HARTFORD -- The brother of a former Brookfield High School and UConn football star will be spending 27 months in prison for selling painkillers to an undercover U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a government informant.
U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant imposed the sentence on Kyle Lutrus, 28, of 10 High Ridge Road, Brookfield. In addition to the prison term, Lutrus was ordered to forfeit $60,000 and his 2005 Honda Accord to the government. The $60,000 represents the cash down payment he made on the High Ridge Road home he purchased for $295,000.
Lutrus is the brother of Scott Lutrus a linebacker with the Indianapolis Colts who missed all of last season after tearing his ACL in an exhibition game.
Kyle Lutrus was arrested by the DEA after he sold approximately 343 pain killers to an undercover agent.
Lutrus told U.S. Probation Officer Timothy Donahue that he bought and sold oxycodone from December 2011 to December 2012 to "support my habit as I was using at that time with my girlfriend." He estimated that his habit was costing $800 a week.
Since then, Lutrus, who has his electricians' license, quit his addiction "cold turkey."
Lutrus told Donahue he feels "horrible" about selling drugs and "I don't want it on my conscience."
But Assistant U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan countered those comments.
"Apparently, the defendant's horror does not weigh heavily enough on his conscience to allow him to identify his sources of supply of oxycodone or the names of his customers," Sullivan said. "The defendant's feigned concern for those to whom he sold oxycodone is nothing more than crocodile tears."
Assistant U. S. Public Defender Paul Thomas pointed out in court papers that his client, a first-time offender, is in recovery and has a "solid history of gainful employment."
"Kyle Lutrus deviated disastrously from his positive and productive lifestyle when he became addicted to prescription painkillers and then sold those drugs to other people," Thomas told the judge in a pre-sentence memorandum. "He righted himself and is living free of drugs, working and supporting himself in a law-abiding lifestyle."
HONG KONG (AP) ? Chinese manufacturing remained weak last month with small and mid-sized private businesses suffering a bigger share of the pain, two surveys indicated Thursday, adding to an uncertain outlook for the world's No. 2 economy.
The official China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing's manufacturing index strengthened slightly to 50.3 from June's 50.1. Separately, the private HSBC purchasing managers' index fell to an 11-month low of 47.7 from 48.2 in June. Both use a 100-point scale on which numbers below 50 indicate contraction.
Analysts said the federation's survey mostly covers big state-owned enterprises while the HSBC survey is more geared to small and medium-sized private companies.
The HSBC report said output at Chinese manufacturers fell as total new orders dropped at the sharpest rate in 11 months because of a decline in new business in both China and overseas. Export orders fell for the fourth straight month, though at a slower pace. Exporters told researchers that new sales to Europe, Southeast Asia and the U.S. fell from June. Chinese manufacturers shed jobs at the fastest pace in four years.
The federation's survey also found that new export orders, while improved, remained below an index reading of 50 last month
Fallout from China's manufacturing slump may be felt globally, as declining orders result in less demand for iron ore and other commodities from countries such as Australia and Brazil and for industrial components from Southeast Asia, Taiwan and South Korea.
China has recorded five straight quarters of growth below 8 percent, a substantial economic cooling for a country that previously grew at double-digit rates.
Analysts said the survey results indicate smaller private companies may still be feeling the effects of a credit shortage that began in June as Chinese regulators try to rein in a lending boom over fears it could race out of control. The credit crunch caused interest rates on loans between banks to spike to a record high.
"Smaller companies probably have been affected more by the liquidity squeeze," said Wei Yao, China economist at Societe Generale.
China's central bank wants to tighten lending standards, which should reduce risk but is likely to reduce financing for private businesses that generate China's new jobs and wealth.
"We shouldn't dismiss the positive side in the official PMI, but at the same time the HSBC PMI is a reminder that things are still difficult especially, with smaller companies," she said. "So basically that suggests as a whole if there is a recovery, it's a very gradual one and it's still quite unstable."
PORTLAND ? More victims of a ?debt relief? company scam are coming forward as the Department of Justice files a lawsuit to keep the company from doing business in the state.
KGW first reported on the story of World Law Debt earlier this month. The company promised debt relief, credit counseling and debt consolidation to people in tough financial situations. Since the story aired, Unit 8 has been contacted by several people who say they?re also out thousands of dollars.
?I thought, this will make things easier for me,? said 78-year-old Dolores Crawley. ?To take the stress off.?
Crawley, who breathes with the help of a constant oxygen tank, said she?s been giving World Law Debt more than $400 every month for several months. Her health problems caused her to fall behind with her creditors.
Crawley said not a dime has been paid to any of her creditors.
?Usually you receive statements every month with any business and they said they were still dealing with my creditors,? she said.
?We're essentially seeking to ban them from the state and we're asking for more than $10 million in damages,? said Jeff Manning of the Department of Justice. The state is also seeking full restitution for every potential victim in Oregon.
The Department of Justice?s lawsuit is in response to more than 425 potential victims in Oregon. Many say the money they paid to World Law Debt was not used to pay their creditors.
This claim was echoed by a former World Law Debt employee who asked not to be named.
