Area Tornado Victims Are Getting a Big Lift From Some Volunteers

(NEAR CORRECTIONVILLE, IA) Area tornado victims are getting a big lift from some volunteers who are doing things a strong back and a good heart can not accomplish.

Friday's twisters scattered debris for miles and some of the cleanup requires heavy lifting and sifting. The group is called Global Compassion Network and it's a non-profit organization based out of Eagle Grove, Iowa, and it brings along heavy equipment to clean up the bigger things and lend support to families in need.

From bags to brooms and a whole lot of love - volunteers work tirelessly to cleanup the mess from Friday's tornado. But there's really only so much a person's hands and body strength can do. That's where the heavy equipment comes in.
 
"When I pulled up here the other night and talked to the family we had our truck and our trailer with our skid steer on the back and I said do you guys need some help? And they kind of stood back a little bit thinking ok you're a scam and I said, we would love to come and help we'll bring our equipment and we'll move these trees," said Sherri Kubly, a Volunteer with Global Compassion Network.
 
Sherri left a card with Wayne and Debi Sadler, owners of the house and after doing a little research on the organization, the Sadler's welcomed the help and boy did they get it. Folks from Global Compassion Network and students from high schools in the area.
 
What makes this house a little bit different than the others, is all of the trees. About 90% of them were snapped in half and scattered all over the ground.
 
"We use skid loaders and grapples and either track machines or foam filled tires and we have an excavator, so when we show up with that, you can see all the high school kids working here today and we can make them much more affective," said Dennis Anderson, Global Compassion Network Director of Domestic Disaster Relief.
 
The main house was built around 1900 and even though the roof has been ripped off the house remains standing. The Sadler's had another home on the same property and it was completely destroyed; the basement is all that's left.
 
"We picked up the house out in the grove. I guess they built things little better back in the day," said Anderson.
 
Luckily, the house is structurally sound and the Sadler's plan on restoring this very sentimental home to its former glory.

The Sadler's daughter said when the tornado warnings started popping up on TV she called her parents to get them into the basement. She said her mom was cooking a pizza at the time and told her they'd go down but the pizza better still be there when she gets back.

Of course when they got out of that basement almost nothing was left. They flashed a light into the stove and the pizza stone was there but that pizza was gone. Just a glimmer of humor in a very tough situation.

A relief fund has been set up through the United Bank of Iowa in Kinsley, Iowa. It's under Wayne and Debi Sadler. Donations can be called in mailed or given in person.

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Orthodox Church slams surrogacy as 'mutiny against God', seeks ...

Published time: October 08, 2013 10:30

RIA Novosti/Pavel Lisitsyn

A representative of the Moscow Patriarchy has blasted surrogacy as “mutiny against God” and “happy fascism,” restarting the controversy after tabloids reports of a celebrity couple who used a surrogate mother to have children.

The comment from the head of the Patriarchy Commission for Family
Motherhood and Childhood, Dmitry Smirnov, arrived after Russian
mass media reported that in September 64-year-old Russian pop
star Alla Pugachova and her 37-year-old husband Maksim Galkin had
two children born through surrogate motherhood.

“I would ban this, of course. We can see that a bad example is
contagious,” the senior church representative was quoted as
saying by Interfax. “This is mutiny against God, this is very
happy fascism with a contract, the money and confiscation of a
child.”

The cleric also reminded that the Russian Orthodox Church
supported a complete ban on surrogate motherhood in Russia and
called on the State Duma to initiate such a move.

The official concept of the Russian Orthodox Church’s social
policy calls surrogate motherhood – the agreement in which a
woman carries and delivers a child for another person or couple –
“unnatural and immoral,” adding that it should not be
allowed even in cases where there is no monetary motivation.

A well-known church-backed politician Vitaly Milonov of the St. Petersburg City
legislature also condemned Pugacheva and Galkin for using
surrogacy.

“I would not congratulate this family with the fact that they
had bought themselves a child, that they have enough money. With
the fact that they could use some woman as an incubator to carry
their child,” Milonov told reporters.

“This is an immoral thing to do in the country that has tens
of thousands of orphans waiting to be adopted. Making oneself a
neat and clean baby is something akin to buying a new model
Ferrari,” said the MP who previously made himself a name as
the main sponsor of the law banning the promotion of
non-traditional sex relations to minors, known in the mass media
as the ‘gay propaganda ban’.

