Striking SAfrican miners remain defiant

MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) ? Striking miners remained defiant Monday, four days after police shot to death 34 of their compatriots, with at least half the strikers staying off the job and dozens of others singing in a paddy wagon on their way to court.

The Lonmin PLC platinum mine extended its ultimatum by a day, saying strikers have until Tuesday to return to work or get fired. The mine said it resumed operations Monday with 30 percent of its workforce.

Women searched for loved ones missing since Thursday's shootings, with many gathered outside a courthouse in hopes their husbands, brothers and sons are alive and among 259 miners awaiting trial. The court decided Monday to continue the hearing Aug. 27, with the miners remaining in custody.

Nombulelo Jali wept hysterically in front of the court and said she could not find her 40-year-old husband Themba Khalo Jali. She said he had been arrested on Thursday.

"We have frantically searched everywhere and we can't locate him. Police took him," 37-year-old Jali said through tears to a reporter from the South African Press Association.

A chorus of wails erupted as trucks carrying the arrested miners arrived, with some women praying and others crying loudly. The mineworkers were singing in the police trucks.

Police instructed the protesters to leave the court building and they assembled in the street outside, singing and dancing in front of police officers holding shields to barricade the court entrance.

Mark Munroe, executive vice president of Lonmin, said 30 percent of the 28,000 workforce reported for duty at the mine Monday, including fewer than half of the 3,000 rock drill operators, called RDOs, who were striking for higher wages amid a dispute pitting the country's oldest and biggest trade union against a startup.

A horde of politicians including 10 Cabinet ministers descended on the Marikana mine about 70 kilometers (40 miles) northwest of Johannesburg on Monday. The ministers came to help bereaved families make burial arrangements and get counseling. A group of opposition politicians from several parties made the trip to investigate the scene of the killings that the South African Civil Society called "the horror of South Africa's first post-apartheid massacre."

President Jacob Zuma announced a week of national mourning starting Monday and urged the country to "reflect on the sanctity of human life" and "unite against violence from whatever quarter." Ten people, including police officers and mine workers, had died in violence at the mines in the days before the shootings.

He has instigated a judicial commission of inquiry into what happened on Thursday, when police say they acted in self-defense to fire a barrage of live bullets at a group of charging miners including one armed with a pistol and others with homemade spears and clubs.

National Police chief Riah Phiyega drew fire from opposition politicians for the defense of her officers, whom she absolved of all guilt in the shootings at a funeral Sunday for one of two police officers hacked to death by the strikers.

"It was the right thing to do," Phiyega said, though "We are sorry that lives were lost."

Lonmin said in a statement Monday: "Lonmin can confirm that work at its Marikana operations resumed today as significant numbers of employees returned to work." The company's shares have taken a hard hit since the strikes that started more than 10 days ago.

Lonmin had warned Sunday that Monday's "final ultimatum provides RDOs with a last opportunity to return to work or face possible dismissal."

However, the company issued a statement on Monday announcing "those illegal strikers who did not return to work this morning will not be dismissed and have been allowed an extra day in light of current circumstances."

Last year, Lonmin fired all 9,000 workers when a similar dispute over union representation stopped work at its nearby Karee mine, then asked them all to reapply and rehired all but a few considered responsible for the strike.

The Black Management Forum, a leadership organization promoting South African economic progress, issued a statement on Monday calling for an inquiry into the "issue of exploitative wages versus executive pay."

The organization said the investigation should include, among others, an inquiry into shareholders' attitudes toward mine safety.

A civil society organization, the Hola Bon Renaissance Foundation, warned on Monday that mining companies failing to settle issues internally could strengthen calls for the nationalization of natural resources.

Lonmin has lost 18.5 percent of its share value since the strike began Aug. 10. Since violence broke out shares have fallen by as much as 20 percent, at one time wiping some 390 million pounds ($610 million) off the company's market value.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/striking-safrican-miners-remain-defiant-163118049--finance.html

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President of Seychelles to visit SL tomorrow

James Alix Michel, the President of the Republic of Seychelles will visit Sri Lanka from 20th to 23rd August, the Government Information Department stated.

