Shame on vandals shooting out windows

Quite frankly, we utterly fail to understand the attraction of using BB guns to shoot up glass objects -- apartment and car windows, as was the case Saturday night on W. Kiowa Avenue in Fort Morgan.

Or perhaps we understand the motivation a bit too well.

Those apartments contain a significant percentage of African refugees.

There was a similar incident on State Street, and there are some refugees in that area.

Police are investigating the possibility that the crimes were aimed at members of the refugee community.

These incidents are a slap in the face -- or more accurately, a stab in the back -- of efforts by such organizations as OneMorgan County to help refugees adjust to their new community and their community adjust to them.

Those who commit such crimes are cowards of the worst sort, carrying out anonymous, malicious attacks under cover of darkness, then fading away into the night and hiding themselves.

Anyone so bored that they feel the need to shoot BBs into windows as a means to getting a thrill has to be extremely jaded.

And anyone who expresses his discontent with a segment of the population by resorting to clandestine acts of vandalism has to be extremely warped and cowardly.

While these may be the only acts targeting our refugee neighbors, they are far from the only criminal acts around our area in recent days.

Several Brush businesses were the targets of attempted burglaries , vandals have hit some area mailboxes and Fort Morgan police are still looking for a woman who passed a note to a clerk at a downtown business claiming to have a gun and fled with some cash.

Looks like some Grinches are trying to steal Christmas in our Whoville.

It would behoove all of us to be extra alert, keeping an eye on not only our possessions and personal safety but on the possessions and safety of our neighbors.

There are many temptations out there for those of questionable character -- light displays, cars loaded with gifts and homes full of gifts, televisions and other assorted electronics and the like.

We should keep our eyes peeled to make us and our neighbors as safe as possible from those who would express their hate and/or greed in criminal manners.

Source: http://www.fortmorgantimes.com/ci_19592826?source=rss_viewed

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Women's College Basketball Schedule

All Times EST
Monday, Dec. 26

No games scheduled

Youngstown St. at Stony Brook, 7 p.m.

William Woods at W. Illinois, 6 p.m.

Texas A&M-CC at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Toledo at Northwestern, 7 p.m.

Bucknell at West Virginia, Noon

Bryant at CCSU, 1 p.m.

South Carolina at Drexel, 5 p.m.

Cornell at Canisius, 5:15 p.m.

Quinnipiac at American U., 7 p.m.

Columbia at Fairleigh Dickinson, 7 p.m.

St. Francis (NY) at Manhattan, 7 p.m.

Duquesne at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Howard at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.

UT-Martin at Louisville, Noon

North Florida at Bethune-Cookman, 5:30 p.m.

Gardner-Webb at NC Central, 6 p.m.

Samford at Florida, 7 p.m.

Yale at Florida St., 7 p.m.

Furman at Georgia, 7 p.m.

Winthrop at Mercer, 7 p.m.

Old Dominion at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

Brevard at UNC Asheville, 7 p.m.

George Washington at William & Mary, 7 p.m.

Georgia St. at Jacksonville St., 8 p.m.

Kentucky at Middle Tennessee, 8 p.m.

Marshall at Tennessee Tech, 8 p.m.

Longwood at Notre Dame, 2 p.m.

Morehead St. at SE Missouri, 6:30 p.m.

Providence at Akron, 7 p.m.

Lake Erie at Cleveland St., 7 p.m.

Marygrove at IUPUI, 7 p.m.

Chicago St. at Miami (Ohio), 7 p.m.

Valparaiso at Wright St., 7 p.m.

Alabama A&M at Illinois, 8 p.m.

Sam Houston St. at Kansas, 8 p.m.

Delaware St. at Texas, 4 p.m.

MVSU at Arkansas, 5 p.m.

Houston Baptist at Texas St., 6 p.m.

Texas Wesleyan vs. Prairie View at Houston, Texas, 6:30 p.m.

Nebraska Omaha at Tulsa, 7 p.m.

UALR at North Texas, 8 p.m.

TCU at Oklahoma, 8 p.m.

UTSA at SMU, 8 p.m.

