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APNewsBreak: Sikhs added to hate crime stats
FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH SIKH TEMPLE SHOOTING ANNIVERSARY STORIES - FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2012, file photo worshipers from the Sikh community gather for a candle light vigil after prayer services in Brookfield, Wis. Twelve months ago, a white supremacist walked into a the temple and opened fire on worshippers he didn't know, killing six and devastating a Sikh community whose religion is based on peace and forgiveness. Monday is the one-year anniversary of the shooting. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH SIKH TEMPLE SHOOTING ANNIVERSARY STORIES - FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2012, file photo worshipers from the Sikh community gather for a candle light vigil after prayer services in Brookfield, Wis. Twelve months ago, a white supremacist walked into a the temple and opened fire on worshippers he didn't know, killing six and devastating a Sikh community whose religion is based on peace and forgiveness. Monday is the one-year anniversary of the shooting. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH SIKH TEMPLE SHOOTING ANNIVERSARY STORIES - FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation is Wade Michael Page. Page walked into the Milwaukee-area Sikh temple a year ago Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, and opened fire. He killed six priests and worshippers and wounded five others, and then fatally shot himself after he was wounded in the parking lot by a police sniper. Authorities investigated the Page's background for months before concluding that his motive for attacking the temple died along with him. (AP Photo/FBI, File)
FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH SIKH TEMPLE SHOOTING ANNIVERSARY STORIES - FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2012, file photo bystanders stand outside the scene of a shooting at the Milwaukee-area Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. Twelve months ago, a white supremacist walked into a the temple and opened fire on worshippers he didn't know, killing six and devastating a Sikh community whose religion is based on peace and forgiveness. Monday is the one-year anniversary of the shooting. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Justice Department will begin keeping numbers on hate crimes committed against Sikhs and six other groups, in connection with Monday's one-year anniversary of the killing of six Sikh worshippers in Oak Creek, Wis.
Attorney General Eric Holder made the announcement Friday in a blog post, which The Associated Press obtained ahead of its official release. Holder said FBI Director Robert Mueller had approved a recommendation from the agency's advisory policy board to track hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus, Arabs, Buddhists, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Orthodox Christians.
"Having accurate information allows law enforcement leaders and policymakers to make informed decisions about the allocation of resources and priorities ? decisions that impact real people, and affect public safety in every neighborhood and community," Holder wrote in the blog post. "Today, I am proud to report that we have taken steps to collect this information."
The addition had long been sought by members of the Sikh community.
Holder also announced a $500,000 grant for mental health and trauma services to those affected by the Oak Creek shooting, including survivors and family members.
A year ago Monday, Wade Michael Page, who had ties to white supremacist groups, walked into the Milwaukee-area Sikh Temple of Wisconsin and opened fire. He killed six priests and worshippers and wounded five others, and then fatally shot himself after he was wounded in the parking lot by a police sniper. Holder on Friday called the attack a "heinous act of hatred and terror."
Pardeep Kaleka, son of former temple president Satwant Singh Kaleka, who died in the massacre, said he appreciated anything that can draw attention to people being victimized for things like their race, religion or gender.
"Progress is sort of a climb, and it takes a step at a time. This is one of those steps toward progress," he said.
Amardeep Singh, program director of the Sikh Coalition, said that while he welcomed the announcement as a "critical first step," the underlying conditions that caused the killings remain.
"The last year has once again seen violent shootings and beatings of Sikhs throughout the country," he said. "It will take more than tracking hate crime statistics to stem the tide."
Holder wrote that since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Justice Department has investigated more than 800 incidents involving violence, threats, assaults, vandalism and arson targeting Arabs, Muslims, Sikhs, South Asians and those perceived to be members of these groups.
Federal officials in Milwaukee held a remembrance Friday for the local Sikh community, where U.S. Attorney James Santelle read Holder's announcement of the new policy. The event drew several hundred people, including the six victims' families, temple members and Wisconsin's senators, Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin.
Temple officials introduced the victims' relatives, who lit candles in memory of their loved ones. Dr. Kulwant Dhaliwal, the temple president, said his community was grateful for the chance to raise awareness of Sikh values and honor those who lost their lives.
Oak Creek Mayor Stephen Scaffidi told the audience he refused to let last year's rampage be his city's lasting legacy. When the nation thinks of Oak Creek, he said, it should be as a city of compassion and resilience, not as a town targeted by a hateful individual.
