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BRINKLEY (AP) - The Arkansas State Police say a 70-year-old Brinkley woman was killed when she was hit by a sport utility vehicle on U.S. 49 in Brinkley.
The police report on the collision says Betty Stafford was in the northbound lane of the highway when she was struck shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday.
Troopers say the driver of the SUV and a passenger were not injured in the crash.
Jonesboro police find counterfeit check operation
JONESBORO (AP) - Police in Jonesboro say a tip from Lepanto police led officers to a suspected counterfeit check operation.
Sgt. Lyle Waterworth says the tip led local and federal authorities to search a home on the city's west side on Thursday where they found evidence of counterfeiting and arrested one person.
The person's name has not been released.
Waterworth says officers also found evidence of identity fraud in the home. He says the U.S. Secret Service and a state identity theft task force joined Jonesboro police in the investigation.
Pipeline ruptures, oil leaks into lake
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Authorities are evacuating at least 50 homes after a crude oil pipeline ruptured near Mayflower, spilling oil into Lake Conway.
Arkansas Department of Emergency Management spokesman Brandon Morris said an Exxon pipeline ruptured on Friday afternoon. He said authorities have since stopped the leak.
Morris said a small amount of oil was released into Lake Conway, but it wasn't clear exactly how much.
Morris said authorities are evacuating homes in a subdivision near where the pipeline ruptured.
A spokeswoman for ExxonMobil says she was looking into the incident.
Lawmakers plan to meet 6 days next week
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Arkansas legislative leaders say the House and Senate will meet six days next week as they near a self-imposed April 19 deadline to wrap up this year's session.
House Speaker Davy Carter and Senate President Michael Lamoureux said the chambers will meet Monday through Saturday next week. Both chambers were off Friday for the Easter holiday.
Lamoureux said he didn't believe there was the two-thirds support the Legislature needs to extend the session beyond an April 19 deadline to recess. Lamoureux said he hoped the Legislature could wrap up work before that deadline.
Major issues lawmakers have yet to finalize include a package of tax cuts, a $125 million financing plan for a proposed steel mill and a proposal to expand health insurance to thousands of low-income residents.
Ozarks blood center lays off 39 people
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - The Community Blood Center of the Ozarks has laid off 39 people in response to a drop in requests for blood products.
Spokesman Chris Pilgrim said Friday the layoffs include 27 full-time staff members. The center, which serves hospitals in Missouri and Arkansas, will have about 180 employees after the layoffs. Pilgrim says technology and changes in protocols have reduced the need for blood transfusions in hospitals. One example is cell separators, which allow a patient's blood to be recycled during surgeries.
Pilgrim told KYTV that the organization is not in financial difficulty.
The blood center has two donation centers in Springfield, and one each in Joplin; Springdale and Bentonville.
Texarkana hopes to save airport tower operations
TEXARKANA (AP) - Texarkana officials hope commercial traffic at the region's airport will help keep its control tower open.
The Federal Aviation Administration was set to pull funding effective April 7 in response to government cutbacks, but has since restored funding until May 5.
Now airport officials believe that commercial air service could help lead to a full restoration. According to the Texarkana Gazette, Airport Director Stephen Luebbert said at a public hearing Thursday that "control tower closure isn't an option."
Luebbert said there are some visual limitations at the airport that would require an air traffic controller to maintain safe operations.
The FAA has rejected the city's appeal to keep its funding. Luebbert said local funding could perhaps be used.
Texarkana's is one of 149 towers nationwide scheduled to close.
Unemployment rate holds steady at 7.2 percent
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Arkansas' unemployment rate held steady at 7.2 percent in February.
The state Department of Workforce Services reported Friday that the February rate is unchanged from January's 7.2 percent unemployment rate. The national unemployment rate fell from 7.9 percent in January to 7.7 percent in February.
The department says the number of nonfarm jobs rose in February by 7,600 with the largest increase being 5,200 government jobs as public school employees returned to work following the winter break. There was also an increase of 2,100 jobs in professional and business services and 1,100 additional jobs in the leisure and hospitality industry.
Judge denies bond reduction for Fort Smith man
FORT SMITH (AP) - A Sebastian County Circuit Court judge has denied a request to lower the bond for a 19-year-old Fort Smith man charged with killing his aunt.
Dustin Trowbridge is charged with first degree murder in the Feb. 13 shooting death of 25-year-old Rita Jackalynne Anderson. The Southwest Times Record reports that Trowbridge remains jailed on $500,000 bond after Judge Michael Fitzhugh denied the request on Thursday - saying Trowbridge has a history of violence that includes two assault convictions.
Anderson's boyfriend told police Trowbridge was arguing with Anderson and waving a gun in her face when she slapped the gun away before he shot her in the face.
Trowbridge has pleaded not guilty and said the shooting was an accident.


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PETA Takes Shots At "Desperate Freaks" Lady Gaga And Rihanna
Animal rights organization PETA has been on quite a roll over these past few weeks. They first targeted Lady Gaga because of her furry fashion choices and have now set their eyes on Rihanna for wearing snakeskin.
PETA and Lady Gaga went head to head last month over 'Furgate' with Mother Monster declaring that she tries her best to avoid fur. However, she did state that if she comes across an absolute piece of art, she can't resist the urge to wear it.
Rihanna is now the target of PETA because she wore Python spike heel boots from the Tom Ford Fall 2012 collection while partying last week. Speaking to The Daily Express, PETA said, "Rihanna may not have a clue that snakes killed for boots are often nailed to a tree and skinned alive. Of course, they can't go on Oprah to cry about it."
