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[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new study has found that obese people with higher levels of fat in their liver, muscle tissue and blood also have higher amounts of fat in their bone marrow, putting them at risk for osteoporosis.
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Monday, July 15, 2013
The Spohrs Are Multiplying? Moving On
In December of 1980 my parents bought the house that I grew up in. On Friday of last week, they put it up for sale.
This has been a long-time coming. My parents have been fixing up the house for over a year. When they started, Mike said to me, ?You know they?re fixing it up to sell it, right?? Mike moved a lot as a kind, so he knew all the signs. I tried to be rational and adult about it. It?s a big house for just two people. It was logical to want to downsize.
The home improvements took a while, so I was able to live in a certain amount of denial. But now that the house is on the market and potential buyers have been walking through it, I have to come to terms with the fact that my parents? house ? the house I sometimes slip and call ?Home? ? won?t be their house for much longer.
I had a really amazing childhood in that house. My parents bought the house when it was being built, and when we moved in the street was filled with young families. Afternoons and summers were spent outside with the other neighbor kids; we?d walk from house to house, ringing doorbells and asking ?Can you play?? Then we?d climb the hills in the open space behind the houses, or build elaborate skateboard/cardboard box racers, or play massive games of hide and seek. My parents had the biggest front yard on the street, and it was central to a lot of our activities. It was where I tried to do a handspring and landed on my back. My friends tried to teach me choreographed dances on the lawn (it went as well as the handspring). When we got older, we?d lay on the grass and gossip about our days.
Annabel looking out over the lawn.
The house has held several generations of our family. My great-grandmother and grandmother also lived in the house, and obviously my own babies have all spent time there. It has also held two weddings, two funeral receptions, a family reunion, a surprise party, an engagement party, some wedding and baby showers, a bazillion swim and birthday parties, and an annual football extravaganza. Countless family holidays have been hosted there. Annabel?s first birthday party was in the backyard, and Madeline?s only birthday party was held there, too.
I could really go on and on about every sleepover, or fight, or milestone achieved in the house, but I?ll stop. I?m an extremely sentimental person, so there?s no point in me chanting ?It?s just a house, it?s just a house.? It?s not just a house. Every square inch is flooded with memories, and it?s hard to know that soon I won?t be able to walk into my old bedroom or?the room my grandma quilted in. I?m not ready to imagine another family living there.
I do keep chanting ?This is good for Mom and Dad,? because it is. They?ll get a house perfectly suited for them, without stairs to climb or a giant lawn to mow. They?ll be able to travel. And their new house might be closer to us, which would thrill Annabel. I know selling was a hard decision for them, but I also know they are excited about the future.
My postpartum hormones are making me especially sensitive, but every time I do something at their house I think, ?Is this the last time I?m going to do this?? and then I get teary. It?s going to be an emotional time and I just have to give into it, and enjoy the ?last times? as they come.
Their view of the sunset.
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Syrian troops advance against rebels in Damascus
DAMASCUS, Syria Government troops fired tank shells and artillery in heavy clashes between Syrian forces and rebels Sunday on the edge of Damascus, where the military has been pushing its offensive to retake key districts that have been in opposition hands for months.
The Syrian army has seized the momentum in the civil war over the past three months, wresting back territory lost to rebel forces and solidifying its hold over contested areas, particularly on the fringes of Damascus. Two of the embattled districts are Jobar and Qaboun, from which rebels frequently launch mortar rounds on the heart of the capital.
A Syrian military commander said forces loyal to President Bashar Assad have recaptured 60 percent of Jobar, south of Qaboun, and were trying to retake the rest. The commander talked to reporters Sunday during a military escorted tour of Jobar organized by the Information Ministry. His claim could not be independently verified.
An Associated Press reporter on the tour saw widespread destruction that pointed to heavy fighting in the neighborhood. Marble tile factories were destroyed. Reporters made their way in the devastated area by climbing through holes knocked in walls because of warnings of rebel snipers in the area.
At least two bodies, apparently those of rebel gunmen, lay on the floor of a bunker described by the official as a "terrorist" hideout.