Surrogacy is legal in Russia and according to state news agency
RIA Novosti about 500 children are born in the country through
this procedure every year. Surrogate mothers must be between 20
and 35 years of age, have at least one child of their own and
pass a medical test.  The law guarantees the secrecy
to both parties. Prices for the services vary greatly, but it is
generally considered that in Russia they are up to one tenth than
in Europe and America.

Some other nations, such as Ukraine, South Africa and several
states in the USA also allow commercial surrogacy. The UK,
Australia, Canada, Israel and several other nations only allow
non-commercial surrogacy. Countries like Ireland and Greece have
no laws on the subject, leaving it in a gray area.

Surrogate motherhood is legally banned in Austria, Germany,
France, Norway and Sweden and in several US states, such as
Arizona and Michigan.

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SOUP and pickles: Entrepreneurs see opportunity in ailing Detroit

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What if you took the Mo out of Motown?

That's what some entrepreneurs are asking as Detroit sets off into uncharted waters with the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Detroit's entrepreneurs and community leaders haven't been waiting for a bankruptcy filing or court resolution to determine their fate. From parsing out microgrants to repurposing old warehouses, entrepreneurs?some of them millennials?have been harnessing the business adage that there?s opportunity at the bottom. While some efforts are just beginning, these entrepreneurs aim to help Detroit to reinvent itself as a city less reliant on manufacturing and auto jobs.

"Some people feel like 'Oh my God,' there should be panic in Detroit! But I felt a sigh of relief," said Amy Kaherl, who runs a program selling meals to fund entrepreneurial ideas. "Time to just move on."

'Don't feel sorry for us'
Community leaders started creating small urban renewal projects several years ago. As a point of reference, Detroit is a sprawling city, about 140 square miles with diverse neighborhoods and needs. The days of corporate giants such as General Motors pumping jobs into Motor City are over, some entrepreneurs say.

Detroit SOUP

A dinner at Detroit SOUP.

"We love GM. We love the Big Three (automakers) and the jobs they do create," said Phillip Cooley, a Detroit entrepreneur behind several city projects, including Slows Bar B Q restaurant. "But the idea those hundreds of thousands of jobs in manufacturing (will) come back here, that's absurd to think we can wave a magic wand and they will come back," he said.

"There's not one big industry that's going to come in and save us," Kaherl said. She runs Detroit SOUP, a community meal and pitch fest for aspiring business and community leaders. "We can be an innovation city. We love living in Detroit," she said. "Don't feel sorry for us."

(Read more: Detroit's bankruptcy battle likely to be long and painful)

Detroit SOUP
Launched in 2010, Detroit SOUP hosts residents for a monthly public dinner. For $5, attendees get a meal and an opportunity to pitch a project or business. The night's winner pockets the money from the meal and drink sales.

The monthly prize money has ranged from $900 to $2,000, with guests pitching projects and small businesses, including food distribution to seniors and mowing lawns to reduce blight.

Kaherl, 32, knows one dinner pitch session isn?t going to save Detroit. The city's population, which in the 1950s reached its peak population of 1.8 million, is now around 700,000. In recent months, the city has used state-backed bond money to meet payroll for 10,000 employees.

Kaherl's peers, hungry to improve Detroit, include millennials, those in their 20s and early 30s. "Can large corporations be social innovators? That's a conversation millennials are having," Kaherl said.

(Read more: Millennial train hopes to inspire a 'nation of tinkerers')

McClure's Pickles recycles old auto warehouse
Removing blight is another challenge crafty entrepreneurs have tackled by repurposing cheap, under-used structures.

McClure's Pickles

McClure's Pickles moved to Detroit because the warehouse there was so inexpensive.

When McClure?s Pickles outgrew its Brooklyn, N.Y., facility, its owners relocated the pickle factory last year to an abandoned American Axle & Manufacturing warehouse in Detroit.

Founder Joe McClure, a Michigan native, chose the warehouse for its sound structure; and no need for a new roof or floor. And the $250,000 price tag was far cheaper than the cost of a new plant.

The building has history, too. There, car parts were made by people whose jobs were moved to Mexico. The pickle factory employs three, with plans for about five more hires by 2014. McClure saved American Axle's old signage. "We kept a lot of the things they had up," he said.

The jar labels for McClure's Pickles, available in outlets including Whole Foods and Williams-Sonoma, proudly declare, "Brooklyn * Detroit."

