An investigation has begun after an apparently stillborn baby girl was found alive - 12 hours after she was placed in a coffin for burial.

The parents of the girl, who was born three months premature, say they found she was still breathing when they went to the local morgue to say goodbye.

Analia Bouter said she never got a chance to look at her baby after the birth because she had been sedated by staff at the hospital in Chaco, northern Argentina.

"At the time of birth I don't remember much because I was put to sleep," she said.

"Rather, they never showed me the baby."

Mother-of-five Analia Bouter said she was sedated at the hospital

9:04am UK, Wednesday April 11, 2012

Born at 10.24am, the infant was taken directly to the morgue after aparently being declared dead.

Mrs Bouter and her husband, Fabian Veron, later visited the morgue where they say they forced open the tiny coffin to look at their daughter.

"The baby was there and they put the little casket on a stretcher. We looked for a bar to prise it open. The casket was nailed shut," Mr Veron said.

"I started to prise, took a deep breath and took the top off. My wife was the first one to look at the body and she uncovered it slowly.

"She saw the little hand and then uncovered the face. That's when it let the first little cry out.

"My wife jumped back, like saying, 'This must be my imagination'."

The baby girl, born a week ago, was reported to be in stable condition on Tuesday.

The parents had originally planned on naming her Liliana Abigail but have instead called her Luz Milagros - which means Miracle's Light.

"I went back to look again and she was moving. So I started to uncover the face and it was like she was just getting up, waking up," Mr Veron said.

"And that's when the lady from the morgue grabbed her and brought her."

Little Luz Milagros is the couple's fifth child. Provincial health officials have confirmed they are investigating the incident.

Mike Barrett
NaturalSociety
April 11, 2012

cellphonetouch1 220x137 Cellphone Radiation Detector App Banned by Apple

Although many individuals think nothing of radiation emitted by cell phones, or even believe it to be true, there is a large amount of evidence showing how damaging cell phone use can actually be. In response to the released information and growing fear of cell phone radiation, a company has ironically released a mobile app which reportedly measures radiation levels emitted by smart phones.

Company Creates Radiation Detector App, Apple Bans it from App Store

The app was created by an Israeli company named Tawkon, and while not necessarily brand new, is relatively unknown. The lack of popularity probably has much to do with Apple’s banning of the app from their online app store since Apple rules the smartphone market. The company instituted the ban because it felt the app would be confusing to customers, though the ban was likely due to the fact that the app could only decrease sales for Apple’s iPhone. Whether Apple’s decision was driven by profit or not, there are some valid questions and concerns regarding the app’s accuracy.

Using a complex proprietary algorithm, Tawkon estimates the amount of radiation emitted by cell phones at any moment. As a way to measure the amount of radiation being emitted and ultimately picked up by the user, the company considers factors like current antenna strength, and whether a headset is being used or speakerphone is currently selected. The problem, however, is that the app depends on radiation baseline figures provided by device manufacturers. The app itself has no way of actually measuring radiation emissions, so it must rely on the publicly posted radiation emission quotes by manufacturers in order to estimate a device’s radiation output at all times.

Even if the app does rely on the figures from manufacturers, the creation of the app is a step in the right direction. Cell phone use has been shown to cause numerous problems and health complications by altering important regions of the brain. Consequences ranging from a negative influence on fetal brains to the downfall of biological systems of birds, insects, and humans has been pinpointed as a result of these devices and their respective towers (cell towers). What’s most concerning, though, is the impact they have on young, developing minds and bodies. Tons of evidence shows why children should not be using cell phones.

Although completely limiting exposure is nearly impossible, taking steps to avoid exposure to cell phone radiation is important. Simply talking on your cell phone less will result in less radiation exposure. Even placing your cell phone far away from you instead of in your pocket at all times limits exposure. You may also consider investing in an EMF protector or other similar technologies that limit exposure.

The American Dream
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police in the United States can strip search anyone that they arrest. It doesn’t matter how minor the crime is and it doesn’t matter if they suspect that you have contraband on you or not.

