Haitian lawmaker released from jail amid protests (AP)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti ? A Haitian lawmaker who was jailed on charges that he escaped prison on the day of last year's massive earthquake was let go Friday.

Following his release, Dep. Arnel Belizaire went to parliament as several dozen supporters gathered outside the building to greet him with hugs and cheers.

The overnight detention of Belizaire was a rare instance in which police have locked up a government official. Investigators must formally request that immunity be lifted before they can question an official.

Police jailed Belizaire Friday shortly after he had returned from a trip to France. Police say Belizaire was an escaped prisoner who fled the national penitentiary in the chaotic aftermath of the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake. He had been locked up since 2004 on an illegal weapons charge.

Despite his criminal record, Belizaire somehow proved eligible to run for office in a drawn-out election that began last year and ended early this year; candidates are required to show they have a clean record. Belizaire was elected to parliament in a March 20 runoff.

Since he took office, Belizaire has been an open critic of Haitian President Michel Martelly, who was sworn in in May, and the two have been heard lashing out at each other at the National Palace.

Belizaire is a member of Veye Yo, a political party headquartered in Miami, Florida, that has strong ties to former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

The detention of Belizaire threatens to aggravate already uneasy relations between Martelly and parliament, whose members rejected the leader's first two picks for prime minister before approving the third.

The head of the United Nations mission in Haiti and the French Embassy on Friday responded to Belizaire's detention by issuing statements. France urged the government and legislature to bear in mind "procedures" involving the separation of powers and parliamentary immunity.

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Hague court says talks on Gaddafi son surrender (Reuters)

THE HAGUE (Reuters) ? International war crimes prosecutors are in touch with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, urging him to give himself up and warning him on Friday he risks a mid-air interception if he tries to flee by plane to an African safe haven.

Confirming reports from Libya's new leadership to Reuters that the fugitive son and heir-apparent of slain strongman Muammar Gaddafi has been negotiating a possible surrender, the International Criminal Court said in a statement: "Through intermediaries, we have informal contact with Saif."

It gave no details on the younger Gaddafi's whereabouts but said it was "galvanising efforts" to arrest him and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, both of whom Libyan officials have said are being sheltered by Tuareg nomads in the Sahara, in the borderlands of Libya and Niger.

"Additionally," ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said, "We have learnt through informal channels that there is a group of mercenaries who are offering to move Saif to an African (country) not party to the Rome Statute of the ICC.

"The Office of the Prosecutor is also exploring the possibility to intercept any plane within the air space of a state party in order to make an arrest."

Some observers suggest surrendering to the ICC may be only one option for Saif al-Islam, 39, who may alternatively hope for a welcome in one of the African states his father helped. NTC officials have said Saif al-Islam might consider surrender his safest option given his father's killing.

Officials with Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) have said they believe African mercenaries, including from South Africa, were acting as bodyguards for Saif al-Islam as he took refuge in Bani Walid, a pro-Gaddafi bastion near Tripoli, and then fled south as his father was captured, abused and killed.

A South African newspaper said on Thursday that a plane was on standby there to fly north and rescue Saif al-Islam along with a group of South Africans working for him. This could not be independently verified.

"If we reach agreement, logistical measures for his transfer will be taken," ICC spokesman Fadi El Abdallah said in The Hague on Friday, adding that a transfer might still "require some time" to be arranged.

"It is not possible to discuss logistics or make presumptions about what is needed at this stage. There are different scenarios depending on what country he is in."

The ICC has no police force of its own, and therefore has to rely on state co-operation to have suspects arrested.

AFRICAN OPTIONS

Niger, where another of the elder Gaddafi's sons has found refuge, has said it will honour treaty commitments with the ICC, meaning it should extradite any indicted suspect. The ICC has indicted the elder Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam and Senussi for crimes against humanity after the killing of protesters who demonstrated against Gaddafi's 42-year rule in February.

Among other neighbouring states on which Gaddafi lavished some of Libya's oil wealth in pursuit of an anti-colonial, pan-African policy, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mali are also signatories to the Rome Statute of the ICC. So are South Africa and Tunisia.

Those which are not signatories, and so might be in a position to ignore extradition requests, include Algeria, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan and Zimbabwe. It is not clear any of those nations would welcome the fugitive Gaddafi.

Algeria has taken in the wife and three surviving children of Muammar Gaddafi, angering its Libyan neighbours.

In France, one of the key initial backers of the revolt against Gaddafi, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero was asked about reports that Saif al-Islam might have made it across Algeria or Niger to Mali, a former French colony. He said Paris had little information but added:

"This man's place is before the international criminal court ... We don't care whether he goes on foot, by plane, by boat, by car or on a camel, the only thing that matters is that he belongs in the ICC.

"We don't have many details, but the sooner the better."

FAIR TRIAL

The ICC's Moreno-Ocampo said in his statement: "If he surrenders to the ICC, he has the right to be heard in court, he is innocent until proven guilty. The judges will decide.

"This is a legal process and if the judges decide that Saif is innocent, or has served his sentence, he can request the judges to send him to a different country as long as that country accepts him."

Earlier this week a senior Libyan NTC official told Reuters that the London-educated Saif al-Islam was trying to arrange for an aircraft to fly him out of his desert refuge and into the custody of the war crimes court.

Details are sketchy but a picture has built up since his father's killing while in the hands of NTC fighters a week ago that suggests the man once seen as heir-apparent has taken refuge among Sahara nomads and is seeking a safe haven abroad.

One NTC official said on Thursday that Saif al-Islam had crossed into Niger but had not yet found a way to hand himself in: "There is a contact with Mali and with South Africa and with another neighbouring country to organise his exit.

"He hasn't got confirmation yet, he's still waiting."

WIN OR DIE

Even if Saif can still draw on some of the fortune the Gaddafi clan built up during 42 years in control of North Africa's main oilfields, his indictment by the ICC over his part in trying to crush this year's revolt limits his options.

That may explain an apparent willingness, in communications monitored by intelligence services and shared with Libya's interim rulers, to discuss a surrender to the ICC, whereas his mother and surviving siblings simply fled to Algeria and Niger.

