KSL Capital Partners Acquires 24% Interest in Whistler Blackcomb ...

Transaction Will Result in Changes to Management and Board of Directors

WHISTLER, BC, Dec. 3, 2012 /NEWS.GNOM.ES/ ? Whistler Blackcomb Holdings Inc.
(TSX: WB) (the ?Corporation?) and KSL Capital Partners, LLC (?KSL?) are
pleased to announce that an affiliate of KSL has entered into a
purchase agreement with Intrawest ULC (?Intrawest?) to acquire
Intrawest?s 9,092,500 common shares of the Corporation, representing
approximately 24% of the Corporation?s issued and outstanding common
shares, for $12.75 per common share.? The Corporation understands that
the Intrawest disposition is being made in conjunction with an
Intrawest refinancing.? The transaction is expected to be completed
tomorrow.? KSL is a U.S. private equity firm dedicated to investments
in travel and leisure businesses.

As a result of the sale by Intrawest, Bill Jensen has tendered his
resignation as a director and Chief Executive Officer and each of Wes
Edens
and Jonathan Ashley has tendered his resignation as a director of
the Corporation, effective as of the time of closing.? Also effective
as of the time of closing, the Corporation?s board of directors has
appointed Dave Brownlie, the Corporation?s current President and Chief
Operating Officer, as the Corporation?s President and Chief Executive
Officer and a director, and appointed Eric Resnick and Peter McDermott,
both of KSL, as directors to fill the vacancies created by these
resignations. Mr. Resnick is co-founder and Managing Director of KSL
and has deep, long-standing ties to the ski industry.? Mr. McDermott is
a partner at KSL.

Concurrently with these appointments, the Corporation?s board of
directors has appointed Flora Ferraro, the Corporation?s current Vice
President of Finance, as Interim Chief Financial Officer.? The
Corporation intends to announce the appointment of a permanent chief
financial officer shortly.

?KSL is delighted to be acquiring a 24% interest in a world-class ski
area. Whistler Blackcomb is the largest and most visited ski resort in
North America and we feel that it complements our portfolio of premier
travel and leisure properties. Peter and I are looking forward to
working with the board to grow the business.? Whistler Blackcomb has a
very experienced and successful management team and we are enthusiastic
to work with them as they continue to deliver a fantastic mountain
experience for Whistler Blackcomb?s guests? commented Mr. Resnick.

?On behalf of the board of directors, I am very pleased to welcome Eric
Resnick
and Peter McDermott to the board.? We would also like to
express our appreciation to Wes Edens and Jonathan Ashley for their
contributions to Whistler Blackcomb during their tenure on the board,
and especially to Bill Jensen, for his valued service as Chief
Executive Officer and as a director? commented Graham Savage, Chairman
of the Corporation?s board of directors. ?We are also pleased to
appoint Dave Brownlie as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the
board of directors. With over 24 years in ski resort management, Dave
brings insight and experience to the position and I am looking forward
to continuing to work with him to grow the business.?

ABOUT THE TRANSACTION

KSL expects to hold the purchased shares for investment purposes.
However, KSL and its affiliates expect to evaluate on an ongoing basis
the Corporation?s financial condition and prospects and its interest
in, and intentions with respect to, the Corporation and KSL?s
investment. KSL and its affiliates may from time to time acquire
additional common shares of the Corporation or may dispose of all or a
part of their shares.

In connection with KSL?s acquisition of Intrawest?s common shares, KSL
will assume Intrawest?s rights and obligations under a registration
rights agreement which will provide KSL the right to require the
Corporation to qualify by prospectus all or a portion of its shares for
distribution to the public in Canada, subject to certain conditions.
The registration rights agreement is more fully described in the
Corporation?s final prospectus dated November?2, 2010 and a copy is
available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com under the Corporation?s profile.

KSL?s acquisition of common shares of the Corporation from Intrawest
will be made in reliance on the take-over bid exemption contained in
subsection 100.1(1) of the Securities Act (Ontario), its corollary provision in Multilateral Instrument 62-104 Take-Over Bids and Issuer Bids and section 2.3 of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions.

