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We all need restful sleep but this fundamental respite can become torturous at midlife. In fact, sleeping well eight hours every night is one of my basic recommendations for good health. If you find that your spirit needs calming or that you?re having trouble going to sleep or staying asleep at night, try some or all of my five midlife sleep strategies:

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From renowned nutritionist and author of the bestselling Fat Flush Plan comes a revised and updated guide to taking charge of your perimenopause. Filled with the latest research as well as practical tips and menus, Gittleman also incorporates timely information, especially pertaining to Hormone Replacement Therapy.

Learn How You Can head off Depression and Mood Swings, Weight Shifts, Erratic Sleep, Memory Loss, and Other Changes Leading to Menopause.

Take charge of your perimenopause simply, safely, and naturally! This breakthrough book details a gentle incremental program for understanding your own changes and offers a wide range of options for taking care of yourself. By following the author's proven techniques for controlling the symptoms of perimenopause, you can continue to feel great through this vital phase of your life.

With this essential do?it?yourself program, you can say good?bye to hormone havoc and sail through your perimenopause, the period of about ten years leading up to menopause, by understanding and controlling its symptoms.

Before the Change.

.clearly explains the symptoms of perimenopause and offers a self?diagnosis quiz;

.details safe and natural alternatives to hormone therapy, including healing vitamins, minerals, herbs and natural hormones.gives you a powerful Changing Diet, with tips and recipes for foods that prevent and alleviate symptoms

Menopause Sucks: What to Do When Hot Flashes and Hormones Make You and Everyone Else MiserableMenopause Sucks: What to Do When Hot Flashes and Hormones Make You and Everyone Else Miserable

Do they call menopause "the change" because...

  • You have to change shirts three times a day-after you've sweat through them?
  • You have to change addresses, just to avoid all that mail from the AARP?
  • You have to change your diet to nothing but milk and broccoli?just to get your RDA of calcium?
With hot flashes, mood swings, and night sweats (oh, my!), menopause might not be your favorite phase of life. However, bestselling author Joanne Kimes is here to provide relief as welcome as hand-held fans and sweat-free sheets. In her signature, no-holds-barred style, Kimes dishes on:
  • Dealing with a rollercoaster of emotions
  • Anecdotes, remedies, and gentle tips to help you cope with all the physical changes you're facing
  • How to enjoy menopausal sex
Menopause brings about a whirlwind of emotional and physical transformations. Menopause Sucks gives you all the info?and belly laughs?you need to cool down during this hot change of life.
What You Must Know about Women's Hormones: Your Guide to Natural Hormone Treatment for PMS, Menopause, Osteoporosis, PCOS, and MoreWhat You Must Know about Women's Hormones: Your Guide to Natural Hormone Treatment for PMS, Menopause, Osteoporosis, PCOS, and More
Hormonal imbalances can occur at any age?before, during, or after menopause?and for a variety of reasons. While most hormonerelated problems are associated with menopause, fluctuating hormonal levels can also cause a variety of other conditions, and for some women, the effects can be truly debilitating. What You Must Know About Women?s Hormones is a clear guide to the treatment of hormonal irregularities without the health risks associated with standard hormone replacement therapy.

This book is divided into three parts. Part I describes the body?s own hormones, looking at their functions and the problems that can occur if these hormones are not at optimal levels. Part II focuses on the most common problems that arise from hormonal imbalances, such as PMS, hot flashes, and endometriosis. Lastly, Part III details hormone replacement therapy, focusing on the difference between natural and synthetic hormone treatments.

Whether you are looking for help with menopausal symptoms or you simply want to enjoy vibrant health, What You Must Know About Women?s Hormones can make a profound difference in your life.

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Stubborn wildfires vex crews in Northwest, Calif.

