Sunday, September 30, 2012

India vs Pakistan 20th Match at Colombo

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India Team Squad: IK Pathan, G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, MS Dhoni, PP Chawla, RG Sharma, V Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Z Khan, SK Raina, YK Pathan, V Kohli, MK Tiwary, L Balaji, AB Dinda, R Ashwin

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Pakistan Team Squad: Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Nazir, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal, Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Sami, Shahid Afridi, Nasir Jamshed, Umar Gul, Saeed Ajmal, Abdul Razzaq, Yasir Arafat, Umar Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Raza Hasan

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Allen settling into new city, new role with Heat

MIAMI (AP) ? Late Friday night, less than 12 hours before the first practice of Miami Heat training camp, reigning NBA MVP LeBron James updated his Facebook page with a new photo.

The image: A grinning Ray Allen in the foreground, James looking over his shoulder at him, the duo wearing Heat uniforms together for the first time.

"Need I Say More," James wrote.

No need.

When Allen decided to leave Boston and sign with Miami this summer, the Heat were downright giddy over the notion that the NBA's best team last season would now feature the best 3-point shooter in league history.

Since July, Allen and the Heat have been talking about ways to best integrate him into the lineup ? a process that shifts more to the practice floor now that camp is open.

"He strikes fear," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "We know about that fear, because every time he found his way open behind the 3-point line, as a collective staff, we would say, 'Oh ... ' thinking the worst."

With good reason.

No one has made more 3-pointers against the Heat than Allen, and it's not even close in that department.

Over his five seasons in Boston, Allen connected 96 times against Miami from 3-point range ? 34 more than anyone else during that span. His 165 career makes from beyond the arc against Miami are 51 ahead of second-place Reggie Miller.

And in each of the past three seasons, including playoffs, no opponent made more 3's against the Heat than Allen (24 versus Miami in 2009-10, then 31 in 2010-11 and 22 in 2011-12).

"We're excited to have that dynamic with us this year," Spoelstra said. "We've had 3-point spacing. We've had tremendous 3-point shooters that can shoot on the move. We haven't really had a catch-and-shoot player with the ability and skill set like Ray. That adds a different dimension to our offense and it should be interesting."

Allen has been in Miami for the past several weeks, still getting settled into his new home, figuring out what his favorite lunch spots will be and quickly learning that there's more to the city than just South Beach.

The adjustment process isn't totally complete, but Allen feels like he's gotten a head start on settling into the Heat locker room.

"It was the best situation for me moving forward," Allen said of his decision to sign with the Heat. "There were other teams out there that had interest, but none from an overall perspective ? from a place to put my family to opportunity to win ? that I thought I matched potentially being here, which ultimately is why I ended up being here."

Allen was slowed last season by ankle problems, severe enough that he needed offseason surgery. The Heat weren't deterred by that when trying to sign him, and Allen ? whose last game as a Celtic was in Miami, the Game 7 loss in last season's Eastern Conference finals ? said his recovery is going well.

He's been shooting the ball at the Heat workout facility for several weeks, and Miami point guard Mario Chalmers is among those raving about what they've been seeing.

Suffice to say, those after-practice shooting contests the Heat enjoy partaking in might be a whole lot tougher to win this season.

"I feel pretty good," Allen said. "I have no complaints. I think at my age, being able to continue at the level, going through offseason having had surgery, it's a new landscape for me. Having to move down here, be in a new situation, learn a new staff, all that's been a great challenge. I've been looking forward to it. I'm enjoying it."

With age comes wisdom, Allen said, when it comes to managing injuries and his health. His first training camp in Boston five years ago also followed surgery, he said, and he was in pain throughout those workouts but largely kept the severity to himself. Now 37 years old, Allen knows that's probably not the best plan.

"Being older, you get more careful," Allen said.

With Dwyane Wade at the starting shooting guard spot in Miami, it seems more than likely that Allen would come off the bench with the Heat.

The Celtics said he didn't like that role last season, when he missed time with bone spurs with his ankle and lost his starting spot to Avery Bradley.

Allen, who accepted $3 million from the Heat this season and turned down more money to stay in Boston, insists he'll be fine coming off the bench in Miami if that's what the Heat ask.

"I wish he could have gone to the Clippers," his former Boston teammate Paul Pierce lamented Friday. "Instead, he went to our Eastern Conference rivals."

With Allen (2,718), another new free-agent addition in Rashard Lewis (1,690) and returnee Mike Miller (1,351), the Heat have three of the NBA's top 13 active players in 3-pointers made.

And maybe it's fitting that this season could be a three-for-all in Miami, given that the Heat made 14 3-pointers ? Miller went 7 for 8 to lead the charge ? in the title-clinching Game 5 romp over Oklahoma City to close the NBA Finals.

"He's here to help the Miami Heat win another championship," Chalmers said of Allen. "That's what he's here for."

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Georgia Southern University Theatre Program to Present Triangle Factory Fire Project

Georgia Southern University?s Theatre and Performance program will bring the critically acclaimed?The Triangle Factory Fire Project,?written by Christopher Piehler in collaboration with Scott Alan Evans, to the Black Box Theatre at the Center for Art & Theatre on Oct. 3-10.