PETA continued, "Wearing reptile skin is creepy and callous, and it makes her look even more out of touch … She and Lady Gaga seem so desperate to be freaks instead of recognized for their talents that you have to wonder if they realize that they are being laughed at."
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CHICAGO (AP) - Marilu Vargas digs through bargain meats at a Mexican grocery store, trying to slash the budget for her family of seven while considering how much she can spare for relatives back home in Mexico.
Nine months ago, the 36-year-old lost her job at a mortgage company that folded in the dismal housing market. Drastic cutbacks have followed as her family struggles to live on her husband's $30,000 salary.
Vargas' parents and other relatives await whatever stipend she can afford to send from the United States. But lately they have been waiting longer for less.
As the U.S. recession deepens, Vargas is among a wave of immigrants who have cut back on what they send home - resulting in what's expected to be the first annual decline in so-called "remittances" to Mexico since the country's central bank began keeping track of payments 13 years ago.
Money sent from immigrants working in the U.S. to their home countries is Mexico's second-largest source of foreign income after oil.
But that funding source dropped 2.2 percent in the first half of 2008, according to a report from the central bank. One of Mexico's largest banks said this month that it expects an overall 2 percent decline to $23.5 billion when the final 2008 numbers are reported Jan. 28.
Associated Press reporters in Chicago and Mexico spent time with Vargas and her relatives back home to uncover the everyday struggles behind those statistics.
The thousands of dollars Vargas has sent to Iguala, Mexico, during the last 17 years have allowed her parents to finish building their three-bedroom house and her mother to see a private doctor instead of going to one of Mexico's overcrowded and often inept public clinics.
Vargas remembers a time when she could send up to $500 a month. Lately, it's just $50 to $80 here and there.
Her mother never complains. "She accepts it," Vargas said. "She watches television and sees how difficult the situation is."
But it weighs on Vargas, who knows times are tough in Mexico as well.
"The U.S. economy is affecting them there," she said. "Life is more difficult."
Mango, orange and other fruit trees grow in abundance in the lush mountain city of Iguala, but people struggle to make ends meet.
Vargas' father, Alberto Rodriguez, 56, has not been able to find a job in more than two months.
The construction worker used to have steady work in the city, where rebar protrudes from the tops of cinderblock homes that are built in stages as money arrives from family members in the U.S.
But clinking hammers and cement-mixing machines have gone silent. Half-built structures loom as victims of a faltering economy, rather than works in progress.
Long lines of families waiting to pick up remittances at Western Union have all but disappeared.
"The migrants used to send back money to their families, who would hire someone to build a second floor or paint their houses," Rodriguez said. "But now everyone over there is losing their jobs and down here the jobs are disappearing as a result."
Rodriguez and his wife, Magdalena Jimenez, 56, live off money earned from selling candy, cigarettes, sliced cucumbers with chile powder and other snacks to workers on shift changes outside a local factory.
On a recent day, Jimenez rocked her 2-month-old granddaughter in a dusty parking lot while the couple's youngest daughter, 21-year-old Dora Jimenez, ran the stand. Alberto Rodriguez carted a cooler of refreshments and other supplies on a bicycle outfitted to carry the heavy load.
Sales were brisk, and brought in $23 in about two hours. But the family spent $15 buying snacks from the city market and hours making homemade coconut and mango ice cream to sell.
"From the little we make here, we're able to eat at least," said Magdalena Jimenez, who suffers from dizziness brought on by high blood pressure, which left her hospitalized for four days last month and cost the family nearly $300. "We're just trying to survive and overcome the crisis."
The couple live with their son and his wife, along with Dora Jimenez, her husband and their three small children. Every adult works odd jobs, from selling produce and bottled water to construction.
"My husband wants to go to the United States," Dora Jimenez said as she chased after her 5-year-old twin boys playing in the street. "But I don't want to leave my family."
Marilu Vargas was 19 when she left her self-described middle-class family to go illegally to the United States, following in the footsteps of her 17-year-old, more adventurous sister, Margarita.
The oldest of eight, Vargas assumed the role of provider.
She juggled up to three jobs, working 3 a.m. to 9 p.m. at factories and cleaning downtown Chicago buildings. She shared an apartment with five women to split the $800 rent.
"I slept very little," she said.
Being away from her large family was isolating, but Vargas took pride in sending home hundreds of dollars.
She soon met her future husband, Jesus, at a popcorn factory. They wed in 1992.
A car lover since childhood, Jesus Vargas became a mechanic in suburban Chicago. His work sponsored him to get legal residence, and he has been able to petition for his wife.
Their children, ages 10, 11, 14, are American citizens and attend a public charter school, a point of pride for the couple.
"We wanted to live a better life," Marilu Vargas said.
But that's become increasingly difficult.
Vargas is out of a job. The family's two oldest children, her husband's from a previous marriage, have deferred college and now work at a currency exchange near the family's modest West Side home.
Jesus Vargas works six days a week at a mechanics shop specializing in police cars to pay the $1,055 mortgage.
"I'm just surviving now. It takes a lot," the 41-year-old said. "I don't like it."
Marilu Vargas has cut $150 grocery shopping trips in half. The family no longer eats out. Their second car sits unused because of costly insurance. And there were no Christmas presents.
"It's terrible," she said.
While seeking another mortgage industry job, Vargas spends most of her time at Our Lady of Guadalupe Anglican Catholic Mission, a tiny storefront church in the heart of Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, one of the country's largest Mexican communities.
"In this church, there are many people who are suffering," Vargas said. "The situation for others is so bad that we forget our own situation."
Vargas helps others with mortgage documents and connects families with food banks.