Saif al-Islam was once seen as a potential liberal reformer but who adopted a belligerent, win-or-die persona at his father's side this year. The ICC accuses him of hiring mercenaries to carry out a predetermined plan to kill protesters.

Rhissa Ag Boula, a former Tuareg rebel leader who is now a presidential adviser in Niger, told Reuters on Thursday: "Abdullah al-Senussi is now in northern Mali. He crossed Niger north of Arlit escorted by Malian Tuareg as well as some from Niger. They were well protected, which is to say armed. As for Saif, he is hesitant and is indeed in Niger. He is trying to decide whether to continue to Mali or stay in Niger."

A member of the Malian parliament who has been in charge of relations with Libya's NTC discounted some reports that Gaddafi and Senussi had crossed Algeria or Niger into Mali.

The African Union, and powerful members like South Africa, grumble about the nine-year-old ICC's focus so far on Africans and some of them may prove sympathetic.

Even if arrested on charges relating to his role in attacks on protesters in February and March, Saif could make defence arguments that might limit any sentence, lawyers said.

(Writing by Alastair Macdonald, editing by Peter Millership)

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Caution advised when considering patient and colleague feedback on doctors

ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2011) ? Official assessments of a doctor's professionalism should be considered carefully before being accepted due to the tendency for some doctors to receive lower scores than others, and the tendency of some groups of patient or colleague assessors to provide lower scores, claims new research published online in the British Medical Journal.

Researchers from the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in Exeter investigated whether there were any potential patient, colleague and doctor-related sources of bias evident in the assessment of doctors' professionalism.

Doctors' regulator the General Medical Council (GMC) is working on a new system of revalidation for all UK doctors that could be introduced next year as a way of ensuring doctors are fit to continue to practise. This is likely to involve the use of multi-source feedback from patients, peers and supervisors as part of the evidence used to judge a clinician's performance.

The researchers used data from two questionnaires completed by patients and colleagues. A group of 1,065 doctors from 11 different settings, including mostly NHS sites and one independent sector organisation, took part in the study.

They were asked to nominate up to 20 medical and non-medically trained colleagues to take part in an online secure survey about their professionalism, as well as passing on a post-consultation questionnaire to 45 patients each. Collectively, the doctors returned completed questionnaires from 17,031 colleagues and 30,333 patients.

Analysis of the results that allowed for characteristics of the doctor and the patient to be taken into account, showed that doctors were less likely to receive favourable patient feedback if their primary medical degree was from any non-European country.

Several other factors also tended to mean doctors got less positive feedback from patients, such as that they practised as a psychiatrist, the responding patient was not white, and the responding patient reported that they were not seeing their "usual doctor."

From colleagues, there was likely to be less positive feedback if the doctor in question had received their degree from any country other than the UK or South Asia. Other factors that predicted a less favourable review from colleagues included that the doctor was working in a locum capacity, the doctor was working as a GP or psychiatrist, or the colleague did not have daily or weekly professional contact with the doctor.

The researchers say they have identified possible "systematic bias" in the assessment of doctors' professionalism.

They conclude: "Systematic bias may exist in the assessment of doctors' professionalism arising from the characteristics of the assessors giving feedback, and from the personal characteristics of the doctor being assessed. In the absence of a standardised measure of professionalism, doctor's assessment scores from multisource feedback should be interpreted carefully, and, at least initially, be used primarily to help inform doctor's professional development."

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Higgins wins Irish presidency with 57 pct of votes (AP)

DUBLIN ? Michael D. Higgins, a veteran left-wing politician, poet and human rights activist, was declared the winner Saturday of Ireland's presidential election with nearly 57 percent of votes, and pledged to lift the spirits of a struggling nation.

Higgins said he wanted to help revive the public's faith in politicians at a time when Ireland faces record debts, a property market collapse, 15 percent unemployment and a fourth staight year of severe spending cuts.

The diminutive Higgins, 70, beamed with pride as he received congratulations inside Dublin Castle from government leaders and most rival candidates. He announced he would resign immediately as president and member of the Labour Party, the junior member of Ireland's coalition government, because his new role as ceremonial head of state meant he must be "a president for all the people."

Higgins received more than 1 million votes of the nearly 1.8 million cast in Thursday's election. Referring to the 43 percent of registered voters who didn't cast a ballot, he said, "I want to be a president, too, for those who didn't vote, whose trust in public institutions I will encourage and work to recover. ... I dedicate my abilities to the service and welfare of the people of Ireland."

Once Higgins is inaugurated as president Nov. 11, he becomes Ireland's senior ambassador, tasked with building confidence at home and goodwill abroad.

The Irish president wields no government power beyond the ability to refer potentially unconstitutional legislation to Ireland's Supreme Court. But the presidency enjoys considerable freedom to shape Ireland's rapidly secularizing society by bringing different groups together at his Phoenix Park residence and traveling the world expressing his vision of what it should mean to be Irish in the 21st century.

Higgins is a former Galway university lecturer and published poet who has dedicated his four-decade political career to championing Irish culture and left-wing human rights causes worldwide. He also is one of Ireland's most instantly recognized politicians, in part, because of his 5-foot-4 (1.63 meter) stature and much-imitated high voice. Local satirists sometimes depict him as an elf, hobbit or leprechaun talking in riddles and verse.

Higgins served as arts minister in the mid-1990s, during which he launched tax breaks for film production in Ireland and a new TV channel to promote programming in Gaelic, Ireland's native but little-spoken language. Higgins, who has roots in the rural western counties of Clare and Galway, is fluent.

Saturday's result capped a two-day count of ballots to determine who would succeed Mary McAleese, Ireland's popular president since 1997. She said Higgins' win opens "an exciting chapter for ... our global Irish family."

Diarmaid Ferriter, professor of modern history at University College Dublin, said it was striking that Ireland had elected a politician who for decades had been "a thorn in the side of the establishment" ? and now was the official face of Ireland. He said Higgins' triumph reflected voter anger at right-wing politicians who had brought Ireland to the brink of bankruptcy.

"The idea that the Irish have elected a poet with a social conscience, with a track record in human rights, that's a very positive development," Ferriter said.