Baldwin said she was inspired by way the Sikhs reacted in the shooting's aftermath ? with gentleness and peace, not with calls for vengeance.
"You've reminded us of the American values that hold us together as one community," she said. "You've reminded us of the values that define us as one people."
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Associated Press writer Dinesh Ramde in Milwaukee contributed to this report.
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NFL competition for young people being held in Morrow
MORROW, OH (FOX19) - The Village of Morrow Parks & Recreation Board is hosting a NFL Punt, Pass & Kick competition on Saturday, August 3.
This is the first year for the event where young football fans ages 6 - 15 will have the opportunity to exhibit their skills.
A number of NFL players have completed in NFL Punt, Pass & Kick, including top former and current NFL quarterbacks such as Dan Marino and Brett Favre.
The top finishers from each of ten age groups at the local competition will advance to a sectional competition. The winners at the sectional competition will have their scores compared with other sectional champions. The top four scorers from the pool of sectional champions advance to the Cincinnati Bengals Team Championship, to be held at one of their games in November of December of 2013.
The top four finishers in the boys? and girls? divisions within each age bracket from the pool of all Team Champions will qualify for the National Finals at an NFL playoff game in January.
Entry forms for the competition can be found online at www.NFLPPK.com or at the Morrow Municipal Building onn East Pike Street.
This event is free and will happen at Thornton Park from 9am - noon.
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Maximize Your Fitness Now With Ben's Free iPhone & Android Phone App. About · Podcast · Articles · Videos · Books ... to rush out and buy everything at once. But do print this list, jot down a few notes, or bookmark this page, and over the next year, make it a goal to gradually grow your arsenal of healthy nutrition options that will allow you to fuel your body with the thousands of calories necessary to maintain your performance goals?without killing your insides in the process. Ready?
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LeAnn Rimes Talks Rocky Relationship With the Media, Standing Up for Herself on Twitter
LeAnn Rimes is no stranger to judgment. So, she's come to the right place!
"You know, they can take it down one road or another," the singer explains to Joan Rivers & Co. on the latest episode of Fashion Police, airing tonight at 10 p.m. on E!, when Joan tells her that she thinks the press has treated her "abominably."
"You got together with a married man, blah blah blah...so did Angelina Jolie! And she's become a [bleeping] goddess," marvels Joan.
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Smiling, LeAnn agrees that the media hasn't given her any free passes since she and now-hubby Eddie Cibrian got together, divorcing their respective spouses in the process.
"They can take it down a negative road," she says. "If they want you to be happy and they love you, they'll take it down that road! So it's amazing how much control they have over people's lives and the perception, you know...It's just been quite an interesting four-and-a-half years."
Joan also wonders, fabulously bluntly, why LeAnn bothers to engage with people on Twitter. Or, more specifically, why Leann picks fights via Twitter?
"I don't pick fights!" LeAnn insists. "I do stand up for myself every once in a while. But can you imagine the stuff that I just let go?"
Watch LeAnn talk life and style with Joan, Giuliana, Kelly and George on Fashion Police, tonight at 10 p.m., only on E!
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Tobacco Company Loses $37.5 Million Battle Over Lung Cancer ...
A South Florida jury this week found the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company partially responsible for the death of smoker Laura Grossman, who in 1995 died of lung cancer at the age of 38. The jury awarded $37.5 million to Grossman's family, which included $22.5 million in punitive damages against the tobacco company to deter R.J. Reynolds from trying to lure teenagers in the future, according to Marketwired.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has appealed the verdict, claiming that Grossman's husband, Jan Grossman, should be held responsible for Laura's death for "failing to change another person?s course of conduct.? As part of the court ruling, Grossman's husband and two children were also awarded $15 million in compensatory damages.
R.J. Reynolds did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Huffington Post.
During the 20-day trial in Broward County, Fla., attorneys of the family stated that Laura was too young to understand the risks of smoking when she started, and that R.J Reynolds specifically targets innocent teens with their products and marketing. Grossman began smoking when she was 15 years old, according to UPI.
The defense relied heavily on the warning labels placed on cigarettes to support their case during the trial, claiming that Grossman was well aware of the risk of smoking and thus should be held responsible, according to Associated Press.
