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Mar 1, 2012

U.S. News: Cops nab Philly woman who gave illegal butt injections

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Mar 1st 2012, 16:38

A woman dubbed the "Black Madam" was arrested Wednesday evening at a so-called "pumping party" in Philadelphia, where she was reportedly planning to perform illegal butt-enhancement procedures. She was then charged with aggravated assault in connection with a previous "butt pumping" incident. WCAU-TV's Rosemary Connors reports.

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A Philadelphia woman was arrested Wednesday at a so-called "pumping party," where police say she was planning to administer buttock-enhancing injections.

Police say they received a tip that Padge Windslowe, also known as "Black Madam," would be performing the procedure at a Germantown home.


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This wasn't the first time the "Black Madam" was connected to illegal buttock enhancements.

Windslowe is under investigation for a botched butt-enhancement procedure on 20-year-old British student Claudia Aderotimi at the Hampton Inn near Philadelphia International Airport  in February 2011, according to police. Aderotimi died after the procedure was performed.

Police say that on Feb. 19 another woman -- an exotic dancer from North Philadelphia -- received injections of what is believed to have been silicone into her buttocks. Police say she went to Temple University Hospital two days later complaining of shortness of breath and spitting up blood.

"What we believe happened is the same thing that happened in a previous case... the injection struck a blood vessel," Philadelphia Police Lt. John Walker said. "Whatever the stuff is -- we believe it's silicone -- went into the blood stream, landed into her lungs and caused shortness of breath."

Police say the woman from the most recent incident has since recovered.

Windslowe was charged with aggravated assault in connection with the most recent incident. She has not been charged in connection with Aderotimi's death.

Police say they plan to meet with the Philadelphia district attorney and the medical examiner on Thursday to discuss the Aderotimi case.

"The mere fact that she's out there continuing to still inject people makes us all irate," Walker said.

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Economy: Economic News, Policy & Analysis - The Washington Post: Do farm subsidies make us fatter? Maybe not.

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Do farm subsidies make us fatter? Maybe not.
Mar 1st 2012, 16:42

One common criticism of U.S. farm subsidies is that they make certain foods artificially cheap, thereby increasing obesity rates around the country. But does that mean scrapping farm subsidies would make Americans thinner? Perhaps not. Chris Shea highlights new research on the topic:

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Philly.com News: N.J. woman admits beating caught on video

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Mar 1st 2012, 16:36

A Westville woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to assaulting her boyfriend in November on a New Jersey Transit light rail train in Camden.

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U.S. News: More twisters in forecast as survivors recount scare

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Mar 1st 2012, 15:20

NBC's Lester Holt reports on the destruction, while TODAY's Al Roker looks at the next severe weather system.

By NBC News, msnbc.com and news services

As towns cleaned up and survivors recalled near-death tornado experiences, forecasters on Thursday warned of a new round of severe weather Thursday night and Friday that could produce even more twisters.

"We've got a really bad system starting to develop, just as bad if not worse for tomorrow," NBC weather anchor Al Roker reported on the TODAY show, citing "a strong risk of storms from Huntsville, Alabama, to Indianapolis and on into central Ohio."

Parts of Illinois and Mississippi are also at risk, he noted, and any twisters could be several miles long due to the system's strength.

Twelve people were killed Wednesday in Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee by a system that spawned more than a dozen twisters across the Midwest. Hardest hitwas Harrisburg, Ill., where six people died, some 300 homes were destroyed or damaged, and residents had stories of survival and tragedy.

Son finds bodies of parents
Jeff Rann had ample warning early Wednesday. A frantic call to his wife from his mother-in-law alerted them to reports that a tornado was barreling down, and Rann heard the deafening wail of storm sirens.

Rann's home was untouched, but just two blocks away, his parents were not as fortunate.

Rann raced through the darkness to his parents' duplex, but saw instantly there was nothing left, natural gas whistling eerily as it spewed from the property's severed meter. In the mud of a debris-strewn field, Rann found the body of his dad, 65-year-old Randy Rann, and his mother, 62-year-old Donna Rann.

"She just said, 'It hurts. It hurts,'" Rann said of his mother, who had been looking forward to early retirement next month but who died a short time later at a hospital.

The National Weather Service preliminarily listed the tornado as an EF4, the second-highest rating given to twisters based on damage. Scientists said the tornado was 200 yards wide with winds up to 180 mph.

Across the road from the Ranns, a co-worker of Donna's, Amanda Patrick, was roused by the sirens about five minutes before all hell broke loose. She called Donna Rann — her co-worker at the U.S. Forest Service — to alert them but got no answer, then thrust herself into a bathtub as the twister she described as sounding "like a bulldozer and Hoover vacuum at the same time" ripped through.

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"Not trying to be holy, I got on my knees and said, 'God, watch over me,'" she said.

The winds shifted the tub as the walls buckled above her. In a gray T-shirt and pink striped pajama pants, she crawled shoeless out into the rain and muck.

She called out for the Ranns but heard nothing back.

Hours later, tears streamed down Patrick's face as she grieved for the late couple.

"A couple weeks ago, there was a bad storm and I looked out the window to check on them," she said, sobbing. "Donna texted me and said, 'I saw you in the window.' She was checking on me. That's the way we were, always just looking out for each other."

This time, she said, "they didn't have a chance."

