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Sunday, March 17, 2013

6 Ways To Save On Your Energy Bill

How much do you pay for energy costs in the winter months? If you?re like most Americans, you generally see a spike in costs from the mild fall months. The good news is that this change in costs doesn?t have to be so substantial. Take advantage of these 6 tips to reduce your winter energy costs:

1) Regulate your thermostat

During the cold months of the year, it can be tempting to crank up the heat. But lowering your thermostat by a few degrees ? specifically at night and when the home is unoccupied ? can make a huge difference when you get your energy bill each month. Keep your thermostat in the 70 degree range for the best results. And if you get cold, you can always put on socks and a sweater.

2) Seal off unused rooms

Your heater has to work harder to heat more square footage. There?s really no reason to heat areas of your home that you don?t use. Reduce the space your heater is responsible for by sealing off unused rooms. You could save big when that gas bill comes at the end of the month.

3) Forget the fireplace

Heating your home with a fireplace is actually inefficient. The fireplace uses the warm air inside the home to fuel the flame, and it exhausts said air through the chimney. In other words, fireplaces actually cause your home to lose heat although they?re seen as practical substitutes for central heating. Don?t get caught in this cycle ? close the damper to seal the fireplace and prevent heat loss.

4) Insulate your water heater

Put a water heater blanket or insulation jacket around your water heater, and insulate the pipes around the water heater to improve efficiency. This is especially necessary for older water heaters in unheated spaces.

5) Ensure all your entrances are sealed

Warm air can escape from small cracks in doors and windows, which can affect energy bills dramatically. Make sure you adequately insulate and weather-strip your entrances. Your home will hold heat better, and your heating system won?t be forced to consistently run to keep the house warm.

6) Let the sun do some of the work

Keep your blinds open during the daylight hours so that the heat from the sunlight can take a load off your heating unit. Results will vary depending on how your home sits and how much shading is in your yard, but the effect is substantial for some homeowners.

Saving money on energy doesn?t have to be difficult. Take advantage of these 6 tips, and you?re likely to see significant savings on your winter energy bills.

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Lacrosse team bus crashes in Pennsylvania, two dead

(Reuters) - A bus carrying a university women's lacrosse team crashed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, killing the driver and one of the passengers, turnpike and hospital officials said.

In addition to the driver, the bus was carrying 23 students and three coaches from Seton Hill University, a Catholic school in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, turnpike spokesman Bill Capone said.

The bus was near the Carlisle interchange in central Pennsylvania when it veered off the road, crashed through a fence and slammed into a tree, killing the driver, he said.

Three passengers were taken by helicopter to Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where one of them died, hospital spokeswoman Danielle Ran said.

Nineteen others were taken to three area hospitals, mainly as a precaution, Capone said.

"We don't believe they sustained any serious injuries," he said of the 19.

The cause of the crash was unknown, he said.

(Reporting by Jane Sutton; Editing by Vicki Allen)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lacrosse-team-bus-crashes-pennsylvania-two-dead-165951101.html

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5 Delicious Green Cocktails to Do St. Patrick's Day Right

Do you know what's great about green beer? Absolutely nothing, you filthy animal, that was a trick question. To help you rise above those green-toothed suckers swilling down their flavorless lagers, we tapped a few of the country's top bartenders and got recipes for some truly delectable cocktails that just happen to be green. Get ready to blow some minds. More »


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Video: NFL player hurt in hot air balloon crash



>>> in florida, it was a hot air balloon that crashed today. it happened in miami when the basket of the balloon got caught in some power lines . among those on board were donte stallworth did, an nfl wide receiver and free agent, who most recently played with the new england patriots. stallworth and his girlfriend were injured. a third passenger was not hurt.

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Massive Resistance: Bed Bugs' Genetic Armor Shields Them from Pesticides

The nocturnal pests are equipped with a large number of genes that thwart chemical sprays, but scientists are probing for weaknesses


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One of humankind's most intimate blood-sucking roommates, the bed bug, is notoriously resistant to the pesticides used against it. Now researchers have pinpointed the genes responsible for this resistance. The finding highlights how ineffective our current chemical arsenal has become, and could help researchers design pesticides better able to destroy the pests.

