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Nations Intensify Efforts to Suppress Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

West African leaders quickened the pace of emergency efforts on Thursday in response to a mounting tally of fatalities from the worst known outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, canceling travel plans and authorizing measures to combat the disease including house-to-house searches and the deployment of the army and the police.

The World Health Organization said the death toll had risen to 729 from 672, after 57 more people died during a four-day period between July 24 and 27 in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. In the same period, 122 new cases were detected, bringing the total of confirmed and probably infected patients to 1,323. The toll is the highest in a single outbreak since the virus was identified almost four decades ago.

Federal health officials in the United States on Thursday advised Americans to avoid nonessential travel to the West African countries Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia because of the Ebola virus outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a “Level 3” warning, its most serious type of travel notice, indicating “high risk” to visitors in the affected countries. This kind of advisory is uncommon and reserved for grave situations: It has been used in the past for the outbreak of the highly contagious respiratory disease SARS, and for the earthquake in Haiti.Continue reading the main storyVideo

Desperate to contain the outbreak, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone declared a public health emergency calling for the deployment of security forces to quarantine the epicenters of infection. He also said he would not be making a planned visit to the United States.

His actions followed steps announced in Liberia to close schools, put nonessential government workers on compulsory leave for 30 days and order the deployment of security forces to combat the outbreak. The Peace Corps, an outreach program run by the United States government, said it was withdrawing its 340 volunteers from the three countries most affected by the virus.

“The epidemic is very big, very dispersed,” said Dr. Hilde de Clerck, the interim emergency coordinator in Sierra Leone for Doctors Without Borders. “It seems logical that the country is reacting. I do understand that the central government has to do something. Cases are now being reported in more southern regions. There is a geographical spread. We do see that it is several districts that are hit now.”

Nigeria recorded its only known death from Ebola when an American working in Liberia died there after landing in Lagos earlier this month. The airport authorities said on Thursday they had begun checking passengers arriving from the three main affected countries — Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea — for high temperatures, and would order compulsory blood tests for those with worrisome symptoms. Airport checks are also in force in Sierra Leone, and Ghana announced new screening procedures on Thursday.

In an address to the nation in Sierra Leone posted late Wednesday on the presidential website, Mr. Koroma said the emergency would “enable us take a more robust approach to deal with the Ebola outbreak.”

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Mr. Koroma, who had been planning to attend a United States-Africa summit meeting in Washington, said that he would instead travel to Guinea on Friday to discuss a regional response to the outbreak. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia was also reported to have canceled her attendance at the gathering in Washington. President Alpha Condé of Guinea still plans to attend, a spokeswoman at the Guinea Embassy in Washington confirmed on Thursday.

Who’s to Blame for The Bachelorette’s Slut-Shaming?

I don't think that Nick meant to hit Andi below the belt by saying
why did you make love with me, if you were going to pick the other
guy two days later.  At that point in the game why would Andi sleep
with both of the men if she was going to pick Josh?  If I were Josh,
I would have had second thoughts about the relationship, if I found
out that my future wife slept with another man two days before our
engagement.

Fox News The Five cohost Bob Beckel called The Bachelorette’s
Andi Dorfman a “slut” on his show Tuesday. It’s a demeaning
and infuriating comment that caters to double standards for
women and men, but it’s also the kind that The Bachelorette 
thrives on.

Why did Beckel make the comment about Andi and not the dozens
of women on these shows that have come before her? For those of
you who don’t keep up on reality TV news, a sort of bombshell was
dropped on an otherwise dull season of The Bachelorette Monday:
the runner-up of this season, Nick Viall, broke an unspoken rule on
Monday night: he talked about sex.

