Pharmacy Technician Jobs - references and education directory ...

Regardless of how our economic situation fares, the pharmacy technician career will have an easier time staying afloat and the demand for it will only continue to grow. Pharmacy technician jobs are teeming all over the place, but the heavy competition may make things had for you. So if you want to find yourself being sought after by an employer, receiving proper training and certification is necessary.

You don?t really have to undergo formal training in order to become a pharmacy technician, but there are additional benefits if you do. Educational institutions such as vocational schools, community colleges, and hospitals offer formal training programs ranging from a 6 months to 24 months. If you want to be qualified for the best pharmacy technician jobs, getting formal education is recommended.

Once you have completed you formal training program, you can make yourself even more attractive to potential employers by working hard to attain certification and other credentials. Certification is an excellent indication of your competency as a pharmacy tech. You can seek to become certified by either the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) or the Institute for the Certification of Pharmacy Technicians (PTCB).

If you try to notice the requirements among the majority of pharmacy technician jobs, they require applicants to have reliable communications and interpersonal skills since they will be spending most of their time working with healthcare workers and interacting with patients. Sound mathematical and analytical skills are also a must when preparing medications.

Pharmaceutical firms are not the only places where pharmacy technician jobs can be found ? there are also plenty of employment opportunities in hospitals, convenience stores, and department stores which have their own pharmacy. To help make your search easier, you can take advantage of the internet and you can also submit your resume to online job directory websites.

The classified ads section of your local newspaper can also give you plenty of options when it comes to pharmacy technician jobs. If you have decided that you want to apply for a job in a pharmaceutical firm, you may want to drop by the company website to check out their employment opportunities and know more about what they are looking for.

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Best friends in life, together in death

By Chris Roberts, NBCBayArea.com

The two girls, 15, and 16, did everything together. On Sunday, they died together.

Bobbie Sartain, 16, and Raquel Gerstel, 15, were shot "multiple times" at around 6 a.m. on Sunday near Brookdale Park in East Oakland, according to reports.

The two girls met in Alameda, where Raquel grew up before moving to San Leandro,?according to the Oakland Tribune. Raquel attended Arroyo High School in San Lorenzo.

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The slaying was "overkill,"?according to police interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle. At least 36 shots were fired, and Raquel was "full of bullets," according to a witness who arrived on scene to see the girls with multiple wounds. Raquel was "found crawling... as she cried out for help." Bobbie had bullet wounds in her face and back.

The area was known for being close to trouble spots in Oakland, but the neighborhood is described as tight-knit, and not a regular spot for violence, the newspapers reported.

Police have no motive and no suspects. The girls were Oakland's 114th and 115th homicide victims of the year.

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Rabbi Immauel Jakobovits and the Loss of the Deathbed | The Book ...

This post will continue our discussion of Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits and modern medicine from a prior post- here.

From a historian?s perspective Jacobovits was crucial for the dismissal and writing out of Judaism hundreds of years of deathbed rituals and preparations for a good death and easy passage to the afterlife. In the 1960?s the value of preserving human life in the ICU displaced asking about repentance and the angel of death. The biological concerns of preserving of life took precedent over the psychological, spiritual, and metaphysical. Philip Aries, a French historian, spent twenty years investigating the changing attitudes towards death in Western Civilization.? In the Middle Ages, the ?dying well? ( ars moriendi) came to primacy as one came to terms with their ultimate demise. What was then important was how the dying faced death. ?In the mid-20^th?century, advances in medical technology, particularly the development of the respirator, meant that death could now be delayed and occurred in hospital following a ?great war against death.? A death in the ICU is a failure of medicine rather than a good death. Culturally, death is now culturally invisible.? The entire process of fighting death shows more belief and focus on medicine than on religious services and the afterlife. There is no culmination of a religious service with the kiss of death.

The social historian Elliot Horowitz describes an Italian controversy from 1556 in which a Jewish man died suddenly without having confessional performed as part of Jewish Last Rites and was thus refused burial. Those on the side of the deceased claimed that the movements of the man?s lips immediately preceding death should have constituted as a confession. Rabbi Tucazinsky?s Gesher Hachaim records that in 1947 Jerusalem they had a person shout confession every day in the hospital so that everyone can affirm a confession before dying.

The Talmud teaches that, ?If one falls sick and his life is in danger, he is told: ?Make confession, for all who are sentenced to death make confession.??? In the Shulchan Aruch?s codification, based on the language in Mesechet Semachot, where it is ruled that the following text should be recited to the terminally ill: ?Many have confessed but have not died; and many who have not confessed died. And, many who are walking outside in the marketplace confess. By the merit of your confession, you shall live. And all who confess have a place in the World-to-Come.? The Early Modern works on deathbed procedures, such as those by Rabbi Aharon Brachia Maavar Yabok, were still essentials for the early 20^th century despite numerous editions and translations.? These works build on Talmudic and Medieval conceptions and create full orders and regulations for the deathbed rituals. (They are also our binding source for the activities of the Chevra Kaddisha?s performance of Tahara on the deceased.) In contrast, Jakobovits states that the ?predominantly ?this-worldly? character of Judaism is reflected in the relative sparsely of its regulations on the inevitable passage of man from life to death.?