R.J. Reynold's also argued that "the trial court improperly admitted lay witness testimony regarding the decedent?s addiction to cigarettes."
As a result of a 2006 Florida Supreme Court ruling, which stated that cases regarding tobacco users must be heard individually, smokers and their families only need to provide some proof of addiction and that smoking was the cause of their sickness or death, CBS News reports.
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Friday, August 2, 2013
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College football coaches preseason poll: Alabama predictably at the top
The USA Today Top 25 football coaches preseason poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2012 records, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and ranking in final 2012 poll:
1. Alabama (58)?? ?13-1?? ?1,545?? ?1
2. Ohio State (3)?? ?12-0?? ?1,427?? ?NR
3. Oregon?? ?12-1?? ?1,397?? ?2
4. Stanford?? ?12-2?? ?1,262?? ?6
5. Georgia?? ?12-2?? ?1,250?? ?4
6. Texas A&M (1)?? ?11-2?? ?1,215?? ?5
7. South Carolina?? ?11-2?? ?1,136?? ?7
8. Clemson?? ?11-2?? ?1,047?? ?9
9. Louisville?? ?11-2?? ?1,010?? ?13
10. Florida?? ?11-2?? ?930?? ?10
11. Notre Dame?? ?12-1?? ?872?? ?3
12. Florida State?? ?12-2?? ?844?? ?8
13. LSU?? ?10-3?? ?797?? ?12
14. Oklahoma State?? ?8-5?? ?726?? ?NR
15. Texas?? ?9-4?? ?622?? ?18
16. Oklahoma?? ?10-3?? ?620?? ?15
17. Michigan?? ?8-5?? ?589?? ?NR
18. Nebraska?? ?10-4?? ?426?? ?23
19. Boise State?? ?11-2?? ?420?? ?14
20. TCU?? ?7-6?? ?400?? ?NR
21. UCLA?? ?9-5?? ?202?? ?NR
22. Northwestern?? ?10-3?? ?186?? ?16
23. Wisconsin?? ?8-6?? ?172?? ?NR
24. Southern Cal?? ?7-6?? ?165?? ?NR
25. Oregon State?? ?9-4?? ?135?? ?19
Others receiving votes: Kansas State 113; Miami (Fla.) 101; Michigan State 89; Baylor 80; Virginia Tech 65; Fresno State 62; Arizona State 51; Mississippi 32; Vanderbilt 29; Utah State 23; Brigham Young 20; North Carolina 19; Northern Illinois 19; Tulsa 9; Ohio 8; San Jose State 8; Arizona 5; Cincinnati 3; East Carolina 3; Kent State 3; Mississippi State 3; Washington 3; Central Florida 2; Arkansas 1; Arkansas State 1; Rutgers 1; Tennessee 1; Toledo 1.
Source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/08/college_football_coaches_prese.html
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Hyderabad Real Estate will get a boost by Telangana formation
The anointing of Telangana as a new state has given ample reason for real estate developers in Hyderabad to rejoice. It is the general perception in realty circles in Hyderabad that with the political turmoil over Telangana done and dusted, real estate development with be on an upswing, resulting in a surge in the business of real estate developers.
With Hyderabad set to become the common capital for both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for 10 years, it would result in a fresh frenzy of real estate activity within the city as well as on the outskirts. It is felt that Hyderabad with its top class infrastructure facilites will attract tremendous global investments. This would result in an wider sphere of development activity in the commercial real estate market, thereby paving the way for the overall development of the city, including the outskirts.
The real estate market in Hyderabad was adversely affected since 2009 due to the Telangana issue and the ambiguity regarding its bifurcation. There was hardly a 10% increase in property prices since 2008. As a result, the residential capital values had reached a point of stagnation, prompting developers to seek other lucrative markets like Bangalore and Chennai. With Telangana all set to become a reality, realty in Hyderabad will be the biggest gainer.
Telangana becoming a state would asuage the fears that property developers earlier had with regard to instability in attracting investments. With that hurdle crossed, capital values on residential property in and around Hyderabad is expected to grow by 6-7% annually in 2013 and 2014. Increase in prices is expected to be faster and a narrowing down of the gap is expected in residential capital values with respect to other cities like Bangalore, Chennai and Pune. However, due to the oversupply of commercial rental space, there is expected to be only a marginal rental appreciation.
