UPDATE 1-At least Five Tornadoes in Oklahoma, That The Book of The U.S. Plains

Rescue and clean-up efforts were underway across the Midwest on Sunday after dozens of tornados tore through the region, killing at least five people in Oklahoma, leaving thousands without power in Kansas and damaging up to 90 percent of the homes and buildings in one small Iowa town.

Storms skipped across what is often called "Tornado Alley" in the U.S. Central and Southern Plains, but the high winds and dozens of tornados mostly struck rural areas, sparing the region from even worse damage.

The stormy weekend isn't over yet for the Midwest - there is a moderate risk of more "significant" tornadoes later Sunday afternoon from southeast Minnesota through a large part of Wisconsin and northeast Iowa, according to National Storm Prediction Center meteorologist Greg Dial.

Damaging thunderstorms are also predicted from Minnesota south to Texas into Sunday night, according to AccuWeather.com.

Earlier Sunday, a twister struck the northwest Oklahoma city of Woodward, where storm sirens failed to sound after lightning apparently disabled its warning system, Mayor Roscoe Hill said.

A total of 29 people were treated at Woodward Regional Hospital, chief executive officer Dave Wallace said. Of these, five were in critical condition and moved to other hospitals.

Two children died at a mobile home park in Woodward, a town of 12,000 people, while two adults were killed in a small community just outside the city limits, Hill said. Details of the fifth death were not immediately known, said Keli Cain, spokeswoman for Oklahoma Emergency Management.

"This thing took us by surprise," Hill said. "It's kind of overwhelming."

Woodward city manager Alan Riffel told CNN that all the missing people had been accounted for, and that 89 homes and 13 businesses had been destroyed.

A tornado that struck Woodward in April 1947 still ranks as the deadliest in Oklahoma history, with 116 people killed, according to the National Weather Service.

In tiny Thurman, Iowa, population 250, an estimated 75 to 90 percent of the town's buildings and homes were damaged or destroyed by the storm, Freemont County Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Crecelius said. Only minor injuries were reported.

98 TORNADOES

The National Storm Prediction Center had an unofficial count of 98 tornadoes in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma, starting Saturday morning and going until early Sunday.

In Kansas, Governor Sam Brownback declared a state of emergency as officials assessed storm damage.

No deaths or serious injuries were reported in Kansas, but about 11,000 people were reported without power, most of them around Wichita, Sharon Watson, a spokesperson for the state's National Guard and emergency services, said in a news release.

The storm damaged a hangar at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita and destroyed several homes around the area, authorities said.

Storm chaser Brandon Redmond, a meteorologist with the Severe Weather Alert Team, said the twister passed over his vehicle and lifted it 2 feet (60 cm) off the ground in an industrial area south of Wichita, the state's second-largest metropolitan area after the Kansas City metro area.

"The tornado literally formed over our vehicle," he told Reuters. "I've never been that scared in my life. ... We had power flashes all around us and debris circulating all around the vehicle, sheet metal, parts of a roof, plywood."

Sedgwick County Commission Chairman Tim Norton said the tornado missed downtown Wichita and heavily populated neighborhoods and passed through areas to the south and east where there are manufacturing businesses and mobile home parks.

"With the storms we saw coming our way, it could have been much worse," Norton said. "We lucked out."

The damage included a Spirit Aerosystems production facility that manufactures fuselages for Boeing's 7-series airplanes. A Spirit spokesman said the facility was shut down on Sunday after a tornado damaged the roof and knocked out power, but the company hoped to have the plant running again soon.

"We do believe that the majority of the operational capabilities and facilities are intact," spokesman Ken Evans said.

A Boeing spokesman said the company had been in touch with Spirit to assess the situation.

The U.S. tornado season started early this year, with twisters already blamed for 62 deaths in 2012 in the Midwest and South, raising concerns that this year would be a repeat of 2011, the deadliest tornado year in nearly a century.

Some 550 people died in tornadoes last year, including 316 killed in an April outbreak in five Southern states, and 161 people in Joplin, Missouri, the following month.

Zimmerman's Second-Degree Murder Charge in Shooting Trayvon Martin

George Zimmerman, Ward 28 years old watchman, who shot Trayvon Martin on February 26 in Sanford, Fla., was charged with second-degree murder in the death of 17 years. Zimmerman was transferred to a prison Seminole County, according to reports, and held without bail.

"Moments ago, we talked on the phone with Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton," Angela Corey, a special prosecutor investigating the case, said at a news conference in Jacksonville. "Three weeks ago, our team has promised prosecution of parents of a sweet we get answers to their questions, no matter where our search for truth leads us. And it is this desire for justice for Trayvon which led us to that night."

"We have not taken this decision lightly," she said, refusing to discuss details of the investigation. "We have no further pressure or at the request ... We are law enforcement officers. We apply the law."

Zimmerman and went in custody in Florida, Corey said, but did not disclose where he is detained.

According to CNN, Zimmerman left Florida, but returned when he learned that he will be charged. Zimmerman will now be transferred to a prison Seminole County, Corey said.

The announcement was made on the day after Zimmerman's lawyers said that they fell so, because their client is no longer communicate with them. (On Sunday, Zimmerman started a website for donations to his legal expenses and life). According to Corey, Zimmerman retained new counsel "in the last hour."

The lawyer, Mark O'Mara said Zimmerman would plead not guilty, and I hope that the judges can see links.

"He was concerned about what happened," said O'Mara. "In truth, it must be terrible to not be able to go to the 7-Eleven or in a store. This will break any of us."

O'Mara said that because of the "strong emotions" involved in the case, Zimmerman is likely to be held in pretrial detention.

O'Mara was a television analyst during the trial Casey Anthony.

Zimmerman told police he was attacked by Martin and acted in self defense.

Earlier this week, Corey announced the case will not go to a grand jury.

"There was a lot of advertising," said Corey, expressing concern about the potential prejudice to the jury. "It is unfortunate that so many facts came out, and wrong."

"Forty-five days, Trayvon Martin was killed," Rev. Al Sharpton said in a separate press conference in Washington, surrounded by parents Martin. "No one was detained. Chief of Police said, after considering evidence that was not to stay. Her parents refused to leave him there."

"Today," Sharpton continued, "Maybe America can come together and say that facts are important when it comes to death.

"It's not a night partying," he added. "This is a night that should not stand in the first place."

"This is justice, fairness, justice," Ben Crump, family lawyer said Martin. "If we just had our land, we can make a difference."

His parents, Martin spoke briefly at a press conference.

