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Roswell Police say an Albertson's employee reported a surprising find in a package of frozen meat they received from a distributor.
"While unpacking meat for Albertson's, they located this gun in the meat, in the actual packaged case," Sgt. Jim Preston said. "At that time they removed it from the store and brought it to the Roswell Police Department."
The employee cleaned the gun before bringing it into RPD, which made it difficult to trace as evidence.
"We are investigating where the actual firearm came from," Preston said. "It is not listed in NCIC as a stolen firearm, so we are going to do an actual firearm search through the ATF to attempt to determine where the firearm came from."
That search, done through the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, could take weeks or even months.
The box said it was packaged in June 2011. "It just tells us that we do have a large amount of time that has passed," Preston said. "And if it was stolen we would have thought that by know it would have been entered into the actual database, NCIC, as a stolen firearm... but we don't have any of that information and it is something we're looking into."
The gun did not come in contact with consumers or cause any notable issues at the store.

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Some districts in Long Island, N.Y., are finally taking the technology plunge after dipping their toe in the water for several years. Mineola, which started with 100 iPads in 2010, is now providing one iPad for each of its 1,200 students in third through eighth grades, while Bethpage is distributing Google Chromebooks to middle schoolers.
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DOVER, Del. (May 30, 2008) -- The Monster Mile has not been too kind to the No. 99 Northern Tool + Equipment team the past couple of years and this year's AAA Insurance 200 would not be any different. Following two poor practice sessions the day before and qualifying back in the middle of the pack, Darnell and his NT+E team knew it would be an uphill battle from the start. Along with fighting a tight race truck the entire race, Darnell would also bring out a caution midway through race putting the No. 99 Ford F-150 several laps behind and finishing a disappointing 25th.
When the green flag dropped on a perfect evening for racing, Darnell and his No. 99 Ford F-150 rolled off the starting grid in the 18th position. Just two laps into the race Darnell quickly fell four spots and by lap 13 reported the truck being extremely tight with no front-end grip.
By lap 41 Darnell had inched his way back to the spot where he had begun the race, but was growing very impatient because the truck was not getting any better as the race went on. By now the Ford F-150 was beginning to get tight in the center of the track and in the throttle. The team though would catch a break just seven laps later when the yellow flag waved. Darnell followed the leaders to pit road for some major adjustments including fuel, four tires, an air pressure adjustment and track bar adjustment. Crew chief Matt Puccia also instructed the crew to take a rubber out of the left-rear spring. Puccia, along with Darnell, hoped this would solve their early race problems. But a number of laps later, Darnell radioed in reporting the truck was still having the same reoccurring issues.
Kyle Busch, who began the day on the second row, quickly took over the lead after only one lap and would stay there until lap 95 when a loose oil line ended his quest for an almost certain victory. This brought out the fourth caution of the evening and allowed Darnell to come to the pits for more adjustments. He reported to his crew chief the truck was still tight off the throttle and in the turns. The No. 99 Ford F-150 took fuel, four tires and made a full round track bar adjustment. Darnell would come away in the pits in the 14th position.
On lap 114 Darnell was holding down the 13th spot when he was bumped from the inside by the No.30 driven by Todd Bodine going into turn two sending Darnell up the race track. Darnell did an incredible job of saving the truck, but quickly came across the radio telling Puccia something wasn't right with his Ford F-150. The call was made to take it to the garage for further inspection. Darnell was quickly notified by his crew chief the truck suffered only four flat tires. The pit crew did an outstanding job of getting Darnell back on the track, but it was unfortunately too late to make any kind of a late run into the top 10.
When the race restarted on lap 121 the No. 99 NT+E Ford F-150 was now five laps down and in 28th. The final 80 laps saw Darnell put up lap times as fast as the leaders, but all that could be salvaged at the end was a disheartening 25th-place finish. Scott Speed ended up crossing the finish line as the winner of the AAA Insurance 200, picking up his first career Craftsman Truck Series win.
