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Press Release from the Dane Co. Sheriff's Department:
On Tuesday, October 23, 2012, Dane County Sheriff's Office Detectives along with agents from the United States Marshall Service received information indicating Helgestad may be located on the east side of Madison. After conducting extensive follow up, Helgestad was located in the parking lot of an east side Madison business. Helgestad was taken into custody without incident and returned to the Dane County Jail, where he is facing an additional charge of Escape.
Posted Saturday, October 13, 2012 --- 3:30 p.m.
Press Release from the Dane Co. Sheriff's Department:
Madison, WI. October 13, 2012 – An inmate from the Dane County Jail has been declared AWOL. Jason J. Helgestad, age 21 of McFarland, was residing at an alternative facility as part of the Pathfinders program. A Dane County Deputy Sheriff responded to this facility after he was unable to contact Helgestad. The deputy discovered Helgestad had cut off his GPS monitoring device after fleeing the facility.
Helgestad is currently serving 180-day sentence for Retail Theft and Bail Jumping. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 911.


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I was at the GI office yesterday. I am supposed to increase my fiber (stops me up more), sit on the toilet at the same time 20 minutes every day for the next 4 weeks(no pushing) to mentally train my intestines to work . They have not worked right in 36 years and have basically quit working even with the help of laxatives. I am following doctors orders, but like I said, I have not used the restroom in THREE (3) WEEKS, I am in tears the pain is so severe.
I look 10 months pregnant have gain 70 lbs. lost 20, and I have IBS?! The doctors give you that diagnosis because they are clueless also.
Go to your ER, Tell Them You don't want pain meds and to be discharged, you need an answer. MRI you spine, your brain, as well as your abdomen. Tell them to even look for worms (larve) that is something that is a lot more common, goes undiagnosed because it can be VERY hard to find. I passed a whole lot of very long worms(took them to GI lab). They told me it was NORMAL! Never once have they run necessary test because it wasn't found in my stool culture. it wont be there unless they are dead. My 8 year old son went through it also and they still have not deemed it medically necessary to do anything. So start back with the ER and stay on them go back everyday untill someone listens to you. If you get an answer let me know and I will do the same for you!
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Agian thank you for the advice and I have signed up for the newsletter.
Julie B.
He has been scoped from both ends and had other various scans. They tested for Crohns as well as several other diseases and never came back with anything other than confirmation that his intestines are inflamed, but they have no idea why. He looks like he has a "beer belly" but if you touch it, it's not flabby, it's firm, like when an ankle swells.
Unfortunately for us, we don't have the money to continue to have tests run that tell us nothing, so we would be very appreciative if you would share what you find out...
You've brought up some good points here. If your doctor isn't listening to you then it's time to listen to your inner feelings and find a new doctor. You know your body better than anyone else and so if you feel the need to get a second opinion and find another doctor who will listen to you, go for it!
WebMD has a lot of articles about seeking second opinions , but one of my favorites is from an archived blog by Dr Bill Lloyd. He's writing about eye and vision problems but his blog about second opinions is applicable to everyone! Please click on the link: Second Opinions are Welcome
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celiacs disease is your body's inability to digest the protein 'gluten'. it sits and sits in your intestines and WILL NOT BE ABSORBED. your only luck of getting a bunch of that finally out of you is if you luck out and eat something NOT containing it, that your body CAN absorb and digest, and pushes it out.
call me crazy, just try it.
Also, it makes me curious if any of you live in a similar geographic area. I've heard a story recently about a rare blood disorder (non-GI related) that has appeared in 1,300 children in a Texas community. That's no coincidence and I don't know what is being done to track this. But my point being how widespread are these issues that you posters are having?
Any medical facility that would not do a bowel culture for chronic diarrhea has no business charging you for a visit in my view!
#1 Unfortunately don't listen to what doctors tell you. They mean their best but digestive problems are not well studied, particularly the blanked diagnosis called "IBS"
#2 Pick up a book called "Fiber Menace" by Konstantin Monastyrsky
#3 Get on a LOW FIBER DIET immediately. The irony is that most doctors and nutritionists put you on a high fiber diet and tell you to drink tons of water, despite the fact that tons of researc shows that people with bowel motility issues are harmed by increasing fiber.
My nutritionist told me the same thing - more fiber. And guess what, I was in pain all day.
About 4 months ago, I started a new regimen to try to lose weight which consisted of cutting down on fat, salt, fried foods and empty carbs. What carbs I ate were higher in fiber content and lots of whole grain. I ate more fruits and vegetables and lean meat and more lean protein. I used low-fat, reduced calorie milk, ate lowfat cheese and other diary products and ate low-fat / non-fat probiotic yogurt, lean protein, a banana and original Post Shredded wheat cereal every breakfast. I cut out onions (and fennel, leeks, shallots & chives) which I found increased my symptoms and cut down on caffeine as well. I took multivitamins (almost) everyday- (sometimes, I forgot). I started walking for at least 30 minutes at least 3-4 times a week and did other cardio (usually dancing) for at least 30 minutes - 1 hour at least once a week -- in addition to my usual routine. After the second week of this, my diarrhea and discomfort was gone! By the end of week 4, I had lost 18 lbs.
By the end of week 8, I had lost 25 lbs and was looking and feeling great! No more tummy/intestine troubles! (at least not frequently, I still had a bout every now and then if I ate something with onion or high fat or deep fried.) This bliss was too good to be true, apparently, because shortly after month #2 of no diarrhea, it started to come back again. Slowly at first but now it is to the point that I am taking anti-diarrheal pills everyday to every other day to keep from running to the bathroom every 15 minutes, so as not to lose my new job position.
The main thing that changed in my routine is the fact that I do not get to exercise as much as I did before my new job. I have gained back 8 lbs (and thankfully only that amount in these two months since). I have also noticed that other foods also seem to cause my problems: Lettuce, cucumbers, spinach, cilantro and raw vegetables all cause an immediate effect. IF I EAT A SALAD I LITERALLY AM RUNNING OFF TO THE BATHROOM WITHIN 30 MINUTES with bloating, gas, popping sensations, gastric sounds and explosive diarrhea.
I've recently started increasing my exercise again, but so far, there isn't a change from my gastrointestinal problems. I don't have time to exercise as I did before I had my job. I haven't gained any more weight but I am not losing any either. I really don't know what to do and I don't know what this is and even though I have been advised to see a GI specialist, I cannot afford it.
kristisez- I agree with you on that, unfortunately, that doesn't stop them from billing me... =(
I've tried it all- high fiber, low fiber- doesn't seem to make a difference... I'm just so lost...
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Darrell Tunningley, 33, was an armed robber and heroin addict. But it all changed when he was invited on an Alpha course in prison. This is his story in his own words:
I was using drugs from the age of 11, smoking cannabis, sniffing solvents, taking LSD and drinking every weekend. I'd love to be able to say that I went with the crowd, peer pressure all the rest of it, but the truth is I was the instigator in most of it. By the age of 16 I was selling drugs – quite large amounts – and had people selling for me.
There were three of us sort of close-ish friends who did it together, so I got more and more involved in crime.
Drug dealing
I started dealing for some pretty heavy, hard hitters who covered a massive part of Yorkshire. We were debt collecting, giving punishments and some pretty nasty stuff. They once used a petrol grass strimmer on the bottom of a guy's feet because he owed them £300 because they wanted to make a public exhibition of him.
I got involved in some pretty stupid and scary things and sort of moved up the criminal ladder.
At the same time, my drug use was going through the roof and I was getting more and more involved in harder drugs. I was going out to a lot of illegal raves, doing a lot of Ecstasy and cocaine.
