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In this scene from "Reality Check," get an inside look at team captain Dabness Atkins' unique home life. After his father died when Dabness was 11, his mother remarried. Unable to get along with the new man in his mother's life, Dabness took to staying with a friend. Poly team secretary Starr Scott has since taken Dabness in, unofficially seeing that he stays in school and works his hardest.
"4th and Forever"" chronicles the 2010 football season of Long Beach Polytechnic High School, touted by Sports Illustrated as the "Sports School of the Century" and boasts the largest roster of high school players who have gone on to the NFL. After decades of success, Poly had a down year in 2009. They had their worst season in 15 years and lost to local rival Lakewood for the first time in over 25 years. After years of being pegged as "the team to beat," the aura of invincibility is gone. The players are worried that their hopes for a college scholarship have dimmed. The clock is ticking and the question is: Can Head Football Coach Raul Lara pull the team together for one more season of greatness? And, can the players avoid the temptations of the street, succeed in the classroom, and emerge victorious on the field?
Tune in Thursdays at 9/8c for all-new episodes of "4th and Forever."
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Toxic pesticides which are implanted into genetically modified food crops have lodged in the blood of pregnant women and their unborn babies, research shows.
Scientists at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, at the University of Sherbrooke Hospital Centre in Quebec, took dozens of samples from women.
Traces of the toxin were found 93 per cent of the pregnant mothers and in 80 per cent of the umbilical cords.
The research suggested the chemicals were entering the body through eating meat, milk and eggs from farm livestock which have been fed GM corn.
The findings appear to contradict the GM industry’s long-standing claim that any potentially harmful chemicals added to crops would pass safely through the body.
To date, most of the global research which has been used to demonstrate the safety of GM crops has been funded by the industry itself.
It is not known what, if any, harm the chemicals might cause but there has been speculation it could lead to allergies, miscarriage, abnormalities or even cancer.
One of the researchers told the scientific journal Reproductive Toxicology: “This is the first study to highlight the presence of pesticides associated with genetically modified foods in maternal, fetal and nonpregnant women's blood.”
Pete Riley, the director of GM Freeze, a group opposed to GM farming, described the research as “very significant”.
The Agriculture Biotechnology Council, which speaks for the GM industry, has questioned the reliability and value of the research.
Dr Julian Little, its chairman, said: “Biotech crops are rigorously tested for safety prior to their use and over two trillion meals made with GM ingredients have been safely consumed around the world over the past 15 years without a single substantiated health issue.”Entire article:
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Van Full of Candy presents the perfect card for when Cinco de Mayo falls so closely to Mother's Day...
http://wp.me/p1gXiD-pnVan Full of Candy presents the perfect card for when Cinco de Mayo falls so closely to... more
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A 30-year-old housekeeper admitted Thursday that she fatally abused her infant son through shaking, beating and severe burning, by inflicting injuries that dated back to when he was born 57 days earlier, authorities said.
Josela Posada pleaded guilty before Washoe District Judge Steven Elliott to the first-degree murder of her 8-week-old baby, Kristopher, who died Feb. 13, 2010. She was scheduled for a May 26 sentencing where she faces a term of life in prison. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have also placed a hold on the El Salvadorian woman whom they said is in the country illegally.
During a preliminary hearing, baby Kristopher’s father, Orlando Vasquez, testified that Posada referred to the infant as a gay slur and had never wanted the child. Vasquez and Reno police detectives testified Posada admitted to them she struck the baby when she was angered by his crying.
Posada has an older daughter who was 15-months old when Kristopher died after Posada said she had put him to sleep in his crib. Deputy District Attorney Elliott Sattler said the girl was healthy and well cared for, and that she is in the custody of relatives.
Vasquez testified he was trying to get custody of his son and that Posada wouldn’t let him see the boy.
At the time of the baby’s death, Posada had been working as a housekeeper for an apartment complex on Kuenzli Street, where she also lived with her children.
Sattler said when Posada discovered her baby had died, she waited 45 minutes before a friend called police. She also did not seek medical attention for the child.
He said an autopsy showed the underweight baby had injuries to his brain that were consistent with shaking, that both of his retinas were detached, and that he suffered several rib fractures, a broken femur, had whiplash, spinal cord injuries, and first and second-degree burns on his abdomen and groin area.