The Supreme Court even said that you can be strip searched if you have been arrested for a traffic violation. Any type of arrest will do. Once you are arrested, if the police want to strip off your clothes and see you naked there is not a thing you can do about it. You can read the entire Supreme Court decision right here. Considering the fact that 13 million Americans are put in jail at some point each year, this is a very frightening thing. The notion that we are all “innocent until proven guilty” is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Thanks to the Supreme Court, it is now legal for the police to strip search you any time they want. All they have to do is find some excuse to arrest you. And considering the fact that almosteverything is illegal in America, that is not hard to do. America continues to become a very dark place in 2012, and very few people are speaking up in defense of liberty and freedom.

But don’t the police need probable cause before they search you? Aren’t we protected against unreasonable searches by the U.S. Constitution? After all, the 4th Amendment says the following….

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Unfortunately, not even the Supreme Court seems to care much about the U.S. Constitution anymore.

As I have written about previously, in the “new America” you don’t get any rights.

Instead, the government gives you a limited number of “privileges” that it can revoke at any time.

The story of the man that was at the heart of the Supreme Court case mentioned above demonstrates this. His name was Albert Florence and he was arrested for not paying a fine that he had already paid.

But the fact that he was innocent didn’t seem to matter too much to the police. They held him in prison for six days and strip searched him twice. The following is how CNN described what Florence went through after his arrest….

Court records show Florence was subjected to an invasive strip and visual body-cavity search. He was then held for six days in the county lockup before being transferred to a Newark correctional facility, where, he claims, he was subjected to another more intrusive search before being placed in the general prison population.

“It was very disgusting. It was just a bad, bad experience,” he told CNN’s Kate Bolduan recently. “I was just told, ‘Do as you’re told.’ Wash in this disgusting soap and obey the directions of the officer who was instructing me to turn around, lift my genitals up, turn around, and squat.”

Are you upset when you read that?

You should be.

You see, this is how totalitarian governments act. Totalitarian regimes love to dehumanize and humiliate their “detainees” by stripping them naked.

So when we see this kind of behavior by authorities in the United States we should be very concerned.

And when we see the U.S. Supreme Court giving the stamp of approval to this kind of activity, we should be sounding the alarm.

At first, Americans were told that this kind of treatment would only happen to “prisoners of war” overseas.

But then came the “enhanced pat-downs” from the TSA.

Then we learned that the TSA was actually strip searching old women at our airports.

And now we discover that strip searching will be legal for every single person that is arrested in the entire nation.

What in the world is happening to us?

Some will argue that if you don’t want to be strip searched that you should just avoid committing a crime.

Well, in 2012 almost everything is a crime in America.

In fact, if you are just walking down the street minding your own business or even if you are in your own home doing absolutely nothing the police could still probably arrest you because there are probably about 1000 things that you are not doing that you are supposed to be doing.

And you know what horny police officers all over America are going to be thinking when they hear of this Supreme Court decision.

They are going to be thinking that it is now open season for strip searching beautiful women.

There have already been hundreds of complaints that the TSA has been specifically targeting attractive women during airport security screenings.

Anyone that does not believe that police are going to do the exact same thing is being delusional.

In fact, we have already seen many examples of this around the country. As I wrote about a while back, one group of female pro-life demonstrators was recently strip searched by police twice. They didn’t do anything wrong and they should have never been arrested, but that didn’t prevent them from being strip searched in front of male police officers.

We have crossed a very dangerous line as a nation.

We have now gotten to the point where sexual humiliation is a standard law enforcement technique.

A recent article by Naomi Wolf detailed how the use of sexual humiliation as a control technique has been steadily increasing in our society in recent years….

Our surveillance state shown considerable determination to intrude on citizens sexually. There’s the sexual abuse of prisoners at Bagram – der Spiegel reports that “former inmates report incidents of … various forms of sexual humiliation. In some cases, an interrogator would place his penis along the face of the detainee while he was being questioned. Other inmates were raped with sticks or threatened with anal sex”. There was the stripping of Bradley Manning is solitary confinement. And there’s the policy set up after the story of the “underwear bomber” to grope US travelers genitally or else force them to go through a machine – made by a company, Rapiscan, owned by terror profiteer and former DHA czar Michael Chertoff – with images so vivid that it has been called the “pornoscanner”.

