this uncertainty."
The problem of statelessness is generally increasing in part because people worldwide are much more mobile due to the movement of migrant workers and refugees.
According to the report, Human rights groups are campaigning for a tightening of international human rights laws to offer some rights to those who find themselves stateless.
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More bad news. It appears his home in Frisco, Texas is not in good shape according to these legal looking documents that suggest he's a little behind on his payments.
During Mr. Salisbury's very public meltdown, another individual in the Dallas radio market said that Sean's odd behavior could be attributed to some financial trouble he's been having. Well, on September 11 of this year (never forget?), a "Notice of Acceleration" was filed on Richard Sean Salisbury's home.
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I emailed Sean for comment. Nothing yet.
Here's the listing for his home. [Zillow.com]
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Teddy Bridgewater threw a career-high five touchdown passes and No. 12 Louisville rallied once again, beating Temple 45-17 on Saturday.
The Cardinals (9-0, 4-0 Big East) fell behind for the sixth straight game as they took time to adjust to their first noon kickoff of the season. But while Louisville's defense and special teams were slow to get going, Bridgewater and the offense clicked right away.
Louisville scored on five of its first six possessions to take a 31-17 halftime lead. The Cardinals, off to their best start in school history, moved into a first-place tie with Rutgers.
Temple (3-5, 2-3) lost its third straight game and has been outscored 127-44 during that stretch.
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Auto sales higher in November for Chrysler, GM, Ford and others
Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Chrysler Group, Nissan North America, Hyundai and Volkswagen of America have all reported sales increases for November.
Nissan was given a big boost by the Infniti brand, which finished the month up 41.2 percent the prior year. General Motors also reported a 3 percent increase.
Hyundai Motor America posted record sales of 53,487 vehicles in November, an eight percent total sales increase compared with the same record-setting period a year ago. Sales are also up eight percent for the first eleven months of the year.
Watch a report on the Chrysler sales during today's News at Noon.
Leaders at Ford were very pleased.
"November represented a strong month for the industry, and Ford sales performed well across the board," said Ken Czubay, Ford vice president, U.S. Marketing, Sales and Service.
"We saw sharp increases in demand for Ford's fuel-efficient small cars, our best-ever month for electrified vehicles and growing demand for our fuel-efficient and capable F-Series pickups," he said
Ford had its best small car November sales month since 2000, with Focus, the all-new C-MAX Hybrids and Fiesta sales totaling 26,848 vehicles -- a 76 percent increase over last year.
Focus sales were up 56 percent versus year-ago levels, while the all-new C-MAX Hybrid lineup gained 52 percent versus October, when the C-MAX Energi went on sale.
Ford's total November sales of 177,673 vehicles increased 6 percent versus last year, with retail sales up 12 percent.
Jonathan Browning, President and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. said, "November was again a strong month for Volkswagen with a sales increase of over 29 percent.
Chrysler Group LLC has reported sales increased of 14 percent during the month of November.
Despite a 3 percent drop in sales by the Jeep brand, November marked Chrysler Group's 32nd consecutive month of year-over-year sales gains.
"Even with all the talk of a looming fiscal cliff, Chrysler Group is well positioned for a strong sales finish to the year," said Reid Bigland, President and CEO of the Dodge Brand and Head of U.S. Sales.
"Our November sales were up 14 percent and we extended our sales streak to 32-consecutive months of year-over-year sales gains. We are expecting a strong December as the industry continues to recover from the East Coast hurricane and consumers continue to respond to our popular year-end Big Finish event," Bigland said.
The Chrysler, Dodge, Ram Truck and Fiat brands all posted year-over-year sales gains in November compared with the same month last year. The Fiat brand's 123 percent increase was the largest sales gain of any Chrysler Group brand for the month.
Models that contributed to Chrysler Group's 14 percent sales increase include the Fiat 500, the Dodge Journey full-size crossover, and the iconic Jeep Wrangler sport-utility vehicle, each setting a sales record for the month of November.
The Journey's 77 percent sales gain was the largest percentage increase of any Dodge brand model in November.
Two Chrysler Group sedans weighed in with significant sales increases in November. Sales of the sporty Dodge Avenger mid-size sedan were up 26 percent while the flagship Chrysler 300 full-size sedan recorded a 17 percent sales gain in November. The Dodge Grand Caravan minivan and the Ram pickup truck each posted sizeable gains as well in November.
Chrysler Group finished the month with an 90-days supply of inventory of 442,241 units. U.S. industry sales figures for November are projected at an estimated 15.3 million units Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate.


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Hard to conceive: Sometimes getting pregnant isn't easy--or possible
Alternatives such as those offered by Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction in Omaha don't work for every couple.
And in vitro fertilization (IVF) is not an easy step to take for those struggling with infertility, both because of moral and monetary concerns. Still, the desire for children, which many attribute to God, outweighs everything for couples such as the Mahons.
A former grade school teacher, Sue Mahon is a Cub Scout leader at the local Catholic parish. Her husband Scott, an auditor for the federal government, is a member of the Knights of Columbus. Five years ago, the couple adopted Patrick, now 10. But, as much as they love their son, Sue says she still has "a burning desire" to give birth.
"Yeah, it's baby-lust," she says. "I honestly believe I wouldn't have been sent the desire for a baby if I wasn't meant to do that."
So far, the couple has tried a variety of fertility treatments, including drugs ("They make you feel all kinds of crazy") and intrauterine insemination (IUI) in which sperm is injected directly into the uterus. In three cases Mahon became pregnant, and she suffered miscarriages each time.
The next step is IVF, but the high cost of even a single cycle (generally about $10,000) has daunted the couple so far. "If we could afford to go to in vitro, we would," Mahon says.
Initially, knowing the church's opposition to the procedure, the couple had decided to try everything except in vitro. "But, now that we're standing here," Sue says, "we're saying it could be a good thing."
They made the decision after Sue consulted with a friend who kept asking her, "What's in your heart?"
She replied, "I don't think I can stop until I've tried everything."
"There's your answer," he told her.
The Vatican may call in vitro morally wrong, Mahon says, "but this is God working in my life."
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Graham 'encouraged' by W.H. talk
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain for about an hour Tuesday afternoon to talk primarily about the Senate's immigration plan and the legislation the two Republicans are helping draft.
"With presidential leadership, we can get this thing done. He's committed himself and his office to be helpful and I believe him, so I'm encouraged. … He said he wants to be a helpful entity here, and I think he'll play whatever constructive role," Graham said. The South Carolina Republican added that it was "one of the best" meetings he's attended.
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Graham said there was no discussion of a provision proposed by the President to include protections for same-sex couples in comprehensive immigration reform.
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McCain (R-Ariz.) would not get into details with reporters only to say that it was a "very, very good conversation."
Obama called McCain, Graham, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to talk about their work on a comprehensive immigration package last week, after criticism that he was not engaging Hill Republicans on the issue. Rubio was not at the meeting, but said that he trusted his colleagues to emphasize a border security trigger as a key part of any deal.
"I think it's a good thing, I think it's a positive development," Rubio said of Tuesday's meeting.
Graham said that he and McCain had worked with Obama on immigration issues in the past so "there's a bit of a relationship there."
McCain, who along with Graham has been a frequent critic of the President, was more tongue and cheek about why other Republicans were not at the meeting.
"He just likes both of us so much that he didn't want any body else there that he might have a better relationship with," he said.