In the past 15 years bed bug infestations have spiked in the U.S., perhaps due to increased travel. Once the insect hitchhikers enter a new area, they spread readily: A single fertilized female can infest an entire apartment building. Getting rid of bed bugs can be expensive, time-consuming and tricky. Their paper-thin bodies let the bugs squeeze into cracks in furniture and walls, which are difficult to spray effectively.

To find clues that uncover how bed bugs are able to survive pesticides, a team of researchers from the University of Kentucky first sequenced the genes that were active in 21 pesticide-resistant bed bug populations obtained from infestations. By comparing the active genes in the field bed bugs with a susceptible lab-bred population's active genes, they identified 14 genes in the collected DNA having variants associated with pesticide resistance. Different populations carried different combinations of the gene variants. The team reported on March 14 in Scientific Reports they found as well that each of the bed bug populations tested carried at least two resistance variants. (Scientific American and Scientific Reports are both part of Nature Publishing Group.)

All of the genes identified were active (gave rise to specific proteins) primarily in the outer epidermis?an insect's tough, fingernail-like cuticle?rather than the digestive tract, which is where most insects develop mechanisms of pesticide resistance, says Subba Reddy Palli, a professor of entomology and one of the researchers involved in the new study. That finding made sense, given that bed bugs, which eat only blood, are exposed to pesticides solely by contact with their exoskeleton, which now appears to be chock full of protective genes.

Next, the team demonstrated that the genes they had identified caused resistance. They hobbled the genes by injecting young bugs with special RNA fragments designed to specifically silence the resistance genes. When the treated bugs were exposed the pesticides, they were susceptible. (The technique does not alter germ line genes, however, so the next generation would still be pesticide-resistant.) "A few other papers found similar genes," Palli says. "But no one had done the functional study yet?the gene silencing."

The high number of resistance genes in all populations examined by Palli and his colleagues is "horrifying," says Rajeev Vaidyanathan, an associate director of vector biology in the Center for Immunology and Infectious Disease at SRI International, who was not involved in the study. That the bugs have multiple ways of undermining the effects of pesticides is ?devastating,? he adds.

The Kentucky researchers' bed bug genomic studies and those of a few other groups are "absolutely critical" for understanding the molecular basis for pesticide resistance, Vaidyanathan says. "This is step one. Step two is identifying novel targets for pesticides."

Two of the mechanisms suggested by the genetic findings were already flagged as contributors to bed bugs' pesticide resistance, Vaidyanathan says. One involves the metabolic enzyme cytochrome p450, which helps to break down toxins. (Humans have the same molecule.) A gene variant that confers resistance enables the bed bug to produce large quantities of the enzyme. The other mechanism relies on a protein found on the surface of nerve cells?an ion channel that tells the cell when to fire. Commonly used insecticides target that ion channel and cause nerves to fire continuously, paralyzing and quickly killing the insect. The resistant bed bugs often carry a mutation in the ion channel that prevents the pesticide from binding.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

AP10ThingsToSee - One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky, Monday, March 11, 2013 in New York. Construction continues on the office complex going up on the site of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Matthew Ziegler, File)

AP10ThingsToSee - One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky, Monday, March 11, 2013 in New York. Construction continues on the office complex going up on the site of the original World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Matthew Ziegler, File)

AP10ThingsToSee - Pakistani men, part of an angry mob, react after burning belongings of Christian families in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, March 9, 2013. A mob of hundreds of people in the city attacked a Christian neighborhood and set fire to homes after hearing accusations that a Christian man had committed blasphemy against Islam's prophet. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

