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Judge Refuses to Allow Further Cross-Examination [BalkanFront Freep!!!]
Blic, Belgrade ^ | March 9, 2002
Posted on 03/09/2002 12:33:08 PM PST by Banat
Judge May Refuses Miloshevich's Request to Have Kadriu Cross-Examined!
The Hague (Tanjug) – The continuation of the latest round of hearings, which commenced yesterday, suffered many interruptions by Judge Richard May today. At one point, the Judge intervened and warned the witness, as well as the defendant, "This is not a political manifestation but a trial".
Mr. Miloshevich cross-examined Sabit Kadriu, who claimed the Serbs did not flee Albanian violence but were "searching for a better life" outside of Kosovo & Metohia and that they were "selling their farms and estates to Albanians at steep prices". The witness claimed that he had no knowledge as to how many Serbs had fled the province and that the "regime" in Belgrade caused and then manipulated this situation.
Mr. Miloshevich told the court that Albanian separatists persistently refused the Government's proposal for the return of Albanian professors and students to state schools, while the witness claimed that, every September, when the school year traditionally starts, the Serbian government "prevented the Albanians" from enrolling.
Countering the witness' claim that the "Serbian regime organized the return of the expelled Serbs back to Kosovo & Metohia in order to change the demographics", Mr. Miloshevich said that of all the expelled Serbs, only 5,000 returned to their homes, which is, as Mr. Miloshevich said, less than 1% of the total number of Serbs who have been forced out of the province. The prosecution witness also claimed that there were no – and are no – mujahedins in Kosovo & Metohia. Mr. Miloshevich then showed the FBI document, dated December 2001, which clearly indicated that Al-Qaida had been active in Kosovo & Metohia.
Kadriu said that "he knew nothing" about the killings of four policemen in the village of Chirez on March 3, 1998, which, as Mr. Miloshevich said, was the result of a firefight between the Police and the KLA. The Ahmeti family lost their lives in this confrontation, which the witness claimed was a "massacre of unarmed civilians".
In reference to the witness' claim of a massacre of the Gerxhaliu family in May 1999, Mr. Miloshevich said that the investigating judge went to the scene immediately after the incident and made a report. The witness characterized this as an "obstruction" on the part of the "Serb forces" and claimed that such things "always occurred" and that "the Serbian police always called the court investigators after they committed crimes."
The defendant then told the court about the murder of Rexhepi Bairami, an activist and a member of the LDK, the party headed by Ibrahim Rugova, who was killed in Vuchitrn "on the orders of the local KLA commander". Kadriu then said that "he never heard of any Bairami".
Mr. Miloshevich then mentioned the fact that, in 1998 alone, 327 loyalist Albanians had been murdered, to which the witness replied that he "did not believe there were any loyalist Albanians" in Kosovo & Metohia. Mr. Miloshevich, in turn, cited Faik Jashari, a member of the Interim Executive Council of Kosovo & Metohia, who had reported that, after the war, some 30,000 Albanians fled to central Serbia together with the expelled Kosovo & Metohia Serbs.
Kadriu described the KLA as a liberation army and stood his ground, claiming the army and the police "conducted an offensive against 27 Albanian villages on Mt. Chichevitsa and murdered 200 civilians and one member of the KLA".
Mr. Miloshevich then cited Kadriu, who had said earlier that "Adem Jashari was killed when he ran out of ammo", and asked the witness how he could talk of a "massacre of civilians" when the police first asked Jashari to come out and give himself up, then gave him 2 hours to consider the offer – "during which a number of people had left the compound" – and that soon after, "a hail of bullets, fired from dozens of automatic rifles" came from the house toward the police, to which the police responded in self-defence and, as a consequence, killed 60 people inside the Jashari compound.
At this point Judge Robinson jumped in and remarked that Kadriu wasn't present at the scene. Kadriu then said that he saw "bodies of dead women, children and elderly people", that the action against the Jashari compound "lasted three days", and that it served to paint a "false picture" in the media.
