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Children living in foster care often have to grow up faster than other kids their age. That?s why a day out at the Texas Fair and Rodeo was just what 13-year-old Marques needed to let loose. We had a fun afternoon playing some carnival games and he opened up about why he wants to be adopted.

"I do sports,? Marques said. ?So my whole season so far in 7th grade is sports."

Marques loves basketball and football the most, but his talents go far beyond athletics.

?My favorite subject in school is math,? Marques said. ?I'm just really good at math.?

Marques hopes to use his talents to help him travel the world when he grows up.

"One day I went to the beach and I want to travel back there," he said.

But first, he wants to be adopted.

"So I have a place to live, and pretty much a family," Marques said.

Living in foster care can sometimes feel like being a ping-pong ball, bouncing around from home to home, just hoping and waiting to land someplace permanent.

Marques doesn't have a long list of wants in a forever family.

"Someone nice and the rest it doesn't really matter."

For the family who adopts Marques they'd be hitting the jackpot. He?s a helpful, loving kid, hoping to find a forever family, who loves him just as much.

Marques said he also loves to dance and do anything fun outside of the house. When he grows up, he thinks he might like to be a police officer or a professional athlete.

For more information about Marques, please contact the Adoption Coalition of Texas at info@adopttexas.org

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Is pet ownership sustainable?

Apr. 22, 2013 ? There has been much talk about sustainability, but little attention has been paid to its nutritional aspects. University of Illinois animal sciences researcher Kelly Swanson, in cooperation with scientists at natural pet food maker The Nutro Company, have raised a number of important questions on the sustainability of pet ownership.

Sustainability is defined as meeting the needs of the present while not compromising the future. Swanson said that although the carbon footprint aspect of sustainability receives the most attention, nutritional aspects are also important. "If you just change the diet a little, the financial and environmental costs associated with it are quite different," he explained.

The pet food industry faces some unique issues. First, it is tightly interlinked with livestock production and the human food system. Second, many people consider their pets to be part of the family, so the food has to be culturally acceptable to the owner as well as good for the animal. Finally, pet food has to be affordable.

As with human food, dietary ingredient selection and nutrient composition affect the sustainability of the pet food system. Protein is expensive, both financially and environmentally, so the choice of protein source and amount in the diet are particularly important.

There are thousands of widely varying pet foods on the market. Many are formulated to appeal to the owners, who think their pets need extremely high levels of protein and other nutrients. Often, they contain human-grade ingredients, thus competing directly with the human food system, which will have to feed a human population that is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050.

This does not need to happen. Dogs and cats require specific nutrients, not ingredients. It is possible to meet nutritional requirements using a wide variety of nutrient sources. Previous research by Swanson showed that kittens fed vastly different protein:carbohydrate ratios all remained healthy.

For example, animal protein can be replaced by plant protein, which requires substantially less water and energy to produce. Soy-based proteins are a common pet food ingredient, and their production is estimated to be 6 to 20 times more efficient in terms of fossil fuel requirements.

Pet food manufacturers also make heavy use of the secondary products from the human food chain.

"That's great from a sustainability standpoint because we're using the products that would otherwise not be used," said Swanson.

In short, there are strategies to make pet food manufacturing more sustainable while meeting the animals' nutritional needs and keeping the products affordable. Pet food is a $55 billion industry worldwide, so adopting sustainable practices could have a global impact.

Nutritional sustainability is not just about minimizing environmental impact, it also involves promoting pet health through appropriate nutrition and food quality and safety. "Advancement in areas of nutritional sustainability will help us develop innovative products to improve pet health and nutrition and produce quality and safe pet food," said Rebecca Carter, research scientist at The Nutro Company. "Nutritional sustainability is part of a wider sustainability platform to improve the sustainability of our products and promote the sustainability of pet ownership and the pet food industry."

However, pet owners also need to adopt sustainable feeding practices. Overfeeding and obesity of pets is a growing concern. Swanson stresses the importance of educating "consumers, veterinarians, pet food professionals, everybody."

"They're being fed as much as 20 percent more than they need, so their health is poor, and you're wasting all that food," said Swanson. "Especially with cats, it's very difficult." Cats do not self-regulate their food intake well and have a decided preference for protein and fat.

Swanson said it would be helpful to develop a model that would estimate the environmental impact of pet foods and serve as a basis for strategies to increase the sustainability of pet foods in the future.

