9th Annual Beaches to Woodlands Tour in Santa Rosa County, Fl

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For the 9th year in a row, both visitors and locals have the chance to discover the diversity of Santa Rosa County during the 9th Annual Beaches to Woodlands Tour, which will be held each weekend during October 2012.

The self-guided tour showcases arts & culture, heritage, and nature-based venues along a route peppered with fun-filled festivals, seasonal foods, and adventurous activities from the sugar-white beaches along the Gulf of Mexico up through historic riverfront districts in Floridas Canoe Capital and into vast farmlands surrounded by one of Floridas largest state forests, Blackwater River State Forest.

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Alamitos Bay beaches could reopen Saturday, one week after sewage spill

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LONG BEACH Almost a week after a sewage spill forced beach closures on eastside shorelines, many beaches were still closed Friday.

Health officials said the sites could reopen as early as Saturday, after water tests Thursday were clear of contamination.

An estimated 1,000 gallons of sewage contaminated Alamitos Bay following a spill from a private sewer system that began Sept. 29.

The spill initially resulted in the closure Sunday of Mother's Beach and Marine Stadium. However, additional testing resulted in other beach closures in Alamitos Bay and parts of Seal Beach later in the week.

Ocean-facing beaches in Long Beach, as well as the Colorado Lagoon swimming area, remained open to public swimming.

The spill originated with a homeowners association complex at Bixby Terrace Drive area near Seventh Street and the Cerritos Channel, according to Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services environmental health specialist Nelson Kerr.

He said health workers have been testing the water daily, and they'll keep the recreational water areas closed until two consecutive test results show no contamination.

Earlier in the week, the Health Department was still finding "hot spots" of bacteria contamination, Kerr said. By Friday, the water quality was improving.

"The test results looked good," Kerr said about Thursday's samples.

Officials continued to keep close tabs on the situation Friday, taking samples from the

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New Frontiers in Astronomy: Cosmic Abundance of Kardashevs [Dynamics of Cats]

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In which we win an award from the New Frontiers in Astronomy Program.

The New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology program announced its research grant award winners yesterday.

The last, but not least of the Big Questions solicited in the Call for Proposals, was: Are we alone in the universe? Or, are there other life and intelligence beyond the solar system?

There were four awards in this Astrobiology and SETI category, focusing on different approaches in the search for life elsewhere in the Universe.

We got one:

Constraining the Abundance of Kardashev Type II and III Civilizations From Large Area Infrared Surveys

with PI Prof. Jason Wright (Penn State), yours truly, and Prof. Matthew Povich, formerly at Penn State, now at Cal Poly.

This is one of the most fun projects Ive been involved with, and I am really looking forward to working on this over the next couple of years, and hopefully beyond, if we find something

The proposal came together serendipitously when I bumped into Jason in a stairwell at the office. Jason had just been to a seminar on infrared surveys, and I had been thinking about the New Frontiers call for proposals (I was working on another proposal on complexity, which, sadly, did not get selected). Within hours we had put together a pre-proposal and sent it in to New Frontiers. The proposal then made the cut to be invited for a submission of a full proposal. The full proposal was actually really good, in my humble and impartial opinion, and, we got one of the awards. Yay us!

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Washington Aerospace Scholars accepting teacher and student applications

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The Washington Aerospace Scholars (WAS) program is currently accepting applications from teachers and student for its 2012-13 cycle.

WAS is a free statewide program for high school juniors that emphasizes science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and encourages students to consider careers in these fields. The program is divided into two components: an online distance learning curriculum and a six-day summer residency.

Students:

Beginning in mid-December, students will begin Phase One: a series of online distance-learning lessons using curriculum designed in partnership with NASA and the University of Washington (UW) Department of Earth and Space Sciences. In this phase, students will have the option to pay a fee to receive five UW credits in Space and Space Travel (ESS 102) upon their successful completion of the WAS curriculum. This course will satisfy the Natural World area of knowledge requirement for graduation from UW. Applying for UW credit is optional and students will be able to participate in Phase One even if they choose not to register for credit.

