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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Hampshire shows David Kwiatkowski, a former lab technician at Exeter, N.H. Hospital Kwiatkowski was arrested in July at a hospital in Massachusetts where he was receiving medical treatment and charged in New Hampshire with tampering with needles and infecting at least 31 people who were treated at Exeter Hospital's cardiac catheterization lab with hepatitis C. Thousands more people treated at hospitals where he worked are being tested. Records and interviews conducted by The Associated Press show that authorities could have halted Kwiatkowski's career four years ago, after he was fired from a Pittsburgh hospital. But he went on to work at 10 more hospitals, none of which knew about his history. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office, File)
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Hampshire shows David Kwiatkowski, a former lab technician at Exeter, N.H. Hospital Kwiatkowski was arrested in July at a hospital in Massachusetts where he was receiving medical treatment and charged in New Hampshire with tampering with needles and infecting at least 31 people who were treated at Exeter Hospital's cardiac catheterization lab with hepatitis C. Thousands more people treated at hospitals where he worked are being tested. Records and interviews conducted by The Associated Press show that authorities could have halted Kwiatkowski's career four years ago, after he was fired from a Pittsburgh hospital. But he went on to work at 10 more hospitals, none of which knew about his history. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office, File)
FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 10, 2012 file photo, patients come and go at a temporary health clinic at the middle school in Stratham, N.H. The state health department set up the clinic to test hundreds of people for hepatitis C related to an outbreak at nearby Exeter Hospital. David Kwiatkowski, who worked at the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Exeter Hospital, was charged with causing the outbreak, infecting more than 30 people. Kwiatkowski has pleaded not guilty. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 10, 2012 file photo, patients come and go at a temporary health clinic at the middle school in Stratham, N.H. The state health department set up the clinic to test hundreds of people for hepatitis C related to an outbreak at nearby Exeter Hospital. David Kwiatkowski, who worked at the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Exeter Hospital, was charged with causing the outbreak, infecting more than 30 people. Records and interviews conducted by The Associated Press show that authorities could have halted Kwiatkowski's career four years ago, after he was fired from a Pittsburgh hospital. But he went on to work at 10 more hospitals, none of which knew about his history. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
FILE - This Monday, Aug. 6, 2012 file photo shows the Exeter Hospital in Exeter, N.H. David Kwiatkowski, who worked in the hospital's cardiac catheterization laboratory, has been charged with causing an outbreak of hepatitis C, infecting more than 30 people. Records and interviews conducted by The Associated Press show that authorities could have halted Kwiatkowski's career four years ago, after he was fired from a Pittsburgh hospital. But he went on to work at 10 more hospitals, none of which knew about his history. Kwiatkowski has pleaded not guilty. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ? Radiology technician David Kwiatkowski was a few weeks into a temporary job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian in 2008 when a co-worker accused him of lifting a syringe containing an addictive painkiller from an operating room and sticking it down his pants.
More syringes were found in his pockets and locker. A drug test showed he had fentanyl and other opiates in his system.
In what may be the scariest part of all, authorities say that when he swiped the fentanyl syringe, he left another one in its place, filled with a dummy fluid, ready to be used on a patient.
But Kwiatkowski did not go to jail. No one in Pittsburgh even called the police. Neither the hospital nor the medical staffing agency that placed him in the job informed the national accreditation organization for radiological technicians.
So just days after being fired, he was able to start a new job at a Baltimore hospital. And from there, he went from one hospital to another ? 10 hospitals altogether in the four years after he was fired in Pittsburgh. All of them told The Associated Press they had no knowledge of his disciplinary history when they hired him for temporary jobs.
The potentially grave cost of those loopholes became clear only after Kwiatkowski's arrest last month in New Hampshire, where he stands accused of infecting at least 31 Exeter Hospital patients with hepatitis C by stealing fentanyl syringes and replacing them with dirty ones tainted with his blood.
Now, thousands of hospital patients who may have crossed paths with Kwiatkowski in eight states ? Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York and Pennsylvania ? are being tested to see if they, too, are infected with hepatitis C, a sometimes life-threatening virus that can destroy the liver and cause cancer.
As the Kwiatkowski case demonstrates, medical technicians aren't as closely regulated as doctors or nurses, and there is no nationwide database of misconduct or disciplinary actions against them, the way there is for physicians.
"It seems that what happens in Pittsburgh stays in Pittsburgh," said Barbara Yeninas, a spokeswoman for Springboard Healthcare Staffing and Search, one of at least seven medical staffing agencies that lined up jobs for Kwiatkowski. "They get hired and they get fired and they can move on to wherever else they want."
As Kwiatkowski made his way from one institution to another, the Pittsburgh incident was not even the only time he was accused of stealing drugs and fired.
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Kwiatkowski, 33, became a radiology technician in 2003 in his home state of Michigan after completing a training program. He earned a degree two years later from Madonna University in Livonia, where he was a catcher on the baseball team and became one of the small school's all-time leaders in two inglorious categories: passed balls and steals allowed.
Former teammate Mario D'Herin said Kwiatkowski was regarded as a liar. At one point, he claimed to have cancer.
"Then he said it was Crohn's disease, and it was like the boy who cried wolf ? nobody really believed him," D'Herin said.
In court papers, the FBI said he admitted making up several stories about his life, telling people he had played his college ball at the University of Michigan or saying he had a fiancee who died tragically. Investigators could find no evidence he was treated for cancer.
Kwiatkowski's parents told investigators their son had problems with alcohol, anger and depression. They also believed he had Crohn's disease, a painful bowel condition sometimes treated with fentanyl patches.