Her family joins her in the evenings. Nine-year-old Marychu colors a math assignment with colored pencils. Jesus Vargas, who also is preparing to be ordained as a deacon, sits with a group of men watching Honduras beat Mexico in a soccer match.
Marilu Vargas appears in her element, logging data into a computer, answering phone calls and helping a group of women sew a stole with intricate designs.
She tries to focus on the positive.
"My husband works. We have food," she explained. "We have our health. The kids are in school. And we are together."
For her part, Magdalena Jimenez says she only wants what is best for her children.
"It was hard when Marilu left for the United States. But it's better that she is over there," said Jimenez, whose living room walls are covered with framed photos of her children and grandchildren. "Here she would only suffer."
Associated Press Writer Julie Watson contributed from Iguala, Mexico.
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Congressman Tom Reed, the Greater Steuben Chapter American Red Cross Kids Youth Group, local New York State Legislators and the Helping Hands and Beyond program are joining forces to bring some much-needed relief to those impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The organizations will work together on an initiative to collect and transport new linens to areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
"We saw a niche that needed to be filled and we are happy to have joined with great organizations to help those affected by Sandy in this time of need," said Reed. "I was at a Hurricane Sandy fundraiser just the other weekend talking with residents about ways to increase and maintain awareness. This project helps to fill a need and keeps us aware of those still suffering from damages and loss."
Programs across the state and nation have been collecting food, clothing and various personal items but there is also a need for new linens – sheets, towels, blankets and similar items.
"The collaboration with Helping Hands and Beyond offers the opportunity to provide basic relief to the families struggling to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy," said Red Cross Kids Coordinator, Debby Woglom. "We were fortunate the storm spared our region and now we are mobilizing the youth program to help with basic needs."
Helping Hands and Beyond, a not-for-profit humanitarian organization working in Sandy relief, will pick up and transport the donated items to hurricane victims. You can help. Individuals and families interested in donating new linen items like sheets, towels or blankets, may bring the unopened items to all of Congressman Reed's offices or the following New York State Legislator's offices: Senator Mike Nozzolio, Senator Tom O'Mara, Senator Cathy Young, Assemblyman Chris Friend, Assemblyman Joe Giglio, or Assemblyman Phil Palmesano.
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The Philadelphia Flyers needed to add another goalie to their roster and did just that on Friday afternoon at the start of free agency.
The team has signed veteran goalie Ray Emery to a one-year contract. According to ESPN's Pierre LeBrun, the deal will pay him $1.65 million.
Emery spent the past two seasons splitting time with Corey Crawford in Chicago. He spent one year with the Flyers during the 2009-10 season.
After buying out the remainder of Ilya Bryzgalov's contract after the season the only goalie Philadelphia had on the roster was Steve Mason.
It's a relatively small sampling of data to go on, but Emery has played well the past three seasons and is coming off a 2013 season that saw him post a .922 save percentage with the Blackhawks. He won't be playing behind a defense that's anywhere near as good as the one he had in Chicago, but based on the way Philadelphia's goaltending performed last season it might be impossible for him to do any worse.


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Last night as a birthday present for me, I got this message from a random number: (reproduced here exactly as it was received)
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When privacy collides with politics, privacy loses
dan tynan on Nov 01 2012 at 11:25 am | Filed under: ITworld, politics, Privacy
At this point in this especially insane political season there's still no telling who will end up winning it all next Tuesday. But it's very clear to me who has already lost: You and me. More specifically, what little personal privacy we may once have had.
The amount and scope of data collection employed by both presidential campaigns this year is unprecedented. Both sides have been hoovering up data about voters using every means possible: mobile apps, online tracking, public records databases, third-party demographics clearinghouses, and data mining on social networks. And it looks like this is how political campaigns will be conducted from now on.
Last week I wrote about how generous the Obama and Romney campaigns are with our data, and what you can do to opt out of that (ie, not much). But that's really only the tip of the databerg.
Take, for example, the Obama For America app. It extracts public voter registration records and overlays them on a map, so you can see the names and addresses of likely Democratic voters within a half mile of your location, along with their age and gender. Yes, this is totally legal; the records are public, after all. But OFA also makes it pretty easy to stalk strangers – say, young women with whom you share a political affiliation. Creepy? Just a little.
Screenshot borrowed with gratitude from Pro Publica.
Or take the GOP's Project ORCA Web app. Come election day, some 34,000 Republican poll watchers will be using the app to record the names of every person who shows up to vote, which will then be relayed to local campaign headquarters. Presumably those who fail to show up at the polls will get a phone call urging them to vote (at least, some of them will). Inside the packet given to each ORCA volunteer is a PDF containing the names of every person registered to vote at their particular precinct. A volunteer in Virginia shared his PDF file with me; the list of names was more than 50 pages long.
So when I go to vote, some stranger will be standing there eyeballing me to determine if I look Republican and ticking me off a list. I find that a bit creepy too, don't you?
It's not just the candidates. The super PACs are getting into it as well. I installed the Vote Early 2012 Facebook app from Karl Rove's American Crossroads political action committee to see what it would do. Mostly what it seems to do is mine my Facebook profile for information.
Ever since then, I've been seeing a heckovalot more pro-Romney ads show up on my Facebook news feed. Are these two things related? Hard to say.
The worst data collection, however, is the kind that goes on invisibly as you surf. Visit either candidate's Web site and your browser will quickly be festooned with dozens of trackers that will follow you around the Web.
