Cameron deputy slams EU vote, polls show boost for PM

LONDON (Reuters) - Nick Clegg, leader of the junior party in Britain's ruling coalition, denounced David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum on quitting the European Union, as polls on Sunday indicated the prime minister's move may gain him votes.

"It is not in the national interest when we have this fragile recovery," said Clegg, whose Liberal Democrats strongly favor closer EU ties, in contrast to many members of Cameron's Conservative party. "I don't think it helps at all."

He dismissed as "implausible" Cameron's plan to take back powers from Brussels before a referendum on a new treaty by 2017 that would let voters take Britain out. EU leaders have shown little wish to grant Cameron concessions and Clegg said EU talks would distract ministers from efforts to revive the economy.

Cameron, he told the BBC, would damage economic growth if he spent "years flying around from one European capital to the next, fiddling around with the terms of Britain's membership".

The LibDems are languishing in the polls and are unlikely to leave the coalition before an election in 2015, but the EU issue has added to strains. Cameron, who says he wants Britain to stay in the EU, last week promised a referendum if he is re-elected. It is less clear what may happen if treaties remain unchanged.

The first opinion polls published since he made his pledge of an "in-out" vote, however, showed that the prime minister may be succeeding in reversing a drift from the Conservatives to a party which campaigns for Britain to leave the European Union.

A Survation poll in the Mail on Sunday, which showed Labour unchanged and in the lead on 38 percent, put the Conservatives on 31 percent, up two points, while the UK Independence Party was down by the same margin, on 14 percent. UKIP's surge from just 3 percent in the 2010 election has raised the prospect of a split on the right that could condemn Cameron to defeat.

Another poll, by ComRes in the Independent on Sunday, showed an even more marked "Brussels bounce" for the prime minister, with the Conservatives gaining five points from last month to 33 percent and UKIP losing four points to be on 10 percent. Again, ComRes put Labour in the lead, down a point on 39 percent.

Cameron's European move worries the United States and EU allies, which want Britain to stay in the bloc. Many business leaders say it creates dangerous uncertainty.

Many Conservatives, whose party toppled previous premiers over European policy, welcomed a referendum after 2015. However, without improvement in an economy which shrank by 0.3 percent in the last quarter, Cameron's re-election is far from certain.

(Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

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Muzeroll, town officials review budget requests

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ELIOT, Maine ? Fire Chief Jay Muzeroll requested funding for a new roof for the department's State Road headquarters during a Wednesday, Jan. 23, review of the department's proposed fiscal year 2013-14 budget.

The review, which was part of the town's budget planning process for the upcoming fiscal year, was conducted by Eliot's Budget Committee and the Board of Selectmen.

Also requested by Muzeroll was a $6,800 increase in safety, travel and training expenses for his department. In addition, he is seeking funds for a new firefighter response system.

Muzeroll estimated the cost of a replacement roof for the Fire Department at $65,000.

"We currently have $25,000 in our roof account now, so we would be short an estimated $45,000 (for a new roof)," the chief said.

"We can probably go another year or two to replace the roof," Muzeroll said. However, he cautioned that the town should soon develop a strategy for meeting this expense.

He also elaborated on his request for $1,000 to fund what he called a response communication system.

Through the system, firefighters would be able to alert the department that they are responding to a department call.

"You're telling me whether you are responding to the station, so that I know that you're coming," Muzeroll explained.

"This is an Internet-based speed-dial program," he said, "which enables us to know within two minutes whether we need to send out a full (fire) truck or a smaller response is required."

Muzeroll indicated that the cost to the town for this service is minimal ? two cents per call ? but could result in considerable savings through more efficient use of department personnel.

"(The firefighter's) name and default distance ? how far you are from your house to the call ? appear on the computer monitor, enabling us to determine mutual aid more quickly," Muzeroll said.

The requested funds would cover software installation, hardware and computer maintenance, according to the fire chief.

Regarding increases to his department's safety, travel and training budgets, Muzeroll cited expansion of efforts to teach fire prevention to Eliot elementary school children, increases in training and medical exam costs, and growing emphasis on first-responder training.

"This is the bulk of our requested increase, amounting to $3,000," Muzeroll said about the first responder training. "Today, nearly 55 percent of our calls are for direct medical care ? as in the event of cardiac arrests ? or indirect care, as in auto accidents where we assist ambulance personnel."

The additional funding would go toward training more back-up Fire Department staff in first responder skills, while also enhancing emergency-care knowledge of current firefighters, he said.

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Schools must provide sports for disabled, US says | StAugustine.com

WASHINGTON ? Students with disabilities must be given a fair shot to play on a traditional sports team or have their own leagues, the Education Department says.

Disabled students who want to play for their school could join traditional teams if officials can make "reasonable modifications" to accommodate them. If those adjustments would fundamentally alter a sport or give the student an advantage, the department is directing the school to create parallel athletic programs that have comparable standing to traditional programs.

