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The initiative comes just a week after the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg announced plans to ban the sale of large soft drinks at restaurants and fast food outlets in the city.
The Disney proposal would prohibit the advertising of foods and drinks with high calorie, sugar, fat and sodium levels although exact details have yet to be announced.
The changes will hit companies marketing cereals, snacks and fizzy drinks to children.
In addition, Disney plans to reduce the amount of sodium sold in food at its theme parks by 25 per cent.
The Disney Chairman Robert Iger said: "Parents can be confident that foods associated with Disney characters or advertised on Disney platforms meet our new, healthier nutrition guidelines." Mr Iger added that "companies in a position to help with solutions to childhood obesity should do just that." The Disney announcement was endorsed by the first lady, Michelle Obama, who said: "With this new initiative, Disney is doing what no major media company has ever done before in the US and what I hope every company will do going forward."
It will put yet more focus on junk food manufacturers in the US as the country attempts to tackle a rising obesity problem.
But radical attempts to address the issue, such as Mr Bloomberg's announcement last week, have been met with scepticism, with critics saying it should be up to individuals to choose what they eat or drink.
Mr Bloomberg was criticised by McDonald's and Coca Cola, both of whom face a potential loss of income if his proposal to ban the sale of sugary drinks larger than 16 fluid ounces.
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Charlotte, NC - FOX Sports and the World Boxing Council (WBC) have reached a multi-platform agreement that brings the recently created, 24-card "WBC World Cup of Professional Boxing" to the FOX Sports family of networks, beginning Friday, October 18.
The deal grants exclusive broadcast rights in the U.S., where fights air on FOX Sports 1, America's new sports network, FOX Sports 2 and FOX Deportes. Exclusive rights also apply in the Caribbean through FOX Sports 2 and FOX Deportes, while non-exclusive rights apply in the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
The unprecedented elimination-style event brings together champions from across ten related intercontinental federations, plus the Silver and International Belts, in four weight classes: Feather, Light, Welter and Heavy. Broken into an Elimination Phase, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals, the first 20 broadcasts include two main events and have a two-hour window, while the Finals are scheduled for 90 minutes.
Fight nights take place in the U.S. (10), Mexico (10) and four international venues yet to be determined.
"The WBC closes the celebration of its 50th Anniversary with the introduction of the first WBC World Cup of Professional Boxing," said WBC President José Sulaimán. "The participants are champions from the 10 WBC Continental Federations, representing 165 countries affiliated with the WBC, in four traditional weight divisions. The WBC belt has been worn by the world's greatest boxing champions, and the winner of the World Cup of Boxing will earn a WBC world championship title fight. The WBC is very proud of having FOX Sports as our home for this historic event."
In addition to broadcast rights, the deal also covers broad new media options, including live streaming, On-Demand and highlights/clips via the Internet and mobile on FOXSports.com, FOXSportsGO or any other FOX Sports digital platform.
"This is a great opportunity to partner with the WBC on what we expect will be an incredibly competitive series of events," said Joshua Glassel, FOX Sports VP Programming & Acquisitions. "Some of the best fighters from around the globe fighting their way through a 'World Cup' format certainly has the makings for compelling sports television, and FOX Sports is excited to be a part of this ambitious project from the beginning."
WBC World Cup of Boxing on FOX broadcast schedule (tentatively scheduled for Friday nights; subject to change):
Elimination Phase
· 8 fight nights from Oct. 18, 2013 - Dec. 13, 2013
· 8 fight nights from Jan. 10, 2014 - Feb. 28, 2014
· 4 fight nights from March 21, 2014 - April 11, 2014
· 4 fight nights from May 16, 2014 - June 6, 2014
For more information on Fox Sports visit www.foxsports.com or for further details on the WBC World Cup of Boxing go to www.WBC.com.
About FOX Sports
FOX Sports is the umbrella entity representing 21st Century FOX's wide array of multi-platform US-based sports assets. Built with brands capable of reaching more than 100 million viewers in a single weekend, FOX Sports includes ownership and interests in linear television networks, digital and mobile programming, broadband platforms, multiple web sites, joint-venture businesses and several licensing partnerships. FOX Sports includes the sports television arm of the FOX Broadcasting Company; FOX Sports 1; FOX Sports 2; Fox's 22 regional sports networks, their affiliated regional web sites and FSN national programming; FOX Soccer Plus and FOX Soccer 2Go; FOX Deportes and FOX College Sports. In addition, FOX Sports also encompasses FOX Sports Digital, which includes FOXSports.com on MSN, FOX Sports GO, Whatifsports.com, Scout.com and Yardbarker.com. Also included in the Group are FOX's interests in joint-venture businesses Big Ten Network, BTN 2Go and STATS, LLC, as well as licensing agreements that establish the FOX Sports Radio Network.
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Boxing was introduced to the American continent and at the end of the nineteenth century boxing fever began to spread in non-whites countries, especially in those where there was British or American influence, such as Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, South Africa and Spain. In a relatively short time afterwards, Mexico established itself as one of the central places of boxing; the history of Mexican champions began to plant its roots in the sport with some of the finest boxing, as the then President of Mexico, Adolfo López Mateos, decided to create an organization to manage the unification of all world committees to control the spread of the sport called boxing; this is how on February 14, 1963 the World Boxing Council came into existence; initially it was founded by 11 countries: USA, Argentina, England, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, and Brazil. Its main founders were Mexicans Luis Spota and Professor Ramon G. Velasquez, who were presidents of the World Boxing Council, as well as Onslow Fane, of England, and Justiniano Montano, of The Philippines.


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The most common type of chairs are sofa table with chairs. Almost every home has at least a upholstered side chair, and they are mainly found in the living room in linen wingback chair. There are also smaller version that can be found in bedrooms. Some variants of these are wooden chairs with arms, rattan arm chairs, leather slipper chair or antique wingback chair, but they all look pretty similar. The second most common type of reclining chaise lounge chair are small lounge chair. You find them surrounding your dining room table. They are also available in different shapes, sizes, material and designs. You can opt for the backless dining chair, or a eames side chair with a comfortable upholstery.
If you are planning to buy in bulk because you have many employees, it is advisable that you look for retailers, dealers, or companies which give a discount to those who buy in large quantities. Aside from this benefit, there are some who would let you pick the fabric that you prefer and you can have the chair made according to your unique preferences and specifications. Make sure that they offer a good warranty in office furniture chairs.


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Think globally and you'll be able to save a bundle on the new OS
Whenever there's a new operating system — heck, whenever there's a new anything — my first thought is always, what'll it cost me? And how can I get the best deal? So I shopped around a little for some Windows 7 deals, and lemme tell ya, there's quite a few out there.
In addition to the $150 pirated version from eBay the GCN Lab has been following here, I found a bootleg version in Shanghai that sells for 20 Yuan — less than three dollars. And now, even a legit copy of Windows 7 Home Basic in China will sell for 399 Yuan, around $58. I just need to brush up my Mandarin a little and I'm so there.
Keeping with the Asian theme, our friends in India can get a copy of the home version for 5,899 rupees ,or about $126, or 11,799 rupees for the Ultimate version, about $254.
Or if I had gone undercover and given a Windows 7 launch party, like the plucky folks at PC Pro did, I could have won a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, valued at $319. But this copy was signed by Steve Ballmer, which made it, as they say in the credit card commercials, priceless. But no, I had to go and mock the launch parties, so no free signed copies for me.
Bargain hunter that I am, I'll most likely wait to buy a new laptop that comes loaded with Windows 7. The wait won't be too long, because I've squeezed every viable second out of what's left of the Compaq Presario I use for telecommuting. So now I'll have to span the globe looking for a cheap, sturdy laptop. I'll wear out my passport if I have to; I just won't pay full price.