Then people started smoking heroin to come down off the stimulant drugs – everybody starting doing it – but before you know it, heroin's got a grip of you.
Addicted to heroin
Very quickly you slip into injecting and because money wasn't a problem and drugs were in plenty, my use just went up and up and up. I overdosed three times. I was aged 16 or 17.
I'd disappear for weeks on end, sometimes it was because I'd been arrested and I was on remand, I just wouldn't tell my parents. Other times it was because I was off on a bender and I'd just disappear for a couple of weeks.
It all came to a head when one of the guys, one of the associates I was involved with, asked me if I wanted to get involved with an armed robbery.
I'd stolen a lot of cars in my youth and he knew I was a good driver and he wanted me to be the driver for the job. So I went and had a look at the job they were planning and it seemed fairly low risk and so we went.
Criminal life
We used to cross the border into South Yorkshire to steal a car and bring it back into West Yorkshire, because it would take at least a week, sometimes more, for South Yorkshire Police to inform West Yorkshire Police. So you had a honeymoon period being able to drive round in a car.
It's literally three miles over the border, steal a car, bring it over.
So we found this little loophole. I don't know if they've closed it now, but that's the way it used to be.
We went over to Selby, stole a car, came back, stored it for a day and then went and did this job. We hit a wages depot and came away with £40,000, so split it up – £10,000 each for 10 minutes work.We thought we'd got away Scot free, but that wasn't the case. A few days later I was in my flat and one of the lads came running up to my front door. He was all out of breath and he just said 'You need to get going, the Black Maria's at the top of the road with the armed response and the dogs'.
I lived in a little cul-de-sac, so they could only have been at the top of the road for one reason. It had to be me.
I knew I couldn't get out at the top of the cul-de-sac and I wasn't going to try running because I tried that once before with police dogs and you never win.
So I thought my only option is if I can try and get down the back of the flats and get to my other mate who lived at the end of the cul-de-sac, lay low in his flat, wait till it blows over and then go on the run.
I got down the back without anyone seeing and I got to Joe's flat. Joe was an amphetamine addict and would go on two, three-week benders, so he was always in. But this time, the one time I needed him, he wasn't in.
I sort of panicked and I kicked his door in and went in his flat, shut it as best as I could again and just looking out the curtains watching.
I saw them all go up, I heard my door going in and I saw them marching everybody out who'd been left in my flat. I knew they wouldn't say anything.
I later found out that the drugs squad had had me under observation for six weeks, but obviously the robbery squad had got in there before them.
I always had my supply of drugs stashed elsewhere. There was an old derelict school and we stashed drugs in the air duct units in the school.
So I'm trying to lay low, watching what's going on and I thought it would blow over. I realised I still had my personal drugs on me – two ounces of heroin, about £180 street value. That's the amount I was using per day, but you'd go down for years for that.
Then I saw them start going door-to-door asking questions and I thought, 'Oh no, here we go'.
So the drugs I had on me, I cooked some up and had an injection and then what was left, I put it into like a plastic sealed bag and put loads of electrical tape round it and swallowed it, thinking I can get it back later.
Sure enough, they came to the door and obviously it had been kicked in and the lock was bust. They knocked a couple of times and pushed the door and it just swung open.
I thought I'll try and blag my way through it, I'll see how it pans out.
So I pretended to be asleep on the settee as they came in. I jumped up looking startled and surprised, I said 'Who are you? What do you want? What you doing in my flat?'
They said 'Oh sorry sir, we knocked but the lock was bust'. I said, 'Oh I know, I'm waiting for the council to come fix that. I lost my keys and had to kick the door in'.
They said 'We're looking for Darrell Tunningley. Have you seen him?'
I said 'No, no, I know him like, he lives up there. I'm Joe Harrison. This is my flat.'
It looked like it was working and they were getting ready to leave when this Detective Sergeant came in who knew me and said, 'All right Darrell, how you doing?'
At that point everything went ballistic. They knew I had a reputation for violence and they obviously weren't going to take any chances and they started screaming at me to get away from a knife on the table next to me.
'Step away from the knife. Step away from the knife'. I was like 'I'm not doing anything with the knife'. I hadn't even seen it was there.
Then the armed response people came in with the guns and I got thrown face-down, arms behind my back.
The handcuffs the police use now have a black plastic bit in the middle of the two cuffs and when they put them on, they twisted the middle and it really dug into both sides of the bones on my wrists and it was painful.
As a reaction, I flung my head back and I head butted and busted the nose of one of the police officers by mistake.
So they slammed me back on the floor again and they used the tie wraps then on my feet and my hands and they picked me up by my hands and my feet, so I'm facing down and they're carrying me out. And they threw me in the back of the van and off I went to Pontefract Police Station. I was about 17 ½.
It was obvious from the very first interview that somebody had said something because they couldn't have known the details that they knew if that hadn't happened.
I knew then that I was in trouble. It turned out one of the lads on the job who got arrested had started to rattle. He was an addict as well and had been put on detox. The detox is horrible.
They utilised that and he grassed everyone up. He turned Queen's evidence against us and stood in the dock and said, 'Yeah I've seen him and him', so you knew then.
There was other evidence – they had a thumbprint of mine and things like that. We'd wiped everything down, but I must have just left this one thumbprint that they managed to find.
I was sentenced for five and a half years and I did just short of four years of it. When you stand in that dock and you receive the sentence, no matter how tough and how hard you are, your legs almost go out from underneath you.
I'd been told by the barrister to expect up to 10 years, so receiving less was great, but it's still a long time.
I was taken down to the holding cells and taken to a little visiting area with a plastic screen and my family came down and they were all teary and crying, but I couldn't, I had to let them think I was ok.
As soon as I got back to the holding cell, I just flipped out and was punching the door, punching the walls, going crazy.
Once I got in there, I knew I would have to do a detox. I got the drugs I swallowed out and I decided to have one last night of using and then I knew I had to do my detox then.
While in prison I just carried on the same way I behaved outside – getting into fights.
I assaulted prison officers and spent a lot of time on the segregation block where you are in your cell 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Because I was behaving like an idiot, I got shipped around an awful lot, so I spent time in Doncaster Prison, then I got shipped down to Glen Parva which is in Leicester and from there they shipped me back to a Category A prison up near Hull.
Invitation to Alpha
While I was in there, I managed to get a job in the welding workshop, which was great. While I was in there one of the lads who I didn't normally associate with came up to me in the workshop and said 'Do you fancy going on an Alpha Course?'
I had no idea what an Alpha Course was.
He said 'It's in the chapel' and as soon as he said that, I wasn't interested.
I said 'Get out of my face before I slap you' and he was under no illusion that I would have done.
He must have had great courage because he came back the next day and I saw him coming towards me, I wasn't even going to wait for him to talk. I was just going to hit him and he blurted out, 'This Alpha you get Wednesday afternoon off work and you get free coffee and you free biscuits'.
So I stopped. Wednesdays were known as 'Dodgy Wednesday' because the prison officers had staff training, so you were basically locked up all through the afternoon and all through the evening until the next morning.
So by going on this course you didn't do the whole afternoon section of the bang-up – and you got coffee and biscuits.
So I said 'All right, see you Wednesday'.
Then I rounded up some of the other lads who'd already said no. I said, 'Here listen, it's a skive. You get the afternoon off work and get free coffee'.
So I took them along as well.
Two nuns leading Alpha
Two nuns had come in to run it, and to this day they're the oldest people I've ever seen. I didn't think you could live that long. They were what I, at the time, perceived to be the stereotypical Christian – sandals, socks and a slight moustache.