A report regarding KSL?s holding in the Corporation will be filed on
SEDAR and will be available under the Corporation?s profile at www.sedar.com or by request in writing to KSL Capital Partners, LLC 100 Fillmore
Street, Suite 600 Denver, CO 80206.

ABOUT WHISTLER BLACKCOMB HOLDINGS INC.

Whistler Blackcomb Holdings Inc. owns a 75% interest in each of Whistler
Mountain Resort Limited Partnership and Blackcomb Skiing Enterprises
Limited Partnership, which, together, carry on the four season mountain
resort business located in the Resort Municipality of Whistler, British
Columbia
.? Whistler Blackcomb, the official alpine skiing venue for the
2010 Olympic Winter Games, is situated in the Resort Municipality of
Whistler located in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia 125
kilometres (78 miles) from Vancouver, British Columbia. North America?s
premier four-season mountain resort, Whistler Mountain and Blackcomb
Mountain are two side-by-side mountains, connected by the world
record-breaking PEAK 2 PEAK Gondola, which combined offer over 200
marked runs, over 8,000 acres of terrain, 14 alpine bowls, three
glaciers, receive on average over 1,192 centimetres (469 inches) of
snow annually, and offer one of the longest ski seasons in North
America
. In the summer, Whistler Blackcomb offers a variety of
activities, including hiking and biking trails, the Whistler Mountain
Bike Park, and sightseeing on the PEAK 2 PEAK Gondola. Whistler
Blackcomb Holdings Inc. is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under
the symbol ?WB?.? For more information, visit www.whistlerblackcombholdings.com. Additional information related to the Corporation is available on
SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

ABOUT KSL CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC

KSL is a private equity firm specializing in travel and leisure
enterprises in five primary sectors: hospitality, recreation, clubs,
real estate and travel services. KSL has offices in Denver, Colorado
and New York. KSL?s current portfolio includes some of the premier
properties in travel and leisure, including The Belfry, The Grove Park
Inn, The Homestead, Montelucia Resort & Spa, Barton Creek Resort & Spa,
Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa, The James Royal Palm, La Costa Resort
and Spa, and ClubCorp, one of the world?s largest owners of private
golf and business clubs. KSL also owns other premier recreation
businesses, including Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows, two of the
leading ski resorts in North America; and Western Athletic Clubs, the
owner and operator of luxury fitness clubs in California.

For more information on KSL, please visit www.kslcapital.com.

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release may contain forward-looking statements or
information, within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws,
including, but not limited to, statements with respect to the
anticipated closing date for KSL?s acquisition of Intrawest?s common
shares of the Corporation, the appointment of new officers and new
directors of the Corporation, KSL?s assumption of Intrawest?s rights
under the rights registration agreement with the Corporation and other
information or statements about future events or conditions which may
prove to be incorrect.

The forward-looking statements and information contained in this press
release are based on certain factors and assumptions made by management
of the Corporation including, but not limited to KSL and Intrawest?s
complying with their obligations pursuant to the purchase agreement.

The forward-looking statements and information contained in this press
release are subject to a number of significant risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
anticipated including, but not limited to, risks relating to the
transactions not proceeding for any reason, including the price of the
Corporation?s common shares changing materially as a result of any of
the following unfavourable weather conditions, economic downturns, the
seasonality of Whistler Blackcomb?s operations, the extent of required
capital expenditures, currency fluctuations, the competitive nature of
Whistler Blackcomb?s industry, the unanticipated departure of named
executed officers, a general dependence on a seasonal workforce,
reliance on existing material agreements, risks relating to Whistler
Blackcomb?s access and use of debt financing, adequacy of the
Corporation and Whistler Blackcomb?s insurance coverage, litigation,
safety and accidents, environmental laws and regulations, leisure and
business travel, the impact of any occurring natural disasters and
economic, business and market conditions.

Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or
should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements or
information prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from
those described herein.? Although the Corporation believes that the
expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements and
information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on
forward-looking statements or information because the Corporation can
give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct.

These forward-looking statements and information are made as of the date
of this press release, and the Corporation has no intention and assumes
no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements or
information to reflect new events or circumstances, except as required
by applicable Canadian securities laws.

SOURCE Whistler Blackcomb

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St. Bernard Parish hosts FEMA preliminary flood insurance map ...