Texas-Arlington at Texas-Pan American, 8 p.m.

UNC Greensboro at San Diego St., 5 p.m.

UTEP at Arizona St., 7:30 p.m.

UNLV at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Troy at Denver, 9 p.m.

Utah Valley at Utah, 9 p.m.

NC State vs. Florida Gulf Coast at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 10 p.m.

Corban at Portland St., 10 p.m.

CS Bakersfield at San Diego, 10 p.m.

Alcorn St. at Hawaii, Mid

High Point vs. UMBC, 5 p.m.

Cincinnati at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m.

Elon vs. UMass, 4:30 p.m.

Wagner at Virginia, 7 p.m.

Morgan St. vs. VCU, 5 p.m.

Holy Cross at Miami, 7 p.m.

Lafayette at Maryland, Noon

Delaware vs. East Carolina, 2:30 p.m.

Coll. of Charleston at Tulane, 7 p.m.

Hampton vs. Cent. Michigan, 9 p.m.

Iona at Colgate, 2 p.m.

Princeton at Hofstra, 4 p.m.

Vermont vs. La Salle at Leede Arena, Hanover, N.H., 5 p.m.

James Madison vs. Richmond at Stabler Arena, Bethlehem, Pa., 5 p.m.

Siena at Maine, 6 p.m.

La Salle at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.

Harvard at Hartford, 7 p.m.

Kansas St. at Marist, 7 p.m.

Rider at Mount St. Mary's, 7 p.m.

Boston College at Saint Joseph's, 7 p.m.

Niagara at Syracuse, 7 p.m.

Loyola (Md.) at Towson, 7 p.m.

Rhode Island at Lehigh, 7:30 p.m.

Fairfield at UConn, 7:30 p.m.

NC A&T at Georgia Tech, 2 p.m.

Savannah St. at North Carolina, 2 p.m.

Md.-Eastern Shore at Wake Forest, 2 p.m.

W. Kentucky at Louisiana-Monroe, 6:30 p.m.

Austin Peay at Tennessee St., 6:30 p.m.

Kennesaw St. at Alabama St., 7 p.m.

SC-Upstate at Coastal Carolina, 7 p.m.

SC State at Jacksonville, 7 p.m.

Xavier at UNC Wilmington, 7 p.m.

LSU at Louisiana Tech, 8 p.m.

SE Louisiana at Mississippi, 8 p.m.

W. Carolina at Vanderbilt, 8 p.m.

Butler at Detroit, 7 p.m.

George Mason at Ohio, 7 p.m.

Missouri St. at Bradley, 8 p.m.

N. Illinois at E. Illinois, 8 p.m.

Ill.-Chicago at Green Bay, 8 p.m.

Loyola of Chicago at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

IPFW at N. Dakota St., 8 p.m.

Wichita St. at N. Iowa, 8 p.m.

Oral Roberts at South Dakota, 8 p.m.

Oakland at S. Dakota St., 8 p.m.

S. Utah at UMKC, 8 p.m.

Florida Atlantic at Arkansas St., 6:35 p.m.

UNC Greensboro vs. Penn at Viejas Arena, San Diego, 5 p.m.

North Dakota vs. Idaho at Dahlberg Arena, Missoula, Mont., 6 p.m.

UC Irvine at CS Northridge, 7 p.m.

Cal St. Fullerton at Pacific, 8 p.m.

Southern Miss. at Montana, 9 p.m.

Alcorn St. vs. NC State at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 9 p.m.

Bowling Green at Wyoming, 9 p.m.

Montana St. at E. Washington, 9:05 p.m.

Black Hills St. at N. Colorado, 9:05 p.m.

Brown at Dominican (Cal.), 10 p.m.

UC Riverside at Long Beach St., 10 p.m.

Saint Mary's (Cal.) at Loyola Marymount, 10 p.m.

Washington St. at Oregon, 10 p.m.

Washington at Oregon St., 10 p.m.

Gonzaga at Portland, 10 p.m.

Pepperdine at San Francisco, 10 p.m.

Stanford at Southern Cal, 10 p.m.

CS Bakersfield vs. Texas Tech at Jenny Craig Pavilion, San Diego, 10 p.m.

