More charges for WSU grad arrested with bombs

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A former Fairborn resident and Wright State University graduate who was arrested on Interstate 70 New Year's Day with dozens of explosive devices in his car now faces additional charges.

Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 43, of Moores Hill, Ind.,made an initial court appearance today and had an additional charge of illegal assembly and possession of chemical weapons added to his initial charge of illegal manufacture or processing of explosives.

His arrest stems from a traffic stop initiated by Trooper W. Scott Davis on westbound I-70 near mile marker 85 in Madison County on New Year's Day in which a weapon was seen and then the bomb squad was called because of unknown objects in the car.

Investigators said in court today that there were more explosives in the car than initially reported. In total, law enforcement officers recovered 58 small improvised initiators, 25 improvised explosive devices, a medicine bottle weighing 1.5 pounds filled explosive materials and four additional explosive devices that did not have fuses. Also in the car, Boguslawski had a remote initiator and several loaded guns, including an AR 15 sniper rifle.

Prosecutors believe that Boguslawski made the devices found in his car, but they are still trying to work out where exactly the bombs were manufactured and what he intended to do with the arsenal.

At the time of the traffic stop he told troopers that he was traveling through Ohio on his way home from his father's house in Pennsylvania. He had blueprints for an unidentified building in the car with him when he was arrested.

Boguslawski had an Indiana CCW permit in the car as well, but troopers do not believe it's authentic.

His $1 million bond was continued on Friday, and he remains in custody in custody in Madison County.

According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Boguslawski's white Dodge Caravan was clocked at 85 mph in a 70 mph zone, prompting the traffic stop.

When Davis approached the vehicle, he asked Boguslawski if he had any weapons, to which he replied, "No." However, when Davis walked back to the vehicle with a ticket, he noticed the butt of a gun tucked between Boguslawski's legs.

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Chemical weapons charge added to man with dozens of bombs

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A former Fairborn resident and Wright State University graduate reportedly had more than 80 explosives devices, plus the materials to make more, inside his van when he was stopped on Interstate 70 New Years Day, the Columbus bomb squad commander testified Friday.

Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 43, of Moores Hill, Ind., faces a new charge of illegal assembly and possession of chemical weapons in addition to his initial felony charge of illegal manufacture or processing of explosives. The charges stem from a traffic stop New Years Day on westbound I-70 in Madison County when Trooper W. Scott Davis said he clocked Boguslawski driving 85 mph in a 70 mph zone.

During a preliminary hearing in Madison County Municipal Court, Davis testified he noticed several bumper stickers on the 2005 white Dodge caravan. One said, If youre reading this, youre within range, and another stated, Need Ammo? Factory Direct. He asked Boguslawski if he had any weapons in the vehicle, to which he said, Nope.

But when Davis returned with a ticket, he said he saw what looked like the butt of a gun between Boguslawskis knees as he leaned toward the passenger seat.

I said, I thought you told me there were no weapons. And he said, Theres not. And I said, Whats that between your legs? Davis testified.

Davis held him at gunpoint until backup arrived, during which time Boguslawski said the weapon was fake and offered to show the trooper that it was. During a pat-down, Davis said he located rounds for a 223 rifle and .22-caliber gun inside Boguslawskis pockets, along with two knives and some green notebooks.

With assistance from other troopers, a search of the vehicle revealed the gun between Boguslawskis legs was a fake orange pistol inside a holster that was bolted to the drivers seat. However, troopers did find a Beretta 9mm holstered to the drivers seat next to the seat belt, loaded with a bullet in the chamber with the safety off, on top of a loaded Smith & Weston Walter P-22. They also found a 223 sniper rifle, AR-15, and .22-caliber zip gun with two banana clips inside the van, Davis said.

Behind the passenger seat, Davis said they found a camcorder bag with containing what looked like IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, made of several 5-hour Energy bottles that had fuses protruding out of them. At that point, Davis said he called for the Columbus bomb squad.

The van had several bags and containers of explosives, some assembled and some in process, along with materials to make more. In total, bomb squad members found 58 improvised explosive initiators, made of tubing and straws and containing explosives, or energetic matter, that can be used to set off other explosives, along with 25 IEDs inside bottles.

Some of the bombs were timed, that could be set off by lighting the fuse, while others were electrical and could be set off using a remote device. There was also a remote detonating device inside the van that could be set off using a remote key fob detonator. They also located a bomb weighing 1.5 pounds inside a large pill bottle, which contained too much explosive to safely transport, said Capt. Steve Saltsman, commander of the Columbus bomb squad.