The autopsy also showed that the injuries dated from the time he was born until the day he died.
A teenage girl who babysat Kristopher testified that he was always screaming and shrieking as if he were in severe pain. Posada blamed the boy’s burn blisters on “diaper rash,” the girl said.
http://www.rgj.com/article/20110331/NEWS01/110331018/Reno-mother-pleads-guilty-fatally-shaking-beating-burning-infant-son?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGEA 30-year-old housekeeper admitted Thursday that she fatally abused her infant son... more
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Flora Christina Martinez, 39-year-old local from Brownsville, Texas, has been accused of engaging in sexual relationship with her 14-year-old stepson.
According to the police, 14-year-old victim made an outcry to family members, his mother and his aunt, saying the abuse went on for several months. Family members then alerted police.
Martinez faces one count of continuous sexual assault of a child and one count of sexual assault of a child and was booked into custody with bail set at $80,000.
http://sexcrimewatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/texas-woman-accused-of-sex-with-14-year.htmlFlora Christina Martinez, 39-year-old local from Brownsville, Texas, has been accused... more
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America's oldest known wild bird is a new mother.
Wisdom, a Laysan albatross in her 60's, has a new chick, according to the US Geological Survey.
She was spotted a few weeks ago with a chick at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced on March 8.
Wisdom Is At Least 60 Years Old
Wisdom was first banded in 1956 as she incubated an egg, and she was estimated to be at least 5 years old then. This is the earliest age at which these birds breed, though they more typically breed at 8 or 9 after an involved courtship lasting several years. She has since worn out five bird bands.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0309/America-s-oldest-known-wild-bird-a-new-motherAmerica's oldest known wild bird is a new mother.
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Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 42-year-old married mother of three from Livermore, California, has pleaded no contest Thursday to four felony charges and will be sentenced to five years in state prison.
The plea was part of a deal with the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, which dropped 63 other felony sex charges against Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 42. An unrelated misdemeanor case against her also was dropped.
Hubbs was arrested in August 2010 and faced 67 counts of sexual assault on a minor, unlawful sexual intercourse with person under 18 years, oral copulation, lewd act on a child, distribution or exhibition of lewd material to a minor, Contacting a minor for the purpose of engaging in lewd or lascivious behavior.
In July 2010 police were contacted about the alleged assaults which date back to 2008 after a parent allegedly found a nude photo of Hubbs on their son’s cell phone. Search warrants were obtained and Hubbs’ personal computer and phones were seized, revealing her ongoing relationships with the teenagers.
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One more outrageous assault on women and children by old white haired stupid controlling men.
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/02/16/gop-head-start-marry/
"Many women in the county were outraged by the commissioners’ statements. “It’s shocking in this day and age when life is difficult and challenging for so many families,” said Sue Oehmig, executive director of Hope Alive, a shelter that serves homeless women and children. “I would like them to say that to the hundreds of single women that call us every year asking for help.
I’m embarrassed for Frederick County. We’ve just been set back 20 years.” “The reality is that people are struggling to make ends meet with two incomes,” added former City of Frederick Mayor Jennifer Dougherty (D) “What does family and marriage have to do with the economy or creating jobs, which is what they ran on?”One more outrageous assault on women and children by old white haired stupid... more
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Adrienne Laflamme, 63-year-old former juvenile detention center teacher in Brevard County Schools, Florida, has been sentenced to two years in prison after a plea agreement.
Laflamme was arrested June 2008 night for allegedly engaging in sex with a male student. Laflamme, who lived at Palm Bay at the time, taught science at the Brevard County Juvenile Detention Center, had a four-week relationship with 17-year-old student of hers. The two had sex at least 15 times, according to investigators, including one time that also involved another teenage boy.
Laflamme also lent her car to the boy while she was on vacation but reported it stolen after a co-worker told her she was being investigated.
Her initial bond was set at more than half-a-million dollars, but it was subsequently reduced and she was released after posting bond.
