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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Four teenagers sitting in car robbed by men armed with baseball bat
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Updated Thursday, Dec 22 at 1:32 PM
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MANDEVILLE, La. - Four teenagers in Mandeville were robbed by men armed with a baseball bat while sitting in a parking lot on Lakeshore Drive Tuesday night, according to the Mandeville Police Department.
At 10:33 p.m., the victims, between 18 and 19-years-old, were in their car in the 2200 block of Lakeshore Dr. when the suspects yanked the door open and demanded money.
The victims gave the suspects approximately $87 before the thieves fled in a light colored sedan.
The victims caught part of the license plate as it turned on to Coffee Street and called the police.
Investigators were able to compile a list of possible suspects from the partial license plate, police said.
On Thursday, police arrested Fidell Johnson, 22, on an armed robbery charge.
A warrant based on an armed robbery charge has been issued for Austin Jenkins, 17.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Three Things I Learned from Having Breast Cancer
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Once, someone wrote on Twitter that she hates the openings to my posts and likes the rest.
She had a point.
Usually, I just use the beginning as a way to get to the point.
The fun thing about having breast cancer ? read about where my boobs went wrong here ? is that it?s a Learning Experience. You learn about Other People. And How to Deal with Challenges. And along the way you Change and Transform.
It?s like a Gift from God that happens in your Cancerous Breasts.
Here?s what I?ve learned so far.
1. You enter another reality.
Today, I went to go see a person I refer to as my ?Cancer Shrink.? That means he works with the hospital to help women who are diagnosed with breast cancer. I can?t imagine how he does his job. It would make me feel sad, but he is a happy man. I have to conclude it makes him happy.
Early on in the session, he mentioned he was a cancer survivor. Later, I asked him what kind of cancer he had.
He tilted his head to one side and showed me the side of his neck.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Cow power - Energy project to transform cow manure into green energy
King County Executive Dow Constantine joined local dairy farmers in Enumclaw to celebrate the beginning of construction on a digester project that will transform cow manure into green energy and other valuable resources.
?The robust agriculture industry on the Enumclaw Plateau is the perfect place for this innovation that will generate renewable energy, save money for family farmers, and preserve the environment,? said Executive Constantine.
Rainier Biogas LLC, a partnership between Skagit County-based company Farm Power Northwest, and at least three local dairies near Enumclaw, will build and operate the digester. The digester is an air-tight tank that uses microorganisms to break down or ?digest? the manure and organic matter. The bacteria produce waste gas that can be harnessed to make electricity. Construction on the $4 million project is scheduled to be completed in summer 2012.
Manure waste management on dairy farms is a significant operational challenge for farmers because of its volume and handling expense. Improperly managed manure can pollute water bodies.
Processing manure over three weeks in a 1-million-gallon digester vessel, Rainier Biogas will generate enough electricity to power 600 typical homes.
The elimination of manure lagoon methane emissions combined with clean electricity will reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 9,000 tons of CO2 per year, which is the equivalent of removing 2,200 cars from the road.
In addition, the treatment process separates digested straw from the processed manure, creating a source of cow bedding as well as a soil amendment to nourish fields that grow feed, saving farmers thousands of dollars a month in operational expenses.
Employees with King County?s Water and Land Resources and Wastewater Treatment divisions served as technical advisors related to agricultural sustainability and resource recovery, though the majority of the $492,000 King County has committed to the project came from federal grants appropriated by?? Senator Maria Cantwell and Representative Dave Reichert.
The groundbreaking celebration was also attended by Washington State Director of the USDA?s Office of Rural Development, Mario Villanueva; representatives from Puget Sound Energy, One Pacific Coast Bank, Washington State University and the Andgar Corporation.
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The U.S. Patent Office's Tribute To Steve Jobs Is A Series Of Giant iPhones
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Google Engineer: Mozilla Is A 'Partner' And Chrome's Market Share Is Irrelevant (GOOG)
Last week, Google decided to renew its search bar partnership with Mozilla, effectively keeping Chrome's main competitor, Firefox, in business.
Why did Google do it?
The answer seems simple enough: Google renewed its partnership with Mozilla so Microsoft couldn't swoop in and make Bing the default search engine of choice for Firefox.
But maybe there's more to the story.
Chrome engineer Peter Kasting took to Google+ to "rant" about how misunderstood the transaction really is.
ReadWriteWeb picked up on Kasting's post, which claims that in "funding" Mozilla, Google is "funding a partner," and not a competitor.
Kasting adds that "the primary goal of Chrome is to make the web advance as much and as quickly as possible."
"It's completely irrelevant to this goal whether Chrome actually gains tons of users or whether instead the web advances because the other browser vendors step up their game and produce far better browsers. Either way the web gets better. Job done."
Do you buy it?
Kasting goes on to say that "Firefox is an important product because it can be a different product with different design decisions and serve different users well."
Ultimately, it seems that the success of Firefox is really about ad dollars and driving users to Google, regardless of the "let's be friends" layer on top of the transaction.
"Google succeeds (and makes money) when the web succeeds," Kasting said. "Chrome doesn't?need?to be a Microsoft Office, a direct money-maker."
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Katnip Lounge: PSA for pets!
Kitties!
?It's The Daddy, with a GREAT announcement concerning lost pets.I was working last Saturday morning when the phone rang--I answered and got a computer generated message--and I almost hung up, thinking it was a telemarketer. But just as I was about to press END...I heard "PET AMBER ALERT...PET AMBER ALERT!" ?So I listened and found out a Border Collie Woofie named BRINKS was lost in our neighborhood!
