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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Autism four times likelier when mother's thyroid is weakened
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Pregnant women who don't make nearly enough thyroid hormone are nearly 4 times likelier to produce autistic children than healthy women.
Huge Florida sinkhole causes resort villa to partially collapse
In this video frame grab image taken from WFTV television, a car is parked in front of a partially collapsed hotel building after its foundation cracked in Clermont, Fl., early Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. A sinkhole caused a section of a central Florida resort villa to partially collapse early Monday, while another section of the villa was sinking, authorities said. About 30 percent of the three-story structure collapsed around 3 a.m. Monday, Lake County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Tony Cuellar said. No injuries were reported. (AP Photo/WFTV/Myrt Price) MANDATORY CREDIT, ORLAND OUT (AP)
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CLERMONT, Fla. -- A sinkhole caused a section of a central Florida resort villa to partially collapse early Monday, while another section of the villa was sinking, authorities said.
About 30 percent of the three-story structure collapsed around 3 a.m. Monday, Lake County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Tony Cuellar said. The villa at the Summer Bay Resort had already been evacuated and no injuries were reported. Cuellar said authorities were also concerned about another section of the villa, which was sinking.
The sinkhole comes five months after one elsewhere in Florida killed a man.
Monday's sinkhole, which is in the middle of the villa, is about 40 to 50 feet in diameter, Cuellar said. He said authorities think it was getting deeper but couldn't tell early Monday if it was growing outward.
The villa houses 24 units and about 20 people were staying in it at the time, Cuellar said.
Authorities were called to the scene, about 10 miles west of Disney World, late Sunday where they found that the building was making popping sounds and windows were breaking.
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nearby villa was also evacuated as a precaution, Cuellar said.Cuellar said there was a gas leak but the gas has since been shut off.
Witnesses told The Associated Press they could hear a cracking sound as the villa began sinking. A large crack was visible at the building's base.
Luis Perez, who was staying at a villa near the sinking one, said he was in his room when the lights went off around 11:30 p.m. He said he was on his way to the front desk to report the outage when he saw firefighters and police outside.
"I started walking toward where they were at and you could see the building leaning and you could see a big crack at the base of the building," said Perez, 54, of Berona, N.J.
Summer Bay is described on its website as a luxury resort with condominiums, two-bedroom villas and vacation houses in addition to standard rooms. The site touts a clubhouse, atrium and poolside bar, and says the resort is on a secluded 64-acre lake.
Florida has a long, ongoing problem with sinkholes, which cause millions of dollars in damage in the state annually. On March 1, a sinkhole underneath a house in Seffner, about 60 miles southwest of the Summer Bay Resort, swallowed a man who was in his bed. His body was never recovered.
But such fatalities and injuries are rare, and most sinkholes are small. Sinkholes can develop quickly or slowly over time.
They are caused by Florida's geology -- the state sits on limestone, a porous rock that easily dissolves in water, with a layer of clay on top. The clay is thicker in some locations making them even more prone to sinkholes.
Other states sit atop limestone in a similar way, but Florida has additional factors like extreme weather, development, aquifer pumping and construction.
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Associated Press writer Bernard McGhee in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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A building at the Summer Bay Resort in Clermont, Fla, shows damage from collapsing into a sinkhole early Monday Aug. 12, 2013. No injuries or victims and all emergency responders were safe and uninjured. All guests that were rescued are being moved to a different building on the property. (AP Photo/Alma Rodriquez)
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In this video frame grab image taken from WFTV television, police officers look on a hotel building, center, after its foundation cracked in Clemont, Fl., early Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Authorities in Central Florida said the hotel near Disney World was evacuated after the foundation cracked, causing the foundation to sink. No injuries were reported. (AP Photo/WFTV/Myrt Price) MANDATORY CREDIT, ORLAND OUT
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In this video frame grab image taken from WFTV television, police officers look on a hotel building after its foundation cracked in Clermont, Fl., early Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. A sinkhole caused a section of a central Florida resort villa to partially collapse early Monday, while another section of the villa was sinking, authorities said. About 30 percent of the three-story structure collapsed around 3 a.m. Monday, Lake County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Tony Cuellar said. No injuries were reported. (AP Photo/WFTV/Myrt Price) MANDATORY CREDIT, ORLAND OUT
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In this video frame grab image taken from WFTV television, a car is parked in front of a partially collapsed hotel building after its foundation cracked in Clermont, Fl., early Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. A sinkhole caused a section of a central Florida resort villa to partially collapse early Monday, while another section of the villa was sinking, authorities said. About 30 percent of the three-story structure collapsed around 3 a.m. Monday, Lake County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Tony Cuellar said. No injuries were reported. (AP Photo/WFTV/Myrt Price) MANDATORY CREDIT, ORLAND OUT
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'Dexter' boosts its body count
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What is it about Miami that serial killers find so attractive? The climate? Easy targets? Incompetent police? Sympathetic therapists? Tolerant sugar daddies? Or like-minded companions?