Mr. Miloshevich then cited British Foreign Office reports, dating from early 1999, which revealed that there had been no political persecution of Albanians, but rather a confrontation with "military opponents" – the KLA - who controlled parts of Kosovo & Metohia.
The witness then said that, in 1999, the "Serbian forces had killed 15,000 and expelled 1,000,000 Albanian civilians".
Mr. Miloshevich responded by asking the witness about the kidnappings and killings of Serbs, the KLA detention centres in the village of Likovats, as well as the makeshift prison in the basement of a general store in Vuchitrn. The witness responded, saying such prisons "did not exist", and he also denied any killings and kidnappings by the KLA.
The witness denied Mr. Miloshevich's claim that literally all citizens of Serbian nationality from 39 out of the 45 villages in the Vuchitrn Municipality had been ethnically cleansed and had their houses burned down, saying there "may have been" some "revenge attacks against the Serbs who committed war crimes."
Alleging that all the Serbs who once lived in the town of Vuchitrn are war criminals, Kadriu acknowledged that there were no more Serbs in that town, and that they fled "of their own free will because they committed war crimes." Branislav Tapushkovich, one of the amici curiae, reacted, drawing the court's attention to the contradictions in Kadriu's testimony.
Mr. Miloshevich protested the court's decision to limit the time for cross-examination and asked that the cross-examination be continued, which was rejected by Judge May. As a result, the trial will continue on Monday with fresh testimonies from new witnesses.
As the hearing was drawing to a close, the security officers in the courtroom asked Mr. Miloshevich's legal advisors from Belgrade to leave the room. They had been warned not to "gesticulate and communicate" with Mr. Miloshevich. They later returned to the courtroom.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
1 posted on 03/09/2002 12:33:08 PM PST by Banat
To: Banat
This is Internation One World Government Justice at work
So ya all ready for "The New World Order"?
2 posted on 03/09/2002 12:35:19 PM PST by RnMomof7
... This is not a political manifestation but a trial ...
No, it's not a trial either. But thank you for playing.
3 posted on 03/09/2002 12:50:43 PM PST by Asclepius
Unless someone can come up will larger "non-bribe payments to help focus the attention of the decision makers" for the judges in this case, they might just abandon the trial portion of this charade and get right to sentencing ole Slobodon. The "give 'em a fair and impartial trial" before hanging is fine so long as the accused doesn't do too well during the trial. If he does too well, it becomes embarassing and highlights the crookedness of the judges. So, lets dispense with the trial and get directly to imposing the life sentence, that is, unless someone comes up with the bucks for a lesser sentence.
4 posted on 03/09/2002 1:07:38 PM PST by Tacis
To: Asclepius
They deserve to lose if for no other reason then that their work so far has been very sloppy.
I don't know if he is guilty or not, but the prosecution is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
A. Cricket
5 posted on 03/09/2002 2:01:12 PM PST by another cricket
"This is not a political manifestation but a trial"
This British judge has to know that it is a political manifestation and not a trial in the proper sense of the word. It is a non-legitimate body of political abduction, it is an accessory after the fact in the NATO crimes of genocide against the civilian population of Yugoslavia and it is an insult to the international community of reasoning people.
It's only pupose is the judicial legitimization of crimes against humanity committed by developed nations on militarily inferior nations of the third world for the purpose of violently seizing the precious natural resources to be found there. The ICTY is a circus of cowards and judicial puppets paid by NATO.
Judge May will eventually render the guilty verdict against Milosevic as it was intended from the beginning then, judge May will quietly go back under his rock in Britain- good riddance
6 posted on 03/10/2002 3:13:09 PM PST by Stay'n Alive
Alex, I'll take "History" for $200:
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
The more things change ...
