Franklin jumped out of bed at Houston news

By Randee Dawn

Aretha Franklin learned about Whitney Houston's death much the same way most of America did: on TV.

"I had just finished watching George Clooney in 'The Descendants,' and I flipped back to the regular TV and maybe two minutes after I did it came across the screen," Houston's longtime friend told TODAY's Al Roker on Friday. "I just jumped up off the side of the bed."

In an exclusive interview, Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin tells TODAY's Al Roker her reaction when she heard of the death of her goddaughter Whitney Houston.

The?Queen of Soul?will be just one of several big names attending Houston's private funeral on Saturday in Newark, N.J. She told Roker that Houston's mother,?gospel singer?Cissy Houston, asked her to sing at the service, but she's not sure what song she'll choose just yet. Stevie Wonder is also set to perform, according to TODAY's Jeff Rossen; other star names expected to attend include Houston's "The Bodyguard" co-star Kevin Costner, her mentor Clive Davis, Tyler Perry, R. Kelly, Alicia Keys and cousin Dionne Warwick.

Her former husband, Bobby Brown, is also expected to be there despite rumors; Franklin noted that it's his "responsibility to step up to the plate and be responsible (for daughter Bobbi)." And as to whether Brown could be considered to blame for Houston's problems, Franklin remained neutral: "I really don't have an opinion on that," she said.

Franklin remembered meeting Houston when she was around 10, when the little girl came to visit her at her recording studio. She first heard the girl sing in the late 1970s, and "when she hit the soprano, I said, 'Oh, this little girl can sing! OK, Cissy's baby can sing!'"

In this TODAY exclusive, singer Aretha Franklin talks with TODAY's Al Roker about her reaction to the death of Whitney Houston, her close friend.

Fame like Houston's, acknowledged Franklin, brings on particular pressures: "Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home," she said. "She left home with all the right things; she just kind of lost her way along the way somewhere."

Houston's voice ultimately touched millions, and some of those fans are eager to be a part of her funeral. According to Rossen, some have already lined up outside the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark church where Houston's service will be held. He added that police are asking fans to stay away and are closing off the streets within a six-block radius to help keep crowds down.

Franklin said the news of Houston's death came as a real shock, particularly since she had just seen some previews of "Sparkle" in which the singer looked "fresh, she looked healthy, and she looked gorgeous. And I thought, 'Yes, she has conquered her challenges' and was on the way."

Whitney Houston's family will hold a private viewing Friday, one day before a funeral that will feature stars such as Kevin Costner and Aretha Franklin. NBC's Jeff Rossen reports.

No one knows yet what caused Houston's death, but Rossen reported that police in Los Angeles now have her medical records and are speaking to her doctors, though foul play is not suspected. In the days before her death, Houston visited doctor's offices at least twice.

But Franklin kept up a spirited defense of Houston and her choices. "She was having her problems, she was having her challenges, but a lot of people have challenges of all kinds.? ... You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off."

Franklin noted that one of the last songs Houston is known to have sung was "Yes, Jesus Loves Me." "When God loves you what can be better than that?" she told Roker. "She had this little twinkle in her eye. She didn't just smile with her lips."

The Queen of Soul shared a nursery rhyme, custom fit for the fallen singer: "Twinkle, twinkle, superstar / We don't wonder where you are. Up above the world so bright / Like a diamond in the night. Twinkle, twinkle, she stood alone / I can't believe that she's gone."

More of Al Roker's interview with Aretha Franklin can be seen on tonight's "Dateline," at 10 p.m. on NBC.

TODAY.com will offer a live video stream of Houston's funeral on Saturday. It is set to begin at noon ET.

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House GOP questions Obama on potential nuke cuts (AP)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - House Republicans are calling on President Barack Obama to explain potential cuts of as much as 80 percent in the U.S. nuclear force.

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Ohio couple get 8 years in in son's cancer death

Monica Hussing, center is handcuffed after being sentenced to eight years in prison on involuntary manslaughter charges in Cleveland Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Their son, Willie Robinson, died from Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008. Prosecutors say he had begged his parents to take him to see a doctor but was rejected. Hussing's attorney is John Luskin, left. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Monica Hussing, center is handcuffed after being sentenced to eight years in prison on involuntary manslaughter charges in Cleveland Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Their son, Willie Robinson, died from Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008. Prosecutors say he had begged his parents to take him to see a doctor but was rejected. Hussing's attorney is John Luskin, left. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

William Robinson Sr., left, and his estranged wife, Monica Hussing, right, stand with Hussing's attorney John Luskin during sentencing on involuntary manslaughter charges in Cleveland Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Their son, Willie Robinson, died from Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008 and prosecutors say he had begged his parents to take him to see a doctor but was rejected. Robinson and Hussing were sentenced to eight years in prison. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Monica Hussing, right, addresses the court with attorney John Luskin during her sentencing hearing on involuntary manslaughter charges in Cleveland Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Hussing's son, Willie Robinson, died from Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008 and prosecutors say he had begged his parents to take him to see a doctor but was rejected. Hussing and estranged husband William Robinson Sr. received eight year prison sentences. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Attorney Thomas Rein, left, speaks on behalf of William Robinson Sr. at his sentencing hearing in Cleveland Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. The parents of the 8-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to denying him medical treatment. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Family member Trish Boone holds a photo of Willie Robinson during sentencing for his parents, William Robinson Sr., and Monica Hussing in Cleveland Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. The parents of the 8-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to denying him medical treatment. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

CLEVELAND (AP) ? The parents of an 8-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands were sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday following their guilty pleas to denying him medical treatment.

Attorneys for Monica Hussing, 37, and William Robinson Sr., 40, had said the parents had financial problems and tried to get checkups for their son but couldn't afford it.

