Chicago woman loses fourth child to gun violence

At least five people were gunned down Saturday in Chicago, including a 34-year-old man whose mother had already lost her three other children to shootings.

Ronnie Chambers, who was his mother Shirley's youngest child, was shot in the head while sitting in a parked car on the city's West Side. A 21-year-old man who was also in the car was wounded, police said.

Shirley Chambers, whose two other sons and daughter were shot in separate attacks more than a decade ago, was left grieving again on Saturday, WLS-TV reported.

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"Right now, I'm totally lost because Ronnie was my only surviving son," Chambers said.

Shirley Chambers' first child, Carlos, was shot and killed by a high school classmate in 1995 after an argument. He was 18. Her daughter Latoya, then 15, and her other son Jerome were shot and killed within months of one another in 2000.

"What did I do wrong? I was there for them. We didn't have everything we wanted but we had what we needed," she asked Saturday.

Chambers said despite this latest tragic chapter in her life, she's not bitter or angry.

"They took my only child. I have nobody right now. That's my only baby," she said.

A few hours after Ronnie Chambers was killed, a gunman opened fire on three men near a South Side eatery, killing two of them and wounding the third, police said.

On Saturday afternoon, detectives were called to the scene of another shooting in which a man in his 30s and a teenager were shot to death. There had been no arrests.

Chicago's homicide count eclipsed 500 last year for the first time since 2008. Although grim, Chicago's homicide rate was nearly double that in the early 1990s ? averaging around 900 ? before violent crime began dropping in cities across America.

Last year's increase, though, stood in sharp contrast to New York City, where homicides fell 21 percent from 2011.

-- Reporting by The Associated Press

Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/27/16725347-totally-lost-chicago-woman-loses-fourth-child-to-gun-violence?lite

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Including grandparents in family vacations | RetireAndRenew.com

Once our daughter grew up, married, and became a parent, we needed to decide how we would participate in their lives.

For some grandparents, the answer is easy. They live nearby and see their grandchildren frequently. For others, distance prevents everyday visits.?

Spending time with grandchildren

Have you ever gone on a vacation with your son or daughter and their children? For those of us who live far from the grandchildren, a visit is usually a planned event. This involves booking a flight, train, or bus trip, or arranging an automobile journey.

Dates are pretty well established.? The family knows when the grandparents will arrive and when they will leave. The visitors may or may not stay in the home of the younger family.? A lot depends on the? family plans for ?what to do? while the Grandparents are in the area.

Some things the grandparent needs to consider prior to arrival, are:

• where to stay
• how to get from place to place
• interests and habits of the grandchildren
• family expectations of their children?s behavior
• events they want to include in the trip

Discussion and planning should begin before the grandparents arrive. Children should understand the names and general relationships before the visit.

Grandparents should explain if they can?t take part in strenuous activities. If they don?t want to participate in the theme park or other visits, they should explain. They may, in fact have goals for visiting some other sites.?

Plans for the visit

When our children and grandchildren come for a visit, they do stay in our home. The house provides a lower level with beds and television.? The separation of families is helpful for all.

While here in the area where we live, their parents keep them busy.? They usually visit a theme park located within about 20 miles of our home. It is lies within the Mall of America in an indoor site called Nickelodeon Universe.?

Introducing the Mall of America (with information from Wikipedia)

The Mall of America, also called MOA, is a shopping mall?located in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of the Twin Cities, in the United States. It opened in 1992, the mall receives 40 million visitors annually.^[2] The Triple Five Group.

As you can imagine, the mall itself is very large for an indoor shopping site. What makes it more attractive to children and some adults is the theme park which is placed in the center of the Mall.

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Should grandparents accompany the family to Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America, or other Theme Parks?

This has to be a decision made by both families. Prior to their visit we consider whether the help of an extra adult will keep the children happy and appropriately watched? Or, will care of the grandparent interrupt the pleasure of the young children?

While looking for information about extended family vacations, I came upon some web sites that I found helpful. Here?is an?example.

http://blogs.ajc.com/momania/2011/06/22/tips-for-taking-a-stress-free-trip-with-extended-family/?cxntfid=blogs_momania?

Final thoughts

An extended family vacation is one of those events that take thought, discussion, and resolution by those involved. The goal is to allow input?from everyone and in the end have everyone in agreement with the decision.

Source: http://retireandrenew.com/?p=1087

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Hiring Personal Injury Lawyer | Amnesty Law

Posted on 06 January 2013. Tags: Injury, Law, personal injury case, personal injury lawyer

Involving in personal injury case is probably never cross your mind and anybody?s mind. But what happen if you are accidentally in that position and have to file for personal injury law suit? First of all, you need to think it through whether you want to file the personal injury case that you are experiencing to the court of law or not. You need to question this because just like any other legal issues, the process of filing the personal injury law suit is going to be long and seize most of your time, efforts, and money. Time and money are what the personal injury case is usually had to offer for those who want to seek for judicial settlement for their misfortune. Misfortune or not, this is where the personal injury law suit is going to take some times because the investigation is needed to be done.

Any law or legal issues which are going to be trial on the court of law must be providing investigation result. This particular investigation result is to see the law suit from neutral point of view and not based from certain point of view which in this case is the victim of the personal injury case and the accused. Usually, the personal injury law case is taking place where the prosecutor and the accused are involving in employee and employer relationship. To deal with this kind of law suit, you are going to need to use the service from personal injury lawyer Philadelphia to escort you during the judicial process. Some people think that it is difficult to choose of personal injury attorney while actually it is depending on the law firm or any legal service providers.