"We were tight the whole race. Our Northern Tool + Equipment Ford F-150 wasn't very good. The 30 truck [Bodine] just got into the corner a little too hard and ran into us, spun us out and backed us into the wall a little bit. I thought we had a broken track bar; it looked like it, it felt like it, it looked like it from up top. We brought it into the garage and it wasn't broken. We lost a couple of laps. It's just unfortunate," said Darnell.
Following today's disappointing finish, the NT+E team dropped three spots in the overall Craftsman Truck Series standings and now sits 12th after eight races. The No. 99 team will travel to Texas next week for the Sam's Town 400 on Friday, June 6, 2008.
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Why Grief Can Exist Alongside Hope
Throughout my life I've mostly been shielded from dealing with the death of people whom I love. But since the end of last year some very important people in my life have passed away, or now look to be near death.
Throughout my life I've mostly been shielded from dealing with the death of people whom I love. But since the end of last year some very important people in my life have passed away, or now look to be near death.
The fact of death isn't new to me, of course; but the subject has necessarily become less abstract.
How each person processes such a thing is highly and properly personal. But what I did want to touch on is how a person of faith–in my case the Christian faith–tries to make sense of things.
When I was still sorting through my belief system, there was something about Christianity that drew me to it. It was (among other things) that Christianity made sense of pain, loss, and sorrow in ways that nothing else quite did, at least to me, and in ways that seemed to me most true. That is, it didn't deny suffering happens; it didn't promise that good and faithful people wouldn't suffer; and it didn't pretend that suffering and the death of those whom we love won't be searing. Jesus never told us that those things should be minimized in any way. He wept, after all.
And yet even in the midst of valleys and heartache, we believe God is present. The notion that joy and peace can transcend circumstances, that there is a reality beyond our senses and that there are blessings to be found even in mourning, were things that had resonance with me. I came to believe that the Lord can redeem and restore all things, including areas of brokenness. I was captivated, even then, by the thought that our life here on earth is intensely real–we're not talking about shadows on the walls of caves–but also, in the full scheme of things, momentary. That it's part of a very meaningful and authentic story, but it's not the full story, and it's not the end of the story.
This past weekend I was in the company of someone I've written about before, Steve Hayner, who earlier this year was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and whose life on this earth is now likely to be counted in weeks or months. In struggling to find a way to express some of these sentiments, I found myself recalling the movie Shadowlands.
C.S. Lewis, played by Anthony Hopkins, is shattered by the death of his wife, Joy Davidman. Near the end of the movie he's told he must talk to Douglas, the young son (by another marriage) of Davidman. "I don't know what to say to him," Lewis admits.
The next scene is of Lewis and Douglas talking.
"I don't know why she had to get sick," a grief-stricken Douglas says.
"No, nor me," Lewis replies. But you can't hold on to things, he says; you have to let them go.
"Do you believe in heaven," Douglas asks Lewis.
"Yes, I do," Lewis replies. (By this time Lewis's faith, which had buckled a bit in the aftermath of Joy's death, has recovered.)
Douglas, who at that point says he doesn't believe in heaven, tells Lewis, with tears in his eyes, "I sure would like to see her again."
"Me, too," Lewis replies. And he and Douglas embrace, weeping.
One can believe, as Lewis wrote in The Last Battle (the last book in his Chronicles of Narnia series), that our lives in this world are only the cover and the title page; that with death we begin "Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
Yet when cancer struck down the person Lewis most loved, he understood that future chapters are not present ones; that covers and title pages matter, too; and that grief, to paraphrase the essayist Chad Walsh, is the price of the knowledge–the knowledge of love and affection, of intimacy and friendship. Those who live in the glow of people's love eventually live in the shadow of grief. That's the nature of things in this broken world, and why grief can exist alongside hope.
One final thought struck me in reflecting on this past weekend. Now and again there is in my estimation some confusion within Christianity on the relationship between the eternal and the temporal. They are hardly synonymous; but neither are they inverse or antithetical, which is how they are sometimes cast. Nor is the demarcation between the two quite what we might think. This world is surely a vale of tears. But it can also pre-shadow the glories and joy that awaits us. It is also home to people like Steve and his wife Sharol who are, in the words of St. Paul, "imitators of God." They offer intimations not of immortality but of divine grace and love.