7 posted on 03/10/2002 3:32:47 PM PST by mpoulin


Family Cultural Festival Friday, May 5 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Around the World In Santiago Hills (AWISH) is our annual cultural festival celebrating the great diversity we have at our school. AWISH features countries from around the world with fabulous food, fun, activities, music, and entertainment.
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The ins, outs and whereabouts of fly-tipping
👤by Chris Game	🕔19.Feb 2019
On the day Birmingham's latest bin strike starts up, Chris Game throws a political dead cat on the table – well animal carcasses to be precise….
Do you ever use Wikipedia's 'disambiguation pages' – its aids to avoiding possible misinterpretation of names or terms appearing in its articles? To stop you, for instance, if you really want to moan about this blog, from dashing off something abusive to the Los Angeles film casting director, or the car body repair guy in Camden, who happen to share my name.
Wiki itself acknowledges that its disambiguations can sometimes be redundant, but occasionally the reverse happens and you encounter something where a bit of extra guidance might be quite helpful. Like Birmingham City Council having dealt in 2017/18 with 125 'Back Alleyway Incidents' – yes, capital letters, but no disambiguation in sight.
I can't but feel there are some – not high-minded Files readers, obviously – to whom that phrase could easily sound like the kind of double entendre that Radio 1's Innuendo Bingo or, increasingly, The Great British Bake Off, specialise in.
Helped by the fact that, rather than watching what passes as family TV entertainment, I was reading a recent statistical report from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), I grasped instantly that the passageways in question were those behind buildings, with the incidents perpetrated by fly-tippers, rather than anything to do with Wiki's alternative suggestion.
Hey, don't go away! This blog isn't – well, not chiefly – about Back Alleyways in any sense. I'm not that weird (not quite that weird, Ed.), but there is a reason for staying with them for a further sentence or so, which is that Birmingham seems exceptional – not in having a lot of BA Incidents, or even its statistical share, but so remarkably few.
Plymouth, for example, recorded nearly 14,000 last year, Liverpool and Gateshead around 7,000, even Stoke nearly 4,000. Yet between all 1.1 million of us we managed – or, rather, the Council discovered and recorded – just 125 (see table above).
Given the Council's regular bin collection crises, Birmingham's figures are almost certainly distorted by disproportionate numbers of Highway and 'Black bag – household' Incidents. But everyone has loads of those. If Birmingham has a real speciality – 'signature dish' would not be the right label – it has to be animal carcasses.
It seems – to me, anyway – almost incredible in an area with not that many farms, but, according to DEFRA's exhaustively detailed records, Birmingham was responsible for over a quarter of all England's animal carcass dumping last year: 1,527, or over four a day.
There's loads more of this stuff, as you'll see from the table, but what prompted it in the first place was neither BA nor AC incidents, but simply the apparent glut of fly-tipping stories in the news recently.
Perhaps they're always there, but, if a boost were needed, it may have been DEFRA's introduction last month of new penalties of up to £400, directed at householders as well as actual fly-tippers, and its accompanying 'guidance' to councils about not using them as a "means for raising money" – or, as they didn't say, cash cow.
Plus the smug-sounding note about how "the government's crackdown on fly-tippers is delivering results, with no increase in 2017/18 in the number of incidents for the first time in five years."
Consciousness raised, within the week Coventry residents were complaining that their bulky waste collection charges were more expensive than Birmingham's – and that, whatever DEFRA said, their incidents of illegal dumping were way up on last year's stats.
Then came Wolverhampton Council – first threatening to crush and recycle a fly-tipper's captured car, followed by the Cabinet Member for City Environment being tagged 'Town Sheriff' for contemplating using some of the council's fine income on cash rewards for fly-tipping snitches.
More recently it was Birmingham's turn, with the Council's post-consultation budget revisions. These included – in addition to, you understand, only the most "marginal" dimming of street lights – increased bulky and green waste collection fees (which should please Coventrians) and reduced funding for fly-tipping enforcement.
