Ala. deputy fatally shot, 2nd wounded in exchange

FAIRHOPE, Ala. (AP) ? An Alabama deputy sheriff was fatally shot and another deputy was critically wounded Friday during a confrontation with a man they were checking on, who was also killed, authorities said.

The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office said the deputies were responding to a call at about 4 p.m. CST Friday expressing concern about the welfare of Michael Jansen of the Fairhope area, about 20 miles southeast of Mobile. Authorities said in a news release that deputies encountered Jansen at his mobile home and "were engaged in an officer involved shooting" when they were both shot.

Both deputies were transported to USA Medical Center in Mobile, where Deputy Scott Ward was pronounced dead. The second deputy, whose name had not been released early Saturday, was in critical condition.

Authorities said Jansen, who was believed to be in his 50s, "was also shot during the exchange and he was pronounced dead at the scene."

Investigator Eric Winberg told The Associated Press that authorities were sorting out what happened and not immediately releasing further details.

The county's Major Crimes Task Force was investigating the shooting.

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Toyota, Honda beset by recalls in 2012

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Paul A. Eisenstein , The Detroit Bureau

Japan?s two largest automakers appear to be locked in a race to achieve the dubious distinction of having recalled more vehicles than any other automaker during 2012 for an array of safety-related problems that range from fire hazards to seat belt issues.

The latest problem involves 140,000 Toyota Tacoma pickups which, the maker says, could experience corrosion severe enough that their space tires could fall off while driving.? Toyota has recalled several other models, including its Sienna minivan, for similar problems in the past.

The announcement comes barely a month after Toyota revealed it would have to recall 7.5 million vehicles worldwide due to faulty power window switches that could catch fire, including 2.5 million vehicles sold in the U.S.? It was the largest single recall in the maker?s history.? That followed by days Honda?s announcement of three separate safety callbacks impacting 1.7 million vehicles.

The two automakers have collectively led the list of recalled vehicles for the past three years, Toyota in 2009 and 2010 largely due to its massive problems with so-called unintended acceleration, and Honda in 2011 in the wake of an assortment of problems including defective airbags.

So far this year, sales numbers suggest that despite such problems, neither maker appears to be losing much momentum in the U.S. market. Quite the contrary. Toyota and Honda have experienced some of their biggest sales gains in years ? though at least some of those year-over-year increases were the result of last year?s devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami which left both manufacturers struggling with product shortages. Many potential customers appeared to wait until this year, as supplies came back to normal.

Analyst Rebecca Lindland, of IHS Automotive does not expect Toyota?s recent safety problems to drive away loyal buyers, though she has warned that, ?for those people on the fence about buying a Toyota, this will have an impact.? It could be more difficult getting new buyers into the showroom.?

Working in their favor, however, the two makers have continued scoring well in a variety of recent quality and reliability studies.? The three Toyota brands sold in the U.S., Lexus, Scion and Toyota, topped the chart in the recent Consumer Reports Automotive Reliability Study, for example. But a senior automotive tester for the non-profit magazine also noted that it does not take recalls into consideration when determining the reliability of individual brands.

Who will have the most vehicles recalled this year remains to be seen. Toyota seemed on track to nab that doubtful honor again in 2011 ? until Honda announced a massive service action in the final days of the year.

Honda, in fact, is now facing several safety probes by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration affecting nearly 700,000 of its Odyssey minivans and Pilot SUVs. It is far from certain that those actions will result in recalls, however, and even if they did, whether any announcement would come in 2012.

Meanwhile, the two Japanese makers are by no means the only ones who have had safety-related problems in recent months.

Chrysler?s Jeep brand recalled 919,000 of its Liberty and Grand Cherokee SUVs this month due to an airbag problem.? And Ford faced an airbag problem of its own, last month, with the Fiesta subcompact. The bigger of the two U.S. makers has, meanwhile, experienced a string of recalls involving its popular Escape SUV ? both older versions as well as the new one launched this year.

Analysts say Ford?s bigger problem has been a general stumble in quality charts including the Consumer Reports reliability study and the recent J.D. Power Initial Quality Survey.