"The army is advancing rapidly in Jobar ... the area will be secured in the next few days according to a well-studied plan," the commander said. He declined to be named in line with regulations.
Jobar is near the road linking Damascus with its eastern suburbs known as Eastern Ghouta. Rebels have been using the road to transport weapons and other supplies to the capital, the seat of Assad's power.
The commander said the Jobar-Qaboun axis was important to "cleanse Ghouta from terrorist groups."
Assad's government routinely describes the rebels fighting to overthrow him as terrorists playing out a foreign conspiracy hatched by Israel, the United States and some of its Arab allies in the region, like Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
During the tour of Jobar, reporters were taken to a hideout the army said it seized a day earlier after killing 30 rebels and their leader there. Reporters were shown RPG mortar rounds and explosive devices, as well as an alleged chemical material with a strong odor.
Arabic graffiti on the walls read: "The al-Tawhid Brigade," and "the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" ? names of militant groups fighting to topple Assad.
Sunday's tour came as Syria's main Western-backed opposition group claimed that 200 civilians were trapped in a mosque in Qaboun as fighting raged outside between rebels and Assad's army. It warned that thousands of civilians in Qaboun could be "massacred" by Assad's army as armored vehicles and elite forces move in.
The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said dozens of people were held captive Saturday by regime forces in the basement of the al-Omari mosque, but they were able to escape when clashes broke out between rebel and regime forces in the perimeter of the mosque, and the troops retreated.
It said 13 people, including seven fighters, died in the shelling of Qaboun Sunday.
"They (troops) are using tanks and artillery and are trying to break into Qaboun. The shelling is very intense and there is a lot of smoke," said an activist in the area, speaking via Skype on condition of anonymity, fearing retribution.
"This is day 26 of a bombing campaign, and they still haven't been able to break Qaboun," he said.
Later Sunday, a powerful bomb explosion rocked the Deir Atiyeh town north of Damascus, killing and wounding a number of people, activists said. The bomb went off near a police station in a densely populated area, but most of the casualties were civilians, according to the Observatory and the Military Council for Damascus and its Suburbs, a rebel group.
In Washington, U.S. officials said Israel targeted advanced anti-ship cruise missiles near Syria's principal port city in an airstrike earlier this month, according to a report by The New York Times. It cited the officials as saying the attack on July 5 near Latakia targeted advanced Russian-made Yakhont missiles that Russia sold to Syria.
There was no immediate comment from Assad's government, whose key political ally and arms supplier is Russia.
Asked about the reports on the CBS-TV show "Face the Nation," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to confirm or deny Israeli involvement.
He insisted that he will not allow "dangerous weapons" to reach Lebanon's Hezbollah militants.
Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/07/14/4164151/syrian-troops-advance-against.html
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Aerial footage of house fire on Midland Ave. in Fountain City on July 12, 2013 (WVLT)
FOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Just days away from being ready for a new family to move in, a Fountain City home goes up in flames early Friday morning. Neighbors first spotted the fire around 6:00 a.m. and called 911, but the house, was fully engulfed by the time firefighters got there, according to the Knoxville Fire Dept.
Crews quickly went to work, trying to push the blaze back into the home, so they could attack it from the interior. As they went in though, the flames reached the attic and the incident commander pulled everyone out for safety reasons. An aerial stream continued spraying the home and the fire was finally contained by 7:00 a.m.
Nobody was home at the time of the fire and no injuries were reported. The homeowner, who arrived on the scene later, told fore officials he had been remodeling, so he and his family could move in as soon as next week.
Fire investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire.
A Fountain City home went up in flames early Friday morning. Neighbors spotted the fire shortly before 7:00 a.m. and called 911, according to firefighters.
The home, 404 Midlake Dr., was fully engulfed by the time firefighters arrived. They were forced to clear out after the roof collapsed.
A spokesperson for the Knoxville Fire Dept. said no one was hurt in the fire. The house was reportedly vacant and being remodeled.
Local 8 News has a team on the scene and we will update this story as it develops.
