Michael Giltz: DVDs: "Lawrence Of Arabia" Still Dazzles With Intelligence

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTOR'S EDITION ($99.95 BluRay boxed set or $26.99 BluRay; Sony) -- It was two in the morning and I just wanted to check out the picture and sound quality of this new restoration. Almost against my will, I was mesmerized once again by one of the most intelligent, complex and fascinating depictions of an historical figure on film. It helps when that historical figure is such a rich and contradictory fellow as Lawrence of Arabia and helps even more when he is captured in lightning flashes of wit and anger and equal parts of self-delusion and self-awareness by Peter O'Toole in one of the great film debuts. The film itself remains one of the champs and this restoration is a stunner, an immediate addition to the short list of "demo" BluRays, those titles you pull out when you want to show off your system. The standard Bluray release has two discs while the deluxe set has even more extras and a soundtrack CD. It's the film itself that demands the most attention but the extras are strong. But this elaborate boxed set -- it's handsome and grand of course, with a hardback book filled with striking photography and a "still" from the film as well as all four discs of content and score. But again I ask, does anyone who designs these things ever actually take them home? If the film Lawrence of Arabia is the center of your life, I guess you'll be happy to have a boxed set so bulky it won't fit onto most bookcases without jutting out. You might dominate a cofee table or build a new table specifically to show it off. Even taking the hardback book out doesn't help -- that too on its own sticks out over the lip of my rather deep library shelves. It's so big and heavy it's almost designed not to fit anywhere practical. What's the point? If you're like me, you'll take out the Bluray set, put it on your shelf and store the rest in a closet or basement with all the other ungainly boxes that studios think make a Bluray release special.

BRAVE ($39.99 BluRay combo; Disney)
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ($40.99 BluRay combo; Sony)
SAVAGES ($34.98 Bluray combo; Universal) -- It's Pixar's fault. Only their high standards could make anyone see Brave as a disappointment, even for a moment. In fact, it's a solid, entertaining feature with sharp animation and a distinctive heroine who for a nice change isn't pining for a guy or trying to win the love of her father but paired off with her mother for much of the action. it doesn't quite deepen on repeated viewings like the best Pixar films, but it does hold up. Andrew Garfield's stint as Spider-Man gives me the feeling you get when someone is repeating a joke you've heard. It might be a good joke, but you can't help holding up your hand and saying, "Wait, I know this one." Seriously, the Peter Parker origin story? We do not need to hear that retold every ten years. (Ditto Batman, folks!) I'm a big fan of Garfield and dig the movie's 70s vibe, but it's just too soon. They needed to either cast much younger and make Peter a truly believable teen as opposed to a movie teen or not redo the origin story or just, you know, wait a while and make us actually want to see Spidey again. He barely left. At least Oliver Stone is having fun, Natural Born Killers-type fun with his new movie Savages. That's been a while and Salma Hayek in particular is with him every step of the way.

THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW COMPLETE SERIES ($349.98 BluRay; Image)
THE INCREDIBLE MEL BROOKS ($89.93 DVD; Shout)
ENTOURAGE THE COMPLETE SERIES ($249.99 DVD; HBO)
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GRIZZLY ADAMS SEASON ONE ($29.93 DVD; Timeless)
SUPER BOWL COLLECTION 1-XLVI ($249.95 DVD; Gaiam/NFL)
HOUSE THE COMPLETE SERIES ($199.98 DVD; Universal) -_ A number of actors have been on two hit shows, but few have been in two genuine classics. But that's what Mary Tyler Moore did with her own show in the 1970s and The Dick Van Dyke Show in the 1960s. It's a smart, funny, warm and above all intelligent sitcom that raised the bar for every show that followed. It "only" ran for five seasons but that includes 158 episodes so they quit just in time. This set looks great on BluRay and is jam-packed with extras. An ideal set of a landmark series. Even more astonishing is the Mel Brooks collection Shout pulled together. It's like a dream list of every odd and end in Mel's incredible career: tv spots, commercial, HBO specials, talk show appearances, songs, episodes of Get Smart, new original intros and documentaries about his film work, specials from the UK and elsewhere focusing on everything from his days on Your Show Of Shows to the birth of The 2000 Year Old Man routine. If there's anything they missed in this scrapbook of hilarity, I can't think of it. Entourage was never quite an HBO signature series (it's a little second tier behind Sex and the City and The Sopranos) -- but it's the sort that keeps that channel humming: the people who like this series love it and there's nothing else quite like it on TV. The gang gets a very classy boxed set indeed with all eight seasons intact. The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams on the other hand is a minor 1970s series in the Little House/Waltons vein that had a rather checkered history. It gets a very rote release on DVD with untouched visuals, a very muddy soundtrack making it hard to hear dialogue at times and discs that don't even bother to number themselves so you have to guess which ones come first. Strictly for hardcore fans who wore out their VHS tapes; no one new will get caught up in the show under these minimal conditions of presentation. The Super Bowl boxed set looks impressive and is at least relatively compact so it can fit on a book or DVD case longways. But it duplicates the content of earlier Super Bowl collections without including most of the bonus material. Normally fans who collect individual sets and then see a boxed set fear they may have to buy it all over again to catch some new bonus feature. Here the reverse is true: fans who waited for this megaset will look longingly at the earlier releases. House is in the record books and while the doctor here would have advised fewer seasons and a strong arc for House throughout, the show still has a distinctive anti-hero and a great performance by Hugh Laurie. Lots of fun in its heyday and nicely if straightforwardly collected here with all eight seasons in one neat box.