?Telling them we can still make a plan, we can figure something out, knowing in my head that ultimately they're going to get sued by one of their creditors,? the employee said.
The employee said he spent years at World Law Debt in client services and eventually as a supervisor. He said lying to the customer was part of the job.
?This is not going to help them? he said. ?All they're doing is paying us basically to save money.?
Today, the Oregon Department of Justice is urging consumers to stop doing business with World Law Debt as the State?s lawsuit continues to move forward.
?For those people who have done business with World Law Debt, they need to end the relationship and they need to file a complaint with the Justice Department,? said Manning.
Crawley said she plans to follow that advice.
?I'm going to go to the bank today and stop the payments from going out, and from there I don't know what to do,? Crawley said.
World Law Debt disputed the state?s claims. A spokesperson for the company said they are operating legally in Oregon under federal law. The spokesperson says the company has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to intervene in the Department of Justice?s lawsuit.
Although the company is also being sued in other states, their motions to dismiss those lawsuits will be heard in August.
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Consumers in Long Island who are dealing with this kind of concern have plenty of options to weigh in. Pain sufferers are generally unclear about what is offered from this doctor which is often why they are avoided. Keeping several factors in mind is quite helpful in managing this process accordingly.
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A Long Island orthopedic surgeon provides guidance on daily habits that help prevent pain from being an issue. Daily activities that include the foot are generally reviewed to determine which ones could be creating the most pain. Patients are then guided on how to use their foot without having to experiencing discomfort.
Seinfeld's last episode aired in May 1998, but there was a night two weeks ago when, at least in Washington, you had your choice of two episodes on basic TV at the same time.?
Fifteen years after it officially ended, Seinfeld is still an entertainment colossus. Officially, as of Wednesday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis has decided to count that in its calculations of economic output.
On Wednesday morning, the BEA released its once-every-five-years benchmark revisions to its gross domestic product?measurementin its comprehensive revision of the national income and product accounts, or NIPA. And now the measurement includes a section called "intellectual-property products," which contains what the BEA refers to as "entertainment originals"?a move that allows some entertainment to be counted as a sort of investment.
But "entertainment originals" isn't just a catch-all for everything that comes across your screen of choice. How the BEA assesses television programs makes this clear. Dramas and "situational comedies" fit their criteria for art that has ownership rights, is long-lived, and is used repeatedly in production. Something like a Heat-Spurs NBA playoff game doesn't. Nor would an episode of Days of Our Lives, or World News Tonight.
On the other hand, the BEA does include all motion pictures and musical recordings in investment. So, congratulations Ke$ha and Spring Breakers: You've made it into the GDP. The calculations also include products such as greeting cards and stock photography?the kind of stuff that can wind up being used over and over in production, says the BEA's Brent Moulton. But, like all assets, the actual value of something like a Carly Rae Jepsen song or a JJ Abrams movie is likely to depreciate over time,?sometimes not much time at all.
Many of these forms of entertainment were already included in GDP in some form. The cost of a book or movie ticket was always in there, says Moulton. The new category is less about the physical, and more about the actual investment value of the entertainment over time.?The process and calculations involved are explained in a paper from two BEA employees.
The latest revisions to the calculation of GDP are "all about relevance," said Steve Landefeld, the bureau's director. But he was clear to say that it wasn't "rewriting economic history."
And rewrite economic history it did not. Like the result of every episode of Seinfeld, the inclusion of entertainment isn't earth-shattering. Entertainment originals contributed about $74.3 billion to GDP in 2012, but the BEA is cautious about banking purely on their dollar figures.In percentage terms, that rounds out to a contribution of about zero percent of the total GDP for 2012 of about $16.2 trillion.
It's definitely not nothing, though. As the Wall Street Journalpointed out, intellectual-property products?which now also include software and R&D?took off during the Internet boom in 1997, only to drop off by the 2001 bust. And we're still talking about billions of dollars added to the economy. But, as exciting as it may sound to start including entertainment as investment in GDP, the U.S. economy is just so massivethat it barely moves the needle.
A series of explosions engulfed a propane plant in flames in Tavares, Florida, late Monday. This photo was taken at 11.36 p.m. from a location between 1-2 miles from the blast.
By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News
A combination of human error and equipment failure might have caused a series of explosions that engulfed a propane plant in flames in Tavares, Fla., late Monday, injuring eight people and forcing evacuations for a half-mile around the scene, authorities said.
The explosions began as a fire spread through the Blue Rhino plant,?near Orlando,?about 10:30 p.m. ET, Lake County sheriff's Lt. John Herrell told reporters early Tuesday.
Plant officials say all employees of the plant are accounted for. All of those injured were in the plant when the fire started.
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Tavares Fire Chief?Richard Keith said Tuesday morning that sabotage is not expected. The fire marshal is on site to do a full investigation.?
Residents of the area told NBC station WESH of Orlando that flames from the explosions could be seen for several miles, but there were no reports of damage to the surrounding buildings. ?
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Flames from the Blue Rhino propane plant in Tavares, Fla., seen from the air Monday night.
"It sounds like bombs are going off," Norma Haygood, a nearby resident, told WESH.
No deaths were immediately reported, Herrell said. Three male victims were in critical condition, the Orlando Regional Medical Center, told NBC News.?