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Tickets are $5 for current Georgia Southern students, high schools students with a valid ID or children (13 and under), $10 for Georgia Southern University faculty and staff and general admission. All shows will begin at 7:30 p.m., except for Oct. 7 which will begin at 2 p.m.

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On Saturday, March 25, 1911, at 4:45 p.m. in New York?s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory ? where 500 immigrant workers from Poland, Russia and Italy toiled 14 hours a day making ladies? dresses ? a cigarette was tossed into a bin of fabric scraps, and flames swept through the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the building.?

Panic-stricken workers ran in all directions. On the ninth floor, some made it to the fire escape, only to have it collapse beneath them. Others ran to the exit but found the door locked. Many, including the soon-to-be-married Margaret Schwartz, died with their hands on the doorknob. Dozens leapt from the windows to their deaths, shocking the crowd of onlookers gathered below. And some, through bravery or sheer luck, made it out alive. In about 28 minutes the fire was under control, but 146 people had died.?

The Triangle Factory Fire Project?uses eyewitness accounts, court transcripts and other archival material to create a dramatic moment-by-moment account of this historic fire and the social upheaval that followed. It culminates in the manslaughter trial of the factory owners, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, the repercussions of which shaped social, political and economic policies for decades to come.?

By using real words spoken by real people, from Ukrainian seamstresses to millionaire Fifth Avenue socialites,?The Triangle Factory Fire Project?paints a heartbreakingly clear picture of a disastrous day in American history and explores the human toll such a tragedy takes on us all.

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?It is a story that has disappeared from view and it needs to be told,? said director James Harbour.

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For more information, call the Black Box Theatre box office at?912-478-5379.

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Georgia Southern University, a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University founded in 1906 offers more than 120 degree programs serving more than 20,000 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor?s, master?s, and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. The University is one of the Top 10 most popular universities in the nation according to?U.S. News & World Report, and is the top choice of Georgia?s HOPE scholars. Georgia Southern is recognized for its student-centered approach to education. Visit:?www.georgiasouthern.edu

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Syria rebels say launch "decisive battle" in Aleppo

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said they had launched a major attack in Aleppo on Thursday at the start of a "decisive battle" to push President Bashar al-Assad's forces out of the country's biggest city.

Heavy fighting was reported in around 14 districts by opposition activists and several rebel brigades, though the scale of the fighting could not be confirmed independently.

A video posted on YouTube by rebels showed Abdulqadir al-Saleh, the head of the biggest rebel force in Aleppo, the Tawheed Brigade, carrying a walkie talkie and announcing the start of the assault.

"Now the attack on Assad's forces has started on all fronts and God willing today will be decisive in Aleppo," he said.

The 18-month-old uprising against Assad has killed 30,000 people and the violence is escalating sharply, say activists. World powers are meeting at the United Nations but are divided over the crisis, which has descended into civil war.

The U.N. refugee agency said up to 700,000 Syrian refugees may flee the country by the end of the year, nearly quadrupling its June forecast for the exodus from the deepening crisis.

Around 294,000 refugees have crossed into neighboring Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey, most of them in the last two months.

"This is a significant outflow taking place, 100,000 people in August, 60,000 in September and at the moment 2,000 or 3,000 per day or night," Panos Moumtzis, Regional Refugee Coordinator for UNHCR, said on Thursday in Geneva.

The flow of refugees surged in August when Assad deployed jets and helicopters to strike rebel-held towns in the northern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, sending thousands across the border with Turkey.

"ZERO HOUR"

Rebels flooded into Aleppo two months ago but have been held back by low ammunition and the army's superior firepower.

Insurgents from many brigades in Aleppo said "zero hour" had been announced by calls of Allahu Akbar ("God is greatest") from mosques at 4 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Thursday. They said there were clashes in the heart of the city, including the Hamidiya and Midan districts.

Tawheed Brigade Spokesman Abu Firas said all the battalions working in Aleppo "from the small ones that consist of ten people to the big ones" had met to agree on the offensive two days ago.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a violence watchdog with a networks of activists in the country, said hundreds of insurgents were taking part in heavy fighting and the government was responding with heavy artillery.

Aleppo is split roughly in half, with rebels in the east and government forces and local Assad-loyal militia in the west.

Syria's rebels are a mixture of army defectors, Islamists and civilians who have taken up arms against Assad.

Some groups have been accused of human rights abuses and western powers who call for Assad's removal are reluctant to support the disparate fighters. Western diplomats say they are looking for a clear command structure and coordination among rebels.

"STAIN ON U.N."

World leaders meeting at the United Nations have expressed concern at the violence but are deadlocked over their response to the conflict, which pits mainly Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad, who is from an Alawite minority close to Shi'ite Islam.

Qatar, one of several Sunni Muslim powers which supports the rebels, called for a no-fly zone to provide a safe haven inside Syria. French President Francois Hollande also called on the global body to protect what he called "liberated zones" under rebel control.

But there is little chance of securing a Security Council mandate for such action given the opposition of veto-wielding members Russia and China.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Moscow on Wednesday any attempt to use force unilaterally or interfere with events in the Middle East would be counterproductive. China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said the destiny of the region "should be held in the hands of its own people".

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Russia, China and Iran's stance on Syria was letting a massacre go on unabated.