In the Jewish works of dying well, the goal, according to social historian Avriel Bar-Levav, was to preserve self-control, unlike our current ICU deaths. Typically, deathbeds required a confession of the dying before a minyan.? However, lacking such control Maavar Yabok (ch 19) states ?that one who is on his deathbed, the confession is said on his behalf by an appointed messenger who will read the text in the patient?s presence whether he is conscious or not.? One gathers a quorum of ten men around the deathbed in order to pray.? The moment the soul decides to submit and leave the body is considered the ?kiss of death;? this is different from biological death. ?The prayer said by those standing around the dying person appears in the standard Hamadrikh and begins with verses calling for God?s mercies.? It includes the Priestly Benediction and the prayer for God?s angels and protective spirit is called upon.? It is important to note, however, that this prayer is said even if the one in one one?s deathbed (goses) is incontinent and cannot hear the prayers. The prayer, according to these authorities, has an effect on the soul and also on those who are reading it. Even Rabbi Yekutiel Greenwald?s 1951 work, Kol Bo Aveilut ?assumes these practices and even asks questions such as if one has one rabbi for a last rite, do we send him to the bed of the sinner or the rabbi?

In contrast, Jakobovits assumes that only Christian religious literature has devoted much attention to the problem of ascertaining the exact moment of death. In Judaism, however, this problem has little or no purely religious significance, since there are no sacramental rites to be accorded to the dying prior to the soul?s final departure from the body. From the ritual point of view, the only practical distinction in Jewish Law between a live body and a dead body concerns the rules of defilement cuased by the dead body.Whereas originally there would be a process of dying that included the soul, now in Jakobovits? view we are limited to the body.

In the full deathbed service, in works such as Maavar Yabok, there are important practices to perform for the dying person and for ?family and friends which signale the transition between realms. Physical death occurs at the end of this ritual process and the ritual serves to help in demarcating the living from the dead. Even after the physical death, the process of the soul leaving the body is to take the full length of the seven day Shiva period.? In modern terms, it would mean that even after the clinical signs of death, there is still a transitional process in which the body is still considered spiritually alive for a period of time. Jakobovits does away with this transitional realm and limited the process to the modern clinical realm of the undertaker: ?When the patient dies, his body generally passes from the attention of the physician into the care of the undertaker and the religious officials who attend to its interment.?

Jakobovits acknowledges that, ?the earliest Rabbinic sources usually speak of death as the ?going out of the soul,? they also concede the view that the association between body and soul is not altogether severed until three days after death.?? But he trusts in modern medicine?s designation of biological death and considers that doctors are able to ascertain death. This is in distinction to the position of Rabbi Moshe Isserles who ?altogether denies our competence ?nowadays? to ascertain the exact moment of death.?

Jakobovits leaves us with an acceptance of the modern clinical definition of death. Originally, there was an unknown moment of death described in ?deathbed rituals as the ?Kiss of Death? which signifies was the social moment when we had previously assumed the person had died. Now, that moment is identified entirely with the physical death. Gone are discussions of afterlife or how sickness and death are part of the religious cycle of the community. But equally as important is that we have lost any discussion of the social declaration of death such as how do families and communities note the transition of a member from life to death? The days of death rituals assumed a period between life and death, a process of dying. From the perspective of ordinary cases of end of life , the issues of futility, refusal and withdrawal of care is paramount, while the definition of death is a much rarer concern. Aristotle designates four souls: mineral, plant, animal, and human. Platonists added a fifth: the spiritual. The plant soul is digestion, animal soul is reactive, and human soul is rational or thought processes. Much of the halakhic death debate concerns over the vegetable and animal souls, little is said about the human soul, and much of the traditional process of death is now viewed as a legal moment.

The new approach of medical death in the ICU and the halakhah created for it makes all death a failure of medicine. It turns dying into a moment not a process. The way we deal with the denial of death is to control it through medical definition. Philip Aries showed that there were many stages of dying from becoming sick to maggots on a decaying body, even physical decay was not the end. Once there was the death of the human, the animal and vegetable aspects of human life took until the end of shiva to be completed. The assumption was that the body as organism felt the pain of the grave and the maggots.? (For many others, the claim of the dying on his/her body continues until the resurrection of the dead. This position was still held by Rabbi Waldenberg but scoffed as superstition to those with medical models.)

The approach started by Rabbi Jakobovits was continued by almost all halakhic/Orthodox rabbis who deal with medical ethics. Their comments deal almost exclusively with problems of life, rather than with the subject of death. The sociologist Peter Berger notes that death is an essential feature of the human condition that requires people to develop means of coping with it, to neglect death in the ICU death is to ignore one of the few universal parameters in which social and individual life are constructed. The contemporary sociologist Anthony Giddens argues that in our era of `late? modernity?, there are three changes: the experience of death has become increasingly privatized, there is an increased identification of the self with the body; and the shrinkage of the scope of the sacred. Is there a way to bring back the sacred in an age of hospital death?

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Was Lindsay Lohan's Fight Over The Wanted's Max George?

After Lohan was arrested for allegedly punching a woman at an NYC nightspot, sources come forward about the reason behind the argument.
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Microsoft Xbox 360 Remains Most Popular Game Console in the US

by Anton Shilov

Even despite of the fact that Nintendo has just released its all-new Wii U video game system, Microsoft Corp.?s Xbox 360 remains the No. 1 console in the U.S. According to the software giant, it managed to sell nearly twice the number of Xbox 360 consoles than Nintendo sold Wii U systems in the first week of sales from November 18 to November 23, 2012.

Microsoft?s internal Black Friday sales numbers published by Major Nelson web-site (which belongs to Microsoft) reveal that the company sold 750 thousand of Xbox 360 consoles in the U.S. alone, exceeding internal forecasts. By contrast, Nintendo only supplied 400 thousand of Wii U game systems to the hands of the end users in the first week of sales. Back in October, Microsoft sold 270 thousand of Xbox 360 in the U.S., which was more than any of its rivals.