For those who can?t afford to pay the service of personal injury attorney, they can get the law service from non-profit legal service providers where some of the lawyers are doing the pro-bono service. You probably think that it is going to waste your precious time to call out any law firm that you know to get the service for your personal injury case, but to save your time; you can ask the aforementioned non-profit legal service providers about which law firm that able to provide you with the affordable personal injury lawyer service. You have the right to ask how much money you have to spend to hire the lawyer because most of the time, the lawyer are charged for their service by hour.

Source: http://www.amnesty-turkiye.org/hiring-personal-injury-lawyer.html

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Catmoji - Social Network Exclusively for Cat Lovers

Its raining cats and dogs on the internet and when I say that, I'm only referring to the fact that whatever social networking or photo-bookmarking websites you visit, you're going to come across cute images of cats and dogs spreading cuteness all over your computer screen.

One thing that I really love about being a pet lover is the fact that among 5 people 2 are crazy pet lovers, so you're not the only crazy person out there (What a relief it is!).

Sometimes its really hard to find these like-minded people, you might come across a few on Facebook or Pinterest but not everywhere.?But thanks to two Malaysian developers, now there's a social network exclusively for cat lovers - Catmoji.

Matthew Phiong and Koekoe Loo, who are themselves huge cat lovers, developed Catmoji for cat lovers. Cat lovers can share and discover images and videos of cats, and express what they think or feel through emoji. According to the website, "Catmoji is on a mission to make the internet a better and happier place with cats. Join and help us?disrupt?the Internet with cats and happiness".

Catmoji has a Pinterest-like layout. Once you create your profile you can easily browse through the content shared by other users and upload stuff according to your mood like cute, happy or funny and share it with others.

There's everything cat about Catmoji; Catmunity, awesome?Catvatars,?to let the world know that what type of cat you are?and?Catsome Badges?that'll take your cat addiction to a whole new level.? Catmoji is currently based in Penang and was a part of Start-Up Chile. According to the founders, "Catmoji is a serious business. We want to be the online identity for cats, i.e. Facebook for cats."

One thing for sure, Catmoji is one cool place for cat lovers but for the dog lovers, you guys have to wait until someone comes up with a social network exclusively for you guys.

Do let us know what do you think about Catmoji in the comment section below.

For more of such interesting updates, subscribe to our RSS feeds.

Source: http://www.e-junkie.info/2013/01/catmoji-social-network-exclusively-for.html

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Sorting stem cells

Public release date: 3-Jan-2013
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Contact: Catherine Meyers
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301-209-3088
American Institute of Physics

When an embryonic stem cell is in the first stage of its development it has the potential to grow into any type of cell in the body, a state scientists call undifferentiated. A team of researchers from Scotland has now demonstrated a way to easily distinguish undifferentiated embryonic stem cells from later-stage stem cells whose fate is sealed. The results are published in the American Institute of Physics' (AIP) journal Biomicrofluidics. The researchers used an electric field to pull stem cells through a fluid in a process called dielectrophoresis. They varied the frequency of the voltage used to generate the electric field and studied how the cells moved, a response that was affected by the cell's electrical properties. The researchers found that differentiated stem cells could store a significantly greater charge on their outer membranes, a characteristic that might be used to effectively identify and separate them from undifferentiated cells. The researchers write that the wrinkling, folding, and thinning of a cell's membrane as it differentiates may explain why the later-stage cells can store more charge. The sorting method may prove useful in separating cells for biomedical research or ultimately for treatments of diseases such as Parkinson's.

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Article: "Dielectrophoresis based discrimination of human embryonic stem cells from differentiating derivatives" is published in the journal Biomicrofluidics.

Link: http://bmf.aip.org/resource/1/biomgb/v6/i4/p044113_s1

Authors: Srinivas Velugotla (1), Steve Pells (2), Heidi K. Mjoseng (2), Cairnan R. E. Duffy (2), Stewart Smith (1), Paul De Sousa (2) and Ronald Pethig (1).

(1) Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2) Centre for Regenerative Medicine, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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Public release date: 3-Jan-2013
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Contact: Catherine Meyers
cmeyers@aip.org
301-209-3088
American Institute of Physics

When an embryonic stem cell is in the first stage of its development it has the potential to grow into any type of cell in the body, a state scientists call undifferentiated. A team of researchers from Scotland has now demonstrated a way to easily distinguish undifferentiated embryonic stem cells from later-stage stem cells whose fate is sealed. The results are published in the American Institute of Physics' (AIP) journal Biomicrofluidics. The researchers used an electric field to pull stem cells through a fluid in a process called dielectrophoresis. They varied the frequency of the voltage used to generate the electric field and studied how the cells moved, a response that was affected by the cell's electrical properties. The researchers found that differentiated stem cells could store a significantly greater charge on their outer membranes, a characteristic that might be used to effectively identify and separate them from undifferentiated cells. The researchers write that the wrinkling, folding, and thinning of a cell's membrane as it differentiates may explain why the later-stage cells can store more charge. The sorting method may prove useful in separating cells for biomedical research or ultimately for treatments of diseases such as Parkinson's.

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Article: "Dielectrophoresis based discrimination of human embryonic stem cells from differentiating derivatives" is published in the journal Biomicrofluidics.

Link: http://bmf.aip.org/resource/1/biomgb/v6/i4/p044113_s1

Authors: Srinivas Velugotla (1), Steve Pells (2), Heidi K. Mjoseng (2), Cairnan R. E. Duffy (2), Stewart Smith (1), Paul De Sousa (2) and Ronald Pethig (1).

(1) Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2) Centre for Regenerative Medicine, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/aiop-ssc010313.php

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