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November 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

According to preliminary autopsy results released tonight, asphyxiation was cause in the death of Shaniya Davis.

The little five year old girl was found to have been raped as well and also pregnant.

A suspect is in custody named Mario Andrette McNeill.

Her mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, is also under investigation in the death and could be charged with filing a false police report, human trafficking, and child abuse involving prostitution.

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NASA concludes tests for prototype Moon rovers

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 16 (ANI): NASA has concluded two weeks of technology development tests on two of the agency’s prototype lunar rovers.

“These tests provide us with crucial information about how our cutting edge vehicles perform in field situations approximating the moon,” said Rob Ambrose, Human Robotic Systems project lead at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

“We learn from them, then go back home to refine the technology and plan the next focus of our research,” he added.

The annual studies featured an intensive, simulated 14-day mission.

Two crew members, an astronaut and a geologist, lived for more than 300 hours inside NASA’s prototype Lunar Electric Rover.

The explorers scouted the area for features of geological interest, then donned spacesuits and conducted simulated moonwalks to collect samples.

The crew also docked to a simulated habitat, drove the rover across difficult terrain, performed a rescue mission and made a four-day traverse across the lava.

Throughout the test, the crew provided updates via Twitter and posted pictures and video online.

Prior to the test, NASA’s K10 scout robot identified areas of interest for the crew to explore.

NASA’s heavy-lift rover Tri-ATHLETE – or All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer – carried a habitat mockup to which the rover docked. (ANI)

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Forgotten memories still exist in the brain

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): A new research by UC Irvine neuroscientists suggests that memories exist even when forgotten.

With the help of advanced brain imaging techniques, the study’s scientists discovered that a person’s brain activity while remembering an event is very similar to when it was first experienced, even if specifics can’t be recalled.

“If the details are still there, hopefully we can find a way to access them,” said Jeff Johnson, postdoctoral researcher at UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and lead author of the study, appearing Sept. 10 in the journal Neuron.

“By understanding how this works in young, healthy adults, we can potentially gain insight into situations where our memories fail more noticeably, such as when we get older,” he said.

“It also might shed light on the fate of vivid memories of traumatic events that we may want to forget,” he added.

In collaboration with scientists at Princeton University, Johnson and colleague Michael Rugg, CNLM director, used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the brain activity of students.

Inside an fMRI scanner, the students were shown words and asked to perform various tasks: imagine how an artist would draw the object named by the word, think about how the object is used, or pronounce the word backward in their minds. The scanner captured images of their brain activity during these exercises.

About 20 minutes later, the students viewed the words a second time and were asked to remember any details linked to them. Again, brain activity was recorded.

Utilizing a mathematical method called pattern analysis, the scientists associated the different tasks with distinct patterns of brain activity. When a student had a strong recollection of a word from a particular task, the pattern was very similar to the one generated during the task.

When recollection was weak or nonexistent, the pattern was not as prominent but still recognizable as belonging to that particular task.

“The pattern analyzer could accurately identify tasks based on the patterns generated, regardless of whether the subject remembered specific details,” Johnson said.

“This tells us the brain knew something about what had occurred, even though the subject was not aware of the information,” the expert added. (ANI)

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London Mayor blasted for asking Brits to fast like Muslims during Ramadan

September 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 5 (ANI): The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has been criticized for asking Brits to fast for a day so they would know what it is like to be a Muslim.

Johnson said people should starve themselves from dawn until dusk during Ramadan and then end their fast during a visit to their local mosque.

Steve Uncles, South East chairman of the English Democrats, blasted Johnson’s comments.

He said: “The indigenous culture of this country is based on Christianity and Paganism. Of course, as an open and tolerant society, if people want to practise other religions then good luck to them. But the state should not be funding them because otherwise we will lose our culture.”

Johnson, 45, was visiting the East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre when he made these comments, the Daily Star reported.

“Whether it’s in theatre, comedy, sports, music or politics, Muslims are challenging the traditional stereotypes and showing that they are, and want to be, a part of the mainstream community.

“That’s why I urge people, particularly during Ramadan, to find out more about Islam, increase your understanding and learning, even fast for a day with your Muslim neighbour and break your fast at the local mosque,” Johnson said.