Evidon, the folks behind the Ghostery browser add-on and the Ad Choices program, released a report last week detailing the number and types of online trackers used by the campaign Web sites. Using data gathered from more than 7 million Ghostery users, Evidon found that the number of trackers used by both parties has more than doubled over the past six months, and that the Obamanistas use almost twice as many trackers as the Romneyans.
As Evidon blogger Andy Kahl notes:
Instead of managing their campaign websites as though they were traditional content sites, both campaigns are managing them as though they were sophisticated online commerce sites. This anonymous tracking of users across the web empowers the campaigns to target them with advertising messages to win their vote the way an e-commerce provider targets consumers to win a transaction.
Of course, that information costs money. In a campaign whose total cost may exceed $6 billion, many hundreds of millions have been spent on obtaining and refining data.
Abine, makers of the Do Not Track Plus browser app, have launched a Web-based calculator that lets you determine exactly how much your vote is worth in real dollars. It's essentially identical to the Val-You Calculator Abine launched last May about how much you're worth to Facebook, only the questions and weighting are a bit different.
If you're a male in a nonswing state who doesn't spend a lot of time online and votes regularly, your vote may be worth as little as $5, says the luminous and compelling Sarah A. Downey of Abine. If you're a first-time female voter in a hotly contested state like Ohio with a lot of Facebook friends, you could be worth as much as $50.
"You're worth more to the campaigns if you've never voted before," says Downey. "To them that means you're fresh meat and thus easier to influence."
Meat is right. After the last six months of political news, lies, analysis, debates, fact checks, spinning, and spam, I feel like I've been tenderized to a pulp and fed through a grinder.
My only solace: In about five days it will all be over. Then we'll have blessed four years before we have to do it all over again.
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on 10 Nov 2012 at 9:38 am 1Dave
I installed the Vote Early 2012 Facebook app from Karl Rove's American Crossroads political action committee to see what it would do. Mostly what it seems to do is mine my Facebook profile for information.
since that is what Facebook was established to do in the first place (a honeypot for gullible terrorists), it is fulfilling its CIA mandated role to a "T". Welcome to life in the 21st century. On the plus side, life here is still better than terrorist plagued areas like Europe – let's keep it that way.


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I am writing to complain about the food sold at Laurie's. On Saturday 20th 2014 my friend bought some burgers from the restaurant. I had eaten half of one when I noticed something moving on the side of my plate. It turned out to be an inch long slug which had probably come out of the lettuce. I was understandably totally disgusted, particularly since I am a vegetarian. I threw out the rest of the burger. I don't intend to buy anything from this restaurant again since the attention to hygiene seems to be quite low. If the lettuce had been carefully cleaned no slug would've been left in it.
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KOKOMO, Ind. -- Just a few short years after workers feared Chrysler would close all four of its plants in the Kokomo area, more workers are moving in than leaving.
"Half of this plant was empty ... it just went to bare bones. Nothing." said Stacy Hrabos , 52, of Kokomo, recalling the dark days of 2009. "It's a big turnaround from where we were."
Since then, Chrysler has invested more than $1.6 billion and has hired nearly 2,000 workers. Just this week, the company announced it will hire 1,250 more workers as it expands transmission production in Kokomo and at a new factory in neighboring Tipton.
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A stay-at-home mother for about 12 years before getting divorced, Lewis first applied at Chrysler more than two years ago.
"It's a tough market out there," she said. "Especially when you haven't worked for 12 years."
She works for the second-tier starting wage at Chrysler that starts at about $15 per hour, as do most of the recent hires.
"It would nice to be getting paid what others are getting paid," she said. "But this is good. It's the best that I could find."
Over the last three years, Chrysler has transferred many workers from plants in Huntsville, Ala., St. Louis, New Castle, Ind. and Twinsburg, Ohio, that it shuttered before and after the wrenching 2009 restructuring.
Hrabos is an electrician with 20 years of Chrysler service, who said the workers' mood in Kokomo is better today than it has been in years despite a new three-shift work schedule that is controversial. He credits CEO Sergio Marchionne for improvements large and small -- including new paint inside the plant, and equipment for future work.
Paint matters
What was once a plant with a faded yellow-gold ceiling and a gray concrete floor now has a gleaming bright white steel ceiling and freshly painted floors.
"Who wants to come to a dungy, dirty, disgusting place to work? It has an impact," Hrabos said.
At the end of 2009, Chrysler employed about 4,000 at its plants in Kokomo. Today, that has grown to more than 6,000. And by early 2014, when the new Tipton plant opens, Chrysler's payroll in the area will top 7,300.
Chrysler transmissions key for fuel efficiency
Chrysler developed new eight-speed and nine-speed transmissions in a partnership with ZF Group. Now it will add 400 workers in Kokomo to produce its own eight-speed, then hire another 850 workers to make nine-speed transmissions in Tipton.
As transmissions gain speeds, gears shift more smoothly and engines burn fuel more efficiently.
"In many ways, buying them from a third party would have been the easier route," Marchionne said. "But ... it soon became apparent that our own group possessed the talent, the experience and commitment to do it ourselves."
Chrysler decided to expand in Kokomo before Indiana became a right-to-work state.
The right-to-work law -- which allows a worker to opt out of paying union dues -- has little impact on Chrysler because it doesn't affect the company's contract with the UAW until it expires in 2016.
Largest employer in 'cornfield county'
Chrysler is the largest employer in this city of 50,000, an hour north of Indianapolis. The economy is based on manufacturing, agriculture and health care.
In 2009, when Chrysler filed for bankruptcy protection, the city had to make budget cuts because Chrysler didn't pay its taxes.