AP10ThingsToSee - The mother of Ram Singh, the man accused of driving the bus on which a 23-year-old student was gang raped in December 2012, cries as she speaks to journalists outside the family's home in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 11, 2013. Indian police confirmed that Ram Singh, one of the men on trial for his alleged involvement in the gang rape and fatal beating of a woman aboard a New Delhi bus committed suicide in an Indian jail Monday, but his lawyer and family allege he was killed. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

AP10ThingsToSee - A fishing boat washed ashore by the March 11, 2011 tsunami sits in a deserted port area in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, at dawn on Monday, March 11, 2013. Japan marked the second anniversary of its earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe that killed nearly 19,000 people. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda, File)

AP10ThingsToSee - A member from the production Le Noir performs at the Marina Bay Sands on Tuesday March 12, 2013 in Singapore. Le Noir has a crew of twenty cirque performers from around the world like Russia, Australia, Lithuania, Canada, Bulgaria who specialize in different acrobatic acts, some of which were formerly from the production Cirque du Soleil. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

This week's collection includes a barefoot man kneeling in prayer in St. Peter's Square, a soaring slam dunk by LeBron James, a show of athletic prowess during the production "Le Noir" in Singapore and One World Trade Center emerging from the clouds in a dark New York City sky.

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Latin Americans hail Francis as man to lead troubled Church

By Alexandra Ulmer

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Across Latin America, the faithful rejoiced that the new Pope Francis was one of them.

Even though some commentators said he had a reputation as being as conservative and inflexible as his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, Latin Catholics celebrated that cardinals had, in Francis' own words, gone "to the end of the world" to find him.

"A Latino is more open to others, while a European is more closed. A change like this, with a Latin American, will be very important for us Latin Americans ... (he will be) more open, more honest," said 75-year-old Ana Solis, a retired hospital worker, outside Santiago's Metropolitan Cathedral in Chile.

"I'm happy because another European pope would be like eating the same bread every day," Martin Rodriguez, a 49-year-old Mexico City cab driver, said of Argentina's Francis, the first non-European pontiff in nearly 1,300 years.

The cardinals had faced a tough task in the conclave in finding a leader capable of overcoming crises caused by priestly child abuse and a leak of secret papal documents that uncovered corruption and rivalry inside the Church government.

The new pope will take up a burden that Benedict declared in February was beyond his physical capabilities.

The reaction from Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who two years ago accused the Vatican of hampering an inquiry into child sex abuse by Irish priests, summed up the thoughts of many.

"We pray that he will have the strength, the good health and the spiritual guidance needed to lead the Catholic Church in the many challenges it faces," Kenny said.

For some, the 76-year-old son of an Italian immigrant railway worker was too elderly to lead a Church that needs to attract younger worshippers to fill emptying pews in parts of the world that had once been staunchly Catholic.

"I think they missed an opportunity to renew themselves: they've picked another old guy," Daniel Villalpando, a 32-year-old web designer in Mexico City said. "Sure, he's a Latino, but they got the most European of the Latinos."

CHALLENGES

Home to 42 percent of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, Latin America far outweighs Europe's 25 percent, although the Church has for years been losing ground to Protestant and evangelical rivals across the region.

Deise Cristina, 43, who attends Mass every week, hailed the Church for having broken "a taboo", but said outside the cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil: "We are facing a lot of challenges now and I pray that the pope will help lead our youth back to the church."

But the man who was widely reported to have come second to Joseph Ratzinger for the papacy in 2005 is not seen as bringing many changes to the way Church is run this time round.

"He's not going to be a big liberal, there will not be big changes in Church teaching," said Father James Bretzke, professor of moral theology at Boston College, and a Jesuit priest, like Francis. "He has a reputation of being rather inflexible and staunchly conservative."

Donna Doucette, executive director of Voice of the Faithful, a group based outside Boston of lay Catholics that formed in reaction to the clergy sex scandals to advocate Church reform, said: "He certainly is not one who is a liberation theologian."

"It remains to be seen whether he is a person of the 21st century or the 17th century," she added.

For the faithful across the world though, his outlook mattered less, at least for now, than his origins and his quiet, calm demeanor as he was announced to the vast crowd in St. Peter's Square - thanking God for choosing such a messenger.