The Redmond, Washington-based software company also revealed that Xbox Live Gold subscription sales increased more than 50% compared to last year?s Black Friday week. On Sunday alone Microsoft had more than 14 million people on Xbox Live across the world, racking up more than 72 million hours of use in just one day.

First week sales of Nintendo Wii U were 200 thousand lower than the first week sales of Nintendo Wii back in 2006. The manufacturer cited production limitations for slow shipments of Wii U, which may actually be true as online retailer Amazon has no Wii Us in stock.

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Starting mid-October, national retailers, including Best Buy, GameStop, Amazon, Target, Toys ?R Us and Walmart, has carried Xbox 360 holiday console bundles, which include Xbox 360 hardware, games as well as one free month of Xbox Live Gold, Hulu Plus and Epix.

Configuration of bundles looks as follows:

• Xbox 360 4GB + Kinect with Kinect Disneyland Adventures, Kinect Adventures and one month of Xbox Live Gold for $299.99.
• Xbox 360 250 GB with Skyrim and Forza 4 Essentials Edition and one month of Xbox Live Gold for $299.99.
• Xbox 360 250GB + Kinect with Dance Central 2, Kinect Sports, Kinect Adventures and one month of Xbox LIVE Gold for $399.99.

For a limited amount of time at select major national retailers, Microsoft offers $50 discounts on such consoles and bundles like Xbox 360 4GB + Kinect, Xbox 360 250GB and Xbox 360 250GB + Kinect.

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Entitlement programs: 'Line in the sand' in cliff talks?

Nov 27, 2012 3:39pm

Medicare and Medicaid savings should be part of future debt-reduction efforts, but not on the table in talks regarding the impending ?fiscal cliff,? the second-highest ranking Democrat in the Senate said.

In the prepared remarks of Sen. Richard Durbin?s speech today to the liberal Center for American Progress, he writes that progressives cannot ?pretend? the programs can ?continue forever? without changes to ensure their solvency. But the majority whip from Illinois insists that any adjustments should come after the immediate budget is passed.

?Progressives should be willing to talk about ways to ensure the long-term viability of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid,? it reads. ?But those conversations should not be part of a plan to avert the fiscal cliff.?

During the event, the Illinois lawmaker skipped over that section of his notes, which were released to the media, but told reporters that he stood by every word.

?We can?t be so naive as to believe that just taxing the rich is going to solve our problems,? he told the crowd, adding that his caucus needed to be open to issues ?painful and hard for us to talk about.?

Durbin said he continued to be opposed to some conservative proposals, including voucher programs for Medicare and a block-grant system for Medicaid. But he also maintained he?s wary of raising the eligibility age for the safety-net programs, for fear of creating coverage gaps. President Obama floated that idea last year.

The statements offer a window into what might be congressional Democrats? proverbial ?line in the sand? as each party sharpens their negotiating teams. Both sides must reach a budget agreement by Dec. 31, or else trigger the $607 billion in automatic tax hikes and spending cuts economists agree would plunge the economy back into recession.

Some members of Congress see the talks as an opportunity to reduce the national debt, and it has become a central talking point as the deadline draws closer.

Members of both parties discussed cuts to entitlement programs earlier this month in a meeting with Obama as a way to bring about deficit reduction. According to the Office of Management and Budget, the sum total of US entitlement programs ? including Social Security ? make up a projected 62.4 percent of the federal budget in 2012.

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Video: Researchers find evidence of ?chemo brain?

>>> now to health news tonight, and what they know about chemo brain , which will be familiar to you if you or someone you love has dealt with the frustration, fogginess and confusion among so many cancer patients. especially those in the fight against breast cancer . patients have talked about this since the dawn of chemotherapy. scientists say they can actually see it.

>> reporter: soon after she began her treatment for breast cancer , jodi, an author found herself in a mental fog. a condition known widely among cancer patients as chemo brain .

>> chemo brain was like having my brain constantly out of focus. it was as though i couldn't get the words in the proper alignment. as a writer, that was devastating.

>> reporter: the cloudiness continued. even after the chemo ended.

>> emotionally, i really wondered if i would ever be the same.

>> reporter: dr. rachel eggos has much of the understanding of the condition.

>> i have imaging evidence that shows chemo brain is real. part of being able to address a disease and help a patient through a disease is realizing the disease exists in the first place.

>> reporter: they performed brain scans on 128 breast cancer patients before, during and after chemotherapy. with knees images to measure how the brain is using energy. the researchers discovered chemo sets up very specific changes. in several key parts of the brain that control memory and decision making.

>> what am i going to get done today? what do i need to get at the grocery store? what am i going to have for dinner.

>> increasingly, hospitals and doctors are trying to make patients aware of the problem.

>> it's helpful for patients to understand they're not alone in this experience. that this does happen to a segment of the population. at present we can't predict who's at greatest risk for them.

>> fortunately the effect usually fades with time. better understanding of the impact on patients like jodi may lead to ways to treat or prevent the symptoms. robert bazell , nbc news, new york.

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Risk of childhood obesity can be predicted at birth

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2012) ? A simple formula can predict at birth a baby's likelihood of becoming obese in childhood, according to a study published today in the open access journal PLOS ONE.

The formula, which is available as an online calculator, estimates the child's obesity risk based on its birth weight, the body mass index of the parents, the number of people in the household, the mother's professional status and whether she smoked during pregnancy.

The researchers behind the study hope their prediction method will be used to identify infants at high risk and help families take steps to prevent their children from putting on too much weight.

Childhood obesity is a leading cause of early type 2 diabetes and heart and circulatory disease, and is becoming more common in developed countries. According to NHS figures, 17 per cent of boys and 15 per cent of girls aged two to 15 in England are classified as obese.