The couple was given the maximum sentence by Cuyahoga County Judge Michael Astrab, who accepted their guilty pleas last month to attempted involuntary manslaughter in a last-minute plea deal before their trial was about to begin. They were handcuffed and taken into custody immediately. Both plan to appeal the sentence.

"I loved my son," Robinson told the judge, occasionally wiping his eyes with a tissue. He said he was sorry.

"I tried to help my son," Hussing said as family members in the courtroom quietly sobbed.

Hussing's sister, Shelia Slawinski, cried as she stood before the judge and gave voice to her nephew, Willie Robinson: "I am so in pain ... please take me to the doctor ... the last four weeks have been the most painful."

"I told my sister," Slawinski said. "I offered to help my sister."

According to the prosecution's pre-sentencing memo to the judge, at least eight family members noticed Willie's deteriorating health over a period of more than two years and most spoke to the couple about it. One relative described the boy's swollen neck glands as the size of a softball.

"Twenty-nine months he suffered," Slawinski said. "Twenty-nine months they had to do something and they chose not to."

Asked outside court why her sister hadn't taken care of Willie and hadn't enrolled him or three siblings in school, Slawinski said it was easier for Hussing to stay in bed during the day and do drugs. Both parents have abused drugs, their attorneys earlier told the judge.

Hussing's oldest daughter, Lillian, 18, defended her mother in court and said Willie was able to do the same things other 8-year-olds do. "He was able to play, go outside," she said.

The judge looked surprised and asked the teen if she would be willing to repeat her statements under oath and possible penalty of perjury. She did.

The judge compared the autopsy photo of Willie's emaciated body to concentration camp victims. "If anybody, anybody, didn't know this kid was sick, they are seriously, seriously disturbed," Astrab said.

Two doctors told the judge before the sentencing that no sick child would be turned away from a hospital.

Willie Robinson collapsed at his home on March 22, 2008. Prosecutors say he had begged his parents to take him to see a doctor but was rejected. Hodgkin lymphoma is a highly treatable cancer.

Lillian Hussing said earlier the family didn't have money for medical care when they lived in Warren, tried repeatedly to get help from social services and visited a free clinic but left when told they would have to pay $180.

The family soon moved to Cleveland and the boy died within weeks.

Prosecutors say that while the boy was suffering, the parents claimed financial hardship but paid $87 to have a pit bull treated for fleas. Hussing's defense attorney, John Luskin, said the dog belonged to Hussing's parents and her parents paid for the treatment.

Trumbull County Children Services says it had worked with the family to provide Willie health care, getting involved after receiving a phone call in July 2007. Agency officials said a case worker visited the family at least monthly and pushed the parents to have a medical follow-up on his swollen neck but they didn't.

However, Robinson's attorney Thomas Rein said previously that a social worker who visited the family in January 2008 "indicated the kids were healthy and happy." He said no one knew the boy had cancer until he died and an autopsy was performed.

And Lillian Hussing said a case worker had told the family the boy's lump looked like a swollen gland and to hold off until they could secure financial assistance before getting it checked.

About two weeks after they moved to Cleveland, she said, her brother came down with something. Her mother treated him with cold medicine and he died within three days.

She said the boy never complained about his neck.

"He played, he went outside, he wrestled, he played video games," the boy's sister said. "He was the happiest kid you could imagine. It never seemed like he was suffering."

The emotional aftermath from their son's death led the couple to split, according to Luskin.

The couple's four other children under 18 were placed in the custody of a family member. Luskin said Lillian Hussing, upon turning 18, decided to return to live with her mother.

Rein said Robinson agreed to plead guilty so his children could be spared any further grief and wouldn't have to suffer by testifying. Lillian Hussing said her mother took a plea bargain because of the uncertainty of a trial and fear she could be sent to prison for a long time.

As part of the deal, the prosecution agreed to drop four counts each against each parent, including child endangering. Prosecutors didn't agree to a sentence recommendation. Both Luskin and Rein had said they hoped the judge would consider probation.

"There's not a day my client ... starts without shedding a tear for his son," Rein said.

The coroner ruled that the boy was a victim of medical neglect and died from pneumonia due to Hodgkin lymphoma.

Hodgkin lymphoma is a highly treatable cancer, with as many as 95 percent of patients in early stages of the disease surviving for five years or more with treatment. It's one of the most common forms of cancers among children.

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Beloved S.African musician, 60, back at school (AP)

JOHANNESBURG ? The 60-year-old beloved South African musician shows up five days a week to sit behind a scarred desk in a bare-bones classroom, studying for the high school diploma he missed when he dropped out to pursue a career in rock, funk, soul and jazz.

And Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse wants the faith he is showing in learning to inspire a battered community.

Returning to school "is for me. But it's not about me," Mabuse said in an interview in his Soweto home, decorated with souvenirs from his European, U.S. and Mideast travels.

Mabuse, his round, unlined face animated beneath a shaven pate, said some of his friends and fellow musicians were baffled when he told them he was going back to school for what's known here as a National Senior Certificate, or, more commonly, a matric.

But bassist and producer Victor Masondo wasn't surprised.

"Sipho is a perfectionist," Masondo said. "In typical Sipho style, he wants to go through the right routes and do the right thing."

Mabuse often paces his tile floors as he practices his saxophone. He also plays the flute, piano and other instruments as well as the drums that gave him his nickname.

He has performed with Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Paul Simon, giving the last a tour of Soweto when the American was here to work on "Graceland."

Mabuse also has sat on the boards of South Africa's National Arts Council and the Southern African Music Rights Organization, which works to protect musicians' intellectual property rights.

"He's always been there for South African music," said South African composer and theater director Welcome Msomi.

With his money, Mabuse could have hired a tutor to get him through the matric exams. With his connections, he could have found a university to take him on as a researcher. Instead, he's enrolled in classes offered to adults after the day of learning for younger students is complete. The public school is just around the corner from his home in Soweto, the township where he was born and raised.