(To our foreign readers, an "Amber Alert" is a PSA that goes out for missing children.)
The message was detailed and informative, told me ALL about BRINKS, and a number to call if he was found/seen. ?I wrote the number down and called to find out more about BRINKS, like what part of our neighborhood was he last seen? ?And guess what? ?When I called I got BRINKS? dad on the phone, and BRINKS was already home! ?Somebody else had seen BRINKS after getting the same phone call and got him to come to them.
Apparently,?PETAMBERALERT.COM?is AWESOME. ?It's available in the US and Canada. ? BRINKS? dad found the site, signed up, and it automatically faxed and emailed ALL the surrounding VETS and SHELTERS.Then, if that wasn?t good enough--it calls EVERYBODY [like me] within a THREE MILE radius, BRINKS lived two miles away from us!
(BRINKS didn?t even live in our 'hood, thank Cod...we don?t need any woofies here, and you know what happens to strays that show up at our door.)
It does cost money to use--but they're worth it, right?
Pets are priceless!
Happy Monday!
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Vikings' Peterson has torn ACL
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson (28) is helped up after injuring his knee during the second half of an NFL football game against Washington Redskins in Landover, Md., Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson (28) is helped up after injuring his knee during the second half of an NFL football game against Washington Redskins in Landover, Md., Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder (7) looks up after getting tangled in the legs of Washington Redskins inside linebacker Perry Riley (56) during the first half of an NFL football game in Landover, Md., Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) ? Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson tore a ligament in his left knee Saturday after taking a direct hit in a 33-26 win over the Washington Redskins.
An MRI showed the anterior cruciate ligament tear after the team returned to Minnesota.
Peterson said he knew "it was something bad" the moment he was hit and that he was in "severe pain" on he lay on the field. He was hurt when tackled by Redskins safety DeJon Gomes at the end of a 3-yard gain on the first offensive play of the second half.
"Anytime you take a blow to the knee like that, you're concerned about the ACL, MCL," Peterson said as he stood on crutches in the locker room. "I'm trying to stay as positive as I can."
The torn ACL would likely sideline Peterson for some nine months and make it difficult for him to return for the start of next season.
On the play after Peterson was hurt, Minnesota's Christian Ponder suffered a head injury when sacked by Adam Carriker and London Fletcher. Ponder remained in the game for one more play ? a third-down incomplete pass ? before heading to the locker room.
Coach Leslie Frazier said Ponder had "concussion-like symptoms." The coach said he's uncertain whether the quarterback will play in next week's season finale against the Chicago Bears.
"We'll have to weigh it when we get back," Frazier said, "and I'll follow the doctor's lead."
Peterson had 12 carries for 38 yards when he left. He also had a 1-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.
Ponder completed 8 of 13 passes for 68 yards. He was replaced by Joe Webb, who scored on a 9-yard run on the next series to give the Vikings the lead.
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Air Jordan shoppers mob stores, some pepper-sprayed
SEATTLE?? Across the country, the long-awaited release of Nike retro Air Jordan basketball shoes on Friday resulted in fights, arrests, and the use pepper spray as police tried to calm frenzied shoppers, many of whom had waited outside stores overnight.
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In Richmond, Calif., a man was arrested after he fired a gun while waiting in line, KTVU TV reported.
In Seattle, Tukwila police officer Mike Murphy said more than 1,000 people lined up to buy shoes at 4 a.m. at four stores in the Westfield Southcenter mall.
He said police used pepper spray on about 20 people who were fighting, while one man was arrested for assault after police say he pushed an officer.
"He did not get his shoes; he went to jail," Murphy said.
"It was not a nice, orderly group of shoppers," Murphy said. "There were a lot of hostile and disorderly people."
Murphy said they smelled marijuana and found alcohol containers at the scene.
The stores sold out and all but about 50 people got their Air Jordans, he added.
Carlisa Williams said she joined the crowd at Southcenter for the experience and ended up buying two pairs of shoes ? one for her and one for her brother. But she said she'll never do anything like it again.
"I don't understand why they're so important to people," Williams told KING-TV. "They're just shoes at the end of the day. It's not worth risking your life over."
Hundreds of customers also lined up outside shoe stores in downtown Seattle and at a mall in Federal Way.
$605 on eBay
The Air Jordan XI Retro "Concord" sneakers, costing $180 retail, are based on a design that first went on sale in 1995.
The new shoes are already being advertised on eBay with asking bids of as much as $605.
Adding to frenzied demand from fashion-conscious shoppers and sneaker collectors, some stores have been given as few as 12 pairs each.
Here's a sampling of incidents elsewhere:
- In Lithona, Ga., police told Fox 5 Atlanta that up to 20 squad cars responded to a mall after a large crowd broke down a door to get inside before a store opened. Police escorted most of the people back outside, but took four into custody. Officers said they had to break a car window to get two toddlers out after a woman went in after the shoes. They said she was taken into custody when she returned to the car.
- In Arlington, Va., a large crowd was waiting outside the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City mall which let in a few buyers at midnight and then at again 6 a.m., NBC Washington reported. Police had to come for crowd control, and many customers left angry.
- At St. Charles Towne Center in Waldorf, Md., people pushed open the doors at several entrances to the mall. Initially, they lined up outside the six stores that were set to sell the shoes, but people began pushing each other, trying to keep their places in line, and the scene turned chaotic. No individual stores were broken into. Officers arrested four juveniles and one adult for disorderly conduct.
- In Dayton, Ohio, fights broke out among shoppers outside a store, and some people sold their spots in line.