Both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette walk a fine line between
 prudishness and salaciousness by implying sex without ever
explicitly discussing it. This tricky balance comes to a head in
the third-to-last episode of each season when that season’s
Bachelor or Bachelorette can opt into sharing the Fantasy Suite
with any or all of the three remaining contestants vying for his or
her heart. The two sleep in the same room (littered with candles and.
 rose petals, though apparently not condoms) overnight, and the
cameras stop filming. Sex is implied, but any footage or discussion
 of it is edited out.

Until Monday, on the show’s live after show. “If you weren’t in love
with me, I’m just not sure why, like, why you made love with me,
” Nick said to Andi on the show, mentioning that their night together
 was, to him, “fiance-type stuff.”

Andi responded that his question was “below the belt” but reassured
him that the feelings she had shared with him were real.

(N.B. Andi shared the Fantasy Suite with two of the remaining three
contestants. Most Bachelors and Bachelorettes will spend the night
 with all three.)

The immediate reaction on Twitter was that Nick was a crazy stalker
who just slut-shamed Andi as revenge. The secondary fallout, however,
has been pointed at Andi. Enter, Fox News.

“She’s a slut!” Bob Beckel said on his show. “I’m not kidding you.
She sleeps with someone else, and then doesn’t tell the guy about it.
This is what America’s come to, this crap.”

Panelist Andrea Tantaros responded with outrage: “Are you kidding
me right now? Excuse me, Bob. You probably sleep with a different
woman every night.”

“I’m not some Bachelor or Bachelorette,” he shot back.

“Those in glass boudoirs, Beckel, those in glass Boudoirs,” she replied.

Even if Nick didn’t intend to slut-shame Andi with his question,
others inevitably picked up on his very public revelation about
their reality TV relationship and did the deed for him.

And I honestly do believe Nick did not intend any harm. Nick’s
entire M.O. this season of The Bachelor has been being skeptical
of the process in the beginning but allowing himself to become
vulnerable enough to fall in love with Andi on his “journey.” The
show also teased that Nick was notoriously bad with breakups
(this one is no exception),  and he was visibly shaking during their
face-to-face conversation.  I would like to (perhaps optimistically)
believe that Nick was truly hurt and trying to be honest about his
 feelings when he asked Andi .that question, and simply disregarded.
the show’s concocted and unspoken rule that one does not talk
about sex.

And if Nick was a woman, this complaint would never be considered
some sort of insult to a male Andi. It wouldn’t reflect poorly on Andi
if she were a man who had had sex with both contestants.
We wouldn’t see complaints on Fox News.

However, Nick’s question has a problematic undertone: he is implying
that Andi ought not sleep with someone unless she is in love with him.

And even though this franchise has aired for 12 years under the same
 premise, we still don’t like to think about the fact that people are having
sex with multiple people on this show.

Correction: we don’t like to think about women having sex on the show.

After all, the men are allowed to be “players.” In the “Men Tell All”
episode before this year’s finale, it was revealed that one of the
contestants failed a lie detector test about the number of women
he has slept with, saying previously that he had slept with less
than 20. The audience laughed. When Nick asked his question,
jaws dropped.

It’s 2014, so Andi has the right—like any other Bachelor or
Bachelorette or human being—to have sex for a myriad of
 reasons besides love. Plus, the show is also constructed to make
her develop feelings for more than one man at a time, so it
shouldn’t be shocking that she kisses or sleeps with or does
whatever with multiple men.

Nick’s question actually reminds me of an incident from the last
 season of The Bachelor in which a contestant named Clare showed
up at Bachelor Juan Pablo’s room at 4 a.m. and invited him for
a swim in the ocean.  They swam—and then some. Again, the show
danced around the sex,
but it was heavily implied.

After the incident, Juan Pablo essentially slut-shamed Clare for having
sex with him—even though he consented at the time. “Maybe it wasn’t
right,” he told her on the show. “I have a daughter, I don’t want her to
see what happens, if she sees it.”

Clare (understandably) was mortified because she believed she was a
consenting adult having sex with another consenting adult. “I knew
when we were in the ocean, that it was a mutual feeling. If he didn’t
think it was right he shouldn’t have done it. I would have respected
that,” she said to the camera as she cried.