Japie Masombuka, who runs the adult education program at Thaba-Jabula Secondary School, said he asked his most famous student to give a motivational talk one afternoon. To Masombuka's surprise, even students who were habitually late to class or often skipped class showed up, and now many are more responsible.

One of Mabuse's classmates, 27-year-old Nikiwe Mpande, left high school to take a secretarial course and start work. She said the lack of a matric was keeping her from getting promotions, but she didn't seriously consider returning to school until she heard about Mabuse.

He's shown her "you're never too old to actually finish school."

Mabuse is a local hero in Soweto, known as a cauldron of resistance to apartheid. In 1976, Soweto high school students set off nationwide protests when they rose up against inferior education.

Apartheid politicians created curricula meant to ensure blacks could aspire to be no more than servants for whites. For decades, the bulk of spending on education was reserved for the white minority.

Apartheid ended in 1994, but most teachers today are the products of apartheid education. They are ill-equipped to prepare their students for the 21st century, which may explain some of the angry frustration that characterizes frequent teacher strikes for higher pay. The students, taking a cue from their teachers, treat their schools with contempt, arriving late and showing little discipline in class.

Across South Africa, more than half a million members of the class of 2011 dropped out or otherwise disappeared before the 496,000 remaining took their final exams. Only a quarter of those who graduated did well enough to qualify for university study, according to government figures.

A government report released last month said public adult education programs haven't escaped the chaos. According to the report, facilities are spare, curriculum unfocused, teachers weak, and most of the more than 300,000 students who enrolled in such classes along with Mabuse last year failed to progress.

In the 1960s, Mabuse's Orlando West High School had no library or science lab. Many schools in impoverished black communities still lack such basics.

But Mabuse said Orlando West did have a respected principal, Solomon Kgokgophana Matseke, who died last year. Mabuse keeps a scrap book on Matseke on his bookshelf alongside biographies of post-apartheid South Africa's first two presidents, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki.

Matseke, himself a musician and composer, tried to persuade Mabuse to stay in school back in 1969, Mabuse said. But he and the fellow classmates who had formed a band were making money and earning admiration from girls at weekend performances.

One day, his mother went looking for Mabuse at Orlando West and no one could tell her where he was. She found him and his bandmates at a tailor's, trying on new stage costumes.

"She just said, `Oh, so this is your new school uniform?'" Mabuse recalled, saying she then dragged him back to school, where a teacher administered a beating.

When Mabuse has to miss class these days, he calls his teachers to apologize. He addresses teachers who are 20 years his junior as sir. And while the teachers might keep quiet when fellow students in their 20s answer their cell phones in class, Mabuse is not shy.

"I do try to instill that level of responsibility," he said. "I would chide some of them, `It's either you behave like school kids, or you behave like adults.'"

Mabuse also has been known to scold children he runs into in the streets during the day, telling them they should be in school.

Post-apartheid South Africa, Mabuse said, needs an educated public to protect its fragile democracy.

"On the continent, presidents are like kings. We cannot challenge them, because we have little knowledge," he said.

Mabuse's own pursuit of knowledge hit a setback last year, when he tried to take all six classes he needed to obtain his matric. He was too impatient to listen to teachers who told him that was too heavy a load for a man with his busy schedule. He failed two classes.

This year, he's confident he'll pass his remaining classes. And he says he's not embarrassed to tell people he had to try again.

He plans to go on to university to study musical anthropology. His goal is to write a book after interviewing his elders about what has shaped traditional music in South Africa, and how those traditions still ring.

He grew up listening to his grandfather and uncles singing a traditional choral form known as scatamiya.

"Maybe I can make a contribution in how we see ourselves. How we hear ourselves," Mabuse said.

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Democrats protest religious freedom hearing (AP)

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AP - Religious leaders told a House panel Thursday the Obama administration was violating basic rights to religious freedom with its policies for requiring that employees of religion-affiliated institutions have access to birth control coverage.

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Obama plan will end dozens of business tax breaks: Geithner (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The Obama administration's corporate tax reform plan will end "dozens and dozens" of tax breaks, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday as he defended the White House's election-year call for higher taxes on the wealthy.

Within days, the administration is set to unveil a blueprint for revamping the corporate tax system aimed at leveling the playing field for all companies, which pay wildly differing levels of taxes, while lowering the top corporate tax rate.

Companies are clamoring for a cut in the top 35 percent corporate tax rate but disagree about how to how eliminate special tax preferences that benefit selected industries.

Geithner spoke before the Senate Finance Committee a day after President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion budget-and-tax proposal that called for aggressive government spending to boost the economy and higher taxes on the rich.

"We think they can handle it. We think they can afford it," Geithner said.

The budget proposal is seen as a campaign document, with few elements expected to win approval this year in a divided U.S. Congress as elections approach in November.

Republicans criticized Obama's budget, saying it chooses winners and losers and moves away from tax reform.

For example, Obama wants to end a manufacturing tax break for oil and gas companies, but expand it for high-tech companies. "Obviously not everyone is going to be playing by the same set of rules," Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona said.

Geithner said it was a "fair question."

He said the Obama plan would "wipe out a very substantial, dozens and dozens of special tax preferences," in the corporate code, but keep a "very limited" number targeting incentives for "creating and building stuff in the United States."

Senators from both parties said Obama needs to use the bully pulpit to push major changes to the tax code.

The last time major rewrite of the U.S. tax code came in 1986 under the leadership of Republican President Ronald Reagan.

"The key in 1986 was of course the presidential bully pulpit and that the executive branch every single time out talked about how you had to fit the pieces together," Democratic Senator Ron Wyden said.