We have all been told that we must sacrifice personal dignity for the greater good.

We have all been told that “national security” trumps our liberties and our freedoms.

But the further we go down this road, the more we become like communist China, the USSR, North Korea and Nazi Germany.

In New York City, the police do not even need to arrest you in order to put their hands on you. Officials in New York have implemented a nightmarish “stop-and-frisk” policy. During 2011, there were 684,330 “stop and frisk” searches in New York City. Mayor Bloomberg contends that these unconstitutional searches are necessary to keep the city safe.

But even if you don’t go outside you can still be stopped and frisked. Thousands of apartment buildings in New York have signed up for the “Clean Halls” program which allows police officers to freely roam the hallways of apartment buildings and stop anyone that they want for any reason.

The following is how a recent Rolling Stone article described this program….

According to the NYCLU, which filed the suit, “virtually every private apartment building [in the Bronx] is enrolled in the program,” and “in Manhattan alone, there are at least 3,895 Clean Halls Buildings.” Referring to the NYPD’s own data, the complaint says police conducted 240,000 “vertical patrols” in the year 2003 alone.

If you live in a Clean Halls building, you can’t even go out to take out the trash without carrying an ID – and even that might not be enough. If you go out for any reason, there may be police in the hallways, demanding that you explain yourself, and insisting, in brazenly illegal and unconstitutional fashion, on searches of your person.

Can you see where all of this is going?

We are rapidly becoming a society where there is absolutely no privacy left and where citizens are routinely dehumanized and humiliated.

If those in charge of protecting us cannot keep us safe and respect our liberties and our freedoms at the same time, then they should resign and give their jobs to someone else.

Many of the things that are being done in this nation right now in the name of “security” are absolutely shameful. Our leaders are turning their backs on what it means to be American, and millions of citizens all over the country should be howling in disgust.

Unfortunately, most people seem to be buying in to the “new America”, and the U.S. Supreme Court has just given police departments all over the country the green light to strip search citizens any time they want.

A thrill-seeking teen on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten was blown away – literally – when she was catapulted backward while standing on a beach next to an airport runway as a plane took off.

Tourists and locals at the half-Dutch/half-French island’s Maho Beach, which is famous for its close proximity to Princess Juliana International Airport, regularly seek a cheap thrill by standing as close as possible to the runway as planes fly over the beach, taking off and landing. The beach and the 7,000-foot runway are separated by a thin, two-lane highway. Tourists with beers and cameras often hold tight to a nearby fence as the jet engines that can easily produce winds of more than 100 mph whiz by. One teenage girl was no match for the roaring engine and went airborne — her head slamming against concrete — as a JetBlue plane took off.

The video shows the teen with her arms flailing and hair going wild in the wind. She quickly goes airborne and crashes, head-first, into a low wall. The girl, whose name and age is unknown, is reportedly OK after the incident, but she has a deep gash in her head. Another teen tourist reportedly broke his leg.

The incident, which was caught on video and posted to YouTube, is just the latest reminder of why signs warning people about the dangers are posted at the end of runway. The signs note that jet blasts can cause injury or death.

But that hasn’t stopped the Sunset Bar and Grill, which sits near the end of the runway, from writing the day’s flight schedule on a surfboard every morning and broadcasting air traffic control instead of music. The “Jet Blast” is even celebrated with its own shot at the Sunset Bar.

Records aren’t kept about how many people have been injured but, as the young woman found out, planes aren’t the only things that take off at Maho Beach.

The New York Times obituary for Mike Wallace called him “a reporter with the presence of a performer.” Apt indeed. Wallace was an able TV performer in the 1950s, appearing here, there and everywhere. A forceful presence, he could swivel from game shows to news programs with ease. Then on ABC’s The Mike Wallace Interview, and a local New York show called Night Beat, he honed his allegedly aggressive style of interview.

It was a time when the theatre of television was being explored and better understood. The lure of the interrogation-style interview, with the interviewee/suspect under the lights, proved irresistible. Especially in the pre-colour TV era. Wallace was good at it, grasping the theatrical mannerisms and exaggerations needed to make it work. That’s what he took to 60 Minutes and he performed in the same style right up to his final interview, with Roger Clemens, in 2008.

