Why Obama is sending troops to Africa ? a closer look

The 100 US Special Operations troops sent to central Africa will act as 'military advisers' in the hunt for Joseph Kony, the murderous rebel leader of the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group.

Earlier this month, President Obama sent a letter to Congress explaining why he had approved sending 100 US military advisers to fight a shadowy rebel group in central Africa.

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The reason, President Obama wrote, is that the Lord?s Resistance Army ? a brutal rebel group with a mixture of Christian fundamentalist and African traditional beliefs ? is a threat to regional security in central Africa, and thus a threat to the interests of the US government and its strategic partners.

Noting that Congress had passed the Lord?s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act in 2009, Mr. Obama wrote, ?I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped US forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield.?

While tracking down unhinged African warlords may be the stuff of bad Hollywood movies, it generally has not been a plank in US foreign policy. But with the advent of the US military?s relatively new Africa Command (AFRICOM), headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, America?s military is working closer with its African partners to ensure regional security.

Viewed with suspicion by some African leaders as part of a larger ?neo-colonial? foothold on the African continent, it is seen as a boon by other US partner nations such as Uganda, Nigeria, and Ethiopia, who work closely with the US military on common issues such as counterterrorism and insurgencies.

In the current US AFRICOM operation, 100 Special Operations troops will travel with Ugandan People?s Defense Force (UPDF) soldiers trailing LRA leader Joseph Kony.

A US diplomat with knowledge of the operation told the Monitor that US Special Forces soldiers will ?? share lessons learned from 10 years of fighting in a similarly rugged environment against small groups of people moving on foot,? such as the US military has faced in the Afghan war.

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Police: Fla. pizza workers burned down rival store

LAKE CITY, Fla. (AP) ? The battle for pizza supremacy has taken a wrong turn in Florida.

Two managers of a Domino's Pizza restaurant in Lake City, in north-central Florida, have been charged with burning down a rival Papa John's location. The motive? Police say one of the men admitted that he believed with his competitor out of the way, more pizza lovers would flock to his restaurant.

The Papa John's was gutted in the Oct. 20 fire.

Both men ? Sean Everett Davidson, 23, and Bryan David Sullivan, 22 ? were booked on an arson charge and were being held in jail.

The Star-Banner of Ocala reports (http://bit.ly/vJdDVQ) that police are still looking for an ignition device that the men claimed they made but did not use to start the fire.

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Tebow inspires phenomenon called 'Tebowing'

Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow sits on the sidelines during the second half of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow sits on the sidelines during the second half of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow runs with the ball during the first half of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Miami Dolphins fans watch as Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow celebrates with Eddie Royal after scoring a 2-point conversion in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011, in Miami. The Broncos won 18-15 in overtime. (AP Photo/Miami Herald, Charles Trainor Jr.) MAGS OUT

DENVER (AP) ? Tim Tebow inspired a phenomenon when he dropped to a knee and began praying as his teammates wildly celebrated around him after an improbable overtime victory in Miami last weekend.

That was simply Tebow "Tebowing," a phrase coined by a fan sitting in a bar in New York watching the popular yet polarizing quarterback rally the Denver Broncos.

Jared Kleinstein was mesmerized by Tebow's peaceful demeanor kneeling on the turf amid all the chaos that ensued. He launched a website in which fans could submit photos of themselves "Tebowing," which means getting down on a knee and praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.

The trend is picking up steam.

Kleinstein has received quite a collection of photos. There are fans striking the Tebow prayer pose next to statues, in bowling alleys, on boats and while waiting in line for tacos.

There are kids getting ready for ballet performing the pose, an airline pilot just before takeoff and a construction worker on a rooftop. Recently, Kleinstein even received a photo of a solider in Afghanistan emulating Tebow's pose.

"It's addictive to be a Tebow fan," said Kleinstein, who grew up in Denver before moving to New York.

Never did Kleinstein envision this venture taking off so quickly. Kleinstein started the website earlier this week after purchasing the domain name ? Tebowing.com ? for $10.

Almost overnight, it caught on through social media. He went from an audience of 785 to nearly 390,000 in just a few days.

The amount of pictures he's receiving also is staggering. Just Friday alone, Kleinstein had to sort through more than 1,300 snapshots to post on the site.

But Kleinstein wanted to make one thing clear: The undertaking isn't meant to mock Tebow or poke fun at his religious beliefs, just show support.

On Friday after practice, Tebow said he appreciated the spirit of the website.

"Yeah, some people don't necessarily take it seriously but they're on their knee praying, so who knows what you're going to think about after that and how that can affect you?" Tebow said. "Hopefully, it's a good example for people."

His teammates have even taken part. Rookie linebacker Von Miller tweeted a photo of himself Thursday in a Tebow jersey and doing the pose.

"Tim Tebow's a celebrity and I'm on Team Tebow," Miller said. "I'm one of his biggest supporters and want to see him do it all.

"That's the way he prays. So what better way to capture that than to have a 'Tebowing' thing like that?"

All it took was a small miracle to make it "Tebowing" time.

The former Heisman Trophy winner from Florida was abysmal for the opening 55 minutes in Miami. Then, Tebow turned electric as he brought the Broncos back from a 15-0 deficit in the final moments to force overtime, where the team pulled out an 18-15 win. It's the largest deficit overcome in a victory with less than 3 minutes since the 1970 NFL merger.

"When we won the game, the people in the bar were jumping around as if the Broncos had just won the Super Bowl, even though we had only beaten the last-place team in the league," Kleinstein recalled. "I just looked up at the screen ? the team is celebrating and he took a quick bow. I just said, 'That's Tebowing. That's how we should pay tribute.'"

After the commotion quieted, Kleinstein and his friends went outside to take a group photo in Tebow's prayer formation. He posted it on Facebook just for fun and it spread quickly.

Soon after, he decided to launch the website.

Not only does Kleinstein post the photos, he also captions them. And they're quite hilarious.

For instance, there's a picture of a person with a bowling ball in a lane striking the pose with the explanation, "Tebowling." On another, there's a person perched on an exercise ball with the slogan "Tebow to the core" underneath. In yet another, a man in his office has a caption reading, "President and CEObowing."

"Tim praying, it's part of who he is," Kleinstein said. "It's not something that should be mocked or seen in any other way."

