Quebec triple homicide suspect nabbed in Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ? A man wanted in connection with three deaths in northern Quebec has been captured after a police chase in Florida that involved sniffer dogs and a helicopter ? and left one officer with a broken nose.

Justin Bresaw, 35, was the subject of a Canada-wide arrest warrant and an alert by Interpol after a house fire last month in Amos, about 500 kilometres north of Montreal.

He is facing first-degree murder charges in relation to the two men and a woman found dead in the home.

After eluding police for more than two weeks, Bresaw was spotted in Tallahassee, Fla in the predawn hours on Sunday charging a laptop in an electrical outlet behind a church.

David Northway, a spokesman for Tallahassee police, said an officer on patrol asked Bresaw what he was doing outside so late.

"Of course, this is kind of suspicious since it's 1:30 in the morning," Northway said in an interview.

"Not too many people are sitting behind a church typing on a computer, so he (the officer) got out and started to talk to him."

Bresaw gave a false name at first, Northway said, and tried to flee the scene while the officer was entering his real name into a police database.

Bresaw resisted arrest and managed to escape after a scuffle, which left the officer with a gash on his face and a broken nose after he fell into a metal support beam, Northway said.

"It was quite the fight," said Northway. "Mr. Bresaw was able to get away from him and run."

Northway said sniffer dogs and a helicopter were used to track down Bresaw after he fled into a wooded area. He was found three hours later hiding underneath a house.

Bresaw was booked Sunday morning at a county jail in Florida and is facing charges there including resisting an officer with violence and battery on an officer.

In Quebec, he is wanted in connection with the deaths of Rene Deschatelets, Diane Duhaime and Jean-Guy Labelle.

Christine Coulombe, a spokeswoman for Quebec provincial police, said Sunday the extradition process is underway to bring him back to Canada. That process could be held up by the charges Bresaw now faces in Florida.

"We don't know how long it will take," Coulombe said.

Police had been on Bresaw's trail since last month.

On Sept. 20, three days after the fire, a stolen car allegedly driven by Bresaw was found in a wooded area near Havelock, Ont., northeast of Peterborough.

Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Quebec+triple+homicide+suspect+nabbed+Florida/7356867/story.html

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Benefit for Breast Cancer Resource Center

The Breast Cancer Resource Center will host a quilt exhibit and benefit on Oct. 5 from 5-9 p.m. at William Platz Gallery on Southwest University of Visual Arts.

The event will show quilts made by cancer survivors and items for sale by local artists. The evening will also have music, food and drink.

For additional information call the Breast Cancer Resource Center at 505-242-0605.

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Calif. Gov. vetoes bill that OK?d towns freeing undocumented immigrants

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High school student Claudia Rueda, 17, center, is arrested by Los Angeles Police officers for failing to disperse, as protesters blocked the intersection of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Twin Tower Correctional Facility in Los Angeles Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. Students demanded the passage of Assembly Bill 1081, also known as the Trust Act.

By Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News

California?s governor late Sunday vetoed a bill that would have allowed local authorities to free undocumented immigrants from custody despite requests by immigration officials to hold them for possible deportation proceedings.

The controversial practice has long been criticized by immigration advocates who say the federal requests, known as detainers or holds, cast a wide dragnet that ensnared even those who had committed minor crimes or no offenses. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement had said the program was instrumental in helping enforce immigration laws and in getting violent offenders off the streets.

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In his veto message, Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. said he could not sign the bill as written because under it ?local officers would be prohibited from complying?with an immigration detainer unless the person arrested was charged with, or has been previously convicted of, a serious or violent felony.

?Unfortunately, the list of offenses codified in the bill is fatally flawed because it omits many serious crimes,? he said. ?For example, the bill would bar local cooperation? even when the person arrested has been convicted of certain crimes involving child abuse, drug trafficking, selling weapons, using children to sell drugs, or gangs. I believe it's unwise to interfere with a sheriffs discretion? to comply with a detainer issued for people with these kinds of troubling criminal records.?

Brown noted he would work with lawmakers to improve the legislation and said undocumented immigrants ?play a major role in California's economy,?with many performing low-wage jobs that others don't want.

?Comprehensive? immigration? reform -- including a path to citizenship -- would provide tremendous economic? benefits and is long overdue,? he wrote. ?Until we have immigration reform, federal agents shouldn?t try to coerce local law enforcement officers into detaining people who?ve been picked up for minor offenses and pose no reasonable threat to their community.?

Immigration activists denounced Brown?s veto, comparing?it to Arizona?s controversial immigration law that includes a provision forcing those stopped by police to show their immigration papers.

