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Local Buzz:
"Police Release Steve McNair Case Information"



*NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Metro police have closed the Steve McNair murder case and released more than 200 pages detailing their investigation. Police stand by their conclusion that Sahel Kazemi shot Steve McNair then killed herself.
The case file came on the same day the man who admitted selling Sahel Kazemi the gun used in the murder was sentenced in federal court.
Case File Information (.pdf)
Adrian Gilliam submitted a video taped statement to the judge in advance of his sentencing hearing. He took responsibility for what he did, and hoped the judge would show him leniency.
"I hold myself accountable," said Gilliam.
The judge sentenced Gilliam to 2 1/2 years in prison. As a convicted felon Gilliam should not have even owned a gun.
SEE ALSO: Adrian Gilliam Sentenced For Selling Gun In McNair Murder
Metro police said Gilliam was one of several people they suspected could have killed Steve McNair and Sahel Kazemi early in their investigation, but the scientific evidence points to Kazemi.
"Our investigation determined clearly that we were looking at a murder suicide, not a double homicide made to look like a murder suicide. It'd be very difficult to emulate something like that if you don't know what you're doing," said detective Pat Postiglione.
Metro police took questions about the investigation after releasing 275 pages of the case file.
Case File Information http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wtvf/PDF/Case_File_Info_redacted_EDI...
Some details raise new questions for people who doubt whether the 20-year-old Kazemi could have killed McNair.
"People say there's no way that she'd be able to do that. No way this little girl would be able to kill somebody like Steve McNair. Well, we've seen situations where people have been able to do amazing things when they set their mind on it," said Postiglione.
Steve McNair: 1973-2009
The police file shows Gilliam lied about his alibi the night of the murder and had pursued a relationship with Kazemi. The two first met outside a Nashville night club three weeks before and Gilliam called or texted Kazemi more than 200 times.
The video Giliam submitted to the court paints him as a family man who had support from his fiancée.
"Adrian is a wonderful father," said his fiancee.
Gilliam said he bought the gun to protect his family and sold it for money not knowing what Kazemi would do with it.
"She had her mind set on killing the man she loved, was deeply in love with and could not live without. She figured if she couldn't have him then nobody would. I'm assuming that's what happened," said Postiglione.
Police said Gilliam's cell phone indicated he was in the Antioch area at the time they believe McNair was murdered. They said there wasno indication a third person was in the Condo that night.
Other information in the 275 page police case file includes:
Police questioned former Titans running back Quinten Ganther about his relationship with Kazemi. He met her while bowling with teammate Chris Johnson at Dave and Busters. Ganther admitted having been to Kazemi's apartment but denied a romantic relationship.
Kazemi's former roommate told police they also met other players including quarterback Vince Young at Dave and Busters. She said the players invited Kazemi and her roommate back to McNair's Condo, which Young claimed to own.
Leah Inagni told police McNair's condo was a place where several athletes took girls for parties and sex.