Tebow understands that. He recently received a tweet from a kid who's undergoing cancer treatment that melted his heart.

"It said, 'I'm Tebowing while I'm Chemoing,'" Tebow recounted. "How cool is that? That's worth it right there. If that gives him any encouragement or puts a smile on his face or gives him encouragement to pray, that's really awesome. And that's completely worth it for me."

There are even other standouts in the Mile High City getting in on the act. Colorado Rapids forward Omar Cummings dropped to a knee and did the pose after scoring a goal in a 1-0 victory over the Columbus Crew on Thursday night in an MLS wild-card soccer game.

"I think what's funny about it is how rapidly it's caught on and how much it's taken off," said Tebow, whose Broncos host the Detroit Lions on Sunday. "I had no idea, then Von texted me what he did. Goof ball.

"But then going back and looking back and seeing everything, it was like, 'Wow this really took off.' That's what's really incredible about it."

Even if it might not be completely original.

After all, dropping to a knee and praying after a game has been around for, well, quite a while.

"I've taken a knee many times on late field goals or those types of things in my football career," Broncos coach John Fox said. "Not taking anything away from Tim and his outstanding popularity."

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Generators seized from NY Wall Street protesters (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Anti-Wall Street protesters' plans to camp in a New York park throughout the city's harsh winter were dealt a blow on Friday when the fire department confiscated six generators and about a dozen cans of fuel.

With the first snow forecast to fall on Saturday, the "Occupy Wall Street" movement against economic inequality lost the generators that had been powering heat, computers and a kitchen in the Lower Manhattan camp they set up six weeks ago.

"They think that taking the 'power' away will take the power away, and that's absolutely not true at all," said Occupy Wall Street spokesman Michael Booth.

The movement has sparked so-called occupations in cities across the United States and elsewhere in the world. But recent evictions in places like Oakland, California, where police used tear gas and stun grenades, have New York protesters on edge.

On Friday in Nashville, Tennessee, protesters were returning to the Tennessee Legislative Plaza in front of the state capitol after being rousted from their campsite by state troopers overnight.

"Stay positive and breath campers: the only thing that can break us is us!" OccupyWallStNYC posted on Twitter on Friday.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the generators were confiscated because they were considered a safety hazard and it was not a bid to remove protesters.

"As long as they don't take away anybody else's rights to say what they want to say, or to not say anything, to go about their business safely ... at the moment it will continue," Bloomberg told local radio.

A possible showdown between Occupy Wall Street and police was averted two weeks ago when the private owners of the publicly accessible park postponed a cleanup of the area, which protesters feared was a bid to remove them.

Bloomberg has repeatedly said that the city cannot evict the protesters unless the park owner, Brookfield Office Properties, made an official complaint.

Occupy Wall Street spokesman Ed Needham said that city authorities had inspected the camp on Thursday. On Friday morning about 30 firefighters escorted by police returned to confiscate the generators and fuel.

"This was following a real, determined and extensive effort on our part to make sure we were working effectively with the fire department and the police department," Needham said. "We run a safe operation here and we're trying to do our best."

Protesters say they are upset that the billions of dollars in bank bailouts doled out during the recession allowed banks to resume earning huge profits while average Americans have had no relief from high unemployment and job insecurity.

They also believe the richest 1 percent of Americans do not pay their fair share in taxes.

(Writing by Michelle Nichols, additional reporting by Joan Gralla; Editing by Xavier Briand)

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Cardinals stun Texas, force World Series to Game 7

St. Louis Cardinals' David Freese hits a solo home run off a pitch by Texas Rangers' Mark Lowe in the 11th inning of Game 6 of baseball's World Series Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 10-9. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

St. Louis Cardinals' David Freese hits a solo home run off a pitch by Texas Rangers' Mark Lowe in the 11th inning of Game 6 of baseball's World Series Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 10-9. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

St. Louis Cardinals' David Freese reacts after hitting a solo home run off a pitch by Texas Rangers' Mark Lowe in the 11th inning of Game 6 of baseball's World Series Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won 10-9. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

St. Louis Cardinals' David Freese hits a walk-off home run during the 11th inning of Game 6 of baseball's World Series against the Texas Rangers Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won the game 10-9 to tie the series 3-3. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Teammates celebrate with St. Louis Cardinals' David Freese after Freese hit a walk-off home run during the 11th inning of Game 6 of baseball's World Series against the Texas Rangers Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won the game 10-9 to tie the series 3-3. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Teammates celebrate with St. Louis Cardinals' David Freese after Freese hit a walk-off home run during the 11th inning of Game 6 of baseball's World Series against the Texas Rangers Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals won the game 10-9 to tie the series 3-3. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

ST. LOUIS (AP) ? Hours after David Freese's home run plunked down on the grass patch beyond the center field wall, long after the ballpark emptied, a message still burned bright on the scoreboard: "See you TOMORROW NIGHT for Game 7 of the World Series!"

Whatever happens, whether the St. Louis Cardinals or Texas Rangers win, they'll have a hard time topping Thursday night.

"You had to be here to believe it," St. Louis manager Tony La Russa said.

In one of the greatest thrillers in baseball history, the Cardinals twice rallied when they were down to their last strike of the season. First, Freese saved them with a two-run triple in the ninth, then Lance Berkman delivered a tying single in the 10th.

And when Freese led off the bottom of the 11th with his shot to beat Texas 10-9 and stomped on the plate, this Game 6 had already been stamped forever.

"Turned out to be one for the ages," said Daniel Descalso, who keyed a Cardinals comeback.

A Series that was dismissed by many around the country before it began for lacking glamour teams suddenly has turned into must-see TV. And fans can savor the prospect of the first World Series to reach Game 7 since 2002, when the Angels beat the Giants.

After it was over, La Russa wasn't willing to announce his starter ? many believe it will be ace Chris Carpenter on three days' rest for only the second time in his career.

"I learned what my body's going to feel like, what my stuff's going to be like," Carpenter said. "You go out there and you make pitches. We'll see what happens."

Matt Harrison is set to start for Texas. Derek Holland, who pitched shutout ball into the ninth inning in Game 4, could've been ready on regular rest after Wednesday's rainout. Instead, Texas manager Ron Washington used him in relief.

Home teams have won the last eight Game 7s in the World Series, a streak that started with the Cardinals beating Milwaukee in 1982.