Through jail officials, Kwiatkowski declined to be interviewed. His court-appointed lawyer would not comment. Nor would his mother in Canton Township, Mich.
Kwiatkowski has pleaded not guilty to stealing drugs and tampering with needles in New Hampshire. He told investigators he was innocent and suggested that a co-worker had planted a fentanyl syringe found in his car.
"I've already said it. I did not take any drugs or do any drugs ... and I'm gonna stick to that," he said, according to the FBI account.
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People involved in a 2010 incident at Arizona Heart Hospital tell a different story. Kwiatkowski was 10 days into a job assignment when a co-worker found him passed out in a bathroom stall. A stolen syringe, bearing a label for fentanyl, floated in the toilet. In the emergency room, he tested positive for both cocaine and marijuana.
"I'm going to jail," he moaned when he regained consciousness, according to an account given to state regulators by the colleague who found him.
This time police were summoned, but the officers decided not to file charges or even write up a report after being told that Kwiatkowski had flushed the syringe. "We had no evidence. We had nothing except what they told us," said Phoenix Officer James Holmes, a police spokesman.
Hospital officials alerted Springboard, which had gotten Kwiatkowski the assignment in Arizona, and also informed the Arizona Medical Radiologic Board of Examiners, which took steps to revoke Kwiatkowski's license. Springboard also sent a report to the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, the organization that 37 states rely on to verify that technicians have proper credentials.
But after learning police hadn't filed charges, the national accreditation group dropped its inquiry without ever speaking to anyone at the hospital or the state licensing board, said a spokesman, Christopher Cook.
Just days after Kwiatkowski's firing, he landed a new job filling in for striking technicians at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. He faxed a handwritten note to Arizona licensing officials from a Philadelphia airport hotel saying he would surrender his license rather than fight the accusations.
If Kwiatkowski had been a doctor, that loss of his Arizona license would have jeopardized his ability to work anywhere in the U.S. But in this case, he had nothing to worry about. Like many other states, Pennsylvania doesn't require most radiological technicians to be registered and doesn't maintain records of disciplinary actions against them.
He soon moved on to other hospitals, including Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kan., where he worked in the heart catheterization lab and was involved in the care of 460 patients who are now undergoing testing for hepatitis C.
Linda Ficken, 70, who went to Hays to get a pacemaker two years ago, was informed last week that she has been diagnosed with hepatitis C. The Kansas health department said two other patients have been diagnosed with a strain of the virus closely related to the one Kwiatkowski carries. Further analysis is planned.
"I was pissed," Ficken said. "And I still am. And also with the people that employed him, because he put me and my family in jeopardy, he put a lot of people in jeopardy and this is just going to continue to mushroom. Somebody fell down on the job someplace. He didn't slip through the cracks on his own."
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Hospitals and the staffing agencies that routinely help them fill jobs are supposed to share responsibility for verifying that workers have proper licensing and good reputations. But four of the states where Kwiatkowski worked over the full course of his career ? New Hampshire, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan ? don't even license radiology workers.
The institutions that allowed Kwiatkowski to keep working offered a variety of excuses and explanations as to how he slipped by various background checks and managed to get licensed in other states.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center spokeswoman Gloria Kreps said that when he was accused of stealing fentanyl, officials did not contact police because they did not believe they had enough evidence. "We noticed unusual behavior, caught him with a syringe, but did not witness him in the act of committing a crime," she said.
They didn't alert the national credentialing organization, she said, because they felt that was the responsibility of Maxim Staffing Solutions, the agency that had placed him. Officials at the staffing agency's parent company did not return calls for comment.
Matt Price, chief executive of Advantage RN, the staffing agency that got Kwiatkowski the position in Philadelphia, said his stint in Phoenix was so short that it was easy for him to hide that he ever worked there.
And because of the need to find strike-replacement workers fast, Temple asked the company to verify only the last two jobs held by each applicant. So even though Kwiatkowski listed his Pittsburgh job on his resume, no one called the hospital for a reference.
In Kansas, which in 2010 became the last state to license Kwiatkowski, the Board of Healing Arts verified his education, national certification and other state licenses, but not his work history, said the agency's lawyer, Kelli Stevens.
In the section of his application detailing previous jobs, he left out nine hospitals, including the two that fired him for suspected drug abuse. He answered "no" to a long list of questions about misconduct, saying he had never been disciplined or used illegal drugs.
He also asked the state to waive its requirement that he send a photocopy of his American Registry of Radiologic Technologists identification card. He claimed that his wallet had recently been stolen and complained in a rambling email about having trouble getting a school he attended to send proof of his degree.
Cook, the spokesman for the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, said Kwiatkowski's case underscores the need for a national database of disciplinary actions.
The agency has about 315,000 technicians registered with it. It handles about 3,000 complaints per year. Last year, it issued 222 public sanctions for misconduct that ranged from criminal convictions to failure to follow professional standards.
"If ARRT had more access to information held by state agencies, employers and others, we believe this number would be higher," Cook said.
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Things finally began to unravel for Kwiatkowski in New Hampshire, where a temporary stint at Exeter Hospital starting in April 2011 turned into a permanent job in a cardiac catheterization lab. A co-worker complained that she saw Kwiatkowski acting strangely and sweating, with bloodshot eyes. He was sent home after saying his aunt had died.
Another co-worker said he once saw him with white foam around his mouth. Others told of him shaking, sweating through his scrubs and frequently running off sick to the bathroom, sometimes in the middle of a procedure. A patient's relative discovered a fentanyl syringe in a public bathroom.
In April, Kwiatkowski was charged with leaving the scene of an accident after he backed into a car and drove away.