Again, the woman is blamed for seducing the man, for having sex,
for not waiting until she is in love. (Juan Pablo uses his daughter
and family as a weapon, contrasting Clare to a motherly figure
for his daughter and essentially calling her a slut.)

So if you’re a woman, it’s best not to enter the Bachelor universe.
Talk of sex is frowned upon, but inevitable. Though the show itself
doesn’t encourage slut-shaming—Juan Pablo did that all on
his own—clearly the audience wants to use the show as a platform
for slut-shaming, as happened with Nick this season. After 12 years,
tacit agreements about avoiding sex talk are breaking down. Will
 anyone try to  “pull a Nick” next season and bring up sex or even
use sex talk as a strategy? Will the producers embrace this brave
new world of candidness? If so, talking heads like Bob
Beckel will be waiting in the weeds, ready to cry “slut.”

Obama to GOP: 'Stop just hating all the time and get something done to boost Middle Class

Pointing the finger at Republicans for congressional inaction, President Barack Obama chided lawmakers Wednesday for spending the waning days before their month-long summer break trying to sue him rather than addressing economic issues that could boost the middle class.

"Stop being mad all the time. Stop just hating all the time. Come on," the president said in a boisterous and sharply partisan speech in Kansas City.

Addressing about 1,500 supporters at the historic Uptown Theatre, Obama cast the stalemate in Washington as a personal reaction to his presidency, accusing Republicans of choosing political stunts to undermine him over taking action on issues like immigration, transportation spending and tax reform.

Obama's tough talk came hours before Republicans were planning to push a bill through the House authorizing a lawsuit against Obama and accusing him of exceeding his powers in enforcing his health care law. Obama dismissed the suit as a waste of time, noting he'd likely be out of office by the time it's resolved and warning that taxpayers were on the hook for the legal expenses.

"I know they're not that happy that I'm president," Obama said. "I've only got a couple of years left. Come on, let's get some work done. Then you can be mad at the next president."

At the same time, Obama offered an optimistic assessment of an improving U.S. economy on the heels of new data showing strong growth in the second quarter of the year. "We hold the best cards," he said. "Things are getting better. The decisions we make now cold make things even better than that."

Embracing the populist economic message that Democrats are promoting ahead of the midterm elections, Obama said he was glad that stock markets and corporate profits were booming, but said the country must ensure that the middle class has opportunities to take part in that prosperity. It was a theme the president underscored the night before over ribs and beer as he shared a barbecue dinner with four Kansas City residents in an effort to highlight the struggles of working Americans.

After his speech, Obama meandered along picturesque Main Street in nearby Parkville, Missouri, popping in shops and greeting folks with an iced tea in hand. He cajoled patrons of Parkview Coffee to let him pay for their drinks. "It's not that often the president buys you a cup of coffee," Obama said.

MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY LEAVING 'DANCING WITH THE STARS'

When "Dancing with the Stars" returns on September 15, there will be one less Chmerkovskiy on the dance floor.


Maksim and Val Chmerkovskiy appeared on "The View" Tuesday morning. The elder Chmerkovskiy announced that he will not be returning to the show. 

"I'm not trying to do Lebron 'The Announcement.' There's no big announcement. I'm done dancing," said Chmerkovskiy, who clarified he meant dancing for the show.

Other members of the panel responded with a resounding, "No!"

"I feel like I've done a lot and not a lot for me," Maksim said.

He praised his fellow professional dancers, saying the show has so much talent.

Maksim won his first mirror ball last May with Olympian Meryl Davis.

THOUSANDS OF SEA CREATURES WASH ASHORE IN SAN FRANCISCO

Thousands of jellyfish-like creatures have washed ashore in at least two places along the Bay Area shoreline. It's very unusual for this time of year.