Demand for commercial/residential property in and around Hyderabad is expected to surge within 2-3 months, with appreciation in value expected in many areas. Some of these areas are the Central Business District areas like Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills, areas in and around Outer ring road, and places such as Hitech City, Kukatpally, Gachibowli, Chanda Nagar and Miyapur.
It was seen that 1,18,000 residential units were launched by developers in the past 3-4 years, in the region. Of these, as many as 33,000 houses remained unsold, mainly due to the volatile political situation prevailing with respect to Telangana. However, it was seen that there was a 11% increase in residential sales volumes in the first half of FY13 compared to the similar period of FY12. During this period, as many as 8,100 residential units were sold. A further 69,800 units were in various stages of completion, with 70% of them expected to be ready for possession by 2014 end.
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
China's army defends "sovereign territory" from Japanese - in video game
By Paul Carsten
BEIJING (Reuters) - He walks backwards, emptying the magazine of his rifle into the three soldiers charging toward him with bayonets raised. They drop dead, and a small Japanese flag, its red sun stylized to resemble a bullet wound, flashes onto the screen.
These are just some of the "guizi", the derogatory Chinese term for the Japanese occupiers during World War Two, that will die at the hands of Chinese troops defending their sovereign land, in a new Chinese video game released on Thursday, the anniversary of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) founding.
"Glorious Mission Online" was developed by Giant Interactive Group, a Chinese developer and publisher, in collaboration with the PLA for use in training simulations.
Now it has been released as an online game, allowing players to defend contested islands in the East China Sea -- Diaoyu to the Chinese, Senkaku to the Japanese.
"Players will do battle alongside the PLA, with guns in hand, and tell the Japanese: 'You will not violate our sovereign territory!'" says a statement on the game's website.
The row over the barren clump of rocks in the East China Sea - administered by Japan - has badly affected relations between Beijing and Tokyo.
Japan's defense ministry declined to comment on the game's release.
The PLA was interested in having a 3D interactive game for simulations with virtual replicas of their weapons, said Richard Chiang, a spokesman for Giant Interactive.
"The military was 100 percent behind this game," he said. "Rather than playing the same foreign games like Call of Duty and being American Marines shooting Russians or whatnot, Chinese can actually play as Chinese soldiers."
Glorious Mission Online plays much like any other first-person shooter, though nationalism is prominent.
One mission has players fighting with "burning passion" from the deck of the Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, in a "life-and-death" battle.
"The guizi are coming!" warns the game in a scenario where players are tasked with defending a World War Two-era Shanghai and its cultural artefacts from Japanese invaders.
"The guizi have been obliterated!" Glorious Mission congratulates the player after a grenade explodes under the last enemy's feet. Shanghai's museums are saved.
(Additional reporting by Beijing Television and Antoni Slodkowski in Tokyo; Editing by Ron Popeski)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-army-defends-sovereign-territory-japanese-video-game-153904321.html
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The Case for Alien Life
On Feb. 9, 2013, NASA's Curiosity rover found something on Mars that set a milestone in the search for alien life. Packed with instruments, the rover was an SUV-size speck crawling across the floor of the Gale Crater, whose distant walls climbed 15,000 feet in the thin air. The rover had been lowered to the ground six months earlier by means of a complex, jet-propelled sky crane. Now, almost 221 million miles from home but just a quarter-mile from its landing site, Curiosity was exploring a shallow depression called Yellowknife Bay. The machine trundled up to an outcropping of bedrock, which lay dry and cracked beneath a yellow sky. It drilled into the rock and within minutes pulled a fine gray powder from the narrow borehole. Curiosity scooped up the dust and tasted it.
The sample contained smectite clay, which on Earth is found in alluvial plains and regions washed by monsoons. Today, Mars is a largely arid world whipped by global dust storms, where temperatures can swing 170 F in a day. Three billion years ago, it seems, a river of sweet water cascaded over the rim of Gale Crater and emptied into a lake in Yellowknife Bay. The sky was probably bluer then, and cloudier, and the terrain hadn't yet rusted from gray to red. Mount Sharp, which rises 18,000 feet above the crater floor, may have been capped in ice and snow.
Curiosity found in the ancient clay many of the elements needed for life: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus. We don't know whether bacteria, let alone Earth-like plants and animals, once teemed in Yellowknife Bay, but they could have. The rover was just the newest scout in humanity's decades-long exploration of Mars, an effort that currently includes the dogged 10-year-old Opportunity rover and three orbiters in space. But Yellowknife Bay is the first site ever observed, on Mars or anywhere else, that clearly could have supported extraterrestrial life.
