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Cedarville University education students spend their last semester of the program gaining field experience as they wrap up their degrees. Many students stay in Ohio, but each year, a number of education majors choose to cross the oceans with Interaction International to complete their student teaching requirements in foreign countries.
Interaction International is the supporting organization of Christian College Teacher Education Coordinating Council (CCTECC). CCTECC places students from schools belonging to the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) in countries overseas with the goal of supporting international schools and teaching kids who are growing up in a new culture — one different from the culture of their parents. The group also provides student teachers with a pre-experience weekend to orient them to living and teaching in a foreign country.
Student teaching in another country not only gives students the important teaching experience that all education majors receive, but it also provides them with invaluable cross-cultural perspectives and ministry opportunities. This spring, Jonathan Storch, a senior multi-age music education major, not only taught in the classroom but also accompanied some of his high school students from the Alliance Academy International in Quito, Ecuador, on a short-term missions trip into the jungle for nearly a week. The experience allowed Storch to serve with the global Church and gain a broader perspective in regards to other Christians.
"I have loved blending missions with schooling," says Storch. "This experience has opened my eyes to the great needs that can be found in the most unexpected places."
Overseas experience provides personal growth for the teachers as well. By the time Cedarville students are teaching internationally, they have already been prepared by field experiences in Ohio. Teaching internationally allows students to gain cross-cultural perspectives and self-confidence.
"I've learned countless lessons about humility, flexibility, love and teaching through my experience," says senior Lydia Briggs, who taught at the Country Day School in Costa Rica. "I am confident that this is a memory I will treasure for the rest of my life."
Students also grow spiritually as they both teach and learn throughout the student teaching program. "I feel like most of my growth has actually been in my walk with God," says senior Kara Harder, a language arts education major who taught at Wuhan Yangtze International School in China. "He has taught me how to give Him control and shown me what it means to live with total reliance."
Located in southwest Ohio, Cedarville University attracts 3,200 undergraduate, graduate, and online students to more than 100 areas of study. Cedarville is a Christ-centered learning community recognized nationally for rigorous academic programs, strong graduation and retention rates, accredited professional and health science offerings, and leading student satisfaction ratings. Visit the University online at www.cedarville.edu.


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Pillow on baseboard heater sparks Randolph fire
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A foam pillow on an electric heat baseboard caused a fire in a six-unit apartment building on 170 Windsor St. in Randolph on Tuesday night.
No one was injured in the fire, which was reported around 5:30 p.m., Randolph Fire Chief Ron Cunningham said.
The building had minimal damage. It included fire damage to a section of a floor and wall, with smoke damage in apartment 4F, the apartment where the fire started, Cunningham said.
No one was in the apartment where the fire began, but the smoke alarm alerted neighbors.
Two mutual aid departments responded to the fire, Cunningham said. Firefighters cleared the area around 7 p.m.
The people who live in apartment 4F are staying with friends because of the smell of smoke but other residents of he building are staying in their apartments, Cunningham said.
The pillow may have become wedged between a bed and the wall where the heating outlet was.
"Basically everything was too close to the heater. As a reminder to everyone, you should have combustibles 2 to 3 feet from any heating element," Cunningham said.


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The dark and twisty hit novel "Gone Girl" is taken to task by the best practitioner of dark literary arts, Mary Gaitskill, in this fall's Bookforum -- puzzlingly, about 15 months after the book's publication.
Writer Mary Gaitskill is among the best practitioners of the arts of writing about women, sexuality, and the darkness that lies within the human heart, something perfected in her work, which includes "Bad Behavior" "Two Girls, Fat and Thin," and "Don't Cry."
Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" was published in June of 2012, and fantastic word of mouth helped it become a huge bestseller. The book has many fans -- but not Gaitskill, who found it "as irritating as imagined, populated by snarky-cute, pop-culturally twisted voices coming out of characters who seem constructed entirely of 'referents' and 'signifiers.'"
Some reactions on Twitter were positive.
"I love GONE GIRL, but I also kind of love that Mary Gaitskill hates it with such lucid passion," tweeted writer Robin Wasserman.
"In Bookforum, soul sister Mary Gaitskill finds Gone Girl completely sicko, and not in a good way," commented author James Wolcott approvingly.
"Mary Gaitskill critiques "snarky-cute, pop-culturally twisted voices" that dominate movies, TV, fiction. Excellent," Chris Shinn concurred.
"WOW. Amazing, scathing," wrote artist Sacha Baumann.
For Gaitskill, the central couple of Amy (the "Gone Girl" herself) and her grieving, potentially-a-suspect husband Nick, are not actual people "so much as grotesquely smiling masks driven by forces of extreme artifice and it's exactly that extreme artificial quality that's frightening to the point of sickening." She finds something similar in "Gone Girl" to the maniacal competition among women in a film like "Bridesmaids," and in that way the book is "pure black comedy. But it is also a maniacal power fantasy that panders to female anger and fear."
It's a lacerating review; Gaitskill's sharpest critique may come in the review's first paragraph. She writes, "By the time the train ride was over, I felt I was reading something truly sick and dark -- and in case you didn't know, I'm supposedly sick and dark."
Some on Twitter found it too lacerating. "God can you imagine recommending anything to Mary Gaitskill, what a total nightmare," wrote Jen Vafidis.
"As usual with such pieces, far more revealing of the author than insightful about the novel," wrote Ellen Clair Lamb.
"Gone Girl" is slated to be adapted as a film directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike as the married couple at the center of the story. Gaitskill's breakthrough into pop cultural consciousness came with the film "Secretary," a loose adaptation of a story in her collection "Bad Behavior."
Editor Jason Pinter used film to frame a satirical critique on Twitter: "Mary Gaitskill reviews Star Wars: I don't like science fiction and none of the characters have realistic names."
Bestselling author Harlan Coben was on the same page, tweeting, "When you preface your essay w the hoary chestnut, 'I rarely read mysteries.... 'Sigh."


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"Ozzie didn't care for me at the end because I was shut down," Peavy said. "It didn't end on good terms. The one thing about it, Coop and I have an open relationship. There was one time where I disagreed about something he said about me being on and off after coming back from the surgery, and I told him about it.
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Over one million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer each year and Gulf County is hosting two Relay for Life events to raise money and awareness in order to fight the disease.
Over one million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer each year and Gulf County is hosting two Relay for Life events to raise money and awareness in order to fight the disease.
Relay for Life is an overnight community fundraising walk to benefit the American Cancer Society.
The event honors not just cancer survivors, but the memories of those who have lost the battle and those who continue to fight.
Teams are formed in advance and compete to raise money, both leading up to and at the relay itself.
During the 18-hour-long family-friendly event, members of each team take turns walking around a track and must keep one person moving at all times.
Gulf County Tourist Development Council business manager, Kelli Jackson is the marketing chairperson for Gulf County�s Relay events.
She became involved after attending a relay several years ago with a friend. She learned about the ACS, the deep meaning behind the event and how the money went to cancer-prevention research and knew it was a cause she wanted to support.
This is her first year on the committee for Gulf County.
�It lets us honor both the friends we have lost and the survivors,� said Jackson.
The first Relay event will be held on April 19 at the Wewahitchka Junior/Senior High School football field.