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The W7 Home Premiem 3-User Family Pack is definately the most cost effective deal. Appears to be no discounting though below that price. Most retailers and internet sellers now show it as sold out, so just get it from microsoft web store (they change sales tax though, so add about 9% or whatever your state tags you for.). So about $55 a hit, not too bad overall.
I got a 3 license version from Sams Club for around $150 for 7 Home Premium.
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Gerard Butler & Jessica Biel: 'Playing for Keeps' Premiere!
Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel glam up for the premiere of their new flick Playing for Keeps on Wednesday (December 5) at the Lincoln Center Cinema in New York City.
The 43-year-old actor and the 30-year-old actress were joined by their co-stars Uma Thurman and Noah Lomax at the event.
Playing for Keeps, about a former sports star who's fallen on hard times and starts coaching his son's soccer team as a way to get his life together, hits theaters this Friday.
Also pictured: Gerard walking around the Big Apple earlier in the day to grab a cup of coffee.
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If these individual remedies are not available or if you cannot find the best one to fit your symptoms, there are now numerous "homeopathic formula products" readily available in health food stores. These natural remedies are extremely easy to us and work wonderfully well.
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I have been holding off on writing about the Sabres for a while now but feel it's time for me to say a few things about the last couple of months. I'm not going to write about who I think needs to be fired, what kind of players we are lacking, who needs to be traded, or who we need on our team. There are plenty of sites that have already covered that in great detail and each one has a different idea. What I want to write about is how I feel as a fan of this team and to remind myself of why I became a Sabres fan in the first place. You don't have to agree with me. I'm sure most people won't. But it's my blog and my opinion… take it or leave it I guess.
I may not have been a fan as long as most Sabres fans (I came on board around 1996 in the Dominik Hašek days) but I grew in Montana where even though it's cold enough to freeze your nostrils shut in the winter, surprisingly, hockey is not a huge sport. When my brother received a full ride to Boston University I discovered hockey and a fan was born.
I am a loyal fan of the Buffalo Sabres, win or lose. Yes I feel like crap when they lose but I'm also on a high when they play hard for 60 minutes, everything clicks, and they get the win. I know these men want to win just as much as we want to see them win. They make major sacrifices to play this game for our entertainment. We don't see the hours they spend at practice, the gym, the doctor, the dentist, and physical therapy. We never have to see what goes on after the game when they go home to their families or empty apartment. We expect them to play at the top of their game every night and if they go through a stretch of low production we say their time is up, their game is over, time to move on, trade em'. I've never been that kind of fan.
I'll admit though that this season it has been tough for me not to be that kind of fan. I did find myself after a few games tweeting, "#DoSomethingDarcy or #DoSomethingTerry". Then I snapped out of it and remembered the things I mentioned above. I'm not saying that the people who feel that way are wrong. In fact, they may be right but it's not my call. I didn't elect the men on this team or Terry, Ted, and Darcy. I know there is the argument that they wouldn't have a job if it was not for us fans therefore we have a say in what happens to our team but I don't feel that way. I admire Terry for all he has done to make the organization better in the last year. I have participated in live chats with Ted Black and had my questions answered. And if you have followed my blog you know all I did was ask Kevin Sylvester if I could interview him and he said yes. How did I ask him?.... On Twitter. So I'm proud of what they are doing to keep the fans involved and the way they are embracing social media. That doesn't mean they have to do what we say. In the end it's their call and as a fan I stand by that call.
Last year I remember after a loss I would see posts on the Sabres' facebook page that said we should trade Miller or other players. Then we would get the win and those same people would sing Miller's praise and what a kick-ass goalie we had. The same thing is happening this year, minus the praising of players for the most part. I guess it is just the way I am but I stand by my team. I want them to win for THEM not for me. When they play a shitty game and everything goes wrong I know they are not proud of the way they played. So do they need me to bitch about it and say what a shitty team they are? I don't know? Maybe that works for some players but I don't think it's productive.
For some reason we think that these players are no longer regular people when they play professional sports. They are paid these huge salaries and we expect them to play at top level until they retire. They are gifted athletes that play a sport for our entertainment. They have careers that for most won't last past the age of 40 and play a sport that causes injuries they will still feel until their 90's. So I don't buy in to the argument that they don't deserve the money if they are having an off season. The things they put their bodies through and the sacrifices they make to their safety and long term health deserve that paycheck. Not to mention they only have that kind of salary while they play the game and for most that is not a huge amount of time. They could have an injury that takes them out of the game permanently tomorrow or play for the next 10 years and have an amazing career. That is what is on the line for them and their families every time they step on the ice. And if you think that's not enough don't forget those fluke accidents that happen on the ice like what happened to Travis Roy and recently Jack Jablonski who are now both paralyzed from hockey injuries. And we all remember Clint Malarchuk and Richard Zednik who could have died from having their neck sliced open from a skate blade. Even this season Nathan Gerbe took a skate to the face. Had he been a few inches taller that blade could have hit his throat. These dangers are there every game for these guys.
So, am I happy with the way this season is going? No, of course not, but I'm not mad. I know this happens some seasons and there is nothing you can do as a fan (trust me, I'm also a Red Sox fan but that's another story). All I can do is continue to cheer for my team every game and be proud to be a Sabres fan. Yes, I said it, I am PROUD to be a Sabres fan! I'm proud to have the owner we have, all the staff that works so hard for this team, and of those guys on the ice that play the game I love. So if they start winning every game and they turn this season around I will be there screaming at my T.V. in the playoffs. But, if they just can't get things going this season I will still be screaming at my T.V. on their last game of the regular season when they leave the ice. This is my team!
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A new study adds to evidence that bone drugs may play a role in suppressing cancer development, although there is still no proof that taking the medications would stave off malignancies.
The drugs, called bisphosphonates, have generated both good and bad headlines recently. Some work has linked them to fewer cases of cancer, while other research has found an increased risk of certain thigh fractures and serious jaw problems among women who take the drugs to treat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
Bone drugs on the market include Merck's Fosamax, Roche's Boniva, Novartis's Reclast and Warner Chilcott's Actonel.
In the new study, researchers found that women on Actonel were only half as likely to be diagnosed with colon cancer as those who'd gotten just one prescription for the drug or none at all.
"At this point, I think people who are already taking the drug can be reassured," Dr. Harminder Singh, who worked on the study, told Reuters Health.
But he added that it's too soon to think about taking Actonel to prevent cancer.
"For people to start taking it, there are a few other things that need to be worked out, the cost and the side effects," said Singh, of the University of Manitoba in Canada.
According to the American Cancer Society, one in 19 men develops colorectal cancer at some point, and slightly fewer women do. The disease is the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S.
An Israeli study published earlier this year found a link between bisphosphonates and a lower risk of colon cancer among women, but it wasn't clear how to explain that result. It could be that the drugs have protective effects, or it could be that women taking them are healthier overall.
In contrast to the Israeli work, Singh's study, which is published in the journal Cancer, takes into account how often people see their doctors, one factor that might muddy any differences found between those who take bone drugs and those who don't.
The research team tapped into data from a cancer registry in Manitoba, comparing colon cancer patients to people without the disease, but of the same age and sex.
About 1.1 percent (264) of the nearly 25,000 women in the comparison group had been given Actonel by their doctor, while only 0.6 percent (15) of 2,493 women with colon cancer had gotten the drug.
One way to interpret those findings is to chalk the difference up to a protective effect of Actonel. Indeed, women on that medication had 45 percent lower odds of having colon cancer than those who didn't take it.
But with a study design where you only observe patients, you can't ever be certain why some fare better than others, Singh cautioned.
"The ultimate proof of these agents would be a randomized controlled trial," he explained.
What's more, the researchers didn't have enough data to see if the findings would hold up for men, and they didn't find any reliable effects for the other bone drugs.
Even if Actonel did afford some protection against tumors, it's not cheap and its long-term side effects are not well known. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is currently reviewing evidence suggesting bone drugs might raise the risk of esophageal cancer.
