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The Rev. John Foulkrod of Palmetto Presbyterian Church, left, will be the facilitator for "Surviving the Holidays," a seminar about how to cope with the holiday season after losing a loved one. The event is scheduled 10 a.m. to noon today at the church, 1115 10th Ave. W., Palmetto. The church has made grief support one of its missions. At right is church secretary Karen Cooper, who is taking a different grief course at the church called "Your Journey From Mourning to Joy." PHOTO PROVIDED
PALMETTO -- A popular Christmas song tells us there's no place like home for the holidays.
But what happens to that home and the holiday when a loved one dies? Often the sense of home is gone, taking the joy of the holiday with it.
Getting through the holidays and maybe even finding a ray of joy after a loss is what a free, one-day program called "Surviving the Holidays" is all about.
A grief and recovery seminar, "Surviving the Holidays" is being offered by Palmetto Presbyterian Church, 1115 10th Ave. W., from 10 a.m. to noon today.
"We are inviting anyone in the public who has lost a loved one and is dreading the holiday to come and share with others who are going through the same thing," said the event's facilitator, the Rev. John Foulkrod.
Foulkrod is not only an experienced counselor who has ministered to people since 1976, but the 64-year-old is also a fellow in grief.
Foulkrod's father-in-law, John
Hess, died in June at age 93. Since Foulkrod's own father died 34 years ago, Hess has been his father figure for many years and his absence will be keenly felt this Christmas, Foulkrod said.
"I think of his wonderful singing voice, especially with Christmas carols," Foulkrod said of Hess. "Christmas Day was my in-laws' wedding anniversary. This year would have been their 69th. He always looked to somehow embrace love in a situation. We had lots of times of laughter. He, too, was a minister."
Soon after people arrive at today's seminar, they will see a video produced by Grief Share, a nonprofit group. In the video, people who have lost loved ones like Foulkrod share what they have gone through and what got them through.
"This is the most difficult time during the year for people who have lost loved ones," Foulkrod said. "But we can remember that we wouldn't feel pain during the holidays if there weren't people we have loved. Sometimes realizing that can also lead us into some feelings of tremendous gratitude."
Other helpful hints for coping with holiday blues that emerge from the video are to remember the good times, don't deny what happened but keep it from being all consuming, realize that some pain is part of the healing process and don't fear it, talk to others, and don't feel guilty to laugh again, Foulkrod said.
"The video will teach that talking about things is almost always helpful and withdrawing and isolating is almost always not helpful," Foulkrod said.
After the video, there will be an opportunity for discussion, but it is not required, Foulkrod said.
"This is our first year doing this," the pastor said. "Our intention at the church is to reach out to people who are grieving. In late January or early February, we will also offer a weekly grief support group."
Foulkrod will tell the group that it is OK to enjoy the holiday, although many feel guilt. It is OK to begin to rebuild the four cold walls that home has become back into a home, he said. It is OK to do all this while still feeling pain.
"I think part of what you do to recreate the home is to change things," said Karen Cooper, who is not only the church secretary but who has been taking grief courses over the last 13 weeks in another program offered by the church called "Your Journey From Mourning to Joy."
"You have to create new traditions, new ideas and kind of get through a year or two," Cooper added.
Twenty years ago, Cooper's husband died unexpectedly.
She survived with "good friends who wrapped their arms around us," but one of the things she and her friends did was to travel at Christmas.
"The main thing is not sitting home," Cooper said. "Reach out. Call friends. Go to church. Anything to keep you from being isolated."
Source: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/12/08/4308698/palmetto-church-offers-support.html
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William J. Hornbuckle IV, who is leading the Las Vegas-based company?s effort for a casino in Springfield, was promoted to president and chief marketing officer of MGM Resorts International this week.
This is effectively the No. 2 position in the global casino company, which has about $9 billion in annual revenues. He will report to chairman and CEO James J. Murren.
Hornbuckle said on Friday that he will remain as president of MGM Springfield with a goal of winning the casino license for Western Massachusetts. Another company executive would operate a Springfield casino if MGM is awarded the license, he said.
Hornbuckle is a veteran of the casino industry. From 2005 until August 2009, Hornbuckle was president and chief operating officer of Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. He had previously been president and chief operating officer of MGM MIRAGE-Europe and of MGM Grand Hotel & Casino.
Prior to MGM Grand, he was president and chief operating officer for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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by Bill McBride on 12/06/2012 10:15:00 AM
The Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007 is set to expire at the end of 2012 and this could have a significant impact on short sales. Usually cancelled debt is considered income, but a provision of the Debt Relief Act allowed borrowers "to exclude certain cancelled debt on [a] principal residence from income. Debt reduced through mortgage restructuring, as well as mortgage debt forgiven in connection with a foreclosure, qualifies for the relief." (excerpt from IRS).