Death is not the way things were meant to be. But it is, for now, the way things are. That doesn't make accepting it any easier. But here's what does: Finding individuals who, in the face of a terrible ordeal, choose to trust God and offer their fears to God; who are dignified and transparent in recounting their journey; and who, when facing the prospect of death, can still say (and mean) that "everyday has always been an opportunity for attentiveness, gratitude, and living into God's call" and admit to having much less of a desire to "seize the day" and a greater desire to welcome it with all it's twists and turns, surprises and disappointments, moments of delight and sorrow. To live joyfully and faithfully, come what may.
National Defense Panel's Bombshell Report
It has gotten pretty much zero press attention, but last week the congressionally mandated National Defense Panel issued what should have been seen as a bombshell review of American military readiness, or lack thereof. The bipartisan credentials of the board members cannot be doubted. The panel was co-chaired by Clinton-era Defense Secretary Bill Perry and retired General John Abizaid. Members included both Bush-era Defense Department appointees such as Eric Edelman and Obama-era successors such as Michele Flournoy. The only thing uniting the members of the panel was deep knowledge of, and interest in, defense policy.
It has gotten pretty much zero press attention, but last week the congressionally mandated National Defense Panel issued what should have been seen as a bombshell review of American military readiness, or lack thereof. The bipartisan credentials of the board members cannot be doubted. The panel was co-chaired by Clinton-era Defense Secretary Bill Perry and retired General John Abizaid. Members included both Bush-era Defense Department appointees such as Eric Edelman and Obama-era successors such as Michele Flournoy. The only thing uniting the members of the panel was deep knowledge of, and interest in, defense policy.
Such a group might be expected to endorse the status quo as the lowest-common-denominator option. But that's not what they did. Instead they issued a blistering denunciation of the impact that budget cuts–amounting to a trillion dollars over 10 years–are having on the armed forces. These cuts, they warned, "constitute a serious strategic misstep on the part of the United States. Not only have they caused significant investment shortfalls in U.S. military readiness and both present and future capabilities, they have prompted our current and potential allies and adversaries to question our commitment and resolve. Unless reversed, these shortfalls will lead to a high risk force in the near future. That in turn will lead to an America that is not only less secure but also far less prosperous."
The panel identified "disturbing" and "dangerous" gaps between the "capabilities and capacities" called for under the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review and the actual "budget resources made available to the [Defense] Department." Specifically the panel determined that both the Navy and Air Force need to grow and the Army and Marine Corps should not shrink as much as currently envisioned.
The Navy, the panel noted, should have between 323 and 346 ships yet it is currently "on a budgetary path to 260 ships or less."
The Air Force, the panel found, "now fields the smallest and oldest force of combat aircraft in its history" and that situation is going to get much worse because it is going to lose half of its current inventory of bombers, fighter aircraft, and surveillance aircraft by 2019. The panel called for an increase in "the number of manned and unmanned aircraft capable of conducting both ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] and long range strike in contested airspace."
The panel also found that currently contemplated reductions in Army end-strength go too far. "We believe the Army and the Marine Corps should not be reduced below their pre-9/11 end strengths–490,000 active-duty soldiers in the Army and 182,000 active Marines," the panel concluded. Yet on the current trajectory the army is likely to wind up with 420,000 soldiers and the Corps with 175,000 marines.
The defense panel rightly warned that "sustaining these significant cuts to our defense budgets will not solve our fiscal woes, but will increasingly jeopardize our international defense posture and ultimately damage our security, prospects for economic growth, and other interests."
But no one in Washington, on either side of the aisle, seems to care. All Republicans seem to care about anymore is avoiding tax hikes. All that Democrats seem to care about anymore is avoiding cuts in entitlement programs. Whatever happened to the parties of Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy? They seem to be as gone as those presidents. And America is going to pay the price unless we see some leadership on defense issues at the top of our political system on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Bibi and Barack After Gaza
As Operation Protective Edge wound down in Gaza, talk in the media turned to the U.S.-Israel relationship. It has been an unusually tense few months for Washington and Jerusalem.