The latest Toyota recall impacts Tacoma pickups sold between 2001 and 2004 in 20 cold weather states, as well as the District of Columbia. The spare tire is stored under the cargo bed in those vehicles, where the plate that holds it in place can be corroded by contact with road salt. The maker plans to make repairs at no charge to consumers.

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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/toyota-honda-beset-recalls-2012-1C7227554

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Black Friday: Stay Home and be Thankful | Parenting Without A ...

Crystal is thankful for the return of laughter!

I confess I fear Black Friday. As a child, I feared Black Friday the way others feared the dark, strangers and death.?Black Friday sounded?ominous?and lurking, something to feed my overly active childish imagination and nightmares. Black Friday -- a day where the sun never rises and darkness?suffocates?the unicorns. My family stayed in pajamas all day safely ensconced in our house, while we watched the television news coverage filled with images of crazed adult shoppers shoving and pushing each other over trivial things.

While my fear has dwindled (a little), I still refuse to leave the house on Black Friday. In fact, I prefer to stay tucked away inside my house until Cyber Monday. This year, I am staying home with my family, turning off the television and focusing on my many blessings. Please take a minute or several to reflect on your many blessings in the midst of the Black Friday chaos.

I am most thankful for the return of laughter and humor into my life. Before my child was diagnosed with a chronic illness and our lives were forever changed, laughter was something I took for granted. It was background noise in an already noisy house stuffed with pets, children and ensuing chaos. And then, my child got sick. Laughter was a luxury we didn't have time for in the midst of overwhelming fear and crisis management. It disappeared as if it had never been there at all.

But slowly as a flower unfurls and blooms in the springtime, laughter reappeared. I was hesitant to embrace it. I was afraid. I was worried that I was somehow being disrespectful to my child and her illness. Yet, my child was the one who embraced the laughter, the silliness. And so, laughter poured into our home again. It knocked down the walls, chased away most of the shadows, eased my weary soul.

I am thankful for laughter. May it always be the soundtrack of my home and yours!

Yours,

Crystal Intini Alperin

All of the bloggers at Parenting Without A Parachute wish you many blessings, health, love, laughter and peace today and always!

Here are what some of the other lovely bloggers at Parenting Without A Parachute are thankful for this holiday season:

Shari -

There are so many things that I am thankful for this holiday season. Everyday I count my blessings, as my life is good, happy, and drama free. My list is quite long so here are the top things that I am thankful for:

? Food on the table and a cozy, warm house.
? Friends and family that love, respect, and accept me for who I am.
? My husband who is wonderful everyday and doesn?t even know it.
? My son who is perfect and makes me laugh and my heart swell.

Elizabeth -

Sitting down at our Thanksgiving table, I have an overwhelming appreciation for those around me. As I take in the sight of the food and drink, a feast before our eyes, I realize many more people helped us prepare this meal. The farmers who grew the sweet potatoes, pumpkins and green beans. The vineyard owner who nurtured the grape which made the wine we are drinking. The silverware itself has seen over 50 turkeys! I encourage you to take in each savory bite today and heartily contribute to the conversation of the table. Blessings upon you and your family.

Jess? -

To say I am ?thankful? for what has happened over the past year seems like it would be a dramatic understatement, but for lack of a better word, I?ll use it.

I am thankful to have this adorable, growing baby bump, to have a home which I may or may not have the energy to vacuum, to have a husband who is always willing to step in and help when I am lacking the energy and most of all to have a support system of family friends standing tall for us every step of the way.

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lijansharma: kudals: molina anvil: Reference and Education: Proper ...

Becoming an electrician starts with getting the right schooling. One can start quite early, even in High School. Many vocational programs in secondary schools have an electrical program. Following High School graduation, one can enter a program at a college to further their learning. Community colleges often have excellent trades program, including electrical. In addition to their typical general education courses like math and English, students will take practical courses where they learn both the science behind the trade and also get to apply and learn new skills in hands-on work. If one desires to learn more about the scientific end of things, they can attend a four year college that offers advanced programs like electrical engineering or similar majors. Community colleges are great because they offer students practical experience.