RASHOMON ($39.95 BluRay; Criterion)
THE NIBELUNGEN ($34.95 DVD; Kino)
SUNSET BOULEVARD ($26.98 BluRay; Paramount)
FILM NOIR COLLECTION VOLUME ONE ($89.99 BluRay; Olive)
THE OTTO PREMINGER COLLECTION ($69.95 BluRay; Olive)
WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN ($34.99 DVD; Oscilloscope) -- Rashomon is a landmark of cinema, the endlessly intriguing fable about reality and storytelling and perception -- though on a more basic level it's just a fascinating mystery. Director Akira Kurosawa would go on to make many more, many better movies, but this is where he laid his marker. Criterion as always does full justice to the movie's image and sound. It's loaded with extras, including a new one that's a 68 minute documentary about the movie including interviews with cast and crew. Fritz Lang's eye-popping silent epic telling the story Wagner turned into The Ring is tremendous fun. I feel kind of cheated I didn't get to see The Nibelung in a movie theater first, but Kino has done a solid job on this restoration including a 68 minute (!) documentary about the making of the film. Sunset Boulevard is a perennial champ. Just as New Yorkers love to moan about their city but would never dream of leaving, Hollywood loves to embrace poison pen love letters to its industry and few are as acidic as this Billy Wilder classic about a silent film star entombed in her mansion and her legend. Collections of noir (like collections of westerns) always make the films in them seem better by their surroundings. These four movies are pretty good to solid -- Union Station, Appointment with Danger, Dark City, Rope Of Sand -- but somehow they seem sharper, savvier in one set. But with friends like the Otto Preminger Collection, who needs enemies? You could create a great boxed set of Preminger's best work. This ain't it. Hurry Sundown is meh, Such Good Friends is just a little better and Skidoo is just a surreal, horrific disaster of a movie, literally unwatchable, especially if you actually like Preminger. Yikes. Just as bad is Nicholas Ray's glorified home movie We Can't Go Home Again. He messed around with this lackadaisical student project for years (Preminger cast kids in his film class, mucked about for a while with the footage and probably knew it was a goof). Sure it played at Cannes but there's a reason we haven't seen it for years. It would make a dull extra for a proper Ray film on DVD. On its own, it's just nonsense, a tired bit of miscellany to an important career. I feel bad for the students.

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS ($40.99 BluRay combo; Sony)
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL ($26.50 BluRay; Disney)
IT'S A SPONGEBOB CHRISTMAS ($14.98 DVD; Nickelodeon)
THE SANTA CLAUS MOVIE COLLECTION ($49.99 BluRay; Disney)
SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE ($14.98 DVD; Anchor Bay)
SILENT NIGHT ($29.99 BluRay; Anchor Bay) -- If you're looking for a new movie that could be a holiday perennial, trust me and check out Arthur Christmas, the animated film in which Arthur tries to make sure the one child missed this year by Santa doesn't go without a gift. It's a very clever and charming tale (the premise is that Santas retire and the job is taken over by their sons so keep this in mind with little ones). I named it one of the best movies of the year and think people will catch up soon and dub this a holiday classic. The Muppet Christmas Carol is celebrating its 20th anniversary as the best of the original Muppet movies after the first, thanks to that durable Dickens plot and a marvelous performance by Michael Caine (he deserved an Oscar nod). It's A SpongeBob Christmas is just one episode of that goofy series, but it's done in stop-motion animation and the result is a treat for nostalgic adults missing Rankin-Bass. One of their best in years. Sure three Santa Claus movies is two too many, but can you blame Tim Allen for relishing his film success and the chance to don the red suit? I can still remember the controversy over the low rent Silent Night Deadly NIght with its rampaging Santa horrifying town elders everywhere. The even lower rent sequel is embraced by cultists for its wacky sense of humor (they knew they were making a pile of dreck) and the commentary track by everyone involved that beats MST3K to the punch. There's a remake of the original in theaters this weekend starring Malcolm McDowell; they all come out on DVD or BluRay on December 4.

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'Hobbit' premiere draws estimated 100,000 fans

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Peter Jackson with his daughter Katie Jackson on the red carpet at the world premiere of "The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey."

By Pip Bulbeck, The Hollywood Reporter

An estimated hundred thousand New Zealanders turned out along the 1,600-foot red carpet, which took the stars two hours to negotiate at the world premiere of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" in the New Zealand capital of Wellington on Wednesday afternoon local time.

The event took place nine years after the red carpet was rolled out to host the premiere of the "Fellowship of The Ring" on the same streets.

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Elijah Wood, who reprises his role as Frodo Baggins in the "Hobbit" films, said he was relying on muscle memory to take him to the Embassy Theater, where many of the cast and crew saw the completed film for the first time.

A large international press contingent and others were the first to see the film at a screening Monday night, but were under a strict embargo that kept people from commenting on or reviewing the film before the end of the premiere.

PHOTOS: Meet "The Hobbit's" key characters

But Wood paid tribute to Martin Freeman?in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins. "He was brilliant -- the right amount of funny," he said. "He has strange qualities, but also real heart. He is the heart of the movie, and he really pulled it off."

Attendees also lauded the technical quality of the film and its higher frame rate.

Richard Armitage, who plays dwarf leader Thorin Oakenshield, said about working with Jackson: ?The thing that inspires me is that he?s as fascinated with technology and where film can go as he is with story and character. Something incredible has been created that?s never been seen before."

PHOTOS: "The Hobbit": 17 new posters introduce characters going on "An Unexpected Journey"

Director/producer Bryan Singer tweeted:? "Just saw ?#Hobbit?. Having some serious frame rate envy. Amazing and involving. Loved it! And ?@ianmckellen118?, my friend, you are brilliant!"

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, who allowed the film to keep shooting in New Zealand by changing labor laws and underwriting an extra $25 million in incentives two years ago said: ?New Zealand took a risk investing in 'The Hobbit,'? and ?it's paid off.? Jackson, he said, is a ?genius.?

Oscar winner Joe Letteri,?Weta Digital?s head of visual effects, was somewhat more reserved, saying that ?after tonight we?ve got he rest of the story to tell. ?Weta Workshop tweeted: ?To all of you who have joined us for the wild ride leading up to this day - a big thank you from the Weta team."

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Cast and crew pose on stage at the world premiere.