I thought, how can they be relevant to me, to my life? What can they possibly have to say that's worth listening to? They've been shut away from the world their entire lives.
They put on the video and then we talked about it.
We didn't make it easy for the nuns but for every little dig and jibe we gave them, they never got angry, they never got riled, they stayed calm... They only ever showed love and compassion.
And most of us kept going back week after week – even though a few dropped out.
It came to a point where I kind of made the decision that they deserved a little bit more respect.
I sort of said to myself, 'Right Darrell, for once in your life just shut up and listen what someone else has got to say'.
That was about three weeks into the course.
They were saying that the whole point was about a clean slate. It was smashing up your old slate completely and getting a new one, a complete fresh start, being forgiven.
They said, 'God loves you exactly as you are, but he loves you too much to leave you that way. He wants to take the best of who you are and get rid of the worst of who you are.'
Something clicked
And it just made sense to me. Something clicked with me.
Towards the end of the course we were given some sort of pamphlets and a Bible. I'd never had a Bible.
At the end, they said, 'We hope you come to church on Sunday.'
I remember saying 'If there's coffee and biscuits, I'll be there'. And I went back to my cell. That night I was sat in my cell.
There was nothing on the radio and I picked up one of the leaflets and sort of thumbed through it. On the back it had something that said 'The Sinner's Prayer'.
I thought that sounds like me. But when I looked carefully at it, it wasn't how I spoke. It didn't really make sense to me at all.
I put it to one side and picked up the Bible and started thumbing through.
It just dropped open at what I thought said 'Job'. It was a modern translation, so I started having a read and I just kept on reading and reading.
This story just gripped me and it made me ask a question: this guy lost absolutely everything, but it would not shake his faith in God.
I thought, 'What made God so real to him that he would not move no matter what? And then in the end, he got it all back and then some.
I sat there on my bed and I picked up the pamphlet again and I looked at the Sinner's Prayer again and it still didn't make sense to me.
So I sat there and said my own version. It's not one I'll repeat because it had a few swear words in it, but the gist of it was: 'God if you're real, prove it. I've tried to stop with the drugs, I've tried to stop with the violence. Nothing I do works. If you're real, prove it. Take away my drug addiction, take away all this anger that's inside me and if you do that for me, I'll live the rest of my life for you'.
And that was it. There was no bright lights, no shaking cell door, no visitations from angels... I just went to bed.
But when I woke up the next morning, a series of weird events started to happen.
Deliverance from addiction
I'd always make a roll-up smoke before I went to bed and leave it next to my bunk. Then, as soon as I woke up, I'd roll over and smoke it in bed.
But this morning I woke up and went to roll over as a default reaction but the thought of touching the cig made me feel physically sick – really, really ill – and I started to freak out.
I got the cig and I threw it out of the cell window and then I got my tobacco and I threw that out the cell window and as soon as I'd done that, I started to feel better.
Usually in the mornings as well, I'd also smoke a joint.
I had some weed in my cell, but as soon as the thought popped into my head, I started to feel sick again. So I got the weed and I threw that out of the window too, and as soon as I'd done it, I stopped feeling sick.
Then I started to notice something really odd. I went to get a wash and a shave and I looked in the mirror and I almost couldn't recognise the reflection because I was smiling – not just smiling, but beaming.
And then I noticed I wasn't just smiling and beaming, but that I actually felt euphorically happy. It was as if someone had unscrewed the top of my head and poured freezing cold water in and every bit of anger and guilt and frustration had gone.
I started being really giddy and happy. The prison officers came in and opened us all up and I walked out on the landing and the lad next door to me took one look at me and said 'What's wrong with you?'.
I looked at him kind of gormlessly and said, 'I don't know, I'm just happy'.
And from that day, I haven't touched drugs, I haven't smoked, I haven't drunk, I haven't had a fight...
Within a couple of weeks of that day, I was in the chapel speaking, trying to tell as many people as I possibly could what had happened to me. Not long after that, one of the prison officers on the wing came and opened me up really early and said 'Pack your stuff up, you're going to Buckley Hall.'
Moving prisons
I was a Category A prisoner and I knew Buckley Hall was a Category C prison and I said 'That can't be right. That's Category C. There's no way can I go from Cat A to Cat C.'
You can expect if you've been good maybe getting put down to a Category B, but to go straight from Category A to Category C is unheard of. He said 'Don't argue, just pack your bags, you're going'.
When I got to Buckley Hall, I found that the chaplain had already been on the phone and I was met by the chaplaincy team: the chaplain David and two ladies, Joyce Molvey and Rita Nightingale.
They all met me at the reception and said 'We hear you've got a story to tell'. So I told them and after that God started to open up so many doors. We saw a great time of revival in the prison. It was fantastic.
I hadn't spoken to my family for a little over a year. They had shut the door because of everything I'd been involved in.
When I moved to Buckley Hall I wrote a letter and my dad came up. He sat down in the visiting hall and looked at me. He said 'I've got my son back.'
He could see the drugs had gone, everything had gone, and I was back. Since then, my dad and my mum have both made decisions for Christ. Slowly more and more men started giving their lives to Christ and then we were running the Alpha Courses in the chapel and I was running the Alpha Course.This was back when basically you had the Alpha book and the Nicky Gumbel video tapes.
'The fella with the poodle hair'
That's all we had and God love Nicky and I hope he forgives me, but all the lads used to refer to him as 'That fella with the poodle hair'. So whenever we put the tape on, 'Oh it's that fella with the poodle hair'.
We had to chop it up a little bit because these were very down-to-earth convicts and we had to take what Nicky was saying and put it into their language so they could understand it.
After a while we did away with the tapes and just sort of made up our own based around the books.
And it just took off. It was amazing.
On a Sunday morning we used to get a fry-up and it was the highlight of the week.
Breakfast Alpha in prison
We managed to get one of the prison governors to agree that we could run the Alpha on a Sunday morning before the church service, but they would bring up a food trolley from the kitchens with all the bacon and the sausage and the eggs and the tomatoes, so we could have a huge fry-up.
So we served an Alpha meal every single week of the Alpha course and that meant if you started a course with 20, you finished the course with 20. The numbers didn't drop away.
But with each course our numbers went from 20 to 40 to 60, 80...
The chapel held 500 and we were having to have three services on the Sunday to accommodate everyone. It just exploded, it was fantastic. We'd have prayer meetings walking round the exercise yard, I'd have prison officers coming to speak to me for advice and counselling. It was phenomenal.
There was one lad called Darren who was a real hard nut to crack. He just wasn't having any of it at all.
One day during association time, I was sat in my cell reading my bible (I remember I was reading Acts) when I looked up and it was Darren. I said, 'Are you all right, mate. How are you doing?'
And he said the weirdest thing. He said, 'I want what you've got'.
'What my Bible?'
'No, I want what you've got'.
I said, 'What do you mean?'
He said, 'You're always calm, you're always happy. Prison officers come to you for advice. I want what you've got, but I don't want any of that God business.'
I said, 'Well you've got two problems: number one it's not mine to give you and number two, it only comes from God'.
And I said 'Why don't you come in and we'll chat?'
And he came in, and the only other place to sit was my toilet in the cell, so he put the toilet seat down and he sat on my toilet and I'm sat on my bunk and we chatted – and he gave his life to Christ there on the toilet.
He's the only person I've led to Christ on a toilet.
There was this large room in the healthcare unit which was never used and we said 'Can we have it for prayer meetings?'
And the governor agreed to let us have it for prayer meetings.
So we'd go and have an entire afternoon prayer meeting for three hours at a time.
And it was in a prayer meeting that the Holy Spirit appeared for the first time and hit every single one of us. Every person in that room were just on fire. We were rolling on the floor laughing... I'll never forget.