A month's supply of Actonel generally costs over $100.
So far, quitting smoking is one of the only things that experts agree will lower the risk of cancer.
For colon cancer in particular, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a federally supported expert panel, advises screening all people between 50 and 75 using stool tests, sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy.


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A Year with Maxwell: 10 Most Popular Daily Finds
Every weekday Maxwell brings you a new Daily Find - the stuff he comes across that he likes for himself and would recommend to a client. Of the 200+ finds that Maxwell posted in 2012, some were more popular with readers than others. These, in no particular order, are the top 10 most clicked Daily Finds for the year…
• Min Bed by Luciano Bertoncini
• African Iringa Baskets
• LL Bean's Braided Wool Rug
• Felt Indoor Shoes by Glerups
• LYON Industrial Stools
• Birdtree Wallpaper by Neisha Crosland
• Eileen Fisher Washed Linen Bedding
• Bensimon House Shoes in Rose
• Bracken Ridge Rug 30
• Diane von Furstenberg "Floral Batik" Bedding
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As Black Friday bleeds further into Thanksgiving, Rob Woods has reason to be concerned. Not for the moral reasons of what it does to family dinners, or the degradation of the holiday.
As Black Friday bleeds further into Thanksgiving, Rob Woods has reason to be concerned.
Not for the moral reasons of what it does to family dinners, or the degradation of the holiday.
It's strictly business for Woods, director of marketing at blackfriday.com, one of the leading Black Friday websites on the Internet.
If Black Friday completely disappears, his website might, too.
"It's a little bit worrying," he said, laughing. "It's going to be really interesting to see how people respond to the earlier hours this year."
Black Friday has been a post-Thanksgiving tradition for decades, but this year, it's an actual Thanksgiving tradition.
Many of the big-box retail stores that have helped make Black Friday what it is are now opening just as the final dish is being cleared from the table.
Wal-Mart, Sears and Kmart lead the way, opening at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving.
Target opens at 9 p.m., and many stores in The Crossings Premium Outlets in Tannersville open at 9 p.m.
Best Buy, Bon-Ton, Kohl's and many stores at Stroud Mall open at midnight.
Woods said his site's Facebook page has been flooded with comments from annoyed consumers that Black Friday is starting too early.
"This year is really extreme," Woods said of the opening times. "You're really forcing people to choose whether they'll do Thanksgiving dinner or whether they'll go shopping. Thanksgiving is a special holiday, but for many people, Black Friday is a special event as well, and some people don't want to give that up."
Complaints aren't limited to consumers.
Retail employees are filing online petitions protesting the early openings, and employee group Organization United for Respect at Wal-Mart is asking on its website for Wal-Mart employees to sign a pledge not to work Black Friday.
Bill Epstein, director of communications for the regional office of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union, said his group is planning a protest at the East Stroudsburg Wal-Mart store from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday.
Joe Skorupa, editor-in-chief at Retail Info System News, a retail technology media company based in Randolph, N.J., said sales figures during the Christmas season — and Black Friday — are too important to stores to see any let-up in the buying power around it.
Sales from that five-week stretch account for about a quarter of all retails sales each year, he said.
"However (stores) can jump-start it, they're going to feel better about it," he said.
Black Friday competition started to heat up with discounts, but now it's who will get customers into their stores first.
Sanjeev Jain, founder of theblackfriday.com, said the thought is that if you get the customer into your store first, you get to reap the rewards.
"After spending time, effort and money at the first store, the customer may not be motivated to go to other stores, and they may have spent their budget money," Jain said. "Or they are just too tired to go to another place. Stores do not want to be the second, third or later choice of the consumer."
And if the early hours make you angry, it's not as if stores did this on a whim.
It was only a few years ago that one or two stores offered early-morning deals on Black Friday.
Now, it's almost required because shoppers kept showing up.
"It wouldn't shock me if stores started staying open all day on Thanksgiving," said Jesse Tron, spokesman for New York city-based International Council of Shopping Centers.
"This is from consumer demand. The consumer has showed they've wanted it. There certainly are going to be people who stay away, but those people probably already stay away. When the consumers ask for it, stores are going to find a way to give it to them."


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Dell details plans for 'remixed' software strategy
Lots of hardware, software, service mash-ups
Dell has provided more details of its reinvigorated software strategy on Thursday, coming in the wake of its $2.4bn acquisition of Quest Software.
"This is a very interesting time to be thinking about going into the software business. There's more disruptive stuff going on than I can ever remember," said John Swainson, president of Dell's new software group, during a roundtable discussion in San Francisco.
Swainson is a veteran IBM exec who served as chief executive of CA from 2005 to 2009, after the departure of its disgraced former CEO, Sanjay Kumar. He was brought on to head Dell's software division in February.
Broadly, Swainson said, Dell's software business will be organized into four silos, including security, business intelligence, systems management, and applications.
Although the Quest acquisition has not completed yet and Dell is still trying to understand Quest's diverse software portfolio, Swainson said Dell is counting on its Quest properties to form the foundation of its software strategy. Along with Quest's portfolio, Dell's new software unit brings together products from a number of other recent Dell acquisitions, including AppAssure, Boomi, Kace Networks, Scalent, SecureWorks, SonicWall, and Wyse.
Swainson said to expect Dell to buy up more software companies, too, although he thinks another Quest-sized acquisition would be unlikely in the near term.
Swainson's mission is not to launch a standalone software business within Dell, but to build a software unit that can complement and augment Dell's existing products and services.
"Today, most of our customers buy PCs from us," Swainson said. "Some of them buy servers. And everything else trails off pretty quickly after that. In a perfect world, what we'd like to say is that most of our customers buy a broad range of products from Dell, including hardware, software, and services."
For now, however, Dell is shying away from enterprise customers, most of whom already have engagements with the big, established business software players. Instead, Swainson sees a sweet spot for Dell Software in what he calls "midmarket" customers – companies that have between 250 and 2,000 employees – a market that he says has been historically underserved.
Swainson admits, however, that by pursuing these customers, Dell will still inevitably clash with well-entrenched rivals, some of whom are long-standing Dell partners.
"We're not going to go pick fights with SAP and Oracle," Swainson said. "It doesn't mean we're not going to compete."
Swainson said Dell's software strategy is still developing, and that it plans to take different approaches for different products. It might try to grow some categories in the developing world first, for example, before trying its hand in the US market. It won't happen all at once, and it won't happen overnight.
"We're remixing Dell," Swainson said. "IBM took 20 years to remix a business that was hardware centered to one that was services and software centered. It's going to take at least five years – and probably longer than that – to complete this journey." ®


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Lawyers for a Chinese immigrant whose premature baby died after she tried to kill herself by eating rat poison are asking an Indianapolis judge to bar autopsy photographs from her murder trial, saying the pictures are overly gory and likely to prejudice jurors.
Bei Bei Shuai's attorneys said in documents filed Friday in Marion County Court that a medical examiner from Delaware who reviewed the photographs called them "appallingly unprofessional."
"Photos of dead infants are by nature inflammatory and prejudicial," defense attorneys wrote in one of several motions filed.
A spokeswoman for Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry had no comment Saturday.
Shuai was hospitalized after she attempted suicide by eating rat poison on Dec. 23, 2010, when she was eight months pregnant. Doctors delivered her daughter, Angel Shuai, on Dec. 31 and the infant died three days later.
Prosecutors arrested Bei Bei Shuai on charges of murder and feticide in March 2011, saying a note she left to her former boyfriend proved that Shuai intended to kill her baby when she ate the rat poison.
But Judge Sheila Carlisle ruled in January that the doctor who determined the poison caused the baby's death hadn't considered other possible causes, including a drug administered to Shuai while she was in the hospital. That effectively deprived prosecutors of the cause of death on which their case rested.
