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#1 The Signs of a Stroke09-25-2011, 01:25 PM
Knowledge is power, but sometimes I wonder if too much knowledge gets us in trouble. When SR had the stroke, I went through all those diagnostic things that they drill into our consciousness. The only thing he had was the excruciating headache, which had started while he was in a long meeting at his job. He had none of the other signs.
We're not docs and can't make those decisions. I was so glad that I learned and when he had the seizures, called 911 instantly, as he ended up having more seizures in the hospital. There would have been dire consequences had he not gone to the hospital so quickly.
The type stroke he had was the less common one. I've been going through guilt no matter what anyone said to me about not forcing him to go in as soon as he came home from work til one doc finally sat me down and explained that the damage done happened instantly, while it initially happened at work and he sat through that meeting and then drove himself home.
Just food for thought. You never know when something like this could happen to you or a loved one.
From Everyday Health:
Do You Know the Signs of a Stroke?
Every second matters when you or someone you love has a stroke, so it's important to be able to identify stroke symptoms and learn when to get help.
By Beth W. Orenstein
Medically reviewed by Lindsey Marcellin, MD, MPH
A stroke occurs when blood flow to your brain is interrupted. If you suspect that you or someone you love is having a stroke, you need to get medical help immediately. The faster you get treatment, the better the chances of reversing the damage and having a full recovery.
Call 9-1-1 for stroke help. Dont call your doctor. It just wastes time, says Mark Green, MD, a neurologist and professor of neurology, anesthesiology, and rehabilitation medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Get to the ER so that the medical staff can determine whether youve had a stroke and if it can be treated with clot-busting drugs.
Ischemic strokes are the most common kind of stroke. These occur when a blood clot blocks or narrows a blood vessel leading to or in the brain. Ischemic strokes can be treated with a clot-busting drug called tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA). Hemorrhagic strokes, however, are caused by blood vessels that break and bleed into the brain and cannot be treated with t-PA.
A CT scan of the brain can show whether youve had a stroke and, if so, what kind. People who can benefit from t-PA need treatment within three hours of their first stroke symptoms to reduce the effects of stroke. Thats why you need to act fast, says Dr. Green.
The Most Common Stroke Symptoms
How do you know if someone is having a stroke? Here are the most common signs of stroke in both men and women:
- Numbness. You may suddenly feel weak or numb in your face, arm, or leg. Typically the weakness is on one side of your body, Green says. You also may feel numbness around your mouth.
- Speech problems. You may have trouble talking. Your speech may be slurred or you may not be able to speak at all, Green says.
- Confusion. You may become confused and have trouble understanding what people are saying to you.
- Vision problems. You may experience double vision or difficulty seeing out of one or both eyes. It can seem like a shade has been drawn over one eye, Green says.
- Dizziness. You may feel dizzy and have trouble with balance and coordination. You walk like youre suddenly drunk, Green says.
- Head pain. You may have a headache that comes on suddenly, like a bolt out of the blue, Green says. Your severe head pain may be accompanied by vomiting.
The National Stroke Association says a good way to recognize the warning signs of stroke in another person is to think FAST:
- F is for face. See if one side of the face droops when you ask that person to smile.
- A is for arms. When trying to raise both arms, does one drift downward?
- S is for speech. Is the person speaking clearly or is there slurring?
- T is for time. If you observe any of these signs, immediately go to the ER for an evaluation. The sooner the person gets treated, the lower the risk of permanent damage.
Stroke Symptoms Unique to Women
Women may experience any of the most common signs of stroke listed above for both genders, but they are also likely to experience a unique set of symptoms that come on suddenly, including:
- Hiccups
- Nausea
- Chest pain
- Shortness of breath
- Racing of the heart or heart palpitations
- Fainting or loss of consciousness
Keep in mind that its possible to have a stroke that is accompanied by some but not all of these stroke symptoms. On the other hand, Green says, if you experience any of these symptoms, it doesnt necessarily mean youre having a stroke." Sometimes its a migraine or some other problem, says Green, who specializes in headaches. Regardless, you should go to the ER and be checked out. You never want to self-diagnose, given the consequences.
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Thank goodness. Seriously, this is a good article. Sometimes I am afraid to read warning sign type articles because I am so impressionable. Hell, the entire time I had the flu two weeks ago my mind would wander towards the notion that it was my kidneys giving up the ghost.
My next door neighbor had a pretty bad stroke a couple of months ago, and when I spoke to her in her front yard less than a week later, I was unaware that she had even been in the hospital. Naturally, I was surprised to hear that she had had the stroke and delighted that the experimental treatment they gave her had been so effective. I literally had no idea she had had a stroke. This being quite different from my lifetime of experience with elder family members on my mother's side having strokes. Most of them would be normal one day, disfigured or disabled by the time they got home. Back then, we simply accepted that that was what a stroke was and that we were fortunate to have them back alive.
My maternal grandmother had her first stroke when she was 28 years old. She had small strokes along the way, but started having more and more of them in her 70's. As a child, I learned to listen to her with patience, and to never do anything that would cause her to grab me with her left hand (like a vise). It taught me how to listen to people with speech impediments, though her speech was more like a foreign accent.
Anyone who laments the good old days, has not had someone in need of critical medical care.While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
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MIAMI — The moment arrived. Players were spent, the emotional and physical toll zapping them of almost everything they had.
LeBron James had the ball at the top of the key. He drove right and with San Antonio Spurs guard Kawhi Leonard guarding him, James pulled up and drilled a 19-foot jump shot with 27.9 seconds left in the fourth quarter. He pumped his fists and the crowd went crazy.
With that shot of adrenaline, James stole the ball on the next possession, made the free throws and secured the victory.
These are his kind of moments.
"He probably lost 12-15 pounds in this playoff run, expending so much energy," said his coach Erik Spoelstra.
James finished with a game-high 37 points and led the Miami Heat to a 95-88 victory vs. the Spurs in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, giving Miami its second consecutive NBA championship.
James, the four-time MVP, was named Finals MVP for the second consecutive season.
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The game was back and forth throughout. The Spurs' biggest lead was seven at 11-4 and the Heat's was six on a couple of occasions until the final seconds. This was the kind of game you expect in a Game 7, and the third competitive game of the series.
Tim Duncan of the Spurs had 24 points, 12 rebounds and four steals.
"Tim Duncan is one of the greatest players of all time," Wade said. "If I'm able to do what Tim Duncan did at 37 years old, I'm happy. That guy is a warrior."