Drugs Awareness Course
One of the courses we started in the prison was called The Rethink Drugs Awareness course, later called the Rethink Programme. It was to help long-term addicts deal with the issues that they face when they come off drugs.
We started with a budget of £30, a flipchart pad and a load of markers and that's what we had to run it.
Jack Straw was the Home Secretary at the time and Sir David Ramsbotham was the Director of Prisons and they both flew in by helicopter with news crews to look at this great, successful course that was helping people come off drugs.
Towards the end of my sentence there were lots of churches in the surrounding areas around Rochdale, Bolton, Manchester saying, 'Come and work with us, come and do this with us, come and be youth pastor here, come and do that'.
So I was like 'Oh what do I do? Where do I go?'
I was about 20 and I knew I had to make the right decision and I was really praying. I knew God had already done so much, but I knew he still had so much more for me to do.
We put on this Passion play in prison with a cast of 40 and the woodwork department made this huge 15ft high cross that could be winched up on a pulley system.
One of the lads' ex-wives was coming up to visit him and she was a member of Hope Corner Community Church in Runcorn. She went back to church saying 'You should see what's happening in Buckley Hall. It's amazing.'
So Mark Finch, the pastor, got tickets to the Passion play. I was playing Jesus, wearing a loincloth, 15ft up in the air.
We managed to chat for a little bit afterwards, and he said 'Can I come to see you again?'
So he rang the chaplaincy team and arranged to come up again. He brought one of the church elders with him and the person who was youth pastor at the time.
New life
They talked about the work that they were doing in Runcorn where they're really heavily involved with children and youth work and working in the schools. He asked me if I would join his team.
All the Scousers, all the Liverpudlians that were in the prison knew Runcorn and their advice to me was 'Don't go there, mate, it's a toilet'.
So that was the only advice I received, but as I prayed it through, it was the only one that I couldn't shake from my mind or my heart.
On my release, Mark came and picked me up and I went straight to the church. I didn't go home, I didn't go to see family and friends because I knew this was what God wanted.
That was on the 4th August 2000. I was 21 by that point.
I'd been assigned a new social worker and all she got was a file that said in big red letters across the front 'Extreme High Risk Re-Offender' so she thought she was getting handed Hannibal Lecter.
She became my nemesis – it took a long time to win her round.
The church was a new church plant started in 1994 with seven people. So everything they were doing was groundbreaking.
Mark is a really forward thinking minister. He's also a magistrate, so he was really putting his reputation on the line going to the school and saying 'I want to bring this ex convict in who has just got out of prison to talk to these kids'.
It happened that the principal of that particular school was also a Christian, and was also very forward thinking and she agreed and basically said 'It's your head on the block' to Mark, but agreed to do it.
It's grown and developed from there from doing mentoring in schools with students, to us becoming an approved provider for Halton Borough Council and the Educational Authority.
The drugs programme has grown and we've recently been involved in training the police because they're rolling out their drug/drive initiative now and they've started charging people for driving under the influence of drugs.
So we've trained the key people in Cheshire, Hampshire, the Met, Manchester forces. So God's opened amazing doors.
Married to pastor's daughter
I got married to Mark's daughter, Rebekah, who is our social worker on staff. We've been married going on six years. We've got a little boy who's two and a half and a baby girl.
I'm an Assembly of God minister now and I have written my biography called Unreachable published by Sovereign World.
Before Alpha, Jesus was an irrelevant historical figure that did and said a lot of good stuff.
And now he's my everything. He's my lifeline, he's my strength, he's everything, I couldn't live without him and everything I do is through him and for him. My life wouldn't be the way it is if he wasn't exactly who he said he was.
He is alive.
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— DALTON, Ga. —
From the look on Logan Tunnell's face it clearly was a disturbing moment. The shock of watching his long, flowing blond hair chopped off was disturbing.
Then a smile emerged.
Logan and his brother, 3-year-old Tyler, sat patiently as their stylist clipped, buzzed and tamed their hair, most of which will be donated to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program. The HairUWear company will use the locks to create wigs for women who have lost their hair during chemotherapy.
Logan didn't have much to say after his haircut at the Hair House recently, but one thing was clear: Shorter was better.
"I like it," he said after hopping off the barber chair.
The boys' mother, Brandy Tunnell, said she allowed her sons' hair to grow to a length almost reaching nine inches because she liked it that way. "People commented on how pretty their hair was," she said.
There was another reason as well. A family friend who was going through the chemo process had reached the point where she needed to wear a wig. In the end, though, she lost the battled to the dreaded disease.
The Tunnells will be participating in this year's local Relay for Life, a major fundraising activity that supports cancer research. "We just want to encourage folks to attend," Ben Tunnell said.
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WASHINGTON — Eight senators who have spent weeks trying to write a bipartisan bill to overhaul immigration laws have privately agreed on the most contentious part of the draft — how to offer legal status to the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants.
According to aides familiar with the closed-door negotiations, the bill would require illegal immigrants to register with Homeland Security Department authorities, file federal income taxes for their time in America and pay a still-to-be-determined fine. They also must have a clean law enforcement record.


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Last Days at the Lodge came out in 2008, and reception for its alt-folk sound was enthusiastic. Lee took the feedback and brought together a standout list of people and music for his newest album, Mission Bell, released this week. The album features Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Priscilla Ahn, Pieta Brown and Calexico as guests.
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Science Olympiad functions much like a football or soccer team, requiring preparation, commitment, coaching and practice throughout the year. Each school-based team is allowed to bring 15 students who cross-train for a variety of events in their skill set. Science Olympiad competitions are like academic track meets, consisting of a series of 23 team events in each division (Division B is middle school; Division C is high school). Each year, a portion of the events are rotated to reflect the ever-changing nature of genetics, earth science, chemistry, anatomy, physics, geology, mechanical engineering and technology. By combining events from all disciplines, Science Olympiad encourages a wide cross-section of students to get involved. Emphasis is placed on active, hands-on group participation. Through Science Olympiad, students, teachers, parents, principals and business leaders bond together and work toward a shared goal. Teamwork is a required skill in most scientific careers today, and Science Olympiad encourages group learning by designing events that forge alliances.
Science Olympiad is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of K-12 science education, increasing male, female and minority interest in science, creating a technologically-literate workforce and providing recognition for outstanding achievement by both students and teachers. These goals are achieved by participating in Science Olympiad tournaments and non-competitive events, incorporating Science Olympiad into classroom curriculum and attending teacher training institutes.


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Traverse City Record-Eagle
---- — TRAVERSE CITY — With a couple of late runs on Monday, Gateway was making things a little uncomfortable for Traverse City.
Fortunately for the Beach Bums, Nick Capito was calm, cool and collected.
Capito did allow one run in the ninth, but he ultimately shut the door on the Grizzlies as the Beach Bums posted a 6-4 win at Wuerfel Park that gave Traverse City two wins in the three-game series.
Traverse City's closer saw a string of 19 scoreless innings come to an end with the run that trimmed the Beach Bums' lead to two, but even with a runner on second and only one out, he didn't panic.
"All I really think about is my next pitch," said Capito, who earned his team-leading 13th save. "That's all you can really do. If you think about what hit you just gave up, or if you gave a walk, you're kind of giving in to the pressure. All you really focus on is the task at hand and the next pitch. That's all that's running through my mind."
The crafty left-hander, who allowed a pair of doubles in the first three batters he faced, got Jose Flores to ground out to third as Beach Bums' third baseman Jose Vargas made a nice defensive play to nail Flores at first. Capito then got Chris McClendon to strike out to end the game.