Jorge Bergoglio is known in his native Argentina as a modest man from a middle class family, who is content to travel by bus and is deeply concerned about the social inequalities rife in his homeland and across Latin America.

Claudio Gimenez, head of the Roman Catholic church in Paraguay, said: "This is a benefit for all of Latin America, not just Argentina."

Leonardo Steiner, general secretary of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops, in Brasilia, said: "He's a very humble man, very close to the people. We could perceive that in the way he asked for the prayer and leaned into the public."

Denis Hart, archbishop of Melbourne and president of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, said Francis was "known for commitment to doctrine and social justice and is a humble man of simple lifestyle".

In Nigeria, where many had hoped for a first African pope, Father Raymond Anoliefo, the priest who runs Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, in Ibeju, on the outskirts of Lagos, said: "I'm very elated, emphatic, impressed.

"It wasn't like an obvious, well known name or popular contender ... This is clearly a divine touch. The first Jesuit, the first from Latin America, something new."

Noting the start of what might be a new Church order, Monsignor Miguel Irizar, the former head of the Bishops' Conference of Peru, said: "Before it was Europe that preached the Gospel to the world, now the new world of America as well as Africa and Asia must evangelize Europe."

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, saluted Francis "as the figure of unity for all Catholics wherever they reside".

"CHAMPION OF THE POOR"

The official reaction to the new pope was warm, with U.S. President Barack Obama calling him "a champion of the poor and the most vulnerable among us".

"As the first pope from the Americas, his selection also speaks to the strength and vitality of a region that is increasingly shaping our world," Obama said in a statement.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, an atheist who has set up a national inquiry into child abuse by institutions including the Church, said the election of a pope from the "new world" was a historic event.

She was joined by Australian abuse activists in saying he should do more to reach out to victims.

"It should certainly be among the top priorities for the new pope," Helen Last, director of In Good Faith, which advocates for survivors of sexual abuse by the clergy.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hoped Francis would continue to promote inter-faith talks, saying they "share the conviction that we can only resolve the interconnected challenges of today's world through dialogue".

The Russian Orthodox Church welcomed the election and hoped "that relations between the Orthodox and Catholic churches will develop in a positive spirit", state-run RIA news agency quoted a spokesman for Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill as saying.

Russia's dominant church shares the Roman Catholic Church's conservative stance on many moral issues, but disputes still strain relations nearly a millennium after the Great Schism split Christianity into eastern and western branches. The pope and the Russian Orthodox patriarch have never met.

In Cuba, where church-state relations have warmed after years of tension and where Benedict paid a visit in 2012, President Raul Castro sent a message of congratulations.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, daughter of a Lutheran pastor, said in a statement: "Millions of believers in Germany and the whole world were waiting for this moment. Their hopes now rest on the new pope.

"I am particularly pleased, together with the Christians in Latin America, that one of theirs has been nominated to the head of the Catholic church for the first time." Benedict is German.

The World Jewish Congress offered congratulations.

Despite the emotion, the jokes on social media soon began.

Some on Twitter called the choice of an Argentine "the hand of God", a reference to the 1986 World Cup goal scored by Diego Maradona scored with his hand.

The banter also came thick and fast from Brazilians who had hoped one of their cardinals, including the Sao Paulo archbishop who had been considered a frontrunner, would emerge as pope.

"The pope couldn't be Brazilian, after all, GOD is Brazilian," tweeted Cristiano Romero, a journalist.

(Reporting by Reuters bureaux; Writing by Alison Williams; Editing by Giles Elgood)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/latin-americans-hail-francis-man-lead-troubled-church-000206193.html

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Burning Stuff with the Power of the Sun Never Ever Gets Old

You know as a kid when you used to use a magnifying glass and the Sun to burn ants? This is basically that but more awesome (and less gruesome!). Using the screen of an old big screen TV, Grant Thompson was able to create a 4 foot magnifying lens that could melt a stack of pennies, burst a glass bottle, cook food, burn pretty much anything and more. Your childhood self would be so amazed at the power of the Sun. Hell, your adult self is pretty amazed too. [Grant Thompson via The Awesomer] More »


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Scientists discuss relationship between abortion and violence against women

Scientists discuss relationship between abortion and violence against women [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 8-Mar-2013
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MELISA Institute

This press release is available in Spanish.