If this act isn't extended, short sales could decline sharply. From Paul Reid, a Redfin real estate agent, writes:
"In an area like Orange County, where I work, the REO inventory is [minuscule]. As of this morning, there are 104 ?Active? REOs on the MLS in the entire county. In comparison, there is a total ?Active? inventory of 3,504 homes and condos. The short sale ?Active? inventory is 335. Where the numbers really stick out is in the ?Pending? sales category. As of right now, there are 6,059 homes in Orange County in escrow. Of those, only 267 homes are REOs. More than half, 3,216 homes, are short sales. The remainder are standard sales. If you remove the relief act from the equation you would likely see a significant drop in the number of short sales, but because of how slow the REO process is, you wouldn?t likely see a proportionate increase in the number of REO listings."Right now there are?a large number of pending short sales in many distressed areas. They all will not close before the end of the year.
There is a bipartisan push to have Congress extend the mortgage debt relief act. Here is a recent letter from several state attorneys general urging Congress to act.
As signatories to the National Mortgage Settlement, we the undersigned state attorneys general write to urge you to pass legislation extending tax relief for citizens who have mortgage debt canceled or forgiven because of financial hardship or a decline in housing values. Such legislation is currently included in Section 112 of the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012 (S. 3521), which was recently passed out of the Senate Finance Committee with bipartisan support. We strongly urge Congress to extend this critical tax exclusion, which expires on December 31, 2012, so that distressed homeowners are not stuck with an unexpected tax bill or deterred from participating in this historic settlement.I expect this act to be extended, but you never know.
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Under the federal Mortgage Debt Relief Act, in effect since 2007, mortgage debt that is forgiven after a foreclosure or short sale or through a loan modification provided to a homeowner in financial hardship may be excluded from a taxpayer?s calculation of taxable income. This exclusion only applies to mortgage debt forgiven on primary residences, not second homes. Unfortunately, this tax exclusion expires on December 31, 2012. Therefore, unless Congress acts, all of the remaining debt relief to be provided in 2013 under the National Mortgage Settlement, as well as other mortgage debt relief programs, will likely be considered taxable income. According to the Congressional Budget Office, failure to extend this tax exclusion will result in $1.3 billion in tax increases on the very families who can least afford it.
Source: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/12/update-mortgage-debt-relief-act.html
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DUBLIN (AP) ? Northern Ireland leaders appealed for calm Thursday after Protestant militants attacked offices and a home connected to the most compromise-minded political party over its support for reducing the display of British flags on government buildings.
The overnight violence in two Belfast suburbs came on the eve of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's planned visit Friday to the capital of the British territory. It underscored how divided Northern Ireland remains despite the broad success of a peace process that has stopped paramilitary violence but done little to bring down barriers between rival British Protestant and Irish Catholic communities.
"I'm looking forward to my visit to Belfast tomorrow to see for myself what the situation is," Clinton said at a Dublin press conference alongside Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
Protestant hard-liners have responded violently to a vote Monday in the Belfast City Council to reduce sharply the flying of the British flag atop the city hall. The Alliance Party, which represents middle-ground opinion and seeks support from both sides of the community, holds the balance of power on the council. Alliance voted with the Catholic side to take down the flag except for 18 official days annually; the Protestants had wanted it to stay up 365 days a year.
Several hundred Protestant protesters broke through the city hall's gates Monday night and injured 15 policemen defending the building. Associated Press photographer Peter Morrison suffered serious head and hand wounds during the melee, during which he says police beat him with clubs.
On Wednesday night more than 1,500 Protestants rallied in the northern suburb of Carrickfergus demanding that the British flag be restored atop Belfast's municipal headquarters. The protest soon descended into attacks on riot police. Four officers were injured and responded with volleys of British-style plastic bullets, flat-nosed cylinders designed to knock down rioters with punishing blows. They also arrested four suspected rioters.
Some in the crowd set fire to the nearby Carrickfergus office of Alliance, destroying it. And to the east of Belfast, more vandals poured petrol on the locked front of another Alliance office in Bangor, but police said a passing police patrol spotted the attackers and forced them to flee before they could light a fire.
Also in Bangor, a couple who are both Alliance politicians had their home's front window vandalized just after midnight Thursday, and said they now were afraid to stay in their home with their 17-month-old daughter.
"Our daughter could have potentially lost her life. Is a flag worth this, seriously?" Michael Bower told the BBC sitting on his living room sofa, with his wife Christine beside him and their child on his lap.
Christine Bower appealed directly to the attackers: "You may not agree with us, but please don't attack us."
Leaders of Northern Ireland's joint Catholic-Protestant government, the central achievement of a two-decade peace process, appealed for the protests against Alliance to stop. Alliance is the smallest of five parties in the governing coalition.