"Sports can provide invaluable lessons in discipline, selflessness, passion and courage, and this guidance will help schools ensure that students with disabilities have an equal opportunity to benefit from the life lessons they can learn on the playing field or on the court," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement announcing the new guidance Friday.

The groundbreaking order is reminiscent of the Title IX expansion of athletic opportunities for girls and women four decades ago and could bring sweeping changes to school budgets and locker rooms for years to come.

Activists cheered the changes.

"This is a landmark moment for students with disabilities. This will do for students with disabilities what Title IX did for women," said Terri Lakowski, who for a decade led a coalition pushing for the changes. "This is a huge victory."

It's not clear whether the new guidelines will spark a sudden uptick in sports participation. There was a big increase in female participation in sports after Title IX guidance instructed schools to treat female athletics on par with male teams. That led many schools to cut some men's teams, arguing that it was necessary to be able to pay for women's teams.

Education Department officials emphasized they did not intend to change sports traditions dramatically or guarantee students with disabilities a spot on competitive teams. Instead, they insisted schools may not exclude students based on their disabilities if they can keep up with their classmates.

Federal laws, including the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, require states to provide a free public education to all students and prohibit schools that receive federal money from discriminating against students with disabilities. Going further, the new directive from the Education Department's civil rights division explicitly tells schools and colleges that access to interscholastic, intramural and intercollegiate athletics is a right.

The department suggests minor accommodations to incorporate students with disabilities onto sports teams. For instance, track and field officials could use a visual cue for a deaf runner to begin a race.

Some states already offer such programs. Maryland, for instance, passed a law in 2008 that required schools to create equal opportunities for students with disabilities to participate in physical education programs and play on traditional athletic teams. And Minnesota awards state titles for disabled student athletes in six sports.

Increasingly, those with disabilities are finding spots on their schools' teams.

"I heard about some of the other people who joined their track teams in other states. I wanted to try to do that," said Casey Followay, 15, of Wooster, Ohio, who competes on his high school track team in a racing wheelchair.

Current rules require Followay to race on his own, without competitors running alongside him. He said he hopes the Education Department guidance will change that and he can compete against runners.

"It's going to give me the chance to compete against kids at my level," he said.

Some cautioned that progress would come in fits and starts initially.

"Is it easy? No," said Brad Hedrick, director of disability services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and himself a hall-of-famer in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association. "In most places, you're beginning from an inertial moment. But it is feasible and possible that a meaningful and viable programming can be created."

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Trial under way in LA hip joint replacement suit

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A California jury has heard opening statements from attorneys in a lawsuit over whether a now-withdrawn hip replacement device from a medical giant Johnson & Johnson subsidiary was defective.

The lawyer for a man who had his hip device removed after metal allegedly flaked off into his body on Friday showed jurors pictures of the surgery with black material in the hip socket.

The product liability lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court claims Johnson & Johnson knowingly marketed a faulty hip implant that left thousands of people with crippling problems or needing replacement surgeries.

A lawyer for the maker of the device said patient Loren Kransky had many pre-existing medical ailments which caused his problems.

IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

Opening statements were scheduled Friday in a lawsuit that claims medical giant Johnson & Johnson knowingly marketed a faulty hip implant that left thousands of people with crippling problems or needing replacement surgeries.

The fraud and negligence suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, is the first of thousands of similar suits to reach trial in the United States that involve an all-metal ball-and-socket hip joint that was pulled from the market two years ago.

Loren Kransky, a former North Dakota prison guard, claims he suffered metal poisoning and other health problems after receiving the hip joint, known as the articular surface replacement, or ASR, in 2007.

He since has had it replaced.

Attorneys for the company argue that Kransky, 64, had a number of previous medical problems, that he knew the risks of hip replacement surgery and that there is no evidence that the ASR had a fault design.

The artificial hip socket was made by Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. It was sold for eight years to some 35,000 people in the U.S. and more than 90,000 people worldwide. The company stopped making the product in 2009 and recalled it the next year.

However, documents unsealed in the court case last week indicated that Johnson & Johnson officials were aware of problems with the device at least as far back as 2008.

Also, according to a deposition from a DePuy official, a 2011 company review of a patient registry concluded that more than a third of the implants were expected to fail within five years of their implantation.

New Brunswick, N.J.-based Johnson & Johnson has put aside around $1 billion to deal with the costs of the recall and lawsuits.

Last year, British experts at the world's biggest artificial joint registry said doctors should stop using metal-on-metal hip replacements after a study found that, after five years, about 6 percent of people who had used them needed surgery to fix or replace them.

That compares with just 1.7 to 2.3 percent of people who had ceramic or plastic joints.

Johnson & Johnson has issued about 30 recalls of Tylenol and other products since September 2009. Reasons range from nauseating packaging smells to tiny glass and metal shards in liquid medicines.

On Tuesday, Johnson & Johnson reported higher fourth-quarter profits and forecast a 2013 profit of $5.35 to $5.45 per share. That was below the average analyst estimate of $5.49.

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