It was Miami 72, San Antonio 71 at the start of the fourth quarter. What more could you ask after 27 quarters and one overtime in the Finals? It was 90-88 Heat with under a minute to play and the Spurs had the ball.
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Best-of-nine anyone? Two proud, fatigued champions went at it with effort and skill that got them this far. Miami had more — not by a lot — but more.
"Everything. It took everything we had as a team," Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. "We're a resilient team. We did whatever it took."
Throughout the series, the Spurs dared James to shoot three-pointers. James revealed a truth in what he called the biggest game of his life. He shot a career-high 40.6% on three-pointers this season and buried the Spurs with five threes on Thursday.
The Heat finally won back-to-back games in the playoffs – something they hadn't done since the end of the Chicago Bulls series and start of the Indiana Pacers series – and overcame a 3-2 deficit. With Miami winning the series 4-3, it was also the first time the Spurs trailed in any of their five Finals appearances.
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The season started off fine enough for the Heat. It wasn't exactly a championship hangover, but the Heat meandered through the first three months of the season with a decent 29-14 record.
Coach Erik Spoelstra was not happy with the team's road record – just 11-11 three months into season.
The January signing of forward Chris Andersen began to yield results as the season moved to February, and the Heat rattled off 27 consecutive victories, the second longest winning streak in NBA history.
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Miami punctuated the streak with excellent victories over the Oklahoma City Thunder, Chicago Bulls, Memphis Grizzlies, New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers and improbable comebacks against the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers.
During the streak, Miami scored 113.1 points per 100 possessions and allowed 99 points per 100 possessions. The Heat were an offensive and defensive power, and when they stopped teams fro scoring, they were difficult to stop in transition.
The streak ended with a loss at Chicago on March 27. Miami still finished the season strong wins against the Spurs and Bulls and earned the No. 1 overall season and home-court advantage throughout the playoffs with a 66-16 record. They also finished with the league's best road record, a source of pride for Spoelstra after the 11-11 road start.
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The Big 3 put together outstanding seasons — James, Wade and Bosh all shot career-highs from the field. Wade was one of four players this season to average at least 20 points, five rebounds and five assists and was named to the All-NBA third team.
Of course, James was also one of the four: 26.8 points, eight rebounds and 7.3 assists — just one of four players in NBA history to average at least those totals. Combined with his defense, James earned league MVP for the second consecutive season.
But it was just wasn't James, Wade and Chris Bosh producing. Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole were more than capable point guards, Ray Allen provided Hall of Fame shooting off the bench, and Shane Battier gave the Heat solid defense and three-point shooting. Udonis Haslem, Mike Miller and Andersen were part of a deep rotation.
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The Heat rolled over the Milwaukee Bucks in four games in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs and even though their conference semifinals series against the Bulls was competitive at times, the Heat won in five games.
But Wade's bruised right knee began to take a toll on his production in the postseason, and throughout, he has had to muster up what he could — sometimes it was a lot, sometimes it wasn't – to help.
"It's what it's all about," Wade said. "Everything that people had to say about my individual self, other guys on the team. This is why we came together. We're a team."
Fissures in the Heat's structure began to appear against the beat-up Bulls, and the Indiana Pacers had big and healthy players to give the Heat trouble.
The Heat finally won back-to-back games in the playoffs – something they hadn't done since the end of the Chicago Bulls series and start of the Indiana Pacers series – and overcame a 3-2 deficit. With Miami winning the series 4-3, it was also the first time the Spurs trailed in any of their five Finals appearances.
Amazingly, the Heat beat the Spurs in Game 7 with Bosh scoring no points. But he played solid defense, and Miami's decision to assemble a Big 3 paid off again.
Dwyane Wade had 23 points and 10 rebounds, Shane Battier 18 and Mario Chalmers 14 for the Heat.
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Battier was having a bad series, even had a did not play. Coming back in Game 7 with 6 of 8 from three-point range was big.
"Reports of my demise were premature," Battier said.
Entering Game 7, James was plus-48 points with Wade on the bench. With Wade and James in the game at the same time, James was minus-56. A proponent advanced statistics, Spoelstra dismissed the James-Wade numbers.
"We're going as far as they take us, along with the other guys," Spoelstra said. "You can't win this series or the last game with a statistic."
It is old school, but Spoelstra danced with the players who brought him this far. That included Heat forward Shane Battier. He had made just 25% of his three-pointers in the playoffs prior to Game 7, but Spoelstra's confidence in Battier never dropped even as Battier's minutes dropped at the start of the series.
Battier made his first five three-pointers.
The championship caps a fantastic two-season run for Miami. The Heat played in back-to-back seven-game series in the conference finals (Boston last season, Indiana this season) and defeated one of the most successful franchises in the past 15 seasons for the 2012-13 title.
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Then, there's James. He joins Bill Russell and Michael Jordan as the only players in NBA history to win consecutive regular-season MVPs and championships. Add James' 2012 Olympic gold medal, and it's been an impressive redemption story since the end of Miami's 2011 Finals loss against the Dallas Mavericks.
James entered the game averaging 31.5 points, 10 rebounds and 6.8 assists in 11 previous elimination games.
On Wednesday, James called Game 7: "It's probably going to be one of the biggest games, if not the biggest game, of my life. But I'm going to just keep it the same way I've been doing."
Usually, that's good enough, and it was.
No team led by more than seven points, and every time the Heat sniffed a small run, the Spurs snuffed it out. Kawhi Leonard was fantastic in the third quarter with nine points.
But he had the league's toughest assignment on the other end of the court: guarding James, who 13 points and made three three-pointers in the third.
It was Miami 72, San Antonio 71 at the start of the fourth quarter. What more could you ask after 27 quarters and one overtime in the Finals.
James started 1-for-5 from the field, but started to find his offense as the half unfolded and finished with 15 points in the opening 24 minutes.
With Bosh scoreless and in foul trouble in the first half, Wade picked up the offense with 14 points on 7-for-12 shooting, and Chris Andersen played physical defense on Spurs forward Tim Duncan.
Neither team was sharp in the first quarter – perhaps a carryover from the emotionally and physically demanding Game 6 overtime thriller won by the Heat. Miami started out just 2-for-8 shooting and was on the verge of falling behind by double figures midway through the quarter.
But with Wade and Bosh on the bench, Miami finished the quarter on an 8-1 run and led 18-16 headed into the second quarter.
The Heat had chances to extend their lead to eight points in the second quarter, but sloppy play – eight turnovers in the first half – allowed San Antonio to stay close.
Battier, who delivered fantastic one-liners in news conferences, made his first three three-point attempt.