It seems demand to see the film in its native higher bit rate of 48 frames per second is high, at least in New Zealand, with sessions at those cinemas screening at the higher frame rate selling out, according to reports. The film formally opens in New Zealand on Dec. 14. According to the NZ Herald, a decision by exhibitors Hoyts and Event Cinemas to dedicate a screen in every theater to projecting the film at the higher frame rate has created a rush for tickets.

It has been reported that only 1,000 cinemas worldwide will have the capacity to screen the film in the higher frame rate in 3-D.

Fans worldwide were able to watch the red carpet proceedings live on the Internet thanks to a feed from Warner Bros.

Tourism New Zealand is expecting a boost in the tens of millions of dollars from the "Hobbit" films. Meanwhile, Jackson said he would take a short break before getting back to post-production on the second and third films after Christmas.

And Graham McTavish, who plays dwarf Dwalin, revealed that there would be another two months of film work in May next year for some of the cast.

As Jackson finishes work on the second and third films, another duo of blockbuster sequels is being created not far from Jackson?s hometown.

Avatar director James Cameron told reporters on the red carpet that he has taken up residence on his new farm in Wairapa, a short flight from Wellington, to write "Avatar 2" and "3."

He told reporters that he needed the solitude so he could give the scripts his full attention. However, he was enjoying his new home so much that it was distracting him, he added.

And as befits a family film, Weta Workshop chief Richard Taylor?acknowledged that he was waiting to see the finished "Hobbit" with his family, while Jackson walked the red carpet with his daughter Katie, who was just three years old when work on the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy started. Asked if she wanted to follow the family movie-making tradition -- her mother Fran Walsh?is Jackson?s co-writer and co producer -- she quipped: ?You never know, I might carry it on.? Jackson, obviously pleased at the prospect, said ?she?s extremely clever. It?d be fantastic if she did.?

While Jackson was the first to arrive on the red carpet, he also had the last word.

?It's been two years with this narrow focus on the film where we were trying to keep everybody out," he said. "You have security, you don't want people to know what you're doing. Then you get to that moment where filming's over, and 100,000 people come along to the premiere. It's kind of like the whole world has turned upside down."

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Chuck Sweeny: GOP ought to support statehood for Puerto Rico

If Republicans want to score victories over the Democrats in presidential elections, they need to improve their standing among minorities, particularly Latinos.

When George W. Bush ran for re-election in 2004, he got 44 percent of the Latino vote. Bush was a champion of sweeping immigration reform; the first country he visited upon becoming president in 2001 was Mexico, not the UK, as is traditional. He wanted to be filmed riding horses at the ranch of then-President Vicente Fox. Bush and his ?strategerist? Karl Rove were determined to make Latino-Americans a GOP constituency.

The Republican far right torpedoed that plan and the post-Bush party became virulently anti-illegal immigrant ? which was widely seen as anti-Latino in general ? so much so that GOP nominee Mitt ?Self-Deportation? Romney mustered just 27 percent of the Latino vote on Nov. 6. Meanwhile, Latinos grew to 12 percent of the vote, a percentage that will increase because of natural population growth among Latino-Americans.

So how does the Republican Party change directions? One painless way to start is to claim the cause of Puerto Rico?s statehood. What? You?re not familiar with this issue? That?s because it received very little coverage on the mainland.

Puerto Ricans voted Nov. 6 in a nonbinding, two-question referendum. They voted 54 percent to 46 percent to reject the continuation of commonwealth status, under which Puerto Ricans have been American citizens since 1917. Many enlist in the armed forces, but they lack the right to vote in mainland elections and aren?t subject to the U.S. income tax.

Puerto Rico sends voting delegates to the Republican and Democratic conventions and sends a nonvoting delegate to Congress.

On the second question, 61 percent voted for statehood, 33 percent voted for something called ?free association,? and 6 percent voted to become an independent nation.

This is the first time voters on the island of 4 million have OK?d statehood in a referendum. One reason they did is the quest for more jobs. Puerto Ricans have been leaving for work on the mainland for decades. Now, 5 million Puerto Ricans live in the continental U.S.

But for statehood to become reality, Congress must approve it. Republicans have a golden opportunity to seize this issue and make it theirs. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is on board. Democrats, who fancy themselves as a rainbow coalition party, could hardly be seen standing in the way of statehood, so they?d be forced to go along.

Traditionally, pro-statehood Puerto Ricans have been conservative and pro-business, so they?d be a natural fit to become continental Republicans. But will the GOP shed its xenophobia and embrace statehood for a primarily Spanish-speaking population?

I doubt it. Too bad, though.

Ald. Bill Timm, R-9th, has taken his job very seriously over the 16 years he?s been advancing the ward?s interests at the City Council. Now Timm, 82, is packing it in. And guess what? No Democrat filed to run in the February primary. No Republican filed, either. Maybe an independent or two will step forward.

Timm has been a first-rate alderman. Retired from a career at Smith Oil, he used his time driving daily around the ward, observing the condition of streets and alleys, block by block, talking to residents about problems and riding herd on nuisance businesses, homeowners and landlords.

Timm had a close working relationship with police and with the Public Works Department, and he teamed with community service officers to nip problems in the bud. Now he laments that those officers are few and far between.

?To be very honest, we are very short of police officers,? he said. ?I don?t get time to spend with a community service officer anymore to keep the lid on my ward.?

Chuck Sweeny: 815-987-1366; csweeny@rrstar.com; @chucksweeny

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HIV treatment reduces risk of malaria recurrence in children

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2012) ? A combination of anti-HIV drugs has been found to also reduce the risk of recurrent malaria by nearly half among HIV-positive children, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health.

The combination of protease inhibitors lopinavir and ritonavir contributed to an overall reduction of 40 percent in the rate of malaria among a group of HIV-positive infants and children up to 6 years old in Uganda who were also being treated with anti-malarial drugs. This reduction was in comparison to malaria incidence among children receiving a drug treatment of one of a class of drugs called non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs).