Obama said earlier he was "hopeful" of a deal on extending a 2 percentage point cut in the payroll tax paid by workers, which will expire at the end of the month without a deal between sparring lawmakers.

FISCAL CLIFF

The payroll tax extension is the first among many deadlines approaching in coming months that could hamper the fragile economic recovery.

At the end of the year, individual tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush are set to expire. In addition, $1.2 trillion in automatic budget cuts across all government programs are set to kick in as part of last summer's deal to raise the debt ceiling.

"A perfect fiscal storm is waiting at the end of the year," Senator Max Baucus, Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said.

Geithner agreed that the combination of the deficit reduction measures and higher taxes would hurt the economy.

But he said the administration is proposing to extend the bulk of the tax cuts so that only the wealthiest would be impacted. "The impact of that tax reform would be very, very modest," he said.

Geithner rejected Republican suggestions that the administration should make drastic cuts to government spending even though the U.S. deficit has soared to $1.3 trillion and the federal debt has topped $15 trillion.

"That would damage economic growth," Geithner said.

(Reporting By Kim Dixon and; Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Cynthia Osterman)

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Army doctor develops breast cancer vaccine - Army News | News ...

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Posted : Monday Feb 13, 2012 13:05:59 EST

Kellie Trombitas fought through surgery and two rounds of chemotherapy for 10 long, difficult months before she was declared cancer-free Dec. 21.

But one thought always lingers in her mind.

?I hope it never comes back,? said Trombitas, the wife of Maj. Gen. Simeon Trombitas, commanding general of Army South at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. ?That?s always on our minds. Thinking about doing all of this again is sometimes too much.?

Trombitas volunteered to join a worldwide clinical trial ? being conducted by her doctor among others ? for a breast cancer vaccine that could erase her fears for good. On Jan. 19, she became the first patient in the study, which is still looking for other volunteers.

Developed by Col. (Dr.) George Peoples, chief of surgical oncology at the San Antonio Military Medical Center, NeuVax is a vaccine that targets breast cancer patients who have been treated and are in remission. Its goal is to reduce or eliminate the risk of the cancer recurring.

Peoples, who also is the director of and principal investigator for the hospital?s Cancer Vaccine Development Program, has worked on this vaccine, which carries the generic name E75, since the early 1990s.

The trial is the final step before Food and Drug Administration approval. It is being conducted by Galena Biopharma, a Portland, Ore.-based biopharmaceutical company, because of its size, scope and cost.

At least 700 participants will be needed for the three-year trial, to be conducted at 70 to 80 locations across the country and around the world, Peoples said. He already has conducted two trials on the drug, with promising results, he said.

Typically, if cancer were to recur, it would happen within two to five years, Peoples said.

Cutting recurrences in half

During the most recent trial, which had 200 participants, about 20 percent of patients in the control group had a recurrence of cancer, which is consistent with historical norms and data, Peoples said. Among those who received the vaccine, the recurrence rate was cut in half, he said.

Peoples said he hopes this latest trial will produce even better results than his previous trial.

?We learned how to more properly dose the vaccine and the need for long-term boosting,? he said. ?Among the women who were optimally dosed and boosted [in the last trial], we only had a single woman recur.?

Participants in the Galena-run trial will receive a shot once a month for the first six months and then a booster shot every six months for the rest of the three-year trial, Peoples said. It will take the company about 18 months to enroll all 700 patients.

?They?re looking for the number of recurrences,? Peoples said. ?The highest risk of recurrence is in the first two to three years. The end point [Galena] and the FDA decided on was the recurrence rate at the end of three years. Hopefully, we?ll see a much lower recurrence rate among the vaccine patients compared to the control group.?

Peoples also is looking to conduct a trial that combines Herceptin, a drug approved for use in fighting breast cancer, with NeuVax.

If NeuVax succeeds, Peoples sees potential for it to be used in treating other types of cancer; the protein it targets, HER2/neu, is present in many types of cancer, including lung, prostate, colon and ovarian cancers, he said.

The field of cancer vaccines has been ?one of those areas of promise for many, many years with a lot of failures and disappointments along the way,? Peoples said. The first cancer vaccine was approved by the FDA in 2010 for prostate cancer, and another drug was approved in 2011 for melanoma, he said.

?There?s been a huge amount of interest building in this area because we have now our first two FDA-approved products, and we?d be the next in line, if you will, to have a product that could be approved by the FDA as a vaccine,? he said. It?s gratifying, Peoples said, to see his years of research make it this far and show such promise.

Possible help for other cancers

?If we prove the concept in this group of women, then that would spur on the research to find even better vaccines that are more affable to the wider range of breast cancer patients,? he said. ?And if we show this works in breast cancer, we could, in fact, test in other cancers. It holds a lot of promise. If this trial works out, not only would it work for breast cancer, but it could open the doorway for these other cancers, as well.?

Trombitas, who doesn?t know if she received the vaccine or is in the control group, said she is excited about the possibilities stemming from this vaccine.

?I think it is wonderful how things are changing, and there are all kinds of treatment for cancer,? she said. ?That?s how you move forward. You want to do everything you can to prevent it from coming back. I?m very excited about it, regardless of the outcome. I can?t wait to see what happens with this in the future.?

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Charitable donations in America rise as economy improves

Wealthy Americans have become much more charitable as the economic climate has improved, but providing has however to reach pre-recession levels, according to a new study. The yearly Philanthropy 50 list reveals that donors offered $10.4bn in 2011, up from $3.3bn the previous year ? the minimum level of providing since the Share of Philanthropy began publishing the report within 2000. The actual median of level of providing in 2011 was $61m, 54% higher than the median of $39.6m recorded the previous year, but almost 19% lower than 2007 median of $75m.