The Heat followed their Game 6 gameplan and prevented Spurs guard Danny Green from destroying them on three-pointers. That came at a cost. Duncan had 13 points in the first half.
Wade closed out the half with a mid-range jumper and gave Miami a 46-44 lead. Wade and James had 21 of Miami's final 23 points of the half.
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It happens every year at this time. High school football practice begins and that signals the end of the summer and the beginning of yet another school year.
One thing is for sure, it's mighty hot out there for football practice. But we leave it to Bluffton High Coach Ken Cribb and his staff to take care of the athletes and the weather conditions they must deal with.
There is plenty of excitement surrounding the upcoming season. But how can there not be with last year's success and another great group of young men ready to compete for starting positions.
Bluffton Today jumped back into the sports writing business last year in time to cover the historic season that the Bobcats had.
This season we're back and ready to add to that coverage by publishing a fall sports preview on Aug. 15 that will take a look at all fall sports and not just football.
Sports writer Lawrence Conneff will head up that task and he will get assists from Bluffton high graduate and University of South Carolina Beaufort student David Roberts and Bluffton photographer Scott Schroeder.
Local sports is great content for a newspaper like Bluffton Today where our focus is on local content that people can't get anywhere else.
While the sports seasons are very important to us, the beginning of the new school year and education in general also is a priority.
Beaufort County has an opportunity with the impending departure of schools superintendent Valerie Truesdale to make a good hire and to work to make our schools better.
The Lowcountry is a great place to live and to work. But without good schools it's near impossible to recruit business and industry to the area. We all want to see jobs created that pay well. And if you talk to enough economic development types or city and town managers, they are working hard to help bring business in that will add high-level, high-paying jobs to the local workforce.
Education and schools are an important part of that equation. I have written about this in the past and I firmly believe that education and access to adequate and affordable health care are two of the largest factors in helping a company decide where to locate.
If you look at the Beaufort-Jasper area and do any research at all, you will find in the education arena we are not doing as well as other regions.
Just in Jasper with all the turmoil over consolidation and underperforming schools, the headlines are not ones that I'd clip out and show an economic development recruiter.
Anecdotal evidence shows that when people look to move here, they nine times out of 10 choose Beaufort because of the schools.
Housing prices and property taxes may be more affordable in Jasper County and there may be more inventory, but the schools tip the scales in favor of Beaufort.
I sum it up pretty simply. You get what you pay for. If we are not willing to invest in spending more for education then we will not climb up a few steps on the ladder.
We need stakeholders and people who want to play a role in making this community top notch to put egos and politics aside to do the right thing. We need leaders to make tough decisions and to stick with them.
It's like building a great football team. Develop a strategy, make a plan and execute it. There is no better time than now to tackle the issue of our schools and education. We can score if we want to. But before we can score, we need to make a first down.
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We're pretty big on media servers here at Unplggd, seeing as we've featured nearly a gazillion articles on the topic alone, but it's always a good idea to stop ourselves once in a while to take a look at how things have evolved since the introduction of Tversity last year.
In comes Media Mall's PlayOn Media Server software - one of the most feature heavy media server software on the market today - with the ability to stream Hulu, YouTube, and a plethora of channel add-ons such as Tekzilla and HGTV (to name a few). So, does PlayOn succeed in delivering the same internet TV experience to your HDTV? Click through to find out.
While we realize the PlayOn Media Server works on any DLNA-enabled device on the market (ie. Xbox 360, Wii, HP MediaSmart TV, and Moxi HD), but we've decided to give it a go on the Sony Playstation 3 to keep it consistent with previous reviews on similar software.
The Install: Not much trouble here. The thing installed like a charm on our Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit desktop PC. Unfortunately, the software only runs at 32-bits, but no media server software out there has even touched the surface of taking advantage of 64-bits, so we won't complain too much here.
Oh, and no codec packs. Everything's included in the package.
The Interface: As for the interface... well, it's very, very straight forward. That's not to say it's perfect. Straight-forward design can be an effective thing, if used in the right context. Given the audience using this software are probably media buffs, we imagine something like Tversity's updated UI would be found to be much more appealing than the standard off-gray windows we've seen for 10 years+ now.
The Performance: But where style is a bit lacking, functionality and performance definitely makes up for it. This is where having features stacked 10 feet high pays off. We were floored at how well Amazon Video-On-Demand and Hulu streamed (wirelessly on a G-network, mind you), as well as having all of our local media (which consists of a million different formats including MKV, MP4, FLV, AVI, MOV, and much more) available through a single program interface. Granted it still wasn't exactly HD (PlayOn places a firm limit on a 4Mbps transcoded bitrate to keep things smooth and steady), we were still pretty impressed.
The Add-ons: While 3rd party plug-ins are officially not part of the program, one can easily acknowledge the draw of having external developers help generate value in its platform. PlayOn does just that; with an army of channels awaiting our viewing over at Playonplugins.com, we couldn't resist installing a bunch to get the most out of our PlayOn software.
All you need to do to install the channel is drag and drop a "plugin" file into the PlayOn Program Files folder. This wasn't too bad, though we'd prefer it if we could load it through user-interface of the program itself (kind of like in Firefox fashion). Older channel files required some really cumbersome process of throwing files in 3 different places, but we suggest staying away from those channels since half of them didn't work anyway.
What Could Be Better: We found there were a surprising number of times where the software would simply stop functioning properly. The video would stream for 2 seconds, then stop completely. We were baffled. Jumping into the forums, we didn't find much help there other than a suggestion to restart our computer. Doing so fixed the issue - but what the hell does it all mean? We still don't know, but it's one annoying bug we've seen time and time again with all of the media streaming software we've tested.
Summing It All Up: Overall, we found ourselves utilizing nearly every single feature set provided by PlayOn. Whether it be Amazon VOD, Netflix streaming, Hulu, or just local media streaming, being able to launch a single program to view anything on your cloud media queue or from your local computer has been something we at Unplggd rarely see pulled off without a few hitches.
But there are hitches: A dated-looking interface isn't a good first impression for any TV and internet media buff. Neither is forcing users to rummage through forums to look for add-ons. Having some kind of a channel store would be a much cleaner, integrated approach. Oh, and no Mac support? Tsk. Tsk.
That said, we believe PlayOn has tons of potential for expandability, and despite its few flaws, remains one of the best media server software solution out there right now. We've also heard from many readers that the PlayOn staff is very responsive to feedback and continues to work hard to add more features onto a very strong feature set.
Pros: Streams SD video flawlessly. Automatically chooses best speed according to connection. Easy install. Resource friendly.