Generations of scientists and science-fiction fans (often, those are the same people) have thought we'd find life strewn throughout the stars?if not civilizations, at least bacterial mats, or tentacled beasts on ocean floors, or something. But for decades the evidence was thin. Now, in 2013, the data is on the side of the believers. It has been provided by increasingly sophisticated probes, space telescopes, and rovers. Planets were once thought to be rare; by the time the Kepler space telescope ran into severe mechanical problems in May, it had proved that alien worlds actually number in the billions. Scientists imagined the universe to be parched; new studies show that it's filled with watery planets. And, surprise: Life isn't some delicate thing, like a pasty tourist stuck beneath a beach umbrella; it's now known to be more like a hardy soldier, able to infiltrate the harshest environments.The exciting exobiological news keeps coming: In April, astronomers identified a trio of planets that appear capable of supporting Earth-like life. They orbit their stars' habitable zones, the just-right distance where water neither freezes nor boils, but collects in sloshy, life-friendly oceans. One of the worlds, dubbed Kepler-62e, even shows signs of a humid atmosphere strewn with clouds. More such discoveries will come.
Louisa Preston, an astrobiologist at Open University in the U.K., investigates the telltale signs of biology that could help us locate life in space. "It's now predicted that there are 17 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone," Preston says. "And since our galaxy is one of hundreds of billions in the universe, the chances of finding life are increasing exponentially." Here are three reasons, in detail and based on current research, why we are much more likely to find life than to discover we are alone.
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How To Take Beautiful Photos
Have you looked at a stunning photo and wished that you could take such a beautiful picture? Here are a few key points that can help you improve your photography skills.
The first thing to remember is that photography is an art. Just like art, once you understand the basics and start putting them into practice, you'll find your photography skills will improve.
Taking beautiful photos is all about light. Without light there would be no photography and taking a great photo means being in the right place at the right time to get the perfect light, particularly for outdoor shots. Variations in light conditions can make all the difference between a good photo and a great one. The best advice is to experiment and take lots of pictures under various lighting.
The amount of light that falls on your camera sensor when the shutter is opened is known as exposure and is another important factor in producing a great photo. Too much light, overexposure, will result in the photo appearing pale and washed out, while too little light, underexposure, will result in loss of details hidden in shadow.
Even if your exposure is correct, your potentially beautiful photo could be marred by lack of focus. Focus is controlled by the aperture setting. A wide aperture setting will produce a shallow depth of field while a small aperture will give a greater depth of field. Remember that you will need to increase the exposure to compensate for reduced aperture settings.
You can control items such as lighting and exposure by using additional lights and screens. You can also gain more control by arranging your subject and by using props to enhance the subject. This technique, known as staging, can add interest to your photo. It also allows you to compose your photo to get a better balance in the relationship between the subject and background.
The most important tip is to take photographs. The more you take, the more you experiment, the more experience you'll gain. Remember, practice makes perfect. Sure, you'll end up with loads of poor photos, but in the age of digital cameras, this is not a big deal. For every hundred photos you take, you'll see one that will excite you.
And don't despair. If that otherwise perfect shot is ruined by a blemish, there are always photo-editing software programs that can help you. Try Corel PaintShop Pro, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Serif Photoplus, ACDSee or Xara, just to mention a few.
A final tip, keep your eyes open and try to view every scene as a photo. Great photo opportunities are all around; you just have to see them. Good luck capturing the perfect shot!
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Avis aux m?dias : D?veloppement ?conomique Canada
31 juil. 2013 10h00 HE
DRUMMONDVILLE, QU?BEC--(Marketwired - 31 juillet 2013) - Le ministre de l'Infrastructure, des Collectivit?s et des Affaires intergouvernementales et ministre de l'Agence de d?veloppement ?conomique du Canada pour les r?gions du Qu?bec, l'honorable Denis Lebel, proc?dera ? une annonce concernant les centres communautaires Drummondville-Sud et Saint-Pierre.