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The Monopoly board game will be the theme of the second event, held at the Port St. Joe Jr./Sr. High School football field on April 26.
Activities include a Ms. Relay Pageant and additional family events.
The PSJ relay kicks off at 6 p.m. ET.
In traditional Relay fashion, both events will start with a �survivor�s lap� to honor those and the caregivers of those who have fought and defeated cancer.
The Luminaria ceremony will take place at 9 p.m. local time on both nights. White paper bags are set around the track with the names, photos or drawings of those whose lives have been affected by cancer. As the sun sets, candles inside the bags are lit in tribute.
�It�s such a great way for the community to come together,� said Jackson.
Funds from the event will be donated to the ACS to help in the research and prevention of cancer and to help support their additional services.
The Hope Lodge is a home away from home for out-of-town cancer patients a comfortable place to stay at little to no cost.
The Hope Closet provides wigs to those undergoing chemotherapy treatments and the Road to Recovery has a circuit of volunteers who drive patients to and from treatment appointments.
Anyone wishing to participate in the event or the survivor�s lap should contact Kelli Jackson at 850-819-1564.
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Sociology is the study of human interaction. It is the science of people and their society. Sociologists study what matters. Think of the Sunday newspaper. That will give you a sense of what you can study as a sociology major: economics and business, politics, arts and culture, medicine, religion, marriage and the family, science, crime, war, oppression, poverty, and more. As a sociology major, you can follow your passion, or better yet, use the major to discover your passion. Either way, when you graduate you will have opportunities.
Sociology is not only an exciting major, it is a practical major. Sociology has greatly influenced other subjects, including health sciences, business, history, philosophy, religion, and literature. Sociology majors from Saint Francis are competitive for graduate and professional programs, as well as being competitive for a broad range of careers. In fact, our sociology majors standout, and they have the unique skills necessary to succeed in our rapidly changing world.
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There are different approaches for representing each of the above five generic sources of uncertainty when constructing climate scenarios. The cascade of uncertainties, and the options for representing them at each of the five stages, can result in a wide range of climate outcomes in the finally constructed scenarios (Henderson-Sellers, 1996; Wigley, 1999; Visser et al., 2000). Choices are most commonly made at the stage of modelling the climate response to a given forcing, where it is common for a set of climate scenarios to include results from different GCMs. In practice, this sequential and conditional approach to representing uncertainty in climate scenarios has at least one severe limitation: at each stage of the cascade, only a limited number of the conditional outcomes have been explicitly modelled. For example, GCM experiments have used one, or only a small number, of the concentration scenarios that are plausible (for example, most transient AOGCM experiments that have been used for climate scenarios adopted by impacts assessments have been forced with a scenario of a 1% per annum growth in greenhouse gas concentration). Similarly, regionalisation techniques have been used with only a small number of the GCM experiments that have been conducted. These limitations restrict the choices that can be made in climate scenario construction and mean that climate scenarios do not fully represent the uncertainties inherent in climate prediction.
In order to overcome some of these limitations, a range of techniques has been developed to allow more flexible treatment of the entire cascade of uncertainty. These techniques manipulate or combine different modelling results in a variety of ways. If we are truly to assess the risk of climate change being dangerous, then impact and adaptation studies need scenarios that span a very substantial part of the possible range of future climates (Pittock, 1993; Parry et al., 1996; Risbey, 1998; Jones, 1999; Hulme and Carter, 2000). The remainder of this section assesses four aspects of climate scenario development that originate from this concern about adequately representing uncertainty:
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Mosquitoes are truly one of the Boston areas biggest pest. Not only are they a nuisance to you and your family when bitten, they can carry harmful diseases like West Nile Virus, Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever, Malaria and Encephalitis. Because of the health concerns brought upon by the mosquito, public health agencies and cities often treat the area as a means for mosquito prevention.
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When attempting to limit exposure to mosquitoes at your Boston home or business a correct application of products where the grownup mosquitoes are nesting is one possible solution. This treatment could provide control for several hours or longer. The use of electric zappers, ultrasonic repelling tools and citronella candles offer very little effective treatment for mosquitoes. Unfortunately, these devices have little or no impact to easing the number of mosquitoes around your Boston property.
Mosquitoes are a problem anytime they're around your Boston property. The mosquito problem has only gotten worse in recent years, with over 1800 West Nile documented cases in the state this past year. You should be able to get outside, enjoy the fresh air and the beauty of your outdoor Boston landscape.
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Plaxico Burress was formally sentenced for attempted possession of a weapon Tuesday and went directly from there to jail. Burress agreed to a plea deal that sends him to prison for two years so that he could avoid the possibility of more jail time as a result of the infamous incident in Manhattan's Latin Quarter nightclub that left him with a hole in his thigh and left the Giants with a hole in their offense.
The former star tearfully told his family goodbye as he surrendered to begin his prison stint -- with time off for good behavior, Burress likely will serve 20 months.
His trip to jail would probably be getting more coverage this week if the Giants hadn't pulled out a late win against the Cowboys on Sunday night. If Eli Manning's last gasp had fallen short, you can bet that there would be people bemoaning Burress's loss. As things stand today, the Giants seem to miss Lionel Manuel or Stephen Baker as much as Burress, which means people are focusing on other things. Manning didn't miss the man who made him look so good during the run to the Super Bowl, and looked just fine throwing to Derek Hagan on the winning drive instead of airing balls out for the guy who wore number 17 in blue.
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If Sunday night made it clear that the Giants hadn't lost all that much, it also made crystal clear just how much Burress has lost. One slippery gun, one ill-placed grab and one bullet to the thigh ruined a career that figured to have at least three or four years and many millions of dollars left in it. He lost as much as $27 million from the Giants as a result of the shooting, and even after they released him he would have signed with someone else had the D.A.'s office not taken such a special interest in the case.
That's not meant to criticize the decision to prosecute Burress. Laws are laws and need to be prosecuted or changed to better reflect social mores. There's no doubt that the combination of Burress's notoriety and unrealistic strategy of asking for complete exoneration made his case a priority that it wouldn't have been if he'd been someone else and/or willing to find a middle ground with prosecutors. If he had, he might have served six months and be winding down an NFL suspension right now instead of getting a new, longer number on a prison uniform.
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Vegetable-Stuffed Eggplant
A friend of mine who raised eggplant shared this recipe with me. This fast and delicious side will compliment most any entree. —Doris Heath, Franklin, North Carolina
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 30 min.
Makes2 servings
- 1 small eggplant
- 1 medium ear sweet corn, husk removed
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 small tomato, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 4-1/2 teaspoons canola oil
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon minced fresh oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- Preheat oven to 350°. Cut eggplant in half lengthwise; remove pulp, leaving a 1/4-in. shell. Cube removed pulp; set shells aside. Cut corn off the cob.
- In a large nonstick skillet, saute eggplant pulp, corn, onion, tomato and garlic in oil until onion is tender. Stir in seasonings. Spoon mixture into reserved shells. Place in an ungreased 11x7-in. baking dish; pour water into dish.
- Cover and bake 25-30 minutes or until heated through. Uncover; sprinkle with cheese. Bake 5 minutes or until cheese is melted.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 259 calories, 16g fat (4g saturated fat), 13mg cholesterol, 728mg sodium, 26g carbohydrate (11g sugars, 7g fiber), 9g protein.