Beach-goers were watching their steps Tuesday as they walked on the sand at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. They're worried about the blue sea creatures scattered on the sand that washed ashore on Monday.

While the sight may seem bizarre to onlookers, Rich Mooi of the California Academy of Sciences says it's not. 

"They are not dangerous at all," he said. 

Velella Velella is the scientific name for these creatures. They're related to a jellyfish but don't have a harmful sting. They float and sometimes wash up by the thousands -- even millions.

"It's a little unusual to have this bloom, this huge number of velella coming up this late in the summer," Mooi said.

Velellas are also called "by the wind sailors" because of their small, transparent fins that act as sails. 

"And when the wind blows on shore, the wind will blow against the sails and push the little guys up onto the shoreline," Mooi said, adding that there's an abundance of velellas out there, and something like this won't hurt the species.

It's strange for so many to wash up this late in the season, but there's plenty that will reproduce and come back next year.

Orlando Bloom & Justin Bieber Fight in Ibiza

Orlando Bloom reportedly got into a fight with Justin Bieber on early Wednesday morning (July 30) in Ibiza, Spain.

According to TMZ, the 37-year-old actor threw a punch at the 20-year-old entertainer while inside Cipriani restaurant.

Sources say they didn't see any physical fighting, but you can hear Justin yelling at Orlando, before Orlando approaches him and they seemingly talk it out.

In case you didn’t know, Justin allegedly got very close to Orly‘s ex-Miranda Kerr during the 2012 Victoria Secret Fashion Show.

Meanwhile, Orlando was spotted hanging out with Justin‘s ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez back in April.

Carnage at U.N. school as Israel pounds Gaza refugee camp

GAZA/JERUSALEM, July 30 (Reuters) - Israeli shelling killed at least 15 Palestinians sheltering in a school in Gaza's biggest refugee camp on Wednesday, the Health Ministry said, as Egyptian mediators prepared a revised proposal to try to halt more than three weeks of fighting.

Some 3,300 Palestinians, including many women and children, were taking refuge in the building in Jabalya refugee camp when it came under fire around dawn, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said.

Israeli artillery that hit our school," UNRWA chief Pierre Krahenbuhl said in a statement after representatives of the agency visited the scene and examined fragments, craters and other damage.

Blood splattered floors and mattresses inside classrooms at the Jabalya Girls Elementary School and survivors picked through shattered glass and debris for flesh and body parts to bury.

"I call on the international community to take deliberate international political action to put an immediate end to the continuing carnage," Krahenbuhl said.

The Gaza Health Ministry put the number of dead in the attack at 15 after a local UNRWA official said 19 had been killed. Krahenbujl, however, said it was premature to give an official death toll.

"But we know that there were multiple civilian deaths and injuries, including of women and children and the UNRWA guard, who was trying to protect the site," Krahenbujl said.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said militants had fired mortar bombs from the vicinity of the school and troops shot back in response. The incident was still being reviewed.

The army said it would hold fire unilaterally in limited areas of the Gaza Strip where soldiers were not operating for four hours from 3 p.m. (1200 GMT) as a "temporary humanitarian window". It was not clear whether that included Jabalya.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the Hamas Islamist movement which controls Gaza, dismissed the partial, temporary ceasefire as a "media stunt", saying it would not allow rescue workers to retrieve casualties in combat zones Israel had excluded.

Israel has been shelling in Jebalya, where some 120,000 people live, since Tuesday, in what the chief Israeli military spokesman, Brigadier-General Motti Almoz, described as a slight broadening of its campaign against militants in the Hamas Islamist-dominated Gaza Strip.

UNRWA said on Tuesday it had found a cache of rockets concealed at another Gaza school - the third such discovery since the conflict began. It condemned unnamed groups for putting civilians at risk.

Krahenbuhl said the Jabalya school's precise location and the fact that it was housing thousands of displaced people had been communicated to the Israeli military 17 times, with the last notification just hours before the fatal shelling.