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What options do couples have to conceive before they choose IVF treatment ? – Video

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Up to 600 jobs in Buffalo promised by genomics project

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The $105 million genomic medicine and supercomputing project announced Wednesday by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for Buffalo and Manhattan could create up to 600 jobs here as the initiative draws two out-of-state companies to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

State, academic and business officials pieced together a collaborative effort that leverages the University at Buffalos supercomputer, life-sciences research conducted at UB and Roswell Park Cancer Institute and valuable stores of patient data to spur economic development.

While details about key aspects of the project werent available Thursday, officials involved in the initiative expressed confidence in its potential to generate medical advances and high-tech jobs.

I believe what transpired was the governor connected the dots, the governors staff connected the dots, and said, all this stuff links together. Were going to invest money in the State of New York to enhance genomics, said Dr. Donald L. Trump, president and CEO of Roswell Park.

The Buffalo region will get $50 million of the state money, largely to add capacity to UBs Center for Computational Research. But project leaders arent releasing a precise breakdown of how the money will be spent or where the jobs will be created.

The two out-of-town companies, which expect to move their first employees to the medical campus by March, complement the two local companies taking part in the project because all four focus on the data-intensive field of genomic, or personalized, medicine.

I think this is very visionary to leverage a core resource, which is its expertise, Michael Paul, CEO and president of Salt Lake City-based Lineagen, said of the public-private partnership jump-started by the state funding.

The genome research project ties together the planning work performed by the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, which identified the life sciences as a promising area of economic focus; the governors Buffalo Billion economic-development pledge, which has funded this and other initiatives; and the assets of UB and Roswell Park, including high-tech research centers and talented scientists.

It all fits together with an extraordinary, concentrated focus on turning around the Western New York economy, said Howard Zemsky, a Cuomo adviser and co-chairman of the regional council.

UB has sought to add capacity to its Center for Computational Research, now largely used for federally funded academic research, to give it a greater ability to perform computing tasks for companies, said Marnie LaVigne, UBs associate vice president for economic development.

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New Medical School in Martinsville in the Works

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Martinsville, VA - A group of doctors in Martinsville want to build something pretty important in that area, a new medical school.

The founder of the Virginia Museum of Natural History is the man behind this big project.

It's been a couple of years in the making, but he said when the school is finally open, it will have great impact on the city of Martinsville.

Dr. Noel Boaz of Martinsville, hopes that in the next couple of years, an old grocery store on Fayette Street in Martinsville will be transformed into a 22,000 square foot building, turning out doctors to serve the local area.

It will be called the College of Henricopolis School of Medicine. Right now they're working on getting accredited and plan to open in the year 2015.

"With more people coming in with Obamacare in terms of being covered, the need for primary care doctors is even worse than it was originally," said Boaz.

Boaz said the Henricopolis School of Medicine will be a little different from other med schools.

"We can do all sorts of active learning procedures , so students don't memorize anatomy they really learn it themselves," he said.

While the medical school is in the making, Boaz's team has started the Integrated Centers for Science and Medicine. It already offers classes for students at Patrick Henry Community College.

"We are sustaining operations that are still in this same three big areas of what we do, which will be education, research and clinic service and eventually that's what the medical school will do as well," added Boaz.

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Running the Numbers on SiriusXM as Liberty Stalks Cable Giants

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) - It's been about a week since Liberty Media (LMCA) unveiled its $3.68 a share takeover offer for a remaining stake in SiriusXM Holdings (SIRI), in an all-stock transaction that would give the combined company a $27 billion market cap at week-ago share prices.

SiriusXM shares are currently trading at $3.80, indicating that investors expect Liberty Media eventually to bump its all-stock offer price. Liberty Media, meanwhile, is trading at about $140 a share, 3% lower than when the offer was first announced, making the all-stock transaction even less amenable to SiriusXM's minority shareholders.

There are many steps left in this deal, including a recommendation by SiriusXM's special committee, shareholder votes and, most importantly, added information on Liberty Media's grand plans as it seeks to consolidate the satellite radio giant's earnings and cash flow. It is also important to note that Liberty Media already owns a controlling stake in SiriusXM.

Nevertheless, Carl Icahn's activist efforts in the takeover of Dell show that minority shareholders still deserve representation and a fair M&A process by SiriusXM's special committee. Courts also appear amenable to valuing appraisal rights, a potential lingering piece of the Dell transaction and something that could emerge as an issue in Liberty Media's efforts for SiriusXM.

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Malaysians should use the word ‘liberal’ with caution and more accuracy

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Being a liberal or a libertarian means believing in the rule of law, limited government, individual liberty and responsibility, and the free markets.