In May, three doctors simultaneously reported that patients recently treated in the catheterization lab had tested positive for hepatitis C. Within days, Kwiatkowski was also identified as having hepatitis C, and he was suspended as the state began investigating.
In July, police in Massachusetts said they found him intoxicated in a hotel room with a suicide note. He was arrested soon after.
Laboratory testing found that 31 patients had a strain of the hepatitis C virus matching the one Kwiatkowski carried, health authorities said. It isn't clear when he contracted hepatitis C. Prosecutors said in court papers that they have evidence he tested positive at least as far back as 2010. Michigan officials said he tested negative in 2006.
In response to the AP story, Exeter Hospital on Tuesday called for mandatory disclosure by health care facilities about problem workers. The hospital said there should be a national registry system covering all workers providing patient care, and hospitals that share information should be protected from employment lawsuits.
Also Tuesday, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said it sent letters to about 2,000 patients who may have been exposed to hepatitis C by the former medical worker. The hospital said the letters were not in response to the AP story.
Kwiatkowski's license in New York is still listed on a state website as active and in good standing.
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David B. Caruso reported from New York. Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington, Paul Davenport in Phoenix and Ed White and Mike Householder in Detroit contributed to this report, as did AP researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York.
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People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) -- a leading cause of death that makes it difficult to breathe -- could benefit from a centuries-old exercise, a small new study shows.
The research, published in the European Respiratory Journal, shows that participating in Tai Chi seems to improve the exercise capability of people with the lung disease.
"With increasing numbers of people being diagnosed with COPD, it is important to provide different options for exercise that can be tailored to suit each individual," study researcher Regina Wai Man Leung said in a statement. "The results from this small sample provide compelling evidence that Tai Chi is an effective training program for patients with COPD, and could be considered as an alternative to the usual exercise training programmes that are available in pulmonary rehabilitation."
Researchers from the University of Sydney and the Concord Repatriation General Hospital found that people with COPD who practiced Sun-style Tai Chi over a 12-week period were able to walk longer, and experienced a higher quality of life, compared with people who didn't do Tai Chi and only received standard care.
The study included 42 people with the condition, half of whom were assigned to the Tai Chi group, and half who were assigned to receive standard care.
Some people with COPD may have problems exercising because of breathlessness, according to the UK's National Health Service. However, it's important for people with COPD to be physically active, as it decreases symptom severity and could actually help to improve breathing.
The NHS explained:
Research shows that pulmonary rehabilitation improves exercise tolerance, breathlessness and health-related quality of life. It results in people seeing doctors less often and spending less time in hospital.
WebMD points out that people with COPD who exercise can experience positive health benefits ranging from improved use of oxygen, to a stronger heart, to having more energy.
Along with pulmonary rehabilitation, other treatments for COPD include medications, oxygen therapy, surgery to remove lung tissue that has been damaged, or a lung transplant, according to the Mayo Clinic. And, of course, it's extremely important to stop smoking.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. When it comes to college-age individuals taking care of their bodies, appearance is more important than health, research conducted at the University of Missouri suggests. Mara Len-Ros, an associate professor of strategic communication, Suzanne Burgoyne, a professor of theater, and a team of undergraduate researchers studied how college-age women view their bodies and how they feel about media messages aimed at women. Based on focus group research findings, the MU team developed an interactive play about body image to encourage frank discussions about conflicting societal messages regarding weight, values and healthful choices.
"During our focus group conversations, we learned that young people don't think about nutrition when it comes to eating," Len-Ros said. "They think more about calorie-counting, which isn't necessarily related to a balanced diet."
The focus groups included college-age women, college-age men and mothers of college-age women, who discussed how body image is associated with engaging in restrictive diets, irregular sleep patterns and over-exercising.
"We receive so many conflicting media messages from news reports and advertising about how we should eat, how we should live and how we should look," Len-Ros said. "Some participants said they realize images of models are digitally enhanced, but it doesn't necessarily keep them from wanting to achieve these unattainable figuresthis is because they see how society rewards women for 'looking good.'"
The researchers also completed in-depth interviews with nutritional counselors who said lack of time and unhealthy food environments can keep college-age students from getting good nutrition.
"Eating well takes time, and, according to health professionals, college students are overscheduled and don't have enough time to cook something properly or might not know how to prepare something healthful," Len-Ros said.
Based on the focus group conversations and interviews, Carlia Francis, an MU theater doctoral student and playwright, developed "Nutrition 101," a play about women's body images. During performances, characters divulge their insecurities about their own bodies, disparage other women's bodies and talk about nutrition choices. After a short, scripted performance, the actors remain in character, and audience members ask the characters questions.
"When you're developing something for interactive theater, focus groups and in-depth interviews are great at getting at stories," Len-Ros said. "Many of the stories used in the interactive playlike valuing people because of their appearance and not their personal qualities or abilitiescame from individuals' personal experiences."
Burgoyne says the play helps facilitate dialogues about nutrition, media messages and self-awareness.
"Body image is a sensitive topic, and the play helps open discussions about how individuals view themselves and how media messages influence their self-images," Burgoyne said. "An easy way to improve individuals' body images does not exist, but hopefully, the conversations that arise from the performances will help develop ways to counteract the images that the media promote."
MU student actors debuted the play last spring, and Burgoyne said performances will resume during the upcoming fall semester.
The study, "Confronting Contradictory Media Messages about Body Image and Nutrition: Implications for Public Health," was presented earlier this month at the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in Chicago.
