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French Natl Assembly votes for full funding of abortion, free contraception for girls 15 and up
As of 2013, public coverage of abortion expenses will be pushed up from 70% for chemical abortions or 80% for surgical abortions.
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PARIS, October 26, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com)—Even as the nation's Social Security budget is being ground down, the French National Assembly has voted to offer full taxpayer-funding for abortion and contraception.
As of 2013, public coverage of abortion expenses will be pushed up from 70 percent for chemical abortions or 80 percent for surgical abortions to a full 100 percent, within the limit fixed annually by the public health insurance system.
In the same session, the Assembly voted to make contraception 100 percent free to all girls aged between 15 and 18. This includes all forms of contraception that are eligible for Social Security coverage: most hormonal pills, patches, implants, intra-uterine devices, and vaginal rings.
Both measures are expected to be confirmed without question by the Socialist-dominated Senate.
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The new measures will force taxpayers to bear the full cost of eliminating unborn babies for any legal abortion on demand. Abortion is fully legal in France up to 12 weeks of gestation and its numbers have not diminished since the abortion first became legal in 1975.
Official statistics estimate the number of "voluntary interruptions of pregnancy" at about 225.000 a year, despite a near-"perfect" contraception rate. In France 95 percent of sexually active women who do not want to conceive use some form of contraception.
These numbers do not include an amount of abortions fraudulently performed under other Social Security lists which ensure better refunding for doctors, some of whom judge that the official rates are not "attractive" enough. Current legal rates range from about 250 euros ($320 U.S.) for a chemical abortion of a baby up to seven weeks of gestation, and from 300-450 euros ($385-580 U.S.) for a surgical abortion, according to circumstances.
In the present state only minors acting without their parents' consent or beneficiaries of the state-run health coverage plan for the destitute get 100 percent taxpayer-financed abortions. All others rely on additional health insurance, usually provided for by employers, to cover the remaining costs. A small number of "ethical" insurers offer packages that explicitly exclude additional insurance for abortion and contraceptives.
While Social Security reimbursements are being planed down on all sides, the "improved" coverage of abortion is expected to cost the taxpayer an extra 13.5 million euros annually (about $17.5 million). The total extra cost of abortion could reach 31 million euros a year ($40 million) if the government increases the official rates for abortions, as promised by the Health minister Marisol Touraine.
Women's Rights minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, who joined Marisol Touraine in presenting the government amendment, was careful to explain that full anonymity would be "guaranteed" to young girls seeking to obtain contraceptives from their doctor or health center.
At present, underage girls can anonymously obtain free contraceptives from Planned Parenthood centers but a majority of adolescents, especially in small towns and rural areas, have no access to these. They can obtain contraceptives from their family doctor against the general Social Security refund of 65 percent but must rely on their parents' additional coverage, when present, to obtain a full reimbursement. The government amendment's objective is to push up usage of contraceptives among adolescents without their parents' knowledge or consent.
According to Vallaud-Belkacem, about a million girls should benefit by the measure; extra costs for the Social Security are estimated at about 5 million euros (about $6.4 million U.S.).
The move toward publicly funded abortion-on-demand fulfills one of François Hollande's solemn promises during his presidential campaign, and had long been the aim of feminist groups and pro-abortion campaigners.
Observers remarked the "peaceable" and "consensual" atmosphere during the debate at the Assembly on Friday morning, representatives of the left and many of the right joining forces to adopt the measure. Many recalled with "emotion" the more passionate proceedings in December 1974, when Simone Veil led the first successful assault to decriminalize abortion, paying tribute to her as a defender of "women's rights."
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How to build a microbial eye Dissection of the subcellular eye of microorganisms called warnowiid dinoflagellates reveals that this structure is composed of elements of two cellular organelles — the plastid and the mitochondrion. T H O M A S A . R I C H A R D S & S U E LY L . G O M E S
he ancient Greek physician Galen described the key anatomical features of the eye1, including the retina, lens, cornea and iris. Yet arguably the first true understanding of how the vertebrate eye works came in the early seventeenth century, with mathematician Johannes Kepler's demonstration that vision occurs as an image projected on to the surface of the retina2. As such, an eye can be defined as a cornea and/or a lens that forms an aperture allowing light arising from a specific direction to pass on to a sensory surface that processes this signal into a chemical message. But animals were not the only organisms to evolve such systems — analogous structures and biochemical responses exist in cells of several eukaryotic microorganisms (cells that package most of their DNA in a nucleus), allowing these microbes to move in response to light3. In a
a Warnowiid dinoflagellate Plastid network (retinal body)
paper published on Nature's website today, Gavelis et al.4 describe the subcellular features that make up the eye-like structures of warno wiid dinoflagellates, which in anatomical terms are remarkably similar to vertebrate eyes. Warnowiid dinoflagellates are unicellular plankton that have not been cultured in the laboratory, but that are known to possess a remarkably complex eye-like structure, called the ocelloid. Ocelloids consist of distinct components similar to key parts of vertebrate 'camera-type' eyes: a cornea, a lens (called a hyalosome) and a pigmented cup or retinalike structure. Gavelis et al. studied warno wiids isolated from marine waters in Japan and Canada, and demonstrate that the anatomy of ocelloids is built from reconfigured plastids and mitochondria (Fig. 1a). These are subc ellular compartments seen in many eukaryotic groups that formed in the distant past through the intracellular incorporation of symbiotic bacteria; these organelles usually
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Figure 1 | Eyes across the tree of life. a, The eye-like ocelloids found in unicellular organisms known as warnowiid dinoflagellates have a 'camera-like' complexity that resembles that of animal eyes. Gavelis et al.4 show that two of these components in warnowiids have arisen through the reconfiguration of membrane-bound organelles that are usually used for cellular energy transformation: the cornea is formed from a layer of mitochondria and the retinal body is derived from a network of plastids. b, c, Microorganisms from other branches of the tree of life also contain eye-like structures, although these are anatomically simpler. b, The eyespots of Chlamydomonas algae comprise stacks of pigmentrich lipid molecules, located inside the cell's plastid, which shades light from one side of light-sensitive rhodopsin proteins. c, The eyespots of Blastocladiella fungi are lipid-filled vesicles close to the cell's main mitochondrion that are overlaid with rhodopsin proteins.