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Excellent recipe. Very filling and very healthy.
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It was great, quick meal after work. Added some cooked chicken. If my husband eats it, it must be good.
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This is delicious!! I added some cubed cooked chicken and we had a complete meal. I will definitley make this again. Thanks!!


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The LG Optimus L9 sits atop the L series of Android devices from the Korean manufacturer. We caught up with the new model at IFA 2012 in Berlin for a quick play.
The L series handsets from LG were conceived to put well-designed phones into the hands of those who can't quite stretch to the price of the top-rung handsets.
The 4.7-inch IPS display is impressive, something LG has been pushing in recent device launches and nice to find a large display on a device that's note going to cost you a bomb.
But outside of the display, the spec sheet is rather middling. There's a 1GHz dual core processor under the hood, with 1GB of RAM. You have a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a step down from LG's top draw Optimus 4X HD, packing 8 megapixels.
But to the new Android handset's credit is that it lands with Ice Cream Sandwich, so it's reasonably up to date. LG have been busy at work tweaking and customising, with their UI adding some nice features over the top of Android.
In terms of design, it isn't too far removed from the LG Optimus 4X HD we recently reviewed. The design is simpler, some might say a little less fussy, but we did notice that the plastic backplate didn't feel quite as secure as LG's high-end models.
In our short play with the new Android handset it's difficult to make any great conclusions about performance, however, we'll give you a definite judgement in our LG Optimus L9 review closer to launch.


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SEOUS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 88 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
Go Promotional
We are breaking new ground in the promotional products & gifts industry. We are offering a whole new perspective on presentation and usability in the promotional gifts industry. We are looking for some new talent to help us design our way to top presentation, usability and conversions. This logo will be the initial step towards our second web presence. The winning logo will probably be offered the website design part of this project.
We need the logo to be 100% business, do not want any funny cartoons, require an innovative, industry related, professional logo design. Please envision the color and theme of the logo that can lead to the design trend for the entire website.
One of our current properties is http://www.prodpromo.com as a point of reference.
This logo will be on http://www.gopromotional.com.
Our target market are middle management or small business owners, looking to market themselves or their company using items (pens, mugs, bags, clothing etc.) to grow their business. Presentation is everything.
Expectation is to present in the most sophisticated way possible a memorable presentation to the buyers, marketing departments and government agencies looking to promote their business's and services.
100% business, brand-able, eye catching logo. Do not want anything with a character or anything too funny or off beat.
Looking for something industry specific and professional.
Please do not give me the words go promotional in some basic fonts, I can do this myself. I expect to see something that required thought and design skills.
This logo project goes beyond this logo, we are looking for talent that can work with us for next several projects.
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If there is a theme to emerge from the turbulent year that is coming to an end, it is one of tests -- environmental, political, technological, financial -- and a soul-searching discussion over gun control.
On most, solutions remained elusive. But there were moments of progress that put tough questions to rest, broadened our understanding of the world, or made life a little easier.
The most unnerving test came on Dec. 14, when a young gunman opened fire in a Newtown, Conn. elementary school, killing 20 children and six adults. The massacre traumatized the nation and prompted heated calls for new restrictions on assault weapons.
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President Barack Obama's re-election brought a nasty political battle to a close and allowed the country to turn to the many challenges ahead.
The country began to slowly pull itself out of its economic inertia -- the unemployment rate slowly dropped, even as the fiscal future hinges on Washington's ability to negotiate off the so-called fiscal cliff.
Vicious poundings by Mother Nature, including a devastating drought and Hurricane Sandy, led to new -- and, many said, belated -- discussions about how coastal cities can adapt to extreme weather and rising sea levels.
Meanwhile, millions of miles above Earth, a robotic craft built by NASA – whose last remaining Space Shuttles were being turned into museum pieces – made a daring landing on the surface of Mars. The rover named Curiosity touched down on Aug. 5 and began transmitting sandy-hued photographs on its search for signs of microbial life. Earlier in the year, SpaceX Dragon became the first private spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station.
Physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced in July they'd discovered a new subatomic particle that could hold answers about the universe's creation. Some scientists speculated that they'd found the elusive "God particle" that could explain how the cosmos developed its mass and shape.
Back home, several horrifying events -- mass shootings in a Colorado movie theater and a Wisconsin Sikh temple, and the killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida -- shocked America back into a discussion about gun control, but little in the way of actual legislative action. In Arizona, former Rep. Gabby Giffords appeared in a courtroom to face Jared Loughner, the man who shot her in the head and killed six others in 2011.
More outrage was directed at Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant Penn State football coach who was convicted in June of sexually abusing several boys, some of whom he'd lured on campus. The scandal ended the career, and ruined the reputation, of legendary head coach Joe Paterno, who died in January.
Among the most notable deaths of 2012: astronauts Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride, writers Ray Bradbury, Maurice Sendak, Gore Vidal and Nora Ephron, U.S. Sens. Arlen Specter and George McGovern, singers Whitney Houston and Etta James, rapper Adam Yauch, TV hosts Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, police-beating victim Rodney King and newscaster Mike Wallace.
Wall Street embarrassments – $4 billion in losses by the "London Whale" at JP Morgan Chase, Facebook's botched IPO, Barclays' and other big banks' alleged manipulation of interest rates – added to Americans' fury at the financial sector's failings.
America thought it was finally ready to end its two longest wars, but violence in Iraq and Afghanistan continued to claim lives; the toll for American troops in Afghanistan surpassed 2,000. Drone strikes and Quran burnings sparked furious protests.
Uprisings in Syria and across the Arab world -- including the deadly Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. Consulate in Libya – raised troubling questions about America's influence abroad, and its ability to keep its emissaries safe. Egypt elected its first democratically chosen president, but the leader, Islamist Mohammed Morsi, sparked a new round of violent protests when he consolidated power and tried to force a vote on a new constitution.
David Petraeus, the four-star general who commanded troops in Afghanistan, was the leader of U.S. Central Command and became President Obama's CIA chief, resigned in November after an FBI investigation uncovered emails that showed he was involved in an extramarital affair.
A few weeks earlier, cyclist Lance Armstrong, one of the world's most popular athletes, was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from his sport after the United States Anti-Doping Agency named him as a participant in the "most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Two other scandal-battered men, former presidential candidate John Edwards, accused of using campaign funds to cover up an affair, and seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, charged with lying to Congress about using performance-enhancing drugs, were both acquitted of charges against them.
Still, amid the turmoil and uncertainty, there were always new advances worth celebrating.
In autumn, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner became the first person to free-fall faster than the speed of sound when he launched himself from a hot air balloon above the New Mexico desert.
Another elusive technological innovation, the electrical car, appeared poised for the mainstream, as sales of the Nissan Leaf, Ford C-Max Energi and Chevy Volt hit a string of record-breaking marks.
There was another new version of the iPhone, of course. Like its predecessors, this one sold millions and marked a new step in smartphones' infiltration into our daily lives, despite the brouhaha over its maps application.
The year also saw a breakthrough of vastly different kind: Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt defied critics by dusting the 100m field at the Summer Olympics in London, retaining his title as the fastest man on the planet. American swimmer Michael Phelps continued to rewrite the record books, becoming the most decorated Olympian ever. Gabby Douglas became the first black woman to win all-around gymnastics gold.