Agribusiness heiress Margaret The Cargill far and away topped the list of America?s the majority of generous contributors, with an believed $6bn donation towards the Anne Ray Charitable Trust and Margaret The Cargill Foundation, which she set up to support the disciplines, environment, catastrophe relief along with other causes. Even though Cargill passed away within 2006, the woman?s foundations only liquidated her assets last year. This is the first time she has made the list.

Ranked second was steel tycoon William S Dietrich 2, who remaining $500m to his eponymous educational basis, followed by Microsoft co-founder Paul G Allen, investor George Soros, and Nyc mayor Michael Bloomberg, who donated $372m, $335m and $311m respectively. Also brand new on the list is Google co-founder Sergey Michael Brin, and his wife, who offered $62m to the Michael J Sibel Foundation with regard to Parkinson?s Research. Brin and his mother have a gene mutation that?s commonly associated with Parkinson?s.

Bill gates and Warren Buffett were absent in the rankings, because was media mogul Ted Turner, as the the Philanthropy 50 doesn?t include payments based on pledges made in prior years. Gates donated regarding $68m last year towards a promise he and his wife made to their eponymous basis in 2004. Among other donations he earned last year, Buffett offered over 19m gives of Berkshire Hathaway inventory worth near to $1.5bn to the Gates Foundation, included in a promise he made towards the foundation within 2006, reviews the Share. Turner gave $50m towards the United Nations Basis and the Much better World Account in 2011 with the Turner Global Basis, towards the $1bn pledge he earned in 1997.

The list additionally does not report gifts from anonymous contributors, which the Share has previously reported totaled $546m in 2011. Aside from Margaret Cargill, only two other donors from the 50 were women: Barbara Dodd Anderson, that pledged about $35m to a Quaker boarding and day school in Newtown, Pennsylvania, and the past due Nina Ireland, the long-term donor towards the University of California, that bequeathed $48m from the woman?s estate towards the university. Other women were ranked, but in conjunction with their own husbands.

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Whitney Houston Dead At 48 (VIDEOS)

Whitney Houston Dead At 48 (VIDEOS)

Singer Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48. Her death was confirmed by her publicist, Kristen Foster. Whitney was found unresponsive in her [...]

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First public photos of Blue Ivy Carter go online (omg!)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? She's been a sensation since she's been born, and now Blue Ivy has made her public debut.

Five photos of the 1-month-old were posted by her parents ? Beyonce and Jay-Z ? on a page at the blogging service Tumblr.

The pictures at http://helloblueivycarter.tumblr.com include a close-up of the baby and two of each parent holding her.

A statement next to the photos reads, "We welcome you to share our joy." The couple also thanked the public for respecting their privacy.

Blue Ivy is the superstar couple's first child.

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How to Stop Getting Angry - Angry Management That Really Works

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Anger management treatments take various ways of this emotional stage. You can stop being angry with therapies like hypnotherapy and neuro-linguistic programming. Managing rage is not a remedy but you can find cures for anger, shame together with other negative feelings. You're the administration-the manager, for those who will-of your special mind. You have the capacity to overcome your own behavior

Anger Management Treatments

Problems emerge whenever your anger management treatments get it wrong. Consider the actual understanding of managing your emotions. If you manage anything, you keep it along. In a way, you are able to cultivate your rage since be its manager. A better approach should be to allow negative emotion go.

Aiming to dictate your angry feelings is certainly an difficult job once you are operating hard to do that over a conscious level. When you attempt to even be a manager of range, you try to foster it. This is counterproductive since you are invariably inside the position of maintaining control.

Normal Balance of Angry Feelings

It happens to be perfectly acceptable to feel angry every now and again. However, if this emotion becomes a mechanical reaction to relatively insignificant events, you need to develop treatment approaches that are good for yourself. Consider the inside upshots of this negative emotion.

Fury may be a powerful feeling that rooted with the fight-or flight response. This is closely regarding fear as being a device intended for survival. When this emotion spins out of control, you're feeling anxiousness, appetite changes, and tension within your muscles, restlessness, sweating, sleeplessness, memory impairment and quite a few other symptoms.

Other great tales therefore clear to understand that rage is an unhealthy emotion containing serious ramifications in your life. Anger management treatments try to make it easier to stop being angry however often not succeed. You require a tactic that shows you how to create a nutritious balance about this emotion. NLP and Hypnotherapy

Neuro-linguistic programming and hypnotherapy are viable options while in the treating angry emotions. These approaches show you how to cope with your emotional states head-on, enabling you to get get rid of the negative feelings in addition to symptoms which are coupled with them. And not just always keeping the angry feelings managed, currently employed through them, providing complete closure and relief.

The normal focus is upon your thought processes your behavioral follow-through. This focused approach is quite effective and takes relatively little time to take on. You can start experiencing anger differently while you adopt new thoughts.

You will need to remember this approach is useful in offering the results seek in behavioral follow-through. This focus is of the utmost important since the NPL approach is result-oriented. Instead of burying your angry feelings or working to manage them, you can simply permit them to go since you sort out them directly. It goes aside from anger management treatments.

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Maypearl, Texas Takes Steps to Make Flood Insurance Available to ...

(Source: FEMA) ? Maypearl, Texas is now a participating community in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and that means those living and working in the city can purchase flood insurance.

You don?t have to live or have a business in a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) to flood.? Anyone can be financially vulnerable to floods as residents and business owners outside of high-risk areas file over 20 percent of NFIP claims and receive one-third of disaster assistance for flooding.? The average annual U.S. flood losses in the past 10 years (2001-2010) were more than $2.7 billion.

By joining the NFIP on Jan. 3, 2012, the city of Maypearl can now offer its citizens a more cost-effective way to recover from a flooding event.