Two were airlifted; a third was transported by ambulance. ?
Authorities initially declared a one-mile evacuation zone around the plant, but they later scaled that back to a half-mile, effective until 6 a.m. ET.?
"We feel that there is no longer any danger" to the area around the plant, Herrell said.
Twenty-four or 26 people were scheduled to work the night shift at the 33,000-acre facility, according to plant managers, Herrell said. Authorities initially said 15 people were unaccounted for, but Herrell later said the company's management said that they had accounted for all of the people it knew were in the plant at the time of the initial explosion.
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Some of them showed up at others location, according to Blue Rhino, Herrell said. He said he had no further information on where the others were.
The plant housed about 53,000 20-pound propane cylinders, Herrell said.
"They store the propane cylinders on different parts of the property, and as the fire spread, there were more and more explosions," he said.?
Explosions continued until 1 a.m. ET Tuesday, roughly 2? hours after the first blasts were reported.
Don Ingram, former plant production supervisor at the plant, said his son felt one of the explosions in their home 6 miles away.
Ingram told WESH that the back area of the plant is "lined with propane tanks stacked four or five high on plastic pallets."
"I don't think you fight this fire," he said. "It's just too dangerous."
Blue Rhino is a subsidiary of Ferrellgas Partners, the second-largest distributor of propane in the U.S.
Azhar Fateh of NBC News contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:24 AM EDT
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have developed a cementitious material incorporating carbon nanofibers in its composition, turning cement into an excellent conductor of electricity capable of performing functions beyond its usual structural function.
Zhejiang Hisun Pharma (SHA: 600267) will raise up to 936 million RMB ($152.6 million) in a convertible bond offering. The company will use the money to build a manufacturing facility that will make finished drugs, in both solid form and injections. Hisun said the construction will move it further away from its traditional focus on APIs to become a pharmaceutical company with a broad range of offerings.
JenaValve Technology, a German company that has developed a transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system to replace sclerotic aortic valves, raised $62.5 million in a Series C venture round. Part of the money will be allocated for China approval of the device. Legend Capital, the Beijing-based VC/PE firm, participated in the round.
Despite its well-publicized problems in China, GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) is actively moving forward with a plan to form a vaccine collaboration with a China company (see story). The company revealed it is talking to several China vaccine makers, with the goal of forming an R&D/marketing partnership. Christophe Weber, head of GSK's vaccine division, said the conversations have not been affected by the on-going bribery scandal.
Zhejiang Hisun Pharma and Celsion (NSDQ: CLSN) of the US signed a new MOU that expands their collaboration on ThermoDox?, a heat-activated liposomal encapsulation of doxorubicin for primary liver cancer (see story). In June 2012, Celsion and Hisun signed a long-term commercial supply agreement for the production of ThermoDox. The new MOU calls for the two companies to conduct clinical trials of ThemoDox in China, develop new liposomal formulations, and transfer to Hisun the technology allowing commercial manufacture of ThermoDox.
Lumenis Ltd. struck a deal to distribute Visionix's ophthalmic and optometric diagnostics product line in China. Visionix's wavefront technology measures the way light passes through the eye, giving a precise diagnosis for corrective lenses or laser correction surgery. Lumenis is the world's largest medical laser company for ophthalmic, aesthetic and surgical applications. Both companies are headquartered in Israel.
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BGI Shenzhen, the world's largest genomic institute, working with the Reproductive & Genetic Hospital CITIC-XIANGYA, has used Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to analyze in vitro fertilized (IVF) embryos and detect any genetic abnormalities. After sequencing, only the best embryos of the cohort are implanted, thereby increasing pregnancy rates and reducing genetically caused abnormalities. BGI says that, by improving genetic screening, preimplantation sequencing advances the practice of human assisted reproduction.
As the result of its ongoing scandal in China, GlaxoSmithKline replaced its General Manager for China, Mark Reilly, with Herve Gisserot, who had been GSK's vice president for Europe. Mr. Reilly left China in late June when authorities raided GSK's offices. The trip was described as a routine visit to headquarters, but GSK officials refused to answer whether Mr. Reilly would be subject to arrest if he returned to China. GSK said there are "no allegations of wrongdoing" against Reilly, who was not fired.
Two years ago, an internal audit of practices at GlaxoSmithKline's Shanghai R&D facility showed serious problems (see story). Researchers did not report a total of six test results of a multiple sclerosis drug. By the time the tests were discovered, the drug, ozanezumab, was already being tested in humans. When GSK officials looked at the data, they stopped testing the drug in patients with MS, though trials for Lou Gherig's disease were allowed to continue.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) ? A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber has detonated explosives outside a Turkish hospital in Mogadishu killing at least one person and himself and wounding three others.
Mohammed Abdi said Saturday the bomber drove a mini-van laden with explosives which he detonated at the Al-Shifa hospital.
No group claimed immediate responsibility for the attack but suspicions are likely to fall on al-Shabab insurgents who have been carrying out guerrilla attacks since African Union troops expelled them from the capital in August 2011
Al-Shabab, which has links with al-Qaida, has long been threatening Turkish workers and aid agencies in Somalia accusing them of spreading secularism in Somalia.