The year closed with America finding a new resolve, and seeking more answers.
The Supreme Court, months after upholding President Obama's health care reform legislation, has agreed to take up the issue of gay marriage, which many describe as the civil rights battle of our era.
New York, New Jersey and other areas wrecked by Hurricane Sandy are beginning the long process of rebuilding.
And the nation's leaders say they're trying to come up with a way to move the country into better economic times.


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The driver of the limousine that caught fire on a California bridge and left a bride and four members of her bridal party dead spoke out about the tragedy. Meanwhile, officials said the limousine was authorized for one fewer passenger than had been in the vehicle on Saturday.
Orville Brown, the limo driver, escaped unhurt and helped three women to safety.
"We were all in shock," he recalled. "Scared. Crying. Frustrated. I just reach out to the families and wish we could have done more."
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The California Highway Patrol said Monday that the limousine was authorized to carry eight passengers, not nine.
Capt. Mike Maskarich said that in the ongoing investigation, authorities are trying to determine if any criminal wrongdoing occurred when the limo burst into flames and killed five women in the vehicle.
The California Public Utilities Commission regulalates limo companies, and a check with their database on Monday shows that the company - Limo Stop - has no complaints on file.
Other officials at the news conference in Redwood City, were short on detail, but expressed their sympathies.
"We are devastated," Foster City Fire Chief Michael Keefe said, adding that his department is sending prayers to the families.
RAW AUDIO: Limo Driver Speaks About Fatality in San Mateo Bridge Accident
A celebration turned tragic on Saturday when the five women died after the stretch limousine they were riding in burst into flames on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge over the San Francisco Bay.
Brown, 46, told NBC Bay Area he thought the women were trying to get his attention to ask him to pull over so that they could smoke.
"She said, 'No smoke - smoke smoke…pull over pull over pull over.' I saw the smoke, pulled over, by the time I was getting out the car there was a lady coming over the partition," Brown said.
Brown said he thought the fire may have been triggered by an electrical problem.
The bride among the women killed was identified by her sister-in-law Lovela Nicolas as Neriza Fojas. A family member told NBC Bay Area Fojas was recently married here in the United States, but was also planning a wedding in the Philippines on June 19.
Fojas was a registered nurse at Fresno Community Regional Medical Center, according to her family. The other four victims who did not survive were not identified Sunday night.
Limo Stop released a statement, saying it was "deeply saddened" by the tragedy.
"Limo Stop, Inc. will do everything possible to investigate and assist authorities in determining the cause of this fire in order to bring forth answers and provide closure to (the) victims and their families," the statement added.
Four other people in the limo escaped with burn and smoke inhalation injuries, California Highway Patrol Officer Art Montiel said.
As of Monday morning, Valley Medical Center in San Jose said that Jasmine Desguia, 34, of San Jose and Amalia Loyola, 48, of San Leandro were still in critical condition. Stanford Medical Center would not discuss the details of the two remaining passengers: Mary G. Guardiano, 42, of Alameda and Nelia Arrellano, 36, of Oakland.
The CHP credited good Samaritans who stopped and helped some of the women get out.
San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault told NBC Bay Area that the scene was the worst he had witnessed in his 20 years on the job.
He said it was obvious to him that the women were trying to get out of the vehicle and were overcome by smoke. "My understanding is that three passengers got out the side back door on the drivers side, and one made it out the passenger compartment window successfully - to the driver's compartment," Fourcrault said.
The coroner said three of the women made it out the back door on the driver's side. One made it through the divider into the driver's area. That is different than the driver described.
Fourcrault said four women who did not survive and were found near the front of the passenger compartment as if they were trying to get to the driver's area through the privacy divider. The coroner's office plans to use dental records Monday to positively identify the victims.
The highway patrol officer on the scene Saturday night said the women were "probably killed by the fire," though the cause of death has not been confirmed.
Witnesses told NBC Bay area the white Lincoln Town Car was not involved in an accident prior to catching on fire.
The bridge, located about 20 miles southeast of San Francisco, connects San Mateo and Alemada counties. The car was driving from Alameda to a hotel in Foster City, authorities said.
A viewer named David Solomon sent in the still photo above. The photos show the fire was in the rear of the vehicle.
The fire was first reported around 10 p.m. in the third lane of westbound state Highway 92, according to the CHP.
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A veteran firefighter and a rookie comrade killed in an apartment blaze faced rapidly deteriorating conditions once inside the building, Toledo's fire chief said Monday.
JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) ? A veteran firefighter and a rookie comrade killed in an apartment blaze faced rapidly deteriorating conditions once inside the building, Toledo's fire chief said Monday.
Radio calls from inside indicated that the fire Sunday afternoon was getting worse quickly, said Fire Chief Luis Santiago.
Firefighters found Stephen Machcinski, 42, and James Dickman, 31, inside the building, carried them out on stretchers and then tried unsuccessfully to save them, he said. Autopsies were scheduled for Monday.
Investigators will take their time trying to figure out what happened and have not yet talked to everyone who was at the scene, Santiago said. He did not release any other details about the fire or where the two firefighters were found in the building.
"We have as many questions as you do today," Mayor D. Michael Collins said at a news conference. The mayor said the city lost two dedicated public servants and asked for prayers.
No one else was seriously injured in the blaze at the six-unit apartment building near downtown.
Dickman was on the job only six months and had previously been with the Perkins Township fire department near Sandusky. Machcinski, who was single, had been a firefighter for 16 years. They worked together at the same Toledo firehouse.
Dickman was married with a 3-year-old daughter and a 1-month-old son, said Santiago, who wore a black ribbon across his badge.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich asked that flags at all public buildings in the Toledo area be lowered to half-staff.
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Anyone here play the MMORPG Guild Wars? If anyone does, what do you think about a guild? I don't really want to start it though because I am not good at management of people but I can recruit well.
My in-game name is Undead Channellor
Guild Wars Pastafarians?
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What with all the folks dropping out and the lawsuits and the other such nonsense, the idea that "The Crow" is cursed/haunted by star Brandon Lee, who died tragically during filming, doesn't sound as loopy as it once did. But now it appears the long-tortured remake is finally moving forward.
F. Javier Guitierrez, the Brazilian director, best know for his Spanish-language horror film "Before the Fall," has been hired to direct the new "Crow," according to The Hollywood Reporter. And Jesse Wigutow ("Eragon," an as-yet unproduced rewrite of "The Osterman Weekend") has been brought on board to write the script.
The latest moves forward were made possible by this week's settlement of a lawsuit between Relativity and Weinstein, which ended with the two sides agreeing to work together on the film.
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Just in the past year or so, the likes of Bradley Cooper, rocker-writer Nick Cave and director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo ("28 Weeks Later") have all circled the project. Cooper was a bad fit, but Cave and Fresnadillo could've made some serious magic with this story about a dead rock star who returns to avenge his death.