- In Indianapolis, Ind., hundreds stampeded a store, a few losing shoes and jackets along the way. One girl was nearly trampled, WTHR TV reported. "I actually jumped over the girl that fell. There was a few people on the ground but I jumped over 'em and kept running," said one shopper. Another shopper said she "was able to be the first one in, but I kinda hit my hand on the door. I was bleeding but it's all good. It was worth it."
- In Taylor, Mich., about 100 people forced their way into a shopping center around 5:30 a.m., damaging decorations and overturning benches. One man was arrested.
It's not the first time the Nikes have caused an uproar. Some people were mugged or even killed for early versions of the Air Jordan shoe, which Nike Inc. created in 1985.
The shoe has been a consistent hit since then with sneaker fans. A new edition was launched each year, and release dates had to be moved to the weekends at some points to keep kids from skipping school to get a pair.
No one anticipated the hysteria around the original Air Jordan, which spawned a subculture of collectors willing to wait hours to buy the latest pair. But the shopping frenzy over the shoe had died down in recent years.
These latest incidents instead seem to be part of trend of increasing acts of violence at retailers this holiday shopping season, such as the shopper who pepper-sprayed others at a Walmart in Los Angeles on Black Friday and crowds looting a clothing store in New York.
Nike, based in Beaverton, Ore., issued a statement Friday afternoon saying: "We are extremely concerned to hear of the reported crowd incidents ... Consumer safety and security is of paramount importance. We encourage anyone wishing to purchase our product to do so in a respectful and safe manner."
The Oregonian reported the Air Jordan appeal is only partly nostalgia for the former NBA star Michael Jordan. Collectors known as "sneakerheads" save them for special occasions or never take them out of the box.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Andrew Chien joins University of Chicago computer science faculty
December 8, 2011
Author: Steve Koppes
Andrew Chien, the newly appointed William Eckhardt Professor in Computer Science, projects that the 10-year future of computer hardware will be ?wildly different? from the past 10 years. Chien, who was vice president of research at Intel Corporation from 2005 to 2010, believes the coming changes in computer science, in general, will be the result of shared research. He?s especially optimistic about the possibilities at UChicago.
?Concentrated excellence allows people to work across disciplines in a way that often doesn?t happen at big institutions,? said Chien, who also has taught at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ?And I believe the most important discoveries of the next few decades will be made in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaborations.?
Chien is one of a handful of new members of the University?s Computer Science faculty who are changing the face of the department as it expands beyond its theoretical foundations. He specializes in systems applications, software, networking, and computer architecture, an applied form of computer science.
?This is a game-changing appointment,? said Robert Fefferman, dean of the Physical Sciences Division. ?Chien is a top systems person who is well known for organizing outstanding groups of faculty in systems, and we want to pursue that here,? he added.
Also joining the faculty is John Lafferty, the Louis Block Professor in Statistics and Computer Science. With expertise in machine learning, Lafferty will strengthen the bridge between Computer Science and Statistics departments that has been in place for a number of years. ?One of the things we have that?s close to unique is a very strong sense of cooperation between statistics and computer science,? said Computer Science Department Chairman John Goldsmith, the Edward Waller Carson Distinguished Service Professor in Computer Science and Linguistics.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Brad Drewett named ATP's new executive chairman and president
By Sportsmail Reporter
Last updated at 8:31 PM on 22nd December 2011
Brad Drewett has been named as the ATP's new executive chairman and president.
Australian Drewett, a former tour professional, steps up from his role as ATP senior executive after being voted in by the organisation's board of directors for a three-year term.
New role: Drewett
The 53-year-old, who reached 34 in the world and represented his country in Davis Cup, said: 'I am honoured to have this opportunity to lead the ATP, an organisation that I am proud to have been a part of since the beginning of my professional playing career.
'The ATP World Tour and men's tennis are stronger than ever and it is my intention to continue to lead the organisation on this successful path, working hand in hand with our players and tournaments. I am very excited about the opportunities ahead.'
ATP Player Council president and 16-time grand slam winner Roger Federer said:
'Brad is a very experienced executive and has been an effective leader within the ATP for many years.
'He understands the global nature of the business as well as the complexities of dealing with all of the Tour's stakeholders. I am confident that Brad's work ethic and leadership will help contribute to the continued success of the ATP World Tour.'
Drewett takes up his post at the start of 2012 and replaces Adam Helfant.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
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Thursday, Dec. 22
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Line dancing at Senior Citizens Center
9:30 a.m. MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers), First Southern Baptist Church, child care provided
Noon Pot luck lunch at Senior Citizens Center
1 p.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), Episcopal Church of the Covenant, 314 N. Adams St.
1 p.m. LIFE class: Writing Your Family History, library
4 p.m. Doors open at the Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
5 to 8 p.m. Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary kitchen is open with full meals
6:30 p.m. Troubadours of JC perform at Bicentennial Manor, 1010 W. Eighth St.
7 p.m. LIFE class: Crochet, library
7:30 p.m. JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie, 203 E. 10th St.
8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Senior Citizens Center errands to Walmart
Friday, Dec. 23
Noon Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
4 p.m. Doors open at the Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
5 to 8 p.m. Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles kitchen is open with short-order meals?
6 p.m. Ogden American Legion Bingo, 515 Riley Blvd.
6 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, Women?s meeting, 119 W. 7th St.
6:30 p.m. JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to public
7 p.m. New Beginnings-New Life Support Group, Martha Hoover Conference Room, Geary County Community Hospital
8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Senior Citizens Center closed
Saturday, Dec. 24
Noon Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
1 p.m. Doors open at JC Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
1 to 8 p.m. Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles kitchen is open with full meals, evening special available from 5 to 8 p.m.