This was accompanied by Council Leader Ian Ward's assurance that there would be an increase in the number of staff who can issue fixed penalty notices, and therefore no drop in numbers of prosecutions. However, when, as shown in the table, our modest 89 prosecution cases seem to cost over £1,100 each – well over three times the national average and nearly eight times that of Manchester's 275 @ £140 each – that may be a mixed blessing.
What actually got me turning to the DEFRA stats, though, was the Mail on Sunday's decision to make "fly-tipping crimes" its latest "shocking' revelation with which to trash the nation's councils and councillors: "Just one in 450 fly-tipping crimes end up in court, only 25 sent to prison".
As you started reading, you sensed this was yet another of those stories, dealing with headline national statistics, where Birmingham is just bound to be pilloried for the sin of simply being bigger than anywhere else.
But, surprise! This time it was Leeds, with our mention limited to our "more than 1,500 dead animals", against Leeds' really rather paltry 43. Overall, though, Birmingham's 15,993 reported incidents seemed almost tame alongside Leeds' 26,831, boosted by over 20 times as many Back Alleyway Incidents.
By my reckoning, Birmingham's total barely made the national Top Ten and didn't even head the Midlands' list: adrift of six London boroughs, Leeds, Liverpool and, rather surprisingly (to me, anyway), Northampton.
The Mail on Sunday, though, has a mission. If they break the law, they're criminals, who certainly aren't going to be bothered by warning letters, or fixed penalty notices and fines – "often less than the cost of paying to use a licensed tip or waste disposal site", and even when issued they covered fewer than 7% of offences.
Never mind any la-di-da cost/benefit calculations: charge them, convict them, and lock 'em up – well, far more of them, anyway, and presumably in our famously half-empty prisons.
I've no idea if Government departments are normally as sensitive, and responsive, to media alarm stories, but on this occasion the DEFRA Press Office bloggers were immediately on the case.
First, far from being on the increase, as the Mail's outrage seemed to imply, fly-tipping incidents had actually fallen in 2017/18 – true, not by much, but, helpfully for DEFRA statisticians, to below the mortifying million. Second, local authority enforcement actions had increased, and those fixed penalty notices had shot up by 20% – the issuing, that is, not the payment.
No response, though, to the Mail's tricky stat of the 171 (41%) of English councils who didn't bring a single prosecution between them, and indeed the whole riposte sounded a bit half-hearted. There had to be more than this.
Of course there was. There was DEFRA's "recently published, AMBITIOUS Resources and Waste STRATEGY to OVERHAUL our waste system", setting out "a NEW STRATEGIC APPROACH to tackling crime, focusing on preventing it from happening in the first place ……. etc. etc." (caps sarcastically added). They sure can talk the talk.
However … while I never imagined myself typing these words, even when I started this blog, I couldn't help wondering whether, at least this once, just maybe the Mail on Sunday has a case. Fly-tipping has fast become a minor industry, costing English local authorities over £12 million p.a. in clearance costs alone (see table).
Add in reductions in weekly rubbish collections and closures of recycling centres, and local councils – particularly any about to cut enforcement funding – could be losing the plot.
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IVF technique enables pregnancy without multiple births, Stanford researchers find
STANFORD, Calif. - An in vitro fertilization technique that can avoid multiple births appears to be effective for women older than 35, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
More than half the women in a retrospective study became pregnant after undergoing the procedure, called a single blastocyst transfer, which transferred just one embryo into the womb.
Nearly 60 percent of IVF procedures in the United States are performed on women older than 35, and the study's senior author, Amin Milki, MD, believes the findings are good news for those women who wish to become pregnant with just one child.