Cons: Doesn't do true HD streaming. User-interface needs a bit of an update. Annoying "freeze after playing 2-seconds" bug. No Mac support.
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Teen pulled from canal near Ellicott Creek Island dies
The rescuers tried their best Monday night to save a teen they found floating on the Erie Canal at Ellicott Creek Island.
But the young man they pulled from the water died Tuesday night at Erie County Medical Center.
Brian P. Murphy was out on a leisurely kayaking trip Monday evening with his two sons and two of friends, looking for turtles among the logs near shore at Ellicott Creek Island. At about the same time, a 28-year-old Lockport man was riding his bicycle on the nearby bike path off Old Niagara Falls Boulevard.
Little did these two men know that they would meet that night, because of another bicyclist riding on the same path, 18-year-old Matthew Hovagimian.
All apparently were enjoying the gorgeous late-spring night, until Hovagimian fell off his bike and into the water.
Both Murphy and the Lockport man, who didn't want his name used, know CPR and began the emergency measures to revive Hovagimian. Emergency personnel from the Ellicott Creek Fire Company and Twin City Ambulance responded.
Hovagimian died about 8 p.m. Tuesday in Erie County Medical Center.
"The two of us gave this kid a second chance," Murphy, a 50-year-old engineer from North Tonawanda, said Tuesday, before word of the teen's death reached him.
Murphy marveled at the series of unconnected events that brought all three men to the same location, two of them to rescue the third one.
"I'm still kind of freaked out by the whole thing," he said. "My religious belief is that all those random events had to line up for us to find him."
Murphy agreed to tell his story, to emphasize two major points: the need to learn, or brush up, on CPR skills and the willingness to help in a life-saving situation.
"We're not heroes, but there is a component of human nature to help," he added.
The incident began for Murphy and his fellow kayakers just before 7:45 p.m. Monday.
His son, Shane, 18, on the trip along with brother Bryce, 13, and two of Bryce's friends, spotted a bicycle at the edge of the water. Brian Murphy was in the lead kayak.
"I looked at the bike, I saw a sneaker, and then I saw a leg," he recalled. "The gentleman was face-down in the water, between a log and the bank. But his face was submerged.
"I started yelling at him, 'Are you O.K.?' Then I took my paddle and nudged his back. There was no response at all."
Murphy had no idea whether the young man was alive.
Since no one in his crew had brought a cellphone on the kayak trip, he started yelling for help and pleading with anyone to call 911.
That's when the Lockport man heard the cries, got off his bike and went down the bank to help.
The two rescuers then had to get the unconscious Hovagimian up a steep embankment. One grabbed him under the arms, the other under his hips. Then they carried him up the bank, about 2 feet at a time.
"It was muddy and slippery," Murphy remembered. "I think adrenaline allowed us to haul this kid up from the water."
The men rolled Hovagimian onto his side, cleared his airway, started CPR compressions and called 911 on the Lockport man's cellphone.
The 28-year-old Lockport man even employed one of his CPR instructor's lessons – timing his chest compressions to the beat of the disco song, "Stayin' Alive."
As luck would have it, Ellicott Creek volunteer firefighters were involved in a nearby training session and reached the scene quickly, along with the ambulance crew, managing to revive the young man. Hovagimian had no identification on him at the time of the accident and was initially considered a John Doe. He was taken to DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda and then transferred to ECMC.
Following a preliminary investigation, Amherst police believe the young man may have suffered from some kind of medical condition that led to his falling off his mountain bike on a bike path near the creek.
Authorities don't know how long he was in the water.
"Judging by his condition, I would guess it wasn't more than a few minutes," Amherst Police Capt. Enzio G. Villalta said. "He couldn't have been in the water for an extended period of time, because they were able to revive him."
Amherst police are asking anyone with information about the mishap to call them at 689-1311.
Meanwhile, Murphy was hoping that the rescue story might have an effect on others.
"Do your CPR training and be willing to stop and help out," he advised.
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The dreaded cloak of uncertainty still looms over the tragic death of one-year-old Rehma Sabir that occurred in Boston two weeks ago. The case seemed black and white and all but done and dusted, on January 22nd, when Cavan-born nanny Aisling McCarthy Brady was arrested on charges of assault and battery.
However, new evidence brought to light by her tenacious defense attorney, Melinda Thompson, has introduced fresh debate on the subject in the past week.
The finger of blame has now shifted on some people's hands and undocumented Irish nannies in New York are no different as they wait for answers.
Sandra T, living and working on the Lower West Side of Manhattan, remains defiant in her stance that McCarthy Brady is guilty.
"I don't think there can be any sides to take here. It's the death of a child. What side can you take? That child was in her care and next thing she's dying in a hospital with head injuries."
Read more on Aisling McCarthy Brady's case here
"She was responsible. You should know how your kids are doing. Fine in the morning...hospital in the evening, so something happened in between and she was the only one who was there. Guilty."
Tara K, looking after three children in Astoria, Queens, concurs with this and cites McCarthy Brady's past misdemeanors as evidence of her guilt.
"Well she had a violent past, didn't she? She attacked her ex boyfriend and her roommate and made threats to other people and had restraining orders against her. So yeah I think she did it. I think the baby was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and in the care of a violent and mad woman. There's no smoke without fire."
Anne D, also working in Queens, said more investigations should be carried out as the case is not as clear cut as it initially seemed.
"I'd love to know where that poor thing's other injuries came from. She had broken bones and bruises so it looks like it wasn't just one thing or one time that did the damage...it may have been a few incidents...it's just finding out who is guilty..if it is the Irish woman.
"I don't think it was an accident anyway but I don't like the way the Irish woman was just thrown to the lions like that just because of the position she was in. They should have taken more time. Now her face is everywhere and she is going to get deported no matter what."
Jane C, caring for a baby in Park Slope, Brooklyn, also displays hesitancy in blaming McCarthy Brady just yet and she states that there are a few anomalies to iron out first.
"I read somewhere that the child was travelling a lot in the last few months and had malnutrition or was malnourished. She could have also had brittle bones or something and that is why she was in a bad way when they found her so the nanny might not have meant to do what she did even if it was her. It could have been an accident or not her. I don't know."
Read more: 'I believe Aisling Brady never harmed that child' says her defense lawyer
"I do have sympathy for her especially if it turns out not to be her. We should just wait a while I think."
Noah R, working in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, disagrees with this and maintains that it is obvious the 34-year-old nanny is guilty.
"If a baby is in your care like that and it has a load of broken bones and injuries a few weeks old, you would notice...you would definitely notice, especially the fact that she was in the business for over ten years which means she's looking after kids longer than the parents. She was more experienced so she should have noticed. Then how did the baby just get a massive injury that day?