"We just wanted to arrest, and we've got," said Fulton. "Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus ... My heart has no color. It's not white, not black red. And I just want to thank you from my heart to your heart."

"We will continue to walk by faith," Tracy said Martin. "And we're going in March and March to March properly done."

Santorum Girl Defies Contradiction Trisomy 18

At the age of three years, Rick Santorum's daughter Bella, who was hospitalized a second time during his presidential campaign, has survived, most children born with trisomy 18, with respect to common chromosomal defects that occur in the order of all newborns from 3000 to 5000 and three times more common in girls than boys.

Children with trisomy 18, also known as Edwards syndrome have three copies of chromosome 18 instead of the usual two, in their cells. Many affected pregnancies fetal miscarriage, and half of all children suffered zaversheny be stillborn, according to the Trisomy 18 Foundation. In most cases, are not inherited but occur as random errors in cell division during the formation of eggs and sperm, according to the National Library of Medicine.

About 5 percent to 10 percent of children with trisomy 18 survive the first year of life, and they often have severe disabilities, in accordance with the library of the National Institutes of Health.

"They usually die from an inability to breathe," said Dr. Larry Fenton, director of pediatric palliative care in the hospital Sanford Children in Sioux Falls, SD "mechanism of the brain tells the lungs to expand is often defective."

Nevertheless, "while mental retardation in children with trisomy 18 ... has a value, it is important to recognize that children in advance to some extent, their steps," Dr. John Carey, pediatric geneticist at the University of Utah Center for Science Health, writes on the website of the Fund trisomy 18. "They can interact with their families, to smile and to acquire certain skills, such as turning, self feeding, etc., if they survive infancy."

The reason for the hospitalization of the current Bell was not released.

"Rick and his wife took their daughter, Karen Bell at the hospital. Family requests prayers and solitude that Bella works her way to recovery," Santorum Communications Director Hogan Gidley said in a statement.

In January she was taken to a hospital in Virginia, where she developed double pneumonia.

A small number of children with trisomy 18, as a rule, women living in age from 20 to 30 years, depending on the base. Nevertheless, the organization says they have "significant delays in development, which do not allow them to live independently without the help of aid."

Those who survive the first year generally can not talk and walk, and need some kind of a feeding tube to be fed, Fenton said. While they can breathe, they can die from pneumonia or other infectious diseases, he said. Largely because they spend so much time in bed. "These are not things that help clear the lungs, so they are more vulnerable to infections."

Recently, Fenton said, he met 30-year-old woman with trisomy 18, the oldest person he ever met disorders. "I must say that she was profoundly disabled one hand, and more beautiful. She was impeccably dressed. She makeup. She knew that her mom and dad, and can go to them."

Few Children Will Not Survive long With Trisomy 18

Conclusion Rick Santorum race for the Republican presidential Tuesday once again drew attention to a rare genetic condition his 3-year-old daughter, Bella.

As a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania has repeatedly stated that his daughter had already beaten the chances of survival of children with trisomy 18. Nearly 60 percent of babies who die from the condition in the hospital a few days after birth. Only 5 to 10 percent survive one year. Only 1 percent of them live 10 birthday, with long survival, which is much more likely to have girls.

Bell, whose full name of Isabella, who was born in 2008. The family did not provide details about his condition, although it was recently hospitalized with pneumonia would be the second time this year.

Children with trisomy 18 (sometimes also called Edwards syndrome) have three copies of chromosome 18 instead of two. Humans have 22 pairs of chromosomes, regular (so-called "autosomes") and one pair of sex chromosomes, with one half of each pair contributed by the father and half from the mother. The cause of the disease is unknown, although, as with the same defects, children with older mothers are more at risk.

Trisomy 18 is one of the three most common chromosomal abnormalities, although this rarely occurs in 1 in 8000 newborns.

It can be found before birth by microscopic examination of amniotic fluid and ultrasound. Three-quarters of the fetus diagnosed with a miscarriage or stillbirth from 12 weeks of pregnancy and childbirth. Some of them are selectively aborted.

Almost all children with trisomy 18 were multiple organ defects. Almost all have abnormal heart with a hole between the large chambers of the heart, the ventricles, the default is the most common. One-third of them have a horseshoe kidney, and one fifth were abnormal esophagus. Mental retardation is common but not universal, and many of them have distinctive facial features, such as low-set ears.

About 90 percent are underweight at birth, and some of them early, which further jeopardizes their health in the first days after birth.

Infections are common, persistent problems in children with trisomy 18 who survived.

Last year, researchers at Tufts University analyzed the genes were more or less active in fetuses with trisomy 18 than in those who do not have the disease. They found that 251 "activation" has been significantly different.

Surprisingly, only 3 per cent of these genes on chromosome 18 were. This suggests that many problems are the result of bad signals from the chromosome 18 gene is probably normal genes on other chromosomes.

Among the genes affected are those that regulate the immune system, which is probably due to an unusual susceptibility to infection in children.

Staff researcher Lucy Shackelford contributed to this report.

Toast Masters of The History of The legendary Stars

Sun comes up, just look at the trees in August. People are lining up before dawn to get a better idea about this. On the first tee, depending on the instrument panel, three names with the numbers of players unusual.

But this is not the numbers, it's been years. And now, three people who could teach us a lot of competition, and respect, decades after their first.

Time was running. Three men who walked on the tee in the morning gave 13 names of not only teachers, but 49 grandchildren. Their winning time here began in 1958 and television in black and white, and ended in 1986, and the child is online.

"Three great players, three great men,'' the chairman Billy Payne in August it was said through the microphone. Palmer struck first." I'm nervous,'' he said, bent over to put on the target.

Face in the crowd early in the morning: Phil Mickelson. His start-up time was six hours, but he was there because it was the first masters of the three giants, never served as a snack with the ceremony, so that the time to say something.

All three found the fairway, the player is the longest.

The story was blown up. Wizards can begin.

They sat together at a press conference later, three guys in a green jacket. Nicklaus, on average, a player on his left, Palmer right away.

"We even cried together and we laughed together, and we had a good time,'' said the player.

Thus, we noticed a man who has led a long?

"I do not think any of us can see that far,'' said Nicklaus." We can hear them all the land, though.''

They were fierce competitors, ready to cut each other's heart on the golf course. But they were friends. No tweets stupid or ill-chosen gestures and silly rhetoric. They respected each other and to respect his game, and they respect their incredible success.

They are now old men and young people can learn a lot.

"It was amazing that you could play, in fact, as you know,` I want to beat the hell out of you. However, these can be good friends,'' Player said this week. " And in the East and good friends should be.''