"Although these results represent a selected group of patients, we believe that they should serve as encouragement to patients and providers who are considering single blastocyst transfer in the older IVF population," Milki and his co-authors noted in the study, which was recently published online in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
During the transfer procedure, an embryo is bathed in a culture of nutrients for five days until it reaches a developmental landmark known as the blastocyst stage. At that point, doctors are able to determine which embryos are most likely to thrive long term; they then transfer the best-quality ones into a woman's uterus.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine currently recommends that doctors transfer two or more embryos into women older than 35, in an effort to maximize a patient's chance of becoming pregnant. This practice can lead to twins or higher-order multiples - as well as subsequent health risks - but Milki said this doesn't stop most patients from undergoing the procedure.
"Many patients would prefer not to have two babies at once," said Milki, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of Stanford's IVF program. "But because the success rate is higher when multiple embryos are transferred, women are willing to take the gamble."
In recent years, many reproductive specialists - especially those in Europe - have embraced single embryo transfer as a way to prevent multiple gestations. And data now exist showing the procedure's effectiveness among women of younger reproductive age.
Scant data exist on single blastocyst transfer in women over 35, so Milki and his colleagues decided to review the outcomes of older patients who underwent the procedure at Stanford. Milki said the procedure had been offered to those women with good-quality embryos, and the patients who elected to have only one embryo transferred did so as a way to avoid twin pregnancy. He noted that half the patients already had one child and wanted just one more, while others hoped to avoid the health complications associated with carrying multiples.
After reviewing the data from 45 patients ranging in age from 35 to 43 (with a mean age of 37.3), Milki and his colleagues found that 28 patients (62.2 percent) conceived, and 23 (51.1 percent) had pregnancies that went beyond the first trimester. Milki called this an "excellent pregnancy rate" - especially considering that the national success rate of IVF procedures for women in this age group is around 25 percent. But he pointed out that the women in this study all had good-quality embryos and had a relatively good chance of becoming pregnant.
"This offers reassurance that a woman can still expect a good pregnancy rate without gambling with twins," said Milki. He added that the findings demonstrate a "clear role" for the procedure in older IVF patients, and he said Stanford's IVF program plans to continue offering the procedure as an option for patients.
Milki did caution that the findings are not applicable to every woman over the age of 35. For women with lower-quality embryos, transferring two or three embryos might be the better way to pursue a pregnancy.
Milki's study collaborators include first author Lynn Davis, MD, a fellow in reproductive endocrinology and infertility; Ruth Lathi, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology; and Lynn Westphal, MD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
Stanford University Medical Center integrates research, medical education and patient care at its three institutions - Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. For more information, please visit the Web site of the medical center's Office of Communication & Public Affairs at http://mednews.stanford.edu.
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GS Caltexs 11 Mil. Customer Info Leaked
By Kim Tong-hyung
Police are investigating how two compact discs (CDs), storing the private information of more than 11 million people, including high-profile politicians and government ministers, ended up in garbage pile in southern Seoul.
GS-Caltex admitted Friday that the information on the CDs was part of its customer database and said that it reported this to police immediately after it found out about the leak.
The country's defense minister, police chief, No.2 spy agency official and National Assembly speaker were just a few names among the 11.19 million plus contained on the CDs, a number nearly equivalent of South Korea's entire adult population.
The CDs contained resident registration numbers, home addresses, addresses of companies, phone numbers, and in some cases, mobile-phone number and e-mail accounts, making it obviously the country's worst security breach ever.
The massive amount of private information was saved in 76 Microsoft Excel files, which were stored under a file named ``Customer List of GS Caltex.''
The National Police Agency has dispatched investigators to the southern Seoul headquarters of GS Caltex, the country's second-largest oil refinery, to determine whether the data on the CDs were leaked from company files.
However, the company, which had been pushing its own internal investigation since late Thursday, admitted that one of its employees was likely to have leaked the data on the CDs.
Talking to reporters, a GS Caltex executive said the content on the CDs was mostly consistent with the information stored on the company's customer database, which keeps personal information on about 12 million people.
``We have concluded our investigation on about 60 to 70 percent of the names and personal information on the discs, and so far, the data is nearly a complete match with the information kept on the company database,'' said Na Ju-wan, the director of sales at GS Caltex.