Most of Wallace’s career unfolded in the pre-cable era. A time when Americans and Canadians had few news choices. That made 60 Minutes matter, with a significance and heft that is unthinkable today. Before the 24/7 news cycle, there existed a short list of news events that truly mattered and a short list of TV outlets covering them.

It’s not that those were, necessarily, the golden days of TV news. There was a pomposity to it all. Sure, there was skill to Wallace’s method of abrupt questioning. It also stood in stark contrast to the sort of amiable chat that happened on The Tonight Show. But 60 Minutes was often full of itself. With CBS News and a tiny handful of other outlets it set the agenda with an arrogance that is unthinkable today in the era of e-mail, blogs, online news, Facebook and Twitter.

At the same, it’s possible to speculate on what Mike Wallace wrought. Some might say his aggressive, skeptical style inspired the hostile-interview tactics of Bill O’Reilly on Fox News. What happened, maybe, is that Fox News and, later, its cable-news competitors, merely embellished the “gotcha” style of questioning that made Wallace famous and feared.

And simultaneously, it’s possible to admire Mike Wallace for his indefatigable quality. He was working in TV, travelling and doing his job into his eighties. He created a persona and he held on to it. He was a gentleman reporter, defined by the trench coat, the blue button-down shirt and solid-coloured tie. He was the prosecutor, the FBI agent, the truth-seeking journalist. His look and his style borrowed from conventional TV types – such as the blunt courtroom lawyer – to the point where his look and style were iconic and, on TV and in movies, a plausible crusading journalist had to look and act like Mike Wallace.

Much of the coverage of the death of Mike Wallace has correctly focused on his strengths as an interviewer and his involvement in memorable TV moments. But much of it too has been drenched with foolish nostalgia. That is, nostalgia for a time when there was less television, and things were simpler. In truth, they were not simpler. It’s just that a handful of outlets had a proprietorship over news coverage.

We’re better off now. And it’s better if we understand that Mike Wallace was as much a performer as a reporter. He was better at it than most, but it was still theatrics. Respect is due and so is a tincture of truth. He wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.

Just in time for the Easter bunny and chocolate eggs, new reports about sugar have made the headlines.

Adding another layer of worry or guilt to this annual tradition.

Last week, a story on 60 Minutes talked about the toxic effects of sugar, and it caused another flurry of phone calls and emails from anxious clients and friends. There is a lot being said about sugar, and these days it seems that it's becoming the newest dietary no-no -- so I thought it was a good time to give some perspective on this sweet subject.

So, what's the harm from sugar?

One problem is that these added sugars add extra calories to some foods that are otherwise pretty healthy, and they also can take the place of some of these healthy foods. We also know that added sugars can raise triglycerides, a type of blood fat that is associated with heart disease risk. And, some of the newer research is looking at the role that extra sugar plays in increasing inflammation, a factor in the development of many chronic diseases. There is some research showing that sugar-sweetened beverages contribute to weight gain and this can be a contributor to Type 2 diabetes. Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages can also increase risk of metabolic syndrome, a risk factor for both diabetes and heart disease.

When you think that a can of pop has 160 calories and almost 10 tsp. (1/4 cup/50ml) of sugar without any other nutritional value, it should make you think twice about quenching your thirst this way.

Where's the Sugar?

There are lots of ways we get sugar in our diets and most people are consuming far more than they think. It's this extra sugar that has been linked to these negative health issues.

There are sugars that occur naturally in a number of foods such as fruits, some vegetables and unsweetened dairy products. But, these are not the sugars that we are concerned about. It's all the added sugars that add up so quickly and of which people are often so unaware. The refined sugars such as glucose-fructose, cane or beet sugar, evaporated cane juice, corn syrup, other syrups, and honey which are added to foods during processing are found in so many foods including the obvious such as soft drinks, fruit drinks, candies and desserts but also foods like salad dressings, flavoured yogurts, some cereals, pasta sauces, soy beverages, canned baked beans, frozen dinners and even peanut butter.