As Operation Protective Edge wound down in Gaza, talk in the media turned to the U.S.-Israel relationship. It has been an unusually tense few months for Washington and Jerusalem.
What's puzzling is not President Obama's desire for peace. It is always admirable to want wars to go on for no longer than they must. But in this case, once Israel discovered the terror tunnels, the state had to act in its own defense. The New York Times has a story today on the administration's frustration with its lack of control over another sovereign state's actions, but the entire piece can be boiled down to the following paragraph, appearing early on in the story:
With public opinion in both Israel and the United States solidly behind the Israeli military's campaign against Hamas, no outcry from Israel's Arab neighbors, and unstinting support for Israel on Capitol Hill, President Obama has had few obvious levers to force Mr. Netanyahu to stop pounding targets in Gaza until he was ready to do it.
Well that pretty much explains it, doesn't it? Not only did Israel have public support in the U.S., but its actions were backed by its Arab neighbors and the U.S. Congress. Obama was the odd man out–or one of the few, anyway. There was a rare consensus in Israel's part of the Middle East that included Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Everyone was on the same page both with Israel and the U.S. for once. It was an easy diplomatic call for Obama, but he still made the wrong one.
Additionally, the efficacy of American pressure on Israel depends to a large extent on the Israeli public. In this particular case, Hamas had constructed an underground city with tunnels that led into Israeli territory. Of course the Israeli public wanted those tunnels gone. And the threat from the rockets flying from Gaza, often derided by the world as glorified firecrackers, had increased as well. The rockets practically shut down Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel's gateway to the outside world, which had the effect of temporarily isolating a Jewish polity that, for clear and rational reasons, is a bit sensitive to their enemies' attempts to ghettoize them.
As Ruthie Blum writes today in Israel Hayom:
One could argue that the reason public support for Operation Protective Edge reached a whopping 95 percent was the utter justice of its cause; that the incessant rocket-fire from Gaza, now hitting the center of country, was too much even for the peace utopians to bear.
One could assume that no matter what an Israeli's personal political leanings, he would see the virtue in defeating an enemy that glorifies death; uses children as canon fodder; abuses women; tortures homosexuals and the disabled; and vows to annihilate the world's Jews while converting or slaughtering its Christians.
Nevertheless, it is usually impossible to get even those Israelis with similar outlooks to agree on anything, including where to hang a communal clothesline, for more than five minutes. Hence the quip, "Two Jews, three opinions."
Blum also mentions the surprising fact that this unity occurred under the premiership of Benjamin Netanyahu, whose essential pragmatism tends to leave Israelis wary of his intentions. Netanyahu doesn't really have a political base in the traditional sense, since the right wing doesn't trust him. Yet in this current conflict, virtually the entire country was his base.
Such unity of spirit and support for Israel in the Arab world should have been inspiring. To Obama, it was a source of aggravation. As the Times notes:
The blunt, unsparing language — among the toughest diplomats recall ever being aimed at Israel — lays bare a frustrating reality for the Obama administration: the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has largely dismissed diplomatic efforts by the United States to end the violence in Gaza, leaving American officials to seethe on the sidelines about what they regard as disrespectful treatment.
Obama has always been more receptive to the angst of the Democratic Party's base than other elected Democrats who didn't, after all, become the most powerful person in the world by riding a wave of feverish antiwar anger. And the Democratic Party's base is the one sector of American politics whose open hostility to Israel is not only growing stronger by the day but also seeping into the rest of the party from the margins.
Obama has often left commentators perplexed by the battles he chooses and the fights he picks, since they're so often with steadfast allies. And it should be noted that he hasn't abandoned Israel in the military realm–far from it. But the diplomatic aggression toward Israel is far from meaningless. The Times explains that "a senior American official predicted that the tough State Department statement would 'box [Israel] in internationally.'"