Oh, and this: By far, the Cardinals have won the most Game 7s in Series history, going 7-3.

"There is tomorrow, now, for us," Cardinals star Albert Pujols said.

A sloppy game that made for terrible viewing turned terrific in the late innings. Freese added to the lore created by the Carlton Fisk homer in Game 6 of the 1975 Series and Bill Buckner's error in Game 6 of the 1986 Series.

"A ridiculous game, weird game," Texas second baseman Ian Kinsler said. "But I bet it was fun for the fans. We just came out on the wrong end."

To Freese, who was raised in the St. Louis area and was MVP of the NL championship series, it all reminded him of a game-ending home run Jim Edmonds hit in the 2004 playoffs.

"Growing up or whatever, and you see stuff like that happen, those become memories," said Freese, who immediately donated his bat and jersey to the Hall of Fame.

Tremendous theater, that is, except for Texas. The Rangers were that close to winning their first championship.

"I understand it's not over till you get that last out," Texas manager Ron Washington said. "I was just sitting there praying we got that last out. We didn't get it."

This was just the third time that a team one out from elimination in the World Series came back to win the game, according to STATS LLC. The New York Mets did it with Buckner's mistake and wound up winning the championship. In 1911, the New York Giants rallied past the Philadelphia A's in Game 5, but lost the next game.

Freese's tying triple off the wall and just over right fielder Nelson Cruz came on a 1-2 pitch from closer Neftali Feliz. In the 10th, after Josh Hamilton had homered to give Texas a two-run lead, Berkman's two-strike, two-out single made it 9-all.

"Initially I was like 'Are you kidding me? My first AB off Feliz in this situation ever,'" Freese said. "I just beared down, got a pitch to hit. Initially I thought I hit it pretty good, I thought (Cruz) was going to grab it, so just a lot of emotions on that one."

Berkman came through on a 2-2 pitch from Scott Feldman, finishing off a two-run rally in the 10th.

"I was one strike away," Feldman said. "That pitch there, I didn't quite get it in enough and he was able to get enough of the bat on it to knock it into center field."

Busch Stadium was still in frenzy when Freese opened the 11th with his homer off Mark Lowe. Freese thrust his arm in the air as he rounded first base, and the crowd was delirious.

"Just an incredible feeling, seeing all my teammates at the dish waiting for me," said Freese, whose shirt was torn off during the celebration.

Texas trudged off the field as Freese circled the bases, having been so close to that elusive title. Much earlier, team president Nolan Ryan was high-fiving friends in the stands as Adrian Beltre and Cruz opened the seventh with home runs that helped Texas take a 7-4 lead.

"I'm not going to lose any sleep over it," Hamilton said. "We're just going to do everything we can to prepare. Guys are already talking about it. We're ready for Game 7. Shake it off and come back tomorrow. That's just our mentality. But it goes both ways. Seems like they had that mentality. too."

Allen Craig's solo homer in the eighth began the Cardinals' comeback. Jake Westbrook wound up with the win.

NOTES: Texas was 0 for 11 with two outs and runners in scoring position in the Series until Kinsler's RBI double. ... Berkman hit his first Series home run. He was moved up a spot to cleanup for this game. ... David Eckstein, MVP of the 2006 Series for St. Louis, threw out the first ball. ... Ninety-year-old Hall of Famer Stan Musial rode in on a golf cart during pregame festivities. ... The crowd of 47,325 was a record for 6-year-old Busch Stadium.

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Second day of US-NKorea nuclear talks delayed (AP)

GENEVA ? The start of a second day of talks between U.S. and North Korean diplomats on Pyongyang's nuclear program was delayed without explanation Tuesday, a day after the top U.S. envoy reported some progress in narrowing differences between the two sides.

U.S. officials said North Korea had asked the American delegation to come to its U.N. mission in Geneva "for a working lunch and an afternoon session." The talks had been scheduled to start at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT; 4 a.m. EST).

North Korean officials couldn't be reached for comment.

In the closely watched meetings, the second direct encounter between the two parties in less than three months, diplomats from both sides are trying to determine whether the so-called six-party nuclear talks, which include China, Japan, Russia and South Korea in addition to North Korea and the United States, can resume.

The top U.S. envoy, Stephen Bosworth, said late Monday night that the discussions are also touching on other long-standing issues, such as urgently needed food aid for the North, families long separated on the Korean peninsula and the remains of troops missing in action. The U.S. and North Korea are still technically at war.

The U.N.'s top relief official, Valerie Amos, said Monday after visiting North Korea that it was "not appropriate" for the nuclear talks in Switzerland to extend to humanitarian assistance to the chronically hungry Asian country because that aid "must be kept separate from a political agenda." The U.N. is calling on countries to provide $218 million in emergency aid to North Korea.

The first day of talks was hosted by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The U.S. delegation was being hosted Tuesday at the North Koreans' U.N. mission, on the opposite side of Lake Geneva, where Bosworth's counterpart is First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan. Bosworth is accompanied by Glyn Davies, the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, who is taking over the negotiating brief in future talks.

At his hotel late Monday night, Bosworth told reporters he was "neither optimistic nor pessimistic" with one day left for discussions.

"I think we're moving in a positive direction. We have narrowed some differences, but we still have differences that we have to resolve," he said at the elegant lakeside hotel where both parties are staying.

"As you know, our goal is to try to find a solid foundation on which to launch a resumption of discussions both bilateral and multilateral, and we will continue to work hard to bring that about," Bosworth said. "We have made some progress, we have issues still to resolve and we will work hard to do that."

U.S. diplomats want North Korea to adhere to a 2005 agreement it reneged on requiring verifiable denuclearization in exchange for better relations with its Asian neighbors. China, North Korea's closest ally, has urged Pyongyang to improve its strained ties with the United States and South Korea.

Beijing wants to revive the stalled six-nation disarmament negotiations. North Korea walked out on the talks in 2009 ? and exploded a second nuclear-test device ? but now wants to re-engage. Last year, Pyongyang also was blamed for two military attacks on South Korea that heightened tensions on the peninsula.

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Jay Bybee's 'Torture Memos' Legal Bill Totaled $3.4 Million ...