(Read more: Best and worst U.S. cities for small-business workers)

Ponyride
Cooley is also tackling blight by repurposing structures. During the depths of the Great Recession and foreclosure aftermath, the entrepreneur bought a Detroit warehouse for $100,000. With the help of fundraising and an army of volunteers, Cooley offers his business tenants a roughly 75 percent discount on rent.

Detroit's "landscape isn't conducive in its current condition for innovation and productivity," Cooley said.

The multiple-use space, called Ponyride, is home for about 40 small companies and community projects?some of them generating jobs. Tenants include music producers, Web developers, printers and clothing designers?with one business making domestically sourced blue jeans.

(Read more: Welcome home: 'Made in U.S.A. on the rise)

Tear down chunks of Detroit?
Another Detroit entrepreneur, Dan Gilbert, who founded Quicken Loans, told CNBC last week that he supports demolishing abandoned structures to move the city forward. Gilbert, among Detroit's largest landholders, estimates about 120,000 commercial and residential properties need to be removed. As chairman of Quicken Loans, he moved its headquarters to the Motor City in 2010. The company employees about 9,200 people in downtown Detroit.

Whether it's demolishing or recycling structures, the larger point is to act?not wait for a manufacturing miracle to resuscitate the Rust Belt. The court battle over Detroit's future, meanwhile, continues. On Wednesday, a judge ruled that a federal court can decide whether the city is eligible for Chapter 9 protection.

Beyond Detroit's borders, more Americans may be affected by the Motor City's financial crisis. One analyst already doesn't see Detroit as a one-off. "You can hold your breath and wait for government and big banks to save you," Cooley said. "Or you can change it."

(Read more: Youngstown's story: Rust belt turns to 'tech belt' for jobs)

?By CNBC's Heesun Wee. Follow her on Twitter @heesunwee.

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Timberwolves rookie Shabazz Muhammad adjusting in his NBA role

LAS VEGAS ? As hard as the start of his NBA career has been, Shabazz Muhammad wouldn't have it any other way.

The rookie swingman for the Minnesota Timberwolves got off to a quiet start in his first two games in the NBA summer league, averaging 7.5 points in 24 minutes while shooting 6 of 16 from the field.

It's a big difference, from playing with boys to men, as he found out Monday as the Phoenix Suns squad overcame a 24-point deficit and closed on a 10-2 run thanks in part to a turnover by Muhammad. With the score tied at 89 and 3.3 seconds remaining in the game, Marcus Morris took a sideline inbounds pass, dribbled twice and nailed a jumper just in front of Phoenix's bench.

Moments before, the spotlight was on Muhammad. And while taking an inbounds pass, the 6-foot-6, 225-pound forward fumbled the ball away.

"It was a hard one for us today, we were up (big) and gave up the lead and it just didn't go our way tonight," Muhammad said. "I tried to get on the floor and it didn't do my way, some plays go like that. We want to win. This is hard; this feels like a real game. You see the environment over here; everybody is pretty upset, as I am."

Nevertheless, with all he has been through since the days he played AAU basketball, through his short-lived career at UCLA and plenty of off-court distractions surrounding his father, Muhammad is exactly where he wants to be.

"It's hard on me, I'm a young guy trying to figure it out," Muhammad said. "(But) my confidence level is always high. There are a lot of good guys in the summer league, and I'm just going to continue to do what I've got to do and just play a little bit better."

When Muhammad arrived at UCLA last year, he was expected to help lead the Bruins back to glory. But he had to sit out the first three games of the season and repay $1,600 in impermissible benefits after the NCAA and UCLA found Muhammad accepted travel and lodging during three unofficial visits to Duke and North Carolina, travel arrangements made by his father, Ron Holmes.

It was also revealed in a Los Angeles Times story in March that Holmes shaved a year off of his son's age when he was young to give Muhammad an advantage against younger competition on the summer AAU circuit and in high school. Holmes also ran into trouble of his own with the law.

Minnesota summer league coach David Adelman, son of Timberwolves coach Rick Adelman, said the team's first-round draft pick may find things easier in the NBA.

"In some ways," Adelman said, "I hope this is kind of a breath of fresh of air, like: 'You've made it, you're in the NBA and now let's just learn the NBA game and get better every day and there's nothing to prove.' We just want him to get better every day. His attitude has been very forthright and he just wants to learn."

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How to control what photos, statuses, and check-ins your friends tag you in with Facebook for iPhone and iPad

We've all had those times where our friends and family members upload Facebook photos of us that we preferred they didn't. At that point, your option is really to delete the photo or hide it from your timeline. And what if you don't want your location shared but friends start checking you in places without your knowledge?