"Something was going on and it had to be her. It had to be. I think her lawyers are just looking for a way out by saying all the other stuff."


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Kali Chakra Plus helmet
Where bought and price
Velogear.com.au, where they are presently $49.95. I was fortunate enough to win mine in a competition on the BNA website after it was reviewed there.
How it is used
XC MTB riding, day & night
The Chakra plus is a modern MTB trail helmet and like others of its kind has a less pointy shape than its road focussed competitors. Accordingly the rear more closely conforms with the back of the head, and the makers claim it has extra coverage at the rear compared to road helmets.
There is a dial fitting system, a detachable visor, and plenty of vents, the largest of which have bug netting in them.
+ Very good quality for a budget helmet. It has all a modern helmet needs in terms of fit and features.
+ Manufacturing standard is broadly as good as the more expensive helmets I have owned, including various Giro, Specialized, Limar and Bell helmets. Where it is a bit rough is in the details - splodges of glue here and there, rough in mould joins between foam and shell.
+ Excellent fit, for my head at least: this is a very comfortable helmet.
+ Without putting it on the scales it's seems a suitable weight and is well balanced.
+ Excellent price.
+ Bug netting? I've never seen the need for this, but it might float your boat.
+ Available from Australian online retailer and thus meets Australian standards.
- Bug netting? This isn't really a negative, but seems unnecessary to me. The incorporation of the netting into the helmet padding makes the mounting and dismounting of helmet lights a bit of a hassle. I don't seem to have enough fingers manage it all and the Velcro of my light mounts gets stuck everywhere. Though if the netting was in the helmet itself, it would have to be cut out to mount lights (depending on the mount). I also wonder if the netting affects the ventilation, though I have no way of easily testing this.
- The plastic clamp buckle sliders below the ear do not clamp strongly enough, and these buckles can be moved when the clamp is closed. They certainly move if you push them about, deliberately or not, but I have not had them loosen off while the helmet is on my head. I suspect the clamp used was designed for thicker webbing than is used on the helmet.
Additional notes
Bike helmets are often expensive, sometimes ridiculously so. Leaving aside the very real need to recover R&D and testing costs, it has been hard not to conclude that helmet makers and distributors have been charging a premium for a not overly complex assembly of injected foam, plastic and webbing. Getting something online from overseas relieved the burden on the wallet, but it was a legal grey area that now seems completely blackened given the recent changes to Australian helmet laws/regulations.
There have always been budget options, but they have frequently been ugly and poorly ventilated. Even when they have not been though, it has to be admitted that the image conscious (i.e. most of us) have looked elsewhere. Buying a child's helmet at BigW recently I was surprised to see that the current top of the range Rosebank helmet is actually a pretty good looking, well made piece of cycling kit. Whether I, a 'serious cyclist' , would actually buy it is another matter entirely. (Yes, yes, decry my snobbishness)
Still, I don't like paying a seemingly extortionate amount for a helmet and the Kali Chakra Plus is a welcome alternative. It is a well made, attractive and comfortable helmet. It meets the Australian Standards, which are claimed to be among the most rigorous in the world, is well ventilated, and has the standard features of a detachable visor and dial adjustable rear retention strap. The bug netting may not impress everyone but will surely attract anyone who has endured a high velocity bee sting on their scalp. The not so effective clamp buckles that sit below the ear might be a problem, but it's a bit early for this reviewer to tell. Overall, though, I look forward to being able to ride wearing it (though not actually use it, if you know what I mean).
I would recommend this if it suits your head shape and size, and your requirements for a MTB or general use helmet. Roadies, you'll be looking elsewhere for something sleeker. This ticks the boxes for trail cool, but not Euro pro cool - Mario Cippolini would not be seen dead in it.
Still, given the relatively few dollars involved, if you are serious about MTB riding stepping up to the next model in the Kali range, the Amara, would be worth considering.
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BRISBANE, Australia — Military personnel headed to flood-ravaged northeast Australia on Wednesday to help clean up the sludgy aftermath of floods that damaged thousands of homes and businesses and left some communities short of power, food and water.
The death toll from the flood crisis rose to five Wednesday when police discovered a man's body in a car submerged in a creek. Another man who vanished while traveling through the same area earlier this week was still missing.
Floodwaters were receding in most places, bringing relief to a region that was battered by worse floods just two years ago. But there were concerns about food and water shortages in some communities and thousands were without power.
(MORE: Australians Flee Deadly Floods)
Around 120 soldiers were en route to the hardest-hit city of Bundaberg in Queensland, 240 miles north of Brisbane. The flooding, caused by the remnants of a tropical cyclone, forced around 7,500 Bundaberg residents from their homes, inundated 2,000 houses and 200 businesses with murky water and prompted helicopter evacuations of 1,000 people.
As the cleanup began Wednesday, some residents complained about dwindling food supplies.
"People were almost coming to blows this morning at the local shop fighting over bread rolls," said Chris Pasky of Moore Park, just outside Bundaberg. "We've got a baby in the house we can't feed. We've just been forgotten."
In Brisbane, residents were warned to conserve water after muddy floodwaters put pressure on the city's water treatment plants. Queensland Premier Campbell Newman told Australian Broadcasting Corp. that stocks of bottled water were ready to be distributed to residents if the reservoirs run dry.
In other areas, officials scrambled to deliver supplies to residents still cut off by the slowly receding waters.
"We're discovering people who are isolated, without power, without water, and we're going to be getting some long-life milk and bread supplies in through four-wheel drive later today," said Pam Parker, mayor of Logan City, south of Brisbane.
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In a waterlogged area of Queensland, police have spent days hunting for two men, aged 25 and 34, who disappeared as they traveled separately to work on Sunday near Gatton, about 55 miles west of Brisbane. Police said they believed the body found Wednesday was that of the 34-year-old, though formal identification was still pending.
The hunt was still on for the younger man, whose car was found Tuesday in the same creek where the body was recovered
Queensland residents suffered through the worst flooding Australia had seen in decades in late 2010 and early 2011, when floodwaters from heavy rain killed 35 people, damaged or destroyed 30,000 homes and businesses and left Brisbane under water for days.