Ryan J. Reilly October 24, 2011, 11:58 AM

Federal Judge Jay Bybee accepted $3.4 million in free legal assistance from 2007 to 2010 as he was under investigation for his role in the so-called ?torture memos,? the National Law Journal reported. Much of the money ? $3,251,893 of it ? came from the Latham & Watkins law firm, whose lawyers previously appeared before Bybee in the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

NLJ?s David Ingram reports:

Experts on judicial ethics said they could not recall another federal judge receiving so large a benefit. Although the fact that Latham represented Bybee has been widely reported since 2009, the dollar value of the work had not been reported. [?]

The team was charged with responding to congressional and Justice Department investigations into Bybee?s tenure as head of DOJ?s Office of Legal Counsel. The office produced memos signed by Bybee and another lawyer, John Yoo, allowing the use of waterboarding and other intense interrogation methods. Opponents of those methods said the memos showed a reckless disregard for ethical duties, and the investigations became a key test of how the U.S. government would reckon with its past use of waterboarding.

OLC?s report found that Bybee and John Yoo engaged in professional misconduct, but a top official David Margolis overruled their findings. Latham?s pro bono work for Bybee has conflicted him out of a number of cases involving the law firm, according to NLJ.

?Judge Bybee has advised us that he will continue to recuse himself from Latham matters for some time,? Latham?s Maureen Mahoney told NLJ in an e-mail.

Read the whole piece here.

Jay Bybee, Torture, Torture Advocacy

Ryan J. Reilly

Ryan J. Reilly is a D.C.-based reporter for TPM. He previously covered DOJ for MainJustice.com and waded through lobbying registrations as a researcher for Bloomberg. He can be reached at ryan (at) talkingpointsmemo.com.

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Review: Kelly Clarkson "Stronger" lives up to title (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Kelly Clarkson's new album has been subject to more delays than the NBA season. But apparently the perpetual tweaking was a matter of fine-tuning, not desperation, since "Stronger" lives up to its title -- trumping not just the current pop-diva competition but all of Clarkson's previous albums, too.

Whether the general public has been waiting on tenterhooks for the record remains to be seen, since the lead single, "Mr. Know It All," peaked at No. 18 in its debut week. But there are six, seven, maybe eight tracks here better than that okay opener waiting to break away and get a shot at commandeering the radio. As a succession of potential smashes, "Stronger" feels like tuning in to an expertly programed all-Kelly/all-the-time hits station.

That's giving a lot of inherent credit to the revolving door of writer-producers responsible for the parade of hooks, almost all of them new to Clarkson's team. (No Dr. Luke this time; no Ryan Tedder.) Still, no one's likely to tag "Stronger" as "a producers' album" when it manages to be such a master class in great pop singing.

Part of greatness is restraint, and what a pleasure it is hearing Clarkson hold herself back here, if that doesn't sound too counterintuitive. There's hardly a showboat-y moment in an hour's worth of lead vocals here. At times, in her lowest range, she even sounds like a dead ringer for Rihanna -- which is hardly the highest compliment you could pay a singer of Clarkson's range, but it does give her a starting point from which to graduate to the kind of wailing fans are waiting for.

If it's balladic Kelly that thrills you, you may need to hold out for some future project Clarkson is destined to record her middle age, since only two out of the 13 tracks on the standard edition fall outrightly into that category. "Stronger" is for fans who prefer fun Kelly, or angry Kelly which have come to be pretty much the same thing, come to think of it.

For someone who still enjoys an image as America's duly elected sweetheart, Clarkson gets a lot of mileage out of righteous rage. The pissy post-breakup rejoinders begin with "Mr. Know It All" and rarely let up, least of all with the likely second single, "What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)," a soon-to-break-out dance track in which Clarkson all but declares that "I, the Nietzschean superman, will survive."

(Never mind how tired that tune's titular phrase is. For a laugh, look up the YouTube video in which some wag mashed together a medley of 30 different songs that already borrowed "That which does not kill me makes me stronger" as a lyrical hook. Compared to this, Britney's "Hold It Against Me" is based on an original thought.)

"Stronger" really does get stronger as it goes along.

The rocker "Einstein" sounds like it might've been written for Pink, though it probably wasn't, since Clarkson gets a co-writing credit. Against guitar squalls and live drums, she does the romantic math ("Our love divided by the square root of pride...It was heavy when I finally figured it out") and concludes that "dumb plus dumb equals you," a formula that will surely help kids get interested in arithmetic this fall.

Two albums ago, on the underrated "My December," Clarkson seemed to be indulging an Amy Lee complex, and it returns with a brilliant vengeance on the hyper-dramatic "Honestly," a far better Evanescence song than anything on the new Evanescence album.

"Dark Side" cleverly reinforces the idea that Miss American Idol has a shadow side with a spooky music-box melody that cuts in every time the big beat and goth histrionics briefly cut out. By contrast, "I Forgive You" sounds like nothing but power-pop fun, even though its Cars-style rock riffage and synth gurgles lead into a surprisingly cathartic expression of absolution.

The best is saved for almost last: "You Can't Win," another guitar-driven barnstormer, benefits from a series of exceedingly sharp verses that prove why modern life is just like Vietnam: "If you're thin/Poor little walking disease/If you're not/They're screaming disease," goes one couplet, and the woman knows whereof she speaks. "If you dump, so ungrateful/And if you're happy, why so selfish?/You can't win..."

Oh, but she can. "Stronger" has its cake and eats it, too -- by marrying pure ear-candy arrangements to Clarkson's flawless, effortlessly fluid soul-rock vocals, and by embedding vividly conjured emotions in up-tempo tunes that never get too bogged down in their own seriousness. Thanks to records like this, ten years later, she's still the only Idol that matters.

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Jessica Simpson Is Definitely Pregnant! (Photos/Video)

Jessica Simpson Is Definitely Pregnant! (Photos/Video)

Jessica Simpson revealed a definite baby bump while walking through LAX airport this weekend. At this point, do we even need the singer to confirm [...]

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Brazil jury: Doctors killed patients by taking organs

RIO DE JANEIRO?? A jury convicted three Brazilian doctors of killing four patients by removing their organs, which prosecutors said were used for transplants at an expensive private clinic.

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Sao Paulo state Judge Marco Montemor sentenced doctors Rui Sacramento, Pedro Torrecillas and Mariano Fiore Junior to 17 years and six months each in prison.

Sacramento and Torrecillas were charged with murder after removing both kidneys from the patients and preparing the organs for transport. Fiore, a neurosurgeon, was charged as an accomplice for incorrectly declaring the patients brain dead and authorizing the harvest of their organs.