Protease inhibitors interfere with the reproduction of HIV by blocking the protease enzyme of HIV. The protease inhibitor combination used in the study did not appear to inhibit an initial bout of malaria--but reduce the chances of a recurrence of the disease following a successful treatment.

The researchers found that blood levels of anti-malarial drugs were higher in children who had received the protease inhibitors, which may help explain their effectiveness at preventing malaria's return.

"It's possible that these protease inhibitors prevent antimalarial drugs from breaking down or have some other additive effect against the malarial parasite," said Lynne Mofenson, M.D., chief of the Pediatric, Adolescent, and Maternal AIDS Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the NIH institute that funded the study. "Laboratory studies also suggest that protease inhibitors can block the malaria parasite outright. Finding out why this drug combination is effective is an area for further study."

Previous studies have shown that the lopinavir-ritonavir combination also is more effective for treating HIV-positive infants than widely used treatment regimens based on the medication nevirapine.

The NNRTI nevirapine is the first-line treatment for HIV recommended by the World Health Organization for children in developing countries. It is less expensive than the protease inhibitor combination and, unlike the protease inhibitors, does not need refrigeration. Compared to nevirapine, the liquid formulation of the protease inhibitor combination is also unpleasant tasting. However, recent changes in the protease inhibitor formulation may overcome these barriers to expanding its use in resource poor settings, Dr. Mofenson said.

"New formulations have been developed for the drug so that it can be sprinkled on food, tastes better, and doesn't need refrigeration," she said. "This may help where it is needed most."

First author Jane Achan, MMed, of Makerere University and the Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, in Uganda, collaborated with colleagues in Uganda and at the University of California, San Francisco.

Their findings appear in the New England Journal of Medicine.

More than 170 HIV-positive infants and children participated in the study. They received either an NNRTI (nevirapine for children under age 3, efavirenz for children over age 3) or the protease inhibitor-based treatment. In addition, the children received insecticide-treated nets to keep mosquitoes away while they slept, vitamins, a clean source of water, and medication to prevent infection with the malaria parasite, which is transmitted by mosquitoes.

Even with these measures, the researchers found that the children's risk of developing malaria in the first six months of their anti HIV treatment was greater than 40 percent. Although the risk was slightly higher in the nevirapine-treated group, the difference was not significant statistically.

However, of the children who developed malaria and were successfully treated for it during the study, 41 percent of those taking an NNRTI developed another case of malaria within 28 days of clearing their system of the parasite the first time. In contrast, only 14 percent of those on the combination lopinavir-ritonavir treatment developed another case of malaria within this time period.

When comparing the two groups over a 63-day period, the researchers found that 54 percent of the NNRTI group had a recurrence of malaria, compared with 28 percent of the group taking the lopinavir-ritonavir treatment.

In addition, tests conducted one week after the start of malaria treatment showed that blood levels of an anti-malaria drug were higher among children receiving the protease inhibitor combination than among their counterparts taking the nevirapine-based treatment.

"The finding that this protease inhibitor combination not only appears more effective at treating HIV than NNRTIs, but also protects against malaria recurrence, merits its consideration for children living in areas where malaria is rampant," Dr. Mofenson said.

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1. Jane Achan, Abel Kakuru, Gloria Ikilezi, Theodore Ruel, Tamara D. Clark, Christian Nsanzabana, Edwin Charlebois, Francesca Aweeka, Grant Dorsey, Philip J. Rosenthal, Diane Havlir, Moses R. Kamya. Antiretroviral Agents and Prevention of Malaria in HIV-Infected Ugandan Children. New England Journal of Medicine, 2012; 367 (22): 2110 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1200501

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Reducing sibling rivalry in youth improves later health and well-being

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2012) ? Sibling conflict represents parents' number one concern and complaint about family life, but a new prevention program -- designed and carried out by researchers at Penn State -- demonstrates that siblings of elementary-school age can learn to get along. In doing so, they can improve their future health and well-being.

"Negative sibling relationships are strongly linked to aggressive, anti-social and delinquent behaviors, including substance use," said Mark Feinberg, research professor in the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development. "On the other hand, positive sibling relationships are linked to all kinds of positive adjustment, including improved peer and romantic relationship quality, academic adjustment and success, and positive well being and mental health. With this program, we wanted to help siblings learn how to manage their conflicts and feel more like a team as a way to improve their well-being and avoid engaging in troublesome behaviors over time."

The researchers recruited 174 families living in both rural and urban areas to participate in the study. Each of the families had one child in the fifth grade and a second child in the second, third or fourth grade. To obtain background information about the families, the researchers collected questionnaire data from the parents, interviewed each of the siblings privately and videotaped family interactions. The team also videotaped the siblings as they planned a party together.

The team also gave a popular book on how to parent siblings to each of the families -- including those in the control and the intervention groups -- to see if the intervention would yield benefits above and beyond having access to such a parenting book.

The program -- called SIBlings Are Special (SIBS) -- was designed by Feinberg; Susan McHale, director of the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State and professor of human development; and colleagues to improve sibling and family relationships just prior to older siblings' transition to middle school, which often is marked by increased exposure to and involvement in risky behaviors. The 174 families who participated in the study were randomly assigned to take part in SIBS or to be in a control condition.

The program included a series of 12 afterschool sessions in which the researchers used games, role-playing activities, art activities and discussions to teach small groups of sibling pairs how to communicate in positive ways, how to solve problems, how to come up with win-win solutions and how to see themselves as part of a team rather than as competitors. The program also included three "family fun nights" in which the children had the opportunity to show their parents what they had been doing in the afterschool sessions.

"We found that the siblings who were exposed to the program showed more self-control and social confidence; performed better in school, according to their teachers; and showed fewer internalizing problems, such as depressive symptoms, than the siblings in the control group," said Feinberg.

Not only did the program help the siblings, it helped their parents too.

"The program helped parents use more appropriate strategies for parenting their kids," said Feinberg. "In addition, intervention mothers reported significantly fewer depressive symptoms after the program than control mothers, perhaps because their kids were doing better and they were less worried about them. No effects of the program were seen for fathers regarding depression."

