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- NBA: Traveling rule was not changed - WKBT
- Idaho man faces 3 felonies for hitting troopers - Charleston Daily Mail
- An uphill battle to combat Latino childhood obesity - CNN
- Robbery Ends With Shooting In North Miami Beach - CBS 4 South Florida
- Polanski refused bail in Swiss court - CNN
| NBA: Traveling rule was not changed - WKBT Posted: 23 Oct 2009 03:41 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) - The correct call: The NBA has not changed the traveling rule. Stu Jackson, the league's executive vice president of basketball operations, said recent media reports that the rule had been changed to allow an extra step after the dribble were not true. "We have not changed the traveling rule, nor how we enforce the rule," Jackson said Friday during the league's annual preseason conference call. "What we did change was some antiquated language in our existing rule as it related to steps." The section of the NBA rulebook dealing with traveling used to allow players to "use a two-count rhythm in coming to a stop." It was reworded this season to say players "may take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball." Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Idaho man faces 3 felonies for hitting troopers - Charleston Daily Mail Posted: 23 Oct 2009 10:58 PM PDT
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Prosecutors say an Idaho man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia was traveling at high speed when he intentionally smashed his pickup truck into a pair of Idaho State Police motorcycle troopers parked along an interstate median. Records show 29-year-old David Turnovec (Turn-oh-vitch) was cited hours before the crash by a Boise motorcycle police officer for speeding and driving without insurance. Prosecutors have charged Turnovec with three felonies stemming from Thursday's crash on Interstate 84 east of Boise that injured both officers. Sgt. Chris Duggan was hospitalized in serious condition, while Cpl. John Vance was treated and released Thursday. Turnovec was arraigned on two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer and one count of using a deadly weapon during a felony. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| An uphill battle to combat Latino childhood obesity - CNN Posted: 24 Oct 2009 10:32 AM PDT (CNN) -- When she was about 8, Frida Sepulveda developed dark folds of skin around her neck. It's a well-known warning sign of type 2 diabetes. Frida's mother, Blanca Sepulveda, who has watched other family members struggle with diabetes and obesity, was "devastated" to see her daughter experience similar health problems. Now at age 11, Frida is about 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs around 180 pounds, her mother said. Despite a high body weight for her age and height, Frida does not seem to have additional symptoms of diabetes -- or any other major health concerns -- but her parents are trying to reverse the weight problem Frida has had since infancy. The San Diego, California, family is among a disproportionately high number of Latino-American families with overweight and obese children. According to the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health, 16.6 percent of Latino high school students were obese and 18.1 percent were overweight. The corresponding national averages for high school students were 13.3 percent obese and 15.8 percent overweight. It's an epidemic that shocked and saddened Lorena Garcia, a chef who appears on Univision and Telemundo. "I travel all over the country to the major Hispanic festivals and I realized that 90 to 95 percent of the kids that I saw at the festivals were overweight," said Garcia, who established the Big Chef Little Chef program to teach Latino youth healthy cooking and eating habits. Watch Garcia interact with her fans » The problem is caused by a wide range of cultural, social, economic, environmental and possibly genetic factors. Experts agree it is an uphill battle to solve. "You can't just try to change someone's behavior necessarily without trying to change their environment," said Dr. Michael Goran, director of the University of Southern California's Childhood Obesity Research Center. How can childhood obesity be reduced? Blanca Sepulveda, 38, believes her own upbringing in Mexico before coming to the United States in junior high school ultimately contributed to her daughter's weight problem. "The way I was raised ... you don't [leave] the dinner table until you're done with all your food. That's instilled in you," Sepulveda said. Back in Mexico, she said, the food was healthier and fresher, and she didn't drink soda. But she still applied that mentality to her own children, who were born and raised in the United States, where sugar-laden and fattening foods are widely available. The Sepulveda family's story is similar to that of other immigrants who are healthier than their American-born children: Those born outside the United States are less likely to be obese than native-born children, said Luisa Franzini, Ph.D., of the University of Texas School of Public Health. Despite the trends, more study is necessary to determine whether American acculturation is entirely to blame for poor diets among Latinos, an expert says. Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, a nutrition and public health professor with the University of Connecticut, wrote in the June 2009 issue of Journal of the American Diabetic Association that adaptation to U.S. society may explain, to some degree, "deterioration of dietary quality" and the risks of diabetes and other chronic diseases. However, he wrote, it's still not completely clear. Healthy food harder to come by Economic factors play a major role for many Latinos in their weight struggles. Angelica Delgado is trying to overcome the obstacle with the Healthy Latino Families initiative, a culturally tailored nutrition and exercise program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As the Community Research Supervisor for the United Community Center, Delgado is trying to get healthy school lunches in the Bruce-Guadalupe Community School, with which she's working on Healthy Latino Families. About 80 percent of Bruce Guadalupe's student body, which is 97 percent Latino, come from low-income households and therefore are eligible for reduced-price or free lunch. Without money coming in to support the lunch program, it's difficult to fund better quality food and equipment to ensure that it's freshly cooked, Delgado said. For now, she hopes the fun, bilingual setting of Healthy Latino Families will teach children to make smart food choices. The lack of availability of inexpensive, fresh, healthy food is a common for low-income populations in general, Franzini said. Research suggests that more affluent neighborhoods have a higher availability of healthy food, she said, adding that the cost of healthy food is lower in more advantaged communities. The community factor Exercise also poses tricky problems for Latino children struggling with weight, as many live in