Institute for Demoracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) CEO Wan Saiful Wan Jan said the word liberal has been abused to such an extent that its true meaning had been greatly distorted.

In America, the word has been stolen by those who generally believe in greater state intervention (e.g. Obamas Democratic Party).

In Malaysia, some have been trying to associate liberalism with Pakatan Rakyat, Wan Saiful said in a posting on his Facebook, noting that neither of these associations represent liberalism in its classical sense.

He said classical liberalism was usually used in Europe to describe a political philosophy that in the United States would be called libertarianism, with slight differences in its details.

In his posting, Wan Saiful elaborated on four areas which constitute basic libertarian principles rules of law; limited government; individual liberty and responsibility; and free markets.

A libertarians most basic belief could be traced back to the Abrahamic and Greek idea of a higher law, a law by which everyone, including the ruling elites, could be judged.

The advent of Islam strengthened this belief, and reinforced the idea that those in positions of power are not the ultimate source of authority, he said, stressing that authorities were also subjected to the law under a libertarian model.

When contacted, Wan Saiful told theantdaily his posting was originally written last November for a column published in an English daily but was reshared due to its relevance to the ongoing Christian Allah debacle.

The word liberal has been bandied about quite a lot lately (he wrote in November). Most of the time the term is criticised for something completely unrelated to what the word actually means.

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Cruising British Columbia’s Gulf Islands, luxury toy box in tow

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GULF ISLANDS, Canada "I'm not ashamed to say it," Colin Griffinson says, as he scans the island-dotted Strait of Georgia, "I have wooden boat disease!"

And as he spins the very big wheel of his 1943 Pacific Yellowfin, one of a string of wooden boats the Dublin, Ireland-born captain and master carpenter has bought and restored over the years, he looks like a kid playing with his favorite toy.

And so do we, eight passengers cruising British Columbia's Gulf Islands aboard this floating toy box stacked with mountain bikes, mopeds, kayaks, golf clubs, fishing rods, shotguns for skeet shooting and a water slide, with a hot tub on deck and a speed boat with wakeboards and water skis.

This 114-foot vessel boasts varnished mahogany and gleaming brass but modern conveniences. Griffinson has poured more than $2 million into this retro gem, which has been plying the Inside Passage along British Columbia's coast as a luxury charter yacht for the last decade around the Gulf Islands, into Desolation Sound and north to the Great Bear Rainforest.

In spring 2013, the Yellowfin began accepting individual passengers for the pampered experiences once enjoyed only by the likes of Pearl Jam, Uma Thurman and the Saudi Arabian oil minister. The experience is active small-boat cruising with four traditional staterooms comfortably holding eight passengers.

We set sail on a June afternoon from the 1880s Britannia Shipyards in Richmond, near Vancouver International Airport, for four days of touring the Gulf Islands. The other passengers are two Vancouver families Marc and Karen Telio with their teens Sophia and Jack, and Cyndie Martinez and Gus Jassal with 5-year-old Javeen.

We chug from the mouth of the Fraser River into the Strait of Georgia to the original engines' "pocketa-pocketa" rhythm while sipping the ship's signature Bloody Caesars spiked with Pemberton, British Columbia's organic Schramm potato vodka. They're delivered on the sunny front deck in vase-sized glasses just as a pod of harbor porpoises surfaces port side.

We overnight in Montague Harbour off Galiano Island, and I awaken at dawn to cawing gulls and the aroma of salt air and brewing coffee. I treasure the serenity of being the first guest awake, cradling a steaming latte and a freshly baked banana muffin as I settle into my favorite hangout an ornate 19th century barber's chair in the wheelhouse, a prop from the movie "Mississippi Burning" that serves as the captain's chair.

When I see Dominic "Dom" Giossan, our guide, lower the first of the kayaks, I drop everything and slide into a red one, gliding across the glassy water that ripples as seal heads pop up around me. A bald eagle hovers above the mossy forest. Pink light creeps across white beaches with the rising sun.

Lighted by those soft rays, the cream-colored Pacific Yellowfin looks every bit the classic character it is. Built in Maine by the U.S. military and named JMP64 a Junior Mine Planter to protect East Coast harbors from a German invasion in World War II the 450-ton vessel saw only a few months of military service before the war ended. It was bought by California's Department of Fish and Game for tuna research (hence the name). It boasts a colorful rsum, including an early 1960s stint in the Caribbean with mysterious CIA connections during the Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco. Then it lounged, deteriorating for a decade on the Sacramento River as a houseboat, until oilman Pete Whittier bought and nursed it back to health as his private yacht.