Another neurosurgeon who had been accused in the case, Antonio de Carvalho Monteiro, died last year.

Sacramento fainted when the sentence was read late Thursday, and family members of the victims who packed the court cried and hugged each other.

25 years for verdict
The case described by authorities as extremely complex took 25 years for a verdict to be handed down. Brazil's criminal justice system is notoriously slow and it isn't unusual for complicated cases to take years or even decades to work their way through the courts.

The case first emerged on Dec. 16, 1986, when the head of the University of Taubate's medical school realized an affiliated hospital had conducted a kidney transplant that he hadn't expected, said Sao Paulo state prosecutor Marcio Friggi de Carvalho.

Kalume looked up the records and exams connected to the transplant and found irregularities. He then investigated the team of doctors, and turned over the evidence he found to the Federal Counsel of Medicine, the agency that regulates and licenses medical doctors, Carvalho said.

Police took up the matter after the agency's investigation as the case made its way through Brazil's court system.

"They simply did not have the diagnosis of brain death," said Carvalho. "They opened people up, took out their kidneys, and sent them on."

Defense: Patients 'already dead'
Sergio Salgado Badaro, the defense attorney representing the doctors, had told the jury that convicting them would be a serious mistake and an injustice.

"If you convict them, you will be the first jury in the country to convict doctors for killing people who were already dead," he said in court.

Badaro also told reporters gathered outside the courtroom that his clients were not giving up: "I respect the jury's decision, but that doesn't mean I agree or that I'm not going to appeal."

Two organ recipients testified they paid up to $41,000 for the transplants with private doctors at a private clinic, and hadn't known the origin of their kidneys, Carvalho said.

The case didn't have a clear-cut connection to organ trafficking, since there was little documentation of the transactions, the prosecutor said. That's why the doctors were charged only in connection to the death of the patients, Carvalho said.

What is known is that the organs went from a public hospital, where transplants are free and waiting lists can be long, to an expensive private clinic serving patients who can pay out of their own pockets, court records show.

"You can't say there was the buying and selling of organs; there are no receipts," Carvalho said. "What we have is an informal, obscure context that is very problematic."

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TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! OCCUPY KC CONDUCTING UNION WORKSHOPS!!!

Once again, allow AWESOME TKC TIPSTERS to shed some light where only local ignorance and silence exists . . .

TKC TIPSTERS ARE TELLING US THAT AN UPCOMING "DAY OF LEARNING" AT OCCUPY KC WILL FEATURE WORKSHOPS LED BY LOCAL UNION OFFICIALS!!!

This is a fact that organizers, participants and promoters aren't mentioning in their recent communications.

To wit . . . TKC is calling out the group regarding their associations . . .

IN MUCH THE SAME WAY THE TEA PARTY WAS TACITLY RACIST, THE OCCUPY KC MOVEMENT IS BEING USED LIKE PUPPETS FOR UNION INTERESTS!!!

And while Unions are great when they speak for themselves . . . Operating clandestinely and attempting to co-opt a movement that wasn't about union interests is kinda sleazy.

Let's explain why this is a contradiction to the so-called "principles" of the Occupy KC movement that has avoided any accountability by refusing to developing:

We've already documented Local 42 infiltrating Occupy KC - This is a group that basically RUNS KANSAS CITY POLITICS and has endorsed a slate of candidates that includes most of The City Council AND the Mayor. Local 42 is so powerful that their members and local firefighters are GETTING A SALARY INCREASE AHEAD OF OTHER CITY UNION MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN ENDURING A PAY FREEZE FOR YEARS!!!

So . . . While I'm not a friend of hedge fund managers, bankers or anybody really . . . It's easy to see . . .

OCCUPY KC IS LOSING CREDIBILITY AS A GENUINE PROTEST MOVEMENT BECAUSE OF THEIR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE REGARDING HOW KANSAS CITY POLITICS HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY LOCAL 42 AND UNION INTERESTS!!!

Again, basically I'm a supporter of Occupy KC . . . But it's important for people who march with these folks to realize that RIGHT NOW they're doing so at the behest of Unions that already control local politics.

DEVELOPING . . .

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Is Japan?s Uniqlo the Next Great American Retailer? (The Lookout)

Cross-posted from Yahoo! Finance

The U.S. is becoming a retail wasteland. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that retailing executives fear the once-buoyant American consumer has entered a state of permanent frugality. The mall vacancy rate is at an 11-year high. With each passing month, a larger chunk of retail sales goes online. American retailers are increasingly staking their future overseas.

Somebody forgot to tell Uniqlo. The Japanese apparel retailer this week is opening a three-story, 89,000-square-foot flagship store on the corner of 5^th Avenue and 53^rd St. in Manhattan. The chain, which opened its first U.S. store in lower Manhattan in 2006, last year signed a $300 million, 15-year lease for the space, formerly the location of a Brooks Brothers store. It was reported to be the most expensive retail lease in New York's history.

And Uniqlo is likely coming to a mall near you in the near future. "We are looking at real estate in different cities throughout the United States, and our intention is to open stores in every major city," Shin Odake, Uniqlo's U.S. CEO tells me in the accompanying video. The company has spoken of its desire to open 200 stores in the U.S.

What does Uniqlo, which has 840 stores in Japan, see in the U.S. and that so few others do? "The U.S. is obviously an extremely important market for us, because it's the number one economy in the world," said Odake. "We'd like to grow our business to $50 billion by 2020, and in order to do that we have to gain market share in the United States." Company founder, Tadashi Yanai wants to beat out Gap and Spain's Zara as the biggest retailer in the world. Company officials have spoken of boosting U.S. sales alone to $12 billion by 2020. That means it will need to open a lot of stores ? in Asia, in Europe, and in the U.S.

Uniqlo knows all about growing in a developed economy where the consumer is permanently chastened. Founded in 1984, it grew up during Japan's lost decade. "We also had an economic struggle in Japan, but during those difficult times we were able to grow," Odake said. The company is less focused on the economy's cyclicality and more "on the fact that the U.S. is the biggest market in the world."