Prosecutors said earlier this week they wouldn't appeal Carlisle's ruling, and their next step was unclear.
Shuai's lawyers said in their motion to bar the autopsy photographs that the pictures didn't prove anything because they didn't show any evidence of effects from the poison. Instead, they unnecessarily depicted the infant's body in various "gruesome" stages of dissection, the documents said.
Delaware Chief State Medical Examiner Richard Callery advised Shuai's attorneys that some of the photographs were unprofessional and inflammatory, the documents said.
Shuai's lawyers also renewed their call for the judge to dismiss the murder charges, saying that she had only intended to commit suicide, which is not illegal in Indiana. They also said that the fetal murder law under which Shuai was charged was intended to protect pregnant women from attack, not to protect fetuses from their mothers.
The case in Indiana has drawn international attention from medical groups and reproductive rights advocates who claim it could set a precedent by which pregnant women could be prosecuted for smoking or other behavior that authorities deem dangerous to an unborn child. Dozens of organizations have filed friend-of-the-court briefs on behalf of Shuai.
Shuai was released on bond last May. Her trial is currently set for April 22.


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Bodianus diplotaenia
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Bodianus diplotaenia (Gill, 1862)
Common Name(s):
Harpe diplotaenia Gill, 1862
|Taxonomic Notes:
|For taxonomic treatment see Gomon (2006).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Allen, G., Rivera, F., Edgar, G. & Zapata, F.
|Robertson, R., Liu, M., Sadovy, Y. & Craig, M.
This species is widespread in the Eastern Pacific, and common throughout most of its range. There are no known major threats to this species, and no current indication of population decline. It is listed as Least Concern.
|Range Description:
|This species is endemic to the Eastern Pacific, and is found from central Baja California and the Gulf of California to northern Chile, including all the offshore islands of Clarion, the Revillagigedos, Clipperton, Isla de Cocos and the Galapagos. It is also recorded from the northern tip of Chile between Arica and Iquique.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – southeast
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|This species is considered to be abundant throughout much of its range.
This fish was studied in Gulf of Papagayo, Costa Rica (Dominici-Arosemena et al. 2005) with an density of 0.03±0.03 ind./ m2. At Gulf Dulce, Costa Rica, a mean density of 0.005±0.015 ind./ m2 was recorded, with a relative abundance of 0.131% (Figueroa, 2001). Within a five-site-study survey, at Catalinas Islands, this fish was observed 51 times in all sites (Espinoza and Salas, 2005). In Isla Gorgona, Rubio (1986) showed that this species is frequent in rocky and coralline substrates and occassionally found on sandy substrates. In a survey at Gorgona Island coral reefs, Colombia (Zapata and Morales, 1997), a mean density of 0.158 ind./10 m2 and a frequency of observation of 41.2% was registered. This species was studied in different sites at Galapagos archipelago, with an overall mean abundance of 18.4 ind./500 m2 (Edgar et al. 2004).
According to Aburto-Oropeza and Balart (2001), B. diplotaenia is a dominant species at Los Islotes, Gulf of California, with an occurrence frequency higher than 80%. In Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, this fish was considered common, with a relative abundance between 1-5%, and a relative frequency higher than 75% (Villarreal-Cavazos et al. 2000). In Bahía de Navidad, Jalisco, still in México, this fish was captured 4 times within 12 (one each month) field trips throughout a year (Rojo-Vázquez et al. 2001)
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This reef-associated species inhabits rocky or coral areas to depths of 75m. It is sometimes also found on sandy substrate and where marine plants abound (Gomon, 1995). At Gulf of Chiriqui, this fish could be found in all types of substrata, except sand and rubble (Dominici-Arosemena and Wolff, 2006). This species can also occasionally be found in estuaries and coastal lagoons along the tropical eastern Pacific coast (Cooke, 1992).
This species is solitary or may form aggregations of only a few individuals. It feeds on crabs, brittle stars, mollusks, and sea urchins (Gomon, 1995). At night, this species agglomerates in cracks and crevices of rocks and caves to sleep (Gomon, 1995). It starts life as a female, later becoming a functional male. Males defend temporary reproductive territories called leks. Sex change may be due to local social conditions, but it may also have a genetic component, since the reversal occurs over a limited size range (Grove and Lavenberg, 1997).
|Use and Trade:
|Juveniles are collected for the aquarium trade.
|Major Threat(s):
|There are no major threats known for this species. According to Dominici-Arosemena et al. (2005), this is a important aquarium fish in Gulf of Papagayo, Costa Rica, but such localized collecting of juveniles is unlkely to affect population.
|Conservation Actions:
|There are no known conservation measures for this species. However, this species distribution falls partially into a number of Marine Protected Areas in the Eastern Pacific region (WDPA 2006).
|Allen, G., Rivera, F., Edgar, G. & Zapata, F. 2010. Bodianus diplotaenia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T183624A8146693. . Downloaded on 20 September 2018.
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Corporate cafeterias, subsidized or gratis, have become a standard perk in the Bay Area, and behind the scenes, food service titans duke it out for catering contracts. Giant multinational conglomerates dominate the world of food service management – locally grown Bon Appétit, known for its presence on Stanford and Google's campuses, was acquired years ago by Compass Group, one of the largest food service contractors in the world.
But hidden away in a second-story office on Los Altos' Main Street, a local challenger has been quietly setting up cafes across the greater Bay Area.
Los Altos resident Mary Clark Bartlett's Epicurean Group operates 35 facilities and employs approximately 400 chefs and other workers. After 10 years in operation, it has expanded its sustainable foods ethos to corporate cafeterias, school campuses and museum cafes.
Bartlett and her partners built the company as a test case for environmental and socially responsible management practices – how big can you scale while making food from scratch, with responsibly raised meat and an emphasis on organic produce? Each of their facilities maintains a kitchen garden, and in addition to developing a food plan for new clients, they delve into waste management, figuring out how to implement composting and reduce solid waste.
Capitalizing on local
Bartlett fell in love with the culinary world while studying in a hospitality program and got her start in corporate dining in Southern California, opening restaurants for a large company and then becoming director of nutrition for a hospital in Santa Barbara.
"We put a hotel service in a hospital because I didn't know how to do hospital food," she said. "We were batch cooking for the tray line. Cooks who didn't want to learn how to use a knife left."
Batch cooking – preparing food by hand just before serving it – provides an alternative catering model to the industrial food prep based on the "defrost and warm" method.
Moving up to the Bay Area to work for then-independent Bon Appétit, feeding thousands for Stanford's commencement each year and customizing programs across campus, Bartlett got a taste for what a local company could achieve in the corporate food market. When Compass Group purchased Bon Appétit in 2003, Bartlett left to found the Epicurean Group with her partners Rey Hernandez and Marvin Rodriguez.
"We live in the mecca of food, why wouldn't we capitalize on local?" she asked.
And as Bartlett pointed out, sustainable values don't always come at a great cost.
"We develop our menu seasonally around fresh food – when food is in season, it's plentiful. When there's plenty of supply, the price is right," she said.
The group operates institutional eateries from Napa to Watsonville to Sacramento, at places like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Fairchild Semiconductor. The group's chefs and managers confer with each client to determine how to craft a "green" meal plan suited to each program's tastes and budget.
Some standards the company won't compromise on, regardless of cost. For instance, they only buy seafood that passes muster with the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch guidelines, which tracks which fish can be responsibly caught or farmed.
"We would not go below those sustainability standards. If we're going to do a hamburger, it's grass fed," Bartlett said. "People want honest food. People here are educated – they want to know where their food comes from.
"That hamburger is going to cost us 20 cents more, but so what? We know that the hamburger is grass fed. We grind our own meat, scoop it out and hand-form patties on the grill."