contain their own genomes and typically function in energy transformation. Specifically, Gavelis and colleagues show that the retinal body of ocelloids arises from a membrane network derived from plastids, and that multiple mitochondria form a cornea-like surface across a lens structure. To test these microscopy-based observations, the authors microdissected the warnowiid retinal body and sequenced its DNA, which contained a much higher proportion of DNA of plastid origin than equivalent samples from the whole cell. Although ocelloids are exceptionally complex, warnowiids are not the only microbial cells with eye-like subcellular structures. A diversity of eukaryotic microorganisms perceive light using different kinds of eyespots. One such structure is the eyespot of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Fig. 1b), a unicellular relative of land plants. This eyespot is located at the edge of the alga's plastid and is made up of lipid globules, rich in orange carotenoid pigments, that are stacked in compartments inside the plastid envelope. As such, this globule layer is thought to provide directionality and contrast by shielding and reflecting light from one side of the organism on to two light-sensitive proteins called type 1 rhodopsins that localize with this eyespot5–7. These two proteins have intrinsic light-gated cation-channel activity (and are therefore named channelrhodopsins) and have been demonstrated to act as photoreceptors that trigger movement in response to light5–7. Cryptophyte algae such as Guillardia theta also build eyespot structures that are located in plastids8, and movement of these cells in response to light is mediated by the function of at least two type 1 rhodopsin proteins9, similar to Chlamydomonas. The alga Euglena gracilis also has an orange-red eyespot, although, in contrast to the previous examples, this structure is associated with the base of the flagellum3, the cells' swimming propeller. The photoreceptor in Euglena has been identified as a photoactivated adenylyl cyclase10 protein. In yet another branch of the tree of life are the eyespot-like structures of the swimming spores of Blastocladiomycota fungi (Fig. 1c). These structures are lipid-filled vesicles called side-body complexes that are located close to the large mitochondrion of these fungal cells11. The side-body complex is overlaid with type 1 rhodopsin proteins. In Blastocladiella emersonii, the type 1 rhodopsin photosensor contains a guanylyl cyclase domain, which allows the protein to control the production of cyclic GMP (ref. 12), a key chemical messenger in vertebrate vision. Recent work13 on warnowiid ocelloids has also suggested that messenger RNA encoding a type 1 rhodopsin | NAT U R E | 1
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RESEARCH NEWS & VIEWS is associated with the retinal body. These examples demonstrate the wealth of subcellular structures and associated lightreceptor proteins across diverse microbial groups. Indeed, all of these examples represent distinct evolutionary branches in separate major groups of eukaryotes3. Even the plastidassociated eyespots are unlikely to be the product of direct vertical evolution, because the Chlamydomonas plastid is derived from a primary endosymbiosis and assimilation of a cyanobacterium, whereas the Guillardia plastid is derived from a secondary endo symbiosis in which the plastid was acquired 'second-hand' by intracellular incorporation of a red alga14. Using gene sequences recovered from the warnowiid retinal body, Gavelis et al. investigated the ancestry of this organelle by building phylogenetic trees for the plastidderived genes. Their analysis demonstrated that this modified plastid is also of secondary endosymbiotic origin from a red alga. Although derived independently, there are
common themes in the evolution of these eye-like structures. Many of them involve the reconfiguration of cellular membrane systems to produce an opaque body proximal to a sensory surface, a surface that in four of the five examples probably involves type 1 rhodopsins. Given the evolutionary derivation of these systems, this represents a complex case of convergent evolution, in which photo-responsive subcellular systems are built up separately from similar components to achieve similar functions. The ocelloid example is striking because it demonstrates a peak in subcellular complexity achieved through repurposing multiple components. Collectively, these findings show that evolution has stumbled on similar solutions to perceiving light time and time again. ■ Thomas A. Richards is in the Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK. Suely L. Gomes is in the Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de
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Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-000, Brazil. e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected] 1. Galen. Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body (Cornell Univ. Press, 1968). 2. Kepler, J. Astronomiae Pars Optica Manuscript presented to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1604). 3. Jékely, G. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364, 2795–2808 (2009). 4. Gavelis, G. S. et al. Nature http://dx.doi. org/10.1038/nature14593 (2015). 5. Schmidt, M. et al. Plant Cell 18, 1908–1930 (2006). 6. Sineshchekov, O. A., Jung, K.-H. & Spudich, J. L. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 99, 8689–8694 (2002). 7. Berthold, P. et al. Plant Cell 20, 1665–1677 (2008). 8. Lucas, I. A. N. Br. Phycol. J. 17, 13–19 (1982). 9. Sineshchekov, O. A. et al. Biophys. J. 89, 4310–4319 (2005). 10. Ntefidou, M., Iseki, M., Watanabe, M., Lebert, M. & Häder, D.-P. Plant Phys. 133, 1517–1521 (2003). 11. Lovett, J. S. Bacteriol. Rev. 39, 345–404 (1975). 12. Avelar, G. M. et al. Curr. Biol. 24, 1234–1240 (2014). 13. Hayakawa, S. et al. PLoS ONE 10, e0118415 (2015). 14. Archibald, J. M. Curr. Biol. 19, R81–R88 (2009).
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Damnoen Saduak is a village west of Bangkok, a popular morning trip from Bangkok for its floating market.
Damnoen Saduak was actually the name of the canal dug in the reign of King Rama IV. He had the canal dug to connect the Taachin River in Samut Sakhon Province with the Mae Khlong River in Samut Songkhram Province.
Today, most people live densely along both sides of the canal from one end of the canal to the other. They grow fruits and vegetables. Apart from providing transportation, the Damnoen Saduak Canal provides farmers with adequate water for agriculture year-round.
By bus: Public buses leave from Bangkok's South Bus Terminal every 40 minutes from 06:00 onwards. Damnoen Saduak in Ratchaburi about 109 km south of Bangkok or approximately 2 hours drive. The fare is around 50 baht one-way. The most suitable time to be at the floating market is from 08:00-10:00.
Warning: The bus or taxi might drop you 1 km away from the central area, but still next to channel. You can hire the boat from there, but it can be very expensive (1,000 baht or even more) and you will have to bargain hard to beat down the price.
The central area is close to the road bridge and surrounded by many souvenir shops. If you want to see all the three of the floating markets, Ton Khem, Hia Kui, and Khun Phithak, you can hire a boat for 300 baht per hour. You can also take a paddle boat at the pier for 10 baht per person or just walk on the path alongside the canal.