The country has recently seen a slew of privacy infringement cases, which include Hanarotelecom's abusing personal information of over six million customers in unlawful marketing schemes.
This had tens of thousands of consumers joining class action lawsuits against the broadband Internet carrier, seeking about one million won per head in compensation.
The fallout for GS Caltex, which would obviously be worse than any other previous case, might cause irrevocable damage to the company. GS Caltex executives are now preparing for the worst.
GS Caltex Vice President Kim Myung-hwan tried to downplay the significance of the leak.
``We don't keep the financial information of our customers, including bank account numbers and credit card information in our database so even if somebody had access to the information on the CDs, they wouldn't be able to cause any damage with just that,'' said Kim, adding that the company was not informed of the security leak or been on the receiving end of a blackmail attempt regarding the customer information.
``Aside of the resident registration numbers, the CDs didn't have anything that cannot already be found on the Internet,'' he said. Critics say this is stretching the truth since resident registration numbers are the Korean equivalent of social security codes.
GS Caltex claims to employ a strict policy regarding the protection of customer information. Only 12 employees are authorized to access the customer information database, according to a company spokesman.
The names on the CDs were arranged by birth date, based on the resident registration numbers, a 13-digit code including date of birth, sex and registration site, containing private information of people from their early teens to late 60s.
The CDs were recently found by a pedestrian who picked them up at a garbage dump in a leisure district in southern Seoul.
Lee Sang-hee, minister of defense; Won Se-hoon, minister of public administration and safety; Eo Cheong-soo, commissioner general of the national police agency; and Kim Hoe-seon, deputy director of the National Intelligence Service had their resident registration numbers, home addresses, office addresses and fixed-line phone numbers listed.
Other high-profile bureaucrats included on the CDs were Kim Hyung-oh, National Assembly speaker; Chung Dong-ki, presidential secretary; and Jung Jin-gon, senior secretary for education, science and culture.
Also leaked was information on Grand National Party (GNP) lawmakers Na Kyung-won and Koh Seung-duk, and Kwak Jung-sook of the Democratic Labor Party.
thkim@koreatimes.co.kr


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Flap's Comments on the Dental World, Health and More
The Morning Drill: August 24, 2011
A collection of dentistry and health related links/comments for your day.
California lawmakers OK statewide rules on circumcision
A California Senate committee unanimously approved a bill Tuesday to block local jurisdictions from banning male circumcision, a debate that evolved from a divisive ballot measure in San Francisco that would have barred the practice for most boys under age 18.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 5-0 for the bill by two Democratic lawmakers that would declare that circumcision — surgically removing the foreskin that covers the tip of the penis — has health, cultural and other benefits, and that uniform statewide rules are needed to govern it and a parent's authority over whether their children receive it.
"It's a medical procedure, and it has value," said Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, co-author of AB768. Passing the bill, he told the committee, would prevent a statewide patchwork of laws governing circumcision.
Sen. Noreen Evans, the Santa Rosa Democrat who chairs the committee, said she struggled with the decision on whether to circumcise her son. There is a clear need for a statewide standard that would ensure other parents retain the right to make that choice, she said.
The legislation comes against a national backdrop of efforts to limit male circumcision, which critics say is an unnecessary surgery to a healthy and defenseless child that can cause long-lasting sexual and mental health problems.
Supporters of male circumcision include researchers who say it can reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases and cancer, and many Jews and Muslims, for whom the practice is an important religious ritual.
Local ballot measures on the subject interfere with the practice of medicine, said Ryan Spencer, a spokesman for the California Medical Association.
"The decision to perform male circumcision should be left up to the parents in consultation with their physician, wherever they reside," Spencer testified.
Only 1 in 7 Ob/Gyns Do Abortions, Survey Finds
There may be fewer obstetrician/gynecologists performing abortions than previously estimated, researchers said.