He added: “There are valuable lessons that people of all backgrounds can learn from Islam, such as the importance of community spirit, family ties, compassion and helping those less fortunate, all of which lie at the heart of the teachings of Ramadan.” (ANI)

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NASA’s Orion spacecraft passes significant design milestone

September 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): NASA’s Orion spacecraft has passed a significant design milestone by completing the Orion Project’s preliminary design review (PDR), and thus taking a major step toward building the next crew exploration vehicle.

Orion is being designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and other destinations.

The preliminary design review is one of a series of checkpoints that occurs in the design life cycle of a complex engineering project before hardware manufacturing can begin.

As the review process progresses, details of the vehicle’s design are assessed to ensure the overall system is safe and reliable for flight and meets all NASA mission requirements.

The Orion features a capsule-shaped crew module designed for maximum crew operability and safety, a service module housing utility systems and propulsion components and a launch abort system for improved astronaut safety.

The preliminary design review evaluated the vehicle’s capability, as currently designed, to support three types of missions: flights to the International Space Station (ISS), weeklong missions to the moon and missions to the moon for up to 210 days.

“This is the successful culmination of all of the design trade studies and activities to date,” said Mark Geyer, manager of the Orion Project Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

“As a project, a program and an agency, we are reviewing the design maturity, strategy and plans for NASA’s next human spacecraft and agreeing that this is the architecture we are going to build,” he added.

Teams representing each subsystem of Orion conducted focused reviews from February to July before proceeding to the overall vehicle-level review.

The preliminary design review lasted about two months and included reviewers from all 10 NASA field centers to evaluate the hundreds of design products delivered by the Lockheed Martin-led industry partnership.

According to Cleon Lacefield, vice president and Orion project manager at Lockheed Martin in Denver, “To date, we have completed more than 300 technical reviews, 100 peer reviews and 18 subsystem design reviews.”

The PDR process culminated with a review board that concluded on August 31 and established the basis for proceeding to the critical design phase of Orion.

NASA will continue the review process with an independent agency-level evaluation to validate the PDR results and gain formal approval to transition the project into the next life cycle phase. (ANI)

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McGrath’s advice to Johnson: Keep it simple

August 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Sydney, Aug.27 (ANI): Former Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath has told left-arm quick Mitchell Johnson not to overdo or over think things and keep things simple if he wants to reach his considerable potential as a Test match bowler.

McGrath, who has high hopes for Johnson and the other two members of Australia’s Ashes pace attack – Ben Hilfenhaus and Peter Siddle, feels Johnson’s potential, will be reached only through a clear head uncluttered by countless theories about his bowling technique.

Though finishing with a solid return of 20 wickets at 32 in the Ashes series, Johnson was not the rampant force he was in South Africa and earlier at home.

“All his problems were sorted out when Michael Clarke said to him ‘just bowl fast’,” McGrath said.

“I can understand that. He needs to keep it simple. That is the key. He just has to clear his head and not complicate things. Less things can go wrong when you keep it simple. I just used to switch a voice off in my head, pick out a song to sing at the top of my mark and trust myself that my body knew how to bowl. It didn’t always work. But if you win the battle with yourself you are 75 per cent towards being successful,” the Courier Mail quoted McGrath, as saying.

“That’s all Mitch needs to do. Just relax. Even when he isn’t bowling well he still takes wickets. It is just a confidence thing. He needs to just run in and bowl,” he added.

McGrath also felt that Brett Lee can again return as a Test match force for Australia but the Johnson-Siddle-Hilfenhaus union has the potential to be a long-term one for Australia.

“Those three guys will grow as time goes on. They were the leading wicket-takers in the Ashes from both teams. You can’t really sledge them too much because I think they have done pretty well,” he said.

McGrath said Lee bowled well in an early tour game before being injured and cannot be dismissed from Test match calculations this summer when Australia play the West Indies and Pakistan in three-Test series.(ANI)

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Homeless man earns $400 a day begging Down Under!

August 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, August 24 (ANI): A homeless man in Sydney earns up to 50,000 dollars a year by begging.

According to reports, Ken Johnson, 52, makes his living at George and Market St, outside the Myer store in Sydney’s CBD, where he sits for up to 16 hours daily, seven days a week.

He says that he earns around 400 dollars from generous passers-by on a good day.