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market (ตลาดน้ำดำเนินสะดวก). Everyday, hundreds of merchants in boats crowd the market area in the early morning till noon. The colourful fruit and vegetable market is crowded with local vendors afloat in their small rowing boats.
Tiger Zoo — The zoo is home to many tame tigers and one can even feed baby tigers.
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#699) MARLON ANDERSON
Marlon Anderson first joined the New York Mets when he signed as a free agent on January 7, 2005. The versatile veteran came to the club on a minor league deal and unseated Joe McEwing to win the utility player spot on the roster.
The Shea Stadium fans witnessed the brand of hard-nosed baseball Anderson was known for on June 11, 2005. Marlon came to the plate as a pinch-hitter facing the American League West-leading Angels' closer Francisco Rodriguez. He stroked a drive that eluded Steve Finley and bounced along the warning track in right field. Anderson circled the bases and collided with Anaheim's catcher, Jose Molina upon reaching home plate. The collision resulted in three stitches to Marlon's cheek, and the first inside-the-park home run at Shea since 1989. "It was well worth it," Anderson said.
By the middle of his first year in New York, the left-handed hitter gained a more permanent place in the lineup. Manager, Willie Randolph installed the 5'11" Anderson as the team's starting first baseman. Former Gold Glover, Doug Mientkiewicz was fighting an injury that necessitated a replacement. "Nothing surprises me anymore," said Marlon. "You get to a point where doing things comes naturally. You just keep adding to your résumé. If you can hit they'll always find a place for you. I'm a guy that hits, and this is a team that needs hitting."
In total he played in 123 games for the season with seven home runs, 19 RBIs, and a .264 batting average. Anderson left the team when he signed a contract with the Washington Nationals on November 18, 2005.
His departure was relatively short-lived. Marlon returned to the Mets as a free agent on July 12, 2007. He had been released by the Los Angeles Dodgers the previous day. Back in New York he was a very productive pinch-hitter for the Mets. "This is the start of my season," was how Anderson described his return. He finished the year with a fine .319 batting average. Establishing himself as an invaluable bench option. "The biggest thing is that you can't look at it as being a pinch-hitter—you have to look at it as your chance to help the team that day," Marlon once offered about his craft. "The one thing you know is that you're usually coming up in a big situation, and that gets your attention."
The Mets signed Anderson to a two-year contract extension that winter. Injuries hampered his performance during the final season of Shea Stadium. He spent weeks on the disabled list with a strained left hamstring in both May and August. In June of 2008 he penned an inspirational note that was given to the team at a player's only meeting. It was a document designed to show players that they could reach 92 wins and the playoffs. "I was just encouraging the guys, saying- 'Don't believe what you read in the papers, what you see on TV.'" Marlon explained at the time. "The bottom line is it's not over, and we're going to be okay."
Anderson was a pinch-hitter during the final game at Shea. He recorded the second out of the eighth inning on the 4-2 loss to the Florida Marlins. His time with the Mets would conclude during the 2009 season.
When once asked what he might have pursued if he had not been a baseball player, Marlon responded, "Some sort of teacher or mentor or church leader. Trying to help people better themselves, believe in themselves, to get them to dream outside the box." So it was no surprise that at the conclusion of his playing career he began working with young players as a minor-league coach. First as the hitting coach for the Hagerstown Suns in 2011, and then the Potomac Nationals in 2012.
"I love to read uplifting books about people's lives," said Anderson. "I do a lot of things in my life, but I try to spend time wisely, to enrich myself and learn."
Marlon Anderson signed his card in the set for me before the Mets and Reds game at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati on July 19, 2008.
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#523) ARMANDO REYNOSO
Armando Reynoso was traded from the Colorado Rockies to the New York Mets in exchange for Jerry DiPoto on November 27, 1996. The Mexican-born righthander made his Mets' debut at Shea Stadium on April 15, 1997. He started and tossed five innings of the 5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers that day.
Reynoso recorded an even better performance on June 5th at Shea. Armando pitched his first complete game shutout leading the Mets to a 6-0 win over the Florida Marlins. "I've had a lot of good games," Reynoso said after the game. "But this is the best. Maybe someday I'll throw a no-hitter. That would be better." He faced 30 batters and matched a club record by inducing five double plays. "When I go out to the mound I feel big confidence," he explained. "because I know I have big defense."
On June 17th, he suffered his first loss as a member of the Mets. The finesse pitcher got off to a bad start facing the New York Yankees, and was trailing 4-0 in the second inning. A Luis Sojo line drive struck Armando on the inside of his left knee. "I could just feel my knee explode," Reynoso said. "I thought it was bad. I felt a lot of pain at that moment." He admitted to soreness in his previously repaired shoulder once being placed on the disabled list. Shoulder and elbow surgeries took their toll and ended his year as well as the start of the 1998 campaign.
Reynoso returned to the mound for the Mets on July 24, 1998. The rejuvenated hurler reeled off five consecutive victories upon his return to a six-man starting rotation. "I think that this team, this organization has been so patient with me when I came back. I have to prepare for anything," offered Armando. "I prefer starting." He pitched effectively through the conclusion of the year ending his second shortened season in New York with 11 starts, a 7-3 record and 3.82 ERA.
Armando left the Mets when he signed a free agent contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks on December 2, 1998. The move allowed him to play ball closer to his native Mexico. "The two years in New York were very tough. I missed my family so badly." Reynoso revealed. "When you get hurt and you're not contributing to the team, it doesn't feel good. It's not about the money."
Diamondback Charities teamed with the pitcher to create "Armando Reynoso Field" in Somerton, Arizona. The baseball facility became the third park created through the "Diamonds Back" Youth Field Building Program on September 12, 2002.
Reynoso was named the bullpen coach for Team Mexico during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, and was enshired into the Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Professional de México in 2010.
Armando Reynoso signed his card in the set for my friend Hal during the Major League All-Star Game Fanfest on July 9, 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Sienno (biał. Сянно, Sianno; ros. Сенно, Sienno) – miasto na Białorusi, w obwodzie witebskim, siedziba administracyjna rejonu sieneńskiego. W 2010 roku liczyło ok. 8 tys. mieszkańców.