Dexter Morgan sure hasn't had trouble finding folks who share his hobby, but they usually wind up in plastic at the bottom of the ocean. Not so with Hannah and Zack, however, who went 2-0 on "Dexter" against everyone's favorite serial killer in Sunday's "Dress Code."
The black widow strikes again
Hannah McKay is more Texas than Florida: Don't mess with her. Wrong this woman, and your best-case scenario is waking up on the sketchy side of town with a nasty poison hangover. Dexter got off lucky ? and a good thing too, because Hannah needed his help when she dispatched another husband. Of course, it was self-defense ? which is how she usually justifies her murders.?
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Mr. Moneybags, you're standing in the way of true love. Get lost!
Although Miles Moneybags did help her trade her orange jumpsuit for designer duds, his abuse and threats of exposure just made Hannah another kind of prisoner. A wanted fugitive parading around the very city where she was arrested for murder was harder to swallow than rat poison, but it's sweet to see Dex reunited with his ladylove. It's a shame Deb doesn't share our delight. Killing your boyfriend and attempting to murder you is just ancient history. Get over it, girl.
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Cassie's murder is the second this year at Dexter's apartment building, which would sound alarm bells for any other detectives than the clowns at Miami Metro. That said, things could get interesting if Quinn IDs her killer as Zack, who was probably enraged because his mentor stood him up again. We don't blame Dexter's prot?g? for being frustrated. Cassie was such a useless redshirt character, she had less depth than a victim on "Murder, She Wrote."
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No, Grasshopper, you must be patient!
'Breastaurant' business
Oh, the irony. Masuka's daughter, Niki, works as a topless waitress in a sports bar, and she has no qualms ta-talking to him in her "uniform." (Masuka's mortification is no match for viewers who remember Madison Burge playing a high schooler on "Friday Night Lights.") He finagles a part-time gig for her at Miami Metro, which ? knowing the track record of Masuka's previous interns ? cannot possibly end well.?
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Nepotism is at work at Miami Metro, even if the detectives' brains aren't.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/dexter-boosts-its-body-count-6C10887717
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Monday, August 12, 2013
Motorola and Google working on a new Nexus device: Rumours
Quick on the heels of the news that Asus might be manufacturing the newest iteration of Google?s Nexus 10 tablets, there?s a rumour that Motorola too will be producing a Nexus device, which will be revealed in Q4 of this year.
A Google+ post by Taylor Wimberly, serial Moto X leaker, has revealed that Motorola and Google are planning to put their heads together to release a new Nexus device. He?s specified that this device will not be the Moto X.
A new Nexus device by Motorola?
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The device could well be a smartphone and not a tablet, since the new Nexus 7 is already hitting stores and rumours are that the new Nexus 10 will be built by Asus. Essentially, Google will be working on a new Nexus device by itself, considering it now owns Motorola Mobility. The best part about this news is the fact that it?s being rumoured that this Nexus device will not be a rehash of the Moto X. So, if you were worried that the new Nexus device could be a slightly modified Moto X running stock Android, that may not be happening.
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The Nexus smartphone division has seen manufacturers like HTC, Samsung and even LG produce phones for Google. It is also being said that LG might end up producing another Nexus device for Google. It wouldn?t be out of the question to see the Internet giant release two Nexus devices this year alone.
Meanwhile, news has emerged that Asus, and not Samsung, will be the driving force behind Google?s Nexus 10 tablets. A leaked listing by Best Buy too has gone on to show that the winning combination of Google and Asus that produced both versions of the successful Nexus 7 tablets could be working on the larger, 10-inch Nexus 10 too.?