Source: http://www.local8now.com/news/headlines/Large-flames-erupt-from-Fountain-City-home-215215351.html
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Friday, July 12, 2013
Teen relative arrested in missing boy case
Police located remains near the home of a missing autistic boy in Manifee, California on Wednesday. After questioning the boy's family members, they arrested a 16-year-old relative. The teen is suspected of murder.
Riverside County Sheriff's deputies closed Helen Lane Wednesday in Menifee, Calif. Authorities searched for possible human remains at the home of an 11-year-old autistic boy who disappeared over the weekend.
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EnlargeA 16-year-old family member was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murder in the case of a missing 11-year-old autistic boy in Southern California, police said Wednesday.
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A body that matched the description of Terry Dewayne Smith Jr. was found partially exposed in a shallow grave on the family property,?Menifee?police Chief John Hill said at a news conference.
The body has not yet been positively identified, Hill said, adding that the death was the result of "a domestic issue" at the house.
Terry has a 16-year-old half brother who authorities have said was the last person to see the boy. However, Hill identified the suspect only as a "family member" and would not confirm if the suspect lived at the house.
Police responded to a tip about the body early Wednesday before they discovered the remains, said Hill. Televised news reports showed sheriff's investigators concentrating on what appeared to be a small hole by a tree and about 75 feet from the house, which sits in a rambling, weedy lot off a remote road.
The 16-year-old family member, the boy's mother and other family members were taken in for questioning before the arrest, said Albert Martinez, Riverside County sheriff's deputy.
Terry had been missing from his?Menifee?home since Saturday, and hundreds of volunteers have helped search for him.
Volunteers were told to stop searching Tuesday night, because they were getting stranded in the desert and causing problems, hours after local officials pledged to continue searching for the boy.
The boy was reported missing Sunday morning in the Riverside County community about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
Terry was last seen Saturday night, reportedly following his half brother, who told the boy to go home, the Desert Sun said. The boy's mother, Shawna Smith, said she didn't realize he was missing until the next day.
Searches of the area with a bloodhound, horses and a helicopter were unsuccessful. Hundreds of volunteers also joined the effort but days of covering miles of desert in 100-degree temperatures turned up nothing.
A posting on a Facebook page devoted to the search said Terry's family worried he might have wandered off without food, water or special medication.
However, "foul play has never been ruled out" by investigators, Martinez said.
Several dozen people who helped with the search gathered outside a fire station to listen to Wednesday's news conference. Some sat in lawn chairs; others held a small prayer circle. When word came of a body found matching Terry's description, many began to cry silently and hug each other.
Dawn Berning and her daughters Hannah, 12, and Danielle Stiff, 22, were some of the first residents to volunteer in the search for the boy.
On the first night, they searched abandoned trailers in the hills around town in the pitch dark. In later days, Berning went from her 10-hour shift at the local casino to pass out flyers into the wee hours.
She and her daughters fought back tears after learning a body had been found at the boy's address ? and they said their grief was also layered with anger after learning a family member had been arrested.
"I'm devastated," Berning said. "To see something like that happen in our community tears me up. I'm angry. I feel used."
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Chinese plane crash victims were student leaders
BEIJING?The two 16-year-old girls killed in the San Francisco plane crash were close friends and top students who were on Asiana Flight 214 for the same reason: to get a taste of American education and possibly brighten their futures. 
Wang Linjia showed talent in physics and calligraphy; Ye Mengyuan was a champion gymnast who excelled in literature. Both were part of a trend among affluent Chinese families willing to spend thousands of dollars to send their children to the U.S. for a few weeks in the summer to practice English and hopefully boost their chances of attending a U.S. college?considered better than China's alternatives by many Chinese families.
Wang's family was staying at a hotel when they learned that
An unidentified family member of on of two Chinese students killed in an Asiana Airlines plane crash on Saturday, checks in at the Asiana Airlines counter at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 8, 2013. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing Saturday, July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and the two girls of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. ((AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) )
the daughter was one of the two people killed when the Boeing 777 crash-landed Saturday at San Francisco International Airport. Officials said 182 people were taken to area hospitals.When visited by a state media reporter, Wang's mother sat on a bed, crying silently and her father sat in a chair with a blank expression, said the Youth Times, an official newspaper in the girls' home province of Zhejiang, in eastern China.