"They're a good hitting team," said Traverse City manager Gregg Langbehn. "I was just talking to Nick on the way up (to the clubhouse). They were aggressive early in the count on him and he just left a couple pitches up. He's our guy with the game on the line. He's been phenomenal if you look at the numbers. Statistically speaking, they're incredible. We've got a bullpen we can trust. When it's crunch time he's going to be out there and he makes quality pitches."
Traverse City starter Scott Dunn improved to 14-0 with the victory. Dunn scattered eight hits over seven innings, before turning the game over to the bullpen. Matt Miller worked one inning before Capito closed it out.
Gateway (45-31) trailed 4-0 early and 5-1 through six innings, but the Grizzlies scored single runs in each of the last three innings to make it close. They collected four doubles in those three frames and were aided by an error in right field by Matt Howard, who had a ball pop out of his glove as he tracked down a long fly ball.
"The best team in their division, right?" asked Capito. "They've got a little fight in them. They're pretty good."
Traverse City broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the third with four runs on four hits. Chase Burch slugged a two-run double, Vargas had a RBI single and Howard and Jeremy Banks also singled. Ryan Still drew one of four walks in the game, while Sean Gusrang had an RBI groundout. The Beach Bums scratched out additional runs in the fifth — Vargas was hit in the head by a pitch, then scored on Gusrang's two-out single — and in the eighth, when Howard drove home Banks, who reached safely on a fielder's choice.
Edison Alvarez (0-2) started and took the loss for Gateway. He was followed by four other pitchers. They combined to allow eight hits, six walks and struck out five.
With the win Traverse City (45-30) moved into a tie with Schaumburg for the best overall record in the Frontier League. It also gave the Beach Bums the season series win over Gateway. Traverse City holds a two-game lead over Lake Erie in its division.
"Every game matters and our guys know that. I'm pretty sure Gateway does, too," said Langbehn. "Crucial win for us, though in an event that it comes down to the tiebreaker with these guys for a wild-card spot, despite being in opposite divisions. We could still wind up fighting for a wild-card spot.
"It's crucial to get these wins. (The season) is dwindling quickly. It's going to be a fight. We've got a tough road ahead of us and so does everybody else."
Traverse City opens a three-game series with the Frontier Greys tonight at Wuerfel Park.


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You have a bad battery. This does happen. It is not always the battery cell itself, there is a electronic circuit in the battery that can shut it off and not allow it to charge.Blinking orange is a feature of the 6D charger that tells you, depending on how many blinks per second, how much/little the battery is charged. (See the manual for details.) I found it annoying at first, but now I kind of like it. It can sometimes take a long time to charge a 6D battery. Still, if it goes much beyond the time stated in the manual, call Canon. Also, I just checked my 6D and it powers up just fine without a card. It even tells you it has no card.
I had found out about this (pretty cool) feature. It was blinking at I guess 3x/s. I charged it for a really long time (a day) and then again (after trying it out for the first time) over last night. The camera doesn't even start The charger keeps blinking. I guess I'll just call Canon tomorrow, maybe they can help me out quickly.
Thanks again guys, this is an AMAZING forum, the only problem is seeing such fantastic pictures posted and realizing how much I have to learn!
Unfortunately, you may need to exchange the entire camera, that's what others have had to do. Its probably your safest option, in any event.
If Mt. Spokane is right and it's the battery, you could always find a local store and buy a battery. This would give you the ability find out if it really is the battery and, since you were wanting to shoot this weekend, you could enjoy the camera then deal with Amazon on Tuesday. You'll want a 2nd battery anyway, so that would not be a waste of money.


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Had enough rain yet? Me too.
Last Saturday I ran the Heritage Run in downtown Buffalo. The rain appeared at the start of the race, and a little bit of fog came off waterfront to cover up the space around the lighthouse at the Marina. It added a mysterious touch to the race, but I heard it was much better than last year -- when the water was bouncing over the rocks to douse runners.
And, it was much better Saturday than Sunday. I felt sorry for the organizers of the Stella B. Foundation 5K. I would imagine the deluge hurt that race's walk-up registration.
There's a busy weekend coming up as we close in on Marathon Weekend. The schedule is courtesy of our friends at buffalorunners.com:
* Pinnacle Charter School 5K, 115 Ash St. in Buffalo, 6 p.m. Friday, 583-3055.
* Buffalo Greek Fest 5K, 146 W. Utica St. in Buffalo, 6:30 p.m. Friday, 796-3381. I don't believe finishers have to down a shot of ouzo.
* DNFBA Run with the Rapids 5K, 101 Old Falls St. in Niagara Falls, 9 a.m. Saturday, 278-2115. This was an interesting course last year.
* The Wooden Shoe 5K, 8672 E. Main St. in Clymer, 9 a.m. Saturday. Day-of-race registration is $15 -- a bargain!
* Rotary and Lions Club Steppin' Into Summer 5K, 1 Main St. in Akron, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, 270-3883. It sure seems like Akron has hosted a lot of races this year already. Someone is
doing a good job there.
* Fitness 360 JDRF Run for the Cure 5K, 2625 Delaware Ave. in Buffalo, 10 a.m. Saturday, 874-2005.
* 4 for the Corps, 4 miles, Arcade Village Park in Arcade, 10 a.m. Saturday, 353-6216.
* Chris Griswold 5K, Como Park in Lancaster, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, 685-2640. This is one of the few races that gives up singlets. I save mine for the few truly hot days of the year --
usually the July 4th 10K race.
* SSPP's Charge of the Knights 5K, 5480 Main St. in Williamsville, 5 p.m. Saturday, 946-0198. A Saturday afternoon race? Interesting.
* Take off for Learning 5K, 3163 Airport Drive in Jamestown, 9 a.m. Sunday, 789-2230.
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Autumn is my favorite time of year, even here in the South, where late September is something completely different than it is where I grew up in northern Illinois.
But the temperature still drops, leaves eventually change color and gingerly fall to the ground, there are pumpkin patches and occasionally nights cool enough for a scarf, hoodie or bon fire -- if not all at the same time.
This year is particularly exciting because of three major fall events: my 30th birthday, my daughter's first Halloween and, just barely squeaking in before the winter solstice, my daughter's first birthday.
This week has been a wonderful welcome to the season, but I'm inclined to be suspicious of such nice weather at this early stage -- mother nature most likely still has some 80- or 90-degree days waiting for us, the last remnants of summer.
Though I've always been partial to this time of year, the reasons have changed slightly as I've gotten older and relocated. Here's what I'm looking forward to this year:
Socks: I rarely wear them during the summer and there's nothing quite like putting on a nice, thick pair of cozy socks to lounge around the house.
Fall scents/flavors: Pumpkin, apple, cinnamon, caramel -- anything orange, red, golden -- it all smells and tastes wonderful, and it's added to every imaginable food, drink or home decor item. The day Starbucks reintroduces the Pumpkin Spice Latte could practically be a national holiday for coffee drinkers. I'm not going to lie -- I've already had one this season.
Decorations: Fall is the only season that begs me to decorate my home. I have garland and a wreath full of muted fall tones and scented candles that make me think of Thanksgiving and hot apple cider. Sure, there are some Halloween items as well, but I enjoy the warmth that fall decor brings -- almost like sitting by a fire.
Knitting: I like to pretend I'll have time to dive into my stash of yarn -- as if I've had time at any other point during the year to do so. But autumn makes me want to make warm attire for the ones I love -- scarves, mittens, socks. I love the idea of sitting outside and watching the leaves fall while working some yarn into something nice and cozy.