"Big Screen Blockbusters At Small Screen Prices"
*The new Harry Potter movie has just opened in theatres.
What if you could get a copy now to watch at home?
NewsChannel 5 Investigates went undercover and found it's pretty easy these days to get a copy of any movie you want, even if it's still showing in theatres.
When you buy big screen blockbusters for small screen prices, as consumer investigator Jennifer Kraus shows us, you get what you pay for.
If you think going to the movies is the only place you'll find new releases, you might be surprised to see a DVD copy of the movie "Hangover" that NewsChannel 5 Investigates was able to obtain, a movie you supposedly can only see in theatres now.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates went undercover and got it from a woman in Clarksville who sold us five of the summer's hottest movies, including the latest X-Men release, "Wolverine."
The woman who sold the movies to our undercover producer introduced herself as "Cheri" and then said, "We had 'Wolverine' like a month before it even came out."
We found her through an ad on Craig's List. The ad said "Movies - $5." The seller claimed to have "almost all of them." After we asked what was available, we were sent a list with dozens of movie titles. The new Harry Potter film wasn't on the list.
The woman who met us in a restaurant parking lot in Clarksville to sell us the movies assured our undercover producer that getting a copy of the latest Harry Potter film wouldn't be a problem.
"If we get it before, we'll get it like the week before. If not, it'll be like the week of or the week after," she told our undercover producer.
Then she added, "We actually sometimes get them (movies) before they even come out."
But Special Agent Scott Augenbaum, who heads up the FBI's local Cyber Crimes Squad, cautions that "you get what you pay for."
Augenbaum says he's seen plenty of bootleg movies like ours that have been seized by agents. And they usually, he told us, come in plain envelopes, like ours, with the movie's name scribbled on in Magic Marker.
"More times than not, you're going to get a poor quality video and, there are times, when you'll get one and there's nothing on there," Augenbaum told NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
In fact, one of the DVDs we bought, supposedly with "Up" on it didn't work.
One look at the opening of the new "Star Trek" movie and it was obvious the film came from somewhere in Russia, but the title was written in Russian. As it turned out, whoever made the copy used a video camera and zoomed in pretty close to block the subtitles.
We showed the video to Agent Augenbaum.
"I can't really tell what's going on here, except there's lots of lights and flashes over here."
"Night at the Museum 2" was also a pretty bad copy. It was apparently shot in an empty theatre so the audio is very hollow sounding and frequently, the top of the actors' heads were cut off.
Upon seeing this, Augenbaum commented, "You're missing so much of the movie when you're getting a copy like this."
The woman who sold us the movies told our undercover producer that she doesn't make the copies at her house, she has a friend that does it. She did tell us that her family has been selling pirated movies for years.
The FBI's Augenbaum says, "This is theft. It's plain and simple."
Kraus approached the woman selling videos and said, "You know what you're doing is illegal. You are selling videos that are in the theatres."
But the woman denied it all.
"No, I don't have any videos that are in the theatres."
She even denied knowing anything about the movies she'd just sold us.
Kraus asked, "What about the new 'Star Trek?'"
The woman's response, "I don't have the new 'Star Trek.'"
Kraus then asked, "Hangover?"
The woman replied, "I don't have 'Hangover.'"
And when Kraus said, "'Wolverine?'"
The woman just shook her head.
The copy of "Wolverine" that she sold us we found was missing a lot of the film's big budget special effects, meaning this isn't the same film you'll see in theatres. That's not stopping people from selling these movies and taking your money.
Kraus said to the woman, "She just paid you $25 for five videos."
The woman said, "Well, I'm going to go ahead and leave." She headed to her car.
The Motion Picture Association said pirated movies cost the film industry billions of dollars every year. For anyone who buys one of these movies, you essentially get what you pay for.
Most of these copies that are sold are made by someone taking a camera into the theatre.
As we found, the quality can be pretty bad.
With the X-Men movie, "Wolverine," though, the movie was actually leaked onto the Internet before its release. The studio however hadn't finished working on the movie yet.
So while the quality of the copy is better, again, alot of the special effects aren't there.
Now it is a federal crime, a felony in fact, to sell pirated movies.
Just this week, Cookeville police arrested Charlotte Hayes. Police say they found more than a thousand movies in her home that she was copying and selling.
If you are caught, you can face up to three years in jail and $250,000 in fines.