In this Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 photo, a wildfire spreads through Wilson Canyon, as seen from Little Horsethief Lane, south of Jackson, Wyo. Trails, lifts and other mountain operations at Snow King Resort are closed due to the fire, which is burning less than 3 miles south of the town hill. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News & Guide, Price Chambers)

In this Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 photo, a wildfire spreads through Wilson Canyon, as seen from Little Horsethief Lane, south of Jackson, Wyo. Trails, lifts and other mountain operations at Snow King Resort are closed due to the fire, which is burning less than 3 miles south of the town hill. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News & Guide, Price Chambers)

Flames approach a house near Westview Drive in Wenatchee, Wash., about 140 miles east of Seattle, early Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2012. About 180 homes in Wenatchee were evacuated Sunday, Sept. 9. Some residents were allowed to return, while others were told to leave Monday, a police spokesman said. (AP Photo/The Wenatchee World, Don Seabrook)

In this Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 photo, an air tanker drops its load of fire retardant on the ridge above Cache Creek as firefighters work to contain the Little Horsethief Canyon Fire southeast of Jackson, Wyo. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News & Guide, Price Chambers)

A Snohomish County fire crew attempts to clear brush and debris away from a vacant house in Wenatchee, Wash., about 140 miles east of Seattle, Tuesday morning, Sept. 11, 2012, as a brush fire approaches. About 180 homes in Wenatchee were evacuated Sunday, Sept. 9. Some residents were allowed to return, while others were told to leave Monday, a police spokesman said. (AP Photo/The Wenatchee World, Don Seabrook)

A plume of smoke rises from Casper Mountain as a wildfire continues to burn Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in Casper, Wyo. The fire was listed at more than 15,000 acres as of Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Star-Tribune, Alan Rogers)

WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) ? Firefighters battled stubborn blazes that kept residents from homes in Montana, Wyoming and Washington as authorities worried the weather could worsen the volatile situation.

High temperatures, lower humidity and greater instability increase the potential for fires to grow, said Ed Delgado, the national predictive services meteorologist for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.

"Our biggest concern right now is existing fires," he said. "We're not expecting lightning over the next few days, although that doesn't alleviate the potential for human-caused fires, especially as we get into camping and hunting seasons."

Seven homes were destroyed and hundreds of people were evacuated near Casper, Wyo., where a wildfire burned almost 24 square miles. In western Montana, fire crews were struggling to control a blaze that prompted an evacuation order for 400 houses west of Hamilton.

In eastern Washington, a grass and sagebrush fire that ballooned from 11,000 acres to more than 60,000 ? or 95 square miles ? before winds died down was blamed for destroying three homes near Grand Coulee, a fire official said.

As winds eased, crews were hopeful they could gain ground on dozens of fires sparked by weekend lightning storms. But more evacuation orders were issued Tuesday as a wildfire moved into the hills west of Wenatchee, a fruit capital on the banks of the Columbia River.

More than 150 homes were evacuated as the fire burned about 140 miles east of Seattle. About 160 firefighters gathered to help fight the blaze, which covered 1,000 acres.

Only a shed has been lost near Wenatchee, and no injuries were reported at what appeared to be the most threatening of numerous lightning-sparked wildfires in the state.

In Montana, Sawtooth Fire spokesman Gregg DeNitto with the U.S. Forest Service said there was no word on when residents there might be allowed to return. The fire exploded over the past two days from just over 1 square mile to more than 6, although no houses were reported lost.

DeNitto said most threatened houses were a half-mile to one mile from the fire's edge.

An estimated 1,000 people live within the evacuated area, although Ravalli County Commissioner Suzy Foss said not all of them left. Of those who fled, most were staying with friends, relatives or acquaintances, Foss said.

Only a couple of residents spent the night at a Red Cross shelter set up in Hamilton for evacuees, DeNitto said.

Firefighters got help from the weather in Wyoming, where cooler temperatures and calmer winds bought time to put more people and equipment into action around two large fires. As many as 750 homes were threatened by the large wildfire near Casper. Some 400 people were evacuated from 150 homes.

In central Oregon, smoke settled in the town of Sisters for about six hours Tuesday as crews battled a forest fire on about 4,300 acres southwest of town. Sisters has about 2,000 residents and is a center for tourists and outdoor recreation.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality said atmospheric conditions ? a temperature inversion ? could mean poor air quality in the mornings through Saturday.

Residents of a subdivision west of Sisters have been warned that they might have to evacuate, but the fire has not yet advanced on populated areas.