Student performance on the Phase One curriculum will determine eligibility for Phase Two: a six-day summer residency session hosted by The Museum of Flight in Seattle. Participants will work with professional engineers on the design of a human mission to Mars. Participants will also receive briefings from experts, tour engineering and scientific facilities and laboratories and compete in a variety of hands-on engineering challenges. These challenges include model rocket design, construction and launch, robotic rover design, construction and obstacle course competition, lander design, construction and deployment and payload lofting system design.

Program participants must be high school juniors, Washington residents and U.S. citizens. A minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 is required for full status; however, students with a GPA below 3.0 may be admitted on a conditional basis.

The student application deadline is Nov. 9.

Teachers:

Teachers accepted into WAS will participate in both phases of the program. During Phase One, teachers serve as online academic evaluators (OAE) and receive a $400 stipend to evaluate approximately 25 students from mid-December to May through the WAS Moodle website. Phase One consists of eleven online lessons and every two weeks OAEs use program-developed rubrics to evaluate the essays and math assignments that students submit online.

Phase One teachers will also be provided a $500 stipend to participate in the six-day summer residency held at The Museum of Flight in Seattle. During the residency, teachers work with a STEM professional to guide a team of ten students as they plan a human mission to Mars. The summer residency also features guest speakers, tours of engineering facilities that are not available to the general public and hands-on engineering challenges. Teachers can opt to earn 60 free clock hours and all summer residency room/board and travel expenses are covered by the WAS Foundation.

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UTC Aerospace opens facility in Africa

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UTC Aerospace Systems has opened its first facility in Africa, establishing a subsidiary operation in Casablanca, Morocco, BizJournals.com reports.

The subsidiary, Ratier-Figeac Maroc, is part of the UTC Aerospace Propeller Systems business, The Charlotte Business Journal reports. The unit designs, manufactures and services propeller systems, cockpit controls, cabin equipment and actuator systems for commercial, regional, corporate and military aircraft.

RFM's Morocco facility encompasses 46,000 square feet and specializes in cockpit controls and cabin equipment, the paper reports, citing a press release from UTC Aerospace.

Charlotte-based UTC Aerospace Systems, formerly Goodrich Corp., is a unit of Hartford's United Technologies Corp.

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UTC Aerospace Systems inaugurates first facility in Africa

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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UTC Aerospace Systems held a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by dignitaries, partners and suppliers to celebrate the inauguration of its new Propeller Systems facility in Casablanca, Morocco. The new subsidiary, Ratier-Figeac Maroc, (RFM) is UTC Aerospace Systems' first facility in Africa. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (UTX).

"We are delighted to celebrate the opening of RFM in Morocco and to build partnerships within the community," said Michel Ferey, who leads the Propeller Systems business at UTC Aerospace Systems. "This is a great opportunity for UTC Aerospace Systems to expand operations and grow our Propeller Systems business."

RFM was created in January 2011 as part of an ongoing Propeller Systems' cost reduction strategy. During the facility's construction, RFM technicians trained at the IMA ("Institut des Metiers de l'Aeronautique") the Moroccan Institute specialized in training in aeronautical activities. Employees began working onsite at the RFM facility in Morocco upon the building's completion in March 2012.

In addition to the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the inauguration included a tour of the RFM assembly shop and several speeches by key dignitaries, including the French Ambassador in Morocco, the President of the GIMAS, and the Moroccan Minister Abdelkader Amara, who thanked the Propeller Systems' team for its confidence in Morocco to build this new industrial site.

The RFM facility covers 46,000 square feet, and is specialized in the assembly of cockpit controls and cabin equipment.

UTC Aerospace Systems' Propeller Systems unit designs, manufactures and services propeller systems, cockpit controls, cabin equipment and Trimmable Horizontal Stabilizer Actuator (THSA) systems for commercial, regional, corporate and military aircraft..

