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But a U.S. company aims to solve the problem by selling the first shoes with a built-in tracking device.
The £200 shoes are fitted with a miniature GPS system - similar to those used in sat nav systems found in cars - that allows its wearer’s location to be accurately pinpointed.
The shoes have a GPS system built into the heel to track the wearer's exact location at all times
The GPS system, which is implanted in the heel of what appears to be a normal walking shoe, allows family members or carers to constantly monitor the wearer.
They are even able to set up a designated 'safe' area and if the person strayed beyond those boundaries it would trigger an alert. Family members use an app downloaded to a smart phone or computer to find out the location of the missing person.The American company marketing the shoe claim it is the first in the world to aid Alzheimer's victims.Blood pressure drugs can lower Alzheimer's risk by up to 50 per cent
Is Alzheimer's contagious? Condition 'could be infectious like mad cow disease' Andrew Carle, a professor at George Mason University’s College of Health and Human Services in Washington DC, said the shoes will save lives and avoid embarrassing and costly incidents with the elderly.
'It’s especially important for people in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s who are at the highest risk,' said Carle, who was an adviser on the project.
'They might be living in their home but they’re confused. They toms for cheap go for a walk and they can get lost for days.'
Carle said there were similar GPS tracking devices available, but these were often rejected by dementia sufferers. 'The primary reason is that paranoia is a manifestation of the disease,' Carle said.
The shoes are to go on sale in the U.S. later this month
'If you put something on someone with Alzheimer’s that they don’t recognize, they remove it. If it’s a wristwatch and it’s not their wristwatch, they will take it off. So you have to hide it.'
There are an estimated 500,000 people in the UK who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s toms shoes wholesale while in the US there are more than five million.
The tracking device for shoes is a joint development between Los Angeles based GTX Corp,who make miniature tracking devices, and Aetrex shoes.
Patrick Bertagna, chief executive of GTX Corp, said the mini GPS system was initially being made for training shoes for long distance runners. But he said production was changed after tests showed the benefit to sufferers of the disease.The first batch of 3,0000 shoes go on sale in the U.S. later this month and can be bought from the company’s website. The article resource come from http://www.tomsshoessale2012.com/

When American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the north tower on Sept. 11

When American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the north tower on Sept. 11, director Stephen Daldry was nestled in the safety of London, editing his film “The Hours.”His producer, Scott Rudin, got a call relaying the news, and Daldry frantically dialed his soon-to-be wife, New Yorker Lucy Sexton, who was watching the horror unfold from the couple’s 14th St. apartment.“I spent the rest of that day on the phone to my wife, Michael kors outlet, 66% off cheap Michael kors handbags sale who was on the roof of our building,” Daldry tells the Daily News. “From our roof she had a very clear view of what was going on downtown with the towers.”Returning home a few days later on the first flight he could, the British-born director found his adopted city seemingly “under siege” — the National Guard posted at the end of his street, the posters of the missing, the plume of smoke from downtown.Like all New Yorkers, these images haunt him 10 years later. Daldry, however, is one of the few in a position to make a film capturing the zeitgeist of that time.The result is “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,”Michael kors handbags, cheap Michael kors handbags sale which opened in New York on Christmas and opens across the rest of the country Friday.Based on the 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, the movie follows 11-year-old Oskar Schell (newcomer and former young “Jeopardy” champ Thomas Horn), a borderline autistic loner who loses the father he idolizes (Tom Hanks) in the World Trade Center attacks. Trying desperately to find some logic in the senseless, Oskar stumbles on a key that may unlock a final message from his father, and begins a two-year quest that seems to drive him away from his grieving mother (Sandra Bullock).“People will have to make up their own minds whether the time is right or whether a story should or shouldn’t be told or what can and cannot be depicted,” Daldry says.

A bankruptcy judge in Delaware on Wednesday approved a settlement between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Fox Sports that clears the way for the sale of the team

A bankruptcy judge in Delaware on Wednesday approved a settlement between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Fox Sports that clears the way for the sale of the team.The settlement, reached late Tuesday and quickly approved at a brief court hearing Wednesday morning, ends a contentious legal battle between the ball club and Fox."The agreement with Fox clears the path for the Dodgers to sell the team on schedule and to maximize the value of the debtors' estate," Dodgers attorney Sid Levinson told Judge Kevin Gross.Toms Shoes, 35% off cheap Toms, Toms Shoes sale online Fox Sports attorney Greg Werkheiser said Fox was glad to have resolved its differences with the Dodgers, and attorneys for Major League Baseball and the Dodgers' committee of unsecured creditors told Gross they support the settlement.Gross quickly signed off on the settlement, saying it was in the best interest of all parties in the Dodgers bankruptcy case.The settlement was reached with the help of a court-appointed mediator after a federal district court judge said last month that Fox likely would win an appeal of a ruling by Gross that authorized the Dodgers to begin a process to market the media rights to future games starting in 2014.Fox Sports Net West, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., 35% off Toms Shoes for cheap online claimed that the media rights marketing plan violated its rights under an existing telecast contract with the Dodgers.Under the settlement, the Dodgers will abide by the terms of the existing contract with Fox. That contract gives Fox an exclusive 45-day period starting in October to try to negotiate a contract extension with the Dodgers. The contract also prohibits the Dodgers from talking to other potential buyers of the media rights before Nov. 30 and gives Fox a limited right of first refusal on competing offers received after that date.Gross had ruled that those "no-shop" provisions were unenforceable in bankruptcy and approved a marketing process that moved up the exclusive negotiating period by about 10 months. That would have forced Fox to try to strike a new deal with the Dodgers this month and made any agreement subject to approval by the successful bidder for the team, a condition Fox said would decrease its leverage in negotiations.