St. Bernard Parish on Wednesday afternoon is hosting a FEMA Digital Flood Insurance Mapping meeting in the parish Council Chambers. FEMA released revised preliminary flood insurance maps for St. Bernard on Nov. 9 that provide updated flood risk information.

FEMA released the last preliminary flood insurance maps for the parish on Oct. 30, 2008, but now FEMA is partnering with the Army Corps of Engineers to determine flood risk in and around the new Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System to update the 2008 risk assessments near that new levee system.

At the 2 p.m. meeting in the Council Chambers, 8201 W. Judge Perez Dr., Chalmette, residents can review areas more prone to flooding with a 1 percent chance of occurring in any year, the so-called 100-year storm.

The flood hazard areas depict areas prone to coastal storm surge, river flooding and rainfall events, and illustrate the network of canals, levees, pumping stations and closure structure in operation during such a storm event.

For more information and FEMA flood insurance mapping in St. Bernard, those interested can click here. Also, information on the general greater New Orleans flood hazard update can be viewed by clicking here.

Source: http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/12/st_bernard_parish_hosts_fema_p.html

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Children with autism arrive at emergency room in times of psychiatric crisis nine times more than peers

ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2012) ? In the first study to compare mental health-related emergency department (ED) visits between children with and without autism spectrum disorders (ASD), researchers found that ED visits are nine times more likely to be for psychiatric reasons if a child has an ASD diagnosis. Published in the journal Pediatric Emergency Care (Epub ahead of print), the study found externalizing symptoms, such as severe behaviors tied to aggression, were the leading cause of ED visits among children with ASD. Importantly, the likelihood of a psychiatric ED visit was higher if a child carried private health insurance rather than medical assistance.

"This finding of higher rates of emergency room visits among children with autism demonstrates that many children with autism aren't receiving sufficient outpatient mental health care to prevent and manage the type of crises that are driving these families to seek urgent help," said Dr. Roma Vasa, senior study author and a child psychiatrist in Kennedy Krieger Institute's Center for Autism & Related Disorders. "These findings should highlight the urgent need for better comprehensive outpatient mental health care and insurance coverage for children with autism, along with greater education and training for emergency medical staff."

Using the 2008 National Emergency Department Sample, the largest all-payer ED database in the US, researchers examined data from a total of 3,974,332 ED visits for patients ages 3 to 17, of which 13,191 visits were from children with ASD. Mental health-related ED visits were based on International Classification of Disease (ICD) billing diagnoses that included mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders, suicide and self-injury, and externalizing behaviors such as aggression.

Researchers also studied the influence of different types of insurance coverage on the likelihood of an ED visit for psychiatric reasons. They found that children with ASD whose families had private medical insurance were 58 percent more likely to visit the ED for mental health-related reasons than those whose health insurance was provided through state medical assistance programs.

"We think this is because private insurance plans often exclude autism from behavioral health coverage, have few in-network providers or place restrictive limits on the amount of mental health expenses that they will reimburse," said Luther Kalb, MHS, first study author and a research scientist in Kennedy Krieger Institute's Center for Autism & Related Disorders.

With 1 in 88 children in the U.S. diagnosed with ASD, the use of the ED to treat psychiatric behaviors is likely to increase unless changes occur. Dr. Vasa suggests that this trend is especially troublesome because the ED is not an optimal setting for children with ASD since chaotic environments can exacerbate autism-related or comorbid psychiatric symptoms.

"Children with autism, especially those with co-occurring psychotic disorders or severe behaviors, need to have an emergency crisis plan in place," said Kalb. "Everyone involved in the life of a child with autism, from parents to medical professionals to school educators, needs to have routine discussions about what to do in the case of an escalating situation."

This study also suggests that emergency departments should consider adopting new measures to accommodate children with ASD. This includes greater education and training for ED professionals about how to properly assess and interact with children on the autism spectrum. Additionally, researchers suggest that the large numbers of children with autism accessing the ED may necessitate a separate area for children with ASD that is less chaotic and contains less stimulation than found in the otherwise busiest part of any hospital.

Further research on adults with ASD using the ED for psychiatric reasons and general trends associated with mental health care is needed. With more information, medical professionals and insurance providers can have a greater understanding of the gaps in care and work to improve services.