Activists said more than 300 people died on Wednesday, making it one of the bloodiest yet. They said 55 people had been killed in rural areas around Damascus, including at least 40 who appeared to have been executed in the town of al-Dhiyabia, southeast of the capital.

The Observatory also said 14 people had been killed in a rebel bomb attack on a military command centre in Damascus and in a prolonged gun battle between rebels and members of the security forces.

The Islamist militant group Al Nusra Front claimed responsibility on Thursday for the assault, saying it was carried out in two stages, starting with a suicide bomber detonating a car near the building.

Rebels have also targeted Assad's inner circle during the conflict. The president's widowed sister Bushra has moved to the United Arab Emirates, a source close to the UAE government said on Thursday, apparently having fled with her children after her powerful husband was killed.

Bushra al-Assad, Bashar's older sister, was married to Assef Shawkat, the former deputy defense minister who was killed in a bomb attack in Damascus on July 18.

(Additional reporting by Dominic Evans and Oliver Holmes in Beirut, Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, reporters at the United Nations; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Quitting driving: Families key but docs have role

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Families may have to watch for dings in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys ? but there's new evidence that doctors could have more of an influence on one of the most wrenching decisions facing a rapidly aging population.

A large study from Canada found that when doctors warn patients, and tell driving authorities, that the older folks may be medically unfit to be on the road, there's a drop in serious crash injuries among those drivers.

The study, in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, couldn't tell if the improvement was because those patients drove less, or drove more carefully once the doctors pointed out the risk.

But as the number of older drivers surges, it raises the question of how families and doctors could be working together to determine if and when age-related health problems ? from arthritis to frailty to Alzheimer's disease ? are bad enough to impair driving.

Often, families are making that tough choice between safety and independence on their own.

"It's very scary," said Pat Sneller of Flower Mound, Texas, who talked her husband, Lee, into quitting about a year after he was diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer's disease.

The couple had recently moved from California, one of the few U.S. states that require doctors to report drivers with worrisome health conditions to licensing authorities. Pat Sneller was stunned to learn Texas doesn't require that doctor involvement, and health workers advised her to ride with her husband and judge his abilities for herself.

Eventually her husband called home in a panic, lost while driving in unfamiliar Dallas for volunteer work. A long scrape on the car that he couldn't explain was the final straw. In 2010, she persuaded him to quit driving, although the now-72-year-old's license remains good until 2014.

"He still says occasionally, 'I can still drive, you know,'" Pat Sneller said.

By one U.S. estimate, about 600,000 older drivers a year quit because of health conditions. The problem: There are no clear-cut guidelines to tell who really needs to ? and given the lack of transportation options in much of the country, quitting too soon can be detrimental for someone who might have functioned well for several more years.

It's never an easy discussion.

"It did not go over so well," Benjamin Benson recalls of the time when his sons told the 87-year-old they feared his reflexes had slowed too much for safe driving.

"I've never had an accident," the Peabody, Mass., man said. His family's response: "Well, do you want to wait for the first one?"

The retired accountant wasn't ready to quit then, but he quietly began to analyze what would happen to him and his wife, who doesn't drive, if he did.

His longtime doctor wouldn't advise one way or the other. So over a few months, the couple tried online grocery shopping. They took a taxi to the dentist, not cheap at $38 round-trip. But Benson calculated that maintaining and insuring the car was expensive, too, when he drove only 3,000 miles a year.

A few weeks ago, Benson surprised his family by giving away the car, and he says he's faring fine so far.

"Most people in our age group know that it's inevitable and play around with the idea that it's going to come and the only question is when," Benson said. "I didn't want to be pushed into it."

Unlike in most of the U.S., doctors in much of Canada are supposed to report to licensing authorities patients with certain health conditions that may impair driving. Ontario in 2006 began paying doctors a small fee to further encourage that step ? and researchers used the payments to track 100,075 patients who received those warnings between April of that year and December 2009 (out of the province's more than 9 million licensed drivers).

They compared the group's overall rate of crashes severe enough to send the driver to the emergency room, before the warnings began and afterward, and found a 45 percent drop, reported lead researcher Dr. Donald Redelmeier, a University of Toronto professor. While the study included adult drivers of all ages ? for conditions ranging from epilepsy to sleep disorders, alcoholism to dementia ? most were over age 60. A small percentage of the province's licensed drivers have received warnings, Redelmeier stressed, and licenses are suspended by authorities between 10 percent and 30 percent of the time.

His study highlighted one reason physicians don't like to get involved: About 1 in 5 of the patients who were warned changed doctors. There also was an uptick in reports of depression.

Doctors aren't trained to evaluate driving ability, and the study couldn't tell if some drivers were targeted needlessly, noted Dr. Matthew Rizzo of the University of Iowa. Yet he called the research valuable.

"The message from this paper is that doctors have some wisdom in knowing when to restrict drivers," said Rizzo. His own research shows some cognitive tests might help them better identify who's at risk, such as by measuring "useful field of view," essentially how much your brain gleans at a glance ? important for safety in intersections.

Today, the American Medical Association recommends that doctors administer a few simple tests in advising older drivers. Among them:

?Walk 10 feet down the hallway, turn around and come back. Taking longer than 9 seconds is linked to driving problems.