Promoting sustainability
The group has also worked to build savings into their practices. Epicurean Group established a cooperative buying group, the GreenTown Co-op, three years ago for Los Altos businesses to team up to buy compostable products, replacing Styrofoam containers and plastic cutlery with a bulk discount – primarily underpinned by the Epicurean Group. Chef Chu's and Los Altos High School number among the co-op's participants.
"This is the way we give back to the community," Bartlett said.
Working out the economic benefits of reducing solid-waste and renegotiating trash contracts to include composting provides a teachable moment for educational institutions and individual corporate clients experiencing a new way to eat.
"People will say, 'I can't afford all organic.' We'll pick and choose – if you're going to eat the skin, definitely buy organic. That's like putting a deposit in the bank for the future," Bartlett said.
For more information, visit epicurean-group.com.


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TimeGarden is Free for celebrating our new game release--Robo5!
Please check out
Youtube: http://youtu.be/SMP9qZPbA0A
Appstore: http://itunes.apple.com/app/robo5/id449821470?ls=1&mt=8
Website(online Demo): http://www.robo-5.com
An excellent fantastic Action Puzzle game that you don't want to miss ---《Time Garden》 now is launched in Apple Store
Spend your time in the mystery garden with little girl "Lulu"and help her conquer those amazing challenges with your brilliant intelligence
Please check play video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4q1XTtZ7yE
You can line up blossom flowers to collect them, try to get the coin and defeat Time monster to achieve the mission goals. The game will give you an exciting and joyful experience.
Start your secret journal in the mystery garden today and enjoy the fun!
Creative and unique ideas about the game for story mode:
- Different flower patterns: Seven beautiful types of time flower for you to discover.
- Flower growth system: Seed Period, Bloom Period and Fade Period.
- Acceleration: Help your flower to grower faster through double clicks on a flower
- Time monster: Use your own wisdom and tacticto defeat those Time monsters and their BOSS!
- Assisted Items: Need some help in the game process? We offer you a set of useful items to help you finish missions easily.
- Multiple endings: Whether the little girl can escape from the Time garden? It depend on your effort!
- Collection of parts of Time machines: Collect parts and then fix the time machine to see the true ending and open more game mode
Substantial Challenge: 31 normal levels and 31 advanced levels are waiting for you to conquer .
The game also offers you three extra challenge modes:
1. Level-up mode. The default mode. Finsh different levels steps by steps. The difficulty of the game will increase when you finish more and more levels.
3. 5+1 mode. Try to finish the mini level within 5 seconds.Your Observation and response capacity will be challanged.
2. Infinite mode. No time constrants ,forget pressures. Just enjoy the pure fun of game.
-Supports iPad,iPad2, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3rd generation and later devices. For the best experience, play on iPad,iPad2, iPhone 4, iPod touch 4th generation or later devices.
-Runs on iOS 4.0 or later.Fix the bug on iPad 2 wifi version.(The game cannot display correclty in full screen)


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CheckIssuing API
CheckIssuing is a high-volume check writing organization that aims to facilitate the payment process. Some of the services include monthly statements, customized checks, and dedicated account representatives. To focus on the solution, CheckIssuing offers aggressive volume-based pricing, security envelopes, and API integration. The CheckIssuing API allows to securely import data directly into the company's systems to process payments. To use the API, it is suggested to create an account. After receiving an API key, the documents will serve as a guide to begin with the implementation. This API can be particularly useful to access account balances, submit new deposits, and submit new payment requests.


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All out of context, all the time
The Republican National Committee is excitedly sending around this clip today, showing 17 seconds of a speech President Obama delivered to supporters in Oakland on Tuesday. Some of the RNC's media allies are already on board with the attack.
For those who can't watch clips online, the clip shows Obama saying, "Just like we've tried their plan, we tried our plan – and it worked. That's the difference. That's the choice in this election. That's why I'm running for a second term."
The idea, apparently, is for voters to recoil at the notion that the president believes his economic plan has "worked." I appear to be in the minority, but I happen to think this is true – the economy that was hemorrhaging jobs is now adding jobs; the economy that was shrinking is now growing; the stock market that was headed into a death spiral is now headed up; an auto industry that was on the verge of collapse is now thriving, etc.
That said, it's obviously a contentious point, and the economy is not yet close to where it needs to be. But as Dave Weigel noted, the significance of the RNC's gambit isn't a debate over the efficacy of Obama's policies, but rather, the Republicans' bad habit of wrenching quotes from context.
In this case, here's what the president actually said: "I'll cut out government spending that's not working, that we can't afford, but I'm also going to ask anybody making over $250,000 a year to go back to the tax rates they were paying under Bill Clinton, back when our economy created 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history and everybody did well. Just like we've tried their plan, we tried our plan – and it worked. That's the difference. That's the choice in this election. That's why I'm running for a second term."
He was comparing tax policies – Clinton-era tax rates vs. Bush-era tax rates. The RNC simply omitted the part of the quote that makes clear what the president was talking about. Weigel accurately calls this "insanely misleading."
That's true, but let's also not lose sight of the larger pattern.
As we discussed last week, at this point in the race, Republicans aren't just occasionally taking Obama quotes out of context; they're actually building their entire 2012 campaign strategy around sentiments the president didn't actually say. I've honestly never seen anything like it.
Let's start a running count:
1. The Romney campaign took Obama out of context in its very first television ad of the race.
2. When the president told business leaders that U.S. policymakers have been "a little bit lazy" when it comes to attracting businesses to American soil, Republicans took that out of context and launched a series of attacks.
3. When Obama said private-sector job growth is "fine" relative to the public sector, Republicans took that out of context, too.
4. Obama said public institutions help businesses succeed, and Republicans continue to take that out of context.
And 5. Obama said Clinton's tax policies were better than Bush's, which the RNC is taking out of context.
Remember, in theory, none of this should be necessary. If the president were the radical leftist his attackers make him out to be, Republicans wouldn't have to resort to cheap garbage like this. They'd be able to use real Obama quotes and real Obama policies.
Instead, we're left with ridiculous tactics that treat voters like idiots.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Every election year, they become the popular ones, the celebrities with the power to hire or fire politicians. Then, when actual governing begins, they become the forgotten ones — jilted wallflowers watching as the leaders they elected are devoured into a political system dominated by extremes.
These middle-of-the-road American voters feel betrayed, and many grow cynical. Why, they wonder, did they bother to cast ballots at all?
It's always a dramatic fall for the ideological center of the country, independents and moderates in swing-voting states and regions that hold outsized sway in determining the balance of power in Washington. One minute, every candidate promises to represent your interests. The next, freshly elected lawmakers carry the water of their parties' far wings and ignore the wishes of everybody else.
Now, after Republicans and Democrats alike reluctantly shunned their core supporters and reached a bipartisan compromise to avert a fiscal crisis, there's a reasonable question to ask: Did American lawmakers actually — for a moment, at least — listen to the regular Joes and Janes pleading for a gridlocked Washington to get something, anything, done?
Nobody on the spectrum's far ends was truly happy with the "fiscal cliff" accord. Conservatives were apoplectic that Republicans agreed to tax increases on the wealthiest Americans. Liberals complained that President Barack Obama gave in on too much. It was an ugly fight. But, in an often deadlocked capital, the result was attractive: significantly bipartisan votes in both chambers of Congress on a hard-fought and important matter. In modern Washington, that's become almost extinct.
In the end, our political leaders sided not with their party's most passionate backers but with everyone else. The ones who are anything but hard-core partisans. The ones whose voices are usually drowned out by the extremes that drive political discourse. The ones who are desperate for Republicans and Democrats to come together to tackle at least some of our problems.
It's these voters who played a pivotal role in giving Obama a second term while leaving Republicans in power in the House and Obama's fellow Democrats in control of the Senate. These voters chose to keep the same people in charge at a challenging time. These voters overlooked their lack of faith in hyper-partisan Washington ever getting its act together. And these voters sent this crop of leaders back to the capital with an urgent directive: "Work it out!"