| Date : | le 1er ao?t 2013 |
| Heure : | 10 h 30 |
| Lieu : | Centre communautaire Drummondville-Sud inc. |
| Porte 2 | |
| 1550, rue Saint-Aim? | |
| Drummondville (Qu?bec) |
Pour rester au fait des derni?res nouvelles de D?veloppement ?conomique Canada, consultez le site www.dec-ced.gc.ca ou abonnez-vous au compte Twitter @DevEconCan
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Xcel Energy-sponsored camp challenges students
Teens learned about solar energy, electricity, building things and how things work at a Solar Energy Camp sponsored by XCel Energy held at Brush High School, July 18-19. (Lisa Jager/News-Tribune)
Exploring how solar energy works while having some fun at the same time is the theory behind a Brush Solar Energy Camp for teens held recently at Brush High School.It?s also a way to inspire students to consider the possibilities of a career in science engineering or math, according to Xcel Energy?s Pawnee Station Director Jerry Lyne, who helps coordinate and lead the camp, along with Brush High School science teacher Dave Miner.
During the camp, students learn about electricity, gears, building things and making them work by building a drive box and mechanism powered by a solar panel. The solar collector panel contains reflective material that deflect the sunlight into solar cells to make the unit function. At the end of the two-day session students usually take their projects outside in the sun to see if they work. However, Lyne said this year due to overcast skies they were not able to test the collectors outside. However, they did use a flashlight just to test the control circuits and that the collector rotated in the correct direction.?
The camp has been held for several years now. Returning students, including two of Lyne?s own children, help mentor new students.
In past years, Lyne said they have also studied the science behind energy in rockets and also challenged themselves with a whimsical ?mental experiment ? ? calculate the size of a box needed in order to hold all the people on earth, challenging the students to determine if it?s something you could actually calculate.
Lyne said at the end of the camp this year students completed a survey which asked if they were also interested in other types of camps.? Some suggested botany, biology and chemistry.?
?If there are people in the community that would be interested, we could develop a week-long series of classes and the students could pick and choose based on their interests, of which the solar camp would be one," Lyne said. ?I am hoping this interest might prompt other individuals or businesses to have an interest to do similar types of camps.?
The camp, along with other science programs for students, is funded through a $17,500 grant from Xcel Energy to the Brush School District.
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Stomach bug hits new Iowa patients in outbreak linked to salad mix
By Karen Brooks
(Reuters) - A severe stomach illness linked to prepackaged salad has struck two new patients in Iowa, state health officials said on Wednesday, as the bug spread through 16 states.
The salad mix has been blamed for most of the 145 total cases in Iowa and the 78 in Nebraska of the rare parasite cyclospora, which causes gastrointestinal illness. The two states account for nearly two-thirds of at least 378 cases in the United States since mid-June.
The cause of outbreaks in other states is still under investigation, but officials with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they are working to determine whether the prepackaged salad mix, the brand name of which has not been released, is responsible for outbreaks in states from New York and New Jersey to Florida and Texas.
At least 21 people have been hospitalized in three states with the bug, CDC officials said.
Symptoms caused by the one-cell parasite include watery diarrhea, vomiting and body aches. The virus is commonly associated with contaminated fresh produce and can be difficult to wash off.
Officials in Iowa and Nebraska said the salad mix was distributed nationally and there is no indication that local produce was involved in the outbreak.
The mix, sold as prewashed and ready to eat, was described by health officials as a combination of iceberg lettuce, carrots and red cabbage.
The product has been pulled from the shelves in Iowa and appears to have been consumed by the stricken residents in mid-June, health officials said. It was unclear whether the product had been removed from distribution in Nebraska.
Nebraska health officials said earlier this week that the same salad mix appeared to be responsible for the outbreak there as well.
New cases are being reported in Nebraska daily, officials there said, but it is unlikely that the same batch is still on shelves or in refrigerators, as the product's shelf life is short.
Cyclosporiasis symptoms usually manifest within several days of eating the contaminated food, and include diarrhea, cramps, nausea and fatigue. If not treated, the illness may last from a few days to a month or longer and patients have been known to relapse, the CDC said.
The first cases were reported in Iowa in late June, with the majority of the illnesses logged in early July. The CDC has not released the age range of those infected, but said it was working closely with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and state officials to gather more information.
(Reporting by Karen Brooks in Austin, Texas; Editing by Greg McCune and Richard Chang)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stomach-bug-hits-iowa-patients-outbreak-linked-salad-195805766.html
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