?On a page with the letters A to L and the numbers 1 to 13 randomly arranged, see how quickly and accurately you draw a line from 1 to A, then to 2, then to B and so on. This so-called trail-making test measures memory, spatial processing and other brain skills, and doing poorly has been linked to at-fault crashes.

?Check if people can turn their necks far enough to change lanes, and have the strength to slam on brakes.

Dr. Gary Kennedy, geriatric psychiatry chief at New York's Montefiore Medical Center, often adds another question: Are his patients allowed to drive their grandchildren?

"If the answer to that is no, that's telling me the people who know the patient best have made a decision that they're not safe," said Kennedy, who offers "to be the bad cop" for families or primary care physicians having trouble delivering the news.

There are no statistics on how often doctors do these kinds of assessment.

"It's this touchy subject that nobody wants to talk about," said Dr. Marian Betz of the University of Colorado, whose surveys show most senior drivers don't think their doctors know whether they drive. She is testing if an advance directive would help get older adults talking with their doctors about how to keep watch on their driving fitness before trouble arises.

More objective measures are needed ? and to help find them, hundreds of older drivers are letting scientists install video cameras, GPS systems and other gadgets in their cars as part of massive studies of everyday driving behavior.

Identifying who needs to quit should be a last resort, said Jon Antin of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. He helps oversee data collection for a study that's enrolling 3,000 participants, including hundreds of seniors, in Florida, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington. The drivers undergo a battery of medical checks before their driving patterns are recorded for 12 to 24 months.

"If you identify people at risk, maybe you can intervene to prolong the safe driving period," agreed Dr. Shawn Marshall of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He helps lead Canada's CanDrive II, a project that's tracking 928 drivers in their 70s for five years, to see how their driving changes as they get older.

For now, advocacy groups like the Alzheimer's Association and AARP offer programs to help families spot signs of driving problems and determine how to talk about it.

"I would like to think that my husband would say, 'You really shouldn't be driving anymore' and I wouldn't get mad at him," said Sally Harris, 75, of Crystal Lake, Ill., who took AARP's "We Need to Talk" program in hopes of broaching the subject with a 90-year-old friend who's having driving problems.

Others turn to driver rehabilitation specialists, occupational therapists who can spend up to four hours evaluating an older driver's vision, memory, cognition and other abilities before giving him a behind-the-wheel driving test. Some doctors and state licensing authorities order those evaluations, but programs can be hard to find, often have waiting lists and cost several hundred dollars that insurance may not cover.

Having a professional involved can keep family relationships intact, said Pam Bartle, a driver rehab specialist at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, Ill.

Still, "you could have the sweetest, nicest little old lady and she'll turn on you on a dime if you tell her she can't drive," Bartle said. "It's a desperate thing for people. They can't imagine how they'll manage without driving."

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Associated Press writer Carla K. Johnson in Chicago contributed to this report.

The latest installment of Aging America, the joint AP-APME package examining the aging of the baby boomers and the impact of this so-called silver tsunami on society

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Lewis Black returns to Broadway with knives sharp - KansasCity.com

This may be a presidential election year, but don't expect Lewis Black to be enjoying himself.

"Everybody goes, 'Oh, this must be an exciting time for you.' No. It's always the same," says the satirist and comedian. Then he corrects himself: "It's always the same - but worse."Black, 64, might be right, but one thing that's definitely stayed the same over the years is his refusal to turn a frowny face into a smile.The author, stand-up comedian and regular contributor to "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," has turned being frustrated, cynical and volcanic into highbrow humor, winning two Grammy Awards in the process.Politicians of every stripe may want to avoid Times Square next month when his current show, "Running on Empty," rolls into Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre for eight shows beginning Oct. 9.No one avoids his lashings, not Mitt Romney, whom Black calls the whitest candidate ever: "We know this because George Bush, in comparison to Romney, looks Jamaican." Barack Obama is no better, Black says: "He's offering up hope and, at my age, that's a worthless commodity."To Black, the Democrats are weird - "Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy," he says. And the GOP's love affair with Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" is bizarre: "If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter'?" he asks.Black has found humor where comics have feared to tread, such as in Reaganomics and the Simpson-Bowles commission, or lawmakers in Congress who have seen their public approval plummet."How do you even have the courage to run for office in the first place?" he asks during an interview, his hands fluttering in annoyance. "If you were on Facebook and had a 10 percent approval rating, you'd have the common courtesy to kill yourself."Black, an avowed socialist, long ago stopped getting caught up in the personalities and talking points of mainstream politicians - he calls them "those idiots" - and instead carefully watched their actions."To me, it's always a question of what do they say they're going to do? If they say they're going to do it, what does it really mean? And where do we end up?" he says. "To me, it's always the effect, not the people."Theater producer James L. Nederlander has been a friend of Black's for 25 years, and he lured the comedian to one of his family's theaters at a perfect time: a few weeks before the election."It's like shooting fish in a barrel," says Nederlander, who is co-producing the show. "I just think he's a genius, and we just thought it was a great idea to let him loose."Black, a Yale School of Drama graduate, intended to be a playwright, and he began his career at the West Bank Cafe, a small Hell's Kitchen space where he was co-artistic director, playwright-in-residence and host. There, he produced two new American one-act plays a week - some by Aaron Sorkin and Alan Ball - for eight years "to no one's interest." He began warming up the crowd and warmed to it."What stand-up allowed, I realized, was I could write stuff and get it heard faster than waiting around for somebody to read the play," he says. "Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise."He hadn't quite nailed his trademark high blood pressure style until comedian Dan Ballard came up to him one night. "He said, 'You know, you're really angry and you're not yelling. I'm not angry and I'm yelling. So when you go onstage, I want you to yell.' So I started to do that."Black's comedy heroes include Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart, Shelley Berman, Paul Krassner and, of course, George Carlin and Lenny Bruce. "Carlin basically taught me you can say anything as long as it's funny. Lenny Bruce taught me to take something to its logical extreme."To hone his material, Black watches cable news and reads both highbrow and lowbrow newspapers, focusing on editorials, both right and left. Lately, he's been spending time on the financial sections. "You know what's wrong with this country? It's that 80 percent don't have a vested interest in the business page."Black chuckles that even though he never intended to become a comedian, his career has gone where he hoped - to Broadway. His new act marks his second time on a Broadway stage since he filmed the 2004 HBO special "Lewis Black: Black on Broadway."He's also enjoying another success from his past: Next month, the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J., is producing one of Black's old plays "One Slight Hitch," which he began writing in the 1980s."It's really weird." he says. "In the world I should have been in, the play should be on Broadway. I should be playing The State Theatre in New Brunswick."---Online:http://lewisblack.com