Wang's next-door neighbor, a woman surnamed Xia, described Wang as quiet, courteous and diligent.
"She was very keen to learn. Every time she came home she would be studying. Very rarely did she go out and play," Xia was quoted as saying. She said Wang's father proudly displayed her calligraphy and art pieces on the walls of his office.
September Mao, who attends the girls' school and knew them both, said Wang was outgoing and popular, and often interviewed her classmates as a student reporter. She said Ye was a very good singer and speaker, "loved to smile, and liked to share everything and anything that is happy."
Wang and Ye's parents and other relatives, along with the relatives of four injured students, boarded a flight to San Francisco in Shanghai on Monday after picking up their visas at the U.S. consulate, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. They were accompanied by two teachers from the girls' school and four representatives of the local government of the city of Jiangshan where the school is located, Xinhua said.
"I'm going to go see my daughter," Wang's father, Wang Wensheng, told reporters at Shanghai airport.
Jiang Li, an official with Jiangshan's publicity department, said they planned to first visit injured students in hospital before meeting with Chinese consulate officials and airline officials.
Wang and Ye were part among 29 students from Jiangshan who were on board to attend a summer camp, sightsee and visit several U.S. universities in California. Parents have told Chinese
In this undated photo made available Monday, July 8, 2013, a supporter of Wang Linjia, holds up a photo of her with her name during a talent show at a school in Jiangshan city in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Chinese state media and Asiana Airlines have identified the two victims of the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport girls as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, students in Zhejiang, an affluent coastal province in eastern China. CHINA OUT ((AP Photo) CHINA OUT )
state media that the 15-day trip cost each student about $5,000.An additional 30 students from two middle schools in the central Chinese city of Taiyuan planned to visit Columbia and Harvard universities, the University of California, Berkeley, and Hollywood, Times Square and the Lincoln Memorial during their two-week, coast-to-coast itinerary.
Nearly 200,000 of Chinese students studied in the U.S. in 2011-2012, more than any other country and accounting for more than a quarter of the United States' international student population.
The number is expected to grow, and Chinese families hoping to have their children attend American colleges see such summer trips as another way to gain an edge in applications and to help with the cultural and linguistic acclimation expected of the young students once they are abroad.
The popularity of these summer programs has grown significantly over the past five years, according to Alex Abrahams, the general manager of Shanghai-based Blue Sky Study, which consults families who want to send students abroad.
"It's a significant cost for someone who's earning an average salary in China," Abrahams said.
An American education has become desirable among China's growing number of middle-class families, who believe it can better prepare their children in a globalized economy, and who are less willing to put their children?often their only child?through China's cruelly competitive education system. ?
Yan Jiaqi, a Beijing-based education consultant who helps Chinese students apply to U.S. schools, said the summer tours mix having fun with preparing for college.
"Those kids sooner or later will go to U.S. schools, and the trip is an opportunity for them to get to know the U.S. and help them choose a university later," he said.
While there are no firm figures available on how many students take these trips, the English-language China Daily reported in 2011 that more than 60,000 Chinese students planned to go to summer camps in the U.S., and the number probably has increased substantially in the past two years, according to industry insiders.
Wang and Ye were classmates at a Jiangshan school known for its students' high academic caliber, the Youth Times said. Wang was class monitor for three years, and teachers and schoolmates described her as excelling in physics and being good at calligraphy and drawing, according to the paper.
Ye also was a top student who excelled in literature, playing the piano, singing, and gymnastics. The Youth Times said Ye recently won a national gymnastics competition and routinely received honors at the school's annual speech contests.
The two girls were classmates from four years ago and became close friends, the paper said.
The girls posted their last messages on their microblog accounts Thursday and Friday. "Perhaps time can dilute the coffee in the cup, and can polish the outlines of memory," Wang wrote on her microblog Friday.
Her final message was simply the word "go."
Of the 291 passengers onboard, 141 were Chinese. At least 70 Chinese students and teachers were on the plane heading to summer camps, according to education authorities in China.