According to officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), preliminary flood maps were released for the community in January 2010.? City of Maypearl homeowners, renters and business owners who would like to view the new flood maps should contact their local floodplain administrator who is most likely located at the community?s City Hall or the local courthouse.? It is also recommended that those needing flood insurance contact their local insurance agent to obtain that coverage.

For more information on the National Flood Insurance Program, visit www.floodsmart.gov.

FEMA?s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

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Facebook?s Amended S-1 Exhibits Zynga Agreement Filed Last Year

Facebook has just filed an amendment to its S-1 that exhibits the agreements between it and Zynga. These 2 developer agreement documents are the same as those filed in Zynga's own S-1 amendment from last year and don't include significant new information. The exhibits do spell out how Facebook has promised to help Zynga with advertising on Zynga sites such as FarmVille.com, and share revenue from such a partnership. This should not be confused to mean sharing ad revenue from Zynga's games on Facebook.com. Facebook also included its 2005 stock plan, and?employment letters to key executives.

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Budget 2012: Will tax slab relief go up to Rs 3 lakh? | Firstpost

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House passes insider trading bill (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The House passed a bill banning Congress and executive branch officials from insider trading, but brushed aside a provision aimed at reining in those who pry financial information from Congress and sell it to investment firms.

Thursday's 417-2 vote likely sends the legislation to a House-Senate conference, where supporters of the tougher regulation will try to restore the proposal that was included in the version passed by the Senate. Voting against the bill were Reps. John Campbell, R-Calif. and Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Ga.

The language in dispute would require so-called political intelligence firms to register the same as lobbyists, and they would have to file public reports on their spending and contacts with federal officials. Portions of the financial industry lobbied for removal of the proposal.

"The Republican leadership couldn't stomach the pressure," said Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., who has been trying to get an insider trading bill passed for six years. She said the bill "let the political intelligence community off the hook."

Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., who wrote the House bill, countered that a study of this growing but little-known industry made more sense. He said inclusion of the new rules at this point would have "raised far more questions than they would have answered."

The Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act was a reaction to a segment on CBS' "60 Minutes" in November. The show said members of Congress were legally enriching themselves by using nonpublic information gleaned from their official duties to make money in the markets.

With Congress' approval ratings in the teens, the television show caused lawmakers to line up in support of Slaughter's insider trading bill, a piece of legislation that had lain dormant for years. Cantor then used the prerogative of the majority to write his own bill.

Congress decided that executive branch officials, who already have tougher ethics rules than lawmakers, needed to be included in the bill so there's a level ethical playing field for all federal policymakers. About 28,000 executive branch officials file public, annual financial disclosure forms ? the same as members of Congress and their top staff.

Under the STOCK Act, however, reports would have to be publicly filed online with much greater frequency. Financial transactions of those covered ? in Congress and the executive branch ? would have to be publicly posted online, either 30 days after notification of a transaction or 45 days after the transaction.

The bill also would prevent members of Congress from getting special access to IPO's, or initial public offerings of stock. That provision was aimed at House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., whose husband in 2008 purchased shares in a Visa IPO while a credit card reform bill was before the House. Pelosi denied there was any connection between the investment and the bill, but voted for the STOCK Act.

The House bill accepted Senate language that would require lawmakers to disclose all their mortgages, ending an exemption for loans on personal residences. And the House legislation vastly expands the list of felony convictions that would require lawmakers to be ineligible for their government pensions.

Supporters of Cantor's study of the political intelligence industry had warned that the bill could have violated the First Amendment rights of people who contacted members of Congress, but had nothing to do with trying to sell financial information to investment houses.

The harshest criticism came from a Republican, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, whose amendment to regulate these firms won by 60-39.

"It's astonishing and extremely disappointing that the House would fulfill Wall Street's wishes by killing this provision," Grassley said. "The Senate clearly voted to try to shed light on an industry that's behind the scenes."

"If the Senate language is too broad, as opponents say, why not propose a solution instead of scrapping the provision altogether," he said. "I hope to see a vehicle for meaningful transparency through a House-Senate conference or other means. If Congress delays action, the political intelligence industry will stay in the shadows, just the way Wall Street likes it."

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Bill Bush: Pasadena to Santa Barbara: This Artweek.LA (February 6, 2012)

Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951 - 1969 | Pasadena to Santa Barbara focuses on the legacy of two of Southern California's leading venues for contemporary art since the 1940s: the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) and the Pasadena Art Museum (PAM). Known from 1941 to 1953 as the Pasadena Art Institute, and since 1975 as the Norton Simon Museum, these two institutions pioneered what is now perceived as a common strategy -- exhibiting the work of contemporary artists in Southern California -- alongside the work of influential modern and contemporary artists from other parts of the United States and Europe.

At a time when very few museums were exhibiting works by living artists, this bold approach not only provided a solid foundation for the growth of contemporary art in the region, but also became an inspiration and model for a number of institutions that followed. The exhibition presents works by artists who were featured at one or both venues during these years, and who were instrumental in establishing a Southern California dialogue as well as dialect regarding contemporary art.

Pasadena to Santa Barbara opens February 11 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

John Reiff Williams: The Edge of Collapse | Williams' work presents us with photographic observations of humanity that covey a visceral emotional resonance to the viewer. Each photograph challenges our understanding of what the photographic medium is and what it is not. Focusing on social settings such as La Jolla Beach, Hollywood Boulevard, and Mexico City, Williams' work explores the shifting perspectives occurring in-between the frozen moments photography was created to capture. Through his unique use of digital exploration, mutations and interpretations, Williams reveals the motion, activity and chaos that we all experience in our ever-accelerating world.

John Reiff Williams: The Edge of Collapse runs through March 17 at Thomas Paul Fine Art

M?ximo Gonz?lez: Playful | This is the first major solo exhibition in Los Angeles for this Mexico City-based Argentinean artist. Though Gonz?lez is best known for creating art objects out of devalued currency from Mexico, this exhibition is a journey through a decade of Gonz?lez's playful investigations into contemporary politics, popular culture, and the reutilization of material. Witty, poetic and slightly subversive, Gonz?lez puts a fresh face on craft.