The researchers developed the formula using data from a study set up in 1986 following 4000 children born in Finland. They initially investigated whether obesity risk could be assessed using genetic profiles, but the test they developed based on common genetic variations failed to make accurate predictions. Instead, they discovered that non-genetic information readily available at the time of birth was enough to predict which children would become obese. The formula proved accurate not just in the Finnish cohort, but in further tests using data from studies in Italy and the US.

"This test takes very little time, it doesn't require any lab tests and it doesn't cost anything," said Professor Philippe Froguel, from the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, who led the study.

"All the data we use are well-known risk factors for childhood obesity, but this is the first time they have been used together to predict from the time of birth the likelihood of a child becoming obese."

The 20 per cent of children predicted to have the highest risk at birth make up 80 per cent of obese children. The researchers suggest that services such as dieticians and psychologists could be offered to families with high-risk infants to help them prevent excessive weight gain.

"Once a young child becomes obese, it's difficult for them to lose weight, so prevention is the best strategy, and it has to begin as early as possible," said Professor Froguel. "Unfortunately, public prevention campaigns have been rather ineffective at preventing obesity in school-age children. Teaching parents about the dangers of over-feeding and bad nutritional habits at a young age would be much more effective."

Although common genetic variants did not prove to be helpful for predicting childhood obesity, the researchers say about one in 10 cases of obesity are caused by rare mutations that seriously affect appetite regulation. Tests for these mutations could become available to doctors in the next few years as the cost of DNA sequencing technology falls.

The Imperial researchers conducted the study in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Oulu, Finland; Harvard University in the US and the University of Verona, Italy. The work was funded by the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London, the University of Oulu and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

The obesity risk calculator is available online at http://files-good.ibl.fr/childhood-obesity/

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Leading U.S. Democrat Durbin embraces future Medicare reforms

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Dick Durbin, one of U.S. President Barack Obama's leading allies, urged fellow liberals on Tuesday to consider reforming the Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs that they have long fought to shield from cuts.

"Progressives should be willing to talk about ways to ensure the long-term viability of Medicare and Medicaid" programs for the elderly and poor, Durbin said in excerpts of a speech he is to deliver later in the day.

Most Democrats have avoided talking about cutting these two "entitlement" programs, which have been adding to U.S. budget deficits because of the growing numbers of participants and escalating healthcare costs.

Instead, Obama and Democrats in Congress mostly have stressed the need to raise income taxes on the wealthy as part of renewed efforts to reduce budget deficits that have topped $1 trillion in each of the past four years.

Lately, Durbin has made high-profile remarks about eventually reducing Medicare and Medicaid costs, just as Republicans have begun talking about raising revenues as part of a tax overhaul effort next year.

On Sunday, Durbin raised the possibility of Democrats accepting Medicare reforms to make higher-income seniors pay more for their care. He made his remarks on ABC's "This Week" program.

The Illinois senator said, however, that the debate over Medicare and Medicaid should not be part of the more immediate negotiations on averting the "fiscal cliff" of steep tax hikes and spending cuts.

"Meaningful reforms can protect the vulnerable and improve care and efficiency, leaving the programs stronger for future generations," Durbin said in excerpts of the speech he is to deliver at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.

Durbin's remarks sought to foster productive talks aimed at averting on January 1 the fiscal cliff, the start of about $600 billion worth of tax hikes and automatic spending cuts that could shove the nation into a recession early next year if allowed to go forward.

The key battle pits Republican demands for deep spending cuts against Democrats' insistence on tax hikes for the wealthiest Americans.

"We can and we should avoid 'the fiscal cliff' by acting now - before January 1st - to extend middle class tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people and allow the tax cuts to expire for those earning over $250,000 a year," Durbin said.

Republicans could block any bill that does not extend all tax cuts. But after January 1, with all tax cuts expired, Democrats could draft a bill that cuts taxes only for those earning up to $250,000, cranking up pressure on Republicans to go along.

Durbin said decisions on Medicare and Medicaid should not be put off too long.

"Putting the discussions off indefinitely makes our choices harder, our success less likely and negative effects on current beneficiaries a near certainty," he said.

(Reporting by Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Jackie Frank)

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China's princelings come of age in new leadership

BEIJING (Reuters) - In China they are known as "princelings" ? the privileged children of the revolutionary founders of the People's Republic of China. And in the generational leadership change that just took place in Beijing, it could not have been clearer that having the right family bloodlines is among the most important attributes an ambitious cadre could possess.

Of the seven men who now comprise the Communist Party's new politburo standing committee, the apex of political power in China, four are members of "the red aristocracy", led by the new general secretary of the party, Xi Jinping.

The thriving of the princelings should not be a surprise, analysts and party insiders say. Rarely in its six decades in power has the party been under more stress. Public anger over widespread corruption, widening income inequality and vast environmental degradation have chipped away at its legitimacy.

The party's over-arching goal is to maintain its grip on the nation, and moving so many princelings into top positions is akin to taking out a political insurance policy.

"Fundamentally, princelings advocate maintaining one-party dictatorship," said Zhang Lifan, a Beijing-based political commentator. "This is (their) bottom line."

The rise of the princelings comes despite the fall of one of their own ambitious brethren, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai, himself a one-time contender for the standing committee and a son of one of Mao Zedong's closest comrades. Earlier this year, Bo's wife was convicted of murdering a British businessman in one of modern China's biggest political scandals.

Bo himself faces possible charges of corruption and abuse of power.

But in the wrangling over the new leadership, the princelings got a boost from former president and party elder Jiang Zemin, 86, widely viewed as a backroom powerbroker. Jiang had long supported Xi's rise and helped get another princeling onto the standing committee.

