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??? Beaufort County Community College has been approved to offer course work in the field of Health and Fitness Science, a field that will provide many job opportunities for area residents, college officials announced this week.
??? Courses in the new Health and Fitness Science Program are scheduled to begin in August through BCCC's Allied Health Division.
??? "The Health and Fitness Science Program will provide a new career path for those in our area who are interested in a health services career," said Dr. Barbara Tansey, BCCC president. "As in other health services careers, jobs are in high demand for health and fitness science workers in several settings."
??? The Health and Fitness Science Program will be part of the Allied Health curriculum at BCCC that includes Associate Degree and Practical Nursing, Medical Laboratory Technology and Speech Language Pathology Assistant. BCCC also offers Emergency Medical Technician basic through paramedic, Health Unit Coordinator, Therapeutic Massage, Pharmacy Technician and Nurse Aide courses through its Division of Continuing Education.
??? The program will prepare graduates to be fitness trainers, aerobics instructors, corporate wellness directors, personal trainers, recreation workers and wellness coaches, among other positions.
??? "There is a real need for these professionals in many settings locally and statewide," said Ron Baldwin, lead instructor for the program. "As more attention is being paid to health issues - including the increase in childhood obesity nationwide - there is an increased interest among businesses and industry in wellness programs and an increase in the number of commercial fitness clubs. This has led to an increased need for professionals to work in this field."
??? Students in the program will need two years to complete the course work, after which they receive an associate in applied science degree in health and fitness science. An associate's degree in the program requires 66 credit hours and includes coursework in anatomy and physiology, exercise science, group exercise instruction, health and fitness law and prevention and care of exercise-related injuries, among other courses.
??? The first classes offered in the program are expected to be Exercise Science and Spa and Fitness Management, according to Baldwin.
??? More information about Health and Fitness Science is available by contacting Baldwin at 252-940-6278 or by email at ronaldb@beaufortccc.edu. Registration for Health and Fitness Science classes for Fall Semester 2013 will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 14. The first day of class will be Thursday, Aug. 15.
??? For more information about enrolling for classes at BCCC or to schedule a placement test, contact the Admissions Office at 252-940-6237. Applications are available on the BCCC website at www.beaufortccc.edu.
??? Beaufort County Community College is a public comprehensive community college committed to accessible and affordable quality education, effective teaching, relevant training, and lifelong learning opportunities for the people served by the College.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Homeland Security Investigations via AP
Edin Sakoc during his arrest Friday in Burlington, Vt.
By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News
A naturalized U.S. citizen living in Vermont pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he lied on his citizenship application about gruesome war crimes he is accused of having committed 21 years ago during the Bosnian war.
The man, Edin Sakoc, 54, who lives with his wife and a 6-year-old daughter in Burlington, Vt., was being held by U.S. marshals pending a court appearance Monday at which a judge will decide whether to release him pending trial.
The grand jury indictment, which was unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Burlington, alleges that Sakoc, a Bosnian Muslim, kidnapped and raped a Bosnian Serb woman and abetted the killings her mother and aunt in July 1992 ? only three months into what would become a 3?-year bloodbath as ethnic and religious factions fought over the remains of the former Yugoslavia.
That's not what he's charged with, however. The indictment formally charges him with two counts of failing to disclose the alleged crimes, first in 2004 when he applied for legal permanent residence and again in 2007 when he applied for and was granted U.S. citizenship.
If convicted, Sakoc could be sentenced to as long as 10 years in prison, fined as much as $250,000 and lose his U.S. citizenship.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn't answer a call seeking an explanation of how U.S. investigators learned about the allegations against Sakoc. The indictment was kept under seal until Friday to protect agents and sources, indicating that he was possibly identified by an informer.
Sakoc's court-appointed attorney told reporters after Friday's hearing that he had no comment but that he expected his client to be released Monday after turning in his U.S. and Bosnian passports.
