Nonprofit raising funds for kids with cancer

The inaugural Yuma Children's Ride to benefit local children with cancer will be held Saturday.

?The money raised at this first event will go to the children and their families in order to pay for treatment costs, food, bills, etc,? said Robert Neufeld, a member of the Bikers Fighting Cancer motorcycle club, which is organizing the event.

?One hundred percent of all donated money goes to the children and their families. We are attempting to collect not only monetary donations, but also gift certificates for food, gas and services which companies could render.?

The poker run will begin at 8 a.m. at Buffalo Wild Wings, 1317 South Yuma Palms Parkway. A $10 fee is required to participate in the run.

After the completion of the run, festivities will continue from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in front of the Pop-a-Top Saloon, located in the Palm Plaza at 2241 South Avenue A. The event will feature live music, a barbecue, a bikini bike car wash, a bounce house and family entertainment.

BFC is a nonprofit charitable organization of motorcycle enthusiasts dedicated to helping children with cancer. Its mission is to provide financial assistance, emotional support, and help cancer victims with the healing process.

BFC helps parents who must put their jobs on hold to be at their child's side during the treatment of the disease by providing emotional support and financial help. They pay past-due utility bills and expenses not covered by insurance such as deductibles, co-pays and non-covered items.

?Not only is the treatment very costly, but the treatment can only take place in Phoenix and Tucson, as Yuma does not have a treatment facility for children,? Neufeld said.

BFC has chapters in Washington, Oregon, California and now in Arizona. The Yuma BFC chapter currently has about six members.

BFC raises money through donations and product sales. They sell T-shirts, hats, pins, small support patches. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of these items goes to helping children afflicted with cancer.

The money raised is not given directly to hospitals, but is spent on whatever the child and their family need by the BFC.

Families are not referred to BFC by hospitals due to privacy laws, so the group relies on word of mouth to find those in need.

Once BFC is made aware of a child in need, they contact the family who must then pass a screening process to receive aid.

The Yuma chapter is currently looking for new members. They allow both men and women to join regardless of what make and model of motorcycle they drive.

Membership is $100 per year in addition to the initial cost of the patches, which is approximately $60. Married couples receive a discount.

For more information call 360-441-7209 or log onto bikersfightingcancer.org.

Chris McDaniel can be reached at cmcdaniel@yumasun.com or 539-6849.

Source: http://www.yumasun.com/news/bfc-75209-children-cancer.html

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3-D TV Doesn't Raise Seizure Risk for Kids With Epilepsy: Study (HealthDay)

SUNDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Children with epilepsy do not appear to face an increased risk for seizures while watching 3-D TV, a new German-Austrian study suggests.

However, the results did reveal that about one in five of these children is vulnerable to other unpleasant reactions when viewing 3-D television, including nausea, headaches and dizziness.

"Normal people have a very low risk to get a seizure while watching 3-D," explained study author Dr. Herbert Plischke, executive director of the University of Munich's Generation Research Program. In contrast, he noted that people with epilepsy --particularly children -- could be expected to have a "higher vulnerability" in terms of overall seizure risk in such a setting.

However, among a group of young people with epilepsy, "we could not see any provoked seizure which was caused by 3-D," Plischke said.

He and his colleagues from the University of Salzburg in Austria are scheduled to present their findings Sunday at the American Epilepsy Society annual meeting in Baltimore.

As a concept, 3-D technology is hardly a cutting-edge idea, harkening back more than half a century to the 1950s Vincent Price classic film "House of Wax." But the experience of donning special glasses to view an "extra-dimensional" effect has undergone a cinematic renaissance in recent years, led by the box-office success of the movie "Avatar."

Jumping on the bandwagon, TV manufacturers have sought to bring the experience right into the living room, with TV sets that are hard-wired to provide 3-D viewing of properly formatted shows.

The move has raised concerns over how the technology may impact various audiences. Recently, some researchers cautioned that nearly one-third of all viewers may be prone to experiencing headaches and/or eye fatigue when viewing a 3-D movie because of poor eye coordination. The resulting strain, they said, could prompt an unpleasant experience equivalent to that of seasickness.

People with epilepsy are a more specific worry, given their sensitivity to the flashing lights and red and blue light alterations contained in certain TV programming and video games. As a result, some TV manufacturers (such as Samsung) have published public warnings, alerting viewers to the potential risk for epileptic seizures or stroke when viewing 3-D technology.

Against that backdrop, the current investigation set out to assess the impact of 3-D on children with epilepsy viewing the technology on TV.

The team focused on 100 children (average age 12) who had epilepsy or were deemed to be at risk for epilepsy.

All the kids underwent a standard test for photosensitivity. Each was then asked to wear 3-D glasses and sit about six-and-a-half feet away from a 50-inch plasma 3-D TV.

During 15 minutes of viewing, only one child experienced a seizure, and that particular child was noted as being prone to routinely experiencing three to four seizures per day.

Symptoms of nausea, headache and dizziness went up during both photosensitivity testing and 3-D TV-watching (in 15 percent and 20 percent of cases, respectively). But the near total absence of seizures, combined with the benign results of EEG readings taken during sensitivity testing and 3-D viewing, led the team to conclude that 3-D TV viewing posed little risk to children with epilepsy.

The team suggested that seizure risk is probably more a function of differences in TV content rather than TV technology, with certain patterns, colors and flickering images raising the threat of seizure more than 3-D images.