And even on slower days, he manages to pick up between 75 dollars and 150 dollars.

“I’d be really disappointed if I did a long Friday and I only had $250,” the Daily Telegraph quoted Johnson, who has been living on the streets “since the late ’90s”, as saying.

“I knock off when I feel like it, or if I’ve done brilliantly. But on those good days, you might be on such a high that you go for a few more hours and get a bit more money,” he added.

While Johnson did not reveal how much begging earned him last year, he did say that the donated money was stashed in a safe place, before being deposited in his bank account several times a week.

He said that some of the money was given to a friend.

The man who does not smoke, drink, or do drugs revealed that he was raising money to help the friend who needed a liver transplant.

He displays a sign that reads: “Needing support for major family exp(enses) including just heaps for medicine. Paying up is a big grind. Please leave me alone, if you are the abusive nasty sort.”

Johnson refuses to draw welfare because “it makes you feel like a cripple”.

An Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) spokeswoman said that many homeless people turned to begging because government welfare did not cover costs, and “for those who do receive income support, payments may be inadequate to meet the costs of temporary accommodation and food.”

“Of those who do sleep on the street, only a tiny minority choose to do so, as a lifestyle choice. For most people who are homeless, there is no choice,” she said. (ANI)

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Kimberly Johnston | Topeka Woman Kimberly Johnson | Kimberly | Johnson | Kimberly Johnson Hit and Run Accident

August 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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TOPEKA : A Topeka woman Kimberly Johnson, 26,faces charges in connection with a hit and run accident, was cited for inattentive driving, failure to provide insurance, leaving the scene of an injury accident, failure to report an accident, that sent a nine year old boy to the hospital. It happened around 5:30P.M. on Wednesday near SE Winfield, Topeka.

The boy was taken to Stormont-Vail Hospital with minor cuts and bruises.

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Oz selector Hilditch indicates Clark will be dropped for Ashes decider

August 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Adelaide (Australia), Aug.12 (ANI): The chairman of Australia’s cricket selection committee, Andrew Hilditch, has declared that Ben Hilfenhaus, Mitchell Johnson and Peter Siddle are the future of the Australian bowling attack and that fourth Test hero Stuart Clark will be dumped for the Ashes decider at The Oval.

“Stuart Clark got the nod (last Test) and he did a good job, but the other three bowled exceptionally well also and took more wickets,” the Daily Telegraph quoted Hilditch, as saying.

“So, I think we go into the final Test with those three fast bowlers as our leading fast bowlers at the moment, plus spinner Nathan Hauritz.”

SBS Ashes commentator and former Test spinner Stuart MacGill, however, led a chorus of support for Clark’s retention – claiming he reignited Australia’s Ashes campaign at Headingley.

The New South Wales seamer made an immediate impact with 3-18 in his first innings but appears to have lost support after being belted in the second innings, when he finished with 0-74 off 11 overs.

“I don’t think only Stuart Clark would be hard done by if he missed out on the final Test – I think the Australian public would be hard done by,” MacGill said.

“I believe Andrew Hilditch’s comments that the future of Australian bowling does lie with Johnson, Hilfenhaus and Siddle. But we have to pick a team for now, not tomorrow, and Clark needs to be in that team,” MacGill added.

Hilditch expressed his views on the pace line-up as he unveiled the limited-overs squads in Adelaide.

Former Test spinner Greg Matthews said Clark, his Sydney University grade cricket teammate, had “left the door open for the fifth Test axe” when he leaked runs and looked tired in the second innings at Headingley.

Matthews said he could understand the selectors wanting to bring Hauritz back in to the XI, adding that he believed the New South Wales tweaker had been “the second best bowler for Australia” in the Ashes series behind Hilfenhaus. (ANI)

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Mitch Johnson is loving his newly discovered art of sledging

August 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug.12 (ANI): Australian left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Johnson is loving his newly discovered art of sledging, and said he will ramp it up during next week’s fifth and final Test at The Oval after rediscovering his form and confidence at Headingley.

“I don’t normally say too much, but maybe it was a bit of a surprise to those guys for me to say something,” Johnson said.

“It felt good to do it and I’ll continue to do it. Just keep puffing my chest out and keep getting into the contest … a stare here and there. I think that’s definitely worked for me and I’ve definitely got a lot more confidence now and really enjoying it again,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted him, as saying.