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Machine Learning/moa
Setup Instructions[edit]
- Download and unzip http://thomaslotze.com/kdd/moa_prep.tgz
- Create a directory to run your moa programs from; we'll assume it is ~/moa
- Download the moa release .tar.gz file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/moa-datastream/ and extract it
- copy moa.jar into ~/moa
- Download the weka release .zip file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/weka/ and extract it
- copy weka.jar into ~/moa
- Download http://jroller.com/resources/m/maxim/sizeofag.jar and copy it into ~/moa
Training MOA models[edit]
- Your data will need to be in ARFF format
- To evaluate the performance of different models, you can run varying prequential classifiers and look at their performance; for example,
java -cp .:moa.jar:weka.jar -javaagent:sizeofag.jar moa.DoTask "EvaluatePrequential -l NaiveBayes -s (ArffFileStream -f atrain.arff -c -1) -O amodel_bayes.moa" java -cp .:moa.jar:weka.jar -javaagent:sizeofag.jar moa.DoTask "EvaluatePrequential -l HoeffdingTree -s (ArffFileStream -f atrain.arff -c -1) -O amodel_hoeffding.moa"
- To actually generate the final model, you can run a command line like the following:
java -cp .:moa.jar:weka.jar -javaagent:sizeofag.jar moa.DoTask "LearnModel -l NaiveBayes -s (ArffFileStream -f atrain.arff -c -1) -O amodel_bayes.moa"
Generating MOA model predictions[edit]
To generate predictions for a test set, you will need your test set to be in ARFF format, with the same columns as the training data (including output class; I just set this to all-0's)
To do this, you will also need the moa_personal.jar file in the same directory as your other jar files; you can get all the jar files needed from http://thomaslotze.com/kdd/jarfiles.tgz
You can then run the following (after generating a model using the above steps)
java -cp .:moa_personal.jar:weka.jar -javaagent:sizeofag.jar moa.DoTask "EvaluateModel -e BasicLoggingClassificationPerformanceEvaluator -m file:amodel_bayes.moa -s (ArffFileStream -f atest.arff -c -1)" > a_bayes_predicted.txt
This generates a comma-separated file, which contains the item number as the first column and the probability of class 1 (in our case, cfa=1) as the second column
Thomas is going to develop the evaluator to be more general and robust, and hopefully submit it back for inclusion in the main MOA trunk. Right now, it will only work for examples with two classes.
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Rick Ross, 'Mastermind' [ALBUM REVIEW]
Rick Ross thrives on excess. A Maybach here, "having sushi down in Nobu" there. Bigger is better for a man whose beliefs are centered on grandeur. After 50 Cent outed him as a former corrections officer and the consequent side glares, Ross decided to inflate his gangster mythology even more while refusing to believe the helium that's inside would eventually leak. The big balloon hasn't quite popped during the months leading to the release of his sixth studio album 'Mastermind.' However, today's hip-hop landscape is just different.
Albums like Schoolboy Q's 'Oxymoron' and 'Satellite Flight: The Journey to the Mother Moon' -- which is experimental even for a Kid Cudi album -- would not be on the verge of beating Ross in first-week sales a few years back. There's obviously success to be had elsewhere, and Ross makes a good -- not great -- argument that there's still some to be had in being the Bawse.
Ross' fall-off as a reliable feature (see Rich Gang's '50 Plates') and as a brand over the latter half of 2012 and through 2013 doesn't mean his shtick is tired necessarily. If anything, it just shows he's a one-trick salesman. 'Mastermind' doesn't find Ross traveling too far from being the Bawse. But instead of the bull-headed approach that dragged down 'God Forgives, I Don't' and nearly everything that came after it, Ross plays the raconteur sitting on the leather couch in his recently purchased mansion, playing up his mystique with puffs of his cigar and models periodically filling his glass with Belaire Rose.
His sixth effort finds him skating over his most lushly-produced beats with flashes of vivid imagery and a well-measured sense of grandiosity. Some of his prior efforts -- particularly 'Teflon Don' -- bests 'Mastermind' song-for-song, but this is Ross' most enjoyable front-to-back listen.
'Mastermind' is actually bizarre at some points. French Montana's impish grin replaces Notorious' B.I.G.'s mourning on 'Nobody,' where Diddy plays the perpetual trash-talker turned motivational speaker ("These n----s is mere motherf---in' mortals / I'm tryna push you to supreme bein'." There's more testimony to follow.) Backpackers also get a little something to get pissed off at with the album finale 'Thug Cry,' which has the temerity to throw a decent Lil Wayne verse over
Souls of Mischief's '93 Til Infinity.'
Watch Rick Ross' 'Nobody' Video Feat. French Montana & Diddy
'The Devil Is a Lie' shouldn't even work with its rehashed focus on the Illuminati. But a listen to the track reveals once again why Jay Z and Rick Ross are holding on to millions -- great salesmanship with some artistry along the way. Ross' feigned spiritual cleansing -- he renounces the devil by drinking baptismal champagne
-- on the hook is over the top, but it's somewhat cathartic and convincing over the orgasmic bursts of Major Seven and K.E. on the Track's horns.
Jay Z is still D'usse's freelance promoter as he again muses at his affiliation with Illuminati like he did on 'Free Mason.' It's not a retread though; Jay Z sounds more urgent than he has in recent memory while giving himself the obligatory pat on the back ("You seen what I did to the stop and frisk / Brooklyn on the Barneys like we own the bitch").
Listen to Rick Ross' 'The Devil Is a Lie' Feat. Jay Z
The album's best moment belongs to the Saturday night gospel that's 'Sanctified.' Betty Wright joins the choir, Big Sean serves at the altar, and Yeezus the Evangelist leads the service. It's all soul-burning, indulgent excellence and all of it is spearheaded by Kanye West performing his world-conquering duties. "But when Ali turn up and be Ali, you can't ever change that n---- back to Cassius," he preaches. Everybody bows down, and that includes Ross himself during his following verse.
Ross is well within his right to use 'Sanctified' for whatever Belair Rose campaign he may have in tow, but it's also a reminder that his charisma isn't consistent throughout the album. There are times he runs the show like with his focused 'Nobody' verse ("Hustlers moving out of rentals, art of war is mental / Having sushi down in Nobu / Strapped like an Afghan soldier, nowhere to go to") and when he kicks the door open on album opener 'Rich Is Gangsta.'
Elsewhere, Ross is haphazardly crooning on the painfully on-the-nose "Young n----s black, but he's selling white" and dropping an ill-advised Trayvon Martin reference over D. Rich's lush, woozy synths on'BLK & WHT.' Other moments have him getting upended by his features; Jeezy owns the middling 'War Ready' and Meek Mill handles the celebratory horns on 'Walkin on Air' with his trademark freneticism.