"By vetoing the Trust Act Governor Brown has failed California's immigrant communities, imperiling civil rights and leaving us all less safe. The President's disastrous Secure Communities program is replicating Arizona's model of immigration enforcement nationally, causing a human rights crisis. Immigration and Customs Enforcement strong-armed the Governor to defend its deportation quota instead of defending Californian's rights,? Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said in a statement. ?On this sad day, we renew our commitment to fight to keep our families together despite the Governor and the President's insistence on seeing them torn apart."

Alvarado was referring to ICE?s ?Secure Communities? program, under which the FBI shares fingerprints of those arrested with federal immigration authorities who check to see if the person is not legally in the U.S. or if they can be removed due to a criminal conviction.

ICE says it prioritizes the deportation of those who present the most significant threats to public safety, and that it has deported more than 147,400 convicted criminal undocumented immigrants, including more than 54,200 individuals convicted of violent offenses such as murder, rape and the sexual abuse of children, under the program.?

In a statement last week, ICE Deputy Press Secretary Gillian Christensen said the agency doesn?t comment on pending state legislation.

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?The identification and removal of criminal offenders is ICE?s highest priority and over the past three and half years, ICE has been dedicated to implementing smart, effective reforms to the immigration system that allow it to focus its resources on priority individuals,? she wrote in a statement, noting that the Department of Homeland Security would continue to exercise prosecutorial discretion for certain people who came to the U.S. as children and other individuals who were ?low priorities.?

?The federal government alone sets these priorities and places detainers on individuals arrested on criminal charges to ensure that dangerous criminal aliens and other priority individuals are not released from prisons and jails into our communities,? she added.

Several counties and cities have enacted ordinances that limit police cooperation with federal immigration authorities, The New York Times has reported.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a San Francisco Democrat?who sponsored the legislation, told The Times that they were ?trying to bring some sanity and clarity to a program that I frankly think has gone rogue.?

?We want police to distinguish between the woman selling tamales and the gang member who has a record,? he said.

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Polls Align With Obama Narrowly Leading Romney

President Obama holds a 4-percentage-point lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in a new Quinnipiac University poll released early on Tuesday. The results are consistent with other recent surveys showing a slender advantage for Obama prior to the first debate between the two candidates on Wednesday night.

Obama leads Romney, 49 percent to 45 percent, among likely voters, the poll shows, with 2 percent choosing another candidate and 4 percent undecided. The poll is Quinnipiac's first national survey in nearly three months and its first of likely voters. As a result, it should not be compared to polls of registered voters.

The results are in line with other public surveys released this week. A new CNN/ORC International poll on Monday showed Obama 3 points ahead, and Obama led by 2 points in separate surveys from ABC News/Washington Post and Politico-George Washington University, also released on Monday. The latest seven-day Gallup tracking poll shows Obama leading by 4 points.

The polls are also consistent in their portrayal of each candidate's share of the vote. Obama is at 49 or 50 percent in each poll, while Romney's vote share ranges from 45 to 47 percent.

In the Quinnipiac poll, Obama wins 94 percent of Democrats, while Romney captures 91 percent of Republicans. Self-identified independents are split nearly down the middle, with 47 percent for Romney and 45 percent for Obama.

Romney holds a healthy lead among men, 52 percent to 42 percent. But women favor Obama by a larger, 18-point margin, 56 percent to 38 percent.

Romney also leads Obama among white voters, 53 percent to 42 percent. But his margin among whites lags behind Sen. John McCain's in 2008, when the Arizona Republican won them, 55 percent to 43 percent. Obama wins 94 percent of African-Americans.

Obama's "current standing among whites tracks his earlier winning performance," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "If the president can match or exceed his 2008 showing among whites, it will be difficult to impossible for Romney to win."

Among whites, there are clear divides along gender and education lines. White men overwhelmingly favor Romney, 59 percent to 35 percent, while white women tilt to Obama, 49 percent to 46 percent. Obama also holds a slight edge among white voters with a college degree, 50 percent to 45 percent. But noncollege white voters favor Romney by a wide margin, 57 percent to 36 percent. The 14-point gap for Obama between college and noncollege white voters is twice the difference recorded in the 2008 exit poll.

On other measures, Obama has a slight advantage. Half of likely voters have a favorable impression of him, more than the 47 percent who view him unfavorably. Romney's favorable rating is just 45 percent, with 48 percent holding an unfavorable opinion.

Romney has lost his advantage on the economy. Now, just as many voters say they think Obama would do a better job on the economy, 48 percent, as say Romney would, 47 percent. Obama also has higher ratings than Romney on health care, national security, and handling an international crisis. Romney does hold the edge on handling the budget deficit, 52 percent to 42 percent.