6:30 p.m. JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to public
7 p.m. American Legion Post 45 Bingo, Fourth and Franklin Streets
8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Library closed for holidays
Sunday, Dec. 25
Noon Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
1:30 p.m. American Legion Post 45 Auxiliary Bingo, Fourth and Franklin Streets
8 p.m. Narcotics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Library closed for holidays
Monday, Dec. 26
Noon Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. 7th St.
4 p.m. Doors open at Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
6 p.m. JC South Kiwanis meets at Sirloin Stockade, 426 Golden Belt Blvd.
6:45 p.m. Social Duplicate Bridge, 1022 Caroline Ave.
7 p.m. Hope Al Anon meeting at First United Methodist Church
7 p.m. Hope Al-anon, First United Methodist Church, 804 N. Jefferson.
7 p.m. JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary meeting, 203 E. 10th St.
8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Senior Citizens Center closed
Library closed for holidays
Tuesday, Dec. 27
10 to 11 a.m. Bible study at Senior Citizens Center
4 p.m. Doors open at the Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
5 to 8 p.m. Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary kitchen is open with full meals
6:30 p.m. JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to public
7 p.m. Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol, JC airport terminal, 540 Airport Road
8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Wednesday, Dec. 28
6:45 a.m. Breakfast Optimist Club, Stacy?s Restaurant, Grandview Plaza
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Exercise at Senior Citizens Center
Noon Noon Kiwanis meets at Kite?s, Sixth and Washington streets
Noon Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
12:15 p.m. Weight Watchers, Presbyterian Church 113 W. Fifth St.
1 to 4 p.m. Cards at Senior Citizens Center
5:30 p.m. Weight Watchers, Presbyterian Church, 113 W. Fifth St.
6 to 7:45 p.m. AWANA Club, First Southern Baptist Church
7 p.m. Woodcarvers meet at JCAC studio, 109 W. Seventh St.
8 p.m. Narcotics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, Presbyterian Church, 113 W. Fifth St.
Senior Citizens Center birthday party for December birthdays
Senior Citizens Center errands to Fort Riley and Dillons
Thursday, Dec. 29
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Line dancing at Senior Citizens Center
9:30 a.m. MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers), First Southern Baptist Church, child care provided
1 p.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), Episcopal Church of the Covenant, 314 N. Adams St.
4 p.m. Doors open at the Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
5 to 8 p.m. Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary kitchen is open with full meals
8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Senior Citizens Center errands to Walmart
Friday, Dec. 30
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Exercise at Senior Citizens Center
Noon Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
4 p.m. Doors open at the Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
5 to 8 p.m. Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles kitchen is open with short-order meals?
6 p.m. Ogden American Legion Bingo, 515 Riley Blvd.
6 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, Women?s meeting, 119 W. 7th St.
6:30 p.m. JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to public
8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Senior Citizens Center errands to Dillons
Saturday, Dec. 31
Noon Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
Noon to 1 p.m. Drawing class for elementary ages, JCAC, 109 W. Seventh St.
1 p.m. Doors open at JC Fraternal Order of Eagles, 203 E. 10th St.
1 to 8 p.m. Junction City Fraternal Order of Eagles kitchen is open with full meals, evening special available from 5 to 8 p.m.
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Drawing class for middle school ages, JCAC, 109 W. Seventh St.
6:30 p.m. JC Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie Bingo, 203 E. 10th St., open to public
7 p.m. American Legion Post 45 Bingo, Fourth and Franklin Streets
8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, 119 W. Seventh St.
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California sperm donor at odds with federal regulators (Reuters)
OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) ? An electronics company engineer who the U.S. government considers a one-man sperm bank has fathered an estimated 14 children through free donations of his semen that he advertises over the Internet.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the San Francisco Bay-area sperm donor poses a threat to public health and has ordered him to stop or face up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
But Trent Arsenault, a healthy, 36-year-old bachelor who professes a strong religious upbringing, sees his sperm giveaways as acts of compassion and insists he's not abandoning his genetic generosity without a fight.
"Whatever happens with me sets a precedent, which could mean a lot of childless couples," he told Reuters on Monday. "Does the government need to be in people's bedrooms?"
He and the FDA are now embroiled in what is believed to be the first legal battle of its kind, one that has drawn national media attention and could test the limits of the agency's authority to regulate private donations of sperm offered as gifts directly to prospective mothers rather than through commercial sperm banks.
Such donations, often provided by men who are close friends of the recipients, have grown more frequent as single women, lesbian partners and heterosexual couples with fertility problems increasingly turn to alternative sources for artificial insemination.
Arsenault's prolific willingness to share his genetic material, which he promotes on a website touting his fitness as a donor, caught the scrutiny of the FDA.
PROLIFIC DONOR
During the past five years, he has given his sperm on more than 328 occasions to at least 46 women, resulting in 14 births, according to the FDA's best estimates from documentation Arsenault himself provided. This, the agency maintains, poses a risk to public health.
"Under FDA's regulations, sperm donors are required to be screened for risk factors that may increase the chances of transmitting a communicable disease," FDA spokesperson Rita Chappelle explained in an email.
Sperm banks must comply with precise requirements that include a battery of tests to ensure that the donated sperm does not carry human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B or C, syphilis, chlamydia, gonorrhea, human T-lymphotropic virus, cytomegalovirus or various genetic disorders.