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Sunday, August 11, 2013
Pilot in deadly wreck survived earlier crash
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) ? The plane accident that killed four people in a Connecticut neighborhood was not the first crash for the pilot, a former Microsoft executive who was taking his teenage son on a tour of East Coast colleges.
The pilot, Bill Henningsgaard, was killed along with his son, Maxwell, and two children who were in a house struck by the small propeller-driven plane on Friday. Four bodies were recovered from the wreckage and sent to the Connecticut medical examiner's office for identification.
East Haven police on Saturday released the names of the crash victims, including Henningsgaard, 54, of Medina, Wash.; his 17-year-old son; 13-year-old Sade Brantley and 1-year-old Madisyn Mitchell, who lived in the East Haven home hit by the plane.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Patrick Murray said Saturday the plane was upside down when it struck a house at about a 60 degree angle. He said the pilot was making his first approach to the airport and did not declare an emergency before the crash.
After removing the wreckage and before analyzing any data, he said at a news conference in New Haven, "We don't have any indication there was anything wrong with the plane."
A preliminary NTSB report on the crash is expected within 10 business days. A more in-depth report could take up to nine months.
Henningsgaard, a highly regarded philanthropist, was flying a small plane to Seattle in 2009 with his mother when the engine quit. He crash-landed on Washington's Columbia River.
"I forced myself to confront that fact that the situation any pilot fears ? a mid-air emergency, was happening right then, with my mother in the plane," he wrote in a blog post days later.
In the Connecticut crash, Henningsgaard was bringing the 10-seater plane, a Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690B, in for a landing at Tweed New Haven Airport in rainy weather just before noon when the plane struck two small homes, engulfing them in flames. The aircraft's left wing lodged in one house and its right wing in the other.
As the children's mother yelled for help from the front lawn, several people in the working-class neighborhood raced to rescue the children, but they were forced to turn back by the fire.
A neighbor, David Esposito, was among those who raced to help the children's mother. He said he ran into the upstairs of the house, where the woman believed her children were, but he couldn't find them after frantically searching a crib and closets. He returned downstairs to search some more, but he dragged the woman out when the flames became too strong.
The pilot's family had learned it was Bill Henningsgaard's plane through the tail number, said his brother, Blair Henninsgaard, the city attorney in Astoria, Ore.
In 2009, Bill Henningsgaard was flying from Astoria, Ore. with his 84-year-old mother to watch his daughter in a high school play when he crashed into the river as he tried to glide back to the airport. He and his mother, a former Astoria mayor, climbed out on a wing and were rescued.
Henningsgaard was a member of Seattle-based Social Venture Partners, a foundation that helps build up communities. The foundation extended its condolences to his wife and two daughters.
"There are hundreds of people that have a story about Bill ? when he went the extra mile, when he knew just the right thing to say, how he would never give up. He was truly all-in for this community, heart, mind and soul," the foundation wrote Friday in a post on its website.
Paul Shoemaker of Social Venture Partners told the Seattle Times that Henningsgaard was "an incredibly good, real, honest man, for the community, for his family, for this world."
"The guy has already done so much for the world. And he was going to do so much more," he said.
Henningsgaard spent 14 years at Microsoft in various marketing and sales positions, according to his biography on Social Venture Partners website. He was a longtime board member at Youth Eastside Services, a Bellevue, Wash.-based agency that provides counseling and substance-abuse treatment, and led the organization's $10.7 million fundraising campaign for its new headquarters, which opened in 2008.
A vigil for the victims of the crash was planned for Saturday night in an East Haven park.
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Associated Press writers Steven DuBois in Portland, Ore., Gene Johnson in Seattle and John Christoffersen in East Haven, Conn., contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pilot-deadly-conn-wreck-survived-earlier-crash-183322903.html
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ArtWalk - Introducing Coach Bill Bergan and Athletics
Join University Museums in welcoming the newly completed Coach Bill Bergan and Athletics into our Art on Campus Collection. Can you guess which Christian Petersen sculpture inspired artist Larry Nowlan and his work? Meet your guide at the Cyclone Sports Complex to find out.