Hoodies: This one is definitely a hold-over from my high school days, but there is nothing in the world more comfortable than a hooded sweatshirt. It's like a big hug. And with the mild winter last year, I feel like I haven't been able to wear one in years. Plus, who doesn't love a big pocket right in front of their stomach? It's a great way to hide that baby weight that I maybe haven't completely lost yet...
Football: I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the sport, though I think it's important to note that my household leans more toward the professional arena than college play. Bear down!
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The purpose of this example is to demonstrate how
Mathematica 4.2 can benefit from the support for data stored in
the FITS format. FITS data often contain astronomical images
from which can be extracted quantitative data. The data used
in this example were obtained on May 9, 2000, in Flagstaff, Arizona, using
the Lowell Observatory 31-inch telescope. The optical system
included a liquid nitrogen-cooled CCD camera with an image resolution of
512 x 512 pixels.
All important system properties are stored in
the header of each image. One exception is that the Filter
property incorrectly reads "I" for infrared. In
actuality, the data used here were taken using a V-band filter that has
an effective wavelength of about 5,500 angstroms and a full width at
half-max bandpass of about 890 angstroms.
First we need to load the images
necessary for the reduction process. The frames consist of a
bias or zero frame, a flat-field frame, and the raw-image
frame. In this case, the image was taken through a V-band
filter, so the only flat-field frame needed is the one taken through the
V-band filter. In all cases, ConversionOptions
specifies that the header data should also be read in.
The bias and flat-field frames included in this section were
created in another session from a series of frames. The
average bias frame is the average of 10 separate bias
frames. The average flat-field frame is an average of two
separate flat-field frames taken in the V-band filter.
The bias frame is a measure of the
"zero" point of the CCD chip, typically obtained by taking a
zero-length exposure and simply reading out the pixel values from the
chip. The bias frame is necessary so that when pixel counts are
performed on the reduced image, they do not include the inherent
electronic signal produced by the CCD itself. Since the
variability of the bias signal is small across the CCD chip, a plot of
the average bias would simply reveal a nearly uniform field that looks
black. For this reason, the average bias frame will not be
plotted here.
avgbias = Import["avgbias.fit",
ConversionOptions -> {"Verbose" -> True}];
Next we read in the average flat-field
frame and display it. The normalized flat-field frame is used
to compensate for irregularities in the CCD sensitivity across the
chip. These irregularities may be inherent to the chip itself or due to
dust on the surface of the chip or on the filter being
used. By exposing the CCD to a uniformly illuminated surface,
the resulting image reveals these irregularities. By
normalizing this field and then dividing the bias-corrected image by the
normalized flat-field frame, the image can be
corrected. Pixels that are less sensitive are corrected so
that they are consistent with pixel values from more sensitive areas of
the chip. Similarly, the more sensitive areas are corrected to
be consistent with areas that are less sensitive.
avgvflat = Import["avgvflat.fit",
ConversionOptions -> {"Verbose" ->
Mesh -> False, ImageSize -> 350];
The dark frame is a measure of the thermal noise produced by thermally excited
electrons. In this case, the CCD chip was cooled with liquid nitrogen,
so there was no appreciable thermal count. The dark frame was
therefore omitted.
The image frame is an image of the giant elliptical galaxy M87.
The raw image contains an overscan region that is 50 pixels wide on the right side.
This region will be removed later. Plotting of the image frame is discussed
in the next section.
image = Import["May08_0132.fit",
ConversionOptions -> {"Verbose" ->
We can also view the header, which contains
important information such as the image type and the filter that was used.
TableForm[{"OBJECT", "BITPIX", "EXPTIME",
"DATE-OBS", "OBSERVAT"}/.image[[1,
Value -> 'M87'
Value -> 16.
Value -> 300.
Value -> '09/05/00'
Value -> 'lowell'
Reduction of an image is a process that processes a raw-image
frame so that it is ready for useful analysis. In this
case, the process involves subtracting a bias frame from all images and
dividing the corrected image frame by a normalized flat-field
We need to preserve the original header so that we can
modify it to reflect the fact that pixels will be removed when the
overscan region is removed.
oldheader = image[[1, 1]];
Since we will be removing the overscan region, we need to
modify the header to indicate the reduction of the number of pixels.
newheader = oldheader/.("NAXIS1" -> _) ->
("NAXIS1" - > {"Value" -> 512.,
"Comment" -> ""});
We need to remove the overscan region from the flat-field
frame and subtract the bias frame from it as well.
flatfielddata = Transpose[Take[Transpose[
avgvflat[[1, 2]]], 512]] - avgbias[[1, 2]];
Similarly, we need to remove the overscan region from the
raw-image frame.
olddata = Transpose[Take[Transpose[
image[[1, 2]]], 512]];
To normalize the flat-field frame, we simply divide every
pixel by the average pixel value of the entire frame.
normalizedflatfield = flatfielddata/
((Plus @@ Flatten @ flatfielddata)/(512*512.));
Now, we actually perform the reduction process on the
image by subtracting the bias frame and then dividing by the normalized
flat-field frame.
newdata = (olddata -
avgbias[[1, 2]])/normalizedflatfield;
We finish by reconstructing the data into a header
section and a data section. This is useful later if we wish to
export the image to a new FITS image.
workingimage = {{newheader, newdata}};
Now that the calculations have all been
completed, we can see the results. First, we can view the raw-image
frame. As the image shows, there are numerous
"doughnuts" in the image plane that represent unfocused dust
grains sitting in the light path. Also, the overscan region is
visible on the right side of the image. Since the overscan
region contains no image data, we removed it in the previous section.
ListDensityPlot[image[[1, 2]],
Mesh -> False, ImageSize -> 350,
AspectRatio -> Automatic];
Now, we see the reduced-image frame. The dust grains have been removed
by the flat-fielding process, and the overscan region has been removed.
ListDensityPlot[workingimage[[1, 2]],
Mesh -> False, ImageSize -> 350];
As a final step, we can adjust PlotRange to, in essence, adjust the contrast of
the image. In this case, we can see that the core of M87 has a
jet of material arising from a supermassive black hole at its core.
ListDensityPlot[workingimage[[1, 2]],
PlotRange -> {75, 2500}, Mesh -> False,
ImageSize -> 350];
The three FITS images used in this example are available for


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Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death among Hispanic American/Latino women.
Although breast cancer is diagnosed about 30 percent less often among women of Hispanic origin, it is more often diagnosed at a later stage (when the disease is more advanced) than when found in non-Hispanic women, even when access to health care is adequate.
Access and lower rates like mammography among Hispanic American/Latino women are thought to add to this later diagnosis.
Death rates from cancers of the breast and cervix, all of which can be found early by screening, decreased less among Hispanic Americans/Latinos than among non-Hispanics.
Study results show that the number of new cases of invasive cervical cancer among Hispanic American/Latino women (age 30 years and older) is about twice that for non-Hispanic women.
Hispanic American/Latino women in the Southwest and Midwest have similar rates to non-Hispanics.
Overall, the death rate from cervical cancer is 40 percent higher among Hispanic American/Latino women than non-Hispanic women.
Although invasive cervical cancer can be prevented by regular screening, Hispanic American/Latino women have a low rate of Pap testing.
Cardiovascular Disease
In the United States in 2002, all cardiovascular diseases combined claimed the lives of 493,623 females while all forms of cancer combined to kill 268,503 females. Breast cancer claimed the lives of 41,514 females; lung cancer claimed 67,542.
Cardiovascular disease, including stroke, is the leading cause of death for Hispanic women.