Dr. Orrin Devinsky, director of NYU Langone Medical Center's Epilepsy Center, agreed.

"It sounds perfectly in line with what I might expect," he said. "If there was to be a problem, it would be with the content, namely flashing imagery. And that would be a present concern in 2-D or 3-D."

"So I wouldn't expect 3-D TV to be a specific issue," said Devinsky, who is also a professor of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. "I wouldn't say that no child in ten thousand would have a problem. But I would expect it to be very rare, if it occurs at all."

Research presented at meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.

More information

For more on epileptic seizures, visit the Epilepsy Foundation.

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Swift, Minaj get Billboard honor, talk Grammy nods (AP)

NEW YORK ? Taylor Swift doesn't think the Recording Academy is mean. Though she won the Grammy for album of the year in 2010, she's not sad her latest multiplatinum effort isn't up for the honor this time around.

"I got three nominations. I was just so excited," she said Friday, before she was honored as Billboard's "Woman of the Year."

Among the Swift achievements that led to her Billboard honor was the best-selling performance of her third album "Speak Now," which has sold more than 3.7 million copies and generated hits like "Mine" and "Mean."

There was some surprise when the critically acclaimed album wasn't among the overall best album nominees when the Grammy nominations were revealed Wednesday, but Swift says she's excited by her nominations, which include best country album and two for "Mean," in which she answers her critics and challenges bullies.

"That song is so personal, and I'm so glad that the Grammys recognized it," she said on the red carpet ahead of the event.

Swift got a standing ovation as she accepted her honor. Swift recalled reading Billboard as a teen, pouring over its pages and hoping one day to see her name in the trade magazine.

"I got here today and there were all these flashing camera bulbs ... I got to the table, and I saw the magazine on the chair and it had me on it," she said. "All the daydreams I had as a little kid, I guess this is what it looked like."

One of the country singer's favorite artists, Nicki Minaj, was also honored at the event as Billboard's "Rising Star."

Like Swift, Minaj was rocking blonde bangs.

"This is my Taylor Swift look," Minaj joked.

But the rapper and singer got teary-eyed at the event when Minaj received her honor. She's costarred on dozens of hit songs in the last two years, and her debut CD, "Pink Friday," has sold more than 1.6 million copies in the United States. Minaj is nominated for four Grammys, including best new artist, pitting her against the Band Perry, Bon Iver, Skrillex and J. Cole.

"I don't ever expect to win those kinds of things, but it's good to be recognized and it's good for girls to see that you can do whatever kind of music that you want to do," Minaj said on the red carpet.

Minaj is also up for best rap album, where she'll face her mentor, Lil Wayne, as well as Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lupe Fiasco. She says she's diligent, and that lethargic people annoy her.

"I always say hard work pays off. Don't be lazy. I am racist against lazy people. I wish they would not exist in this world," she said.

Minaj, known for her outrageous and colorful fashion style, says she's learning to "trust my first instinct." The 28-year-old says proof of that will show on her upcoming album, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded," due out on Valentine's Day.

"Things are happening so much easier for me now because I was over-thinking on the first album. I was trying to give people what I thought they needed, and what I needed my reputation to be," she said. "And now it's like, `I don't care what you think. I'm going to do what I wanna do for my core fans and if you like it, you like it. If you don't, bye!'"

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AP Music Editor Nekesa Mumbi Moody contributed to this report.

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Online:

http://www.billboard.com

http://www.taylorswift.com

http://www.mypinkfriday.com

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Mesfin Fekadu covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/musicmesfin

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Iranian diplomats set to leave UK (AP)

LONDON ? The deadline is approaching for Iranian diplomats to leave Britain following their expulsion by the U.K. government after protesters attacked the British embassy in Tehran.

Early Friday, the Iranian flag was still flying at Tehran's embassy in London, with diplomats given until 2 p.m. GMT (9 a.m. EST) to leave the U.K.

Phones at Iran's London embassy and consulate rang unanswered.

Tehran's relations with Britain have become increasingly strained in recent months, largely due to tensions over Tehran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment ? a process that can lead to developing nuclear weapons.

On Tuesday, Iranian protesters stormed and ransacked the U.K. embassy compounds in Tehran.

The incident ? broadcast around the world ? showed demonstrators tearing down Union Jack flags and brandishing a looted picture of Queen Elizabeth II. It has deepened Iran's isolation and significantly escalated tensions with the West.

In retaliation, Britain ordered Iranian diplomats off its soil, pulled its diplomats out of Iran and backed new sanctions on the Islamic republic. At least four other European countries, including Germany and France, also moved to reduce diplomatic contacts with Iran.

The storming of the embassy came two days after Iran's parliament voted to reduce ties with Britain following London's support for the recently upgraded U.S. sanctions on Tehran.

Although host nations are supposed to ensure security for embassies, the mob rampaged for hours at the British compound. Attackers torched a vehicle, tossed looted documents through windows, tearing down Union Jack flags and replacing them with Iran's flag and a banner in the name of a 7th-century Shiite saint, Imam Hussein.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said the attacks were "clearly premeditated" by high-ranking officials, but claimed there were "divisions within the Iranian regime" about the move.

Iran's government has criticized the attacks. But hard-liners have spoken out in support of the protesters. Mohammad Mohammadian praised the attackers, saying they had targeted the "epicenter of sedition."

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/britain/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111202/ap_on_re_eu/iran_britain

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