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Indonesia has freed the slaughterer of three Christian schoolgirls.

No major media confirmation yet, but @Scannerfood reports a car crashing into a parade crowd resulting in a mass casualty event.

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Definitely big event occurring in Damascus, Virginia. Listening to a scannerfeed discussing need for air evac.

Listened to dispatcher saying LZ’s had been cleared. Does that mean ready to receive incoming?

From WJHL: Pokey Harris, Emergency Management Coordinator with Washington County, VA, tells News Channel 11 the driver of the vehicle that hit the pedestrians is a male who had a medical emergency, which she says likely caused the wreck.

Vitamin D Deficiency:  A Silent Epidemic among African Americans

February 21, 2013

Rita Umile

Vitamin D has been big news in Public Health recently, as research indicates that its role in the body extends far greater than simply ensuring bone health through the prevention of such diseases as rickets, osteomalacia and osteoporosis.

Studies also suggest that achieving and maintaining an adequate Vitamin D blood serum level, as determined by a 25(OH)D blood test, is essential to the prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and type 1 diabetes.  Additionally, Vitamin D appears to play a protective role in cardiovascular health, various types of cancer, autism, depression, schizophrenia, and respiratory conditions such as cystic fibrosis.

It is no secret that the number of health conditions positively influenced by maintaining adequate levels of Vitamin D seems to increase daily.
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Anzor Tsarnaev, father of the Boston Bombing suspects, warned ABC News that if his second son is killed “…all hell would break loose.”

Hey, did he just threaten America?

The United States is moving a THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) system to Guam to counter ominous threats from North Korea.

The El Paso Times says a unit may be deployed from Ft. Bliss.

Here are two short videos showing the system in operation:

THAAD launch

THAAD intercept

Gizmodo reports that Google is set to pull the plug on Google Reader.

That leaves us with Google+ which really isn’t that great, down the road, maybe, just not now.

Adios Google Reader. You’ll be missed.

Update 4/5/2013: As Pooh would say, “Oh bother.” I’m not finding any really good alternatives to Google Reader. On iOS anyway. I’m trying Pulse, but it seems bugy, not picking up the feeds like it should.

Any ideas?

Is the end of Chris Dorner underway? Here’s a live feed:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/live-video/

Dorner may be holed up in a cabin and may be wounded, may be…

It sounds like it may be happening in the area of Glass Rd and 7 Oaks:

Google Maps [ LINK ]

CBS Los Angeles is reporting that one of the officers involved in the shootout has died…

Follow this link to Hip Hop Corner’s posting of Christopher Dorner’s manifesto.

According to Gizmodo, it looks like Amazon.com is under a hacker attack.

Search and rescue is underway for a US F-16 that went down in the Adriatic. The pilot’s status is unknown.