Canada?s immunization rate for children is 28th among the world?s 29 richest industrial nations, and falling. Infectious diseases, such as measles, are making a comeback. Readers, print and digital, have their say about parents who don?t immunize
Re Measles Is Back. It Had Help (July 23): I am not against vaccination. I am against all concerned people being shut down as a voice of inquiry.
Please do not discount inquiries into ?why?? and the right of parents and all of us to ask those charged with our health: Are these vaccines and/or drugs safe?
Victoria E. Lammers, Toronto
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Margaret Wente is right to raise an alarm about the immunization of Canada?s children.
Unicef?s recent Report Card found that, at 84 per cent, Canada?s immunization rate is 28th of 29 industrialized nations and it?s been falling for a decade. We need a national immunization strategy to ensure Canadians have the information they need. We?re putting a lot of our kids at risk of preventable diseases that can be devastating.
Canadian pediatricians and governments invest in and provide easy access to immunization because vaccines save lives. It is why the United Nations Children?s Fund is the world?s largest purchaser of vaccines for children ? 1.9 billion doses in 96 countries last year ? and will go anywhere to save a child?s life.
Places in Africa, such as Tunisia and Eritrea, now have higher immunization rates than Canada?s. Older Canadians remember the death and disability that polio, diphtheria, whooping cough and even measles can bring.
Lisa Wolff, director, policy and education, Unicef Canada.........
My son had a major stroke as a result of chicken pox 13 years ago, about the time the vaccine was coming out. We had actually scheduled him to be vaccinated but he was exposed to the virus before the appointment.
My son was off-the-charts healthy, so it can happen to any child. Just plain bad luck. There was another boy in the next room with the same chicken-pox-induced stroke, so what happened to our son was not that rare. Fortunately, after several years of physio and willpower, he?s fine. But the impact on our family will last a lifetime.
Pam Stephen, Toronto
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We?ve often met anti-vaccine parents, starting when we sent our vaccinated kids to daycare.
They?re nostalgic parents, who long for the days when everything was more natural, more organic, simpler. Nothing wrong with that I guess. The only problem is when you carry those beliefs to the extreme, such as doubting the advances of modern medicine.
Louis Lafortune, Gatineau, Que.
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Part of the blame for scientific illiteracy around subjects such as vaccination, genetically modified crops, climate change and homeopathy is that the media ? in the interest of ?fairness? ? give too much credibility to the crackpots.
A spade should be called a bloody shovel more often.
David Spence, London, Ont.
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The most feared complication of measles is subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. A mouthful, it basically means the victim has ongoing infection with the virus and a progressive degenerative brain disease, usually culminating in death over a period of years.
It is rare, but I often think about how it would feel to be a vaccine-denier and have a child who suffered the complication.
David Cross, MD, Calgary
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As the parent of a child with autism, I can say we searched high and low for an ?answer.?
Fortunately for us, we know better than to read Jenny McCarthy?s tripe. Not so for many other parents, who are guilting themselves to pieces over vaccinating their kids.
For many years, the anti-vaccination group was shielded by the fact that most people were vaccinated, and they benefited through the lack of exposure. The tables have turned, and these parents (who likely have had their vaccines) are putting their kids? lives at risk.
Trent Meyer, Regina
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Measles is a mild childhood illness in the majority of cases. As long as my kids are healthy, why would I risk their health to the unknown dangers of the vaccination? Is it possible that the number of children getting sick these days is due to a sedentary lifestyle and the lack of good nutrition and sunlight?
None of my kids were vaccinated and they have never even been on antibiotics. Their own family doctors wouldn?t even recognize them because they don?t get sick.
Carol Koepke, London, Ont.
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Where I live, the area is dotted with quaint old graveyards from the 19th century. These churchyards are public-health textbooks: So many of the stones are for children under the age of 5.
Diphtheria and whooping cough routinely killed children or they were left deaf or blind from measles and scarlet fever. That is why we immunize.
My mother had measles in the 1950s and was left with hearing damage. My husband caught mumps as a teen in the mid-?70s and developed encephalitis. He was in a coma for five days, and received last rites in the hospital.
My son has all his shots.
Meredith Johnston, Aurora, Ont.
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Vaccination doesn?t always stop a sickness. My son was vaccinated and he still got measles when he was three years old. He is now 34.
Lynn Craig, Harvey, N.B.
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I vaccinated my child against measles because I had the freedom to choose whether or not I would; I weighed the dangers and came to the conclusion that it was best for us. The freedom of my choice, and the freedom of choice of others, is where I draw a line. It should not be crossed.
Re Trudeau Embraces Legal Pot As Liberals, NDP Look To 2015 (July 26): While Justin Trudeau is in favour of legalization, the NDP says decriminalization is the solution. Has Tom Mulcair walked around downtown Toronto lately? Marijuana use is widespread ? on the street, in parks, at the beach. It is already de facto decriminalized.
Only legalization can end the obscene profits, grow-ops and violence linked to the drug trade, just as ending Prohibition did with alcohol. The Liberals have my vote for this stance alone.