Such a model could be used to respond to those who argue that we should not keep pets at all. A controversial study published in 2009 equated the cost of keeping a mid-sized dog eating a normal diet with the environmental cost of driving an SUV 12,500 miles a year. A New Zealand environmentalist has launched a campaign, "Cats to Go," which aims to ban all cats from the country.

Both the study and the proposed ban have provoked heated, angry responses from animal lovers. Nonetheless, the issues they raise should be taken into account. Pet ownership is increasing in Eastern Europe, some areas of Latin America, and the China-Pacific region, so the impact of pet food production will certainly increase.

Pets play an important role in our lives and society, so sustaining pet ownership is critical in maintaining these benefits. Research has demonstrated the positive impact pets have on both the emotional and physical health of people with whom they have contact.

The researchers concluded that there are no "good" or "bad" practices; just some that are more or less sustainable. They hope that this article will serve to highlight areas where changes could be made to current practices and stimulate discussion within the industry so that the overall sustainability of pet foods may be improved in the future.

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Virtuix hooks up Oculus Rift to its Omni treadmill, shows off 'True VR' (video)

Sure, Omni-directional treadmills are nothing new, but Virtuix's take is worth a mention now that it's been shown off working in conjunction with the Oculus Rift. The company's been posting videos of its Omni treadmill working with Kinect for months, but last Thursday it upped the ante by adding the Rift. All told, it makes for what looks to be an intense VR session of Team Fortress 2 -- one-upping SixSenses' Razer Hydra demo for the VR headset. The company's been working on this unit as an affordable solution for households, aiming to eventually try for funding via Kickstarter. Catch the video demo after the break and please resist throwing money at the screen in an attempt to get in on the action early.

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Egypt's Mubarak stays in detention despite second release order

CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court on Saturday ordered Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak released pending a verdict on illicit gains charges, the second release order in a week, but he will remain in detention because he still faces other charges, court sources said.

The appeal hearing on Saturday was held in Torah prison, to where 84-year-old Mubarak was transferred from an army hospital on Wednesday after an apparent improvement in his fragile health.

Earlier this week, a judge ordered Mubarak's release on bail pending a retrial over charges of complicity in the murder of protesters in the 2011 uprising that unseated him, but court officials said he would remain in detention over graft charges.

The country's public prosecutor, appointed by new Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, on Saturday filed an appeal against the second order to release Mubarak, a security source said.

Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for almost 30 years before being toppled by the 18-day popular uprising in 2011, was convicted last June along with former Interior Minister Habib el-Adli of failing to prevent the killings of more than 800 demonstrators.

Mubarak and Adli were sentenced to life imprisonment, but the country's highest appeals court ordered a retrial in January. However, the case is facing a delay after the retrial was aborted last week when the presiding judge withdrew from the case.

The convoluted legal process has highlighted the difficulty of transitional justice in a country where many of the judges were appointed during the Mubarak era. Opponents of President Mohamed Mursi accuse him and his Islamist supporters of seeking to control Egypt's legal institutions.

On Friday at least 115 people were injured in clashes between Islamists and their opponents, the health ministry said. The Islamist protesters were demanding a purge of Egypt's judiciary, which they see as a redoubt of old regime influence.

The issue has divided many Egyptians and led to repeated street violence.

In comments to al Jazeera television on Saturday, Mursi said: "I hear the word purge in the context of fear and this fear is legitimate among people as sometimes verdicts are issued that are not clear in justice in the way people see it."

"The acquittals of symbols of the former regime worry people. (But) the judge could be fair in his verdict according to what is available to him in terms of information and evidence."

(Reporting by Shaimaa Fayed; Editing by Rosalind Russell)

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Gun background check amendment fails

The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bipartisan amendment that would have expanded background checks on gun purchases, a blow to advocates calling for more strict firearm laws after the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., late last year.

The measure, the product of intense negotiations between Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey and West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, would have extended background check requirements on gun owners. It needed 60 votes to pass, but failed 54-46.

Democrats voting against the amendment were Mark Begich of Alaska, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana. (Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada switched his vote to no at the end, a procedural tactic that allows him to bring it up for a vote later.) In addition to Toomey, Republicans who supported the amendment were Sens. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Susan Collins of Maine and John McCain of Arizona.

Scores of onlookers filled the Senate gallery to watch the vote. When Vice President Joseph Biden read the final tally and announced the amendment had not passed, Patricia Maisch, who helped disarm the man who shot former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011, yelled, "Shame on you!" before walking out of the chamber.