The results appeared this month in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

How can the team's results be used by parents who are not involved in the study?

"We think that by encouraging siblings to feel like they're part of a team, and by giving them tools to discuss and resolve issues, parents can help their kids develop more positive relationships with each other, which can benefit everyone in the family," said Feinberg. "So, for example, if the kids are fighting over what television channel to watch or whose turn it is, we might suggest that a parent not resolve the issue for them, but instead give them just enough help so that they can calmly discuss and resolve the problem on their own. When siblings come up with their own solutions, they may be more likely to use those solutions again in the future."

Investing in more effort on the front end as a parent by helping siblings learn how to stay calm and discuss and resolve issues will pay off over time, according to Feinberg. "It's an investment in reducing your own stress and enhancing your children's well-being for the future."

The National Institute of Drug Abuse and the Children, Youth, and Family Consortium at Penn State funded this research. Other authors on the paper include Anna Solmeyer, postdoctoral scholar; Michelle Hostetler, research associate; Kari-Lyn Sakuma, research associate and curriculum development expert; Damon Jones, research assistant professor of health and human development; and co-principal investigator Susan McHale, director of the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State and professor of human development.

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As the temperature is dropping, the real estate is staying hot! Even as the holidays approach, experts say the season isn?t slowing down the housing market, and now is still a great time to list your home.

If you?re planning to sell your home this winter, here are a few helpful tips for home staging during the holiday season:

• Keep your place warm. ?Again, you want the house looked at! If you aren?t living there or even if you are, spend the money to keep it warm. They will walk out if it?s too cold? And that means no sale.?

• Keep?lighting?in mind during the winter months. ?Winter means it gets dark earlier, so put lighting on timers inside and outside the house. Every room in the house can be on timers, as it welcomes buyers into a room and you want them to keep walking and checking out the house.?

• Just because it?s winter doesn?t mean you shouldn?t have flower boxes and greenery at your front door, in pots. On the contrary, it?s really warm and welcoming. Just make sure they are seasonally appropriate.

• Keep snow off the back patio and front porch. ?You want people to go out and see the back and front of the house and the patio and yard, too. Go back to your back fence and see what does the back of your house looks like, does it look boring? You can keep flower pots by the slider doors, as it softens the look of the house in the gray winter.?

• Again it?s holiday time, so you can have a wreath on the door and a nice centerpiece on the table, and perhaps a Christmas tree, but that?s enough. ?You want to honor your faith, but you don?t want it in people?s faces? Again, you want people looking at the home and not your stuff.?

• Don?t forget to put out the summer photos of your great outdoor deck, so people know what it will be like in warmer months.

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Climate change talks: What are the goals in Qatar?

UN talks for a new pact to curb greenhouse emissions and slow climate change are underway in Qatar. Negotiators hope to extend the Kyoto Protocol. The concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide has jumped 20 percent since 2000, according to a U.N. report released last week

By Karl Ritter,?Associated Press / November 26, 2012

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The two-decade-old talks have not fulfilled their main purpose: reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are warming the planet.

Attempts to create a new climate treaty failed in Copenhagen three years ago but countries agreed last year to try again, giving themselves a deadline of 2015 to adopt a new treaty.

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Several issues need to be resolved by then, including how to spread the burden of emissions cuts between rich and poor countries. That's unlikely to be decided in the Qatari capital of Doha, where negotiators will focus on extending the Kyoto Protocol, an emissions deal for industrialized countries, and trying to raise billions of dollars to help developing countries adapt to a shifting climate.

"We owe it to our people, the global citizenry. We owe it to our children to give them a safer future than what they are currently facing," said South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, who led last year's talks in Durban, South Africa.

The U.N. process is often criticized, even ridiculed, both by climate activists who say the talks are too slow, and by those who challenge the scientific near-consensus that the global temperature rise is at least partly caused by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil.

Environmentalists found the choice of Qatar as host of the two-week conference ironic. The tiny Persian Gulf emirate owes its wealth to large resources of gas and oil and emits more greenhouse gases per capita than any other nation.

Yet it hasn't announced any climate action in the U.N. process, and former Qatari oil minister Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah didn't do so when he opened the conference Monday.

"We should not concentrate on the per capita (emissions), we should concentrate on the amount from each country," Al-Attiyah told reporters. "I think Qatar is the right place to host" the conference, he added.

The concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide has jumped 20 percent since 2000, according to a U.N. report released last week. The report also showed that there is a growing gap between what governments are doing to curb emissions and what needs to be done to protect the world from potentially dangerous levels of warming.

The goal of the U.N. talks is to keep the global temperature rise under 2 degrees C (3.6 F), compared to pre-industrial times.

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In a positive sign for the U.S. economy, shoppers took advantage of deep discounts?both online and in?stores over the?Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Black Friday?online sales topped $1 billion for the first time, according to?comScore, which measures online behavior.

Amazon.com was the most-visited retail website on Black Friday. Wal-Mart's website was second, followed by sites run by Best Buy, Target and Apple, comScore noted.

E-commerce accounts for less than 10 percent of consumer spending in the United States. However, it is growing much faster than bricks-and-mortar retail as shoppers are lured by low prices, convenience, faster shipping and wide selection.

More brick-and-mortar stores were open on?Thanksgiving this year, with retailers such as Target, Sears and Toys R Us joining in, while others including Wal-Mart and Gap either extended their operating hours or had more stores doing business.

Traditionally, stores had waited until Black Friday, the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, to make their big push. ?

U.S. retailers' sales over the four-day holiday weekend increased an estimated 12.8 percent, according to?a survey from the National Retail Federation.

More than?35 million Americans visited retailers? stores and websites Thursday ? up from 29 million last year,?according to the?survey. Despite concerns that the early?Thanksgiving hours would cut into Black Friday results, nearly 89 million Americans still shopped on Black Friday -- up?3.1 percent over the 86.2 million who shopped that day last year.