Source: http://www.event.iastate.edu/event/31002
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The 'genetics of sand' may shed new light on evolutionary process over millions of years
[unable to retrieve full-text content]An evolutionary ecologist is using "grains of sand" to understand more about the process of evolution. The fossils of microscopic aquatic creatures called planktonic foraminifera, often less than a millimeter in size, can be found in all of the world's oceans. The remains of their shells now resemble grains of sand to the naked eye and date back hundreds of millions of years.
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Church on Congo violence: ?9/11 every day?
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Saturday, August 10, 2013
A Southern California Nursery Tour
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?Mother F***er Racist Sons of B**ches From Hell?: Wedding Venue Gets Threats, Fears Shut Down After Refusing Gay Couple?s Nuptials
Another business is facing retribution for declining service to a same-sex couple. Betty and Dick Odgaard, owners of G?rtz Haus Gallery in Grimes, Iowa, are catching the ire of gay rights advocates after they declined offering their venue to Lee Stafford and his fiance Jared.
Now the owners, who are Christians, are receiving vicious and threatening emails and phone calls ? and they fear that their business could shut down because of the fierce reaction.
It was less than one week ago that the Lee and Jared entered G?rtz Haus looking for additional information about holding their wedding there. After Dick realized that it would be a gay ceremony, he told the couple that they would not be able to hold their nuptials at the establishment ? and that?s when the controversy erupted.
?It started with emails and we noticed the emails were from a person with a name that looked like a man?s name. We?re a little suspicious about it and ? two fellows walked in and that?s where it all began,? Dick told TheBlaze on Friday. ?It was obvious what the situation was. I had to confirm it. I asked if this was a gay marriage celebration and I said we can?t take your money for this.?
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From there, news spread that the Odgaards turned the couple away. Before long, phone calls and emails came streaming in. Betty said that some people have promised that the furor won?t stop until the business, which is a bistro, flower shop and a wedding destination, shuts down. Detractors have called Betty and Dick ?haters.?
?I wish all people well. I have love for all people,? Betty, who was visibly distraught on the phone, told TheBlaze.
The family shared some of the e-mail responses they?ve received with TheBlaze. And the contents weren?t pretty.
One angry e-mail said that the family is ?finished? and ?doomed.? ?You are mean, rude, selfish, mother f***er racist sons of b**ches from hell,? it read, with the writer later adding, ?F**k you, f**k your God, f**k your religion.? Another person who goes by the name ?Micky? wrote, ?Betty, you?re very old and almost dead.? How do you both feel, knowing that America, and the world, will be a better place without you??
Further, someone claiming to be with the Westboro Baptist Church, a virulent anti-gay group, wrote to the owners claiming that members would soon be in the area to support the business. In sum, Betty and Dick report getting between 50 and 60 emails and about 20 to 30 phone calls per day about the incident, although a majority of these are actually positive. But while verbal support has been great, there hasn?t been an influx of people coming in, the couple said.
On the legal side of things, Lee and Jared, who believe they were unfairly discriminated against, have apparently filed a complaint with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission. Betty and Dick have consulted with their lawyer, who believes that they are within their religious rights to decline the wedding. On the flip side, Lee and Jared claim that the law is on their side.
Iowa law does prohibit service refusals based on sexual orientation, but religious sentiment often makes these scenarios more complicated.
The business has already experienced the impact of its decision. Betty said that two weddings are canceled for next summer and that some people want their down payments back. Additionally, an artist has pulled out from working with G?rtz Haus Gallery.
?We will lose considerable money ? it will impact us though, no doubt,? she told TheBlaze.
As far as their reasoning for the refusal, the couple is candid and wants to ensure that people understand their views on the matter ? reasoning that they feel has not been adequately conveyed through media coverage. Betty called it ?totally a faith-based issue? that is rooted in the family?s Christian religious convictions.
?We believe a marriage is between a man and woman,? she said, with Dick adding, ?To us, it?s a sacrament.?
Credit: AP
The couple noted that they have business associates, former staff members and friends who are gay and that they have nothing against them. There is no hate, they claim, as media and activists have charged. They simply disagree with the lifestyle, but respect the personal decisions that people make.
?I would serve them in every other way ? we simply don?t want to take part ? it just comes down to that final line of taking their vows in our facility,? the wife added, noting that she would have gladly provided flowers or cake (something more detached from the actual nuptials). ?I do not hate these people and they have the right to do what they want to do under the law and in humanity.?