When the vote finished, families with loved ones killed by gun violence who had attended the vote consoled one another outside the Senate floor. Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, Reid and Manchin joined them later. The parents of Jessica Ghawi, who was murdered last year in Aurora, Colo., during the November shooting at a movie theater, handed Reid a picture of their deceased daughter. When Ghawi spoke to the press, he placed the photo on the lectern and left it there so that speakers after him could see her picture.

"In the beginning of this process, I made it clear that any legislation that passes the Senate must include background checks to be effective. That is still the case," Reid told reporters. "I'm going to do everything that I can to fight for meaningful background check legislation. The fight has just begun. It's not going away."

After Reid's remarks, Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, the state where 27 people?most of them children?were killed in Newtown last year, approached the lectern.

"Today was a heart-breaker," Blumenthal said. "Probably the saddest day of my years in public life."

Despite the setback, the senators vowed that they would continue to press for overhauling the nation's federal gun laws.

At the White House, President Barack Obama spoke in the Rose Garden alongside family members who lost loved ones at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and Vice President Joe Biden.

Obama chastised Congress, saying, ?All in all, this was a pretty shameful day in Washington.?

The president placed most of the blame on Republicans, 90 percent of whom, he said, voted against the Manchin-Toomey amendment. ?It came down to politics,? Obama said in the Rose Garden. ?They caved to the pressure.?

He also blamed the gun lobby for spreading ?misinformation? about the amendment, saying the lobby and its allies ?willfully lied about the bill? and claimed it would work to establish a gun registry.

The president asked all Americans who support background checks to express their disappointment to their representatives in Washington, adding that those who want gun reform ?have to sustain the same passion about this? as the powerful gun lobby.

He vowed to keep up the fight. ?I see this as just round one,? Obama said. He added that his administration will continue to work towards reducing gun violence, but ?we can do more if Congress gets its act together.?

Additionally, the president thanked Toomey and Manchin for their ?courage? in introducing the amendment.

Throughout Obama's remarks, some of the family members of the Newtown victims?including Jimmy Greene, Nicole Hockley, Jeremy Richman, Neil Heslin, Mark Barden, Jackie Barden, Natalie Barden and James Barden?were visibly emotional. Obama and Biden comforted some of them.

The president also addressed accusations from Republican Sen. Rand Paul and others that he's using Newtown family members as ?props? in the gun control debate.

?Are they serious?? he asked, and challenged critics to question the rights of family members of victims to voice their opinions in the gun debate.

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Mother of Colorado shooting-spree suspect says son was a compassionate kid

The evidence appears to be mounting that a Colorado prison parolee, killed in a shootout this week in Texas, may have been involved in the brazen murder of the head of Colorado's prison system. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.

By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

The mother of the man suspected of gunning down the top prisons official in Colorado says her son was a compassionate child who ?drifted into a dark period? after the death of his 16-year-old sister.

Jody Mangue wrote that her son, Evan Ebel, adored animals and walked up to the mentally ill in restaurants to engage them in conversation.

?He was full of energy, was funny and lit up a room,? she wrote in a posting on a website dedicated to the memory of the sister, Marin Ebel, who was killed in a car crash in January 2004.

Ebel, 28, is a suspect in the shooting death of Tom Clements, the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections, who was killed last Tuesday when he opened the front door of his home.

Ebel was killed Thursday after a wild chase and gunfight with sheriff?s deputies in Texas. He is also suspected in the killing of a Domino?s pizza delivery man outside Denver on March 17.

Mangue wrote that her son was already struggling before his sister?s death, but that the loss ?threw him over the edge.?

?His life deteriorated after that and he just became numb and lost his direction altogether,? she wrote. In the posting, she thanked friends and strangers who have offered her support since last week.

The Denver Post reported over the weekend that Ebel?s documented decline began in October 2003, when he pointed a gun at the head of an acquaintance and demanded cash.

In the spring of 2004, police told the newspaper, Ebel carjacked a stranger, pointed a gun at a woman and accidentally shot himself in two separate incidents, once in the stomach and once in the leg.

He was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty in the carjacking case and was paroled in January of this year.

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Evan Spencer Ebel in an undated Colorado booking photo.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a friend of Ebel?s father, told CNN on Sunday that the suspect always ?just seemed to have this bad streak, a streak of cruelty and anger.?