Consisting of installations, murals and weavings made from global currencies, videos, symbolic objects, and performance, Gonz?lez's work demonstrates a range of materials and messages. Infusing ordinary, everyday items with a handmade delicacy, Gonz?lez's work generates new and unexpected reflections on the relevance of utility and value. He turns the mundane into precious and beautiful objects that become symbols of the moment we are living in. By marrying traditional processes such as loom weaving and paper cutting with the politics of contemporary social history, Gonz?lez uses craft to generate new narratives out of historic events and collective memory.

M?ximo Gonz?lez: Playful runs through May 6 at the Craft And Folk Art Museum

Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings | This exhibition is the first retrospective of the artist's prolific print practice since the late 1980s and coincides with the forthcoming revised and updated catalogue raisonn? of Kelly's prints. Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings features more than 100 works on paper, in addition to a selection of paintings from local collections.

The exhibition is organized thematically by key motifs, demonstrating the artist's long-standing engagement with elemental form and pure color. "This exhibition allows us to see the consistency of Kelly's print practice, and how the formal hallmarks of his paintings and drawings have an important place in his graphic work," notes Stephanie Barron, senior curator of modern art and exhibition co-curator. Britt Salvesen, curator of prints and drawings and exhibition co-curator adds, "Whether created in series or individually, these prints offer an opportunity to explore Kelly's ongoing interest in pure form and color."

Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Paintings runs through April 22 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Jim McMillan | This is the first in-depth examination of the artwork of Jerry McMillan, an artist who, it has been said, "helped define the early contemporary art scene in southern California." This show provides a unique opportunity to see the different phases of McMillan's oeuvre, from the early 1960s to the present, including his groundbreaking photographic work, as well as his painting and drawing. McMillan's use of a variety of media throughout his career underscores his commitment to the view that "in making art, there is no allegiance to purity of medium, just to the purity of the idea."

Known primarily as a photographer, McMillan has consistently produced elegant and conceptually complex art that challenges the dominant ideologies of photography and reaches beyond the debates that have engaged its practitioners for over 170 years.

As he put it, "I don't think that photography is an art form in itself at all. It's just another tool that has unique characteristics which are no different from a paintbrush or a pencil." McMillan's work raises questions about the semantic and philosophical divide between the photography world and the art world: between artists who make art and photographers who take pictures. The profound conceptual difference between making and taking has informed McMillan's art for over 50 years.

Jim McMillan opens February 11 at CSUN Galleries (California State University, Northridge)

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Suu Kyi hits the campaign trail in Myanmar (AP)

PATHEIN, Myanmar ? Crowds of supporters greeted Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with thunderous applause as she embarked Tuesday on her first campaign trip since becoming an official candidate for April elections.

The 66-year-old Nobel Peace laureate traveled for the first time in two decades to the Irrawaddy Delta, Myanmar's rice bowl and the region most devastated by Cyclone Nargis in 2008.

Crowds lined the roads to shout support to Suu Kyi at every major town along her four-hour drive south from Yangon to Pathein, the regional capital. More than 10,000 people packed into a sports stadium under a sweltering sun to hear her speak.

One giant banner strung through the stands hailed Suu Kyi, the longtime political prisoner, as "Mother Democracy."

A later rally in an open field in the town of Myaungmya, 19 miles (32 kilometers) south of Pathein, drew a similar-sized crowd, and held special personal meaning for Suu Kyi.

"I am happy to be here because it is the hometown of my mother," she told the crowd. "There is some blood of Myaungmya in me."

Suu Kyi, who had been living abroad after graduating from Britain's Oxford University, became enmeshed in Myanmar's politics when she came home to care for her ailing mother, Khin Kyi, as mass pro-democracy protests were breaking out in 1988.

Suu Kyi's return to electoral politics is another test of the reforms of the new nominally civilian government that took power last year after decades of military control. Her latest trip came a day after the Election Commission formally accepted her candidacy for an April parliamentary by-election.

Suu Kyi last visited the Irrawaddy region during a campaign tour in 1989, when she faced down soldiers in the town of Danuphyu who had taken firing positions with their rifles aimed at her. It was one of several dramatic confrontations with the ruling military junta ahead of 1990 elections, which Suu Kyi's party won but the junta refused to recognize.

"I remember the last time I was here 20 years ago," Suu Kyi told the ecstatic crowd, where some fainted under the hot sun. "I see the same kind of support."

Outlining her party's objectives for entering Parliament, Suu Kyi said the National League for Democracy would seek to end ethnic conflicts and "try to achieve internal peace" and the rule of law. She called on supporters to ensure that April elections are free and fair.

"Please don't forget to vote for the NLD!" Suu Kyi told the crowd, which listened raptly as she spoke.

"Those who are standing in the front rows please sit down so other people can see," Suu Kyi said at one point. Suddenly, thousands of people sat down in unison.

The upcoming by-election is being held to fill 48 parliamentary seats vacated by lawmakers who were appointed to the Cabinet or other posts.

Suu Kyi is running for a seat representing Kawhmu, a poor district south of Yangon, the country's largest city, but has launched a national campaign to lobby support for other members of her party.

The new government's rapid reforms have surprised even some of the country's toughest critics. It has released hundreds of political prisoners, signed cease-fire deals with ethnic rebels, increased media freedoms and eased censorship laws.

Myanmar's government hopes the changes will prompt the lifting of economic sanctions imposed under the junta's rule. Western governments and the United Nations have said they will review the sanctions only after gauging whether the April polls are carried out freely and fairly.