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Associated Press writers Louise Watt contributed to this report.
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Q. Our company has been having financial difficulties and we have considered reorganizing for several months. Our chief operating officer has been charged with determining whether any of the current jobs can be eliminated. Recently, before any final reorganization decisions were made, an employee came forward claiming that the COO had been harassing her and had created a hostile work environment.
As the HR director, I immediately initiated an investigation. It revealed that the COO had made several unkind remarks to the complaining employee and other employees, but that the comments were not discriminatory or harassing in nature. I determined that the COO should work with an executive coach, and the company president and I issued a written warning to the COO about the importance of treating employees with respect.
Two weeks after the investigation concluded, the COO made final recommendations to the president about positions that could be eliminated. The list included the complaining employee?s job and those of two other employees who had participated in the investigation. The COO?s stated reasons for selecting these positions appear to be sound and unrelated to the employee?s complaint or the investigation. Indeed, in early discussions about the possible reorganization, company officers had questioned the need for these positions. Can our company go through with the reorganization and terminate these employees?
A. You are between a rock and a hard place. It sounds like the reorganization is in the business interests of the company, but going through with the reorganization right now, if it involves terminating the complaining employee and other witnesses interviewed, makes the chance of a retaliation claim very likely.
The number of retaliation claims filed each year continues to grow. The EEOC reported that in fiscal year 2012, retaliation claims made up close to 40% of the agency?s docket.
Because of the threat of a retaliation claim, you should work closely with your attorney on this situation.
In this case, it may be wise to put a temporary hold on any termination decisions so your company has time to step back and carefully analyze the reorganization decision and make a thoughtful risk/benefit analysis about strategy going forward. Because the COO was the subject of a harassment complaint, it may be prudent to have another company official conduct a separate review of his recommendation. In that review, the official should be cautious of any factors identified that seem subjective or that may be related to the employee?s complaint. The review should be carefully documented.
If that independent review demonstrates that the COO?s selection of these positions for elimination was not appropriate, your decision is easy. Don?t go through with the terminations.
The decision is actually harder if the review shows that the positions really should be eliminated. While this review indicates that the position eliminations are not the result of unlawful retaliation, the risk of a legal claim still exists because, to the employees, the decision may be viewed as retaliatory. In this case, you need to weigh the benefits of the position eliminations against the possibility of having to defend against potential retaliation claims.
If you decide to go through with the terminations, you may want to consider offering separation packages conditioned upon a release of retaliation and other types of legal claims.
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Calif. fireworks accident injures 39
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) ? When a July Fourth fireworks display exploded and sent red and white bursts into spectators at a Southern California park, Paulina Mulkern saw shrapnel headed straight for her 4-year-old cousin.
Mulkern pushed the girl under a lawn chair, and then shielded her 7-year-old cousin with her body as scorching debris flew overhead.
"You feel the big old heat come right over your back," she said Friday, still shaking as she recounted the explosion the night before that left her hospitalized with bruises and red marks on her back.
Thirty-nine people were injured as many in the crowd of thousands fled for safety. The victims, from 17 months to 78 years old, had burns and shrapnel wounds, and some were trampled, authorities and hospital officials said. The injured included 12 children.
Only three remained hospitalized Friday night.
Mulkern said she went into shock after being hit by a flying piece of debris, trembling badly as she was carried to a road where rescuers stripped off most of her clothes and wrapped her in a blanket.
"I was really terrified. Every time someone launched a firework it got me into panic mode and they just told me, ignore the sounds around you and concentrate on your breathing," she recalled.
Police in Simi Valley, northwest of Los Angeles, said it appeared a firework exploded prematurely in its mortar, knocking over others and aiming them across the field. Fire investigators, however, said later they had not yet determined a cause.
Police based their initial statement on the accounts of witnesses, who said a rack of fireworks fell over, said Ventura County Fire Capt. Mike Lindberry.
Among other key questions investigators were trying to answer was whether the pyrotechnics display was set far enough away from spectators, and even if all the rules were followed, whether those guidelines needed to be revised so that the public is kept farther back from launch sites.