Arsenault gets himself screened every six months for that entire list of diseases but cannot afford the specific FDA-approved tests he is supposed to undergo within seven days of each sperm donation, at a cost of $1,700, he said.
The stringent, costly testing regimen is the main reason sperm banks charge hundreds of dollars for their services, says Sherron Mills, executive director of the Pacific Reproductive Services in San Francisco.
Rates there range from $425 to $600 or more per insemination, and any woman who finds such a sum too onerous to pay is probably unable to afford routine costs associated with being a parent, Mills said. "Once you have kids, it costs every bit as much every month," she said.
INSPECTORS AT THE DOOR
FDA regulators paid four visits last year to Arsenault's home in Fremont, California, a few miles east of San Francisco, to inspect what they regarded as his sperm-bank operation there, even though he only provides his own semen and does not charge for his services.
The FDA's inquiry culminated last fall with one final visit by agency officials to his home, accompanied by police, to hand-deliver the cease-and-desist order.
Chappelle declined to say whether the agency is investigating any other freelance sperm donors, many of whom advertise their services on the Internet. But Arsenault has retained a lawyer who is handling his court challenge.
Pending the outcome of the case, the FDA has refrained from enforcing its order, and Arsenault said he has continued to donate sperm.
Besides providing greater health safeguards, Mills said, sperm banks offer their customers stronger legal protection from donors who might try to assert their paternity rights after a child is born.
Arsenault signs forms waiving any parental rights. But Mills said such agreements have been voided in some California cases when a medical doctor was absent from the transaction.
Eleanor Nicoll, spokeswoman for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said the involvement of a physician is beneficial in and of itself. "If you're trying to address a medical problem, you should seek medical treatment," she said.
But Arsenault argues that outlawing the kind of free service he provides runs the risk of driving some women to seek sperm donations from more questionable sources.
"If you shut out the sperm donors, they are going to have to meet some bar dude," he said. "Spouses would have to cheat on each other."
Arsenault said he gets to know couples before donating to them and maintains relationships with many of the children conceived with his sperm, one reason he doesn't want to stop.
"I have made a commitment to families I donated to," he said. "It's a big emotional process to partner with a donor."
(Editing by Steve Gorman and Greg McCune)
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Newton, Panthers end Texans' win streak at seven (AP)
HOUSTON ? Cam Newton threw two touchdown passes, DeAngelo Williams ran for a score and the Carolina Panthers ended Houston's seven-game winning streak with a 28-13 win over the Texans on Sunday.
Newton completed 13 of 23 passes for 149 yards, outplaying opposing rookie quarterback T.J. Yates. The Panthers (5-9) built a 21-0 halftime lead, then ended Houston's second-half rally when linebacker James Anderson intercepted Yates in the end zone midway through the fourth quarter.
The Texans (10-4) are playing for home-field advantage in the playoffs after clinching the AFC South last weekend.
But their top-ranked defense looked vulnerable without coordinator Wade Phillips, who's on medical leave after undergoing kidney and gall bladder surgery this week. Linebackers coach Reggie Herring made the defensive calls on Sunday.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Tool detects patterns hidden in vast data sets
Friday, December 16, 2011
Researchers from Harvard University and the Broad Institute have developed a tool that can tackle large data sets in a way that no other software program can. Part of a suite of statistical tools called MINE, it can tease out multiple patterns hidden in health information from around the globe, statistics amassed from a season of major league baseball, data on the changing bacterial landscape of the gut, and much more. The researchers report their findings in a paper appearing in the December 16 issue of the journal Science.
From Facebook to physics to the global economy, the world is filled with data sets that could take a person hundreds of years to analyze by eye. Sophisticated computer programs can search these data sets with great speed, but fall short when researchers attempt to even-handedly detect different kinds of patterns in large data collections.
"There are massive data sets that we want to explore, and within them, there may be many relationships that we want to understand," said Broad Institute associate member Pardis Sabeti, senior author of the paper and an assistant professor at the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University. "The human eye is the best way to find these relationships, but these data sets are so vast that we can't do that. This toolkit gives us a way of mining the data to look for relationships."
The researchers tested their analytical toolkit on several large data sets, including one provided by Harvard colleague Peter Turnbaugh who is interested in the trillions of microorganisms that live in the gut. Working with Turnbaugh, the research team harnessed MINE to make more than 22 million comparisons and narrowed in on a few hundred patterns of interest that had not been observed before.
"The goal of this statistic is to take data with a lot of different dimensions and many possible correlations and pick out the top ones," said Michael Mitzenmacher, a senior author of the paper and professor of computer science at Harvard University. "We view this as an exploration tool ? it can find patterns and rank them in an equitable way."
One of the tool's greatest strengths is that it can detect a wide range of patterns and characterize them according to a number of different parameters a researcher might be interested in. Other statistical tools work well for searching for a specific pattern in a large data set, but cannot score and compare different kinds of possible relationships. MINE, which stands for Maximal Information-based Nonparametric Exploration, is able to analyze a broad spectrum of patterns.
"Standard methods will see one pattern as signal and others as noise," said David Reshef, a co-first author of the paper who is currently a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program and also worked on this project as a graduate student in the department of statistics at the University of Oxford. "There can potentially be a variety of different types of relationships in a given data set. What's exciting about our method is that it looks for any type of clear structure within the data, attempting to find all of them."
Not only does MINE attempt to identify any pattern within the data, but it also attempts to do so with an eye toward capturing different types of patterns equally well. "This ability to search for patterns in an equitable way offers tremendous exploratory potential in terms of searching for patterns without having to know ahead of time what to search for," said David Reshef.