Blazes have scorched more than 8.1 million acres across the West so far this year, up from the 10-year average of 6.1 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

Other blazes burning across the West include:

? The Horsethief Canyon Fire, which has burned about 4 square miles south of the resort town of Jackson, Wyo. Firefighters were working to protect the town and the Jackson Hole valley's main communications towers from the blaze. About 1,000 residents have been warned to be prepared to leave in case the blaze gets too close.

? The Millie Fire about 20 miles south of Bozeman, Mont. The fire was threatening the city's water supply and 10 commercial buildings. Fire spokeswoman Jennifer Myslivy said the flames were stopped for now at the top of a ridge over South Cottonwood Canyon.

? As many as 80 fires sparked by lightning Saturday were burning along the east slopes of the Cascades in Washington state. Fifty-four homes were evacuated near Cashmere in front of a wildfire that has burned about 300 acres. Fire spokeswoman Connie Mehmel said the Cashmere fire was near other fires west of Wenatchee, but not expected to merge.

Another blaze north of Entiat forced the evacuation of 19 homes.

? A wildfire has burned 6? square miles in a rugged area of the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles. The fire broke out over Labor Day weekend, sending out thousands of visitors from the Angeles National Forest.

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Associated Press writers Matthew Brown in Billings, Mont., and Mead Gruver in Cheyenne, Wyo., contributed to this report.

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Facebook friends get out the vote

A banner message on Facebook showing users' friends who had voted drove a third of a million more voters to the poll booths, research shows.

Sixty-one million Facebook users in the US were shown the message, while 600,000 others simply saw a message imploring them to vote.

A report in Nature shows the message drove about 60,000 extra votes in the 2010 US Congressional elections.

But the message appearing on friends' pages drove a further 282,000 votes.

The work was led by James Fowler of the University of San Diego, whose prior work has shown, among many other things, that the friends we choose may in part be down to genetics.

For the current work, he and his colleagues were interested in examining the oft-cited claim that online social networks influence offline decision-making - a claim that has until now been difficult to pin down.

"There's been a lot of work in online social networks showing that app adoption can spread from person to person, and there's been a lot of work in the real world showing that things like obesity and drinking and smoking can spread from person to person," Prof Fowler told the Science In Action programme on the BBC World Service.

"But there hasn't been any work that showed what happens online affects the real world."

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The 'friend' vote is really critical... if you just looked at the users and whether or not the message directly affected them you'd be missing the whole story?

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To look into that question, the team arranged for Facebook to post a non-partisan "social" message along the top of 61 million users' pages, including a reminder that it was voting day, a clickable "I voted" button, a link to information about nearby polling places, and a list of up to six of the users' friends who had already clicked the button.

About 600,000 users were shown an alternate, "informational" message, identical except for the absence of the friends data. A further 600,000 were shown no message at all.

The data on which users sought polling station data or clicked the "I voted" button could then be cross-correlated with publicly available data on who actually went to cast a vote.

The results showed to a high statistical significance that those who received the "social" message were more than 2% more likely to report having voted and 0.4% more likely to actually vote than those shown the "informational" message.

And users were 0.22% more likely to vote for each "close" friend - as measured by the degree of Facebook interaction - who received the message.

By correlating the findings with polling data and comparing with the "no-message" case, the team estimate that the message resulted in more than 340,000 extra votes being cast.

Prof Fowler conceded that the results represented a small fraction of the voting public, but that it was enough to sometimes make a large difference.

"I doubt it changed the outcome of the overall election, but it's posssible it had an impact on local elections," he said. "There are certainly circumstances in our history where a far smaller number of votes would have mattered: in 2000 in the US the presidential election was decided by just 537 votes in Florida."

Peer to peer

The findings are intriguing from a political point of view, but the study is also finally shedding light on the thorny problem of extracting these "peer influence" effects from the factors that drive the network's formation in the first place.

What confounds that problem is what is called homophily - we tend to befriend people in real life or online with whom we share significant similarities.

"If we were just going to do an observational study where we just looked at the network to see whether or not people who voted tend to be connected to others who voted, we wouldn't know if that was because they tended to become friends because they both like politics or if one friend influences another," Prof Fowler said.

But the random selection of friends to show to users in the "social" message - some close friends, some only peripheral - should sidestep issues of homophily, Prof Fowler explained.

"The beauty of this experiment is that we can rule that out as an explanation for what we found," he said.