Each of them one by one on Thursday morning to reiterate its appreciation for golf. "I think that these young people come together to be understood that if we do,'' said Palmer.

They teased each other on aging and retirement. "You guys are all saying you are going to retire in 35 years," Palmer recalled them. "I said, 'Bull (beep).

Someone asked if they had called for lawyers to find each other.

Palmer: "What was the question?''

Palmer, Nicklaus, "You need help, this morning, you (gently stroking it, and repeating the question)?''

Palmer: "The last time you called me, you wanted to fish.''

Nicklaus. "And you have not taken''

Palmer. "` I will, if''

Nicklaus: "` You can always'' on Monday.?

Palmer. "No, it's too early''

It does not take much to see, as they wanted, they were there to guide him to the real on Thursday.

"We would still be able to play,'' Nicklaus said." But you know, if you go out and look where our tee shots were. . . I think you'll understand why we are not.''

"If I could do it,'' said Palmer," I will do now.''

They noted their concern about the decline of golf. As the game takes too long and expensive. How to play advanced the ball goes too far, causing the rate design to emphasize the length of common sense. They worry about the hobby they love.

Palmer grumbled that he was hungry, and soon the conference was over.

This is one of the beauties of the masters of the deck is living there now, and the Titans is dedicated to never stop. In what other sport would be an asset, according to Mickelson showed six in the morning to watch the three men between the ages of hitting a golf ball?

"Appropriate'' Palmer word for all three, as the ceremony." We played golf all his life together.''

What they will not to do it again in 1962. But the applause did not stop.

The Project is Google Goggles Glass: Next Big Hit or Flop Google?

Google has outlined a bit more about its Project Glass, an effort to deliver smart glasses that would enhance your visual reality a good bit with data on the fly.

I've been a bit skeptical about this mission of Google's, which incidentally will deliver ads right to your eyeballs. However, it is worth pondering some of the business uses for these newfangled glasses. Here are a few business use cases, some of which could be clearly a stretch.

Tourism: The upside is that Google's goggles could be the hip way to provide guided tours of almost everything. The downside is you'll get plugs and ads from your friendly neighborhood tourist trap.

Shopping and retail: See that jacket you've been craving? With Google's specs you'll be able to customize colors and order from your eyes. Shoppers will love a little virtual reality with the shopping experience. The downside is fairly obvious: Google can track what your eyes are doing and line up ads accordingly (only half kidding).

Local merchant marketing: Holy coupons Batman! It's one thing to walk by a restaurant and get a deal sent to your smartphone. It's quite another deal to get those coupons sent to your specs. The upside and downside here are the same thing really.

Real estate: Real estate agents think QR codes are cool. Just wait until they get their hands on Google glasses. You walk into room of a house you're eyeballing and instantly get the dimensions. You also get redecorating tips. Upside: You're more informed about a house and can better make a buying decision. Downside: You may also be able to call up your credit rating to remind you that you're totally stretching for your McMansion.

Business meetings are swell: If you're like me you barely remember your own name half the time. Google's goggles will allow you to scan your list of contacts -- with the help of facial recognition -- and then you'll remember that executive's name (or at least pretend to). There is no downside to this except that I'll have to use terms other than "dude," "pal," "chief," and other words used to hide the fact I can't remember your name. Another bonus: You can pretend you're paying attention in that 10th meeting of the day and surf the Web without anyone knowing.

Carson Daly Apologized For Homophobic Joke

Carson Daly apologized for homophobic joke he made his radio show Wednesday morning about what happened at the Jet Blue flight 191, when the pilot was the collapse in the air.

"This morning on my radio show I was trying to make fun of themselves and others hurt by mistake. I sincerely apologize," Daly tweeted environment.

In addition to tweets, "The Voice" host issued a statement saying: "We live in an era when people are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people every day find the courage to overcome difficulties, to overcome intimidation and find equality. I sorry that my words today suggest otherwise. "

Daly looked at the pilot JetBlue Airways, which was thrown to the ground after the breakdown of the flight on the way to Las Vegas.

"On this particular flight, most people were on their way to a kind of a security conference in Las Vegas ... so it was a bunch of guys and good guys are prepared. "

According to TMZ, Daly continues to suggest that homosexuals would not be brave enough to handle the situation.

"If it were me ... with my luck, it would be like," This is a flight on the parade [gay] pride of San Francisco ... I mean, it would be my colleagues. "

Since he made this statement Daly was fired from activist groups and many bloggers, who called the attention of Mark Bingham individual media. Bingham, openly gay man, would join more than one passenger in the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93 attacks after the attacks was captured by the 9/11.

Dali continued to apologize, saying: "I have long been a supporter of the rights of gays and lesbians, and it saddens me that my comments, but unintentionally offended anyone, especially members of the LGBT community. What I offend anyone is devastating. I'm not the one guy. I am proud to be an ally of the LGBT community and will continue to fight them. "

Raspberry ketones For Weight Loss

Health stores across the country will try to source of raspberry ketone, fat burning agent recommended by a dietitian Dr.Oz. I say try, because it seems at the request of raspberry ketone has increased dramatically. "It is surprising that the demand for shows like Dr. Oz can generate," said Chris Nicoll tone principle of raspberries. "Fortunately, raspberry ketone is one of our core products, and we had a lot of shares for clients retail and wholesale trade, but it was a lot of work internally to track all requests"

Dr. Oz was the first announcement of the release in early February, but plans to re-release of air 5 fat burners, Chris Nicholl says that they are ready, "at least we know that we are this time, and we are fully prepared to cope with demand."

The capsules contain 100% raspberry ketone and absolutely nothing. Raspberry ketone is highly recommended by doctors and nutritionists to help lose and maintain weight loss. This enzyme helps prevent weight gain with a high-fat diet simulating the digestive process in support of the breakdown of fats and foods. In addition, suggestive that the product removes toxins and cleanses the body, ridding it of excess toxins.

Black Separatist Group Should Offer Incentives For The Man who Killed a Teenager in Florida

Separatist black group stands by bounty offer for man who killed Florida teen: New Black Panther Party's separatist, hate group called the civil law, is its offer of $ 10,000 prize for the capture of the man who shot Trayvon Martin, despite fierce opposition, in particular, Martin's family.

"We are here to make them do their job," manager Michael Muhammad said on Monday. "We will support the family Trayvon, but we are military."

Martin was killed Feb. 26, George Zimmerman, 28-year-old volunteer neighborhood watch, while walking back from a mini-market Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman, in accordance with friends and his lawyer, Craig Ring, said he had killed Martin, 17, in self-defense.