Higgins' victory was assured after partial results Friday gave him an unassailable lead versus six other candidates, all of whom conceded defeat long before the final result. Most joined Higgins on stage to praise him, including entrepreneur and reality TV judge Sean Gallagher, who came in second, and former Irish Republican Army commander Martin McGuinness, who came in third.

"Michael D. will be a very, very fine president. He's a man of great intellectual capacity and a man with a huge heart," said McGuinness, deputy leader of the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party.

McGuinness, 61, stepped aside as deputy leader of the unity government in the British territory of Northern Ireland so that he could enter the Irish presidential race, a surprise move that shook up the campaign.

He faced stern questioning over his past leadership of the IRA, an outlawed group that killed nearly 1,800 people before calling a 1997 cease-fire. In 2007, he led Sinn Fein into a power-sharing government with Northern Ireland's British Protestant majority in fulfillment of the territory's 1998 peace accord. McGuinness is expected to resume his position as the senior Irish Catholic in that government Nov. 7.

Analysts credit McGuinness with playing a key role in Higgins' victory ? by badly damaging the front runner, Gallagher, in the campaign's last live TV debate Monday. At the time, Gallagher, best known as a judge on an Irish TV competition for business entrepreneurs, was 15 points ahead of Higgins in polls.

McGuinness confronted Gallagher with allegations that he had been heavily involved in collecting undocumented cash donations from businessmen for Fianna Fail. The long-governing party suffered a historic defeat in February after being blamed for the collapse of Ireland's Celtic Tiger boom and last year's humiliating international bailout.

McGuinness cited a conversation he'd just had with one such donor, a convicted border fuel smuggler, who claimed to have handed euro5,000 ($7,000) ? the maximum permitted without being publicly declared under Ireland's corruption laws ? to Gallagher in 2008. Gallagher stumbled in his denial, eliciting incredulous laughter from the audience, and never recovered.

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Nearly half of Ontario seniors do not see dentists regularly

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Poor oral health tied to chronic disease and worse overall health

TORONTO -- Forty-five per cent of Ontarians 65 years and older did not see a dentist in the last year, increasing their risk of chronic diseases and a reduced quality of life , a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital, Women's College Hospital and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (ICES) shows.

"Poor oral health can contribute to many serious medical conditions and affect a person's ability to chew and digest food properly, leading to inadequate nutrition," explains Dr. Arlene Bierman, principal investigator of the study. "With dental services not covered under our universal health-insurance program and many older adults not visiting dentists regularly , the findings suggest we need to rethink the services we provide to help keep seniors healthy as they age."

According to the researchers, women make up the majority of the older population. They are more likely to have two or more chronic conditions than men, report more disability and chronic pain, and are less likely to be physically active.

"A focus on prevention and health promotion can help older women remain active and independent as they age as too many are physically inactive and do not eat enough fruits and vegetables ," said Dr. Paula Rochon, study investigator and senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute. "Yet, what we do know is that it's never too late to improve quality of life and health for women, regardless of age. In fact, a focus on strategies to improve health in the older population can help prevent chronic disease and its associated complications."

The findings are detailed in a report of the POWER (Project for an Ontario Women's Health Evidence-Based Report) Study a joint study from St. Michael's Hospital and ICES. The study is the first in the province to provide a comprehensive overview of women's health in relation to income, education, ethnicity and geography. Findings can be used by policymakers and health-care providers to improve access, quality and outcomes of care for Ontario women. The Older Woman's Health report examines quality and outcomes of care among older women and men in home care, long-term care and in the community. The POWER Study was funded by Echo: Improving Women's Health in Ontario, an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

"Since women comprise the majority of the older population in Ontario, we need to be paying closer attention to the specific care and service needs of older women," says Pat Campbell, CEO of Echo. "The POWER Study Older Women's Health report provides key suggestions on how we can begin to do this."

Findings of the POWER Study released today include:

• About 60 per cent of older women reported that they were physically inactive compared to 48 per cent of men.
• Less than 45 per cent of older adults took steps to improve their health in the previous 12 months.
• Nearly 67 per cent of women ages 80 and older reported functional limitations and more than 1 in 3 low-income women reported their activities were limited by pain.
• Nearly 60 per cent of women admitted to the hospital for heart failure are age 80 and older, and 90 per cent are age 65 and older.
• Many health-care providers have little training in the care of older adults -- there are only 1 to 5 geriatricians per 100,000 adults 65 and older in some areas of the province.

Women have different patterns of illness and health-care needs compared to men. According to the researchers, previous generations of women had fewer opportunities and financial resources and less education than women today, and are less likely to pay for supportive care and access to health services that are not publicly funded.

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For more information on the POWER Study and its partners, visit http://www.powerstudy.ca. Other findings from the study will be released later this year.

Dr. Arlene Bierman is a researcher in the Keenan Research Centre at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, a scientist at ICES and Echo's Ontario Women's Health Council Chair in Women's Health at St. Michael's Hospital and the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.

Dr. Paula Rochon is the vice-president, research at Women's College Hospital, senior scientist at the Women's College Research Institute and a professor of medicine and health policy management and evaluation at the University of Toronto.

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Poor oral health tied to chronic disease and worse overall health

TORONTO -- Forty-five per cent of Ontarians 65 years and older did not see a dentist in the last year, increasing their risk of chronic diseases and a reduced quality of life , a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital, Women's College Hospital and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (ICES) shows.

"Poor oral health can contribute to many serious medical conditions and affect a person's ability to chew and digest food properly, leading to inadequate nutrition," explains Dr. Arlene Bierman, principal investigator of the study. "With dental services not covered under our universal health-insurance program and many older adults not visiting dentists regularly , the findings suggest we need to rethink the services we provide to help keep seniors healthy as they age."

According to the researchers, women make up the majority of the older population. They are more likely to have two or more chronic conditions than men, report more disability and chronic pain, and are less likely to be physically active.

"A focus on prevention and health promotion can help older women remain active and independent as they age as too many are physically inactive and do not eat enough fruits and vegetables ," said Dr. Paula Rochon, study investigator and senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute. "Yet, what we do know is that it's never too late to improve quality of life and health for women, regardless of age. In fact, a focus on strategies to improve health in the older population can help prevent chronic disease and its associated complications."