BLOCKADE

Israeli tank fire also struck the main market in Jabalya on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 40 others, the health ministry said. Seven members of one family died in an Israeli attack in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

The ministry said 1,287 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed since Israel began its offensive on July 8 with the declared aim of halting cross-border rocket fire.

US economy grew at strong 4 percent rate in spring

WASHINGTON — After a dismal winter, the U.S. economy sprang back to life in the April-June quarter, growing at a fast 4 percent annual rate on the strength of higher consumer and business spending.

The rebound reported Wednesday by the Commerce Department followed a sharp 2.1 percent annualized drop in economic activity in the January-March quarter. That figure was revised up from a previous estimate of a 2.9 percent drop. But it was still the biggest contraction since early 2009 in the depths of the Great Recession.

Last quarter’s bounce-back was broad-based, with consumers, businesses, the housing industry and state and local governments all combining to fuel growth. The robust expansion will reinforce analysts’ view that the economy’s momentum is extending into the second half of the year, when they forecast an annual growth rate of around 3 percent.

The second quarter’s 4 percent growth in the gross domestic product — the economy’s total output of goods and services — was the best showing since a 4.5 percent increase in July-September quarter of 2013.

At the same time, a higher trade deficit slowed growth as imports outpaced a solid increase in exports.

Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said that given the solid rebound last quarter, he’s boosting his estimate for growth this year to a 2 percent annual rate, up from a previous 1.7 percent forecast. Ashworth said the rebound also supported his view that the Federal Reserve, which is ending a two-day meeting Wednesday, will be inclined to start raising interest rates early next year.

Most economists have been predicting that the Fed would wait until mid-2015 to start raising rates.

“At the margin, this GDP report supports our view that an improving economy will persuade the Fed to begin raising rates in March next year,” Ashcroft wrote in a research note.

Ashcroft is among a group of economists who think growing strength in the job market and the overall economy will prod the Fed to move faster to raise rates to make sure inflation doesn’t get out of hand.

The GDP report showed that one measure of inflation rose 2 percent last quarter, up from a 1.3 percent rise in the first quarter. The Fed’s inflation target is 2 percent, and for two years the GDP measure of inflation has been running below that level. Low inflation has given the Fed leeway to focus on boosting growth to fight high unemployment.

The economy’s sudden contraction in the first quarter of this year had resulted from several factors. A severe winter disrupted activity across many industries and kept consumers away from shopping malls and auto dealerships. Consumer spending slowed to an annual growth rate of just 1.2 percent, the weakest showing in nearly three years.

Last quarter, consumer spending, powered by pent-up demand, accelerated to a growth rate of 2.5 percent. That was double the pace of the first quarter.  

Spending on durable goods such as autos surged at a 14 percent annual rate, the biggest quarterly gain since 2009. Analysts said that was an encouraging sign of consumers’ growing willingness to increase purchases of big-ticket items like cars.

Consumer spending is closely watched because it accounts for more than two-thirds of economic activity.

In the April-June quarter, business investment in new equipment jumped at a 7 percent rate after having fallen 1 percent in the first quarter. That setback had reflected the expiration of business tax breaks at the end of 2013. Those tax breaks led companies to boost equipment spending at the end of last year.

Businesses, optimistic about future demand, increased their stockpiling last quarter. The increase in inventories contributed two-fifths of the growth in the quarter after having subtracted 1 percentage point from first-quarter activity.

Housing, which had been falling for two straight quarters, rebounded in the spring, growing at a 7.5 percent annual rate.

Government spending also recovered after two consecutive declines. The strength came from state and local governments, which offset the seventh quarterly decline in federal government spending.

With the new report, the government also released its annual revisions to GDP data for the previous three years. Those revisions showed that growth was slightly faster in 2013 than previously thought, mainly because the second half of the year was healthier.