Historia

W 1535 roku miasteczko zostało zniszczone przez wojska moskiewskie. W 1609 roku Eustachy Kurcz i jego żona Regina z Wołłowiczów ufundowali tu katolicki kościół św. Trójcy, który został przebudowany w stylu barokowym w 1772 roku z funduszy wojewodziny trockiej Jadwigi ks. Ogińskiej. W 1780 roku wzmiankowano tu istnienie klasztoru franciszkanów. W końcu XVIII wieku Sienno było miastem szlacheckim i należało do powiatu witebskiego w województwie witebskim.

W XIX wieku istniał tu dwór rodziny Sierakowskich. Około 1906 roku w Siennie działało polskie Towarzystwo Dobroczynności i Oświaty, założone z inicjatywy Marii Świackiej. Zajmowało się otwieraniem tajnych polskich szkółek w pobliskich wsiach i miasteczkach, a finansowane było darowizn okolicznych ziemiach.
Około 1962 roku wysadzono w powietrze barokowy kościół z 1772 roku.

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 Klasztor Franciszkanów - ufundowany w r. 1609 przez podkomorzego parnawskiego Eustachego Kurcza i Reginę z Wołłowiczów. Obecny klasztor zbudowano w r. 1760. W r. 1809 został rozbudowany. Skasowano go w r. 1851. Jest to budynek murowany, piętrowy. Częściowo zachowany.
 Kościół Franciszkanów pw. św. Trójcy - murowaną świątynię wybudowano w latach 1768–1772 z fundacji ówczesnych właścicieli miasta – Tadeusza Ogińskiego i Jadwigi z Załuskich – według projektu Jana Wilhelma Frezera. Odwiedziła go Katarzyna II. Była to zamknięta w prostokątnym planie krzyżowa świątynia, zwrócona do rynku fasadą podzieloną kolumnami w dwóch kondygnacjach. Wnętrze zdobiło dziewięć ołtarzy, a ołtarz główny oddzielał długi chór zakonny. W ramieniu transeptu stał stiukowy ołtarz ze srebrną trumną z ciałem Św. Fortunata Męczennika, ofiarowanym przez papieża Klemensa XIV w roku 1772. Kościół restaurowano przed r. 1837 staraniem przeora Fulgentego Kossakowskiego. Ściany pokrywała dekoracja malarska z pocz. w. XX (mal. Wacław Bubnowski). Po kasacie klasztoru funkcjonowała przy nim parafia. Po 1917 został zamknięty. W 1962 wysadzony przez Rosjan w powietrze.

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Herb został nadany miastu 16 sierpnia 1781 roku przez Katarzynę II. Jako że miasto weszło w 1772 roku w skład Imperium Rosyjskiego, w górnej części herbu Sienna znajdował się wizerunek dwugłowego orła - herbu rosyjskiego. W dolnej części na zielonym tle znajdowały się dwie złote kosy, oznaka tego, że miasto było bogate w siano (od którego też pochodzi jego nazwa).

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Officials with U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, said in a news release Wednesday afternoon that the name applies to operations against the Islamic State since airstrikes U.S. airstrikes began in Iraq on Aug. 8.
The Post's In the Loop blog ran a contest seeking contenders. One popular proposal on Twitter was Operation Dude, Where's My Humvee, a reference to U.S. airstrikes being called in on U.S.-built military vehicles, now that they have been captured by militants.
All joking aside, this could get a lot messier before it gets better. Over the weekend, we heard Turkey was going to allow the US to use its air bases to launch attacks but then they publicly withdrew that offer. Instead, some news outlets have reported Turkey has taken to using the crisis to hit areas where Kurdish militias are based. Quick background, Turkey and the Kurds have been sparring over years over the border area. Kurds want their own homeland; Turkey says no way.
So the United States is still launching air strikes, vowing not to put boots on the ground and putting together a vast coalition to take on the amorphous group, IS, which has no borders, no centralized government and is hell-bent on winning no matter what. Still, we are bombing away.
The issue is this. you have these group of fighters which probably have figured out that you don't want to move in large groups. So they are likely changing their tactics to survive which makes an air campaign that much harder. And potentially riskier.
MANPADS are ideal weapons systems for "asymmetric" warfare, Maxwell said. Fighters can blend into populated areas and employ the systems only when they see targets of opportunity — like low-flying Iraqi helicopters.
Earlier this week, Lt. Col. Tammy Duckworth, a U.S. Congresswoman representing a Chicago-area suburb, a former director of the state VA department and a former pilot with a Peoria-area Blackhawk unit, retired this month after 20 years in the military.
Readers of the blog should know Tammy. She's a former member of 1-106 AVN, a Peoria-based UH-60 unit and was a pilot with the 106th back in 2004, when her Blackhawk was shot down by an RPG and she lost both legs. She's good people and has done quite well for herself since. Currently, she's a Congresswoman based up in the Chicago area. She's also served in the Obama Administration working with veterans.
I have met her a few times and always found her to be a nice person who seemed eager to get to the biz of trying to help veterans. Something I can get excited about. So enjoy your retirement, LTC. You have earned it.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. –Lt. Col. Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman states, Illinois, an Illinois National Guardsman with Joint Force Headquarters, announced her military retirement 10 years after her Blackhawk helicopter was shot down in Iraq and she lost both legs.
Duckworth commissioned with the Army Reserves in May 1992 and joined the Illinois Army National Guard in 1996, with dreams of becoming a Foreign Service officer, and someday an ambassador, she said.
Her college friends advised her to understand the military better and attend military classes. Before long, she was heading off to military training.
Duckworth faced many hurdles throughout her career. In 2004, she deployed to Iraq as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot for the Illinois Army National Guard. She was one of the first Army women to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade Nov. 12, 2004. Duckworth lost both legs and partial use of her right arm in the explosion and received a Purple Heart for her combat injuries.
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kurt Hannemann of Chicago, with Company B, 1st Battalion, 106th Aviation in Peoria, Illinois, served as a door gunner on the same Blackhawk that was shot down. Hannemann said he considers Duckworth a mentor, admiring her mission-focused attitude and attention to detail.
Having been in the military for 23 years, Duckworth said balancing her civilian job and military career was the most challenging.
While Duckworth mentioned many fond memories and many testing situations, she always had a mentor to guide her.
Sikowski responded to situations after taking time to think and come up with a better solution, one that had better long-term effects, said Duckworth.
Duckworth was not originally scheduled to deploy to Iraq in 2004, but volunteered for the deployment, said Sikowski.
"She was my right-hand person as far as operations for the entire task force," said Sikowski.
Sikowski required his staff to fly twice a week and remain fully engaged in the mission during the deployment.
After her helicopter was shot down, Duckworth was determined to stay in the military.
She said she learned to enjoy other aspects of the military just as much as flying. She joined to become a pilot and flying was her passion; however, working in a tactical operations center (TOC) is something she enjoyed second to flying.
Duckworth recalled many notable missions during her military career. She said she flew Bell UH-1, also known as a Huey, around the Pyramids in Egypt, Blackhawks over glaciers in Iceland and completed a deployment to Iraq.
Duckworth maintained many great relationships and built a network of friends while in the military.
In talking about her 10-year anniversary, Duckworth tears up thinking about that day and the Soldiers who saved her.
Choosing to remain in the military after the incident, Sikowski said it is quite an amazing accomplishment given the severity of her injuries that she continues serving so well.
Duckworth recently got her fixed wing pilot license and started flying again. Her motivation comes from the lifestyle of being a pilot, said Sikowski.
As she continues with her civilian career, she is working to ensure the veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom receive the care they need.
Duckworth recently announced her pregnancy and said she has big plans after retirement.
In the last decade, Duckworth has accomplished many personal goals including scuba diving, surfing, skydiving, marathons, going back to school, and helping in her community.