If the law requires the couple to comply and marry gay couples, they said that they will stay true to their convictions and will simply stop performing ceremonies at the location all together.
The future, considering the threatening e-mails and calls and the outrage, is uncertain. Betty said she?s looking for advice and guidance on how she can keep the business open.
?We don?t want to shut our doors. But financially it could shut it down,? she said. ?We?ve never had anything like this happen.?
Betty and Dick aren?t alone. Other businesses have faced similar problems in the past, which TheBlaze has covered extensively.
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Usher & Ex-Wife Tameka Raymond Update Fans On Son?s Health!
Usher’s oldest son, five-year-old Usher Raymond V, is currently in the ICU after nearly drowning at Usher’s home. Usher has spoken out after the scary incident, thanking the two men that saved his young son’s life. The singer said, “I would especially like to thank the two men who saved my son’s life, Eugene Stachurski ...Source: http://stupidcelebrities.net/2013/08/usher-ex-wife-tameka-raymond-update-fans-on-sons-health/
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Hungry Monk's Beer & Bacon Night: Best food & drink pairing ever?
Tonight, The Hungry Monk?in Chandler combines two of my favorite things ? beer and bacon ? in a fundraiser for the Children?s Home Project.
A special menu will offer pork belly sliders with jalapeno slaw and siracha mayo (three for $8), a BLT made with extra-thick bacon and slathered with a beer-bacon aioli ($8) on Texas toast, and, for purists, a plate with slices of hickory, applewood, and sugar-cured bacon ($5).
Featured beers: Port Older Viscosity imperial stout ($7), Ballast Point Sculpin IPA?($6), Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout?($6), Mother Road Lost Highway imperial black IPA?($5), and North Coast PranQster Belgian-style strong pale ale?($5).
The Monk also will be selling raffle tickets for a bunch of great swag. The event runs 5-9 p.m.
In other craft beer events today:
? World of Beer?in Tempe kicks off its four-day anniversary celebration with a?Firestone Walker Party featuring Union Jack, Double Jack, Wookey Jack, Pale 31, Pivo Pils, and unfiltered DBA on tap all day. Some special beers, such as Parabola, Double DBA, Sucuba, and Sixteen, will be tapped between 7-9 p.m.
? Sleepy Dog Pub in Gilbert hosts a Widmer tasting with?Brrrbon winter warmer, Marionberry hibiscus gose, Old Embalmer barley wine, Kill Devil barrel-aged brown, KGB- imperial stout, and Black IPA from 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Source: http://mouthbysouthwest.com/2013/08/08/hungry-monks-beer-bacon-night-best-food-drink-pairing-ever/
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Swap Desktops with Each Other with Our Reader Wallpaper Pack 8.0
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Apple Wins Appeal with ITC Reinstating Case against Motorola
Published on 08-07-2013 08:33 PM
The U.S. court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Apple recently, reinstating the company?s complaint against Google-owned Motorola Mobility. The ruling overturns a decision from the U.S. International Trade Commission from March 2012, when the commission dismissed Apple?s complaint against Motorola. Apple appealed the ruling and with the recent decision, the case will proceed as reported by Florian Mueller.
Apple?s original case involved three patents. The appeals court reprimanded the ITC, and reversed its decision on two of the original patents in question, including U.S. Patent No. 7,663,607: "Multipoint touchscreen" and U.S. Patent No. 7,812,828: "Ellipse fitting for multi-touch surfaces.? According to Mueller:
Today's remand decision gives Apple another opportunity to win a U.S. import ban against the Google subsidiary's Android-based devices, which would have the Android ecosystem at large concerned. The appeal granted in Apple?s favor does however officially remove one of the original three patents from the case: U.S. Patent No. 5,379,430, entitled "Object-oriented system locator system." Apple ended up not pursuing its claims on this patent in its appeal.For those of you who didn?t already know, Apple first filed the ITC complaint in October 2010 in response to a Motorola patent attack, alleging that the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X and other smartphones infringed on existing multitouch patents. The subsequent investigation concluded in January when an ALJ found that Motorola were not in violation of the asserted Apple patents.
We?ll have to see what decision the case will lead to and how it will affect the two companies.
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Source: http://modmyi.com/content/11781-apple-wins-appeal-itc-reinstating-case-against-motorola.html
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