Post-election polling seems to concur. One survey from McClatchy/Marist found that a whopping 74 percent of adults thought it was more important for government officials to "compromise to find solutions," rather than "stand on principle even if it means gridlock." Just 21 percent preferred sticking to principles. While Democrats were most strongly in favor of compromise (83 percent), majorities of independents (77 percent) and Republicans (63 percent) agreed.
Within hours of the election, Obama and House Speaker John Boehner — the highest-ranking elected officials in their respective parties — each suggested they got the message, separately signaling a desire to seek bipartisan compromises to fix the nation's ills, starting with our fiscal health. But that was quickly forgotten, and the typical politicking was back.
The legislative debate was initially driven by the bases of the Republican and Democratic parties demanding that any deal to avert the so-called "fiscal cliff" include elements purely in line with their core principles. Weeks of stalemate ensued. But ultimately, after an especially nasty and personal negotiation period, those in positions of power in the White House and Congress chose problem solving for all, rather than party orthodoxy for some.
Compromise is a part of this nation's fabric, as much so as the divisiveness that makes it necessary. From its start, America has seen pragmatic periods with people with dissenting viewpoints coming together to find workable solutions. As recently as the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, the Republican president, and Tip O'Neill, the Democratic House speaker, showed how deals can get done across the aisle. And in 1990, President George H.W. Bush compromised with himself and agreed to the Democratic majority's demands to raise taxes. In doing so, he violated his "read my lips" pledge as a way to reduce the national deficit.
Yet, lately, Washington has become a town of no compromise in a country that wants it.
Republicans and Democrats alike have allowed themselves to be held hostage by their loudest backers, the ones who help them get re-elected. Gerrymandering has exacerbated the problem, with lawmakers redrawing congressional lines to make House districts Republican and Democratic bastions. That gives lawmakers little reason to deviate from the party line.
In this environment, reaching across the aisle sometimes has become a fatal act. Republicans, specifically, have been targeting their own in primaries, casting anyone with a history of working with Democrats as not sufficiently conservative.
To suggest that we're entering a new era of feel-good compromise governing is, of course, overstating things. And "grand bargains" of the sort Obama and Boehner had initially sought may not happen anytime soon. After all, it takes time for a political system to transition out of an age as toxic as this.
Yet, to the voters in the middle, there's reason to see hope in the "fiscal cliff" deal. It suggests that a divided government can actually accomplish something — and that lawmakers are starting to realize they actually have to listen to the people who elected them, even when Election Day isn't around the corner.
Exhibit A: Paul Ryan, a Republican congressman from Wisconsin and the GOP's 2012 vice presidential nominee, who voted for the deal that most of his House GOP colleagues and the tea party opposed. "The American people chose divided government. As elected officials, we have a duty to apply our principles to the realities of governing," Ryan said.
Obama, too, suggested the average voter won out: "While neither Democrats nor Republicans got everything they wanted, this agreement is the right thing to do for our country."
But, as he faces the reality of a GOP-led House and a long second-term to-do list, Obama also made clear that his stomach for compromise only goes so far. Boehner signaled he was done privately negotiating with the president, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell suggested the GOP would stand firm on its demand for spending cuts during the next fiscal debate, this one over raising the nation's debt ceiling.
That issue is among the many coming up that are likely to require bipartisan solutions: guns, immigration, Social Security, Medicare and the tax code.
How much each side is willing to give on them will determine whether the fiscal agreement is kindling a new season of compromise, and whether independents, moderates and other voters in the center will continue to influence lawmakers when they're actually governing, not just when they campaign.
For these voters, the "fiscal cliff" deal was a first step toward what they expect from their government — cooperation that begins when negotiations start and doesn't end as the latest one did, with a frantic deal to avert catastrophe struck by a handful of resentful partisans in the dead of a contentious Washington night.
EDITOR'S NOTE — Liz Sidoti is the national politics editor for The Associated Press.


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A snowstorm that rocked the East Coast in 2010 may have served as the starting gun of the track and field officiating career of Gothenburg's Ali Clark.
With the troublesome weather, some officials were unable to travel to a USA Indoor Championship meet in Albuquerque, NM. Ali's father, Jim Clark, was already planning on working the event, and a day out of school was the only enticement the then high school senior needed to join.
"Honestly, I didn't even know what I was getting into," Clark said. "My dad just said 'We're skipping school,' and when he said we're missing school, I said 'I'm in.' "
She was put to use, checking in athletes and was able to experience a meet from a different perspective. The most beneficial moment of her first event as a worker was an introduction she hardly remembers.
Dennis Olafson is a key cog in the Eugene, OR, track and field machine. He owns more than 40 years of experience and has been a staple at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field for decades.
Unfortunately for Track Town, USA, his career is nearing the finish line. In 2012 he stepped down from two administrative positions so he could spend more time actually officiating.
"The reason that track has gone there (Eugene) is because of this gentleman, Dennis Olafson" Jim Clark said. "He's the brains behind it all."
With the end of his days as a track official approaching, Olafson decided it was time to pass down some of his valuable knowledge.
Olafson had never welcomed an understudy, but by November of 2013, the time had come. He ran into Jim Clark at a convention and remembered his daughter from the meet in Albuquerque, although Ali could not say the same. Olafson asked Clark if he thought his daughter might like to do an apprenticeship. Without consulting his daughter, Clark accepted on her behalf.
"He didn't ask me. He basically told me," Ali said.
"I pretty much told Ali she would be doing this," her father admitted. "The reason is that this is a very special deal.
By Jim Clark's estimate, most high-level track officials are men in their late 60s. Olafson wants to make sure the next round is ready to fill in. That led the longtime official to invite Ali to follow in his footsteps at the 2014 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships in the American mecca of track and field, Eugene.
"I had to crack up because they absolutely rolled out the red carpet. Now, I know what goes on behind the scenes at these meets, and Ali, of course, is just getting shown everything," Jim Clark said.
"She would tell me at the end of each day all the different places she got to see, and I'm like 'You have no idea. No one ever gets to see that stuff.' "
While Ali networked and helped with the pole vault one day, her primary responsibility was to follow Olafson around and absorb much of what makes him unique. Jim described the veteran official as a guy that "solves problems before they start."
The only complaint Ali had about her experience was the gloomy, rainy weather of the Pacific Northwest.
"It was very worthwhile and I'm very grateful I had that opportunity to do it," she said. "I guess now the goal is just to get him to come out and work my meet."
Ali Clark may not be able to bring Olafson to the Nebraska Championship, a state-wide junior high meet held in town, but she will apply many of his lessons.
"Their ability to run meet management is second to none," Jim said.
"That's why we copied it and brought it here," Ali added.
Ali works as the officials coordinator at the Nebraska Championship and has held various positions in numerous other meets. Although most officials are only paid with behind-the-scenes access and memories, it's something Ali Clark will continue to do for the foreseeable future.
She hopes to advance to a paid position but has a back-up plan in the meantime. Clark will soon begin her senior year at Nebraska-Kearney where she is majoring in resort management and marketing.
The best way to prepare for such a job is experience, according to the Clarks. Ali's been on the track in some fashion since she was 3 years old, and has worked meets since 2010. Jim claims his daughter has "knowledge beyond her years."
While she may be fresh out of the starting blocks in her officiating career, she has a pretty good idea of where she'll finish.
"The thing I enjoy most is I get to learn all this stuff, but some day I'll be one of the official coordinators," Clark said.


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The following activity occurred Monday, April 15, to Sunday, April 21, as reported by the Lewiston Police Department. LPD logged a total of 85 response calls during this period.
Monday, April 15
•5700 block of Military Road, accident/hit-run. Vehicle struck a light post and left the scene.
•1500 block of Upper Mountain Road, assist. LPD assisted Niagara County Sheriff's Office on a warrant execution of a male, 31.