MINE is especially powerful in exploring data sets with relationships that may harbor more than one important pattern. As a proof of concept, the researchers applied MINE to social, economic, health, and political data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners. When they compared the relationship between household income and female obesity, they found two contrasting trends in the data. Many countries follow a parabolic rate, with obesity rates rising with income but peaking and tapering off after income reaches a certain level. But in the Pacific Islands, where female obesity is a sign of status, countries follow a steep trend, with the rate of obesity climbing as income increases.
"Many data sets will contain these types of complicated relationships that are guided by multiple drivers," said Sabeti. MINE is able to identify these. "This greatly extends our capability to find interesting relationships in data."
Researchers can use MINE to generate new ideas and connections that no one has thought to look for before.
"Our tool is a hypothesis generator," said Yakir Reshef, a co-first author of the paper and a graduate student in the Weizmann Institute of Science. "The standard paradigm is hypothesis-driven science, where you come up with a hypothesis based on your personal observations. But by exploring the data, you get ideas for hypotheses that would never have occurred to you otherwise."
In addition to testing the ability of the suite of tools to detect patterns in biological and health data, the researchers examined data collected from the 2008 baseball season.
"One question that we thought would be particularly interesting would be to see what things were most strongly associated with salary," said David Reshef. The researchers generated a list of relationships, finding that the strongest associations with salary were hits, total bases, and an aggregate statistic that reflects how many runs a player generated for a team. "Given the stakes, baseball is so well documented. We're curious to see what can be done in this realm with tools like MINE."
Researchers from many different fields, including systems biology, computer science, statistics, and mathematics, all contributed to this project. "People are getting better at combining data from different sources, and in some ways, this project is in the spirit of that," said Yakir Reshef. "The project brought together authors from many disciplines. It symbolizes the kind of collaborations that we hope people will use this for in the future."
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Cement plant near Mojave to pay EPA fine
A CalPortland cement plant near the high desert community of Mojave has agreed to pay a fine of $1.4 million and spend $1.3 million on equipment needed to reduce emissions of pollutants that cause asthma and generate smog, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday.
The penalties were part of a settlement that capped an investigation by the EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice into the CalPortland Co. facility, one of the largest emitters of nitrogen oxide pollution in California.
"This is one of the biggest fines against a cement facility," said Jared Blumenfeld, the EPA's regional administrator for the Pacific Southwest. "It comes at a time when the EPA is focusing on cement production as a sector which can make significant improvements in air quality nationwide."CalPortland Vice President Scott Isaacson said, "We've chosen to settle this matter and we are not going to quarrel with EPA. Our focus will be implementation and resolution of the settlement, a process that will unfold over the next few years."
The 58-year-old plant employs 130 people and is one of the largest businesses in the unincorporated community of about 4,000 people best known as home to the Mojave Air and Space Port, a campus of more than 60 companies engaged in aerospace development, manufacturing and flight testing.
The EPA probe revealed that CalPortland made significant modifications at the plant that increased emissions of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide without first obtaining a pre-construction permit and installing pollution control equipment required by the Clean Air Act. The company also failed to submit accurate and complete permit applications, the EPA said.
The settlement ensures that the proper equipment will be installed to reduce annual pollution by at least 1,200 tons of nitrogen oxide and 360 tons of sulfur dioxide, said Ignacio S. Moreno, assistant attorney general for the environmental and natural resources division of the Department of Justice.
The plant, about 95 miles northeast of Los Angeles in Kern County, now emits about 3,200 tons of nitrogen oxides and 1,200 tons of sulfur dioxide per year, the EPA said.
CalPortland has one year to install and operate emission controls for nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, the EPA said.
Nitrogen oxides are linked to health problems, visual impairment and asthma. Sulfur dioxide, in high concentrations, can affect breathing and aggravate existing respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
A Circuit in Every Cell
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Researchers in nanomedicine have long dreamed of an age when molecular-scale computing devices could be embedded in our bodies to monitor health and treat diseases before they progress. The advantage of such computers, which would be made of biological materials, would lie in their ability to speak the biochemical language of life.
Several research groups have recently reported progress in this field. A team at the California Institute of Technology, writing in the journal Science, made use of DNA nanostructures called seesaw gates to construct logic circuits analogous to those used in microprocessors. Just as silicon-based components use electric current to represent 1?s and 0?s, bio-based circuits use concentrations of DNA molecules in a test tube. When new DNA strands are added to the test tube as ?input,? the solution undergoes a cascade of chemical interactions to release different DNA strands as ?output.? In theory, the input could be a molecular indicator of a disease, and the output could be an appropriate therapeutic molecule. A common problem in constructing a computer in a test tube is that it is hard to control which interactions among molecules occur. The brilliance of the seesaw gate is that a particular gate responds only to particular input DNA strands.
In a subsequent Nature paper, the Caltech researchers showed off the power of their technique by building a DNA-based circuit that could play a simple memory game. A circuit with memory could, if integrated into living cells, recognize and treat complex diseases based on a series of biological clues.
This circuitry has not been integrated into living tissue, however, in part because its ability to communicate with cells is limited. Zhen Xie of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his collaborators have recently made progress on this front. As they reported in Science, they designed an RNA-based circuit that was simpler but could still distinguish modified cancer cells from noncancerous cells and, more important, trigger the cancer cells to self-destruct.
Both techniques have been used only in artificial scenarios. Yet the advances in DNA-based circuits offer a new, powerful platform to potentially realize researchers? long-held biocomputing dreams.