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December 31, 2009
A path has been cleared for the government to publicly roll out dangerous full-body scanners after the failed terrorist attempt on flight 253. Neocons are quaking for the government to implement the human x-ray machines on a nationwide scale, radiating travelers with unhealthy amounts of ionic radiation all for the sake of preventing the next Mutallab from boarding another U.S. airliner.
|Virtually all passengers and airline crews who pass through airport screening checkpoints in the U.S. may soon be forced to submit to compulsory, whole-body X-ray exposure.
Airport Travelers To Get Ionizing X-Ray Radiation
According to a recent Zogby poll, traveling Americans approve long lines and gridlock at airport passenger screening points. The majority polled appreciate delays and hassles of flying today's suspicious skies and feel safer because the federal Transportation Security Agency (TSA) is in charge of airport screening. These happy line campers should be delighted to learn about TSA's grossly invasive new security plans. The good times have just begun.
TSA Security Laboratory Director Susan Hallowell recently announced the agency's intent to use back-scatter X-ray machines for passenger surveillance. These hugely expensive, closet-sized zappers can find the plastic bombs hidden in grandma's underpants, while delivering a smacking dose of ionizing radiation to her breasts and thyroid gland.
Snooper X-rays penetrate a few centimeters into the flesh and reflect off the skin to form a naked body image for TSA security personnel to inspect. These machines are already being field tested at several U.S. airports, including JFK, LAX and Orlando.
The most lucrative growth industry of our times is the "terror" business. Legions of companies lusting for government contracts are churning out police state technology at a frantic pace. In the last 17 months, TSA has received over 30,000 proposals for Big Brother technology and equipment needed to keep 280 million citizen-suspects under careful surveillance from the inside out.
Big winners include companies whose equipment is assisting TSA's Advanced Technology Checkpoint Project to nudify airline passengers. Digital Security Systems of Miami is promoting its ConPass Security Body Scanner, which can perform virtual cavity searches using deeply penetrating X-radiation. Company engineer Thomas Wiggins says the scanner can detect explosives hidden inside bodies or surgically implanted under flabby folds of skin. Wiggins admits that before 9-11, "The thought of using an X-ray system would have been like ordering our own death sentence." Now Wiggins claims that the ConPass scanner "could scan a pregnant woman around 200 times without a health risk."
Virtually all passengers and airline crews who pass through airport screening checkpoints in the U.S. may soon be forced to submit to compulsory, whole-body X-ray exposure. Some fliers could be "fried" several times in one day. Frequent fliers could get hit hundreds of times each year. Pregnant women, infants, the chronically ill and immune suppressed would get the rays. Grateful herds of traveling livestock, prodded by TSA drovers through federally-funded "nuke chutes," are expected to believe Hollowell's scientifically unsupported assertion that ionizing radiation delivered via backscatter will be "about the same as sunshine."
Officials must naturally defend compulsory passenger X-rays as harmless. But they are signing no guarantees because ionizing radiation in the X-ray spectrum damages and mutates both chromosomal DNA and structural proteins in human cells. If this damage is not repaired, it can lead to cancer. New research shows that even very low doses of X-ray can delay or prevent cellular repair of damaged DNA, raising questions about the safety of routine medical X-rays. Unborn babies can become grotesquely disfigured if their mothers are irradiated during pregnancy. Heavily X- rayed persons of childbearing age can sustain chromosomal damage, endangering offspring. Radiation damage is cumulative and each successive dose builds upon the cellular mutation caused by the last. It can take years for radiation damage to manifest pathology.
A leading U.S. expert on the biological effects of X-radiation is Dr. John Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Gofman's exhaustive research leads him to conclude that there is NO SAFE DOSE-LEVEL of ionizing radiation. His studies indicate that radiation from medical diagnostics and treatment is a causal co-factor in 50 percent of America's cancers and 60 percent of our ischemic (blood flow blockage) heart disease. He stresses that the frequency with which Americans are medically X-rayed "makes for a significant radiological impact."
This highly credentialed nuclear physicist states: "The fact, that X-ray doses are so seldom measured, reflects the false assumption that doses do not matter…[but] they do matter enormously. And each bit of additional dose matters, because any X-ray photon may be the one which sets in motion the high-speed, high energy electron which causes a carcinogenic or atherogenic [smooth muscle] mutation. Such mutations rarely disappear. The higher their accumulated number in a population, the higher will be the population's mortality rates from radiation-induced cancer and ischemic heart disease."
A report in the British medical journal Lancet noted that after breast mammograms were introduced in 1983, the incidence of ductal carcinoma (12 percent of breast cancer) increased by 328 percent, of which 200 percent was due to the use of mammography itself. A Lawrence Berkeley National Lab study has demonstrated that breast tissue is extremely susceptible to radiation-induced cancer, confirming warnings by numerous experts that mammograms can initiate the very cancers they may later identify. Dr. Gofman believes that medical radiation is a co-factor in 75 percent of breast cancer cases. So why would girls and women want their breast tissues irradiated every time they take a commercial flight?
Cancer is number two cause of death in the U.S. behind heart disease. The more marathon walks and cookie eating contests we sponsor to fund the "war" on cancer, the more cancer we get. "America isn't winning the war on cancer after all," the Wall Street Journal recently reported. The National Cancer Institute admits that America's cancer rates in almost every category are rising steadily. Airline pilots and cabin crews suffer a significant incidence of leukemia, skin and breast cancer due to chromosomal damage from ionizing cosmic radiation encountered during years of flying at high altitudes.
[efoods]Dr. Gofman's research reveals a dose-response relationship between medical X-rays and fatal heart disease, the number one killer of Americans. He found that X-radiation is a powerful atherogen, causing mutations in smooth muscle cells of coronary arteries. These radiation damaged cells are unable to process lipoproteins correctly, resulting in atherosclerotic plaques and mini tumors in the arteries. Radiation used to treat breast cancer can badly damage the heart.
As Dr. Gofman and other experts argue for improved diagnostic techniques and equipment to reduce medically necessary X-ray exposure, TSA gears up to impose frivolous, nonmusical exposure, even though conventional airline security measures have proven adequate since 9/11. To date, the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association have been silent about TSA's sinister plan to deliver unlimited doses of carcinogenic, mutagenic, heart damaging radiation to the flying public. No health studies are planned to gauge short and long-term effects of the radiation TSA will deliver to inspect our innards.
Big Brother's zap madness is a predictable result of America's post 9-11 security hysteria. But here's the irony: Dr. Gofman says X- radiation has the effect of "grenades and small bombs" on human cells. If we permit TSA to continually "bomb" our DNA in the name of security, what have we accomplished?
Besides ionizing beams, the feds are also testing other types of surveillance radiation. A flubbed holographic scanner developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory allows officials to strip search humans with ultra-high frequency radio waves. Millivision of Amherst, Mass., has engineered a millimeter wave scanner using radio frequencies 1,000 times higher than those of an FM broadcast. These waves pass through clothing, packaging and building materials. Ultra-high radio frequencies include radar, a spectrum of radiation known since WWII to cause cancer and neurological disability in humans. Microwave frequencies are documented by recent studies on cell/cordless phone radiation to be carcinogenic and teratogenic (causing abnormal embryonic development).