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The project is part of Mizzou Advantage's food for the future initiative. Mizzou Advantage was created to increase MU's visibility, impact and stature in higher education locally, statewide, nationally and around the world. Mizzou Advantage is a program that focuses on four areas of strength: food for the future, media of the future, one health/one medicine and sustainable energy. The goals of Mizzou Advantage are to strengthen existing faculty networks, create new networks and propel Mizzou's research, instruction and other activities to the next level. Additional funding for script development and performances came from the MU Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. When it comes to college-age individuals taking care of their bodies, appearance is more important than health, research conducted at the University of Missouri suggests. Mara Len-Ros, an associate professor of strategic communication, Suzanne Burgoyne, a professor of theater, and a team of undergraduate researchers studied how college-age women view their bodies and how they feel about media messages aimed at women. Based on focus group research findings, the MU team developed an interactive play about body image to encourage frank discussions about conflicting societal messages regarding weight, values and healthful choices.
"During our focus group conversations, we learned that young people don't think about nutrition when it comes to eating," Len-Ros said. "They think more about calorie-counting, which isn't necessarily related to a balanced diet."
The focus groups included college-age women, college-age men and mothers of college-age women, who discussed how body image is associated with engaging in restrictive diets, irregular sleep patterns and over-exercising.
"We receive so many conflicting media messages from news reports and advertising about how we should eat, how we should live and how we should look," Len-Ros said. "Some participants said they realize images of models are digitally enhanced, but it doesn't necessarily keep them from wanting to achieve these unattainable figuresthis is because they see how society rewards women for 'looking good.'"
The researchers also completed in-depth interviews with nutritional counselors who said lack of time and unhealthy food environments can keep college-age students from getting good nutrition.
"Eating well takes time, and, according to health professionals, college students are overscheduled and don't have enough time to cook something properly or might not know how to prepare something healthful," Len-Ros said.
Based on the focus group conversations and interviews, Carlia Francis, an MU theater doctoral student and playwright, developed "Nutrition 101," a play about women's body images. During performances, characters divulge their insecurities about their own bodies, disparage other women's bodies and talk about nutrition choices. After a short, scripted performance, the actors remain in character, and audience members ask the characters questions.
"When you're developing something for interactive theater, focus groups and in-depth interviews are great at getting at stories," Len-Ros said. "Many of the stories used in the interactive playlike valuing people because of their appearance and not their personal qualities or abilitiescame from individuals' personal experiences."
Burgoyne says the play helps facilitate dialogues about nutrition, media messages and self-awareness.
"Body image is a sensitive topic, and the play helps open discussions about how individuals view themselves and how media messages influence their self-images," Burgoyne said. "An easy way to improve individuals' body images does not exist, but hopefully, the conversations that arise from the performances will help develop ways to counteract the images that the media promote."
MU student actors debuted the play last spring, and Burgoyne said performances will resume during the upcoming fall semester.
The study, "Confronting Contradictory Media Messages about Body Image and Nutrition: Implications for Public Health," was presented earlier this month at the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference in Chicago.
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The project is part of Mizzou Advantage's food for the future initiative. Mizzou Advantage was created to increase MU's visibility, impact and stature in higher education locally, statewide, nationally and around the world. Mizzou Advantage is a program that focuses on four areas of strength: food for the future, media of the future, one health/one medicine and sustainable energy. The goals of Mizzou Advantage are to strengthen existing faculty networks, create new networks and propel Mizzou's research, instruction and other activities to the next level. Additional funding for script development and performances came from the MU Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
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FILE - House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. introduces Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney before Romney spoke at the Grain Exchange in Milwaukee, in this April 3, 2012 file photo. Romney has picked Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate, according to a Republican with knowledge of the development. They will appear together Saturday Aug. 11, 2012 in Norfolk, Va., at the start of a four-state bus tour to introduce the newly minted GOP ticket to the nation. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
FILE - House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. introduces Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney before Romney spoke at the Grain Exchange in Milwaukee, in this April 3, 2012 file photo. Romney has picked Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate, according to a Republican with knowledge of the development. They will appear together Saturday Aug. 11, 2012 in Norfolk, Va., at the start of a four-state bus tour to introduce the newly minted GOP ticket to the nation. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
FILE - Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, shakes hands with U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Chairman of the House Budget Committee, right, before speaking with supporters of Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker at a phone bank during a campaign stop in Fitchburg, Wis., in this March 31, 2012 file photo. Romney has picked Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate, according to a Republican with knowledge of the development. The newly minted GOP ticket will appear together Saturday in Norfolk, Va., at the start of a four-state bus tour to introduce the GOP ticket to the nation. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) ? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tapped Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to the architect of a conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan to remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending.
Romney made his announcement to supporters via a phone app. "Mitt's Choice for VP is Paul Ryan," it said and implored backers to spread the word.
The ticket-mates arranged their first joint appearance later in the morning at a naval museum, the initial stop of a bus tour through four battleground states in as many days. The USS Wisconsin, berthed at the museum, was their bunting-draped backdrop.
"This is the worst economic recovery in 70 years," Ryan said in remarks prepared for delivery. "Whatever the explanations, whatever the excuses, this is a record of failure" on the part of President Barack Obama, he added.
In the prepared remarks, Ryan, 42, envisioned a Romney administration in which "We won't duck the tough issues...we will lead."
In a written statement, Romney's campaign said that Ryan has worked in Congress to "eliminate the federal deficit, reform the tax code and preserve entitlements for future generations."
Ryan's selection ? as well as Romney's own nomination ? will be ratified by delegates to the Republican National Convention that begins on Aug. 27 in Tampa, Fla.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden will be nominated for a second term at the Democratic convention the following week.
The Democrats' re-election campaign withheld any reaction to Ryan's selection until after the formal announcement.
One campaign official said Romney had settled on Ryan as his pick on Aug. 1, more than a week ago, and informed Beth Myers, the longtime aide who had shepherded the secretive process that led to the selection. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details.