California at UCLA, 10 p.m.

N. Arizona at Sacramento St., 10:05 p.m.

Florida Gulf Coast at Hawaii, 11 p.m.

NJIT vs. Buffalo, 6 p.m.

New Hampshire at Iowa St., 8:30 p.m.

Albany (NY) at FIU, 6 p.m.

Auburn vs. Charlotte, 8 p.m.

Navy at Fordham, Noon

Coppin St. vs. Boston U., 2 p.m.

Norfolk St. at Monmouth (NJ), 2 p.m.

St. Bonaventure vs. Villanova, 4 p.m.

Third Place, TBA

Championship, TBA

Third Place, 4:30 p.m.

Championship, 7 p.m.

Third Place, 5 p.m.

Championship, 7 p.m.

LIU at Nevada, 5 p.m.

Mississippi St. vs. Oklahoma St., 7 p.m.

Dayton vs. South Florida, 5 p.m.

Binghamton at St. Peter's, 7:30 p.m.

Third Place, TBA

Championship, TBA

Third Place, 7 p.m.

Championship, 9 p.m.

Saint Louis vs. E. Michigan, 4 p.m.

St. Francis (Pa.) at Seattle, 6:15 p.m.

Bryant at Columbia, 4:30 p.m.

Vermont vs. Georgetown at Leede Arena, Hanover, N.H., 5 p.m.

Rhode Island vs. James Madison at Stabler Arena, Bethlehem, Pa., 5 p.m.

W. Michigan at American U., 7 p.m.

Quinnipiac at Army, 7 p.m.

Georgetown at Dartmouth, 7 p.m.

Howard at Fairleigh Dickinson, 7 p.m.

Rutgers at George Washington, 7 p.m.

Sacred Heart at Manhattan, 7 p.m.

Nebraska at Penn St., 7 p.m.

Duke at Temple, 7 p.m.

Richmond at Lehigh, 7:30 p.m.

Florida St. at UCF, 4:30 p.m.

Kent St. at Bethune-Cookman, 5:30 p.m.

Gardner-Webb at Campbell, 7 p.m.

UAB at Clemson, 7 p.m.

Southern Wesleyan at Georgia Southern, 7 p.m.

Notre Dame at Mercer, 7 p.m.

NC Central at North Carolina, 7 p.m.

Elizabeth City St. at William & Mary, 7 p.m.

Air Force at Alabama, 7:30 p.m.

Southern NO at Nicholls St., 7:30 p.m.

Seton Hall at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Jackson St. at Northwestern St., 8 p.m.

Michigan St. at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Chicago St. at Akron, 7 p.m.

Northwestern at Iowa, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Purdue, 7 p.m.

S. Illinois at Illinois St., 7:05 p.m.

Evansville at Indiana St., 7:05 p.m.

Michigan at Illinois, 8 p.m.

Sam Houston St. at Missouri, 8 p.m.

Ohio St. at Wisconsin, 8 p.m.

MVSU at Baylor, 8 p.m.

Ark.-Pine Bluff at Cent. Arkansas, 8 p.m.

Centenary at Lamar, 8 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin at SMU, 8 p.m.

McNeese St. at Texas A&M, 8 p.m.

Rice at UTSA, 8 p.m.

Penn at San Diego St., 5 p.m.

Alcorn St. vs. Florida Gulf Coast at the Stan Sheriff Center, Honolulu, 6 p.m.

Southern Miss. vs. Idaho at Dahlberg Arena, Missoula, Mont., 6 p.m.

New Mexico at New Mexico St., 8:30 p.m.

North Dakota at Montana, 9 p.m.

Great Falls at Idaho St., 9:05 p.m.

NC State at Hawaii, 9:30 p.m.

Texas Tech at San Diego, 10 p.m.

Third Place, TBA

Championship, TBA

Third Place, TBA

Championship, TBA

Third Place, 1 p.m.

Championship, 3 p.m.

Third Place, 2 p.m.

Championship, 4 p.m.

Third Place, 8 p.m.

Championship, 10 p.m.

Third Place, 5 p.m.