Financial support for this study was provided by ROAR for Autism, an annual fundraising event held by the Center for Autism & Related Disorders at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

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Obama tax plan: Which cities would it hit hardest?

President Obama's plan to raise tax rates would hit the wealthiest Americans. Yet cities with the highest percentage of rich households are clustered in blue states.

By Ron Scherer,?Staff writer / December 3, 2012

President Barack Obama speaks at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, Dec. 3.

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If President Obama gets his way in his desire to raise taxes on the wealthiest, the East and West Coasts will be hit the hardest.

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That?s where the richest Americans are clustered. They are in places such as the New York metro area, Silicon Valley, and Boston.

Sorry Dayton, Ohio, (No. 84) and Little Rock, Ark., (No. 64) but you?re not close. Yes, there are some individual ZIP Codes in the Midwest, especially around Chicago, that have high income levels, but the wealth does not extend to the greater metro areas around those rich neighborhoods.

Under the Obama plan ? which House Republicans rejected in their own proposal Monday ? taxes would rise on people making more than $250,000 a year by returning the top tax rate back to the pre-Bush level of 39.6 percent. This would affect about 3.5 million filers ? or the top 2.1 percent, according to the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute. For these filers, the average tax increase would be about $34,000, estimates the TPC.

America's wealthiest areas have large concentrations of professionals such as lawyers, government workers, or doctors. It helps to have a university around but it?s not necessary for a metro area to sparkle. Possibly more important is a good commuter transportation system or an area that has a top educational rating. And, for the most part, the rich live in blue states, although the city or town they live in may not have voted with the rest of the state.

?One of the most important elements in wealthy metro areas is high education levels,? says Elizabeth Kneebone, a fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. ?A high share of the residents tend to have a bachelor's degree or higher.?

What communities are likely to feel the effects of the higher taxes the most?

1. Silicon Valley

The nation?s richest metro area, measured by percentage of filers who report more than $100,000 of income, is the San Jose, Calif., metro area. Some 25.5 percent of the 763,916 tax filers crossed the $100,000 threshold in 2010. ?Silicon Valley has a high concentration of high skilled employment and human capital,? says Ms. Kneebone.

2. Washington

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McAfee says he's left Belize, is still on run

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2012 file photo, John McAfee speaks at a ceremony for the official presentation of equipment at the San Pedro Police Station in Ambergris Caye, Belize. McAfee, 67, has been identified as a "person of interest" in the killing of his neighbor, 52-year-old Gregory Faull. Police are urging McAffe to come in for questioning. The anti-virus company founder said on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, he has left Belize and is still on the run, hiding from police out of fear they want to kill him. (AP Photo/Ambergris Today Online-Sofia Munoz, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2012 file photo, John McAfee speaks at a ceremony for the official presentation of equipment at the San Pedro Police Station in Ambergris Caye, Belize. McAfee, 67, has been identified as a "person of interest" in the killing of his neighbor, 52-year-old Gregory Faull. Police are urging McAffe to come in for questioning. The anti-virus company founder said on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, he has left Belize and is still on the run, hiding from police out of fear they want to kill him. (AP Photo/Ambergris Today Online-Sofia Munoz, File)

(AP) ? Software company founder John McAfee said Monday he has fled from Belize using a bizarre ruse, adding yet another chapter in what threatens to become one of the biggest media fugitive frenzies since O.J. Simpson led police on a low-speed chase in 1994.

McAfee claimed in a blog posting he had evaded authorities by staging an elaborate distraction in neighboring Mexico.

In an email to The Associated Press, McAfee confirmed a posting to his website in which he described, in what appeared to be joking tones, how he mounted the ruse.

"My 'double,' carrying on (sic) a North Korean passport under my name, was detained in Mexico for pre-planned misbehavior," McAfee wrote in the posting, "but due to indifference on the part of authorities (he) was evicted from the jail and was unable to serve his intended purpose in our exit plan."

It was a turn typical of the bizarre saga of the eccentric anti-virus company founder wanted for questioning in connection with the killing of fellow American ex-pat Gregory Viant Faull, who was shot to death at the Belize island where they both had homes in early November.