Regulations require crowds be kept 70 feet away for every inch of diameter of the largest shell.
By those standards, spectators should have been at least 350 feet away from the show put on by Bethpage, N.Y.-based Bay Fireworks, said Ventura County Fire Department Deputy Chief Mike LaPlant.
Making sure that guideline was followed will be an important aspect of the investigation, though all of the injuries were at or beyond 350 feet, LaPlant said.
"We're just confirming what we feel to be true, which is that the distances were either at or beyond the normal distances, the prescribed distances, for that sized shell," LaPlant said.
The company said it regretted that spectators were injured and that it planned to publicly release the results of a thorough investigation.
Of the victims, all but three had been treated and released by late Friday, hospital officials said.
One patient was being treated by specialists at Grossman Burn Center and two other adults remained hospitalized in fair condition, said Kim Milstein, chief executive of Simi Valley Hospital.
Although fireworks accidents at professional shows are rare, they are not unheard of. The blast in Simi Valley was itself among several mishaps nationwide Thursday, including errant explosions injuring workers at shows in nearby Ojai, as well as North Myrtle Beach, S.C., and a fireworks barge that caught fire in a Montana lake at the start of the grand finale.
In 2008 in New York, fireworks shells exploded on the ground and another one launched into the crowd, injuring five people at an event that also involved Bay Fireworks.
Julie L. Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, a fireworks trade group, said injuries more often come to the technicians putting on the shows, not the people watching. No technicians were hurt in the Simi Valley blast.
"For spectators, this is incredibly rare," Heckman said. "This is just one that is going to stop everybody in their tracks and say, 'We've got to figure out what happened.'"
The accident will undoubtedly prompt members of the National Fire Protection Association, which develops the codes that guide the industry, to evaluate whether changes are needed, Heckman added.
Bay Fireworks is licensed by the state and had no violations on their record and the show did not require a state fire marshal permit, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The state could cite the company after reviewing the results of the investigation by Ventura County, which issued the permit for the event.
Cellphone videos captured a frantic scene in Simi Valley. Fireworks exploded in spheres of sparks close to the ground, and smoke enveloped the park grounds. People screamed and ran as one man could be heard mistakenly shouting that someone was shooting.
Colette Schmidt was watching with guests at her home across the street when it became clear something went terribly wrong. After a few fireworks lofted perfectly in the sky, there was a big explosion on the ground and a volley of blasts.
One landed and left a crater across from her home, then bounced twice and shot over nearby trees, exploding in a puff of reddish-purple smoke, said Schmidt's daughter, Alessi Smith.
The family herded their guests inside and drew the blinds as sparks and embers rained down, Schmidt said.
"It was terrible but we were so blessed because we had 150 people here and not one single spark hit our house," she said.
A bomb squad was sent to the park to help deactivate the remaining 60 percent of fireworks that weren't launched.
On Friday morning, blackened debris from the explosion littered the ground. Huge chunks of shrapnel were still scattered across the park and the boxes the mortars had been sitting in were left in the middle of a green field.
Authorities said investigators planned to examine the debris and fly over the scene to photograph it.
The annual July Fourth celebration has been sponsored by the city and the local Rotary Club since 1970.
The mishap came a year after a fireworks show in San Diego exploded in about 20 seconds and sent multiple bulb-shaped explosions over the bay because of an error in the computer system that sets off the pyrotechnics. No one was injured. That show was not produced by Bay Fireworks.
Heckman, with the fireworks trade group, said that while the investigation has not yet revealed the cause of the Simi Valley blast, she believes it was probably a product malfunction.
The industry takes such incidents seriously, especially when they involve spectators. She noted that Bay Fireworks has been in business for a long time and has done significant productions.
The company website says it has produced events for NASA, Walt Disney World and Legoland.
"This incident is a dark cloud over the entire industry," she said. "We don't take it lightly."
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Associated Press writers Amy Taxin in Santa Ana, Calif., and Greg Risling and Shaya Mohajer in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/calif-fireworks-accident-injures-39-024441869.html
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