Championship, 7:30 p.m.

Third Place, 4 p.m.

Championship, 6:15 p.m.

Colgate at Syracuse, Noon

Robert Morris at Duquesne, 1 p.m.

Bucknell at Mount St. Mary's, 1 p.m.

Lafayette at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Hartford at Providence, 1 p.m.

Elon at West Virginia, 2 p.m.

Princeton at Drexel, 2:30 p.m.

Boston U. at St. John's, 3 p.m.

Longwood at Appalachian St., Noon

South Alabama at Middle Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Presbyterian at Charleston Southern, 2 p.m.

Winthrop at Coastal Carolina, 2 p.m.

Davidson at Wake Forest, 2 p.m.

Austin Peay at Morehead St., 2:45 p.m.

Florida Atlantic at Louisiana-Lafayette, 3 p.m.

Arkansas St. at Louisiana-Monroe, 3 p.m.

Tennessee Tech at UT-Martin, 3 p.m.

Tennessee St. at E. Kentucky, 4 p.m.

UNC Asheville at High Point, 4 p.m.

Liberty at Radford, 4:30 p.m.

Valparaiso at Detroit, Noon

Marquette at Toledo, Noon

Missouri Western at Nebraska Omaha, 1 p.m.

W. Illinois at IUPUI, 2 p.m.

Murray St. at SE Missouri, 2 p.m.

Jacksonville St. at SIU Edwardsville, 2 p.m.

Cleveland St. at Youngstown St., 2:05 p.m.

Wichita St. at Bradley, 3 p.m.

N. Illinois at DePaul, 3 p.m.

Loyola of Chicago at Green Bay, 3 p.m.

Ill.-Chicago at Milwaukee, 3 p.m.

Missouri St. at N. Iowa, 3 p.m.

S. Utah at South Dakota, 3 p.m.

IPFW at S. Dakota St., 3 p.m.

Oral Roberts at UMKC, 3 p.m.

Drake at Creighton, 3:05 p.m.

Marshall at Ball St., 4 p.m.

Oakland at N. Dakota St., 8 p.m.

Butler at Wright St., 8 p.m.

Troy at North Texas, 2 p.m.

Houston Baptist at Texas-Arlington, 2 p.m.

Texas Southern at TCU, 3 p.m.

Texas St. at UTEP, 4:05 p.m.

Arizona at Arizona St., 2 p.m.

California at Southern Cal, 2 p.m.

Bowling Green at Colorado St., 3 p.m.

Weber St. at Sacramento St., 3:05 p.m.

UALR at Denver, 3:30 p.m.

UC Irvine at Long Beach St., 4 p.m.

Colorado at Utah, 4 p.m.

Utah Valley at Boise St., 4:30 p.m.

San Francisco at Loyola Marymount, 5 p.m.

Washington at Oregon, 5 p.m.

Washington St. at Oregon St., 5 p.m.

Montana St. at Portland St., 5 p.m.

BYU at Saint Mary's (Cal.), 5 p.m.

Brown at San Jose St., 5 p.m.

Pepperdine at Santa Clara, 5 p.m.

Cal St. Fullerton at UC Davis, 5 p.m.

Stanford at UCLA, 5 p.m.

UC Santa Barbara at Cal Poly, 7 p.m.

UC Riverside at CS Northridge, 7 p.m.

N. Arizona at N. Colorado, 7:05 p.m.

Army at Yale, 4 p.m.

Kentucky at Florida, 1 p.m.

Arkansas at Georgia, 2 p.m.

Tennessee at Auburn, 3 p.m.

LSU at Mississippi, 3 p.m.

Alabama at South Carolina, 3 p.m.

Evansville at Illinois St., 1:05 p.m.

S. Illinois at Indiana St., 2:05 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin at Tulsa, 3 p.m.

St. Francis (Pa.) at Gonzaga, 5 p.m.

Shaw at New Mexico St., 5 p.m.

Source: http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/24-sports-news/article686029.ece

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Vice President Greets People on Christmas

The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari has greeted the people on joyous occasion of Christmas. In his message he has said that Christmas is an occasion to imbibe the divine teachings of Lord Jesus Christ and spread joy and happiness. The festival also signifies the ideals of brotherhood, love and compassion.