"Help Aids Grandmother In Providing Grave Maker"


*NASHVILLE, Tenn. - She thought she was covered, but an insurance company denied her claim. NewsChannel 5 Investigates got involved, and the grandmother of a 12-year-old murder victim is able to provide a proper burial.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates talked with Shannon Hooten two months ago, after she learned her insurance company would not pay the life insurance policy on her granddaughter.
"I'm thinking I done everything right as far as my insurance goes. I filled the paper work out. I paid my premiums on time," said Hooten.
Hooten was the legal guardian for 12-year-old Makia Woodland. This summer Makia's murder shocked the city. She was an innocent victim in a violent home invasion.
"She was just 12 and the thing about it, it was a home - in a house with the doors locked, thinking at least we was safe," said Hooten.
The killers have never been found. Hooten poured her grief into planning Makia's funeral. She'd bought a $10,000 life insurance policy from a door to door sales man with Cotton States.
Cotton States denied her claim saying she had not adopted Makia, leaving Hooten on the hook for $9,700 in funeral expenses, and leaving her grave without a marker.
Insurance Company's Denial Leaves Debt, Unmarked Grave
Lawrence Ballentine saw our story and enlisted the help of the Tennessee Bikers Education Association to raise money for Hooten.
"I said we got to do something about this. We got to help this lady," said Ballentine.
She met some of the members at Makia's gravesite to thank them for their help.
"If it wasn't for them paying for this, I wouldn't be able to put a marker down to let people know where granddaughter lay," said Hotten.
After the NewsChannel 5 story, a local attorney also sued Cotton States on Hooten's behalf. She has a settlement she's happy with.
"I'm grateful for each and every person who participated in my situation here, and I mean I am very grateful," said Hooten.
Cotton States Insurance declined to comment on this or any individual policy. The terms of the settlement between Cotton States and Shannon Hooten are not public.
Police are still tracking down leads in Makia Woodland's murder.


"2009 Investigation Shined Light on General Sessions Court"

*NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In 2009, an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation raised serious questions about whether Nashville's General Session Court delivered justice for all.
That investigation found judges taking advantage of their positions and court employees pulling strings to help their friends.
"That's why I'm telling you I made a mistake in this situation," General Sessions Judge Gale Robinson told NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter Phil Williams.
Robinson began the year, receiving a judicial reprimand from the court that regulates Tennessee judges. That after our cameras caught him working a second job as a funeral director, leaving people in his courtroom waiting for justice.
Also reprimanded: Judge Casey Moreland, for letting his employees skip work while they were supposed to be on the clock. In one case, one of them was actually working at the judge's house.
"Are you ticked at your employees?" Williams asked Moreland.
"Absolutely," the judge answered.
"Are you ticked with yourself?"
"Absolutely. Both."
By year's end, Judge Gloria Dumas would face formal ethics charges after our investigation caught her being repeatedly late for court and revealed that she had hired her own daughter in violation of rules prohibiting nepotism.
"And what made you think that she could do the job?" Williams asked.
"'Cause she's very smart," Dumas said, with a smile.
Then, our investigation discovered hundreds of traffic tickets being dismissed by defense attorneys as they substituted for absent judges.
Among them: attorney Blake Freeman.
"I don't have any comment right now," Freeman said, as Williams tried to give him a chance to respond.
"You're a defense attorney who helps people get out of speeding tickets," Williams said.
"I represent a lot of folks, yes, sir."
"How does it make sense that you would have the power to dismiss tickets?"
"I don't do that."
Among those who benefited was District Attorney General Torry Johnson's investigator, Bob Chaudoin.
"He knew that it was a violation of the policy, he was aware of that," Johnson said.
Chaudoin resigned after implicating Circuit Court Clerk Ricky Rooker as the one who got his ticket fixed.
"I don't think it's a widespread problem," Rooker said at the time. "I think it's more or less people doing favors for friends."
Mayor Karl Dean warned Metro employees that he would crack down on such conduct in the future.
"If people think they can fix tickets in Davidson County and work for the Metropolitan Government, they are wrong," Dean told Williams.
That came even as our investigation found evidence that court clerks had deleted tickets that never went before a judge -- though one man insisted it wasn't a clerk who pulled the strings.
"It come from above her -- let's put it that way," he insisted.
"So how high was it?" Williams asked.
"It was pretty high."
Former prosecutor David Raybin said, "You have to have confidence that the system is working so that your ticket isn't disposed of and I have to go to court. That's really what it's all about."
As a result, court officials imposed new rules limiting the power of special judges, as the clerk's office placed new controls over who could pull traffic tickets. Metro's auditor also have been reviewing how tickets were handled.
All of that is designed to ensure the public that the justice system is handing out justice.