Ross does make a case on 'Mastermind' that a Bawse-centric worldview is still respectable even if he isn't as dominant as he was. But where does that leave the Miami don? That's hard to tell. As hip-hop curves in between trends, points of focus and hits, Ross' persona remains on his usual path, touting excess. There was a time when Rossian values consistently intersected and seized the culture's zeitgeist. He isn't too far away from the genre's line of thinking on 'Mastermind,' but he doesn't do a good job of convincing that he's running parallel to it.


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Cool Ideas: The World's First Flattrable Conference
from the forget-feedback-forms... dept
It's been interesting to see the service evolve -- especially watching as it went from closed beta to open so that anyone can use it. If you haven't yet signed up, you should at least check it out. But one of the more interesting things in how it has evolved are the unexpected ways in which the service can be used. Take, for example, a fantastic looking conference taking place in Sweden later this month, put on by Media Evolution, called The Conference (which I had wanted to attend, but was unable to make). The conference organizers have set it up so that pretty much everything at the conference is "Flattrable." Like a speaker? Flattr him/her. Like an entire session? You can Flattr it through the app or directly via QR codes around the event. See someone ask a smart question? Ask to see their badge, and you can Flattr them directly.
As far as I know, this is the first time this has been done like this and, as with any experiment, you never know for sure how it will work out, but I think it's a pretty cool experiment and I hope that it goes well. I look forward to finding out from the organizers some of what they learn from the experiment.


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Les Frazer had a premonition.
As Frazer drove to work the morning of Feb. 23, the Ridgeland resident said, he told himself that he would bowl the first perfect game of his life later that day.
Sure enough, Frazer saw a long-awaited score - 300 - flash onscreen by the end of the evening.
He became the first bowler to notch a perfect score at Station 300 since the Bluffton bowling center opened Jan. 7.
"It's a thrill, yes," Frazer said. "When I went up there (for the final frame) I looked up and everybody was standing behind me. It's like, 'No pressure.'"
But Frazer stepped up and rolled the final strike he needed to complete a longtime goal. Briefly, he recalled with a laugh, he became a minor celebrity at Station 300.
"A kid actually came up to him with a paper napkin and asked him for his autograph," Frazer's wife, Kim, said.
Frazer said that he and Kim bowled in leagues frequently when they lived in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. They bowled occasionally in Savannah and Hilton Head Island after they moved to Ridgeland six years ago, then joined a league when Station 300 opened for business.
The perfect game continued to elude Frazer, who said he had bowled 299 two or three times over the years, until February. It allowed him to finally match Kim, who said she had a perfect game in 2003.
"That night, everything was just working (for me)," he said. "It was just boom, boom, strike, strike, strike."
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"At a lot of places, it takes a year, a year and a half, before someone bowls a perfect game," Holden said. "So this is very good."


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University of Hartford Releases Report of Strategic Prioritization Initiative
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The University of Hartford today released to the University community its report of the strategic prioritization initiative it announced publicly in September. The goal of the initiative is to focus the University's resources on its highest priorities in order to reduce costs, hold tuition increases as low as possible, and focus funding on its priorities in a very tight economy. The report, which offers two implementation plans, one for academic programs and one for administrative programs, was released to University faculty, staff, and students on Friday in a message from University President Walter Harrison.
The two implementation plans are part of a process the University calls Foundation of the Future. The plans were developed based on three months of campus discussions and deliberations on recommendations released in September. Those recommendations had been prepared by two task forces of faculty and staff who spent six months reviewing, prioritizing, and placing 308 administrative and academic programs into four categories — receive investment of more resources, be maintained as is, be restructured, or be divested. Each task force had been given a target amount to identify for possible reallocation. The academic task force was asked to identify $3.2 million and the administrative task force was asked to identify $3.584 million.
In his message to the University community, President Harrison said, "The goal of Foundation of the Future is to determine where University resources should be focused without increasing the University's overall budget. At this time when we cannot count on increased net revenues, we need resources to improve our competitive position and to meet our students' needs. To find these resources we must reduce the number of programs we offer, increase efficiencies in delivery of core services, and reallocate the resulting resources to provide better support to priority programs."
"Some of the decisions in the plans have been extremely difficult and painful to make," Harrison continued. "Beginning today, we have eliminated three full-time and one part-time staff positions. Over the rest of calendar year 2013, we anticipate eliminating approximately 11 additional positions, four of which are currently unfilled. Eight other positions will be reduced from twelve-month to ten-month positions." All staff members whose positions will be eliminated at any point during this year were notified by University officials today.
Implementation of the academic plan is in its very early stages so impact on full-and part-time faculty is not yet clear. Harrison's statement on the impact on students, however, is clear. "I wish to state as strongly as possible," he said, "that regardless of ultimate actions to restructure or divest programs, all currently enrolled students in those programs will be able to complete their degrees."
The administrative implementation plan identifies $2.650 million for reallocation over a five-year period. The academic plan identifies approximately $0.512 million, a figure that will increase as proposed closures of academic programs are considered following the University's Manual of Academic Policies and Procedures (MAPP), a step-by-step process that can take several months. Additional resources will likely be identified as the University reviews reports requested from several academic and administrative programs that were recommended for closure but deferred pending further study. Deferral does not mean that divestment will definitely not occur; rather, it means that additional information must be gathered and/or work must be done before a final decision can be made.
"I am confident that this process will help strengthen the University's focus and make it better able to weather the uncertain economic times in which we live," Harrison said. "I believe these are reasonable and prudent actions to take that will, over time, make the University more robust."
A vital next step in the Foundation of the Future initiative, Harrison says, is development of a new strategic plan. "The strategic planning process will focus on major themes for the next five years, producing a shared vision that represents major institutional opportunities and identifies key directions and areas of investment."
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A response to Mr. Harris about Mammoth Police Department
I would like to respond to some of the comments made by Jean Harris in his letter that was published in the Oct. 19 issue of the Mammoth Times.
Mr. Harris believes that the Police Department is "bloated" and that crime will not increase if the department loses 46 percent of its officers.
I don't know what his law enforcement expertise is, but my opinion that we are understaffed with 17 sworn officers is shared by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training which just completed a management audit of the Police Department and determined that we should not reduce our size.
Instead, the MLPD should grow to 25 sworn personnel.
My opinion is also shared by Sheriff Rick Scholl, Fire Chief Brent Harper, District Attorney Tim Kendall, Bishop Chief Chris Carter, and former Bishop Chief Kathleen Sheehan—all of whom believe the MLPD should not be reduced in size.
I believe these professionals have the collective wisdom, experience, and expertise to make a reasonable opinion on the level of staffing needed to police a town like Mammoth Lakes.