•Myers Lake and Black Nose Spring roads, suspicious vehicle. Patrol reported a 1999 Ford pickup had switched plates and a fake inspection sticker. Vehicle towed.
•900 block of Center Street, officer requested at a supermarket. Juvenile problem, resolved by patrol.
•Niagara University, O'Shea Hall, aggravated harassment complaint. Statement taken from a female, 19, who reports receiving harassing calls and texts. Report filed.
•Upper Mountain Road at the I-190 southbound, vehicle/traffic stop. Male, 28, arrested for aggravated unlicensed operation. Uniform traffic tickets issued for Lewiston Town Court. Report filed.
•1800 block of Escarpment Drive, open burn. Female complainant states smoke is continuing to bother her and her family. Suspect involved not home; patrol to check later.
Tuesday, April 16
•1400 block of Saunders Settlement Road, Colonial Village School, alarm response. Building secured.
•Locations on the 400 block of Aberdeen Road and on the 200 block of Portage Road, separate calls of suspicious vehicles. Both locations OK.
•100 block of South Eighth Street, Lewiston post office, check situation. Patrol reported a possible suspicious package of women's clothing found at the location.
•700 block of Page Avenue, check welfare. Patrol spoke with a male, 49, and advised to contact a supervisor.
•500 block of Morgan Drive, follow-up. Patrol spoke with a female, 17, regarding an aggravated harassment complaint. Investigation to continue.
•600 block of Mountain View Drive, officer requested. Patrol spoke with a female, 54, who reported a male, elderly, had checks stolen. Investigation to continue.
•Forest Road, suspicious person. Patrol checked area with negative results.
Wednesday, April 17
•100 block of Chestnut Street, Youngstown, domestic. Patrol reported no answer; NCSO to do report.
•2700 block of Moore Road, larceny. Male reported copper piping missing; suspect unknown. Report filed.
•2900 block of Upper Mountain Road, two-vehicle accident. Patrol assisted NCSO.
•1200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, suspicious person. Male, 23, listed as a person involved, ran from patrol. Subject detained and released to parents.
•Lewiston sandocks, suspicious vehicle. All OK.
•700 block of Chicora drive, animal problem. Found dog reported; dog control officer to respond.
Thursday, April 18
•5800 block of Griffin Street, check welfare. Female, 52, listed as complainant, and two males, ages, 55, and 22, listed as persons involved. All OK; report filed.
•1200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, harassment complaint. Male, 36, female juvenile, and male, no age, listed on report. No further details.
•Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, arrest. Male, 50, arrested for operating while registration is suspended/revoked. Uniform traffic ticket issued; report filed.
•4000 block of Creek Road, suspicious activity. Female reports receiving an odd package, possibly from an ex-boyfriend. Request patrols to be observant of any suspicious vehicles in area.
•1700 block of Ridge Road, domestic. Female, 53, and male, 49, listed on call. Male left for the evening.
Friday, April 19
•1400 block of Saunders Settlement Road, Colonial Village School, property check. Patrol reported an open electrical box and contacted the key holder.
•2200 block of Saunders Settlement Road, two-vehicle accident. Statements taken from both drivers; report filed.
•400 block of Plain Street, harassment. Male, 58, receiving anonymous phone calls. No report requested.
•4500 block of Creek Road, neighbor problem. Male, 38, complained the sign from the nearby Hickory Stick Golf Course was on too long and too bright. Report filed.
•Pletcher and Harold roads, suspicious vehicle with Ontario plates. Patrol reported employees on location at a business.
Saturday, April 20
•5800 block of Buffalo Street, Sanborn Volunteer Fire Co. firehall, suspicious vehicles. Vehicles and occupants sent on their way.
•Indian Hill and Upper Mountain roads, property-damage accident/arrest. Patrol reported finding a male, 33, who had been involved in a rollover accident attempting to tip his vehicle right side up. Male arrested for driving while intoxicated, which was upgraded to aggravated DWI as his Blood Alcohol Content reading was found to be .20 of 1 percent. Driver released on uniform traffic tickets for Lewiston Town Court. Vehicle towed with 12-hour hold placed.
•800 block of Cayuga Drive, open door. Patrol located an open door at a storage facility business that was found to have been kicked in. Patrol secured same and notified key holder.
•South Sixth and Cayuga streets, property-damage accident. Statements taken from the drivers. Report filed.
•Creek Road, vehicle/traffic stop-arrest. Male, 27, arrested for aggravated unlicensed operation. Driver released on uniform traffic tickets for Lewiston Town Court; vehicle secured. Report filed.
•1700 block of Mount Hope Road, check welfare. Handled by patrol; all OK.
•Center Street, vehicle/traffic stop-arrest. Female, 58, arrested for operating while the registration is suspended/revoked. Driver released on uniform traffic tickets for Lewiston Town Court. Vehicle secured. Report filed.
•90 block of Steel Circle, agency assist. LPD on location with Town of Niagara Police for a physical domestic.
•3100 block of Park Avenue, Porter, agency assist. Patrol checked on a male, 65 and reports all OK.
•Saunders Settlement and Tuscarora roads, vehicle/traffic stop. Male, 20, arrested for operating while the registration is suspended/revoked. Driver released on uniform traffic tickets for Lewiston Town Court. Vehicle secured. Report filed.
•800 block of Swann Road, property dispute. Patrol advised both parties it was a civil matter. Patrol cleared.
•200 block of South Third Street, unwanted party. Patrol spoke with a female, 60, regarding a male subject, 29, highly intoxicated, who made threats to harm himself. Subject went voluntarily to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center on a mental health response.
•Miller Road, warrant execution. Female, 29, arrested, charge(s) not specified. Suspect arraigned, bail of $1,000/$2,000 assigned, and suspect remanded to custody of NCSO.
Sunday, April 21
•5900 block of Hewitt drive, domestic. Female, 48, listed as victim, and male suspect, 41, arrested for criminal trespass. Arraignment at Lewiston Town Court, bail of $250 assigned and suspect remanded to custody of NCSO. Order of protection issued.
•700 block of Cayuga Street, domestic. Female, 25, listed as a victim and male, no age, listed as suspect. No charges; Domestic Incident Report filed.
•Ridge Road at Route 429, vehicle traffic stop. Male, 39, arrested for unlawful possession of marijuana. Vehicle towed; no further information.


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The child carefully folded one piece of the colorful tape in front of her, looking up now and then at the little girl across the table.
Neither spoke. It made no difference. The child with the tape spoke English; the child across from her spoke K'ekchi, a Mayan dialect.
Maite Hansen, 7, was one of nine children from Wakeland Elementary and Johnson Middle schools who traveled more than 1,000 miles last month to the central highlands of Guatemala to visit their sister schools.
Maite and the other children from Manatee County showed the indigenous children in Escuela de Chiquic how to make bracelets out of multicolored tape. When Maite finished, she looked up and handed it over. The Mayan child looked back, using the universal language of children; she smiled.
The children, ages 7 to 12, were part of a 27-person group making the spring break trip from March 10 to 17. The visit, similar to one taken last year, also included delivering books, clothing, school supplies and instructional sessions for Guatemalan teachers.
Mario Mendoza, principal of Wakeland Elementary, led the group that included two Wakeland teachers, a teacher from Johnson Middle, and 14 parents, cousins, aunts and grandparents of the local students.
"We came to Guatemala to enrich our learning experiences," Mendoza said. "In our classrooms, Wakeland students learn how children grow up in other countries, how the experiences of those children are both different and similar to their own. In Guatemala, the classroom teaching comes to life."
Johnson Middle and Wakeland Elementary are International Baccalaureate schools a few miles apart in Bradenton. They are sister schools with NUFED, a middle school in the small town of Chamelco, and Chiquic, an elementary school a few miles away atop a mountain. The four schools' project is called Escuelas Hermanas.