Now, Chrysler is about halfway through a multi-year payment plan to not only pay its current taxes but to pay $7.5 million in back taxes, said Mayor Greg Goodnight.
"At our core, we make things and we grow things," Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Thursday. "We prove again, that our past and our future is manufacturing in the state of Indiana."
As a Republican congressman, however, Pence voted against the federal emergency loans that Chrysler received. The automaker has repaid all federal loans it received during the Obama administration.
Jerry Price, vice president of UAW Local 685, said he remembers watching TV the day President Barack Obama announced that Chrysler would be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
That "was a very scary time," Price said. "But look at us now."
Some Chrysler workers prefer to work the evening shift so they can work on the farm in the morning, said Price, citing that kind of work ethic for convincing Chrysler to expand in Kokomo.
"They joke, and they call us Cornfield County because we are surrounded by cornfields," Price said. "But these people here ... they are the best."


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- Real friendship is shown in times of trouble. Prosperity is full of friends. – Abraham Kuyper
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of the things that gives value to survival. – C. S. Lewis
- A bad conscience has a good memory. – H. G. Wells
- As we have private ties, so we should have public ties. As we have private prayers, so we should have public prayers. As we have private houses, so we should have public houses. – G. K. Chesterton
- Friendship can take different turns – it can run like a river, quietly and sustainingly through life; it can erupt like a geyser, forcefully and intermittently at times; or it can explode like a meteor, altering the atmosphere so that nothing ever looks, feels, or functions the same again. – Ansel Adams
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Astonishing Science. Spectacular museum.
Deep Blue cafe in the Wellcome Wing during an event
The Science Museum's most contemporary event space and home to the IMAX cinema, offers four breathtaking galleries situated in front of an immense blue glass wall.
In the ground floor gallery, which can accommodate dinners for up to 350 or receptions for 6450, guests can take a close look at a changing Antenna exhibition programme devoted to science and technology news, or experience the thrill of the multi-sensory Legend of Apollo simulator ride.
The first-floor Who am I? gallery re-opened in June 2010 after a six month upgrade and refurbishment programme. The new gallery presents the latest brain science and genetics through a mixture of interactive exhibits and object-rich displays. New interactives enable guests to morph their face and experience a voicebox makeover, whilst learning about what makes us all unique.
The atmosphere: exploring climate science opened in December 2010 on the second floor of the Wellcome Wing. The new gallery puts people at the centre of the climate change story and an immersive, interactive experience literally responds to the actions and decisions guests to the gallery make. This smaller gallery will offer an events space for evening receptions, with a capacity of up to 180 standing.
The third-floor In Future gallery offers a tantalising glimpse of the future and invites you to say what you think about the technology that may well be common in twenty years' time. The gallery also has three novel, multi-user games, enabling your guests to explore technologies that are already being developed – they can even vote for the ones that they'd like to see become a part of everyday life.
The whole Wellcome Wing can cater for major receptions in excess of 1000 guests. Individually, the upper levels offer varying capacities for conferences and exhibitions, receptions or intimate dinners.
By virtue of its award-winning architecture, futuristic ambience and innovative interactive elements, the Wellcome Wing is the definitive venue for any forward-thinking company.
AntennaReception: 450 Dining: 350Dinner Dance: 350
Who Am IReception: 250
atmosphereReception: 160
In Future Reception: 220Dining: 140 Conference: 220
Who am I? is supported by Principal Funder: Wellcome Trust, Major Sponsors: GlaxoSmithKline and Life Technologies Foundation.
Antenna is supported by SITA Trust and The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.
Principal sponsors Shell and Siemens, major sponsor Bank of America Merrill Lynch and major funder The Garfield Weston Foundation. With additional support from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Patrons of the Science Museum and members of the Founders Circle: Climate Changing programme.


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Toyota, who has a manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, is looking at ways to produce more environmentally friendly cars.
The company announced Wednesday it will take a new look at using compressed natural gas in some of its hybrid models.
They plan to unveil the car during the Los Angeles auto show in November.
Right now, Honda is the only maker of a CNG powered car.
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Double Whammy: HBO Renews 'Eastbound' and 'Bored to Death'
by Julie Zied | October 28, 2010 at 8:57 AM | Eastbound and Down, HBO
HBO has renewed comedies 'Eastbound & Down' and 'Bored to Death' for a third season.
Co-created by and starring Danny McBride as washed-up former pro-baseball pitcher Kenny Powers, 'Eastbound's sophomore season concludes on November 7. The Jason Schwartzman-starring 'Bored' finishes up the following weekend.
With a second season for 'Boardwalk Empire' already confirmed, HBO's current Sunday night lineup will remain intact.
In an interview with the A.V. Club in September, McBride speculated that if picked up, 'Eastbound's third season may prove its last. "The story that we'd like to tell would wrap up at the third season," he said, adding he's surprised how the show, which has averaged 1.7 million viewers this season, has picked up steam. "I think people weren't sure—especially with the main character, who's an a–hole—if people were going to actually want to sit down and watch this guy each week."
Are you excited about this news? Bummed this could be the last we see of Kenny P?
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Robert Malsom checks corn Oct. 24 in one of his fields near Roscoe, S.D. Malsam nearly went broke in the 1980s when corn was cheap. Now that prices are high and he can finally make a profit, he's not about to apologize for ripping up prairie land to plant corn. Prices are up in large part because of a federal mandate to make gasoline that contains ethanol, which is made with corn.
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News reports last week detailed the environmental damage of the corn-based renewable fuel ethanol.