It sure seems like an inauspicious time to enter the market. While it occupies a pride of place on 5^th Avenue, a few blocks down from Bergdorf Goodman and Tiffany, hyper-luxury retailers whose sales have held up well, Uniqlo pitches its products at different customers. The clothes are affordable, but not necessarily cheap: cashmere sweaters for up to $149, a line designed by Jil Sander. For the opening there are sales on jeans for as little as $9.90. "We have great merchandise at great price. And we believe that, in large part, quality is decided by the quality of the fabric," Odake said. There's so much cashmere stacked from floor to ceiling that it makes one wonder if Uniqlo means "corner on the goat market" in Japanese. (In fact, it's an amalgam of the words "unique" and "clothing.") Uniqlo knows that people are spending money in the U.S., or at least in New York. Its SoHo store is the chain's highest grossing outlet.

Uniqlo's expansion in New York is a ray of sunshine for a battered employment market. Later this month, Uniqlo plans to open a third large store in Manhattan, about 20 blocks to the south, near Macy's. "We have hired more than 650 people for this store alone," and when the third store opens it will employ 1,500 people in the U.S., said Odake. The company regards sales associate and manager positions as careers, not as jobs. Last year, Uniqlo hired 50 U.C. college graduates in the U.S. and sent them to Japan for several months of management training.

Uniqlo expects large crowds at the multi-level store, in part because the New York locations are the only places in the U.S. where the merchandise is available. Online sales aren't particularly big in Japan, and Uniqlo doesn't offer e-commerce in the U.S. But this state of affairs won't last long. "As a brand, we want to be as ubiquitous in the U.S. as we are in Japan," said Odake. Between the advertisements in the subway, billboards, sidewalk greeters, and pop-up stores, it is certainly approaching ubiquity in Manhattan.

Uniqlo's splashy debut on 5^th Avenue highlights a larger fact. Despite its woes, the U.S. is the richest, largest, and deepest consumer market in the world. New York, and the U.S. generally, are magnets for tourists and media. Establishing a major presence smack in the middle of Manhattan allows retailers to service the local market, and it gains them exposure to tens of millions of visitors. Said Odake: ""Fifth Avenue is the best shopping street in New York, and it was very important to us to have a great location here."

Daniel Gross is economics editor at Yahoo! Finance

Email him at grossdaniel11@yahoo.com; follow him on Twitter @grossdm

His most recent book is Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation

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??Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: NASA is working with a little-known Oregon company on a variety of trial balloons, ranging from suborbital near-spacecraft to a probe that would float through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's biggest moon.

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Daily Tips for Business: Architecture-and-Interior-Design

If you work in virtually any form of retail, the chances are good that you keep big ticket items inside some sort of display case. Whether you sell cell phones, iPods, jewelry, or baked goods, a display case is simply a great way to showcase your items without leaving them vulnerable to theft, fingerprints, or the hands of excited and unattended children. But if your cases do not have the right quality lighting, you may very well be losing out on significant sales. Believe it or not, the right lights in your case can actually help make your items more appealing to consumers. That is why LED display case lighting is so highly recommended.

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Apple sells out of iPhone 4S pre-orders in less than 24 hours

iPhone 4S pre-orders went live less than 24 hrs ago in the US and Apple’s online store is already showing it as sold out, with delivery times now estimated at 1-2 weeks. To those who haven’t ordered yet, you can still try to grab one when they...

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USA Gymnastics finalizes women's line-up for 2011 World ...

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USA Gymnastics October 06, 2011

USA Gymnastics has announced the U.S. women?s line-up for the qualification round at the 2011 World Championships at the Tokyo (Japan) Metropolitan Gymnasium.

The six women on the U.S. Women?s Team are: Gabrielle Douglas of Virginia Beach, Va./Chow?s Gymnastics and Dance Institute; McKayla Maroney of Laguna Niguel, Calif./All Olympia AOGC; Alexandra Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan?s American Gymnastics; Alicia Sacramone of Winchester, Mass./Brestyan?s American Gymnastics; Sabrina Vega of Carmel, N.Y./Dynamic Gymnastics; and Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich./Gedderts? Twistars USA.? Anna Li of Aurora, Ill./Legacy Elite Gymnastics LLC, is the alternate.

The women?s line-up for the qualification round is: vault ? Vega, Douglas, Raisman, Wieber, Maroney; uneven bars ? Raisman, Maroney, Vega, Wieber, Douglas; balance beam ? Maroney, Vega, Raisman, Wieber, Douglas; and floor exercise ? Douglas, Vega, Wieber, Maroney, Raisman.

Sacramone injured her Achilles tendon earlier today while tumbling on floor exercise during training.? The results of her diagnostic tests, which were taken at a local hospital, have been sent to Sacramone?s physician back in the States for evaluation, which will dictate the next steps.? An update will be provided once a final diagnosis is made.

The U.S. women compete on the second day, Oct. 8.? Men?s qualification rounds are Oct. 9-10.? The finals schedule is:? Oct. 11, women?s team; Oct. 12, men?s team; Oct. 13, women?s all-around; Oct. 14, men?s all-around; and Oct. 15-16, individual events.

Fans can follow the action at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships via the web, cable TV and network television.? Universal Sports will carry a live webcast of the finals, as well as same-day coverage on its cable network.? In addition, usagym.org will have photos and updates from Tokyo, with expanded coverage of ?USA Gymnastics:? Behind the Team presented by AT&T.?? NBC Sports will broadcast coverage of the World Championships on Oct. 15-16.

For more information on the World Championships, please go to usagym.org/worlds.

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Cards beat Oswalt to force Game 5 against Phillies (AP)

ST. LOUIS ? David Freese joked that he probably had accumulated 20 strikeouts against various Phillies aces.

Easy to poke fun at yourself after a breakout game that toppled Cardinals playoff nemesis Roy Oswalt and forced a deciding fifth game against Philadelphia.

Freese became a hometown hero on Wednesday night with a home run, double and four RBIs to lead St. Louis to a 5-3 victory over the Phillies.

"It's unbelievable where we've come from," said Freese, who was 2 for 12 with one RBI over the first three games of the series. "A lot of people didn't think we'd be in this position and maybe some of us in here didn't think that, either.

"We're going to come to the yard and give it a hard nine."

The Phillies were dispatched in order by Jason Motte in the ninth, with center fielder Jon Jay making a sliding catch on Placido Polanco's soft fly for the final out. Jay was already pointing his index finger before he got to his feet.