The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia in March 1992. The next month, armed conflict broke out between Bosnian Serbs and a loose coalition of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats. The conflict spread to other former Yugoslav republics, leading to the deaths of at least 140,000 people by the time peace was brokered in December 1995, the International Committee of the Red Cross estimated in 2010.
In July 1992, the indictment alleges, Sakoc and an unnamed co-conspirator kidnapped a Bosnian Serb woman from the home where she and her elderly mother and aunt had taken refuge in the town of Capljina. Sakoc assaulted and raped the woman and took her to Dretelj, a nearby prison camp where Bosnian Serbs were tortured or killed during the war, it says.
A few hours later, Sakoc and his partner returned to the home, where the unnamed second person shot and killed the woman's mother and aunt, the indictment alleges. They then burned the women's bodies and torched the house, it says.
In a statement, Bruce Foucart, the special agent in charge of ICE's office for Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, said, "Alleged human rights violators who believe they can find a safe haven in the United States are sorely mistaken.
"Even if they take on a different identity in an effort to protect themselves from prosecution, they will be discovered and they will be brought to justice for their crimes," he said.
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By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the Obama administration poised for a huge public education campaign on healthcare reform, Republicans and their allies are mobilizing a counter-offensive including town hall meetings, protests and media promotions to dissuade uninsured Americans from obtaining health coverage.
Party officials, political analysts and lobbyists say the coming showdown will mark a new phase in the years-old battle over healthcare reform by shifting the focus from political ideology to specific examples of how "Obamacare" allegedly falls short, just as the administration presses the public on its benefits.
President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy is the first major social program to face a highly organized and well-financed opposition years after enactment. The forces arrayed against it could undermine the aim of extending health coverage to millions of uninsured people at affordable rates, if not enough younger adults sign up to make it economically viable.
Political analysts say Republicans hope to use the healthcare issue to win a bigger majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and gain control of the Senate in the 2014 mid-term elections, by leveraging the law's unpopularity to send voters to the polls in key swing states.
"The best way to get the juices of that right-wing electorate and activist group going is to attack Obamacare - make everything that happens look awful and voters will rebel against it," said Norman Ornstein, an expert on congressional politics at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
"It's a belief that if they highlight this, and sabotage it as much as they can, and if it's disruptive, that that will work for them in the mid-terms."
The White House and Department of Health and Human Services are well aware of their opponents' political maneuvers.
"There are folks out there who are actively working to make this law fail," Obama said in a speech on Wednesday, condemning the opponents' effort as "a politically motivated misinformation campaign."
The administration, reform advocates and companies including health insurers are expected to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on an education campaign to reach an estimated 7 million people, including 2.7 million young adults aged 18 to 35 who are expected to sign up for subsidized coverage next year.
A new political playbook for Republicans in the House encourages lawmakers who have voted nearly 40 times to repeal or defund the law to showcase their concerns at town hall meetings and special forums with like-minded young adults, healthcare providers and employers.
"Make sure the participants will be 100 percent on message," the House Republican Conference's August planning kit advises for events with businesses. "While they do not have to be Republicans, they need to be able to discuss the negative effects of Obamacare on their employees."
Obama's 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is also due for public attack at town halls featuring Democratic lawmakers, where Tea Party activists plan to air their opposition under an initiative by FreedomWorks, the Washington-based grassroots lobby that helped found the movement.
The planned campaign against the law promises to accelerate an already ugly partisan battle, analysts say. Until now, the opponents' message has amounted to unanswered Republican advertising painting the healthcare law as bad for the country.
"You'll start to see that change, because Democrats won't be able to overlook it anymore," said Elizabeth Wilner, who monitors political advertising at Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group.
WHAT IF THEY LIKE IT?
Political analysts say the Republican onslaught could prove short-lived. Beginning on October 1, Obama's health reform will help millions of uninsured people buy subsidized health insurance for the first time. Should enough people sign up by the time enrollment ends in March, the law's value as an election issue may run dry.
"The fear is that the law will start to work and people will like it. They'll like having insurance, a safety net if you lose your job. Then Republicans are stuck with it," Ornstein said.