UTC Aerospace Systems designs, manufactures and services integrated systems and components for the aerospace and defense industries. UTC Aerospace Systems supports a global customer base with significant worldwide manufacturing and customer service facilities.

United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company that provides high-technology products and services to the aerospace and building industries.

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Danone Baby Nutrition; Revolution Labs Online Health Tools; Pharma Conf in China- Health Min 10/5/12 – Video

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05-10-2012 05:00 Danone plans to double its baby and medical nutrition business in India within the next three to four years. The French firm has acquired the nutrition company Wockhardt to enter the markets, re-naming the new entity Nutricia International. Danon sells baby nutrition products in 137 countries, with a strong presence in the Asia-Pacific region, whicih accounts for 40 percent of its volumes. Revolution Laboratories has new tools on its website that allow users to track their body mass index and to inform men and women about recommended intake levels for calories, protein, and water. An activity calculator also helps show how many calories are burned through various activities and at various intensity levels. Rev Labs focuses on optimizing health through workout programs, diet guides, and balanced nutritional supplements. The Pharma Manufacturing and Quality Management China 2012 conference plans to bring together more than 120 decision makers from government institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Attendees will discuss quality management systems, API manufacturing, solid dosage form production, and sterile drug products. The conference opens on November 6th in Suzhou, China. For more information on these and other stories, go to http://www.csrminute.com. The Health Minute is produced for 3BL Media by Video4Good

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Geronimo nutrition site in jeopardy

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GERONIMO, Okla_Like many other senior citizen nutrition sites in Southwest Oklahoma, the center in Geronimo is in danger of closing down.

The Delta Nutrition Program, which oversees Geronimo's site, announced last month that their center and several others were in danger of closing because of federal budget cuts. Geronimo's center sees about 18 seniors per day, which is not enough to keep it open. But some of the center's employees and the seniors who visit say they're still fighting for it.

Geronimo's nutrition center has been feeding local seniors since 1988. It's managed to stay open from grants and a $2 daily admission fee for visiting seniors. That $2 is all most of them can afford. The center just received a $3,800 ASCOG grant for the 2012-2013 fiscal year but center officials say they're worried that it may be their last.

Dorothy McNabb has been coming to Geronimo's nutrition center for the past two years. She said the women have become a part of her family. So when she heard that a place she calls her second home may close, she was worried.

"I was so upset, I just can't imagine us not having a place to go everyday. We would miss so much. The whole community, they were very saddened."

She said the center offers seniors a way to stay active and socialize. Not to mention, gain access to nutritious foods.

"It is not like I cook at home. Where, we would just have leftovers and leftovers of the same thing. You get a variety of food each day."

Site manager Joanie Sutton said the reason this center is on the chopping block is because not enough seniors are coming in each day. At least, not when compared to larger cities like Lawton but she said those figures are skewed.

"We are a smaller community. So my numbers are going to be low. Some of them still work over 60, so they can't make it up here from 8 to 1."

Sutton said that in the last year, at least five more seniors have been coming in per day. Time will tell if that increase will be enough to stay open. But for the Geronimo community, this center means everything.

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Research and Markets: Analysis of Microbiology Testing Technologies And Strategic Profiles of Leading Suppliers such …

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/94tb9h/analysis_of) has announced the addition of the "Analysis of Microbiology Testing Technologies And Strategic Profiles of Leading Suppliers" report to their offering.

This 155-page report provides detailed analyses of current and emerging technologies, and their potential applications for the microbiology testing market, including molecular diagnostics, biochips, monoclonal antibodies, immunoassays, IT, gel microdroplets, differential light scaltering, chromatography and several others.

The report also presents strategic assessments of leading market players and emerging suppliers with innovative technologies and products, including their sales, product portfolios, distribution tactics, technological know-how, new products in R&D, collaborative arrangements, and business strategies.