Despite having the Arab world on their side in this fight, not to mention the U.S. Congress and the public they represent, the Obama administration is trying to rally international–European, presumably–opinion against Israel. It's strategically foolish and diplomatically illogical. Perhaps the end of Operation Protective Edge, then–if indeed this is the end–will serve to protect the Obama administration from itself by preventing further self-inflicted wounds, or at least remove Gaza as their source.


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The Council of Europe has urged the UK government to hurry up and change the law on prisoner voting rights. As things stand, the UK's 84,073 strong prison population (all avowed Conservative voters, according to reports) are barred from voting in elections under section 3 of the Representation of the People Act 1983.
In March 2004, however, in the case of Hirst v. United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) unanimously ruled that the maintenance of an absolute bar on convicted prisoners voting was in breach of Article 3 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, the right to free and fair elections.
The case was brought by John Hirst, a prisoner who, in 1980, had been sentenced to a term of discretionary life imprisonment after pleading guilty to manslaughter. The UK Government unsuccessfully appealed the decision before the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR.
Since the appeal was dismissed, the government has commenced two consultations over whether to give prisoners the vote. Justice Secretary Jack Straw has proposed that the right be granted to all prisoners except those convicted of serious violent and sexual offences.
A justice ministry spokesman told the Guardian: "It remains the government's view that the right to vote goes to the essence of the offender's relationship with democratic society, and the removal of the right to vote in the case of some convicted prisoners can be a proportionate and proper response following conviction and imprisonment. The issue of prisoner voting rights is one that the government takes very seriously and that remains under careful consideration."
But this was not enough to satisfy the Council of Ministers. It has urged the Government "to rapidly adopt measures, of even an interim nature, to ensure the execution of the court's judgment [in Hirst v.UK] before the forthcoming general election.
"The increasing number of persons potentially affected by the restriction could result in similar violations affecting a significant category of persons, giving rise to a substantial risk of repetitive applications to the European court."
Chief executive of the ex-offenders' organisation Unlock Bob Cummings added: "Giving prisoners the vote is a question of moral conscience. If prisoners are excluded from voting, then we don't have a democratic society - we are just paying lip service to one. The government must accept that prisoners remain citizens of this country with legitimate human rights, including the right to vote."


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Courtney Proctor Cross: Tree projects add beauty to Huntington
Hello, my name is Courtney Proctor Cross. I am the chairperson of the Urban Forestry Advisory Committee for the City of Huntington. I am working to coordinate a major tree planting for the city right of way on 13th Avenue from 8th Street to 12th Street.
As you have probably noticed, many trees have been removed over the past 10 years and most have not been replaced. The beautiful oaks that remain are mature and while many may live for another 20 to 30 years, it is likely that some of them will not live much longer. To ensure that the city retains the beautiful tree canopy that distinguishes this part of our city, we need to begin replacing the trees that have been lost to age and disease.
Our plan is to plant 15 oaks and 5 sugar maples large enough to survive on the street scape before winter begins. The delivery, planting and mulching of 20 trees in the available planting spaces will cost approximately $6,000. This work will include a two-year guarantee.
Huntington residents Pam and David Miller and Sterling and Rosalee Hall have committed significant sums of money toward this project. These two couples realize the value trees add to our community.
I hope you will join Pam, David, Sterling and Rosalee in making a contribution that will make it possible for the planting to happen this month. If you are able to help, please send your tax deductible contribution to the Foundation for the Tri-State Community, Inc. Attention: Sandi Martin. The address is P.O. Box 2096 Ashland, KY 41105-2096 . Please note that your donation should be marked "13th Avenue Project." The foundation will send you a letter for tax purposes once your donation has been received.
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If we raise more money than we need for this particular area, we will simply extend the planting area around the end of the park on 12th Street.
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Courtney Proctor Cross is chairperson of Huntington's Urban Forestry Advisory Committee.
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Former U.S. Sen. Howard Baker often told a story about a key meeting a predecessor had with President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the early days of World War II.
FDR called Sen. Kenneth McKellar, a Democrat who chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee, to the Oval Office to ask if he could hide $2 billion for a secret project — which we know today as the Manhattan Project — in the Senate's budget bill. McKellar, a staunch purveyor of patronage, said it wouldn't be a problem, but had one question for the president.