The findings are detailed in a report of the POWER (Project for an Ontario Women's Health Evidence-Based Report) Study a joint study from St. Michael's Hospital and ICES. The study is the first in the province to provide a comprehensive overview of women's health in relation to income, education, ethnicity and geography. Findings can be used by policymakers and health-care providers to improve access, quality and outcomes of care for Ontario women. The Older Woman's Health report examines quality and outcomes of care among older women and men in home care, long-term care and in the community. The POWER Study was funded by Echo: Improving Women's Health in Ontario, an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

"Since women comprise the majority of the older population in Ontario, we need to be paying closer attention to the specific care and service needs of older women," says Pat Campbell, CEO of Echo. "The POWER Study Older Women's Health report provides key suggestions on how we can begin to do this."

Findings of the POWER Study released today include:

• About 60 per cent of older women reported that they were physically inactive compared to 48 per cent of men.
• Less than 45 per cent of older adults took steps to improve their health in the previous 12 months.
• Nearly 67 per cent of women ages 80 and older reported functional limitations and more than 1 in 3 low-income women reported their activities were limited by pain.
• Nearly 60 per cent of women admitted to the hospital for heart failure are age 80 and older, and 90 per cent are age 65 and older.
• Many health-care providers have little training in the care of older adults -- there are only 1 to 5 geriatricians per 100,000 adults 65 and older in some areas of the province.

Women have different patterns of illness and health-care needs compared to men. According to the researchers, previous generations of women had fewer opportunities and financial resources and less education than women today, and are less likely to pay for supportive care and access to health services that are not publicly funded.

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For more information on the POWER Study and its partners, visit http://www.powerstudy.ca. Other findings from the study will be released later this year.

Dr. Arlene Bierman is a researcher in the Keenan Research Centre at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, a scientist at ICES and Echo's Ontario Women's Health Council Chair in Women's Health at St. Michael's Hospital and the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.

Dr. Paula Rochon is the vice-president, research at Women's College Hospital, senior scientist at the Women's College Research Institute and a professor of medicine and health policy management and evaluation at the University of Toronto.

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Gene variation predicts rate of age-related decline in mental performance

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

A tiny difference in the coding pattern of a single gene significantly affects the rate at which men's intellectual function drops with advancing age, investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System have learned.

In a study to be published online Oct. 25 in Translational Psychiatry, the researchers tested the skills of experienced airplane pilots and found that having one version of the gene versus the other version doubled the rate at which the participants' performance declined over time.

The particular genetic variation, or polymorphism, implicated in the study has been linked in previous studies to several psychiatric disorders. But this is the first demonstration of its impact on skilled task performance in the healthy, aging brain, said the study's senior author, Ahmad Salehi, MD, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford.

The study also showed a significant age-related decline in the size of a key brain region called the hippocampus, which is crucial to memory and spatial reasoning, in pilots carrying this polymorphism.

"This gene-associated difference may apply not only to pilots but also to the general public, for example in the ability to operate complex machinery," said Salehi, who is also a health-science specialist at the VA-Palo Alto.

The gene in question codes for a well-studied protein called brain-derived neurotropic factor, or BDNF, which is critical to the development and maintenance of the central nervous system. BDNF levels decline gradually with age even in healthy individuals; researchers such as Salehi have suspected that this decline may be linked with age-related losses of mental function.

Genes, which are blueprints for proteins, are linear sequences of DNA composed of four different chemical units all connected like beads on a string. The most common version of the BDNF gene dictates that a particular building block for proteins, called valine, be present at a particular place on the protein. A less common - though far from rare - variation of the BDNF gene results in the substitution of another building block, methionine, in that same spot on the protein. That so-called "val/met" substitution occurs in about one in three Asians, roughly one in four Europeans and Americans, and about one in 200 sub-Saharan Africans. Such a change can affect a protein's shape, activity, level of production, or distribution within or secretion by cells in which it is made.

It appears that the alternative "met" version of BDNF doesn't work as well as the "val" version. This variant has been linked to higher likelihood of depression, stroke, anorexia nervosa, anxiety-related disorders, suicidal behavior and schizophrenia.

So Salehi and his colleagues decided to look at whether this polymorphism actually affected human cognitive function. To do this, they turned to an ongoing Stanford study of airplane pilots being conducted by two of the paper's co-authors - Joy Taylor, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and Jerome Yesavage, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences -examining a wide array of neurological and psychiatric questions.

For this new research, Salehi and his colleagues followed 144 pilots, all healthy Caucasian males over the age of 40, who showed up for three visits, spaced a year apart, spanning a two-year period. During each visit, participants - recreational pilots, certified flight instructors or civilian air-transport pilots - underwent an exam called the Standard Flight Simulator Score, a Federal Aviation Administration-approved flight simulator for pilots.

This test session employs a setup that simulates flying a small, single-engine aircraft. Each participant went through a half-dozen practice sessions and a three-week break before his first visit. Each annual visit consisted of morning and afternoon 75-minute "flights," during which pilots confronted flight scenarios with emergency situations, such as engine malfunctions and/or incoming air traffic. Resulting test scores pooled several variables, such as pilots' reaction times and their virtual planes' deviations from ideal altitudes, directions and speed. A pilot's score represented the overall skill with which he executed air-traffic control commands, avoided airborne traffic, detected engine emergencies and approached landing strips.

Blood and saliva samples collected on the pilots' first visits allowed the Stanford investigators to genotype all 144 pilots, of whom 55 (38.2 percent) turned out to have at least one copy of a BDNF gene that contained the "met" variant. In their analysis, the researchers also corrected for pilots' degree of experience and the presence of certain other confounding genetic influences.

Inevitably, performance dropped in both groups. But the rate of decline in the "met" group was much steeper.

"We saw a doubling of the rate of decline in performance on the exam among met carriers during the first two years of follow-up," said Salehi.

About one-third of the pilots also underwent at least one round of magnetic resonance imaging over the course of a few years, allowing the scientists to measure the size of their hippocampi. "Although we found no significant correlation between age and hippocampal size in the non-met carriers, we did detect a significant inverse relationship between age and hippocampal size in the met carriers," Salehi said.