Few fuel sources can claim to be the answer to America's quest for an energy source. Even nuclear energy, with its ultra-low fossil fuel footprint, has serious drawbacks. Hydroelectric destroys wildlife habitat and sometimes requires entire towns to move. Wind energy is intermittent, and solar energy, while getting better, lacks the capacity the world seeks. And it's a universally accepted fact that coal and oil have had much more serious environmental damage than ethanol, wind, nuclear and solar combined, and let's not forget the human toll from oil-related wars.
Clearly, the "green" solution to energy problems remains out there. There must be some leeway, some slack, for growing pains.
Ethanol is on the right track. University studies show it releases fewer greenhouse gases than the conventional means of making gasoline. And those studies are describing the entire production life cycle, not merely what comes out of the exhaust pipes.
What's more, much of the gasoline used in the Midwest comes from the Canada's Alberta tar sands. Gasoline from oil sands produces three times as many greenhouse gases than conventional oil. It makes ethanol look far cleaner than gasoline, by comparison.
The fact is, one of the best aspects of ethanol is it is a domestic source of energy. Wouldn't American consumers rather have their fuel dollars going to American farmers than to royal families and dictators in the Middle East?
Moreover, ethanol has gone a long way toward improving the economy of rural America. Moribund for decades, small towns and ag-dependent regional centers were shrinking as farm efficiency became the American food goal. Farmers had to choose between specializing or selling their family farm. On-farm income declined and more families took off-farm jobs. Youth migrated out of small towns to colleges, then off to the major cities for work.
We recall times in the 1990s when commodity prices matched levels of the 1950s. And who can forget the farm crisis of the 1980s? Rural Americans were beginning to wonder if anyone in Washington - Republican or Democrat - really cared about the rural vote except during hollow promises made leading up to the Iowa caucuses.
Increased corn prices, in part because of ethanol, haven't been the only factor to turn around the rural economy, but it is one of the factors. Land prices sure have climbed. The farm economy is functioning. Jobs are being created, and that's good for America.
It is natural that when an industry does well, there will be expansion that has some environmental drawbacks, whether it is cellphones, office paper, big-box retailers or suburban living. There will be more land in production as a result of changes in agricultural markets and machinery. But hasn't that been happening since pioneer farmers began settling America's breadbasket? Be it John Deere's plow, the latest farm bill or high corn prices, farmers respond.
Ethanol also is driving research and innovation, right here in the Midwest. The industry is bent on improving and becoming more green as it grows. And that includes addressing environmental issues the AP detailed.
Why would importing foreign oil be better?
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Let's help the hungry
When members of Congress approved a small, temporary boost in food stamp benefits at the height of the recession, they probably never dreamed that four years later, Americans in record numbers would still be struggling with hunger issues. But clearly they are - as evidenced by continued high demand for assistance (47 million Americans).
It's also pretty clear this is not a good time for the government to be scaling back on help for the hungry. If anything, it should be increasing food stamp allowances and trying to get recipients to improve their nutrition.
But conservatives in Congress seem to be controlling the debate at the moment, and they're haggling over how much to cut: The Senate would do so by $400 million a year over the next decade, while the House would cut nearly 10 times more.
Unfortunately, either amount would be on top of $5 billion cut this month - the phaseout of the temporary boost from 2009. So the news for people who rely on food stamps to (minimally) feed their families isn't good.
It may also not be good for the economy, which gets propped up ever so slightly by the increased sales that food stamps provide. Th's month's end of the temporary subsidy will reportedly reduce the nation's economic output by 0.1 percent next year. That may not sound like much, but with economic growth currently a feeble 2 percent per year, even tiny hits are likely to be felt.
Perhaps Congress ought to gauge the effects of this cut before going any deeper via the farm bill.
For a family of four receiving the maximum amount, it will trim $36 from a $668 monthly benefit.
Against a backdrop of rising food prices and stagnant wages for those who do have jobs, a 5 percent cut is sure to have some impact.
--The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, N.Y.


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I was hijacked by facebook....
It has been almost a year since I posted... so much has happened and so little has happened. But I must admit I got into posting on fb.... easy, quick access and friends just pop up out of my past and I get to see how great they are doing now. Love that part.
Last I posted I was facing chemo for my 2nd recurrence. I finished that cycle of chemo in August 2010 and was able to stay on a break from chemo for almost 5 months. Now I've started a new cycle of chemos for my 3rd recurrence.... this one is carboplatin and gemzar.... the gemzar is new to me. My first treatment was February 24th and side effects were moderate... the last of the 'effects' ended last night. Still/always have fatigue, but that's minor. This recurrence is a little more problematic... it's in my colon. The pathology of this tumor is showing that it's a little more aggressive than my previous tumors and I'm getting much higher counts on my tumor marker than I've had since I was first diagnosed. But we're trying chemo first, if that doesn't work, then surgery. We really don't want surgery that has it's own set of complications and risks. So for now I'm on chemo every 3 weeks. I'll know if the first round worked a little on March 17th, my next appt, that's when I'll get my tumor marker count lab results.
Emotionally we get through this with prayer, music, laughter and love. We talk about trips we've taken and trips we have planned.
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Adventures in Knitting, Ovarian Cancer (dx 11/02/2005-my birthday) and our Christian walk.
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Monday, April 05, 2010
To say that it's been a long time is an understatement....
Almost a full year.... a blessed year actually. I was off chemo for 15 months. From December 9, 2009 to well, last Tuesday, March 30th. My cancer has started "progressing" again. It was never gone, (ned - no evidence of disease), but it had stablized. Now it's growing again. I went back on my orginal chemo because it works for me - 15 months is considered good.