It was not known when Romney informed Ryan he wanted him on the ticket.
At 42, Ryan is a generation younger than the 65-year-old Romney.
His conservative credentials are highly regarded by fellow Republican House members, while numerous polls found that Romney's own were suspect among the party's core supporters during the primaries of winter and spring.
A seven-term congressman, Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee, and primary author of conservative tax and spending blueprints that the tea party-infused Republican majority approved over vociferous Democratic opposition in 2011 and again in 2012.
It envisions transforming Medicare into a program in which future seniors would receive government checks that they could use to purchase health insurance. Under the current program, the government directly pays doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
Ryan and other supporters say the change is needed to prevent the program from financial calamity. Critics argue it would impose ever-increasing costs on seniors.
Other elements of the budget plan would cut projected spending for Medicaid, which provides health care for the poor, as well as food stamps, student loans and other social programs that Obama and Democrats have pledged to defend.
In all, it projected spending cuts of $5.3 trillion over a decade, and cut future projected deficits substantially.
It also envisions a far reaching overhaul of the tax code of the sort Romney has promised.
In turning to Ryan, Romney bypassed other potential running mates without the Wisconsin lawmaker's following among rank-and-file conservatives, including Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Republican officials said Romney had spoken with all three.
Romney and Ryan appeared unusually comfortable with each other when they campaigned together earlier in the year. The former governor eagerly shared the microphone with the younger man and they shared hamburgers at a fast food restaurant.
In making an endorsement before his state's primary last spring, Ryan said, "I picked who I think is going to be the next president of the United States ? I picked Mitt Romney. ... The moment is here. The country can be saved. It is not too late to get America back on the right track. ... It is not too late to save the American idea."
Romney was the subject of an April Fools prank in which Ryan played a role. Romney showed up at a supposed campaign event where he heard Ryan calling him "the next president of the United States" ? only to find the room nearly empty.
In recent days, conservative pundits have been urging Romney to choose Ryan in large part because of his authorship of a House-backed budget plan that seeks to curb overall spending on benefit programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps.
Republican National Committee finance chairman Ron Weiser of Michigan, said Friday night that Ryan's selection would help Romney win Wisconsin and its 10 electoral votes in the fall. The state typically supports Democrats in presidential contests, and Obama won it handily four years ago.
Ryan has worked in Washington for much of his adult life, a contrast to Romney, who frequently emphasizes his experience in business.
The congressman worked as an aide in Congress, and also was a speechwriter for Jack Kemp, who years earlier had been one of the driving forces behind across-the-board tax cuts that were at the heart of Ronald Reagan's winning presidential campaign in 1980.
Ryan is also well-known for his fiendish physical fitness workouts.
His congressional district in southeast Wisconsin has something of a bipartisan voting record. Obama took 54 percent of the vote there in 2008, while the congressman received 64 percent in winning re-election.
Outside Ryan's home in Janesville, Wis., on Friday night, there was nothing to suggest that the residence belonged to a vice presidential candidate. An Associated Press reporter who knocked just before midnight got no answer. There was a light on in a first-floor room of the two-story brick home atop a hill.
Earlier this week, a Ryan adviser said the congressman, his wife and their three children were preparing for a weeklong Colorado vacation.
Most of Romney's staff learned of the planned announcement during a 10 p.m. EDT conference call Friday about an hour before the campaign issued a statement. The identity of Romney's pick was not disclosed during the call. The campaign had promised that first news of the selection would be delivered via a phone app.
Earlier in the day, Romney's campaign briefed reporters on the bus tour without mention of the impending vice presidential announcement.
The tour will take Romney through North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and Ohio. All are battlegrounds where Obama won in 2008. They hold 75 electoral votes combined, of the 270 needed to win the election.
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AP reporters Steve Peoples and Andrew Taylor in Washington and Todd Richmond in Janesville, Wis., contributed to this report.
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More changeable temperatures, a consequence of global warming, may be helping to abet the threat that a lethal fungal disease poses to frogs.
Scientists found that when temperatures vary unpredictably, frogs succumb faster to chytridiomycosis, which is killing amphibians around the world.
The animals' immune systems appear to lose potency during unpredictable temperature shifts.
The research is published in Nature Climate Change journal.
Chytridiomycosis, caused by the parasitic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), was identified only in 1998.
It affects frogs and their amphibian relatives - salamanders, and the worm-like caecilians - and has caused a number of species extinctions.
"I'm not convinced that the effect we've discovered could be considered responsible for declines or extinctions in the ways way that the spread of Bd can be considered responsible," said Thomas Raffel, lead scientist on the new research.
"It might be, however, that climate change has sped up the decline or extinction after the parasite arrived," the Oakland University researcher told BBC News.
Variable successOver the years, various teams of scientists have conducted a whole raft of experiments to find, for example, whether Bd is more active in warm or cold temperatures.
The new research looked at what happens in a more real-life situation - when chytrid fungus is actually on a vulnerable frog.
And the key variable the scientists looked at was variability of temperature, rather than temperature itself.
Cuban tree frogs (Osteopilus septentrionalis) infected with Bd were kept under various conditions.
In some, the temperature was kept constant at either the bottom or top of their natural range (15C and 25C (59F and 77F)).
In others, the temperature was switched predictably between the two values, mimicking the natural day-night cycle; and in a third set, the temperature was switched between 15C and 25C unpredictably.
On its own, the fungus fared better in cooler conditions, and when the temperature changes were regular.
But when it was already on the frogs, the pattern was reversed; the fungus grew faster under unpredictable temperature change.