"Where in Tennessee do you want me to hide it?"
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, a protege of Baker, tells a similar story of how Oak Ridge came to be. It is a perfect example of an elected official using his position to benefit his district.
When the Tennessee Valley Authority began buying up farmland to build dams and create lakes, McKellar used his power on the Senate Appropriations Committee to force the federal utility to fairly compensate landowners.
Ah, those where the days. Yes, they were also days filled with backroom political deals and graft, but things got done. Important things. And Washington was much more than the partisan soap opera it has become today, with members of one party opposing the ideas of the other just for political sport.
Bipartisanship was not a bad word then. Members of Congress used to reach across the partisan aisle to work together to get things done. Important things that impacted the lives of all Americans. A few of today's members of Congress remember those days, and know that following those principles is the cornerstone of good government.
Undoubtedly that was what Alexander was thinking last year when he stepped down from his GOP leadership post in the Senate.
Alexander wanted to be free to go his own way on issues that he and the rest of the Republican Party might not see eye-to-eye on. Mountaintop coal removal is one such issue, as is his stand on eliminating sales tax loopholes.
State Rep. Kent Williams of Elizabethton admires Alexander for his courage to step outside the tightly controlled box of ideology. Williams has also voiced opposition to blasting off the tops of mountains to get at a little bit of coal.
"Like Lamar Alexander, I like to think of myself as independent minded," Williams told me recently.
Williams, who calls himself a "Carter County Republican" after being stripped of his official party designation by the state Republican Party a few years back after he voted with Democrats to get himself elected speaker of the state House of Representatives, is content to seek re-election this fall as an independent candidate.
That doesn't mean, however, Williams wouldn't mind being welcomed back into the GOP fold. Redistricting has seen Williams lose a few of his voting precincts in the 4th District (Roan Mountain, Elk Mills and Hampton) to the 3rd District. His district is now most of Carter County and all of Unicoi County.
If re-elected, Williams promises to work as hard for Unicoi County as he has for Carter County. Williams is from the old school, where a politician is judged by what he has done for his district — not by how well he can parrot his party's rhetoric.
Certainly, voters in Tennessee's 1st Congressional District have known the value of electing representatives who know how to get things done.
That was true of Congressman Walter P. Brownlow, who was responsible for bringing federal dollars back to his district to build a fish hatchery in Erwin and an old soldier's home (now the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mountain Home) in Johnson City.
It was also true of Congressman Jimmy Quillen, who was instrumental in helping to create a college of medicine at East Tennessee State University.
In recent years, however, constituents of the 1st District have had little of that enormity on which to grade their representatives.
In fact, I've heard from more than a few who wonder what, if anything, has Congressman Phil Roe, R-Johnson City, accomplished in his nearly two terms in Washington.
One of his partisan defenders told me earlier this year that I needed "to get on Phil Roe's bandwagon."
On the contrary, I think Roe needs to get on the bandwagon of his constituents. Particularly those of us who still value getting our mail on a timely basis.
I've not been alone in noticing the congressman hasn't exactly gone to bat for keeping the U.S. Postal Service's mail processing center here in Johnson City. Last year, he basically told a group of postal workers who would be impacted by the facility's move to Knoxville that times are changing and such things are inevitable.
I doubt that would have been the position a Sen. McKellar or a Congressman Quillen would have taken.
Robert Houk is Opinion page editor for the Johnson City Press. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Q&A: X-rays and Pregnancy
Q. I may have broken my arm, and my doctor wants to X-ray it. I'm afraid the X-ray will hurt my baby. Shouldn't I wait until after the baby is born?
