Man honored for saving lives after car crashes into store

A fitness consultant was being hailed a hero after his calm and swift actions possibly saved lives after an SUV barreled into a South Jersey jewelry store over the summer.

The whole incident happened the morning of July 30 at Jay Roberts Jewelers on Route 73 in Marlton, N.J.

The terrifying moments of impact as a car traveling up to 50 mph crashed into the front window of the store were all caught on surveillance video as the vehicle crashed through a front window, shattering glass and crumbling jewelry cases like an accordion.

“The car was still coming, I just started to scream, ‘shut it off, shut it off,’ ” employee Olivia Pantalone said.

Pantalone and fellow employee Joan Morein could have been killed in the crash were it not for the quick thinking of Anthony Baynard, a fitness consultant from Texas who just happened to be in New Jersey at the time of the crash.

Bernard quickly sprang calmly into action taking the driver’s foot off the accelerator and turning off the engine.

“(The driver) said, ‘Young man did I kill anybody?’” said Bernard. “What I told her was — not knowing anything was, ‘No ma'am, everybody is fine.”

Baynard was able to carry Morein out of the rubble.

But Pantalone was still in trouble — pushed under a pile of debris.

“She was laying there pretty motionless at first,” said store owner Jake Spigelman. “I actually froze because I thought she was dead under there.”

Baynard lifted Pantalone out of the debris, wrapping her wrist in a tourniquet and guiding her to hold her hands in the air.

“I was losing a lot of blood and he did save my life — he acted very quickly, very unselfishly,” Pantalone said Tuesday at a ceremony honoring Baynard.

“I could tell from the blood I wanted to secure the area, keep it above her head just till fire and EMT could get there,” Bernard said.

Once emergency officials arrived, Baynard updated them on the victims’ conditions.

Baynard received a hero proclamation Tuesday night from Evesham Township.

For his courageous action, Baynard was given a wristwatch engraved with “to our hero,” care of the folks at the jewelers.

“If it wasn't for him I don't know if I would be here,” Pantalone said.

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Little fallout seen from US arms sale to Taiwan

Despite Beijing's bluster and hints of another break in military exchanges, little fallout is expected from Washington's decision to upgrade Taiwan's F-16 fighter jets.

A move to sell the island new fighters would have stirred a more vociferous response, but Washington deferred that the decision. The announcement also comes at a time when both sides are seeking stability in ties ahead of U.S. elections and a looming leadership transition in Beijing.

"China's reaction is relatively moderate compared to previous years, which was what people had in fact been expecting," said Yu Tiejun, an Asian security expert at Peking University.

"China-U.S. relations are in a very subtle period. So China's reaction needs to be rational," Yu said.

China's Foreign Ministry condemned the sale as undermining overall ties and military exchanges, and Vice Minister Zhang Zhijun summoned U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke in Beijing to complain. The Defense Ministry warned it had "created severe obstacles for the normal military-to-military exchanges of the two countries" and called in Washington's military attache to Beijing.

The strong words are seen as merely rhetoric catering to the military and nationalistic public who regard the U.S. as an interloper that uses support for Taiwan as a means of restraining China's rise. China reacts strongly to all U.S. military cooperation with the island, but previous threats to sternly retaliate have yielded no long-term damage to relations, despite occasional freeze on military exchanges and postponement of meetings.

"For the sake of legitimacy, the regime has to respond strongly. There will always be bluster and threats bandied about, but they also know that the U.S. is their most important foreign relationship," said Gabe Collins, a Michigan-based expert on the Chinese military.

"At the end of the day, I don't think there'll be significant damage," said Collins, the co-founder of China Signpost, an online publication that follows China's armed forces.

China regards the democratic island of 23 million people as part of its territory, and sees the arms sales as undermining China's efforts to woo back Taiwan. The two sides split amid civil war in 1949.

The $5.85 billion upgrade will provide new radars, weapons systems, pilot training, spare parts and structural upgrades, but is not nearly as advanced as the electronics, avionics and fire systems aboard the C/D models that Taiwan had long wanted to purchase.

In Taipei, Taiwan's Foreign Ministry hailed the Obama administration for "responding to our request proactively by taking concrete actions to approve" the upgrade. In a statement late Wednesday night, the ministry said the package is "composed of many advanced systems."

Beijing temporarily suspended military exchanges with the U.S. last year after the Obama administration notified Congress it was making $6.4 billion in weapons available to Taiwan, including missiles, Black Hawk helicopters, information distribution systems and two Osprey Class Mine Hunting Ships.

Military exchanges are again considered the most likely target of China's wrath, although Beijing could also cancel some symbolic meetings. Even then, the impact would likely be slight — China has long viewed defense contacts as a political bargaining chip and they have yielded little amid frequent interruptions.

How much anger China makes evident would depend on how much pressure there is from the public and influential military officers who often give speeches and write newspaper editorials.

"It's hard to say what specific actions China will take about this issue because it depends on too many things," said Wang Dong, a Peking University U.S. relations expert.

Along with the need for overall stability in its political ties with the U.S., China also needs to keep trade and investment steady and maintain access to U.S. high technology for projects such as its future passenger jet that would compete with Boeing and Airbus.

In addition, China is preparing to send vice president and assumed future leader Xi Jinping to Washington this year for a major profile-building visit. A significant rise in tensions could poison the atmosphere for such a trip, tarnishing Xi's image as future leader of the world's most populous nation and second-largest economy.

Taiwan's appeals for U.S. military assistance are driven largely by China's rapid military modernization, especially in its air fleet. Over recent years, the People's Liberation Army Air Force has added scores of advanced Russian Su-27 and domestically developed J-10 warplanes to its fleet, and recently began testing a prototype stealth fighter called the J-20. China is also sea testing its first aircraft carrier, a refurbished Soviet model bought from Ukraine.