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Army Engineers to flood 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland to save blighted Illinois town of 2,800
Posted on May 2, 2011 by coto2admin | 3 Comments
Judge says southern Illinois levee can be blown up
By Miriam Moynihan
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can blow up a Mississippi River levee, which would flood Missouri farmland but prevent the flooding of an Illinois town.
NYTimes May 2nd update: Missouri has appealed to the US Supreme Court, while at this moment, explosives are being packed.
U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. [appointed by Bush in 2008 and related to Rush Limbaugh] ruled that the Corps had the right to breach the levee to prevent flooding in Cairo, Illinois, as permitted by a 1928 law.
The levee breach could flood 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland, which contains about 90 homes. Missouri had filed suit to prevent the Corps from carrying out its plan.
Limbaugh wrote that he found that the Corps is committed to implementing the plan only as essential to provide protection to all citizens. He wrote "this Court finds that no aspect of the Corps' response to these historic floods suggests arbitrary or capricious decision-making is occurring."
The Corps plans to decide this weekend whether to blow up the Birds Point levee, depending on the level of water in the river. It will detonate explosives in the levee if the Cairo river reaches 61 feet. At 8 a.m. local time on Friday, it was at 59 feet and was forecast to rise to 60.5 feet, according to the National Weather Service.
Missouri plans to appeal the judge's decision. But the approximately 200 Missouri state residents who would be in the path of the flood if the levee is detonated have already been evacuated.
Cairo, an historic town of 2,800 people, is at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Both rivers have been rising to historic levels as a result of days of rain and the melt and runoff of the winter's heavy snow storms.
Both neighboring states of Illinois and Kentucky had protested Missouri's suit. Kentucky has argued that more than $32 million in damage could be suffered in Fulton County alone if the water got too high and the Birds Point levee was not intentionally breached.
James Wilson, the former mayor of Cairo and spokesman for current Mayor Judson Childs, said they are both "very pleased" with the judge's decision.
"We hope to God it doesn't have to be done," said Wilson of the proposed levee breach. "But we feel more secure in Cairo knowing if the river reaches a certain potential level they would take the action to ease the situation in Cairo and around us."
Wilson said that up to 600 people had already voluntarily evacuated the town, and that Childs is "strongly" recommending Friday that senior citizens, anyone with medical conditions, and families with young children in single-story homes should leave in the next 24 hours. Flooding is already a problem in town, and people are sandbagging around their homes.
"It's getting kind of deserted," said Wilson. "It's an eerie feeling."
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan applauded the decision, noting that if the river gets too high and Birds Point is not blown up, water in Cairo could reach up to 20 feet, topping a two-story house. Cairo is over 60 percent African-American and the income of a third of its residents is below the poverty level, Wilson said. Alexander County, which includes Cairo, has a median income of $26,042.
Corps Division Commander Vernie Reichling said Friday that the Corps is still in a "holding pattern" while it watches the river and the weather.
More heavy rainfall is possible in the Cairo area on Saturday night into early next week, with up to four inches by Tuesday night, according to the National Weather Service.
Meanwhile, flooding conditions were easing farther up the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky. The river started receding and is expected to fall below flood stage early next week.
Mike Callahan, a hydrologist with NWS, said how quickly the river drops depends on the amount of rain that falls over the next four days.
Callahan stressed that more rain than predicted could slow things down and that residents displaced from their homes should wait and see what happens.
(Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Reporting by Miriam Moynihan and Pam Windsor. Editing by Greg McCune and Peter Bohan)
May 3 UPDATE: Levee Blown
Water rises around a farm in the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created a breach in the levee with explosives on Monday night. David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
By Stephen Deere
St. Louis Today
Miles of milo fields once protected by the Birds Point levee were under several feet of chocolate-colored water by noon Tuesday.
It swirled around utility poles and rose to within several feet of barn roofs. Twelve miles south, along Highway 80, a Missouri Army National Guard Humvee blocked a secondary levee bordering the spillway.
Farmers walked up the hill, hoping to get an idea of damage to their land. They worried about homes being swept away, flooded grain bins and lost crops.
But they would have to wait days to assess their losses.
"It seems to me like they are destroying more than they are protecting," said Gary Wilson, 77, as he stood atop the levee and watched water in the spillway pour over the asphalt road a few hundred yards from him.
Wilson owns 160 acres nearly a mile to the north. He wanted to walk along the top of the levee, but was told he could not.
"There is no justification for this," Wilson said.
After the detonation of part of the Birds Point levee Monday night to ease pressure from the swelling Mississippi River, aerial photographs showed farmhouses, barns and outbuildings in the middle of fields with water rising around them. Some buildings already were partially submerged; others stood on islands of dry land as the water crept closer.
Tuesday afternoon, the Army Corps of Engineers blew out part of a levee near New Madrid, Mo., to allow water flowing in at Birds Point to eventually make its way back to the Mississippi River. The detonation could be heard and felt about 20 miles away in Sikeston, Mo.
Also Tuesday, a group of 25 southeast Missouri farmers is suing the federal government over its decision to blow a hole in the levee.
The Southeast Missourian reports that the lawsuit claims that the government violated the farmers' rights by taking their land without adequate compensation. The lawsuit seeks class-action status.
Cape Girardeau attorney J. Michael Ponder, the lawyer who filed the suit, is from Charleston and said he has cousins who were wiped out by the levee breach.
The corps has said that flowage easements attached to the farmers' property deeds allowed them to breach the levee.
ORANGE FLASHES, BOOMS
Torrents of rain swept across farm fields and boat lights glowed red on the swollen Mississippi Monday night. Then a row of orange flashes and a series of booms echoed across the levee.
The smell of explosives hung in the air as Col. Vernie L. Reichling, Memphis District Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, announced to a caravan of reporters that the corps had successfully set off several explosions to weaken the levee and allow the Mississippi River to rush across 130,000 acres of Missouri farm land.
Reichling called the move historic and tragic.
Officials said that allowing water to fill the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway would relieve pressure and lower record flooding upstream at Cairo, Ill., where the Mississippi and Ohio rivers converge.
And by 7:30 a.m, that was happening. The National Weather Service said before the breach, the Cairo level was at 61.72 feet and rising. By Tuesday morning, the river was at 60.62 feet and was expected to keep falling to 59.4 feet by Saturday.
But the plan required evacuating about 300 homes in the floodway and sparked a legal skirmish between Missouri and Illinois attorneys general.
On Monday afternoon, corps Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh said the levee system was "under enormous and unprecedented pressure" and needed relief as soon as possible.
The floodway plan has not been used since 1937, when the water rose to 59.5 feet at Cairo. That record stood until Sunday when the Ohio River topped 60 feet there. More rain fell through the day. The National Weather Service predicted a crest at 63 feet on Thursday without a breach of the Birds Point levee. Officials hoped the levee action would drop that crest by 3 to 4 feet.
The corps had been closely evaluating the rising river levels all weekend, while continuing preparations.
Lightning on Sunday night slowed their work. By 5 p.m. Monday, the crew pumping the liquid explosives was only 80 percent finished. That pushed the first explosion just past 10 p.m. Monday.
Walsh said the levee breach would not mark the end of the high water, which would be around for a while.
"Nobody has seen this type of flood," he said.
'A SICKENING FEELING'
Mississippi County farmers were concerned about how long it would take to recover from the silt the river would leave on their fields when it receded.
Bob Byrne, 59, farms 550 acres below the Missouri levee.
"It's a sickening feeling," he said. "They're talking about not getting the water off until late July or early August. That knocks out a whole season."
In the 1980s, when the floodway plan was under review, Bennett said, officials estimated that activating the floodway would cost residents and the county $300 million. Today, he said, losses probably will total close to $1 billion.
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, said Monday that U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack had assured her that farmers in the floodway who had crop insurance would be compensated as if this man-made flood were a natural disaster. "I know that helps a lot of people, but not everybody," she said.
As for equipment and homes left behind, she said, "That's all down the rat hole."
Emerson joined Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Monday in urging federal officials to restore the floodway "in full, without delay or red tape and without uncertainty or further hardship upon those who will inevitably suffer in the Missouri Bootheel."
Walsh — the man ultimately responsible for the decision to go through with the plan — has indicated that he may not stop with the Missouri levee. In recent days, Walsh has said he might also make use of other downstream "floodways" — basins surrounded by levees that can intentionally be blown open to divert floodwaters.
Among those that could be tapped are the 58-year-old Morganza floodway near Morgan City, La., and the Bonnet Carre floodway about 30 miles north of New Orleans. The Morganza has been pressed into service just once, in 1973. The Bonnet Carre, which was christened in 1932 has been opened up nine times since 1937, the most recent in 2008.
"Making this decision is not easy or hard," Walsh said. "It's simply grave — because the decision leads to loss of property and livelihood, either in a floodway or in an area that was not designed to flood."
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3 responses to "Army Engineers to flood 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland to save blighted Illinois town of 2,800"
Rady | May 2, 2011 at 12:04 pm | Reply
Wonder how much genetically modified crop contamination this will cause
Morgana | May 2, 2011 at 12:46 pm | Reply
Wow, Rady, good point! If you want to find trouble and bad decisions, just look anywhere the Army Corps. is feeding its guys. They are ALWAYS the cause of stupid trouble like this.
Rady | May 2, 2011 at 2:14 pm | Reply
I should write up something, but I'm brain dead today. I did eat my first harvest of the yukon gold potatoes I planted… yumm