An example of unexpected health repercussions caused by high frequency radiation used on humans is fetal ultrasound technology. Ultrasound equipment bombards a fetus for up to one hour with megahertz radiation. This radiation, which cycles millions of time per second, can cause mutation and bleeding in the intestinal cells of rodents. Swedish scientists say routine ultrasound scanning of pregnant women may be causing subtle brain damage in unborn babies. Approximately half of all pregnancies in the U.S. result in prenatal or postnatal death, or an otherwise less than healthy baby. Many wonder if routine exposure of America's fragile unborn to megahertz radiation might be a factor, among others, of this shocking national statistic. Is fetal ultrasound exposure playing some part in the national epidemic of delayed development in infants, plus learning and behavior difficulties suffered by millions of our school children? Exposing the unborn to ionizing X-radiation at airport checkpoints is an even more dangerous game of roulette.
Fedgov's planned use of health damaging radiation on the traveling public seems especially tragic and abusive to those of us convinced that the War on Terror is a giant con job. Massive evidence indicates that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were intentionally staged to justify increased power over and surveillance of Americans. Key NORAD and other military officials had to be in on the ruse. President Bush ambushed himself when he openly lied about what he knew and when he knew it on the day the Twin Towers went down.. He has been caught lying about so many issues that Homeland Security should issue a red alert every time he is about to move his lips. The Bush administration's ongoing cover-up of 9/11 is so blatant that even Bush's own investigatory commission has expressed outrage at his efforts to block its requests for vital information and resources.
Meantime, TSA claims concern that Americans may feel humiliated at being viewed naked by X-ray screeners. But whatever airport nuke-nazis see through our clothing is nothing that the undertaker won't see after excessive, state-mandated radiation puts us "down" for good. Mandatory airport surveillance radiation delivered to an already grossly ill population would afford our financially strapped government an ingenious "final solution" to numerous political and economic problems. No muss, no fuss, this cull in the Cuckoos' nest. Each useless eater lines up for his deferred-lethal dose. The weak will die soonest, the strong will eventually become the weak–no questions asked and nothing proven. It's hard for a Prozac nation to imagine such sinister motives behind the terror industry, but the documented truth is, our amoral leadership has been brazenly murdering Americans for decades. Genocide specialists have been especially fond of unleashing various forms of deadly radiation on the unwitting masses, as documented by the federal Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. Now here we go again!
Consumers could derail TSA's sinister surveillance projects in a heartbeat. It's called boycott: We simply refuse to get nuked to naked. If we stop booking flights, the airline industry must grind to a halt. TSA would have little choice but to scrap its plans to endanger the national health with unnecessary radiation.
Americans who are still able to think must launch an effort to save ourselves and warn others. 1. Let's demand that Congress mandate TSA's radiation experiments be strictly voluntary. 2. We must demand the right to request that TSA conduct a non-radiation search of our persons. 3. We must demand our right to abstain from security procedures that may harm our children. 4. We must initiate an e-mail campaign to convince TSA and the airlines that forcible assault by radiation makes the cost of an airline ticket impossibly prohibitive.
TSA's consumer e-mail address is: [email protected] It's toll free comment line is: 1-866-289-9673. [Source]
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PHOENIX, March 21 (UPI) -- John Wall led a balanced Washington attack with 19 points Wednesday and the Wizards won their sixth road game of the season -- 88-79 over Phoenix.
The six victories away from home have come in 32 attempts.
Nene added 17 points and Washington held Phoenix to just 33 percent shooting. The Suns came no closer than four in the final quarter, during which both sides managed a mere 14 points.
Washington's Bradley Beal, who missed six games with a sprained left ankle earlier this month, aggravated the injury during the fourth quarter.
Goran Dragic and Wesley Johnson both had 18 points for Phoenix, which has lost five of six.


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Connecticut has always been a breeding ground for heavy and menacing music. And after five years of progression, 100 Demons have risen to the forefront of the influential Connecticut hardcore community. Encapsulating a pure viciousness and ravenous intensity that few ever could achieve. The 100 Demons approach is utterly monstrous, equal parts hardcore intensity and gut wrenching metallic precision.
1. Time Bomb
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6. Lord Have Mercy
7. Non Believer
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Nebraska Stands Down…For Now
Just a few days ago, it seemed as though in the next few terms the Court would be facing down an unavoidable phalanx of hot-button issues: gay marriage, health care, affirmative action, illegal immigration, and abortion. Today, however, the phalanx may have lost a horseman: the inevitable big abortion case became, well, evitable–kind of.
Back in April, the Nebraska legislature passed a new law, LB 594, that required pregnant women seeking abortions to be screened for a litany of risk factors to determine whether the women would suffer from mental or physical problems following an abortion. In July's Planned Parenthood v. Heineman, Judge Laurie Smith Camp of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska found the bill to create "substantial, likely insurmountable, obstacles in the path of women seeking abortions in Nebraska," and issued a temporary restraining order in enjoining the legislation from coming into effect.
Today, the AP reports that the Nebraska Attorney General has chosen not to appeal:
"It is evident from the judge's ruling (to temporarily block the law from taking effect) that LB594 will ultimately be found unconstitutional," she said. "Losing this case would require Nebraska taxpayers to foot the bill for Planned Parenthood's legal fee."
"We will not squander the state's resources on a case that has very little probability of winning."
While the district court's TRO will now become a permanent injunction, a severability clause in LB 594 allows the rest of the legislation to stand.
Nevertheless, there remains separate bill, LB 1103, which provided for the headline-grabbing ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy–without regard to the woman's health–on the theory that fetuses can feel pain at that gestational point. The provision, says the AP, "is scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 15, but a legal challenge is possible from Bellevue abortion doctor LeRoy Carhart."
Yes, that's the same Carhart from the partial-birth abortion cases of 2000 and 2007, in which the Court sided first for Carhart in striking down a Nebraska law, and then, with Justice Alito's replacement of Justice O'Connor, sided against Carhart in upholding a virtually identical federal law.
If Carhart does bring suit, then the hot-button phalanx lives. The question then will be how the Roberts Court will dispose of these cases if docketed. Might we see a return of the 2006-07 Court, which stacked the docket with ideological blockbusters and pushed the issues rightward? Or will we see a continuation of the Court's past two terms, in which it preserved its political capital for one major gain while finding compromises on issues too explosive to touch. Political factors may determine which Roberts Court we shall see: will the Court be supported by a Republican-controlled Congress? Will these cases come during the 2012 Presidential campaign or after the election?
After much talk, including my own, of this term's rise of the Roberts Court, we may be in for another incarnation sooner than imagined.
CORRECTION: This post originally stated that the two abortion restrictions discussed were part of the same Nebraska bill. That was incorrect. The post has been edited accordingly. Thanks to my professor and mentor, Ken Jost of CQ Researcher, for calling my error to my attention.
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The New York Times reports that Nebraska has opened up a new front in the abortion wars:
Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska signed a law on Tuesday banning most abortions 20 weeks after conception or later on the theory that a fetus, by that stage in pregnancy, has the capacity to feel pain. The law, which appears nearly certain to set off legal and scientific debates, is the first in the nation to restrict abortions on the basis of fetal pain. […]
The Nebraska law grew out of a battle over abortion waged in a far different forum. After an abortion opponent killed Dr. George R. Tiller, a leading late-term abortion provider in Wichita, Kan., last year, Dr. LeRoy H. Carhart, who sometimes worked with Dr. Tiller, said he would carry on his legacy by performing some later-term abortions in his clinic in Bellevue, Neb.