Christopher Price, Toronto
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Marijuana is a bad idea
Justin Trudeau wants to legalize marijuana, which he says is not worse for people than cigarettes or alcohol. In 38 years as a family doctor, I have lost dozens of patients from lung cancer, emphysema, vascular and heart disease etc. due to the effects of smoking.
I have seen the devastating effects of excess alcohol use on family life, loss of employment, car accidents, death from liver failure etc. And this man would still like to legalize marijuana use as ?it?s not worse ??
Heaven help this country if he becomes prime minister.
Tom Weinberger, M.D., Toronto
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New telecoms wanted
Re BCE Warns On Foreign Rivals (July 26): The same kind of rhetoric was heard when Wal-Mart was set to enter Canada. What BCE, Rogers and Telus are really worried about is losing more ground.
Just as Wal-Mart and now Target create competition, we need to see competition in the telecom industry, particularly the mobile sector.
When I compare with family in the U.S. and look at what we get for mobile service, I say let in some new blood.
Ron Grossman, Ottawa
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Don?t meddle in markets
Stephen Harper is mistaken if he believes allowing Verizon into the marketplace is a vote-getter. I and many others have already lost significantly more on our BCE, Telus and Rogers shares than we would ever make up on potentially lower phone bills.
I say ?potentially,? because Verizon may offer discounts to capture customers, but in time will revert to pricing that maximizes profits.
Mr. Harper needs to stop meddling in the markets and remember what motivates people to vote Conservative.
Getting a job at a company like Apple is no easy task.
While every tech company asks programmers technical questions to see if they're fit for a job, Apple makes a point to follow up each response with "but how would you optimize that/make it better?"
And then there are the questions that really throw you off.
Via Glassdoor's Interview Questions and Reviews section, we've compiled the tougher non-technical questions Apple has asked potential employees.
Some are brainteasers that make you prove that you're really the mathematical hotshot that you present on your resum?.?
Others put you on the spot and make you give an honest answer about yourself.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A historic Roman Catholic church in San Francisco is planning to build a repository where pet owners will be able to keep the ashes of cats, dogs, and other dearly departed animals.
The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi is seeking donations for an 850-square-foot columbarium that would be the first in the city for animal remains, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday (http://bit.ly/12pU3AC ).
Plans for the space include a stained-glass rendering of St. Francis, who is the patron saint of both animals and San Francisco. Urns containing the ashes of the animals enshrined there will be displayed behind glass while their photographs will be shown on a video screen.
The design also calls for a Hall of Honor for service animals that worked with disabled people and in law enforcement.
The 164-year-old church's rector, the Rev. Harold Snider, says the columbarium will be available to pet owners regardless of their religious affiliations.
"You don't have to be Christian or Catholic to love your pets and respect their memories," Snider said.
Steve Cady, who has been attending services at the church for about 15 years, said he is comforted knowing his 4 1/2-year-old terrier Frankie, whom like the church is named after St. Francis, will have a good home when the dogs dies.
"He's been God's blessing for me and the many people who've gotten to know him," Cady said.
The repository will have enough room for the remains of 1,000 animals. Church leaders hope to have the project finished by spring.
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Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com
Remember the gender bender story from a few days ago about legislation in California that would ?require public schools in his state to allow students to choose which bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams match their gender identity.? HERE
Keep your eyes and ears open for more and more frequent use of phrases such as ?biological male girl?.
There is a bit more news about that gender-social-engineering news from Life News. HERE
I?m shocked! shocked! to learn that the Obama Administration, through its Department of Justice, lead by that paragon of liberal activism AG Holder, pressured a school district through what sounds like a lot of harassment.
Obama admin forces school district to let teenage girl use boys restroom, showers, sleeping quarters BY KIRSTEN ANDERSEN
ARCADIA, CA, July 25, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) ? The Obama administration?s Justice Department has pressured a California school district into allowing an incoming high school freshman who is anatomically female but identifies as a boy to use the restroom and changing facilities assigned to her preferred sex, rather than her biological sex.
Her family filed a federal discrimination lawsuit after the school district twice refused to allow the girl to sleep in a room with boys without a chaperone.
The Obama administration pressured the school district to allow the girl to use the boys? facilities, saying in a letter that failure to do so constitutes sexual discrimination against ?students who do not conform to sex stereotypes.?
Under a new agreement, every transgender student in the district will have full access to the opposite sex?s changing rooms and sleeping quarters during school trips.
On Wednesday, after two years of investigation by the DOJ, the school district agreed to a settlement in which they admitted no wrongdoing, but agreed to submit to the demands of the girl?s family, along with several additional DOJ orders.
Now, not only must Arcadia school officials give the girl unrestricted access to the boys? facilities, they must also give her access to private facilities if and when she requests them.
The district must also allow her to participate in any boys-only activities she desires, both on- and off-campus, and seal all records of her birth sex and previous name to protect her new identity as a boy.
These orders apply not just to the girl in this case, but to any students who approach school administrators in the future claiming to be a different sex than their biology suggests.
The district and its administrators will be subject to continued monitoring by the DOJ and Department of Education through 2016 to ensure they comply.
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Read the rest there.