And the scale of peer influence they found was notable.

"The 'friend' vote is really critical," he said. "In this experiment we were able to show that if you just looked at the users and whether or not the message directly affected them you'd be missing the whole story; for every user that changed their behaviour, there were four friends who changed their behaviour.

"In other words, the network quadrupled the effect of the 'get out the vote' message."

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The MCAT is just a very overwhelming examination, to express the smallest amount of. It is also extremely tough to get ready for. It is not an examination that you can put for the night time before. As an alternative you must follow a training course of action that you set for yourself on the check so that you?ll do your very best. Listed below are six tips to help you do better on the MCAT:1. Simply take as numerous exercise tests as possible prior to the true test. Exercise is essential when preparing for the MCAT, as there aren?t several things that will undoubtedly be on the examination that you can memorize. Also, take to using the examination in various conditions such as for instance somewhat deafening, silent, cold, or warm. Planning with numerous environmental factors may prevent you from being diverted by circumstances during the test.2. The afternoon after the practice test is taken by you, review it. Look right back at some of the paragraphs, concerns, and concepts where you had dilemmas or that slowed you down. Looking back at the product will help you remember it longer and will keep it clean in your mind.3. If you need to, sign up for an MCAT preparation course. After you join you?ll have access to all their information. This can likely help you more since they may help you study for the paragraphs and principles that you missed on the exercise tests.4. Use flash cards to help yourself prepare. Put equations, illustrations, principles, and articles that you had difficulty with on the display cards and review them wherever possible. You may also get friends and family to write questions on display cards for you when you come to it so that you will not know the answer to that issue. As you start your planning for the check, you must have a big stack of flash cards. But, as you get closer to the examination you should begin taking out the ones that have concepts you?ve mastered.5. Practice your sleeping habits in the days before the examination. Training going to sleep early on Friday night and getting up early on Saturday. This will assist you to plan your day of the examination. Also make sure you eat a good meal and get yourself a good night?s sleep the night prior to the test. Going to sleep early will ensure that you?re fully rested and that you are at your psychological peak during the test.6. Do not get stuck on issues or passages during the examination. If you come to a question or passage that you don?t know the answer to, proceed. Keeping on a single question could cost you valuable time later in the test. If you?ve time when you?ve finished, you may come back to the question that gave trouble to you.

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Cleanup after NYC twisters; power back in DC area

A tornado is seen touching down in New York City on Saturday.

By Miguel Llanos, NBC News

Residents from New England to Washington, D.C., were cleaning up on a much-milder Sunday after storms spawned two New York City tornadoes and toppled thousands of trees as well as power lines, cutting electricity to tens of thousands.

Below's a look at the damage by area.

NEW YORK CITY
A twister with 70 mph winds formed over water near the Rockaway Peninsula of Queens Saturday morning, then hit the beachfront neighborhood of Breezy Point.

A second, 110-mph tornado followed seven minutes later about 10 miles away.

Residents got advance notice but still the storm took people by surprise, and 1,100 electricity customers lost power. No injuries were reported in either.


At Breezy Point, roofs were ripped off cabanas at the Breezy Point Surf Club. The storms also scattered deck chairs and left a heavy metal barbecue and propane tank sitting in the middle of a softball field, at least 100 yards from any home, the Associated Press reported.?

"It picked up picnic benches. It picked up Dumpsters," said the club's general manager, Thomas Sullivan.

Courtesy Caitlin Walsh

Some of the debris at the Breezy Point Surf Club is seen Saturday.

"We were all scared," added club worker Caitlin Walsh, 24. "The windows on the whole building broke, the lights went out, and the rain was pouring in. Everything was shaking. It was really crazy."

Related: NBCNewYork.com reports on the twisters

Broken flower pots, knocked-down fences and smashed windows littered the community of seaside bungalows.

Half an hour later, the weather was beautiful, but Sullivan had to close the club to clean up the damage.

The roof of Bob O'Hara's cabana was torn off, leaving tubes of sunscreen, broken beer bottles and an old TV set exposed to the elements, the Associated Press reported.

O'Hara, who has spent summer weekends at the Breezy Point club for his entire 52 years, tried to be upbeat. "We got a new sunroof," he said, and?"the TV was getting thrown out anyway."?