Following is the text of Vice President?s message :

I extend my greetings and best wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Christmas.

Christmas is an occasion to imbibe the divine teachings of Lord Jesus Christ and spread joy and happiness. The festival also signifies the ideals of brotherhood, love and compassion.

May this festival inspire us to work tirelessly for the progress of our nation.

Sanjay Kumar/VPI/24.12.11
(Release ID :79200)

Source: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=79200

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'Rare' brain disorder may be more common than thought, say Mayo Clinic scientists

ScienceDaily (Dec. 25, 2011) ? A global team of neuroscientists, led by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida, has found the gene responsible for a brain disorder that may be much more common than once believed. In the Dec. 25 online issue of Nature Genetics, the researchers say they identified 14 different mutations in the gene CSF1R that lead to development of hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids (HDLS). This is a devastating disorder of the brain's white matter that leads to death between ages 40 and 60. People who inherit the abnormal gene always develop HDLS. Until now, a definite diagnosis of HDLS required examination of brain tissue at biopsy or autopsy.

The finding is important because the researchers suspect that HDLS is more common than once thought and a genetic diagnosis will now be possible without need for a brain biopsy or autopsy. According to the study's senior investigator, neurologist Zbigniew K. Wszolek, M.D., a significant number of people who tested positive for the abnormal gene in this study had been diagnosed with a wide range of other conditions. These individuals were related to a patient known to have HDLS, and so their genes were also examined.

"Because the symptoms of HDLS vary so widely -- everything from behavior and personality changes to seizures and movement problems -- these patients were misdiagnosed as having either schizophrenia, epilepsy, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke, or other disorders," says Dr. Wszolek. "Many of these patients were therefore treated with drugs that offered only toxic side effects.

"Given this finding, we may soon have a blood test that can help doctors diagnose HDLS, and I predict we will find it is much more common than anyone could have imagined," he says.

Dr. Wszolek is internationally known for his long-term efforts to bring together researchers from around the world to help find cases of inherited brain disorders and discover their genetic roots.

Dr. Wszolek's interest in HDLS began when a severely disabled young woman came to see him in 2003 and mentioned that other members of her family were affected. The diagnosis of HDLS was made by his Mayo Clinic colleague, Dennis W. Dickson, M.D., who reviewed the autopsy findings of the patient's uncle, who had previously been misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis, and subsequently, Dr. Wszolek's patient and her father. All members of the family had HDLS.

Dr. Dickson had identified other cases of HDLS from Florida, New York, Oregon and Kansas in the Mayo Clinic Florida brain bank and knew of a large kindred in Virginia with similar pathology, based upon a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists. With concerted efforts, Dr. Wszolek and collaborators at University of Virginia were able to obtain DNA samples from the Virginia kindred. Dr. Wszolek also sought other cases, particularly those that had been reported in the neuropathology literature, and he was able to obtain samples from Norway, the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada, and other sites in the U.S. He and his team of investigators and collaborators have since published studies describing the clinical, pathologic and imaging characteristics of the disorder, and they have held five international meetings on HDLS.

In this study, which included 38 researchers from 12 institutions in five countries, the study's first author, Rosa Rademakers, Ph.D., led the effort to find the gene responsible for HDLS. Her laboratory studied DNA samples from 14 families in which at least one member was diagnosed with HDLS and compared these with samples from more than 2,000 disease-free participants. The gene was ultimately found using a combination of traditional genetic linkage studies and recently developed state-of-the art sequencing methods. Most family members studied -- who were found to have HDLS gene mutations -- were not diagnosed with the disease, but with something else, thus emphasizing the notion that HDLS is an underdiagnosed disorder.

The CSF1R protein is an important receptor in the brain that is primarily present in microglia, the immune cells of the brain. "We identified a different CSF1R mutation in every HDLS family that we studied," says Dr. Rademakers. "All mutations are located in the kinase domain of CSF1R, which is critical for its activity, suggesting that these mutations may lead to deficient microglia activity. How this leads to white matter pathology in HDLS patients is not yet understood, but we now have an important lead to study."