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Epilepsy in a dish: Stem cell research reveals clues to disease's origins and possible treatmentPublic release date: 25-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Kara Gavin kegavin@umich.edu 734-764-2220 University of Michigan Health System
U-M-led study of neurons created from skin of patients with Dravet syndrome
ANN ARBOR, Mich. A new stem cell-based approach to studying epilepsy has yielded a surprising discovery about what causes one form of the disease, and may help in the search for better medicines to treat all kinds of seizure disorders.
The findings, reported by a team of scientists from the University of Michigan Medical School and colleagues, use a technique that could be called "epilepsy in a dish".
By turning skin cells of epilepsy patients into stem cells, and then turning those stem cells into neurons, or brain nerve cells, the team created a miniature testing ground for epilepsy. They could even measure the signals that the cells were sending to one another, through tiny portals called sodium channels.
In neurons derived from the cells of children who have a severe, rare genetic form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome, the researchers report abnormally high levels of sodium current activity. They saw spontaneous bursts of communication and "hyperexcitability" that could potentially set off seizures. Neurons made from the skin cells of people without epilepsy showed none of this abnormal activity.
They report their results online in the Annals of Neurology, and have further work in progress to create induced pluripotent stem cell lines from the cells of patients with other genetic forms of epilepsy. The work is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Epilepsy Society, the Epilepsy Foundation and U-M.
The new findings differs from what other scientists have seen in mice -- demonstrating the importance of studying cells made from human epilepsy patients. Because the cells came from patients, they contained the hallmark seen in most patients with Dravet syndrome: a new mutation in SCN1A, the gene that encodes the crucial sodium channel protein called Nav1.1. That mutation reduces the number of channels to half the normal number in patients' brains.
"With this technique, we can study cells that closely resemble the patient's own brain cells, without doing a brain biopsy," says senior author and team leader Jack M. Parent, M.D., professor of neurology at U-M and a researcher at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. "It appears that the cells are overcompensating for the loss of channels due to the mutation. These patient-specific induced neurons hold great promise for modeling seizure disorders, and potentially screening medications."
With the new paper, Parent, postdoctoral fellow Yu Liu, Ph.D. and their collaborators Lori Isom, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at U-M, and Miriam Meisler, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor of Human Genetics at U-M, report striking discoveries about what is happening at the cell level in the neurons of Dravet syndrome patients with a mutated SCN1A gene.
They also demonstrated that the effect is rooted in something that happens after function of the gene is reduced due to the mutation, though they don't yet know how or why the nerve cells overcompensate for partial loss of this channel.
And, they found that the neurons didn't show the telltale signs of hyperexcitability in the first few weeks after they were made -- consistent with the fact that children with Dravet syndrome often don't suffer their first seizures until they are several months old.
"In addition, reproduction of the hyperactivity of epileptic neurons in these cell cultures demonstrates that there is an intrinsic change in the neurons that does not depend on input from circuits in the brain," says co-author Meisler.
A platform for testing medications
Many Dravet patients don't respond to current epilepsy medications, making the search for new options urgent. Their lives are constantly under threat by the risk of SUDEP, sudden unexplained death in epilepsy and they never outgrow their condition, which delays their development and often requires round-the-clock care.
"Working with patient families, and translating our sodium channel research to a pediatric disease, has made our basic science work much more immediate and critical," says Isom, who serves on the scientific advisory board of the Dravet Syndrome Foundation along with Meisler. Parent, who co-directs U-M's Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, was recently honored by the foundation.
The team is now working toward screening specific compounds for seizure-calming potential in Dravet syndrome, by testing their impact on the cells in the "epilepsy in a dish" model. The National Institutes of Health has made a library of drugs that have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration available for researchers to use -- potentially allowing older drugs to have a second life treating an entirely different disease from what they were initially intended.
Parent and his colleagues hope to identify drugs that affect certain aspects of sodium channels, to see if they can dampen the sodium currents and calm hyperexcitability. The team is exploring new techniques that can make this process faster, using microelectrodes and calcium-sensitive dyes. They also hope to use the model to study potential drugs for non-genetic forms of epilepsy.
Having a U-M team that includes experts in induced pluripotent stem cell biology, sodium channel physiology and epilepsy genetics expertise helps the research progress, Parent notes. "Epilepsy is a complicated brain network disease," he says. "It takes team-based science to address it."
Patients as part of the research team
The U-M team's research wouldn't be possible without the participation of patients with Dravet syndrome and other genetic forms of epilepsy, and their parents.
More than 100 of them have joined the International Ion Channel Epilepsy Patient Registry, which is based at U-M and Miami Children's Hospital and co-funded by the Dravet Syndrome Foundation and the ICE Epilepsy Alliance. The researchers hope to be able to conduct clinical trials of potential drugs with participation by these patients and others.
Meanwhile, patients with other genetically based neurological diseases can also help U-M scientists discover more about their conditions, by taking part in other efforts to create induced neurons from skin cells. Parent and his team have worked with several other U-M faculty to create stem cell lines from skin cells provided by patients with other diseases including forms of ataxia and lysosmal storage disease.