Salehi cautioned that the research covered only two years and that the findings need to be confirmed by following participants over a multiyear period. This is now being done, he added.

No known drugs exist that mimic BDNF's action in the brain, but there is one well-established way to get around that: Stay active. "The one clearly established way to ensure increased BDNF levels in your brain is physical activity," Salehi said.

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Pioneer PotterNavi: a 3G bike GPS that encourages you to meander

A GPS that encourages meandering won't be the dish of the day (month, or year) for hypermilers, but might do well in the slightly more genteel world of cycling. Pioneer's PotterNavi sits on the handlebars of your velocipede and can let you decide between straight or scenic routes. The 100 gram device packs a 2.4-inch 240 x 320 LCD screen and fortunate Japanese buyers get two years of 3G data for free, courtesy of benevolent overlords NTT DoCoMo. Button-free navigation is possible with the included accelerometer, tilting the device will let you scroll without having to stop riding. It'll also tell you where the nearest tourist attractions, shops and toilets are -- just be careful, as your journey data (including any extended stops) gets uploaded to the Cycle Lab site. The SGX-CN700-W (white) and SGC-CN700-K (black) models launch in Japan in February for $530 before peregrinating westward next summer -- like the cyclists it will inspire, the container ship is taking the scenic route.

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Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer's cooling strategy revealed

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How exercising reindeer keep cool

Insulated in a luxuriously thick winter coat, reindeer are perfectly prepared for the gripping cold of an Arctic winter. But the pelt doesn't just keep the cold out, it keeps the warmth in too: which is fine when the animals are resting, but what happens when they are active and generating heat? Usain Bolt would never sprint in a fur coat so how do exercising reindeer avoid overheating? Arnoldus Blix from the University of Troms, Norway, explains that the animals have three tactics: panting with their mouths closed to evaporate water from the nose; panting with the mouth open to evaporate water from the tongue; and activating a cooling system that selectively cools the blood supply to the brain. But how do they coordinate these different strategies for protection? Intrigued, Blix and his colleagues Lars Walle from the University of Oslo, Norway, and Lars Folkow, also from Troms, decided to monitor reindeer brain temperatures, breathing rates and the blood flow through several major blood vessels in the head, to find out how active reindeer keep cool in winter. The team publish their discovery that reindeer use three strategies to keep cool and only resort cooling their brains with a heat exchanger when their temperature becomes dangerously high in The Journal of Experimental Biology at http://jeb.biologists.org.

'Reindeer are the best animals to work with; once they trust the trainer they will do anything for you,' explains Blix. So, the team trained reindeer to trot at 9km/h on a treadmill in temperatures from 10 to 30C to get the animals warmed up while they recorded the animals' physiological responses. In the early stages of the run their breath rate rocketed from 7breaths/min to an impressive 260breaths/min. Blix explains that the animals were inhaling chilly air through their noses and evaporating water from the mucous membranes to cool blood in the nasal sinuses before sending it back to the rest of the body through the jugular vein to keep their temperature down.

However, as the animals continued exercising and generating more heat, they switched to panting, throwing their mouths wide open and flopping their tongues out like dogs. 'The tongue is large, vascularised and well circulated,' explains Blix, and adds, 'They moisturise the tongue so you have evaporation which also takes heat away from the blood'.

Monitoring the temperature of the reindeer's brain, the team noticed that the blood flow through the animal's cooling tongue peaked when the brain's temperature reached a critically high 39C, at which point the reindeer switched to their third tactic. They began selectively cooling the brain by diverting cooled venous blood which came from the nose away from the body and up into the head, where it entered a network of heat exchanging blood vessels to cool the hot arterial blood destined for the brain to protect it from overheating.

Blix admits that initially he had not thought that this strategy would work. 'Only 2% of the respiratory volume went through the nose when they resorted to open mouth panting,' he says. However, when he calculated the colossal amounts of air inhaled by the exercising animals coupled with the low air temperatures it was clear that the reindeers were able to inhale sufficient cold air through their noses to keep their brains cool, but only as a last resort once the other cooling tactics were no longer sufficient.

So Blix and his colleagues have discovered how heavily insulated reindeer prevent themselves from overheating and how Rudolph keeps cool every Christmas Eve.

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How exercising reindeer keep cool

Insulated in a luxuriously thick winter coat, reindeer are perfectly prepared for the gripping cold of an Arctic winter. But the pelt doesn't just keep the cold out, it keeps the warmth in too: which is fine when the animals are resting, but what happens when they are active and generating heat? Usain Bolt would never sprint in a fur coat so how do exercising reindeer avoid overheating? Arnoldus Blix from the University of Troms, Norway, explains that the animals have three tactics: panting with their mouths closed to evaporate water from the nose; panting with the mouth open to evaporate water from the tongue; and activating a cooling system that selectively cools the blood supply to the brain. But how do they coordinate these different strategies for protection? Intrigued, Blix and his colleagues Lars Walle from the University of Oslo, Norway, and Lars Folkow, also from Troms, decided to monitor reindeer brain temperatures, breathing rates and the blood flow through several major blood vessels in the head, to find out how active reindeer keep cool in winter. The team publish their discovery that reindeer use three strategies to keep cool and only resort cooling their brains with a heat exchanger when their temperature becomes dangerously high in The Journal of Experimental Biology at http://jeb.biologists.org.

'Reindeer are the best animals to work with; once they trust the trainer they will do anything for you,' explains Blix. So, the team trained reindeer to trot at 9km/h on a treadmill in temperatures from 10 to 30C to get the animals warmed up while they recorded the animals' physiological responses. In the early stages of the run their breath rate rocketed from 7breaths/min to an impressive 260breaths/min. Blix explains that the animals were inhaling chilly air through their noses and evaporating water from the mucous membranes to cool blood in the nasal sinuses before sending it back to the rest of the body through the jugular vein to keep their temperature down.

However, as the animals continued exercising and generating more heat, they switched to panting, throwing their mouths wide open and flopping their tongues out like dogs. 'The tongue is large, vascularised and well circulated,' explains Blix, and adds, 'They moisturise the tongue so you have evaporation which also takes heat away from the blood'.