Top Stories:
"Yemen Says It Killed Militants as Three More Embassies Shut "


*SANA, Yemen — Yemeni government forces killed two suspected Qaeda militants on Monday and wounded others in a firefight 25 miles north of the capital, Yemeni officials said, tying the militants to the continuing threats directed against the United States and British Embassies here.
SANA, Yemen” Yemeni government forces killed two suspected Qaeda militants on Monday and wounded others in a firefight 25 miles north of the capital, Yemeni officials said, tying the militants to the continuing threats directed against the United States and British Embassies here.
Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency
Yemeni soldiers standing guard in front of the United States Embassy in Sana, Yemen, in 2008. The embassy was closed Sunday.
Related
Yemen's Chaos Aids the Evolution of a Qaeda Cell (January 3, 2010)
U.S. Intensifies Air Screening for Fliers From 14 Nations (January 4, 2010)
Times Topics: Yemen
John O. Brennan, left, President Obama's counterterrorism chief, spoke about security on Sunday on "Meet The Press.”
Those embassies remained closed on Monday for a second day, and the French, German and Japanese embassies also closed.
The Yemeni forces were tracking Nazih al-Hanq, whom they suspected of belonging to the regional terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, when they came under fire in the city of Arhab, the officials said. They said that two of Mr. Hanq's bodyguards were killed and perhaps three others wounded, but that Mr. Hanq escaped in the area between the villages of Al Hanq and Beit Boussan.
Arhab was the site of one of several strikes against militants on Dec. 17 that came after American officials, working closely with Yemeni authorities, obtained information that four suicide bombers were aiming at Western targets in Yemen. The strikes killed three of the suspected bombers and damaged two Qaeda training camps.
More security forces were visible Monday on the streets of Sana, the capital, and Yemeni officials said security was tightened at airports and foreign embassies. Not all international activity has halted. The Japanese national soccer team is here to play a match in the Asian Cup qualifying round.
The local Qaeda group was identified by President Obama as responsible for the attempt to bring down an international flight into Detroit on Christmas.
The Yemenis have been working more closely with American military intelligence officials and counterterrorism advisers for the last year, and carried out raids and air strikes against Al Qaeda on Dec. 17 and Dec. 24.
In Washington, American military and intelligence officials said they first picked up warnings of imminent attacks about three weeks ago, using information obtained from enhanced intelligence-sharing established with Yemen last year.
The information pointed to four suicide bombers headed to Sana to attack Western targets, possibly the American and British Embassies. The military strikes in December disrupted those attacks, the officials say.
The airstrikes and raids in December killed three of the suicide bombers, while a fourth was captured with his suicide vest still intact by Yemeni special operations forces searching through the rubble of the strikes, the American officials said.
Some of the information learned from the interrogation of the surviving suicide bomber, as well as from other sources, helped provide information for Dec. 24 strikes.
Those were on a site where American officials believed the two top Qaeda leaders in Yemen were attending a meeting with Anwar al-Awlaki. He is the radical American-born cleric who has been linked to the Fort Hood, Tex., killings. Mr. Awlaki survived, the Yemenis say.