New York, March 8th 2013 Scientists of the United States of America, Ireland, and Chile met this week in New York to discuss recent scientific evidence regarding abortion as a form of growing violence against women and girls. Indiscriminate practice of abortion is significantly correlated with coercion, a history of sexual abuse, violence during pregnancy, intimate partner violence, and with psychological consequences that may lead to suicide.

The scientific evidence was discussed by Doctors Monique Chireau (North Carolina, USA), Donna Harrison (Illinois, USA), Eoghan de Faoite (Dublin, Ireland), and Elard Koch (Concepcin, Chile). The meeting "Public Policies to reduce maternal mortality, a holistic focus on maternal health" took place in parallel to the 57th Session of the Commission of Women Status of the United Nations, whose priority theme is the "elimination and prevention of all types of violence against women and girls", activity that will continue until March 15th.

The scientists discussed different epidemiological studies, showing that:

  • A significant and growing proportion of induced abortions occur due to coercion by the intimate partner of the pregnant woman.
  • A history of sexual abuse and violence is a risk factor for abortion and subsequent mental health problems.
  • There is a significant correlation between the increase in the number of abortions and an increase in the rate of homicides against women versus those against men.
  • There is an important correlation between the increase of abortions and the suicide rate of women of childbearing age.
  • Countries with abortion laws that are less permissive, such as Ireland and Chile, display lower abortion rates than countries with more permissive abortion laws.

Dr. Koch, director of the MELISA Institute, presented international collaborative studies that have been recently published, which place Chile a country with one of the least permissive abortion laws in the world with the lowest maternal mortality rate in Latin America. Public policies ensuring more education for women, childbirth by skilled professionals universally available, and a timely access to emergency obstetric units would be key factors improving maternal health, and not the legal status of abortion. This evidence was in agreement with data presented by Dr. De Faoite, who showed evidence placing Ireland among the countries with the lowest maternal mortality in Europe, without having to modify their current abortion legislation. On the other hand, Dr. Chireau presented robust evidence regarding novel treatments for pregnant women with cancer, which are successful in safeguarding the life of the mother and her gestating child. Finally, Dr. Harrison discussed the risks related to complications following medical abortion with chemicals such as misoprostol, which are exacerbated in developing countries due the their lack of sufficient coverage of emergency facilities.

During the opening of these UN Sessions and commemorating the International Women's Day, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remarked "There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable." In this context, the scientists assembled in New York voiced their concern in regards to the alarming expansion of abortion as a form of violence against women in the world, something that should not be dismissed by any nation that respects fundamental human rights.

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For more information on this subject or to arrange an interview with doctors Monique Chireau, Donna Harrison, Eoghan De Faoite, and/or Elard Koch, please contact Lea Parks, Officer of Public Relations of the MELISA Institute, to lea.parks@melisainstitute.com or to +56 41 234 5814


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Scientists discuss relationship between abortion and violence against women [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 8-Mar-2013
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Contact: Lea M. Parks
lea.parks@melisainstitute.com
MELISA Institute

This press release is available in Spanish.

New York, March 8th 2013 Scientists of the United States of America, Ireland, and Chile met this week in New York to discuss recent scientific evidence regarding abortion as a form of growing violence against women and girls. Indiscriminate practice of abortion is significantly correlated with coercion, a history of sexual abuse, violence during pregnancy, intimate partner violence, and with psychological consequences that may lead to suicide.