Continue reading the main storyThe explanation is that being a simpler organism, it is able to adapt faster than the frogs' immune system.
Previous research has found alterations in frogs' white (immune) cells due to temperature changes.
But Dr Raffel suggested it was hard as of now to project what this meant for amphibians and the chytrid threat.
"There's a lot of observational evidence that climate change is leading to increased variability and unpredictability of temperature and precipitation, and it's entirely possible that the kind of effects we observed could become more important in the future," he said.
"But I think it's really difficult to make extrapolations - partly because work needs to be done with additional species, and also because we haven't done the experiments yet that would allow us to make predictive models in a quantitative way."
Herpetologist Benjamin Tapley from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), who was not involved with the study, also suggested it was too soon to draw strong conclusions.
"This paper presents some interesting and potentially useful information on climatic shifts and Bd," he said.
"But there are now over 7,000 species of amphibian, and the relationship between each of these potential hosts and Bd will be species-specific; so I would be cautious of drawing broad scale assumptions."
Consuming problemIn a separate piece of research, scientists have produced more evidence that Bd is being spread by trade - in this case, by the movement of the American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) for food.
The bullfrog carries Bd, but appears naturally immune.
In a paper in the journal Molecular Ecology, the researchers documented that a Brazilian strain of Bd had been transported to Japan, discovered various strains on frogs being sold in Asian food shops in the US, and found novel strains created by sexual reproduction.
"Our data suggest that chytrid strains have been vectored across the globe by bullfrogs, which may have ultimately led to the disease being so widespread," said Timothy James from the University of Michigan.
"A lot of the movement of this fungus is related to the live food trade, which is something we should probably stop doing."
Three years ago, Australian researchers calculated that more than a billion frogs were raised each year for human consumption.
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In this photo from Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, Fatoum Obeid, 50, stands in a pile of trash left by Syrian soldiers who occupied her home in Atarib, Syria. In recent months rebels have seized a huge swath of territory in northern Syria, giving them a freedom to move and organize unprecedented in the 17-month conflict. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)
In this photo from Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, Fatoum Obeid, 50, stands in a pile of trash left by Syrian soldiers who occupied her home in Atarib, Syria. In recent months rebels have seized a huge swath of territory in northern Syria, giving them a freedom to move and organize unprecedented in the 17-month conflict. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 file photograph, Syrians check the damage of a destroyed school after it was hit by an air strike killing six Syrians in town of Tal Rifat on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria. In recent months, Syria's rebels have extended control over a large swath of territory in the northeastern corner of the country after forcing the army from town after town in a string of bloody street battles. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra, File)
File - In this Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 file photograph, Syrians on motorcycles look at the damage of a destroyed house after it was hit by an air strike killing six Syrians in town of Tal Rifat on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria. In recent months, Syria's rebels have extended control over a large swath of territory in the northeastern corner of the country after forcing the army from town after town in a string of bloody street battles. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra, File)
AZAZ, Syria (AP) ? Residents of this north Syrian border town like to snap photos of their children atop the tank parked downtown, one of more than a dozen captured or destroyed by rebels in the battles last month that "liberated" the area from President Bashar Assad's army.
Across the street in the air conditioned offices formerly of Assad's Baath party, a new political order is emerging. Local rebels have formed committees to fix power lines, fire up bakeries and staff the nearby border crossing with Turkey. They also run security patrols and a prison with some 60 captives. Two men were executed by firing squad recently after a judge and Islamic clerics found them guilty of murder.
"We run a state system here," said Samir Hajj Omar, the silver-haired former teacher who heads the rebel political office for Azaz, a town of 35,000. "We're enforcing the law."
In recent months, Syria's rebels have extended control over a large swath of territory in the northeastern corner of the country after forcing the army from town after town in a string of bloody street battles.
As a result, for the first time in Syria's 17-month conflict, rebels have a relatively cohesive enclave in which they can move and organize with unprecedented freedom, plus a long stretch of the border with Turkey key for moving out refugees and smuggling in weapons. They also have one official, working border crossing.
The area extends about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the Turkish border and from the edge of Idlib province in the west to the cities of al-Bab and Manbaj some 130 kilometers (80 miles) east. On its southern edges, it reaches the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria's largest city and for the past weeks the scene of heavy battles as regime forces try to uproot rebels who have taken control of several neighborhoods.
The pocket is not an outright "safe zone." The military holds two bases within it ? at Mannagh airport near Azaz and an infantry academy just north of Aleppo. From there, it shells nearby towns daily, wrecking buildings and killing people. It often targets rebel enclaves with helicopters and fighter jets. So there remains a continual back-and-forth of residents fleeing homes around the areas.
But the army has largely surrendered the ground, leaving most major towns and the areas between them, creating a huge vacuum for rebels to fill.
Across the area's scattered farm towns, locals have formed councils to remove rubble, restore utilities and funnel supplies to fighters in Aleppo. They organize security patrols to guard against thieves and government spies. Some are running prisons and rudimentary courts.
Their efforts are hugely decentralized. Each town is on its own. There is no national, or even regional, body for them to report to.
Since the anti-Assad uprising started in March 2011 with protests calling for political change, opposition leaders have failed to offer little more than a vague idea of the kind of state they hope to found should the regime fall. More than 20,000 people have been killed since as the conflict has transformed into a full-scale civil war.
While still new, these early organization efforts shine a light on the priorities of rising local leaders. When asked, all say they want a civilian state that respects its citizens. But more concerning to the West and to Syria's religious minorities, most said that Islam was their guide more than any political ideology. What that means for them remains unformed in many ways, but what is clear is that they seek a role for religion in public live after four decades of secular rule.