But the government said growth in 2011 and 2012 was slightly lower than previously estimated. The new figures showed growth of 2.2 percent in 2013, 2.3 percent in 2012 and 1.6 percent in 2011.

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, said he thinks growth could accelerate to above 4 percent in 2015. He said he expects support from continued solid gains in hiring, which should translate into strength in consumer spending. Employers have added at least 200,000 jobs for five straight months — the best such stretch since the late 1990s tech boom.

US, EUROPE IMPOSE TOUGH NEW SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA

President Barack Obama has announced new economic sanctions against key sectors of the Russian economy in the latest move by the U.S. to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his support for Ukrainian rebels.

Obama says the sanctions target Russia's energy, weapons and finance industries, including big banks.

The U.S. penalties follow other new sanctions that European Union leaders agreed to earlier Tuesday.

The European penalties are similar to sanctions imposed by the U.S. just two weeks ago targeting other big Russian banks, and energy and defense companies.

The U.S. and its European allies blame Russian-supported separatists for destabilizing eastern Ukraine and for this month's downing of a commercial airplane carrying 298 people as it flew over rebel-controlled territory.

Sarah Palin Launches News Channel

Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin took a lot of heat on Monday, following the launch of the Sarah Palin Channel, an online, subscription news service, that will be all Sarah's thoughts all the time. The hockey-mom-turned-Alaskan-Governor-turned-political-mouthpiece claims, "We’ll go beyond the soundbites and the media’s politically correct filter to get to the truth."

The monthly subscription fee to SarahPalinChannel.com is $9.95 a month, or $99.95 a year (with a two-week free trial period). Or, as Time magazine pointed out, "That’s 96 cents more a month than a Netflix streaming subscription [and] 95 cents more a year than an annual subscription to Amazon Prime, which also offers music, streaming TV and movies, Kindlebenefits, and free shipping."

CALIFORNIA TUBERCULOSIS PATIENT FOUND & ARRESTED For REFUSING TREATMENT

FRESNO, California --

A Northern California transient who was charged after authorities say he refused treatment for tuberculosis has been found and arrested, according to San Joaquin County officials.
Eduardo Rosas Cruz, 25, was arrested on Monday during a traffic stop in Kern County, prosecutors said.

Cruz was diagnosed with tuberculosis in March after he went to an emergency room and complained of a severe cough. 

After he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, medical staff told him to stay in a Stockton motel room, where a health worker would deliver his medication and watch him take it. But officials say he took off, ending his treatment. 

Authorities say Rosas Cruz comes from an area of Mexico known for a drug-resistant strain of TB. He now has to be medically cleared before being sent back to San Joaquin County, and that could take weeks, according to prosecutors.

Tuberculosis is a common but infectious disease that can be fatal if not treated properly. The disease can spread through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. 

National Cheesecake Day July 30th!

Tomorrow is National CHEESECAKE DAY and I want to remind you that you can enjoy any slice of cheesecake at your local Cheesecake Factory on July 30th or July 31st for half price!

National Cheesecake Day is TOMORROW. As food holidays go, this is one of the tastiest of treats.

Despite being a rich, high calorie, and cholesterol filled, cheesecake is a very popular dessert. Why? Because it tastes so good. It is enjoyed plain, or with your favorite fruit topping

Enjoy the day with a piece of cheesecake, along with your favorite topping. If you have time, make the cheesecake yourself. 

Cheers

National Lasagna Day

 July 29th

National Lasagna Day is today. We hope you have a big appetite. Sure, it's July. Its hot and humid. Cooking up a pan of Lasagna will make the kitchen a lot hotter. But as it cooks, the smell will waft throughout the house. Your mouth will begin to water. When dinner time arrives, you will have a huge appetite for a huge piece of lasagna. Of this, you can be certain.

