Joey, Barret McIntyre expecing third child

Adoptees should have their birth certificate
Last month we celebrated our daughter's 40th birthday with over 100 people, including her birth mother. Lola has known her birth mom and siblings, aunts, uncle, a grandfather, cousins, niece and nephews for several years now. Many of her natal family attended her Wedding in 2001. Lola has peace of mind knowing her relatives. She has a copy of her Hospital record of live birth from the old Canton Hospital. What our daughter and thousands of New York adopted adults do not have is their origi...

Early births pose new health risks for newborns
The number of women giving birth early - often for no medical reason - has increased dramatically during the past two decades, altering the way we bear Children and posing new health risks, experts say. The average time a fetus spends in the womb has decreased by seven days in the United States since 1992, according to researchers and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers say shorter pregnancies coincide with a large number of women and doctors now scheduling ch...

Moral Issues, Legal Issues, Surrounding St. Josephs Hospital in Phoenix
It’s easy for me to get pissed off about the ACLU, and given that I was trying to be in Christmas mode and they were making it harder, I tossed out a bit of Michelle Malkin’s post and left it at that. Sarah W, long-time reader, commenter, one-time (so far) contributor and friend, wrote the following in the comments yesterday evening: There are true emergencies, and cases where futility and/or serious risks to a pregnant woman necessitate treatment…. I’m most concerned abo...

Christmas fire causes injuries in Long Prairie
A Firefighter and a family were injured during a Christmas morning fire that severely damaged a Long Prairie home. The St. Cloud Times reports that Andrew and Jessica Lorentz and their two Children, ages 1 and 3, woke up to the smell of smoke and discovered a fire in the kitchen at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday. Officials say fire and smoke caused severe damage. The family was taken to a local Hospital where they were treated and released. One Firefighter also was treated and released after a fall. F...

East Coast Blizzard Halts Travel Plans
Christmas travelers across the U.S. were left stranded Monday as a fierce winter storm grounded planes and halts trains. In New York City alone, more than 1,400 flights were cancelled, and Amtrack cancelled travel between New York and Massachusetts. The blizzard has caused Headaches along the East Coast. Although it was a winter playground for people in Durham, N.C., farther West in Asheville, the serious side of the storm damaged Water Mains. "Oh man, this is the worst day not to have water....

Early births pose new health risks for newborns
The number of women giving birth early - often for no medical reason - has increased dramatically during the past two decades, altering the way we bear Children and posing new health risks, experts say. The average time a fetus spends in the womb has decreased by seven days in the United States since 1992, according to researchers and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers say shorter pregnancies coincide with a large number of women and doctors now scheduling ch...

Qantas grounds flights as blizzard sweeps US east coast
HUNDREDS of Australian travellers are stranded, had flights cancelled or suffered long delays including in New York where Qantas delayed two flights by 48 hours. The timing of the snowstorm collides with one of the busiest travelling seasons in the US, with Americans returning home after visiting families for Christmas and international travellers, including thousands of Australians enticed to the US by the high value of the Australian dollar, stuck at airports, railway and bus stations or unabl...

Pope lunches with poor, denounces church attacks (AP)
Vatican City – Lasagna, veal and cake were on the menu Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI invited about 250 poor people to join him for a post-Christmas lunch and denounced as "absurd" new attacks on the faithful around the globe. Also joining The Pope and his guests were 250 nuns, seminarians and priests of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity order, which runs Soup Kitchens around Rome. Last year, Benedict traveled to a Rome soup kitchen to join the poor for lunch after Christmas. This yea...

Three families lose it all in Christmastime house fires
Jeff Bolichowski and Frances Willick, Postmedia News · Monday, Dec. 27, 2010 WINDSOR, Ont. — At least three southern Ontario families are Homeless for the holidays after separate fires reduced two homes to charred rubble. Fire broke out at a multi-unit residence just after 9 p.m., on Sunday, forcing the tenants, including one extended family of five adults and two Children, as well as possibly one child and an adult from an upstairs unit, onto the street. “I was standing there a...

Ted Kennedys Dog Splash Passes On.
The late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s dog, Splash, who was the star of a Children’s book about Capitol Hill, has died. Kennedy’s widow, Vicki, announced his death in an e-mail Thursday. She calls the 13-year-old Portuguese water dog “a world-class fetcher of Tennis balls and a meeter and greeter of presidents, senators, congressmen and even foreign dignitaries.” Of course, let’s face it, only in Liberal World is a man who walked away from a car accident to create an ...

Blast in south Afghan city of Kandahar kills 3
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A Car Bomb exploded in the heart of the southern city of Kandahar Monday, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen, an Afghan policeman who witnessed the attack said. The car exploded near a police compound and a branch of Kabul Bank in the crowded center of the city, said Noor Mohammad, who was guarding the bank. "I was sitting near the gate when this Explosion occurred. We fell to the ground and we couldn't see anything for five minutes" due t...

Three killed in suicide car bombing in Afghanistan
A Suicide car bombing in the heart of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday killed three and wounded 26 people, most of them policemen, authorities said. South Afghanistan, a traditional Taliban stronghold, has seen some of the worst fighting this year between the Militants and foreign and Afghan Troops. President Hamid Karzai issued a statement condemning the attack. The car exploded at midday near a police compound and a branch of Kabul Bank in the crowded center of the city, said N...

Suicide blast kills three Afghan police
KANDAHAR -- A Suicide car bomber killed at least three Afghan Police officers on Monday as they lined up outside a bank to collect their salaries in the southern city of Kandahar, authorities said. Fourteen police were wounded and eight were missing after the bomber detonated the explosives in the vehicle parked near the bank, authorities said. "We have three police dead and 14 wounded," said Shafiqullah, a doctor at the main Hospital in Kandahar. The blast partly destroyed shops, some buildings...