The second twister hit to the northwest, in Brooklyn's Canarsie section and also near the water. Several homes and trees were damaged.

Tornadoes in the New York City area have occurred with more regularity in recent years. A small tornado uprooted trees on Long Island last month.

In September 2010, two tornadoes knocked down thousands of trees and blew off a few rooftops in Brooklyn and Queens. A weaker tornado struck the same year in the Bronx.

In 2007, a more powerful tornado damaged homes in Brooklyn and Staten Island.

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Tornado-like funnel clouds were reported in Fairfax County, Va., and in Prince George's County, Md., but had not yet been confirmed.

A dozen people were injured while trying to evacuate the Prince George's County Fair, and six people were evacuated from a Washington apartment building when a tree fell on it.

Fairfax County officials reported three home cave-ins because of downed trees, a water rescue in the Potomac River and dozens of electrical wires down.

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Area storms left more than 108,000 households and businesses in Virginia without power, while over 60,000 electricity customers in the District of Columbia and the Maryland suburbs were hit by outages. ?

By Sunday morning, more than 16,000 customers in the region were still without power.

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The storms later moved into New England with wind gusts up to 60 mph, downing trees and flooding roads.

In Fall River, Mass., floodwaters reached up to car windshields and stalled out dozens of vehicles, the Associated Press reported. A day care center was evacuated and St. Anne's Hospital's emergency room flooded.?

In New Hampshire, WMUR-TV reported 4,000 power outages. The storm reached every county in Vermont, all within a two-hour window, but mercifully left the state without any extraordinary damage, according to early reports.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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Despite pleas, missing SC boy falls by wayside

Despite detectives' pleas to national media, the disappearance of an 18-month-old black boy with the wide smile has yet to grab the widespread attention given to other missing children's cases. Some advocates say the reason why may be as simple as the toddler's gender ? and his race.

From the still-unsolved slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey more than 15 years ago to the disappearance and killing of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony, the public has watched with rapt attention as many cases involving young children unfolded, often over many months. Yet Amir Jennings, the little boy who hasn't been seen since he was captured on surveillance video with his mother in South Carolina nearly a year ago, has registered as scarcely a blip on the nation's consciousness.

"Media has always leaned toward the cute little kids," said Monica Caison of the Wilmington, N.C.-based CUE Center for Missing Persons. "And unfortunately, a lot of times they think cute little kids are white."

Amir's mother, Zinah Jennings, was convicted Friday on a charge related to his disappearance and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The 23-year-old woman has been jailed since December, and police arrested her after she told them false, misleading stories about the boy's whereabouts. Jennings has maintained that she left the boy somewhere safe, but prosecution witnesses said the young mother claimed she was stressed and pondered selling or giving away the boy.

Jennings' mother says she last saw her wide-eyed, giggly grandson early on the morning of Nov. 28, 2011. He went to a bank with his mother the next day but has not been seen since. A store owner has testified she saw the boy and his mother a month later, but prosecutors challenged that assertion, and there was no surveillance video to back up the claim.

In the months since he disappeared, Amir's grandmother has celebrated his second birthday. His mother has given birth to a second child. And the national spotlight that initially shone on the case has waned.

One of the reasons could be as simple as Amir being a boy. While federal officials say the numbers of the missing are roughly split when it comes to gender, Caison said pedophiles tend to seek out girls, while missing boys often are taken by a parent or other relative.

And in her searches for adult males, Caison said, she has an even harder time getting anyone to pay attention.

"People want to think that missing males are OK and safe," she said. "I still sit back every day and scratch my head and say, 'Why can't you pick these cases up?'"

Caylee Anthony
Amir's story has gotten nowhere near the attention of cases like that of Caylee Anthony, a 2-year-old white Orlando girl whose body was found a month after she was reported missing in 2008. Anthony's mother was arrested and charged with murder after telling a string of lies to the police.

The case captivated the nation for months and culminated with the trial of the girl's mother, Casey Anthony. Radio shows enlisted attorneys to provide analysis during the morning commute, while cable television networks covered every moment in the courtroom.