The rejuvenated pacer also admitted that the English crowd had got under his skin in the second Test, causing him to lose focus and nearly his spot in the side.

“I didn’t really know where they were going, to be honest. I bowled a lot of wide, short balls. That was a pretty tough moment for me. To be copping it from the English crowd, I didn’t know how to deal with it at the time. It was the most I’ve copped it,” Jonson said of that experience at Lord’s.

There were no more mocking songs to be heard after Johnson’s excellent spell of 5-69 to wrap up the fourth Test inside three days.

Johnson is not a bowler who responds well to intense coaching. These technical considerations got inside Johnson’s head earlier this tour, when he was wound up and unable to think clearly. It took a simple word with vice-captain Michael Clarke during a tour match in Northamptonshire, between the second and third Tests, for Johnson to click again.

“During that Lord’s Test, I can remember clearly I was thinking about wrist position, I was thinking about front-arm pull-down, I was thinking about running in, I was thinking about everything that I could,” Johnson said.

“Edgbaston was totally different. I just ran in, didn’t worry about it. Michael Clarke said to me at the practice game, when he came out to field, ‘Just run in and bowl fast. That’s what you do best’. That’s what I’ve been trying to do: run in, hit my areas and not worry about technical stuff out on the field. It’s been a bit different than normal. The first two Tests especially, I felt a bit more pressure than I have in the past. I’ve started to handle it a lot more now,” Johnson said.

He also said issues taking place off the field did not affect when he was on the field.

He was referring to the much publicised spat between his mother, Vicky Harber, and his girlfriend, Jessica Bratich.

Johnson has 16 wickets at 32.62 for the series, and has retained his No.3 ranking on the ICC’s top Test bowlers list after the spirited fight back in Leeds. (ANI)

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Childhood cancer ‘increases with advancing maternal age’

July 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 15 (ANI): Baby born to an older mother may have a slightly increased risk for many of the cancers that occur during childhood, according to a new study from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota.

Logan Spector, Ph.D., assistant professor of paediatrics and cancer epidemiology researcher, and Kimberly Johnson, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in paediatric epidemiology, led the research team on this study.

“Our finding shows that although the absolute risk is low, advancing maternal age may be a factor and explain why, after other factors are adjusted for, some children get cancer,” said Spector.

For the study, the researchers used information from birth registry records in New York, Washington, Minnesota, Texas, and California.

The study included the records of 17,672 children in those states diagnosed with cancer at ages 0-14 years between 1980 and 2004 and 57,966 children not diagnosed with cancer.

“We saw that the risk of 7 of the 10 most common childhood cancers increased slightly, about 7-10 percent, with every five-year increase in maternal age,” Spector said.

The researchers noted the father’s age did not seem to matter once the mother’s age was taken into account.

Spector and Johnson say more research needs to be done on why the risk for childhood cancer increases with advancing maternal age.

Types of cancers most often affecting children include leukemia, lymphoma, central nervous system tumor, neuroblastoma, Wilms’ tumor, bone cancer, and soft tissue sarcoma.

The results are published in the July 2009 issue of the journal Epidemiology. (ANI)

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Prehistoric dwelling unearthed at Isle of Man 3,000 years older than Stonehenge

July 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 14 (ANI): A prehistoric dwelling, which is 3,000 years older than Stonehenge, has been unearthed during construction of the runway extension at Isle of Man Airport.

According to Isle of Man newspapers, dating back an astonishing 8,000 years to the time when the first human settlers returned to the Isle of Man after the end of the Ice Age, it is probably the oldest dwelling ever found in the Island.

Featuring the foundations of a strongly-built shelter, filled and surrounded by thousands of pieces of worked flint, the charred remains of wood, and hundreds of hazelnut shells, the major archaeological find is certain to make headlines around the world.

It has been unearthed as fieldwork at Ronaldsway nears completion, with diggers due to finish excavating in the middle of this month and the project on schedule to be completed by the end of the year.

The site has already attracted interest from a BBC team filming the next series of Coast, and has recently been visited by Professor of Archaeology Peter Woodman, who excavated a similar, but less well-preserved, site eroding out of the cliffs just over 100 metres away in the 1980s.