After years of belt-tightening in a tough economy, Americans this year were?apparently in the mood to shop.?An estimated 139.4 million adults visited U.S. stores and websites from Thanksgiving through Sunday, up from 131 million last year, according to?the National Retail Federation. Total spending for the weekend rose to $59.1 billion from $52.4 billion last year.

?From green beans to great deals, millions of Americans found time this Thanksgiving to make the most of retailers? promotions and enjoy a special family holiday,? said NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay.?

When accounting for people who shopped on more than one day, the total number of visits to stores and websites was 247 million, up from 226 million last year. Shoppers also spent more --?$423 compared to?$398 last year.

The survey, conducted Nov 23-24 by BIGinsight for NRF, polled 4,005 consumers and has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.6 percent. The number of shoppers for Sunday is estimated.?

Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity.?

?There?s no question that millions of people were drawn to retailers? aggressive online promotions this weekend, making sure to research and compare prices days in advance to ensure they were getting the best deal they could,? said BIGinsight Consumer Insights Director Pam Goodfellow in a statement. ?However, with shopper traffic increasing at department, discount, and clothing stores over the weekend, it?s clear that consumers still recognize Black Friday as one of the biggest shopping days of the year, as they have for decades.??

It's not clear yet whether strong Black Friday sales will weaken growth on Cyber Monday, which has been the biggest e-commerce day in the United States in recent years.

"Cyber Monday will be a big day, but not as much of a big day as it has been in the past," said Mia Shernoff, executive vice president for Chase Paymentech, a payment-processing unit of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. "Faster broadband Internet connections in the office used to drive this. But now many consumers have faster connections at home and smart phones and tablets -- they don't have to wait."?

Information from Reuters was included in this?report.?

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/online-shopping-black-friday-tops-1-billion-1C7227559

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Sales of distilled spirits have increased only .2 percent in Maryland since last year?far below the national average of 3.1 percent, according to figures stated in a recent Washington Post blog post.

The post cites the Distilled Council of the United States, which linked the stagnating sales to the increase in taxes on?alcohol?from 6 percent to 9 percent.

The chief economist for the council, David Ozgo, is quoted as stating that ?Maryland consumers are voting with their feet and making their purchases in Delaware.?

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BANGKOK (AP) ? Protesters calling for Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down rallied in the heart of Bangkok on Saturday, clashing with police in the first major demonstration against the government since it came to power last year.

Organizers had spoken of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of supporters. But only around 10,000 turned up, and by dusk the leaders called the rally off.

Nevertheless, the tense gathering served as a reminder that the simmering political divisions unleashed after the nation's 2006 army coup have not gone away. The coup toppled Yingluck's brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, triggering years of instability and mass-protests that have shaken Bangkok.

Saturday's rally was organized by a royalist group calling itself "Pitak Siam" ? or "Protect Thailand." Led by retired army Gen. Boonlert Kaewprasit, the group accuses Yingluck's administration of corruption, ignoring insults to the monarchy and being a puppet of Thaksin.

Yingluck took the group's threats seriously and accused them of trying to topple her government, which came to power in mid-2011 after winning a landslide electoral victory. Concerned about possible violence, Yingluck deployed nearly 17,000 police and invoked a special security law to give them extra powers.

Although the rally site itself was peaceful, protesters on a nearby street tried to break through a concrete barricade guarded by thick lines of hundreds riot police with shields, at one point ramming a truck into it. Both demonstrators and police hurled tear gas canisters at each other.

Police spokesman Maj. Gen. Piya Utayo said five officers were injured in the skirmishes, two of them seriously. He said 130 demonstrators were detained, some of them carrying knives and bullets. Local hospital staff said they treated 45 people and most had inhaled tear gas.

Speaking from the rally's central stage on Saturday, Boonlert vowed the demonstration would remain peaceful. But he said: "I promise that Pitak Siam will succeed in driving this government out."

He then led the crowd in a chant: "Yingluck, get out! Yingluck, get out!"

The rally was held at Bangkok's Royal Plaza, a public space near Parliament that has been used by protesters in the past.

Police allowed protesters into the site, and two roads leading to it were open. But in an effort to control access, they blocked roads on another street leading to Royal Plaza. Protesters tried to break through the barriers in the morning, cutting through more than half a dozen rings of barbed wire. They clashed with police in the area at least twice on Saturday, and some carried their own tear gas.

While Pitak Siam is a newcomer to Thailand's protest scene, it is linked to the well-known "Yellow Shirt" protesters, whose rallies led to Thaksin's overthrow. The same movement later toppled a Thaksin-allied elected government after occupying and shutting down Bangkok's two airports for a week in 2008.

Thaksin remains an intensively divisive figure in Thai politics. The Yellow Shirts and their allies say he is corrupt and accuse him of seeking to undermine the popular constitutional monarch ? charges Thaksin denies.

On Thursday, Yingluck's Cabinet invoked an Internal Security Act in three Bangkok districts around the protest site. The act allows authorities to close roads, impose curfews and ban use of electronic devices in designated areas.

Since then, police have closed roads around Yingluck's office and Government House, and boosted security at the homes of senior officials, including the prime minister.

In a nationally televised address explaining the move, Yingluck had said protest leaders "seek to overthrow an elected government and democratic rule ... and there is evidence that violence may be used to achieve those ends."

Analysts said they did not view the protest as an immediate threat to Yingluck's government, but were watching it closely.

"Anytime you have tens of thousands of people converging, assembling in a central Bangkok location, it becomes a government stability concern," said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University.

But he added: "I think it's a serious concern more than a serious threat."

Boonlert, the protest group's leader, is best known for his role as president of the Thailand Boxing Association. His name is unfamiliar in the anti-Thaksin protest movement, but his message appears to have resonated with Yellow Shirt supporters who have laid low in recent years after Yingluck's party won the last elections.

Thailand has been gripped by bouts of political instability since 2006, with Thaksin's supporters and opponents taking turns to spar over who has the right to rule the country.