"With no other disease have we found so many affected families so quickly," says Dr. Wszolek. "That tells me this disease is not rare, but quite common." He adds, "It is fantastic that you can start an investigation with a single case and end up, with the help of many hands, in what we believe to be a world-class gene discovery."

The study was funded by a Mayo benefactor and the Mayo Foundation. Additionally, Mayo Clinic in Florida is a Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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  1. Rosa Rademakers, Matt Baker, Alexandra M Nicholson, Nicola J Rutherford, NiCole Finch, Alexandra Soto-Ortolaza, Jennifer Lash, Christian Wider, Aleksandra Wojtas, Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez, Jennifer Adamson, Naomi Kouri, Christina Sundal, Elizabeth A Shuster, Jan Aasly, James MacKenzie, Sigrun Roeber, Hans A Kretzschmar, Bradley F Boeve, David S Knopman, Ronald C Petersen, Nigel J Cairns, Bernardino Ghetti, Salvatore Spina, James Garbern, Alexandros C Tselis, Ryan Uitti, Pritam Das, Jay A Van Gerpen, James F Meschia, Shawn Levy, Daniel F Broderick, Neill Graff-Radford, Owen A Ross, Bradley B Miller, Russell H Swerdlow, Dennis W Dickson, Zbigniew K Wszolek. Mutations in the colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) gene cause hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids. Nature Genetics, 2011; DOI: 10.1038/ng.1027

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Conn. house where 5 died in fire is torn down

Firefighters are seen on the roof of a house where an early morning fire left five people dead Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Stamford, Conn. Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. Their names have not been released. (AP Photo/Tina FIneberg)

Firefighters are seen on the roof of a house where an early morning fire left five people dead Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Stamford, Conn. Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. Their names have not been released. (AP Photo/Tina FIneberg)

Firefighters spray water on the roof of a house where an early morning fire left five people dead Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Stamford, Conn. Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. Their names have not been released. (AP Photo/Tina FIneberg)

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 1998 file photo, Madonna Badger, president and creative director of what was then called Badger Worldwide Advertising, now Badger and Winters Group, poses in her New York office. Badger is the owner of a tony Connecticut home that burned in a blaze that killed five people on Christmas morning Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, File)

The back of a house where an early morning fire left five people dead is seen Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Stamford, Conn. Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. Their names have not been released. (AP Photo/Tina FIneberg)

A section of a house where an early morning fire left five people dead is seen Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 in Stamford, Conn. Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped. Their names have not been released. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

(AP) ? A house severely damaged in a Christmas morning fire that killed three children and two grandparents, one of whom worked as Santa Claus at Saks Fifth Avenue, has been torn down.

The building department determined that the $1.7 million house was unsafe and ordered it razed, Stamford fire chief Antonio Conte said.

The home's owner, advertising executive Madonna Badger, and her male acquaintance escaped from the fire. But Badger's three daughters ? a 10-year-old and 7-year-old twins ? and her parents, who were visiting for the holiday, died, police said.

Neighbors said they awoke to the sound of screaming shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday and rushed outside to help, but could do nothing as flames devoured the large, turreted home.

Police said the male acquaintance who escaped the blaze with Badger was a contractor working on the home. He was also hospitalized but his condition was not released.

Interviews with them will be finished Monday, Conte said. He had no details on the investigation.

A spokeswoman for Saks Fifth Avenue confirmed in a statement that Badger's father, Lomer Johnson, had worked as a Santa this year at its flagship store in Manhattan.

"Mr. Johnson was Saks Fifth Avenue's beloved Santa, and we are heartbroken about this terrible tragedy," spokeswoman Julia Bently said.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a former mayor of Stamford, offered his condolences to Badger and her family in a statement and said her loss "defies explanation."

The fire was Stamford's deadliest since a 1987 blaze that also killed five people, Conte said.

Badger, an ad executive in the fashion industry, is the founder of New York City-based Badger & Winters Group. A supervisor at Stamford Hospital said she was treated and discharged by Sunday evening. Her whereabouts Monday was unknown.

