Disabled Veterans National Foundation Praises Effort to Give Homeless Veterans Unclaimed Clothing Left at Airports

Congressional bill calls upon the Transportation Security Administration to work with the Department of Veterans Affairs and local charities to distribute unclaimed clothing for homeless veterans.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) January 08, 2013

The Disabled Veterans National Foundation(http://www.dvnf.org ), a non-profit veterans service organization that focuses on helping men and women who serve and return home wounded or sick after defending our safety and our freedom, supports and praises the recent passage of a bipartisan Congressional bill that calls upon the Transportation Security Administration to work with the Department of Veterans Affairs and local charities to distribute unclaimed clothing for homeless veterans. These clothing items- pieces that number in the thousands- are typically left at security checkpoints.

?The Clothe a Homeless Hero Act is a great way to make good use out of clothing that people simply leave by mistake when they pass through the busy airport security checkpoints,? said Precilla Wilkewitz, President of DVNF. ?This bill will do so much good for veterans who find themselves homeless or in need by getting more of them clothing that they otherwise would not receive. It is efforts like this that will help all of us achieve the goal of driving down the number of our heroes who become homeless after they serve our country.?

According to the VA, about 76,000 veterans are homeless on any given night, and about 20,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been homeless within the last five years. The bill passed the House recently after passing the Senate and awaits a signature from President Obama.

Passage of this bill coincides with DVNF?s recently launched educational video that depicts the facts surrounding the American crisis of homeless and struggling veterans. ?On Any Given Night? is now live at DVNF.org here.

The video highlights Homeless Veterans statistics that show on any given night in America, too many Veterans may be homeless, in need of warm clothing and hungry on our streets. DVNF leaders hope that the more people who view ?On any Given Night? on the website, the more public awareness and action will result. The facts behind homeless Veterans show that Government programs are not enough to help Veterans and their families who are struggling to survive. For more, go to http://www.dvnf.org .

Doug Walker
Disabled Veterans National Foundation
202-737-0522
Email Information

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Griffin MicConnect lets your XLR microphone make sweet music on your iPhone or iPad

Let's say you have an amazing XLR mic on your big, beefy studio or home recording rig, but you also have an iPad or iPhone and you really want to get that same XLR quality on your way more mobile recording rig, what do you do? Griffin's answer, shown off at CES 2013, is the XLR MicConnect.

The MicConnect supplies phantom power, thanks to AA batteries, and connects via the 3.5mm headphone jack on your iPad or iPad.

I really like the idea of these kinds of accessories, and being able to get the quality on the go that I'm used to at home. If you use an XLR mic, let me know if you're also interested in trying this out.

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Tips on Ovarian Cancer Prevention Part I | Cervical dysplasia ...

January 7, 2013 Cervical dysplasia researcher Cervical Cancer

You may be wondering about ways to prevent ovarian cancer. There are several, some of which you can do yourself, and other which will require a doctor and surgery in some cases. Bear in mind, the ovarian cancer prevention tips listed here are no guarantee that the disease will not develop.

First, we?ll cover what you yourself can do to prevent ovarian cancer from becoming a reality.

The first thing you may want to do is use birth control pills. In addition to helping stop unwanted pregnancy, it has been seen that they can reduce your risk of developing ovarian cancer by 40 to 50%. The risks are particularly decreased after 5 years of usage. In fact, the longer you use oral contraceptives, the less your risk.

Another option you have is to modify your diet and exercise routine. Researchers recommend that women eat a low-fat, high-fiber diet, as well as reduce meat and alcohol consumption. Studies have shown that going this route for at least 4 years can significantly reduce the risk of developing ovarian cancer.

In addition, women are encouraged to exercise three times weekly to maintain a body fat percentage that is within the accepted range. Adults who are 18 years of age or older are considered at risk if the body mass index, or BMI, is greater than 25.

Although physicians do not advocate making decisions about child-bearing solely for the purpose of reducing ovarian cancer risk, some pregnancy-related statistics are worth noting.

Ovarian cancer risk is 30% to 60% lower among women who have been pregnant versus those who have not. In addition, ovarian cancer risk is lower if the first child is born before a woman reaches 30 years of age, and risk continues to decrease with each successive pregnancy.