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More charges in Tulsa church abuse investigation

TULSA, Okla. (AP) ? A fourth victim of alleged abuse at a 17,000-member Tulsa megachurch has come forward, and police said Tuesday that there might be a fifth.

At the same time, members of Victory Christian Center are beginning to speak publicly about the allegations that have shaken the worldwide ministry's foundations and tarnished the reputations of its pastor and her family members.

Prosecutors added two additional charges Monday against 20-year-old Chris Denman, a former church employee. He was arrested Sept. 5 on a complaint alleging that he raped a 13-year-old girl in a stairwell on the ministry's campus in August and molested a 15-year-old girl. He faces new charges of making a lewd proposal to a child and using a computer to commit a sex crime involving a 12-year-old girl.

Another ex-church employee, 23-year-old Israel Castillo, was arrested last week and is charged with making a lewd proposal to a 15-year-old girl and using a computer to commit a sex crime.

Tulsa Police Det. Cpl. Greg Smith told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that a third suspect could face charges related to alleged sexual abuse of a fifth victim. Two things are complicating that case, Smith said, because the victim's parents are uncooperative and the suspect is no longer in Tulsa.

"We're at a stalemate," Smith said. "The third suspect we haven't talked about because all we have to go on now is secondhand information."

On Wednesday, five employees of the south Tulsa church ? including the son and daughter-in-law of head pastor Sharon Daugherty ? are scheduled to be arraigned in district court for allegedly waiting two weeks before reporting the rape of the 13-year-old by Denman to authorities. John Daugherty, Charica Daugherty, Paul Willemstein, Anna George and Harold "Frank" Sullivan each face one misdemeanor count of failing to report child abuse.

Jason Robertson, an attorney representing John and Charica Daugherty, who are both youth pastors at the church, said his clients did nothing wrong.

"We are confident when an impartial jury hears all the evidence, deliberates, and reaches a conclusion, the last words spoken in this case will be 'not guilty,' " he said in a statement. It was unclear from court records Tuesday if the other three had hired attorneys.

A spokesman for the church said Tuesday the five employees remain suspended pending a disciplinary review. The spokesman said the church had no comment on the new charges.

On Friday, the mother of the 13-year-old filed a lawsuit against the church, alleging that officials attempted to cover up the incident to do "damage control." The suit filed in Tulsa County District Court is seeking more than $75,000, according to the complaint.

Some members of the large, tight-knit church are beginning to open up about the alleged crimes, especially since Sharon Daugherty told congregants during a weekend sermon to speak out about child abuse.

Tim Peterson, a 28-year Victory member, said other churches across the country should learn from what's happened here.

"It's a bad situation for the church to be on the front page of the paper every day, but there isn't a church within a 500-mile radius that doesn't know about this now.

"Every youth pastor knows now 'If I suspect abuse, I need to report it,' because if you don't report this, you could end up being charged," Peterson said.

Pam Tiernan, a member of the church for more than 30 years, praised Victory Christian Center for being as transparent as possible regarding the allegations against the former employees.

"That's how you heal," she said. "You don't sweep anything under the rug."

The ministry ? founded in 1981 by Sharon and the late Billy Joe Daugherty and shaped in a similar mold to Tulsa televangelist Oral Roberts' charismatic Christian ministries ? issued statements last week accepting responsibility for the lapse in reporting.

In a statement to The Associated Press, the church said its employees failed to follow a written policy requiring any allegation of abuse to be reported by employees to the state's Department of Human Services, and internally within one hour to their department head and the director of human resources.

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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Italian Company Strikes Oil in West Africa

Italy?s getting in on the oil exploration booms going on around the world. Eni SpA (NYSE: E), the nation?s largest oil company, has just made the first discovery of crude in Ghana?s Offshore Cape Three Points block, thereby raising the prospect of expanded production in that country.