Since then, McAfee has refused to turn himself in for questioning saying he fears Belizean police would kill him, and has titillated the media with phone calls, emails and blog posts detailing his life on the lam. It has all resulted in a rather undignified media scrum to get interviews with McAfee, complete with taunts.

Vice magazine, two of whose journalists are reportedly traveling with McAfee, posted a story on its website entitled "We Are with John McAfee Right Now, Suckers," along with a photos showing McAfee and VICE editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro.

Wired magazine later said on its website that location information embedded in the photo shows McAfee and the journalists were at Guatemala's Rio Dulce National Park, near the border with Belize, when the photo was taken.

A representative of the Faull family said Monday that the real issues ? the murder of an American who by all accounts was well-liked by his neighbors on Belize's Ambergris Caye ? are getting lost.

"The real issues are that a human life was violently taken, (and) authorities lack all the information ... we're beyond the danger of them being lost, it's become entertainment. This is tragic to the family," said Dan Keeney of Texas-based DPK Public Relations, who has issued statements on behalf of the Faull family.

A woman who answered the phone at an Orlando, Florida phone number listed for Vickie Faull confirmed she was a relative and said that Keeney spoke on behalf of the family, but had no further comment.

"Mr. McAfee is astute at media manipulation, and he's using those skills to great effect," said Keeney. "I would just caution the media not to let themselves be manipulated."

Keeney added in email that "we strongly urge journalists covering the McAfee story not to glorify the words and actions of this person who, by refusing to cooperate and tell police all he knows about the murder of Greg Faull, is harming the investigation of the murder."

"The family of Mr. Faull is concerned that journalists may be assisting Mr. McAfee either implicitly by helping him to create an elaborate fiction that undermines trust in authorities or explicitly in his efforts to escape."

Police in Belize have called McAfee a "person of interest" in the slaying of Faull and asked him to turn himself in for questioning. He has not been charged, however, and thus can travel at will.

Faull was shot to death in his home, a couple of houses down from the compound where McAfee kept several noisy dogs, armed guards and entertained a steady stream of young women brought in from the mainland. McAfee acknowledges that his dogs were bothersome and that Faull had complained about them, but denied killing Faull. Several of the dogs were poisoned shortly before Faull's killing.

For two weeks, McAfee refused to turn himself in and claimed to be hiding in plain sight, wearing disguises and watching as police raided his house. It was unclear, however, how much of what McAfee ? a confessed practical joker ? said and wrote was true.

McAfee did not describe the entire plan, nor did he say where exactly he was now. He noted only that "we are not in Belize, but not quite out of the woods yet."

In a previous interview with the AP, McAfee had said he had no plans to leave Belize.

"I'm not going to leave this country," he had told the AP. "I love this country, this is my home. I intend to fight the injustice that's here from here, I can't do much from outside, can I?"

In Monday's post, McAfee said he left Belize because he thought "Sam," the young Belizean woman who has accompanied him since he went on the lam, was in danger.

"I left Belize because of a series of events which led both Sam and I to believe that she was in danger of capture. She has been my go-between and my eyes and ears in the outside world. I decided to make the move. I will be returning to Belize after I have place (sic) Sam in a safe position. My fight is in Belize, and I can do little in exile."

Police sources in Belize said early Monday they believed he was still in the country. The sparsely populated border between the two countries is unguarded and unmarked in many places.

Rumors arose over the weekend that McAfee had been caught, but Belizean police quickly denied that.

Belize's prime minister, Dean Barrow, has expressed doubts about McAfee's mental state: "I don't want to be unkind to the gentleman, but I believe he is extremely paranoid, even bonkers."

McAfee, who is extremely polite and coherent in telephone conversations, brushes off such accusations, telling the AP "if people want to call that paranoia, they can do so if you wish, that will not concern me."

McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus program, has led an eccentric life since he sold his stake in the anti-virus software company that is named after him in the early 1990s and moved to Belize about three years ago to lower his taxes.

He told The New York Times in 2009 that he had lost all but $4 million of his $100 million fortune in the U.S. financial crisis. However, a story on the Gizmodo website quoted him as calling that claim "not very accurate at all." He has dabbled in yoga, ultra-light aircraft and producing herbal medications.