Jiang sees himself as a princeling as well, party sources say. His uncle, who died in 1939, is hailed as a martyr of the revolution that brought the Communists to power in 1949. Jiang additionally hopes that backing Xi will preserve his legacy and protect his family.

Party insiders say Jiang wants to make sure his two sons, both of whom are successful businessmen, are protected at a time of enhanced scrutiny of the wealth accumulated by the families of the country's top leadership.

The new standing committee is the first to be dominated by princelings. Jiang's successor, outgoing president Hu Jintao, was the first among equals in the previous line-up, which comprised mainly technocrats and bureaucrats.

But now, according to several analysts, most senior party members have fallen in line with what late economic tsar and one-time standing committee member Chen Yun once said: "The land under heaven should one day be handed to princelings, who can be trusted not to dig the party's grave."

PRINCELING IN CHIEF

In addition to Xi, 59, those on the committee with familial ties to the country's red founders are Vice Premier Wang Qishan, who will lead the party's efforts to contain corruption; former Shanghai party secretary Yu Zhengsheng, 67, the oldest member on the committee; and Zhang Dejiang, who studied economics in North Korea and replaced Bo as party boss in Chongqing.

Beyond their commitment to party rule, insiders say the princelings' inclinations on the critical issues facing China - especially political and economic reform - are harder to discern. Xi has used standard party rhetoric since taking the top job, saying China must "continue reforming and opening up".

The princelings, analysts said, tend to be bound not by strong policy preferences, but by their privileges and the conviction they were born to rule.

"The way they rode to power is very similar, but whether they share the same outlook, the same preferences for policies, I think that's not really the case," said Damien Ma, an analyst at political risk consultancy Eurasia Group.

Some analysts are cautiously optimistic that a leadership dominated by Xi and the other princelings might move with surprising boldness.

One Beijing-based political analyst, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity surrounding discussions on the leadership, said princelings believe it is their birthright to rule, and act accordingly. Analysts contrast them with leaders from a rival political faction, the Communist Youth League which produced President Hu.

"(The princelings) are naturally more confident and bolder than the children of commoners like Hu, whom they see as a mere caretaker, or a hired CEO," the analyst said. "The CEO is more prudent. The stakeholders are more anxious than the CEO if the company is not doing well. Princelings are likely to be bolder in pushing for change."

Some members of the political elite believe the party, after a decade of stagnation on political reform, needs to move quickly to improve government transparency, accountability and the rule of law, as well as allow more freedom of expression. They point hopefully to Xi's princeling bloodlines.

His father, Xi Zhongxun, who gave refuge to Mao during the Long March from 1934 to 1936, was a liberal. As party secretary of Guangdong in 1980, the elder Xi convinced Deng Xiaoping to allow him to set up market-oriented special economic zones in the province, the first place to do so in the Communist era. He also opposed the army crackdown on student protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and championed the rights of Tibetans and other minority groups.

Others believe Xi junior's public comments and writings, however rare, indicate he and the other princelings are pragmatists.

A TALE OF TWO PRINCELINGS

Xi's ascension, along with the other members of the red aristocracy, came at an awkward moment for the princelings.

Their princeling comrade Bo Xilai was ousted in March as party boss of Chongqing, lost his seat in the wider Politburo in April and was expelled from the party in September.

But the downfall of such a high-profile princeling, analysts suggested, was not necessarily unhealthy. At a time of deepening cynicism about the leadership among many Chinese, it showed that when a princeling breaks the law, "his crime is the same as that of a lawbreaking commoner", commentator Zhang said, quoting a Chinese proverb.

The different outcomes for Xi and Bo also suggest that even for the offspring of well-connected families, the way they wield power matters. By all accounts, Xi mostly kept his head down and did what was asked of him as he rose through the party's ranks.

Bo, by contrast, was flamboyant by Chinese political standards and played the family card if he thought it could help.

Bo's father, Bo Yibo, was one of the so-called "eight immortals," and helped guide China away from some of the most disastrous policies of the Mao era. He died in 2007.

At one point before the elder Bo's death, President Hu summoned Bo and Xi and offered them the same job: to run the landlocked province of Inner Mongolia, an economic backwater.

Bo, then commerce minister, was reluctant to go and told Hu he would have to ask his father first, one party insider told Reuters. Xi, then party boss of prosperous Zhejiang province in eastern China, said he was not familiar with the ethnic issues in Inner Mongolia but was willing to go.

"It was a test, but Bo used his father to pressure Hu," the party insider said, requesting anonymity to avoid repercussions for discussing secretive elite politics. "Xi was willing to accept whatever the party arranged."

All along, Xi understood intuitively that "the higher the profile (of an up and coming official), the more difficult promotion will be", even for a princeling, said Zhang, the political commentator.

In 2000, as governor of Fujian province in the southeast, Xi gave an interview in which he quoted an ancient Chinese military strategist:

"Do not try the impossible. Do not seek the unattainable ... Do not do the irreversible. Taking up a new government post is a relay. Don't drop the baton and run your leg well."

(This story has been refiled to fix a typo in a name in the 16th paragraph and the description of analyst's employer)

(Additional reporting by John Ruwitch; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

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Walmart Death: Alleged Shoplifter Dies After Altercation With Employees

A man suspected of shoplifting from a Walmart in Lithonia, Georgia is dead after being in a "physical altercation" with store employees, according to a police report obtained by WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News.

The police report said that the alleged shoplifter left the Walmart through the front door with two DVD players at around 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning. He was detained in the parking lot by two Walmart associates and a security officer.

