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Tornadoes rip through central US

May 20, 2013 6:44 am | Leave a Comment |

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One person is reported dead and several others injured after tornadoes tore through the US state of Oklahoma.

The powerful storm system left a trail of destruction in its wake – uprooting trees and damaging homes and other buildings.

A mobile home park was said to have been flattened.

Tornadoes also struck other states, including Kansas, as the extreme weather moved through the central US – stretching from north Texas to Minnesota.

Thousands were reportedly left without power.

As well as strong winds, hail stones the size of baseballs were also forecast.

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Rain doesn’t ruin red carpet at first weekend of Cannes

May 18, 2013 10:16 pm | Leave a Comment |

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Regulars claim rain at Cannes used be rare, but the continual downpours are not stopping the stars from gracing the red carpet.

Making an appearance on Saturday night was Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, who is actually in France promoting Catching Fire, the second Hunger Games film.

Old-school Hollywood glamour came from Jane Fonda and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was the heavy-metal heavy-weight.

euronews correspondent at Cannes Fred Ponsard Cannes described the mood on a night with two very different movies.

“Festival-goers are getting the feel of a competition that promises to take them to a lot of different places,” Ponsard said.

“In tonight’s entries, we swing from a western set in 1950s Kansas – ‘Jimmy P’ by Arnaud Desplechin – to modern-day Tokyo, in a dramatic comedy ‘Like Father, Like Son’ by Hirokazu Kore-eda,” he added.

‘Jimmy P (Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian)’ stars Benicio Del Toro, Gina McKee and Mathieu Amalric. The movie is based on the true story of a friendship between a Native American war veteran and a French psychoanalyst. It is the first US feature film by French director Arnaud Desplechin and is up for Cannes’ top Palme d’Or prize.

Fellow Palme d’Or contender, ‘Like Father, Like Son’ is about two families who discover their six-year-old boys were switched at birth. The hospital suggests both families get to know the other boy over the course of a year and eventually exchange them.

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Google Fiber is heading to another Kansas City suburb

May 8, 2013 7:00 pm | Leave a Comment |

Add another city to the ever expanding list of those slated to receive Google Fiber as the search giant recently announced plans to deliver the speedy Internet service to another Kansas City suburb. The Board of Aldermen in Grandview, Missouri, located directly south of Kansas City, voted unanimously to bring… … Read More

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Wildfires get an early start in southern California

May 2, 2013 8:02 pm | Leave a Comment |

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Around 200 firefighters are tackling blazes raging through rugged terrain in Ventura County, California.

High temperatures and high winds are spreading the wildfires through the southern Californian county.

The Channel Islands campus of California State University has been evacuated due to a fire covering more than eight square kilometres.

The fires have destroyed at least one house and Ventura County officials are warning residents to be prepared to leave their homes.

Hardly any rain has fallen in California so far this year, making the state as dry as it would usually be in autumn, when wildfires are usually at their peak.

With summer bringing even hotter and drier weather, authorities say they are expecting more wildfires.

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The ultimate cancer taboo: Sometimes it kills you

May 2, 2013 3:11 pm | Leave a Comment |

Contemporary cancer gets couched in the language of cheerleaders. Even a generation ago, the mere word “cancer” seemed a certain death sentence; today, in contrast, it’s an opportunity to talk about battles and fights and hope. It’s something to be bravely dealt with – having cancer automatically designates a person a “warrior.” – The disease is then referred to only at occasional “awareness” opportunities, preferably with a tasteful ribbon.But people with metastatic cancer don’t follow the tidy, cheerful narrative. They don’t necessarily fit the inspirational survivor mold. And so they’re ignored.In the middle of her righteous New York Times Magazine story on breast cancer this past weekend, writer Peggy Orenstein dropped the bombshell statistic that “only an estimated 0.5 percent of all National Cancer Institute grants since 1972 focus on metastasis.” As University of Kansas Cancer Center chairman Danny Welch explained to her, “A lot of people are under the notion that metastatic work is a waste of time.” Orenstein went on to reveal just that last year, for the first time in its history, the Komen Foundation featured a woman with Stage 4 cancer in its ads. And the author herself describes meeting a different woman with metastatic breast cancer by admitting, “It isn’t easy to face someone with metastatic disease,” saying the woman’s condition is her own “worst fear.”Continue Reading… … Read More

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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signs sweeping anti-choice bill into law

April 22, 2013 4:19 pm | Leave a Comment |

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a sweeping anti-abortion omnibus bill into law, reaffirming the state’s current ban on abortion at 20 weeks (without exceptions for rape or serious fetal anomalies), blocking tax breaks for abortion providers, expanding “conscience protections” for anti-choice groups and writing into state law that life begins “at fertilization.”It is, in effect, an anti-abortion greatest-hits law.At the bill’s signing ceremony, the arch-conservative governor applauded the legislature for passing the measure with sweeping margins and announced:  ”All human life is sacred. It’s beautiful. With this, we continue to build this culture of life in our state.”Sadly, states like Arkansas and North Dakota have moved the bar for judging anti-abortion legislation so far to the right that Kansas’ 20-week ban seems “modest” when compared to North Dakota’s six-weeks and Arkansas’ 12-weeks. But make no mistake: The Kansas law is equally dangerous for women, and still violates the accepted definition of fetal viability as defined by Roe v. Wade.Continue Reading… … Read More

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ACLU to Kansas school district: Cancel creationist assemblies about dinosaurs

April 21, 2013 3:12 pm | Leave a Comment |

The American Civil Liberties Union has warned a southwest Kansas school district against holding mandatory student assemblies that feature a creationist group. “Teaching or otherwise promoting creationism is, simply put, unlawful,” the ACLU wrote in a letter to Hugoton Public Schools…

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