Am I scared, mad, worried, sad? No, not really. I am just one of those thousands of ovarian cancer survivors who balance hope with statistics. I know that the statistics say that when someone has had a recurrence, the likelyhood of another is great. Did I hope that I was one of very few who had beat it, yes. But did I expect that no.
Now is not the time to spend any energy worrying or crying... my energy is on fighting! I have always liked the phrase cancer warrior because we do not just survive, we fight.
I dont' know how Steve feels - I do know that he has already started talking about the trips we have planned for the next few months... he knows that it's one thing that I enjoy during chemo week. We'll talk, we'll laugh, we'll pray and we'll plan even more things we can do together when I feel good... because what cements us is our love, our freindship and our faith in Jesus Christ.
Almost a full year.... a blessed year actually. I was off chemo for 15 months. From December 9, 2009 to well, last Tuesday, March 30th. My cancer has started "progressing" again. It was never gone, (ned - no evidence of disease), but it had stablized. Now it's growing again. I went back on my orginal chemo because it works for me - 15 months is considered good.
Am I scared, mad, worried, sad? No, not really. I am just one of those thousands of ovarian cancer survivors who balance hope with statistics. I know that the statistics say that when someone has had a recurrence, the likelyhood of another is great. Did I hope that I was one of very few who had beat it, yes. But did I expect that no.
Now is not the time to spend any energy worrying or crying... my energy is on fighting! I have always liked the phrase cancer warrior because we do not just survive, we fight.
I dont' know how Steve feels - I do know that he has already started talking about the trips we have planned for the next few months... he knows that it's one thing that I enjoy during chemo week. We'll talk, we'll laugh, we'll pray and we'll plan even more things we can do together when I feel good... because what cements us is our love, our freindship and our faith in Jesus Christ.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
CA 125 fact and fiction story...
I just read another ovca survivors' blog where she implores women to force their doctors to give them the CA125 test as a screening tool yearly, when they are asymptomatic. Unfortunately she fell into the well meaning trap of since there is no early detection test, let's at least use something. This flies in the face of all the historical and current studies... here is the truth about using the CA125 test as a screening tool from Ovarian Cancer Research website:
"Did you know it is NOT an effective screening test for ovarian cancer?
Did you know that the American Cancer Society, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, and many other medical organizations recommend that the CA-125 NOT BE USED as an ovarian cancer screening test?
Why not? Because it doesn't work!
Many women have undergone unnecessary surgery (and anxiety) as a result of this test, while others have been falsely reassured by a normal result-while they actually had ovarian cancer.
E-mails circulating online urge women to get the CA-125 test and declare it is the ONLY way to detect ovarian cancer. Although this information is well-intended, it is inaccurate, misleading and fear-provoking.
Please help to spread the truth about the CA-125 test by sending this e-mail to all your friends, family and others about whom you care.
CA-125 is NOT an Effective Screening Test for Ovarian Cancer?
ALL the existing studies tell us that CA-125 is NOT a good screening test for ovarian cancer. The CA-125 blood test measures a protein in the blood which is produced by normal cells, as well as by cells from common non-cancerous conditions such as endometriosis, fibroids, benign ovarian cysts, pelvic infections, pregnancy, and normal menstrual periods. Non-gynecologic conditions such as liver disease and inflammatory diseases as well as a variety of other cancers also elevate the CA125 levels.
For a screening test to be helpful, it must detect disease in individuals who feel entirely well, at a time when the disease is in its earliest and most curable stages. To be helpful, a screening test must be extremely accurate. For example, even a test that is 99.6% accurate will find 1 woman with the disease, but also will falsely inform 9 women that they have the disease when they do not (false positives).
For postmenopausal women who have an elevated CA-125 level, most will NOT have ovarian cancer. The test is even less accurate for women prior to menopause. And, in women who do have early ovarian cancer, (those women we need to find since ovarian cancer is still highly curable) the CA-125 levels will be normal in at least 50%.
If 10,000 women aged 50 - 64 are screened with CA-125 testing for ovarian cancer yearly, 300 women will test positive and require further evaluation. Twenty-four of these women will need surgery, 20 of whom will not have ovarian cancer and, therefore, be subjected to unnecessary surgery with inherent risks and recovery. Only 4 of the 10,000 women will have ovarian cancer.Similarly discouraging results are found with screening by ultrasound of the ovaries in asymptomatic women.
For Women with a Strong Family History Ovarian Cancer
Testing high-risk women, who have a very strong family history of ovarian cancer, with twice-yearly pelvic ultrasound exams and CA-125 levels is the current standard of care. Even in the research studies for these high-risk women, the testing has not been shown to be particularly helpful. If you are at high risk, you should discuss testing with your doctor."We absolutely need an early detection test! But right now what we do have is making sure that women know the symptoms and if they get some symptoms get themselves to their doctors for the appropriate tests.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Does the president really care?
Steve calls me his "political activist baby" because on occassion I write letters to Senators, Representatives about something that I feel is important, i.e. ovarian cancer research funding. Today I sent off an email to our President about credit card policy. I'm a fiscal conservative so having the government dabble in corporate businesses kind of grates on me, but the current practices that banks have started actually grate on me more. Here is the email I sent:
Good Morning Mr. President:
In this economy I find it unconscionable that banks have sent out letters increasing interest rates to well above 20% (which to me, any rate above 15% should be usury) without defaults... just a change in the rate, starting May 1st. If they are worried about defaults why would they increase the rates so that our payments are higher and thus probably increasing defaults? We all have budgets that we try to keep within our incomes, by these increases, sometimes 3 times the current rate, they are assuring that in the least it will take FOREVER to pay the balances off, at the worst, many will have to default because they can't afford the increase in payments.