The fact that he was not charged with the murder of Martin has outraged many in the U.S., including people who believe Martin was considered a "suspect" because he was black. Zimmerman is a white Hispanic.

However, none have gone so far as the New Black Panther Party, which stands on the site of the revolution for African-Americans. The group - which differs from the more famous Black Panther Party, founded in 1960 - described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group and "brutally anti-Semitic and racist organization."

On Saturday, the party has a site on the money to offer in exchange for "arrest moral citizens" was Zimmerman. Muhammad said on the same day that his group believes in the "Life for life," a statement that he was confirmed on Monday.

Martin family lawyer Daryl Parks reiterated the comments of other persons connected with the family, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson, accusing the obvious suggestion bonuses. "We do not tolerate these people in general," said Parks.

Speaking earlier Monday in the city administration in a packed Sanford Civic Center, the father Trayvon, Tracy Martin, said his family wanted to work in the legal system and to encourage changes in Sanford Florida Police Department and the law.

"We are not asking for an eye for an eye," Tracy said Martin. "We ask justice, justice, justice."

Mohammad said that the United States Constitution gave them the right to arrest a citizen, although he also said a little later, he "did not obey the white man, I'm not American law."

"By law, the popular street people, (George Zimmerman) was charged with murder - in accordance with the law on the street, in accordance with the law of God," Muhammad said.

In the city of Sanford previously responded to the offer of premiums, and then click New Black Panther Party have 5,000 people working together to go after Zimmerman, calling for "a calm head and not the mob."

"Attempts to take any civilian into custody may lead to criminal liability or unnecessary violence," the department said.

Joe Oliver, a friend of Zimmerman, said that such threats to his friend, even if the authorities and the family of Martin condemned. Zimmerman has not seen or heard in public since the shooting,

"Therefore we do not know where he stands," says Olivier. "He should worry about their safety."

Oliver, a leading CNN in 1990, said he was worried because he had spoken to several media about the case.

"Now I have to worry about their safety, not only for me but for my friends and family as well," he said. "But I was not there, I did not pull the trigger. All I do is stand for another."

Beef Industry is Preparing for The loss of "Pink Mud"

Beef Industry is Preparing for The loss of "Pink Mud": Announcement on Monday Beef Products International (BPI), which would close three plants, one in Waterloo, which are "textured beef," which has views of social media, beef industry has to wonder what affect the loss of low-fat beef products will be on Beef prices have already risen by 10 percent to 20 percent last year.

BPI buys pruning or cutting tips sealed packaging process, and, in fact, loads of up to 15 percent of the total production of ground beef. This process was approved by the Administration of the Food and Drug Administration in 1990 and barely raised an eyebrow until last week, when the viral social media have in their image as "pink slime".

The name was given to the U.S. Department of the agent, but agriculture is removed, because the jobs Food Network chef Jamie Oliver, who, along with others available on YouTube and other social media.

In traditional media, ABC News published a series of reports earlier this month, which are widely distributed "pink slime" nickname.

"It shows the influence of social networks," said Kevin Concannon, a former director of the Iowa Department of Human Services, and now the deputy for the food service, supply and consumption. "There is absolutely no evidence that this product is dangerous, and it's low fat."

Like most treatments for meat production "textured beef" is not very appetizing to look at. It consists of taking the remains of the meat cutting process, it works in the heat and centrifuges, and then give him a bath in ammonia to kill E. coli and salmonella potential.

Products that contain mucus pink fresh ground beef include retail, low-fat hot dogs, luncheon meats, beef sticks, pepperoni, frozen meals, cakes and preserves.

By e-mail from a former USDA microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein, that relates to a textured meat "pink slime" was shown in various media, including ABC News.

Online petition drive in Houston collected more than 250,000 signatures demanding that the goods removed from the outlets and school lunch programs.

The game asked USDA to tell school districts they can eliminate the use of beef stuffed with them if they want in their USDA-monitoring school feeding programs.

Supermarket chains, the most important, including West Des Moines, Iowa-based Vee Well, today announced that they will stop selling beef, which is responsible textured dirt / pink. McDonald is a fast-food and other manufacturers.

Beef industry has responded on Monday, highlighting the impact of job loss.

"Although the textured vegetable beef has been given a catchy name and clever in the" pink slime "alarming impact of emissions on the product beef is safe, Jamie Oliver, ABC News and others, is no joke for those families who are currently without a job" , said American Meat Institute President J. Patrick Boyle in a written statement.

What remains to be determined is the impact on beef prices. The history of the pink slime attack cattle and beef market, when prices began to soften from record of all time.

Cattle and beef prices rose last year because of the cattle, even at the lowest level since 1952, have been hit hard by drought last year in large pastures of Texas and Oklahoma.

Combined with the sharp increase in exports of the United States, as well as cattle prices rose 25 percent to record levels in late 2011 and early this year. As a result, the growth of retail prices for burgers as much as 20 percent last year, according to research by the USDA.

Commodities trader Dennis Smith, Archer Financial Services in Chicago Monday suggested that the reduction in use will enhance the finish delivers even stronger.

"Consumer belt pink slime in history, seems to have a greater impact than I expected," Smith said Monday. "It seems that catering orders fell dramatically due to increased consumption."

Smith added: "Stories like this will do the same thing, over time it will increase supplies tight and driving the price of beef on the rise."

If so, what would the opposite of what was a small gradual decline in beef prices in the last month due to the fact that Smith and other Traders said increased consumer resistance to higher prices for beef.

The report of the U.S. Department of Agriculture beef fat each day showed the average price of a box of beef, $ 186.25 per hundredweight on Monday, compared with $ 191.74 last week at this time.

Recent data suggest livestock U.S. Department of Agriculture Marketing Information Center, which beef cattle were running 4.4 percent below a year earlier in the week ending last Saturday. "The beef trim" costs that go into the mud additive beef / textured pink, dropped in price by 19 percent, as meat processors have begun to reduce their purchases.

Trayvon Martin is The latest Tragedy of Social Media

Trayvon Martin is The latest Tragedy of Social Media: Trayvon Martin is the last reason is related to the speed of social media in the direct pursuit of something. Social Media creates awareness, generates a huge amount of advertising, and makes people take action.

He does it with incredible speed hyper few years ago. Social media is becoming more and more drives, and narration. True stories, and perhaps, though, to get lost in all this.

Trayvon Martin was a black 17-year-old to visit his father in Sanford, Florida. He was gunned down on February 26. His death is now a national cause celebre.