One Republican ploy is to target the law's individual mandate, which requires most Americans to have insurance in 2014, or pay a penalty. It is the only lever the government has to require the participation, but it is also unpopular with voters. Republicans have sought to stoke discontent since the administration delayed a separate requirement that larger employers provide insurance coverage for workers.
"They'll start to feel impacts that are completely in contrast to what they were told when the bill was passed. That's what we're seeing in internal polling from districts that will determine control of the House - Obamacare becoming more unpopular," said Daniel Scarpinato, press secretary for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Republicans need a net pickup of six seats to win control of the Senate next year, and their most likely path is to focus on Democratic-held seats in Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, South Dakota and West Virginia, according to the Cook Political Report. All are Republican-led states that went to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012 and most have done little or nothing to help implement the healthcare law.
"The Republican strategy is to focus on messages that this is not working in states where the law is still unpopular with voters and where there are really going to be competitive races," said Robert Blendon of the Harvard School of Public Health.
FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, a conservative issue group financed by billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, known for funding conservative causes, are planning separate media and grassroots campaigns aimed at adults in their 20s and 30s - the very people Obama needs to have sign up for healthcare coverage in new online insurance exchanges if his reforms are to succeed.
"We're trying to make it socially acceptable to skip the exchange," said Dean Clancy, vice president for public policy at FreedomWorks, which boasts 6 million supporters. The group is designing a symbolic "Obamacare card" that college students can burn during campus protests.
Americans for Prosperity launched a $1 million TV ad campaign against the healthcare law this summer to test its message in swing states of Virginia and Ohio. The 30-second ad presents a young pregnant mother who asks questions that suggest the law will raise premiums, reduce paychecks, prevent people from picking their own doctors and leave her family's healthcare to "the folks in Washington."
The group plans a bigger push on TV and social media to persuade young people, especially men under 30, to see the healthcare law as a high-cost liability directed at them.
"This is a good time to be out there explaining what the law means to people," said the group's president, Tim Phillips.
Crossroads GPS, the political group co-founded by former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, is designing a fall push aimed at elderly voters angered by Republican allegations that the Medicare program for senior citizens is being used to pay for the healthcare law.
"As people who previously didn't believe they would be affected by it are finding out that they will be affected by it, there may be some traction to repeal the worst parts of the law and eventually repeal the law entirely," said Crossroads spokesman Jonathan Collegio.
(Additional reporting by Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Michele Gershberg, Fred Barbash and Mohammad Zargham)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-prepare-obamacare-showdown-eye-2014-elections-110828613.html
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I made a styled google map and I want to use some visualization Geocharts. Can I use both simultaniously?
html, body, #map-canvas { margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 100%; } </style> <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&sensor=false"></script> <script> var map; var mateo = new google.maps.LatLng(37.53, -122.343);
var MY_MAPTYPE_ID = 'custom_style';
function initialize() {
var featureOpts = [...MY STYLE...]; var mapOptions = { zoom: 10, center: mateo, mapTypeControlOptions: { mapTypeIds: [google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, MY_MAPTYPE_ID] }, mapTypeId: MY_MAPTYPE_ID }; map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map-canvas'), mapOptions); var styledMapOptions = { name: 'Custom Style' }; var customMapType = new google.maps.StyledMapType(featureOpts, styledMapOptions); map.mapTypes.set(MY_MAPTYPE_ID, customMapType); } google.maps.event.addDomListener(window, 'load', initialize); Now, I also want to use Visualization, GeoCharts
<html> <head> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.google.com/jsapi'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google.load('visualization', '1', {'packages': ['geochart']}); google.setOnLoadCallback(drawRegionsMap); function drawRegionsMap() { var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([ ['Country', 'Popularity'], ['Germany', 200], ['United States', 300], ['Brazil', 400], ['Canada', 500], ['France', 600], ['RU', 700] ]); var options = {}; var chart = new google.visualization.GeoChart(document.getElementById('chart_div')); chart.draw(data, options); }; </script> </head> <body> <div id="chart_div" style="width: 900px; height: 500px;"></div> </body> </html> Thanks,
I would ideally like to have my map style and another style setting for all the selected countries. Thanks
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By NBC Bay Area staff
The estranged wife of a California limo driver involved in a fiery accident that killed five women on the San Mateo Bridge over San Francisco Bay said her husband was talking to her on his cell phone and was distracted just minutes before the limo burst into flames on May 4.