The Court's most recent big abortion cases both had Dr. Carhart in the caption. 2000's Stenberg v. Carhart struck down Nebraska's partial birth abortion ban by a 5-4 vote, holding that the state law placed an undue burden on a woman's right to an abortion because the law had no exception to allow the procedure when the mother's life or health was threatened by her pregnancy. The Court changed course in 2007 with Gonzalez v. Carhart. Justice Alito cast the deciding fifth vote to uphold the federal ban on partial birth abortions, whereas his predecessor, Justice O'Connor, provided the fifth vote to strike down Nebraska's similar law in Stenberg.
The partial birth abortion bans tested the undue burden standard late in a pregnancy, in which the Court in Roe and Casey both recognized the state's compelling interest in protecting fetal life. This law is very different:
Lawmakers in Nebraska were outraged at the prospect of becoming, in the words of one of the state's leading anti-abortion groups, the next "late-term abortion capital of the Midwest." Early Tuesday, the state's nonpartisan unicameral legislature passed the new measure overwhelmingly, 44 to 5. […]
The law, which is to take effect Oct. 15, restricts abortion in Nebraska on several fronts. It will forbid abortions after 20 weeks' gestation. The law it replaces, similar to those in many other states, banned abortions after a fetus reaches viability, or can survive outside the womb. This is determined case by case but is generally considered to come around 22 weeks at the earliest.
The new law grants exceptions only in cases of medical emergency, the pregnant woman's imminent death, or a serious risk of "substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function," a provision experts interpreted as an effort to exclude an exception based on a woman's mental health.
Casey's undue burden standard is the strictest for abortion regulations before the fetus is viable. By banning abortions of fetuses starting at twenty weeks old, Nebraska's new law seeks to set a new bright line for fetal viability.
If this case gets to the Court as currently composed (assuming Justice Stevens's successor will vote as he would have voted), Justice Kennedy will, as ever, be the deciding vote. Although he voted in both Stenberg and Gonzales to uphold the partial birth abortion bans, his vote is less certain for this law. A total ban on abortions of arguably pre-viable fetuses when the state's regulatory power under Casey is at its nadir is very different from what Kennedy saw in Gonzales as a narrow ban on a particular abortion procedure that was performed when the state's regulatory power under Casey was at its apex.
Further, if Casey did anything for an instinctual abortion foe such as Kennedy, it was to demolish Roe's rigid trimester framework and erect in its place a more fluid, regulation-friendly, assessment based upon fetal viability. The new Nebraska law puts back in place Roe's rigidity, even as it cuts away at the abortion right. In doing so, the law invites the Court's steadfast abortion foes to keep approving of each states' moving the viability goalposts ever closer to conception, thereby eviscerating the appeal of bright line rules while making a mockery of the serious viability assessments required under Casey.
Finally, one must not forget that Justice Kennedy will have the weight of Casey upon him as the sole remaining member of its majority of himself and Justices O'Connor, Souter, Stevens, and Blackmun. It is doubtful that Kennedy, a man very aware of his unique place on the Court, would vote to uphold a law that strikes at the very core of his career's most courageous stand.


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Up to three quarters of dogs/cats at risk of disease
Source: http://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/local/up-to-three-quarters-of-dogs-cats-at-risk-of-disease-1-6798073
Vets are urging people to think about long-term animal care before buying a puppy or kitten, after figures revealed millions of the country's favourite pets could be at risk from disease and pests.
According to figures from MSD Animal Health, 55.5 per cent of dogs (4.99 million) and 77.5 per cent of cats (6.97 million) in the UK are not vaccinated against illnesses including distemper, cat flu and feline leukaemia.
Now Vets4Pets is encouraging all new puppy and kitten owners to give their pet a healthy start to life by providing suitable vaccinations and treatments.
Huw Stacey, director of clinical services at Vets4Pets, said: "Vaccinating your pet provides it with the best level of care possible and helps to prevent millions of puppies and kittens catching some particularly nasty diseases that can have very serious consequences.
"Puppies and kittens should also receive appropriate treatments for common ailments, including fleas and worms, for their entire life.
"To help new owners we've launched a Puppy and Kitten campaign that will provide support to help make the UK one of the healthiest countries in the world for pets.
"At www.vets4pets.com/pet-advice/puppy-and-kitten/ owners of puppies and kittens can find out the most appropriate ways to care for their new arrival, from the moment their tiny paws step into their new home.
"By vaccinating and treating more puppies and kittens from an early age, it should gradually improve the overall health of our adult dogs and cats.
"Worryingly, 86 per cent of pet owners would vaccinate their pet if a disease was present in their local area, which in many cases will be too late."
Figures also show that 53 per cent of owners don't keep up with their pet's vaccinations because of cost, while half of pet owners think vaccinations are not necessary or haven't even thought about inoculating their pet.
But pet health isn't limited to just vaccinations. According to the new research, only one in ten dog owners and one in five cat owners provide their pet(s) with the recommended monthly flea treatments, leaving up to eight million dogs and more than six million cats at risk from the itchy pests.
Figures on worming were slightly better with almost a quarter of dogs (up to seven million pets) and cat owners (up to 6.1 million pets) following the recommended quarterly worming treatment programme.
Dr Stacey added: "Effective and regular flea and worming control will help make sure your dog, cat and house stay free from fleas and pets free from the various types of worms.
"A heavy worm infestation can cause sickness, diarrhoea, weight loss and weaken a pet's immune system, while a single flea can produce over 2,000 eggs in its lifetime, which can easily result in an infestation."


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Truex wins fuel-mileage gamble at The Glen
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Cross another track off the list for Martin Truex Jr.
Truex held off a charging Matt Kenseth on the final lap Sunday and won the NASCAR Cup race at Watkins Glen International, stretching his fuel to the triumphant end. It was his first victory at The Glen and the second road course win of his career.
"I'm a little bit lost for words at the moment just because I've been thinking about this one a long time - all weekend, all day," Truex said. "Then, at the end there, it's just so hard there to let guys pass you for the lead. You've just got to listen to your crew chief."
Crew chief Cole Pearn made the right calls and didn't flinch when the No. 78 Toyota was passed twice in the closing laps.
"It's a product of our relationship," said an emotional Pearn, mourning the sudden death of his best friend. "We don't squabble. We don't argue. He's a smart guy. He knew the situation we were in and did the right thing. Two years ago, I don't know that we win that race."
Truex gained the lead when Penske Racing's Brad Keselowski in the No. 2 Ford and Ryan Blaney in the No. 21 Ford for the Wood Brothers were forced to pit in the final three laps.
"It's excruciating to go that slow here and try to save that much fuel," Truex said. "The toughest part, really, was just watching the No. 2 pass and go on, and then watching the No. 21 pass and go on. It's like, 'All right, if they don't run out of gas, we're going to look really dumb.' Fortunately, it worked out for us."
Trailing by 3 seconds after saving fuel for several laps, Truex assumed the lead when Blaney ducked into the pits as the white flag was about to fly. Despite a bobble and locking the brakes as Kenseth challenged on the last lap, Truex won for the fourth time this season.