Property records show Badger bought the five-bedroom, waterfront home for $1.7 million last year. The house is situated in Shippan Point, a wealthy neighborhood that juts into Long Island Sound.

Associated Press

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Rahman legal challenge puts Povetkin vs. Huck bout in jeopardy ...

Aleksandr Povetkin (RIA Novosti / Vadim Zhernov)

The fate of the bout between WBA regular heavyweight champion Aleksandr Povetkin and WBO cruiserweight champ Marco Huck is in doubt after Hasim Rahman team?s claimed it has no legal basis.

Povetkin's mandatory challenger, Hasim Rahman, and his promoter, Greg Cohen, were frustrated by Povetkin?s decision to go forward with Huck, and are now refusing to step aside. Citing WBA rules they claim that Povetkin, who won the title on August 27 in a bout against former WBA champion Ruslan Chagaev, must first meet Rahman, who currently tops the WBA challengers? ranking.

However Povetkin?s manager, Vladimir Khryunov, says his attempts to discuss the matter with Cohen have been rebuffed.

"Rahman's promoter Greg Cohen is very strange. Now I can't contact him. I tried to phone him for 10 consecutive days, to no avail," Boxingscene quotes Khryunov as saying.

Now that the problem looks unlikely to be solved amicably, the World Boxing Association has taken charge of the bout agreement.

"We have sent over the signed contract for the fight between Povetkin and Huck due to be held in Stuttgart on February 25.We hope to have the fight contract approved by the WBA. So it's possible that we'll receive good news about the fight shortly," Khryunov explained.

Earlier, the World Boxing Association agreed to reschedule the bout so that the 32-year-oldRussian could take on Huck.

Meeting Huck has become a matter of principle for Aleksandr Povetkin and his team. After Huck?s controversial win on points against Denis Lebedev of Russia in December 2010, they have repeatedly expressed their determination to get even with the German.

Source: http://rt.com/sport/boxing/rahman-povetkin-huck-bout-wba-667/

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Space-Flying Dutchman's Must-Haves: Time, Space Stamps & Cheese (SPACE.com)

The first Dutch astronaut to return to space, Andr? Kuipers is about to begin five and a half months on board the International Space Station (ISS), a mission the European Space Agency named "PromISSe."

To that end, organizations in the Netherlands have offered up products?aimed at keeping Kuipers' PromISSe ? from keeping time to keeping in touch to keeping well fed.

Kuipers launched to space?on Wednesday (Dec. 21) with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Don Pettit. The three are scheduled to arrive at the station on Friday (Dec. 23), when they will join the outpost's 30th expedition crew.

All three are spaceflight veterans. This is Kuipers' second time aboard the station. His first mission, "Delta," in 2004 lasted just 11 days on the orbiting laboratory.

With much more time to consider this time around, Dutch companies have contributed to making Kuipers' stay more comfortable, while also giving his fellow countrymen ways to commemorate their astronaut's journey. [Astronaut Holiday Photo Album]

Keeping time

Despite the brevity of his 2004 mission, Kuipers said that he lost track of time while in space. To help address this, Dutch watchmaker Roland Oostwegel created the "R.O.1 SPACE Special Edition," a timepiece that features a dial that displays mission elapsed time in days and weeks.

Kuipers launched with the special watch, which like all his and his crewmates' other equipment had to be certified for use on the station. Fabricated out of carbon-fiber so it is lightweight, the watch also features a sub-dial display for the time it takes for the space station to circle the Earth, 91 minutes and 59 seconds.

Other watches, like Omega's Speedmaster X-33 which is issued to all station crew members, also display mission elapsed time, though as one of its several different digital displays.

To celebrate Kuipers' mission and the first Dutch watch in space, Roland Oostwegel also created a limited edition series of similar watches for those on the ground. Unlike Kuipers' "special edition" timepiece though, the stainless steel, titanium, gold, and ceramic Earth-based versions swap out the mission elapsed time feature for a day and date calendar display.

The limited edition R.O.1 SPACE watches start at ?4900 (about $6,400).