Just 14% of those who responded to a brief survey said they do the procedure, a smaller figure than the 22% measured by another recent survey, Debra Stulberg, MD, of the University of Chicago, and colleagues reported in the September issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
"Access to abortion remains limited by the willingness of physicians to provide abortion services, particularly in rural communities in the South and Midwest," they wrote.
In the U.S., the demand for abortion is high, they said, given that half of pregnancies are unintended, and half of those end in abortion. Yet access remains a challenge for several reasons.
Religious objections may play a role, as may a reduction in training for the procedure in residency programs from the late 1970s through 1996. After that time, abortion training was required for residency.
So to estimate the current prevalence of abortion provision among practicing ob/gyns in the U.S., the researchers conducted a national probability sample mail survey of 1,800 practitioners, with a final sample of 1,031 providers.
Key variables that the researchers asked about included whether respondents had ever encountered patients seeking abortions in their practices, and whether they provided abortion services.
Overall, 97% said they had encountered patients seeking abortions, but only 14.4% said they performed the service.
Chemists Discover Most Naturally Variable Protein in Dental Plaque Bacterium
Two UC San Diego chemists have discovered the most naturally variable protein known to date in a bacterium that is a key player in the formation of dental plaque
The chemists, who announced their discovery in this week's early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, say they believe the extreme variability of the protein they discovered in the bacterium Treponema denticola evolved to adhere to the hundreds of different kinds of other bacteria that inhabit people's mouths. They call the protein they discovered "Treponema variable protein," or TvpA for short, and estimate that it is a million to a billion times more variable than the proteins that play a primary role in vertebrate immune systems -- the only other known natural system for massive protein variation.
"In Treponema denticola, we found a protein we call TvpA, that varies considerably more than proteins of the immune system and, to our knowledge, this protein is the most variable natural protein described to date," said Partho Ghosh, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego who headed the research effort. "We don't know what it does in this bacterium, but our hypothesis is that it enables it to adhere to the biofilm, commonly known as dental plaque, that exists in people's mouths."
Ghosh explained that dental plaque varies from person-to-person in the kinds of bacteria that adhere to the teeth to form this biofilm. Because plaque grows in a sequential way and because T. denticola is one of the last key players in the formation of plaque, Ghosh said the bacterium has no idea what kinds of other bacteria will be present to adhere to.
"We suspect that by varying TvpA, T. denticola is able to find a TvpA variant that is able to adhere to whichever bacterium is already present in the biofilm," Ghosh said.
What You're Supposed to Do During an Earthquake
When you feel an earthquake hit, your first reaction really isn't supposed to be tweeting, or calling your friend to find out if she felt it too. (Both seemed to be common reactions to today's East Coast quake, which had a magnitude of 5.9.)
Instead, as FEMA reminds us — and as you may remember from those grade-school earthquake drills — if you're inside and things are rocking, you're supposed to drop to the ground, take cover under something sturdy and (duh) wait until the shaking stops. Don't run towards the windows or anything else that could break or fall.
Meantime, if you're outside, you should move away from structures. Contrary to what disaster movies may teach you, FEMA says flying or falling debris are most likely to cause injury, not giant holes opening in the ground. If you're in a car, stop when it's safe, in an area where nothing's likely to fall on you. Stay inside until it's safe to continue.
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A superbly located beach front hotel, the JA Ocean View offers a range of dining and leisure facilities with fantastic views out over the waters of the Arabian Gulf. By blending luxury and modern facilities, the JA Ocean View Hotel makes the perfect base to explore this bustling city.
The JA Ocean View hotel lies opposite the Marina Beach, and is situated at the mouth of the Palm Jumeriah. On the Marina Beach, guests are spoiled for choice with a variety of eateries and bars. Cravings for retail therapy can be easily satisfied at the Adventure HQ shopping centre, just a 13 minute walk away. As the hotel is situated just 3 kilometres away from the Dubai Marina, guests will find that a huge array of restaurants are on offer at their fingertips. Not only would visitors have the opportunity to enjoy delectable cuisine, they can do so with a magnificent view of the marina. Further entertainment can be found at the Palm Jumeriah, the world's largest man-made island.