Police arrived to find the employees on top of the suspect, who was reportedly unresponsive and bleeding from his nose and mouth.

A preliminary investigation indicates the victim was placed in a chokehold by the security officer, reports The Atlanta Journal Constitution. However, the cause of death has not yet been released.

According to a statement from Walmart spokeswoman Dianna Gee, the security officer is no longer working for Walmart, and the two associates involved in the altercation have been suspended without pay.

?This is truly a sad situation," said Gee said in a statement. "We don?t know all of the facts right now. We?re in the process of working with law enforcement to determine all of the facts and cooperating and providing any information we have to assist in the investigation."

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Hoffenheim woes continue in Bundesliga

By CIARAN FAHEY

Associated Press

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updated 2:39 p.m. ET Nov. 25, 2012

BERLIN (AP) -Hoffenheim's worst start to a Bundesliga season continued Sunday in a 2-1 loss at home to Bayer Leverkusen, increasing the pressure on coach Markus Babbel.

"I know what I'm doing, the manner of my work. We're going to keep working on it," Babbel said. "The quality is there, but it's another thing to produce it on the pitch."

The visitors took the lead in the 15th minute, when Hoffenheim's defenders failed to clear the ball. Three Leverkusen players headed the ball on before Lars Bender finally poked it past Koen Casteels.

It became 2-0 in the 38th, when Daniel Carvajal cut past a Hoffenheim defender, played a one-two with Andre Schuerrle, rounded the goalkeeper and scored his first Leverkusen goal from a tight angle.

"Perhaps we were too confident when it was 2-0. In the end we were lucky to win," Bender said.

Hoffenheim improved drastically after the break and deservedly pulled one back in the 59th when Fabian Johnson's shot took a deflection past the helpless Bernd Leno.

Schuerrle then struck the crossbar with a free kick in the 66th, before another from Gonzalo Castro landed on the roof of Casteels' net.

Halftime substitute Schipplock should have equalized in the 74th when he fired over with only the goalkeeper to beat after Roberto Firmino set him up.

"The team never gave up, never let the heads drop. The chances were there. Unfortunately we couldn't use them," Babbel said.

Hoffenheim occupies the relegation play-off place after its seventh loss in 13 games, while Leverkusen consolidated fifth.

Augsburg squandered the lead against Borussia Moenchengladbach in a 1-1 draw that leaves it bottom.

Sascha Moelders opened the scoring with a header over Marc-Andre ter Stegen in the fifth, and he ended the first half by striking the post.

"If that had gone in it would have decided the game," said Augsburg general manager Juergen Rollmann. "If, if, if. If the cat were a dog, then it would have to bark."

The home side was provisionally off the bottom, but Patrick Herrmann equalized with five minutes remaining, seconds after Augsburg coach Markus Weinzierl took the unusual step of bringing on a forward for a defender.

Earlier Sunday, Freiburg beat local rival Stuttgart 3-0 on Sunday to rise to sixth.

Jan Rosenthal got the home side off to a great start in the 22nd minute, when he fired the ball through Stuttgart defender William Kvist's legs and inside the left post.

Pavel Krmas' scored his first goal of the season in the 67th, when Sven Ulreich was hindered in his attempt to clear, allowing the Czech defender to scoop the rebound into the unguarded net.

Max Kruse sealed the derby win six minutes later, running onto Daniel Caligiuri's hopeful header before dispatching the ball past Ulreich.

"We had chances at the start but we didn't use them. Freiburg used their chances," Stuttgart defender Serdar Tasci said.

Stuttgart, which was coming off a 5-1 win at Steaua Bucharest in the Europa League, hit the post through Zdravko Kuzmanovic a minute before Rosenthal scored.

"It shouldn't be an excuse," said Ulreich, referring to Thursday's Europa League game. "We wanted the three points, but we just didn't play our game."

Freiburg also hit the post, late in the match, which ended with yellow cards being shown to both sides as tempers frayed.

On Saturday, Bayern Munich thrashed Hannover 5-0 to stay nine points clear of defending champion Borussia Dortmund, which took advantage of Schalke's 1-1 with Eintracht Frankfurt to move second with a 2-1 win at Mainz.

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GOMA/KAMPALA (Reuters) - African leaders called on eastern rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday to abandon their aim of toppling the government and leave the city of Goma they captured this week.

The appeal came from heads of state of the central African Great Lakes region who fear that if left unchecked the offensive by the M23 rebels could drag the volatile, ethnically-diverse and mineral-rich region back into another bloody conflict.

A statement signed by the regional leaders meeting in the Ugandan capital Kampala urged the M23 to abandon its threat to overthrow the elected government in Kinshasa and to "stop all war activities and withdraw from Goma".

It proposed deploying a joint force at Goma airport comprising of a company of neutral African troops, a company of the Congolese army (FARDC) and a company of the M23.

The leaders told M23 "to withdraw from current positions to not less than 20 km from Goma town within two days", but did not say what the consequences would be if the rebels did not comply.

The rebel M23 movement, which has announced it intends to "liberate" all of Congo and march on the capital Kinshasa 1,000 miles to the west, said it was still waiting to hear back from its political representative who was in Kampala.

But it expressed initial scepticism about a proposed joint deployment in Goma that included government troops returning.

"Will the population accept that? I doubt it. The population sees that M23 has changed things. With the (Congolese army) it was just harassment," M23 military spokesman Vianney Kazarama told Reuters.

Regional and international leaders are scrambling to halt the fighting in eastern Congo, fuelled by a mix of local and regional politics, ethnic rifts and competition for large reserves of gold, tin and coltan. The region has suffered multiple uprisings and invasions over the last 20 years.