“Archaeologists hesitate to call a structure of this kind a “house”, because the received wisdom is that 8,000 years ago people constantly moved through the landscape as nomads, gathering their food from the land, rather than staying put and farming and harvesting it,” said Manx National Heritage field archaeologist Andrew Johnson.

“But this building was constructed from substantial pieces of timber, and had a hearth for cooking and warmth,” he said.

“Its occupants lived here often, or long enough to leave behind over 12,000 pieces of worked flint together with the tools needed to flake them, and food debris in the form of hundreds of hazelnut shells,” he added.

The 8,000-year-old dwelling was found at the east end of the airport where a new taxiway extension is being built.

Radiocarbon dates have not yet been obtained but archaeologists confirm that it is ‘probably’ the oldest dwelling yet found on the Isle of Man.

According to Johnson, “This is by far the largest archaeological project to have been undertaken on the Island. The discoveries have been first-class and are sure to revise and improve understanding of prehistoric life in the Isle of Man.” (ANI)

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Warne says ‘defensive’ Hauritz can be attacking bowler if shown faith in

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Brisbane, July 8(ANI): Former Australian star leg-spinner Shane Warne has urged Australian skipper Ricky Ponting to include off-spinner Nathan Hauritz in the squad for the first Ashes test match, and show faith in the inexperienced bowler by using him in an attacking way.

Australia’s greatest spinner said that while Hauritz has a “defensive-type” role in tests, altering it to an attacking mode, would make him more effective.

“I suppose Nathan Hauritz has bit of a reputation of being a defensive-type spinner. I think what the selectors and Ricky want is some sort of control, so if they are in trouble they can tie up an end with some defensive bowling and give the quicks a bit of rest,” The Courier-Mail quoted Warne, as saying.

“But I think you can’t just have a spinner like that, Nathan can be an attacking bowler. He needs the right fields, to bowl at the right times and to be shown some faith from the captain,” he added.

Warne also suggested that Aussies could use Hauritz against England’s dangerous batsman Kevin Pietersen, as he may lose his wicket while trying to attack the inexperienced bowler in the squad.

“When Kevin Pietersen comes in to bat I would have Mitchell Johnson at one end and Nathan Hauritz at the other end straight away. He will be tested by Johnson trying to get him out LBW and he will try to destroy Hauritz straight away,” Warne said.

“When KP first gets in he is very vulnerable. That would be my plan and that shows faith in Hauritz. He has definitely improved.

He can be an attacking bowler if you show confidence in him,” he added. (ANI)

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Mitchell Johnson’s mum declares war on his ‘bitchy’ WAG!

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Jul 8 (ANI): Aussie cricketer Mitchell Johnson’s mum Vikki Harber has lashed out at Cricket Australia for turning its back on parents in favour of flying over “bitchy” girlfriends to the games.

Harber, 45, also said that her once close relationship with her son has deteriorated ever since he started going out with his karate champ girlfriend Jessica Bratich.

“I get a text on Mother’s Day and a text on my birthday,” the Herald Sun quoted her as saying.

“The last time I actually spoke to him was when the beach cricket was here (and) Dennis Lillee told him he had to ring his mother, so Mitchell rang me that day.

“It has been like this since Jess came on the scene.

“Up until he met Jessica we were very close . . . but he hasn’t spent a night under my roof since he met Jessica,” she said.

Harber said that Cricket Australia had never offered her any opportunity to see her son play outside Brisbane.

“For the wives and the children I think it is great that they support them and send them over there, but who are these girlfriends? They are just girlfriends,” she said from Coolangatta.

“Mitch met Jess and since then she has flown off to South Africa, to England and the Bahamas. She gets all these trips, she gets flown there, accommodation, food and all of that,” she stated.

Johnson’s manager Sam Halvosen said that the bowler was aware of his mother’s comments, but did not want to discuss them.

And Kevin Johnson as backed his son, saying that partners on tour were “a good thing”.

“Like Jess said, they’re away for six months of the year so it’s a bit hard for them to be away from each other that whole time,” he added.

Cricket sources said that it was for the players to decide whom to invite on tour. (ANI)

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Mitchell Johnson’s mum’s rant on cricketers favouring ‘bitchy’ girlfriends