President Obama's counterterrorism chief, John O. Brennan, said in an array of Sunday television appearances that there were only "disparate bits and pieces of information available to intelligence agencies about the suspect in the plane case, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. "There was no smoking gun piece of intelligence out there that said he was a terrorist, Mr. Brennan said on CNN's "State of the Union.
On Sunday, the Transportation Security Administration issued new regulations that passengers from 14 nations would receive "full-body pat-down and physical inspection of property before they can board a plane headed to the United States. Those countries include Pakistan, Nigeria and Yemen and the four nations still listed as state sponsors of terrorism: Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria.
President Obama, who has been in Hawaii over the holidays, was flying back to Washington on Monday.
He is to meet with top advisers in the Situation Room on Tuesday to go over the reviews of how intelligence agencies missed signs that could have raised a red flag on the Nigerian suspect, and how aviation security systems allowed the explosives onto the plane that was the target.
Mr. Brennan, who has been put in charge of reviewing American security measures in the wake of the thwarted attack, said that he was persuaded there were "plans for Al Qaeda to carry out attacks in Sana, possibly against our embassy, possibly against U.S. personnel.
Mr. Brennan painted a picture of robust and innovative Qaeda operations in Yemen.
"Al Qaeda has several hundred members, in fact, in Yemen, and they've grown in strength, he said on ABC's "This Week.
Sunday's decision to close the embassies came after a quiet 90-minute visit with Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, by Gen. David H. Petraeus, the American military commander responsible for the Middle East.
On Saturday, he delivered a message that administration officials described as one of support for Yemen’s unity — Mr. Saleh is battling separatist movements and is eager to have the use of American technology” and for its counterterrorism efforts. It was General Petraeus's third trip to Yemen since he took up his post 14 months ago. American officials in Yemen said that the threat that led to the embassy closings was specific, but they offered no details.
The American Embassy in Sana has been a repeat target. Al Qaeda struck there with a car bomb in September 2008, leaving 19 people dead, including an 18-year-old American woman, members of Yemeni security forces and six militants.
Last January, gunmen in a car exchanged fire with the police at a checkpoint near the embassy, hours after it received threats of a possible attack by Al Qaeda, according to The Associated Press. No one was injured.
And in July, security was upgraded in Sana after intelligence reports warned of attacks.
After the 2008 embassy attack, the United States began to step up its military and security aid to Yemen, with some $67 million spent in fiscal 2009, a figure that General Petraeus said would more than double in 2010, to around $150 million, if Congress approved.
The security assistance last year paid for training and equipping Yemeni security forces, and the "sensitive support of highly classified communication intercepts and satellite imagery.
How to step up aid to the Yemeni government” without creating such a heavy presence that it inspires others in the country to join the Qaeda affiliates ranks” will also be one of the first issues on Mr. Obama's agenda this week.
David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from Washington, and Peter Baker from Honolulu.