Law enforcement officials have said Ebel was involved with a white supremacist prison gang, the 211 Crew, which outside groups say demands that some of its members commit crimes once they leave prison.

Mangue wrote that her son was his own person, not a follower.

Despite having been linked to white supremacists, she wrote, ?most white people in prison are automatically put in that category and sometimes forced to say they are even when they are not.?

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Making an IT Department Sustainable in 2013 - Environmental Leader

In modern day society, there is nothing more positive than going green while simultaneously saving money.? The Earth we live within and the economy we work within are both in conditions that require progression from the human race. This applies across the board from personal homes to large corporations. A specific area I?d like to focus is Information Technology. IT departments across the United States maintain business processes and information, but they also use a substantial amount of energy. Using more energy often requires increased monetary resources, creating a substantial incentive.

Everyone agrees at least to a certain degree that progression towards sustainability is a good idea. Taking action within the IT industry can be very influential in the movement because technology services are both widespread and necessary across the country. Below I have offered ways that IT leadership can reorganize operative priorities with the goal of increased energy efficiency and financial savings.

1.???? Start a recycle program.

In 2013, the talk of having a recycle bin should be a past conversation. We?re going to focus on bigger issues here. To start, when there are any electronics that are phased out of the department, recycle them. It?s more complicated than a paper grocery bag, but it?s possible to find out how and where to recycle electronics on the EPA website.

This would be a massive step in the right direction. A country-wide movement of electronic recycling could change the whole landscape of reprocessing. There are seemingly infinite amounts of electronics, new and old, littered around office buildings and homes across America. A recycling program of this nature could really make a difference to the planet.

In addition to helping our environment, recycling can also help an IT department and company budget. A specific way to do this is to buy refurbished computers rather than brand new. Doing so for an office of 100 people will decrease demand on a major producer to build 100 new computers, and also save you money on a reduced purchase price. It?s all a numbers game, and it can be improved.

?2.???? Small office changes.

Any change is good when it comes to saving energy. Making actionable changes such as utilizing software that can automatically switch the power off of machines when they aren?t being used is a start. So many times a large printer will sit in idle with its power on overnight and throughout the weekend.

Another idea as a CIO leader or IT manager is to implement a rule that screen savers are not allowed, opting instead for an allowed time period of 20 minutes before the ?sleep? function kicks in on the computer. Even smaller, yet still actionable, a leader can implement dual sided printing and very strict office recycling with all possible materials used on a daily basis.

The little differences can make a big impact if all done simultaneously. It can help, and the most important factor is that it shouldn?t make the job any more difficult or inconvenient.

3.???? Donate.

Before this option can be executed, classified and important information obviously needs to be erased. With the type of training and people in an IT department, this shouldn?t be an issue. An IT leader can identify a month each year when the office focuses on donating unneeded electronics to the local Good Will or other store that accepts donations. This could also help the budget as contributions could be tax deductible.

The months leading up to the holidays could be a perfect time for IT leaders to consider. During this time frame, the donated electronics could serve as potential gifts for people in need.

?4.???? Consider a four day work week.

While this can be difficult in the IT industry, it is far from impossible. One idea to work around the issue of services being necessary more than four days is to rotate which employees have to work on Friday. This increases the department?s potential to go green by reducing the full energy output to four days. This can make a huge impact both budget-wise and environmental wise over a long period of time.

Four day work weeks also help prevent people from driving to and from the office so frequently. The opportunity is also there to offer a work from home situation for certain employees that have roles where it may be feasible.

Businesses across America, specifically the IT departments within those businesses, owe it to the world to make a move toward more sustainable practices. Not only can it help the environment through a widespread channel of exposure, it can also help from a financial standpoint. A major barrier to environmentally sound progress has been that it isn?t financially viable. While this is still true in some regard, it isn?t entirely when an IT department is concerned. A creative CIO or IT manager can make a difference, if they want to.

Grant Davis is a data modeler by day who writes by night. His passion for computers started when he discovered instant messaging in junior high school. When Grant isn?t trying to climb through the computer screen he writes for BMC, a leading job scheduling software provider.

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Study shows key enzyme missing from aggressive form of breast cancer

Friday, March 1, 2013

A new study led by the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center's Dr. Peter Zhou found that triple-negative breast cancer cells are missing a key enzyme that other cancer cells contain ? providing insight into potential therapeutic targets to treat the aggressive cancer. Zhou's study is unique in that his lab is the only one in the country to specifically study the metabolic process of triple-negative breast cancer cells.