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In addition to Parent, Liu, Meisler and Isom, the research team includes U-M's Luis F. Lopez-Santiago, PhD, Yukun Yuan, PhD, Julie M. Jones, MS, Helen Zhang, MS, Heather A. O'Malley, Ph.D., Gustavo A. Patino, PhD, Janelle E. O'Brien, PhD, Raffaella Rusconi, PhD, and Robert C. Thompson, PhD, and the Cleveland Clinic's Ajay Gupta, MD, and Marvin R. Natowicz, MD, PhD.
Funding: National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke: RC1NS068684, NS064245, NS076752, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute T32HL007853, National Institute of General Medical Sciences Genetics T32GM007544, U-M Rare Disease Initiative, Epilepsy Foundation, American Epilepsy Society, U-M Cardiovascular Center, Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy.
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Epilepsy in a dish: Stem cell research reveals clues to disease's origins and possible treatmentPublic release date: 25-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
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U-M-led study of neurons created from skin of patients with Dravet syndrome
ANN ARBOR, Mich. A new stem cell-based approach to studying epilepsy has yielded a surprising discovery about what causes one form of the disease, and may help in the search for better medicines to treat all kinds of seizure disorders.
The findings, reported by a team of scientists from the University of Michigan Medical School and colleagues, use a technique that could be called "epilepsy in a dish".
By turning skin cells of epilepsy patients into stem cells, and then turning those stem cells into neurons, or brain nerve cells, the team created a miniature testing ground for epilepsy. They could even measure the signals that the cells were sending to one another, through tiny portals called sodium channels.
In neurons derived from the cells of children who have a severe, rare genetic form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome, the researchers report abnormally high levels of sodium current activity. They saw spontaneous bursts of communication and "hyperexcitability" that could potentially set off seizures. Neurons made from the skin cells of people without epilepsy showed none of this abnormal activity.
They report their results online in the Annals of Neurology, and have further work in progress to create induced pluripotent stem cell lines from the cells of patients with other genetic forms of epilepsy. The work is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Epilepsy Society, the Epilepsy Foundation and U-M.
The new findings differs from what other scientists have seen in mice -- demonstrating the importance of studying cells made from human epilepsy patients. Because the cells came from patients, they contained the hallmark seen in most patients with Dravet syndrome: a new mutation in SCN1A, the gene that encodes the crucial sodium channel protein called Nav1.1. That mutation reduces the number of channels to half the normal number in patients' brains.
"With this technique, we can study cells that closely resemble the patient's own brain cells, without doing a brain biopsy," says senior author and team leader Jack M. Parent, M.D., professor of neurology at U-M and a researcher at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. "It appears that the cells are overcompensating for the loss of channels due to the mutation. These patient-specific induced neurons hold great promise for modeling seizure disorders, and potentially screening medications."
With the new paper, Parent, postdoctoral fellow Yu Liu, Ph.D. and their collaborators Lori Isom, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology and of Molecular and Integrative Physiology at U-M, and Miriam Meisler, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor of Human Genetics at U-M, report striking discoveries about what is happening at the cell level in the neurons of Dravet syndrome patients with a mutated SCN1A gene.
They also demonstrated that the effect is rooted in something that happens after function of the gene is reduced due to the mutation, though they don't yet know how or why the nerve cells overcompensate for partial loss of this channel.
And, they found that the neurons didn't show the telltale signs of hyperexcitability in the first few weeks after they were made -- consistent with the fact that children with Dravet syndrome often don't suffer their first seizures until they are several months old.
"In addition, reproduction of the hyperactivity of epileptic neurons in these cell cultures demonstrates that there is an intrinsic change in the neurons that does not depend on input from circuits in the brain," says co-author Meisler.
A platform for testing medications
Many Dravet patients don't respond to current epilepsy medications, making the search for new options urgent. Their lives are constantly under threat by the risk of SUDEP, sudden unexplained death in epilepsy and they never outgrow their condition, which delays their development and often requires round-the-clock care.
"Working with patient families, and translating our sodium channel research to a pediatric disease, has made our basic science work much more immediate and critical," says Isom, who serves on the scientific advisory board of the Dravet Syndrome Foundation along with Meisler. Parent, who co-directs U-M's Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, was recently honored by the foundation.
The team is now working toward screening specific compounds for seizure-calming potential in Dravet syndrome, by testing their impact on the cells in the "epilepsy in a dish" model. The National Institutes of Health has made a library of drugs that have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration available for researchers to use -- potentially allowing older drugs to have a second life treating an entirely different disease from what they were initially intended.
Parent and his colleagues hope to identify drugs that affect certain aspects of sodium channels, to see if they can dampen the sodium currents and calm hyperexcitability. The team is exploring new techniques that can make this process faster, using microelectrodes and calcium-sensitive dyes. They also hope to use the model to study potential drugs for non-genetic forms of epilepsy.
Having a U-M team that includes experts in induced pluripotent stem cell biology, sodium channel physiology and epilepsy genetics expertise helps the research progress, Parent notes. "Epilepsy is a complicated brain network disease," he says. "It takes team-based science to address it."
Patients as part of the research team
The U-M team's research wouldn't be possible without the participation of patients with Dravet syndrome and other genetic forms of epilepsy, and their parents.