Lasagna is a favorite Italian dish. In between multiple layers of lasagna pasta are generous amounts of tomato sauce, cheeses, and sometimes hamburger and/or Italian sausage. Its the favorite Italian dish of millions of Americans. We all would eat it more often, but this culinary work of art, made with loving hands, takes time to make and bake.

It is best to celebrate National Lasagna Day by baking the lasagna that you will eat today. If you don't have the time, or the weather is just too hot, then head out to your favorite Italian restaurant.

10-Month-Old Baby Died After Locked In Hot Car; Foster Dad Arrested

What's up with people leaving their babies in hot cars?  We've seen this time and time again.  No excuses!

A foster parent was arrested today in the death of a 10-month-old girl who had been left for hours in a hot car, according to Wichita police.

Police got a call reporting a baby left on the backseat inside a car just before 7 p.m. on Thursday.

“We arrived on scene just a little before 7 p.m. on Thursday night,” Lt. Dan East, Wichita Police Department spokesperson told ABC News. “The girl was unconscious and unresponsive.”

The child was pronounced dead minutes after paramedics arrived on the scene, according to a police report by the Wichita Police Department.

The foster child was in the care of two men, who were questioned by the police on Thursday night. Attempts to reach the two men for comment were unsuccessful.

The foster couple had been trying to adopt the 10-month-old girl they had cared for nearly all her life. They also had three other foster children, ages 3, 5 and 18; and had two adopted children, ages 5 and 7, who were from the same biological parents as the 10-month-old girl.

"The 5-year-old and 7-year-old have been taken from the home and put in protective custody," East said.

“The 29-year-old dad picked up the girl from the babysitter and left her in the car,” East said.

“The two men were watching TV when the foster dad saw something that reminded him of the girl, and he ran outside and got the child out," East said. "They appeared really upset when we arrived on scene."

The girl's distraught maternal grandmother, Cindy Poe of Topeka, Kansas, demanded to see her granddaughter's body and her two other grandchildren who were taken away on Friday morning.

"I want answers," Poe told The Associated Press. "I want to know why my grandbaby was in that car."

Shortly before 1 a.m. Friday, police officers arrested Seth Jackson, 29, for aggravated child endangerment. The second man, 26, was not arrested. The case will be presented early next week to prosecutors.

Jackson has not yet been officially charged or arraigned.

Thursday’s highest temperature reached 96 degrees, which meant temperature could have surpassed 135 degrees in a closed car after an hour, according to The Weather Channel.

National Cousin's Day

Cousin's Day honors your Aunt and Uncle's kids. They are those great kids who are likely 

close to your age, and endure the countless family get togethers with you. If it wasn't for 

cousins, these family events would be much, much longer.


This is a great day for your cousins. Now, hold on a minute. If you have cousins, that 

means your cousins have cousins. And, that's you! Therefore, today is your day,too.


Celebrating should be nothing but fun. Get together with your cousins. Hang out, just chill, 
or do anything you want to do...... as long as its a fun time spent with your cousins. 

National Tequila Day!

National Tequila Day is July 24th – a time for all Americans to celebrate tequila in all its forms, from the incredibly cheap rocket fuel that powers house parties when the keg runs dry to the complex spirits designed to be sipped and savored like a fine whiskey.

And why shouldn't it have its own day? Appreciation for what's considered North America's first native-born distilled spirit is at an all-time high. In fact, the Mexican liquor is the fastest growing distilled spirits category in the U.S.

It's no surprise. Tequila has been exported to the U.S. since the late 1800s, but only recently have the liquor-drinking masses have found much use for it beyond day-glo hued margaritas and mind-numbing benders. Now there are premium and super-premium tequilas as smooth and nuanced as any single-malt scotch that have been embraced by the American market, with the category growing by nearly 10 percent per year since 2002.