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More than 38 million adults in the U.S. binge drink alcohol about four times a month

More than 38 million adults in the U.S. binge drink alcohol about four times a month, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report finds. The activity is more common among younger people, but older people who binge drink do it more often. The average highest number of drinks consumed at a time is eight.The Vital Signs report released Tuesday defines binge drinking as having four or more drinks (for women) or five or more drinks (for men) on one occasion. Men and women 18 to 34 comprise the group with the most binge drinkers,Toms Shoes, 35% off cheap Toms, Toms Shoes sale online but those 65 and older do it more frequently, about five to six times a month on average.Researchers also broke down binge drinking by income, finding that the activity is more common among those with a household yearly income of $75,000 or more. But those who make less than $25,000 a year consume the highest number of drinks at a time, about eight to nine on average.Areas in the country where binge drinking is more common include New England, Hawaii, the Midwest, Washington, D.C., and Alaska. The report also found that more than half the alcohol adults drink is consumed while binge drinking. Among young people it's 90%.Toms Shoes Wholesale Men who binge drink consume more drinks than women, and they do it more often: an average nine drinks five times per month, versus 5.9 drinks 3.2 times a month.Surprisingly, the report also noted that most people who binge drink are not alcoholics or dependent on alcohol. But binge drinking does have serious health and social consequences, such as suicide and car wrecks, and it's a risk factor for cardiovascular conditions and sexually transmitted diseases.The figures come from a 2010 survey of about 458,000 adults in the U.S. age 18 and older."We need to work together to implement proven measures to reduce binge drinking at national, state and community levels," said CDC director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden in a news release.

A new study concludes that casual pot smoking does not affect the functioning of your lungs

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The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold the government's regulation of broadcast indecency

The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold the government's regulation of broadcast indecency, after Tuesday arguments where several justices disputed industry claims that it was too hard to distinguish artistic and cultural works from gratuitous nudity and coarse language.Under the George W. Bush administration, the Federal Communications Commission cracked down on broadcasts it considered indecent, including awards shows where celebrities uttered expletives and the police drama "NYPD Blue," Michael kors outlet, 66% off cheap Michael kors handbags sale where a seven-second shot depicted a woman's naked posterior.Broadcasters, complaining that the same word could air unsanctioned in "Saving Private Ryan" but expose them to fines if uttered in a documentary about blues musicians, challenged the regulations as a violation of their free-speech rights. A federal appeals court in New York agreed, ruling that the FCC regulations, which apply between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. and are intended to protect children, were so vague as to chill protected speech.The Supreme Court sided with the FCC regulations in 2009 in a 5-4 ruling that addressed procedural issues. Nothing Tuesday suggested any of the five justices in that majority had changed their views. Their questions focused less on the regulations' chilling effect than their potential to create an island of propriety amid a rising sea of indecency on cable television, whose content is not under FCC regulation."The risk of the race to the bottom is real, 2012 cheap Michael kors watches on sale and I think history is showing it," said Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, defending the regulations. He traced the FCC's concerns to "the explosion of the shock jock phenomenon, Howard Stern and Bubba the Love Sponge and the rest of it... which was highly vile and lewd."Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested that the indecency rules were "an important symbol for our society, that we aspire to a culture that's not vulgar in a very small segment."Justice Antonin Scalia chimed in. "Sign me up as supporting Justice Kennedy's notion that this has a symbolic value, just as we require a certain modicum of dress for the people that attend this court," he said.Carter Phillips, representing broadcasters including Fox Television Stations, argued that it was unfair to hold broadcast TV to a tougher standard than pay channels, because most Americans receive both through the same cable or satellite box. Fox is a unit of News Corp., which also owns The Wall Street Journal."That cuts both ways," responded Chief Justice John Roberts. "People who want to...expose their children to broadcasts where these words are used, where there is nudity, there are 800 channels where they can go for that. All we are asking for, what the government is asking for, is a few channels where... they are not going to hear the S-word, the F-word. They are not going to see nudity."