In answer to Mr. Harris' question about how many towns the size of Mammoth Lakes have their own police department, the answer is that there are many.
There are more than 400 police departments in California, and many of them are the size of Mammoth or smaller.
The nearest police department to Mammoth Lakes is Bishop, which is smaller than the MLPD.
The ski towns of South Lake Tahoe, Truckee, and Mount Shasta all have police departments, too.
The Town of Big Bear Lake, which is the only incorporated town in the Big Bear Valley, contracts with the San Bernardino Sheriff for police service.
In Colorado, the ski resorts of Aspen, Breckenridge, Vail, and Telluride, all of which have smaller populations, have their own police departments.
All of these police departments have more police personnel per capita than Mammoth Lakes with the exception of Truckee, which has slightly fewer.
Mr. Harris is correct that there are also many cities that contract with their local sheriff for law enforcement.
Contracting for law enforcement is a viable option that many cities throughout the state use.
There are 88 incorporated cities in Los Angeles County, and 41 of them contract with the Los Angeles County Sheriff.
At the Town Council meeting Oct. 3, I recommended that the council seek a proposal from Mono County for providing police services to the town.
But it is not as simple as simply "purchasing" the number of officers (deputies) the town wants.
The Sheriff makes the final determination on the minimum number of personnel, including supervision, which must be contracted.
Sheriff Scholl has gone on record as saying the town should not have any fewer law enforcement personnel than it does now.
A contract with the sheriff would reduce some administrative costs and may save the town some money.
We don't know the cost of a contract and I agree with Mr. Harris that this should be examined. That's why I recommended that a proposal be sought so the Town Council would be able to compare any savings against the level of service they would receive.
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Two teens suspected in the fatal shooting of an elderly Canton man made their first appearance in court.
Two teens made their first court appearance Wednesday to face charges stemming from the murder of an elderly man, and police say more arrests are possible in what they described as a home-invasion spree.
The arrested suspects are Japheth J. Thomas, 19, of 533 Clarendon Ave. NW, and Mikal J. Johnson, 18, of 132 Bedford Ave. NW. Both face charges of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary.
Eugene Render, 88, was fatally shot during what police say was a break-in at his home in the 300 block of Montrose Avenue NW.
The home invasion occurred Friday. Police say they discovered Render a day later in the home.
"This appears to be a spree of home invasions perpetrated by these individuals," police Capt. Dave Davis said after the hearing. "We will be charging other individuals with home invasions."
Thomas is suspected in another home invasion in Navarre, investigators said.
"That will be handled by Navarre police and we will be working with them," Davis said. "I think we got five home invasions on him (Thomas)."
Thomas also is facing a grand theft of a motor vehicle charge. That, according to police complaints filed in court, stems from a home invasion in the 1700 block of 23rd Street NW, which also occurred Friday.
During the home invasion at Render's home, police believe the elderly man tried to defend himself by firing a gun, striking Thomas.
"The elderly man shot him," Davis said.
Thomas' wound was not life-threatening and he was treated at a local hospital that evening, according to police. Davis said Thomas told police he was shot while walking along a street.
Police had searched the Montrose Avenue NW neighborhood in response to the shooting but didn't find anything Friday.
"We came and we didn't see anything," Davis said. "The next day (Saturday), the family discovers the victim."
Police then recalled Thomas showing up at a hospital with a bullet wound; they began suspecting a connection to Render's shooting death.
Render, according to Davis, had a gun because there was an attempted break-in at his home earlier that week.
Relatives of Johnson were among those on hand for Wednesday's hearing at Municipal Court.
"I pray for the victim's family and the community," said Andrew Johnson, who is Mikal Johnson's grandfather.
A family gathering for Render will be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday in Schneeberger Funeral Home at 2222 Fulton Rd. NW.
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A man accused of chaining his dog to a tree and allowing the animal to slowly starve to death pleaded guilty to felony animal cruelty charges this week.
Danny Jay Webber, 50, received a suspended sentence of about a year in jail with two and a half years of supervised probation to follow. He will not serve the suspended sentence unless he violates his probation.
He pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals and killing an animal by starvation.
Assistant District Attorney Bill Bozin said as a special condition of his sentence, Webber must serve 120 days in jail.
He also cannot own any animals during those two and a half years.
Webber originally had a plea date in February, but when he showed up to court drunk, he was found in contempt and a new date was scheduled, Bozin said.
Webber cannot own any pets during his probationary period.
Bozin said on Sept. 22, 2012, Cleveland County Animal Control responded to an animal abuse complaint in Shelby.
"They arrived at Mr. Webber�s residence and discovered a deceased pit bull mix," he said. " The dog had clearly been starved based on its emaciated appearance."
Webber confirmed the dog, named Spot, was his, Bozin said.
"Spot was tethered to a tree with a small chain that was looped around his neck as a collar," Bozin said. "A dog bowl was located with what appeared to be rain water and moldy dog food."
He said the dog had been left chained up, dead, for so long maggots were crawling on its head.
Webber surrendered a second dog to the care of Cleveland County Animal Control.
"This kind of depraved treatment of animals is unacceptable," Bozin said. "If an individual cannot take care of an animal, the proper action is to call Animal Control or the Humane Society. Letting a dog starve to death while tethered to a tree on a chain is a felony offense and our office will continue to prosecute offenders to the full extent of the law."
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Slow at points, but as a historical piece that is to be expected. Good acting and great costume/design.
Disappointing. Dench is as always Dench, who has only a limited range of acting. The opener visually shaky. the set designers and costume designers must have fun, though. I found the movie did not get me involved at all.
Story about a wonderful friendship between two very different people. It had a comical and sad moment. I enjoyed this movie. Judy Dench has always been an excellent actress. I will see all her films. She has never fail me.
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On 5th March Residential Land attended the "Who's Cooking Dinner" charity auction at the Four Seasons Hotel at Park Lane in aid of Leuka, a charity raising money to create a better future for patients with leukaemia. "Who's Cooking Dinner" was founded in 1999 by Peter Gordon and Chris Corbin and raises money for treatment and research, specifically for the specialist leukaemia centre at Hammersmith Hospital, one of the world's leading units for haematology.
On the evening, twenty top London chefs including Rainer Becker of Zuma, Tim Hughes of Scotts, Mark Edwards of Nobu and Tong Chee Hwee of Hakkasan came together to cook dinner for 200 diners. There were 20 tables with each chef creating their own four course meal for one table of 10. Each table was served by the restaurants maître d' and wine waiter and after the meal each table had the chance to meet their chef.
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