Not much is known about the shooting. Trayvon Martin was shot and killed George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman, who Spaniard, described as armed conflict "neighborhood watch captain" in his unit.

Mr. Zimmerman called 911 to report suspicious persons. Against the advice of the police dispatcher, he pursued Trayvon Martin in the neighborhood.

Zimmerman caught him. The fight may or may not occur. He was fired on purpose, accidentally or in self-defense. Trayvon Martin died. Shot in the chest, George Zimmerman.

None of the eyewitnesses of the incident emerged. Mr. Zimmerman said he shot the teenager in self-defense. Others argue, Zimmerman was a Loose Cannon roam the streets with weapons. Accusations of racism raises its ugly head.

The police did their investigation of the prosecutor who will decide whether there is enough probable cause and evidence to charge Mr. Zimmerman with a crime.

It is not sufficient for social media mobs.

They are demanding justice from moving at the speed of the Internet and television shows, the crime, preferably without commercials hours of consumption.

Application for Change.org collected more than 300,000 signatures calling for the continuation of Mr. Zimmerman. Twitter tweet with twitches. More than two thousand people "like" Justice for Martin Page Trayvon Facebook.

There are some real concerns that merit our attention.

* No eyewitness(s) has come forward to dispute or defend Mr. Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense. 911 tapes, while dramatic, are as useless as all the people who watch C.S.I. or Nancy Grace. Those “experts” who form jury pools.

* For the time being, it appears Florida law, which is all that counts, is on Mr. Zimmerman’s side.

* George Zimmerman was described as a police wannabe, a buff as they are known in police circles. Too many of these people wind up injured or dead, in altercations they should have stayed out of, or, as in the case of Trayvon Martin, they kill someone.

* It is way too easy to cry racism from behind computer screens and microphones. Unproven accusations of racism only fuel mass anger and rage. This gets officials to move faster.

* Speed causes critical legal mistakes and missteps that could have severe consequences down the line. A guilty man can go free. An innocent man can go to prison.

* There is a social media mob mentality forming to charge George Zimmerman with a crime. Arrest him. Indict him. Convict him. Do it now. The digital lynch mob cannot understand why Mr. Zimmerman is still walking the streets while Trayvon Martin lies in a grave. The electronic rioters do not understand, or care, that investigations can take weeks, months, years, or even decades before some semblance of justice is done.

What's the hurry? What good do to stop George Zimmerman and have it be released after the court, or may not be undertaken when the judge starts the case for lack of reason?

Prosecutors need more than a tragedy to bring a case to court. They need evidence, witnesses, as well as the likely cause.

Now we come to George Zimmerman and his ilk. People who want to play cops. Retainers, with a more developed thoughts, causing them to be criminals at every corner, behind every tree and under the bed.

They will join the ridiculous and useless "in a crime watch group", roaming their neighborhoods in search of criminal acts and hot action. Just like people running around with those pretty little red berets. Although the Guardian Angels, in contrast to Mr. Zimmerman, who are armed and have the training requirements.

But the sheriff BUFF, they see demons, rapists, robbers and marauders in each group of people who do not like. If the police can not do its job, then dagnabit, they will.

When they take action, as they inevitably do, they cause headaches, but nothing for the law enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges.

Finally, we have a growing phenomenon of social networking that gives people their own sense of vigilance ideated, methods, tools, and feel that they can live out their fantasies in an exaggerated summary of the individual systems to install, and those other grinding for so long.

This new mobs lynch, the rebels technology, applicants and protesters. They cry out for justice in a world where they feel they do not. They demand action that they deem ineffective.

Trayvon Martin died. George Zimmerman was killed. That's all we know. In Florida the law Zimmerman may be guilty, innocent or something in between.

However, all this will eventually come out. No one will be satisfied.

The guards, social media and their equivalents Lynch Mob, consider the same code. "There is no justice. Just Us".

It's always just about them.

Peter V. Bella is a former police officer from Chicago, freelance writer and photographer, cook, and storyteller. He loves to be a sharp stick that pushes, pushes, and annoying. His views are his and only his.

Photo Gallery: Parade North Albany St. Patrick's

Photo Gallery: Parade North Albany St. Patrick's: Revelers wearing green took to the streets for the annual parade on the day of the 62nd North Albany Limericks Day Holy Patrika.Parad down to the south of the North Albany American Legion Post # 1610 North First Street.

Miss Limerick this year, Shannon McCann, Shaker High School student, and Mr. and Mrs. John Hardy Limerick in 2012 and Melissa Filkins. Gail Riley Marshall is North Albany Limericks St. Patrick's parade in Albany, from 2:00 pm.

'21 Jump Street ': Channing Tatum Jonah Hill Bromance Disarms Criticism

'21 Jump Street ': Channing Tatum Jonah Hill Bromance Disarms Criticism: Although supposedly based on a series of 80s TV cult of the same name of the new comedy "21 Jump Street", is also largely based buddy-cop conventions, "Superbad" in the style of high school pranks, and the great tradition of stoner Bromance (see also: "Harold and Kumar" movies, "Pineapple Express"). For all the familiarity of his hot, the movie, which stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as a rookie cop goes undercover bust drug ring in their high schools, is a critique of the charm.

Times film critic Betsy Sharkey writes that "21 Jump Street" was "cute, punch-you-in-arms, because I-as-you-man charm," and that Hill and Tatum Show "fool the greatest pleasure." Two actor - a "heavy rock" Tatum and "soft gentle" Hill - "make some sort of vulnerability in his characters that makes all this chaos, it's all right." Sharkey notes that the film is not only, but also created a couple of friends: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ("Chance of Meatballs"), who "understand the push and pull and hyper-competitive guy friends who are complicated and stupid."
The New York Times, AO Scott called the film "is an example of a formula-based entertainment can succeed." Although "21 Jump Street" is a "full ordinary boy-comedy of things" and does not violate the model of the new concept, "this whole mess of stupid, impetuous, and, of course, smart enough to work." Scott Hill and Tatum credits to play its traditional role and disadvantages, to provide "a real energy in the film" rather than a mediocre action sequences.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, said: "21 Jump Street" is not a true adaptation of the series, a "collage of the screwball comedy, action, and« Odd Couple "formula" - and a half tons from ISN 'bad. Ebert welcomes the script, Michael Bacall, who slyly self-referential and "happy to accept all of its improbability." Ebert agrees with Scott that the action scenes of the opening, more interesting for today is "the beginning of Channing Tatum as an actor who can play comedy, he deadpans so well here, he can start watching Cary Grant movies idea for a remake. ".