The most violent episode came in 2010, when Thaksin's "Red Shirt" supporters led a two-month occupation of central Bangkok to demand the resignation of an anti-Thaksin government. The protests led to a military crackdown that left at least 91 people dead and more than 1,700 injured.

Thaksin has lived in self-imposed exile since 2008, when he jumped bail to evade a corruption conviction and two-year jail term. He retains huge popularity among the rural poor, who want to see him pardoned and returned to power. But he is reviled by the urban elite and educated middle class, who see him as authoritarian and a threat to the monarchy.

Buoyed by Thaksin's political machine, Yingluck was elected by a landslide victory in August 2011. She initially was criticized for her lack of political experience ? she was an executive in Shinawatra family businesses ? but has won praise for leading the country through one of its longest peaceful periods in recent years.

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Associated Press photographer Sakchai Lalitkanjanakul contributed to this report.

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Death Rate of Foster Children 6.9 Times Higher Than When Living ...

From the response, it appears that elected representatives in Arizona have as much trouble getting the names of children in care as those outside of government. According to the Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Children, Youth and Families:

In Arizona as of September 30, 2004 there were 8,839 children who were placed in out-of-home care due to abuse, neglect or abandonment.

The thirteen reported deaths in a year give a rate of 147 per hundred thousand child years, 5.25 times the rate in parental care.

California Data

September 17, 2006

Professor Robert C Fellmeth
Executive Director
Children's Advocacy Institute
cpil@sandiego.edu

Subject: foster care deaths

Sir:

The article following from today's Sacramento Bee mentions a report by your institute on children who died in California foster care. It does not tell where the report can be found.

Are you able to send me the report, or point to a location where I can obtain a copy?

Robert T McQuaid
558 McMartin Road
Mattawa Ontario P0H 1V0
Canada

phone: 705-744-6274
email: rtmq@rtmq.net

Almost 50 abused or neglected California children died last year in foster care after the state took them away from their parents for their own protection, according to child advocates who started counting because the state does not keep track.

The tally by the Children's Advocacy Institute is the first measurement of how many of California's most vulnerable children die while under the state's guardianship.

The institute, based at the University of San Diego School of Law, also found that more than 60 children in foster care died in 2004. California has about 75,000 foster children, one-fourth of the nation's foster-care population.

Some of the children died accidentally or of natural causes. But others were neglected or abused by caregivers. The causes of death were not included in the study.

The death count includes children such as Dylan James George, 2, whose foster parents have been charged with fatally beating him in their Fremont home in 2004. Anthony Cortez, 15, was choked to death by another child in a Stockton group home in 2003. Four-month-old Christopher Battie died of sudden infant death syndrome in a Fresno foster home in 2003.

Data comparing the death rate for children in foster care to the death rate for children overall were not available because the state has not compiled updated mortality statistics for the general population.

The California Department of Social Services collects data on how many children in foster care statewide are injured, but not on how many die.

Advocates said a failure to monitor deaths in foster care could hamper efforts to improve the system. The state failed a federal review three years ago in part because children were not being kept safe enough after being removed from their homes.

"It just makes common sense that the state should be tracking and aware of how and when their children are dying, and if there's anything they can do to stop that," said Christina Riehl, an attorney at the Children's Advocacy Institute.

Riehl said the institute started its count after a state law went into effect requiring counties to release the name and date of death of each child who dies while in foster care. The group compiled the data by submitting requests to each of California's 58 counties.

Mary Ault, California's deputy director of children and family services, said the state reviews individual death reports and has monitored fatality trends through the Child Death Review Council.

"I believe the more facts we have, the more information we have, the better we're able to manage for better outcomes," Ault said.

The review council, composed of representatives from different state agencies, looks at records of all child deaths in the state and issues periodic reports. But there is a lag time of several years before each report is released, and the council does not specify how many of the children who died were in foster care.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services determined last year that the state was violating federal law by failing to publicly disclose information about deaths and near-deaths of children due to abuse or neglect.

Threatened with the loss of federal child-welfare funds, the state this summer started requiring counties to file reports on such incidents. The reports are supposed to be filed on all children, not just those in foster care.

Ault said the state would be able to use those reports as a tool for improving the system.

So far, one report has been filed. It describes the drowning death of a 2-year-old girl found in a hot tub in Orange County in July.

The report said Orange County social workers had investigated several reports that the girl's parents had neglected her and had placed her with her grandparents for several months while both parents were incarcerated. When the girl died, she was back in her parents' custody.

Meanwhile, the state is continuing efforts to reduce the number of children in foster care, which has dropped since a high of 100,000 in 2000.

In a couple of weeks, the Bush administration will begin allowing California to spend federal foster-care funds on programs that aim to keep children at home with their parents.

The rate at which California removes children from their homes is close to the nationwide average, said Richard Wexler, director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. But Wexler believes the rate should still be lower.

"What you have in foster care is a system where, of course, the majority of foster parents want to do the best that they can for the children in their care," Wexler said. "But the abusive minority is significant, and there are a number of foster children abusing each other. The system is overloaded with children who don't need to be there."

FAST FACTS

California has about 75,000 foster children, one-fourth of the nation's foster-care population. The study by the Children's Advocacy Institute found that:

• Almost 50 California children died last year in foster care.
• More than 60 such children died in 2004.
• The state Department of Social Services collects data on how many children in foster care are injured, but not on how many die.

About the writer:

The Bee's Clea Benson can be reached at (916) 326-5533 or cbenson@sacbee.com.

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Thank you for your interest in our Foster Care Fatality Rate data.

I have attached spreadsheets that breakdown the data we collected by county and by age. Please note that there are several pages for each spreadsheet. (For example, 2005 data is located on a different sheet than 2006 data.) We are continually working on this project and trying to get more information. We have not yet been able to find accurate fatality data for the general population for 2004 or 2005. When we have that data, those columns will be updated.