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Current and Emerging Technologies

Molecular Diagnostics

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DNA evidence links man to elderly Tulia woman's murder

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Readmore: Local, Crime, News, Imogene Wilmoth Harris, Tulia Texas, Tulia Death, Tulia Woman Killed, Homicide, Murder, Tulia Homicide, Woman Killed by Blunt Force Trauma, Blunt Force Trauma, Harris Killed in Tulia, Dna Evidence, Esequiel Gomez, Dna Evidence Tulia Murder, Tulia Murder, Swisher County Murder

TULIA, TEXAS -- DNA evidence helped to link a man to the murder of an elderly Tulia woman in 2011.

According to Tulia Police, the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Lab linked evidence from a sexual assault investigation in Willmar, Minn., to the murder of Imogene Harris.

An arrest warrant was issued for Esequiel Gomez, Jr., for the offense of Capital Murder.

Imogene Wilmoth Harris, 84 was found deceased in a Tulia residence in August 2011 by a family member. The cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma, police said.

Authorities said Gomez had been living in Texas but was extradited to Minnesota for aggravated sexual assault. Additionally, police said Gomez was linked to an assault of an elderly person in Hico, Texas, in 2008.

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Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct | The Crux

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Eric Michael Johnson has a masters degree in evolutionary anthropology focusing on great ape behavioral ecology. He is currently a doctoral student in the history of science at University of British Columbia looking at the interplay between evolutionary biology and politics.He blogs atThe Primate Diariesat Scientific American, where this postoriginally appeared.

Rand by Nathaniel Gold

Every political philosophy has to begin with a theory of human nature, wrote Harvard evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin in his bookBiology as Ideology. Thomas Hobbes, for example, believed that humans in a state of nature, or what today we would call hunter-gatherer societies, lived a life that was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short in which there existed a warre of all against all. This led him to conclude, as many apologists for dictatorship have since, that a stable society required a single leader in order to control the rapacious violence that was inherent to human nature. Building off of this, advocates of state communism, such as Vladimir Lenin or Josef Stalin, believed that each of us was borntabula rasa, with a blank slate, and that human nature could be molded in the interests of those in power.

Ever sinceAtlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand has been gaining prominence among American conservatives as the leading voice for the political philosophy of laissez-faire capitalism, or the idea that private business should be unconstrained and that governments only concern should be protecting individual property rights. AsI wrote this week inSlatewith my piece Ayn Rand vs. the Pygmies,the Russian-born author believed that rational selfishness was the ultimate expression of human nature.

Collectivism, Rand wrote inCapitalism: The Unknown Idealis the tribal premise of primordial savages who, unable to conceive of individual rights, believed that the tribe is a supreme, omnipotent ruler, that it owns the lives of its members and may sacrifice them whenever it pleases. An objective understanding of mans nature and mans relationship to existence should inoculate society from the disease of altruistic morality and economic redistribution. Therefore, one must begin by identifying mans nature, i.e., those essential characteristics which distinguish him from all other living species.

As Rand further detailed in her bookThe Virtue of Selfishness, moral values are genetically dependent on the way living entities exist and function. Because each individual organism is primarily concerned with its own life, she therefore concludes that selfishness is the correct moral value of life. Its life is the standard of value directing its actions, Rand wrote, it acts automatically to further its life and cannot act for its own destruction. Because of this Rand insists altruism is a pernicious lie that is directly contrary to biological reality. Therefore, the only way to build a good society was to allow human nature, like capitalism, to remain unfettered by the meddling of a false ideology.

Altruism is incompatible with freedom, with capitalism and with individual rights, she continued. One cannot combine the pursuit of happiness with the moral status of a sacrificial animal. She concludes that this conflict between human nature and the irrational morality of altruism is a lethal tension that tears society apart. Her mission was to free humanity from this conflict. Like Marx, she believed that her correct interpretation of how society should be organized would be the ultimate expression of human freedom.