During the visit, Hannah Ford-Traenkle, a 10-year-old student at Wakeland, explained the project.
"The children from Chiquic finish there and go to NUFED, which is a sister school to Johnson," she said. "Johnson is a sister school to Wakeland, which is a sister school to Chiquic. So, see, we are all sister schools."
Mendoza praised the teachers on the trip, Patrick Meehan from Johnson and Shana Berg and Andrea Gonzalez from Wakeland, who conducted two training sessions for the teachers at their sister schools. They demonstrated effective techniques for teaching reading and Spanish. The indigenous children must learn Spanish before they can learn other subjects.
"This was a real adventure," said Meehan, a science teacher.
Mendoza said he was surprised to find one teacher at NUFED using materials reflective of International Baccalaureate principles.
"We looked at what she was doing and it essentially would be the same at Wakeland," he said.
Escuelas Hermanas began six years ago. The biggest project so far has been a concrete court used for soccer, basketball and volleyball that was built for Chiquic atop the mountain. Other projects include a new roof for that Chiquic and windows and doors for NUFED.
A dedicated phone line for Internet service is being put in NUFED this year along with a projector so that NUFED and Johnson and Chiquic and Wakeland can hold video conferences.
During the trip, several parents noted how their sister school project takes IB from a concept to real life.
"This project exemplifies the global focus of the IB program," said Joelle Thomas, the mother of Connor Thomas, a Johnson student.
This year, the Manatee County contingent wore T-shirts with the painted handprints of children on them and the words "Sister School" written in English, Spanish and K'ekchi. The design was taken from a mural a group from Wakeland painted on the side of the Chiquic school building two years ago. The map located Bradenton and Chiquic and uses children holding hands to tie together the locations.
The villagers of Chiquic are poor, and most receive little or no education. Two classrooms in the school have dirt floors, there is no electricity and students use outdoor privies. Seven years ago, when children finished school in Chiquic, nearly all of them went to work in the fields. The sister school project now provides nine scholarships, so some can continue on to NUFED and beyond.
For the first time in the project's history, one child from the village has completed NUFED and is going to high school. Another will enter university in October.
Parents and educators at the two IB schools in Bradenton know they have changed the small area of Guatemala, but they also see a larger picture, one in which their children benefit greatly from the sister school project.
They said the IB program helps prepare their children for success in the new international economy.
"Watching our kids play with the kids in Chiquic, I couldn't help but think how close and how similar our cultures can be," Mendoza said. "Our worlds are much closer together than we all realize, and with a growing global economy, we're just moving closer together every day."
Trip to Guatemala enhances education
The child carefully folded one piece of the colorful tape in front of her, looking up now and then at the little girl across the table.


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From "No taxation without representation" at the Boston Tea Party in 1773 to "No taxation without an investigation" of the IRS at Washington, D.C., in 2013.
Patriots arriving from around the nation will be able to attend two tea parties at the Capitol on Wednesday.
The "Audit the IRS Rally" organized by the Tea Party Patriots, running from noon to 3 p.m., will demand a full investigation of the agency's harassing of conservative groups.
The Tea Party Patriots' co-founder and national coordinator, Jenny Beth Martin, told WND: "We want to make sure the IRS and the employees of the IRS understand that we expect them to be public servants, which is their job, and not to infringe on our constitutional rights or to use the IRS as a political weapon against citizens. So, we are standing up now to make sure this never happens again."
The big draw at the IRS rally will be speaker Glenn Beck, along with several prominent lawmakers such as Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky; and Mike Lee, Utah; and Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Louie Gohmert, R-Texas; Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; and Steve King, R-Iowa.
A second rally from 9 a.m. to noon, and picking up again from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., will call for scrutiny of any immigration bill with an amnesty provision.
King is organizing that event, which he calls an "immigration press conference" and should feature some of the speakers from the noon event.
"Border security, Rule of Law Members of Congress are unlikely to get a full debate inside the halls of Congress," said King, "So we are taking the debate outside it's halls."
Scheduled to speak at the "Audit the IRS Rally" are several members of tea party groups targeted by the agency.
One of those members, Becky Gerritson, told WND Monday night, "I am hoping we will have a large crowd from across the country. I know they are busing people in from some states. I'm just hoping the American people continue to wake up and to see how these government agencies are out of control and how they are used against U.S. citizens."
Gerritson, preseident and founder of the Wetumpka Tea Party in Alabama, shot to youtube and talk-radio fame when she testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on June 4, and delivered a scathing indictment of the IRS:
"We aren't here as serfs or vassals. We're not begging our lords for mercy. We are born free American citizens and we're telling our government that you've forgotten your place. It's not your responsibility to look out for our well being and monitor our speech. It's not your right to assert an agenda. The post that you occupy exists to preserve American liberty. You've sworn to perform that duty and you have faltered."
Sue Martinek of the Coalition for Life of Iowa also made headlines when she testified before the committee, "[The agent] told me verbally that we needed to send in a letter with the entire board's signatures, stating that under perjury of law we would not picket, protest, or organize outside of Planned Parenthood."
Martinek told WND, "I am planning on coming and speaking briefly. My hope is after all these stories of people who have been subjected to the IRS overstepping their boundaries some reform will be enacted to make sure the IRS will not be doing that to any groups, conservative or otherwise. The IRS needs to be accountable and they need to stop it."
But the IRS has not stopped the harassment and the delays in approving tax-exempt status, according to another woman who testified before the committee.
Dianne Belsom of the Laurens County Tea Party in South Carolina told WND, "Our groups is still waiting. We still haven't had any response at all from the IRS and we are coming up on three years."
"You still haven't been approved?" asked WND.
"Right. There's been dead silence from them ever since this whole thing broke, about a month ago."
"Have your lawyers tried to contact the IRS?"
"They have filed a lawsuit against the IRS, so I don't know what the IRS is thinking is but they certainly have not gone ahead and approved us," said Belsom.
WND's Jerome Corsi broke the story on May 24, that the American Center for Law and Justice, which represents Belsom's tea party group, would sue the IRS because of continued harassment.
The head of the ACLJ, Jay Sekulow, told WND, "intrusive and unlawful questioning continued after May 2012 with 18 of our clients receiving 26 questionnaires from the IRS from May 2012 through May 2013."
Now Gerritson is wondering whether there is an investigation of the IRS at all.
She told WND, "None of the tea parties we are associated with, who were targeted, have been contacted by the FBI. It appears there is not an FBI investigation. I hope there is one but from what we're hearing from other groups, no one has been contacted. Jay Sekulow is our lead counsel, he represents 25 different tea party groups, and he confirmed a few days ago none of them have been contacted by the FBI."
As WND reported four days ago, if there is an investigation of IRS abuse by the FBI, the head of the bureau doesn't seem to know too much about it.
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, grilled FBI Director Robert Muller on progress made in the bureau's criminal invesitgation of the IRS's targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
The congressman became increasingly frustrated as Mueller answered a series of questions by saying he had little information on the investigation.
When Jordan asked Mueller who the lead investigator was, the director said he did not know.
Jordan seemed incredulous.
"You do not know who is the lead investigator on the most important issue before the nation?"
"No, I do not."
Jordan pressed on, asking if the FBI paid visits to any of the tea party members improperly scrutinized by the IRS.
"I don't know," replied Mueller.
Some of them specifically said they were visited by FBI said Jordan, citing a Catherine Engelbrecht in Texas.
"I don't know," said Mueller, once again.
"You don't know," echoed Jordan.
"You're asking me details about the investigtion…" Mueller began to explain.
But Jordan cut him off, saying, "No I'm not, I m asking why the FBI visited these people, that happened before the investigation started."
"You are asking about the investgtion," the director tried to reiterate.
But Jordan shot back, "No, I am not, I am asking basic questions such as who the lead investigator is, and you can't even answer that."


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