USA Today film critic Claudia Puig also impressed Tatum. She writes: "This is not surprising that Hill, as agent for awkward Schmidt, generates laughter for so many years. But who would expect to Tatum, the officer Jenko minded, that's so funny? Most often stigmatized as a standard ... Tatum idol Hill has it's own and other comedic actor in the film. "

Ann Hornaday Washington Post, called the film ". Less thriller reminiscent of turn of the fresh outdoors Johnny Depp Go '21 'as a comedy full of good humor and jokes, gags look" Hornaday said: "Despite the nervousness and vulgarity, the production is imbued with incomparable sweetness, perhaps through the film co-directors. " He also admits that "nice" support, which includes Dave Franco, Brie Larson, Rob Riggle and Ellie Kemper.

Among the critics of the film are critical Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor, who says: "The basic premise - that these two should be school-age children, brothers and sisters - It's funny, but jokes, as is the case with many others in this film is too often "and Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail, which calls for" 21 Jump Street "," attempt anything funny mess impulsively, which bears his sarcastic cynicism is too proud. "

On the other hand, even Lacy admits: "Tatum, however, is a pleasant surprise ... it seems to have produced a comedy, a young Brendan Fraser, with a sweetness that contrasts with his hulking physical." This idol seems to have been a very successful return to school.

George Clooney Was Arrested in Protest at Sudan Embassy

George Clooney Was Arrested in Protest at Sudan Embassy: George Clooney and his father were arrested Friday during a demonstration outside the Sudanese Embassy, ​​and the actor says he has asked President Barack Obama to China to stop the humanitarian crisis in North Africa.

The protesters accused President Omar al-Bashir to create a humanitarian crisis and food aid from the entrance and blocking the Nuba Mountains in the border district with South Sudan.

Clooney and his father, Nick Clooney, and others, including the U.S., the Democratic Republic Moran of Virginia, Jim, NAACP President Ben Jealous and Martin Luther King III, were arrested after warned three times not to cross police lines outside the Embassy. They were handcuffed and placed in the forefront of American intelligence.

The arrest was made after George Clooney meets with Obama this week, showed in the Senate and attended a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Clooney told the Associated Press, before his arrest that he can not hope to draw attention to the crisis in Sudan, but he does not know, progress has been made. He said he was surprised, however, Obama's commitment on this issue.

"It's amazing to sit with a world leader who knows the intricacies of what is happening in Sudan," he said.

The actor said that he asked Obama to bring China to push for a more in Sudan. He said that world leaders should "follow the money" flowing into the Sudanese leaders to denounce corruption.

"This is a time when we have a chance to do something, because if we do not, within three or four months will be a humanitarian catastrophe," said Clooney before his arrest.

"It is foolish to think thoughts that you succeed in this," he said. "But if it is strong enough and you'll be hard enough to do, people will know less, and you can not say we did not know. This is the first step."

HBO "Luck" Thing Was Not Sure The Get-go

HBO "Luck" Thing Was Not Sure The Get-go: Take two creative geniuses flying with different views, add the site to the intricacies of a slow sport with meaningless characters who speak in vague jargon, throw in the dangers of working with animals, and you have a trifecta, but the wrong type.

The death of the third horse in the production, it was easy for HBO, to pull the plug on his racehorse drama "luck." Already renewed for a second season, despite the very low, "Luck" was fast becoming a kind of vanity project of HBO can not afford to do.

HBO brass is often the case, because it's paid cable channel that does not advertise, he does not have to worry about the vote. This is true to some extent. HBO billion revenue comes from subscription fees and the sale of its contents, both here and abroad.

However, the notes indicate whether the show is catching on with the public HBO. HBO has 30 million subscribers. There is a number that has not been increased in recent years (while rivals Showtime and Starz subscribers added) as well in a tough economy, all the channels, the cable must be paid are concerned that consumers may decide to effectively save a few dollars.

This does not mean that every HBO show should be home run. Indeed, a huge success on HBO is a failure to question or basic cable channels that are available in more than 100 million households. HBO knows that has a diversified customer base. She went on "The Wire", his critically acclaimed drama about the drug war in Baltimore for five seasons, because it appeals to those who love the intellectual and political drama that viewers who appreciated the show sandy crime.

But the "happiness" was not even a conspiracy against the standards of HBO, using less than 500,000 viewers per night Sunday slot. Although the amount of overtime during the week, and people who watch the episodes they were previously registered are likely to have increased these figures, the limited treatment of the show "Good Luck" bad bets in the long run.

HBO has renewed are "happy" after one episode to air was considered a case of jumping the gun from the first attracted only 1.1 million viewers. In the star of "Chance" includes Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, and produced by David Milch ("Deadwood", "NYPD Blue") and Michael Mann ("Miami Vice," "Heat"), the second season was almost guaranteed to start show. (Networks and attract his black comedy "Illuminati," with Laura Dern, although his records were also very low with an episode of drawing less than 100,000 viewers).

One such reason is the creative talent on HBO in the fact that the channel is paying the cable is known to be very patient with their performances. Often, however, the network brought the show with a very limited appeal for the second season, he kills - as was the case with a series of "how it's done in America," "Rome" and "Carnival." Thus, HBO managed to avoid the stigma of having a first failure of the season.

The drama behind the scenes at the beginning of the production of "Good Luck" should have been a red flag for HBO. Milch and Mann, and perfectionists are often in conflict. "There was one day that David is going to kill Michael," Nolte recently recalled in an interview with The Times. Power behind the scenes, combined with a lack of action on the screen, have led to mixed reviews from critics, many thought, "Luck" was zero.

"This is a series of nine episodes too opaque and infuriating, and therefore respect for the rites and rituals of narration track is laborious without joy," wrote Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times in his review of "luck."

If a "luck" was a great success, HBO would be prepared to storm the death of the horses. But given that "luck" is unlikely to win, place or show with critics and viewers, putting a number down, the network is a real choice.

'John Carter' Suffers Disastrous Opening

'John Carter' Pulls Only $30.6M at the Weekend Box Office: "John Carter," Disney's $ 250 million sci-fi spectacular, floundering in the domestic office in its opening weekend, pulling out only $ 30.6 million, according to studio. Universal "Lorax", photo $ 70 million in its second animations week of release, it hit almost $ 9,000,000.

Not that no one expected otherwise.

In fact, the closest thing to a surprise that the "John Carter" did and did. On Thursday, Disney announced that "suck" at the opening of more than 30 million dollars, but if it is followed by a few million dollars less.

The public - the little that was - as in the movie enough to polling firm Cinemascore assigned to "B +" rating.