One can also do some extra work on their own to increase their skills and education. It is a great idea to find an experienced individual who works in the field and get close to them. An experienced worker can offer electrician training in the form of an apprenticeship or might be able to hire a student to work for them. They can also share the pros and cons of the industry, as well as stories from on the job. This will give the young student a better idea of what daily life is like as an electrical worker, and help them decide if this is really the field that they want to devote their life to. Working with a professional can help one meet others in the field and perhaps potential future customers. The pro may also have some suggestions for training programs or courses that the aspiring electrician can take advantage of. They can serve as a reference for the student's resume.

Before one can be successful in industry, they must have to proper education and training. Fortunately, budding electrical workers have many options to help them reach their goals and better themselves.

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Luxembourg's Yves Mersch appointed to ECB Executive Board

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Luxembourg's Yves Mersch won a position on the European Central Bank's Executive Board on Friday after months of dispute with European Parliament legislators who objected to his appointment because of a lack of women in the bank's senior ranks.

European leaders meeting in Brussels approved the appointment of Mersch, who is currently the governor of Luxembourg's central bank. He will join the board on December 15 for an eight-year term, the European Council said in a statement.

"I am pleased with the positive outcome of a very long procedure," Mersch said in a statement.

Mersch's appointment had been held up by the European Parliament, which says member states have not tried hard enough to find suitable women for the position, and by Spain, which wants its own candidate.

Last month, lawmakers in the parliament rejected Mersch's candidacy to the board that forms the nucleus of the ECB's policymaking Governing Council.

Mersch said he had taken note of the critical voices from the European Parliament and that its rejection in October had mainly - but not only - been an "expression of concern that a great deal remains to be achieved on gender balance".

The decision by the council of EU member countries to press ahead regardless will strain relations with the European Parliament and could delay agreement on rules to boost bank capital reserves, in which the lawmakers have a say.

"Citizens across the EU have been astounded to discover the lack of gender diversity in the ECB, and indeed in other EU organizations," said Sharon Bowles, who chairs the European Parliament's influential economic and monetary affairs committee.

"Today's decision undermines and discredits work being undertaken to make the EU's economic governance system more democratically accountable," she said in a statement.

Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, struck a more muted tone in a speech he delivered to leaders.

"When key positions are filled in the future, we expect you to observe the principle of gender parity," he said.

Mersch pointed out the European Parliament had repeatedly confirmed his personal and professional competence. "Therefore, I am very confident that a constructive dialogue with the European Parliament will be pursued in the future," he added.

Mersch is an inflation-fighting hardliner whose views are close to those of the Bundesbank, the German central bank, which has lacked a close ally on the Executive Board since German Juergen Stark quit last year.

Spain, whose ECB Executive Board member Jose Manuel Gonzalez Paramo ended his term earlier this year, argued in favor of a woman taking the job and its Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said Madrid wanted a Spanish candidate for the post.

The controversy over Mersch's appointment has angered central bankers and policymakers who say the delay in filling the vacancy is causing practical problems.

Austria's Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell and Sirkka Hamalainen of Finland are the only two women to have occupied posts on the ECB's Executive Board since it was set up in 1998. There are currently no women at the top of the central bank.

(Reporting by Robin Emmott, John O'Donnell and Eva Kuehnen in Frankfurt; editing by Rex Merrifield and Todd Eastham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/luxembourgs-yves-mersch-appointed-ecb-executive-board-015527438--business.html

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Curiosity result could confirm Mars life, says Levin

As space fans anticipate news of organic molecules from the Mars Curiosity rover ? cryptically teased by the mission's chief scientist, John Grotzinger, in a US radio interview ? there's one man who is even more excited than most.

Former NASA researcher Gilbert Levin says that a positive sign of organics by Curiosity would confirm his claim that NASA has already seen evidence for life on Mars ? from an experiment called Labeled Release that went to the Red Planet aboard the Viking mission.

If Curiosity has found evidence for organics, as many are hoping, "that removes the last barrier to my interpretation of the Labeled Release results, and leaves us free and clear", Levin told New Scientist.

Though the prospect of new Curiosity findings have set the internet abuzz, nobody from NASA has yet said publicly what they are: Grotzinger has refused to elaborate, pointing New Scientist, and other journalists, to a presentation scheduled for the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco, which begins on 3 December.