As in the ABC News/Washington Post poll, voters think Obama is more likely than Romney to win the upcoming debates by a nearly 2-to-1 ratio, 54 percent to 28 percent. But only 11 percent of voters say the candidates are likely to say or do anything that would change their minds.

Quinnipiac polled 1,912 likely voters from Sept. 25 to 30. The margin of error is plus-or-minus 2.2 percentage points.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/polls-align-obama-narrowly-leading-romney-060018282--politics.html

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California governor bans gay 'cures'

California has become the first US state to ban unfounded therapies that attempt to turn gay teenagers straight.

"These practices have no basis in science or medicine and they will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery," said state governor Jerry Brown in a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle. He signed a bill outlawing the therapies on 29 September.

Brown's conclusions are in line with those reached a few years ago by a task force of psychologists who were commissioned by the American Psychological Association to assess all published research on the therapies. The group, led by Judith Glassgold, found no evidence that the treatment was effective.

"The scientific evidence does not support such therapies," says Clinton Anderson, director of the APA's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns office.

"They were not helpful and could be harmful," says Glassgold, who is based in Washington DC. "Most people became more depressed and anxious, and could become suicidal."

"Usually these talk therapies are based on the assumption that homosexuality is a mental illness caused by poor parenting and confused gender roles," she adds. "They attempt to explain that to the patient, and try to get them to act and behave in a heterosexual manner."

Conversion therapies

It's unclear exactly how many teenagers will be affected by the ruling. The most recent research into the prevalence of these "conversion therapies" was conducted in the UK in 2009. A survey of 1300 psychotherapists revealed that 1 in 6 had attempted to treat homosexuality in the past, and 4 per cent said they would do so again (BMC Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-9-11).

"We believe that in some religious circles, for example evangelical Christians in the US, it may be higher," says Glassgold.

Some organisations oppose the ruling. The California-based National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality claims that the bill's intent is to "intimidate therapists and supplant the rights of parents".

But such groups form the minority opinion. Even Robert Spitzer, the psychiatrist behind one of the most influential studies backing the "therapies", admitted his work was fatally flawed earlier this year. He went on to issue an apology to the gay community.

"We understood the methodological problems from the beginning, but many people, primarily through conservative and religious media, did make a lot of the study," says Anderson.

Glassgold's task force suggest that there are other, evidence-based approaches to helping teenagers deal with any conflict between their sexual orientation and religious beliefs. Therapies that involve teaching coping strategies and encouraging family members to be supportive are much more beneficial, the team concluded.

Glassgold thinks that California's ruling is merely a first step, and that more needs to be done. "These therapies exist because there is demand for them. We have to do more to end stigma," she says. "Fundamentally, homosexuality is not a mental illness, and you don't need a treatment to fix it."

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In the Heart of my Home: 31 Days to Remind Myself of the Mission

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"Increasingly, I find that women are unsure about what it means to be a good mother. They are confused by a culture that send them drastically mixed messages about the importance of a mother's influence and whet her priorities should be. As a result, so many mothers I meet are baffled and frustrated. They don't know how to reconcile these conflicting messages with the calling of God on their hearts and lives.

What's the cure for this confusion? I believe it lies with a rediscovery of the traditional mission of motherhood, a rediscovery of what God had in mind when he designed families. And the fundamental mission of motherhood now is the same as it always was: to nurture, protect, and instruct children, to create a home environment that enables them to learn and grow, to help them develop a heart for God and His purposes, and to send them out into the world prepared to live both fully and meaningfully. It's up to us to embrace that mission as our own, trusting God to walk us through the details and to use our willing mothers' hands as instruments of his blessings."

~Sally Clarkson, The Mission of Motherhood

I've been deeply pondering mission lately. I look around (click around) and there are so many good ideas, so many ways to go, so many rabbit trails enticing me to hop along down a different path. I am impassioned by the needs in my community and the needs in worlds far away from my home. I want to travel, to serve, to do big things to make a difference for God.

And then there is my written mission. Long have words been my instruments. What is God saying? What does He want me to tell? How best to convey the message?The internet has made those questions dizzying. There is so much out there and to publish now is to have a firm grasp on all of it. No one wants a writer without a social network platform. No more curling up on the porch in your jeans with a Bible and pecking out a few words. Now, authors must build dynasties. It's impossible to scroll through my Twitter feed without countless people telling me what new "must do" is on the social network scene. Today, it was "Why Bloggers Must Adapt or Die." Every day, it's something. And it's never something that gives me more time and attention for my children. Honestly, it makes me wonder if it wouldn't really be wiser just to let the blogger in me die.

