Arizona Shooting Targets US Congresswoman, kills 6

PHOENIX: A US congresswoman was in critical condition after being shot in the head Saturday by a gunman who opened fire in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl.

President Barack Obama called the attack at a public meeting a “tragedy for our entire country” while local senator John McCain called the shooter — reportedly a white male in his early 20s — a “disgrace to Arizona.”

Initial media reports had suggested that Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords had died following the shooting outside a Safeway grocery store.

But the hospital where she was treated said later they were hopeful she will recover despite being shot in the brain, although US federal judge John Roll was among the dead, according to Obama.

“She is in critical condition. They have finished operating on her and at the time period, I’m optimistic about recovery,” said University Medical Center trauma chief Peter Rhee.

“We cannot tell what kind of recovery, but I’m about as optimistic as you can get,” he added.

Giffords was hosting a “Congress on Your Corner” event with constituents at when the gunman attacked, killing six and wounding 12, according to police spokesman Rick Kastigar, while Obama said at least five had died.

Witnesses said the lawmaker was hit at point-blank range in the shooting, for which no motive was immediately known.

National Public Radio said the suspect ran off and was tackled by a bystander before being taken into custody, and that witnesses described him as being in his late teens or early 20s.

UCLA Docs say MJ was DOA

TrendPK.com: UCLA Medical Center doctors testified in court that Michael Jackson was dead on arrival, even though Dr. Murray pleaded with them “not to give up easily and try to save the patient.”

Dr. Richelle Cooper said in court that when Jackson had arrived at UCLA he had “no signs of life.” Cooper also stated that Dr. Murray was not forthcoming when it came to all of the medications that Jackson had taken that day, forgetting to mention Propofol, according to TMZ.

Injection of genes can cure depression

Depression is the biggest problem of people around the world which has always been a matter of concern for the doctors as well but now its cure is possible in near future.
Medicines used for depression does not affect all the patients positively and at times their usage has some fatal side-effects and even sometimes the patient starts thinking about committing suicide.
According to a research conducted by Rockefeller University of the USA and Weill-Cornell medical center, injection of genes in brain can cure the disease of depression.

Washington: Kiyani meets CENTCOM Commander

Chief of The Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kiyani called on the commander of American Central Command General James N. Mattis in Washington.
Matters of professional and common interest as well as the security situation were discussed in the meeting. Army Chief also visited Walter Reed medical center where he met with the injured personnel of ISAF forces who got injured during fighting in Afghanistan. Earlier General Kiyani participated in the planning session of Pak-American strategic dialogue.

California prepares for Big One earthquake drill

Students at Providence High School in Burbank, near Los Angeles, survived the Big One Thursday, joining millions of others across the state who took part in the Great California ShakeOut. The annual drill is aimed at teaching people what to do in the event of an earthquake, while encouraging everyone to be prepared.
More than 7.8 million people across California, including 3.6 million in Los Angeles and Orange counties, registered to take part in the event, which had residents responding to a simulated quake at 10:21 a.m. local time, 1721GMT.
Participants were instructed to drop, cover and hold on” — the recommended procedure in an earthquake. Earlier, a number of students put the advice to good use during an earthquake simulator that registered a 7.0 quake.
The ShakeOut drill began three years ago, based on scientists’ predictions of what would occur during and after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake along the San Andreas Fault. They estimated such an event would kill 1,800 people, injure 50,000 more, and cause 200 billion in damages (USD), leaving the region to experience long-lasting social and economic consequences.
We can’t tell you when the earthquake is going to be, but we can tell you when it is going to be, explained Dr. Lucy Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey. The Shake Out is based on a scientific study. We have brought in all the experts to look in details about what the big San Andreas earthquake will be like.
Among those on hand were a contingent from Chile, who took part in the drill in an effort to learn and share their experiences from the devastating earthquake that struck their country in February. The drill included emergency teams moving the group to Providence St. Joseph’s Medical Center where the exercise the continued.

Six killed in bus crash on California highway

LOS ANGELES: A bus accident on a California highway early Thursday killed six people and left nine others with serious injuries, a highway patrol spokesman said.