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People camped outside the courthouse to make sure they could sit in the gallery the next morning. Protests erupted when Casey Anthony was acquitted of a murder charge; her attorneys devised an elaborate plan to shake the media when she was whisked away from jail.

In the Ramsey case, water-cooler speculation swirled for years about who killed the child beauty pageant queen in 1996 and who wrote the ransom note found at the murder scene. Her parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, were demonized by the public for years until prosecutors apologized and said DNA evidence excluded them as suspects. No one was ever charged in her death.

So why are some cases elevated in the public sphere, while others are not?

Jacqueline Fish, a former law officer and current criminal justice professor at Charleston Southern University, said law enforcement ideally takes each case seriously, and each case has had police and prosecutors who have spoken publicly about the need for justice. But inherently, Fish said, every case is still somewhat subjective. Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott is black, and surmised he might have seen something of one of his own children in Amir ? and pushed initially to publicize the case.

After Jennings' arrest, Scott reached out to the media to ask for help finding the missing boy. Yellow flyers began popping up around Columbia. Groups organized vigils to pray for Amir's safe return.

"I want someone to call us and say, 'We just saw this on the news, we have Amir, we're sorry, we didn't realize this was going on,'" Scott said at a January news conference announcing that a tip line had been set up. "Her stories are so across the board."

'Some headway'
In his investigation's early days, Scott also appeared on several national cable news shows, saying that Jennings continued to change her story when pressed for information about her son. Jennings' mother also made appeals for help, asking at a news conference for any information about the boy she called "Mir Mir" and "AJ." She sat down several times with The Associated Press, describing her conflicting emotions of concern for her grandson and support for her daughter.

But as the weeks dragged on, and no credible tips moved the case forward, the national news outlets stopped calling. Scott said his officers continued their investigation, but no bombshells came.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, about 800,000 children are reported missing in the United States a year, and nearly all reported missing to the police ? almost 99 percent ? are returned home alive. More than half of those are white, while about 150,000 are black, and 164,000 are Hispanic.

Amir's body has not been found, although police have said from the beginning that they feared foul play had been involved in his disappearance. But it's the uncertainty of his fate, Fish said, that could play a role in the lack of widespread attention.

"Someone needs to be brought to justice," Fish said. "In Amir's case, they can't be out for justice because we don't know what happened to him."

Officials with the Black and Missing Foundation, Inc., an organization that focuses on finding missing minorities, said they struggle to get and maintain news coverage of minority missing persons cases.

"We are making some headway, but there are still challenges," said co-founder Natalie Wilson, who said she sometimes gets pushback when pitching a story to media outlets.

Noting she has had some recent successes pitching missing minority cases to media outlets, Wilson said she's often told that editors and producers can't promise coverage and don't have the time to run a big piece. In one instance, a plea for help to find a young missing black girl was bumped to report the news that Paris Hilton had been released from jail.

"How does that supersede someone's life?" Wilson asked. "Can you imagine how her parents would feel?"

Attention on a missing child case should be the same ? intense ? regardless of gender or race," Caison said.

"It's not an excuse," Caison said. "A child missing should be aired because of the fact that they're a child, that they're away from safe haven, and that there's foul play or other concerns involved."

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48953999/ns/us_news-life/

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California judge: Schwarzenegger didn’t violate law in commuting sentence for ally’s son

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ? A judge ruled Friday that former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger didn?t break any laws when he reduced the manslaughter sentence of the son of a political ally just hours before leaving office last year.

Sacramento County superior court Judge Lloyd Connelly called Schwarzenegger?s decision to cut the sentence of Esteban Nunez from 16 years to seven was distasteful and ?repugnant to the bulk of the citizenry of this state,? but within his executive powers as governor. Nunez is the son of the governor?s political ally, Fabian Nunez.

Esteban Nunez pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in a 2008 attack on an unarmed group of young men after he and some friends were turned away from a fraternity party. Three others pleaded guilty to various charges in the attack that killed 22-year-old college student Luis Santos.

Connelly?s ruling came after hearing arguments in lawsuits filed by Santos? family and the San Diego district attorney, who argued that Schwarzenegger violated a voter-approved law that requires families be notified about cases involving their loved ones.

The judge ruled that the legislation did not specifically address the governor?s power of pardons and commutations.