Oil was found at a depth of around 12,000 feet roughly 31 miles off the coast of Ghana, and the well, named Sankofa East-1X, is producing around 5,000 barrels per day.

From Bloomberg:

?Eni plans for the immediate drilling of other wells to delineate the size of the discovery and confirm the feasibility of commercial development,? said the Rome-based company, which has operated in Ghana since 2009.

Eni shareholders have an agreement with Ghana?s ministry of energy, and the company is presently trying to commercialize the block?s production on the country?s gas market.

Back near the end of 2010, Ghana's Jubilee field began to produce oil; as a result, the national economy grew by 14.4 percent over 2011?the fastest in Africa according to the IMF.

This year, the Finance Ministry forecasts growth of 9.4 percent, but this new find could easily change matters.

In the first half of this year, Ghana?s oil-based revenue grew by 43 percent to hit $326.6 million. Output averaged 62,985 barrels per day, and it is expected to increase to over 90,000 barrels by the end of 2012.

The OCTP block is operated jointly by Eni (47 percent stake), Vitol Upstream Ghana Ltd. (38 percent), and the state organ GNPC (15 percent).


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Dot Earth Blog: Group Promoting Rat Study of Engineered Corn Forced Coverage Rush

Major science journals have long offered media advance access to newsworthy papers ahead of publication under embargo agreements. This process, while imperfect, allows reporters a few days to do reporting and vet studies with independent scientists who also abide by agreed timetables.

A different approach to a press embargo was taken by the organizations that orchestrated publicity around this week?s much discussed study reporting big health impacts on rats fed genetically engineered corn, led by a French scientist strongly opposed to genetically engineered foods. The study has been of particular interest because of California?s?looming vote over Proposition 37, which?would require labeling of such foods. (There?s been fresh discussion of some merits and apparent weaknesses in the work.)

Ivan Oransky, the executive editor of?Reuters Health, who also blogs on medical research and the press, has an important post at his invaluable Embargo Watch blog revealing how the embargo rules, involving signed agreements, used by those involved with the rat study appear to have had the opposite goal ? making sure reporters ran with the scary news about tumor rates and premature mortality in rats fed chow with G.M.O. ingredients without having time for analysis and crosschecking. (I did not have any such special access when I wrote on the paper.) Here?s an excerpt from Oransky?s post and a link to the rest:?

A?study of the effect of genetically modified corn on rats that you may have read about earlier this week doesn?t seem to have said much about whether GMOs are safe. But it sure said a lot about how the scientists who did the work used a crafty embargo to control their message?.

It turns out there was likely?an embargo break on the research. But that?s not why you?re reading about it here. What drew my attention ? thanks to a few eagle-eyed Embargo Watch readers pointing me to this?post by Thomas Lumley?? is how the co-sponsors of the research handled the embargo. As the AFP noted in their original story,?since updated:

Breaking with a long tradition in scientific journalism, the authors allowed a selected group of reporters to have access to the paper, provided they signed confidentiality agreements that prevented them from consulting other experts about the research before publication.

My?Reuters colleagues described the embargo agreement?in a similar way:

In an unusual move, the research group did not allow reporters to seek outside comment on their paper before its publication in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology and presentation at a news conference in London.

So did the BBC:

In a move regarded as unusual by the media, the French research group refused to provide copies of the journal paper to reporters in advance of its publication, unless they signed non-disclosure agreements. The NDAs would have prevented the journalists from approaching third-party researchers for comment.

To their credit, the reporters at the three outlets I cite above went back and refiled their stories with comment from scientists unrelated to the study, and from Monsanto, once the embargo lifted. But the Sustainable Food Trust knew damn well reporters would be under pressure to file something the moment the embargo lifted ? especially since this was an embargo likely to be broken, as it was ? and that their hands would be tied as far as outside comment.

Oransky, who described this as ?an outrageous abuse? of the system, went on to propose calling this kind of embargo agreement a ?stenographer?s embargo? ? in that it turns journalists into typists with no ability to examine what?s reported. Please read the whole post here.

Of course some of the blame lies with the reporters or media outlets willing to sign such an agreement, given how it shackles them. The science writer Carl Zimmer made this point in a comment on Oransky?s blog:

I have no sympathy for stenographers. The more that journalists bend to these demands, the more people can corrupt the system. The scientists should be ashamed of their own behavior in this affair, but we also need to deliver a dose of shame to the reporters who caved to these outrageous demands, so as to discourage it from happening again.

But this incident mainly reveals just how dubious this whole affair has been.

If the rat research ends up replicated, it?ll constitute a substantial breakthrough, and a challenge to the agricultural biotechnology industry. But until then, I have to place it in a big bin of suspect studies ?done by people out to prove something rather than investigate something,? as the evolutionary biologist Michael Eisen said in a late update to my previous post on this work.

Eisin, if you missed it, added: ?This affects every aspect of the work, from study design, to execution, interpretation and publicity?. The result of all of this severely tainted work (and there?s plenty from the pro-GMO side too) is that the really good science in the field gets drowned out, and isn?t taken seriously because people just assume that it, too, must be biased. Total mess.?

A total mess, indeed.