Rachel Hernandez-Brown said she was arguing with her husband on the phone just minutes before the Bay Area bridge tragedy.
And she?s raising concerns that he was too distracted to react quickly when the limo burst into flames.
"I said, I started yelling, ?Oh my God, turn it down, turn the friggin music down!?"
Rachel Hernandez-Brown told NBC Bay Area that her husband, Orville Brown, even turned up the music as she argued with him on the phone so the women in the back of the limo couldn?t hear them fighting.
"He cussed, he was cussing me out and saying ?I can?t really talk because I have clients in the car and I can?t be unprofessional.?? Then that?s when I said, ?maybe you need to pay attention to the road and leave me alone and do your job.'"
What remains unclear is whether an argument slowed his response when one of the passengers started pounding on the closed partition.
A new bride and four of her friends died in the May 4 fire on the San Mateo Bridge. The cause of which is still under investigation.
Four other women escaped.
Survivor Nelia Arellano told NBC?Bay Area in a May 6 interview that Brown was on the phone when the limo was filling with smoke.
"There is smoke and then the fire came out. Stop the car, stop the car! "
In an interview with NBC Bay Area's Cheryl Hurd just days after the fire, Brown expressed grief for the victims, and later, his attorney denied that Brown was on the phone at the time of the fire.
Brown said a language barrier and a misunderstanding prevented him from pulling over sooner.
Brown says: "I?m thinking that she?d like to smoke because they weren?t panicking."
Hernandez-Brown described a volatile relationship with Brown, saying they split up a month before the fire, and earlier, on the day of the fire, police were called to a Walgreens parking lot where the two had argued--and Brown allegedly kicked his wife?s car.
When reached by phone on Sunday by NBC Bay Area, Orville Brown responded to his estranged wife?s claims by saying, ?I have no comment, other than [to say] there will be a full investigation.?
Hernandez-Brown says investigators still have not contacted her.
NBC Bay Area spoke with the San Mateo County District Attorney's office on Sunday, and they said that they would be following up on Hernandez-Brown's claim.
A viewer sent NBC Bay Area the below video from the scene. He said he had no idea people were trapped.?
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
Eye on tech: Several major tech companies will report quarterly results, including Netflix (NFLX), Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500), AT&T (T, Fortune 500), Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) and Zynga (ZNGA).
The financial performance of these companies always garners a lot of attention. But investors are even more keenly awaiting them this time, because they come close on the heels of poor earnings reports from Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) and Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) last week, which dragged the Nasdaq down 0.3%.
Related: Microsoft plunges 11%, worst day since 2009
Other earnings: McDonald's (MCD, Fortune 500), Ford (F, Fortune 500), General Motor (GM, Fortune 500)s and Starbucks (SBUX, Fortune 500) will also report earnings. Boeing (BA, Fortune 500) will also release results, and investors will be listening closely to executives for any additional explanations on the spate of incidents, including fire, on its marquee 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
Housing in play: The housing market will be in focus, as well, this week. The FHFA housing price index, new home sales,home sales and MBA mortgage index are on tap throughout the week.
Home sales, home prices and construction have been on the rise so far this year, helped by low mortgage rates and a drop in foreclosures. In the last 10 weeks, however, mortgage rates have been climbing steadily, raising the cost of buying a home for potential buyers, even though rates are still low by historical standards.
Related: Scary times hit mortgage shoppers
Last week, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 ended a fourth straight week of wins. The S&P closed at yet another record high on Friday. 
First Published: July 21, 2013: 11:14 AM ET
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