The family of 22-year-old Luis Santos said the judge?s words were not enough. They want the sentence commutation thrown out.

Kathy Santos, Luis? mother, said outside court, ?Where?s the justice for our son? He was murdered. Two conniving politicians got away with it.?

The attorney general?s office, on behalf of Schwarzenegger, argued that the law does not apply to a governor?s power to pardon and commute sentences and said he had ?unfettered discretion to grant clemency without judicial review.?

Attorneys for the Nunez family and San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said Schwarzenegger blatantly violated the state constitution with his last-minute decision, ignored the victims? due process rights and acted ?in an arbitrary and capricious manner.?

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Learning another language easier than many think | Learning ...

Sheila Drummond, head of reference services at the Medicine Hat Public Library, demonstrates Mango, a program available at the Library to assist people in learning a second language.?NEWS PHOTO CHARLES LEFEBVRE

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Learning a new language may be hard but it?s not something people should be discouraged over, said Felipe Morales who teaches Spanish language courses with the Medicine Hat College.
The college?s Continuing Education programs offer lessons in languages such as French, German, Japanese and Spanish.
And many of those who sign up for Spanish language classes at MHC are older, Morales noted.
?They?re hoping to achieve something for them to feel good, or also for travelling,? he said, noting that many will be heading to Mexico, Costa Rico or even many states within the U.S. where Spanish is a prevalent language.
?Spanish is actually a very commercial language, because it?s spoken in more than 23 countries in the world as an official language,? he said.
Travel and learning were Hatter Jana Joujan?s motivations for taking one of Morales? classes and continuing to learn and improve her Spanish.
?What surprised me is, it?s not hard to learn new words,? she said. ?You learn new words in English constantly. What?s difficult is the syntax, the way the words are put together.?
Learning a new language isn?t hard she?s found, it?s more the way you attack it.
One of the ways she?s learned the best has been through travelling and having to rely on speaking the language.
And for those wanting to learn a new language, find a native speaker and ?beg and plead? for them to speak that language to them as much as possible, she advised.
Cards holders with the Shortgrass Library System don?t even have to leave their home to start learning a new language.
The online language program ?Mango? can help teach more than 45 different languages and also offers ESL lessons.
?Technologically, they have made it as simple as can be,? said Sheila Drummond with the Medicine Hat Public Library. Computer speakers are needed, while microphones can be used to practice pronunciation.
At the Medicine Hat Library?s website, the link to Mango is just on the left side. People can sign into the program using their library card number and pin number, Drummond explained. If a person doesn?t know their pin number they can drop by the library?s info desk.
Those using Mango have the option of working on either basic or complete courses depending on what they want to learn. They can also create a profile that tracks their progress through all the lessons.
?One of the nice things about it is you can listen to it in the privacy of your own home,? said Drummond. ?It?s entirely at your own pace.?
The library will also be hosting a workshop to help people get started with Mango on Sept. 19 from 7-8 p.m., and also has numerous language resources such as dictionaries and CDs people can also sign out.

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BDA International Golf Tournament to boost young talents

Nepal News.Net Thursday 6th September, 2012

The fourth edition of the BDA International Golf tournament for the school children of Delhi and NCR region concluded on Thursday.

As many as 80 children from around 20 different schools across the national capital participated in the tournament at the Delhi Golf Club.

Speaking at the closing ceremony, former Union Minister Oscar Fernandes said, "This is a very good initiative started by the group and we hope that in coming years many more such steps are taken to promote the sports amongst the youth in the country. We should believe in training our youths in different sports so that they are able to compete in Olympics and win more medals for us."

The brain behind the tournament, Parmod K Aggarwal, said, "The core motive behind organizing this tournament is to give the young budding golfers the required launch pad to show their skills to the rest of the world and enhance their capabilities further."

He said that every authority linked to sports must work hard to provide all the facilities in bringing golf to the forefront and as one of the most obvious choices in sports for the youths in this country.

The two-day event witnessed budding golfers compete for top honours in team and individual segments in four different age groups, with maximum age limit being 18 years and the minimum being eight years.

Each team comprised four players, one in each category, and the gross score of the best three golfers were taken into consideration for the School Trophy. (ANI)

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