The Dotty One: I'm back! And giveaway news.....!
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and best wishes for the New Year. Mine was pretty hectic with last minute crafting and a holiday over New Year which is why I haven't been spotted much around these parts of late. I had a lovely time but I am also looking forward to getting back into a routine and checking out all your blogs to find out what you've been up to. I'm also excited about getting back to some projects for myself after all those Christmas makes!!
Thanks so much Laura - I loved my early Christmas present :o) My earrings were much admired on Christmas day and my little crochet bag was very useful for taking my jewellery on holiday!
If you haven't visited Cute Crochet Creations before then I suggest you head over there now! There are lots of cute amigurumi creatures and gorgeous cross stitch to check out. I only wish I could be that prolific in my creations!
Now also seems like an appropriate time to announce that I am planning a giveaway shortly too so please look out for that. I decided to have a giveaway when I reached 60 followers which I have done recently (actually 61 as of today! hello new follower!) so I am currently working on some goodies to send to one of you.
I know lots of people have a giveaway when they reach 50 followers but I chose 60 for two reasons. Firstly, although I do have 60 followers I am aware that some of them don't seem to exist anymore (or, less morbidly, their blogger accounts have been deleted!) so when I reached 50 followers I knew I didn't actually have 50 followers so if felt like cheating somehow. Secondly, and probably more importantly, I didn't notice I had passed 50 followers for a good while after it happened - whoops!! Anyway, I hope you will enter my giveaway when I post about it in the next couple of weeks.