"He was so fast, I still couldn't get to him," said Kenseth, who maintained his slim points lead over Clint Bowyer for the final slot in the playoffs with four races to go before the cutoff. "I was racing as hard as I could, trying to make as many passes as I could."
Daniel Suarez was third, the best finish of his rookie season, followed by Denny Hamlin and Bowyer. Pole-sitter Kyle Busch was seventh.
Truex boosted his playoff points total to a whopping 34, nearly double that of second-place Jimmie Johnson (18) as his best season shows no signs of tailing off.
"I feel like with the way we run, coupled with the bonus points, we should be a lock for (the season finale at) Homestead," Truex said. "But at the same time, this is racing and anything can happen."
Busch, who dominated qualifying earlier in the day, was the class of the field early and gained a big lead after the green flag dropped and led all 20 laps of the first stage. By the eighth time around the 2.45-mile circuit, Busch held a 3.4-second lead over Truex, while Keselowski in sixth was 10 seconds behind. It was Busch's ninth stage win of the season.
Busch, who overcame a pit road penalty early in Saturday's Xfinity race at The Glen and rallied to win, had to return to the pits after his first stop to check for a loose wheel and restarted 34th. By the end of the second stage, he had worked his way back through the field and was ninth at the end, in contention again.
Busch encountered more trouble just past the halfway point of the 90-lap race. His No. 18 Toyota suffered damage after a restart when he made contact with Keselowski in the Inner Loop while racing for seventh. Keselowski bounced into Busch and both slid off course.
An irate Busch pitted and Keselowski stayed out. Keselowski pitted a couple of laps later for tires, and when a caution flew he gained the lead for the restart after much of the field pitted.
Truex passed Bowyer for second on lap 61 and caught Keselowski three laps later, passing him on the final turn of lap 64. But with fuel mileage coming into play, Truex started to slow his pace, dropping back as Keselowski and Blaney drove past.
Other things of note at Watkins Glen:
The Mexican rookie won his first stage of the season and notched his fourth straight top-10 for Joe Gibbs Racing in the No. 19 Toyota. Racing up front the whole day on a tricky road course added another dose of confidence.
"I knew the second half of the year we'd be more competitive," Suarez said. "All the hard work ... is paying off. Now I feel like we're moving in the right direction. I'm not surprised anymore to be running in the top 10. I just have to keep it up."
In his final race at Watkins Glen, Dale Earnhardt Jr. had to drop out when he experienced valve train problems early in the second stage and parked his No. 88 Chevy in the garage.
"It's been a little frustrating this weekend. This doesn't make it much better," said Earnhardt, who finished last. "But, I sure have enjoyed racing here and really appreciate the fans here, and the track and the staff. They've treated us so good every time we've been here, so it's been a blessing."
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JFK Medical Center Hosts A Parkinson's Disease Seminar on September 18th
EDISON, NJ (September 4, 2012) – On Tuesday, September 18th, the JFK New Jersey Neuroscience Institute will host a free educational seminar on Parkinson's Disease from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at JFK Medical Center (Conference Room) on 70 James Street.
Additionally, the seminar will provide information on the following topics: Gene Therapy, Stem Cell Research, Deep Brain Stimulation, Current Medical Management, Physical Therapy and Speech and Swallowing Therapies.
The following speakers will discuss the latest medical advancements and research, commonly prescribed medications and more on Parkinson's Disease:
Philip Hanna, M.D. – Movement Disorder Neurologist
JFK New Jersey Neuroscience Institute
Asif Bashir, M.D. – Neurosurgeon
JFK New Jersey Neuroscience Institute
Jacqueline Cristini, P.A., MMSc
JFK New Jersey Neuroscience Institute
This is a free event, however space is limited and pre-registration is required. To RSVP or for more information on the Parkinson's Disease seminar, please call Nancy Gaydos at (732) 321-7000 ext. 62326. A continental breakfast and buffet lunch will be provided.
JFK Medical Center, an affiliate of JFK Health System, is a 498-bed full-service, acute care hospital, and the adjacent JFK Johnson Rehabilitative Institute. Located in the heart of Edison, NJ, it has remained at the forefront of quality care in the region since its inception in 1967. Today, JFK accommodates more than 20,000 admissions, 3,000 births and 60,000 Emergency Room visits on a yearly basis. The Medical Center features a complete array of services, including general surgery, emergency medicine, mental health, orthopedics, maternity and pediatric care. It is home to two world renowned institutes: the JFK New Jersey Neuroscience Institute and the JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, as well as JFK Haven Hospice, JFK Imaging Center and the Center for Wound Healing.


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VOA Scott Stearns | Dakar 19 August 2010
Niger's military government says it is increasing security for international aid workers threatened by groups affiliated with the al-Qaida terrorist network. Relief officials say those threats could undermine efforts to feed eight million people who do not have enough food.
Many of the threats from groups loosely affiliated with al-Qaida appear to focus on Niger's Maradi region, more than 600 kilometers east of the capital Niamey.
Maradi's military governor Colonel Garba Maikido says there is no precise information concerning the nature of the threat, but security officials have taken measures to protect foreign workers.
After learning of the al-Qaida threat, Governor Maikido says, the military government took immediate action to determine the nationalities of all expatriates in the area and reinforce security around their residences. For those expatriates who need more protection, he says they are now being protected by gendarmes.
Aid groups in Niger are evacuating some Western staff because of the al-Qaida threat, which comes at a time when the country is at the peak of its lean season before October harvests.
Khardiatou Lo N'Diaye is the UN coordinator for Niger. She met with Governor Maikido about the security threats.
N'Diaye says the United Nations does not want to neglect the al-Qaida threats, so that is why she is asking the governor to reinforce security for UN workers and other aid groups. She says the United Nations believes the situation is being well handled by local authorities.
Islamic militants say they killed a French national who was abducted in northern Niger in April. Two Spanish aid workers who were kidnaped in Mauritania last year are still being held by an al-Qaida-affiliated group known as al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
That group claims responsibility for bombing an army barracks in western Niger earlier this year. It also says it killed a British hostage in Mali last year and shot dead a U.S. aid worker in Mauritania before bombing the French Embassy in Nouakchott.


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The Summer 2010 issue of Delight Gluten-Free magazine featured an amazing article entitled Digital Delights. I am a huge lover of Apple computers and iPods, but still pro-Blackberry. It's apps like these that make me think about switching. The following information was taken directly from the article.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 113 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
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Ted Gadoury, President of J.L. Wallace Construction, Inc., has been a general contractor/construction manager and provided construction services in Southwest Florida for over 15 years earning a reputation for superior quality and outstanding business practices. Based in Fort Myers, J.L. Wallace Construction offers general contracting, design/build, and construction management services to a diverse client base throughout the area.
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The Saving Water Partnership conducted a telephone survey and two focus groups in the winter of 2002 to understand homeowners' awareness of and attitudes toward replacing toilet flappers. The Partnership also wanted to understand what it would take to get homeowners to test for leaks, and replace worn and leaking toilet flappers.
- Overview (pdf) - Summary of Toilet Market Research reports.
- Phone Survey (pdf) - A SoundStats survey of Seattle Public Utilities customer behavior related to toilet leaks.
- Focus Group (pdf) - Background research for a program to increase the replacement of toilet flappers.