Breast feeding (which begins when estrogen and progesterone levels drop after childbirth and ovulation is suppressed) also appears to offer protection against ovarian cancer.

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McChrystal calls for enduring Afghan force

NEW YORK (AP) ? Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal said Monday he backs the White House's drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan slated for 2014, but added that the U.S. owes Afghans some sort of enduring security presence to support them.

"We have an emotional responsibility," McChrystal said of Afghanistan in an interview with The Associated Press. He commanded forces there before resigning over a controversial magazine article.

"We created expectations after 2001 in people" that the U.S. would be there to keep the country from sliding back into the chaos of the Taliban years, McChrystal said.

His comments come ahead of a visit by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to the White House, as the two nations try to craft a long-term plan for Afghanistan that will include a U.S. military presence whose size and scope have not yet been decided. The Afghan war commander, Gen. John Allen, has offered White House planners a range of troop numbers to choose from, from 6,000 troops, who would be devoted mostly to hunting al-Qaida, to more than 15,000, enough to continue much of the U.S. training mission and also back Afghan troops in the field with intelligence and logistical support.

McChrystal said Afghans don't want an occupying army, but they fear the U.S. will withdraw completely.

"Like a teenager, you really don't want your parents hanging around you, but...you like to know if things go bad, they're going to help," he said. McChrystal added that the Afghans are not children, but they need to know they can trust America.

The general gave interviews upon the release of his memoir, "My Share of the Task," published by Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Group USA. The book outlines his time from commanding the top military counterterrorism unit, the Joint Special Operations Command, to the contentious process of crafting the Afghan war strategy, and ends with his abrupt resignation over an article in The Rolling Stone.

McChrystal took full responsibility for the piece, by embedded reporter Michael Hastings, which anonymously quoted members of McChrystal's staff disparaging the White House over war policy. He would not confirm whether the article's quotes were accurate, saying only that he "cheerfully" offered President Barack Obama his resignation, as the article had created a perception of a rift that would hurt the war mission.

But his eyes watered at the memory of telling his wife, Annie, that his 34-year Army career was at an end.

"Annie said, Good. We've always been happy, we'll always be happy, and we have been, every day since," he said. McChrystal now teaches at Yale University, and runs his own consulting group.

First lady Michelle Obama later asked McChrystal to work on Joining Forces, the White House initiative for military troops and their families. He said he'd spoken to the president at several Joining Forces event, but had never again discussed the resignation with him.

Part of the friction between McChrystal's staff and the White House was over McChrystal's request for an extra 40,000 troops, which Obama chose over a proposal by Vice President Joe Biden to limit the mission to a small number of counterterrorism forces and trainers.

The retired general insisted the strategy known as counterinsurgency worked, saying the Afghans are much better able to stand on their own.

"If you had tried to bring big American forces in and do search and destroy, or do just raids, it would have been pointless. The Afghan people needed to buy into this," he said. "They needed to believe we were there to protect them...and we weren't just using Afghanistan as a place to fight our enemies."

He called the looming drawdown of U.S. forces "inevitable," and said that while Afghan troops still needed to "mature rapidly," being forced to work on their own would help.

"You are never ready to do something by yourself until you actually do it, and then you are surprised you can," he said.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/mcchrystal-calls-enduring-afghan-force-185839504.html

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Hands-on with Snappgrip, a case that turns your phone into a point-and-shoot

We normally don't bother to write about iPhone cases here at Engadget, but this one seemed pretty neat. Snappgrip is a case that turns your iPhone into a point-and-shoot camera -- partly for kitsch's sake, but mostly to make one-handed shots easier to pull off. The design is simple: it's just a plastic shell with a shutter button, a dial for controlling shutter speed and a hand grip -- the sort you'd normally find on a compact camera.