Taiwan, meanwhile, has seen its air defense edge degraded as its fleet of F-16 A/Bs, French Mirage 2000-5 and domestically developed IDF fighters steadily ages.

Nuns evicted, orphanage seized amid Zimbabwe unrest

Zimbabwe's top Anglican bishop says that an excommunicated church leader close to the country's president has taken over an orphanage housing 80 children.

Bishop Chad Gandiya, leader of the mainstream Anglican group, says the breakaway leader also has seized mission schools and priests' homes on the church premises near Murewa, some 50 miles east of the capital, Harare.

The incident comes amid a report of economic unrest aimed at white-controlled companies in urban centers and mines. The Christian Science Monitor reported that youths affiliated with President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU PF party have adopted tactics similar to those used during the seizure of white-owned farms in the past decade.

In the church dispute, Bishop Nolbert Kunonga was excommunicated four years ago after he was accused of inciting violence in sermons supporting Mugabe's party. Kunonga, though, still has the protection of police loyal to Mugabe and already has taken over the main Harare cathedral and church bank accounts.

Kunonga insists he split from the Anglican church because of its position on gay marriage. However, the reverend who was forced to leave the mission church near Murewa insists it was not marrying gay couples.

Leaders of the global Anglican Communion have condemned gay relationships as a violation of Scripture. However, the Anglican Communion is loosely organized without one authoritative leader such as a pope, so some individual provinces have decided on their own they should move toward accepting same-gender unions.

Sister Dorothy, one of the three nuns in charge of the care of orphans at the Shearly Cripps home near Murewa, said local officials and followers of Kunonga told the orphanage staff they were under orders to leave because they "support homosexuality."

"We refused to listen to Kunonga, but he says this place now belongs to him," said the elderly sister, who has served at the home for three decades.

Children going unfed?

Local officials in this longtime Mugabe party stronghold showed an unsigned court eviction order when the carers were bathing, feeding and giving medication to children last week, she said.

The nuns later moved to find shelter in a house several miles away. Visitors to the orphanage have since reported that children appeared not to have received regular meals and it was not clear whether qualified replacement staff were at the historic Shearly Cripps home.

The Rev. Richard Mombeshora, who was forced to leave the mission church, said pleas for police to intervene to stop the takeovers were ignored. Mombeshora said Kunonga's followers forced their way into the church rectory, and police were brought to oversee the evictions.

"These people confess openly they don't fear the law. So you just put your faith in God," he said, adding: "We don't marry homosexuals here. We don't approve of it at all."

Gandiya on Tuesday told the nuns and carers that an appeal against the evictions and other property seizures is scheduled before the Supreme Court, the nation's highest court, later this month.

"We haven't forgotten you or the children. Who is looking after them and giving them medicine?" Gandiya said.

Some of the children are AIDS orphans and need regular treatment and HIV/AIDS medication.

In 2007, Kunonga was excommunicated by the main Anglican Province of Central Africa and the world wide Anglican Church after he was accused of inciting violence in sermons supporting Mugabe's party.

The head of the church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is scheduled to visit Zimbabwe in October and wants to meet with Mugabe, 87, a Roman Catholic, to discuss an end to the disruptions.

Economic upheaval

The Christian Science Monitor report on the seizure of white-controlled companies said Zanu PF members were "at times forcing the closure of strategic economic units." Home Affairs co-minister Mrs. Theresa Makone told the NewsDay newspaper that she couldn't control the youths in Harare.

“In my constituency, there is chaos, and ZANU PF youths have finished building a base and there is nothing I can do to stop their invasions," Ms. Makone told NewsDay newspaper. "I and the deputy mayor are in the same area and we have a problem. When I wanted to develop, they denied me. There is nothing we can do...."

The Monitor said the youths have occupied buildings in the second-largest city, Bulawayo, owned by Zimbabweans of Asian origin for the past year. The newspaper said that prejudice against Africans of Asian origin is common in Africa.

Facebook case collapses

Meanwhile, defense attorneys say the case against a man accused of inciting a political uprising on Facebook has collapsed.

Attorney Lizwe Jamela said Wednesday that the police computer unit had failed to retrieve the Facebook post as evidence and so the court threw out the subversion charge.

A 39-year-old businessman had been accused of posting a message on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Facebook wall urging him to lead North Africa-style protests in Zimbabwe.

The businessman spent a month in jail in May before being freed on bail.

Mugabe has been in power for more than 30 years, and has cracked down on public debate about the Arab Spring, which has toppled other longtime rulers on the continent.

iPhone 5 to be announced on October 4?

We've heard plenty of whispers that the next generation iPhone will hit store shelves sometime in the next few weeks, but now we're reading that the device may be officially announced on October 4.

iPhone 5 predictions

This particular date comes to us via John Paczkowski at All Things D. He explains that it is "the day Apple is currently expected to hold its next big media event, according to sources close to the situation." Paczkowski adds that the new device would then probably ship "within a few weeks after the announcement."

If correct, this would mean that the rumored mid- to late-October shipping dates are right on the nose — and that we'll have a shiny new Apple gadget in our hands within a month.

It's worth noting that the unveiling date would certainly fit with many of the rumors we've been hearing and that it would also maintain Apple's pattern of holding major media events on Tuesdays. On top of that, The Loop's Jim Dalrymple — a man with a consistently solid track record when it comes to Apple rumors — gave Paczkowski's story a nod of approval.

Does all this mean that we'll see Apple's new CEO Tim Cook make his first big product introduction on October 4? Maybe. After all, nothing's certain until Apple starts sending out invitations.

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