"Religion is the basis of everything for us," said Abdel-Aziz Salameh, head of a "revolutionary council" that coordinates various rebel factions in Aleppo and the nearby countryside. "It is the driving force of the revolution."
Salameh spoke from the basement of the police station in Tal Rifat, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Aleppo, now the headquarters of one of Syria's largest rebel groupings, the Islamist Brigade of Unification.
Fighter jets screeched overhead, and the dull booms of shelling punctuated the conversation.
"May God curse you," the 46-year-old honey distributor said, looking up as the lights flickered.
The brigade, formed last month, now boasts more than 7,000 fighters, Salameh said, bringing together some of the armed factions in the Aleppo region that cropped up during the conflict as army recruits defected and locals took up arms. Before a new group can join, it must agree not to target civilians or their property and to bring all prisoners to one of the brigade's two prisons, which now house some 500 captives.
This is to prevent fighters from settling personal scores or kidnapping wealthy people from ransom, Salameh said.
Like most rebel leaders, Salameh bemoaned the lack of military support he said the rebels had received from abroad. The small amounts trickling in from governments and private groups he declined to name have done little to help his fighters, most of whom carry arms taken as booty or bought from dealers in Turkey or Iraq.
Salameh acknowledged that many rebel groups operate independently and that some ? a small number, he said ? want to kill Shiite Muslims and Alawites, the Shiite offshoot sect to which Assad and many in his regime belong.
He said such views violate the tenets of Islam that his group follows, but said not all fighters can be vetted.
"When we're at war, I don't have time to ask every fighter what his views are," he said. "I tell him to put his rifle next to mine and fight."
Most of the brigades in the enclave region formed to fight the army in their own towns and moved on only after their streets were "liberated." Many of these battles were Pyrrhic victories, leaving entire areas destroyed and depopulated.
In the town of Atarib, for example, 30 kilometers (20 miles) southwest of Aleppo, every building downtown is damaged, with windows blown out, doors peppered with shrapnel and awnings shredded to ribbons.
At the center sit the charred shells of the police station and city hall, which troops occupied in February. For months, local rebels attacked their positions and tried to cut their supply lines. By the time the army left in June, the city was destroyed and deserted.
When asked how many of the town's 25,000 residents had returned since its "liberation," the head of Atarib's military council laughed.
"If you put them all in the back of a semi-truck, there'd still be space," said Obeid Ahmed Obeid. Others guessed it was a few hundred.
Nearby, Fatum Obeid, a 50-year-old widow, wandered through the wreckage of her simple home, asking God to destroy Assad and his mother.
Two of her sons had been killed in the uprising. One returned from his mandatory military service in a body bag with no explanation. Another was shot dead by a government sniper before she and other residents fled to nearby villages.
"We'd sit and watch the troops come, then hear the booms and see the smoke," she said.
Town leaders have formed military and civil councils and opened a prison that holds some 15 people.
The army still shells the town daily, keeping residents away, and making some wonder how free they are.
"It's not liberated because you can't sit down without worrying that a rocket will fall on you," said a local activist who declined to give his name because he often travels to Aleppo.
The violence has caused a continuous human tide, first pushing rural residents into Aleppo, and now pushing them out as the battle there rages. With shelling continuing around the province, it is common to see large families driving trucks piled high with washing machines, mattresses and bags of clothing. Many seek shelter in schools, farms and unfinished buildings in villages that local leaders have struggled to keep safe.
The refugees have doubled the population of the village of Maaret al-Artiq to 25,000 in recent months, said Omar Zahra, a resident who helps them find shelter.
"They'll live in any building they can find as long as it's better than a tent," he said.
Azaz, the border town, has fared better than other towns. Residents are coming home, a few shops have opened, and armed men run checkpoints at the town's entrances. Young boys climb around on the destroyed tanks and armored vehicles half buried in the rubble of the security building rebels brought down with homemade bombs.
Graffiti by government soldiers on one wall boasts, "Assad's beasts were here." After they left, someone crossed out "Assad" and wrote "the donkey."
In his vast, carpeted office, Omar, the silver-haired former teacher, fielded calls on three cell phones and two land lines while chatting with visitors. When asked how he got his job, he said it was "automatic" because of his role in the uprising.
As he spoke, however, the now-familiar sounds of a protest rose from the streets below ? but this time with a twist.
"This protest is mostly against me," Omar acknowledged with a laugh, dismissing the few dozen marchers as upstarts who wanted power without working for it.
"They feel they were left outside," he said. "But should someone who was sitting on the sidelines come and sit here, or someone who was here for the battle?"
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Each Olympics, we marvel at the world?s best athletes and fall in love with their stories. Just as in any other corner of the world, many of these athletes have an adoption connection! Read on to learn about Olympians whose lives have been touched by adoption!
Jamie Baulch-?British athlete Baulch, who won the silver medal in the 400-meter dash at the 1996 Olympic Games, was raised and adopted by foster parents in Wales.
Larry Bird-?Bird and his teammates won the gold in basketball at the 1992 Olympics as part of the ?Dream Team.? Bird has adopted two children, Connor and Mariah.
Surya Bonaly- French figure skater Bonaly was adopted as an infant. She represented France in the 1992 and 1998 Winter Olympic Games.
Peter and Kitty Carruthers-?Peter and Kitty were adopted as young children. During their figure skating career, the siblings competed as a pair, representing the U.S. at the 1980 and 1984 Winter Olympics; they won a silver medal in 1984. Kitty has gone on to adopt two sons of her own.