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Living on islands makes animals tamer

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Jan. 10, 2014 Most of us have seen pictures and probably YouTube videos of "tame" animals on the Galapagos Islands, the biological paradise that was Charles Darwin's major source of inspiration as he observed nature and gradually developed his ideas about the importance of natural selection as a mechanism by which populations of organisms would change -- evolve genetically -- across generations, eventually becoming better and better suited to life in their current conditions.

A corollary of Darwin's revolutionary idea was that organisms would also evolve to lose structures, functions, and behaviors they no longer needed when environmental circumstances changed. He noted that island animals often acted tame, and presumed that they had evolved to be so after coming to inhabit islands that lacked most predators.

But more than 150 years later that almost casual observation remained to come under scientific scrutiny. Today, a team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne and George Washington University published a study showing that island lizards are indeed "tame" as compared with their mainland relatives. The researchers were able to approach island lizards more closely than they could approach mainland lizards.

"Our study confirms Darwin's observations and numerous anecdotal reports of island tameness," said Theodore Garland, a professor of biology at UC Riverside and one of the paper's coauthors. "His insights have once again proven to be correct, and remain an important source of inspiration for present-day biologists."

Study results appear online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. They will appear in the journal in print on Feb. 22.

The researchers conducted analyses of relationships of flight initiation distance (the predator-prey distance when the prey starts to flee) to distance to mainland, island area, and occupation of an island for 66 lizard species, taking into account differences in prey size and predator approach speed. They analyzed island and mainland lizard species from five continents and islands in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas.

Their results showed that island tameness exists and that flight initiation distance decreases as distance from mainland increases. In other words, island lizards were more accessible the farther the islands were from the mainland.

"The suggestion by Darwin and others that prey on oceanic islands have diminished escape behavior is supported for lizards, which are distributed widely on both continents and islands," Garland said.

He explained that escape responses are reduced on remote islands, because predators are scarce or absent there, and natural selection under reduced predation favors prey that do not waste time and energy developing and performing needless escape.

The research team also found that prey size is an important factor that affects escape behavior.

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Health care job losses: First time in decade

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The health care sector lost jobs for the first time since July 2003.

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Health care companies shed 6,000 positions in December, the first down month since July 2003, according to the government's monthly jobs report. This comes after a yearlong slowdown in hiring.

The hardest hit areas were nursing homes, which jettisoned 3,900 jobs, and home health care, which lost 3,700 positions. Hospitals got rid of 2,400 jobs, while physicians' offices reduced staff by 1,200.

For the year, health care added only 207,600 jobs, down from 320,600 a year earlier. It was the slowest year of growth since 1999.

Several notable hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic, reported layoffs last year as the federal government cut reimbursement rates and patient care shifts more to outpatient and urgent care clinics. In fact, outpatient care centers were the only part of the health care sector to boost jobs last month, adding 3,600 positions.

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It's not so surprising that the health care sector, which had reliably added jobs even through the Great Recession, is finally taking a breather, experts said. The industry is in the midst of a restructuring aimed at slowing the growth in costs and improving quality.

"There needs to be a pause, which may lead to a reduction of jobs," said Stuart Altman, a health policy professor at Brandeis University.

Friday's dour news comes on the heels of another federal report released this week that showed health care spending growth remained low for the fourth year in a row. Spending on health care grew by only 3.7% in 2012, according to data released Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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The health care sector lost jobs for the first time since July 2003.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

Health care companies shed 6,000 positions in December, the first down month since July 2003, according to the government's monthly jobs report. This comes after a yearlong slowdown in hiring.

The hardest hit areas were nursing homes, which jettisoned 3,900 jobs, and home health care, which lost 3,700 positions. Hospitals got rid of 2,400 jobs, while physicians' offices reduced staff by 1,200.

For the year, health care added only 207,600 jobs, down from 320,600 a year earlier. It was the slowest year of growth since 1999.

Several notable hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic, reported layoffs last year as the federal government cut reimbursement rates and patient care shifts more to outpatient and urgent care clinics. In fact, outpatient care centers were the only part of the health care sector to boost jobs last month, adding 3,600 positions.

Share your story: Have you lost a job in health care recently?

It's not so surprising that the health care sector, which had reliably added jobs even through the Great Recession, is finally taking a breather, experts said. The industry is in the midst of a restructuring aimed at slowing the growth in costs and improving quality.

"There needs to be a pause, which may lead to a reduction of jobs," said Stuart Altman, a health policy professor at Brandeis University.

Friday's dour news comes on the heels of another federal report released this week that showed health care spending growth remained low for the fourth year in a row. Spending on health care grew by only 3.7% in 2012, according to data released Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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