Source: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/group-promoting-rat-study-of-engineered-corn-forced-coverage-rush/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Friday, September 21, 2012

UK soldier unexpectedly gives birth in Afghanistan

LONDON (AP) ? Hours after a British soldier in Afghanistan told medics she was suffering from stomach pains, the Royal Artillery gunner unexpectedly gave birth to a boy ? the first child ever born to a member of Britain's armed forces in combat.

Britain's defense ministry said Thursday the soldier told authorities she had not been aware she was pregnant and only consulted doctors on the day that she went into labor.

The soldier, who arrived in Afghanistan in March, delivered the child Tuesday at Camp Bastion, the vast desert camp in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province where Prince Harry is deployed and a Taliban attack last week killed two U.S. Marines.

"Mother and baby are both in a stable condition in the hospital and are receiving the best possible care," the ministry said in a statement. It said a team of doctors would fly out to Afghanistan in the coming days to help the soldier and her son return safely to Britain.

The U.K. does not allow female soldiers to deploy on operation if they are pregnant. Although the soldier's child was conceived before her tour of duty began in March, she is not likely to face censure. Britain has sent female soldiers home from wars after they became pregnant ? including about 60 from Afghanistan ? but hasn't previously had a servicewoman go into labor in a war zone.

In 2009, the U.S. military in Iraq issued a policy that could punish soldiers who became pregnant there and their sexual partners ? then quickly rescinded it after a storm of criticism.

The British soldier, a citizen of Fiji, is one of about 500 British military women serving in Afghanistan. She is also among around 2,000 Fijians who serve in the British military, even though the country became independent from Britain in 1970.

Camp Bastion, which hosts the U.S. Camp Leatherneck, is home to most of Britain's 9,500 soldiers in Afghanistan, including Prince Harry ? who arrived there earlier this month to serve as an attack helicopter gunner. Last Friday, a Taliban assault on the base ended up with two U.S. marines killed and six American fighter jets destroyed.

Maj. Charles Heyman, a retired officer and author of "'The British Army Guide" said the unexpected birth would cause some concern at the base.

"This sort of thing makes life difficult for everyone else, but the important thing is the welfare of the female soldier. This could have gone wrong and we don't know if the attack on Camp Bastion might have forced the birth," said Maj. Charles Heyman, a retired officer and author of "'The British Army Guide."

Heyman said it may have been "that the excitement of the tour masked the symptoms of the pregnancy."

Belinda Phipps, chief executive of the National Childbirth Trust, a British parenting charity, also suggested the soldier's demanding work could explain why she either didn't know she was pregnant, or had attempted to ignore the signs.

"It could be that she was so very focused on other things, and because she was in a life-or-death scenario, that she simply didn't recognize that she was pregnant," Phipps said.

Phipps said the pregnancy may not have been obvious to the soldier's colleagues. "Not everyone has a very big baby bump, some women carry their baby far inside," she said.

Patrick O'Brien, a consultant obstetrician at University College London Hospital, said cases of unnoticed pregnancies were unusual, but that he encountered at least one each year.

"There are some women who have very irregular periods, often women who are very fit and exercise a lot. There are women who don't have sickness during pregnancy. Some women ? particularly those who are overweight ? don't recognize they have put on weight, or feel the baby moving," O'Brien said.

Many cases involved women who refused to accept that they were pregnant and attempted to disguise it, particularly young women living at home.

"It's not just that they hide the pregnancy from their parents, they often become in denial of the pregnancy," he said.

"If you have a combination of any or all of those things, a pregnancy can go undetected, or the woman can be in denial of it if the implications to their life are so great," said O'Brien, a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist.

A study published in 2011 by Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary said that denial of pregnancy was more common than expected, suggesting it occurred in around 1 in 2,500 births.

In a 2002 German survey of Berlin obstetric hospitals, researchers found that 40 percent of women who didn't realize they were pregnant had seen doctors who also failed to spot the signs.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-soldier-unexpectedly-gives-birth-afghanistan-130526550.html

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How the cheetah got its stripes: A genetic tale

Friday, September 21, 2012

Feral cats in Northern California have enabled researchers to unlock the biological secret behind a rare, striped cheetah found only in sub-Saharan Africa, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the National Cancer Institute and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville, Alabama. The study is the first to identify a molecular basis of coat patterning in mammals.

The scientists found that the two felines share a biological mechanism responsible for both the elegant stripes on the tabby cat and the cheetah's normally dappled coat. Dramatic changes to the normal patterns occur when this pathway is disrupted: The resulting house cat has swirled patches of color rather than orderly stripes, and the normally spotted cheetah sports thick, dark lines down its back.

"Mutation of a single gene causes stripes to become blotches, and spots to become stripes," said Greg Barsh, MD, PhD, emeritus professor of genetics and of pediatrics at Stanford and an investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute.

The differences are so pronounced that biologists at first thought that cheetahs with the mutated gene belonged to an entirely different species. The rare animals became known as "king cheetahs," while affected tabby cats received the less-regal moniker of "blotched." (The more familiar, striped cat is known as a mackerel tabby.)

The study will be published Sept. 21 in Science. Christopher Kaelin, PhD, a senior scientist in the Barsh laboratory, is the co-first author; Xiao Xu PhD, from the National Cancer Institute-Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research and the Sichuan Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology on Endangered Wildlife in Sichuan, China, is the other co-first author. Marilyn Menotti-Raymond, PhD, of NCI-Frederick is the senior author.