Hospital patients moved in time
At Harrisburg Medical Center, staffers were alerted to the tornado's approach by the sheriff's department some 20 minutes before the severe weather finally threw its punch, the center's CEO Vince Ashley said.

"We get these calls periodically, and often it's a false alarm," Ashley said. "But we get them often enough that everyone knows what to do."

Nurses hustled the patients into the hallways and away from their room's windows, closing the doors behind them, and were fighting to close the last of the heavy, steel fire doors at the end of the hallway when the tornado came, Ashley said. Seconds later, he said, windows started shattering, walls shook and ceiling tiles rattled.

The fierce winds blew some walls off some rooms, leaving disheveled beds and misplaced furniture but miraculously no injuries. Hours later, Ashley said some of the destroyed portions of the hospital will have to be razed and rebuilt.

Adding to the danger, it hit as many slept — a timing research meteorologist Harold Brooks called unusual but "not completely uncommon."

Brooks, with the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla., said perhaps 10 percent of tornadoes happen between midnight and 6 a.m., a time when the danger level rises because the storms are harder to spot and it's harder to get the word out.

"If you're asleep, you're less likely going to hear anything, any warning message on the danger," Brooks said.

Deaths, damage elsewhere
In southern Missouri, one person was killed in a Buffalo trailer park while two more fatalities were reported in the Cassville and Puxico areas.

A tornado hopscotched throughthe main thoroughfare of Missouri country music mecca Branson, damaging some of the city's famous theaters just days before the start of the town's crucial tourist season.

It went "bouncing from business to business to business -- tens if not hundreds of millions in property damage," Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon told NBC.

Three people were reported killed in eastern Tennessee — two in Cumberland County and another in DeKalb County.

And in Kansas, much of tiny Harveyville was in shambles from what state officials said was an EF2 tornado packing wind speeds of 120 to 130 mph.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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U.S. News: US judge forwards racist email about Obama

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Mar 1st 2012, 15:43

Richard Cebull

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A federal judge acknowledged forwarding a racially charged email about President Barack Obama, saying he isn't a racist and apologizing while adding that he sent it "because it's anti-Obama."

"I apologize to anybody who is offended by it, and I can obviously understand why people would be offended," Richard Cebull, the chief U.S. district judge in Montana, said in comments reported by the Great Falls Tribune newspaper on Wednesday.

"The only reason I can explain it to you is I am not a fan of our president, but this goes beyond not being a fan," he said. "I didn't send it as racist, although that's what it is. I sent it out because it's anti-Obama."

In his email to six friends, Cebull writes: "Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine."

The forwarded content states: "A little boy said to his mother; 'Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?' His mother replied, 'Don't even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you're lucky you don't bark!'"

Cebull, who was nominated by former President George W. Bush, has served as the state's chief federal judge since 2008. He told the Great Falls Tribune that he doesn't consider hismelf prejudiced, and that is actions in the courtroom have shown that.

"I have never considered myself that way," Cebull said. "All I can emphasize is I've treated people in my courtroom all these years fairly. I don't think I've ever demonstrated racism. Nobody has ever even implied it."

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Economy: Economic News, Policy & Analysis - The Washington Post: Was Oprah hurting book sales?

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Was Oprah hurting book sales?
Mar 1st 2012, 14:56

Oprah Winfrey's Book Club lasted for 15 years and endorsed 70 books, which sold millions. But what effect did it have on the broader market? Did it get people reading more, or less? Via Tyler Cowen, economist Craig Garthwaite suggests that Oprah might've actually hurt overall book sales.

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Economy: Economic News, Policy & Analysis - The Washington Post: Is financial industry big, costly, and inefficient?

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Is financial industry big, costly, and inefficient?
Mar 1st 2012, 15:38

That's the conclusion of a new paper from Thomas Philippon. He measures the cost of the financial industry's activities and compares it to the sector's actual production of assets and liquidity, concluding that the financial industry provides fewer products of social value than its actual share of GDP. James Kwak of The Baseline Scenario summarizes:

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Economy: Economic News, Policy & Analysis - The Washington Post: Have gas prices doubled under Obama?

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Have gas prices doubled under Obama?
Mar 1st 2012, 15:45

Dave Weigel examines the claim that gas prices doubled under Obama:

This is a true statement: At the end of 2008, gas prices were half of what they are now. The twist is that the end of 2008 was also the apocalypse. The day that Obama was sworn in, the Dow plunged to 7,949. It's now above 13,000 again. The month that Obama was sworn in, the economy shed around 600,000 jobs—the third consecutive month with a loss that size.
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Breaking News: CBS News: Limbaugh dismisses Patrick as "woman driver"

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Limbaugh dismisses Patrick as "woman driver"
Mar 1st 2012, 14:57

Talk show host ridicules Danica Patrick; San Diego sports anchor suspended for implying sexist slur about NASCAR driver

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Breaking News: CBS News: Rick Romney? A recipe for a better GOP candidate

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Rick Romney? A recipe for a better GOP candidate
Mar 1st 2012, 12:00

One of the top contenders for the GOP nomination is too much of a politician. The other is not enough of one.

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Breaking News: CBS News: Town vows to rebuild after twister

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Town vows to rebuild after twister
Mar 1st 2012, 12:27

Deadly storms ravage Midwest, including a monster EF4 tornado which carved through Harrisburg, Ill. with 170 mph winds

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