As I demonstrated in mySlatepiece,Ayn Rand was wrong about altruism. But how she arrived at this conclusion is revealing both because it shows her thought process and offers a warning to those who would construct their own political philosophy on the back of an assumed human nature. Ironically, given her strong opposition to monarchy and state communism, Rand based her interpretation of human nature on the same premises as these previous systems while adding a crude evolutionary argument in order to connect them.

Rand assumed, as Hobbes did, that without a centralized authority human life would erupt into a chaos of violence. Warfarepermanent warfareis the hallmark of tribal existence, she wrote inThe Return of the Primitive. Tribes subsist on the edge of starvation, at the mercy of natural disasters, less successfully than herds of animals. This, she reasoned, is why altruism is so pervasive among indigenous societies; prehistoric groups needed the tribe for protection. She argued that altruism is perpetuated as an ideal among the poor in modern societies for the same reason.

It is only the inferior men that have collective instinctsbecause they need them, Rand wrote in ajournal entrydated February 22, 1937. This kind of primitive altruism doesnt exist in superior men, Rand continued, because social instincts serve merely as the weapon and protection of the inferior. She later expands on this idea by stating, We may still be in evolution, as a species, and living side by side with some missing links.

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Anatomy of Vatican Scandal: How the Butler Did It

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He had the trust of Pope Benedict XVI and the cardinals, monsignors and priests who run the Roman Catholic Church. And because of his privileged position as papal butler, he had access to their deepest secrets: confidential letters, memos, financial reports.

From under Benedict's nose, Paolo Gabriele used the photocopier in the small office he shared with the two papal secretaries that adjoined the pope's library, studio and chapel and, he says, started copying them all.

At first he kept the documents to himself. Then he found a journalist he trusted, and the intrigues and injustices he saw around him spread around the world in the gravest Vatican security breach of modern times.

A three-judge Vatican tribunal on Saturday will decide whether Gabriele is guilty of aggravated theft, accused of stealing the pope's private papers and leaking them to journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, whose book "His Holiness: Pope Benedict XVI's secret papers" became an immediate blockbuster when it was published in May. Gabriele has pleaded innocent, claiming he never took original documents, though he said he was guilty of "having betrayed the trust of the Holy Father, whom I love as a son would."

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From court documents, trial testimony and the book itself, the anatomy of the scandal has taken shape: They describe how a 46-year-old father of three, said by court-ordered psychiatrists to be unstable, desperate for attention and with illusions of grandeur, came to consider himself inspired by the Holy Spirit to expose the Vatican's dirty laundry for the sake of saving the church. They demonstrate how he instigated a Hollywood-like plot to sneak the documents out of the Apostolic Palace under the cover of darkness to a waiting journalist outside the Vatican walls, who then exposed them on TV and in the most talked-about book of 2012.

Gabriele himself told the court this week that he became increasingly "scandalized" when, as he would serve Benedict his lunch, the pope would ask questions about issues he should have been informed about. That suggested to Gabriele that the pope was being intentionally kept in the dark by his advisers.

"I had a unique and privileged occasion to mature the conviction that it's easy to manipulate someone with decision-making power," Gabriele said of the pope. "With the help of others like Nuzzi, I thought I could help things be seen more clearly," he told prosecutors in a July 21 interrogation.

Gabriele told Nuzzi that he started copying documents sporadically soon after Benedict became pope in 2005, and then in earnest in 2010 and 2011, when the No. 2 Vatican administrator began complaining about a smear campaign launched against him for having uncovered corruption and waste in running the Vatican City state.

In his testimony, Gabriele almost boasted that he would copy the letters in broad daylight, during his 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. shift, while Monsignor Georg Gaenswein and the other papal secretary, Monsignor Alfred Xuereb, were at their desks facing his. He was free to sort through the mail that would come in daily to the office inboxes, even documentation that was on Gaenswein's desk.