McAfee has never said where he's hiding. But in his blog, he has claimed to have disguised himself as a grungy street peddler and a foul-mouthed German tourist.

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HBT: Red Sox sign Napoli for 3 years, $39 million

UPDATE: Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com says it?s a three-year, $39 million deal.

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Rob Bradford of WEEI reports that the Red Sox are close to a three-year deal with Mike Napoli. No figures have been reported yet, but Bradford says Napoli will be the Sox? primary first base option.

Napoli, 31, batted .227/.343/.469 with 24 home runs and 56 RBI in 417 plate appearances this past season for the Rangers. He had a career-best .320/.414/.631 batting line, 30 home runs and 75 RBI in 432 plate appearances the season before.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/03/report-the-red-sox-are-close-to-a-three-year-deal-with-mike-napoli/related/

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Become Content By Following These Self Improvement Guidelines ...

Focusing on improving yourself is a smart way to start getting your life back on track. This can help you think on where to start in making great changes when it comes to your life. Here?s a list of great tips to get your creative juices flowing and set you happily on the road to positive personal development.

Place your personal central principles into practice. Each individual has beliefs that he or she follows all the time. Having a good foundation based on your core principles will benefit your sense of self esteem. This will also help you develop consistency.

Organize your life. The process of cleaning up and organizing provides a massive boost to your self-esteem. Furthermore, you will feel accomplished after you finish this undertaking. In addition, you won?t stress out anymore from the messes. Having everything put away and neatly organized can give you a sense of peace.

Increasing the complex carbs in your diet can help manage depression. Complex carbohydrates are essential to producing serotonin, which helps to lift your mood. Complex carbs that you can easily eat to raise these levels include whole grains, nuts, raw vegetables and more.

Write yourself a pep talk. List all your great attributes on an index card. You can take this with you wherever you go, and review it when you want motivation. Even better, you should videotape yourself, reading the list into the camera and watch this video frequently. Sounds intriguing, right?

Other than the Ivy League, most employers don?t really care where you graduated from, so long as you got the degree and have the necessary skills. The exceptions to this include high-finance type jobs, in which graduation from an Ivy League school adds cachet to your credentials. It is really more important to simply have a quality degree that will open up opportunities for you.

Leaders are humble, though powerful and strict too. You must be resolute but compassionate if you want to lead. Also, recall what it is like to serve someone. A good leader is virtuous and full of integrity, something you need in order to be successful.

Set reasonable, achievable goals for yourself. If you find your weaknesses and work on them, you can also become a better person.

When you feel anger start to boil over, stop before you react and count to ten. Another technique is to breathe deeply and imagine a peaceful place. Stay grounded and only say something you can live with tomorrow.

Therapy might be the solution for people who have serious issues. While self-help books help to a certain degree, seeing a therapist has more personalized substance to it. Sometimes, talk therapy can help you discover a breakthrough. The therapeutic discussion that you can have with a psychiatrist, is beyond the abilities of even the most comprehensive and detailed self-help book.

Sexual capitol is a trait that is attracting a lot of attention to researchers that study personal development. This has nothing to do with using sex appeal to get the things you covet. It has more to do with charm. Not everyone has good social skills, but these can help you go farther in all aspects of your life.

This article should have shown you that helping yourself involves a lot of hard work to start making viable changes in your life. One thing to keep in mind is that if you want to see noticeable results, you have to stick to it. An occasional reflection on the previously mentioned tips can help to improve your life.

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Forced to Choose: Exploring Other Options - NYTimes.com

I wrote last week about the poor choices facing patients, most very old and within six months of death, who need nursing home care after a hospitalization.

Medicare will pay for hospice, the acknowledged gold standard for those at the end of life and their families, and it will also pay for skilled nursing (known in this universe as the ?sniff? benefit, for Skilled Nursing Facility or S.N.F.). But only rarely will it cover both at the same time, which creates a financial bind.

Rather than pay hundreds of dollars a day out of pocket for room and board in a nursing home, most families opt for S.N.F. coverage. But they pay a price in other ways: they lose the visits by nurses and aides and social workers, the comfort care, the pain relief and the spiritual support that can make hospice such a godsend, whether patients are at home or in nursing homes.