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South Pole feat?celebrated at centennial ceremony
OSLO, Norway?? Polar adventurers, scientists and the prime minister of Norway gathered at the bottom of the world Wednesday to mark the 100th anniversary of explorer Roald Amundsen becoming the first to reach the South Pole.
Under a crystal blue sky and temperatures of 40 below zero Fahrenheit (-40 degrees C), the group remembered the Norwegian explorer's achievement on the spot where he placed his flag on Dec. 14, 1911.
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"We are here to celebrate one of the greatest feats in human history," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said as he unveiled an ice sculpture of Amundsen.
Several expeditions skied across Antarctica to attend the ceremony, which was broadcast on Norway's NRK television. Many were delayed and had to be flown the last stretch.
"Our respect for Amundsen's feat 100 years ago grew as we traveled in his ski tracks, and felt the physical challenges he experienced," said Jan-Gunnar Winther, director of the Norwegian Polar Institute.
Winther dropped out of an expedition trying to follow Amundsen's entire route, skiing 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) to the South Pole, and was airlifted the last part.
Two other members of his group, however ? cross-country great Vegard Ulvang and polar historian Harald Dag Joelle ? reached the South Pole on skis late Wednesday, the Norwegian Polar Institute said.
Amundsen's rival also honored
Stoltenberg also honored British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who lost the race against Amundsen and arrived at the South Pole more than month later, only to find Amundsen's tent, a Norwegian flag and a letter from Amundsen. Scott and four companions died on the way out.
"Scott and his men will forever be remembered for their valor and their determination to reach the most inhospitable place on earth," Stoltenberg said.
Amundsen and his team spent almost two months skiing across the frozen Ross Sea, climbing steep hills to the Antarctic plateau at about 9,800 feet (3,000 meters) and crossing vast ice fields to reach the pole.
During the preparations they placed several depots of food and supplies along parts of the route before the final assault toward the pole. Once there, they spent three days doing scientific measurements before starting the return trip.
Experts agree that Amundsen succeeded because he was better-prepared than Scott. Amundsen used skis and dog sleds, while Scott used motorized sleds that broke down and ponies that couldn't take the cold. The men ended up pulling their sleds themselves.
Amundsen's well-marked depots contained over three tons of supplies, while Scott had fewer and badly marked depots the expedition often couldn't find in the blizzards and cold.
How times have changed
Norwegian adventurer Boerge Ousland, who led a group of 16 people to the South Pole just in time for the anniversary, said the main difference between then and now is that today's expeditions have better communication and navigation tools, and faster transportation to and from Antarctica.
"You don't need to be away for three years," he told The Associated Press by satellite phone from Antarctica.
Ousland became the first person to cross Antarctica alone in 1997. Felicity Aston of Britain is currently trying to become the first woman to do it.
In contrast to the bitter competition between Amundsen and Scott, Stoltenberg pointed out that the South Pole today is marked by international cooperation, regulated by the Antarctic treaty, where peace and stability, environmental activity and scientific research are in focus.
Key research topic: climate
Among the most important fields of research are global warming and its effects on Antarctica.
"The loss of ice in the Antarctic can have grave global consequences. Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott and their men went to extraordinary lengths to accomplish their goals. We must be prepared to do the same," Stoltenberg said, alluding to the struggle against climate change.
Scientists and support personnel from the U.S. Antarctic Program at the Amundsen-Scott research station at the South Pole took part in the ceremony, and stressed that the occasion was a special day not only for Norway.
"It's also a special day in human history since the real discovery of the last of the great continents started," said Simon Stephenson, who represented USAP.
The USAP had not wanted a new permanent monument by the scientific base, but the ice sculpture is bound to stay put for a long time since temperatures at the South Pole rarely rise above freezing.
Amundsen disappeared aboard a French Latham 47 flying boat in the Barents Sea on June 18, 1928. The plane had been searching for the gas-filled airship "Italia," which crashed when returning from the North Pole during an expedition led by Italian aeronautical engineer Umberto Nobile.
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Syrian activists say more than 25 killed (AP)
BEIRUT ? Violence across Syria killed at least 25 people Wednesday, including eight soldiers who were gunned down by army defectors in a retaliatory ambush after government troops destroyed a civilian car, activists said.
It was the second day in a row in which an attack by President Bashar Assad's forces on civilians appears to have brought a quick and deadly act of revenge by anti-regime fighters. The ambush was the latest sign that the once-peaceful protest movement is growing into an insurgency.
The brazen midday attack came hours after troops fired upon a civilian car traveling through the village of Khattab in the countryside of the central province of Hama, killing all five passengers inside.
The vehicle "exploded in a ball of fire," said Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground inside the country.
Hours later, he said, gunmen ambushed a convoy of four military jeeps passing through the nearby village of al-Asharna on the northern outskirts of the city of Hama, spraying it with bullets. The gunmen are believed to be military defectors seeking revenge for the dawn attack targeting the car, he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the ambush, but the Free Syrian Army, a Turkish-based defector group, has in the past claimed similar attacks across the country.
Abdul-Rahman and other activists who confirmed the initial car attack did not say why soldiers targeted the vehicle, but security forces frequently hunt for suspects in the restive area.
"The area is a stronghold of dissent where anti-regime protests are routinely held and where there are a number of (army) defectors," he said.
The Local Coordination Committees group said the car was destroyed by a shell fired by the army. A third activist based in Syria who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal said the car was struck by a hail of bullets.
The differing accounts could not be immediately reconciled.
Activists said 17 other people were believed killed by security forces in Homs, Idlib, Daraa and elsewhere.