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Mead Johnson Schedules Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call

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GLENVIEW, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (MJN) will release its third quarter 2012 earnings on Thursday, October 25, 2012, before the market opens. The company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. CDT that same day during which company executives will review third quarter financial results and respond to questions from analysts and investors.

The call will be broadcast over the Internet at meadjohnson.com. To listen to the call, visit the website and click on Investors. Security analysts and investors wishing to participate by telephone should call (866) 578-5788, pass code: Mead Johnson. Callers outside of North America should call +1-617-213-8057 to be connected. A replay of the conference call will be available through midnight CDT Thursday, November 1, 2012, by calling (888) 286-8010 or outside of North America by calling +1-617-801-6888, pass code: 37115410. The replay will also be available at meadjohnson.com.

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Mead Johnson, a global leader in pediatric nutrition, develops, manufactures, markets and distributes more than 70 products in over 50 countries worldwide. The companys mission is to nourish the worlds children for the best start in life. The Mead Johnson name has been associated with science-based pediatric nutrition products for over 100 years. The companys Enfa family of brands, including Enfamil infant formula, is the worlds leading brand franchise in pediatric nutrition. For more information, visit meadjohnson.com.

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Analysis of Microbiology Testing Technologies And Strategic Profiles of Leading Suppliers

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NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Analysis of Microbiology Testing Technologies And Strategic Profiles of Leading Suppliers

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This 155-page report provides detailed analyses of current and emerging technologies, and their potential applications for the microbiology testing market, including molecular diagnostics, biochips, monoclonal antibodies, immunoassays, IT, gel microdroplets, differential light scaltering, chromatography and several others.

The report also presents strategic assessments of leading market players and emerging suppliers with innovative technologies and products, including their sales, product portfolios, distribution tactics, technological know-how, new products in R&D, collaborative arrangements, and business strategies.

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Longevity Global Inc. Announced the Extension of its Offered Product Lines by Adding Few More Evolved Models of Mig …

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Longevity Global Inc. has announced about the extension of their offered Welding Supplies. This time Longevity has engineered some technologically advanced models of Mig welders this time. The new range of welding units have now been staged for sale on Longevity's website.With over 10 years of experience in delivering welding equipment and cutting machines to the welding industry, Longevity Global Inc. has reached at a stage where this Welding Supply providing company can speculate about the forthcoming needs of machines in the welding factories.

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In the new range of MIG WELDERS launched by Longevity Global Inc., MigWeld 303P model of Mig welding machine would the center of attraction since this welder line has been specially manufactured by keeping the future welding techniques into consideration.The MigWeld 303P competes with top model MIG welders in the industry. This MIG welder requires 3 Phase 220V power supply which can be found in most industrial applications or generators. This MIG welder comes with full amperage and speed adjustments for faster or slower hand speeds on thicker or thinner material. This MIG welder is also equipped with full pulse amperage settings with complete adjustment for better quality welds. Gas shielding can be used with this machines giving the seamless and best looking welds. This machine is great for light weight or heavy gauge industrial use. This Gas shielded MIG welder can be equipped with a separate hand speed controlled spool gun for welding aluminum or other materials. This machine is competitively priced, including a free 5 Year parts and labor warranty.

Longevity Global Inc. is the leading cutters and industrial welders manufacturing company in the whole USA. The company is also know to deliver the most advanced models of small generators to fulfill the power back-up needs. The unbeatable price range and paramount quality have always been core principles of the company. Longevity Global Inc.'s comprehensive 5 years of warranty on all their offered is also a factor which differentiates this company from all the other ordinary welding machine manufacturers.

Longevity Global Inc. is providing its dedicated service since 2001. It is growing at a phenomenal pace with high customer satisfaction, new and used welders, cutters and efficient industrial production for welding purposes. It works in different parts of world with distributors in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, United Kingdom, and multiple other countries. Longevity Global Inc. serve globally with manufacturing facilities with its logistic companies to effectively distribute products in a punctual and effective manner.