I know that it's important to keep the banks fiscally strong, but it feels like they are saying "thank you for helping us, so how can we increase our income from our credit card holders so we can post a profit?" I even saw someone on one of the financial networks applauding this practice because he owned stock in banks. I do think that all businesses, including banks, should be able to earn profits for their stockholders, I'm not saying that that is wrong... what is wrong is that they aren't looking for ways to cut costs and corporate excesses, and creative ways to increase income, they are going the easy route, trying to bleed turnips, to turn a phrase.
Please Mr. President, waiting to change credit card laws would make it too late... unless it's retroactive. Although, waiting could result in financially destroying many families.So, what do you all think? Am I out there on my own?
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
A lot done, but not very busy....
It's hard to believe that I got a lot of different things done, yet if you looked at my calendar I'm not very busy.
Lilli is 7 months old today... she's 20 lbs now, very cute and quite the social butterfly. She graduated from Puppy Training on Saturday. I'm holding her in my arms... she was one of the smallest of class. She was definately the life of the party!
She did pretty good... she still has a little problem focusing.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Introducing the newest member of our family........
San Tan Lilli Ann!
Born: September 7, 2008
Part of our family: November 23rd
Female, Cocker Spaniel
Name came from - San Tan - we live near an area called the San Tans, Lilli is from Lillie Langtry - because we loved the movie "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean", starring Paul Newman, where Judge Bean loved Lillie Langtry, he never met her but described himself as her "champion and ardent admirer", and finally Ann, is a nod to my sister-in-law's middle name... she got a real kick that the puppy shared her (and mine) middle name.
The last picture is the introduction of the new puppy with the resident cat, "the Dude". Not great friends yet, but promising.
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
It's been a long, long time...
I know, I know - I should keep up my blog, but 3 years of treatments tends to be routine... chemo, then 7-10 days of the chemo pit, then a couple of weeks of building up strength and feeling pretty good, then chemo... round and round. But, thankfully, and it is Thanksgiving after all, I'm still here because of that routine. Steve and I are very thankful that I'm still on the same treatment - carboplatin and taxetere.. it's the best and my tumors are still sensitive to it... tumors are stable or diminished.
Since I last wrote we've been on a couple of trips -
June was Sedona - we stayed in a bed and breakfast - our first try at that and we loved it! We had our own patio that had shady trees and very comfortable patio chairs. We'd get coffee early in the morning and sit outside on our patio and just look at our view of red rocks. We did take a jeep tour and thought it would be just a nice ride up into the heart of the red rocks areas... but it was a real jeep ride and it was so much fun!
July we went back to Greer Lodge, different cabin... loved the place, the forest feeling you get up there and of course, it's lots cooler. I did get to catch my first fish! Steve taught me how to fly fish... Greer Lodge had little ponds that provide catch and release type fishing... so I caught one!
October we went to Rocky Point, Mexico... we stayed at Las Palomas right on the beach. We rented one of those condos... and it was beautiful. Only took us about 5 hours to drive down and by 2:30 in the afternoon we were already unpacked and on the beach enjoying the water and the surf. They also have great swimming pools plus a "lazy river". Okay the lazy river was like my favorite place to be... just floating around on an inner tube, lazing the day away. We stayed 4 nights and it was really perfect. We took our own food and cooked most of our meals in our kitchen. We rarely cook at home, so why when we were on vacation - it just seemed right and it was. We bought fresh shrimp one day for dinner - this was amazing shrimp, came right off the shrimp boat that morning - they have a pretty large shrimp fleet. We bought enough to have for dinner, then I had left overs that worked with omelets the next morning and even a few left over as a topping for a salad for lunch... yum.
Finally for November I went to Dallas for the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition convention - it was intense... flew in Thursday at 12:30, by 1:30 I was sitting eating lunch at the first session... and we didn't stop until I was on the shuttle back to the airport at 1:30 on Saturday.
Oh yes, one more thing in November - but I'll leave that for my next post.....
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Please give me a compelling reason t look at this photograph. It's sharp and well exposed but I don't have a reason to come back to it and look at it over and over, which is the reason we make photographs; to communicate ideas.
Truthfully speaking there is nothing special about this photo, for me it's just a photo of a bird. Try taking photos that have never been seen, from different perspective or anything that will truly make a photo unique.
Agree with both Nathan and Anatoliy,
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Joep Lange, who spent more than 30 years researching and fighting HIV and Aids, was known for advocating cheap access to treatments in poor countries.
"Joep had an absolute commitment to HIV treatment and care in Asia and Africa," said David Cooper, a professor at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales, who worked closely with Lange on an HIV research project in Bangkok.
"The joy in collaborating with Joep was that he would always bring a fresh view, a unique take on things, and he never accepted that something was impossible to achieve," Cooper said in a statement.
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As many as 100 attendees were on the doomed flight, Fairfax Media reported, including Lange, a former president of the International Aids Society which organises the conference.
"At this incredibly sad and sensitive time the IAS stands with our international family and sends condolences to the loved ones of those who have been lost to this tragedy," Chris Beyrer, president elect of conference organiser the International Aids Society (IAS), told reporters in Melbourne.
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Lange, a professor of medicine at the Academic Medical Centre at the University of Amsterdam, pioneered development of affordable combination therapies to treat HIV and simple antiretroviral drug treatments to prevent transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies in poor countries.
He was also scientific director of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development. Institute officials were not immediately available to comment.
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott pointed the finger at Russia over the disaster and said the perpetrators must be brought to justice.
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