disadvantaged areas may make it tough for them to play outside or walk to school. From a physical point of view -- in terms of sidewalks and litter -- those areas tend to be in worse shape than an average neighborhood, Franzini said. But her research also suggests that the social component of a neighborhood affects children's physical activity levels. "It's not sufficient to just clean up the neighborhood -- pick up the trash and build sidewalks," said Franzini, whose study on the impact of neighborhoods' social characteristics was published earlier this year in the American Journal of Public Health. "It also needs to be a neighborhood where people feel safe and they feel that they can go out and walk and run and exercise and do whatever they want to do." To that end, Franzini's research indicates that those Latinos living in tight-knit communities often get more exercise than those in more mixed neighborhoods. "Having a neighborhood which is more connected, where people feel safe -- I think it's all a matter of feeling empowered in a way. And so those who feel that they have this stronger neighborhood from a social point of view, they are also more likely to be physically active," Franzini said. Finding solutions Researchers and community advocates are attempting to combat the Latino youth obesity problem. But the multitude of factors makes the issue a moving target and results of interventions are mixed. For example, about a year after a previous phase of Healthy Latino Families in Milwaukee wrapped up, children reportedly ate better and watched less television per day. Delgado said they are awaiting results from the current program, but she has seen some success already. USC's Goran worked with Latino teenagers over 16 weeks to improve their diets, promoting fiber-rich tortillas and altering recipes of aqua fresca so it would have less sugar. But at the end of the four months, he saw "no significant improvement in the outcomes." "We have to do those studies over longer time periods than we have previously done to kind of give these things a chance to work and kick in," Goran said. "We're ... taking it one step at a time." And Frida's mom, Blanca Sepulveda, said she is focusing on modifying her own behavior to help her entire family. "It's a retraining of the mind," Sepulveda said. "It gets hard because you have to be an example." This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Robbery Ends With Shooting In North Miami Beach - CBS 4 South Florida Posted: 24 Oct 2009 10:54 AM PDT Robbery Ends With Shooting In North Miami Beach
An off-duty officer working at a nearby business heard the robbery call and saw a black vehicle speeding away from the Outback. The car was traveling west on NE 163 when police gave chase to the car. Police caught the vehicle on the 2800 block of NE 163, but the car refused to stop and hit a police car. North Miami Beach Police shot at the car and at least one person inside the car was hit. A second suspect may have been hit, but police said his condition hasn't been released. The third suspect was not injured. All three were arrested and are awaiting their charges. If you have any information about the crime, call CrimeStoppers at 305-493-TIPS (8477).
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| Polanski refused bail in Swiss court - CNN Posted: 24 Oct 2009 10:32 AM PDT (CNN) -- A Swiss court has refused a request from director Roman Polanski to be released on bail pending an extradition battle, saying he poses a high flight risk, according to court documents. The Swiss Criminal Court said measures such as revoking Polanski's travel documents and requiring him to report daily to the police would not reduce the possibility that the director would flee. The Academy Award-winning director was arrested in Switzerland last month on a U.S. arrest warrant stemming from a 1977 sex case. He is fighting extradition to the United States. Polanski's Swiss lawyer, Lorenz Erni, had no immediate comment. His French lawyer, Herve Temime, did not return a call seeking comment. Polanski has 10 days in which he may appeal the decision, said Folco Galli, the spokesman for the Swiss Justice Ministry. The court said that as a citizen of both France and Poland, Polanski could obtain more travel documents if he were required to turn them over to Swiss authorities. It noted that border crossings from Switzerland are especially easy by both land and air, in part because of the European Schengen agreement that allows for visa-free travel between member countries, but also because Polanski has access to private jets or helicopters. The filmmaker put up his home in the Swiss town of Gstaad as security for bail, the court documents showed, but the court decided that wasn't enough of a guarantee. Polanski pleaded guilty in August 1977 to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl five months earlier. He was 43 at the time, and is now 76. Los Angeles, California, prosecutors dropped other charges in exchange for his guilty plea. But Polanski fled the country before he was sentenced, after he learned the judge might not go along with the short jail term he expected to get from the plea agreement. Polanski remained free -- mostly living in France -- before he was arrested in Switzerland on a 31-year-old arrest warrant. Los Angeles authorities said they sought his arrest when they learned he would be traveling to Switzerland for a film festival last month. Polanski agreed to pay his sexual assault victim $500,000 to settle a damage claim she filed against him nearly 12 years after the crime, according to court papers released October 2. Polanski still owed the money -- plus another $100,000 interest -- three years after the 1993 settlement, according to the documents. The victim sought money for damages suffered when Polanski had sex with her. She claimed Polanski plied her with alcohol and quaaludes during a photo shoot at the Hollywood Hills home of actor Jack Nicholson. It's not clear if Polanski ever completed paying the debt to the woman, although the court papers document efforts by her lawyers to garnish residuals and other payments owed to Polanski by the Screen Actors Guild, movie studios and other Hollywood businesses. The victim came forward long ago and made her identity public -- saying she was disturbed by how the criminal case had been handled. Samantha Geimer, now 45, a married mother of three, called in January for the case to be tossed out. Polanski's arrest has divided public opinion, even in Hollywood. Some high-profile filmmakers, such as Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Pedro Almodovar, have called for his release. Others, including actors Kirstie Alley and Paul Petersen, refuse to defend him. Polanski won an Academy Award for Best Director in 2003 for "The Pianist." He was nominated for a best director Oscar for "Tess" and "Chinatown," and for best writing for "Rosemary's Baby," which he also directed. This content has passed through fivefilters.org.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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