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DNA Evidence Doesn't Convince Jury of Guilt in 1983 Murder

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The state's highest court has overturned a sexual assault conviction.

San Francisco prosecutors have struck out in their first try to convict William Payne of murder. But they will keep swinging.

Payne, 48, was charged with first-degree murder in the 1983 death of 41-year old Nikolaus Crumbley in January, after a "cold hit DNA" test linked him to the death, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

But despite the DNA evidence proving Payne was on the scene with Crumbley, with whom he had sex, the jury hung on charges of murder.

The San Francisco District Attorney's Offcie will push for a retrial, with opening arguments scheduled for Oct. 22, the newspaper reported.

Payne was 19 when Crumbley was found dead, face down and with his pants and underwear pulled down to his ankles, at the corner of John Shelley Drive and Mansell Street near John McClaren Park.

Payne was arrested for the crime in January. The DNA evidence proves that the pair had sex, but not that Payne killed Crumbley, the newspaper reported.

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DNA provides identification of victim in 1995 slaying

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Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department detectives on Thursday announced that they have used DNA evidence to match a previously unknown 20-year-old woman whose body was found in 1995 to a missing person from Morro Bay.

Officials are now seeking information about the 17-year-old unsolved murder.

The body of Gail Catherine Allen, known for years as Jane Doe No. 59, was found Oct. 28, 1995, in the 21000 block of Covina Hills Road in an unincorporated area of Covina, according to a statement from the Sheriffs Department.

Her burned body was found nude in a sleeping bag that had been set ablaze and thrown from an embankment. She was burned beyond recognition, officials said.

Days before the body was found, a friend of Allen's reported her missing, according to the statement.

Early this year, Morro Bay detectives received DNA samples from Allens father, Marcus Allen of Victorville, and her mother, Deborah Forester of Colorado. After the samples were linked to Jane Doe No. 59, the case was reopened as a murder case.

Allen was believed to have worked at a Taco Bell restaurant at 1700 Main Street in Morro Bay. Detectives are looking to speak with people who worked with her, officials said.

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DNA test linking son to death of Chester County man is discounted

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The DNA analysis used to link a Chester County man to the killing of his father has been discounted upon further testing, according to testimony Thursday.

Parth Ingle, 26, and his mother, Bhavnaben Ingle, 52, are charged in the 2008 death of Arunkumar Ingle, who was found dead in his bedroom in Middletown Township, Delaware County. He had multiple stab wounds and his testicles were badly bruised, according to police. His alleged killers were in court Thursday for a pretrial hearing before Delaware County Court Judge Barry C. Dozer.

Samples taken from a sink drain in Parth Ingle's South Coventry home were initially thought to match Arunkumar Ingle's DNA. When the samples were sent back to a lab in Greensburg, Pa., for a more sophisticated test not originally available, the results determined it was "100 quintillion times less probable" that the DNA belonged to Arunkumar Ingle than that it was a coincidental match, according to an e-mail from prosecutors that John Kusturiss, Parth Ingle's defense attorney, read in court.

The victim, a 55-year-old Boeing engineer, was having an affair with a Russian woman he met on the Internet. According to authorities, he planned to obtain phony passports, fake his own death, and move to India with her.

The woman, Anna Sudakevich of Philadelphia, testified that she did not learn the victim was married until Parth Ingle came to her house looking for his father.

Arunkumar Ingle's plan was to leave behind $3.6 million in insurance policies for his wife and children, authorities have said.

Prosecutors said financial gain and retribution were the motives for the killing. Parth Ingle was about $43,000 in debt at the time.

On Thursday, prosecutors introduced evidence of a letter that Parth Ingle allegedly wrote to relatives in India asking them not to contest an insurance settlement so the Ingle family could get the money.