"Abbas Weighs Summit to Revive Stalled Peace Talks"


*RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signalled on Monday he is weighing a proposal to relaunch stalled Middle East peace talks at a U.S.-backed summit with the Israeli and Egyptian leaders early in the new year.
But his decision on the idea, floated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will depend on learning what a high-level meeting might yield, Abbas said after talks in Egypt with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and intelligence chief Omar Suleiman are due to go to Washington on Friday for talks on the initiative.
"The best thing is to judge this issue after the return of the two ministers from the United States because it will be more clear and we can sit down and see the details," the Palestinian news agency Wafa quoted Abbas as saying on Monday. "We don't want to judge it now because it's still unclear."
Abbas is wary of emerging empty-handed from another high-profile meeting with Netanyahu, as he did on September 22 in New York after agreeing to U.S. President Barack Obama's wish for what turned out to be no more than a three-way handshake.


"Record snowfall brings Beijing and Seoul to a standstill "
*Punishing winter weather buffeted China and South Korea today, with Seoul residents experiencing the heaviest snowfall in modern history.
Biting cold, ice and snow have paralysed roads and caused the cancellation of hundreds of flights in north Asia since the weekend. In China, more than 2.2 million pupils in Beijing and nearby Tianjin enjoyed a day off as officials took the rare step of closing thousands of schools.
Temperatures in the Chinese capital are expected to fall to -18C (-32F) tonight, with predictions they could reach -32C in the northernmost parts of the country by Wednesday morning.
In Seoul, a blizzard dumped more than 10in (25cm) of snow today“ the greatest snowfall since Korea began conducting meteorological surveys in 1937, the state weather agency said.
Gimpo International airport, west of the capital, cancelled 224 flights before resuming service in the afternoon. More than 20 flights between Incheon International airport, south-west of Seoul, and cities in China were also cancelled and another 100 to other regions were delayed.
As subway trains struggled to cope with increased traffic, about 3,600 workers removed the snow from Seoul's roads and pavements.
In Beijing, authorities mobilised more than 300,000 people to clear the streets after Sunday's blizzard dumped 3in (8cm) of snow“ the most in the capital in a single day in January since 1951. Changping, near the Great Wall, saw more than 8in of snow, according to China's National Meteorological Centre.
Beijing's main Capital International airport yesterday cancelled 655 and delayed 520 more“ meaning 90% of all flights were affected.
Today saw further cancellations and delays, but staff were able to open all three runways again and hoped to clear the backlog.
A wholesale market in Beijing told state media the prices of several vegetables had risen by 10-50% because of transport problems. There were also concerns that the weather could destroy crops and cause other economic damage.


Celeb News:
"Tiger Woods -- African Safari?"


*If you believe everyone, Tiger Woods is in Florida, Arizona, New York, California, and on a boat. But people who spoke with Woods the day after his Thanksgiving car accident tell TMZ his plan was to get out of the country and ensconce himself in Africa.
Our sources say Tiger was very clear on his plan -- go to a friend's estate in Africa and completely disappear from public view. One source believes Tiger left almost immediately.
Almost no one knows for sure, but wherever Tiger is, he's left nary a paw print.
Tiger Fun Fact: He proposed to Elin in South Africa in 2003.


"NFL Running Back Sued for Hit and Run"


*Buffalo Bills star running back Marshawn Lynch is in for another long off-season -- dude's being sued by the woman he ran over during an alleged drunken hit-and-run incident back in 2008.
In the lawsuit, filed in Erie County Court, the 27-year-old victim, Kimberly Shpeley, claims Lynch was drunk when he got behind the wheel of his Porsche Cayenne in Buffalo at 3:30 AM on May 31, 2008 and struck her as she was attempting to cross the street.
Lynch was investigated for the incident, and ultimately reached a deal with prosecutors that kept him out of jail -- though he did plead guilty to something called "failure to exercise due care toward a pedestrian" and had to pay a $100 fine.
Now, the victim is demanding an unspecified amount of cash for the "severe personal injuries" she claims she suffered.


"Lamar and Khloe -- His Home Alone"


*Hopefully Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian will spend many happy years together -- but if they don't, Khloe could get a 30-day notice to move her butt out of the marital home.
We've learned the house Lamar bought for his bride -- per their prenup -- is held in his name alone.
TMZ obtained legal docs -- an Interspousal Transfer Grant Deed -- in which Khloe acknowledges their home is Lamar's "sole and separate property."
As we first reported, Lamar plunked down nearly $4 mil for the 8,347 square foot home in Tarzana, CA.
As the saying goes, what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine -- at least according to Beverly Hills divorce lawyers.


Black History:

African American students boycott classes-January 4, 1990 - Two months away from the 25th anniversary of the Civil Rights march on Selma, Alabama, 1,500 African American students boycott classes to express concern over the dismissal of Norward Rousell, the city's first African American superintendent.


Healthy Matters:
"'Invisible Bracelet' for Emergency Health Alerts?"