Normally, all cells ? including cancerous cells ? use glucose to initiate the process of making Adenosine-5'-triphosphate (ATP) for fuel to carry out essential functions. This process, called glycolysis, leads to other processes that use oxygen to make higher quantities of ATP ? but solid tumor cells, which have little access to oxygen, are forced to rely almost exclusively on aerobic glycolysis for survival.

Zhou's study, published in Cancer Cell, showed that the powerful transcription factor complex Snail-G9a-Dnmt1 is over-expressed in triple-negative breast cancer, inhibiting the enzyme 1,6-bisphosphate (FBP1). The loss of this enzyme shuts down the glucose anabolic pathway and promotes the glucose catabolic pathway, leading to a large amount of glucose entering the tumor cells and thus "feeding" the aggressive cancer. This metabolic switch empowers the triple-negative breast cancer cells to suck more glucose from the body, increasing macromolecule biosynthesis in tumor cells and maintaining ATP production despite a dearth of nutrients and an oxygen-free environment.

Triple-negative breast cancer is the most deadly subtype of breast cancer, and tends to occur in women at a younger age. This subtype of breast cancer has poor clinical outcomes due to the early metastasis of tumor cells, resistance to chemotherapy, and the lack of specific drugs that target it. Identifying this change in the cancer's metabolic process provides major insight into developing drugs to target the disease, Zhou says.

"These findings present significant insights regarding the development and progression of triple-negative breast cancer," said Zhou, associate professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry at UK. "They indicate that targeting the metabolic alteration will lead to an effective approach for treating this deadly disease."

Zhou's research was aided by the team in the Free Radical Biology in Cancer Shared Resource Facility (FRBC) of the Markey Cancer Center, directed by Dr. Allan Butterfield. The FRBC used an instrument called the Seahorse XF-96 Flux Analyzer to test and confirm the predictions of Zhou's findings in triple-negative breast cancer.

"The significance of this study rests in proving that triple negative breast cancer cells utilize glycolysis for survival and growth," Butterfield said. "The FRBC will assist Dr. Zhou in furthering this exciting research, potentially helping to identify key proteins in triple negative breast cancer cells that are expressed or modified differently than in control cells. Such knowledge may lead to new insights to potential approaches to treat this aggressive cancer."

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Irving ISD students to attend business ethics summit | Irving Blog

Frank Broyles

About 250 students from each of the Irving school district?s four high schools and eight middle schools will learn about business ethics today. They will attend a seminar put on by Dr. Paul Melendez from the University of Arizona?s Center for Leadership Ethics. The University of Dallas is hosting the event.

Funding for the program will come primarily from La Buena Vida Foundation, but the Irving ISD, the YMCA and some local businesses and business leaders also are contributing. Attorney Frank Boyles is chairman of the program and said he hopes to make this an annual event.

The program will start with Dr. Melendez presenting an ethical decision making model. Then three case studies will be presented with some interaction with the students: a Facebook case, a case based on the game Grand Theft Auto and an underwater mortgage case. Included in the third case will be a professional panel comprised of the following: Jacqueline R. Peterson , attorney, Office of the General Counsel, Hewlett-Packard Company (she currently serves as its Global Anti-Corruption Attorney and Director, Ethics & Compliance, Americas); Areya Holder, attorney and Department of Justice Chapter 7 panel trustee for the northern district of Texas (she also has a private bankruptcy practice); and C. D. Heinen, senior vice president at Texas Security Bank (he?s been in the banking business in the Dallas area since 1974).

For more details about the program, visit http://ethics.eller.arizona.edu/outreach.

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HTC confirms some current phones will receive Sense 5 update

MADRID, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Lionel Messi has rarely been accused of failing to deliver in big games, having scored in two European Cup finals, but after subdued performances against AC Milan and Real Madrid, questions are being asked. The four-times World Player of the Year and leading scorer in one of the greatest club teams of all time, was a shadow of his usual self at the San Siro in a Champions League last-16 first leg last week, when Barcelona slumped to a 2-0 defeat. ...

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Obama chides GOP for killing plan to address cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is chiding Senate Republicans for blocking a Democratic plan to replace automatic spending cuts that are set to kick in Friday.