The scientific evidence was discussed by Doctors Monique Chireau (North Carolina, USA), Donna Harrison (Illinois, USA), Eoghan de Faoite (Dublin, Ireland), and Elard Koch (Concepcin, Chile). The meeting "Public Policies to reduce maternal mortality, a holistic focus on maternal health" took place in parallel to the 57th Session of the Commission of Women Status of the United Nations, whose priority theme is the "elimination and prevention of all types of violence against women and girls", activity that will continue until March 15th.

The scientists discussed different epidemiological studies, showing that:

  • A significant and growing proportion of induced abortions occur due to coercion by the intimate partner of the pregnant woman.
  • A history of sexual abuse and violence is a risk factor for abortion and subsequent mental health problems.
  • There is a significant correlation between the increase in the number of abortions and an increase in the rate of homicides against women versus those against men.
  • There is an important correlation between the increase of abortions and the suicide rate of women of childbearing age.
  • Countries with abortion laws that are less permissive, such as Ireland and Chile, display lower abortion rates than countries with more permissive abortion laws.

Dr. Koch, director of the MELISA Institute, presented international collaborative studies that have been recently published, which place Chile a country with one of the least permissive abortion laws in the world with the lowest maternal mortality rate in Latin America. Public policies ensuring more education for women, childbirth by skilled professionals universally available, and a timely access to emergency obstetric units would be key factors improving maternal health, and not the legal status of abortion. This evidence was in agreement with data presented by Dr. De Faoite, who showed evidence placing Ireland among the countries with the lowest maternal mortality in Europe, without having to modify their current abortion legislation. On the other hand, Dr. Chireau presented robust evidence regarding novel treatments for pregnant women with cancer, which are successful in safeguarding the life of the mother and her gestating child. Finally, Dr. Harrison discussed the risks related to complications following medical abortion with chemicals such as misoprostol, which are exacerbated in developing countries due the their lack of sufficient coverage of emergency facilities.

During the opening of these UN Sessions and commemorating the International Women's Day, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remarked "There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable." In this context, the scientists assembled in New York voiced their concern in regards to the alarming expansion of abortion as a form of violence against women in the world, something that should not be dismissed by any nation that respects fundamental human rights.

###

For more information on this subject or to arrange an interview with doctors Monique Chireau, Donna Harrison, Eoghan De Faoite, and/or Elard Koch, please contact Lea Parks, Officer of Public Relations of the MELISA Institute, to lea.parks@melisainstitute.com or to +56 41 234 5814


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Sportsman Channel 'Rifleman' host killed by gunman

WHITEFISH, Mont. (AP) ? A northwestern Montana man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show "A Rifleman's Journal" while the TV personality was visiting the shooter's wife, police said Friday.

Wayne Bengston, 41, then beat his wife, took his 2-year-old son to a relative's house and drove to his home about 25 miles away in West Glacier, where he apparently killed himself, Whitefish police said.

Police identified the shooting victim Gregory G. Rodriguez, 43, of Sugar Land, Texas. Bengston's wife told police that Rodriguez was in town on business and visiting her at her mother's house in Whitefish when her husband showed up Thursday night.

It wasn't clear how Rodriguez and the woman were acquainted.

After the shooting, Flathead County sheriff's deputies found Bengston's truck parked in his driveway. Efforts by a police SWAT team to contact Bengston inside the house were unsuccessful, and officers found the man's body with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said.

Besides appearing on TV, Rodrigues was the founder and CEO of Global Adventure Outfitters. According to the outfitters' website, he was an editor at Shooting Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Petersen's Hunting, Guns & Ammo and Dangerous Game.

He was a mortgage banker before founding Global Adventure Outfitters, and he has hunted in 21 countries, the website says.

"A Rifleman's Journal" tracks Rodriguez's hunting travels to exotic locations, according to a Sportsman Channel description.

He has a wife and two children, it says.

A woman who answered the phone at Global Adventure Outfitters Friday confirmed Rodriguez had been in Montana, but said the organization would not be making a statement at the time.

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EBBETS FIELD FLANNELS?Jersey City Skeeters 1932?Fitted Baseball Cap

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