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Since the beginning of the silverscreen -era, cougars have been very famous and loved theme in movies in almost every genre - from romantic drama to comedy and horror. Adult movies included ;)
Here's some (5) MUST SEE -class movies with cougars in them.Since the beginning of the silverscreen -era, cougars have been very famous and loved... more
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Woman became angry because son wouldn't stop crying
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A 22-year-old woman charged with shaking her baby to death pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of second-degree murder and faces 25 to 50 years in prison.
Alexandra Tobias was arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse and murder after her 3-month-old son, Dylan Lee Edmondson, died in January. Prosecutors said Tobias admitted to becoming angry because the baby would not stop crying while she was playing Farmville on Facebook.
"He's only 14 weeks old; he's not breathing," Alexandra Tobias frantically told a 911 operator.
Shortly after that 911 call was made, Tobias told investigators a dog knocked her child off a couch, he hit his head and he stopped breathing. Court documents show that Tobias later admitted to shaking her baby violently because the 3-month-old would not stop crying while she was playing a game on Facebook.
Prosecutors said they also have a statement from a cellmate who said Tobias confessed to her.
"I asked her 'What you here for?' and she said, 'Murder,'" inmate Lois Hay said. "I said, 'Murder? Who who did you murder?' She said, 'I my murdered my baby, my own baby.' And I was, like, 'Why did you do that?' She said she shook her baby and during the shaking of the baby, the baby hit his head on the computer."
In recorded telephone calls Tobias made to family members, she said the recent death of her mother affected her psychological state, and it may have been a contributing factors to her aggression on the night of her son's death.
"Ever since I found my mother dead, I just haven't been the same," Tobias said.Woman became angry because son wouldn't stop crying
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WASHINGTON — Motherhood may actually cause the brain to grow, not turn it into mush, as some have claimed. Exploratory research published by the American Psychological Association found that the brains of new mothers bulked up in areas linked to motivation and behavior, and that mothers who gushed the most about their babies showed the greatest growth in key parts of the mid-brain.
Led by neuroscientist Pilyoung Kim, PhD, now with the National Institute of Mental Health, the authors speculated that hormonal changes right after birth, including increases in estrogen, oxytocin and prolactin, may help make mothers’ brains susceptible to reshaping in response to the baby. Their findings were published in the October issue of Behavioral Neuroscience.
The motivation to take care of a baby, and the hallmark traits of motherhood, might be less of an instinctive response and more of a result of active brain building, neuroscientists Craig Kinsley, PhD, and Elizabeth Meyer, PhD, wrote in a special commentary in the same journal issue.
The researchers performed baseline and follow-up high-resolution magnetic-resonance imaging on the brains of 19 women who gave birth at Yale-New Haven Hospital, 10 to boys and nine to girls. A comparison of images taken two to four weeks and three to four months after the women gave birth showed that gray matter volume increased by a small but significant amount in various parts of the brain. In adults, gray matter volume doesn’t ordinarily change over a few months without significant learning, brain injury or illness, or major environmental change.
The areas affected support maternal motivation (hypothalamus), reward and emotion processing (substantia nigra and amygdala), sensory integration (parietal lobe), and reasoning and judgment (prefrontal cortex).
In particular, the mothers who most enthusiastically rated their babies as special, beautiful, ideal, perfect and so on were significantly more likely to develop bigger mid-brains than the less awestruck mothers in key areas linked to maternal motivation, rewards and the regulation of emotions.
The mothers averaged just over 33 years in age and 18 years of school. All were breastfeeding, nearly half had other children and none had serious postpartum depression.
Although these early findings require replication with a larger and more representative sample, they raise intriguing questions about the interaction between mother and child (or parent and child, since fathers are also the focus of study). The intense sensory-tactile stimulation of a baby may trigger the adult brain to grow in key areas, allowing mothers, in this case, to “orchestrate a new and increased repertoire of complex interactive behaviors with infants,” the authors wrote. Expansion in the brain’s “motivation” area in particular could lead to more nurturing, which would help babies survive and thrive physically, emotionally and cognitively.
Further study using adoptive mothers could help “tease out effects of postpartum hormones versus mother-infant interactions,” said Kim, and help resolve the question of whether the brain changes behavior or behavior changes the brain – or both.