Toby Dawson- Mogul skier Dawson was adopted from South Korea as a child. He took the bronze at the 2006 Winter Olympics and used the publicity to help him find his birth parents in Korea. Dawson is an adoption advocate, volunteers at the Korean Heritage Camp for Adoptive Families?and is very proud of his cultural heritage.
Adrian Dodson-?British Olympic boxer Dodson was born in Guyana and adopted by a British family. He represented Guyana in the 1988 Olympics (under a different name) and then represented Great Britain in the 1992 Olympics.
Ashia Hansen-?Hansen born in U.S. and adopted by a British couple. She has represented Britain in the triple jump in 2000 but did not medal. Due to an injury, Hansen did not return to the 2004 Olympics.
Scott Hamilton-?American figure skater Hamilton was adopted as an infant. He represented the U.S. at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games and took the gold at the 1984 Olympic games. He was the first American male to medal in figure skating since 1960!
Reese Hoffa-?Shot putter Hoffa has represented the U.S. in three Olympics: 2004, 2008 and now 2012. He won the bronze medal this week, ?making his two moms proud! Hoffa?s A-Mom, as he calls his adoptive mother, was in London, while his B-Mom, or birth mother, watched from the U.S. ?I started life as this kid from a mom who wanted to give her kid a good life, to being the son of two moms now and getting a medal. It?s pretty awesome,? Hoffa told NJ.com. Read the rest of the article here to learn more about his adoption story!
Magic Johnson-?Basketball player Johnson represented the U.S. at the 1992 Olympics as part of the gold medal-winning ?Dream Team.? Johnson has several children, ?including an adopted daughter.
Lopez Lomong-?Lomong grew up in Sudan and was one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. He came to the United States where he lived with foster parents. Lomong became a U.S. citizen in 2007 and represented the U.S. at the 2008 Olympics. Although he did not make it past the semifinals in his event, Lomong was asked to carry the U.S. flag at the Opening Ceremonies in 2008.
Jessica Long- Paralympic swimmer Long was adopted at 13 from Russia. Due to the condition?fibular hemimelia, her legs were amputated before she was two years old. But Long has never let that keep her from athletics and has been involved in many sports. She will best be remembered for her swimming at the Paralympic Games, which follow the Olympic games every four years without much of the fanfare. Long brought home three gold medals from Athens in 2004 and four golds, a silver and a bronze in Beijing in 2008. The 2012 Paralympics Games begin on Wednesday, August 29th, so be sure to keep an eye out for Jessica!
Greg Louganis-?Diver Louganis was adopted as an infant. He represented the U.S. in diving in 1976 and won a silver medal for springboard diving. In 1984, he won the gold medal for platform and springboard diving before doing the same and earning a ?double-double? in 1988. Today, Louganis is still one of the most celebrated divers in history.???Mom said that what really cinched the deal was my smile. Once she saw that, she didn?t want to look at any other babies,? he says of his adoption.
Paige McPherson-?Olympic taekwondo star McPherson is one of five adopted children. At 21, she?s the youngest member of 2012?s Olympic taekwondo team. Read her interview about her adoption and family in USA Today. McPherson lost in the quarterfinal at this year?s Olympics but not before beating Brit Sarah Stevenson, who medaled in Beijing.
Dominique Moceanu- Gymnast Moceanu wowed us at the 1996 Olympics, but it wasn?t until she was in her 20s that she learned that her parents placed a younger sister for adoption when she was six years old. Watch their amazing story! Just like Steve Jobs and his biological sister Mona Simpson, Dominique and her sister Jennifer show that they are a mixture of nature and nurture.
Alonzo Mourning-?Mourning won gold with the U.S. team at the 2000 Olympic Games. He spent time in foster care from the ages of 13 to 18 and credits his foster mother with helping him become the man he is today.
Dan O?Brien-?Olympic?decathlon?competitor O?Brien was adopted as a child. He won gold in the?decathlon?at the 1996 Olympic games.
Aaron Parchem-?Figure skater Parchem was adopted domestically as an infant. He?represented?the U.S. in mixed pair figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games.
George Scott-?Scott was born in Liberia and adopted by a Swedish couple. He represented Sweden in boxing in the 1988 Olympics where he took the silver medal.
Fatima Whitbread-?British javelin thrower Whitbread spent several years going back and forth between foster care and her birth family before being adopted by her javelin coach at 14 years old. Whitbread won the bronze at the 1984 Olympics and took silver in 1988.
Hayley Wickenheiser- Canadian ice hockey and softball player Wickenheiser has represented her country in five Olympics. She represented Canada in softball at the 200o Summer Olympics. But Wickenheiser will be most remembered for her silver medal (1998) and three gold medals (2002, 2006 and 2010) as an ice hockey player. Wickenheiser is also an adoptive mother.
Natalie Williams-?Women?s basketball player Williams won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics. She adopted twins just a year later in 2001!
Sometimes young Olympians experience a different kind of adoption. This year?s Olympic star Gabby Douglas is a great example. She moved from her home in Virginia to Iowa to train for the Olympics with the coach of her dreams. During her training, Douglas lived with a host family in West Des Moines. Her mother Natalie Hawkins said that she and host mother Missy Parton shared parental duties as best they could so that they could support Gabby during her training. Watch the touching story below!
Last But Not Least, A Future Olympian?
Jordan Windle- Windle was adopted from Cambodia at the age of two. He was the youngest athlete to ever qualify for the Olympic Diving Trials this year at the age of 12, and although he was not a member of the U.S. Diving team at this Olympics, he?s got his eyes on Rio de Janeiro in 2016! Visit Windle?s site to learn more about this amazing kid!
Do you know of any other Olympic athletes who have been touched by adoption?
Source: http://blog.americanadoptions.com/olympic-athletes-and-adoption
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