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1500 elementary schoolers in the same 'orchestra?' Must be Link Up.
That shrill, joyful, high-pitched sound emanating from Belk Theater Thursday morning will be mistaken for no other: It's kids playing recorders. A lot of recorders. About 1500 of those little pipes that are used to teach children the first rudiments of music.
What are they doing? They are linking up.
The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra will import every fourth-grader from Chester County and every fifth-grader from Lancaster County for a performance of "The Orchestra Moves." And moves is the operative word: South Carolina students will sing, tootle their flutes and move with the orchestra from their seats.
All music teachers from both counties attended workshops led by CSO education staff, learning how to integrate and teach the concert curriculum in their classrooms. Now they'll see their students in action in a mini-gala that includes dancers from UNC Charlotte, a recorder session led by CSO staffer Phoebe Lustig, and vocals by fellow staffer Chris Stonnell and students from Queens University and Northwest School of the Arts. Opera singer Jeff Braaten will do the "Toreador Song" from "Carmen," with the audience weighing in on the chorus.
Carnegie Hall created the Link Up program, which now serves more than 100 partner orchestras and 400,000 students around the world. Carnegie supplies curriculum guides, student workbooks, orchestral parts and online resources. In this case, the Springs-Close Foundation has underwritten the program for South Carolina.
"Through this partnership, our students are discovering a newfound interest and respect for symphonic music," says Alisha Green, district literacy coordinator for Chester County Schools. "Currently, we have a strings program. Now, students are asking for a band program as well! To have our students exposed to such a high-caliber group of musicians is an incredible honor."
The kids will listen to CSO assistant conductor Christopher James Lees, as well as a few musicians. More importantly, perhaps, they'll learn that music is as much fun to make as to hear even if you're not yet a master of your instrument.
By Lawrence Toppman, Charlotte Observer
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This myth gone on the world because a long time ago, carpet cleaners would leave residue of soap or shampoo on your carpet which has a sticky consistency and this is where the dust and dirt clings to right after the process of cleaning. This is the very reason why a lot of people especially home owners feel that their carpets get dirty quicker when it is cleaned by professional carpet cleaners. But, in the generation of today, there is already an advancement in technology especially on the tools and equipment that is being used, the training and knowledge of the cleaners have also evolved to something better and with this, we could say that this myth is not true as of today. Your carpet, once cleaned by professional carpet cleaners will stay clean depending on how much you care for it.
The truth is, if you leave a carpet wet and you do not let it dry, the result will be the shrinking of your carpet. Also, if you have a lot of traffic inside your home, regular cleaning of the carpet is the best thing that you should in order to maintain it properly. You also have to understand that while the technology for carpet cleaning equipments and training have risen, the quality of carpet also improved in the long run. They are not like the old ones that are damaged so easily because of poor quality. As of today, there are a lot of trusted brands out there that sells the best quality carpet possible. But what you have to understand is that, you have to make sure that your carpet is dried completely before you use it because of the reason mentioned above. You also need to clean it a couple of times a year when you the foot traffic in your home is heavy. If you want your carpet to last longer, take care of it well.
We like to put this out there that this is absolutely false. You should change your mind set about how dirty a carpet is. The dirt in your carpet is not only limited to the stains and dust that you can with your naked eye. Because there are a lot of dirt and micro organisms that stick on the fibers on your carpet and this will surely cause your carpet to wear out faster. Everyone who owns a carpet should know that there is a need for you to clean your carpet twice a year and more than that if you have a lot of people going in and out of your home. You must also vacuum your carpet as frequent as possible so that it will be safe for your health and it will not cause your carpet to wear out faster than it should.


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Jeremy Lebens of Media Stomp wrote,"Every so often a film comes out and gets a ton of praise and positive buzz, even though the trailers looked like complete crap. I usually tend to wait these ones out for home video, but if I read enough positive stuff from trusted writers, then I usually find myself taking the plunge. Hanna was one of those films and what a disappointment it was. It felt extremely slow and boring with barely anything happening. The action was average at best and the story seemed to never go anywhere. The only redeeming quality of the film was the score, composed by The Chemical Brothers. I honestly think I would have been better off watching a blank screen while listening to the score. I should have trusted my gut instinct that was telling me to avoid Hanna as if it were the plague. Now I sit here with six dollars less in my pocket. Thankfully I saw this early in the day and didn't have to pay full price for a ticket."
He's a film major and will be working as an assistant producer in a feature film set to release in 2012. He has a very interesting view on many movies that I would have never considered otherwise.
Just FYI for you to make up your mind...it was good. It had a decent story to it and a good twist to the ending.
Wait for rental. It was garbage.


my journey hOMe has been slow, quiet, and special.
it's been filled with numerous card games with my sleepy 97 3/4-year-old gramma, a drive into the wichita mountains, a picnic near lost lake, a hike to the dam, driving one of pops' many farm tools, and crafting with mum.
a delightful few days escaping reality, relishing in a slower pace, and basking in the beauty of wildflowers.
tomorrow = 4am wake-up airport-bound. ommmmm.
What a great view! I want to try the cool vehicle!