The Observatory also reported heavy gunfire in Hirak village in the southern province of Daraa, as troops backed by tanks and armored personnel carriers hunted for activists. Three anti-regime military defectors were wounded in clashes with Syrian security forces in the area, it said.
The new shootings follow a spike in violence which left 38 dead on Tuesday, mostly in a restive northwestern province bordering Turkey.
The fighting in Idlib province included an ambush by army defectors, who killed seven government troops traveling in a convoy. Activists said the defectors were avenging the shooting of 11 civilians in a nearby village.
A 46-year-old Turkish citizen, Munur Dural, was killed near the northern city of Idlib, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency said without citing sources on Wednesday.
NTV television, citing local sources, said Dural was killed Tuesday when he was caught in the middle of a shootout near Idlib. Dural was returning to Saudi Arabia after vacationing in Turkey, the channel added.
There was no immediate comment from Turkey's Foreign Ministry.
The U.N. says more than 5,000 people have been killed since the revolt erupted in March.
Separately, a pro-government newspaper reported Syria's ambassador to the United States, Imad Mustafa, has been named envoy to China.
Al-Watan newspaper said President Assad had issued a decree appointing Mustafa, who was recalled in October in response to the Washington's withdrawal of U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford from Damascus over security concerns. Ford returned to Syria last week.
There was no official confirmation from Syrian authorities of the newspaper report. It was not immediately clear whether the appointment would affect strained relations, or whether it meant Syria would keep the U.S. post vacant.
China, along with Russia ? two veto-wielding countries on the U.N. Security Council ? have been supportive of Damascus. Last month the two countries vetoed a Western-backed U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the bloodshed in Syria.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
16th-century erotic poem found inside book
Nearly 450 years ago, when England was tearing itself apart over religion, a Catholic woman named Lady Elizabeth Dacre wrote an elegant but at times erotic Latin love poem to Sir Anthony Cooke, a Protestant and tutor to King Edward VI, the successor of Henry VIII.?
That poem was rediscovered recently in the West Virginia University library, inside a 1561 copy of Chaucer. It hints at a love affair that was not to be.
"It's a very beautiful piece and I think for her it was quite a prized possession, because it's been so very carefully copied out and looked after," Elaine Treharne, a professor at Florida State University, told LiveScience.
While a visiting professor at the university, Treharne discovered the love poem in the library's rare-book collection inside the cover of the Chaucer book. Working with colleagues, she translated it from Latin and confirmed Elizabeth Dacre as its author. Her analysis, which will be detailed in an upcoming issue of the journal Renaissance Studies, also suggests Dacre wrote the poem in the 1550s or 1560s.
Love translated
The first part of the poem, as translated by Treharne, seems to refer to a period in 1553 when Cooke, under the reign of Mary I, was sent to the Tower of London and then exiled. It reads:
"The goodbye I tried to speak but could not utter with my tongue
by my eyes I delivered back to yours.
That sad love that haunts the countenance in parting
contained the voice that I concealed from display,
just as Penelope, when her husband Ulysses was present,
was speechless ? the reason is that sweet love of a gaze ..."
The erotic ending of the poem quotes a Roman writer named Martial:
"Long enough am I now; but if your shape should swell under its grateful burden, then shall I become to you a narrow girdle."
While Cooke would almost certainly have seen the poem, Treharne isn't certain that there actually was a romance between the two.
"It might represent some kind of love affair, (or) it might be a more academic exercise, it's very difficult to determine," Treharne said. "If it was a rhetorical exercise I wonder why she kept it."
A love story behind the poem?
Dacre was born as Elizabeth Leybourne in 1536, according to historical sources. And so at the time Cooke went into exile in 1553 she would have been 17 years old and he well into his 40s. Cooke's wife, Anne, died in that same year. It's possible that Cooke tutored the unmarried Elizabeth, Treharne said.
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"If this affair occurred, it might have taken place, perhaps at court, around 1553, at which time Cooke left for the Continent for five years, his own wife, Anne, having died in that same year," Treharne writes in the journal article.
In 1555, while Cooke was in exile and Mary I was on the throne, Elizabeth married Thomas Dacre, an English baron. The fact that she refers to herself as a "Dacre" in the poem suggests that she composed it sometime after she was married.
A Tudor power couple
In November 1558, Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, ascended to the throne. Cooke returned from exile, a widower. At this point Dacre was married with children.
The only opportunity Elizabeth would have had to get together with Cooke, without divorcing Thomas, would have been in 1566 when the Baron died. However, this never happened and mere months after the Baron's death the widowed Dacre married Thomas Howard, the Duke of Norfolk and a Protestant himself.
"I think it was a political move, that that marriage was a very political undertaking," Treharne said. Dacre had a considerable amount of land, as did the Duke. "Marrying the Duke of Norfolk and consolidating all that land would have been the most judicious thing to do."
It was a union that made her powerful as well. "At one point she was probably the next- most-powerful woman in the kingdom, after the Queen," said Treharne.
But while she had power, she may not have had love. She died while giving birth in 1567. A book published in 1857 by a latter Duke of Norfolk suggested that when she was dying she was not allowed to see a Catholic priest, something which Treharne calls an act of "cruelty."
"The Duchesse . . . desir?d to have been reconciled by a Priest, who for that end was conducted into the garden, yet could not have access unto her, either by reason of the Duke?s vigilance to hinder it, or at least of his continual presence in the chamber at that time." (From the book "The lives of Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel and of Anne Dacres, his Wife," published in 1857.)
As for Sir Cooke, he never remarried, and died in 1576, at more than 70 years of age. A statue was erected in his memory.
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