The accident involved a Greyhound bus, which toppled off a highway after the bus driver swerved to avoid hitting one car, crashed through a highway divider and then hit another vehicle.

“The Greyhound bus driver tried to take evasive action to avoid contact,” said Officer Matt Radke, a spokesman for California Highway Patrol”s Central Division.

“That evasive action failed… the bus collided with a second vehicle and once it collided with that vehicle, it went down an embankment, down about 15 feet (five meters) or so,” he told media.

“The front of the bus was sheared off.”

The driver was among the three men and three women on the bus who were killed in the crash. Five victims died at the accident scene, while a sixth died after being transferred to the hospital.

Radke said nine people suffering major injuries had been taken to the Community Regional Medical Center in nearby Fresno, in central California.

Another 24 people suffered minor injuries, although it was unclear whether all the injured were passengers aboard the Greyhound bus or whether some had been inside one of the two other vehicles involved in the accident.

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Legendary singer Lena Horne dies
Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She was 92 and lived in Manhattan.
In 1943, MGM Studios loaned her to 20th Century-Fox to play the role of Selina Rogers in the all-black movie musical “Stormy Weather.” Her rendition of the title song became a major hit and her signature piece.
On screen, on records and in nightclubs and concert halls, Horne was at home vocally with a wide musical range, from blues and jazz to the sophistication of Rodgers and Hart in songs like “The Lady Is a Tramp” and “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.”
In her first big Broadway success, as the star of “Jamaica” in 1957, reviewer Richard Watts Jr. called her “one of the incomparable performers of our time.” Songwriter Buddy de Sylva dubbed her “the best female singer of songs.”
But Horne was perpetually frustrated with the public humiliation of racism.
“I was always battling the system to try to get to be with my people. Finally, I wouldn’t work for places that kept us out … it was a damn fight everywhere I was, every place I worked, in New York, in Hollywood, all over the world,” she said in Brian Lanker’s book “I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America.”
While at MGM, she starred in the all-black “Cabin in the Sky,” in 1943, but in most of her other movies, she appeared only in musical numbers that could be cut in the racially insensitive South without affecting the story. These included “I Dood It,” a Red Skelton comedy, “Thousands Cheer” and “Swing Fever,” all in 1943; “Broadway Rhythm” in 1944; and “Ziegfeld Follies in 1946. She had proper direction in two all-black movie musicals, both made in 1943. Lent to 20th Century Fox for “Stormy Weather,” one of those show business musicals with almost no plot but lots of singing and dancing, Ms. Horne did both triumphantly, ending with the sultry, aching sadness of the title number, which would become one of her signature songs. In MGM’s “Cabin in the Sky,” the first film directed by Vincente Minnelli, she was the brazen, sexy handmaiden of the Devil. (One number she shot for that film, “Ain’t It the Truth,” which she sang while taking a bubble bath, was deleted before the film was released — not for racial reasons, as her stand-alone performances in other MGM musicals sometimes were, but because it was considered too risqué.

Montcoal WV

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MONTCOAL, W.Va. - Six miners were killed and at least 21 missing Monday in an explosion at an underground coal mine, “said state mining director.

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Rescue workers are in Performance Coal Company Upper Branch Mine searching for missing 21 other miners under state mine safety director Ron Wooten.

A damaged Miner is in intensive care at Charleston Area Medical Center, spokeswoman Elizabeth Pelle Grin said.

“We are preparing other patients, she says.

Five highly trained mine rescue teams from consolidation and Massey Energy were on the scene as well as a part of the state Office of Miners’ Health Safety and Training teams, MSHA spokeswoman Amy Louviere said.

The mine produced 1.2 million tons of coal in 2009, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Massey Energy is a publicly traded company in Richmond, Virginia, which has 2.2 billion tons of coal reserves in southern West Virginia, Kentucky, east, southwest Virginia and Tennessee, according to the company website.

In 2006, 12 miners died in an explosion of methane in the Sago mine in West Virginia. Six were killed in the collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah in 2007.