The only way to really know what you are getting is to read labels and look at both the ingredient list and the Sugars number on the Nutrition Facts Table. That Sugars number will include both natural and added sugars. So, If there is no fruit or milk in the food (both contain natural sugars), the number will tell you how much added sugar is in a serving. For example, 3/4 cup (175ml) of plain yogurt contains about 13 grams of natural sugar and 3/4 cup (175ml) of fruit-flavoured yogurt has 25 grams of sugar, so about 12 grams added.

And, to do the math, one teaspoon of sugar is 4 grams so 12 grams is 3 teaspoons.

The bottom line is serious moderation. Compare products and buy those with little or no added sugars. For example, buy real oatmeal rather than the sweetened instant variety. Get more of your calories from real food rather than heavily processed or unnecessarily sweetened.

Even if it says "natural," read the label for hidden sugars. Eliminate or limit sugar-sweetened beverages.

(CNN) -- Authorities in Oklahoma arrested two people early Sunday in connection with a deadly spate of random shootings in Tulsa that had residents on edge.

About 30 representatives from four law enforcement agencies -- the Tulsa police, Tulsa County Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI -- had been working round-the-clock looking for the person that authorities say killed three people and wounded two others in shooting attacks early Friday.

The police identified the arrested men as Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32.

They will be charged with three counts of murder and two counts of shooting with intent to kill, the department said.

Officials did not offer a motive.

The news will undoubtedly come as relief to residents, many of whom had changed their daily habits since the shooting.

Just blocks from where two of the shootings occurred in the predominantly black neighborhoods in north Tulsa, Philip Hargett moved his trash cans from the side of his home to the front so he would never have his back to the street.

"It's going to be a couple of days for all of us to get over this," Hargett told CNN affiliate KOKI in Tulsa on Saturday night.

His wife, Migdalia, said the shootings "scare the daylights out of me."

Venecia Williams, a mother and a grandmother who lives in the area, said she was afraid because she just didn't know what might happen next.

"That many shootings in one night?" she said. "That's quite a concern."

After the shooting, a survivor described the suspect as a white man, driving an "older" white pickup truck, said Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan.

Police Capt. Jonathan Brooks told CNN that such a truck had been spotted at least three of the shooting sites, around that time.

Both England and Watts are white. All the victims were black.

The first shooting occurred at 1:03 a.m. Friday. That victim, 49-year-old Dannaer Fields, died at a hospital.

Three minutes later, two other people were shot, authorities said. One of them "pretty close to the (gunman's) vehicle and the other ... a little further away," said Brooks, the police captain. Those two were initially in critical condition but, by Saturday evening, were expected to survive, he said.

Then, just before 2 a.m., another person was shot and killed.

The body of a third person was found around 8 a.m. next to a funeral home in a more commercial district, though Brooks said police believe he was shot much earlier.

George Riley, the funeral director at Jack's Memory Chapel, said he was shocked that one of the shootings played out virtually on his doorstep.

"I consider it a war zone," Riley, a Vietnam War veteran, told KOKI. "I don't want to say it's scary, but it can be scary."

In addition to Fields, Jordan identified the other two victims as William Allen and Bobby Clark.

"It appears all the victims were out walking or in the yard," Brooks said. "This (happened in) a residential neighborhood, predominantly single-family dwellings, except for the last victim."

The Rev. Warren Blakney, a pastor at a city church and president of the NAACP's Tulsa branch, said the shootings could well prove to be hate crimes given that they happened in a predominantly black neighborhood.

"For a white male to come that deep into that area and to start indiscriminately shooting, that lends itself for many to believe that it probably was a hate crime," Blakney told CNN.

Brooks, the police captain, said one survivor recalled how "the suspect drives up to him, asks ... for directions and shoots him for no reason." There is no indication the shooter used a racial slur or said anything else that might indicate his motive, according to police.

Jordan stopped short of calling it a hate crime, saying "it's just not time for us to say that."

"Right now, I'm more worried about three of my citizens being murdered," the chief said. "And if it takes us in a direction of a hate crime, that's certainly where we'll go and we'll prosecute him for that as well."

CNN's Maria P. White, Nick Valencia and Don Lemon contributed to this report.

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