Among Hispanic Americans/Latinos, the risk of stroke is 1.3 times higher at ages 35-64 than for non-Hispanics.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 20.8 million Americans—7 percent of the U.S. population—have diabetes, up from 18.2 million in 2003. Nearly a third of these Americans are undiagnosed.
Findings from the latest report show 9.5 percent of Hispanics Mexican Americans aged 20 and older have diabetes.
Mexican-Americans (the largest group of Hispanics in the U.S.) are 1.7 times as likely to have diabetes as whites.
Puerto Ricans are 1.8 times as likely as whites to have diabetes.
Diabetes, including gestational diabetes that occurs during pregnancy, is more common in Hispanic American/Latinos than in Whites.
Within the Hispanic American/Latino population, diabetes is more prevalent in women than it is in men.
Hispanic American/Latino women with diabetes are 7.6 times more likely to develop peripheral vascular disease (problems with blood flow in the veins) than non-diabetic women, and three-to-four times more likely to have heart disease or a stroke.
Even though males account for the largest proportion (81 percent) of AIDS cases reported among Hispanic Americans/Latinos in the United States, the number of cases among females is rising.
Females represent 19 percent of all AIDS cases among Hispanic Americans/Latinos, but account for 23 percent of cases reported in 2000 alone.
The rate of HIV infection is seven times higher in Hispanic American/Latino women than in White women.
For the largest proportion (47 percent) of adult and adolescent Hispanic American/Latino women with AIDS, heterosexual contact (mostly with injection drug users) is the cause for their disease.
Injection drug use accounts for an additional 40 percent of AIDS cases among Hispanic American/Latino women.
Hispanic women were 4.3 times as likely to die from HIV/AIDS as non-Hispanic white women.
In 2002, Hispanic adults aged 65 and older were 30% less likely to have received the influenza (flu) shot in the past 12 months, as compared to non-Hispanic whites of the same age group.
In 2002, Hispanic adults aged 65 and older were 50% less likely to have ever received the pneumonia shot, as compared to non-Hispanic white adults of the same age group.
Although Hispanic children aged 19 to 35 months had comparable rates of immunization for hepatitis, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), and polio, they were slightly less likely to be fully immunized, when compared to non-Hispanic white children.
Infant Deaths
Understanding infant death is difficult and can bring anger, pain, sadness, and confusion. Causes of infant deaths vary, but could include SIDS, birth defects, pre-term/low birthweight, problems from pregnancy, accidents, or respiratory distress syndrome.
In the United States, prematurity/low birthweight is the second leading cause of all infant deaths (during the first year of life).
During 2000-2002 (average) in the United States, preterm birth rates were highest for black infants (17.6 percent), followed by Native Americans (12.9 percent), Hispanics (11.4 percent), whites (10.7 percent) and Asians (10.2 percent).
In 2002, infant mortality rates for Hispanic subpopulations ranged from 3.7 per 1,000 live births to 8.2 per 1,000 live births, compared to the non-Hispanic white infant mortality rate of 5.8 per 1,000 live births.
In 2002, Puerto Ricans had 1.4 times the infant mortality rate of non-Hispanic whites.
Puerto Rican infants were 2.2 times as likely to die from causes related to low birthweight, as compared to non-Hispanic white infants.
Mexican American mothers were 2.6 times as likely as non-Hispanic white mothers to begin prenatal care in the 3rd trimester, or not receive prenatal care at all.
Obesity and Overweight
Obesity is measured with a Body Mass Index—BMI—which shows the relationship of weight to height. Women with a BMI of 25 to 29.9 are considered overweight, while women with a BMI of 30 or more are considered obese.
Among Americans ages 20 and older, 134.8 million are overweight or obese—68.6 million are men and 66.2 million are women. Of these, 63.1 million are obese—27.5 million are men and 35.6 million are women.
Being overweight or obese increases your risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, breathing problems, arthritis, gallbladder disease, sleep apnea (breathing problems while sleeping), osteoarthritis and some cancers.
Obesity in Mexican American women, the largest Hispanic/Latino subgroup, is 1.5 times more common (reaching 52 percent) than in the general, female population.
And 57.1 percent of Hispanic American/Latino women are sedentary (have no leisure-time physical activity).


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Topping the list, "Time of My Life" from the the soundtrack to the hit '80s movie Dirty Dancing."
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The study was called Science behind the Song. In it, those surveyed said music playing in the background is 40% more likely to turn them on than the touch or feel of their partner.
Other sultry songs that made the list include Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing which came in second place, followed by Ravel's Bolero finishing third.


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Videos of Demons in the Academy AAR session
We're very excited to finally be able to present the full recording of our parallel session "Demons in the Academy" at the 2011 AAR meeting in San Francisco. For newcomers, you can read all about it here, and the list of abstracts and speaker bios is available in the box next to this one. These videos may be freely shared and embedded, however they may not be tampered with or edited in any way. Copyright remains with the speakers. A pdf of most of the papers is available for download below. Some papers have been omitted by request of the speakers.
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|a supernatural being, who is worshipped as the controller of some part of the universe or some aspect of life in the world or is the personification of some forceRelated: divine
|an image, idol, or symbolic representation of such a deity
|any person or thing to which excessive attention is given: money was his god
|a man who has qualities regarded as making him superior to other men
|(in plural) the gallery of a theatre
|Related: divine
|[Old English god; related to Old Norse goth, Old High German got, Old Irish guth voice]
|God (ɡɒd)
|theol the sole Supreme Being, eternal, spiritual, and transcendent, who is the Creator and ruler of all and is infinite in all attributes; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
|play God to behave in an imperious or superior manner
|an oath or exclamation used to indicate surprise, annoyance, etc (and in such expressions as My God! or God Almighty!)
"I want my lawyer, my tailor, my servants, even my wife to believe in God, because it means that I shall be cheated and robbed and cuckolded less often. ... If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." [Voltaire]First record of Godawful "terrible" is from 1878; God speed as a parting is from c.1470. God-fearing is attested from 1835. God bless you after someone sneezes is credited to St. Gregory the Great, but the pagan Romans (Absit omen) and Greeks had similar customs.
(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew _'El_, from a word meaning to be strong; (2) of _'Eloah_, plural _'Elohim_. The singular form, _Eloah_, is used only in poetry. The plural form is more commonly used in all parts of the Bible, The Hebrew word Jehovah (q.v.), the only other word generally employed to denote the Supreme Being, is uniformly rendered in the Authorized Version by "LORD," printed in small capitals. The existence of God is taken for granted in the Bible. There is nowhere any argument to prove it. He who disbelieves this truth is spoken of as one devoid of understanding (Ps. 14:1). The arguments generally adduced by theologians in proof of the being of God are: (1.) The a priori argument, which is the testimony afforded by reason. (2.) The a posteriori argument, by which we proceed logically from the facts of experience to causes. These arguments are, (a) The cosmological, by which it is proved that there must be a First Cause of all things, for every effect must have a cause. (b) The teleological, or the argument from design. We see everywhere the operations of an intelligent Cause in nature. (c) The moral argument, called also the anthropological argument, based on the moral consciousness and the history of mankind, which exhibits a moral order and purpose which can only be explained on the supposition of the existence of God. Conscience and human history testify that "verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth." The attributes of God are set forth in order by Moses in Ex. 34:6,7. (see also Deut. 6:4; 10:17; Num. 16:22; Ex. 15:11; 33:19; Isa. 44:6; Hab. 3:6; Ps. 102:26; Job 34:12.) They are also systematically classified in Rev. 5:12 and 7:12. God's attributes are spoken of by some as absolute, i.e., such as belong to his essence as Jehovah, Jah, etc.; and relative, i.e., such as are ascribed to him with relation to his creatures. Others distinguish them into communicable, i.e., those which can be imparted in degree to his creatures: goodness, holiness, wisdom, etc.; and incommunicable, which cannot be so imparted: independence, immutability, immensity, and eternity. They are by some also divided into natural attributes, eternity, immensity, etc.; and moral, holiness, goodness, etc.