To use it, you'll need to download the free iPhone or Android app. Interestingly, though, the company is releasing its SDK to developers, so in theory you'll one day be able to use this case with other camera apps. Another quid pro quo: the case only fits the iPhone 4, iPhone 5 and Galaxy S III for now, though the company is considering ways to make the case universally compatible. Snappgrip is priced at $99, but it's not shipping just yet (the Kickstarter campaign, linked below, is still going strong). For now, we've got a quickie hands-on video waiting just past the break.

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No, Samsung, We Don't Need a Goddamn Fridge With a Screen, Baby Monitor and Evernote

Samsung has presented a new awesome fridge, with a Ultra HD 4K LCD screen, a built-in Evernote app, and a baby monitor. All of those features are stupid, but only one of them isn't real. More »

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Samsung on track to become top home appliances maker

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co said it is on course to achieve its goal of becoming the world's top home appliances maker by 2015, with sales growing an estimated 50 percent by then.

Samsung Electronics, which makes more chips, flat-screens, handsets and TVs than any of its competitors - including the world's best-selling smartphone - is aiming to boost its home appliance segment and narrow the gap with companies including Whirlpool Corp and Electrolux AB.

"I'm confident of Samsung becoming the world's top appliances maker by 2015 with $18 billion sales, as we set up a very well structured framework for key products and moving step by step to the goal, first starting with fridges," Yoon Boo-keun, president of the division, told Reuters in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday.

Analysts estimate Samsung Electronics earned around 13 trillion won ($12 billion) last year from home appliances, part of the firm's consumer electronics arm.

Samsung Electronics would ditch unprofitable product lines and boost research into consumer tastes across different markets, Yoon said.

"It's a business that can ensure steady cash flow with little earnings fluctuation, once you have a proper system in place," Yoon said. "It's not dull at all and has great potential to become Samsung's next earnings driver."

MR TV AIMS FOR GROWTH

Yoon, who was head of Samsung's TV business until 2011, was put in charge of the thin-margin home appliance division a year ago with a mission to match the TV outfit's success.

Known as Mr. TV, he had a pivotal role in ending Japan's more than three decades of leadership in the global TV industry in 2006.

"We see lots of opportunities in the appliances segment but we didn't strongly grow the business - simply, it didn't get proper treatment," Yoon said after unveiling a new four-door Internet-connected fridge at the electronics show.

His remarks come only hours after Samsung Electronics said it likely earned a record quarterly operating profit of $8.3 billion, aided by roaring sales of smartphones.

Samsung's CE division is estimated to have earned around 13 trillion won ($12.22 billion) of revenue in the fourth quarter, or roughly a quarter of its total revenue.

TV sales generally account for around 70 percent of CE performance, and the rest comes from selling appliances such as fridges, ovens and laundry, according to analysts. Samsung does not provide breakdowns.

It's been a low-margin business compared with smartphones, which generate around 25 percent of margin, and the division's operating profit contribution is estimated at around 4 percent.

Yoon also said Samsung, the world's top maker of TVs, was aiming to sell 55 million flat-screen TVs this year, up from 51 million last year, even as the industry is set to remain stagnant due to the weak global economy.

Betting large TVs with over 65-inch screen sizes will lead the growth, Samsung Electronics unveiled three models of ultra high-definition (HD) TVs that boast four times better picture quality than full HD models.

ACQUISITIONS IN MEDICAL SECTOR

Yoon also heads Samsung's corporate design centre and oversees the medical equipment business, which was added to the consumer electronics division this year.

Samsung Electronics acquired a controlling stake in Korean ultrasound equipment firm Medison in 2010 and its affiliate later for around $300 million in total, its biggest ever acquisition in the healthcare industry.

Yoon expected sales from its medical devices would reach $500 million this year, up from $300 million last year, and will grow with the acquisition of companies that make MRI scanners and computed tomography machines.

Samsung Electronics has said it plans to spend 1.2 trillion won in the medical equipment business by 2020 to make it a $10 billion operation by then.

In the long run, Samsung Electronics aims to become a global healthcare leader, taking on GE, Philips, Hitachi, Toshiba and Siemens. ($1 = 1064.0000 Korean won)

(Reporting by Miyoung Kim; Editing by Stephen Coates and Ryan Woo)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/samsung-track-become-top-home-appliances-maker-043604344--finance.html

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