On Monday, the U.S. eased one of its many sanctions as a reward for Myanmar's progress. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton signed a waiver that should make it easier for Myanmar to secure help from the World Bank and other international financial institutions by lifting U.S. opposition to them conducting assessments.

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Jersey is one of the most popular travel destinations, where people come from different parts of the world. It is such a nice place that anyone would love to stay here during holiday time. In fact, nowadays it has become so, popular as a tourist spot that at the time of holiday, it becomes difficult for a person to book hotels. This is why; as soon as you will plan to take a trip to Jersey, it is advisable to book hotel in advance. Or else, a little delay may trap you into serious accommodation problem.

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Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012: Propane in Searsport, early education ...

Liberty at stake in Frankfort

In reference to Mr. Orlando E. Delogu?s recent opinion piece about the Frankfort wind ordinance: This is not the first time we have seen this man?s biased, personal views backed up by reference to his position at the University of Maine. As a taxpayer and Maine resident, I am disgusted.

As for the Frankfort ordinance, Mr. Delogu?s opinions aside, there are really only two legal questions: First, does the ordinance comply with the constitutions and statutes of the United States and the state of Maine? And second, was it legally enacted at a proper town meeting? Nothing else really matters.

I have read the pending lawsuit, and it is full of personal accusations, and quite a lot of whining. It is obvious to any who read it that the suit is really just about bullying a small town into voting to rescind an ordinance that wealthy special interests don?t like.

The real question here is: Are the people of Maine going to stand up for their rights to self government at town meeting, or are they going to cave to wealthy special interests from away? Are the residents of Frankfort (and every other Maine town) in charge of their own destiny, or do they have to bow down to people from away, and to UMaine professors who seem more interested in protecting special interests than in what is right for the people of Maine?

The bet is liberty. Do we stand, or do we fold?

David P. Corrigan

Concord Township

Invest early

At the Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce we take the issue of education seriously. Our Building Bridges program brings employers and educators together so that teachers can better understand what will be expected of students in the real world.

That good work will be wasted, however, if our students are not ready to learn the skills they need to thrive in the 21st century. Key to that readiness is early childhood education, and that?s why I join with other business leaders in our state to support investment in our youngest children.

The research is clear. The first five years of life are critical to a child?s development, and this research is backed by strong empirical evidence showing that investments made in these early years pay big dividends later on.

According to an America?s Edge report, for every dollar spent on early education there is a total return to the local economy of $1.78. Conversely, for every dollar cut we lose a total of $1.78.

Lawmakers in Augusta and Washington are weighing many important and competing needs at a time when public resources are scarce. They face some difficult decisions.

But if they take the time to read the America?s Edge report, they?ll find that investing in early childhood education is an easy call.

John Porter

President and CEO

Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce

Tank offers economic hope

I am writing this letter to support the effort to put a propane facility in Searsport.

I have lived in Searsport all my life and my family goes back for generations. I have very strong ties to this community, its heritage, the ocean and our port. I have been a volunteer firefighter for 15 years. I know about the dangers that come with a town that has an opportunity and turns its back on it.

Right now, we have an opportunity to welcome DCP Midstream to the community. I attended a town hall meeting last week and watched as a few people from Searsport, most who had moved here to retire, and many people from outside of Searsport were negative about the project.

This is a sad time for our community. We have an opportunity to bring jobs and economic revenue and there is a chance we will turn our backs on it. On March 10 we will vote on a moratorium that will stop the project, kill the jobs and put opportunity aside.

Many of the retirees seem only to care about themselves and their interests. What about the citizens in North Searsport? We live here too, we all need less of a tax burden. This project offers us some hope. It will be in an area that already has tanks. We heard that it could hurt tourism ? very few if any people here are making a year-round living on tourism. I ask you to vote no on the moratorium.

A.J. Koch

Searsport

Our shared responsibility

Do we share a moral responsibility to help those with developmental disabilities? It was not that long ago that the dominant treatment to helping individuals was to institutionalize them. Helping those with development disabilities now involves new approaches personalized to meet each individual?s needs.

Today there are better ways to enable individuals with developmental disabilities to have more control of their lives and receive the treatment they deserve. People with developmental disabilities often face challenges they may not be able

to meet on their own. Organizations providing services must individualize the care they give. Some individuals require 24-hour supervision and care to ensure their safety and well-being, while others need various supportive services.

The treatments provided by organizations dedicated to assisting people with developmental disabilities are by no means extravagant. It is basic, pragmatic, cost-efficient and transparent, specifically tailored to the needs of each individual. The tremendous support for Special Olympics shows how our society has changed.

Nevertheless, for the eighth time in the last nine years, proposed state budget cuts are again targeting these crucial services. We need to re-evaluate this trend. People with developmental disabilities in our communities should not be a continued target of budgetary reductions. Caring services for those with developmental disabilities is our shared responsibility.

Anthony Zambrano

Executive Director

Downeast Horizons

Choose all schools

BDN columnist and Republican strategist Matthew Gagnon doesn?t like the prospect of his kid going to the elementary school with the ?crumbling building? while the kids on the other side of the road get to go to the school with the ?much newer building? and ?better technology.?

His solution? School choice. Let the families decide. (I wonder which families will choose the crumbling building? Not his, that?s for sure.)

My solution? Fix up the crumbling building so that none of our kids have to go to a crumbling school. How to pay for it? Tax dollars. But oh, that?s not the Republican way. (See the BDN?s Page 1 article, ?Creating Jobs: What can a governor do??: ?LePage ? went on to pitch a tax cut to go on top of another tax cut that already passed last year.?) So it looks like ?school choice? will be this year?s Republican ?big idea? of how to more fully divide our society between winners and losers.

Sol Goldman

Bangor

Source: http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/06/opinion/letters/tuesday-feb-7-2012-propane-in-searsport-early-education/

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