"I've been dreaming of a World Series, not the Division Series," Freese said. "We've got to keep winning."

Phillies cleanup hitter Ryan Howard, like Freese a St. Louis product, was 0 for 4 with three strikeouts. He's 0 for 8 in the last two games with five strikeouts and has hit only one ball out of the infield.

"I think I've been a little bit anxious trying to go up and trying to make things happen instead of letting things happen," Howard said. "Right now I'm just kind of jumping, so just try to recognize pitches better."

Game 5 on Friday night will be a rematch of aces: 19-game winner Roy Halladay against Chris Carpenter, the 2005 NL Cy Young winner who won 10 of his last 12 decisions to finish 11-9 this season.

Halladay, a two-time Cy Young winner, beat Carpenter in the opener after the Cardinals right-hander struggled pitching on three days' rest for the first time in his career. Manager Tony La Russa took a shot in that game knowing he'd have Carpenter ready to go on full rest if the series went the distance.

Matt Holliday had a hit and scored twice in his first playoff start and expects to be ready for Game 5.

"If I wasn't part of it, I sure would be watching it," Holliday said. "I think it's going to be great TV. To have a chance for a Game 5 and a chance to move on to the championship series with Carp on full rest, that's all we can ask."

Phillies manager Charlie Manuel didn't seem too surprised his team was getting tested early. The Cardinals took the season series 6-3.

"Might be fitting that it goes down to the fifth game," Manuel said. "It's up to us to go get it. It's sitting right there for us. We've got our ace going, and we're at home, and so everything is sitting right there."

An omen, perhaps, was the unusual sight of a squirrel dashing across the plate right after Oswalt threw a pitch for a ball in the fifth. Oswalt argued, unsuccessfully, that he had been distracted.

"I didn't want to stop in the middle of my motion, so I threw it," Oswalt said. "I was wondering what size of animal it needed to be for it not to be a pitch."

Oswalt had been 5-0 with a 3.25 ERA in 10 previous postseason starts, the biggest one closing out old Busch Stadium and the Cardinals in 2005 to get Houston to its first World Series. The right-hander also worked seven shutout innings against St. Louis in the Phillies' NL East division clincher in mid-September, and was staked to a 2-0 lead in the first.

He just couldn't get Freese out.

"I think I don't have to say too much about David Freese," Manuel said. "I think he kind of won the game."

Freese's two-run double down the third-base line in the fourth put St. Louis up 3-2. His two-run homer to straightaway center in the sixth whipped the crowd into a towel-waving frenzy.

Albert Pujols was hitless in four at-bats in what could have been his final home game with the Cardinals. He received thunderous cheers every trip to the plate from a standing-room crowd of 47,071, the second-largest at 6-year-old Busch Stadium.

Pujols made his presence known on defense, catching Chase Utley going for an extra base in the sixth. Utley drew a leadoff walk and kept running on Hunter Pence's grounder to short, but Pujols alertly jumped off first base to catch the throw and made a sharp relay to third for the out.

"This is obviously the playoffs, but that's a play I can make in the regular season, too," Pujols said. "If I would have stayed on the bag, it was going to be tough to get the runner at third. Obviously, that killed the rally right there."

Edwin Jackson recovered from a rocky beginning to win his first playoff start. After giving up two runs on his first five pitches, he wound up throwing six solid innings.

Five pitches into the game, the Phillies had a 2-0 lead with an assist from the late-afternoon playing conditions.

Jay, standing in bright sunshine while shadows enveloped most of the field, took one step in on leadoff man Jimmy Rollins' drive on the first pitch of the game and retreated too late for a ball just over his glove that bounced over the wall for a ground-rule double.

Utley tripled just inside the first-base line three pitches later and Pence lined an RBI single on the next pitch.

The Phillies' other run came on a wild pitch by Fernando Salas in the eighth.

"We jumped out and scored two runs, and that was about most of the hitting that we did," Manuel said. "Outside of that we couldn't really put nothing together."

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Elementary School Teachers, Counselors, and Career Education

As a teacher and advisor, we know that the elementary school is important. During the years of primary school to design, students visions of what they want to do in their lives, how they contribute to the workforce. With your help, your pupils open to new ideas and career opportunities. How do you work with the students, your students not ready to make decisions early career or career. For students, the school is a time to buildConsciousness.

How to encourage primary school teachers and counselors with training on self-esteem, developing decision making skills and strategies. Their activities are designed to self, family, school building, community and career awareness. It uses age-appropriate materials that match the development of the students. These activities put your students on a variety of different jobs, sources of career information and the reasons why people work.

Whenare ready to develop age-appropriate materials, products, tests and tools that you can career models, such as the National Guidelines for Career Development (NCDG). The National Guidelines for Career Development (NCDG) have domains, objectives and indicators. Each domain represents an area of ??development. In every area there are goals or skills. For each goal, indicators underline the necessary knowledge and skills to achieve the goal. The National Guidelines for Career Development (NCDG) prepares tomaterials that are suitable for your students.

As a elementary school counselors and teachers, you create individual career plans and portfolios. Individual career plans (ICP) -

Develop self-awareness
Identify initial career goals and educational plans
Increase employability and decision making skills

Individual career portfolios summarize career awareness activities and experiences that occur during the school year. In addition to individual career plans and portfolios, you use a variety of resources -

Career days
Career fairs
Community speakers
Field trips
Information interviewing
Literary works
Mentors
Collages, murals
Educational games
Job shadowing
Dramatic presentations

All of the career activities and tools combine academic work with career pathways. Career activities serve as foundations for future skills. As teachers and counselors, you help students build connections between academics and real life situations. You use career education activities to stress the importance of language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science.

You show students that Language Arts have many uses in the work force:

Reading
Writing
Listening skills

You provide examples that show how people solve problems when they use Mathematics. Different types of Mathematics include:

Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division

In Social Studies, your students learn how skills that are necessary to be successful in the global marketplace. In Social Studies, your students learn about -

Countries
Languages
Cultures

Your students learn the importance of Science gaining skills to solve problems. You show your students how applications of Science are used in different industries, such as -

Food
Media
Agriculture
Automotive industry

The connections between academics and real life situations reinforce, develop, and expand previously learned skills. In summary, as a elementary school teachers and counselors, you help students:

Know and value self
Build self-esteem and confidence
Learn and apply the academic material
Identify interests and build relationships between the school environment and the work force
Build academic, communication, problem solving, and social skills
Increase awareness of the need for future jobs skills
See the connections between learning in school, academic skills, job related skills, and careers
See career possibilities
See themselves as a future contributor to the job force
Receive empowerment
Build self-determination

As counselors and teachers, you build self-awareness, family awareness, school awareness, community awareness, career/ work awareness, attitude development, skill development, decision making strategies, and self-worth. You use age-appropriate materials that match the developmental levels of the students. Examples of activities include individual career plans (ICP), individual career portfolios, career days, career fairs, field trips, information interviewing, and library book reports.