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Am I correct? Is there a common name for such a theorum?

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Dr Jose Valderas, University of Oxford
I am an Academic General Practitioner and Head of the Health Services and Policy Research Group at the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.
Before joining the Department in March 2010, I held appointments at the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester (2007-2010), the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) (2006) and the Health Services Research Unit of IMIM-Hospital del Mar (Spain), for 8 years.
I have a strong commitment to high quality research (my main activity), clinical practice, and teaching. My research has covered many different aspects of research on structure, processes and outcome of health services, and currently my research focuses on three main inter-related topics: the use of patient reported outcomes in clinical practice, the provision of care for people with multi-morbidity, and the implementation of strategies for improving the quality and safety of primary care.
I hold a NIHR Clinician Scientist Award for the study of clinical applications of Patient Reported Outcomes in complex patients in Primary Care. I am a Senior Researcher at Policy Research Unit on Quality and Outcomes of Patient Centred Care, Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (European Observatory of Health Systems and Policies), Associate Editor of the journals Quality of Life Research and European Journal of General Practice and member of the Cochrane Collaboration group on PRO Methods
http://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/researchers-n-z/jose-valderas-martinez


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Tag Archives: Windows 10 threshold2
Be ready for an update to Windows 10 (build 10586.71)
Microsoft is expected to roll out an update to Windows 10 today. The update should come for PC users and for Insiders who are using Windows 10 Mobile. It is expected to be a cumulative update. The build version is expected to be bumped from the recently released 10586.63 to 10586.71
By Sergey Tkachenko on January 26, 2016 , last updated on January 26, 2016 in Windows 10.
Download official ISO images for Windows 10 November Update 1511
Microsoft has published the final version of Windows 10 1511, known as November Update/Threshold 2 for free download. Now you can download official ISO images to perform a clean install of Windows 10 1511 RTM.
By Sergey Tkachenko on November 12, 2015 in Windows 10.
Windows 10 November Update is RTM, now released to everyone
Here is great news for every Windows 10 user. The long awaited Windows 10 November Update, known as code name Threshold 2, is finally released. The RTM version is available now on Windows Update.
By Sergey Tkachenko on November 12, 2015 , last updated on November 12, 2015 in Windows 10.
Microsoft has pushed out Windows 10 build 10586 to the Slow Ring
Today, we came to know that Microsoft has released Windows 10 build 10586, which is known as the November 2015 Update/Threshold 2 RTM to Windows Insiders on the Slow Ring. It should be available via Windows Update. The official ISO images will be available soon as well.
Microsoft has rolled out Windows 10 Fall Update Threshold 2
Microsoft has released Windows 10 Fall (November) Update Threshold 2 to all Fast Ring Insiders. The released build can be considered as the final release of the Threshold 2 update. However, it still has a few issues.
By Sergey Tkachenko on November 6, 2015 in Windows 10.
Windows 10 Fall Update (Threshold 2) RTM will be build 10586
Microsoft has signed off build 10586 as the 'Fall Update' for desktop users and also for mobile phones. This means that the mentioned build will be released not only for Windows Insiders but also for Windows 10 RTM users. Windows Phone 8.1 users will receive the update to Windows 10 Mobile as it is the next step up for all supported devices.
Windows 10 Threshold 2 might be released on November 10
Windows 10 Threshold 2, the major update to Windows 10, should be out in only 8 days. Users who already migrated to Windows 10 are awaiting this update because it should fix a lot of issues present in Windows 10 RTM (Build 10240). The November Update, as many people refer to it, is going through the finalizing stages and testing so it can be rolled out soon.
What will be fixed in Windows 10 Threshold 2
It is just a few weeks now before the first major update to Windows 10 known as "Threshold 2" will be rolled out. Many users are curious what is new and changed in this build. Here is a listing of the fixes made in Threshold 2 update to Windows 10.
By Sergey Tkachenko on October 26, 2015 in Windows 10.
The first major update for Windows 10, "Threshold 2" will be released in November
The first major update for Windows 10, which is known as Threshold 2, is expected in November. Threshold 2 is a code name, so its name will be changed by Microsoft once it is released. Threshold 2 is expected to be available via Windows Update.


It is no secret that Kenyans have dominated road racing for decades, setting records like clockwork and winning great amounts of prize money. But now, on the eve of the New York City Marathon, it turns out there might be a secret after all: Several of them have been cheating.
Jeptoo, 33, who was not scheduled to race Sunday in New York, also has captured the last two Boston Marathons. She is considered the top women's marathoner, and was expected to receive that World Marathon Majors prize of $500,000. Two other Kenyans, Geoffrey Mutai and Priscah Jeptoo (unrelated, but a training partner), won the 2013 New York City Marathon.


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Italian super sports car maker Automobili Lamborghini and Swiss luxury watchmaker Blancpain have returned to Shanghai for the third time for another round of exciting races as the Super Trofeo pulls into its fifth stop of this year's circuit.
A regular stop on the Super Trofeo lineup, the Shanghai Circuit is the second stop in China this year, the addition of Zhuhai speaking to the increased importance that Lamborghini and Blancpain attaches to China and Chinese racers. The nearly 5.5km track will not be new to seasoned Super Trofeo racers, but its two sets of challenging turns, the first decreasing in radius from 93.9m to 31.8m and then another increasing from a tight 8.8m to a generous 120.55m will still challenge the skill of even the most experienced racers. The required speed limit of 87km/h on narrow turns also forces racers to be creative and adds a sense of excitement and anticipation for spectators.
Top racers will have to work hard to maintain their leading positions as the Super Trofeo enters the last few races of the season as competitors have precious few opportunities to edge ahead and take the final prize in Sepang. The star team of this year's Super Trofeo has been Jiang Xin and Max Weiser, who have taken straight first places in all races, but if they are not careful, even their unblemished record may yet be tarnished. The team of Malagamua and Urata kept the pressure on in Zhuhai and are poised to keep it going in Shanghai. Solo driver Toshiyuki Ochiai from Japan is also one to watch as he comes off of strong performances in both Fuji and Zhuhai.