And "John Carter" numbers, combined with the strength to "Lorax", "Project X" bravery ", were strong enough that the overall box office rose by 6 percent over the same weekend in 2011.

None of the three films that opened in the news this weekend band performed particularly well, and the number five movie in America, "quiet house" was so bad that he had received "F" Cinemascore. Film Entertainment has released an open road for LD, still managed to collect more than Paramount "A Thousand Words", a film Eddie Murphy, left over from DreamWorks.

"A Thousand Words" earned a "B-" Cinemascore, but only 6.4 million dollars at the box office.

As for the "John Carter," $ 30.6 million opening for a terrible movie, which cost $ 250 million to make. Significant factor in the amount spent on marketing the film Disney - and then convert their marketing efforts - and as a result of catastrophic.

Nothing good in the "John Carter" international numbers. The film grossed $ 70600000 outside of North America, for the first weekend of the world more than $ 100 million.

"We certainly appreciate the film of the economy, but happy as he was received by the public, and we hope that the positive way by word of mouth", Disney's head of distribution, Dave Hollis, TheWrap said Sunday morning.

This word-of-mouth is probably largely responsible for the growth of 25 percent on Friday.

"John Carter" the audience in the vast majority of men, and a little over 64 percent of the audience were men and 59 percent were 25 years or older.

The film has played particularly well in IMAX locations. It has attracted more than $ 5 million - 16 percent of total domestic take - those theaters big screen, and eight top-10 "John Carter" IMAX theaters.

3D locations account for 64 percent of gross domestic product.

Andrew Stanton, who wrote and directed a highly successful animated film "WALL-E" and "Finding Nemo", made his first feature fiction film with the "John Carter".

The film is based on the character of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, which is transported to Mars, where he became involved in a battle between the exotic breeds.

Taylor Kitsch stars in the film a PG-13, which opened in 3.746 points.

Other new films at the weekend, "Silent House" and "A Thousand Words", has opened poorly, too.

"Silent House", starring Elizabeth Olsen, took a $ 7 million - a respectable figure for the film, which cost about $ 1 million to make. But the R-rated film was almost unheard of "F" Cinemascore.

LD Entertainment has acquired "quiet house" at the Sundance Film Festival.

It is much more expensive "A Thousand Words," PG-13 rated comedy Eddie Murphy, took sixth place at the domestic box office only $ 6.4 million.

This figure is that Paramount's box office observers outside the studio had expected, but nothing unusual for a film with a budget of $ 40 million. He appealed mostly women, who account for 55 percent of the audience. People aged 25 and older accounted for 61 percent of the audience.

"A Thousand Words" also shows that Murphy can not count on it to open the movie. His "Imagine" as well as Paramount, opened to $ 5.5 million in June 2009 and "Meet Dave" for Fox, debuted to 5.2 million in July 2008.

His "Tower Heist", later a universal image that shows Ben Stiller, Murphy and Casey Affleck, opened to $ 24 million.

The winner of the weekend - the winner of the weekend - a "Lorax".

The versatile Dr. Seuss book, plus about $ 39 million in the second week of release. This decline of 44 percent of its first weekend, when he took a whopping $ 70.2 million.

"This is a remarkable result goes off record," Nikki Rocco, head of the distribution of Universal, said TheWrap on Sunday morning. "We ... beyond the ideal family. "

"Lorax", which costs about $ 70 million to make, brought about 122 million U.S. dollars, and the country is on track for continued strong race. Animation is the family the next Sony "Pirates! Band of Misfits", which debuts April 27.

This weekend, the film offers an in-line media, Sony "21 Jump Street."

The weekend after the film only new wide release in Lionsgate "The Hunger Games", which can open up to 100 million dollars.

Friends With Children: Who Makes Jon Hamm?

Friends With Children: Who Makes Jon Hamm?: When I found friends with the children opened last night at the theater in my area without a long break, I impulsively threw a pair of tickets that I bought for another film set at the same time. I must confess that I am crazy about Mad Men and AMC was morbidly curious to know more about Jon Hamm (true gift Draper) and his significant other for 14 years, Jennifer Westfeldt.

Westfeldt, who gained popularity as the star of the indie film Kissing Jessica 2001 Stein wrote, directed, produced and stars of friends with children. The film has collected a lot of advertising, probably because of its leading actors, which also includes Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation NBC), Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live), Chris O'Dowd, Megan Fox and Edward Burns. But I'm sure I'm not the only one who went into an intriguing film, to see who lives with Jon Hamm in real life.

The story of friends with children, focuses on two New Yorkers thirty something new, platonic friends, Julia Keller (Westfeldt) and Jason Fryman (Scott), who decided to do differently than their peers. No one has yet found a mate, so they decided to co-parent of the child and to remain "just friends". Thus, they hope to avoid the same fate as their friends in the comfort of romanceless marriages.

Hamm is one of his friends, Ben, who is married to Wiig (Missy). His character is not very attractive. Being in a bad marriage, he comes off as aggressive, sexist and out of touch with his feelings. Missy has become too passive and tolerant husband. As Don Draper, Ben so insistent that he drinks too much.

I do not know, I was expecting more humor and more miserable, but the film seemed tedious, it felt like 107 minutes of television sitcom without commercials. The script does an excellent job, but making fun of significant differences between couples with children and without. It was a beautiful ode to life in New York. And multi-talented Jennifer Westfeldt's amazing to look at the camera. Despite the fact that not a classic beauty, she is very attractive and convincing, that it seemed almost desperate nature of the biological clock.

It was a little embarrassing to watch the love scenes between Westfeldt and Adam Scott, knowing that her lover was probably a real floating around on the set. Nevertheless, he watched Jon Hamm was a big disappointment. It was released as a boorish and unattractive, even with a slight belly. How can the director of this to her? Was the real Don Draper total fantasy?

After the movie, I'm back home in time to catch some real time with Bill Maher on HBO. I blinked to make sure. Yes, Hamm sat at a round table with a group of eminent experts on politics. Looking as sweet as Don Draper, he impressed me with its easy mix of intellect and humor. In addition, he made me reconsider my assessment of its role as a friend to children. He was a damn good actor.

Search For: Saving time "Daylight Tips" Cyberloafing "

Search For: Saving time "Daylight Tips" Cyberloafing ": Good daylight so register reset at 2am on Sunday, and our clocks an hour rush. But this thought in confusion: Compared with the previous week, tens of millions of people are likely to lose an average of 40 minutes of sleep on Monday, which, in turn, trigger-cyberloafing tendency to linger on the Internet at work instead of doing their job.