Last year the number of fallen miners killed on the job in the U.S. for the second consecutive year to 34, the fewest since officials began keeping track of nearly a century ago. That was down from the previous low 52 in 2008.

U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration documents show 18 of the deaths occurred in coal mines, down from 29 in 2008, and 16 were of gold, copper and other mines, down from 22 in 2008. Most involved supernatural truck accidents on my property, but some are caused by landslides and are made by machines.

Bristol Motor Speedway

Latest  Update News:-“I’m real proud of Justin. He ran a good hard race. He had the opportunity on the last restart to use me up and he did. That’s cool because I wrecked him here last year, so I had one coming (smiles). He’s been running great and I’m really happy for his team and for Roger Penske.

Larry Pearson’s car had already slowed after spinning during today’s Legends race at Bristol Motor Speedway. The impact of Carlie Glotzbach’s car smashing into his driver’s side door knocked him unconscious.

Glotzbach walked gingerly away from the wreck. Pearson had to be cut from his car. He was conscious when put on a stretcher and into an ambulance where he was transported to Wellmont Regional Medical Center in nearby Johnson City, Tenn.Larry Pearson’s car had already slowed after spinning during today’s Legends race at Bristol Motor Speedway. The impact of Carlie Glotzbach’s car smashing into his driver’s side door knocked him unconscious.
Glotzbach walked gingerly away from the wreck. Pearson had to be cut from his car. He was conscious when put on a stretcher and into an ambulance where he was transported to Wellmont Regional Medical Center in nearby Johnson City, Tenn.

A great effort for our Nationwide Series team. I hope everyone back home is really proud of that one at Penske Racing. I’m glad to have another solid finish with the Discount Tire/Ruby Tuesday Dodge. This gets us right to where we need to be in points. I’m sure we’re closing in on the point lead. I feel really good about our effort and feel really good on how we’re running. I’m real proud of this team.”

Depression And Obesity Are A Two-Way Street

NEW YORK : People who are obese are at increased risk of becoming depressed, and people who are depressed are at increased risk of becoming obese, Dutch researchers have found.

“There is a reciprocal association over time between depression and obesity,” Dr. Floriana S. Luppino, of Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands, told Reuters Health by email.

Obesity, Luppino and colleagues found, increases the risk of depression in initially non-depressed individuals by 55 percent and depression increases the risk of obesity in initially normal-weight individuals by 58 percent.

Luppino said the analysis was not designed to determine a given person’s risk of depression, only to figure out how much obesity increased that risk. However, for comparison, a recent study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health found that nearly one out of four cases of obesity is associated with a mood or anxiety disorder.

These findings, the NIMH notes on its website, appear to support what other studies have found – that obesity, which is on the increase in the US – is associated with increasing rates of depression and other mental health problems.

The new findings stem from pooled data from 15 published studies that looked at whether being overweight or obese is associated with depression, and vice versa.

The studies, which collectively involved more than 58,000 people, used body mass index, or BMI, to gauge how fat or thin a person is. For reference, a US adult with a BMI of 25 or more is considered overweight, while one with a BMI of 30 and above is considered obese.

Being obese, Luppino told Reuters Health, not only increases the risk of depression, but is more likely to fuel the onset of clinical depression, rather than merely depressive symptoms.

In contrast to obesity, the association between depression and being overweight (but not obese) did not run the other way, Luppino noted. Being overweight increased the risk of depression in initially non-depressed individuals somewhat, but depression did not increase the risk of being overweight over time.

The findings, reported in the latest issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, also suggest that the link between obesity and later depression is more pronounced among Americans than among Europeans.

Why? “A dose-response association — meaning the higher the BMI, the more people get depressed — might explain the association,” Luppino said. And the average American weighs more than the average European.

However, the effect of the psychological distress should not be neglected, the researcher said. “Overweight and obesity, can induce low self-esteem and body dissatisfaction,” Luppino explained, “especially in Western countries where thinness is often considered a beauty ideal. Both low self-esteem and body dissatisfaction are known to increase the risk of depression.

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