Monitoring the temperature of the reindeer's brain, the team noticed that the blood flow through the animal's cooling tongue peaked when the brain's temperature reached a critically high 39C, at which point the reindeer switched to their third tactic. They began selectively cooling the brain by diverting cooled venous blood which came from the nose away from the body and up into the head, where it entered a network of heat exchanging blood vessels to cool the hot arterial blood destined for the brain to protect it from overheating.

Blix admits that initially he had not thought that this strategy would work. 'Only 2% of the respiratory volume went through the nose when they resorted to open mouth panting,' he says. However, when he calculated the colossal amounts of air inhaled by the exercising animals coupled with the low air temperatures it was clear that the reindeers were able to inhale sufficient cold air through their noses to keep their brains cool, but only as a last resort once the other cooling tactics were no longer sufficient.

So Blix and his colleagues have discovered how heavily insulated reindeer prevent themselves from overheating and how Rudolph keeps cool every Christmas Eve.

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REFERENCE: Blix, A. S., Walle, L. and Folkow, L. P. (2011) Regulation of brain temperature in winter-acclimatized reindeer under heat stress. J. Exp. Biol. 214, 3850-3856.

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Dr. Oz, Lisa Oz: Sex Tips And Marriage Advice In 'Shape' Magazine

In the November issue of Shape magazine, talk show host Dr. Oz and his wife, relationship expert Lisa Oz, open up about their relationship of 26 years, sharing their tips for a successful marriage.

The couple says that more than two decades together hasn't been easy -- especially with four kids and two busy careers: "For years I wanted Mehmet to work less and play with me more," Lisa says in Shape. "[But] I've come to realize you can't sit around and wait for the other person to do the things you want to do."

Besides taking charge of your own happiness, the couple recommends a positive attitude, a healthy lifestyle, and a lot of sex: "Have it as often as possible!" says Lisa Oz. "You have to make intimacy a regular part of your life."

Lisa Oz hosts her own radio show on Oprah's Radio Network, where she focuses on personal growth and relationships. Her husband hosts the Daytime Emmy-winning "Dr. Oz Show."

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Obama tests go-it-alone steps for economy (Reuters)

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) ? President Barack Obama launched the first in a series of executive actions on Monday aimed at bypassing Republicans in Congress to show American voters he is serious about tackling a jobs and housing crisis that endangers his re-election.

Trying to seize the initiative and demonstrate he will take steps on his own if lawmakers do not act, Obama began a campaign-style swing through Western states seen as crucial to his chances of winning a second term in the November 2012 election.

Armed with the new slogan "We can't wait," the president started the three-day trip in economically hard-hit Nevada, a key political battleground and the state with the highest foreclosure rate. He then goes to California and Colorado.

Obama's strategy is aimed at further painting Republicans as obstructing the economic recovery, most recently by impeding his $447 billion jobs package in Congress, and making clear he is not powerless to act.

Questions remain about whether go-it-alone remedies -- the first of which was Monday's announcement of a expanded mortgage refinancing program to help struggling homeowners keep their homes -- can do much to revive the anemic economy and reduce stubbornly high unemployment.

"I'm here to say that we can't wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won't act, I will," Obama said in prepared remarks for a speech to homeowners in Las Vegas.

U.S. homeowners who owe more than their properties are worth got new help with word that a federal housing regulator is easing the terms of a program that helps so-called "underwater" borrowers who have been on time with payments but are unable to refinance.

The plan, which does not require congressional approval, is the latest effort to deal with the weak housing market. The lingering problem is crucial to the economic recovery and remains a political liability for Obama.

It was unclear whether Obama's approach, which falls short of an overarching plan some experts have called for, will give enough of a boost to the battered housing market to spur growth.

A lawmaker earlier this month estimated an expanded program could help as many as 600,000 to 1 million additional borrowers. But that is only a fraction of the estimated 11 million homeowners who are classified as underwater.

STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM

Obama will lay out a new student loan initiative in another swing state, Colorado, on Wednesday and keep rolling out at least one new action each week, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said.

Other executive steps are likely to include help for military veterans and small businesses.

But aides to the president, who has operated by executive order before, appeared to concede his options for acting on his own authority can have only a modest impact compared with his broader stimulus program now stalled in Congress.

"They are not a substitute for congressional action, which is why he continues to urge Congress to wake up," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One.

Obama insisted the unilateral measures would "make a difference" but he acknowledged it would take time for the housing market to heal fully.

The president's latest moves come after Republicans defeated his full jobs plan in Congress and then voted down Obama's first efforts to get his proposals through piecemeal, despite polls showing strong public support for the package.

Brendan Buck, spokesman for House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, accused Obama of campaigning instead of working to find common ground.

"The best way to achieve the outcome they are looking for would be to pick up the phone and work with Republicans instead of starting a fresh new campaign," Buck said.

Obama is seeking to capitalize on public displeasure with Congress after a summer of legislative gridlock.

Obama's public approval ratings have fallen to close to 40 percent, the low of his presidency, because of discontent with his economic stewardship.

Congress, where Republicans control the House and Obama's Democrats control the Senate, is even more unpopular. Its approval rating is about 12 percent after budget battles pushed the government to the brink of a shutdown and unprecedented default.

The states on Obama's tour were chosen deliberately.

Each has large populations of Hispanics, a voting bloc Obama's campaign is eager to win over. Nevada and Colorado are "swing states" that alternate allegiance between Republicans and Democrats, making them valuable election prizes.

(Additional reporting by Caren Bohan, JoAnne Allen and Margaret Chadbourn; writing by Matt Spetalnick and Jeff Mason; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

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Sunday Discussion: Should We Abolish the Limited Liability Corporation? (Theagitator)

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Rangers top Cards in Game 4, tie series

Series tied 2-2 as Holland stifles Cards, Napoli hits key home run in 4-0 win

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Derek Holland, who pitched 8 1/3 scoreless innings in Game 4, hugs Mike Napoli after Sunday's game.

updated 11:14 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2011

ARLINGTON, Texas - So close to a World Series shutout, Derek Holland did everything he could, trying to convince Texas manager Ron Washington to let him finish.