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Seychelles is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar received independence from the United Kingdom in 1976.

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Seychelles a 451 square km land area has the population of 84,000 with the per capita income of US D 11,170

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During his three day visit the Seychelles President will have bilateral talks with President , Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa and several other key leaders of the government. He is expected to deliver a lecture on ?The role of the small island Nations in the Global Tapestry? at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations.

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Cinnamon, vanilla, and copra were the chief exports of that country in the early stages. In the 1960s, about 33% of the working population worked at plantations, and 20% worked in the public or government sector. In 1971, with the opening of Seychelles International Airport, tourism became a serious industry, basically dividing the economy into plantations and tourism. The tourism sector paid better, and the plantation economy could only expand so far. The plantation sector of the economy declined in prominence, and tourism became the primary industry of Seychelles with its beaches.

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Sudden Death in Athletes

News media occasionally present us with tragic cases of famous young athletes dying suddenly during sports activity. Theses cases commonly provoke discussions on how to prevent such dreadful incidents. Then, in a few days, everybody seems to have forgotten about it, until next time?

Sudden death in young athletes, associated with athletic activity, is a rare but well-known disorder. Most of these cases do not receive any media coverage. However, family and friends are left in deep shock. Many questions are left unanswered. How could this happen? Did we miss any warning signs? Could we have done something to prevent this from happening?

The majority of sudden cardiac death incidents in athletes are caused by disturbances in heart rhythm (ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation), leading to loss of blood circulation. Immediate treatment is aimed at restoring normal heart rhythm, usually by electric shocks given by so-called defibrillators.

The most common cause of disturbances in heart rhythm leading to sudden death in young athletes is underlying heart disease. Often, the disease is not diagnosed until after the event. As a result, there is great interest in detecting such disorders early, in order to be able to define appropriate treatment and activity restrictions for the individual.

The most common underlying cause of sudden death in young athletes is so-called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This is a disorder which sometimes runs in families. However, in many cases there is no family history at all. In this disease, the muscle of the left ventricle of the heart becomes abnormally thick. Young people with this disorder commonly have no symptoms at all. There are a number of other underlying heart diseases that may lead to sudden death. Most of them are rare. Some may be temporary, such as viral infections of the heart muscle. Some may be congenital.

The only way to prevent sudden cardiac death in young athletes is to find the underlying heart disease before it leads to collapse and sudden death. This is a huge challenge, because some of these diseases are difficult to detect. The responsibility is within the medical community and among sports regulatory authorities. An important questions is whether regular screening of young athletes, by health professionals, can reduce the risk of sudden death.

There are two important questions we have to ask about screening for heart disease in young athletes. The first one involves how screening should be performed and what methods should be used. The second addresses what restrictions should be placed on athletes who turn out to have heart disease.

There are some data available on the impact of screening programs on the incidence of sudden deaths among athletes. A mandatory screening program for competitive athletes was launched in Italy in 1982. The annual incidence of sudden cardiac death in athletes decreased from 3.6/100.000 person ? years in 1979 ? 1980 to 0.4/100.000 person ? years in 2003 ? 2004. This implies an 89 percent reduction in 25 years. During the same period there was no change in the incidence of sudden cardiac death among non-athletes in the same age group.

Both the American Heart Association (AHA) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) have proposed guidelines for the screening of young athletes participating in competitive sports. The main difference between these guidelines is that the AHA relies on history and physical examination without further routine testing, while the ESC includes an ECG (electrocardiogram). Inclusion of an ECG is in accordance with the Italian experience. Individuals with abnormal findings in screening are referred for further testing. Such testing may involve echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart), ambulatory heart rhythm monitoring, exercise ? ECG or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Although an ECG can sometimes be helpful in detecting heart disease it is commonly abnormal among healthy young athletes. This is one of the reasons why the AHA does not include an ECG in their guidelines. Furthermore, some heart diseases me not be detected by history, physical examination and ECG. Therefore some specialists have suggested that an an echocardiography should be included. This may sometimes be the only way to detect disorders like for example hypertrophic cardiomypathy.