'History books'

Grotzinger's key comment to US National Public Radio ? "this data is going to be one for the history books. It's looking really good" ? concerned an instrument called SAM, for sample analysis at Mars, which, among other things, is tasked with finding organic molecules in the Martian soil.

Ordinarily, finding organics on the surface would not count as evidence for life, nor would it be surprising, since such molecules are constantly raining down throughout the solar system in meteorites. But in the case of Mars, it's more complicated, says Levin.

That's because the failure to detect any organics at all by an instrument aboard the Viking lander was the counter-evidence that cancelled out an apparent detection of active biology by Levin's Labeled Release experiment. That experiment showed that radioactively labelled carbon from a nutrient solution added to the soil was released into the air in the test chamber ? an apparent sign of metabolism.

Though Levin has long argued otherwise, the consensus has been that Viking did not find evidence of life on Mars.

Caution urged

Levin acknowledges that, after more than three decades of argument over what the Viking results really mean, opinions are not likely to change overnight, no matter what the new Curiosity results may show. Although proving the presence of organics in the soil will "remove all rationale against" his interpretation, he says, "it's hard to change a paradigm". Most scientists are convinced that Viking's results were inconclusive. "I doubt this will change the consensus" he adds.

Chris McKay of the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, is a leading researcher on the possibility of life on Mars, and he, too, urges caution. "This is probably not as exciting as the internet rumors suggest," he says ? as someone who is privy to what Curiosity has found.

Then again, McKay was never convinced that Viking failed to find organics. He has argued, in a peer-reviewed paper, that the Viking non-detection of organics was invalid, by demonstrating that soils from the Atacama desert in Chile, known to contain organics, showed no signs of them in a test that replicated the one on Viking.

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Top 5 Dirtiest Crimes Committed in the Name of Love | YourTango

Love hurts.

These misdeeds and misdemeanors are stranger than romantic fiction.

After a bad breakup, feelings of love can quickly turn to hatred. You say things you don?t mean and wish for things you don?t actually want. But what happens when a person becomes so livid that bitter hypotheticals become actual actions??Some strange tales prove that all is not fair ? or sane, for that matter ? in love and war.

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Love Explosion
While flying to Dallas, Christopher Shell?s plane was turned around and boarded by a SWAT team--that were coming for him. Shell?s ex-girlfriend had phoned in a bomb threat, saying he possessed liquid explosives. Fortunately, Shell was quickly cleared, but the ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend were brought into custody soon after.

Below The Belt
A couple days post-breakup, Indiana woman Christina Reber stormed into her ex-boyfriend?s apartment, hit him on the head, then grabbed his scrotum, "squeezing as hard as she could" until it was almost completely severed from the victim?s body. Afterward, he was able to seek medical attention at--no joke--Ball Memorial Hospital.

What A Long, Strange Road Trip It's Been
In 2007, astronaut Lisa Nowak allegedly drove nonstop from Orlando to Texas in order to confront her ex-lover?s new girlfriend, Claudia Shipman, and informed she had worn a diaper in order to avoid any bathroom stops. Upon arrival, she disguised herself and attempted to kidnap Shipman who managed to get away, leading to Nowak?s arrest.

The 90-Cent Car
When British shock jock Tim Shaw speculated on-air that he would leave his family for pin-up girl Jodie Marsh, he didn?t suspect that his wife Hayley was listening. Mrs. Shaw sought revenge in the form of an auction for his $45,000 Lotus Esprit Turbo sports car via eBay, as its registration was in her name. Not only did she sell it in 5 minutes, she let the luxury vehicle go for a mere 50 pence (90 cents).

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"Crazy Love" Story
Perhaps one of the most infamous bizarre crimes of love is that of Burt Pugach and Linda Riss. The pair dated in the 1950s, but Riss found out that Pugach was married and left him. Pugach didn't?take the news well;?he hired someone to throw acid in Riss? face and leaving her disfigured and blind. After Pugach?s conviction, prison sentence and release 14 years later, the two actually reconciled and have now been married several decades.

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