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"Klimp are small dumplings added to a soup or stew. This recipe comes from Aunt Berta in Northern Sweden who makes them every time we visit her."
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Original recipe yields 20
- In a medium bowl, whisk together egg, milk, salt and sugar. Gradually add flour, mixing until smooth.
- Drop flour mixture by tablespoonfuls into boiling soup or stew. When they float to the surface, they are done.
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I think the dumplings turned out like the recipe called for them to; they were excellent but I may have made them too big for my family's taste. I believe that when I make these dumplings again with this recipe I wouldn't make them so large. However this may be difficult because when I was experimenting with the sizes, it was hard to form them into smaller dumplings. So for me it will take a few tries to figure out the right technique to get the right size that works for my crew. These dumplings work well with another recipe from this site "mom's paprika chicken" (pictured with the dumplings.)
This is very tasty and couldn't be much simpler! I added finely minced scallions (the green part only) and made them smaller than called for. Yum!
My grandmother used to make these but I never did ask her for a recipe and I have regretted that for years!! Non of my swedish cook books include a recipe for klimp.... My grandmother is from Harjedalen in northern Sweden and they eat klimp with "messmor sas", which is a gravy made with whey cheese!! May sound a bit strange but it's delicious and is one of my fondest childhood memories:) Thanks for sharing this wonderful recipe!!
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Amount Per Serving (4 total)
- Calories
- 265 cal
- 13%
- Fat
- 3.6 g
- 6%
- Carbs
- 46.6 g
- 15%
- Protein
- 10.2 g
- 20%
- Cholesterol
- 60 mg
- 20%
- Sodium
- 928 mg
- 37%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Nathalie home destroyed in blaze
- Last Updated on 02:54 PM 10/08/12
- BY Paula I. Bryant
A Nathalie man was left homeless Monday morning after an early morning blaze destroyed his single story house located at 1086 Beulah Road.
According to Liberty Volunteer Fire Department Chief Andy Hughes, Ralph Logan was not injured in the fire that is believed to have started in the kitchen around 8:10 a.m.
When Liberty Fire Department volunteers arrived on the scene, "flames and smoke were coming from the eves of the house," Hughes said.
Logan had escaped safely from the fully involved house.
Assisting Liberty volunteers bring the fire under control were 15 firefighters from North Halifax Volunteer Fire Department who responded with six trucks, two firefighters from Triangle Fire Department responding with one truck, Oak Level firefighters responding with one truck, and three Riceville-Java Fire Department volunteers responding with two trucks.
According to Hughes, no one was injured while bringing the blaze under control.
Less than 1,500 gallons of water was used to extinguish the blaze.


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The Leveson inquiry report into the U.K.'s s phone-hacking scandal represents a damning critique of Britain's tabloid newspaper industry, and calls for unprecedented oversight of the press.
The inquiry, headed by Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson, was launched in 2011 following reports that some tabloids - chief among them Rupert Murdoch's News of the World - had hacked into the private cellphones of possibly thousands of people, including one owned by schoolgirl Milly Dowler, who went missing and was later found murdered.
Some key findings of the report, which was released Nov. 29:
• There was a willingness in the press to use covert surveillance, misrepresentation and deception, resulting in "a culture of reckless and outrageous journalism." Stories were pursued "to the point of vice, where it has become (or, at the very least, verges on) harassment."
• Such methods were employed regardless of whether there was any public interest in doing so. Those targeted by reporters included actors, soccer players, writers, pop stars and even members of the royal family. Such celebs were considered "fair game, public property with little if any entitlement to any sort of private life or respect for dignity."
• There was a recklessness in prioritizing sensational stories, "almost irrespective of the harm that the stories may cause and the rights of those who would be affected."
• In the case of Dowler, Leveson wrote: "The revelation of that story rightly shocked the public conscience in a way that other stories of phone hacking may not have, but it also gave momentum to growing calls for light to be shed on an unethical and unlawful practice of which there were literally thousand of victims."
• There was for several decades a too-cozy relationship between British politicians and the press that was not in the public interest. The police, in turn, failed to adequately investigate phone-hacking allegations.
• The Press Complaints Commission, the existing press oversight body, has failed, the report said. It should be replaced by an independent, self-regulatory committee whose chairman and board members must be appointed in a transparent way, without influence from industry or government.
• Leveson said he was not proposing statutory regulation of the press, nor did he want to give the government the power to to prevent newspapers from publishing what they wanted. But he did say the new oversight body should be backed by a parliamentary statute, and have broad investigative powers and the authority to levy fines of up to $1.6 million.
"The ball moves back into the politicians' court," Leveson said. "They must now decide who guards the guardians."
But it seems clear that won't happen quickly. Many MPs welcomed the inquiry's findings but Prime Minister David Cameron said he had "serious concerns and misgivings" about Leveson's call for an oversight body backed by legislation.
"It would mean for the first time we have crossed the Rubicon of writing elements of press regulation into law of the land," Cameron said. "We should be wary of any legislation that has the potential to infringe free speech and the free press."
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, on the other hand, took the extraordinary step of disagreeing with Cameron and siding with Levenson's recommendation. It seems clear a political battle is brewing in Parliament.
The scandal exploded in July 2011 when it was revealed that the phones of Dowler, relatives of slain British soldiers, and victims of the London terrorist bombings had been hacked. Public outrage prompted News Corp. CEO Murdoch to close the 168-year-old News of the World, the tabloid at the center of the scandal, just days later.
The resulting investigations eventually led to the arrests of several former News of the World editors, including Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and Neil Wallis. Murdoch and his son, James, were called to give evidence before the Leveson inquiry.
The scandal also provoked broader discussions over the role of the press in Britain and whether reporters should consider themselves professionals who, among other things, adhere to a strict code of ethics.


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Valencia Vaults Twins Past Pirates
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It's no secret that the Twins have really struggled offensively to this point in spring training. That remained the case on Saturday when, in this sixth inning, the Twins were down 2-1 to the Pirates. Valencia stepped to the plate with two runners on and uncorked a long home run to give the Twins a 4-2 lead. The bullpen held the lead and the Twins got the win.
For Valencia, it was his first home of the spring. For the Twins, it was just their third spring home run (Chris Parmelee and JR Towles had the other two). In his previous at bat, Valencia had ripped a double to the right center field gap. On the day, the Twins managed just four other hits.
Terry Doyle got hit pretty hard by the Pirates. In 2.2 innings, he gave up two runs on seven hits and a walk. He was aided by a popped up bunt and a runner caught stealing on a pitch-out.
He was helped by another terrific performance by the bullpen. Anthony Swarzak got the final out of the third inning and pitched a scoreless fourth frame. Jared Burton, Matt Maloney, Kyle Waldrop, Lester Oliveros and PJ Walters each threw a scoreless inning.
Earlier in the day, the Twins and Pirates played a "B" game. Scott Baker was to start, but he was unable to get loose on time, so Jeff Gray pitched the first inning. Then Alex Burnett pitched the second. Baker finally pitched in the 3rd. He was able to record just one out before the inning was called. He pitched a second inning and struggled. In all, he gave up six runs in 1.1 innings. Following the outing, Baker said his elbow was fine, he just couldn't get the ball down. Oswaldo Arcia hit a long, opposite field home run. Chris Parmelee hit two doubles.