This is the conclusion of the research team led by David Wagner, associate professor of organizational behavior and human resource management in the School of the University of Singapore Lee Kong Chian company.

The researchers, who were also from Virginia Tech University and the University of Pennsylvania, found that people lose all sense of restraint in the case of sleep deprivation, which encourages them to spend more time to browse the Internet than they would otherwise. The researchers urge policymakers to rethink the classic reasons for the implementation of DST, and called on leaders in the workplace so that workers get enough sleep.

Research, evidently, the first of its kind, used data from the Google web browser map models on Monday, before and after the summer kicks in. Results were published in the February 27 "online first" edition of Journal of Applied Psychology, which precedes the print edition.

Given that nearly one-third of the world is involved in some form of daylight saving time, studies show loss of productivity to a great job, especially in light of the proliferation of knowledge-based Internet.

Energy savings from daylight saving time is negligible, according to the California Energy Commission, therefore, in 2001, California seeks, but still have to get approval by the U.S. Congress allowed until the end of the summer and stay for the winter.

You can read the full study in PDF cyberloafing attached. To read the summary, click here.

Click on this link to read the story about the summer-time in November 2011, when we turned back our clocks one hour. Among other things, the informative article considers the wide misuse of the word "savings" in the summer, "savings" that you keep in the bank.

The article also notes that the semi-annual ritual of messing with the clock is also a good time to replace batteries in smoke detectors and carbon monoxide in homes.

American Opens Fire on Afghans, 15 Dead

American Opens Fire on Afghans, 15 Dead: A member service of the United States withdrew from the base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday and started shooting Afghan civilians, according to residents and Afghan officials and NATO. Local residents showed Associated Press photographer 15 bodies, including women and children, and said that they were killed by U.S..

Shooting may deepen the conflict between U.S. forces and their Afghan hosts a week of Muslim violence is caused by the burning of the holy book at the U.S. base began to disappear. The fires have caused violent protests and attacks, killing about 30 people. Six U.S. soldiers were killed in attacks by their Afghan counterparts to fire the Koran came to light.

NATO officials apologized for the shooting on Sunday, but did not confirm that each person has been killed, and not referring to reports of death.

"I express my deep regret and dismay at the actions apparently taken by members of the coalition in the province of Kandahar, said in a statement, Lieutenant-General Adrian Bradshaw, deputy commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan.

"One of our soldiers are reported killed and wounded several civilians in the villages adjacent to its base. I can not explain the motives of those ruthless actions, but they in no way part of ISAF approved military activities", he said, with the help of abbreviation for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.

AP photographer saw 15 bodies between the two villages caught in the crossfire. Some of the bodies were burned and others were covered with blankets. The boy is partially wrapped in a blanket was in the back of a van, a crust of dried blood on his face and pooled in the ear. His big brown pants were partially burned, charred leg opening fire.

Residents packed inside a van with concern, as the woman spoke with reporters. She pulled back the blanket to reveal the body of a young child to wear something like red pajamas. The third dead child lying in the middle of the green pile of blankets on the bed of the truck.

Afghan officials and residents of the 16 people were killed, but there was no way to immediately reconcile the number of deaths.

NATO spokesman Justin Brockhoff said a member of the service of the United States was held at the NATO base, as the alleged killer. The wounded were evacuated to medical facilities of NATO, he added.

The attack took place in two villages in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province. The villages - and Balandi Alkozai - about 500 meters (yards) from the American base. The shooting began about 3:00, said Asadullah Khalid, a government official in southern Afghanistan, as well as a member of the delegation who went to investigate the incident.

Villagers Alkozai Abdul Baqi, told the AP, which, based on the accounts of their neighbors, the American shooter went to three different houses and opened fire.

"When it happened in the middle of the night, we were in our homes. I heard gunshots, then silence, and then shooting again," said Bucky. There was no immediate verification of his account.

Helicopters circled overhead, a delegation from the post of governor of Kandahar province, Tooryalai Wesa arrived in the area to determine exactly what happened. There have been reports of protests in Panjwayi after the shooting and the U.S. Embassy warned travelers in the province of Kandahar, "caution".

International forces fought for control of the Panjwai for many years as they tried to rein in Taliban in their rural stronghold. The Taliban began north of the Panjwai and the surrounding area, it was felt that the city of Kandahar to the east, where U.S. troops have flooded the province as part of the strategy of President Barack Obama to a sharp rise in the south since 2009.

Khalid, a government official, said that there were 16 deaths, which number corresponds to the accounts of residents.

Twelve killed Balandi said Samad Khan, a farmer who lost all 11 members of his family, including women and children. Khan was outside the village during the incident and returned to find his family members were shot and burned. My neighbor was killed, he said.

"This is an anti-human and anti-Islamic," said Khan. "Nobody has the right to any religion in the world, kill children and women."

Khan demanded that the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, to punish the American shooter.

"Otherwise, we will make a decision," said Khan. "It must be returned to us."

Villagers Alkozai also demanded that Karzai is punishing America or the transfer of its inhabitants. Four people were killed in the village all one family, one parent said the woman screamed in anger. She did not mention his name because of the conservative nature of local society.

"There were Taliban here. No shooting is happening," said the woman. "We do not know why this is the foreign soldiers came and killed our innocent family members. Either he was drunk, and he enjoyed the killing of civilians."

The Taliban called the shooting a sign that international forces are working against the Afghan people.

"The so-called peacekeepers, Americans once again quench the thirst of the blood of innocent Afghan civilians in Kandahar province," the Taliban said in a statement posted on a website used by rebel groups.

American forces were involved in other forms of violence in the same area.

Four Stryker Brigade soldiers Lewis McChord, Washington, were sent to prison in connection with the 2010 murders of three unarmed men on patrol in Kandahar province in the Maiwand district, located in the northeast of the western Panjwaii. They were accused of forming the "kill team" who killed Afghan civilians for sport - the slaughter of the victim with powerful grenades and machine guns during a patrol, and then lay down their arms around their body to seem to have been combatants.

And in January, before the incident of burning of the Koran, a video that allegedly shows U.S. marines urinated on the bodies of people they killed sparked a wave of indignation.

U.S. President Barack Obama has apologized for the fires of the Koran and said that they were wrong.

Stunning Images of Japan, a Year Later

Tsunami: One year later: Before and after pictures of the tsunami devastation and how to capture the progress. A few minutes after the tsunami, Japan, and the same form as today. The tsunami-devastated Yamada town in Iwate prefecture is seen in two images taken on March 14, 2011 (top) and March 1, 2012, in this combination photo released by Kyodo on March 7, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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