The Northern Ireland police commander, Chief Constable Matt Baggott, said the province risked a surge in street violence if extremists within the Protestant community continued to mount illegal rallies in town centers.
"To use mob rule and violence as a way of asserting people's will is compromising the rule of law," Baggott said. He called it "an outrage to have democratic parties intimidated and burned out simply because they took a democratic decision."
But several more impromptu Protestant demonstrations broke out Thursday night on streets in Belfast and nearby towns. Rush-hour traffic was disrupted, but police reported no violence or arrests as they gradually cleared the roads.
The Protestant leader of the unity government, First Minister Peter Robinson, said he shared the protesters' anger over moves to shun the British flag in Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom. But he called for protest leaders to halt their street campaign "in the wider interests of a peaceful society and to ensure their protests are not used by others to launch a campaign of violence."
About 3,700 people have been killed in the Northern Ireland conflict since the late 1960s. But peacemaking efforts since the early 1990s have greatly reduced the death and destruction, with the major outlawed groups ? the Provisional Irish Republican Army on the Catholic side, and the Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association on the Protestant side ? all agreeing to disarm and renounce violence since 2005.
But several small IRA factions continue to mount occasional gun and bomb attacks, most recently shooting to death a prison guard last month as he drove to work.
And Northern Ireland itself remains segregated by mutual consent in many ways, with Catholics and Protestants attending separate school systems, rooting for different sports, and above all living in different communities. Much of Belfast remains physically divided by high security walls called "peace lines." The Protestant side colors its curb stones the red, white and blue of the Union Jack, while the Catholic side paints them the green, white and orange of the Irish Republic.
Against this pervasive sectarian backdrop, Alliance attempts to be studiously neutral and manages to offend both sides for different reasons. Even the party's website avoids the British "co.uk" or Irish "ie" in favor of the neutral "org."
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Alliance Party: http://allianceparty.org/
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/protestant-militants-target-northern-ireland-party-140119252.html
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2012) ? Rapid eye movements are significantly delayed in patients with glaucoma, even those in the early stages of the disease, research has found.
The findings, led by Dr. Neeru Gupta, an ophthalmologist at St. Michael's Hospital, may shed new light on why glaucoma patients are at increased risk for falls and car accidents. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness.
Rapid (or saccadic) eye movements are the quick, simultaneous movements of both eyes in the same direction. They are involved in a myriad of everyday activities, from reading to scanning the surrounding environment, be it a busy subway station, grocery store shelves or oncoming traffic.
Dr. Gupta and co-workers studied groups of people with and without glaucoma who wore a head-mounted device that measured the length of time it took their eyes to move from one point to another, how long it took their eyes to begin the movement, did they focus on an object right away or did their eyes overshoot the target.
"Most of us take that processing of information for granted," she said.
However, she found that people with glaucoma showed delayed eye movement reaction times by about 15 per cent, even if they were in the early stages of the disease.
The findings were published online in the journal Eye and Brain.
Dr. Gupta said the findings are significant because they suggest that approaches to measuring vision loss beyond eye charts or visual field tests that related to real world settings may provide important clues to how the disease affects the lives of glaucoma patients. Glaucoma is becoming more common as the population ages and is expected to affect 80 million people worldwide by 2020. About half of all cases remain undiagnosed.
Currently, glaucoma can be diagnosed only by using a light to examine the optic nerve. Eye charts will not catch glaucoma, because it begins with peripheral vision loss long before reaching central vision.
All treatments for glaucoma -eye drops, laser surgery and conventional surgery -- are designed to reduce pressure in the eye and help slow or stabilize damage to optic nerve. No treatment can reverse the disease.
"Now that we know that eye movement reaction times are delayed in people with glaucoma, there is an opportunity to understand the effects of glaucoma on daily activities of living that most of us take for granted, such as walking up and down stairs, driving, navigating and reading. Dr. Gupta said. "Just as alcohol causes a delay in hitting the brakes, glaucoma slows the time it takes to move the eyes quickly in response to a visual cue."
In previous work, Dr. Gupta and colleagues have demonstrated that glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease affecting major vision pathways in the brain. Dr. Gupta's current paper points to a new vision pathway in the brain that is affected in glaucoma. Ninety per cent of signals from the optic nerve travel to an area at the back of the brain called the lateral geniculate nucleus. But the brain signals for rapid eye movements appear to travel a different route through the area known as the superior colliculus. A previous smaller study by Lamirel and coworkers published in the Journal of Glaucoma in 2012 also showed that saccades were impaired in four glaucoma patients with visual field loss.
This research was funded by the Glaucoma Research Society of Canada, Dorothy Pitts Research Fund.
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