This property provides its guests with the opportunity to play some of the region's best golf courses with ease. The Montgomerie golf course is just 10 minutes away, and the Earth Course at the Jumeirah Golf Estates is 25 minutes away by car.
The JA Ocean View hotel features 342 rooms and suites across 25 floors, all with spacious private balconies and a sea view. All rooms feature modern facilities such as complimentary Wi-Fi, air conditioning and a well-stocked minibar. Guests have the option of dining in with 24-hour room service.
The restaurants and bars here are a real attraction; Le Rivage features all day dining with live cooking stations, there is also a British pub, café, an outdoor bar showing live sporting events on a big screen, a pool and a rooftop bar with cocktails and live jazz music. The French brasserie Le Rivage is a particularly valuable asset of this hotel, with a stylish interior and live music acts to bring the restaurant to life. Guests also have the choice to enjoy these traditional French delicacies on the outside terrace whilst soaking up with stunning Dubai skyline. Alternatively, guests can choose to visit the Sehr Al Bahar at the Deck, where they can enjoy authentic Arabic mezze and fresh grills.
Direct access to the beach from the temperature controlled swimming pool area really adds to the relaxing atmosphere here. Furthermore, guests are also offered complimentary access to the private beach club at the JA Jebel Ali Golf Resort. Guests can choose to unwind further at the Calm Spa, where they can receive luxurious treatments ranging from a Swedish massage, to reflexology.


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What makes this interesting archeological finding more important is that its name exists in the Quran. Up to that time, many people who thought the tribe of Ad mentioned in the Quran to be a legend and never to be founded were amazed upon this new finding. Nicholas Clapp is the amateur archeologist who founded the city that is mentioned in the Quran.
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A storied supper with Mount Gay Rum's Master Blender Allen Smith.
Cocktails and conversation on any given night in Miami is always a great idea. Pairing that concept with Master Blender Allen Smith and the world's oldest rum Mount Gay, now that is truly a treat. I was honored to be among the amazing company of the master blender Allen Smith who's story is as impressive as his world acclaimed Mount Gay Rum!
We gathered for a refresher cocktail before entering the private room at SugarCane Raw Bar and Grill in Midtown; home to one of Miami's truly impeccable chef's Timon Baloo. Chef Timon, along with Mount Gay's team curated a 4 course "storied supper", infusing a different rum selection with each course to walk us through the story of the Mount Gay Rum brand, its origins and history while celebrating their accomplished curator Mr. Smith.
So much of the Mount Gay Rum tory can be seen in its artistry. Captured here, a rendition of the classic cooper pot.
So here's the thing. I quickly realized that the "Storied Supper" concept is much more than just a great dinner amongst friends. It's a creative way to introduce an the entire portfolio of rum along with perfectly paired cocktails and entrees to accompany them. Each course, more delicious than the last really complemented the rums while Allen Smith along with Mount Gay Rum Ambassador Scott Fitzgerald gave the story behind each selections time and place in rum history. My favorite of the selection was most definitely the Eclipse. Smooth to the tongue at first sip, it was an easy, yet bold collection of flavors at the same time. Over a delicious conversation, it would be easy to take on an entire bottle. Smith and I have made plans to do that in Barbados later this year for the annual Food, Wine and Rum festival on the island every November. Below is a snapshot of the delectable menu curated especially for the evening.
Rum Pairings, amazing conversation, a history lesson and great company; the makings are a perfectly delicious evening! Below is a quick trip through some of the courses. For more on Mount Gay Rum and its selections, click here. For more on SugarCane Raw Bar, click here!
Written by Vanessa James. I was invited by Mount Gay Rum to attend this complimentary dinner with Allen Smith. All opinions are my own.
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