It used to be that writing about marriage and motherhood just grew out living marriage and motherhood, praying about marriage and motherhood, and some very intentional (limited) reading about marriage and motherhood. Now, it's gotten really complicated to be a mom.

I am bombarded (are you, too?). Pinterest and a million good ideas a day, but no time or energy left to bring them all to life. Facebook and dozens of connections and thoughts and inspirations (and arguments) but no one with a kitchen table where we can just sit and have tea. And Twitter. Relationships built on sand 140 characters at a time.

It's so easy to be distracted from the mission.

So, what to do when I think that really it might be better not to spend so much time investing online? Why, sign up to write something on a topic every single day for the next 31 days, of course! I am nothing if not a contradiction.?

My idea is that I must wrestle this one to the ground. I'm going to take one solid biblically based book, written by a woman who has walked this path before me and whose children have grown into Godly young people and I am going to be still long enough to steep in the wisdom. I'm not going to flit from one shiny idea to an other. I'm not going to blog bounce. I'm not going to tweet or update statuses. I'm going to spend 31 days reading, praying, and reminding myself of vocation.

A call from God to a distinctive state of life, in which the person can reach holiness. The Second Vatican Council made it plain that there is a "Universal call [vocatio] to holiness in the Church" (Lumen Gentium, 39). (Etym. Latin vocatio, a calling, summoning; from vocare, to call.)

Here's the thing: I am never certain what God is calling me to do outside my home. I wonder about being a missionary abroad. I wonder about apostolates in my community. I look at what other women are doing for God online and I'm blown away by their energy, efficiency, and productivity and I wonder if I'm not squandering something at the computer.

But I have always been certain ?that God calls me to serve Him in my home, with my family. I am certain that He calls me to holiness here.?

So, 31 days to remind myself of the mission. He's calling my heart home. Still.?

Fair warning: I have no idea what this is going to look like. I'm going to read and to pray, to journal here. I'm going to be committed to home and to family and to listening to my Creator. The rest? We shall see. My blog is not my "brand." It's my scrapbook of thoughts and photographs.

Are you thinking about the mission of motherhood, too??I'm going to join The?Nester for 31 Days. I'm going to host a 31 day "retreat"here ?to remind myself (and anyone who wants to come along) of the mission of motherhood and matrimony.?If you want to do your own 31 Days on anything you choose, head?here and join!?If you want to retreat from the noise of the 'net for a month and focus your own sweet home and family, grab a ?Remind Myself of the Mission? button and curl up with a candle, your Bible, and this good book!?Let me know your thoughts below. We can help each other hear His mission.?You can add a Remind Myself button by cutting and pasting the code below.

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How I reduced salt in a favorite dish - Do You Really Know What ...

You'd expect a dish with two small but mighty ocean fish to be salty, but pasta with canned sardines and anchovies really piles in on.

There is sodium in nearly every ingredient, including the imported Colavita whole-wheat pasta I sometimes use.

The first way to cut salt in the recipe is to stop salting the water used for boiling the pasta.

In the past, I'd pump up the flavor by dumping? sardines and anchovies and all their oil into the sauce, but now I drain the cans and add extra-virgin olive oil, which has no sodium.

A 2-ounce can of anchovies has 860 milligrams of sodium or 36% of the recommended daily intake of 2,400 milligrams.?

The anchovies dissolve completely, but give the sauce a hearty, non-fishy flavor.

A 4-ounce-plus can of the Moroccan sardines I use has 603 milligrams of sodium.

But the only way to avoid more sodium in the sauce is to make it yourself.

Today, I looked at the labels of a dozen bottled pasta sauces at the Hackensack ShopRite, and typically saw more than 300, 400 or even 500 milligrams of sodium listed for a serving size of one-half cup.

I found the lowest salt content in Chef Mario Batali's Tomato Basil pasta sauce -- only 180 mg per half cup -- but other Mario Batali sauces have a lot more sodium.

When I serve pasta with sardines and anchovies, I like to add grated Pecorino Romano, a sheep's milk cheese, so that's another source of sodium.

Not using salt in the pasta water and draining the cans of fish are good first steps, but I think I have to go further.

I could cut the amount of sardines -- to two cans from three or four per pound of pasta -- as well as use less bottled sauce and more extra-virgin olive oil.

I could also stop adding anchovies, but the sauce wouldn't be as robust. I can skip the grated cheese.

And I can console myself about the high sodium content of the dish by always drinking a glass or two of red wine with it.

At least that would be good for my heart.

Source: http://doyoureallyknowwhatyoureeating.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-i-reduced-salt-in-favorite-dish.html

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