A. There's no need to wait. The American College of Radiology reports that diagnostic X-rays rarely pose a threat to an unborn baby. There is little risk of tissue damage with any ionizing radiation under 5 rads, and most modern X-rays emit many fewer than 5 rads. In addition, current X-ray equipment can pinpoint specific areas, such as your arm. There's very little chance that your baby would be exposed to any radiation at all, especially when you wear a lead apron over your torso.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has also been deemed safe to use during pregnancy, but a CT scan (computerized tomography) may be less so. A CT scan uses multiple X-rays to examine the body and create its three-dimensional image, so there's more risk of radiation exposure for your baby. The amount of radiation exposure also depends on what area of the body is being investigated. It?s best if the abdomen and pelvis are shielded.
Even then, you have to weigh the risks against the benefits of having such a diagnostic test. Chances are good that your baby would suffer little or no tissue damage.
Originally published in You & Your Baby: Pregnancy.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tom Winslow, a Republican who is having to run as a petition candidate for S.C. House Seat 103, turned in his signatures at the S.C. Election Commission Thursday.
He was expecting to run against both incumbent Carl Anderson, a Democrat, and Jackie Williams, another petition candidate, for the seat.
However, on Thursday, Williams said she has decided she will not seek the office this election cycle.
After both were removed from last months primary ballot for improper filing of financial statements, they joined forces to collect signatures.
Williams said Thursday she had the required number of names.
She said she has decided to spend the campaign season working with groups in an effort to get President Barack Obama reelected.
Its not a question of having enough signatures. I could have easily gone to Columbia with what I have, she said.
She and Winslow needed to collect 1,170 signatures from the House 103 district to get on the ballot.
Winslow said he turned in 1,740 names Thursday.
He said he was hoping Williams would be in the race so liberals would have a choice between herself and Anderson.
There is also the theory Williams would have helped split the Democrat vote making it easier for Winslow to win in November.
I have to do what is in the best interest of the big picture. Not just what I want to do, Williams said.
She said she will work to be a support mechanism for her party during the campaign season.
The state will send the petitions turned in by Winslow to the election offices of the counties in the district for the names to be verified by Aug. 15.
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Winners of 2013-2014 OEA Awards Announced
Congratulations to all the Award Recipients!
Leah Kasmenn, Euclid Teachers Association – Marilyn Cross Scholarship Award
Amanda Wallace, Steubenville Education Association – John F. Kennedy Scholarship Award
Natalie Passarelli, Ohio Student Education Association -- OSU Main Campus - Jean Kershaw Scholarship Award
Ernestine Davis, Ph.D., East Cleveland Education Association – Holloways/Human and Civil Rights Award
Patricia Ramion, Brunswick Educational Support Professional Association -- ESP of the Year Award
Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, MSNBC -- OEA Friend of Education Award
The Marilyn Cross Scholarship was instituted in December of 2002 to honor the memory of Marilyn Cross, past president and revered leader of the OEA. The $2,000 scholarship is presented each year to a career teacher for graduate work in a program directly linked to his/her current area of licensure, must be in need of financial assistance, and must demonstrate a reasonable prediction of success in graduate work.
The John F. Kennedy Scholarship was instituted in November of 1963 at the annual Ohio Education Association Representative Assembly, during which President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Assembly delegates took action during the convention to establish the scholarship as an annual memorial to President Kennedy. The $4,000 JFK Scholarship is presented to an OEA member who is a career teacher enrolled in a graduate level program and in need of financial assistance.
The Jean Kershaw Scholarship was instituted in the fall of 1985 to honor the memory of Jean Kershaw, a long-time OEA employee who served as secretary to 11 OEA Presidents. The $2,000 Jean Kershaw Scholarship is presented to an freshman, sophomore, or junior student in a five-year program teacher education program or to a senior who has been formally accepted for graduate study in a master's degree of education program at an accredited Ohio college or university and in need of financial assistance.
The OEA Holloways/Human and Civil Rights Award is presented to an individual OEA member, for outstanding contributions to the promotion or execution of excellent human relations skills and interpersonal relationships as modeled by example.
The OEA Education Support Professional Award is presented each year to an OEA member whose activities reflect the contributions of education support professionals to public education.
The OEA Friend of Education Award recognizes a person and/or organization whose leadership, actions, and support have contributed to the improvement of public education on a statewide and/or national level.


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