In 2008 the UEFA (The Union of European Football Associations) put forward new rules concerning medical examination of players participating in European competition. Apart from history, physical examination and blood tests an ECG and an echocardiography should be performed.

In my opinion the inclusion of echocardiography, although not included in AHA and ESC guideline, would be an important step forward in athletes participating in high intensity competitive sports. My opinion is that echocardiography should be performed at regular intervals of 1-2 years in such athletes. This is a relatively simple and inexpensive procedure that gives a lot of information about the heart chambers, the heart muscle and the heart valves.

The second question is what restrictions should be placed upon athletes who on screening turn out to have signs of heart disease. The devastating impact of sudden death incidents justifies restriction of athletes from athletic competition if they have heart disease. The question is who should make the decision. In my opinion, informing the athlete about the increased risk and let himself decide whether to continue participating in competitive sports is hard to justify. However, it can be very hard for an athlete to accept being banned from competitive sports due to signs of heart disease. Although there may be increased risk for sudden death for that particular athlete, the absolute risk may indeed be very low. These are all difficult questions that have to be addressed. Although the answers may be difficult to deal with, these issues can not be left unsolved.

Axel F Sigurdsson is a cardiologist, PhD and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, The Icelandic Society of Cardiology and The Swedish Society of Cardiology.

He runs his own website, http://www.docsopinion.com, dedicated to health, nutrition, healthy lifestyle and prevention of disease.

Source: http://toddsblogs.com/healthandfitness/2012/08/17/sudden-death-in-athletes/

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Obama slams Romney on taxes

President Barack Obama hounded Mitt Romney on Saturday, saying his wealthy rival would pay only one percent in taxes on his vast wealth under a plan authored by his running mate Paul Ryan.

Obama escalated his effort to use the pick of the conservative Republican congressman last week to drive votes away from Romney in swing states, including New Hampshire, where he was campaigning Saturday.

"The centerpiece of my opponent's entire economic plan is a new five-trillion-dollar tax cut, a lot of it going to the wealthiest Americans," Obama said.

"His new running mate, Congressman Ryan, he put forward a plan that would let governor Romney pay less than one percent in taxes each year, and here's the kicker -- he expects you to pick up the tab."

The president is demanding that Romney, a former venture capitalist, release more than the two years of personal tax returns he has already promised, and paints his rival as the epitome of a society tilted toward the rich.

On Thursday, Romney insisted that he had always paid at least 13 percent in taxes, but that figure could still be politically damaging as it is much lower than the rate paid by most middle class Americans.

Romney, estimated to be worth around $250 million, has his income taxed as investment earnings, rather than as an annual salary, hence the lower rate, complicating his campaign to deny Obama a second term on November 6.

In his budget proposal, Ryan would eliminate double taxation on interest, capital gains or dividends, reasoning that greater savings would lead to higher productivity and more investment.

Romney has however said he would keep taxes on capital gains, interests and dividends at the current rate, but eliminate them entirely for those earning less than $200,000 a year.

Obama cited a study by the bipartisan Tax Policy Center that said that Romney's policies would result in middle class families paying an extra $2,000 a year, while the wealthiest Americans would get a big tax cut.

But the Romney campaign said that after the release of new figures showing a rise in the unemployment rates in 44 states, it was not surprising the president was launching another attack.

"The fact is President Obama wants to raise taxes on private investment and job creators, which will lead to higher unemployment and fewer jobs," said Romney campaign spokesman Ryan Williams.

"The Romney-Ryan plan eliminates taxes for the middle class on interest, dividends and capital gains and implements pro-growth policies to deliver more jobs and more take-home pay for middle-class families."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-slams-romney-taxes-195823418.html

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