Senate Republicans objected to $55 billion worth of new taxes in the Democratic plan. It would have replaced the cuts with tax increases on millionaires and spending reductions over 10 years.

Obama says Republicans chose to cut services for kids, older people and the military rather than close loopholes for the rich. He says Republicans want the middle class alone to pay for deficit reduction.

Republicans floated their own plan to give Obama more flexibility to find $85 billion in spending cuts this year. Democrats and tea party Republicans killed that plan Thursday.

Obama and congressional leaders are to meet Friday to discuss potential ways ahead.

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Colorado task force ponders how to tax legal pot

DENVER (AP) ? Pot smokers in Colorado were the biggest winners in the vote that legalized the drug. Now state regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax it, so the benefits are shared statewide in the form of increased revenue.

A state panel meets Thursday to draft final recommendations based on the voter-approved marijuana legalization question that asked for excise taxes up to 15 percent to fund school construction.

Colorado lawmakers could set a lower tax, or they could add sales taxes beyond the current statewide 2.9 percent. Legislators could even create a special new "marijuana tax" for consumers, plus a series of required licensing fees for growers and sellers. Besides schools, the taxes must fund marijuana safety enforcement and drug education measures.

Any option would have to go back to voters for final approval.

Marijuana proponents and critics agree that taxes should be hefty. But if levies are too high, legal pot could be so expensive that people continue buying it underground.

"If this doesn't work and taxes are so high the black market still dominates, then what was the point?" asked Mike Elliott of Colorado's Medical Marijuana Industry Group.

Fiscal analysts have no idea where to begin predicting how much tax pot smokers could produce. The unknowns include how many people are buying pot now and what they're paying, how many people will start smoking marijuana now that it's legal and whether prices will drop once commercial sales begin. If the federal government blocks commercial pot sales, the marijuana tax windfall would be zero.

"It's a big question mark," said Colorado state budget analyst Dan Krug, who ran through multiple tax scenarios with the marijuana task force set up to recommend legislation to regulate weed. Krug's estimates ranged from a few million dollars a year up to $72 million annually, depending on tax rates and growth of the industry.

In Washington, the only other state to legalize marijuana for recreational use, the tax picture is clearer.

Voters there set 25 percent taxes at each of three different stages ? from growers to processors to consumers. The measure also defined exact spending levels on things like education. For example, Washington will spend exactly $20,000 on Web-based education on the health and safety risks of marijuana.

Colorado's task force is likely to adopt a vague recommendation asking state lawmakers to set excise fees and add licensing fees steep enough to cover the costs of regulation. They'll leave it lawmakers to figure out those exact costs.

Task force members will also settle recommendations Thursday on regulations unrelated to taxes, including rules for growing marijuana at home.

The task force already has asked for potency labels, limited marijuana advertising, set residency requirements for marijuana workers and limited commercial sales to less than an ounce. The group decided against a residency requirement for pot customers, opening the door for marijuana tourism.

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Kristen Wyatt is on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/APkristenwyatt

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/colorado-task-force-ponders-tax-legal-pot-162809695.html

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Prisoner hides cell phone in butt

By EMS1 Staff

SRI LANKA ? A 58-year-old Sri Lankan convict who was trying to hide a cell phone during a search was caught when the device started ringing.

The prisoner, 58, was admitted to the hospital where doctors removed the phone and an accompanying handset from his rectum.

"Unfortunately for him, the phone rang at the wrong time and guards knew he had a phone at the wrong end," a hospital official told Agence French Presse.

The man was hospitalized for two days, discharged and sent back to prison.

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Winter Storm, First Dusting of Snow Has Arrived in Connecticut

Yahoo! News is gathering brief first-person accounts, photos and video from the severe winter weather in the northeastern United States. Here's one resident's story.

FIRST PERSON | Winter Storm Nemo, also known as Blizzard Charlotte, has officially made its way to central Connecticut.

Here in Norwich, the snow began falling at around 8 a.m., and we've accumulated about a quarter-inch in the first half hour. Snow is also falling in southern New London County; the Groton naval submarine base has not officially closed yet.

Its last update from yesterday evening was that it was closing the base at noon to non-essential personnel. Trucks are already plowing and salting the roads in preparation for heavier snowfall tonight and driving conditions are still safe as long as you exercise extreme caution. All of Connecticut should prepare to stay indoors through the weekend.