The meeting in Kampala brought together Congo's President Joseph Kabila and the heads of state of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

But Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who has vehemently denied accusations by Congo and U.N. experts that his government is supplying, supporting and directing the M23 rebellion, did not attend the summit, although he sent his foreign minister.

As the regional leaders met in Uganda, the Congolese government army reinforced its positions southwest of rebel-held Goma, in what appeared to be a move to block any further advance by the insurgents, who have routed Congolese army forces backed by United Nations peacekeepers.

The Great Lakes heads of state also proposed that U.N. peacekeepers present in and around Goma should provide security in a neutral zone between Goma and the new areas seized by M23.

They said police that were disarmed in Goma by the rebels should also be re-armed so they can resume working.

GOMA SITUATION "A MESS"

In the Congolese capital Kinshasa, authorities banned protests, citing the need to keep order in what national police chief Charles Bisengimana called a "undeclared state of war".

Goma was calm on Saturday, but UK-based international charity Oxfam said the city's resources were being strained by the influx of more than 100,000 people displaced by the recent fighting, many of them taking shelter in schools and churches.

"The Goma situation is a mess .. we've just got the green light to set up another camp, because all the other sites are full already," Tariq Riebl, Oxfam's humanitarian programme coordinator, told Reuters.

Riebl said M23 was allowing Oxfam to operate.

"The main thing is access, and we have that. They (the rebels) are not al Shabaab or the Taliban," he said.

Goma has been a regional HQ for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, known as MONUSCO, which has a 17,000 strong force across the huge country. MONUSCO is tasked with assisting government troops keep the peace and protect civilians.

MONUSCO has faced criticism inside and outside Congo for not doing enough to halt the rebels when the Congolese army fled Goma, but U.N. officials have argued it is not the mandate of the U.N. peacekeepers to directly engage the insurgents.

U.N. helicopter gunships fired at the rebels but were unable to beat them back at Goma, U.N. officials said.

Congolese government troops attempted a counter-offensive against the advancing rebels this week but were forced to pull back to the town of Minova on Lake Kivu, leaving a trail of soldiers' bodies and abandoned equipment in their wake.

"We are going to defend Minova, but we'll also try to push back the rebels," Congo army (FARDC) spokesman Olivier Hamuli said. Reinforcements were on their way to the front, he said.

M23 forces moved south through the hills towards Minova, in a strategic position on the road to Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province. The rebels have said that Bukavu is their next objective and have vowed to sweep across the vast nation to Kinshasa if Kabila does not agree to talks.

Kabila, who has said he is willing to hear the rebels' grievances, appointed a new interim head of ground forces late on Friday.

General Francois Olenga Tete takes over from former army boss General Gabriel Amisi, who was suspended on Thursday over charges he had sold arms to other eastern rebels.

A MONUSCO spokesperson in Goma said around 10 women were raped in Minova by retreating Congolese soldiers.

The Congolese army, FARDC, said some soldiers had been arrested and sent to Bukavu for looting and extortion, but it denied there had been rapes.

(Additional reporting by Elias Biryabarema in Kampala; Writing by Joe Bavier and Pascal Fletcher)

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GOP opposition to diplomat Rice begins to crack

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican opposition to the possible nomination of Susan Rice to be secretary of state is showing signs of cracking.

Arizona Sen. John McCain now says he'd be willing to meet with Rice, the current U.N. ambassador, and consider her much-scrutinized explanation about how the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, unfolded.

McCain has said GOP senators would do "whatever is necessary" to block Rice if President Barack Obama were to nominate her to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton at the State Department.

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New Cardinal James Michael Harvey of U.S. (right) is congratulated by another cardinal during a consistory ceremony in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Saturday.

By Claudio Lavanga, NBC News

Update at 7.20 a.m. ET Saturday:?Milwaukee Archbishop James Harvey and five others were made cardinals by Pope Benedict Saturday, Reuters reports.?He reminded them that they wear red vestments because they must be ready to defend the faith "even to the shedding of your blood" in a ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica.

ROME ? The red, or rather scarlet, carpet will be rolled in St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday for the elevation of six cardinals. The new so-called "princes of the church" will receive their ring, scarlet skullcap and the traditional biretta, a four-cornered hat, in a solemn ceremony presided by Pope Benedict XVI.

The ceremony won't only be a rare insight into one of the oldest and most colorful traditions in the Catholic Church, which with 1.1 billion adherents worldwide, represents more than half of the world's Christian population. It will also redefine the balance of power in the Catholic Church, and further increase the United States' influence in the election of the next pope.

Among the six cardinal-elects is James Harvey, an archbishop from Milwaukee who will become the 11th cardinal elector from the U.S., strengthening the country's position as the Vatican's second-largest voting bloc after Italy. ?Cardinal electors are the members?of the College of Cardinals who have not reached their 80th birthdays on the day the pope dies and are thus able to vote for the new prelate.

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But as American author and John Paul II biographer George Weigel explains, the fact that American cardinals will represent almost 10 percent of worldwide electors in the next Conclave (the election of the pope), does not necessarily mean one of them will become the next Holy Father.?

"The prominence of American cardinals in the current college reflects the vitality of the Catholic Church in the United States," Weigel told NBC News. ?But I don't think it likely that any American will be elected pope for as long as the United States remains the world's pre-eminent power."?

What the selection of an American to be one of the new cardinal electors might show however, is that Pope Benedict XVI is acutely aware that the Catholic Church is swiftly ceasing to be?predominately?European religion.?After all, with 134 million followers, Brazil alone has more Catholics than Italy, France and Spain combined,?according to a major study released in 2011. Even the United States, with 75 million or ?24 percent of the world's Catholics, is far ahead of any European country.