The data was collected by initiating a Public Records Act request to each of the 58 counties in California. Using the specific language of California Government Code ? 6252.6, we requested "documentation setting forth the name, date of birth, and date of death of any minor foster child who died" during 2004 and 2005. It has become clear that at least some counties interpret the term "foster child" to include only those children who are dependents of the court that are placed in out-of-home care. The Children's Advocacy Institute continues to work to track the deaths of ALL dependents of the court, regardless of their placement.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions. Also, let me know if you are interested in receiving future updates to our data.

-Christina Riehl

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The data came in the form of two excel spreadsheets, Fatality Data Overview and Child Fatalities by Age. Each spreadsheet has separate pages for 2004 and 2005. For those who cannot read excel spreadsheets, the data shows number of children in care and number of foster fatalities in 2004 for 57 counties and 2005 for 56 of California's 58 counties. In 2004, 57 reporting counties had 83,858 children in care as of July 1 2004 and 64 foster care fatalities for the calendar year. In 2005 the 56 reporting counties had 76,383 children in child welfare supervised foster care as of July 1 ages 0 to 18, and 48 fatalities. The consolidated death rate is 70 per hundred thousand per year, about half the 147 of Arizona. We will stick with the Arizona data because we believe numbers reported to a state legislator will be more accurate than those reported on a freedom of information request, and because CAI reports that the responses give deaths in only a restricted category of dependent children.

Saskatchewan Data

Saskatchewan has published a report Children's Advocate Report, A Summary of Child Death Reviews for the Years 2000 and 2001. It gives the number of deaths in ministry care for each of the five years from 1997 to 2001. The website of hrsdc.gc.ca in a series of reports titled Child and Family Services Statistical Report gives the number of children in care in Saskatchewan for the same years. The relevant data is:

year	in care	deaths
1997	2416	5
1998	2536	11
1999	2710	6
2000	2947	5
2001	2906	9
total	13515	36

The overall death rate in ministry care is 266 per 100 thousand child-years, 9.5 times that of parental care.

Manitoba Data

In June 2010 the CBC published a chart giving the deaths in Manitoba foster care (jpg) over a thirteen year period. It showed 154 deaths in 80060 child-years of foster care, a rate of 192.4 deaths per 100 thousand child-years, 6.9 times the parental care rate.

AFCARS Report

The clearest official source for death rates is AFCARS Report, Preliminary Estimates for FY 2005. It shows 534 deaths in a year with 513 thousand children in foster care. This gives a death rate of 104 per hundred thousand child-years, but the AFCARS data includes 4,445 runaways, without following them up to determine their death rate (it is high).

British Data

On November 20, 2008 the British Office for Standards in Education, Children?s Services and Skills (Ofsted) issued an annual report signed by her majesty's chief inpector Christine Gilbert (pdf). It shows on page 73 that 59,500 children are "cared for" by local authorities and on page 69 that 282 children died in the period 1 April 2007 to 31 August 2008. If the 282 are all from the "cared for" population, that gives a death rate in care of 334 per hundred thousand child-years, 11.9 times the parental care rate.

Ontario Data

In an article by Vivian Song published in the April 2, 2006 Toronto Sun, she says Ontario Deputy Chief Coroner Dr Jim Cairns presides over the deaths of about 70 children a year involved with CAS. The article does not define what is meant by "involved". On January 25, 2007 reporter Haley Mick in the Globe and Mail quoted Mr Cairns saying approximately 80 children die each year with open CAS files. The number includes deaths in foster care plus in-home deaths of children under watch. A document titled Report of the Paediatric Death Review Committee and Deaths Under Five Committee from the Office of the Chief Coroner, Province of Ontario (2007) contains the statements on page 22:

• 83 children died with an open file or having had an open file to a CAS within the previous 12 months
• 19/83 children were in the care of CAS (10 were Crown Wards; 2 were on an Extended Care and Maintenance program)

The document did not claim to include all deaths in CAS care.

Official sources in Ontario are silent on the number of deaths in foster care. Ontario uses a standard technique of official concealment ? aggregating data. A hypothetical example illustrates what that means. Any accurate measurement of the amount of harm done to children will show that mothers commit more child abuse than fathers. In our misandric culture, this is a politically incorrect fact that public agencies prefer not to report. So instead of reporting "harm by mothers" and "harm by fathers" separately, a report may show only "harm by parents". Coupling this number with a few anecdotes, mostly of miscreant fathers, will obscure the truth and allow readers to believe that fathers are responsible for most abuse.

For Ontario's foster deaths, the data is aggregated with deaths of all children involved in any way with CAS, so that the foster deaths are lost in a larger number. Every year the Pediatric Death Review Committee releases a report giving the number of child deaths with (aggregated) CAS involvement. The figures for recent years are:

The number of deaths is, according to the reports, from a uniform definition of cases with open CAS files during the 12 months preceding death. How many of these were actually in CAS care at the time is undisclosed in consequence of aggregation.

In February 2009 Ontario's child advocate Irwin Elman reported that 90 children had died in the care of Ontario's children's aid societies in one year. Criticism originating with the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies soon claimed that in 36 cases children's aid only got involved after the death of the child, reducing the number of CAS fatalities to only 54. Spread over Ontario's 18,800 foster children (September 30, 2004 figure from OACAS) the two alternatives give death rates of 479 or 287 per 100 thousand child years, 17.1 or 10.2 times the parental care rate.

Assuming that the OACAS defense was their best effort, the ratio of the report number, 90, and the OACAS amended figure, 54, can be applied to all the data to come up with the best estimate of in-care deaths in the table.

Summary

The most reliable data sources show that the ratio of deaths in foster care to deaths in parental care is 5.25 in Arizona, 9.5 in Saskatchewan, 6.9 in Manitoba, 11.9 in Britain and in Ontario 17.1 or 10.2, depending on whose side you take in a controversy. An overall round number of ten to one seems reasonable.

Projected over Americas 550,000 foster children, there should be 1540 deaths per year. Our list of foster deaths from news sources shows less than a hundred annually. A reasonable guess is that only one foster death out of twenty makes it into the press, even fewer than that in Ontario.

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