When questioned, Trooper Robert Kirby said there was no evidence the letter was sent.

Also Thursday, the court heard the dramatic 911 call Bhavnaben Ingle made when she reported discovering her husband's body. She could be heard screaming as 911 operators tried to calm her.

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Improving confidence keeps breast cancer survivors exercising

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Public release date: 4-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]

Contact: Brad Cardinal brad.cardinal@oregonstate.edu 541-737-2506 Oregon State University

CORVALLIS, Ore. More than 40 percent of older breast cancer survivors are insufficiently active after leaving a supervised program. But new research shows that those women who developed behavioral skills such as self-confidence and motivation during their program were far more likely to continue exercising on their own.

Regular exercise may reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence and breast cancer-related mortality, experts say, making it crucial to effectively target breast cancer survivors who do not engage in regular physical activity for interventions.

Researchers at Oregon State University partnered with researchers at Oregon Health and Science University who had conducted a clinical trial to understand the benefits of a 12-month supervised exercise program in 69 older breast cancer survivors. The goal was to discover what factors influenced participants' ability to follow-through and continue exercising after the supervised program ended.

They found that breast cancer survivors with higher self-efficacy, or confidence to overcome exercise-related barriers (such as being too tired), were far more likely to continue exercising on their own. Those with higher self-efficacy scores were 10 percent more likely to be physically active six months after the intervention than those with lower scores.

The results of the study are published in the October issue of the journal Supportive Care in Cancer. It is the first study to assess predictors of behavior after a supervised exercise program in older breast cancer survivors.

Paul Loprinzi, lead author of the study, was a doctoral student at OSU when he did the research. Loprinzi, who is now a faculty member at Bellarmine University, said the good news is that behavioral skills to increase self-efficacy can be taught.

"We can teach breast cancer survivors how to enlist the support of others and how to identify exercise-related barriers, as well as provide proven strategies for them to overcome those barriers," Loprinzi said.

The researchers said everyone should meet physical activity guidelines and it can be even more crucial for breast cancer survivors. Loprinzi said exercise helps reduce common side effects of cancer treatment, such as fatigue, depression, decreased muscular strength and weight gain.

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Youth behavioral expert to speak at Garnet Valley

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By Susan L. Serbin, Correspondent

Garnet Valley School District will hold a program focused on the overall well-being of all youngsters. The Monday, Oct. 8 evening at Garnet Valley High School will include a Behavior Health Fair from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., followed by a presentation by nationally known speaker Horacio Sanchez.

Sanchez, author of What Every Parent Should Know, will discuss stress reduction, bullying prevention and brain-based learning, all prime topics in the educational and social development of youngsters.

Sanchez has been a teacher, school administrator, clinician, and mental health director and is now the president and CEO of Resiliency, Inc. His work combines brain research, science, and practice to create a revolutionary framework for understanding childhood development, disorders, and treatment. He is the author of A Mentors Guide to Promoting Resiliency and A Brain-Based Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap, and is considered one of the foremost authorities on child and adolescent behavioral disorders and resiliency practice.

Parents are encouraged to attend the session which is sponsored by REACH 211, an organization of school district personnel and parents working together to promote the strength of each student and the community.

Sanchez, author of What Every Parent Should Know, will discuss stress reduction, bullying prevention and brain-based learning, all prime topics in the educational and social development of youngsters.

Sanchez has been a teacher, school administrator, clinician, and mental health director and is now the president and CEO of Resiliency, Inc. His work combines brain research, science, and practice to create a revolutionary framework for understanding childhood development, disorders, and treatment. He is the author of A Mentors Guide to Promoting Resiliency and A Brain-Based Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap, and is considered one of the foremost authorities on child and adolescent behavioral disorders and resiliency practice.

Parents are encouraged to attend the session which is sponsored by REACH 211, an organization of school district personnel and parents working together to promote the strength of each student and the community.

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Youth behavioral expert to speak at Garnet Valley