If you prefer screening the content people tag you in before it ends up on your Facebook timeline, you can easily do so by changing some account settings. Here's how:

1. Launch the Facebook app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap on the menu icon in the upper left hand corner.
3. Scroll down and tap on Account Settings in the left hand navigation menu.
4. Under the top section titled Who can add things to my timeline?, tap on the second option labeled Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline?
5. SImply turn this option to On.

That's it. You'll now be notified when you get tagged not only in an image, but in a status or check-in and you'll have to approve it. If it's something you don't want your Facebook friends seeing, just dismiss it and it'll never get published to your Facebook timeline.

Do you use privacy settings like these for Facebook to prevent information you don't want shared from ending up on your timeline? How has it worked out for you?

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World powers hope to resume Iran talks quickly

By Justyna Pawlak

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - World powers expressed hope on Tuesday of resuming negotiations with Iran over its disputed nuclear program "as soon as possible" but gave no indication of a possible date for any new talks.

Senior diplomats from the six countries negotiating with Tehran - the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany - met in Brussels to map out plans for diplomacy following the June 14 presidential election in Iran.

Negotiations have been on hold since a failed round in April and the six nations are keen to get back to the table amid concerns a breakdown in diplomacy could prompt Israel to attack Iran and spark a new war in the Middle East.

The European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who oversees talks with Iran on behalf of the six powers, said they were waiting for Tehran to nominate a team of negotiators after the presidential vote, before making concrete plans.

"We very much hope that will be soon and we look forward to meeting with them as soon as possible," she said in a statement.

The election of a relative moderate, Hassan Rouhani, on June 14 has raised some hopes for a resolution of the long-running dispute over Iran's nuclear intentions.

The six powers believe Iran is seeking the means to make bombs, and have demanded Tehran abandon its most sensitive nuclear work. But Tehran denies that and says it needs atomic power for energy generation and medical research.

Russia has expressed frustration over a lack of progress in diplomacy but Western diplomats have cautioned that it was unclear whether Iran was ready to make a deal.

Rouhani, who takes office in August, has pledged a less confrontational approach than his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, under whose presidency, over the last eight years, Iran has come under increasingly tough international sanctions.

But Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has the final say on nuclear policy.

CAUTION IN WASHINGTON, ANXIETY IN ISRAEL

So far, Western diplomats have said the next move in diplomacy belonged to Iran, urging it to accept an offer of moderate sanctions relief in exchange for curbs in the nuclear work, extended in Kazakhstan earlier this year.

But nuclear experts have said the West may have to refine its strategy to help Rouhani strike a deal.

A former senior U.S. administration official said last week it was not yet known whether Rouhani's election would improve the prospects for a nuclear deal, but that Washington and its allies would need to move quickly if they were to take advantage of whatever opportunity may exist after the vote.

"There will be a natural tendency within the administration to stand pat for now and wait to see whether the new Iranian government will alter its approach when talks resume," Robert Einhorn, the U.S. State Department's nonproliferation adviser until last May, wrote in a July 10 Foreign Policy article.

"Such caution is understandable, especially given Iran's disappointing track record."

But, he said, "The United States needs to do everything it can in the weeks and months ahead to prepare itself for any promising opportunity that presents itself when talks resume."

The efforts are being closely watched in Israel, widely believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Iran was getting closer to the "red line" he set for its nuclear work, a level at which Israel thinks Iran will have amassed enough uranium to fuel one nuclear bomb.

Officials also have expressed concern that the six powers might be willing to accept a compromise offer from Iran that would fall far short of Israeli expectations.

Senior Israeli official have told Reuters they were worried Tehran would propose to temporarily suspend the enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, one of the six powers' three demands, and that they would accept it, giving up on the other two.

"This proposal is totally unacceptable from Israel's perspective," one official said.

The six powers have asked Iran to ship out its stockpile of 20-percent uranium and to close a facility where such work is done.

(Additional reporting by Dan Williams in Jerusalem and Fredrik Dahl in Vienna)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/world-powers-hope-resume-iran-talks-quickly-134956689.html

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That Boeing 787 Dreamliner that caught fire in London on Friday?

That Boeing 787 Dreamliner that caught fire in London on Friday? Investigators are reportedly looking into the "emergency locator transmitter" as the possible source. This is important because it could mean the fire didn't come from the battery system, which was the issue the last time a Dreamliner caught fire.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/that-boeing-787-dreamliner-that-caught-fire-in-london-o-788620072

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