The authors said that postpartum depression may involve reductions in the same brain areas that grew in mothers who were not depressed. “The abnormal changes may be associated with difficulties in learning the rewarding value of infant stimuli and in regulating emotions during the postpartum period,” they said. Further study is expected to clarify what happens in the brains of mothers at risk, which may lead to improved interventions.
In their “Theoretical Comment,” Kinsley and Meyer, of the University of Richmond, connected this research on human mothers to similar basic research findings in laboratory animals. All the scientists agreed that further research may show whether increased brain volumes are due to growth in nerve cells themselves, longer and more complex connections (dendrites and dendritic spines) between them, or bushier branching in nerve-cell networks.
http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2010/10/mommy-brain.aspxWASHINGTON — Motherhood may actually cause the brain to grow, not turn it into... more
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Debra Ayla (Tapia), 38-year-old married mother-of-four from Santa Ana, California, has pleaded guilty to engaging in a sexwith a 15-year-old neighbor which resulted in a pregnancy and birth of child.
Ayala pleaded guilty to a felony lewd act with a child 14 or 15 years old, oral copulation with someone younger than 16, and unlawful sexual intercourse, according to court records. Under the terms of the plea deal with prosecutors, three of the same counts were dismissed.
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http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/221-debra-ayla-tapia-sentencedDebra Ayla (Tapia), 38-year-old married mother-of-four from Santa Ana, California, has... more
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Stephanie Finnerty, 43-year-old mother-of-three from Nassau County, New York, has been accused of engaging in sexual relationship with her daughter's high school boyfriend.
Finnerty was charged with third-degree rape and two counts of third-degree criminal sexual act. According to Special Victim Section detectives she had sexual contact with a boy from the South Shore between June 2009 and November 2009 within Nassau County. During the same time span victim was dating defendants daughter.
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http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/210-stephanie-finnertyStephanie Finnerty, 43-year-old mother-of-three from Nassau County, New York, has been... more
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Katheryn Thornton, 54-year-old woman from Kirkland, Washington, has been charged with incest, accused of having sex with the son she gave up for adoption when he was a baby.
The 33-year-old son told King County detectives in May he had a two-year sexual relationship with his biological mother when he re-connected with her through an adoption agency in 2004.
According to charging documents filed earlier this month, 54-year-old Katheryn Thornton invited her son to come live with her and she said his presence made her feel "excited." She also admitted to having sex with her son for 18 months at her home in the Kingsgate neighborhood of Kirkland's annexation area.
The son said his mother's younger children knew he slept in Thornton's bedroom, but they did not know about the sex, according to the documents.
Thorton could face a year in prison and be required to register as a sex offender if convicted.
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Week. The annual campaign, organized by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, is the one week each year where over 170 countries worldwide pay attention to our breasts and their power to help our children.
It's no secret that I'm a huge advocate of breastfeeding as one of the most important things a woman can do to give her baby the best start in life, as well as provide herself some unparalleled health benefits. And the Black Maternal Health Project proudly supports breastfeeding and is deeply committed to understanding how we can increase breastfeeding rates among black women.
So while the campaign, now in its 19th year, speaks to the entire world, I'm speaking directly to my part of the world--the African American women who historically have had the lowest rates of breastfeeding for the recommended time periods or don't breastfeed at all.
Read the rest: http://www.womensenews.org/story/sisterspace/100805/week-has-special-meaning-black-momsWeek. The annual campaign, organized by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action,... more
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is nobody's friend. There's no cure, no comfort and no hope for tomorrow! It always seems to be just a matter of time...is nobody's friend. There's no cure, no comfort and no hope for tomorrow! It... more
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There is simply no phrase, no word, to explain the man and his music, except maybe one.........
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Joan Tuckruskye, 46-year-old former Long Island PTA vice president has been sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years probation for sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy, her daughter's boyfriend.
Tuckruskye and the boy were found naked from the waist down in a car behind a Baldwin middle school in 2008. Prosecutors say the mother of three had sexual contact with the boy because her saliva was found on his genitals and clothes. Tuckruskye pleaded guilty in April to charges of second-degree criminal sexual act, a felony.
Tuckruskye he must also register as a sex offender for the next 20 years.
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http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/137-joan-tuckruskye-sentencedJoan Tuckruskye, 46-year-old former Long Island PTA vice president has been sentenced... more
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