Keeping in touch

Dutch space fans seeking a less expensive memento of Kuipers' mission?can turn to a local postal company.

PostNL, in cooperation with the European Space Agency, began this week offering a collection of space postcards and stamps honoring and showing Kuipers in space.

The 34 different postcards feature photos from Earth orbit of cities, the wonders of the world and space. The limited edition stamps, which are offered in a "sheetlet" of three, show Kuipers during his 2004 mission and the Earth as viewed from the International Space Station.

Both the postcards and the stamps can be ordered online through PostNL and its online service, KaartWereld. The stamp sheetlet, which comes with three of the postcards, cost ?4,95 (about $6.50).

Keeping well fed

Not all companies contributing to Kuipers' mission needed to develop new products ? some were off the (food store) shelf.

Station crew members are allowed to have a small supply of "bonus" foods to amend their regular menus. In Kuipers' case, he chose a taste of home.

Each of his nine bonus food containers include two blocks of New Amsterdam, Dutch cheese produced by Westland Kaasspecialiteiten. Sealed to stay fresh for up to a year, the 18 cheese squares were launched to the space station on a Russian resupply craft.

A gourmet cheese, New Amsterdam is described to have a "buttery" aged Gouda flavor.

"It is our great honor to supply Andr? Kuipers and his colleagues with a stock of Old Amsterdam in space," said Henri?tte Westland, a spokeswoman for the Dutch cheese company. "We are always in search of new fans abroad, but making it as far as outer space we obviously never expected."

Follow collectSPACE on Facebook?and Twitter @collectSPACE?and editor Robert Pearlman @robertpearlman. Copyright 2011?collectSPACE.com. All rights reserved.

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Turkey slams France over genocide debate (AP)

ISTANBUL ? Turkey on Friday accused France of committing genocide during its colonial occupation of Algeria, angrily responding after French lawmakers passed a bill making it a crime to deny the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks constitute genocide.

The deepening acrimony between two strategic allies and trading partners could have repercussions far beyond the settling of accounts over some of the bloodiest episodes of the past century.

Turkey and France worked closely together during NATO's operation against Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and coordinate policy on Syria and Afghanistan. Turkey was already frustrated by French opposition to its stalled European Union bid, and hopes for Western-backed rapprochement between Turkey and Armenia seem ever more distant ahead of 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Armenian killings.

The bill strikes at the heart of national honor in Turkey, which maintains there was no systematic campaign to kill Armenians and that many Turks also died during the chaotic disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.

The French bill still needs Senate approval, but after it passed the lower house Thursday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan halted bilateral political and economic contacts, suspended military cooperation and ordered his country's ambassador home for consultations.

"What the French did in Algeria was genocide," Erdogan said Friday in a heavily personal speech, laced with criticism of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

He alleged that beginning in 1945, about 15 percent of the population of Algeria was massacred by the French.

"They were mercilessly martyred," he said.

The bill's passage "is a clear example of how racism, discrimination and anti-Muslim sentiment have reached new heights in France and in Europe," Erdogan said. "French President Sarkozy's ambition is to win an election based on promoting animosity against Turks and Muslims."

France holds presidential elections in April.

France formally recognized the killings as genocide in 2001, but provided no penalty for anyone refuting that. The bill sets a punishment of up to one year in prison and a fine of euro45,000 ($59,000) for those who deny or "outrageously minimize" the killings, putting such action on par with denial of the Holocaust.

Most historians contend the Ottoman killings of the Armenians constituted the first genocide of the 20th century. But the issue is dicey for any government that wants a strong alliance with Turkey, a rising power. In Washington, President Barack Obama has stopped short of calling the killings genocide.

The Armenian National Committee of America said the French vote "reinforces the growing international consensus ? and the mounting pressure on Turkey ? for a truthful and just resolution of the Armenian Genocide."

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Linguists to gather in Portland for national conference

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Hundreds of linguistic scholars from across the U.S. and around the world will convene in Portland, Oregon for the 86th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) this January.

Members of the news media are invited to observe and report on the proceedings.

The meeting is scheduled for January 5-8, 2012, at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower.

The meeting provides a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research focused on the scientific study of language.

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