*The question is how to make sensitive medical data easily accessible to emergency workers without violating federal health-privacy laws. Options range from simple bracelets to pricier key-chain flash drives, implanted microchips -- and call-centers that relay stored health records and notify relatives when an alarm activates.
Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis -- and which can immediately text-message loved ones that the person is headed for a hospital.
The Web-based registry, invisibleBracelet.org, started in Oklahoma and got a boost this fall when the state's government made the program an optional health benefit for its own employees.
Now the Invisible Bracelet attempts to go nationwide as the American Ambulance Association next month begins training its medics, who in turn will urge people in their communities to sign up.
For $5 a year, basic health information and up to 10 emergency contacts are stored under a computer-assigned PIN number that's kept on a wallet card with your driver's license, a key fob or a sticker on an insurance card.
It's a complement to the medical alert jewelry that people with diabetes, asthma and a host of other conditions have used for decades to signal their needs in an emergency.
And it comes as the American College of Emergency Physicians is trying to determine just what information is the most critical for medics and ER doctors to find when you're too ill or injured to answer questions, so that competing emergency-alert technologies don't miss any of the essentials.
"Too many times, we don't have the information to help us treat the patients correctly," says James Finger, president of the American Ambulance Association, the largest network of emergency medical service providers.
Not everyone who should wear a medical alert bracelet does, costing EMS workers precious minutes determining, for example, if someone's incoherent because he's having a stroke or because he's a diabetic with dangerously low blood sugar.
Even someone too healthy for those bracelets may have some condition that could help emergency workers make a faster diagnosis, avoid a medication reaction -- or track down their next-of-kin faster.
The question is how to make sensitive medical data easily accessible to emergency workers without violating federal health-privacy laws. Options range from simple bracelets to pricier key-chain flash drives, implanted microchips -- and call-centers that relay stored health records and notify relatives when an alarm or medic's phone call activates the system.
Rapid family notification is crucial, says Stephen Williamson, president of Oklahoma's Emergency Medical Services Authority -- and one reason his EMS provider recently trained to use the new Invisible Bracelet.


Good News:
"Life Science Stocks: A Growing Market in 2010"
*What if doctors had a detailed road map of the kinds of drugs and therapies that your own personal genetic makeup makes you most receptive to, instead of having to arrive at effective treatments through the costly -- and sometimes painful -- method of trial and error? That's the promise of the nascent field of personalized medicine. It took more than four years, a double mastectomy, and multiple other surgeries -- as well as radiation treatments and bad reactions to ineffective chemotherapy drugs -- before Christine Hanson's breast cancer was brought under control by Dr. Mark Fesen in Hutchinson, Kan. By then, cancer had spread to her lungs, liver, and brain.
Through a port implanted in her chest nearly five years ago to reduce stress on her veins, Hanson, the mother of three children not yet in high school, has been getting weekly infusions of cancer-treatment drugs Avastin and Abraxane, which have put her cancer into remission. What if doctors had a detailed road map of the kinds of drugs and therapies that Hanson's genetic makeup makes her most receptive to, instead of having to arrive at treatments through the costly -- and sometimes painful -- method of trial and error?
That's the promise of the nascent field of personalized medicine, where treatment is prescribed based on an understanding how an individual's body is genetically predisposed to welcome or resist certain compounds. The day when customized treatment is widely available may soon be within reach, thanks to technological advances being made by life science tools companies. They develop and market protein-separation devices and other instruments that will eventually provide researchers with the knowledge needed to precisely target the best treatment for life-threatening illnesses.
After bureaucratic delays this year that frustrated investors, the awarding of $10 billion to the National Institutes of Health under the Obama Administration's stimulus program over the next two years is likely to give a big boost to life science companies' earnings as the money funds a fresh wave of research.

Relationship:
"Agree to Disagree"
*Regular conversations take the form of heated arguments amongst many couples. Understand that not every statement needs a reaction. Maybe a certain reaction may trigger off an argument with your partner. Just agree with whatever it is and there'll be no harm done. Try and reach a mutual agreement, if that's not possible leave the topic for later. If you give it time, may be both of you will be able to think about it rationally.

Mess of the Day:
"Hoo Hoo!"



*You ever wonder what would happen if you microwaved one of those tubes of Pillsbury rolls?


Thought for the day:
"The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick along side it."-D. L. Moody

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