After completing career education activities, your students are prone to get higher grades, academic achievement, school involvement, and interpersonal skills. In addition, your students are more adept to complete more complex courses and have higher graduation rates from high school. As your students get older, they will achieve their career visions and goals.

References

1. American Counseling Association, Office of Public Policy and Legislation. (2007). Effectiveness of School Counseling. Alexandria, VA: Author.

2. Angel, N. Faye; Mooney, Marianne. (1996, December). Work-in-Progress: Career and Work Education for Elementary Students. (ED404516). Cincinnati, OH: Paper presented at the American Vocational Association Convention.

3. Benning, Cathleen; Bergt, Richard; Sausaman, Pamela. (2003, May). Improving Student Awareness of Careers through a Variety of Strategies. Thesis: Action Research Project. (ED481018). Chicago, Illinois: Saint Xavier University.

4. Career Tec. (2000). K-12 Career Awareness & Development Sequence [with Appendices, Executive and Implementation Guide]. (ED450219) .Springfield, Il: Author.

5. Carey, John. (2003, January). What are the Expected Benefits Associated with Implementing a Comprehensive Guidance Program. School counseling Research Brief 1.1. Amherst, MA: Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research.

6. Dare, Donna E.; Maddy-Bernstein, Carolyn. (1999, September). Career Guidance Resource Guide for Elementary and Middle/Junior High School Educators. (ED434216). Berkeley, CA: National Center for Research in Vocational Education.

7. DuVall, Patricia. (1995).Let?s Get Serious about Career Education for Elementary Students. AACE Bonus Briefs. (ED386603). Hermosa Beach, CA: AACE Bonus Briefs.

8. Ediger, Marlow. (2000, July). Vocational Education in the Elementary School. (ED442979) Opinion Papers

9. Gerver, Miriam, Shanley, Judy, O Cummings, Mindee. (2/14/02). Answering the Question EMSTAC Extra Elementary and Middle Schools. Washington, DC: Technical Assistance Center, (EMSTAC).

10. Hurley, Dan, Ed.; Thorp, Jim, Ed. (2002, May). Decisions without Direction: Career Guidance and Decision-Making among American Youth. (ED465895). Grand Rapids, Michigan: Ferris State University Career Institute for Education and Workforce Development.

11. Maddy-Bernstein, Carolyn; Dare, Donna E. (1997,December).Career Guidance for Elementary and Middle School Students. Office of Student Services Brief, v9 n1. (ED415353). Berkeley, CA: National Center for Research in Vocational Education.

12. Ohio Department of Education, Division of Vocational and Career Education, Ohio Career Development Blueprint, Individual Career Plan, K to 5 (ED449322). Columbus, Ohio, 2000

13. Splete, Howard; Stewart, Amy. (1990). Competency-Based Career Development Strategies and the National Career Development Guidelines. Information Series No. 345. (ED327739). Columbus, Ohio: ERIC Clearinghouse on Education and Training for Employment & Ohio State University

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Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Lowers Colon Cancer Risk ...

It is common sense that eating fruit and vegetables is good for you.
The effects of fruit and vegetable consumption on colorectal cancer (CRC) appear to differ by site of origin, according to a new study published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

As John Phillip writes in Natural News, ?Health-minded individuals are well aware that a diet high in natural fruits and vegetables equate to vibrant health and dramatically lowered risk of many chronic diseases. The result of a new study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association provides details on how specific fruit and vegetable consumption lowers the incidence of many types of colon cancer, the third most prevalent form of the disease. Foods such as apples, broccoli and cauliflower each lower the risk of cancer initiation in different parts of the colon while high sugar, fiber-void fruit juices are shown to increase risk of the illness. Nutrition scientists from Australia provide important documentation to confirm the importance of eating a colorful selection of fruits and vegetables to lower colon cancer risk.

Nutrition researchers have designed studies to examine the effect of healthy diet on colon cancer risk in the past, but the protective effect has been debatable as they do not provide specific results for different foods on the key regions or subsites of the colon. Professor Lin Fritschi, PhD, head of the Epidemiology Group at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, and her research team set out to investigate the link between fruit and vegetables and three cancers in different parts of the bowel: proximal colon cancer, distal colon cancer and rectal cancer.

The controlled study included 918 participants with a confirmed colon cancer diagnosis and compared them with 1021 individuals with no history of the digestive disease. All participants completed extensive nutritional and demographic questionnaires to account for potential conflicts such as socioeconomic status. Analysis of the data showed that specific fruit and vegetables from similar varietal families affect risk for colon cancer in different portions of the digestive tract.

With respect to different fruit and vegetable consumption, the researchers found a reduced rate of proximal colon cancer linked to eating brassicas like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. In addition, both total vegetable intake and total vegetable and fruit intake were linked to a lower risk of distal colon cancer. And finally a significant reduction in distal colon cancer risk was linked to dark yellow vegetables and apples.

There should be no doubt that natural fruits and vegetables consumed raw or minimally cooked to retain the active enzymes is a critical factor in digestive health that dramatically lowers the risk of colon cancer and other chronic conditions as well. This study conveys the important nature of eating a wide variety of different colored fruits and vegetables, high in phytonutrient content, to provide a protective shield at different colon subsites and throughout the body.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033764_fruits_and_vegetables_colon_cancer.html#ixzz1ZnFBANBB
The article is ?Fruit and vegetable consumption and the risk of proximal colon, distal colon and rectal cancers in a case-control study in Western Australia? by Neeltje Annema, Jane S. Heyworth, Sarah A. McNaughton, Barry Iacopetta, and Lin Fritschi. It appears in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Volume 111, Issue 10 (October 2011) published by Elsevier

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Posted: October 5, 2011 at 12:23 am | Tags: computers, technology

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