This tequila renaissance coincides rather nicely with Mexican regulations detailing the processes and ingredients that go into distilling tequila. To be officially known as tequila a spirit has to be made with blue agave in the Mexican state of Jalisco or in small designated areas of the states of Guanajuato, Michoacan, Nayarit and Tamaulipas. Higher end tequilas are made with 100 percent pure blue agave while cheaper brands, called mixtos, use less, rounding out the distillation with other varieties and sweeteners like sugar.

All tequilas, however, must be made with a minimum of 51 percent blue agave in order to be called tequila at all. In addition, true tequila must not only be distilled but also bottled in Mexico. While many distilleries already followed these rules, codifying them into law reassured the marketplace that it was getting a quality product, and spurred huge sales growth and a rise in appreciation for the liquor.

Of course, many have never had the chance to try a premium tequila. Rather than the harsh burn and smoky spice most of us remember from our college days, well-made tequilas are smooth, with deep herbal, almost vegetal flavors. When aged in oak barrels, as in reposado and anejo tequilas, which must be at least two months and one year old respectively, tequila takes on whiskey-like qualities as well – making for an incredibly layered character, often featuring vanilla and caramel notes similar to a quality bourbon. Obviously, those kinds don't belong in margaritas.

Woman fatally shot in Long Beach Los Cerritos neighborhood: She says, 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant! I'm going to have a baby!' And I shot her anyway

80 Year old shooter

Long Beach police are investigating the circumstances behind the fatal shooting of a woman in the Los Cerritos neighborhood Tuesday night.

Patrol officers responding to a shots-fired call in the 3900 block of Country Club Drive around 9 p.m. found a woman dead at the scene, said Deputy Chief David Hendricks.

“What we believe happened at this time is that the resident came home and possibly interrupted a crime in progress,” Hendricks said. “At some point in time there was a shooting ... we have the suspect of that original crime (the woman) deceased.”

The resident was involved in the shooting, he said. No arrests have been made at this time.

Authorities withheld the name of the woman, who was in her 20s, pending family notification, said coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter.

She says, 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant!

I'm going to have a baby!' And I shot her anyway

Ted Nugent: Native Americans Are ‘Unclean Vermin’ Who Don’t ‘Qualify As People’

In response to Idaho Native Americans canceling one of his performances, Ted Nugent displayed the behavior that caused the tribe to do so in the first place.

Nugent had been scheduled to perform a concert at Couer D’Alene Casino in Worley, Idaho on Aug. 4, but it was canceled after tribal officials were made aware of the racism Nugent has spewed over the years. The conservative rocker didn’t take the news very well, of course, and went on a disgusting rant during an interview with Gannett Wisconsin Media in which he called those who canceled the concert “unclean vermin” who aren't real people.

“I take it as a badge of honor that such unclean vermin are upset by me and my positive energy,” Nugent hatefully said. “By all indicators, I don’t think they actually qualify as people, but there has always been a lunatic fringe of hateful, rotten, dishonest people that hate happy, successful people.”

To be blunt, it sounds like Nugent is talking about himself considering the racist remarks he has made about President Obama in recent years. The Idaho Native Americans who made the decision to cancel the concert did so precisely because of how hateful, dishonest, and rotten ‘The Motor City Madman’ is. We’re talking about a man who crapped his pants to avoid serving in Vietnam, a man who married a teen girl he was the legal guardian of just so he could have sex with her, a man who has called for the execution of Democrats and the President of the United States, and a man who has made racist comment after racist comment.

Native Americans are not only people, they’re the first people and original inhabitants of North America. Their ancient culture has played a large role in shaping America, and it’s because of hateful bigoted people like Nugent that Native Americans have been nearly wiped out.

This isn’t the first time Nugent has been stopped from performing a concert. Earlier this year, a town in Texas actually paid him $16,000 to stay away from them, and it’s amazing that more towns don’t do the same thing. But if the Couer D’Alene tribe wants a real rock star to perform at their casino, I suggest asking rock legend Tom Petty. Not only will they get to see a better show, they’ll get a better human being.