More than 100 of them have joined the International Ion Channel Epilepsy Patient Registry, which is based at U-M and Miami Children's Hospital and co-funded by the Dravet Syndrome Foundation and the ICE Epilepsy Alliance. The researchers hope to be able to conduct clinical trials of potential drugs with participation by these patients and others.
Meanwhile, patients with other genetically based neurological diseases can also help U-M scientists discover more about their conditions, by taking part in other efforts to create induced neurons from skin cells. Parent and his team have worked with several other U-M faculty to create stem cell lines from skin cells provided by patients with other diseases including forms of ataxia and lysosmal storage disease.
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In addition to Parent, Liu, Meisler and Isom, the research team includes U-M's Luis F. Lopez-Santiago, PhD, Yukun Yuan, PhD, Julie M. Jones, MS, Helen Zhang, MS, Heather A. O'Malley, Ph.D., Gustavo A. Patino, PhD, Janelle E. O'Brien, PhD, Raffaella Rusconi, PhD, and Robert C. Thompson, PhD, and the Cleveland Clinic's Ajay Gupta, MD, and Marvin R. Natowicz, MD, PhD.
Funding: National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke: RC1NS068684, NS064245, NS076752, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute T32HL007853, National Institute of General Medical Sciences Genetics T32GM007544, U-M Rare Disease Initiative, Epilepsy Foundation, American Epilepsy Society, U-M Cardiovascular Center, Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy.
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Source: forums.canadiancontent.net --- Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Va. governor apologizes, repays loans to donor Wednesday - 7/24/2013, 6:36am ET BOB LEWIS AP Political Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday he has repaid a major political donor more than $120,000 in loans to the governor's wife and a business McDonnell owns with his sister. McDonnell's relationship and thousands of dollars in gifts he and his family received from the donor, Jonnie Williams, are at the center of state and federal investigations. No charges have been filed and the Republican governor has said he did nothing illegal. With less than six months remaining on his term, the governor issued an extraordinary apology for his ties to Williams, the chief executive of troubled nutritional supplements maker Star Scientific Inc. "I am deeply sorry for the embarrassment certain members of my family and I brought upon my beloved Virginia and her citizens. I want you to know that I broke no laws and that I am committed to regaining your sacred trust and confidence. I hope today's action is another step toward that end," the governor said in the statement released through his private communications consultant, Rich Galen. McDonnell said the repayments, totaling $124,115, include principal and interest and settle both debts. The statement marked the governor's first substantial public reckoning over the gifts he and his family have received since he took office in January 2010. The scandal has brought his job ...
Double world champion Casey Stoner will make a dramatic return to MotoGP action next month when he tests a factory Honda RC213V at the Twin Ring Motegi track in Japan, MCN can reveal.
The outspoken but blindingly fast Australian, who retired from MotoGP immediately after the final race of 2012 in Valencia last November, will take part in a two-day test on August 6-7 at the Honda-owned track.
An official announcement from HRC confirming the testing plan will be released tomorrow (Tuesday).
The test is one of four scheduled over the coming weeks that Stoner will fit in around his V8 Supercar commitments in Australia.
Stoner?s speed and experience will be used to help HRC technical staff on development of the 2014 factory RC213V.
And Honda insiders say he will also evaluate the performance potential of a new production 1000cc racer that the Japanese factory will make available next year.
The forthcoming test session is certainly not just Stoner turning up for a quick play on a 260bhp 1000cc machine.
His former crew chief Cristian Gabbarini, who is now a vital part of Repsol Honda as technical supervisor, is attending and Ohlins is understood to have prepped a set of 2012 spec forks to be shipped to Japan direct from last weekend's Laguna Seca MotoGP race in California.
And the bike he will ride will be set-up identical to how he raced an RC213V to fifth place at Motegi last season.
Stoner switched to four wheels after walking away from MotoGP last year, the 27-year-old becoming disillusioned with the direction of the sport.
He also indicated he wanted to spend more time with his young family at home in Australia when he made the bombshell announcement about his retirement plans on the eve of the French Grand Prix at Le Mans almost 15 months ago.
News of his surprise return to MotoGP action will trigger intense speculation about his future plans on two wheels.
Ever since the 2007 and 2011 world champion walked away from MotoGP, there has been a constant stream of rumours that he will make wild card appearances in his home race at Phillip Island and Motegi in October.
Speculation has also been rife that both Ducati and Honda have been talking to Stoner in recent weeks about trying to tempt him back into MotoGP full-time in the future.
The testing plan will do little to douse the flames about the wild card appearances, which would come at a critical stage of the world championship, with Laguna Seca winner Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa potentially battling it out with reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo for the 2013 crown.
HRC though has made it crystal clear that Stoner will not race as a wild card in his home round on October 20 or a week later in Honda?s home race in Japan.
Both races don?t clash with his car racing exploits in Australia and many were hoping that Stoner would step out of retirement to attempt to win an incredible seventh successive race on home soil.
Stoner won 38 races for Ducati and Repsol Honda and he also won seven races in the 250 and 125cc classes.
He is regarded by many as one of the most naturally gifted riders in history and unrivalled for raw speed.
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