Harvey, 63, is a well-known and respected figure in the Vatican. He was named prefect of the papal household in 1998, and has since arranged daily meetings and engagements for Pope John Paul II first, and Benedict XVI later. Having lived for the past 30 years in the Vatican, he may be more familiar with the dome of St. Peter?s Basilica than the "Domes" at the Mitchell Park Conservatory, but he never severed his ties with his native city.

Once he receives his ring, skullcap and hat on Saturday, Harvey will become the third American to be elevated to cardinal this year, after Edwin Frederick O?Brien and Timothy Michael Dolan received the honor back in February.

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While chances of an American to be elected Pope are still slim, American cardinals are undeniably a force in the Vatican.?

Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, has quickly become the superstar among American cardinals.?His charismatic personality and quick wit??made him an instant hit with the media, who have been waiting for a camera-friendly cleric since the death of Pope John II, arguably the greatest Catholic communicator in the age of mass media.

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, speaks with people waiting for free Thanksgiving groceries at the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Community Center in Harlem on Tuesday.

"Cardinal Dolan is definitely a candidate and enjoys a lot of name recognition ? which helps in a global church," Alessandro Speciale, Vatican correspondent at the Religious News Service, told NBC News.

"But two factors might weaken his chances: coming from the world's only superpower could still be seen as a negative factor in a global church, and he has never held a leadership position in the Roman Curia," he said,?referring?to the Holy See's?administrative?body. ?

In any case, the choice of non-Europeans to high office in the Vatican is?a way for the Holy See to shift the balance of power towards other continents and prove the ?universality of the church.??

"There was considerable criticism of the last group of cardinals being too European, too Italianate, and too Curial. I think it's fair to read this group as a response to that criticism," Weigel said.

Speciale agrees: "The previous Consistory in February had been criticized for being overly skewed towards Italy (and more in general Europe) and, again, the Curia. With this quite unusual second batch of red hats in a year, Benedict wanted to show his attention to the rest of the world."

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Whatever the reason for the choice of non-European Cardinals, the selection plays in favor of the American grouping, which will have one more elector in their ranks.

"The power of Americans in the Vatican has grown significantly in the last few years: not just because of the star power of Cardinal Dolan but also thanks to the organization, economic resources and boldness in the defense of Catholic values in front of a perceived hostile society is admired by many in the Vatican," Speciale said.

"But it remains to be seen whether this numerical weight will actually translate into influence at the Conclave: though national links are powerful, many other factors ? the strongest being whether one is part on not of the Roman Curia ? play into the secret voting in the Sistine Chapel."

When the time comes, all Cardinals-electors from all over the world will "lock" themselves in the Sistine Chapel in order to vote for a new Pope. While it is unclear who will emerge from it as the new leader of the world's Catholics, one thing is certain: that American influence in that choice went up a notch.

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Video: ?Rise of the Guardians? shows kids a magical world

>>> there's a new family movie in theaters this week, one that's action-packed to say the least featuring everyone from santa claus to jack frost . nbc's emkosinksi is here. good morning, michelle.

>> put them all in here, "rise of the guardian," 3-d dreamworks, takes all these childhood idols, they are working together and the know each other to protect kids' sense of wonder told from the perspective of jack frost .

>> i've been around for a long time. my name is jack frost .

>> reporter: yes, jack, did you know he's that young man in a frosty hood who makes all kinds of winter fun?

>> thanks.

>> you're welcome.

>> reporter: but do kids really believe in him?

>> how about jack frost ?

>> jack frost .

>> i don't really think he exists.

>> you don't?

>> reporter: and that's the point. in this magical word where santa has tatz and a russian accent .

>> jack to the.

>> reporter: toys are made by yeddies.

>> i thought elves made the toys.

>> just let them believe it.

>> reporter: the easter bunny 's australian.

>> i'm a bunny.

>> hello, jack.

>> reporter: and the flutteringly sweet tooth fairy, the glimmering drowsy sandman.

>> sandy, sandy?

>> reporter: all work together.

>> each of those lights is a child.

>> naughty or nice we protect them.

>> you don't want me.

>> reporter: jack's problem is he doesn't feel believed in or very important but is recruited to join them as the newest guardian.

>> music.

>> what makes you think i want to be a guardian?

>> of course you do? to save the world 's children from the villain, pitch black . he makes kids' hopes and beliefs disappear.

>> it's fear. we caught up with the voice of jack frost , actor chris pine .

>> you don't want me. you're all hard working deadlines and i'm snowballs.

>> reporter: must have been tough to do those scenes all alone.

>> i'm not looking at anybody, looking at a page of dialogue and a microphone. they brought alex in for my character jack frost and the santa claus .

>> am i on the naughty list?

>> on the naughty list. you hold the record.

>> reporter: it was actually harder to do with alec there so i was more taken with what watching what alec was doing.

>> the children are in danger.

>> must have done something really bad to get you four together.

>> reporter: your voice embodied in this?

>> it's bizarre. this little kind of waif-like, you know, white-haired child, boy-man that i'm trying to embody.

>> why me?

>> you have something very special inside.

>> reporter: he and his fellow actors, the animators that fully grew these characters, the entire orchestra behind it all fell in love with the story.

>> it's about the kind of -- the joy of being a child and what childhood is all about.

>> i'm not afraid of you.

>> reporter: and jack learns to believe in himself, something that might reach out in 3-d or hg across that screen.

>> jack frost .

>> jack frost .

>> yes.

>> he's real, too?

>> because he -- last night he came and frosted my plants.

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