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Daryl, Merle prepare to fight on 'Walking Dead'

By Anna Chan, TODAY

"Kill him!" "Kill them!" Boy howdy, those folks in Woodbury on "The Walking Dead" sure were bloodthirsty when The Governor offered up "terrorist" Daryl Dixon and "traitor" Merle Dixon for a fight to the death.

The mid-season finale left off with the two stunned siblings facing each other, and judging from four behind-the-scenes photos that AMC is sharing exclusively with The Clicker, it appears that when the show makes its highly anticipated return Sunday night, the fight to the death will commence.

Now, we know the folks in Woodbury want to see some blood, but let's hope they make it at least a somewhat fair fight and cut those ropes around Daryl's (Norman Reedus) wrists!?

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Norman Reedus (Daryl) and Michael Rooker (Merle) on the set of "Walking Dead."

Another photo shows that Merle (Michael Rooker) perhaps sustains a minor injury to his umm ... shorter arm. During the fight? After? Against someone who isn't his little brother? Who knows? (What we do know is that Rooker believes the siblings are survivors and will find a way out of the mess together.)

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Michael Rooker on the set of "The Walking Dead."

As a "Walking Dead" trailer has already shown, at the very least, Daryl will survive the sticky predicament. One of the photos AMC shared with us reveals that he escapes the situation relatively unharmed. According to the trailer, the crossbow-wielding hero races back to the prison to warn Rick's gang of The Gov's (David Morrisey) impending attack, but we hope Daryl takes a minute to sing to his "lil' ass kicker" afterward.

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Daryl with his trusty crossbow.

It appears that at some point in the episode, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) head back to Woodbury. (Why, Maggie?! The gang just helped you and your beloved Glenn escape in the mid-season finale!) Check out this photo of the sheriff and the farmer's daughter. That makeshift barricade behind them -- and the truck -- look awfully familiar, don't they? (Check out the photo of Merle above.) Wonder what they're up to ...

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The crew of "Walking Dead" film a scene featuring Andrew Lincoln and Lauren Cohan.

"The Walking Dead" kicks off the second half of season three on Sunday at 9 p.m. on AMC.

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Op-Ed: Atheist 'church' does not make atheism religious

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Two British comedians have started a "church" for atheists in the UK. Some say it is the start of an atheist religion, others just think it is a "congregation of unreligious people."
UK comedians Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans have started holding atheist gatherings on Sundays in an old abandoned church in North London. Their gatherings feature secular rock music, lectures on science, discussions about mortality, and even some comedy.


Critics of this idea, including many atheists, have claimed that Jones and Evans are trying to turn atheism into a religion by having these gatherings.


However, since when does religion have a monopoly on gathering? It is a natural drive to seek those who share common ideas and beliefs and to gather together to discuss them.


Blogger Adam Lee discusses this very topic in his blog, "Why Do Atheists Gather?" He wrote the article after the Reason Rally in March 2012, of which many people considered such an event as "sink[ing] to the level of the religious."


Lee points out that it takes more than just a group of people gathering in one place to be considered a religion.


If that was all that was required, every stadium and sports arena would become a holy place each weekend. And that's not even mentioning the political rallies, parades, conventions and marches that take place around the world. (Does the St. Patrick's Day Parade make "Irishness" a religion? I won't even ask about the Star Trek or Harry Potter-themed conventions.) Lee also points out that religion "requires a creed, official dogmas or texts, an ecclesiastical hierarchy, an insistence on ideological conformity, even just a bare belief in the supernatural - none of which we have." Atheism has also been shunned by most Americans, and atheists are mistrusted more than any other group of people, according to a study by the University of Minnesota. Gathering allows atheists to find other atheists and feel a sense of inclusion in a predominantly religious American society. Gathering atheists also show a political strength, according to Lee. It's all well and good for ivory-tower dwellers to proclaim that we should just calmly debate theology in a dispassionate realm of ideas, but there's a real world outside their windows, a world where laws inspired by religion - laws that define the contours of free speech, laws restricting access to abortion or birth control, laws governing the equal protection of gay people, laws dictating what's taught in public schools, laws that allow publicly funded charities to discriminate on the basis of religion - have real impacts on the lives of millions of people. Are Sanderson and Evans blurring the line between atheism and religion by holding these gatherings? No. They are simply providing an outlet for those that are not religious to meet new people who share their ideas and beliefs, learn things about our universe, discuss philosophy, laugh and have fun.

Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/343028

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