Blast in south Afghan city of Kandahar kills 3
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - An Afghan policeman says at least three people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in a car Bomb Attack in the center of the southern city of Kandahar. Noor Mohammed, a policeman guarding a branch of Kabul Bank in the center of the city, said a car exploded near the bank and a police compound at around noon Monday. He said he saw at least three bodies and more than 12 people wounded. Police and Security Guards from nearby buildings and compounds took the ...

Suicide Car Bomb Kills 3 in South Afghan City
Like this Story? Share it: Some recent scenes from the War in Afghanistan as Obama's deadline to begin withdrawing Troops nears. (AP) Kandahar, Afghanistan - A Suicide car bombing in the heart of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday killed three and wounded 26 people, most of them policemen, authorities said. South Afghanistan, a traditional Taliban stronghold, has seen some of the worst fighting this year between the Militants and foreign and Afghan troops. President Hamid Karzai iss...

Males boost the unhealthy bulge
LONDON: Britain's festive traditions of stuffing, pudding and booze may not have changed much since 1986, but the physique of those consuming them certainly has. The average British man piled on 6.5 kilograms between 1986 and 2000, according to research. A study published by Oxford University reveals Weight Gain among men, who are eating more and exercising less. The British Heart Foundation, which funded the study, described it as evidence of a ''ticking time bomb for male health'' that would l...

Playboy's Hugh Hefner Engaged to Another Playmate
Monday, December 27, 2010 By Staff, Associated Press Chicago (AP) - Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner says he's gotten engaged again. Hefner said in a Twitter message early Sunday that he'd given a ring to girlfriend and Playmate Crystal Harris, saying she burst into tears. "This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory," he wrote. To clear up confusion over whether the ring was simply a Christmas gift, Hefner later tweeted: "Yes, the ring I gave Crystal is an Engagement Ring. I didn'...

Live or die?
In South Africa, increasing demands and limited resources mean treatment in the Public Health service for patients suffering from kidney failure is rationed. As Dr Sheri Fink, of American Public Radio International's programme The World, reports from Cape Town, this means medical professionals have to make life-and-death decisions about who gets help. In late August, 41-year-old Amos Phillips arrived by ambulance at Tygerberg Academic Hospital near Cape Town. His kidneys had failed. He was...

Bath death children 'protected'
Four Children found in an east London flat where a boy's body was discovered in a bath are under police protection. The 15-year-old boy was found drowned in the flat in Hathaway Crescent, Manor Park, on Christmas Day. The boy had a "number of injuries", police said. The Children were taken away when the body was discovered. Two of them were taken to a Hospital for treatment and later discharged, officers said. A man and a woman, both aged 27, were arrested after the body was found...

Iraq twin bombings kill seven
Twin bombings targeting Iraqi Government offices in Ramadi Monday killed seven people and wounded dozens, in a first test for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki since he assumed the security portfolio. Police said a Car Bomb exploded near the provincial headquarters in the heart of Ramadi city, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad, followed 15 minutes later by a Suicide bombing which witnesses said occurred amid ambulances and Rescue Workers attending to Victims of the first blast. Among the d...

December 27, 2008: Operation Cast Lead , Israel's brutal offensive against the Gaza Strip
© Ken O'Keefe Children of Gaza Today, December 27, marks the second anniversary of Operation Cast Lead, Israel's brutal offensive against the Gaza Strip. In 22 days of relentless air and land attacks, more than 1400 Gazans, mostly civilians, were killed in what the United Nations 'Goldstone Report' described as War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity. Two years later, the perpetrator - Israel - remains unpunished. Two years later, Gaza remains in ruins, largely due to the reluctance of t...

Chinese road accident kills 14 school children
Beijing | Mon Dec 27, 2010 5:25am EST Beijing (Reuters) - A three-wheeled vehicle plunged into a creek in foggy conditions in central China on Monday killing at least 14 Children on their way to Primary School, state media reported. The accident happened close to Hengyang city in Hunan Province, state news agency Xinhua said. Nine Children died on the scene while another four died later in Hospital. One child who was initially reported as missing was later found dead and five were being treat...

TSAs Legal Justification for Gate Grope
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has been suing the Department of Homeland Security because it refused to engage in the public rule-making process before it adopted RapeAScan machines as part of the primary screening at airports. DHS responded to EPIC’s suit the other day. While I think their response will be largely successful as written, they’re playing games with the timing of EPIC’s suit so as to avoid doing any discussion or even administrative privacy assessmen...

Hilda L. Merrill
POTSDAM — A Funeral service for 87-year old Mrs. Hilda Lorena Merrill will be held Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM at Seymour Funeral Home in Potsdam with Pastor Lee Sweeney officiating. A spring burial will be in the Mound Hill Cemetery in Colton. Friends may call at the Seymour Funeral Home in Potsdam on Tuesday afternoon and evening from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 PM. If friends desire memorial contributions may be made in her memory to Hospice and Palliative Care, 6805 U...

Looted legacy
In our series of viewpoints from African Journalists, Sola Odunfa fears for the legacy of one of Nigeria's great statesmen. He had joined in the struggle for the democratic emancipation of colonial Nigeria as a nation. In the next 60 years he was harassed, jailed and detained without trial innumerable times. Last week at age 87 he died still with his boots on. Enahoro was a newspaper editor before turning to politics and went to Prison several times I am talking about Chief Anthony Eromose...