There they stood on the mound, two outs to go in the ninth inning, the pitcher pleading his case as the crowd chanted his name.

"He was begging," Washington said. Or, as Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler described it: "A lot of profanity, we sounded like sailors out there."

Washington listened, then signaled for closer Neftali Feliz. Holland had done his job in Game 4, and then some. He had kept Albert Pujols in the ballpark and the Rangers in this Series.

In a title matchup that's getting more interesting with every game, Holland put the emphasis back on pitching. Given a pep talk by Washington minutes before the game, Holland threw two-hit ball for 8 1-3 innings to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-0 on Sunday night and even things at 2-all.

Holland struck out seven, walked two and never was in trouble against a team that erupted for 16 runs the previous night. He came within two outs of pitching the first complete-game shutout in the World Series since Josh Beckett's gem for Florida to clinch the 2003 title at Yankee Stadium.

"I was very focused. I knew this was a big game for us," said Holland, who was 16-5 with 3.95 ERA and four shutouts in the regular season. "I had to step up and make sure I was prepared."

Hobbled Josh Hamilton put Texas ahead with an RBI double in the first inning. Then Mike Napoli broke it open with a three-run homer in the sixth that set off a hearty high-five in the front row between team president Nolan Ryan and former President George W. Bush.

And just like that, for the first time since 2003, the World Series stood at two games apiece. Now the whole season is down to a best of three, with the outcome to be decided back at Busch Stadium.

Game 5 is Monday night at Rangers Ballpark. It's a rematch of the opener, when Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter topped C.J. Wilson.

A day after Pujols produced arguably the greatest hitting show in postseason history, tying Series records with three home runs, six RBIs and five hits during the Cardinals' romp, Holland emerged as the unlikely star.

Holland got a big cheer when he took the mound in the ninth and was still throwing 96 mph. After he walked Rafael Furcal with one out, Washington strolled to the mound.

"I was begging to stay out there," Holland said. "I said, 'I'll give it everything I've got. I can get the double play.'

"When I came off the field my arm hair was sticking up ? not like I have much."

Holland tipped his cap and waved to the fans as he walked off. His outing was the longest scoreless appearance by an AL starter in the Series since Andy Pettitte also went 8 1-3 at Atlanta in 1996.

Feliz took over and closed. He walked Allen Craig, then retired Pujols on a fly ball and struck out Matt Holliday to end it.

Pujols finished 0 for 4 and hit the ball out of the infield only once.

"I wanted him to see my 'A' game," Holland said.

Said Cardinals manager Tony La Russa: "Well, I would just say he worked us over. Give him credit."

"Good pitching is always going to stop good hitting," he said.

Holland was in tune all evening with Napoli, his pal and catcher. Much better than the battery for the pregame ceremony ? Bush tossed a wild pitch that glanced off the catcher's mitt Ryan wore.

"I should've gone with the regular glove," Ryan said with a chuckle.

The bounce-back Rangers managed to avoid consecutive losses for the first time since Aug. 23-25, a streak that's kept them out of trouble in the postseason.

The Rangers also completed a Sunday sweep in the matchup of teams from St. Louis and the Dallas area. Earlier in the afternoon, the Cowboys beat the Rams 34-7 right across the parking lots. Hamilton and Lance Berkman served as honorary captains for the pregame coin toss, wearing their baseball uniforms.

Many fans might remember Holland from last year's World Series. He's the reliever who came in against San Francisco, walked his first three batters and promptly got pulled.

Maybe that guy was an impostor. Because this 25-year-old lefty with the sorry little mustache was completely poised, with pinpoint control. Perhaps it was the talk he got from Washington near the dugout shortly before taking the mound.

Washington put both hands on Holland's shoulders and talked to him tenderly, like a dad about to send his teenage son off to college. Holland kept nodding, and Washington finished up with a playful pat to Holland's cheek.

"It was just a general message that he's capable of going out there and keeping us in the ballgame. That's all it was," Washington said. "I talk with Derek like that all the time, it just happened to catch me on TV."

Added Holland: "He shows that he cares about all his players, and he definitely showed that when he talked to me."

After that, Holland was in total command in his first Series start, and improved to 3-0 lifetime in the postseason. The only hits he allowed were by Berkman: a double in the second and a single in the fifth. Holland got even later, getting Berkman to look at a strike three that left the St. Louis star discussing the call with plate umpire Ron Kulpa.

Cardinals starter Edwin Jackson kept his team close despite a wild night. He walked seven, and eventually they caught up with him.

It was 1-0 when La Russa yanked Jackson after two one-out walks in the sixth and signaled for reliever Mitchell Boggs. Napoli was up, and the sellout crowd chanted his name as he stepped into the batter's box.

Boggs stayed in the stretch for an extra beat while Furcal ducked behind Nelson Cruz from shortstop. When Boggs finally threw a 95 mph fastball with his first pitch, Napoli whacked it.

Napoli stood at the plate for a moment as the ball sailed deep, just inside the left field line. Boggs could only contort his body, seeing the game get out of hand.

Hamilton forced the Cardinals to play catch-up for the first time in a while. St. Louis had scored first in 10 straight postseason games, one shy of the record set by Detroit during a span from 1972-84.

Elvis Andrus singled with one out in the Texas first and sped home when Hamilton doubled into the right field corner. The reigning AL MVP has been slowed by a strained groin, part of the reason he hasn't homered in 57 at-bats this postseason.

NOTES: Napoli became the first catcher to hit two homers in a Series since Mike Piazza of the Mets in 2000. ... Kinsler and St. Louis C Yadier Molina played a little game of back-and-forth in the second. Kinsler robbed Molina of an RBI single with a nice stop up the middle to end the top half. In the bottom half, Molina made a snap throw that trapped Kinsler off first base for the last out. ... Mitch Moreland batted last for Texas. It's the sixth time a starting first baseman in the World Series had hit ninth in order, four by Moreland.

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Series shifts once again

DeMarco: Never did the Rangers' title hopes seem more in jeopardy than after a 16-7 beat-down by the bats of the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 3. But 24 hours later, the Rangers' adjustment for Game 4 simply was to send Derek Holland to the mound.