The study I wrote about, by a team mostly based at the University of California, San Francisco, found ongoing repercussions from this forced decision. People were much more likely to die in hospitals or nursing homes when they used the S.N.F. benefit. Though studies repeatedly find that most people would prefer to die at home, only 11 percent did. But those who did not use S.N.F. were far more likely to be enrolled in hospice ? and 40 percent of them died at home.

On the other coast, meanwhile, researchers in Providence, R.I., and Boston exploring some of the same issues have documented still other problems when people nearing death use nursing homes.

This study, published recently by The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, looked specifically at more than 4,300 patients with advanced dementia who died in nursing homes in 2006 and used the S.N.F. benefit within 90 days of their deaths. About a quarter also had hospice care, either at the same time (permitted only when someone has both a terminal condition and another diagnosis, as when a dementia patient also breaks a hip) or before or after they used S.N.F.

Why look at patients with severe dementia? ?I tried to focus on the most vulnerable part of the nursing home population,? said the study?s lead author, Susan C. Miller, a health services researcher at Brown University. ?They?re almost totally dependent.?

The whole purpose of Medicare?s paying for skilled nursing, recall, is to help patients get stronger and return home, or at least to improve their health. But physical therapy, for instance, may serve little purpose for those who are bed-bound, who are totally incontinent, who can?t feed themselves. ?These are people who are on a decline,? Dr. Miller said. ?They?re not going to get better.?

Yet they received a lot of medical interventions compared to those in hospice care. Those using S.N.F. were significantly more likely to receive feeding tubes, intravenous fluids, injections and medications ? none of which can stop or slow dementia, of course, or are likely to increase quality of life.

?I consider these treatments very aggressive for this group of patients,? Dr. Miller said. Hospice care, on the other hand, lowered the odds of dying in a hospital.

?There needs to be some kind of combined benefit, hospice or palliative care while people are receiving skilled nursing,? Dr. Miller concluded. Otherwise, ?there are incentives to give them care they really shouldn?t be receiving.?

People in palliative care and hospice have complained about this restriction for years, and they may want to keep complaining. The Affordable Care Act calls for a demonstration project of ?concurrent care,? a three-year experiment allowing up to 15 hospice programs around the country to enroll patients who can also continue to receive all the other services that Medicare covers, including skilled nursing.

Afterwards, an independent evaluation is supposed to determine whether people who are old and ill and close to death can benefit from having hospice and other services together and whether that may even save Medicare dollars.

But the statute doesn?t set a target date, so who knows when or whether this experiment will happen? Too bad, because a lot of patients and families would like to know the answer.

Paula Span is the author of ?When the Time Comes: Families With Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions.?

Source: http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/forced-to-choose-exploring-other-options/

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Young down by boardwalk for benefit show

NEW YORK (AP) ? Neil Young says he couldn't see performing in the area devastated by Superstorm Sandy without doing something to help people who were affected by it.

Young and his longtime backing band, Crazy Horse, will be in Atlantic City for a benefit concert Thursday. He said he hopes to raise several hundred thousand dollars for the American Red Cross' storm relief effort with the show at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

Young is on tour in the area, playing Monday in Brooklyn and Tuesday in Bridgeport, Conn.

He said in an interview Sunday that fans in the area had been supporting him for 40 years and he wanted to do what he could to help.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/young-down-boardwalk-benefit-show-180242416.html

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Inhabitat's Week in Green: vertical farm, solar energy funnel and a brainwave monitor

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.

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This week Inhabitat reported live from the Los Angeles Auto Show as we brought you the hottest new green cars -- beginning with the 2013 Fiat 500e electric vehicle. We're also eagerly awaiting the unveiling of BMW's new i3 Coupe concept. In other green transportation news, JR Tokai unveiled Japan's new lightning-fast 310 MPH MagLev train, while Amtrak announced that trains traveling between Chicago and St. Louis were cleared to accelerate to 110 MPH on a short stretch of track. It's no MagLev, but we'll take it! Designer Jeffrey Eyster also unveiled the MRV-1, a recreational vehicle that doubles as a sustainable nature retreat.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/02/vertical-farm-solar-funnel-brainwave-monitor/

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