Barsh and his lab members have spent decades investigating how traditional laboratory animals such as mice develop specific coat colors. His previous work identified a variety of biologically important pathways that control more than just hair or skin color, and have been linked to brain degeneration, anemia and bone marrow failure. But laboratory mice don't display the pattern variation seen in many mammals.

"We were motivated by a basic question," said Barsh of the turn to the study of big (and little) cats. "How do periodic patterns like stripes and spots in mammals arise? What generates them? How are they maintained? What is their biological and evolutionary significance? It's kind of surprising how little is known. Until now, there's been no obvious biological explanation for cheetah spots or the stripes on tigers, zebras or even the ordinary house cat."

The research relied primarily on DNA samples from feral cats in Northern California captured for sterilization and release, on tissue samples provided by the City of Huntsville Animal Services group, and on small skin biopsies and blood samples from captive and wild South African and Namibian cheetahs. It also hinged on the recent availability of the whole-genome sequence of the domestic cat. (Menotti-Raymond's research focuses on the genomic analysis of the domestic cat to better understand many human diseases.)

"The Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute has long championed the cat as an animal model of human disease," said Menotti-Raymond. "Studying color variation in cats provides the opportunity to uncover new principles of gene action and interaction that may have unexpected applications to understanding developmental and morphologic variation in natural populations, including humans."

Comparing gene sequences of feral cats with different patterns allowed Kaelin and Xu to identify mutations in a gene they dubbed Taqpep associated with the blotched tabby markings: 58 of 58 blotched tabbies had a mutation in each of its two copies of Taqpep, while 51 of 51 mackerel tabbies had a least one unmutated version.

Taqpep encodes a protease normally found in the cell membrane, but that can also be cleaved to allow it to diffuse outside the cell. This ability to float freely and interact with other molecules in the extracellular soup is a key component of a principle called reaction diffusion proposed by the famous computer scientist Alan Turing, PhD, in 1952 as a way to explain how periodic patterns (like stripes and spots) can arise out of randomness.

"Turing realized that, under specific conditions, diffusible 'activator' and 'inhibitor' molecules can self-organize into a variety of periodic patterns," said Barsh. "We are excited about the idea that Taqpep might be an entry point to understand if, and how, reaction-diffusion mechanisms can explain 'how the leopard got its spots.'"

After nailing down Taqpep's role in tabby stripes (and analyzing its sequence in more than 350 other cats of 24 distinct breeds), Kaelin wondered if it might play a similar role in generating and maintaining the spots on wild and captive cheetahs. He obtained blood samples from a king cheetah named Kgosi, a resident of a wildcat education and conservation program in Northern California, and found that Kgosi also had a mutation in Taqpep.

Kaelin next contacted Ann van Dyk, who maintains a cheetah conservation center in South Africa from which all captive king cheetahs, including Kgosi, originate. (Van Dyk was the first to learn, though meticulous breeding records, that the king cheetah pattern is due to a recessive genetic mutation.) Van Dyk obtained DNA samples from all her cheetahs, allowing confirmation that a Taqpep mutation is responsible for the king cheetah pattern.

Mammals aren't the only animals with patterned hair or skin, obviously. Fish, salamanders and some invertebrates also have stripes and spots. However, there is an essential difference. While the non-mammals simply add stripes or spots as they grow to adulthood, mammals keep the same number and pattern by increasing the surface area of the contrasting colors.

"Somehow, cells in the black stripes know they are in a black stripe and remember that fact throughout the organism's life," said Barsh. "We were curious about what's happening at the boundary between light and dark stripes and spots. How do these spots know to grow with an animal?"

When Kelly McGowan, MD, PhD, a senior scientist in Barsh's group, studied fetal cat skin after seven weeks of gestation, she found that the tabby pattern begins to arise only when the hair begins to grow. In other words, there are no apparent differences between the cells themselves ? only in the color of hair they produce. That suggested that the changes in color are due to differences in the levels of expression of certain genes within the cells.

Lewis Hong, a former graduate student in Barsh's lab, used a technique he developed called EDGE to identify changes in gene expression levels between black and yellow areas of cheetah skin (obtained under anesthesia). He found several differences, many associated with a pathway influencing the expression of a gene called Edn3. McGowan found that Edn3 mRNA was produced at the base of the follicles making the black hairs. To test their theory, the researchers collaborated with a group at Florida International University to study a yellow-colored laboratory mouse that had been engineered to express Edn3. The coats of the resulting animals were much darker than their unmodified peers.

"This is very strong evidence that Edn3 is a critical regulator of black versus yellow hair in animals," said Barsh. The researchers hypothesize that expression of Taqpep is required to establish a pattern of stripes or spots in early feline development that is then carried out by Edn3 as the hair grows.

Clearly, not all cats are patterned. In particular, some big adult cats like African lions and mountain lions are distinctive for their lack of color variation even though their cubs are striped. Furthermore, Taqpep mutations are surprisingly common in some non-striped domestic cat breeds like the Abyssinian and the Himalayan.

"We know there's a mutation that suppresses pattern formation in some cats," said Barsh. "We'd like to investigate that mechanism as well."

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Thanks to Stanford University Medical Center for this article.

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