Rangers top Cards in Game 4, tie series

Mike Napoli hit a three-run homer on reliever Mitchell Boggs' first pitch in the sixth inning, Derek Holland was dominant on the mound and the Texas Rangers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-0 in Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday night.

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Washington state Sen. Scott White, a rising star for Dems, found dead in hotel room at age 41 (Star Tribune)

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PFT: Broncos' wild comeback more than just Tebow

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I don?t believe what I just saw.

The Broncos? 18-15 overtime win against the Dolphins defied all logic. It defied belief for anyone like myself that watched the complete game. It?s almost as if a higher power was involved. ?(Yes, that?s sarcasm.)

?Denver and Tebow have won!? CBS announcer Kevin Harlan cried as the Broncos game-winning field goal went through the upright.

Uh, no.

This game was about a lot more than Tebow, who looked incompetent for 55 minutes and brilliant for five. It was about a Dolphins organization imploding on itself. ?It was about Tebow and his Broncos teammates playing their best when they absolutely had to. It was about an onside kick.

Let us count the ridiculousness:

1. Tony Sparano went for a two-point conversion to open the fourth quarter in an effort to go up 14-0. ?Totally unnecessary. ?I said it in our newsroom at that moment: That moment will come back to haunt them.

The Dolphins threw a low percentage fade pass to Brandon Marshall. ?They later kicked a field goal to make it 15-0.

2. When Tim Tebow got the ball with just over five minutes left, the Broncos had all of 13 passing yards on the day. Tebow had four completions at the time. He had been sacked six times.

The previous six Broncos drives had combined to gain one first down.

When Tebow missed throws, he often missed them by 10-15 yards. ?The Broncos wouldn?t let him throw on third down. It was one of the worst 55 minutes of quarterback play I?ve ever seen. At one point, the crowd chanted ?Tebow sucks.? ?He didn?t remotely look like an NFL quarterback.

And then the Broncos rose from the ashes.

3. The Dolphins under Tony Sparano always seem to find a way to lose. ?It wouldn?t be a surprise if owner Stephen Ross let Sparano go after this one. Miami so often outplays its opponents, and finds a way to lose.

This loss, on a day the Dolphins celebrated the Florida championship team, marks one of the lowest points in Miami?s franchise history.

4. The Broncos won the game with back-to-back touchdown drives sandwiched by a successful onside kick. Tebow was accurate on those drives and made good decisions. His receivers ? Demaryius Thomas, Matt Willis, and Daniel Fells made fabulous catches for him.

5. The Broncos needed a two-point conversion to force overtime. The entire stadium knew the Broncos would spread out Miami and run Tebow up the middle. Except the Dolphins.

It was like Tebow and his offensive teammates flipped a stretch in the final five minutes. ?They closed. But let?s not make this all about Tebow.

6. Tebow?s teammates made huge plays, no bigger than Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams strip-sacking Matt Moore in overtime.

Even after all this magic, Broncos coach John Fox was still desperate to not let Tebow make a mistake. ?Denver went three-and-out on their first drive of overtime, including the seventh sack of Tebow.

After the Williams sack, Fox called three straight runs which gained two yards to set up a 52?yard field goal. ?It was a terrible decision by Fox that worked. ?Prater had missed two field goals on the day, but you knew this one was going through the uprights.

After all, it was Tim Tebow Florida Gator appreciation day in Miami.

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Anti-Wall St. protesters march with Verizon workers (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Anti-Wall Street protesters joined Verizon Communications workers on Friday in a march to denounce corporate greed as the company and 45,000 employees negotiate a new labor contract.

The march by about 500 people to a Verizon store in Lower Manhattan coincided with the top U.S. mobile provider reporting a third-quarter profit of $1.38 billion, more than double its profit for the same quarter last year.

Support from unions across the United States has helped boost the ranks of the Occupy Wall Street movement against economic inequality, which began five weeks ago and sparked protests nationwide and globally.

"We're all in this together," Verizon worker Steven Jackman, 53, from Long Island, said of joining forces with Occupy Wall Street.

The unionized workers negotiating a new contract, who went on strike for two weeks in August, represent roughly half Verizon's wireline workforce.

"Until we get money out of politics, nothing will change," said Occupy Wall Street protester Richard Fisher, 55, who joined the Verizon march. "I haven't had a job since 2008. My unemployment ran out. There are no jobs."

But some people are asking what will happen next with the Occupy Wall Street movement, which critics say does not have a clear message.

The protesters say they are upset that the billions of dollars in bank bailouts during the recession allowed banks to resume earning huge profits while average Americans have had no relief from high unemployment and job insecurity.

They also believe the richest 1 percent of Americans do not pay their fair share in taxes.

PROTESTERS ARRESTED

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that Occupy Wall Street's camp headquarters -- set up in a privately owned, publicly accessible park in the city's financial district on September 17 -- had become a "tourist attraction."

Bloomberg told a local radio show there was little the city could do about the protesters until the park owners, Brookfield Office Properties, made an official complaint.

Bloomberg said authorities would start enforcing a rule requiring protesters to have a city permit for any marches.

"There are businesses and people going to work and going to school. There's (protesters) drumming in the middle of the night. There's people just using the streets as bathrooms," Bloomberg said.

Last week, a showdown between protesters and New York police was averted when Brookfield postponed a cleanup, which demonstrators feared was a bid to remove them.

The protests have been driven by social media, culminating in global rallies last weekend, which were mostly peaceful apart from Rome, where there were riots.

Earlier on Friday, Occupy Wall Street protesters were among a couple hundred people who rallied in Harlem against the New York Police Department's "stop and frisk" policy, which critics say targets black and Latino New Yorkers. About 30 protesters were arrested for disorderly conduct, police said.

In Cincinnati, police cleared a downtown park on Friday where protesters had been camping, arresting 23 people, while six protesters were arrested in Tampa, Florida.

(Additional reporting by Sinead Carew and Joan Gralla in New York, Joe Wessels in Cincinatti and Ileana Morales in Tampa; Writing by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Greg McCune and Peter Cooney)

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